skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect Rocky support is three people in Europe somewhere with maybe one or two others in North America. I also suspect Rocky has no Support Engineering group, so their own product engineering resources must be redirected every time a customer needs a patch.

If Rocky does have a Support Engineering group, they aren't regular committers to the kernel, and so most common bugs found will take much longer to be upstreamed. This increases the load on Engineering because they'll have to carry that fix until it makes it into upstream and the customer upgrades.

I have seen no indication that Rocky has a robust QA infrastructure for customer patches.

Note the Rocky support model allows each "person" to only have two cases open at a time. This indicates they're forced to limit capacity.

Let's say I'm wrong about all of this. Let's say Rocky support is better than Red Hat. I've seen what happens when support scales from a small company to a large one. If ever you got good support, those days are over if Rocky sees success and the support group scales.
This is only partially type-safe. Having a few SQL keywords abstracted into methods doesn't deliver a lot of value.
I've found some value in type-safe mappings between database fields and language fields, at least you can directly see the problems in your code if some entity class has been changed. String-based field references will only fail at runtime so you need 100% unit tests to refactor with confidence.
>teachers conditioned by the idiotic NCLB act mixed with a generation of kids who were given their stressed-out parent's smart phone to play around with

Don't forget idiotic teacher unions
The overuse of soy in the food chain has lead to high estrogen levels in about 50% of the population.
There are some big gems in there.

I was once reading 'Rhetoric' by Aristotle on the site and noticed a lot of marginalia. Some of it was pretty good commentary too.

Well, it turns out that I was reading John Adam's copy with all his notes.

I wish they had a better method of surfacing all these gems that they have. They might and I'm just lazy.

(And, yes, I've tried to find the link, but unfortunately I need more coffee. If someone can find it, please post it)
> Coercing random access memory into a serial file just to go and emulate a random access over that file is... not a great way to deal with a high-performance primitive.

The file doesn't need to have an on-disk representation. I don't see why an mmap-ed file should behave any different from a SHM segment. They are basically the same thing, the SHM segment even has a file descriptor. It just doesn't have a name somewhere in the filesystem hierarchy. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/shm_overview.7.html
Why do people write such standards? May occur. I don't need a standard to do something random.
Check https://simpleanalytics.com/ Not free, but simple and privacy-friendly analytics tool. Mentioned here: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1670768473897857027
As I understand it, and I could be wrong, the origins of the project lay in trying to target the output from a compiler to a bytecode like intermediate language that the JavaScript runtime could execute. I am more than happy to believe that no trace of that is left now, but I think that is more or less how it got started.
Study drugs make healthy people worse at problem solving, not better
Kudos to this guy. Managing a blog with traffic and an active community is a much bigger challenge than most would think.

I ran a blog from 2005 until 2013, with some real strong activity on posting and community building between 2008 and 2010. I was spending ~30-40 hours a week researching and writing posts (two >1000 word posts a day--4 days a week with Friday being a 'fun poll day'). During the height of my blogging activity I was approving easily more than 1,000 comments a month over a multi-year period.

WordPress handled 99.9% of the spam so that was never really any issue. What WAS an issue, being that I wrote posts on both hyperlocal news and restaurant reviews, was an astounding amount of astroturfing from the friends/families/neighbors/owners of restaurants.

I would mercilessly track these people down and find out who they were and publicly shame them for what they were doing. I saw it as a huge value add over (then) nascent sites like Yelp and Urbanspoon which largely allowed this sort of activity unabated--and continue to this day as has been reported recently on HN.

I really wish there were better alternatives both for restaurants as well as product reviews which took the care and attention that I gave for my small community.
Argument makes sense if you conveniently forget it's workers in the first place who created the company's wealth.
This is especially obvious for the Machu Picchu image where the cobble stone walls are turned into different walls.

Original: https://imageupscalerai.com/static/images/test-machupicchu.j...

Upscaled: https://imageupscalerai.com/static/images/result-machupicchu...
Yes. Translation of classical languages is a good example. There are lots of subtle nuances that aren't captured by any pedagogical text and we accept that humans require require apprenticeships/graduate study to become competent (self study is not enough), but the output is obviously text.
I would prefer to not have to install a new language on the server. There's Python and Perl already; you would certainly cover nearly all Linux installations with these two.

But it's a nice tool anyway.
The World's Digital Memory Is at Risk
UK's stubborn inflation fails to fall, turning up heat on BoE
Archived: https://archive.ph/2023.06.21-141356/https://www.nytimes.com...
99% of human written children books are terrible. I doubt ChatGPT is worse.
The whole Amazon.com experience has been getting worse and worse as the years go by. Everything from the products they sell, quality control, customer service, dark patterns in the UI, etc.

