skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it; but I got an email this morning at 2 AM saying that my Microsoft account password was changed. The email was authentic - it came from Microsoft's servers, and had no buttons for me to click. It said that the IP Address of the password change was my own ISP in my area... and that the reset came from a phone number I didn't recognize on my security info, that even now does not show on my account dashboard.

I ran in a panic to reset my password... only to discover, the password was "changed" to the exact same password? And how would they even get in the account without 2FA? My "sign in history" also showed no trace of anything unusual. At this point, and reading these headlines, I feel more confident something's broke.
Final two paragraphs:

Thanks to the hard work and efficient collaboration of all the teams involved, Gaia was recently returned to routine operations.

In fact, the engineers took the opportunity of this unscheduled disturbance to refocus the optics of Gaia’s twin telescopes for the final time. As a result, Gaia is now producing some of the best quality data that it ever has.
In any kind of serious environment the admin should not have any interaction with any system's screen when performing any kind of configuration change. If it can't be applied in a GPO without any interaction it has no business being in a datacenter.
My major complaints are different:

- their country selector fails if it's not already set to the correct country. It is totally broken, as you might select something, and the result is another, or none at all. So sometimes it doesn't change the selection, at all, not until you've selected another random country first, after that it suddenly does respond to the needed country. This is enough to sometimes just give up.

But in fairness I always blame the folks from this site, and the sorry state of our profession! That's you folks, who have been corrupted to work for the highest bidder only, and never take out the trash! So we stand on an ever increasing pile of trash. Because as a collective we waste our time building, for example, linux, while it is an anachronistic piece of software, irrelevant. Shitware. We are quite autistic, as we place ourselves outside of society. We act like victims instead of citizens that work and wish for their environment to improve. Inevitably it doesn't appreciate us. It pushes the imposter syndrome.

- The seat becomes very uncomfortable over time. It seems the foam has degraded and lost its elasticity due to overuse. Bone on metal.

- There is no head rest for people that are above the median. So you see many, many people just giving up and resting their head on the seat in front of them.

But I like certain other things: no magazines, no security leaflets, no mess, the no nonsense execution.

The website is something I can solve myself, as they have not started to randomize the answers and the colors yet ;-)

All airlines have the same problems: the security theater, the over-crowding, the waiting, the air conditioning, the on-boarding, the lack of liquidity of the tickets (please let me sell the ticket or swap it). It's crap and Ryanair does at least as well as others. In fact I may even prefer dark patterns when the site works well otherwise.
I'm amazed it's just 14%, not more like 75%-80%. Surely a lot of customers are going to uninstall and move to competitors. The remainders are at least going to demand much cheaper service with better guarantees going forward.
That, combined with the inability to distinguish between "often" and "always".

Yes, there is one rich person whose life sucks, so money doesn't always buy happiness. But there are thousands of poor people whose lives suck, so maybe being rich actually significantly decreases the risk.
How is Microsoft stock down less than a percent?

The problem was Windows giving arbitrary access to the kernel to software that can be updated OTA without user intervention and allowing that to crash the kernel, right? Wouldn't this mean that Windows is considerably less secure and stable than assumed?
Bitlocker instructions in a reply, direct link if you don't have a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/Syndikalist/status/1814281141265846772
Putting cloudflare etc in front of webflow breaks how webflow does their lets encrypt renewal (they use HTTP, not DNS), so after ~90 days the site goes offline unless you allow un-encrypted origin connections.
And that's why Socrates didn't drink the hemlock.
...and before that was part of Romania, and the reason 80% of the country speaks Romanian.

Let's tamper down with the Russian imperialism. We see how well that's been going in Ukraine and the Baltics.
I could be happy if the GPU was only used for compositing.

If I were doing ML work, maybe I do that work in an ephemeral cloud environment.

I know this doesn’t cover everyone’s use case, but it doesn’t have to.
I never said it was amazing, I said how the country is still functional and people are kept from starving to death, given the government is nonexistent
Why would multiple reboots make sense? I can accept three reboots triggering some condition that tries three times before it stops trying, but fifteen?
Also Microsoft using Crowd strike instead of their own defender for endpoint?

Guess it could be part of a risk mitigation strategy to not but all their eggs in that product.
Do a Twitter search for Webflow, and you'll see why. They aren't targeting mature companies at all, it's all solopreneur hustle culture sites.
Most of the time you will end up in a dead end, no matter what idea you're trying to find evidence for. And this is true within academic research as well.

Academic knowledge is but a tiny fraction of the knowledge that is discovered every day. Most of it is far from the public eye, being discovered and applied in all different kind of workplaces all over the world. Maybe that knowledge is not "fancy" enough for the academically minded, but it is the knowledge that propels the world forward.
Show HN: Linux Mint Redesign Proposal
After several months of work together with other designers, want to announce a Linux Mint redesign proposal.

