skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ordered automated cat feeders and had bought the “honey guaridan [sic]” which is a Chinese knockoff when I thought I was buying “HoneyGuardian” brand automated cat feeders.

This is blatant behavior on the part of sellers and Amazon turns a blind-eye to it.

I didn’t learn my lesson either.

I ordered seat covers, and what came was a misspelled Chinese knockoff brand instead of the name brand I thought I was ordering.

I can’t trust purchases made on Amazon and I have an eye for detail. They got me twice. I don’t know how non-detail oriented folks keep from it happening.
I'm doing my part.

Every time I search for a product I filter out Amazon from the results.
I feel seen!

I'm one of these codey designers. The madness that exists in modern design teams (I used to manage a team of 50!) is insane. There's a lot of time spent on "design systems" in Figma. Very generally Figma is not the website, and the effeciency additions of building tools there is a lost cause.

Modern CSS and your JS frontend of choice is a lot quicker and more powerful for component building and general design work. There's way too much to do with media break points and tokenization there. There's a misguided group of designers that are learning a lot of esoteric Figma features that don't translate into something users will ever touch.

10 and 15 years ago designers needed to learn the code part too. Somewhere along the way we put them in a corner and made learn these prototype tools.
Have you tried Rider for C# on Linux (or MacOS)... works pretty well, I know those who prefer it to VS.
Why does General Availability mean that if you want access you have to pay to get access? A silver member of Overture Maps and a silver member of some Unix foundation means $10 000 to gain access...not for single coders on Windows machines...sigh
Connections by James Burke talks about this, too.
Its slow, but I'm pretty sure Unicode updated name.

https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html

#1121
SIGPLAN is my only ACM membership; I figure I can support my primary publishing organization at $25/year or whatever. So your 1978 issue sounds like a pretty cool piece of history to have to me!
Indeed, this is very 1984. Changing the meaning of a word, people express their thoughts with emojis, the meaning (representation in this case) should never be altered in such way.
for the times when you actually want to put something on the card, like plane tickets and hotels
sure, I’ll hand it over after you spend your own time first to show that everything everywhere that’s owned instead of leased is a poor financial decision.
No? They did this on Linux too.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_cra...
Sadly true. That's why I gave up on robots.txt years ago and started blocking crawlers outright in .htaccess

Of course, that became unsustainable so now I have everything behind a login wall.
The rendering of a glyph for a code point would have to be global.
The tricky thing here is that as this mostly affects unlocked CPUs it is going to be hard to prove when the fault is from this algorithm vs user/motherboard manufacturer overlocking. Unless there is any internal monitoring with fuses blown. Is there?

As part of the bathtub reliability curve its usual for a large fraction of failures early in life, how much over the usual failure curve are we?

It's still unclear what fraction of CPUs are impacted for both issues. Was oxidation a single fab just for a month and only 5% of produced CPUs? Is the microcode issue in TB 3.0 or TVB, so would only impact the 1[34]900s?

It's also unclear if once degraded it can still reliably work at say 95% peak frequency. In the case of a partial recall it might be worth a discount option if that is the case.

Anyway it's mostly speculation beyond Intel's post on their forum (+Reddit responses), it will be interested to see the next stages which will hopefully clarify some of these. This is just a discussion forum I'm sure the final detailed announcement will the made via their main communication channels.
Ah good catch, I originally had heroin in my comment and edited it to fent.
That's a very reasonable boundary. Health insurance covers therapy, it's reasonable to expect coworkers routinely exhibiting unacceptable behavior to make use of behavioral therapy and show that they're at least working on the issue.

It's also amazing what a "sorry, x,y, and z are very hard for me, I'm doing my best and still learning to do better" will go. Of course, not everyone receives that with grace, but that speaks to their character.
Gpu.cpp: Portable C++ GPU Compute Using WebGPU
Thank you for clearing this out to me :)
I agree completely, that wasn’t the point though: the point was that my 6 yo knows when to spell the word when asked and the blob of quantized floats doesn’t, or at least not reliably.

So the blob wasn’t trained to do that (yeah low utility I get that) but it also doesn’t know it doesn’t know, which is an another much bigger and still unsolved problem.
While I take your point, I don’t think we’re quite at the enshittification phase of LLM products yet, where some combination of crass marketing and Orwellian narrative control are baked into to the models for profit and/or to curry favor with govt. Right now we are at a phase where the platform companies are still concerned about finding and selling basic use cases before the hype bubble bursts.
There is still a strong possibility that LLM as a product is essentially stillborn in the market writ large, because we are trying to use these tools where end users expect a perfectly accurate, repeatable, deterministic response and there is no guarantee that any of these current techniques, cool as they are, will cross the threshold of user expectations and utility enough to justify the costs. Neither AI doomers nor boosters are accurate representations of the general public.
I don't think they meant anything about Europeans since Amex is primarily an American brand. I think the data proves it out and it could also have something to do with their history as a charge card (i mentioned in another comment).

