skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077275

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077293
Thanks for that explanation, I have been so confused with the term "shadow banking" - it makes perfect sense now.
Enigma/Key Length
Tone it down.

I'm pretty sure the parent comment was, while grounded in reality, expressed in a humorous tone.

As he said, he can just get up and change the air conditioning.
1. There was an explosion (edit: two explosions) that began the incident which destroyed the reactor and ejected matter a significant distance.

2. Chernobyl, IIRC, isn't really so dangerous to visit but you should avoid eating or drinking anything in the exclusion zone. Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 will poison you from the inside out. The latter ends up bio-accumulating in bone.
Dark pattern. You can register an Android device with a non-Gmail address if you know what you're doing, but that's not where the UI takes you by default.
Huawei hasn't updated OpenSSL in their cellular basestation firmware, despite promises to do so in 2012 & 2018: https://hmgstrategy.com/resource-center/articles/2019/04/04/...

These really basic maintenance tasks aren't happening, leaving cell networks vulnerable to anyone who can be bothered to look up a CVE and run the provided demo exploit code. Hard to maintain a network you can't secure :c
Just 2 weeks after I migrated a DB cluster from Azure to Google Cloud thinking things would get better.
I am currently waiting to buy multiple games that have been retroactively-limited to specific marketplaces because of eg Epic, Ubisoft etc requiring or incentivizing exclusivity.

Stadia will probably have its own conditions or incentives to do that too, so while it might create an overall increase in linux compatibility that doesn't necessarily translate to more games for linux and it may even mean less as already-compatible games go into exclusivity.
Please don't be a jerk on HN.

Please do "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." The parent was absurd enough that it was probably a joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cloud status dashboards seem to be hosted on the same cloud, which doesn't say much about redundancy.
Has there been a time when someone wasn't calling a bubble?
0 issues at compute, reporting for europe-west3-b,
K-Means Clustering with Dask (Image Filters for Cat Pictures)
Yeah but in python you would just use a generator for that.
1. There were two explosions - the second of which destroyed the reactor core and distributed parts of the reactor structure (including fuel) over the area.

2. That speck of spent fuel is still radioactive enough after 30 years to push most nuclear industry workers over their annual permissable dosage. Chernobyl itself is still phenomenally radioactive - but is far less so than it was immediately after the accident.
It's not that dangerous. There are people living nearby, it just increases the risk of cancer and other random mutations.
For #1, about 5% of the reactor core was spread outside the building through a series of explosions. (which is a large part of why reactors in the western world all have containment structures) So while most of the core is in a couple of mounds within the reactor building, quite a bit got spread around.

Regarding #2, this is a very small fragment, and there are a lot of them around. Eating this wouldn't do much to you, but 10x a day for a year? Hello cancer.
> like using region specific S3 endpoints

AWS had the S3 incident affecting all of us-east-1: “Other AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region that rely on S3 for storage, including the S3 console, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) new instance launches, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes (when data was needed from a S3 snapshot), and AWS Lambda were also impacted while the S3 APIs were unavailable.”

https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/
The telcos really want to have Huawei in the running, as their presence on RFPs causes a 30% price drop in competitors bids.

Problem is, really basic maintenance tasks like updating OpenSSL aren't happening on Huawei's existing cellular basestations, leaving cell networks vulnerable to anyone who can be bothered to look up a CVE and run the provided demo exploit code. Hard to maintain a network you can't secure :c

https://hmgstrategy.com/resource-center/articles/2019/04/04/...
I lived in Connecticut in a 2br/2bath condo, large living room and kitchen downstairs and 2 large bedrooms upstairs, all for $900/mo.
I miss it a lot
There are various mechanisms like this in place to make Workers an unattractive way to launch an attack. tadeusz_wojcik also emailed us, and we were able to raise the limit for them (and anyone else who asks!).
And yet, it is a common criticism that Silicon Valley is focused on building cat photo sharing apps, or on demand services, or whatever is the current defining stereotypical trend, than tackling the “big problems”, such as cancer. So certainly our economic structure incentivizes frivolous wants, which make investors happy and founders wealthy.
"The actual output of society is produced by a relatively small minority of skilled individuals"

No, the majority of work is laborious and tedious and it's not a 'small number of people' doing it.

Do you realize how many retail service workers, customer service workers, restaurant servers, cooks, line pikers etc. there are?

This idea that somehow it's just a 'small number of folk working' is mythology.

And a lot of middle management is brutal - though it is often very inefficient, it's still essential.

Yes, a lot of jobs could dissapear overnight, but most could not.
It depends upon your target audience. A .com is still superior for a b2c e-commerce site, especially one that caters to a mainstream/casual audience. For a corporate site there is less reason to stick with .com, especially for anything related to technology.

