skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I’m guessing a competitor flagged my OP; but I digress, I was just trying to raise awareness to what is actually possible (even if it’s not free, but I’d argue nothing of value is ever free - even open source, you still have to implement and operate it).

Anyways, I feel like we’ve come to an impasse, there is no monitoring solution out there which is bug-free (even opentracing and it’s various implementations have caused performance/stability issues, re: https://github.com/opentracing-contrib/java-spring-web/pull/...)

Regarding CI, our agent has no requirements other than a supported OS - you could be running your integration tests as a bare JVM and our agent would detect, instrument, and monitor it the same way if it were running inside a CRI-O container on K8S (though I’d question why you would run your integration tests in that manner).

IRT your examples, I’ll be brief in my responses because you’re not wrong, but the engineers on our team have taken great care to ensure we don’t break our customers environments (we run on systems which process 10’s of millions of requests an hour and where minutes of downtime cause losses in the 100s of thousands).

We dynamically unload our sensors/instrumentation when the agent is unloaded - so the likelihood of the issue which was mentioned earlier happening is slim (though nothing is impossible)

We also don’t instrument serialization methods (unless you were to decide to use our SDK to do so) so that’d literally never happen. We hook onto methods which handle communication between systems — HTTP request handlers, DB handlers, Messaging System handlers, Schedulers, etc.

Our sensors are open source, so you can check out the code if you’d like (https://github.com/instana). As I said earlier, we live in a world of trade-offs. I’d argue that systems which require the use of a service mesh are significantly complex enough to warrant the use of this level of automation to provide visibility that quite frankly 99.9% of organizations don’t have the time to do themselves.
Then why the hell do .NET Core dev utilities have opt-out, and sometimes mandatory, telemetry?
Your enemies have more resources to gamble on openness than you do. Which they don't, not even close.

Or their espionage _and_ replication skills, given the tech and human gap, are good enough to make up for it. Which, based on the domestic defense tech we are seeing from China, is not yet even close to proven.

It's not a time to be cocky. But we must continue to leverage our comparatively open processes. That was a key lesson of the cold war.
“We’ve been testing these automated protections with a number of brands, and on average, our automated protections proactively stop 100 times more suspected counterfeit products as compared to what we reactively remove based on reports from brands.”

What’s scary is the implicit quantity of counterfit products quoted here.
> and charge at rates of up to 1,000 miles per hour

So it charges at up to Mach 1.3. Supersonic charging!
But they probably use the data to target users with Facebook/Instagram ads. If those platforms go south, then what's the data going to be used for?!

P.S. I use Signal. Problem is no one else does :p
Storage space is cheap, and we have the ability to record and store music in 24/192 or any other format we want. Even if it's useless to us now, it may be of value some day when our genetically-engineered descendants can hear up to 40khz or when someone invents a direct condenser-microphone-to-brain interface.
> Instagram provides that illusion by not injecting opinionated content into your feed (The most obvious example: you aren't seeing injected news stories in your Instagram feed, generally its only ads and people you follow, and the ads are marked)

What Facebook content do you consider "injected"? AFAIK, the only things in feed are:

1) Posts, events, shares, etc from people or pages that you follow

2) Posts that your friends have interacted with (liked, commented on, etc)

3) Ads that are marked as "promoted"
Hopping into the editor and throwing down a couple pixels makes sense, but once I get to the "extrude" part to make it 3D, I don't understand the controls. It's not intuitive at first play.

I would suggest having the demo editor load a familiar shape, perhaps a house or a boat, to allow me to modify the object which is already in 3D space. That might help me understand the controls better (unsure).
Remember when first iteration of recaptcha was designed for to help digitize books?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ-xzwj_p_4

Now it's used for tracking and training proprietary road image recognition for some mega corporation that had a slogan of "do no evil", which is quite hysterical really.
Looks like 100kw less than already existing non-Tesla 350kw chargers.
American companies are constantly screwed over in China. I’m enjoying watching them get a taste of their own medicine and cry about it.

Also, this is a fishing expedition for Chinese intelligence to know what methods the US used to obtain their info.
His companies delivered, not him alone. Take nothing away from the man though, he works insane hours.
It wasn't politically correct.

The research institute the employees me is almost majority international undergrads, and majority international grad students. The institute looses money on every student, and I struggle to justify why the US is paying for unilateral technology transfer to hostile nations. Expressing this opinion got my friend nearly kicked out, he had to apologize.

Even a few years ago any anti-china comments would be blocked on HN.
Which tunneling deal are you referring to?
> After crunching the numbers, the scientists found the links they’d been looking for: the length of an egg correlates with bird body size. The shape of an egg—how asymmetrical or elliptical it is—relates to flying habits. And the stronger a bird's flight, the more asymmetrical or elliptical its eggs will be.

