skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about actual usage. Extremely bright, white LEDs. They should have used softer lights.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03043...
A simple search for steroids side effects will confirm this.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/anabolic-steroid-misuse/

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/ster...
What will this do to Tor, which can't route UDP?
Er...then the employee is fired, if the employer is in a state that has no protections for political speech at work. I don’t understand this question. Is it your belief that white managers never fire black employees?
Checkout https://library.artstor.org

They opened up a bunch of university collections this summer. Their institution subscription gives students access to millions of images for research.
<blink>Thanks for the memories</blink>
First, determine your tolerance. How much does downtime per min cost you? How long can you be down? A lot of the time it may be cheaper to apologize to your customers than build a truly reliable system.

Then start looking at points of failure and sort them based on severity and probability. Is your own software deployment going to generate more downtime per year than a regional aws outage?

There are formal academic ways to determine what your overall availability is, but don't have those on hand. Suffice to say, it takes significant research, planning, execution, and testing to ensure a target availability. (See Netflix https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/the-netflix-simian-army-... ) if someone says they have 99.9% or better up time, they had better have proof in my mind (or a fat SLA violation payout)

People outsource to cloud providers not because they are cheap, but because managing infra in house is hard. Also move fast and break things.

Read AWS docs about availability, there are availability zones in a region, spread across those to minimize impact. Then test when something goes down. Fix/repeat.
can't be explained, or outright shouldn't work, according to statistical theory

When people invented a steam powered engine, some other people had probably said: "Modern physics can't explain how it works. It shouldn't work. It's too complicated". Then a few decades later physicists discover laws of thermodynamics.
Yeah, AWS has never had a global outage, Google has had 2 now.
What about a Niagra T1? All eight cores share a single floating point execution unit. They literally can't be clocked separately. And it's not like they're eight "cores" that are really eight SMT threads that are veneers of the same core. They are completely separate cores except the floating point unit.
Anecdotally, this can happen without it being the building per se.

When I worked in a cubicle farm, cubicles were not necessarily cleaned out if someone left. I have serious health issues, including respiratory problems, and I'm very sensitive to dust, germs, etc. My immediate boss was asthmatic and yadda.

There was an abandoned cubicle very near both of us that had about two linear feet of papers in it. They were covered in a visible layer of dust. I concluded this was negatively impacting my health. I knew no one would believe me or care. Everyone always acts like I have an overactive imagination.

I began quietly carting the papers out. Anything still usable got redistributed and re-used. Anything in such bad shape it couldn't be mailed to customers got dumped in the recycling bins a handful at a time.

It probably took me a week or two to do this in small enough amounts at a time so that no one would notice what I was doing. My asthmatic boss was on like round three of antibiotics for bronchitis that wouldn't clear up. After all the musty, dusty papers were removed, she "coincidentally" finally got better.
I get that, but consumer electronics are focused on the average consumer, who doesn't want that. And they're cheap because the people making them relentlessly focus on price optimization, not add-on features for niche markets.

I reverse-engineered the protocol for a cheap vacuum [1], and it's my professional opinion that the protocol is pretty slapdash. It works well enough for the intended use, but has a bunch of rough edges. It clearly wasn't made with randos like me in mind, and making a good consumer API would have been a bunch more engineering work. Plus documentation and support. That would take money and time, and this was Wirecutter's #1 recommended vacuum because it was cheap for what you got.

It isn't anymore, though, because one of their competitors dropped the wifi connection and put the money into other features that general-audience consumers cared more about. "The most obvious downside is that the 11S doesn’t have Wi-Fi, so you can’t control it from your phone or with voice commands. We’ve asked around and were surprised to find that actually, most people are pretty lukewarm on Wi-Fi control anyway." [2]

So I too like tinker-friendly features. But the economics of mass production being what they are, I expect I'll generally have to pay niche-audience prices for them.

[1] https://github.com/wpietri/sucks/blob/master/protocol.md

[2] https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-robot-vacuum/
Ask HN: Has anyone managed to regain their attention span/ability to focus?
My attention span is absolutely terrible. I can spend maybe 30 minutes focused on Deep Work (as coined by Cal Newport).

Has anyone managed to regain their attention span to a point where they can engage in deep work for large blocks of time? If so, how did you do it?
Been playing with Lektor. The advantage is the ability to define data structures for different pages.
The PCB tutorials by Chuck Adams(K7QO) on YT are pretty good and go over a unique PCB style that he calls MUPPET. Zero thru-hole mounting, but uses thru-hole parts (and SMD sometimes). His tutorials also go over creating the print transfer using a small lamination machine rather than a hot clothes iron. I recommend checking out the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6AmT1trO60
For those interested:

https://soundcloud.com/lastpodcastontheleft/episode-300-jone...

