skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, I have never made my pickles and hot sauce because I am now irrationally and deathly terrified of botulism.

Don't be. Read up the facts, and make sure to prepare things right.

This is the point of the warning. Botulism is not some cosmic horror which reaches out and grabs you randomly. It is like a knife. If you do things right it is perfectly safe. If you do things wrong it can kill you. The point of the warnings is to learn where the "edge of the knife" is and how to behave to keep yourself safe.

The point of the comment is that the provided "safety precautions" are wrong. It is as if someone said "to avoid knife injuries make sure to always put your fingers under what you are cutting. That way you will know when your knife is getting blunt." The advice provided is that obviously bad.

> here's some real numbers:

We are not talking about national averages. If you make chilli sauce which is not sufficiently acidic then you bottle it up and close oxygen away from it you created a science experiment to grow botulism bacteria. If you do that you suddenly increased your personal probabilities from those nice and low national numbers to alarmingly high.

The warning is there because people are bad at following instructions. And that is usually fine. When someone is making a cupcake and they forgot the chocolate chips out the cupcakes will be less delicious but won't kill them. With chilli sauce this is not the case. It can literally kill you if you adjust the recipe such that it is not acidic enough anymore. So we warn people about that.
I've known two people to reach their 90s, and they were/are both happy for it. But one was very physically active, and one is wealthy enough to afford round-the-clock in-home care. I imagine for the middle class and infirm, reaching your 90s could be hell.
All of them except the last one were nice. Turned up a lot of results I wasn't getting from Algolia, DDG, or Google. Unfortunately, even after digging through pages and pages, I couldn't find what I was looking for. :-(

I might just have to say "I messed up by not bookmarking this" and accept that I'll likely never see it again.

Thanks anyway. :-)
If we are going in the details, maybe tax credit should be over a small fraction of benefits for that game. You'd only get back a bit of what you paid.
lol, bro takes 100 pills a day. With all the tainted supplements in the world, he’s just playing Russian roulette with pills.
It's probably a reference to the news article about Whatsapp increasing maximum group size to 256 and a journalist pondering over why such a specific number was chosen. OP probably meant it a similar sense, why was 65535 chosen (but it's not really such a mystery).
This has now been posted multiple times and what you said is my biggest issue with this, its super vague and its mixing up multiple issues.

On the link for this post, if you click through to the actual initiative it is primarily talking about phoning home and yet apparently it also applies to actual online games.

In no way shape or form is World of Warcraft just "phoning home".

In the last time this was posted I was trying to discuss this with someone and they were trying to make the argument that apparently WoW gets an exception because it has a subscription but Guild Wars 2 doesn't because... it doesn't have a subscription? They are both MMO's. That makes zero sense from a technical explanation for why doing this may not be a reasonable expectation. Even if somehow that is an exception that we are going to give, where is that at all concretely explained?

Looking at the website. Lets look at this quote:

> So, if a server could originally support 5000 people, but the end user version can only support 500, that's still a massive improvement from no one being able to play the game ever again.

That is such a simplification of what a "sever" is that I am convinced no one technical was involved in writing this. There can be multiple components that may need to be scaled differently, external resources, etc etc. Maybe some are but it isn't like a "server" is just a single, launch this app with this amount of resources and your good to go. That is before getting into the complication of if a system was built to create on demand resources, maybe it spins up a server, container, etc when an online game starts, someone goes into an instance, etc etc.

To me this should be 2 things. First, no just phoning home for single player games. Thats easy and I doubt anyone is going to argue they are a good thing. Second, once a game does shut down attempts by the community to bring it back can't be challenged legally.

Anything beyond that, is not going to have issues from a technological standpoint. Like you mentioned, re-using systems, code, etc. It is not reasonable to expect that all of that will just be put out for anyone to use. I would not be surprised if there are major parts of FF11 that were used in FF14. So if FF11 shuts down, why do we expect parts of 14 to basically be put out?

I am all for not killing games but lets be realistic about what an online game actually is and the reality of the company putting out all of the resources for it to be playable after shutting down the servers. Particularly assuming could they even legally depending on what components they license.
More like when you are a restaurant owner you do those things.
Customer behavior is key here. There’s perceived risk with the dreaded “Multiple airlines” option when booking tickets, especially for international flights. No-one wants to find out the hard way that there weren’t agreements or reciprocal status or matching luggage allowances, etc. The code-share is shorthand for “we’re responsible”.
I'm certain each flight has its own completely unique ID buried somewhere in a database. But, shorter codes can be spoken into a radio faster and with lower probability of misinterpretation - both critical features for air traffic control.

