skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Syria has basically tacitely legalized both the production and the consumption of drugs. Drug export is also it's biggest income.

More countries should follow their example.

Imagine how much tax dollars would be gained if all drugs were legalized in US and let's say 20% of it's population started to regularly use them.
Most websites using Akamai aren't gonna be "otherwise healthy" without the CDN handling most of the load.
This is 100% on point... For selling to big companies. B2C is another game!
As a user of Starlink for more than 4 months - the quality has improved. While you say it is unusable for video calls, i think that is way overstated and it completely depends on where you are trying to connect.

Compared to the other options which were atrocious (10 MB down max, 3 MB Up max, weather changes everything) - the hiccup you get maybe every 10 minutes for 10 seconds - is annoying but not a deal breaker for VOIP calls. If you are doing client side calls maybe a deal breaker - team calls manageable but annoying. Also I do calls with our Australian team (and were North America based) and they are on cable internet and they get hiccuped in the same amount. So actually I would say that Starlink is on par if not better than their connection.

If you are comparing the internet to city quality cable then yeah not comparable - but thats not what they are targeting. They are bringing remote areas online.
It's an interesting question, as it's always been solved on the server side. All of the current problem is client side. That is, client resolvers that aren't using diverse providers, and only do things like round-robin with long timeouts.
Totally agree about certain games. You can't have certain games before years of building, it's like making a movie.
Vgmaps.com: The Video Game Atlas
Google Search is better as a chatbot when using a voice UI.

I don't know of any others that I would put in the same category.
Nuxt Loads Blazing Fast
As someone who browses 4chan from time to time, I found the name a bit confusing. Just quick search it on Urban Dictionary.
This was a desired outcome of the Iraq War: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2935969.stm

> There are some in the Bush administration who hope that the fall of Saddam Hussein will be followed by a "democratic domino" effect across the Middle East.

> ...Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary... has said that Iraq as the "first Arab democracy" would "cast a very large shadow, starting with Syria and Iran, across the whole Arab world."

> ...specifically mentioned Syria, which according to CIA reports to Congress has a chemical weapons programme. Although not formally a member of the "axis", Syria is, in the eyes of officials like John Bolton, very much a candidate.
Sheesh, So yesterday! :)
Or charge the PG&E customers for the various forest fires their electrical consumption has caused
But 70 petabytes worth? Most people in this thread mention a few dozens authors. Maybe this amounts to a few hundred books. Not 70 petabytes (and counting).
Do they not cache everything locally? I'd have thought a password manager/secure data store would work offline.
Was just browsing a website where the first page of a query worked, but visiting page 2 of the results was returning a DNS error. Was curious how and why only part of the site was down, but it looks like this was the problem as now the whole site is down.
The implications of the article suggest that there is a notion of ‘real art’. Our graphic designers are already real artists, so are our programmers.

So the guys and girls that know how to physically paint are real artists, and we need them show us the way? I think not.
Surprisingly, enough of them seem to!
A new, green air-conditioning system manages without nasty gases
In order for status pages to be useful, they need to be hosted externally, with no dependencies on the product/system/company they report on.

They're already fairly hard to automate, but making them external makes it even harder. So they're generally not automated. And, hopefully, they're not exercised very often, so they're often forgotten. The best way to manage this, IMHO, is to enable customer service to update the status page and delegate the duty to them. Generally, updating the status page reduces the customer service demand, so CS gets the most direct and timely feedback and is best placed to manage it.

Source: I ran a status page, poorly. It wasn't fully external either, but was far away from all the moving parts, so it would only have correlated failure if our hosting had a multi-site routing issue (which happened once, but not while I was there) or DNS problems, but we had mitigations for DNS not working in the clients, so not too bad.
quick ctrl+f didn't found akamai, but there is dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920560
Just to consider the mayhem that ill-thought wars have caused in the ME, just so americans at home can have petty arguments like that
North is where all the satellites cluster as they reach the peak latitude of their orbit period: https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/190208-s...
If you're not a criminal, don't be afraid, obey and survive.
yup, our workplace covid check-in system is down. :)
Travel websites actually do use certain shared back-end systems in some cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system
yah I think there's something to this in an opportunity cost motivational angle. Basically there's a cost that comes to being in a high state which lowers your thresholds for profundity, satisfaction, deliciousness/appetite/taste.

Basically with the thresholds all lowered one becomes satisfied with things that are objectively lesser quality, less demanding of effort and work. One would be equally satisfied eating junk food as they normally would having eaten some gourmet meal. There's no fire under your feet to hustle or put in the time to need to learn how to cook some truly delicious meal let's say or develop skills that bring longer term satisfaction that takes a while before payoff. Motivation never needs to take off because the cheapest junk already meets ones pleasure and satisfaction needs so why bother.
I think they're averaging throughout the year, using the number of "Mean Annual Sunshine Hours" * "Percent Possible Sunshine", which would account for average cloud cover and such.

