skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has this happened to you? You're logged into a remote server and trying to read a config file or log file. The problem is its in a minified JSON format and looks like a solid wall of noise when you try to use `less`. You reach for your go-to JSON swiss army knife `jq` but it's not installed! You don't have root access to install it via `apt-get` so you need a script you can run locally. Just copy the `jqjq` and `jqjq.jq` files to your local directory, and now you can access the full power of jq just by running `./jqjq`. Problem solved! And the best part is that the only dependency is `jq`, which should be installed pretty much everywhere.
Yes, under appreciated film today.
They are.

Many many companies run tests against the various kernel trees/branches, and will flood you with emails if you break the build.

I can't remember who (I think IBM maybe?), but Greg KH said one company made a fantastic test suite out of nowhere. If you submit six patches, it will try each one, tell you what you broke in patch 3, and recommend a way you can fix it. And this just gets emailed to the person who submitted the patches, and the maintainers if they actually merged it.

He said it was insanely advanced, and was made without the knowledge of the kernel maintainers. A company just made it and started sending emails one day.
My opinion:

Linux Kernel coders are real programmers. Do you think Mel wrote unit tests?[1]

Real programmers are discrete mathematicians in their head. With pointers.

Their code isn't perfect.

By analogy, when Andrew Wiles published his some 109 page proof of Fermat's Last Theorem it had bugs. [2]

The mathematics community tested it and he eventually corrected it. The Linux Kernel is like that.

There are no unit tests for
a^n + b^n = c^n because no integers above n=2 satisfy them.

You can't unit test your way to secure, correct code in the kernel either. Only a community of testers and verifiers can do that.

"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"[3]

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s_proof_of_Fermat%27s_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law
> I often have an unreliable internet connection on the U-Bahn, in hotels, in developing countries, and in Brandenburg.

Ouch, Brandenburg felt that one!

(Brandenburg is a federal state that is "known" for being quite rural and lacking all sorts of infrastructure...)
Again, the 80/20 rule applies: keep 80% standard (because the standard is actually good enough, and yes, it includes all the best practices distilled into it) and customize max 20% to your needs (hard to accept, but no business is special enough to need more than those 20%).
> but things like filesystems definitely should have a place for automated testing

And that is what xfstets is used for.
Are you talking about those blue outlet boxes? If so, those provide a lot of fire safety that your 3D Print does not. You really should rip that print out of the wall.
What you’re missing is that Twitter and other Silicon Valley companies are high growth companies, which have always invested aggressively to become ever more dominant.

Over the last decade, Twitter has averaged a 25% revenue growth rate per year, and if it sustained that level of growth it would soon be worth what Elon paid for it.

The problem is that Elon clearly has no idea how to put all of those talented people to work on something worthwhile and only sees them as dead weight. Maybe the old management didn’t know how to make the best use of all of the people they hired, but Elon has zero idea of how to use the people he fired.

Compare it to what Steve Jobs said when returning to Apple: not that the company was bloated and the employees were lazy, but that it was full of talented people who just need a vision they can get behind.
> how is Apple ever going to know what charger you used?

I don't know if they do it, but it's very easy to have a communication channel between the device and the charger. For instance, my Dell laptop knows whether it's being used with a 65W charger or with a 90W charger, even though the plug and the voltage is the same in both cases.
I worked with European firms for over 5 years, from the company who makes lenses for ASML machines, European telcos, to well known German shoe companies and groceries stores, and luxury French brand conglomerates. They all had slightly less than 0 IT knowledge and outsourced almost all IT work to contracting companies.

I’ve seen large contracting firms get the boot for pulling the let’s withhold docs to get another large change order for producing said doc. It’s BS games.
Being shocked by testing in production is akin to being shocked by air in the atmosphere.

