skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had me quite confused because I'm also having home internet issues. I was trying to get my laptop to switch to my mobile hotspot and HN is one of the sites I used to test connectivity because a) it's almost always available and b) loads very quick.

A bit of a mindfuck trying to assess my actual internet connectivity via a site that was also down : )_
I never expect HN to be down... I asked my wife - hey is the internet down? She said - no, it's working for me. I clicked on another site and my mouth dropped.
Making Great Docs with Rustdoc
Feels like it to me. I'd expect the zoom to be associated with the site.

Granted, I am probably importing old thoughts of it being a sort of user provided style sheet.
And that would take at least a century, it’s not just transport costs it’s about what would there be to do.

I think betting on Mars being anything more than a scientific outpost and possibly an automated mining station down the line at least for the next 100-150 years is highly unlikely.

There is huge difference between us being able to put people on Mars with a 6-9 months journey and it becoming a new Australia or the American west.

It’s also not just the cost of transport these will be marginal compared to the cost of literal life support there.

Australia has and atmosphere and a biome hospitable to life (well hospitable by Australian standards at least...).

People could sleep on the street if push comes to shove, they can claim their own land in the outback and build an emu farm or w/e.... you can’t do that on Mars without considerable resources.

Sticking people on boats works on earth it’s not the same when it comes to Mars.
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Bulgaria, Portugal etc
This has never happened to me.
> less than 2 USD [per month]

How about 2USD/year? WhatsApp ran on 1 until Facebook bought it.

I did the math at the time: with the users per server and separate user stats they were publishing, each employee could be paid very, very generously. Don't quote me on it but I think it was something like half or a quarter million per year. Yes, they were small and growing, as you grow you get more overhead as you try new things like eg. business customers or whatever, so maybe it can't be 1/year anymore (also because a decade of inflation happened in the meantime), but you can get very close to that or choose to operate in low and middle income countries at break-even or a small loss. I wouldn't find that unfair (as someone who earns in the top 1% of worldwide incomes, household income like 150k/year -- yes I'm looking into how to put that boatload to good use -- and who would be paying the compensatory high price).
"has rust inside it, and whose rust will not come off!" (Ezekiel)
It's gotten so bad for me that I'm down to just "n". I think I have a problem.
Yes, it seems very odd that someone who writes so beautifully and with such wisdom would get suspended. I poked around on Google a little to see whether I could find out what happened, but no luck.
and without responding to questions or providing evidence
What you are describing is a DIY approach.

Is there anything off the shelf that I could use today?
Every new Vim instance would show instructions on how to :q and a million StackOverflow posts would become redundant
Network outage at hosting provider. Sorry all!

https://mobile.twitter.com/HNStatus/status/13715259406568038...
How does location affect the success of a startup?
I started to work on my startup idea in Sweden. The country that is well known for its startup booming scene.
Recently, I start realizing the necessities of having a good co-founder, a friendly refreshing environment to handle the startup stress.
Due to the Visa and other difficulties, I can't move my co-founder to Sweden and I think moving to UAE will limit my success since the startup scene there still immature like in Sweden.

Any advice for things that I should consider for my startup geolocation.
You should look at stackoverflow's hosting!
Take a look at this COVID daily trends graph from the CDC:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrends...

From an average of about 50k cases reported daily in April through October to about 200k cases reported daily in November, December, and January, then back down to 60k by March.

And there's a similar winter increase in the worldwide cases (some of which is from the US cases, but not all):

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/worldwide-graphs/#...

