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> Heaven forbid that you should have to wait 2 minutes for the air con to cool the room down.

No one wants to sit in a damp, cool room, nor do they want the mold and mildew effects that would result from the overly quick removal of the sensible heat (temperature) without the accompanying removal of latent heat (humidity).
If a business is willing to offer a discount for paying with an alternative method, they are free to do so.
How is what I said "FUD"? I know what it stands for. I don't see where I went with any of those three themes.

Akamai has certainly done well over their lifetime, but their revenue for the last 5 years is very flat. That's not "FUD".
>big customers are interested because everyone is raving about it.

In this case the big customers are already using it. Splunk's value proposition for those customer is that they can handle with a massive volume without a hiccup. Small customers don't have the needs where Splunk is uniquely useful.
> the article constantly mentions racism and i don't understand how racism fits into this picture

Some police are known to be racist, so if a certain officer gets it in their head to harass a nationality or ethnic group, then their unsubstantiated accusations would be entered into the database and this could then affect the families' chances of getting a decent education or indeed, the teachers may decide to not enter them into certain exams if they've been prejudiced by the data.
Actually yeah, closer than most. I think it's a somewhat grudging admiration at this point, increasingly so as they do more and more also-ran services.

But yeah, this does seem right for the "core" services; ec2, s3, maybe lambda, etc.
>Unfortunately it seems like fiscal success in 2023 mostly means jumping on the hype train of the day and beating the drum for all it's worth, and being ready to pivot to the next thing quickly. Rather than maximizing actual value in your product.

We have nobody to blame but ourselves. Consumers are far too happy to just jump on the hypiest train and don't care enough to actually educate themselves about which product has maximum value. It's the entire reason Apple still exists as a company, for example.
I've developed a DeFi anti-fraud gateway, first version runs on stdin:

yes '"Fraudulent Transaction Detected"'

I also have a json api:

while true; do echo 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Server: anti-fraud gateway

"Fraudulent Transaction Detected"'|nc -l 8123;done
I have literally left a 300k+/yr job, twice, due to having to write and maintain too much yaml.

Templating and significant whitespace is the worst. 10 commits in a row of "error on line 1" until helm finally parses what you want.

I am a software developer with extensive distributed systems experience. I like thinking about systems, not guess-and-check on config templates that become a bespoke DSL with no proper way to debug.

Our config structure requires similar but individualized configs for on-prem and the cloud. These can deviate for the region, the data center, the logical cluster, and at the individual node level for A/B or canary reasons. And of course local dev. You need to have a way to know where the deviations are, like different regional hostnames for services you connect with, different node sizes or replica counts, and different labels, any of which may or may not be correct and will cause an incident if wrong.

Search you yaml PRs, and I bet you will find a commit along the lines of "because yaml."
You may be joking but this is why we thought Cisco bought Webex back in the day too.
I don’t think this actually provides “defense-in-depth” as they claim. At the end of the day, whatever signals they determine mean “bot” or not are the actual critical defense. I’m assuming their PoW system doesn’t scale the work for human-classified requests, such that if there’s some unintended loop humans aren’t affected while bots would be. That again means that seeking a “human” designation is the important piece that bad actors will attack. The same goes for the UI challenge - these are becoming notoriously easy to ML your way to victory as a bad actor or to use actual humans to solve for cheaper than the value they get from beating the CAPTCHA.

An actual defense-in-depth strategy would be one that uses a tool like this for generic browser/device level signal interrogation AND domain/product-specific behavioral analysis. That would be 2 different layers — depth.
Mindshare is valuable, was the point GP was making. If midsize customers ignore you because you're too expensive, and then implement something else before they get big enough to afford you, where do you get new customers? Forget growth, how do you replace attrition as your existing customers die?

Personally I can't say if that's actually happening with Splunk, but it's a very plausible scenario.
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My experience with them is Arc is cheap and low end (but better than Intels previous stuff).

Kind of like the new S3 Virge.
Math and theory would be more important for a dev job, parent commentor is doing SRE.
look at vector.dev and clickhouse. fast, has a language for extension, v easy to set up.
To channel my inner John Chambers, this is a market adjacency. I.e., a way to expand into a market that complements something they already do. Their security product suite and data analytics tools would all naturally feed into Splunk. Cisco has, at various times, had products in the SIEM space[0], and it isn't unusual[1] for them to build or acquire a few tools in the same category before finding something that is a good product-market fit with some longevity.

0 - See MARS, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Security_Monitoring%2C_A...

