skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the novel Jurassic Park, it goes into some detail as to how Nedry got the park shut down, even going so far as to include IDE screenshots. Apparently, by specially naming his park shutdown code he managed to disguise a call to it as a constructor for an innocuous class or something, as I recall. Teenage me thought it was devilishly neat.
Ate there any substantial recent examples of this where there were actual, materially significant consequences?

Meanwhile, every day the forces of....not good get bigger and stronger, and the public more tribally divided by various forms of media, skilfully herded around like hypnotized sheep.
Relative Relocations and RELR
Not far off. Having chatted with friends from the company, consul failed due to a issue with streaming which was introduced in 1.9 (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-consul-1...) which caused it to have massively reduced tps in certain circumstances. No functional consul meant no vault, no consul/vault meant no nomad, no nomad meant no application servers.

Furthermore, the services were down for long enough that the asset caches went fully cold, so spinning back up to 100% capacity would put far more load than usual on the servers meaning recovery needed to be a very slow incremental rollout to warm them.

Messy situation all around, but if you want the real root cause pay attention to the consul change log over the next few weeks I’d say.
It's hard to argue with results we haven't experianced any terrorist attacks on that scale since it was put into law.

Maybe my freedom is being infinged somehow but I haven't noticed it
> I'm not sure I understand your complaint or why you've caught the Twitter API into it?

Because I want you to tell me what you think communication between a human and the Twitter API would look like. I have taken the position that you've produced a bunch of words without bothering to think about what those words are supposed to mean, with the result that in fact they have no meaning and you're attempting to refer to a concept that cannot actually exist.

A general theory of cross-species communication is significantly more of an ill-defined problem than a specific theory of human-Twitter API communication, but it must include the human-Twitter API case, so it's a useful example to think about.

> I imagine a center for cross species communication research would coordinate scientists across a couple important fields also interested in the question and allocate their resources to the research which seems most promising to make progress. Just like any other institute.

Ah, just like any other institute.

Certainly you can have people dress up as scientists and act like they're scientists -- just like any other institute! -- but this is only a good idea if you think they can accomplish something by doing it. What you're describing is a pure cargo cult. Their only goal is to appear to be similar to other, more useful people.

We already have many experts in cross-species communication. We call them animal trainers.
Do they like the seedless more then the traditional ones?
The problem with hedonistic inflation calculation: Should it reflect how things get more expensive or reflect the level of living? There are two forces, one which wants to represent costs and one which wants to represent value.

It at least makes comparing GDP between countries most difficult, because everyone calculates inflation differently - usually the US has the biggest gains in GDP because it calculates inflation lowest.

Also: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
Being negative is probably statistically correct. But I find it to be more or less a useless model.

Most things to be negative about are not actionable. Maybe in the old days, you could be stressed out about a tiger in the area or an upcoming war and it'll literally save lives. But today, you can be stressed out about Trump or COVID-19 and it'll probably change nothing. In fact, COVID-19 impact has been worst where people are most panicked about it.

There's also where it becomes grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression. This is not realistic nor useful.

Optimism is a filter. You don't purposely blind yourself; you focus on what you can have a lot of impact on. You can turn the filter on and off (provided it wasn't installed stupidly in the first place).
Love the idea of all the links going to fbi.gov.

If you don't mind, can you elaborate on the 2nd point? Specifically, what do you mean by hijacking browsers with toolbars?
Protesters hold 'Squid Game' themed protest outside SF In-N-Out
> A study estimated that nearly two-thirds of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. could be attributed to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure.

> This research further highlights the burden of heart and metabolic diseases in the U.S. Almost 3 in 4 U.S. adults is overweight or obese. Nearly half of people have prediabetes or diabetes.

> “Medical providers should educate patients who may be at risk for severe COVID-19 and consider promoting preventive lifestyle measures, such as improved dietary quality and physical activity, to improve overall cardiometabolic health,” says O’Hearn.

I'm sure I'll get downvoted for saying this but I find it interesting how we can go so far as to terminate large numbers of people from their jobs if they refuse to get vaccinated, even if they have natural immunity, but it's basically blasphemy to talk about how fat and metabolically and cardiovascularly unhealthy large numbers of people in countries like the US are[1].

Incidentally, it's becoming more and more evident that the people who are more likely to have bad outcomes in breakthrough cases are...the same people who are more likely to have bad outcomes when unvaccinated[2]. And there's even some evidence that men with high BMIs have poorer immune responses to the vaccines to begin with[3]. Which isn't surprising either.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/sweetgreen-ceos-linkedin-pos...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/health/severe-breakthrough-ca...

