skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Update 2:

Our call center provider has VoIP provided by OVH as well, they are down as well... It's going to be a very long day...
Hence the BS of cloud marketing imagine AWS US-East going down there is no capacity to absorb that anywhere.
Burn it for energy and electricity like they do in some countries. Better that than leaving it to never decompose in some landfill.
Back up for our servers in Australia.

Edit: Our US server also.

Total downtime around 50minutes.
Your comment is an example of good knowledge without public recognition as it was downvoted. Probably the public goes by keywords like "schizophrenia" and concludes "oh well, that guy is mad I shoulda downvote him for all's good". But I think your comment is good and worthy, as it brings a small bit of data to a metabolic-neurological connection theory.

>ketosis does something to the immune system

Keto utilizes a bit different metabolic pathway compared to the aerobic glycolysis [1, 2]. The reason you observe immune system response when you lower keto and increase hydrocarbons is because glucose metabolic pathway is broken in such patients. Their bodies cannot consume glucose in full and start to starve in ATP, up to the point of tissue damage, all that with excessive lactic acid excretion. When the tissues are damaged, immune system gets activated and attacks them. By doing so, it also affects nearby healthy tissues, leading to wavy but gradual disease progression.

This process is believed to play the crucial role in progression of neurological and cardiovascular disorders.

The part of glucose metabolism that gets often broken in a human is aerobic cellular respiration [2]. It may be an inherited genetical condition or an acquired mitochondrial dysfunction.

By the way, do you happen to have an insulin resistance? If this parameter is not ok, this can be an additional hint. But even if it is ok, the given pathological process may be in place and slowly progress, eventually leading to insulin resistance as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycolysis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_respiration
I wish they had US location
"2x less" - "two times less" is word by word translation to English from some other language. As non native English speaker I didn't notice at first that there could be something wrong with this sentence.
Meteorites are a conspiracy from Big Construction which in turn is a front for Big Trebuchet. We're through the looking glass here!
To put the cost overrun into perspective - someone driving truck in 2016 was making £30k and in 2021 its £70k.

S&P Global Platts assessed UK day-ahead baseload prices at GBP540.15/MWh ($747.56/MWh) for delivery Sept. 14, up from GBP171.15/MWh Sept. 10. Sept. 9 as several plants priced themselves at GBP4,000/MWh amid low wind, outages and reduced interconnector availability*.

The UK energy situation is basically a total mess - they need more of everything (or to just stop shutting down everything). About the only thing being done is building more interconnects to import electricity from other countries.
Hah, I'm the opposite.

Money is an economics and societal problem (it's about trust, isn't it, trust that pieces of paper with numbers on them are worth something), not a tech problem, so software engineering expertise alone isn't enough. IMO.
You must be having the definition of a laugh:

> I had about $25k of student loans to pay off... EU wouldn't even have to think about that.

I went to UK university after 2012 meaning the price per year was £9000 so for 3 years that was £27000. Then I did a master degree and the loan cost of that was £10000 so here we have £37000 on education which is over $50000. Literally paying double than what you are paying and I'm on a lower salary than US so check that.

>He just paid $1M for a 3 bedroom house. What does $1M get you in the EU?

It gets you a 2 bed average flat in a bad area in London, assuming you can even qualify to get one
They probably thought 24 hours limitation can store some design wins; their customers may have proved them wrong.
> Nuclear is the safest form of energy generation we have today when measured in deaths per unit of energy produced.

How does that compare to what we have deployed in the wild?
Come on, it's been a year and a half now. Why are people still making these tired points which have been discounted all over

We all know with covid doesn't always mean because of covid, but it's statistically significant enough that dying shortly after covid gives a pretty damn good representation of the infection rate. It's statistically unlikely that you die from unrelated causes within 28 days of a positive covid test
As a smite player, I'm just amazed LoL even has this. I don't see what the point would be of letting players interact before the end of the game (and if you really care, /whisper is the tool for you)
NeurIPS 2021 Competitions
Facebook’s Blacklist of “Dangerous” Groups and People
They are hanging on the walls of Realfagsbygget ("STEM-building") at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Best picture I could find: https://koro.no/content/uploads/2020/04/55-417x550.jpg (some of them not burned yet)

From the end of the long album here: https://koro.no/prosjekter/ntnu-trondheim-norges-teknisk-nat...