.io is definitely trendy amongst engineers lately, and even newer domains like Google’s .dev, with high reputation, just appeared this year. Technically-minded audiences will see these as markers of credibility, if anything.
As a freelancer, I go from comoanies to companies. Most of the dev I worked with were not 10x. Not even average HN level.

You gotta deal with reality at some point.
Everything looking normal on our GKE / CloudSQL stuff (eu-west1)
Highly-Automated Austrian Steel Mill Only Needs 14 People
Nest is down for me right now.

It's amazing how far-reaching outages can be these days.
Ok, but please don't be unkind to others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's been between 3.5x to 4.5x pretty much the entire history such data has been tracked in the USA, a bit over 100 years now.
> B. Medicine is as much of an art as it is science (if not more of an art).

This seems like a rather novel point of view. I can’t speak to whether this view is common among medical practitioners, but as a patient I can say I dislike it.

I would like that treatment options be selected and evaluated on the basis of empirical evidence.

What does it even mean that medicine is an art?
IIRC the uptake rate of Cs-137 is about 10%. Meaning you only store about 10% of what you ingest. Also, we are SUPER safe when it comes to radiation. No chances. No ifs ands or buts. When it comes to dosage, rad workers already have several safety factors from what we can detect an increase risk of cancer, as it should be.
Yes, I'm sure.

Edit: because obviousy I also go into shops to buy stuff and I've never seen an air door used. If air doors are used, they are very, very rare.
Good that Google+ is up again
And Gmail too doesn't feel very well today.

[21:55:19] POP< +OK send PASS
[21:55:19] POP> PASS ********
[21:55:21] POP< +OK Welcome.
[21:55:21] POP> STAT
[21:55:21] POP< -ERR [SYS/TEMP] Temporary system problem.
Please try again later.
Also, it's one which gets hugely understated when people "move to the cloud".

especially if you use your bussiness for B2B services. Stuff like this could make you loose your bussiness, especially if some entity like google doesn't communicate and as a result, you do not have a answer for your own customers.

Medium sized private cloud providers are a lot better at this, considering the communication lines are a lot shorter.
The MLOps NYC Call for Papers Is Officially Open
What an interesting read as a SVBIED attack survivor.
A draft does not guarantee efficiency or efficacy of work. The Korean military has a monopoly on labor of a certain age (and gender), any roles it needs will of course be filled, but from experience the arrangement is rather far from peak human output.
I find GCP quicker to post status updates about issues than AWS, but GCP also seems to run into more problems that span across multiple regions.

I'm overall happy with it, but if I needed to run a service with a 99.95% uptime SLA or higher, I wouldn't rely solely on GCP.
I've been following Bill's work on Odin for years now and he has really accomplished a lot. I personally haven't had a use case for it yet but people whose opinions I trust have all had pleasant experiences with it, and it's already being used as a tooling language in at least one production project.

So if you are interested in new languages, and especially "low concept" systems languages, I can heartily endorse this project.
Wondered why Snapchat was being weird today. Thought it was my pi-hole setup blocking something from working, but nope, it's Google!
Plus advice alone is not enough. You need regular follow up. Good doctors are like coaches.
Here or in the Quora post? There's plenty of people here that know quite a bit about reactors and radiation. Ask away.
I don't think your solution works.

Suppose N=20. Imagine the server and 19 of the voters are compromised, and are trying to de-anonymize your vote. It "randomly" creates a group composed of you and 19 voters that are collaborating with the server to de-anonymize your vote.

Assuming that the server has M collaborators, it can discover the votes of M / (N - 1) of the citizens.
In fact the supposed perpetrator confessed after he met at least one of the 5 in prison. I say supposed as he was never actually convicted of the crime.
Uber still got what 7 or 8 billion?
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When talking about GCE being down please also mention what regions you are talking about
For historical reasons Germans understand better than many others that big brother is a bad thing.

Firefox has a bigger market share in Germany than many other countries. Germans were so much against Google streetview that Google gave up and has never rolled it out to anywhere else than a couple of pilot regions. Many people seem to use startpage for web search. In Berlin local activists hindered Google from opening a new office. So not using gmail is just in line.

Disclaimer: I am German but haven't lived there for decades and wonder why in other countries many people still seem to like Google.
I am not really sure I understand what you are trying to say. 40 is not a magic number. Just like we once standardised workweek to be 40 hours, we can now (re)standardise it to be 32, or 16. Why not.