Atmosphere is but air, and production is but testing: a (hopefully) very long test run, which will only end when the project will be dismissed.
A future history of China in the 2020s
I am sure they are not guessing, and know well enough who uses the backdoor access, and how often, because they are doing the same. Of course, they are not going to present it all to lowly so-called citizens, so you only get the final decision that the dangers were considered greater than the benefits, and some media-friendly hand-waving. It's also a clear signal for other companies that “extended cooperation” is the requirement of commercial success.

When those responsible for “security” actually depend on countless things being insecure crap, we will never see any real change in how things are done, only the talks about never-ending work done ad infinitum. Cheaply and insecurely made device benefits not only its maker that saves money on development, it also benefits most of those who are supposed to check them, and set better rules for them. Instead, we have various “IoT security teams”. It's like starting the fire at an oil refinery, and then announcing that you need something more than a couple of fire trucks.
Yes and no.
It's a technological problem in the sense that there is a technological solution to this. See the Delos Cloud for example: https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/delos-cloud...

However Confidential Computing and Constellation unlock another technological solution where one can run IT infrastructure while being completely locked out and without access to the any of the data. Ensuring data sovereignty for the users and without building physically separated data centers.
I didn't mean for it to sound as though I thought this was a legitimate reason absolving Google of blame. I cited it as a lame excuse, exactly for the reason you mentioned: this should be a core system thing, not influenceable by third parties.
I guess it's the standard console cycle, probably with a refresh in the middle, around 2024?

Oh, how is PS5 performance compared to 2022 midrange gaming PCs?

I remember some sort of benchmarks and for 2020 I think it was very competitive.
ActivityPub includes the social media concepts of liking, following, and sharing
Big Blue Button (https://bigbluebutton.org) is one. We actually used it at work for meetings but it seems they have since pivoted to be for more virtual classroom.

I agree though, even that would need decent IT talent to setup and maintain.
This is only partly correct: In so far as Privacy law is based on EU law the DPA has duty apply the law in a consistent manner. In line with the rest of the EU, that is to say. To avoid fractures and discrepancies in EU law.

Obviously these issues can sometimes only be decided at EU level. But the DPA's usually meet each other to discuss and align on contentious issues. And at other times they wait for EU level judgements.

What's worrying in this case is that it's becoming a trend.
“It’s way Less than biden’s”

I take it you have never left the city
I once tried bringing this up in the discussion, but I believe this protocol still works with some sort of "logic pixels" abstraction. And there is concern about rounding.

If rounding / scaling artifacts are avoidable, this is fine. On the other hand if this stuff occurs in practice like with macOS (at least at one point, with the 2x render and downscale), this is totally fucked.

Wayland is much more low level than, say, CSS. So I see zero problem if the scaling factor can instead be a black box which applications are familiar to treat however they like. This is how "*.dpi: 120" in a .Xresources file works, for example. Not all applications might be able to support fractional scaling, but those that do can do it perfectly without any risk of scaling artifacts.

This was repeatedly rejected for reasons that I don't understand.
Fair; I'll try to not get my hopes up too high.
Codecademy is wildly popular - can it do better teaching programming?
From what I understand, Apple decided to force Metal upon everyone instead of using Vulkan like the rest of the industry. This causes friction with game development.
Have you tried ydotool as a replacement for xdotool? It also works on X, as it uses uinput.

https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool
> blueish fog (chlorine) is the positive

Would that not be copper oxide?

Source: did that as a teenager and did not die (trying to synthesize hydrogen as any normally constituted teenager would do), and the copper wires just ended up being entirely corroded until the immerged part disappeared. No hydrogen as I did not seal the apparatus properly. But I had a nice blueish precipitate instead. I absolutely had no idea it could have generated chlorine. I did sleep in the same room as the experiment for a full week. So I guess either my bedroom was well ventilated or it did not produce enough chlorine, or that it was just copper oxide.
This is mixing a few streams.

"A government would be stupid to hand over all their citizens data to the US via US technology companies"

They have been for decades in some cases, and where is the problem, specifically?

