skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or any other error source like that. Thermal noise, background radioactivity, etc. As chip density increases the chance of bit flips also increases, and ECC RAM becomes more important.
I definitely notice the difference in speed between a Uk and US kettle.

In the UK I put the water on then while it’s boiling get a mug and tea bag and then the kettle is boiled very soon after.

In the US I generally wonder off as the kettle takes a couple of minutes longer.
Couple thus with the expectation of everyone carrying a phone at all times:

1 in Italy booking a train ride without providing your phone number, email and tessera sanitaria, proved a challenge last month

2 civid required us to carry our green pass everywhere (I'm not anti vaxx)

3 get stopped on some countries (like US) at a border and unable to present a phone for search might deny you entry.

The whole affair was predicted already 50-70 years ago. Jacques Ellul's La Technique is a great comprehensive read on this idiocy
It's identical to the current state of the publishing world. They've already gone through this transition: the marginal cost to "publish" a book is zero. However to "publish a book that will people will read" is a different question altogether and is still very much gatekept by the major publishing houses.
i don't because i'm using electron instead of Qt. but honestly at this point i'll do anything to make it just build properly for all devices.
One should at minimum name the things that behave differently by different names, what is a common practice in data modeling.

I expect all those bugs to return again and again as different people maintain that code. At least with code deduplication they would have a clear alarm telling them their knowledge is wrong and they must pay attention. But with each query doing everything people will just assume they know it all.
More like the secret to getting ignored/blackholed/sued into the ground the moment your fuzzer hits on a combo that actually does damage to someone else's system, since the implication here is you're not doing it on your own stuff.

If you are, good on ya. Continue doing $deity's/Bob's work.
>The internet is a bunch of disparate networks that no one person controls, exactly. That means that when someone tells you there's a fault in the kit that you have installed in your network, then that is 100% your problem and it is 100% on you to get it fixed.

So you've never worked in a corporate environment. Here's how that conversation would go:

Hey guys, some researchers found out if you use a test flag meant for the lab on the public internet, it breaks all our BGP sessions.

OK, so drop their feed and block them?

Great, done.

>Once a vulnerability is known then someone out there is going to start exploiting it almost immediately.

And yet the "vulnerability" in question was known, and was not being immediately exploited if you read through the mailing list or were participating in NANOG at that point in time. So your statement is provably false.

>Backbone operators can have all the hubris they want, but it won't change the reality that the only effective action they can take when a vulnerability is found is to get it fixed ASAP.

And yet we're having this conversation in 2023, they have operated the same way for 40+ years, and somehow the internet is still working. Bad actors get blackholed, it worked in the past, it'll continue working in the future. The reality is that backbone routing is expensive, and expecting everyone to update their kit on YOUR timeline isn't reasonable.
Also reminds me of the XKCD What-if: "When - if ever - will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx"

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
I would install an US 240V@20A receptacle and replace the plug on the kettle.

You can also wire a duplex 120V with the two phases (you might find this in some kitchens, and in my workshop). Then you can make a dangerous extension cord adapter combining the split phase 120V into one 240V female plug.
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Have the errata been collected anywhere?
That's completely irrelevant to the content of this piece.
I've never so viscerally disagreed with a link on this website. Particularly this point:

> Duplication is bad. In fact, duplication is one of the most dangerous mistakes in coding.

This to me reads insane, fanatical. One of the biggest benefits of duplication that the author fails to identify the locality of logic. When, not if, things break, there's a large benefit to having all of the logic contained to a few heavy-lifter classes that contain bespoke logic and are fit-for-purpose.

"The wrong abstraction" in this case is bending over backward to fit your data into another API just to cut down on code duplication; it is better to have code with clean, uninterrupted data flow than code that frequently needs to re-translate the data to be consumed by different APIs, then decode the results back to useful logic. The translation/decoding steps are new places to introduce bugs, and the more translation or decoding required, the more bug-prone the code will be.

A good abstraction to de-duplicate code should not add complexity to the existing call sites. If you've squinted and decided that two systems are close enough that they can be abstracted together, you're likely making one or both of those code paths much more treacherous.
Same way you'd get the password? It's either a physical or virtual server you more or less control, in which case the siblings' answers apply. Otherwise, it's probably some kind of image or something someone else controls, in which case bake in or send them your public key or certificate (if you've got colleagues in the same situation as yourself).
From the article:

A company called Kytch built a small, third-party device that could be attached to the soft service ice cream machines that read and interpreted Taylor’s error codes. Kytch has been engaged in a lawsuit in California state court with Taylor and McDonald’s for more than two years.
Its an interesting concept, which will further fragment the amount of attention that each individual piece can get. If the actors are AI generated, then we are also past the point there sex and nudity can't be part of the experience. It will likely be more attractive than anything else for that reason alone.
Sugar was common in foods for many generations.

