skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They want to attack this company or this group of individuals. But someone who backdoors such a core piece of open source infrastructure wants to cast a wide net to attack as many as possible.

The stuxnet malware, which compromised Siemens industrial controls to attack specific centrifuges in uranium enrichment plants in Iran, is a counterexample to that.
> "Fire door, alarm will sound".

IMO those doors shouldn't just have a sign-sticker slapped on them, there ought to be something visually (and tactilely) different about the push-bar itself.

P S.: For example, a wavy bar, or a bunch of distinctly raised bumps on the surface in strong contrasting color like high-vis yellow with reflectivity.

Since this is for an indoor surface nobody should be touching, that means durability isn't a big issue: Just stick some adhesive blister-chunks onto whichever push-bar happens to need the warning, and then scrape them off if the situation changes.
It's ridiculous to think it's the US as it would be an attack on Red Hat a US company and an attack on Americans. It's a good way to be dragged in front of Congress.
At some point is more money really important? My impression from meeting Demis like a decade ago is that he is an actual good person. Being a CEO of a top corporation does not seem like a good life move for someone who cares about others. There are myriad examples of how much engineers who become managers-only find it insufferable. If you're excited about thinking about the technical problems of AGI, is simply more money (or even more power) going to matter?
Ah yes, Youtube Music, the logical home for, hm, audio-only spoken word content.

I think I'll just read, erm, sorry, Play Books instead. (But not music, because that's on Youtube now as well.)
This is much more correct.

It is amazing how many smart people have bad intuition on science, misunderstand the null hypothesis, etc. So much for the viability of a scientific thinking populace afaict: it seems not possible to pull off.
The biggest thing “the cloud” had gotten me is that I no longer have to call a sales rep and wait a week if I need a server. Yes this is a process problem, but for whatever reason it seems to stop being a problem (as much) with companies moving to the cloud. I have seen this 3+ times now. As an engineer, I’d much rather move off prem than fix bad management.
That and the fact that in the US the car is tuned to only turn on the range extender when the battery is nearly dead and it can’t always keep up.

Thankfully it’s trivial to change.
because of it's "great new features"

"great" for whom? I've seen enough of the industry to immediately feel suspicious when someone uses that sort of phrasing in an attempt to persuade me. It's no different from claiming a "better experience" or similar.
Mine went 110k miles without ever blowing up and then I decided to rebuild it.

It's got as much longevity as other cars from the era if you pay attention to oil/omp and (over)boost (if you have a turbo). Everyone puts in at least a downpipe and then neglects all of the other mods (wastegate mod, better fuel bump, bigger injectors, wideband o2 sensor and new fuel map, better intercooler, etc) that you'll be forced to do along the way or suffer from boost creep and an eventual grenaded engine.

It's all of the other things under the hood that I've had to replace from all that heat though. Three alternators. A wiring harness that caught fire...
I don't think anybody (even us Haskell weirdos) are clamoring for full immutability of anything. For data structures it's AMAZING unless you really cannot live with a log factor, but that's neither here nor there.

Anyway, for me it's all about controlling and sequestering off (shared) mutability... and -- at a slightly higher level of abstraction -- capabilities given to random bits of code. Being able to conclusively say that a function "foo" can only perform operations on a "User repository" (or whatever) and not randomly go prodding the database directly is amazing.

(Think of "mut" as a capability and you'll probably get the gist of what I mean. It's just a bit more general.)
In the way of it being a pipe dream relentlessly pursued…in words only…by many nerd types. So much so it turned into a meme during the 90’s. Like someone would mention a hamburger and someone else would say imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.

I kinda doubt ggp’s Plan 9-linked idea has enough legs to take it that far though.
would love to say that it was a gift from sama, but he hasn't blessed us :(
> Red Hat invests too much into completely replacing linux subsystems, they should take a break.

They should do whatever they feel is best for them, as should we. They're releasing free as in freedom GPL Linux software, high quality software at that. Thus I have no moral objections to their activities.

You have to realize that this is really a symptom of others not putting in the required time and effort to produce a better alternative. I know because I reinvent things regularly just because I enjoy it. People underestimate by many orders of magnitude the effort required to make something like this.

So I'm really thankful that I got systemd, despite many valid criticisms. It's a pretty good system, and it's not proprietary nonsense. I've learned to appreciate it.
One big problem with how we rank countries by happiness
Reminder that a cat named Tibbles once rendered an entire species of New Zealand wren extinct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall%27s_wren
“ It feels much more like the Soviet Union collapsed than the US won”

That’s probably true. I never understood the assertion that the US or Reagan “won” the Cold War. The US just persisted longer.
And in other news: elephants are quite big, the sun is hot, water is wet.
It’s totally reasonable to scold people for using emergency exits (especially alarmed ones) without an emergency need.

