skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things I'm still extremely grateful for is that I learnt the basics of computer science from an ex-oracle guy turned secondary school teacher, who wasn't the best programmer let's say but who absolutely drilled into us (I was probably the only one listening but still) the importance of code quality, backups, information security etc.

Nothing fancy, but it's the kind of bread and butter intuition you need to avoid walking straight off a cliff.

He also let me sit at the back writing a compiler instead of learning VB.Net, top dude
Clearly the right answer is to let customers go beyond 250 concurrent (maybe scale based on size of function).

Get CloudRun handling the C10k problem and you’ll really have something.
At least in my state the sorts of gross inefficiencies believe to be caused by the binning just aren’t true. There were some early wrinkles but were now rate limited by the total number of doses. So while frustrating for folks such as myself it still makes sense to prioritize based on need
> Trust but verify.

If it's business critical should you even trust at all?
having a paid standard devalues the entire concept of 'standards'
and instead encourages non-standard approaches, like having a secret law would promote non-compliance to it.
> (Surprise, the root cause is a cache)

Couldn’t it just as well be attributed to improper file path normalization? If we had only lower case ASCII file systems it would not have caused a problem.
>>Girls receive better grades until you blind the teachers. Teachers are biased in favor of girls, maybe because their behavior is better.

In my country(India) we have board exams, where people evaluating and candidates are both anonymous to each other. People don't write their names, but use a number.

Still Girls do better. Let's just agree girls are better at academic work.
> Fire destroyed SBG2

This is crazy.

SBG2 was HUGE and if this isn't a translation error on the part of Octave (which I could understand given the stress and ESL) I have a hard time fathoming what kind of fire could destroy a whole facility with nearly 1000 racks of equipment spread out across separated halls.

I'm really hoping "destroyed" here means "we lost all power and network core and there's smoke/fire/physical damage to SOME of that"

I can't even fathom a worst-case scenario of a transformer explosion (which does occur and I've seen the aftermath of) having this big of an impact. Datacenters are built to contain and mitigate these kinds of issues. Fire breaks, dry-pipe sprinkler systems and fire-extinguishing gas systems are all designed to prevent a fire from becoming large-scale.

Really glad nobody was hurt. OVH is gonna have a bad time cleaning all this up.
I believe this is an argument for the coin. Pick your poison, really.
Unless adultery is illegal in a particular country, yes in this context.
So the actual numbers are: 5/10 drivers on L2 cars with no L2 experience missed seeing the bear all three times, vs 2/10 drivers with no L2 experience driving a non-automated car. That’s hardly statistically significant.

Furthermore, 6/10 drivers with L2 experience saw the bear all three times, as compared to 2/10 drivers using a non-automated car. So a stronger finding (again, ignoring the laughably small sample size) is that experienced L2 drivers driving automated cars are better than inexperienced L2 drivers driving normal cars. In other words, we should put everyone behind a L2 car but require additional training.

This is what happens when you design experiments with 3 buckets, 3 tests, and tiny sample sizes. You can draw any conclusion you want.
Almost everything on Facebook has a comment thread attached, in-app, with your friends' comments at the top.

People care as much about what the people they know think about something as what they themselves think about something.

RSS readers almost never inline comments/discussion, can't easily surface your closest friends' comments at the top, don't have a consistent interface for leaving comments on items, and don't notify you of replies.

RSS is inherently antisocial, like watching TV or reading the newspaper alone.
I'm all for innovating chat. Good on you for taking a step out of the armchair. I'll need to keep warming the seat for some time yet on that one.
It's a fun example in how easy it is to setup, and I don't want to poke too hard on a hypotheticals, but I don't like two things:

1) Egress is hand-waved, when in reality the free GBs would basically exhaust in a month on just pongs and reconnection requests, so doing nothing at all. That amount of people just sending single emojis as messages for just one day (to play along "short marketing event") is already matching monthly napkin estimate stated.

2) Isn't there's a good chance Memorystore wouldn't be able to handle this at fairly charitable load interpretations under that many CCUs? 1‰ of those 250k CCUs sending a message every second means Redis needs to publish 250k messages as well.

