skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would generally be just to allow the anonymous defendant to at least make a motion to strike out the claims while preserving their anonymity.

In this case we have a lot of reason to believe that the plaintiff brought the case exclusively to learn the defendants identity. E.g. Before bringing the action they offered $10 million dollars to acquire the domain, and have made threatening remarks. Not to mention no actual advantage is gained by removing the Bitcoin whitepaper from a single website, as there are easily found mirrors on thousands of locations all over the world, and since Wright's initial threats that includes the websites of several national governments, US congress, research institutions, and some of the largest financial institutions in the world (e.g. Fidelity).

This privacy invasion belief was only furthered when after the case the plaintiff refused to accept the ordered costs payment from anyone except the defendant and only if they identified themselves (also, after the case the plaintiff pretty much said as much).

Their case was seriously deficient too, e.g. falsely misstating that a US copyright registration was evidence of authorship even when the copyright office had made an unprecedented move of saying exactly the opposite in the matter of this specific case. Failing to disclose that there were other copyright registrants, failing to disclose that the supposedly infringing whitepaper was distributed under the MIT license and so on. Not to mention that there were major equitable issues, e.g. the whitepaper has been on the website pretty much since it was written some 13 years ago without issue-- placed there by its (actual) author.

Cobra wrote a letter to the judge and attended the hearing via zoom, and the judge took the position that he was required by the law to ignore the letter.

But at the end of the day the UK courts are powerless to protect cobra from harassment or even assassination so exposing his identity just didn't make sense. Particularly since Cobra is outside of the UK (or so I believe, no one in the bitcoin ecosystem seems to know cobra by any other identity).

And this is why you can't access the Bitcoin whitepaper at its original location or download the bitcoin software on bitcoin.org from within the UK today.

They're now seeing an additional nearly million usd worth of costs for their unopposed default judgement too. O_o
That was my first thought, and yes, good comment.

Denominators matter.
I really like Metamath, but I also appreciate Coq for different reasons. I think it's important that each learn from others.
Cloudflare is pretty great in a lot of ways. They have a lot of promising products, and I have never had problems with their reliability (and I've seen it handle billions of requests).
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has extensive but incomplete escape of Pfizer BNT162b2
> I imagine it's similar here. Do you want the sub to move up automatically? To fire an alarm? To dissalow a maneuver? Absolutely not. Imagine a crew knowingly pushing their vehicle into potentially dangerous maneuvers and spending those critical moments fighting the vehicle or disabling alarms.

These kind of systems typically have manual overrides. If the operator truly believes they know best (or are in an exceptional situation that the automated system cannot account for), they can override the automated system (including many, if not most, safeguards). That's design 101 when you're building critical systems.
People are so quick to forget how things were before behemoths like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Not all things are free and the outage the internet is experiencing is the risk users signed up for.

If you would like to go back to the days of managing your own machines, be my guest. Remember those machines also live somewhere and were/are subject to the same BGP and routing issues we've seen over the past couple of years.

Personally, I'll deal with outages a few times a year for the peace of mind that there's a group of really talented people looking into for me.
"AWS has fewer outages in one zone alone than the best self-hosted institutions" sure you just call an outage "increased error rate"
In addition to fewer outages, _many_ products get a free pass on incidents because basically everyone is being impacted by outage.
> I'm also surprised there's no contour lines between the depths (although perhaps this is done to not infer a knowledge of depths in the intermediate points where perhaps there is no such knowledge).

Yes, contour lines would imply accuracy that isn't there. The depth numbers indicate positions where the depth was actually measured. Any other location that doesn't have a number was not measured. Bear in mind that even if you have a depth number on your chart, it might be old and out of date. Safe navigation is never guaranteed. And subs never run depth-finder sonar when on patrol.
I am truly not trying to be snarky, but so it goes.

Does anyone on HN actually still have YouTube videos playable on their machines?

Why? Text is so much faster to learn from and without sound and video baggage that gets added.

I understand people raised on MTV and Snapchat caring about video for fun and not caring about the wasted time. But isn't this a community focused on productivity and knowledge? YouTube is the opposite of that. Might as well watch sports or hanging out in bars. ;)
I wonder why AWS has Ohio and Virginia but no region in the northeast where a significant plurality of customers using east regions probably live.
I will ask, as I always do, for a list of these "several implementors" who don't obey the WebAuthn spec. Note that even if dozens of you say "AWS" that's just one bad implementation, not several.
> My lab recently published a paper refuting the association of some genes with a disease

Link?
When you're sucker punched with misleading stats, ya kind have to hit back. And didn't sound defensive at all, btw.
This is awesome and I love how simple it is.
It was the point of the sentence I was responding to, which claimed that nuclear bombs were not comparable to volcanoes in terms of energy released. They are, at least volcanoes like Mt. St. Helens.

