skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The commercial use cases for generative art is not to make images that experts cannot discern as fake. It would be very expensive to annotate training images to have physically correct reflection images and the value would be negligible. Realistically, if you want to produce something that is impossible to prove fake, you would have a vastly easier time doing such edits manually. We are very, very, very far from being able to push button churn out undiscernable fakes. Even making generically good outputs for art is a careful process with lots of iteration.
Letting an app take down your OS, perhaps.
I think it's probably not a kernel patch per se. I think it's something like an update to a data file that Crowdstrike considers low risk, but it turns out that the already-deployed kernel module has a bug that means it crashes when it reads this file.
16 flights this year already? I guess it really is dirt cheap to fly around Europe. For me, flying in Canada is expensive, and such an ordeal that it isn't something I could see myself doing that often.
Really tired of hustlers coming to defend dark patterns use.
First rule of a dealer: do not bankrupt your customer. Their pricing needs to be more transparent and more gradual.
I agree that because of, for example rake or table fees for cash games or competition structure for tournament in practice a game theoretically optimal choice may not be the right choice in practical play.

However the situation with an AI powered competitor which uses exploitative play is identical to a human, the GTO play will gradually take their chips at no risk.

It's not that they're optimal but that they've chosen not to be optimal and so that's why they lose money against GTO.

The AI is at least unemotional about this, humans with a "system" easily get tilted by GTO play and throw tantrums. How can it get there with KToff? What kind of idiot bluffs here with no clubs? Well the answer will usually be the one that's taking all your chips, be better. Humans used to seeing exploitable patterns in the play of other humans may mistake ordinary noise in the game for exploitable play in a GTO strategy and then get really angry when it's a mirage.
Isn't this trivially fixable by putting a cdn/cache in front of the webflow site? Does webflow prevent this somehow?
It's absolutely grotesque to me.

Florida charges their inmates $50/day as a "bed fee" that they must pay when they are released. If you were found guilty and sentenced to 5 years in prison, but were released after 1 month because your charge was overturned, you still have to pay the fee for the full 5 years you would have been there.

It makes me ashamed to be an American.
Debugging an evil Go runtime bug: From heat guns to kernel compiler flags (2017)
That's an interesting recommendation...

> We've received feedback from customers that several reboots (as many as 15 have been reported) may be required, but overall feedback is that reboots are an effective troubleshooting step at this stage.

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-ca/status
Hopefully they won't botch the update for two operating systems at the same time. But yeah. Hope.
Reboot harder.

> Update as of 10:30 UTC on 19 July 2024: We have received reports of successful recovery from some customers attempting multiple Virtual Machine restart operations on affected Virtual Machines.

> We've received feedback from customers that several reboots (as many as 15 have been reported) may be required, but overall feedback is that reboots are an effective troubleshooting step at this stage.

https://status.cloud.microsoft/
Thanks for the insight, Görkem! I was always thinking CPQs make a really good use case. We had so many problems with performance, not your product, CPQ is becoming a standard software for pricing contracts.
Qubes is great but no desktop GPU supports virtualization.
I need a few accessibility settings and Mac just excels in this regard.
What was most special is that it was new, few were doing it, and so any achievements stood out and were able to make a splash. Nowadays you can't even step outside in a rural area and not bump into someone who is trying to make their mark.

We now see more achievements made each year than Bell Labs achieved in its entire history, but because of that there is no novelty factor anymore. It is now just the status quo, which doesn't appeal to the human thirst for something new. Mind-blowing discoveries made today are met with "meh" as a result.

