skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not voting can also be a principled stance when I view both candidstes as a fundamentally bad option

Sure. And I agree someone thinking that way shouldn't vote. None of that changes the effects of not voting when one has the right to.

> Where will we be if we all agree that the two parties have full control and we have no choice but to accept whatever they offer us?

Most people seeking to justify civic nonparticipation ignore primaries and early campaign work. Or the fact that ballots have more than one line item.

> accepting one of the two parties no matter what the options are does allow for that scenario later

Not voting cedes control. There are zero historic examples of civic nonparticipation resulting in a more responsive government. Someone who doesn't vote functionally accepts the status quo. That they don't understand what they're doing isn't relevant.

Put another way: there were hundreds of elections in 2023 [1]. A non-voter had precisely the same impact on each of them as they do where they live.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elections_in_2023
Almost all flying boats (seaplanes which have a fuselage for a hull instead of floating landing gear) in the past 50 years have been built with fiberglass hulls for this exact reason. Aluminum has a durability problem more than a corrosion problem, and steel has a weight problem and a major corrosion problem. At the speeds that they hit the water, anti-corrosion coatings don't last long, and with a non-amphibious flying boat, repainting requires a haulout, which is very expensive.
May I suggest my favorite: blockdiag (including seqdiag, nwdiag, and actdiag, and rackdiag (rackdiag super slept on!))

I've evaluated every diagrams-as-code tool in existence just about, and revisit them every year or two, and I keep coming back to blockdiag. Mermaid looked nice but had many issues I ran into.

blockdiag doesn't look as pretty out of the box, but when done right it looks really good, especially as an SVG
What’s your wisened prognosis on studying Geophysics or Genetic Immunology?
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."

- Douglas Adams
hence, we are doomed
I mean, it's very trivial to make your own basic wrapper with "void" in the API if that's what you want: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/v6EPTaaPY
Do you find yourself refusing to read articles or papers unless you’re first 100% sure that everything stated in them is absolutely true? Having to approach something with a certain amount of skepticism is not something that was newly introduced with LLM’s.
Maybe stop running critical infra on top of Windows? lol. Microsoft is claiming they have zero culpability here but they created this ecosystem and Crowdstrike is just playing around in it.

Ancient IT mindset says "me need domain controller. me buy win server." but it does not need to be like this.
No, there is an automated system that flags you for extra spam if your number picks up or responds to the call in any way.
Many good physicists with PhD degrees don't have the character traits that are necessary to be hired and/or to be successful in finance.
Maybe, but there's no human behind that initial phone call. If it can redial once a second, I guess you're slowing them down by 30x by staying on the line for 30 seconds - but I'd wager that they're making enough money that even by having to spin up 30x more resources to auto-dial, it's still a profitable business.

fwiw, I have my phone set to ignore "likely spam" calls, and to not notify me about new voicemails with a vibration. There's a non-zero chance I'll miss an important call about my child, but 99% of these calls originate from an area code we no longer live in, so the trade-off seems acceptable to me - and I check whether I have _legitimate_ voicemail every few hours or so in a tab on my laptop.
> To test the ability of the hormone to assist in bone healing, the researchers created a hydrogel patch that could be applied directly to the site of a bone fracture, where it would slowly release CCN3 for two weeks. In elderly mice, bone fractures don’t usually heal well. However, the CCN3 patch spurred the formation of new bone at the site of the fracture, contributing to youthful healing of the fracture.

So, uh, did this research involve breaking mice bones?
There is also a rule about a straight leading leg. That puts a limit on the leaping. A leg not being straight is pretty visible.
In what ways did it change your life?
Every new tech breakthrough has the 'it's going to destroy us, think of all the stable boy jobs that will be lost.'

Ultimately everything working out just fine. AI is not going to doom us.

AI's gardening skills are so bad, even the weeds can't grow.

