skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's where it transitions from a solid system to a subpar system and it's exactly that part that's relevant when we think of distributed systems.

Postgres is solid and a good choice because most times you don't need more than one database and not dealing with complex enough problems that would require a distributed architecture. In reality, you always do, it's just that you're fine with a non-bullet proof solution. For example any real app will have distributed state that spans across UI and database (think of as simple as React's UI state to more comprehensive state management like MobX and finally a database.

So the distributed aspect of systems is actually pervasive and goes beyond what you'd consider a database. And when we talk about the future of distributed system, it's this aspect that is the most relevant one to start with.
Greece tourist port flooded with dead fish
Closure Compiler is half dead anyway, doesn't even support public/private class fields etc from ES2022. I wouldn't be surprised if its gets abandoned within 1-2 years
HyperCard in the World [video]
I've been trying, but it turns out that finding a woman willing to marry and have children (aka "postpone her career goals") with an introverted immigrant who hates bars is not as straightforward as I thought.
I think Steam is an anomaly, not the rule for monopolies. Steam is privately owned with long term stable leadership. They are generating a crazy amount of money and are able to be content with that.

If steam went public and had the usual revolving door of MBA CEOs keen to "maximize efficiencies", you can bet that Steam would turn just as malign as the adtech industry.
“ The opposite of a civilization in this context, where people neglect the elderly and let them be eaten by vultures without care or concern, could be described as barbarism or a dystopia. These terms often carry connotations of societal decay, where moral and cultural norms have broken down, and the community fails to uphold basic human dignity. “
They had access to the ILOM and had some much more durable way to STONITH.
Of course every link can "technically" fail but it brought it to some unreasonable amount of 9s that it felt unwarranted to consider.
It's all just a plan right now. I started buying components this summer, but I only have the RV's stock 100W panel so far, and an extra lead-acid battery to supplement the one it came with.

I had planned to start by putting 4x200W panels on the roof, until I get a large 5th wheel. Now I'm going to put 4-6x 400W on the current trailer for next summer. The price and size of 400W panels dropped enough to make that viable.

I'm generally too lazy to do a writeup/photos of my projects, but I might when I get it installed. There are a lot of writeups out there already though. People are squeezing lots of solar onto vams and small RVs these days.
Mostly so. They're the same ones who comment on posts about fires at homeless encampments as "Good" or "Too bad it didn't wipe the place out" and sycophantic "Thank you Sheriff" when the department posts about an arrest.
Is it reasonable for non-technical screens to be sequenced before long, unpaid take homes?
Centuries-old books have had special care to preserve them.

If you want your personal books to last most of your lifetime, then there needs to be a modicum of care taken, which isn't always possible, especially while you're in transit and moving from one place and into another. How many books have been lost that way?

The whole point was someone lamenting digital license may not last forever (though Apple's has, so far) and I'm just reminding everyone that physical media doesn't last forever either.
Here is a Russian source (Use google translate): https://storage.googleapis.com/istories/news/2024/08/27/pave...

The DB was sold on darknet for huge money (200 000$+).

First person to report about this leak was this guy: https://t.me/zakharovchannel/1416?single

Multiple people so far have confirmed it's a real DB.
Whats the efficiency? No matter how clean it looks it's still burning fuel and releasing pollutants.
It is a lot like that.

I only played with these briefly in biomedical engineering, we experimented with signal analysis algorithms while monitoring engineering students on varying levels of caffeine (it was hard to find volunteers for the control group) and doing various tasks. You could correlate EEG measurements to tell whether someone was focusing on a reaction time test and exactly when they reacted, whether they were at a stressful or relaxed part of a movie, estimate their WPM level while typing (calibrated to individual users), and similar stuff, which was at least interesting. I think one group did a sleep study and correlated EEG readings to heart rate and EMG data, looking for sleep phases and REM state activity levels, which is a common use case too.

Whether it's useful or not is a completely separate question, but those are the kinds of things that you can measure.

Some people (eg. Youtuber Perrikaryal) are trying various things like mapping "concentrate really hard on pushing this cube" to moving a video game character on a screen, which is astonishingly impressive to me, whose last exposure to the field is over a decade old. But even at the bleeding edge, it's nowhere near the point of "I'm imagining a shape, now 3D print it" or anything like that. Just as with AI, the hype in this sector is high because people imagine that it will eventually do that and they want to be the first ones there, but there's a lot of work between then and now if it's even possible at all.
“Bring out your dead!”

BANG
> The Windows 365 App will undergo an in-place update to transition to Windows App.

