skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hold off on AWS Aurora and Postgres until further notice
We've had a sudden crash of the underlying storage (apparently) on one of our production workloads - and because the crash is in the underlying storage the MultiAZ setting makes no difference. Neither the primary nor the replica work.

The point in time restore can't complete a restore to the last available point, so this looks like data loss to me. Points a earlier in time work fine, so might be an issue with a recent patch or failure.

I'm currently in conversation with support, will update when I have more information.
While that's a (tenuous) possibility, it flies directly in the face of the main argument of the article: that people, doctors included, need to fully come to terms with death, not shy away from it. It could be possible to do both, to calmly face your own death and also preserve your brain just on the off chance, but it tends to have more of a secular afterlife appeal to my eyes.
I've been heavily working on this lately as well. Here are my best tips in order of importancy:

1) Get off your phone as much as possible. Disable all notifications if you can except text / call. Delete apps you don't need to aimlessly check out of boredom (Social media, Reddit, HN, etc).

2) Meditate in some form. For me, this is yoga and taking soothing baths in the morning before work. Clearing your head and getting away from technology for a bit. Allow your brain to breath and think without information being shoved in it's face.

3) Practice focusing on context switching instead of "multi tasking". Realize that as humans, we cannot actually multi task. Assuming you work at a computer all day, don't have streams up, a million tabs, emails, chat services, etc. You only need to have open what you NEED open and nothing else.

4) Exercise. I've found running in short 2 mi increments 3-4 times a week really provides me the energy I need to complete the above 3 items.

Cheers and good luck mate!
> Specific to today and the article in question: The government of NYC has little to no control over the MTA, including the subways, other than bickering with the governor over funding.

The MTA is an independent entity, but the state government has plenty of control over it through the contracts that control both its funding and its expansion projects.

However, as the article explains, the government chooses not to exercise that authority of oversight, delegating it instead to the MTA itself (!).
https://forum.xda-developers.com/pixel/development/rom-linea...
> Why the hell did it take so long for the web to come up with a decent layout mechanism?

Because CSS wasn't originally intended to handle layout (got knows what was but there you are), the W3C was historically a bit of a shit-show (one would argue it still is) and had internal competitors to CSS (hello XSL-FO), then people finally accepted the inevitable but started with something which wasn't quite actually sufficient (flexbox) and still took multiple years to get it not-completely wrong, then there were multiple competing alternatives for whole-page layout (the XUL-derived Template Layout and Microsoft's Grid).

And so we reach 2018, having spent the last 20 years or so doing ad-hoc bits-and-pieces reinventions of half of DSSSL. But it doesn't use S-Expression so I guess that's great.
Making wild unfounded claims like "Small town businesses cant turn a profit and as such shouldnt be getting a loan" without any support gets you downvotes.
There was a recent post on BBC where the academics said their quantum computer will scale through modules. So they have to get a module right, and after that it will be "easy" to scale.

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-42426121/quantum-compu...

The recent UNSW silicon architecture announcement included something similar to that (480 qubit chip module that scales). Plus, they said they have an error-correction algorithm that will scale to millions of qubits.

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/complete-desi...

Google has also suggested that they just need to get the stability of the first qubits right and then scaling them will be easier:

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/martinis/

In that post Martinis actually hoped they'd double the number of qubits every year, but I think it's been closer to 1.5-2 years, for both Google and IBM. Google plans to announce the rumored 49 qubits quantum computer next March.

D-Wave was able to double the number of qubits every year in their first four years, and now it seems to double every 2 years. I think D-Wave's capabilities have only improved significantly, rather than regressed with the number of qubits. We don't know yet if that's true for Google and IBM, but I would imagine it is.
Or they could just lock down the system and prevent all of these problems with less effort... which is what they did.
it's not uncommon in some countries/cultures to see people defend an abstract "communist" ideology while acknowledging the evils of the actual regimes.

So, it seems likely that if specifically more bolsheviks were around, they might take issues with the characterization of TFA, as grandparent says.
Web development is just starting to catch up to where we were fifteen years ago. Things like type safety, unit testing, and dependency management are still fairly new on the Javascript side of the house, and I'd argue that Maven is lightyears ahead of NPM or pack or gulp or whatever the fuck the kids are using these days.

The UI side is even worse. When you compare $todays_web_framework to QT or Swing, it's like dropping into some terrible alternate timeline where the size of a thing on-screen can only be divined by spraying the proper mixture of cattle bones and chicken entrails on a ouija board beneath a blood moon.
Patton's strategy was borrowed from his inspiration...Sherman. The goal was to make war intensely in order to end it quickly and let his soldiers return to their lives. Software development is not war.
The section on unit conversions (http://www.firefightermath.org/index.php?option=com_content&...) just makes me wonder why fire fighters don't use metric...

