skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the write up!

I just wanted to chime in to say the Foliate code is really beautifully written too.

I was able to hack together an epub audiobook reader by running a custom version of foliatejs in Microsoft Edge (which has an amazing and free text to speech engine called "read aloud"). It's VERT hacky but you can try it here:
https://nathansherburn.github.io/foliate-js/

Works on mobile and desktop Edge.
Given that the company is called Mutable AI and they called the product (?) Auto Wiki then I have to assume that they auto-generated the wiki. But I agree that the wording is ambiguous and could be interpreted as "we manually created the wiki".

> So we went back to step 1, let’s understand the code, let’s do our homework, and for us, that meant actually putting an understanding of the codebase down in a document — a Wikipedia-style article — called Auto Wiki. The wiki features diagrams and citations to your codebase.

(Edit) Homepage makes it clear they're talking about ML-generated wiki https://mutable.ai/
Maybe you picked the right week to start sniffing glue.
If you own a mutual fund, then you do not own shares of the 500 companies, rather you own shares of the mutual fund itself.

Consequently you don't put pressure on the 500 companies, you put pressure on the mutual fund and the mutual fund in turn puts pressure on the companies it invests in and exercises additional discretion in which companies it invests in.

>Perhaps it’s on Vanguard to do so…but Vanguard isn’t going to just eat the cost of increased due diligence requirements.

Yes they do, because mutual funds do compete with one another and a mutual fund that does the due diligence to avoid investing in companies that are held liable for these kinds of incidents will outperform the mutual funds that don't do this kind of due diligence.

> It’s not like I or Vanguard can see internal processes to verify that a company has adequate testing or backups or training to prevent cases like today’s failure.

I don't know specifically about Vanguard, but mutual funds in general do employ the services of firms like PwC, Deloitte, and KPMG to perform technical due diligence that assesses the target company's technology, product quality, development processes, and compliance with industry standards. VC firms like Sequoia Capital and Andressen Horowitz do their own technical due diligence.
good job naya

keep at it
Pretty much. We’re in the healthcare space and most of our customers are large hospital systems. Anything except “SOC2 compliant, no exceptions on report” will take an already long deal cycle (4-18 months) and double or triple it.

If you’re a startup it also means that your core people are now sitting in multiple cycles of IT review with their IT staff filling out spreadsheet after spreadsheet of “Do you encrypt data in transit?”
Yeah, and now recovered to -9.39%. Let's see what happens. I guess CrowdStrike is backed by enough powerful people to NOT lose too much business.
An argument that could only be made by someone who's never read the news ever. Or dealt with police ever.
Nano Nuclear has no products, "laughable" timelines, and a $600M market cap
It's not just fake demand, it's required in most instances (example- STIG requirements)
[virtual tour] Preserving the Maram tribe (east India)
Partnered with a native to preserve some parts of their village. They shot some photos of the village remotely and i used generative fill and digital painting in photoshop and used another software to push it to html :)

Its still a wip, we are planning to capture more of the village
Its a claim that won't be confirmed and even if verified might be a lie to hide some better tech or just inane CYA. As an example, there is still nonpublic Kennedy material. Why would this event be any different?
He said "up from $468" not $40.
I’m not defending CrowdStrike here. This is a clearly egregious lack of test coverage, but CrowdStrike isn’t “just” antivirus. The Falcon Sensor does very useful things beyond that, like USB device control, firewall configuration, reporting, etc.

If your use case has a lesser need for antimalware you might still deploy CrowdStrike to achieve those ends. Which help to lessen reliance on antimalware as a singular defense (which of course it shouldn’t be).
The one thing that you may not be aware of that will raise costs above what you may expect is that prisoner communications are generally monitored, and not just "this may be monitored for improved customer service in the future" but you know nobody is actually being paid to listen to all the calls, but actually monitored. Whether you agree with this or not, this does mean the service is going to be more expensive than a straight service normally would be. There's also significant vetting on what apps are allowed, which is also not free.

I'm not making a defense here of any particular price or practice, just giving you a partial answer to your question, in that there are costs in these services above and beyond what you would expect for a "normal" service of this type.
You can bet a substantial amount of money on CloudStrike inadvertently painting a huuuuge hacker target on their back over this...
Beats starvation though, dunnit?

If you're looking to do this day to day instead, there are products like Huel and Soylent that can better meet that need. And also a DIY community for self mixed powdered meal replacements (with a good nutritional profile, and presumably fewer additives and preservatives?).
Show HN: Cluttr – A local first utility to make images searchable using Ollama
Java, but why? The state of Java in 2024
Not just financial / process barriers. I worked for a company in the early 90's that needed a large secure safe to store classified documents and removable hard drives. A significant part of the delay in getting it was figuring out how to get it into the upstairs office where it would be located. The solution involved removing a window and hiring a crane.