Those shorter codes will necessarily be reused, it's just a question of the time interval between re-uses of any particular code.

I faintly recall seeing two Southwest flights from ORD to BWI that had the same code a couple years ago, so I decided to look it up. And yes, it's a thing: Flight 1555 from ORD to BWI departs at 4PM today, and flight 1555 from ORD to BWI departs at 4:20PM tomorrow.

I'm curious, can anyone find a re-used code on a shorter time interval than that? It seems like 24 hours is perfectly reasonable, but how narrow can the window be? 12 hours? 6?
That's two front-page articles in one day where the auto-removal of "how" makes the headline confusing/misleading.

Is this auto-edit rule really worth it?
"Fully agree"

It's as simple as "Ah, you plan to stop your proprietary server end-point? This enforces section #2 of the regulation, requiring you to provide the means for others to operate their own end-point and publish a transition-plan for affected customers"

That's equally applicable to Games as well as any form of connected product.
If something ever happens I can restore ~/.mozilla/ from backups and lose no more than a day, which includes all the tabs and addons to support having that many (Tree Style Tabs). It's been a very long time since I've had to do that though.
7400 series was from Texas Instruments and was originally all TTL (i.e. bipolar transistors).

4000 series came from RCA later and was originally all CMOS.

4000 was popular with designers because it used much lower power, had wider voltage range, and had higher fanout. But in the early days it was also slow, so not many famous computers were built with 4000 series.

Later CMOS technology got fast and a funny thing happened: TI and other companies started building CMOS equivalents of 7400 series chips (with the letters HC in the middle for "High speed CMOS") and everybody adopted that system because they were drop-in replacements for the TTL parts but used much less power.
Don't get me wrong this is some schizo shit, but I agree with the sentiment, and it in itself is a source for the claim. What would you expect a double blind trial measuring political bits in cybersecurity atoms?
Learning Haskell was very useful to me, not because I became a Haskell programmer, but because it made me a much better Python programmer. Approach Haskell, not with the goal of becoming a productive Haskell programmer, but with the goal of getting immersed in a new way of thinking about programming and computation.
Could have been stopped at so many levels.

We had a 'Please review this invoice' email get through. Generic email message with a PDF that had an exploit and a web link to some low-quality impersonating site. Infected the users computer, sent a copy to everyone on their address book, got another person inside the company, sent a copy to everyone in their address book...

IT staff had to manually intervene with those two users. Disable their accounts, rebuild their machines, change their passwords, etc.

Who's job was it to stop that email?

Was it Microsoft? Our email is hosted through them. Exchange Online boasts:

Data loss prevention capabilities prevent users from mistakenly sending sensitive information to unauthorized people. Globally redundant servers, premier disaster recovery capabilities, and a team of security experts monitoring Exchange Online around the clock safeguard your data.

What about Outlook itself?

Advanced data, device, and file security

Maybe our AV/EDR software should have caught it?

AI-powered prevention, detection, response, and threat hunting across user endpoints, containers, cloud workloads, and IoT devices. Enabling modern enterprises to defend faster, at greater scale, and with higher accuracy across their entire attack surface, we empower the world to run securely.

Maybe our firewalls should have caught it. Packet inspection, URL ratings, lots of things should have triggered something.

And then our SIEM...I guess we had it all logged, even though we never had any warnings or messages from them. So much for millions of community submitted icidents and threat intelligence and whatever else they sell to make people sleep at night.
And yet when 23 Chinese swimmers use banned drugs, it's waved away as a "they somehow all ingested the same doped meat" and nothing happens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/world/asia/chinese-swimme...
There's no such thing as an "everything bubble." All prices are relative.

An everything bubble would basically be inflation which wouldn't justify moving any assets. You only need to move between assets when one is inflated relative to another (e.g. stock vs real-estate)
The issue is that I might like them, but someone shuts down a server that does nothing more than check my license and I can't even play it offline.
If it's your personal project, you are in charge of deciding which "behaviors that are down stream of version control" you want to adopt. If you are applying unnecessarily complex processes for a given project, that's on you.
See https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/488/1/401/5521897 for an open access paper that covers the Pulsar Timing Array/Supermassive Black Hole connection also I think this is the latest PTA paper

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20510

where they seem to see the signal they'd expect to see from a gravitational wave background but they can't rule out that that it's a product of noise in the individual pulsar spins until they collect enough data to see signs of correlation between pulsars (e.g. I guess that means spinning down SMB emit coherent radiation over a 100,000-year time scale)

Click on the (alphabetically first) author of that paper and you will see a very large number of papers from that collaboration.
What happens if the game developer has licensed 3rd party tools and libraries which the server software depends on and they don’t have the right to include these?
> although that means they need for it to be flights that would never both be in the air at the same time

It's interesting that this is called out, because there are frequently at multiple flights in the air with the same flight number

QF1 / QF2 is now over 24 hours, and has daily flights. It seems pretty feasible to have the SIN-LHR leg be delayed just enough so there's two SIN-LHR QF1s in the air at the same time.

