skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are ways to switch glibc other than "rewrite every binary" and "full-on containers".

In particular, if you need to replace not just glibc, but also a bunch of system libraries (pretty common case for complex apps), it's often easier to unshare(CLONE_NEWNS), followed by bind-mounting over new /lib64 and /usr/lib to override specific directories. This is much lighter than full-on containers, and allows overriding any specific directories - for example if your app looks at /usr/share/appname, you can override it too.

This method has a bunch of upsides: you can use binaries unmodified, subprocesses work, and hard-coded data locations can be taken care of as well.
The GitOps Bridge Pattern enables K8s administrators to utilize IaC and GitOps
Maybe planned obsolescence has something to do with it. But mostly, OLEDs look so much better than LCDs. I can’t believe we put up with light grey “black” pixels for so long.
I thought the role of school was for teaching kids how to think.

Doesn't take much imagination to think how a viral Chase money "glitch" can get past common sense when kids ignore the lesson and doom scroll tiktok.
You don’t have time to work two real full time jobs. If you have time to keep 2 bosses happy where both are expecting 40 hours a week from you and you are giving 20, then those bosses suck at gauging performance and making good hires.

If you are actually twice as productive as your co-workers and can manage a 40-hour a week job in 20, then the companies are getting what they paid for. Good for you that you found two jobs you’re uniquely qualified for. I’m happy you’re getting paid to do both jobs instead of having to waste the other 20 hours of your week on labor you don’t get paid for.
he is implying that sam altman himself is a scammer
Just a TV somewhere in the lobby of a doctor's office, or some such, that permanently shows news, interspersed with some short information pieces from the medical establishment. It would also usually run closed captions at all times, also at about the same area of the screen.
I was looking at my parent's bookshelf and saw a book on Shakespeare and I recognized the author's name: Asimov!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov's_Guide_to_Shakespeare

It's like 800 pages, I haven't read it but I think I'll keep that one. Seems like it might be hard to find another physical copy. He was definitely prolific on a number of topics.
1password team, integrate this feature please
Trying to make a startup and frustrated with AdaCore
Understanding the Terraform Check Block Feature
OpenTofu, OpenBAO reach milestones post-HashiCorp BSL
> You citing the appearance of the Model S Plaid at "youtube drag races" reflects more of your lack of understanding than my own.

No it's just a simple example of how attitudes are changing. You'd expect the drag/Hoonigan crowd to be ICE diehards, but instead they've embraced electrics as interesting and worthy competition.

You asserted that the sportscar world would "detest" any change away from ICE, when clearly that's not what we're seeing.

Porsche and others are embracing all electric platforms. Even hypercar manufacturers like Koenigsegg are embracing hybrids as a transitional technology.

Then look at the cutting edge stuff like the Perry Sterling and it's obvious electric race cars have a bright future indeed. Look at the electric cars and bikes running exhibition at Pikes or Isle of Man. People in the racing world are excited about these developments.

> The double clutch vs manual debate isn't relevant to the one under discussion.

You're the one that mentioned manual gearboxes in your comment.
Assault used to work, it probably still does. They should increase the training for security guards and legally allow them to use non-lethal force as necessary. All animals respond to violence. Just the potential of physical violence is enough. It works for bouncers, and they work in much more challenging environments.
Wasn't there a new way to measure gravitational waves; Ctrl-F hnlog for LIGO and LISA:

"Mass-Independent Scheme to Test the Quantumness of a Massive Object" (2024)
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13... .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39048910 :

> This yields a striking result: a mass-independent violation of MR is possible for harmonic oscillator systems. In fact, our adaptation enables probing quantum violations for literally any mass, momentum, and frequency. Moreover, coarse-grained position measurements at an accuracy much worse than the standard quantum limit, as well as knowing the relevant parameters only to this precision, without requiring them to be tuned, suffice for our proposal. These should drastically simplify the experimental effort in testing the nonclassicality of massive objects ranging from atomic ions to macroscopic mirrors in LIGO.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30847777 .. From "Massive Black Holes Shown to Act Like Quantum Particles" https://www.quantamagazine.org/massive-black-holes-shown-to-... :

> Physicists are using quantum math to understand what happens when black holes collide. In a surprise, they’ve shown that a single particle can describe a collision’s entire gravitational wave.

> "Scale invariance in quantum field theory" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariance#Scale_invaria...

