skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you would learn not to trust a first message you read on hackernews about what's going on inside
It depends on where.

In a European country, think Spain, Italy, France, "get good grades, study a valuable major, don't eat garbage, don't marry crazy people/idiots, stay off dangerous drugs, and mainly show up to work, be clean and nice" and you are likely to end up with job paying 40 to 80k (before taxes) a year, which is not bad, but I consider that money far from financially making someone "a very successful 40-year-old".

With my STEM major and a PhD, I would have made between 40 and 50k per year before taxes.
Indeed. What are the trade offs of technology? Is it actually making our lives better? Are our lives richer for having brought Mark Zuckerberg into them? Perhaps if we had thought to ask those questions ahead of time we wouldn’t be living through a fourth corona virus wave fueled by antivax misinformation, and perhaps people wouldn’t be feeling deep personal injury at being unable to talk to someone for six hours.
I generally describe the problem as: knowledge is nodes in a graph, wisdom is making connections between nodes in that graph.

Framing curiosity and smartness under that model: curiosity is your ability to add nodes, smart is your ability to make connections.

That is, curiosity produces knowledge, and smartness produces wisdom.
More Details on Today's Outage [2010 apparently]
Sure, but this perspective is only for those who are looking to hold an investment for 20 years. A lot of people with large stock holdings also want to buy nice things today. You can do that by (1) getting quarterly dividends and spending them (have to pay taxes), (2) regularly selling some shares (have to pay taxes and reduce ownership) or (3) borrowing on margin. 3 has the biggest tax advantages of the lot.
My strategy with robocalls has been to answer every single one of them if I am able, get a person on the line, and then waste as much of their time as possible while being extremely weird. I'm down to one every week or two now. Everyone needs a hobby.
The demand is to not make Facebook responsible for everything. They shouldn't be in charge in what's ostensibly a public utility for most of the planet.
Hmmm... I don't know... Being obsessive for a short periods of time may be even required to reach some high achievements.

My fingers bled, but I learned "Tico-tico no fubá".
Well said. I’ve been noticing that most such things in life are double-edged swords. Alcohol, Instagram, whatever. There is much wisdom in the “middle path”, applicable to much of life. Avoid the sharp edges of the blade, be in the flat middle.
Is it really fair to equate giant squids with the Kraken? The Kraken is supposed to be the size of an island and capable of devouring massive ships. That sounds orders of magnitude bigger than a giant squid to me. Pliny the Elder and Aristotle seem to be describing giant squids. The Nordic legends seem to be describing a mythical animal that may have been inspired by giant squids but certainly is not the same thing.

It seems like it would be similar to say the the Roc has been "found" because we have documented very large eagles. Until we have an eagle that can carry away a fully grown elephant, it's not a Roc.
Buy guns.
You should read up on the "mere aggregation" clause of the GPLv2. It allows an OS to include a GPLv2 program without having to put the entire OS under the GPLv2. If the GPLv2 did function the way you seem to think it does, then almost every Linux distro would be in violation, too.
That's still wrong: scheduling and synchronisation take time, especially synchronization, which has both an overhead and introduces uncertainty in when the lock will be released. As I said, multi-threading results in worse per core performance, and depending on your data it might actually even perform worse on multiple cores (sometimes; most often it offers a moderate speed-up, not what you'd expect).

You also presented the threadedness as a cure-all solution to performance problems, which it is not. That's wrong.

You also never implied that you mean paralelism in general as opposed to just threads. But yeah, in the case you can't use any kind of parallelism, you're kind of screwed. The problem is that threads are one of the worst ways of introducing parallelism.
And none of them are legacy cruft with ass-backwards copying and pasting. The cmd.exe "terminal" needs to die.
What are the benefits of using irc as a messaging platform?
Setting up a Minecraft server has been a good experience for my kiddo to learn more networking.
E-CNY: The Players
I've been using Win 11 - preview, for development and personal stuff - for a few months and I really can't understand why people are getting mad at it.

A few UI elements have changed places, but it mostly feels like Win 10 to me.
I'm almost glad my PC doesn't support it. I have zero reason to upgrade my current setup, it doesn't look like a decent upgrade - and I'm spending most of my time in Linux based systems anyway. This might just be the push I need to just wipe this horrible software from my computer forever.
She's great but also bailed 5 years ago. Perhaps there is signal in that fact.
I won't be trying Windows 11 since my 4 year-old I7-6700 is not on the list of supported processors. Oh well.
Well, although it is sometimes described as a lisp, it’s not Lisp. It has a lot of syntax. Personally, I like the syntax, but some people prefer more minimalist languages.
I can remember a time when the internet wasn't widely available, and I'm not that old. Are you saying that everyone should just go back to how things were done in 1990, and the only impact would be the fault of the people using it?
> this is an industry entirely devoted to selling an addictive substance that kills, by WHO estimates[1], three million people per year. Something like 75% of alcohol is sold to raging alcoholics[2].

