skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, that’s restrictive. I can build up to 100m2 here, external area, up to three stories, no permits or inspections.

Can vouch that roofing is hard damn work - but perfectly possible to do solo - our roof is tiny, only 70m2, but still took me about ten days from ceiling boards to tiles on. It would have been a lot easier with a helper.
These companies average users are highly technical developers, while facebooks users are from a much wider demographic.

It’s not really surprising to me that Facebook is writing comms that most users will understand right now, rather than publishing detailed post-mortems straight away. You have to speak the same language as your users initially in these comms.

Although I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a post-mortem in the days ahead, but Facebook probably will want to say why it happened (not just what happened, but why did it not get detected during testing, was the configuration change correct but there is an underlying bug on the routers etc) and what new mitigation’s will be put in place to stop it happening again, and these might not be known yet.
I think mainstream news sources either used "DNS" as a term for routing internet traffic because most people haven't heard of BGP or come across autonomous systems (AS), or because they genuinely thought reports of routing issues meant it was DNS.
I am a curiosity/intelligence researcher, AMA. (Seriously, I am.)

This article reads like un-researched folk psychology rather than science, which is fine I guess, but I would take it all with skepticism.

I'll note that based on my and others' research, it seems to be better to have state curiosity (curiosity about the task at hand) rather than trait curiosity (as in, claiming to be a person with a high curiosity personality trait). Trait curiosity gets you almost nothing: no better learning outcomes, no better performance, and no better recall (in complex problem solving anyway; results are sometimes different in trivial pursuits, but who cares about that [edit: I shouldn't say it that way. I was being glib. From a scientific knowledge standpoint, of course we are curious about how curiosity works in trivial matters!]).

I don't believe there is a way to boost your state (task) curiosity. I'd also be skeptical that you can boost your trait curiosity.

Anyway, one of the main problems with curiosity research is the difficulty in even defining curiosity to a high degree of consensus. I would suggest that as you read this thread, you will see various meanings.

Is curiosity a desire to gain knowledge? Is it a desire to see if you are right or wrong? Is it a drive to test existing hypotheses? Is it a motivation sparked by novelty or uncertainty?

I would genuinely be interested in knowing what you, dear reader, think curiosity really is. :)
A neutral teaching of such subject would be probably an eye-opener. But there would be a strong temptation to teach only about atrocities of $OUTGROUP, thus basically defeating the purpose.
You might be entertained to know that this is exactly what happened when 'the net' switched from NCP to TCP/IP -- there was a 'flag day' and poof! we were henceforth on TCP. So, it can be (successfully) done.
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When I was starting to learn web dev back in 2011, I remember thinking how cool Smashing Magazine articles are and how these authors are out of this world.

Only 10 years later and I published the article on Smashing Magazine, too!
BGP is decentralised.
Yeah, I don't think redundancy would have prevented this. What could prevent this is stuff like canaries. Or automatic rollbacks for this kind of change, with the change having to be submitted in two steps, one where it is applied, and one where it is manually confirmed that the change worked (or automatically by a system outside the network). If no confirmation is given after a certain time, the system should revert to the old configuration.

Of course, we can't really know for sure until/if they release exactly what caused this issue.
Do you mean

> Which problem could HN solve under 1 year?

or

> Which problem would HN select to work on?

The answers are probably different.
If you are a youngster in Spain, Italy or France, your best bet for a good job is to take your diploma and leave your country.
As a customer there are a few reasons I might prefer PayPal.

First, they have my credit card info and shipping address already. Using their checkout means I don't need to fill all that info in.

I may not trust some random website I only plan to buy from once with my credit card info.

There are times when I can get money back from PayPal purchases on some of my credit cards. Right now I can get 5% back on one of them until the end of December. That means if paypal is an option I'm going to us it.
C spoiled the mentality that everything needs to be a pointer, when in fact, other systems programming languages never did it like that.

Yes pointers are there, for when they are really needed for interfacing with the hardware, dynamic datastructures and reference parameters can be dealt in more type safe ways.
The origins of car and cdr in Lisp
On a side note: when I browse to that page in Firefox (92.0.1) from HN I can't go back to HN - the back arrow is disabled. What gives?
It's not brainwashing to suspect s government are up to no good. I'm in the west and assume that my government is up to no good at times, but at least we have a free media which keeps it in check. That the CCP are a dangerous bunch of authoritarian control freaks really should not be that much of a stretch.
The terrorizing is already happening, but it has not got the desired effect of quitting facebook.
> It looks like they all start attempting to land before their batteries run out, around the same time...

That doesn’t immediately sound very plausible to me (as a layman who’s never dealt with drones but has dealt with battery-powered devices): I can’t imagine auto-power-down being based on flight time: surely it would be driven by battery voltage measurements, since batteries vary somewhat to begin with and vary a lot more as they age; and I then wouldn’t expect such homogeneity of battery lives that they would all drop out of the sky in such a short range of time.

