skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You would get laughed out the room and then fucking fired if you hooked anything critical up to the internet."

Perhaps this happened where you were, and lucky you it seems you were in a good environment.

But back then I was in IT management and I had precious little power to stop it especially given other senior managers were the culprits. The operation had another function and not IT as its primary role. Moreover, I saw very simular problems in other organizations that I was familiar with.

Also, during that period I was with another outfit whose principal function was surveillance—not of people but of info and physical stuff and I can assure you that whilst the system worked well try as we might it wasn't watertight.
How much is that a selection bias (they are the ones that left and went to the US after all)
Yes.

I argue "people don't scale". The only time you see large amounts of people accomplishing big projects is in a military context, with constrained individuality, explicit chains of command, and authoritarian, top-down leadership.

And why might that be?

John Lennon answers: "You may say I'm a dreamer".

Yes, John, you and the various idle rich humming your tune are just that.

Your dream does not encompass the full spectrum of human experience, to include all the dark, chaotic stuff that makes scalability so terribly hard.
Sorry yes, "couldn't do"! What an unfortunate mistake, completely changes the meaning.
I don't think there was anything to brush, normally just an elevated hole with running water underneath
Practically nothing in Latex comes out of the box. Sure, you can bang out markdown-esque formatted text, but the moment you need something more complicated, say URLs, graphics, resize the margins, etc you are likely going to be pulling in a package.

No true scotsman and all that, but I suspect few documents in the wild are bare Latex.
Securing Updates for GNU Guix
The standard library types are guaranteed to be in a useful state after being moved from (the term "valid state" is used for this). Of course, that doesn't mean that your own types have to, but the C++ Core Guidelines suggest doing so [1].

1: https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines...
> Political power from Florida stemming from Batista supporters.

Last I heard Batista's daughter is homeless, support doesn't look so great lol: https://www.local10.com/news/2017/06/21/ex-cuban-leader-fulg...
https://github.com/j00ru/windows-syscalls
> people

Alongside software-managed person[udge]s impersonating people.

> noosphere doesnt have good autonomic defense systems

Or threat models, e.g. funding unlocked by 2012 Smith-Mundt Act for industrial-scale weaponization of online speech.
People who leave a country tend to leave it for a reason. If they liked their life in Cuba presumably they would have stayed. They are probably not a neutral source on Cuba.
The good old days when 800x600 was considered solid and 1024x768 luxurious
Turned out unicorn farts are not a good source of energy, nuclear energy is a good source but is scary because scary, and the rest is way too hard (and slow) to scale to the energy levels we need. Yes, I know some tiny country managed to produce 100% of it's energy by some exotic source, just as I know somebody implemented a fully functional OS in Brainfuck. That doesn't mean Brainfuck is a viable industrial system programming platform. And exotic energy is still not a viable stand-alone solution for overall world energy needs (especially if you count transportation). So PR is one thing, but the reality turns out to be a bit different.
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Cynically, people collectively are a sum of their evolutionary lessons. Evolution is never wrong.
So it's multi threaded.
It's less than half a cent a line!
It's also available for purchase on GOG despite not being listed as a place to buy it on the Starship Titanic site.
Some cyclists are maniacs, but you only notice the maniacs.

It works the other way. Cyclists think all drivers are maniacs for similar reasons.
I'm using Windows on this laptop, this seems to affect all sites with any sort of Cloudflare protection, including Cloudflare's support and discourse sites, pubs.acs.org, and annoyingly some sites necessary for my current projects, that I need to access daily.

To clarify, this is the "Verifying your connection is secure" captcha before the site is even displayed, not a reCAPTCHA after the site is loaded.

