skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel for the sysadmins who are fighting ulcers and migraines at the moment, but I can't shake feeling that the world is just a little bit better for this small window of time.
Right. Without generators, I'm not going into production.

Also I'm in a privileged situation / I create a privileged situation for myself to be able to follow this process. Please see my other reply to this thread for details.
This is a great argument for the antitrust authorities to break up Facebook. Allowing the big social media companies to buy each other creates a single point of failure. If Instagram and WhatsApp were separate companies, a technical disaster at one would not take out the other two.
Seems the facebook outage is causing secondary outages https://downdetector.com/

Likely DDoS to DNS servers looking for the missing facebook domains.
He has three kids, presumably a good few grandkids by now. Not sure how morbid his outlook is but if I were 90 I might look at this as an opportunity to make an even bigger pile of cash I can pass down to my descendants... I'm going out soon anyway, so why not?
It was earlier - the 1984 movie (Terminator) had the scene where he rips out the page from the phone book, looking for the Sarah Connors listed there. :)
Office 2021 to Be Released Alongside Windows 11
You snark, but legally preventing banks from offering better rates to favored clients would probably be a good thing for society and the banks themselves. After all, plenty of charming and well liked clients have turned out to be terrible credit risks.
...which that email says in the very same sentence is different from the "unique arrangement" they have with Netflix.
16oz = 473mL. Now that's out of the way…

I often socialize with a Belgian guy, and he will choose similarly strong Belgian beers, but will almost always split the bottle with someone else. I think that can would probably be split three ways — it is equivalent to 2½ to 3 reasonable glasses of wine.

Sometimes that means drinking less, but it might also mean each person tries a wider selection of beers.

(A deleted comment asked for a "European" view, and I should make clear this is not a unified European view. That's impossible, as drinking culture varies massively between countries, by drink, culture, law and tax.)
Don't they have a separate instance for internal communications?
Which also has special-case rules (or lack of enforcement thereof…)
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Small and medium businesses would suffer as well, since many use WhatsApp as a sales channel now.
> Facebook is an unparalleled titan in the realm of advertising

Uh, Google? It's definitely paralleled, and also preceded
"Are you alright? What's wrong?"

"I felt a great disturbance in the DNS. As if millions of influencers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I feel something terrible has happened. But you better get on with your content curation."
If only the news reporting was not as stupid as "internet is not working at UPC", instead of DNS resolvers at UPC crashed, here's what you can do...

Anyway, I didn't even notice since I run knot-resolver at home.

I wonder what it will be like connecting Facebook back to the internet, thundering herd and everything...
Because it isn't! Interop makes your job easier, and some other people's jobs, but that doesn't make interop a good idea for the businesses involved. Winning the lottery would make my life a whole helluva lot easier, but convincing other people to give me money so I can retire to a beach somewhere involves a couple more steps than getting free money.

The retort, to the business owners, is that this is figuring it out. Ask them if Cannabis is legal yet, ask them if they heard about the huge drug bust last week (last week!) in Alameda that the cops are all proud of themselves for. Ask them if they're business owners, who are willing to roll up their sleeves and do some actual work, or if they're just lazy stoners who thought they could get rich and didn't have to do any real work.

You've heard the story of the first shopping carts, I presume, and then also the black art of pricing products.

Here's an idea from that - speak the language of business people - charge money for the interop, then invite the people that actually do the work to meetings, and don't invite the business owners. (I mean, sell it to the business owners as this is what they're paying their people for, so they don't have to go to these kinds of boring meetings.)
Maybe I'm misreading that comment from the MS devs but it seems like a very politely worded, "fuck off" rather than a "yes, you were right".

