skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not really how it works, unfortunately. Once a company releases a patch, the clock starts ticking on reverse engineering what that patch does. Amusingly, all of the efforts to shrink patch sizes have made this even easier, as you can quickly zero in on which bits are the important ones.

The only safe thing to do is for companies to be loud about which patches relevant for security and for their customers to take them quickly. All else is security-via-hopium.

> Normal users and companies need some time.

Revil doesn’t care about your patch testing.
A rather militant approach to testing for the most part, even if I don't know how to do something off the top of my head I know what I want my code to be doing so in my opinion having decent testing in place limits the risk of a ChatGPT misinterpretation causing harm. I've not done away with documentation wholesale either, if I'm in doubt I'll revert to the usual way of doing things.

I use them in conjunction with each-other as well, I can use ChatGPT as a 'really fuzzy find' for things like 'what's the name of x function in a library that sounds a bit like y whose name I've forgotten' then go and look at the docs in a way search engines are generally quite bad at.
Surplus load from Meta users flocking to other platforms
And suddenly most of the World discover that the Internet is "just a bunch of cables connected together".
Is this related to the Meta outage?

Edit: answering myself here, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605925 says that this actually happened a week ago but the media reports are just very delayed. Basically it is actually unrelated.
It will be DNS related.
Islamic and Jewish science merge in 11th-century astrolabe
Probably DNS ...it's always DNS....
Ah, the missing piece here (at least in the US) is that you always want to have a joint account with someone you trust (a kid, a spouse) so it doesn’t go into probate. Anything that needs to keep being paid after your death gets paid from that joint account.
Imagine how many hundreds of millions of users waste their time using instagram and facebook on a daily basis. Safe to say they don't mind wasting their customers time
>> but Y-Combinator literally only exists to squeeze the most bizness out of young smart people.

YC started out with the intent to give young smart people a shot at starting a business. IMHO it has shifted significantly over the years to more what you say. We see ads now seeking a "founding engineer" for YC startups, but it used to be the founders were engineers.
It also has a meditative component if you practice for an extended period.
good luck to those on call
Could they share one with all information except names?
That is for renting a whole property. You will have to share with someone for €600 per month. Try the "Sharing" option in Daft for that.
Vortex ring state has killed more then one of my quad copters.

When you are flying a quad with a lot of power, it is fun to zoom up vertically, cut the throttle, and drop.

Normally, the motors have enough power to arrest the fall before you hit the ground but if you get into VRS no amount of power will save you.

If you realize you are in VRS before it is too late, apply forward thrust and fly out of it.
It means they’ve missed payroll. I have no idea why this poster is still working there or even considering this offer.
That's the natural endgame of the "user-facing services must not stop, if something they depend upon stops, they must only degrade" philosophy.
At the scale of Meta, "down" is a nuanced concept. You are very unlikely to get every piece of functionality seizing up at once. What you are likely to get is some services ceasing to function and other services doing error-handling.

For example, if the service that authenticates a user stops working but the service that shows the login form works, then you get a complex interaction. The resulting messaging - and thus user experience - depend entirely on how the login page service was coded to handle whatever failure the authentication service offered up. If that happens to be indistinguishable from a failure to authenticate due to incorrect credentials from the perspective of the login form service, well, here we are.

At Meta's scale, there's likely quite a few underlying services. Which means we could be getting something a dozen or more complex interactions away from wherever the failures are happening.
The Quest 3 is kind of the obvious mainstream consumer choice for a VR headset.

Standalone wireless headset, reasonably powerful chipset, can optionally stream from a PC either wired or wireless, good optics/resolution, decent controllers/tracking, large game library, large suite of features (including hand tracking and color passthrough), all for a reasonable price. Not sure any other headset really competes on all those things at once.
Hope it stays broken. Imagine? People would blink, confused, and slowly start to wake from a decade-long stupor.
That's true of most transit and also true for roads.
Much less so than Amazon and Amazon, Meta and meta, and Threads and threads.
The author's argument completely fell apart when they highlighted Israel's Haredim as a high fertility group that is socially respected. I don't believe this is actually the case. I'm not Israeli, but my strong sense is that the Haredim are widely condemned as freeloaders, receiving lots of public benefits but not contributing via taxes or military service. I can't find any good opinion polls but a cursory search will find a number of Op/Ed articles from Israeli newspapers commenting on the topic.