I always love hearing about all the things that are more fatal than covid, directly under our control, and otherwise completely tolerated by society. Not that we shouldn't respond to Covid, but that we should probably have proportionate responses to such other things...

[1]: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241565639

[2]: https://archive.is/zlvBY (WaPo)
It is little stuff like this that makes it come off a bit self-aggrandizing:

> We keep track of all the BGP updates and announcements we see in our global network. At our scale, the data we collect gives us a view of how the Internet is connected and where the traffic is meant to flow from and to everywhere on the planet.

> Fortunately, 1.1.1.1 was built to be Free, Private, Fast (as the independent DNS monitor DNSPerf can attest), and scalable, and we were able to keep servicing our users with minimal impact.

It isn’t a big deal, and the posts are still interesting. It just makes me roll my eyes a bit.
> I would bet my net worth that we figure that out in the next 1,000.

A safer bet there's never been, at least in the sense that unless life extension advances very soon, your expiration will pre-date your wager's.

And yet I do tend to agree, barring a dark age or human extinction event, both very possible.
The author's writing style rubs me the wrong way. His other post ("Why Obsessively Following Successful People Online is Dangerous") and this one share a weird style in which the author feigns self-deprecation only to follow it with "but I've figured it all out and here are 3-5 bullet points that you should follow!"

Examples:

> A lot of people say to me: “Ivaylo! You are so smart. Your newsletter is full of insights. The books you summarize are so elegantly presented with so much attention and care. Your parents must be proud!” To this, I always respond: “Thanks! I was simply born amazingly gifted.” And then I wake up. I’m kidding, of course. To be honest. I consider myself pretty ordinary in terms of smartness. Actually, the word I’m looking for is average. But there is one quality that helps me fight through my natural stupidity – my unfair advantage sort to say – I’m curious.

> So what’s the problem? It’s this: We spend more time consuming content instead of using the content we consume. And I’m not simply saying this because I think that I’m an omnipotent idol that knows everything. I’m saying this because I feel this way all the time myself. I get lost in the consuming stage – drowning in The Ambitions River – more often than I care to admit.
If it didn't go to server for every swipe then that window of opportunity would exist. i.e. the time where server revoked the badge abd the device/cache considers it valid.

Even a few minutes could be risky with an ex-employee who knows what he is doing.

There are InfoSec reasons why some companies will revoke access as soon or even before telling an employee he is being let go and Security escort the employee off premise. While it is very poor way to handle human relations, it is sound from InfoSec perspective.

You are right, as you point out not all perimeters are same, typically more sensitive areas have lesser exceptions though a security guard will not be able to swipe/override you in to a DC as he would in normal office building.

Someone else mentioned that they had to trigger Fire Alarms to get all the engineers they needed fast enough at a DC during a down time at eBay.
What utterly wretched management at every level, inexcusably idiotic, and suggestive of so much worse about which we don't know.

That this company is one of the greatest revenue streams on the planet tells us everything about how badly we evaluate reality.

C'mon Humans, let's do better than this. You're challenged!
M1 is hobbled by having to have circuitry devoted to supporting the stricter x64 memory consistency model (they toggle it on only when emulating x64, but it is still there taking up die space when not). The A chips can be relaxed consistency only.

A15 is also on a newer process node (TSMC 5nm gen2) and has 2x the L2 cache it looks like.
My anecdotal experience is that Teams' performance still sucks. Terminal is pretty cool tho.
Click "Limited Experience"

I wonder how many people actually change their minds when they see these passive aggressive prompt options.
"Skip trial"
"Decline bonus offer"
"No gift"

Anyways, do you know if it also stealth replaces your offline account if you sign into office, Xbox, etc? I got force signed in once trying to install flight simulator and it took me hours to remove all traces of the Microsoft account. There was literally no way to sign into just xbox to install one game without agreeing to replace my windows local account with a microsoft account, and it proceeded to auto sign me into outlook, one drive and a bunch of stuff I didnt want.
Quietly? Did they whisper the report to the SEC?
Robert J. Shiller: Stock, Bond and Real Estate Prices Are All Uncomfortably High
in which case they can properly identify themselves as a legitimate user of that US phone number? I'm not familiar with the STIR/SHAKEN stuff but surely it is possible to delegate authority to use a number.
https://archive.is/vlccY
Do you mean Jacque Fresco?
And they want you to be someone else than Peter Sunde:

https://torrentfreak.com/icann-refuses-to-accredit-pirate-ba...
Considering they just had a whistle blower leak incriminating documents... I'd say this is plausible.

Edit: Also a great way to suppress the news of the whistleblower. Take the site down so the outage outranks news searches keyword "Facebook"
what "problems with journalism" are you referring to? All journalism is opinion; even if they just dumped raw datasets in a newspaper, that would have its own biases.

