skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I saw 'Global IT Outage' trending I assumed it was another major cloud service failure. Obviously this has far wider impact because of the need for intervention on individual endpoints.

The irony is dawning on me that for much of the recent computing era we've developed defenses against massive endpoint outages (worms, etc.) and one of them is now inadvertently reproducing the exact problem we had mostly eradicated.
Like what? Kernels and drivers are out of my wheelhouse, I'm just curious.
you could imagine that if visa and mastercard had incompatible restrictions, such that merchants had to choose which one to accept, people would gradually shift to the card that got their money stolen less often, or whose (merchants') websites worked more reliably

since, instead, every business that uses credit cards at all is required to use the same set of counterproductive 'security' policies that make them more vulnerable than before, there is no way for market reality to ground these 'security' policies in real-world security. that's exactly the same problem that happens with government regulation
Excellent. More humans will have access to academic paper information in a form that's useful to them now :)
That's why your pointing guns at your neighbors... cause you were born "there" but don't like people "over there" and you think you should take their place?
If that's the lens you're looking at, the majority of uprisings in history have ended up worse than they started. Bangladesh is struggling with a democracy that has degraded into authoritarian gerontocracy. It's not as simple as young people dumb old people experienced, there's a lot of issues involved.
Just imagine if the guys building these would actually go out and talk to women in real life. The sky would be the limit.
Allowing an application to run with privilege is different than allowing an application to crash the kernel. These are two different things.

CloudStrike is effectively running as a Windows kernel module. Which in Windows, might as well be the Windows kernel itself. There should be a deliberate difference between things that a bare operating system needs to function vs. things which are allowed to execute in a privileged manner.

This isn't a restrictive operating system. You have to trust your operating system vendor just a little more than you trust the 3rd party software installed on it.
> That's why it makes no sense to blame Microsoft. If the world run on Linux, ceteris paribus, Crowdstrike would be on those machines too, and would fuck them up just as bad globally.

CrowdStrike _is_ running on a massive number of Linux servers/endpoints, with the same kind of auto-update policies.
I used to work for a company that provided network performance monitoring to hospitals. I am telling a Story second hand that I heard the CEO share.

One day, during a rapid pediatric patient intervention, a caregiver tried to log in to a PC to check a drug interaction. The computer took a long time to log in because of a VDI problem where someone had stored many images in a file that had to be copied on login. While the care team was waiting for the computer, an urgent decision was made to give the drug. But a drug interaction happened — one that would have been caught, had the VDI session initialized more quickly.

The patient died and the person whose VDI profile contained the images in the bad directory committed suicide. Two lives lost because files were in the wrong directory.
As far as I understand, yes. It's kind of astounding to me that the world has self-inflicted what is essentially a cyber attack trying to protect a poorly architected OS from actual cyber attacks when a much better architected OS is known and running on nearly all the servers in the world.

On Windows, software regularly mucks around in the kernel (device drivers, system level tools like wireshark, etc), therefore it is also necessary for security software like CrowdStrike to also muck in the kernel so it can monitor what all the other kernel level software is doing. As demonstrated today, anything that mucks in the kernel runs the risk of crashing the kernel.

In Linux, software doesn't even get that option. Nothing ever gets kernel access except the kernel itself. Root is not kernel access. The kernel still decides what root is able to do. Drivers that require that access are built into the kernel. Software that requires deeper access like Wireshark tells the kernel what to do (through system calls as root) and the kernel does it on that programs behalf. Therefore, the kernel knows everything that any program does on the system. With a trustworthy kernel, all that security software must do is instruct the kernel to monitor activity on it's behalf.
Look I realize on lefty parts of the internet that fascism has colloquially become the same as authoritarianism but they are not the same thing. Fascist movements are usually authoritarian but not all authoritarian regimes are fascist.

It's an especially bad lens when you look outside the West because the second and third world has had plenty of trouble with left authoritarian regimes and comparatively less trouble with fascism and authoritarian right regimes.
What, exactly, is this "a lot more"? I am an academic who publishes regularly, and I'm having difficulty figuring this out.

They clearly employ lots of bureaucrats, middle managers, and lawyers. They are constantly trying to make sketchy side deals with third parties, as T&F did. They employ copyeditors, who in theory (and sometimes in practice) improve papers but who very often are totally incompetent. They maintain large databases of something-or-other, presumably so they can sell out my data. They maintain complicated systems to submit and review papers, when it seems that email would suffice, presumably so they can track all this metadata they want to sell. Oh! And they lobby the government for their own selfish ends:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2018/j...

