skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this. For internal apps, pick a system and stick with it. If you're excited by Datadog's marketing pitch, just buy it and use it. It will not make or break your startup; like if your Datadog bill is what's standing between you and profitability, then you probably didn't actually find product/market fit. Switching to Prometheus at that point also won't help you find product/market fit.

In the 2 jobs where I've set up the production environment, I just picked Prometheus/Jaeger/cloud provider log storage/Grafana on day 1 and have never been disappointed. You explode the helm chart into your cluster over the course of 30 minutes, and then move on to making something great (or spending a week debugging Webpack; can't help you with that one).
It is surprisingly difficult to get pure hydrogen to burn. The DOE safety sheet [0] lists an upper flammability limit of 74% which matches my experience pretty well. In other words: gunshots would most likely just cause leakage.

[0] https://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/pdfs/h2_sa...
> LFortran is structured around two independent modules, AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) and ASR (Abstract Semantic Representation), both of which are standalone (completely independent of the rest of LFortran) and users are encouraged to use them independently for other applications and build tools on top.

Modern frontend architecture comes to Fortran! Awesome.
>I think this is an obvious side effect of industrialization. We got really good at factory farming chickens/cows/pigs/etc. and catching/processing certain fish, like tuna, sardines, salmon, etc. so that's the cheapest meat to get to market and the cheapest to buy, so that's what we eat.

I think you're right, or at least it's a major reason.

Before this article I have also observed that the only wild animals that people generally eat (at least in much of the developed world) is seafood. Most other meat, for most people, is farmed. Its not uncommon to eat fish that someone caught from the ocean, but it is uncommon to eat a bird that was shot out of the sky.
> whether C#/Java programmers could read C/C++ code and immediately understand those & and *.

Just like Rust, C# has an unsafe superset of the language. The meaning of all these * in unsafe C# exactly matches C.
OTel kind of has both today. Most languages support autoinstrumentation via either an agent, libraries, or both. So for example, if you've got a big Spring Boot app, it'll instrument requests/responses and DB calls for you. Some languages also have lightweight "sprinkle some spans on it" things you can put in code, like Java method annotations. But none have truly automatic "span for every method call" instrumentation.
15 years ago some interns where I now work created a spreadsheet and named it an acronym of their first names. That project has since developed into a fairly important system with a front end and database. They kept the name the same, of course.
Check out LPython as well (also in alpha): https://lpython.org/
>> The difference is that learning pearl is an ordeal that will take several weeks at the minimum.

I am not sure about pearl, but Perl is not that different from most other programming languages. If you are familiar with Javascript or Python, learning the basics of Perl is pretty easy:

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro

https://www.perltutorial.org/

Perl is designed for text processing, so it has a powerful regular expression engine. Writing regular expressions can be difficult, but it is a great skill to have in your toolkit.

Fun Fact: If the programming language you are using has support for regular expressions, they are almost certainly Perl-compatible regular expressions because Perl's regular expression syntax is more widely used and more popular than other regular expression syntaxes (e.g. POSIX, etc.).
Isn't this natural?
If you are not sharing 'viral' stuff to conform with expectations to be hip and desire huge audience without providing value, then it is good.

Healthy reaction to this small fandom is to take it as an indicator you are doing something good and should not focus on reception, but on the product.
It's about location, not nationality. And mostly the scammer's location, not the author's.

Also I choose to swap “United States” for Bosnian, because the mental image of sending a bunch of US swear words from google is quite funny.
The SEC is not the arm of the government to help you feel validated, and I think thats the crux of your dissonance
If it was transferred, the /microsoft link would have redirected to it. Instead, it's the git commits re-uploaded to another repo - so the commits are the same but it didn't transfer past issues, discussions or PRs https://github.com/matijagrcic/azurechatgpt/pulls?q=
Wow. What type of software was it?
Why were you implementing your own tracer? Don't they publish an implementation?
IMO low code with AI could be the future, we also at DronaHQ are integrating AI capabilities in every possible way like having a dedicated Ask AI feature for database querying, writing JS code or connecting with AI tool APIs quickly and helping our users to decrease the building time as much as possible.
Such a great game !
This is one of the reasons we decided to go with Databricks. Embed all the things for RAG during ETL.
Adi's writeup is great, and goes much more into the technical detail than my transcript. I really recommend everyone checks out his post.
If you turn off history and training, you as the user can no longer see your history, and OpenAI won't train with your data. But can customer prompts and company data still be resold to data brokers?
Worse (IMO) than that is the fact that when the privacy mode is turned on, you can't access your previously saved conversations nor will it save anything you do while it's enabled. Really shitty behaviour.
Has there been some resolution to the copyright issues that I’m no aware of? In my conversations with execs that’s been a serious concern — basically that generated output from AI systems can’t be reliably protected.

