skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Periodically, my diagnosis on test failures has been "maybe a ghost did it".

Test failures that are flaky / sporadic often signal something you really need to look into - either you're not in control of your test's corner cases or your product's. Either way you can't ignore it.

But, sometimes, with the whole "running hundreds of thousands of tests of complex, interacting software on cloud infrastructure that has virtualisation, custom kernels, whatever ..." the answer is just "woooooo spooky". When it comes to customer boxes, it's even weirder ;-)

=== When PTRACE_SINGLESTEP got haunted ===

A few years ago, we saw a particular issue in which the PTRACE_SINGLESTEP operation (which should, you know, step by a single instruction!) would sometimes step two instructions - but it basically only happened in testing.

Eventually we figured out that:

* For a particular older enterprise distro on x86.

* If you tried to single-step a thread in one process.

* And a thread in another process hit a watchpoint at the same time.

* Then your thread would step by two instructions.

Spooky action at a distance. This might also have required you to be running on a virtualized system - it didn't matter to us at that point, since clearly we need to work around issues people may see on cloud infrastructure.

Of course, unless you tested debugger workloads extensively you'd probably never have two processes under debug simultaneously in order to notice this.

=== When transparent hugepages got haunted ===

When RHEL backported support for the Linux kernel's THP optimisation, quite a few years ago, to one of their enterprise kernels a bug also got backported that I'd call "extremely haunted".

THP worked fine, maps would automatically get huge pages where appropriate and would get split up again if necessary.

EXCEPT ... if a THP-ed memory location was:

* Write-protected because of COW memory sharing (e.g. after fork)

* And the page was split by a write

* And that write had come from a PTRACE_POKE operation, not an in-process write.

Then something crazy would go wrong in the system. That process, IIRC, would hang and become unkillable.

Some sort of goblin got into the memory management subsystem at that point and there was no getting it out again - gradually the whole system would start to lock up until it became unusable - eventually requiring the box to be reset. This happened even from an unprivileged process.

Again, this is something most workloads wouldn't see but - once we'd understood the underlying issue - we had to find ways to prevent it happening. You just can't trigger a kernel bug like that, even if you know it's not your fault. If you're always there when it happens, nobody is sympathetic to you!
Neither does plastic
John Carlos Baez Mathstodon.xyz
Yes.

I find myself more and more at the two extreme ends.

Either it streams or it is physical.

The skeuomorphic middle is mostly more pain than gain.
can't wait to see the people advocating against fundamental freedoms to finally get the short end of the "companies are allowed to do whatever they want" stick.
Trump applauds Musk’s Twitter takeover
> It wasn't until I moderated a community myself that it finally clicked.

The key is that each community needs to moderate itself. The second you give one entity centralised or external control over moderation it can be used for terrible things.

I can't think of any solution for the toxic communities other than to cut themoff and let them fester. The youtube/facebook/etc strategy of 'all engagement is good, show them more' is incredibly harmful.
As a backend engineer with no frontend experience, why do folks care so much when something is done "only with CSS"?

Is it because there is some technical advantage, or is it more of a "code golf" thing like, "Look at this rainbow quine I wrote that renders itself in assembly ascii art!"
True, could have replaced the fans. Or better, try to replace them and break something (never assembled a computer, no experience here). I didn't want to spend money on new fans and a technician. Another problem was, I needed something working the next day. But the biggest thing was, I wanted to experience fanless. RPi4 made that possible and held up pretty good, which surprised me.
> People who go off about "3/5 of a person" don't realize that doing that made the slave states weaker, not stronger.

That would be true only if the slaves could vote. Since they could not it made those states stronger.
I generally agree with this - the first part of any effective communication is to see where you and the other person/people are starting from.

Only then can you decide how to try to communicate the rest.
For Twitter boss, now comes the hard part
>Not everything is a conspiracy to make more money.

???? That's literally exactly what the point of every business decision is.
Most NYC Job Postings Must Include Salaries Starting in November
HN mostly poo-poo’ing the acquisition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840

Check the tech headlines around 2012
Is no one else getting SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER for this site using latest Firefox? Ironic...
> Hence why most companies forbid their employees to use windows with public internet access for work

I have literally never heard of a single company doing that.
WASM Gawk wrapper script in a web browser with relevant information about schema grammar / template file would allow for alternate display formats beyond cli text (aka html, latex, "database report output", cvs, etc )
Atlas Obscura went inside Denmark’s Recreational Fear Lab to learn why our brains crave a good scare.
"Literally true" is a good standard for individual libel, but a rarely applicable standard for content moderation. The classic example is, if I post crime statistics, part of which shows that black people commit more crime, then: If I am using it to imply that we should hate black people or treat them differently, it would be reasonable to moderate away; and if I am not, e.g. my post is intended only in some legitimate legal/statistics context and is not part of social politics shitposting, then it makes sense not to moderate.

