skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really good reason why college should be free and more accessible. Take away the opportunity for money to play a part in the exclusivity or stature of admission. If the studies themselves were valued more than the names of the schools it wouldn't matter as much which school was chosen. The funding sources could be bonded (that's what Freddie and Fannie are- agency bonds) and go directly to the institutions. The schools would be there to provide and not take advantage of students or put a lien on their future earnings. The money that the parents provide should go to the living expenses and study supplies of their children. For those who don't have that kind of support- the same colleges should be able to offer courses to them even if they have to get a job and have less free time or continuing education. Academics have become too rigid and this is the inflection point.
Exposing everyone to the same ~25 cases is almost certainly noise levels compared to the diversity of things you'd find just from checking an adult human hand that hasn't been violently purged with antibacterial agents in the last 30 minutes.

Also, IIRC many of those aren't live viruses, so the fact that they grant learned immunity to a handful of highly risky diseases is not necessarily relevant to how helpful they are in training your immune system's friend-or-foe responses on a wide variety of inputs.
In Adelaide also. Things I'm experiencing:

can't reliably download attachments in Gmail
messages not getting through in Hangouts
constant "Oops" auto-save modals when typing Gmail messages
Yeah my host is running Alpine as well the containers so it's init needs to start docker, cron, etc.
Google seems to acknowledge the reports now. https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
Carl Mitcham: Philosophizing About Technology: Why Should We Bother?
Are there any that cover the one-in-a-million targeted MitM scenario?

My understanding of current cert transparency efforts was that they wouldn't catch "we fingerprinted your connection, identified you, and are just injecting a malicious cert for you" scenarios.

And were more targeted at the "rouge / misconfigured CA signing half the internet" to any client mishap.
I blacklist Vultr/choopa in every environment I manage. They make zero effort to deal with botnets and bad actors. They are the first org where I went to the trouble of blacklisting the ASN so new ranges get blocked as soon as maxmind updates.

Everything else matches patterns we use. WebPageTest is probably the most hilariously janky application that’s the best at what it does that we use. Standing it up locally so you can test internal stuff is a revolting experience I’ve had several times.

TBH I found kubernetes easier to use than docker compose. Mainly because I saw little reason to learn the syntax when I was already using kubernetes yamls and kubeadm makes it so easy to stand up. What you have looks pretty simple though so I may take another look at it.

You can actually ship images as tarballs and reimport them. That’s what I do on personal stuff instead of standing up an ECR/registry. As long as you version tag your containers it should be fine.

HTTP/2 is pretty much a nonissue for everyone except some janky java clients at this point. We turned it on a couple of years ago with only minimal issues.
Recycling is inconvinient. I have to carry my trash around until I can separate the trash at home.

Riding my bike everywhere is inconvinient. If I take my car to the grocery shop, I'm much faster and don't get wet, even if I'm wasting a lot of energy and causing more traffic.

Using ecosia is more inconvinient than using Google because 1 out of 10 times ecosia has no idea what I'm searching for.

My point being that no one is saying switching away from chrome is all roses. There is a small sacrifice to be made for what I believe is the greater good. I'm a developer and use Firefox as my development environment 99% of the time - the dev tools are pretty good. I do switch to chrome that 1% of times if I find a trickier bug to debug.
I apparently live in the place with some of the worst drivers on the planet. I live in the suburbs and was shocked after moving here. People routinely run red lights for no reason. Turn on red where it's clearly marked not to turn on red. Literally tonight I had to swerve off the road because someone just felt like driving at me head on. It's really weird because it's a nice, fairly affluent neighborhood with no real reason to have such a concentration of terrible driving.