I refer to the concept that output could be deemed free of copyright because they are not created by a human author, or that derivative works can be potential liabilities because they resemble works that were used for training data or whatnot (and we have no idea what was really used to train).

There was the recent court decision confirming:

https://www.cooley.com/news/insight/2023/2023-08-24-district...

Seems odd to start making AI systems a data-at-the-center-of-the-company technology when such basic issues exist.

Is this not a concern anymore?
A JVM in Rust part 5 – Executing instructions
> How much of that is due to tech being relatively new?

None. The power density + basic chemistry and the way in which packs are manufactured are pretty much set. Without a change in any of those we won't see any major safety improvements. My hope is on a safer basic chemistry becoming mandated.

> Gas has some impressive failure modes too; in fact, every now and then I hear in national news about a residential apartment building having to be torn down after being structurally damaged beyond repair by a gas explosion in on of the flats. That's on top of fires and carbon monoxide poisoning. Gas is relatable in its ubiquity and danger, in ways lithium ions aren't yet.

Yes. True. But: yet.

> I'd actually love to read those. I am personally afraid to play with lithium ion batteries, though a little less than I am playing with propane tanks. Maybe your notes would help me recalibrate. My mail should be in my profile.

Ok, will mail this to you right away.

edit: sent.
> Side note: Someone brought up structured bindings in a comment, as if this fixed the issue. Structured bindings are a great example of the half-way fixes that proponents of modern C++ love to cite. Structured bindings help some, but if you think they make returning by tuple ergonomic, you’re mistaken. You still need to write std::pair or std::make_tuple in the function return statement.

No you don't. A tuple needs to be declared once. Then everything else is sugared.

#include <string>
#include <tuple>

using Foo = std::tuple<int, std::string, float>;

Foo foo(int a, const char* b, double c)
{
return {a,b,c};
}

Foo bar(long);

double baz(long x) {
const auto [a, b, c] = bar(x);
return c;
}

godbolt: https://godbolt.org/z/exdsb4hqb

Note that the return part of this (foo()) worked as far back as C++11. Only the structured bindings on the receiving side (baz) requires C++17.
(Gun laws deal in minutiae, so this is what you get in discussions concerning those laws.)

You're basically correct.
I feel like bots (or human analogues thereof) have "devalued" these numbers a lot. Loads of people will just like or share things on autopilot, on any social network, and then you get bots adding up the rest - since I'm sure interactions like liking and sharing increase their trust rating, and thus their value, without that kind of activity being easy to detect as being from a bot since it's just a click on a button.

We've got a youth that wants to do youtube, he gets really excited when he gets a subscriber or a share or something. But I'm like... it doesn't count until it's in the thousands or tens of thousands. That's me gatekeeping though, I'm probably being a dick about it.
Not everyone does but it's not something restricted to the rich like you said in your first comment. Growing up, my wife had a lot of help at home and she came from a middle class, dual income household. I came from an upper middle class household and my parents were so busy working so they could keep up with the Joneses that I never had any help whatsoever with my homework.

I'm not going to deny that schools can probably do better, but telling people you need to be rich to help your kids with school is, in my experience, not true. I think the bigger problem for many is relationship dynamics - most parents I know lack the patience to help their kids with homework.
> A fantastic example of the truth not mattering. Is a lion or just the wind? What difference does it make? Run either way!

We literally just had anti-mask protesters and anti-vaccine protesters take over one of the major political parties with major sway over a huge number of people's behavior (local municipalities, as well as large-scale behaviors of our society).

At this point I think you're trolling me if you don't see why this is an important issue of our times.

Despite these idiots injecting themselves with useless ivermectin, catching COVID19 and literally dying, I do care about their lives. Not only because of personal relationships, but also as a society they still play a role in the workforce, as fathers or mothers, or other sociological bonuses to our overall life. It is still a tragedy that they've basically killed themselves due to misinformation.

----------

There are other political issues of the now, and of the future, where the truth will also matter.
This isn't new, right? I've heard it's especially prevalent for management positions, both because the severance would be higher, and because it's "better for office politics" to slowly push someone out, or have the official story be that they left, than to fire someone with power and followers.
Reminds me of Slapdash's and Command-E acquisitions. Both still living in a limbo last I checked...
Nvidia does have secret sauce, though. That's kinda the point of CUDA cores and Tensor accelerators and RT cores, even. They are all secret (read: proprietary) and provide relevant "sauce" via performance improvements Nvidia monopolizes. It's arguably unfair, but just the way the cookie crumbles. Nvidia funded GPGPU drivers when AMD and Apple abandoned their cross-platform efforts. Nvidia funded early GAN and transformer-architecture papers, and incorporated their findings into the software layer.