I wonder how long until you have to call someone or mail in a 1,000 word letter on why you don't need Prime to cancel it.
Hasn’t Apple abandoned the whole Genius thing? It seemed to me that the Genius Bar is basically gone. You can still get help, and they fix stuff, but it’s not what it was when Apple Stores opened 20 years ago.
https://archive.ph/Gccmh
They're using established open source models and code, just under their own web UI. Specifically Real-ESRGAN for the upscaling, and Codeformer for the face enhancements, which is what most people are doing. Though my company is using GFPGAN for the facial enhancements at the moment.

"AI Image Enhancement" websites are all using the same stuff.
> nevertheless the blog appears to be by someone who doesn’t have much of a clue

Another hint: Chris Siebenmann's posts to comp.unix.wizards can still be found.
Believe it or not, shutting down a product is something you can brag about in perf. My current manager went form L6 to L7 mainly because of that.
I recall in the 80's similar things playing out by mail (in the US) directed at my grandmother. She received a large variety of scams. Some were completely illegal. A lot were "send us money, we'll fix this political issue" -- some from the usual suspects AARP, Republicans, Demoracts, etc... But others were from places that sounded like brand names and I'm sure most of them provided no benefit or action and were straight up taking the money.

After seeing that, nothing really surprised me as far as someone's willingness to prey on another.
I sure did, thanks. Please forgive typo on Carl Sagan.
> I would also have a hard time processing/registering something if I'm not able to derive it analytically from first principles.

This really resonates with me. I always had a really hard time with anything where I just had to memorize formulas, but I didn't have any issues if I could derive it myself. For this reason I actually struggled a lot more with algebra in HS than I did with calculus in college. I don't know if it's just the teachers I had growing up or if it's a more broad issue with how the curriculum is structured, but I didn't even realize you could derive things from first principles until I took calculus in college.
I assume that the amount of back wages is the actual amount of back wages owed.
Totally! One of the first thing I did after learning Newton's law of gravity, was to write down a small simulation of planets in orbit and how they "dance" around each other. This little exercise totally blew my mind and the code was really simple to code.

There's probably an untapped opportunity here, but ed-tech is such a difficult industry.
So? They both use bootstrap and they're made by the same people with the same contact information and company name and everything.
I guess to get a well-defined behavior the interrupt handler needs to clear the EXIT trap.
A Germ Theory for the Internet
My dad was in recovery after surgery and they gave family a direct phone number for his room. Everyone on his hall was receiving scam calls in the morning, some right right after coming out of anesthesia.

I was there for one and pretended to be very confused, and they immediately went to "we're the hospital and just need your insurance and financial information": what is your full name, address, SSN, bank name. Now you need to set up a password and answer some security questions.

After that, I unplugged the phone with a note affixed about the scams. Administration knew about the calls, but wasn't doing anything (like screening). Phone numbers for the rooms didn't ever change.
Waze has done nothing in the last 8 years. Things like the auto zoom is horrible and especially on car play I have to manually keep zooming In and Out. It was great 10 years so but now it’s below average.

Meanwhile Apple navigation is now the best. It shows the traffic lights and the navigation is much easier. The only thing it doesn’t have is better traffic notification. The anti zooming in and out of apple navigation is so much better than Waze especially when I’m in areas that I’m unfamiliar with.

I remember when I was laughing at Apple Maps when it first came out but now I use it all the time. It goes to show you the difference between apple and google and how products go to die at google.
I wonder if learning to train Generative AIs will teach us anything about teaching humans? I mean other than the use of AI tutors. Can we determine the usefulness of text by how well it trains AI?
Sounds like a perfect job for PrimeGPT to write that for you.
I've always shied away from Amazon's Prime service because the signup process already looks shady, no points offered for guessing that cancallation is even shadier.

Walmart offers Walmart Plus - I've never used it but it looks infinitely less sketchy. Between that and the fact that Walmart has its supply chain under control ("commingling", anyone) the choice is easy.
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Why in hell would they send out search boats at all? I can't fathom the stupidity it would take to help invaders invade your country.

And by the way, the vacation company will likely get a fat bill from the Coast Guards.
Yet think currently the top 1% is paying over 50% of all taxes.

There's a few things to consider with this statement. First, and most importantly, everyone in the US who has more than $1m is in the top 1% by wealth, including assets. That illustrates how little money most people have.

Secondly, the top 1% captured 54% of the wealth generated in the last decade, so paying 50% of the tax sounds about right.