Marijuana is legal for personal use even here. Our police unions supported decriminalizing it because they said it was wasting their time.
But the chicken and egg problem is partially solved by having lots of chickens already around laying eggs for other services. So I only have to convince people already driving to download my third-driver-app, and then riders have chickens. There is some evidence of this happening in places like Austin.
There are things missing in Chrome like their refusal to allow you to tab through the drop down list that appears when you type something, that was marked as will not fix like 10 years ago
Closely related to sea-lioning, in my opinion.
How about this?
1) you go to vote with your voting card
2) you get a paper printout of your vote
3) the voting machine then broadcasts your vote (only IDs) to N independent checkers; this makes your vote public but anonymous
4) later you check the printout against your favorite online checker to make sure it registered properly

To make all this work the paper and electronic trail is digitally signed with something that's only on your voting card.
Noticed this a few minutes ago. It’s pretty rare for Google to have an outage, don’t they have massive replication and failover?
Yes, the keys in JSON take up about as many bytes as the tags in HTML.
GMail's working fine for me (8min later) in Melbourne, Australia.
Evaluating Modern GPU Interconnect: PCIe, NVLink, NV-SLI, NVSwitch and GPUDirect
Add YouTube to the list.
Gmail, Google Drive down in apparent outage
Ask HN: How to scale long-lived connections with Kubernetes?
My application serves users via long lived TCP connections and users are quite volatile. They come and go without any obvious patterns. And my current approach of scaling based on CPU/memory usage are too damn barbaric. I should not break active connections, but I also need to control the cost. On top my head, I can think of writing a custom middleware to manage connections and pods. Are there any ready-to-use solutions or approaches to tackle similar problems? Thanks
Fine here in CA.
Absolutely, these environmental factors make a huge difference. Know any good studies on the effects of environment on student performance/success?
Control Electronics for Semiconductor Spin Qubits
Show HN: Data Structures Implementation in C (PT-BR)
Seems to be. I'm on the same network as others not having any issues.
YouTube seems down too:

https://outage.report/youtube
Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning: A Science-Based How-To
They haven’t involved InfiniBand in this. Pity.
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Good name too.
I also woke up during my wisdom teeth extraction. Likewise don't remember any pain, just being shaken as they tried to extract one of the teeth.

Contrast that to my first eye surgery, for which I was completely awake, and the local anaesthesia wore off. That was hell. Excruciating pain while the doc had various instruments in my eye. I voluntarily stopped breathing as I clenched against the pain. Set off all sorts of monitors. The whole stress of it and the swelling in the eye had me blind in that eye for nearly 3 weeks. First week was total blackness. Slowly started fading back in as the swelling went down. Very disconcerting.

Second eye surgery, made clear what happened and the doctor was far more liberal with the anaesthetic both before amd during surgery and I had no pain and minimal swelling and near perfect vision immediately out of the OR.
They don't always have one process though. And this is actually a significant good case for OpenRC, as it is far more lightweight than systemd. I haven't used tini.
Thank you for the feedback dmix. We are working on inventory management. We are considering assigning each donation a tracking number so the donor can see where their computer went and the address of the school. As for the progress bar, I can quickly put that together. We are not that picky, so any computer, any condition works. We are based of Chicago but we will be opening a warehouse in Mombasa, Kenya soon. Do you mind emailing us at techlit.africa@gmail.com to discuss further? I really appreciate the feedback. With regards
It will be interesting when mixed reality experiences become the norm, rather than an outlier. Digital opioids exist, and affect the brain in much the same way. It will only be a matter of time before VR experiences provide the same level of drug induced euphoria.
Done! Thank you LeonB
> TL;DR: assuming circular, coplanar orbits, for any planet A, the sun is on average closer to that planet than any other planet B, because planet B spends a lot of time on the other side of the sun from planet A, and given the way orbital rates work out the closer a planet is to the sun, the lower its average distance is to any planet farther out than it.

It doesn't come from orbital rates; it comes from basic geometry.

Imagine that the orbits of Earth and Mercury are perfect circles. Draw them on a piece of paper, and mark the position of Earth.

