skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From London, Slack was resolving to a load balancer in eu-west-2 earlier during the outage. It now resolves to eu-west-1 and I have no issues connecting to Slack.

$ nslookup edgeapi.slack.com
Server: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
edgeapi.slack.com canonical name = prod-haproxy-edge-nlb-eip-038c466f971aa8b8.elb.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com.
Name: prod-haproxy-edge-nlb-eip-038c466f971aa8b8.elb.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com
Address: 35.176.156.206

$ nslookup edgeapi.slack.com
Server: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
edgeapi.slack.com canonical name = prod-haproxy-edge-nlb-eip-1bffe8d4fbdf4b94.elb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.
Name: prod-haproxy-edge-nlb-eip-1bffe8d4fbdf4b94.elb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
Address: 18.200.77.145
Huh... the article says "Chinese", you're intrepreting this word as "CCP". Isn't this the same as saying "Germany killed Jews" when it's Nazis who were doing that?
Major coding error in OAS analysis of Bolivia’s 2019 elections
For me it’s because that approval process is highly valuable to me as a consumer, and especially as the family member of other consumers. I happily pay more per device to have Apple as the systems administrator for my device.

If I want software freedom I’ll use my laptop.
I still remember standing under an arch in the Grassmarket Edinburgh on my way back from University classes on the day that the Chernobyl cloud passed over the UK and looking at the heavy rain and wondering whether it was a wise thing to walk home in it.

Edit: Of course I knew there was a tiny tiny risk - but still something I remember thinking about.
They’re locked down but once they’re unlocked the OS is actually sane unlike android.
Elon seems to have delivered as opposed to Son, no?
Wouldn't `contact me` do?
What are good current open source (self-hostable) alternatives? I have the following:

[1] https://rocket.chat/ (Works well, sadly the mobile client is no longer native and it shows)

[2] https://matrix.org/ (More IM than workgroup chat)

[3] https://mattermost.com/
You don't want the full capabilities of your hardware you paid for? The Nvidia Jetson is the controllable version of the switch and it's much weaker. You don't want your switch to play games and be a hardware accelerator? You don't want the best silicon to run your own software?
I'm not sure if this is possible, AFAIK this is common in any development environment that allows you to work with live instances of your objects - i think even IDEs like Netbeans have the same issue with custom controls.
I'd guess (almost) everyone wishes everyone else wrote in plain language. But there's potentially a more fundamental reason people don't. bambax in another comment pointed out the power of ambiguity, and that's one of the reasons especially in legal / government, but there's another.

Language, specifically jargon, is an expression of culture. It's an expression of power, education, experience, or lack thereof. It's a quick way to gauge if someone is "like you" or not. If they have the same experience, and especially in professional settings, a quick (yet often incorrect) measure of competence.

Take everyone's favorite, "Business English":

You don't try again, you iterate. You don't take another call, you jump or hop to another call. You sync, and you align. Against the article's recommendation, you nominalize all day, by "bringing projects to completion" and "moving forward with the engagement".

Jargon and style, while often utter bullshit, is a way of measuring people quickly. I once had someone ask me, "would you say you practice disruptive innovation methodology?" My answer to that question was a quick way to learn that unlike them, I did not have an MBA. Complexity is often synonymous with education.

> Jargon is a type of language that is only understood by a particular group of people. You can use jargon when writing to people who will understand the terms and phrases. It can be a useful form of shorthand. But try to avoid using specialist jargon on the general public.

Unless your goal is to identify if someone is part of said particular group. And therefore in the vast majority of business and technical cases, Plain English -- at least jargon and nominalization -- unfortunately may close more doors than it opens.
To make a license GPL-compatible, it needs to be a subset of GPL. Which means, to make ZFS GPL-compatible, Sun would need to ditch patent protection, among other things. That would create real problems for everyone, while not really helping ZFS on Linux - Linux devs would simply find another excuse; case in point is AdvFS.
As someone that doesn't work at an Unreal Engine shop, I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about
Heh, I don't see anything dynamic here. You basically choose between two prison cells instead of having an open market where the platform isn't more than a side note.

You can just have no block owners at all. Having two competing kings fighting over the throne isn't "dynamic" democracy.
Is Slack ever up?
The socialism you speak of still involves the government taking from some and giving to others, and many people depending on the government to provide them with a decent life. The government is certainly seen as a "godfather", a source of livelihood, rather than as a public servant - a mere provider of certain services.
>[Twitter] amplifies meaningless shit into the stratosphere with its trending algorithms

Doubtful, given how popular it is among people and ogranisations that carefully measure the RoI of their marketing & outreach operations, and constantly adjust balance of their efforts among 2, 3, 4 different communication channels (YT, Insta, mail, in-person events, topical forums, old style media, etc.).

