skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that they do it this way. The bins always had plenty of space when I took the option, and otherwise you travel with a backpack which fits under the seat in front of you for the lowest ticket price.

The boarding and disembarking procidures are also much faster with Ryanair in part thanks to this policy, the other being air stairs boarding from both ends of the plane.

They offer a cheap 10kg hold luggage option in case the overhead bins have been sold out or you need to take a small suitcase with forbidden items.
I'll fact check you since I was born and grew up in Russia. No water most of the summer used to be the norm in my city. Checking as of today, in two cities I know central hot water is off every summer for 2+ weeks. My city improved and another one regressed. In a third city I asked about (one of the coldest) it's off for just single digit days.
I've been speculating for a while that SaaS is a zero interest rate phenomenon.

It's not that the SaaS model can't be economical, it's that all these companies are suddenly expected to beat a much higher interest rate bar and must enshittify rapidly to squeeze their customer base. Since SaaS is absolute lock-in, they can... for a while.

The PC revolution and local software exploded when interest rates were high and in addition to the novelty and flexibility a major driver was cost reduction and having local control over cost. If you can run software locally on your own stuff you can decide whether to invest in an upgrade. If everything is a subscription to a remote system you have zero control, which seems like less of a problem when money is free. Lots of economically irrational things like variable-rate outsourcing with hard lock-in make sense when money is free.

Maybe those of us interested in decentralization and local-first just have to wait for the ZIRP era to unwind.
I have not seen anything like Math Academy for Physics, but I also want to say how great Math Academy is.
Not only security software, but really any 3rd party drivers have caused issues on Windows for years. Building better interfaces less likely to crash the kernel was a smart move
Yes, hence my comment about what he was responding/mocking to.
Good luck to Joe Schmoe in the IT dept who has to do this over and over flawlessly
Fun fact: if you book priority, but then only take a backpack on the plane, they won't let you put it in the overhead compartment.
If you were 3x-5x over the bandwidth limits for your pricing tier for multiple months in a row you were living on borrowed time…

Is this on Webflow to continue to allow usage wayyyy out of accord with their pricing or the site owner to monitor and understand their own bandwidth consumption?
Premature Abstraction is a common problem, affecting developers of all ages. Most are too embarrassed to talk about it.

Fortunately, there are non-invasive therapies that can reduce the frequency of occurrence.
Moldova is like the Shire. Green hills, good wine, nice people. Not much to see but there's something peaceful about it. Happy to call it home.
> but shareholders (who should put pressure on executives and the board to act with prudence to avoid these kinds of disasters) are adequately punished.

So if I own some Vanguard mutual fund as part of a retirement account, it’s now on me to put pressure on 500+ corporations?

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

How does that increased due diligence even work? 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.

When, on average, X number of those 500 companies in my mutual fund face this share seizure penalty per year…am I just supposed to eat the loss when those shares disappear? Does Vanguard start insuring against such losses? Who pays for that insurance in the end?

This doesn’t even really hurt the shareholders who are best placed to possibly pressure a company. This doesn’t hurt “billionaire executive who owns 40% of the outstanding shares”. I mean, sure, it will hurt that little part of their brain that keeps track of their monetary worth and just wants to see “huge number get huger”…but it doesn’t actually hurt them. It just hurts regular folks, as usual.
> Their "Statement" is remarkably aloof for having brought down flights, hospitals, and 911 services.

Their lawyers certainly won't allow mentioning such dramatic (is "dramatic" appropriate here?) consequences.
Surely though these content updates must go through some kind of regression testing right? Right?
SQL Server ran and runs a lot of big company (it ran MySpace!) however, everything else in your list is hot trash and should be yeeted into the sun.
And CloudStrike hitting them at the same time must have been just unbelievable.
3. Are there Glenn Gould level performances of the music? Bach played by an average musician is good. Bach played by a virtuoso is incredible.
CS installed on my managed Mac. Generally no problems except randomly network stops working. Fixed by waiting.
Let's see if his startup can help him overcome this risk of failure
Looks clear enough to me right? They took a plan, but are using more than that plan offers, so they're being offered a plan that does offer what they're using.

