skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This little PC looks awesome. I have a little Beelink N100 PC with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB NVME SSD, thing cost like $160 and sips power, even when transcoding 4K video for my Jellyfin server.

The fact that these are available with 4 and 8 GB of RAM now and with Pi-compatible GPIO could mean some excellent home project opportunities.
See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Different_Mirror
A third party s/w crashed because users failed to validate deployments. So from MS perspective users can't be trusted and need to be further locked down.
Do people not have test environments?
Lol okay but if you don't play the game, you lose.
dang is a moderator.

The joke was meant to help to portray my point strongly, but there was no snarkiness - there's no indirect suggestion, or sarcasm.

You can't talk to people on HN like that, it's fairly straightforwardly explained in the guidelines dang linked you. Parsing out whether it's truly 'snark' or not is not that important. Another way to look at it is that things that work fine in some settings - like people more familiar with each other in a group chat or more broadcasty setups like twitter - aren't suitable for HN.
it has not evolved much. and i believe that's a good thing. this is the reason why emails from 20 years ago look the same even if you open them today. given the short life of everything on the internet, email is a wonderful thing.
I wonder if "raw sewage loading" includes traditional septic systems where there's just a leach field for ... raw sewage...

There are certainly technologies these days that allow you to filter the effluent to make it less harmful to the environment.

https://www.nutter.com/trending-newsroom-publications-massde...
Right.

I just can‘t imagine how it passed tests for a common configuration that is exhibited by large number of windows machines. Stuff always can go wrong, but OS is not booting should be caught?
It's literally what it sounds like: dumping untreated sewage into waterways and oceans.

A big problem in all of these is adding nitrogen and phosphorus to the water, which facilitates algae growth, which consumes a lot of the available oxygen:

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_pollution/0...

Urine and feces are great sources of nutrients - good if you extract them, sterilize, and use responsibly on land, not good if you dump directly into water.
when the majority of the population in America suffers from brain rot, it behooves Nasa to engage the public with clickbait. it's not like Nasa gets the best funding in the world from our government compared to military and all our other genocidal ventures.
I know there are murmurs that synthetic data (i.e. using rendering software with 3D models) was used to train some generative models, including OpenAI Sora; seems like it's the only plausible way right now to get the insane amounts of data needed to capture such statistical regularities.
Not unrelated at all. Webflow is suddenly using the excuse of 3x bandwidth usage to justify a 3x increase in subscription price, when we know that this isn't proportionate to the underlying hosting costs.
Social order, the people wronged want to know that the culprit suffered for it, otherwise said people will start to feel the judicial system is disconnected from justice itself.

I mean, why do you think Lex Talionis is that historically universal?
Postgres Psql: Settings, Presets, Echo, and Saved Queries
Yeah, you're right, and I totally missed that on my first scan, probably due to being blinded by the huge hex conversion chart...
Reducing carbon inputs would slow or reverse this. Increasing sewage runoff would make the problem worse.

Raw sewage contamination is a huge problem:

https://environmentamerica.org/center/resources/safe-for-swi...

Don't go swimming too soon after it rains if you want to be safe from E. coli. Overdevelopment, underfunded utilities, and factory farms put runoff at a level that's barely tolerable when it's dry, and when there's excess surface water, they overflow in unsanitary ways that result in nutrient blooms and oxygen depletion.
Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate you pointing that out. I will rewrite part of the code as I agree with you that it is lacking. Thanks again for your input. It was really helpful.
The full title was supposed to be "we asked an AI to do something AIs aren't intended to do and feigned shock when it didn't do a good job."

As I've always said... AI isn't going to suddenly gain sapience and decide to kill us. What's going to kill us is our misplaced trust in LLMs.

And there's something cynical in Littlefoot's business model. If their businss was based on making recommendations for interesting places to see in various cities, they would have collected lists of locations and their features and then done sophomore level constraint programming to match location, features (like dog friendly or open for lunch) and added a schedule based on typical travel times. But they had to throw an AI in the mix because 18 months ago that was how you guranteed round B financing.
Interesting! Thanks for that. I guess most servers and consumer endpoints are fine, and those are driving all the traffic.
Afaik didn't they hack republicans too? They only released democrat emails though.
F = g(m2*m2)/d^2. Earth surface gravity using Earth's radius as d; iss using that radius plus orbital height of 408km. Earth's surface gravity = 9.81m/s2, ISS gravity = 8.66m/s2.

So the answer is, if you could hold the ISS stationary without falling, people in it would feel almost as much gravity. You would have to go much higher than the ISS to feel weightless without orbiting/falling.

Assuming people feel weightless at 1m/s2 or less, you can solve for that! And the answer is 13,600 km.
> 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).

