skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be that all global systems happen to rely on some kind of single point of failure that the team never really realized before. Or if they did realize it they didn't realize the potential impact.

Or it was a code change that was able to be validated and rolled out to all regions but then some totally independent interaction caused it to fail afterward in a unique way.

I'm banking on surprising singe point of failure though. I really hope we get a detailed post mortem here.
If a person is already holding stock, then clearly it is working against their interest to use their own own money to push the prices of the shares of the company down.
Reminds me of Varys' Riddle:

> In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

> "The king, the priest, the rich man — who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It's a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers. All depends on the man with the sword.

> "And yet he is no one," Varys said. "He has neither crown nor gold nor favor of the gods, only a piece of pointed steel."

> "That piece of steel is the power of life and death."

> "Just so … yet if it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend our kings hold the power? Why should a strong man with a sword ever obey a child king like Joffrey, or a wine-sodden oaf like his father?"

> "Because these child kings and drunken oafs can call other strong men, with other swords."

> "Then these other swordsmen have the true power. Or do they? Whence came their swords? Why do they obey?" Varys smiled.

- A Clash of Kings - Tyrion II
Now, it is working... again.
Wave also largely turned into Enterprise Apps - docs, hangouts, etc.

Plus was Larry's and Vic's baby.
Linux drivers can work for much longer than a decade once they reach mainline. Out of tree drivers are another story.
This is an unfortunate moral hazard due to the petrodollar.
Slack Bots Are the Best Chat Bots
I think the argument is that even if this maximizes yield, on a market-wide basis it might be making workers worse off in aggregate because they make lower wages due to their money being spent to oppose worker protections etc., and that that harms more than a highest possible yield would help.
I don't disagree the market and price discovery can benefit from shorting. But here we're talking about retirement accounts that are already long the stocks in question. There's no world in which the owners of those stocks benefit from them being lent out to short sellers, despite creative rhetoric to the contrary.
They will eventually have a standard issue catheter.
An Introduction to Medieval Geomancy (1999)
How to Do Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Using LSTM
There is history of short sellers driving businesses to bankruptcy and so yes, they do damage.
Come back Jeff!
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Maybe these people are good at standardized tests, but not good at critical thinking?
And the earth breathed a sigh of relief.
... And its back!
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The Federal Reserve is more powerful than congress. Heck, just saying that makes me sound like a conspiracy nut. But the Fed is supposed to act independently and not be beholden to Congress’ whims.
It sounds like the author has a particular argument in mind but is refusing to say what it is.

> A popular synonym to what the majority is doing is "the modern way", or sometimes it is even called "best practice", which can be quite misleading because then best practice really becomes stupid practice.

Which practice, exactly? The term, best practice, is sometimes used naively but it does have a meaning and refers to the collective body of knowledge we sometimes call, the state of the art. Software has a state of the art. The folks at the IEEE try to maintain a published version of their collection of these practices in a guide called, SWEBOK [0]. If you look you will probably find others.

When someone is not being clear and they use the term, "best practice," it's often far too easy to tell if they're simply regurgitating what they've heard from someone else or if they're referring to the state of the art. A few leading questions will often put you on the right course.

I don't think this is harmful. It's easy to let someone get their idea across, ask them questions, and if you think they're ignorant then point them to the right place where they can learn more.

> Never ever follow or submit to conformity just because that is what the majority or someone popular is doing!

I think best practices are important. It's how we push the boundaries of our work and figure out, collectively as an industry, what works and what doesn't. We've known for a long time that unrestricted use of untagged pointers is bad, we have developed a large body of work that supports this case, and research has happened which is enabling us to move forward... with the state of the art. We can use formally verified compilers, separation logic, language tools available in Rust, linear types in Haskell and Idris2 -- nothing is stopping you from using such C-style pointers, but we have better ways to working with them.

Some sometimes you totally should do what other people are doing. Especially if they've been doing their homework and publishing their results and having them reviewed by peers. Like the age-old advice: don't write your own crypto. That's a best-practice.

[0] https://www.computer.org/education/bodies-of-knowledge/softw...

Update: forgot to add the link, clarity on state of pointers
ah ok yeah that makes sense. If you're directly modifying the instructions then yeah there's a big benefit to the zero page. I think I misread the GP post and missed the self-modifying context somehow.

Thanks for clarifying :)
No, that's the thing: it won't.

You can't detect the lack of oxygen, only the buildup of carbon dioxide. You just get tired and pass out, it takes about two minutes. There's no panic.