It's kind of like a long-term relationship. In the beginning feelings are heightened and everything feels amazing, but as the relationship bonds start to grow those feelings start to subdue back down to normal levels. Without halting innovation for a time (perhaps a long time), to the point that we start to forget, I'm not sure there is any way to bring back the warm fuzzies.
I think it's delightful(and maybe that influence me not to cancel the sub, because it's too cute? maybe..) Personally I think it's just normal-mildly-manipulative marketing trick and that's all. If we're talking about real dark pattern, there are much more malicious examples than this one out there...
Seems the answer is yes, but only if you do the unlock very quickly after death. The reason seems to be what you suspected, that the fingerprint sensors require capacitance which is only maintained while we're alive.

https://www.livescience.com/62393-dead-fingerprint-unlock-ph...
J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public
Litegraph.js Create graphs in the browser similar to Unreal Blueprints
Word, no one uses teams because its great. The only reason it's used is because it's bundled with $M365.
Oh, you know them as well.
> Big companies negotiate liability terms.

Never heard that in the context of the software licenses.
And turn your phone power off before committing a crime…

The first thing the police will do is connect it to power battery packs
What's the "dark pattern" here? Having bandwidth caps being hidden? It's pretty visible on their pricing page[1]. Having bandwidth caps at all?

[1] https://webflow.com/pricing
>Definitely not called vodka in Slovakia nor Czech republic unless its precisely that, using it in such way would show lack of pretty basic local knowledge (since alcohol use permeated much of the society).

I can confirm this. When I lived in the Czech Republic I knew a local who made his own plum schnapps. He explicitly called it slivovice (and schnapps when I asked for the English name), not vodka.
I'm guessing he's not typical, only because of he was, CrowdStrike would be known far and wide for this behavior.

For example, the way Oracle's lawyers are known.
This is the thing that gets me most about this. Any Windows systems developer knows that a bug in a kernel driver can cause BSODs - why on earth would you push out such changes en-masse like this?!
Just wait until GP is retired and old, they will finally garner some sympathy because by then they will themselves be "a ... low capability individual".
As ridiculous as it sounds, this does work on a subset of the machines affected based on my experience of the last few hours. With other machines you can seemingly reboot endlessly with no effect.
Former equity analyst here. Nobody on "The Street" is actually valuing these companies on PE ratios. Tech companies often intentionally re-invest earnings back into the business in real time and so their reported EPS is often quite low and a poor metric to evaluate the underlying business on. So instead, analysts typically use other metrics like EV/EBITDA or even P/Sales ratios in their valuation models.

Very generally speaking, trading these companies is kind of more of like placing a bet on whether or not their future top-line growth will be dramatically different than the market's current expectations.
Webflow offers features like capturing form data, a CMS, and content translation, which some find convenient but make it harder to self-host the HTML/CSS that is generated by Webflow. But, granted, a static site can be designed in Webflow and hosted elsewhere easily.
I don’t work there any more. But they were having an outage, so I’m guessing they never got fired as a client (guessing that they’re still using Crowdstrike) and could still take that offer (of being fired as a client) if they wanted to.
I actually appreciate Ryanair for being transparently money grabbing because you consistently know what you're getting every time. They're very reliable and you can mentally budget in what you'll have to deal with.

Airlines like Lufthansa, United, etc for me are much worse.
Things have definitely gotten better. I remember the painful years. My most recent Ubuntu install on a new laptop was about 3 years ago. As someone who has used Linux as the daily driver for more than a decade (and dual booted as a second OS for another decade) I was pleasantly surprised that everything just worked! I think that was a first

It was an HP from Costco, not something special sold with Linux. My wireless worked, dual monitors just worked, even the fingerprint reader that I never use. I remember sitting there thinking "I didn't have to fight anything?" Hopefully that becomes the norm, maybe it is - I haven't needed a new laptop yet.
Yeah, you're completely out of touch of the industry. As horrendous as it is Windows on Azure (and the entire ecosystem it comes with) is an easy sell for the dinosaur IT leaders that haven't seen a Linux server in their life. You'd be surprised how common that is.
this is the world that lawyers gave us
> companies do the bare minimum bullshit

