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AWS Outage – 25Nov2020
Increased Error Rates
8:05 AM PST: Kinesis is experiencing increased API errors in the US-EAST-1 Region. This is also causing issues with ACM, Amplify Console, API Gateway, AppStream2, AppSync, Athena, Cloudformation, Cloudtrail, CloudWatch, Cognito, Connect, DynamoDB, EventBridge, IoT Services, Lambda, LEX, Managed Blockchain, Resource Groups, SageMaker, Support Console, and Workspaces. This issue has also affected our ability to post updates to the Service Health Dashboard.
The HN community is using political speech guidelines to clamp down in critique against MSM (Main Stream Media) and Silicon Valley conduct. At the same time I find political topics all the time on the front page that are deemed fine as long as they stay away from the above topics or are leaning "liberal" or "progressive".

It's been three weeks and I still can't use Instagram. They are still blocking #hashtag-recent-lists with a banner:
"Recent posts from all hashtags are temporarily hidden to help prevent the spread of possible false information and harmful content related to the election."
The hashtag I used to check is #handtoolwookworking. Very political indeed.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/07/who-relies-...

"City dwellers are also more frequent users of mass transit. Some 21% of urban residents use public transit on a regular basis, compared with 6% of suburban residents and just 3% of rural residents."

People are moving out of the cities, not suburbs, so this will have a very direct impact.

> I'm also skeptical that the average apartment building is more energy efficient than suburban housing, since the incentive of the owner (who doesn't want to pay for energy-efficient upgrades and repairs) are not aligned with the renter (who pays the monthly utilities bill).

The bulk of the emissions is generated by heating and cooling, and the former is the one with the most economies of scale. Around here, heating and hot water is usually paid for by the landlord in apartments (65% and 67% based on listings I just checked). That's not surprising: the way heating is provided is most commonly via hot water boilers, which don't make sense to provide on a per-unit basis.

Anyway, it's just basic physics: apartment units have much less surface area to radiate or absorb heat compared to individual houses. Takes much less energy to keep an apartment with just one exposed wall warm or cool than a house with 4 exposed walls and a roof.

Here's another source on this: http://www.frpo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2012-Apartmen...

3x less energy usage per resident for apartments vs single-occupancy detached homes.

> Does a rural/suburban driver spending 30 minutes driving on a highway produce more pollution than an urban driver spending 30 minutes in congested variable speed streets?

Absolutely yes. Energy usage is a function of speed, because the energy goes to overcoming air resistance. The scaling of velocity to energy usage is about v^3. Also, as the link I provided above shows, commutes are much longer - and public transit usage much less - for detached homes vs apartments.

The only reason planes make sense is they can fly so high that air resistance is lower.
"Like beauty, ... bias is in the eye of the beholder"

https://archives.cjr.org/review/my_facts_your_facts.php
Previews of Fonts? Et Voila
Show HN: Search-as-a-service: 20x faster than Lucene and 30x more queries/dollar
Sorry, you seem to have deviated into an unrelated axe you're grinding. Try again, this time with the axe you were originally grinding, which I'll help with:

> [Online signature check] is also a move to protect certain streams of Apple services revenue, in addition to protecting users from malware, and it always has been.

To restate and avoid drifting into another non sequitur, this ascribes intent; that is, it suggests that part of the reason online signature check was added, and part of how it has been evolved, is to protect certain streams of Apple services revenue. That would be your argument, which has no evidence to support it, but you suggest is backed by “facts”[1], which appear to be nowhere to be found.

Are these facts somewhere to be found? Or are you stating hypotheses as facts?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25210475
It has been profoundly odd watching UK BLM protesters (almost all of them white and middle class, of course) chanting "hands up, don't shoot"-type slogans recently.

British police officers don't routinely carry guns and therefore couldn't possibly shoot you even if they wanted to. In fact, there is an almost zero probability of anyone in the UK getting shot by the police unless they happen to be committing an act of terrorism or murder at the time.
Apple's marketing is that the money is made in California. Designed by Apple in California has long appeared as a feel good on their products that are assembled overseas.
Just a few:
Tractor amortization over additional acres.
Administrative overhead rarely scales linearly.
Better prices on inputs from ordering in larger quantities.
Access to new tech that is too expensive for smaller operations to justify.

