skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The countries involved might not stand to gain anything, but that doesn’t mean that the leaders of those countries understood (or cared) about that.
Funny, a day after I posted this...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18429099

Is our first time actually rolling over the entire stack to AWS - and it worked!

GCP outage currently is massive, can't even use other regions.

Edit: This also affected AWS Oregon region earlier. I do not know how yet, but they too were unreachable briefly. Seems to be okay now.
Access, but usually they were not serving their IDE to the outside and there was only one active user per machine.
I'm in LA and seeing similar routing through chinatelecom-gw.transtelecom.net
> Social service-wise, it binds the countries to provide more for immigrants (even those entering illegally) than for their own citizens!

I'm curious what you mean by this: either, a) the compact has language to the effect of "You must provide better services to immigrants than your own citizens." OR, b) the compact requires X standards of human services for immigrants and many countries don't even currently provide those standards for their citizens? Or something else?

a) seems very unlikely.

b) would make sense since a migration/refugee compact naturally wouldn't have standards about general citizen human service standards. Plus, if the compact does specify a basic level of human services, many countries, especially the US, already don't meet those standards for their citizens.

Either way, that doesn't provide any evidence that net immigration "destroys a country fast."
Some of us are still tickets once a month or so over this. Kinda hard to let it go.
I like that material design. Can you share the tech stack it was built with?
Are you suggesting password manager devs start sending patches to browsers? Getting used to all browser API isn't exactly easy to begin with, let alone there aren't many who has enough motivation to wait for that implementation to become wide spread for it to finally solve a problem that is only used by a few.
Question: When you implement this, at what point (if any) do you have a user create a password?
thanks for the update! FWIW we started noticing the connectivity problems around 2018-11-12 21:17 UTC
Google Pagespeed once recommended that I enable gzip compression on an embedded Google map.

https://johnrockefeller.net/google-pagespeed-_/
Just the "last 10 years"?

Nah, replacing the desktop OS has been the goal of browser-makers since the founding of Netscape nearly 25 years ago.
Also showing up on a traceroute to spotify.com for me.
Why would you not listen to James Woods? If it's just because you disagree with his politics, then I don't find that a good reason.

Also: Apply the same standards to any left-siders you DO listen to. I imagine I can come up with some that are more egregious than Woods. (He doesn't seem too far out, compared to Kathy Griffin, Rob Reiner, etc., does he?)
EDIT: This is a general statement, I am not complaining to google here.

This kind of thing should not be possible. Are there any protocol proposals or other kind of upgrades to the routing protocols that would prevent these kind of mistakes/attacks?
Assimilation is not inevitable—see France for example. The native born population giving up on the idea of assimilation (and extolling those who reject it) is terrifying to me for that reason.
As most business's their internal code is probably a giant ball of mud that runs on caffeine and poor amounts of sleep. It works, but it probably wouldn't be reasonably releasable without refactoring and reworking a lot of the source so that it's componetized in some way.

Personally I just want DDG to make a search API that is free and doesn't require API keys. That way I can setup search in mobile or desktop apps and have it automagically be searching through specific sites like Soundcloud and Youtube and such.

Like if they're reading this, DDG is very unique and if they were to focus upon reducing costs, making efficient software, and better algorithms, DDG could be the service we shove into apps.
> If we can replace generic, low quality content...

When you put up guardrails (so many that people can't even keep up to date with what the automated system detects), that's exactly what you get. The words and images of countless properties would have to be filtered and pulled.

Regardless of what we would hope to happen, people simply ride whatever bland waves generate the most views. This is partly why we have streams of people eating and such, although the "newsy" channels would be hamstrung by this, you can imagine even the "food" streams would be impacted if they dared to say or show the icon of the food they are eating!

This is the technological culmination of capitalistic corruption of freedom vis a vis intellectual property.
Yea, just saw that same thing.

Definitely something interesting going on, and I am sure no shortage of some frantic research and effort to resolve this all at Google and such right now.
When I worked at Boeing, technical specs were built in a giant object/hierarchical database. There would be objects for Requirements, and in the design you could link Systems to the Requirements that they implemented. Then you could trace back from the design to see what requirements weren't implemented, or what systems had no apparent purpose, or who edited a particular requirement last.

When they needed a hard copy of The Spec, they could export the hierarchy of requirements (automatically numbered, of course) as HTML or MSWord or whatever.

It was, of course, a giant nearly-unreadable mess, like "Req 1.2.3.4.5: The Foo system shall have a Bar module.", and then 25 more sub-requirements that all start out with "The Foo module's Bar subsystem shall ___" -- and made no sense unless you had just read the previous 30 pages, anyway.