When we later moved to new offices, somebody found a solution that involved a 'stair-walking' device that could supposedly get the safe down to the ground floor. This of course jammed when it was halfway down the stairs. Hilarity ensued.
ZScaler itself uses port 443 UDP, but blocks QUIC. The last time I checked it didn't support IPv6 so they told customers to disable IPv6. Security software is legacy software out of the box and cuts the performance of computers in half.
CrowdStrike Blew Up the Internet [video]
Here's a list of people that have strong disagree[0]. What about those that have been falsely identified by facial recognition software? Just because you think you've committed no crime doesn't mean the authorities have the same thought.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wrongful_convictions_i...
A command to print terminal color codes
This is pretty cool. Thanks for the pointer.

Also, hi Matthias!
Experimental drug extends the lifespan of 'middle-aged' mice by 25%
It's actually worse than phone updates. Ever looked at your phone and noticed it hasn't updated to the new OS despite it having been out for a few days already? This is why.
Is Moldova so special? I was there some years ago, including Transnistria
https://expatcircle.com/cms/emigration-today-transnistria/

Just came back from Ukraine, was really fun. But I must say, the Ukrainians don't know how to party. In such a situation, you must party like there is no tomorrow, but they don't. They have a curfew after 11. And speak low places are hard to find.

If you like to travel off the beaten track, check out the travel agency of some of my buddies: https://www.youngpioneertours.com/
It is pretty visible now. Was it pretty visible before? Was it the same amount when OP signed up? That's what he is arguing, it wasn't a limitation when he started to pay.
And more generally, this is one of the bad outcomes when pushing decisions back to state and local governments. They are typically easier to bribe and/or control with fewer extreme idea (prison is about maximum punishment at every turn) people.
It's possible there's no human involvement from detection to deployment.
Firefox works fine as a native viewer of the saved webp images on Linux, if you associate the file extension/file type with it. Also Chromium/Chrome can be used for the same purpose.

The only disadvantage is that the browsers are slower and they have much more inconvenient user interfaces than the dedicated image viewers, for functions like zoom and pan or passing to the next or previous image in a directory.

An alternative is to use the movie player "mpv" as the native webp viewer. This is much faster and it has the advantage of easy navigation in a directory with webp images and of easy zoom and pan (you may need to edit the mpv configuration and bind the ZOOMIN and ZOOMOUT commands to whatever keys you prefer).
He said:

>They're forcing me to pay $15,000/year, up from $468!

$468/year = 39/month
Alternately if he had gotten the job maybe he would have take down three quarters of the world's Windows systems.
> For the same reasons there's antivirus software for Mac and Linux.

Because they can also get malware or could use the extra control CS provides, and the "I'm not a significant target so I'm safe" is not really a solid defense? Bad quality protection (as exemplified by the present CS issues) isn't a justification for no protection at all.

Would you ignore the principle of least privilege (least user access) and walk around with all the keys to the kingdom just because you're savvier than most at detecting an attack and anyway you're only one person, what are the chances you're targeted? You're the Linux/MacOS of the user world, and "everyone knows those principles are only for the Windows equivalent of users".
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This is one of those situations where "move fast and break things" is not good advice.
> The before era when music is mostly based on intuition and imitation,

There's a lot of music theory in pre-Baroque compositions, e.g. counterpoint theory or isorhythm.
I'm pretty sure VLC (from f-droid) does what you want. It might prefer to have full file access, but you can just deny that and just open files from a file browser or whatever.
I don't it's a management thing, per se. I see it more as a personality trait for how one handles stressful situations.

I think some people can improve upon it with time and effort.
What would happen exactly if all this national debt was just written off/cancelled? They are just numbers in a spreadsheet.
It's not just Florida. You pay the bed fees even if found not guilty. Seems like a very cruel and efficient way to ruin someone financially considering that the average wait time before their first court date is one month. So, you're looking at at least $1500 for a crime you didn't even commit.
We run Crowdstrike on Linux and Macs so that we can tick some compliance checkbox.

Fun fact: they’ve recommended we don’t install the latest kernel updates since they usually lag a bit with support. We’re running Ubuntu LTS, not some bleeding edge arch. It now supports using ebpf so it’s somewhat better.
Maybe it is partially a bot
Scientists discover key indicator of life on the surface of Venus
CrowdStrike is not MSFT. This also affected Linux installations with CrowdStrike installed, from what I've read.
Rapidly accelerating glacier melt in Alaska
> Ticket prices range from $50,000 per seat with World View to around $184,000 with Zephalto. Space Perspective sells tickets to its experience for $125,000 per seat. That’s all assuming commercial service gets off the ground.

This suddenly makes paying for a 0g flight a steal.
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Inmates are products, not consumers. Consumers would be governments, and they would in theory over time select those administration companies that would offer the best correction facilities for the lowest price.

