skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may sound strange, but I found it very funny. I've had the same thoughts myself. As someone who sometimes worries a bit too much about making the best life choices, it's darkly funny to think that for all my planning, I'll probably find a way to regret and hate my attempts at thoughtful and wise decisionmaking in the future no matter what path I choose.
This seems to disagree with what shoo has found above. If the downtime is based on the percentage of customers that are down, you would never be able to know that only from your own monitoring. Also, how could you prove that your monitoring is correct when making a claim?
Swann home security camera sends video to wrong user
On the contrary. If all actions lead to regret, then it is regret which is meaningless, not the actions themselves.

The same holds true for life. All our lives end in non-existence, but it is non-existence which is meaningless, not the life that's lived. Music is beautiful while it is being played, not only once it is over.
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It's interesting to me that the update messages are posted every 30 minutes from 1st notification until resolution. Judging by this and every other outage I assume this is automatic, and probably implemented to appease the people who are probably frustrated by the outage.

https://status.slack.com/2018-06/142edcb9e52c7663
So is your competence judged by your customers, your peers, or random outcomes outside of your control? To put this in software terms. This is like a person in a support organization being provided buggy software and being fired on the number of bugs that get through. They have no control over the developers (parents) and students don't go through QA. Even if the developers were trying their best, if they are constantly distracted and pulled in multiple directions, what do you expect that the result of the software would be?
Thanks for that link, it's good to see more measurements.

Would you elaborate a bit on APNIC's data having less bias than Google? As far as I know, Google is quite popular worldwide, with the exception of China, so measurements taken on Google servers should give decent accuracy for every country.

Do you know how APNIC get their data? I'm happy to switch over to it if it's more representative and accurate.
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> This is definitely an instance of burying the lead. Perhaps the audience isn’t HN, rather it’s the engineers they want to keep engaged after their project got sacked.

As an engineer, having to parse a bunch of corpspeak to extract the buried lede that my project was canned is not going to keep me engaged. If they want to keep people engaged, they need to be clear and upfront about what's happening now and what's happening next.

I worked at a company that hid a layoff announcement in a self-congratulatory email about positive quarterly financial results. I wasn't personally laid off, but communicating in that way lowered my opinion of the executive management.
I work on React. We've worked really hard on our docs, so it would be helpful to know what you don't like about them so we can improve.
But there's not alternative to starting from first principles. Material UI and all other Ui libs are a premature optimisation that will paint you into a corner.
Would you use Basecamp’s chat? Or mostly their messaging system for communication? If the latter, I can see a case of using both. But that could also lead to people not taking Basecamp communication seriously.
I think the suggestion is more along the Ready Player One lines where the virtual world feels more real than the real world and most choose to spend most of their lives there.
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The town of Saint-Malo was destroyed in WW2, and rebuilt in its original form
This might be an interesting service for companies that are paying for software with uptime in their SLA and want to hold them accountable. It would probably pay for itself pretty fast, considering how often companies like Slack are down...
You’re the one who went out of their way to call all news technically propaganda. The definition quoted doesn’t necessarily say that.
Yep. They even try to make them clever by showing actual cookies or people getting slapped by a cookie. Even use words GOT IT to accept terms.
I made a similar comment like this a couple months ago...it seems like it would be hard to draw the line on what to include and what not to include.

I'm considering getting a dumb phone for on-call and talking to my friends/family...but if I wanted all of that other functionality I could just delete the apps that are addicting off of my phone.
It was amusing to read John (Daring Fireball) Gruber's posts accusing Google of lying on State at I/O, and making up the demo phone calls.

A simple question to ask would have been: What would Google gain by lying? And how much more credibility would it lose by blatantly lying about its capabilities, on stage, at its biggest annual event?
The incentives don't align, and hence the simplest explanation was that they weren't.
"Ah well we charged a bit more than we should have and we were a bit weirded out by working with the mafia, but we didn't actually kill anyone so really we were basically angels."

The Gupta's are known crooks. That's where the ultimate blame lies. That doesn't stop this from being a great cautionary tale for consulting companies who work in countries where this type of thing is more likely.
Visual signals and interfaces have information density and permanence, which gives gleanability. You can put lots of things into your visual field (e.g. multiple application windows, multiple computing devices, multiple inanimate objects), where they'll stay put without further input. Inherent cognitive ability even allows us to track multiple objects in motion throughout a scene and keep them coherent -- which is the skill that enables driving. Visual interfaces are very well suited to how humans best absorb information, and how they context switch given a large number of potential tasks.

