skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it’s that WP Engine operates differently now. They got a massive investment from Silver Lake, a terrible private equity firm with a track record of doing evil things. They probably have changed how they support Wordpress (the open source project), how they pollute the ecosystem, how they make it harder to leave, etc. In other words, they’re free riding on Matt’s creation and extracting all they can from it.
I dug out an old HP-50g calculator I got a while back. I'm finding it trips my triggers in the right way, with nearly all of the points you made. It's a tiny, programmable computer that's fully knowable. I was surprised how much fine I'm having with it.
Matt has effectively threatened the businesses of companies whose web presence is hosted via WPE/FW.

He’s got to go.
Based on slide captions, "Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt", a/k/a Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant, in Switzerland (not Germany as initially written):

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibstadt_Nuclear_Power_Plant>
One interesting fact about nuclear energy I came across the other day is at both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, other reactors on the site continued to operate - and produce electricity - for many years after the incidents.

In Russia today - just outside St Petersburg, a stones throw from Finland and Estonia - they still operate reactors of the same design as Chernobyl (with retrofits) and don't plan to shut them down for at least another decade.
Oh of course, but that's a different thing.

Over-simplifications are false. They don't even meet the bar of being factually correct, whether because the proponent is willfully leaving something out or because they're ignorant themselves. It's not impossible for it to happen innocently, because people selling simplistic narratives often build a following even when they're true believers.

The thing you're talking about is selection bias. It's the thing assholes do when they want to lie to people but don't want to get sued for defamation. Whenever you discover someone using this modus operandi, delete them from your feed.
IME triage should mean they can stabilize things long enough no one else needs to be woken up. Ideally they could address further during normal business hours.

Reinforcements may get pulled off planned work, but only as a last resort, and only during business hours. Unless the situation would kill the business and the triage isn't enough.

Strategies like automated disaster recovery processes (yet with manual initiation), coupled with rotating who walks the DR plan during the periodic practice, can mitigate the absolute worst case scenario.
For example, I built a full stack events management plaftorm with Sveletkit, Supabase and Shadcn entirely with AI - AI generated both the frontend and backend code and database schema. It can be quantified like this - 0 (I had no platform) 1 = Now I have a platform. I honestly wouldn't have been able to build it without the help of AI, it would have taken too long and I wouldn't have started development. Also I really like some of the design decisions it took and there were many times I thought a generation was really beautiful and that I wouldn't have though of that. The designs were better than what I would have come up with in Figma so I didn't bother using Figma to design the UI. Think step by step, the user is going to land on this page with a goal of X, how can you improve the ux and remove friction while making the ui extremely beautiful worked really well.
> One of the first things I learned in film school is _nothing_ in a production at that level is coincidence or serendipity. To get to the final script and storyboard, the writers would have gone through multiple drafts, and a great deal of material gets either cut, or retooled to reinforce thematic elements. To the extent that The Simpsons was a goofy cartoon, its writers’ room carried a great deal of intellectual and academic heft, and I don’t doubt for a moment that there was full intention with both the joke itself, and the choice to leave the character’s motivations ambiguous.

Not everything, for example I read somewhere that chess "fight" in Tween Peaks was random and didn't adhere to chess rules because no one really paid attention to record or follow moves.
Can you point to an example where cryptocurrency has directly alleviated either of those systemic problems? I wouldn’t think that it’s the currency itself that would cause, exacerbate, temper, or resolve the underlying root problems that contribute to the instability of a sovereign currency or its citizens access to it. To use a practical example, if I was struggling to maintain my finances as a citizen of Argentina, I understand that I can purchase Bitcoin and that may (or maybe not) be more stable than the the domestic fiat currency, but then…how do I spend that Bitcoin without encountering many/all of the same problems I’d hoped to avoid? How do I purchase routine goods and services? How do I pay for my home or utilities? In what way, specifically, does Bitcoin empower an average Argentinian to extend their self-determination and protect themselves from their country’s financial instability? Can Insafely and reliably exchange cash for Bitcoin, and vise versa? If not, then we’re back to inaccessible banking services as the first stumbling block. Assuming I managed to exchange my cash for Bitcoin, how am I storing it safely? If an offline wallet is vulnerable to being lost due to defective storage devices, and an online wallet is vulnerable to malicious actors within and without of the most popular exchanges, and maybe I don’t have great access to the internet?

I have always been skeptical of this idea that cryptocurrency is the solution to uncontrolled inflation/deflation, and an accessible alternative to the unbanked/underbanked people of the world. It seems naive, at best.
Really, cause I remember an endless stream of people pointing out problems with blockchain and crypto and being constantly assured that it was being worked on and would be solved and crypto is inevitable.

For example, transaction costs/latency/throughput.

