skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An important thing to remember when thinking about this thing: the downside of approving a drug that was dangerous is bounded: it kills people or causes some unexpected side effect and then it gets pulled. Meanwhile, the downside of failing to approve something that could have saved/improved lives is at least potentially unbounded: if it never gets approved that's the entire futures worth of humanity who is unable to take advantage of it (although admittedly I'd like to imagine that _eventually_ tech will improve to the point that we either figure out we should approve the drug and/or invent something else that obviates the need).

The point is that case B is both harder to notice and at least potentially _much_ worse than case A. And it's the case that the FDA currently errs towards.
listeria spreads thrives/spreads through sprouts and melons, among other foods including milk and meats.
Martin Fowler: Blue-Green deployment (2010)
It's an ad for the product, not a normal tech blog. It should not be on front page of HN.

@dang - ??
The Atlas of Canada – Toporama
When someone will embrace anything to harm you, you have to be prepared to weaponize the same things.
This is a better version of a PI song: HARD 'N Phirm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XanjZw5hPvE
Starlink cannot really operate as a "rogue ISP"; they have to license radio spectrum from Brazil and they have to share lawfully intercepted communications with Law Enforcement.
Obligatory reminder that XSLT exists.
CNN Brazil and Folha de S.Paulo both can back up my interpretation of the court order.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240830223541/https://www1.folh...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240830223743/https://www.cnnbr...

The specific section about removing VPNs from apps stores is quite unclear, I'll give you that, but factoring in how that section is structured, it's safe to say it's meant to be an order to remove VPNs from app stores.
A good puzzle poses a problem for you to solve. A regex puzzle? now you have two problems to solve.
>> “If everyone started using S3 for this purpose, they would shut it down pretty quickly.”

> “I never said they would kill the feature. I said they would shut down the behavior.”

Seems "it" is standing in for a lot of nuance here.

With these three sentences side by side, still took a while to see how you might be referring to the "everyone using" behavior instead of the "S3 purpose" feature! Usually given ambiguity the nearest plausible reference wins.

Since in tech "shut it down" is more often systems than humans and that was the nearest reference "it" could refer to, took some doing to see how your assertion "I said the behavior" could be accurate!
Redis is fast too, but I don't go around comparing it to a proper database =/
It amazes me the money that brick and mortar businesses would spend to increase customers by a tenth of a percent, yet online businesses have no problem simply deciding that 1% of their clients are disposable. They would rather develop some new shiny feature that won't bring any new clients, than continue supporting a device that was sold new three years ago.
I had such a bad experience with Mongo DB back in 2012-2013 that I don't think I'll ever use it again, or even really consider it. But maybe it's changed and gotten better since then?

Anyway. I just use Postgres.
It's like The Wire of meat packing.
You have tested positive for long covid.
I'd appreciate if someone could share similar sources for maps overlaid with topological contour lines. I have no experience in that field but is it common to have 20m between lines? Is there a way to get higher resolution maps?
Amazon has the market power, legal strength, and willingness to run at a loss indefinitely, as well as the regulatory capture and connections to ensure they cannot be fairly investigated.

So if I want to ensure my software is used maximally, by the people who need or want it most, I need to ensure there isn't a "gravity distorting player" taking my project and white labeling it to push out all the other people.

The AGPL gets closer, but still doesn't go far enough in defining "modifications to the software" or linking, IMO.
CSAM images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say
If only it had killed it. It just made it a bit sickly.

We know it's a complete failure, yet people are continuing to make the attempt at totalitarian Marxist government. Capitalism and oligarchy are a terrible combination, as we're seeing now. How about we go back to democracy and capitalism instead of trying on the Marxist hat?
I believe humans are vastly more stupid than you give them credit for.

It's the HN effect. The pool of geniuses here suggests to the reader that the pool of intelligence outside of this microcosm is similar. It's not.

Criminals are overwhelmingly stupid. It's why LEO catches so many of them. Smart people don't tend to do crime, they tend to sell their skills to more legitimate enterprises.
Yeah I think most of my argument is political, though I think I'm on reasonably steady ground saying that MMT isn't mainstream. We will at some point become irritating enough to lure actual economists in here to dunk on us.
/dev/null scales better than all of them
MICS without physical disable switches that actually short input to ground through a resistor (open circuits can leak) are always a problem. It's more of a "Darwin in action" issue because during a critical period that people could have demanded this real and effective solution (the 1990s and early 2000s) they didn't seem to care.

Then laptops took off as primary computers and people were no longer installing their own peripherals any more, and demanded no external circuit-interrupting switches not even for cameras.

Back in the 1990s I was telling people, your plain speakers are not safe either (from being used as listening devices) as long as they do not have their own amps and are driven directly by a chip in the computer. How much do you know about that chipset and who makes it? One of the major early chipset players was Realtek.

