skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only vulnerability here was CrowdStrike's EDR product that runs exclusively in ring 0 and the entire corporate & technical class that lazily relied on this flawed security model and centalized this incompetence.

As much as some people want to believe that Microsoft is blameless here, I hold them partly responsible. They need to create a stable API in their kernel and force third party security vendors to use it.
not only allowing, but approving? they signed driver, right?

linux also allows, by approval is decentralized
If democrats doesn't win next election and balance the supreme court there won't be another fair election in us for a long time.
Evil Eye
That's strange.
Would be a right word.

Great minds think alike.

You are solving the problem using chatgpt, with right words on first hit.

Author here is solving problem using chatgpt's usage syntax.

You will not be convinced by either, because the problem is not solved.
Silly and pointless reductionism. You assign meaning to each slice, but not to the loaf, even though the same logic applies to the "illusion" of a slice? It's turtles all the way down, and the concept of society is as real and as important as any of the other layers.
Having a parent die is a blow as well I assume, so it was in their interest not to bring the virus home.
So? If I'm a modern user who needs my typesetting system to generate HTML, I'm not going to "forgive" a typesetting system because it's older than the web and use it even though it doesn't do what I need.
It's the Sun, it can do whatever it wants. Try stopping it, if you dare.
Boy do I sure hate you for saying that. I mean at some point you are right. That is the future. But god am I mad at you for reminding me this is the world we live in.
“Let’s take something people will have to do, and make it so the most desperate among them will pay us to do it.” is a distillation of capitalism, but I wouldn’t use the word beauty to describe it.
Funny enough, this was a thing in Pandora's Star. There's a weird chapter where the author gets bored and describes this exotic glider extreme sport where people ride variable geometry winged gliders through mega storms on another planet.
I'm not aware of Microsoft signing off on vendor kernal drivers code changes.

Driver signing is not a Quality Assurance measure. It's an identify measure.
There are plenty of open societies that are working just fine right now.

It's American society that isn't working.

We as a society are incredibly hostile to the non-wealthy individual American, and not in a "you should feel guilty for being white and christian" kind of way like the right claims.

We have a massive number of laws governing individual behavior, a justice system that incarcerates more people than any other country in the world in total or per capita, and is almost entirely focused on being punitive rather than reformative despite plenty of evidence the latter works better and costs less. Meanwhile, we let the leadership of corporations murder people, engage in widespread environmental pollution, etc and rarely to never face criminal punishment - usually just a financial slap on the wrist.

We heap benefits and freebies onto corporations with almost nothing required back in results or documentation, and give little to nothing to our poorest while requiring them to go through more paperwork and rules and conditions for pittances in aide.

We refuse to treat medical care, shelter, water, and food as a human right - ditto for a livable wage for work performed (despite being one of the most productive-per-worker countries in the world) has been an unmitigated disaster. Very predictably, more and more of Americans are slipping into poverty. But phew, good thing corporations have the right to a "voice" in politics (because apparently the leadership of the corporation doesn't...)

Most of the ills can be directly traced to the grossly oversized influence rural midwestern Americans have politically.

They're highly religious, uneducated, bigoted, selfish, vindictive, gullible, and arrogant (they are the 'real' America, they are 'hard working' and 'earn their keep'...despite being a net negative in federal revenue vs spending, hilariously enough. The quiet part: "unlike those people in the cities").
In the USA at least I hope young people realize the extent to which they are being ripped off by its universities and colleges. In-state tuition now costs about what private ivy-league tuition did in the 1990's. Meanwhile, if you are attending university in the EU and you are an EU citizen your tuition is free. Let that sink in.
> I don't know what happens if someone tries to study logic without first having studied calculus.

When I was in college, the Philosophy department offered this course. It was considered an easy way to get a general education math credit without needing to be good at math. It was a really enjoyable course[0] that put me on the path to becoming a computer programmer. It occasionally comes in handy[1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37655058

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23412641
per unit
Ahh, good old ambiguous laws strike again.

