skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're not paying for it then someone else is. The question is how many net contributors does it take to pay for you? Hundreds? Thousands?
when you're given something in the order of $10M it becomes pretty hard to reason about anything, and if it fits you moral compass then you stay because it's "talking about the same thing basically".
It's hard to tell from the video but arent they supposed to fail gracefully in a controlled descent and not drop like rocks?
I thought the Kraken just broke the ships into pieces with it's super-tentacles
I know they added FairPlay in 2018 to Safari on iOS, so I assume it is likely that additional EME support has been enabled since.
This entire comment chain started because you said

>For the record, I have no issue with Protonmail

And I called that out because it was obviously untrue based on the rest of your comment. Now you say

>The trust is broken...

Which sort of proves my whole point to begin with.
Why and how would the telephone networks compete with $0.00? As far as I understand, the whole telephone protocol is decades old and involves various networks paying each other based on who knows what per years old contracts at years old prices.
Shades of The Diamond Age.
Seems like one of these ship may have crashed into a pipeline causing the recent oil spill. This traffic needs to be cleared quick. Shows the importance of adopting automation quicker, as that would have improve oort efficiency.
>> we're going to treat four simultaneous meteors as impossible. Which is great, but then one the day, five of them hit at the same time.

> I think that suggests that there were not bigger fish to fry :)

I can see this problem arising in two ways:

(1) Faulty assumptions about failure probabilities: You might presume that meteors are independent, so simultaneous impacts are exponentially unlikely. But really they are somehow correlated (meteor clusters?), so simultaneous failures suddenly become much more likely.

(2) Growth of failure probabilities with system size: A meteor hit on earth is extremely rare. But in the future there might be datacenters in the whole galaxy, so there's a center being hit every month or so.

In real, active infrastructure there are probably even more pitfalls, because estimating small probabilities is really hard.
I didn’t say you needed to get rid of windows…they can keep it steady and incremental like they are now. Have a parallel OS that pushes boundaries and can truly innovate!
In Windows 11, when you click the start menu, a rhombus stretching from the bottom left to the top right appears and the menu selections bounce around inside it like a DVD screen saver.
For those curious, what was the outcome of this closed issue? Did Casey make a working terminal on Windows outside of a text renderer? Did Microsoft incorporate his feedback?

My worry is that Casey did this technical performance for the benefit of his followers, and nothing of value was gained, except of course Casey's growing fame.
We did focus on making the services accessible and affordable. Then phone providers and ISPs took the goverment funds and went "nah". As late as 2005 I was paying AT&T ~$9/minute to call my family abroad and up to $1 per text. If it weren't for tech companies like Skype/WhatsApp/Facebook/Google I have no doubt that would still be the case today.
Before hiring the lawyers, make sure to hire a management consulting firm.

The whole article is straight out of "Office Space". It is amazing.

If you could send me those TPS reports, that would be great.
*port efficiency
I mostly miss the ability to add or replace defective storage modules, and the ability to add more onboard storage to things like mac minis. External storage sucks in many ways, from desk clutter, unreliability from jostling cables damaging themselves and ports and extra expense. Especially in today's age of small M.2 drives. Even the pro laptops could use some storage slots for media professionals so you don't see goofy ass shit such as velcroed SSDs on macbook screens, which is is a thing I've seen video professionals do sometimes.

Hardwired storage is horrible from a data recovery standpoint also, you should be able to take our your storage chip and try to recover data from it in a standalone fashion as long as you know the encryption key, even if your main board or CPU has been damaged.

Their storage and RAM prices being double the market price is also irritating.
why not if you want to look good?
$200 * 365 = $73k, peanuts for a right individual
Exactly ... like I am going to strap on a headset and work with my co-workers memojis for 8 hours or even less. Laughable and VR has been around since the 90s with the same form factor .. it hasn't evolved as it will always be strap this bulky thing to your head & isolate yourself from the world. Maybe it will catch on for videogames but to co-work in a virtually reality world HA.

AR Glasses at least their form factor has changed since Google Glass and will continue to evolve some. Google Glasses to how Facebook Stories sunglasses look which look like sunglasses billions are use to wearing and use daily. Billions will never strap on a headset for hours to co-work. Billions will adopt AR Glasses as it takes a familiar form factor/daily life product and enhances it like the iPHone enhance our daily lives.
If your aunt is using a wired phone, I recommend getting a model which has Caller ID with voice announcements.
This is great and does not require any effort to learn -- phone says "RING RING CALL FROM 1-800..." and you just tune it out.
The second explanation seems plausible to me. The first one is a bit farfetched since they could've just waited two weeks in order to make it look less suspicious given that the leak would not be front of mind for everyone by then.
When I click the HN link I am presented with facebook login page. I don't have an account so can not proceed.