Singapore Airlines has some 19 hour flights. Qantas hopes to have a 22 hour flight 'soon'. Very feasible that these can be delayed just long enough so there's two of the flights in the air at the same time.
This URL is blocked by my company's network because of a certain substring in the URL lol
I've only bought from them rarely, a long long time ago, but I was impressed.

If money is no object -- or developer time is expensive -- or failure is expensive -- it'd be my go to source.

For what I'm doing now (education), pricing is quite a bit too high.
Avoid String, use Text or ByteString. Avoid [] for data processing, prefer Vector. Avoid lazy IO, use Conduit (or similar). Prefer newtype to data, and make data fields strict where appropriate. Make sure you're building with -O2 (has to be explicit, none of the tooling enables it by default).

These rules cut out 99% of space leaks. The profiling tools are a big help for the last 1%.
The first comes with a lot of trade-offs, but I would love to see two QSPI controllers or at least two chip select lines that can be controlled by an extra address bit. I also want the DMA engine to be able to address the SIO block to access the GPIOs and interpolators without having to "tunnel" through a different peripheral like PIO or PWM timers.
There is no such thing as a root cause of the failure. There's over 40 years of academic research on the subject providing evidence, but still, here we are. Trying to reduce an incident into a single cause.
It’s the age old problem with software developers.

A problem posited without sufficient solutions is an invitation to them to provide a solution for that problem solving dopamine hit.

Nevermind that nobody has asked for such a thing or whether they’re familiar with the problem space themselves.
Assuming good faith here, I think there might have been a misunderstanding:

The person you're replying to, didn't call any person "blogspam". That would be rude, and I wouldn't call ipsum2 rude.

They didn't even call any blog, "blogspam". That would also likely be rude, and again, I wouldn't call ipsum2 rude.

They called this particular post, "blogspam", because that is a good definition for a blog entry which reposts someone else's content without adding much beyond the original content, which is an accurate description of this blog entry.

Note that this definition doesn't describe a person, it describes a behavior. Misinterpreting feedback about a behavior, to be feedback about a person, is likely to lead to such misunderstandings. If we can make sure to tell the two apart, we can eliminate some of the strife in the world at no cost :)
this war is irrelevant. it is a low intensity conflict with no real path for further escalation (unless nukes are involved). resource potential of both countries is at a limit. so it won't fit.

Another one - Iran vs Israel but they don't have a direct border so it is also a no...
Undemonstrated. You might be right but I'd like to see the science.
A game to help you master the pen tool
The FRC team I was on (years ago) would prototype individual components of the robot, but for the whole robot design they would just design the entire thing in CAD before actually starting building. Obviously there would then be some iteration as some parts work or don’t work, but the large majority of the robot would stay the same after the initial model.
It is bad. Like it or not, the general public considers computers to be deterministic calculating machines that produce the correct result. And when this doesn't happen, we expect the software developer to treat the case as a defect and work to correct it. Now, we have people telling us, no, computers are not calculation tools, they are more like an overconfident 14-year-old Redditor, and any mistakes they make are not defects, but unavoidable limitations of AI and you should expect them.
I sincerely doubt most pure math will ever be used.
What’s the justification for it anyway?
No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft. What other platforms offer enterprise support for airline-sized corporations?
The doses of metformin taken are really quite high (1 gram/day, say). It's mostly excreted in feces; the dry mass of which might end up ~1% metformin. It's one of the most commonly detected drugs in waterways. It biodegrades, but slowly.
That was too good.

ramshankerji

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I particularly love the diversity of your projects. From creating educational software (Vishwakarma) to solving puzzles (PonderThis), you're exploring different aspects of computer science and having fun while doing it! Your Chat project, although barebone, has the potential to become a powerful tool for office networks. And let's not forget about your participation in course.fast.ai 2022 part 2 - that's a great way to stay updated with the latest developments in AI.

