skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a point in the development of the internet when we switched, without a lot of discussion at the time or since, from a world of collaboratively-developed, open and decentralized protocols, to a world of private silos. It's like the internet developed to the point of creating HTTP and then that one broke things from there on out — can you think of a single major communications protocol that was created after HTTP and is still in use? Seems like it's pretty hard for open distributed protocols to compete with the convenience of vertical, for-profit sites.

If we can ever sort out the problems with cryptocurrencies+smart contracts, one of them might someday provide a path to creating the right set of incentives allow splitting protocol creation, hosting, and maintenance once again. No idea if that will come to pass though.
"On typical SoCs, drivers have intimate knowledge of the underlying hardware, and they hard-code its precise layout: how many registers, how many pins, how things relate to each other, etc......

However, Apple is unique in putting emphasis in keeping hardware interfaces compatible across SoC generations ..... the device tree then can be used to represent the dependency relationships between these power domains dynamically. ...
This approach is unfamiliar to most upstream subsystem maintainers, but we hope they recognize the benefits over time. Who knows, perhaps this will inspire other manufacturers to do it this way!"

This is really weird commentary to me, as far as I know Device Tree has been the standard for embedded ARM drivers in the Linux kernel for years, and for several years on PowerPC before that. When I worked in embedded linux, often the "bringup" for components in new ASICs was to create the device tree definition. What am I missing here?
Both mass media and social media are sleeping in the same bed with the same 'influencers' and 'voices of authority' on a pile of ad dollars.

They can both go fuck themselves.
I read the times almost everyday and have plenty of conservative opinions. The Times has multiple conservative columnists and consistently publishes conservative op-eds.
I often wonder if the benefits of automation in the corporate environment have yet to be realized...

Perhaps a good fraction of the executives and board members could be replaced by autonomous AI systems with little effect on profitability and productivity, indeed perhaps a positive effect?

The remote office setup might just be making this a more visible issue.
The idea of taxing cryptocurrencies specifically for carbon emissions is some mixture of naive, shallow and sour grapes. There are a lot of wasteful industries - crypto is a small slice of the overall pie and is arguably the most responsive to market forces.

Make universally applied carbon taxes across all industries and let the market sort it out. I'm a crypto bull, and fully support greening our energy economy. Advocating taxing energy consumption based on use is a recipe for corrupt insider dealing and political favoritism.
One drive and Google Drive are a hopeless mess
Im a professional tattoo artist and and I've been collecting pictures data in particular pretty extensively for over a decade... I have roughly 2tb cloud storage on each cloud service.. One drive and Google drive. Photos and videos and various graphic file extensions like.. Psd .Tiff .Actn etc... I've grown a bit professionally and so now instead of just dumping new art and photos of my tattoos and marketing graphics etc... I'm in desperate need of spring cleaning I plan to metatag all photos running them all through lighten cataloging them all and maintain upkeep moving forward from there. As you know both these services are as useless as tits on a bull, but it is what it is I have to work with one or the other or both.
Folder to Folder transfers need to be fast or this is going to be impossible ... Should I do all moving around if files folders etc. On an external HD? then re upload? And please for the love of God someone tell me that there is a tool service or software or poor unfortunate slave out there that can be used to automatically Catagorize photos... One that optically, can analyze each one and determine if it's a photo of a tattoo on a person's body, differentiating from photos of graphics, artwork, objects... Etc. Please help!! my poor habbits have ruined my digital existence.... MUST LIVE AGAIN!!
Shouldn't be a surprise as we've elected an actor before.
Inviting further whistleblowing.
It's as bizarre as the original Mona Lisa in the Louvre being about a billion dollars more expensive than an identical copy sold on the banks of the Seine.
I mean, the bourgeois revolutions were progressive in the context of their time.
Nobody? Give it a rest. We're not dumb enough to think everyone in technology, specifically ad tech is ethical by default. Facebook made their own bed and made the mistake of allowing the internal research out of the closed corporate box. They can mitigate the impact of their most engaged content but it would be to their own fiscal detriment which is why they fundamentally decide not to mitigate it.
> Because we both know that yes that money will enter the money supply, just not directly.

Sure, but it's going to do it through the borrowing/lending we presume will be allowed by congress (raising the debt ceiling) eventually anyways.

This just allows that to happen regardless.

This (to me) is not so much a financial tool as a political bludgeon to work around that fact that the US congress is essentially useless at the moment.

I still don't think it's a good idea, but bad ideas start seeming like good ideas if the people making the rules are utterly useless (see: congress).
> I also see a ton of tik tok videos reposted with logo and everything on IG

Yes, that's what reels is for, reposting content you made in the tiktok editor.

