skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir had a similar "feel", though it's more future-looking rather than past looking.

Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez is another book (printed as two books, because reasons) that is ~1K pages but I've read 3 times (like Cryptonomicon).

Others in this thread have recommended The Baroque Cycle, but I just couldn't get into it. Ditto with Anathem. Maybe I should give them another try. However, I do love Diamond Age and Snowcrash.
Exactly. There are so many questions like this that all have the same answer: why don't they paint like Kandinsky <pick your own favorite>? Why don't they write like <pick your favorite writer>?

It's a non-sensical question.
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I’ve met highly paid “security engineers” that talked about not really being into programming or being okay with python but everything else is too complicated.

It shocks me that such a low level of technical competence is required.
Any response they make in the middle of a global outage will be half-assed. They have all available resources figuring out what the hell just happened and how to fix it.

An apology this early is a lose-lose. If they do apologize they'll piss off people dealing with it and want a fix not an apology. If they do t apologize they're tone deaf and don't seem to care.
But you can't even get to the gate if you haven't checked in, at which point you get an assigned seat. If you somehow managed to get past the entry point and security without checking in then something went wrong at the airport, not with RyanAir.
An answer to somebody asking the title's question would be:

They do compose new baroque and romantic era style classical music all the time.

Do you go their concerts or listen to their records? If not, then it's not so much that they don't, as that people don't give them sales, success, and exposure, so you'd know about them. And apparently you didn't even bother to Google about such artists, so...
They'll just implement an access fee for cheap calls.
Somewhere out there, there is an engineer with the biggest "I told you so" shit eating grin scrolling through every social media site and basking in the glory.
The parser crashing the system on a malformed input file strongly suggests their software stack in general is trash
Indeed, but useful nonetheless. Solving it may be a challenge for a while, and deep fakes generated before a solution becomes broadly available will remain detectable with this technique.
Correct, this is the problem. See my other comment here about the difficulty of just getting on a repeater. If you get past that initial obstacle and get on a repeater, just to find that it's not interesting, you don't stay long.
But they've already fixed it.

"CrowdStrike Engineering has identified a content deployment related to this issue and reverted those changes."

How they've reverted changes on non-booting PCs, goodness only knows... ;)
When the world calls for blood against your organization, it's a test of the organization's character: will they throw a scapegoat under the bus (even if there is a directly responsible person) or will they defend their staff, accept fault, and demonstratively improve process?
What are the economics of this market?

Do the prisons pay less in overhead in exchange for the higher rates?

Or is it just that the market for phone providers isn't competitive?

According to one source (below): some prisons gets a commission on each call, which ultimately would be paid for by the users/convicts. This makes sense as a reason for high prices because you have the entity (prison admin) choosing a provider with an actual incentive to not choose the lowest cost one.

https://www.prisonphonejustice.org/
Bach is timeless, some of his music was sent into outer space, and the old astronomy joke goes one day, they would detect a message using a radio telescope that said "Send more Bach!". If there is life outside of Earth, no doubt there'd be demand for it; they just don't know yet what they are missing...

More seriously, if people imitated the music of the Baroque period, it's perhaps more as an exercise to improve rather than a personal opus magnum that will be published, because that time is just over. The same may be true for imitating some specifics of Bach's style (Johann Sebastian, there are many other Bachs that are likewise recommended, e.g. C. E. Bach also wrote excellent organ music IMHO).

However, there are also timeless patterns in Bach's music that invoke/exploit recursion, symmetry, variation, reference of others and self-reference that are perhaps mandatory if you want to write the best music ever - see Douglas Robert Hofstadter's seminal book on that topic (and many fascinating others), "Gödel Escher Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid" (Basic Books, New York, 1979).
There are many countries where Russian is spoken as a language and when people identify as "Russian" it is mostly the traditions and history. It has nothing to do with geopolitics.

It is language, religion, family values, holidays, food, celebrations, traditions, etc.... This is what is meant by identifying as Russian.

There are people proud to say they have this heritage, it doesn't mean you are a Putin lover and want to recapture the former USSR.
You can enable safemode for next boot without the recovery key and then you can delete the offending file on that next boot.
Remember WannaCry? The vuln it used was patched by MS two months prior the attack. Yet it took the world by storm.
Wouldn't also the adverserial model training have to the take "physics correctness" into account? As long as the image detects as "<insert celebrity> in blue dress", why would it care about correct details in eyes if nothing in the "checker" cares about that?
Why are the rates still so high ? Video calls are 0.16-0.25/min. I can understand that the old system was just a cash grab, but now that FCC is regulating it, why half-ass it? Surely, it doesn't cost anywhere close to that to support a video call.
Crowdstrike should have higher testing standards, not every random back-office process.
Yes, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholder.
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083
>Why'd we have to compose music in a style of the past?

