skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see where I'm being combative, or argumentative?

I'm pointing out that it is your opinion that 'the label "AI" (naked with no
modifiers) has already been downgraded to "weak AI".' You explained why you
think so, but that's just ...why you think so. You're not some kind of authority
on how terms should be used and you have no reason to admonish the other user to
use it in the way you like.

Btw, note that I'm not interested in your disagreement with the OP about "weak"
vs. "strong" AI. As far as I'm concerned, you're both trying to apply what you
know from Science Fiction to the real world. The only thing that exists in the
real world today that's called "AI" by any authoritative source is the field of
research in artificial intelligence. It is common in the lay press to describe
systems created by AI researchers as "AI" or "AIs" and it's even more common to
refer to deep learning reserach synechdochically as "AI", or "machine learning",
but those are terminological mistakes that are to be expected from people
outside a field of research as varied and broad as AI. Researchers in the field,
of course, don't ever call their work "AI"! Well, not in published research at
least. I mean, that's a three-strong-reject offence. One'd be laughed out of the
field...

So I hope this clarifies the confusion and the motivation for my comment. You
have an opinion, strongly held, based on poor, irrelevant knowledge and you
forcefully support it. I thought, since I have a bit of knowledge in the matter,
I should set the record straight: That's just, like, your opinion, man.
I know this doesn't help with the cache part, but if you pin a tab, it used to prevent it from getting unloaded. Might help if a particular tab is important to you and they still honour that.
I will say that Gmail seems to catch almost all of that historical sort of spam for me. But I get another 50+ emails per day (not counting those that are dumped in my spam folder--probably because enough people reported them as spam) that are various marketing because I once had a badge scanned at a show, someone bought a list of scanned badges from somewhere, I entered an email to download a doc I wanted to read, a PR pitch because I sometimes write for publications, etc.

None of this is exactly spam and I sometimes go on an unsubscribe binge (and report as spam anything without an unsubscribe) but it's still a flood of mail.
So then why not a note? And is there a rule somewhere that a physical thing needs to be minted at all?
Huh? I would hardly describe this as technical. Someone with a high school education can read it and get the gist. It's actually somewhat impressive how it toes the line between accessibility and 'just detailed enough'.
A tempting opportunity to exercise Godwin's law.
The people working on GCC are also mostly paid by companies, e.g., like Red Hat. The moment these companies back out, the same thing will happen to GCC.

The root of the problem is that very few people find it "FUN" to implement C++ compilers on their free time, so these open source projects live from companies for contributions.
You're going about it backwards. It's not that those phrases need to be removed from this paper, it's that this paper should have been a blog post.

The algorithm is not novel or in need of academic scrutiny. It's just a fun little sorting algorithm.
I still fail to see how this makes the idea of trusting Facebook or any other social media company with my ID any better. What's clear as a bell to me is that, given how Facebook is known to behave reprehensibly, giving them more data is not something we should even be considering.

It's a lot like saying "well now, this boat is full of holes, so rather than start patching them, let's just open several new ones".
The overall software quality has dropped markedly at Apple and the hardware more uneven since he left.

Mostly on the Mac. The butterfly keyboard and how Apple handled it, were terrible. And macOS quality had gone down release after release. But I have never had any serious software or hardware quality issues with the iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods or any other products. It seems that they had just lost focus on the Mac.

However, the Mac seems to be rebounding. I have a M1 MacBook Air and it is stellar - probably their best new Mac in decades. Also, I haven't had many issues with macOS 11 so far.
If you don’t like Facebook just don’t use Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram. Don’t know why so many people here think parents and adults are not capable of regulating themselves and their kids.

It’s honestly condescending to think you know better than your fellow citizens if you’re arguing for government intervention.
I'm not usually that cynical, but the timing of it combined with facebook's lengthy abusive relationship with customers' privacy (and what kind of company morals that implies) makes me think that it's definitely a possibility.
I am quite irritated how they managed the whole C++/CX replacement via C++/WinRT, throwing .NET devs that still have to drop down to C++ back into the VC++ 6.0 / ATL 3.0 days.

Then the radio silence with .NET Native is so typical Silverlight/Managed DirectX/XNA.
>Plus, I very highly doubt that a system that charges users to send e-mail would see much adoption.

Yup - I'm certainly not going to volunteer to pay more :p
Spam filtering. It's not perfect but it is effective. I agree wholeheartedly with this being just another excuse to insert the pet technology of the day - which to day is Blockchain.

Blockchain Blockchain Blockchain!
I support alternatives, but I would not recommend something to my friends that I know for a fact is a subpar experience.

