skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to claim a difference between reporting your opinion and convincing people of your opinion. All the Pope has to do is to report his opinion, and people are interested in it as such. A lot of big newspaper opinion writers do the same, because a certain class just wants to know what their media outlet thinks, rather than why they think it, which can be skimmed or skipped. A good journalist, IMO, makes the premises of their arguments clear, and then makes the best case for the opposition (which often involves trying to weaken one's own premises.) Then, finally, explains why the best versions of the opposition arguments are probably wrong. This, even if it fails to convince, never fails to educate.
Not every woman is attracted to a buffed up man, but far more are than are not. It's all about tilting the odds in your favor.
Why? Do you think there's billions of widely-used recursive resolvers in the world? Each resolver only needs to contact the Facebook DNS servers once per hostname, the end-user requests are all served from cache.
Was that before or after COVID ? Because Gitlab for example was always remote by principle. We are talking here about companies that were mostly in large offices in the first place.
Have you tried LTSC? It's a feature-stripped version of windows 10, which is far more user-friendly simply because it doesn't try to do much at all, while still providing security updates. I'm no expert and licensing is a bit complicated, but if you want a workable windows 10 environment I couldn't recommend it more highly.
It's important to note that, while it is true that you can't verify no changes have been made to the AOSP sources on the stock Pixel ROM, it's irrelevant because the Pixel ROM doesn't even claim to be AOSP -- it's a Google-flavored version of AOSP with the following "bonus features":

* Google cloud-synced replacements for the more barebones (but at least local) stock AOSP apps (which can be disabled, but not fully uninstalled): Google Calendar (instead of AOSP Calendar), Google Photos (AOSP Gallery), Gmail (AOSP Email), Google Keyboard (Android Keyboard), etc

* A few Pixel-exclusive Google apps not (yet) available on other Android phones: Pixel Launcher, Audio Recorder, etc

* The standard suite of Google system apps present even on most non-Pixel phones, like Play Store and Play Services, with special higher privileges that aren't available to other apps and can't be revoked

* The only option for system backup is to use Google Drive

It infuriates me that almost none of the stock apps (aside from Google Photos and maybe Gmail) allow you to use them without a Google account, by the way. On a Google Pixel, the stock note-taking app is Google Keep Notes, so you can't do something as simple as write a note locally, without sending it to Google servers, unless you install a third-party note-taking app. What the fuck.
Who the hell put HN engineers are in charge of facebook, and why haven't we gotten more out of it than a temporary outage??
Tangent: why is it four ‘A’s? Why not just “A6”? Is there a technical reason?
This was the reply I was really looking for, thank you.
Honestly surprised that HN, a website for techies, is so poorly coded. For example, the whole lack of proper "paging", with dang posting a disclaimer on every large thread for honestly over a year at this point and no progress. Or the fact that if you want to reply to a comment, it has to load a whole new page (which has to fetch more data from the server?) before getting to the comment box. Until recently, trying to collapse a large comment thread would also take 3s+ as I think it individually set the collapse state of every sub-comment?
On Jan. 5, my Facebook feed had an acquaintance from college saying Trump would triumph the next day, so there’s always that.
Pretty tangential, but I think for the first time in history, much of the human population has incentive to optimize for longevity.

We seem to be on the cusp of solving aging and dying problems to a massive degree.

200 years ago we knew nothing, in another 50 we might know all we need to achieve immunity to aging.

I would bet my net worth that we figure that out in the next 1,000.

Anyway I still don't optimize for longevity, but I think it makes sense, at least.

I also enjoy that alcohol connects across millenia. Lately I've been trying some things from a Slavic brewery, they brew some ancient mead recipes. One was unchanged since about 1300, according to the label. That's pretty cool. If you want to check it out, the one I have now is a honey apple wine called Ribe Mjod. Same company.
I for one just wanted to tell you how much I appreciated your Ghostery humor. That's pretty good. ;)
it's the importance of curating your social media, twitter for me is basically just tech stuff, sometimes I see the edge of war when other tech people are involved, but mostly its all about cool things happening in tech. Facebook I've limited down a bit, I've mostly stopped looking at comments on news articles (really wish there was an option to remove the ability to see comments on some pages) other than that, its pretty good, except when friends engage in war. I'm also subscribed to some atheist groups, and those are super messy at times.
I am in disagreement with most of my family on this point (taking the least popular point of view). I understand the idea that transparency always allows better information around personal decisions - but I'm not certain if more transparency that might include speculation during a pandemic would actually lead to a greater sense of public safety. I feel like generally being transparent does increase public stability by increasing faith in the government - but I also feel like a pandemic is a good time to burn some of that public good will to keep a unified message to the public.
It does far more than AOSP, and AOSP has taken patches from Graphene's lead dev — I'd definitely inform yourself further on this.
> a bunch of niche hobby groups

This. I actually unfriended and blocked all my personal contacts (not because I hate them, I was just removing my personal self from the platform) and then use it only for a bunch of amateur radio related groups which are largely very civil and helpful, good folks. For many, it's an easier-to--use groups.io.
But that doesn't explain firing all those among those 1400 who tested positive in the past and whom, according to recent studies, are not just a bit but way less likely to spread the Delta variants than those who, like me, got the Pfizer vaccine but never tested positive.

