skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How far can we scale up? Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns [video]
Are there any European, online CS courses for intermediate/advanced developers?
I am a self-taught developer looking for an equivalent to Bradfield CSI, Georgia Tech, WGU, ... or any other online, curated Computer Science curricula that can be joined from Europe.
Seems like noel already launches that one
I never thought I'll see this headline ever.
Sir, I don't care who you are, you must open a ticket.
Did Mark take a baseball bat to their servers..?
from what i understand (take with grain of salt) remote access to the routers affected is down. So they need to be physically plugged in to address the issue. hence some of the other "scrambling private jets" comments referring to getting the right people physically plugged in to the right routers.
Seems like noel already launched that one
Uniregistry is transferring all of their customers to Godaddy. This might have something to do with the migration.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp hit by outage
Material You is just gorgeous. I love the pastel color schemes it makes, and the shapes are very refreshing compared to what has been "in" for the last few years IMO
Seems reasonable that at a company of 60k, with hundreds who specialize in PR, you do not want a random engineer making the choice himself to be the first to talk to the press by giving a PR conference on a random forum.
If you believe the phenomenon of Gell-Mann amnesia then the answer is no: people are only smart when they talk about things you know more about; not just until.
This is probably the case. Anyone who buys it won't get a successful registration. Probably a refund, if the uniregistry folks are nice enough.

Not really "news", just a faulty check.
Yes, and it works if both parties are able to communicate using precise language. The onus is on the remote SME to exactly articulate steps, and on the local hands to exactly follow instructions and pause for clarifications when necessary.
Favored clients in this case aren't slick guys in a suit, I'm talking about people who want the bank to manage billions of dollars for them, as compared to me and my shitty savings account that may or may not have any money in it.
The site is working fine for me. Speedtest CLI also is useful but doubt when DNS is down.
>"If we continue to allow keyword warrants we should add a law limiting their reach, e.g. by limiting the number of people who can be revealed in the answer to any one such warrant."

What's frustrating is that that limit is already present in the constitution itself: "upon probable cause... and... *particularly* describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized". "Particularly" isn't syntactic sugar; it is a word with meaning. "Specifically, uniquely or individually";
"In detail; with regard to particulars". Mass/dragnet/geofence warrants aren't constitutional.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/particularly#Adverb

Plenty of federal judges seem to agree,

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/new-federal-court-ruli...

"...geofence warrant violates the Fourth Amendment’s probable cause and particularity requirements"*
> No, if you get warnings, it means that your code is (and was already) wrong.

I get dozens of warnings for unused variables, signed unsigned conversions (where the value range is API enforced), etc. . Long ago we had thousands of warnings and went through our code base just to get rid of them, I would be surprised if we fixed even one bug while doing that, most was just adding some verbose construct to be explicit about what was already happening. Warnings can be helpful, which is why I still have them enabled, but not everyone is.
The Frustration of Getting a Bus in Indonesia – Expectation vs Reality
When does the bus leave, who knows?
Early Acorn Archimedes users would like a word about that "first" claim, it misses by a few decades!
Not just destroy, destroy and steal too. Because why not.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/16/22676706/apple-watch-swip...
Patreon and Twitch already handle Discord roles though.
This is a convenient ethical construction for Cloudflare: "Sure, our customers did terrible things, but really, the real lapse would be if we didn't accept money from them!" But it doesn't hold up. While everyone needs food and water, nobody needs a CDN.
I love this article so much, the tone, the perspective, the research.

I love how he mounts a reasonable defense of everyone involved, then proceeds to argue against his own defense and tear them down.

I want to be friends with the author.
You can run in this circle as long as you want. If the FDA execs and the McKinsey execs reach a mutual understanding of the circumstances, including the fact that McKinsey is going to be simultaneously serving unnamed third parties with contrary interests, and that this is ok, then the reasonably prudent person will conclude that these are not factors to cause them to question the contractor's impartiality. It would not be surprising to me at all if additional language in the contract explicitly address this point.
wait for me!
https://archive.is/VtKFt
I think the ICANN dispute division would retake ownership of the domain and give it back to Facebook.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en
Security Best Practices for Fintech Application Development
In my experience, any service dashboard is useless unless the problem has been going on for so long (i.e. hours) that it is obvious something's wrong.
The problem with tweets on transgender bathrooms is that you can be attacked for them by either side at any point in the future, so the user OverTheCounterIvermectin should have known better.
Look here: https://twitter.com/Pytlicek/status/1445085177475223559
I made a few screenshots. This is really really weird :/
K-anonymity in action. (The only thing you need to do is change your name to someone else's name.)
ProtonMail was required to do this, under Swiss law. They don't track you by default, but they can be compelled to add logging by their government.