Doomsayers can now downvote me.
> (especially considering the non-existent death toll outside the USSR)

Why would you only look at the death toll outside the USSR? That doesn't seem like the right way to go about risk analysis and management.
I've run over two dozen marathons. Even at that distance, it takes a lot of discipline to not go out too fast. These are random people they find in the stands who are going to be very amped up in the moment. Strategy is the furthest thing from their minds and even if weren't, it takes practice to know what your ideal pace is.
I hadn't heard of this event before but watching the video it does seem like the last one might have beaten the freeze if they had got a full 5 seconds head start. Makes you wonder if the freeze head start is based on how fast you run / how fit they think you are.

It seems like when the freeze is beaten, he is beaten by a hardcore amateur:

https://www.mlb.com/video/braves-fan-beats-the-freeze
> What then is the difference between a permanent long-distance relationship and an AI companion?

A long distance relationship between two humans would include discussion about the facts of both relationship participants' distinct life experiences and challenges unexperienced by the other, a necessity for two-way empathy, perpetual conflicts[1] with no obvious solution, compromises, risk of being irreparably harmed by one another, long-term personal growth on the part of both participants, etc. There is a stark contrast between human relationships vs. the relationship of a user with an algorithm crafted to serve.

[1]: https://www.gottman.com/blog/managing-conflict-solvable-vs-p...
I suppose you could have said the same thing about the invention of books, that would share the dangerous knowledge of kings and sages with the unstable and unwashed masses.
I used to say the same thing until I tried different types of coffee and different amounts.

The average expresso doesn't do much.

Also if you are already feeling well, it's unlikely you will feel a big difference unless you consume a high dosage of caffeine, which can also cause you some anxiety.

Caffeine is great when we are feeling low energy or sleepy.
Some people might be receptive to getting $100 for something they spent dozens of hours on, but then others will wonder why they didn't also get $100 for their dozens of hours recently.

Others will look at that and calculate how far under minimum wage it was, and start to question if it's worth their time after all.

You end up with bad feelings on every side unless you pay market wages, and even then you end up with people questioning if they just took on another full-time job, instead of a hobby.

It's really, really hard to add money to the equation and not make things worse.
Couldn't have a more fitting last name
No bookings with VRBO yet. I have a feeling the audience there is more vacation rentals, and we are going for more of the traveling nurse, primary home under renovation, or just divorced and I moved out crowd.
On the flip side, it shows why so many people are excited about Rust. You can pick up literally any valuable thing off the ground that made the mistake of being built around C++, like CUDA, slap it on Rust, and people will both adopt it and be excited to contribute to it.
What about if it goes to voicemail after some rings? Does that get flagged as "human, keep dialing"?
One of the best products I use in my house. Truly an amazing quality of life hack that is severely underrated.
That phrase isn't often used literally
yes, that makes it sound like it is Chrome-exclusive, which is not something we want.
Findings – OpenResearch
One of the arguments I’ve heard is that it is unsanitary. It makes no sense to me because the argument I have is that, if you accidentally tripped, fell in poo and got some on your face, would you feel comfortable wiping it with a napkin and walk around for the rest of the day? Or would you wash your face with soap?
You and OP seem to be missing the author's point: the rich are lying to the poor. Whole families for me, broken families for thee.

(I don't think there's anything in it but that's what the author is saying.)
What about if it goes to voicemail after some rings? Does that get flagged as "human, keep dialing"?

(It is very tempting to set my outgoing voicemail message to be a fax modem's tones, but I don't want to be mean to people who actually need to leave me a voicemail.)
no more dirty panties
It doesn't seem like he was killed, or at least the article doesn't mention it.
He may have poisoned himself (if found ornamented)? Very sad anyway.
If they really have something that can't be done by their current developers, rather than just something they don't have time for yet, that might work. But it'd be a lot more than $1000 bounty, and they'd still need people to maintain it.
> I'd love to see any one of the 70 Fortune 100 companies that are Crowdstrike customers turn off Crowdstrike for an extended period of time and see how long it'll take for someone to brick their entire infrastrucure with ransomware.

