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> Windows has to run across the most heterogenous set of hardware and configurations of any of the major OSes.

Fair, but let's not forget a couple of facts.

First of all, most of the early Linux woes stemmed from two main roots. Drivers, and bad implementations of standards (ACPI & APIC most prominently). Lower cost Windows machines always needed "vendor drivers" to workaround what sins vendors committed with bottom of the barrel hardware, so these drivers handled the non-standard things they did with the already crippled hardware.

Let's also not forget that Microsoft tried their best to weaponize standards to break Linux (in a similar fashion they broke Dr. DOS). See: Halloween Documents [0].

So given your hardware implements the standards correctly, and you have drivers for your hardware, Linux works way better on the same hardware than Windows. This brings us to

> It supports the $200 junkbox your gran bought from Walmart to $20,000 enterprise racks and is expected to support all of those different workloads and insane variety of software that can be installed.

I have two Intel N100 boxes. One is running W11, the other one is running Debian Testing w/KDE. Former is my parents', latter is mine. Mine is using less RAM, running way cooler, and uses less CPU cycles to accomplish harder tasks, while supporting all the hardware on it, at full speed. So, given your hardware implements the standards, and you have drivers, there's no difference in support. It's not a design/kernel issue. It's a support/willingness issue.

I just remembered that Valve's Source Engine ran 25% faster on Linux after porting without any post-port optimizations, which is a great example how Linux is generally lighter and how well it can perform if given proper drivers for any piece of hardware.

> In contrast, I'd make the case that the majority of Linux distros are running in large data centers like AWS, Azure, and GCP where there's a relatively high degree of homogeneity of the underlying hardware and the operating environment on top of that.

I'm an HPC admin managing clusters close to two decades. The problems you encounter on these systems when something goes wrong is way complex than you see on desktop systems. All of these resiliency features create tons of complexity while helping you. Linux runs on these systems better for a longer time, because these systems are implementing standards correctly for a longer time, and you pay for expensive hardware and correct implementation of it, so kernel bundled drivers work correctly 99.9% of the time when you change the hardware.

> macOS, for example, operates a comparatively limited set of hardware platforms.

XNU is for all intents and purposes is BSD kernel, and macOS can be considered a BSD. Give proper drivers, macOS can also run on from your spoon to a satellite. It's POSIX compliant. They even contribute back to BSDs.

[0]: https://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
> Google Chrome is no longer ‘deprecating third-party cookies’
Have you forgotten the context of the conversation? (Reminder: "in my mind 'basic' doesn't translate to quitting your job and not working")

If you think that full employment is the barrier we're facing to society A then you're living in a logical wasteland.
Principia
Indeed. One is an all time great science fiction series thats inspired a host of imitators. The other is whatever fluff Apple have bowdlerised its name with. It's genuinely closer to the YA fanfic level screenwriting of the new Star Trek series than Gibbon's Decline & Fall in space.
Something that seems strange to me is the deal they made with MLS which I don’t think was great for MLS.

Today MLS has the problem that people think “American soccer sucks” and won’t give it a chance. I caught a game in person because I was interested in the state of American soccer and between the game and the fan experience I had a great time.

A sport that has room to grow has to be easy for people to catch a game who aren’t committed to subscribing to it. They can win people over if they can catch an occasional game for free but if it is behind a paywall 100% of the time it’s going to stay obscure. NBC runs a free Premier League game every Saturday and if you want more you can get it as part of a reasonably priced Peacock subscriptions. The deal Apple has with MLS might be a good deal for Apple but I don’t think it’s good for the sport.
$* will break on directory names containing spaces and other bash "word" delimiters, use "$@":

cd() { builtin cd "$@" && ls; }
> What is this grand democratic experiment even for, if we still suffer from the same failure modes as that which we originally fought to save ourselves from?

We treat our veterans poorly, but let’s not lose perspective, that’s still far better than most countries today or in history.
I’m genuinely curious what you were trying to convey by completing your, totally valid, disagreement with “so whatevs”? I believe this is the part that’s perceived as rude because the expansion of that, “whatever”, is often further expanded as the sarcastic form of “whatever you say”.
> Does it though?

Yes it does. RedHat deprecates older drivers, but it's their problem. I connect too many stupid things to my Debian box, and they're enumerated and initialized instantly. These drivers get bug fixes too.
> I been programing for 21 years, mostly php, c# and java.

I think this explains pretty well the difficulties you are having.

