skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's been some conversation about this at the previous link, back when it was over at syonyk.blogspot.com (I moved off that because Google ruined their new Blogger interface).

Five years later... still the best place I've ever worked from. Nothing to say, really. Power is reliable, I have more of it than I really need with how much solar I've got, the generator works fine in the winter, my speakers rock, and I don't have a commute. I cannot recommend such a thing highly enough.

//EDIT: Oh, I suppose I also have Starlink out here, but Dishy is so power hungry it lives on the house and I run connections out it over the property area network if my primary rural WISP connection (on the office) is acting up.
>I feel like we need to start differentiating between "public" personal information and more sensitive personal information (like social security numbers or other government ID numbers).

The flipside of this is that we need to make it such that simply knowing someone's Name, Address, DOB, and SSN is not adequate to fraudulently assume their financial identity and incur debts in their name.
1. You publish your information on a public site designed to disseminate information to as many people as possible.

2. Somebody sees this information and records it.

3. They publish this information on another site.

4. "Hackers stole my private data!!!!"

Really?!
Seems like Telegram went down with a big whatsapp-is-down hug of death.
Facebook made $29 billion last quarter which translates to $315,217,391 per day. Divide that over 24 hours in a day, and it's ~$13 million per hour.

Of course, depends on the hour of day. Facebook likely makes more ad money when North America is awake than when Asia is awake for instance.
between outage and whistleblower, this has got to be the worst day in facebook's life
Is there any real reason(s) to use facebook in 2021? Like, why bother? Are there any actual use case of owning facebook account now?
One of the things I find compelling about these skate designs is idea that a utility or municipality could provide the skate as a service to folk. Instead of everyone needing to own their own transport, we can own the container, and summon transport to move it around.

There's a lot of steps missing for that to be possible but it feels like a possible way to do things like re-mobilize the mobile/modular home.
Probably mostly like the present, and the past. Things don't really change much, especially people. We build new toys, that's about it.
Why talk in such generalities? Look at the github repo. There are only three committers to Casey's repo. I'm sure Microsoft could manage to contact them. I'm also quite sure that Microsoft has the money to entice a commercial license if they so wish.
And there his account went poof, thanks for archiving.
google suggest its from a social network movie
Paul, some engineers already live in the world where mistakes can cost lives. Including automotive software engineers. In fact, the engineering world is full of people who make compromises knowing that the product could be safer, but they're aiming for safe enough because that's the only real way to move forward.
Used to use Ninite but it's done some weird installs a few times. WinDirStat was nowhere to be found in my start menu once, and 7-Zip once had no start menu entry nor desktop icon, just the files in Program Files. Nowadays I just download each installer separately which also allows me to manage what options I check in each of them.
Would a soft core which is 10 times smaller than the original chip being emulated always lose on power? What if it's clocked down so that the emulated chip doesn't run much faster than the original?

In automotive, is power so ferociously tracked? Most of the energy in a car is to get it moving, and even running the cabin fan requires more wattage than a reasonable control system.
SearchPeopleFree<dot>com pretty much has a ton on a good majority of people. Get their phone number and if you want learn a lot about them.
So it just compiles public information. No opinion whether it's a good or bad thing here from me just pointing it out.
Ok, let's phrase it differently. In response to well-evidenced critique, raised after that 2002 book, the vibration theory of olfaction has been watered down so far that it is now arbitrary.

The wikipedia entry for the vibration theory of olfaction has plenty of links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_theory_of_olfaction?...

It didn't help the scientific debate that Turin's 2002 book contains some ad-hominem insults to scientists who had voiced challenges to his theory.

If the vibration theory has ever succeeded to uncover structure-smell relationships (like in the application with the US military that you quote), the it is because the vibrational spectrum of a molecule encodes its shape and internal flexibility. It does not mean that all olfactory receptors perform spectroscopy, as Turin claimed (note the past tense).
Reminds me of the time I spent ten days building a memory allocator based on a red-black tree to optimize lookup times for an interpreter that needed to be fast. When I compared its performance against a linear search, it failed miserably. Turns out the fixed overhead in implementing a red-black tree vastly outweighs a naive approach when you're only dealing with 20 terms or so.
Two drinks is not as much as you think.

I'm 5'11", 235lbs - I could stand to lose a little weight, but I've got a lot of muscle mass. I can drink a standard 12-oz 5% beer with a meal and not even notice the alcohol.

I can do that at lunch and dinner and not be noticeably intoxicated at all.
Do you have a source for that? Facebook claim 2.9 billion MAUs, half of them having a public profile seems pretty likely to me.
I worked at WhatsApp until 2019; I don't remember any disaster plans where taking everything down was an option (although I'm sure they exist), but dropping BGP sessions is probably not the best way to do it, because it's hard to reverse and hard to inspect the system without BGP.