Because we like it.

>We got different instruments and sound production methods at our disposal now.

So? Those are mere tools so we can make the music that we like and want to make.

Those tools are not our masters to impose us making different styles on us.
"Whether they should continue to exist into the future should depend on if the expected positive value of their services in that future exceeds the expected damage from having a big meltdown every once in a while"

I don't think that's right, since it ignores externalities.

You want to create a system where every company is incentivized to make positive security decisions. If your response to a fuckup of unprecedented scale is just "they learned their lesson, they probably won't do that again", then the message these companies receive is that it is okay to neglect proper security procedures, because you get one global economic meltdown for free.
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> Or is it just that the market for phone providers isn't competitive?

The prison operator has a (joke not intended) captive market and that is exploited by contractors who often share the proceeds with the prison operator.
I just changed it to 'charges', the headline was too long so I was chopping words off.
What fraction of ransomware attacks would these security products have prevented exactly? Windows already comes with plenty of monitoring and alerting functionality.
It helps that you can pretty easily frame a bidirectional task in a directional way. For example, fill in the middle tasks.

You can have a bidirectional model directly fill in the middle...

Or you could just frame that as a causal task by giving the decoder llm a command to fill in the blanks, and the entire document with the sections to fill replaced by a special token/identifier all as input, and the model is trained to output the middle sections along with their identifier.

There we go, now we have a causal decoder transformer that can perform a traditionally bidirectional task.
Not sillier than charging 2 euros for using an effin' toilet. That's probably unlawful in many places, not sure if they actually implemented it but at least serious PR was happening around it few years back. Imagine if you simply don't have cash on you and your cards ain't working for some reason (or wallet stolen etc).

Luckily for us Ryanair practically ignores our closest airport (Geneva), but due to Swiss air being greedy and corrupty, they prevented Easyjet from having their main airport in Zurich, and Geneva it is. So we get all these nice direct flights to most of Europe, North Africa and Middle east that even Swiss airlines don't cover. Prices are usually fine too, if booked long enough in advance and not during top breaks. Ie recently went to Morocco for some paragliding during easter for like 70 USD. Next best flight would be 4x the cost and 3x the time.
I would like to ask Col.Karl Nell (ret.) who was working there during Bell Labs' trivestiture: (timestsmped):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w9cIcWWsH0c&t=75
I don't use Windows, but Linux.

Today, apart from one or two websites being slower than usual, I didn't notice anything until I heard the news on the TV about the outage hours later.
I'm OP you're replying to. I've lived all over Europe, mainly Germany. You can absolutely tell Americans from other crowds by clothes/style and mannerisms.

Just like I can easily tell if someone is British or Australian (not that they look the same, but easy to discern which is which usually).

An Italian once; "Americans walk confidently in the wrong direction."
Unlike Europe (which is not a state) or Yugoslavia (which no longer exists), Russia is a country actively trying to expand its borders by force. So using "in russia" as a geographic generalization seems inappropriate to me.
Using ex-USSR or ex-Russian Empire would be factually correct, but bestowing "borderlessness" onto Russia is a harmful thing in my opinion.
1 also says “anything bad that AI does was already bad before AI and you just didnt care, scale is irrelevant”.
Its what I use on a Linux tablet because of the better touchscreen UI. Foliate did not work as well.
It very much depends on the route. If it's, say, Dublin/London (which is mostly business travel, over and back in a day or so), then you won't see much of this, but if it's to a holiday destination, you see it a lot because it allows you to bring on a 10kg bag instead of checking it.
Since when is this content not software, just because it is.not an .exe?
My favorite thing about Foliate:

> Add bookmarks and annotations. Reading progress, bookmarks, and annotations are stored in plain JSON files, so you can export or sync them easily with any tool or storage service.

> The data for each book is stored in a JSON file named after the book's identifier.

> How are identifiers generated? For formats or books without unique identifiers, Foliate will generate one with the prefix foliate:, plus the MD5 hash of the file.

Finally, someone recognized the benefit of using file hashes for ID purposes and my PDFs no longer get modified when I annotate them!

Now I just wish music playlists used hashes, too…
That's a fascinating take. Dark patterns as regressive tax, or equivalently, tech savviness as regressive credit.

Reminds me a bit of this old post: https://putanumonit.com/2018/08/09/jobs-inside-the-api/
> What I'm saying is that the business's interests are not aligned with the people comprising that business.

Yep, that's the point of capitalism.

> In that regard, what "the business" wants is irrelevant.

And yet here we are. Companies get fined left and right for breaching rules but it's ok because it earned them money. There are literal plans made to calculate whether it's profitable to cheat or not. In the current system, what the business wants always wins over individual qualms, unfortunately.
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> It is language, religion, family values, holidays, food, celebrations, traditions, etc.... This is what is meant by identifying as Russian.