I've tried clean browser profiles with no difference, on my normal profile I just use uBlock, Tree Style Tabs (FF)/Tabs Outliner (Chrome), and Tampermonkey for some sites (but not the ones affected by the captcha loop, in this case).
Microsoft has tried pushing app deployment and management platforms that would make this kind of thing really possible, but it constantly receives massive pushback. This was the concept of stuff like Windows S, where pretty much all apps have to be the new modern store app package and older "just run the install.exe as admin and double click the shortcut to run" was massively deprecated or impossible.
People of other countries aren't morally better, yet they are at a lesser risk of losing democracy than the US now is. Why is this? It's because the politicians there have to cooperate to form coalition governments. In the US, the deficient voting system is structured such that third-parties practically cannot emerge. When you fix the voting system, third-parties immediately will emerge, at least in some states, and coalition governments will have to be formed at the national level. Coalitions will require a compromise on positions, being less susceptible to extremism and tribalism. Unfortunately, the two main parties are too selfish to want this to happen, not realizing that one of them risks losing permanently to a one-party system due to a partial judiciary. It's a core structural flaw.

For democracy to thrive, the information content extracted from a voter has to be higher in terms of votes cast, points voted on, and the data type of the vote. Currently it is too low in the US. Imagine if you had to do all your programming with a handful of booleans without the freedom to implement any higher data structures.
Or if you could filter for "paid apps with no in-app purchases".
Am I the only one with issues getting this to run on a iPhone?
Also consider the fatality rate for youth was low compared to elderly, so it must have looked like we threw their education and recreation in the wood chipper for grandma, when normally at least in modern times sacrifices are made by adults to the children not the other way around.
You can start not from what you love to do, but from what generally brings you pleasure. I love perfume and became interested thanks to https://www.fragrantica.com/
Faxes - I fully agree.

But there are areas where it definitely isn't just Luddism, especially in healthcare. See what happened in Finland [1]. Yeah, you can break into a GPs office and steal the physical data quite easily, but that doesn't scale, hacking a centralized service does.

(Sure, there are solutions which would be similarly resistant against hacks as paper - like saving the data on the actual insurance card. But those are not implemented - it has to be a centralized (often SaaS) solution, where hacks can scale nicely)

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54692120
I'd happily buy phones with ethically-sourced components if it was possible. There is no choice available to me as far as I'm aware.

Meanwhile just slowing the fuck down on residential streets is a choice anyone can make and not at all a comparable situation.

Please dispense with the classic HN whataboutism, as it's not curious conversation and contravenes the comment guidelines.
> When was the last time it was up for grabs?

Obama won it in 2012.

That isn't that long ago in electoral cycles.
Come to Canada. Be with your people.
For some reason, college was super stressful for me emotionally. I was struggling academically, then commuting to part-time work while trying to contain personal issues creeping up on me.

Yes, there was its fun, such as golden age of PC games, pre-Facebook internet and the whole 2007 thing; but my life is far less stressful nowdays, even though I too have family and kids.
Obama did start warming relations, probably due to that shift. Trump reversed it. I expect it’ll continue to, at best, see-saw until Republicans are comfortable enough with their advantage in Florida to ignore the Cuban vote.
Last time I checked, CS primarily runs in kernel mode on Linux and only fall back to eBPF if the kernel version is not supported. When in eBPF mode, they call it "Reduced Functionality Mode (RFM)".

Has this changed?
But you don't really handle blobs in real life: they can't really be handled, they don't have memorable name (by design). So you need an abstractly layer on top of it. You can use zfs that will deduplicate similar blobs. You can use restic for backups that will also deduplicate similar parts of a file also in an idempotent way. And you can use git that will deduplicate files based on their hash
> Most of the apps I care about are not installed from Google Play anyways.

Ha, yeah, I'd rather look in F-Droid first, because I know I'd have to sift through a fuckton of garbage of maybe-malware or for-sure-adware (full 10 second video ads whenever you click on anything) if I look in the Play Store.