And also, you’ve been hired for the wrong job.
The new path is they aren't deprecating third-party cookies anymore. Instead they're going to "introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing" (in the 4th paragraph).
I really love it when this has clearly happened in US children's books. Things like, "ate nearly 551 pounds of food per day!" or similar.
Internet users debate Wikipedia image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
Big tech looking for a scapegoat for their own failings
"It's the EU's fault because they enabled competition who provided a more successful competing security product that our own security product"
And guess what? Those smartphones, cars, etc. are all made by a relatively small number of suppliers on....homogeneous hardware. Samsung, Xiaomi, Motorola, Sony, OnePlus (any other majors?) are pumping out devices running the same stack and writing their own drivers. Can you plug a non-Samsung internal storage device into a Samsung phone? Can you attach a screen from a Samsung device to a Motorola phone? Will a Xiaomi modem work in a Sony phone?

Buy a consumer Walmart PC running Windows and it is expected to be plug and play with nearly any graphics card, USB scanner, printer, etc. I don't think Microsoft gets enough credit for supporting such a huge and varied consumer user base.

For sure, Linux is the core of every Android device and every modern car. But those hardware stacks are homogeneous by manufacturer and there's only a handful of major manufacturers; those devices are carbon copies from a hardware perspective and a manufacturer only has a handful that they support at any given time.
This site didn’t link to the source yet quotes the blog post.

Source,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41038586
No, I hate pretty much all payroll processors. I also hate most IDEs, that doesn’t mean I don’t see value in them.
That counts as a "new path"? My, how low that bar has become.
Ask HN: Vertical SaaS for Airlines?
In light of the recent Microsoft outage that disrupted several airline operations globally, I'm curious to know who out there is working on vertical SaaS solutions specifically for the airline industry. With the increasing complexity of airline operations and the need for robust, reliable software, I believe there's a huge opportunity in this space.

Are there any startups or established companies developing innovative SaaS products tailored for airlines? What challenges are they addressing, and what unique features are they offering?

Looking forward to hearing about any interesting projects and insights from those in the industry!
UBI might be an OK stopgap in the beginning when comparatively just a few are losing their jobs. Over time though, in the long run, the core of currency-based systems will need to be replaced as a greater percentage of labor is made valueless by AI, with the resulting increase in bodies not earning anything and decrease in bodies bearing the tax burden. I hardly see any discussion anywhere of what happens when 100% of useful labor is automated to the point that humans have 0 comparative advantage compared to AI+robots in anything of economic value.
I completely agree, especially with the "silly" part!
I'm glad this company is building an open-source and straightforward solution for SAML integration. I struggled to find the right solution for my product and tried multiple libraries and services, including AWS Cognito.

Diving deep into OAuth and OIDC was crucial. Lesson learned: stick to the basics.
Reminds me of one of my favourite video essays -- "Everything is a Remix" [0]. The video and this article cover the same ideas albeit with different examples. Which is funny on a meta level -- the article could be called a remix of the video.

The video (if I recall correctly) goes a bit further, attacking patents/IP law as anti-creative.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc
I think true coffee lovers like decaf (lets them drink more coffee)

hard to get good decaf though, it seems to me like trying to buy diet donuts.
I do not understand your point. You are claiming that Windows needs to support a greater variety of hardware than linux, which is not true. Windows does not run on phones or supercomputers; linux runs everywhere windows does.
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This isn't much of a new phenomenon. There are many examples in European history at least where a monarch puts all of his time and energy into patronizing the arts, causing his kingdom to fall into ruin. Charles V's reign of Spain was plagued with uprisings of disgruntled peasants. Certainly worth looking into for your full write-up. "There is nothing new under the sun" is a great idiom to call upon to back up an argument.
There is also diffsitter. I was testing it a month ago, it works fine. Not sure what language-aware diffing exactly means, but diffsitter uses tree-sitter and it is comparing ASTs and CSTs of the files.

[1] https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter
The easy way is Server Core and its available in Azure. I posted about it below.
Is anyone going around choosing SAML today, though? XML fever has come and gone.

Usually SAML happens because customers ask for it, OIDC isn't as widely implemented by IDPs as SAML is, so you end up implementing SAML and moving on with life.
Actually, "launder" is the word I'd use for LLMs.

Clean things up just enough that it's difficult to prove where their semantic content came from.

How useful this is or isn't, and how much of a threat to rightful IP owners, depends very much on the type of IP.
It does feel like Apple TV has gained a reputation for science fiction (and just generally nerdy things), there are multiple articles out there on it. Putting out the type of content we used to expect from HBO.

So my hope would be they would realize that, lean into it, and cut their other experiments or just not do movies as much.