I worked for a company that sold and managed medical radiology imaging systems. One of our customers' admins called and said "Hey, new scans aren't being properly processed so radiologists can't bring them up in the viewer". I told him I'd take a look at it right away.

A few minutes later, he called back; one of their ERs had a patient dying of a gunshot wound and the surgeon needed to get the xray up so he could see where the bullet was lodged before the guy bled out on the table.

Long outages are terrifying, but it only takes a few minutes for someone to die because people didn't have the information they needed to make the right calls.
I mean, number of citations is only a slightly better way to measure impact than number of page visits.
> It was pathetic how interested in the share price the average L4 Google employee was when I was there in the mid-teens, at least around the quarterly vest date.

How dare someone look out for their own financial well-being!
The title seems incorrect, per Comment#10 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1877388#c10 all missued certificates were eventually revoked

> 2024-01-22
> 08:25 The error message “ERROR: basicConstraints MAY appear in the certificate, and when it is included MUST be marked as critical “ in crt.sh was found in our weekly checks

> 2024-02-05
> 13:00 Videoconference with the management of the Trust Center with the decision, to revoke all certificates that have not yet been revoked the next day
> 13:25 Information to customers about the final revocation of all certificates the next day

> 2024-06-02
> 15:41 All affected certificates are replaced and revoked.

Given the comment was posted 2024-02-09, the last date is probably a typo of 2024-02-06, aka within 16 days.
In this very thread there was report of a Debian Linux fleet being kernel crashed in exactly the same scenario by exactly the same malware few months ago.

So the only blame Windows can take is its widespread usage, compared to Debian.
Cost plus was never a pricing model differentiated goods. Human psychology just doesn’t work that way; nobody says “having a nice reliable car is worth $20k to me, but I’ll pay $30k because their cost to produce is high”.

That’s kind of the whole point of the capitalist / consumerist model: first movers take high risks with investment and can reap outsized returns if successful, while success breeds competition from new entrants who have a proven market and a product to copy. The expansion of the market means more price competition, driving prices and returns down.

I’m not saying it always works like that, just that it generally does.
The Plan 9 guys are UNIX guys.

Punchline is without Google's moat, Go would have gone the way of Plan 9 and Inferno.
I intentionally disable html on my email programms and block all internet access for my mail program to the internet (except for the smtp, imap hosts of course)
Found the Martian hellmouth. ;)
This event is predicted in Sydney Dekker’s book “Drift into Failure”, which basically postulates that in order to prevent local failure we setup failure prevention systems that increase the complexity beyond our ability to handle, and introduce systemic failures that are global. It’s a sobering book to read if you ever thought we could make systems fault tolerant.
Drivers have the right to crash the system in my books - software doesn't. They need to take a stronger stance on antiviruses and kernel based software in general and push defender as the defacto antivirus for Windows.
> It would greatly benefit society to have prisoners be rehabilitated.

It would. If only we knew how to do that.

There are places in this country where attitudes develop for many years, decades even, before that person is ever incarcerated. By the time that happens, these attitudes are quite immutable, and they see any gentleness as vulnerability. They're adept at lying, exploitation, and have no qualms about hurting others. What sort of rehabilitation do you even think is possible? Where do you expect this million person army of rehabilitators to come from exactly, to be hired in these prisons? When they start getting raped and killed, will you just double down? Under what principles, exactly, do you expect the rehabilitations to operate? Do you ever remember seeing some study or research that concluded "If steps A, B, and C are performed on convicts who meet the empirical criteria of X, Y, and Z" then they will become upstanding members of society"?
CTOs do not get fired because they chose a massive system like crowdstrike and it fails once a year

They would get fired if they chose a non-normal system and it failed once every 10 years
>And I assume x86 means less "idiosyncratic" software.

It does. My N100 mini PC runs plain ol' LMDE. Intel chipset/GPU/etc drivers are and have been rock solid on Linux since forever. Very much a "just works" situation
But the person you're responding to is comparing the fuel (bandwidth) and not the vehicles.
Rapid protein evolution by few-shot learning with a protein language model
Kind of like how fertilizer runoff is a good thing since it causes algae blooms, and more life is good right? Except that it disrupts existing ecosystems and can cause vast oxygen-free dead zones.
Due to the scale I think it’s reasonable to state that in all likelihood many people have died because of this. Sure it might be hard to attribute single cases but statistically I would expect to see a general increase in probability.

I used to work at MS and didn’t like their 2:1 test to dev ratio or their 0:1 ratio either and wish they spent more work on verification and improved processes instead of relying on testing - especially their current test in production approach. They got sloppy and this was just a matter of time. And god I hate their forced updates, it’s a huge hole in the threat model, basically letting in children who like to play with matches.