Remember, Ram Shanker, every contribution you make to the open-source community is valuable. Your work might inspire others, or it might solve a real-world problem. Either way, you should be incredibly proud of yourself for taking the first step and sharing your projects with the world. Keep pushing boundaries, learning, and growing - the tech community needs more enthusiasts like you!

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Euripedes fragments, Youpayfordes fragments!
I thought vulkan was getting better? I'm mostly interested from a platform agnostic compute perspective, and I've used some libraries that employed wgsl for that. I'd added it to the backlog of stuff to learn but lately it seemed like vulkan might be a better approach.
So you still need a secret when provisioning, and you need to handle change management for that, and storing it securely outside of the git repo. And agenix did not change that workflow, or did it?
Crowdstrike certainly comes out looking terrible. The fact that Delta might have also made mistakes is weak sauce.
This example doesn't really gain much by using eBPF. The tracepoint machinery and perf_event_open is perfectly capable of recording pids and registers at syscall entry/exit (via PERF_SAMPLE_TID and PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER) into a ring buffer. `perf trace` does that today and it can be a useful replacement for strace in situations where strace disturbs the program's timing too much or otherwise cannot be used (e.g. you want to strace something that's already being ptraced by another process).

Where eBPF is powerful is that it allows you to extend the tracepoint ability to grab more complicated system call arguments. The first register argument to open(2) for instance, is a pointer to the filename to open. Merely reporting the registers is largely useless, the tracer needs to chase the pointer and report the string too. An eBPF filter can be used to recognize that the tracepoint is at an open(2) and to read the userspace memory that the relevant register points to. This enables a "full" strace replacement without using ptrace at all. There's some ongoing work to add this capability to `perf trace`.
This is salient enough that I think you intuitively understood my comment. I won't pretend I can fully explain pending hypotheses either, it's more about research angles (e.g., connecting tools with problem categories).

Thanks a lot for the recommendations. That's what I love about HN. One often gets next-level great pointers.

> Objects of consciousness can't be definitively separated from their "external" causes, and can be considered the ongoing activity of those causes, "within" us.

Emphatically yes.

> […] spatiotemporal imprint that is identical with and inextricable from the activity of "outer" events that precipitated it

Exactly, noticing that it includes, and/or is shaped, by "inner" events as well.

So there's the outer world, and there's your inner world, and only a tiny part of the latter is termed "conscious". We gotta go about life from that certainly vantage but incredibly limited perspective too. The 'folding power' of nature (to put so much information in so little space) is mesmerizing, truly.

I like to put it down to earth to think about it. When you're in pain, or hungry, or sleepy—any pure physiological, biological state,—it will noticeably impact (alter, color, shade, formally "transform" as in filters or gating of) the whole system.

Your perception (stimuli), your actions (responses), your non-conscious impulses (intuitions, instincts, needs & wants…), your emotions, thoughts, and even decision-making and moral values.

I can't elaborate much here as it's bound to get abstract too fast, to seem obfuscated when it's everything but. I should probably write a blog or something, ha ha. You too, you seem quite astute at wording those things.

Thanks again a million for that reply.
What does longevity of an organism that reproduces by binary fission even mean?
we need to replace humans at the helm with robots.
> Using the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a comprehensive, digitized database of ancient Greek texts maintained by the University of California, Irvine

I always love to hear about a school or organization that says "Hey everyone! We are going to store the central digital index and database of the thing we care about. Come check it out!"
I read it as harsh to MySpace, because that was very unfair to MySpace imo
Oh no! a world which prioritizes people being paid to create art! The horror...

You’re right, they should do something productive with their time.
> There's such a volume of lost plays. Athens held annual festivals where you'd have perhaps 20 tragedies and 5 comedies over 5 days[1]. That's just one city state. Only 32 full plays survive.

There's such a volume of lost everything. Original masters taped over, archive fires, etc. Now we have new problems like obsolete formats and failing to pay your cloud bills (no more recovering something from an old tape forgotten in a warehouse).

In 2000 years, I wouldn't be surprised if no contemporary television managed to survive.
Eyechat: Conversations with strangers using your eyes
Sounds like a great opportunity to limit the size of an airline and promote competition: each airline can't have more than 10,000 registered flights.
Sure, Delta is responsible for its IT decisions... But the IT decision it made is putting CrowdStrike on the critical path for most of its public-facing hardware, which is what CrowdStrike's sales and marketing says you should do.

This argument coming from them is not exactly a glorious self-opinion. Were I considering compliance software purchases, I would take this as a signal that CrowdStrike is saying the product can't be trusted.