This can be true of security (and every other expense) whether it's regulated or not. Which do you think will result in fewer incidents: the regulated bare minimum, or the unregulated base minimum?
This was really helpful context, thank you
Take care of yourself. you're making the world a better place. You deserve better supportive technology, not this shit show.
Why do companies need these "box checking certifications"? I imagine the answer, as usual, is that either they or one of their customers is working with the government which requires this for its contractors. That's usually the answer whenever you find an idiotic practice that companies are mindlessly adopting.
Three things I want to mention:

1. Materialism vs Idealism. Materialism is simply the idea that people affect the physical world and the physical world affects them. Idealism is the idea that essentially some people are inherently good or evil.

Idealism underpins our entire discourse around prisons (and, more generally, politics). It's really damaging. It essentially says that some people are just inherently violent or otherwise criminals. It's far more productive to take a materialist view because an awful lot of crime is simply a response to material conditions. The link between poverty and crime has been observed since Plato.

If simply locking people up worked, the US would be the safest country on Earth since we have 4% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prisoners.

2. We exploit every aspect of prisons and prisoners to the deteriment of those prisoners and our society as a whole. Keeping in contact with family helps reduce recidivism but no, we can't have that. We need to extort prisoners communications. Same with any form of commissary. Then there's prison labour. And of course contracts to build prisons. Every aspect is a profit opportunity.

3. Prisoners are human beings. We should never forget that. Something as simple a prison cats reduce recidivism [1] at such a ridiculously low cost. The US justice system is overly carceral and punitive. We had an era of locking people up for a decade for mere drug possession. Thing is, you can only do this by dehumanizing them, which robs you of your own humanity.

[1]: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2020/...
Don't even bring your phone with you. You need to use old school methods to avoid tracking.
Am I the only one surprised that they still had a job and the position wasn’t retracted? That is the most surprising part of the story to me.
> However an artist friend of mine said generated images are easy to spot because every pixel is "perfect".

It depends on the art. There was a discussion here a while ago that mentioned the use of Gen AI to create images of knitted / crocheted dolls. The images looked okay at a quick glance but were clearly fake because some of the colour changes weren't aligned with the position of the stitches. E.g. strands of supposed hair overlaid on the underlying stitched texture.

I'm sure there are lots of similar examples in other forms of art where the appearance is physically impossible.
> Now, with that perspective, how do you expect a rational person to behave?

They'd deploy the software on the critical path. That's exactly GP's point, isn't it? That's why GP explicitly wants us to shift some of the blame from the business to the regulators. GP advocates for different regulatory incentives so that a rational person would then do the right thing instead of the wrong thing.
Battle of Jutland
Unfortunately common practice across a few industries. Ryanair has been doing this for a while (and still do).
Hilarious. So the people more likely to pay to board early are the ones more likely to have a lot of luggage?

Maybe they will start charging double for passengers that want to beat the passengers that want to board early? Early boarding pre boarding.
> Microsoft's solution was to force the updates unconditionally upon everybody with very few opportunities to opt out (for large enterprise customers only).

Not a Microsoft's fan, but this is not true. Everyone who has Windows Server somewhere, with some spare disk space for the updates, has this ability. Just install and run WSUS (included in Windows Server) and you can accept/reject/hold indefinitely any update you want.
Fellow Googler here. I'm the exception that proves the rule. After 7 years of Macbook and Linux devices, I needed Windows for a special project, so I got a "gWindows" device and found it very well supported.

Aside from the specific Windows-only software I needed, I would still just ssh into a Linux workstation, but gWindows can do basically everything my Mac can. I was pleasantly surprised.
IIRC they even use multiple different wordings and layouts for this dialogue, depending on what "mode" of Paypal you're using (e.g. if it's a pop-up or if it's a full page redirect; I dunno how to describe it technically). I have to use it a lot and even I've been tricked a few times. It's literally theft and I can't believe they get away with it
Looks fondly over at the old black pizza box
You can extend this with like addons type for detecting ddos...
In pre-market, CRWD is 14% down. I think investors are a bit scared that THIS time there is going to be some consequences.
> It’s both. If you’re an engineer and you push out shitty code that takes down 911 systems and ambulances, you f’ed up.