I'm sure that for a few hours during the summer, the solar irradiance in London is probably 90% of what it is at the equator. That doesn't help most of the year.
"heavy use of the drug" ... shocker! problems arise in people woth substance abuse problem's :/
> all pushing the same narrative over a virus that has a 99% survival rate.

You talk like a 99% survival rate is pretty good and means it's not something to worry about. One percent of the US population is 3.28 million people. Which is oddly enough about the population of the entire metro area I live in.

So Russia could nuke my city and kill everyone, and the US would still have a 99% survival rate.

Cut the number of deaths in half, for a 99.5% survival rate, and you're still taking out a city like Milwaukee.

> and the media manipulating us at every turn, trust in these institutions is less than rock bottom

The media may be manipulating you, but the people who sell the media manipulation narrative are usually do so to manipulate you even more. It's like deciding to eat dogshit because there was a fly in your food. Yeah, there's a problem with the food, but it's still better than dogshit.
That's an interesting idea. We plan to eventually support some level of decentralization and syncing while starting with the centralized approach first.
Directly posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27919859
This is another neo-liberal talking point. Its like Saying Libya under Gaddafi was horrible too blah blah. You know how it is like right now?
I think any research about cannabis that fails to distinguish thc/cbd and other important phenotypical traits of the plant will ultimately go nowhere. Thc and cbd have diametrically opposing effects. Marijuana is not one substance it is many.
Stardew Valley might be the ultimate example for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardew_Valley

I think it's also important to recognize how much survivorship bias there is in these stories, too, though.

There are plenty of people who have spent similar amounts of time working on games or projects with nothing much to show for it. The experience might be worth something to someone, though, in terms of resume building, etc.
https://www.interactivebrokers.co.uk/ , a Trading Platform, is also down as well :(

How am I going to sell my AMC stock...
Just curious, how many 10ks did your team read thoroughly for making good labels ?

Update: I see you mentioned 10b-5 as your gold labels
I doubt this even happened lol.
That's kind of expected though right?

"Cutting off the network of people that moderates my views and is making my views less moderate."

I understand that people can be harsh nowadays, presumably because they often find the views of others particularly harsh and feel a proportional response is necessary, but not wanting to face that isn't an excuse - it essentially amounts to "The criticism that's supposed to keep my views grounded isn't working and my views are getting more extreme, because I don't want to deal with the criticism of my extreme views". And to be fair I'm making it sound simpler than it is, it's a totally human response to avoid sharing those opinions if it has negative consequences. My only point is to remember it's not the crowds fault if you end up with extremist views, it was your decision. We all have to deal with the fact that the crowd doesn't care about our feelings, only their own views, but we do it, and if our differing opinions are important enough to us then we deal with the consequences.
I want to remind to our American readers of another narco-state flooding USA with fentanyl, and other synthetic opioids, about which the mighty country of America can't do anything about, but moan, complain, and keep calling for "security summits" for their amusement.
Internal politics. Anecdotes are that org leaders face potentially serious consequences if the products they’re responsible for are down per status page. So they find ways to cover it up. This culture is passed top down as everyone is incentivized to downplay widespread outage.
> NSO itself claims that it works with governments to help catch the most serious and dangerous criminals - terrorists, gangsters, and pedophiles

Like clockwork.

What they really do is provide the means for governments to assassinate journalists and dissidents.
> Because something like VTOL rockets can only be innovated by a private company focused on unit economics and scale economies.

What? That makes no sense. We already had a reusable vehicle for space flight. We've had it for decades now. It's called the Space Shuttle. NASA developed it in 1981. Just support NASA and science for the public good. Do you really want a handful of billionaires in control of space exploration? They do it for their own benefit not ours.
You can argue for anything you believe in, but that doesn't make it true.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html
I wonder if this is why LastPass is down. It has completely locked me out of my vault. You'd think it'd continue to work offline in a case like this. :/
I was just trying to make a point that scarsity and usefuleness are related. In the case of domains the scarcity comes from name recognition and the cost of registering not just in terms of money, but also in terms of process.

Perhaps the point is not what the technology allows, but the status quo around what constitutes an 'acceptable' form of identification. Whatever the solution (for personal identification) it needs to be somewhat scarce, but also ubiquitous. But different applications need different level of scarcity. Phone numbers just seem to be the right balance for social media.
Moderna, Pfizer, and J&J vaccines are all FDA approved. J&J was paused for a few days out of an abundance of caution due to an extremely rare (~1 in a million) potential side effect, an ordinary part of postmarketing safety monitoring. The FDA decided that the J&J vaccine was still safe and effective and resumed allowing its sale.