I've been working 4 days a week or less for more then 5 years already. No problems.
Whether the novel had anything to do with climate change is irrelevant to the lessons that people take from it.
If a biological process concentrates a radioisotope in something humans consume (let's say a deer), and you eat that deer, you might get a much higher committed dose and a resultant materially higher probability of developing cancer.
Just Give Me $1
Yeah, Amazon is the master of having their status page read all Green while half of US-East is in the toilet
You've already posted several ideological and nationalistic flamebait comments to HN. That's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it. Would you mind reading the site guidelines to get an idea of the spirit of this site? We'd appreciate it.

You might also find these links helpful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
I didn't make the policy, but it appears the corporation expects that you do not use any of these products in any way that might connect with our systems, per U.S. DOJ guidelines. I think it's interesting to see how quickly and strongly this was rolled out in the U.S.
vimeo.com is down.
Ok that's a fair point, and I just read the article again with this in mind. I understand where you (and the author) are coming from.

My strong reaction came from "all the obvious ideas are taken" and I still think you can build a billion-dollar company from your bedroom.

I actually agree with the author that the YC model of accomplishing something huge and meaningful and hockey-stick-like in 12 weeks is unrealistic. (I actually think it's been unrealistic from the start but that's a different argument for a different time).

Thanks for pointing this out! The core of my response still stands but I see the nuance of the author's post now.
There was a massive push after that to have everything regionalized. It's not 100% but it's super close at this point.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but disclaimer, I'm on vacation and so not much use to you!).

We're having what appears to be a serious networking outage. It's disrupting everything, including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages.

There are backup plans, of course, but I wanted to at least come here to say: you're not crazy, nothing is lost (to those concerns downthread), but there is serious packet loss at the least. You'll have to wait for someone actually involved in the incident to say more.
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For years I was told I was depressed and, as you described, “tried” one antidepressant after another. None of them helped with my symptoms (an otherwise healthy 20-something couldn’t get out of bed, sleeping constantly). It turned out I had lupus. I often wonder how many people who are being treated for depression have another illness entirely. I think a lot of times it’s just the best diagnosis currently available to many doctors.

The drugs used to treat autoimmune diseases are “tested” by patients much the same way as antidepressants. Though there’s at least some bloodwork to guide the way. I’m optimistic technology and our rapidly growing understanding of gut bacteria will greatly improve the current trial and error approach.
We just had to ask you this:

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

If you keep breaking the guidelines, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so would you mind reviewing them and using HN as intended from now on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nope, the title is about one infant daughter.
The shadow banking is fine. The taxpayer isn't responsible if a PE fund engaged in direct lending to the middle market loses all their money.

But shadow banking can and should be scrutinized, and potentially regulated, if there are systemic risks that will lead to the taxpayer being on the hook once again. If it's just isolated private actors losing money it doesn't matter.
Google Should Be Afraid. Very Afraid.
Personal attacks, which this is, will get you banned here. Would you please review the site guidelines and follow them when posting to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AWS is often the same way. No one seems to be good at communicating outage details.
I mean, pick your poison. Either the humans are more reliable or the computers are. Either way is subject to some level of fallibility.
In this case it's a luck if any are working correctly, a problem is global with some exceptions.
If we were to make an analogy between radiocative matter entering the body, and toxic information entering the mind, what metrics do we use to measure the dangerous effects of the information? How long it lasts or how deeply it can modify conscious/subconscious brain processes?
Commenting like this will get you banned regardless of how bad the other comment was. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this to HN again?
"Antivenom" is not a word. This article is mistakenly using this word to refer to antivenin.
> including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages.

There's some irony in that.
UK Climate experts ask Therese May to set “net zero” emissions into national law
They are updating the root cause issue, which is networking, here: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...

Next update is in about 25 minutes.
Followed by a GameBoy emulator if you're feeling a bit more adventurous. It's big enough to be challenging, but small enough that it can easily be done by one person.
There's no such thing as dangerous information, only truth and not truth.
>> But is your concern about controversy in this community or in general?

About this community in particular.
I've always wondered whether we should pursue what we want or what we need. For a long time I had no definite answer, but then I realized pursuing what we need is more important.

In fact, this comes in part from this understanding that there's no good or bad, rather there are things that make us happy and things that make us sad. These are not always consistent though. For example, we might get sad at something which later we find out was - based on rational and logical considerations - actually a good thing, or become happy at something which is in fact a bad thing.

Our "wants" promise us "happiness", but the joy we get from that is most likely short-term. On the other hand, pursuing our "needs" brings about "good" things in our lives, the joy of which is more long-term. And while getting what we need doesn't necessarily makes us happy, not getting it does in fact make us sad.

