skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Similar thing (catastrophic aircon failure due to a flood in a crap colocated DC) happened to us too before we shifted to AWS. Photos from the colo were pretty bizarre - fans balanced on random boxes, makeshift aircon ducting made of cardboard and tape, and some dude flailing an open fire door back and forth all day to get a little bit of fresh air in. Bizarre to see in 2010-ish with multi million dollar customers.

I'd have considered calling a few friends from the fire brigade or the catastrophe protection there.

It's not an emergency, yes. However, if you want a situation for your trainees to figure out how to ventilate a building with the force of a thousand gasoline driven fans without anyone complaining and no danger to any person... well be my guest because I can't hear you anymore. Those really big fans are loud AF, seriously.

And, on a more serious note, you could show those blokes how a DC works. Where power goes, what components do, how to handle uncontrolled fire in areas. Would be a major benefit to the local fire fighters.
And the Democrats never stoke fear of what Republicans / Trump might do?
https://github.com/jdomingu/GameOfLifeLisp/blob/master/game-... + https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-lif... = https://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/jacob-appelbaum...
Well, to be clear, I don't usually put people in danger. There's a lot these engineers could learn from software engineers: who are really the highest performance at engineering as a craft. One base rule: Above all, kill no one.
Anyone who makes business decisions around what tech to use based on the creator posting memes is 100% NGMI.

Honestly I love how many of y'all self own with this. Keep using old, worse technologies. Us startups will take every advantage we can get :)
I read this article twice, and I'm still not sure why it exists. It seems like a lot of flowery and vague language to basically say nothing other than "we should think about things differently because it's 2024 and old ideas are bad."
Isn't green card marriage a thing in USA?

There's also visas for international investors - something like invest $1M USD into a business or create 10 jobs and get a visa, or something along those lines. Perhaps more expensive, but not much different fundamentally than paying someone for a job to get a visa.

Every system has it's flaws.
Even if control plane is hard down your kubelet wont be evicting anything so unless you need to surge or everything crashes you have some time to fix things. I’ve dealt with multi-hour cp outages and while stressful it didn’t have any customer visible impact whatsoever
Thank God that you’re here to make sure that people don’t enjoy the wrong things.
Wait, you didn't mean "he repositioned it a couple levels down on the rack to make some room above so he could unscrew the cover and crack it a bit open it like a grand piano"?
MSRP for LE Prius is not "premium" at all. If the premium you refer to is from dealerships, there are plenty of dealerships that sell for MSRP.
You are going to need to provide some proof regarding that.

A set top unit typically respects the blocks put in place by the DVD author (some rare models have a hidden menu provided by the manufacturer that can bypass things like region coding and this).

Most software players(VLC for example) totally ignore any rules placed on the dvd and allow the user to do whatever they want.
Yes, and this is only going to get worse, hence businesses are rushing to find solutions (including a few I work with). Frankly, I think there is a startup opportunity there.
Ask HN: What are the best jobs to help me learn how to code on the side?
Hello,

I had a question, partly inspired by a post someone made here a few years ago about what's the fastest way to become employable in tech.

I didn't study CS and am beginning to learn about programming in the evenings as my current job (Legal sector, non-technical) is unrelated.

At the moment I'm still just learning and doing it for fun but it'd be nice if there was a potential path to doing it for money/being employed one day, if I still enjoy it.

I know obviously any job would work, but are there specific types of jobs you'd recommend that are more "tech-adjacent" so I could, to some extent, learn on the job?

An example someone used in the previous thread was trying to work in tech support, like an entry job in quality assurance/control (QA/QC), or a tech support role at a small/mid-sized startup. (was also curious if you'd heavily priortise in-person roles to learn from colleagues, or whether it doesn't matter and hybrid/remote roles would suffice - I don't have a preference for the right job, I'm UK-based btw)

I was just curious if there are options where I could work around/with software developers and be exposed to more technology during my day job, to then help with learning programming in the evenings/weekends. Or, would you just recommend doing a bootcamp?

I know this journey is for the long haul, but was curious if there are any types of jobs I should be targeting: where I can get good exposure to programming and tech in general, without having the experience.
> if someone recored my whole work day every day I would not be happy

I'd be perfectly fine with not voice recording people who's daily work may or may not impact the global delivery of cat pictures.

I think if you choose a job where there are several hundred people's lives on the line relying on you doing your job professionally and correctly, the expectation of privacy argument is somewhat less convincing.

> I don't think you would stay at your job of that was a condition of it.

