skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would gladly pay for a version of Instagram without adverts but I don't see how it's possible.

They can eliminate the "sponsored posts" but the algorithm is still going to recommend to me all sorts of poisonous stuff for engagement. That's the real problem that I'd like to pay away - just leave me with what I follow and nothing else.
I did something similar early in my career but it very much went noticed. The system I wrote to correct the bug was basically a MITM attack against pharmacy rx transmissions, it re-priced prescriptions just before they went to the insurance carrier's system because the pharmacies would never apply price updates (i worked at a small independent pharmacy chain, they didn't have a central dispensing system). In my infinite genius I named the system after my current crush. Corporate liked it so much they made an annual award named after my system... so therefore after my crush but i was too embarrassed to tell them the real origin of the name. That was 25 years ago but, to this day, every year a trophy gets made with the first name of my old crush printed on it and handed out. heh if she ever knew she'd be mortified.
Lookup edge service providers like Cloudflare or Akamia. If you’re hosted by a large cloud provider then look into their free and premium edge services offerings. Traffic can be filtered to allow legit users, and consider scaling up servers too if cost of downtime outweighs cost of edge services and scaling up.
If they try to limit LLMs from discussing nuclear, biological and chemical issues, they'll have no choice but to ban all related discussion because of the 'dual-use technology' issue - including of nuclear energy production, antibiotic and vaccine production, insecticide manufacturing, etc. Similarly, illegal drug synthesis only differs from legal pharmaceutical synthesis in minor ways. ChatGPT will tell you everything you want about how to make aspirin from willow bark using acetic anhydride - and if you replace the willow bark with morphine from opium poppies, you're making heroin.

Also, script kiddies aren't much of a threat in terms of physical weapons compared to cyberattack issues. Could one get an LLM to code up a Stuxnet attack of some kind? Are the regulators going to try to ban all LLM coding related to industrial process controllers? Seems implausible, although concerns are justified I suppose.

I'm sure the regulatory agencies are well aware of this and are just waving this flag around for other reasons, such as gaining censorship power over LLM companies. With respect to the DOE's NNSA (see article), ChatGPT is already censorsing 'sensitive topics':

> "Details about any specific interactions or relationships between the NNSA and Israel in the context of nuclear power or weapons programs may not be publicly disclosed or discussed... As of my last knowledge update in January 2022, there were no specific bans or regulations in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that explicitly prohibited its employees from discussing the Israeli nuclear weapons program."

I'm guessing the real concern is that LLMs don't start burbling on about such politically and diplomatically embarrassing subjects at length without any external controls. In this case, NNSA support for the Israeli nuclear weapons program would constitute a violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Can you explain the salient distinction between a "technical" versus "architectural" solution? Candidly, I'm not convinced that there is one.

> But architectural complexity has outsized long-term cost

As do technical solutions, of course. CI/CD systems are very expensive, just from a monetary perspective, but also impose significant burdens to developers in terms of blocking PRs, especially if there are flaky or expensive tests.

> And in this particular case, it doesn't actually solve the problem, since you _can't_ successfully enforce those domain boundaries unless you already have them well-defined.

Ignoring microservices, just focusing on underlying SoA for a moment, the boundary is the process. That is an enforceable boundary. I think what you're saying amounts to, in microservice parlance, that there is no way to prevent a single microservice from crossing multiple bounded contexts, that it ultimately relies on developers. This is true, but it's also just as true for good monolithic designs around modules - there is no technical constraint for a module to not expand into domains, becoming cluttered and overly complex.

Microservices do not make that problem harder, but SoA does give you a powerful technical tool for isolation.
"Microservices" has always been weird to me.

People argue for them from two different, drastically different, points of view:

* Microservices become necessary at some point because they allow you to independently scale different parts of the application depending on load.

* Microservices become necessary at some point because they allow you to create hard team boundaries to enforce code boundaries.

Personal opinion: micro services are always thrown out there as a solution to the second problem because it is easier to split a service out of a monolith than it is to put the genie of bad code boundaries back in the box.

An application goes through a few stages of growth:

1) When it starts, good boundaries are really hard to define because no-one knows what the application looks like. So whatever boundaries are defined are constantly violated because they were bad abstraction layers in the first place.

2) After a while, when the institutional knowledge is available to figure out what the boundaries are, it would require significant rewrites/refactoring to enforce them.

3) Since a rewrite/major refactor is necessary either way, everyone pushes to go to micro services because they are a good resume builder for leadership, and "we might need the ability to scale", or people think it will be easier ("we can splinter off this service!", ignoring the fact that they can splinter it off within the monolith without having to deal with networks and REST overhead).

