skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people consider Taiwan an independent country, even if the media and bosses won't say so publicly.

They also have American military hardware which would never be sold to China. Having an independent military is very different from Hawaii.
I'd say the same thing about Google.
Some of these responses are really silly. What actually happens is:

- TSMC's foundries stop operating soon because they're not getting new equipment, replacement parts, or supplies to operate the foundry from ASML or anyone else in the West, thanks to the inevitable embargo/sanctions that would follow. Even if the fabs were supplied and operating, nobody would dare send their designs to them to be fabbed anyway.

- TSMC's senior research and engineering staff are either evacuated or, if captured, are less productive than before.

- TSMC's shareholders (you know, the people who actually own the company) work out intellectual property licenses to Samsung and Intel, who are not that far behind TSMC in fab prowess, to raise capital to complete their own fabs in the West.

- Availability of consumer electronics gets extremely tight for several years then life goes on.
Yes, I saw Facebook being a gateway (and a potential roadblock) to requesting vaccines from some US pharmacies last year as well. You had to post in the comments to reserve one or make an appointment.
GrapheneOS. A degree of slowness might be the extra security hardening. Not an excuse, because, aside from the built-in spyware, iOS is just as locked down, if not more so.
Except it has affected many.

https://www.aier.org/article/no-lockdowns-the-terrifying-pol...

Context is everything: Polio affected less than 1% of the population. Even a smaller fraction, when counting those paralyzed.

Still a scary disease.
That's some straight bullshit right there.

MS can't fucking keep updated office documentation, but suddenly they're hijacking URLs for quality assurance reasons!

BULLSHIT!
Buffet’s insane returns are numerically more to do with how long he’s been in the market:

> $81.5 of Warren Buffett’s $84.5 billion net worth came after his 65th birthday. (Housel)
Ah right so. Well if we're being pedantic like that, I guess my oven is just an interface to the gas line, and my lights are just an interface to the leccy lines. Guess I don't need to pay my utility bills, which is great news because they're gone through the roof.
No matter what happens to the fabs, China wins either way because they manufacture everything. As the recent crisis showed when push comes to shove China takes care of their internal needs first.
But how will I continue to be notified of my expired car warranties?!
They probably considered that.
Pizza isn't really/doesn't have to be that unhealthy. Fast food takeaway pizza is of course, but 'pizza' is redundant in that.

Pretty much all that makes a homemade or otherwise decent pizza less healthy than a sandwich is the amount of it one typically eats in a sitting. Or of course if you for some reason pile unhealthy stuff high on your pizzas, but stuff your sandwiches with the height of nutrition. But I assume that would be uncommon.
If you are implying that a primary school teacher in nazi germany is inherently accountable for the crimes of the nazi regime, then I fiercely disagree with you. I think that's an incredibly entitled opinion.
That's because the status code is 404..
Twenty minutes, if I'm allowed some hyperbole. China has been trying to throw their weight around with Australia and none of China's neighbors would be happy with them turning expansionist.
Oh absolutely. I would never suggest it's for everyone, just saying that if you try doing it the way you describe, it's not going to be super effective... but also, who knows!
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This sounds really cool! I'm quite ignorant of the space, so can't speak to the existence of such a thing. Also curious about the practicality of "dethreading" clothes. Would also be interested in this.
I wish my phone or carrier would allow me to batch block phone numbers, and auto update with a shared list, just like I do with adblock. Although I understand that spammers can call with non-spammers numbers, I think that's tolerable because I don't know those people and likely never will!
H&M is quintessential fast fashion. Not every item is created with that life cycle, such as basics, but many are.
It can take millennia. Just ask the Vikings / Pliny the Elder / Aristotle about how long it took to find the kraken. It seems we just wait for them to wash up on beaches, and then the land lubbers start believing its real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giant_squid_specimens_...
Twitter is the real warzone.

If you are moderately famous, anything will be controversial.

You can say "water is good for you", and I can guarantee you that someone will reply with "actually, my friend drank too much water and died". Then, the drama would ensue.
> Yet, I don't even know anyone who's died of COVID.

I do - what’s your point ?

Are you disputing covid deaths ?
if whatsapp being down for a few hours negatively affects your life...time to get a backup plan
It's just marketing, I don't see what globalisation particularly has to do with it. Capitalism perhaps, but only to the (debatable) extent that it's responsible for marketing.
People in FinTech must have realized that the design of 3D Secure is an absolute joke by now?

It's an iframe, embedded in some random web page, that asks you for additional security-related information?