"How many pints are in a 5-gallon pail? How many cups are in a 5-gallon pail?"
> Make sure your kernel is always updated on all of your production hosts.

And in order to avoid any zero-day exploits, always use dedicated machines, never use a VPS server.
>Clemson, where I went to school and the current defending champs had a budget of $104,000,000. Of that, they spent $103,000,000. If you'd be so kind as to identify the shareholder who's rolling in that $1 million profit I'd appreciate it.

How does one account for the potential of Hollywood accounting when looking as just a few top numbers? If you look at the cost verses income of movies using the same standards, most box office hits were financial disasters, no?
> their training leaves much to be desired

As someone who teaches pre-med students, I can attest to this! When I see their performance in my class and realise they are trying to become doctors and surgeons, I shudder to imagine being treated by them. I think easily 80% don't show enough competence at that point to have my trust in their abilities. I teach them a required experimental physics class and believe doctors should have a scientific mentality when it comes to treatment but very few come out appreciating the scientific method and how to approach empirical problems. I fear many will just end up treating patients with a cookie-cutter approach and cashing in.
That's not "applying a filter", though. The time listening is already spent. (But yeah, if it isn't immediately clear that it's a good idea, I'm sure there is less incentive for a comedian to invest the time to try and understand it).
Well, some specs have been around for a while, but nobody implemented em. For example, I think the first version of flexbox was being proposed at least 10 years ago, but it took a few years for it to get picked up.

If I recall correctly, the initial grid spec was supported by IE10 and IE11, and those were released quite a while ago.

Making big changes on the web is difficult because it requires multiple independent parties to agree and it cannot break backwards compatibility. So you need to define how it all interacts with all the legacy stuff and additionally consider how things will evolve.

Another issue is that CSS has many poor defaults for applications, so developers end up fighting it often.

There's ongoing work to make things better in the future by allowing you polyfill things. Check out the Houdini spec stuff, which lets you define custom styles, layout, etc.
Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting
>Under almost every machine is what looks like a cat litter tray. But there are no factory cats

I once worked for a manufacturer of biological measuring instruments that utilised platinum for electrodes, the lathe used for machining and polishing the platinum had a similar setup to catch dust. All platinum waste got weighed in periodically, not with Bairds though.
This is an excellent point

However there are a couple of things to say

1) If the game rules changed you would stop training for hits you were not expecting to take and concentrate on other factors.

2) I wonder how much of this training is necessary, vs hitting a heavy bag for instance. Perhaps it is just bad practice (no pun intended)
Detroit's Housing Crisis Is the Work of It's Own Government
Rubbish. As long as there is no explicit link between the money and the results, this is completely legal, open, and standard practice.

Consider Senator Richard Shelby[1]. He is a staunch advocate of the "Space Launch System" -- a rocket program that looks the 2nd avenue subway look like a paragon of efficiency. He is an equally staunch opponent of "new-space" companies like SpaceX, which don't take cost-plus contracts or make significant campaign contributions.[2]

Of course one could argue that he's just acting in accordance with his principles, and that it's just a crazy coincidence that Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon -- the prime SLS contractors -- are among his top 20 campaign contributors.[3] Nope, he's just acting in accordance to his principles, and they're, uh, just acting in accordance with, uh, theirs. No cause-and-effect here, nope, nothing to see.

Bullshit. There's clearly a cause-and-effect, and this is completely standard practice across the whole of the government, and would absolutely be classed as bribery anywhere else in the world.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shelby

2: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/senator-complains-ab...

3: https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors...
I'd rather pay for more hardware than use segmented memory again
It could also be that they wanted to expand the area they can reach within a certain timeframe.
God, this hits home for me. I have suspicions that my oversharing and fraternization with my co-workers has hurt me and continues to hurt me, in the eyes of my superiors. I have recently been given more responsibility over a coworker whom I am consistently seen hanging out with and sharing with. However rather than take that as a indication that things are moving in the right direction, I'm starting to feel like I missed an official promotion because I look like I can't use discretion. At least I'm starting to see this stuff now. I can't be filling in the downtime at work with sharing at work with coworkers if I want to be seen as management 'material'. All this and I am also just passed year 12.

And trying to do a review for a guy you talk to on a regular basis and come up with a way to bring him 'in line' with the level your boss expects you to evaluate him at? Not fun. Not to mention these evals were revealed to me in confidence to be complete horseshit BY MY OWN BOSS. Anyway I digress.
No, not an easy habit to kick and that’s exactly the issue with cigarettes. Even though they’re not really that pleasant, they chemically trick your body into wanting them.

