skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What time frame is "short order"?

Three days.

Pareidolia

Given that Russia and China have been identified as behind multiple previous outages, it's reasonable to assume they are behind these as well.
> I would like to live in a society where people spend more time considering what they say publicly, keeping to themselves, and refraining from imposing their thoughts and opinions.

I see you've never been to the internet.
That would be pretty useful and easy to implement, thanks!
My dad is colorblind, and the red off/green on looks the same to him; the slight shadow showing the side the toggle is on often isn't dark enough to be obvious, especially when someone gets cute and makes the slider pill-style (the button part takes up exactly half the space, with a vertical line down the middle). I expect this to be less common with mobile OS downtime features that encourage users to get off their screens by going grayscale.
> It took some time to find out that CSS rules clashed with PDF.js invisible markup that provides text for selection on top of <canvas> rendered document.

> And I am not the only one [1]. Solution? Embed namespace in class name [2] like it is C - gtk_window_new, glBegin, XOpenDisplay.

OK, that's a good example. Though I'd argue that in structured data like XML it's much less likely to happen - you wouldn't generally use an xpath that was just "all tags of the given name", whereas applying styling to all cases of a given CSS class anywhere in the document is relatively common. In any case, the cure is far worse than the disease.

> Yes, namespaces in XPath looks awful, entire plain text XML authoring is awful. XML is application format (hint application/xml), maybe it should not be touched without XML editor.

But in that case why bother with a textual format with all the downsides thereof? Something like Thrift or Protocol Buffers makes for much better application formats.
Can you block or revert the updates? Set it back to factory defaults?
That’s an idealized view - but since there’s not much any individual can do, it’s a decent one :) Though I think it’s fair to say technology has widened the gap between the rich and poor, not shrunk it. Yes, the poor are better off on paper in a lot of ways, but it’s lead to a massive consolidation of wealth that could be much better distributed.

I think my real point is: stop trying to make online discourse like in-person discourse, or, double down and expect the same “proof of work” that being physically present requires.

On top of that, there are limits to the extent and volume of any in-person communication that simply isn’t reproducible online without massive artificial constraints.

I think we need to revisit things we consider valid in person and not try to conflate them to be the same once we are online at a massive scale as a literal species. People forget that there were only millions of people online in the 90s, and there are billions now, this is a new era, and it requires new thinking and new unified action, but that’s really not possible when large swaths of humanity are tribal, nationalistic, scared, hungry, poor, angry, and manipulated.

I almost feel like arguing about free speech online is putting the cart before the horse.
Can't be. In long threads it tends to bog down the entire computer. IDK memory leak?
True. But a botnet large enough to take down Microsoft, Apple, and Google without being detected would have to be extremely large or well-hidden, so if it is a botnet, then it's even stronger evidence of a state actor.
In that context I was talking about political strategy. I think its rational for Democrats as a party to oppose abortion restrictions. But here I’m talking about whether certain issues should be off-limits for discussion. Folks on the far left accuse men of being misogynist if they express opposition to using federal funds for abortion, even though 50-60% of women themselves, depending on the poll, express such opposition. That distorts the debate.

There are also special considerations when you’re talking about issues that affect minorities, outside a political context. There, the approach of selectively amplifying extreme positions can overwhelm ideological diversity (or even majority views) within minority groups. The other day, my dad—a blue dog Democrat—expressed his frustration at how “the media has made Ilhan Omar the face of Muslims.” I’ve observed the palpable discomfort people in liberal circles have expressing views on immigration to the right of Omar. They feel like the way to be “allies”—and insulate themselves from being called racist—is to “amplify” views like her’s. But the net result of that is that debate around issues like assimilation—within the left—is totally dominated by these extreme views. And that seriously disenfranchises people. Especially in contexts, such as academic institutions and media, controlled by the left, where there is no need to deal with the potential opposite extreme positions on the right.
It is affecting the entire globe, yes, but unevenly. Canada and the US are similar countries, but the US is at 624 deaths/million and Canada is at 251 deaths/million. The countries doing worse than the US are countries generally considered to be on the “not very wealthy” end of the scale (except the UK...). For being probably the most wealthy nation in the world, something is going terribly wrong.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
In my experience it's rarely a problem with the material itself. Motivated or engaged kids will quickly outpace "kids" material anyway, and will move onto conventional resources. Right now cheap resources available to educators are ridiculously accessible. Though remember that the cost of kitting out a classroom with hardware adds up really fast.

The challenge is getting kids engaged enough that they start experimenting by themselves. Also the same for older kids and adults. People will nod and smile, do all the exercises and then never touch the resources again. I've been doing outreach for a decade or so, this is totally common with students of all ages.