My favorite art installation in that building is a huge Foucault pendulum. Always had to wait for it to knock over a peg when walking past.
TL;DR: They track long-lived phone identifiers and some send usage data like:

> Xiaomi telemetry logs the user interaction with the dialer app when
receiving a phone call, including the start and end times of the call

...and Microsoft SwiftKey logs the apps you open, how many characters you typed (with timestamps), and sends crash dumps that contain who-knows-what.
With Lisp-2 designs as discussed in the article this is not an issue, as variables and functions are in different namespaces:

CL-USER> (defun foo (list) (list list))
FOO
CL-USER> (foo 42)
(42)

In this case the function attached to the symbol LIST is applied to the argument with the same name, but that isn't a problem.

To further illustrate, in the above example the LIST symbol is imported from the package COMMON-LISP and has a function, plist etc. attached to it:

CL-USER> (symbol-package 'list)
#<PACKAGE "COMMON-LISP">
CL-USER> (symbol-function 'list)
#<FUNCTION LIST>
CL-USER> (symbol-plist 'list)
NIL
Did you just count the same group twice - those who are members of the National Guard?
Exactly what I was thinking while scrolling through comments - These people have not used IBM tools
i think livewire is just a port of Phoenix LiveView for laravel ecosystem.
Because no matter how many die, we should not fear, only reason. Fear is the mind killer. Fear leads to the dark side of the force.
> Also he works for google, so he firmly believes his company is so much better than facebook so he need to have a big write-up to educate a hr there.

The author of this post, George Mandis, DOES NOT work at Google.

They are a “Google Developer Expert”, which is a person recognized by Google as having exemplary expertise in one or more of their Google Developers products. GDEs are awarded through the Google Developers Experts program established and administered by Google.

Anyone with a relevant background in web development can become a GDE.

Eligibility criteria → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Developer_Expert#Eligib...
On a flat (private) road, big container-hauling truck, 65mph, stick shift car following 20 feet behind... Put the car in neutral and you can follow for miles. You need to tap the brakes occasionally to stop yourself getting too close to the truck. That tells me no engine power is being used.

Obviously it's unsafe to do on the public road for a bunch of reasons, but it really shows how good automated vehicle convoys could be for the environment if they can get close enough.

Here is a video of the effects of the same airflow:
https://youtu.be/xkbe2NP30Fs
Because it is Israel in this case of course.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Israel_and_Arab_stat...

The blue dot is clearly the oppressor here. There is much valid criticism about the policies of Israel. But I think most of these issues are just due to plain antisemitism. I doubt we would see protest against a Hamas cloud infrastructure from those workers.

Maybe it is wrong to condemn them here, but what would follow is that they are against supplying any cloud technology for military purposes. If that is the case, I would believe their conscience. At least the article says this:

"To build that brighter future, the companies we work for need to stop contracting with any and all militarized organizations in the US and beyond."

I think the focus on Israel isn't helpful to make that case.
It is up here at 08:27 am UTC
> the author manuscript can also be found at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7377549/ which I think should be encouraged over sci-hub.

Why? Which one has better policies?
It's a tool for correcting bias.

The corrected version of "woman was hit by a car" (key actor not even mentioned) and "alcohol was not a factor" (unmentioned driver did nothing wrong) is "driver hits woman in unlit crosswalk, third casualty at this intersection this year."

The former statements don't challenge the status quo of deadly infrastructure. The latter statement does. Making the driver visible makes it clear to readers that drive that the story isn't one just about other people: they, too, could be doing everything right but still hurt someone.
> If git were designed today it would probably use SHA2 or SHA3 but it's probably not going to change due to the massive install base.