I've got two objections to this conventional wisdom:

1) Endpoint protection in particular isn't essential to good infrastructure. It's only a bandaid over bad infrastructure. Perhaps a moot point, given that bad infrastructure is prevalent, but I digress.

2) Every IT director asserting this should be challenged to prove it. Prove that you stopped credible threats equal to X dollars of damage or lost revenue compared to the Y dollars of actual lost revenue due to production outages. And I'm not talking about the inflated threat totals that such systems produce to justify their existance, but actual threats that absent CrowdStrike would have penetrated other defenses. Until this can be done, it's simply a hypothetical vs the actual damages inflicted by the outage.
Azure Llama 3.1 Benchmarks
Is Greece's Six-Day Work Week a Harbinger?
His writing reminds me of Ben "Yatzhee" Croshaw's video game reviews. Any connection between the two? Ben, at least, was funny.
After living with a bidet, it’s really hard to go back. I don’t know why America doesn’t make it standard, especially new homes. You need to run an electrical line to the toilet though which most American bathrooms don’t have.
Host here. The actual fees that Airbnb charges are not really the issue:

- Part of the issue here is for "passive" hosts. If you own a property and hand it off to a management company or hire a cleaning service - they are going to eat all of your revenue. If you have an ADU or property next door that you can clean yourself, you get to keep all of the upsides.

- The actual app is bug-ridden and terribly designed. Airbnb support is abysmal and inhumane - they will try to screw you and your guests over at any opportunity and directly lie to get you off of the phone. Ostensibly, your fees go towards Airbnb acting as an intermediary, but they are not even good at the basics of the service they provide.

- Supposedly, when you host on Airbnb, they promise to cover all guest damages. With all the hoops in place it's basically impossible to get money out of them.

Other than bringing us guests, Airbnb itself provides absolutely no value.
Yes, Zscaler or any other Zscaler clone (e.g., Netskope, Cato, etc) -- they're all just sitting ducks, and once they are compromised, what happens to all the customers? It doesn't make any sense and shows how much we're willing to give up for convenience.
Traditionally, distributed systems must maintain a globally agreed upon state, via locking, two-phase commit, etc. Of course, Byzantine faults caused problems.

Bitcoin's PoW provided reliable Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus in un-permissioned distributed systems. It was a breakthrough, but provided only statistical finality. Hashgraph improved on that to provide asynchronous BFT (aBFT) and deterministic finality and blocking on detection of lack of quorum, but: global consensus still necessarily fails either Availability or Consistency on Partitioning.

By imitating physical distributed, decentralized systems where each agent only demands consensus with those agent(s) directly interacting with it, each "Agent" only maintains (and cryptographically proves authority for through PKI signing) its own state, and publishes that state to a shared best-effort DHT (where each party hosting an entry validates the entry by running the purported shared application "entry validation" code, rejecting the entry and "warranting" the offending node on detection of validation failure). Just like an immune system response.

Any traditional (a)BFT consensus algorithm can be implemented at whatever scale is appropriate for consensus, but usually only tiny portions of the global state (between a few parties) needs consensus, dramatically reducing the total complexity. Usually, simplistic algorithms ("everybody sign this entry and append it to their state. OK, everyone done?") are sufficient, and trivial to implement. But Hashgraph aBFT may be implemented, if you need it.