(So few people understand that that's an important part of the success of tiktok, as is its radically different suggestion algorithms)
I’d heavily recommend Matt Taibbi’s Hate Inc to learn more about how news media lies, how it addicts people to its consumer product, and ultimately how high bar publications have been long dead. From the book;

“The public largely misunderstands the “fake news” issue. Newspapers rarely fib outright. Most “lies” are errors of omission or emphasis. There are no Fox stories saying blue states have lower divorce rates, nor are there MSNBC stories exploring the fact that many pro-choice Democrats, particularly religious ones, struggle with a schism between their moral and political beliefs on abortion.”
Vaccine holdouts are just 1.8% of NY’s largest health provider–now they’re fired
DNS was very much a proximate cause. In most cases you want your anycast dns servers to shoot themselves in the head if they detect their connection to origin to be interrupted. This would have been an big outage anyways just at a different layer.

Oddly enough, one could consider that behavior something that was put in place to "mitigate DNS misconfiguration"
It's a classic performance/memory tradeoff. There are caches that aren't strictly necessary for the page to work, but throwing them away causes slowdowns.
I remember pictochat, so many dicks and graphic drawings sent to each other in JR high. The sensitive world today would have had a field day with that.

This part of the thread went pretty off topic but I like it! Pictochat was certainly ahead of its time, wish we stuck to things like that.
> If I go to the store and there is not paper towels there I don't need to know why there are no towels

You don't _need_ to know, but it's human to want to know, and it's also human to want to satisfy other human's curiosity, especially if it doesn't bring any harm to you.

Also, your post is not really answering any of GP's questions. I presume you wanted to say that FB doesn't _owe_ any explanation to us, but the GP asked, as they already provided one, to whom is it addressed.
Certainly democracy and egalitarianism are struggling in the present world, to say the least.

But I'd say the gp is correct that bitcoin 100% hinders them and 0% helps them.
> Linux on Macs is "supported" exactly the same as Linux on any random PC without manufacturer support.

Bullshit.

Intel and AMD both contribute to the Linux kernel to have their hardware, CPUs and GPUs both, supported.

Show me Apple's commits for supporting the M1 within the kernel and we'll talk.

Until then, in this situation where you're trying to get Asahi Linux running for the M1, it is not exactly the same.
I disagree about Cook being the better CEO. He's the better chief operating officer, which is the ideal combination with Jobs as CEO. A product person should always lead a company like Apple, if you can find one good enough to do the job. If you don't have that eventually you'll miss a critical inflection and the company will tip over. Cook will extract maximum profit from the product and ecosystem foundation that Jobs left him, which is exactly what he has been doing for a decade now. Jobs installed Cook in that role because he knew that operationally Cook wouldn't screw up the product map that was already primed. However Apple will need a product person after Cook.
Indeed, there's a suggestion there that "preferring members of the species that look like you" is inherent behavior, which can be unlearned (witness the popular Nature special about animals of different species that hang out together -- the goat that leads a blind horse around, the dog & the cheetah that play together).
My peak is in the high 300s of tabs. It works fine, though I imagine if they were 300 instances of youtube or some webgl game or video calls there might have been more issue.
Ah, thanks for the info.
Privately owned does not imply privately run.
The air industry has this solved, it's mandatory to report certain kind of incidents to avoid them in the future and inform the aviation community. https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Mandatory_Occurrence_Rep...

That the main form of personal communication for hundreds of millions of users is down and there is no mandatory reporting is irresponsible. That Facebook is a business does not mean that they do not have responsibilities towards society.

Facebook is not your local supermarket, it has global impact.
The Pandora Papers recently released had terabytes of data and 13 million documents of how the richest people and politicians on earth avoid taxes. Bitcoin was used exactly zero times.
This isn't even remotely close to the gambler's fallacy. This isn't an issue of statistics, or probabilities being skewed 'this time'. Really what the question being asked is if you want to force people by law to hand more information over to organizations like Facebook. Legislation or not, Facebook and their ilk will abuse this data. Give it time, and so will any government. Your argument is basically "yeah, well it's so bad at this point we might as well not even try to stop it".

In addition:

> policing the horrible things being done behind anonymity

Anonymity isn't something you can just do away with and have a happy ending. In some parts of the world, anonymity is the only thing standing between people and their government. That's not something I'd like to see done away with. The Afghan people need anonymity now more than nearly anyone else in the world. As do the Chinese, the Turkmens, Eritreans, domestic violence victims, and anyone who lives in a world where being identified could lead to a swift, brutal death. What are these folks to do? Hide forever? If that's the result, then we are not just seeing social cooling, we're looking at a social ice age.
25% of all Americans, and 53% of self-identified Republicans believe so.
This is silly, but only about as silly as the entire debt ceiling issue. So they might as well go for it.