"New ways to catch gravitational waves" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40825994 :

- "Kerr-Enhanced Optical Spring" (2024) https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13... .. "Kerr-enhanced optical spring for next-generation gravitational wave detectors" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39957123

- "Physicists Have Figured Out a Way to Measure Gravity on a Quantum Scale" with a superconducting magnetic trap made out of Tantalum (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495482

- "Measuring gravity with milligram levitated masses" (2024) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk2949

"Physicists Have Figured Out a Way to Measure Gravity on a Quantum Scale"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495482#39495570 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30847777 :

> Does a fishing lure bobber on the water produce gravitational waves as part of the n-body gravitational wave fluid field, and how separable are the source wave components with e.g. Quantum Fourier Transform/or and other methods?
> as I really do not enjoy WordPress LOL

me neither but it pays; when we get called, bad things already happened, so it's always an emergency which means we can ask for 400-500$/hr to fix it. And there are so many bad wp sites that we can retire on that alone. But let me tell you about OpenCart, Drupal, etc which also are all lovely targets and more niche so higher hourlies!

As someone with a formal verification and static typing background, it is the most terrible crap there is, but it is very good business.
Seems that a lot of people prefer the approach of "surrender absolutely everything to Putin preemptively". Granted America is at basically zero risk of a Russian invasion, but letting Putin roams free means that Ukraine would only be the first step. I don't really know what Putin's Europe once he gets it all would look like but I don't expect human rights to be a part of it.
Tetris: The surprise therapy for PTSD flashbacks
Does European development have Roman roots? Evidence from the German Limes [pdf]
Could you enlighten me as to what WP Engine does differently from Automattic that you can't buy from them? Looking at the WP Engine, it's the exact same thing, with the numbers filed off, as Automattic offers.
Related:

Governor Newsom signs bill to protect kids from social media addiction

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41610709
DC's staff, yes they can replace hw if you have spares or can mail/order one in.
Funny that Japanese _game_ software is brilliant.
Tracy: A real time, nanosecond resolution frame profiler
Everything these days seems be some sort of violence.

I'd like a future where we're less car reliant, I think modern vehicles are dangerous to pedestrians - that does not make this some sort of violence however - violence implies an intent, and I dont think there is any provable intent here.
>I edited them out because they were only one of many problem sites.

But the fact that other security providers flagged your IP/browser should be enough to conclude that cloudflare isn't engaged in some sort of "protection racket" to extract money from you?

>The vendor in question (this one was not digikey) very explicitly wanted me as a customer.

Most e-commerce vendors also want customers as well, the problem they can't tell an anonymous visitor a legitimate customer or not, so they employ security services like cloudflare to do that for them.

>Them charging to correct their mistake is.

It's unclear whether the cloudflare product actually constitutes "Them charging to correct their mistake". For one, it's unclear whether you're blocked by cloudflare or the site owner, who can also set rules for blocking/challenging users. Moreover, it's unknown whether the website owner would opt into this marketplace. Presumably they're blocking bots for fraud/anti-competition reasons. If that's the case I doubt they're going to put their sites up for scraping to make a few bucks. Finally, businesses are under no obligation to give you free appeals, so the inability for you to freely appeal doesn't constitute a "protection racket".

>vanilla android on t-mobile periodically gets the infinite loop

>I have seen it on linux windows and android.

you must have a really dodgy IP block then.

>I don't understand this. They have a normal ISP in a business district?

Its probably generating two signals associated with fraud:

1. high latency means than a proxy is being used. This is suspicious because customers typically don't VPN themselves halfway across the world, but cybercriminals trying to cover their tracks by using residential proxies do

2. "business" ISPs might get binned as "hosting" providers, which is also suspicious for similar reasons (eg. could be someone using a VPS as a proxy).

Sure, the unlucky few who accidentally does some online shopping when connected to their work VPN might get falsely flagged, but they probably figure it's a rare enough case that it's worth the loss compared to the overwhelming amount of fraudsters that fit the same pattern.
Great writeup. Do you plan to update your Kamal handbook to version 2?
The short answer - F# and similar languages provide confidence in correctness due to being strongly typed.

The long answer - https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
That sounds really interesting, could you you share more details? For example, what do you mean by organizing the information into a knowledge graph? Could you perhaps share the prompt you use?
While implemented virtually rather than physically, two well-known (and very different) examples of systems that unify memory and secondary storage under a single addressing scheme are Multics (1969) and the IBM System/38 (1978).

Note that the present-day IBM i née AS/400 is a direct descendent of the System/38.

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level_store

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/363095.363139

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/system38/G580-0237-1_IBM_System...

https://archive.org/details/insideas4000000solt/page/171/mod...
Our world in data pushes a clear agenda, and it isn't really to be trusted.

Consider: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past

From this article:
"Researchers also collected data about hunter-gatherer societies. The 17 different societies include paleolithic and modern-day hunter-gatherers and the mortality rate was high in all of them. On average, 49% of all children died.[5]"

This is cited as coming from:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10905...