You could say that their not all behaving in the same way at the same time supports the idea of low-battery emergency landing, but I think that could be adequately explained by network congestion effects too, which could line up with the claim of an attack if such an attack were some sort of frequency jamming or network saturation thing (I don’t know what wireless systems such drones use).

(The second video, “another view”, is much more interesting than the first, showing the constellation going from full strength to about two dozen left 30 seconds later, with another dozen subsequently failing very close to simultaneously in the last second of the video—I wish the video had gone for even two seconds more.)
I don't think so. The root cause (as I understand) was that FB stopped advertising it's IP address space to the world. Even if you had the IP addresses of the FB servers, you would not find any route to access them.

The fact that DNS was also not resolving was a symptom of the DNS servers also being unavailable since they were part of the same IP address space that was unadvertised.
What does “made whole” mean here? They transferred the missing crypto to the users?
They spoof their location
Ever hear "If you know the extension of the party you are trying to reach please enter it now."? Unfortunately, an extension standard does not seem to exist at the carrier level? But, NAT is also private. Some CMS likely has the ability to auto route a callback to the same extension/agent given his or her current status without requiring entering an extension.
> these drones were initially designed as an airborne sentry or surveillance tool.

So probably developed in part by people who had no idea they were building weapons.
Seems reasonable until you realise an LTE router draws 1-2W. I live off grid, as do a number of friends. They all rushed out and got starlink as they were making do with bad LTE installs - and now can’t use it as it’s way outside of their energy budget. I won’t consider moving to it until we have hydropower and wind. It’s just too much power for a damn internet connection.
Can you be more specific, maybe with an example of such code?

I feel (rather strongly) that the language's standpoint is pretty clear, and that warnings are a message of joy, the compiler is giving you an opportunity to fix a bug before it happens. Why is not "fixing the code" an option? If people don't understand the warning, and resort to "fiddling" to make it go away, that's a warning that there might be some training needed. :)
Valve reportedly developing standalone VR headset codenamed ‘Deckard’
Not sure Im buying this, facebook have 131 data centers according to one post yesterday, I think they still had some form of OOB
Graph nodes are an excellent framework for thinking about what constitutes intelligence, thanks for sharing.

I really don't like the term "smart" because it is vague, anecdotally it typically means memory, but it can also relate a high level of creativity and problem solving ability as well. All of which I feel are aspects of an intellect.

The main vectors I see for general intelligence as I see it are:

memory/knowledge - here relating the number of nodes held on the graph

curiosity/learning - the rate at which nodes are added to the graph

abstraction/understanding - the ability to distill knowledge, almost like a hash map, but I think an ML model of some subset of nodes is a more accurate (but kinda cheating)approximation.

critical thinking - the window size with which you attempt to traverse the graph

creativity/problem-solving - the ability to formulate rules for a novel traversal of the graph

logic/reasoning - the ability to traverse the graph in an efficient manner and give the right output

astuteness - the ability to recognize nodes that don't belong or are missing on the traversal

self-awareness - indexing the contents of your graph and relating it to all possible nodes, also your understanding of what all possible nodes represents.

Then there are higher level abstractions, wisdom is the confluence of a high level of understanding, critical thinking, reasoning, astuteness and self-awareness. Smarts is some impressive combination of knowledge, critical thinking, problem-solving and reasoning.

Fun stuff!
That info. would probably come from FB though, not Cloudflare. At least that's how I understand the incident.
From referred to article, The impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on Alpha & Delta variant transmission (David W Eyre, Donald Taylor, Mark Purver, David Chapman, Tom Fowler, Koen B Pouwels, A Sarah Walker, Tim EA Peto) (PREPRINT - not peer reviewed),

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264260v...

> Vaccination reduces transmission of [main variant of concern], but by less than the [original] variant. The impact of vaccination decreased over time

> [transmission of original: ] adjusted odds ratio vs. unvaccinated=0.18[95%CI 0.12-0.29] [with 2x BNT162b2] and 0.37[0.22-0.63] [with 2x ChAdOx1]

> [transmission of main variant of concern: ] attenuated vaccine-associated reductions in transmission: ... (aOR=0.35[0.26-0.48]), more than ChAdOx1 (aOR=0.64[0.57-0.72]; heterogeneity p<0.001)
Before or after dealing with the dynamic loading of all required extensions, validation layers, memory allocator (which AMD had to create a more user friendly wrapper) and initialization boilerplater?
My point is: your wife doesn't feel responsible for your personal safety. Here's the difference between a domesticated person who expects someone else to protect them, i.e., do their violence for them, and someone that feels responsible for their own safety.

