skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare DNS is free, and they support DNSSEC (unlike Digital Ocean). The web UI is good, and there's an API, and Terraform provider.
Government agencies really don't like reversing course or admitting mistakes and will generally fight tooth and nail to avoid doing so unless ordered to by new management or a judge (don't get me wrong, private organizations do this too but they're much more apt to quietly make things right once it's clear they won't win in the court of public opinion).

So just by luck of the draw whatever bureaucrat came across Berman's map first thought to themselves "hey they can't do that" instead of "oh look, the public is building useful things on our work" and all the mechanisms used to fight a political turf war kicked into motion and once that happened there was no turning back.
If your business can't afford external backups then you don't have a viable business in the first place. And of course egress costs have to be considered when choosing a hosting provider.
AWS recently had data loss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20875489
Duckdns.org not working properly the last 24 hours
One of their authoritative name servers (ns1.duckdns.org) is serving old information. As a result, about 1/3 of queries are resolved to a wrong ip.

`drill @ns1.duckdns.org pet-trans.duckdns.org`

`drill @ns2.duckdns.org pet-trans.duckdns.org`
IANAP but from my limited understanding (mostly reading Richard Feynman)
light beam = stream of photons, they don't travel through entire body of glass prism without issue, they get absorbed and re emmitted along the way too (Which is what explains the different speed of light in different mediums)
Exactly. The reason behind the configuration of the pixel changing filter is the only thing that is different. But it doesn’t stop there, the concept that an aesthetic choice is more or less real than a “just like it would be in dry land” choice is also flawed because those creatures would most definitely not look that way on dry land.
There's at least two of them going out of their way to be snide and snarky there - Julie and Stephan.
I don’t know if Ubiquiti’s feeds are streamed encrypted, but at least the recording infra is 100% local and can be accessed locally without any cloud middleman if desires.
Thanks for this. Do you happen to know which, if any, of the announced 7nm chips/processes are actually small enough to involve the problems of 7nm gates?

Obviously the names don't carry much weight, and speed can be checked directly instead of inferred from size, but I'm still curious about the actual state of the production issues.
It was within the last month that I first saw a Hacker News headline like this, only that time -- though I would not be surprised if on that occasion it was also a link to curbed.com -- it was making a similar claim about Los Angeles.

The mere headline reflects either the insanity or the anarchism of the far left. One might as well say: "The one hundred wealthiest San Franciscans have enough disposable income to buy a $10 million dollar house for every homeless person in the City."

How do you put up a headline like that with a straight face, unless you are willing to assert -- as I suppose curbed.com is -- that the cognoscenti proletariat should be empowered to confiscate all property and redistribute it as they wish?

I went to Berkeley (albeit a long time ago) and I've known many liberals. But I only believe the truly lunatic fringe of the left are going to get on board with this kind of thinking.
Just to further explore that a bit, would you say replication adds independent copies for failures of media, while backup adds copies made by independent software against failures of process / software / media.
When people complain about flooding problems in the Midwest, I wonder if they realize how much of our land has been tiled and drained for farming.

Wetlands act as a sponge to keep water where it fell and slow its movement to the main arterial rivers.

Habitat destruction is honestly something that concerns me much more than carbon emissions.
> “I'm an attorney by trade,” he said. “So this is something I know something about.”

The artist would clearly win his case in court, and sounds like he has the resources to do it, so I'm not worried. And after all, the "geometric" style subway map has prior art as the London Tube map starting in 1931 [1].

But I can't imagine what is going on at the MTA that they felt compelled to try to take this down in the first place. What on earth do they think they're trying to accomplish with it? Is there some kind of legal liability they think they're protecting themselves against? They're a governmental agency for crying out loud.

It truly boggles the mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_map
Depends on the culture of the organization, there has to be someone(s) who owns the blueprints and are creating a foundation for IT alignment within business execution.
Now this is pedantry I can get behind.
The Future of Monitoring Is Autonomous
> This type of incident is extremely rare in the web hosting industry.

I read this as "so maybe you should consider one of the other web hosting companies that doesn't have problems like this."
Note that it’s almost certainly not a “NASA device;” the Navy’s oceanographic office is located at the Stennis center, so it would make sense for it to be returned there.
Microsoft, the incumbent, offered OEMs cheaper Windows licenses as long as there was no dual boot, or a windows license was paid for every machine sold regardless of what it ran.