A world where we begin to move off of visual interfaces will be awkward. While humans are good at absorbing conversational audio, they mentally filter most of it out to distill it down to its essential elements, and knowing what's essential may not even be known ahead of time. We'll direct voice-outputting interfaces to repeat things often, and they must be smart enough to accurately determine the context of our inquiry.

Voice output is often paired with voice input, but voice propagates well in public, leaking information to everything in range. Devices that capture speech-like input in a private way are not yet widespread. Meanwhile, structured command input through voice is awkward, and natural language processing doesn't sound natural yet. It's complex to implement and the computer frequently encounters a situation it doesn't yet understand, which is the most discouraging kind of interaction one can have with a computing platform. Factors like these highlight that audio-based interfaces are rarely programmed to be discoverable, and even if they were, exchanging that information over audio is less efficient than doing so visually.

New research into interface design is needed to address many of the shortcomings of current attempts to de-emphasize screens.
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Holy shit this is a good take. Can anyone recommend some article looking at attention from this perspective?
Love the animation and the math explanation.

Only one, I hope constructive, criticism: Too many formulas without numbers. It will help the explanation if you include numbers and how the results are calculated. Not everybody is comfortable with the chain rule to distribute the error across the individual weights
There is also this https://status.slack.com/calendar, but they seem to grossly under report the actual downtime...

[edit] note that including this outage, they are reporting to have missed their monthly uptime guarantee 3 months in a row.
Links?

I'm a very strong science supporter and found the article to have some interesting (yet debatable) points. I'd like to know if that publication isn't reputable. I haven't seen it before.
In my company we use Cisco Jabber for official comms but Slack unofficially. So when Slack goes down, we fall back on Jabber.
FWIW, it doesn't need to say so. Maybe that's what you meant? If the site gives no explicit permission, copying is not allowed. There's no requirement to have notice of copyright, no requirement to file for copyright, and no excuse for copying something you don't have the right to copy. Under US & German copyright laws, all works are automatically protected as soon as they're created, with the rights defaulting exclusively to the creator of the work. Unless you have explicit permission (which includes public domain & public license like Creative Commons) or you are copying under fair use, you don't have the right to copy anything legally.
Great message, but this is mostly an opinion piece with few technical details. I am also not a fan of how the answer is to wait for Apple (Big Tech) to save us.

Bret Victor wrote a piece [0] lamenting the convergence on screens as the interaction design paradigm almost 7 years ago. Bret explains why screens are limiting interaction design through examples centered around the human body.

Ironically, this NYT piece gives the impression that a human being is a floating head and fingers i.e. an AR/VR avatar that they seem to loathe. I hope the future of computing isn't just the ability to check my calendar without a screen while walking. I want to use my body in tandem with computation. I don't have a Killer App for this interaction paradigm, but I found this paper by Scott Klemmer, Björn Hartmann, and Leila Takayama useful for thinking about it [1].

[0] http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
[1] https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2006/HowBodiesMatter-D...
What about:

return a ? false : b;
The GDPR is quite explicit on what consists of consent.

This means that if European privacy regulators agree that this approach does not in fact means that users consented then Facebook/Google/Microsoft may be violating the GDPR.

I think this is where, at least in theory, the GDPR is a major step forward: it has clear instructions on how information should be presented to users. Now we have to see if that theory actually becomes reality.
Great introductory visualization as always.
>Same with the non-removable battery, it's not something I want, I just don't have any choice.

Sure you do. The LG V20 has a removable battery.
Zulip is amazing, is a self hosted system without federation is an option for you.
I'm confused...are the datasets free (as in for profit and nonprofit) to use and the pretrained models (mentioned in the paper) are under the UC license?
I think most people would end up choosing AR that clearly marked dangerous areas. So they wouldn't chase the butterfly into the stampede or whatever.
So, a feature phone?
He who collects the most regrets wins?
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Agreed, but the protocol does not allow for deviation without creating a new protocol; which to your point, Google did. Google could have introduced SRV records as optional components in the spec. So the lack of mention of DNS standards in the protocol is sufficient to block the implementation of a new DNS requirement.