Could be wrong, but even if I'm right about that, I'm still on their side I think.
Hmm, do you recall any details about those things? My impression was that the bad extensions mostly came from the antivirus vendors, but I may be missing something as I didn't daily drive Windows for a period, and I'm interested in the details. Thanks!
Also you didn't read what Cook actually said in the preceding and following sentences.
HN hugged itself too hard.
Logging out does work! Probably delivering a cache.
Not at all. I'm saying that adjusting the past to match our sensibilities is becoming a trend.
> Well-managed companies blame processes rather than people

I feel like this just obfuscates the fact that individuals are ultimately responsible, and allows subpar employees to continue existing at an organization when their position could be filled by a more qualified employee. (Not talking about this Facebook incident in particular, but as a generalisation: not attributing individual fault allows faulty employees to thrive at the expense of more qualified ones).
There are ways of modeling sum types in Go (a struct with a few fields and a tag, an interface that's only implemented by the relevant types, etc), but that's unrelated to the database/client interface.
Looks like Cloudflare nameservers and Vercel hosting.
You can configure the start page to use the address bar for search. That takes the cake for the most-obfuscated-default-search-setting, but at least the start page will send queries to DDG.
ARM replacing X86 as the desktop computing processor of choice.

A revolution doesn't have to benefit you. This benefits Apple financially, any benefits you receive are secondary.
Another Monday morning at a boring datacenter job, i bet they weren't even there yet at 830 when the phones started ringing.
> Except that line was written in a book

I recall it being from his response to the debates over GOTO, and some googling seems to agree.

Not that that takes away from your overall point.
Amusingly, that returns:

> Is Facebook down right now?

> Uh oh! Something went wrong on our side. It's not you, it's us. Feel free to contact us if this persists.
Bad games facing intense competition will lead to a loss of profit. Not exactly rocket science. I do find it _interesting_ that New World is mentioned by name, but not FFXIV or other established competitors to WoW.
> more sensitive personal information (like social security numbers or other government ID numbers)

I tend to think that there should be a publicly accessible, unique, and more or less immutable ID number for every citizen or resident. This ID would have pointers to our name, birth date and a few other identifiers that shouldn't really be considered secret.

My concern is that the absence of such a unique ID leads to a mess of overlapping systems in which only large organizations with the resources to track everyone will be able to uniquely identify people. So we'll have a degree of anonymity from random other individuals, not not from banks, tech corporations or the government. Computing power is becoming too cheap and ubiquitous to effectively hide information that isn't explicitly confidential. That is, as a society we need to adjust to a paradigm in which it is more expensive to keep information confidential than to allow it to be public. Especially keeping information private from those with deep pockets.
Making sense of Mazda’s MX-30 electric commuter car
Of course we 'know' nothing for sure - which is a truism that applies both to the original comment and to yours... but my point is that you should rarely be convinced by a single study.

That said, I have no specific criticism on the paper you refer to. It might be that the lower risk of heart disease is outweighed by an elevated risk for e.g. cancer? In that way both results can be true.
It still detracts from the conversation and invites distracting meta-threads like this one (and yes, I'm contributing). It's really better to let your original point stand on its own.

Don't be disheartened by a few downvotes in the short period while a comment is still editable. You may get many more upvotes as time goes on. Or not, but don't take it personally either way.

There are also people like me that upvote interesting comments even if we disagree with them (especially if they are unfairly negative). Meta-commentary on votes tends makes them much less interesting.
This is an argument without a limiting principle. Surely, if we spent $1M/year/student in Baltimore, and got the same results as we do now, everyone would agree that we’re not getting our money’s worth. Most likely, everyone would agree to the same effect if we spent $100k/student, and probably, $50k/student. We now spend $16k/student. How do we actually know that this is not enough, “given the profound challenges students face”? Why would we think that spending more would bring outcomes to parity with Utah, which spends $9k per student?

I would very much willing to spend more on schools in Baltimore if people proposing the bump in spend showed 1) a clear goal needing this extra money, and 2) clear proof that this goal actually has significant positive impact on educational outcomes. The reality is, however, that this extra spend is typically swallowed by cost of infrastructure improvements, hiring extra administrators and bumping teacher pay. Irrespective of whether these goals are worthy (obviously, schools needs to be heated, and teachers need to be paid), these things have basically no incremental impact on educational outcomes, so why do some places spend so much more on these, exactly? And are we pushed to spend even more than that?
I am sure this is not what they specifically mean by fail fast and break things often.
Only if you assume efficient market theory is correct.

It's more likely that this information will be withheld by incumbents since it is a valuable pricing signal.
I'm pretty sure Dr Nutt was/is trying to market a synthanol product, which even had an "antidote" to get you sober again quickly.

