skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Tor user and privacy maximalist, I see no difference from usual.

What you are experiencing today is the normal state of the nowadays web when you refuse to be tracked.
Status pages of the companies are just PR disasters for them. Most of the time they don't report what's up.
It's not the core charge that makes you return a battery -- it's the core refund.
Probably relevant Fastly update:

> Fastly is observing increased errors and latency across multiple regions due to a common IP transit provider experiencing a widespread event. Fastly is actively working on re-routing traffic in affected regions.
By the way, if you want make this permanent in a binary, there is no need to set LD_PRELOAD all the time. You could just add a DT_NEEDED entry to the dynamic section. E.g. something like:

patchelf --add-needed libfakeintel.so yourbinary
Incidentally I can't connect to HN directly from Greece, but only if I use my VPN through New York. Probably somehow related?
BTW -- being a fully resident citizen of said nation who was born a few decades after 1947 -- I personally do have an ambivalent attitude towards the British Raj. I guess not all of the administrators were merciless tyrants and scoundrels, and neither were all of them benevolent angels. I don't subscribe to Ishiguro's views expressed in the quote under discussion, either.

That said, one cannot wish the facts away, which is what I was trying to put across, albeit ham-handedly, in my earlier comment.
Shameless plug:

I spent too much time losing precious time when github/npm/cloudflare are going down, until I figure out it was them.

So currently working on a project[1] to monitor all the 3rd party stack you use for your services. Hit me up if you want, access I'll give free access for a year+ to some folks to get feedbacks.

[1] https://monitory.io
You are cringe
I had Alexa controlling the lights for a while, but I found talking requires much more cognitive effort than picking up a remote, finding the right button by touch, and pushing it.

I can literally do the latter three quarters asleep, but not so much the former.

It would be far more useful to have the process almost completely automated. Lights go on when someone enters a room and go off when everyone leaves, with optional manual override.

This turns out to be a hard(ish) problem that needs better sensors and/or some form of personal ID.
I could rephrase that entire page with "The compatible devices are the ones that are compatible" and it would provide about as much useful information.

Nowhere on that page does it mention HDCP. There is no such thing as a firmware update for 99.9% of monitors out there.

I meet 100% of the stated requirements on this page, yet NetFlix refuses to play 4K on my high-end computer. It does this silently, without explanation. It simply shows everything as HD, basically gaslighting me.

This kind of thing infuriates me.

I paid for this. I feel like a sucker.
Bad Character: Who Do We Want Out Hypertexts to Be? [pdf]
Thanks!

Well, the long-term work is staying in the CV. I worked for 27 years at one of the most storied and respected Japanese corporations on Earth, at a very deep level. This says a lot about my aptitude, ethics, Honor, Integrity, team dynamics and loyalty. I sure as heck don't want to work for any company that thinks of that as a bad thing. Most of my tech work has been done in the open. I've been doing open-source work for over twenty years; which gives me the advantage of a vast portfolio.

I was a hiring manager for 25 years. Hiring people was a very important part of my work. I managed a small, high-functioning team that did image pipeline "engine" code in C++. Getting headcount was a huge battle, and I kept employees for decades. I loved multi-page CVs. "Draw Spunky" tests were absolutely worthless in evaluating people that would become part of my team. Interviews were often very casual affairs, where I'd encourage people to tell me stories about their work.

I have a Stack Overflow story that lays out my work in a linear fashion[0], or CV fashion[1]. I kind of like the idea of an SO story. It's fairly direct in pointing to my work.

My experience is that the vast portfolio is ignored by hiring managers (recruiters are much, much worse). I used to send links to relevant projects, when applying, only to have them completely ignored, in favor of a 50-line binary tree test. I have come to realize that binary tree tests are "young pass filters," as the only place binary trees actually exist, are in colleges. If a company gives a binary tree test, then I know they aren't interested in me, and are just ticking an "Interviewed old fart" checkbox.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/cv/chrismarshall
Why do Sony want 28nm specifically?
> Who has a .edu email address? Generally it's only students, faculty and alumni of accredited US colleges. This roughly translates to "many of the most priviledged people in the world".

