skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely useful to be able to demonstrate you've implemented, tested, deployed, and maintained some sort of software on your own.

Also being able to talk through design decisions and tradeoffs from an engineering point of view is useful.

Finally, I would advise that if you are applying to a position through a recruiter, stop asking for senior level positions. Ask for staff level positions instead, you'll receive more autonomy and a higher pay as well.
Go Team Magic! Awesome news. I’m excited for you all and can’t wait to follow along with your growth and all the awesome things you will do. Keep up the awesome work
You made several falsifiable claims that don't hold up, and you handled this by (a) editing your comment in a way that materially changed those claims (removed them and then in their place moved forward with a different argument that is necessarily at odds with what you originally wrote and removed), and (b) in the case of your most recent comment (when it was too late to edit the earlier), you ignored the straightforward questions put to you that, if answered, would refute concretely things you claimed about who said what when—an already ridiculous change of subject even more doomed than the original unnecessarily adversarial argument about the barriers that exist to write a program.

It's clear at this point that you don't actually stand behind anything—you are not committed to any actual position, or facts; you are only committed to the act of arguing. If there was any doubt about whether you were here to pick a fight, that has been erased. There is no reason to believe that you're responding in good faith, and there is no way to justify engaging with you further.
You can see this on a lot of sites right now. You get the Akamai style error with something like:

Reference: #11.453a2f17.1393u44848484.3aee33433

At the bottom of a very bland looking error page.
What if instead of paying Bezos paying more taxes, he has to pay his workers more? I think it's wrong to just force Bezos to give away his wealth. However, I also think that some Amazon workers should be payed more.

I don't think Bezos would have had the same amount of success with Amazon, if he had to do everything himself without hiring any other people. I believe most successful achievements were achieved through the work of many people. In the villagers and apples example, if the one man was able to produce 1000 apples by himself, I agree that the one man should be able to keep all 1000 apples to himself. However, if the one man was only able to produce 1000 apples with the work of others, I think that the workers should be receive a "fair" share of the produce. I don't have an idea or definition of what "fair" would be but 266,666 to 1 apple doesn't seem very "fair".

I don't see Bezos as being bad or evil but I see the fact that his workers don't get payed more as unfair. It's kind of like the "thank you essential workers for keeping the society functioning during the pandemic" phase that America had last year. We call these workers "essential" but their pay doesn't reflect that title. Some of the work that these "essential workers" do might be simple unskilled labor, but it is necessary work. Even if the work itself might not be of something that demands better pay, I believe the fact that the work is necessary is something that demands better pay. And if one person has 266,666 apples, I think there are enough apples to go around to pay the "essential workers" more. I just don't think it's "fair" that some "essential workers" who are earning close to minimum wage will never have the same opportunities that others in more lucrative fields (e.g. software engineering) will because of financial limitations.
I don't imagine myself to be the final owner of the things, but I am definitely the current user--and chances are the future user, and writing in the book makes the use better. Somebody may wear some of my clothes someday. Does that mean I can't have them altered for better fit?
Thanks, corrected. I blame mobile text input.
Because it was a "militia" rally; and I like to be weird.
https://downdetector.com/archive

So many sites down... and unfortunately not one of them is Twitter
Because it's a stronger flu, and people are not willing to risk experimental medical treatment for that.
He mentions a false positive of paying customers. I have some personal experience of customers paying for a product and not using it. We're all guilty of it in one way or another.

What percentage of paying customers should be active? 100% is unrealistic, but 0% is troubling since they are not getting any value from it and its not validating your idea. How does this depend on price of the product or whether its a subscription or not?
So it's very reasonable to point out that there's rarely such thing as 'pure ethnicity' and especially the 'lensing' issue of scale is insightful, and of course that some eras there's more evolution than that others ...

... but none of this upsets the fact that ethnicity is the 'primary weight' in the ultimate definition of borders, other than the borders which are artificial (i.e. political) which is why those tend to collapse.

i.e. " historical Europe or Rome you will rarely find borders defined by ethnicity" <- this is just not true.

Borders very clearly, 'mostly' ethnic, with huge caveats obviously, but those caveats don't change the underlying gravity of ethnicity.

Both a map of Europe today (though it's national) and even a map of the Roman Empire at any given time fairly strongly highlight this.

Roman borders don't help your point - they speak against it.

For a visual refresher here's a bunch of them [1].

Those are mostly ethnic divisions - some of which exist even today.

