skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It needs to be able to send unix datagrams so it can blackhole your IP address in the RAW PREROUTING iptable if you DDOS the system. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/f10845ab9f847e4cad... You can't ban someone's IP without root. So we have two choices: (1) create a setuid binary the web server can launch that does it, or (2) run a daemon as root that listens for AF_UNIX datagrams. To do (1) I'd need to grant fork() + execve() privileges, which I view as more problematic than (2) which only needs sendto (possibly even just write). You've helped me realize that I can make the blackholed integration much tighter than the way it's currently being implemented in https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/f10845ab9f847e4cad... so thank you!

As for surface area, I expected people to rake me over the coals for blocking io_uring. I didn't anticipate support for Google's zeal. OpenBSD is actually even more permissive than me when it comes to letting stuff through pledge("stdio"). https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/fb5793d3d4d0fd4795586dd9... Also surface area isn't a weakness, it's a paradigm. If a weakness actually exists, then you must exploit it. So long as you tell us what you did, for the post-mortem.
Why Don’t They Believe Us? (2021)
European windows don't slide up like Americana ones to support cubic window mounted AC units, and many offices in the old town don't have AC and everyone is peak summer sweating bullets in t-shirts instead of wearing 2 layers and a jacket like in US offices.

Also, I wasn't being snaky at all, Apple is not the only Bay Are corporation to designing consumer products around the climate and lifestyle of the people working for them, omitting the other global demographics that face different climate challenges and lifestyles of those in California.

How much are you willing to bet, that the second gen will feature a better battery support as the first gen will get criticized for this?
Kind of?

In practice, communication is essential. We expect closed feedback loop in our technological systems. Turns out that systems made of humans also need feedback loops.

So I don't know if communicators are treated as "more valuable". Maybe. But it might be fair to treat to treat systems lacking closed feedback loops as missing value. In some cases, they may be borderline useless.

Point being, a great piece of tech needs [1] someone to demonstrate its value. Especially technologies that require many people to maintain them. That's how we close feedback loops in communities and organizations.

[1] OK. Technology-based performance art or side projects are possible. Just don't be shocked if nobody cares and the die off when original creators trade them for other interests.
I think if you work at a company that recently laid off 21k people, you are less likely to feel comfortable saying you need help with doing your job.
If you're going to wait for me to take my headphones off in an open office, your going to wait till I'm heading out. Your better off sending a meeting invite, I'll make sure I'm available.

What's funny is your solution "or to pull people first thing in the morning next day when we're all are getting in" should be a meeting invite rather than a morning ambush.
I'm in a similar boat currently. I've been in the same startup for almost 6 years now, pretty much since day one of its creation. I've been with the founders through every step of the way and my closest circle of friends is among the employees.

But at this point it feels like the product is going nowhere fast. I'm worried about my career (i don't have much else on my CV) but being the very first hire I'm afraid quitting would kill any confidence remaining in the company and trigger an exodus.
I guess this is the same kind of question as "how do you know you don't live in the matrix?".

Technically possible, but practically LLMs do not actually outperform domain experts to this date.
Yes indeed -- all of these reasons make userspace spinlocks undesirable in the general case, which is pretty much the point I was trying to make :)

(Edit:) Arguably, I could've been less obtuse in what I wrote.
I'm hoping things will go better for me this time, but the last time I used a Mac for work (5 or 6 years ago) I found the exact opposite. Many things I wanted couldn't just couldn't be done, even with paid third-party apps. Many more behaviors could be put back in with third party apps, but were either inherently broken or at some point broken by Apple with a new OS release.

From a desktop Linux perspective, Apple is a bit like opposite world. The desktop environment itself is extremely barebones and inflexible, but proprietary app publishers are much more likely to target the platform.

macOS blows what I'm used to out of the water when it comes to the availability of apps (that I'm mostly not interested in, because they're proprietary, single platform, and/or cloud-based), but then the core operating system, from the filesystems to the desktop itself, feels basically extremely incomplete.
You can say that again. Yes, obviously these people sending their kids to communist army camps are histrionic but its the type of performance the CCP is looking for. I can send you sources if you aren't aware of what I am talking about.
Only to import metadata. But for actual functionality that's set in stone... the interface clearly believes that any audio file is music.