It was not a good system, but it had hints of a good system in it. I think it was a good concept but the UI was terrible and people didn't seem to take much care when working on it.
ICANN were foolish to go down the new TLD root. Why should Google have ownership over web.dev, and not mozilla (MDN) or w3c?
France was Germany's largest trading partner at the outset of WWI.
Foxconn employs almost a million people. When you compare the rate of suicides among it's employees to rate of suicide in China as a whole, there's no significant difference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides#Analysis

May be this statistic is forged somehow, of course - but all the media pieces I read about Foxconn suicides don't even try to gather up meaningful analysis, blaming all suicides on the company instead.
Yeah but you can use a knife for biometrics and implanted chips.
How can you do this in such a way that the VPN endpoint is not also hijacked?
We've updated our status page with as much information as we can provide at this time: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18...

Our teams are continuing to work with upstream and downstream service providers to remedy the issue.
It is actually every industry. Steel, oil, textile, food, healthcare, pharmaceuticals etc..
Pizza is not a bad diet (only eating pizza is bad, but we are not talking about that).

Has a decent mix of protein, fats and carbs in a tasty package. Not everyone wants dry lean chicken, or zero-calory veg/shrooms, even if any two people here could agree on what is “nutritionally appropriate”.
When the risk free rate was zero, and bonds not much better - there where precious few places to park your money. Now people have options again and it clear the resulting risk-capital allocation is not going to be 100% stocks.
Facial recognition's failings: Uncertainty in the age of machine learning
Besides the points made already, it's IMO misleading to think about what's rational for a country as a whole. A war can be rational for the coalition in power in one of the countries without it being expected-positive-sum even for that country. (Never mind pure mistakes.) This is historically common, I'd guess more common than not.

It bugs me that thinking of states as rational actors is called "foreign policy realism".
Between learning to accept things I cannot change and learning to change things I cannot accept, I find them both equally difficult, so I have opted to pursue the latter as it's at least mildly more interesting.
We urgently need a solution for routing traffic to IP addresses that is better than BGP.
> Buy a x86 box and turn it into a router? But it consumes more power than a low-power router, and buying more network adapter is not that cheap.

If you want to go this route, used Intel NICs are cheap. I recently picked up a 4-port gigabit NIC (PCI-E) for £13.99. I'm running on a machine that would be on anyway, so the power usage is negligible.
How many times does this have to happen before China's privileges to do things like this get revoked? At this point, it can't be just a mistake and must be some state-sponsored hacking. Seems like a great way to find out where a particular Spotify user's IP address is.
Thanks for the info. We have reports showing it started a bit earlier than that, but every piece of information is helping in managing an incident. I'll make sure the team is aware.
Neat to see an article from Pete on here - I worked with him at Pushpay, he's brilliant. The CI/CD pipeline the SREs built there was a joy to work with (and that's quite a compliment for a CI/CD pipeline!)
It's always great to go to your boss/CEO, explain what's going on, and then have to say "no, there is nothing we can do about it."
Machine guns and prison camps are a lot more damaging to personal liberties and have more significant potential for abuse by government, and yet we're managing just fine for the last 100 years, thanks to our system of laws.
I much rather trust a product that is open source, which makes me slightly uncomfortable and concerned about DDG.
Tip: just unfollow all your friends.

Then you can use FB for events and messages, without getting depressed by other people's posts.
I've used Keepass since 2012 (Keepass2 on Linux, KeepassXC on Mac, Keepass2Android) synced with Dropbox but (experimentally) switched to Bitwarden this summer as a reaction to some HN thread, I've been very pleased! Haven't used it on Linux yet but am using the Chrome extension on Mac and the native Android & iOS apps and they work very well.

I've also been using Lastpass at work since 2015 so have experience of those three and if I had to start over and pick one it would definitely be Bitwarden. Highly recommended!
Does anyone know how I can self publish on the “bible paper”? It’s the super thin yet strong, high quality, paper.

I want to print a large book but want to have it not be too thick.
I remember learning about a neat way to allot fair divisions. To illustrate it, suppose you have a line of various candy bars, and 4 people to divide them among.

Everyone gets 5 notecards with their name on them. Each person places their notecards at places in the line that they think splits the line into 4 (approximately) equally valuable segments. (One notecard will be at the very beginning of the line; one will be at the very end; the other three are in the middle where the person thinks is fair.) The neat trick is that you can now pick one segment for each person, such that the segments don't overlap. Give each person the candy from that segment, and everyone receives their fair share. And there's (probably) some candy leftover.

Here's how you do that: start scanning the line of candy from left to right. When you get to the second notecard of a given person, give that person all the candy between their first and second notecards. That person is now out: they have their fair share. Remove their remaining notecards. Now continue scanning from their second notecard. You can prove that by the end, everyone will have received one of their segments.

(If two people's notecards are in the same place, pick one at random.)