Is the article link just https://facebook.com/ ?
These don't look super graceful, but also not like rocks.
Update about the October 4th outage
It seems like most are doing that but some are dropping rapidly, although not in a freefall.
No, it’s back up by now.

The link was to show that facebook was down.
> CDE is alive and well

wow. That's a blast from the past. That was the desktop environment on our unix boxes back when I started asic design. I think it was hpux. But CDE...those screenshots immediately took me way back.

I'm going to have to get that installed at work now.
I don't deny it being addictive. It's just not as addictive as the prescription opioids. I'm sure a lot of those users on /r/quittingkratom just took too much of it and dug a hole too deep. What exactly do you hope to accomplish here? I am not telling people to do kratom for fun. All I really stated was that it's a good alternative to prescription painkillers. Which I really do believe based on my own experience as a pre-med student and as a chronic pain patient myself.
This isn't the current outage, the comments are from April
Not really, if you own index funds you end up with this shit in you portfolio and if it’s 401k you don’t really have an opt out
Why Some People Are Smarter?
When I took algebraic topology, the professor asked us if two topological spaces were the same. Then he looked at us for a moment, and said that actually, that was a "Bill Clinton question: it depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is".
I'm not familiar with Whoop, but the "body battery" function of Garmin watches/trackers sounds quite similar. No monthly fee.
Well lets see what M1X/M2 bring. They will probably retake the performance crown by squeezing even more onto the die.

Given Apple's history, I wonder if like 10 years from now they just drop this additional bloat. In that case we really didn't lose the performance just gave it up temporarily. :)
M1 snappiness partly comes from the efficiency cores and a better QoS algo. x86 could start adding effiency cores and do similar kinds of scheduling to get some of the benefits.
This is something to get in front of a tech journalist who covers Facebook. It’s a major breach of trust. Probably hit one of your favs with a tweet, but they also tend to list their contact info on author pages of the sites they publish for.
No, I claim that if you write an OS that you need to support, you need to ensure that some of its basic functionality have been tested and can be vouched to always work for all users.

And also, you have misunderstood my claims about locales. Not all alternative browser support all locals that Windows support. Would you like to have help page from the OS or search result from the OS open in a browser with a UI in another language. Don't forget: not every computer is your own, so people can get in a situation where a browser they have chosen is installed.

If you cannot fathom why this is necessary, it mostly shows you haven't work on large software, with a large install base and support personnel. And yes, search from the start menu and F1 from the explorer are exactly the type of things where you need to guarantee some baseline of functionality and testing and support. Do you want to be the guy in support on the phone trying to explain something about a web browser you know nothing about?

It's not like I'm too dumb to understand the line of reasoning people are using. But people are clearly unwilling to admit there are also good reasons why things are the way they are. Just adamantly repeating that Microsoft does thing for one single reason is just being close-minded for the sake of being right.

As for the competitive aspect: you'd have a leg to stand on if we were talking about how Microsoft makes it harder to switch browsers in Windows 11. But, unfortunately, that is not the subject at hand. It's about specific links that are generate right inside the OS. There is no competition around showing help and OS search result. The browser competition is not about the microsoft-edge: URL schemes. In what world do you live where it is the relevant competition?
AlphaFold Is the Most Important Achievement in AI–Ever
The first thing people here thought of was that it was the gouvernement denying access to these websites as it usually does for a number of reasons.
The first rule of systems administration is don’t do anything you can’t back out of. This is just a derivative rule that happens when risk management goes wrong, eg if nobody noticed, it didn’t happen. Sort of a weak invariant principle…
By coincidence, a relevant Austin Kleon blog post from today:

https://austinkleon.com/2021/10/04/a-blessed-unrest/

This is Agnes de Mille conversing with the great dancer Martha Graham:

> “But,” I said, “when I see my work I take for granted what other people value in it. I see only its ineptitude, inorganic flaws, and crudities. I am not pleased or satisfied.”

> “No artist is pleased.”

> “But then there is no satisfaction?”

> “No satisfaction whatever at any time,” she cried out passionately. “There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”
I wonder if it fixes the hibernate/sleep issues described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952.
I'm sure the people who go to work for Facebook are fully aware of what they're getting into.
Gartner has a history of getting things awfully wrong:

https://www.engadget.com/2015-01-05-in-2011-gartner-made-thi...
Do you mean marginalized as far as the first time setup? Because the first time setup sucks but it sucks on macOS too. Once you're in it's pretty trivial to create local accounts. In fact it's still the same old "Computer Management" if you do it that way.
It has been painfully admitted by the Facebook mafia that they know that they are the internet and farming the data of an entire civilisation; further evidence that this deep integration of their services needs to be broken up.

After all the scandals, leaks, whistleblowers etc it would take more than a DNS record wipe to take down the Facebook mafia.
> I also question why we all think its acceptable to have these incredible BGP outages every 3-6 months.