That said, for programming you need material that promotes very quick and visual or physical feedback loops. You also need projects that are fun and achievable, but also can be extended.

Also be aware of how long something will take a total beginner to do. When I'm designing projects for summer schools (16-24), I generally assume that if I can do it in a day from scratch, it'll take them a couple of weeks if they have no experience. Take that with a pinch of salt, but I've found it's pretty accurate.
Tumble drying, just like any normal use, contributes to wear and tear on fabrics and seams. If it takes 45 minutes to get a load of laundry dry with heat, but three hours to get it dry without heat, the wear from tumbling would occur four times as quickly.

Heat may confound this, suggesting an equilibrium that minimizes both wear from excessive heat and from excessive tumbling.
Why not mention that Modi is from OBC (Other backward caste)?
Twitter isn't anywhere in the same league as Apple/Google/Microsoft in terms of security.
I am so glad I am not the only one that feels this way. In high school, I didn't have to take a single probability/stats class. In college, as a CS major (!!), I had to take a single intro stats class that was completely insufficient. And when a stats education is insufficient, god damn is it insufficient. No motivating examples whatsoever (what distribution would I use to measure ${real world process}? why would I need to calculate ${X} about the distribution?), just formulas that you're expected to memorize and vomit onto an exam with no understanding of why you're doing what you're doing at all.

What is the deal with this? Why isn't stats commonly taught in school when it is by far one of the most prevalent disciplines? And why, on the rare occasion when it is taught, is it so abysmal? Statistics forms the basis for all of science, for god's sake. I've since developed a patchwork understanding of statistics on my own from various resources I've found the time to consume. For the record, I grew up in the US.
> Apples policies probably result in developer harm, but anti trust law is to protect me as a user not you as a developer.

Except that it does only as long as Apple decide to "protect the user", which is why antitrust laws are in place. Monopoly are illegal both for good and bad companies, their standard doesn't change that.

> I do not want developers to hav the option to have their own payments. Apple Pay is so easy and convenient.

> I do not want developers to be able to distribute apps without Apple approval.

I wouldn't be against that the App Store require theses, if there was an alternative for the App Store.
Thanks, that clears it!
Can you point me to the AWS and Google issues? I know about the Azure Active Directory failures yesterday.
My TCL is fine. I hooked an Apple TV and haven’t connected the tv to the internet since I bought it.
It supports nvidia gpus at least, for sure
I was once where you are now.

This completes the puzzle: https://github.com/toadjaune/pulseaudio-config

Thank me later ;)
Actually, there seems to be two small fabs in India (of course nothing on the scale of TSMC); one in Chandigarh (Semi Conductor Laboratory) and one in Bangalore(DRDO)- See;

https://www.deccanherald.com/business/is-semiconductor-manuf...

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/under-mak...
Just like they become majority is Syria. And soon they are becoming majority in major European cities.
I don't disagree with anything you said, of course, it's an anecdote. However, I think it's important to follow the studies, science and data and to look in aggregate.
I wonder if you could significantly charge the batteries from the energy of a vibrating wind. Or (and this is out there) from atmospheric electricity
Fun to read article from Bunnie.
In an effort to reduce screen time, I recently tried to instigate a game of classic table-top Dungeons & Dragons. And I swear, kids were even more interested in the BigInt N-sided die function I cribbed in a python shell than any demons or demigods ;)

Seeing Theory interactivity is very interesting. I think if there is one canonical example to tie it all together it would be something akin to "estimate the likelihood of an extremely rare event". Say, you're a top astrophysicist at NASA and you have to give the President a briefing on the improbability not impossibility of an extinction level asteroid event. And you must justify how those beliefs are informed by and change with data. It ties everything together: physically based world models, event spaces, conditional probabilities, monte carlo sampling and entropy estimation. And would be really fun to boot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wkrA9jP-yA
Ex-Google quantum chief joins Silicon startup
There was a brief outage a few days back:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/technology/google-service...
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I think the most important part here is for those who learn a language and wish to maintain it. I failed here. Don't fail like I did.

Make sure, once you have learned a language, to turn part of your life into a world operating in that language. Choose something - news, movies, books, internet - just pick something. Do that thing only in your new language once you can.

Once that becomes a habit, what you have learned you will not forget. And you will get better over time as well as your brain painlessly absorbs and deeply programs in the target language.

Second most important part - It takes a lot of work and consistency. Say that with me - consistency. Show up every day. If you don't, you will fail. That's one of those terrible truths about learning, and it is especially true about learning a language.
> * Why can I only see 5 people if someone is sharing their screen?