In contrast to this cake division algorithm, it leaves awkward leftovers. It's also gamable - if you know other people's preferences you might want to lie about your own.
Won't open sourcing the code make sites get to cheat their ranking by trying to make it rank logic friendly?
There are actually quite a few weird, alt mice out there:

https://handshoemouse.com/

https://evoluent.com/

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-...

And those are just the ones I'm aware of. Plus there are trackpads like the Apple verison. I favor weird mice and have tried many of them, but it may be telling that few of them are "mainstream" or widely used.
And by blocking some third-party repairs, it is also making it harder to replace components with "backdoored" ones like the "big back" bloomberg article posted recently. These types of changes at their core are good, even if they're annoying.
I am surprised how fragile is the internet given how our society is increasingly becoming critically reliant on it.
Totally.

People misconstrue the design goals of systems all the time and it causes unending frustration.

Understanding the real design goals behind most things usually leads to unending sadness.

I believe the OP knows what's up.
A comparison that isn't quite the same on one dimension doesn't invalidate the comparison... The dimensions I was comparing were those of temptation and of "missing out" on some free stuff. Still, not eating free pizza at the tech event take 0 time too. Maybe you'd argue that you have to eat sooner or later and food is already there so you can multitask it but by the same argument for many free X on Craigslist, you'll have to get an X sooner or later, it's already there so you can multitask picking it up while you go do some other errand. Or hey, ignoring Craigslist, look at that decent-looking free chair you're about to drive past going home from work...
Try selling that to a client that keeps using the test against a site that is A rated everywhere else because Google's brand has fooled them into thinking a perfect score means better SEO.
Maybe corporations don't have to be so top heavy?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Apple iPhone sales fears rock Wall Street
> There's no way to be "safe".

You're implying that all routers are vulnerable?
So... what's the current state of a secure BGP? I feel like this in the top 3 security threats to the whole of the internet.
Reading through the comments here I'm recognizing "China Telecom" from an article on a BGP hijack that was published about a week ago, I still had the article open in my browser:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/stran...

In another comment in this thread I read:

> Seems like its time to start or accelerate a working group on secure BGP.

Indeed things can't go on like this for much longer...
> This kind of thing should not be possible.

It sounds like you're asking google to solve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGP_hijacking ?
Yes, the parent reads as "Homo economicus contemplates folly of war".
It's also pretty humorous to see zero posts whenever logging in.
Check out BGPSec and RPKI - they should prevent issues like this one. They're not widely implemented/enforced. Maybe it's going to change though now that it looks like we've got a "misconfiguration" somewhere every month or so.
Agreed. This appears to be a repeat of the attack covered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18385920

I'm not familiar with BGP routing attacks; the article above seems to imply the attacker needs to compromise certs in order to glean useful data from the attack.

If that's accurate, is this Google-oriented traffic vulnerable to this type of attack?
What does it matter whether humans survive? If we're just animals with above-average intelligence and the ability to use tools, we're not ultimately more important than anything else in the universe, and we'll still amount to nothing in the end. So what does it matter whether the human species survives past this planet or past the solar system, etc?

This isn't a trite question, it's quite serious. Why do we assume that we are important enough that we need to survive as a species beyond earth? If humans are so destructive of their own environment, as many say, shouldn't we let that destructive habit end here, rather than spreading it to other worlds?
Resource Public Key Infrastructure, but ISPs are too cheap to actually implement it.
Florida Supreme Court strikes down loud car stereo law
Now I can't decide if 在地上 is really necessary to get in there. If so, the first line is:

"A screw drops to the ground"

And the last:

"A man dropped to the ground"
Then how is your comment relevant? OP only said if this guy was Russian, he would be treated differently.
Well, my instance seems to be working
But companies would go hunting this web site for random events to deliver pizza to? Again, why does someone need a middle man for this?
Most of the adult world runs on bullshit. Bullshit jobs fueled by bullshit corporate politics. It's hard to find meaning in the corporate world.

But there are some things that are resistant to cynicism, like having meaningful friendships and relationships. Or working diligently to achieve some big dream of yours. Or getting out of the corporate world and walking the entrepreneur path.

For as much as bullshit exists in the world, there are also genuine things to pay attention to and care about.

If you feel you are cynical all the time, then that means you haven't found something that you can genuinely devote your energy into.
Since the Dow is at 25k, 500 points is about 2%, which really isn't too unusual. It fluctuates about 1% a day. I wouldn't even say the market is "very volatile"; the VIX is only at 20, which while more than average for the past two years, is hardly unprecedented. Earlier this year it was at 37. But it definitely is somewhat volatile, I'll give you that.
FWIW, that link is old. Their personal website has a link to a newer resume, which includes another eng position from 2014 to very recently.
Most performance profilers will penalize you for embedding Google Analytics and Google Fonts because they have poor caching settings. What's so important about those resources that they can't be cached for longer periods?
Looks like maybe China Telecom(or some other ISP) is advertising Google IP blocks https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18...
Wow. From the people that have been botching the web for 20 years...