Over in WA land, we'd probably just kill all the frontend servers if needed. For all of FB infrastructure, killing all the loadbalancers would probably work, and also the outgoing proxy hosts, as appropriate. No need to mess with DNS or BGP.
If your goal is not to be seen, relying on things without meaningful market share is actually fine.

Security through obscurity is bad long-term, comprehensive strategy because it's unstable and not indefatigable... Not because it doesn't work in the short run and in one-off cases.
The account has been deleted as well.
Ok, let's phrase it differently. In response to well-evidenced critique, raised after that 2002 book, the vibration theory of olfaction has been watered down so far that it is now arbitrary.

The wikipedia entry for the vibration theory of olfaction has plenty of links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration_theory_of_olfaction?...

It didn't help the scientific debate that Turin's 2002 book contains some ad-hominem insults to scientists who had voiced challenges to his theory.

If the vibration theory has ever succeeded to uncover structure-smell relationships (like in the application with the US military that you quote), it is because the vibrational spectrum of a molecule encodes its shape and internal flexibility. It does not mean that all olfactory receptors perform spectroscopy, as Turin claimed (note the past tense - he stepped back from that claim at least 8 years ago).
The EU published a comprehensive paper on the impact of open source
We do mob programming at my company, but do so 100% remote. We do it via zoom for screen share, and use https://mob.sh/ for handling the quick code handoff between drivers.
The amount of commission that Apple receives from an IAP isn't something that's in the code for an app. It's not something that could be part of the app review process. It's an arrangement between Apple and the developer.
I Patreon a podcast that has a private Discord for subscribers, and it is a great community. It seems like folks who like this particular podcast have a lot of things in common, and the paywall prevents toxic behavior.

I also know a professional* dungeon master who uses Discord to keep customers organized. I'm sure he could accomplish this coordination with e-mail and a spreadsheet, but Discord seems to cultivate community as a side-benefit.

*No, this isn't his fulltime job, but it seems to justify the amount of time/brainpower spent on Game Design/RP Writing efforts. And, yet again, charging folks a bit of money for membership puts them on their best behavior.
While Thunderbolt 3 could be the same as USB 4[*], USB 4 is not the same thing as USB-C.

And then there's also Thunderbolt 4.

* - it is really not. While USB4 is based on TB3, it made some TB3 parts optional. For example, USB4 is required to support 20 Gbps at minimum, while TB3 does 40 Gbps for all implementations.
Apple as of years ago was capturing over 90% of all the margin in smartphones (https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/23/apple-captures-record-91-per...). I'd argue that represents a monopoly in paid smartphones. Our option as users is either buy a phone from Apple or accept what is essentially a free service from Google (you have to buy the hardware)... who are giving that away to solidify their search monopoly. This to me doesn't represent a thriving marketplace of user choice.
"I've giv'n her all she's got captain, an' I canna give her no more."
There were a number of issues. My understanding is that Netflix was not paying 30% but rather was paying 15% due to their special agreement with Apple. According to the emails, it was Apple's refusal to go below 15% that triggered Netflix to begin testing not allowing payment via IAP. The "voluntary churn", "promotion coordination" and "revenue sharing" offers are from Apple trying to sweeten the pot to keep Netlfix from dumping IAP completely.
well... this is unfortunate:

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> facebook.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 36072
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
Exactly, the primary focus in situations like this, is to ensure that no one feel like they are alone, even if in the end it is one person who has to type in the right commands.

Always be there, help them double check, help monitor, help make the calls to whomever needs to be informed, help debug. No one should ever be alone during a large incident.
Interesting Timing!
> Partisan polarization is a feature of the divide between the major parties in the two-party system aligning with the major ideological divides in the country, which they tend to do in a normal stable political alignment, but not during a period of partisan realignment.

A feature? I'm not aware of any document written by the American founders that calls this a "feature" of the system. An emergent property of FPTP perhaps but not a feature. I'd call it a mistake to attribute more to FPTP than its intuitive appeal; the American founders invented FPTP off-the-cuff.

> The relatively low level of partisan divisiveness (despite the often quite high level of ideological divisiveness, seen in overlapping things like the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti-War Movement, the youth counterculture/“hippie” movement, etc.) in the (roughly) WWII to 1990s period isn't due to some kind of weird temporary absence of technology needed for partisan division, it is due to the long and overlapping partisan realignments spurred by (mainly) the New Deal Coalition and parties settling out their positions on civil rights. These things meant that on the politically salient ideological issues, the divide between the parties was not aligned with the major cleavages; “liberal Republicans” were farther left on the key ideological issues of the day than “conservative Democrats”, and the opposing ideological factions were present in both parties.