Unfortunately, this means that everyone has this idea that micro services are necessary for code boundaries because so many teams with good code boundaries are using micro services.
Logs are easy and familiar API for adding additional data to your traces.
They still have their place, Odigos is just adding much more context.
> Network calls are a powerful thing to introduce. It means that you have an impassable boundary, one that is actually physically enforced - your two services have to treat each other as if they are isolated.

That is not too true at all. I've seen "microservice" setups where one microservice depends on the state within another microservice. And even cases where service A calls into service B which calls back into service A, relying on the state from the initial call being present.

Isolation is good, but microservices are neither necessary nor sufficient to enforce it.
Is this the new codeword for "champagne socialism"? Interesting how "trickle down economics" isn't provided as an example of a luxury belief, seems like it would fit the provided definition extremely well in the context of US politics.
Watch all the people who have been clamoring for a paid ad-free version of their favorite services turn around and... not pay for this.
As far as I can tell, the only concerning thing in this is "Require that developers of the most powerful AI systems share their safety test results and other critical information with the U.S. government."

They are being intentionally vague here. Define "most powerful". And what do they mean by "share". Do we need approval or just acknowledgement?

This line is a slippery slope for requiring approval for any AI model which effectively kills start-ups, who cannot afford extensive safety precautions
Yes! Their generosity is an inspiration to me. Open source technology is empowering and world changing. I really admire these people.
Thanks, basically it craws the provided link and tries to extract the page content. Then it split the content into chunks and analyse then summarise each chunk with ai.
Enable horizontal scaling capabilities for the K8s Operator instance
An Operator instance is stateful. Therefore, an election mechanism is used to ensure that only one leader is responsible for handling reconcile tasks. However, this approach introduces a single point of failure.

To address this issue, we have introduced ControllerMesh, which partitions Kubernetes resources into multiple segments. This allows us to horizontally scale out several Operator instances to reconcile a single Kubernetes cluster. Additionally, this also opens up the possibility to implement new features for the Operator, such as canary upgrades, isolated test environments, etc.

For more details, please refer to this post:

https://blog.kusionstack.io/controllermesh-empowering-effort...
I can't read the whole piece, does he get into evidence for his feelings? He seems to be saying in the part I can acccess that the NYT refused to discuss Biden's age and health until July 2022 when something changed ("The New York Times has declared the President’s age acceptable for discussion."). This is obviously not true, and I'm sure Matt Taibbi knows how to use a search engine so I'm wondering if I'm misinterpreting somehow. Some examples:

When he took office: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/politics/joe-biden-age...

Biden is old, should he run? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/12/us/politics/biden-democra..., https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/opinion/biden-age-electio...

Biden is still old, he still shouldn't run. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/us/politics/biden-2024-el...

I don't know how many times they're supposed to run the same story, but this seems like an appropriate amount to me.
Maybe the Hazda also doesn't typically have a box of Krispy Kreme donuts sitting on their counter.
turns out it was Newman's "hello world" program that he made at a tech boot camp

he was trying to make an app that would repel dogs by playing an ultra-high frequency sound only they would hear

after discovering its real effect, he tried getting kramer to buy the app in exchange for free dead-mail storage at kramers apartment
Vitalik Buterin: Why I Built Zuzalu
Being a video essayist is a meme. Watching criticism of Peterson on YouTube is an even bigger waste of time than watching Peterson.
Increased injury severity and hospitalization rates following crashes with e-bikes versus conventional bicycles: an observational cohort study from a regional level II trauma center in Switzerland

https://pssjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13037...

Electric bicycles (e-bikes) are an increasingly common pediatric public health problem

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10372360/

Must-Know E Bike Accident Statistics [Latest Report]

https://blog.gitnux.com/e-bike-accident-statistics/

look at solo bike accident rates. you will see this kinds of accident reports increase until we change how we train how people ride.

for a bit of history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_findings_in_the_Hurt_R...
> is how many are not over pay but primarily over working conditions.

A lot of the OG strikes in the US were mostly about working conditions too - e.g. coal wars (which ended with literal armed conflict between thousands of strikers and the military...), railroad strikes, etc etc.

Back then the working conditions were like "we don't want to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week", "we don't want to die from toxic fumes", etc.
> *But he was blistering in his critique of our medical systems oriented toward postponing the end as long as possible. “We now see that a majority of these medical achievements are deceptive misnomers, actually prolonging the suffering of madmen, cripples, old fools and monsters,” he wrote.*

That one has certainly proved prescient. Medical science has gotten frighteningly good at prolonging life even in cases when it probably shouldn’t because the patient has no quality of life.
He defines racism loosely enough to paint white babies as racist. Indeed, he wrote a board book on it! Beyond parody.
This is interesting, but what would that look like?
Looks promising. Can we get one of these in a Framework laptop now?
Yeah the tone and style of the text kinda bugged me. Who talks like that?

