skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misused the word "interesting" in your title then.

"Interesting problems" implies wanting to work on them or being curious about the solution.

You don't want to work these problems, whether they involve cryptocurrencies or not. You want solutions as a consumer, which is an important voice to be heard, but different.

For example, a quiet running refrigerator would be useful to me but is not an interesting problem to me.

A title better aligned with the content would be "Problems I want solved as a consumer that crytocurrencies do not solve" or "As a consumer, cryptocurrencies haven't solved my problems".
About making it easy to search... Do you know if there's a way to limit your searches to only the channels you're subscribed to?
my understanding is that apple can't decrypt a user's iphone (though there are 3rd party products that can)

is this not true with google's encryption? how? is there a backdoor feature?
The leaving and joining channels is an interesting idea. I guess that kinda simulates Zulip's topics/threads feature to a degree. I guess that wouldn't have been too horrendous to do. I kinda do this with Mattermost, but I always feel awkward just leaving, so I leave after a few days usually lol.

Aside: I love the threads/topics implementation in Discord. However, a lot of people don't want to use Discord for work (I'd probably make a separate account myself; I don't like job stuff seeping into my play time).
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For their use-case it's probably as cost effective as it needs to be. Bring all that cloud hosted infrastructure in house and then you've a whole new set of costs to deal with that aren't present in their current arrangement.
No. In practice the samsung cutting edge stuff that looked like a marvel of engineering was just fluff with small irritating stuff that compounds over time. Samsung is obsessed with features, not with perfecting them.
Hmm, does that violate GDPR? (Assuming a user is European and the law is actually enforced)
Rumble just signed a deal with Truth Social. We'll find out real soon if Rumble has cracked the code to avoid that problem.
> especially nuclear-armed ones.

I took "nuclear sub" to mean "nuclear powered" (as opposed to e.g. diesel-electric, which are still fairly common), which I think represents a somewhat larger set of submarines, outside the US, than just the set of all non-US "boomer" (nuclear-armed) subs. That is, attack subs without nuke-tipped missiles can still be nuclear subs because they have a nuke plant onboard for power.
> I can’t think of a single TypeScript issue I’ve run into that hasn’t ended with me going through an infinite amount of web searching and wading through a gazillion useless suggestions

Reading unit tests for me has been my go-to for getting around problems in TS/JS documentation in libraries. Unit tests can sometimes be unintentionally the best documentation. Also helps filter out quickly libraries you'd want to avoid at all costs. No unit tests means you're putting untested code into your system.
It's worth noting, though, that people think of it this way because that's historically what life extension has looked like. I'm still ultimately in favor, but I see a nontrivial chance of a disaster scenario where "keep people barely alive till they're 150" is the low hanging fruit.
The day Google shows a split up between YouTube ad revenue vs the rest, it's going to be an AWS moment.

I don't know why people believe YouTube is a loss maker. My guess is that it makes up 25% of the ad income
When I saw the title, I thought that Grady Hillhouse was a house that was in the news in the US that might have had a retaining wall collapse recently.
I just got results for repairing cellos and violas. "G string" got the expected spicy content in addition to violin repair ads. Surprisingly, no string bass repairs (in spite of the bass also having a g-string)
I wish I could install Debian on my mikrotik devices, I don't need a CLI or GUI--give me networkd or ifupdown instead.
Youtube beeds a peer to peer competitor.
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Oh neat.

I wish to declare that I'm a Mikrotik fanboy. My hardware is ten years old, doesn't break, and Mikrotik supports it on the latest versions, apparently without plans to ever sunset the support. Ooh aah.
Probably because he's one of the least credible people on the planet, and even faked his own PGP key in a desperate attempt to get people to care about his sham.
If it makes you feel any better, I knew nothing about the field of optimization (convex or otherwise) 3 months ago. But after going through an optimization course in my CS master's program (MCSO at UT Austin) this semester, I can parse this part of the abstract fine, minus the Levenberg--Marquardt, which I had to look up. That is with not much of a prior mathematics background. You could probably learn enough in a semester of part-time study to grok this paper, as long as you're comfortable with differential calculus.
I bought a used Ruckus R610 on ebay for a modest $160 (not including power adapter). I am extremely happy with the hardware performance and the stability and options of the Unleashed firmware.

It says it supports a gateway mode, but as a power user I want a bit more control than what I would expect a WAP to offer. I use an EdgeRouter-4 running whatever the latest official release is. Having separate boxes grants me freedom to do things like mess with Wi-Fi settings while my SO watches a show on Apple TV connected via Ethernet. It's the little things.