Hell, I have a stand-up comedy library... and if you pull up the Steve Martin album, it suggests his banjo music. You know, both audio files both Steven Martin (the man's been awarded Grammies for both, it seems).

The absolute minimum they might give us is just a different icon for audio books and for comedy. Chosen at library creation time, and no other changes. Even that's too much though.

> Don’t know about ebooks

Ebooks would require changes to the mobile clients in particular. No one's reading an ebook on Plex HTPC.

These changes aren't staggering in their complexity, they aren't horrendous endeavors. They're pretty cheap/easy. They have no interest.
I completely disagree. Major cities all have English signage now, especially for transportation.
Maybe this doesn’t happen to you but: my infuse app on my Apple TV constantly clears the cache because it gets full. This requires it to rescan my library before I have access to my media. Kind of a pain. Server side processing like with jelly fin would prevent this from happening. This is the reason I bounce back and forth between infuse and Plex on my Apple TV.
Do you mean Michigan's IP laws or Detroit? I always assumed that this was something an employer had to write in, not the default.

Do you have a source? From looking, the only default I found is Michigan has the concept of a "shop right" but that involves inventions on employer time with employer resources. It is also narrowly defined[1]

[1]: See end of "Patent Rights" section, https://www.michbar.org/file/barjournal/article/documents/pd...
It's beyond ironic that Discord called itself that, being the successor to OpenFeint and its privacy lawsuit scandal, and being proprietary.

Now it is one of the most privacy-hostile AND preservation-hostile platforms around.
Show HN: Adjust – dynamic adjustment for system parameters
I made a tiny utility to be able to adjust sound, brightness, gamma etc., from the terminal.

In the file ~/.adjustments, just add a name for the thing you want to control, then low high step and initial values, can be decimal, and then a line with the command you want to execute, with a single '%' being replaced with the value.

Hit 'q' to finish.

It's super handy to have ← → cursor keys to adjust a setting, rather than retyping the command in full.
Must be very sector dependent? My experience (finance) has been nothing like what is described.

No scams, few rejections/non-responses, no AI, no take home test, no real shenanigans. Just recruiters reaching out with job specs asking if interested.

Maybe it's because I'm in a fairly niche area that has "small world" vibes so everyone behaves to protect their rep
YouTube Shorts is a clone of Musical.ly (now rebranded as TikTok) which was a clone of Vine.
Probably people who have their screen brightness set to lower levels (automatic or not).

I notice some airline apps and Google Wallet set screen brightness to maximum when you view a boarding pass.
It legally becomes a Thunderdome.
Good on you (and everyone) for releasing it as Free Software. Just the target is unfortunate.
> They need a legal source from somebody, maybe with a SLA, that they can sign a contract with, not set up some hack.

I'm not asking them to provide the video files.

I'm asking for the feature. And if someone doesn't understand that's what I'm asking for, then I have to conclude that what they think Plex is supposed to be is very different from what I think it's supposed to be.

That'd make me wrong, except that 10 years ago everyone who knew about Plex agreed with me. Including the original developers.
Do you ever notice/regret the fact that it only has 1GBe instead of 2.5?
Come on now. If you want to complain about it, complain about it -- give reasons and actual evidence. You don't just get to say "regulation and nimbys" and not get the down arrow.
Upvoted for honesty :)
The problem of concurrent cron jobs isn't new. Solutions existed for decades. Fedora cron used eth0's first IP address and a urandom number to stagger cron jobs starting times. Google addressed this issue by having a single enterprise wide cron service. Why does Github have such a simplistic cron service in this day and age?
I feel this problem (I also find configuring keycloak clunky) - but I understand their problem.

