skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a change to how Chrome deals with sites that use onScroll. In their current state, most of these are broken as far as I'm concerned. Chrome's changes will partially fix a lot of these sites, at the cost of breaking some that aren't currently broken. That is a win for the user.

My only problem with this change is that developers can still override the default and cancel scroll events. The handful of legitimate use cases this enables aren't worth the cost of letting shitty designers abuse it.
I was working for a tech company that liked to pride itself on being "one of the good guys". They gave us pretty lavish benefits, that often seemed kind of silly, and had a massive well-designed office. Although the office was still an open office, and suffered from those aspects.

They recently had to lay off 60 of their ~200 people.

What would have been better? Should they have been greedier, given fewer benefits, and prevented the layoffs? Or should they have given more benefits, and not had layoffs, and simply collapse in bankruptcy in a couple years?

Money gives you options, and it is the tool which enables us to provide for people. I think your anti-greed position just... misses the point.
IT worker here... Everything is on fire and my phone is ringing like crazy.
This is something I have tried to address in my own open source project https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr/wiki/What-to-do-if-I-di...
Maybe I never experienced it, because if I want to force exact match results I simply place the error message within double quotes. But often you do not need exact match searches to get good results for a random error message. If it happens to you a lot, it should not be a problem to post a single example query that returns useless results.

I do agree that Google is focusing more and more on the common internet user, and not the early tech adopters. This forces us to use tricks like the double quotes, while keeping the search engine user-friendly for the vast majority of ad-clicking internetters.

The behavior you are referring to is called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_expansion and while this improves the search results for many people with imprecise or misspelled queries, if you trained yourself to search with exact matches, you'll need some time to adapt (or get in the habbit of adding double quotes).
Unpopular opinion: Since did "technically" following the law matter more than a companies reputation, both with the public and with the government and society in which it resides.

If my neighbor built a giant flashing neon sign facing my bedroom window and it was somehow "technically" within the bounds of the law I would still be ticked off, even if my neighbor provided me with iCloud sync. The problem is that Apple avoiding taxes isn't as blatant and irritating as a neon sign in our window, but it SHOULD be when we go to pay our taxes. We should feel immediate outrage at anyone that isn't pulling their weight, especially when there are individuals in government trying to get us to pay even more in our taxes to make up the difference.

Get apple to pay their damn taxes first. ONLY then you can talk to me about upping my taxes to fund something like universal free college education.
That depends if you believe tax law should be about checkboxes or about keeping to the spirit of giving back to the community that made you
Nuclino has been a winner for us.
You mean you pay what the government says you owe, just like Apple does... Or are you saying that you don't claim any deductions and pay the maximum allowable by the system?
Imagine that on average 1 unspent output gets signed over to 3 unspent outputs. 1 -> 3 -> 9 -> 3³ -> 3⁴ ... 3^n outputs that would need to be restituted.

Imagine the average number of times that an unspent output gets spent a year is 50.

So, this means that after one year, it will be necessary to hunt down name, address, and whereabouts of up to 3⁵⁰ unspent output owners, many of which will turn out to be the same persons, but you cannot know that upfront. The more time passes by, the worse the problem gets.

So, that means that you could easily end up suing something like 100,000 individuals in 190+ jurisdictions.

That is even more unrealistic than the failed attempts of the MPAA trying to sue bittorrent users.

You see, someone sitting on stolen bitcoins will keep exchanging them back and forth for other cryptocurrencies until he has nothing left from his original stash. Therefore, you will most likely not even be able to sue the original thief.
Since we are resolving dns, we know its not a dns issue. This appears to be pack loss / routing issue. The most likely cause of this is someone has leaked internal routes, or leaked bgp.

I don't see anything from bgpmon (https://twitter.com/bgpmon) or bgpstream (https://twitter.com/bgpstream) for North America though. There have been multiple bgp leaks today but nothing that I can see that effects comcast/rnc.

It does appear at least some site I'm seeing are being routed through Europe.

traceroute kayak.com
traceroute to kayak.com (185.6.169.69), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
2 96.120.68.17 (96.120.68.17) 7.840 ms 8.995 ms 8.354 ms
3 96.108.154.229 (96.108.154.229) 8.136 ms 9.174 ms 8.325 ms
4 be-23-sur03.westroxbury.ma.boston.comcast.net (69.139.221.226) 9.879 ms 7.478 ms 7.667 ms
5 be-20-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net (68.85.106.21) 9.527 ms 12.000 ms 8.524 ms
6 * * *
7 ae-1-16.bar1.zurich1.level3.net (4.69.142.129) 118.578 ms 118.947 ms 118.229 ms
8 ae-1-16.bar1.zurich1.level3.net (4.69.142.129) 127.931 ms 116.424 ms 117.852 ms
9 nexellent-a.bar1.zurich1.level3.net (213.242.82.110) 118.340 ms 117.555 ms 115.950 ms
Tracking mosquitoes with your cellphone
Same here on Comcast in Menlo Park (CA). T-Mobile is zippy, though, so I guess I'll switch to mobile hotspot for a while.
Oh jeez dude, just use ZFC and you'll get it done in ten minutes
It's especially strange why they're calling it a language on their blog when the GitHub readme specifically states that "Pyro is a flexible, scalable deep probabilistic programming
library"[1]

1: https://github.com/uber/pyro
David Ricardo. Rent vs. Wages.

