skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can try your best but bugs seem to me to be a necessary tradeof for “getting stuff out there”. Some are generally acceptable given that the applications we write these days generally aren’t for life threatening devices etc.

What I’d do in your situation is bring these issues up with the team and think of what if anything you can do to help reduce the amount of support tickets coming through.

I’d look at reoccurring support tasks and prioritise the proper fixing of these based on the frequency these tasks come up.

I’d raise specific bugs that have come about recently and ask if you as a team could have prevented these in any way. What lessons do these have for the future?

Maybe you can get a “story sign off” from the product owner once tasks are done you demonstrate that the feature works as expected.

Another thought is to write up more formal acceptance criteria with various scenarios in story cards “As a, I would like, so that”, “Given When Then” kinda stuff. Might need to google on that one.

Anyway, I think if you take the actions you can take and maybe reframe the way you think of bugs, you can rest a bit easier. Just remember it’s a team effort, and hopefully your team members can help pitch in to help solve these with you.
I guess that is what "leaders" and mentors are supposed to do; lead people around or away from problems. The fact that people feel like they are "chasing the latest fad every year" is in and of itself a problem. They obviously are missing out on the financial advantage stability provides and getting poor returns on their investments. A shop like that might be better off running on all junior staff. So, in my humble opinion, either the wrong people are in charge or employees are misplaced, which again, reinforces that the wrong people are in charge.

A piece of hilariously cynical advise I got from one of those people with decades of experience was, "If you can't change your workplace, then change your workplace." Which is to say, if you don't feel empowered to make changes, then you need to think about why you are there. Is your role simply to be a cog? Hopefully, you are still improving in some way, but if not, you can probably find a better use of your time.

Regarding your question (yikes). Things are very cyclical and problems tend to be recurrent in some form. Thus, things that are new tend to be like things that have existed and some old lessons still apply. Generally, I've tended to mentor on processes, expectations, and alternative techniques.
Is this some kind of AWS is trying to cleanup their reputation in ES? Their offer of ES is super weird. THe data node is only support 2 AZs, instead of 3. They also require using the IAM for authentication(you sign the request with access+secret keys) in other words, hard to simply `curl` it.

So if they added this, maybe they will eventually bring these into AWS ES offer, so that they can do the thing that X-Pack offer - because we cannot install plugins on AWS ES yet.
We the OpenAI board have decided it would benefit all humanity for us to claim 100x profits.
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Could this simply be about losing hardware sales to this newfangled open source? A big F5 rig used to go for $175k, vs $30k-sh for an nginx on plain hardware.

https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-vs-f5-big-ip-a-price-p...
I don't think those ideas (white supremacy or racism) should persist at all. Intolerance should not be tolerated.

The slippery slope is a fallacy, but for some reason, people seem to be okay with using it in their rhetoric.

As for your question, I am not sure. If it truly is a utopia (a place where everything is perfect) what would there be that should be changed? I would think that everyone is cool with the status quo.

It's not a conflict of interest if they (Democrats) still see that there is progress to be made. However, that won't be the case assuming there is a Utopia; maybe they'll campaign based on what color people have to wear. Who knows what the exact campaign issues in a Utopia would be?
One thing jumps out to me in the article: they're recommending crf 30 as a starting point for the x264 encode, and they suggest experimenting with values as high as 40.

Unless there's some detail I'm missing... crf 30 is going to look awful for anything ≤ 1080p, and I can't think of a time I'd ever use a value that high. Maybe for 4K content it would be alright, but I don't think that was specified. 40 is just ridiculous.

(I have no idea what the crf scale is like for x265 or av1, so no comment there.)
This is well known in car sales in general: "The feel of the wheel seals the deal".
No, but they're representative of the decision process. "Should we do A or B" results in people popping up supporting A, B, C, D, and E, and the decision tends to be "let's support them all". And as the original article we're commenting on discusses, that "support" comes in the form of "hey package maintainers, here's what you have to deal with".
It's actually 63 million people, roughly 20%.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/14/63-million-am...
Uber and Lyft’s Business Models in Laymen’s Terms
I'm nervous about what this means for the future of nginx's built in load balancing. That's been an important and rock-solid part of my infrastructure.
A big F5 rig is basically Linux with a CLI/admin interface on top.
Absolutely, and those years will be quite unpleasant. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of whistleblowing being a skive, or a pleasant path. “Happy like a whistleblower?” Nah.
> But what might be causing the decline in T?

