skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not surprising, no, but it is irritating because it's just crass marketing.
I imagine that developing countries were affected the worse, although that particular scenario is sad, I can't help but think of all the lost revenue that families/small businesses suffered because this outage.
Wasn't wireguard supposed to be released natively in this version? I didn't see anything in the release notes about this.
No surprises here. They do it all the time for websites they cdn. Cloudflare might as well be a marketing company for how much they puff about themselves.
They seem to be treating it as a marketing opportunity, as well as explaining these topics for journalists. If their post didn't add to the public conversation, it wouldn't have been so viral.
"Shouldn’t we focus on making those services accessible and affordable? "

This. If calls and international calls were acessible, whatsapp wouldnt exist
Did somebody say the Fastest Fourier Fransform in the West [1]?

I love this kind of stuff, but the barrier to entry just seems so huge.

https://ocaml.org/learn/success.html#FFTW
You can still have a separate makefile target for -Wall -Werror, even if you are releasing the source code; Alternatively you can add it this check conditioned on the presence of an optional environment variable, and set that environment variable in your CI pipeline. Also don't forget to add -Wextra, if you are at it! I don't quite understand the controversy, this is just another code checking tool, just like lint.

Also: did anyone write an article titled "'consider harmful' is considered harmful" yet? I am considering writing something like this. I think this genre has a tendency to state an opinion as the final truth with a capital T, and because of that, it tends to provoke argument out of nothing.
Even some who got tested positive in the past and who have better immunity than most of the vaccinated ones...
I went to a VC meeting where we presented along side RTR and at that moment I was seriously impressed. This might have been more than five or six years ago. I’ve been following them ever since. It’s cool to see a tiny startup your own startup grew up next to open up retail locations and gain wild success. Go for it!

They might have been quite larger than my startup at the time but since it’s a company very outside my general interests it was very new to me at the time :)
> Does this mean people who _don't_ buy 4K displays at those resolutions are going to be disadvantaged with strangely-huge UIs?

My experience so far is that if your monitor is "too small" for a given app the UI will be gigantic, sometimes to the point of being unusable.

If your monitor is "too big" for a given app, the UI will be tiny, sometimes to the point of being unusable.

Because of (I guess?) the way that Windows (so far?) has handled things, I keep ending up with apps which are too large on my laptop's 1080p screen running alongside apps which are too small on my laptop's external 1440p screen.

> It reminds me a little bit of when Apple's retina displays first came out and nobody knew how to handle widely-different resolutions, which resulted in huge UI/icons on normal-resolution monitors and fuzzy UI/icons on high-resolution ones, for the longest time.

This is a great comparison; I think the difference with MacOS is that if you're doing everything "natively" on MacOS, everything "just kinda worked" a lot of the time, but if your app does any custom drawing (e.g. for toolbar buttons) everything went to hell. In contrast, there are a lot of apps on Windows which use native controls and menus and so on which do not handle scaling well at all. Possibly they're using some API that wasn't properly updated, like Win32 or GDI or who knows what else.

I even have one app, which my company makes :/, which has an odd behaviour: if you launch it when you have a 1080p primary display, and then switch to having a 1440p primary display (by plugging into a dock or monitor or whatever) the right-click menu for the system tray icon shows up at the appropriate location for a 1080p monitor - the correct distance from the top and left of the screen - which, on a 1440p display, is near the middle of the screen.

Which reminds me, I need to report that bug.
> I see nothing wrong with Cloudflare just explaining what happened, even though they had nothing to do with it.

You kinda inadvertently highlighted the issue: because they had nothing to do with it, they do not know what actually happened. They can pontificate about likely causes, just like others in the industry can, but they have no idea what actually caused the issue.
Have a lot of friends that adid their PhDs just for credentialism. Yes, they put a lot of effort and time, but the knowledge they created was frankly not that important.
I am favor of valuing results, relevance, not effort.
Because you're still allowing people who can transmit the disease around these "vulnerable" patients.

And the line drawn isn't even an arbitrary number, but an arbitrary policy with an assumed improvement.

An improvement that we know isn't good enough to prevent spread in populations with near 100% vaccination rates.
The ‘this’ is taking care of someone who is declining or needs assistance for daily living - added on to the responsibilities of one of their children, which is how I read your comment.

The difficult situations I’m talking about were folks who didn’t need emergency intervention and weren’t hard cases. Rather folks who would wander out side the home looking for yard work to do and then hurt themselves because they thought they were 20, or who would try to go to union hall (that they used to go to), and then get lost on the way.

Those situations were much, much harder to handle than they looked from the outside, and caused immense stress on the caregivers relationship with their spouse (and them), required full time attention (which means no job and fewer social events or other outside activities), and while yes placed less strain on ‘the system’, were an immense strain on the people involved.