But, overall, the global system proceeds unimpeded by even large-scale Partition failure. You can glue the system together with "SD cards taped to pigeons", if necessary -- it just slightly increases your transaction times (from milliseconds to hours), but the shared system maintains internal consistency at all times.
Because it used to stand for extended Berkeley Packet Filter and it has since moved far, far beyond just packets. It now hooks into the entire network stack, security, and does observability/tracing for nearly anything and everything in the kernel ("nearly" because some stuff runs when the kernel boots up--before eBPF is loaded--and never again after that).
Soon, update revert watchdogs
Editing of the title is subtly inaccurate. Actual title is "We’re building nuclear spaceships again—this time for real" and the article deals with nuclear thermal rockets (NTRs) which are fission reactors that heat a propellant. Thermonuclear refers to fusion. There are designs out there for thermonuclear spaceships, but this article isn't talking about them.
The urgent lesson is recklessly trusting some 3rd party code to play nicely inside ring 0 will eventually be fatal. Anything else is a layer above the root-cause.
In an era of dam removal, California is building more
You know when they kill a mouse in the lab they call it a 'sarcrifice'. There's some harrowing stuff and I personally would probably not be able to do it.

I think most ppl who do it just happened to find themselves in a part of their academic career where they have little choice if they want to proceed.
Sounds like being a nornal human
> I personally tend to get cautious when there is a proposal that x will solve the problem that occurred on y date, especially 3 days after the failure.

Microsoft has been working on eBPF for a few years at least.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2021/05/10/making-ebpf...

https://lwn.net/Articles/857215/

If you're really concerned, they have discussions and communication channels where you're invited to air your concerns. They're listed on their github:

https://github.com/microsoft/ebpf-for-windows

Who knows, maybe they already have answers to your concerns. If not, they can address them there.
Hopefully he doesn't get stuck at a bad recruiter and 10 hours of interview grinding.
If you are a hirsute individual, the time and frustration of getting actually clean go down by an order of magnitude.
Ah, thanks. I do use kayak to look up flights (which I then book directly).
> I have so many questions.

Not being snarky, but I suggest starting by reading at least a little about traits? None of your questions are really about this library - it's just FromStr and an orphan rule.
>I’d love to see a study on that.

Seems like the relevant quote here.
I'd expect that the more free money you give people, the more you disincentivize them to work, so with big amounts the negative effects would be worse.
Yes but my point was not about a specific time in the past, it was about how that free time wasn’t captured by the market - in ways it is now and will continue to be in the future.
Naw, they found mice that tripped while running, it’s that simple man.
Wow! Shows I’m living under a basket.
> Why should Microsoft suddenly invest in solving it on Windows?

If they can continue to avoid commercial repercussions for failing to provide a stable and secure system, then society should begin to hold them to account and force them to.

I’m not necessarily advocating for eBPF here, either. If they want to get there through some “proprietary” means, so be it. Apple is doing much the same on their end by locking down kexts and providing APIs for user mode system extensions instead. If MS wants to do this with some kind of .net-based solution (or some other fever dream out of MSR) then cool. The only caveat would seem to be that they are under a number of “consent decree” type agreements that would require that their own extensions be implemented on a level playing field.

So what. Windows Defender shouldn’t be in the kernel any more than CrowdStrike. Add an API. If that means being able to send eBPF type “programs” into kernel space, cool. If that means some user mode APIs, cool.

But lock it down already.
> Guess the same skills that make one successful in corporate america don't translate into starting a real business.

Two entirely different worlds.
Damn thats real.

Reminds me of a joke I heard from a comedian, cant remember who - "soon we will just become the part of our home entertainment system that eats and shits"
Starting off at the top, "sudo !!" doesn't work outside of bash/csh.

On BSD systems with a pdksh variant, "r" runs the previous history command.

On Debian/Ubuntu, dash doesn't implement this.

The list is problematic from the first entry.
> No one real believes it's NATO's expansion anymore

Ah, in that case, yes we agree - I even doubt anyone without a political agenda ever thought about that. I would even dare to say most people didn't even know the purpose of NATO, or even cared about it.

Now they know.

> Russia invaded in 2014, not in 2021... After Ukraine landed a landmark deal about gas with Shell

Yes but in 2014 the narrative was to "protect ethnic Russians", and not annex territory, that's what I meant by invasion and what set apart the 2022 invasion as its own event - but you're correct, its a continuation of the 2014 invasion.

