skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure he has his motivations that he has internally justified and made sense of.

Saying he has mental health issues because he supports Donald Trump because somehow Trump is pro oil and that'll massively hurt the EV industry sounds like a huge stretch, be honest. Even a casual reading of Elon a lot of us squint and make the conclusion that he supports Trump because he thinks it's what your country needs, heck like a lot of us do, EV industry be damned.

The left is clearly destructive with open borders and a lack of crime policing, even if it's noble, that it's very likely that everyone including Elon is choosing Trump as a correction to the arguably insane and self-destructive policies of the left.
Sounds a little like Kademlia, the DHT implementation that BitTorrent uses.

It's a distributed hash table where the value mapped to a hash is immutable after it is STOREd (at least in the implementations that I know)
> It’s a lot like herd immunity in vaccines.

Yes. But you don't deploy experimental vaccines simultaneously across the entire population all at once. Inoculating an entire country takes months; the logistics incidentally provide protection against unforeseen immediate-term dangerous side effects. Without that delay, well, every now and then you'd kill half the population with a bad vaccine. The equivalent of what's happening now with CrowdStrike.
I was really upset to realise my kids have no interest in going to Disneyland and I could not book a trip there and live my childhood dream vicariously through my kids… because they don’t want to go to Disneyland </3
they are talking about treating ocr as lossy. i wonder about making a lossless compression algorithm for text scans based on an ocr; in effect, use the ocr to predict which text will show up and how, and then encode the pixel-level differences on top of that
There are few.

From the perspective of consistency guarantees, object storage gives fewer of such guarantees (this is seen as allowing implementations to be faster than typical file-systems). For example, since there isn't a concept of directories in object store, the implementation doesn't need to deal with the problems that arise while copying or moving directories with files open in those directories.

There are some non-storage functions that are performed only by filesystems, but not object storage. For example, suid bits.

It's also much more common to use object stores for larger chunks of data s.a. whole disk snapshots, VM images etc. While filesystems aim for the middle-size (small being RDBMs) s.a. text files you'd open in a text editor. Subsequently, they are optimized for these objectives. Filesystems care a lot about what happens when random small incremental and possibly overlapping updates happen to the same file, while object stores care about performance of sequential reads and writes the most.

This excludes the notion of "distributed" as both can be distributed (and in different ways). I suppose you meant to ask about the difference between "distributed object storage" and "distributed filesystem".
Can someone explain to me why such systems need anti-virus in the first place?

Windows has pretty good facilities for locking down the system so that ordinary users, even those with local admin rights, cannot run or install unauthorised code so if nothing can get in why would the system need checking for viruses?

So why do most companies not lock down their machines?
I really like to have a linux laptop for work.
A major problem with the London Underground is the thermal energy introduced by trains and support equipment itself.

Spaces inhabited just by people and incidental devices (e.g., LED lighting, fans, personal electronics) should see far less heating effect, particularly if they're well-ventilated such that any accumulated heat could transfer out quickly.

Houses have had cellars and basements for centuries if not longer, and those aren't known for getting uncomfortably warm.
The blurb for this marathon says there are 20 minute breaks between the films.
Adding mini-bursts of exercise to your evening routine can help you sleep longer
It's actually very easy to implement your own authentication. You should use either Argon2 or Bcrypt to store passwords. If the website is small, you shouldn't use JWTs (see https://blog.ploetzli.ch/2024/should-i-use-jwt-for-authentic...). Ideally, you should use an encrypted HttpOnly cookie with SameSite=strict, etc. which you can optionally sign just like you would sign a JWT although that's unnecessary. You might also find this useful: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Authenticatio...
CO2 is a red herring, yes it matters but it's only one thing in a long list of things our lifestyle impacts https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2022/09/death-by-hockey-sticks/.

Regarding energy transitions and carbon capture:

> Energy transition aspirations are similar. The goal is powering modernity, not addressing the sixth mass extinction. Sure, it could mitigate the CO2 threat (to modernity), but why does the fox care when its decline ultimately traces primarily to things like deforestation, habitat fragmentation, agricultural runoff, pollution, pesticides, mining, manufacturing, or in short: modernity. Pursuit of a giant energy infrastructure replacement requires tremendous material extraction—directly driving many of these ills—only to then provide the energetic means to keep doing all these same things that abundant evidence warns is a prescription for termination of the community of life.
Ask HN: Resources to learn how computers work
Hi guys, I’m a web developer who has been using Ruby on Rails every day for over 6 years. I work with a small team for a medium-sized company. I can complete almost any task from user requests, but in my heart, I feel there are many things about computers I don’t understand. What is a thread, a process, and how do they work? The same goes for memory: how do we store data and retrieve it? What is a profiler, GC, machine code, etc.?

