skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Amazon patched their PC client and e-reader firmware to fix the hole. I don't think the DeDRM works on a KFX you download today.
This kind of irresponsible reporting and backpedaling by media and government is, imho, a large part of why the public is so slow to react to climate change.

Imagine how someone who heard Al Gore say that, by 2014, the poles would have no ice, or that glaciers in Montana would be gone by 2020, feels now. Is that person more or less likely to think climate change is an issue that deserves their attention?
"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi
in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σιβυλλα
τι θελεις; respondebat illa: αποθανειν θελω."

‘I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl of Cumae hanging in a jar, and when the boys said to her, ‘Sibyl, what do you want?’ she replied, ‘I want to die’.’
>if a "boring solution" doesn't work for you, the problem is you, not the solution

Were the people who hated their pagers and wanted cell phones idiots? All the people who were writing GUIs in C and debugging memory leaks...was the problem that they were shitty programmers, or is there something to be gained by spending more time on the business logic and less time on memory management?

It's healthy to see the shortcomings of current solutions, and to wonder if there is a better way. It's not healthy to chase shiny objects simply because they are shiny, or to massively complicate your tech stack because it helps marginally with a short-term problem.
Looks like an external issue. "The Cloud Networking service (Standard Tier) has lost multiple independent fiber links within us-east1 zone. Vendor has been notified and are currently investigating the issue."
They've proven they can make a car, the part I'm most skeptical is Elon Musk's continued boasting on how far ahead they are with self driving.
No, He's just talking about all the people running around right now trying to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.

Criticizing Google is fine, but sometimes, the best deployments to production can go wrong.
Russia is one of few countries not giving a "freedom of air." Overflight rights are only given to flag carriers at extortionate rates, most EU-China flights have to take rather weird routes.

There used to be flights through Urumqi on EU-China routes just 2 years ago with stops just in it or in Almaty by quite a number of airlines.

The accursed flight I was on was done by China Southern
There but for the grace of God go we.
It's also an issue when you don't even fully control the client, which in this case is the web browser. A game at least behaves exactly as you program it. Browsers are not necessarily consistent, especially when you throw in extensions.
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I haven't made any claims about Oracle's claims in the filing. Perhaps they are entirely valid. I don't disagree with anything you've said about the details of the competing services. Perhaps you are entirely correct and Oracle has a superior offering.

The thesis of my argument is that, in my opinion, Amazon represents a true threat to Oracle, and that moves like this filing should be examined through that lens.

For the record, my opinions are my own and I have no knowledge of this situation or AWS decision making that is not public.
Yes I run into this a lot in SQL server but SQL server does let you do hints which in my understanding PG does not. No hints would be excruciating, I don't care how good the optimizer is, sometimes I know better and sometime the optimizer is brain dead.
I think it is intended.
https://sanic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
so when others do wrong it’s wronger :D
Indeed! In some ways it's a giant smartphone with a big battery and some motors added on. Considering the amount of controls, sensors, and continuous optimization for efficiency and emissions on ICE vehicles, especially when do many of them are from different vendors on pretty old standards/busses, I'd take a modern EV any day. Way simpler.
Definitely. There's definitely a story here. The significance of the increase is undeniable. I also agree on the reasons behind things primarily being due to money, greed, and power.
To whomever commented something like 'laughs in AWS' (comment was removed before I submitted the comment)...

please don't...

glass house and all that... but I also share the same glass house as you.. I don't want bad luck

... and it's only a fluke that this happened to google in eu-east1 and not AWS in X region and then you (and I) would be having a time of hell! :/
It's both.

If someone breaks into my house because my door lock is broken then I should definitely fix the lock.

But the criminal shouldn't have broken in anyways.
Zombies make no sense. They would starve to death quickly without farming and modern supply chains or eat each other to extinction.

And the zombies that can go on without any source of energy for years break thermodynamics.
So you are making a case for smaller companies run by different people in different ways? So that we don't have huge outages with common systems shared across entire platforms misbehave?

When you really care about high availability and security you really don't want all your systems run with the same software, hardware, and coded by the same teams.

What does google (or amazon/msft) do to ensure a software echo chambers are not made within their infrastructure that potentially could cause mass scale outages by way of the same bug or bugs propagating through their systems?

GCP, AWS, and Azure is the grate decentralization of the internet.
I recently had a fun experience with something called the "Fly America Act", a law which says that when the US government is paying for your travel you have to fly on a US flagged airline.

For my trip, the flight would've been about 6 hours (direct!) and cost $600 on a foreign airline. On the cheapest US carrier, the flight was about $850 and took 10 hours due to a layover. When you take hourly rates into account, it easily cost the government an extra $1000 for me to travel on the US airline.

