skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> without even the most basic level of qualification

That was my first thought too. Our company does firmware updates to hundreds of thousands of devices every month and those updates always go through 3 rounds of internal testing, then to a couple dozen real world users who we have a close relationship with (and we supply them with spare hardware that is not on the early update path in case there is a problem with an early rollout). Then the update goes to a small subset of users who opt in to those updates, then they get rolled out in batches to the regular users in case we still somehow missed something along the way. Nothing has ever gotten past our two dozen real world users.
and yet everyone is blaming Windows sigh.

Windows actually runs a lot of drivers in user-mode, even GPU drivers. largely this is because third-party drivers were responsible for the vast majority of blue screens, but the users would blame Microsoft. which makes sense; Windows crashes so they blame Windows, but I doubt anyone blamed Linux for the kernel panic.
Were cloud providers (AWS and azure) so heavily impacted because they use CS internally or because so many users use CS?
There is also a widespread cellular outage. It's very, very difficult (near impossible) to reach anyone in the country right now.
Falling and weightlessness are identical.

Weightlessness only feels weird because we rarely feel it.

If you were suddenly in empty space (e.g. in an area with zero intrinsic acceleration), you would feel like you are falling.

Because the feeling of falling is actually the feeling of NOT having the constant gravity (i.e. acceleration) you're used to.

If you were born in weightlessness, gravity would be the strange feeling (cue Bane saying, "you only adopted weightlessness, I was born in it").
Windows is high reliability. The problem here is what's basically a third party backdoor.
It's not just CrowdStrike – the cyber sector is vulnerable
No.

Go buy a different product if you want that functionality. I'm sticking with my Apple phone so outages like this are much less likely to affect me.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41000880.
Sure, but that would have cost me way more than a couple hundred dollars. (This was about 25 years ago.)
wasn't expecting to hit the front page so soon given all the attention towards crowdstrike.
Voice Dream Reader. Using it for 10+ years. Haven’t found anything that comes close.
This applies to oceans and freshwater.

Hot water holds less oxygen then cold water. Oxygen, by itself, happily will go into solution with H2O if conditions are favorable. We can "inject" oxygen by slowing and reversing global warming.
Yes. Links can be automatically marked up in the client.

The problem is there is no practical way of getting back to plain text, or even to a different type of markup.
Yup through electronic medical records... o wait
I mean, they pay a lot of money to crowdstrike. A failure this widespread is a Crowdstrike dev issue.
We asked an AI to do something AIs aren't intended to do
You don't consider bricking a considerable fraction of the world's computers in a way that's difficult to recover from incompetence?
There are sooo many companies in the world, when snowflake or crowdstrike or solarwinds has an issue, it’s going to touch every industry.
Until a a lucrative contract requires you to install prescribed boutique windows-only software from a random company you've never heard of, and then it's back to that bad old workflow.
I mean when big companies make billions and then get exploited and have a 5m fine, its basically pennies on the dollar that they are paying and they take it as any time they get caught fucking up as just operational costs.

Crowdstrike took a 10% stock hit, but i from what i've seen of corps i work with the longterm affect at C-level decisions won't change and most if not all the contracts will stay in place and the stock will recover in a few weeks.
"Family tree? Nah, my family has a git log of achievements and memories".
You'd be surprised how cheap politicians are.
I think that underground or earth bermed homes are often failures. There are different water and ventilation concerns for these. An above ground home is pretty accessible for repairs, but these can be nearly impossible if the home is underground.
Hardly a day goes by that I don't wonder why there aren't persistent, ongoing riots in the US.
I think if someone wants to criticize Microsoft after experiencing their buggy products for 20 years straight, that is not “baseless,” although I accept that taking responsibility for literally anything our products do goes against the core values of our profession.
Sure this isn't Windows' fault but it's hardly a "high reliability OS"
Yeah definitely. It's very slow, and the screen refresh rate is sometimes frustrating.

But that is how it manages to hold its charge for a full month!
there's an export HTML functionality. you can use this to save templates once you embed this in your project.
Futureproofing not Included: Ariane 6
Is it possible that you’re talking about a different incident? In the incident at hand, didn’t enterprises in question choose the EDR vendor, not Microsoft?

Is the implication that Microsoft should be compelled to develop its own EDR product at a level of sophistication comparable to what CrowdStrike offered, and compete with them on that basis?

It feels strange to me to hold Microsoft accountable for the poor design decisions of firms who just develop third-party software on their platform.
This was in Northampton Massachusetts about 25 years ago. I did go to UMass’s legal help clinic who told me basically “Yes, that’s how it works, it’s awful, but unless you want to spend the next few years of your life and every penny you have fighting this, just accept it and move on.”
> Windows is high reliability.

lol no
Someone failed highschool chemistry. More gas can dissolve in cold water vs hot. The opposite of solids.
This is incorrect. When dissolving a gas into a liquid, the colder the liquid is, the more gas can be dissolved.
Regenerative agriculture. No till, no spray, cover crops. Managed grazing of ruminants and poultry on the same land that crops are grown on to build top soil and serve as pest control.
Is that easy? Sounds not too difficult
not sure what you’re getting at
If you mean in the US, a huge amount of caution was taken, as it's always the case. Vaccine approval are among the most rigorous processes we have.