They still ended up having to go to care homes, as it eventually (after 5ish years) was too crushing a load.
As someone who is always interested in learning new things, their blog post is informative and helpful. Not everything is about optics, their intentions are of no interest to me, because I got some value out of the content.
Using Subsurface on BSDF instead of ColorRamp gives also nice result.
>, but it is still your opinion, yes?

No, it's not my opinion. I'm making factual statements of language evolution which doesn't care about my opinion. A bunch of other people we have no control over have already used "AI" the way it's being used now. I think you're trying to be combative and argumentative about the word "AI" and I don't know why.

I ask you to click on the google link for "YC-backed AI startup". What would be your definition of "AI" such that all those headlines can be interpreted correctly? How is everyone using that term? And when Amazon/Apple/Google/Microsoft announce that they have a new feature "AI assisted this or AI-powered that" ... what do they mean? This thread's article used the term "AI" and "AI system" to refer to DeepMind's GAN neural network. What did the author mean by "AI" in his text? Certainly not AGI. So what's left?
Decrypting New Age International Capital Flows
i'm not boarding a craft made by a company called BOOM...
Surely they must have already established a loss function in order to train the network in the first place?
> The study employs a novel sampling method with a soft ask and low response rate, the effect of which has not yet been fully studied

> To our knowledge, no other study has evaluated education with this level of granularity, which was possible due to our unusually large sample size (>10,000 participants with PhDs). Further investigation in to hesitancy among those with a PhD is warranted.

Given the "novel sampling method" and lack of other studies with similar results, you have to take those results with the grain of salt. It's an interesting finding worth studying further, but you can't really know if they were able to get a representative sample of PhDs, so it's premature to make a definitive claim that they are less likely to vaccinated.
Cloudflare: https://1.1.1.1/purge-cache/

OpenDNS: https://cachecheck.opendns.com/
Number three is run away profit for every other fab in the world. Like the fabs in hard-to-bomb parts of the US. I realize they are not at the level of TSMC but that’s because they have not had to get to that level. They will.
Missing optimistic rollups, which looks to be the next stage for Ethereum. There are several companies working on this
Considering how important Taiwan's fabs are to the US it seems unlikely the US would turn a blind eye to the attack, and an escalation like that would signal further threats to Korea, Japan, and Australia.
The hardware they use for their CDN was recently discussed on HN. They don't use AWS hardware for their CDN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738
Two things:
a) It isn't a purely Brexit issue, however Brexit has made it worse since UK employers can't even pay more to get drivers in, even if they wanted to, as there isn't the local capacity, and they can't bring in EU labour anymore.
b) It's probably not as good a deal as it appears anyway: https://www.fastcompany.com/90634247/no-a-texas-company-is-n...
I don't think it's necessarily about religion. I have nonreligious, very sciency type friends who are simply opposed to drinking. Even after I show them the studies, they do as you describe, move goalposts and desperately try to justify their beliefs in some type of science.

It's just a morality/cultural issue. They see people drinking & driving, excessively drinking and being violent, depicted IRL and in movies, and want to distance themselves from these bad types of people that drink alcohol.
Why not do both? ;)
?? A CryptoPunk should want a class of regime agents to be annointed as censors of Facebook posts?

This is the kind censoring I've personally been subjected to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28411734

Meanwhile on Twitter, the "fact-checkers" are now taking it upon themselves to try to discredit tweets that make the leading personalities of the political left look bad:

https://i.ibb.co/N7XYpkH/Screenshot-20211005-081040-Facebook...

This is abuse of the allegedly impartial fact-checking process for clearly ideological ends.

Like Glenn Greenwald said:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1434854149087182848

>>The entire "anti-disinformation"/"anti-extremism" industry is a gigantic fraud, funded by the same tiny handful of billionaires, governments and NGOs: a scam to control discourse while feigning neutral, non-ideological goals to battle "disinformation"
how are they 'interjecting' themselves? They run a massively popular dns service as well as many other sites, and they are simply reporting on what happened and why people who use their dns etc might have had outages. In addition to being a very detailed and well written article on the whole incident. Not really sure what you are driving at.
About 1 major version per year, for some weird reason.
Careful how you treat this, lots of people around here got their first computer interaction with the VIC-20, completed their first programs tutorial with an ascii jumping jack and played gorf! ;)
China will only attack Taiwan if it has to. China attacking Taiwan is like the US attacking Hawaii.

China's red line is if Taiwan declares independence. Exactly the same as the Union declared war on the Confederacy when the Confederacy declared independence.
The recent Van Buren decision would make that unlikely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27389500
Ah that makes sense. I think I'm on a hairpin trigger about people saying Qualcomm chips are fast enough for consumers. Mostly because I'm frustrated and upset by their chips every single day. But I'm not a Qualcomm customer, just a lowly user.
This is very cool, I have solar on my house, but I started tinkering with a panel for off grid use.

https://youtu.be/E9Ea2n1vryo

Solar Bilge Pump - Moving Thousands Gallons of Water Off Grid! Kid Homeschool Solarpunk Engineering
I knew Rent-a-Swag was a good idea
OK but then make the vaccine (which one btw? there's so many to choose from for sars-cov-2) mandatory.