(Rents win.)
New ‘Furion’ software allows untethered high-quality VR
More human like artificial intelligence
Come on fleitz, are you genuinely suggesting it is the responsibility of every citizen to have read through their tax code?

If you are, are you going to tell us with a straight face that you've read the US'?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...

It's about 3,500 pages long, written in esoteric accountant speak. Considering that in the USA "32 million adults in the U.S. can’t read. That’s 14 percent of the population. 21 percent of adults in the U.S. read below a 5th grade level, and 19 percent of high school graduates can’t read," I think it's an unfair burden to place on a population.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/illiteracy-rate_n_...
Twitter exploit let two pranksters post a 35,000-character tweet
It would be nice if I could buy it on Amazon.
Not all users have a choice to leave a website.

If a Chrome update breaks the governmental website that relied on some "never used" feature and the user can no longer, say, apply to unemployment insurance, real people would be getting affected in very real ways.

We wanted technology to part of peoples lives, now it is, we have to own up to the responsibility.
I'm a Comcast user in Hayward (Bay Area), CA, USA.

Some sites are easily available: Google, Yahoo.

Some sites are partially available: Twitter, Hacker News.

Many sites are completely unavailable: Down Detector.
The Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act would help:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/153...

Also, as a meta point, since I seem to see these kinds of challenges often: any time a person is put on the spot to name a specific change to a specific provision of law to enact a policy goal, it's probably going to be difficult to immediately give a specific answer. To translate policy into legislation often requires the assistance of multiple layers of paid staff and legislative analysts.

So the difficulty of answering that type of question is a function of the complexity of legislating, and not necessarily a sign that someone's preferred policy is a bad idea.
Nobody's looking for a peer reviewed study on today's internet outage.
you're absolutely right you can trace the roots of this back to Magic and if you want to go further back Baseball cards. It was fairly innocent back then, with the advent of gaming technology and research into dopamine-releasing mechanics/skinner boxes it's reached insidious levels.
Also Comcast (in Portland, OR) also having major issues, resolved by tethering.
I've read anecdotal reports of an Level3 outage that makes Comcast have poor connectivity outside its network.

I have websites that are up right now according to monitoring tools, but they are inaccessible to me from home.
Why not relax the PR process for the docs directory? If your process is in the way of progress, change the process!
Every human being in that company should be held accountable for their actions. Someone, somewhere said "Yes let's do it this way", and they committed an (arguably) immoral act by doing so.
observation is perfectly scientific
And stupider, "can be resolved by addressing it with the employee"... You just know this company is going to put that employee through a couple hours of some awful corporate video training about motivation.
Probably because it seems to be affecting more than just Stripe. Seems to be an issue with Comcast at a very broad level. A variety of sites aren't resolving and are experiencing major packet losses trying to connect.
If they plan on making breaking APIs changes whenever they feel like their data suggest it's ok, they should clearly say so. But like openly, on the front of the chrome web page: "We care about you, the user, and will break the platform for the developers whenever we think it's necessary to improve your experience".

> It's simple really: killing a person to enhance user experience is morally wrong

Well for me it's morally wrong to break APIs, if you don't agree I hope to never touch anything you ever make.

This is not about caring about the users, it's about doing it without pissing on the developers heads.

By the way, I was not even affected by this, but I know that if we let this slide it will just get worse and worse. As if the web was a nice platform to develop on to start with...
mrguyorama I agree 1000% and most reasonable people should as well. The technical letter of the law should not matter as much as the spirit of the law!
Are you on Rogers or Bell? I'm on Bell and it's slow. Also slow at Starbucks which is Bell...
> Not everything old has to die to move forward.

But we're talking about a very specific example, where the best option for the vast majority of users was to change default behaviour. There is no "passive event listener still implements active event listener API" equivalent here. You have to make a choice.
>if you are implying government is the alternative

I implied nothing on purpose, though I understand people will find meaning in other's words on their own.