The fact that Greece has been 'occupied' for ~2200 years, by a whole variety of external powers, and still 'moslty' remains 'Greece' is evidence of this.

Despite your well meaning highlights of the Germanic invasion of Latin Gaul ... there is still a major delineating border between 'Gallia' and 'Germania' today [2].

Same for 'Hispania', 'Britannia', and 'Caledonia' (i.e. Scotland) and 'Hibernia' (i.e. Ireland).

It's an incredibly similar map 2000 years later.

Maybe one factor you could consider in your line of reasoning is the difference between political and ethnic boundaries.

When one group 'invades' another - that's a political change, not necessarily an ethnic one.

It becomes 'ethnic' when the invaders bring along with them considerable cultural power and especially 'bodies' i.e. if there's a lot of migration.

The official language of France in 2021 (and there are many) is French, which is Romantic, despite Frankish invasion.

Charlemagne was more or less a political phenomenon, less so cultural one.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=map+of+roman+empire&client=f...

[2] https://www.conformingtojesus.com/images/webpages/map_roman_...
Yes.
We have the drops also. But they are happening less, and for only a blink. In the worst case, we experience a freeze frame. Most of the time can barely see the freeze.
Figured this out almost 30 minutes before they bothered to update their status page.
Sure, let's start with the NSO CEO first! I'm sure there's nothing wrong with asking him to drop all his phone data, private messages, calls, to any state actor, right?
> I would personally rather be cancelled on social media, than having my breathing cancelled.

Perhaps you don't fully grasp how communists operate, then.

Maoist struggle sessions in which you were still permitted to breathe preceded your execution by a period of time, sometimes years.

Before Pol Pot sent intellectuals and their families to the killing fields, they were merely fired from their jobs.

Communists may be evil, but they are not stupid. They know that you purge your enemies by boiling the frog slowly enough that the useful idiots defend your actions every questionable step of the way.
It is impacting a lot of things: https://downdetector.com/
Akamai Edge DNS Outage
Ask HN: Why did all of these sites just go down at once?
If you check https://downdetector.com/ it shows a huge spike across most everywhere at once
I'd be interested in hearing of any experience or recommendations. If you have them available, please do send me a message.
I wouldn't have any regrets re:seeing something "similar" sold for millions of $.

Unless "heading in the right direction" means that you had a growing user base and/or solid revenue, in all likelihood the product you were building just wasn't succeeding. The idea in itself is not worth much: think Uber, Coursera, Airbnb, ... these are not novel ideas, many many people had the same ideas but didn't manage to make them a success (bad execution, or just bad luck/timing).

You seem to still be very very young, most successful companies are founded by people in their mid 30s, so don't despair just because a couple of your attempts were not successful. The best is still ahead of you.
There are ways to generate an anonymous proof that a TPM module is certified genuine by its manufacturer, without leaking the actual identity of the individual device.

Using TPM2 in VMs means you either pass through the hardware to the VM or use a software TPM module that's managed by the hypervisor.

I've had to dig in to TPM2 somewhat lately, and honestly the biggest problem with it is that it's too damn flexible, so it's really difficult to tell how to use one properly. There are a dozen concepts that you need to understand before you can even begin to make sense of any documentation.
Dutch data protection authority fines TikTok €750k over privacy flaw
I think you might be the kind of person the parent is talking about.
My experience is the exact opposite:

1) I would not suggest that marijuana use correlates with any particular behavior very much.

2) The only thing I have noticed in common among some heavy users was stereotypical stoner behavior, primarily forgetfulness and absent-mindedness. They are usually aware of this, which means it does not present as anything remotely like arrogance.
If the connection drops for less than 5-10 seconds (this happens even on my Cable Internet sometimes), it's no problem. Most timeouts and TCP connections are okay with complete dropouts for 30 or 60 seconds (sometimes longer), as long as your local LAN doesn't drop your network connection.
Thanks, Obama! Now, in addition to screwing up Libya, which was once a fine little place to live, you've screwed up Syria and their neighbors.

Do I see a pattern here? Did someone mention "Afghanistan"? What's next?
The CDC has estimates for the data you asked for here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

In the USA, by March 2021, there were 114.6 million estimated total infections, 5.6 million estimated hospitalizations, and 17.5 million estimated asymptomatic infections.

