skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really is amazing at just how bad the various log shipping systems are for the simple use case of "I have logs on some servers and I want them to be over here." We somehow peaked at rsyslog and have been struggling ever since.

If you don't follow the one-true-architecture you will get bitten in a million ways.

* Log ingestion on the host pulls logs from the application/system/whatever, timestamps the logs itself (bc when you're interested in failure states do you really trust the log emitted by a broken app? Also because devs are famously bad a timezones), adds it's own metadata, and stores them in a local outbox queue.

* Local log ingestion determines where to send logs based on service discovery and periodically updates.

* Log ingestor ships the logs to a durable queue and flushes only after getting an ACK from the queue.

* Log processor reads from the queue and ships the logs off to persistent storage or a dead letter queue where you get an alert if it ever has something in it. Log processor only ACKs back to the queue only once it gets an ACK from the db. Logstash used to sin in this regard.

* Persistent storage treats logs as opaque blobs from the perspective of how they're physically stored. Indexes are time-window based depending on your volume, usually daily, and shipped off to different tiers / deleted on that basis.

This stack can horizontally scale indefinitely up to (and past since the queue backups allow you to temporarily fake more throughput than you really have) the throughput of your backing database.

I loathe how complicated and brittle the ELK stack is but they get this exactly right and if you implement it it becomes nigh-impossible to lose data. The market for "ELK style architecture but not the size of a 400 lb gorilla" has got to be huge but is seemingly untapped last I checked.
> Nobody in the space gives a crap what laptops people buy for personal use once every 5-7 years.

maybe they don't, but Intel should

btw my employer (Fortune 100 co) has switched to deploying Macs and will probably deploy close to 100k, all the Windows laptops are being timed out
There might be a small advantage brought in by Rust. The Rust memory model (R^W, no aliasing) does mean that some compiler optimizations are broadly applicable in Rust, but only apply in C/++ where the developer has taken the care to signal those constraints to the compiler.
> But when the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification check marks this month from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee, it left public agencies and other organizations around the world scrambling to figure out a way to show they’re trustworthy and avoid impersonators.

> While Twitter is now offering gold checks for “verified organizations” and gray checks for government organizations and their affiliates, the former come at a cost too steep to justify for many agencies.

So the problem is cost, not reliability. I was thinking that the core twitter infrastructure couldn't be trusted to deliver timely messages but that's not part of the story.
Yes, many time. In this video I documented 2 issues: solution replay is too fast, and 15s quizzes like I said.

https://imgur.com/a/NTo2cO1
It probably is not correct, because the pedestrian bridge max load is probably something like "what if an idiot drove a car down it" whereas the car bridge max load is "what if it was full of very heavy trucks and one burst into flame".

You also have to take failure modes into account, and how degraded the bridge can get before it's "unsafe".
Wait what do you have more info/links on that method of entry?
What to know about prescription drugs promising weight loss
Speedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
Well... actually for this use case we need something significantly improved. v4l2loopback has several flaws relevant to user-space camera drivers (which are also relevant to modern MIPI cameras).

The most important one is that it is cumbersome for the application that feeds the virtual camera to know whether its output is used at all - e.g. for power-saving. The correct solution is V4L2_EVENT_PRI_CLIENT_USAGE, but there is no way to use it e.g. from within a GStreamer pipeline or from a call to ffmpeg. You need something like v4l2-relayd, which is a separate application, that starts and stops the GStreamer pipeline based on such events.

Also, there is no way to implement controls (gain, resolution, color temperature, etc.) on the virtual camera that could be passed through to the app that feeds the camera.

There is also akvcam, but it implements image processing in the kernel, which is gross.
Where are these candidates? I’ve only ever been given barely-entry level Junior h1bs I’ve been expected to train from 0.

One person I was forced to work with legitimately did not understand how to connect to wifi or know when he was connected to wifi. He kept calling me saying his computer was broken.
And in exchange you get wild volatility swings and full financial freedom for criminals. Some things are just bad.
Not just a raincoat, I've had snow, sunny summer, storm gusts, hail and rain on the same day just this week, I'm int he SW though not entirely west.

I remember one time a few years back when I lived in Stavanger, I went to the post office in the city center there in a bright nice summer day and came out to torrential rain and rivers in the street!
> Intel will contract TSMC to make their chips?

They've been using TSMC for various parts/chips for probably 5 years now.
And yet.. unemployment at 3.4%. Do you know any unemployed engineers?
Ford IdeaPlace
> If someone wants to live, work, and pay taxes in the US, they should be free to come.

Make sure your infrastructure can handle it.