I'm definitely sympathetic to the kind of ideas he's advocating, but it's dressed up in a language that makes it seem untrue. It's not surprising to me that he has a Ph.D.

Picking something random from the beginning of Tools for Conviviality:

https://co-munity.net/system/files/ILLICH%201973_tools_for_c...

For several years at CIDOC in Cuernavaca we have conducted critical research on the monopoly of the industrial mode of production and have tried to define conceptually alternative modes that would fit a postindustrial age. ...

Alternative devices for the production and marketing of mass education are technically more feasible and ethically less tolerable than compulsory graded schools. Such new educational arrangements are now on the verge of replacing traditional school systems in rich and in poor countries. They are potentially more effective in the conditioning of job−holders and consumers in an industrial economy. They are therefore more attractive for the management of present societies, more seductive for the people, and insidiously destructive of fundamental values.

I think what he's saying is something like:

> Schools use metrics likes grades that are slanted towards the goals of an industrial economy. This isn't the only way of organizing society, or the most ethical way. So let's consider alternatives.

There is an extreme amount of passive voice in his writing (and yes I know passive voice can be useful; it's not used well here.)

e.g. I'm having a lot of trouble parsing this part:

are technically more feasible and ethically less tolerable than compulsory graded schools

Is he actually saying that alternatives to mass education are LESS ethically tolerable than compulsory graded schools?

That feels like the OPPOSITE of what he says elsewhere.

If he actually used the active voice, it would be clear WHO considers it ethically less tolerable.

So yeah my initial impression is this writing is very bad.
That depends on the culture of each specific organization. Are there top-down engineering decisions? Is there a push for more team autonomy?

My experience is that many organizations have something of a pendulum swinging between those two positions, so the current state of that balance may change over time.

Also: many new developers, when they hear "microservices", will jump straight to "that means I can use any language I want, right?"

(Maybe that's less true in 2023)
> but there's no fundamentally new risk here

This is incredibly naive. These models unlock capabilities for previously unsophisticated actors to do extremely dangerous things in almost undetectable ways.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/lexus-rz-steering-yoke/ They already did.
In my opinion, `GETPUBLICSUFFIXDOMAINONLY` looks uglier than the corresponding function `cutToFirstSignificantSubdomain` in ClickHouse: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/functions/url-f...
> nobody actually knows what that means

I sure hope it doesn't mean the government will shape the future of AI development how they see fit.
Consumer devices with ARM cores can be had for as low as 2 USD (sensors, breakout boards). Phones can be had for Rs 1300 (around 15$):

https://pricebaba.com/mobile/pricelist/low-cost-phones-in-in...

Sadly, it's impossible to estimate the relative cost without knowing the ISA licensing terms, and I haven't been able to find anything.
1) Why is it better than wrapping it in an interface with a clear API without extracting it into a separate service?
And those would apply to < 10% of your total code base.
A writer cannot make up so much shit. You need a board of managers for that. Effing hell.
Wouldn't you also need to factor in that the people who will pay to avoid ads are likely already using ad blockers (or hate ads, in which case showing them an ad for your product is likely counter-productive)?
> "Although a recent New York Times investigation largely corroborated Reed’s account,"

This is entirely false. The New York Times did not corroborate any of Reed's allegations of wrongdoing against the clinic, and large parts of it have been disputed by patients and parents of patients.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/jamie-reeds-alle...

https://www.studlife.com/news/2023/02/22/wu-denies-ags-reque...

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/parents-push-back-...
Indeed, dogmatic adherence to arbitrary patterns is a huge problem in our field. People have strong beliefs, "X good" or "X bad", with almost no idea of what X even is, what the alternatives are, why X was something people did or did not like, etc.
“there are no starving people with celiac disease”
Yes, the same team that got their pants sued off by like a bunch of other companies such as ARM and Apple.
> “please implement Twitter card metadata in your blog so it looks better on twitter”

Didn’t Xitter recently remove the display of all external site metadata except the image?
Learn how to do simple magic tricks and have them figure it out.

Uno works well for us.

Random board games from the public library. Some work, some not, but we don't spend money to figure it out.

8 year-old can already play games like Pokémon Trading Card Game. While that's absolutely a money sink, it encourages them to read and do simple math.
A lot of organizations are screwed.
I have a CWWK one [1] but I bought mine from aliexpress since it has a better “guarantee”. I keep mine in my garage so the CPU temperature gets uncomfortably high (above 70C) when the garage is 80F+ during the summer so I put an AC infinity fan on top that takes like 2W. This keeps it cool for the whole summer. Haven’t had any issues since I have gotten it. They recently released a newer 6 NiC but haven’t used it.

