skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did find that bit interesting. It seems it's missing a leading "due to the commiters' better familiarity with Java."

Since you can argue knowledge of a language does help with maintenance and extensibility. With this, it also makes more sense for the following bit about finding people able to contribute. No contributors is pretty bad for maintenance.

At my work, we use Clojure, but I do often wonder what would happen if the current Clojure devs left. New devs unfamiliar with Lisps, FP, and Clojure would most likely have a hard time maintaining the code base and extending it, and if they try to rush it before really learning the language, would quickly degrade the quality of the code base, compounding the effect.

I think as long as you continue to have one strong Clojure dev on the projects, you'll be fine, as they can direct newcomers and help them transition to Clojure, but if you lost that, I think a rewrite in a different language would make sense, or there's a risk of the code base degrading quite quickly.
There's a few commands I LOVE but find frequently unmentioned.

In insert mode, <C-x> is a contextual completion. So like the normal <C-n> or <C-p> you just do <C-x><C-n> and you can keep hammering the <C-n> to fill in multiple "words". You can also complete lines, file paths, dictionary words, thesaurus words, tags, spelling, etc. See `help ins-completion`. Seriously, I can't do without this command. <C-x> needs to be in everyone's daily use.

Also in insert mode: <C-w> deletes a word back. You'll commonly find this is a lot of editors and stuff where it doesn't close a window. Similar to <C-backspace>, though I many times accidentally hit <C-w> in my browser instead of <C-backspace> because I use this so much (bad speller).

<C-[> much easier than pressing Esc

0 much easier than pressing ^ (honestly I have anything that is $,%,^,&. They aren't easy to reach)

Honestly, vim has some of the best written documentation I've read. If you really want to master vim, just read the docs on commands you already use. I guarantee you'll find something you didn't know.
The ends don't justify the means, but justifying the means is socialism 101. Moreover, if they had liberalized both the economy and the social laws, economy would have grown even more.
Its funny how searching for "Google Down" on Google and filtering for results within 1 hour yields nothing.
My gmail it's down!
I'm really tired of these headlines that give musk credit for everything. There's thousands of people working at these companies. It's not like Musk ported unity to Tesla himself.
This must be why GitLab is giving me shit. They recently made the switch. Wonder if there is any second guessing going on over there right now.
Surely your parents also wanted to stop you falling in with "the wrong crowd"? I'd wager a lot of people in jail are good people who fell in with the wrong crowd.
I have an instance in us-west-1 (Oregon) which is up, but an instance in us-west-2 (Los Angeles) which is down. Not sure if that means Oregon is unaffected though.
Looks like a really good start. One suggestion: add mesh boolean algorithm, currently, only CGAL do this well, if your library could supports this on the MIT license, I would definitely try it. Currently, I am using libigl to do parameterization and CGAL to do mesh boolean in my 3D modeling software[1]

[1] https://github.com/huxingyi/dust3d
Digitalocean has the same issue: status pages are actually manually updated and no live data is fed into them.
That's how I found `K`. I was surprised the first time I got a man page open. Now I find it pretty useful and wish it extended to more than man pages.
Timely:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421
Er, the reason we rarely talk about Kent State anymore is because nobody defends that. What's the point in "criticizing" something when everyone agrees with the critics?

Nobody criticizes the geocentric model of the solar system these days either.
The Chinese economy is not nearly as protectionist as you're making it out to be, and it has seen maybe opening up over the past few decades. Foreign companies have a huge presence in China. Apple phones and computers, European and American cars, American fast-food restaurants and Starbucks, and Western fashion brands are everywhere. Restrictions like joint-venture requirements have been successively removed from ever more industries (for example, they were removed in the automobile industry last year), and tariffs have been reduced to negligible levels for most products. China has censorship, which is why Google and Facebook aren't available in the country, but Apple goes along with the censorship and is not only available but also very popular.

The argument that poorer countries need a certain level of protectionism in order to develop isn't new (it goes back at least to Alexander Hamilton), but as China has developed, it has reduced barriers to entry for foreign firms. There's a wide gulf between how China is discussed in the United States and the reality.
> We've even had cases where there was packet corruption at the bare metal layer,

I'd love to know how this happens in the modern world. I've seen it myself only once (not GCP, but our own network with cisco equipment.)

Is something in the chain not checking the packet's CRC?
I'm not going to downvote the comment, but I think the "statically typed" argument is fantastically overrated. I spent years of my life coding in Java and C# and other years of my life writing Clojure, Python, Ruby, and Elixir code. I've never once thought to myself of the latter, "Damn! This would be so much better if I could have static types." It has literally never, not once, ever been an issue for me.
You know, normally you still have to pay that tax - just through a reverse charge process
> but it feels like there are better ways of dealing with IED's than what we're curgently doing.