Now, take a compass, place one leg at Earth, and draw a circle (with the Earth at the center) that passes through the Sun. This is a circle of radius 1AU.

Now note that slightly less than half of Mercury's orbit is inside this circle: Mercury spends more of its time (in this idealized model) more than 1AU away from Earth. That plus an equivalent result for Venus leads to the finding of this link.

This arises because of our old friend, the Pythagorean theorem. When Mercury->the Sun->Earth make a right triangle (that is, when Mercury is neither ahead of nor behind the Sun), the distance between Earth and Mercury is the hypotenuse of that triangle, which has legs of 1 AU and one Mercury-orbit-radius. That's obviously greater than 1AU.
>The [vaccine] court -- and the law that established it more than two decades ago -- buffers Wyeth and other makers of childhood-disease vaccines from much of the litigation risk that dogs traditional pill manufacturers and is an important reason why the vaccine business has been transformed from a risky, low-profit venture in the 1970s to one of the pharmaceutical industry's most attractive product lines today.

>...the vaccine court limits compensation in death cases to $250,000.

>Even if they had won their cases, the families of autistic children wouldn't have been paid by the companies that make the vaccines, as is common in other pharmaceutical-liability cases. Instead, the government would have footed the bill, using the funds from a tax levied on inoculations.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123535050056344903

You won't hear any of the popular news outlets (who rake in big $ from pharma advertising) talk about this side of the "anti-vax" story. All this anti-vax nonsense is a smokescreen.
Pilots have reported issues in US with new Boeing jet
Plug: I offer an ironclad and very popular Master Services Agreement at https://msabundle.com along with other legal document templates. Similar set to what Axdraft has, but instead of being customizable via online wizard, I give you annotated source documents that you can fill out and edit to your heart's content.

Backstory: When I sold Hashrocket in 2011, I added a clause to the sale agreement that let me keep all the legal IP that I had developed over the years. A little bit after that I carefully prepared my well-honed MSA contract into a template bundle with different formats and annotations. Over the years I added more templates based on documents I've actually used in my businesses. It's a nice little passive income project.
I had not great experiences with ZFS on Linux. Like broken for a month on a standard distros kernel type issues.

For personal it’s probably fine but I wouldn’t use it in prod again.
> That would be a waste of time to teach. It takes maybe a few hours to learn almost everything there is to know

You are thinking about this wrong.

If it is so easy and quick to teach people how to use git, then why aren't colleges doing it!?!?

Learning how to use common software engineer tools is a low effort, high reward situation. All they have to do is spend a day on it, and they have now made their students significantly more valuable.

Educational institutions that do not even bother to spend such a small amount of time, in order to make their students much more valuable, are making a huge mistake.
Agreed. I've seen Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook messenger, and WhatsApp being used regularly by younger people.

I don't know how I would navigate having so many chat platform options if I was growing up today...
drive, maps, photos all having issues as well
Journey to Find Key Metric for Academic Search Engine
OSS is a great business model if you're one of the 3 multi-billion dollar major cloud vendors co's who are collectively the primary beneficiaries of everyone else's OSS investments since relatively no-one pays to acquire/use free OSS software, only to host it, so it's of course in their best interest to keep everything OSS so they can collect rent at the point where people pay to utilize its value - for hosting their production systems.

It's easy for AWS, Azure or GCP to be altruistic and suggests everything should be OSS for the betterment of humanity, since they've become the primary beneficiaries of the wealth created by OSS which benefits them more than anything else. Then use the profits to develop billion dollar cloud infrastructure moats to ensure a barrier to entry that prohibits anyone else from partaking in.

