skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a petition to make this permanent? Asking for a friend

The article itself was a good exploration of the impact of BGP and what happens when network advertisements stop and the associated network disappears in a puff of global forgetfulness.

Might be time to poke around BGP as well. A lab setup might be a good toy.
Tesla must pay $137M to ex-worker over hostile work environment, racism
What a pointless article. Being "fully vaccinated" doesn't mean you're immune to COVID19 or something.
Lantenna: Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Networks via Ethernet Cables
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has literally said war is imminent.

I agree the WMD situation was a low point in morality and humanity. But this situation has a massively different dynamic.
I just don't understand why netflix couldn't charge someone like you more.
Just a typical long-time HN poster.
> Impossible, all USB-C QC chargers are also USB PD chargers.

But the reverse is not true: All USB PD chargers are not QC chargers. Some are, but not all. I admit this is not a huge problem because QC is fading away and it merely means that some older equipment won't charge with a newer charger, but the issue does exist.
I remember using HotJava.
I kept calling cards in my backpack to make my international calls before WhatsApp and mobile data came along. But they are certainly not easy compared to WhatsApp, nor “cheap” compared to free.

Paying for the internet is not a consideration since people will be paying for the internet anyway.
Disagree -- it's here to establish something that a lot of people have been speculating about, which is whether it's hacking-related. It doesn't say much because its purpose is to deliver a single bit of information: { hacking: boolean }
You can look him up on Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=baVVmaoAAAAJ&hl=en
In 2020/2021 he has at least 3 first author papers and a number of co-authored papers and apparently he wrote an impressive thesis. Even if he wanted to continue in academia, in a number of STEM fields, it would be sufficient for a degree. It's not a question of putting in time, it's about output.
Thanks for the memories! Every time I try and recreate my old Solaris environment from the 90's I discover that I'm missing the Fortran shared library that much of my code was linked with. I saved my Solaris CDs over the years but as you point out, languages were all add-ons. Anyone know where I can find the old Solaris Fortran shared libs?
I see it differently. China and USA are both dependant on Taiwan.

China and USA are diverging with or without war. The question is will Taiwan's capacity be claimed by China, or will it be massively downgraded.
the links are relevant. the isps took billions and didn't expand municipal wifi when promised nor did they lower costs for calls.
Asking out of curiosity, why isn’t replacing the phone an option? :)
GlobalFoundries files for U.S. IPO amid worldwide chip shortage
Just out of curiosity, does Facebook have a status page? Like http://status.twitter.com?
It took me way too long to realize the other-device-battery-indicators weren't four days from four different calendars (which, before I realized what they really were, I figured you could tap to go see the full calendar)
Well, it could also be about not being racist
I don’t think either of your premises are true, but it’s my fault for using the word “sin.” Alcohol is implicated in something like 50% of all homicides. There’s no culture where that behavior is tolerated and prohibition of murder isn’t a religious concept.

That’s all I meant by “sin.” I only used the religious term because I was speaking from the viewpoint of the religious of the time. Didn’t mean anything by it other than ordinary misbehavior.
Why RCS is not a reality? In light of WhatsApp outage
It's not that complicated. If money supply is causing the price inflation, then we should be seeing higher than usual demand. For most things, that doesn't appear to be the case. Demand may be slightly up, but supply constraints are the real issues. No one said 0% was attributable to money supply. But it is likely a small factor since, as I explained, most of that money is not even circulating.
There's an entire state's worth of "idle / fallow" on that map. Michigan and then some.

That's a lot of land.
Sure, you're putting small and medium sized farmers out of their homes / farms and contributing to mega-farms. Anyone who can't afford your product will not be able to compete and lose their homes / farms. The way that works is the more efficient farming is, the more land required to live off of. Land is the expensive part. It used to be 40 acres and a mule could get you and your family by, now it's probably 500 acres just to make a decent living due to efficiency in automation. 500 acres of good farmland costs in the millions. It's not like quality food is getting cheaper either, that profit goes into the pockets of the automaters and the mega farmers and middle men mostly. All he food everyone else eats is loaded with fake sugar (high fructose corn syrup) to make it addictive, but its nutritionally garbage. People sure buy it though, because it's addictive.

Also, there's a lot of suicide as a result of that farming efficiency with small / medium farmers. When they can't run their farms effectively because they can't afford the automation or acreage it requires, they off themselves out of shame, leaving their families to pick up the pieces. Don't feel too bad though, you're just at the end of the line of something that's being going on since the 1920s. It really picked up in the 1980s with computerization though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_Uni...

https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/2020/03/07/farme...
https://status.fb.com/

Although it only covers their API and business apps, not the site itself.
This article does a good job of explaining what recent studies have shown us:

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/15/16863374/wi....
I actually thought this was a link to your blog at first. Took me a moment to realize it wasn't you.