For those of you not paying attention or who are from less-silly countries, the USA has a two-part spending process. First, congress passes a budget that directs how the government is going to spend money. Second, congress authorizes the government to borrow money if needed in order to fund said spending.

This, yes, means that congress first votes on whether to spend enough that we'll need to borrow money, and then votes on whether we're allowed to borrow the money that's needed for the spending they legislated.

Once congress has passed the budget, it's (essentially) a law that requires that the money be spent, so those responsible for using the money literally aren't allowed to e.g. trim programs to make sure we come in under the debt limit.
Perhaps people should worry less and contribute more, to prevent such concerns from becoming problems in the first place.

If your company is making use of Linux, GCC, OpenSSL and so forth, they should be setting aside some engineering resources to contribute to those projects, especially if they aren't paying a corporate vendor like RH, SUSE, or Canonical to do it on their behalf.

Naturally, the "tragedy of the commons" is that everyone wants to take advantage of free software while contributing back as little as possible, usually while simultaneously complaining or handwringing about those that are actually contributing.

Why is it that this conversation has turned from Apple and Google, with a combined market cap over 4 trillion dollars pulling their resources from these foundational projects, to handwringing that Red Hat, with a 125x smaller valuation might pull their resources from GNU, something there is no indication of happening? Surely the focus ought to be in the other direction...
I agree with you in theory if resources were infinite but there is no way to log at the rates developers actually want to log and have a performant application without buffering.

I think the more practical advice is "buffer logs outside your application" or "buffer logs in a separate thread/process that crashes independently of your application code."

Even the small places I've worked could easily push 250G logs a day.
You're talking second order effects, and I do agree with you on that. But Congress has authorized the spending. And it is against the law (as passed by congress) for the executive to _not spend_ money that has been appropriated. And it is illegal for the executive to borrow money to achieve those spending goals.

I think someone called it a trilemma -- Congress has passed a rock-paper-scissors law, and left no legal action that can be taken by the executive. Except that there's a loophole that they can mint the coin. Congress can close that loophole if they want! But right now it exists.

If Congress wants to control spending they should control spending, not force the executive branch to choose which law to break because they are in contradiction.
The Chernobyl test was not a test to drive the reactor to the limits, but actually a test to verify that the inertia of the main turbines is big enough to drive the coolant pumps for X amount of time in the case of grid failure.
DNS isn't obscure, most people who've ever used the internet have seen that acronym.
Sorry, should have clarified: I was suggesting that if the government decides to regulate it should apply to all social media platforms, not just FB. Updated the original comment.
> There is nothing good about this algorithm.

Seems a bit harsh.
Messy cloud storage and object recognition automation tools for photos/graphics
Im a professional tattoo artist and and I've been collecting pictures data in particular pretty extensively for over a decade... I have roughly 2tb cloud storage on each cloud service.. One drive and Google drive. Photos and videos and various graphic file extensions like.. Psd .Tiff .Actn etc... I've grown a bit professionally and so now instead of just dumping new art and photos of my tattoos and marketing graphics etc... I'm in desperate need of spring cleaning I plan to metatag all photos running them all through lighten cataloging them all and maintain upkeep moving forward from there. As you know both these services are as useless as tits on a bull, but it is what it is I have to work with one or the other or both.
Folder to Folder transfers need to be fast or this is going to be impossible ... Should I do all moving around if files folders etc. On an external HD? then re upload? And please for the love of God someone tell me that there is a tool service or software or poor unfortunate slave out there that can be used to automatically Catagorize photos... One that optically, can analyze each one and determine if it's a photo of a tattoo on a person's body, differentiating from photos of graphics, artwork, objects... Etc. Please help!! my poor habbits have ruined my digital existence.... MUST LIVE AGAIN!! If you need an idea of the nature of the content I'm up to my eyeballs in you can visit my website.... Https://www.DCplease.com
And yet here I am, with Linux on an Intel laptop that can't play video without tearing. Our M1 DCP driver already does that properly.

Support from chip manufacturers doesn't mean you're actually going to end up with a better user experience.
robinli would be hurt that you don't trust his corp. :P They're totally not evil... Promise :D
I’m curious if the app handled posts or likes gracefully too. Did it accept and cache the updates until it could reconnect to Facebook servers?
For the user-mode part of the neural engine, https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/tree/master/accel/ane helps quite a bit today. There is also no generic neural engine support infrastructure at all in user-mode on Linux. :-(

For the kernel mode part, ANE is behind an ASC.
I don't know the answer. But it's not too uncommon, in general, to provision for reasonable use cases plus a margin, rather than provision for worst case scenario.
Looks like this is mostly about PoW.