It also doesn’t make you a bad person or stupid to subconsciously miss signage. But you should be okay with a bit of scolding in that case.
For training how do you get any kind of meaningful derivative with it?
> you can't train a model using human voters to vote during iterations

Why not? Just comment multiple times on a post in different ways. Score outputs with more of a desired response higher than outputs with less desired responses. Scale that up site-wide on multiple sites, and it seems like you have a pretty powerful way to get human feedback...
(Author here)

The main focus of the post is to highlight some of the long-term risks and consequences of standardizing around Kubernetes in an org. If you've done a proper evaluation, and still think Kubernetes makes sense for you, then it's probably a sound decision. But I think many skip the evaluation step or do it hastily. The post is more targeted towards organizations with at least a handful of employees. What works for an indy dev does not necessarily scale and work for SMBs or larger orgs - those are very different contexts.

> The article suggests just using EC2 instead of K8s

Not quite. I suggest strongly considering using managed services when it makes sense for your organization. The equivalent of k8s in terms of managed services would be Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) as the control plane, perhaps with AWS Fargate as the compute runtime.

(I wouldn't really call EC2 a managed service - it's more in the territory of Infrastructure as a Service)
What a disappointment.

It's something always in the back of our minds as developers using public libraries, but when something like this happens, non-developers that hear about it start to associate it with the rest of the open-source community.

It's essentially a terrorist attack on developer experience. Thankfully, management doesn't follow the same approach as the TSA.
> Americans often stand out. Look more "touristy" - wearing shorts, goofy bags, unstylish footwear, etc.

Interesting. When I travel, I usually dress the same out in public as I do at home (well, modified for the local weather, anyway). Usually that means jeans, t-shirt, and possibly a hoodie and/or jacket if the weather is cooler, with fairly plain sneakers or perhaps a nicer shoe, depending on how much walking I expect to be doing. I tend to not carry a bag with me unless I'm going to or from an airport or train station. If I do need a bag, it'll usually be a backpack or shoulder bag, something I would use at home for a similar purpose.

I do expect that there are a lot of us who inexplicably dress differently when traveling, but I wonder if your assessment of American tourist dress as "goofy" or "unstylish" is just that the styles that are popular over here aren't popular where you live and where you've traveled and seen American tourists.

I really don't get why some people drastically change their wardrobe when traveling, though.
> I don't have a false identity.

That's just what someone with a false identity would say.. get him boys!

The biggest /S
"Confused" is not the same as "misled".
Beam search can be optimized incredibly aggressively on hardware.

Check out finite state transducers.
Probably depends on criminal code a country. Mine does (EU country):

> Section 231 Obtaining and Possession of Access Device and Computer System Passwords and other such Data

> (1) Whoever with the intent to commit a criminal offence of Breach of secrecy of correspondence [...] or a criminal offence of Unauthorised access to computer systems and information media [...] produces, puts into circulation, imports, exports, transits, offers, provides, sells, or otherwise makes available, obtains for him/herself or for another, or handles

> a) a device or its component, process, instrument or any other means, including a computer programme designed or adapted for unauthorised access to electronic
communications networks, computer system or a part thereof, or

> b) a computer password, access code, data, process or any other similar means by which it is possible to gain access to a computer system or a part thereof,

shall be sentenced .. (1 year as an individual, 3 years as a member of a organized group)
ADGT.js [0] was another P2P overlay network based on WebRTC.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4254
"Lasse Collin," as other posters here have found, does not seem to exist as an experienced coder. Oddly, there is a Swedish jazz musician named Lasse Collin, which would otherwise be one of those names, especially the last name, that would stick out. Instead it is buried under a lot of mentions of a musician.
Not ageism, not when I was there. We'd hire people in their 60s if they could do the job. But in a way, banking is leaving Switzerland: the general trend across industries is against putting more and more roles in Switzerland when they could just as well be done for much less elsewhere. That's what is happening everywhere. The Swiss folks weren't impressed because "it's a Swiss bank!" but the thing is, it's not a Swiss bank-- it's a global bank with Swiss heritage.

As of when I departed, nobody was being shoved out of their seat, but people who left weren't being replaced in-country unless their job involved turning a crank that had to be physically located in Switzerland. If the crank could be moved, it got moved. Perqs like company cars and a special restaurant for execs and boni 2* comp are long gone for newcomers.

Also there are half as many huge banks in Switzerland as there were a little over a year ago, and there certainly aren't twice as many jobs in that one remaining huge bank as there were a little over a year ago, because of economies of scale.

As for comp: Zurich is expensive, Switzerland is expensive, and the FAANGS have to kick out proper comp to attract people because EVERYTHING pays good money. A semi-skilled entry-level physical laborer at one of the financials can come in the door at nearly 100k, because that person has to be able to pay rent and food, too. But it's not more expensive than California. My rent on a 3-storey townhouse with parking in a close Zurich suburb on the train line was 2250 CHF, and I bought our food at Lidl and Aldi for maybe 150/week. Health insurance 550/mo for both of us. You'll pay that kind of money for rent and food in Dublin these days on a far lower salary, and you'll lose a lot more than 10-15% to tax, as well. Switzerland is a special place.

