skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from a timeline and some promises, this is the full post-mortem analysis of what happened:

> The outage was triggered as a result of a networking configuration change on the Block Storage clusters to improve handling packet loss scenarios. The new setting caused incompatibilities

So that doesn't tell us very much about the cause ("a networking configuration change") nor the effect ("incompatibilities").
If you go to an eye doctor they will give it to you. At least in German
True. The point is that at a personal level leisure is no long term substitute for work.

On organizing work. Chances are that at some point you'll want to work on things beyond the scope of what you can accomplish on your own. Or want to have a larger impact on the world / other people's lives. The big question is how to organize the work of people at society level. The pay per work model has proven to be very effective and gave us the marvels of the modern world.

On the shadow side, the pay per work model has become heavily geared towards exploitation, as in exploration vs. exploitation. We are at a point where worker conditions in a BigTech warehouse, or as a mechanicized Turk, are meticulously quantified exploitation. At the same time, we find it natural to expend the energy budget of a small city to enable machines do large-scale exploration.
The wrong assumption is in BuzzFeed's reference to "99% of child exploitation." The letter, which they deserve credit for quoting in full, says that "more than 99% of the content Facebook takes action against – both for child sexual exploitation and terrorism – is identified by Facebook's safety systems" (which rely on Facebook being able to automatically analyse unencrypted messages), "rather than by reports from users" (which could still be submitted if Facebook implemented E2EE by default).
NeWS was so ahead of its time -- and the vector-based approach and the lack of color made it a please to work with and look at.
I honestly don't think it's possible to know in advance what will change the world and what will not with any real degree of confidence.

The best that anybody can say is that what they're working on has a chance of changing the world, and even that is pretty shaky. The world has been changed by things that even their creators didn't think were that impactful at the time.
In many cases, they don't, and at least within countries you have unitised (national) extraction operations.

As noted, there are cases where they do, as with Iraq and Kuwait. Things can get heated.
I will concede that only having my one data point presented seems to indicate that what I did to "save myself" won't work for everyone.

But don't you think that if everyone who smokes, if they quit today, all of them have a better chance at being healthier in the future? Maybe not all, but wouldn't their chances be greatly improved?

What is the difference between smoking and any other self destructive behavior people have?
I think that is the problem with using "the people want X".

I always complained about bundling, and I am very happy with the current situation (yes, even considering that in the next years I will have about 10 services that I could subscribe to).

I would assume that GP might not have complaining at all about bundling and is now unhappy with the current situation where they would have to subscribe to a lot more channels to have the same value for him.
If this is a production system and not a dev or test environment, don't deploy to a single server. Avoid single points of failure in your prod environment.
Poor keyboards and mice are exacerbating factor - my pinkie finger started to hurt when I was using a apple magic mouse.

I switched to an old PS2 Microsoft mouse and it went away.
Soft, expanding bullets stop more easily when they hit something. Full metal jacket military bullets penetrate things like auto bodies, walls, etc, and pose a greater threat to innocent bystanders.

Plus, the real reason is that in war, wounding the other side is better than killing, since the wounded have to be treated, evacuated, supported, etc., and their presence is demoralizing to the enemy.
The key difference being audiophiles often fail A/B tests comparing audio quality. You would definitely notice how nice an expensive mechanical keyboard feels. Whether you think that is worth luxury pricing is another story, but the quality is at least more immediately appreciable.
The Virtual Beings Are Arriving
Agreed. Milking conspicuous consumers for as much as you can is good for the economy in general because it gets people with a lot of parked money to spend more.
I still remember thinking that having a Das Keyboard was a splurge. But in this world, it might as well be a Logitech that no one talks about.

(That being said, I've only used Das Keyboards at home and work for the past 6-7 years or so... I'm not really sure what I'd actually gain by seeking out one of these more "boutique" mechanical keyboard brands, and there's so many I'm not even sure where I'd begin anyways.)