Don't say people have a choice, then punish those who decided to choose to not get vaccinated.

I'm fully vaccinated and so is my wife, but I'll fight for the right of those who decide to not get vaccinated.

It's not ok to call other names (like "egoist") when they exercise the choice they still, to this date, have.
There is a book called “Hate Inc.” by Matt Taibi in which the author inadvertently argues that manufacturing consent is no longer profitable and news outlets are now in the business of manufacturing dissent.
> Not really sure what you are driving at.

At the fact that they are presenting themselves as authorities on the incident, when they have no internal knowledge of what triggered the events, because they are not Facebook engineers. They provide an explanation of BGP that you can glean by reading virtually any other introductory explainer, and turn it into a chance to promote their own service.
> Sure, this might be true but you're diverting from the point OP is making.

I don't see how? OP is saying that the low-effort comments are more frequent on this post than on other HN posts ("...an unusual amount of reddit style small comments on this outage"). I'm agreeing with that assertion, and positing a possible explanation for it ("people felt a fundamental sort of relief, and expressed it through offhand comments").

Your assertion, on the other hand, seems to be that these low-effort comments are present on all posts – which seems to me to be, if anything, more of a diversion from OP's point of view.
They will be sold by a company incorporated in the PRC.
The Chinese wouldn’t be crazy to bomb fabs
> Would you hire... a software engineer that didn't believe in binary?

Though unary is quite sufficient, it really depends upon whether they are legally licensed to practice software engineering. Believing or not believing in numbers or numbering systens, which are ideas with no tangible existence, can not be a criteria for employment because federal law (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act) and the laws of most states prohibit employers from engaging in religious discrimination.[1]

[1] https://www.cantorsparadise.com/why-mathematics-isnt-much-di...
It'd be cool if there was a service that took old clothing, stripped them all down to the threads or whatever (idk anything about fashion - I wear the free t shirts I get at conferences lol), and make really cool clothing from that. When you're bored you can return the clothing (doesn't matter if its ripped) and it gets re-used to make the next season's fashion. You could even partner with locals all around the world who could use the economic opportunity and work on making truly global clothing that incorporates all the beautiful traditional clothing and customs too.

It could be a bit premium service too, I'm sure some of the highly paid professionals would be totally on board to try it as it scales.

All in one platform, I'll help code it. If it already exists, let me know the name.
also people's badges stopped working and they were unable to get physical access to sites.
> Apple by comparison demands 15% which is 3.5x as much of a cut. Apple provides credit card processing, and approval into the App Store [...] . This isn't anywhere near the value that AWS provides, despite demanding a much higher premium.

It's access to an extremely valuable demographics. Everyone ships on the App Store first because that's where paying customers and high value users are.

All that AWS infrastructure to stream media is worthless without consumers at the other end of the wire.
CNN isn't mainstream media anymore? https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/29/economy/truck-driver-shor...

FoxNews neither? https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/truck-drivers-shortage...

Funnily enough, the trade rags seem to imply that this is all a big scare by big business trying to push down the salaries of drivers: https://www.trucknews.com/transportation/truck-driver-shorta...
I'm curious how your batteries are holding up? I know effectively nothing about lead acid battery lifespans, but I saw a question asked on your blog concerning the heat the batteries would be subjected too. Did you ever hook up a AC system for the batteries?
Out of curiosity, I looked up how much it costs to become an registrar. Based on the ICANN site, it is $4,000 USD per yr, plus variable fees and transactions fees ($0.18/yr). Does anyone have experience or insight into running a domain registrar? Curious what it would entail (aside from typical SRE type stuff).
Except that this time the elixir isn't powered by magic or fairy tales.

Aging is just another biological process. It's controlled by genetics and environment like everything else, and can be manipulated using similar principles.

It seems likely (thinking of CRISPR and similar inventions) the rudimentary tools for controlling aging are coming of age. I believe biological immortality is closer than we think.
Exiting a space is always possible by using a request to exit button/sensor or crash bar. Fire codes do not allow for Triangle Shirtwaist situations anymore.
I haven’t rented anything from them in several years but I know they used to sell the worn items at the end of the season or sometimes the end of the next season. They were really great deals, too. I would imagine they still sell the items at the end of their expected rental life though I’m not sure whether they sell directly to customers anymore. It wouldn’t surprise me if they had figured out a way to sell the older items in bulk.
HN had availability issued int he same time frame, so that isn't too surprising...
Deliberate murders of individuals are morally very different from tiny risks of deaths in a large population.

