skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Show me the man, I'll show you the crime." - Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet secret police
>IN THE DUNES north of Riyadh, the Saudi capital, the sun sets and the party begins. Girls discard their abayas, the black shrouds that envelop them in public, and begin jiving to techno music with boys. A few swig from bottles, but most prefer Captagon pills, nowadays the Gulf’s favourite drug, at $25 a pop. They call it Abu Hilalain (Father of Two Half-moons), after the two letter “c”s (for Captagon) embossed on the pills. Part of the amphetamine family, it can have a similar effect to Viagra—and conquers sleep. “With one pill,” says a raver, “we can dance all weekend.”

Can anyone that is on the ground please confirm this. Party scene in KSA outside of the state inside the state that is Aramco seems like fiction.
DNS is decentralized, but it seems like Akamai breaking breaks a huge swathe of websites.
It's worth pointing out the US already does this. For instance, the Tennessee Valley Authority is a Federally-owned utility, and the sixth largest in the country.

There are lots of other examples like this outside of utilities. The US Postal Service, Amtrak, the Export-Import Bank, and many others.
There's an abundance of ways to use it that don't involve smoking nowadays
Ah, ok. So you are saying that we cannot know whether or not the first premise is true because the brain does not have full knowledge of its own beliefs.

I would argue that this is irrelevant. We would only need to demonstrate one belief that is useful for fitness but that is factually untrue in order to prove the first premise. The belief that bad spirits cause disease is untrue but useful as it compels you to avoid dead bodies which actually may cause disease. We have now (in an admittedly loose sense of the word) proven the first premise.

Unless we assume 3 implies a Pascal's demon scenario where all attempts to identify any set of beliefs and evaluate their truth value or usefulness for fitness will only provide illusory insights I believe that 3 does not contradict 1.
I’m upvoting this.

I believe your explanation on the strains are on point.

When using the vapor method, very high in thc, sometimes I do experience psychosis or schizophrenic symptoms. My perception of reality does change a bit during peak affect but disappears after wearing off.

When smoking raw cannabis the regular way, I experience a more calming affect; emotionally tolerable and focused mindset.
When these dropouts occur, is the IP address stable?
Good lessons. But so many common mistakes

To summarize:

1) Build something people really need, not a nice-to-have

2) Keeping customers is more important than just acquiring them

3) If you're not keeping your customers that means they don't want or need what you have

4) Changing people's behavior is really hard. Unless you have a significant amount of marketing budget, don't try to change people

5) "Distribution" is key. I have a hard time with the word "distribution" when often people mean "marketing" or "promotion" or "channels". That's what is usually meant. If you can't get an audience with the people you are trying to sell to, you might as well be invisible. I still don't get why people use the awkward term distribution for this.

6) You have to be better than what's already out there. If you're just as good, or worse, than the alternatives, then it's going to be really hard to make a sale. Alternatives don't mean direct competition. Anything that is an alternative for a customer to buy or use your product is real competition. This is especially the case if you're requiring the customer to change their habits to switch to your offering. You have to be MUCH better than the status quo and alternatives to do that.

7) Know who your customer is. Your user might not be your customer. Your customer might not have the itch to scratch even if the user does.

A lot of these are pretty common reasons for business failure but I suppose everyone has to go through their own personal challenges to internalize them.
I'm also shocked by "you're doing it wrong" comments, "get a teacher" advices (this is addressed in the OP article as well), and a barrage of anecdotal evidence.
For the foreseeable future it's mostly physics.

The "all the time"-part is of course something that can be worked on even without changing the hardware. A simple switch on the outlet to turn it off during the night or if everybody is at work/school and thus doesn't need it would reduce power consumption a lot already.

"Fancier hardware" could also mean a timer for the outlet switch or a "smart home"-solution. This could mitigate connection time by turning the router back on before you arrive at home/wake-up.

