skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For 30 years how telemetry is produced has not changed: we define all of the data points that we need ahead of time and ship them out of the origin process, typically at large expense. If we apply the control plane / data plane split to observability telemetry production we can fundamentally change the status quo for the first time in three decades

Has Matt read any prior art in this field?
https://research.google/pubs/monarch-googles-planet-scale-in...
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I have found that they are pretty reliably hidden behind the "unsafe replies" section much of the time, so that are clearly able to identify most of them but are unwilling to actually ban them.
Fantastic story.

> When I worked on the Apple Maps team, 12 of my colleagues were Etak alumni.

What a legacy! It's gratifying to hear of these long-dead companies/products with incredible engineers who are still out there slinging code with the best of them.
Yes, but just for you.
So, that code gets me thinking about premature optimization. In the "verschlimmbessern born of optimizing the wrong thing because you didn't use measurement to guide your efforts" sense.

The rule of thumb I hear is that, in a mature product, reading and maintaining code takes about 10 times as much effort as writing it in the first place. I've never tried to measure this myself, but it doesn't seem to be wildly off from what I see at work, so let's go with it. Let's also assume, for the sake of argument, that these AI tools double the productivity of people writing new code. Or, equivalently, they halve the time it takes to write it. (This is a lot more than what I see people typically claim, but I'm trying to steelman and also it makes the math easier.)

Anyway, this would imply that, speaking purely in terms of raw productivity (not, say, security or correctness) the AI coding assistant is a net win when the code that's written using it is less than 5% more difficult to maintain.

And I'm inclined to think that, if Copilot & friends are enabling more people to write more code that looks like what we see in this article (also not wildly off from what I see at work), then it's hard to see how they could possibly be making codebases where they are used less than 5% more expensive to maintain.
>But this was also a unique situation where Israel held back. In a typical case a firing would receive an immediate deadly response. E.g. planes and missiles from Israel returning the favor. Thus the cost for Iran would have been much higher.

I feel like we are observing separate conflicts altogether. Israel whose conscript army is nearing its end in terms of endurance, who has been bogged down in urban guerilla warfare for 6 months, while responding to Houthi and Hezbollah strikes, who has also lost much of the goodwill and support it had from its international partners, who needed those partners that are starting to get sick of them to defend from a very early telegraphed missile strike.

You think that Israel would even consider an immediate deadly response to open a fourth front in a war they can't afford, a war the public is getting sick of, and a war that the very disliked leader of the nation is cynically prolonging to maintain his waning grip on power?

One thing I appreciate about HN the variety of perspectives I'd never be exposed to otherwise
I worked with VSS for a while and remember the workflow you're describing (lock, edit, check in) and there being a culture of not bundling related changes into commits but instead tossing files in as you realized they were out of date.

It's cool that this was done, thanks!
Not sure about the pageant part, but it's a major problem when connecting to a compromised server leaks the client's private key.

(For example, if an attacker has compromised server A and you connect to it, they can now use your key to connect to server B which you also use)
Just hash it before it's broken.
On my M1 MBP, Safari 17.4.1, it straight up doesn't work. Can I Use does say Safari only support WebGPU on TP and behind a flag: https://caniuse.com/?search=webgpu

Perhaps a Safari TP bug? I'd appreciate some browser version info so I can dig deeper.
Here's an easy one: actually do the vetting for verified bluechecks that he said they would do.
Blaming Food for Obesity Is Like Blaming Water for Drowning
Yes, and it works like a charm! I've used it a few times already today and can see this becoming a very regular part of my workflows. Thank you!
This was a delightful read. Reminded me of my time working on low power FHSS radio gear. We truly take modern wireless technologies for granted!
Mail.app. It's free, no ads, simple and yet featureful.
I helped rebuild a car engine at 12... yet GPS didn't even exist.
The big difference is that the IRS employee selling your data is illegal. So sure, your info can still end up out there in less-legible circles, and some drive by randos can play around with it or perhaps if it's widespread enough your acquaintances could look you up, but the main advanced persistent threat - the surveillance industry - can't really use it. Whereas when you use surveillance based software, since we lack meaningful US privacy legislation, you're assenting to "terms" that allow the surveillance industry to use it for whatever attacks they can implement - eg real time price discrimination, insurance rates, surveillance based authentication, etc.
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exit strategy?
Psychiatric risks for worsened mental health after psychedelic use
Short and quick example:

Today I mentioned on the local /r/australia subreddit that it was 45 years ago this week that the film "Mad Max" had been released.

Now "Mad Max" is a famous and well-known Australian film. You'd expect that there would be some interest in that.

This is what happened to that general-interest post:

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As I said above, censorship merely for the sake of censorship. What's the definition of 'very short'? Two words? Ten Words? One hundred words? One thousand words? Once you put the reason for a post, why should you need to add more unnecessary words to prevent it being "disappeared"?