A more fitting hypothesis would be, "Twitter opened up a couple new paradigms of influencing people". The paradigms are complex, opaque, and subtly inter-related; quite hard to grasp for people that aren't fully "in the loop". That's why there appearance of chaos and, at the same time, we see highly organized action emerges from this chaos.
The people with money who are leaving big cities permanently. (At least some of whom would have done so anyway but pretty much anyone who was contemplating such a move in the next five years and can do so is pushing up the timetable.)
Why does this site play music?
I found your comment quite cynical and hand wavy. The nuclear fallout affected a huge area and still impacted parts of central Europe. This goes hand in hand with increased cancer rates. Yes, better than dying immediately, but still not a fate you would wish upon anybody.
>FBI and NSA have advised that Linux users update to Linux Kernel 3.7 or later...
The most recent version of Linux to be released is 5.8.1. ...Linux kernel – 3.7 –
was retired in March 2013

So, there's only a theoretical risk if you've not bothered to update your system in over seven years. Yet another borderline clickbait headline.
Dead, really? Maybe it was the lmgtfy link that tripped the modbot.

> if it's not as easy as social media, it won't get the adoption these days.

I think that is backwards. Starting a blog is as easy as starting a Facebook account. The problem is that a blog does not give you the "engagement" of a social network and therefore can not compete for your attention against the very fine-tuned engagement machines of Facebook et al.

At the end of the day, content production in social networks follow a Pareto distribution. A small percentage produces the majority of the content and the rest is just there to share or produce noise. If you remove the tools that produce noise, you remove any reason for the majority to join. If you remove the strings that pull the noisy majority, you don't have a "social network". This is why my feeling is that "a social network with no engagement" is an oxymoron.
Finnish logistics giant uses predictive database for intelligent automation
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You can be turing complete without meaningful freezes. You can be non turing complete with meaningful freezes.
I feel that nothing significant has changed over the past decade. There newer frameworks that are faster not in order of magnitudes, more stable, have a bit more features or run in the browser itself but at the end you are interacting with elements in your DOM and you are dependent on 20 other cogs and gears that are not part of the browser.

Your best bet would be doing automated smoke GUI testing, lots of API testing and below and above all a layer of manual testing done by the whole team during and after development.

In one team we used high speed cameras, or screen captures on mobiles, to capture images containing debug timestamps and do image comparison of selected regions to reference ones, I think it was using imagemagick. This worked but required constant maintenance and manual interventions.
I lose the App Store, Apple leading the way by enforcing privacy standards, and many other things. Having control isn’t always a good thing. The benefit of having control here “download another App Store” isn’t much of a benefit to me. I love the way things are. That’s why I have an iPhone.
From a comment by onion2k in the other HN thread:

> This is a quote from the letter that Apple sent to Epic;

>> If your membership is terminated, you may no longer submit apps to the App Store, and your apps still available for distribution will be removed. You will also lose access to the following programs, technologies, and capabilities:"

>> [...]

>> - Engineering efforts to improve hardware and software performance of Unreal Engine on Mac and iOS hardware; optimize Unreal Engine on the Mac for creative workflows, virtual sets and their CI/Build Systems; and adoption and support of ARKit features and future VR features into Unreal Engine by their XR team

> That is a statement that Apple made saying they will stop all help they give to Epic getting UE running on all Apple hardware. With the other stuff in the letter it makes it very clear that the problem is not just one for Epic Games, but all of Epic.

> You can read it yourself - https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v-apple-8-17-20-768927327.... (Apple's letter starts on page 51 of the PDF)

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269719

So they seem to be very specific and specifically call out work on the Unreal Engine.
No I don’t want any of that. I want the iPhone as-is.
I think 11 to 200, but it’s not surjective
Delegating that control is, in effect, a form of collective bargaining. Whereas Epic could convince individual users to accept whatever terms of use they wanted to impose, effectively Apple collectively bargains for all those users. That means that, if you like the way Apple negotiates and are comfortable with the trade offs they make, you have much more leverage than if you were negotiating as an individual.
Quite a feat of mental acrobatics to be xenophobic towards one foreign continent but not another; especially if it is as you say, "natural."
Comedians have a tough enough time doing jokes with face-to-face communication and body language as it's been done for thousands of years.

So most of the people on Twitter are already behind them, but then they want to try and do jokes on a brand new human medium that lacks a lot of information from face-to-face communication.

And then they get upset that someone didn't get their joke.
If I was reading an article in 1944 that says "Germany kills Jews" I would not say the article is bullshit because it takes advantage of anti German xenophobia. I would say man a fucking genocide is happening in Germany, that nation is going to cause problems for the world.
> Would you allow people to load software of their choice for their automobiles?

Obviously yes.

