skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fingerspitzengefühl: I didn't know about this work.

Wiki says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl

> is a German term, literally meaning "finger tips feeling" and meaning intuitive flair or instinct, which has been adopted by the English language as a loanword. It describes a great situational awareness, and the ability to respond most appropriately and tactfully. It can also be applied to diplomats, bearers of bad news, or to describe a superior ability to respond to an escalated situation. The term is sometimes used to describe the instinctive play of certain football players.

Thank you to share!
There are plan B options like paper charting, downtime procedures, alternative communication methods and so on. So while you can write down a prescription and cut a person open you can't manually do things pull up the patient's medical history for the last 10 years in a few seconds, have an image read remotely when there isn't a radiologist available on site, or electronically file for the meds to just show up instantly (all depending on what the outage issue is affecting of course). For short outages some of these problems are more "it caused a short rush on limited staff" than "things were falling apart". For longer outages it gets to be quite dangerous and that's where you hope it's just your system that's having issues and not everyone in the region so you can divert.

If the alternatives/plan b's were as good or better than the plan a's then they wouldn't be the alternatives. Nobody is going to have half a hospital's care capacity sit as backup when they could use that year round to better treat patients all the time, they just have plans of last resort to use when what they'd like to use isn't working.

(worked healthcare IT infrastructure for a decade)
Don't you think Moldovans are doing much better that Native Americans in the US?

You need to see the breakdown of Stalin's victims by ethnicity and see how many Russians there are.

"artificial famine"

For example:

"It has been estimated that between 3.3 and 3.9 million died in Ukraine, between 2 and 3 million died in Russia, and 1.5–2 million (1.3 million of whom were ethnic Kazakhs) died in Kazakhstan." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%93...
In the case of a bad Linux kernel update I would just reboot and pick the previous kernel from the boot menu. By default most Linux distributions keep the last 3. I'm not an IPMI remote management expert but it may be possible to script this.

All my machines at home run Linux except for my work laptop. It is stuck in this infinite blue screen reboot loop. Because we use Bitlocker I can't even get it into safe mode or whatever to delete the bad file. I think IT will have to manually go around to literally 8,000 work laptops and fix them individually.
That, as a person from a nordic country, sounds like a very American take. At least over here, the point is to make the people be in a state where criminal behavior isn't desirable. Coming out of a sentence with debt (unrelated to the reason you were there) seems counterproductive.
> Yikes, where do they drink 70% Slivovitz?

I'd be surprised if the stuff some of my relatives used to distill in Croatia would have less than that lol.

In my experience virtually everyone from the Balkans knows someone who distills themselves or knows someone who does. In my alcohol closet there's like six distinct Slivos from all over South/Eastern Europe. Homemade, of course, and you absolutely do not want to drink more than 2cl... not because of possible methanol but because this stuff will absolutely get you wasted in no time at all.
It's only good for viewing and simplistic editing. More complex stuff ends up being unavailable on the web version very often.
These satellites have pretty sophisticated Attitude Determination and Control Systems, whose whole job is to measure and reject disturbances. I'd guess the torque applied by the meteorite was found in the telemetry and they worked backwards from there.

Here's a paper describing Gaia's ADCS (they use the acronym AOCS to mean the same thing): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261710181_THE_GAIA_...
While it sounds funny, it doesn't work like that. We'd be having a real corporate shootouts everyday all over the place :))
That's what I thought - it would have to be something probabilistic with a 99% chance within 15 reboots or so.
I've been part of a space industry non-profit that partners with the Government of Canada to put experiments run by students on planes that do "parabolic flights" to simulate "weightlessness" while falling. Around when I first started, I proposed writing the term "zero gravity" on a webpage we were updating. But as my supervisor adamantly noted at the time, that would have been inaccurate.

The convention was to never use the term "zero gravity," since using that term would perpetuate a common misunderstanding. Instead, we've used the term "microgravity" in its place—which makes sense, as there are still small gravitational forces acting on every object in space.

NASA also published a webpage with a good explanation of what microgravity is, with a nice diagram of how it works (including a visual of the parabolic flight): https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/for-kids-and-student...
Except at least on the Mac, your AV software is unlikely to be part of the boot process, and doesn't run in the kernel.