There is some work going on to change this, but it's not an easy task:

https://lwn.net/Articles/811068/
YugabyteDB does https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/explore/ysql-language-featu...
Python Multithreading Without the GIL
> It obviously didn’t work out so I ghosted them and just did everything myself without asking, out of my own pocket.

In my one experience in a university, this how it’s done. Just set you own stuff up, hope you aren’t discovered and ideally have a friend high up the ranks.
I don't know if this is universal, but an insurance won't pay out until a repair has been done and invoiced by a verified garage.

I mean I've had some damage early this year, a guy backed up into our car on a parking lot (his back window was misted and he didn't look properly or respond to the horn), after checking in with the insurance we took it to the garage and everything was handled after that.
I previously thought Korea worked this way bit it seems it's a lot more puzzling than I thought.

https://overseas.mofa.go.kr/no-en/brd/m_21237/view.do?seq=33....
Proofs of previous infection to be required to shown don't make much sense either. Antibodies to be found in the blood do.
Does dota2 still have that ridiculous turning speed "feature" for all the heroes? I tried to play that game and lasted about 30 seconds when it became clear that simply moving my hero around was going to be a hateful affair.
Using this, I managed to get the file down to 114 bytes, while still printing "Hello, world!\n" and returning 0:

[bits 64]
file_load_va: equ 4096 * 40

db 0x7f, 'E', 'L', 'F'
db 2
db 1
db 1
entry_point:
mov al, 1
mov esi, file_load_va + message
jmp code_chunk_2
dw 2
dw 0x3e
dd 1
dq entry_point + file_load_va
dq program_headers_start
code_chunk_2:
mov edi, eax
mov dl, message_length
syscall
mov al, 60
xor edi, edi
syscall
db 0 ; usable
db 0 ; usable
dw 0x38
dw 1
; We simply deleted the three two-byte fields that used to be here. The only
; one that mattered, the number of section headers, will still be zero due to
; the upper two bytes of the field at the start of the program header being
; zero.

program_headers_start:
; These next two fields also serve as the final six bytes of the ELF header.
dd 1 ; Program header type: must be 1 (loadable segment)
dd 5 ; Program header flags: must be 5 (readable and executable)
dq 0 ; Offset of loadable segment in the file
dq file_load_va ; Address in memory to load the segment into ; could change
message_length: equ 14
message:
db `Hello, w`
; size in file then size in memory; can be anything non-zero and equal
last_bytes: equ `orld!\n`
dq last_bytes
dq last_bytes
dq 0 ; alignment; usable

This compiles and runs, and it's 114 bytes:

$ nasm -f bin hello.asm -o hello && chmod a+x hello && ./hello
Hello, world!
$ ls -l hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 josh josh 114 Oct 13 10:28 hello

Getting the file any smaller would require finding a way to overlap the program header further inside the ELF header. As the article observes, that seems challenging given the validation the kernel does.
Microservices have a marvelous long-term potential to trash the service with a myriad of legacy and obsolete languages instead of just one. So you just have to run faster to stay in the same place.
Where I grew up in the UK in the 1990’s. The insurance cost was £1250 per year to insure me when I was 17, Which was about $2500 USD at the time. So I didn’t have a car. My insurance is ~£200 per year now…
Fuckton of notes bruh, never gets old
I do think large properties - stadiums, skyscrapers, etc - fall into their own weird category when it comes to insurance.

I mean, what happened with the twin towers and the other affected buildings, not to mention the tens of thousands of people that died or were injured as a consequence, in terms of insurance?
https://www.jnfl.co.jp/en/business/hlw/

It has being done for 20+ years now.
I find that often the big gains come from applying knowledge about the data. Take a classic, which order should the DB perform the required operations (scan a.foo, scan b.bar, match keys between a and b) for the simple join:

SELECT * FROM a INNER JOIN b ON b.id = a.bid WHERE a.foo = 'foo' AND b.bar = 'bar'

The correct answer depends on what the tables contain. The query planner makes some educated guesses with what knowledge it has available, but in some cases it guesses consistently wrong.
I genuinely don't care, I gave up on the desktop app in favour of the web app a long time ago.