OIDC allows an arbitrary number of identity providers to register themselves - so there's not really a clear way to distinguish "config" vs "data" here.

That said - They've recently improved importing and exporting realms, and it really solved a lot of my pain. Mainly - you can now directly import/export realms in the UI, and the server doesn't need to be stopped.

Still a little more finicky than I'd like, but way less risky than having to reconfigure by hand.
Thanks for reminding me the time I visited Peru in the early 2000s and saw fields of orderly criss crossing rows of rocks acting as boundaries. The tour guide said generations of owner kept dividing the land till the land's no longer usable.
There's also the Jetson One, which looks real, and they're also accepting orders.

..Although I'm not sure I would feel safe flying a 4 rotor thing. Well, they're 8 but in 4 pairs on the same axis; a big enough bird or a hit on something hard enough would probably destroy 2 propellers at the same time, and the aircraft is rated for sustaining the loss of only one. Cool nonetheless.

https://jetson.com/jetson-one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAVwYIvmNEM
April referendum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_government_refere...

Why do I need to apply for green card? What for? Are you ok there?

Here is the famous "yes, yes, no, yes" song by Pugacheva with funny reference to April's referendum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C1F3A7bVu0

The only person from US very active in Russia during 1993 was not Clinton. It was Soros. Many thanks to this guy for paying for my broadband Internet access :) But his political influence was close to 0.
I still don't understand the assertion that someone who bought an iPhone (used or otherwise) and finds $100 expensive is throwing away said iPhone and generating e-waste when every other option is both more expensive and riskier. Any "new" used phone is going to come with a battery of undetermined age and quality as well as its own set of potential problems and failures, where as a replacement for your existing phone is a known cost in a known (as much as can be with solid state devices) set of problems.

Certainly I can see them buying an iFixit battery and trying themselves, or paying a 3rd party vendor and taking a risk on that. But there's just no line of logic that makes any sense to me that says "$100 to replace my iPhone battery is expensive, better throw it away and spend even more money to get someone else's second hand phone of unknown state"
> We migrated Netflix’s mobile apps to GraphQL with zero downtime

Is "zero downtime" relevant here?

For example, when migrating a database that is the source-of-truth for data, then yeah, downtime is something you have to contend with. But for a client-server API change, isn't it trivial? Companies do this all the time -- expose a new version of an API then gradually migrate clients over.

(It's definitely not a trivial task overall! For example, you need thorough testing to make sure you don't break existing functionality and the article does talk about that.)
Could a Foxbat shoot down an SR-71? The latter is like 0.6 Mach faster. The former was built out of steel, had an underpowered radar, couldn’t climb as high as a Blackbird and carried AA-6’s, which would have to lock and hit their target before the solid motors ran out [1]. To my knowledge the MiG-25’s claim to fame is shooting down an F-15 in the Gulf War.

In any case, it’s clearly been worth it. The B-2, B-21 and RQ-180, to say nothing of our (sc)ramjet research derives directly from the Blackbird.

[1] https://www.historynet.com/mig-25/
I am an advocate for knowledge sharing and have previously contributed (a tiny amount) to the community mentioned above, Reactiflux. There, I was able to share my knowledge freely without fear of being penalized or judged through a voting system, or being heavily moderated as is the case with Wikipedia or StackOverflow. I also didn't have to worry about my contributions being eternally indexed on the internet. As a contributor, this is a feature (much less so for the lurker).

On that note, I recently had to request a deletion from Internet Archive because I shared content on my personal website that violates a ToS (it's a Slack archive that I have already anonymized). Unsurprisingly, my request went unanswered.
I know someone who did this as well. Has mulberry trees, started a garden, and that house has a lot of sqft. He even rents it out to others at a pretty low cost.