It does show the reason why you shouldn't go for a vendor lock in like this, especially when your entire business depends on it.
> Stock prices have been decoupled from earnings or “value”

No, they aren't, but the market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent. It doesn't help that our dear government seems loathe to actually ensure competitive markets.
https://archive.ph/pDf1x
Why would you name your company "CrowdStrike" anyway? What does Crowd Strike even mean?
Except further up this thread another poster mentions that CrowdStrike took down their Debian servers back in April as well. As soon as you're injecting third party software into your critical path with self-triggered updates you're vulnerable to the quality (or lack of) that software despite platform.

Honestly your comment highlights one of the few defenses... don't sit all on one platform.
I suspected that they used Cellebrite for this three days ago:

https://x.com/SEJeff/status/1813079033430876433

As much as it makes folks reel, this is working as intended. If you don't want them to crack your phones, consider setting a 10+ digit alphanumeric passcode instead of a numeric PIN.

Also, do not enable the biometrics such as FaceID. I'm very much of this opinion[1] that biometrics are usernames, not passwords.

[1] https://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-use...
Global IT Collapse Puts Cyber Firm CrowdStrike in Spotlight
The Central US outage really exposed a lot of shortcomings both at my company and at MSFT apparently.

Even having regional fail over available wouldn't help because the control plane was unreliable meaning it couldn't be triggered by anyone.
totally unrelated comment, he spent 3x-5x times is allocated bandwidth of 400GB, it is his fault and should have been more cautious about it
> Hahaha, you mean all the CRITIC~1.INF ?

Kids those days. It shall be CRITIC~1.COM
Two wrongs do not make it right. Benchmarking on powerful server with Raspberry Pi optimized configuration provides little meaningful data
I doubt that we fucked up. I didn't, you probably didn't too. It's on the megacorp
Looks like he was paying $40/m for 2TB of bandwidth. No wonder he drew their attention.

And before you give me the BW is cheap speech realise that this is about segmentation not IP packets.

Moving the heavier assets to a more specialised domain would have been trivial.
Obviously, they're going to land planes before they run out of fuel.
Your experiences sounds very similar to mine.

> I could see right away what Google was, just a money printing machine with everything else they did a way to flush some of the excess gravy away. And because of that it all lacked purpose or real motivation.

This is precisely how I would summarize it too. Very well stated.

> Agree about the ADD thing, but I think it's more a product of Perf economy than stock price.

That I agree with, and I already regret implying stock was a bigger part of it than Perf/Promo-- I just wasn't thinking about them when I wrote that.

Perf was a bigger factor for sure from our ground level (L3/L4/L5 presumably) and was the main reason I left, as all I saw around my on my team was people doing things that added zero value or even subtracted it, but at least they created a new project that would sound good for Promo committee. Managers helpfully shepherded their team in that direction, which was kind and all for growing our careers and helping us get more slop from the trough, but it still felt gross. I couldn't bear seeing that as my future.

Sometimes, when I look at the housing market, or think about colleges for my daughter though, I regret not playing a long a little longer. I don't know.

THAT SAID: I don't think the stock incentives affected decision making at your or my level, but at higher middle management levels, where GSUs started to become huger both in absolute value and percentage of compensation. At the levels of the people actually deciding what products to close down or pursue. I wasn't up at that level so this is just a theory I admit.

Yeah, fair enough -- I still don't know if I've done a good job of successfully explaining to myself what the fuck it was I experienced working there and why, but it sounds like you and I had very very similar experiences.

Everything about the internal incentive structure was fucked up and incentivized very low value producing behavior.