I wish I could've taken the direct foreign flight and just sent United a check for $250. Would've been a win/win for everyone— the American airline gets its corporate welfare without any of the costs they incur when someone actually gets on their plane, and I wouldn't have had to waste 4 hours of my life each way sitting in an airport to satisfy a dumb law.
> ... he cited America's ridiculous federal home mortgage interest deduction, which incentivises spending more on a bigger home, with obvious negative outcomes (environmental and otherwise).

Canada does not have such an interest deduction and has roughly the same home ownership rate as the US.

(What Canada does have is no capital gains tax on one's primary residence, so any profits when selling are tax free.)
Unless I'm misunderstanding your needs, why wouldn't http://www.passportjs.org/ work? I've used it successfully for Google & Facebook signup/signin.

It has SAML support and I guess one of these packages could be customized to your needs?
http://www.passportjs.org/packages/
Boeing's problems had little to do with being a fast-paced startup-like culture. They were outsourcing a lot of their work to India in an attempt to save money. They cared more about the short-term financial savings and cared less about the quality of work.
Related reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9428043

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17576720
Why Can’t New York Control Its Infrastructure Costs?
And if you were to trace back in time one generation from there, you'd discover the point where it became unethical to have children.
I immediately thought of the web framework as well, but who knows what will happen if this tool takes off. It's good to see that you had at least considered it and recognized it was sub-optimal.

Concurrent builds alone make this worthwhile while developing.
I don't think there is any mismatch, it was always three nines. I guess the only mismatch is in claims that three nines is enough to not be noticeable or annoying to people.
So it seems pretty pointless for me to prepare for the end of the world, since if it happens there won't be anything I need to do.

Makes more sense to prepare for the continuation of the world, since then I'd have to actually do something.
Should have signed up for the $60 a month plan…
Yes, and an EV is lacking two massive groups of those systems because it doesn't have the mechanical systems those electronics control.

Edit: Why is this being down-voted? Is it factually incorrect or does it make people uncomfortable?
It makes even less sense when you take into consideration that people are paying for this service.

If you're a paying customer, you should be free to criticize as you damn well please.
contents _can_ change, not _will_ change. So this approach should update fewer cells per update cycle.
Why is it surprising? Maybe the Chinese have discovered the only way to build a lasting civilization that doesn't bomb itself into oblivion every century like Europe does.
I may be tainted by the fact that I doggedly stuck to Linux in the time period 1995-2014. :-)

And I agree, walkman was not a major contender in 2001, I just mean it wasn't entirely gone from "normal user" perspective. But I stand by that iPod was the first solution which had as easy UX as a Walkman if you wanted your own playlist. As shitty as iTunes was and is, it was still the first really working music software anyone could use.
> It does incentivize getting a bigger mortgage.

Most people probably buy the maximum they can "afford" (are approved for).
I live in the Bay Area. All those cars you're talking about are actually piloted by humans, and drive a hell of a lot worse than your regular Uber driver. They slam on the brakes randomly and get stuck at intersections all the time. Where are the driverless vehicles?

If the technology has really been a reality since 2013 like you said, why is it still unavailable to the public 6 years later even after Waymo themselves said it would be ready last year and nothing happened? They still haven't let the public see the tech this many years later, still force reporters to sign NDAs and won't even allow them to choose their own routes, still have the vast majority of their hand-picked Early Riders who had to apply for the privilege bound by an NDA.

Have you been in one of those cars?
Karma for shitting on Verizon, maybe.
I think the biggest worry looming is the financials. Everybody is freaking out on their burn rate.
Coincidentally, I recently got into an interesting argument with my father. He'd just seen Captain Marvel and got defensive when my friend referred to it as a superhero movie; he insisted that it was a science fiction movie.

I probably shouldn't enjoy being empirically correct so much, but this dispute gave me the opportunity to demonstrate that he was, quite simply, wrong.

Disregarding the movie, it's the attempt to identify sci-fi that is interesting. In the same way the judge couldn't define pornography "but knows it when I see it", there is not one standing definition. However, the greats who established the genre agreed on some important basics which hold water today. Cribbed from Wikipedia:

Heinlein: "...realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method."

Wells: "...a conscientious attempt to be faithful to already known facts (as of the date of writing) was the substrate on which the story was to be built, and if the story was also to contain a miracle, it ought at least not to contain a whole arsenal of them."

Shippey: "...the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum... a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly- (and in the current state of knowledge) impossible."