Its also a shame that none of this nonsense actually helps any of us when we're using a laptop away from a desk setup.
I need to scroll about halfway through the reference documentation page to see what appears to be pattern-related syntax. Starting with a module system is really strange.
>Does sprawling imply not dense?

In this context, yes.
Yes, but they weren’t the dominant paradigm. The major push toward automation for both the buy and sell-side came after the crash of 2007/2008.

Moreover, very few funds pursue completely automated strategies. Quantitative giants like DE Shaw, Bridgewater, and Jane Street still execute large amount of discretionary human trades. Of course these trades are informed by models to a large degree, but if that’s the definition of automation, the markets have been automated for over 50 years.
Bitcoin adoption rising in NGO sector: Report
Coinbase launches crypto rewards program for USDC holders
I'm not sure what they're referring to with the pumping needs WRT storage. It is true however that nuclear reactors typically need an abundant water source nearby for cooling purposes.

I suspect they're confused about what exactly requires the pumped water though.
> For a dynamically typed language, a REPL ends up being essential. In a lot of ways, REPLs can be a superior form of programming. Those are often much harder to get to work with static type languages (often too much ceremony around the types).

Haskell has probably one of the best and most useful REPLs around.

> But further, whether or not your type is a Foo with a name field or a Bar with a name field or an Named interface simply does not matter, you just want something with a name field.

This is perhaps an argument for a structural type system, IMO. Though I completely disagree with it.

> Well, now you need to talk about generics. But what if you want to catch instances where things are strictly "addable?" now you are looking at constrained generics. But what if you want a specialized implementation? Now you are potentially talking about doing method overloading

Those same invariants are still in your dynamic code, it's just now they are invisible to everyone and will crash at runtime if broken.

> It is no wonder dynamic typing has it's appeal. Dynamic languages are generally low on ceremony and cognitive burden.

There is a low cognitive burden on the writer, but for every refactor afterwards, and anyone who wants to change your code later, the cognitive burden is higher.

Dynamic typing does have an appeal, but it seems to be shrinking these days while people wake up to the benefits of static types. And it's no wonder, they just make sense from a pragmatic perspective.

Thanks for your post. I mean, I disagree with almost everything you said, but it's interesting to hear the perspective.
I pay for the ad-free tier but I still get ads for their live streaming service (and for their DVR, every commercial break gets replaced with 3 minutes of non-fastforwardable commercial content), which is why I'm probably going to stop using their streaming service. I really only wanted it for sports channels anyway.
A new Linux memory controller promises to save lots of RAM
Do you have a link for the recipe? The first page of Google results doesn't show anything called exactly that.

It is also confusing because coffee is not a traditional drink in the Himalayan regions I'm familiar with. You didn't mean Butter Tea[1], did you?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_tea
You basically load the cartridge in by hand every time. If you leave some space between the powder and projectile, you risk the gun blowing up.
Congress members looking to put an end to 'the most-hated fee in travel'
Huh?

The top answer links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dPRFoKteIU&feature=youtu.be..., which explains exactly what they do: try a number of different errors client-side.
More often than not, it's by complete chance. There's tons of people that grow up in shitty circumstances that "have potential", and not all of them are going to live up to it. The most likely avenue is that a mentor of some kind entered the person's life (teacher, Boys & Girl's Club, etc.) that supported/push them to aim higher. Then X years later, they will feel oddly smug and say "well, if I can do it, then anyone can!" conveniently leaving out the pure luck they just happened to have.
dam, this sucks
I am wondering as well how that compares to this.
It’s odd that in the entire article they don’t mention anything about the actual content of this propaganda against Iran. I wonder for example, was the current news about Iran attacking oil tankers part of this campaign?
I was walking with my mom and her dog up Brotherhood Way in San Francisco and we tried to take a shortcut through the new development on Summit Way to get into Park Merced. (There is no shortcut, BTW. There are some abandoned could-have-been-stairs but, as I say, they are abandoned.)

