skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent some time digging into this for the fast, light, and easy-to-use replacement for Docker Desktop and (co)lima that I've been working on.

The root of the problem is that VM memory is allocated on demand, but never freed after it's used for the first time. In other words, once used, it can never be released. Since my app has a lighter userspace, it starts out using less memory than other VMs, but eventually reaches the memory limit given enough usage and time. (My optimized memory management setup means the VM works well with a lower memory limit than others, but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem.)

Linux has a feature called "page reporting" to report chunks of memory that are no longer used to the hypervisor, which can then drop the to reduce usage on the host side. WSL 2 actually uses this feature, but I suspect it becomes less effective with longer VM uptime because memory becomes more fragmented over time. Since Hyper-V has been limited to dropping contiguous 2 MiB chunks of memory until recently [1], fragmentation is likely the reason many users report high memory usage. Page cache is definitely a contributor as well, but a much easier one to fix. It looks like Microsoft is working on the problem with page reporting.

Although Apple's Virtualization.framework doesn't support page reporting, I was able to implement it with some workarounds and confirmed that this works with QEMU on Linux. Unfortunately, while free memory is correctly reported to macOS, nothing actually seems to get freed. I'm planning to report this to Apple because it seems like memory ballooning (essentially a more limited and primitive version of page reporting) doesn't work as documented, whether it's Virtualization.framework or another VMM like QEMU. If/when Apple fixes this, it'll be possible to reduce memory usage significantly. Details from my investigation into what's going on with memory management on the XNU side: https://twitter.com/kdrag0n/status/1612309883411640321

The good news: From my testing, the issue isn't as bad as it appears. The "free" memory tends to compress quite well, so XNU's memory compression does a good job at taking care of it when you're actually running low on memory.

(Shameless plug on this topic: The app I'm working on already has quite a few improvements over others: fast networking (30 Gbps), VirtioFS and bidirectional filesystem sharing, Rosetta for fast x86, full Linux (not only Docker), lower CPU usage, native Swift UI, and other tweaks. Email in bio for waitlist. Details to avoid spamming this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34374176)

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/30/81
Then driving away a significant portion of the user base is probably a bad idea.
That anecdote reflects the data protection part, everyone dealing with Windows trying to disable tracking experienced their horrible data collection attitude
> Based on there respective track records I sometimes wish that shttp was a thing.

Well, shttp was a thing: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2660.html
those phages are specifically targeting staph infection. this company has a few "off the shelf" ready compounds for sale. given that parent has today problem with staph, priority I think will be to treat it with something that is available (as he is currently trying with antibiotics) and not with probiotics of specific strain that seems to be unobtanium as of now
Rural life sucks. You know why they have so many kids? When you friends play it's fun until they die from farm accidents like falling into grain silos or machines.

You can't childproof a farm. It's way easier to die from misadventures.
And for the edit queue not to be full. So yes, basically the stars have to align :p
It's hilarious how Twitter 10x'ed the amount of ads they push yet you can't follow the occasional promoted account even if you legit want to. Somebody should tell advertisers they are wasting all that money.
So C# -> bytecode -> C++ -> Javascript? Wow.
These are the ending lyrics to “Time” from the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon.
Yep, and the event today certainly counts as an outage. I'm being charitable and only counting today's outage and December's (so two), but there's a strong case to be made that I should also be counting things like:

- Spaces going down

- 2FA breaking for a nontrivial number of users and (as far as I know) never getting fixed

It's silly for anyone to claim that Twitter hasn't been less stable over the past few months than it usually is.

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What makes an "outage" harder to define now is that Twitter basically gives no statements about them and no postmortems. There hasn't been any acknowledgement from Twitter about pretty much anything stability-wise since Musk took over. Which is another way that Twitter today is tangibly different from how it used to operate, but:shrug:

The end result is that "outages" end up being a lot more blurry, and we get conflicting reports from Musk and from other workers about what happened, if we get reports at all. A system breaks and stops working randomly? Twitter's head of safety says it's temporarily down as part of a planned migration. Musk lies and says it never went down at all. Either way, you're not getting a record you can look up later on an uptime page.