J&J and AstraZeneca were vastly safer than catching COVID. The FDA later switched to mRNA-based ones, which are also extremely safe.
I don't understand your TUI thing... Can you pls clarify???
Well... The only question should be architectural:

- why automatic, silent upgrades

- why no boot environment/generations at boot to reboot into a previous snapshot of the system (since nfts do have snapshots indeed), meaning why no integration between the storage and the system management

- why massive rollout instead of partitioned testing rollout slowly propagating

For the rest is a third party tool, not mandated by the vendor so... It's a user choice.
Just tested, TLDR yes it works.

Steps:

0. Uninstall VLC (I just did this to reset its permissions+config)

1. Install VLC (3.5.4 from fdroid)

2. Open VLC

3. It'll start with a splash screen, click next.

4. Next screen is VLC asking what permissions you want to give it. Pick the leftmost of the 3

5. Finish the setup wizard

6. It prompts for notification permission, which I allowed

7. You should be at a screen titled "Permission not granted", with 2 buttons. Click the right button to pick a file

8. Use the system file dialog to pick a file

9. It plays
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There seemed to me to be a clear shift in focus from CrowdStrike to Microsoft somewhere along the way, maybe a little while after George Kurz' message. I was wondering if it was either spin or the media collectively deciding that people understand what MS is better than CS.
The DNC has since has implemented many layers of protection including crowdstrike, hardware keys, as well as special auth software from Google. They learned many lessons from 2016.
“raw sewage loading” is, I believe, an example of an organic carbon input that should be reduced.

In other words, stop letting raw sewage out into rivers. We’ve been working on that for decades.
That is a new development and the massive shift away from cost plus pricing to value based pricing is a big part of the financial squeeze of the lower and middle classes.

Simultaneously, from all sides sellers are now constantly testing the elasticity of consumer budgets to maximize profit until they exclude the bottom x%, it's a huge financial strain for the poorest among us.
You are missing the speech decoding part. I can't speak to why the clients you were working on were doing what they were doing. For a different reference point see the cloud streaming api.

This is a good public reference: https://research.google/blog/an-all-neural-on-device-speech-...

Possibly confusions from that doc: "RNN-T" is entirely orthogonal to RNNs (and not the only streamable model). Attention is also orthogonal to streaming. A chunked or sliding window attention can stream, a bi-directional RNN cannot. How you think of an encoder and a decoder streaming is also different.

At a practical level, if a model is fast enough, and VAD is doing an adequate job, you can get something that looks like "streaming" which a non-streaming model. If a streaming model has tons of look-ahead or a very large input chunk size, its latency may not feel a lot better.

Where the difference is sharp is where VAD is not adequate: Users speak in continuous streams of audio, they leave in unusual gaps within sentences and run sentences together. A non-streaming system either hurts quality because sentences (or even words) get broken up that shouldn't, or has to wait forever and doesn't get a chance to run, when a streaming system would have already been producing output.

And to your points about echo cancellation and interference: There's many text only operations that benefit from being able to start early in the audio stream, not late.

I just went through process of helping someone stand up an interactive system with whisper etc and the lack of an open sourced whisper-quality streaming system is such a bummer because it really is so much laggier than it has to be.
It's neat as an art project, but we aren't hobbits. People like windows.
I see discussion about who's at fault: Microsoft or Crowdstrike.

But one thing I don't get about this: what was the role of the enterprise admins?

Most administrators at large companies are cautious about rolling out new software versions to their employees. They (normally?) test before broad deployment.

Seems like one of three things would have had to have happened for this to be missed:

1. Admins ignored testing this update prior to enterprise rollout.

2. Crowdstrike forced the update on unwilling users.

3. Crowdstrike does not provide a framework for such pre-rollout testing, and enterprises chose to use it anyway.

Can anyone offer insight?

[Disclosure: I'm a Microsoft employee, but not an enterprise admin]
CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there
> I think its important to understand that you're never found innocent; only not guilty.