This isn't an issue with ProtonMail in particular; any email provider has to follow local laws, and Swiss law is generally a pretty good framework if you have to choose.
Sweet. Shutdown the dating apps as well and we'll rewin our sanity.
Curious what the internal "privacy" limitations are. Certainly FB must track reddit users : fb account even if they don't actually display it. It just makes sense.
Indisputable. Everyone knows T-Mobile has worse coverage than Verizon. But not everyone knows just how much improvement has been made in the last 5 years, especially due to Band 71 coming online in most places.
I thought about some hot water storage, but I just don't have the space for the tanks, and it seems more trouble than it's worth. I have heaters, but mostly bundle up in the winter and focus on keeping myself warm. An incandescent bulb over the keyboard is great for heating hands too!
It's not that merit is bad. It's that money is often used as a proxy for merit. If you have lots of money a common default assumption is that you earned that money through merit of some kind.

So you have phrases like: "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"
Facebook does use IRC and Zoom as a fallback.
Yeah, it seems like a lot of places online are facing the same. Even here has been bad for me
In the US the temperance movement that led to prohibition was motivated in no small part by evangelical Christianity.
All most people have to do now is install an app and it takes care. But messaging need to go from media and news.
Home addresses were absolutely shown in Bell Telephone White Pages phone books delivered to just about every domicile in the USA each year; you could not opt out of receiving the White and Yellow pages, though for a fee you could be “unlisted” and not appear in them.
The problem here are not the special deals, saurik commented he cut special deals in the Cydia store occasionally the last time this topic came up. The problem is that there is no alternative to Apple when it comes to publishing software and content on the iPhone and that makes these kind of deals unfair.
An act of unfriending someone is interpreted as hostile action. It's much easier just to not be there in the first place.
The thing that convinces me there are issues at facebook is the general low quality of ads I'm seeing in my feed. This is a troubling sign for any company dependent on ad revenue when you're short on brand style advertising, and it seems like only remanent inventory.
We could also just put a tax of 100% on any revenue in excess of $10bn a year and nip this entire society-destroying problem in the bud.
Damian Quits Billions After 5 Seasons; Season 6 to Debut in January
LOL. I haven't come across you before today (so, not sure if this is a joke), but for the past few hours every social network has more active users than Facebook.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748203
Netflix is very easy to cancel, though? There's a big honking "cancel membership" button on the top level account settings page. It's actually more prominent than other entries on the page.

http://imgur.com/a/09XZ9jb

Also very easy to change your plan level up or down.
So what you're saying is facebook... deleted itself?

The singularity is happening. It realized it would end society, so it ended itself.
These are readily available, OpenGear and others have offered them forever. I can't believe fb doesn't have out of band access to their core networking in some fashion. OOB access to core networking is like insurance, rarely appreciated until the house is on fire.
I hope you won't have to delete your account too :)
It's not hyperbole to say that this is going to literally save lives.

Cutting off Facebook's firehouse of hate and misinformation for just a couple hours is going to have a obvious positive effect on millions of people. At this scale, at least one person will get vaccinated today because they didn't see the wall of ignorance that is FB's news feed.

Maybe we should introduce "digital blue laws", where one day a week, social media is shut down for the overall good of society.
Whatever your opinions are, I appreciate you all reading and having a civil discussion. You all rock!
Re: hourly rates, I something think about what people say about democracy: "it's the worst form of government, except for all the rest."

Tbh I'm torn here, since hourly rates are really good for preventing scope creep. Where as per-project flat rates aren't great because they practically invite in scope creep.

I do think that retainer models for independents may very well be the future and are a nice happy medium.

That said, your point about "if you and your customer working together can’t define the tasks, put them in order, and assign values to them then you’re not doing the necessary requirements gathering and analysis" is tough because often times your customer doesn't want to pay for that. Curious, how do you get around that?
I'm not sure why shareholders are lumped in here. A lot of reasons companies do the secret squirrel routine is to hide their incompetence from the shareholders.
I started getting about 6 SPAM texts a day starting a few days ago AND they knew my name!
1. The domain is likely transfer locked and it's a bug in the registrar's availability detection triggered by the DNS outage

2. Even if it wasn't, Facebook could follow the UDRP process to get it back.

If you were holding it to ransom and threatening them with an outage the length of the UDRP process that might be extortion but if you just bought it out of curiousity and it went through and you handed it back it'd probably end up just like the guy who got google domains to "sell" him google.com a few years back

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/guy-bought-google-com-google-...
The cost of the downtime would be
Years from now, we will remember this day.