Right but what _caused_ this political realignment? I mean sure, you can say that the ideologies were extant and during the Civil Rights Movement (and that this divide itself traces itself back to the Reconstruction period and before that into the founding of the US itself) the New Deal Coalition began unraveling and formed the seeds of today's divide, but I submit a large part of what exacerbated that divide was technology. FDR was a popular president and helped cement the New Deal coalition largely because of his use of radio. Likewise Goldwater and early televangelists received a lot of their support from the rise of TV. Social media is just the continuation of this ongoing technological trend.
Windows 11

macOS 11

Debian 11

Android 11

this is the only reason android 12 was released
So this might explain why I've suddenly gotten a huge increase in SPAM text messages that know my name.
> [Reddit logo] u/ramenporn: deleted

> This user has deleted their account.
I confess I've harbored the idea that any benefits were simply benefits of not drinking soda. Another giant industry protected item.
There's a bit of a follow up here: https://www.sevarg.net/2020/05/23/on-working-from-home-and-j...

But... really, there's nothing much to say. It just does what I ask of it, which is to be an amazing workspace.
Does this mean Oculus is unusable now?
I don’t. Why would I need to know more than they decide to tell me? I got enough shit on my mind.
I tried changing DNS server, including 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1, nothing doing.

I looked up Facebook IP address and tried to go there directly, bypassing the DNS. No response.

(I don't care about Facebook much, it was a test. WhatsApp though I have to use to communicate with relatives.)
> The truth is that probably most successful people can't tell luck, serendipity and hard-work from wisdom. Times change, opportunities change etc. so how much is advice really worth?

The ability to work hard is also always 100% luck.

Humans do not control their DNA or what environment shaped them to be able and have the desire to work hard.
Great build and very similar to my off grid office. Tuff sheds are unbeatable for the price.

I went with a 16' x 12' (max size without needing a permit). Spray foamed the interior. Have not needed AC, but planning on putting in a 9k BTU mini split for heating/cooling.

I have a 3.3kWh 12v battery for accessories (lighting, water pump, fridge, cameras, 5G/wifi) and a 5.6kWh 48v for the rest.

I bought 5kw of used panels but have not mounted them (right now only 1.25kw hooked up laying on the ground)

Future plans are to try solar hot water storage - either insulated vacuum tubes, or dumping excess solar -> heating element.
This is apropos. I am buying some land and wanted to model it to help visualize building site options. There are publicly available topomaps and some DEMs but there was also LIDAR data sets too.

I spent hours learning how to render lidar point clouds into maps using QGIS and some other tools. Very steep learning curve but it was fun to do. Now to apply what I learned with this to make some neat shaded maps too!
disappearance of FB might not impact you, but India runs on WhatsApp.
I grew up around fundamentalist religious folks and I am glad that someone else sees the parallel here. And it's hard, because besides the more sociopathic types that are 100% motivated by social status, there are many who really mean well and just don't understand how destructive dogmatic thinking is, and how it tends to mainly help bolster the aforementioned sociopaths in their goals of domination rather than any intended good effects in the world.
I feel the same sometimes.

Every now and then I want to Google something a bit dubious, but decide against it, just in case. I mean, I've no intention of murdering anyone or anything like that, I'm just just a curious soul.
But doesn't the interception just make it so when a URL fires for the first time you get a browser picker? Or do they force set it when you set your browser default?

If it's the former then I'm totally in favor because there's a choice at least.
Jeffbee is right, but I would also point out the number of hurdles identified. Before the patriot act there were 100% violations of personal liberty and restrictions on consumption of information but there were more hurdles.

The point of the post here isn't that Google is providing records (which they have always if the situation has been identified as appropriate by a judge + public safety + ....) but that they are providing a really high level, in no way targeted or restricted request for records
A lot of addict's will now feel how is it to live in the reality not scrolling dump images. I hope this will be tradition at least once a month.
Interestingly, their .onion site¹ is also down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_onion_address
Yes. Depending on the person, it can either go extremely well or extremely poorly. Getting someone else to point a camera at the screen helps.
Show HN: Mats Is a Java Lib for Message-Oriented Asynchronous Service Endpoints
Anyone able to Connect w WhatsApp at the moment?
I wonder if Facebook has circular 'boot' dependencies on their microservices or something? I.e. they can't restart stuff now when everything is down.
they shouldn't.
Use miniconda. It's much better.
DHS: Guidance to Mitigate Security Risks with Advancement of Quantum Computing
Ways of relieving stress and work anxiety
Re-reading, sorry.

So ... "probability of surviving another 10 years" is different from life-expectency. It's a variant on mortality, though expressed over a 10 year period rather than a 1 year period.