A farm is very similar to a factory in many ways. You buy inputs (especially Nitrogen) and convert those into a usable output using biological machinery. This becomes especially true for people planting permanent crops (I.e almonds) where you also need to consider the maintenance on the plant (pruning, etc) as it ages. Uniformity of process is actually another place that large farms benefit. They can afford the quality managers capable of designing such systems. An owner-operator with one guy working part-time for him is less likely to bother.
For those interested in the subject, I encourage you to read Chris Smaje's new book, A Small Farm Future. Fascinating analysis of the existing state of affairs, and where we might be headed.
My Facts, Your Facts: America and the pursuit of willful delusion
"Located in the right part of the sky" ... even one degree of horizon represents a huge area and the researcher admits that there are other targets in the area. I'd argue that the premise that the signal comes from an earth-like planet isn't even scientifically valid. Who says other life-forms are most likely to form on in an earth-like environment? Isn't that currently a sample size of one? Does life need a planet to exist? What if the signal came from an alien interstellar space-craft?

The only way to provide further analysis for this signal is to find it again.
Pretty similar! Fire and catharsis go hand in hand.
I think that there are a lot of people on HN and similar communities who either didn't live through the crypto wars of the 90s or are burned out on the critical privacy and societal implications of networked software and services.

It's nicer to just "shut up and hack", but the last time we did that, we ended up with hollywood indirectly dictating what we can do with our own devices. This time the stakes are much higher, as it's not just the "hollywood-only" devices like disc players and TVs they're getting ready to totally ruin.

It's disheartening to me to see the trend of people in technology, at least in certain circles, wishing only to enjoy the benefits of giant corporation resources (eg golang, TLS1.3, HTTP2/3, v8/node, Chrome, Android, iOS) without contemplating the implications of the downsides of giant corporation resources (surveillance, censorship, AMP, javascript hard dependencies, browser monoculture, et c). A system needs to be evaluated on the whole.
iOS 14 introduces random WiFi MAC address, ending widely used tracking technique
> almost no websites or mobile applications have this feature. Why is that?

Wouldn't that be a feature of the virtual keyboard rather than the website/app? My virtual keyboard has voice input.
This is widely known:

https://nypost.com/2020/11/18/democrats-use-big-tech-hearing...

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/08/19/most-america...
They did. It came up in the post incident report, and senior leadership kicked off work to have it run on its own distinct infrastructure so that this wouldn't happen again.

If you look at where the content on https://status.aws.amazon.com/ is actually hosted from you'll see things like the status icons are all hosted under the same domain, e.g. https://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status1.gif https://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status0.gif etc.

If you look at the source code for the site, you'll again see that everything is hosted from the same domain.

One of their main goals was to ensure that it could never go wrong that way again.
I appreciate your attempt to be sensible & more moderate, but I don't feel like I'm overexaggerating my case. Yes, I could do a lot more work to support my case, to craft a more effective message. But this is immoral. It is highly destructive to user agency, to our ability to make extensions or to scrape pages. It is antitheical to freedom of thought, to our human liberties. I find the summation of what it implies to be a gross gross regression of human potential. Knuckling under something which is special, which is better, which has extensions, & making it become something pedestrian & mundane & inaccessible. It is gross, and to steal this power from the users would be immoral.
Modern farm business is made to look like a factory by the big business, but that is not a proof that this maximizes yield per acre, or makes food as cheap as possible.

This is not an anti-corporate slur, I am just pointing out that if you have n acres of land under big ag, you would need to implement a more boutique ag operation on the same piece of land to come up with a sane comparison.

Since this is really not feasible generally I would like to know has someone actually studied this.

For example, soil is not necessarily uniform, and smaller scale operation might utilize the specific area of land for a mixture of landraces that might improve the yield than the monocrop that was designed to be able to produce crop in a generic industrial process, but not might for example be optimal for any soil.
Glad to be of service.
Just us-east-1.
The NIF's reactor model doesn't need plasma stability, right? The article points out they're intending to use a similar principle to an internal combustion engine: put in a tiny amount of fuel, blow it up, capture the energy, repeat.
I think informing the vendor of an OS about every program you run has necessarily a political component and is of relevance for discussion about security. It is the first step to define the threat model and there certainly are additional threats you are exposed to. This data is highly valuable to anyone that might want to infiltrate computer systems.

The technical discussion of signatures is well documented.
But do you realize that everything you're damning Russia for, the US is doing exactly the same right now ? Case in point: Assange persecution, war in Afghanistan, Irak, Libya; "targeted assassination" of various people, more recently an Iranian general, waged coups around the world, most recently Bolivia, Brazil, etc. "Who is going to care about human interest stories from such a nation"?

Man it's time that you grow up out of "manifest destiny".
The article points out that while there are drawbacks to checking app signatures, there have also been documented benefits in terms of uncovering vulnerabilities and making systems more secure, which also has direct privacy benefits to the users whose systems don't become compromised by malware.