Browsers are not the only thing that speak http. There are a myriad of libraries used by API's and all manor of automation that must also be updated to support a new protocol. A good example of this is SNI. All major browsers support SNI, but there are plenty of libraries that have yet to catch up to that very well aged protocol.
I couldn't stand the constant nagging and focus-stealing the Razer software did regularly. To the point that I just went back and bought the same Logitech mouse that I had been using before (and had broken). That's what I get for trying new things occasionally.
Think of it this way: we spend 16 hours a day looking at things in general. Over 50% of our brain's cortex is dedicated to processing visual information. It makes sense that we're going to gravitate towards devices that provide us with an easy means of giving us visual information. We're just structured that way. If over 50% of our brain's cortex was dedicated to processing aural information, or physical touch, or smell, then the dominant devices nowadays would be related to that.

The main problem with screens (and the reason why I try not to do it as much as I used to) are 1) If you're interacting with a screen all the time, you're probably not interacting with someone in person, and everyone's ability to read body language and subtle cues probably goes way down when they do interact in person. 2) The current screens emit light that at the very least probably harm our biorhythms, but may harm us in other ways as well. Meanwhile the Kindle isn't much different than looking at a book or a sign. and 3) Screens provide a limited window into another world, and at least right now, that window has zero depth (and doesn't engage our other senses either while we're at it). We don't get to take advantage of having two eyes and seeing depth while we're on a screen. This may change once VR becomes more and more viable and realistic.

I do try to do things more analog myself now though. Writing or designing on paper while outside in good weather is much preferable to inside on a screen. It's also why I've gravitated to more offscreen hobbies, such as board games and board game design, as opposed to staying on screens and programming games and apps in my off hours. Screens can let you get those things done faster, though (i.e. it's much faster and less straining on my hands to type than to write all of my thoughts).
Ok Logitech, time to follow Microsoft and bring back the wired Logitech Trackman Wheel. The wireless has a different feel and I cannot stand the Logitech dongle.
I installed this https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
Check out their advanced search:

https://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en&fg=1
OK, perhaps I'm showing my age by clinging to these archaic terms. By Northbridge I just meant the functional block that contains the memory controller.
What a nice website. No weird flashy banners, no external scripts, zoomable, no ads, no tracking.

Just text accompanied by great visualisations.

Kudos!
My IPv4 lease has been static for the past several months. It very rarely changes; I would have to spoof a MAC address on my WAN router to get it to change.
regardless of the magazine, it was not largely about technical people but about experts. It's the first time i'm hearing of 'on tap and not on top' and after reading on what it refers to it made a bit of sense to me. Experts are brilliant in their narrow field but they are not suitable to be at the top level. As to who should be on top is very debatable.. There are generally more examples of bad leadership...
Yes, if I was waffling on about how like, socialism could totally work man.

But I'm talking about:
- coming up with recursive solutions in software for simplicity gains
- noticing and fixing inefficient item placement in my kitchen
- understanding a conflict from the other person's perspective, to reduce my tension
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Canada was dumping cheap Chinese steel into the US for ever. Just look at the largest seller of Stainless Steel in NA. It's an outfit that brings Chinese Stainless Steel into Canada and Mexico and then dumps it into the US.

Canada was warned about a year ago that they need to stop this dumping but chose to continue to the last possible day they could (May 31, 2018). On June 1st the Trump administration went ahead with sanctions. The Canadians acted to late and worked with the Chinese for too long. When this was brought up to Canada's foreign minister (Chrystia Freeland) and why they didn't act sooner, she had no answer.

It could have all been avoided.
As an example, until about a month ago the reverse DNS of the IPv4 address my ISP assigned to me resolved to [modem-mac-address].large-isp.countrycode

The forward DNS still exists, and is useful (I have a CNAME pointing to it), but the reverse DNS was probably just a convenient but privacy-leaking configuration that was noticed while preparing for GDPR.
Just don't get a data plan.

Then you can use maps stored on the device and get a modern camera and lots of storage and so on but you aren't constantly checking apps for notifications and whatever.
This is all very complex and I'm having a hard time seeing the big picture. There's trade wars, US foreign policy on North Korea (China plays a significant role), and over the last few years a ramping up of discussions on how to avoid the Thucydides trap. It's worth noting here that China and Russia, and potentially Iran are allies. All these things are connected in complex ways and while it's important to look at an issue like the trade war in isolation, I think it's also important to view it in context. And that big picture context is something I'm having a very hard time pulling together. Can anyone recommend some reading that would illuminate this?
What makes something a science is actually a good question, and most practicing scientists don't have a good answer for that because they have only seen their own field, which is shaped by the peculiarities of its topic of study. I didn't have a clear view until I had been through three or four fields and spent several years resolving my mental dissonance.