Your May posting on Metastable was excellent, although your (now ancient) article on volatile variables and atomic processor operations has always been my favorite.
That's heartbreaking
Thanks, this explains a lot for me. I love thinking about things and learning things, but doing it too much is just exhausting. I still have hobbies that are technical, but the parent poster's description sounds like a recipe for burnout for me.

Through meditation, I've come to see that my own habit of thinking 24/7 was actually a means of escape for me. A way of numbing feelings and avoiding silence. In the years since I started to practice meditation my mind has become a lot more quiet and I no longer think about work things obsessively, I can switch off much more easily and conversely it's made me a lot better at knowing what is and isn't important to work on.

I do envy the people who seem to be able to stay on 24/7 without burning out, but part of me also wonders if there's still a limit to that and perhaps my limit is lower.
My comment wasn't meant to single out anyone.
Posturing is part of this political dance.
case point North Korea. I don't have a crystal ball but country that trade together don't go to war. Follow the money make sense: https://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/asia/
If war is imminent; i would suspect a crash. War is expensive and it's not economical for CCP to start one now. I like to think in positive because the alternative is "lost ancient tech"/back to fight with bow and arrow.
No, because that goes against the narrative of demonizing ivermectin as some sort of dangerous drug.
There's a reason all these outlets have been pushing the idea that it's a "horse dewormer."
Unhappy with turbotax I have been using freetaxusa for many years which is also free.
How to present an alert in SwiftUI in iOS 15
Clinics distributed a box of pills with no proven efficacy for the SARS CoV-2 virus, but with significant downsides, and with no tracking. This was not a controlled experiment, this was negligent homicide, recklessly endangering a population by abusing their misplaced faith in careless medical and pseudo-medical "professionals".
I can only make one high probability guess, the cost of chips will go down drastically.
I won't switch her browser to firefox. I'm not her tech support although I am in tech. Welcome to 90% of users.

If I was her tech support, and I wanted to prevent the browser being changed by the user, I would.. Explain it to the user. And if they still changed it after that - guess what, that's their choice. But I could, just like you, prevent that with group policy. And when you do that, you won't get prompted to change it, just like my work laptop doesn't prompt me to change it. So what is the issue? The fact that if you do your customization and don't complete the full power user process, the OS can't tell if it was a random web page that did it? Maybe MS should collect some more telemetry on your laptop and run a compute-heavy AI to figure it out?

>I have spent so much time disabling all these ads on my Windows 10 Pro machine.

and why in the world would you do that? it literally takes two clicks in many different pieces of software that are available.

for the 90% of users - guess what, they wouldn't know about 1drive if windows didn't display an ad for it. What you call an ad, my wife calls helpful suggestions. When you're grocery shopping and you see a banner "apples 10% off today" that is also an "ad."

Microsoft is not a bad actor. The "google is worse" talking point is one I never stated, and a strawman you made up.

What you call "Ads" are simply defaults. And you can disable them in about a minute with one click in an app. You don't like edge at all? Guess what - there are fifty things you can do to completely disable or remove it - like change security on its folder or run a single powershell command to uninstall it.

Windows is an OS that is tailored to its users. That's not you - don't use it if you don't want. Here in the real world though, any power user simply changes the defaults in a couple of minutes, and at work there's a corporate image with all those turned off already.
I agree, it’s been a pleasure to use my m1 MacBook. I got the minimum storage (256GB) a made a workstation/file server for the first time in ages. That’s proven way more useful than more local storage (accessing a bit more of my files locally wherever I am vs accessing all of my files at a slower speed).
So calling your employees the n-word is ok in Texas?
Understood.

I had question: This is what we can only perceive through internet/routing table entries right?

Internal to FB, we don't know what had caused issues that led to the BGP UPDATE.

That's kind of what has been confusing me - there's a lot of speculation around FB's data center design and what actually happened, but we actually don't know for sure until they post an RCA - please correct me if I'm wrong here.
Interesting! Can you provide a source link?
> I believe this is supposed to be a and b here

You’re right! It’s a typo. I changed the struct to use a and b instead of x and y, but didn't replace the following paragraph. Thanks for noticing that. It’ll get fixed.
> Personally, I pretty much never answer calls from unknown numbers, unless I am specifically expecting a call (eg: from a service company coming to the house, or calling back about an inquiry I made).

That is my personal choice, alas many Doctors, government departments, companies etc etc alas withhold there numbers and a right PITA it is as well. This is in the UK.
Sounds like they could do with some updates to their risk-driven backbone management strategy!

