skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say you have a bug that caused 100,000 HTTP requests to hang, and you kick the node and make them all fail at once. One second later, 100,000 clients suddenly retry simultaneously, causing a huge spike in load which makes most of their requests fail. They use exponential backoff, so two seconds after that, 99,000 clients retry, causing a huge spike in load that makes most of their requests fail. Four seconds after that, 98,000 clients retry...

If you introduce a bit of randomness into the retry timing (say, multiply by 1.8~2.2 instead of a straight doubling), that thundering herd will spread itself out and be much easier to recover from.
It's funny what people tell you if you just listen. Scrabble and Great Work. Tiddly Winks probably won't lead to great work either.
Very bold claim. In the history of the world like you say, unions shaped our world in a good way. Certainly not all unions, but it literally saved workers life from corporate abuse. Check the Asbestos Corporation in 1950s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_strike.
So this is three paragraphs of hate with no solution?

The perforated ones work fine (Kikkoman soy sauce and the chick fil a ketchup dips are solid), it's just when the condiment makers elect for the cheapest perforation or no perforation that they can some times, maybe, need to adjust your grip or use a fork.

Is your solution no condiments because you personally struggle or even more waste by requiring more plastic containers with a lid like what salsa comes in or the much larger containers like what the nugget sauces come in?
>Speaking from very painful, personal experience, few things are more agitating than being forced to execute on something you fully know is a horrible idea, especially when you tried and failed to communicate this fact to the individual pushing you to go against your best judgement.

In this case the horrible idea is being forced to push changes to production at a moments notice
Sorry - used the hn post browser plugin and it seemed to get it wrong. Can't delete it either?
And yet they also host with AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle. Cloud people take note: this is what lock-in looks like, and it's coming to a place near you.
> Most people cannot take radical ideas...If you disagree, it would be beneficial to write why.

It might help the credibility of the free speech absolutionist if said absolutionist didn't assist a certain Turkish dictator shut down free speech, didn't mute journalists covering his actions against elonmuskjet, didn't censor the blocktheblue campaign, didn't try to erase the existence of substack from twitter, didn't help the Indian gov censor tweets that Gov didn't like ... off the top of my head.

An individual using their position of power to silence unliked speech - and help authoritarians do the same ... it just isn't very radical.
So the alternative to Twitter is Balkanized safe spaces where you only talk to like-minded people.
> Privacy is about giving people the freedom to choose how their personal information is distributed.

That's one take, and I won't argue that it's an unreasonable one.

That said, if you asked me to describe the UX patterns I might expect to find on a privacy-respecting website, interrupting me to ask me for personal information probably wouldn't be on that list. I probably also wouldn't have expected to see the third-party tracking pixels from Cloudflare, Datadog, and Google, etc.

That's okay. It's not egregious, it's just a bit odd, like if you were reading Apache documentation on a site served by IIS.
I can confirm, Bsky is absolutely diminutive compared to even Mastodon. I've had enough productive conversations on Mastodon I now include it in my little bubble of 'social media sites where I may reach out and have a conversation with someone'.

Bsky is just... I open it and post things sometimes, but all the people I've found on it who I've followed don't even do that, so it's kinda empty (at least in the tech space).

I do like their mobile app a hundred times better than Twitter's, but ten times less than Ivory.
I'm not sure what you're complaining about. Don't join the Saudi instances, then? That's kind of the whole point of Mastodon, and federated services in general. There will always be instances that match whatever worldview you may have.

What you can't do, and should never expect other people to do, is to be forced to receive what you're posting, or to put it another way, you can't force people to listen to you.
Musk not paying suppliers? That's normal life in Tesla. Does not seems to work with cloud platforms.
Tier 2 has already been implemented, just ask Google what happened when it tried to campaign against "fake news" censorship. They hit them with bullshit like "abuse of market power" just like Bolsonaro. Same judge-kings involved in the Bolsonaro trial ordered Google to censor a post on its own website.