Extremely vigorous sports is different than your average exercise. I’m still happy to assert that it’s a twisted analogy - If you compare the feeling from exercise to cigarettes, it’s obvious that they are not qualitatively similar, despite the fact that each involves some unpleasant sensations.

Another significant thing to note is that over time, exercise clearly has positive effects on your body – you feel healthier, more muscular, lose weight, breathe easier. Cigarettes do not have a healthy effect on your body over time, and it doesn’t take a doctor to tell or modern medical technology to tell they are staining your teeth, making your breath bad, making you cough, and so forth.

This was not lost on Europeans went tobacco was first introduced.
Apache usually starts up as root so it can do setup that requires root, and then drops privileges to a user/group specified in Apache configuration. Most commonly the required setup is just binding to privileged ports, but one of the supported setup steps is opening log pipes. See the security note here:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_log_config.html...
Because the NFL is making the bulk of the money and they control the game. Who else should be the obvious group to take action here?
Appealing to gambling psychology, in other words ;)
I doubt any runtime would have prevented this bug; some have seccomp-bpf profiles to blacklist some kernel operations, but I doubt any block a function as basic as waitid().
What are the preferred solutions for people that are forced to support IE11?

I've seen fallback CSS and JavaScript polyfills used.
I don't see the same. It is a link to another archive.is page (although it doesn't really function like it should). You may have malware installed on your machine which is hijacking links.
Start deep learning hands-on: image classification in Keras
> This is why I'm so happy about the California top-two primaries - they've created competitive elections in a dominant-party state.

Have they really? It seems more like they've pulled candidates towards the center slightly and relegated third parties to the sidelines even more.

When the initiative was passed, third parties opposed it because they said it would make it more difficult for them to run competitive or even influential (but unsuccessful) campaigns.

For statewide races, the jungle primary approach seems to come down to which two Democrats attract enough votes away from other parties (and other Democrats) in order to make it to the final two.
Ask HN: Can I use NonCommercial content in a site that showing ads?
If I copied some content that licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/), and placed the content to some web pages that showing Adsense ads. Is this considered of a "commercial use"?
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. I'll give it a try.
Sure. Besides the technical differences in ownership structure which you can easily google, the reality of nonprofits is that in most cases the founder stands to make as much money (yearly) as the founder of a for-profit company.

For example, let’s say I have and s-Corp and it provides me with, let’s say, 100k of salary and my pass through income (profit) of 25k.

I could alternatively have created a nonprofit giving myself a 100k salary and bonus myself 25k - what would have been profit. In this way, I’d end up with 125k and the company ends up with no profit.

The details are different but the results are nearly the same.

One major difference is that the founder of a nonprofit can’t sell the organization.

Again though, the reality is that they can be given a do-nothing role in the company and receive what could be understood as compensation for the exchange.

Sadly, many nonprofits are set up for the benefit of their founders and cronies, thus nonprofits aren’t always as virtuous as you would be led to believe.

Also, I should note, incase anyone is unfamiliar, nonprofit != charity. A charity is a special type of non-profit.
When I was in Shenzhen, one of the services offered in their electronics markets were laptop BIOS reflashes, and all they did was take the cover off and clip an adapter[1] to the chip for a few minutes. Once you have the hardware setup, it's not hard.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/SOIC8-SOP8-Flash-Chip-IC-Tes...
The scientific knowledge was not there yet, but I feel like it’s not hard to put together that football players and boxers suffer damage from being knocked in the head to dozen times a day for decades. My guess is probably this would have been figured out earlier if there wasn’t such a strong cultural desire to keep playing these sports.
The use of the laser by non-profit entities is free, but one must write quite the sophisticated (I'm assuming) proposal/experiment to be undertaken in order to actually be given permission to use it. The time and effort required there is of course not free.
Agree. Dates are good for limiting scope. Without that constraint, it is usually very hard to set boundaries as to what should and what shouldn't go into a project. There is also validity to the notion that time is money. Eventually, we'll all be lying in our graves.

But yes - for measuring success, it's a terrible metric. One should prefer a project to be delayed, but proper, than delivered on time, but broken.
Taxes on weed in CA are going to be very high, ~20%. This may drive black market sales.