But the site does seem to be struggling more often than it used to.
I would actually agree with that, when a startup radically changes it's direction I generally see it as a sign of weakness. Of course, not always the case.
Stuxnet. How Israel and the US used a virus to slow Iranian uranium enrichment.
I think enough people will get sick enough of the ads that they will be willing to pay a few bucks a month to avoid it.
There's a spectrum between not using LLMs at all, and exposing their output directly to the user.

I think the most successful programs to leverage LLMs will be ones that use the model's output to be better or more intuitive in some way, optimistically, without exposing completion text directly in the UI.
It would drive non-immune related mutations, and in general most mutations are towards less severity.
> Tropical forests are bacterial, temperate fungal

This seems like an impossible claim to back up but I would absolutely love to read if you have anything that would

It's well-known that in general in the ecological succession of the soil food web, soils "start" out more bacteria dominated (corresponding with nitrogen generally being available more as nitrates and nitrites) and slowly turn to being more fungal dominated (corresponding with nitrogen being generally available more as ammonium or other harder to access forms that generally come along as the food web gets increasingly complex and trophic layers build up)

By "start" up above I of course mean after a disturbance like a fire since we're talking about secondary succession (if we were talking about primary succession we'd be talking volcanoes and lichen turning rocks to soil). Therefore, I would expect the pattern to have a lot more to do with the amount of disturbance different areas are exposed to. Perhaps a lot of tropical areas can have intense monsoon seasons, but there are just as many examples I can think of of temperate areas with regular disturbances.

In addition, I tend to think of the incredible diversity of orchid species in the tropics and many of these species often rely on a specific fungal species to even germinate. So I would also expect to see more diversity both in fungi and bacteria in the tropics

Is any of my line of thinking on this misled? Would love to have it pointed out!
Question about ebike controllers to anyone who knows. It seems odd that upgrading the controller would necessarily push more amperage through the motor; wouldn't a motor given a certain voltage simply pull amperage based on its internal resistance, so long as the controller was able to supply the power?
We used to see those articles, but now that the models are actually good enough to be useful I think people are much more willing to overlook the flaws.
I am waiting for the same, but with air conditioners. A crappy $100-$200 window unit, plugged into an equally baseline solar panel. Free opex cooling that could be installed for basically no work.
I didn't. We run reverse proxies in front of our apps anyway so I just changed the port at the proxy. I wish I had a better answer for you. Maybe someone else does.
No. Kids are a full-time job and with 4 of them there would be little time for anything else. So what if I pay no taxes, id still have to work to earn money to feed, house, clothe, educate, entertain them. All the whole public services would be deprived of even more funding making it even harder if anything ever goes wrong like a major illness, becoming disabled, having a special needs child, being a single parent, schools closed for a snow day... the list goes on.
> There’s a disconnect between what the masses find entertaining vs. what the elites find artistically valuable. This gap is far wider now than it has ever been.

When you word it like that, you make it sound like "the masses" don't find movies artistically valuable, and "the elites" don't find movies entertaining.

What if "the masses" are able to find movies just as artistically valuable as "the elites", but just don't want to shell out $100 going to see a movie that can be viewed at home in a few months for free without any loss of fidelity? And what if "the elites" take just as much pleasure as "the masses" in seeing the newest Hollywood spectacle in 3D IMAX with 100+ channels of Atmos surround sound?

In other words, what if this doesn't have anything to do with social class, but rather with the fact that going to the theater costs 10x as much as it used to cost while home viewing is 10x better than it used to be?