I'd note that it's very intense, but worth the six hours. It really tries to get at the underlying thinking behind those involved in this kind of thing.
It's a fair point. I think I'm just cautious about who decides where the line is between a valid cause and a harmful one involving misinformation and whatnot.

At the same time, I also think corporations should be able to fire people for no reason at all.
This is an odd perspective for me. Most buildings built from 1960's onward relied heavily on HVAC systems for conditioning the indoors. I would say the emphasis on energy efficiency has spurred the opposite, to reduce reliance on HVAC systems by taking advantage of passive energy strategies (daylighting, solar gain etc).

Also now we have much more progressive building codes specify some minimum rate of outdoor air flow (ventilation) to make sure the air doesn't get too stagnant.

Caveat: this works best if you're in a moderate climate or season, then the energy efficiency strategy will likely entail trying to take advantage of outdoor air for ventilation, and also for passive conditioning if possible. If you're in a in harsh climate, yes the HVAC engineers are going to try and recover conditioned air through recirculation.
To be clear, this became a bigger issue because HTTP/2 moved to “1 TCP connection per origin with all requests multiplexed on it”. There has always been head of line blocking in tcp, however H2 compounded it since it now impacts all requests to the origin instead of just a few requests in one of four or one of six tcp connections to origin. H2 effectively moved the problem to TCP (really just made underlyubg problem more impactful). Quic is an attempt to solve the TCP problem
Underscores usually means underline the words they're around. I believe underlining book titles is a MLA format thing (brb highschool english class flashbacks).
I tend to like these sorts of questions, really shows you how much a person understands about a system. I also like it when its asked of me, though I always wonder how much a rant about the things I've experienced setting up Nomad/Consul/Vault would be productive.
With all the money generated by the financial services industry in NY, I wonder if some future forward politician from another less prosperous state could find it in their heart to make their state a safe haven for new financial services based on cryptocurrency. It seems like the argument could be made that it'll create a better set of jobs than that foxconn deal in Wisconsin.
U Illinois got stock in Netscape, even though no NCSA Mosaic code was used in Netscape's codebase.
interesting anecdote. any recommended sources?
An Emergency USB for When You're Stuck on Windows
Where do you think that canned and baking fruit comes from? It's grown just the same.
Everybody lies, but at least its for a good cause. The Potemkin village of everyone putting in there most effort. Its one huge show of work hard, not smart.
The incident with the UI (where we suggested using gcloud temporarily) was opened in https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/container-engine/18..., but then what sure looks to me like the same incident was closed in https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/container-engine/18....

My working assumption is that 18006 should have closed out 18005. But now it sounds like there's a different issue, which we're working to get to the bottom of.
> What would a small business do as a contingency plan?

Depends on your definition of small. If it's small enough not to have a dedicated infrastructure team designing multicloud solution, then the contingency plan may be: switch DNS to a static site saying "we're down until AWS fixes the issue, check back later".

Otherwise it depends on your specific scenario, your support contracts, and lots of other things. You need to decide what matters, how much the mitigation costs vs downtime, and go from there.
Exit nodes would be the only part that needs to support it.
For instance, combines are often a hired service http://www.hpj.com/archives/wheat-harvesting-becomes-way-of-...
We invested early in being multi-region on GCP as well as multi-cloud with AWS as a fully redundant option if it ever became necessary to fail over to them.
Yes, the quotes are because the name is intentionally misleading, not to suggest you'll necessarily see it as an ingredient (although it is listed as such sometimes). Soybean, canola, corn, safflower, sunflower and cottonseed oils are the typical toxic "vegetable oils" that should be avoided.

>(even “vegetable oil” itself lists the actual specific oil or oils used,

Often it just provides a list of oils the company uses, and you have no idea which one or how much of which ones is in the particular container you're looking at. There's plenty of "soybean and/or canola oil" out there.
Reposting the same Show HN with a different user ID is strange though. It's supposed to be personal work
Daylight lamps make a big difference to my mood. Placing on of those on the side of your desk may help with mood and making the working space feel less cooped up.

Plants are also a great idea. If you have a fixed desk location you can get pretty elaborate with fairly high-maintenance potted plants (since you're next to them all the time).

Scheduling exercise during your lunch break, if possible, should also help.
Same question... why would you do that?
AWS is super stable most of the time. I have been running k8s over EC2 (not eks) for a year and works like a charm.
I've even run experiments using spot instances and it's pretty good (no guarantee there of course).
A torrent would be nice.
I wouldn't think changing jobs requires changing the chip. The original employer can simply mark ID#x as being invalid for access, and the new employer can mark ID#x as being valid.

That's not to say I'm for this. I'm reading the article, and I'm going WTF UK? _1984_ and _Brave New World_ were warnings, not manuals!
That's what I meant by "CPUs fundamentally attack memory latency differently than GPUs do"; they rely on their relatively smart caches and prefetching logic to reduce bandwidth explosion from all of the cores, and the latency of accessing external DRAM.