For that reason, I dont really recommend any alternatives right now, sadly.
This! I feel like Back used to get instant results all the time, and now it's almost always a big delay, which is a huge pain -- plus, it loses your position on infiniscroll and other dark patterns.

Part of it is caused by site coding, but part of it is browsers treating "back" as some species of new page load/arrival/selection.

And I know it's possible to get us back to the old days! The functionality I want is almost exactly what I would (already) get if I just opened every link in a new tab and switched back instead of triggering the back button.

(Which, incidentally, is what many sites recommend doing now for that very reason -- at least reddit.)
Would love to know if this is practically possible. I use Auto tab discard [] to save memory, but I'd much prefer the ability to retrieve an html file than having to reload the page. A simple way to save that html file of current view when bookmarking a page would also be a useful addition in a similar vein.

[] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
DNS seems to be a massive point of failure everywhere, even taking out the tools to help deal with outages themselves. The same thing happened to Azure multiple times in the past, causing complete service outages. Surely there must be some way to better mitigate DNS misconfiguration by now, given the exceptional importance of DNS?
Or they will keep handling these claims the way they always have: they go to mandatory arbitration which either decides it is not racism or awards the claimant a small amount, and in either case Tesla doesn't take any serious action to prevent future occurrences.

This one only went through the courts instead of arbitration because it involved someone who they did not have under an arbitration agreement.

I'm not sure why they did not have an arbitration agreement. The person was a contract worker employed by a staffing agency rather than directly employed by Tesla, so maybe Tesla thought for some reason that would protect them?
So it wasn't a config change, it was a command-of-death.
I saw nothing on firefox, console said WebGL is currently disabled. Don't think I'll enable it. ;-)
Cryptocurrencies’ Carbon Footprint Underestimated
Let's try to phrase it in an actionable way for the law-makers to act upon it.

Are you suggesting that any profitable company hosting user-submitted content should invest all the profits in moderation teams to the point where they are either a) becoming profit-neutral or b) all the relevant content has been reviewed by a human moderator?

And how do you define relevant content -- having had 50 views? 10 views? 1 view? Who should decide where to set these limits? Do we believe politicians are going to do a better job at it rather than the existing situation? Or should we ban any non-human reviewed post just to move the certainty of illegal posts removals from 99.9% to 99.99%? (humans do make mistakes too)

(Facebook is really big so having just 99.99% of posts in compliance still means an awful amount of them escaping the system undetected)
To me at least, something feels very off about this whole situation. Out of the blue some larger-than-life person comes out of the woodwork and is lauded with attention while the big news outlets make this massive push against Facebook, all the while congress is holding hearings and a massive outage happens at Facebook right after the New York Times published an article titled "Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew."

Edit: She is remarkably calm, well-spoken, knowledgeable, and articulate for someone testifying before the Senate for the very first time - all while being broadcast around the globe, live on television. Perhaps she's simply a natural, but I sense she received some coaching and preparation beforehand.

Combine all of this with politicians chomping at the bit to fight online 'misinformation' and I become very skeptical.

It certainly could all just be a perfect storm and Mark Z. has some terrible luck. But again, my intuition is telling me there is something coordinated going on here.
With something as fundamental as the network, no way around it.

- Okay, we'll set up a separate maintenance network in case we can't get to the regular network.

- Wait, but we need a maintenance network for the maintenance network...
You sound like an absolute tool.
Oof. Anyone else worried about the amount of GNU infrastructure (GCC, GLibc, etc) that has fallen into IBM's hands -and what will happen with it in the future?
Wait, there's a lot in the obvious features.
How is that possible, I get FF crashes literally every time I load a moderately intensive website (eg. Google Keep). I still use FF because I can't abide Chrome. My PC is admittedly a bit older (only 6 gigs RAM) but still.
What’s scarier is the little acknowledgement from current governments
I can't believe Windows 11 still hasn't gotten rid of these old-ass menus
Did you just call your close friend a moron? Or was it directed at someone else? That’s kind of mean if it’s your close friend lol
But the FB outage was not a configuration change.

> a command was issued with the intention to assess the availability of global backbone capacity, which unintentionally took down all the connections in our backbone network
Have you used iOS 15?
Yeah, the "magic" dispatcher code in <project>_web.ex is pretty powerful but I'm not sure it would be easy for beginners to grok it:

@doc """
When used, dispatch to the appropriate controller/view/etc.
"""
defmacro __using__(which) when is_atom(which) do
apply(__MODULE__, which, [])
end

That said I much prefer how Phoenix puts this code explicitly in each project and doesn't hide it in a gem like Rails.
You cannot use heartland institute as a source. If the claim is that it is leftwing because they are supported by the working class than the republican party is leftwing/socialist which is hard to take seriously.

