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Show HN: Alaz: Open-Source, Self-Hosted, eBPF-Based K8s Monitoring
Hello Everyone,

I'm excited to introduce a new open-source observability platform and would love to hear your feedback.

We are aware that there are lots of open-source/commercial tools out there. However, we believe that monitoring the clusters and extracting actionable insights requires deep know-how about the tools/domain. We mainly focused on this problem.

- Alaz is an eBPF agent installed on your K8s cluster as DaemonSet. Thanks to eBPF, Alaz collects traces directly from Linux kernels. This means there's no need for sidecars, instrumentations, or service restarts.

- The UI not only visualizes data but also provides actionable insights. Using the Service Map, you can:

- View latencies and RPS between services.
- Detect zombie services and underperforming SQL queries.
- Monitor golden signals, such as 5xx status codes.

In addition, Alaz can capture system resources like CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network through the Prometheus Node Exporter, which is embedded in the agent.

Setting up is straightforward: just install Alaz as a DaemonSet, and the platform will handle the rest.

Finally, the combination of Alaz and Ddosify Performance Testing makes it possible to do load testing and simultaneously monitor the system to find bottlenecks instantly.

For those interested, check out Alaz on GitHub: https://github.com/ddosify/alaz

Your feedback would be greatly appreciated!
"The gist is: they can collect super intimate information about you -- from your medical information, your genetic information, to your “sex life” (seriously), to how fast you drive, where you drive, and what songs you play in your car -- in huge quantities. They then use it to invent more data about you through “inferences” about things like your intelligence, abilities, and interests."

Told you... your sex life is corporation-collected data.
It does. It's called salaries for emergency operators and it's paid for by your tax money.
I have three PinePhones... somewhere... for mostly the same reason. A BraveHeart or two and then one of the "stable hardware" versions which fixed a couple near-showstopper bugs on the BHs. It didn't matter - the software simply never showed up, even running nightlies of various stuff never got telephony, the entire point of a cell phone, working stably on US carriers with battery life over 4-6 hours (be that screen on or off time, it didn't seem to matter).

I generated a bunch of e-waste trying to make Fetch (Linux Phones) happen. Never again. I'll just deal with the ever-more-restrictive-and-creepy duopoly until eventually I'm able to stop using smartphones at all and go back to a dedicated GPS or two, a dedicated music player, and LTE tethering a laptop if I need to look up anything. It'll be inconvenient, but I don't see another usable path out of the creepware spiral.
Thanks to "social media" I learned that investing was a thing, and I'll be immensely grateful for that.
Alright. Imagine a non-violent Nazi. They're not punching anyone.

Your natural move is to claim (their) speech as harmful. This inevitably descends into "My violence is merely political speech, but their political speech is violence," inverting the meaning of things.
I think the difference there is that FAANG+ refers explicitly to tech companies, rather than things like Exxon or whatnot.
Jamming does not require much power. There are plenty of battery powered jammers available.
So people should be screwed out of their severance? Just lay people off, you hired them be an adult and fire them.
The most upvoted response was objectively wrong due to real world constraints.

The real world is irrelevant in the trolly problem or the 4 color theorem etc.

You may personally be interested in it as a purely mathematical problem, but he’s looking for a real world answer so poor abstractions are useless. On the other hand “I would first check for track flatness. When locked in with extra effort, the loop will warp a little, basically going into 3d instead of flat 2d.” is a useful shortcut.
I believe the term we are looking for here is balls.
I am, and taxation is atrocious.
People in need of security and privacy would be far better off with GrapheneOS. For the Breaking Bad crowd there are specialized crimephones like Anom that are pre-compromised by law enforcement. Librem is more for people who want to run traditional GNOME/KDE on a phone instead of Android.
One-time pads are obviously not a serious widespread cryptography proposal.