High fructose corn syrup is relatively new.

So are many sugar substitutes.
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> Git for Windows is built on top of msys2, which in turn is built on top of Cygwin.

you can get native Windows Git as well. its called MinGit:

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/MinGit
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
–Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981
I have not been keeping up with developments. Does this mean mortals can run the biggest tier of Llama models (albeit with trash performance) by using system ram? For playing around, I would be willing to let my system chug along just to see what the top tier models can achieve.
> The US uses a lot more smaller transformers, really one per street. while germany uses fewer larger transformers

I am from Spain and living in the US and something that was shocking to me about it is that here, at least where I lived, these last transformers are hanging from poles and every now and then I can hear an explosion and it is one of them blowing up.

I have no idea but, maybe being exposed like they are here in the US makes them more vulnerable to weather conditions and that makes them explode? Or maybe it simply is that in Spain they also explode but the fact of not being that close to residences makes it harder to hear it.
I struggle how we can include that into GDP. It should be a number we are attempting to reduce not grow because its a massive tax on the citizens.
This article probably re-submitted, because a recent update to it did not make it to the front page:

https://palant.info/2023/08/29/chrome-sync-privacy-is-still-...
>> Seems that frontend is seen as second-tier engineering and isn't really respected.

At the places I've worked, it's because that's where the majority of the beginners are, and lots of mistakes are made there. But there are some excellent FE developers, who also know other technologies and are excited about them. Those are the ones I want to hire!

I've also seen lots of FE out-sourced to small companies all over the world. They work fast and efficiently, and their engineers are usually contracted for a limited time.

>> or at worst full-stack

What's wrong with full-stack? :(
I like it when you have nice, composable utility functions. Ideally each test contains a short preamble setting up the appropriate context for the test to run. The preamble elucidates what the tests are actually testing. It can also serve as documentation on how to use those functions.

There will probably be some duplication across tests, but if the utility functions are idempotent/composable, they're usually pretty easy to read/understand and equally mechanical to write/update.
Sure, let's say they believe it works for them so they don't politically support reworking it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You'll probably find that "fun-employment" as a term is mostly used by people who were collecting a very nice paycheck and don't have a lot of serious responsibilities.
That's not what the parent is talking about.

They're specifically refering to password authentication to make the ssh connection.
Being able to have services speak OTLP and having my application configurations simplified to sending data to the OTEL collector is great.

From an ops point-of-view devs can add whatever observability to their code and I can enforce certain filtering in a central place as well as only needing one central ingress path that applications talk to.

Also because everything emits OTLP if we ever want to move to new backends it's just a matter of changing a yaml file and not rewriting applications to support a new logging backend.

Given the choice of going back to the old way of using vendor-specific logging libraries, I will continue using OTEL 10/10 times because even given its warts, it's still a lot nicer than the alternatives.
It's about looking at supply vs demand. Electrical devices are often labeled by the minimum voltage they require to operate. 110 V is commonly used because the device can operate reliably on a 120 V distribution system.
Go ahead, rent that EV. Just make a charging plan before setting out
I do recommend a good, hard journey in your life though. Take your shoes, or a bicycle, and go somewhere. One week, two weeks. Enough to be tired and want to go back home really hard. Enough to have to deal with a problem without a credit card (good example: bike broke down 10 miles from the closest city, not a soul around to help you).

But most importantly, enough to enjoy the moment despite the hardship.

Once you discover that it is possible, that it is logical, then a new life awaits.
i can't find a source for it, but i know nasa has done this in the past.
the US Air Force wants $5.8B to build 1k AI-driven unmanned combat aircraft
Stealth (2005) will reapeat in real world.

https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-budget-58-billion-build-ai-powered-valkyrie-aircraft-2023-8?IR=T
In the horsepower versus mpg example, every generated result creates new data on the plot that isn't there in the original plot. this is terrible.
> So the FBI used unauthorized access to the computers to uninstall the malware? Scary if you think about it. I'm sure they could have used that access any way they wanted.

The access was always possible. Not just by the FBI. In fact, it was already being accessed by the botnet operators. The issue here is _permission_ and _precedent_. The government gave itself permission to go into these computers and cleanup the botnet. What explicit permission did they grant themselves and what precedent does that set?