There's a lot of potential for not having to use 100W all the time without hardware changes.
It's a purposeful choice to avoid interfering with radio bandwidth allocations to existing geostationary satellites. As I understand it, Starlink dishes aren't allowed to send signals to a portion of the sky around the equator where the geostationary satellites are located.

Starlink would probably work even better if they didn't have to deal with this restriction, but Starlink might not have been allowed to exist if they didn't design it to work this way.
I would have thought they'd need to put sections of cooling in, if not maybe they have some form of oil or other liquid to help dissipate the heat? I thought one of the many reasons why the UK still does overhead between chunks of the grid is for cooling and easier maintenance.
That's an incorrect use. Imposter syndrome is called _imposter_ syndrome for a reason.
Ally Bank is also down (the app, or if you try to log in on their site).
I found that surprising as well.

The chart in the article labels that 9% as "Definitely / probably true", so not all of those 9% definitely believe it.

Looking at the detailed data[1] gives more info:

> 46E. Belief in Conspiracy Theories — The U.S. government is using the COVID-19 vaccine to microchip the population

> In your opinion, how likely is it that the following scenarios are true?

> Definitely true 5%

> Probably true 15%

> Probably false 19%

> Definitely false 46%

> Not sure 14%

So, of the 9% (who got it despite microchipping) how many are "definitely" and how many are "probably"?

Among all respondents, "probably true" is 3X as common as "definitely true". If those percentages are the same among vaccine refuser respondents, then 2.25% of vaccine refusers believe the microchip thing is definitely true and 6.75% only believe it's probably true.

The "probably true" refusers are not that hard for me to understand. Maybe you feel like it could have a microchip but you don't really know and some other force (fear of the virus, job requirement, pressure from family/friends) pushes you to get it anyway.

The "definitely true" refusers are much harder to explain, but like others I think it could be that some people are not giving honest answers. I suppose some of them might have gotten the vaccination before they came to believe in the microchip theory.

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[1] See p. 132 at https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/w2zmwpzsq0/econTabReport.pdf
OpenTable API and Services Down
Purely anecdotal, but a long time ago I read a book by Mark Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut's son. He explained how he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and warned that for him, marijuana made his condition much, much worse, and he learned early on to strictly avoid it. From that one could argue that maybe pot aggravates borderline cases of schizophrenia to the point of a temporary psychotic breakdown & diagnosis. In Mr Vonnegut's case he needed long-term treatment for his schizophrenia either way, but the marijuana effect was short-term and remedied by just staying the heck away from it. Also worth noting that 30+ years ago the stuff people smoked was much weaker than some of the high-end product you can buy today.
First it was domestic espionage leaks that results in online discourse taking a step back. People became more apprehensive to share their opinions and simply kept them to themselves.

Unfortunately the mob will have a compounding effect in conjunction with the aforementioned reduction in online discourse. Differences in opinions will no longer be acceptable.

Eventually the mob will turn on their own as the radicalization accelerates. I would argue this is a great place for foreign psyops to target the western populous and I'm sure its already being targeted to some extent.
It may be that anyone who is willing and able to do so has already thought of it, but on Linux you could multiplex the connection with LTE/3G/dialup and probably get pretty good results.
It's not just their internal DNS, I was about to order some gear online but the hostname for my bank no longer resolves.
The first red flag I see is that the app isn't multiplatform. I know there's plenty of iPhone/Android exclusive apps, but I will very rarely use (much less spend money on) something that is locked-in to one app.

Also, does anyone else find it ironic that a habit tracking app has a monthly subscription? Feels darkly ironic looking at the IAP block towards the bottom.
Life is an asset. The more you invest in it, the more you stand to lose.
This is affecting Steam as well
Doesn't look like it.

https://github.com/ubuntu/microk8s/issues/988#issuecomment-6...
> if you just want to talk about knitting, you can avoid the people talking about politics

Ever since r/the_donald and the other white supremacy reddits, politics has spilled into pretty much every good subreddit, no matter how niche.
TorahRedux
Airbnb seems to be back up!
Related thread (that I just opened)[0]. It's affecting the major brokerages.