This isn’t BGP’s fault, someone or something presumably made a network configuration change that took down their route advertisements to the world. There’s currently ~72K autonomous systems advertising ~900K IPv4 prefixes today on the Internet. There’s bound to be some sort of screw up once in a while.
You ever tried calling anyone in Guam? It's part of the USA (albeit as a territory). Or the US Virgin Islands? US Samoa?
Ah I misunderstood your comment as taking the guardian down not just the article.
> The obvious question to me here is why you're "friends" with people like that?

I'm sure a lot of people loved others who have had drug addictions, joined a cult, or were fed misinformation by a group of zealots. Sometimes being a friend means "in spite of" not "because of".
As I was reading the paper, it dawned on me that persistent large-scale systemwide problems in many other domains can be understood as metastable failures -- including, for example, persistent supply chain problems, persistent waves of disinformation on social networks, persistent government support/rescue of financial firms, persistent bear markets, and deep economic recessions. Quoting from the paper:

"A system starts in a stable state. Once the load rises above a certain threshold -- implicit and invisible -- the system enters a vulnerable state. The vulnerable system is healthy, but may fall into an unrecoverable metastable state due to a trigger. The vulnerable state is not an overloaded state; a system can run for months or years in the vulnerable state and then get stuck in a metastable state without any increase in load. In fact, many ... systems choose to run in the vulnerable state all the time because it has much higher efficiency than the stable state.

When one of many potential triggers causes the system to enter the metastable state, a feedback loop sustains the failure, causing the system to remain in the failure state until a big enough corrective action is applied. In the most severe outages, the feedback loop is contagious, causing portions of the system that weren’t exposed to the trigger to enter the failure state as well. It is common for an outage that involves a metastable failure to be initially blamed on the trigger, but the true root cause is the sustaining effect.

Metastable failures have a disproportionate impact on hyperscale distributed systems. ... The strength of many feedback loops is proportional to the scale, so they can slip past even a robust testing and deployment regime. The difference between the trigger and the sustaining effect makes it hard to discover the correct response, increasing the time to recovery. Shedding load as a corrective action can be a further source of disruption for users."
Nines of safety: a proposed unit of measurement of risk
"Diversity quota" is one interpretation, mine was that they meant FB hires were determined according to who you know and who you blow. (probably less of the latter post-#metoo)
HN needs a rule to avoid comments that just say "site is unreadable due to ads or layout or whatever".

We get it, I have posted that before too.

Fact is tho the OP can't do anything about it. People that read HN and builds sites like these don't really have a say either. What is the point, are you trying to reach the CEO or whomever and sway them away from doing it because you decided not to read it? They probably aren't reading it and if they are, probably don't care what you/we think.
I agree 100%, there should be some balance struck between the etcs.
Not necessarily in this order:

* Telegram for personal

* Signal

* IRC

* SMS (it's basically free where I live)

* Slack for biz
Spending on PCR tests in China soared months before Covid-19 cases revealed
From the article:

> I personally know a lot of smart people. Some are really successful in terms of income and wealth. Others aren’t.

> The difference between the two types?

It looks like the author is referring to the former.
A nice article, but it feels a bit weird that there was no mentioning of the Poincaré conjecture in its original form - the one that was named one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems.
That seems very American-centric. I answer every phone call I have and only twice in my life has the call been an attempt to sell me anything. Both times I've left my number and forgot to disable the checkbox that said "you can call me once for a sales offer".

There's nothing in "society" that prevents phones from being a normal thing. It's all in the signal to noise ratio of the phone calls themselves, and that's a solvable problem.

Business owners whose numbers have been published have the same problem here: loads of scammers and scummy salesmen spamming their phones all day long. I'd consider it a mistake to use a publicly listed number as your always-on contact method, but that's victim blaming and not a real solution to the problem.

My point is: with some proper oversight and enforcement of decent laws, there's nothing wrong with phone numbers.

Every major chat app and mobile platform has some kind of (video) calling functionality for a reason, interrupting people for a realtime conversation is a feature people want and use. The failure of the American telecommunications market doesn't take away from that elsewhere in the world.
They are OS-generated links. Kinda funny that you claim I don't know what I'm writing about when the very example you give is an OS-generated link.

The start menu search is very much integrated with the OS and even gives you result right in the menu. Would be weird if the result shown in the menu would not be the same as the ones shown when it opens a web-browser?

