skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Obama failed to properly launch a simple website for his signature initiative

It's very frustrating seeing people continually arguing that because some people screw up, learn from experience, and fix things, that it justifies others going in the opposite direction, ignoring experience, and breaking things.

Even before your metrics show that the destruction has reached a crossover point, the latter is fundamentally different because it's unnecessary. The former is fundamentally sound because there will always be mistakes.

It doesn't matter how bad you think government is, it's not an argument for making it worse.
Yep, we are very dependent on Cloudflare :(
Yeah I was waiting for it to fix then tried cell phone and realized that was down too. I assumed it was an issue regional / backbone routing or something. Especially cause status pages which I wouldn't expect to be hosted on AWS (because of the need for status pages to stay up when AWS goes down) seemed to also be down. Didn't realize it could be Cloudflare...
Picking up your partner is something that mostly happens in performances rather than social dancing. Plus it's more about body mechanics than brute strength. I have plenty of short male friends who dance.

Note also that 'male' and 'female' roles don't really exist these days in the dances I do. YMMV with scenes.
Don't forget, take frequent naps and sprint as hard as you can when you get to some green grass.

Dogs definitely live in the moment, who else would ask for a full body massage when they meet new/old friends.
My modem also disconnected with signal problems, which was interesting. I'm not sure Cloudflare could have caused that?
Those poor Firefox users who enabled DoH
Throw everything on the table and "make concessions"?
I personally find sites like https://outage.report or https://downdetector.com which tally up the number, regions and history of people saying it isn't working for them more conclusive.
> you can always refuse to cooperate with the investigation later, and they'll be obliged to drop the charges

This is completly false at least in the US where this story is happening. You don't decide to press or not to press charges. The presecution can decide to go ahead or not, no matter if you cooperate or not and no matter what you desire, they have no obligation whatsoever.
We operate that site and are using Cloudflare to prevent DDOS attacks. Probably some sort of hash collision...
> It just concerns me how much power a random judge has that their decisions and opinions become law

A “random judge” has virtually no power of that kind; trial court decisions are rarely published and, if published, are still only persuasive rather than binding authority. Appellate court decisions are binding precedent on inferior courts, but appointments to such courts are highly scrutinized for that reason, and the decisions aren't made by a single judge.
Weird, it works for me (US)
Seems to work again for me in germany (Frankfurt)
Interesting data you get in the face of adversity, providing your host resolves!
how can I have cloudflare plus something else as a DNS failover? We are afraid to set a long TTL and have our IP changed for some reason. What do you guys recommend?
Now we need isdownforeveryoneorjustmedown.com
It looks like you mistyped it and landed on a domain with spammy redirects. They have all kinds of weird URLs and there's not always any connection to anything you did other than go to the wrong domain.
Ah but then it does not work as a mnemonic anymore!

I'm kidding. Thanks, TIL I learned that with now have display-inside and display-outside (and flow[-root]). This makes perfect sense. Finally, even, I'd say. Having a property that defines both the behaviors of an element outside and inside without being able to define these behaviors separately was both strange and limiting. I'm happy I even used the terms that have been chosen to speak about these notions in CSS by chance.

How do you track all these useful additions to CSS conveniently though? I can't rely on random comments on HN to learn about them by chance (no offense intended to your valuable comment btw, being random is perfectly fine). I also can't possibly systematically learn about each and every addition neither. Are there resources addressing this?
Sounds like a problem for... us!
And the worst is if you try to raise concerns about cloudflare now it get brushed of as "cf already proxy half the internet, if it goes down our stuff will be minor concern".
I think it helped with their mind-share and broader lockin as a side effect.
This sort of class soup brakes the principal of DRY. Much better to use CSS to style.

button {
--background: teal;
--focus-ring:
2px 2px 5px skyblue,
-2px -2px 5px skyblue;

background: var(--background);
box-shadow: none;
}

button:hover {
--background: wheat;
}

button:focus-visible,
button:focus:not(:focus-visible) {
outline: none;
}

button:focus-visible {
box-shadow: var(--focus-ring);
}

Now you will never forget to add that `hover:bg-teal-600` class to your buttons.
Complete eradication is not what Europe nor China are doing and have better results.
Pretty much this, and I also started with Lindy.
Yep. I quickly logged into my home Pi-hole and unchecked both IPv4 Cloudflare DNS servers.
Looks like it's starting to come back in the SE US.
It's not about virtue, is about you getting a service, and paying something in return. If you don't want to pay with your attention, you have the option of getting Youtube Premium and paying with your wallet insted.
The latter.

$ dig +short discord.com ns
sima.ns.cloudflare.com.
gabe.ns.cloudflare.com.
> does Youtube actively do anything to prevent such clients from existing?

Not really, no. Though they took some kind of legal action against Hooktube I remember.

