skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No affiliation - saw a colleague use this the other day. He said it helped him reduce his screen time, while still being able to use WhatsApp etc. to stay in touch with family.
Organizations in the crypto space more frequently value their bug bounty programs more accurately and pay in very clear terms, almost instantly

Some take a bureaucratic approach but they are labeled as such on the bug bounty marketplaces

Web 2.0 organizations aren’t just competing with the gray market, they’re competing with Web 3.0’s licit market, while 3.0 is competing with immediate weaponization which is far easier to monetize
Clearly the fault of a terribly lead engineering organization. Mistakes are almost guaranteed to happen. This is why good engineering orgs have guardrails in place. There were no guardrails whatsoever here. Accounts used to manually access adhoc production databases should not have delete permissions for critical data. And worst off all no backups.
Not sure about Bedrock, but I used Q to write some Python code, and I have to say - it was pretty good. Even ended up covering an edge case I didn't think of. In the end it was all pretty basic (walking a directory tree and compiling some analytics on content) - but it saved me time and I never felt frustrated with it. My anecdotal $0.02
How many people don't have power in California?
I have seen them, during high school visit to our national TV in Portugal during early 90's.

Our national post still had punched tape communications infrastructure on those days as well.
Doesn't that give up a lot of the benefits of having a roundabout at all, as opposed to having a regular signal-controlled intersection?
Tysm for answer :DDDD
Unfortunately it is both... the CVE is for Oracle software but they're running it on Solaris servers.
Some of these remind me of
Ángel Duarte who made this beautiful piece of art (French page but image is the interesting bit: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouverture_au_monde).
When I started at Siemens in Boca Raton, FL ( of course it was Broken Sound Blvd) There were a lot of older PBXs with 8" floppy drives. When they threw one out, they allowed me ( a co-op at the time) to take it home. I still have the floppy drive. I wish I had thought to get a few of the floppy disks for it.
Serverless, architectless, and programmerless.
I don't think it's about accuracy. It's just a different world. A bug in a smart contract exposes them to unavoidable, catastrophic losses. An XSS on google.com... doesn't.
Agreed. Real wealth consists of economic goods that provide utility when consumed or used. Financial wealth consists of claims on goods and services that may or may not be able to be exercised when the time comes. When discussing "wealth" care must be taken to distinguish between these two notions of wealth.
Even assuming that were true, I would disagree with attributing most of a successful breach to a wider attack at large. A successful breach on Change Healthcare occurred because their software development practice is garbage.

They have difficulty hiring talent because their talent acquisition process is broken and directed from guys in Nashville who have no clue how to handle developers on the West Coast. Big dependence on manual QA from teams in overseas contractors with no automation, and for developers on that side, there's no transfer of information when the code turns into spaghetti. Code review is weak and mostly for show. Single-account passwords for use in SFTP and outdated protocols. All logic goes into SQL stored procedures when it's completely unnecessary and none of the database developers know how to wrangle it anymore because someone decided all business logic should be in stored procedures (job security?). All software planning and business meetings happen as Waterfall with elaborate Unified Modeling Language but pretends to be Agile so obviously there is ritualistic Scrum, even though it doesn't fit the process that actually happens on a day-to-day basis.

When it comes to software, Change Healthcare cares about optics and most processes are for show, not actual effect, and especially when it comes to security.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40132012
Sick - I'll def check him out later - tysm for answering :D
Only if you use the ink subscription service.
Perhaps even hybrid warfare
Minuteman III retired 8" floppy disks 5 years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy...
You got 5" and 8" mixed up
I don't know, if you get existential worries about your job because one supplier jumps on a hype bandwagon at a few conferences, then aren't you a bit too married to that supplier? I don't mean from a company perspective, I mean personally. I don't understand how AWS conference topics prevent anyone from being a cloud engineer.
It's strange because as a senior engineer I'm telling everyone that genAI is not ready, has glaring quality, safety, and security issues, is underpriced by VCs planning to crank prices later, and even if the magic was real offers less promise than tried and true conventional solutions we haven't tried yet.

AWS should be spending significant time explaining how their giant portfolio of conventional tools are improving. If they have stopped, they've lost focus. But hopefully it's just the marketing team focused on magic beans.
Maybe it's unreasonable to expect reliable infrastructure after getting many examples of how the infrastructure is not reliable.

You and I are highly unlikely to be able to fix the infrastructure; we can, however, be prepared for doing without it.
You can find out here: https://www.evergabe-online.de/
ahh my bad, all these years I was wrong- I see now that The Colonel rode up with two of his armed employees and got one of them killed and his competitor (Stewart) jailed who died by gunshot about 2 years later. Some say the cop that shot him was payed off with white buckets full of cash. Soon after the Colonel's gas station started selling white buckets full of addictive fried chicken infused with herb and spice and the Colonel married Stewart's daughter-in-law. Later, Stewarts daughter became the Colonel's right hand, and managed a big operation for him. She is quoted as calling the Colonel "a straight shooter". One big happy
family style story. Someone should make a movie
Then it's like godzilla. No skyscrapers would remain intact.
> Model outputs are untrusted input.