Analysts certainly misunderstand CUDA, but that doesn't change it's status as a non-negligible moat. It is a by-product of an overly hostile computer industry, spearheaded by a company that's more than happy to profit from bad blood.
Am I understanding this correctly? Ubisoft is allowing third party mods of their 17 year old game that still requires a legal copy to run the mod? While good for the developers and fans, that hardly seems like a concession from Ubisoft
I don't think the demands of Fizz have much legal standing.

We care more about corporations than citizens in the US. Advertising in the US is full of false claims. We ignore this because we pretend like words have no meaning.
> (a) There's no such thing as "ethical hacking"

Weird stance. Sure, you may disagree on the limitations of scope of various ethical hacking programs (bug bounties and such) but they consistently highlight some very serious flaws in all kinds of hardware and software.

Going out of scope (hacking a company with no program in place) is always a gamble and you’re betting on the leniency of the target. Probably not worth it unless you like to live dangerously.
If you like both Python and Fortran, checkout LPython: https://lpython.org/, which shares internals with LFortran (https://lfortran.org/), thus delivering exactly the same performance.
long term, isolated, need of morale boosters, etc.
> Boston Dynamics' Parkourbot

> you don't need to do summersaults, or run, or lift a lot to be able to do useful work

I agree that it's a gimmick, but every time I see it I'm reminded of how far we are from having an in-home robot that can do useful work like wash the bed sheets
and clean the toilet.
> Maybe its just my Oppositional Defiant Disorder talking

Is that the clinical term for Internet Tough Guy?

I imagine deleting the DB would almost certainly lead to actual CFAA consequences. Which kinda suck, as I recall.
This really rings true. I think....hold on, I have to post something on Instagram.
I believe this gigantic ecosystem of build tools is there because the solution itself is needlessly complex.

I also believe using python for web development is a mistake.
Which is worse? Chicago's dramatic change or San Francisco's dramatic change?
I love this product, have contributed several times to it, and I'm a little torn. One thing I am thinking about now, is that the completion specs are MIT-licensed, and it should be possible to use them to re-implement a basic open-source version of the autocompletion product... https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
These lawsuits are about this particular design, which was designed specifically for the military:

https://filecache.thecampaignroom.com/mr5cm_3mearplugfacts/1...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37298864

Having conversations saved to go back to like in the default setting on Pro, that's disabled when a Pro user turns on the privacy setting, is another big difference.
The type of news about why remote work is harmful should make it clear to everyone just how corrupt the media is. Real estate bros losing money due to people working remotely have simply directed news outlets to criticise the practice. Just like that. Now imagine if such a trivial matter has been so easily manipulated how everything else in our lives is controled by media corruption and their benefactors, ranging from health, to politics, wars, pandemics, etc.
I don't think that's true. I recall when Amazon acquired Kiva robotics for their warehouse operations one of the people involved said something like "If you want something that can pick assorted objects out of a box and put them in another box, I'll need a NASA research team and 5 years, but moving the boxes around, we can do that with our Kiva robots." Here we are 10 years later and Amazon does in fact have the picker arms, though I'm not sure how production-ready they are, Amazon has demoed them.

Honestly I think there's been very dramatic improvements in robotics alongside ChatGPT but ChatGPT is easy to demo with nothing but an internet connection so it's just a lot less visible.
It means they are still courses instead of seminars, and they are not necessarily cutting-edge research materials. Many of the courses are taught to senior undergrads too.
Amazon’s CEO Amps Up Return-to-Office Rhetoric
Some people eat people. There was a guy who had a foot amputation and made it into taco's for his friends.
> "if any piece of this contract is invalid it doesn't invalidate the rest of the contract".

Severability (the ability to "sever" part of a contract, leaving the remainder intact so long as it's not fundamentally a change to the contract's terms) comes from constitutional law and was intended to prevent wholesale overturning of previous precedent with each new case. It protects both parties from squirreling out of an entire legal obligation on a technicality, or writing poison pills into a contract you know won't stand up to legal scrutiny.

If part of the contract is invalidated, they can't leverage it. If that part being invalidated changes the contract fundamentally, the entire contract is voided. What more do you want?

It seems like you're arguing for some sort of punitive response to authoring a bad contract? That seems like a pretty awful idea re: chilling effect on all legal/business relationship formation, and wouldn't that likely impact the weaker parties worse as they have less access to high-powered legal authors? That means that even negotiating wording changes to a contract becomes a liability nightmare for the negotiators, doesn't that make the potential liability burden even more lopsided against small actors sitting across the table from entire legal teams?