Some people literally have no choice. Do you think _any_ Amazon delivery driver is "happy" with their on-job surveillance? Do you think _any_ call centre worker is "happy" with "calls are recorded for quality and training purposes"?
> GPU instructions sets change every year/generation.

1. It's every two-to-three years.

2. It's not like they change into something completely different.

3. PTX is not a hardware instruction set, it's just an LLVM IR variant

4. I don't need to only target an instruction set directly, but it does help to know what instructions the hardware actually executes. And this is just like for CPUs (ok, not just like, because CPUs have u-ops, and I don't know that GPUs have those).
GP didn't make any allusion to the 'noble savage' myth. The quote:

> you'd think that dense evergreen forests are the "natural" state of the ecosystem

They are speaking of the current state of the forests and how they would appear natural, not that one land management practice was more or less natural than the other.
Can we extract iron ore without releasing CO2 and if so, which countries are mandating this?
I’m not sure if it’s intentional. I don’t find the other container orchestrators that much better either.

No one ever cares about making tooling in any software project. You’re always using something by a dead-ass random third-party.

Microsoft is probably the company where I am actually using Microsoft-made tools to manage Microsoft-made products. And maybe Adobe back in the day.
One of the long-standing challenges in the federated identity space has been that most of the solutions are built around domain names, which are a pain for most users to create on their own. There's a sense that people would prefer email addresses as their identifiers, but without some server help that's hard to do. The WebFinger protocol works well for translating email addresses into something that could be used for federated data servers, but alas most of the big email providers (ala gmail) don't participate in WebFinger.

A while back Brett Slatkin and Brad Fitzpatrick built out a protocol called 'Web FistBump' that could bring WebFinger to people who's email providers to support it. It was a clever hack with DKIM - you emailed their webfist.org server with what you wanted to be your Webfinger info, and because Gmail signed the message with DKIM anyone could verify the message. The webfist.org server just proxied WebFinger requests into lookups for those signed emails. Even better, because it's just a signed email you can treat it as a blob and have a pool of different resolvers do the proxying, kinda like a blockchain. I think there was a post from Brad somewhere that estimated that the total data needed if everyone in the world used WebFistBump for storing a blob was in the low 100s of GB, which is pretty managable for a wider community to keep online.

I need to read up on DIDs but it feels like DIDs just standardize on what the message format should be that would come back from something like WebFinger/WebFistbump, but if WebFistbump were actually up and running, it could make WebFinger more widely available. (Alas, I think the webfist.org server has been shut down but maybe they could flip it back on!)

https://www.onebigfluke.com/2013/06/bootstrapping-webfinger-...
Is Java ME the smallest Java platform with ~8MB of RAM as a requirement?

[edit]

No, Java ME CLDC can run on devices with as little as 160kB of ROM and 8kb of RAM.
If I were President for a day
The piece of hardware that was chosen for the avionics-adjacent software I was working on was chosen before any software was written, which was 3 years before the plane was 'supposed' to fly, and 5 years before anyone sane expected it to be in service.

Irritatingly, they didn't even pick the top-of-the-line machine from the vendor at that time. They picked a middling one. And then put an LTS OS version on it that didn't fully support the motherboard chipset. I spent way, way too much time an energy trying to get the software to run on the sort of timescales necessary. It took me months to get anyone to let me talk to the vendor in order to sort out the fact that the storage was being run in legacy PATA mode, reducing our IO throughput by an order of magnitude and the application throughput by about a third.

Ten minutes on the phone and I got them to agree to give us a patch that aliased the chipset to one it was backward compatible with, that was actually supported by the OS. But they really wanted us to take the never version of the OS that didn't have this problem.

That's not even the most hard-ware crippled I'd ever been, but it was top three.
The first email from space [video]
The only thing Taylor Swift is qualified to advise about is how to succeed if you are born Taylor Swift.
> "The initial setup of NetBox can be quite an undertaking though. As long as you secure them properly CDP/LLDP/etc make the process much easier."

You may have good reasons, but I'll note for other readers that the NetBox documentation takes a position against doing that:

> "Serve as a "Source of Truth" - NetBox intends to represent the desired state of a network versus its operational state. As such, automated import of live network state is strongly discouraged. All data created in NetBox should first be vetted by a human to ensure its integrity. NetBox can then be used to populate monitoring and provisioning systems with a high degree of confidence." - https://docs.netbox.dev/en/stable/introduction/

and

> "ultimately the onus falls to a human operator to assert what is correct and what is not. For example, NetBox can validate the connection of a cable between two interfaces, but it cannot say whether the cable should be there." - https://docs.netbox.dev/en/stable/getting-started/planning/

Monitoring systems reflect the way your network is; ideally NetBox holds the admin side of the way your network should be - from your contracts, services, business agreements - and if the real state differs, you bring the real state into line with NetBox.
This is tough for me. "Instead, we must let our ideas evolve as more discoveries are made in the coming decades." is a very appealing statement. My concern is admitting that something is complicated is different from saying it is not the case.

