skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How have people not caught onto this yet?

When the Fed prints money, its a guaranteed bet that assets go up. The rich use their wealth and huge amounts of leverage via financial instruments to generate massive returns. This has been going on for a long time. Literally all you need to do is throw your whole bank account into call options. Working a 200k-300k a year job is almost a waste of time with how much money they are printing. This is how the wealthy see it, your small paycheck (yes 300k a year is small) is a joke within the context of financial leverage.

Just to reiterate, you are better off risking everything in financial markets and sitting at home watching those assets very closely than you are working.
Do you season carbon steel the same way you season cast iron?
Right now homedepot.com and the APIs that drive their mobile app are down too.
Not possible, webgl is sandboxed and doesn’t expose the required egl extension. It might be possible if you’d port it to deno and use some native code perhaps(?)
The problem is the same as what all of the delivery apps solve. There are many restaurants, many customers and many delivery drivers. Someone needs to match all of them together.
Post covid anti bodies don’t make phizer share price go up. Almost all news companies int the United States are sponsored by Phizer
You have the right to your opinion.

You do not have the right to express it here, since it goes against the rule of this website.

I suggest you read them very carefully!
The title of the 404 page on all the down sites has an extra "1" after the exclamation points: "Error 404 (Not Found)!!1"
Great job. I would take a look.
This is infuriating. Google is once again severely hampering openness and accessibility in the name of security.

The web is more than just the big CDNs. It is not all about your business model. If I can not use your browser to open a socket to a routable host and render the data, then it is not a web browser anymore. But I don't think Chrome has been one for awhile.

Google's logical conclusion is to only allow you to connect to a whitelist of sites that they have control over. For that matter, domain names themselves are obsolete, we should just have AOL-style keywords like 'amazon' and 'facebook'. Only a poweruser weirdo would want to have their own website.

Users could also be tricked into adding their own self signed certificates, or having their own private DNS. It would not at all surprise me if that is banned soon as well.

I can't count the number of things that this would break, especial VPN accessible intranets.

Having users register with some outside service for getting a private network SSL certificate is a no go. That is like saying that a platform is open because submitting to their app store is free. If I have to rely on an outside authority then it is no longer federated, and it is no longer the web. Which is fundamentally what they want.

> It's kinda crazy that random websites can just send any HTTP request they want to your private network or local PC with no restrictions; that's a pretty huge attack surface to expose to the public internet.

I don't think there will be any restrictions on what advertising and tracking CDNs a webpage can make requests to, so long as they have their certificates in order and are not on a private network. I'm sure that when I go to log into my bank it will still happily connect to 12+ different analytics services.

I do think it would be nice to expose more control to the user for namespaces of what is allowed to be fetched from what context, but that might hamper advertising and content consumption.
> QE requires low interest rates as I understand it.

It’s the other way around. QE lowers interest rates; that’s the main purpose. The idea is that low interest rates force investment in risky ventures (since safe ones are offering low yields) and those risky investments on net will generate excess economic growth.
wow. their website is fantastic.
Time to switch to https://bandcamp.com.
Funny thing is when you google Home Depot or Paramount Plus you get ads served by Google as the first result. When click on it Google then shows you a 404 page. I wonder if they'll get a refund on their Adwords campaign.
BC Ferries has umpteen travel advisories due to high seas during this weather event, so don't count on their schedule:

https://www.bcferries.com/
Another take away is as always build what is actually needed. In this case it's a business for businesses and they do not care for your polish, your logo, and how nice your UI is. They want to get things done and not have anything slow them down.
ok, so our API is down. We're on GCP...

https://api.newscatcherapi.com/v2/search
I have adopted an extremely strong affinity for constraints after seeing what they can provide in return for being handcuffed in particular ways.

One of the biggest examples of a constraint that I feel has benefited my organization & product is a requirement that everything must start out using SQLite. To this day, ~6 years after this one directive, we have not yet found any actual need to move off this approach. The amount of time we were able to spend focusing elsewhere has actually made us viable as a business.

There was a period where our organization was essentially unconstrained on tech (think microservices, tons of repos, mapping/API hell, etc). These were very fun times for the novice engineer. For everyone else it was a living nightmare to watch the weeks slip by without an ounce of additional business value being added to the product.
Some people prefer a filtered experience. A completely open store invites bad actors to do as they wish without penalty
If the US routes get destroyed, we would have to airdrop food soon.
Thankfully, Firefox has an easy way to stop that.

about:config

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = false
They just gained me as an user. Haven't used it as primary browser for a couple of years, but adding this NFT stuff and crypto has forced me on it.
Every time I run into this, I remember meetings where a dumbass engineer would convince a clueless PM that something was necessary. It seems too specific to be thought up by a non-engineer.