You read it and might think guests applies to non paying customers. I read it and see it only applying to their guests, i.e. patrons of their restaurant. 3rd person might interpret as simply meaning the restaurant determines who is a guest and it can swing either way. 4th person is a lawyer and thinks some random other part of this document or other law or court case defines guest therefore his interpretation is correct. 5th person is like, we don't care, public access to toilets is a human right and proclaims the first 4 are bigots and such restaurants are to be sued. 6th person starts an organization to catalog all misbehaving restaurants and labels them discrimatory. And so it goes, and will go on till the end of time.
Yeah I just wanted to see a picture of it
If your generation's financial system is such that you, at age 20, can obtain a job, immediately move into your own housing, and the house and vehicle aren't a net drain. You are accruing money despite paying for the house and vehicle. Doesn't that define the 60s? Seems like at 20 in the 60s you would at least be spared the worry of going broke due to a lost vehicle or rent payment.
"It's an established fact," says economist who has been studying issue for only 15 years, and suddenly encounters radically contradictory data across cohorts.

(All of the above is in the article.)
Is the box painted yellow? That's all I want to know, and if you are old enough you will get the Google Search Appliance reference.
Would the disaster have been prevented if there was no code signing? Or are you arguing that Microsoft should scrutinize code even harder?
How old are you?

5-10 years ago I would have agreed with your comment, but once I hit my 30s I started to feel gross if I ate a bunch of donuts, super duper greasy food, etc.

As the years progress more and more food makes me feel a little yucky afterwards, not just the blatantly obvious incredibly unhealthy ones.
Age of consequences, indeed.

It really does feel like we (humanity) are on the precipice of something. We're smack in the middle of an era that entire books will be written about. I really don't like thinking about the decades to come and what kind of world our grandchildren will have.
Things are not so simple as Cuba bad, USA good. Wage differentials easily explain why so many come to the USA. Maybe they like Cuba but cannot come for better wages. Cuba has its problems, but definitely the USA/cia is targeting the regime with negative publicity. Who knows maybe you work at a cia troll farm.
The Loudbox is $12k USD, you can see the pricing right above the specs/description: https://tenstorrent.com/hardware/tt-loudbox
Thank you for your contribution to open source music production/dj'ing!
Based on a simular comment you've made, I think there is some confusion for you as to what driver signing actually is. It's a certificate of Authority to identify the Distributer of the driver as legitimate or not.

Indeed, this messup was signed, so correctly it was signed. As for the code/behaviour. It's nothing to do with signing.
This google talk https://youtu.be/bmSAYlu0NcY?si=yHREamFoRG_fZopl is a condensed version of the (already small - 150 pags IIRC) book. I highly recommend both.

To the point made by the GP (and others here) about how useful the book is, I must add that I got a whole lot more from this small book than some other well known and oft suggested titles (like Clean Code, POSA etc).

My most recent peeve about the matter is that Kent Beck"s "Tidy, Fisrt?" was apparently motivated partly in response to this book and yet it falls way too short to matching up. Half of thst book is way too simplistic and almost patronizing and the other is handwavy abstract notions too scared to touch reality lest it spoil the narrative.
I couldn't find any specs in the docs either. Welcome to enterprise.
> Are you saying the two parties are equally to blame?

Even though I agree with the points in your second statement, the counterintuitive conclusion is that the Democrats are slightly more to blame because even after realizing that they're in a losing position, that democracy is at stake, that one-party rule is risked, they still fail to want to fix the voting system, preferring instead to risk losing everything forever.
We had a blue mini appliance!

Teardowns previously:

https://rothgar.medium.com/google-mini-search-appliance-tear... | http://1n73r.net/2012/12/11/google-mini-search-appliance-tea...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1781/3
Definitely selection bias but well-founded.