Sure maybe I'm exaggerating, and the truth is the Play Store experience is not that bad, but it's my perception.
I don't exactly care who is blamed for this in the chain of stupidity, but it must happen. This corrosive attitude of "oops software problems nothing we can do" must end fast.
There is nothing about the 2022 election at that link.
This sort of thinking is one of the main problems with the industry, in my opinion.

We've got a bunch of computers that mostly don't make mistakes at the hardware layer. On top of that, we can write any programs we want. Even though the halting problem exists, and is true for arbitrary programs, we know how to prove all sorts of useful security properties over restricted sets of of programs.

Any software security pitch that starts with "when the software starts acting outside of its spec, we have the system ..." is nonsense. In practice, "acting outside its spec" is functionally equivalent to "suffers a security breach".

Ideally, you'd use an operating system that has frequent updates that expand functionality, that is regularly audited for security problems, and that only rarely needs to ship a security patch. OpenBSD comes to mind.

If software has frequent security updates over a long period of time, that implies that the authors of the system will continue to repeat the mistakes that led to the vulnerabilities in the first place.
Your answers indicate that you have not worked in n environment heavily dependent on ever shifting physical world logistics. You might try talking to some coordinators on the ground of a hospital, rescue center, consteuction site, theme park, or military operation for insight.
30-50% is an understatement. The latest beta is more than 100% slower in a simple benchmark:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41019626
After You. No, I Insist, You Go First • Python's Operator Precedence
I am sure that this is not just a problem in Europe. Chemical contaminated is a trace of civilized man, unfortunately. I have long thought about the quality of water consumed, especially after I have children. I use a filter in the kitchen and change it every month. But I’m thinking about the filtration system. Parents have 3 stage whole house filters https://filterway.com/whole-house-systems/3-stage-filtration... and they do not complain about digestion, mom still notes the quality of the hair after washing.
I've been a fan of using Netlify and Netlify-CMS (Decap now) with 11ty template.

https://www.11ty.dev/docs/starter/
I don't think that the complexity problem is so crucial, at least if we accept that the society doesn't need to find optimal solutions to complex problems, rather it just needs to avoid the really bad ones.

You need experts for optimizations, but not necessarily for avoidance of really bad solutions.
Sandra Hemme freed after 43 years in prison for murder she didn't commit
International law?

That said, i don't think sanctions violate intl law. You are under no obligation to trade with people you dont like. A blockade probably would be (generally blockades are an act of war which is only allowed in defense or if un security council approves) however america isnt blockading it.

Things can morally wrong without being illegal.
> RE: panic default, don't get fooled by hobby projects, professional Rust code always does pattern matching and does not defer to panics.

That's a "programmers who know what they're doing don't make that mistake" argument. If that were tenable there'd be no need for rust in the first place.
PDF is less likely to contain executable malicious code than other formats.
If my understanding of the article right, the counter needs to be updated by the business logic every time the underlying array is updated. This doesn't seem to solve any problems. Indeed, it's just synctatic sugar to wrap up what many developers have been doing for decades anyway. And it doesn't reduce the chances of mistakes in getting the counter and the array out of sync either.
It's an unanswerable question, but the only option we have is to try and make them work. At least until the next best system comes about. Regressing backwards because old things lasted awhile is hardly the place we should aspire towards.
I use it mainly on iphone. Once its done loading you need to press the "on" button on the calculator to get it to work.
I would also expect child support and alimony demands peak from 35-49 or so. It's got to be stressful knowing if you can't come up with the cash not only will you starve but you'll be tossed in a cage and your professional license, dl, and passport revoked
Society is an illusion; "people" is not a singular entity.

Imagine a loaf of sliced bread: so long as the pieces are fairly consistent and sound, it can resemble a loaf.

If one or more of the pieces is unsound, irregular in shape or consistency, the illusion of a singular loaf breaks.