But the question of, "Why not just send the message instead of the pad" is pretty straightforward: when you have the opportunity to safely deliver the pad, you don't know what the message will be. When you do know what the message will be, you don't have the opportunity to safely deliver the pad.
This reminds me of the series from Raymond Chen: "Starting on the other side of this airtight hatchway"

Apparently security teams at MS are very accustomed to this kind of phenomenon.

Example: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221004-00/?p=10...
If computing was a night club, "Silicon Valley" would be the creepy guy who goes up to women with "Do you want to dance? [Yes] [Ask again later]". Or more often: "We are now dating. I'll pick you up at 7PM tomorrow for dinner. To opt out, send me a letter in the post."
This doesn't follow nearly as well in the trades. Plumbers make good money not just because they are good at putting pipes together, but because most people don't want to spend their day getting dripped on or even dealing with wastewater.
Except those people may be overestimating (kindly) or pretending (unkindly) the harm they suffer from those attacks. To consider a defensive action as ethically sound, the defender must show real harm. Otherwise it's vulnerable to abuse and opens up lines of reasoning along the following statement (with gay and straight flipped around): "As a gay person, I hate straight people as they threaten my sexuality/orientation/way of life."
Plus, it's hard for execs to lie to your face over a recorded zoom call.

I'm sorry I mean be wrong about the details.
I think you are missing what I'm saying. At the end of the day after this WASM business gets settled, the browser will just be the runtime for WASM apps. Nothing will be stored "in the browser," it will be stored on the user's file system, so I'm not sure why you say browsers won't have "unlimited storage," they'll be able to access as much storage as they need, same as downloading a desktop or mobile app.

When WASM becomes popular enough, browsers will indeed implement streaming and diff update optimizations, just as HTTP 2/3 does today for DOM based sites and applications. Browsers will become the unified runtime for WASM apps, so they will support the common operations and optimizations for such apps.

> People do want to use desktop apps. Instead of actual desktop apps we get shitty web apps running on Electron.

Yes, that is my point. WASM will make these apps fast because they are actually compiled rather than be interpreted by the JS JIT as well as shipping an entire browser per app.

I am honestly not sure what you're arguing for. You talk about shitty Electron apps, which I agree with, but then don't seem to have a solution, which in my case is WASM apps on the browser or via a runtime like Wasmtime. What is it that you actually want?
I imagine Amazon could downsize their downtown Seattle footprint to match their current needs, face increased taxes, and still come out ahead.

This seems like mostly an attrition play.

The capital class also despises the labor class. I wouldn't down-play the pure spite motive, either.
These are all my scripts. They're object-oriented, self-documented, tab-completable and a `hg clone` away. They're simply more polished versions of what I could do on Windows with built-in PowerShell (and FFPROBE of course):

F:films> filter probe_format {
ffprobe $_.fullname -v error -show_entries format=duration -of json |
convertfrom-json | % format
}
F:films> ls -file -rec | ? extension -in .mp4,.avi,.mkv | probe_format |
measure -sum duration | % { New-TimeSpan -Seconds $_.sum } | % tostring
15.12:18:09 # same result as before (15days+12hours, etc.)

Even this makes much more sense to me than the Unix equivalent. I realize that Bash/AWK was better than CMD.EXE batch files, but, come on...
See also: https://itty.bitty.site/
That Wikipedia stat is over 3 years ago 2020. What’s it look like now?
"All you have done is justify their action"

No, not at all.
I think it's pretty terrible that Turing was portrayed as Cumberbatch's standard asshole genius when as far as I know he was quite likeable. And there was next to zero depiction of his sexuality when he was a famous gay martyr.
That is fine if you feel there is a shared responsibility. I can see that. But I don't see a lot of "personal responsibility" happening at the corp level.