If I'm ready to log off because my life has become weakness and pain, I'm not going to chicken out. But I'm not afraid of death, it's the dying I'm not so stoked about.
Multiple dispatch is a pretty strong legacy of CLOS as well.
Either everything is back, or amazon.com.au is also an exception.
The author is pretty confused. x264’s slower presets enable searching more points in ME and a more accurate RDO (among other things), just like x265’s. But in all cases for any modern encoder, all mode decisions are done baed on the estimated bitcost relative to distortion, so the slower presets are just evaluating more options. (kinda)

That said, it is the case across all codecs that more accurate motion vector fields (e.g. using optical flow) are not generally optimal. A simple way of reasoning about that is that one block reusing the same motion vector as a neighboring block is much cheaper than encoding a marginal difference, which often more expensive than the bits saved in the residual.

Anyway, CRF was never designed to map to the same quality across different encoder settings, which having actually read the article, is what I think they’re actually complaining about.
That would be true IF you are the one who gets the additional shares. But that is not how it always happens
Honestly, has anyone gotten 1000 out of a MacBook? Mine always goes to "service battery" around 300-400.
9.2M new jobs in the United States
Looks like it’s fixed now.
Philosophically, that’s a good point. My only rebuttal is that the stock market isn’t efficient. Options market predictions for future prices are oftentimes way off (like with AMD last year) and stocks will go up or down without change to a company’s fundamentals or without a new earnings report.

If I could lend out any shares I own (and shares that I plan on owning for longer than the short seller will) for 1% interest per month to short sellers, I would! I certainly wouldn’t lend out any share for 2% per year or less. There’s a balance to be struck. This might only be 0-2 stocks in your portfolio at any given time.

I also wouldn’t ever lend out dividend paying stocks (until the tax laws are updated) because the stock lender receives payment “in lieu of dividend”. It can’t ever be a qualified dividend so instead of paying 15% qualified dividends tax, you pay about 28% earned income tax on it instead.

If I was not earning income for shares I was lending out, the optimal play is to never lend out shares for any reason because you’re right it’s a direct conflict of interest.
That is true, but you have to be careful. Coming up with stories about why you are in the right, despite incoming social signals you are in the wrong, is a hallmark of narcissistic personality disorder. It’s a good reason to be careful who your friends are, since their opinions will shape who you become.
Items can be put into your cart as long as you don't want to see the product page and they were already in some list like saved items. From there you can add additional items to your cart from "Compare with similar items". With those items are in your cart, repeat.

Turning a saved book you were thinking about buying into socks with the least number of intermediate related items surely constitutes a new kind of Amazon Golf.
There's an issue for adding SVG export in the repo issues list.
Ain't no maybe about it.
I've never understood the criticism of the registry. The only times I've ever had an issue with it were when there were RAM or disk problems with the computer. On Windows there's nothing at all stopping developers of standard Windows applications from implementing their own config files and many do.
Coming with the kids might feel out of place just doesn't carry much weight with me. To me, it's their spoiled selves that is the problem. Growing up, other kids were going to the movie theaters, but my parents wouldn't let me go. Other people had cable, but it wasn't available where I was. People came to school and talked about MTV this MTV that. So yes, I know how things get discussed around the water cooler. However, I would find myself at my friend's houses that had cable so I could see MTV. So I know all about kids finding ways. Today it's pirating. It is what it is. However, the entitlement that they should be able to see anything they want whenever they want is just spoiled to me.

BTW, I'm much more partial to Tyrion's "I drink, and I know things"
> Your mistake is assuming predatory short sellers don't exist.

In the sense you seem to mean, they literally don't. Short sellers cannot drive companies to bankruptcy.

> If people want to pay a premium to not loan out their shares, let them and adjust the price accordingly.

That's an option available to you. Some brokers do let you opt in and out of lending shares. Of course, it comes with a cost.
“ The new bipartisan infrastructure framework announced by President Joe Biden includes a push for “asset recycling” — the process whereby governments sell off roads, bridges, airports, and other public assets to Wall Street investment firms.

If this sounds familiar, that’s because — in the spirit of Biden’s promise that “nothing will fundamentally change” — the proposal is a recycled asset from President Donald Trump’s kleptocratic White House. And indeed, Trump’s infrastructure adviser — who worked at infrastructure investment firm Macquarie — is talking up Biden’s proposal as a way to help Wall Street firms buy up and profit off everything from federally owned dams to airports.”