First time posting, hope you like it!
Lol, 30 is way too soon. Try 150. Read history.

The world you are imagining could just as easily be one where Chinese and Arabs dominate, the US and UK are a joke, and yet the dominant coalition paradoxically speaks English at least for elite communication anyway.

Did you know the original Latin language came from a tribe called the Latins that were vanquished by the Romans?

Reading the history of English after the Norman Conquest might be instructive too. For centuries the common people spoke the language that had been spoken locally, while the elites spoke the language of the old conquerers.

Fundamentally, you underestimate the chicken and egg effects involved, and they happen on a time scale of generations because that's the time scale upon which people learn languages.
Hear, hear. There are plenty of profitable SaaS companies with sensible unit economics.
Things have definitely gotten better.

The problem with the linux desktop was usually that most hardware companies were either not spending any time/effort on non-windows drivers/compatibility or when they did it was a tiny fraction of the effort that went into working around bugs in the windows driver API's.

Today with the failure of windows in both the mobile and industrial control space we now see vendors actually giving a damn about the quality of their Linux drivers.

Today the main factor keeping the enterprise marked locked on windows is the fat clients written around the turn of the millennium, and that's as much a problem for mac adaptation as it is Linux adaptation.

The macs are slick well designed devices that speaks to a huge segment of the consumer market so will eventually find the way into the high cost niches where no specific dependency on legacy software exists but they are too expensive and inflexible to replace all of the wintel system so for Microsoft and it's partners to have their license to screw over the enterprise sector revoked Linux(or FreeBSD) will have to play a role too.
30-50 is a reasonable PE range for larger companies.
> If they didn't exist, flying would be significantly more expensive.

Surely, flying was significantly more comfortable before Ryanair!
Damn, I didn't know this, that's insane. I've been paying with the converted currency for ages. Thanks for sharing.
It's amazing how "Did ye try tairnin' it off and on again?" is still the best first-line advice.
Thanks! I'm using the LGPL version of Qt, since I'm not changing Qt's own source code I can release my app has closed-source easily with dynamic linking. I could also release it with static linking with no problem (in my understanding), if I allow people to download the object files as well so they can link them to any version of Qt they want (but that's a bit too much for now).

Thanks for your suggestion, I'll consider it. But what do you mean by ugly flashing? Is it the instant background change that turn you off?
Seems like microsoft is getting put into the headlines because the Crowdstrike versions for mac and linux aren't affected. Plus Crowdstrike has a history of pushing people onto microsoft tech support when their software causes problems.
The difference though is that Swiss' coverage is only from Switzerland, a very wealthy and well-managed country, to other major business and tourist destinations and can arguably run at a loss since it's a national carrier. Not every country can afford that - the only flights I can get from my small hometown of ~350000 are with budget airlines because the national carrier simply isn't competitive enough to be able to run profitable flights from there. Before they showed up the airport was effectively dysfunctional. Budget airlines have tremendously improved connectivity for less popular and less wealthy of the continent.
You can buy a check-in bag as a seperate, standalone purchase. You don't have to buy their 'plus' ticket tier.
Still haven't forgiven Ubuntu for pushing a bad kernel of their own that caused a boot loop if you used containers...
> They could repair it (as well as give the satellite a much-needed orbit re-boost), but for now they've passed on doing so, presumably for budgetary reasons.

It isn't clear anyone could "repair it." Part of NASA's reticence has to do with Hubble's sensitivity and that any docking would be completely new since the Space Shuttle was the only vehicle to service Hubble. Additionally at least some see good science continuing '"There's a greater than 70% probability of operating at least one gyro through 2035," Crouse said.' [0] A more conspiratorial part of me says there are imaging secrets the makers prefer to keep.

On the other hand, there is the viewpoint that '"Up until now, there's only been, you know, one group that would ever touch Hubble. And I think that they have an opinion of whether — of who should or shouldn't be allowed to touch it," Isaacman said. "I think a lot would say, 'I'd rather it burn up' than, you know, go down a slippery slope of, you know, the space community growing. So I think that's a factor now, unfortunately."' [1]

Personally, I see sunk cost fallacy as being a strong force in humanity. Additionally, the back and forth that may delay is resistance that will make Isaacman's solution better and certainly won't deter him.

0. https://www.space.com/jared-isaacman-hubble-space-telescope-...

1. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubb...
>The PC revolution and local software exploded when interest rates were high and in addition to the novelty and flexibility a major driver was cost reduction and having local control over cost.