I'm not saying the increased theater cost isn't worth it. To the contrary: some movies can really only be properly experienced in the theaters with all the bells and whistles—and those movies are the ones that people are willing to pay for.
It’s definitely because Susan Wojcicki is at the helm. Interestingly, Google started in her (parents?) garage.

Here’s a tour of the recreation
https://maps.app.goo.gl/syHHp9GWmaGA5Woz7
Data from the 2010 Census: 80.7%: Percent of the U.S. population is urban (living in Urbanized area or Urban Cluster).

Sounds like a majority to me.
When you're right, you're right.

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/examples/default... 4gig default

~$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 3907 304 1446 1 2156 3431
Swap: 0

Thank you.
I was held up at gunpoint and I refused to give up my item. I never got PTSD from it because I stood my ground.

I was hit in the head, in a fight and because he lied to the police and said I attacked fiest I felt helpless and that gave me mental anguish.

For me when these problems are unresolved or i felt helpless in the situation it caused me to replay the situation and upset myself more until I stopped it.
That was not the context. The context was that people have to tell support about bugs but support can’t talk to developers, so you end up in a feature request forum.
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair

In such a world people who enjoy the physicality etc. would get petrochemical disk based music, most people would just download a file or stream. The unethical thing is denying others the right to copy and modify, the unethical thing is intellectual property.

Yes, I too support UBI but I think your conclusion is wrong, it becomes much much LESS ethical to try and deny people access to data if you don't need to make money to be alive/healthy/happy. Why try to create inequality in a situation where it's so unnecessary? What's the point?
Dogfooding is an antipattern now?
They are not dumb, no. They are in role that selects for people to maximize risk where upside is high. Generally, whenever people who work really hard look flat-out dumb, one should start from a prior that one’s perspective is limited. Use curiosity.
My city introduced car free streets, then they introduced mall cops to them and they effectively became unwelcoming commercial strip malls. America has an America problem, and the solution won't be simple.
The two measure have nothing to do with each other.
I'm not sure if the parent poster meant GPU or CPU. While yeah GPU has good floating point math, you probably don't use that for things like excel.

On the other hand the CPU has floating point math too, and floating point math is MUCH faster than decimal math.

So his point holds if you replace GPU with CPU, but his use of GPU is likely inaccurate.
Problem for developers in the Microsoft stack is that Visual Studio requires Docker Desktop to be installed - unless Rancher is able to fake that.
Engineers are licensed and bonded. Are you licensed and bonded? No.
Jailbreaking Bing with Token-Smuggling
It's not about giving up a tool, it's about swapping it for a different tool. Creating a "food on table" dependency with Adobe is what's unrealistic.
Twitter appears to be adopting a mindset of "move fast and break things", which includes testing in production. Some of the new features eventually turned out fine, but they definitely didn't get everything right on first try.

The Twitter before last year seemed more careful about changes that could disrupt users and businesses, as is appropriate for a company with millions of users. The current Twitter don't seem to mind as much.
> You know Google has been doing this for years now?

Of course.

What’s changed is that before now, they were the only ones who could do it, vs now, everyone can do it. So this technology only got deployed where someone could get a promo out of it whereas now, every to-do list app, dating app, and even a reasonably sophisticated nigerian prince can find a place to deploy it.

Think of what gcc did to software tool chains, Apache to servers, Linux to operating systems and to a lesser degree, blockchains to distributed databases.

> Google has been doing this for years via search cards, which are AI generated summaries of website information.

Yes. But now, someone else can do it too. And if that someone else does a good job, Google just lost the opportunity to show advertisements to all of those “searches”.

Doesn’t mean that anyone is about to beat Google in terms of sheer talent and experience with this stuff. But a very hungry and determined community of entrepreneurs just got hands on something that’s about as good as Google’s secret sauce and they’re about to run wild.
If he is using it to ferry children to and fro, I suspect he is prioritizing routes with significantly less risk of road hazards and heavy traffic. More pleasure-craft than ultimate utility.
Sure, if they have an in-stock phage that targets his particular strain of staph, why not?