I try to research on the internet but still cannot really build a solid foundation of knowledge about them. I really want to understand how computers work. Could you share some resources to learn about these topics? Thank you so much!

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I use ChatGPT to correct grammar because English is not my first language. Sorry if it feels unnatural.
There are other jobs that don't require being gross.
It was degrading since Windows 2000, with Microsoft steadily removing and patching up any clever workarounds people came with to prevent the system from automatically rebooting. The pinnacle of that, an insult added to injury, was introduction of "active hours" - a period of, initially, at most 8 or 10 hours, designated as the only time in the day your system would not reboot due to updates. Sucks if your computer isn't an office machine only ever used 9-to-5.
I believe companies worldwide spend thousands of dollars on Windows licenses for their employees. Why isn't Linux preferred, despite its superior security and low cost? Recent versions of Linux are just as good as Windows.
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I met him briefly at SIGGRAPH after an IRC chat at the Softimage booth (This was the year of the Starship Titanic game). He was surprised and amused that one of the few people who showed up for the chat was actually just downstairs. I have to confess that I could have spread the word about the chat a bit further but it was nice to have a more intimate setting. Anyways I told him that HHGTTG was my new testament and he asked the obvious question to which the answer was the Monty Python TV script book. He laughed at this which meant so much to me because he still makes me laugh every day. <3
I would believe this is mostly due to panic rather than being stupid. At some point, for many people, your logical brain stops working.
Any self-respecting AI would not make a mistake like this. This is the work of a human.
Yes, that is the world we are living in. In theory highly rational and the best of all the possible world with the best possible system. And in reality, it is a world of lies and deception. And there are monsters, but they are not big, but rather set an example of the "Banality of Evil". People casually murdering, by filling out forms in their office desks.

And the heros who rise and claim to fight all that? They are usually even worse, when you look closely.
It's a legitimate question and I'm glad you asked! (I'm not the author of Garage and have no affiliation).

Filesystems impose a lot of constraints on data-consistency that make things go slow. In particular, when it comes to mutating directory structure. There's also another set of consistency constraints when it comes to dealing with file's contents. Object stores relax or remove these constraints, which allows them to "go faster". You should, however, carefully consider if the constraints are really unnecessary for your case. The typical use-case for object stores is something like storing volume snapshots, VM images, layers of layered filesystems etc. They would perform poorly if you wanted to use them to store the files of your programming project, for example.
> without having witnessed the production of the audio

We know how they made pottery. We could recreate the process ourselves and look for that signal first (which we know is there because we put it there), before doing any invasive sampling of ancient artifacts.
Open Source Industrial Control: Turning 2,800 Tons of Metal with Python and Fla [video]
Where were those tangerine poems copied from?
What I want to know is why Bill Gates got stuck with the microchip conspiracy theory when Elon Musk regularly has press conferences about the progress his team is making with actual brain microchips.
How many crossings without automatic gates are there, vs how many fatalities at those crossings, and how many people cross at those crossings at all? When you remember that other important things to spend money on also exist, the math probably works out for leaving many of the rarely used crossings as they are. In America, there are a few hundred thousand crossings and only a few hundred deaths. Most of those deaths are concentrated at a relatively small number of crossings, while most of the crossings have very infrequent traffic across them.

It's the same kind of logic that has most train tracks not put behind fences. In populated areas where lots of people roam around, putting a fence up next to the track helps keep people off the track. But in most of the country, the population is too sparse and people being on the track too infrequent for anybody to rationally prioritize putting fence up alongside all the track. Half a billion dollars worth of fence to save maybe a few dozen lives just isn't going to fly when there are schools to fund, old lead water mains to replace, bridges to repair, NASA probes to Uranus, etc etc.
Sorry, but personal views? This is a matter of history. These companies made obscene profits for their owners. India and China were looted.
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How so? Preventing roll-backs on software updates is a "security feature" in most cases for better and for worse. Yeah, it would be convenient for tinkerers or in rare events such as these, but would be a security issue in the 99,9..99% of the time for enterprise users where security is the main concern.
https://www.chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/links/cached/chapter... has the history of OLGA

https://archive.org/details/olgaarchive has a snapshot
Siemens is also very much in on this. Up to about the 90s most of these vendors were running stuff on proprietary software stacks running on proprietary hardware networked using proprietary networks and protocols (an example for a fully proprietary stack like this would be Teleperm). Then in the 90s everyone left their proprietary systems behind and moved to Windows NT. All of these applications are truly "Windows-native" in the sense that their architecture is directly built on all the Windows components. Pretty much impossible to port, I'd wager.
Of course. If there weren’t, companies like Facebook wouldn’t be able to get away with saying that THEY are making the world a better place.