This can of course get very subjective, and that's true of most moderation decisions. Calls-to-violence is another good example. How explicit is it? How actionable? How serious/non-joking? How influential is this person? How obvious is any implicit portion? The line gets blurry, and part of that is because the people posting know there's a line. When people are arguing, they would like things to be objective ("but it's true"), but that's unrealistic/irrational.

One of the results is that people use this complexity as wiggle room to support the position they emotionally hold ("my side of politics is being oppressed"), when usually the cases they point to are not clear cut, and those that are truly clear cut are vanishingly few or do not outnumber the politically reversed cases.
Agreed. At this point extra cables and chargers seems wasteful.

If you need one there are plenty of options, including affordable 3rd party options.
Right. It's going to fester with dark elements of the society and he's going to hire back all the content moderators he fired and then pen another open letter to advertisers.
This is in response to:

https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-th...

as discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339421
Unfortunately, in rich countries, the peasant-ruler divide is just abstracted away and out of sight, often internationally.
Gottleib was the FDA commissioner under the Trump administration, though.

This isn’t about a particular political party.

Even the much hated fauci was a career bureaucrat under numerous administrations, of both parties.
I think in the Android app that's only a feature for some videos if you have Premium. Never tried it in the browser.
You might want to check out Terra Invicta. I only played the demo a bit, but it's basically espionage and politics against competing factions to prepare the world for an alien invasion.
Does “in the watch world” only apply to fancy watches? I have a $200-ish Seiko Kinetic and have never worried about rain, washing my hands, or even taking it in a pool. I don’t even remember what the rating is — I just know I looked at it once and decided not to worry about it because I never go below a few feet underwater.
I understand that they are public institutions, but there is a crucial distinction. When you say "the government wants to ban arms/restrict free speech" I assume you mean the state or federal government wants to introduce a new law. Whereas in this case it was the parents who were concerned and asked relevant institutions. It doesn't matter if the books promote violence against minorities or LGBT+ themes, if parents of the kids feel uncomfortable with them and use a lawful process to limit their kids exposure to them in education, I find it quite an exaggeration to say that "the government does it." Or maybe it's become common usage to call local initiatives government, I don't know.
Is the population outside areas that could reasonably be served by mobile connections really a billion? A few hundred people around should already be enough for a single tower.
US Colleges Should Bring Back Sat and Act Test Requirements
Usually that’s what CEO does. They make it happen. I think all of HN approximately know how to start electric car company and beat Tesla, but would anyone be able to execute that plan ? Probably not.
High-res maps of entire polar regions provide new clues for climate researchers
As fun as it is to make fun of Americans, many European countries aren't that far behind. It is a universal problem.
This. Mechanical watches are happiest when continually running. If you take it off all the time and throw it back on once in a while, and it keeps shutting down in the process, it's not going to last as long as you think without some servicing. This is why people buy watch winders for the ones they don't wear often that keep them running.
I agree. But some people disagree rather vigourously; they believe that "modern" means the same as "contemporary". I believe that modern art is a series of movements that began mid-19thC, and ended in about 1960, to be replaced initially by pop art, and later by "contemporary art", like Unmade Bed and Pile Of Bricks.

Even art described as "abstract" isn't always abstract. For example, I think Jack The Dripper's paintings are often figurative, although they're normally referred to as abstract.
Definitely, multiple unrelated things are being "sold" as CS.
Summary

"A team of researchers has released four more years of high-resolution imagery data, which has been added to eight years of previous data, to create the most detailed polar region terrain maps ever created."
I wish people would use Twitch more to make it a more viable Youtube alternative. Amazon doesn't have user hostile attitude like Google.
This works fine in Brave using a feature called 'brave playlist' (or something like that)
This is true. They are a rival creative suite, and not a clone. For some things you will need to adjust your mental model, for which their in-house video tutorial series¹ are quite nice. For other things such as studio layout and keybindings you can either try to make them as close to Adobe as possible, or invest some time adapting to the new situation.

1. https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/learn/
We should plainly reject the adoption of Software Augmented with Additional Surveillance. If the purpose of some software doesn't involve communication, yet a specific piece of software arbitrarily requires Internet access (likely for the developer's own purposes of control), then don't use it. Period. In addition to saving yourself from this type of bait and switch, you'll be dodging some surveillance and other user-hostile anti-features enabled constant connectivity.