Under these terms, it was suicide for OEMs to offer anything except “only Windows”. I was actually working for another company whose software was killed by Microsoft by a similar “or else” threat from Microsoft at the time.

Microsoft was a bully doing (likely) illegal things, except the FTC wasn’t doing its job.
Before I first saw BeOS running on a colleague's machine back in the ~mid-late 90s (same guy who introduced me to Python) I used an SGI Onyx Reality Engine machine [1] (roughly $250K computer back in the day) for molecular mechanics simulations and BeOS ran circles around it on perceived responsiveness. I really wish we have OS's that prioritize input/output latency over all else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Onyx
It's almost as if the person managing the official media accounts is different than the person working on fixing the problem. Almost.
Make it out of some type of fabrics. They stand up much better to folding than paper or plastic.
If a local home security surveillance company rolling up in a van installed cameras that they then used to spy on their customers, it's very likely the owner would be prosecuted. What puts Ring/Google/Amazon/etc above that standard? Just being large?
But lets continue taking public policy talking points from them. /s
Oh man! I first tried BeOS personal edition when it came on a CD with Maximum PC magazine. (Referring to same demo CD, though the poster is not me: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1067159&s.... Also, how crazy is it that Ars Technica’s forums have two decade old posts? In 2000, that would be like seeing forum posts from 1980.) I remember being so happy when we got SDSL, and I could get online from BeOS. (Before that, my computer had a winmodem.)

BeOS was always a very tasteful design. And well documented! I learned so much about low level programming from the Be Newsletters: https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/index.html. The BONE article is a great introduction to how a network stack works: https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue5-5.h.... I still have a copy of Dominic Giampalo’s BeFS book somewhere.

BeOS was very much a product of its time. (Microkernel, use of C++, etc.) What would a modern BeOS look like? My thought: use of a memory and thread safe language like Rust for the main app-level APIs. (Thread safety in BeOS applications, where every window ran in its own thread, was not trivial.) Probably more exokernel than microkernel, with direct access to GPUs and NICs and maybe even storage facilitated by hardware multiplexing. What else?
Stream in 2020 (Getstream.io)
Well, that is explainable, unlike not making backups; they have what's called a PR or media team that gets updates and details from developers while they work on this.

Additionally, data recovery is a lot of waiting in most cases, there isn't much to do as your business burns down around you
There have been a number of threads suggesting places like Gandi over AWS because they are so much cheaper. I've always been skeptical about building key apps on these types of places but folks INSIST it's the right choice.

3TB at Gandi costs $6 + you get compute with it. 3TB of bandwidth at AWS might be $270.

Has anyone tried this instead of using cloudfront etc? Get 100 $6 hosts and pump out content for your ipv6 connecting clients etc?
Ellison freely admitted to doing it on his web site intentionally at the time and as I recall called it "playing" and asked people not to "lynch" him. (Paraphrasing from memory)
I tend to agree. If they had targeted Mac or PC hardware (different at the time!) and perhaps built some nifty gizmos as add-in cards (LED blinkenlights array, GeekPort) they would have saved serious cash.

That was the time period when ordinary users could be persuaded to pay money for their operating systems and major upgrades.
Also, with the general state of the MTA, it is infuriating that this is where they're directing resources.
https://www.rug.nl/rechten/onderzoek/expertisecentra/ghlg/bl...

“The WHO identified burial rites for the dead as one of the contributing factors in the disease’s spread. The burial rites included family members washing and oiling the corpse, and sometimes physically modifying it for burial .. Additionally, the practice of moving the body to be buried in a different village impeded efforts to quarantine certain areas.”
Snips Alternative?
I saw BeOS as a spiritual successor to the Amiga OS, where it might be used as a turnkey media creation system. I think Apple was the Microsoft of this market, and had enough user/developer inertia to make inroads impossible. They sold a depressing 1800 BeBoxes.
Your reaction to "bait" is to always bite the hook on principle?

Good to know, I guess.
Anti-trust laws, for example. Safety and environmental regulations.
That damages the user-friendliness of their offering, because users with that configuration are always one misplaced key away from losing everything with no way for Google to recover it for them (and yes, users will absolutely blame the company for this failure mode, and companies that do not offer this failure mode tend to succeed in the marketplace).
Cortex v0.12: machine learning infrastructure for developers
That's a long article; please quote the part you're referring to so we're all looking at the same text.

> a backup, or data backup is a copy of computer data taken and stored elsewhere so that it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event

Since a "replica" is a copy, that seems technically correct.
That's probably worst case but a figure I have heard/read, too. With some animals the radiation level is as high as 5000-10000 Bq/kg.