The unmotivated masses tend to follow the de-facto system that entrenches the successful few. The remaining motivated and competitive people on the other hand leave for better pastures.

People who emigrate from countries whose governments micromanage the population tend to have the worst opinion about them. Not that dissimilar from people who ditch bosses who micromanage =).
What you're describing is what Linux distro maintainers do: Debian maintainers check the changes of different software repos, look at new options and decide if anything should be disabled in the official Debian release, and compile and upload the packages.
Gen Z has their own challenges. They’re being inundated with fake news everywhere they look. Privacy is over. Advertising is invading every aspect of life. Democratic institutions are crumbling in favour of dictatorship right before our eyes. Corporations are so above the law that they car bombed a journalist in broad daylight without fear of any repercussion.

I really feel for them. We have some serious shit to figure out before handing over the reigns. If we can’t, I seriously hope they figure something out.
Hey, what if we made it worse since you did all that?
This is foundational to American legal system in many cases. If your local cops for instance unjustly beat say Cubans and get sued for it the inhabitants will pay and possibly even their children through debt.
Ask HN: Could Commodore have ported AmigaOS to run on top of Linux?
Maybe they could have even hired Linus to lead the project?
Cool! Mine sweeper is a really fun easy game to implement. I did a version in Python a few years ago: https://github.com/igor47/sweeper but mine is closer to 500 lines
To add to the point you were making: an "individual" who's been starting at a screen doing nothing but typing aphorisms for a week straight will look visibly unhealthy to their friends.

That change in countenance reveals all the hidden social connections on which that person necessarily relies for their mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
>by approval is decentralized

Translation: it's up to whoever is the sysadmin is, which probably was responsible for crowdstrike being installed in the first place. Such "approval" would have made no difference in preventing this disaster.
Also the idea that "commitment to the rule of law" should be a virtue assumes high trust. It's entirely rational not to be "committed to the rule of law" in a society where law enforcement faces less scrutiny or risk of consequences than those on the receiving end of the enforcement. It also ignores that laws can be unjust and defiance of unjust laws can be a political driving force - although I guess in this ideal society unjust laws would just be discovered by thinking really hard and agreeing that they're unjust.

The article also throws the term "democracy" around without ever defining it. "Freedom of association" implies a direct democracy, possibly allowing for delegates, but "democratic institutions" and "politicians" implies a representative democracy at which point the distinction between democracy and technocracy becomes less clear.

Lastly, the article is very much begging the question by idealizing the "disinterest truth seekers". This implies there is an underlying truth that is orthogonal to ideology and social norms. Even in the natural sciences this is hardly a given. Mathematics famously is the only science that can claim absolute correctness but such "truths" are only relevant within their respective systems, e.g. the obvious statement "1 + 1 = 2" is only true if we agree to submit ourselves to the underlying assumptions, many of which are ultimately arbitrary. Physics is probably a close second but the consensus on what might currently be the closest approximation of a model perfectly describing empirical reality is so complex that most applications instead use models that are known to be wrong but are simpler and ultimately good enough for the given purpose.

At this point in science it is functionally impossible for a single person to have a holistic understanding of any given field, let alone the renaissance man ideal of a holistic understanding of a broad range of fields. So all views of "truth" are ultimately filtered through biases (e.g. discarding information as "irrelevant" or "unrelated") and often layers of abstractions. Imagining that this alone can result in a functioning society is the ultimate folly of liberalism: the total blindness to its own ideology.

Ideology is not a flaw. Ideology is a lens through which we can understand society and a value system which informs us in how we want to progress as a society. If you don't take the time to build out a coherent ideology or at least a coherent value system - and understand it as such - you'll just be left chasing an inconsistent and often contradictory assortment of "virtues" and ad hoc preferences like those 85% of people who are not "politically engaged" (and arguably being politically engaged is neither necessary nor sufficient to having a coherent value system or else we wouldn't have the widespread problem of very vocal Lions Eating People's Faces Party voters).
It's for military applications so it's quite obviously green.
It's a complex issue, for sure, and I admit to not being well informed. I did a quick search, and Biden's administration allowed Cubans to open accounts with U.S. banks, but the Cuban government does not like giving up control. Cuba passed laws "forcing businesses to use Cuban banks for payment" [1].

