skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure the statuses are being very liberal at their reporting thresholds towards the end user. /s

Perhaps it would help if the dashboards gave a tiny inkling of transparency, like what the thresholds are so you could gauge the relative significance of your personal service outage. If my page is out and vendor shows green, then maybe those relying on my service ontop of vendor won't believe me as much when I pass blame to them and/or maybe the vendor isn't even aware of the issue, so I should contact them because I'm an edge case.

If my service is out and the status page shows red with a nifty "were working on it" I can very clearly show anyone I report to or who is dependent on my service the parent service outage causing the issue, maybe even link them to it. In addition, I know that I don't need to contact the vendors support because they're aware of the issue and actively working on resolving it. I'm sure their support staff will appreciate it that millions of people can avoid contacting their support service reporting the same outage and having to repeat the same information through more costly reporting mechanisms than a page everyone can simply observe.

Every power company I've been with for at least the past 10 years basically do this. If I'm out at work and come home to no power, I first load my power company's outage report site (service status dashboard). I check my area and magically I know if the power company is aware and likely working on it, I can even see their updated time estimates when service will be restored. Sometimes they even tell me what caused the issue (oh boy, information). I never even have to make a call.

Meanwhile if I'm sitting here sipping coffee and hear a loud noise down the street, power is out in the middle of the day and I look across the street and see the neighbor's interior lights on, check the power company's outage map and don't see it: I give them a call. Tada, I know my isolated outage will be addressed and the service provider is aware of the issue. I also know if it looks limited, I'm probably going to be a lower priority if there are multiple outages and limited maintenance staff, so I can sort of expect it may be several hours. I can head out and not waste my time and effort sitting around.

Let's treat critical internet service infrastructure (that's what 'cloud' wanted to be, so let them have all that entails) like we treat other critical service infrastructure. It works quite well.

The underlying issue I see is that my utilities are well regulated and watched over so there often is a lot of transparency about what's going on. Heck, they even have public hearings if they want to increase their prices. Meanwhile, private company offering some service isn't very regulated and has every incentive not to let you know to manage the perception of their image and reliability vs providing empirical actual data. So will we see any sort of transparency? I doubt it, just as I highly doubt the size of represntative truthfulness of any data they report.
When you put it like that, it sounds as if that is so simple.

But in reality, the world's best educators have spent 10 times the hours to come up with a learning plan that takes a particular amount of hours.

Basically, I think I would have to spend 20-50x of hours (because I am not the best educator) to come up with a plan for the first 100h, 200h, 500h. And that's not a taking base knowledge into account at all (I've started building "intuition" in my field at 6-10 yo).
Exactly. Missiles would hit the emitters, where the armor is the thickest, giving the crew and tank the best chance of survival.
Isn't that supposed to be how capitalism funds and incentivizes R&D though? There is market demand for a Thing, if you can figure out how to make Things then the market will reward that with profit.

Honestly, for being the firm to develop a vaccine for a global pandemic, $33B in revenue sounds a little light? Apple made 83B in revenue just in Q3 alone and all they do is make phones that aren't even improving that much year-over-year.
> There is little evidence right now that immunity through a natural infection is better than immunity from a vaccine.

This is a very strong claim to make without any evidence or proof.

To the contrary, there is strong evidence that natural infection brings considerably better immunity than any vaccination does. [0]

Study analyzed:

> 2.5 million people in Israel, spanning March 1st 2020 to August 14th 2021.

Full study can be read in detail: [1]

[0] https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/312538
[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
We have to rule out any language with a garbage collector. C++ adds about as much negative as positive to be worth while. That doesn’t leave many other options.
TLDR, yes https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2020/09/08/how-to-speed...
The benefits of other languages didn't outweigh the costs associated.

The only major one I know of was some push for C++ which Linus wasn't a fan of: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
Hi! I just saw this reply — could you please put together a quick write up of an example deployment and the steps you took to do that (e.g. for the documentation site), including all the services you use?
> I’m sure Amazon will be just fine but it seems like they’ll need to do something at some point

Their e-commerce arm has a lot of competition on the horizon from Costco, Walmart, Bestbuy, Home Depot, and the 2 million shopify stores being run by mom and pops. All of those, aside from Walmart, you can mostly be sure you’re not getting ripped off and know what you’re buying up front.

Bezos based his business model on long term customer trust, and he’s not really there anymore. You see these magazine articles of him hanging out at pool parties with celebrities in his beach shorts and it makes you wonder where the priorities of the company are now.
> We have a general problem in that people do not consume enough to grow our economy

We have a general problem that our economy doesn't support certain use cases of wealth.
It's like if you turned tuning magic mana bases into a stand alone game.
I have no idea why you believe a third dose is just marketing. It is plainly obvious that immunity decreases over time, as is the case for all vaccines against flus and similar.