I'm seeing subtle tier 1 shades as well. Lula and his people used official government social media accounts to celebrate Bolsonaro's fate. That's prohibited because it implies they are the government but they did it anyway.
Is this true? I have honestly never worked in any company >50 people that didn't use VMs on owned hardware in some capacity, though usually not the main product.

IT departments typically love VMs (and vmware)- AD machines are most often hosted on VMs on VMWare.
They are not doctors. I would not trust that website as a source of medical advice.
> In general, open-source all abandonware. Here's a few examples of non-game old software that would benefit the society if open-sourced:

That's not the heuristic companies use to determine whether or not to release source code.

> Windows 9x and classic Mac OS. No one has sold these OSes for 20+ years and they turned out to be evolutionary dead ends. It would make sense to release their sources so people could learn from them and run them on new hardware more easily.

The companies would not do that, for the very simply reason being that it would cannibalise their existing offerings if "people could [...] and run them on new hardware more easily."

The biggest competitor to Windows 10 was not Linux or Mac, it was Windows 7. The biggest competitor to Windows 12 will be Windows 11.
But there's no real competition to email for email.

For 'short bits of social interaction and media content sharing', there are like a dozen sites with very active userbases these days.
The hardware that is officially supported is a subset of the hardware that works. You are correct that the RX 7900 XT is not officially supported, but I must point out that you are linking to a fork of the documentation from 2019. This is the official ROCm documentation: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/release/gpu_os_support.h...
And the incredible part is that it just won’t matter. Tesla and spacex are licensed to print money for the next decade or more.

Him losing 40 billion is like us losing 400. It just won’t matter in the grand scheme
Why doesn’t a state monad work?
actually... it looks like HN modifies the link after I post it. Weird. I posted it again, it worked, and then was labeled as a dupe, but only posts to msn.com

dang, do you have alerts for @dang ? :)
I have a general rule that I make proactive, diligent efforts to inform and correct, and I do it 3 times to 3 different groups in leadership, and if that doesn't work, I'm out.

I'm about 2 for 8 but you gotta try sometimes.
The fact that you only have anecdotes doesn't make those anecdotes more reliable.
Engagement is correct, but why does Facebook need engagement? It's so people stay on their website. Why does Facebook need people to stay on their website? It's because they need to show them ads. Why does Facebook need to show ads? It's because Facebook earns money by showing them. Why does Facebook need money? It's because Facebook is a business and a business needs income. Why do businesses need income? What follows is an exercise for you.

I understand that addressing root causes is difficult which is why quick and easy solutions are tempting. However, addressing the symptoms doesn't solve the problem. I would rather address root causes because in doing so I believe the symptoms will be addressed. It's fine to disagree with my problem solving approach, but we'll have to agree to disagree.
"Luck by definition you can't do anything about, so we can ignore that."

Is there value in differentiating Luck from Chance? Perhaps Luck only pertains to attributes of you and your life you cannot change. Such as your DNA and your life before you can leave home.

Chance can apply to the life path you determine for yourself. Perhaps, unknown to you, doing great work depends on a Chance encounter with a potential mentor in the field you are pursuing. You can increase your Chance of meeting that mentor by living in an area that has a high concentration of people in your field of interest. That Chance encounter is still a matter of Luck, but requires 'less' Luck than if you lived on a different continent.
Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules
What I find more ironic than this bug is is that all of these Mastodon evangelists still have Twitter accounts after their Elon meltdown. So much so that they even use it after Twitter stopped public access.
"Please spell our country name with letters you don't have in your language"

Not sure why these absurd dictatorial tendencies are being taken seriously...
This is coremark for wazero:
https://github.com/ncruces/wazero-coremark

Also, there's been some progress since this was published, but results are still mostly valid:
https://00f.net/2023/01/04/webassembly-benchmark-2023/

An optimizing compiler is being worked on; the current single pass compiler compiles fast, but generated code quality is hard to improve.
> But with the internet, you can find the absolute best book or video or tutorial in the whole world that blows your local teacher out of the water.