I suspect Israeli fertility has a lot more to do with nationalism (though not among the Haredi groups, who are often explicitly anti-nationalist). However, reviewing the data it doesn't seem like there's a clear pattern - Turkey (another country I'd consider currently as nationalist) has above average TFR but so does Iceland and France (two countries I wouldn't consider nationalist).
> Could this be related to Google's log in page change? Seemed cosmetic only, but funny timing that Google's page update happens the same time all these log in issues pop up.

That rollout is staggered over time, so not all users receive it at the same time. It's unlikely to be related.
> I am an immigrant here so not sure how common this is in Germany but I assumed that kids at this age usually are in school.

It’s very common actually. As you probably know, Germany has a three tiered school system where kids move to after finishing elementary school at circa 10 years old.

Going to school is mandatory for 9 years here, regardless of graduation or not. You’ll leave Mittelschule after grade 9, so at 15-16. Realschule/mittlere Reife is usually finished after 10 total years in school, so at age ~16. Meanwhile gymnasium takes 12-13 years (depends on the state, our schools are weird), so you’d regularly be finished at 17-18 years old.

iirc the distribution across those three tiers is relatively even on average. That would mean that most are finished with the primary education at 17 or younger.

> Also this is probably a "try it for a while" thing rather than the permanent / long-term lifestyle.

Absolutely. I’m a bit of a train nerd myself, but even I wouldn’t consider this lifestyle for much longer. But as long as it’s fun for him, I bet he’s DB‘s most reliable service tester
My Meta Ray-Ban Stories glasses are working just fine FWIW
Cool, will check it out

Does it integrate with Visual Studio, does it provide code suggestions?

Been doing a lot of back and forth iteration with ChatGPT to build a python project from scratch

It’s been a really good experience although frustratingly slow at times (from going back and forth between the browser and code and having to wait for gpt’s answers)

Can more documentation be automatically added? For example, it might be useful in a rails project to be able to get answers about the ruby and rails documentations
Well you can't expect to hire engineers with half a brain for the pitiful compensation Meta offers, can you?
So it is like allocating an array of objects but I guess it does not have to be homogeneous, i.e. you can decide after the initial allocation what objects you want to live in your chunk of memory. Allocation gets simpler as you just have to move one pointer forward past the newly allocated object. Memory usage would actually remain the same or even increase - ignoring the overhead of data structures to track allocations - as the lifetime of objects is now tied to the lifetime of the arena. You could get essentially the same behavior from a normal per-thread allocator if you never freed anything and the allocator would satisfy all allocations from a single pool. You would of course still pay the management overhead and have to free every object individually. More interesting scenarios arise when you use several arenas with different lifetimes or mix arenas allocation with normal allocation.
I've been working on a very simple concept: a platform where one launches tech products, gets feedback, and first customers over a month. Both ideas and products are scored separately.

The platform is live today on Product Hunt, and people keep asking me if it's a PH alternative launched on PH.

It's actually not. I'll let you have a look at the launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/microlaunch/

and the platform: microlaunch.net

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Snohetta's design looks quite similar to Oodi in places, I must say. It's just a lot bigger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_Central_Library_Oodi#...
Somehow that reminds me of the secret of learning to fly in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is (IIRC) to fall to the ground and miss.
Oh wow, it ran MWC Coherent!

I still have a (printed on dead trees!) manual for Coherent 3.2 (286 version, circa 1990-91) kicking around. Ran multiuser (login via tty or virtual terminals on the console) in 640Mb of RAM, off a 10Mb fully installed setup. If I remember correctly you were limited to 64Kb code & 64Kb data per process, though ... (Coherent 4.0 removed the addressing limit).
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I too love Mustard usually I use Colman's.

Now for my big pet-peeve, people using mayonnaise on Ham sandwiches and Hamburgers. Where that came from I do not know. but they should be sent to a reeducation camp :)

FWIW, most of my family uses mayonnaise in that manner, I do not know who got me onto mustard as a child, but someone must have :)
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But well paid at least. Working at Meta seems pretty shitty except for the pay from the stories I have heard.
Some piece of core infrastructure went down because everyone got spike at the same time. Surprisingly DoorDash and Steam was up
Copyright grounds? Copying stuff can violate copyright, but documenting stuff? No no no, you'd need a specific law to prevent disclosing of information. Maybe misappropriation of trade secrets?
What platforms have anywhere near the reach and services that Meta does for a marketplace/advertising?