It is possibly one of national security, less so one of companies selling data for advertising and other reasons because Slack and MSFT are reliably not doing that, and contracts with companies can make that clear. If the contracts are breached those companies can be wiped out - just the same as any other commercial issue.

So yes, it's reasonable for companies to want to have some data hosted within their own countries, but it most cases it will not matter.

For instance, kids classroom telemetry data in the US vs. Germany will make absolutely no difference.

That data is as 'safe' in the US as in Germany so long as there is a contract in place to specify how that data can be used. MSFT has no very special leverage with customer data in the US as opposed to Germany, if they are contractually bound.

GDPR is a lot about protecting users from willy nilly use of their data which is a different question that national security and other legal issues.

Theoretically, there are some concerns about US spy apparatus, but I suggest that if the CIA wants to access data in what the US deems to be in a 'lawful manner' - that having the data hosted in AWS outside the US won't make a huge difference. That kind of protection would require yet another level of thinking.
> Lost profit is still lost money. If you run a bar and I falsely tell everyone that your beer is poisoned (and everyone believes me) I'm not costing you any money, but you're still bankrupt at the end of the year.

Yes, but you can't lose a profit you could never have had.

> I think this scenario is much more plausible than poor 10-year old kids downloading biology books for fun. But even if it wasn't, piracy enables both scenarios without distinction. Even if it was 80-20, that 20% of not-bought books would have ben bought if piracy didn't exist.

I'm not arguing that piracy is completely harmless. I'm arguing that it works differently from theft. We can't consider every potential loss as a real one.

Eg, mass torrenting of stuff can get to the point where on paper, if all of that was legally paid for, it'd cost more than the country's entire GDP. That's obviously ridiculous.
Does it do more than just grep? That's awfully limited compared to what jq can do. I personally like jless for just searching and exploring.
MS, G and AWS have locally incorporated entities. Google in Germany is 'German'.
See Ample[1] for a cross-vendor approach.

1. https://ample.com/
Thanks, apparently I did turn them off at some point. Doesn’t appear to be a way to disable the emergency slider on Watch or iPhone though, unfortunately.
Ironically, Frankfurter in Germany refers to another kind of sausage made of beef (originally invented to circumvent jewish food laws against consuming pork), which has absolutely nothing to do with Wiener (or vienna "Frankfurter")
This is up there with the scariest piece of software in existence:

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

Presentation of idea:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R7EEoWg6Ekk
I really don't think you got the joke. Software development at a large company isn't a montage from the movie Hackers, you don't rewrite an entire direct messaging back-end in an evening. I'm sure there are people who believe it works like that, but those people are the butt of the joke. I mean we saw this with our own eyes with Twitter Blue checkmarks. A feature Elon Musk's new hardcore Twitter had to deliver in a weekend. What happened? A shitshow for 2 weeks that ended in Musk entirely rolling back the whole effort and completely re-evaluating the schedule.
> It is absolutely beyond cynical for companies like Coca-Cola to promote recycling/sustainability and then virtually not use any recycled pellets to feed their gargantous bottle production.

It's a huge ship to turn. The best answer is to stop drinking Coke and drink water instead. We're the ones buying it.
There are several Ministers of Justice, but there is only one Ministry of Justice, that answers to the president and is not part of the Judicial Branch.

Anyway, this decision was from the PROCON-DF that is a part of the Judicial Branch where no Minister of Justice works on. It's also only valid at Brasília.
Indeed, we have pages on our site that are north of 95% bot traffic. And they're not junk or honeypot pages. The humans on this page often represent hi value prospects we seek to convert. B2B2C service.
Is there are literature on that IBM system? It sounds fascinating
I think the comment about race conditions is spot on.

A while, back on hacker news, there was an article about a company developing a database. Their entire testing methodology came down to producing a deterministic kernel and thread scheduler. This allowed them to simulate every possible permutation of their concurrent code in scientifically speaking reproducible manner.