I have no way of knowing this, but I do think companies with dumb password rules have poor talent.

I need to start a list of companies with dumb password rules, but I rarely create new accounts so by the time I get annoyed, I’m distracted onto something else.
I don't think so, https://dnsviz.net/d/spotify.com/YHUfXQ/dnssec/ shows that spotify.com resolved to the same 35.186.224.25 as it does now.
Evernote too.
The creator claims it's not satire, he claims he was learning to code.
I think you got called into the office coz you were being a dick!
Appreciate the feedback. Blocks are a new feature, and we plan on adding many more
https://downdetector.com/

yup
I think you all have been trolled. Because SF6 is not exclusive to nuclear power generation. It is used in the transformer/switching station behind the turbines. To avoid arc lightning there. Which almost all other power generation is also using in the same way, like in almost all larger switching/substations also. It's the thing to use if you don't want to have arc lightning.

So...in addition to all the CO2 some fossil fueled power plant emits, you have that, and the SF 6. Because behind the turbines they have the same halls with transformers and switching equipment.
https://toggl.com/ is also affected.
Yeah they either need a keycard or some tailgating to get to the bottom of my keyboard at which point they could just take the damn laptop and shuck the drive into an external enclosure and get everything that way, so nbd in my opinion.
Question:
"How many computable numbers could a computer compute if a computer could compute all computable numbers?"

Woodchucks are curious about this.
Pricey, but priceless for someone who is spending even a moderate amount of time enjoying the backcountry. In context, a typical REI-equipped backpacker is spending $100+ on boots, $200+ on a tent, $200+ on a pack, $100+ per piece of high quality outerwear, not to mention hundreds or thousands more on skis/bikes/climbing gear if they do more than just hike/backpack. When you're laying out that amount of cash just to go out and do your favorite activity, it makes sense and is fairly common to spend an additional $400 for a convenient portable distress/backcountry connectivity plan.
If only there were a built-in podcast app that wasn't a mess, like there used to be for the previous ten years. That wasn't broken on purpose, and folks from Stockholm didn't feel a need to defend.
They must be quite the 10X programmers to be able to contribute to open source like that while still holding a full-time job. (/s)
One of the websites I've noticed this on is back up.
Not in cs theory or math, it is almost entirely a study of technique. If you look at papers quite often the abstract will emphasize the novelty of their technique rather than just the result
Yes, I'm fine with people experimenting on stuff like Solana or Cardano.
Absolutely true. Deeply, deeply respectable.

Thank you.
They author of the library is trying to sell commercial licenses. People should get together, recreate this and slap an MIT license on it.
Our infra in us-central1 behind gcp lb is impacted but not us-west1
For culture and fun: GolfScript
Blue-teaming for Exiv2: adding custom CodeQL queries to code scanning
Sites that are down according to https://downdetector.com include Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, Etsy, Pokemon Go, Epic Games, Target, Paramount+, Evernote
Why not use Edge?
You would be correct. Mine is "#1". I use compound english words whose meaning is non-sensical in a conversation but easy to remember.
Fedora works similar to this. They just package them all and you use which ever one for your private needs.
New secret-spilling hole in Intel CPUs sends company patching (again)
Bloom Institute of Technology
This to me seems like the more feature full low-code open-source alternative available, congratulations!
How do you differ from the free app fulcrum.wiki ?
Personally, in JavaScript I like that you can mix and match imperative and asynchronous code using Promise instances. It lets you handle asynchronous control flow in a purely synchronous function.

However in other languages, having functions be of a different 'color' is far more painful. In Python for example, a synchronous function has to setup an event loop manually before it can run an asynchronous function. The call works, but nothing is 'running' without the event loop. Additionally, the asynchronous function may have been written to work with a particular eventloop (e.g. trio vs curio), and thus you have to use that type.

If non-blocking code has a standardized control state like Javascript, I think it's better to be explicit about async vs sync.
> if it were detected that it was of especial interest to Sysadmins

How would you do that? Keyword matching jumps to mind, but did you have something else up your sleeve?
Yep, it's the GLB. Went down for us at 5:46 GMT. Just responding 404 and logs reporting an internal error.
But there are multiple BC Ferries travel advisories in effect.
>Investors will buy out everything, and outbid anyone else in the process.

Investors need a cash on cash return above their hurdle rate. When they can't hit that they'll liquidate, even at a loss, to move on (like Zillow just did).