I often think of a pfSense build, but then I remember how happy I am with the performance and efficiency of a dedicated box.
Nope, because once it's deployed to production it will never be changed without another deploy.
> A court would have to force Bitcoin users and miners

In case it's not clear, even if the court did this and was able to enforce it, they would still need to enforce it outside of the country too, where, if I'm not mistaken, the majority of miners are.
The principles are sane and good, however they indeed only really apply for world-scale problems, and in my opinion very few problems actually are world-scale.

VC-bankrolled garbage that wants to take over the world from day 1 would fit, however most legitimate business problems require nowhere near this scale and at that point "cloud native" development may be a downside in the form of unnecessary complexity.

For legitimate business problems (where conquering the world from day 1 isn't a priority), don't underestimate how powerful one or two bare-metal machines can be, and you can get those for less than 100 bucks a month from Hetzner or OVH, with unlimited bandwidth to boot.

Reliability may be a concern, but modern hardware is pretty reliable and cloud-native development involves tons of moving parts that come with their own downsides. I've seen more outages caused by all that extra complexity and operator error than hardware failure. AWS us-east-1 happens to be down right now for example, but my old-school bare-metal machines and network hardware are all still running.

It is however "uncool" which means you'll have more trouble acquiring talent. You don't have the option to have resume-driven people queue up to work for you for low salaries because you work with the new shiny, you actually have to pay good money and make efforts to retain these people.
Bloody hell. That site is blazing fast. I click and it loads instantly. The videos play instantly. It's actually genuinely amazing - though the design looks awful.
And before that, Amazon Chime was the messaging and conferencing tool. Now that I'm not using it, I actually miss it a lot!
I never mentioned NFTs. NFTs != crypto.

I personally don’t understand the appeal of NFT art, but I’m interested in NFTs as in-game assets that can be shared across games without any central entity being able to take them from me. I can also keep these assets after a game shuts down and other games can be built using them. It’s certainly a better experience than I get on Magic Arena or Magic the Gathering Online right now.
I can't remember seeing problems be more strongly worded than "Increased Error Rates" or "high error rates with S3 in us-east-1" during the infamous S3 outage of 2017 - and that was after they struggled to even update their own status page because of S3 being down. :)
should have spent more time consulting this old-timey documentary about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Acres
I can't put my finger on it, but the title is misleading. When I saw it I assumed attackers were tracking the target's Airtag as it moved through an environment, instead AirTags are being used as a GPS vehicle tracking device.

English aside, this is a way lamer attack than I thought it'd be.
Can anyone really tell the difference between these fractional steps of opacity?
One of suspected killers of Jamal Khashoggi held in Paris, say reports
For those confused, you scan in your badge, that get's you through the door.

Then you check the monitor to figure out what job you will be doing (ie, pack or rebin)

If your station is taken for some reason, you should be able to just move to another station and log in there - you don't have to use station assigned.

You will also have a monitor which shoes your rate.

Managers probably won't even know your name, and if you are day one employee showing up late, will have no clue who you are.

Some of the safety rules (because amazon get's hammered on this) - SUPER annoying - no listening to music - are you kidding? The most boring job possible, and to keep folks safe no music, not even one earbud in.
That's not an easy thing to do.

You need an engine that can be reused. With expendables you can run them until they are about to fall apart. The shuttle engines required extensive maintenance after every flight and, it seems, even current generation Raptor engines, that should be minimal maintenance, aren't there yet.

Then there is the rocket itself. It needs to be able to land somewhere, which is a large place if it's a Saturn I-C. You need the ability to withstand the stresses of hypersonically falling back to the ground while having enough guidance to reach a landing pad, the non-trivial ability to relight at least one engine, throttle it down (because you are running on fumes and carrying a mostly empty tank) and land. On the Saturn-shuttle configuration, it'd also need to deal with the center of gravity being to the side and the extra stresses caused by that on its way up.

Quite frankly, the great tragedy of the shuttle program was the shuttle program itself. It ended up the way it was because of a mission it never performed. NASA needed three vehicles - a crew transport (the Apollo/Saturn IB was good at that), a cargo vehicle (which could be based on an Apollo/Saturn I-B, or just skip the Apollo part and put a LM-based orbital tug in the trunk), and, sometimes, a big booster (the Saturn V was the big booster). If they could make the 1st stages reusable (they mostly couldn't back then) it would be great.

NASA engineers aren't incompetent. The Shuttle seemed the right idea. Nobody anticipated it'd be more "fixable" than "reusable". Space is hard.
But if your copyright has expired, you can still prevent derivative works via trademark. Disney has trademarked Mickey Mouse.
Reiterating my point: it depends on _what_ you're deploying.