[1] https://cwwk.net/collections/frontpage/products/12th-gen-int...
What kind of DDOS first, then you need to try to isolate the issue, is it from specific region/country? Can you block an IP range? Sometimes you might have a vulnerable service that allow such attacks, and then look into some providers that might help.
>> "Fair enough, can you source any other examples of him defining racism?"

The suggested book is in my TBR list now. I haven't made a claim one way or the other, so I have nothing to cite or source. I really have no clue about the guy other than this one clip and the book recommendation, so I'm going to go with the medium where he has room to run and an editor challenging him on what really is a complex topic.

"What is racism?" could fill a book. And hey, what do you know, someone wrote one.
> They also allow teams to be uncoupled assuming they don't break their API.

Presumably you would still need tooling to enforce teams not breaking their API, and also to prevent people just modifying services to expose private internals that should not be part of the public API?
A lot of negative comments in here.

It seems that everyone has their own whipping boy "public intellectual" in mind that once loudly said a thing that they disagreed with, and this is the opportunity to really stick it to them for that audacity.

Here's my hot take: consume what you want, just don't let it consume you. All of these people have probably said something worth mulling over, whether you ultimately end up agreeing with them or not. Learn what you can and then move on.
Yes, that's veganism. I understand divesting completely from animal-based food production. I'm speaking to vegetarianism.
>If regular people start to get access to that knowledge it could be a problem.

so when are we going to start regulating and restricting the sale of education/text books?

a knowledge portal isn't a new concept.
Cloudflare is a great and relatively easy to implement solution.

You can enable bot-mitigation and reCaptchas which will help a lot
I really wish they would stop making newer, faster, more expensive Pi's and just focus on making the existing Pi's cheaper and more available. Out of the dozen or so RPi's I have, not a single one is even connected to a monitor. I don't need dual 4k HDMI ports. I'd love a widely available and in-stock $20 Pi. It's like they've forgotten what the RPi is all about.
and "In five years we're going to have batteries that are 10 times lighter, 10 times faster to change and 10 times cheaper. Wait five years before you buy!"
Visit Twitter and you'll certainly see people who paid there.
>One of the things I've noticed with a number of recent strikes (not all, but a bunch) is how many are not over pay but primarily over working conditions.

Labor sellers have always evaluated pay to quality of life at work ratio, not just pay.

And increasing pay and quality of life at work always costs labor buyers more money.
Researcher scans tropical forest with mixed-reality device
Pension plans as they were are still kind of bad because they could be mismanaged in a variety of ways.

Pensions are kind of always problematic because you take control away from people and give it to people with misaligned incentives.

It's the same if you give people control over their own retirement because they can not contribute or mismanage how the money is invested. Defined contribution pensions are maybe an improvement on this because at least you know there is money there and can have a regulatory framework that is simple and heavily restricts how the money can be used. I would really like to see broad market index funds only. Dumb money should stay dumb.

Maybe if you pull the responsibility up to the federal government you minimize the risk of mismanagement, but it's still pretty large.

Seems like we are doomed to pick an option that is still risky and it's every person for themselves. You need to super save and not rely on any framework provided by others. And this is where 401ks shine. Sure I am stuck relying on the stock market, but I think the distribution of outcomes there are more in my favor than if it were managed by someone else. Whatever is in my 401k (or IRA or whatever) is owned by me and is heavily diversified.
Bloomberg? Is New York Times not reporting on this? :p
The percentage cut is definitely annoying, but I believe the move from Maestro to Mastercard has also solved creditcard problems for a lot of people. There were a surprising number of Maestro-only terminals out there that were limited by technology rather than policy.

I still don't think I can pay for my groceries with my credit card, but that's clearly indicated at least. I expect the companies refusing the huge processing fees to block credit cards for years to come until the fees go down. That's unfortunate for tourists and immigrants, but mobile payment (bank specific/Apple Pay/Google Wallet) should work over the standard protocol and otherwise there are still ATMs you can use.
Kind of falls apart at the end with the defund the police thing. If you ask poor people "do you want to defund the police" they'll mostly say no. If you ask them "would you rather see fewer police in your neighborhood, and more medical and social response teams instead?" they'll mostly say yes. So in a sense sure "defund the police" is a luxury belief but also... no.
Anyone figured out how to buy this in the states? I'd love to gift ad free versions of Facebook to...certain family members for the holidays.
> The term micro can be misleading, though - there doesn’t have to be anything micro about the services. In fact, I would argue that if a service doesn’t do much, it just creates more operational toll than benefits. A more appropriate name for this architecture is service-oriented architecture, but unfortunately, that name comes with some old baggage as well.

What baggage is that?

Because in my experience 90% of the argument revolves around the word "micro."

If "micro" is indeed irrelevant to "microservices," let's name things better, yes?
Yeah. I used to rip out the ad pages from magazines and throw them in the trash too. Apparently I've been unknowingly "stealing" from them all this time!