At that time (80s to 90s), computer networks weren't really a thing outside of institutional settings, so it wasn't like there was anything to compete with "local software".
Word, Excel, Powerpoint and all the other windows software. Plus all the people that know how to use the windows software vs Linux equivalents (if they exist).
I’m afraid not. It was incredibly simple, but I just remember being amazed that such a thing was even possible.
I work in a customer-facing role for a similar product.
The handful of customers that asked about kernel modules / drivers saw it as a plus not a con.
That's not true. Dithering can be used in emissive screens, but dithering is not additive. If you mix red and green with color blending (e.g. by dithering), you get less red and less green in your mix, and therefore the resulting mix (a sort of ochre) is different from additive color mixing (yellow), where the amount of red and green stays the same. Or when you mix black and white, you get white with additive color mixing, but grey with blending. You also get grey when blending (dithering) red, green and blue. You can test this in software like Gimp, you won't be able to dither a full color image without at least the eight colors I mentioned.
What’s the secret sauce in gwindows? Do they add a hidden Russian keyboard or locale to neutralize malware?
> I regularly spend multiples of my salary every month on various commitments my company makes.

Yeah, same here.

But if I choose a vendor and that vendor fails us so catastrophically as to make us financially insolvent, then it's my job to have run a risk analysis and to have an answer for why.

If it's more cost effective to take an outage, that's fine, if it's not: then why didn't I have a DRP in place, why did we rely so much on one vendor, what's the exposure.

It's a pretty important part of being a serious business person.
The Crowdstrike issue is causing the Azure issue as I understand, lots of machines using that software that all updated to the blue screen feature around 6 PM apparently.
Update to: "Did you try turning it off and on again...15 times?"
Yes they can unlock android with a deceased owners finger if the login is setup for it and phone isn't restarted.
I'm not the one to bash Microsoft "just because", but this "up to 15 reboots" thingy reminds me that MS most likely doesn't know what's going on in their own damn OS anymore.

Related picture - not long ago such a message would've been completely unacceptable, yet here we are.

https://i.imgur.com/4rQLcb7.png
Can I say I kinda miss Bill Clinton? Maybe it's just nostalgia, but in those days, HTTPS was still optional, Phoenix/Firebird was still fast and ad-free, HTML was simple, technology was still full of wonder and optimism, the middle class still existed, the federal budget was balanced, the Supreme Court wasn't so corrupt, civil war wasn't imminent, presidents could form complete sentences, and the worst national security threat we faced was a blowjob.

I can't really recall any good examples of leadership after that, either politically or in the corporate world. After that, it seemed like good citizenship had mostly been replaced by greed and selfishness and empty rhetoric. Nationbuilding was replaced by divisive dog whistles.

As a society (US), I don't think we're really producing great leaders anymore. Makes me think of a game of Civilization where all the golden ages were dozens of turns ago, when we first got tanks and our enemies still had spears. That was the last time we saw a Great Person. After that our palace got fancier but all our citizens are unhappy and production is stalled and pollution is leaking left and right and our tank has barely improved and our enemies negotiated all the raw materials between themselves and are mostly just waiting for us to bleed out.

It would be cool to have someone to look up to again.
a fairly small volume of trades can still have a large impact on prices, no?
Better than letting russians rapist rampage through your country. Although I am sure Ukraine will stop any development in return for sufficient war support.
Hell yeah, this is awesome
Parents may teach this to kids but the kids usually notice their parents don't practice what they preach. So they don't either.

The world is filled with people following everybody else off a cliff. If you're warning people or even just not playing along in a time of great hysteria, people at best ignore your warnings and direct verbal abuse at you. At worst, you can face active persecution for being right when the crowd has gone insane. So most people are cowards who go along to get along.
I'm Not Sure.
It's not even SaaS-makers sometimes. Last time I remember it was a casino trying to get sentiment and attention so that they could continue abusing Cloudflare for $250/mo [0]. This honestly needs to stop.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808
> Big companies negotiate liability terms.

I have never heard of that. Can you point to some examples?

Not SLA's (which are standard), but actual liability? E.g. if we brick your computers we'll pay for replacements and lost employee productivity?
I don't disagree with the idea of limiting funding, but this is a bad comparison. You're talking about a campaign to reach about 50m voters, vs about 300m voters. You should probably at least adjust your UK figure accordingly, to make it reasonable.
Yes, absolutely. Some of the best resources out there are Mormons. Those groups also tend to have great advice on finding good pricing as well.