I know for me anytime I see a new science fiction show on Apple TV I feel like it is at least worth checking out the first couple episodes, and I have not been upset yet.
For a visual form of the same argument, but more about music and film, see everything is a remix:

https://www.everythingisaremix.info/

It's been submitted to HN many times but has never spawned any discussion:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=everything+is+a+remix
AI summarisation of existing <something>? maybe provide it a url and it'll tell you what the website does or something
Possessing the GG variant of COMT rs4680 gene might explain this. Conversely, AA types might get overstimulated and irritable.
That's how you breed shadow employment. People on welfare who can work often will find jobs that pay some, or all of the salary, under the table. The attitude this instills in children is that of having to work hard, while scheming against the taxman, to improve your life. Some people then do that way past the point they need to, and end up at risk of being caught for tax evasion.
I'm not sure what you mean by "generating token", I'm guessing satisfying their requirements?

That being said, I don't see how meetings are any less engaging. There's still the exchange of ideas and opinions, that's what really matters.
Thanks for the clarification - I do not claim that artists don’t want to make a living. My point is that, too often, the “artists need to make a living too” narrative is used by the system that exploits artists.
The reason they have so much power on the supply side is that what they do is incredibly painstaking and expensive. I agree the system sucks.

Sublingual Toradol is available from pharmacies in Mexico. I fly to San Diego every five years, take the tram to the border and walk across to Tijuana to stock up. Toradol is an NSAID they give you via injection in the emergency room for chronic pain and headaches. By mouth it tends to cause GI bleeding worse than any other NSAID. A number of people died before they restricted the pill to five days consecutive use. Dissolving Toradol under your tongue bypasses the GI tract, making sublingual Toradol much safer. I carry a pill pack of four pills in my wallet, and having a pain medication as effective as morphine without sedation in my pocket at all times seriously improves my quality of life. There is something I can DO when my chronic pain flares up enough that it starts to get to me.

In the US the Sprix nasal inhaler is the functional equivalent of sublingual Toradol. I've read the research papers on both medications and I compared the charts for pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and... the curves are virtually identical. They have the same impact on the body, both delivery mechanisms are equally effective in safety terms.

Sublingual Toradol is generic - the original papers on it are from the 80s. The Sprix is a patented delivery mechanism... wait for it...

* A dose of subligual Toradol in a Tijuana pharmacy: $0.25

* A single dose Sprix nasal inhaler from a US pharmacy: $25 last I checked. Only indicated for severe migraines.

That's a price multiple of 100x, as in one hundred times for a functionally equivalent medication. Last time I went to Tijuana the murder rate had multiplied by 10x since the last time I was there, so I went to the pharmacy right at the border. The price per dose was $0.50 there, but its cheaper if you go downtown. It isn't a counterfeited medication, so you don't have to worry about that. I wish more pain patients had access to sublingual Toradol. If a drug company wanted to improve chronic pain care, they could fund clinical trials in the US and get the medication approved. It will never happen in the states. Pure greed is the ONLY reason.

Actually, there's a lot more research on sublingual Toradol since I last checked: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22sublingual+toradol%... See the sublingual film work? No reason for that instead of a pill except you can patent it. BOOM. BURN IT ALL DOWN.
If you're allocating a call stack per thread you might as well just use actual threads.
To be clear, they have to offer third parties the same access they enjoy themselves. If they provide a spell-checker that requires kernel implementation, they have to give all competing spell-checkers the same access.

Obviously, it seems ludicrous to implement spell-checking in the kernel. Imagine if MS imposed the discipline upon themselves to provide enough API that their own security products didn't reach for the kernel crutch.

Linux is different because it is open source. If a vendor wants to reach into the kernel, it's completely possible. If they want to provide patches to the kernel that allow their or any other product to do what it needs outside the kernel, they can. But even if the kernel provided all the necessary APIs, vendors could ignore those and insist on being inside the kernel. It is up to the user to use wisdom about what they install. And there is no unfair advantage to the OS vendor competing with third-party apps.

It is silly to blame regulators instead of the app vendor in this case. I'm not sure why MS feels the need to deflect blame. I know that some are eager to point the finger at MS, but MS shouldn't be so defensive. It makes it look like they think there is some merit to those arguments that has to be deflected.
> Women are also more likely to regularly perform cardio/aerobic exercises, which can reduce bone density when done in excess and without adequate nutrition.

What is the biological mechanism behind this statement?
And on a societal level it's an interesting philosophical question, but waiting around and hoping that something external comes along to magically fix the problem that you're experiencing personally isn't a plan for success. That feeling of loneliness isn't going to go away sitting at home, playing another single player video game by yourself,
it's going to go away by socializing with people, in some sort of fashion.

It's gonna be cringe. it's gonna be awkward. it'll be fine, you'll survive.