Wups
In 2018, the average insulin price in the US was $98.70, compared to $6.94 in Australia, $12.00 in Canada, and $7.52 in the UK. This is a 100 year old drug.
They can use an LTS kernel, and I hear there is some work in the android world to give LTS kernels a stablish driver interface
They are usually set up as ‘heads I win, tails you lose’ it seems…
I think that is just downdetector users incorrectly reporting Amazon retail website failures against "Amazon Web Services". They should probably name it "AWS" to avoid that.
> The Federal Reserve is more powerful than congress.

Congress can eliminate the Fed or any and all of its powers at a whim, the reverse is not true. Ipso facto, Congress is more powerful.

The Fed and the myth of its power are a convenient responsibility dodge for Congress, though.
This is for LibGen, not SciHub.
Made a simple page here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27805746 to see how this would look
Honestly this explanation is not that far fetched at all, in fact plausible.
I would think it very odd if publishers were not given the source code. If you were a publisher, would you want some small shop to be able to disappear off the face of the Earth, preventing you from ever doing even simple ports and patches?
What you're saying should be absolutely correct, but in practice incredibly naive.

First, I don't disagree the market and price discovery can benefit from shorting. But here we're talking about retirement accounts that are already long the stocks in question. There's no world in which the owners of those stocks benefit from them being lent out to short sellers, despite creative rhetoric to the contrary. If the shorters are right and the company is a fraud, it's STILL not in the interest of owners of stock in that company to lend their shares out. If anything, it's even MORE in their interest to NOT lend them out to be sold short, instead, they need all the help they can get to keep the price up so they can make a controlled exit themselves.

Second, why, if a decrease in price is all just an artifact of shorting, and it is in fact a solid, profitable business with a bright future, can't this be easily countered by simply pointing that out and buying the shares at a discount until the market catches on and the price skyrockets back up?

Because, unfortunately, it's much easier to just go with the momentum and jump on the shorting bandwagon, betting the stock will go down even more. Even if you tried to stem the drop, the short sellers can just borrow even more stocks and continue to overwhelm you with selling pressure.

This dynamic plays out all the time in US stock markets, and this isn't even taking into account abusive naked shorting, which is actually kinda sorta illegal except even the rules against that aren't meaningfully enforced.
It's not even a choice to conform most of the time. Society enforces norms.

Even if you're correct in your non-conforming views, and society is wrong, like so many scientists in history, you will be rejected.

Society much prefers conformity over accuracy.
Check my fav bookmark on HN, a lot of which are related to sys programming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=markus_zhang

Disclaimer: I collected those threads but didn't mean I know (anything) about sys programming.
Not even a grain of sand for AMZN, foolish if you serious.
Agreed, but we might be stepping outside the scope of the example. Likely, you can make most examples incorrect if you're allowed to add arbitrary code; I read this section of the article with the implicit assumption that "the thread calling rlo() performs no other writes to x" and "there's no additional synchronization", since the author didn't put any such code in their example and only claimed that the optimization was possible for the example they gave. (This is Grice's maxim of quantity, I suppose?) Although they probably should have been more careful and clarified that the example they gave doesn't work regardless of context.
Show HN: Streaming Raspberry Pi games to a Game Boy Advance
So? Some people need exercise, does that mean the government should force everyone to exercise?
Is there actually a popular site that uses WASM / WebGL the way you mention it?
Nobody's always right
Design problems become human problems at performance review time
Ironically, it's the governments attempts to lower health care costs that produced this mess of high prices.
A lot of people who would have made impulse purchases don't though, once they have had time to reconsider.
> Some brokers do let you opt in and out of lending shares.

I'm aware of this, but it's not an option for a retirement account. That's the entire point we're debating, is it not?

> Short sellers cannot drive companies to bankruptcy.

I honestly don't know how you can believe this. If they drive the price so low that the company is unable to manage its debt they are forced to declare bankruptcy, the short sellers never have to close their positions and they keep all of the profit. So not only can they do it, they have a strong financial incentive to do so.
Fascinating story. Of course, it doesn't make a lot of sense on its face, and many people would say that it's impossible.

No doubt you can identify an example of this happening? Even once?
The "open" Internet is done for because in recent years most governments have realised that the natural culmination of an open Internet is in fact an open, cross-mingling, world culture, community and economy, and eventually, the deprecation of the traditional idea of nation states. And you can prise that control from their cold, dead hands.

PS. Include mega-corps in 'nation states' above. They both want total control over the Internet. They will get it too, in some proportion. Because truly democratic forces are too weak and disorganised, as always.
AWS and Amazon run on completely separate systems/hardware.

Amazon's internal, last i read, was years behind AWS's infrastructure and they're generally jealous of not having the same tools available.