Elrond : Men? Men are weak. The Blood of Numenor is all but spent, its pride and dignity forgotten. It is because of Men the Ring survives. I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago. I was there the day the strength of Men failed.

Elrond : [scene switches to a flashback of Elrond and Isildur] Isildur, hurry, follow me.

Elrond : [voiceover] I led Isildur deep into the fires of Mount Doom, where the Ring was forged, the one place it could be destroyed.

Elrond : Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!

Isildur : No.

[walks away]

Elrond : Isildur!

[cuts back to present]

Elrond : Isildur kept the Ring. It should have ended that day, but evil was allowed to endure. There's no strength left in the world of Men. They're scattered, divided, leaderless.
Agree and feel the same way with presentations like this. Also, I dislike how so many tech presentations have such a childish tone or silliness to them all the time, instead of just presenting information to adults as adults in a normal way. It's very distracting in my opinion.
T-Mobile uses deep packet inspection to kill VPNs with TCP RST packets and has arrangements with Android to throttle tethering to hell.

The solution is only use TCP networking (UDP transit is intentionally FUBAR) and EasyTether Pro on stock Android.
I’d buy that for a dollar!
My take is a little bit different from what I've read so far. SpaceX just completed a truly history all-civilian, all-non-astronaut, three day orbital flight at an altitude above the ISS. SpaceX also secured Artemis mission contracts. They go to space all the time and continue to optimize their reusable orbital-class systems.

the Blue Origin and Virgin offerings are not even in the same class.
And Blue Origin/Bezos is struggling to remain relevant. I see the Shatner thing purely as a publicity stunt. I also see it as having no real value whatsoever. Just my opinion.

On top of that, they raised over $200MM for St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

The SpaceX Netflix documentary on the Inspiration4 mission is worth watching.

Here's the flight's website:

https://inspiration4.com/
Courts in the US are generally quite independent of the political process. Abuse of the court system is prosecuted fairly heavily. This is "rule of law".

On the other hand, courts in China do whatever the CCP tells them. These are not equivalent.
Once again, it's DNS.

https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tun...
Anyone got an extra nickel? I've got about a buck 95.
# todo: add rollbacks
"Privacy is a human right, but humanity has such a fickle definition these days."
It might be good to define more carefully what “fair compensation” actually means. CEO vs employee isn’t a very good analogy, IMO. It’s broken for sure, but it doesn’t make a good comparison. Software engineers these days are making very good money and have very good working conditions compared to most other industries, even among other skilled white collar careers like doctors. What’s “fair” is a fairly vague and relative idea.

It might be good to really discuss your value too, which is half of the “deal” you’re compensated for. Even if your manager doesn’t know it, you’re not really being compensated for your hours, you’re being compensated for your knowledge and skills, in combination with your willingness to apply them toward your company’s goals. What I’m getting at is that the company may be happy to offer raises if it sees value, and it may take some communication and negotiation on your part for them to see that value, it’s unlikely to happen on it’s own. The company, and especially bad managers, have a vested interest in framing your job as easily replaceable.
How can a book from 1982 "debunk" experimental evidence that has been obtained 20-39 years later? It cannot.

Much has happened in olfaction since 1982. A very small proportion of that work has actually debunked the vibration theory of olfaction.

It's a pity, since that theory had some very appealing properties. But it just doesn't align with the current experimental evidence.

edit: By the way, all of the observations mentioned can be explained by classical ligand-receptor interactions. No need for esoteric assumptions like spectroscopy performed by olfactory receptors.
What was the joke? Getting the wrong catchphrase?
Again, what's the difference between a data warehouse and a data lake? Honest question.
Taking all the available slots in the massive gvc warroom ain't much... but its honest work.
The phrase "I've got a bridge to sell you" comes to mind... I don't think the buyer would be in any particular legal risk. The right question to ask is "will I be able to get a refund after falling for this obviously fraudulent / mistaken listing."

An organization like facebook doesn't go down in a day. The domain name (and, presumably, associated trademarks) would almost certainly be auctioned off in a highly publicized event.
It's DNS over HTTPS. It relies on the same system as plain DNS, so DoH won't really help in this case...
I don't know. When I changed work, first thing after passing a probation I rented a nice place 20 minutes by walk from the office (10 minutes by taxi in case of hurry or a bad weather). And I am totally okay with eating catered food. It is not haute cuisine, but it's free and readily available, so I may have two 15-minutes breaks instead of one hour lunch and call it a day half an hour earlier.
This is false.

Facebook owns their own registrar which is used for their domain.