> What’s the link between flying and egg shape? Birds have a streamlined body plan, and—especially in stronger fliers—their organs are squashed and minimized.
There's also graphical linear algebra which takes matrices into a more category theory interpetation that is also visual: https://graphicallinearalgebra.net
The presentation seemed well done and I’m looking in mobile. Basically if you crunch all the data there do seem to be strong correlations between length and bird size on the one hand and shape with flying habits on the other. Various other hypothesized factors don’t seem to play a major role.
Ding Ding...we have a winner. I work in the maritime technology space for several large corporations and over the past 18-24 months it is crazy how many LinkedIn requests, cold emails, etc from pretty obvious fabricated profiles from China (and some RU) I've been receiving.

side-note - completed a graduate program @ MIT
I'm pretty sure sticking it on a distributed network is potentially much worse unless it is specifically designed to prevent tracking.
No one wants choice either. Having 100 social media apps on your phone is not ideal. We want one choice that is also a good choice. That seems virtually impossible when companies are motivated only by profit and only kept in check by customers having a better choice or by government regulation.

If facebook was driven purely by the motivation to help people stay in touch with their friends and to find events going on it would be a truly wonderful platform. Virtually every issue on facebook comes from seeking profits. At least problems from facebooks side anyway. There is also the social issues of propaganda and jealousy but facebook would have more time to deal with these when they aren't making the company more money.
After Yuri from command and conquer.
I totally agree. Deploying microservices and running k8s sound easy until you actually do it. For example, just see this section of k8s docs about exposing services: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/serv... . You need to understand many different concepts first to get this right.
However, I think once you cross that hurdle, the traditionally harder stuff like auto scaling, rolling upgrade becomes relatively easier.

However, I would say that it's really early days for K8S and the ecosystem around it. As long as K8S does not try to solve every problem in the world and focus on the problems it's designed to solve, things will get easier and then may be a 60-min video can do some justice. ;-)
Did you just forget about Cisco?

https://medium.com/@lia640230/cisco-vs-huawei-which-one-is-t...

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141/snowden--the-nsa-p...
Las Vegas.
Because I can. I've tried TRAMP a few different times in the past and, for whatever reason, I bounced off of it pretty hard every time. They were long enough ago that I can't remember what went wrong, but I have a pretty deep and lingering feeling of frustration whenever I contemplate giving it another go. Compared to the effort needed for me to shell into the remote machine and start Emacs there, I just haven't bothered.

I think it's great that the capability exists and that others find value in it; it's just not for me (or maybe vice versa). One of the great things about Emacs is that it can still work for both sets of people: folks who like TRAMP and folks who like to SSH in and run it locally.
There is no doubt in my mind that recaptcha data will be used to kill people in the future. Its all very useful for drones.
Ask HN: Interns and Cheap Indians
A year ago I had an opportunity to visit a software startup incubator. The view of most of the aspiring founders in that incubator was that they do not require software engineers on the founding team as the software can be later developed using "interns and cheap Indians" and the founding team does not even have to part with significant equity. Recently I was talking to another group of aspiring entrepreneurs and I heard the same argument.

So just out of curiosity, how common is the above view point in the software startup world?
Don't forget Josh Flowers - Aviation101!
Google Switches to First-Price Auction
Integrating the backends of the messaging systems, not the frontends. There will still be separate apps called "Messenger," "Whatsapp," "Instagram," etc., but they'll just be different fixtures set on top of identical plumbing.

This approach opens up exciting new opportunities for market segmentation via badge engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badge_engineering

... in much the same way that Ford (say) could design one car and then sell it to very different audiences as the Ford Taurus, Mercury Sable, and Lincoln Continental.
By “needs to be centralized”, you really mean something like “needs to be strongly connected”.
> more than 99% of the U.S. population is covered by the network

The coasts, the south, and interstates highways. Most of the US area, where you can go in the USA, is not covered.
I've gotten counterfeit Brita water filters and counterfeit SanDisk USB drives. And, no, I wasn't trying to find a "bargain".

See this article in the Atlantic about the problem -- it's not just a bunch of crazy HN zealots: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/amazo...

@dang -- can you ban this user for his unhelpful comments that mock real people with real problems?
You complain to the insurance company that the exchange uses.

