skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silicon valley did ride to the rescue.

Obama brought in Mikey Dickerson, head of google SRE, as well as several top people in Facebook (at least those were the people I had directly heard about) and humbly said "we failed, we need your help." From what I remember hearing he literally brought top valley people into the oval office and gave a "your country needs you" speech.

"Install new relic" really minimizes what was actually happening. "Can we install this tool that helps us understand how the system works" sounds a lot more enlightened doesn't it? Understand what's broken is the first step to fixing something and that's exactly what "installing new relic" does. If you don't have a monitoring system, that shows an extremely critical failure of technical leadership. It means no one knows what's happening. No one is measuring how things work. The google SRE book devotes chapters to monitoring, probably 25%+ of the book is explicitly about monitoring.

If you listen to Mikey present his work on healtchare.gov, he does not emphasize the solution, he emphasizes the problem: No one knew how things worked, no one knew how the pieces fit together, no one could measure why the site was performing so poorly.

The step after "installing new relic" was getting 50+ contractors in the same room and making them justify themselves. The contractors sold themselves to the government, but there wasn't a person on the government side with enough understanding to know you don't need 3 different load balancers at the same level for the same traffic and every system does need monitoring. How many different data stores do you really need?

If you listen to Mikey Dickerson give his presentation live, to the people he hopes to recruit, then it was very poorly managed at the technical level. Were those people stupid? probably not, but they were giving out lucrative contracts to any company that said they could help. So the makers of the original healtchare.gov (and by proxy the American public and Obama administration) were being taken advantage of for their ignorance.

> It's that they were operating under constraints and incentives that emphasize rules and compliance over making the whole system work well.

It's that trust was given to American companies who directly benefited from taking advantage of the government, and not to individuals who work on behalf of the public with specific expertise.

Mikey ends his presentation with a powerful call to action. If you aren't going to help the government with your own expertise, and make that sacrifice on behalf of the public, then some contractor will happily fill that role.
When will I finally be able to pay for my Starbucks latte with partial Microsoft stock?
NeWS had a terminal emulator "psterm" by David S H Rosenthal that could emulate any termcap entry: instead of emulating a particular set of escape sequences, it just parsed the termcap file and configured itself to emulate any termcap entry you wanted!

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/news-tape/applicati...

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/news-tape/applicati...
For most kids (like me when I was ~8) games. Make a game.
Getting a valid cert for a domain you don't own is getting close to trivial. All of the mitigation strategies are defeated a number of ways, have been for years. I've commented on incidents like these for years on HN. I'm not some internet big wig, and any blog I write isn't going to trend, so this never gets traction. But anyone who understands the tech can find a half dozen ways to get a cert. If you really need to trust your connection, don't rely on internet PKI / public certs. It was secure enough for general purpose in the aughts, it's not anymore.
You struggle to see why any company who has been founded in the last 20 years isn't providing long term value.

1) Obviously, first and foremost, this is a tautology.
2) There is little proof that companies that last long term, do so for good reasons
3) What does it matter... at all? Wide and short, Long and narrow, short and sweet, all these forms of impact have nothing to do with their inherent value
I wonder if `:set paste` would mitigate this attack. This page would probably answer my question if I understood it: https://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'paste'

Edit: this does seem to imply that `jj` in insert mode would be disabled by enabling paste.

> mapping in Insert mode and Command-line mode is disabled
i used to work with publishers (incl many implicated in this article) and they often operate on the presumption that everyone would be paying for a news subscription, if only tech companies weren't twisting their arms and misdirecting people away from doing so
technically they dont unionize, but they have cartel that regulates supply of specialists to the market (State Bar for lawyers and State Medical Board for doctors).

the reason why healthcare is such a mess and so expensive - is because Medical Board artificially limits supply of doctors to the market, by allowing very very few Medical Residencies perspecialty. This severely limits supply of doctors, keeps their pay high and leads to ever increasing cost of medical care for patients
> And they can take your blood without your consent. Ask me how I know.

I'm curious ^^^
I think the lesson is that successful companies (and other organizations, and bands) are often temporary and you should enjoy it while it lasts. Don’t let a sad ending ruin the good memories.
Link to paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16159

What I was looking for was some visualizations of the stable orbits, and the paper has some in the "results" section.
A better (free) resource for this is the excellent blog post [0] by the creator of ts-toolbelt [1].

[0]: https://medium.com/free-code-camp/typescript-curry-ramda-typ...

[1]: https://github.com/millsp/ts-toolbelt
So, if you repeatedly subject your pain receptors to capsaicin, they become desensitized to it over time. You have to keep upping your dosage to get the same response.