Big tech has fantastic comp anywhere for the right person, tho! A FOAF at a FAANG in Poland recently bought outright a new-build $500k house with 3 years of salary-derived savings and bonus.
Find an SMB that seeks study material-related work and work part-time. Don't offer yourself a hyper-commiditized, forgettable cog like in the gig economy (if avoidable)...
I really liked a line in that Nope movie:

"He got caught up trying to tame a predator. You can't do that. You got to enter an agreement with one."
I very much want drew's post to be correct, but I can't let confirmation bias cause me to consider this due diligence.

Are there any lawyers or legal cases that you know of that have proven this? or at least lawyers who have reviewed it and given a legal opinion?
Microsoft Building $100B 'Stargate' to Transport OpenAI into the Future
If it even were just a clean shutdown!

The newest Google trend is to move features around between apps and (presumably) across the org chart.

Looking at Google Pay/Android Wallet/Android Pay/Pay/Google Pay (old), Duo/Google Meet (old)/Google Meet/Google Meet (part of Gmail) and others.
I was definitely doing this kind of thing back in 2009 but I swear also in 2003 by just wrapping the few standard library memory allocation functions and adding a backtrace loop to store information about the caller. I am not sure where the difficulty is in implementing it?
That's a very US centric view and would practically split the open source community along the atlantic at best and fracture it globally at worst. Be careful what you wish for.
>Tech folks don't seem to understand that there are less tech-literate people out there taking these answers at face value, and being worse off for not knowing their rights.

Tech folks don't care, there's too much money to be made in the grift.
As someone in security who doesn't work at a major place that get invited to the nice pre-notification notifications, I hate this practice.

My customers and business are not any less important or valuable than anyone else's, and I should not be left being potentially exploited, and my customers harmed, for 90 more days while the big guys get to patch their systems (thinking of e.g. Log4J, where Amazon, Meta, Google, and others were told privately how to fix their systems, before others were even though the fix was simple).

Likewise, as a customer I should get to know as soon as someone's software is found vulnerable, so I can then make the choice whether to continue to subject myself to the risk of continuing to use it until it gets patched.
Sure. Did they stop punishing people with their "actual meritocracy" metrics for taking it?
Furthermore the NSA/FBI/CIA want all their spying behavior to be secret. If you have to bend a lot of small knees then someone's going to fib before they get the data they want. And moving off a small company that's bent the knee is way easier than moving off FAANG, which can keep secrets[0] and has your balls locked in a vise.

[0] Because, among other things, the whole "Surprise and Delight" doctrine demands internal controls and secret-keeping discipline not that far off from an actual intelligence agency
Doesn't the beam intensity decrease with the square of the distance?
I think they mean diameter of multiple strands, routed together in the same jacket
I'd argue that with so many KPIs based around "engagement", it's not just social media but software in general.
Adblock for the brain.

This is the problem with advertisements. The vie so hard for your attention they really are hard to ignore. But after they catch your attention you've realized that your attention has just been wasted. Soon you catch yourself just filtering out anything that could potentially be an ad.
>> it's not like you're going to realize equivalent margins by running your own little server in a colo somewhere

At this scale ovh, hetzner are the solutions. If your that small fixed fee pricing is a HUGE win.
Wars, hot and cold, are often won by one side experiencing political and/or economic collapse, taking them off the table.

It's not a “this or that” thing. You win by being the last standing.
Would be easier to make cat not

Making cat owner do something is really difficult
A question about how nonstop worked:

If both processors are running the same process in the same state, why won't both processors hit the same error condition at the same time?

I understand there are random hardware faults that can happen, bits can flip, etc., but logic errors should be bug-for-bug the same on both processors.

So, were those random faults so frequent that the redundancy was worth it? Or am I missing something?
Right, and this is why I believe American tourists (in general) have a much worse reputation in Latin America than in Europe.
Hardware gets backdoored too, remember Crypto AG?
Is there a similar project that is NOT java?
Cosworth appears to have developed a microturbine for this purpose. And it (maybe?) has found a home in Ariel's latest insane car: https://www.carscoops.com/2022/09/ariel-hipercar-is-an-1180-...
I love that i get downvoted on this immediately like I haven't worked IR cases from CN threat actors that did just this.
> but the forces involved look generally in the class of automobile impact.

I don't think that's something you can eyeball?

