skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends on the failure mode and the cost of failure. As mentioned by others you can encounter issues in external services which you have no control over and the best you can do in that case is fail gracefully until you're able to deal with the issue. If it's easy to detect failure, and a restart fixes the problem, it can be quite straightforward to set up some monitoring scripts that take care of this for you, and even if it's more complicated than a restart some monitoring can at least notify you by email or SMS. Keeping your tech simple and/or having high test coverage or formal verification can reduce your error rate. Similarly you can introduce fault tolerance into the system with something like Erlang's OTP or monitored containers in an orchestrator (K8s, Docker Swarm, some cloud solution). If failures are expensive you might want to take on staff to deal with them, if the cost is low you might just want to accept occasional downtime (though you'll want to think about how you report that to your users).
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One of the features that I really like about Gitlab after moving some of my personal projects over to it is how there is a dedicated section under the title to display your badges, without having to put them into the README.

I think that a very important feature of a good README is that the most important information is at the top of the README. Badges going in at the top of the README as images dilutes that somewhat imo, especially since most of the badges are about the repo and not necessarily about the project itself.

Also Shields.io is a fantastic service, and was super helpful to me while I was setting up some badges recently - very well done UX that really switches the challenge from setting up the badges to attempting not to include too many of them due to how easy it is.
"I'd imagine the major intelligence agencies have already started their own genetic databases, right?"

The gig is up.

It's a law felons give their DNA in some jurisdictions. Felons have families. Felons have great grand mothers. Felons have 2nd cousins. There are 6.1 million felons. I'd image the US is pretty much mapped out by now.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/mandatory-dna...
I remember something similar happening to my squadron; an unopened can of oil was sitting in the engine compartment and we found it during our acceptance inspection.

We were all like, WTF. Photos were taken and sent; I really hope someone got fired.

This also led us to taking the aircraft completely apart and checking every nook and cranny. Found FOD and such in random places.
2 years November this November after taking cipro. But only took the antibiotic 5/6 months ago. I dropped from 240 to 142 in the time beforehand (75 pounds first 45 days) and after the antibiotic and the bread I'm back to 180 and feeling better each week.

How long have you had this?
Restarting the service and redeploying it should be absolutely the last resort and aren't really sound advice, mainly, because you are losing the invaluable crashed state of the system, that may be vital (sometimes logs are not enough) to discover _why_ the system crashed in the first place and then delivering a fix for that particular issue. Once that's done, you incorporate this into your infrastructure automation (having which goes without saying) be it Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes or whatever else.

Otherwise you allow the problem to persist, pile up with other issues (also fixed by restarts, I assume) and implementing automated restarts in that manner reduces not only your uptime in uncontrollable manner, but also your code/infrastructure quality, increasing your tech debt beyond the point of recovery.

Friends don't let friends fixing things by restarting them ;)
Reminds me of Google's cider-ide: https://code.google.com/archive/p/cider-ide/
You don't make incompatible updates, via adhering to service contracts. You can use protobuf or Avro as the schema for these service contracts and get varying levels of forward and backwards compatibility guarantees for schema changes.
I know it is a fringe case relative to the lifetime but I am curious how well the designs handle power extended power outages and say high ambient temperatures compared to other house types.
That is simply wrong. The passive house standard requires ventilation systems with highly efficient heat exchangers. This makes for good air quality. The massive thermal insulation ensures that no condensation occurs in the interior, i.e. no mold problems.
A common problem, however (esp. if inexperienced planners design the house) is too dry indoor climate in winter. This happens if air change rates are too high and no humidity is recovered.
I agree. If you broaden the term "censorship" so much as to make it equivalent to any entity trying to enforce quality or relevance control standards in its own venue, you make the term useless. While also subverting conversation about actual censorship, cheapening it.
Defensive programming (or I call it fail-safe programming) is a must for any type of service / daemon.

I employ a healthy dose of exception trapping and logging, and I get an email whenever it happens.

People aren't perfect, but you can anticipate a lot of failures. It usually involves bad data as in your case. Each time you get bitten, change your code so it fails gracefully.
What precedent are you using to imagine that if Facebook/Youtube/etc were to become public utilities, that they would be barred from censorship? Public broadcasters are currently regulated by the FEC:

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#OBSC...

