skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved to a company that uses ElasticSearch as an observability stack. It has been such an awful experience. It’s just painful creating new dashboards and alerts, such that people avoid having to deal with it at all. One example is that alerts are completely independent from dashboards. It’s so difficult to get a full graph related to the alert condition to gather more context. The reason it’s like this, imo, is that they are trying to do too much with the same product and so each feature feels compromised.

At my last company I was very enthusiastic about monitoring where we were using Splunk and SignalFX. It was just fast, seamless, and reliable.
Interestingly enough, of all the environmental hazards caused by large corporations, here's a rare example of one where this was primarily caused by a union, which while not opposed to the overall removal of lead, demanded the use of pipes which required specialized knowledge to install, which precluded non-brazed copper and plastic pipes used elsewhere in the nation, and effectively made lead pipes the only viable option.

On the surface, finally after a decade-long fight, the plumber's union, despite objections by its union spokespeople, said in 1986 it would defer to the city council after the matter was decided at the federal level, but in that decade, long after other cities had banned lead pipes, lead pipes were still a required part of Chicago building code.

https://www.npr.org/local/309/2020/09/11/911903152/here-s-ma...
Ah, that's a neat solution. But I was on Android at the time, so a bit more tricky. Also building s whitelist would be essential. Thinks ... maybe I could mine my bookmarks ...
Being at the Institute for Advanced Study is probably worse than being in any of the Ivy League or comparable high-level universities. Among its resident scholars, besides Dyson, were Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, Kurt Gödel, and J. Robert Oppenheimer. This leads to many people who work there feeling like they don’t measure up, and are impostors.

Richard Feynman noted a problem with the environment:

When I was at Princeton in the 1940s I could see what happened to those great minds at the Institute for Advanced Study, who had been specially selected for their tremendous brains and were now given this opportunity to sit in this lovely house by the woods there, with no classes to teach, with no obligations whatsoever. These poor bastards could now sit and think clearly all by themselves, OK? So they don’t get any ideas for a while: They have every opportunity to do something, and they’re not getting any ideas. I believe that in a situation like this a kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. And nothing happens. Still no ideas come. Nothing happens because there’s not enough real activity and challenge: You’re not in contact with the experimental guys. You don’t have to think how to answer questions from the students. Nothing!
It surely needs a lot more power to do the same work as a modern CPU. Like if you were encoding a video on it where against a modern CPU that may use the same power but finish many times sooner.
What reassurances have you had about not being listened to?

I keep cam/mic access switched off a lot for this reason, and I've only seen generic denials/refusals that it is or could happen but nothing concrete, much like the pre-snowden outlook towards internet surveillance.
That's great news that they fixed the memory leaks. Inkscape used to be dangerous to leave open because it would randomly hang your system.
I don’t think Amp is that bad. The issue I described where it breaks iOS native app URL listeners is the only reason I am happy to purchase this extension.
The performance is great on Windows. The main issue with Inkscape in the past was lack of proper CYMK support. I'd do all the work in Inkscape then bring into Illustrator.

Adobe software these days is just slow and painful to use.
> If this makes it cheap enough, Tesla will likely use union labor

How else could this be accomplished?
Yeah, I do that quite a bit actually, when I write code for smaller embedded systems I get the same rush I got back on my old Apple ][.
We don't have the linux build for this version finished just yet - but the good news is we just hired someone who is pretty passionate about linux, so there's good reason to think it'll be prioritized. As for app tracking, we're also rebuilding our mobile apps with this new version in mind. Unfortunately Apple prevents us from doing any app tracking on the iPhone but the android version allows for some of that.
The important question is how many kids have 5 micrograms of lead per decaliter of blood [0]. This is the reference blood lead level and much more useful for tracking progress (or decline).

I’m surprised that the article sticks with the “no lead is good” rather than the public health level.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/blood-lead-levels.h...
Does Git Dream in Text?
Simple Production ML with Metaflow and Seldon
Spaces is not good, in my experience. Their Frankfurt storage just stopped working for like a week. And last time I checked they still didn't support critical features like per-bucket access keys or index.html support.
Love brave, I can't say enough good things about it.
Apple champions fighting climate change yet lobbies against its legislation
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Darktable is amazing.
An In-Depth Look at Ring Fit Adventure
How to avoid bad assumptions during incidents: trust, but verify
Structured Programming (1972)
This is, in my opinion the one must read book for any programmer.
I sort of agree. I use Firefox because ublock origin works best on it.

I still use gmail and youtube.