I tried finding the article, but maybe someone else can help me remember?
But the issue when I avoid render_template() is this:
I can't add the CSS file along with the HTML one, unless I create a <style> tag at the end of the file that has all of the CSS content. Can you comment on that?
I think you exaggerate. Some native apps I use were last updated 5 or 10 years ago.
It was 2018. See this CNBC article on how they scrambled to try and fix it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/19/ama...
Correct. The price of Insulin has nothing to do with "funding research." It is simply price gouging - that's it.
Am I wrong or is this a new round of brigaded down votes?
Hopefully we'll see some sort of writeup regarding what caused the global amazon network to start chucking errors. I'm curious as to how this wasn't isolated to one individual region
Operational consistency is a single point of failure.
The quote includes the phrase "as intended," which is important here.
In any group of people, some problems are social problems.

If the leader of the group makes a decision, it is your responsibility to conform whether you agreed with it or not.

And if YOU are a leader, social cohesion is important. “A leader without followers is merely taking a walk.”

Yes, facts are important. But they’re not enough on their own.
Google's main product is ads, not search. Search (and Mail, and Video) are just mechanisms for offering ads.

By balkanising the internet they can have a monopoly over offering ads to certain target groups that fall within their walled garden.
The article lead me to https://vimeo.com/23651106 (timelapse of himself staring at the computer over 3 days) which lead me to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0bM0iV0Ht8 (People Staring at Computers)
I envision the bunker from Lost where every 30 mins a code must be typed in to keep things running. Now you know why Bezos dind't want to do it any longer.
> You usually [..] I suppose [..] you might

The big publishers have worked very hard to step this being straightforward :(

> You really don’t have PDFs of your own papers?

Absolutely not. Where would I have _legally_ have got them from? (This was 25 years ago) For my first paper, I have a copy of the paper journal for that month, kept as a souvenir.

> Did you leave academia

Yes

> and delete your data?

No!
Likely this pushes transmission infra to buried HVDC lines if and when new installs or retrofits occur, even with costs being ~3.2x higher than overhead transmission runs. Buried conductors don't burn. Conveniently avoids the NIMBY problem though.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/utilities-...
I could barely even watch the demo. I don’t know what it is about scary games but I simply can’t play them. Never could even since I was a kid.
How do you know that a real node editor is planned, I couldn't find that anywhere on the website.
Let me give you a set of basic, specific operational facts that I discerned a few years ago.

NFS as a protocol engages in clear text transfers of filesystem data between the client and server.

I had some experience with stunnel, and I found a way to push NFS traffic through it, forcing either aes-gcm or (with TLS 1.3), chacha20-poly1305.

The method and complaint that I raised was heard by protocol maintainers, and resulted in a draft RFC to embed TLS at the RPC level, extending encryption to all RPC services beyond NFS.

I also later found notes of the NFSv4.2 approval suggesting that TLS should be added, but it was not. That fell to me.

I don't think that this was subjective.

If I google "onc RPC encryption," I find: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpc-tls-01.html

"Special mention goes to Charles Fisher, author of "Encrypting NFSv4 with Stunnel TLS" . His article inspired the mechanism described in this document."

If I google "NFS encryption," I find me: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/encrypting-nfsv4-stunne...

I think that it was worth the effort. It was in the back of my mind for some time, and I probably should have been more motivated to do it, for the impact it had.
I'm guessing interns.
Except of course Google is not a search engine company, Google is an advertising company
Amazon.es is working at this moment.
There is a difference between conspiracy theories and conspiracy practices.

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-pt1
If the whole country gets a California-style ban on noncompetes, will Silicon Valley start to lose it's hold on tech?
It is relatively easy to have a decent conversation on the internet. But when I state "a door" and you immediately ask about "any door", that is clearly moving the objective in the face of a the current state of affairs. If that is an accusation, then I am guilty.

I make and made no claims about RL being the end all be all. In fact, I am quite modest and would say that any researcher claiming their field is the path forward is incredibly egotistical and unlikely. However, to me, there is still progress being made and so there is no good reason to stop. Like everything, there is plenty of value of exploring until we understand completely why it is a bad path.

I think you may have missed the point of my post where I state that the entire field knows that RL is very far from something like folding laundry. Again, techniques are still being developed. But to state that "simulated" environment are a cop out is very silly since AlphaZero was trained in a "simulated" environment. Let alone the many algorithms being trained in simulated virtual environment for self-driving cars.
"Chat bots" on web sites are newer than bots on group chats, and much older than Slack.
> I do not blame a company for trying to protect their investment.

I don't really blame them for wanting to prevent piracy, but I absolutely blame them for implementing it in a way that degrades the game only for paying customers.