I believe that given the power imbalance of individuals vs corps, and the history of corporate messaging being insanely misleading, and of course ongoing regulatory capture, that we need a systematic approach at a high priority much more than we need more recommendations for "common sense" individual approaches.
What if someone trying to pay for their kid's chemo hit you over the head with a hammer to take your wallet and left you unable to continue your current line of work?
It also has to spend money well, stimulate growth, and whole lot of other things than taking people's money away to patch things. The only option as it stands is privatising the NHS.
Hell, two jobs ago I wouldn't even admit to being religious, let alone creationist. Most places aren't like that, fortunately.
Yeah that was my reading as well. The legislation isn't being changed. The statement even says "We know you can develop [the methods to access], and we still have the authority to order it."

The only relevant part of from op is the govt acknowledging that 2+2 = 4. But it fails to acknowledge that if they want to get 5, they can still order the equation to be 3+2.
I think its a combination of over hiring over the pandemic, higher interest rates and an opportunity to reduce salaries for future hires.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. It looks like I'll be sticking with Forklift 3 for the long haul.

I did just install Double Commander on my Steam Deck, though. It's a vast improvement over Dolphin.
Plenty of room for a recursive function with no base case
People complain of shadow bans, the amorphous algorithm pushing links away from the front page, comments getting eaten, and all sorts of supposed control on Hacker News every day.
Yeah, but Walmart generics are made in India by companies known for recalls due to carcinogen contamination. Not that recalls in Europe don't happen, but I'd rather purchase from a pharmaceutical company in business from the 19th century. If US regulators believe that India has more stringent pharmaceutical standards than Germany, then something is fishy! And there's so much corruption in generics [0]!

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/04/big-pharm...
And a hundred different identical products at vastly different prices from brand new sellers like `z-qq-yadonk-8771` that some how has 4.7k reviews at 4.5 stars.
Perhaps if you see such a piece of rock outside a place where it is likely it is an artefact (eg. a camp or burial site among other belongings) you wouldn't even consider it as man made.

Maybe you have passed such things multiple times without ever recognizing their true origins!
To be fair they aren't going nuts with them, I've seen worse examples. But I agree with you in principle, it's not necessary, and potentially harmful to overall performance. It also doesn't really belong in a ZFS tuning guide.
> If a Chinese fighter jet shot down a FedEx plane flying over the Pacific, that would be considered an attack on US sovereignty and the government would respond appropriately

But if a bunch of Chinese people robbed a US bank, let's say the federal reserve, causing enormous financial damage but not loss of life, the response would be similar. Especially so if their link to the actual Chinese government was suspected couldn't reliably be proven.

Governments catch foreign agents somewhat regularly, and those captures don't lead to an all-out war.
I'm sorry that wasn't captured in my nutshell explanation. A pure, "free" market would not have any such distortions, at least in theory. A pure free market would also not have any government services, such as roads, landfills, or the military/police, so that would affect market prices. I would also argue that such a pure "free" market system would still not collect all the information needed to accurately determine the "cost" of a thing, as certain costs are often not naturally captured in the price without some kind of government intervention (for example, a factory dumping toxic waste into a river for free without any government environmental oversight to say that is not allowed).

So yeah, I don't think there's a pure free market system in the United States.
> if you don't mind not using tethering with turned off screen.

Isn’t there a feature to disable the hibernation timer if tethering is on? That seems like something that could be hacked in just a few lines of code. For my own use, I already found on someone’s Github a systemd service that disables hibernation when the PinePhone is playing audio. (Of course, I agree with you on the last point.)
They exist but Marxists and faux Marxists are very militaristic and don't want anything that threatens their monopoly even if it has a chance of working, worse, if it works then it makes them look stupid (barking up the wrong tree).

This here is the go to book I recommend:

https://www.dieter-suhr.info/files/luxe/Downloads/Suhr_Struc...
We've used dbmate[1] outside of the Django/alembic ecosystem.

[1] https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate
If the MVP stays in production without further investment, then it's the product, there's nothing minimal about it. That's a decision.