I'm pretty sure most sites do actually respect .edu equivalents in other countries. Certainly seen .ac.uk work. And for most countries it's simply .edu.<country tld>.
How about educational discounts instead of .edu discounts?

There are students outside the US as well.

Not that i can figure out from that site what you're selling.

Edit: just because it may not be obvious: in countries with state paid higher education the students can actually be poor.
I use my Google home for timers while cooking, turn on/off lamps that have awkward to reach switch's, Christmas tree lights when the time arrives. My biggest usability issue hey/ok Google is a mouthful and does not roll off the tongue like Siri/Alexa.
That's a good point, and a relevant one.
What Neuralink present appears to be almost the same as this semi-invasive from 2013:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

I am not up to speed on the non-invasive work, its called motion trajectory prediction (MTP) BCI. It is quite different from the method you decribed, which is a traditional motor imagey (MI) BCI.
Sure:

- name: install the latest version of Apache and MariaDB
package:
name:
- httpd
- mariadb-server
state: latest
Why do anyone want a lower nm number?
HN and reddit out on my talktalk link in London, 3 mobile 4g working normally.
An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction [Jaseem Abid]
Japan proposes wiping down Mauritius mangroves by hand to remove oil
I accidentally found people’s bank statements online
My favorite demo of optical tweezers in action is the tetris video: https://youtu.be/paSWFnfv1n4

How's that for a lab trick!
Alumni have edu addresses too, and there are always more alumni than students; and the alumni need professional tools more than students. So, these discounts might be going mostly to alumni. The discounts are not a chance to get a student hooked before they enter the real world.
IKEA had their payment system go down worldwide also.
I really doubt that uses Cloudflare.
FYI: Your site is down because of GitHub pages maintenance.

Edit: it’s up again!

Just want to let you know about the spelling error ”Save titme” :)
>laptops that have quad core cpus are still pretty expensive

They are really not. If you are after performance on a tight budget, you can get a ThinkPad E14 with 6-core (that's 6 physical cores) Ryzen APU and 16GB of RAM for under 900 dollars [1]. You still get a good quality keyboard and the trackpoint nub if that's your thing (I'm a happy user of an older Thinkpad E485).

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-e-ser...
Inflation doesn't change the value of an investment. It increases the price that the new products fetch as well. You need to look at rates when trying to explain this, and rates and inflation have been low for decades without a return to major industrial R&D.
How Much Memory Does Require a Single TCP/IP Connection?
Twitter Down?
It's not a just CloudFlare outage, its a global CenturyLink/Level3 outage
He his talking about his screencasts.
So there is no product to use and buy later.
> I'm pretty sure most sites do actually respect .edu equivalents in other countries. Certainly seen .ac.uk work. And for most countries it's simply .edu.<country tld>.

No, they don't.

The .edu tld is one of those areas where the US govt still exercises monopoly over a public resource (the dns space).

Here in italy for example, there is no such thing as .edu.it.

Most universities have their own regular .it dns zone.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, when was the last time you saw someone spell out central processing unit? Random access memory? Hard disk drive?

Given the context, its not always required to reiterate acronyms.
SalesForce/Office365 is also having trouble.
The other side of this, is that we are living in a "dependencyshpere," where people can't build projects on their own. This is a bit jarring to me. My first computer was an MC6800 STD Bus board, screwed onto a piece of wood, with a hex keypad and an 8-digit LED readout. I got pretty used to knowing what was going on under the hood. I can't even imagine looping in a bunch of code without understanding what it will do.

Dependencies are great. They are how we can do huge things with small teams. They are also bad (obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/).
I have 4% 2FA coverage
Show HN: Free stunning retina screenshots from tweets. Carbon for tweets
There is actually a standard way for new people to get into crypto. However, it is emphatically not to write your own crypto and let others evaluate it. Everyone can make a crypto system they themselves cannot break. That says very little about the system's security, unless you're actually goods at breaking crypto.