Here's a recent report on the environmental impact of PoS:

http://blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk/blockchain-energy-consumption...
Mir 2.5 Released with Wayland Extension for Better Handling On-Screen Keyboards
https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+myanmar

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55929654
If we make a simplified network map, FB looks more or less like a bunch of PoPs (points of presence) at major peering points around the world, a backbone network that connects those PoPs to the FB datacenters, and the FB operated datacenters themselves. (The datacenters are generally located a bit farther away from population centers, and therefore peering points, so it's sensible to communicate to the outside world through the PoPs only)

The DNS servers run at the PoPs, but only BGP advertise the DNS addresses when the PoP determines it's healthy. If there's no connectivity back to a FB datacenter (or perhaps, no connectivity to the preferred datacenter), the PoP is unhealthy and won't advertise the DNS addresses over BGP.

Since the BGP change that was pushed eliminated the backbone connectivity, none of the PoPs were able to connect to datacenters, and so they all, independently, stopped advertising the DNS addresses.

So that's why DNS went down. Of course, since client access goes through load balancers at the PoPs, and the PoPs couldn't access the datacenters where requests are actually processed, DNS being down wasn't a meaningful impediment to accessing the services. Apparently, it was an issue with management (among other issues).

Disclosure: I worked at WhatsApp until 2019, and saw some of the network diagrams. Network design may have changed a bit in the last 2 years, but probably not too much.
Society grows through investment. This comes either through capital inflow or consumption, and honestly success of the US lies in the “consumption.” It’s the thing that brought so much convenience and material well-being to our lives. So “consume and be happy” is unironically true. In as much as the entire concept of money is purely intersubjective we should shape it for societal good.

Again, you won’t lose real value if you keep your money invested (and for example do TIPS if you want low risk).
The fact that he is not does not invalidate the parent comment and your question sidesteps the fact that he left lasting damage that is still playing out on the political stage today.
Because the Mint has the legal authority to mint such a coin. But the Treasury department cannot issue debt in excess of the debt ceiling.

Congress can fix all this with a stroke of a pen, but eliminating the debt ceiling or lowering appropriated spending below what the debt ceiling would require. This is just a cheap trick to allow the executive to bypass the debt ceiling/government shutdown shenanigans.
Our postmortems have three sections. Prevention, detection, and mitigation. They all matter.

Shit happens. People ship bugs. People fat-finger commands. An engineering team’s responsibility doesn’t stop there. It also needs to quickly activate responders who know what to do and have the tools & access to fix it. Sometimes the conditions that created the issue are within acceptable bounds; the real need for reform is in why it took so long to fix.
bless you for writing this out. thank you.
That’s very interesting. I wouldn’t have guessed that.
All of the components in the supply chain will be rated for greater than max load, however power generation at grid scale is a delicate balancing act.

I’m not an electrical engineer, so the details here may be fuzzy, however in broad strokes:

Grid operators constantly monitor power consumption across the grid. If more power is being drawn than generated, line frequency drops across the whole grid. This leads to brownouts and can cause widespread damage to grid equipment and end-user devices.

The main way to manage this is to bring more capacity online to bring the grid frequency back up. This is slow, since spinning up even “fast” generators like natural gas can take on the order of several minutes.

Notably, this kind of scenario is the whole reason the Tesla battery in South Australia exists. It can respond to spikes in demand (and consume surplus supply!) much faster than generator capacity can respond.

The other option is load shedding, where you just disconnect parts of your grid to reduce demand.

Any large consumers (like data center operators) likely work closely with their electricity suppliers to be good citizens and ramp up and down their consumption in a controlled manner to give the supply side (the power generators) time to adjust their supply as the demand changes.

Note that changes to power draw as machines handle different load will also result in changes to consumption in the cooling systems etc. making the total consumption profile substantially different coming from a cold start.
You can certainly construct a reasonable argument that (a) the executive is required to do everything possible/legal before failing to fulfill the budget, and (b) Congress has been aware of the coin loophole for years and has declined to close it, so (c) the executive is basically-required to try the coin before defaulting.

It's silly, but mostly as a representation of how the underlying situation is ridiculous.
Temporal: React for the Back End
Show HN: Tweet2Doom – A Twitter bot that plays Doom
Hi HN,

This is something I hacked the past 2 weeks. It is a Twitter bot which you give some keyboard input and it uses it to play Doom (1993) and replies with a video of the result. The cool thing is that you can resume playing from any existing state that has been played so far.

For more information, please checkout the linked repo.

Also, I am linking a sample branch with about 2 minutes of gameplay to get a better feeling about how it works [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1445108230691115020
I thought Podcasts was derided even when it was first released within a year after Jobs' passing, so it being a bad app is continuity from that era if anything
Vice are an absolute shower of bastards, I don’t read anything there after they basically outed SexyCyborg even though she begged them not to, and then took her patreon down cutting off a lot of her funding… [0]

Wankers.

0: https://thefederalist.com/2018/08/20/spat-chinese-hacker-vic...