I realize the conversation is about blockchain, but I say my point still stands.

With blockchain the main problem was always "why do I need this?" and that's why it died without being the world changing zero trust amazing technology we were promised and constantly told we need.

With LLMs the problem is they don't actually know anything.
He links to a panoramic scan of his unclothed body. Seems normative.
The social media thing is real. Trump and Vance are the strangest, vial politicians we’ve ever seen in the USA and in certain their oxygen is social media. Whether it’s foreign interference helping them be successful or not, they wouldn’t survive without socials and filter bubbles and the ability to spread lies on an unprecedented scale.

I deleted my instagram a month ago. It was just feeding images of beautiful women, personally enjoy looking at those photos but it was super distracting to my life. I found it a distracting and unhealthy.

Anyway I logged in the other day after a month off it and I couldn’t believe I spent anytime on there at all. What a cesspool of insanity. Add well the fake AI images and it’s just hard to believe the thing exists at all.

Elon musk is another story, I’m not sure if it was drugs an underlying psychological or Twitter addiction but he seems like another “victim of social media”.the guy has lost it.
Good advice in this article, especially the bits about communicating every 15-30 minutes depending on severity. Comms are invaluable for timeline/postmortems.

Also, for secondary/shadow on-calls, you will need to remind the primary to loop you in, as they will be busy.

Try not to be on-call too often, but also try not to be on-call too little. You need exposure to the latest types of events happening and don't want to get rusty. Once every 1.5 months is a good balance for me.
Spanner research paper was in 2012. Bigtable was in 2006. GFS 2003. The last decade has been a 'lost decade' of google. Not much innovation to be honest.
He obliterated his past when he fired the Death Star (blocking access to the repository for all WP Engine sites). That's the whole point of the article!
I like using Workers for smallish http services. The uptime, pricing, and latency are fantastic. I would never use them for anything complex as the vendor lock in is quite strong and the dev experience still needs to improve.

Containers on the edge with low cold starts, scalability, the same reliability as Workers, etc would be super cool. In part to avoid the lock in but also to be able to use other languages like Go (which Workers don't support natively).
> On call pretty much just comes with the job, and always has.

If you don't remember the invention of "devops" that's especially true . . .
Awesome news! Hopeful as always.

Unrelated -- I need to have a chat with whoever designed that top bar that pops in and out as you read this article on mobile
Ten years of graphics card hardware tested and ranked

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

RTX 4070 Ti is a RTX 3090 Ti

RTX 4070 is a RTX 3080

RTX 4060 Ti is a RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 3070

RTX 4060 is a RTX 2080 and RTX 3060 Ti

RTX 4050 is a GTX 1080 Ti , RTX 2070 SUPER, RTX 3060

It is not difficult to see the pattern, just look at the GPU specifications, it is not a coincidence, and it is quite predictable. The manufacturer is just playing with disabling cores.

It is not new, Nvidia has always done this. Initially, longer than a decade ago, limiting the GPU through drivers, but someone found a way to hack it, so the manufacturer started limiting the GPU by hardware at the factory. The same thing happened when people started putting vRAM in themselves and the manufacturer restricted it again on following models.
I love how often STEM people point at things like Sokal as fundamental criticisms of the humanities, and then stuff like this happens.
It's gonna be massive because companies love to replace humans at any opportunity and they don't care at all about quality in a lot of places.

For example, why hire any call center workers? They already outsourced the jobs to the lowest bidder and their customers absolutely hate it. Fire those people and get some AI in there so it can provide shitty service for even cheaper.

In other words, it will just make things a bit worse for everyone but those at the very top. usual shit.
Typed vs Untyped is a different matter. Excel is typed but wrapping everything you do in type checks is annoying so spreadsheets used as sources of truth are littered with hard to find errors (strings become numbers, numbers become dates etc)
>The firm added that screenshots can only be accessed with a biometric login, and sensitive information such as credit card details will not be snapped by default.

How? This looks very hard to implement. Do they mean that they're not searchable by default?
Surely ~$25B/year is enough to push the frontiers of space exploration?
Literally every problem I mentioned is at its worst state possible. People with millions and billions simply waiting to buy materials or get land approvals. It’s a well know intractable problem [1] and really the crux of the problem.

If just these problems could be solved the state has more than enough funds to house everyone. What billionaires do would be wholly irrelevant (like it is now)

[1] https://www.constructiondive.com/news/construction-materials...
That floppy drive looks like it was deliberately designed to support a coffee cup.
The vast majority of artists hate generative models with a passion. Many have stopped publicly sharing their work because they feel violated by their work being used to train them
> Being a decent, honest, smart, hardworking person is just "not enough" any more.