This reminds me of my two huge pet peeves:

* Why am I forced to see people? If I'm deep into helping someone else out, I want to make their screen as big as possible, I'm not looking at their face at all.

* Zoom spends some effort making my lips and voice sync up. Why don't you make my clicks sync up as well when I'm sharing?
Thanks for saying this. I don't know why everything has to be reduced to "Nazis".
This is patently false and paranoid. Any one at most big tech companies can look into the internal report to see exactly which code change took down services by accident, and their remediation steps.

For example, the Google issue this week was an internal routing issue caused by some SRE modifying some config files on load balancers.
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I can speak a couple of languages that I don't use very often, I personally just make sure I watch a movie/tv show/the news (the news is the least helpful tbh) in those languages once or twice a week. The article suggests Netflix, but if you're not dealing with one of the more common languages, I've found that a lot of countries have their own streaming services you can use.
Tridactyl worked for me better than any alternatives, but qutebrowser (https://qutebrowser.org/) was built for this kind of browsing and is more configurable. Unfortunately it doesn't have good plugin support, although I believe it does have an inbuilt ad blocker.
> Indian nationalism is all about bringing back the "varna system" which advocates stratification of society based on the birth

Any source of this? Or have we reduce Hacker news to random accusations?
That would save a few steps (gfortran, dragonegg, llvm-as), so it's definitely worth trying.

But note that technically speaking the current approach also uses the LLVM wasm backend (after doing all the above, it uses the LLVM wasm backend to compile LLVM IR to wasm).
All of my root partitions are raw partitions. "All"? Yes I have several root partitions, all raw. Raw so that other considerations like LVMs don't interfere when I need to work on them.

I have my main root partition for everyday use. Just like everybody does.

I have a secondary root partition which acts as a lifeboat if something dies in the main root partition. It also allows the main root partition to be unmounted and worked on separately, if perchance it needs resizing or some other operation.

Thirdly, I have another root partition set aside purely for experimentation with other distros. Sometimes I will begin to use the third root partition's distro as my secondary lifeboat distro and then the second root partition as my experimentation partition.

Whatever, I have use for and always keep 3 root partitions. That disk space is cheap insurance.
Unclear - NASA is currently working on the Kilopower reactor, which is probably lower-power than the enormous solar arrays SpaceX is considering. However, if they're expanded into the megawatt range they could be usable.

Shielding is still required, as humans are not the only thing that's vulnerable - electronic and chemical systems are also vulnerable. Burying the reactor in Martian regolith is probably a more risky project than unrolling a massive solar array.

The other problem is the cold. At low latitudes, the temperatures are at a relatively warm Antarctica-like level, sometimes getting to room temperature at the equator at noon. At high latitudes, though, we're talking cryogenics - lows of -150C, averages of perhaps -100C. Making machinery work at those temps is expensive.
That's his interpretation of RSS. If I think of you as an racist would that make you a racist?
> A lot of UBI schemes do basically just say that UBI replaces all the other social programs.

That's when you know the proponents are either unserious or naive about politics. In real life, UBI would be yet another program, on top of the existing ones. Even if people could be convinced to discontinue the other programs, it would take decades.
There's a practical reason for this. If you're accustomed to quickly lifting a hefty handset to your ear, then the first time you lift one that's significantly lighter you might bash yourself in the temple with the handset.
I bet if you made a list of all the major tech companies, estimated the average time between failure, and did a little math then you'd find that, statistically, you should expect to see multiple failures within a few days of each other just by chance.
Get a VPN. It's not a perfect solution, and I sure hope we don't expect everyone to have to use a VPN to be private, but it's good enough - for now.
Apple App Store down? Another cloud provider down this week?
Also worth looking at their developer-facing status page, where a couple of their developer products are currently facing issues: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/
It was an anecdote. If a 17 year old can socially engineer twitter, I don't think it's crazy to think that a room of comp sci PhDs in South Korea couldn't figure out how to mess with infrastructure, in fact I'm quite sure they could. There are not 3 countries in the world who could cause this type of outage, there are many.
You can bypass SNI-based VPN blocks by getting a cheap DO box and running wireguard on it. They sure as heck can't block all of DO.
> anything plastic is absolutely dripping wet, even after it’s been drying overnight (or rather, actively drying for a couple hours and then just sitting there)

How is that possible? Even when I hand wash plastic items they'll usually dry within a few hours, at worst overnight.
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Comments on HN is an example of how this cooling effect works. It takes only a few upset readers to take your comment down, so if what you say deviates even slightly, by 0.01 sigma, from the boring mainstream viewpoint, you'll upset at least a few readers.

