skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most log messages are useless 99.99% of the time.

Things are useless until first crash happens, same thing applies to replication, you don't need replication until your servers start crashing.

> But logs shouldn't be your primary source of data, metrics should be.

There are different types of data related to the product:

* product data - what's in your db
* logs - human readable details of a journey for a single request
* metrics - approximate health state of overall system, where storing high cardinality values are bad (e.g. customer_uuid)
* traces - approximate details of a single request to be able to analyze request journey through systems, where storing high cardinality values might still be bad.

Logs are useful, but costly. Just like everything else which makes system more reliable
It hasn't been for decades.
The projects you see in the metro would probably be mostly from local (county/ city) taxes as opposed to federal taxes no? (I do realize the feds sometimes contribute partially).

Someone could probably make the same arguments for/against local taxes, but OP appeared to be referring to federal taxes as wasteful.
But it matters. Hamas are non-state actors; if the conflict is legally characterized by Israel as a war, then prisoners have POW rights. Nobody is entirely sure at this point exactly what Israel's legal position is, which is going to have complex ramifications given that Israeli officials have already been charged by the ICC.

https://lieber.westpoint.edu/israels-declaration-war-hamas-m...
"Follow the right-hand wall" only works if all the walls are connected. It does not work if there are free standing walls.
> They did not. There was all sorts of speculation and enough circumstantial evidence to implicate either Russia or (...) depending on what your threshold is.

There was circunstancial evidence implicating Russia, and there is Russia's firehose of falsehood spewing industrial levels of propaganda accusing everyone else ranging from Mickey Mouse to moon nazis.

In the meantime, Russian ships were found to have been involved in suspicious movements in the area in the days and months leading up to the blasts. Russia itself started blaming the US and the UK before pointing the firehose of falsehood at Ukraine.

Just take a look at how Russia handled its latest bombing of Ukraine's children's hospital. First it was Ukraine, them they admitted they themselves bombed the hospital but it was a military hospital, then it was a children's hospital again but it was a US missile, then it was all propaganda...
Note to Linus: We have to be able to compile out this eBPF kernel config option, like completely.
OpenTTD's default signaling system is mediocre. "Path signals" which are "recommended" and the only signal system not locked behind a settings change, will get you into trouble more often than not. You can only put a path signal somewhere where "it is safe for an arbitrary train to park here", which is a problem more often than not. If you are used to block signalling, as used in real trains, path signals will repeatedly surprise you in unfortunate ways. You have to basically deprogram everything you learned about signalling and even build rather different track layouts to use them. Add to that, platforms are not integrated into path signals in any useful way, so a train will sometimes refuse to advance to it's destination platform if it is a "Drive through" capable station if it cannot reserve a path well past it's desired endpoint.

IMO block signals are much simpler to understand for simple use cases, even if it is hard to make complicated railways with them. I think for normal people picking up OpenTTD, they would be a better choice.
When I'm in the office, isolating me from the people around me is a feature, not a bug. Especially since this hotdesking/flexworking crap when I sit beside randos from other departments I have nothing to do with.

In fact the only reason I still come there is because sometimes I have to. Not because I want to or because it adds any kind of value.
Very interesting, thanks! and good luck on the project.
That must be a misspelling of Richard Ragan. He headed the North Korean World Food Programme from 2003 to 2005 according to Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ragan
good idea - playing around with it now!
Wlhc: Wayland Hot Corners
Funnily enough you have another poster [1] saying the exact opposite, that meat makes their symptoms worse, and eating plant foods makes their symptoms go away.

Whenever the carnivore diet comes up as a panacea (which it does, a lot), I wonder if people tried anything else. Did they try reintroducing plant foods to test their hypothesis?

Personally, I bet that it's not the diet itself that helps in most cases, but that the very act of changing one's diet radically alters the gut microbiome. People with autoimmune diseases usually have a dysbiotic gut flora, so it makes sense that a radical change would "reset" it. However, this would suggest that reintroducing foods should work, unless you reintroduce things that bring back the imbalance.

Anecdotally, my psoriasis disappeared after I switched to a strict vegetarian diet. I can't prove it, though, so I don't go on Reddit making unscientific claims I can't back up with evidence.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40937383
I think recursion in the tail position makes sense because "you have to go somewhere", it is just another place to go. Recursion in the middle is like starting over, so they might think of it as a weird jump.

I'd love to teach kids to program, so many minds to run (ethical) metacognitive experiments on! Once you understand recursion, you never go back (and with tail recursion you don't have to). :)
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Depending on the population and methodology, anywhere from 10-30% of people diagnosed with major depressive disorder are considered to have "treatment-resistant" depression, which usually means they've failed to respond to at least two antidepressants despite adequate compliance (exact definitions vary as this is not a separate diagnosis) [1].