I'm not sure where these cartoonish views come from. Investors aren't looking to make bad investments just so they can cackle at all the poors they're hurting from their underwater Bond villain lair.
I live in a very rural area of the US, so I probably have an over-representative sample, but mostly folks I know who own one (myself included) view it at as an essential piece of backcountry safety equipment. If you spend 1 or 2 weekends per month in areas without cell signal (even recreationally, as is my case), it quickly becomes worthwhile even just as a means of emergency communication for people to contact _you_, not to mention the ability to call for rescue if you're unfortunate enough to have an accident where you need to be medivac'd.
Ironically it appears that IsItDownRightNow? is also down, although that could because they're experiencing what is basically going to be the equivalent of a DDOS.
Vivaldi[1] is another Chromium family browser that people seem to like (I use Brave w/o their crypto features for Google-y things like Gmail and Maps that never seem to work quite right in Firefox for me).

1: https://vivaldi.com/features/
The sooner you realize that the entire system thinks of you as evil, the better.
I'm pretty sure in this case the app was for the courier. The drivers were his employees.
I'm not your bro.
>a much worse browser Firefox

How do you figure?
The Chinese Room has been on my mind lately after recently learning about it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Highly recommend trying to grasp the argument, because in a sense it connects complexity to ‘time to compute’. If it takes a room of robots following simple instructions a billion years to act as an AI that reads Chinese, are those robots a collective intelligence? Can it be scaled up to consciousness?
Hyperledger and Trillian
Dollars do have inherent value, because I need them to keep the government from throwing me in prison for tax evasion. That is a very useful property.
The biggest issue for me with doing this is the fact that If I get a second job, I can never put it on my resume.

Say I get a second job, which is better then my current job which is likely because that's how career progression works, and then I decide that I don't want my initial job. Then there is overlapping jobs and I would either have to leave the job of my resume and lose that career progression or explain the overlap to my future employers.
Something I would not expect employers to be okay with.

So, I would be careful with doing this as there could be short term gains, but at the cost to long term career growth.

The only way I would think about doing this would be if I would a low requirements job and picked up a short term contract job, that paid highly, but didn't look great on a resume.
I think some entire themes just don't translate well. Explosions lose a lot of oomph if they aren't backed by powerful subwoofers. It's hard to pass environmental detail on an iPhone. Things like the scene with the bioluminescent creatures in Life of Pi lose a lot when you're on a small form factor screen. They also lose a lot if you have any glare on the screen.

> adjust your aesthetic to create a great experience on everything from a silver screen to an iPhone and let us give you our money without denigrating us for not placing our butts in theater seats.

This seems like the equivalent of saying "just write a single app that looks native everywhere". You're not going to get a bespoke C++ app back, you're going to get an Electron app that doesn't make anyone excited, but is easy to write.

Movies are the same. If you're designing for the lowest common denominator, you don't get a movie that looks great everywhere. You get a movie that looks great on an iPhone, and it's pointless to watch anywhere else because it's going to look the same. I don't see how you can make a single movie that both utilizes the high-end equipment in a theater to it's fullest, but also doesn't lose anything when you watch it on an iPhone using the built-in speakers.

They could do some "remastering" to release different versions for different platforms, but film buffs are always going to hold that some format is the "superior" one.
We were down. Just came back. Things seem to be resolving.
Do you mean DEFCON 1 or 5? Trying to get a feel of the situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON
> I did read your Wikipedia article.

It wasn’t “my” Wikipedia article. Another commenter posted it. I just read it before commenting.

> fancy term for an opinion unless they detail their methodology with evidence.

You mean this methodology? Which is linked at the bottom of the Wikipedia article?? So you clearly didn’t read it.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020

When I make comments on things online, I try to educate myself first rather than just asserting things with bias.
I also wonder how many companies didn't want to admit they were using Google for their infrastructure. Downdetector shows AWS being affected, it'd be embarrassing if they were caught using Google Cloud Platform.
neither cs theory nor math is science. CS theory is a form of applied math, and math is not science, it's a distinct process (that is used by science, as a technique). My comment doesn't apply there.
Is it just me or was Castanet some sort of Internet things besides Vancouver news?

I remember digicrime.com making fun of it. And they had all these “services” where they exploited browser problems like endless popups etc — they specifically said they don’t do spam because they can just sign you up for tons of spam and let those marketers do the work haha

Anyone remember that? (“it is now unsafe to turn on your computer”)
No one can accurately predict what they need plus they are incentivized to use more.
Seems to be an issue with GOOGLE cloud load balancer. our website is down too
I own one because I backpack and frequently go quite deep in the back country (err, at least I used to before having children, but I intend to get back out there once they're a little bit older).
https://overleaf.com/ is also 404 now
> Can you imagine what would have happened if, say, China started building military bases in Mexico?

There were NATO military bases being build in Ukraine or Moldova?