Same idea, but from another angle. It's well known that you can say a lot in a small group, but very little in a large group, because it's a lot more likely that someone in a 1,000 person conference will be offended by your words. With internet and social networks, you have to assume that you're always talking to the entire western world, and there's a nearly 100% chance that some angry activists will be offended, so you always have to calibrate your talking points to the most boring mainstream viewpoint.
That's the evilest thing I can imagine!
My parents had bad luck with Bosch. It didn't clean, and then it leaked.

But the Ikea dishwasher we bought, it was loud but it worked
I agree its reasonable to speculate, given its a particularly vulnerable time in democracy with US election in 35 days and there's a lot to gain in disruption. Obviously MS/Apple/Google are all the juiciest targets for acquiring private communications, something that can (and possibly did) change the outcome of an election. I would expect this is an extremely active time in attack/defense in cybersecurity regardless of this incident.

IF this is the case, what do we think this could be? What's common among the different outages?

Google says 9/24's outage was traffic routing hardware. [1]

Microsoft says 9/28's outage was authentication error due to a bug in a service update, deployment tooling error, and a bug in rollback [2]

Apple's has affected many services including Apple ID but it isn't clear what root cause is.

[1] https://twitter.com/uhoelzle/status/1309313556328841216

[2] https://status.azure.com/en-us/status/history/
I had the opposite experience. Old huge tank toilets got clogged and the new high efficiency ones don't.
It's even true of shoes.

My Mephistos are excellent shoes, which I wore constantly around the world. Not so much as a stitch is out of place. When the soles wear out, they can be repaired.

Going on four years now, my father had a pair for two decades. If I were wearing sneakers from Payless, I'd be a few pairs in by now, no question about it.

That particular brand is a bit on the luxury side of the tradeoff spectrum, but it remains the case that you can spend a couple hundred on lifetime shoes, or fifty bucks on shoes for a season.

A lot of things are like this. Cars aren't one of them.
I'm no expert, but I'm fairly certain that's how percentages work.
It would makes localizing nightmare.
A very capable autonomous passenger drone capable of 220kg payload is $400,000 - maybe this would make some sense?
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Yet an attack that large was noticed by none of the major network providers or internet exchange points?
The argument was that game sales fund consoles that are sold at a loss.

No one would claim that Apple sells at a loss. But, continuing support for six year old phones is solely motivated by service revenue - just like consoles.
How do you pay rent on that?
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> It takes a lot of work and consistency. Say that with me - consistency. Show up every day. If you don't, you will fail. That's one of those terrible truths about learning, and it is especially true about learning a language.

William Buckley was lost for more than 30 years among Australian aborigines. By the time he heard of whites in the vicinity, he was unable to speak to them, having forgotten how to produce English.

But, assuming you believe his memoirs, when they spoke to him, he regained his English within a day.
Years ago, my daughter was 7 years old. She was precocious like I had been when I was little. I sat down with her in front of the python REPL, and showed her how to use it. She immediately understood what a variable was. A few days later she wanted to add up a few prices, and she fired up a python window, and got a floating point representation problem in the result. This put her off programming for life. She has never since wanted anything to do with it.
SOTA neural networks can summarise entire articles or books down to a few paragraphs accurately.

Thinking that replacing @ with 'at' or anything else in an email address that a human can infer to be an email address, and assuming that a modern bot can't make the same inference, that's just silly in 2020.
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I’m not sure why this is being downvoted. Reactor studies come out every decade and validate this study every time.
No, I think I shall thank you right now if it's all the same to you!
I'm trying to do this on a Windows box so PA doesn't specifically work, but after a cursory glance over this page I think I can take this concept and work out how to map it to a Windows implementation with a bit of fiddling.
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I was never impressed by their produce, though.
Or, you let nature take its course.

Society can only help so much - at some point, personal responsibility must step in.
If you're interested in something low-power and not running a general-purpose OS like Linux, watch for the launch of the Precursor [1]. The main processor (RISC-V on an FPGA) seems to be more powerful than an ESP32, and they rejected the ESP32 for the WiFi component specifically because of the low-power state transition issues. The intended application is a stand-alone secure enclave complete with LCD, keyboard, and audio, but it will be interesting to see what hacks are developed for this hardware.

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It has a web interface as well?
You can always declare bankruptcy, and lenders know this.
Omega Tau has a few great (and long) episodes in English:

Episode 22 is an intro to fusion power research and tokamaks.

Episode 157 is an interview of a director at ITER.

Episode 304 interviews the author of the book you’re reading.

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