You're actively spreading misinformation, and it's disappointing.
Better yet, let's export it to unwilling countries to balance our trade deficit!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
> Every life has value...every person is equal.

What was the point of that remark? Persons may be said to be of equal dignity, but no two people are ever equal, in value or otherwise. But what does that have to do with anything in this context? Are you reading things in? The OP was not making any point about rank, only haughty behavior which has no place no matter who you are.
I got banned from Twitter for no reason
There will always be inactive customers, but if your customer growth month-over-month is not greater than your % of inactive users (the inverse of % active users), then you will stall and enter decline.

For example: if 80% of current customers login on a regular basis (monthly, daily), and you're growing at 10% per month new users, you will actually decline at some point because your 20% inactive users is greater than 10% new customers. It might take some time, but at some point customer churn will outpace new customer growth.

So you have to measure new customer acquisition as a % of current installed base, total % of actives (measured on a logical period relevant for your solution), and total churn % (non-renewals divided by renewals). If the churn measure is measured differently you can think of it as the renewal rate because you want to measure retention vs. acquisition.

To simplify: if acquisition is not greater than retention, then you have problems. Retention is dependent on active use with some factor and with some delay.
This data probably doesn't include the delta variant.

New data coming out seems to show that the rate of hospitalizations and deaths are increasing with the Delta variant.

A troubling sign of what to come is the outbreak in Arkansas. https://arkansascovid.com/2021/07/covid-19-hospitalizations-...
1) THC to CBD ratio in Cannabis has been intentionally increased in favor of THC.

2) Cannabis is more and more cut with synthetic cannabinoids which are notoriously bad for the brain and mind.

3) Long-term Cannabis use is not evenly distributed but focused on people with a certain personality open for such an experience.

4) Cannabis has been and still is illegal in most places. That alone will foster a tendency for paranoia.

5) Just as with other drugs, some people aren't able to control their consumption and that's never good for you.

6) Long-term Cannabis enjoyment in the face of prohibition will solidify the realisation that our society is inherently fascist and narrow-minded. (I can confirm that from personal experience.)
For some reason that url doesn't work for me, but https://www.apple.com/ and https://www.apple.com/nl/ do.
Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome
come on, this is funny. HN needs to lighten-up.
It definitely explains a lot of what PG&E has done sometimes - maximum inefficiency and cost in some areas, incredibly (long term destructive) cheap in others.
Several major websites go down in widespread internet outage
> What's the optimistic argument if that's pessimistic?

They have some rudimentary automated checks that doesn't cover enough failure scenarios. After some time, given there are enough reports on twitter, they check manually if something is wrong and a human operator writes a status on the status page.
It's interesting that they report an AWS outage but there don't seem to be any issues there. Looks like their methodology is a bit too reliant on those speculative tweets from the first 5 minutes of all these sites going down. https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

> So many websites are down, are AWS servers down or something?

> Amazon web services is down which is affecting a lot of company web sites and services. Not sure what is going on.

> Miss us? @aldotcom and a whole bunch of other folks have been knocked off the internet by what appears to be an AWS attack/system failure. We'll be back. ?
The Iraq war had more to do with Iran..
I'll list mine: (as one of the 23% independent who will never get the vaccine)

- I already had long covid (lasted 14 months), and don't want the vaccine to cause a relapse. It did exactly that to a family member who also had long covid, and she's still not better. It's just anecdotal but I've seen on longcovid forums multiple people claiming the vaccine CAUSED their longcovid.

- I don't believe CDC recommendation that increasing antibody titers through vaccination offers better protection against the virus than convalescent immunity through prior infection. Antibody titers are just one aspect of immunity and BCells make antibodies when exposed to a virus again. Actually I'd be worried about training my immune system with only one part of the virus, it's possible that would hurt my robust immunity against variants, not help it.

- CDC is dishonest with numbers by not tracking mild/non-hospitalized breakthrough cases. There is no reason not to track them. From the UK Gov on Page 12... 37 of 73 deaths from Delta variant are vaccinated: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... According to the CDC and media such numbers of deaths among vaccinated would be statistically impossible.

- FDA not approving an inactive virus vaccine is BS. It's a monumental failure of the US government if they want a high % of people vaccinated to only offer DNA/RNA vaccines that are nothing like traditional vaccines people receive as children. China's Sinopharm works at preventing death and is just inactive virus. If required to take a vaccine I'd travel to another country to take that. Actually I'd even pay $10k to have an inactive virus vaccine imported if it prevented me from being discriminated against. I don't know if the US will ever make a law like France just did, but the corporate media's propaganda is definitely pushing people to support it.

