skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like if instead of deferring to the EPA, the Chevron case was deferring to police departments interpretations of the law when the law was ambiguous, we would be cheering this decision as a return to sanity.

I doubt it. I think most people have some federal agency they aren't a huge fan of. Sure, the fact that Chevron helped to allow the EPA keep your air and water from being poisoned by greedy corporations who would do it in a second if it would make them more money helps to make it a more sympathetic cause, but it's not as if people aren't aware that the defense applied to every other agency too.

> I wouldn't want the default assumption of the courts to be that when the law is unclear, whatever the sheriff or the highway patrol decides is illegal this month is

That isn't a fair characterization of the situation. Even forgiving that the police aren't a federal agency, first a question around the legality of what the police were doing would have to reach the court in the first place, then the court would have to determine that an ambiguity in the law existed, and then the court would have to decide if the interpretation of the law that the police has been using is reasonable and only if it wasn't would the court impose its own interpretation. That seems pretty fair even in the case of the police.

It's not about deferring to the enforcers of that law. It's about deferring to the law first, and only imposing a narrower interpretation if the enforcers of that law were already out of line. It just means that agencies aren't limited to the most narrow interpretation of the law as written.
It isn't as easy as it appears, partly because media formats evolve. As device output quality increases, there's a desire to get the source up as well.

That means old libraries start to contain a jumble of formats and encodings. The maintenance of this can be a pain.

I noticed this first with Apple TV+ where some films were getting provided in HD or HD/3D. If you have to chose between their perfect audio and video or whatever you have in your library its probably going to be what they offer.

I suspect that Apple (as an example) is using media quality and its features, (spatial audio, their immersive video) in part to prop up people wanting to pay for streaming content. It has to not only be more convenient to stream, but consistently beat the socks off what's easily available via torrenting.

Torrent networks and media players might catch up to start including this stuff and making playback as easy as streaming services' native video players (again I am focusing on Apple TV, particularly Apple TV app on Vision Pro as an example) but as far as I can see its not there yet.

I don't think we're looking at only audio and video quality increases but accommodation of variants on 3D, including media that was previously purely 2D reworked for new ways of displaying content with greater perspective that makes viewing more immersive on a deep bench of legacy content.
I have seen this discussed in hiring decisions. I don't know that it played a large factor in a decision, but lack of experience in the standard tools/practices/terms of software development because of a career at Google was definitely a discussion point.
What sort of skills does a sysadmin and DBA have that most engineers lack? Most engineers should know the basics of bash scripting, iptables, Unix logging, cron, systemd, etc. as well as SQL, debugging slow queries, optimizing them, backing up dbs, etc
Well this is a massive game changer lol I don't care about this anymore
> I honestly don't understand, do you generally just add media to a larger and larger hard drive and then transfer it every couple years to a new one?

Not much to understand, it's exactly how you're describing, except maybe with the addition of occasionally encrypting a bunch of it and storing it offsite/cloud-based somewhere so that the 3-2-1 backup strategy is in play.

Netflix's premium plan is $23/mo, a 6TB WD Black HDD is $125 on Amazon, meaning roughly every 5 months for the same price of a Netflix premium subscription, I can increase my storage capacity by 6TB, with some minor added cost of needing the space to use that extra drive, and the power usage costs. And at the end of the day, if I stop paying Netflix my access to all that content goes away; As long as I have sufficient backups, that won't happen with my offline media collection.
"Entrust encrypts and secures more than 24 million Swift messages daily."

Wonder how secure that is? That has real potential for extracting value.
That’s compliance, infosec, and arguably, just table stakes for a reasonably mature org. Sure it’s annoying sometimes but unless you enjoy the idea of randos with access to your own complete digital footprint, then everyone ought to see the wisdom in the idea of “robots only, no humans in prod”
Here's a fantastic piece by him talking about how amazing Federer was when he first came up: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20fed...
Given that the demand for it is not particularly rational I’d imagine enthusiasts will want the real thing. (Sigh)
*ran into this on a reddit thread. It looks like it was inspired by kdb+, but is still in the very early phase (no download outside of contacting the authors).
Just like agile, DevOps has some good intentions. It's always about how it's executed and like anything in software engineering you will run into trade off situations where you have to find the best solution for your organization and product.

I really enjoy working in a deploy often and fast environment though and I firmly believe that fast feedback loops are one of the most important things for development speed. And this is what DevOps at its heart is about. How you achieve this and how reasonable it is for your situation is left for you to decide.
No such licensing concept could work. The AI companies' argument is that what they're doing counts as fair use, so they don't need to abide by any license. If that argument is true, then such a thing wouldn't do anything, and if it's false, then such a thing is unnecessary, because they're already violating even the most lax licenses (e.g., MIT) by failing to provide the required attribution.
> Congress can actually legislate the right of agencies to interpret the gaps in the laws back into effect - by passing a law that explicitly gives agencies this power.