The Americans made bombs larger than St. Helens too.
Isn't it a bit too easy to exploit this? Like by maliciously uploading tons of data to the account of a site using this service in order to exceed their limit and hence break their file upload process.
I think one of the primary payload computers failed but they were able to flip to auxiliary/backup. That was in July though

It’s pretty much on borrowed time. I think they spent most of that outage trying to bring the main up and gave up.

Must be fun troubleshooting something at like 400 km orbit. Heck I had to tell a lady she couldn’t wfh today because her cell data tethering wasn’t up to snuff to hold a connection to our vpn or do much of anything. She was seeing spurts of 10% loss on downstream and 200+ ms latency.
This feels like a discussion that could sorely use some numbers.

What are good examples of

>a small business running a few websites with a few million hits per month, it might be cheaper and easier to colocate a few servers and hire a few DevOps or old-school sysadmins to administer the infrastructure.

and how often do they go down?
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hat soon to be in the ring https://gliss.fun :)
From an end user perspective I think it's absolutely fair to make that comparison. Electron is a bag of garbage for the end user / machine. Native apps (mail or otherwise) perform, feel, look better than electron apps while using far less resources including power with less crashes in my and my coworkers experience.
...or a wallet to wallet transfer of USDC...
money people think of money very weirdly. when they predict they will get more than they actually get, they call it "loss" for some reason, and when they predict they will get less than they actually get, it's called ... well I don't know what that's called but everyone gets bonuses.
Except when you eat fruits you eat a lot of fiber, which makes you less hungry. I can't see how you could get fat on fruits.
The very expensive EC2 instance I started this morning still works. Of course now I can't shut it down.
So they all want to be the BBC? They should be careful what they wish for. Having revenue stream depending on the good grace of the government seems even more dangerous.
IMO, the cloud is not the overall problem. Our insatiable desire to want things right HERE, right NOW is the core issue. The cloud is just a solution to try to meet that demand.
It’s bloody annoying when all I want to do is vacuum the floor and Roomba says nope, “active AWS incident”.
> Apple created their own silicon

Apple designed their own silicon, a third party manufactures and packages it for them.
I'm not sure why type of ownership pertains here? I would say that in North America, single-family zoning has become the dominant form because it's been the cheapest to build. It should not be the cheapest to build. We haven't been accounting for the externalities of increased land-use and transportation costs, but municipalities will increasingly bear that burden and taxpayers in denser areas will continue to subsidize the suburban lifestyle.
No, it it is not a competetitor to openroad. It's more like a build system, like how make sits on top of llvm. Openroad is one of the tools under the hood.
the benefit of self hosting is, that you are up, while a your competitors are down.

However if youbare on AWS many of your competitors are down while you are down, so they can't takeover your business.
We had looked into Quill but decided to use Threads.com. Considering how inconsiderate Quill's shut down was, it was a good decision for that reason alone.

For anyone looking at alternative for threaded messages and find Slack's threads insufficient, our team loves Threads. We looked at a few others (Zulip, Twist) and landed on Threads about 2 years ago. Since then, the product has gotten better and better.

Also, haven't posted to HN much -- is this an appropriate thing to post on a thread like this?
It would have to be incremental because a full dump does not scale up. Of course if you scale down you could probably get away with shipping snapshots of a sqlite database, and I understand some people do just that.

But it would be nice to have streaming WAL logs with the instigator flipped. Probably I need some sort of middleware to dis-intermediate the pipe.
I recommend this post when thinking about fat models/service layers

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2020/mar/16/no-service/
No, you're right, I shouldn't have suggested that. My apologies.
Would Hubble be able to resolve Webb? Or vice versa?
I imagine there are systems which are much more mature and un-intrusive, but my limited experience with the space has been quite negative.
> The keywords it, he, she, him, her, they, them, ze, hir, zie, zir, xe, xem, ve, and ver refer to the last named variable determined by parsing order.

that was funny. let's have more social constructs in programming languages!
Dear person from the future, can you give me a hint on who wins the upcoming sporting events? I'm asking for a friend of course
Agreed, and it'll be a gradual switch rather than a single point, smeared across industries. Likely some operations won't ever go over, but it'll be a while before we know.
Ctrl+Shift+V does this as well in many programs.
How do depth numbers get out of date?

Sedimentation?

Underwater volcano eruption?

Continental drift?
Would you prefer to have more of something good that you can't occasionally have OR less of something good that you can always have?