I'm vaccinated but this entire witch hunt against unvaccinated people makes me very uneasy.
What is this? Like a social network for sailors? Are you the owner? The developer? What is the tech stack?
> but you shouldn't be the lead moderator, lead customer support contact, and lead developer of HN, that's nuts!

Now you know why his name is dang!
If the team that owned these dependencies were militant enough to enable Werror for tests, they might have also insisted that the warnings be fixed properly instead of being suppressed.
I'm not confident in government to do a better job at keeping it up, tbh. I also wouldn't use a messaging app by my gov, if that's what you meant. Too many dystopian ways for that to go wrong.

I have several messaging apps on my phone, and maybe that's just how it is for now.
Why are these documents always typeset and laid out so atrociously?
The obesity examples fails because obesity is non-contagious. The issue with COVID is that not getting vaccinated puts your coworkers even more at risk in an environment where you're already much more likely to be infected.

Additionally, in health care you're often working with patients who have comorbidities, for these patients, contracting COVID from a healthcare worker could be a death sentence.
Götterdämmerung isn’t especially obscure. It’s been popular in the US since it’s creation AFAICT.
> Failures aren't cached.

i thought so too but according to Cloudflare's blog post, at least some of them do:

> Consequently, 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, and other major public DNS resolvers started issuing (and caching) SERVFAIL responses.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
Shhhhh on HN you can't have independent thought, your hive mind has to hate Facebook for every incident even if it makes no technical or logical sense.

The Tweet is a good reminder how Facebook is a utility and more than a 'fun' app.

It's nonsense to then go it needs regulation due to this outage. It's obviously unintentional, and as you point out, outages are rare and it would be unlikely any government would have less.

It's like no one here has ever run a server and understands how hard not having down time is, so has to bike shed ohhhhh Facebook bad because of some other incident. HN really has a low technical knowledge base.
Even considering that normal forms are tools...

Sum types, how them are stored and how they are used is not the same ie: How are sum types represented in languages like Rust/oCalm? that is tangential as how we experience them.

So, support to embed relations is the step to provide the storage and partially, help in the query, but from the POV of the user them are "normal sum types".

But with that, you get the ability to store relations, that is usefull as-is :)
> I'm not one of their customers, but my understanding is that they're all about renting out high fashion and near-high fashion.

That used to be the case, but not really anymore. They do more rental of “work” or “simple night out” clothing than they do higher formality clothing.
what i tell myself is that it's because ipv6 uses 128 bits, vs ipv4 32 bit addresses. so its 4x V4 addresses. Still makes little sense, but at least it's something, heh.
What else is AI than math applied to life.

If Godel binds on math in general, it aught bind especially well to math applied to a (constantly evolving) reality.
Docker for Windows supports Windows Containers.
FB is inherently evil and must be stopped at all costs.
And your last part about giving those two groups a platform: so fucking what? Those groups are much more prestigious than our 'leaders'.
In the example provided, are these not spelling errors?

“Reach wider group of people who prefer listening over reading. Listening requirers^ less attention and can be done while performing other tasks like walking, driving, cooking, doing sports and more. Join a growing trend of podcasts^ and audiobook listeners and add high quality audio to your articles.”

^requires

^podcast
Bitcoin and Ethereum are obviously the two most popular but their fees are often high. Some of the more useable cryptocurrencies for transactions are Nano, Bitcoin Cash and Monero.

Those are just some examples - my point is that what’s popular and what’s a good technical choice are two different things.

If you’re integrating this into an app, include at least a couple of different cryptocurrencies.
Great!, I have the project at https://tablam.org
Because it isn't a question of individual choice.

I use Signal as much as possible, but here in Brazil it seems WhatsApp/Facebook has some deal with all the cellular operators by which the a) give customers "unlimited WhatsApp usage" that doesn't count against their 3 or 5 GB/month internet usage quotas, and b) give WhatsApp traffic preference when their networks are congested, meaning that sometimes Signal messages don't get delivered immediately but WhatsApp messages do. Really.

The "unlimited WhatsApp usage" as part of a basic plan alone means that Signal doesn't have a chance. Most people hit their quota limits during a typical month, and that means no more Signal messages/calls.