The things that T contributes to becoming less important to survival, social status, and economic status probably are all factors. There's a number or candidate physical environmental factors, too, IIRC.
Remembering old games on Mac is like visiting a lost world
That's pretty nice. I wish more devices came with hardware kill switches, especially on laptops -- I always disable the camera and microphone on my laptops, and it would be so much easier just to throw a physical switch (as in a switch that actually breaks electrical contacts to the camera and microphone).
They're talking about a product that used one time pads, and you know they must be random to work. The pads were put on vinyl records, and used to encode audio signals for telephone lines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY
Satisfies HIPPA. Something like "stand by the fax machine and tell the person on the other end they can send the fax"
It's not super hard to get estimates like this, e.g. look at sales in comparable cities with or without stores, or how online sales changed after stores were opened. You won't get exact numbers but you should be able to get within a factor of 2, which is enough for most of these decisions. Companies like Warby Parker, etc. did this successfully at much smaller scales.
> (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work — [0]

I don't doubt that OpenAI will be doing absolute first class AI research (they are already doing this). It's just that I don't really find this definition of 'GI' compelling, and 'Artificial' really doesn't mean much--just because you didn't find it in a meadow somewhere doesn't mean it doesn't work. So 'A' is a pointless qualification in my opinion.

For me, the important part is what you define 'GI' to be, and I don't like the given definition. What we will have is world class task automation--which is going to be insanely profitable (congrats). But I would prefer not to confuse the idea with HLI(human-level intelligence). See [1] for a good discussion.

They will fail to create AGI--mainly because we have no measurable definition of it. What they care about is how dangerous these systems could potentially be. More than nukes? It doesn't actually matter, who will stop who from using nukes or AGI or a superbug? Only political systems and worldwide cooperation can effectively deal with this...not a startup...not now...not ever. Period.

[0] https://blog.gregbrockman.com/the-openai-mission
[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3281635.3271625&coll=port...
OK just random stuff I come up with as someone with no expertise in this field:

> 3 - If that doesn't work, then you turn off the stab trim cutout switches.

And.. If this doesn't work either? What if it seems to make things worse? Is that switch implemented in hardware or software? I don't mean the switch itself: does it just pull a pin high/low for some controller or does it fully disconnect/shut down the offending part?

Especially for the case of "it actually makes things worse" finding that the switch was ultimately left in the "on" position doesn't really help; quite the opposite I'd say (but I'd assume any change to the switch would be logged by the black box to be able to identify this case).

Actually when I saw the altitude log of the first crash I wondered why there was such a steep descend the first time, while the following cycles were much less extreme. So that's my buildup for tomorrow's conspiracy theory, someone else do the flesh out. ;-)
Private jets receive ludicrous tax breaks that hurt the environment
Facebook Usage Declines for the First Time in Infinite Dial History
Yes. If I want to make the point that everything on Hacker News is complete rubbish, and I pick out a recent post about "alien lizards invented facebook to enable mind control", that looks like an example that really clearly illustrates my point, right? But it's not, because it's not a good example of the actual content of hacker news.
Vanilla i3 is also keyboard / low resource friendly; for these things i3-gaps is no different than vanilla i3. Having a wallpaper or transparent terminals never did anything for me but maybe become distracting.
Bill Gates: How we’ll invent the future
Mars can't, nor can the engineering techniques used by JPL.
I just noticed that this has already hit the Arch community repo, for my fellow Arch users.
There's quite a lot of large startups in that area that A16Z has (or had) a stake in and would only be a block away from. (e.g. Lyft, Okta, and GitHub)
> The thing is, we have studies that prove

"Originally published in the AppleDirect, August, 1989"
Could you end up with competing DNS services in different nations that direct users to different IPs? Now that could be a mess.
Sony FE 135mm f1.8 GM Early MTF Results (This is the sharpest lens we’ve tested)
Players will support both, but what about HW acceleration that will come eventually? That's my concern - for future proofing with mobile devices you should use AV1.1, correct?
It is very hard to handle candidate drop on this scenario.
Again, even when it was CDDL it wasn't a real problem. See ZFS.

> system tap, ktap, lttng, ftrace, etc

That's why I'm talking about NIH.

Even with ebfp, they intentionally choose different tracing syntax (just look at it, it's comical). Didn't use ready-to-use CTF. Etc etc etc.
Blockchain Tech Is Rebuilding Internet Security and Data Privacy
OpenAI Establishes For-Profit Company
There is certainty around the open-source bits and the license - this is true. That said elastic the company has also seems to have brought the product a long way after becoming a company. Having a dedicated staff of engineers and developers behind a thing is helpful for that, and they should be able to make some money as part of this if we want to see future open source products advance similarly. (There is a difference too between consulting / services and money “at scale” - AWS is removing an at-scale component here)

That said, I also totally understand disagreements with Elastic’s decisions on charging for security, etc and why that causes concern. As a user I wish I wasn’t staring a fork in the face and I’m hopeful things get back to equilibrium here soon as a single community.
> Being in prison for part of your life doesn't rule out passing your genes off to your kids.

