skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one way for an intelligent AI can gain control over humans is not to exterminate them but to control them, influence them without them being aware of it, changing the recommandation algorithms, producing educational material, videos, podcasts, books that would be pro AI while saturating our monkey brain with mining-less entertaining content. We would become their servant without noticing.
That piece of text you're quoting is mostly incorrect. Falcon didn't break Linux now because they haven't shipped a broken extension for Linux this time, only for Windows, but if you want to, you can definitely cause the Linux kernel to panic quite easily if you start inserting buggy drivers in kernel space like Crowdstrike was doing on Windows.
Working a job you don't like isn't the issue.

Working a job that makes the world a worse place because you need to survive is the issue.

It IS less evil to do nothing and be fed than to take up arms in a factory that produces produces that people want, but is poison (cigarettes, as an example). Paying people to prevent exploitation from plantation owners is a good thing.
Sure, but is it worth $1000 per month to have the lawn mowed and snow shoveled? Repairs and improvements are not a service he does for the renter, it is something that he does to keep or increase the value of his real estate investment.

Your $1000 per month rent can only be compared with the interest part of a mortgage you'd get for the exact same housing you are paying rent for. If the rent is less than the interest would be, then yes, you are better off renting. You also have to be able to invest any money that would have gone to a mortgage to make more than the price of your rent in profit every month, because that is your loss each month on rent. It is achievable if you're shrewd and can stay cold headed. Compounding effects help you, but you're also vulnerable to rent hikes. If you stay for more than a few years with the same landlord, they will catch on to that you have a stable situation and are saving/investing, and they won't be able to sleep at night thinking about all that juicy income that you're saving and investing, that could belong to them.

I've shoveled snow and cleaned gutters, even put on a new coat of paint a few times. It is not worth paying somebody $1000 per month for that. That's a salary for somebody working 50% of full time just taking care of maintenance on the unit you're renting. You're also comparing renting a smaller place vs buying a bigger house. That's also part of the problem. Landlords have hogged all of the apartments and smaller housing in order to extract the lifeblood of young workers, when such units would also be available for sale and not rent in a healthy environment.
They can either maintain it themselves, or let another party do it for them, indeed. The contracts specify under which circumstances the code can be released, but usually it's going out of business or cancelling a product.

It's something we had to deal with in a previous job where we (as a small company) sold products to Global 500 companies. Either we agreed to this, or there would be no deal. Every time we released a new version to those clients, we would place the updated source code (along with documentation and tooling etc) in escrow.
Ding ding ding. We have a winner. It also really matters which people get the money. For example: we printed gazillions of dollars after the 2008 financial crisis, but "inflation" was super low that whole time. What happened? We gave that money to banks and owners of financial assets, so the stuff that they buy more than others was what got inflated aka houses and startup equity (yes, your startup equity!) and the stock market and yachts and stuff. In 2020 we gave a bunch of money either directly to every individual or to their bosses to give to them, so a different set of things got inflated. What do wage workers buy more of with their money? Groceries et al. Home rental prices are through the roof, but home purchase prices are not. My guess is we see home price deflation (or at least lower-than-otherwise inflation) unless interest rates start getting cut again, which they will probably do because the people that get to influence and make that decision all benefit financially or politically from cutting those rates, but I digress.

So my (old, bachelors) degree in econ gives me a story that makes sense, but surely a more recent or grad-level or professional economist can probably point out all the ways I'm deluded. One of my physics teachers once told me that every year they start by telling you that everything you learned last year is a gross oversimplification and now they're going to teach you the way it "really" works.
In a reasonably sized pack of cyclists, being in the pack instead of being the lead cyclist requires 30% less power.
Apple TV+ has 0.2% of US TV views compared to 8% of Netflix. So Apple's monthly viewership is less than a day views of Netflix. In that context 20 billions is big amount.

Streaming fatigue is real. All streaming services are feeling this. And that's why so much of HBO content re-appearing on Netflix. Disney, Paramount will follow suit in search for money.

> when it's not even clear that Apple's goal is to make a profit directly,

I mean that sounds like calling We can't make money as `We don't want to make money*
My favorite course I took as part of my physics degree was statistical mechanics. It leaned way closer to information theory than I would have expected going in, but in retrospect should have been obvious.

Unrelated: my favorite bit from any physics book is probably still the introduction of the first chapter of "States of Matter" by David Goodstein: "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics."
Is there a good HN equivalent specifically for science/med/bio news? I do find interesting papers here on the topic although it's not the core focus.
They do charge for extra benefits, if you need them. But you can deploy a server to production today on Debian and be fine. Unless your in the case where you need to pay for support (regulatory).