However, I am actually making the point against that. Privatization of that area makes no sense at all. I might have phrased that in a way that works against the central point of my argument, but the idea is that no, there is no competition that could possibly justify privatizing the corrections sector.
you could, maybe, instead, if you're worried about this, homestead with permaculture design principles?
For much of their history they were written down or copied on carbon paper and manually processed by phone later. Electronic processing came in the 70s and wasn't universally used until much later. I saw plenty of credit card imprinters in use well into the 90s when I was growing up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter

Card issuers only stopped embossing them recently.
OK, it's a pedantic nit, but doesn't anybody have editors anymore?

> This massive outage started around 6:00 PM EST

We're currently in daylight savings time, so the time should read "EDT".
Nah, it only works for corporations. Peons still have accountability.
Blaming IT managers is akin to blaming a bus driver when the bridge collapses.

IT managers are required to implement AV for compliance. They'd lose their jobs if they refused to do it and either failed an audit or got hit by common malware.

It's ironic to see so much praise this morning for the macOS model for kernel extensions. The fact of the matter is Microsoft allows 3rd party code to do exactly what happened today, and the industry leader in endpoint security completely failed to QA their updates.
The German BSI (Federal Office for IT Security) quotes the advisory from CrowdStrike (which is behind their customer login portal) as saying you need to roll-back to snapshots prior to 04:09 UTC:

https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Cybersicherheitswarnungen...

So your Redditor saying 05:00 UTC seems to be close.
Honestly is anyone surprised that Microsoft is having these issues? They still run the same sloppy software as they always have.
Ahaha what nice memories you brought back!
My opinion: initiate an internal transfer before the negative rating / PIP hits and hope you get a more sympathetic manager. Nitpicking about you actual performance and whether you are getting accommodations do not matter unless you are planning to litigate, a dubious strategy. Your manager does not find your contributions to be sufficient so run like hell while you still can.
You're free to interpret your relationship with your government as a suicide pact if it pleases you. Others are not obligated to drink the poison of obsequious virtue.
The simple Japanese method for a tidier and less wasteful fridge
> That is impossible because the state has access to nuclear weapons, gigantic drills, thousands of intelligent people whose sole mission in life is to break down that wall, nearly infinite budget, etc.

Those generic statements are great and all until you realise that every year, dozens (hundreds, thousands???) people disappear without a hint of a trace and the government is powerless to do anything about it and can't find them.

Or when a large, wealthy company commits crimes (or just government officials sometimes), all they have to say is "we lost the data" and suddenly, there is nothing that can be done about it, it's lost to the ether for ever without any possibility to find out anything about it.
> Passengers will not experience weightlessness

If this needs to be said, i think its not clear to everyone... being "in space" is not what causes weightlessness. "Falling" towards your local gravitational source does it. This includes orbiting.
Without more information it's hard to know if those companies are just poorly run or if the service really costs that much.

I think society should shoulder to entire cost of prison, and hopefully we think better about who we want in prison and for how long.
That's the Land of the Free™ for ya!
> Cloud is not just about where things are – it's about the idea that you can outsource every single piece of responsibility to a intangible vendor somewhere in the cloud.

I've never heard of a definition of cloud like that.

Cloud is entirely about where things are.

Outsourcing responsibility to a vendor is totally orthogonal to the idea of the cloud. You can outsource responsibility in the cloud or not. You can also outsource responsibility on local machines or not.

And outsourcing responsibility has existed since long before the concept of the cloud was invented.

It's important to keep definitions clear.
> In April, a tiny particle smaller than a grain of sand struck Gaia at high speed. Known as a micrometeoroid, millions of these particles burn up in Earth’s atmosphere every day.

> This object, however, struck Gaia at a very high speed and at just the wrong angle, damaging the spacecraft’s protective cover.

How do they know all this? Did they perform some simulations to find out what kind of particle could have done the observed damage?
That wasn't always true, and changes in that direction were made to a lot of government agencies, doing things like making them pretend their budget is a business and that they need revenue streams is nonsensical and doesn't work, and I can say that with confidence because every time such changes are implemented the value of the department goes downhill fast, to the point where some people speculate that the intention of such policies is to kill those agencies. I sometimes buy that, but I also think we should acknowledge that while neoliberal political projects are often cynical and greedy, they are also often the result of incompetence. I see a certain naivete in people whose core competency has been gaining power through social influence not knowing how to actually build systems that work
What's so interesting about that?
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I think it's less that it must be one style, and more about having a profile image that isn't bad. It could be any good picture of you, or you could just have a consistent and interesting image across platforms. Something that shows you took a little care.

Certainly there are some patterns to be found, and many people in upper management (moreso outside tech) take the "good headshot" approach. That's just the commonly accepted path and checks the box.