If there was no truth to the story, there couldn’t be half-truths because no one would have any intuitive or reasonable basis to believe them.
Oh, below 20%, I'd wager. The kinds of sysadmin skills people used to have that would allow that to happen (PXE, serial over LAN, etc) have atrophied quite a bit in the last ~decade. Maybe around 20% if you limit it to people whose titles actually are "System Administrator" (which implies an older, steady-as-she-goes IT dept) instead of e.g. also lumping in DevOps or SRE or cloud people.

But probably above 1%, given that it's a serious enough tail risk that you might keep an old geezer around who remembers how to do it just in case something mission critical happens.
But not before you join their Alliance and sign some papers...
The narrative problem is really intractable, I doubt this can be "fixed" and made more profitable. It has its use cases, that's it. Its a bit disingenuous to call themselves "OpenAI" anyway, since they are neither open nor, at this point, building anything like an "AI."
I think I've only ever seen a single incorrect answer from Perplexity and I've probably made a thousand searches so far. It's very reliable
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So if I put this all together:

a) The driver (sensor) csagent.sys includes code that hasn't checked with a tool like Valgrind or ASan or something and so includes some kind of memory management bug.

b) Since n, n-1 and n-2 versions of the sensor all died equally spectacularly, that bug as been around for at least three versions of csagent.sys.

c) The bug can be triggered by getting the csagent.sys to swallow a shitty channel file and since csagent runs in kernel mode, when it crashes it BSOD's the system.

d) Someone at Crowdstrike uploaded a shitty channel file as part of an update process that apparently happens many times a day.

Am I on the right track so far? If so, there's no/inadequate memory management checks in the csagent driver, and either:

1)There were also no checks before the borked channel file was uploaded because of a failure to follow process, or because there was no process, but whatever the case it was an accident.

or

2) Someone uploaded on purpose, not by accident, the borked channel file intending for a nasty outcome (probably not BSOD)

I can't believe that there are not a million checks and balances in place to let (1) happen, but as my grandma used to say, "Don't assume malice where stupidity will do" :-)
A cafe has developed a sensor whose door only opens to people who smile
That's different one although they are, curiously, both quite wrong.
Dunno what Return of the Obra Dinn used as dithering but these videos of Doom running naive 1-bit clamping immediately makes me beg for it having the aesthetic of RotOD.
I think it's a lack of panic that does it. In that moment they're afraid of causing property damage and they aren't thinking about their own imminent demise. Probably because they see the gate before they see the train, and once they start thinking about the gate in front of them they get tunnel vision and struggle to switch focus to the more important thing coming at them from the side.
I know, but this is infuriating.

I am the first to point to dumb decisions, usually Gartner-based, to buy the "top right quadrant" software when much better is available. However, using them would require knowledge and understanding of your needs and not being backed by an army of consultants.

And then there is the useful software to buy. A good EDR is one of them. You have nothing on the open-source market (which I use a lot, supporting the developers through whatever they put in place) and CS is very good. They fucked up great this time but it is fortunately a reversible fuck-up. Not the one where you need to reinstall or you lost data (the latter is less certain, but at least for end users this is not the case).

People who are bigots of one of the extremes ("open source is not professional software" or "commercial software is a scam") do not work in other's worlds. I can be proud of my home lab (I am) but it will not scale to the 500,000 devices I deal with at work. I know that what I am doing makes sense on my laptop, but this is far, far from being the case with the 60,000 users who do stupid things.

One day in the world of the "enemy" would change a lot of minds.
> migrate to Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL)

The announcement of “we’re breaking your stuff” contains an appeal to trust them on next round?

They must think their clients are complete morons
Hopefully the Rocket Lab mission can confirm this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Life_Finder
Such a badly written and dull piece on what should be a very interesting subject to write about (DNA).

I wonder if ppl who are upvoting this submission actually read the whole, verbose piece before upvoting or whether they're just upvoting on seeing Douglas' name in the submission title ?
That usually ends up in the project getting archived without the satisfaction of actually having finished something though.
Yes please. The content has vastly larger scope than the current title implies.
Don't forget all the things that a core team performs, but that you never see
Free trade benefits both parties by definition - otherwise the 2 parties would say "Salud" and part ways.

"The world" is usually defined so as to include those 2 parties, whoever they are. So I'd say all companies are at least trying to do this.
What's happened here is that you've erroneously assumed there's a good reason. It's fun to hold nonsense like this up against testimony from the ministers and officials at the Horizon enquiry, all of whom can be relied upon to say that "with the benefit of hindsight" obviously what they did was wrong but insist that they were too stupid to realise there was a problem and thought they were powerless to do anything.