> No country with the power to stop such things allows hostile military presence to build up at its border - that's really the be-all, end-all of much of Russia's decisions.

This is one of most repeated "justifications" for Russian military aggression, but it makes no sense if you think about for a second. Russia have already had land border with several NATO member states (Estionia, Latvia) for quite some time now, and Pskov and Saint-Petersburg are still unmolested by NATO's hostile legions, as far as I'm aware.

> Russia's military is hundred of times smaller than NATO's. If NATO ever decides to attack Russia, Russia's military will be easily wiped out. There are US nukes on Russia's borders (in Turkey, arguably in Israel; slightly further away, in UK, France). There are anti-missile shields near to Russia's borders (in Romania).

Are you saying anti missile systems in Europe can provide protection from whole Russian missile arsenal? What are you basing this on? Did you consider their capabilities to launch from submarines? All analyses that I read on the subject suggests that nuclear war between NATO and Russia is still MAD.
Seeing this across the board with providers on GCP. Firestore however does not appear to be down
I believe what's being stated is that TCP isn't some mathematical inevitability, falling out of some discovered law, but rather a tool that was adopted because it had utility, and was certainly based on more formal findings or hypotheses.
You have been trolled. See my last post downthread why.
I wonder if they have advertising methods in place to turn days like this into a windfall.
What are you talking about. Spark isn't even used, and TPC DS is not a funky calculation at all. It's supposed to be a collection of typical datawarehouse type queries. Although I'm not really sure what funky means, but why would Spark trounce Snowflake on "funky" calculation at all. Do you mean an ML algorithm, and are you implying that TPC-DS has anything close to an ML Algorithm? And why would Snowflake perform better on returning one row, they are columnar stored.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting unsubstantive comments. That's not what this site is for.

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Wow, I lived in Canada for almost 6 years, and never knew that Canada spends so little on roads.
The test is still cheaper than the car. So probably not a big issue
Qualcomm CEO Says Oculus Quest 2 Is at ’10M Units”
There's something called the TIGER database. [1] Of course, that needs to be populated and updated somehow and Google probably applies various corrections. But there are plenty of tracks, especially in the American West, where their status as a "road" is somewhat a function of weather and opinion.

[1] https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series...
Regarding the automation, I built a DIY closed loop distillation process with similar i/o requirements. I have nowhere near the skill required to build a dedicated board but found that node-red running on raspberry pi using mqtt to talk to nodemcu running tasmota created an extremely extensible and modular platform. I’m running 8 thermocouples, two pumps, two flow meters, two load cells, current sensing coil and zero crossing ssr to chop current to a 6kw 240v heating element. With tasmota the little mcus are just kind of like legos and i just put them where the wiring is convenient and keep some spares.

All of the i/o is dumb, the control loops are all on the node-red flowgraph allowing for lots of visibility of terms when tuning pids.

The node-red dashboard lets you mix telemetry and control on a very touch friendly format, and i spool all of it to influxdb to compare runs over time.

I’m sure you’ve got what you need with what you’ve built but at a minimum node-red might be worth a look. I was suuuper impressed using it for this.
Blindly checking out code late at night, without PR review, without discussion about context, overwriting approved and (I assume) tested changes, for code you did not write and were not included on review for, BLINDLY merging to master (!?) - this could be tantamount to a fire able offense depending on where you work. I would have a hard, long talk with any of my mid or junior engineers if this was attempted (although master should ideally be protected, preventing this scenario unless OP had administrative senior permissions on the code base).

All around a mess. I agree with the sentiment (write clean code unless you shouldn’t) but there is some serious process issues here that should be caught and corrected and would have made this entire issue something during the PR review phase, where OP presumably asks for an improvement and is answered with the context for the decision. Not to mention the red flag of “I know better than my peers” attitude of many programmers I have known in the past, leading to distrust and backstabbing. It can get ugly.
Maybe you are interested in this little PoC I made a while ago which instead sends a one-time-auth code using Matrix: https://loginwithmatrix.tiktalk.space/
People also died in the back woods a lot more than they do now. There are tons of injuries that go from minor to fatal if you don’t have timely rescue. A rescue beacon or call doesn’t guarantee a good outcome, but it drastically changes the odds.
Since I can't exchange a dollar for a piece of faith and credit, it's not really backed in the traditional sense of being a backed asset.

Neither is it backed by the US military or the ability to pay taxes.

The fact that the dollar is in widespread use in a country that has a track record of stability, a well-managed economy, trusted institutions and a strong military all mean that if you want to put your faith into an arbitrary and made up asset, the US dollar is an excellent choice; but its value is a collective illusion nontheless.
I knew Google would one day take control of the web, just thought they'd have a more clever way of doing it.
That's why I like the clouds.