[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935971
DXVK 2.4 with DX8 support added
When you get asked questions IMO I would just swap out your experience for equivalent, e.g. do you have Jenkins experience - no, but I have created my own automated CICD processes to build test and push. (Part of the reason to do CICD stuff is to have another computer do that stuff in an org with many people contributing, but it is the same principle as you built locally.)

For cloud I would swap out discussing rsync and SFTP in much the same manner, although that is slightly more of a stretch, most people asking those questions either won't know better or will know idiosyncratic cloud stuff can be learned if you are at that level.
Ok, that's a really low lower bound.

I think you'll agree that it would be a bit absurd to threaten legal action against someone for storing a single black pixel.

OTOH Someone might be tempted to start a lawsuit if they believe their image is somehow actually stored in a particular data file.

For this to be a viable class action lawsuit to pursue, I think you'd have to subscribe to the belief that it's a form of compression where if you store n images, you're also able to get n images back. Else very few people would have actual standing to sue.
I am really confused by one part of your blog post: it says that you had to embed Lwip as applications don't send/receive IP packets... but you also describe this as x86 virtualization running specifically-Linux, and Linux absolutely has its own TCP stack, so I don't understand what Lwip is actually accomplishing here... I would have thought you'd essentially be implemented as a paravirtualized network adapter, but then the article mentions system calls? I guess I just fundamentally don't understand at what level of the stack you have this implemented... did you replace the Linux kernel and reimplement its entire system call layer?
Stripe LLM support is so obvious (and so bad)
I'm not sure how they are evaluating this kind of tools before deploy them to the public, but now everytime you open a support chat you are obviously talking with an LLM.

Most of the time for something more then basic questions it completely misunderstands you, and after 3-4 (unsuccessful) exchanges it just redirects you to an email conversation.

What is you experience with it? Are you even trying to talk with Stripe support via chat anymore?

It's just so bad, I'd rather have them call me (hoping they will not put bots there too). The only real place where you can get some quality support is the Discord channel, but that only works for "technical" problems".
One of my favourite JS projects to read, the module system is very well designed while at the same time it has those bit-shifting gems like splitting a 32bit number into an index and an offset to avoid allocating an extra object for that.
I believe that's CONFIG_BPF
'Writing a C Compiler' is a book (2022)
I'm hoping for super-sentient robots, that, with any luck, will remember us fondly.

They'll be able to survive on a hot Earth, and frankly, they could survive on the Moon and Mars much easier than we can. They're also capable of interstellar travel.

Hopefully they won't pick up where we left off and soon destroy themselves too. They will be humankind's legacy.

I look at it as the purpose, if you will, of our species is to build that which cannot evolve.
If eBPF is disabled you can use other debugging facilities.
Actual article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-11/tesla-pla...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40938180
Yes. When you create a stream (including a KV or object store) you say what cluster you want to put it on, and how many replicas you want it to have.
Modelines required timing information that was rarely available. You made a best guess and tweaked the numbers until it worked.
> ...helium is a scarce resource on Earth, forming only through nuclear fusion and the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium.

If we crack fusion, would we be able to make all the helium we need?
I think you're reading a lot into that policy which is not stated. This looks a lot like "opportunistic" hiring as it is described. In any case, this looks like more of an announcement and less of a policy document describing how to handle the edge cases on which you base your hypotheticals. In particular, did Dropbox hit its headcount target and need to use this "opportunistic" bucket? If so, how did it handle that case? Judging management decisions in the abstract is folly.

> our tech workforces was 23% female as compared to the 19% cited in the policy announcement

> So we actually had an overrepresentation of women at the time, yet we still instituted explicitly discriminatory policies favoring them.

I think you and I have different definitions of what would constitute "overrepresentation" of women in a workforce. (Again, keeping in mind that at many/most tech companies, the majority of jobs are not held by engineers.)
It seems to me that the problem isn't that an LLM memorized the benchmark, but that the benchmark is relying on a piece of published information to remain secret instead of simply randomly generating the secret data as we do for every other important secret.
I don't care they're gating this behind a subscription but the fact that they won't even tell you that you're missing an important security update? That's bad. I wonder how many people think they are fully up to date while being vulnerable to known bugs.
Because the industry currently refers to machine learning as AI, so rather than fight that battle, I classify decision tree ML as AI since it's pretty closely related to LLMs and other 'AI' things that suddenly converted from ML to AI once enough money was pumped in.
Does this affect infectious prion diseases as well, or just the genetic ones? Article makes it sound like everyone has the prion protein gene, so not sure what the different etiologies are. My understanding was that prions were just self-replicating proteins with no biological mechanisms involved, but apparently it's more complex than that.
For someone who wants to read more in-depth stories about this topic I highly recommend the book "Only beautiful, please" by John Everard.