Remember on average the other humans are just as stupid and lazy as you are. Most often there aren't "good reasons" for what happened, if there are even reasons at all.
If you're the owner, just turn it off and uninstall.
Between this and Boeing it's chilling how dangerous it can be to whistleblow against these kinds of cartels

I think this site kind of undermines itself by saying stuff like "Windows kills more people than COVID (albeit over a longer period of time)" or whatever, because that statement is patently ridiculous on its face and not at all necessary to make their intended point. If we're not comparing excess deaths over time, it's not a useful comparison, but also there's no reason besides rhetorical shock value to try to compare deaths caused by terrible computer system failures and ransomware specifically to a global pandemic just because both have high death tolls

Microsoft's PR strategy is already to paint people who avoid their products as contrarian cranks. I'm absolutely with the authors here that we're dealing with one of the greatest evil empires the world has ever known, and get that it's hard to even scratch the surface of harms they've demonstrably done without sounding angry or paranoid to people who don't know or care to know that, but anyone who does numerical analysis is going to wrinkle their nose at an ill-formed comparison like that, and they keep saying it over and over.
Be OS FS at least has this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System
> Same story for mountain lions and lynx, etc. They are a far cry from cats.

Have domestic cats actually been selectively bred from those bigger cats? I thought they were preexisting hunter animals that just decided they liked living with us better than living in the wild
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It's not obvious - the owner of the computer sets the rules.
When I was the sole IT guy for a small consulting company, once I got everything working, I never updated it.

We used Microsoft office 2000 for 12 years. Never had to retrain people, deal with the weird ribbon toolbar, etc.

It's only the deranged use of OSs with ambient authority that gums up what would otherwise be stable systems.
UI-wise then I wonder if it would work better to have a "+" button inside each column, clicking that then gives a popover of available components right where you’re adding them.
I'm really curious about the reproducibility. The color is decided by the bandgap and the bandgap is tunable by voltage, but how temperature dependent is it, and how much does production variability impact it?

I image these displays could have color sensors attached to self-calibrate.

Or the variability is low and all you need is very precise voltages.

I think the first versions will be RGB displays with fixed colors, just no longer needing mass transfer. You could use tens of subpixels per pixel, reducing all worries about color resolution.

Make these into e.g. 1x1cm mini displays and mass transfer those into any desired display size.
Unironically yes. I remember going to the ER in a rural town in Texas when I was 18 and getting the bill for the doctor and it was $800/hr.

The hospitals hire many ER doctors as “contractors” so they can crank the rates up. But the doctor works for a conglomerate that rents them out to the hospital for a fixed salary and the conglomerate profits the spread.
Enhance.

The film Blade Runner for a large but was about determining hunting down androids that were so close to being human.

Not part of the test, but a nifty party of the film, was about using a photograph to see what clues were in a picture by looking deeply into reflections.

As has been said, this omission can be added as a test in generating the AI images in time, but I just loved how this inadvertently reminded me of Blade Runner.
Awesome work! It would be super cool if this could somehow run as a WASM module. Was thinking I would then try to include it in Freetar [0], for example so it can be used to play the tablatures on a page like this: https://freetar.de/tab/joni-mitchell/a-case-of-you-chords-95...

[0] https://github.com/kmille/freetar/
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Maybe thru luck, they're gonna uncover another xz utils backdoor MS version, but its probably gonna get covered up because, Microsoft
Wouldn't that mean that the impact of the methane per unit is less if the measured outcomes were assuming much lower levels.

Presumably that would be good news if you could reduce the emissions to the level they thought they were.
I know a number of companies rely on Auth0 et al because it looks safer to customers, and in case of a breach it's good to be able to say that you are relying on industry standards etc.

However, my own experience is that the API's are in fact more complex to deal with than just setting it up yourself. So at least for MVP's, I wouldn't recommend it.
Have you seen https://github.com/willbryant/verm?
Congrats, I wish I had this data over the years to avoid roads. I saw Waze had a feature for intersections that had higher accident rates.

Is there a way to use the data to get a percentage or score for how dangerous a freeway is between 2 points on a map or something? Suggest an alternate freeway or intersections?
One reason is that it makes ISO 27001 compliance harder.

I don’t know the details (maybe someone who does can add more info), but it was the reason my last employer gave me a mac when I asked for a Linux laptop.
Liberating and a pain: my week with a Nokia 'dumbphone'
I don’t have the exact copy, but it said it was a ‘channel file’ which was broken.
Measurement error in gas networks can be 15% of volume, so not precise enough for this work.
I mean theoretically everything is a file transfer protocol...