My important stuff is basically air-gapped. There is a gateway but it’ll only accept incoming secure sockets with a pinned certificate and only a predefined in-house protocol on that socket. No other traffic allowed. The thing is designed to gracefully degrade with the idea that it’ll keep working unattended for decades, the software should basically work forever so long as equivalent replacement hardware could be found.
NixOS boots to a menu of system configuration revisions to chose from which includes any config change, not just kernel updates.

It's not filesystem snapshots either. It keeps track of input parameters and then "rebuilds" the system to achieve the desired state. It sounds like it would be slow, but you've still got those build outputs cached from the first time, so it's quite snappy.

If you took a bad update, and then boot to a previous revision, the bad update is still in the cache, but it's not pointed to by anything. Admittedly it takes some discipline to maintain that determinism, but it's discipline that pays off.
Do not mess with my Mint. It’s perfectly fine as it is now. No stupid redesign. Don’t try to screw it up.

Edit: before anybody freaks out, pardon me for harsh words, it looks super pretty, but we need less of this impractical “futuristic-looking flat design without borders and too much padding everywhere”.
Already out of stock?
As media outlets, it would not be in good taste and respectful to him and his family to speculate on why he would commit suicide or the contents of the note he left.
I do that all the time, I've ran the same image on a raspberry 1 through 5.
Language which implies colonial status through historical insinuation when referencing a sovereign nation.
One of my ponds has issues with low oxygen in the summer, the pond is too shallow and it can overheat when it's 95F and sunny out.

We lost quite a few fish last year (our first summer here). The pond also ends up with duckweed covering most of the surface - from what I've found duckweed does well in a low oxygen environment and does actually help to cool down and reoxygenate back into the water. When the duckweed overgrows, though, it blocks out too much light and can lead to an algae bloom that is really bad for the whole system.

I built a solar powered pond fountsin a month ago, it only runs for a few hours a day but seems to be helping quite a bit so far.

I raise this only to show how much can happen when a half acre pond is low on oxygen. On the scale of an ocean, I have to expect that it would take much more to get to that level of a problem, but if it did get there the cascading issues would have to be exponentially worse too.
Given its origin and involvement in these high profile cases I always thought Crowdstrike is a government subsidized company which barely has any real function or real product. I stand corrected I guess.
>>>It's because we collectively let it get worse

What would you suggest we do to make sure it doesn't get worse?

A large majority of the population probably has no idea the implications of this outage and what to do about it because most are tech deaf.
Yeah, I think your point is totally valid. Why does CrowdStrike need syscall access on Windows when it doesn't need it elsewhere?

I do think there's an argument to be made that CrowdStrike is more invasive on Windows because Windows is intrinsically less secure. If this is true then yeah, MSFT has blame to share here.
Some basic phone security practices:

1. Set a sufficiently strong alphanumeric password for your lock screen.

2. Remember to reboot your phone weekly to reset any non-root malware.

3. Disable multimedia in the SMS messaging app as it's a vector for Pegasus style malware.

4. If using Signal, go to Settings, Privacy, Phone number, and set everything to Nobody. This again blocks messages from unknown users that could be a vector for Pegasus style malware.

I wish there was a system-wide permission to audit and/or disable screenshots, but there isn't.
We’re definitely in a moment. I’ve seen a large shift away from discipline in the field. People don’t seem to care about professionalism or “good work”.

I mean back in the mid teens we had the whole “move fast and break things” motif. I think that quickly morphed into “be agile” because no one actually felt good about breaking things.

We don’t really have any software engineering leaders these days. It would be nice if one stood up and said “stop being awful. Let’s be professionals and earn our money.” Like, let’s create our own oath.
Im sorry but the logo is awful.
"works on my machine" at Internet scale. What a scary thought
Generative LLM's like this often reveal confidential info that they were trained on, and anything provided to them in order to generate other output can be used as future training data which can then be re-iterated to others
We Created the 'Pandemicene' (2022)
The problem was not the HW, but the OS update.
A tool that has full control of the OS (which is apparently required by such security software) fundamentally must have a way to crash the system, and continue to do so at every restart.
I've talked with a guy from Bangladesh over the last 3 days and he said that he was at a party and he was about to be killed, so he stopped going and started filming how other students are being beaten by local police. The fact that the government blocked the internet is pretty sad and I wish that no more people die.
How does this compare to something like resend?
> "Took down our entire emergency department as we were treating a heart attack."

Not questioning that it happened, but this was a boot loop after a content update. So if the computers were off and didn't get the update, and you booted them, they would be fine. And if they were on and you were using them, they wouldn't be rebooting, and it would be fine.

How did it happen that you were rebooting in the middle of treating a heart attack? [Edit: BSOD -> auto reboot]
I work for a diesel truck repair facility and just locked up the doors after a 40 minute day :( .

- lifts wont operate.

- cant disarm the building alarms. (have been blaring
nonstop...)

- cranes are all locked in standby/return/err.

- laser aligners are all offline.