Complete BS. The only people in Moldova/Romania that identify as Russian are Russians or Putin sympathizers. And this is also true of most other former soviets I've met . No one is "proud" of having been colonized by the USSR. Source: am Moldovan.
> Can you even get the secret from the TPM in recovery mode?

Given that you can (relatively trivially) sniff the TPM communication to obtain the key [1], yes it should be possible. Can't verify it though as I've long ago switched to Mac for my primary driver and the old cheesegrater Mac I use as a gaming rig doesn't have a hardware TPM chip.

[1] https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/TPM-sniffing
No, we don’t get funding through grants. Our work is either direct sponsored work or internal research funded through overhead. We aren’t a federally funded R&D center like Laurence Livermore or MIT Lincoln Labs, we are a university affiliated research center.

We exist in this nice middle ground between academia and pure profit companies where we do a bunch of research and exploratory work without the pressures of trying to get tenure, while also getting to push real products out to our sponsors but without ever worrying about getting laid off because we didn’t meet some growth number for the quarter.
Maybe the pay for the people surveiling the calls is included?
They weren't last time I looked. They seem to contain a bunch of different things, but you can absolutely download and parse them without needing to decrypt anything.

If you have a Crowdstrike customer ID (CID) — which you can pull from any device that has the implant — you can request any channel file you want from their file server.

Ask for metahash+/cfs/channelfiles/0000000291/<YOUR CUSTOMER ID>/C-00000291-00000000-00000001.sys and you should get something that starts with:

00000000: aaaa aaaa 0100 2301 0000 0500 0000 0000 ......#.........
00000010: 0100 0000 4808 0000 2c08 0000 0600 0004 ....H...,.......

That's a channel file, unencrypted.
The only common belief held by investors in a stock is that the price is going to go up. You may have value investors with a belief that Shopify is undervalued based on earnings, you may have investors betting that the rest of the market will buy Shopify, you may have people who’ve seen the line go up and decided to buy…

Stock prices have been decoupled from earnings or “value” for a long time now and that’s toothpaste we will never get back in the tube. We are in the Robinhood age where you can buy and sell a stock in seconds with no effort.
>Because we already have Bach? It would be stupid to be just a copycat of someone

Never prevented us to have tons of artists doing music the style of other artists...

The premise is wrong anyway, people do make music in the style of Bach, both exactly in that style and borrowing from Bach, but also in general baroque/romantic/melodic classical styles.
You certainly can’t be booking a flight through their site with your guard down.

The only positive of their site is that it actually works. I am always shocked that so many airline sites globally break, making it difficult to give them your money
Have you tried any of it yet?

I'm wondering if in the apocalypse you're going to crack it open and wish you were dead.
I think this is more an American phenomenon; Ryanair does not systematically do it as far as I know. The EU's passenger rights reg would make this extremely expensive for the airline.
Complaint: "This article has a paywall! Ugh!"

Solutioning: "You know, paywalls are awful. Is there any technology tweak we can apply to make the situation better?"
I’m not a prepper either, but 10 days doesn’t seem like a lot, especially when you start dividing it between multiple people. 100 man days of food is 25 days for a family of four (maybe more since kids need less). For a localised disaster like Katrina maybe that would be enough. For a war time scenario, maybe you’d want more.

Just to clarify, I don’t think I’d have enough in the house even for a week at the moment.
In certain airports/flights, where you have to take a bus from the gate to the plane after boarding at the gate counter, 'speedy boarding' can actually work against its intended purpose. This is because you'll end up boarding the bus first, and if you choose to take a seat rather than standing close to the doors, everyone else will leave the bus before you to board the plane. I've seen this happening countless times.
That requires being able to boot in the first place
Prokofiev's Op. 25 is not intended to have been a period-accurate pastiche. The "classical" title is meant to indicate a tongue-in-cheek theme, as in a costume party. And to answer the OP question, the social context in which compositions in the past were written no longer exists. From the vantage point of the present, a composition which is restricted to the vocabulary and the techniques of a single past era seems to be arbitrarily excluding possibilities which have since become known to all of us.
Especially for something like technology and infosec which rapidly changes, it’s silly to look to slow moving regulations as a solution, not to mention ignoring history and gambling politicians will do it competently and it won’t have negative side effects like distracting teams from doing real work that’d actually help.

You can make fines and consequences after the fact for blatant security failures as incentives but inventing a new “compliance” checklist of requirements is going to be out of date by the time it’s widely adopted and most companies do the bare minimum bullshit to pass these checklists.
The thing is you can't do proper layovers with budget airlines. Those third-party sites that try to make it happen are incredibly dodgy and if something goes wrong they have no legal obligation to offer proper rebooking since they are not required (and usually don't) have any sort of partnership with any of the airlines.