That predicts approximately 1 in 3 Americans were infected with the virus. These numbers make sense to me, and I can show this with back of the napkin math. A few global studies estimated the average infection fatality rate to be between 0.4-0.7%. Using a 0.6% death rate and the reported 600k deaths in the USA, that gives 600,000 / 0.6% = ~100 million infected in the USA. So the CDC numbers look alright.
Same haha
Fidelity (both the website and mobile app seem to be having login problems), I wonder if it’s related?
> Part of the amphetamine family, it can have a similar effect to Viagra

I don’t think the writer knows what viagra does.
I second the request for confirmation. It does sound like fiction to me too.
Vanguard down...

Kinda depressing how fragile the Internet is.
I used to keep a pad and paper - now I can snap a picture with my iPad and then annotate on it with the Pencil in my own writing. Writing is far more effective at retention than typing so I stick with it. It's not as convenient as writing directly in your own book, but it's pretty darn close. And if it's a subject of importance I'll just get my own copy of the book. I recently re-discovered independent used book sites like abebooks.com - it's a challenge to not go nuts :)
>It is established with a specific mandate by a province or the federal government, but run at a pretty long arm's length while still being accountable to the legislature.

Doesn't that describe PG&E? It's run at "long arm's length" from the government because it's a private company, but it's also accountable to the CPUC.

> Some crown corps, like Hydro Quebec, produce their own revenue, so they have some market incentives to perform

What are these "market incentives to perform", and how does it not lead us back to square one with "these companies will cut costs to boost profits"?
I think that your observation of water is probably spot-on. When it comes which RF frequencies get absorbed, with water the answer is pretty much "yes". Combined with what I'd imagine is some really fun scattering math tossed in, tree cover is a pretty good bet for reducing signal quality, especially if it's more than one.
Probably Akamai needs to use Kubernetes.

EDIT: So HN can't even take a joke after this? [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27893482
Are you implying that Rust takes less time to "learn" (whatever that means) than C? Have you seen Rust?
Getting Stuff Done by Not Being Mean to Yourself
Building a Custom Video Chat App in 5 Minutes
> ‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says

What a psychopath. So, that means we have not stolen anything then - we should leave all the doors of our homes open.
Not OP, but benzo's can be problematic because they can exacerbate the condition they're meant to treat. I.e. they are often prescribed for anxiety, but one of the symptoms of benzo withdrawal is heightened anxiety. It creates a feedback loop where the medication builds an addiction, and the only way out of that addiction is to suffer a worse version of the symptoms you were trying to self-medicate away in the first place.

I believe research has said similar of opiates. Heightened sensitivity to pain is one of the symptoms of opiate withdrawal.

It stands in contrast to other medications where withdrawal isn't counter-indicated by the underlying condition. I.e. amphetamine withdrawal doesn't really exacerbate ADHD. It's not a pleasant thing, but stopping the medication only sends your ADHD back to baseline, not below.

Another similarity to cigarettes and opiates is that they don't cure anything, they merely treat symptoms.

Not a doctor, but I don't think you're at risk of those problems if you take them every 3-4 months. They're great for acute symptoms like that because of how effective they are. They're not good for chronic symptoms, though, because of that feedback loop.
Mine is mounted near the top of my roof's ridge. The problem is there are 8 trees (five of them more than 75') around my one-story house.
You so that with clevis: https://kowalski7cc.xyz/blog/luks2-tpm2-clevis-fedora31

You can also unlock using a tang server: https://www.networkshinobi.com/clevis-and-tang-network-bound...
Just another data point: I signed up and received your confirmation email in my spam folder (gmail)
This sounds awesome, to be honest (depending on the support & maintenance time it takes). What's the name of your app?
Public health emergencies exceed the limitations of your contrarianism.
> Solar technology, including the footprint is advancing rapidly.

Is it, though? The price drops have been significant, yes, but the efficiency of COTS panels hasn't seen any dramatic improvements in the past 20 years. Silicon panels have a theoretical limit of 29% efficiency and current models are close to 20%. There's not much room for improvement left there.
> A single downvote can turn something gray and make it appear like an unpopular side of the discussion when it's not controversial at all except in the opinion of one downvoter on a mission or something.

Yes, exactly: even a single downvote penalizes a comment, making it less likely to be seen by people who might upvote it, and attracting more downvotes from unfair-minded dogpilers.

It turns the whole system into a game of chance, a race against unknown opponents: if a comment is first seen by people who like it, it's likely to attract more upvotes and climb. If a comment is first seen by people who hate it, it's unlikely to be seen by people who would like it, likely to attract more downvotes from dogpilers, and it will likely die a quick and permanent death.