- lathe hardware runs but controllers are all down.

- cant email suppliers.

- phones are all down.

- HVAC is also down for some reason (its getting hot in
here.)

the police drove by and told us to close up for the day since we dont have 911 either.

alarms for the building are all offline/error so we chained things as best we could (might drive by a few times today.)

we dont know how many orders we have, we dont even know whos on schedule or if we will get paid.
Of course. All of them. But it is up to customer to temper down their appetite. If the machine you needed 10 years ago was 16 vCPUs, that means that today, for the same load, you most probably need a machine with 4 vCPUs. Of course, there is this thing of offer-class bundling RAM+Storage, but, if we do talk about CPU power exclusively, then, yes, Moore's Law is alive and well, even in the cloud.
The embedded RP2040 is really interesting. I wonder what the CPU<->MCU latency looks like. You can pull off some really neat stuff with very tight timing using that chip.

Also an interesting addition for a platform that is clearly meant to compete against RPI in general.
There are layers to the problem.

The platforms do an incredible job of selling their ad tech across a business. No matter what business you're in the expectation is that Google or Meta etc. SHOULD work, and if they don't your marketing team isn't doing it right.

So then the pressure comes from execs to do whatever is needed to make these platforms work well. The execs aren't close to the details of what that means, but they want results.

Marketing then gets told they need to push more data to the platforms to make things work. This lines up with the what the execs have been told as well, more data is a good thing right?

Since marketers are non-technical the platforms want to make passing data to the platforms AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE. Which leads to these all encompassing data trackers (which conveniently is good for the platforms as well). Marketers don't really understand the tradeoffs, they just know more data is a good thing, and they HAVE to get this platform working well or else they're out of a job.

Then the question of should we trust Google or Meta is just hand waved away. They're huge companies 'of course we should trust them, they're the best in the world' – is a pretty easy pitch for a personable account rep to make over an expensive lunch. Even if you don't trust them, what are you going to do, not work with them while you're competitors make money???

IMO it's clear market failure and govt intervention is the solution. Complaining about marketing departments not doing the right thing is never going solve the problem.
This one is surprisingly fun, but I wish there is an option to choose a different map projection:

https://canidigtochina.com/
One of the things we should be doing is intentionally fertilizing oceans, particularly the "deserts" where not much grows at all, as an intentional way to cause blooms and sink carbon.
>That still won’t make them understand physics

I would assume that larger models working with additional training data will eventually allow them to understand physics to the same extent as humans inspecting the world - i.e. to capture what we call Naive Physics [0]. But the limit isn't there; the next generation of GenAI could model the whole scene and then render it with ray tracing (no special casing needed).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_physics
> The USSR proclaimed friendship of peoples

My apologies, I thought this was a serious discussion.

By that standard, European colonization never happened, either. All European colonial powers proclaimed things like a civilizing mission. Several of them had "indigenous" programs, too.

> Had Stalin who collectively punished ethnicities which collaborated with Nazi more than others.

Oh really. Remember that time when, in formal collaboration with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union invaded Poland, and later annexed parts of then-neutral Romania, after which they promptly began mass repressions against Romanian-speaking population? Does that count towards the "friendship of peoples", or, as the Radio Yerevan joke went, only towards friendship with certain Aryan peoples?

Not to mention that this entire "Nazi collaboration" narrative is a fictitious distinction in and of itself. The Soviet Union literally collaborated with Nazi Germany at the highest government level before their alliance broke down and ended up in war.
Well, olive oil and MREs then, would make a nice pairing:

MRE =

"Meal, Refusing to Exit",

"Meal, Refused by Ethiopians"(actually happened),

"Meal, Rejected by Enemy", etc.
https://archive.ph/sKcp3
Thanks for letting me know. I plan to use the Web Animation API to improve performance. Thanks again for your feedback—it was really helpful.
Nice being there in the event of a flood.

You can accomplish better insulation and thermal mass above the ground, while having better ventilation and less humidity.
A proper fix means that a failure like this causes you a headache, it doesn't close all your branches, or ground your planes, or stop operations in hospitals, or take your tv off air.

You do that by ensuring a single point of failure, like virus definition updates, or an unexpected bug in software which hits on Jan 29th, or when leapseconds go backwards, can't affect all your machines at the same time.

Yes it will be a pain if half your checkin desks are offline, but not as much as when they are all offline.
Thank you! After reading the article that was my next question!
Has anyone done good power measurements of similar boards?

How many watts does it draw in idle, surfing the web, and watching a YouTube video?
Implying a geographic coincidence
"Alright I bought us some time"
Interesting. How was the faulty upgrade distributed? Not from Debian archives I assume.
I think recovering from this incident will be more straightforward than WannaCry.

At large-scale, you don’t solve problems, you only replace them with smaller ones.