I think the problem is they're trying to introduce nuance and a narrow path to allow this. They want an acceptable level of risk to using untrusted model output for the efficiency/productivity gains it will bring, notwithstanding hallucinations.

Generative AI would not have flown in the security theater of Yesteryear, but CTOs see productivity multipliers.
For medical procedures, I think it makes sense to check ID - just for the potential testimonial "audit trail" in case of actual or purported malpractice.

"Are you CERTAIN that the X-ray we are looking it is of the plaintiff? How would you know if someone else showed up and claimed to be them? Is your memory completely infallible?" etc... It might not be of any real significance but poor process can make one side look like they don't have their sh*t together.
I have nothing against EMacs, but I’ve never used it and have no particular plans to do so while I spend the overwhelming majority of my time on Windows.
MySQL >= 8.0.37 cannot start server with > 10k tables
The article seems to use “CPU” as a “CPU core”. This isn’t about multisocket systems.

HN title is more accurate!
You make it out as if all the executives at AWS have some master plan surrounding the probably absurd number of GPUs they bought, but the likely answer is its just a bunch of fallible people bandwagoning on the latest trend.
2004 Apple with AI: we need to get 100 people locked down and working on Finder 2.0 with this, and keep execs focused on reviewing it wholeheartedly. this year, let's lol at vista security via confirmation dialogs, vs our best in class OS.

2024 Apple with AI: this is our best year ever. Look at our CTOs hair. We fixed Siri being eons behind, now if it thinks ChatGPT can help you can tap a confirmation dialogue.
I LOVE this book. I have been dipping in and out the last few months implementing Lox in Rust.

It’s so well written, full of personality and beautifully illustrated - for me this book is a 10 and the bar I’d use to judge other programming books.
The NSA Is Defeated by a 1950s Tape Recorder. Can You Help Them?
Scandinavia with a tax pressure of 50% or something paints another picture than you do. What is probably more clear is that something of a mix between socialism and capitalism have been the most successful. Probably depending on a lot of factors, including implementation details.
It looks like San Francisco is going to win again - this time with AI startups.

I can't help but think of OpenAI as similar to Twitter/Airbnb/Uber in 2008 which jump started SF's tech boom.
_The Diamond Age_, Neal Stephenson, I believe.
An "AWS Serverless Hero" is upset AWS are acting vain around their AI posturing.
the generation of kids trained in schools to be used to omnipresent surveillance and data harvesting are now in the workforce, they see no issue with this because they've grown up with it. I see kids on the internet now under 20 who believe that not volunteering your name, age, location, private health information, is "secretive", "deceptive", and cause for suspicion. If you don't stamp these things in your bio, you've obviously got something to hide.

I remember when we were all laughing about that "elf on the shelf" toy and how it was pushed so hard to get kids used to "santa" always watching their every single move even if nobody is in the room, and that there's nothing they can ever do to avoid his judgement at his own discretion and to just accept it because everyone is fine with it and you're crazy and silly and paranoid and clearly hiding something "naughty" if you resist it. Obviously I can't attest to this, but it's funny how that worked out
Ya, I live on 60th, so 4 blocks north of market, and it’s weird that they get power outages to about 56th or 57th while we never do.
Disney seems to be just shooting themselves in the foot over and over again recently.

It will be interesting to see what happens here. Information that leaks could actually impact share price.
If your want to look at successes, corn, albeit with some modifications, and domesticated animals, have also been really successful at making sure their DNA reproduces.
It looks like your account has been using HN primarily for ideological and/or political battle. That's not what HN is for, and destroys what it is for, so we have to ban accounts that do this, regardless of what they're battling for or against.

I don't want to ban you because you've been here a long time, but we need you to fix this. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and go back to using HN in the intended spirit, we'd appreciate it.
> Trying to explain how roundabouts work to someone who doesn't get them is extremely frustrating. The rules are simple, but for some reason a lot of folks are vastly overthinking it.

It is a skill, it requires some practice. It's similar to math in that regards. And once you learn it you'd love them.
That had better be "when I write a third book" Bob, not "if".
It's not just the technical content (Which is excellent), but your ability to convey and entertain that helped create such a classic book.

So if you do get a spare couple of thousand free hours, please ignore the pull of family, the economic safety of work and plunge head first into another oversized computer engineering project. You may now take my money.
:˜˜˜˜DDDD Continue please.
Lost no weight on Ozempic/Wegovy. Lost clinical, substantial weight on Mounjaro/Zepbound and then stalled.