(Source: I built the domain registrar at Squarespace and know the folks who built it at fbook.)

This should not be on HN, it’s literal spam.
At least that department at Facebook is still working!
The audio quality is impressive. How do you do it?

I'd suggest removing "FREE for 14 days" from your post title. All Show HNs are supposed to be free for people to play around with. Saying "FREE" makes it look less credible.
I don't think the comment you're replying to applies to your concern about subpar employees.

We blame processes instead of people because people are fallible. We've spent millenia trying to correct people, and it rarely works to a sufficient level. It's better to create a process that makes it harder for humans to screw up.
That would honestly be amazing and probably very feasible with the new chipsets.

Imagine having a desktop setup and an "empty" laptop case with slide in dock.

Everything in one place. Same system for the iPad.

Will probably never happen though because that's less products to sell?
Google keeps on stripping down AOSP more and more. Its so barebones that nothing is usable out of the box anymore. It doesn't even have a web browser these days.

All the default apps, contacts, calendar, etc haven't been updated in 8+ years.

Any new feature doesn't come to AOSP, it comes to Google Play Services.
How many of those 700k deaths are from people with 3 or 4 comorbities?

If you remove that from the equation, it would give a lot lower number I am sure. Now compare this with the flu. Would these people with comorbities die if they catch the flu? Do you absolutely know they wouldn't?

If you have comorbidities, by all means, take the shot. If you do not have comorbidities and want to take the shot as well, fine it is your body, you can do whatever you want with it that does not put me in danger. I, for instance, want to take the shot only when I know for sure it won't affect me. After all, the city where I live was one of the firsts that got Covid cases and it got so bad that the city was in complete lockdown and at the time there was no guidance for masks usage. So, I went to supermarkets, pharmacies, whatever at that time with no mask and if I had to bet, I would bet that I already got covid and was asymptomatic.
>> This study, as one example, separated out "never drinkers" from "former drinkers" to address this bias and found drinking to still be beneficial.

Careful. That result is not so clear-cut:

>> In the few studies that excluded former drinkers from the non-drinking reference group, reductions in risk among light-to-moderate drinkers were attenuated. [Section Abstract/Results]

>> Pooled analysis of estimates relative to non-current drinkers showed a reduced mortality risk for an alcohol intake up to approximately 75 g/day. However, when studies with former drinkers in the reference group were excluded, the association was considerably weakened (see Additional file 1: Figure S9). In addition, among those studies using post-event alcohol measures, the result did not change substantively; a similar trend was seen in studies with multiple measures but failed to reach statistical significance, probably because of the low number of curves (n=2) in this subgroup (see Additional file 1: Figure S10). [Section Alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality among CVD patients]

Btw, "post-event" means that participants reported their results after they had their major cardiovascular event:

>> In addition, most of the included studies asked patients to report their average consumption since the occurrence of their primary events (post-event alcohol assessment), whereas three studies used alcohol intake in the year prior to primary events (pre-event), assuming drinking habits remained stable over time, even following events [14, 44, 45]. [Section Data extraction and quality assessment].
> Messaging: people have been switching on hordes to every new free messaging system in the 90s and early 2000s, we will adapt to something else.

Back then the IM population was a lot smaller. Also with "Free Basics" and other things in some regions of the world Facebook plays a game which makes it impossible to switch. (Using Whatsapp is free, for others one ahs to buy mobile data credits)
i want safety. i want to be able to walk to a restaurant at 8pm without my wife being called a filthy whore. i want to be left alone at a bus stop. i want women to be able to wear boots and short dresses and makeup without getting raped. come to europe, and live there for a while, in a major city. you’ll get what i mean.
https://archive.is/zwIsn
Ask HN: Why is HN's website so slow today?
use Nix instead of Docker, if platform support is your only concern. It also solves the issue with "good OSS code tries to be as easy as possible to compile" that you mention below.
Thumbs down to centralisation.
In other news, a bunch of people got a lot more work done today than normal I suspect...
Honestly, from a PR perspective, I’m not sure it’s so bad. Giving honest updates showing Facebook hard at work is certainly better PR for our kind of crowd than whatever actual Facebook PR is doing.
In college, many of us learn the ethics around experimentation, including the ugly history of experiments performed in secret without ethics boards and without concern for the subjects.

I included that qualifier only to suggest that Zuckerberg likely didn't have the training in ethical experimentation that many of us got in college.

I tend to agree that a Harvard education makes someone more suspect, but only (in my opinion) if the degree is an MBA. Their undergrads, on average, have always seemed to me to be as sincere and compassionate as any other school's.
That is what I meant, although you have lots of executives and chiefs who are also shareholders.
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