As for your question the easiest and clearest example would be Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte of Chile that was supported by the right wing forces in the US, including Milton Friedman.

I would encourage you to look aside from your partisan lenses. Note that I do not in any way argue against that Stalin or Mao most likely should be considered left wing and were brutal authoritarians that was a stain on the world.
I don't see how suddenly running more traffic is going to trip datacenter breakers -- I could see how flipping on power to an entire datacenter's worth of servers could cause a spike in electrical demand that the power infrastructure can't handle, but if suddently running CPU's at 100% trips breakers, then it seems like that power infrastructure is undersized? This isn't a case where servers were powered off, they were idle because they had no traffic.

Do large providers like Facebook really provision less power than their servers would require at 100% utilization? Seems like they could just use fewer servers with power sized at 100% if their power system going to constrain utilization anyway?
Back in Ye Old Dark Ages, I caused a BIG Google outage by running a routine maintenance script that had been run dozens if not hundreds of times before.

Turns out the underlying network software had a race condition that would ONLY be hit if the script ran at the exact same time as some automated monitoring tools polled the box.

At FAANG scale, "one in a million" happens a lot more often than you'd think.
Then say that. Let's get away from "Facebook sells user data".

These are not equivalent statements.
> There should be some laws about using addictive patterns

Of course there should be.

But then you would also need to ban casinos, sports gambling, gaming, porn, cigarettes, alcohol and the myriad of other things that are addictive in nature.
Edit to be less snarky:

I assume they do have backup generators, though I don’t know.

However if the sudden increase put that much load on the grid it could drop the frequency enough to blackout the entire neighborhood. That would be bad even if FB was able to keep running through it.
That was probably because smoking was not common outside of wealthy men during the 1800s. It was not widespread at all among most of the public until after the world wars thanks to mass produced cigarettes (which weren't around until the late 1800s) now being added to rations. Smoking rate after WWI increased 350% and was high ever since. US government didn't stop issuing cigarette rations to soldiers until 1975. Lung cancer rates have followed lock step with smoking rates, its not really that smoking suddenly became harmful. It always was, it just wasn't common to smoke and even among those who did back in those days, it wasn't common to smoke very much at all and certainly not around the clock (kinda like hookah users today).
Strongly agree. She is doing this in a way that no one has really done (certainly not at this level of skill) before: explaining the systemic issues, giving clear and direct answers, keeping the conflict away from the personal, and most of all delivering criticism with empathy and compassion for all involved.
That and the fact bookmark may ends up in a removed page, orphan link. Essentially people leave tabs open meant to keep a cache of it, maybe subconsciously. Bookmark doesn't do that.

I don't mind maintaining it, so sometimes I use getpocket for that purpose but getpocket is not organized and frankly is not made for this purpose.
A related discussion and a detailed study about vector databases can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28727816
The guys at Pontiac who had this power with the Aztek probably thought they had taste; who defines this?

Jobs never cared about the type of non-functional quality that we typically do in the software world; there are plenty of cases where he picked design aesthetics over performance, reliability, and everything else.
Vice?

They could find a hot take in the Arctic. And it would be some polar bear poo.
Ahh, sorry. I do not have specifics myself. They may be hard to come by.

In my experience, and I have some that is a good parallel but is also not software / hacking related, these things happen in layers. There is a core layer, call it the actor guild, who are three letter lifers, let's say. They are insular, not having broad contact outside trusted peers.

These people won't be doing the work directly.

They will seek others who have various inclinations and or liabilities who can do that work, or even more insidiously, they know who will do the work due to those inclinations or simply being misguided. These people may be almost entirely removed from the actors guild, or if associated, it's murky. They will be directed by people who clearly are of the guild, but also are not core. There are layers of these people who actually do the work and are in contact more generally and who also lack knowledge and or may well be unaware of the real purpose behind their actions.

A good look at what was done, and frankly is still being done in various civil rights, environmental and political activist groups would hint very strongly at what I would be shocked to find is not being attempted (with some degrees of success) in these more technical circles.

Life has taken me well into territory exposed to this stuff, and is currently taking me well out of it for now. Good opportunities tend to work that way, so this is largely a matter of curiosity for me and maybe more should I return to a closer place one day.

In terms of things like activist collectives, I've seen the following:

Promotion of people inclined to favor established interests, who then influence the potential of the group toward low value actions.

Division. Basically, start shit among key players and watch the thing dissolve into uselessness meta.

Pollution. Increase group size and or decrease coherency with a combination of people and misinformation.