> Smart TVs usually are limited by their OS and encumbered by licensing that locks down what can be loaded. This mostly is because of decoding legalities

It's because of DRM. Nothing here benefits the customer.

> Who becomes liable if your privacy, assets, or even the device, are compromised because you were able to load software not vetted?

You, the owner, of course.

> Do you want a world where you need a virus scan program for your phone?

Like on Android?

> I look at it this way, you have a choice in what you buy

You don't. That's the whole point of walled gardens, taking that choice away from you.
No. What he described is not a poll.
I am saying this because I am very intimate with Linux and very intimate with ISO 26262 certification, but I try to avoid those situations a masochist will seek out for pleasure. Life is too short.
It is not an exclusive focus on deaths, it is on all cancers and they did not spike as claimed by more pessimistic models. There were a few slight increases (mostly in thyroid cancer) but also a lot more testing being done that makes it a bit harder to normalize the statistics -- this may also have dropped the death rate slightly, as cancers caught early due to increased testing are more likely to be treatable.
Security isn't that important.
What makes you think these are impulsive buys? As people get older and, especially as they have families, there's always been a tendency to move to the suburbs/exurbs if they weren't there already. The main difference today is that big cities have tended to be attractive to young professionals to a degree that they really weren't 25 years ago.

The pandemic has probably accelerated a migration that would have happened anyway--but arguably slowed down the new grads moving into cities to replace them.
>Sun could have written a license that was not GPL (to satisfy IHVs) but was compatible with GPL

Why? Why even care about GPL? It's 100% compatible to MIT/BSD/ISC and that's enough, even Linus said that he probably would choose the ISC today, he chose mainly the GPL because GCC had it...and now they have GPLv3 (an absolute shit decision if you ask me).
https://zulip.com/
Practically, it's the PWR- Pressurised Water Reactor. I say practically as there are always new developments, like Thorium-Salt reactors that made the headlines a while back, but these are the reactors that are producing the majority of nuclear electricity and haven't had a single major accident. They contain less fissile material in the reactor core, they are purely Boron moderated (so Chernobyl 2 couldn't happen) and there is no risk of contamination as the pressurised water in the reactor core cannot mix with the water turned into steam for the turbine.

They do have a few downsides, like frequent fuel rod swaps and boric acid buildup, but in the real world this is the safest working reactor we have today.
Show HN: Grattr – Gravatar for Demographics
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minister of Health in Bermuda, Kim Wilson, was asked to estimate whether the virus was impacting black people more severely. Due to demographic data not being attached to hospital admission, she was unable to answer the question.

Grattr was a weekend project to enable individuals to publicly identify with demographic characteristics -- your "Globally Recognized Attributes".

By attaching these attributes to email addresses, Grattr allows demographic analysis to be performed on any group of emails, including conference registrants, college applicants and company employees.

We don't keep anything except the attributes that you've made public. If the choices for attributes seem odd, it's because we've used the Bermuda 2010 census as our base. Please feel free to post in the comments any attributes that you would like to add or raise a PR to our repo: https://github.com/cactus-bm/grattr-webapp

Sign up is easy:
https://app.grattr.org/

Attributes are publicly accessible via an API:
https://bba96qwn33.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/attributes/{email}

Examples for myself and my co-founder James:

curl 'https://bba96qwn33.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/attributes/james@grattr.org'

curl 'https://bba96qwn33.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/attributes/amy@grattr.org'
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How about closed source NVidia drivers, or ESX? It’s also derived work, yet there are no licensing problems.
One link in the article shows the problem also exists in phones sold in Brazil and Myanmar: https://www.upstreamsystems.com/pre-installed-malware-androi... . I'd look at the source.
> a surprisingly large proportion of users don't actually know how old they are

How did they manage this? I've tried every way I can think of forgetting my age, to no avail -the bastard number is always there :)
I learned a while back that twitter is a sludge fest in the abscess of the internet. Any meaningful commentary is drowned out by a deluge of downright bafoonery and willingful ignorance.
I am thankful every time I drive that I'm able to run software of my choice in my automobile. Mazda never seemed to get around to adding Android Auto to my 2015, and yet I use it whenever I feel like, and I didn't have to pay a dealer $300 to install software!
The facade is central to the business model. If the only people going to elite schools were rich and politically-connected:

(1) It would look bad for everyone involved.

(2) The schools would lose their prestige.

Right now, if I want a good lawyer, I look to Yale, followed by Harvard/Stanford/Chicago. I have a 70% chance of getting a brilliant lawyer, and a 30% chance of getting a rich douchebag. For law firms, it doesn't actually matter too much, since reputation is mostly circular.