I'm not personally a fan of most social media, but saying "they could go somewhere else" is a pretty naieve/ignorant response.
We're preventing electric cars to save the earth?

I mean, yes, there is an (often unacknowledged) ecological footprint for producing electric cars. They don't just grow from magic trees planted by fairies. But are they net better for the environment, or worse? And if better, then, eco-sabotage people, which side are you on?
Yes of course it was. The point is, an hour later, they could have hit a circuit-breaker to get people to stop trying and going crazy over an error that is completely inaccurate.
I assume they will run all those campaign views after yhe outage, so very little will be actually lost
There are enough sensors in a car to know when a collision has occurred. The car is capable of capturing touchscreen use metrics. Bonus points if you can find metrics for the same region/timespan for cars with tactile controls. You can then do any year 1 statistics algorithm to see if using the touchscreen is correlated with collisions. Yes, this doesn't prove causation. A correlation is enough to raise the flag about a safety issue.

EDIT: A decent statistical analysis will also uncover if using the touch screen is negatively correlated with accidents -- if people that use maps in general are less likely to get into an accident. This again won't prove causation but would be of interest to the general public and regulators.
> Define "average dev use".

Something between "editing an .html file" and "recompiling huge C++ projects every hour"

A few docker containers, IntelliJ, etc
I'm allergic to milk, so I substitute with yellow mustard for cheese steak subs. It works really well for adding the depth of flavor and moisture melted cheese provides. (In my opinion.)
I totally agree - for companies with opportunities to embed security more deeply, waf is rarely the right choice
> You know how it is with trains. Even the unsurprisingly much more efficient German rail system.

Efficient and German Rail systems are not words that go together.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-november-train-punctuality-wor...
A small town (~70k pop) in the middle of England. Pre-covid the pay in local IT was quite a hindrance (£25k/yr is pretty much the average locally) but it's a great place to be now that remote work is a bit more normalised :)

Plenty of trails to walk or cycle, fields everywhere to shortcut through, decent train and motorway connections to the major cities on the rare occasion I do need to be on-site.

There's even a castle to explore within walking distance :)
What's your fave conspiracy theory? Massive cyberattack for Super Tuesday? Powers-that-be mandated takedown? Mossad sleeper agents activated? Covid-brain struck that one engineer attending to that one wire that kept everything going?
It’s working again. It’s been experiencing outages since 6am I guess.
Is this not a false choice?

Why can't we keep using p-values and also have an addendum to papers that includes the raw data observed and their associated likelihood functions?
I used this just a couple months ago to build a multilingual docs site. The site turned out great! Was able to train a couple people to use GitHub’s built in editor to manage the content themselves.
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Is all the memory getting used at the same time? Mac has very good swapping of memory and extremely fast SSD. Also I work in ML modelling and I figured out at any rate I need to run(not develop) my code in cloud.
In my other car, which adheres to the “buttons for nearly everything” philosophy, the steering wheel heater (for example) is down by the driver’s left knee, even using it via the touchscreen is probably safer.

Experiences with this sort of thing are subjective, but I’ve never had any problems with Google Assistant in the car.
It is not even so much that these people at Google and in other positions in society think they know better but that they are convinced that those who do not follow their - rather vaguely defined and quite 'fluent' - narrative are morally inferior people who need to be either re-educated (hence their motto of 'educate yourself') or labelled as such: -ist, -phobe, etc.

This is an important distinction because people who think they know better can often be brought around while those who thing they are better are much harder to convince of the error of their ways because those who do not agree are - according to their own doctrine - morally inferior and as such can be ignored or shouted down. You can gather 40 people who think they know better in a college hall and show them why they are wrong. The quicker ones to take up the facts will help pull the slower ones over the line and by the time the session is over many if not most will be convinced of the error of their ways. Try the same with a group of 40 people who are convinced they are morally superior and the result tends to be very different with the group closing up against the heresy from those deplorables. If someone in the group tries to 'defect' he'd not only have to confront his own doubts but he'd be castigated by his own group.
Everything is going down, except Steam. You know where to find me.
Not all ad spend is impression based, there are things like takeovers. And, sometimes impression counts arent guaranteed, theyre estimated
Congrats on launching.
However I don't like the 'Act on your behalf' permission this needs.
Not the worst thing that a bunch of Facebook users are resetting their passwords.
greeting from indonesia,Here too, the same error, lots of people asking what is wrong with FB IG error, lots of speculation saying update, but the repair process is taking too long without any confirmation from meta, something strange is happening
Thanks for checking it out! Currently no metadata, just code. Were adding commit messages and PRs next. Issues and comments makes a lot of sense, adding that to the list.
Low and medium percentile earners will make a little more income inflation adjusted, high earners will earn even more. Discussions of inequality therefore continue as they have now. Automation starts kicking off in a more significant way and more than offsets declines in population growth.
>This is true for open-source but not as much for closed-source as in this case.