It's not just GLP-1. There's more work to be had here.
when a company focus and strategy shifts to a single domain/product, everything else gets impacted.

Enhancements expected by the community will be delayed, engineers need to come up with temporary solutions which needs to be rewritten next year, new ways of solving problems will not be shared, new content will be created only for a couple of products.
Just speculating here, but floppy disks can be wiped out by a magnet. Not exactly the most robust storage solution.

So I would guess this is more about the friction of moving away from a legacy system, as opposed to the technological benefits of floppies.
Similarly, the SAS System, originally written on an IBM mainframe in 1971 (probably OS-360 / MVS), and featured an input file (the SAS program itself) and two outputs, a LIST (the desired analytic output) and LOG, which contained status, warning, and error messages. It's not quite stderr, but clearly reflects similar thinking and was probably based on extant practices at the time.
> the technical specialty that will be most at threat from automation by AI

Can you point to any actual AI product in this space that functions? Everything I've seen is like, if you squint then it kinda looks like it's doing something, but it's actually producing something embarrassingly wrong, unsafe, or otherwise unusable. And no, having a SME repeatedly prompt until it does the right thing doesn't really make sense.

If we're just talking about hypothetical tools that someone could make, but haven't, we're talking about magic.
Skills are the easy part. The hard part is having the time :)
Pretty sure it's the first one. New systems are inherently more complex which means more possibilities to screw things up.
I wonder if there is a military grade chip equivalent to an Raspberry Pi? Or more ideally a RISC-V system that's similar.

Replacement could begin by emulating the 8 inch floppy drive's electrical interface and attaching a modern system.

The storage media should probably be some sort of flash memory rated for military use; I don't anticipate the size as an issue, nor most of the other specs.

The most critical factor is selecting a storage media that's intended for production and support for the next 50 years, since it seems clear these systems will _never_ be updated again.
Two under-utilized properties of URLs are also that:

- there's a near-infinite supply of them

- they support forward declaration

Together the practical upshot is that if you're having a conversation with someone or responding during the Q&A of a talk or whatever and you want to be able to say, "Yeah, we thought about that, and we have some information about it on our site—just visit acmeinitiative.example.com/skub," except that you haven't already written the /skub article yet, that doesn't preclude you from being able to say in the moment (i.e. live) that /skub is effective immediately now the designated handle for such an article, it's where the article will appear once you do write it, and it's how any interested party should retrieve it once it does appear—whenever that is. (The same goes for articles published by other people/organizations and other third-party resources that you want to reference—just mint a URL from your namespace on-the-fly and then whenever you get a chance, set up a redirect to whatever it is you wanted to link to.)

There are so many recordings (podcasts episodes, etc.) that I've listened to involving smart, technical people who definitely control their own domains but don't think to take advantage of this. Usually they sort of mumble some description that you might be able to use to find whatever they're talking about, or they manage to only get half the words in the title wrong when they're trying to recall it for the host, and then you and every other interested listener has to individually squander time and attention if you want to track it down. It results in a huge waste of collective energy.
The alternative is likely a bottom to top rearchitecture of the whole vessel, all the training, etc. Because you cant justify a modernization program centered around replacing floppy disks with ... What, USB? CD? You'd end up with a total modernization program if you're not careful.
> In short, what happens is that if you create a large number of tables, like 10000, the mysql daemon will crash at restart.

Feels like this would be unlikely to get triggered in practice. What am I missing?
That makes sense. I also find it hard to justify getting a mini PC when the Steam Deck exists. I'm sure that if this existed back in 2012 when I was in college, I would have just gotten one of these.
At one point in history some machines used BCD, even for addressing, and there are magnetic core memory assemblies which have power of 10 sizes.
Dear German Navy. I have built disk emulators before[1]. Please contact me if you need help :D

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/aspeqt. Better maintained fork: https://github.com/RespeQt/RespeQt
Probably lalbagh in dhaka. ~170,000 per sq km.
Job Application should sound like a ransom note/threat
In high school we had a couple of (old even back then) Wang PCs with 8" floppy disks. The jokes wrote themselves.
The Todoist folks also make Twist, which is in this family and looks simple and pretty nice. Not sure why it has so little uptake. https://twist.com/home
Not a software dev, but I would say that some code written in something like Ada and working off a floppy has about a bazillion less leaky abstractions than the new systems which run an entire Linux system (the brand new US littoral combat ships did this) with who knows all what. The former runs for decades without any issue. The latter basically makes maintenance a never ending cost and chore.