I think it's fine to show more creativity. Alternatively, you just play the game and move on, expressing yourself in other ways.
Nope. Azure does not run CrowdStrike. It doesn't even run Windows as you know it.
>2TB of bandwidth is $7/mo on AWS Lightsail. [...]

>When AWS, the company known for price gouging for bandwidth, sells for 1/1000 the cost the problem might you.

That's a slightly misleading thing to say when lightsail is specifically their low-end offering, designed to compete with other low cost VPS providers like linode or digital ocean. When people are complaining about AWS "price gouging" for bandwidth, they're talking about the $0.09/GB[1], or $180 for 2TB.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
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> They've never pretended to be anything else other than a budget airline where any extras or conveniences will cost you extra

This part is not objectionable - it's the lack of transparency and attempts to trick you into paying additional fees that are worse than normal. Take booking.com as a comparison. They are very up front about costs and your expected costs for a stay booked via them will normally match up with what you see on the checkout costs and your actual final costs. That isn't the case for Ryanair

> The 'not printing a boarding ticket' before you travel and being charged for it at the airport has been around since 2009: https://theguardian.com/money/2009/may/14/ryanair-online-che... so it's hard for people to feign ignorance of it.

Everyone has a first time travelling with Ryanair and some number of them will fall into this trap because they didn't know. This would be fine if people were intentionally making the choice to trade off the inconvenience (?) of checking in online vs at the airport but what % of people paying that fee did that? It would be easy for Ryanair to provide a more transparent customer experience here.
> if you know the right people or can buy a lobbyist

This is cynical nonsense.

If you can get to a polling station you have more influence than the average Iranian. If you can write a coherent letter to an elected or maintain emotional composure on a call, you have more than anyone in their non-elite class. If you can attend local government meetings, join an advocacy group or travel to canvas or protest you have more power than their minor elites. (If you are in the leadership of those groups, you have more power—in most cases—than donors who give thousands a cycle.)

One of the major elements of the uneducated pillar I cited is Americans who were never taught or shown how to civically engage getting cynical out of a lack of education.
Easy startup idea to provide prison phone service via a cheap VoIP provider and use a light weight LLM to flag suspicious transcripts.
From a tour I got in a forensics lab a while back, injecting a bootloader to bruteforce PINs was one of the options available at least. Had rows of phones punching numbers just waiting for the screen to turn green
"if all your friends jump off a cliff, do you as well?"

Sure, that is a common idiom. Usually as stated implying that people shouldn't or wont, jump off the cliff. 'People must be smarter, right?'.

And we would like to think that is logical, and people wouldn't jump off a cliff.

Sadly, it seems like it is more true, people DO jump off the cliff, follow the illogical leader and jump.

It seems to me more and more that it is human nature to follow the leader off the cliff.

Maybe something to do with being social animals, following the herd.
Here’s my take as a security software dev for 15 years.

We put too much code in kernel simply because it’s considered more elite than other software. It’s just dumb.

Also - if a driver is causing a crash MSFT should boot from the last known-good driver set so the install can be backed out later. Reboot loops are still the standard failure mode in driver development…
I read this description of the algorithm a few times and I find it fascinating because it's so simple to follow. I have a lot of questions, though, like "why does it work?", "why nobody thought of this before", and "where is the extra magical step that moves this from 'silly idea' to 'wonder work'"?
Land of the Fee
Show HN: Compare GraphRAG and RAG on earning call transcripts
Hi HN,

Microsoft recently open-sourced the GraphRAG framework for information retrieval, utilizing graph-based structures. It automates the construction of knowledge graphs using LLMs and enhances retrieval by connecting related concepts and entities in a query for more contextual and accurate responses.

GraphRAG offers a larger connected context for retrieved information, which LLMs use to answer summarization-focused queries. It does not replace RAG but can significantly augment existing information extraction pipelines.

Asking questions on financial data is one example of a great use case for GraphRAG.

Check out this demo comparing quarterly earnings call transcripts from a few companies to see a side-by-side comparison: https://graphrag-demo.deepset.ai

Curious to hear your thoughts.
The part about UEFI?

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bios-uefi
if you have a long enough rope, you could keep the balloon up there and freefall for a while and then brake close to the ground.
between this and the iron nuggets sitting out in the open on Mars,..No Mans Sky is more realistic than i thought.
It doesn't seem that they ever really used Plan 9, though. Are you trying to imply that Bell Labs was just few trick pony, or what? I'm still not clear on what connection your story about Go/Limbo/Oberon-2 has to the topic at hand. It seems you forgot to include the conclusion?
>This is vendor lock-in 101 unfortunately, and why I've always steered clear of VC-backed companies that offer "all-in-one" solutions that can't be migrated easily

Webflow allows you to export your site and host somewhere else.

https://university.webflow.com/lesson/code-export?topics=hos...
Network sockets are in the systemd code repository.