Filtration camps?
> There's no such thing as dangerous information, only truth and not truth

Please submit some proof of this extra-ordinary claim. There is a lot of evidence to the contrary. And we're not even yet talking about whether 'Truth' is a binary value.
As other commenters have mentioned, it's a state-level thing, but in reality most (all?) states handle permitting and enforcement at the city and county level. In many rural counties you could get away with this without a problem. Is it technically against the law? Sure. But county officials may not notice, care, or have the resources to enforce the rules depending on where you are. Many rural areas operate under a live-and-let-live approach when it comes to individual property, as long as you don't cross anyone with political pull or make a gigantic obvious mess.
Like it did in Russia.
The thing that worries me most about Google Cloud and these billing stories is that I’m assuming if you chargeback or block them at your bank then they’ll ban all Google accounts of yours - and they’re obviously going to be able to make the link between an account made just for Google Cloud and my real account.
> You mean like two modern skyscraper crumbling into dust in a handful of seconds which one must not mention in respectable society unless repeating the "party line"?

Are you suggesting that the US government suppresses discussion of 9/11, similar to China and Tiananmen? That's a strange opinion, I've heard lots of discussion about 9/11, there is even a museum about it.
I thought there were versions that don't work offline; my bad if this is not the case.
Not on my end. Public access in us-west2 (Los Angeles) is down for me.
gmail is down in Australia...
Calling it object would mean you have different methods of accessing it. But files have a fixed set of methods/properties.
the appearance of disconnect thatfrenchguy is talking about is the idea that designing the mold is the actual output of society despite the fact that designing the mold no matter how few people can do it is completely useless without a massive web of interconnected labor that, yes anyone can do but, must done in order for society to actually output anything.

It's not a swipe at engineers, it's a swipe at engineers who think they few highly skilled individuals are the engine of the world.
Humans are not made to be happy. That's the one and only 'disappointment' to tattoo onto your brain, so that you don't spend your life thinking a utopia aka engineering happiness is possible or a good idea.

People are 'unhappy' because they're not at the top of the social hierarchy. The people at the top are not happy because everyone wants a piece of them and they get no peace.

It's all bullshit. Just live your life.

Only my opinion of course :)
I might be wrong, but I get the sense that his parents were not concerned about random murder and rape. More about the cops coming after their kids.

Just pointing that out because I don't think you would agree with that sentiment. So you might want to adjust your comment to indicate that you would be more afraid of criminals than cops.
> That’s unnecessarily quadratic.

Any idea why concat() doesn't optimize it? Having a refcount of 1 should be enough information to make it linear, right? Or do the GC engines not keep track of refcounts at all?
I'm not sure what that has to do with the article, even if it's correct. Certain cattle getting a higher price, where in the past they may have been overlooked by high-end markets, would do little to nothing in regards to the carbon output of mass meat production. These same animals were going to be a part of animal agriculture regardless.
> VThe problem is with building a competitive stack, Huawei can't get access to a 7nm fab in China

yet

> Huawei can build 7nm chips at TSMC, but due to their ARM l

ARM -> RISC, as ARM is not the only game in town. For example, at the moment I am having a lot of fun with a Unielec u7621 board (2 mini PCIe, mSata and USB3 with hardware accelerated NAT to handle 1Gbps) that costed me about $45 : https://openwrt.org/toh/unielec/u7621-06

I would love to see MIPS64 SOCs with a few GBs of RAM to replace my raspberries
Hug your on-call engineer.
Google is well known for not caring about small shops, only if you are a multi million dollar customer with dedicated account manager you can expect reasonable support. That's been the case forever with them.
Our reasonsing wasn't "I don't expect them to be able to learn" as much as "it doesn't seem to be worth the extra effort to have them learn this skill". For us, reduce didn't make code more performant, readable or maintanable, so if felt a bit like shooting ourselves in the foot in a search of "purity".
Sunday evening is a pretty big time for ecommerce. Losing 1000s of dollars of sales here :-(
TOTP or other forms of 2FA are the best way of avoiding the very real problem of user password re-use.
Yep. Thank you.
Majority of G Suite services are suffering service outages: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
The WBO's global corruption index surely fails to take into account inter-national corruption. That corrupt resource extraction requires people outside the country interested in purchasing the outputs.
I also noticed that Google search stop indexing news articles.

So I searched for "gmail down" on bing and I got some results [1]. But searching on Google for "gmail down" does not return any results [2].

[1] https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=gmail+down&qs=n&form=QBNT

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=gmail+down&source=lnms&tbm=n...
> and of course they also disable pasting for added security.