What sort of solutions do you have in mind, if not governmental? Or do you not think solutions are necessary (that this isn't a problem)?
Same here. Slack is working great though.
Some thoughts from anandtech:
"The agreement between AMD and Intel is that Intel is buying chips from AMD, and AMD is providing a driver support package like they do with consoles. There is no cross-licensing of IP going on: Intel likely provided AMD with the IP to make the EMIB chipset connections for the graphics but that IP is only valid in the designs that AMD is selling to Intel"[1]

[1]https://www.anandtech.com/show/12003/intel-to-create-new-8th...
YouTube removed the KRACK video because it contains Harmful or dangerous content
Maybe the problem can be reframed?

> the problem is more for processes. Things like "How do I create a build from my commit?"

With well set up CI and automated builds, would you need this documentation at all? Could other processes which you currently document also be automated?

In my (limited) experience there's no great way to handle documentation, apart from reducing the need for it as much as possible.

The team I'm on (as a PM, I'm not a programmer) used to use Confluence for almost all technical documentation, apart from the odd Readme file. We use it for product, product range and other team documentation too, which makes choosing sensible top level hierarchy difficult! I don't recommend trying this.

But we finally have decent automated builds in place, and it's made a world of difference. We will soon have decent CI set up too (with Gitlab), at which point lots of project specific technical documentation will move to Gitlab wikis, living alongside the repo it relates to.
Yeah, it's pure clickbait.
>>Consolidated money is power. The only way that capitalism can work long term is if there are rules actively countering/fighting using that power to change the rules.

Yes. This is why I'm in favor of term limits, as well as a rule that outlaws "revolving doors"[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
> Math is written for humans to read. Programs are written for computers to read. What's good for one, is very bad for the other.

If programs were written for computers to read, we would still be writing them in machine language. Quite the contrary - programming language design is to a large degree a human-interface problem, because programs are primarily written to be read by humans: our teammates, our successors, even ourselves, coming back to the project after working on something else.

The existence of Brainfuck demonstrates that computers are indifferent to the qualities which make a programming language useful or legible to humans.

The irony in your comment that "math is written for humans to read" is that I find traditional math notation to be practically illegible. I typically cannot make any sense out of the pseudocode in a CS paper until it has been translated out of traditional math notation into some more familiar, programming-language-style notation.
> Are people actually looking to buy a computer for an Intel CPU? I have honestly never met anyone that said "I need my computer to be Intel Inside™ ".

I've had friends go out to buy a computer and insist on an i7 because "it is the best."

Same people who buy the newest Samsung Galaxy every year.
Makefile with Python
Has everyone decided to drop ie?

Maybe some consumer sites aimed at smartphone-wielding younger audiences can now get away with dropping IE completely. Maybe some sites aimed at very small businesses too.

If you're aiming at older individuals or at medium to large organisations, not a chance.
USA can make it illegal probably but they will not (treaties? And /or a total breakdown of the current system.)

Should Apple pay 35% if they can legally pay 5%, with some maneuvering?

Then we can ask: Why not pay 50% since they're really profitable?
Sci-Hub is not a Journal itself. It is hosting other Journals' data. However https://www.plos.org/ does exist and it is a free to access Journal. Unfortunately it is pay to publish. I am unaware of any completely free Journal on both the reader and author end.
Please, Google, I don't care about related articles while I'm reading this one, bugger off.
They do have a consensus about these things among their users. Virtually no one wants their password manager to not work or for third-party marketers to be able to track them more easily.

The people who disagree are third-parties who want to impose their own preferences on Chrome's users. Their opinions should not be taken into account because they are not Chrome's users.
Not using a "massive well-designed office" would be a start. They probably didn't need 200 people, either.

If you will look at most tech companies, they are poorly run. Github lost $66 million in 2016 hosting code. You don't gotta be Warren Buffet to know that something is wrong with that setup.

The greed aspect comes into the everything needs to be big, because for too many companies the end goal is not the product, but money. That's greed. That's not just a failing of morality but a practical failure of building sustainable businesses.
If you consider yourself pretty good at Concurrency with first-hand production experience (preferably at a top-tier tech company), and also like to teach in general, then we'd love to talk to you!

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I think his comment is more that the Joycon syncing is a bit more complicated; as they have ~4 separate modes of operation - Attached, Attached to charging-controller, separate-but-together, and separate.

You can get into scenarios where things are 'off', but nothing 10 y/o me wouldn't have figured out quickly I think. It is pretty well done overall; much better than the bottom charging port.
Maybe. I am getting a weird issue when trying to open a page for research I am doing for paid work. I can't get to the page and it offers to open as a PDF or something and then fails to open anything. Just more error messages follow.
"Assholes"? Did we really stoop so low on HN that insulting other developers is acceptable now?
Same here, been crawling since around 1pm EST
Yep, in Mississauga (just west of Toronto) using Bell, most sites are slow or don't load at all. Can't see a pattern yet though.
Sure, but that's because Microsoft likely makes virtually no money off the sale of a console. [0] They need to make the cost of advertising and risk taking back somewhere, and accessories is one way they do that.