I'm pretty hesitant/paranoid about the U.S. government and the powers we (citizens) grant them. But this one surprisingly sits right with me. It looks thoughtfully applied and constrained - a very tactical operation to go in and cleanup a botnet without accessing any unnecessary data in the process.

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-08/23mj4244_application_reda...
I'd love to hear more about the frontend people who excelled in consulting, as being independent / my own boss would be my ideal path.

I've done my share of contracting, but unfortunately as I've gotten more experience, I haven't found it any easier to find work (could be the market), and wages haven't gone up at all. It seems like no one wants to pay above $100/hr for frontend contract work and I was making that almost 5 years ago.

Prob hurts a lot that I've been remote for the last 5 years, and thus haven't built much of a network.
> I've never come across a name for this development style.

Libraries designed like this are sometimes called "combinator libraries".
Microsoft deprecates some Edge features to improve and simplify its browser
We put one in 15 years ago and use it every single day. Sorry for the commercial link, but https://insinkerator.emerson.com/en-us/insinkerator-products... is an example. It's great to have near-boiling water on demand.
Do you know of a decent summary of the current state of AIX? I was aware that new systems were still being sold and deployed but had that filed more under "not dead yet" than "survivor" as such.
Why? A burned-out bulb fails open not closed.

If it failed closed then a bulb burning out would trip the circuit breaker.
American circuits are designed to support a constant 15amp load, meaning you get 1500 ish watts. One 4090 overclocked and one high end Intel CPU overclocked, plus the cooling for all that, plus other parts, gets you uncomfortably close to that.

My hope is that this limit forces the computer industry to put at least one cycle into actual efficiency instead of just promising a node shrink will magically fix things, since we only have a few of those left really.

I shouldn't need to run a damn space heater to play a stupid video game. At this rate, you have to think about how much video game you plan to play in your electricity budget!
Cat-holy-cs, or the ancient order of holy cats, that began in the ancient Egypt.
Ya the researcher could just sell their findings to whatever blackhat groups are out there instead. You generally get less pushback and more cash from them.
Yes, and there’s plenty of case law to support that -

In fact, one of the most popular TV shows of all time had its finale specifically addressing the fact that a law needed to be made to discourage “bystanders” from actively ignoring crime.
Detail of the Giant Cerebras Wafer-Scale Cluster – ServeTheHome
> and taking cash on the side

With this statement you’re arguing past the person you’re responding to. If you are taking cash on the side to feign ignorance when the DEA comes squawking about the meth lab in your basement then you are clearly in the know.

Nobody is talking about negligence here. Your rebuttal is essentially “well victims can be blamed if they’re being negligent”. Yeah, sure, by definition they’re not just a victim, they’re a negligent individual. (I mean I’d even argue they can be blamed for less—I’m not one of those 100% the victim is always innocent types, but that’s a different topic.)

The original question is if you are honestly unaware (and not negligent) that your property is being used to commit a crime, are you culpable for the crime? The answer is a resounding “no”.

If someone hacks your PC and installs botnet software, and it evades your OS antivirus heuristics and protections because it’s a sophisticated root-kit, then no, you’re not culpable.
Interesting, I clicked on the link (from mac) and got a thank you for opting out page, nothing else.
JS is a ridiculous language. Ruby is another ridiculous language.

Python has some very frosty deep roots in PL theory and practice, and it's a billion times better than C and a trillion times better than C++. (Java was and still is uncool.)

Python became popular because it was so much easier and more fun than the other languages and it's (very serious) problems weren't as obvious back when the BDFL was running things, or until your project gets large.

(We should all just use Lisp, ffs.)
I have a counterexample for you: Classic WoW.

For those unfamiliar, WoW came out in late 2004 and has had some ~8 expansions since. Each expansions adds new lands, new cosmetics, new dungeons, new raids and new systems. Additionally, these expansions changed existing systems. So much so that what is now refered to as "retail WoW" is considered too complex with too big of a barrier to entry by many. It's partially why the player base has shrunk as the game has increasingly catered to the top 1% to 5% ta the expense of the casual player base.

There has been a rich history of so-called private servers. These are privately run WoW servers that stick to older versions of the game, particularly the vanilla game and each of the first two expansions. These are illegal and never last long.

At Blizzard's annual conference, famously this came up when an audience member asked about it and the head of the game said "You think you do but you don't" [1]. This one guy probably did more to move this cause forward than anyone as it galvanized the community behind this idea.