> Will they one day change the service so the video stream urls are generated randomly, or obfuscated, and break every 3rd party client?

They already do this to some extent for videos with copyrighted content, but it's not very aggressive and has long been reverse-engineered and dealt with. They use a series of three string transformations like reversal, replacing a single letter, etc. on an alphanumeric signature parameter. The sequence of transformations varies per video but can be extracted from the Javascript source using regular expressions.

Here are some available clients I know of. I do not know if there any that use floating videos or dim the desktop as you say:

mps-youtube (terminal-only): https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube

youtube-viewer: https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer

FreeTube (which uses the invidious API): https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

Invidious: https://invidio.us/, https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

youtube-local (my project): https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local

smtube: https://www.smtube.org/

Minitube: https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube, https://github.com/flaviotordini/minitube
> Instead, you (and probably a large portion of older, affluent Americans) will celebrate as our already underpaid teachers are forced to seek other work rather than kill their students/families. Before the pandemic, many teachers in my district were forced to work second jobs (e.g. at restaurants). This is a breaking point.

Yes. Teachers at private schools are paid much less but produce better outcomes, despite having similar demographics. For example, Catholic school teachers earn much less (and catholic schools spend much less per pupil than similar pupils at public schools). Yet the outcomes are better. This is not a problem with pay. The public school system and teachers who are complicit in it have failed our students.

And to be clear.. I am not older. I have soon-to-be school age children. My mother was a teacher. We have seen the rot in the system, and our children will not be attending. Especially as a minority, we cannot let our children be subject to the silent and self-denying racism inherent in the public school system. Sorry you don't get to ruin my kid's life as people like you forced my mother to ruin other children's lives be following the edicts of the public school system.
Right, that's covered by the second part of the post that was not quoted by you.
Same here. I'm working at an auto parts store looking though ASE parts sites and it was like well close up the store the catalogs are missing RN.
https://handshake.org is pretty interesting.
If you set up a Google Family (or whatever it's called) of 6 and just pay for the subscription it ends up costing like $3/month for YouTube Red. Been doing this for 5 years and just have my family pay me their share at the beginning of the year.
I think the difference is that when you design a full React app, everything sit on the same "React base". If you want to move to upgrade to a new React version everything needs to upgrade. And if you need to migrate to Vue or Ember or Svelte... everything needs to migrate (or move to some sort of microfrontend strategy. But given the javascript cost of some of these frameworks, it's not cheap to go this route).

Web Components have a longer life span as they can be used in another app or another version with another technology without been migrated.
Makes more sense for expensive component that have been battle tested. You don't want to rewrite them.
Also SVG has also some very ugly things in the spec. And you would have to build up every UI-Element by yourself. It would have nothing to do with SVG, if it would be like HTML.
I can live without creepy instant messengers, but its shocking just how much everything else relies on one, central system. And furthermore, why is it always cloudflair?
FYI, here's the link

https://www.symbolcrash.com/podcast/interview-with-josh-pitt...
What computers will be like in 2025
[1] Echoes Tower of Hanoi, slightly interesting
And now it's back up.
> Somebody, somewhere, really ought to sort it all out

That could be the slogan for 2020
The machine used is a 36-core + single gpu. So not quite a home computer yet but this is some serious progress!

Paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11751

Source:
https://github.com/alex-petrenko/sample-factory
I'm a data person myself, and while it's immensely frustrating to me that we can't make apples-to-apples comparisons between states, I don't think data collection is the actual issue.

They already have enough actionable data to identify where the outbreaks are, how fast they're spreading, etc. but local governments will make decisions however they want anyway.

If our federal government wants to push us to re-open, the best thing they could do is provide a substantial amount of federal funding so that tests are available, for free, to anyone who wants one.
Despite their update, I like how they're saying only their recursive DNS had "degraded performance", while authoritative is "operational". The entire reason everything blew up was because their authoritative nameservers weren't responding.
David Spade's personal assistant famously attacked him with a stun gun, so be careful!
Normally, though, the story is the reverse: a celeb mis-treated their personal assistant and is now being sued.
And I wasn't advocating for any one of those as a fundamentally better system, assuming you mean raw unfettered nature, hunter-gatherer style. And even then it's likely there is a tribe that cares..but I digress.
Out of curiosity, done HN use any CDN or other way of DDOS protection? dang?
Sure but you started by saying these things weren't flagged and they probably were. Lots of things are flagged, it doesn't take a lot of flags to throw something off the front page. I'm sure people flag for 'ideological' reasons but I think the chances are pretty good it largely evens out.