This is wrong. If a company is developing that kind of software is the responsibility of the company to provide a certain level of QA before they release software. And no, it's not that "engineers are pushing out shitty code", but that the shitty company allows shitty code to be deployed in customers' machines.
I'm the one above complaining for being "transparent".

You're right, I failed that game.

I'm fully aware I suck at playing the de-facto state of professionalism, or lack thereof, in the job market.

Fuck me for trying to be an adult trying to adult with other adults, I guess.
Can't view images.

This is because they are in webp format.

I have support for this format disabled in browser, because I know of no simple native viewer on Linux, so I in effect cannot save such images, because I cannot view them.
Surely we can juice up a dead thumb to make it work, though, right?
Dynamics, Teams, Exchange, Active Directory all suck. There are better alternatives but CIOs are stuck in 1996. Apple themselves in their corporate IT environment use none of those things yet somehow are one of the biggest and most profitable companies in the world. Azure is garbage compared to AWS. Using Azure Blob vs S3 is a nightmare. MSSQL is garbage compared to PostgreSQL. Slack is vastly better than Teams in literally every aspect. I just did a project moving a company from AWS to Azure and it was simply atrocious. Nobody at the user level likes using MS products if they have experience using non-MS products. It’s like Bitbucket — nobody uses that by choice.
Anyone below an international corporation isn't getting cut in on the benefits. Maybe the big hotels and car rental (being large enough for the card companies to negotiate such a thing with in addition to having a significant enough percentage of foreign card transactions) services would see some benefit from that but I don't think most places would care.

There is always the other side that, although it's not a competitive exchange rate, at least you know the exact amount in your home currency. Also, I never remember which cards have foreign currency fees so it is a bit of a wash.
NHS patients turned away as Microsoft IT outages hit GP surgeries
the EPUB files work fine

and it's possible to load PDFs on there

my complaint is that the tools for organising and managing the library are crap
I'm always curious on how security software can provide a ROI.

I had McAfee tell me one time that the hackersafe logo on our website would increase sales by 10%, this was at a Fortune 50 doing billions in sales online every year.

I was pretty hyped because it would have done wonders for my career, but then they walked it back and wouldn't explain it to me. I wasn't mad, I was disappointed.
Any indication that this might work for physical computers?
https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/ doesn't seem to have links to the individual incidents. Some reports claim the Azure / Microsoft 365 outages were related to crowdstrike, but this sounds like an entirely separate incident.

AFAIK the broken crowdstrike channel update happened at 2024-07-19 06:05 UTC and was "fixed" (rolled back) at 06:47 UTC, but I don't have a proper source for that timeline?

EDIT: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status claims 2024-07-18 19:00 UTC as the approximate start of impact for the crowdstrike update. It would be nice to find a proper source for the start and mitigation timelines...

EDIT: reddit threads reporting symptoms start at approx 2024-07-19 05:00 UTC. That would mean the crowdstrike impact started soon after the azure recovery.

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What happened?

Between 21:56 UTC on 18 July 2024 and 12:15 UTC on 19 July 2024, customers may have experienced issues with multiple Azure services in the Central US region including failures with service management operations and connectivity or availability of services. A storage incident impacted the availability of Virtual Machines which may have also restarted unexpectedly. Services with dependencies on the impacted virtual machines and storage resources would have experienced impact.

What do we know so far?

We determined that a backend cluster management workflow deployed a configuration change causing backend access to be blocked between a subset of Azure Storage clusters and compute resources in the Central US region. This resulted in the compute resources automatically restarting when connectivity was lost to virtual disks hosted on impacted storage resources.

How did we respond?