Which categorically states:
"Unfortunately there simply is not enough direct paleodemographic archaeological data to make definite claims about the global patterns of infant and child mortality rates of our Paleolithic hunter–gatherer ancestors."

The author of the Our World in Data piece seemingly intentionally conflates the proxy with actual archaeological evidence of the actual child mortality rates. Given the clear warning in the cited article about making definite claims, I cannot read the deception any other way.

After seeing this error, I do not know how you could possibly trust anything they have to say on the matter.
Whomever buys into it

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-11/openai-fu...
For any Sergio Aragones fans out there, the Cartoonist Kayfabe interview he did where he told the story of how he first got hired at MAD is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm5jk2RadxU
I hear you. Try to shift your thinking from statements to expressions, it will make things easier.

The placement of parentheses is not arbitrary. The parentheses enclose expressions, and the nesting of expressions builds a tree. This tree, in effect, is your program's AST. Your C program compiles to something very similar; Lisp just makes it explicit.

"Add x y z" is exactly what it sounds like, if I said those words to you. The add function is usually +, so (+ x y z) is an expression that adds x, y and z, and the whole expression evaluates to the result. You can nest expressions however you like, so, for example, (+ x (* a b)) adds x to the result of the expression (* a b), which evaluates to the result of multiplying a by b.

Values and expressions are effectively interchangeable. Any one of +, x, or y, could be replaced by an arbitrarily complex expression (yes, the function too - you could replace it with a call to a higher order function, which would return a function that is then called over x and y).

The neat thing is, that's basically[0] all the syntax Lisp has. There are no reserved keywords. Everything works as per above, and can be redefined at will. You can change the language's if and else to work any way you want. You can redefine Lisp's reader to change the syntax of the language to absolutely anything you can imagine, and doing so is quite easy, since you're effectively already working at the AST level.

And you can do all of this in a running REPL without even needing to restart it.

If you're interested, check out Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David S. Touretzky.

[0] Macros are the other piece of the puzzle, but to understand them you would need to read up on Lisp more. Once you understand Lisp macros, the advantages of Lisp's syntax become obvious.
Which particular service of Automattic?

Like Wordpress.com in hindsight seems to offer it, but its not clear to me that I'm their customer target.
They have a masters in what? Education, generally. There’s a reason they have the lowest GMAT score https://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/AverageGMATbyMajor.pdf
Many (some very large) companies would not allow that route; their marketing team is trained on wp and they specifically implemented it (in the EU this is per country generally) to sidestep the head office enterprise cms that is unusable and takes days of workflow steps to get anything published; they want more dynamic, not less and they want less techy not more.
We've put up with gray for black since 1950s when the first CRTs were sold. Not sure why you stopped in history for LCD. LCD was an improvement just like LED/OLED was the next improvement over LCD.
New TIL: How Streaming LLM APIs Work
Haskell, Ocaml, scala

anything else?
This is what design systems are for. You only sand UI when you're initially creating the component. Sometimes you combine components in different ways or need to make a one off. It honestly doesn't take all that long if you know what you're doing. A good design engineer is a specialist for this type of role.
If you think that's a simple notes system I'd hate to see what you think a complex notes system is!
Very misleading title. Barren soil is barren soil. Desert is a classification based on rainfall. Dumping ground is/was not a desert.
About as much as the Russian citizenry. The problem is the system, not people. Our operating system is out of date.
Are you saying your replacement while being brighter is now less color accurate?
Rust, ReasonML
This has the parts of my brain wired for:

- working on cars (the torque "wrench" click is such a cue)
- dissembling electronics
- watching folks work on... mechanical watches
- unnecessary / creative uses for a CNC

all firing. I feel pandered to directly... and consider its a mostly silent video of someone replacing a nand chip, I'm not how to feel about that.

On a more constructive topic: Can the performance/endurance characteristics be modified by using better nand chips(a la ram)? Or does it have to an Apple blessed part?
I could have worded it better but that’s my point. It was sort of their third attempt to make Linux gaming a thing (steamOS 2 + proton) before they finally came up with a compelling product of their own.
Here's a good source for the earliest Pentium 4, which had a 20-cycle pipeline: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse378/10au/lectur...

Mostly the stages you expect from an out-of-order core all had their own pipeline slot in order to go super fast, and some were split into two stages. For example, you have two stages to calculate the next instruction (branch prediction), two stages to fetch, a stage to redrive a value from the memory bus, etc. From there, the ALUs could only do a 16-bit add in one cycle, so even an addition took at least 3 cycles. The later Pentium 4's took this subdivision even further with the goal of reaching 4-5 GHz clocks in 2005.