To that end, is there anyone that thinks genes are a simple blueprint for life? Seems far more accurate to say that they are part of the blueprint for life, and that even with that, we have not defined the execution environment for how that blueprint is carried out.

Do we present an even more simplified model to students? Especially young students? Absolutely. As we do to laymen. But things being markedly more complicated does not mean that models are bad.
Great value. Would not laugh again.
I don't understand what the word queer is doing in the sentence above. I also don't think your last paragraph works with the previous one.

I do agree with the idea of changing the goalposts in the above article because as you mentioned DNA do in fact encode the "blueprints for life".
> IMHO, an exhaust modification that adds more than 10db to the factory provided one should be illegal. It's easy to think of next steps for cars that are made noisy in the factory, but it's incredible that nothing is being done about this.

In Europe cars have to pass an annual technical inspection to renew their license. Every part on the car has to be homologated and they'll only homologate things that are within all safety/noise/etc regulation.

My sister's ex boyfriend had to remove his modded exhaust and reinstall the stock version every year before inspection. This is clearly annoying so most people wouldn't bother. It also comes with heavy fines should he ever get pulled over for speeding or street racing. Cops love to hand out additional "illegal car mods" tickets when they're annoyed.

Added bonus: This would also solve the American problem with lifted trucks and LED headlights. Unfortunately it would also make my motorcycle unregisterable (not the exhaust, other stuff like distance between indicators).
Can't be leaving out the introduction of AI! Surely these mainframe systems would benefit from some neural networks!
Probably correct. The top contributors were some internet.nerds that were top notch on the tech side and rose on merit and the trust they built with their audience. Splitting $25m among the 5-7 of them probably seemed like winning the lottery.
Agreed. But I think the solution to this is compulsory content licensing, not consolidation. Granted, the end result of that might still be consolidation (or many players just going out of business), but at least that would be true competition: the streaming services would be competing as streaming services (and would be judged on price, video quality, app/website stability and usability, reliability, recommendations, etc.), not as content producers.
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McGuire transfer collapsed after Blackburn pressed wrong button on website
That's not a lot compared to 8xA100
> I switched over to fully decaf coffee earlier this year.

You may want to rethink.

>The association between coffee consumption and dementia was..

> with evidence for higher odds for non-coffee and decaffeinated coffee drinkers and those drinking >6 cups/day, compared to light coffee drinkers.
> The Green River Killer murdered lots of people and wasn't arrested for 20 years. This doesn't mean that the laws and criminal justice system are designed to advance murder. The fact that they were able to identify him as the murderer and arrested him proves the system is against murder.

I think your analogy is flawed.

For it to apply there would have to have been an institution that can only exist in the presence of mass murder similarly as private prisons only exist in the presence of incarceration.

A better analogy would be Civil Asset Forfeiture. A perfectly legal act by police, but also clearly heinous. The fact that these "forfeitures" are written into the police budgets means "the system" is designed to require it, but still stops short of "advancing" the infractions where that procedure is then abused.

For instance, if I get pulled over for a broken tail light, and happen to have $10k in cash on me and the police seize the money, it would be ridiculous to then say that "tail light awareness is designed to advance civil asset forfeiture".

> Things I didn't say:

> - any value judgment about private prisons

I can accept that, but you were objecting to a example provided in a comment that was critical of private prisons. It suggests you are in support of them.

> - no statement about shutting up or stop bringing up the crimes

> - didn't justify or attempt to justify excluding oversight of government

I certainly read your comment's dismissive "It shows the opposite." to be a pithy way of trying to stop the conversation about private prisons and specifically kids for cash.

It also suggests that you think my bringing it up is superfluous anyway, and everything is as it should be, so why then would there be any need for oversight? Conversely, if you support oversight then you must admit there is a flaw in the system capable of being exploited.

If I write a strongly typed function (the system) then it would be unnecessary for me to write another function that checks the types of the inputs before running the previous function (oversight) because the types are already a part of "the system".

> - anything about the business model of private prisons

Okay, but you did say: "It doesn't reinforce the idea that the system is designed to ship people into private prisons. It shows the opposite." By these bullet points you seem to be implying that private prisons are somehow "other than" in regards to "the system". What is your definition of the system?