But I guess you did not stop to think about such minor details.
It's a multibillion dollar corporation that wants to track me wherever I go, whatever I do, whenever I want to connect. Facebook is a maniacal stalker. Their website is merely an innocuous facade that hides a nest of ugly, venomous, snakes.
If an app was allowed to say "you can sign up in the App Store for $X, or you can sign up directly on our website for $(0.7 X)", shouldn't that satisfy you? You'd be able to have your convenient UX and keep your financial relationship solely with Apple - paying the full price for that benefit - and others who are happy for the less convenient UX and having a direct financial relationship with the developer will not have to pay for something they don't want.
Diversity is meaningful and when I'm looking at companies I always look at the staff page to make sure there's some diversity at the leadership level and that it's not a bunch of people who look exactly the same.
That was Highlander tho.
I completely disagree. Pregnancy, child rearing and care have been extensively studied. At a certain point, the fledgling life within takes precedence over discomfort of the mother.
My phone has a setting to not ring or vibrate unless it’s a recognized number. That alone has largely solved the issue for me. Fortunately I don’t need to answer calls from unrecognized numbers my job.
Capped Fibonacci backoff with random delay inserted at the cap?
Sometimes the metric you use for the loss function is not the best metric for eval. Think BLEU for translation, for instance (not that BLEU is particularly great).
Yes, it’s quite reasonable considering the end result.
Though STIR/SHAKEN is now common on the IP networks of large phone companies, carriers with 100,000 or fewer customers still have until June 30, 2023, to deploy the technology.

So... the major carrier already have this, and its still making no difference? Is this rule going to fix the situation when applied to smaller entities or not?

The entire situation is such an utter failure of the FCC. Literally millions of people can no longer answer their phone, and its been this way for years.
Ask HN: What is a “good” social network?
In light of today’s events I’m curious to hear people’s thoughts:

The consensus seems to be that Facebook, and social media in general is bad for various reasons [1][2]

What could be changed to make it “good”?

I know there are some that are of the opinion that social media is bad no matter what changes, or old school irc channels are all we ever needed, but please play along!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25928310
Subjecting a fetus to any compound from marijuana seems extremely irresponsible.
Yes but event driven is way different. That should be instant because the software can be told by the system that connectivity was restored and respond immediately since it’s aware of the hardware being plugged in.
You are right about the loan not requiring regular payments. As long as the balance of the loan including interest is substantially more than the amount of posted collateral, the loan can be rolled indefinitely.
I did. Facebook also spent a lot of time dumping stuff in my newsfeed from people I wasn't friends with (Twitter also liked to do this). It was a lot easier to just not have all that crap in my life.
And then there is the brand of naivety where people chew on tide pods. I suppose they might be happy too.
I’ll start with some personal thoughts ranked from mild to extreme changes:

1. remove re-post button (hopefully gets rid of “virality” and “influencers”)

2. cap comments / hour to 10 (gets rid of arguments, flame wars)

3. remove like button entirely

4. posts can only been seen by friends, and no more

5. Groups only allow anonymous posts?

6. An ML model that absolutely filters out everything remotely political, hateful, etc

7. Friends are auto un-friended after 5 years
Brazil's tragic ivermectin frenzy is a warning to the US, experts say
After I noticed that the smartest people I know don't act smart, I also started to not act smart.

But, so far, this hasn't made anyone think I'm really smart. :/
My wife did. She stuck it out through a pretty painful episiotomy as well.
The NFT Prologue. We Are So, So Early
The final open question can be restated as asking whether any 4-dimensional smooth manifold which is homeomorphic to the 4-sphere is necessarily diffeomorphic to the 4-sphere.

As a point of comparison, here is a surprising pair of facts about Euclidean space:

- For n != 4, any n-dimensional smooth manifold which is homeomorphic to n-dimensional Euclidean space is actually diffeomorphic to it.

- On the other hand, there are uncountably many pairwise non-diffeomorphic 4-dimensional smooth manifolds which are all homeomorphic to 4-dimensional Euclidean space.
Noticed this too, though it came back up quite quickly (> 10 minutes). Office 363 at it again.
Unless things have changed recently, I'm not sure I'd call it "well"

I tried CDE a year or so ago, and it was badly broken on both multi-monitor and 3840x2160 resolutions.
I replied to your toplevel, which I make note of simply because I don't want to seem as if I'm targeting you.

You dislike their privacy intrusions, and I hate them for it. My life is actively made worse for their stalking, their insistence that they be at the forefront of all things social.

I agree that they're not to blame for the hatred in society, nor are they responsible for all of society's problems. But their utter contempt to just let people be is reason enough that I should make myself heard as often as I can, and especially whenever I see an attempt to relieve any amount of pressure that hopefully weighs on their conscience: fuck Facebook and their employees.
Everything is a poor substitute for actual thought except data.
Is that per core?
There was a period of a week or two when I was "one of two daily winners" every day. I should have been in Vegas...
Those engineer time zones make me sad!
"The Senate will decide your fate, Mr. Zuckerberg."
Let's say I'm using my personal phone to make work calls, because reasons. I want my caller ID to say "XYZ Corp" instead of "Animal Muppet", because people are more likely to answer.
Use whichever invalidates your startup hypotheses faster.