I mean it's only recently that they've started getting their things together. And arguably their flat design isn't always usable. Now let's talk speed....
I hope your parents taught you that too, thanks. Anyways, no its not okay for XYZ because they are invading the privacy of people's lives as a means to make more money. In the other circumstance, you would be using unused resources, not invading privacy, and contributing to projects such as Folding@home, which hopes to solve hard protein folding problems in order to better humanity.
Sorry, I didn't intend it to be directed at google.
Or the g suite admin console. Cripes, it's insanely frustrating to use.
yeah there's been proposals on improving BGP security for at least 14 years that I've been aware of :)

Getting the big ISPs/Telcos to adopt them... that's another matter
> This kind of thing should not be possible.

When reality conflicts with what you believe to be possible, it's time to reexamine your assumptions.
The word "officially" really doesn't make any sense here.
I'm not following. By your example, HBO content is being shared and Content ID can trivially determine it's HBO content. Do you have evidence that HBO wants those videos gone, but isn't capable of filing the request? Isn't it just more likely they are getting royalties instead?
True. This is like when movie studios start obsessing about the Metacritic ranking on their movies instead of focusing on the quality of the movies.
Tbh, that comparison is unfair. Stock is meant to be an investment. If crypto wants to satisfy its goals of being a currency, it has to be much more stable.
What other data storage do you suggest in place?
Here's an arch package, let me know (on the AUR, not here) if you notice anything wrong: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/writefreely/
It’s Time to Make Video Games Safe for Children
TL;DR: opinion piece suggesting that video games should be rated based on the amount of trolling that happens on their platforms.
IMHO it's not a matter of security vs the lack of it, but more around: easy, documented, accessible security vs security through obscurity.
as TeMPOraL and Erik816 mentioned, it's not just the increase in population that you get the impression the food supply is more fragile. In fact that probably has very little to do with it. It's more of the just-in-time aspect of the supply chain that all the supermarkets and other food producers/sellers utilize. It is done for efficiency to maximize profit. It applies to all food products, but especially with perishables. Supermarkets used to keep about 10-12 days of supply at all times. Now the supply is only about 3 days! That's why the stores always look ransacked at the mere mention of a severe rain. Bread, eggs, milk - gone in an hour.

This practice is pervasive throughout most of the economy and there is very little planning for any disruptions in any supply chains whatsoever. The decades of relative peace, prosperity, expanded trade, and global growth have tricked everyone into thinking nothing will ever disrupt anything at all. That's probably a mistake.

This kind of foolishness may have some serious consequences at some point. We've also become substantially more dependent on a number of nations for constant imports of raw materials and food as well. And we've largely stopped manufacturing pretty much everything which means we also get almost everything sent to us. This could be a real serious issue if there is a sudden large-scale war and a number of countries we rely upon aren't on the same side as ours. And from an economic perspective, business conditions have been pretty sweet for companies over the last 30-40 years outside of a few catastrophic events. Is there even anyone in the business world left at this point that even remembers what it's like to have to survive on low debt and increasing interest rates? Companies have just expected ever-lower interest rates since the early to mid 80's and they've been able to rollover debt easily and take out more money to fund operations. Is there anyone left who has actually managed large businesses in an environment that was less predictable?
>Just because you can prove convergence for convex functions does not mean you can't prove it for non-convex functions.

I don't understand. How do you prove a gradient descent is guaranteed to escape local minima?
For me it’s 99% about performance. IntelliJ is dog slow. I simply won’t accept an application with that level of cruft to run on my machine 24/7. Give me a simple text editor.

Also, if you have so many instances of a name in your codebase that you need automated tools to change it, and you haven’t already split that code out of the repo into a well named and stable library, I consider that a code smell. You’re building your house on jelly.

In the rare case I end up in that spot, I can use sed.
Very similar arguments were made over 100 years ago.

And then the WW1 broke out.

Dan Carlin gives the relevant background quite good.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepr...
or ISPs could implement the proposed BGP security standards... that have been proposed for , well a long time.
A normal pizza dough should have a tiny tiny amount of sugar - 2 grammes per pizza maybe, just enough to feed the yeast. It’s usually all flour and water with only tiny bits of sugar, salt and olive oil...

Same goes for the pomodoro - it’s not ketchup, for dog’s sake, it should be just tomato, garlic, herbs (and onions and olive oil maybe). If your pizzeria puts heaps of sugar into the pomodoro, you might want to consider switching.
Oh god that Service Worker bs. It's like how Yahoo's performance profiler penalized you for not using a CDN on a single page site.