Lastly, we're not really talking about the top 1% because most of them are just people who lucked into buying a house in an area that subsequently became gentrified, or they got lucky with some stock options, or whatever. It's people who own more than $100m who have the sort of capital that enables them to pay very fancy accountants to get their tax burden down to single digit percentages. They're also the ones who get their companies to do union-busting tactics, because next year they want to own $200m.
Why doe Apple maintain retail stores anyway?
Show HN: Webhooks That Email You
Hey HN,

I spent the long weekend on a small tool for sending myself emails via webhook. Yes, webhook-to-email in 2023 (somehow most things I could find are email-to-webhook or not quite easy to set up).

Yep, I'm aware this problem is very much already solved(tm) in a bunch of ways:

- Zapier exists
- IFTTT exists
- Slack webhooks exist (this one is probably what normal people would pick)
- Native email integrations usually exist in whatever tool in the first place

Somehow, I still find myself wanting a super easy way to get an email delivered to me when a webhook endpoint is hit (via POST or GET). Maybe I just run more early software than other people, or am far too comfortable `curl`ing from CI or other dodgy execution contexts...

Knowing that an email with whatever data I want to attach is just one web request away makes it pretty easy for me. Also, this fits in well with software that has just the webhook part and not much other configurability.

Anyway, the website is as simple as you think it is:

1. Put in your email
2. We validate your email and give you a URL
3. You GET or POST to that URL, and an email flies to your inbox

If this sounds like something you want in your life, I encourage you to check it out!

There's no login, only an email address is required (to do... the email sending).

There's a free tier and a very low (but probably commensurate) price because I do indeed like money, but between you and me, the limits aren't really enforced (and probably won't be for quite a while, barring abuse).

Don't ask what I used to build this -- it's embarrassingly over-engineered for what most people would do in an hour and call it a day (and achieve the same results).
Geoffrey Hinton: “We're toast. This is the actual end of history”
That second paragraph really nails it.

I had that exact conversation with Chamberlain about MyQ garage door openers. They make it difficult to integrate with and their stated reasons are all about security.

But they'll constantly try to get you to work with their (presumably paying) partners that have far more privileges than you as the lowly product owner.

There isn't a great business case for the latter, so it languishes.
> Well, until Congress decides to not kneecap every department in the government

Checks and balances is called kneecapping these days? There is a reason the president doesn't have unlimited power over the executive branch.
To elaborate on those points a bit further, past what I already said about pidfd being introduced exactly to treat processes as files:

1. ioctls can make any "syscall" on a file.

2. a process does not have to be a singular file. All processes have most if not all their attributes exposed as files /proc/$PID/ as files, and can have this arbitrarily extended. In plan9, passing a signal (technically a note) is done by writing to /proc/$PID/note, and there is no technical reason for not allowing the same on Linux.

3. the entire concept of memory mapping is based around files, with anonymous memory - i.e., non-disk-backed memory - just being a subset of this. POSIX shared memory (shm_open) is provided through /dev/shm, which is a tmpfs folder and is indeed just files.

4. sockets are file descriptors, and file descriptors is what makes a file, and as such you can get a peers address of a file descriptor when such is present. Ways to expose creating sockets in the filesystem also exist, and not just for plan. The special socket-bits could easily be made less special, with the only justification for the current BSD socket API being that it became dominant and so everyone copied it.
Have recently started using it, big fan, especially in concert with kysely-codegen (generate Kysely types from DB schema). The combo is similar to Prisma, but IMO better in practice - Prisma is too limited, too little support for any sort of custom/non-standard types. For example, using PostGIS with Prisma is a terrible experience, but fine with Kysely.

Also, a query builder with generated types that match the DB schema has many of the advantages of an ORM, with IMO few of the disadvantages. I’m not spending so much time trying to figure out how to translate what I want to do in SQL into the ORM language, as it’s basically a thin, more type safe and composable layer over SQL.
You can import you GA data into Simple Analytics directly: https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/import-your-google-anal...
You can delete comments and posts, but it has to be within 15 minutes of creating them.
Your question seems to be presupposing a bunch of things.

If you run the standard installer from a vanilla USB image, you will be asked questions about the config, most of which produce reasonable results if you just hit <enter>. Some of them will fail in certain environments. (No DHCP server? You will need to enter IP networking details.)

If you want to install a fleet of Debian machines (or VM images), you set up a PXE server and a set of answers to the installation questions, or you build an image for direct deployment, or you use the Debian VM image, or... whatever: there are a lot of possibilities that will work.

Most of this has been true for at least 3 Stables.
Contact printing means you have to press the negative against the paper
"Ex opere operato" (but as far as I understand it should be done by a "real" priest unless one isn't available).
"clearly based on" is doing a whole lot of work in your comment. I would never confuse the two.
A proxy tracker can fingerprint without you even noticing.

Cookies just scale better.
https://imgur.com/gallery/izcx4Se
"Don't get killed by the nazis" is not a daily concern for most people just about anywhere except in prison.
I think that you misunderstand my point here.