Again though, I'm aware it's only a hypothetical scenario demonstration, and it really does look cute in how it's simple to deploy. Fun stuff.
I'm not sure if it's because my tolerance of Graham Linehan has snapped or not, but I barely laugh at the IT Crowd any more. As with other GL shows I find it's just mostly held together but the cast's delivery and such

The laugh track and the writing is honestly dated even by the standards of Dads Army.
Most of the entertainment systems on airplanes were an afterthought that was implemented after the fact, not something built-in in the first place.
Yes, Europeans bring the metaphorical "dollars" I referred to. And there is no "if they wanted $". They do. And I mean earning dollars, not buying them on international markets. I have access to capital markets, too, and I can buy any currency I want, but buying money is not the same as earning it.
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Well, I clone repos to inspect code all the time, and when I run code, it’s usually not with the same permissions as the corresponding `git clone`. Maybe I should be better about sandboxing Git…
Can we just resurrect Google Wave please? Only half joking, it's threading was very interesting.
Meaning no disrespect to the people who find the user and pass, but criticizing people who don't set passwords or leave the default ones
More people should know about RSS. I explain how it work to my friends, they seems wowed, but don't see much used of it(It's the thing that you need to experience yourself, I guess)

I can't imagine how one keep track of various website of interest. It's like they don't know better, or unknowingly think that Facebook feed is everything they need and no other internet outside it (It's understandable, I don't blame them)
Isn't the 486 ISA (and whole surrounding architecture really) royalty free by now? I wish we'd get cheap chinese 486 clones like the knock-off Arduinos.

Imagine paying < $10 for a 486-compatible SBC for all your retro nerd needs. Yes, I know you can emulate it on a $25 Raspberry Pi, but it's not the same.
Who's being disingenuous? You both seem to be basically correct. They're new, they're building out, but currently they resell.
It’s not just HKTs. Figuring out how to handle Fn, FnOnce, FnMut is a whole other can of worms.
Do you mean that there's no difference between organizing at the state and federal levels, given the cultural variety at each of those levels?

Maybe that means we should go smaller? Swiss cantons average 330k people each (8.5 million population, 26 cantons), and each canton has responsibility for their own healthcare, welfare, law enforcement, public education, tax policy, its own constitution, and can enter into treaties with other cantons and even foreign countries. Their federal government is very limited. The seem to do a pretty good job. When they have a minority problem they can't fix, they split them off a new canton.

In my prior comment I had been thinking of the balance of powers between the states and the federal government. I think the tenth amendment is important, that the division of powers between the states and the federal government is just as fundamentally important as the balance of powers between the three branches within the federal government. As the federal government grows larger it grows more corrupt, dysfunctional, and disconnected from the people, as all unchecked powers tend to do.

Speaking of shared culture, and this balance of power, things have devolved to the point where we argue every four years over the entire direction of the country personified in one person, the president, tribal leader and hopeful superman to 51% of the population, and cause of all that is wrong for the other 49%. We get our facts from the news, often nothing to do with our real lives and experiences. Details are nuances are ignored, there are too many anyways. The president is the team leader. Other people are stupid and liars and evil and all that matters is that your team wins. This is not going in a good direction! This isn't a problem with the voters, it's a problem with the system.

My two cents :-)
Sure he does.

But there is 2 sides to every coin. Hundreds of people living on less than $1 per day died from painful cancer with no access to treatment - in their mid 20's - because of the oil spilled by the Oil firms there.

Donziger wanted to make that right.. against overwhelming odds. He represented the impoverished victims. He starts looking somewhat decent under that light, don't you think ?

Was there another way? I'm not really sure. So I go back to the facts. The law in that country, is clear.

Strictly speaking, that was not illegal. We have a judge, busy, perhaps even incompetent, wanting out from a complex opinion. He took the easy road out. To anyone in the US, this would seem bad. But that sense of justice is skewed to US law, which is unfortunate because US law and procedure is lights years ahead of other countries.

What I am saying is that there is room for considerations outside what is appropriate, because other legal systems are not build to defend the powerless, only the powerful.

US law procedure is very good at defending the powerless. That's almost always never the case elsewhere.
WhatsApp vs. Signal
This Video contains the following:

(1) Whatsapp - Provacy Issues

(2) Signal the Solution App

(3) Whatsapp vs Signal Comparison

(4) Telegram - Another Option

(5) Requirement for Indian App
And clearly Intel's products aren't working, can they even make processors?
>there is a problem with your expectations.

The legal system needs to blame someone. If the system fails and it kills someone, whos fault is it? Currently its most likely the drivers fault because its their job to ensure everything is ok and brake manually if they see something.
If function literals don't have access to the usual idioms of the language - which, in the case of Rust, means state - then functions are not first-class.

> It's true that when you have a closure with state then Rust forces you to reason about the ownership of that state, but that's par for the course in Rust.

The problem isn't that you have to reason about the state ownership, it's that you can't abstract over it properly.
Exactly. Having a plan is only part of it. Good disaster plans do dry runs a couple of times a year (when time changes is always convenient reminder). If you rehearse the recovery when you're not panicked, you have a better chance of not skipping a step when the timing is much more crucial. Also, some sort of guide with steps given procedurally is a great idea.
Nah, no one punishes you over this because it's to protect you. The most high profile case is Chris Sacca. But he's way smarter than me so I'm willing to accept that he'll win games I can't play.
>>Anyone with young boys and girls will notice that girls are much more likely to obey rules and instructions. A lot of doing well in school is about following rules and instructions, and it seems pretty natural that girls will do better.