If a prototype or PoC is in production though, something's gone wrong. I build my prototypes and PoCs in such a way that they literally can't be in production, which is I think the correct way to build a PoC anyway.
I work in Quantum Chemistry (aka Math Applied to Molecular Physics) so I see somewhat similar stuff every other day.

The problem is that if the predictions by computer were wrong, it would have been too easy to spot differences in many other cases, like the energy of some molecules, or the angles of the atoms of other molecules, or the reactions or other molecules. The exact calculations are horrible slow, but there are good enough approximations like DFT and some other methods that are more accurate but too slow to be applied to big molecules (like O(N^12) where N is the number of atoms, or if you are not a purist N is 5 times the number of atoms, or something like that because the details are more complicated). Anyway, the result is an infinite sum of slater determinants, but usually a few are enough. There is very little room for surprises.

I'm not an astronomer, so I have less idea about possible problems with black holes. It seams that the neutron stars have a lot of internal structure near the surface, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta because in the surface you have a mix of neutrons and protons. In the center, it may possible have a mix of normal mater and matter made also with the strange quark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_matter So there are a lot of weird things we don't understand completely and may case neutron star to avoid being crushed into a black hole. Also, at very high gravity forces, we must consider quantum gravity, that is a theory we had no t discovered yet. We discovered many black holes so all these problems I imagine are not so problematic. But anyway, there is a lot of internal structure that could have been a problem until they got a confirmation.
For what it's worth, that's not at all my experience on the teams I've worked with. I was around when hooks were released and it was an immediate and significant improvement to our team at the time.
I wonder if they're going to offer Basecamp with this model, and if so, how much is that going to cost? I imagine it would have to be in the thousands.
In most larger cities there are even adult leagues.

Seattle, for example, has an adult recreational hockey league that has ~2,000 participants across ten divisions of ability.

If you can ice skate (and there are lessons available if you can’t), there’s a place for you on an ice hockey team.

And if you’re not “super competitive” but just want to have some fun skating around a rink, you can do that any day of the week.

Same goes for many other sports.
Just How Dangerous Are India’s Generic Drugs? Very!
The opposite of simple is complicated. Complex ideas are fine, complicated ideas are generally nonsense.
I, too, like dark mode. But, I've found several instances that required the site to make modifications to support dark mode. Most recent example was a QR code rendered as <svg> with a transparent background. The parent container had a white background. Samsung made the parent background black but didn't invert the QR code color. So as a result the QR code was unusable.
It's not really that curious:

- People put the probability of them getting involved in an accident that is their fault at 0.
- People put the probability of them getting involves in an accident that is a robot's fault at >0

This is why people are afraid of flying and not driving. The agency is the big problem.

If your objection is "what about others" - humans are naturally selfish and will hold whatever belief that are incentivized to.
Socialists want to place power in the proletariat, not themselves. This feels like a very emotional comment rather than one made from a logical standpoint.
Maybe don't over-rate the influence of the industry.

The Conservative party's own members tore it to shreds.

From: https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/OSB1_r2_2023-08-27.mp3 *

"The source of the bill itself, the UK Conservative Party, has a
significant number of its own critics calling it "fundamentally
misdesigned" David Davis said its well-intentioned attempts may
constitute "the biggest accidental curtailment of free speech in
modern history."

(* sadly my other sincere comment has been buried by people who
apparently can't read past the first line)
How much do you walk on it?
Snowden has the same track record. Where does that leave us?
The marine infrastructure (offshore platform and offshore wind turbine) and super-resolution models only use RGB bands (B04, B03, B02), while the solar farm, onshore wind turbine, and tree cover models use 9 Sentinel-2 bands (add B05, B06, B07, B08, B11, and B12). With enough high-quality labels, the extra bands do provide slightly improved performance (1-2% gain in our accuracy metric, e.g. from 89% to 91%), but we don't have a detailed comparison or analysis at this time.

