skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They introduce change one region at a time usually. DDB did have outage many times and brought half of AWS operations down. But good question how they kept Amazon.com alive if some part of their systems rely on DDB.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/message/5467D2/
I see an awful lot of people these days talking like white-collar work is the default and blue-collar is some kind of weird outlier that doesn't really count.
"Government of India has made it mandatory to link your Aadhar number with your Tez account. Please link your Aadhar number to enjoy uninterrupted service." - Waiting for this to happen. My Indian friends say they are getting these messages from the Income Tax department, their banks and even their ISPs, e-wallets providers, telcoms etc.
Till iOS 11 you needed to update OS to update system apps it was not so in Android so despite all the talks of fragmentation most people are still able to update a lot of the stuff in Android without and actual an OS update.
what's new in the Apple iPhone X's cameras
Your English is okay, you used initial caps after a colon for a sentence that is a dependent clause. 'It was not anything' needs help. Team time, should probably be team-time. Proofing is reasonable, though you missed the 'grammar of' which I assume should read 'grammar or', then the education should not be pluralised. I don't disagree with your point though :)
Yeah, very bizarre. She's claiming that the average American works spends 23 minutes a day on smoke breaks, and 26 minutes a day looking for a new job, and 17 minutes a day "preparing hot drinks", etc. Something is completely bogus here.
>While Google seems to be aiming for phones

According to Google, Fuchsia is designed for:

modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors, non-trivial amounts of ram with arbitrary peripherals doing open ended computation.
/r/slatestarcodex if I didn't typo on my phone.

It's an interesting sub, sometimes a thought provoking article bubbles up to my front-page which is always a bit of a joy, Tho sometimes a bit of garbage bubbles up too.
I remember the Top Gear episode in Myanmar where Jeremy and gang played soccer on the highway. It was that empty, and that huge.

As an Indian, China's influence scares me a bit. They've got us surrounded
I disagree with this article. Coreos wouldn't have helped at all in this particular case. First of all, struts is not a system dependency. So it wouldn't be auto updated.

Well okay, how about Claire, the vulnerability scanner? It scans container layers, aka system dependencies. They don't scan your maven dependencies.(maybe I'm wrong here). So your entire security relies on someone not updating dependencies for a project often. Which was already the case. What did we gain? In this particular case, nothing

Of course kubernetes makes rolling out updates a lot easier. And thus a team might patch often. But that is not the OS.

Of course for system level security vulns, coreos is great and on the right track. But saying they would have caught Equifax is a big stretch. Equifax was not a big hack with multiple zero days. It was a team who didn't update their application.
You assume that the US and EU politicians aren't actually fine with it.
Yeah this way you reinvent a less unit tested, battle field tested and documented wheel.

It's like saying the good thing with not having a cellphone is that you avoid a lot of fight with your girlfriend cause you can't talk as much.
I was using it like an inside thought? - that's a weird reference to make. I chose an arbitrary number of balanced parenthesis to signify an inside thought.
See my post above the one you replied to.
Slight tangent. Some of the comments here made me think of a great video on entropy vs. complexity by minutephysics:

https://youtu.be/MTFY0H4EZx4

It's actually part 3 of 5 from a short miniseries with Sean Carroll. I recommend the whole thing if you are interested, it is quite well done.
How would you get sizeable groups of illegal farm helps into NZ? How would they live/send money back home/travel back home etc? NZ is a remote island, this is not a Mexico/Arizona situation. NZ native farmers are very in control of their farms and NZ's agriculture industry in general.
That's possible but it doesn't really seem like "really shouldn't do this" type of problem.
>The thing that sucks is, it was impossible to tell any of this was going on.

A few months before the big collapse, I lucked into some money and started looking at arbitrage opportunities on bitcoin exchanges.

Want to know what stopped me? The cost benefit vs. risk ratio. Here's an exchange with a really dodgy past, and the price is just shooting up, and people are shouting, and damn this seems too good to be true!