I'm sure it's similar in many other countries.
Actually, the article seems to confuse the times quite a lot. It's talking about ~16:50 UTC at points, but the outage started at 15:40, which they not only mention in the article but you can also see on the graphs.
With the exception of WhatsApp. WA is legitimately useful for everyone around the world to communicate with their families.

WhatsApp should have IPO'd instead of selling out.
AMD hardware is fast but I miss vTune :(
There are probably lots of people who have Facebook addiciton and need help. For some reason they channel their hate towards Facebook instead of themselves.
That leaves you open to cache attacks still, and doesn't buy you very much.
There's a "day" or "month" for everything these days. It's just how globalisation blends with capitalism. People are more herd like than ever before.
p84 'illustrates the economics' and shows positive contribution profit. But when you look more closely at the numbers on page 16, you see:

- Once you deduct marketing costs, contribution profit goes from 11% to 2%

- G&A is $77MM, which seems like a lot when you consider fulfillment is only $53MM. I wonder how G&A will increase as revenue increases. Even if 5% of G&A is variable (proportional to revenue), this results in 0% contribution profit.

Of course, we can also wonder what the 'other depreciation and amortization' is.
As soon as enough of you switch to LTSC, Microsoft will start doing his there. The only way to win is not to play.
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I was expecting the prize to be awarded to mRNA vaccines related work.
What would be cool is if any of these profilers and compilers could put their heads together and make a profile format that A) is easy to generate (with `perf record` or whatever) and B) can be used as a compiler input without conversion (as in `clang -fprofile-use=perf.data`).
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Extra tangential: For a lot of human history, many of the elite _thought_ they were close to achieving immortality through unlocking the elixir of life, and that it could be discovered in the next few years.

That elixir has changed names, but the concept is still around.
I know it’s hard for a lot of people but why do we automatically blame everything on Facebook?

The inaccessibility to WhatsApp completely brings life to a standstill for a lot of people across the world. Isn’t that more of a failure on the part of the governments, people and companies that exist there? How is a app that needs access to internet somehow a bigger necessity than the basic function of the device the app was installed in: Calls and texts?

Shouldn’t we focus on making those services accessible and affordable? Instead of demanding Facebook be responsible for everything?
The top comment right now is about how the whole world feels like a better place during the downtime. Such a heavy eye roll reading that. We get it, most of us don't like FB either, but that's such a circlejerky comment.
Plus a lot of PR.
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wonder if there's a plan to evac everyone who has crucial know-how abroad, a la Operation Paperclip and its soviet counterpart. If they can move all of the machinery and people out in time( This is taking into account, that the worst has come to happen ). They could setup shop elsewhere in probably under a year.
The link doesn't work for me. All I see is:

> We appreciate your interest in our content. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to allow international traffic or online transactions.
No, the protocol didn't support that when it was first written, and that absence has continued through today. Internet protocols are typically written from the standpoint that the transport/protocol layer handles all this for them, so the real question is how DNS-over-HTTPS can help manage that, since there's no hope of altering classical DNS. Unfortunately, the MDN page for it seems incomplete, so I have no idea how browsers typically handle that header, much less how a DNS resolver's "DNS-over-HTTPS" shim library will. It might be possible to use the QoS functions of HTTP2 or HTTP3 to accept the connection with a receive maxlen of 0 and send the 503 Retry-After at that point. This also assumes a client coded to behave in a kind manner rather than in a greedy manner, which is generally not a safe bet when "time is money" is a factor.
I think a lot of fast fashion is sold with the expectation that it may only be worn 2-3 times.
> Tech has yet to go through it’s ‘industrialization’ phase where one of the main advents was replaceable/interchangeable parts.

I disagree, tech has had periods of exactly this. Open protocols and APIs meant that you could write against almost any app or service that used them and switch them out and replace them.

In the early to mid 2000's, this was the case for a lot of things in the tech world, especially when it came to communication and messaging. It's only recently that we've gone removed those open protocols and APIs in favor of proprietary systems and silos.

That spirit is still alive today in some open source software.
The keyword you're looking for here is Operator [1]. Kubernetes Operators are custom resources (e.g. Database, Load Balancer, ACME Certificate Entry) that manage themselves via a reconciliation loop. If you're looking for a specific piece of infrastructure, search for `<YOUR_TECHNOLOGY> + "operator"`, (e.g. "Postgres Operator", "Kafka Operator", etc...). Once you find an operator for the piece of infrastructure you need, just follow their instructions on how to set it up and configure it. Learning about how operators work is pretty neat and writing your own is fairly simple if you don't find an operator for your use case.

Personally I run my personal cluster on K3s [2], secure it with cert-manager [3] and route traffic via the Traefik Operator [4]. Right now I use Litestream for all of my DB needs, but I've heard good things about the Postgres Operator by CrunchyData [5].