> Indecent Material. Indecent material is protected by the First Amendment, so its broadcast cannot constitutionally be prohibited at all times. However, the courts have upheld Congress' prohibition of the broadcast of indecent material during times of the day when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience, which the Commission has determined to be between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Indecent programming is defined as “language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory organs or activities.” Broadcasts that fall within this definition and are aired between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. may be subject to enforcement action by the FCC.
It's literally ran by Sergey Brin's wife. Some day your data will be part of Google. I'd say we are still a ways off from connecting DNA to advertising, but I'm sure google will "boldly" take us there.
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Coveo raises US$172M at $1B+ valuation for AI-based enterprise search
This article is just terrible, it goes into the code/technical problems with the car. They killed a woman and no one went to jail for manslaughter.
> That’s crazy. Why restrict pedestrians like that?

Physics.
Glib answer: Don't work alone!

There's two ways to think about this:

1 - Your product might actually be too complex for a single-person business. You could rotate being on call for situations like this. This means that you'd have to make sure that sales are big enough to support an additional parter or two.

2 - Perhaps you need to simplify your product? Think more critically about error handling? I don't know the details about this part of your service, but if I assume that these bad UUIDs came from HTTP POSTs, why does a series of wonky HTTP posts bring down your entire service? Typically, something like this would trigger some kind of unhandled error that's caught higher up in your web framework and returns some kind of 5xx error.

This paragraph is very C# centric, but it should translate to other languages as well: Typically, I layer my error handling. Each operation is wrapped in a general exception handler that catches EVERYTHING and has some very basic logging. (ASP.Net does this and returns a 5xx error if your code has an unhandled exception.) Furthermore, as I get closer to actual operations that can fail, I catch exceptions that I can anticipate. Finally, I have basic sanity checks for things like making sure a string is really a UUID.

Without knowing much of your service's architecture, it just sounds like you need some high-level error handling. You probably have 100s of other little weird bugs, so high level error handling needs to do the equivalent of returning a 5xx error and logging, so you can fix it when you're able to.
It's not a recurrence. It never really stopped.
I agree in general with the responses encouraging better usage of managed platforms. I've run a SaaS app for a couple of years using a combination of AWS Elasticbeanstalk (Flask and Django) and AWS Lambda. Server resource related downtime has been minimal and recovery is quick/automated. Even hosting on Lambda you can run into issues without layers of redundancy (Lambda may be fine but a Route 53 outage would prevent you from hitting that endpoint if you're using that for DNS).

Before thinking about handing over management of the deployment, I would encourage you to think about what the root cause of the outage is and whether something in the app will create that situation again. I invested in setting up DataDog monitoring for all hosts with alerts on key resource metrics that were causing issues (CPU was biggest issue for me).

The other thing that's worked well for me is just keeping things simple. As a solo founder, time spent with customers is more valuable than time spent on infrastructure (assuming all is running well). It's a little dated, but I still think this is a good path to follow as you're building your customer base. A simple stack will let you spend more time learning how your product can help your customers best.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/11/a-beginners-guide-...
Wrong link btw, this is the good one: https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/06/coveo-raises-227m-at-1b-va...
Starlink isn’t designed for mobile, or do you mean as backhaul?
From a quick look at

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10291-018-0744-8

"At some level, all GNSS-IR studies are based on the analysis of SNR patterns created by the interference of direct and reflected (or multipath) GNSS signals."

It appears they are using the effect that reflected signal has on the receiver's reported SNR value to impute multipath frequencies.
> The difference is that I, personally, have control over the blocking of the "make money fast" communication

Have you never encountered a phpBB forum, or a wiki, or a social network, that doesn't have spam blockers? In my experience, such sites are inundated with spam, occasionally to the point that signal is hard to find over the noise. Your "solution" only touches on email. Filtering spam from such diverse sources would require a much more intrusive technology. Also, you're putting a wholly unreasonable burden on website owners to preserve abusive content -- if somebody uploads a flood of junk data, are you legally required to retain and redistribute it all? And are you forcing users to download gigabytes of garbage, and filter it down to a kilobyte of content?
Refreshable braille displays, maybe?

(not blind but found out about these and they seem pretty cool)
Makes you wonder. 10~ very close calls is as rare as say 50cent surviving 10 shots. What are the odds?
The end justifies the means
Good points, but we also need to quantify the risks posed by human drivers in similar situations. Getting "similar situations" is hard, but not impossible: aircraft industry builds faithful sims where people can respond to various stimuli (or lack thereof for hours after which trouble comes).

As it is, we bash every crash and failure of such cars and may prohibit those from public roads while statistically they might be making our lives safer, not more dangerous. My 2c.
This is exactly the reason why restarts shouldn't be ever considered a fix, as I've elaborated on a bit more in my other comment in this thread. They fix noting, but give an illusion of it.
>If your opinion is based on this personal knowledge then it's obviously flawed. Because for sure the owners (and even renters) selling on AirBNB obviously want guests in their building. I emphasize their, because it's their building also.