If you ask me, the main issues with modern journalism are the poor command of written English and a lack of depth/context. Neither of those seem to apply here.
With outages like Facebook had today, is it safe to use an operating system which disallows local accounts for nonpro versions?

Not a rhetorical question.
Could something with a normal 1 hour TTL be poisoned by a cache entry with a 30 day TTL?
Heh. I remember the day when a TTL of a week was pretty standard.

Anyway, the since the NS records for a domain come from the next level up, i.e. in this case the .com nameserver which are also the root nameservers, if they had a short TTL then those root nameservers would get hit pretty hard. Also, it isn't your choice what the TTL on your NS records is, it's admins of your top-level domains.
While on one hand I definitely stand corrected and not really floored that they decided to go against this, I don't know how marketing wouldn't have the foresight to see that a never-changing number would keep themselves evergreen. I mean, Apple still numbers the iPhone (as do other brands' flaghsips) to ensure people quickly know which one is the newest. Whereas Windows hides this designator (e.g. 21H2) behind a few clicks.
Sure they can. What’s CloudFlare going to do? Try to stop them?

Though I would expect something like this from Fastly more than Facebook.
yes, but I don't think SMS is sophisticated enough.
After all, instant messengers replaced it ...
It's a free update...
When I was younger I thought like this. As I got older, and my thumbs fatter, I tend to answer it if I'm expecting a call(windshield replacement at the moment), or a contact, or just curious. If nobody ever answers, then I'd never get to talk to my parents, and I value that time so make time pretty much no matter what I'm doing, within reason.

I don't hate texting, but strongly do for some use cases. I was trying to get directions from a friend recently via text and it just became... annoying. Something like

me - ok, which building is it I'm outside

wait

them - you see the red one?

me - yes, is that it?

wait

them - ok it's two down from that

At this point I called, because I'm not going to text and wait again to ask left or right(above example is not exact, but similar to this).

I think texting is great for saying hi, or asking a question. I do not in any way find it useful for conversation or back and forths. Just my .02.

I do wish phone numbers weren't guessable items but something more like, say, long random addresses so that companies couldn't just flip through dialing anyone and everyone. I haven't thought out how discoverability would work though without something like DNS.
I’m saying that anyone that thinks that progress is a given and that we are inherently better off for having the social web may not be giving sufficient considerations to the trade offs we have incurred. On the other hand I’m typing in anger, so I might just be an asshole.
Correct. You can go to AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, host yourself, others, if you want cloud infrastructure. It's more or less commoditized.

On the other hand, if you want access thousands of customers who are willing to pay for and use your product ... well that's tough. And it's expensive. The real value is getting exposure to people who will pay real money. Value isn't equal to technical difficulty. That's why Google Ads are pricy, and that's why ads in a niche industry magazine targeting a very specific demographic can be even more expensive.
i thought about Unit 731 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731), there probably were alot of curious individuals guided by fcked up morals. There's a lot going into acquiring knowledge besides simply considering the researcher's intent, subject's feeling are an important thing to consider.
amazing write ups from the CF guys
not trolling but a genuine question: can it be because SQL is more performant than using pandas?
My first world problems were greatly exacerbated by Whatsapp being down.

I could not communicate with my in-laws via WhatsApp which meant I actually had to speak to them in person.
Firstly, what I'm saying does not rest on blockchain being the source of truth. It could, for example, be another language model from a corporation that you trust. Secondly, if you can't see the value of a blockchain or decentralised cryptography as a way to deal with the issues of consensus, then that's not my problem.
Accessible would be the mobile networks allowing people to call overseas for $0.01 per minute.

I would not dare try to call an international number via ATT/Verizon/T-Mobile outside of Canada/Mexico, because I would expect to pay at least $10 for the call if not more.

I do not know where one would get $0.01 per minute international calls from the US, but it is most likely not as easy as an app on your smartphone.
The far right is fine with Facebook.

I have my doubts about progressives taking most of the power base from establishment liberals. Establishment candidates tend to have better and more mainstream media coverage.
dang, can we have [2010] in the title so people don't confuse this with today's outage?

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1722126
Nostalgia is weird. I started my professional career on Solaris machines and spent like 20% of my time for the first few months compiling a GNU ecosystem, Emacs, vim, and replacing Sun window manager with IceWM.
Compared to other fields of science, medicine feels still in its Stone Age. I’m not even sure it’s science at all. We see all kinds of medical papers and news articles everyday that claim health benefits of doing/eating something. But then the other day we see other kinds of papers or news articles that claim exactly the opposite thing. I stopped long ago putting too much trust in them. They are usually just their “opinions”.
> I just don't think it will affect the market much.

In a weird way, I think Apple and Google proved it would have significant impact, at least enough for them to put sizable effort in stopping it from happening.

