skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid you underestimate Moscow space cluster. In '90s, even in '00s their rocket engines - not quite from Moscow, a few kilometers away, from Khimki - remained world class. Realized project from, among others, Korolyov, less than an hour of drive from Moscow - Sea Launch, not realized but seriously pushed - Kliper. In 80's they might be unquestioned champions, not trailing - but I don't know your criteria, it's just what I see. Moscow had Proton-making factory, two significant space-relevant universities - MAI and MGTU, and several strong technical universities also related to space industry - MGU, MFTI, MEI... And there are others. So, in terms of being "the rocket design capital of the world", if you consider "rocket" to mean "space projects", Moscow with immediate neighboring region - not Soviets - was until recently (2008?.. later?..) pretty competitive. What LA region has of similar effects?
The instructions that my employer emailed were:

1. Start Windows in Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows 11 option).
2. Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory.
3. Locate the file matching C-00000291*.sys and delete it.
4. Restart your device normally.
It's THAT time of the year. This never gets old.
I’m sure you meant “the physicians’ hands.”
Progress is slow, but eventually there will be nix on windows:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113/117 (fingers crossed).

I don't expect to use it much myself but I love the idea of reducing the OS to an interchangeable part. What matters is the software and its configuration. If windows won't boot for some reason, boot to the exact same environment but on a different OS, and get on with your day.

If something is broken about your environment, fix it in the code that generates that environment--not by booting into safe mode and deleting some file. Tamper with the cause, not with the effect. Cattle, not pets, etc.

This sort of thing is only possible with nix (and maybe a few others) because elsewhere "the exact same environment" is insufficiently defined, there's just not enough information to generate it in an OS-agnostic way.
Thanks for the long answer. Okay, it's good you have thought it through. Will be interesting to see how it evolves.
Really great thanks! Is it possible to add responsive styles? Such as converting columns into rows on smaller device screens?
It really depends on the use case, and right now using Ollama for coding just isn’t that useful. I can use gemma2 and phi3 just fine for general summarization and keyword extraction (including most of the stuff I need to do home automation with a “better Siri”—low bar, I know), but generating or autocompleting code is just another level entirely.
you are comparing a broken bicycle to a trainwreck
Ouch! They’re estimating 131 kt of methane! That’s equivalent to approx 3.93 Megatons of CO2 (in terms of its global warming impact over a century) or roughly equivalent to that of a small country like Iceland or Malta annually.
The entire purpose of academic publishing is to widely distribute knowledge. The co-op would break doen the absolutely awful publishing fees to be sure, but… I’m not sure what “theft” you feel took place here.
Poor testing. But we also need to stop CISOs, etc doing "checkbox compliance" and installing every 3rd party thing on employee laptops. My prior employer, there were literally 13 things installed for "laptop security" - 1/2 of them overlapped. Developers had the same policy as an AE and as a Sales Engineer as well as an HR person. Crowdstrike was one of the worst. Updating third party packages in go was 30-40% faster in an emulated arm64 VM (qemu) - virtualized disk / disk just a large file - on an Intel MBP compared to doing the same operation on the native system in OSX.
Which part sounds like fascism?

The Awami League is ideologically a center-left party, it's not far right. The quota system that's being protested offers employment quotas to descendants of revolutionaries and minorities. It was the party that founded Bangladesh. Protests are occurring because of the corruption and joblessness that results from these quotas and because the law was overturned earlier but reinstated.

Moreover there's no belief in a natural social hierarchy or belief in subordination to the State. If anything the Awami League has historically claimed to champion minorities in the country like Hindus instead of championing Muslim identities like JeI. There's no concept of regimemting society at all by the Awami League, again that's more JeI's domain with its belief in Sharia.

Awami League is authoritarian and corrupt yes but not fascist. The Middle East has plenty of authoritarian dictatorships that engage in varying levels of human rights abuses but that does not make them fascist countries.

I'm sorry but your comment just comes off as really uniformed about Bdesh and South Asian politics.
You can break your sequence into two parts. One part goes through the encoder and the other goes through the decoder, so each token only goes through one transformer stack.
Related (for the hash based bisecting):
https://research.swtch.com/bisect
>You must be incredibly blind to basic modern history to not see exactly how it does ring true for Europe. It was specifically the U.S. and its support for other western countries in Europe that eventually freed them from the grip of the Nazis and later from being counter-occupied by the USSR crushing its way westward. This potential invasion was stopped mainly by a U.S. supported presence in the west.

What freed them from the grip of the Nazis was the destruction of large numbers of Nazis forces in the Soviet Union. Stalingrad alone involved greater losses for Germany than on the entire western front.

>Whatever Hitler's inspirations for the management of his genocide, it was uniquely his in a way that nobody could sanely blame on the United States.

That's not an absolutely unreasonable view, but do take the same view of Turkey's part?