Realistically his chance of any nation (especially a western one) legalising such a thing is very slim indeed, at least in the medium term. Which is a real shame, as alcohol causes huge harm to society.
I just heard from a contact that the fallback/backup IRC is also down.
I disagree. All this means is just putting the glyph cache on the GPU. DirectWrite (or any other font rendering API you care to use) already implements a glyph cache, and it already deals with filling in that cache gradually whenever you use glyphs not already present in the cache. And it already knows about Cleartype, or whatever form of antialiasing you prefer. There’s no research here.
> No, if you get warnings, it means that your code is (and was already) wrong.

No, that's not right, otherwise they wouldn't be warnings. The whole point of them existing is the compiler trying to alert you of a suspicious construct, but it's not confident enough to be sure it's a bug. Sometimes I want to use assignment for its result–that's not a bug, it's just something that is often done accidentally.
Most UK plans included unlimited SMS for a long time, but whatsapp still took over.

The group chat functions don't really exist in SMS (maybe in MMS but they never work properly), photos (same), whatsapp desktop, you can text when you have WiFi but no 4G (or using a different sim card when travelling), etc.
For siblings commenting that the librem and framework markets are small... You're right, it is small indeed. What is harder to measure is the impact of the goodwill they could gain. It is not very different from what they gain of sponsoring events. Of course changing behavior could be more expensive or complicated, but it may be worth in the long run.

IME features maybe useful for some people. But there are people who don't want it. I don't think it would be expensive to make it possible to disable it via eFuses.

Remember that linux was once much smaller than any commercial UNIX. So was Apache and Nginx. Linux is still very unpopular among gamers; that didn't prevented Valve from investing in what now is their lifeboat.

A small market should not be seen as an excuse to not invest in something that will certainly bring goodwill.
Yes the author of the article, who happens to be the author of EdgeDeflector mentions this in the second paragraph...
"but why limit.. " assumes we do things in an absolute manner. But we don't. All rules and regulations are arbitrary to an extent. We have different rules depending on the situation, the entity, etc. We get to pick and choose the rules that we think will benefit society the most.
> In principle, firewalled research could be the solution. Supplement companies could pay to have tests done by independent researchers. Consumers would have a quality signal for what products to trust, and the companies that make good stuff would make more money.

The UK tried something like this for building materials - unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work very well.

To achieve certain standards of fire resistance, manufacturers could choose from a range of independent test houses, who would conduct the relevant fire performance tests at the manufacturers' expense.

Except it turns out, manufacturers don't want to go to difficult, argumentative test labs. They choose the friendly test lab, that knows how to treat its paying customers. The lab that will advise them on how to pass the test, that will leave them unsupervised as they add defeat devices to the test rig, and that will remove problematic photos from the test report.

The result? Loads of our tower blocks are clad in flammable insulation and ACM panels - including one where 72 people died in a single fire.
Borrow a million dollars from the bank, you have a problem. Borrow a billion dollars from the bank, you and the bank have a problem.

Why should it be a surprise that a partner in a stronger negotiating position negotiates a better deal than is offered at the door?
When have you ever given the "OK" hand gesture around a politician? Why are you saying that like it's some innocuous thing that anyone would do?
A little different, yes, but what I'm saying is that it's not substantially different. Once data is collected, it won't be uncollected, and all it takes is one hack to permanently turn a private database into a public one. And the data that's being collected in these private databases is often justified on the grounds that it's not private information--i.e., if you're outside, you have no expectation of privacy. So in that sense it is "truly public" information. But what I'm saying is that the meaning of public/private has fundamentally changed because of the kind of differences of scale we're talking about here. In other words, there was a degree of implicit privacy afforded by the level of effort required to catalog and search "public" data. Whether that data comes from public or private databases is, I think, not particularly relevant.
Please no on the Universal nil. Meaningful zero values for types are essential. It may be confusing to some that nil is a valid zero value for some types and not others, in which case that needs to be refined, but having a type that can either be a value, a zero value, or a nil introduces complexity where there should be simplicity. Having a zero value enables, for example, Unconditional Programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZ0uTOerUI
After using Telegram, WhatsApp is a complete piece of garbage, if it disappeared from the face of the earth it would be sure for the best as people would move on to alternative messengers.
Confirmed. On my mac it opens https://help.apple.com/macos/big-sur/whats-new/ in Safari.
Surely Facebook don't update routing systems between data centres (IIRC the situation) when they don't have people present to fix things if they go wrong? Or have an out-of-band connection (satellite, or dial-up (?), or some other alternate routing?).