Also, all of the models input three or four images of the same location (captured within a few months), with max temporal pooling used at intermediate layers to enable model to synthesize information across the images. This helps a lot, definitely when one image has a section obscured by clouds (so model can use the other images instead), and maybe also when different images provide different information (e.g. shadows going in different directions due to slightly different times of day).
Some molds have toxic spores which have carcinogenic effects.
If you calculate the true price of an item faster than the market can you would make billions of the stock market.

Some of the world's brightest minds, an entire industry has worked on the problem and can still barely beat the S&P 500. So I dont think we can or have the capability right to do such a thing.
Yep. Open source the OS and allow sideloaded applications for folks who draw the line somewhat differently for where to trade off "dumb" vs "smart", and the LightPhone would be a winner, but alas...

I met someone in Bellingham with one of these things once. It was pretty sweet, and they'd explicitly cited their having culled their smartphone addiction with it as a selling point, so I guess it works to some degrees. I forget off the top of my head exactly which feature I wish it had that I wanted to sideload on, but whatever.
The Framework DIY model is fully assembled at the factory, tested, burned in, then disassembled back into kit form.
Better idea --- just use a big ole block of high density concrete suspended on cables and avoid all the friction/energy losses trying to pump this high density goop.

https://gravitricity.com/#fast-long-life-energy-storage
I'm not sure why people are assuming they've abandoned the idea. They've simply said it's not technically feasible.

Which implies that later - through the power of delusions of grandeur - that it will become feasible.
That's the whole point.

Why fire people and pay them severance when you can get them to quit instead?

Of course, you're going to lose the people with talent who can find other jobs - and retain the ones who can't.

But seems like a trade they are eager to make.
The most important part is that these were not starvation wages in the 80s!

People used to pay american employees enough to survive, thrive, and even support local businesses that didn't have to crush their margins to 2% to compete with walmart.

The reason everything sucks is because americans have only cared about "sticker price" in comparison shopping for decades, and I posit that's mostly because the american income has spent the past several decades being cut in half simply because employers didn't pay people.
Nightmare? It's a black box. It can save your bacon if you're falsely accused. Cars have a lot of sensors these days and if those two cars get into an accident you can re-create the entire accident.
Media Temple Shutting Down
I found the quote and the comment interesting. All through the article I was wondering "is this dreadful, or just me?"
Purple prose at it's very finest, and well worthy of top billing in Pseuds Corner in the magazine Private Eye.
In what world is 2160TB $100k?

Current single disk solutions are around $25/TB for HDDs and ~$100/TB for NVMe.

At a minimum you're looking at $54k just for raw capacity-- assuming no backup, no chassis, no networking, and no redundancy.

More reasonable estimations would be in excess of $400/TB.
Bizarre non sequitur
well that's a relief
That bit isn't as bad as the part that says you can't run an interactive service without age verification though....
Berkeley Rents Fall Amid Construction Boom
tl;dr

Population is at all time high, yet a building boom has seen rents in inflation-adjusted dollars is below 2016.
Data Falsificada (Part 1): “Clusterfake” by Data Colada
> Did you check if there are background processes draining your battery?

These kinds of problems are often not background processes, but instead parts of the hardware which haven't been powered off or power gated correctly; even a small leak of a few mA could be enough to drain a battery much more quickly than the user would expect.
RTO is filled with ulterior motives.

Layoffs by another name, local city government want their tax base back, Real estate companies (not mom and pop stuff, real holding companies with reits etc) want to keep real estate from "crashing", ny/ca/ma type states don't want their white collar workers moving to low tax states and working from there , middle managers want to be seen and "preside over their kindgom" etc.

The only group not benefitting from RTO are the actual workers.
And that's why you should keep your key material in an HSM, kids
It’s a taxiway
Silicon Valley’s obsession with building old-fashioned communities
It’s possible. As in physics says it can be done. But it isn’t technically feasible, probably ever.

There’s nothing in the laws of physics that prohibits us turning burned paper smoke back into a document and recover the information.