Will be interesting to see the postmortem on this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920592
> Yes, equal representation is evil.

No, equal representation is good, but none of the Senate, the Electoral College, or the House of Representatives feature even roughly equal representation. (The largest house district by population is, IIRC, about 1.75× the size of the smallest, with the same representation, and the range of representation ratios in the other two bodies is much larger.)
Yes, and as you recall the NYT and other partisan sources spent much of his administration alleging that he was a Russian agent. They also claimed he didn't win the election legitimately. Before that, there was a similar theory advanced that Obama wasn't a citizen. Your point is a partisan one and you use a partisan source to back it up. All while ignoring similar behavior from the opposing side.

Both sides criticize and question the legitimacy of government when in opposition. The point stands.

Separate from the partisan nonsense, it is possible that government overreaches. There are legitimate criticisms of government largess. However, blanketly categorizing these criticisms as anti-government is also nonsense. Especially if it is in pursuit of a nakedly partisan point.
I don't know where you're getting "unnecessary flair" from. What unnecessary flair do fonts like Times New Roman or Baskerville or Bodoni have? (Obviously I'm comparing with other similar fonts traditionally used for body text typesetting with equations.)

I'm talking about good sense of aesthetic proportion and balance, not "flair".

And what exactly is the horrible user experience that Google has created with Roboto, or Apple with San Francisco, or Microsoft with Calibri? They're actually quite excellently balanced and pleasing fonts for their purposes.
book.swf
Excellent article - especially the advice to occasionally read sections of text out loud.

Which, BTW, is not the same as listening to an audio book. I like Audiobooks for fiction and entertainment, but listening to an Audiobook is NOT the same as reading, which this author touches on even they don't make the explicit connection.
That title should go to Windows 2000. I still miss it.
>Nobody else wants to build a competitor to Starlink by paying SpaceX

I'm not sure what you mean here. Outside of, say, military usage, every single telecom company is a competitor to Starlink. Internet is internet.

This commercial product is turning out to be what the "naysayers" thought it would be; brilliant if you're in a place with terrible internet, but noncompetitive in any kind of urban environment.

Again, imho, the huge thing here is the ability to get a quick internet set up anywhere in the world that can't easily be taken down (...military).
There are many interesting threads in this post, one of which is using “non standard interpretations” of programs, and enabling the compiler to augment the human-written code with the extra pieces necessary to get gradients, propagate uncertainties, etc. I wonder whether there’s a more unified discussion of the potential of these methods. I suspect that a lot of “solvers” (each typically with their own DSL for specifying the problem) might be nicely formulated in such a framework. (Particularly in the case of auto diff, I found recent work/talks by Conal Elliot and Tom Minka quite enlightening.)

Tangentially, thinking about Julia, while one initially gets awed by the speed, and then the multiple dispatch, I wonder whether it’s deepest superpower (that we’re still discovering) might be the expressiveness to augment the compiler to do interesting things with a piece of code. Generic programming then acts as a lever to use these improvements for a variety of use cases, and the speed is merely the icing on the cake!
For posterity - NERC's report addresses fires specifically and even breaks out individual fires. Yes, people losing power in California happened for extended periods but many more people did not lose power and PG&E was not the only utility implicated there. Besides, natural disasters happen yearly and if you read NERC's report, you'll see that there are far more outages due to storms than wildfires.

My only gripe here is that this by itself, does not quality PG&E's grid as "unreliable".

As for non-wires alternatives, I can point to several reports, some from NERC, some NREL and others private companies that have found - over and over again - that the path towards more grid reliability involves better transmission and stronger distribution. Batteries and solar can delay the investment needed, not substitute them altogether.
anyone using akamai as a CDN is having issues, if they use it also as a DNS they won't even resolve their primary domains.
All yuor data are belong to us
Lol, we have to have it on our *nix servers as well. Despite the fact that it's almost completely useless.
This is affecting apple as well

https://www.apple.com/go/
> The latter is deliberately trying to undo other votes, distorting the system.