Anyhow. The houses are each quite nice but the neighborhood itself is terribly soulless. It's like a locker room for people. The vibe was so creepy it was like a horror movie. You can check it out on street view: https://goo.gl/maps/ZGANULkeqQjKF6Yy6
Nice. Who was the provider?

I've been through the MSF's BRC, ERC and ARC and there's a glaring lack of detailed techniques like this. IMHO it should be taught before figure eights and all that parking lot stuff.
Cars have a long history of killing people, so do planes, so does AIDS, so does... everything, really. So we make changes, we improve, and now AIDs related deaths have dropped off significantly, we haven't had a fatal plane crash in the US in 10 years, and car related deaths in the US have decreased steadily since the 1960s.

Yes, governments have a history of being unsafe to their citizens, but it's not anything like what it once was, and it's getting steadily better, despite what the MSM wants you to think.

Now I'm not saying it's okay they backdoor all encryption, I just don't think the argument "Government evil" is going to hold water for the average person, nor should it.

A much better argument should come from the, "we prefer guilty people go free than innocent people get convicted, let's apply that policy to privacy" school of thought.
I wish the author had written a Fundamentals of JavaScript Programming as well.

I read bits and pieces from a lot of different JS books, and studied the first half of Eloquent JavaScript. I spent most of my time reading stuff online (especially the MDN docs).
Uber Launches Uber Works to Connect Workers to Gig Jobs
Yes and no.

The doctrine applies in numerous ways, some legal, some economic (see also Hotelling's Rule, which though distinct shares some aspects most notably, absolutely nil geological references in what's still considered the go-to economic model for extractive resource pricing, despite the fact that it bears no resemblance at all to actual pricing history), and most importantly, is still governing precedent in Texas, and other jurisdictions.
OP has different meaning of layout on their mind. You can put keys in different spots than a typewriter. Examples:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUM_keyboard#/media/File:PLUM... - Ortholinear keyboard (notice that key columns are aligned, unlike your normal Qwerty keyboard)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltron#/media/File:Maltron_Du... - Ergonomic keyboard, much more funky layout
I avoid this by running configtest before the reload - it checks it can get the upstream ips.
The crazy thing is a minor change could make many suburbs much more walkable: put the stores on the street and parking in the back. Not sure why they started doing the reverse. I've lived in a lot of California suburbs that are still within walking distance to shops (~1 mile), but the experience is so bad because of the way they've arranged parking.
It's an incredibly reliable piece of software. Isn't that what's most important?
Unfortunately, this doesn't explain why this change was applied to 5 datacenters at the same time, or why they didn't do that but it still affected 5 of them.

I would have liked to hear more about how they are going to reduce the blast radius of such a change, because it sounds like something that could have been deployed to a single datacenter first
> no commercials, shows on demand, more shows, and higher quality (arguably) shows.

Ohh you sweet summer child... Cable was the same way when it launched. Everyone knows how this ends.
Most of what actually went (and goes) on in the oil and gas biz wouldn't pass muster on a satirical cartoon programme as being vastly too implausible and twisted.
I think most people don't even realize that they do/are.
If you look at it as a writing utensil (makes you faster or better at writing) and as an office status image (like a fancy pen) it makes a lot of sense. Pens go for thousands.
Why would a regional monopoly represent capitalism? Google Fiber had to halt their fiber roll-out because of all the red-tape and lawsuits they faced. The more accurate statement would be, this is regulatory capture.
read the replies, they answered how it's done. There's even a link to a youtube video of a facebook talk, the passwords are hashed.
Have you ever thought about how reasons 2 and 3 can be chalked up (or down) to other people holding you back?