Two problems exist though: (1) while we think we know what we want, we might in fact have no clue as to what we really want, thus always follow wrong leads; (2) we can only know what we need after we have achieved it. It takes a lot of self-knowledge to really figure out "where we are supposed to be", "what we are supposed to do", and "when". The answers to these questions tell us what we actually "need".

Example: a person with talents in music but interested in math (in which he/she is only mediocre) is better off pursuing music as that is what he/she needs to do. What he/she wants to do is however, math. You tell me: wouldn't pursuing a dead-end job in math bring about an interminable series of sadness where the person realizes he/she can never be among the top math geniuses?
Systemic risk.

If everyone is making riskier bets for a significant, then those who do right may be outcompetes for long enough that they go by the wayside while the risk-takers dominate.

Then when the “black swan” comes the risk averse are already gone. Oh and the system is full of TBTF entities.
SAT/SMT hardness regression has come a long way, especially if you can insert profiling information for real instances.

If this is a production model for the cloud, the engineer should have put some thought into the encoding as to express sat/unsat clearly, if possible.

In the general case, sure, to some extent one can construct an adversarial example just as with NN (random 3-sat hardness cliff). Real world formulations of problems are either nice or atrocious IME, discoverable at dev time.
seems to be some comments here of some regions functioning ok, although perhaps it’s not 100% in all regions
btw, Google Analytics realtime is down as well.
Why don’t we have half as many people working 80 hours then?
What tech business models in the future might look like
The other side of this story: https://web.archive.org/web/20030202084858/http://www.weirdr... I'm sure some hear will object to the tone of the article I am linking to, but if you are going to flag or downvote please tell me what the article gets factually wrong. Because regardless of any bias in attitude of the article's author, if the facts in the linked article are true (eg, Salaam admitting in court that he was carrying a 12" iron pipe, Kevin saying immediately upon apprehension: "Antron did it. The murder" before the police even knew a women had been left for dead in the bottom of a ditch) then at the very least the narrative is way more complicated than the New York Times narraitve that the "police were horrible racists, the arrested kids are totally blameless, 'heroes' even." (And note: it is fully possible that the police did in fact abuse their power to get a bogus rape conviction but also that these kids are not heroes, that they committed truly horrible assaults that night.)
Yes, much easier to tinker with a more barebones system. The downside of powerful toolchains is often their complexity. So there's a difference between one being better for shipping code and one better for learning.
Github contribution graphs are also gone
So is Youtube.
Systematic problem solving. I like it
Haskell's syntax is pretty minimal:

f 0 = doThing
f 1 = otherThing
f _ = doDefault
Any more, what I feel I want is XFCE with Xmonad / DWM style tiling that I don’t have to hack together.

I’m considering taking another look at KDE with the tiling KWin extension, since KDE seems to be the center of mass for innovation in 90s style WIMP interfaces.

EDIT: I’ll add that the GTK software world seems to be driving towards hamburger-ization, which makes me wonder how much software of the future will integrate cleanly with XFCE. I’m not sure that the Mint and XFCE people have enough mass to keep fighting the good fight forever.

KDE is starting to seem like a pragmatic long-term bet.
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I disagree having read about people who work as content moderators for websites like YouTube. They frequently suffer from acute forms of PTSD having only passively consumed information. If information can cause PTSD, I would consider that information dangerous to one's mental health.
FWIW they might still be.
I stand by my comment. Although officially it’s called “Skyborg”.

[1] - https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a26871027...
Create your own company then.
10 months in. Dealing with churn.
Tiananmen Square: China minister defends 1989 crackdown
Oh, I don't mind adversarial examples. As a user of SMT solvers (for semi-automated program verification), I just find them unpredictable and frustrating. But I've never employed SMT solvers as a library in some production system, and it's good to hear that in that case the instances could be controlled well enough for the normal operation to be predictable.
Is shopify on google cloud? i noticed they are having issues too
Parenting by the Numbers
In my experience, the worst customers are when you are not dealing with the customer directly, and have some sort of consulting or global services consulting company in the way. Most customers are not particularly difficult if you can interface with them directly, but the middleman has their own set of incentives that don't necessarily align with either yours or the end customer's. Throw in the extra communication overhead and room for error when playing telephone like that, and the typical communication styles of such VARs (daily status calls, expectation of instant support at ungodly hours, reluctance to put anything in writing or email, bald-faced dishonesty at times...), and it can be downright soul-sucking.
>There's no such thing as dangerous information

There most certainly is. We actively codify for it in most societies in a myriad of ways. See: Nuclear technology secrets, CDC protocols, and the fact that things like PTSD exist.

And to your underlying point: stop assuming everyone is rational or will act in the best interests of society with information. There is plenty of information available to you to negate that assumption.
Pretty much Gsuite is out: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status