If I wanted to make a connection with a budget airline I would always allocate at least one night at the intermediary stop since you need to leave the duty-free area anyways, just in case something goes wrong. It's just not worth the risk.
Their "Statement" is remarkably aloof for having brought down flights, hospitals, and 911 services.

"The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed."

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what I read elsewhere, but is the machine not BSODing upon boot, prior to a Windows Update service being able to run? The "fix" I see on reddit is roughly:

Workaround Steps:

1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment

2. Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory

3. Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.

I'm horrified at the thought of tens of thousands of novice Windows users digging through System32 to delete driver files; can someone set my mind at ease and assure me this will eventually be fixed in an automated fashion?

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-windows-sensor...
Here’s the “table of fees”: https://www.ryanair.com/us/en/useful-info/help-centre/fees

One interesting ones that I was curious about ua the “infant fee”. Though I can’t see what exactly that is for.

Is that only if you want to put the infant in the overhead bin?
IIRC, calls to and from inmates are recorded and analyzed. It costs more for the storage, retention and processing of this data, than the mere connection and data transfer.
> Windows itself (which is fast and secure out of the box)

That's a really bold claim. I'd say Windows comes with a lot of unsafe defaults OOB.
There's supposedly a fix being deployed (https://x.com/George_Kurtz/status/1814235001745027317). Since it's a channel update I'm assuming that it would be downloaded automatically? Has anyone received it yet? Does the garbage driver disappear or is it replaced?

Edit: got in touch with an admin:

C-00000291-00000000-00000029.sys SHA256 1A30..4B60 is the bad file (timestamp 0409 UTC)

C-00000291-00000000-00000030.sys SHA256 E693..6FAE is the fix (timestamp >= 0527 UTC)

Do not rely on the hashes too much as these might vary from org to org I've read.
>I don’t see how sitting in a concert hall in a 3 piece suit is a more peak human experience than sweating and grooving in a dance hall.

Don't know about peak, but sure sounds like a more cultured, intellectual, and refined human experience.
> If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you

I did not get that feeling from CoPilot. I usually got the feeling that it was interrupting me to complete my thought but getting it wrong. It was incredibly annoying and distracting. Instead of helping me to think it was making it harder to think. Pair programming with an LLM has been great. Better than with most humans. But autocomplete sucks for me.
How is it caviar then?
If you are able to perfectly meet demand why would anyone pay more than your price? What service or improvement are the arbitragers providing above and beyond what you are providing that incentivizes people to pay more than your price?
Seems DoS "just works".
What's so difficult about checking in with the app? I found the situation pretty painless and you can go straight to security that way, if you don't have to check in any luggage.
Stock buybacks help push these up. Buybacks are a way to pay investors at capital gain tax rates instead of normal income (dividend) rates.
You can also just say things you don't understand are always created by fools.

Now, there are some fools buying these stocks. But to say that each one of these has a high P/E because every shareholder is a fool is very reductionary.
So the silver lining from this incident would be that you can simply point to it, and tell those auditors to fuck off.
Not sure pointing out another discussion is a problem. If I were to criticise the post it would be to say is it an HN topic? Might be more suitable on a music discussion.
> Well talking about your country of origin is the most natural thing to do in those contexts.

Someone out enjoying their night with friends doesn't want to constantly have to explain that they're from Russia, where in Russia, no not Moscow, 3 hours from Moscow, no I don't like Putin, no I don't support the war, etc etc over and over to random drunks.

I am glad that most (if not all) of the people we encounter aren't rude and assume he supports Putin/war, etc. That's usually what I expect to come out of someones mouth once they find out he's Russian.
Doesn't look like it. "For decades, the cost of an ever-expanding suite of invasive surveillance services has been passed on to incarcerated people and their loved ones. With today’s new rules, prison telecoms will be barred from recovering the cost of the majority of such services from ratepayers."
The enterprise value is 80.58B. The gross profit is 2.5B. 80/2.5 is 32, similar to Tesla stock.

The earnings are affected by how much the company reinvests (which shows up as a cost) before it becomes earnings on the accounting sheet.
Very cool. What did you use it for?
Recent Russian regulation automatically closes their domestic bank accounts on the grounds of their internal passports expiring. You can only renew them from inside Russia.
This is one of the interesting aspects in Ethereum.

If your validator is down, you lose a small amount of stake, but if a large percentage of the total set of validators are down, you all start being heavily penalized.

This incentives people running validators to not use the most popular Ethereum client, to avoid using a single compute provider, and to overall, avoid relying on the popular choice since doing so can cause them to lose the majority of their stake.

There hasn't been a major Ethereum consensus outage, but when that happens, the impact of being lazy and following the heard will be huge.