Because kids for cash was organised by judges and prison owners who I would say are precisely "the system".

This is the point I was making about communication. The exact words you use is only a piece of what you communicate.

And hey, if you feel I put words into your mouth then this is an opportunity for you to set me straight on how you do in fact feel about these things.

What is you value judgement on private prisons?

What is your opinion on the business model of private prisons?

Do you think that exploitation like "kids for cash" implies flaws in "the system"?
The problem is you can't reliably collect it over bluetooth. I doubt iOS allows apps to just run always active background tasks to fetch data over bluetooth while the app is not open.

The user expects the data on the app to always be in sync. If they check it outside of bluetooth range and see days of data is missing, it'll look broken.
No that's MLE. A DS rarely gets asked leetcode algos questions, an MLE would.
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It wasn't hard for me because I grokked what I was doing, but for a lot of people they've never had to make a decision like that before. Especially so early in an onboarding process. And they get caught up trying to decide if they should join the instance for web developers or the one for cat lovers, because both interests are important to them. It turns people off to the idea of federated social media.

I'm going to push back on the migrating being a challenge even for Bluesky if an instance vanishes. If nothing else, you do not need your old host ("PDS" in atproto parlance) to cooperate — or even be online — if you wish to migrate in Bluesky. With a local copy of your data, you can send your social graph to a new host with ease and be right back in business.
It's Pfälzisch, which is almost indistinguishable from Hessisch (Frankfurt) in writing. It sounds somewhat different, though.
Also important servers should also go lower in the rack, but not too low to flood. Learned that from an aircon failure and the top server hit 180F+ and shutdown. Thankfully had temp logs in Grafana to figure that out.
It may be implemented in the system firmware, but it's still a hypervisor performing context switches and enforcing access to pci devices. Even if you've never looked at the processor architecture manuals you can tell this is what's happening when you can assign 0.1 cores to an LPAR. Different implementation details but the same functionality as SPARC LDOMs and Intel's vt-x & vt-d.
You follow the procedure because in an emergency you don't know what is going wrong.

Better to climb for a bit more as you get your oxygen mask on than to try to descend immediately and make some problem worse.

We know it was a door plug blowing out, but in the past it has been entire major sections of the airframe ripping off, in which case sudden extra stresses are not what you want.
No, it's a single box with one Telum chip.
But this lawsuit is ruining her image, not helping it. It makes her look petty.
They're described in parent's first link. Boeing systems.
A small market for now, but it's a smart move if Apple continues development of this headset and there are future generations. If you're the first to get a catalog of 360º videos up for sale, you'll probably dominate the market when/if it catches up with you.
> you'd think that dense evergreen forests are the "natural" state of the ecosystem

GGP's statement was talking about the appearance of the current state of these forests, not comparing two types of human intervention
As if all the work she put into it and her single minded focus made no difference.
You can have nine businesses all fail for separate reasons. Learn all you want from each failure but the next business might fail in new and creative ways no matter what lessons you apply from previous failures. The 10% chance to succeed is a combination of lots of factors, many of which are completely out of your control.
Love it! But should be for all languages
Unfortunately that's not a rough edge for me. It's a deal breaker. Especially in the scenario where your instance disappears overnight without helping users migrate.

Fortunately this isn't an inherent limitation of ActivityPub, and I'm hopeful we'll see implementations with better custom domain support in the future.
>And who owns the most shares of these Companies? Organizations like BlackRock and Vanguard.

Those are just the fronts for the people who actually own the companies. Blaming them makes as much sense as blaming the local bank for wealth inequality because they hold all the money.
Because the dev was familiar with Zookeeper and not etcd
I've lived in cities (especially bustling downtown areas) for most of my life, and whenever I go out to somewhere quiet I get profoundly uncomfortable. For me, the sound of the city (sirens/cars/people) is soothing in the same way being inside during a storm can be relaxing knowing that you are safe from it.
Well, humans love too much assigning values to things around them, randomly-emotionally, and these values tell more about flaws of humans cognition, not the things itself.

Say, one of cases of judgement about about "world" is something like "world became a better place" usually feels like a person thinks that some fundamental constants has changed, and changed irreversibly. So before humans managed to enslave and kill each other but now magically stopped. Slavery no more, democracy! And then putin starts a full-scale invalion on Ukraine, it's exception.
And when exception turns into rule everyone forgets about their misprediction and postrationalises the new agenda (it was obvious that it's going to happen), it looks funny.