He was another British Diplomat (I think he was ambassador even) and he often would go on unscheduled biking trips freaking out his security escort. Though this was in less tense times, I doubt this would be possible in the days of Kim Yung-Un. Anyway, highly recommended, really.
I think that when you speak in terms of images, for a viable lawsuit, you need to have a form of compression that can recall n (n >= 1) images from compressing m (m >= n) images. Presumably n is very large for LLMs or image models, even though m is orders of magnitude larger. I do not think that your form of compression needs to be able to get all m images back. By forcing m = n in your argument, you are forcing some idea of uniformity of treatment in the compression, which we know is not the case.

The black pixel won't get you sued, but the Facebook logo example I used could get you sued. Specifically by Facebook. There is an image (n = 1) that is substantially similar to the output of your compression algorithm.

That is sort of what Getty's lawsuit alleges. Not that every picture is recallable from an LLM, but that several images that are substantially similar to Getty's images are recallable. The same goes with the NYT's lawsuit and OpenAI.
Meanwhile instead of some fancy building, their embassy over here is... Well, a little more domestic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_North_Korea,_London
The work of early Apple tech bloggers have had their names and work AI-zombified
https://backlinko.com/steam-users 132 million active subscribers.
So perhaps 2.3 million VR sets on steam. Any VR producer capturing 10% of the market has 230k VR sets sold. Doesn't seem like that small of a market.

But I completely agree, the high price for a VR set without good support is absurd.
That's what I mean by backward-looking. Putin is so obsessed with his perceived stature and "correcting" past humiliations that he's willing to create a completely fictional crisis and drive his country into a never-ending meatgrinder war just to prove some abstract geopolitical point.
Pyongyang [0] by Guy Delisle is an amazing graphic novel depicting a foreigner animator living in North Korea. Never get tired of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang:_A_Journey_in_Nort...
I made a search over the last 6 months of "Who wants to be hired" posts using Happenstance, hope it's useful! https://happenstance.ai/search/16cfd18a-947a-4528-82e0-72a78...
Every company were I worked over the decades, at the end of each fiscal quarter a 'freeze' would applied. No patches or upgrades for the last month of each quarter. This "end" usually always happens in March, June, Sept and Dec where I have worked.

This is because 90% of sales occur/booked right before the end of each quarter. This means the company wants 99.(100x)9 uptime. People have lost their jobs if the system is down at this time. Also, for the end of the fiscal year, the freeze has been extended for something like 6 weeks before the end of the fiscal year.

For example, at IBM, to get a major high impact security patch applied, you need high level VP approval at Quarter End. Minor patches will never be applied. As you can guess, middle level managers never want to sign their life away. For system upgrades without security impacts, it is impossible.

Most software that needs to be update, it is almost always held off to the first or 2nd month of the fiscal period. If a company sees EOLs occurring on the last month of each quarter, they will never use that software. They will go looking for alternatives.

HTH
I’m excited to see others as focused on this sort re-evaluation of the correct balance between digital and analog tools and manufacturing. This is exactly the area I’m working but this guy is documenting it.
Pytransform3d
I see tax wasting increasing. For example my local and state government spend lots of taxes on funding activist / social justice programs that are simply not wanted by most citizens but are still pushed through by dedicated extremist activists. These programs always have generic names and goals like “community building” and they achieve nothing, except handing out our hard earned money to politician’s friends (who they can count on for election support) and their political causes. Meanwhile basic government functions like policing and prosecution and education are failing.

Here’s one example among a LONG list of grifts that illustrates how reckless politically biased elected officials can be with everyone else’s money - spending millions so some activist group can run a minor survey:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-s...

Another example: here, funding for public schools has increased a huge amount - it is more than double what it was a decade ago. Our schools spend something like 20-25K USD per student per year now. But the schools are in poor physical condition, the quality of education is low, programs like music are on the chopping block, many schools are being closed to save money, the teachers and their unions are unaccountable for performance, and the school/district leaders are focused on political battles like injecting ethnic studies into math (https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/new-course-outlin...).