The system does not "surface" good content. Its design encourages abusive behavior.
> and is boring

This is actually helpful to see a lot of unrelated sites affected by (likely) a similar cause. I've had issues with a couple different sites, and it's good to see confirmation that it's not just me.

Particularly since a) the number of affected sites appears to be growing, and b) as the downtime continues to increase.
'hacker news'
Here's my take on selling:

1) Sell to people who can write the check, and have a budget to spend

That's my entire advice. It seems obvious. If you're selling to an individual, choose a demographic with money to spend. And charge a price to fit into their budget.

If you're selling to a team, don't. Sell to the person buying products/tools for the team, the one with signing authority. They make the ultimate decision. And they have a budget to spend, and will likely spend it all on something.
If you think reddit is "the most toxic" you haven't been to twitter, even at its worst it doesnt hold a candle
Abandoned? Are you kidding? They're previewing the 2022 release.

And frankly VS Studio UX is not horrendous. Modern UX is horrendous, give me deep menus and toolbars any day of the week.

As for I/O, I've worked on large git repositories (aka tons of small files) on Windows with no issue. In a Dropbox-synced folder no less.
Bypass the paywall: https://medium.com/codex/the-incomes-of-top-software-enginee...
Chase and Steam too. They all have a huge spike on down detector at the same time
If 600k Americans died (that was the likely understated number back in Juneish?) then the death rate is way above 1%.

So yeah, a lot. Go google "2021 life expentancy us" and see.the shithole.we are in, even if a lot of other dearh causes went down (like driving)
Same latitude, lucky to get 2 Mb in either direction. But down in Roseburg, Oredgon I got 135 Mb/s download sitting in a parking lot so it's not my phone.

Edit: I just walked through the neighborhood repeatedly invoking speed test and I can get 50 megabits at various points. But I can't get it anywhere on my own property. There's no real rhyme or reason that I can see as to where it's good and to where it's bad.
You experience is very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Did you read some resources before or is you knowledge only experimental?
New tool for testing/deploying smart contracts on Stacks blockchain: Clarinet
Availability is usually the answer. Lots of overland routes available where it’s popular/legal/cheap within the Middle East.

Though the APIs probably originate from China so you’d think more “western” choices would be made.

Presumably the party culture had been adopted from EU/USA.
Akamai Edge DNS went down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920665
Everything between the BRCT and RING domains of BRCA1 is an intrinsically unstructured region which DeepMind correctly predicts, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15571721/

Another famous one would be R-domain of CFTR, which was not resolved in experimental structure determination, and AlphaFold models correctly show disorder there. Nothing to be done in those cases except perform molecular simulation or other experiments to assess dynamic ensembles, https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P13569
Somebody get that man a peace prize!
I'm sick and tired of these types of services (I'm looking at you too Cloudflare) going down and taking otherwise healthy websites down with them.
I have a CoCo 1 that I picked up at a thrift store while missing my childhood Apple ][e. While learning about the CoCo I discovered that it had its own rich ecosystem, and I've come to really love this black sheep of the TRS-80 family.

Someday I'd like to pick up a CoCo 3 and disk drive(s), it really seems like a leap forward from the capabilities of my original CoCo.
Oxfeeefeee/goscript: Go specs implemented as a scripting language in Rust
Rust 2021 public testing period
Right?! Can tech/UI learn things from art? Yes, absolutely!

But man, the hubris.

Ironically, hubris has been a subject of art for thousands of years.
The effect is such that you are activating neurons which are engaged in the learning process.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11064-005-6978-1
Because of this, to the untrained mind (most humans are not given manuals to how their mind works) these firings related to any event cause the event to have the perception of presenting deep information which one can learn from. This state allows one to perceive the banal as sublime, or in simpler terms, dumb shit seems cooler, and you can enjoy dumb things more, as you are turning on a relational learning part of your mind and also engaging in a consumption ritual to do so.
Genuinely this article and the reactions are giving me some confusion in regards to how other people perceive the world.
Serious question, has anyone properly solved the issue of DNS as a single point of failure?
It may be this: https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/
Any idea on cause? Ddos or hardware failure?
I’m not a criminal, but I’m afraid. Afraid that my information is going to be used to make decisions about me which I have no control over, or worse, given/shared with/leaked to private companies to do the same.