Also, with regards to the retail markup, big brands generally do not sell directly to department stores, they will rent the space out instead.

[0] https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/251038-theres-no-profit-m...
Everything loading blazing fast (Romania).
I see where you're coming from (we're in agreeance that Apple is paying what the law says they owe), I think what people are discussing is that these loopholes probably shouldn't exist (i.e. that the spirit of the law is Apple should be paying ~30% tax on ALL profits, instead of just 50% of profits).
Yeah - they do solve different problems. We recently switched our production app to using both (from strictly bourbon/neat grids) and it's made life so much simplier.
Seems like the UK and Germany are under relatively heavy load right now.

https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/solutions/intelligent-platform/...
I would second distributed systems. I regret not taking more classes on the subject in grad school.
So even less competition in this space? Sounds great!
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For many years there was a site called the Internet Health Report which would show packet loss and problems between multiple carriers. It was pretty useful until Dynatrace deep-sixed it this year.

I haven't found a suitable replacement, would be interested to hear any suggestions.
> For example, a sufficiently powerful supercomputer could calculate how the state of the universe evolves over time
without interpreting what is happening in human terms.

Hasn't it been understood for a long time that quite a bit of things were entirely non-deterministic ? eg radioactive decay. You could compute a possible state, but the universe is a sequence of state spaces.
The exact same issue arises with laundered cash. Nothing revolutionary here
Right. The whole problem disappears if you just define a new function name.
Government, by definition, has total power over it's space. That power is systematically reduced by the law (every positive individual right is a restriction on government). Reductions (law) are enacted by the people (in the US, the members of Congress are "the people"). If we can speak, if we can vote, then we have, theoretically, the ability to set the dial of government power anywhere from 0 (Somalia) to totality (North Korea).

There are obvious constraints on this slider. Set the slider too low, and a weak government is vulnerable to take-over. Set too high, the people are oppressed, unhappy, and will revolt.

The West's slider is pretty firmly in the middle, although it's uneven from policy to policy (it's set very low on gun ownership; it's set very high on commercial flying).

The US Federal government could acquire far more power in a variety of ways. For example, they could federalize local law-enforcement. They could run drones within our borders, for both surveillance and assassinations. They could outlaw independent media and control all media output (a la Russia). They could require us all to carry Federal ID and require us to show this ID to any law-enforcement on-demand, for any reason. They could require us to run special DRM/tracking software in our smartphones, and fine/jail us if we remove it.
Thanks for the info. How on earth could Comcast have a single point of failure for their entire network nation-wide?

Would this suggest that there's possibly something like a MITM attack going on that's hijacking their traffic somewhere?
Not really. Berkeley's idealism contests the objectivity of reality, while here we are presented with another view of the foundation of the (objective) material world.
The overwhelming evidence is that 1) this is not the case and 2) that it's been improvements to access rather than intensity of medical care that have had the biggest impacts.

This is a major component of Robert J. Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth. Effectively, medical progress in the U.S. halted roughly in the 1960s and 1970s, with a very small number of exceptions.

If you go back to the bigger picture, virtually all improvements in healthcare outcomes were made prior to 1920, and those largely constituted public health, sanitation, and nutritional improvements. Laurie Garrett attributes 85% of the improvements in lifespan to public health, rather than acute medical treatments.

Improved pre-natal, natal, and childhood circumstances (medical, nutrition, nurturing, nutrition, and safety), overall safety improvements, environmental regulation, and reductions in high-risk behaviours (smoking, drinking, indiscriminate and unprotected sex, injected drugs) have all had major impacts.

Joel Mokyr notes that the truly effective medical advances are tremendously underreported in GDP statistics as the measurement basis is cost rather than benefit.

Sorry, but this turns out to be a tremendous and highly-repeated canard.
It broke our web apps. Specifically, drag and drop list reordering functionality and image cropping. I was pissed when it happened. It wasn't a change that a typical content site would be broken by, but a lot of web apps were: drag/drop reordering isn't a very unusual feature these days.
It appears to be a Comcast issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637412
I feel like people hear the word 'cryptocurrency' and ignore all of the well established risks of currency speculation as an investment strategy.
https://twitter.com/ReportOutage/status/927600102918811648 shows a problem with Comcast.

That tweet links to http://outage.report/comcast .
I've run it in production, with the ms-prefixed workarounds. It actually wasn't too bad to get that going, but I look forward to not needing that.
Because the problem seems to be with the corporate website, which is none of the above.
This is why I favor making our representatives an actual representative population using random selection.

Our current selection process overwhelmingly favors white male lawyers who are good at talking corporations into giving them money for their election campaigns.
> So there is no need for actual hardware on which the universe runs to exist

You may enjoy the science fiction book Permutation City