But the Bacillus subtilis also appears to be readily available. I think if I were faced with a potentially life-threatening staph infection, I'd happily do all of the above: antibiotics, probiotics, and sure, phages too. The latter two seem like low risk things to try (EDIT: but I'd probably at least run the idea past my doc)
I don't see a reason why Forth or Factor can't have both.
I hate Hackathons
> They’re not going to let it run free or you will see countless articles on “ChatGPT is a Holocaust denier, news at 11”.

If we're afraid of that then we're already worse off.
I wonder if MS can query and see the pain of people just searching for the Google Chrome download link, downloading it, closing Edge and never opening it ever again.
Someone to join me and share radical and horrible things?
Thank you! Phase gear is much more affordable these days with the x1d/x2d and GFX series eating their lunch a bit :)

Plus you still get Capture One for free still with them...
What I really want is a filesystem I can span across geographically remote nodes that's transparently compatible. I should just be able to chuck files into it from my NAS like any other. I think Mayastor [1] might get some of the way there?

[1] https://github.com/openebs/mayastor
I encountered the same problem and had a pretty unique solution: I made the constant flow of information the focus of my own stuff. Instead of trying to detach myself from it, I just embraced it. I've never been happier.

I accepted that what I loved to do was gobble information and to gain more time what I really needed to do was kill my job. I started tuning all my information gathering and consuming towards balance sheets, SEC filings, hedge fund disclosures, quarterly earnings calls, investor conferences, etc. I started making money trading stocks on the side. I got comfortable and have replaced my salary for the last 3 years with trading profits.

Maybe stock trading isn't for you, but you could just find a job or career where you feed off the constant flow of information. Make that your stuff.
How do you feel about founding a startup?
I agree that Kafka is overused. But IMHO Kafka's strength is not scaling but decoupling. Services can publish data without other interested parties being online. If you need this, is obviously another question.
Bitcoin BTC has processed its largest block in history
I got an RNI pack and have been very pleased. Especially the slide simulations. https://reallyniceimages.com/
>Sigh, at this point, I think if I saw BB/BB 5x5 for $150, I’d buy what I had room to store.

So you don't think it's ever coming back? Dunn lumber in Seattle, FYI.
How did you manage the shocks? I've been thinking about a conversation for my commuter (more for the diy aspect than really wanting an electric)
Google bombed, while doing pretty much the same thing as Microsoft
This is a common misconception. While podman is indeed installed on Red Hat CoreOS it does not run the containers used by OpenShift. OCP 4 uses CRI-O to run all containers and if you login as the core or root user and run podman ps you wil not see any running containers.
Where is a better value? I’m not in the industry, but When I’ve looked, it seems like there’s an unserved gap between the really high end stuff and the Home Depot stuff
>> joint US-Russia-Ukraine-Germany “diplomacy simplification strike force”

Thank you so much for this, makes me start the day in such a better mood!!!
You mentioned office politics but some of the FAANG parts aren't that bad. Why don't you see how your friends feel? Friend of a friend works at google with autonomous vehicles (I think it was android for cars), he liked it there while the web dev at google left pretty quickly.

If you have a passion and want to share it, see if you can contribute to home assistant, there's a project to add a chat gpt like to it although it looks more like a decision tree.
I am a historian who was born in 3000 ‘AD’ as you say, and I am curious about your thoughts. What’s the best way you can describe the ‘sides’ your response alludes at? How would you name these divergences?
Heads up, can't swipe the carousel left/right reliably. I'm using Edge/Android 13 on a Pixel 7 in portrait orientation.
> At the same time multiple part time workers, such as myself, would pick up slack or work OT due to these unmotivated workers. It definitely lead to a weird culture.