How is that still a thing?
6 hours to fix BGP routes/tables/entries? What gives? I know DNS takes time to propagate but that seems weird...
A Mathematician Politely Corrects Flat Earth Theorist
This is not a very useful article in my opinion. It is vague and generic about the benefits of being curious over being smart. Even the title doesn’t make sense to me, maybe rephrase it as “Is curiosity more important than intelligence?”
Heat recovery ventilation unit is also helpful. It ventilates air while keeping temperature and humidity. Lossnay (ロスナイ) is most popular one in Japan, and it's sold from 20k JPY.
This purely about database language semantics, not other aspects of database systems. In other words, it's a manifesto about languages for databases, and a criticism of SQL in particular.

The challenges of a database language are different than those of a general purpose language. Queries live a long time, spread over all kinds of applications (and different versions) and reports and scripts. And the data is always growing and changing. Constraints and declarative queries help bridge the concerns of the readers and writers of the data.

I read quite a few books by Date & Darwen, in particular, Temporal Databases and the Relational Model. Out of that came my work on Exclusion Constraints and Range Types for PostgreSQL, which allow you to deal with ranges of time (with beginning and end) much more effectively. So I believe the authors have good insights.

But they are definitely in an ivory tower. They make strong claims about superiority of one approach over another without connecting with practice. You can feel their frustration that their ideas aren't put into practice, but they underestimate the difficulty of doing so. And I suspect that to bridge that gap enough to see a net benefit over SQL would require some revisions and amendments to their theories.

I believe haskell has some really nice answers to problems in database languages, and that database queries would be a great application area for a haskell-like language. It's too bad traditional PL theory people and DB people don't mix a little more.
> Curios people become smart by accident. Their curiosity simply pushes them into various rabbit holes.

But not such deep rabbit holes that they would become economic losers!

> I personally know a lot of smart people. Some are really successful in terms of income and wealth. Others aren’t. The difference between the two types? The group of smart folks who fail to make a good living stand still.

Yep; they just don't dive into those money-making curiosity rabbit holes. Like what makes people tick. Specifically in those moments. When they make the important decision to part with their money. And give it to you.
Having all of the locks open due to a failure is a very, very common Hollywood movie scenario.
Ah, so no playing oculus either?
Facebook exists, for one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge#First_design_and...
Yeah, I'm making about $10k less in salary than someone that reports to me of the same level.
Imagine if it was communism and we had to bow to a statue of the Great Ballmer every morning
The vast majority of spam phone calls are made with false Caller ID information. Blocking these calls based on their Caller ID would at best be useless, as spammers can easily change what false Caller ID they're using, and would risk blocking legitimate calls from the real owners of those numbers.

The obvious comparison is spam email. Nobody seriously recommends using "From" headers to block spammers. Caller ID is effectively the same thing, but for phone calls.
Not at all. It's interesting analysis. It's possible to bloviate in such a post but I don't see it here.
Looks like they moved fast...

AND BROKE THINGS!
Of course HFCS is cheaper than sugar. I'm referring to the products made from it, like Coke. They are a poor way to spend your food dollar.

I agree that class accounts for a massive difference in access to resources. However, in this case, the knowledge is available for free, and in the US the basic foodstuffs are available for far less than what disadvantaged people pay for the typical processed and fast food they live on.

Rice and beans - nothing subtle about it. They are basic foods that provide the necessary carbs, fat, and complete protein. The vitamins are a simple way to prevent scurvy and similar deficiencies, until the choice of food can become more varied.

As a person learns to cook and bake, they can add wheat, peas, and corn (But they need to learn about nixtamalization before they add corn.) None of these foods require refrigeration.

I have in mind the cuisine of Mexico, which is inexpensive and nutritious. Similar cuisines are found in home cooking all over the world, at least where commercially processed food hasn't driven them out.

It is most important to make sure that all school children are taught how to process and cook these basic foods.

If you are knowledgeable in this area, I'd appreciate some specific suggestions.
Apparently it's widely used within the UK NHS to schedule nursing rotas and suchlike: https://twitter.com/fourhourtarget/status/144512310687657165...
Battling Delta, New Zealand Abandons Its Zero-Covid Ambitions
> Have you tried LTSC?

No, I haven't. Sounds like an improvement. Regular Windows 10 is trying way too hard, and I think somewhere lots it's compass. The P in PC stands for something really important.
Which link says they would not take the vaccine “under trump”?

The first one where they say they will take any vaccine recommended by health experts, and not one recommended by a reality TV host known for recommending bleach and hydroxychloroquine as remedies?

Or the second one where they switch together some out-of-context clips to make it seem like they are saying something that they are are not?

Or maybe it’s the third one that contains nothing of substance other than mentioning a working group that after the article was published fully recommended the FDA approved covid vaccines?
Facebook is like a mirror. If you want to learn about yourself, look at your feed. If you see a bunch of political stuff, then it turns out that you had a weakness for political content. If you see a bunch of kittens, then you were overindexing in how you interacted with that content compared to alternatives.