Then 4-5 years ago Blizzard announced they were releasing "classic WoW". This is basically (but not entirely) the original game with some changes. Some were understandable, some less so. But it was basically the original game.

This has been massively popular and continues to be, so much so that Blizzard just released "hardcore classic WoW", servers where your character is over when you die. Lots of games have hardcore modes but it's interesting in WoW that it may takes ~6 days played to get to max level and a lot of people still want hardcore mode.

But my point is that this 18 year old game with about the same graphics continues to be massively in demand. You don't need to constantly churn out new content to a large scale like you suggest.

Also, SC has over a half a billion dollars and continues to somehow raise a lot through ship sales (which, to me, is bizarre). They very much could afford to continually pump out new content. But there's still only one system with the second years delayed.

Studios like PvP because it falls into user-generated content. The players entertain themselves and that costs almost nothing. But they fail to acknowledge that they're, at best, catering to 5-10% of the potential market.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wrw3c2NjeE
What even is Threads? My phone says it's made by Threads Group Inc and has only 1 million users.
So, when you're working with Elixir or any language on the BEAM VM, you're in a world where data is immutable and processes are isolated. It's like having Akka's actor model but at the VM level, so it's super integrated.

The BEAM VM itself is a different beast compared to the JVM. It's more like its own mini-OS designed for real-time multitasking. Each process has its own garbage collection, and it's all non-blocking. So if one process goes belly-up, it doesn't take the whole system with it. Imagine a network of telephone switches; if one gets zapped by lightning, the rest keep chugging along. That's the level of fault tolerance Erlang and BEAM were designed for.

Now, speaking of fault tolerance, let's talk about how easy it is to mess up an Akka system if you're not careful. Say a new Java dev joins your team and doesn't get Akka's actor model. They might introduce shared mutable state between actors, which is a big no-no and can lead to all sorts of race conditions. Or they might do something like put a blocking operation inside an actor, which can hog resources and mess up the whole system's performance. Akka's great, but if you don't follow its principles, you can still shoot yourself in the foot.

So, the beauty of Elixir and BEAM is that a lot of these good practices are enforced by the VM itself. You get that fault tolerance and concurrency baked right in, without having to rely on every engineer knowing all the best practices.

Hope that clears things up!
The majors aren't so major anymore. Many big artists actually have their own labels now. A lot of 'em have distro deals... but it's a very different model. No advances, so the artist pays all recording costs, but they also end up owning the masters and having total creative control.
If i remember correctly the Canadian system for this seems sensible; there is a tax deferred account but you can pull it out at any time without additional penalty (you pay income tax of course). I think you can't put it back in though. At some age (70ish?) you have to start taking it out somewhere in the 5-10% range.
A "more innocent explanation" could simply be data augmentation. It seems pretty clear they don't care that it's obviously using watermarked Shutterstock videos.
True story: I worked at a company that moved into office space that Booz Allen had rented prior to us. Someone at Booz Allen left behind a desk nameplate that said "Ethics Advisor". I still have it somewhere.

Remember, Snowdon raised concerns internally ten times prior to going rogue. I like to think there's a story in there about Snowdon raising his concerns to the ethics advisor who advised him to go rogue, after which the advisor was fired and they dropped the title. Why else would someone leave behind their nameplate title? Anyway it's fun to hypothesize.
Yeah a quick look on their (ZeroGPT) website and it seems like it's basically just a model itself trained on human vs. AI text?

It caught what I tested with 100% accuracy but I didn't spend more than a few minutes playing with it.
Talks in length about suffix arrays and yet never mentions the BWT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf...
okay. pray tell how a definition of poverty that claims 93% of china, 94% of mexico, 40% of spain, etc. is poor is useful. we can see the damn data in front of us, so you can feign outrage all you want - they clearly did not account for the problem.

it has nothing to do with competence. we can and have defined per-country poverty lines, which these people obviously know. this is a malicious effort to present a twisted narrative of western superiority.
thanks bud
Verizon has a new way for customers to block email-to-text spam messages
There's a lot of willful denial of reality when it comes to health care, but even when that doesn't happen, a lot of discussions just end up being people explaining how things work to others.

The Veterans Health Administration is a huge sprawling thing. A lot of people aren't aware it exists.
If that's what the residents want and they're okay having paid the fines for the city's illegal actions, I'm happy to let them enjoy the park without crowding it by my presence or tourism money.