You can find the absolute best teacher in the whole world.
> We haven't discussed other solutions like Partitioned Elias-Fano indexes or Tree-Encoded Bitmaps. We simply did not investigate them. There are no efficient off-the-shelf implementations of these solutions, so we had to implement one.

I guess they mean there are no implementations in Rust? The Partitioned Elias-Fano (PEF) paper links to the C++ implementation ([1], which I wrote) used for the experiments, it was efficient 9 years ago :) The library was later forked [2] and used in a few other papers, I believe it is somewhat maintained.
The EF core algorithm implemented in folly [3] may be a bit faster, and implementing partitioning on top of that is relatively easy.

It would definitely compress much better than roaring bitmaps. In terms of performance, it depends on the access patterns. If very sparse (large jumps), PEF would likely be faster, if dense (visit a large fraction of the bitmap), it'd be slower.

It is possible to squeeze a bit more compression out of PEF by introducing a chunk type for Elias-Fano of the chunk complement (for very dense chunks), but you lose the operation of skipping to a given position, which is however not needed in inverted indexes (you only need to skip past a given id, and that can be supported efficiently). That is not mentioned in the paper because at the time I thought the skip-to-position operation was a non-negotiable.

[1] https://github.com/ot/ds2i/

[2] https://github.com/pisa-engine/pisa

[3] https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/main/folly/experiment...
The centralized moderator that enforced the rules got arrested by the FBI, so they have the entire server
GP did not mean that employment or not is a choice but rather where to work.
Employment is not the choice in the USA because health care is tied to it.

The second reason is H1B.
He should stop over in Iceland as well when he takes his trip.
> If you missed the initial news of the impending showdown, Platformer reported on June 10th that Twitter had been refusing to pay Google for its cloud services ahead of their contract’s June 30th renewal date.

> Twitter’s Google Cloud contract dates back to 2018.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-has-supposedly-started-payi...

Oh... this explains all this fiasco :facepalm:
Additionally, they brainwashed a significant portion of the populace to actively ridicule, harass, and even physically attack anyone who tries to live outside that "everyone must have a car, else they're a tree-hugging hippie and should die in a fire" mentality, or anyone who doesn't drink the "climate change is a hoax" kool-aid. Fuck the giant oil corporations right in the eye. Massive corporations (like "big oil" and "social media") manipulate minds on a huge scale, and they've trained both sides to be eternally at each other's throats so that they can fairly safely continue to trash everything in their quest for "infinite profits".
> We’ve been marketed to that we should be happy and that buying <thing|experience> will make us happy.

Seems like the entirely idea of happiness has been semiotically highjacked by marketing, morality, other things

When I mentally picture "happiness", all I really see is a bunch of behaviors that are frequently depicted as desirable in the aggregate by media and others

The Buddhists are a lot more sane about this than we are. Imo there's so much residue around the word "happiness", in order to achieve a sense of peace it's better to just throw it out and take each day at a time
Guessing the app preloaded responses to the tweets you read?
"June 21 (Reuters) - Twitter has resumed paying Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud for its services, according to a person familiar with the matter"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...
Why do people oppose Twitter? It's a social network, you can choose not to use it.
The trouble is how to judge them. Automated censorship of others is invisible unless they announce it or you somehow know what you should have been able to see.
It can't always be reduced to a zero-sum game. If one teaches their team to perform well, everyone on the team benefits.
I clicked on this without seeing that it's on paulgraham.com, yet still picked up it was his writing within a minute of reading. His writing is distinct even for someone who hasn't read much of it.

My question is: why?
No, this has nothing to do with lock-in. This has done nothing to do with decision making that subverts good engineering.
HP (Panacom) in Waterloo used them in X terminals. Edit: Specifically the HP 700/RX.
Ok but who is selling that worldview, and how does our behavior change when we stop buying into it?