This is ultimately the core issue between companies behind developers of OSS software like Redis Labs, Confluent, Elastic.co, etc. They've put in the investment to build and support their OSS products but it's the cloud vendors end up reaping most of the revenue derived from it given they're the only entity Customers pay to host their production systems. This is what the extended OSS licenses are designed to target which are typically free for everyone else but prohibits the cloud vendors from absorbing all the rewards from hosting their software without revenue sharing anything back.
I'm getting a ton of 503 Service Unavailable errors from the Google Drive API. I can't wait to see what caused such a large outage.
I'm in Mountain View, receiving/sending email works but downloading full size attachments does not for me personally.
Yes sorry: legal
In theory, yes. In practice, letting them in and then kicking them out still lets them do damage: certificate revocation doesn't work in the presence of MITMs (and in the absence of MITMs, you don't really need certificates...) as described at https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/03/18/revocation.html , so allowing the CA into the program allows them to keep conducting attacks even if revoked. There are browser-specific revocation-like things like Firefox's OneCRL and Chrome's CRLSets (and there's always straight-up browser updates), but from a network perspective, they're as blockable as actual revocation sets. So if the threat model is a nationwide MITM by the government, it won't help you.

You also need the recipient of the MITM cert to notice it and report it. It's generally hard to MITM an entire nation's traffic, for reasons of computational overhead. So instead you let people browse the web normally, and you deploy MITMs against specific targets for specific sites for limited times. It's probably easy for the MITM to do this in a way that avoids the victim noticing that the cert is illegitimate, and also probably easy for the MITM to prevent tools that report suspicious certificates from sending that report to the internet at large.

(Also, if your threat model is a malicious lying CA, things get much harder under the current practices: a CA has actually said "Oh, that was an internal test certificate for google.com, it didn't actually go anywhere, but also we've fired the employees who thought issuing a test cert for google.com from the prod CA was a good idea" and not been revoked. So if you get caught, just say something like that and don't fire anyone, and there's a nonzero chance you won't get kicked out.)
Isn't a big part of the reputation of the medium.com domain here on HN the fault of the HN community? Why are we posting and upvoting so many crummy articles?

I'm pretty sure custom domains aren't coming back. We're on a custom domain and I'm dying to get rid of it because I think it makes it look like Better Humans is a content marketing initiative for Coach.me (domain is betterhumans.coach.me).

However, I would like if Medium moved faster to kick off pubs that were pushing high volumes of articles without a corresponding level of quality. It probably looks like I'm bickering with the Hacker Noon publisher in other parts of these comments--and that's because I am. I think the way he publishes is across the board bad: it's a waste of his reader's time, it's a waste of his own time (he has the initiative to do so much more with his life), and it drains eyeballs and reputation from other Medium articles, which then has an effect on both my own interest of trying to deliver great articles to people and of making money.

There's an addition by subtraction opportunity for Medium where they push off the low-quality high-traffic pubs and then the .medium.com domain starts to look like a signal of quality in places like HN and Reddit.
It had never occurred to me to define a bunch of select * statements in production that would trigger alerts. Brilliant.
If ever you want to go beyond Kenya, let me know. I am fully invested in Africa. I am from there myself. Born and raised until the day i started college. I live between SF and NYC now.

More than happy to lobby for such initiatives with my employer and philanthropic network.

I contributed, in part, to the establishment of things like NairaLabs and Usahidi amongst many others.

Unfortunately, I am not taking on projects in Kenya anymore. Everyone else is doing Kenya and Kenya is, sad to say, saturated with these kind of projects that they end up conflicting.

I am happy to work with you guys on a more devolution focused effort. I'm more interested in other countries rather than Kenya. I spent a number of years there and outside to know that there are other places that need more help than Kenya.

I know it doesn't sit well with people, but I really am not for creating a Goliath of tech in Africa (i.e Kenya). I prefer decentralized development where the whole continent grows together. Also, Kenya is one of the most impressive countries i know. The amount of talent and ambition there is breathtaking and I have no doubt that those folks will take it places. I am not from Kenya, and would like to see development in Africa rather than Kenya only. There are, so far, very few to negligible, trickle down stories of "Africa Rising" beyond the usual suspects Kenya, SA, Nigeria etc.