They could--but in the case of the Administrative Procedures Act, which is the law relevant to this case, they didn't. Indeed, as the Court's opinion points out, they did the opposite: the Act explicitly says that the courts shall interpret the law when doing so becomes necessary to resolve a case.

Note that this actually limits the scope of this ruling in a way that does not appear to be recognized by commentators. The Court here is not saying that Congress can no longer pass a law that explicitly grants interpretive power to an executive branch agency. It's just saying that Congress did something different with this law.
>> The User is the Tester

If you can afford to make the user the tester, you should. There is no moral hazard, only an economic one. If you have 5 million customers paying $1 / year, make the user do the testing via canary deployments, metrics, etc. If you have 5 customers each paying $1M / year, be sure to test it yourself.

The problem seems to be that people forget which regime they are operating in.
This occurred over decades. It was not a simple insult mid conversation.
Sure, but how concretely does that hold you back? Not saying I can’t imagine any possibilities, but guis aren’t universally better for editing text. In fact I usually find the gui is what is holding me back, since I end up needing access over ssh/mosh or easier access to a terminal, and tools such as tmux provide much better (imo) ergonomics than I get with terminal-in-ide especially with the ability to zoom one split to fullscreen.
That couldn't be further from the truth. They're so different one would never confuse the two, or believe them related.
That sounds equivalent to writing an unconstitutional law and tacking on “btw, you can’t rule that this law is unconstitutional”.

Which is actually possible to do by amending the US Constitution, but good luck with that.
> I wonder if Entrust can survive this

They've pivoted to payment cards.
> Pollution, the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a rate faster than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or stored in some harmless form.

Sounds like green house gases are pollutants.
This system is not stable though. Every participant would think "why should I be content with X/N divided revenue if my content is so hot that if I pull out I would get much better revenue because everybody watches my content anyway?" Of course, they miss the point that everybody watches their content as part of the "one subscription" deal but it would be much different when it "50 subscriptions, all alike" deal - but everybody thinks they would be the ones that everybody would subscribe to, and the others would be the ones who will be left out.

Also, such channel would likely attract attention of the regulators as a clear example of a cartel.
I agree. It's insane when you look at the plans of the big 3 providers. First of all, always showing prices for 3-4 lines, which is ... weird.

Then you read and you see stuff like 'X on us'. I don't want that. Or '480p DVD quality' shown as a feature! So I can't even decide how to use my data? Or 'choose your perks, $10 each! (I thought perks where things that you get? Not thing that you have to pay for.).

Or you show 5 plans and half of them have taxes included, and the other ones don't? How am I supposed to compare?
Sure, but a trademark applies for products and services in the same category.

If someone makes Apple crayons, that’s okay.

But somebody making media or computing devices with the name “Apple” in it, that’s a problem.
I wasn’t trying to conflate the two. PGO traditionally meant a trace build but as a term it’s pretty generic, at least to me to the general concept of “you have profile information that replaces generically tuned heuristics that the compiler uses). AutoFDO I’d classify as an extension to that concept to a more general PGO technique; kind of ThinLTO vs LTO. Specifically, it generates the “same” information to supplant compiler heuristics, but is more flexible in that the sample can be fed back into “arbitrary” versions of the code using normal sampling techniques instead of an instrumented trace. The reason sampling is better is that it more easily fits into capturing data from production which is much harder to accomplish for the tracing variant (due to perf overheads). Additionally, because it works across versions the amortized compile cost drops from 2x to 1x because you only need to reseed your profile data periodically.

I was under the impression they had switched to AutoFDO across the board but maybe that’s just for their cloud stuff and Chrome continues to run a representative workload since that path is more mature. I would guess that if it’s not being used already, they’re exploring how to make Chrome run AutoFDO for the same reason everyone started using ThinLTO - it brought most of the advantages while fixing the disadvantages that hampered adoption.

And yes, while PGO is available natively, AutoFDO isn’t quite as smooth.
Who knows! Just like “SRE” you really need to know what questions to ask before you accept any position in these orgs

I briefly worked at a place where the SREs were responsible for replacing displays on the factory floor and the devops engineers took rotations approving terraform PRs all day long.

As it turns out, a lot of orgs just rebrand their job postings with whatever fancy industry term gets applicants, then they rugpull you into very mundane ops chores
The factory building the British Army's new revolutionary CT40 cannon
Is your source code open somewhere it can be read?
> What about second-life use though for lithium batteries in grid storage?