[3] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210907/COVID-19-vaccine-...
Massage under the mastoid process of the temporal bone. This will release pressure on your Limbic System in general, improving your emotional connection to the world, and in particular will let your Amygdala to settle reducing your sense of fear, in turn making you a more joyful and open person. Long term you want to find a way to strengthen and balance your Deep Neck Flexors and Deep Neck Extensors, however how to do that effectively is a very open question.
>they are not a monopoly in any sense of the word.

you sound like an employee with a vested interest in the company, or someone living in a bubble

> "google has a secret deal with facebook called "Jedi Blue" that they knew was so illegal that it has a whole section describing how they'll cover for each other if anyone finds out
> - google appears to have a team called gTrade that is wholly dedicated to ad market manipulation"

from the antitrust lawsuit underway;

https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/145205394002405785...
Most well known one is probably agar.io. I made a couple of other ones like diep.io, and most recently digdig.io
Didn't find it in the link, what symptoms would one notice if this was a problem?
Working from home is the only thing making working tolerable.
When the "bradykinin storm" hypothesis [1] was postulated, I already guessed that D3 would be a potent suppressor of Covid-19 mortality & likely prevention of the "Long Covid" syndrome.

Glad to see my guess is validated.
I have some astrological services to sell you
> We literally restored our entire infrastructure from scratch and probably our last set of backups. You might have lost some stuff but we don't know what you lost since we couldn't get the last copy of our databases.

What a wild extrapolation. The line in the blog post is not them writing to hint at what might have happened, it's so that the customers reading don't think this means they lost any of their data/items/etc. The Roblox marketplace is vast and high-volume; if anyone lost <any> data from them restoring a backup, we'd already know about it.
The Article cites Texas law, but in Texas, there is an EO that prohibits companies from enforcing vaccine mandates. It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
WASM DOM manipulation will probably come soon, and that will place other languages in the exact same playing field as Javascript. For now, manipulating the DOM still requires calling Javascript.
How would you test this hypothesis? If, for instance, endurance sports were more prevalent in poorer countries what would that mean for your prior on the hypothesis.
Huzzah. Anything that fucks these journals up the ass even a lil is A+
There's no software in a whale's brain, or in a human's brain.

As has been discussed in a couple of articles linked on HN recently, it might not even be useful to think about brain function as computation.
As someone not familiar with HashiCorp's products, could you give a super high level overview of what consul, vault and nomad are?
I think there are two big things that can be really hard with scalability -

1) There are a lot of dimensions

I think it is fairly common to focus on a throughput-related dimension like requests per second and test that very thoroughly, while not paying enough attention to other aspects. We have services where, if we were told requests per second were going to go up 100x tomorrow, I wouldn't be too concerned, but if we were told request size were going up 2x, I'd be freaking out.

Even when you think you've identified all of the dimensions, there are usually ones you missed and/or they interact in weird and unexpected ways.

2) Performance can appear to be linear when it really isn't

So many outages I've seen have resulted from everything being fine until some threshold is hit, at which point it doesn't start to slowly degrade, but instead immediately explodes. Often times due to feedback loops (GC activity in garbage-collected languages often can behave this way) or because some cache overflowed (data that is queried at a high rate no longer fitting in memory on a DBMS comes to mind).
Because the definition of "overweight" is based on BMI, which is essentially pseudoscience.
I think the actual investment is shockingly little. Even compared to a moderately sized zoo the investment is tiny. It's like a dozen individual people trying over the past five decades.
This "game" is pure cancer for children, it should never come back.
This post was really laying it on a bit thick on the marketing, with three mentions of their own products before even finishing the introduction. I know that’s the point of most of these posts but then when the content was also a product, it’s too much. Pass.
Sure, but still it's a niche product. It's not like they're going to sell the next XBox by getting Microsoft Flight Simulator as a platform exclusive.

This is not to cast any aspersions on the game - popularity is not everything - but things like MFS are perfect examples that even the best simulators are just niche products, not the future of the web.
> Based on personal experience living in Europe, a society can function quite well even with a pathetic level of customer service. This might be the new normal.

How do you mean? I've always much preferred European service to American service. But then, I also loathe interacting with waiters as if we're old friends or something and get unbelievably frustrated when someone tries to bag my groceries.
I suspect that a big factor at play is that a lot of ex-restaurant workers realized those jobs kind of suck. The pandemic made a lot of restaurants close and lay off staff without a foreseeable return date, pushing people to seek employment outside the sector.

If enough such people decided not to try to come back when restaurants reopened, you'd see restaurants struggling to attract employees in a tight labor market and the resulting employees being, on average, less experienced / skilled.
> but it's basically blasphemy to talk about how fat and metabolically and cardiovascularly unhealthy large numbers of people in countries like the US are

Not really that interesting. People don’t like to feel bad.