This hypothesis fails when applied to militaries. Throughout history men have near 100% representation in militaries and wars. Where discipline and following rules is more seriously enforced.
It’s a big deal regardless of whether documents or code are being stored. Cloning a repo should not open you up to RCE.
//Las Vegas algorithm
repeat:
k = RandInt(n)
if A[k] == 1,
return k;

//Monte Carlo algorithm
repeat 300 times:
k = RandInt(n)
if A[k] == 1
return k
return "Failed"

(...) Therefore, unlike Las Vegas, Monte Carlo does not gamble with run-time but correctness.

Interesting!
Is it too late for governments to legislate against the sale of customer data?

Legally make it opt-in rather than opt-out, as well as including provision for customers to request details of what data related to them has been sold to which companies.

It feels as if it's too late because the economic base of companies that exist purely as leeches off collected and processed personal data is large enough that it could cause economic problems for the jurisdiction brave enough to attempt such legislation. ie. there's too much money already in the pot for the government to force players to fold their hands.
Can't you add only changes to a tar?
There is at least one video game explicitly based on SCP-3008. I'm guessing it's the same one.
Of course there are nice neighborhoods in the Bay, but I'm referring more to the area as a whole. There is a gigantic amount of wealth concentrated in such a small place, yet you almost wouldn't know.
I remember joining a couple waves on day one, quickly devolved to chaos. The collaborative editing was cool and I'm sure Google cannibalized that for Google Docs et al
Also, it is easier to teach kids about something they have experienced.
> The problem is also what we do with the ability to measure. Typically, we're making easy things intuitive, and difficult things impossible. This is exactly the wrong way to go about things, if you care about delivering value to users.

Right. We're prioritizing learnability over usability.

> We should be making the easy things easy, hard things possible, and forget about the whole intuitiveness thing.

Whoa there... Another way of thinking about 'intuitiveness' is in terms of affordances. We mustn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. While it is too much to ask that every function should be obvious upon first seeing the UI, it is not too much too ask that every function should at least be obvious in retrospect after trying to use it or having it demonstrated, and of course leveraging affordances and interaction patterns the user is likely familiar with from elsewhere should be given priority.
“Challenges of running a free and open VPN service in some pictures. A thread”
I just tried this and it's pretty nuts. First of all, their implementation of reCaptcha just didn't work at all for me in Firefox, and I had to switch to Chrome to even submit the request. (Captchas on CCPA request forms? Seriously?) Then, in order to verify my identity, I was asked to submit a copy of my driver's license or passport plus a current photo within 24 hours (after 24 hours I'd have to start over). I haven't made a ton of CCPA requests (probably 10 or so) but this one is by far the most onerous (not to mention that it seems like it might simply not be possible if you don't have a driver's license or passport)
Verkada's main selling point is arguably their individual facial recognition. You can basically click on a person and it'll pull all the other clips of them throughout the building.
>We need regulation in this space, and fast.

I'm hoping the EU can help a bit. Please, EU, you're our only hope!!
Parting a fool from his money is a socially beneficial activity.
I am not sending my children to Shanghai so they can learn to not feel inferior to Chinese children. Your question is loaded.

I went to high school in the US. I've seen too many of my (white) friends claim they are inferior to my (asian) friends in mathematics. No race is naturally better at any race at anything. I consider their capitulation a byproduct of the US educational system that fails to teach its domestic students mathematics to-par with their international peers. I had to fight my mathematics teachers and counselors for further mathematics education in high school. The US system is completely unacceptable. That is why I plan on sending my children to a Chinese public school and to be cared for by my relatives.

>Why would being a minority in a authoritarian communist society make your children feel more secure?

This is besides the point. US citizens can securely raise children in China. Some Chinese minorities can securely raise their children, like Manchus and Mongols. Other Chinese minorities cannot, like Uighurs.

edit: I read through your previous comments and I see you have made previous disparaging comments about conservatives in the US. I am far more suspicious of your comment now.
> We recommend to activate your Disaster Recovery Plan.

What percentage of organizations have these?
I think the trick is to start viewing the problem through the lens of anti-trust/pro-competition law. Something like mandating compulsory licensing of DRM technologies so that the DRM manufacturer and Hollywood studios don't get to be kingmakers in the browser or operating systems markets.

IANAL but seems to me like laws along the lines of "you can reverse engineer DRM without being arrested" and "the patent holder/whatever of the DRM cannot deny you a license to use this without a good reason" seem like the right direction to me. Then the linux distros or anyone else can go off and build/integrate the DRM to the extent that they wish.
Excellent ideas

>connect a message back to the parent message - if it was a response

Assuming you've got a long list of timestamped messages, how do you identify which messages are continuations of old threads and which ones are starting a new conversation?
I tried over 10 reloads and every time I get

"We are currently having trouble with your request. Please wait a few minutes and try again."