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The answer likely depends on the specific thing, but I'd argue most people would take the better version of something at the risk of it not working 1 or 2 days per year.
Yeah, we got updates via NDA too lol. Such a joke that a status page update is considered privileged lol.
The Judge Who Keeps People Out of Jail
Breaking backwards compatibility is one thing.

Removing functionality is a bigger problem.
How efficient was that? How fast could you develop solutions?
There is a Join method in Linq, with entirely different meaning and matches string[]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enum...
Then we would be well advised to listen to the creators of such work, who largely tend to describe the type of system you want to do away with.
Hard agree with the second paragraph.

It is incredibly difficult for non-tech companies to hire quality software and infrastructure engineers - they usually pay less and the problems aren't as interesting.
> nearly 60% would be turned off if they were blocked from accessing Stack Overflow

That number sounds low. Asking the other 40%, why would that NOT turn you off?
Agreed. I'm under no illusion that most people are fine with the status quo. It's one of the reasons this stuff has not been very well received.
There is a huge doc[0] for a standard "deploy decent prod setup to VPS." What happens after you make some changes, something goes wrong with the server, and you have to go through all these steps again, only that it gets you to Day 1, not Day 90? It leaves a lot to be desired for quick, reproducible deploys.

Ime, adding a docker-compose and a couple Dokku commands on the server is the best experience I've seen so far.

[0]https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
The issue here is that no matter how "engaging" discovery is, it's not a viable business model on its own.

I'm working on the topic day to day in an adjacent field (movie & TV show discovery) and I'm currently not aware of any startup that has managed making money with the discovery experience itself.

It takes a lot of effort, data and persistence to get reasonable algorithms churning out something sensible and then, nobody wants to pay for it. If anything, it's usually an upsell to monetizing the content itself, which is why the only serious contenders to me here are basically Youtube and Spotify.

Even Netflix "had it all" with the million dollar recommender prize they set out in 2014, and I know their data science team is top notch. But if I scroll through their experience with my personal account in 2021, I basically still get "what all others are currently watching in {your_country} now" and I'm less than thrilled.

And that's exactly because once you've got the perfect algo together that would be able to recommend you that niche movie Netflix features you've never seen in the interface that you're _really_ interested in (I can recommend "Last Breath" in that regard), the VP Content comes in and tells everyone something like "hey folks, whatever you do, make sure you're only promoting our originals, because they cost us far less in licensing... oh and let's give an extra in-your-face boost to King's Gambler to give it that extra buzz that lands us in Variety"

Discovery is hard, and once you made a name there, it's rather easy to screw it up by monetizing it.
> they usually beg you to use multiple availability zones though

Doesn't help you if it what goes down is AWS global services on which you directly, or other AWS services, depend (which tend to be tied to US-east-1).
I'm sympathetic to people with hearing impairment. It's a shame that most mask-wearing, at least in my area, is arguably "virtue signaling" as single-layer masks do largely nothing to prevent aerosolized viral transmission. N95s and other serious masks, on the other hand, actually work. So tired of seeing people walking their dogs in the park or bike-riding alone while wearing surgical masks. It literally does nothing except make me think those people are crazy. And this is in a county that is 85%+ vaccinated.
The author of Rockstar gave a _fantastic_ presentation called The Art of Code, where he eventually introduces the language. I cannot praise the talk enough. It is available on YouTube.
https://awsmaniac.com/aws-outages/
Thanks! I'll try it out.
Really great read. Long but worth it.

This is a good critique of low-code/no-code in general. The root problem I see of "Unfortunately, when we frame the problem space that way, we have allowed our tools to think for us." is that in reality there are just not enough qualified software engineers out there.
Personally, I love being in command and control of 1000+ pounds of steel and liquid, seemingly propelled based on the angle of my foot. I wouldn't have it any other way!

I think autonomous travel would be a great experiment for locomotives on isolated tracks.
Author here. The particle filter has its own strengths and drawbacks. It makes more sense to use a particle filter in situations where the state search space is highly nonlocal and/or nonlinear, for example locating a drone on a map by matching radar features to topography.