[1] https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas...
> due to an impartial judiciary

Did you mean a partial judiciary?
It's 12K. $6000 is the deposit.
Absolutely. Global variables are always going to need some sort of arbitration mechanism, and this is doing it in the innermost loop. Even if there's only one thread, something needs to find that out. I'm surprised it's only half the speed.
It's not just the President. Some aspects of US-Cuban relations are written into federal law and would take an Act of Congress to change.

As a practical matter, Americans can travel to Cuba without much trouble. Several of my friends have gone.
True it is not. But the point is about the global propagation, which the author seems unaware was by the regular CrowdStrike channel update distribution.
Sun's Out, Drones Out
Who'd buy it?
a bi-cycle?
Filesystem checkpoints? A/B partitions? boot into safe mode and check for more updates?
When would someone reach for PCF now instead of K8s?
correction: anti-illegal immigrant platform. the 3rd worlder influx of criminals is negative for the country not positive.
Does anyone else think that both app stores should be divinding the apps into 3 categories instead of 2. Like free apps, apps that don’t cost anything to download but have virtually no functionality without having subscription or paying and paid apps or maybe both of the latter two categories swhould be consider paid apps.
It's hard to localize. Early Postscript - PDF software was the wild west, particularly when it comes to the text streams. Something I've noticed is that they're used a LOT in things like randlists (bullet lists), tab leaders, other "space that isn't a space".

I'm reminded of how you have to use `{empty}` character refs in lightweight markup like Asciidoc to "hold your place" in a list, in case you need the first element in the list to be an admonition or block. Like so:

. {empty}
+
WARNING: Don't catch yourself on fire!
+
Pour the gasoline.

And the equivalent XML which would be something like

<procedure>
<step>
<warning> Don't catch yourself on fire!</warning>
<para>Pour the gasoline.</para>
</step>
</procedure>

This is one of those rare cases where the XML is more elegant than the lightweight markup. That hack with `{empty}` bugs me.

Anyways, I'm spitballing that these old-timey nulls I'm seeing are being employed in an equivalent way, some sort of internal bespoke workaround to a format restriction.
You consider signage infra? Same with conference rooms. Most of the places I have worked have facilities type people working on it. Tier 3 is usually a direct phone call away for them

You would send an engineer into an airport to reboot a sign?
In this particular case, no, they're unbranded HP boxes, though some that have been deployed have GCP logos on the racks themselves.
Maybe the main difference with other democratic countries is that the US is currently losing the absolute domination they had on the world for the last few decades? The societal impact of this turnaround seems massive for the locals and apparently not easy to digest.
Appeal to fewer than 20 people is one thing, making 20 people install a beta version is quite another.

There's a saying, only one of 10k people affected by a bug will report it. Getting early testers is a bit like that, although not as bad as 1/10k.
I probably agree with you on many things but I feel the current party has also abandoned the people, to a lesser extent, for big money interest.

We live in an effective oligarchy and that’s the sad truth of things.
Thanks. Typo corrected.
Do you mean arguments and the internal syscall number used for a syscall on your given platform?

I recently had enough of parsing the various syscall.h files on different architectures and wrote a debugfs syscall info reader instead. That way you can see all tracepoint-instrumented syscalls and arguments available exactly on your currently running kernel on your platform:

https://tanelpoder.com/posts/list-linux-system-call-argument...