Search I switched to duckduckgo, no profiled results and the ! bangs is great. The google search popup when using incognito gets real annoying fast too.
> rewriting the entire stack with the latest technology

After seeing a couple C# companies do expensive switchovers to .NET Core, this part made me chuckle.
> Hell is other people

Slide side-track but the older I get the more I realize that (at least for me) having to deal with other people is a path to "salvation", not "hell."

When I was younger, I found certain types of people and interactions difficult and painful. I was very quick to judge people who caused me this "pain" as bad people, and so I always interpreted the quote that "hell is other people" as a reference to that.

But lately I've come to realize that these negative reactions have much more to do with me than with the people. I react(ed) strongly to certain people and things because of my own emotional baggage, etc. and I've come to value these interactions as pointers to where I need to work on myself.

So I find that having to deal with people actually forces you (or at least, forces me) to confront your own issues, it's a form of therapy although obviously painful in the moment. The alternative is to avoid all these triggers. For example, someone in my family chose to spend much more time with plants than with people in order to avoid all these painful triggers, but as a consequence I see her "spiraling" more and more into her own emotional dark places rather than being forced to stay above water by social interactions - by being forced to confront and work through the issues.

Maybe this is not universal, maybe it only applies to me, but I see that the more work I do on myself, the less I agree with "hell is other people" - which means there was never really a big problem with them, only with me.
This is not the normal Economist, but their lifestyle rag "1843", which does tend towards more trivial cheeky long form articles
Low-Code vs. Custom Development: What Are the Real Differences?
Show HN: Get your business website for only $79 per month
Twitter is down but their status page shows everything is fine
It’s not surprising. Malware authors aren’t going to pay for something that’ll have no meaningful effect on their infection rates.

There’s more than enough stuff on IPv4, IPv6 isn’t worth the effort.

FWIW shodan was setting up their own public ntp servers to track down v6 users.
Seems you can run it on your own hardware
I think the biggest problem in modern society is car dependent infrastructure. Cars are the ultimate form of isolation. They isolate us from the intermediate spaces where we interact with other people. Parks, paths, stations, cafes, downtowns, and all the other free public spaces we used to use to meet with other people have been devastated by cars.

I can go a week in my suburban home without ever interacting with anyone. Take away the office and the supermarket and you can go for years without talking to anyone.

Then I get on my bike, or walk somewhere and suddenly I meet more people in 30 minutes than I did in 3 months.
Yeah that'd work for us! Just signed up for access :)
What's the point of status pages if they never show the actual status of the service?
In the course of regular pediatric visits the doctor should at some point check the blood for lead early on. Not on every visit, of course, they have a schedule for the blood work.

As for the concerns, if there're reasons, doctor recommened us to check the water first. There may also be free test kits from the city.

Also, out of caution, we were running the water off for some time before filling pots and doing washes, esp. in the morning.

Dust wise, there's no easy solution. The wet cleaning, mopping the floors regularly and maintaining reasonable humidity indoors would help keep dust down... but babies love to crawl.

Perhaps being outdoors more may be an option, unless it's even more polluted.

If breastfed, mama's health is equally cruicial!
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I wasn't looking for the game theory of unions. The person to whom I replied made a claim about their lived experience having worked as a union employee, and I just wanted to learn more about their thoughts on the matter. No amount of theorizing will suffice to replace that perspective.
Having an easily-searchable version-controlled record of my "things I'll have to Google again" has been incredibly useful for me.

The current incarnation of my "lab notebook" is here, and as of today 1002 days old: https://serhii.net/dtb

The most surprising thing for me was it's ROI was much higher than any other bookmarking / PKM stuff I tried, and I tried a lot. I had/have a semantic mediawiki for links, with tags, categories, estimates of complexity and ratings etc etc etc, but apparently searching through a long textfile or browser page is still much faster
If your secret sauce is marketing you have to be a great marketer, or I think you will just be proving the market for someone with deep pockets and better marketing.

But if you have above average engineering skills and make some technically engineered part of the business your secret sauce, that doesn’t save you from having to do the marketing but it does mean when other people enter you can compete on technical excellence with those above average skills.

That seems like a better plan? Maybe it’s a trap for engineers like me who want to keep focusing on the engineering, but it seems more viable than me marketing potatoes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but technoatrophy is setting in.
I'll have to try this. Lack of CMYK support is what's kept me using Adobe Illustrator for the final step of the process.
Wow, thank you so much! We don't have the linux build for this version finished just yet but we get a lot of requests for it, for sure. Honestly hoping to get that build soon - but you're right, we're a small team (13) and so we have to balance priorities. The good news is we recently hired someone who is passionate about linux and we're hoping that'll jumpstart the process and make supporting it easier with this new version.
Aaah RescueTime! I didn't know you guys were a YC company. I used RescueTime quite a lot in the past and I think at some point I paid for it. I have completely forgotten about it! Pretty awesome application, and I love that it also works in Linux.
"It's the volts that jolt, but the mills (mA) that kills" - The phrase a schoolteacher used when I was a lad.
>Of course, they still have to get caught, but it won't be the DA that has to do something about it, it's the defendant's lawyer who will do it.