The thing is government programs are generally not held to any standard of performance and accountability, and citizens don’t have much time to watch over them. Spending and budgets always go up not down, because there is always some dedicated group fighting to extract something for themselves. The leaders who are enabling all this act in ways that ensure election and re election, not good results for their citizens. And they act in favor of their personal political and ideological goals instead of being neutral. This type of “corruption” then causes many people to want to just reduce taxes because they’re not even getting the basics they thought they already pay for. I don’t have a solution, I just think it is some kind of spiral that leads to people believing taxes are wasted more as time goes on.
If I was looking for a distro with paid support (a la RHEL/Ubuntu) that's also not incredibly behind bleeding edge (maybe not as bleeding edge as Arch, but also not running patched-to-hell-and-back software like Ubuntu), what are my options?

Thankfully I'm not personally looking for this at the moment, I'm more than happy being my own sysadmin and running anything from Arch to Fedora CoreOS to OpenSUSE on my machines.
Rules and algorithms in general (and in the US) are not covered by copyright. The expression of those rules as a creative work is, but the rules themselves are not. To that end, anyone could take your procedures and duplicate the effects of them to release their own game. The combination of those procedures in the specific form of your game is protected, but only to the extent that what is protected isn’t essential to running the procedure. So in its simplest (and most general because law is complex) form, if you release a “game” that uses a deterministic procedure to change individual pixel colors on the screen in response to user input, almost nothing of that is covered under copyright. If your procedure instead places tiles of artwork created by you, those tiles and a game using your procedure to place those tiles in that way is protected, but someone else could replace all your tiles and release their own game with the same procedures.
The combined armies of every member state of the EU, if it came to that.

Well before that point, they can just go through a normal court process because the EU has been empowered by the governments of each member state to write such legislation.
Hades has total control over the (physical) rules of the underworld[1]. Hades can make the stone roll back for arbitrary reasons. But keeping hope alive in Sisyphus is the harder problem. Hades can essentially force Sisyphus to keep trying by making it arbitrarily painful to stop trying, but then hope is no longer his motivation. Hades could reset Sisyphus' memory such that hope remains, but then this loses the profundity of an eternal punishment.

The more interesting case is that Sisyphus can contemplate the nature of the system, and reason toward an out that involved undermining Hades power over the Underworld. If he could pause and do experiments, discover the limits of the enchantment, and work around them, that would be ideal. However such an option would also be an excellent way for Hades to extend and deepen the severity of the punishment. A god's arbitrary power is arbitrarily powerful, after all.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
That does sound like a very reasonable thing to do. Otherwise you have a threat vector of steal card, buy ticket, sell ticket, pocket the cash, card owner disputes, now Ticketmaster has paid a stolen identity who took the money and ran.

Anything that can be used to monetize stolen cards will tend to be used for the purpose even if it's inefficient.
I'll preface this by saying that I can't support this with a source, so take it with a grain of salt. An acquaintance of mine knew someone who worked in that German embassy. Apparently, the extreme isolation of North Korea also made it extremely difficult to have any kind of opsec inside the embassy. Since anything could only be brought in through diplomatic pouches it created an attack vector of one.

A few days after said person had a meeting in the German equivalent of a scif, there was a meeting with North Korean officials. One official let something slip, which meant a bug had somehow gotten into the scif. He didn't say anything about what the consequences were, just that one should not underestimate the North Koreans.
Sounds like they loved their whisky
Tech came by... apparently my plan had been reduced to 6 Mbps 'U-verse' this month. Checking my account emails there was no notification of a service downgrade. I'm on autopay, and I did receive an email last month saying the monthly bill would increase by $5—but no indication anything was required on my end.

I was last billed on 6/17, and my next bill is due 7/17. The service tech said he's seen this happen before, and it is likely related to AT&T's backend billing system being a mashup between four different systems across three continents.
> They’ve suspended my email account that I’ve had for nearly 20 years

Another reason why you should have your own domain and be independent from any services is that it can happen to anyone, never put your eggs in one basket.
> Regarding FBOs, that is exactly what is happening with Synapse/Evolve. Customer funds and corporate funds were all comingled and reconciled across an inaccurate ledger held within an FBO.

Ugh. The bankruptcy court has to bring in forensic auditors, they try to reconstruct who owns what, and it takes a long time to sort things out. The bank's responsibility is only to have the total amount on deposit available to the bankruptcy court.

This is a really good argument for not using such a service.
Very Proud of Ya: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_with_tracks_h...
Full article here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240711173851/https://www.theat...
https://www.alanagoyal.com/new-note-4eec2a7d-8b44-4e5c-a4ad-...

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> Yes, it is hard to scale Terms of Service enforcement. Yes it is a hard problem to solve finding bad actors at scale. That shouldn't be a free pass to just not do it at all.

What evidence do you have that they are "not doing it at all"?
Now we have to wait for the French to have another revolution.