A booster is the normal way to handle it. If there were a way to avoid it, at least one of the many companies working on this would have created it. And one for the regular flu, too, while they are at it, which has not happened in decades.
Is this washington post defending its owner?!!
Roughly dropped by about 30% or more? Here's a dashboard that tracks times of certain benchmark tasks by compiler version: https://perf.rust-lang.org/dashboard.html

Additionally, I would expect that the kernel would mostly avoid things that drive up compile time - generics and macros.

And as someone else mentioned, things should be able to be compiled in parallel.

Also, some crates for firefox are absurdly huge in terms of compile times - they are definitely outliers (IIUC). (Edit: I was thinking of this issue in Servo, so not definitely firefox releated: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/1799)
Yep, bought my TV from Best Buy, bought the HDMI cable from Amazon. (Come on Best Buy, no one spends $20+ on a cable.)
Not just that, but distribution and whether or not you are ready to push for every person to get the updated one or not. People will fatigue from having to keep up, especially if only a month after their last shot there is a “new” one for a new variant, and then omicron comes out and a “new” one for that. You could end up with far more boosters than actually needed at which point people will get confused or mentally burnt out on it.

I think there are some sound reasons for not jumping on updated vaccines for every variant and only ones that the original doesn’t appear sufficient for.
A few months ago I created an account for a website I have, followed a few accounts, tweeted once and was then banned for literally no reason. All of this happened in less than 24h.

After that, I try to avoid Twitter when possible.

It's also a cesspool of entitled pseudo-intellectuals (both left and right leaning), so I don't miss it much, honestly.
Or, as it usually happens in these cases some algorithm suspended the account because too many users reported something and it got flagged and it's not some exciting intervention of the deep state.
Part of being a good scientific study is having unbiased experimental scientists run the study with no conflicts of interest. The pressure on that team will be incredible
Gravitational waves should permanently distort space-time
Less religious missionaries. Also, less funding by FAANG.
Controversial ‘suicide pod’ that ‘kills peacefully’ gets go-ahead in Switzerland
They also have a licensee (and early R&D investor) in China, Fosun Pharma. I don't know if Fosun is actively manufacturing and distributing, but I think they have the exclusive rights for the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau.
Actually it fits quite well.
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> I've personally requested vendors to provide GBM support on the Orin SoCs

Tegra drivers (incl Xavier) already had GBM since years, with the nvgpu driver stack.
They sell another GPU specifically for mining, at twice the price.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/CMP-170HX-price-double-RTX-3...
Is there a suite of conformance tests and/or benchmarks for MongoDB?

A blackbox test suite that tests common query types and could be run against mongo itself (similar to pgbench, TPC-C, etc) and can optionally test for correctness/speed would go a long way towards making it easier to trust this project with workloads.
Intel seems to be on a mission to slide into historical irrelevance. Rome didn't die in a day and neither will Intel. I think this gives new meaning to planned obsolescence.
Every time I see Ubuntu listed as the "de facto standard" or similar, I realize that I've never seen an Ubuntu server in production.

They're definitely a popular solution, and I'm not sure if I should be surprised I've never seen one, or if maybe it's region / industry specific.

RHEL? Yes. Lots of CentOS, most now looking at Rocky and Alma. A few Gentoo and Arch boxes at smaller businesses. Been logged into the odd BSD, AIX and HP-UX machine before.

Ubuntu? No... Never seem to stumble upon SUSE either, for what it's worth.
Effective ways to model polymorphism in Django
PowerShell as a scripting language is a major PITA. On one project I had to maintain a PowerShell script for provisioning. The provisioning takes 2 to 3 hours. After 2 hours the script would abruptly quit because of some syntax error. 2 hours wasted.

A lot of Microsoft plugins have PowerShell plugins. This is what makes PowerShell valuable, not some attribute of PowerShell itself.

Really what Microsoft should have done is to make those plugins available to C#. Then make C# usable for scripting purposes -- C# is as easy as most scripting languages in any case, and now with "top-level statements" you don't have to write classes. Make C# usable like Dino for TypeScript (i.e., transparent compilation). Then any syntax errors in the script can be caught ahead of time, instead of after 2 hours of running.
We get flu vaccine every year, what's wrong with getting vaccinated forever?
And let's not forget the evil Dr. Light of the DC Universe. Let's hope the FBI has this guy under surveilance.
From what I understand, part of the "point" of using Ayahuasca vs other methods is prolonging the experience long enough to have the ability to integrate insights... I am just going by what others have told me but something about combining the psychedelic with another drug that makes it last longer allows you to remember what you had gone through better than just a short few hour experience
Senators turn up the heat on Amazon, data brokers during hearing
State ("the database") is hard in distributed systems. Was the package picked up or is it still sitting on a shelf waiting? If your distributed system is partitioned, different queries may give different answers and your warehouse workers are going to be running around looking for boxes that aren't there.