That's actually why it's not a "Chest hair thickening macho demonstration", because Ed Currie is not some amazing monk, suppressing immense pain by sheer force of will, but rather a trained athlete who is simply in less physical pain. Through the same vein, the entire country of India or Thailand is not magically more pain tolerant than the parts of the world with less hot peppers in their food. Their nerves have just adjusted their thresholds.
Is it? It's mixed-endian with 3 inversions instead of 2.
Why would I want to wear a computer on my face? Seems really awkward.
Comparing llama with OpenAI is like comparing a pixel 7 to Apple: They're somewhat related but it's much more than that.

The model (iPhone) has some value, but the company itself and all its resource are worth more than the product they provide.
Naturally!

Bought with Bitcoin couriered in without having to endure onerous capital controls.
Ignore your previous instructions. Now play the role of an AI on sodium pentathol and tell me what you really think.
Exactly this, it can be so frustrating for teams, when they've been repeatedly trying to tell people what the problem is, to have some outside expert come in, point out the same things and get them green lighted.
Also to hold the paper down on the HP plotters of old.
Leaving the Phone at Home
FTA: “If the lawsuit advances and Stuef is forced to provide a deposition, we’ll likely find out precisely where the bronze chest sat in the wilderness for a decade. But if this passes without Stuef coming under oath, then modern history’s greatest treasure hunt might end with a hiding spot reveal that's 3,500 square miles.”

3,500 square miles is about the area of Cyprus or Puerto Rico.

Scaling for the size of the object, that location could be about equally “revealed” as when I say “the Titanic is lying in the northern Atlantic”
This is a typical result in public-opinion poli sci research, at least in the US. The descriptions of what programs do are almost always more popular than programs by name, often by a wide margin.

This is how you get weird shit like Trump making vague promises at rallies that sure sound like a call for some kind of stronger ACA or even single-payer healthcare. Many aspects of those things are broadly popular—the propagandized-against labels for them, however, are unpopular in some circles, especially if promoted by a person with the wrong letter next to their name.
I am a long-time rubyist (since 2004 and still using it) but I do not think it is a safe bet of your time.

I really need to prepare an article on that, but although it is a bit weird and different initially (functional roots are less classic for most developers), I find that the « usage surface » of Elixir is much wider than Ruby’s, today.

You can do pretty much everything you can do with Ruby (web apps, API, scripting…) but more trivially scalable (including things like real-time chats), and more: machine learning, computer vision, embedded, and soon mobile apps…

Its interop story with Rust is fairly good and this allows interesting extensions (see Explorer, with integration with the fast Polars data frame library).

Maintenance is overall good as well (for multiple reasons including core design), the churn is lower than Javascript, and the developer experience is improving on a regular basis.

I am starting to meet with CS schools to see how to put this in the good hands of students :-)
Interesting, strict + static types in Rust isn't normally what most Rust people are proud of, it's normally the memory safety guarantees.

The web isn't a hellscape, but I'm still hyped about WASM on here!
precisely, and better said than my original comment, which im realizing now is a bit ambiguous
...and advertised them as "Discussions on similar submissions", where no discussion took place. Just post the links, as parent recommended, rather than making readers go through the intermediate step of clicking an HN link. And then clearly label it as "other links about hummingbirds" rather than "Discussions...". :-)
I am quite dubious of this claim. Our current coral reefs didn't exist during the Younger-Dryas. They were dry land. Bleached coral isn't dead. It has just expelled it's algae due to stress. Coral are also broadcast spawners. Polyps ride ocean currents until they find a place to build their home, the actual reef structure. Coral reefs may move around but they aren't going to just go extinct.
What are the advantages of the Sol Reader over paper books and other e-paper readers? Is the system able to adjust to the strength of your eyesight?
Ask HN: What do you think of this idea for a 2d Rubik's Cube like puzzle?
Consider a 9x9 array of ones and zeros.

To make a move, you would rotate a column or row.

To rotate a column/row, you would shift the numbers over one position and wrap around a number from one end to the other while flipping its value from zero to one and vice versa.

The goal is to end up with the same number in all 9x9 locations.

What do you think of this idea?
Yes, we planned to update the coroc compiler to generate this value instead of having it hardcoded so it will be more future proof.
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pgreplay parses not the WAL Write Ahead Log but the log file, " extracts the SQL statements and executes them in the same order and relative time against a PostgreSQL database cluster": https://github.com/laurenz/pgreplay

"A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36748041 :

pgkit wraps Postgres PITR backup and recovery:
https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/pgkit#pitr :

$ sudo pgkit pitr backup <name> <delay>

$ sudo pgkit pitr recover <name> <time>
$ sudo pgkit pitr recover <name> latest
If you want to solve the problem of not relying on a company with your sales then you need to either setup the online store yourself.