It isn't the nature of "people", it is the imperfect nature of the metaphor of "people" itself.
Well it turns out Xi is smarter than such idea because he’s learnt from history. Does the name Nikita Khrushchev ring a bell?
There are a lot of Cubans in the US, their experiences tend to affect the larger American perspective of the country.
It was inevitable that something like this would happen sooner or later, either through security complacency or sheer bad luck. We were just fortunate it only happened to Windows.
The Loudbox costs $6000 and contains 4x n300 cards at $1400 each so on paper you only pay $400 for the box with 2 Xeons, 3.8TB NVMe SSD and 512GB DDR4-3200 ECC RAM.
Some buyers of the loudbox might be tempted to sell the four n300 cards separately and keep the box, i'd say it's worth at least $2500 or so.

How fast are the n300s compared to RTX 4090 or RTX 3090 cards?

At these prices it doesn't seem worthwhile to stick them into your own workstation instead of going for theirs.
From TFA

> Later, as he put it, he “thought that everything was COVID.” Now, Blanchflower says, he sees that was an error. “COVID extended trends that had existed before,” he says.
This is why I made that point, similar to you I would not stand for having my code in something that I can't stand behind, especially if it potentially harms people.

But it should not hinge on us convincing people.
Who is a neutral source when asking for the opinion about a dictatorship?
Pete Buttigieg: "We've made it way too complicated; it's super simple. These are very rich men who have decided to back the Republican Party who tends to do good things for very rich men."
The other suspect was a police officer, who used the victims credit card after the crime claiming he “found it in a ditch”.

Dear god if the writers of “law and order” had tried that one the producers would have laughed them back into the writing room.
Now would be a good time to upload the solutions to libgen so other people can skip the black market
You have no idea what you are talking about. George Kurtz authored the Hacking Exposed book over 25 years ago. That’s not really a sign of a non-technical person.
How do you know which driver is responsible for the crash? It's all in kernel mode so everything is sharing the same address space. Even if you could determine that the crashed code belonged to a given driver, it's impossible to know whether that was responsible the crash, or some other driver called it with bad parameters. Even if you could get past all those problems, not loading a driver also comes with other problems. If the driver is required for some critical functionality, not loading the driver might cause other crashes. It also means you can disable an antivirus by getting to crash 3 times in a row.
They could bump up their membership fee from $25 to $100 like Apple App Store.
Trump's comments on Taiwan hollowing out the US chip industry are incorrect
1. It’s a good time to reread the article that got Dan Geer famous on “monocultures” => https://ccianet.org/wp-content/uploads/2003/09/cyberinsecuri...

2. Also a great time to start prepping for AI Incidents => https://thedataexchange.media/ai-incident-response/
Ask HN: What's the consensus on "unit" testing LLM prompts?
LLMs are notoriously non deterministic, which makes it hard for us developers to trust them as a tool in a backend, where we usually expect determinism.

I’m in a situation where using an LLM makes sense from a technical perspective, but I’m wondering if there are good practice on testing, besides manual testing:

- I want to ensure my prompt does what I want 100% of the time

- I want to ensure I don’t get regressions as my prompt evolve, or when updating the version of the LLM I use, or even if I switch to another LLM

The ideas I have in mind are:

- forcing the LLM to return JSON with a strict definition

- running a fixed set of tests periodically with my prompt and checking I get the expected result

Are there specificities with LLM prompt testing I should be aware of? Are some good practices emerging?
So basically they don't do input validation. Any file signed (maybe) by CS is treated as valid and the kernel driver loads it. Wow.

I'm curious how this scenario, malformed definitions file signed by CS itself is not verified in any way on the endpoint. Like a try {} catch something...

I mean, the failure is spectacular in its simplicity.
Show HN: AI that clips your YouTube videos and posts Shorts on autopilot
Hey HN,

After creating YouTube videos a while ago, I found that clipping my videos and scheduling clips took really long.

So I created UseShorts where you just connect your YouTube channel once, and then it automatically produces clips from your channel in the background, and uploads two of them a day.