I [wrote a book](http://madhadron.com/into_the_sciences-sample.html) on the structures I found. Sadly, I don't think it's an effective teaching tool. It's made most people's eyes glaze over except for other people who have also worked across different scientific fields who breezed through and say, "Yeah, that's it exactly."
You can mimic this in most languages: createFile(name, contents, /* temporary= */ true). Of course that doesn't guarantee that that's what that parameter is actually named, but you can write a lint for that (with quite a bit of effort).
Offline messaging, mobile clients, push notifications, history, search, rich text formatting, message editing, file transfer, etc etc etc
Wouldn't Bitbucket have the same issues as Github at this point? The issue to me comes down to the fact that Github can be bought, not necessarily who the owner is.
Read the quote, and you will regret it; don’t read it, you will also regret it; read or don’t read the quote, you will regret it either way...
>AWS may think it's cute to sell different "areas" in their data center

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/

From re:invent presentations, we know that even availability zones might be made up of multiple datacenters. In 2014, James Hamilton's presentation said that one of the AZs in us-east-1 had 6 separate datacenters.

I don't think it's really accurate to say AWS is selling us different 'areas of a datacenter' when we know that AZs are not only not sharing a datacenter, but might be multiple datacenters themselves.
Before Numpy, I had never expected to see high performance numerical computing done in Python.
Your comment misses the critical point though... this hits all the places that have no electronic booking systems. To those here that concept probably seems absurd because we're technically oriented. My barber, doctor, mechanic and favorite BBQ joint however still take phone calls to make appointments and you can talk to them about electronic scheduling till you're blue in the face, they have no desire to change. The goal of this technology is to bridge the gap... start thinking machine to human interaction where machine to machine isn't available.

Not to mention the language barriers. Think of a person still struggling with a language needing to make an appointment in that language. I can see an interface on this where you would select the location and time and have Assistant call them in the appropriate language to handle the exchange for you. No longer is that local pasta place out of my reach when I'm in Italy but can't speak Italian. This opens up a huge realm of possibilities.
Duplex is likely built with deep reinforcement learning, though i have not seen that disclosed yet.
My first job during / out of High School was washing dishes and doing prep work at a really crap restaurant. I used to think that every subsequent job was a little better then the one before that.

My job now is essentially solving puzzles and stopping problems before they happen. And I have time to write something non-work related while I'm at work.

Sometimes though I wonder if it really is better. My current job can be frustrating. Sometimes I come up with solutions that make me feel incompetent. It took too long and the answer is inelegant.

When I was working at that restaurant all I had to do was put forth effort. It was physical and stressful to be sure but it never made me feel bad about myself.
Thats the point I'm making... If you've mastered this "simple" notation, then you've probably already mastered simple neural networks like this, so you are not the target for this tutorial.
The real value of federation, and the value of a standard like ActivityPub, didn't fully click for me until I realized I could follow Blender's PeerTube experiment from my Mastodon account.

If enough sites start supporting it, you could get many of the benefits of RSS with the few benefits of massive silos like Twitter and Facebook.
don’t be naive, I am not talking about US citizens moving to Canada. I am referring to unwanted folks in US - refugees, illegals who are in US and trying to seek assylum in Canada.

I sympathize with the refugees and so do most Canadians but one can’t help but get the feeling that US is more than happy with this arrangement while badmouthing our elected PM and threatening Canadian economy with tarrifs and other protectionist measures.
I use a Logitech G602 and have been extremely happy with it.
Just got the beta. Looks cool
What does this add that Project Gutenberg doesn't provide? And how is an "Apple ePub" different from a standard ePub file?
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I think the refinement of saying "this is the google assistant" at the beginning is positive. Seems to solve the supposed ethical issues of the previous iteration.
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omg so awesome
You can always just... not download the apps you don't want.
Booking appointments is one of those areas that suffers terribly from a lack of network effects. Since it is so easy to create a new booking system, there are millions of different ones - your dentist probably uses a way different system from your doctor, for instance, never mind another dentist.

Because it’s easy to create a booking system, making a translation layer between systems is hard. There is no natural incentive for these booking systems to standardize, because each has its constituent users, and none of them are complaining.

So, for now, and probably for a long time to come, booking will be done by humans.