Scale and immediacy. We already have some places in the world that have an overcapacity of renewables, but still suffer from outages due to the energy market. And if the current exponential trend continues, we will reach renewables overcapacity world wide by the mid 2030s. We essentially needed wide deployment of grid-scale batteries yesterday to offset decommissioned baseload and curtail the use of peakers that can charge through the nose when power drops. There's a strong market for a dirt cheap, dispatchable, deep cycling, and scalable battery chemistry, esp. without the resource bottleneck of lithium supply. Sodium ion wins on all those counts even though it's still, relatively speaking, a nascent technology.
DevOps was breaking down silos between Devs and Ops. It was co-opted by Enterprises to instead be seen (just like with agile) as CI/CD tooling (which is just one means to an end) and they tended to completely ignore the culture and values which are arguably the most important components.
Statement from a spokesperson in the last paragraph of https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/28/google_axes_entrust_o...

It doesn't say much.
They really started gerrymandering hard in 2010 with REDMAP. There's really an extreme delineation in technology used to abuse the system at this point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP
I thought that was the point of your post (e.g. that it is a breach of common curtesy to skip greeting someone.)
None of those things are advocating for ethnic violence.
> We have a lot of things that need doing in this country which can't get done when obstructionists stand in the way.

California has spent over $100bn to build 1600 ft of high speed rail over a decade. And it wasn't Republican obstructionists who caused that.

There are too many regulations.
Secret of this book:

The physics is interesting, but SCMUTILS is more interesting. You can:

(1) Write a function

(2) Symbolically compute it's derivative

(3) Render the derivative with LaTeX

(4) Compile the derivative into native code

(5) Integrate out motion using an efficient numerical algorithm

.... all in clean, elegant Scheme. THAT toolset, you can take with you to any domain.
No, the court can also say that two laws are inconsistent. In this case, there is a judicial ruling (Chevron) that has stood for a while, that they are saying is inconsistent with a law (the APA). The constitution is not in this ruling at all. Generally, laws override judicial rulings unless the constitution is in question.
>> abandon technology like Kubernetes

I think a lot of Kubernetes hate is misplaced. It is a great piece of software engineering, well supported and runs everywhere. You certainly don't always need it but don't create a bunch of random bash scripts running all of the place instead of learning how to use it.
> You could require a developer who updates the file at /path/to/department/a/src/foo.java to simultaneously include a patch to /path/to/department/b/src/bar.java.

Could you elaborate on how this worked exactly?
Yes, because people understand that a long term relationship may make someone stay with an abusive person. There was no long term relationship between Assange and Aardin.
Didn't help that we had made these components and services into commodities. Developers and organizations came to expect them. Of course you use CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy your software. Of course you use orchestration and autoscaling groups. And so on.

So that even if you're building small website for your local soccer club it's probably run through GHA on every change with a full red/green deploy process, run on autoscaling groups and so on.

Never mind that most of these applications' databases could fit into RAM on a single server with 24 cores and never even touch the system limits.
The term 'crab bucket' comes to mind. The British public have allowed themselves to be convinced they're being robbed by disabled people and immigrants. In reality, they're being robbed blind by an elite class of people who use every nook and cranny in law to hide assets and evade tax. Many of them are high up in politics.
Yes I really enjoyed reading that article, thank you so much.

I'm really looking forward to seeing a brave soul show up to try and reverse engineer those 50 thousand hardware initialization memory accesses. That sort of thing is just incredibly difficult. I'd really enjoy reading about that too.

In my case I intercepted USB communications with wireshark and tried to make sense of the packets. I'd use the proprietary manufacturer app, capture what got sent over USB and correlate the packets to hardware behavior. Mapped out all the functions that way. There were hundreds of them but mercifully most of those were the same command but with different parameters. The result was this totally magical software which sends buffers containing seemingly random numbers to the hardware and somehow that makes things happen.

/* Clevo Control Center
* Effects
* Wireshark Leftover Capture Data
*
* 0 Wave cc00040000007f
* 1 Breathe cc0a000000007f
* 2 Scan cc000a0000007f
* 3 Blink cc0b000000007f
* 4 Random cc000900000000
* 5 Ripple cc070000000000
* 6 Snake cc000b00000053
*
* There seems to be no pattern to it. Does the value of the last byte matter?
* My keyboard apparently doesn't support the ripple effect,
* even though it is present in the Clevo Control Center interface.
*/

Mapping out 50 thousand memory accesses though? Whoever achieves that has my respect and my attention.
Agassi is a far outlier though. I'm not saying that it's not a lonely road, but I remember reading about his dad being a compulsive gambler and him having to play a match for their house when he was 12-14 years old. Think about what it's like having to grow up and go through something like that -- how would you be able to relate to other players who are close to you in rankings? Either way kudos to him for taking that on.
Focus Work is another app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focused-work-pomodoro-timer/id...
Someone's reasons for sharing information are coloured by the situation at the time of sharing it, amongst many other factors.