I think the Windows 365 App is a different application than Microsoft Remote Desktop.
And one 250 years or so ago, stories of canoes in tree tops and such.
Yeah I think so too, it can be a pain but it is very useful. I "know" it in that I can slap something together, but I'm not an expert in it so I usually have to do a little fixing when I use it.
Not just age but anything unexpected. Having people nearby that you can count on for casual help makes many worse case scenarios much better.
I would happily switch to an alternative if they were good alternatives.

The user experience on Telegram is amazing, the responsiveness, messages arrive instantly on all devices, the apps are feature rich and just work

Nothing can compete to how good it is

I'm perhaps lucky in that I don't need the security and privacy of a service like Signal
Qt/.NET – Using QML in a .NET WPF Application
I don't blame the site for this, though. Anand got out at about the same time as marketing overtook technological improvement in product development (for the most part). I remember the very early days (I lived just a couple miles from Anand in the Raleigh area) where he was doing super in-depth assessments at the board & chip level, through the rapidly changing evolution of motherboards, CPUs & GPUs in the early 2000s ... but as everything basically became mostly commoditized and user experience differences have reduced even for home-built PCs (and the number of people still home-building PCs, period!), there just hasn't been a compelling reason to continue this depth of analysis or writing for the past decade or so.
There are strict limits about how much you can donate to a campaign, and it's not that much. You can give $5k to their PAC and another $6,600 to them. (That's theoretically $3,300 for the primary and $3,300 for the election.)

The candidate can give their own money to the election, but they can't be used to filter donations.

You can give as much as you want to a SuperPAC, but the SuperPAC can't be connected to the campaign. They give an awful lot of leeway in the interpretation of "not connected", but having the VP candidate request it might be too much for the FEC.

Still, Thiel might be able to promote Trump. But he can't "bankroll" the campaign.
This seems to be a rehashing of the WSJ article on the connection between Telegram and spies, which is much better:

https://www.wsj.com/world/who-is-pavel-durov-telegram-founde...

https://archive.is/FFPt2
I don’t see in anyway how it would defeat the purpose especially considering it certainly does use XDP [1] for everything it doesn’t have a driver for and you can opt for it instead of an existing driver if you actually want to have something more performant.

[1] https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/af_xdp.html
You can go to the Youtube page for the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk ( or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7ZHpKuqZg for part 2)
click on the "...more" link in the video description,
then click on the "Show Transcript" button further down that appears and you will see a transcript in the upper right of your screen which you can scroll through and read.
Depends how we implement it. We could make bad science way faster. ChatGPT paper spam is already a thing, and their authors don't care about quality
The Most Dangerous Email (to my career) I've Sent
The title might be a little dramatic, but I poured my heart into this article. I had to make some drastic decisions and big changes with regards to my career trajectory - and if I can inspire others to be true to themselves, then I'll be happy.
The computer was on its own battery to get clean power. And it was using more than 200mA "power", not that mA is a unit of power.

Honestly, it feels like you're trying to prove me wrong about my one case. Power consumption and heat dissipation matter. The pi is rarely the lowest power path one could use to do computing, and it isn't the highest performance, either... but using less power and having more performance makes it suitable for more things (obviously).
Hmm, some company has servers where communication is stored, therefore it's an intelligence agency?

I think the author is just widening
the definition (of intelligence agency) here and/or speculating.
They would, but the ‘support staff of the dying’ to ‘dying of old age’ ratio is going to change by orders of magnitude. It will be a difference of kind.
>I am not super familiar with AnandTech

>Marques Brownlee ( MKBHD )

I think comparing Anandtech to MKBHD is quite offensive. There is at least multiple order of magnitude difference.
Well, a basic LLM would not really even distinguish a Fibonacci series from a hole in the ground. But models are being built with extra stuff, though I doubt recognising number series is high on the list.
I somewhat agree with you on the surveillance state. When I first saw the headline, I immediately thought that it must be about the UK.

That said, toddlers aren't old enough to demand a seatbelt or to know about physics or anything. I find this to be as dangerous as dangling them out a second-floor window. I mean, it's probably going to be okay, but why are you doing that?

So in my mind, saying this is safetyism gone wild might be an overstatement in this case.
Am I missing where they explain what languages/logging frameworks they support? Their blog page is somewhat broken on Firefox (Android) so maybe I just can't see something? If it's only for one language shouldn't the headline include that important detail
If everyone started using S3 for this purpose, they would shut it down pretty quickly.

Small objects (especially small hot objects) are actually problematic in S3. They cache them in the keymap instead of retrieving from block storage. But many small objects can quickly blow out a keymap shard. The keymap is designed for high-performance lookups. Because of this, it's also more expensive to scale out this class of 'storage' at the keymap layer than to scale out block storage. And you still have to do quorum writes to block storage and then cache eviction at the keymap.