It is similar to when my father's company switched from a mainframe that ran all their stuff and was written in the mid 80s to brand new off the shelf software. The replacement software is all about trying to make your needs fit into how the vendor's product works. His company unanimously believes the original software was significantly superior in terms of issues (it basically just ran for decades with almost no issues). The issue is the older tech keeps getting more niche, so you eventually kind of have to migrate sometimes.
$10M is ridiculously low. Shame on you for even proposing that. It should be $100B at least.
Discussion at the time:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34270650
AWS is way too bandwagonny these days. Back when it was all engineers they built things on the basis of "this is cool technology". These days marketing runs large parts of AWS and plans are decided more on the basis of "this will look cool on a PowerPoint slide".

I keep going back to the basics: Serverless is servers. Machine learning is servers. GenAI is servers. And, from what I've heard, most of AWS revenue is servers and storage.

(For the record: I am also an AWS Hero, and an AWS customer since 2006.)
Those examples are terrible. Other than the AIDS question, a real discussion of the other two is likely to start out "no, but ...", and much more open-ended in practice than perhaps the author wants to admit. Just like the answer to "Why do remote meetings suck so much" is likely to be "they don't, per se, but..."
Current or former employment is almost always a disqualifier for a bounty payout.
Drawer? I would say bank lockbox but that seems like a chicken and the egg problem . It’s not entirely solved sounds like.
True.

0. Look at data size.
Are we doing our own ECC or are we relying on the controller to do it? If the controller is doing it, how big is that block actually?
This is not recent news. News from June
Imagine accusing a guy who could with a stroke of a pen have earned many millions of dollars in royalties and didn't for purely artistic purity reasons of a cash crab. What a silly thing to say.
Moltenvk is a great solution
If this is true, software engineering leadership is highly dysfunctional, and that should be an issue of major concern.
This is something rsync.net (the service) does well. For example, I haven't seen any other service with a "CEO page"[1]. Maybe it's something common and I just haven't noticed in any other service because it was not as discoverable.

I don't know if it's really useful since I don't think I've ever needed to forward anything to any CEO, but I'm not even a customer and this page is the first thing that came to mind when reading the article.

[1]: https://www.rsync.net/products/ceopage.html
Simple answer. No. When you have government departments who can’t even use a pen….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51504482.amp

Also read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Just upgrade to 3.5" ones and call it a day.
In a world where it's illegal in some places to help someone cross state lines for healthcare, phone records don't have to include content to be dangerous.
Would you have an LLM summarise it for you instead?
I’d wager AWS makes more money from GenAI than any other domain. So it makes financial sense for them to sell that part of the business hard at the moment.

This opinion is based on admittedly anecdotal experience, but I’ve worked in a large range of domains on AWS over the years and by far the biggest AWS bills were for startups specialising in GenAI.
I sometimes see HN commments that suggest readers prefer nesting. I do not. I dislike indentation; it is distracting. I prefer left justification. I use a text-only browser that presents threads as flat when tables are disabled. I can search through threads of max length using vi mode keystrokes. Much faster than using a graphical browser. Also, I do not use colors so, e.g., "greying out" comments has no effect. All comments appear in the same color textmode font. I decide what comments to read without unsolicited "curation" from voters or flaggers.
> Can you point to any actual AI product in this space that functions?

Today? No. But I think we will get here sooner than automating on any other type of engineering role.
In Germany, long-established and entrenched processes and technologies are often confused with being reliable and safe.

Fax machines are still widely used, particularly in public administration and larger organizations in general.

The preposterous as well as appalling argument often heard in favour of this is that "fax is more secure than email" and somehow doesn't put privacy and the sacred German "data protection" at risk (because said data protection seemingly on applies to digital stuff).

Famously - or rather notoriously, during the pandemic local German health authorities faxed case numbers and other relevant data to federal authorities, which led to massively delayed response times and a general unavailability of dependable, actionable data.
It's pretty easy to temporarily "unseal" a house though - open doors/windows.

A well sealed and insulated house takes less to cool too, though. It doesn't just help in winter.

Sadly, in central Kansas where I live, it regularly forgets to get cool at night. Last summer we did our corn silage chopping at night and slept in the day, as we were getting burned trying to operate equipment. At night it was still very hot and muggy. IIRC the dewpoint was in the mid-to-upper 80s F.
> Doesn't that give up a lot of the benefits of having a roundabout at all, as opposed to having a regular signal-controlled intersection?

If congestion occurs only at "peak" time(s) (e.g., rush hour(s)) then that's when you are stop/go with signals, whereas the rest of the time the signals are set to the 'traditional' roundabout way (perhaps flashing yellow?), then it could still mean that for (say) 20 hours of the day you still have the benefits (plus also during weekends).

And even during peak time(s) you probably get reduced collision rates and collision intensities.
I had expected that’s true. You just never know if perhaps Rust compilers have some more advanced/modern tricks that can only be accessed easily by writing in Rust without writing assembly directly.
AIless will be next.