(edit: I did some trial runs, and had gone through their painful verification process - the above decision came about when I was starting with the "big boy" sums of money)

Funnily enough, I have the exact same thoughts about the crypto ecosystem right now.

I think it's probably unwise to hold coins right now, and whether the scam unfolds this year or not, I'm experiencing that very same spidey-sense this seems to good to be true worry from the Mt. Gox days.
Yes, I remember watching Atul Gawande talking about reducing Surgical Deaths by some 30ish % after creating a checklist for surgeons to do x after y after z!
I’m sorry I don’t see any comparison at all, iOS is a /lot/ less fragmented and iOS devices present on networks have a far high percentage of up to date OS versions installed. Just two months ago I sampled data of a 100~ staff user wireless network and a heavily used guest network, while more than 95% of iOS devices were running the latest version of iOS 10 (the 5% was all bar one a selection of test devices kept back for legacy mobile web browser testing) where less than 25% of android devices on either network were running either the current or latest stable legacy android versions over the same 30 day period.
Sooo, you read the OpenSSL source code and avoided heart bleed ?
If you have a touchbar macbook, some sites will let you use apple pay from there!
I think OP might have been disputing the "media" part rather than the "mainstream" part.
Are you expecting gasps of horror in response to your simplistic statement? Oh, no, not the state!

Not everybody here is an anarcho-capitalist.
I don't know how the Play Store commenting system works, but I think before jumping to conclusions then it's important to consider that if there were any foul play then it would probably have been better achieved through "shadowbanning". I do feel it would make sense if the Play Store didn't count comments made by newly registered users or known bots.
... which makes complete sense. The multiplier eventually falls to the P/E of a stock standard public company, which is what, 12? Lets just say 12. The investors need to give a solid X if they expect the value to grow, as the founders want to keep a high %. So 57X -> 25X is about the right track.
Oh god this physically pains me. I love it.
Heh

I have been writing Android apps for a long time and versioning has very rarely been a hard problem.
The support lib makes sure that you have a unified API in front of you.

It can be a big bother for some very specific apps like a camera (I have never written one though, I can only say that camera 1 vs 2 looks painful from afar).

Most of the time you just access the APIs from the support lib facade and either :

-the support lib (re)implement for you.

-it fallbacks gracefully if something minor can't be backported
I think they're referring to the horrible LSE that was exposed at the same time as Superfish. I don't think it ever installed SF but it would auto restore a bunch of other Lenovo garbage before Windows booted;

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2015/...
You could use public key system to your advantage. Devise a cryptosystem that takes x time to crack, write a program to crack it, let it roll. If you're alive at the time of vulnerability being found, you can adjust or change the key.

Likewise it would be a good case for a proof of work system with specialized single machine input. You have to prove x amount of work every so often to keep the data encrypted.
> What if DDB goes down

It's worth clarifying that question. What does "Go Down" mean? One region is down? Is it a bad software bug?

The database itself is fault tolerant. Nodes can go down all day without any real consequence. Each region is isolated, so a failure in one region won't affect other regions.

I guess I'm at a loss for the type of failure with DDB that would make it a SPOF, especially more than other datastores.
I want to see an "open models" community where trained models have been validated with high accuracy that anyone can use and share.
I agree that Debian is so different to npm as to make any comparison irrelevant, but you should direct that at the comment which introduced the comparisons, not one that pointed out ways it doesn't work to compare them.
Or Netflix could take the route they took on iOS and just make native apps for everything.