It's not too different from alcohol. Two different people start drinking a lot of beer in college. One grows out of it, the other becomes an alcoholic. All things being same, the latter person had a more addictive personality and should have been more careful with alcohol.

To extend the alcohol analogy - some people wanted to prohibit it, but ultimately it's still here and it's just heavily regulated. You're not allowed to have it when you're young or when you're driving. Your friends will think poorly of you if you have too much of it too frequently. I wouldn't be surprised if social networks end up in a similar place.
Cloudflare is also incredibly dodgy with their billing practices which you wouldn't pick up from their marketing.

If you downgrade from a Paid to a Free account they automatically and silently add a paid add-on for 10 Page Rules.
> They ruled that AOL had to allow other applications access to AOL IM

Citation?
It saw it all right, pixels dont lie, there was no problem with visibility, problem was with Vision algorithms. Its programmed to ignore things it doesnt "recognize". Anything that isnt a car (unless it has police blinkers on apparently) or upright human is clear road to Tesla.
Example video given by someone actually defending autopilot :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0_eKr8jnNo

@2:20 exact same situation as in Jessa Jones clip. "all of a sudden a deer ran out onto the road but autopilot didn't react at all, gracie's applied the brakes only moments before impact but it was too late " Living creature hit, $4500 bill an 2 weeks without the car.

@6:30 plows into road debris roughly size and shape of a human lying on the road.

@9:00 finally correctly recognizes human on a crosswalk.

@11:00 Coyote, zero reaction and human takes over to avoid accident.
Between this and 1.5 billion fb users data being scrapped and sold...not a good day for the illusion of privacy today.
May be those elite are still around...
It's the fade-in animation on page load. Everything is blank until Javascript adds the "is-in" class to <body>
"Hackers Warn That If Demands Aren’t Met They Will Reactivate Facebook"

https://babylonbee.com/news/hackers-warn-that-if-demands-are...
Are you implying that autonomous navigation isn't a stepping stone to powerful weapons?
Facebook is so large that even caching the SERVFAIL with a TTL measured in seconds should cut down a lot of traffic.
"I'm not sure why Instagram's frontend servers returned 503, though."

One explanation is Facebook uses a proxy configuration that requires DNS in order to resolve the internal IP addresses for the backend servers. High availability proxy servers like haproxy can easily use files loaded into memory to do lookups, instead of making DNS requests. Apparently Facebook had no backup plan if the DNS method started failing. Facebook remained down until their DNS servers became available. The proxies continued to work and no doubt the backend servers were available the entire time, but proxies could not connect to them because the DNS lookups for their internal IP addresses (serv)failed. After the retried DNS queries finally timeout, a 503 is returned.

"Maybe their backend fleet was included in the withdrawn prefixes..."

According to Cloudflare's writeup the only prefixes withdrawn were for DNS servers.
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Sociotechnical lenses into software systems
Satellite Images Show Armada of Cargo Ships Waiting to Dock in Long Beac
That's precisely what my ISP did. In fact, they went a step further and appear to have hijacked all unencrypted DNS queries. I was able to run DNS queries using 'example.com' as my DNS server and get a response.
I ditched WhatsApp when I switched from Android to iOS and WhatsApp would not import my history.

I lost years of texting and image history, and just decided there was no reason to use WhatsApp if they can’t keep my history (possibly the most important part of texting including the images!)
Terraforming Mercury is a bit premature.

We can't even terraform Terra enough to fix the damage caused by mistakes humanity has made, even with all of Earth's resources readily to hand. How would we make even make the tiniest change on some other planet with no resources at all?
You need both, but smartness (whatever that is exactly) is overrated. A smart person can over-analyze every parameter of a job to the point where they waste time, or if they are lazy will rationalize their way out of actually doing anything, but ask Forrest Gump to dig a ditch and he'll just go ahead and do it. Forrest Gump in effect got curious enough to get a boat and start fishing for shrimp and with help from Lt. Dan created a shrimp empire, all while countless masters degrees were serving coffee somewhere.
There's no historical evidence of natural monopolies existing at the scale of cities. There are multiple American examples of decades long competition in utilities. The economic rationale for politicians to give their friends local monopolies long postdates the practice of doing so.

> The Myth of Natural Monopoly

> Most so-called public utilities have been granted governmental franchise monopolies because they are thought to be "natural monopolies." Put simply, a natural monopoly is said to occur when production technology, such as relatively high fixed costs, causes long-run average total costs to decline as output expands. In such industries, the theory goes, a single producer will eventually be able to produce at a lower cost than any two other producers, thereby creating a "natural" monopoly. Higher prices will result if more than one producer supplies the market.