Shit like today is precisely why Apple kicked Mac developers out of kernel-space for the most part.
OneStream| S-1 Breakdown
Space has almost no gravity but you need to be quite far away from other big objects.
I'm sorry, restricting user's ability to change their computer is not innovation. It is paternalism.
Very interesting. Thanks for this!
I've been reminded before that comparing hn commentary to reddit or other communities is itself a violation of hn guidelines. You can just upvote/downvote or "tap the sign" by posting the hn guidelines. No need for insinuating the redditization nor twitterization of hn commentary.
That's awesome thanks!
Apple Open-Sources LLM DCLM-7B
Hey get outta here with your common sense hot take.
No, I have it stashed in the basement. I made it through a natural disaster in my area in the middle of a global pandemic and wasn't even tempted to crack it open once. Hope I never will.
Neither Linux nor OSX are immune to viruses, though malware is more commonly written to target Windows given its position in the market. Both iOS and Android are frequent malware targets despite neither being related to Windows, and consequently, both have antivirus capabilities integrated deeply into both the OS and the app delivery ecosystem.

Any OS deployed on a user device needs some form of malware protection unless the device is blocked from doing anything interesting. You can generally forgo anti-malware on servers that are doing one thing that requires a smaller set of permissions (e.g., serving a website), but that's not because of the OS they are running.
Wait until you learn about civil asset forfeiture.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po...
I agree but I've also personally witnessed how effective this crap is on a certain cohort of IT managers. You can see the 3 or 4 gears grinding together in their head... something like "oh my goodness look at all the things I get for one purchase order!".
They're a scientific organization that lives or dies on the whims of people who have to win elections. Outreach is survival, and reach is essential to that.
Crowdstrike bears the responsibility for the effects their product has on the world. Firms have the responsibility to use canary deployment and other practices to mitigate the potential harms third party products might cause.

Crowdstrike deployed a flawed update resulting in widespread harm. They are responsible for that harm. Companies failing to mitigate that harm through responsible preventive practices are also at fault.

Nothing will change. The people in charge of purchasing and deploying enterprise scale kabuki security software like this aren't interested in accountability or real world efficacy, it's entirely about crafting a narrative sufficient to remain employed. The game isn't security or practicality - box checkers gotta check boxes.
It's already the norm for devs to not be responsible for software malfunctions. They can choose to end their relationship with you, but they can't sue you for damages.
They could've gotten more mileage out of a headline like "Was an alien crystalline life form just discovered, or...!?"
Show HN: CubeCL - Multi-Platform GPU Computing
In the event that this is added to the standard library, I'm going to be really curious to see what a "hello world" project/example would look like.

I went so far as to find the commit where David Chase added for loopvar on Mar 6, 2023 (github: golang/go/commit/c20d959) to try to design my own hello world with x/tools/cmd/bisect, but I'm out of my depth.

The hash tree is a great visualization. I wouldn't have grasped the importance of the hash suffix until I saw the tree. Awesome stuff.
CRWD dropped $50/share at market open. Wild.

Is this specific to only Windows machines “protected” with CS or is this impacting Linux/macOS as well?
> There are free or cheap services for those transactions that ensure total compliance with all laws and regulations and do all the work for you.

You're underestimating the value of my time, the amount of nitpicking that is involved with compliance, and the amount of haggling my realtor did behind the scenes.
Valid points. From my perspective the human body understands a high dry-bulb environment being dangerous. I think people in high wet-bulb temperature zones are at highest risk because it is tough to estimate exposure - especially with excessive heat waves happening more.
patience ... all part of our plan :)
Falling. Falling towards a planet, star, or galactic core is all pretty much the same. Tidal forces will be a bit different, but those aren't on a feelable scale with most objects.
When people come out of prison, they need a bed to sleep on and food in their stomachs, and they will find those things one way or another. Absent the means to achieve those goals legally, the only alternative is returning to a life of crime. So, really, the choice is either rehabilitation or recidivism. Recidivism comes with a bunch of costs to society, so rehabilitation is ultimately for society's benefit.

(I would argue that retribution has no place in the justice system, but that's a discussion for another day)
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Free access to ChatGPT4o-mini, ask anything you want!
Its a different kind of distributed denial of service (DDoS).
[dupe]

more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
I subscribe to Fanfare Magazine, "The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors" i.e. classical. It comes out 6 times a year. The current issue is 512 pages and has about 10 reviews of new or re-released Bach recordings. I'd guess there are modern Bach-style compositions mentioned a couple of times a year.

Note that the magazine only has 1102 paid subscriptions!
Deepdrive
Paying for the cost you caused society by being a criminal seems just as just as putting someone in prison to begin with. Obviously that means it should only apply to those guilty, not to anyone who has the charges overturned, and it also means the crimes need to be deserving of being crimes. I find it weird that people seem okay with the idea of imprisoning someone for X years, but fining them as well is going too far.