This is not true. Many wrongfully convicted people are found to be "factually innocent" when their convictions are overturned. This is because after you are convicted the burden of proof to overturn the conviction switches, you are now presumed guilty, since you've been convicted beyond a reasonable doubt, and must prove your innocence. Some Supreme Court Justices even hold that being innocent isn't enough to get out of even the death penalty.
I want to see the internal postmortem of why this happened to CrowdStrike (if they are still in business)
Thank you! I’m glad you find TargetJ interesting. It’s indeed a new approach in development, and I can say from personal experience that it does simplify things. As for production use, the targetj.io site is fully implemented using the framework. Initially, I developed TargetJ for another project, but due to financial constraints, I focused solely on the framework. I just published it, so there aren’t any other projects using it yet. If you’re interested in trying it out, I’d love to hear more. Thanks again.
Have you got an idea how to embed screenshots in README???
You know, I'm not sure that humans are so good at that kind of reverse task. Information can be very easy to access from one direction but very hard to reach from others. We're not databases.
I read it as “Starbucks” at first, which didn’t make any sense.
> Because you just want stuff to work

I think the current outage undercuts this premise.
> You would "just pick the previous kernel from the boot menu". That's funny, cause in this case you could "just delete the file causing the issue." Anything can sound easy and simple if you state it that way.

One small difference, is that choosing the kernel from the boot menu is done before unlocking the encrypted drive, so no recovery keys would be necessary. And yes, choosing an entry from a menu (which automatically appears when the last boot has failed) is simpler than entering recovery mode and typing a command, even without disk encryption.

A better analogue would be a bad update on a non-kernel package which is critical to the boot sequence, for instance systemd or glibc. Unless it's one of the distributions which snapshot the whole root filesystem before doing a package update.
If the computer system was down, and medicine was needed to save a life, would either some protocol dictate grabbing the medicine and dealing with the paperwork or consequence later? If protocol didn’t allow for discussion, would staff start breaking protocol to save life?
"Windows" is the combination of the OS per se and all the things needed for it to run properly. That thing is a mess of proprietary drivers and pieces of software cobbled together. It can't be called "high reliability" with a straight face.
Thanks! I've switched the URL above to your second link (instead of the absurdly baity https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-water-is-rapidly-losing-...).
My experience with ham radio has also been positive. I've been a ham for about 14 years now, and I can't recall any bad experiences. Most of the contacts are barely more than signal reports, but any conversations I've had have been at least cordial.

I can't speak for bityard, but I think that pointing out that there have always been complaints is just saying that there are always unhappy people regardless of the state of the hobby. Most people don't talk about something if there's no problem. The people that speak up are unhappy with something. That can make it seem like the problems are common, even if they are rare. That's my take on it anyway.
Yeah, I was thinking about that...you'd likely need wings that could be pulled in close at higher speeds/altitudes or to not go quite as high. I would be happy for the later...just get rid energy needs of gaining altitude in a glider.
Precisely, and doubly so for the glide bombs.
What the banality of your comment says is that you never cared to pay attention to the man and his music.

I strongly recommend you watch the excellent BBC documentary about him, by the maestro John Eliott Gardiner [1].

You'll discover a world where music wasn't yet associated with "fashion", where the "market" for music (i.e. concert halls, music publishing, etc) didn't actually exist and composers were paid employees of cities.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVn9NZqyxs
"because who cares are you really trying to defend murderers and pedophiles!?" <- vast majority of avg US citizens. Talking about prisoners rights in any way will get you questionable looks from most people. "Prison isn't supposed to be fun" "lock em up and throw away the key" etc.
It's been quite a while since I saw the announcement of a new Linux-compatible SBC and thought, "this is really cool."

This is really cool.
I read that as a clarification of organic carbon inputs that could be reduced. I don't know the specific phrase "raw sewage loading," but in context I assume its something to do with sewage waste being released into rivers and oceans.
My hospital's network crashed this week (unrelated to this). Was out for 2-3 hours in early afternoon.

The "downtime" computers were affected just like everything else because there was no network.

Phones are all IP-based now; they didn't work.

Couldn't check patient histories, couldn't review labs, etc. We could still get drugs, thankfully, since each dispensing machine can operate offline.
> I think its important to understand that you're never found innocent; only not guilty.

Just no, one doesn't need to understand that - because it doesn't change anything.

I thought that in any functional society you were innocent until proven otherwise. And even if you play with words it doesn't somehow excuse it. And a poor vengeance-based prison system isn't relevant either because that only applies if you are found guilty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence
It can happen to any country. I do not suggest Bangladesh is special.
The reason people "can't learn" how to operate alternative software is because we don't give software the weight it deserves. We don't consider it crucial, but evidently it is.

When a new surgical technique is standardized, we don't tell doctors "well don't worry about it - we can't expect you to learn cryptic things!" Because we understand the gravity of what they're doing and how crucial that technique may be.

For whatever reason, software is still treated like the wild west and customers/employees are still babied. They're told it's all optional, they don't need to learn more. We still tell Windows users its fine to download executables online, click "okay!" and have them run as Admin. And that's the root cause of why we're in this mess.