It is just as applicable to closed-source as it is open-source. The people who are good at developing exploits are, unsurprisingly, good at reverse engineering and using disassemblers. It is generally trivial to figure out exactly what issues a patch is fixing if you are an experienced reverse engineer, and it's a short journey to developing an exploit once you have that knowledge.

>Also, how does it ever help anyone to have the details released?

Because the details will illuminate many potential indicators of compromise, which can be used throughout the defense stack (e.g. YARA rules, ASA rules, etc.)
It's a series of tubes!
Why would software that lets me use hardware that I own, installed in my machine, be subject to a cease and desist?
I can’t answer your question, but when I was at Google I made a mistake that caused ads serving on Google results to become unclickable. For the postmortem they had me calculate (I don’t think a dollar amount but) the number of ad clicks that would have happened during the time it was down. Of course I looked up average cost per click rates. Not sure if I could share even if I remembered, but it really put things in perspective.

Overall it was a good learning experience. I didn’t get reprimanded; several months later I got a promotion.
Yeah, it's wild that it's now treated as an authoritative source, especially by some news organizations.

It's as good as asking a neighbor what happened with a loud noise down the street. Sometimes you'll get something good, sometimes it'll be completely wrong.
Having had a look at desperate Twitter posts during a major outage of a big German email provider with similar failure mode (login failed silently), it seemed like many people assumed that their email account was hacked. Close enough.
You probably want something equivalent to (however you make it fast in your chosen framework):

einsum('bf,fc->bfc', batched_inputs, channel_embedding)

Then carry that info through the network and project it down at the end. It's roughly equivalent to the token embedding step in an LLM.
This is your regular reminder that the users are not their customers. Advertisers and media outlets are the paying customers.
We upvote it because we found it interesting. What's the point of arguing against other people's interest? What do you think will come from your outrage at the Internet?
I can access what I call my family FB account, which I run on Firefox.

When I try to access my general purpose account I'm forced to log in again. And when I try to change my password I get the "An unexpected error occurred. Please try logging in again." message.

I suspect that one of the password servers has been compromised.
Given that he mostly seems to travel by high speed train (ICE) every station he could possible end up unintentionally would be a relatively major one
Credit card late fees capped at $8 as part of Biden crackdown on junk fees
My favorite math jokes [pdf]
That's such a beautiful comment I would almost consider printing it and putting it on my wall
> Display a cute image that shows that the service is drastically failing (like a whale or something), and then people will know to stop trying to repeatedly log in.

Probably not so easy to implement in behemoth apps, consisting of 20'000 source files...
I don't have experience, it's the first time I read about this. I just extracted the link which keeps redirecting.

I am possibly the worst possible person to ask about Linux experience with anything current. I have been posting since 2018 how untenable is running Linux as a daily driver which is when I stopped. I started using it as a daily driver in 2004. Overall I started in 1993 and still using it on command line (WSL) and routers and servers.
forgot the /s
>That does not mean the large majority of EU citizens seriously thinks the EU should be replaced with something else.

Who are you quoting when you write "large majority"? I wrote "maybe half", and that's my assessment from talking to people. As for the UK, that's still to be seen. The last time they decided to stand on the side of European unification, it turned out they made the right choice – while still paying a very high price for that choice.
> and called Tesla owner Elon Musk a "technofascist" whose "green capitalism" is "a totalitarian technological attack on society."

This seems insane to me. Is there any justification for this whatsoever? It seems like unhinged, childish, extremist thinking. I always want to find the deeper meaning behind people's actions but here all I see is fear of the unknown. Even if one didn't agree with climate change, why is making cars a bad thing?
I'm still surprised we haven't seen more gov. regulation around cryptocurrencies. They're a huge investment of power (0.6% to 2.3% of US electricity demand [1]) and it seems like they are a direct threat to a government's power in controlling their currency?

[1]https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364#:~:tex....
it is totally fair to say that a position of weakness is still defensible - I agree. But it should be a choice, for some it doesn't make sense to invest in strength (ie more bespoke or integrated solutions)