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/09/connectivity/backbone-...
> fast-moving

and fast-breaking, there are multiple occasions that faulty WebView updates released to the world and crashed phones. Also you'll need root to change the default WebView to something else like Bromite.
Ask HN: If HN united to solve 1 problem under 1 year, what would it be, and why?
It was also down during the outage.
It's fun to compare to Götterdämmerung:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQHtYVjCCF0&t=4706s

In Davis' Matrix score there's a minor triad with its corresponding VI chord that fades in and out atop it. Plus a similar moment with a minor triad and a major triad built on its corresponding leading tone (which seems to be a staple of Marvel movie scores these days[1]).

In the Wagner link I gave, it starts with a half-diminished seventh chord oscillating between the fully-diminished neighbor that shares three common tones with it. Then you hear the trumpet play the rising Siegfried theme over that half-diminished chord. Now, Wagner could have harmonized that theme so it culminated on the same kind of VI chord that you hear in the first Matrix movie. (He probably did harmonize it that way at one of the other zillion appearances of that theme.) Instead, here Wagner uses chromatic voice leading to expand that half-diminished chord out to a minor triad. I always think of that moment as a kind of "Evil Phrygian Cadence"-- it's what you'd get if you sent a regular Phrygian cadence through that mirror Neo touches in the first Matrix movie. :)

Of course it's Wagner, so on the other side of the cadence is yet another mirror Neo touches, and everything happens again just kicked up a notch (transposed up a major third). Then three more mirrors, and finally the music slowly shifts to change character for the next scene.

Whoever filmed the Boulez version of Götterdämmerung started a bit before that excerpt with the camera zoomed in as close as possible on Hagen's face, panned out for half the ensuing instrumental section as the stage changed, then panned back in for the second half. If you can find it it's hilarious to watch how far out they have to pan to accommodate the pace of the music. I think it underscores the difference between an opera-- where the visuals serve the music[2], and film where it's the other way around.

I find it odd that I don't hear Wagner's evil Phrygian cadence used in recent film scores. Anyone have any examples I may have missed?

1: In the Marvel movies, those two chords alternate. In the Matrix, the VI chord gets stacked on top of the first chord, as if a 2nd brass section is constantly playing the 2nd chord and the mixing engineer is just fading them in and out of the mix.

2: And in the case I mentioned I wonder if it fails to work because there aren't any tried-and-true cinematic techniques to accommodate such a slow musical transition.
This work excites me a lot, but I can’t help but wonder if this should be a government-funded rather than volunteer-driven effort.
Looks like it! I remember trying to access this site during the down time and it turns out it’s not accessible at the moment
Maybe the intent is to have it down more often?

I think you’re assuming these empty moralizing statements aren’t just made for the clicks…
Google link if helpful.

https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home
Backbone routers don't usually deal with hostnames or DNS. This is pretty much saying they done broke BGP. And it sounds like they're saying that they broke it in a way that prevented accessing their data centers from the PoPs, and we know from the long downtime that it prevented accessing the BGP configuration system from darn near anywhere.

It happened to also kill the announcements for anycast DNS.
When I read biographies of Einstein, I had the impression that he was more curious than smart. He asked good questions, then followed through in figuring them out.
You could try. I'd assume it was downvoted by folks who perpetuate said double-talk. If there was a defense, they'd have articulated it. But, since anonymous downvoting is easier and less risky, that's what happens. Silencing the discussion about downvotes is a meta downvote that we shouldn't accept just because it's in the guidelines.
Why civilization is in decline – and what can turn it around
The didn't revoke all their routes, FWIW, just a lot of them (including the anycast DNS routes)
Okay I don't care if my account gets banned but why in the FUCK does everything about China has to do with the government?

Everyone here and on Reddit are bitching about Chinese propaganda bots but the only thing I see is people with new accounts attacking China and an immediate accusation of shilling to anyone who doesn't criticize China or even draws a parallel between whatever is being criticized and the U.S..

Seriously, y'all need help if you keep thinking China is the most evil bogeyman in the world. First it was Iraq, then Iran, now it's China.

I am not saying China is great or even good but this whole immediate "fuck China" whenever anything happening in China is reported, is just pathetic and a symptom of brainwashing.
Hi, lead author here. The Circle compiler is certainly some great work! We cite it in Section 7 of our paper.

The ability to compile C++ code to GPU-executable kernels for use in shader programming is a massive undertaking, and we're glad that the Circle compiler is working to accomplish this task! Instead, our work focuses on the next layer: once we can generate both host- and GPU-compatible shader code from C++, what else is required to achieve useful unified shader programming?

Our work identifies shader specialization as a major missing piece when attempting to unify host and GPU shader code into C++. For reasons we discuss in the paper, current methods available in C++ to potentially support GPU code specialization are insufficient, and Circle does not add any language design provisions to allow dynamic logic in host code to influence compile-time specialization and selection of GPU code, which is central to supporting unified shader specialization. Our work aims to provide this support by co-opting C++ attributes and virtual functions.