>Finally, your picking a specific, Bush-era rendition programs as an example of recent barbarism in Europe, vs an entire, full-scale fucking war started by the Putin government in the east is laughable as an example of barbarism being more the fault of the Americans and their domination in Europe.

This happened a couple of years ago. The torturers and planners almost certainly still work at the CIA. Many of the lower-level participants probably aren't older than 45.

These people were here in Sweden, torturing people that had been handed over after an explicit promise to the Swedish government that they wouldn't be tortured.

I picked this particular act because it figuratively almost happened almost right in front of me-- in places that I regularly visit. If I'd been at the flight school at Bromma and happened to be there at the right time I could potentially have seen it with my own eyes.

Russia being bad does not mean that the US has a place in Europe, or should have influence here, or is something civilisation-promoting. I see the US as an active destabiliser of certain countries and quite untrustworthy. When the US was done with Iraq there were probably more Syriacs in Sweden than there.
I hope that, in the future, we have better robot firmware validation protocols in place when pushing OTA updates.

Maybe Skynet didn't mean any of that - it was just a botched update.
This has already been happening for quite some time with users ignoring Google search and searching Reddit directly. The irony is that, I assume, most of Reddit's income right now is coming from content licensing deals with AI companies.
I was just briefly searching for something like this the other day; will check it out. Thanks!
Truly an "the emperor has no clothes" moment.
Getting software built with ChatGPT depends quite a bit on your level of curiosity and ability to formulate your requests clearly. Tell it what you're trying to do as clearly as possible, with images if you have them, and start asking questions: "I'm not a programmer, but can we work together to implement this? Where would we start?" Ask it to write code in english (pseudocode) so you can read it. Break your application into the smallest pieces and build them one at a time so they work together. Once you make sure it's going to do what you want, ask what language to use and what tools to install. If it says you need a python script, ask it to write it. If you don't know how to run that on your computer, ask. If the interface isn't what you intended, show and tell it how to fix it. Get it? This process is slower than if you knew how to code yourself, but it's also a hell of a lot of fun and the LLM does a lot of the tedious stuff.
Call out the bullshit. Say why are you doing this that way? Like I’ve fixed it right there. Do it infront of the entire time every time. One of two things will happen. He will quit before you or you’ll get frustrated and leave anyway.
At least in this case, they didn't call it "open source", which it isn't.

I think I'm okay with calling Llama "open". It is relatively open compared to, say, GPT-4, a model released by a company with an interesting name.
> Pretty much anything involved with money needs not just age but in most cases identity verification too.

"Pretty much anything", you say?

I've never had to provide proof of age, let alone identity to purchase things over the Internet. A credit card and related address were all that was required. (What weirdo jurisdiction do you live in where you have to provide ID to order from `newegg.com` or your local instance of a big chain grocery store?)

Hell, this was the case like fifteen, twenty years ago when I had subscriptions for several of the larger porn sites. "Give me your credit card number and assert that you're of legal age in your jurisdiction." were the sole pair of requirements.

> Online banking... online trading

This is a result of "anti-money-laundering" (aka "KYC") banking regulations and has nothing to do with being online transactions, rather than in-person. Long ago, it used to be that you could show up with a sufficiently large wad of cash and get a checking account opened, no question.

> ...online gambling...

Given the enormous set of online transactions I can do without providing proof of ID or age (like, suchas getting alcohol and tobacco delivered to my door) this is clearly the exceptional case, and the one that relevant politicos are using to act as a basis for the ongoing campaign of Erasing Sin from The Internet (and massively empowering authoritarians in the process). (The fact that the overlap between the politicos agitating for these regulations, and the politicos who are massively authoritarian is very, very large usually goes unremarked in the press.)
Nothing wrong with that. Windows XP-64 supports up to 128GB physical RAM, could be 5 years until that is available on laptops. Windows 7 Pro supports up to 192 GB of RAM. Now if you were to ask me what you would run on those systems with maxed out RAM, I wouldn't know. I also don't think the Excel version that runs on those versions of windows allows partially filled cells for Gantt charts.
On my work machine, crowdstrike is using ebpf. Not loading any kernel modules.
Secrets Hurt Their Holders
To be fair, while some of the pre-recipe garbage is garbage, not all of it is total filler. Sometimes I read it.
The issue is not that a file with nulls was produced. It is that an invalid file (or any kind) can trigger a blue screen of death.
They are paying with reputation and liability, no?

If the idea is "we'll hire Crowdstrike for CYA" when things like this happen, the blame is on CS and they pay with their reputation.
I really wonder where the limit is for AI. Reality has an incredible amount of detail that you can't just simulate or emulate entirely. However, our perception is limited, and we can't process all those details. AI only has to be good enough to fool our perception, and I'm confident that every human-understandable method for identifying fakes can be fooled by generative AI. It will probably be up to AI to identify AI-generated content. Even then, noise and limited resolution will mask the flaws. For many forms of content, there will simply be no way to determine what's real.
3.93 megatons of CO2 is roughly equivalent to:

• About 149,714 short-haul flights, or
• About 37,429 long-haul flights.
Mentioned in the article (§Coal and Cotton).