This is how banks deal with the potential for loosing money too, except they have a mixture of private insurance, SROs insurance and state insurance. These things added confidence to their market, centralized crypto services do this too. QuadrigaCX did not.
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19321609
This isn't really too surprising, I rarely ever go on my own account anymore.
The claim was "99% of the population is covered" which I suspect is exactly phrased to be true in light of your claim.
Ghidra’s source source code was not released. The only thing on Github is the Readme, the license, and some git files. The best you can likely do is use Ghidra to reverse-engineer Ghidra.
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A GitHub repository containing all major website login, including crawlers
Shouldn't residual blocks get a mention here?
I did not leave Facebook because of privacy concerns. That's your biggest mistaken assumption.

I work on Big Data for a living and know how inept companies are at actually doing anything useful with personal data. The data being generated is massive and the vast amount of it is random and useless.

My reason for reducing my social media presence is the Like count next to every thought expressed. By adding a publicly visible number next to every expressed human thought, you influence behavior and thinking.
This has all kinds of consequences that tech corps and society are waking up to - ledger.humanetech.com

That is why I have consciously reduced my social media usage.
I think FB and people in general dramatically overstate how many connections they'll lose if they quit Facebook. I quit Facebook 9 years ago, but haven't lost a connection I cared about. I did lose connection with real people that were a net negative in my life, though
> Let's just collectively admit it, finally - you can't write safe C++ in a codebase this complex.

And so, as they say, we should all be using Rust. But allow me to explain why I don't yet.

Rust has one really outstanding feature -- a borrower checker that makes it memory safe. Adding that to C++ would be a compatibility-breaking change. So then, while they were at it, they changed lots of other things. It's a whole different language, separate syntax, generics that work differently than templates, different standard library, etc.

This interacts with the finite amount of time I have to learn a new language, making it take longer before I feel proficient enough in it to start using it for real work. Sufficiently long that the day that I do is still in the future.

I understand the desire to make changes. Many of the changes are improvements, and C++ can be ugly. But it's the devil we know. A version of it with the minimum necessary changes to add a borrow checker would have me using it already, and I expect I am not the only such person.
GO.COM for CP/M and DOS was similarly trivial. A 0-byte program, the effect of which was to cause the previously run program (which was still in memory at 0100h) to start again.
Downside: it's really loud.
This is awesome. I'm particularly happy about the on-route battery warming.

Since I can't charge at my apartment, I tend to charge my car in the morning. If it is around freezing temperatures, it will charge at a rate of 0 miles per hour.
0 cars currently shipping can handle 350kw charging.

Delivering lot’s of power is fairly strait forward, designing cars to safely handle that is much harder. Further, as infrastructure that needs to work, the 1MW of power supplying these chargers is the more important upgrade as charging multiple cars was already power limited.
Our open processes let the Chinese collect detailed records on every cleared person in the US when the OPM didn't bother to follow the NSA security guidelines.
I don’t use online ordering for groceries but I find Walmart grocery shopping generally incredibly hit or miss. A Walmart is the closest grocery store to me but I’ll basically never go there to do a full grocery shopping because of generally poor quality meats, wildly inconsistent produce, frequent out of stocks etc. I’d rather go a few more miles down the road to one of two grocery chains.

Walmart is fine for most staples but rarely do they have everything I’m looking for at acceptable quality. And, yes, I dislike going in the store.
Have you read "Trust Me, I'm Lying" by Ryan Holiday?

While he was working at American Apparel, he figured out that while it was expensive to advertise directly on major news sites, etc, it was fairly easy to figure out what smaller sites were the real "influencers." By advertising or promoting material there, he got coverage on larger blogs for a fraction of the price.
Presumably the implementation is smarter than being defeated by this easy trick, but I too wonder how it works.

> Finally, an extra zoom was applied to the viewport in fullscreen and maximized modes to use as much of the screen as possible and minimize the size of the empty margins. In that case, the window had a "letterbox" (margins at top and bottom only) or "pillbox" (margins at left and right only) appearance. window.devicePixelRatio was always spoofed to 1.0 even when device pixels != CSS pixels.

So presumably the window size is not being reset to real size - firefox just does a smart zoomin. In other words the fake size remains throughout entire session.
Non-Paywall version: https://outline.com/s9tgAF
This really speaks to the brilliance of Musk and Tesla. Any other company would be happy selling Model 3s and working hard to provide incentives to sell more. Tesla identities that the bottleneck for all these cars is the charging network and simultaneously works on improving that. Really impressed with the way they think.
L.A. settles homeless rights case, likely limiting ability to clear skid row
Credit card processing is not a digital good, per se. Microsoft has to pay Visa and Mastercard their x% + y cents, and has to deal with returns and fraud and whatnot. Which is not to say that they're losing money, but this isn't the true zero-marginal-cost scenario like a Google web search.
For now, I can't imagine my next car being anything but a Tesla.
This is really cool. How can I rotate the figure in order to draw on the back?
To be clear, regarding my rant about WebAssembly, it would be nice to see a WASM specification that permitted, for example, pluggable WebAssembly engines. Though performance may limit it's popularity, I'd like the choice to use an engine written entirely in a language like Rust or ATS. Many people here would use it, and it would add a useful competitive dimension that emphasizes security. Also, as I previously mentioned, such an interface could limit the risk of introducing and the scope of dangerous cross-subsystem dependencies invisible to host languages and which result in memory issues.