PG's most recent essay got banished off the FP (correctly, if you ask me) within a couple of hours, with zillions of upvotes and a thread made of pure HN hell. You can actually interpret that outcome N different ways to support a preferred narrative. One might be that HN is just a place for oblivious techbros. Another one might be that HN's immune system worked and deep-sixed the thing.
yes, even then. the likelihood of transmission is still negligibly miniscule. from the virus's perspective, it has to pass a number of gauntlets and a bunch of labyrinths to even reach a position of possible infection. just don't stop and have a conversation without a little distance.
> there's a "The fundamental abstraction is this"

In most cases, I'd settle for "what problem this is trying to solve" (although this is obvious for CSS, it isn't nearly as obvious for things like React and Vue).
I've been getting ads for months now that show a devastating natural disaster approaching my location. It was very alarming the first few times I saw it. Reporting it has done nothing.
> Fun fact, for a very long time German companies could declare bribes paid abroad in their taxes. Legally. Seems that a lot of people didn't get the memo that bribery was, indeed, illegal now.

Surprisingly realistic policy, considering that bribery is simply part of everyday business in some locales.
Seem to be localized issue. Cloudflare is up here in my country, but down for many people in US.
I really like language-based operating systems. It is cool you did this.

My ideal though would be – it is all written in the language (Smalltalk/Lisp/whatever), with no use of other languages such as C/C++ (except possibly assembler, in which case my ideal is it comes with an assembler written in the language); and it is fully self-hosting in terms of the build process.

Of course, I realise my ideal is a lot more work than what you've done, and none of us has infinite time in which to tinker with things...

(I myself have some toy programming language interpreters I wrote, some in C, some in Java – I keep on thinking "oh, I should get rid of the C/Java, make it generate native code and then rewrite its core in itself" – but that's a lot of work and I've never had time for that.)
I had no intention of being annoying. Apologies for that. I only meant to offer some optimism.

I understand your point of view, and I respect it.
DO uses cloudflare for their DNS... both for digitalocean.com and for their DNS service.
Because I fucked up. Here's a more current tweet: https://twitter.com/GhostfromTexas/status/128423896421647564...

Here's the main HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875692
Hanlon's razor applies here.
Yeah, but then your status page provider switches THEIR provider, and suddenly you are on the same infra again.
> the US has 27% of all cases of COVID-19

has 27% of all the known cases - FTFY! Do you honestly believe the reported number of cases from the populous developing countries known for their corruption and a lack of functioning systems (I come from one, so I know first hand how they work)?

> I'm asking, because when it comes to COVID-19 the US is doing so badly...

so badly in terms of what? Reported number of cases, which is miserably under-reported due to a lack of testing / credible systems in the majority parts of the world (at least by population)? I know that people are losing jobs in the US, businesses are bankrupting but where I come from, people are starving and a 12 yo was begging for food when my sister went for grocery shopping, since his family hadn't had enough food in 2 days.

If you are in the US and haven't experienced a poor society first-hand (beyond a 2-3 week vacation in the tourist spots in such places), please count yourself lucky and appreciate what you've got!
This is tricky because practices aren't just random sets of poses. I don't know much about yoga sequencing - maybe you could generate a reasonable set of rules as to how to combine poses but it doesn't feel trivial to me. Also 'beginner' is hard to define - familiarity with poses is independent of the progression within them which one can achieve!
Indeed. But "probably true in some cases" is sorta a giant red flag for "junk science". Real medicine uses higher standards before basing policy on a model like this.
who deployed on a friday afternoon?
I just recently ran across this. I wonder how much performance would be degraded.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7530014/authors#authors

> Unlike previous DNS replacement proposals, D 3 NS is reverse compatible with DNS and allows for incremental implementation within the current system.
What are your thoughts on CSS Grid? Does it require multiple passes?
AppVeyor has experienced DNS hiccup.
It may be mistaken on HN, but all social media companies are gamed by corporations, political parties, foreign governments, native governments, intelligence agencies, powerful churches, lobby groups, media companies, advertisers.
I enjoy your service. Have you ever thought about expanding your offerings? I would love to see a recreation of "Internet Pulse"
Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not very familiar with iOS, but it's not so much F-Droid that makes Android great, but rather the fact that you are allowed to install apps outside of the Play Store. As far as I know, that's not possible on iOS without jailbreak (or the whole Testflight stuff that was being abused).

F-Droid is just a visible example of that functionality.
Considering running your own full resolver like unbound. Then you don't have to rely on a DNS provider like Google or Cloudflare. It's really nice not having the whole internet go down when Google or Cloudflare DNS is down.
Yep, the DoorDash app is affected currently, my burritos!
This strikes me as highly naive. We have states here in the US banning cities from implementing mandatory mask rules. Do you really think places like that are going to tell people older than 65 not to come in? Do you think if someone who's high risk refuses that they'll still have a job in a place like that? If you're over 65 and will potentially lose your pension for not going in to work, you're probably going to have to think twice about that before just saying no.
I wish the best for his family. Sad all around.