And yet, I did learn some really valuable things there

- napa cabbage is delicious

- celery root is a thing

- fresh made pasta is better

- quiche and arugula pair great together

- oh my god legit ramen is amazing

Oh wait, outside of the food:

- monorepos, with the right tooling, are unbeatable. all the monorepo haters just don't have the right tooling. google did

- doing meetings right, with agendas and minutes, is also unbeatable, strictly better and more effecient than the alternative

- doing planning right, by circulating proposed design plans for comments, is strictly more effecient than the alternative

- doing cloud deployment right -- this is irrelevant now, most everyone knows how to do this now while google is stuck with legacy borg configs, but for a while, google actually was far ahead of the industry on this

Despite having some fundamentals like that that made certain things way way more effective, it was squandered pursuing cockeyed goals.
I thought Loza was made from grapes, whereas Rakija is made from plums, peaches, apples, etc, being the Ex-Yugoland analog to Pálinka in Hungary.

Is it different just in Croatia, or am I otherwise misinformed?
> In an era when the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) images is at the fingertips of the masses, the ability to detect fake pictures – particularly deepfakes of people – is becoming increasingly important.

The masses having access to things wasn’t a cutoff point for me.
There IS meaning because this makes it easier to install Nvidia drivers. At least, it reduces the number of failure modes. Now the open-source component can be managed by the kernel team, while the closed-source portion can be changed as needed, not dictated by kernel API changes.
Whenever I see a survey that does not give me options from a clear no to a clear yes, I already know that the survey only exists to push an agenda. Every option you give can somehow be used by the company to impose anything they want onto the results.

Fuck Proton for turning out exactly like all the other shitty companies.

This opinion is based on the statement of the article, that the survey didn't give the option of hell, no!
I wonder if the changes they put in behind the scenes for your incident on Linux saved Linux systems in this situation and no one thought to see if Windows was also at risk.
One of the first options that open many doors is power automate, you add a lot of functionality that might make the transition easier.

we have one client that uses teams and basically uses power automate to repost all the messages to slack. So the MS side and the slack people both get what they want out of it.

There is a vast array of prefab templates

You can also do most of this via graph if you would rather, but I find both to be bit painful to deal with, with power automate the infrastructure is provided so there is that, but its largely designed to be a no code drop block style environment which limits its functionality.

Graph will give you a lot of control, and allow you to create things in a consistent manager, but the management of it, and time to develop often out way the value of the functionality.
Their local proxy is so poorly implemented that it's impossible to get more than 2mbps on a bypassed site.
Look, SaaS, or plain classic Software isn't an inherent enterprise stuff. SaaS model isn't a zero interest rate phenomenon. VCs selling successful software is a ZIRP phenomenon. We will survive without them.
People use Teams because it's well integrated into Office, 365, Entra and other MS products, they would (and recently do) pay for it. It has functionalities that no other alternative has, e.g. it can act as a full call centre solution through a SIP gateway.
Considering what those companies did with the most valuable research they ever produced, the climate predictions, they don't seem particularly worthy of emulation.
Algorithms for Optimization (Explained Simply)
Yup. Resiliency and redundancy cost a little bit more money.
> What's so difficult about checking in with the app?

You <------> My point

Simply put; what is so difficult about not adding excessive charges to passengers? And why are you trying to justify this?
> 1 -> AI is awesome and perfect, if it isn't, another AI will make it perfect 2 -> AI is just garbage and will always be garbage

3 -> An awesome AI will actually predictably be a deep negative for nearly all people (for much more mundane reasons than the Terminator-genocide-cliche), so the progress is to be dreaded and the garbage-ness hoped for.

Your 1 is warmed over techno-optimism, which is far past its sell-by date but foundational to the tech entrepreneurship space. Your 2 greatly underestimates what tech people can deliver.
Qubes OS has a better model, security by compartmentalization: everything runs in separate VMs with hardware virtualization.
Yeah I don't get where this "Linux is more secure" thing comes from.