Seriously. Imagine all of them up and vanished tomorrow. Would anybody miss them?
Give it ago and let us know how you get on ;-) … at this point I’d be more worried about if your a project manager and your sole job is shuffling tickets around a Jira board or using a spreadsheet.
I don't know, I get paid more than most of my licensed engineer friends. That's the only respect that really matters to me. Not saying there might not be other advantages to a professional organization for software.
You must have insanely cool stories :-)

What are your thoughts on MSFTs role in this?

They’ve been iterating Windows since 1985 - doesn’t it seem reasonable that their kernel should be able to survive a bad 3rd party driver?
While I'm not suggesting it's a good strategy to short continuously, unless you short a hard to borrow stock, the borrowing fee for shorting a stock is typically much lower (as in 0.25% yearly) than the interest you can get on the cash you get to hold after short sell a stock (should be 4.5%-5% with the current fed funds rate).

So, other than the transactions fee, shorting a stock that doesn't move is a way to arbitrage the spread between the Fed funds rate (minus 0.5% or so depending on your broker) and the stock borrowing rate.
It made little difference is my memory.

Even if you were wearing headphones the same social norms where in place. You said hello to those you knew, and if someone looked like they might talk to you you took the headphones off and talked to them.

It wasn't a barrier to others, it was a way of listening to music you liked privately.
Here’s a video of Koko conversing in signs: https://youtu.be/SNuZ4OE6vCk?si=voD-lR5aBOaglcnf
Which means that you have to be operating papered before the system goes down. If you aren't, the system never gets to transition because it just got CrowdStruck.
Better than that, the printing press is a stupid simple idea that could have been invented basically as soon as you had writing. Wooden printing blocks were used for hundreds of years before the press. As soon as someone had the idea to use it for letters, you could have a functional (if crude) press after a few iterations. Bootstrapping widespread literacy with cheap reading materials.
Can't imagine how stressful this must have been for Radiology. I had two patients waiting on CT read with expectation to discharge if no acute findings. Had to let them know we had no clear estimate for when that would be, and might not even know when the read comes back if we can't access epic.

Have a family member in crit care who was getting a sepsis workup on a patient when this all happened. They somehow got plain film working offline after a bit of effort.
That’s one example. So the answer isn’t yes. Come back when it’s stated literally making up names of functions and see how frustrated it gets you. THEN and only then can you be classed as a software engineer.
Well said. Society has decided that imprisoning people is how we deal out justice, so society should have to foot the bill for that mode of justice. If society thinks that a particular crime's sentence should have a monetary component, it should make that explicitly part of the sentence, not "LOL, you go to prison AND by the way, you pay for it!"

If my house catches on fire, I don't have to pay the fire department to come out and fight the fire. Society decided that a functioning fire department is a good thing to have, and pays for it with public money.
> Of course, we also need to first start punishing individuals for intentionally causing harm through their decisions even if the harm was caused indirectly through other people.

Legal teams are way ahead of you here, by design. They’ve learned to factor out responsibility in such a diffuse manner the “indirectly” term loses nearly all its power the closer one gets to executive ranks and is a fig leaf when you reach C-levels and BoD levels. We couldn’t feasibly operate behemoth corporations otherwise in litigious environments.

I personally suspect we cannot enshrine earnestness and character as metrics and KPI’s, even indirectly. From personal experience selling into many client organizations and being able to watch them make some sausage, this is where leadership over managing becomes a key distinction, and organizational culture over a long period measured in generations of decisions and actions implemented by a group with mean workforce tenure measured in decades becomes one of the few reliable signals. Would love to hear others’ experiences and observations.
I believe this update didn't restart the computer, just loaded some new data into kernel. Which didn't crash anything the previous 1000 times. A successful background update could hurt performance, but probably machines where that's considered a problem just don't run a general-purpose multitasking OS?
What’s frustrating is that after falsely attributing pci to government regulation and being corrected, you’re probably not going to re-examine the thought process that led you to that false belief.
Seems like a data file: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41004103
The guy who’s funding $45 million a month for the candidate that wants to end EVs and pump more oil? That Elon?
You're assuming it wasn't an attack.

Just the same week Kaspersky gets kicked from the us market...
We will but not at our current numbers. Rich countries will suffer the most.
I suppose it will come as a surprise to you that you have misleading intuitions about the duty of care.

Cloudstrike did not even have a duty of care to their customer, let alone their customer’s customer (speaking for my jurisdiction, of course).
Want to share your collection with the class so we can all learn? Seems useful.
even the most secure outbound protection would likely whitelist the CrowdStrike update servers because they'd be considered part of the infrastructure
It looks like GStreamer has supported this for a few years: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/isomp4/GstBa...