Then some Ben Guriron researchers burst onto the scene in 2016 ( https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot17/woot17... ) with a real proof of concept where they used a jack assignment matrix in (you guessed it, a Realtek chip) to turn an idle pair of headphones into a listening device.

I'd be interested to hear anyone who heard the other shoe drop. I don't doubt that an internal assignment matrix facility exists in many modern chipsets. It would take a concerted and deliberate effort to mitigate this kind of vulnerability. Has anything like this been done?
They scrape the floors at places like this to make blood meal (i.e. organic fertlizer).
All I know is, I’m using PostgreSQL and enjoying it!
You're so right. If you life in a neighborhood that even vaguely resembles some kind of community then you're really really lucky!
Indeed. That's how I shoot insects: live and in the field with a macro lens. It's quite a challenge, especially for the smaller insects (2-3 mm in length).
We shouldn't necessarily focus on the norm but rather on what we would like to see in these facilities to ensure the safety of the people consuming these products. One of the stories my wife's OB told her about consuming uncooked lunch meat was about a case where a pregnant woman ate some lunch meat that was contaminated with listeria, and the resulting infection was so severe that some of her limbs had to be amputated. So we probably shouldn't tolerate this norm.
> According to the CDC, one significant outbreak in 2020 was linked to onions, resulting in around 1,127 reported cases of Salmonella across 48 states.

Vegetables can also be contaminated with bad bacteria and they do get contaminated in practice.

There are plenty outbreaks caused by contaminated salads and other vegetables.
Why not Marxism and democracy?
or just

async fn list_items(&self, colletion_href: &str) -> Result<Vec<ItemRef>, Error>
I heard MongoDB is webscale, yeah?
Also a good point!

Looking back on a spell of weird time which was due to illness, it seems strange what one is able to do and what not. The best way to fit
it into words is that it’s like parts of you are often offline, but they aren’t always offline. It’s more a fragmented existence than a constant universal everything-turned-down-by-95% factor.

And it’s often the uncountable infinities of actions to take that are the most difficult. When you see something that stands out as a clear course of action, there will usually follow the capacity to act on it. (If this sort of action fails again and again, then a deep deep burnout can occur. Core systems.)
You're proposing putting them in prison, and for a reason, because otherwise they just blow it off. It turns out that's really expensive though, e.g. California pays $128k/prisoner/year. Now you're going to have them do some kind of menial labor with a value of what, $10k/year or less? You're still >$100k/year in the red, which has to be less than the per-person inconvenience of having them out in the world.

It also costs a lot more than building homeless shelters. It even costs more than mental health services and welfare programs, neither of which are cheap. It is quite possibly the most expensive option that anyone regularly proposes.
But is it web-scale?
Where’s Ona, Phil? Where’s Ona?
"We are conducting an extensive investigation, working closely with the USDA and government regulatory agencies, as well as with the industry’s leading food safety experts, to determine how our liverwurst produced at our Jarratt, Virginia facility was adulterated and to prevent it from happening again..."

It's pretty clear the failure was with management. They didn't enforce basic standards of cleanliness. If the whole company isn't shut down, their facilities should be inspected frequently to ensure they are compliant with health regulations.
The meat buildup I can deal with, but the flies are such a nuisance.
Does anyone have any information on where the author gets his claim that Cohen has a "road to Damascus moment" upon arriving at Harvard? I can't find anything on that, or even anyone else claiming Cohen was a "liberal".

This article is very light on supporting quotes or references, so im very suspect of his claims that analytical Marxist converted to beliefs that are opposed to Marxist analysis. Especially given many of Cohen's later works are focused on scientific socialism.
I hate how impossible this topic is to discuss, most people have a preconceived notion of what Marxism is that is usually so off base and you have to argue with their idea of what it is and not what it actually if
/dev/null : the optimal solution for write-only workloads
I was there in 2010s migrating Mongo databases chosen by "expert consultants" to Postgres and dealing with the fallout of massive tech debt those decisions usually caused. Won't get fooled again - no matter how many fluff articles they write you will sooner find me rotting in this barren earth than see me pick MongoDB for a new project.
I loathe so much getting data out of mongo in a reasonable fashion. Pipelines are a nightmare to accomplish what you can do in 10 seconds writing sql.
Yup. They reduced our storage by a lot with no alternatives so far.

I was supposed to have just 10 GB of storage total. We complained, so at least now it's 30 GB. Still it's borderline low for me because of the kind of data we collect and collaborative work.