It's impossible to be sure after just one year, but that hill in the winter certainly suggests a seasonal illness to me.
GitHub Actions Degraded Availability
With all due respect, I've been voting for 20 years, and it's done exactly jack shit to help the environment.
This is an often-repeated bit of anti-environmental propaganda, which is not particularly true.
Indeed. And in the regex crate and RE2, for example, captures are only implemented in the "NFA" engines (specifically, the PikeVM and the bounded backtracker). So if you support captures, then those engines have to be able to support everything.
Rust Implementation of Nano Cryptocurrency
"Temporarily" like a f**cking YEAR. Some business owners committed suicide over this, so I guess its safe to say permanent for them at least.
> the risk is minuscule compared to COVID-19 itself

You don't know this at all - we don't know what age groups are affected here, and COVID is pretty much negligible in many younger age groups. It's best to wait for more data to come in before drawing any conclusions.
Unbelievably stupid. I thought we had reached peak wokeness, but it looks like there's still more to come. I thought dictionaries were supposed to provide all the meanings of words, regardless of our attitude toward the concepts referred to. Slavery itself is dehumanizing; referring to someone as a slave is just a description, not an endorsement.
Ok. Me too, plus malicious software dependences
No engineering discipline allows for “ambiguity” at least how you use it here, try building a train or a spacecraft with that level of ambiguity at that point the bugs tend to make things go boom.
It seems to be coming back online now.

Strange that HN was down at exactly the same time, although this is reported to be unrelated.

> CURRENT STATUS: Engineering teams are currently rolling out mitigation worldwide. Customers should begin seeing recovery at this time, with full mitigation expected within 60 minutes. This message was last updated at 21:12 UTC on 15 March 2021
I wonder how that will be possible without using accented letters. English doesn't use them but it seems like it should.

E.g.
Refuse (deny) / Refuse (trash),
Permit (allow)/ Permit (a document of permission),
Record (Vinyl)/ Record (to save)
I see a lot of people on Instagram using Linktree. For example, this arbitrary user...

https://www.instagram.com/successbykim/

...links to...

https://linktr.ee/successbykim
i was gonna say, check out that n00b that has to type all the way to "news.y" for the browser autocomplete! :D

/s
Assuming your odds of catching COVID is 1 in 1,000 that’s still a higher risk for any adult age group than the vaccines. I doubt your risk of catching covid is actually that low.

More importantly it’s not just about avoiding death, a bad case of COVID is terrible even if you survive. On top of this you reduce the risk of spreading it to someone else.
The killer Firefox feature for me are multi-account containers. I haven't found another browser with that feature, and they make it SO much easier to deal with multiple accounts on the same site (Google, Facebook, AWS/GCP/Azure, etc.).
Yes I did know that (I’m just being silly really) but even so, PR is a cost and so they wouldn’t even be making any more profit!

I do think people aren’t giving AZ enough credit for doing it at cost though. Especially compared to the €50 per dose Pfizer initially quoted the EU!
3 medical innovations fueled by COVID-19 that will outlast the pandemic
It doesn't even necessarily need to be dynamic, for instance, use this to generate a maze:

{
"0": [
"SpontaneousChange 1 0.1"
],
"1": [
"CountAdjacent gt 1 5 2"
],
"2": [],
"colorMap": {
"0": "tintblack",
"1": "cyan",
"2": "gray"
}
}
Firefox does the same, as I discovered - I don't know whether it's a bug or intended functionality.

(As an aside, I keep HN at 150% and old reddit at 120% - those are the only 2 sites I have permanently zoomed)
I think we can agree that the USS Cole incident turned on rules of engagement more than capability.

In a more wartime footing, I don't think a fiberglass boat filled with 500+ lbs of explosive often succeeds in a suicide attack against a 500' destroyer w/ multiple CIWS mounts.

But "American destroyer vaporizing fishing boat that drifted too close" isn't good PR, hence restrictive RoE.
> Is there even a single person who wants this feature to be removed?

It's about cost of maintenance not people wanting a feature to be removed. And while this feature specifically doesn't have to high of a cost (I think) it will sum up if many "hardly used" features are left in place.

> >The Engineering team is well aware of the community > feedback.
>
> Does that mean Mozilla is aware how unpopular this is, but are going to go ahead nevertheless?

I think it means they decided it, then got feedback and now are potentially reevaluating it.

Also maybe the group of people using it isn't very high but very vocal/loud, in which case going ahead anyway would be reasonable.