If you're doing this for slow-moving leader election in a small cluster, fine. But if, for example, you started using this for leader-election among end-user-defined workloads that could scale up/down, you might find yourself on the other side of a call from AWS.
I default to Linux when I can. I have a System76 laptop (running Ubuntu, not PopOS).

My current company gives us a MBP or Windows laptop, my team gets MBPs, Linux is not an option. My preference if asked would have been Linux then MBP then Windows.

If Linux were not an option, MBP would be my next choice, since terminal brings me to a Unix shell, and there are things like homebrew etc.

I use my Linux machine for everything. I have an MBP, but I only break it out when I need to do a Zoom call or something like that - you can do it on Linux but I don't want to do the rigmarole of it. I also use it if I know someone has a Mac and I'm trying to debug something on their machine over the phone. Otherwise Linux for everything.
So thought out, feels like watching a kubrick film
It's also not like they wouldn't have reasons to double/triple check in this specific case without needing a general patrol policy: It should have been a security concern at the end of Friday that someone had badged in and not left. That's among basic reasons for having these badge systems, in the first place. Someone failing to badge out is a security risk. (It's also a Fire Marshall risk because another reason companies require accurate badge out is that in the case of a fire emergency and they have a badge in process, they are then liable for knowing every employee inside the building in the event of that fire emergency and helping make sure everyone gets out safely.)

Even if the company encourages sleeping at your desk overnight "for productivity", because companies sure do love underpaid labor and accidental burnout, there's an increased OpSec risk for every extra hour someone has access to secure corporate resources. You'd think in a bank where security is supposed to be important at least one security software would be paranoid and presenting alarms about someone still badged in over a full weekend.
About this topic I'm going to say that at my company we had to choose a managed solution for logs, and there were several contenders. I strongly wanted to use the service offered by Elastic, the company, as we were already managing a lot of biggish clusters and we thought that going with the company behind it would be the best thing to do.

But they made it very difficult to try it out at scale (we generate quite a lot of logs) and at one point they only wanted to talk to the CTO instead of the persons in charge of the PoCs.

That move made them untrustable to me, and they were disqualified from the process. If they wanted to compete on selling the solution to non-technical people that told us all we needed to know about them and how support would be.
We ended up choosing managed Opensearch by AWS, which was a shitshow in several fronts. I wish we had given Loki a bigger chance at that time. We've ended up migrating to it anyway.
Presumably for similar reasons to JavaScript, with names like Next.js, etc.
Most of the reasoning seems off, probably because the writing is based on those subset of engineers who eventually bought the product after being approached. For one reason or the other. : )

Probably the "doesn't like advertising" is spot on, but that is so for all human beings, except marketing lifeforms (some would argue that there is little or no overlaping between the two).
Your dismissive personal attack is not welcome.

> ‘I don’t know’ is rarely an acceptable position for an expert, especially a doctor.

I don't know what would make you believe that. It is never acceptable for experts to lie.
I've got a generator now, which can recharge my tiny battery in about an hour. The generator can run the AC, microwave, whatever I need. It's loud, and I often camp in primitive-but-not-remote sites which either have limited generator hours or where it would be rude to run one. That's a big reason I want maximum solar and battery. Even if I'm boondocking far from people, I don't want to listen to a generator all day. You're right about the energy density. I can run my 3000W generator for about eight hours on one 2.5 gallon tank of gas, depending on how much power I use. I've run the AC for a few hours that way.
Alaska is pretty great if you'd like to live in a place where mosquitos make up ~90% of the animal biomass.
The database itself doesn’t seem to be publically available (yet, I guess). Original reporting (in Russian):

The announcement of the leak (by Zakharov[1]) was in https://t.me/zakharovchannel/1418.

Alburov[2], former head investigative journalist at Navalny’s ACF[3], confirmed(/bragged) that the the data matched their publications in https://x.com/alburov/status/1828143239615947234.

The source for most of the news articles on Durov specifically, published in iStories[4], is https://istories.media/news/2024/08/27/pavel-durov-priezzhal....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Zakharov_(journalist)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Alburov

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Corruption_Foundation

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IStories
how is this an on topic comment?
Fascinating. I wonder what the history is of Firefox deciding to ignore hosts? Hosts has been standard since the early days of the Internet.
> when Mozilla engages in political activism, promoting Marxism?

The link you provide in support of this (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/chris-smalls-ri...) is an interview with Chris Smalls, a union organizer. It does not in any way promote Marxism.

(Smalls does at one point talk about "class struggle". He makes it explicit what he means: he thinks there is an opposition between "99.9% of us" and "the billionaires". This is not Marxism even though it uses one phrase that Marxists also use.)

> Or when they promote cancel culture?