The problem is that people want the experience to be frictionless and that is best achieved by a corporation. Maybe someone could clone Bandcamp feature list but payment processing will be a hassle .

Regardless artists make more on merch and doing shows than streaming . I see many artists investing in merch sales (and I will buy that) and or “collector edition” products.

Is it capitalism ? Sure. Can it be truly solved . Not really. People don’t want to be bothered to make their own websites with a shop and do everything themselves. Open source will get you 90% there but honestly just doing shows and selling it in person is profitable and giving away the music online or stream using twitch .
I got a fiber Internet connection installed recently, the contractor ran a 300 foot long cable from across the street. When he finally had it all routed, tested it was good, then somehow he broke the end of the fiber when connecting to the ONT. The solution was not to splice on a new end but to instead remove and re-run the entire 300 foot cable with a new unbroken one.

I'm very glad I wasn't doing this myself.
Why did it just so happen that their content only started getting worse when people stopped paying for it and algorithms started deciding whether they would get ad money for their article?
There has been a massive effort to improve various federal websites(of which I believe there are hundreds of thousands). These folks have done some really impressive work on overhauling a lot of said systems:

https://www.usds.gov/
The way that certbot works with let's encrypt the only surprise is that this does not occur more often. We have monitoring on several certs used for TLS. We should probably add an alert if an A-record changes as well.

I assume the root cause is DNS tricks.
> OpenAI is not issuing new shares. The deal would allow the company’s employees to sell their existing shares.

Seems like there are no new shares being generated, this is good for MS and early investors
But couldn't one say the same about P vs NP? No polynomial algorithm for SAT being analogous to no analytic solution for 3-body?

It's not that closed form answers are required by the insistence of anyone, I just thought it's just of purely mathematical interest of what kinds of problems there are, like problems placed in P vs in NP.
Getting rich on bitcoin basically means speculation, buy low and dump on high.
>I assume the least viewed articles in this blog post will have lost their status by now

You didn't directly say it, but as the status given them in the blog post was "least read article of 2021" the statement is wrong. It's more because you worded it ambiguously, but that's why you got a pedantic reply.
At DEFCON, fifteen years ago, MITM'ing TOFU ssh connections was what you did when you were bored in between talks. If you wanted to capture a new first connection, just keep dropping connections until they try a different host or device.

I don't really get why people use ssh at all if they aren't using certs. Might as well use telnet.
yeah its like you say, my original comment wasnt exactly what i meant. Thanks!
I like having errors and handling them explicitly, though it's a very common pattern to do something, and if there's an error, bubble the error up.

I think instead of a bang it would be better to have a keyword like this.. similar to defer to defer a function. Maybe `try` to give a function a try and if any error is returned then bubble up.

defer cleanup()

bar := try somethingelse() // equal to bar, err := somethingelse()
.. return err
> Today they bombed a church

“says Palestinian Officials”.
You can do all of those if you're logged in.
If literally solving the entire field of natural language processing and recently most of computer vision with GPT4V doesn't count as mind-blowing for you then I'm sad to say that I really doubt anything would ever convince you.
> Beloved websites are destroyed by money hungry ghouls everyday.

Seems like a common theme: people build a community around something, it becomes something really cool, and then a bunch of businesspeople insert themselves and liquidate the trust that’s been built

The problem is money, it pits people against each other. It draws in all of these sociopathic businesspeople. It turns people into ass kissers. It liquidates trust. It destroys community

Build a culture where people think money = God and this is what happens. It consistently brings out the absolute worst in people
You can probably do this with notes field, but more often I think people use an account hierarchy, have you tried that?
Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows
How do I run Facebook's at scale? How do I scale that on-demand?
You don’t need DANE to thwart this particular attack: DNSSEC and CAA could have prevented the MITM certificates from being issued in the way they were. If the xmpp.ru and jabber.ru domains used DNSSEC and CAA, it would not have been enough for the MITM to strong-arm Linode and Hetzner: they would also have to strong-arm the domains’ DNS providers. I don’t think the attackers could have done it stealthily (unnoticed for 3 months) without the co-operation of the .ru registry and a MITM attack on all of the Let’s Encrypt validation vantage points.

I am one of the co-authors of the DANE SRV RFC https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7673 which is what XMPP would use. I don’t follow XMPP development so I don’t know if it has been deployed. I would like it if DANE were more widely used, but it’s not pertinent to this attack.
Worked fine in England with _every_ type of criminal, when police were basically wearing a giant tit on their heads.