There are plenty of older releases of Photoshop available on torrent sites that will install locally, that should have long passed into public domain if copyright law were sane. If Adobe isn't even willing to sell you a version of Photoshop, and insists that you can now only rent it, that's yet another reason to not feel bad about piracy.
Indeed, the proc filesystem is well maintained by the kernel. I understand that part, less so if it's properly immutable/irreplaceable

The thing is, it has to get the information from somewhere -- and depending on the age/type of the hardware (physical or virtualized), masking this is either easy or nearly impossible

I remember changing this information (DMI?) was more common back in the like Pentium 3 era, for example.
More like bewilderment on how many times someone can not deliver on promise yet still get people throwing money at them
CPUID is not designed to be secure, but, if every CPU model had a (directly inaccessible) unique key, it could be used to sign a challenge and prove that CPU is what it's telling the program it is.
Thanks yes, you're right the Washing Post. Edited my comment.
Screen tearing in X11 is a tricky one since there's a dozen ways to deal with it and 10 times more ways for it to go wrong, which is just enough uncertainty that you can never be sure if it's supposed to be that way. I know I've spent hours trying to deal with screen tearing by fiddling with desktop compositors that are supposed to prevent tearing out of the box only to fall back to the trusty AMDGPU/Radeon TearFree setting which has always just worked for me.
if only you knew how bad things really are
What is Operant Conditioning? (2018)
Google knows already. They just don't care.
IDK, that just sounds like any android phone I've ever owned after any 3D game I've ever played on it.
I’ve made business decisions.

It’s not always a conspiracy to make more money.
Here is my favorite vintage invention: A car with parallel parking assist in 1933

https://twitter.com/AndTartary/status/1585405938823237637?s=...
You can use this Android add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro...
Ye got his deals with Adidas (and others) cancelled and Louie CK got a Netflix show and comedy tour cancelled. In both of your own examples "shit" happened.
Indeed its pretty infuriating to see how fast you can burn cash, get meager results with no real understanding or knobs to tweak to try and help yourself out.

Is it entirely fraudulent? Are your ads showing up on a site that specifically tries to game the ad placement system? Who knows! Probably though, because the few times I've seen it tried the results were abysmal at best.
It's possible with

1. Youtube Vanced (deprecated but still works),

2. ReVanced (in development),

3. Brave mobile browser,

4. NewPipe (opensource, doesn't support most account-based features),

5. YouTube Premium and their regular app.
Watch enthusiasts are almost exclusively about mechanical movements. Younger generations are about smart watches, if they wear a watch at all. So quartz doesn't have much of an enthusiast market (with some exceptions, mainly Casio). What you get then is cheap and cheap looking watches with quartz movements. If you want a nicely crafted watch it's probably going to have to be mechanical. Which is ok, as they are mainly jewelry. But I find it a shame, I would love more choice of nice quartz watches.
What filter/sorter was removed?
My usual response to a claim like this would be -- log it. Accurately, with a good scale. Defying physics is hard, and everyone I've ever met who claims to eat a low calorie diet without losing weight is usually undercounting, and usually by a lot.
Q: do gamma rays undergo red shifting as they travel across the universe? If so, did they start out as gamma rays or get shifted into gamma rays?
Part of the reason I mention the private ownership of the means of production here is because you wouldn't get very far suggesting that people shouldn't be able to start businesses or give money to startups or anything like that. That's what capitalism is. I don't recall how we got onto that tangent (sorry).

But I think as I'm reading your comment again we get back to this core idea of "responsibility" or perhaps expectations. I do not have an expectation for a capitalist market to price something that nobody is buying or selling.

To your point, I don't think capitalism has gotten there on its own. But the fault does not lie with corporations and this economic model, but in our failure to mitigate its flaws through regulation. Emissions are strictly a regulatory problem that needs to be addressed and if you continue to blame corporations and capitalism you'll just never make any progress on climate change. In my mind it's just a crutch people use to avoid changing their lifestyle or demanding that their government take action. It's much easier to just blame corporations for anything bad instead of reducing consumption. Certainly they bare responsibility and need to be contributors and all, but we need to change our government and our own habits too. A model where you buy Ford F-150 trucks, then protest outside of a Ford factory for selling you the truck is simply not a model that will address climate change.
In CK, if you find yourself "waiting" for something to happen, you should probably just speed up the game simulation... I find that things are constantly popping up that need my attention, and if I am going through a long slog.... I constantly speed up and slow down the game, depending on what I am trying to do.
The average person doesn't think "sugar = energy". They think "sugar = tastes good". When average Joe with his 20 kilo spare tire is hungry (or probably just bored if he's a Western office worker) and trying to satiate himself with either a small bag of almonds or a Milky Way, his subconscious is going to reach for that candy bar every time. Even having learned the good knowledge you describe, the little 5 year old voice that says "I want it!" is going to overrule the adult brain that should know better.

I spent a summer working* a Dairy Queen in high school. EVERY SINGLE DAY someone, usually obese, would come in, order an extra large blizzard and say "I really shouldn't do this..." while receiving their paper cup of crack.