They are definitely still a thing, the entity that handles this is the Detroit Land Bank. https://buildingdetroit.org/
Putin sees a need to go full Juche Thought, huh? I don't like his chances.
Quite affordable as a pet: it is less than a real dog from a dog breeder :-).
"Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said recruiting more hosts was the company’s top priority as it tried to meet demand for rental properties and reduce nightly costs"

AirBnB trying to solve the problem of people not being able to affording living in their own homes by acquiring even more AirBnB rentals.

I suspect this won't end well for AirBnB, or people trying to just survive.
Can you share how much it cost to build out minipupper1?
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I'm sure Rockefeller and Morgan and their circle also told themselves they were in favour of "big projects that can move humanity forward" — what distinguishes the "Tech Right" from the "Oil Right" or the "Bank Right" or the "Steel Right"?
> it's not impressive that ChatGPT is simply regurgitating stuff it knows about.

I’m always amazed when ChatGPT does something that was literally impossible last year, there’s someone immediately saying how it’s not impressive due to such and such reason…
I think the original comment was light hearted humor
No, it's not vacuous at all. "The people (who have an interest in the matter)" and "the people who live there and vote for city government" are not the same "people." That's a large part of the problem.
Interesting.

When I look at the two codes side-by-side with normal (full) brightness, the HDR one looks quite a bit brighter. If I dim my screen brightness substantially, the HDR one also gets a lot dimmer. Not sure if this solves that problem, though it could be an issue with my particular screen?
Helicopters are lucky to get 10 mpg.

The range of an electric helicopter is going to make it impractical, and I doubt that's going to change any time soon.

Gas stores energy in 100x less weight than lithium ion. Electric motors are 2x more efficient.

You're still going to need space and weight for ~50x more battery, which is hard to come by...
A Dingo is a shy (with humans), wild dog in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo. I saw once once, but it was about maybe 100-200 metres away.
>Edit: Should also mention that we get a lot more leeway in general when it comes to film sound since we also have visual cues regarding the sound's location and movement.

For sounds coming from on screen, maybe, but the point of rear surround speakers is to get sounds from behind you where you have no visual clues. So that sort negates this argument. Although, I'm not really sure where the whole visual cue argument comes into play when deciding how matched pair vs non-matched stereo imaging sounds to people. A matched pair vs non-matched is not going to suddenly not sound stereo.
thanks. I am amazed at how GitHub can consistently make their product worse with every change.
> A js/python snippet converting pngs to superwhite video frames should be fairly easy to implement.

??? It's just an all-white video, with an overlay of black QR code applied by CSS. It's already "fully automated."

Both (the video and the overlay) are small enough to be base64'd right into the HTML.
" The article is all over the place. Miguel spends most of it bemoaning the change of his favorite billboard, as if that can be universally unpacked and extrapolated by others as why Twilio is no longer "for developers"."

I think his point is hella clear with the two screenshots. Originally they provide "Voice, SMS, and Video APIs"and then they switch to "Customer Engagement Platform"

Both messages are likely nonsense for the vast majority of people that drive by them. The "ask your developer" one specifically targets software devs and mentions why. The "How can I reduce acquisition costs by 65%?" targets business owners ... but it's a little vague because the first thing I'd think when I hear "acquisition costs" is buying another business lol. What the hell is a "customer engagement platform"? Well, a developer isn't gonna give a shit then.

So the first billboard goes with a "hey boss I found out about this cool twillo stuff we can use!" to "Hi it's the CEO, we're now going to use twillo and if you don't like it, eat shit"
I think you touch on a good example do why discernment is such a valuable skill, a skill that should forever be practiced and honed. I don't mind reading some dudes take on things for even if he's wrong he might drop an item or two that gets me thinking. For instance I've been reading (and re-reading) Robert Henri's The Art Spirit which if you judge the book by its cover is focused on painting yet I find ideas and advice that I can apply all across my life to great benefit.
I've read a lot of blogs on here that may or may not be filled with good information but within many of them I have found what I find to be great ideas.
Just use the terraform provider.
Was that a later edit? I didn't see it when I read the comment. Also what's the point of saying that something is not possible and then "actually it's possible, but I don't like it anyway" in parentheses?