Keeping the fined even after the conviction is overturned is an extra horrible case, comparable to keeping someone in prison even after the conviction is overturned, but that shouldn't be mixed with fines in general just like imprisoning someone after their conviction is overturned shouldn't be mixed with imprisoning someone who has a valid conviction.
Related question. Is there any open-source simulation software that can show visualizations of arbitrary chemical reactions, at the atom level?
I can't wait to see the CloudFlare traffic report after this. All those computers going down must have affected traffic worldwide. Even from Linux systems as their owners couldn't run jobs from their bricked Windows laptops.
That take doesn’t work very well.
Premature abstraction and premature optimization are just instances of Heffalump Trap pattern.
Can you sue the state for those charges back?
"Real-time graphics" is typically used in gaming to differentiate between pre-rendered content and content that is rendered on the fly. It's not related to a 1-1 time scale of the content it's displaying. So, my assumption here is that they mean it's actually being rendered as you are using it and at an acceptable framerate, as opposed to the need for it to be simulated, rendered, and played back as a video.
How quickly? Surely well above 1 kHz (1000 FPS). Otherwise you will see flickering.
Our compliance and security people turned up with an urgent request to patch out Linux kernels in AWS.

The pcmcia driver had a vuln

I don’t listen to them much anymore
I've been in that situation. There used to be a very handy Firefox addon called "Lazarus" that helped. Quantum killed it. This may help - not tried it yet:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textarea-cach...

I defer to your clearly superior knowledge of this area. Have you written about this anywhere that I could read?
Have you ever seen his interview titled "A Bicycle of the Mind"? You only need to watch the first minute. He says the computer is a bicycle of the mind -- in terms of (intellectual) efficiency. That interview is amazing. His ability to explain a very complex topic in simple, relatable terms is nearly unmatched in that era of technology.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40B08nWoMk
I’m not OP, but the startup ethos of the last few decades has been to move fast and break things, fake it til you make it, and generally operate on the bleeding edge to deliver incredible products (and, occasionally non-credible, cough Theranos).

My concern would be that the team would cut safety corners until the probability of success just barely rises above some threshold, rather than engineering everything to have as low a risk as is feasible. Is 0-1atm easier than 1-infinity atm? Yes, but that just means you can cut more corners.
I had a recent colleague and we’d argue this exact law (and others).

The takeaway I got is he generally believed the people impacted by the laws were bad. And even if they served their time there was basically no limit to what we should try to impose on them. Furthermore, even if they didn’t do the crime they probably did others so no remorse on other things that might seem unjust. He thought they deserved those things too.
> Risk: low (so few companies get hacked)

I’m at risk of sounding like chicken little, the reality is companies are getting popped all the time - you just don’t hear about them very often. The bar for media reporting is constantly being raised to the point where you only hear about the really big ones.

If you read through any of the weekly Risky Biz News posts [1] you’ll often see a five or more highly impactful incidents affecting government and industry, and they’re just the reported ones.

[1] https://news.risky.biz/
Software subscription is basically a form of loan. Obviously interest rates influence them a lot.

What is different from the ZIRP inflating unsustainable startups. SaaS is a loan even when it's bootstrapped or financed in a normal way.
It is more nuanced. Illinois at least you can petition the court after acquittal for a "certificate of innocence" which you can use to gain some small statutory compensation. I assume other states have this.

Also, many county jails charge bed fees even if the case is dismissed and you never go to trial. These bed fees have been ruled legal many times by courts.

And, as a final kicker, the 13th Amendment isn't as clear as the text makes out. The US Supreme Court has carved exceptions out for small amounts of slavery. For instance, the government is allowed to force pre-trial detainees who are unconvicted to do cleaning jobs and it does not violate the 13th Amend.

Source: 10 years a slave.
Introducing CubeCL, a new project that modernizes GPU computing, making it easier to write optimal and portable kernels. CubeCL allows you to write GPU kernels using a subset of Rust syntax, with ongoing work to support more language features.

Why it Matters

CubeCL tackles three major challenges in GPU computing

- Portability: The same codebase can be used to program any GPU without a loss in performance.

- Usability: No need for a new shader language — simply add an attribute on top of your Rust code and voilà, it can now run on any GPU.

- Performance: We generate fine-grained kernel specialization via an innovative compile-time system to use the most efficient instructions available.

How it works

CubeCL leverages Rust's proc macro system in a unique two-step process:

1. Parsing: The proc macro parses the GPU kernel code using the syn crate.

2. Expansion: Instead of immediately generating an Intermediate Representation (IR), the macro generates a new Rust function.

The generated function, semantically similar to the original, is responsible for creating the IR when called. This approach differs from traditional compilers, which typically generate IR directly after parsing. Our method enables several key features:

- Comptime: CubeCL functions can contain sections marked as Comptime.
These sections are executed during compilation rather than at runtime.
This allows for the creation of highly specialized kernels by incorporating compile-time information directly into the generated code.

- Automatic Vectorization: By simply vectorizing the inputs of a CubeCL function, we can determine the vectorization factor of each intermediate variable during the expansion.