As can be clearly seen, there is no REAL reason for removing this post.

Next time I have a another 'too short' post, I will try an experiment and add about 10-15 lines of extraneous material to pad it out. See if that changes things.
Think of the children!

> In debate, it is a plea for pity that is used as an appeal to emotion, and therefore may become a logical fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
>Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. Or so said Steve Jobs when he announced iPhone in 2007.

Interestingly, one of Etak co-founders was Nolan Bushnell, and he was Atari co-founder that hired Steve Jobs (or specifically Allan Alcorn) in his only full-time job prior to Apple, pardon the pun.
Ha, thanks. But shame on you, you should have sent a pull request. :)
Oh the irony lol.
That is, ironically, racist, as it sort of implies that jews are somehow the only ones capable of doing science.
Poor build quality, unreliability, and extremely high repair costs keep away another group.

If you have a Tesla, get the suspension checked at least twice a year, and after hitting any pothole. A broken suspension can kill you.
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The ideas aren't the hard part.
They hire people in their 20s to do senior roles on the cheap, they throw away people that are 30s or older (if you’re 40 you might as well be dead) as they are seen as expensive
Labels or other predefined constants being useless, compressing them better is not going to win the argument.

Have a look at the description and performance of a non-toy time series database published 10 years ago:

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf

Convenience of text and json is an argument, but performance??
I don't think LLMs are the right approach for this. Coordinated science would basically be a search problem where we verify different facts using experiments and use what we learn to determine what experiment to do next.
IQ test have genuine predictive power when applied to large groups. So no, they're not unscientific. In fact, the idea of IQ tests being useless or culturally biased is a now-outdated excuse that people used to use to justify the different results between ethic groups. It's now well accepted that different ethnic groups have different average IQs, and that IQ is a useful predictor of various life outcomes. What the politically-motivated researchers don't agree on is whether that's entirely environmental or partly genetic. Everyone agrees that it's at least partly environmental.

There's honestly no evidence for the environmental-only theory of intelligence. That's the popular politically correct belief but every study I've ever seen or heard of either fails to support it or supports the opposite.
Why not use a LLM bridge here? Either as directly interpretation -> execution

Or as a tool to find a way of to formalize, to find distinctive areas where it's possible and where not. Just a thought...
Maps are intrinsically vector data, and a raster graphics display back then would have been low-res, 320x240 at most, making the map (and text!) really difficult to read. And then you’d need the rasterizer itself, using precious CPU cycles and memory bandwidth to turn perfect mathematical line segments into crude pixelated approximations. And yes, the memory needed for the framebuffer was also likely an issue. The question is more, why would they ever have used a raster monitor? None of the advantages of raster were applicable, and the disadvantages were all relevant in their use case. The 100% obvious choice was vector.
I'm using hallucination to mean "not exactly the thing", not outright lying. So maybe the "truth" is "My socks are wet." A hallucination could be "My socks are damp."
All lies aren't useless, some can be insightful even when blatantly wrong in themselves (for instance: taken literally every scientific model is a lie). I can definitely see how an LLM hallucinating can helps fostering creativity (the same way psychedelics can), even if all they say is bullshit.
Thanks for your interest! The key difference is that Patcherex2 was designed from the ground up to be a highly modular binary patching framework. This makes it much easier to add support for new architectures and maintain compared to the original Patcherex, as many components can be shared across different targets, and patch implementations are mostly target-agnostic.

For more details, please check out our latest documentation:
https://purseclab.github.io/Patcherex2
https://purseclab.github.io/Patcherex2/core_ideas/patches/
https://purseclab.github.io/Patcherex2/advanced_usages/add_n...
Probably right. Pakistan having nukes has kept India from pulling a Russia on Kashmir. Wonder who is going to supply them nukes though.
Did you try with the API directly? I've had great results with my own prompts, much less so with the chatgpt one.
> exceedingly implausible that differences were [...] or entirely environmentally based

"entirely environmentally based" is the popular and un-scientific belief that I disagree with. So you agree with me?
> To solve this problem Etak invented ‘augmented dead reckoning’. This used a process to match the position given by the navigation sensors to a topologically correct electronic map. Whenever the vehicle turned you made the assumption that you’re driving on a road. At that point the location could be ‘snapped’ back to the road and the error from the sensors could be reset. This technique was later adopted by all navigation apps and is still in use today.

No way did they invent this. Not even close!

This is called map matching. It predates Etak by at least 20 years, if not more.

This paper was published a decade before which does exactly this: Lezniak TW, Lewis RW, Mcmillen RA. A dead reckoning/map correlation system for automatic vehicle tracking. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 1977 Feb;26(1):47-60.