Through I also would guess the group of people using that feature is also likely to have analytics disabled...

Having "analytics disabled" correlate with "using that specific feature" is always a major problem for data driven decisions, worse it's a well hidden and hard to estimate problem.
Rust has tonic, which I've used to good effect as both as a client and server.
There's an ebb and flow to these things. If new technology is making my headset obsolete every year, designing a 10-year headset makes no sense. Once headset technology settles down and people realize they keep buying the same thing over and over, then the customer starts to value reliability more. Unfortunately customer behavior updating to the reality that underlying technology of a product has stopped evolving lags by a few years, but it happens.
> Why bother using FF at this point?

Panorama Tab Groups
> I'd expect the zoom to be associated with the site.

That's what the GP comment said happened: the zoom level was the one associated with what they previously had set on HN, and they expected it to be the opposite, the default zoom level for the browser.
FWIW Safari doesn't have this bug (I too keep HN zoomed at 200% for some reason).
I noticed the same behavior in Firefox as well. I wouldn't consider this as a bug though
Yes, or at the very least the number of countries that have paused the vaccine, this is a rapidly changing story and where this reporting lands in the narrative is important. I had to go check anothe news site to see which/how many EU countries had now paused the Astra Zennica vaccine.
> Why bother using FF at this point? Most sites don't work as well, and Mozilla seems actively hostile to my use case.

I share some of your gripes and I do think that Mozilla routinely drops the ball with Firefox, but that's a gross overstatement. I exclusively use Firefox as my main browser (both on desktop and mobile) and I only very occasionally stumble upon websites that will only work correctly on Chromium.

It's annoying when it happens but it's most definitely not "most sites" in my experience, it's a small minority.
At least with Librem 5 you can use the hardware kill switch whenever you need privacy.
> I'm sure there are other ways of breaking encryption like the rubber-hose technique (of course with valid arrest warrant).

"rubber-hose technique" refers to torture, not to something that a warrant would allow.
>You snipped out the part of the quote that answers your question.

Replicating across two datacenters isn't "really good" though, that's considered table stakes.

>Except, in AWS' case, each AZs (Availability Zones) is made up of upto 8 DCs (Data Centers), and each full-region has at least 3 AZs and 2 Transit Centers. Amazon S3 replicates data to 3 different AZs (which, I am guessing, is in addition to replicating it across DCs in a single AZ for 'eleven 9s').

In AWS' case, the 8 DCs in an AZ are directly adjacent which isn't really useful for anything beyond metro (active/active) availability. I haven't seen a DR plan that doesn't have a hard requirement for the secondary copy of data to be outside of the metro loop/blast radius generally in a different state.
Not sure why HN would still be a hosted at a 3rd tier provider. A few EC2 instances (multi-zone) behind a application load balancer should do the trick.
Sometimes, it pays off being extremely simple.
In HN, it definitely does
I know they accused AZ of this but as far as I know there is no evidence. Do you have a source?
Just wait until you find out Reddit and Cookie Clicker have the same endgame...
> The decision to resist this […] and the in-house MTProto protocol do seem kind of bizarre to me

It's so bizarre indeed that it actually looks suspicious.
I have a massive learning project[1], and I think 2/3 of my "to get through as soon as sensible" content is news.ycombinator links.

Needless to say, this site is my own personal StackOverflow, and I think there's something about ingratitude bouncing around in my mind somewhere.

[1]https://github.com/PhilosAccounting/ts-learning
China's Xi Jinping Tells People's Liberation Army to Get Ready for Combat
I don't disagree with you, but graphql just lends itself well to bad decisions and many times when I've poked at graphql endpoints they share these issues (missing auth after first later, exposing schema by accident, no depth/cost limit). I think a combination of new technology w/o standardized best practices and startups being resource constrained proliferates poor security with graphql.

Of course, the same could happen for standard REST as well, but I think the foot guns are more limited.
it happens pretty routinely to me on computers that idle with browsers for long periods.

example : a cctv kiosk I have just sits on a URL all day.