The link you provide in support of this (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...) is to a blog post titled "We need more than deplatforming". It mentions deplatforming but doesn't advocate it (though it doesn't condemn it either), and the actual things it calls for are all Not Cancel Culture: "reveal who is paying for advertisements", "commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms", "turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation", "work ... to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms' impact on people and our societies".

You might reasonably disagree with those proposals; for instance, the next-to-last one could be anywhere from "excellent" to "dystopian" depending on what exactly "amplify X over Y" means and how "factual" versus "disinformation" is decided. But none of it is advocating cancel culture.

As for the "deplatforming" in the title: the specific case it's talking about is the idea that a social media platform should ban a particular user who had for some time plainly been breaking the platform's rules, and who (according to some) had used the platform to attempt to organize an antidemocratic coup. "Social media platforms should be encouraged to ban users who blatantly break their rules, even when those users bring them a lot of traffic" and "Social media platforms should not let themselves be tools for antidemocratic insurrection" are positions one can take without being a fan of "cancel culture".

(Not necessarily correct positions. E.g., if you hold that the insurrection in question was not antidemocratic, that it was a response to blatant election-rigging, then you will likely take a quite different view of how a social media platform should respond to it. I don't myself think that's a credible position, and I doubt the good faith of most of the high-profile people who endorse it, but I know it is something many people believe. Anyway, my point isn't that those positions are right, it's that they're positions many reasonable people take, and that getting from those to "Twitter was right to kick Donald Trump off" doesn't require any sort of endorsement of "cancel culture", and that therefore the fact that an article mentions the possibility of doing that in a not-obviously-disapproving way does not amount to "promoting cancel culture".)
I am!

I chop my accounts every once in a while so I don't get too attached to them/so my karma doesn't influence how people receive my ideas.

I also take breaks for a few months from each social site fairly regularly to ensure that they're not slowly boiling my brain into brain rot.
That's part of Ciel!
The defensive side also has a case for strong caring about adversaries de-anonymizing traffic of US citizens and businesses
Even with good relationships, this happens.

I can think of two separate friends of my family who lost adult children in this way. They died in their apartments and weren't found for close to a week. One of them was actually a childhood friend of mine.
> The attacks of September 11th 2001 are fundamentally not reproducible irrespective of whether there is _any_ security screening at airports.

How so? The delay between the hijacking and the crashes in the buildings for both planes were around 40 minutes... even if there were jet fighters ready to go at the time, the lack of knowledge of the hijacking being in progress for much of this time and the short delay make this kind of attack still feasible.

What was actually improved our chances to avoid such attacks are the limited access to the cockpit and processes pilots must follow in case of hijacking.

The measures at the airport are to limit the risks of hijackings to begin with.
I was wondering the same, maybe the goal is more features specific to gamers? But I could see this being useful to more than just programmer streamers.
> If it's really important, or involves very sensitive personal information, I'm not doing it on the web.

It's definitely a position you can take, but that's a very minority position among web users these days.

For the rest of us, "Just stop doing it on the web" would be a pretty substantial lifestyle change and, practically speaking, not worth it.
VC frameworks can mess up your company
Thinking the learnings of "operators" will translate 1:1 to your company is the source of all mistakes. Reflect on when you listened to your VC/experts and were so off; why? It's likely because you were listening to "experts" instead of being curious and introspective. The best thing you can do is speak with customers and listen to your intuition. They do not have the intuition of your customers.
DoH is necessary because ISPs snoop on DNS traffic and meddle with it. DNS is sendig everything in clear text and has no protection from modification.

As for DoH, you can choose not to use it, or use your own DoH server. I see no problems with it.
Huh, I didn't realize there was that much variance. I was also a little anxious that you were going to complain about Texas previously allowing trans people to update their gender or something similar.

I totally agree about voter ID laws. I'm sympathetic to at least the claimed reasons for wanting them, but in practice there's statistically insignificant amounts of provably invalid voting. It's not worth disenfranchising millions of legitimate voters to stop the handful of frauds.
Yes similar to me, which is hunting down 90s hiphop instrumentals, B sides and unreleased stuff which you can only find on YT with poor quality (and youtube EQs audio to make voices louder) or on torrent trackers. That plus non-remastered stuff, I've never been a fan of a lot of modern mastering.
In a perfect world, I'd agree.

But modern computing appeals to the lowest common denominator. Tech illiterate people really know nothing. My in-laws didn't know that who their home internet provider is has no effect on how their phones work when they're not at home.
You see a lot more talk of poor parental relationships online because those people have something concrete to talk and complain about; in contrast anyone who's relationship with their parents is just generically "fine" don't really have anything to comment on. You can see the same phenomenon in the reviews of a lot of things, not just relationships