skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most services and applications can occasionally have unplanned downtime.
Many have also planed downtimes sometimes measured in half a day or more.

Services that truly need 100% uptime (and by that I don't mean what management say they WANT, but they are prepared to PAY) are a tiny minority, to the point that I imagine most software developers never work on one.

Even setups that i have seen to handle such cases, usually had some single point of failure somewhere.

And lest face it. Even if you do multi region on AWS, that won't protect you next time someone screws up BGP/switches/DNS or whatever and every region goes down for a while. In that case you better have failover to some other cloud vendor. Even planes or other safety critical equipment is not 100% failure proof.
Couldn't agree more - that's why we built it! Please give the new search a shot, I think you'll like it :D
Refinance Your Tech Debt
I'm running mostly Debian, actually. No issues.
Fintech, I imagine.
(I worked on this.)

Give it a shot and let us know what you think! Where can we improve it?
Wouldn’t those professions listed be uppper-middle class or something else? I’ve never thought of doctors and lawyers as middle-class professions or income.
Yep, but let us also remind our self how stupid that line of argumentation is. Apple needs to let at least Facebook track us, if they don’t Apple will lose millions of customers. Even if Apple truly want to be serious regarding privacy, the majority of their user base won’t let them.
Oh yeah I can see the 3D sinking inwards

that's a neat video haven't seen that slicing idea before
This discussion has nothing to do with race. You're obsessed.
Accuracy is improving rapidly though. I agree that the current accuracy levels are not high enough to be relied upon.

> Humans ... they will usually recognize total blunder

I question this assumption. I don't believe this is true, even for subject matter experts. I've worked with radiology data where experts with 10+ years of experience make blunders that disagree with a consensus panel of radiologists.
Binary blobs are a security threat, a right to repairs threat, an ownership threat.
In Rust you only are forced to use a specific runtime if you want to use its API. For example to spawn new tasks, or to block on a future. I believe that would be the same in C++.

In Rust, you don't need to use a specific runtime if you just want to use async function in your library.
Any Gas fees whatsoever that would eat up profits?
How much of FB revenue flows through the App Store though?

Are you suggesting the US government would levy a fine?
I also find that I'm more confident in the manufacturer to actually ship the item properly. On several occasions I've ordered something expensive from Amazon only to have it arrived beat up and damaged. When I've returned it to Amazon and ordered again from the manufacturer it usually arrives in much better condition.
I actually tried something like this at one point but I always ended up with something seizure-inducing.
Pre-print, not peer reviewed. Biased sample, not conclusive. No long term studies done, etc. Also says nothing about IQ. Show me the clinical trials that measure IQ prior to Covid over a broad sample and then measure IQ 3 months, 6 months, 12 months after recovery, etc.
Uh, using Adobe as an argument in favour of C++ as a reliable programming language from a memory safety perspective is not a good argument. Just looking at the CVE count tells a story that cuts across their entire product line, and then we have the long and storied history of Flash and Acrobat vulnerabilities.

Any non-trivial code base in any language will have security issues, but the argument that these security vulnerabilities are a result of using C++ poorly doesn't change the fact that C and C++ have tons of footguns and pitfalls based on both modern and legacy code.
Wonder what their NMLS number is?

they might be violating mortgages laws without a license number posted.

https://nationwidelicensingsystem.org/about/Pages/RequiredUs...
If I'm reading correctly, spiped uses Diffie–Hellman for public key cryptography, while contemporary best practices suggest using elliptic curve crypto with shh (e.g. see [0]). So, for the truly paranoid, it might also provide some protection against crypto attacks too?

Note that the NSA can break 1028-bit DH [1], but spiped uses 2048-bit.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-gith...
[1] https://blog.securegroup.com/did-the-nsa-really-break-diffie...
libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf *.pptx
Given that one can compile C to Wasm it is simply not true that it would break C code. Wasm implements pointers as offset into an array and then checks for out-of-bounds access. LLVM should be able to do that directly.
The added features and complexity of Rust may be a worthwhile tradeoff for the memory safety it provides compared to C. You're allowing a lot of mental overhead of "is this safe?" to be offloaded to the compiler, whereas with C you have to be extremely vigilant. Even the most talented programmers frequently make memory-related mistakes in C.

If you want a truly simple language you should have a look at Go.
I case anyone is interested in the removed content > https://t.me/TrackerTrial
You must not be a teenager
So you blame bad developers for stuff ? Amazing.