That is why you begin learning crypto by breaking other people's crypto. Once you understand some of the pitfalls, your designs are far less likely to incorporate the same pitfalls.
Title needs to be updated. Issues are not limited to CloudFlare but to CenturyLink and Level3
Are people actually using .edu for email? It is gone once you leave uni.
Bixby responds to almost anything, so it is useful to find my phone. It can answer a question about my calendar, am I available at 9 am tomorrow, but it useless for setting an appointment. ‘Create an appointment with Bill tomorrow at 9 am’, will create an all day appointment with a location 9 am.

Alexa doesn’t integrate with my calendar at all. (incompatible)
That's definitely going to be an interesting postmortem.
Actual paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05607
I just saved as much as I could. It usually ended up being around 40%.
Odd, I'm trying to reach a host in Germany (AS34432) from Sweden but get rerouted Stockholm-Hamburg-Amsterdam-London-Paris-London-Atlanta-São Paulo after which the packets disappear down a black hole. All routing problems occur within Cogentco.

3 sth-cr2.link.netatonce.net (85.195.62.158)
4 te0-2-1-8.rcr51.b038034-0.sto03.atlas.cogentco.com
5 be3530.ccr21.sto03.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.2.93)
6 be2282.ccr42.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.72.105)
7 be2815.ccr41.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.38.205)
8 be12194.ccr41.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.56.93)
9 be12497.ccr41.par01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.56.130)
10 be2315.ccr31.bio02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.61.113)
11 be2113.ccr42.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.24.222)
12 be2112.ccr41.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.158)
13 be2027.ccr22.mia03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.86.206)
14 be2025.ccr22.mia03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.47.230)
15 * level3.mia03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.10.58)
16 * * *
17 * * *
Pretty much. The whole blog is dedicated to imaging news and sensors.
What is better: If only I go down and my competitors are still up, or if everybody goes down? ;)
And here I thought it was about the other door problem, where they're used as a chokepoint, enabling a more timid playstyle.
I just experienced HN down for several minutes before it loaded and I saw this story at the top.

I'm doing something with the HN API as I type this, so for a moment I was trying to decide if I'd been IP blocked, even though the API is hosted by Firebase.

I haven't noticed any obvious issues elsewhere yet.

(Just got a delay while trying to submit this comment.)
Yes the article explicitly states that alumni, whom the author consider a privileged class, also have .edu emails
Bingo. See "not looking for work," above.

When I first left my job, I was insecure, and companies could have taken advantage of that.

No more.
The Benefits of Statistical Noise
Lover usually means faster and more advanced. So that’s why I’m asking.
As noticed in another comment I see loads of problems within Cogentco, all on *.atlas.cogentco.com. Might the problem lies there?
Yeah I don't get why one would write all those words and invoke all sorts of abstract concepts on a public blog spot to justify not giving money.
The difference, these days, is social media. It acts as an accelerant to prejudice, recklessness, and disunity.

Disrespecting elders is a time-honored aspect of nature. Even critters have it (watch puppies and kittens ignoring their parents).

But puppies don't have a worldwide graph of other puppies that establish feedback loops to encourage each other to eat chocolate.
Half of the internet is down. Crazy...

I can't even access the private WoW server I play.
John Carmack mentioned Rust as modern PL choice
My .edu.tr mail address suggests otherwise. Italy could have simply created an .edu.it extension itself
> Nearly anything universities teach can be learned outside of a university, and usually faster.

Seems the writer has a personal bias against universities, because this affirmation is so wrong on many levels. Sure lot of skills can be learned outside them, yet some totally aren’t (medicine for example). This explains more clearly why he doesn’t offer educational discounts (which by the way doesn’t have to be tied to owning an .edu email since most institutions use others TLDs anyway).
Show HN: World Ramens – Monthly Ramen Box
But you can purchase a Spotify subscription on a different platform (say, Web), and then use your account on iOS, enjoying the same experience as every other iOS user. The only part of the experience that's different is the one time sign-up process, for which Apple wants to charge a permanent 30% fee for the entire duration of the subscription (even if after that you happen to primarily use Spotify on Desktop or Android).