But unfortunately, this means that anybody who can't afford a good lawyer, will be an easy target for trampling on their rights
Is there a way to define different zones/types of work? I work 10-6, but study 8-10 and 8-10pm.
Bees to this day are very respected in Lithuania. A very close friend can be being called "Bičiulis" which is derived from a word bee. As in "bee honey" = "Bičių medus". For english speakers the pronunciation can sound a bit contraindicative ʙɪᴛᴄʜ-ᴜʟɪs
Reports of Twitter being down: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
I've had problems with eye pain for years due to, what I thought, was computer use.

After a lot of trial and error and just thinking about what could possibly be causing this, I believe I have found that I wasn't getting enough sleep. I haven't had eye pain in months and I have been using my computer even more frequently than before (because my eyes don't hurt).

I have learned that I need at least 8 hours of sleep, but try for 8 1/2 - 9 hours. If I go a couple of days getting 5-6 hours of sleep, my eyes start killing me again.

Might be worth looking into your sleeping habits.
Woah, why so hostile? I am not trying to self advertise anything. The type of business this is in line with -- image uploading where probally data retention matters. There's just one guy runnning this and it's a no brainer you shouldn't use it for anything serious outside memes.

I'm not talking to stavros initially (but look, he replied so it's reasonable for reading that intent), I'm talking to people like me who want an imgur replacement (a la imgur acquired announcement yesterday at the same time) and host a lot of images, or just people who want a service that will be here for longer than the life of a single person.

But if you want to shut off your brain, go ahead, I had a laugh too. Just make to shut it off when reading my comments too, as it's not serious in that context then, and plus it'll be a no-op for you and it won't warrant implying I'm running a consultancy (where did this fabrication come from, really? I have no links or socials at all but I'm software guy who has a datahoarder hobby) -- please for the love of god, think me atleast smart enough to shit on the produt to try and get some sort of consultancy work.
Author here: have worked on many incidents, big and small.

The most painful mistakes I've made have almost always been due to assumptions, either incorrect or posing as facts.

This article talks about a specific incident that was plagued by this, and shares some tips to help people avoid leaning on bad information.

Hope you enjoy it!
I would have a lot of trouble starting my day at 0730, personally.
Well, it is in feature preview so this is probably not defined.

You raise an interesting point regarding object storage being a relatively unique type of lock-in.
My hosting provider just decided to turn my server off for no apparent reason. I have no idea why yet, waiting on an answer from support. The timing for this is the absolute worst possible...

Needless to say I'm going to be looking for alternatives again. If anyone knows of good hosting companies with unmetered 10 Gbps let me know.
I don't think this would be easy.
As others have said, I think it is not good to prematurely optimize a solution with too many unknowns.

I think a better approach would be to ask the client about what parts of the system are likely to change. If they are not good at thinking about this in a general sense, you should ask that in a more specific sense.

If you can get a better sense of what will change, it guide a little bit more of the design.
> Uber has not open sourced this work so we are unable to benchmark it and see how it performs

I implemented their design here, specifically for importing zeek logs:

https://github.com/JustinAzoff/zeek-clickhouse

I don't have the elastic compatible query api though, or the smarts that auto materialize popular columns.

It works though, does a good job at soaking up any sort of log type and handling fields being added or removed.
Thanks so much for the support! Yeah YC was a long time ago for us, but we're really happy to be in the family. They've been amazingly supportive over the years.
2Africa Pearls subsea cable brings affordable, high-speed internet to 3B people
Amateur!
This extension will bring the total length of the 2Africa cable system to more than 45,000 kilometers, making it the longest subsea cable system ever deployed.
Mersey Grey
Returning to a place that you expect to be home but is no longer
The farmers still meet in local diners and bitch about people shooting their cows. True story.
Curation on the app store is a failure. I went searching for an app I read about and it would NOT surface in the app store search. I found someone else that had a direct app store link to it and was able to find it. The amount of duplicate/squatting apps out there is simply astonishing.

We need alternate app stores. Maybe with some actual competition Apple will pay more than just lip service to many of the issues that keep cropping up over and over and over....

Then again they never have given the macOS app store much love; then again it does no where the volume the iOS stores do.
So the naming strategy is to call it R2, because it comes before S3? I like it
Hi everyone,

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No worries if you're too busy to reply. I know life as a business owner can be pretty hectic :)
>Firefox also has poorer video rendering speed i think - i get more skipped frames than chrome. I tolerate it, but many users don't.