Or, perhaps more likely, browser vendors would continue to not kill Flash until 2020 (at the earliest) when Adobe ends support, and then browsers would drop support for the insecure plugin and then Netflix would go the native apps route.
Thanks for the Toggl suggestion. I use RescueTime but it's very unstable on Linux. I will try this out.
Jesus, really? That’s awful.
Are there no ways to mitigate or fix this?
Doctor Who fans - Rare? In what universe, Doctor Who is mainstream now.
I honestly think a beige computer would garner a cult following if released today. Lots of the younger generation are into surreal 90s throwbacks.
This is a story i'm trying to understand. 1. Indian Government wants to emulate something like SSN (in the US) as a single identifier for every citizen in this country. 2. This is an easy way for a Government to track the actions of every individual digitally and financially - end of Privacy!
The recent decision of Supreme Court about right to privacy will prevent this in future. I'm not sure about what exactly will happen to Adhaar ID but, we may see that linking-it-with-every-account thing reduced a lot.
The "issue" with Wave was the ridiculous beta invite system that prevented people who were really, really excited for the idea from trying it out until it was already basically dead.
This falls to 1 hour 30 for a 10 hour day.
Likewise. It has been decades since I last touched a soldering-iron, but this year I've built a few fun & useful projects with ESP8266 boards.

To make them attractive I've also started getting into 3D-printing, paying other people to make cases/boxes/shells for me.
It is a pitty that the QCC (QEMU Codegen) and TCC has not been materialized.
AI to help software engineers, since that would impact me the most in my daily job.
> 17 minutes a day "preparing hot drinks"

This figure I can believe.
> Users should simply boycott such user hostile developers and languages

I await with interest your newsletter to "the internet" on how to boycott JavaScript.
World's first electric dump truck stores as much energy as 8 Tesla Model S cars
> However, most people would agree that the balance of power effectively lies with the browser vendors

It lies with two groups: the implementers (as nothing can become a standard without implementations, though there's plenty of precedent for using obscure ones!) and the W3C Members (i.e., the paying organisations who pay to get a seat; not those who contribute on mailing lists/GitHub/whatever, not those who are officially on the working groups as "invited experts") who ultimately vote on the proposed standard (and there Google has as much say as the BBC and Boeing and the University of Edinburgh.
Isn't the value add the user gets from updating their OS the benefit of security updates and features?
The Dangers of the Victorian Pleasure Garden
From what you describe they probably won’t miss you.

I don’t say that to be mean but you’re literally promoting what would be a regressive agenda as far as they (or hell, even Google) are concerned.

What are you going to change to? Android has software rot too, are you just going to rock an old 8210 for the rest of your days?
China is an export driven economy. If a crash were to come, it would be because of a sudden lack of trade (e.g. 2008). Chinese companies are already heavily levered.
Discord manages much better performance on a similar(?) stack
Zircon: A Kernel for Google's Fuchsia OS
A lot of the capacity issues end up being just a lot of cars clustered in an area. If you are able to escape the bunch there tend to be nice stretches of open road. Flow regulation would help avoid clumping of cars by making sure the left lane is not used for cruising.
I suggest letting the bloke know he's not up to par with your expectations, and then see if his performance gets better. And if it doesn't you can fire him without feeling too bad.
I'm pretty sure I'm entitled to request content, and my machine can render it however it likes.

They make the choice whether to serve it or not.
Please produce the research you claim to have conducted, instead of simply calling others incompetent.
> I'm guessing pretty junior with this kind of hubris

If you check their profile their site suggests that have ~15 years of experience.
>One practical disadvantage compared to Linux is that it's not GPL, so if Google uses it to make a mainstream mobile phone operating system, other vendors won't be compelled to release their kernel sources like they are with Android today, which means a Fuchsia equivalent to LineageOS might not support as many devices.

I would disagree. With the introduction of Android 8 and Project Treble, as long as the userspace OS changes adhere to the HAL contracts, updating to a new OS version should will be considerably easier because there is no need to modify the kernel.

According to the Project Treble lead you can even place AOSP userspace on any Project Treble phone and it would work.
Trump  pushes  UN  reform  as  world  leaders gather for crisis talk
Yesterday I read an article about this man, and I would say that the year'83 was not actually without (possible) escalations. On the 1st of September, a Korean airplane with 200+ civilians was shot because an "ordinary" officer simply sent a report that a "jumbo jet" was flying over soviet area - and it was "probably a US spying airplane" (that was the idea). Now, if this guy had mentioned "it's a civil airplane, a boeing", I am quite sure things would have been different.