For one thing, planes infamously don't appear to be moving super fast even when moving at speeds that would raise eyebrows in a car. On normal final approach a Cirrus SR22 has an airspeed of around 80 knots (92 mph, 148 kph) and that looks like this: https://youtube.com/shorts/XZcW11zgWQE - the accident plane almost certainly had a higher velocity when it hit the ground

And for another, impact with the ground especially in a dive is very different from impact with another vehicle as is typical for road accidents. Instant deceleration is a whole other beast. Imagine driving straight into a thick concrete wall at over 90mph - there's nothing that seatbelts and airbags are going to do to save you from fatal injury (an example of such a test crash: https://www.carscoops.com/2022/11/what-happens-when-you-cras...)
The reason jet engines have that sort of exhaust is because the primary purpose of the gas turbine there is to dump all the excess energy into the exhaust to make it go fast (so that the plane can be pushed ahead by the reaction force). They produce very little power, just enough to power the Auxiliary Power Unit (that manages the plane electronics, air-conditioning etc.).

If you want to use a gas turbine for producing power, you will set it up such that most of the energy goes into the work generated, rather than the exhaust, so it would be a cooler, slower exhaust, similar to an IC-engine.
Say what you like about America but our public lands are worth more than all the crown jewels of Europe.
As with anything on reddit, "the real ______ is always in the comments." You get the best advice in place you expect it the least.
There's some legit notions here, but overwhelmingly it uses insinuation & suggestion to sow Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.

> Despite its portability, Kubernetes also introduces a form of lock-in – not to a specific vendor, but to a paradigm that may have implications on your architecture and organizational structure. It can lead to tunnel vision where all solutions are made to fit into Kubernetes instead of using the right tool for the job.

This seems a bit absurd on a number of fronts. It doesn't shape architecture that much, in my view; it runs your stuff. Leading to tunnel vision, preventing the right tool for the job? That doesn't seem to be a particularly real issue; most big services have some kind of Kubernetes operator that seems to work just fine.

Kubernetes seems to do a pretty fine job of exposing platform, in a flexible and consistent fashion. If it was highly opinionated or specific, it probably wouldn't have gotten where it is.
we'll do our best :)
Adani literally does stock manipulation and are friends with the government. Byju's will shutdown because of fraud, they are not downsizing. Flipkart is a literal copycat.

It is a shame because India has a lot of talented people but the whole education system and cultural aspects need to change drastically to even compete with China, forget rest of the world.
My understanding is that the dirty little secret of these types of articles is that many song birds actually die because of the harshness of winter (and from what I gather, growing occurence of extreme weather events.) Unfortunately, that is much harder to study that than killing and cataloging the gut contents of some stray cats and doing some statistics.

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That said, keep your cat indoors and spread cat-proof nesting boxes for your local bird friends around your community. you don't have to pick sides :)
Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.1 has been released
This is a patch release that fixes issues that have surfaced since the release of 4.0.0. It provides compatibility with the latest version of Perl, 5.38, which was released in July 2023, as well as with recent release versions of some required Perl modules.
>The growth in 2018 and 2019 is interesting tho. I would've thought that covid lockdowns are what brought it to the masses.

Overall podcast listens decreased during the lockdowns because of fewer commute hours, but fiction podcasts grew in popularity. <https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/Podcast-walks-Left...>
The article itself seems to disprove this? It wasn't all caused by a single cat.
OpenSSL's "notification of an upcoming critical release" is public, not private.

You do get to know that the vulnerability exists quickly, and you could choose to stop using OpenSSL altogether (among other mitigations) once that email goes out.
You are missing forest for the trees - states dont want to raise a generation of alpha males with big ego and unsatiable drive to success.

Thats not what the core of any population is, and hence not much catered for, not in public state funded institution.

Now another topic is whats good for any individual kid and society long term, those can be quite different matters.

I see those points in same way you do, but consider them more a parental responsibility and a way to give your kids a head start if you actually care. Look at what kind of folks stay teachers and how they are paid - dont expect miracles. Sad state of affairs, but it is what it is
Ah a very fun 'snippy' question that just proves my point further. Thank you.

No airplanes do not sleep. That's part of why their flying is fundamentally different than birds'.

You'll likely also notice that birds flap their wings while planes use jet engines and fixed wings.

My entire point is that it is foolish to imagine airplanes as mechanical birds, since they are in fact completely different and require their own mental models to understand.

This is analogous to LLMs. They do something completely different than what our brains do and require their own mental models in order to understand them completely.
Could be just a single person with a bunch of identities.
It's not reasonable to scold strangers, especially if you're just some random employee.
I tried to get the translation to trigger by switching to french and it does not show. You are right.

So it's just odd that the tags and release tarballs diverge.
I didn’t claim it was incorrect. I was just observing that it sounded like an echo of the past, which it does.

…however, surely if we’re reaching some sort of plateau in mathematical understanding, it’s the end of all research — and that is slightly hard to believe.

Do you think we’re nearing a proof of the Collatz conjecture? Or is the theory we have just totally inadequate?