But yeah, I am ranting now, if ever you do expand to other countries, keep me in mind. Especially smaller hubs like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Senegal, where the interest and talent pool are just as great. The project looks great (though the site could use more information) and I wish you all the best regardless!
Boeing fought extremely hard to avoid having this happen, since then any pilot wanting to fly the Max would have to first achieve a type rating certificate for the new type of plane, and the FAA would have to test and certify it instead of Boeing "self-certifying" that it was a type of 737.

The determination to shoehorn what aerodynamically kind of is a new type of plane into the 737's type rating seems likely to be the root cause of these deaths.
Prawn, it probably would be. We will be opening up a warehouse in Mombasa, Kenya in May. We are currently collecting all donations here at Chicago, as we organize for warehouse launch. In the future, it would be nice to organize a shipment straight to Kenya.
Nope, the chance of success for each attempt went from 1 in 18,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 2 in 18,000,000,000,000,000,000.
The issue there is that each client/user has to download the wasm binary, unlike WebSQL where Sqlite comes bundled with the browser for free -- there are issues there as well, versioning/security, but not having to download anything is pretty nice, like the KV storage option, it's there to use immediately, no download, no parsing overhead.
It really was. ICQ, MSN, and even Skype had this feature of finding people by their profiles (country, age, interests, etc.). What’s more important, people were open to talking to complete strangers back then, and it felt like magic to talk to someone from the other end of the world. And it was nice to be contacted randomly by new people.

Some modern social networks have similar features, but I can’t imagine doing this in this age. And in the last 5 years I’ve never been contacted randomly by anyone either.
Caddy is really nice. I use it on my Synology NAS which can use Docker containers and it works very well.
And in Montreal, Canada too
Anyone seen any information about what's expected to happen to the kids of these lowlife scum? I'm assuming they'll be expelled, just haven't seen it actually mentioned explicitly anywhere.
https://status.cloud.google.com/

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/appengine/19007

"
Elevated error rate with Google App Engine Blobstore API and App Engine Version Deployment

Incident began at 2019-03-12 19:49 (all times are US/Pacific).

Mitigation work is currently underway by our Engineering Team. We will provide another status update by Tuesday, 2019-03-12 20:45 US/Pacific with current details.
"
s/Drops/Is Dropped
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Looks like this is on Android. Gboard iOS app doesn't have this setting.
I just emailed some folks images. Got a few warnings of something going wrong, so I then checked in my outbox. It showed that the images went, but there was a message that the "virus scanners were down, download at your own risk." Or some such. Seems to be back to working now, so I just assumed it was a time delay.

Edit: Just saw it again. Full message is:
Gmail virus scanners are temporarily unavailable – The attached files haven't been scanned for viruses. Download these files at your own risk.

First time I've seen something like this, actually kind of glad they had this failure case coded for. :)
Pilots complained at least 5 times about Boeing 737 MAX problems, records show
Car manufacturers RECALL defective cars; Why isn't Boeing doing that?

And hope Boeing is NOT simulating https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_control
To me, it's rather scary that even the aviation industry is now seemingly changing the UI and confusing users; HN (and a lot of other people) love talking about how much they hate a redesign of some site or software because it broke their workflow and hid/removed critical functionality, and now it's happening to pilots in life-or-death situations.
Amazon is welcome to fork and welcome to point out that they might be better for users than Elastic. But the issue here is that Amazon--like many others before them--are asserting a 'right' that simply does not exist.
Gertrude M. Cox and Statistical Design [pdf]
That page is not very color blind friendly, incidentally. The information is distinguished only by color.
You may be able to deduct the payments as either an education expense or an unreimbursed job expense, but I haven't dug into the tax code to find out for sure. I'll be the LS people know though. :)
New AR app puts women back in the history books
Can't attach files to drafts nor send emails from Philippines
Hopefully it never comes back up

Edit: Because then maybe people will realize that centralization is bad