Two years ago (say) no one predicted the meteoric rise of LLMs and their voracious appetite for data sets for training. These beasties are not simply search engines that are better direction pointers to your stuff (with a frisson of ads) but insist on being the final word and keep you out. To be blunt: It is stealing.

The implied contract for publishing on the web has changed again, just as it has several times in the past. The worst thing here is the use of the term "freeware". Describing original content, displayed for all to see as -ware is outrageous.

They might as well describe the content on Spotify and co as freeware ... bear with me: you could scrape wifi connections through your publicly available APs or even do some more broadband funky spectrum capture analysis and claim that is what an internet search engine does in its spare time and all is fine (lol).

LLMs and GenAI are quite interesting things but I do not think that they are the last word in ... AI. Anyway the latest cool thingie cannot be allowed to break whatever the current unspoken and somewhat undefined social contract is in place.

This bloke from MS seems to have forgotten that there really is a social contract of some sort and that if you say: "fuck you lot, omnomnom ... mmmm data ... ... laters (lol)" there might be some come back.
Maybe you (or anyone) could shed light on something for me?

I'm sure leaf certificate pinning is very common among your customers. Assuming that pinning is a manual process where customers decide to implicitly trust a specific cert, what's the point of using a third party CA for those customers all?

Does anybody self-sign or use a private CA on specific endpoints with longer certificate validity, and let the pinning customers use those?
Tennis for adults and college is team based.
This doesn't strike me as wrong, but does surprise me. I have had friendly relations with the front desk at most of my positions. And we literally didn't know each other's names. Still nice when they notice a dropped thing of mine. And I didn't get too many chances to help them. Did where I could. And a smile and general conversation is not exactly easy, but you don't get good at things without practice.

Heck, janitorial staff should get more than ignored.

So yeah, odd to drop into such a divide.
Not really. They're close, but definitely not the same.

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

(Edit: pasted wikipedia link)
Also trading floors are intense and require focus.
The courts ruled that content can be scraped from the open web legally. From your examples
1. YouTube content: ok because the scraped content becomes derivative works which falls under free use
2. Doxxing people: if the data was already on the web and a human found it then the person was already doxed
3. Bank transactions: are they behind a login wall? Not Ok to scrap
4. VoIP calls: again behind a wall? Not Ok to scrape

If a human can find it online without doing anything beyond accessing a public web link then it is Ok to scrape it. It's not the complicated and the law has a series of frameworks that for existing cases. It's not particularly complicated.
DevOps was kept afloat by the SPA+microservice trend.
> I don't there are many Americans who prefer a deadlocked and dysfunctional congress that is incapable of doing their jobs. We have a lot of things that need doing in this country which can't get done when obstructionists stand in the way.

I know a lot of them. And it's how the system was designed, by the way. Congress was supposed to generally be weak and deadlocked unless an overwhelming majority of people wanted something.
True, but the trademark is in this category though, "Pomodoro" along with "Pomodoro Timer."

> Examples of products can be, but are not limited to:

> - Timer

> - Software application – desktop, server, mobile

https://www.pomodorotechnique.com/pomodoro-trademark-guideli....

Just saying. Not sure they'd come after a project this size (thanks for sharing OP!).
You could probably safely make a line of Pomodoro brand jet skis.
Compromise and deal making. How do you get your wife to agree to a 92" TV if she refuses initially?
_should_ know is different than _do_ know. Most engineers have little to no understanding of those systems topics and the only DB knowledge they've picked up is what leaks through their ORM

A person who competently knows all those topics _and_ how to write application code is worth their weight in gold
Um. Apple records (the Beatles) had a lengthy legal dispute with an American fruit company from Northern California.
Back then you had to be smart to figure out how to slice it, not today.
This is under appreciated. What happens is that product managers are either crippled with the fallout from double duty, or, they go mad with power at the extra clout they are given to try to compensate for the nonsense position that orgs find themselves in. Both are ugly situations, and either way we lost important checks and balances. Putting anyone else in charge of quality turns into self reporting and always has a conflict of interest
Sure it's something that's been happening for a long time. But it's like comparing hand painting a picture to a modern graphics card rendering a scene 240 times a second and suggesting it's the same thing.
I work in this field, as a developer for a proprietary warehouse management system.

The entire industry runs off closed source systems with little to no accessibility for external developers. The companies developing these systems like it this way, as it means they get a large number of billable hours through their service departments, since there are very few developers available with the expertise to work on these systems.