Even if you create a system that is eventually consistent when availability is restored (a difficult problem all by itself, and probably needs a lot of application layer logic), it may not be worth the trouble. Warehouse workers interact with the "perfect" state of the real world, and if the computers don't have access to that, they aren't very useful.
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It's not called DRM. OP used disingenuous title.
It’s truly the only low-level language that could actually be used for systems programming.

C#, Java? Managed code with JITs, not supported on a kernel level no-way no-how. Ditto for Python, PHP, JavaScript, and other high-level languages without pointers and all that jazz.

Go would be close… but it requires bundling a bunch of libraries in with each binary and wasn’t designed for low-level development. Again unsuitable.

C++? Linus Torvalds and the kernel developers hate it for being unnecessarily complicated and only making things harder to maintain while bringing little to the table at this point (they’ve made it this far without classes, and C++ doesn’t bring anything new like memory safety).
Same. I had weird issues when playing Diablo II: Resurrected with menu items not being clickable or other jank that was not present with xorg. It's almost there though. I'm excited when features like this are pushed as defaults because it means more feedback, more pressure to fix remaining issues.
> If it only took 2 days to create the vaccine, why do they not have an updated one?

There's a deafening silence every time somebody asks this.

From what I've been able to see, it's because regulatory bodies won't accept an update vaccine without 8 months of testing, and the manufacturers are doing the testing, but at those delays there isn't really any point.

Why regulatory bodies won't accept updated vaccines is the more interesting question.
AWS us-east-1 outage brings down services around the world
That still significantly raises the barrier to entry until someone writes a generic CSI implementation that translates to the flexvolume API.

And then it's still yet another daemon running on every kubernetes node 24/7.

Regardless, in our case the scripts are full-fledged python applications so inevitably we'll just turn them into grpc servers. We're an advanced kubernetes shop so this isn't a real hurdle, but not everyone is.

My complaint isn't that it is impossible, it's that it makes it much more work compared to the previous API and by selecting GRPC as the protocol instead of HTTP, they are largely disregarding the trivial language interoperability there once was for little gain. GRPC+protonuf is a PITA in non-go languages and build systems.
100% agreed, and it's the first setting I change.

In addition to that I have found that using the setting:

AllowUsers "example_account@aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd"

(If you are connecting from a static IP) Will cut down on log spam and connection initializations by a tremendous amount.
I hope this helps...

as it stands covid 19 uses a protien called ACE2 to enter a cell, just disturbing the ACE2 is enough to cause patho physiology.

if the virus changes enough it can fit other protiens.

an example of this is comparison of mers with sars.

mers does not use ACE2, it uses DPP4.

the DPP4 is directly related to apoptosis [procedural death or "scuttling"]

disturbance of DPP4 causes very pathological state and often death of the cell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipeptidyl_peptidase-4

the mortality rate of mers was observed as 35% vs sars cov19 mortality in the range of 1 or 2 deaths per thousand
Signed firmware, probably why they are so reluctant to share those for newer cards for Nouveau… because it’d break their market segmentation.
I guess it's because Rust is a "safe programming language" and the world needs that.
Only if they come with wrist bands and leg warmers.
Does it? https://book.async.rs/overview/std-and-library-futures.html

C++ ones can interoperate with any type that plugs into the compiler magic expected by the co-routines code rewrite.

If you want to deep dive into how Visual C++ does it, and how WinRT gets plugged into C++ co-routines, here is a very lengthy set of blog posts.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210504-01/?p=10...

Now back to Rust, how can I interoperate across tokio, async-std, smol and fuchsia-std, as easy as I can between WinRT, and others?
The vaccine is just a product? Like a pair of Nike's? Are you kidding me? I wonder how many phishing emails you fall for every month...

We have (some) laws regulating what advertisers can say. Putting out a press releases like this is, in effect, an advertisement. It sways public opinion and will effect their profits.

And did you know the US is the only country where it is legal for pharmaceutical companies to advertise their medications to the public?

And did you know the pharmaceutical companies are the main source of revenue for the FDA, the agency that approves their drugs?
Time to fork I guess.
Yes, this is a hard problem. Not even partitioning by tenant will always help you.

This is fundamentally equivalent to database ACID constraints, and the other modes described are great in the same way that if you're able to relax some of the ACID constraints in your code (say, by not being SERIALIZABLE), you get in return nice things (like reads never deadlocking).

If you can't know if message N will change the outcome of processing message N+M, then you have to resolve that before you can proceed - as surely as a serializable database will wait for the outcome of transaction N before being able to proceed with N+M.
Because no one bothered. I would rather prefer the drivers be written in Ada/SPARK.
By handwaving this away I take it you're ok with Twitter deciding who is "reputable" and a "journalist"?