- If there was such a thing as "misinformation" then it should be openly mocked, ridiculed and contested with facts. What's happening now with censorship is unprecedented - we even need a dedicated news site to keep track of it: https://reclaimthenet.org/ . Organizations like the EFF should be presenting legal challenges for many of these things but it seems like everyone has gotten on the "misinformation" bandwagon. Doing that will lead to authoritarianism. Health policy should not be political, but opposing forced medical procedures is a fundamental human right, no exceptions.
This crossed the line into personal attack. Very not cool.
Legal sports betting is new in the US except for Las Vegas, where it never really caught on.

I know Sinclair Broadcasting is pumped to transition to ATSC 3 because they can send a package of HTML & Javascript to make a "video player" a lot like the interface for Youtube.

They see the "killer app" being sports betting on TV during the game.
>However I don't think anything can save twitter from being a toxic platform. What makes it especially toxic, I think, is its lack of separation of communities.

I don't find Twitter any more or less toxic than any other platform, and it's because I'm free to participate in the communities I choose. If the people you follow are constantly talking politics, and that annoys you, why are you following them?
Having your passwords only accessible by internet is a stupid idea anyway
Patronization is a strong suit many people (including myself) have nicely ironed at all times in our closet. Nothing is more fun than to put that suit on.

The question is, can we tolerate flawed people? Can we laugh about it? Can we let them rant and wear that suit from time to time?
PCEngines with SFP
I presently work at Defense Innovation Unit where pretty much all we do is test and evaluate prototypes on behalf of the services and agencies. We spend hundreds of thousands to millions testing each thing. Because hundreds of millions of dollars may be spent based on what we find. We probably get 80 pitch decks for every area of interest we announce. That usually gets winnowed down to 5-10 that actually have technical merit and are responsive. We get a few shysters with every batch, but the vast majority are simply too optimistic about what they've done or what they can accomplish.
Resources as useful as this are bound to be. We do cite our sources after all.
Yeah, "that's it". For context, that's:

* 215% deadlier than anthrax.

* 2150% deadlier than polio.

* about the same as the average death rate between the two smallpox strains, and on-par with the spanish flu
This is apparently why I can't book my COVID vaccine appointment...
Fi’s smart collar adds sleep tracking for dogs
This article title is kind of hilarious given that yesterday I learnt that Twitter is currently de-emphasizing the display of tweets with links to Patreon in them, thus making it harder for artists to grow their financial support.

The tech world will happily use our work to keep people scrolling their endless ad spigots, but the minute we ask people to leave and give some money to us? Nothing.

So come join the tech world, artists! Use your hard-won mastery of color, design, and form to help make a nice frame for some Corporate Memphis clip-art we got off a stock site! It'll be great.
Did someone say Mosaddegh?!
You get what you give.
I believe these kinds of latency and dropped packet issues be easily simulated on a normal PC without the need for a Starlink connection
This matches my experience as someone who struggles with severe anxiety and intrusive/delusional thoughts. THC makes for a very bad time for me, but a high CBD edible calms down my mind and helps
me temper those thoughts.
There is a key for the TPM chip that authenticates it. It is a unique identifier you cannot change. How can this be anonymized?
Why would Google and Amazon be on the downdetector list or experiencing issues? Don't they have their own DNS / nameservers separate from Akamai?
It is crystal clear that you are proceeding from the preconceived notion that Russia and China are essentially "evil", rather than arriving at that conclusion through critical scrutiny of available evidence and historical trends.

To you, any allegation from a Washington-aligned media source is a) unquestioningly true and b) evidence of the respective government's bad behavior. You do this automatically, without considering the alternatives.

Do these media sources have an incentive to misrepresent their foreign subjects? For example, to maintain good relations with Western governments, or to score lucrative contracts. If so, why would they not act on that incentive?

Do Western intelligence services have an incentive to manufacture evidence against their opponents? Why would they not act on this incentive? Indeed, there are countless well-established historical examples of this behavior, from the USS Maine to the OPCW cover-up. Yet to modern Western chauvinists, that behavior is eternally in the past and could never explain present controversies.
"it is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics." -- Bruce Schneier
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920665
Heh, call to action posted in "premium" mode that is inaccessible to most users when the trial runs out.

Really shows the author's priorities...
An fantastically dumb statement. USA is the biggest backer of Saudi Arabia — a country which is basically a Middle-Eastern North Korea.
Not sure I understand your point. One of the major reasons why new languages emerge is to solve problems that the current incumbent language(s) cannot solve easily.
What role does Akamai Edge DNS play in normal internet traffic? DNS responses usually get cached, as far as I understand correctly. And it is usually possible to change your DNS server to e.g. Google's and circumvent the outage. Does Akamai Edge DNS play a role on the server side?