That's begging the question: What is distortion in the system? Isn't a system with both upvoting and downvoting one designed around everyone trying to undo others' votes?

What if the first 5 people to see a comment hate it and downvote it, and then the 6th person likes it and upvotes it: should the 6th person not be allowed to vote anymore? What if the first 5 people to see a comment love it and upvote it, and the 6th person hates it and downvotes it: should the 6th person not be allowed to vote anymore?

Is it just a race? Whoever votes first gets to decide a comment's value, and dissenters aren't allowed to vote anymore? Or are some people's votes more valid than others?

I would submit that the system is broken by design. And how better to reinforce its brokenness than to not allow dissenters to even vote in a manner contrary to prevailing opinion. It's bad enough that dissenters are downvoted to invisibility and flagged by those who abuse the guidelines (once a comment is downvoted and flagged, its chances of receiving corrective attention are minimal). To, on top of that, not even allow dissenters to vote anymore, to try to correct abusive brigading--is such a system not the very definition of an echo chamber?

And what is the purpose of such a place?
Being covered by independent.co.uk: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/in...

Edit: formatting
I mostly just remember copying stuff from here and there, not too different from the age or stackoverflow, just printed and mostly correct!

I did have some lucky breaks, like going to local small town art school to study "computer graphics" as a pre-teen with a 20-year old tech student who would just casually explain to us anything from alpha blending to linear algebra. Said student later went on to design GPUs for Bitboys, ATI and AMD.
Or maybe both are happening.

Some people like the high from THC, which might make someone go in the direction of psychosis, it can be very stimulating.

For people whith a background of psychosis, they might like the CBD part, which makes them relax and feel less stimulated and aroused.
Several unrelated websites I was trying to visit are down. I figured I would find the answer on HN : )
Games generally take significant time to build sometimes years, but can be quite successful.

You wider point is reasonable though as many people waste a lot of time building something that never gets traction.
So she lower the contrast and then gave a component a shadow where as none of the others have any 3D effect and are completely flat? It feels widely inconsistent to me and the message doesn’t hit right with me. There are people who train in graphic design that eventually become UI/YX designers… which isn’t to say an artist couldn’t go that route, but this doesn’t seem like a particularly compelling example.
I'd call that the realistic argument. What's the optimistic argument if that's pessimistic?

That an entity the scale of Amazon and AWS just can't figure out how to report system status? Or they forgot? Or didn't have the demand to create it?
Ah, I hadn't come across them. My feeling is still a minority of sites use Akamai's DNS for their public-facing names, so probably those sites would be affected that way. Although either way the site is down once the cache expires.
Carmax & Autotrader
> Since TFG convinced a lot of Americans...

TFG?
If you have to manage a large distributed software code base or set of datacenters, Kubernetes is a win in that it provides a consistent, elegant solution to a nearly universal set of problems.

Systemd comparatively feels like a complete waste of time given the heat it has generated for the benefit.
Makes me wonder why they would choose such an obscure substance
What you described is fairly close to how it works on Windows.

Vendor-specific GPU drivers don’t implement the complete Direct3D. They only do low-level hardware dependent pieces: VRAM allocation, command queues, and the JIT compiler from DXBC into their proprietary hardware-dependent byte codes (this last one is in the user-mode half of these drivers).

Direct3D runtimes (all 3 of them, 9, 11 and 12) are largely vendor-agnostic, and are implemented by Microsoft as a part of the OS.
Windows 11 in React
Problem is everyone is a criminal. Can anyone in the world truthfully say they've never broken a law?
yikes, this doesn't even do some basic stuff like trim off pre-protein segments for secreted proteins... Without this, you could get some very incorrect structures.
This is currently annoying me with the economist and Financial Times. Even after paying their heavy subscription you’re bombarded with ads and FT has the audacity to block you from some article because they added another tier of premium above that.