A charge card means that if you decide to put $10k on the card to buy a new big thing, you need to have 10k to pay it off at the end of the month.

That would logically self-select for people who have the financial ability to pay off a card that has an 'unlimited limit'. As the card levels go up, you've also got hefty fees ($500+) which again select for people who view $500 as a small price compared to the benefits.

I think the OP was rational in their conclusion. Sidenote, it also has nothing to do with 'debt fueled economy' -- there's no debt accrued with charge cards.
Very good. Emoji censorship is ridiculous
I would like to live in a world where crowdstrike is directly liable for every dollar lost and has to pay for all of it. Only then would these companies start to take quality seriously.

Of course in our real world, they are unlikely to pay anything at all and just continue operating as-is.
Why do you want a real gun? I bet most uses are to bully people. It seems that's the kind of social network Elon wants.
Why would anyone want to purposely read AI bot content?
Great gag, and I'm still in my depths of that practice. Luckily, about 80%+ of the places I ask take Discover.
If your goal is to get into an executive's inner circle, that's a purely political move and will take playing politics... unless you're already a direct report for your current position.
It's not a git revert. It is active effort to create a new emoji. There's zero cost to leaving it alone, there's material cost to changing it. Last time I checked, that's a bad way for a company that nearly went out of business to prioritize.
Cool, was curious why you had + and "or". I was assuming both are the same as | in the linked article. (I am further assuming you are largely working on the "left hand side" per the article?)

The rest of your math, I largely followed, but I can't see where `Normal = Name x Password` results. Nor do I see what it would communicate. This is why I dropped instead to Boolean = True | False. If I substitute that in your statements, I get `True = Name x Password`. And I don't see how that means anything. :(
IMO, the real vulnerability here is the way the Github Events archive exposes the SHA1 hashes of the vulnerable repositories. It would be easy to trawl the entire network to access these deleted/private repositories, but only because they have a list of them.

Similar (but less concerning) is the ability to use short SHA1 hashes. You'd have to either be targeting a particular repository (for example, one for which a malicious actor can expect users to follow the tutorial and commit API keys or other private data) or be targeting a particular individual with a public repository who you suspect might have linked private repositories. It's not free to guess something like "07f01e", but not hard either.

If these links still worked exactly the same, but (1) you had to guess 07f01e8337c1073d2c45bb12d688170fcd44c637 and (2) there was no events API with which to look up that value, this would be much, much less impactful.
Titan has methane cycles similar to water cycles on Earth
I think the intent is that water is a byproduct of combustion.
i don't think the msvc c/c++ runtime is open-source, is it?

(the native-code bit is just the cil jit compiler i think)
Let them eat gift cards
I came across an interesting stat

"90% of Fortune 500 CEOs play golf and over 80% of executives say that golf played an important role in their career"

What do you make of this.
> Just trying to shoehorn alexa into as many domains as possible

It happened outside of Alexa too. Every team with a public facing product was directed (it seemed) to come up with some sort of Alexa integration. It was usually dreamed up and either a) never prioritized or b) half assed because nobody (devs, PMs, etc.) actually thought it made any sense.
Right, because changing it to a "water gun" fixes that problem
The joy, excitement, and surprise of computing - !!Con 2024
This is the funniest comment you've ever written on this website. Glad you've got time to engage with us during your busy day!
If wallstreetbets has taught me anything it's that it'll probably go up 200% as soon as you sell against all logic, because it was priced in all along.
What do you mean? They wrote the kernel driver. With great power comes great responsability.

If you're writing a kernel driver that is deployed throughout a great portion of Fortune 500, with the money that that entails, then you should definitely be able to afford to pay people to write defensive code and have proper pipelines in place.
"We can't hold back releases from going into prod.. we have to deliver"

"We don't have enough time to write tests"

"Developers should be able to test their own code"
Which vendors work best for private projects?
Well, I guess we'll just see how it pays off for them.

It's already making buzz so if it was an hour of work, I'd say the marketing effect alone was worth it.
Figma is a cursed midpoint between useful and easy to make wireframes, and a functional working interface that can be refined later.
Because the type system is unsound, you could add an error to your implementation and the type system will not catch it. It will happily tell you that everything type checks.

How do you use that to prevent errors?
I would consider using Alexa to buy things if it understood what I wanted. It rarely does. Asking it to list subscriptions, for example doesn’t work. Trying to get it to set up anything beyond a simple timer is a hit-and-miss affair.
But they apologized with a $10 gift card.