It is good that you have knowledge and numbers to help you make better choices about your diet. It is unfortunate that knowledge and numbers don't drive better food choices for everyone.

*I wasn't really employed there, my buddy managed the place and I'd hang out and occasionally work the register while he smoked a joint out back.
I bought a Seiko SKX007K as my intro to mechanical watches. I like it, but the inaccuracy is annoying. I've never really measured it, but I would imagine a couple of minutes per day.

I also have an Omega Seamaster from the 90's when they were producing a quartz variant which I really like, but before I got my cheap fitness tracker my go-to daily watch was a radio controlled, solar powered, digital G Shock. Always ready to go, indestructable, and perfectly accurate.
"what he wants" is unfortunately the guiding light, since he has the voting shares, but the money belongs ultimately to the shareholders.

Apple pays a dividend: 0.59% yield at current price.
Microsoft pays one, 1.17% yield.

They both recognized a long time ago that they couldn't promise the shareholders that the company would invest the money better than they could.
He has controlling shares so he is acting in the best interest of the shareholders which is mainly himself.
Clearly. But truncating on input would be pretty hard to detect.
Yes. It's generally not okay to speculate about other people's states
of mind to make your arguments. One ought to let them speak for
themselves. Indeed you agree with me, that you "couldn't possibly
guess what effect a headline will have on people?"

"Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must remain silent"
-- Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
In that link, why doesn't Wikipedia mention the subject's "Born" name, like they do with others who change their name? Natalie Portman, Teller, Elton John, just to name a few.
No it doesn't. That's like saying they obliterate the fiction that people want cheap phones, or 10 day battery life, or easily repairable phones.
Something is rotten in the state of Bing search
How much do you want to bet that we're entering a recession?
And now we see the asymmetry of a contract with Adobe Inc.
Adobe has altered the deal, pray they do not alter it any further.
At a job I had long ago, embedding an interactive 3d model of a laser scan diffed with a CAD model was one of the products of my work. It was probably the best and easiest way to get that information to other people because otherwise we would have had to find some other way for people to view point clouds with color embedded.
I really want to splurge on one, but the finances say no for now. Having one is my grail watch.
I think your argument boils down to don't assign to corruption what could more easily be assigned to incompetence.

Which I think is a fair point but does raise some questions about the competency of the civil servants and politicians we trust with a fairly large chunk of our income.
Because allowing users to control how they use the platform is not viable in today's world.

From an engagement standpoint, the ideal Youtube is one where you can't actually view a list of videos from a specific channel at all. Or search for videos. Or anything really that isn't just watching whatever set of videos the algorithm thinks will maximize your engagement at that time.

The web in general is moving in this direction at a fast pace and the cause for all of this is one thing: phones. That's it. There's an increasingly massive number of people that spend hours a day staring at their phones mindlessly scrolling through tiktok, twitter, etc. to waste their time away when they have nothing better to do, simply consuming whatever content is fed to them, giving absolutely no thought to what they're seeing beyond how much it entertains them in that moment. They don't want to look for specific videos, they don't want to watch a specific channel, they just want to be kept busy by an algorithm. These people are insanely easy to please and will consume for hours at a time, watching plenty of ads. The more people start behaving like this, the more money these platforms make.
Interesting to hear about these ancient thefts.

It makes you wonder what happened to all this treasure from antiquity. Did the gold all get lost over the centuries, or has it been repeatedly melted down and recycled such that lots of ingots in bank vaults and random pieces of jewellery contain Pharaonic gold?
There are driver options to remove screen tearing in X11. (At least for Intel, Nvidia and AMD cards).

Also, font rendering has gotten worse under Linux in recent years (due to fractional scaling).

I should probably just switch to a BSD that doesn't include Wayland support before it is too late. That'd fix my desktop's incessant pulseaudio and systemd screwups too...
You mean [MariaDB](https://mariadb.org/)?
> Writing messages on Slack isn’t what engineers get paid for, though. Writing code to solve problems is. Instant messaging tools are seen more as a necessary evil to get work done in a team than anything else. Because of this dynamic, there is a tendency to elide details or cut messages short, sometimes at the expense of legibility.

The article is long on tips for individual media without explaining why you'd use one over the other. Digital communication encompasses a wide spectrum of media, each with its best use:

- realtime/recorded text (Slack, GitHub issue, README, Comment, etc.);

- recorded graphics/text (PowerPoint)

- realtime/recorded voice (voicemail, phone);

- realtime/recorded video (Zoom, YouTube).

The most important question before you use any one of them is: why this medium and not one of the others?

Even the right message created well will flop if sent across the wrong medium.
And out of those who don't, a bunch believe in an invisible simulation programmer
You don't get only stuff you follow tho, you get anything whoever you subscribed to retweeted.