Here's an interactive map on the topic: http://www.umweltinstitut.org/themen/radioaktivitaet/messung...

To put that figure into perspective, it is said that eating 6 kg of boar meat with 3000 Bq/kg is equivalent to 240 micro Sievert which equates 12 x-rays of the lung.
That ship route sure looks like it was looking for the lost item, whatever it is.
I hate to say it but Gandi seems like they’re in a quality freefall. I had a domain there a year or two back because they were one of the only registrars that supported that particular extension... and man, so many problems just with simple tasks like updating the WHOIS info and credit card for renewal.

This is basic stuff.
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What happens, in which case do they eat more?
Ask HN: Should I build a chat bot for journaling?
I was dreaming about an idea of a telegram chat bot, that journals everything I would write to it.

It’ll have a set of storage options, that kick in based on the message content. Like adding a section to markdown doc in private GitHub repo for daily journaling.

Or adding a row to google spreadsheets for tracking money, calories or whatever. It’ll also have some scrapping background jobs to augment my input with bank transaction history, or whatever smart home integrations there are.

Would you want to have such a bot, or to contribute to the project?
How I would fix SF:

1. Eliminate all housing/building regulations except fire/earthquake rules.

2. Introduce a negative tax on new construction. Current tax adds up to $150,000 per unit of housing [1]

3. Up zone the entire city

4. Dial back street parking

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-is-one-of-the...
There also used to be other CPU architectures--though even at the time, enough people complained about "Wintel" that maybe it was obvious that the alternatives weren't ever going to catch on.
Don’t mobile OS’ prioritize perceived latency above all other resources (besides battery)?
The quality of life, meaning and individual happiness are for individuals to pursue and figure out.

It’s very leftist idea to try to solve that on society’s level.

The list is focusing on things we can improve on society’s level from an individualistic perspective.
You vastly underestimate the complacency of average consumers.
It goes through, doesn't it? I can't find hard numbers, but basically Wet Clothes Don't Stop Sunburn. The UV rays don't bounce at all, unless it's off the skin. It mostly all turns to heat eventually (AFAIK).
The problem here is that you seem to be arguing a point I’m not making. I’m speaking only to the decisions regarding prioritizing decommissioning nuclear over coal. Let’s ignore the future and deal only with what has already happened, because it requires no suppositions. The German public and politicians have decided to prioritize the phase out of nuclear over coal, both before and after the accident in Japan. This is a fact, it’s not up for debate. It’s supported both by public policy positions, public sentiment, and by looking at the percentage of energy coming from each production method. This has negative consequences for climate change.

That’s all that I’m saying here. I’m an overall supporter of the Energiewende, I’d be happy for renewables to replace both coal and nuclear. The issue is as renewables become a bigger share you can shutter coal or you can shutter nuclear capacity that renewables are replacing. Germans chose to prioritize shuttering nuclear, and that’s the wrong choice.
Tyler posts all the time about music, literature, food, and travel. I think he's perfectly aware of what's required to increase quality of life. I think this list mostly demonstrates that he believes there are certain people and institutions in the world that are incredibly effective, and we actually don't understand why at all.

We who live at the very top of Maslow's hierarchy wonder at his lack of focus on quality of life, but I believe if you asked most people in the world (people who are not American or European) what they most valued, they'd tell you access to food, clean water, cheap energy, healthcare, etc. Things that come from economic growth, which comes from building effective institutions and increasing the number of people who can be productive.
When do we get fonts with such features in all OSes? It took ages to get Emoji right in OSes that weren't mobile, now it's time for fonts themselves to step it up.
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Stephan is the damn CEO of Gandi! Unbelievable.
not the same, but years ago i worked on a cctv/dvr system for a Giant Electronics company. we watched HOURS of video (most w/o audio) as part of the rma process. there was good reason for it, as a failure in a circuit is sometimes a function of heat and time. there was one case where the device's ambient temp would spike and the video encoders would produce garbage output every few minutes. replacing the encoders resolved the issued. we kept a locked cabinet where drives with potentially sensitive video was kept, for instance we had a device that had been at a bank during an attempted robbery and had been malfunctioning. we stored the drive until it was certain the recorded data was corrupted, and not the playback system on our device. eventually the authorities agreed to take custody so we could get it off our hands. i was on the tech end of things and not the business end, so i cannot say what sort of privacy expectations our customers had. most of these were installed in businesses...but we did have a few from private residences.
Who knows. Maybe BeOS also had other nice talented people working there, with good vision for products, that just needed more room and market that apple could provide. We will never know
Chinese emperors have done this type of land reform innumerable times and it has always ended up in famine and disaster/regime change. Land consolidation became a thing (as it inevitably does) and baron landlords became commonplace as the consolidation of fields occurred. The positive aspect of land redistribution via the equal field system is that it alters the power structure for the corrupt landlords who should not have power and prevent progressive changes that benefit society. The negative aspect is it's borderline impossible to vet who is "worthy" of being a landlord. The Chinese unfortunately would let "laissez-faire" take over property control.