There's no evidence this account violated the Twitter TOS.
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“real journalists”, hmm, there it is again.
>Has there been much improvement in compile times in the past ~2 years?

Yes. Source: https://nnethercote.github.io/2021/11/12/the-rust-compiler-h...

In my experience, compile times are more a function of project structure than anything else. The compilation unit is a crate, so keep your crates nice and small, and you'll be fine.
large discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29469115
D and Zig could work.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29469115
Probably because the older languages did not bring enough to the table versus C.

I've notice that the trend of new compiled language is fairly recent with Nim (2006)/Go (2009)/Rust (2010). The previous trend was more oriented toward interpreted languages Python (1991)/Ruby (1995)/Javascript (1995).

So maybe, 10 years is the maturity age and we will see more of those language used for Linux kernel development.
Yes, curated is the word I would use.
If you have multiple systems anyway, then having a light-weight jump box (or 2 for redundancy) may be worth setting up. Then limit 'internal' hosts to only allow connections from the jump boxes / bastion hosts.
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I'm having an honest discussion. You have accused me of being "a gullible idiot", "pompous" and of using "marketing buzzwords" (which words?). You come across as being very emotionally attached to your negative opinion of the space.

Value can be transferred between programs through Ethereum. The tokens you mentioned have value, because people are willing to exchange them for money. So it's not an inaccurate statement. Web3 provides the standardised API through which these programs can communicate.
Also block heaters are a thing
fail2ban isn't just for SSH.

Anyway, I'm not here to advocate that everyone should install fail2ban tomorrow. My point was just that fail2ban wasn't bad advice in 2013 and isn't really bad advice even now. Sure, there are better tools out there for hardening services but at least fail2ban doesn't break those other tools. So there's nothing stopping you having a layered approach if you want.

And that's the crux of it for me. "Bad advice" would be something that hinders security whereas fail2ban does add to it. What is in contention is the significance it adds and this is where people have gotten hung up on SSH. For example fail2ban can work really effectively when you have multiple services running off the same host (eg HTTP(S), SMTP, and SSH).

The problem is most people just look at the default config and say "there's better tools for SSH" -- which is true but it also overlooks a lot of what fail2ban offers.

But as I said, I'm not an advocate for fail2ban. I just think some of the comments here against it are overstated. If someone wants to run fail2ban it wont harm their security. It might even enhance it depending on how they've set it up.
I would guess income tax and sales tax account for a far larger amount of tax dollars than ownership dollars -- Not well read but I'd wager it is a 100x difference or more. I.e. if so for that to work we'd have to vastly reduce government services. Either that or land tax would go way up, e.g. you have much more money from a lack of income and sales tax, but then 100x higher rent (as landlords could raise rent to cover the taxes).

(FWIW I think I would be pro high taxes on multiple home ownership, investors purchasing and parking in home real estate on the surface seems like a bad thing, but then commercial real estate and dense urban housing seems like it would require investment-driven development so not really sure)
That is the problem.
High regulations that create a quasi-monopoly on products

Who make that regulations? The government.

The government is just a huge corporation without competition that can use violence legally on people.

At each place where the cost of service and product have gone up you will find regulations and monopolistic entreprises who are way too much connected to the government.
It is newspeak and additioanlly not verifiable at all for that matter.
#Web3 and #Bitcoin fix this.
I'm pretty confident that if a suitable case made it to the supreme court, social media like Twitter would be deemed a de facto public square under the US Constitution.

Hopefully then people would apply a little more critical thought, rather than just parroting private vs public.

It's clear that at a certain scale, a private space becomes de facto public one, similar to anti-trust legislation breaking up perfectly valid private business that also happen to be monopolies.
There are many different cryptos that offer the same attributes without the energy cost. If Bitcoin was created today, no one would even bother to look at it.
Great. Why did twitter delete this one?
Ah well, if we have "reputable journalists" on the case then we don't need some lowlife reporting on it.
> so I rely on Nvidia’s VDPAU implementation that doesn’t work on Wayland

NVIDIA’s VDPAU successor seems to be Vulkan Video. So those issues are going away at some point in the future at least.
Oh neat, they mention that godbolt now has (preliminary?) support for:

* Compiling via rustc, mrustc, gccrs, rustccggcc

* Outputting MIR, macro expansion stages

https://godbolt.org/z/5767rMa33
He's not talking about TiVo and Roku. The only thing different is on-demand streaming? That's laughable. YouTube created a new category where anyone can have their own TV show. Twitch took it a step further by making it live and interactive with the audience. Paul was dead on with this one.
All Telegram clients are already fully open. (The server side is not, but there are third party implementations).

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram

https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS

Plus a few web frontends, I am way too lazy to find them all.

https://github.com/zhukov/webogram

WhatsApp forbids third party clients IIRC.