Otherwise Apple wouldn't be fighting tooth and nails to keep it at bay. Google also went pretty great length, through bundled contracts, backroom deals and scaremongering to dissuade partners and users from choosing the alternative means that are available.

From the "follow the money" perspective, it seems there's hope in that corner.
But what's "productive use"?

I always loved this passage from Hitchhikers:

> For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Is a smart person who scratches his or her own itches and lives a happy life unproductive if scratching those itches doesn't produce things (accomplishments, wealth, etc.) that are visible to and valued by others?
I took lessons in acting based on this method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meisner_technique

and came to realize that there is a commonality between writing and acting. An actor might not need to think about the arc of a whole story but they need to think about how it is advanced in a single scene. Sometimes even in real-life situations I think about "blocking" and other concepts from the stage. (e.g. Look at drama and improvisational acting in general)

Lately I read this book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Seduction

which has a lot of fiction and non-fiction references oriented around the technology of love ("Tale of Genji", "Les liaisons dangereuses", "Love and Lust") and works over the stories of very interesting people from various directions.

I have been reading the references, reading the references of those references, and going off in other adventures in reading including recent feminist scholarship such as

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Love-Hurts-Sociological-Explanati...

I think that love is the most popular topic for storytelling and this project has vastly improved my ability to confabulate on the subject.
Whats "better" mean in this instance? Is it, "you will have a better chance of being wealthy?" or is it, "you will lead a happier life?".

For that matter, whats "smart"? Is it to score high on tests, work 8-8 job, and be called smart by everyone else? Or is it make good decisions, work the least amount possible and become super wealthy and retire earlier than everyone else?

Why be smart, if you'll be poor anyway? Would you choose to be less smart but more wealthy? (All rhetorical).

I have friends that range in "smartness" and I find no correlation to wealth outcomes. If anything, friends that are considered - or exhibit "naivety" - actually are more happy.
>at the core of human civilization for a long, long time

>it connects across millenia

Ya, just like all those other great constructs of human civilization: war, slavery...

(Obviously alcohol is not as harmful as those examples, just trying to illustrate how that line of thought is flawed.)
What's it like paying to rent a gaming headset from Facebook?
"It's not a free market! Apple sucks and I want to use different products... and sure there are countless alternatives available for purchase online and in stores... but I can't and I don't switch because I love Apple and it has the best product and the others aren't as easy to use. Tyranny!"
...and basically lose your user base - especially corporate - altogether. The ability to use existing software, often developed in-house or bespoke at "we don't want to go through that again" prices, is what keeps Windows going. Break that and nobody has any good reasons to stick with Windows anymore.
I’ve always wondered, how do you pay off the loan then? Or do these loans not require making regular payments?
You need to provide developers with a real advantage in excess of the disadvantages of your protocol (everything has disadvantages) and the cost and pain of incorporating it.

Interop alone may not be enough at this point in time -- the pain of lacking it may not be high enough to overcome intertia.

Perhaps one way is to provide libraries that not only implement your protocol but also solve some immediate pain point developers have.
Honestly, is there a good reason this hasn't happened yet? If people use WhatsApp, the mobile networks get $0, so they ought to be offering at least somewhat competitive prices...
I'm making a big assumption, which is that the company is young and starting to think about security. I'm not sure what you want me to elaborate on though. Backups have a very literal cost - storage, maintenance, etc. Zero trust is just a paradigm, it's no more expensive than any other approach, it's just an architectural choice.

I don't think compromising our machines would be easy, nor do I Think lateral movement would be easy, but there's still more that we can do.
Did you try moving the taskbar, switching the default browser, or any other feature that they just decided to make harder, slower, or impossible?

People understandably get pissed off when features they have been using for over a decade suddenly disappear in an "upgrade". They expect things that used to work to keep working, and perhaps other things that didn't work to now work, but that's not what they got.

For me, the "new version of Windows is actually better" feeling faded around the 2K/XP timeframe. Since then it has only been increasingly minor improvements combined with increasingly greater regressions.
My small org, maybe 50 ips/hosts we care about, maintain a hosts file stills, for those nodes public and internal names. It's in Git, spread around and we also have our fingers crossed.
My friends said they couldn't play Oculus
What should people use instead of exponential backoff?
Oh good; at the end of the article the author did discover that CDE is alive and well:) I spent most of the article thinking "yes, you most certainly can do all of this today - Illumos is still around, and CDE runs on modern *nix"
The thing about XFN working - everyone cares about different things. Get people to see what other people care about, and to understand their "why". Then goal on it.

TLDR; empathy. There are few shortcuts, but don't scrimp on investing in empathy.
True, I'm making an assumption that a company is young. For older companies it'll be years to move to zero trust - although, once you do, it's "free". Backups are pretty costly and that cost never goes away.

I didn't say it was one or the other, I recommended both.