Soo. $5.4B - $10
Before a 1959 earthquake, Old Faithful had a very regular cycle time - thus the name. Since then, the name has become less apt.
yeah its a pretty bad job. i never held a gun in real life and they kind of scare me tbh
Interesting, I really like balsamiq and still use it personally, despite work being a figma shop.
There was a famous case where emojis didn't line up between iPhone and Android, if I remember correctly - http://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-mi... or similar

Some were really bad and would change the meaning of a message, things like showing a broken heart instead of a heart.
The user experience was great. The same Mentor Graphics product survived as Boardstation on HP-UX and Windows NT (with Exceed).

The GUI was the best marriage between a TUI and a GUI.
You had on the keyboard a holder with all the functional keys for your program (DM, Spice, etc). I really miss such a thing today.
I've been wondering the same thing for a long time. I once made the mistake of making a political donation, and was then relentlessly hounded for years by all sorts of politicians and political groups.

I will never, ever, make that mistake again.
It's absolutely ludicrous the US airline industry still has no contingency plan for "a bad software update is pushed by a vendor to our Windows systems."
A strange concern. All those superfluous hours wasted at a private company? Those billionaires will be fine without someone defending their money.

Oh and wait until you hear about the Google Doodle...
Tell me you have never used Xcode without telling me you have never used Xcode.
This is why for private and business projects, we don't use GitHub, we use Amazon CodeCommit.
>A hundred years from now people are going to have a very... interesting time trying to figure out what meaning was intended by the use of these characters at the time a text was written.

Is this any different than for words? "Retarded" used used to be the polite way to convey intellectual disability, until it slowly turned into a pejorative. Same word, different meaning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Lifespan
I have seen some people selling a self focussing set of eye glasses that had a sonar range finder a few years ago. Not sure if it ever took off? It seems doable with current self focussing camera tech and 2 small cams above the eye to get range and a hydraulically adjusted lens for each eye that it is doable. I am sure work is being done on this?
Google shows a few. Ignore the amazon ones = Chinese junk
https://www.google.com/search?q=auto+focus+eye+glasses&rlz=1...
Unfortunately, it seems like global warming causes damages that increase rather than decrease on the margin. That is, the aggregate economic damage of going from 1°C warming to 1.5°C warming is smaller than the damage of going from 1.5° to 2°.

This defies our normal intuition, whereby material objects can only become so broken. The 11th scratch on my car door is less important than the 10th because I already need to repaint the entire door.

Damages that increase on the margin also imply that it is more important, rather than less important, for countries to control their emissions if others are not doing so. The first tones of carbon dioxide removed from (or not added to) the atmosphere are the most important.
Meltdown already exposed how they cut corners. I lost all intention of giving them any more money for their CPUs after that.
Is this just Gell-Mann amnesia, but for reliability?
Cyber firm KnowBe4 hired a fake IT worker from North Korea
I'm not convinced this is a liberal vs. conservative thing in the first place. It seems like a straightforward continuation of the trend: depictions of violence are popular in some circles, yet disreputable in others, so big corporations looking to serve both markets have to find awkward, stodgy compromises to try and keep everyone happy.
or it’s you wearing shiny new thing glasses
I think my previous comment came off a little combative. I am genuinely curious about your experience.

I fall somewhere in the indie-hacker/entrepreneur/not quite solo-preneur category and these tools have have provided a lot of value to me. I am maybe 3x more productive with them. They are definitely not without their flaws.

If you haven't tried cursor out, I recommend giving it a try
All of what I am saying is anecdotal observation of trends and behaviors, nothing objective or measurable, just like what you have been saying. I also have been in the industry since the era of table layouts and slices.

I bundle UI/UX together because that's what most design teams end up doing, both. In my experience only very large companies commit the resources to having dedicated UX research. It's only telling of the practical reality, not of my knowledge of UI or UX.

My point is that there is no universal "purpose" to design. Design is a practice that can be applied to a wide range of purposes, some more aesthetic, some more functional, and in all cases are struggled to be measured by subjective or objective means.

The popular designers I refer to are not from advertising backgrounds. They are all "design engineers" who make things that stand out from the rest because they can actually produce their work and thus are capable of way more than the crazy limitations Figma or other design tools put on us. The trend amongst tech startups has been landing pages that follow the aesthetics of companies like Linear and Stripe. Whether or not they are functional, they stand out because they are flashy.
I would consider using Alexa to buy things if it understood what I wanted. It rarely does. Asking it to list subscriptions, for example doesn’t work. Trying to get it to set up anything beyond a simple timer is a hit-and-miss affair.

The fact that they could be finally fixing this, and then are putting it behind a paywall is ironic, because if it finally works properly, people could actually start using it for buying stuff.
>I think the notion that sometimes things are just "done" is incredibly undervalued in our industry.