You're conflating a product management problem into an ops problem
I wanted a second machine, and the main criterias where
1) Run linux fine.
2) Intel Evo
3) As light and thin as possible.

Yeah, I was stupid :-(
Maybe once you learn it, yes, but it has a huge learning curve that needs to be taken into account. Furthermore, how many extra moving parts does it involve? If all you need is a handful of hosts, those moving parts may be a liability - AWS us-east-1 is down, and I'm pretty sure it's due to the extra complexity rather than hardware failure.
Wtf is a correct definition
Alternatively, with a reinforced casket mounted on a turbine, his grave-spinning could be a viable and fitting alternative to fossil fuels.
I find that Winbox is much more usable than the WebUI - it runs well under wine (and even on m1, you can run it under wine64 under rosetta).
Highly recommend talking to your account team to recommend regional failovers and DR for Amazon Connect! With enough feedback from customers, stuff like this can get prioritized.
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> We are experiencing API and console issues in the US-EAST-1 Region
If anyone knows, it's US intelligence.

They're so good at fingerprinting it's crazy. I highly doubt that they wouldn't be able to identify the person / people behind Satoshi.
Clang generates different code depending on command line option order
Usually that is the case, and those people are just unnecessarily painful to deal with. Everything is an avenue to bring it back to their pet issue which is that their life sucks because of women, immigrants, brown people, god knows what. But I saw Russell Brand on the front page, and I recall him not being one of those folks so maybe these guys have figured out a way to not get overwhelmed by the annoying folks.

Not to claim that Brand can't be annoying, but he's not alt-right and I can't imagine them both occupying the same space.
I'm not saying you're wrong, or that the status page is architected properly. I'm just speaking to the current situation.
There are several factors that can be fingerprinted passively. Timings, optional flags across the protocol stack, you name it. Detecting specific versions of an OS can be more difficult, especially passively, but you should be able to do it if you have enough data.

A particularly useful anti-bot feature is to fingerprint TLS connections by things like cipher order and available signatures (if you're willing to switch back to TLS 1.2). This way, you can easily detect the difference between browsers and bots, even if all the request headers match . If you're fine with blocking people behind middleboxes or proxies then it can be a simple yet useful fingerprinting technique.
To clarify: this is the real-time navigation system lol
From context it seems like an awesome community, the sort of thing I'd like to be a part of, and I'm sure some other folks here feel similarly; but it's been redirected to a rickroll video, which I'm guessing means something like, "Part of what makes this fun is that it's small and doesn't get too much attention, so move along please." Okay. wistful sigh
> I've yet to hear any credible argument

You haven't given your criteria of credibility, so why should we listen to you?

> If IP is effectively a public good held on a short lease, so is all property.

This is so malformed you're not even wrong.
Retail SLAs are a small risk compared to the enterprise SLAs where an outage like this could cost Amazon tens of millions. I assume these contracts have discount tiers based on availability and anything below 99% would be a 100% discount for that bill cycle.
I should clarify that I have no problem with research on aging. I do research on brain machine interfaces which is equally pie in the sky. I am frustrated by the interest/funding shown in this research.

Also, I think that it's irresponsible to say that homelessness is a public policy problem and aging isn't. [Edit-more clarification]: My frustration is people who consider the problem of giving the median individual 10 more healthy-years of life unworthy of their attention/resources (attention is really the most valuable resource at some level) but are quite happy to get excited by those who promise infinite life. What if rather than a silver bullet, life extension requires society-level changes a small step at a time??
This is pretty cool and seems like a useful tool!

For my personal site, i switched from using Open Sans through Google Fonts, to downloading all of the charsets (latin/latin-ext) and varieties (regular/bold) that i needed, setting up the fonts with @font-face and src, and then just serving them out of the same container that i do the rest of the site assets. So essentially now i can run everything i need with a single Docker container. I even did the same for the Material Icons font that my site uses (due to using the Materialize library, because that's what i felt like using). Admittedly doing all of that manually wasn't exactly a fun experience.

The downside of this is that doing so increases the total page size ~2x for my simple homepage, around 155 KB out of the 275 KB is just fonts: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/kronis.dev/EIHsevSv/ To that end, i find it incredibly odd that we as an industry don't seem to worry much about the size of the fonts that we use vs the characters that are supported by them. This probably isn't all that relevant with Open Sans in particular, but some of the other popular fonts can result in even larger download sizes, even if you don't need icon fonts or anything of the sort, or when you want to use more than just 1 font per page, for example, a different one for headers.