With Firefox, you can set this about:config setting to false to give you back the ability to paste, even when sites try to block it:

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
Populist revolts tend to be very ugly in China, that is true. Like tens of millions of casualties ugly. As terrible as the Communists are, and they are terrible, and have a lot of bloods on their hands, stability in China is not to be discounted, particularly now that they have nuclear weapons. A modern-day Taiping Rebellion or a return to early 20th century warlordism would be a massive catastrophe.
Unproductive people must do pointless work or the productive people will be unhappy. But conversely, the productive people are paid less than the value they create, to keep the unproductive people happy. Why didn't Norman Borlaug die the richest man alive? Most people have never even heard of him. It's human instinct that only people of great social status are allowed great wealth. Obviously the CEO has to be paid more than the engineers, because the CEO has mastered the (zero sum) social status game. They were lucky enough to be born tall, attractive, well connected, sociopathic, intelligent, etc., and exploited their natural advantages. According to common sense this makes them a better and more deserving person.

There's an obvious positive sum trade: the useless people get to slack off (e.g. living on UBI), and in exchange the useful are paid commensurate with the value the produce. The useful are happy because they're fabulously rich, and the useless are happy because they're not the ones working so hard. The only real losers are the social status masters, and social status is positional, so they'll always be a small minority.

Unfortunately that small minority controls the cultural narrative. They can reinforce the natural human tendency to zero-sum thinking, and they can hold out the false hope that the useless can become successful parasites too. Everybody is born equal, so if you're not rich it must be because you didn't work hard enough! It's easy to fall for it when your brain is hard-wired with the just-world fallacy.

This combination of cognitive biases and active manipulation means I don't expect to see any improvement before environmental collapse renders the whole thing moot. The 1% rule and everybody else is either overworked or underpaid. You'd have to think like an economist to even see the possibility of escape, and who wants to do that?
No, the graphs are highly misleading because they autoscale the y axis to the highest point and the they do very loose string matching to detect errors.

If you click through to something not on Google cloud, you see moderately elevated error rates (e.g., Instagram is up by 4x) but if you click through to something actually on Google, you see very highly elevated error rates (e.g., roughly 50000x for Snapchat).

If you read the "error reports", they actually report that Instagram isn't down (same for Twitter if you check Twitter). The error report detection seems to be just string matching. Here's an actual "error report" from downdetector that's the caused of allegedly elevated error rates:

> my twitter timeline: why isn’t snapchat working? anyone’s snapchat not working? snapchat’s being dumb. rip snapchat.

The Twitter "error report" is literally a report that Twitter isn't down.
Thanks for calling that out! From article, “McCaffrey followed up with a developer at Studio MDHR, who confirmed that Tesla had reached out to them to port the game.”
https://imgur.com/fLNs3k0

Have you ever considered how

trains

are our best implementation

of the abstract idea

of efficient, terrestrial mass transit?
Huh, maybe i am missing some configuration or setting, but it isn't doing that for me. I'm on iOS by the way.
I can strongly recommend ScreenToGIF [1]. It literally does as the name says but packs in some helpful additional features related to editing.

[1] https://www.screentogif.com/
People must be really out of touch with what healthy food is to switch to a meat only diet. Eat plenty of plants and a little bit of meat, just like our ancestors did, and most importantly don't eat too much, it is easy as that.
Don't fuck up the planet because you think you can only maintain a healthy weight by eating grass fed burgers all the time.
In 20 years we will look back at fad diets like meat-only and keto and make jokes about it.
Hi, you are probably being down voted because your post is being interpreted as "whataboutism", although perhaps that was not your intention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I'm not sure why you are downvoted - seems like a reasonable insight and explanation for the drop in quality and weird decisions Google is making recently.
Object store won't cause Instagram to go down though, no? Assets might fail to load.
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Thanks! I see you are doing your PhD in ILP. As someone who is pondering the topic of his future PhD, the obvious question is: have ILP models been enriched with automatic differentiation? How? Did it help?

Either way, can you recommend a good survey article on ILP and the last few years of progress on that front?
Look into capsules, also [1-3] can give you an idea of what can be explored. Evolving NNs [4] would probably benefit the most from NN primitives research. IMO, the best source of ideas for novel primitives is neocortex [5, 6].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03955
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11168
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02961
[4] https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-018-0006-z
[5] https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00161
[6] https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00083
They were beating random people with metal pipes and knocked two unconscious the same night? Funny, I've previously watched a long documentary on this trial (not the new Netflix show) and I don't remember this part at all. It's interesting to contrast the popular perception of the case with the on-the-ground reality.

It seems one of the reports concluded that either one or some of the boys were there before/after the rape based on their detailed statements related to the crime scene and knowledge of the exact location.