I agree, but also the flip side is that things rapidly switch from 'done and working' to 'dead' pretty quickly if no one is willing to do minor maintenance.
On The Why Down: How to do better than MVP
Sadly, I agree with your take. All it is is a minimum bar. Many who don't have the above are even worse --tho not necessarily, but as a rule probably yes.
Empowered with chatGPT (now claude), my partner as a designer pulls off extremely workable implementations of all different ideas without much need for sketching in a non-functional design tool.

When she does draft in design tools it’s usually more graphic in nature (branding etc).
Every side is pro censorship, just when it suits them the most. Look at all the book bans across conservative states, for example.
I don't see how this hurts training unless you hurl all hallucinations back at the model.

Alpha zero used a similar approach where it trained against itself and that only made it better. I don't think collapse is real.
The original change was for ideological reasons and this change is for ideological reasons too. Both are same stupid waste of time.
There is nothing stopping you from uploading a picture of a gun and putting it in your post. Why is an emoji any different or more dangerous than letting people upload pictures?
hey they're moving fast and breaking things..
"there's a spike we don't know how to explain" saved you a click
If the computers in a computer reliant massively distributed organization go down, what's the alternative?
https://eye-see-mag.com/en/high-tech/autofocus-lenses-for-pr...
The noted issue looks to be applicable to forks only, not to all private repos.
Geochron: the wall clock that shows where the sun is shining
at least 25 seems reasonable, no?
I just reordered something I order fairly frequently today. The price is pretty predictable but, yes, I like to just double-check it hasn't doubled in price. Not a big deal to order every few months and confirm it's still what I want to order at the right price as opposed to just putting it on an out of sight, out of mind subscription.
The preliminary post incident review is here:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediatio...

It boils down to the "Content Validator" had a bug and gave a false positive.

It's kind of crazy that the 'rapid response content' update was then free to go out direct to production machines with zero actual live testing.

That's either due to c-suite excel cost-cutting/maximize profit or silicon valley yolo.
> So a rec can play head up against a top pro like Phil Ivey and can still win, but that victory would be a function of luck rather than skill. Iterate that spot 100x or 1000x, and the rec doesn’t win very often.

The variance in poker is extremely high, allowing long-term losing players to often have winning sessions in cash games, and to (often enough) cash and even win tournaments.

After the entry ticket is purchased (ie, not subtracting it's cost in your EV calculation), the long-term losing rec still has positive expectation in a tournament. So does the pro. EV_pro <<< 100 * EV_rec. This will be true even if the pro is Phil Ivey. Any professional poker player would much, much rather take, say, 50% of the combined winnings of 100 random recs in the WSOP main event than 50% of Ivey, assuming both were offered at the same price.
I have enough Echoes to cover my whole place within speaking distance and they serve as fancy voice-activated light switches and also timers, radios/music/podcast players (via Spotify) and calculators/measurement converters. They also provide local weather alerts and let me know when an Amazon package has arrived, both of which are nice.

But whenever it tries to sell me anything, I get annoyed
>I would like to live in a world where crowdstrike is directly liable for every dollar lost and has to pay for all of it.

That wouldn't make any sense.

The blame realistically lies within each company who allowed a critical point of failure just so they get checkbox software and not actually have to expend the effort of making sure the company is able to function with their chosen infrastructure.
>Humans and our livestock dominate the planet.

+1

>I still eat meat as a rare, luxurious treat; one need not give up meat to reduce environmental impact.

+1

My rule is: veggies at home, meat when eating out. The biggest downer of going vegetarian is paying top dollar at restaurants for a pile of veggies. Meat isn't evil, it's just special - treat it as such :)
Having a Monopoly != Anti-Competitive.

Having Barriers to Entry != Anti-competitive

Yes, large players have advantages of Economies of Scale.

Just because you can't run an Airline because you don't have money to buy an Airplane isn't anti-competitive.

Today Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI, Google, Amazon all can afford those piddly $60m to license from reddit.

Not Anti-competitive at all.

But saddened by how much corporate-hate by HNers destroys their credibility in debating these thing.

Go ahead downvote
Bullying will occur no matter what emojis are available - even if you have to use 𓂺 or similar.

Various knives are available if you want it, so if anything we should add MORE emojis (gun combining character something else = various types of gun, say).

In fact, it's easier to have one "known bad" emoji to check than having hundreds to look at.
Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth, scientists find
Ah.

Depleted uranium is just a heavy metal, spent fuel is a heavy metal with a higher radioactivity (not suitable to handle with a bare hands) but not enough to go critical or even be close to go critical.

You can pour any amount of water on it, at best you would get a slightly radioactive water.

Just to be clear - you need something else, with a high yield, eg a chemical bomb with a high TNT equiv., to make a dirty bomb - still it wouldn't provide a self sufficient critical reaction.
I don't know if perpetual free trial fits for your definition of genuinely free, but I'm trying to build a competition for Descript at https://smartmediacutter.com/
Yup, we can close the thread and ack that GitHub does not care.