If I want a good engineer, I look to MIT/Stanford/Caltech. I have a 80% chance of getting a good engineer, and a 20% chance of getting a rich douchebag. That's not a guaranteed hire, but it gets you in the door. Hopefully, my interview will screen out the rich douchebags, but it doesn't always. That model is breaking down a little bit, since people are starting to notice that the typical engineering applicant from e.g. Georgia Tech, Northeastern, or similar is better than MIT/Stanford/Caltech+++.

Upside to rich douchebags: They're past the first round of all hiring processes. Between university brand and network, their kids can always find at least upper middle class jobs. In a best case, they can go on to be president! Or if they're running a company, they don't look obviously nepotistic.

+++ It's worth noting there are sample biases here. Most qualified MIT/Stanford/Caltech graduates can find jobs without going through proletarian hiring processes, so the people who do actually apply for jobs through my web site are prefiltered.
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When was the last time you used Android? That sounds true of 2012 or so but not after.

Android does have a poor status though, the value of it's phones drops precipitously every few months until it levels at $100-$200 a year later, or it was cheap in the first place and good like xiaomi. iPhones don't drop like that.
Thin LVM snapshots solve that.
I have done several experiments in Reddit. I post a link with a plausible title and credible looking 404 to credible domain with made up url.

In a big subreddit you easily get 30 top level comments before first comment says that link does not work or is fake. Discussion goes on and on without pause. People treat the title as a writing prompt. One of the best writing prompts is pseudo-philosophical techno-bro life or business advice. Anything with quantum physics in the title works too.
Yes but any developer can have his or her own account that gives access to every tool, only for pushing software to the store it's vital to have that one particular account for Epic. Epic will lose perks like direct access to performance tuning teams at Apple, but that's not something you can't do without.

So "difficult" would mean that you need to improvise a bit, but they're still able to develop just like any developer. If you want to put your own cocoapod out, you don't need a developer license to do so and if someone else wants to use your cocoapod they just need their own developer account.
Let's talk about language and why it matters. Domain Squatting (Cybersquatting) is a very specific thing, which you touch on. It's infringing on someone's trademark in bad faith. This is entirely separate from descriptive domains you mention in your next sentence. To use the Jump.com example, that's not being squatted because it's not being used to infringe on someone's TM.

I think it's impossible and unfair to change the rules now. Some of the largest portfolio holders are big corps. Look at P&G who own Clean.com and just redirect it to Tide.com. Going to have a hard time prying that away.

I know a lot of people feel like people who are holding domains are unfairly profitting, but I'm still waiting for a better system to be described that could pragmatically be implemented as well. I know there is a boogeyman of domain investors at ICANN that a lot of people (who seem very connected to registry interests) use as a way to push for their agenda because domain investor interests tend to align better with consumers at large (eg. price increases, registrant rights, etc).

Finally, you have a bajilarillions of options for domain names at this point. Hundreds of TLDs, I think 63 characters. Just using a-z0-9- we're talking 3,763,572,874,813,444,727,106,020,660,762,327,844,147,969,869,582,735,798,064,027,429,183 combinations in one TLD space. If you can't find an available domain name with that, you're not creative enough to be running a business.
You understand why others find it strange you don't and why they do though, right?
Was Zoom outage yesterday related to this? AWS has become sort of a single point of failure
Urbit stack is ~30k lines of code, that's low enough to be grasped by a single person. What's hard is learning form scratch completely new platform, but that's deliberate and is not such a problem if it manages to deliver what it promises.

Somehow I feel that accusations of being ideological come from people, who themselves are ideologically oposed to Yarvins work and fail to consider Urbits network protocol purely for its properties. Idea of giving network addresses value, cryptographic ownership and creating a hierarchy of addresses resembling functionality on the network (users, ISPs, etc.) seems perfectly resonable.
You might like this George Carlin stand-up show: https://youtu.be/6IC_It9DwDA?t=82
The fate of antiques and heirlooms in a disposable age
Nobody is forcing you to use an iPhone either. There are plenty of options with different trade offs.

Allowing 3rd-party app stores has predictable negative externalities (privacy, security, etc.). Which is why I and others are not interested in that development. Apple is able to make developers engage in less shitty business practices precisely because they can control the distribution of software through the App Store . It’s no surprise that as Apple has increasingly focused on privacy and removing tracking capabilities and other dark patterns that developers are trying to find a way around Apple’s restrictions. It’s not like they all of a sudden implemented a new fee. It’s been there for years.

> 99.9%....

I guess this is the .1%? You don’t buy something expecting it to do something completely different. You don’t buy an iPhone expecting to install whatever you want. You don’t buy a Corolla expecting to off-road with it.
Interesting use by \ by dhall to define functions - though you can use λ as well.
Back to back with the Zoom outage no less.
I have used ZFS with 1 GB of RAM. It worked fine, it just wasn’t able to cache stuff to memory.
Ok. So the trade off here is that you have to use the App Store to avoid those things. It’s not a big deal.