Nothing good comes from trying to treat them as the same.
You can always put in a energy/heat recovery ventilator. They use the outgoing stale air to warm/cool the incoming fresh air, so it’s more efficient than leaving a window open. Downside is they need a small amount (20-60w) of power for fans.
Encode Sensor Data with CBOR on BL602
Fashion industry produces 10% of world CO2 and consumes a ton of water in the process [1]. To get H&M pricing, you’re using extremely low pay workers which in the case of China, could easily be forced labor. You have to include the total picture to make a fair comparison.

[1] https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/09/23/costo-m...
Not really. Unvaccinated healthcare workers risk killing patients.
Apple by comparison demands 15% which is
3.5x as much of a cut. Apple provides
credit card processing, and approval into
the App Store (plus according to a comment
in this email, it sounds like they keep
Netflix in the App Store promotion rotation
as "free" ad-space). This isn't anywhere
near the value that AWS provides

That's debatable. To put it mildly.

Apple provides them access to, literally, nearly a billion potential customers who, on average, spend twice as much on app store purchases relative to Android users. [1]

Apple spends billions of dollars to do this, by creating (by many measures) best-in-class hardware devices, including designing their own bespoke in-house CPUs that trounce the majority of their consumer level competition.

It's not directly comparable to what AWS does, so I'm not sure we could possibly quantify how valuable it is to Netflix vis-a-vis AWS. However: it sure isn't nothing, and may well be 3.5x the value that AWS provides.

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/iphone-user...
I don't think it matters whether its that statistically significant. You can increase expected-value by increasing likelihood of occurrence, or increase the value of the outcome.

Take a loan shark, for example. You don't need to take a leg every time a loan is late. You just need to do it to enough of them, visibly enough, that everyone gets the message -- you can miss a payment, and maybe get away with it... but you also might get seriously fucked up.

And suddenly, no one's missing payments. Because the % chance of failure might be low, but the damage done is dramatically high (potentially infinite, if you escalate from taking legs to taking heads) -- giving you a very a high expected-value.

You only need to expel a few people from society for espousing wrong-think, to get most people to fear speaking wrong (accidentally, or intentionally). And it's perfectly rational.

Regarding terrorism, it's the same thing. You don't need to have that many terrorist events for it to be rational to defend heavily against them -- if they do enough damage (e.g. 9/11), they've made up for their rarity. The problem with defense-against-terrorism is that it's used to justify things that have nothing to do with it, or very weakly related (eg invasion of countries, elimination of security protocols, invasions of privacy, etc) and is used as a scapegoat for all sorts of nefarious activity.

The part that's irrational is not the fear of terrorists, but rather the mindless interpretation of anything that claims to help resolve that fear.
Maybe because no one has asked for, or has seen the need for, something like that?
Closed-loop neuromodulation in an individual with treatment-resistant depression
Human error when prepairing the update, maybe some kind of security system in the code should have this excetion catched and not let it run.
So => Facebook fault - also for hundreds of other online companies that lost money
It's a silly idea because plenty of companies have high revenue and low profit (or net loss), and are not anti-competitive in the slightest. An arbitrary revenue cap doesn't help the situation at all, as evidenced by the steel company.

Disincentivizing growth is... dumb.
As in the script is generated by the AI?

Or the whole movie?

And comedy, could the AI do standup comedy? Where the jokes are generated by it, rather than the human?
I read that on-site badge readers denied access to employees! (Not necessarily the critical team to resolving the outage, but still...)
It's a link aggregator, it being a source of information shouldn't come as a surprise.
Line in Ukraine with extensive defense warranties? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
Human error when preparing such a big update and schedule it for the (European) afternoon and the Asian evening. Maybe some kind of security system in the code should have caught this exception and not let the computer take control of this.
So → Facebook's fault — also for hundreds of other online companies that lost money.
This is a key feature of Junos on Juniper devices. It's called 'commit confirmed' and it will apply the config and then auto-rollback if you don't confirm it within a certain amount of time.

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/c...

But Facebook's network is certainly much more complex and automated than just doing one commit on one device.

But I think they do still uses Juniper devices at the edge.
You say the pricing is “per rows read” - is this “rows returned to user” or “rows read as a part of query execution”? You probably want to clarify this on the website.

Both of those choices have non-obvious consequences.

If it’s the former, this means you charge the same for “select one row by primary key” and “select biggest value of un-indexed column in huge table”. And a GROUP_CONCAT can save significant amount of money.

If it’s the latter, the monthly service cost depends on how good query optimizer is. A small change in the SQL query, or a version upgrade in the ORM you are using can cost you thousands of dollars per month.
A ‘Pacemaker for the Brain’: No Treatment Helped Her Depression — Until This

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/health/depression-treatme...
Will Science Survive COVID19?