If the process is linear and the estimation error is Gaussian (or approximately so in practice), the Kalman filter is known to be the optimal algorithm, and the particle filter would not only perform worse, but be more expensive to implement.
My personal go-to for solo discovery online (ie not counting chatting) is the reverse directory lookup in soundcloud: the "in playlists" link (also $TRACK_URL/sets) which lists all the playlists some track appears in. There usually isn't too many and you can quickly navigate towards niche stuff that some random human deemed somehow related.
FreeBSD 12.3-Release Announcement
Is the REST API History?
Can Hubble and JWST do simultaneous observation to extract more info of an object?
Do you perform a full audit of your open source rooter?
When I started working with aviation people early in my career, learning that radar only has a fairly good guess of where you are was pretty amazing.
10 minute QA because they don't seem to have done it:

- It consistently starts slower than Notepad3 while having substantially fewer features to load (and also slower than the old Notepad of course)

- THEY ANIMATED THE SCROLLING OMG PLEASE DONT DO THIS (especially when grabbing the scroll bar handle). Any amount of delay is too much in notepad

- the animation runs at 60Hz even on a high refresh rate screen, so it looks choppy

- the animation has to "catch up" when grabbing the scroll bar handle and moving it quickly

- 215k lines loaded, moving the window itself is choppy now? HOW

- another first party piece of software that ignores the "no animations" setting in windows

- I've grabbed a notepad.exe from Windows XP SP3 in comparison, no problems there, scrolling and editing is instant. Both have SIGNIFICANT lag in the new one.

- Don't even try to resize the window with a big file open (< 1 FPS)

EDIT: Note that I haven't even complained about new features or anything, just the previous, basic features still working correctly.
If you want to build your own green-field utopia, go right ahead and make whatever zoning laws you like. But insisting that ESTABLISHED low-density areas must CHANGE become more dense, and then justify it with "but YOU are forcing YOUR ideals on ME" is absurd and either naive or disingenuous.
If you use only ISO standard tools, how do you read e-mail? Or access the web?

What bug database are you using: I don't know of any ISO-standard bug database.

Git is not an ISO-standard; do you pass around pax archives for version control? Not using SSH, I hope; that's not ISO standard.

Not even XWindow is an ISO standard, so nothing but ANSI terminals for you.
"dark dna"
Most features roll out to IAD second, third, or fourth. PDX and CMH are good candidates for earlier feature rollout, and usually it's tested in a small region first. I use PDX (us-west-2) for almost everything these days.

I also think that they've been making a lot of the default region dropdowns and such point to CMH (us-east-2) to get folks to migrate away from IAD. Your contention that they're encouraging people to use that region just don't ring true to me.
I think so. How else are you supposed to edit a config file?
One of NASA's biggest mistakes wrt the demise of the STS/Shuttle program was not leaving some way lined up to service Hubble in orbit. The current crop of launch vehicles isn't suited to this task, despite us being ten years out from STS-135.

It's proven itself an absolutely invaluable tool for research, but I think the even more impressive mission Hubble has shown itself as irreplaceable for is stimulating the public's mind for science and exploration. There's nothing like seeing photos of the universe in visual-light spectrum and thinking, "what if we went there?"

JWST is amazing and I'm so glad it's finally launching but for that second use case, it trails Hubble.
Perl modules often have a long prose introduction, some cookbook examples, followed by a reference style list of all the functions/methods/integration points. Usually pretty comprehensive, although you don't have to have good docs to be on CPAN.
I am serious. counting pages won't change how long it takes to actually understand where things are.

you don't have to read every last word... you are just trying to get a vague feel for what is in there.

takes 5 minutes, max.
6 hours of downtime often means 6 hours of paying employees to stand around which adds up rather quickly.
I try to read journal papers every now and then, usually when investigating the source of some news story, or when digging down into the molecular details of a personal health interest. Somewhat contrary to the theme of TFA, I've found that my 20 year old training has provided good mileage in terms of understanding current research. Much of the overarching theory of molecular biology hasn't changed in that time, and a lot of the same techniques are still used, if often miniaturized and scaled, e.g. microarray methods for things I learned to do using blots. For when I find a gap in my knowledge, modern literature search tech facilitates digging down to find related papers that describe newer theories or ones that describe new methods. Often I'll find references to review papers which are essentially designed to get one up to speed on a topic. If anything papers are easier to access now than back when I was in university, wink wink.

Oh, and there are definitely quite a few bored biochemists contributing serious detail to select wikipedia articles. With grain of salt in hand, I've found some pretty high quality descriptions (in terms of detail and ease of understanding) of molecular pathways peppered throughout articles on various topics, which can serve as decent starting points for diving into the literature on those topics.

I'm a far cry from considering myself current on the latest research, but I feel not too far behind and that I can catch up quickly when needed.
> Some (a lot?) enterprise software is atrocious and disliked by end users. That's because the people making the purchasing decisions != end users.

It's because the people making decisions care about putting money where it earns the most return and have more on their plate than they can address. Making software more pleasant for internal users rarely makes it to the top of the list.

> navigation is essential to the safety and effectiveness of the whole platform!

Subs crash very rarely, so the software seems to be sufficient.
Sure, they're different telescopes with different instruments and different sensitivities.