Tell someone they have an unhealthy lifestyle and may die sooner (fat shaming), and they’ll feel bad.

And if people feel bad, they won’t vote for you in the next election, or worse, they won’t buy your company’s product.
The biggest issue from what I can see is the lack of time / skill / willingness for most people / families to do their own food preparation from base ingredients. So what you end up with is prepackaged or restaurant-served foods, often in serving sizes or nutrition profiles that have excess calories.

When meal preparation is done manually from base ingredients, the calorie count is typically lower for a given level of "fullness" you feel from the food. And since it takes time and effort, the meals are prepared (and consumed) on a set schedule (breakfast, lunch, dinner). Now contrast that to ready made meals and restaurant meals. These typically have more calories than what is required for a serving (or they consists of excess servings), so over-consumption tends to happen due to easy access. And they are made to taste excessively good (because that sells better). Home cooked meals using traditional ingredients taste ok, but aren't the flavor profiles that keep you wanting to consume excess servings.
The USA didn’t have any terror attacks on that scale before 9/11 either.
China is experiencing increasing demand for labor thanks to our inability to make stuff in the Rust Belt. China is also, at least to some extent, a planned economy (and has planned demographics, too). As such it is subject to a different set of supply/demand tradeoffs, and definitely not a good pattern to extrapolate from.

Any fertility-related stuff will take decades to play out, and it'd have to outpace off-shoring, legal immigration, and illegal migration, none of which is the case today or will be in the foreseeable future. It is not the case specifically for this reason: the rich like abundant supply of cheap labor. They achieve this abundance through both reducing demand and increased supply. Worse, reduced fertility will result in state's inability to provide social services and healthcare to the elderly poor, which means rising taxes and therefore further acceleration of off-shoring. In this regard we are too very much unlike China where the young are supposed to care for _their_ elderly.

If our government thought at least 20 years ahead, they'd be trying to stimulate the birth rate, boost manufacturing, and they'd clamp down on the borders. But their planning horizon does not extend beyond 4 years, unlike, say, Xi Jinping's.
>Cheap calories are less nutritious.

What difference does that make on the whole? You don't overeat on these foods because you didn't get enough vitamin A. You overeat them because it's delicious or because the portions are wrong or
your body doesn't send the signal to stop or because you're depressed or...

I found that I was a lot less likely to overeat when I ate few carbs. Instead, I ate foods mostly rich in protein and fats. But once I went back onto a general carbohydrate-heavy diet, as is common in the modern world, it was very easy to eat too much. (Most of our popular foods seem to contain flour in copious amounts.)

This isn't a silver bullet though. It might've worked for me while I was doing it, but might not work for others.
The last outage of this kind I can even remember is the summer PSN was down for like, a month?
US Copyright Office says you can fix a game console
And BTW includes most of the EU as well.

Countries like the US includes the EU too, at a lower level but still over 50% are supposedly overweight. [1]

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/d...
Consul is a service mesh, vault is secret storage and nomad is for workload orchestration.
> Free Software = OpenSource + ethics

Yup, makes sense. Because Open Source was originally created as Free Software minus the ethics bit.
Try getting anything done with a French or German bank. American customer service is several levels better than my experience with European institutions.
The home pages for the products are helpful

https://www.consul.io/ https://www.vaultproject.io/ https://www.nomadproject.io/
I can do the 9s. So, that's common I'd wager.

$50B is hella hard tho. It's hard work to just get to $10M (w/o outside money) and even with outside money 100M is still very hard.
sry, not wasmer-php, but php-in-browser

https://oraoto.github.io/pib/
Putting aside the content of the page, can we talk about the design of the page? It has this HUGE hero image that pushes the content down below the fold on my 4k monitor.
Having been in academia for longer than I should have stayed, I can say a few things about it. Academics aren't a monolith, and not all academics have the power to disrupt it, let alone easily. Moreover, the academics with the most power to disrupt it have the least incentive to and have been fully co-opted by the publishing industry, and are paid massive fees to keep the system going. It is not going to go down that easily.
One is luck and the other is engineering. From the looks of it, this is a high luck, low competency endeavor.
Whoa, just fiddling up there with my thumbs has me feeling different. Are there any resources on self-massage you would recommend? You seem knowledgeable about it.
> no consul/vault meant no nomad, no nomad meant no application servers.

Not super familiar with nomad but it seems like that would not necessarily follow. For example if etcd goes fully dark in kubernetes cluster things will mostly continue running for a while unless something also crashes the servers
I use "UVIMate" app to provide a general ballpark figure on how much time I should spend under the sun:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.aershov...
Well if you missed it, back in the day, places like Download.com or Source Forge would have a little pre-clicked link to "add <name>search toolbar to my browser!" which, after you downloaded your think would leave you with a browser that always redirected your search requests to what ever company paid to send you there.