Make sure there's enough housing and regulations to handle it.
High inflation and decades of disparity in productivity gains vs compensation combined with massive cost of living increases has led much of the younger generations to completely give up on building wealth. They don't think they'll ever own a house or retire, so why would they attempt to save?
GPT is a generic acronym - the wikipedia article writes it out in lowercase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transfo...

gpt4free means "gpt for free" and also predates GPT-4. I don't think it was meant to be obnoxious or cause confusion.
Honestly, I don't think you have the proof.
Proving p is euqal to np will have very big consequences, not only in computer science but also in logics for example.
I think this problem is far more complex than you think and it is not going to be solved by chance by an amateur. If it's going to be solved, there will be a deep math argument.
I believe this is handwaving for Intel.

Intel lost money because computing started moving towards GPU architecture and AMD has both beat them in low power CPU and offer cheap GPU.

That's all. They were too late to GPU sales.
Is it me or does Netishyn (the city where the guy was caught, and presumably lived) seem eerily similar to the term "netizen"? ...Or, am I thinking/seeing things on a Friday that are not really there/linked? :-)
To keep wages low for citizens.
Did their discord get taken down already? The link from the repo 404s.
> Though some of the duplicate entries might have been picked in the lottery, . ... officials hope to disqualify visa applicants if they committed fraud to boost their chances

Why blame the applicants? Why not prosecute the companies doing this? It's not like the applicant has much choice in the matter.
> Trucks are terrible, pedestrians and bikes have zero impact.

Truck loading is very large, but pedestrians do have a non-zero impact - look at the solid marble steps of ancient buildings, for example.
Loki docs are here: https://github.com/grafana/loki/tree/main/docs/sources they are OSS.

The last contributor to the docs was an hour ago (at time of writing this comment) and came from a maintainer not employed by Grafana Labs.

Looking down the recent commits I see lots of activities from non-Grafana employees that have been accepted.

If there are specific issues with contributing docs or code please do point me towards them.
Easy to say but what would that future be? The only thing that could replace Windows is Linux. Intel funds Linux but there are fundamental issues there that stop it taking over. They could try and develop their own OS and PCs, a sort of reverse Apple, but do they have the money, staff and ideas for it?
How to make the most of Apache Kafka
It is that simple, but the question comes up early from recruiters and first round interviewers, not the hiring manager. If you are honest, you get disqualified at the gate. If you say “yes” to these folks, and it works, the first thing you now have to say to your real manager will be “I lied about a legal matter and now need you to sign something to help me get out of it”. Helleva first impression.
Ask HN: How to Test Route Changes
Hello HN,

I’m a network engineer at a large US company, and we’ve been having difficulty with ensuring our route advertisements are correct when making summarization and firewall changes.

This has caused outages recently, especially as we use both Azure and AWS as well as on prem data centers so our route tables have become very large and complex (roughly 4000 routes and growing).

Is there a resource around testing of routing? For applications I know there are both unit tests and end to end system to tests to make sure it works as expected. Is there something similar in networking?
[0] I had one of these in the 90s (in the US, where it's not illegal if designed correctly) that connected my Discman to my ridiculously sad factory radio which lacked both external input and even a cassette deck.

Heh. I drive a 2002 Chevy Suburban (don't laugh, I have a strong aversion to spending money on new vehicles) and it lacks an AUX input, so to this day I use one of those low-power FM transmitter adapters to pipe my phone's audio output to the vehicle stereo. They are amazingly handy little gadgets.
You could have caps and still decide via market if you had to bid for salary you are willing to pay and the highest ones are accepted.
exactly

why produce surplus value if you capture none of it?
Right. I sort of worry that because LLMs are able to be so coherent without anything resembling a human's working memory at all, then adding either a crude working memory still working with LLM tokens or adding a more sophisticated one assembled from "chunks"[1] will let an AI based on them ascend to clearly superhuman reasoning with just an architectural improvement and no need for any more flops invested than we already put into GPT4.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)
It is and it effects the families going through it as well. It took me a year to get back to normal productivity after the stress of my wife going through the process and it took her longer than that to start being able to sleep well again.

The current system is a drain on the US workforce and intentionally dehumanizing
Yea, I'll give up real meat when the elites do.
Grafana requires you to sign a CLA before they will accept any work, which can be really expensive (unless you have in-house lawyers or don't care about understanding the real ramifications of a contract): https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/cla/
How is Bitcoin mining in any way a broken window?
While I myself use Loki for log aggregation for a small web service that I run, and have gotten a lot of value out of it, I agree with the author that the product is not friendly to use.

It's notoriously difficult to know why ingestion of certain logs failed, to the point where I run a staging monitoring environment to debug issues like these.
That could also have been avoided by not rewriting in Electron, which I truly think 0 users wanted, whereas the old app warranted nominations for the Apple Design Award.