So much for T-Mobile respecting my privacy.

Edit: That error appears 100% of the time. To workaround, login as usual, then go to https://www.t-mobile.com/account/profile/line-selector/adver...
We test rolling over the entire stack to another AWS DR region (just one we dont normally use) from S3 backups, etc. We do this annually and try to introduce some variations to the scenarios. It takes us about 18 hours realistically.

Documentation / SOPs that have been tested thoroughly by various team members are really important. It helps work out any kinks in interpretation, syntax errors etc.

It does feel a little ridiculous at the time for all the effort involved, but incidents like this show why it's so important.
I cannot wait until the whole world is run by machines that do not work very well. </sarc>
From your article:

"It's called a hack when you do something in an ugly way. But when you do something so clever that you somehow beat the system, that's also called a hack. The word is used more often in the former than the latter sense, probably because ugly solutions are more common than brilliant ones.

Believe it or not, the two senses of "hack" are also connected. Ugly and imaginative solutions have something in common: they both break the rules. And there is a gradual continuum between rule breaking that's merely ugly (using duct tape to attach something to your bike) and rule breaking that is brilliantly imaginative (discarding Euclidean space)."

Cryptocurrencies and blockchain platforms are nothing if not rule-breaking and brilliantly imaginative. They're trying to rewrite the entire financial system as code on the blockchain. Can you think of a more brilliant hack than that? Satoshi created the idea of digital scarcity. And the crypto world is running with it. That's clever as hell.
I think only morons, autistics, etc have a habitually hard time identifying sarcasm. These are not the people we should optimize the web experience for.
I've done my master's degree and I don't believe it impacted my career at all. Things I learned during the degree I either knew about, or would end up reading while learning about related ideas. The jobs I got came either from professional network or applying in places where the degree is irrelevant. I did enjoy learning, but writing the final paper was the worst thing I experienced in life.

Unless you want to do things where the letters by your name matter (academia, r&d at larger corps, enterprise jobs where the letters give you extra points, etc.) I wouldn't expect any benefit.

The only place where it mattered for me was applying for a permanent residency in Australia, since it's points-based and your education is counted.
Good point. I noticed it because of GNU Guix, but it looks like there are other projects that are perhaps too small to apply alone.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2020/organizatio...
https://www.lonesomelands.com/new-blog/2019/9/16/t2amoscp1u1...
I kinda take issue with the approach vs. simply attempting to email the corresponding author, but I understand the premise. I think the onus really has to start coming from journals. I should be able to have the pieces to reproduce a given work, but often times I'm left short of either the data (or a very key portion of it) or the code, and methods often just state what tools were used (much of it boilerplate if you look at the same authors other papers with the same tooling), not how these tools were used on the input data in particular nor how the output is handled.

Reproducing a computational paper should be the easiest thing, but often times you are left in the weeds reading arcane documentation for tooling that hasn't been updated since that post doc left the group 6 years ago, and trying to piece together an appropriate pipeline, work that wouldn't have to be done if you could simply inspect the underlying code behind the figures presented in the text and see how these tools were used. I don't care if the pile of scripts is a sloppy mess, just give me a github repo with all the code used and a link to access the data from a public repository if it isn't under some form of controlled access (of which I should be able to easily apply for and also use for research purposes just like the original authors have done).

Journals should mandate that all code and data used to generate results be made available to the community, because it's clear that with no mandate in place people aren't exactly taking this onus on themselves, nor do reviewers seem to be asking for this information from authors.
Just guessing, but maybe a fire suppression system going off could wipe out all the machines?

The couple datacenters I've been inside were small, old and used halon gas which wasn't supposed to destroy the machines. No idea how it works in big places these days.
China and Russia to build lunar space station
I opened two tabs to relax tonight: Hacker News and Lichess. This was the top HN thread, and Lichess is having issues because of the fire.

I didn't know what OVH was before 10 minutes ago, but this seems really impactful. I hope everyone there is safe and that the immediate disaster gets resolved quickly.
Yea I’m not saying that a running freak would get very much out of joining a gym, I’m just comparing what a gym rat gets for his 30 bucks with what their customers get, and he seems to get a helluva lot more. So it just makes me wonder if people will be happy to pay.

Maybe they will, people pay for peloton. Then again that’s essentially a cult, and the contents seems richer.

Nice idea though, I wish I had thought of it!

Although, given that the coaching isn’t personal, and not even done in a local group, how much can a competitive runner really get out of it?
Google doesn't tweak search results to be more PC
Ultimately, you need to be able to settle lightning transactions on the actual chain.