Do they actually live in that building? I don't live in NYC but it's the same case in Toronto. If the building has a lot of people renting units, you'll see AirBnbs and condo boards won't even try to ban them (Cityplace, entertainment district, bay street corridor et all) but the buildings that have unit owners livings in them will try to ban Airbnbs.
Fidel Castro is probably the man who survived / foiled the most assassination attempts (with a lot of help of the KGB).

/quote

estimated the number of assassination schemes or actual attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency to be 638
(according to the Church Committee)

/unquote

But most of these cases are still shrouded in the veil of secrecy by the intelligence agencies, so there is still a lot of guesswork and substantial amount of secret records involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Fide...
so far it didn't pan out greatly, but I stopped hearing about that in 2010
You're kidding right? For one, Windows still enjoys a rather ridiculously huge lead on desktop computers. Who's second in that market? Well it was Mac not that long ago, with Linux in a distant third, though maybe that's changed now.

Mac actually took great pains to be backwards compatible until relatively recently. PPC's could run 68k programs, OSX could run tradition MacOS programs, and x86 macs could even run PPC programs.

And Linux Desktop can't run programs not in its repo unless you want to compile it from source.

So what does that tell us? Well, there at least appears to be a pretty strong correlation between compatibility and success with desktop OSs.
Again, technically, GPLv2 does not allow the source code to be made available only for download. Only GPLv3 allows that. And, since Linux is GPLv2 only, the GPLv2 applies.

Therefore, the source code has to be either a) shipped with the product (it obviously wasn’t) or b) available upon request as specified in a written offer, which must be shipped with the product. If neither option a) nor b) was used, Ubiquiti unambiguously violated the GPLv2, and has no defense.
Yes, exactly! I'm Australian, it's perfectly normal here to walk on the road when there aren't footpaths, ideally walking into the direction of traffic flow so that you can see oncoming cars.

Pedestrian crossings aren't provided on most roads outside of shopping and business areas - you simply have to cross at a safe point and try to be visible.

I really don't know about the US but I can't imagine it's that different: surely people need to be able to cross the road without being run down as an unclassified object.
I think he means that showing the comments with the most replies or the comments with the most mixed upvote/downvotes would be more interesting than just showing the most upvoted comment.
Interesting! Android with Firefox Preview works fine for me.
> If any “platform” censors beyond removing illegal or copyrighted content, they should have their “platform” status revoked, and they should be considered a publisher.

What about spam?

And would this extend to marketplaces? If a company allows users to sell educational resources for kids, what would happen if they start removing items that clearly don't fit?
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/dry028/hows_an_bch_0_c...
As far as I recall the driver was looking at the car's status screen which they'd been instructed by Uber to monitor rather than at the road at the time of the crash, so didn't notice the pedestrian until too late. I can't say much about what the pedestrian saw, the Uber car killed them so we can't ask.
AT&T owns DirecTV not Dish.

edit: I've always avoided AT&T because they're always the highest priced offering even after bonuses.
Yea, should have put "behaving erratically" in quotes, I think you were probably on the money that it was in response to the AI or AD in this case. Probably was behaving like antilock brakes as the classification flipped every few milliseconds.
Almost certainly the latter. :-(
Which is what the author recognizes:

> Indeed, as conservatives often point out, the existence of a market imperfection doesn’t mean that government intervention is justified, if only because it may actually make the problem worse. But as many people don’t seem to understand, especially among libertarians, the fact that government intervention is not warranted doesn’t mean there is no problem.
Use heroku as long as it's cost affective. Every time I've moved from heroku to another platform for "cost savings" I always end up spending much more time that I'd planned just maintaining it.
Then in this case, people have a higher potential to die while Boeing twiddles its thumbs and bars the FAA from running its own, separate investigation.
A lot of the text animation on that site does not seem to work in Firefox.

The three-D cube of letters on top is supposed to be in a range of weights and styles. On Firefox they are all the same. You can still drag the cube around with the mouse but the characters don't change as they do in Chrome.

The font selection drop downs change the font in many of the features on the page, but this doesn't work on Firefox either. I'm trying it the latest developer version.