1 - A few examples: before WebEx, Cisco had MeetingPlace which was partially internally developed and partially built with external hardware and software products. Before Firepower Threat Defense (Snort acquisition,) there was the internally built ASA product line, which developed from the acquired PIX line. In load balancers, they had ACE (internally developed,) replacing CSS/CSM (based off of their Arrowpoint acquisition.) For NAC, they had NAC framework (internally developed, never really took off,) NAC appliance (acquired,) and now ISE (internally developed.) There are many, many, other examples here.
I'm not talking about cutting off trade overnight, though. I'm talking about building up community resources to reduce the need. But this is all very abstract anyway.
Crazy that someone would just drive through those bushes...
lol Hayao hates his son...
The part that confuses me is:
The North Carolina State Patrol had said the bridge was not maintained by local or state officials, and the original developer’s company had dissolved.

So, nobody is maintaining the roads in that neighborhood? It makes very little sense. The roads in my neighborhood are owned and maintained by the neighborhood (not that state or county) and we (the HOA) carry liability insurance.
On most servers there's a setup fee so people are not very likely to run without paying. (I know it doesn't exist in auction and they do have no-fee specials sometimes)
This may come as a surprise to you, but schools, community football clubs, nursing homes etc don't have full time lawyers in the UK. Someone has to decide when to call the police, when to call social services, when to [not] immediately alert parents, guardians of next or kin, when to seek further legal advice etc. And frankly the last person you'd want to be the main point of contact for vulnerable people dealing with sensitive issues is a lawyer whose job it is to minimise problems for the organisation (or maximise work for themselves...)
"The project will remain free, open source, and liberally licensed..."

Welp, that didn't age well.

MPL 2.0 is traditional "open source," which was fine when they used it -- but switching to BSL is a step backwards -- as it's considered "source-available," not open source in any reasonable sense.

Being unhappy that others are taking advantage of your open source contributions (without giving back) is valid, but this isn't the answer.

[Background: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-sou... ]
a lot of people do not understand how the Japanese culture works and they assume that helicopter parents are the best of the best, but it's just US distorted parenting percolating, it has nothing to do with what's right or wrong.

If I created something and I wanted that thing to die with me, the love for my children wouldn't in any way stop me.

Legacy and honor are much more important than nepotism for some.

Also, he's saving Goro from being "the son of Miyazaki that was never good as the father" forever.

He's Goro. He's a different person. He made his own choices regardless of who the father is and owes him nothing.

That's a gift if you ask me.
> isn’t telemetry a valid tool for software projects to gain valuable insights into how their product is being used and thus how to improve it?

"Valid" is doing a lot of work here.

Trivially, telemetry can provide insights. That's obvious. But how are users supposed to divine which insights the telemetry is supposed to provide? What if the data-collector doesn't know what they're looking for, and is just scraping everything?

> the spirit of “telemetry by default is bad” and I don’t really agree.

You're entitled to your view. My view is that telemetry (i.e. remotely observing what I do on my computer) is definitely "bad", if I don't consent to it explicitly.
>I wish we could get more Cronkite style anchors, who prided themselves on delivering information to the public in an unemotional and straightforward manner. Instead we get emotionally charged news anchors who are trying to incite the strongest reactions they can get.

A level-headed Cronkite-like figure would work well in an environment where "the media" knows to get out of the way when there isn't any urgent news to report (e.g., a 9/11-style emergency). But that doesn't make advertisers or shareholders happy, so we're stuck in a ratchet-up environment where EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT ALL THE TIME SO KEEP WATCHING KEEP WATCHING KEEP WATCHING!!!
Me and a friend a mine were directed into a lake by google when biking across Denmark! We ended up having to backtrack quite a while back to get back to a road that didnt include quite as much swimming. Im still wondering why it was marked as a road, because it was straight through a wildlife reserve.
Go ahead and find a guide showing you how to do a thing that Just Works regardless of the flavor of Linux distro. You can't, because they're gratuitously different for the sake of differentiating themselves. You can't even use one guide to cover multiple versions of Ubuntu.

Now find a guide showing you how to do a thing for any of the BSDs. That guide is more usable on one of the other BSDs than any Linux guide is usable on a different distro.

That's one reason. Others include the ability to keep track of what's on a system, since the BSDs don't include the kitchen sink and have good package management, the fact that they're lighter weight than most Linux distros (in some cases significantly), that they're more consistent and more deterministic, the fact that you can literally rebuild the whole kernel and OS trivially, and so on.

There are many reasons, but for me, the one thing that really stands out is cleanliness.
People have determined what the player structs are on the xbox-memory-state side of things, so my guess is "age_in_a_bot" might be the time elapsed for a given player aka how long they've been alive:

https://github.com/CYRiXplaysHalo/XboxHaloGameLogger/blob/ma...
Vehicles in robberies are almost always stolen in America as well, usually abandoned to be found by the poor owner later.
Exactly. Don't be a coward... say what you mean. Those sentences are synonyms for "fuck off". Use the correct terminology, don't pretend you're being reasonable or rational.
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> $state and $ref are quite different.