For comparison, see the SSA's actuarial life tables. This gives 1-year mortality (both as percentage and as expected survivors per 100,000 lives) for each year of life from 0 to 119:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

I'm not aware of a compilation or chart showing changes in actuarial mortality by age over time.

There's a good chart of anticipated deaths per year (separately for women and men) in the UK:

https://understandinguncertainty.org/why-life-expectancy-mis...

What question are you trying to answer by looking at mortality probability?
Acid ketosis is linked to increased GABA levels in the brain, so you could always work out or go on a keto diet to get similar effects.
Bezos is a huge Trek fan, so he'd be equally mortified is my guess.
Mats is a Java library that makes it simple to code asynchronous, stateless (or stateful, depending on your point of view), multi-stage, messaging-based services. Mats Endpoints immediately provide all the benefits you get from a fully asynchronous messaging-based architecture, while being almost as simple to code as blocking, synchronous JSON-over-HTTP endpoints.

This code has been running in production for multiple years as the inter-service communication layer for a financial system consisting of >40 services and several hundred Mats Endpoints, processing several million Request/Reply messages per day.

Since I got interested in distributed computing early in my career, I've had a fundamental dislike of how multi-service systems connected by synchronous communication behaves in face of pretty much every kind of problem. While finding the concepts both in SEDA, and elements of the Actors model, very interesting wrt. dividing up a process in multiple steps, using some form of queues to bind them together, where you effectively get a buzzing network of "working entities" that asynchronously communicate with each other via messages, they are still mostly handling single-service problems.

I eventually realized that a proper messaging based architecture, typically using an external message broker, would be the proper solution to get both high availability, scalability, transactionality and hence fault tolerance. So why wasn't messaging used much more? Why is it that most developers when faced with inter-service communication needs, reach for Something-over-HTTP when it obviously is way worse than messaging?

After having plowed through Enterprise Integration Patterns, and read half the internet looking for simple solutions, I realized that the main issue is that it is simply much more complex to code a multi-service architecture using messaging. You loose the simplicity of coding a "straight down" service method, where you synchronously call out to other services and compose your service as if remote procedure calls are just local method invocations. You also loose the composability that a bunch of RESTish services give, since a set of messaging-based consumer-and-producer stages which constitute a service process are often bespoke to that particular process, where it typically isn't possible to easily reuse a part of such a process from a new service.

We were heading into a quite large project involving multiple integrations and domains, and were going for a "microservice" architecture - and with the insights above, I set out to create a way for making messaging-based services as simple to code as classical synchronous HTTP calls. While there are lots of discussion about lots of things among our developers, there aren't many calls for going back to HTTP.
Obviously I don't know your friend, but as someone who has dealt with depression and whatnot constantly for most of my life, and intermittently since I started medication four years ago, I can tell you that it's not terribly hard to make yourself seem happy and content online.

It's almost easier to appear happy online when you know you're not; you don't want people to try and offer you unsolicited advice about how "exercise worked for them" or "changing to this particular diet changed my life" or crap like that, so you fake it [1]. You only post things that you think are interesting, you minimize how much you talk about your personal life, and when you do it's only to flex about something cool you did. Whenever I did open up to friends later about my mental health stuff, they were always really surprised to hear it, and that was by design.

[1] To be clear, I'm not knocking diet and exercise. If you're feeling depressed, eating healthier and getting regular exercise is probably the best (and cheapest) place to start, and offers a bunch of other benefits too. My life did improve when I stopped eating Taco Bell ever day.
There's a big language problem here. It's not the whole of the issue, but it's certainly a big component.

In C and C++ there are a huge number of things that are legal, and thus must not cause an error diagnostic (out of the box) - and yet are obviously not what anybody should do (and so a warning diagnostic is appropriate if the compiler can successfully diagnose them).

You give the example of "sometimes I want to use assignment for its result". A better language outright forbids this. If you want the result, write that, if you want an assignment, write that, if you want both, write both so that it's clear what you intended, and let the optimiser turn your clear program into efficient machine code rather than trying to out-guess the machine.

Ideally warnings would not be red flags. If warnings are stuff like "This variable's name start with a capital letter when that's contrary to standard style guides." or "You keep saying 15 in this program, have you considered just defining a constant instead for whatever 15 is?" then you're in a better place, but unfortunately in C the warning is more likely to be "99.99% of the time this code is a buffer overflow, so, you probably don't mean that" or "It looks like this does X doesn't it? But, it actually does nothing at all, and for complicated reasons we can't make it do X, so, I really hope you didn't mean X."
I assume that there are anecdotes of people doing toxic metal detoxes and having some success with reducing symptoms?
Show HN: Convert articles and blog posts into AI-generated audio.
Even Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS server says can't find, SERVFAIL.
> don't update routing systems between data centres (IIRC the situation) when they don't have people present

Ha. You put too much faith into people.