As for Vim, I won't lie and say that adapting to it with Dvorak has been easy, but it's more doable than Colemak/Workman/Norman/CarpalX.
YouTube 30 second preroll ads cost currently around $ 7 per 1000 views and it's decreasing. So to take Netflix from $ 14.99 to $ 7.99 per month they would have to show you around 500 minutes of ads every month. That's 33 of those 30 seconds ads every day, without skipping a day. While you still pay $ 7.99 per month as well. I don't expect consumers will accept that.

So the only way they can make an ad-supported Netflix work is to create some form of much more effective ad (which usually means taking more of your data) or attract a very specific high value audience (makes them too much of a niche player for their size)
You mean holistic and naturopathic?

Don't confuse them with water benders.
Accountability is in returns and losses to investors.
> air travel pretty much superseded it and is doing so all over the world

And it has the problem of a massive carbon footprint to go along with it. If we are serious about combatting climate change, we need to find ways to move as people with as much throughput and convenience as airplanes today without burning as much fossil fuel.

Given that electric commercial flight is a way off, high speed electric trains are an existing technology to achieve that.
If it gets to that point laws may be passed to make it illegal to collect rainwater or harvest water from the air. Some states already have such laws.
Eliminating parking requirements is also starting to gain traction in the US: Seattle did it [0], and it's underway in Los Angeles [1]. Unfortunately it tends to make NIMBY opposition to development even more intense than it already is ("They'll use up all the street spaces!"), but fingers crossed we can keep this trend going.

[0]: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/sea...

[1]: https://la.curbed.com/2019/8/6/20698162/parking-minimums-dow...
You aren't really getting anything, at least past the $300 mark.

The functional advantages of higher end boards are dye sub/double shot key caps, programmable firmware, better switches, better cases, and alternate layouts (Ergodox, Ortholinear boards, etc.).
Interesting I was thinking in terms of responsibility / social status not purely salary :-) GS 15 is a full colonel
Twofold: one, criminals are, generally, stupid. They're not going to be perfect, and when they slip up we'll get them.

Two, people are sex trafficked in cars and in planes as well, should we stop using those? "But we can patrol and monitor planes and cars and catch the bad guys!" Okay, but then why do they still do it? Did any of that stop sex trafficking? No.
OK, I see. I consider myself corrected.
On android I greatly prefer fbreader, which has a really simple UI and gets the job done for reading epub format.
There's no need to be so unnecessarily condescending. Customers are used to the ad-free model and will be unlikely to accept a return to the 1/3 ads 2/3 content model of cable without significant customer attrition, which streaming services can ill afford in the current competitive landscape.
It's the same thing with restaurants and tipping. They want you to see the lowest number possible when choosing what to spend money on. Then you pay a 20% fee on top of that for some reason.
It seems pretty obvious why it isn’t wrong in this case and that is that there is no general shortage of keyboards. Someone buying one of these isn’t going to deprive anybody else from buying a keyboard for their computer.
HBO does the same thing, for every single episode you watch.
> VR as a medium doesnt have long term potential

I sortof agree, with two caveats. I think VR has potential to greatly impact gaming, and I think VR has the potential to greatly impact a few niche areas, like helping the disabled and specialty industrial uses.

Outside of those, I'm really not seeing it, though.
You really need to be careful to supplement with the minerals you would have otherwise picked up from tap water. People get a lot of calcium, potassium etc passively through groundwater / natural water sources. There's a reason people are advised away from drinking distilled water.

(not to mention fluoridation, but that's a separate can of worms I won't open)
I am not sure, but in my experience the driver is not present and not loadable.

Regardless, the max cpu frequency is not equal to tsc frequency on newer Intel CPUs, so the number is meaningless.
> 700 customer accounts, including expired trial accounts and accounts that are no longer active. This includes:
> Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption keys provided to Zendesk by customers

So it appears that some customers unknowingly had their TLS certificates out in the wild for over 3 years.

How was this not caught by Zendesk sooner?
Are you familiar with how much energy it takes to boil water?