I wouldn't say they are "different" - they are fundamentally the same thing: compiler-enabled reactive variables backed by runtime signals! But yes, Vue already exposes the underlying concept of refs, so for users it's two layers of abstractions. This is something that Svelte doesn't suffer from at this moment, but I suspect you will soon see users reinventing the same primitive in userland.

> There's strict read/write separation

I'd argue this is something made more important than it seems to be - we've hardly seen real issues caused by this in real world cases, and you can enforce separation if you want to.

> We're instead encouraging people to use familiar JavaScript concepts like functions and accessors

This is good (despite making exposing state much more verbose). In Vue, we had to introduce destructuring macros because we wanted the transform to be using the same return shape with all the existing composable functions like VueUse.

> There are already a lot of different ways to work with Vue

This is largely because Vue has a longer history, more legacy users that we have to cater to, so it's much harder to get rid of old cruft. We also support cases that Svelte doesn't account for, e.g. use without a compile step. That said, the default way with a compile step is now clearly Composition API + <script setup>. Reactivity Transform also only really applied in this case so the point you raised is kinda moot.

Separate from the above points, the main reason Reactivity Transform wasn't accepted remains in Runes: the fact that compiler-magic now invades normal JS/TS files and alters vanilla semantics. Variable assignments can now potentially be reactive - but there is no obvious indication other than the declaration site. We had users trying Reactivity Transform on large production codebases, and they ended up finding their large composition functions harder to grasp due to exactly this (and not any of the points raised above).
You're correct, but (IMO) it's such a weird stance for the IRS to take. In response to "is X taxable income?" for almost all values of X, it seems like the IRS's answer is yes, if non-trivial amounts of money are involved.

You sell a couple of items on eBay, yeah it's fine not to report that as income. But if you sell tens of thousands of dollars worth of stuff on eBay the IRS would see that as taxable income.

Your kid has a savings account with a hundred bucks in it and they earn a few dollars interest - not taxable! You keep $100k in a savings account and earn thousands in interest, yep the IRS gets notified and you pay taxes on it.

You earn a handful of frequent flier miles this year after a couple of trips home to see Grandma? Nah, that's not taxable. But if you travel multiple times per week for work and accrue tens of thousands of dollars worth of flier miles that you get to keep? Not taxable income for some reason. shrug
A friend was telling me about the problem an American had trying to find “grass fed” beef in a UK supermarket. The shop assistant was quite confused at the question “I can’t find any beef labeled grass fed. Do you have that?” Er, what else would it be fed on? (Only 4% of beef in the US is grass fed). It’s basically 100% everywhere else.
Did you read the article? We're talking about mass migration, major crop failure and death by the millions and your take away is petty thiefs?
> People should be responsible for the machines they operate.

Yes, but there are limits. E.g. if you're sold a car whose brakes are not fit for purpose, the manufacturer should bear some of the blame when you hit something. The alternative is that every consumer needs to be an expert (or consult an expert) before every purchase, which is a ton of friction for a functioning economy.

I'm not sure how much blame Google should bear in this case, but that's why we have a court system.
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I mean it just sounds like a formalized mandatory reporter to me.

That's pretty much what they're there for in the US as well.
> Oh, wow, they even acquired Intel smartphone modem business at 2019 and other Semiconductor businesses.

Was the easiest way to put some fire under Qualcomm's arse, RF modems, batteries and displays are the only things Apple doesn't have under their direct control - but for batteries and displays they at least have a selection of competing suppliers. With modems, they're stuck at whatever crap Qualcomm delivers.
It is getting coverage from the MSM in the UK. The BBC's angle is teenage sexting and premeditated teenage gang attacks (especially one that ended in murder).

Of course those things should be prevented.

As usual with the UK government, there's a guy at the bottom of the pile that "knows tech" and can make a real world assessment and comes up with a pragmatic approach. That is then diluted by the increasingly tech-ignorant layers of the Civil Service, to the point where they might as well not have bothered, and we get our Dear Leader promoting a "safety bill" that isn't fit for purpose.

On the plus side, I expect we'll see an uptick in Mullvad subscriptions in the UK.
Scientific Atlanta… there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Didn’t they use to make crappy cable boxes, back when cable TV meant a box that connected to the antenna input via coax.
I think they meant people trust the web enough to use it for most of their activities so the ability to audit security in a local LLM may not be a big selling point.
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I'd agree with that. I'd even go a step further and say that most of my work and things I'm interested in coding don't fall into that category. I have absolutely nothing against people who do find it useful, but I'm keen to reassure user badrabbit that they're not a jerk for not being interested in using LLMS.
There are numerous examples on freedesktop.org. Right near the top of the page you've got things like D-Bus and NetworkManager in there. Then there is FreeType, Wayland, and so on.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/
A few considerations come to mind:

1. The O(N^2*d) computation cost of the attention layers. For large graphs (millions of nodes) it's quickly too costly. And in some of the social network problems, the more data you feed the better is the inference on average (on a ~log scale).

2. As the paper suggests, in some cases the graph structure has important information. Flattening out everything, or fully connecting the nodes, a more accurate description of what goes on in an attention layer in this scenario, the structure is lost. The structure information can be introduced as a positional encoding -- see paper (edited/fixed): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.02505.pdf
So remember to do that if you attempt the attention solution.

3. Then there is overfitting, already a big issue in GNNs. Fully connecting every node with attention has less of an "inductive bias" if you will, created by the graph structure. Not sure how much it matters ...
Just putting an information page up on the council's website isn't very useful unless the children and families know about the system and know to go looking for it. "The plans were on display..." etc.

From TFA:

> School safeguarding leads told Fair Trials that they kept the system secret from children and their families. One said: “They [parents and carers] wouldn’t know about this ... parents will have no kind of sight of it at all ... They just don’t know of its existence.”
The systems available today (Temporal/Cadence/etc) definitely make a big mess of updating logic/code. This seems so obvious and yet I've not seen it done well -- excited to see where it goes!

Also my first time hearing of the Slemiel the painter algorithm (or at least first time hearing it described that way). Thanks for sharing
Isn't 98% of email about having a clean IP range these days?
Maybe more like different layers could do different strategies? I can't even imagine what could happen to the BEAM itself if there are the same amount of ressources put on it like in our modern JS engines that have come a loooong way. Its already an amazing piece of tech in itself, but I wonder what an army of experts could do ontop of it.
Splunk was so expensive we could not use it to monitor our servers used for weather modeling. Seriously. The log files generated were at times too voluminous and you frequently blew thru your bandwidth cap.

Great product, but completely useless utility value with financial considerations for environments with high volume.
The article mentions that due to consolidation there are only 4 major airlines in the US and they are very aligned in their prices and policies thus giving little choice to US consumers.
Doesn't that mean there's an opportunity for someone to start a new airline that could compete with the big 4 by offering better prices or more lenient policies?
Demand for flights is clearly very high right now; perhaps there's an entrepreneurial opportunity here?
Thoughts?
Turns out usury is profitable!
I've always found the first 30 seconds of this clip very funny when it comes to Splunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_zonaHyd_g&t=5s
Why is writing long-form works the only type of output that matters?

I use my PKM to connect the ideas I've read about over time. When I come across a topic again, I can quickly review what I've learned about it in the past, and how it connects, sometimes in obscure ways, to other things that have crossed my radar.

This helps me come up with a wider variety of ideas for how to solve problems in front of me, or new connections to draw on or people to contact for feedback.

I don't care about any one topic enough to devote the necessary time to writing a book about it, but that doesn't mean the system as a whole doesn't provide me a whole lot of value.

Maybe this is just a misunderstanding between the specialist mind and generalist minds. The variety of things I can speak about and connect together intelligently is the value I bring to a company or a conversation, not the extraordinary depth I can go to on any one individual topic. I suspect there are a lot more generalists like me using PKM software like Obsidian than there are specialists.
While I agree there are some very positive aspects to floating nuclear power plants, I'm somewhat skeptic about some of these plans that use molten salt reactors. A thin-skinned reactor filled with a water-soluble fuel sounds like a potentially nasty accident scenario. At least with a traditional LWR the seawater (hopefully!) has to corrode through some pretty thick metal before it reaches the fuel elements, and even then the fuel is in a relatively inert state (oxide).
The M1 Ultra has 800GB/s of memory bandwidth, on contrast HBM2E has 204.8 Gbps × 2 = 409.6 Gb/s
The council provides a data flow diagram showing the source of the data:

https://www.bristol.gov.uk/files/documents/5972-insight-bris...
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Of course you can. I open rufus, and I "burn" the ISO to the USB drive. I don't know if you are referring to a more specific process, or a different process, but the ISO is then copied to the USB, and I can boot from it, install windows, and even browse the files.
For anyone curious about how the exploit worked:

https://www.aon.com/cyber-solutions/aon_cyber_labs/an-analys...
I want to like Kagi but their pricing structure is crazy overpriced imo. If it was $5 a month for unlimited searches maybe, but their offerings don't come anywhere near GPT-4 in terms of value in my experience.
Thanks for your replies.
480m does not sound legit. Something doesn't add up when it's a candidate from a country with a population of 46m and twitter has a possible user base of 550m.

For some context Mr Beast videos have ~100m views and his content is geared towards children with a ton of time on their hands.
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Sorry, I was expanding on the sentiment, not disagreeing with you.
A little bird told me otherwise.