I guess I'm having trouble seeing how the world you're imagining wouldn't end up introducing bigger risk for weaker parties than the world we're already in.
Yes. If your WHERE clause is searching for only the ones for instance.
Many node packages will have incompatible api breaks across years of development. More so if your TS types have changed in incompatible ways and you're stuck re-jiggering your code. Can usually resolve in a few days. My advice is to, in general plan on one day a month to upgrade all dependencies to their latest version, which reduces the exposure a lot and makes it easier to deal with than years later. It's worse on front end projects that use node for build tooling.

Ironically, I think the worst libraries for breaking changes are actually the testing libraries themselves. Having to jump 2-3 major versions to update to latest is an exercise in extreme frustration.

I appreciate a lot of what Deno is doing in their direction, though I've felt a few breaking changes along the way there too.
Yes and: Tesla sacrificed low defect counts for other qualities {1}. Such as high iteration, units shipped, reducing weight. {2}

Which could maybe be fine, if Tesla had also adopted the Bezos Amazon obsession with customer satisfaction. Bezos knew that given Amazon's growth there would be a lot of errors (defects). So they built out superior customer service infra, gave CSRs wide autonomy/authority to fix stuff, try to make every customer whole.

And Amazon's customers loved them for it, have high tolerance for mistakes, which would harm most other CPG brands.

Instead, Tesla adopted the Page Google antipathy towards customers. So dumb.

At some point, Musk will have spent all of his goodwill. Then Tesla's brand will suffer accordingly. And that kind of soft equity is wicked hard to rebuild.

These lawsuits are going to hurt Tesla's brand. Celebrity is a two-edged sword. The media that fawned over him for so long will now gleefully tear him to shreds.

{1} IIRC, Tesla's defect rate is %10 vs %3 for other "luxury" auto brands, however that's measured.

{2} Noting that defect rate varies across subsystems. IIRC, Tesla motors and batteries remain best in class; Whereas body, paint, interior, and trim suffer.
We know that stuff generated from AI content is generally not your copyright, but there isn't any current ruling on whether or not you're free to use copyright-protected content to train a model in a legal way (e.g. fair use since it's been 'learned on', not directly copied). Some companies are using OpenAI gpt stuff, which is almost certainly trained on tons of copyrighted content and academic content, while other companies are being more cautious and soliciting models specifically trained on public domain/licensed content.
https://archive.ph/068ih
http://archive.today/Vo2CY
Lots and Lots of Pets still out there.
That's an excellent plan.
Which part of that post are you calling "not totally true"? I don't see any conflict between what they said and what you're saying.
I presume that the "limb" the EFF attorney went on is basically what would've been disputed in a court of law. It's easily argued that if an app is so badly configured that just _following the Firebase protocol_ can give you write access to the database, you haven't actually circumvented any security measures, because _there weren't any to circumvent_.

It reminds me of the case where AT&T had their iPad data subscriber data just sitting there on an unlisted webpage. Don't remember which way it went, but I think the guy went out of his way there to get all the data he could get, which isn't the case here.
General-purpose observability systems serve two use cases: presenting a high-level summary of system behavior, and allowing operators to inspect telemetry data associated with a specific e.g. request.

The former use case is often solved by a specific and narrow kind of observability data, which is metrics. A common tool for that purpose is Prometheus. You certainly can't query Prometheus for individual requests, which is fine, and accepting that invariant allows Prometheus to treat input data as statistical, in the sense that you mean in your comment.

But if we're talking about general-purpose telemetry, we're talking about more than just high-level summaries of system behavior, we also need to be able to inspect individual log events, trace spans, etc. If a user made a request an hour ago with reqid 123, I expect to be able to query my telemetry system for reqid 123 and see all of the metadata related to that request.

A telemetry system that samples prior to ingest certainly delivers value, but it can only ever solve the first use case, and never the second.
Not really, they want some users to give them conversation history for training purposes and offer cheaper access to people willing to provide that.
That doesn't seem to have much to do with a note on a phone game ad saying nothing in the ad shows real gameplay.
> After identifying a vulnerability, the researchers created administrator accounts using the database activity they obtained

Ignoring the legalities of it all, this step crosses a line morally imo.
That is not categorically true. There is a great diversity of superhero origins. Some are allegories for minorities (X Men), some are not secretive at all and a regular part of society, sometimes it turns out that the organisation is not to our benefit, sometimes they are just plain evil. Still others are secretive but not organized
If you enjoyed that, you might enjoy Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan. It's climate change scifi kicked off by cosmic scifi. A micro-blackhole is discovered that will pass through the solar system, slightly modifying earth's orbit and raises the tides by a few feet while it passes. It's essentially "what if we instantly jumped forward by 500 years on our current climate progression".

Spoiler, I found the ending very unsatisfying. It feels like a cliffhanger into a second book, but there is no second book it just ends without much resolution. The actual climate change/societal terror in the first 75% is great though, it was on pace to become a favorite book of mine.
The fact that he let a kissing bug bite him didn't help...
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