The government was building out this technology in the 50s, here's a RAND report about that. https://www.secretsdeclassified.af.mil/Portals/67/documents/...

I suspect there are even earlier examples.
My w2s aren't that stable, there aren't many that change year to year.

I don't have to re-enter very much, and the import from PDF means you enter even less. It is a huge step up from having to do my taxes by hand by editing PDFs and maintaining a spreadsheet when I was in China because tax software couldn't deal with the foreign income exclusion yet.

But ya, if I only had w2s to worry about, I would expect to file nothing like when I was paying Chinese/Swiss taxes (well, China had a weird self report you had to do yearly, but it was in Chinese and I just copied the numbers via a powerpoint management gave us). Of course, in either country, if you have a non-trivial situation, you had to file something as well.
Meta wants to put students and teachers in Quest VR headsets
I had an old set of PC speakers which always made as weird sound a few seconds before a new message arrived on my phone.
You are correct. It’s an awesome game though.
One thing I notice about the 80s is that people were much more willing to pay top dollar for first, very limited versions of products. $4000 in todays money is almost the same as Apple Vision Pro, for a product that has very limited usability.

May be it was easier to market only for rich people who wish to show off then? Since the fall of Vertu no tech companies seem to address specifically this segment. Or may be people just were more optimistic about tech?
Why have they been removed ?
Strength is more closely correlated with muscle density than size: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32768372/

Powerlifters who train for strength generally train low-rep, high-weight progressive overload programs and often end up with very dense musculature, while bodybuilders prioritize high-rep sets for large amounts of total volume, which produces relatively more muscle size but not necessarily superior muscle density. The two modes of training produce different hypertrophic effects.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3057312/

> It appears, though, that bodybuilders, relying on a high repetition training system, in contrast to Olympic weight- and power lifters, display a small increase in number of capillaries per fiber.

> Bodybuilders, as opposed to Olympic weight lifters, power lifters, or other power athletes, tend to display a relatively high percentage of slow switch fibers.
Just use the sector number(s) of the damaged parts.
> “Ejection” means a rocket motor under the seat and a 50% chance of spinal damage

Would "Ejection" from a much slower aircraft require a rocket motor that has a 50% chance of spinal damage?
Thank you for the fascinating comment and book recommendation.

Felt the article was heavy on ad copy and graphics.
Happen to have FreeSpace code? Or is that under lock and key still?
> Klein said state tax auditors and AI programs are examining cellphone records to see where the taxpayers spent most of their time and lived most of their lives.

State tax auditors have access to cellphone data? Like without a warrant?
3x 12-hour shifts would be 36-hours/week, and would be fine. Doctors work a lot more than that though, and that's where the fatigue comes from.
One time putty took down our prod rac cluster on Xmas eve, and I spent three days fixing it..

One of the on call engineers had copied some documentation to his clipboard which had like:

Dbfile 1 location > /u01/ora/whatever

And accidentally right clicked…

I absolutely blame that software for ruining my Christmas one year, and I can’t really forgive it.

Please use OpenSSH.
> After researching Hono, it turns out it can render JSX directly from the server, which piqued my interest. Then I tried to make the JSX interactive, and finally, I used htmx. Lol.

HTMX is fine if you want to avoid writing client side JS, but Hono did add support for client components in version 4 [1]. There's even an esbuild middleware that can transpile TS/TSX files on the fly (the Deno framework Fresh uses a similar technique) [2].

[1] https://hono.dev/guides/jsx-dom

[2] https://github.com/honojs/middleware/tree/main/packages/esbu...
I know a couple of jobless people stuck in the Leetcode tar pit fetish. It is heartbreaking to watch someone struggle so much just to get 5% of the skill they need in a real programming job.
Not to mention the founder of that most estimable chain, Charles Entertainment Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre.
> I think Source Safe made us lock a file to make changes

That's right. Good times!
State machine replication and protocols are also fundamental.
What would the canine version of Felixer be called?

A feral cat management device that uses lasers and sensors to specifically target cats has been shown to be effective in a field trial in remote South Australia.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/felixer,-the-grooming-trap,-...

K-Nighty-Night ?
Understanding Heap Memory in Java Applications
Amazing band. Still heartbroken by the loss of Mimi. Their version of Little Drummer Boy is my favorite ever Christmas song and it’s not even close.
Chromium Linux gets the same error here.
The thing is, these problems rarely arise for programmers who daily code in C++. People who don't use C++ love to enumerate different C++ gotchas. In reality, most C++ projects define a coding style that dodges most of these problems. For instance, I don't use default arguments at all.