I think this might be more than about resources. Russia has plenty of land and resources.

My take is more about the public perception of Ukraine, which Russia used to call "brothers" but always looked at them was an inferior ethnic group, and they made sure to make them pay heavy prices as a reminder for being an inferior people to Russians. That's why I think the question is:

What would Russians think of Putin if Ukraine joined and thrived in the EU, with better standards of living than Russia, as a democracy?

Of course, resources play a role in this, because Ukraine can never be a successful democracy for the Russian regime, it would be their end.
Not Vaporware: First Look and Thoughts on the Matic Floor Cleaner
Didn't have to worry about running out of toilet paper during the pandemic shortages. It also does a better job of cleaning than toilet paper alone.
Once you've gotten used to using flowing water to clean yourself, going back to a place where there are no bidets (or equivalent middle-east style handheld toilet shower) and you can use toilet paper only feels like the grossest/nastiest thing.

I heard someone explain it like this: "Imagine you got some shit on your hand, how would you clean it? Well you'd go to a sink and wash it off with soap and water, you wouldn't just wipe it off with some paper towels. Ok, so why do we do that with our asses?"
Bailey says IBM violated Missouri Human Rights Act by enforcing diversity quotas
It leverages AWS’ infrastructure, your app code runs on lambda and you get a cloudfront (AWS CDN) distribution link.

You can add to the built-in constructs via CDK (urgh) or pulumi (with SST ion).
> You do not want your volunteers looking at the effort they put in and the money they get back for it.

Why not? I think it's good for everyone to evaluate what you're spending your time on, and if that time is time well spent.

What do you mean with "the money they get back for it"? It's a FOSS project that doesn't pay for engineering hours from volunteers or anyone. It's literally $0, and everyone contributes to Jellyfin with the expectation of getting back exactly $0.
I do the same in bash, but it's a bit wordier:

_chpwd_hook() {
if [[ "$PWD" != "$PREVPWD" ]]; then
ls
PREVPWD="$PWD"
fi
}

PROMPT_COMMAND=(_chpwd_hook)

Goes well with

shopt -s autocd
alias r='cd -'
Very cool (and complex) implementation. I sponsor and use it for uxwizz.com

I also use a different system alongside it, that only records mouse movement/clicks/keyboard and replays them (so you can choose). RRWeb works well, but it uses more data/computing on both the client and the server-side.
Yeah this makes it better, but I've found some sites that don't do that, blogs and news articles where it's impossible to find the date of published... Is it a SEO trick to make your content always relevant?
Not walking around with a small layer of smeared out dried poop mixed with sweat (and/or hemorrhoids) at all times I suppose?
The study was recently posted here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41035954
Do you have any reasons to suspect he was killed? The article says:

> He was found "lying down in the hammock, and ornamented [with macaw feathers] as if waiting for death". There were no signs of violence or any other disturbance before his corpse had been discovered by FUNAI.
> Consider how much more research and researchers we could have if we abolished the whole PhD thing.

We would have even more research and researchers if we abolished the whole university/academia thing.

;-) ;-) ;-)
Can't wait til Jan 2025. I'll be taking full advantage of the home energy rebates to rewire the electric, install modern insulation, and install energy efficient heating/cooling in my 1930's Craftsman. The rebates should cover up-to $14,000 of that cost which will be a great help.
That it's usually an effect of not understanding or an attempt at gate-keeping and acceptance is usually just a matter of time rather than some objective value.
I miss the wealth of remote jobs 3 years ago. I really hope he can stay in the city he is comfortable instead of having to move to a place like NYC or SF just for the sake of job stability.

Living in Denver sounds fun.
Ah, cool! Thanks for the clarification! :)
I post here because most of the audience is intelligent, but there are exceptions.
> the company behind this outage was already in the process of adopting eBPF, which is immune to such crashes

Oh I'm sure they'll find a way.