Dilution. Impact vital players in ways that reduce their agency and zeal to participate.
More like mini dolphins. 90Kg is a respectable weight for a common porpoise. A range of 30-70 Kg is more common

Porpoises are tiny for a cetacean and secretive, don't jump and are not easy to spot in the sea. All you see is a blunt triangle. Would never be confused with a plesiosaur
Even if we go on the higher end of that, 10 grand doesn't seem that high for an audience of engineers (which I think is overrepresented on Hacker News). I know people have been complaining about a lack of a security audit since 2016; I think at this point it would be worth doing an audit now, and potentially another audit when new features are added.

If I were in any way involved in the project I would set up the campaign myself, but sadly I don't know enough C to be useful to a project like this (unless there was a plan to rewrite it in some esoteric functional language for some reason).
I want to know what happened to the poor engineer who issued the command?
Back in time I was sorting records on disk using Atari ST and (probably) Omikron BASIC. I applied RADIX sort (or a variant) that I saw in one magazine. It worked as a charm on RAM disk, but once when I tried it on a floppy disk, it just took forever.
I'm guessing it has multiple target audiences. Those that won't understand some of the technical jargon (e.g., "IP addresses") will still be able to follow the general flow of the article.

Those of us who are familiar with the domain of knowledge, on the other hand, get a decent summary of events.

It's a balancing act. I think the article does a good enough job of explaining things.
Google also had a runaway automation outage where a process went around the world "selling" all the frontend machines back to the global resource pool. Nobody was alerted until something like 95% of global frontends had disappeared.

This was an important lesson for SREs inside and outside Google because it shows the dangers of the antipattern of command line flags that narrow the scope of an operation instead of expanding it. I.e. if your command was supposed to be `drain -cell xx` to locally turn-down a small resource pool but `drain` without any arguments drains the whole universe, you have developed a tool which is too dangerous to exist.
But security and privacy are not really guaranteed. (Unless you are a person capable of performing an audit yourself.) Presumably those who need security and privacy would need the guarantee. So I was wondering outside of those two, are there other compelling features Tox could be marketing?
The Open Technology Fund provides free security audits for open source projects.

Apply here: https://apply.opentech.fund/red-team-lab/
Do you have any crash report IDs in your Firefox's about:crashes page? I can check whether a Bugzilla bug report has already been filed for those crashes.
Not thinking troops so much as civilian use/defense, hence the political rally example.
probably still runs on DOS
Android users are not afraid of such things.
How do you explain iTunes then?
Microsoft’s big new Windows 11 update is out now
I'm sure there were people walking around saying that in 1775. Yet Greater good prevailed, and US got its independence from Britain. Since its a Democratic Union, I hope it can be dissolved in a democratic way. Is the worry that each state would have fight to get independence?
What is "incriminating"? It is legal to remove protected speech, but it's not illegal to not remove it. COVID and election "misinformation" are, for the most part, protected. In fact, the actual headline is just "Facebook's new whistleblower is renewing scrutiny of the social media giant," with no mention of incrimination.

The Hacker News version of the headline is misinformation.
tldr; a maintenance query was issued that inexplicably severed FB's data
centers from the internet, which unnecessarily caused their DNS servers to
mark themselves defunct, which made it all but impossible for their guys to
repair the problem from HQ, which compelled them to physically dispatch field
units whose progress was stymied by recent increased physical security
measures.
Makes sense, even as someone who wishes I had an M1 mini lying about (all non-trivial purchases need home CFO approval) I would be hesitant to install Linux on it as I'm not a kernel hacker.
I had to read through way too many comments to get to a sane one.
Meta but does the name have any relation or maybe give homage to the other Asahi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Pentax
There are still some southern states that have massive poverty. The union did not serve them well. I can see how they would be better off on their own. Hawaii as well. And its not just about poverty. Hawaiians would like to regain control over their culture, tourism levels, and so on. King of your castle. Even if your castle is just a shack. Counts for a lot. Also cities like Chicago and Detroit experienced huge declines, because of trade with China, that mostly benefits California. I can see how they would like their own policies on trade.
Yes. I think logging before is still useful, but it is for hangs, not exceptions.

If your program disappears into a black hole doing some operation that doesn't have (and needs) a timeout specified, you want to know what it was about to do when you last heard from it.
Actually, it probably is, especially if you dial the analogy back a couple decades before the "We're sorry that number has been disconnected" automated responses: Facebook's phone line went down and when you call the Operator even if you have the phone number, they can't connect you, but this is weird and you aren't the only one trying to call Facebook so now they are calling in other Operators to diagnose the problem because surely someone has heard from Facebook recently.

That analogy includes the snowball impact on the other websites and services as the Switchboard Operators get more over-utilized into puzzling out Facebook's problem than servicing calls for still working phone numbers.