Occam's razor certainly applied here. I wonder if that rampant speculation earlier shows how disconnected we are from reality. Our minds are certainly warped by the sugary fictions and media we consume.
As one would expect, it says "degraded performance" instead of "down" lol
Yes, the country screwed up, but ultimately, the country is represented by a single leader, and said single leader is responsible for the response of the country as a whole.

With great power (like presidency), comes great responsibility (like properly leading the country through a global pandemic) and with great responsibility comes great criticism where said responsibility isn't followed through.

They're not getting downvoted for a political statement. They're getting downvoted by implying that someone else wouldn't do a better job than probably the worst possible response to Covid.

Objectively, the response we've had from the leadership of the country has been terrible, and the effects are evident when you look at # of cases. Also objectively, any other response would have been better. Obviously, I can't tell with absolute certainty what other leaders would have done, but I can assure you it'd have been better than what we have now.

To say otherwise is ignoring the current state of the country and the response that has resulted in said state.
I keep waiting for someone to say it, so I'll say it: Apple?
> Christian Wulff (Former German President), Guttenberg (former Defence Minister)

None of these two served any prison sentences. Wulff was acquitted after he refused to pay 20k € to make it instantly go away and even had damages paid.

Guttenberg was caught plagiarizing for his doctoral dissertation, which is a rather common thing among German politicans. As a consequence he lost some public clout, but instead wrote a book for even more publicity, afaik right now he's doing some work for Springer in the US, biding his time for a another comeback in German politics.

Meanwhile to this day even Kohl's donation scandal, hasn't seen any proper investigation, nor the Amigo-scandal, NSU-scandal, nor the countless others, particularly on a local state level.

Heck, just look at people like Mehdorn and projects like the BER construction site: He, being such a highly renowned and well paid manager, was supposed to fix that mess. Nothing was fixed, the whole thing is still a massive mess, political consequences for anybody actually responsible? Pretty much zero.

The thing is: We Germans are very good about keeping up appearances, as a result of that inconvenient truths and topics often fall by the wayside.
Tech CEO found decapitated and dismembered in NYC apartment, assistant arrested
hackernews is falling into the same traps
Yeah it's pretty obvious by reading by what is NOT being discussed and talked about that there is some serious disconnect from both the Ds and the Rs and the people that make up the US that is behind a lot of the current problems.

Sometimes the silence says more than the noise.
> A good book

One under-appreciated value that actual books have over online documentation is that you know immediately what order you're supposed to read them in.
What about Deutsche Bank? The absolute gold standard in international money laundering.
As a side topic, what leads you to say Kotlin is all but dead?
It's not usable if crops won't grow:

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2458/why-a-half-degree-tempera...
Neat, but calling large format film "the only medium that captures enough detail to straighten the tree without pixelly artifacts" is silly.

Large format film is gorgeous and captures tons of detail, but you could capture much, much more with a digital panorama.
I love the idea of bare-metal ports to the Pi. I saw snakeware posted here not too long ago. Are there other examples? ColorForth would be interesting as well
I think there are some countries that have no more cases, so each country would have managed same thing the issue can be solved, so a solution is to isolate only the countries that have a high risk.
> Blue states were worse early on, mostly due to New York City being quickly overwhelmed, but now that's not the case, because D governors (e.g., Newsom) are generally leading responsibly, and R governors (e.g. Kemp) are... not.

The relevant metric is not "amount of time doing relatively better or worse." You can get all over with quickly like NY did, but they ended up with 8x the deaths of FL. NJ has 3x FL's. AFAICT, "leading responsibly" here means simply having (D) after their names, as these governors' policies were catastrophically bad.
They have a shady vibe to them is what I mean. Like e-mail spam.

Another example is "Generic viking game", like literally. It just says some generic viking game, no brand or recognizable name. It looks just like phishing.
The title of this post leads with "ad-free". Seems like it's the main selling point.
It's hosted on AWS, you don't need DDoS protection, just a big wallet.
I put my bet on some peering fuckups, causing outrages since people are having packet loss etc.
Someone needs to get these lava lamps plugged back in ASAP!
They need to make military drones illegal over US soil, not sure what to do about toy drones though.
The original submission-title was more descriptive (something like: "The Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0 Released: 133 fonts added, new online index"), but I assume a moderator edited it to the current, more concise, one.

Feature-wise, the new version offers about 3 times as many "oldschool" fonts as the previous version, and also introduces the use of several techniques not typically used elsewhere to make the fonts more palettable for modern use (aspect correction, embedded bitmaps to bypass anti-aliasing). Also the online font index has more details regarding each font.

I would say that a very detailed online font index and fonts that are now much more palettable for modern use, may well be grounds for new discussions.