It’s still not too late to reverse that decision.

Incidentally, how would telemetry tell you that people miss a removed feature if said telemetry was not in place before removal?
The CVEs / Install Base ratio is a pretty silly metric for determining the security of a product. A large number of CVEs could tell you that the users and developers of a particular product care a lot (or are paranoid or are simply security minded) about security, and want to give notice of issues to as many people as possible.

This is a live issue in the Rust community, which does appear to care a great deal about security, as to how to deal with minor/theoretical vulnerabilities perhaps unworthy of a CVE.
Dumb question, but isn’t Rust an awful name marketing wise? How did the language’s founders settle on it? Hopefully there’s a more interesting history than rust is a thin layer atop bare metal.
When stock price triumphs everything else and management is stuffed with political hacks as opposed to value creators the only way is to keep cutting cost until the whole show runs into the ground.
The focus is on the current set of people to make bank before the thing falls apart.
He did say that the webcam had its gain and white balance controlled by the driver so I'm guessing he didn't go the extra mile to reverse engineer that part of the software for what is a pretty lousy camera.
> Let go of extrinsic motivation (their brains are severely muted against it). Focus on cultivating empty time & space to find intrinsic motivation

It's funny. My school had block scheduling, so four coursers per day at 80 minutes a piece, and a really insanely large catalogue of electives. We were the only school in the area and some kids' bus ride was 30 minutes or more, so it was very very well funded and had a lot of trade programs. I did a lot of dabbling. I always did horribly in my actual required classes, but on the flipside, found a lot of passion and fulfillment in the classes where, for the entirety of the semester, you kind of just had a single project that you were working on by yourself. You showed up to the room to check in and then just used the facilities to kind of do your own thing.

I did all kinds of stuff. An electronics class, photography, jewelry making, metalcrafting, shop, programming. I actually believe it's a huge part of why I was able to even finish school in the first place.

> But for both of them, as well as for the many other young men whose parents went this path, their son found their “thing”

I started programming when I was 11, so even high school felt like kind of a joke, as I knew what I was going to do and also knew that high school for the most part wasn't teaching me it. Generally kind of a distraction.

> but that just delays this process to their 20s

I would say I still haven't really had this process. For better or worse, I guess.
What's most awkward about this for me is the framing. Surely you have to ask if people are free or if they want to come to a beach house BEFORE you book.

But maybe the point is you'd use it anyway if they didn't want to come?

But then if they said "oh we'd rather just go down to the local" I'd rather than do that and it would be weird cos they'd say, didn't you book a beach house?
With the stunning 1-2% year on year gains in speed, when you're not losing 10-20% of your performance for mitigations, who sees a compelling reason to upgrade their computer? Laptop, workstation, or server?
And the stock is up.... SMH. Can never figure out Wall St.
Might be talking about asylum seekers? Who I believe are allowed to stay until their asylum hearings?

I mean... they talk about the hell of the legal immigration process without mentioning the hell people who're coming to our Southern boarder seeking asylum are going through.

I do agree the legal H1B process is brutal though.
Since your profile says “Please help me to understand!” I’ll take a swing:

You’re being downvoted because HN prefers a more substantive discussion on topics than your comment. Security, privacy, currency controls…there are any number of interesting points in this story. A “jank” network setup isn’t one of them.

Probably more importantly the tone is very Reddit-esque.
A friend of mine used a cheap (pac207) webcam. He complained to me that the camera image was too dark. I looked in the kernel for its driver... found the line which controlled its brightness... sent a patch to maintainer to increase. The maintainer accepted just a bit lower than what I suggest; he said that if the exposure was too long some protocol (probably USB) could break.

Update the driver on my friends' computer (of course, without waiting a new kernel release) and boom, much better image from the camera! He was happy. He thanked me for how I fixed it, I thanked him for giving me opportunity for such a small and useful hack.

Got back to visit him a few days later. Noticed he wasn't using the webcam anymore. I asked "where's your webcam?", he said: "Damn webcam only works correctly under linux!"
Part of what makes this nice is that it's a handmade product of love for a family member. I think if you commoditize something like this, it loses much of its charm and even some of its purpose.
Calling them technology companies is a stretch. They should really be labelled as staffing companies.
I struggled with the restaurant example for this reason.

I take an invite to a restaurant as an invite to hang out and socialize. My friend is telling me they want to spend time together and don't want to cook. I don't feel awkward about this at all.
Engineers are getting paid 200k p/y out of school and you think there's some magical downward pressure on wages?

Even now companies are giving up on the legal immigration system and hiring outside the US. Canada has a much saner system. Gigantic engineering offices in India and China.