The balancing act between freedom and security is never going to not be a debate. Engaging in it in good faith as in the linked article is a reasonable approach (that you don't usually see represented in Klein's oeuvre): consider tradeoffs, counterarguments, and historical context from different perspectives. Apple is flawed sure, because all complex solutions are inherently flawed. They have a responsibility to be more open and transparent, and I'd prefer to see more details and updates to their otherwise laudable security whitepaper [1], and clearer more accessible user-definable toggles. But your or my preferred solution probably isn't the ideal default for most users, or for the ecosystem as a whole.

[1] https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...
The Function (David Beazley) [video]
>So it is a bit of a mixed answer although overall it appeared to go down compared to Obama presidency.

It's an incomplete picture though, as it does not include Syria and Iraq where the majority of bombing took place.
Since they don’t identify specific apps you use, so what’s your point?
Sure, the fact that there's a plausible motivation on the doctor's side is the reason I don't have much of an opinion on the veracity of the claim. That doesn't preclude the possibility a trend exists within the medical system of worse care for the overweight due to treating weight as a hard blocker. I chose my framing of the claim I've heard pretty carefully, and what you're saying only supports it: as being overweight is upstream of so many health problems,
it seems entirely plausible that doctors (given that they're human beings) would be prone to falling in the trap of not wanting to think about anything that can be done while the weight problem is still being worked on (or not). Again, this doesn't require assuming that doctors are horrible people; this kind of reductiveness is the way most people respond to everything.

> it's usually from people not doing much to lose the weight in the first place

This is far too arrogant an assumption for a doctor to be making about a patient. I don't know any overweight people, but I do know people who have had (theoretically solvable) drug problems and other bad health habits, and the blockers to fixing them are not always "just believe in yourself and have some willpower", especially when (even sub-clinical) mental health issues are involved. Hell, I used to smoke way too much weed and not eat particularly well (though never badly enough to get overweight) and it turns out I had an undiagnosed sleep disorder. If smoking weed happened to be associated with a bunch of health problems and I had a doctor who was narrowly focused on it and refused to help me with other incidental issues before I solved it, I'd be pretty upset too.
Why Quant KPIs are never enough to diagnose engineering team performance issues
> Nothing's ever enough for vegans.

No need for a blanket prejudiced statement like this.
Apple is actually checking certificates. That is the agenda.

Claiming they are doing more requires evidence.
That kind of thing works even better in Java because the static type system enforces it.

In particular generic methods don't have the problem of type erasure that affect generic classes so many things you would want to do with types "just work".

Almost everybody is afraid of it, but $ works just fine as an identifier and can be used to make a DSL that looks like jQuery in Java.

Maybe someday i will write a class like:

class("some.namespace.MyClass").method(...)
It's a fair point. But for me on my iPhone 6S, I've found that last 20% to be the difference between a phone that gets me through the day, and one that does not.

I get my battery replaced yearly. I would upgrade to a newer phone instead, but I value my headphone jack too much.
It’s what I see everywhere on the internet now. It doesn’t seem misleading at all.
this link has been posted 15 times on NH. First time was over 7 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6200070
>How far the disease can spread would depend on sources and sinks, no?

By air alone? How far can it possibly spread? Can you get measles if you walked within 100ft of a mass grave? miasma theory would say yes, but I doubt that's actually the case.

If you include other forms of transmission (eg. insects, animals, food/water), then it can definitely spread miles away, but this goes back to my original point of only being correct about disease being (loosely) correlated by distance. But even then it gets a bunch of stuff wrong. A rat with the bubonic plague stowed away on a ship can infect people hundreds of miles away, for instance. You could also live next to a mass grave and be fine as long as you have mesh windows and boiled your drinking water.
What? You can’t compare the population density of an entire country to individual cities.
It has been disappointing to see how many people on HN have business-critical production deployments in a single AZ. I thought we learned not to trust any one AWS location years ago when Netflix learned for us.
There is a good chance to run it inside a VM, already shown at WWDC, so it only depends on Parallels/VMWare releasing their updates for the M1. On the bare machine, it is somewhat unsure. Currently it is not possible, but it is not clear how difficult it would be. In any case, the question would be about driver development, as this is a completely custom computer. But as the Mini isn't expensive and this is a really interesting chip, I could imagine, that a lot of Linux hackers are trying to get it running. Even Linus Torwalds expressed interest in the M1 MB Air.
> They were taken to a temporary studio, which at the time was in a temporary building in the grounds of the university library because building work was taking place.