Being bought in means that we're afraid to talk to our families or neighbors about certain topics for fear of things getting too spicy in one way or another, it keeps us divided. Apply self care (psychedelic assisted or otherwise) for long enough that we're not afraid anymore and maybe you've achieved your mental health goals, but now you're having the kind of conversations that change things.
I've gone back and forth with dishwashers my whole life, spending years with followed by years without, etc. and I finally am team dishwasher. There are a few tips I've learned, such as immediately rinsing a dish after using (I don't bother scrubbing), running the hot water for a minute before starting, using the pre-wash detergent and shine stuff appropriately. I also don't bother entirely filling it up to run it - which may seem wasteful, but I'd imagine filling it completely and having to rewash some percent of them ends up being more wasteful.

Also, just like getting a manual dishwashing routine figured out, dishwashers are all different and need to be learned like any tool. Understanding where pieces are, which cycles run when, which compartments open and close and even how they do it, are all important. It really is best to think of it as a tool.

Some useful videos:

https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04
https://youtu.be/Ll6-eGDpimU
I don't think Timothy Snyder himself would be glad to be a part of this ridiculous take.
He's not a typical human, though. He appears to lack the capacity for empathy and he is cruel -- he toys with people like Halli Thorleifsson in public. It is sociopathic, which by definition makes him unusual.

Sensible, consistent business leaders simply do not behave the way he does: if they are sociopaths, they at least try to surround themselves with qualified people who are not.

Elon has ruined his reputation with everyone who matters. It's not unreasonable to assume that if he makes judgements this bad in public he is making much worse judgements in private. This isn't business, it's a function of his personality.

He has not ruined his reputation with the people he is enabling: the assorted alt right and hard right wing pond scum he follows and trollishly retweets because they provide him with narcissistic supply.

The reality I suspect is that most people who know who he is don't think "he's a dick but he's a good businessman" now, because they can see that little of what he is doing is good business. He didn't have to do this at all. And the majority of people see the serious flaws in his behaviour.

And while people still have a tendency to compensate for the narcissists who crept up on them while validating their beliefs (Trump, Boris Johnson) I don't believe people have their eyes closed to Musk, because everyone who comes to understand a narcissist gets a bit better at avoiding letting more narcissists into their lives.

I always tended to believe that he's a pitiable little rich boy who is overselling his own myth, but I now believe he is malignant.

The Thai cave rescue story is what cemented it in my mind: he is a bully who expects to get away with callously punishing other people for his hurt feelings.

He's not the sort of person who should be trusted with anything, and we know from the behaviour of other severe narcissists that his behaviour will only get worse after the criticism he receives from this incident.
Step 1. VD3 blood test is a must to determine whether one is deficient. If you work indoors all day there is a high chance you are deficient. Your GP can help you boost it up using 70K IU prescription VD3.

Step 2. Then maintenance. This is all a trial and error and more blood tests.
800 IU / the national recommendation is a joke. Dr. Fauci takes 6,000 IU each day. (see FOIA docs with his email saying what he takes).

I work in tech and take 10 IU each day and have maintained a ~ 60 ng/mL.

Anything over 50 ng/mL shows benefits in fighting respiratory viruses and keeping mortality close to zero. ref: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34684596/#&gid=article-figur...
noted! working to move away from ngrok soon!
Slightly old post: not actually today, but reported on June 11.
ECG/EKG versus Smartwatch for Myocarditis and Myocardial Infarction [video][14M]
Use A marketing idiot as engineer chief, win stupid prizes
Beyond Markdown (2018)
Not all that seems free is free. Mentoring your team members, for example, results in better performance, more income, and larger TC eventually.
>. I don't want to create an account on the X instance of the fediverse, I want to create an account on the fediverse. It should be one big fediverse, which instance I use should be completely transparent and irrelevant

Sounds like centralization. Now if Activity Pub goes rouge ALL instances are affected.