The reason Petrov is to be considered a hero of old times is not just because he was able to spot a mistake, but to report something different from what he saw. He took the liberty to decide for an entire nation, and as he also admitted, the 12-13 minutes during which these potential nukes were supposed to reach their final destination were "really long". If he had been so certain, he'd have had no issues - he based his decision on his instinct.

If he had simply followed the rules (pretty common in a military hierarchy), we'd probably not be here today. This is what makes this man exceptional - the fact that in the end he even got scolded for not obeying the rules, and that he died "almost" in misery.
Yeah, driving culture needs to be a part of driver training. Driving is simple enough that most situations we should expect predictable behavior.
That comment is either just a low effort troll attempt or made by someone not at all familiar with India and definitely not familiar with her linguistic diversity. Or maybe someone with extremely limited existence in one of this country's many urban bubbles.

In fact had Google launched the app only in English or English+Hindi I would have been really surprised because they would been losing on the clear majority of India - the rural India, 2nd tier cities, and town and below. Internet is exploding there, clearly engendered by Reliance Jio and other operators following close and in panic.

Also, the way Govt went all guerrilla on demonetisation (nationwide) and the way Govt is pushing digital money the larger population, who are not at all proficient in English, will have to come on board the digital payment system (and in my humble opinion will have to suffer a lot because planning and infra neither are well prepared; but that's another matter) and for the inclusion of regional languages are not a smart move per se, but a must.
But bank accounts already require Aadhaar, and Tez is linked with your bank account, so I suppose in a way it's already mandatory?
I think a large part of the problem of "verifying" Gox was that people desperately wanted the story to be true.

If a big-name bank operated a bitcoin exchange that was repeatedly hacked, came up with a mountain of excuses about why people can't withdraw, made nonsensical claims about doing business (e.g. 10 wires/day, not trading in the USA etc.), no-one would use them.

(edit: in The Real World, I imagine they'd have been shut down in seconds flat thanks to regulations, but for the sake of convenience let's pretend regulations don't exist)

Instead, we had a plucky new underdog that people wanted to believe was creating history.
From that article:

> fat-metabolism in the cells takes place simultaneously with a detoxification of the harmful substances from the blood sugar... The newly discovered process involves one type of metabolite, the ketone acetoacetate, which originates from the body's fat-metabolism, capturing and inhibiting another type of metabolite, methylglyoxal, which originates from the body's sugar metabolism.

Does this suggest that consuming sugars with fats is to be avoided? I've seen or recent research suggesting this for metabolic reasons, although can't put my hands on it right now.

> harmful substances from the blood sugar, which can avert the damage that can in turn lead to age-related diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer's and cancer. This indicates that we have a detoxification system which we were not previously aware of.

Sugar has become the Bad Guy recently, but I'm not certain there's unequivocal evidence that it's definitely incriminated in Alzheimer's and cancers. Besides individual studies, are there large meta studies that support this?
I have to agree. Swarm is probably the easiest thing to get going besides the Docker engine itself. Honestly I felt like I might have been missing some step or component when I set up a swarm, because it was just really easy. Then I could start swarm services by making some slight modifications to my pre-existing Docker Compose files. It is very very easy.
Vue-gallery responsive gallery
Where did you feel most comfortable with motorcycling? I've been looking to leave CA because driving here is getting worse every year.
Blind Patients to Test Bionic Eye Brain Implants
I'd really like to see deets. I've looked, somewhat, and what I've found (including Jim Simon's very few talks) have been ... pretty uninformative.
Will this use the 402 Payment Required HTTP status code?
Feds Warn Lindsay Lohan, Sofia Vergara and Other Celebs Stop Stealth Advertising
One possible explanation for this is that people are supposedly spending time doing certain things, but in reality are doing different for things. For example, my mom used to talk about how people at her work were allowed smoke breaks, but no equivalent breaks were allotted to non-smokers, so people would pretend to smoke just to take a few minutes off.
It's actually written in a variety of languages. The kernel is written in C/C++, but other languages such as Go are used for the networking stack.