Given how small and inconspicuous they are, is it possible they simply got thrown away in the midst of the construction? Perhaps when the temporary building was disassembled?
Us-east-1 “increased error rates”
from the AWS status console:

8:05 AM PST: Kinesis is experiencing increased API errors in the US-EAST-1 Region. This is also causing issues with ACM, Amplify Console, API Gateway, AppStream2, AppSync, Athena, Cloudformation, Cloudtrail, CloudWatch, Cognito, Connect, DynamoDB, EventBridge, IoT Services, Lambda, LEX, Managed Blockchain, Resource Groups, SageMaker, Support Console, and Workspaces. This issue has also affected our ability to post updates to the Service Health Dashboard.
Wasn't all this effort involved just to prove Fusion is possible before going all into the tech? The machines are massive today but so were early computers.
It's not just diffusion of responsibility. It's the fact that — assuming you're a B2B SaaS — when you're down, the customers depending on your service are probably down too, since they're very likely to also be dependent on the same service that knocked you offline.

It's like a city-wide power outage, or a flood in a city that's in a flood-basin. The city's entire economy will "pause." If you're a B2B business affected by the outage/flood, you don't have to worry about losing sales/customers, as your customers won't even be trying to make any requests of you, since their capacity to serve requests to their customers is knocked out, and without that, they won't be making any requests of you. In fact, as long as they're down, they may not even notice that you're down!
Is it just me or does this seem like a very bad idea? I mean it seems nicer but the reality is, if you don't know how Regexes work, you won't understand the nuances of the "verbal" regex either... Also, some optimisation maybe?

^(?:http)(?:s)?(?:\:\/\/)(?:www\.)?(?:[^\ ]*)$

could be better written as

^https?://(?:www[.])?[^ ]*$

Or am I missing something? In that case, I'll readily admit this library is a good idea :)
It is a huge amount of code for a relatively simple expression.

I see not a single situation where this would actually look more readably than a proper regex.

Unless... you don't want to learn regular expressions and then you have two problems...
The Bacon Fireplace
The area farmed in the US has declined slowly since the 1950s, maybe down 20%? Am eyeballing graphs as google is failing me:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/charts/58267/farms_fig01_45...

It would decline faster if we didn't subsidize stupid stuff like corn ethanol, for sure.

Edit, a maybe a better graph:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-land-area-used-f...
Certainly it doesn't change in an instant, that development is a process just like the rest. Still in the very early stages, "not conscious to pain" seems to be the case, but "conscious to pain" may begin earlier than people think.
Yes, which is why you need both laws, and prevention methods.
New Zeeland ended all agricultural subsidies in, IIRC, 1984. Seems to be working out pretty well for them.

That being said, there certainly are good reasons to have rough food self sufficiency and resiliency for crisis situations, rather than going all the way with free trade and Ricardo's comparative advantage arguments.

I just hope the EU could direct it's farm subsidies to emphasize the environment, and not dump as much excess products on the world market, driving poor 3rd world farmers into bankruptcy.
htmx 1.0 – completing HTML as a hypertext
Oh the irony, you have flagged a post you do not agree with on a thread about censorship.
That "horizontal scaling" is currency manipulation, and I don't understand why the people who like gold are so tolerant of it.

You're right that governments need to be able to deflate their currency, but I don't think that's insurmountable. There are lots of ways to design a manipulateable currency. That would make it less attractive to the people who want a gold standard, but as I said, I'm skeptical about that. While a crypto is like gold, all the cryptos are like the Zimbwean dollars.

Maybe Bitcoin will sweep those away eventually, but for the moment, the imbalance between BTC and the other cryptos makes me wary.
Human nature is very hard to change. What we really need is a societal mechanism that somehow forces (or persuades) those on the extremes to compromise. The U.S. Constitution was designed to be such a mechanism, but it doesn't seem to be standing up well to new technologies.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. This is absolutely the case. We’ve replaced evangelical christians with social justice mobs.
What is widely known?
> The solution is choice

Correct. Among apple, MS and google you have no choice. That is why regulation is necessary.
Is this the reason I have seen connection errors in duolingo,

> upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: overflow
I make them all the time (https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/), and track many thousands of DSLs.

IMO, the problem is our languages are unnecessarily complicated. they are all linearly parsed BNFs, and you don't need any of that. I think things will start changing big time.

That being said, my favorite ecosystem in the traditional DSL world is ANTLR, and I'd highly recommend Terence Parr's books on the field if you are interested.
German Greens will betray their voters over software patents
Sock puppet accounts like this are a sybil attack. You can remain anonymous and use an existing HN account to participate in the conversation. Brand new accounts look ambiguous with the propaganda accounts pushed by various nation states.