The one thing that drives me crazy is that even Google has took its time to make Meet work well in Firefox, while Microsoft can't be bothered to do the same. The same with Skype Web, where you have to bypass its browser check in order to use it on Firefox.
It seems to be back up, I can access the Control Panel and my servers. So around 1 hour downtime for me, 7:20 to 8:20 UTC.
Sure but justifying working for Facebook or in crypto currencies to yourself takes enough cognitive dissonance, I can't imagine the lengths you have to got to to justify working on Facebook's crypto currency projects.
There are tools that enable this (e.g. look at temporal.io).

As for external storage: yes, you do generate more metadata, but that's often a tiny fraction of the cost saved by moving to spot machines.

In general, these tools are adopted more for increasing reliability of existing systems, but I predict they would be a neat fit to run them on spot machines.
Nuclear provides 4.8% of China's electrical power [1] in 2020 and 2% of China's energy mix.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...
Hetzner is the cheapest and their cloud offering is solid. Heavily under ratted provider. Price to value, interface, documentation, API, libraries. Everything top notch.
> optimization=evil

Is that really why people turn to electron though? I'm pretty sure its not.
I need to rewatch the film The Man Who Sued God, which tackles this particular thing (I believe it was based on a real story?). The tl;dr is, a guy's boat was hit by lightning and the insurance didn't pay out because it was "Act of God", or in more agnostic terms, unpredictable / unexpected.
Chernobyl’s Blown Up Reactor 4 Just Woke Up
Facebook once let it rain in their data centers,
https://www.theregister.com/2013/06/08/facebook_cloud_versus...
and they actually went down at least twice during the last year
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/facebook-says-sorry-for-mass... https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/facebook-messenger-instag...
SRE is the first-responder team. They are on-call 24/7 (the team, not each person), perform systems and service monitoring, triage failures and mitigate outages.

That doesn't mean it's all handwork, I'm sure SREs at Google employ a boatload of automated event handling and custom response scripts. But "keeping the service up" requires different skills than "building a service", and Google chose to separate their Dev and Ops this way. As others said in this thread, if some service isn't up to SRE standards (in terms of monitoring, logging, or robustness), the SRE team won't accept it and Devs would have to do their own Ops.
Buffer-local variables are also underrated. There's another universe where this context-switching between objects is what we call "OO" instead of Smalltalk/Self style.
Always around these topics: deployment speed, scaling speed, capital costs, operating costs, security, compliance, latency, high availability, business continuity
Does anyone have any data on how much of this is actually due to the chip crunch versus reduced demand (especially at current iPhone 13 price points)?

For business/enterprise, one effect of the pandemic WFH response has been suppressing tech refresh of cellphones at many large employers -- folks aren't traveling as much for business. I know leisure travel is getting back up to pre-pandemic times domestically in the US, but internationally it's still down overall, so maybe the average consumer use case for a new shiny iPhone is down as well? Also, annoyingly, Apple hasn't reintroduced fingerprint scanners (TouchID) to their phones like some others have, while at the same time FaceID continues not to work with face masks on. These and other anecdotes make me question whether this is cover for decreased demand, or at least decreased demand forecasts.
I don't find having high-level architects to be a good pattern. They can make mistakes like anyone else; indeed having people who are no longer day-to-day coding make decisions that they don't feel the effects of makes wrong decisions more likely.

SRE exists to support product functions and like everything else should be attached to and understood in terms of those functions. Yes, every product group probably should have their own SREs, so that product group can own its whole lifecycle. Yes, different groups will do their own things and there will be mismatches and duplicated effort. That's less bad than the alternative.
LG to pay up to $1.9B to General Motors over Bolt EV battery fires
That's an excellent analogy. There is a scattering of fission-based startups (I'll plug UBattery, FliBe energy also looks smart).