Just because RH, Suse and Canonical charge, does not mean those are requirements. You can always opt to have linux and not pay for their support.
You're looking at it wrong. The mere fact that you have to chauffer your kids around everywhere until they're old enough to drive is a consequence of the fact that everything revolves around the car, as is the fact that you have to shop on a big box 10 miles away instead of walking 5mins to the store.

In the Netherlands kids bike everywhere with their friends, because it's safe and comfortable to do so. If they want to play sports they grab their bikes and go, they don't have to sit in traffic for 45mins in the back of their parents SUV. The Netherlands also has some of the happiest children on earth according to studies. Go figure :)
To make it clear, I didn't want to be the snark either. Just wondered about the usual things like "locally detectable semantics" and so on. I still think `Library.method( argument )` wins over `argument.method()` for the simple reason that the former has `Library` explicitly mentioned. Also, `door.open()`, really? I think `strongman.open( door )` is just that much clearer, flexible and explicit.
Correct. The issue was defender getting kernel access and nothing else getting that level of integration. Microsoft could have dropped defender to the same level as competing products, or dropped the product entirely. They chose to allow third parties access to kernel access instead.
This.

I've been intentionally avoiding all US election-related news because none of it is of any real value to me since there's no action I can take about any of it, and paying attention to it was very bad for my emotional health.

And yet, I heard within hours about Biden withdrawing.
> State Actors, given the current Geo-Political tensions.

I disagree. If state actors had this type of capability they would use it to spy on big companies. The espionage potential is huge. They wouldn't waste it on causing a minor inconvinence.

> is not applicable here since this code runs in kernel mode (in both OSes) and thus would be subject to far far greater scrutiny and testing than an ordinary app

Lol. What next? Politicians always tell the truth? Everyone gets a free unicorn? This is just obviously not how the world works. There is a long history of anti-virus software being kind of crap.
Separate issue from earlier this year, same product: "CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes"

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_cra...
It also makes file management a bloody nightmare, so much so that I gave up on iPhone/iPad years ago and moved back to Android. There are trade-offs. I don't want Windows to just become another MacOS or even iOS where I'm so limited in what I'm allowed to do with my system.
This is the difference between closed captioning and subtitles. If you don't like the music cues or other sounds being transcribed, make sure your not using a closed captioning (CC) subtitle track.

Some shows will have both, some will have just one or another. It various for foreign films. It will be "English (CC)" where you just want "English".

Proper subtitles just include verbal content like dialog or narration.
This is where Apache has gotten a bit touchy about project naming using its trademarks in the past, AKHQ used to be KafkaHQ, for example.
Rather than it being about "the message" it seems to me more that big blockbusters are being funded/produced by people who have learned marketing better than film production. They're consistently rewarded for their marketing efforts and don't want to rock the profit boat by changing the formula.
You would likely get into “full compatibility” lawyering very quickly. Many of the consoles have weirdo hardware components in some module or another that is still poorly understood.
There are lots of variants of this. Wazuh, Velociraptor, etc. They have several problems. One is that user-mode EDR is just not very efficient and effective, and kernel mode requires Microsoft driver signing. There are some hoops for that, and I don't know how hard they are, but I don't know of any of these products that seems to be jumping through them.

The other issue is that detection engineering is really expensive, so the detections that are included with CrowdStrike out of the box are your problem if you're using a free product. From a cost perspective you're not getting off a lot cheaper and trying to sell open source and a detection engineer's salary to a CISO who can just buy CrowdStrike instead is understandably a pretty tough sell. Or it was until this weekend, anyway.
And the whole design of the concert itself is to step through different albums a few years at a time up to the present day. It's basically a concentrated nostalgia ray.
This is a weird reading of history. Microsoft has spent tons of effort getting as much code out of the kernel as possible: Windows drivers used to be almost all kernel-mode, now they're nearly all in userspace and you almost never need to write a kernel-mode Windows driver unless you're doing something with deep OS hooks (like CS was, although apparently even that wasn't actually necessary). The safeguards on kernel code are for the tiny sliver of use cases left that need it, it is not Microsoft patching individual holes on the leaky ship.

They haven't yet gone as far as Apple in banning third-party kernel-mode code entirely, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's coming.
Dark Matter was really good. I hope there's a season 2.
To be polite, my guess is you've never tried storing dense hydrogen or running high power fuel cells. The solutions are large, heavy, expensive, and not very safe in enclosed areas. The solutions under consideration involve batteries for backup.
Yeah, I don't get it. Paying a high day rate to hire me is somehow fine, but a desk is where they draw the line. Let alone an office.
So is this project (a) taking the real Wii parts and putting them on a smaller PCB, (b) a different design with a more efficient same-architecture CPU, or (c) an entirely new design that is emulating the Wii hardware? Can the device run the real Wii OS or is it running a replacement OS capable of launching Wii games?
I really liked the approach my stat mech teacher used. In nearly all situations, entropy just ends up being the log of the number of ways a system can be arranged (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann%27s_entropy_formula) although I found it easiest to think in terms of pairs of dice rolls.
If you were to hand out $1k a month to everyone in my area an immediate result would likely be that rents would increase by somewhere close to $1k a month.