Circle also adds other language features on top of C++, including some interesting new metaprogramming features. It may be possible to build a unified shader programming system using these new features, but since these new features are not part of C++, they would not allow us to meet our design goals. The end of Section 7 in our paper includes an expanded discussion of this topic.

I'm happy to answer any questions and have further discussion here!
I have this weird feeling that you probably think the United States government being overthrown and replaced with the Soviet Union 2.0 is a bad idea.

I suggest "improving society somewhat" so that doesn't happen, but I have a weird feeling that you'd also consider that socialism.
You are on the right path. It's entirely possible the BGP routing updates that we witnessed 'out here' on the Internet were simply a side effect of the actual network problem that impacted the company. As toast0 mentioned above it is less likely to be DNS-related just because most of the related services don't tend to build dependencies on DNS (in part for this reason).
Collective decisionmaking.
Some light Googling[1][2] shows that Solaris's /dev/tcp is some sort of pseudo-device for configuring the system's network settings.

For both the Bash and Korn shells, the syntax looks like this:

$ cat < /dev/tcp/localhost/1234

with traffic being uni-directional. More complex (bi-directional) examples documented at <https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html#DEVTCP>.

Tested on macOS:

# in one terminal
bash$ nc -l 1234

# in second terminal
bash$ cat </dev/tcp/localhost/1234

# lines typed into the 'nc' terminal will be printed to
# the other.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19857-01/817-1836-10/perfplat.ht...

[2] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-nd/8.5.5?topic=systems-tunin...
> because they thought they were 20

That is a hard case, one that I originally explicitly called out as extremely difficult to handle. So your criticism is unfounded.
Government funded efforts can be disrupted by the tax software lobby.
Objectively, is it a $137m offense?
Good on you for finding something that works for you. Hopefully it will continue to work for you. Because as you age, many things change.

Fasting does not work the same way for everyone. Which is why the many studies looking into fasting and weight loss don't show an across the board success and has a lot of variability. In fact, many meta-analysis show that intermittent fasting for 24 hrs up to 2 days a week shows about the same amount of weight loss as regular calorie restriction diets. They also show a similar dropout rate to other diets indicating that it is no easier than say an Atkins diet.

* https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-weight/...
My CCNA friends liked the thread. Oh wait she was on 60 minutes last night.
Let me put it this way. I've known some very smart people who have led unhappy lives. They did not enjoy their lives of failure. They'd pick the right things to work on, but were too lazy to do the necessary work, and it would just peter out into nothing.

Like one guy who decided that being a real estate agent was the path to success. He studied for and aced the exam to get a license with ease. He quit after a few weeks of discovering that being a successful agent required focused effort, and went back to living hand to mouth.

His life was a sequence of one scheme like that after another, until he passed away young from neglecting his health.

It still pains me to recount this, he was a good guy.
Most likely this is a hoax like all the other fake “hate crimes” or recent years

e.g. that story with a “noose” in the garage or black students writing racist graffiti on campus

Some do it for attention, others for financial gain

https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/29354447/fbi-s...

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/black-student-...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hoax-missouri-school-distri...
Just make the gateways liable for any spam calls that they originate. It works in the credit card industry by holding the processors accountable so they have to vet all the merchants.
I'm trying to improve discourse by fighting against the downvote. It's my opinion it harms discourse significantly. It's low signal, and not constructive. It has an obvious chilling effect on dissent. Nothing upholds echo chambers more than the downvote.
Whatsapp also provides a very nice payment feature in India. I use it very often.
Should be, yes. Will be, no. Tax preparation is a multi-billion dollar industry.
High cognitive ability is like having a big engine in a car, doesn't do you any good if there's no traction. Then there are people who love nothing more than doing donuts in a parking lot.
You might not but someone else will thereby preventing your computer from becoming e-waste. The only way your non upgradeable computer won't become e-waste is if you commit to using it for as long as an upgradeable computer would be used for. Lets say 10 years. Will you commit to not contributing to ewaste by using your non upgradeable computer for the next 10 years?
Had a UUCP to BBS networks hub running on a SunOS system via dialin. Custom little mail tosser script that were the fugly result of ignorance and persistence.

Then they switch to a brand new server running Slowlaris. Utter disaster. Even if I had understood my script well enough to port it, the UUCP was not going to work and the one i was relying on was not going to be ported and... boom; those networks were unlinked.

I later heard that they brought the old server back online after a couple months and ran it for several more years for other, similar "the old system just worked and no one has time to port to the new" things. AFAIK it took Solaris another couple versions to really get back the serial hardware support they had under SunOS, and there was some hardware that just went unsupported.
Whatever the comments from both Microsoft and Casey Muratori about particular details of their implementations, Windows lacks a terminal like Linux Kitty (there's an unrelated Kitty that's just a fork of PuTTY).

And by that I mean speed and features. Kitty is fast and a joy to use, and it is the software I miss the most when I am using Windows.