Their content is good sure but they sure are milking that on all fronts
Almost 10 years go, Moxie Marlinspike published a great rebuttal to the "If you have nothing to hide" and "if your not a criminal" defenses of these kind of systems.

Still one of the better rebuttals

https://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-...
Well, first of all, note how much shorter your list is than the original. So vanilla Kubernetes is already taking care of lots of things for us (SSH configuration, process management, log exfiltration, etc). Moreover, we're not talking about vanilla Kubernetes, but managed Kubernetes (I've been very clear and explicit about this) so most of your points are already handled.

> You still need to figure out where your persistent storage is.

Managed Kubernetes comes with persistent storage solutions out of the box. I don't know what you mean by "figure out where it is". On EKS it's EFS, on GKE it's FileStore, and of course you can use other off-the-shelf solutions if you prefer, but there are defaults that you don't have to laboriously set up.

> You still have to send logs somewhere for aggregation.

No, these too are automatically sent to CloudWatch or equivalent (maybe you have to explicitly say "use cloudwatch" in some configuration option when setting up the cluster, but still that's a lot different than writing ansible scripts to install and configure fluentd on each host).

> You have the added difficulty of figuring out cost tracking in Kubernetes since there is not a clear delineation between cloud resources.

This isn't true at all. Your cloud provider still rolls up costs by type of resource, and just like with VMs you still have to tag things in order to roll costs up by business unit.

> You have to configure an ingress controller.

Nope, this also comes out of the box with your cloud provider. It hooks into the cloud provider's layer 7 load balancer offering. It's also trivial to install other load balancer controllers.

> You want SSL? Gotta set that up, too. ... Compare this tutorial for configuring SSL for Kubernetes services to an equivalent for configuring SSL on an AWS load balancer. Is Kubernetes really adding value here?

If you use cert-manager and external-dns, then you'll have DNS and SSL configured for every service you ever create on your cluster. By contrast, on AWS you'll need to manually associate DNS records and certificates with each of your load balancers. Configuring LetsEncrypt for your ACM certs is also quite a lot more complicated than for cert-manager.

> Kubernetes is no better with the creation of "bespoke solutions" than using what your cloud provider offers.

I hope by this point it's pretty clear that you're mistaken. Even if SSL/TLS is no easier with Kubernetes than with VMs/other cloud primitives, we've already addressed a long list of things you don't need to contend with if you use managed Kubernetes versus cobbling together your own system based on lower level cloud primitives. And Kubernetes is also standardized, so you can rely on lots of high quality documentation, training material, industry experience, FAQ resources (e.g., stack overflow), etc which you would have to roll yourself for your bespoke solution.
You don't have to solve all the privacy problems to not display a borderline dark pattern cookie dialog.

Or to not use Medium.

If you claim to care about "confidential computing" and what not, one would expect that you have basic hygiene in other places outside your claim.
It's how Katherine Maher funds her trips to exotic locations.
I'm in Ontario, Canada, 46.5 degrees latitude and typing this on Starlink.

Even with the occasional dropouts Starlink is 10-100x better than any other option that we have here (the only options are LTE, or other satellites, like xplornet).

Even though we're only a few minutes drive from a municipality of 160,000 people and on a major highway, there, is no wired connection, and doesn't really seem likely that a wired connection will ever happen. Since moving here 7 years ago the pricing/data rates for the LTE data packages available have doubled in price. Literally doubled.

With Covid we had two adults working from home, and two kids home schooling, on a slow LTE connection with a total bandwidth of 100GB up/down. Even things like windows updates required planning and rationing of the internet.

The state of connectivity in Canada is so abysmal. At this point I hope Starlink matures enough to add a voice service.