Everyone needs somewhere to live. Everyone wants to live closer to where they work and where there friends and family are. Housing is in limited supply. If everyone had more purchasing power, then everyone's going to collectively bid up what they're willing to pay for housing simply because they can.
But it is possible to account for the unforseen (or out-of-vocabulary) by, for example, a Good-Turing estimate. This satisfies your demand for a fully defined state space while also being consistent with GP's definition.
As a counter point, you can buy a Apple TV and mine lasted maybe a decade. The cheapest one I see is $130ish. Why don't we try and keep electronic waste to a minimum by buying long lasting stuff. I know not everyone can afford a device that's a few times more expensive but it really isn't if you take the long view and it will be better for the planet.
What are you watching on? I have an Apple TV 4k and it's the best experience I've ever seen. I had Roku's for a long time and just got tired of them (bad performance, glitches).
After switching to difftastic for semantic diff, I have never looked back. (https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic)

How does semanticdiff compare to that? Anyone got experience?
I think you are conflating copyright with patents. Licenses and other forms of intellectual property protection exist so that those who control means of production and distribution pay those who have ideas, or produce creative output.
We have a kubernetes cluster running on bare metal machines and comparing price with aws it is at least 30x.

I’m not including engineering time that is spent on maintaining it but it is still cheaper by a lot for sure.
Show HN: Google URL Shortener Import + Migration Tool
Hey HN,

since Google announced a few days ago that their short links will stop working next year[1], I created a small tool that allows you to import batches of goo.gl short links into the URL Shortener I maintain (Short Menu) for free. After the import you'll get a CSV with a mapping between old/new links so you can easily update your content.

I figured this could be quite helpful for those who still rely on functioning goo.gl links and speed up the migration a bit.

Links:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40998549
That's a good example for why we can't leave housing in the hands of investors.
Quoting from another thread

> mirashii 16 hours ago

The primary one linked there is certainly not the same issue, it was a bug in the Linux kernel's ebpf handling. It happened to be triggered by Crowdstrike, but the bug is undeniably a Linux kernel bug which was subsequently patched, as ebpf programs should never be able to panic the kernel.

That's not to say that there haven't been other Crowdstrike fails on Linux, especially pre-eBPF module, but that's not one, and that class of failures has been eliminated in the move to the eBPF based module.
CrowdStrike uses eBPF on Linux, which (barring bugs in the kernel’s eBPF implementation) doesn’t cause kernel panics.

Microsoft could create a similar safe Windows kernel API if they wanted.
Copying from Xerox, some irony there.
Well, with a performance of ~22-25 MIPS, PRISM@18Mhz was about 2.5 times faster than original 25Mhz 486DX and roughly on par with 1992 486DX2 66Mhz.
Right; hence my question.
People dont want to work but they want the benefits of other peoples labor. Simultaneously they try to fight the automation that would lead to a world were humans dont need to work for things to exist
OP has not laid out many specific debatable complaints. Mostly that it feels too woke. Could you elaborate on what is specifically upsetting?
Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle's Netflix deals make that point more than anything I've seen. Rock got $20M each for 2 specials. I think Dave has made that (or more) for a bunch of specials.
Though I might say that’s cheating, it is a welcome solution
One thing I really like about all of the ago formats:

- What it says: 1 year ago

- What it is: 1 year and 10 months ago
It's even worse than that. You need a complete address to actually know what the correct tax is.
Which is correct. Plus a Wii game with 4k texture packs will look better than any HD remake
I tried wayland (on amd) and found it annoying to work with compaired to x11 without any apparent benefits, wayland is definitely the future, but i don't think the future is now
This is also a distribution problem. If there was a distro with NT kernel, SSH and core services it could run on the same hardware.
In a prior life I took a bunch of journalism courses. I am not a journalist, of course, but those courses were enlightening and really improved how I relate to the news.

One of the things I learned was: have as many different sources of news (from as many different viewpoints) as possible.

As an instructor taught us: if you're getting your news from only a couple of places or they are all of a similar viewpoint, then you're not being informed, you're being indoctrinated.
Writing off Chinese science as a "paper mill" is incredibly ignorant. These days, China is among the top contributors (solidly in the same league as the US and EU) to scientific research.