WA’s taxes are ungodly high for weed (EDIT: w/o looking it up, more than 20%, that’s for sure). Didn’t seem to slow down things much. A new store just opened closer to the house, and I don’t know of a single store that has closed. Personally, I’m more than willing to pay the “convenience fee” to just drive down the road any time I like and score some weed. That, and let’s do what we can to encourage the legal stuff, eh? We collectively get one shot at this, let’s not screw it up.

But if WA is any indication, give it a few years of high prices, then the prices will settle down. Pot was outrageously expensive in WA when it first legal, but it’s pretty reasonable now, I think.

As for online ordering, yeah, that’s going to be a thing. Because the experience of “here’s a menu, hurry and make a selection from 200 different items while you’re in line.” doesnt work for me, either. One local shop offers online ordering, and the only reason I don’t use them exclusively is that they’re out of the way.

But you’re right, pot isn’t beer, it’s corn. The only reason I don’t grow some next to the tomato plants is because WA says I can’t. So the only barrier from me taking production in-house is legal, which seems to be a pretty thin moat with which to protect your castle.
Note that the AoE 2 community is still going strong with HAD and Voobly communities, casters like T90 and ZeroEmpires, and streamers like Viper.

There have been some epic professional games as well as community games.

It will be interesting if a similar competitive community popped up for the open source versions.
Didn't even click because it was so obvious. Why ask such a silly question when everyone can just nod their head, say 'yes' to themselves, and move on?
> GP was specifically talking about NYC, so calling out the specific party in power there seemed relevant.

The original post really concerns the state government, not the city, and New York is definitely a two-party state. The Assembly is always controlled by Democrats, and the Senate is always controlled by the Republicans, even when Democrats win a majority of the seats.

Both parties benefit from this stasis, so they have no incentive to upset the balance.
How are you liking it? Considering getting one to replace my Pixel.
A survey on a self-selected group is kind of worthless. Eg, their results show a plurality of libertarians, which may be the case in reality but is much more likely to be an effect of libertarians being more likely to take the time to fill out the form.
Coincidentally, I was just talking to a hack about this a couple of days ago. We came to the conclusion that 311 put alot of the issue of cabs refusing rides to bed. They aren't allowed to refuse a fare based on destination, and if you report them to 311 they will be fined by the TLC. That's not to say it doesn't happen anymore, but the threat of retribution has changed this for the better.
Make them understand that the medium and context of music will be different going forward. They don't need to make a living creating and selling recordings; there are many unexplored avenues and they should pursue those instead. As an example, I'm imagining my music more and more as an interactive app compared to a standard album.

Christopher Small's Musicking[0] has influenced my thinking on this topic. The gist of the book is to understand music more as a verb ([communal] activity) than a noun (product, object).

[0] https://www.amazon.com/musicking-meanings-performing-listeni...
Oh, thanks! Couldn't find anything about it in the article.
The risk/rate of inflation in cryptos is determined by the market's appetite for the fork/alt. Along with the even distribution of inflation (in the case of forks) vs the traditional "trickled-down" inflation makes it very different in practice.
It's actually exceedingly anodyne, which is probably why somebody wanted to use it in an advert.
Thunderchez: Libraries for Chez Scheme Productivity
From your link: Maybe the coding style contributed to this by allowing ifs without braces, but one can have incorrect indentation with braces too, so that doesn't seem terribly convincing to me.

By the way, gcc now has -Wmisleading-indentation, which is activated by default if you enable -Wall: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10875449
Have you tried Eaze? Could you describe the experience? There's a couple of online sites in Oregon (where I am based) but they don't reach my area and the local dispensary is 10 minutes away.
> My recollection is that back when you needed a new computer every three years...is that there was a whole lot less vitriol then. Maybe I am misremembering; it has been a long time.

Back then I think people saw a lot more noticeable, and tangible process across the computing space, which made the constant hardware refreshes palatable. For instance, there was only three years between the release of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. Plus, back then, computers were so new that people didn't know what else was possible.

Most of the recent "progress" in consumer computing have been gimmicks, IMHO, and consumers have also seen a recent period of blissful stability (e.g. the long reign Windows XP) that makes them less tolerant of a 90s-style refresh cycle.
Ozuna – La Modelo Ft. Cardi B – REACTION
The video example of a turtle being misclassified as a rifle is pretty scary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piYnd_wYlT8

We're approaching a world where AI will be more and more relied upon in dangerous situations. Imagine someone getting killed for something ridiculous like inadvertently holding an adversarial example. Public trust would have a hard time recovering.
Exactly the same experience here. I've started using Firefox with Chrome completely shut down when I'm doing critical work. It's very annoying.

Since about a week however it seems to have been fixed, might have been a recent Chrome Dev or macOS Developer beta build I've updated to (hard to keep track of).