Key idea/thesis in that essay:

> It is particularly remarkable here how much of these conditions are unique to Britain: it has to be coal, coal has to have massive economic demand (to create the demand for pumping water out of coal mines) and then there needs to be massive demand for spinning (so you need a huge textile export industry fueled both by domestic wool production and the cotton spoils of empire) and a device to manage the conversion of rotational energy into spun thread. I’ve left this bit out for space, but you also need a major incentive for the design of pressure-cylinders (which, in the event, was the demand for better siege cannon) because of how that dovetails with developing better cylinders for steam engines.

[…]

> As much as we might want to imagine that the greater currents push historical events largely on a predetermined path with but minor variations from what must always have been, in practice events are tremendously contingent on unpredictable variables. If Spain or Portugal, for instance, rather than Britain, had ended up controlling India, would the flow of cotton have been diverted to places where coal usage was not common, cheap and abundant, thereby separating the early steam-powered mine pumps both from the industry they could first revolutionize and also from the vast wealth necessary to support that process (much less if no European power had ever come to dominate the Indian subcontinent)?

Really worth a (re-)read.

Discussions on it:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607187

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567667
We’re not going to make it are we?
You are missing the point. It may look like protests are about having a fair shot at getting government jobs on the surface but it is more than that:

1. Corruption / Nepotism - Quotas in gov jobs are exploited by the powerful to hire people in important positions who will keep them in power.

2. Violence against Peaceful Protests - The protests started peacefully until the police + the govt backed student org (who work as hired goons for the ruling party and do the dirty job cops are unable to do) started violently suppressing them.

3. A Head of State who appears to be inconsiderate - The PM referred to the protesters with a term that is _extremely_ offensive. There is a track record of this Head of State using language that is unbecoming of their station, or simply unacceptable (think MAGA but 100x worse). Power keg exploded.

No matter how much talent or coding chops you have, you can't thrive in a society where the powerful are unchecked, unaccountable, and your right to protest peacefully are met with extreme violence. Try to see the world without the lense of SV.
> ...so I will never find myself having to be concerned about children accessing my websites and being on the receiving end of any law that intends to regulate this.

Oh boy. Good luck with the law if you accept and serve UGC and happen to store (let alone serve) any from a child who's under the age of 13.

It's not just anti-sin laws that are insane.
The point of academic papers is that HUMANS learn from it. The point is not that machines generate a mashup that masquerades as a probability distribution and companies sell that mashup together with ads (the latest predictable development).

I see no indication that the affected academics are concerned with the money that their papers make them. Most want to give them away for free to HUMANS.
“static files” are nothing more than no-TTL caching strategy with manual eviction.
I just want one thread about HTML email to not be a re-litigation of this point. It’s been around for a quarter-century at this point. It’s well-established. It has plenty of warts, but it’s not going away.

There are better ways to push the ball forward than this recurrent frustration over something that is so broadly used. A key one would be to improve support for making divs display properly in HTML emails, so the format could be more accessible, for example, as well as to look into ways to push corporations away from outdated email clients. Finally, a way to sandbox emails to help minimize concerns around risky designs would be ideal.

AMP is a dirty word around these parts, but Google’s AMP for Email did some of these things.

I don’t know what that would look like, but there has to be a better way to expel our energy than just being frustrated about something that’s unlikely to change.
Also, Radon. [https://www.epa.gov/radon/epa-map-radon-zones-0]
That sounds...suboptimal.

I would imagine they used specialized controller cards or something like that.
Thanks for linking this. It's very "discoverable" but I probably wouldn't have found it, or realized it existed, without reading this comment.
Windows should NEVER blue screen for third-party software. This is definitely as much Microsoft's fault as anyone's.

Maybe Microsoft doesn't offer an ABI or whatever other access is needed for the CS module. So there's some work that needs to be done on the kernel to enable the functionality to run in user space. Third-party libraries should not have privileged access to the kernel internals.

In this case, the CloudStrike kernel module attempted to read a bogus data file and crashed. The Windows kernel should detect the module crash, inform you in some meaningful way, but continue to boot. Maybe even in some limited execution model, but not a blue screen.