I do not have this problem in Firefox anymore. I used to but i updates fixed it.

>Firefox has some difficulty being deployed in an enterprise environment (aka, an organizationally managed profile, which chrome has). This has led to enterprises adopting chrome as a primary browser (over firefox), and this may lead to familiarity which causes them to also use chrome at home.

GPO exists for Firefox now and works great, I have implemented it.

But what I actually see for enterprise customers is a move to MS Edge. The Windows account integration, control and the fact that on Windows 10 it has really good performance means there is no need for Chrome or FF unless Edge breaks (have had some issues with antivirus breaking it)
Smaller ones allow yes, they only frown when scanning ports relating to infrastructure stuff
Not just yet - but we're working on a new build that supports the new version.
Yes they are the definition of fresh water, not purified water.

Running fresh water is relatively clean, but it doesn't mean there isn't giardia or other microbes / impurities.
For plumbing specifically you _also_ have to worry about every link in the chain from your house to the water source. Perhaps non-intuitively just knowing if there are lead pipes because they can develop a protective sediment layer that prevents the lead from touching the water.

Anecdotally, we had a major city water line project in our neighborhood that _raised_ our lead levels because it disturbed that sediment protection.

The only real solution is testing and filtering at point of use. But even filtering is hard because most water filters sold are for flavor not for lead.
Seems like a cheap option to backup my photos (just need to think about the reliability/upload multiple times to different regions).
No good deed goes unpunished?
That's a fair comment. In my mind, I have been focusing on the recent history, whereas technically if you go back to the beginning of human civilization, you could argue that people never clocked in and out. But they also had to do every little thing themselves rather than pay someone. Something's wrong with your roof|clothes|body|[anything]? You fix it all by yourself (and God help you if you don't know how to). Does fixing those things count as work? One way or another, we do have to take into account that free time means something different today than way back when.
It seems like the lead blood level indicator has been removed from this site, but a friend showed me this map of homicide rates vs one with lead levels from 18 years prior[0] and there was a pretty strong correlation.

Obviously there are confounders, but Kevin Drum’s decade old article positing that lead was a major contributor to the crime wave and subsequent reduction is pretty compelling. [1]

EDIT: aside, but maybe one of the most depressing things I’ve ever learned is the high levels of lead in the ink used to wrap various Mexican candy. [2] and this 2014 article [3] on lead levels in Mexican kids where the mean levels exceed the upper acceptable level in the US.

There are few things that cause me more distress than the failure to comprehensively tackle this issue worldwide.

[0] https://chicagohealthatlas.org/indicators/lead-poisoning

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposur...

[2] https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2004-05-14-04051...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25459328/

“Our results indicate that more than 15% of the population will experience a decrement of more than 5 IQ points from lead exposure. The analysis also leads us to believe that lead is responsible for 820,000 disability-adjusted life-years for lead-induced mild mental retardation for children aged 0 to 4 years.”
I’m really confused by this article.

> The items were the following:

> As far as you know, what percentage of unvaccinated people have been hospitalized due to the coronavirus?

> As far as you know, what percentage of fully vaccinated people have been hospitalized due to the coronavirus?

> The implied efficacy of vaccines is calculated by subtracting the second response from the first and dividing by the first.

But then it seems from the charts that <1% was the correct answer. How could they do the division?
The main reason to use recursion is to use the stack variables, when tail call optimization is possible people usually just prefers loops.
> It can scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes, transmitting 10 million packets per second, from a single machine
Having done hundreds of TCO analyses for customers moving object storage providers, this seems like it carves out a very interesting niche for Cloudflare. R2's higher storage costs (roughly triple) also make it a more manageable threat to specialized solutions like Storj DCS, Wasabi and Backblaze B2.

At Taloflow (https://www.taloflow.ai), (disclosure: I'm the CEO/Cofounder) we provide buying insights for cloud object storage (and soon other IaaS/PaaS). We will definitely be adding Cloudflare R2 to the mix.
Study Motivation Through Humour
Promtail is a process that watches a directory and effectively tails the files and sends them to Loki.

Agree that the name isn't ideal as it's not clear that this is a "tail and send text files" process.

But yup, Promtail is what you want.
Perfect for finding publicly-accessible Kubernetes API servers.
I believe it also includes Canada.
h264ify is free and open source. You can inspect the source code and also compile/package it yourself, if you do not want to trust addons.mozilla.org:

https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify
>Don't give people the wrong impression without first asking professional advice as you could do harm by misleading someone.

The irony of posting this after a statement that is patently not supported by any evidence, and is generally thought to be wrong:

>due to phone and computer use.
Why video games are good teachers (2017)