It updates silently and breaks the browser sometimes a few times a month, facilitating remote administration to reset.

The other lovely behavior is when after an update the tab to show update notes is prioritized upon browser auto-restart -- thus covering up the cctv kiosk tab with something advertising firefox changes.

Firefox is getting harder to love, (thankfully?) so is the competition in most cases.
Uh, no? That argument would only make sense if IE were better than every alternative but died because people merely chose to not use it... in fact, it wasn't until the big lawsuits against Microsoft caused IE to stagnate and then better browsers existed that people switched to--first Firefox targeting developers / power users and then (later) Chrome laying waste to the entire field on performance--that IE was dethroned. We thereby need the same thing today: an arrow in the leg of Chrome (though I sadly don't know if we could even pull off an anti-competition suit against them with the current landscape... I am bullish always on such and I am not even seeing the argument :/) and some game-changing competition (which is hard to predict, but doesn't seem to be coming from Firefox the more they try to just emulate Chrome).
Elon Musk and his company is doing nothing to solve real human problems, because real human problems are solved with less industry messing up with our lives, not "green" capitalism and space colonization.
Having to QR-code into a web-app is quite a pain. I wish we didn't tie identities to a phone number like that. Messenger offers even more seamless "handoff" between form-factors, and that's why I find myself preferring it. It's easy for web state to go away, so I find myself having to log back in more often than I'd like. Plus, you can't log in when the phone's out of battery. I really like how snappy Telegram's mobile clients are. I like their stickers (probably the most fun of any chat app these days) and their link preview is quite good. So I'm rooting for them.
Automation; the bare minimum would be to scan for known child sexual abuse material hashes - if you're not doing that, then opening up anonymous uploads is very risky, as for CSAM (unlike most other things) you may be personally liable even if it's distributed there without your knowledge. Cloudfare's CSAM scanning tool is one option that may help, there are other options.

You can't rely on the good faith of users, if your service is easily usable for crime, it will be used for it.
Cell towers is far from the only tracking possibility.
How Octavia E. Butler Reimagines Sex and Survival
"Butler’s great subject was intimate power, of the kind that transforms relationships into fulcrums of collective destiny. She explored the ways that bodies could be made instruments of alien intentions, a motif that recurs throughout her fiction in ever more fantastic guises: mind control, gene modification, body-snatching, motherhood. Her protagonists often begin as fugitives or captives, but emerge as prodigies of survival, improvising their way through unprecedented situations only to find that adaptation exacts hidden costs."
Until 2018 at least it was ... wait for it ... a single server!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18496344

(Anyone know if that's still the case?)
Don't Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort (2012)
Zero cost abstractions in web development
Just cheat. It'll break the spell quickly.

Also, check out universal paperclips if you haven't already. it has a definite end. You likely won't play more than maybe 10-20 hours.
CVE-2021-28144 Root Cause Analysis – D-Link DIR-3060 Authenticated RCE
It's certainly not a science.
it says something like "we need to restart to keep going" and you have to reload the browser, without warning, and it's hard to turn off without fucking around in about:config
I don't think refusing to build a parking lot is a good idea. However they should be careful to build it on one side (probably the freeway side knowing how hard it is to put transit anywhere else), so that the other side can develop. They can/should put their stations in places that are at least semi-multi-use as well, meaning the border between zoned commercial and zoned apartments. When/if things get more transit oriented they can sell the parking lot.
Because this is an austrian domain you need to put an Impressum on it with details about the hosters name and address.
Sorry to spoil the fun :(
Just because we are at a medical topic and you are mentioning pomelos: they contain a substance (naringin) that can interfere with certain drugs. Just fyi
All sources were notoriously un-winterized, but wind generation had the additional problem of not working when there wasn't enough wind, which is why it dropped to 0 at one point. Suggesting that wind would perform adequately if it were only winterized is simply inaccurate. It's common knowledge among non-zealots that wind and solar are far too unreliable to supply baseload generation needs, and that unreliability led to a missing 15-20 GW of generation when we needed it. Base load must be supplied by something else, like perhaps nuclear which performed pretty well despite not being winterized.
But the site didn't load. My browser's not loading page did.