CloudStrike should have tested better. A LOT better. Multiple layers of tests better. They should most definitely take serious their obligations to the millions of customers that are affected by this. But Microsoft needs to own some of the responsibility too, by allowing a 3rd party kernel module to even be able to bring down its system. Just because the program was signed, doesn't mean when it crashes, Windows should crash with it.
Oh man, I've been working on this stuff for years. End users just don't care. Devs just reinvent the wheel in dumbass languages. The tech for this stuff has existed for 15 years, there's nothing to invent. It's ready now.

https://github.com/anacrolix/btlink
https://github.com/anacrolix/dht
Not likely, not unless the disk is also not BitLockered.
Of all the ancient people to accuse of keeping out immigrants...
And the distributors need to be rich mega-corporations who collect a fee for selling you back your own works?
Win8. I've been seeing your blog posts show up here and there on HN over the years, so I was half expecting you to pick up on my self-doxx. I'll ping you offline.
Remember, there's someone out there right now, without irony, suggesting that AI can fix this. There's someone else scratching their head, wondering why AI hasn't fixed this yet. And there's someone doing a three-week bootcamp in AI, convinced that AI will fix this. I’m not sure which is worse
This patient is dead. They would not have been if the computer system was up. It was down because of CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike had a duty of care to ensure they didn't fuck over their client's systems.

I'm not even beyond two degrees of seperation here. I don't think a court'll have trouble navigating it.
The number of times I encounter issues with Visual Studio not being able to write to the file I just compiled, ugh... We've even got an mt.exe wrapper that adds retries because AV likes to grab hold of newly created binaries right around the time mt.exe needs to write to it. Even our CI build process ends up failing randomly due to this.
People generally underestimate just how special the conditions of 17th century Britain were.

Somehow something happened that started the modern era of economic, technological and industrial progress. Before then pretty much everyone lived in a Malthusian trap where economic development was temporary at best.

And there’s still not a great deal of consensus on what exactly caused modern economic development to start happening in Britain.
At the very least, consciousness causes enough impact on reality to result in the concept of “consciousness” to make it into dictionaries. If it was truly an epiphenomenon, such real-world impacts would be acausal.
The reality is the wetwear that interfaces with any OS is always going to be the weakest link. Doesn't matter what OS they run, I guarantee they will click links and download files from anywhere.
I'm very uninformed about Bangladeshi and South Asian politics but yes the violent suppression of protests and killing of protestors are the parts that sound a bit fascist to me.
It's the attack path.
The description says this happened in 2023 June-to-November-ish in Kazakhstan. It sounds like this was a smaller version of Turkmenistan's crater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater
SMB here. Just spent a nine hour day fixing this. We had two machines that after a couple of reboots just came back up fine.

We were trialing CrowdStrike and about to purchase next week. If their rep doesn't offer us at least half off, we are going with Sentinel One which was half the price of CS already.

The incompetence that allowed this is baffling to me. I assumed with their billions of dollars they'd have tiers of virtual systems to test updates with.

I remember this happening once with Sophos where it gobbled up Windows system files. If you had set to Delete instead of Quarantine, you were toast.
Not the US, but this actively happens pretty frequently in the UK, which is often just as financially damaging. https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-libel-privacy-law-defamat...
What about limiting your exposure to companies that operate in the same time zone as your stock exchange?
Also covered by Huell Howser, if you are a fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b645RQuD6lI
We need computers. But, how about we fall back to an air-gapped computer with no internet connection and a battery backup?

Why does everything need the internet?
Given how inhumanly capable it is of seeing both sides of a topic, I guess we'll find out when we see "sublety" and "nuance" go the way way of "literally" and radically change meanings to their near opposite.
Adding a comment to make this the most commented piece on hackernews and hence highlight the bad impact a bug can make on lives founded on IT.
They're not selling you back your works, they're selling you back a distillation of them. Hopefully one that's useful for a particular context.
A relative of mine had back surgery late yesterday. Today the hospital nursing staff couldn’t proceed with the pain medication process for patients recovering from surgery because they didn’t have access to the hospital systems.
I wonder why putting software on every machine, instead of relying on a good firewall and network separation.

Granted, you are still vulnerable of physical attacks (i.e. the person coming with an USB stick) but I would say much more difficult, and if you put firewalls also between compartment of internal networks even difficult.

Also, I think the use of Windows in critical settings is not a good choice, and to me we had a demonstrations. For who says the same could have happened to Linux, yes but you could have mitigated it. For example, to me a Linux system used in critical settings shall have a root read-only root filesystem, on Windows you can't. Thus the worse you would had is to reboot the machine to restore it.
"What nonsense"

That's an example of idiom. The word "what" is overloaded to mean "that is" - for dramatic emphasis.

The verb "to be" is often overloaded or implied in many languages. For example "quelle surprise" in French.

Perhaps we are dealing with a point of vocabulary. When I first learned Latin, we had "Civis Romanus" and "Mentor" as initial textbooks (kivvy was red and mental was blue). Later on a green book was added and it dealt with idiom (idia/idioms?) and I think that was its name, but I had moved on by then!
What does your swiss army collection do?
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