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/netstack/+/master
Have you got the wrong impression about schizophrenia?
English Premier League: Miserable Return for Rooney as Man United Routs Everton
1) SSN is not really a model for a unique identifier for every citizen. Immigrants have SSNs too, and can have different ones if they have done multiple stays in the country. You also can live without an SSN in the US.

2) I mean... the government is entitled to know where your money is coming from if they are asking you for taxes. otherwise, there would be no way to combat tax fraud. This is not a new thing.
Maybe because it just looks 'unfamiliar' instead of 'terrible'? Just add syntax-coloring with your favourite color-theme, your favourite tab-width, and your favourite brace-style, and it will look fine ;)
Indeed, sorry if I didn’t make it clear - I was commenting on the previous person who talked about Debian - not the OP.
I was amused to notice last week that Android 8 - which has been "available" (for not very large values of "available") since Aug 21, is showing less than 0.1% market share (on the Android dev dashboard), while iOS 11 which doesn't come out for another few days was already showing 0.2% of all iOS devices already...
There are a lot of constructive ways to begin to solve this but I guess you prefer the camel in sand approach.

Every single Ruby post has commentators complaining about dependency hell and steering clear of Ruby apps. This was not the case even a couple of years ago.

This is effectively a user boycott which Ruby may not deserve but has brought on itself by letting the 'break everything crowd' run amok. They have moved on to Node and will move again to the next big thing but it's Ruby left dealing with the fallout.
That's pretty much the rule in software. Which is why you have so much software that appears to be working but behind the scene is made of horrible hacks by devs who have no idea of what they are doing.
How do you see China countering India's cultural hegemony in the region? Much of the culture in the Indian sub-continent is borrowed from Indian culture.

Shouldn't this be some insulation from Chinese influence?
Distributions - let's take Debian as a concrete example - provide an audit trail to individual identified developers as a mitigation for users relying on trust. Just because we must necessarily rely on some level of trust does not mean that we must blindly trust, which is what happens when anyone can upload to a repository such as PyPI.
I myself am one who type using Google Indic keyword for typing local. In all my local whatsapp group majority of the conversations are in local language.
NY Times: As Amazon Pushes Forward with Robots, Workers Find New Roles
Another example of how brittle npm can be
Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
It's like criticizing the hairstyle of your doctor. Do you complain when users report 'bugs' to you too?

My first reaction when I heard that name was to think - 'must be designed to be hard to kill'.
FWIW I have always thought this would become a problem for nodejs. Encouraging one-liner packages [1][2] is a recipe for an enormous dependency tree, and a totally impossible-to-manage security situation.

Python projects I have recently worked on might max out at 50 packages. The last project I worked on with nodejs as front end had 3000+ packages just for the UI.

[1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/10#issuecomment-1...
[2] https://github.com/kevva/is-positive
> Existing payment methods do not store billing information on the client devices as they are assumed to be untrusted.

Except this is exactly how Android Pay and Apple Pay work: they store the billing information on the client side. A large part of the impetus behind Payment Requests is to open up Android Pay and Apple Pay to the web. And all(?) major browsers support autofilling card details already, which means storing the billing information on the client side and exposing the web to that fraud risk.

And, heck, a conforming Payment Requests payment handler doesn't need to store anything locally: one based on payment cards could require you to enter the card details on every transaction.
The linked article used 200 mW/cm^2 for 5 to 10 minutes. This is orders of magnitude more light exposure than an iPhone would create - it wouldn't even be able to from its battery capacity. The light emitted by the iPhone would be closer in power to what a normal TV remote emits.
Google doesn't need to buy another smartphone OEM just as Apple doesn't need to buy Foxconn.