Edit: changed "all" to "all tracepoint-instrumented" based on a comment below - some added syscalls don't (immediately) get instrumented with a tracepoint so tracefs wouldn't show them (until someone instruments them in a later kernel version as seems to be the case). The tracefs approach has been good enough for me, but the only 100% guaranteed way to see all currently available syscalls would be to read the syscall table from kernel memory and see which syscall handler kernel functions they call (as the syscall name itself is meaningless inside the kernel).
More than just Nashville, they have hospitals all over the country.
Sorry, but I don’t think families who escaped in those times were exactly just innocent property owners.
They've been this fragile for some considerable time. We've just been lucky, over and over again, that nothing of this seriousness has happened before.
An irony of Polybius’s writings is that he complimented Rome on its balanced constitution which had the appearance of holding all these forces at bay (the consuls with limited monarchical powers, the senate representing the aristocracy, the tribunes the people and army etc), but he stopped writing at the exact moment the tide began to turn.

With Amazon Prime’s new Roman series I’ve just been rereading Tacitus, who sees the collapse as equally inevitable:

That old passion for power which has been ever innate in man increased and broke out as the Empire grew in greatness. In a state of moderate dimensions equality was easily preserved; but when the world had been subdued, when all rival kings and cities had been destroyed, and men had leisure to covet wealth which they might enjoy in security, the early conflicts between the patricians and the people were kindled into flame. At one time the tribunes were factious, at another the consuls had unconstitutional power; it was in the capital and the forum that we first essayed civil wars. Then rose C. Marius, sprung from the very dregs of the populace, and L. Sulla, the most ruthless of the patricians, who perverted into absolute dominion the liberty which had yielded to their arms. After them came Cn. Pompeius, with a character more disguised but no way better. Henceforth men's sole object was supreme power. Legions formed of Roman citizens did not lay down their arms at Pharsalia and Philippi, much less were the armies of Otho and Vitellius likely of their own accord to abandon their strife. They were driven into civil war by the same wrath from heaven, the same madness among men, the same incentives to crime. That these wars were terminated by what we may call single blows, was owing to want of energy in the chiefs.
There's a bit complexity there as the system is designed to be modular based on requirements. GPUs? Raw RAM? DC or AC? All different compoents that you can swap in/out.
Important subject, so-so article.

One decline in democracy: do you belong to any organization where the members regularly vote, make binding decisions, and occasionally fire the leader? A co-op? A union? A club? A homeowner's association? Anything? Most non-profits and voluntary organizations used to be organized that way, but in the US today, they tend to have self-perpetuating boards, ones which choose their successors.

This is a problem for democracy, because Americans don't regularly do democracy any more.
It takes practice. You need to see the process work. If people are not familiar with the process,
it won't get used.

Democracy is a consensus-forcing process. There's argument, then a vote. Then a decision, which is carried out.
The expectation, and this is a tough one, is that after a decision is made, the opposition mostly accepts it,
whether they like it or not. That's tough. Countries currently struggling hard with that include the US, France,
and Israel.

If voting can't force a decision and action, democracy stalls. This leads for calls for a "strong leader" and some form of autocracy. Countries which failed at democratic consensus and ended up as authoritarian states in recent years include post-USSR Russia, and Iraq.

Then you get a coup or conquest, sometimes you get a revolution, and once in a while, a stable democracy emerges.
You have to have people who know how to do democracy to make that work.
$7,995. Wow. I wonder how much a contemporary Unix license cost.
A short documentary on Conway's Game of Life (2020) [video]
In a way yes. However my emphasis is more that the collective society can't be just wrong, as much as we may sometimes want to paint the picture as such.
Sooner or later they give in and follow Apple in a lot of things
Hah, yeah that sounds like a good analogy
I'm of two minds on this one personally. I see simular `single points of failure` potentials with CloudFlare for example. Sometimes it highlights this topic.
But at the same time, I really do feel more comfortable with a large experienced company being responsible for some of that infrastructure that is expensive to maintain correctly..

I don't know what the solution is, but it's something that needs to be figured out.