It's Wells' point that led to me leaving this comment. Don't get me wrong - I get genuinely excited every time REDACTED shows up in a Stephenson novel... but his immortality is, for me, uncomfortably close to a miracle.

Now, sometimes this is preferable; hands up if you would prefer to not know the word Miti-chlorian.
You are also free to clap at internment camps and smile at your own moral and intelectual superiority.
Well you might like Hyperscript or Elm, those are two approaches that work quite well using simple function calls.

The thing with JSX is introduces a syntax that is familiar to the rendered output (which is the status quo), and there's a relatively clear visual separation between the declarative and imperative parts; which is hard to enforce in pure JS.
iirc, MySQL already had built-in replication support around that time. This alone may have been a deciding factor. Postgres didn't provide built-in replication until a decade later.
You should have disclosed that you were an investor in the first comment you made.
I think the point was to cite an opposing case where massive corporations are having issues with production as well.
Of cource, IDEs advance. But at which pace? The bottleneck was the language. When MS got their shit together they just caught up with Java.

Maybe MS has done the most, made the biggest investments. But splitting the ecosystem of managed languages into Java and C# hasn't made life easier for developers nor users.
My approach when I am confronted with 1) cookie-bar, 2) GDPR-bar, 3) fixed nav, and 4) notification popup, is just to hit F9 (Win, annoyingly worse in Ubuntu) within Firefox to just go into reader mode. It makes the internet more bearable.
If you want your business to succeed, you need to have multiple edges against the competition. Simply using what other people are using isn't going to give you a technological edge.

Look at Paul Graham with Viaweb. He used lisp because it gave him a significant advantage against other players stuck with C++. Or Jane Street, started by three ex-Susquehanna guys using OCaml.

There's a lot of technology that isn't boring that also isn't unstable either. These are technologies that probably should be more boring at this point (Common Lisp, Haskell, OCaml, Scala) but are rock solid and stable. These are the kind of technologies you should be using.

On the otherhand, if all your "tech" start-up is doing is running a CRUD website, it probably doesn't matter what you're using.
So I just read about "Choosing Boring Technology" before coming into this thread. I guess React.js is the boring technology (already 5-6 years) one and Svelte is the new and exiting one! :)
I'll play devil's advocate and say that every other Auto OEM has produced billions of "expensive, multi-ton, high speed vehicles that can seriously maim or kill their occupants or bystanders if something goes wrong"
Yeah, but there’s plenty of space to put 2MB stacks in 48 bits (that’s 256 TBs) of address space.
If books aren't your thing, I also highly recommend the BBC's miniseries 37 Days [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/37_Days_(TV_series)] for a slightly dramatized, but still highly educational take on the titular period between Ferdinand's assassination and the declaration of war.
It's really quite simple. It's a reminder to be respectful to the individuals taking part in this on Google's side. Are you following now?
The people you're sending these tracking pixels to should be the final arbitrators. So are you willing to have them reply yes/no to a form that says: "Do you wish to transmit the time at which you opened this email to $marketing_company". If not, why not?
It’s surprisingly hard to avoid shared fate links and it’s one of the things I would have thought google would be expert at.
The head line is:

> China Snares Tourists’ Phones in Surveillance Dragnet by Adding Secret App

and subtitle :

> Border authorities routinely install the app on the phones of people entering the Xinjiang region by land from Central Asia, gathering personal data and scanning for material considered objectionable.

Considering the scale of what China is accused of doing in Xinjiang and China's role as the vanguard of modern surveillance, what is alarmist about this?

Do you think that China is unwilling to use this same tech at the Pudong airport?
Unfortunately, the opportunity to reexamine it has already passed. Even without brain-in-jar sci-fi devices, technology is already sufficiently advanced to create artificial nightmares. Consider the case of state-sponsored torture, which now has at its disposal near-perfect surveillance, VR, genetic modification, a litany drugs, remotely controlled robotics, etc. It's a tragedy that scientific progress itself is a control system that is capable of overshooting its target.
You don't know how many people have flagged the article or not. There was a very sudden drop, so something happened, but it's impossible to give the actual root cause unless you're on the inside of HN itself. I'd assume flags over any sort of conspiracy here.
Who is yelling in the direction of the "stressed engineer"? Does anybody have direct channel to those guys or you think they rigorously monitor the comment section of HN in the middle of an outage for yelling?
A decentralized self-issued credit system will be the next major form of money after crypto.
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If you want a semi-historical platform to launch this hypothetical scenario from, Rudolf Hess would be a good example. He was imprisoned, along with other nazis, in a prison in West Berlin shortly after WWII. It was agreed that the different allied powers would take turns guarding this prison as long as prisoners remained. Fast-forward to the Cold War era, and that agreement had an unintended consequence: it gave the USSR a precious foothold in West Berlin. Thus, they vetoed every request for Rudolf Hess's release, until he died in 1987. He had been the lone inmate of the 600-cell prison for more than 20 years.