I'm looking for a solution in the mean time; trying to change my workflow.
We already have feudalism/never got rid of it. Modern landlords are direct descendants of lords, peasants now just pay for their own security too (and of course have a concept called the State that can protect peasants against the landed class, under some conditions).
What about the actual packer? Why do we not hold them responsible here too? It's all well and good to blame the USDA but they're a check on the packer. It seems like Boar's Head has a cavalier attitude toward product safety that was bound to get a bunch of people killed sooner or later. I realize that this is the norm in these facilities so why do we do nothing to actually regulate them? And why is the focus on how the USDA isn't doing it's job? Clearly the problems are being identified but the actual regulations have no teeth.
So Elon Musk getting community-noted is him moderating speech he doesn't like?
Crows are even smarter than we thought
he also wrote lex
Sociopaths and narcissists are in my opinion especially dangerous precisely because they will fly so low. It becomes unexpected because it’s so senseless, such a waste of time, no advantage to the malicious actor. Just pathetic and pitiful waste. It’s hard to look low enough
to see it, think small enough.
All the small-scale meat packers (not a representative sample) I've purchased from were sterile before they closed before the day and not very untidy during the process. We've kept a similar attitude ourselves when butchering deer, cows, pigs, moose, .... It's just not that hard to keep things clean.

A single fly getting in isn't the end of the world, but an environment with a lot of flies indicates something horribly wrong (no protection from the outside, or maggots and an environment inside otherwise conducive to the production of flies).

You're right that it gets gnarlier as it scales, but as it scales you can also afford to build rooms designed to be pressure-washed without moving the equipment. It's even cheaper and easier per unit of meat to wash a room that way than to hand-wash the damned thing.

Maybe that's the norm, and maybe the listeria outbreak is for other reasons, but the conditions described are bad regardless of how commonplace they are or how much they contributed to those deaths.
The most dangerous product in a typical kitchen is lettuce. Bon appetit.
So that might be true --- is almost certainly true --- but that's an argument you'd ideally be making from the full set of facts (or independent of the facts, as an ideal). It's not an evaluation of the journalism or analysis itself, which deserves, for its own reasons, to be taken seriously.
While nothing like the photos in the article, I've gotten neat footage of living insects (and other arthropods) by putting them in a little makeshift container under my microscope, with strong lighting from the side. This is very much not a good setup, but it's allowed me to capture things like a front view of an earwig cleaning its antenna.

I typically do this when I find a little arthropod inside; instead of killing it, I give it a free trip outside without (intentional) harm, for the small price of experiencing an alien abduction.
Not really clickbait. University of Kentucky press releases always refer to it as UK.
I’ve seen once how commercial cold cuts are being produced. I never want to try those again, it’s absolutley nauseating.
Did you recover?
That has been tried, but any shred of democratic process ends up giving way to collectivist control requiring a bureaucratic dictatorship. One can only conclude they are incompatible.
Good points. I thought about making an airborne category, but there were too many flightless birds. I also thought about removing the dragon and unicorn since they're imaginary.

I just imagine that the dragon is too overweight to fly, and that scorpions are easy to squish if you have sturdy construction boots.

I'm happy to hear better groupings!
You're overwhelmed by the fact that LLMs exist, so you want to sabotage LLMs by censoring your own site from them and half the internet? Feeding them a site filled with garbage non-facts would have a greater effect.

Why do you publish a blog, if not for people to find?
Pregnant women are immune compromised and should be avoiding lunch meat
> Anyway. I just use Postgres.

Same. Because I care about my data.
Berkeley appears to offload email, calendar, and other services to Google workspace. A quick dig of MX records for Berkeley.edu show Google mail servers.

Google has been raising the rates of the workspace products every year it seems. I was originally using “G Suite” just for email and it used to cost $3-4/user/month. Now it’s costing me $7-8 per month on Google Workspace.

I suspect the provost or uni president cut the IT budget and this is an unfortunate result.
They would probably crack down on storage more if they had to run their own storage arrays.
They cared about left-speech, which is the only type of real free speech. Everything else is intolerance and must be banned, for the safety of everyone's emotions...or something like that.
Fewer blocks.
Securing yourself means not being vulnerable to the attacks. Who cares if you are exposed to an internet radiation banana equivalent? Why worry? You'll hurt yourself more from the worry than from the radiation.

Blocking huge IP ranges is knocking yourself half offline, and it doesn't even stop you being "attacked". I'd start blocking if and only if there is some actual problem for your server (e.g. excessive CPU or bandwidth usage), not just because big bad scary cloud.
How is that different than the small cohort of ultra wealthy driving policy, both directly and through soft influence? It’s all sausage making, pick your flavor.

I don’t believe such a conclusion is forgone.
Because it makes communication harder. The whole point of words is to communicate. If somebody releases a model that is actually open source, they would have no way to describe it. Then the bastardized meaning of open source could creep into other contexts until it is entirely meaningless.
Oppressors have tendency to misuse lies not rules. Because they can create rules on demand if needed, especially after masses are manipulated - with the lies. So swamping your environment with lies 'just in case' seems to me like de-evolution of human society.
The spike is a sigil that induces a cell to say "Oh cool! You have the ACE2 passcode! Let me inject you into me, virus!"