Of course if you thrash your cache on a modern general purpose CPU, you're going to have a really bad time. Pretty much if you're getting close to worse case memory access like in your example, you need to step back and re evaluate quite a few of your choices.
Right it can work for part of the workflow for specific things like detail work with the pencil. What I find challenging is actually finding a smooth workflow that it’s not wasting time trying to get the iPad to do what I want. I feel like I spend most of my time working around it’s limitations so it’s hardly worth it (for me). Maybe that will improve with time though.

I also don’t really use iCloud Drive, maybe that would make things easier as one of the biggest problems is simply getting the things you want on the iPad ON the iPad. Importing photos for example, you have to import into photos and then double import to Lightroom.
It's super weird that you would blanket say it is not true without doing a quick investigation yourself. What happened there?
Peter Jackson and team’s painstaking restoration of WWI footage
World energy production: 168,519TWh

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

Bitcoin mining energy consumption: 73.12TWh

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Percentage: 0.0433897661%

I wish people would actually do some research before making hyperbolic statements like this.

edit (percent fix and formatting)
Have you read the whole thread? According to MW Upwork even said they have no real limit it's just guesswork and apparently the laws also don't have any tangible limits (bu t that's not really an argument, I agree).
What's wrong with SCTP?
But moving the solution away from TCP into something new (in this case userland UDP-based QUIC) would make sense if (and probably only if) the overhead of QUIC connections + request bookkeeping is lower in memory and CPU usage (ideally both) than just establishing multiple TCP connections.

Right?
I can assure you that's not the case! Also, while people like to repeat this meme, Google Cloud does have a formal deprecation policy (https://cloud.google.com/terms/), whose intent is to give you some assurances.

(I work at Google, on GKE, though I am not a lawyer and thus don't work on the deprecation policy)
I need a club to talk about this asap
Coming soon to an airport near you: the e-implant gates.
Off the top of my head: food, cars, stocks, land, gasoline, scrap metal.
That's very inefficient as it is essentially creating backup TCP connections to get around the fact that TCP might not behave well in certain situations.

On mobile, it is meant to use an entirely separate network backbone (wifi vs LTE) so doesn't offer much benefits when you're limited to a single type.
CPUs do no thermodynamic work. They do computational work, which does not count as work in work-heat-energy balance. All electrical energy consumed by CPU turns into increased internal energy of the surroundings, which is, in short, called heat.
If all your competitors are down too, the equation changes, no?
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Question to Google employees:

Why do you guys suffer global outages? This is your 2nd major global outage in less than 5 years. I’m sorry to say this, but it is the equivalent of going bankrupt from a trust perspective. I need to see some blog posts about how you guys are rethinking whatever design can lead to this - twice - or you are never getting a cent of money under my control. You have the most feature rich cloud (particularly your networking products), but down time like this is unacceptable.
Had it affected all regions or just some?

Is there another status page Google? Coz the last update I'm looking at...is dated on the 9th..
Probably the "it's not userland" syndrome. Apparently, moving things to the userland is the new black.
If he's Finnish chances are that he doesn't exist as well ;)

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4573
Canned tuna is quite cheap, isn't it?
What boards or software are typically used for reverse engineering hardware protocols (both wired and wireless)?
Right. My use case is probably not the average one. I suppose if I did a lot of just emails and word processing/web browsing it would work. But it kind of defeats the purpose of all that horsepower.

Until Apple puts its own pro applications (like final cut) on the iPad, it’s not a real pro machine in my view. If it’s so “pro” then make your own apps work on it!
Yes, of course, they'd have to provide a port on day 1, or people would not use that mobile OS. It's the same thing if the mobile OS lacked, say, Mobile BankID (a 2FA app used for a lot of things in Sweden). Those are simply hygiene features, like a web browser.

It's common for a new product rollout (whatever it is) to have discussions with different companies beforehand, this is how e.g. games magically appear on the market around the same time when a new game console is launched. The game studios get their hands on development hardware and documentation before anyone else.

So I don't see Swish being any kind of blocker for anyone wanting to roll out a new mobile OS in Sweden. Whoever wants to come in first contacts Swish, they do the legal paperwork and then contract someone to build the app.

And it's not like Swish is the only option to pay in stores. It's not that common, in fact. Paying with a debit card is the most common thing.
So HTTP/1.1 worked fine for around 2+ decades.

Google(tm) HTTP/2.0 was unasked for, tried to reinvent TCP, found buggy and fundamentally broken after less than a year.

So now Google is pushing HTTP/3 to solve the bugs they made with HTTP/2, by reinventing even more of the IP-stack. What could possibly go wrong?

Can someone please tell Google that protocols are not Chrome-releases?

They need to work and stay working and supported for decades. You can’t ship a new revision every 6 month.