Eventually someone who knew how to get a leg up on others would take advantage of others financial incompetence, likely mortgage the property, then acquire it, eventually leading up to owning basically a whole province thus becoming basically creating their own landed title and domain. Then suddenly you've got a feudalistic system that has always existed, but the head government now may even have a worse problem they created themselves. It's happened when the south basically broke off after the final rebellion during the Tang dynasty. These landholders eventually had enough power and cultural difference that they could break from the north and retain full autonomy.
> I'm curious, though, if things like the halting problem actually hold in the absence of (certain types of) self-referential statements. To my (very limited) knowledge, all proofs in these areas rely on them.

I mean, if "certain types of self-referential statements" we're banning can include all recursion and (dynamic) loops, then the halting problem is trivial - your program halts.
Maybe.

All conjecture. Had I finished my Java port (BeKaffe), the world would run on BeOs :).
I’m pretty repelled by their tone in that thread. Sweeping it under the rug (could’ve happened to anyone / shit happens) instead of just owning up to it. Throwing in that completely inappropriate meme. Contradicting their marketing material when it’s convenient (are snapshots backups?) and general passive aggressiveness.
Direct links to study data mentioned in the article:

https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Coal...

https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Coal...
When I lived in San Francisco, the newly built condo building across from me was fully empty (but fully sold) for all the years I lived there. This is a tower in SOMA. There was only one apartment which appeared to be a corporate one that was occasionally utilized.

The rise of foreign money parking money in real estate has screwed things up on a global level. San Francisco has felt the brunt of this due to their insanely restrictive development laws.

Frankly, for the 7+ years I was in San Francisco I was always saying they should pass laws to prevent foreign investment in real estate or at a minimum require people live there for X% of the year.
Childhood NO2 exposure&polygenic risk linked to risk of developing schizophrenia
Flu vaccine effectiveness from the CDC website
Flu vaccine effectiveness from the CDC from the CDC web site at
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/2018-2019.html and the corresponding paper at
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/221/1/8/5609441

I'm trying to make sense of the numbers. Statistics can be interpreted subjectively by people.

My interpretation:

-Total flu cases=2763

-Of the 2763, the number that were vaccinated for the flu = 1316

My initial conclusion:

-Nearly half of the people who have the flu (1316/2763) had the flu shot.

-We do not have number as to how many who were not vaccinated did not get the flu. This would be a very interesting number to have.

Do my interpretations and conclusions stand scrutiny?

Assumptions:

All people with flu have sought medical help.
Below replacement fertility is a recent phenomenon (last couple of generations). Evolution works in multiples of generations. We’re at the very beginning of evolving resistance to modernity.
This is hilarious!

The screenshot graphic on the home page didn't show up in my web browser but the apple store listing shows what it looks like.

I've known people that would use this so I expect they'll sell quite a few.

Made me laugh thinking about them.
I do believe we hit a nerve... ;)
I wish it was enforced somehow to have the user need to click a button signaling their desire for push notifications. The auto pop up is so slimy. Same with installing as an app. Very few first time users want to install your pwa. It would be much higher if it didn't offer an install till N regular visits.
It sounds terrible if you call it “capacity for production” but not so bad if called “ability to fulfill needs of others”
Also check out Fontraption (a VGA Text Mode Font Editor for DOS) and Flexi IBM VGA Font (a Scalable Take on Text Mode).

https://int10h.org/blog/2019/05/fontraption-vga-text-mode-fo...

https://int10h.org/blog/2018/05/flexi-ibm-vga-scalable-truet...
I have loved this since it came out and use the PxPlus VGA9 font for day to day programming and console use. I have a very strong association between that font and what the computer is "really" doing.
There was that human-milk ice cream in the UK around 2011:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Gaga

I don't know how well that turned out.