Dehumidifying moisture from the air is effectively un-boiling water: you've got to remove the latent heat of vapourisation to convert a gas to a liquid. It's unbelievably energy consumptive, and there is no free lunch.
At least you don't have to wear lycra to use them - unless you want to :-)
It's about as consistent as people complaining about the Kremlin lying on Facebook, but not some billionaire lying on Facebook.

Bonus points when you don't even know who he is, because his money has been laundered through a PAC. Oh, and we get to subsidize his speech, because it's tax-deductible for him.

Double bonus points if, in a slightly different situation, that billionaire has been borrowing money for his various business ventures from friends of the Kremlin, and happens to look a wee bit orange...
Won't lowering the cost/complexity of deep learning just allow those with more resources to increase the complexity of their models while keeping the costs the same?
Sounds about right to me. The book The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris discusses this phenomenon r.e. people need to feel the best at something so they pick ever smaller niches or hobbies where they can finally compete at a level where they have a chance to get to the top.

I would recommend the book as a whole, it has a lot of other interesting info in it too.
I did nothing, but my account has been deleted. Of course, I rarely use Facebook.
GodsUnchained is a thing. Bigger than CryptoKitties
Where Physical Activities Were the Catalyst Behind a Neighborhood Regeneration
type annotation is actually a fairly niche functionality. It is bad that most people cannot judge by themselves and just follow the hype.
Tesla to start Gigafactory production in Shanghai this month
Just meant to clarify, not dispute.
Mostly because 1.3x is only 11%.
Department of Education, enough said.

I'm being forced to pay for student loans even though the college shutdown and no longer exists. Loan forgiveness does not exist for me. Why should I still pay?

The student loan system and process in America needs a re-work. Govt should not be profiting off students that dont have the money.
Probably partly because many of its customers are tech startups, and partly because it pretends to be a tech startup itself.
Yes, mywittyname & effingwewt -- I obviously sympathize.
It's hard to believe that we are destroying the planet, we are still killing each other over tribal-like issues, people don't have access to clean water and sanitation, various groups are disadvantaged based on where they are born, etc. -- and what pronoun to use for a third party on a technical forum is what we're spending our energy on.
We need a new gender-neutral pronoun -- I suggest "whoeverthefuck".
> they run out of greed once they become millionaires

In my experience, the opposite happens.
The history is quite different, the biggest difference being that there is (effectively) no geographical impediment to selling a streaming service, allowing for much more competition. Additionally, global scale allows budgets for much more content production per service/media company than used to be possible.
Lots of doom and gloom in here, the app has been approved according to their Twitter though... https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180140453024239617?s=2...
Weird I've just tested it from a temporary email address and it works. Try sam.pegler (at) elementhuman.com and I'll make sure it ends up in the right place.
Almost 100% of the time when somebody says “curious what you recommend instead of _____” the best answer is “write a program”, but for some reason programmers aren’t supposed to do that any more.
The never finished first polish NPP had hydroelectric starter in the form of pumping water plant built with reservoir on nearby hill. But that kind of setup appears to be pretty rare.
It's a mind-bogglingly insane and obscure legal doctrine, and very hard to get good information on.

I've tracked down a few resources, but haven't actually managed to get my paws on most of them.

The Texas Supreme Court ruling being a prime case in point.
excellent, thanks. I have a deep affection for the buckyboard, so i might have a look to see if can score a set to further annoy my labmates.
In the US do people really pay hundreds of dollars a month for cable? I could never in a million years justify spending that much for entertainment like that when you can get internet for £30 and Netflix for £6, and we're famously overcharged in the UK I thought!
That is a great way to do software if you have unlimited money. This can be achieved either by working on something that does not yet have any stakeholders and get income from elsewhere or by working at a huge company that has time to spare.

If you want to create a company that is profitable, you absolutely must have a deadline for shipping something. If you don’t decide one yourself then your bank account will do it for you.