> Furthermore, competition is said to cause consumer inconvenience because of the construction of duplicative facilities, e.g., digging up the streets to put in dual gas or water lines. Avoiding such inconveniences is another reason offered for government franchise monopolies for industries with declining long-run average total costs.

>It is a myth that natural monopoly theory was developed first by economists, and then used by legislators to "justify" franchise monopolies. The truth is that the monopolies were created decades before the theory was formalized by intervention-minded economists, who then
used the theory as an ex post rationale for government intervention. At the time when the first government franchise monopolies were being granted, the large majority of economists understood that large-scale, capital intensive production did not lead to monopoly, but was an absolutely desirable aspect of the competitive process.

http://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/rae9_2_3_3.pdf
China PCR Purchases Spiked in Months Before First Known Covid Cases
This is basically the solution py2many uses for handling overflow from fixed width integer types when transpiling from python to low level systemsy languages such as Rust/C++ and Go.

Please file bugs if something deviates from what's expressed here.
This comment makes no sense.

Not everyone uses Facebook services and the rest of the internet worked just fine.
They seem to be back now.
Microsoft's Outlook.com Is Down
What do you mean by "gaming" the system?
This is all very interesting, but why couldn't FB just push an update remotely to solve this?

I've seen mentions everywhere that to fix this they required physical access to the BGP routers.
It's about as power hungry as your laptop. Less so than a desktop. It's totally reasonable if you're installing a solar system to add a little more capacity to handle that much load. You can also turn it off when you aren't using it(or have your access point turn it on only when a wireless device connects to it, or something like that).
Any way to read this without an account?
The ecosystem seems pretty healthy... are users leaving?

It seems that there is a subset of the populace whose opinions you disagree with and want FB to stop serving those users. If female users didn't want to be rated, why would they post photos and encourage people to 'like' them? It seems FB/IG has found a set of users who want to rate photos and a set of users who want to upload photos to be rated. How is this 'toxic'?
How does my body my choice not apply to the other person?
Another CEO who's trying to set themself up as a president for life:

The rights of the holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock are identical, except with respect to voting and conversion rights. Each share of Class A common stock is entitled to one vote per share. Each share of Class B common stock is entitled to 20 votes per share and is convertible into one share of Class A common stock at any time. Jennifer Y. Hyman, our Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and the Chair of our board of directors, and Jennifer Fleiss, our Co-Founder and a member of our board of directors, together, the Co-Founders, and their affiliates, will together hold all of the outstanding shares of Class B common stock.

That used to be prohibited on the NYSE, except for Ford Motor Company, which predated the NYSE and was grandfathered in. Then Google got away with it on the NASDAQ. Then Zuckerberg, with Facebook. It used to take a CEO who had already pulled off a miracle, or investors would laugh off the IPO. Now, bottom-feeder companies like this think they qualify.

Consider that if this works, you now have the logistics problems of Netflix. Plus dry cleaning.

Now please turn to page F-4 and read the numbers.

Total revenue: $157.5M. Net loss: $171.1. Which means they need to be about 3x better at this to break even.

It doesn't matter that they're growing. This thing is expensive to run and, since it depends on physical product handling, does not get hugely cheaper at scale.
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>Rotary phones are an interface to a utility.

I'm not old enough to remember firsthand, but I believe rotary phones (in the US) are generally from the era when the phone company was a monopoly and strictly controlled what was plugged into their lines. So I think it may be technically correct to call them a (part of a) utility and not just an interface.
> While there have been a number of ambitious proposals intended to make BGP more secure, these are hard to implement because they would require every autonomous system to simultaneously update their behavior. Since this would require the coordination of hundreds of thousands of organizations and potentially result in a temporary takedown of the entire Internet, it seems unlikely that any of these major proposals will be put into place anytime soon.

Excellent. Just what I like to hear /s
Something I've thought a lot about: in most fields of study, modern scholars revere the 'old masters' that came centuries before for their genius: think Newton, DaVinci, Socrates, Galileo.

However, in medicine, most doctors will tell you that the doctors from 200+ years ago were idiots that did more harm than good.

Why is that? Is modern medicine too hubristic? Were the doctors of ages old really that dumb? Is this a trend that will repeat itself in 200 years?
my pihole is rate limiting my partners phone, up 20k + requests last hour to facebook et el. The rest of my non standard dns is holding up so far time will tell though, if the big boys get overwhelmed you might be correct.
> How can you fire the very people who risked it all and saved you last year?

Risked it all, except getting a covid vaccine to help reduce their patients exposure to covid
No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/the-vaccin...

The impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on Alpha & Delta variant transmission

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