The closest that i've found to that is this article, "Smallest (file size) Google Web Fonts": http://www.oxfordshireweb.com/smallest-file-size-google-web-...

But without that being too big of a focus, it feels like at the end of the day one must consider just using the built in web safe fonts, or use bunches of bandwidth for oftentimes no good reason (in my case, i wanted the typography to be a bit more consistent with my blog, which already uses Open Sans, whereas companies usually care about branding and so on).
Are you sure you're not being contrarian for its own sake? There are times to go against the grain, but surely the consensus must be correct a lot of the time right? Can it really be the case that most people are wrong most of the time?
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I was very excited about CF Images, but after doing some basic napkin math the pricing was way more than expected. That, coupled with some of the other limitations you mentioned, had me abandon CF images pretty quick!
Not reduction, a cash incentive payout for "research".
So you think they'll send ballistic missiles throughout the whole world? Including China, Russia, UK, Germany, France? All of whom have nukes? Good luck with that.
Perhaps this is usual, but when Caltrain was building the new approaches for the elevated Hillsdale station I noticed they were just pouring concrete on top of plants.

Maybe not the biggest deal, but I’m pretty sure the engineering algorithms assume a solid mass of concrete. Hopefully there’s enough safety margin that this doesn’t matter.
I used to work on a product for secure small-biz Wifi, and so dogfooded my own product in my house. When that was over and I took that out of my house, I had my eyes on Ubiquiti, and it is an impressive ecosystem. But as others have said, it's out of stock all the time, and Ubiqiti are teasing people right now with their next-gen product which is available but also unobtainable.

Eventually I picked the Asus ZenWifi system, and honestly it works great (I have no affiliation with Asus). There's no cloud account to create when you install it. The app is acceptable. There are various security things you can turn on which seem to require cloud assistance, but the core product seems to work very nicely. Any time you try to turn on something which might cause the system to share extra data, a popup appears to explain that to you.

It's so powerful, Wifi-wise, that I bought three nodes and only deployed two. I use it with Ethernet backhaul but it has a dedicated radio for wireless backhaul. It has ethernet LAN ports on each node, and each node is identical to every other node (i.e. there is no "base" and "satellite"). I went from spotty Wifi throughout my 2,000 sq ft house to very strong Wifi throughout. I wrung my hands for a long time because I gave up VLANs and some other things I wanted, and then said the heck with it.
What? Because a professional scientist has a hobby of fabricating chips in their garage, they’re somehow less qualified to “contribute to cutting edge gravity research?”

What are your hobbies?
CCPA doesn't let you do that. Their data probably is more toxic than valuable which is why they're getting rid of it.
This is very interesting. It looks like the innovation is to scale the identity matrix in the L-M step formula by the square root of the norm of the gradient. Very simple and elegant, and trivial to implement. Lots of people are going to be shaking their heads wondering why they didn't think of this first.

The motivation for the idea is very nice and easy to understand. The author completely explains it before the middle of the second page. I encourage you to look at it if you know enough vector calc to make sense of the notation. Essentially, he takes a well-known fast-converging method whose steps are hard to compute and shows how these steps can be approximated cheaply while still retaining much of the convergence rate benefit.

This may have implications for many large-scale optimization problems as L-M regularized Newton steps are a sort of natural halfway house between gradient descent and the full Newton's method, both theoretically and practically.
This is effecting heroku.

While my heroku apps are currently up, I am unable to push new versions.

Logging in to heroku dashboard (which does work), there is a message pointing to this heroku status incident for "Availability issues with upstream provider in the US region": https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2390

How can there be an outage severe enough to be effecting middleman customers like heroku, but the AWS status page is still all green?!?!

If whoever runs the AWS status page isn't embaressed, they really ought to be.
The actual power of Kalman filter lies in its ability to estimate states/variables that can't be measured directly, not just filtering time-series data.

With Kalman filter, you not only get your output filtered, but along with the state of the system at each step as well. No amount of low pass filtering can achieve that.
It's performance based (not entirely timeclock based), so it's more useful as a relative metric.

(Although, missed calls, etc, suggests actual availability problems separate from productivity.)

Which doesn't necessarily mean anybody was truly working 8 hours per day, but it does suggest that the top/satisfactory tier of employees averaged 4x the productivity for the same number of hours on the timesheet.

A 4x multiplier like that isn't explained by a normal distribution curve.
Yes, they are still publishing lies on their status page. In this thread people are reporting issues with many services. I'm seeing periodic S3 PUT failures for the last 1.5 hours.
Oh, I was under the impression it was just a planning system. Mea culpa!