Poverty is a wholly different problem, with different solutions, and comparing poverty to loneliness isn't doing you any favors. If we're gonna play that game, how about comparing it to obesity? society bears some responsibility for McDonald's, and for not giving good education on nutrition, but the reality there is that there are some wonderful new drugs to help with that problem. even with the new drugs and before them, at the end of the day, it still is a personal decision on whether or not to do something about the problem.

so the government isn't going to come in and start forcing people to attend friendship-making ceremonies. the solution to your loneliness is pushing yourself to go out and find people. don't go off trying to fix the systemic societal level problem for everybody, just solve for one. fortunately you don't have to wait around for a magic anti-lonliness drug to be research and formulated and then undergo trials before approval by the FDA. the drug for loneliness is alcohol. go do a lubricating amount of it around other people.
I mean the recent history of companies moving to an open office plan. It appears to me that most companies that have done this have seen the opposite of the claimed goals.

Of course, the actual goal is cost reduction, and on that count, I think the effort is a success.
I remember people saying at the time that “this is the point at which voice recordings can not be trusted any longer”. And then, like you said nothing happened kind of for a few years until the current AI/ML tech got to where it is currently at.
> it still take the same amount of work to produce what we consume

Does it? Seems like if we don't have excess value going to shareholders, less work could be done to provide the current level of value for things people are consuming.
It's a running joke the internet has about Nintendo. They will run with ideas and sue you later.
There's an elephant in the Argument: Why don't women adopt these elite ideals and leave their kids? We should at least have an explanation why either nothing significant changed in the last 100+ years (a stretch), or something else that is counteracting said elite ideals. To put another way, why did the elite woman act against her own publicly professed Expectation? [0]

Another hint there's something amiss is the flawed premise. Men are not doing nothing! I see a whole bunch of consumption. Here is one of the author's citations:

> Edin and Kefalas describe the behavior of young males in low-income neighborhoods:

>> [...] Young mothers regularly rail against young fathers who squander too much of their earnings on alcohol, marijuana, new stereo components, computer accessories, expensive footwear, or new clothing, while the needs of the family are, in their view, not adequately met. [... Amy] had a boyfriend who worked steadily but insisted on spending on selfish pursuits. This is what eventually broke the young couple up.

All those are true, but try to tell that to every one of those Industries. If you were the CEO of a shoe company men spending on food is money not spent on your shoes. Why have your primary consumer spend less with at your company, even if that benefits the broader social fabric? It is in your material interests (one could argue your "Fiduciary Responsibility") to drive spending towards your company, which is why you pay the Marketing Department the big bucks.

If I were to throw out a guess, I suspect the difference is between Expectation and Ideal, or the difference between external and internal motivation, respectively. You can't form a cohesive self-identity from constantly shifting external expectations (ask your therapist), it must be stitched together from already free-floating desires/values/signifiers of society. Where I think the author gets close is how society influences how and what to Desire [1].

[0]: For those who read Cialdini's Influence this is an apparently powerful violation of the Commitment to Consistency, which hints something deeper is going on. Her deliberately going out of her way to correct the interviewer's view of her perhaps speaks to a greater commitment to another consistency?

[1]: https://iep.utm.edu/lacweb/#SH2b
I'm looking for recommendations for a 30~50 run anodized aluminum case, in a similar size as the Kawaii. Does anyone have any recommendations? The quotes I'm getting are closer to $95/pc and that seems quite high.
But that take is too narrow - many of the 'great' painters had extensive training in the work of previous masters, frequently copying their works repeatedly in order to develop technique and more deeply engage with what came before. After developing that base skill and understanding, they had a better toolset to express their own originality.
There is nothing technically stopping Microsoft from addressing this.

Fixing one’s kernel extensions does not violate anticompetitive laws. It does however make for click bait headlines if you as a corp choose to troll everyone affected by CrowdStrike instead of offering mitigations.
The system clearly already behaves that way (i.e. ignores failure) - after all, the fix was to simply delete the offending file. If that's an option, then loader can do that too. It can and perhaps even is smarter, such as "fallback onto previous version".

Furthermore, the reaction to a malformed state need not be "ignore". It could disable restricted user login; or turn off the screen.

If the worry is that this is viable to abuse by malware, well, if the malware can already rewrite the on-disk files for the AV, I wonder whether it's really a good idea to trust the system itself to be able to deal with that. It'd probably be safer to just report that up the security foodchain, and potentially let some external system take measures such as disable or restrict network access. Better yet, such measures don't even require the same capabilities to intervene in the system, merely to observe - which makes the AV system less likely to serve as a malware vector itself or to cause bugs like this.
> More expensive than what?

“The average wage in Nigeria is about $25 per day.” Wages in Southern Wyoming are more expensive than that. Gig or minimum is irrelevant.

> how does that relate to minimum wages

Wyoming is subject to the federal minimum wage.

> how does that relate to minimum wages with respect to gig work?

We’re comparing two numbers and observing one of them is bigger.