It uses LLMs to find the best parts of the video, and ai models to find out where to crop the video to, so it looks great on mobile.

-Andreas
I've never managed linux IT departments--how well are the management tools compared to what Microsoft offers such as tooling for managing thousands of computers across hundreds of offices.
I guess Lua wasn't available at the time.
https://archive.ph/Y7UvR
The UN, UK, and EU have no sanctions imposed on Cuba [1]. Why has no other country prevented Cuba from "starving to death?" Honest question. Is the United States so powerful that our trade is the only thing keeping countries alive?

[1] https://globalsanctions.co.uk/region/cuba/
I’d never heard of this, thanks
'boomers' had their youth in the mid 60s... a booming time - music, revolution, sex, etc... and coming of age as western economies were booming (or about to) after WW2. GenX... 'greed is good' age of Wall Street, AIDS epidemic, constant threat of nuclear war permeating every aspect of culture - go watch 80s shows and see how many references to 'commies' and 'ww3' and such - it was everywhere.

Yes, I know every generation has their burdens, but yeah, I think the 'high school/teenage years is the best time of your life' may have been true for a small cohort of folks, but has become a myth perpetuated by the first consumerist generation who then got to shape culture and media for a few decades.
A Case for Backing Up Your Precious Photos and Files at Home
Besides, the generation of PDF reports is usually decoupled from the templates, so you will have to work on your own "middleman".
People who left want to put pressure on the government that they hate and they don’t mind sanctioning the people to do it.
That's a fair point. One thing I will say, having lived near many in FL at one time, they are some of the most patriotic and pro USA people. I always appreciated that in a way, as I think a lot of us take it for granted.
A cycle within a cycle
Top Fed officials say they are 'closer' to cutting interest rates
That's the next arch I want to add but it takes a bit of work, sooner or later I will add it though :')
It's entirely their fault if the CIA keeps giving money to terrorists. No other country is involved with that.
> Trick is having a place to go. Until the politically opportunistic immigration loophole was closed this year, they had.

What loophole changed?

The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 still applies. They get automatic Green Cards. Not sure it is fair to call legislation implicitly giving them work permits and a path to residency a loophole.
There are many reasons we can point to as to why we don't see changes in society that will bring a about a better place for everyone.

Maybe it's because capitalism doesn't allow for it, or only in its later stages and we are just not there yet.

Or maybe because there still needs to be a revolution that will feed the masses that are starving both physically and mentally.

There are many thinkers trying to point to flaws in the current way of viewing things that might be blocking us from moving forward. Byung-Chul Han, Slavoj Zizek, Michael Sandel...

I really enjoy the podcast Philosophize This, the author does a nice job of introducing many concepts that are important.

In my case, I wrote a recent essay that might fit this discussion: https://xd1.dev/2024/07/against-political-realism

In it I try to extend the concept of Capitalist Realism to the realm of politics to use it as a motivation to call for a kind action in the private sphere that could increase the odds of us having meaningful debates in the society about the kind of changes we want to bring about for the next generations to come.
Why isn't this stuff air gapped?
Correct. We use paper receipts for shopping and paper ballots for voting. Automation is fast and efficient, but there must be a manual fallback when power fails or automation is unreliable.

This wisdom is echoed in some religious practices that avoid complete reliance on modern technology.
Yeah I don't disagree, you do have a point.

But this is easier to scan for compared to all the potential memory unsafeties in C/C++. It's an improvement.
I'm glad it eventually got better!
>In a blog post Saturday, Microsoft estimated that the update affected 8.5 million devices, which amounts to less than 1 percent of computers running Windows

Cute, but the 1% were the systems that matter most, who cares if people could still watch LOL Cat Videos at home.

No one I know who works at a company using a Windows system was unaffected.

Actually wrong, 1 person was fine, he got a brand new PC the day before, but it had no corporate mandated "security items" (per the help desk), so he could work. He was still able to connect to the corporate intranet.
Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance