skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had the same experience in that I love splunk and their tooling is so easy and powerful. But I can’t afford to put data, especially long term data that requires reproducibility for many years.

I’m always happy when I can use some of our sources that are in splunk but get sad that I can’t do that with everything else.

Its cloud pricing is funny because it’s so much more powerful with massive amounts of data, but they charge based on storage. Our on prem instance wasn’t just simpler to price but we could throttle resources to allow for really high volumes of data with relatively slow query and analysis.
> because the roundtrip js to wasm is expensive.

Is this a thing?

I've been using ammo (wasm bullet) and while wasm interfacing certainly has a mismatch with idiomatic js I haven't knowably hit a problem with that bridge.
95%? Show me your error bars. Are they +/-5% ?
>>We had people driving around with our phones logging to a laptop. They basically drove all over the country, trying to cover as much land as possible, and the phone(s) would then attempt to connect to different base stations.

Mobile carriers still do this type whether via contractors or their own staff. Unfortunately, there's nothing that beat boots-on-the-ground field testing with actual devices (plural), which is already notoriously unreliable and prone to noise.

It's especially tough in countries with a large landmass (e.g. Canada, USA, Australia, Russia, China, Brazil, etc.).
I used to work at a splunk shop. It was used for alerting, graphing & prediction. It was critical to how the company functioned.

There was lots of stuff that relied on splunk, and we had splunk specialists who knew the magic splunkQL to get the graph/data they wanted.

However, we managed to remove most of the need for splunk by using graphite/grafana. It took about 2-3 years but it meant that non techs could create dashbaords and alerts.

As someone once told me, splunk is the most expensive way you can ignore your data.
They would do that for you for free
Interesting. I'm a male physician, more often than not I chide myself for entirely forgetting to ask / think about menstruation.
Functioning identity systems are a component of a functioning government. I agree there should be very robust exception handling mechanisms to get folks on rails who fall off. Someone being able to prove they are who they say they are is only dystopian to a vocal minority.

If you don't want to drive, don't want to buy alcohol, don't want to travel internationally, etc, certainly, you can go without a state issued ID or driver's license, or a US passport. That is a choice. You're still going to need to prove who you are to rent formally, transact in real estate (buy a home with or without a mortgage), apply for state of federal benefits, obtain non emergency healthcare, etc.
Insider trading is one crime that the SEC prosecutes regularly, because most people doing it are incredibly stupid.
> I don't really think I understand how Google is responsible here. Was the driver not paying attention?

I would blame the government for not closing off the road before I would blame the driver.
If not for the battery, charging system, range problems, and components breaking because they didn't use automotive grade parts.

The car is basically inoperable if the big tablet stops working.
Having sorted out several merge conflicts in Kubernetes configuration spaghetti, I disagree.

YAML is only simple on the surface.
Do roads not break down and persist in an unsafe condition when under government stewardship?

They can, but in my experience, anything that approaches a collapsed bridge in severity is resolved quickly. Large potholes can hang around, which can be unsafe, but anything bigger doesn't get left to fester.
> The elephant in the room, Unity, cross compiles the C# to C++ which makes this blanket statement about all games even more confusing to me.

As a game developer you do not have access to Unity's C++ code so to maintain some performance Unity needs to do that. But this is not the case with Godot or even Unreal where any intensive code should be written (or at least, rewritten) in C++ and use the scripts only to drive the behavior.
> If there's a glass option, buy that.

Is that better? Or is it worse?

From estimates that I’ve seen, the glass bottle has 5x the carbon footprint of the corresponding plastic bottle. Glass can be recycled but it takes a lot of energy. Most products are not available in anything but single-use packaging.

I’m all for large-scale bans, but the large-scale bans should be designed to have a positive impact, one large enough to justify the cost in some sense. I am concerned that the ban on single-use plastic shopping bags has, perhaps, had a negative impact on the environment.
You pretty much explained it yourself.

The price of SPLK had no reason to jump to or beyond $127 without some catalyst event so the options were almost worthless. But with the acquisition, the stock had a catalyst and with the share price jumping to $145, those options gained a crap load of intrinsic value (basically the difference of $145 - $127).

Now either the purchaser got really really lucky or had insider information that the acquisition was going to happen. The latter seems much more likely.
Ugh... Mom and the microwave were a scourge back in the days of yore when I hosted servers for friends in various games. I was hardwired into the router as "the keeper of the hardware", but the wireless would just get schlocked every time she heated up her coffee.

And Mom ran on coffee. Lotsa coffee. Sometimes I think she just did it because she didn't hear enough complaints coming out of the speakers.

I rejoiced the day that thing died. She's now got an even beefier one, but it doesn't interfere on the 5ghz bands at all, and I'm not testing the 2.4 out of respect to the spirit of that ole menace.
Because it's a user agent and as the user I want it to degrade as gracefully as possible. It doesn't serve my interests to refuse to render anything just because the author of the website forgot a </b> tag somewhere. I'd rather read the text just with formatting other than what the author intended, than not read the text at all. Don't punish me for someone else's typo.
I interpreted it as the world's largest ai supercomputer, which may not be the fastest, and will be located in Europe. Size and performance are two different metrics, especially if you're using lower density processing.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a replacement bridge that works with home assistant? It seems I’ll be throwing out the hue bridge and never buying a phillips product again.
Jagmeet Singh has strong ties to Khalistani leaders [0].

[0]: https://capforcanada.com/air-india-bombing-revisited-sikhism...
Try out zenhub. It gets enough of the manager juice in there that they can feel comfortable with it, but sits happily in GitHub, atop GitHub issues and pull requests and all that
> There are probably a bit too few customer and worker protections, but on the whole, airline deregulation shows just how bad command economies are at planning and allocating resources.

Isn't each individual airline is itself a command economy, internally? Many large companies manage their assets centrally, for example Kroger or any other large grocery chain manages itself via central planning. Would they function more profitably if individual store managers were bidding to "purchase" groceries from the central supplier? The only datapoint I know of is Sears, which tried something similar and went down in flames
I'm not one to wear a tin-foil hat, but the timing of this piece is interesting. the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) may be lumped into the upcoming spending vote [1]. basically, this would end card rewards under the premise that merchants would pass along interchange savings to consumers. the same argument was made for debit, yet of course the savings never materialized.

1. https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2023/09/senator-t...
> the dystopian parts come with the 75-year old widow with dementia [...] has to adhere to similar standards

I don't mean to strawman, but, isn't this all to prevent the 75-year old widow from losing her retirement savings by scammers? Don't let perfect be the enemy of good, sure there are issues, but there needs to be something.
If some maritime modern pro-nuclear regulatory framework can get adopted for decarbonization of transport, then it would be good for nuclear.

Yeah, not going to back any design that isn't fundamentally meltdown-proof.

Probably one of the reasons why molten salt is referenced. Also because it seems more scalable, the liquid nature of the fuel means you could de-fuel it at a port more easily. But I could see pebble bed type stuff being worthwhile too.

It honestly makes logistics and waste transport a lot more interesting. A power plant comes with a ship to transport it as a minor portion of the overall cost. It forces the plant design to be fundamentally portable and modular even if it gets placed terrestrially.

Portability should make nuclear viable for lots of industry-specific use cases that nuclear

But LCOE on current nuclear is 6x more than wind and solar. As stated, it would need some regulatory freedom / clean slate, a sweet spot engineering design, and we could probably get to 2-3x (current price) of wind/solar and get to a palatable cost for decarbonization.
It's quite disappointing that there's huge ongoing work around reinventing clients from scratch where the basic functionality of not ringing all my devices while I'm using only one of them [1] is still not there (bug open for years), despite it being a pretty simple fix.

[1] https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/issues/360
Now tell me which is the simplest to achieve.
This is false. Then-sitting Congressman Chris Collins (R-NY) pled guilty and was sentenced to 26 months in prison for insider-trading back in 2019-2020. He was pardoned by President Donald Trump as one of his last official acts as President, but Collins still spent 10 weeks in prison for insider-trading as a sitting congressman (this was for knowledge he gained outside of his duties as a congressman, it was knowledge he got as a member of the Board of a company).

Congresspersons separately aren't allowed to trade on things they learn from their job- that was banned in 2012 under the STOCK act.
> Apple Maps is eating their lunch right now

Source? Literally every single person I know on iOS still uses Google Maps because it is significantly better.
Zombies....this is how we get zombies.
How Matrix decentralisation is an improvement over Jabber's decentralisation?

(disclaimer: I have no knowledge about neither spec, I'm not suggesting Jabber was better)
Analog is hard, and quite different from digital.* And then you have to work around the patent thicket in an already difficult domain.

* Nowadays clock speeds are so fast that you have a lot of analog things to worry about with all these high speed serial lines and on the chips themselves. But the domain constraints are in general simpler, with recovery and reconstruction opportunities available due to things like how you structure your protocols. The same is true in radio (came from radio, actually) but when you have a device operating at arbitrary and continually changing orientations, with all sorts of unknown environments outside you get all sorts of unpredictable multipath, loss, ringing and innumerable other problems to deal with.
One More Git Scm
Any inputs on this ? Looks like this is more tightly integrated with CI.

https://gitness.com/
From one specific company though, you just don't want one from Dell
Maybe Google can pay for this to restore access to Gmail even if for a fee.
Its a great fit for Cisco

They want so hard to be a software company, and they already have experience with highly inflated priced products.