1: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operat...
2: https://k3s.io/
3: https://cert-manager.io/
4: https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/providers/kubernetes-ingress/
5: https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgres-operator
I more meant there's no first-mover advantage, because a 'last-loser' can always adopt the better policies and poach new talent under the new regime.

There may be SOME lag, but being a first-mover on return to office will not make or break a company's future.
I think you analysis is correct. I also add that is related too to the languages, you point with Cobol, and I also add C, Pascal, Java, etc.

When they have nulls and limited to zero queries, relationships and data modeling capabilities is not hard to see that how they are is reflected in how the DBs are too. I honestly not know about sum types until a few years ago, neither have a clue how much useful they are, so surely even today many are in the same blind spots...
Security policies are a pain in cases like this...

Laptop + mobile tethering + serial cable to the router + teamvewier for the remote admin to get the access solves problems like this in minutes.

Breaking a gajillion security policies by doing that is a different story though.
interesting point, do you have more specifics on amazon seller strategy?
This over reach is so terrifying it's almost funny. Always use a VPN and/or Tor.
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I mean, as long as they have patents they don’t need to “attack” others. A patent is enough on its own to prevent others from innovating. That’s the function of a patent after all!
Even with your feed I could see someone getting depressed if they couldn't afford vacations in Italy, hot air balloon rides, etc.

Anyway, maybe you're using Facebook correctly, but clearly enough of the world isn't to cause problems. Do you expect all those folks to change, or is it easier to regulate Facebook itself?
At 33 as a director I felt the same way. Trust me, it’s not all that hard. Work on your people skills and if you don’t have those learn routines or templates on how to deal with the tens of situations you will encounter. Keep abreast of new technologies and feel free to say what you’re thinking in meetings even if you think it comes off as stupid or pedantic. Hire well and treat your directs with the utmost of respect. Immediately address insubordination. It’s a natural progression in many cases, don’t fight it.
>I have to follow my gut before there is data to analyze.

The real question then is: how well have you adjusted your posterior risk assessments now that there is more data to analyze?

Based on your previous posts, it sounds like you prior risk assessments (under uncertainty) were so strong as to prevent much modification or you may not be properly weighting the new data.
All of us because thats all anyone talked about today
> There were porpoises in the loch in 1914. They had entered from the Moray Firth along the River Ness and were a rare spectacle

I never knew Loch Ness was connected to the ocean at large, and this helps keep a bit of the mystery alive. I had read that detailed sonar and biomass surveys of Loch Ness concluded there could be no large monster there, because there's not enough food to feed something the size of a whale and anything the size of a whale would have been seen by sonar. But the monster could have a lifecycle like salmon, where it is born in freshwater, goes out to the ocean, and eventually returns to freshwater only to reproduce and then die. Porpoises are kinda like mini-whales (they're air-breathing mammals with voracious appetites which can weigh over 200kg), and a school of porpoises wouldn't travel to Loch Ness unless there was a lot of good eatin' there.
That sentiment has not worked well for the shipping industry.
I don’t think anyone would ever dispute the mental health benefits, though many people also lose their minds when drinking to excess. The purpose of these studies is to provide guidance to healthcare providers, so they can better assess the risk of their patients drinking habits.

The two drink a day meme is something I knew was totally bullshit, but could never really prove. Two of my uncles (one died recently) believed that meme and happily torched both their mental and physical health by drinking to excess. Their healthcare providers didn’t say anything either, until it was much too late, at which point the damage had become very obvious.
I know, and that's probably why I don't like it and want to try something different. It's not for everyone, as this thread shows.
Sure but e-ink is nice as it doesn’t emit light.
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> Why can't people just come out and say it that the federal government mandates in their current form are illegal?

Because 1) they're not illegal and 2) they're quite useful to society as we want to make sure everyone gets vaccinated.
Whether or not you see his behavior as polite, I guess, is a matter of how you read people and the context of the situation. That said, he did literally admit he was being "terse". I think it was counterproductive at best and rather mean at worst.

As for whether it really is "difficult", one has to ask for whom? For someone that is intimately familiar with C++, DirectX, internationalization, the nature of production-grade terminal shell applications and all their features and requirements?

And even if it is "easy", so what? It just means Microsoft missed something and perhaps were kind of embarrassed, that's totally human, it happens. It's not so nice when this stuff is very public with harsh judgement all around.

This all rubs me the wrong way. I have found the Microsoft folks to be very helpful and generous with their attention on Github Issues. They've helped me and many others out, it has been genuinely refreshing. What this guy did might discourage participation and make folks more defensive to avoid losing face in a big public way over a mistake or silly gotch-ya.