We have safer computing environments - just look at iOS or Mac. Even Microsoft is slowly trying to faze this out with the new Windows store. But alas, we cannot expect anyone to change anything ever, so we still use computers like it's 1995.
It now redirects to a new page that names CrowdStrike specifically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident
>there should be more dissolved oxygen as water becomes warmer,

Oxygen solubility in water is inversely correlated with temperature and salinity.
Assuming that other operating system, whether high-reliability or not, are necessarily "cryptic" and unnecessarily impair people in their ability to "get shit done" is naive at best and disingenuous at worst.
Maybe you're in the ERCOT service area? I manage IT for a global firm based in Minnesota and that is definitely not my experience. I think perhaps you unintentionally make the point that the electrical grid provides a demonstration of the value of regulation and the consequences of neglecting or dismantling it.
Videos are still very much in the baby phase. There are way, way easier tells when a video has been faked. We're talking about images. Turned head images are very much in scope.
If you spent your entire life in an area with gravity prior to that moment, you would feel like you are falling even though you are NOT.

Our brain is used to gravity. That is why weightlessness feels weird.

But falling and weightlessness are indistinguishable to your brain. They are exactly the same thing.

So, if all the gravity around you suddenly disappeared, your brain would initially tell you that you are falling.

Only after some time would you convince yourself that, "No, I'm not falling... Gravity just disappeared. I'm just weightless."
IIRC Menendez was accused and found guilty of accepting around $30,000 per year from foreign governments?
Oh, well, having DTAG removed from the Firefox and Chrome/Windows root stores would be... oddly satisfying?

I know that in the US, ISP-wise, mostly Comcast has a bad reputation, but in the EU and from a business perspective, Deutsche Telekom is also not, eh, universally liked...
Shouldn't a GAN be able to use this fact immediately in its adversarial network?
Your criticism is not as damning as you think. The original comment could have used an innumerable amount of other unfortunate circumstances to reach the same end. It is fortunate for you that you have never been in dire straits, been fired and had to feed a baby, or tried to enroll in a program like that in an emergency, and can instead sit back at a computer and google the USDA and their enrollment websites at your leisure. Many other people do not have your fortunate circumstances, which makes your comment seem tone deaf, out of touch, and in denial of the injustices in our justice system.
Does it have a dark mode?
In my experience, I've always found the devil to be in the [late] details.

I have learned (the hard way), that, no matter how far I go down the rabbithole, in architecture, I am never a match for Reality.

I. Just. Can't. Plan. For. Everything.

I've learned to embrace the suck, so to speak. I admit that I don't know how things will turn out, once I get into the bush, so I try to design flexible architectures.

Flexibility sometimes comes as abstractions; forming natural "pivot points," but it can also come from leaving some stuff to be "dealt with later," and segmenting the architecture well enough to allow these to be truly autonomous. That can mean a modular architecture, with whitebox "APIs," between components.

People are correct in saying that OO can lead to insane codeballs, but I find that this is usually because someone thought they had something that would work for everything, and slammed into some devilish details, down the road, and didn't want to undo the work they already did.

I have learned to be willing to throw out weeks worth of work, if I determine the architecture was a bad bet. It happens a lot less, these days, than it used to. Hurts like hell, but I've found that it is often beneficial to do stuff I don't want to do. A couple of years ago, I threw out an almost-complete app, because it was too far off the beam. The rewrite works great, and has been shipping since January.

Anyway, I have my experience, and it often seems to be very different from that of others. I tend to be the one going back into my code, months, or years, after I wrote it, so I've learned to leave stuff that I like; not what someone else says it should be like, or that lets me tick off a square in Buzzword Bingo.

My stuff works, ships, and lasts (sometimes, for decades).
This article seems to be based on quite a technical paper but my reading is hot water holds less oxygen so global warming is a factor. Also excess organic matter from farming is causing oxygen loss as it decomposes to CO2 and a few other processes.
> 2.5GbE and WiFi 6, M.2 SSD support is built-in and four to eight times faster compared to PCIe HAT for the Pi 5, and the USB 3.2 ports are capable of 10 Gbps speed.

For $60 that seems pretty killer. And I assume x86 means less "idiosyncratic" software. I wonder if its WiFi supports AP mode; this might be a nice little WAP.

Edit: I really want to see pricing for 16GB RAM; this could be a good desktop!

Edit 2:

WiFi 5 & BT 5 for 4GB RAM model
WiFi 6 & BT 5.2 for 8GB RAM or more models

Small caveat. Still great.
After the experience I had last month with RPi, I hope this will be the end of RPi.

Note: the problem I had, is I had a system with an old Rpi, I did made a physical clone, new board, copy the SW, but on a new OS (bookworm) and surprise! Nothing works!!!
Raspian is a chaos, and using systemd in an embedded system is just Not For Me!
Please don't cross into the flamewar style in HN comments. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41007791.