- Rust Integration: The generated code remains valid Rust code, allowing it to be bundled without any dependency on the specific runtime.

Our goal extends beyond providing an optimized compute language; we aim to develop an ecosystem of high-performance and scientific computing in Rust.For now we have highly optimized matrix multiplication kernels, leveraging Tensor Cores on NVIDIA's hardware when available. We are going to focus on adding more algorithms, but community contributions are more than welcome. There is still a lot of work to be done!

Don't hesitate to check the repo and ask any questions that come to mind.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
Microsoft may have better research but that's not reflected in their products.
yes, it's AI generated, but you can actually revise it manually and with a simple instruction to the AI!
> If this person simultaneously fucks up millions of kitchens around the world, you do not blame that person.

No, you definitely do, even more than before. Let's say for example that the requirement is to disinfect anything that touches food. And the bleach supplier fucks it all up. You blame the bleach supplier. You don't throw out the disinfectant requirement.
As another poster mentioned, I've used Anki for this in the past. But I found that since I almost always recall the information correctly, the reviews become too infrequent for me. Plus, it requires me to actively use something, whereas I'd like these kinds of things to just be surfaced automatically, without needing intervention from me.

To supplement this, I built a simple reminder system. Each morning, a cron picks a random reminder and sends me a push notification via Pushover.net. Then when I wake up, I just read the full reminder.

I've been using this system for over 4 years now and love it.
Wow, it's not even .gov

For a long time, .gov was for the federal government only.

In the days before search engines, people knew that their state's home page was state.xx.us. Lots of people memorized URLs back then, the way it was ordinary to know dozens of phone numbers off the top of your head.

I planned many a road trip by typing in travel.state.xx.us for the various states I planned to visit.
That price seems crazy to me. It's "just a balloon" I don't see what their hard costs are that make this more than the cost of a commercial flight.

I'm glad there are multiple players in this space so they can compete and drive the cost down over time.
SPQR 1.5.0: a production-ready system for horizontal scaling of PostgreSQL
If this was a Japanese company, the entire c-suite would have committed seppuku by now.
HN user in other thread claimed same issue happened last week with either Mac or gnu/Linux, I don’t recall which
Yep, I've been involved in many vender contracts at my company and the contracts take weeks to months to finalize because every aspect of the agreement is up for discussion. Even things like SLA's (including how they're calculated), liability limitations, indemnity, recourse in the event of system failure are all put through the ringer until both sides come to agreeable terms. This is true for big and tiny venders.
Penalties, as far as I was involved in vendor discussions, are a part of the negotiation only when the software provider does any work on the client's premises and are liable to that extent.

For software, you don't pay penalties that it might malfunction once in a while, that's what bug-fixes are for and you get offered an SLA for that, but only for response time, not actual bug fixing. Where you do get penalties and maybe even your money back, is when the software is listed as being able to do X,Y,Z and it only does X and Z and the contract says it must do everything it said it does.
>Every single corner is designed to extort the prisoner

A packet of Ramen in a prison store will cost several dollars. There's zero acceptable justification for this. Making a prisoner pay more for a snack isn't justice.

Also, it's not a snack, because in most states, prisoners are only required to be given two """Meals""" a day. There are very few nutritional or minimum standard requirements for these """meals""" and in many counties, there is a rule that every dollar of the budget for feeding prisoners that is not spent is given directly to the guy who sets the menu and operates the canteen.

Most prison meals in these systems look like that famous picture of a "sandwhich" from the Fyre festival.

You know, the kind of thing that would be used as an example of "Perverse incentive" in a high school economics textbook.
Thanks for the response. Here's some additional substantiation for the stuff about kickbacks. The term for kickbacks is "site commissions":

>Site commissions are payments that phone companies make to prisons and jails in exchange for the exclusive right to offer service to inmates. FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks said that banning the commissions will "end the practice of provider kickbacks to correctional facilities and payments for costs irrelevant to providing services so callers will no longer be forced to bear the financial burden of these costs."

https://www.wired.com/story/prison-phone-call-fees-fcc-caps/
1 atmosphere of pressure is a lot less than a few hundred atmosphere.

I also remember reading (but cannot find a reference) that it is easier to design a container for overpressure than to design it for underpressure.

In this case, I think providing a safety valve that fails before the container implodes violently may be a a good option (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_vessel#Safety_feature...)
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I would assume that, for apocalypse purposes, these kinds of supplies aren't meant as a long-term meal solution so much as a supplemental or "bridge" food source to use while you work on establishing a new food supply? In which case convenience and shelf stability probably is more important than hitting an optimal nutrient profile for long-term health.
It's funny to see this because from my perspective we've done this on a pretty scrappy budget. That said we're thinking of adding an open access for select repos. Why is logging in so terrible? We want to get to know our users.