A replica of a key doesn't start a car: you need an engine too.
It also has some numbers.

>In 1989 the THC content of sinsemilla averaged about 7 percent. This is double the concentration of THC in "commercial-grade" marijuana, which contains some buds (NNICC, 1985-86; 1989), and is substantially higher than the 3 percent THC reported in standard marijuana (DEA, 1988). Potency has also increased over time from an average .5 percent THC level in 1974 (Mikuriya and Aldrich, 1988). According to the NNICC, the highest concentration of THC reported to date was found in a 1986 sample of marijuana, which contained 18.3 percent THC (NNICC, 1988)."
The problem with this discussion is thinking that the good life is about access to material resources and that we should examine unequal access to them and fix that.

It is simply missing that there are other more important inequalities and that people are being deprived of other things in life. Main one being mating opportunities and access to attractive sexual partners.
You could fix inequality in access to material resources, but then people who are ugly would still be deprived of having attractive mates who love them.

Interesting read: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/comparing-income-sex-redist...
> it's a dick move and against the spirit of FOSS

I disagree with this. Most people use FOSS and do not give anything back, individuals included. The spirit of FOSS is creating things that others will use without compensation. If I release anything open source, it's because I'm donating it as a whole to humanity, including big corps and individuals. I understand that, because I've thought long and hard about what it means to release something with, say, an MIT license. It means you lose having full control of your creation. If I wanted to limit who can use my software, I'll sell it or license it accordingly. Complaining later that your FOSS software was "stolen" or "exploited" or whatever is just sour grapes.
Why deal in abstract? Any specific examples you'd like to point to?
I mean, the violations should result in some form of shutting down the facility until it's resolved.

Without consequences, all those inspections do nothing
Granted I really don't spend my time evaluating databases rigorously, but I find claims that MongoDB is more performant than Postgres really difficult to believe. It sounds like a skill issue to me. MongoDB is technical debt, it has it's place for when you don't know what you're doing and you just need to throw your data somewhere. Eventually you're going to grow to a point where the overhead of not using real data structures is going to cease to be worth it. (I realize this is directly contrary to what's stated in the article, but who are you gonna believe, MongoDB or a random HN commenter? :)
> Also note the paper claims you can’t get rid of clocks if you want to totally order the events.

The order of events isn't important here. We only care about the 'last event' which everyone can agree on; they just can't agree on when it happened.

In other words, they can all agree that there is a leader; we just don't know if that leader is still alive or not. The best thing to do is simply make the leader election deterministically random:

1. 'seed' the file with a 'no leader' file.

2. at randomly short intervals (max latency you want to deal with, so like once every few seconds or so), try to claim the file by using the hash of the current file as your etag. The winner is the leader.

3. Once there is a leader and you are the leader, every N seconds, update the file with a new number, using the hash of the current file as the etag.

4. If you are not the leader, every N*(random jitter)*C (where C>N*2, adjust for latency), attempt to take the file using the same method above. If you fail, retry again in N*(random jitter)*C.

5. If the leader is taken, you are not the leader until you've held leadership for at least N seconds.

This doesn't necessarily remove the clock. However, most -- if not all -- modern clocks will agree that the length of a second is within a few nanoseconds of any other clock, regardless of how accurate its total count of seconds is since the epoch. It also probably doesn't work, but it probably isn't that far away from one that does.
DOL
I think a key part of this is that the Labor Theory of Value has fallen flat. (which he mentions in the article)

In our increasingly complex and technologically advanced society, the LTV looks more and more out of date, especially since the marginal revolution proved its worth with societies exponential growth on the basis of its theories. The value of a good comes from what people each value it and are willing to pay, and there are clearly other factors than labor that go into a good.
The dangerous thing to me was not the email, it was asserting the misunderstanding that additional years results in inutility.

"Up or out" doesn't have to mean up the org chart. It can mean up your value through mastery, which you clearly feel you have within a set of disciplines.

It took some number of years to become "the best" at those things you described being good at. Whatever activities you were doing those years that made you the best, keep doing them … applied to adjacencies.

Later in life, after people have been good at some things for a while, it's an ego boost. They forget what it felt like to be not good at things, and that that was OK. They become inhibited from learning by both ego pain of doing something badly, and mental pain of reformatting brain and behaviors to fit in new learning.

If at 40 you have 20 years of getting good at things, at 60 you can have another 20 years of getting good at additional things. Innovation and mastery of systems comes from multi-disciplinary, multi-system understanding. The additional years can make you more useful, not less.

Arguably, it boils down to: do you like learning, and do you like what you do. If yes to both, there's no reason you can't keep accumulating ability to deliver value.
A useful term!