I must be misunderstanding this situation here.

[Aside: I recall updating wi-fi settings on my laptop and first checking I had direct Ethernet connection working ... and that when I didn't have anything important to do (could have done a reinstall with little loss). Is that a reasonable analogy?]
Whatever advantages Apple has over Microsoft (build quality, UX, polish, customer service, etc.), Apple is definitely not gaining on Microsoft because of greater customization options. Most OSX users just use Safari.
Perhaps those in power tend to be evil and don't deserve the air they breathe.

Why do you think it is out of hand, and what exactly do you mean by that? I will have a careful, lengthy discussion with you, if you'd like.

I'll open with the claim that what is moral is not necessarily what is legal.
Comments become dead due to user voting and can also be resurrected if people vouch for them.

I usually read the dead comments and occaisonally do vouch for them if I feel they were constructive and accurate but unpopular.

There is a seperate system of flagging comments which does usually lead to moderator review amd potential account action.

It is extremely rare for me to see a flagged and dead comment that doesn't obviously merit it.
If you are interested in Rust game engines, check out rg3d https://github.com/rg3dengine/rg3d
Join the discord

https://discord.gg/xENF5Uh
10,000 is probably going to be the largest number of guesses needed, and if you have prior knowledge, like a distributed set of ssns from the same year and location, you can reduce the practical effective number of guesses to a few dozen.

The freely available databases of pii in the wild can be used to infer anything missing from releases like this, and that stuff can be used to inform probabilistic password guesses, and so on. It's only a matter of time before deep learning models make most common password based security measures completely transparent and obsolete.
Yet again the "holding it wrong" and "you're an ignorant" argument that always comes up from Gradle people.

Yeah, it is very fast, when one has all the knobs to help Gradle pretend it is fast.

I have been setting up Java CI/CD pipelines since 2005, have used all major CI/CD products in the Java world, including your beloved "blazing fast" Gradle.
It's either not accurate or it's not granular/up to date enough (only recording once per hour)
Sure, but you weren't in the white pages if you weren't already paying for a phone. At that point the question of whether you're getting a discount for agreeing to be in the book, or paying not to be in the book is just an arbitrary distinction.
User has now deleted the update.
What's the advantage of using a Chinese platform instead of Facebook in terms of privacy, freedom of speech or political influence?
> It also manages routing and international roaming between networks, using the notoriously insecure SS7 and Diameter protocols, according to the company's site.

As usual, there is always some bubble gum and duct tape holding the edges of the network together.
> I can't help but feel bias against drinking has religious roots.

I don’t think it’s necessary to propose novel explanations for opposition to drinking. Alcohol has enormous negative effects on society and individuals. Nobody who has ever lived with an alcoholic is even remotely confused about this, but even those of us who have been lucky in that respect can easily observe large societal detriment. A staggering percentage of all violent crimes are committed by drunk people, most of us know someone who died in a drunk-driving related incident, and we’ve all been around drunk people who we found to be incredibly annoying (and often actually violent).

Opposition to drinking doesn’t require additional explanation.
I wonder if the fact that I can't access HN from my wifi networks' IP address is related. If I use a VPN or a different wifi network, all is good. But, on my home network, it just times out. :/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748203

Do you feel dumb now too?
>To identify their gender.

The purpose of my question was to lead to the inevitable question of what the purpose of identifying a senator's gender was, at least in the context of the comment I was replying to.

>Like the differences between waiter/waitress, masseur/masseuse, actor/actress, and countless of other examples.

I would ask the same question for those, but at least those might be used simply because they are frequently used and it might be habit. But I have never seen the word "senatress" used in 30+ years of living in the US, and I read a ton of political news.

Although, I id not know about masseur and masseuse. I thought all people who gave massages were masseuses. But I am not familiar with the massage scene. I can see a possible purpose for clarifying a woman performing massages versus a man performing massages since someone might prefer a massage from one rather than another.