Is easier to see as broken by thinking of "how could I set it so that my browser's error page has a default zoom?"
HN is probably very small. Curious as to the minimum size of the backend that will hold up the website.

There may need to be read replicas, but maybe not even that is needed.
I am personally a big fan of Corinna Baldauf's "Retromat" (https://retromat.org/) which contains a ton of exercises/games for gathering and dealing with feedback. Exercises are designed for retrospective meetings, but I feel they're applicable to all kinds of feedback/brainstorming sessions. It's organised by meeting phases, so there's a rubric for "gather data" activities.
Games often use the GPU for their 2D elements. It's inefficient to do a window system that way, because you have to update on every frame, but if you're updating the whole window on every frame anyway, it doesn't add cost. As the original poster points out, it does run down the battery vs. a "window damage" approach.
Ditto. HN is so reliable and light on JavaScript that I typically use it to test my connection. I thought my connection was down earlier but guess this was the rare case where it was HN.

(Other comments suggest it was a network outage at M5 where HN is hosted.)
They even have a special page for it. I keep it handy because this seems to be the only response anyone ever makes when I bring it up:

"Firefox has just been updated in the background. Click Restart Firefox to complete the update."

It would at least be a minor improvement if they'd open a new tab to show you that information. Instead you're refreshing the page wasting everyone's time because it doesn't always tell you that's what's going on.
Exactly. If the interface in my car or the layout of my keyboard changed constantly, and even lost functionality regularly, it would drive me crazy. Fortunately, that doesn't happen. Unfortunately, I use Firefox so my interface to the internet is an ever changing mess.
I was trying to read some news while training in the basement, where I don't have very good Wi-Fi. Usually HN is one of the pages that work better down there, haha.
I haven't written perl in 5 years. Reading this evokes a rare sense of joy / Stockholm syndrome.
The font-size on HN is barely readable, I'm working on an accessible skin for the HN frontend that addresses this.

I'm targeting WCAG 2.0. Keep an eye out for the "Show HN" coming soon!
Nothing here is exclusive to programming, in fact this isn’t exclusive to engineering even.

Formulating a clear problem statement is applicable to essentially every field and I would argue is probably the hardest thing to master and what most people fail at.

At least personally the most improvement I have experienced in formulating a problem statement had nothing to do with actual technical work but rather when I worked in professional services and had to come up with new service offerings, writing up proposals and managing stakeholders.

Formulating a problem is definitely a soft skill that I would say most purely technical programs don’t teach that well, quite often because you are given the problem statement to solve. This is also true for technical work and why some people might find it hard to progress in their careers. I’ve met plenty of brilliant and highly experienced engineers that suffer from major tunnel vision and couldn’t see the forest for the trees.
> it has feature parity with mobile clients

There are no secret chats though.
@HNStatus tweeted about the outage 3 hours ago.
Is this related to the big Microsoft outage?
This is my new favorite ban reason.
"Reviewer glanced over functionality and decided that a required feature is probably not implemented although it is implemented. Ban immediately on a Saturday."
I don't know why tabs and taskbars go at the top and bottom of the screen by default. This is exactly where the space isn't. Every screen is wide.

The taskbar can be moved easily, but Firefox doesn't come with a vertical tabs option. Both Chrome and Edge seem to now.
I've played Universal Paperclips from start to finish 4 times! I loved it. In fact, I loved it so much the last time around that I wanted to have another game "somewhat like it" in the background -- that's where the recent Cookie Clicker tab came from.

I always recommend Universal Paperclips to people who don't like cookie clicker games, because I fell in love with it the first time I tried it (heard of it from the Hello Internet podcast)
FusionAuth 1.25
This will happen with any sufficiently popular walled garden. I am looking at you Signal. Consider distributed Matrix instead.
I thought pg posted "Memphis".