Making accounts on your favorite instance and communicating with other instances prevents this, in theory. You may need to make a new account if Lemmy dies but you should (again in theory) be able to move your content seemlessly to a new instance. Becsuse Lemmy isn't facilitating the content, simply providing a view for itz based on its usage of ActivityPub's API
This is an excellent case for the real dangers of state sanctioned monopoly.
Video: Practical Common Lisp. Peter Seibel Google Talk
If the hash in practice gives users the ability to download the content, yes.
In my country, LSD, mescaline, magic mushrooms, and DMT, are class A controlled substances, same as methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.

Class A being drugs that pose a "very high risk of harm". Which, you know, if I could post comments on our legislation, I'd be adding a bunch of "[citation needed]"s in that list of substances that apparently have a very high risk of harm.

And like other jurisdictions, there's some real bloody oddities in the law in this area.

E.g., a man was charged for importing 18kg of DMT when he ordered 18kg of Mimosa tenuiflora root bark online, as the bark isn't explicitly handled in law as a prohibited plant like Coca leaf (class C, far lower severity of sentencing) and Papaver somniferum (class B), so it falls through to the default of "any substance containing a class A controlled substance is also class A".

So he could get life in prison, like he imported 18kg of fentanyl.

Hopefully the sentencing judge is reasonable, but the fact that he's facing the same penalty for 18kg of bark that contains about 1 - 2% DMT as you would for importing enough fentanyl to kill 9 million people shows that our law is a bit of an ass.
Article is old, and apparently they started paying again https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-clo...
Musk rate-limiting reading (and not posting) on Twitter worldwide because of localised protests in a single country? You must be joking; this makes no sense at all.
They managed to sell cryptocurrencies by proxy; maybe somebody else holds your keys, and you log in using a traditional method to have that provider use the keys where they are needed or rotate and update them when you want them rotated and need to broadcast that fact. And people who can handle it themselves, handle it themselves.
Except you can have multiple wallets, no credit score affected, and cheaper or no transaction fees.
> Everything from your kid’s school to your car dealer to your automaker is VMWare.

While true, they also aren't buying $500k+ rack. They're running vmware on a much smaller scale.
Is it that hard to relate to a parent who doesn't want pedophiles jacking off to a video of their son?
>if you can honestly say that passengers will get their onboard items within 7 days of an emergency

You can't honestly say that...that's why it's an emergency.

Everybody knows that, so you can't change behavior.
Revenue-Motivated Quality Degradation (RMQD) doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.
I would recommend reading up on persistent disassociative personality disorders and persistent visual artifacts from psychedelics. Both are rare but well documented side effects of psychedelic usage.

I personally know someone who has suffered visual distortions post trip for 20 years and counting at this point.
Not zombies, I remember mutants. Dr Evil[1] created mutants from people, etc, etc

[1] I don't remember the name. It was so long ago that it was when I first got married, the first time!
And so will you, when you can block, defederate, etc with whoever you choose :) such is the beauty of decentralization.
It doesn't seem to be fault tolerant...
Friend groups at an expert level* of anything often involve knowledge sharing a lot like study groups.

> I am unsure how to approach someone with such a request, it feels like such an imposition to them

Just surround yourself with competent people and you will have friends to share knowledge with both ways.

* Around senior, principal, director, fellow levels in their discipline. C-suite seems different, hard to develop friendships based on expertise with many of them.
Nah, that's bs.

Sure, if you are unskilled worker that's struggling from paycheck to paycheck, then you might not be able to easily change work.

But in our line of work, and ESPECIALLY if you are good enough to work at something like twitter, pretending we are force to work where we are is a cope.

Sure, maybe there are some extreme instances when it is the case, there are always exceptions.
But on average, it's cringe when people who earn literally twice what the average population does talk about "job insecurity" and pretend they are in the same boat as trully struggling lower class worker.