Indeed. People want to be able to own a home and/or raise a family, too.
A reminder that the existence of the advertising industry is a tax that drives up the cost of everything that you buy, because every dollar spent on advertising is a dollar that does not actually improve the product in any way, and yet must be recouped by increasing the price of the product.

So in addition to the complete destruction of personal privacy and the normalization of the panopticon, it's also making you materially poorer. But hey, at least ads are more relevant, sorta, almost, sometimes!
You were making the claim, so I thought you’d have an answer on hand. I’m wondering if it might be you who was commenting in bad faith ?
My zookeeper outages are always due to simple things like all the workers having the same basic image and then having increased write rate filling up the disk of all workers at the same time.
Again, who gives a shit? I'm in no way saying WP Engine is some sort of angelic organization, and I don't care. All I see is childlike behavior from someone who definitely should not be in control of both Automattic and the WordPress Foundation, and my guess is that if the board doesn't force his ouster that WPF will have serious issues with the IRS.

Also, the whole point of open source is that you don't "own it" after it's open sourced. If you don't like those terms, license them under different ones, which exactly what the whole recent "Fair Source" movement is about and what other companies like Sentry have handled in a much more dignified fashion.
Have you ever wondered why lawyers themselves have nothing in their field remotely similar to patents?
There are 2 groups of businesses: those like in this Wordpress battle that are fighting over copyrights, patents, and trademarks & those that have realized these things are retarded and make them innovate at <1% the speed of those who embrace the public domain.

Empirically we have been seeing this for a while (look at the dominance of open source programming languages, for example. Even Microsoft open sourced C# b/c they saw it was dead otherwise), but now we have a simple undeniable formula which explains this which is roughly E = T/A! [0]

You can keep your head in the sand and pretend that things aren't going to change, but the bottom line is if you stick to (c) and patents you retard your own development and will be driven to extinction by your competitors.

[0] https://breckyunits.com/eta.html
There are rumors out there in the spacefaring community, wallpapered pretty heavily and media/google censored, regarding the astronaut responsible:
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-could-take-legal-action-agai...

Basically the full workup describes her having a mental breakdown and just making life up there more and more miserable, saying "take me home or I'll escalate" followed by many cycles of not being taken home and escalating. It includes stealing/losing most tools and equipment and "losing them" to the vacuum of space, drilling holes in the space station, and let us diplomatically say... very poor hygiene related to human waste. The astronaut involved basically quit doing any work. Supposedly this ruined the station and basically assured that it be taken offline.
College basketball for an unranked school probably fits the bill. I go watch my local
uni's volleyball team play and it's super low budget, all
run by volunteers, the fans are invested and local, and it's just all-around wholesome.
Parent is right, I’ve heard mixed things about alpha folds practical usefulness. As brilliant as what it does is…
And yet they still lost their place on the top of the pile without any government intervention. Free market in action!
xAI's 100k GPUs data center in Memphis is up and running
That's no guarantee that AI continues advancing at the same pace, and no one has been arguing against overall technological progress slowing

Refining technology is easier than the original breakthrough, but it doesn't usually lead to a great leap forward.

LLMs were the result of breakthroughs, but refining them isn't guaranteed to lead to AGI. It's not guaranteed (or likely) to improve at an exponential rate.
I’ve worked extensively with ACR technology in an applied setting. Happy to answer any questions
Have you taken a Waymo recently? I would take it over a human driver much of the time.
If you ignore the part where there proofs are meandering drivel, sure.
I agree that there is a right way to make this case, but we don’t know if it was already made behind closed doors.

The ultimatum Matt made in the texts highlighted by WP Engine appears short, but it seems unlikely this was the first time Matt brought up these issues.
How about the pentagon, or homeland security, or …

Why are you picking on the fractional pennies in the budget and letting the millions go out the door? The system is corrupt precisely because people with influence are allowed to opt out & simultaneously benefit.
This looks quite promising to me. I've loved using TXR in the past for such functionality. However, I would really rather have the TXR pattern language as a library embedded inside the main programming language I am using rather than having to remember both TXR and TXR lisp. At first glance, Rosie seems to offer this approach. Although, I feel like the elegance of TXR syntax and semantics is hard to beat.
My point was every other problem would be made worse by a billionaire pushing his/her money in there. Everyone is a couple of billions of money funneled away from becoming the next George Soros.

If you don’t think NIMBYism and degrowth is a problem in your country yet, just give it a couple of years. It just hit England, you’re next. No billionaire can save you.
If the expectation is that the on-call person should fix all the issues that arise during their shift, you either need a very well defined runbook, or can only have people on-call who have deep understanding of the whole system.

I guess that's a model. But every runbook I've seen has a clear call to escalate if the conditions don't seem to match.

Sometimes the runbook will have procedures to disable things until the business day, in which case you don't need to page anybody, but the service will be degraded until the responsible party can manage it. If the procedure doesn't work, someone will get paged.