Their real target is probably trying to offer this built in to meraki like products as a one stop shop. I could see them finally burning their monitoring product in a fire and replacing it with splunk and grafana then selling it as an all cloud solution. At least the intent, we know Cisco's track record for integrating acquisitions.
Element is the trading name of a company, of three clients with mostly-independent codebases written by that company (web, android, iOS; not counting the two Element X rewrites), and of a hosting service (EMS).
Tell HN: Enable smoother scrolling for Firefox
Set 'general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled' to true in about:config
These "employees" are usually led to believe "Everyone in the west is rich, it's fine to take a little from them"
disclosure: I am not a lawyer and I have not studied frameworks associated with NC state. I'm a guy who reads books

You keep describing the "average person", but this is not the framework that most law uses when considering negligence.

Source: Cases and materials on TORTS; Epstein and Sharkey; 11th addition; page 139

"It is sometimes said that the study of negligence is the study of the mistakes a reasonable man might make."

And then there's a lot more text that goes on to talk about what is 'reasonable' and not just 'average'.

Also, just because the average person wouldn't be harmed does not mean a party would not be liable, because there are non-average people like blind people or old people who must be protected.
> There was a barricade for 9 years. It was removed 1 week before the accident.

Can you link to a source for that? I'm looking but can't find it.

If there was an effective barricade that was removed, it would seem the person/people responsible for that are the most criminally negligent here. That sounds like a positively insane thing to do -- it's going to get someone killed, as it did here.

EDIT: found a couple of links:

"Typically, barricades are in place to prevent drivers from crossing the bridge, North Carolina State Highway Patrol said. But the barricades had been removed after being vandalized and were missing at the time of Paxson’s wreck."

[1] https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/20/google...
Traditionally speaking, the United States did not agree with that. People argued against a national identity system, and even when SSNs first appeared it was stipulated that they not be used for identity.

That said I personally agree with you.
I was just getting into highschool. I had a few of the earlier competitors. The difference between that and an iPod is that iPod “just worked.”

To me, It’s the reason Apple made it. When family bought apple stuff it tended to function. When they bought windows or dells or sandisk media players stuff they tended to have it unplugged on its side and a screw driver in one hand and a phone in the other.
I don’t know. How many people visited Disneyland this year?
NExt major Windows update is available September 26, with new AI Features
Are they using similar software at Eton?
Offtopic: BDFL is a funny initialism. Although it means Benevolent Dictator For Life, its visual similarity to BOFH evokes a second meaning.
Quickly skimming some points that would irratate me if I had to maintain this script:

* Importing Paramiko but regularly call `ssh` via subprocess

* Unused functions like `execute_network_commands_func`

* Sharing state via a global instead of creating a class

Overall it's fit for purpose, but makes a lot of assumptions about the host and client machines. As you said in the thread you're running a very small number of servers (less than 30). I've written similiar things over the years and they are great for what you need.

When I heavily used Splunk (back in 2013) I was in an application production support team that managed over 100 productions servers for over a dozen applications, there were dozens of other teams in similar situations across the company. The Splunk instance was managed by a central team, minimal assumptions about the client environment, had well defined permissions, understood common and essoteric logging formats, and could reinterpret the log structure at query time. A script like this is not competiting in that kind of situation.
I can't tell you why any non-violent crime warrants a custodial sentence. It seems like civil penalties really ought to be enough deterrent and a much better recompense to society.

Who is the victim?

The person who bought the stock you knew was worthless or sold you the stock you knew was gold.

Why is insider trading a crime?

It's an unmanageable market advantage, if we didn't disallow it then people wouldn't play. The people who make the rules benefit from people playing.
There is precedent that even if you are in possession of info that will eventually become public, which you then trade on, you can still be convicted of insider trading.

For example, a Printer for Business Week and a Stock Broker traded on pre-publication information and were convicted of insider trading.

https://corporateinsiderstrading.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/bu...
> Someone being able to prove they are who they say they are is only dystopian

it is intellectually dishonest, or motivated reasoning as they say, to imply that I said anything to the contrary. Perhaps you can reconsider that assessment of the comment ?
Here's the timeline:

- Bridge collapsed in a neighborhood in 2013

- Bridge was owned by the neighborhood, not the government.

- There was some kind of heavy barrier blocking the bridge, but it was washed away at some point in the past.

- There was some kind of barricade/signage after that, but it was removed by vandals.

- The man, while following google maps late on rainy night, drove off the collapsed bridge, into the water and died. No barriers were present.

- Neighbors (not the HOA) have added heavy concrete barriers since the accident.
Agree with your sentiment, though the article explicitly mentions precision/recall, suggesting at least some level of tuning. Query understanding via structured attributes is SOTA and used at top companies. Rewriting the query as a method is weird, and yeah I'm not so convinced.