The simplest metric to judge the overall amount of quality research output is to look at the number of papers accepted into top journals like Nature, which are anything but a paper mills. China already leads by that metric: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/generate....
> Falcon didn't break Linux at this incident because they haven't shipped a broken extension for Linux

True, but they did break Linux a few months back in much the same way they just broke Windows last Friday:

CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed

https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-roc...

But since that break didn't ground a good percentage of global air traffic, it didn't get the same press coverage as this most recent breakage.
The “artists need to make a living” narrative against piracy is pure deception. Truth is that most artists want nothing more than for their messages to spread as widely as possible, as that is also the most naturally profitable path for them in the long term. It’s only when managerial types get involved the need to turn a quick buck by denying the natural flow of information becomes a primary concern. So pirate away, knowing that nothing of value is lost.
> But inflation should have been limited to the amount of money injected in the economy.

I'm curious to hear more about why that would be the case. Money swaps hands constantly and we have explicit ways that a single dollar can become many multiples of itself (aka you get a dollar, you put it in a bank, the bank lends me 90 cents, I put it in a different bank, they lend you 81 cents, one of us gets another loan secured by our assets, etc, etc, etc, now how many dollars are there?).
Microsoft does have this. It is known as Windows Server Core and it is available as a Marketplace item in Azure.
No one read more then the first sentences.
That logic is a non-sequitur. A reason to live has nothing to do with making babies... A reason to make babies is a reason to make babies, a reason to live is a reason to live... maybe some overlap, sure... but the Venn Diagram is far from a circle.

There is no ethical consumption (period). If I am to raise consumption in society by bringing another human into it... that cost must be offset. An economically lush environment makes that feasible, the lack of funds makes that less feasible (to the point of impossibility).

Cry some more about how 'the poor' aren't filling the factories with their children anymore (since they've wised up) ... /s
PBS Spacetime‘s entropy playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNCzNFNDwxIug8q1...
Well, last point isn’t quite true. Alaska Airlines is primarily iOS. So, iPads scan your boarding pass and are used for printing luggage tags outside security, Flight attendants use iPhones on the planes, etc.

And they were of course mostly unaffected by the Cloudstrike outage.

Either way, I think it’s a strong point for Apple that antivirus is not required because the iOS security model protects against viruses pretty thoroughly. That’s just not the case for Windows most of the time. Also, do tech companies run antivirus on their linux-based containerized cloud workflows? Not really, the security model doesn’t require it. Points against windows server here
Saw this on the thread:

> I think that choosing to reveal that it is a code of conduct violation, but then refusing to state why, is less responsible than both being completely transparent, or saying nothing. I worry that it could start unnecessary drama.
Really last I check filming had stopped and crew had been sent home over budget crisis.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41038604#41038791
Looks a bit like Argo Workflows combined with Argo Events. Makes sense to have so many projects and products converge around the same endstate.
BT fined £17.5M for 999 call-handling failures
Caring for loved ones is a tremendous value enhancement that is entirely missing in any study looking at income and profits. Someone who loves to cook cooking for someone that loves sharing a home cooked meal with the person that cooked it is entirely valueless in any such interpretation of income and profits being the sole measure for evaluating value. Delivery food services are the most valuable forms of sustenance in such measures.

So did these people decrease their earnings because they were able to do more of what they value the most? Is that a thing we should try to make more people capable of doing?
you're not thinking about the sales channel.

It's more lucrative to license Windows + SQL server + MS 365 + etc etc than hourly VM rates.
I don't understand your viewpoint. Is it specifically about Wales? Are you really that much against driving? Or against expensive sports cars?

Like, David Heinemeier Hansson drives super expensive sportscars - does that mean you don't use anything he works on?

I checked the Form 990s back to 2004 at https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200... . Wales has never received compensation from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Is your issue that he makes his personal wealth from some other source, and doesn't transfer enough of it to Wikipedia? If so, do you have the same views for board members of other non-profits?
> Why is it some shock-horror thing that people worked less?

Working less is not so bad, but their income (before transfers) also went down. That means they did not replace poorly paying jobs with better paying ones (or they did with net decrease), nor started a business.

The issue is that social safety net is meant for people who's income is seemingly too low. If the net effect is to decrease that even lower, then yes its a concern.

(for clarity, I read the link not the paper)
The issue is Defender and equivalents.

Those would have access of course, and hence have an extreme competitive advantage relative to other products. Even more than they do now.

Kiss any non-Microsoft antivirus or security software goodbye.
See the R36S clones from China

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006152991376.html
Azure uses Hyper-V behind the scenes