As to why Mormons tend to be so into it, I have a theory. The Mormons started out very poor (generally speaking), and repeately ended up leaving their homes and starting anew, including at one point in the barren and remote mountain west (where their headquarters are today). Having stores of food and other supplies were literally a matter of life and death and survival. I think that same spirit is still active among them.
I've found it alright to be honest. I'd like to use libre office but the incompatibilities with .docx make it too annoying. Finally I can easily work with .docx on Linux, thanks to the web version :)
Except they actively try to scam you for money.

I don't know if that design is around, but they would have the option to add extra carry on (not luggage). The image would be of something that clearly looks like luggage, and next to it a tiny tiny backpack.

If you read the wording carefully, you'd notice that this is just for carry on. You have to scroll down to the bottom of the page, select a submenu and there you can finally see the option to add luggage. That's straight up scammy.
IMHO law should require such a firm, or any firm that may impact millions of other people, i.e. including all OS developers and many others, to maintain a certified Q/A process, maintain a 24/7 coverage and spend X% on Q/A. Such companies should never be allowed to deploy without going through a stringent CD procedure with tests and such, and they need to renew the certificate annually.

These are infra companies. Their incompetence can literally kill people.
It's an anonymous source. Someone who knows something and isn't supposed to say it, so figure someone at the FBI or Cellebrite most likely. Anonymous sourcing is a fraught practice, but often a necessary one if a journalist doesn't want to be restricted by what an organization will officially allow. You have to evaluate the publication, the journalist, and whatever details are available to decide if you want to trust them.

The better publications will have policies on when anonymous sources can be used and may have those policies or an explainer of same available to readers. Eg here's Wapo's write-up on it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/policies-and-standards/#sourc...
It’s a bit of a futile strategy though, kind of like trying to build a wall thick enough that a state actor can’t bust through. That is impossible because the state has access to nuclear weapons, gigantic drills, thousands of intelligent people whose sole mission in life is to break down that wall, nearly infinite budget, etc.

The only strategy that might work is to make it expensive or unviable to crack every single device. But in the case of something like this, an assassination attempt, then it’s a given that all stops are going to be pulled to crack it.
Do you mean a browser with a HN comment section open?
Are you doing this because you're a moderator on HN or is all this just you having too much time on your hands?
I love it! Beautifully redesigned, worth a try!
At Berlin airport, boarding (at least in the low-cost terminal) works by checking tickets and moving passengers to a closed area with few or no seats. And they do not open the actual boarding (with the bus) until everyone is in that area. So the so-called "priority" passengers are the first to be in that area, standing and waiting for everyone else to fill that area.
It's not just those darn windows admins. Alot of the certifications customers care about- SOC II, ISO whatever, FedRamp, have line items that require it.
sounds like a race condition that you have a fair chance of recreating after 15 reboots?
Copyleft: Guide for Software Developers
Anyone who claims CS is nothing but a compliance checkbox has never worked as an actual analyst, of course it's effective...no, dur, its worth 50bn for no reason...god some people are stupid AND loud
Not just take down the OS, but render the machine completely unbootable until a config file gets manually removed from the HD by starting in Safe Mode from the console.
a "liberator" according to him

pretty sure that's the current propaganda line
How not to get your ass kicked by the police, step 1: OBEY THE LAW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8
This should at the very least put them out of business by causing each and every client to abandon them as their security solution.
> The system is designed to turn reams of simulation and testing data into real-time graphics worthy of today’s advanced video games.

What exactly do they understand under "real-time graphics" in the context of nuclear fusion? Wouldn't we need a massive slow-down on the time-axis to be able to "see" anything at all? Or is real-time referring to the user being able to interact and modify the graphics in real-time?
Zathura will by default keep a history and your position in each document, which I personally don't like (I want it to start from the beginning each time) but you can change this with 'set database "null"' in the config file. I tried zathura for pdfs a while ago but went back to evince due to the nice feature of showing all search results in a sidebar when you search. Unfortunately evince doesn't support epub. My zathurarc so far is:

set database "null"
set adjust-open "width"
set scroll-wrap false
set font "monospace light 24"
set statusbar-home-tilde true
set window-title-home-tilde true
set window-title-page true
set guioptions "v"
map [fullscreen] <PageDown> scroll full-down
map [fullscreen] <PageUp> scroll full-up
map [normal] <PageDown> scroll full-down
map [normal] <PageUp> scroll full-up

The font option just seems to cover the interface font (which is tiny if you don't set it) and guioptions "v" means no default status bar but always a vertical scroll bar. Page up and down use viewable pages instead of the default document page.

I was also just looking for an epub reader due to this Humble book bundle on game design that mostly only has epub:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/all-about-gaming-mit-pres...
Air sirens had already started so most people had moved down to the basements. Probably some people who couldn't, or who were caring for those that couldn't be moved were caught in the blast.

Brutal thing to do. At least they didn't go for a double-tap, just for the lulz.