This puts Spotify in a weird spot. Their only options are:

1) Charge more to iOS users. This seems unfair to them and of course they will complain and blame Spotify when they find out they've been overcharged since Apple explicitly forbids informing customers about their fees.

2)Charge ~10-20% (depending on the share of iOS subscribers) to users of all platforms to compensate for Apple's fees. Why should I as an Android user pay extra so that someone else can make purchases on an iPhone?

3) Status quo - disable subscriptions on iOS entirely, make customers jump through the hoops to figure out how to purchase a Spotify subscription.

I don't have the exact figure, but I imagine that quite a few Spotify customers use their subscriptions on multiple platforms. Apple just wants to take a permanent 30% cut if the the initial subscription was handled through an iOS app. Maybe this isn't such a huge problem for game DLC where there is no fixed unit cost, but companies like Spotify need to pay royalties to music labels, etc.
I wonder: since we have skeletons of living species, and the living animals themselves, couldn't we theoretically train a model to go from bones to pictures of the animal (or 3D models or whatever), and then apply it to dinosaur skeletons to see what comes up? Is there any way that could end up getting us somewhat realistic depictions?
Means testing is stupid and the bureaucracy involved to check whether the free lunch does not go to the undeserving (god forbid) is often not worth it, compared to just giving everyone something (and recouping it through taxation).
The authors get to choose, and are paid when they get views from paying customers.
Does this happen in the rest of the Arctic tundra too? Northern Canada, Alaska, and the rest of Siberia?

Or has it just been missed?
IIRC from my Computer Architecture class, 28nm is the cheapest per transistor, so it’s stuck around for cases where performance isn’t important.

I don’t think there’s a fundamental reason for that, it’s just a feature of the processes that exist. As you get smaller, the savings from miniaturizing components are outweighed by the need for more complicated equipment.
I'm missing "terror" in your outline. Not the word itself per se, but the effect on the general population.

I'm still struggling to see how something is terrorism if it isn't intended to instill widespread fear. Not widespread worries, like the managers had. Actual fear.
I have .edu.pl address and most of the times I get educational discounts.
One of the pictures in the article shows the ground swelling outwards, presumably before it bursts.

Could these be detected by Remote Sensing images from satellites, assuming they would be taking pictures of the tundra at high enough resolution and frequency.
Show HN: Sitting too much was killing me. So I made this
And the same thing in Chef:

package %w(httpd mariadb-server)
Same here in France. Public uni had its own domain "univ-<city>.fr"

Never seen a French school/uni with .edu
I think websites should be able to check for .edu.(country tld)
Hi Show HN,

I tend to be someone that gets hyper focused when working and I could easily end up sitting the entire workday if it wasn't for lunch or the need to go to the washroom. Over the years I've developed nagging pains around my neck and shoulders and constantly felt like crap after work.

My Apple Watch told me to stand once in a while, but even when I did, I didn't know what to do with myself and found myself sitting down again shortly after.

So I made this –– an Active work break timer which guides you through office-friendly exercises to perform on each break.

Being a hacker and entrepreneur myself, I'd be love to see how many of you have the same problem, and find this product useful. Looking forward to your comments and feedback.
I don't know to what degree the metaphor is accurate but as a non-physicist I find thinking about quantum mechanical experiments easier if I think of them as running code on a vast decentralized computing infrastructure.

The concept of "measurement" is just executing code on one node that populates local registers- "creating" not "measuring". Yes- by running code you are pulling on a reality fabric that we still know almost nothing about. But I find it easier to visualize than relying on my colloquial/non-QM intuition in words like "measuring"- which implies something like a single centralized reality database, not a creative decentralized infrastructure. QM experiments seem to create things, not measure them.

Would love to learn metaphors of folks in the space.
Are there any non-Python TUIs?
Hyperbolic claims aside†, I think this is a practical way to dramatically increase the security of OTP key transmission over networked communication. It's not perfect, but it would make any attacker's job harder, right?