That said, I don't start new projects in C++ mainly because of the header/source split. After writing a lot of code in languages that don't require a header file, I believe that C/C++ not making headers files redundant in 90s itself has been a costly mistake. Think of the time wasted because of constantly having to sync header/source files. One can argue that it does not take much time but it is hard to estimate how many bugs might be introduced because of such busywork breaking mental flow.

Oddly, real problems like these are never brought in these "C++ sucks" discussions.
> Would "Ejection" from a much slower aircraft require a rocket motor that has a 50% chance of spinal damage?

Yes.
If you look at the connection map, https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-United-States-sho..., I guess the high capacity DC line that serves vegas could be siphoning some Utah power into socal, but there is much more capacity in the connectivity from Oregon and Washington.

Reading more, there are two high voltage DC lines into SoCal: one from a coal plant in Delta Utah (2.4 Gw, not just from that plant, but let’s say majority coal), the other from a hydro conversion station on the Columbia in Oregon/washington (3.1 Gw). Looking at the map above it looked like the latter one terminated in Las Vegas but I guess it actually goes into SoCal.
Fixed your link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/only-person-ever-h...

Also, FWIW, that article says only a single person has ever been recorded as being hit by a meteorite.
Needs more naming and shaming. If the product is broken, say so. If multiple instances of the same monitor have the same serial number, that's a product defect. If the monitor's firmware can crash so hard that it stops responding to anything, that's a product defect.
This has the form of a religious belief.
I've never before considered we might inadvertently be "Rods from God"'ing ourselves with the massive amounts of space junk we've tossed up there.
That the system would only show you your destination, but not how to get there is very appealing to me (as well as its display).

I'd pay for a CRT Waze skin and the option to turn off turn-by-turn navigation.
USB-C to DP is an electrical conversion. The monitor has to negotiate an alternate mode with the USB controller (then the high-speed data pairs in the USB-C cable are used for Displayport signalling and not USB).

(There are such things as USB monitors which actually take pixel data over the USB protocol, but I don't think they ever caught on.)
Is that true, though? Etak had to license their tech and court a buyer shortly after going to market. Meanwhile, Apple has sold over 200k Vision Pro headsets.
Yeah, I read titanosaur, I expected a veritable giant among other dinosaurs. Then in the headline, "discovered a small-sized titanosaur". Consider me disappointed.
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I challenge you to represent the number "9" in binary on your right hand, with your palm facing you.
No but at the same time, Tesla aren't renowned for their build quality like VW.
A tiny subset of UEFI would be nice (ability to load files from a fat32/exfat/something partition, framebuffer, memory map). Also a subset of ACPI (enumeration of PCI devices) and XHCI (enumeration of USB devices). That's enough of a starting point where you can load drivers, and show the user an error if there's unknown hardware.
I'm going to make a completely fresh alternative written from the ground up. When I'm done you can all find it easily because it's called CoPilot, shouldn't be hard to find.
Both suck in their own unique way, I would choose whatever you are most familiar with
Plot twist: The choice of 521 is adversarial specifically to exploit PuTTY without being easily noticed. (Ok I get that 2^521-1 is a mersenne prime).
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant, is there any reason to believe that they'd not filter out those kinds of exchanges before updating the model? I am absolutely certain they don't train on user data indiscriminately because so much of it would be garbage.
Which OS book would you recommend? Anything similar to the DDIA style (not too academic)?
And nimble in lobbying to continue fleecing the American public
Saving you guys a quick googling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel

Fascinating stuff.
1. We spend a smaller portion of our GDP on defense than before. Military spending as a percentage of GDP is down over the past few decades.

2. The cost of the War in Afghanistan was an important factor in the American publics' changing attitude towards it. Once Trump got elected saying the war was a disaster and we should have never gone there, and we spent trillions on it and got nothing in exchange, the war effort was on borrowed time. And he said that, and was applauded, because American citizens, who still have power in a democracy, don't love spending trillions on a war against an enemy they can't eliminate (partly because they spend far less than us). Those same American citizens roundly rejected the, at the time, leading Republican candidate Jeb Bush, who was most known for his relation to the leader who started that war.

Here's a source: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/may/01/donald-tru...

3. Ukraine won't give up because they are being invaded, similarly as Hamas does not give up as they are being invaded. Of course any amount of money is worth one's homeland. But the willingness of the US to continue supporting Ukraine is based on money because, again, American constituents don't like spending billions on other countries even if the cause is just.
I don't. That was developed by Volition. Parallax was split into Outrage and Volition. I never had access to that code, and I think Mike Kulas would need to be the one to release it.
Saw them live a few times, the time after great destroyer came out was amazing. I used to listen to Secret Name to go to sleep. First time I saw Alan was actually Retribution Gospel choir.
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> (this was before they lobotomized it)

Of course, of course. Because god forbid anyone be able to reproduce your suggestion. Funnily enough I tried the same and have the exact opposite experience.