One reoccuring problem - the hacker ethos doesn't scale with AI products. "Mess around until it works" is ok to prototype. This is effectively using the dev's intuition on the 10 examples they look at as the offline eval function.

But many (most?) new-wave AI products don't have consistent offline metrics they optimize for. I think this quickly stops working when you've absorbed the obvious gains.
If they obtained info about this through their role as a senator/congressperson, and not just through normal channels. If I understand it correctly:

Insider trading off of classified or whatever info they get from their senate/congress job - not illegal (though imo it should be illegal). (Edit: as mandevil points out, strictly speaking illegal, but largely uneforceable/unenforced)

Insider trading off of info they got from their buddy at XYZ place who knew about something ahead of time, unrelated to their senate/congress job - still illegal, same as for other people.
Really? Sure Marvel's in a bit of a hole, but Filoni and live-action Star Wars has turned me back into a fan.
> But the cost of flying had already been falling before deregulation, and it kept falling after at about the same rate.

What a bizarre argument, that absolutely demands more examination than a throwaway line upon which the entire premise of the piece hinges.

There’s lots of reasons why fares would be falling in the early days that you wouldn’t expect to continue for decades. Yet the author seems content to pretend there’s some mysterious factor that causes prices to fall for decades that we can infer from just a few year’s data. From first principles, you should always expect that regulation increases prices and the burden of proof is to argue why it would not. Embarrassing that the author is a professor and didn’t bother making a proper argument.

A key argument that led to deregulators winning is showing that intra-state fares—which were not federally regulated—were about 40% cheaper than one might expect when comparing to interstate. Anyway, there are articles that go into various reasons why deregulation very probably substantially decreases fares.
I didn't question the ability of engineers to ship.
The buyer often doesn't use the product so he has no sense of the value it provides, or the pain of using substandard tools. Unless it's his own company he might not care that much either.
Mostly caused by MySQL locking too many tables. So why are they using a read-mostly database, and not a proper write-aware database like PostgresQL?

Simply switching to a proper database would help in scaling.
The points are not "free" to airlines, though. (Without looking at every airlines 10k, at least one mechanism is to): Account for them as a liability on the balance sheet as "deferred revenue." They then recognize the revenue when the points are redeemed, meaning they incur the same blended Cost per Available Seat Mile (CASM) as a purchased ticket. That's in addition to the significant costs of managing a loyalty program (IT, Partnerships, Legal, etc.)
Why is it "incredible" that doctors think to account for routine hormone spikes when performing diagnostics?
Financialization and mediocre developers. I haven't worked with too many people I could actually trust to even emit logs correctly, let alone develop a tool to collect and aggregate them.

I've also been told, time and again, in no uncertain terms, to "buy as much as possible". We've reached the logical conclusion of SaaS-everything: every company just cobbles together expensive, overcomplicated computers from other expensive, overcomplicated computer providers, resulting in expensive, bloated systems that barely work.
(Roughly, glossing over ‘linear in what?’) Good bfs gets close to linear, good raycasting should be way, way sublinear
It is less simple than discord and I does not have good audio rooms. I setup family accounts and store their security key for them. Then I help them setup their app in a few minutes and paste them their security key once they are on my matrix server.

In the past I left sign up and setup to family and the element app and it has never worked smoothly. They don't understand the security key purpose or verifying clients.

So to answer your first question, yeah you can invite grandma and grandpa but they probably will need some hand holding at the start. Once they are in, it just works™**. YMMV
I like your website: it's simple and mostly easy to find things. I also like the concept.

I was looking for an API reference to see what I could do with your API, but didn't find one. It seems that information about API calls is scattered among more "how-to" oriented documentation. That's just fine, but it would also be nice to have some documentation oriented around endpoints and details of the API.
on it!
GRRM doesn't know either. That's why he's suing to try to find it in discovery
Well, and an equally long history covering up major large-scale boondoggles and outright insane decisions that end up killing a lot of people.

I mean, you're probably still getting bombarded by Camp Lejeune ads. That's playthings to the military.
It's funny how this is a top comment while it's completely false in this particular case, which you can read about further down in the article.
From what I can tell they basically just went and read all the manufacturers privacy policies - that seems to be the primary source of their data. With some background sprinkled in of known breaches / past news.

I was hoping there may have been more reverse engineering or packet sniffing going on, or some other deeper means of investigation.

Don't get me wrong I care about privacy and this is important information which is great to highlight to the average Joe. But it's not like it was hidden (some of us actually do read, care about, and even send critiques back to vendors about their legal policies).
How robust is this watermark? I assume resizing and cropping won't remove it, but perhaps getting an AI to redraw it or shrinking and AI upscaling would.