It plausibly could have a negative impact and the probability that you have children that themselves have children; I suspect that children of imprisoned fathers are more likely than the population average to die before having children themselves.
It's way more than that. Yeah the base OS on the machine is Linux, but there's a lot of extra stuff they do all the way down to the hardware layer.
I think you meant the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma.
What feels weird? Being in SF or startups moving out of SF?
> Xilinx is badly overpriced, no matter how you look at it.

Is it, really?

FPGA's are now all over HPC, the 5G rollout is going to put a LOT of really expensive FPGA's in new towers, and high-end networking gear is about to get a bump due to PCI going up.

I don't know how much damage the Intel acquisition did to Altera, but if Altera has been AWOL with big customers due to the Intel acquisition, Xilinx may have a massive amount of customer wins locked in for a very long time.

I wish Xilinx would die in a hot flaming pit of Hell for many and various reasons, but they are the 500lb gorilla of FPGAs.
Troubleshooting 20 year old network infrastructure is hard enough, I don't even want to think about how hard it is to troubleshoot another person's brain
> if I can trust a software kill

You can't. If the functionality can be enabled/disabled via software, then there's always the possibility that malware will enable it.
What makes you believe that you'll get there first?
Hiw do you make sure that anonymous votes are coming from employees and from some third-party?
Connectivity Patterns in Deep Neural Networks
And once you propagandize the population successfully enough, they'll carry on without you
You're conflating two things. Is it that they don't support the features or is it that they're proprietary?
Not really. If you create an autonomous robot capable of performing any task that a trained human is capable of doing today, and offer this machine for some suitable low-ish sum to anyone who wants one, you've both democretized AI and created more value than any company that exists today.
(I work for F5.) This is not true - Linux is really just userspace to run our own data-plane code.
>Moving to US will give you a rise in salary but not radical.

My colleagues working in SV and particularly at Google would disagree.

>they move because of health care, education, crime, corruption and perceived lack of a better future

Okey, replace salary with quality of life. I doubt that intangible political motives alone would've been enough.
Don't forget Shotcut.
Trump is cool with making Daylight Saving Time permanent
Jaguar I-Pace has 0-60 in 4.6 seconds, don't think that's slower than all Teslas, is it?
It's all down to history. When Debian was started, individual maintainers owned their packages completely, and they were often not kept under version control. This was a practical necessity for distributed development in the mid '90s. They uploaded the source and binaries when they uploaded a new Debian package version, but the actual source packages weren't necessarily under any sort of version control other than the Debian archive storing the uploaded versions.

Today, keeping packages under version control is considered good practice, but even today it's not mandatory as far as I'm aware.

While other systems, like the BSD ports, are in a single repository, this complete separation has had its advantages. The system is almost completely modular, with all the interdependencies explicitly documented. It's easy to add third-party packages. Look how easy it is to add extra BSD ports packages. You have to fork the entire thing because the repo doesn't just include the packages, it includes all the build infrastructure. This makes building third-party ports a bit more of a pain, because it wasn't considered important, while for Debian it was a fundamental design goal. On the flip side, making a patch for the BSD ports is the same for every single package and it takes just a few minutes to attach it to a bugzilla ticket.
But why did we lose our knobs on expensive equipment?
If you're using Nvidia graphics cards, they do not support proprietary nvidia drivers btw.
This is obviously some command to run on a Cisco router. A CCNA certification is squarely about knowing networking from a Cisco equipment point of view. So this would be like some "Unix certified engineer" not knowing "ps" or "netstat", right?
My guess: brand/name recognition is HUGE for vc as they can get first-look to the top founders/start-ups. A16Z is one of the best VC brands and they want to perpetuate that (and being in SF paints that image). Relatedly, the start-ups A16Z funds can afford to be in SF. It's the less well-funded companies that are moving out...and are probably companies that A16Z passed on.
Assuming you've got cell coverage (or cheap roaming).
Why would you lose the functionality of hardware kill switches by running different software?

PureOS will no doubt be the best supported distribution but since the whole point of the phone is to be as open as possible and Purism aims to upstream as many of their changes as possible I expect it will be possible to run Debian with most functionality intact.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but how is "Kdenlive" supposed to be pronounced?
Isn't PureOS Just debian?
I used to (professionally) work on Pootle years ago. The critical difference: Pootle does not offer any hosted solution; we never gathered the devops skills to offer that at the time.

Today would be different but it's also a project with a massive amount of technical debt, I'm doubtful about its future.

Pootle does however offer a crapton of features and formats. Traduora lacks something as basic as pofile support.

All the best to the team, I'm very glad to see another open source alternative, especially one with SaaS backing it. The only other one is Localize (https://localizejs.com/), which is kinda awful and not actually fully open (not self-hostable).

Bit of a shame the git history is lost in the open sourcing though…

Edit: Oh… the SaaS portion is not open yet. Well, that's a massive opportunity lost.