The whole chip was hand-laid-out, so it was possible to put pipeline registers in places that would have been weird to do in Verilog.
Possibly Strange Parts: https://www.strangeparts.com/bringing-back-the-iphone-headph...
Discussion (40 points, 2 days ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41615404
Mitigating security threats in AI agents
Quite an interesting article , and quite timely. Has anyone had a poke/ want to share?
I guess caching is as hard as writing about caching, then. The author, while not sure if to teach or to preach, did a lousy job at both.
Any specific recommendations?

I've looked through royalroad a few times but most amateur sci-fi are more about power-fantasies rather than logically exploring / exploiting an idea.

Out of the few dozen top-rated stories I've tried these are the only 2 I liked:

[1] https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/13468/paladin

[2] https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/30848/burning-stars-fallin...
A fast and space-efficient Base36 encoding for large data
Yeah, i assumed so.
Transform Your Phone into the Perfect TV Remote
Attack on Titan doesn't really fit that list, though I'm not sure which of the reasons would be considered spoilers.
Yeah. Also the young blood always assume the gray haired guys were just some kind of stupid and lame and simple couldn’t see how easy is to setup PHP with Linux on a commodity class hardware running somewhere in the basement.
https://qntm.org/frame

Excellent short story that’s, somewhat related at least.
Wordpress.com would be the equivalent. That said, they don't exactly offer an unmodified WP experience either at least not without upgrading to the higher tier plans. The base plan has plugins disabled for example. Not even sure how it's different from what Matt is accusing WP Engine of.
It's not about "brand", it's about the mandate of the site. Intellectual curiosity and internet inflammation are at odds with each other.
How does it compare with the recent Prusas?
This article reads both like a confession (bungled contracts, mass worker burnout) and a puff piece (Wang’s young, skilled, and made a bunch of money).
Nothing lasts forever unless you install GNU/Linux on them. :)
Well alright, I believe you that the design and build is superior, and you have more experience with Cayenne than I do. My main datapoint is my buddy who shuttled kids and complained his Cayenne was breaking down a lot and in the shop too often. But if the thing is generally as high end and robust as you say compared to other cars, then the base model sounds like a good deal even at $84k. Maybe I’ll get one someday. ;) I appreciate the links and stats and details.
definitely so in the vast universe
I have a theory that native 720p/768p panels are going to go up in value on the second hand market once they're no longer available. xbox 360/ps3 era games don't look quite right scaled up to higher resolutions (and a lot of stuff from the generation afterwards too). The retro gamers with cash burning a hole in their pocket are going to get to that generation soon and won't have nostalgia for old CRTs anymore.

I bet you could do pretty convincing 3x scaling on a 4k oled and simulate the individual R, G, and B pixels with the right hardware though.
With a colorimeter?
It's typical for salaried positions in tech to be exempt. I was last paid hourly by a body shop nearly 20 years ago.
This depends on your goal.

If you are designing the program yourself, you can use this trick to make your distribution more portable. You'll have to configure linker to change RPATH as well, and modify your packaging scripts to also grab any .so files associated with it, like libm, libpthread, librt and so on. You'll also want to make sure no library uses hardcoded data/configs with incompatible settings (like /etc/nsswitch.conf).

No public Linux will ever accept this, but it would be a reasonable way to distribute your internal app to your non-homogeneous linux fleet.

For complex third-party apps, it's going to be harder - you'll want some sort of dependency collector script that follows both load-time and run-time loading; you'll also want to do something about data and config files. If there are hardcoded paths (like Python or gcc), you will have to do something about them too.

That will be basically a custom, non-trivial effort for each program. Definitely possible, but also much more complex than sticking some "apt install" in Dockerfile.
WP Engine offers headless WP CMS to static, for one, and it’s pretty slick. I don’t believe Automattic offers that, yet. But I bet Automattic builds it in, in the near future, and that’s probably what this WP Engine beef is really all about: money.
So basically Altman hasn’t taken enough math courses yet thinks he is starring in Good Will Hunting
I highly recommend Vandana Singh's works, particularly "Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Singh
"The claim was that we needed to set up containers in our developer machines in order to run tests against a modern glibc." At first you are absolutely correct that you don't need containers for that. But then on the other hand, hey I wouldn't work for a company where I need to provide an explanation to get containers on my developer machine.
I'm hopeful Automattic will win this one; WP Engine repackages WordPress and delivers it as a service. Fine. Software license allows for that. That does not give them the right to describe their service as "[the] Most Trusted WordPress Hosting and Beyond". They clearly say so in their policy: https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/
Is the Enron email dataset modern enough?
Did he give one of his Ted talks recently?