Isn't this part of the problem? It's managements problem to deal with, not yours, and you shouldn't need to 'pick up the slack.' Sure there are times when it makes more sense to just do it, but if it was consistent, and everyone else was picking up the slack, the union wasn't the only problem; Everyone that was constantly enabling this behaviour was at least partially responsible too. Once in a while is fine, but eventually you need to go to management and put your foot down.

And isn't it interesting that if you did put your foot down, it's your union that would also be protecting you against retaliation from management?
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Not to mention the original paxlovid trial was for a 10 day course of treatment but it was decided when approving the EUA that a 5 day course would be used to help spread out the limited doses. Yet today it just sits on shelves unused and people are still getting less effective half courses, many going on to 'rebound' and not clear the virus completely.
Don’t speak about it, will be the next law.
How come? Just long hours or something else?
I have had great success creating DSLs using ipython, where you simply define a set of classes and functions on them, then use ipython.embed() (Before it was terminal.embed, so you can see where the experience is dated).
I was extremely mystified by a BBC world report on it a day after making no mention of the US but instead theorizing about russian sabotage.

It just seemed inexplicable to me at the time because of Biden's prior remarks. In that light I can't see how anyone wouldn't immediately assume the US didn't do it-- the US hadn't even denied it at the time!
Ask HN: Has anyone lost data due to Windows BitLocker?
I like the concept of encrypted drives -- I don't like when I don't really control the keys or encryption scheme. I've experience numerous Windows reboots that failed, usually after a "Windows Update," due to a BitLocker issue. Latest was "An unexpected error was encountered attempting to retrieve the BitLocker volume master key during restart." I have numerous copies of the recovery keys in case I need to enter them manually, but I still just don't trust it.
I block Reddit access on my phone and laptop. HN is ok for me and as addictive.
Kinda proves the dangers of flooding a nation with foreigners though doesn’t it? I mean if it’s bad when a bunch of Brits come invade some place why isn’t it bad when Pakistanis or “Syrians” do the same? Are you for, or against colonialism?
It is the responsibility of you to find an alternative product if you don't like the limits put in place by the company doing this. It is a free market.
It takes periodic maintenance to repair the blade and restore efficiency.
Astronomers astonished by ring around frigid distant world Quaoar
>preventing a non-zero number of infections and transmissions

You could argue it prevented transmissions, but given the vast majority of people everywhere have been infected, it's hard to argue the covid vaccines prevent infection, no? They only delay it.
The answer is simple: you don't. Just enjoy uselessly wasting your time on podcasts and browsing internet while your life passes by.

If you are perfectly fine with that - no need to change anything.
If you are not - you will find strength to change it.

It's harsh but is simple as that.

Not trying to be condescending at all - speaking from personal experience.
> Problem for developers in the Microsoft stack is that Visual Studio requires Docker Desktop to be installed

I'm not sure what you are referring to here. I run Docker engine in WSL2, and vscode in Windows. It all seems to work seemlessly to me. What am I missing?
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Will Babies Exist?
Imagine AGI is here, now, would you still consider having human babies? why?
This was exactly my thought as well as I finished the blog post. Don't get me wrong, it's a short but helpful blog, but 4 out of 4 points all have a PaulG quote in there.
If it weren't written by Hersh we'd have found out very quickly. By now it's surely clear that it was.
Well, you said you were dissatisfied that people were avoiding challenging questions in favor of karma farming easy ones. Failing to prune lazy questions with no value to other users incentivizes that exact behavior because hard questions don't usually have a better payoff.
I do shoot with Fuji X-T30 sometimes, how did you know?! But mostly shooting with iPhone nowadays since it's always with me. Your links are awesome, I'll try them out!
They are sometimes funny. To test how it would react with a weird question I asked ChatGPT how to collect human eggs as if I was a farmer, in French. In French it’s very much about eggs like if humans were oviparous. Women eggs are only called something else (ovules).

Anyway it was lost in translation and ChatGPT understood that I asked about human trafficking to collect women eggs (ova), which made no sense in French.