PS: You should add postgres support!
It's 2500 and we finally stabilized earths orbit and removed the wobble, thus stabilizing climate changes. Sorry about 2283, the year of the "oops, no gravity" for a disturbing 14 seconds of everything floating.
There's also something to be said about not having to scramble to configure things once you outgrow that simple VM setup.

Obviously, you shouldn't prematurely optimize, but you also shouldn't wait until you are getting multiple hours of downtime every day while you are scrambling to get a better solution in place.

And I think many times we underestimate the server power we will need as we grow.

After a few hundred users I used to extrapolate that I would never really need more than a large VM and database instance. But then we added more and more functions and features and more and more computer power is needed per user now.

Then we started running into issues where certain procedures would take too long so they need to be queued, well then you have the overhead of a queuing system and on and on.

It's kind of the same thing that happens with companies as you hire employees. You think, oh, we have 5 developers now. We will never need more than 15 devs and some customer service and sales. But then you need someone to handle HR, and maybe a bookkeeper, and then people to manage the non developers, and then someone to manage the project and it just kind of grows exponentially.
Acquired for $670 million

https://www.f5.com/company/news/press-releases/f5-acquires-n...
> It covers aspects (think pareto principle) of email, linkedin, slack, github, dropbox, whatsapp, online banking and probably more core use cases that I don’t have on top of my mind.

Soooo... A centralized solution for everything? ;)
Why is it needless? SHA3 was designed to complement, not replace SHA2. Blake2* are preferred by some but they are not the national standard and have their own quirks.
Because people have the right to decide what goes into their own bodies.
Why not open this compute up to the greater scientific community? We could use it, not just for AI.
Yes. Like most things in life, flight safety is not a binary choice. To complete what you said - "we have to lower the price enough to make the risk acceptable _to enough people so as to operate the flight at break even point_".
Viewing code as a liability does not make it worse, as not all code as the same level of liability associated with it. I'd much rather have double the lines of code if it yielded a code base that was more maintainable, easier to reason about, easier to debug, and had better separation of concerns.
Yeah, they say "Does not use Android or iOS. The Librem 5 comes with the mobile version of our FSF-endorsed operating system PureOS by default, and is expected to be able to run most GNU+Linux distributions." under "Security focused by design" on the product page (https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/).

Myself, I really want to get NixOS running on it.
Fixing Common Errors with Google Business Listings
This is amazing! This would be very useful for people (esp. students) who want to get to the core of the internals without getting bogged down by details and optimization.
Oops, good catch. I can never remember the name of that lemma.
"Making EVs does not help with global warming"

Hot take bud.
The litigation from Apple came after Microsoft copied the Mac with overlapping windows (as shown elsewhere in Wikipedia), so this article does not appear correct. Windows 1.0 had tiling windows because IIRC, its lead developer, a former Xerox Parc employee, insisted on a tiling window metaphor. Many other multitasking systems of the period were also based on tiling windows. Overlapping windows certainly became the fashion, thanks to Apple, but you haven't proved they failed because users didn't like them.
Not to mention the nginx waf product.
Because it was cheaper, and most companies want higher margins.
> I basically want a pocket computer.

If you have hobbyist-level electronics assembly skills, a weekend, and a couple of hundred dollars, you can pretty easily assemble such a thing using a Raspberry PI with a touch screen, battery, and any of several commercially available cases (or 3D print your own).

I have one that I put together to use for pentesting. It works quite well.
Most of the Terraform changes are done by the infrastructure team which is currently 5 people. We're pretty diligent about making sure that whatever is in our master branch in the repo is what the source of truth is and what our environment should look like. If there's anything that looks off it gets caught by running a plan before applying and we quickly sync up and make sure to push the changes upstream or override them. For the smaller changes that are performed by other teams, they need a stamp of approval from someone in our infrastructure team and we make sure to be proactive about being available to not block them as well as making sure the changes are applied properly.

That being said, our current approach will definitely not scale well and that is why we're going be looking into a CI/CD pipeline way of applying changes.

It's also worth noting that it took _a lot_ of effort to migrate everything into terraform. The infrastructure team took the initiative to migrate everything in a zero-downtime way such that we wouldn't be affecting the application teams.
Aww, that's so romantic :)
A ring signature would do. You can be sure that the signature came from one of a set of public keys, without knowing which particular private key was used.
Translation: Microsoft needs DTrace to debug and control Azure.
Yep, IF the FAX is connected to network (some are, some aren't) and I would be surprised (even if the researchers do state that) that a "generic" exploit (meaning ALL brand/model of all-in-ones) is possible (maybe they would need a "library" of similar exploits and test them until they find the "right" one for the given brand/model at the other end).
> But why did we lose our knobs on expensive equipment?

Because it was cheaper, and most companies/shareholders want better profit margins.