IMHO, the most important part of a runbook is the escalation process. And probably the most important meta task of an on-call rotation is tracking escalations and ensuring they're dealt with.

Norms depend on your business, but if you get a lot of escalations outside of business hours, you either need to fix your stuff so it doesn't need escalation, or you need to staff your stuff so escalation is to people who are in their business hours.

Edit: I'll also add that reducing incident frequency is good, but when it drops from once a quarter to once a year, new hires won't get osmositic training anymore. When it drops from once a year to once every other year, team muscle memory will have atrophied. It's worth doing some periodic training/refreshing when things are running well.
> Not allowing abuse and DDOS of your free services is just not on this level.

Sure, the debate is because its not really believable that that was happening, and sounds like a pretense.

> If Amazon was your competitor

That's the core dispute though. WPEngine is not a competitor of word press foundation. It is a competitor of automattic. For word press foundation to treat competitors to automattic as competitors to themselves seems highly unethical and possibly a violation of fiduciary duty.
They're de facto illegal if you ever make a transaction the government can't trace.
> Because that's what many AI experts are also talking about from a variety of angles.

Wow, in that case I'm convinced. Such an unbiased group with nothing at all to gain from massive AI hype.
Aside from not having one of these devices at all, or disconnecting it from internet access, if you have one and want to opt-out of ACR (Automatic Content Recognition), you need to make sure that you did not select to 'opt-in' to "personalization" type features on the device.

ACR opt-ins are not presented to end-users with a clear statement of what the opt-in means or what will happen with your data from your device and are often presented as turning on "personalization" (generally, for advertising purposes).

The various TV or tv-related device manufacturers use different names for "ACR," so you'll need to decipher what your manufacturer calls this to disable the feature. Consumer Reports has a useful guide covering multiple brands on how to turn off ACR: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-t...

If you find that your device has already been opted-in, you can disable the selection, and submit a request to have your device's information removed in some jurisdictions. You can also select to have your device's identifier id (e.g. "PSID" etc) reset from the device before performing a full factory/configuration reset of the device and setting it up again. If you fully reset the device, you'll want to watch out for the ways the manufacturer will try to get you to opt-in during the setup process. Many people have ACR-turned on without knowing.

Adding a few more opt-out guides:

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/stop-your-snooping-smart-tv...

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/how-to-disable-acr-and...

It's also worth firewalling, or at least using dns-based blocking, any "smart tv" type devices on your network. Some of them even do periodic scans of your network and send that information to the manufacturer when they "phone home."
Sounds like you might have wanted a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
PKCE (specifically the S256 method, but that's the one that you're supposed to implement in almost all cases) is by itself a cryptographic method, but there are few points to note here:

1. PKCE relies on very simple cryptography that is hard to implement incorrectly. There is only is only one protocol defined (SHA-256), and that protocol is considered safe. Allowing the "plain" protocol in the RFC was silly, but we were lucky that the RFC writers didn't go full bonkers like they did with JWT, and started digging up ancient ciphers in case someone really wants to run PKCE on a WW2 vintage Enigma machine. In short, PKCE has no weird or old cryptography.

2. PKCE is not considered mandatory or even recommended for confidential clients prior to OAuth 2.1 (which is still a draft). It is rarely implemented in these cases.

3. You cannot use JWKS for PKCE. I believe you are confusing PKCE with the ID Token, but the GP was specifically talking about the Authorization Code flow, where the ID Token doesn't really matter. If you're using that flow an unfortunate piece of over-engineered industrial waste[1], but if you're using the Authorization Code flow it doesn't matter: even if the ID Token is completely broken, it cannot hurt you, since you must have a correct authorization code to get it in the first place.

4. Even if PKCE itself gets broken somehow (the main risk being an IdP that allows downgrade attacks), this only makes the protocol vulnerable to CSRF on confidential clients. Only on public clients that rely on custom URL schemes (such as native apps), this can lead to a more serious exploit.

[1] Sadly, this is coming from the same people who wrote the PKCE spec. On one hand they think your system might be too constrained to support SHA-256, so we need to add the "plain" algorithm, but on the other hand, they make RSA signatures (including SHA-256!) a mandatory part of the Open ID Connect spec through this totally unnecessary token.
That would simply empower the countries with the most gold resources, eliminate access to capital for countries with little or no natural gold resources. On top of the obvious practical considerations for storing, securing, moving, and transferring it, gold is also extremely vulnerable to manipulation, corruption, contamination, and frequent, unpredictable swings in value. That’s kind of why we abandoned the gold standard to begin with.
Why does Israel target civilian targets that have nothing to do with Hamas?
I do not see a license so it is not clear what terms this can be used.