Basically any userspace program can read your .aws, .ssh, .kube, etc... The user based security model desktops have is the real issue.

Compare that with Android and iOS for instance. No one needs anti-virus bloatware, just because apps are curated and isolated by default.
Yeah idk why he is throwing a tantrum on twitter, he spent way more than what his plan offered and he got shocked when Webflow wasn't okay with it...
Ask HN: Latest guidelines on how to set up a project in X langauge
Hey HN,

A lot of you are probably acquainted with the resource learnxinyminutes. It provides a decently wide peep into a language's syntax and basics.

But often that's not sufficient to build anything decent by the latest guidelines/conventions of the language's community.

For example, look at this https://matt.sh/python-project-structure-2024.
The author has done an excellent job of distilling the best practices associated with python.

Is there a resource like this for other languages ? Ideally something like learnxinyminutes for setting up projects in a language and idioms etc.
Tooling, infra, knowledge? The only reason why people are talking about "issues in Windows" because people are widely using it.

If linux had software anywhere close to the amount that windows has, it would have experienced the same issues too. After all it is not just about running a server and tinkering with config files. It is about ability to manage the devices, rolling out updates and so on.
Year of Linux
Your comment is polarized.

Plenty of people think AI is useful (and equally as dangerous). Only useful, not redefines-everything. “I use AI as an assistant” is a common sentiment.
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I think mutable is generating an auto-wiki of your repo.

Separately - would like to know if wiki can be auto-generated from a large corpus of text. Should be a much simpler problem? Any answers would be much appreciated!
A Crash Course in ASO
I guess he can write about this failure to anticipate in his failory.com
Wow, do you use Spark in production? I can't claim to have much experience with it, I just played around with it a loooong time ago, but I was impressed. I thought it went out of use along with Hadoop and HBase, glad to hear this is not the case. Are you hiring? :-D
You missed the part that this bandwidth limitation didn't exist when he signed up. Not sure how he can prove it or if he missed reading it.
Really getting tired of SaaS-makers relying on serveless, not monitoring or controlling ANYTHING, and then trying to put the service they use on blast publicly to try to negotiate themselves a special deal.
Windows IT admins who don’t use or understand Linux/Mac. Who also buy at the enterprise level. And who probably have to install (perhaps unnecessary) endpoint protection to satisfy compliance checklists.

The amount of Windows centric IT that gets pushed to Linux/Mac is crazy. I’ve been in meeting where using Windows based file storage was discussed at a possibility for an HPC compute cluster (Linux). And they were being serious. This was in theory so that central IT could manage backups.
Why is MS getting any blame for the Crowdstrike thing?
The CV1800B in the Milk-V Duo looks very cool - but it's not an MCU.

According to the product page it actually even has an auxiliary MCU in it, in addition to its two high-performance processors.
It's amusing that there exists a class of people paid to study things like this.

Meanwhile there's some kid out there being forced to dig up blood diamonds. Bizarre world.
But they haven't. They only changed them once in the past decade, it's not like it's a thing that budget airlines pull every year. Changing them sucks but it's not really a problem now.
As a white man living on a very black block in Philadelphia, it's extremely difficult for me to relate or sympathize. People move from here to Pittsburgh because of Pittsburgh's famously low housing costs.

Sucks to suck I guess.

PS: Regarding safety, I went back and looked at street view for all three properties. All three appeared to be surrounded by well-kept yards and houses, cars in decent condition, etc, which is a very good barometer for safety and basic neighborhood quality. These are nice suburban houses.
Quick, good job
Antivirus company causing exponentially more harm in hours than it's prevented during its entire existence.
Maybe a morbid question but could they theoretically unlock the phone with the fingerprint of his corpse or do those sensors require current (like a touchscreen does)? I'm asking because I heard in the US law enforcement can force you to unlock your device with biometrics but I wonder if that only works if the subject is alive.
his app was a blog and newsletter, hardly costs $15k a year to run
I found this part interesting:

> This comes as the two largest market players, Aventiv and ViaPath, each navigate financial crises. Aventiv recently effectively defaulted on its $1.3 billion debt after a year of failed refinancing efforts. ViaPath was reportedly closing in on a $1.5 billion refinancing deal until news of the regulations killed the deal.