Edit: Correct HTTP/1.1 longdetivity.
Ask HN: Best quantum programming framework to learn?
I have some background in quantum mechanics and programming and am looking to get into quantum programming. There seem to be a lot of frameworks out there (QisKit from IBM, Forest from Rigetti, Cirq from Google, and Q# from Microsoft).

What are the tradeoffs with each? Does it matter which I learn?
You should probably read the paper again. The comparison Mead proposed is for the energy spent on a simplest fundamental computing event. In the case of a brain, it's a single neural pulse going through a synapse. In the case of a digital computer, it's a switching of a single transistor. In both cases, we can calculate how many events happen per second, and we know the power consumption. A brain simply does more operations per second than the fastest computer chip, while spending less energy.

You might disagree on what constitutes a fundamental computing event, and we can discuss that, but the idea seems valid to me.
Yeah, a tractor is largely just an engine + weight(traction).

What attachments(front and back, PTO) are what make them useful. Their popularity is largely driven by the large variety of things you can do with them.

Our CUT(Compact Utility Tractor) does very little 'farming' at the moment. However all the other things it does(dirt work, leveling, moving 500lb hay bales, mowing/pasture upkeep) are why we have it around. When you look at the 3-point hitch, power take-off and SSQA just about anything you can do with dedicated equipment you can do with a CUT. The dedicated equipment may be faster but you only have to upkeep a single machine with a tractor.
Our past laws and conventions — such as the third party doctrine — have not yet caught up to the digital age, and if due process has been preserved it’s because of strenuous and constant pushback from civil rights advocates, against far smaller proposals than a vast always-on surveillance apparatus
I'm sure others will recommend one of the many programs to kill the data, but if this is high stakes, the bottom of a lake or river will serve you best (after a full format)"it's the only way to be sure".
It is supposed to be for your own work that you want feedback on. Using the "Show HN" tag for a "normal" submission is a potential hack or cheat to try to get a bit more visibility and increase the odds of getting traction. When used that way, it's deemed a misuse of the tag.
But, you understand at some level that that is a 'you' problem, right? You surely have the agency of mind to not allow a mere fantasy novel series to influence your life such that expectations about it become 'painful'?
i couldn't imagine it being any other way really. co-mingling paid listens with 'ad' listens would just be weird.
Based on the many incompatible rfid badge technologies, I’m guessing a single standard for implanted microchips is unlikely.
Data from Smartphone Proves Cyclists Faster in Cities Than Cars and Motorbikes
> If a multi region, multi service meltdown happens on AWS, it will feel like most of the internet has gone down to a lot of users. Being such a catastrophic failure, I bet the service will be restored pretty fast, not in 3 days.

Additionally, from a "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" perspective, you're unlikely to catch much blame from your users for going down when everyone else was down too.
Since it's a serial control line couldn't one make seven independent strings to speed up the refresh rate and drive it off an 8-bit bus?

/me thinking it would be a good tetris platform...
I found trading on other platforms the exchange fees can eat most if not all the profits :/

Plug: to make good data driven trades check out https://bitbank.nz a machine learning prediction platform
You need to divide that £15/minute+£35 per play by the number of listeners for them to be comparable. Radio 1 breakfast show has about 9 million weekly listeners. I've no idea how many people are listening at any particular time, but you'd still be talking micropennies.
Ask HN: Quantum instruction language
From a light amount of research, Rigetti and IBM both developed their own instruction languages (Quil and OpenQASM respectively). Does each quantum framework develop an instruction language or are they standalone? It doesn't look like Q# or Cirq use a lower level language
Are you thinking of the event in April? That was not a Route 53 outage, that was a BGP hijack.

https://blog.thousandeyes.com/amazon-route-53-dns-and-bgp-hi...
Not a reason to make it more so (unless it creates more pollution or other regression)
Any links or products?
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> I’m sorry to say this, but it is the equivalent of going bankrupt from a trust perspective.

It's the opposite really: the expectation that service providers have no unexpected downtime is unrealistic, and it's strange this idea persists.
> Owning a house while it appreciates is less socially useful than working or investing in productive businesses, and sometimes more lucrative. Why should it be taxed at a lower rate?

In the UK, real estate investors are taxed. A significant number of individuals here believe they should be taxed more.

A family or individual living in their single home (whether it be a house, apartment, shed, or whatever else) are not real estate investors. Very few people believe they should be paying taxes on their primary residence.

So, yes, a businessman, conglomerate, or just an 'accidental landlord' who owns a building and derives rent from it in perpetuity is taxed in a different way to someone who just lives in and owns their primary home; people want that to be the case, and for the most part it is. (We have our share of loopholes as every taxation system does).

Is it different in the US?

It feels like I'm missing something fundamentally obvious in our discussion here, so maybe that's it?