Lots of people did it, even Blekko (although we stopped after we figured out it was just a scam), and the way it worked is toolbar company X would approach your internet site and say "we can send you a lot of traffic, just use this toolbar, we'll even pay you every time one gets installed."

Anyway, the toolbar would hook itself into the address bar and search selection hook in the browser and redirect every search to where ever it was told to. The nefarious part is that these tool bars were often shipped to the company as binaries not source, so you didn't really know everything they were doing. Once we figured out they were scumbags we also found out that they did some really scumbaggish things.

We stopped using them but lots of people did and finally the browser makers re-wrote the browsers to make what they did either impossible or easy for the user to revert and those guys rolled up their shops and went on to become some other type of scam.
> There's no software in a whale's brain, or in a human's brain.

Sure, and man is the only animal with no instincts, ensouled cells are metaphysically different from soulless cells, and fossils were placed in the ground as a test of your faith.
The comments describe what the code does. But that’s already clear from the code itself, no?

If AI could figure out why the code was designed that way, that would be awesome. But probably very hard as it would require a bunch of domain knowledge, which won’t be easy to learn from the code.
> Based on personal experience living in Europe, a society can function quite well even with a pathetic level of customer service

I don't know. In my experience customer service in Europe is better than it seems. In the US my customer service agent will tell me very smilingly that unfortunately there is nothing they can do for me right now but is there anything else they can help me with?

In Germany where I lived before coming to the US, whomever answers the phone will take the time to point out why it is really my fault we got into this mess in the first place but will then grudgingly tell me that by exception they can fix it just in this one instance.
So relating to things I do know about, consul is like cloud infra, vault is a service for secret storage and nomad is like Kubernetes?
Consul is a service mesh. It’s your dynamic service discovery and routing layer. You have systems dynamically allocated in a cluster, they need to reach other systems, you ask consul where they are.

Vault is secrets and management. Put secret strings in, get secret strings out (if permitted). Most apps need secrets of some type, and vault is normally discovered via consul.

Nomad is an application/workload scheduler. You tell it what you need to run and what their memory/cpu requirements are and it finds a space in your physical infrastructure to run that. The apps it runs normally needs secrets from vault and communicate with services discovered via consul.

They all are well integrated and build off of each other, kind of like layers an onion where your app services are the outer layer of the onion. Consul failing this badly is like the core of the onion going rotten. There’s not much saving it at that point, you need to grow a new onion from the inside out, but that takes time.
It makes no sense in these terms I agree, but the produce in NYC absolute does suck compared to SF. And the restaurants likewise barely with dishes emphasizing vegetables either unless you shell out a lot of money.

I dunno what's going on but it's a bummer.
Concretely, imagine a sensor node sampling a lot of low-quality sensors frequently. You can afford some setup (to share an AES key, generating as much shared (pseudo-)random as you want), but you want your per-measurement overhead to be small.

… it’s not the most practical, and the single-but version seems to be a toy problem, but I can imagine it being useful in some very particular cases?
Apache Drill: the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated
A lifestyle built around availability and expectation of the use of personal vehicles as the sole means of transportation.
We have been using self checkout for a few years here in Australia, and the thought of having to even go through a normal checkout with a cashier now kind of yuck.
Wasn't that RapidCad?
Show HN: Mostly inaccurate but dead honest 33 years of one man's life
Oh man, I remember doing my weekly grocery shopping at Caprabo, and having the miserable cashiers absolutely fling the bottles, bags, boxes, cans, etc. down the table after they rung them up, and you would have to try to bag as quickly as possible because she wouldn't wait once the next person was coming through. Gah!

Anyways, I hate bagging my own groceries even in the U.S., so there's an example for you. Not that big of a deal, European society in general works quite well, regardless of how horrible and mean their cashiers are.
But wasn't the patriot act pretty much neutered when it's most important sections (section 215 being the most controversial one) expired under the Trump administration back in 2020?

But it seems like the sunsetting of those sections received very very little coverage, all things considered and the discourse around the patriot act reads as if no one is acknowledging or giving any importance to those sections expiring. I don't understand and I know I'm missing something about how american lawmaking works. What's the catch?
True for long running services, but not necessarily ephemeral workloads. Those need a system to schedule them or else once they complete they just stop running.

Also, as long running services crash or reboot naturally they need to be rescheduled or else your cluster slowly dies, and as your cluster size increases the mtbf decreases and the need to reschedule workloads continually increases.