This suggests that either they overestimated how big the kickbacks they can pay to the prisons were, or the whole business model wasn't actually that lucrative, and providing phone services to prisoners is actually expensive (likely primarily due to the surveillance requirements).

This regulation doesn't just remove the exploitation of a captive market, but also makes prisons shoulder the cost of surveillance. Which, for the reasons explained in the article (better connections to society = better chances of rehabilitation) is likely a good idea, but I can see why people would make an argument that this part of the cost of incarceration should be borne by the inmates/families, not the rest of society (the obvious counterargument would be that we don't make inmates pay the full cost of their incarceration either).
Nothing is more annoying than having a user ask a litany of questions obvious to the person working on the problem and looking for the answers while working on the problem and looking for the answers.
Mind rephrasing? I don't understand what you're saying.
I don't know a single person who's regretted getting an EV. Battery replacements are not needed unless you own a first generation Nissan Leaf. There have been recalls but they happen all the time with fossil fuel vehicles as well.
Ask HN: Running list of services and products down due to CrowdStrike BSOD's?
Just curious about the real world impacts for consumers and such. If you know of any specific company's and or services that are down or faulty because of this, please list them here. thanks!
Door plugs are an up-charge.
Ask HN: What are you using for internal tooling platforms?
Hoping to get some feedback/ideas from the community. Working at an early stage enterprise startup. The product is primarily a web app (rails/react). We're getting ready to launch to our beta customers, and have a growing list of internal tooling sort of needs.

We're evaluating platforms like Retool to get us up and running quickly, as we don't really want to have to build a whole custom tooling app.

What are you using? What do you like, or not, about it?
Yikes, where do they drink 70% Slivovitz?

A fairly strong one is 42%, same with most other alcohols, even grappa. I’ve had 60% and it was distinctly unpleasant, felt like something you’d drink on a dare instead of for pleasure.
Still, it looks like from the email that the website creator didn't read the ToS, and consistently consumed significantly more resources than allowed for a few months.
They’re valid for a postmortem analysis. They’re not helpful while you’re actively triaging the incident, because they don’t get you any steps closer to fixing it.
They allow a 3rd party to change Kernel stuff with an update. Apple banned this a while ago.
My favorite work story is from 10 years ago. We had an internal IRC server for the devs. I'd written an IRC bot to do some basic functions. It was running on my desktop.

I get a call from IT on my work phone. My co-workers hear my end of the conversation:

"No, it's not a bot net. It's just one bot. Yeah, I wrote it and it talks IRC."

Thankfully they left me alone.
> None of the other low cost airlines are this bad.

Have you heard of WizzAir? They're the only airline that have a flight landing close to my parent's city, so I have to fly with them to avoid an extra car ride that's as long as the flight.

They have this thing where, if they detect you searching for flights repeatedly from the same account / device, they impose an "administrative fee" for each passanger, for each flight, because presumably you're a robot. There is no way to get rid of said fee, unless you call them (for £1.5 per minute or so), and even that might take ages. And this isn't like £0.5, it's £8 per person, per flight.

I can only hope they go bankrupt and someone else takes that flight slot.
msgpack-numpy, but in Rust
This crate does what Python's msgpack-numpy does in Rust, and a lot faster. It serializes and deserializes NumPy scalars and arrays to and from the MessagePack format, in the same serialized formats as the Python counterpart, so they could interoperate with each other. It enables processing NumPy arrays from a different service in Rust through IPC, or saving Machine Learning results to disk (better paired with compression).