21:56 UTC on 18 July 2024 – Customer impact began

22:13 UTC on 18 July 2024 – Storage team started investigating

22:41 UTC on 18 July 2024 – Additional Teams engaged to assist investigations

23:27 UTC on 18 July 2024 – All deployments in Central US stopped

23:35 UTC on 18 July 2024 – All deployments paused for all regions

00:45 UTC on 18 July 2024 – A configuration change as the underlying cause was confirmed

01:10 UTC on 19 July 2024 – Mitigation started

01:30 UTC on 19 July 2024 – Customers started seeing signs of recovery

02:51 UTC on 19 July 2024 – 99% of all impacted compute resources recovered

03:23 UTC on 19 July 2024 – All Azure Storage clusters confirmed recovery

03:41 UTC on 19 July 2024 – Mitigation confirmed for compute resources

Between 03:41 and 12:15 UTC on 19 July 2024 – Services which were impacted by this outage recovered progressively and engineers from the respective teams intervened where further manual recovery was needed. Following an extended monitoring period, we determined that impacted services had returned to their expected availability levels.
Do you suppose they test before pushing updates out?
Some of the tech's a bit long-in-the-tooth (the whole data haven concept), but the genre was already well-established when the book turned up (Gravity's Rainbow (1973) in particular and postmodern literature in general). I, personally, enjoy it.
Actually now I’m not sure Hansson took a polygraph. The FBI wasn’t keen on using it on their own people in the 80s and 90s. On one instance, he avoided it.

Ames was CIA and speaks from prison with some authority [0], hinting at internal conclusions polygraph is ineffective.

[0] https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/polygraph/ames.html
At Apple nobody uses Windows.
Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users
Because it's a one-click process to publish, which makes it easy for designers. It's not really more complicated than that, "just host it yourself" sounds an awful lot like "Dropbox is just rsync".
Seconded, Steve1989 is a very great watch with many insights into the art of long term rations.
No, we expect phone locking to work, even against state actors. The news here is that some Samsung model has an otherwise unknown exploit.

If they can crack his phone they can crack your phone.
I would actually argue that once the masses are aware about certain technology existing and being in widespread use it becomes much easier to convince someone that a particular instance that the data is not trustworthy, so the ability to detect it through technological means becomes less important.

In the stage before widespread use people are much more easily tricked because they are unaware that others have certain capabilities which they never experienced first hand.
To be fair, Microsoft has a long history of research in computer typography, especially in regards to readability on screen, see for example ClearType.

Apple was more about true WYSIWG, less about screen work.

You might not like Microsofts fonts subjectively of course, but it’s not like they were design by some interns. Aptos for example is by Steve Matteson.
Well, if you look on all news sites, they put highlight that is a windows issue.

I personally think that IT managers should be blamed for the disaster, but in the collective imagination this will e a microsoft/windows problem.
Webflow's core user base are users who don't know words like "server", "hosting", "bandwidth" and such. They're just users who want to drag and drop some stuff together, click on "publish" and now have a website.

This is what the price reflects as well.
It depends on the sensor and probably the state of the subject. This is called "liveness detection" and there is an article I found explianing the basics at: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-...
Interesting that I happened to transit 3 different Asian airports today and had zero issues. I haven't seen anything at all related to the outage over here.
"The instructions" are intentionally byzantine to make sure people make mistakes and then "rightfully" fleece them. It's not just a matter of "less service".
from AP; "New Hampshire Emergency Services and Communications reported a temporary interruption early Friday. Around 1 am., New Hampshire 911 telecommunicators reported not being able to answer incoming 911 calls that they could see on their computer systems, the agency said in a news release. Calls that couldn’t be answered were returned to make sure people got the help they needed. By 3:30 a.m., calls and texts to 911 were being received on a backup system and the system has been fully restored, officials said."
All Izmirian's I know told me that it is okay to drink with water, but they would never do :) So I always drink pure. I quite like the taste.