E.g. attacker may have no idea where the OTP key is sent, nor on what messaging platform, and would need to crack earlier messages to potentially find out what the communicators were using for all other parts of the horcrux cohort. That's a chicken and egg problem for the attacker. The information on exactly where and what the other horcruxes are could be residing entirely elsewhere in a very encrypted way, or even discussed in person.

[†] I'm interested in the hyperbolic claims about OTP in and of itself bringing 'perfect secrecy' via networked communication. Aren't the mechanisms to transmit OTP keys (i.e. the transport mechanisms over the network) prone to weaker security than the OTP mechanism itself? But again, I think that's what this idea helps mitigate.
There's a cheap insurance you can buy at the beginning of any lease contract called "gap insurance". It will pay for any difference between the expected value and the actual value (by any means, totaled or not).
> Moving country is still hard for most people.

That doesn't invalidate the assertion that it used to be even harder before in any way.
Wow, never thought I'd see optical tweezers on HN. Flashbacks of rheology / microrheology are crossing my mind ...
I don't consider Ocean's 11 to be a terrorist plot, but it fits your description well.
> We have definitely seen more things. I think that is beyond questioning.

The average human has seen more of contemporary things but will never see what we lost, on average I will say the quantity is the same, they are simply different things

> wisdom from that time can not IMO be translated verbatim to current time

Wisdom of that time could not be translated verbatim not even when they were fresh ideas

That kind of wisdom was acknowledged only among a marginal fraction of the population that had the instruments to understand it and argue about it

Let alone applying it, you had to be someone in complete control of their lives, a thing that was extremely rare

We are talking about less than 1% of the population, something around one every ten thousands

But probably even less that that

It has more chances of being popular today than at the time it was formulated
Monarch is monitored by a second instance of itself known as meta-monarch. It’s a fraction of the size, of course, but still mind-bogglingly large. Meta is in turn monitored by the main Monarch instance.
Australian universities usually have .edu.au domains:

https://www.unimelb.edu.au/
https://www.sydney.edu.au/
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/
The article talks about student discounts as if they are always verified by '.edu' email address. Then the article criticizes '.edu' email address based discounts and concludes that students discounts are bad.

I was a student outside the US in multiple countries. I don't remember any product/software that offered an academic discount that I was not able to access. Most companies accept local equivalents of addresses (like .edu.pl), if not they often offer a possibility to send them your student ID for identity verification. There is also an option to use internationally recognized student cards - like ISIC, which can be gotten in more than 130 countries. Bottom line, academic discounts are useful for students across the globe, who on average are broke.
I had a .ie (Ireland) email from university, and that allowed educational freebies on Dropbox at least. Another interesting aspect no one seems to be discussing is that I get to keep that email for life. Is that not common elsewhere?
Researchers dramatically downsize technology for fingerprinting drugs
...And the (HN) crowd goes wild. (Again)
Is a 'Socialist Network' Possible?
Deployment to Netlify fails on installing of any version of Node :)
From what I've seen with my significant other, that's not the case in Germany, she lost access to her university email as soon as she was done with her studies.
Not sure you’ve drawn the right conclusions there - there are a bunch of countries using .edu under their own cctld. That decision is down to the country - in fact, Italy launched edu.it in 2018: https://www.miur.gov.it/nuovo-dominio-edu.it
Sounds like Italy is unusual but has now created a locked down second level .edu too. And apparently some institutions had .gov.it domains.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
Using Alexa you can set up routines, which are effectively macros triggered by a keyword, and tend to be recognised more consistently. I’ve got mine set so “bedtime” turns off the main lights and turns on dimmed side lights, and “goodnight” turns off all the lights in the house.
Humans have individually weak survival instincts, which is why soldiers were running into machine gun fire on the beaches of Normandy (or why others ride motorcycles).
Some of that is surely the denial of our own mortality.

Humans excel at surviving as a group, which is a very different - sometimes contrasting - thing.
ac stands for academic so it has the same function as a 2LD as edu.