What you're saying is wrong: if the reader section is long, you have no problem amortizing the cache invalidation. Sharded counts are useful when the reader section is small, and the cache miss becomes dominant.

Also I don't get this "RW locks are code smell" dogma, not having RW mutexes forces you to design the shared state in a way that readers can assume immutability of the portion of the state they acquire, which usually means heavily pointer-based data structures with terrible cache locality for readers. That is, in order to solve a non-problem, you sacrifice the thing that really matters, that is read performance.

I've heard this thing from Googlers, who didn't have a default RW mutex for a while, then figured out that they could add support for shared sections for free and suddenly RW mutexes are great.
Nope, almost all Starbucks locations (like most restaurants and retail establishments) are leased from commercial real estate holding companies and investors.
It's no cost to the user! Defaults are rolled out to everybody, but the users opts-into aggressive protection because of the risk of false positives. Note, this is Verify today. All Programmable SMS customers will get it soon as well.
I just learned about it through this thread and there are already several dishes I want to try. Khachapuri and Chashushuli in particular.
Neural networks in the 1990s
We’ve strip mined the earth, decimated humanity, are globally hopeless (look at birth rates) and individual alienation has never been wider spread

Suicide is quickly becoming the leading cause of death

I’m not sure we’re any better off now holistically
I looked up my state(TN) and it's 20 years of squatting and property taxes.

The requirements are:

1. Must enter the land without the owner's permission (hence the term "adverse");

2. Must actually be on the land, using and caring for it as if it were his or her own;

3. Must use the land and/or structure in an open manner (in other words, it may not be secretive or covert); and

4. Must use the land continuously for seven years, without sharing this possession with others (unless it's possession by tenants in common).

My questions in regards to this law is how can one successfully do it without breaking other laws?

It seems like one could easily be arrested for many other laws within the first 19 years like trespassing, theft, vandalism, etc..

Do it for a week and you are criminal; do it for twenty years and you are a homeowner? Surely, it can't work like that, right?
It shouldn't be surprising, but American political discourse has unfortunately latched onto an extremely simplistic univariate model of economic policy. There's a common background assumption that redistribution, public ownership, fiscal policy, and all varieties of regulation rise or fall together.
So it's resume driven development that's causing issues?
Fused floating point multiply-add with a single rounding from the infinite-precision answer is required by the IEEE 754-2008 floating point standard.

You don't get a choice in the matter.

> can be easily replaced with two separate instructions

It can't. You will get different answers.

RISC-V allows you to choose a CPU without floating point instructions. But if you choose to have an FPU then you get multipy-add. Yes, it needs to read three registers, which is expensive. It is also the most common instruction in any floating point calculation, so that expensive three port register file gets used constantly.

Checking overflow for addition on the other hand is something that is very seldom used (on any CPU). On RISC-V you need four instructions only if the operands are full register size and you don't know anything about either operand. If you know the sign of one operand then the cost reduces to one extra instruction.
Amazing how far this project has come.

From firsthand experience a few years back, it's quite usable as one's primary desktop, though I've since moved to a customized vanilla FVWM.
Highly recommend the recent Acquired podcast episode about Lockheed Martin. They spend a while discussing the development of the SR-71 (and other Skunk Works projects): https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/lockheed-martin
Should https://www.jetsonaero.com not be on this list?
Are we using the same piece of software? I have it deployed in production on kubernetes using the bitnami helm chart and everything works like a charm, clustering etc. No need to modify any XML or care about network routes.
I think parent means there might be another conversation which was not released.
“Enemy Scythe detected. No, wait, it's just a mag-rider”
I don't know, you said isn't trivial then you said it's not trivial! :D It's a colossal effort if you are at Netflix size, they support probably the largest number of client devices on the planet.