But that can never happen if the WASM specification insists on semantics that all but require tight integration with the browsers' JavaScript engine and GC.
Social media is weird. At the beginning of this year I unfriended everyone and unsubscribed from every group/page except for a couple parent groups of schools my kids are at.

It was odd how it felt like betrayal to unfriend people I know and love. Though experiencing those feelings for something as dumb as FB did confirm to me how evil social media is.

The human mind isn't really configured to handle social media. It feels so personal.
Yeh but you got to hire a good team and he really does that
Wood-Shader: A GLSL Shader to Model Finished Wood
I'm surprised I haven't read any talk of, or even speculation about the idea of the Boring Company getting involved with the tunneling required for CA's high-speed rail project (for the Pacheco Pass and Tehachapi Mountains segments).

My guess is that perhaps very different tunneling technology is required given the geology or something. Or maybe it's just that Elon Musk hates trains and loves cars way too much.
Well that escalated quickly ..
Did you read his link? It directly addresses your point. I will summarize and add some context, since I don't know if you read Russian. The word мир in Russian has two meanings, "peace" and something that is translated in different contexts more like "the world" or "society." These were once different words with different spellings, but during the Soviet Union, authorities decided that some letters had to be purged because they were naughty, so orthographic reforms were carried out that standardized some spellings and eliminated a few letters. So the previously distinguishable words "мир"(peace) and мір (the world/society) became orthographically indistinguishable. However, since Tolstoy published prior to the Soviet Union, you can tell what the likely intent was by how the title was spelled in pre-revolutionary publications. In almost all cases, it was spelled мир. There is just one instance when it was spelled мiр, and it seems likely that it was a misprint.
Back at my hometown, a small village, we had a gangster. He made tons of money using his illegal empire. But he also took care of everyone around him. Even those who were not involved with criminal operations were taken care of.

The press wondered how could these people trust this gangster? What's their thoughts/feelings about smuggling etc being reported daily?

The answer was - "This so-called gangster has built orphanages and donated to religious causes. He has been net positive to society. While this gangster does some bad things, the press is harsher on him. Media knowingly writes bad stories because they are jealous of his success or have hidden agenda. He just wants to do the right things and his heart is in the right place. But his is human and makes mistakes. And before you label him as the worst do look at those other gangsters. They are just as bad, if not worse, than our hero."

This is a story which repeats itself over and over again.
Bill Gates: Trustworthy Computing (2002)
What do you do that requires AppleScript support?
Yes, there has to be some unsafe glue code somewhere. So what? You write it once and wrap it in a safe interface (there are at least three relevant options in the crate ecosystem that I mentioned). That way, programmers who hack on FileBuffer don't have to worry about introducing zero-days like this.

This is not feasible in C++, because the language isn't safe to begin with.
I suppose a lot of meaning and cultural context is lost in translation. I never understood how people in the West even approach these masterworks of Russian literature. They're challenging even for the natives.

That having been said, War and Peace is my favorite Russian novel by far. First time I read it I was 15, they force you to read it high school. I disliked it intensely. Second time I read it I was 40. I absolutely loved everything about it, even Tolstoy's relentless arguments in favor of his positions on historical events. To understand them, you have to understand the traditionally Russian fatalism, that still exists there even to this day. The overriding belief that things are largely predetermined, and the capacity of any single person (including Napoleon) to change anything is pretty limited. Which is not an unreasonable position to take, IMO.

There are a ton of subtle, impossible to translate details in it that you simply will not get if you read it in any language other than Russian and without the Russian cultural background. Same is true in the opposite direction: Russians will not get some of the subtleties in US classical literature. There's just far less of it, and nothing, as far as I can tell, quite of the same stature as Tolstoy or Dostoevsky.
Freedom Ship
ARM processors like A12X are nearing performance parity with desktop processors
Virtualize, containerize, or sandbox it.
Myth debunked 'Broken heart' syndrome originates in the brain
I didn't get that sense. I think he 1) does understand the value of sampling but 2) is highlighting the false advertising that's often practiced of claiming Big Data based results when what's actually presented is in fact sampling.