Domesticated: works for a major corporation in a big city. Has no guns, no means of personally protecting himself, lives in close proximity to strangers, and if the food stores went down, he would starve to death within a few weeks.

Undomesticated: made very anxious by every conspiracy theory because he knows the world is dangerous and no one is ultimately his buddy, lives in a bunker in some undisclosed location, has at least a year of food rations, has more guns and ammunition than a small Latin American nation, makes a plan to kill everyone he meets.

The domesticated believe the undomesticated to be insane because they don't think about their own safety and violence as the undomesticated do. How many people look at the doomsday bunker crowd as a bunch of lunatics? They aren't lunatics: they have no trust in the system and they have taken it upon themselves to secure their safety to the best of their ability.

The fact that you blithely say "we live in an odd 1984 dystopia" tells me, no offense, that you aren't aware of what that means. Perhaps intellectually you do, but because you aren't used to protecting yourself, such a statement doesn't rain down anxiety and paranoia upon your emotional register. This is the strange thing about the domesticated condition: it's a type of blindness.

I'd compare the blindness of the domesticated to the difference between an old person at a funeral versus a child at a funeral. What is death to youth? What can youth possibly know of death? On the contrary, what is death to age? Death is profound and moving to those who have enough experience to know what it is, but it is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- to those that have not developed the depth of experience that allows one to register the significance of the grim reminder of our own mortality. The same thing goes for violence and its fruits and our ability to intimately know them.

In any case, good luck out there Winston #room101.
Yes, now he has no cryptocurrency so now he has no problem.
Don't say that on here, you'll get the droves coming in with their talking points of "But open APIs are how cambridge analytica happened"
> Some countries don't make you figure out things on your own: That's a bit like making a shopper put in the correct prices on each item they're buying and penalizing then for mistakes. A "Price is Right" game-show version of a tax filing system.

The U.S. doesn't make you do this, either. Most people don't itemize deductions. You just plug in the data from your W-2. The percentage of people itemizing was 30%, but with the Trump Tax Cut which capped state and local deductions (i.e. lowered the maximum allowable deduction, effectively increasing taxes on a large number of people) this was predicted to drop to 10%.

If you're itemizing, you're in a minority of tax payers, and in most cases a voluntary minority seeking to minimize your taxes in a way that simply wouldn't be possible elsewhere.

The U.S. also has one of the highest rates of voluntary tax compliance, and hypothetically that might have something to do with 1) ability to itemize and 2) having to sign on the dotted line every year.
The Cloudflare post includes graphs depicting how the issue looked downstream and a rough initial timeline for the incident. The Facebook post says basically nothing more than that there was a networking mistake.

I hope we get something more substantial and informative than that over the next couple of weeks, but it doesn't seem (at least from my searching) that Facebook is in the business of publicly posting in-depth post-mortems for their outages, which I personally find unfortunate.
Saying something is safe and effective doesn't make it so.

That said, the numbers of death and continued infections don't lie. Brazil was ivermectin happy, but it didn't stop the infections and subsequent deaths.

What is stopping infections and deaths? The vaccine. That's pretty clear.

So why aren't you 100% behind the vaccine? Are you too wrapped up with your stance with Ivermectin that you can no longer change your view?
>Did the promise of free money for doing nothing not seem slightly too good to be true to you?

Isn't that the entire premise of stock index funds?
Navigate the Web Faster with Firefox Suggest
Note: Article is specific to the USA and other countries with large grasslands and native grazing animals.

In New Zealand, all our beef is grass fed, in fact, we've never made the distinction between grass fed and not.

Our colonial ancestors spent a lot of time burning tussocklands and clearing native bush, so we have a lot of pasture. (Just under 40% of our land is used for agriculture).

We luckily got the idea that maybe we should think about preserving what wilderness was left in the 1890s, and it went from there, our most recent national park was created in 2002 (national parks are the most protected areas, no dogs, until recently no smallbore hunting, then there's forest parks, conservation areas etc. with lesser protections but still not being farmed), and some formerly grazed marginal land have been returned to the conservation estate (e.g., Korowai Torlesse Tussocklands Park).

But most of our soils aren't suitable for growing crops, so growing corn in the <2% of our land that's arable, to feed cows, when we have so much land that can grow grass, and that's about it, has never made economic sense.

(Although the usage of supplementary feeding by dairy farmers is another kettle of fish...)

Oh, and our endemic grazers (some species of moa) were hunted to extinction by the 15th century.

TL;DR - our grass fed beef and lamb might be far more ethical, please encourage your Congress to actually engage in free trade and drop protectionist subsidies and tariffs - nah just kidding, I know that's never going to happen.
Monetizing something that never needed monetizing.
What does direct bank transfers offer in the way of dispute resolution?