Now for an alternative history twist: the Cold War never ends, and Rudolf Hess is kept alive as a brain in a vat for thousands of years, with the Russians and the Americans continuing to take turns guarding him so that both sides can cling to that sliver of West Berlin.
Thanks.
For those like me that hadn’t read this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienatio...
And did we forget about the insane AWS east outages of two years ago?
McDonald’s Japan is one of the most popular places on Facebook
One of the VPs had left after 4-5 years like clockwork after every position with 5 different automakers. Guess how long he'd been at Tesla? 4+ years. Sometimes, it's not about Tesla magic/curse, sometimes it's just a regular company experiencing regular phenomena.
>“On a daily basis, we would get from five to 50 e-mails, asking everybody to take time out of their day to search their desks for case files,” the former worker said. That worker said the experience of hunting down lost paperwork and lost files inside an underground cavern had been bad enough to force a career change.

>The worker’s new job: setting off explosives.

>“I’m handling live ordnance on a daily basis, just to get out of there,” said the worker, whose company blasts holes in the ground for oil and gas wells. “One of the five worst jobs in the world was a great alternative to being down there.”

Since when is getting to blow shit up one of the worst jobs in the world? Sure it might be more dangerous than pushing papers but it's still every teenager's dream job along with astronaut and monster truck driver.

Edit: I forgot I'm on a board where the prevailing groupthink is that the slightest physical danger is to be avoided at all costs.
AWS EC2 promises 4 9's (4.3 minutes of downtime/month) before their SLA kicks in, but they only give a 10% discount until availability dips below 99% (7.5 hours of downtime/month) when they give a 30% discount. If availability is below 95% (36 hours) in a month, they give a full refund.

For an individual instance, they only promise 90% availability.
> What email client loads images by default in 2019?

Most do. You have to turn it off manually.
Me neither. I haven't seen a single time somebody yelling at an engineer of Google in the middle of an outage.

Downvoters pls link here the yelling you have seen.
This reminds me of Magic (https://magic.gd) or Fin (now defunct, https://fin.com - a closer match, with a similar if broader mission).

Hopefully the narrower scope will allow you to escape the issues that Fin ran into, trying to bolster their team. :)

Magic has fixed pricing for some tasks, including travel booking I believe - so hopefully Carry is (or becomes) either less expensive or higher quality.
How would a technological brain-in-a-vat hell of unending torture be "more interesting" and "useful" than death?
> MS now is kind to its developers

As long as you like telemetry: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093
Bandcamp has a huge selection. Maybe not the biggest mainstream artists, but definitely something to satisfy every taste.

There are others who specialize in specific genres, especially within electronic music. And some labels have started offering CD quality downloads, Nuclear Blast is the one I'm most familiar with.
Isn't there a real possibility that being removed from everything that allows us to perceive reality, psychological trauma could result?
I'd speculate that in an isolated brain dreaming would still be possible. Possibly, without external stimulation it would not be possible to be awake.

That said, there are emerging technologies which would compliment brain preservation, such as the brain-computer interface. BCI therapies have already been effective in giving blind people sight via invasive electrodes (e.g. the work of William Dobelle). Output has also been demonstrated using BCIs.

Such a brain could interact with the world through a robotic surrogate, or have an entirely virtual interaction. Arguably, the brain in a tank may have access to a richer experience than the natural body, with synthetic sensory and motor capabilities.
I was on Superhuman's waiting list in 2018 – until, on 2 occasions, Superhuman puts its own growth above customers' needs. 1 involved privacy: when a Superhuman user emailed an address on the waiting list, Superhuman told the sender.

I didn't and don't trust them with my email.

I know Rahul and told him then that I thought they had an organizational blind spot in over-emphasizing growth hacking. I don't think it led to any changes.

(If anyone is looking: I've been a FastMail customers for years and still trust their staff, ethics, and decision process/priorities completely. Bonus that their webmail doesn’t load remote images: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/remotecontent.html)
> It's pretty much in line with the status quo in Western China

It's not bad because it's exceptional, it's bad because it inerhently is. If else the fact that it is normal makes it even worse
Depends on how good its attorney is. Or whether it remembers its bitcoin keys?
The title says "almost 4 hours" (was posted at around 3 PM EST), but the incident was created at 10:25 AM PST, which is 1:25 PM EST. Has it been more like 2 hours or is there more to this incident?