Developing this test framework was actually the majority of what the company did. Testing the kernel would be a similar level of effort.
> Why? Because once it's written down there's a paper trail and accountability.

This. It’s the hard part of getting people to commit to operational plans on the business side as well.
You seem to be implying that this is both an NYC problem due to the DA, but also a national problem, so it probably isn't just because of a DA in one city. And that's my question - do we even actually have a national problem and if so, what are the causes on a national scale? I don't know if there actually are answers; though it's obvious everyone has their pet theories.
“Cats began their unique relationship with humans 10,000 to 12,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, the geographic region where some of the earliest developments in human civilization occurred ”

Correlation or causation?
EU plans subsidy war chest as industry faces ‘existential’ threat from US
This is to separate the signaling traffic and the video streams traffic, so that the videostreams don’t oversaturate the control network.

Here’s some details:

https://www.securitycameraking.com/securityinfo/setting-up-y...
Steam has a surprising amount of Mac games but I fear many will never receive a native M1 update.
Excellent! I keep complaining after each vuln pops up here that there isn't anyone with a kernel pipeline. Hopefully they have some static analysis too? Does the data out of this effort support the ggp that most of these defects are concurrency related vs the norm of memory safety?
That's part of the problem. MacOS actually had the same Proton compatibility layer as Linux a few years ago, but with Catalina Apple changed what you're allowed to run on your Mac and it broke completely. Neither Valve nor Codeweavers have gotten DXVK or Proton to run on MacOS since, IIRC.
Epstein clearly had some kind of blackmail or leverage. He should have gone to jail earlier.

I'm not sure why you think people should have gone to jail in 2008. It was people doing a shitty job. That's not illegal. Similarly, MtGox was hacked. And, IIRC, people loaned Celsius money they then lost, not embezzled.

HSBC seems horrible, but I'm not sure they were able to identify individuals who violated the law beyond a shadow of doubt. It was one of those "everyone can point the finger at someone else" things. But, more importantly, they were still a financially large/successful company. So they could pay a fine and continue operating with new rules in place. Part of paying that fine is an agreement protecting the executives. I agree that happens too often.

I don't see how SBF fits into those. He doesn't seem to have blackmail material. It's not like everyone at FTX can claim it was someone else who did it (he's admitting it to reporters!) because it's a giant enterprise. It's not like FTX cannot be shut down because it's too big to fail/too big to jail.

But, yeah, the news doesn't report people are accused of crimes before formal indictments. Formal indictments wait until the charges are in place. Right now, they are still reconstructing just how much money SBF stole.

But I'll put my money where my mouth is. I'll totally bet that he goes to jail.
Huawei is beholden to the CCP and can be coerced. So playing it safe is probably a better idea than rolling out networks which we have no idea if they contain back doors or not that the CCP could use…
App Bundles in Android TV from 2023,it moves app packaging to Google's cloud
The whole ironman image was always a rather brittle facade that would crack eventually. Especially with the edgy shoot from hip twitter posting style.

Between Starlink/SpaceX and Tesla I'd say he's still looking pretty solid objectively even with the ongoing Twitter shitshow.

The other thing I'm wondering about is what the end goal is with Twitter. Articles like this are judging outcomes without knowing the goal which to me seems like a substantial reasoning mistake. Money? Ego? Some vague free speech ideological thing? Best as I can tell only he knows (perhaps not even him)
I hadn’t noticed downvotes, so I guess it’s a race between people with or without a sense of humor/irony. Maybe it’s the “can’t be bothered to count” part. That attitude is probably anathema, to this crowd.

I toss out “charging-only” cables, all the time, as well as the crappiest wall bricks, which are likely fire hazards.

I own a lot of kit, so I have many of both.
On my pixel 4 it failed to call 911 when i needed it once. The phone literally crashed and hung up.