There are a lot of sliders and pointer-dragging features that immediately change the text characteristics but none of this cool stuff works on Firefox. At the bottom it says "Made by friends of Google Fonts", maybe that's an indication of their browser alignment.
I took the question to include the future. Will it become possible? How soon could it become possible?
These are core structural elements which rely on the quoted level of tolerance.
I build my projects on Google App Engine and it has been stable and reliable without much administration. The platform is not without its challenges, especially with the Gen 2 rollout, but no issues related to administration/interruption. PaaS could be a good place to explore...
They’re all doing awful: https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/drinking_w...

> water consumption is down, there are still an estimated 240,000 water main breaks per year in the United States, wasting over two trillion gallons of treated drinking water

> While drinking water infrastructure is funded primarily through a rate-based system, the investment has been inadequate for decades and will continue to be underfunded without significant changes as the revenue generated will fall short as needs grow.
DHH (the original author) in the comments[1]: “I would like to try a good Linux laptop combo next.“

1: https://m.signalvnoise.com/back-to-windows-after-twenty-year...
They "knew" after shelving prototypes 10 years prior. They only reacted which is too hard.

Company success is often about judging timing... too early or too late == death both cases. Super hard to do.
I think at the speeds we are talking about here, it's just an "the plane is not reacting to control input" and nothing else. Probably not enough time to think about what exactly went wrong (and will kill you in seconds).
To agree with this. As someone with more of a general economic and metrics background, I was quite amazed when I first learned of the breadth of possible valuation methods IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) allows for. Some are pretty close to what you'd expect for the valuation of a financial instrument (after all, equity is one of those), while some are 'pretty far away'.
My local walmart has adverts on the shelves in the produce/deli/butcher areas that show the sourcing is actually quite local.
In France, the prescription is valid in any pharmacy and the pharmacy seller (who has a degree in pharmacology) can and often do propose the generic version of the prescribed drug.

There has been some marketing to present generics as cheap knockoffs of bad quality, leading to many people choosing to pay for the prescribed drug (which will be reimbursed anyway) but it all comes down to the patient's behavior.
I think everybody here is talking about US-size billions, not European-size billions.
> Airbus is no better.

Maybe, but the report you linked does not show that. The issue with Boeing is not that a plane crashed but that planes crashed despite earlier reports that people considered these planes unsafe. No such reports came out of Airbus about the A320 as far as I'm aware. Also the regulators did not delegate certification to Airbus.
I keep coming back to simplenote (https://app.simplenote.com/) each time I try one of these "minimal markdown editors". Works on every platform I've tried, open source, and maintained. I enjoy seeing folks making improvements to the minimal model, but I personally haven't found any life-changing enough to switch. Keep recommending options, though, I'm looking forward to seeing what folks create!
Echoing the other comment, be careful. They probably make it extremely painful to end the subscription after the trial. It once took me well over an hour to end a trial subscription to the economist.
can you say more about this? pointers?
Yeah, thank you. I think it's questionable they shipped with this kind of regression present (especially having known about it 1 month before release), but easy fix just to override core types with the one in #33707.
I see two issues with this. First: What you're describing is Gab - a platform that literally only enforces legal restrictions, the dynamic on that site is that the most extreme voices drive away the reasonable people that actually attract new people. Your rule would essentially also stop reddit from existing.

The second is that Facebook doesn't have to censor you to censor you. They just tweak your post so it stops showing up other peoples feeds. Youtube does this all the time, they don't censor anyone, they just make sure no one can find the voices they don't like. Meanwhile the content they like gets boosted, we've seen this all the time where you go to youtube for a video about puppies and thanks to autoplay 4 hours later you're hearing about how feminists are destroying western civilization from within by Jordan Peterson.
Manipulating pre-IPO valuations as aggressively as they did was just insane

Never forget the endgame was to dump it at the inflated valuation on retail investors and pension funds. This was a heist on the scale of Madoff, if they pulled it off.
Thermal insulation helps to decouple indoor climate from the outdoor climate. It depends a bit on what kind of heat period you consider. When high ambient temperatures occur it will remain cool for longer indoor and night ventilation can be used to cool the house. The cold produced by the AC is also better trapped inside, ie used more effectively.
There has been a case of extended power outage in Germany due to heavy snowfall. I saw a report that showed how the indoor temperature remained almost constant for the first two days of the outage.
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Classicshell.net is quite good for that
Well at least you had a choice. It wasn't like your parents took it.
I hope this doesn't kill / raise prices for the MVNOs that run on the Sprint network, specifically Tello. I pay $17 a month total for my and my wife's phones and I would hate to lose that.
Free now, but out of beta, will have some type of pricing model, accd to the site. Just saying.