I always forget about GStreamer but I think I have a perfect application for it. Hopefully it’s easier to use as a library than MediaFoundation or FFMpeg.
The reality is that AI publishers (NeurIPS, ACL, related) all do proper academic publishing norms, and they are now forcing the rest of the world to follow them or have their content laundered in the form of LLMs trained on it. Good.
As always, tech people think tech is the important part of tech.
It looks like you used some older models.. what about deepseekcoder/Qwen?
The idea of a physical key, or even a physical hard drive being in play is a moot point for me, as the server and the storage drive aren't even in my possession.

Even though the laws may facilitate a corrupt judge ordering me to provide a password, or even chaining back-to-back "contempt of court" charges just because I forgot my password, or my Russian provider locked me out, that doesn't make the judge's abuse of authority in that hypothetical scenario legitimate or just.
Thanks for the write up. There is a typo in your third thesis bullet, I believe “stratefy” should be “strategy”.

Also - I’m curious as to the outcome if you were to exclude AMZN and MSFT. I think their size and broad array of product offerings skews the outcome for this analysis
Does it make sense use the abuse within the porn industry to defend this when a lot of porn these days comes from individual creators? OnlyFans seems to be huge and I just checked PornHub's front page, of the 3 first rows, only 3 videos out of 12 seem to be from the "industry".
I remember an HN comment six months or so ago by someone who said they were intentionally modeling their writing on ChatGPT's style. The person said that they were not confident about writing and that they were trying to get better by imitating AI.

One of the many surprising things to me about ChatGPT when it was first released was how well, in its default style, it imitated the bland but well-organized writing style of high school composition textbooks: a clearly stated thesis at the beginning, a topic sentence for each paragraph, a concluding paragraph that often begins "In conclusion."

I mentioned that last point—the concluding "In conclusion"—as an indicator of AI writing to a university class I taught last semester, and a student from Sweden said that he had been taught in school to use that phrase when writing in English.

If I see HN comments that have final paragraphs beginning with "In conclusion" I will still suspect that an LLM has been used. Occasionally I might be wrong, though.
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True, and unfortunate, other than arxiv, and openreview
Yep. As a retail guy though, I get no rebate however on that cash. I just pay the 25bps pa AFAICT.
Only if their suppliers and competitors are in the same time zone too.
Bingo! It's the Principal Agent Problem. People focus too much on why companies do X and companies do Y, it's bad in the long term. The long term doesn't exist. No decision maker at these public companies gives a rat's ass about "the long term", because their goal is to parasitize from the company and fly off to another host before the damage they did becomes apparent. And they are very good at it: it's literally all they do. It's their entire profession.
Not even close.

https://jonathanfranzen.com/what-if-we-stopped-pretending/
The article is pretty good, and makes a useful distinction that's getting lost in the comments:

The Big Tech Billionaires are not supporting Trump. 80% of Internet company donations have gone to Democrats, and Big Tech veterans like Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder and Microsoft board member) and Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital partner) are still firmly in the Democratic camp. VC billionaires (and in particular, the PayPal Mafia) are supporting Trump.

Interests are not aligned between VCs and large tech corporations. They compete for both employees and markets. Big Tech's loss is generally the startup ecosystem's gain; many of these VCs are supporting Trump because he will break up or otherwise hobble Big Tech.
That's what the judge said. She said normally they'd either throw money at it, or fix the problem. In this case they were willing to do neither. Eventually got them to make a tiny policy change and a statement that they will uphold the change with retraining, and I got $3250.
Login.gov doesn't.. but plenty of federal sites (like IRS) are still using that id.me poppycock. Here's to hoping they prioritize a migration soon.
I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century
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Again you are extremely wrong on this. However it is clear that you hold such misanthropic views that I won't be able to make you even slightly consider a perspective based on the value of equality and human dignity.
How so? Huge flooding in Brazil this year, they are not recovering any time soon. Poor countries lack the resources that rich countries literally burn for their luxury.
Happens. Happened in Turkey in the past.
So which individual engineer are you locking up and telling their kids that they don't get to see their mommy or daddy again?

> intentionally causing harm

Maybe we need to criminalize groundless accusations too.
But the whole point is that it's "passive" and trading is closed off-hours.
The medical discipline does not get to exist separate from government. Self-organizing first does not prevent the fact that doctors in Texas are now deathly afraid of discussing abortion.
This article is weird clickbait which, even weirder, worked.

It seems to assume a world where SEO entrepreneurs where ready to churn out million-page sites, but the cost per query were blocking them. There is no marginal cost, no SEO cost to adding another page, as long as a couple people visit it and "pay it off".

In the real world, it doesn't work like that. Whatever monstrosity was created like this would not do well in the search engines. So no meaningful threshold has been passed, in terms of the cost for AI generation.