As far as the UI goes, the critical distinction is not about how it looks on screen or how it is rendered, it's about modal versus nonmodal user interfaces. I happened to side with Larry Tesler on this: "don't mode me in!"

As far as Emacs goes, I was more thinking about its strange set of user interface conventions and terminology, which pre-date (and conflict with) industry standards such as the IBM CUA set of standards which came to almost completely dominate DOS, Windows, and Linux.

How the appearance of the thing is rendered on the screen is completely irrelevant to this.
let go all of the employees that work for apple an see how long they are still in business. Don't think the CEO is making their iphones on the line
This website is just a wrapper around https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry which is a wrapper around various neural networks, e.g. https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN in this case.
> Called through an API. Basically RPC.

Another L4 fan?
This is typically an issue with the payment gateway and/or processor rather than the site or the platform underneath it. You probably had a better error message in the second experience because the site uses a different payment gateway/processor. That's not to say the first site's experience is great, but payment processor selection has lots of competing considerations... processing fees, ability to support enterprise-grade MSA/SLA requirements, security, audit trail, etc etc. (Others are also correct in observing that more vague error messages are actually a strategy by some processors to avoid tipping off fraudsters.)
International IP laws come from the time of Dickens, when people were copying his books in the states because he couldn't enforce ownership from over here.

America didn't really play ball until the situation started affecting their own economy (Americans being copied by people in other countries, or other Americans, enough to affect the national bottom line).

China is in a similar state: international IP isn't enforced, and the government just pays lip service to the idea, while it is a net benefit for their country's economy for copying to be rife. This will flip when the issue becomes a net detriment to their bottom line.

The same game has been played any number of times at smaller scales too, though in the smaller cases the big boys tend to force the “being a net detriment” with sanctions and other indirect influences (or simply by buying out the smaller concerns).
These sorts of fines carry an additional penalty people generally don't account for, which is that if they do it again, they should get hammered by the justice system. The justice system doesn't like you breaking laws; the justice system hates you flouting the justice system.

It isn't just that they have to pay a fine; it is that they are now quite vulnerable and they'd better shape up and fly right or they really will be hit with something they won't like.

(Or so the theory goes.)
can't edit anymore, the point is Iranian Rial is accepted by 90 million people in Iran, all the Iranian businesses and the Iranian government, there are much less bitcoin users, technically there are a lot more accounts, but that doesn't mean real people or real businesses.

Not surprisingly Iran and Russia are teaming up to create a new stablecoin and not adopting BTC, because using BTC right now is literally the best way to get caught (for example infringing sanctions).

The people that can afford to trust and use bitcoins for exchanges are the people who do not have to fear the surveillance of State actors/secret services/national agencies(NSA,FBI,Europol,China's central bank,...)/etc and that would be much better off using another FIAT currency (USD, EUR, etc.)
Seems like capitalism at work to me. Is the implication capitalism is somehow intrinsically ethical? That’s a laugh.
> This counted on the fact that Google had promised us autonomy to continue to act as Waze and we believed them.

Why does this keep happening? It is false 100% of the time. Are people really watching the sun come up every morning and thinking, "okay but tomorrow it won't."

> I believed that I could build out Waze within Google, breaking the myth about what happens to companies after being acquired by large corporations

Nice cautionary tale, but I'm different.

> Perhaps Corp-Tech should move to employee share buy back where employees must sacrifice some of their salary for equity or change equity to vest by a product related metric to connect the teams performance with the employee returns.

Performance based incentives never work for people who are
not directly revenue generating. One piston in your engine working extra hard is meaningless, the credit to getting you to your destination is the driver. And when cogs in the machine lose out on their "performance" incentive because they never had any control to begin with they get angry, burnt out, and leave. Within a corporation you have to make the labor theory of value true and reward effort even if it's pointless. You put the responsibility of delivering meaningful value on the people directing where that effort goes.

> while on line, a Googler ahead of us was overheard saying “What? Sushi again???” which became our inside joke around entitlement. But several months later, we had been co-opted as well and it was Waze employees complaining about the food

This both completely misunderstands and exactly gets why entitlement is the wrong concept. Everyone's happiness and contentment regresses to the mean eventually when their lives get better and when they get worse. Someone complaining about the sushi is genuinely and reasonably annoyed because that very literally made their day worse. People see that as entitlement because they're forgetting how happiness in humans actually works.

Whether this is a comfort or nihilistic is up to you but Elon Musk is not happier than you.
There was even a "endless ocean" game for the Wii itself, heh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQrDgLU40gg
I'd be more interested in the reverse, that is compiler and PL techniques applied to machine learning.