Here in Australia we’re constantly warned not to transfer money direct to sellers bank account as there’s pretty much no way you’ll get your money back if the goods don’t arrive, and there’s not much the police will do for small value transactions.
Best ways to make your first contribution to Nim language
While promoting Kotlin using Android Java (pseudo Java 8/11 subset with OpenJDK cherry picked features) as example of "Java" code.
Thanks! I've been looking for an accessible explanation of the hillshade algorithm, without much success.
I used 'time' to measure, but it doesn't really matter, what matters is how it feels. A 0.03 and 0.01 are the same, but 0.1 feels slow.
routing was down _everywhere_ so tor is getting a better experience than most people by getting a 500 error
Not worth clicking really, everything is in the url.
We could evolve to requiring laws to be implemented as FOSS before they go live. I suspect the right tests could reveal all kinds of bugs, weird edge cases and exploits.

Sadly law makers don't know how to code. If they did they would see what bloated monstrosity of complexity a few simple sounding sentences with some simple sounding exceptions produce. Perhaps a large bill and months of delay could provide enough of a clue.
The timing was uncanny. I still don't see a reason why it couldn't have been an intrusion/rogue employee? Like someone had access to a system to push router firmware updates or something?
What an idiotic write up. The purpose of such a position is to white-wash Twitters image as a toxic platform. Fake opposition from your own employees. Business ethics like loyal treachery and government intelligence.
There's no way to do peer to peer direct bank transfers in the US.

Also, in the US, credit card providers accept all liability for fraud, as a consumer there's no way you will ever lose money to credit card fraud.
There is no crisis. Death rates from severe weather gets lower and lower every decade, as does economic damage, relative to wealth. This trend will continue as long as we don’t gank the economy.

Allegedly, it’s saved lives: https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-change-heat-cold-deaths...

So far, anyway.
That's my experience as well. Not sure why tweet's author thinks government will necessarily improve rather worsen a service.
If you regulate WhatsApp so that it has to be interoperable with other IM systems (similarly to how email or matrix work), then not everyone has to be dependent on WhatsApp.
PayPal do have a network effect amongst customers who choses PayPal because they marketed for decades that purchases through PayPal are protected in case of issues.
I wonder if the suspicion of Tritium contamination was investigated further
> You know how many calls I receive daily on average from people spoofing what they think is my local area code? Seven. Sometimes it's none, sometimes it's 12, but I have been tracking it for this exact purpose and the average is 7. That's too many.

I'm grateful I've been able to keep my number from my first cell phone. I live in a different state now and all the numbers from that area code that I'd get a legitimate call from are in my contact list, so I know not to answer any other number from there.
They got told, explicitly that they shouldn't be sharing updates from the outage meeting, in the outage meeting.
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Steve Jobs has passed away. (2011)
New Large Study: No Benefit to Circumcision for HIV Transmission (N=569,950)
Anomaly Detection for Companies – Waitlist
We pre-launched our MVP to help businesses analyse free form business data to detect anomalies with the need for ML Engineers.

Would appreciate your thoughts on this.
You're defending against something that OP never said. You're making a trade off with your time. We all do every day.
Termux folks need to accept Android main APIs are Java based and POSIX is not an official NDK API.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

Whatever cannot be done with ISO C and ISO C++ standard libraries, GL ES or Vulkan for the UI, needs to drop into JNI or Android IPC, period.
Mozilla is testing a new monetization idea.

>"When you see or click on a Firefox Suggest result, Mozilla collects and sends your search queries and the result you click on to our partners through a Mozilla-owned proxy service. The data we share with partners does not include personally identifying information and is only shared when you see or click on a suggestion."

~

>"For sponsored results, our preferred partner is adMarketplace. We also provide results from Wikipedia. Results from Wikipedia are not sponsored."
I read the factual allegations and skimmed the rest. Thanks for posting this link.

No part of this seems as bad as being scalded and hospitalized. No part of this suggests a harmful or intentional corporate policy, like McDonald's superheating their coffee.

The allegation doesn't address a major point from Tesla's blog post, which is that the men involved were black. What I took from Tesla's post is that it was mostly (or entirely) black men referring to each other with racial slurs.

The factual allegations make it seem like some factory workers used bad/racist language and racist cartoons. Mid level HR types ignored some complaints. Does Tesla have a policy of ignoring or encouraging racist behavior? Or is it just some people failing to do something about reported harassment?
Serverless Policy Enforcement, Lambda + OPA
Manual trigger support in the Open Policy Agent project allows for new use cases with serverless functions like Lambda.
China's Geely to create high-precision Satellite network for self driving cars
You make these requests as if they're not all antithetical to Microsoft's bottom line
“Eating Dirt Benefits Kids” Is Basically Made Up
Sounds plausible, but how does that change the ethical calculus of working there?