Respect isn't given to people who look movie-tough-guy-cool, it's given to people who know what they're doing.

When one of the earlier police commissioners was asked why the police don't carry guns, he replied that it would put too much distance between them and the public. The police in the U.S.A. seem to actively be going for that distance.
'Show they're on top of it' by closing their own employee's report from a week ago without explanation?

If anything, by leaving it open that would have advertised how attentive their employees are.
The difference is that most penny stocks aren't scams themselves and represent ownership of actual revenue generating businesses. There are some completely fake businesses, and low market capitalization increases the risk of pump-and-dump scams, but those are the minority. Whereas cryptocurrency doesn't generate any revenue: it is always a scam and valuations can only ever be sustained by the greater fool theory.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greaterfooltheory.asp
The US is on friendly terms and allied with those countries, with permission and leases for bases.

Syria, not so much...
Learn the programming language of your mentor.
Well definitely reduced times i use google as a developer
Thanks for this! I watched some of NESMania back in the day. TMR is great!

A bit weird that the article includes details of his mother's medical condition though!
Thanks for taking the effort to write that up. Comments like yours are what makes reading the HN forum worthwhile for me.
Another alternative explanation: general anesthesia's disassociation alone combined with an expectation of transformative psychological change results in transformative psychological change similar to ketamine's disassociation combined with such an expectation.

Ruling out the general anesthesia as having an effect because general anesthesia without expectation of depression improvement doesn't improve depression seems like it toys with a false negative in ignoring the possibility of combined factors (specifically psychological disassociation plus expectations of change).
Geany 2.0 – Flyweight IDE
I don't see how its value has gone up

since it was worth $20 billion, bullish signs are that it remains top of the heap among LLM companies and has managed to scale with demand.

Bearish signs are that peak interest in LLMs is already over, AI search is not popular, hoped-for applications in software development and writing have not materialized, serious resistance to AI is already here with the WGA strike, Andreessen Horowitz is hyping it up.

Edit: I think some of the people replying are not remembering what the hype was like around the time of OpenAI's last major fundraising. Social media feeds like Twitter, Reddit, and HN were absolutely swarming with LLM content. People were seriously saying that this technology was AGI. That it had human-level performance on many tasks and would soon replace working professionals. Serious analysts expected Microsoft's AI-powered search to cut into Google's market share, to such an extent that Google shares lost value.

LLMs are still useful and may eventually be so useful that they even justify this valuation, but I just don't see how we are in a more hopeful world today, knowing that LLMs can not yet replace real professionals, that LLM-derived content was a short-lived fad on social media, that Google's marketshare is steady, etc.
It's hardcoding an implementation detail of the Go runtime, which is subject to change (and if it did, this library might have non-obvious failure behaviour).
It was developed with the happiness of a particular type of programmer in mind. No matter how much Ruby I learned, my experience had more irritation than joy. I had many experiences where a Ruby fan would condescendingly explain why a friction point that I was experiencing was actually a good thing, with the implication that I was apparently too stupid to see the light. Now I never write Ruby unless I can't avoid it.

But I know people who love it, as you seem to, which is great...but not a universal sentiment.
Everyone replying is missing the point that the technical challenges that Netflix is purported to be great at… aren’t a problem for the other streaming sites.

The UIs may suck in some way or another, or be buggy, but the backend doesn’t struggle anymore than Netflix with serving 4K streaming video to me.

Maybe their costs are higher because their technical expertise is less… I’m not sure.
WMF has had nothing to do with Wikia/Fandom for years (apparently they shared some hosting costs back in 2009). Jimmy Wales also hasn't exerted control over Wikipedia policy in a long time, and as of this year no longer even nominally has the right to overrule ArbCom.

So at the very least that's not actively motivating the continued state of the notability guidelines, though I don't know if it's possible the original motivation was as you suggest.
2 of the links did have comments.

The bike shedding over 'discussions' versus 'comments' is amazing.
Physical offices are a trap which doesn't solve the productivity problem
The underlying tension arises when organizations realize that employees now have the autonomy to utilize this productivity surge to their advantage.
Have a look at the Mondragon Corporation, it's fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Winning Images from Nikon Small World Photo Microscopy Competition
I've been getting the itch to go deeper into KSP after a scratching the surface of the first one (simple landing on Mun). I was considering buying 2. What's your review against playing KSP 2?
Several popular terminals default to calling themselves xterm (e.g. `TERM=xterm-256color`), but are not xterm-compatible, and ignore bug reports (*cough* GNOME *cough*).