I'm curious if the boys knew the Reyes guy whose DNA was found on the victim beforehand or if they happened to come across the crime scene during a particularly violent night in Central Park and/or were in a particular section of the park where local kids tended to congregate.
> For the downvoters, please just link here the proof if you disagree.

https://wasabi.com/
They have a incident report page up at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RM3QnuJ4FPH10J3UrJS0T26d...
I mean, it's like 0.0001 tiananmens. the US government never ran over hundreds of peaceful pro-democracy protesters with motherfucking tanks.
It may not be worth the complexity to give users the choice. If I were to issue keys to guests this way I would want my revocations to be immediately effective no matter what. Guest keys requiring a working network is a fine trade-off.
Economists aren't "obsessed with job creation". Politicians are.
what's this? Fourier transform?
Honestly this just seems like there needs to be a better way. Maybe some multi-factor system that requires like a physical key and either a secret and/or some identifying thing.
It's not so much AWS vs. in-house. But AWS (or GCP/DO/etc.) vs. multi/hybrid solutions. The latter of which would presumably have lower downtime.
Hey Dawg, I’ve heard you like AutoML, so I developed a tool to manually tune AutoML.
I'd suggest that users who care , when no longer forced to periodically rotate passwords, will likely choose better passwords (I know I have, where I'm no longer required to do so).

Users who don't care will still choose bad passwords, this is why 2FA is important :)

Forced periodic password rotation was mainly security theatre. Most users just choose sequence passwords, so an attacker who gets one can easily work out the others.

If you then take counter-measures to stop obvious sequences, you're heading into seriously user-unfriendly password policies, which is the kind of thing that gives security a bad name.

Far better to make use of 2FA at that point.
That's pretty much what I thought as well. Most of the parenting advice is unsubstantiated claims written to make women feel guilty (over what, who knows?). As if your joy of having a kid needs to be tempered by giving up sushi. (What do people do in Japan?)

But generally the books don't even say where the claims are coming from, and everything is like you suspect, quite small effects if any, a priori.

Even the co sleeping thing seems to be fearmongering. Unless you're drunk, you're not gonna squash your kid to death. Plus the sleep benefits of letting the kid have boob on tap are enormous.
What are you even talking about?

There are plenty of choices between domestic and foreign products in China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Jxci7d8UM

On the other hand, good luck getting a Chinese smartphone in the US now. Better pony up your $1K+ for Tim Cook.
And personally if I had to live in either Russia or China, I know which one I'd pick to maximize not just my purchasing power, but also my freedom.

I guess this unpopular yet factual opinion is shocking to some people: I am watching the downvotes pile in with a bag of popcorn.

It's quite weird just after reading the karma whoring article yesterday!! But I stand by my opinion.
The irony is that all these complaints about IP theft started to flare up once China started to invest heavily in R&D and started pulling ahead in certain high-tech sectors. The real fear isn't that China is stealing IP, but that it might surpass the US economically. Huawei is a perfect example of this. Their heavy investments in the development of 5G and resulting dominance are precisely what caused them to become a target of the US government.
Looks like Google Analytics isnt reporting stats either?
I don't want to think about all the money lost in paying student loans that could have been put into investments instead. It's a travesty.
Nest is down too, not surprising given they are part of Google. What I don't understand is why I can't still control my devices over my local network. Why does the system even require access to Google servers?
I’m from the US and in Australia right now. Both me and my friends in the US are experiencing outages across google properties and Snapchat, so it’s pretty global.
Tracing GCs usually don't have any recording of the number of pointers to a value.
How?

At least in EU services bought from overseas are subject to reverse charge, i.e. self-assessment of VAT (Article 196 of https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02... ).

Though note that if you are an EU AWS customer, you are not buying from outside EU, you are buying from Amazon's EU branches regardless of AWS region. If Amazon has a local branch in your country, they charge you VAT as any local company does. Otherwise you buy from an Amazon branch in another EU country, and you again need to self-assess VAT (reverse charge) per Article 196.
thanks for the response, I would ask the school but feel I'm unlikely to get an accurate answer from them (as they probably don't know themselves)
> Why would you, when it's cheaper to ride around in someone else's?

As if there's zero risk associated in getting into someone else's car...

Not to mention any vehicle I willfully own will never barrage me with advertisements or surveil my movements.

Uber is burning billions of dollars in an attempt to corner the market. When/If they succeed, do you really think they won't put the screws to the customers living in circumstances where car ownership has likely become all but impossible?

The prices will shoot up, the monetization of the personal data will increase, the in-vehicle advertising will increase, the whole experience will become worse than what the end-game of yellow cabs looked like.

I fully expect the self-driving Ubers of the future to partner with the police in arresting people. You get in the car you ordered, it knows your identity, it reports all rides to the police system, if a boolean comes back true, the doors lock and it drives you to the jail entrance for processing. It's just another revenue stream.
Actually most security professionals have a serious downer on writing passwords down.

I can see some circumstances where it could make sense, as you say where physical security concerns are less of an issue.

That said I wouldn't say a 2FA device is like a post-it note really.

Assuming you're thinking about TOTP like google authenticator, access to the codes is protected by the devices' security, which adds a bit more to it than a post-it under a keyboard.
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