The US treats it as some zero sum game between citizens / immigrants and is losing out on taxes, economic spending (every HC outside the US is less spend in the US local economies).
It's not actually vital for Intel as a company to survive? As long as the foundaries and designs survive. Somebody else will take the business away from them.
Can you explain more? I also sense the Philips is a fading giant, but I struggle to a put a finger on it. Part of it might be that it is constantly spinning out divisions into separate companies.
How busy is the river traffic in East London? If it's not incredibly busy you'd think some sort of movable bridge would be doable.

A permanent structure has to go down really far, or up really far, neither of which is that desirable for walking/bikes.
It's the same with minimizing my carbon footprint. As soon as Al Gore and Bill Gates stop flying I'm all in.
Clubhouse needs to fix things, and today it cut more than half of staff
> You should just show them wise.com where they can open a US dollar account.

These are women in the north of Vietnam who know nothing about US dollar accounts and don't even speak english.
Installing linux on my school issued Chromebook was my first experience with linux and really helped me learn all of the computer related things I wanted to learn but the school failed to give me an opportunity to.
Who exactly is responsible for the patient’s wellbeing long term? The old idea of doctors and pharmacists should be putting themselves out of a job doesn’t seem to be reflected in many healthcare systems. It is also not morally responsible for patients who may not be self reliant to do so for a number of reasons(I.e. not in right health or mind).

On the reverse, how many doctors or pharmacists actually recommend lifestyle and supplementation changes before resorting to a prescription through observation? My experience has been quite disappointing and I lose faith every time I get a checkup.

For what it is worth, I’m not on any prescriptions and actively refuse recommended prescriptions when only seen for 30 minutes every half year. It always feels like an up sell when all you want is to be sent on your way with an acknowledgment that you’re healthy.
I used to have this when I lived in Seattle! It’s pretty cool tech
The NASA Fluidic Telescope Project
Yes this seems the way to think about it, but on the other hand linking two objects with many weak links will generally result in a strong link, because the force divides between them.
What's your ranking for "next things to make memory safe"? I'm going to guess the TLS stack would be #1, considering fly.io's sponsorship of rustls. Eager to hear the rest of the list.
I suspect you're being downvoted for being somewhat off topic. Also for commenting on downvotes which is also frowned upon.
Azure hypervisor runs on a custom build of Windows.
Yeah, it was a slipup.
Some have been built. Liquid metal fast reactors and high temperature gas cooled reactors have considerable experience and no showstoppers. (Although whether they are better than the alternatives is more questionable.). Molten salt reactors have been tested but have more serious questions around materials.

The economics of all the above could be radically better if they were coupled to something like

https://energycentral.com/c/ec/supercritical-co2-turbine-bei...

although that is not a bird in the hand. Early on it was thought the sodium fast reactor would inevitably cost than an LWR because if the need for multiple cooling loops and huge sodium-water heat exchangers but a more compact heat conversion system could let many fast reactor benefits shine through such as a much small core, smaller buildings, no need to deal with high temperatures, iodine dissolving in the coolant and being trapped in an emergency, etc.
Play is a path to discovery. There's a lot of hype and vaporware in AI these days. There's also some real value there, but I'm not sure we've really figured out what the real value propositions are. I strongly suspect the inherent limitations in AI means that many of the current applications are doomed to failure. Playing with AI will give people a better internalized sense of the strengths and weaknesses, and it will do that broadly in ways that will let more people with more problems recognize when these tools can actually help them. The real problem we have today is that most people just don't really have a good intuition for that.
The distribution of goods is vital to every part of that? Making it cheap enough to reach every citizen of Earth is what shipping containers have made possible.
Paying a bill isn't forcing anything on anyone. It literally doesn't involve them, it's between the payer (the gift giver) and the payee (the restaurant).
This absolutely counts. This is such a great testament to how simple engineering and thoughtful design can do good in the world. You're a good son!

Is there a reason besides preventing commercial use that you don't just have a PDF link on your site?
Because there is still a shortage of engineers. And we still have the lowest unemployment in modern history.
Is it barbaric when coyotes kill and eat a deer (often while still alive)? or when a lion eats an antelope?
This is a real credit to the UAE scientists and engineers. Getting to Mars and being able to do something useful has historically been a very tough problem.
Yes, you’re absolutely correct, the people arriving on the southern border seeking asylum definitely haven’t been through any kind of dehumanizing treatment along the way. Solid take.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/06/mexico-asylum-seekers-fa...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2018/10/usa-...

Maybe you need to diversify your news diet? “They just ask to come in then get put on planes” is a pretty widely discredited talking point.