People are creating lots of AI content, but not like this - not bottom tier generic SEO pages which will barely rank and aren't that compelling in an already saturated Internet.

Incidentally the real money seems to be in generating AI images and, eventually, video: much better return for your money.
Ugh. They are so unreliable. The place I was at they started with Skype for Business and then switched to Microsoft Teams. Neither of which was very useful for prison-to-public video calls because you need to email a link to someone and get them to click it at a very specific time.
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Entirely inevitable that Scarry retired to Switzerland?

I think there might be a moralizing lesson here about the Old Continent being not as supportive of the SW industry, CH being interesting because of the well maintained balance between ag, traditional industry, tech, finance, SMEs,MNCs, etc.

I don't want to extend the analogy to algebra/syntax (vs geometry or analysis or diagrams) but one can certainly go there.

As the Russian saints of XXe & XIXe siecle might agree, the problem with unreasonable effectiveness is that it gives certain intellects more effectiveness than their reason (native(/social? holocratic?) cognitive abilities) can handle. Putting the human housecat amongst human flightless birds? At the end of the story the housecat still gets to starve to death or be shot.

The nerd may become the jock, and the jock may become the nerd, but ultimately more value is extracted from the whole than is returned to it..

The second law of cognitodynamics?

Contact with equuids, or CH culture being very outdoorsy certainly helps to remind the housecat that the pigeons are not as dumb as they think, and more than deserving to be more-than-kept-alive, and (in the economic context), "squeezed for their non-cognitive value* but otherwise neglected"

Sorry to sometimes state that TK was a saint, but without him, I wouldn't have understood the message of the Russian saints/Grothendieck (who overemphasized the role of what seemed to be traditional religion)

(To me TK is like Woland (the smith?) in Mastr i Margarita)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith

(Somehow apotheosized by the Greeks to an actual deity)

I am starting to think that mandatory (ie of the fiducial duty) constant close contact with your peers' toddlers needs to be reified as the core abstraction of the kibbutzim that needs to be kept alive, at all costs.

(With the difficulty, of course, in having a good working definition of "peer". I know what bad definitions are though: fellow officers, aristocrats, software engineers, founders..)
I have flagged this because it is wrong, and there is no other way to kick it off the front page.

Finding a file full of zeroes on a broken computer does not mean it was shipped as all zeroes!

https://x.com/craiu/status/1814339965347610863

https://x.com/cyb3rops/status/1814329155833516492
Has anyone made a marketplace to sell data to AI and at the same time explicitly exclude data from being accessed by AI?
technically the 0s were a data file read by the driver, not the driver itself
Well now you have us curious: What programming language treats methods as something other than what is ultimately a function with an additional implied parameter? Whether a parameter is implicit or explicit doesn't really change anything with respect to the state of the program. You need to construct the state either way.
An historian on youtube has an amazing video called "What wheelbarrows can teach us about world history": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRnwg3dpboc

It talks about how wheelbarrows seem both evident and necessary, and, in certain historical contexts, are none of those things.

We tend to imagine past societies the same as ours, just less technically advanced. But they're not; they're almost alien. The same historian has another video, about time travel to medieval Europe, which I think illustrates this alienness (strong otherness, if you will) of the past really well.
Not sure about other brokers but with IBKR I get paid interest on shorted stock. If you don't your borrowing fees are essentially higher than they could be.
They're doing this with alarming regularity in the last decade. This used to be rarely used, but is now almost the norm.
I will say - the way we typically find out really sends a shiver down your spine.

You come in for you next shift and are finishing charting from your prior shift. You open one of your partially finished charts and a little popup tells you "you are editing the chart for a deceased patient".
The answers are in the article and well articulated.

Basically it comes down to those that are not amongst the verified dead (under rubble, blown to smithereens, etc), plus those that are seriously injured and will die as a result of those injuries, plus the longer term toll of the current actions that have been taken to date against those in Gaza that will result in their death via disease, starvation, etc.

It does not take into account those that will result from the actions continuing.

Given the effects and consequences of majority of the civil infrastructure has been deliberately and systematically destroyed the numbers are likely to be an undercount, rather than anything else.
i wonder how far from the edge a company driven by business people can go before they start to put the focus back on good engineering. Probably much too late in general. Business bonus are yearly, and good/bad engineering practices take years to really make a difference.
why don't they have a little methane-detector-activated igniter? Burn it up before it gets away.
I think he's implying there was some sort of conspiracy by foreign actors.
I can't even image complexity of a mechanical calculator for Roman numerals.
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The article is really about how a few people got rich in silicon valley stand to get richer with a republican government.

Someone calling Biden the worst president in his life?

Such a disconnect from reality
Not mentioned: they didn't have coffee?