But here you know what worked really well? Google tracking me all over the Internet… that never once failed!
How can a redirection take minutes?! And do you at least get some relaxing elevator music for you to remain calm while watching your house burn down?
> if he was written as a parody of a capitalist villain in a book, he would have been rejected by the editor because it's simply not credible enough that he's that stupid.

One of the best summaries of him I’ve read.
Steel cut whole oats in 1 hour.

I use an instant pot which does slow and pressure cooking
Yeah, and yet again people think the problem is with the strong and powerful that develop this stuff instead of the weak and foolishly "peaceful". Imagine if every country had nukes and ICBMs, total peace. With robots like these (and other weapons) there might be initial carnage if you have the wrong leaders anywhere but then a natural equilibrum will soon be established that will allow for a very long lasting peace fueled by deterrence. Either you get slaughtered by bots so you don't fight or you both rely on bots so less people die and surrender happens sooner when one side's bots get decimated.

Either way, shit is going down. I assure you, china and others are building similar robots, building them is not a choice unless not defending yourself in your opinion is a choice. And like nukes, without a power equilibrum, one side dominates and the wrong side will use it for conquering. The way you make sure this stuff doesn't get abused is by getting the right people in office.
As a HW guy this seems insane to me. Just because it's hard to do doesnt mean you can't randomise and try to create and catch failures. Might not catch 100%, but better than not trying. HW testing pre silicon is impressively comprehensive as the cost of respinning a chip is in the order of 10s of millions, so the industry found a way. While software is less costly to edit, the cost of updating and rolling out is essentially huge, but uncounted. Finding bugs by extensive testing, even for difficult to catch items, is inherently the right thing to do
> From what I understand, Apple decided to force Metal upon everyone instead of using Vulkan like the rest of the industry

Metal came out in 2014, Vulkan in 2016.
> Twitter has averaged a 25% average growth rate per year, and if it sustained that level of growth it would soon be worth what Elon paid for it.

I'm sorry but I'm very skeptical of this. It's unclear to me if you mean revenue or MAU but I would doubt it's growing at 25%. That would be an insane curve of exponential growth which I'm fairly certain is not the case for Twitter.
Big update to “The Illustrated Stable Diffusion” post
> Or will they sign a piece of paper saying "gold held by in a safe by someone else and owned by me is now owned by someone else" - in which case there is similar counterparty risk, except perhaps not against the US government.

The US holds a quarter of all the known gold reserves in the world, and has more gold than the next three countries combined, so there's a decent chance that Ghana's gold is already in the US.
Thank you for posting that. I did not know it was apocryphal. Funny how they have lots of artic historians looking for it.
Does protonDB work for Mac titles, or is it only for Windows? I've been able to play basically every game in my steam library on linux using protonDB. I have hundreds of games.
No:

1) You are putting a bunch of plasticizers and all sorts of chemicals in the mix that you probably don't want to get volatile.

2) You have to spend extra fuel (coal/gas/wood) getting a furnace up to the right temperature to incinerate this. (You can't really startup a fire with plastic).
Playstation 5 is still experiencing shortages even after all this time, you can only really find one if you join a wait list or pay a markup. The game catalog leaves more to be desired as well, I can only find like 3 games right now specifically for PS5 that are not also on PC worth playing, but fine, maybe that's more to do with me specifically. Either way, can we maybe resolve the current shortages before looking forward to the next one?
Under 1.2 W/kg in 10g of tissue ICNIRP is the international standard.

India has its own in 1g of tissue but I don't know the threshold value off the top of my head.
I know - I've seen other tech like this, "nobody" uses it for a reason.
Regarding the breakout AI, I think you could somewhat easily train an AI that was robust to such changes, for example by randomizing the paddle shape in training. But if you train an AI on a more specific version I wouldn't expect it to magically learn the more general problem.

In fact I'd argue it's unfair to expect an AI to automatically generalize without attempting to train it for that.

The only reason humans can quickly learn many games is that they've been exposed to a variety of tasks throughout their lives, as well as the fact that we have innate biases that we might use when designing games by humans for humans.