Just like SpaceX, like it or not you're not going to avoid some government involvement. (You know what, I wouldn't call the unashamedly public-sector development in the '60s sluggish either.)
The Tile Ultra Takes on AirTags with UWB-Powered AR Tracking
Wake-up call from God.
I remember in my school days we all used Windows, but the teacher/admin administration software, the school bought was pretty cheap.

The administration tool allowed teachers to stop students from using for example the mouse or keyboard, was written in Java and was installed on all computers as a service.

My favorite part was, that the installation setup of the whole setup was laying around on a random network drive. Being naught little script kiddos we started to dump the code an voilà no authentication or checks who is actually sending the commands. This resulted practically us, locking the teachers and even the admins out.

Aaaah, good times...
Things do happen even with AWS.

Minus the fire incident, can't recall any outage. Not the cheapest offering out there but been running many things on it on autopilot. Support is solid too, always had a good experience.
It’s opera:speeddial. A grid of thumbnails 5xN that I use daily: searches, gmails, translate, youtube, docs, tv series bookmarks, links for what I’m working on right now, links for remembering to educate/research myself on.

If someone asked me how to change it, I’d say that I want not that stupid grid, but a surface with smaller (but varying) tiles organized into groups (which are bookmark folders). E.g. the top row for services I use often with medium icons and titles below them. Below that, to the left, a column of non-tall (hierarchical) rows with links to various documentation (~15 of them which right now live in a folder on a bookmarks bar), like node fs, express {index, {request, response}}, bulma {index, {buttons, forms}}. Small icon and text to the right, offset for subitems, you get the idea. To the right of that a column of address box and various search boxes for npm, google, images, wiki, etc. No need for the address bar at the top, just focus on it in the tab area and allow to <tab> my way to other searches. Below that: few other categories like “attic”, “work”, “to read”, also placed/layouted by myself (but not with css, give me easy structure and mouse-way to do it). I actually want this in file explorers too. These grid/table interfaces are nice for a naive user, but are stupid as hell for those who want to organize their “start area”.
Effectively yes. The main things SRE provides are oncall support, production focused design consulting and integration with other infrastructure. In practice, the engagement usually always provides 1) and then the rest are dependent on how mature the SRE team is.

In a typical split, SWEs often do the dev work for features and large reliability/scalability changes (which SRE helps appropriately prioritise), whereas the SRE team maintains the software around the project (config pipelines, monitoring etc.) and might occasionally write some smaller reliability/scalability modifications.

But there can be lots of variance. It’s atypical but some of the infrastructure-focused SRE teams often maintain non-trivial software, but are part of SRE because of other responsibilities.
Does Google or Amazon have an employees union yet? Should we expect that it would be the unions to speak out on these issues instead of a group of individuals? Additionally, can unions direct the activities of its members to stop any independent actions which they might seem to be problematic?

I look forward to more tech unions with actual bite, would we see more or less of these articles I wonder?

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Secondly the issue appears to be selling the cloud to a state. Then the state does something bad. Seems similar to complaining about selling cloud to the US govt, then they go to war with a middle east country. No state would be blameless. It doesn't seem like it's directly selling specific tech (equiv, arms) so has the use of these cloud products in this project been determined? The letter was vague on this point.
ok, since never had a car I wasn't sure.
I've seen them at marshalls (US) before
One strange aspect of this: It happened slightly before midnight. Generally speaking meteors are more common in the morning hours, between midnight and noon. Those of us between midnight and noon are on the "front" side of the planet at the earth moves around the sun. That is why most are seen in the early morning. They are still there during daylight but we are less likely to see them. After noon we are moving onto the "lee" side, the back side of the planet that gets less meteors. This one hit just before midnight, right at that line between front and back sides.
Not really, Liveview uses websockets and Livewire uses http. So there is quite a big underlying difference
It's back!
http://status.ovh.es/
It's fair to say that I prefer it that way :)
But with sudo you can specify which parameters are allowed for that binary (or the whole command line). But TBH IDK if this applies to I/O redirections as well.
They are new board members. DNF runs board election every year around august/september
Fly.io Is Down
Azure VM issues all around the world
Issues in launching new VMs on several regions all around the world.