> The provisioning takes 2 to 3 hours. After 2 hours the script would abruptly quit because of some syntax error. 2 hours wasted

Anybody who designed such thing is bad. If stuff fail after 2 hours, you should be able to repeat it in idempotent way to just continue or you skip sections with parameters. Your syntax error problem is the same in any other shell, and in all dynamic languages.

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

Nonsense. I almost never use any of the "plugins". PowerShell on its own is game changer. Like the first dude already said, I have yet to see a problem that can't be done in 2-5 lines of code that is joy to read even in shorthand form, unlike countless magic chars, something that is known to be bad pattern in OOP.

> Really what Microsoft should have done is to make those plugins available to C#.

That is really NOT what Microsoft should have done instead of PowerShell, maybe alongside it. But since you have PowerShell, you don't need it that much. Besides, it already exists for almost decade.

> Then any syntax errors in the script can be caught ahead of time, instead of after 2 hours of running.

You can do this today.
I don't think this is accidental. There seems to be a deliberate effort to de-politicize the economy and to de-economize politics. The left used to be all about labor rights. Now it's about gender politics.
My understanding was more that spacetime isn't perfectly elastic, so when it's distorted by a gravitational wave it stores the equivalent of a gravitational charge - a bit like a piezoelectric crystal that stays very slightly permanently polarised after you stop squeezing it.

This would be amazing if true because spacetime would be rough on very tiny scales because of all the waves that passed through it.

Speculating wildly, this might even have observable quantum-level effects.
I wonder will it be open-source. How could anyone trust it if its not? (and even if it is)

Would anyone here be willing to have a chip inserted into their brain?

Stuxnet anyone?
There were many early signs of Stalin’s future misdeeds. Signs if recognized in a climate like today, would be called a slippery slope fallacy.

My point is this, don’t turn off critical thinking because something is a so called fallacy.
We've recently switched our team from Slack to Twist. Maybe that could be a good alternative for the Quill users that are getting booted now.

https://twist.com/

It's got fewer features and settings than Slack, but got the basic functionality and is much better tailored to async work, with threads and no 'stream of text' chat windows (it does have DMs though).
> are easily disappeared - ala, jack ma.

Jack Ma disappeared from public media. It's same here, if you make non political correct comments in public, you will be shuned like plague. One such example is Mr. Trump.

Don't paint a picture that China is unique worse than another country. It's all the essence in different disguise.

And stop associating certain behavior and incident with China as a whole.

Don't China this China that. Don't say China backed this and that, there are organization behind those. Find them, understand them, and see their motivation firstly from a personal perspective and then from the national ones.

Associating an entire nation to each and every bad things is unfair, irlogical, and dangerous.
What I'm saying is, the motivation to print pirated copies of books was to sell them to people for profit because as cheap as it was to copy books compared to writing them, it was still quite a bit above 0.

However, copying cost today is effectively 0. No one would pay money for a pirated copy of an ebook. One could (somewhat pedantically) say that this means the creator's 'exclusive right to profit' from their work is not violated because no one profits in this way from piracy[0], but that's not the point. the point is that the concept barely even made sense the first time around, but allowed a creator who didn't own a giant expensive distribution mechanism the leverage to negotiate compensation. Now the distribution is about as free as it is ever likely to get.

[0] or at least they wouldn't if it weren't for laws creating barriers that allow people to profit by providing mechanisms around said barriers.
That was written in 2007
The highest vaccinated countries have almost stopped it? Israel had among the highest vaccination rates in the world prior to its most recent peak, which has now declined. Other countries are going through the same thing. There is only a very rough/weak correlation between vaccination rate and positive cases.
There is a skill not taught in schools that I might describe as “how to conduct code reviews” and it applies in industry as well as HN comments.

A reason to be afraid to submit may be that the number of respondents that don’t know how to review may exceed the number that do, causing the net result to be more destructive than constructive. Which brings me to another skill — how to ignore input that (even if you receive it) does not really matter, or at least not right away or not as much as other things.

If only as a profession we could resist the urge to quibble about things that probably are fine (or at least not pressing) so that there is more time to dig into the heart of a design or implementation. Yes, that’s an interesting algorithm; no, let’s not segue into the choice of back-end on the web site that happens to host the documentation; yes, that will help with maintainability; no, the number of spaces here does not really matter; yes, that is a good recommendation but not under these time constraints; no, I will not rename 125 variables to suit your arbitrary choice instead of my arbitrary choice.

I would also add that “review” is often misinterpreted as “pure criticism” (again, in code or in HN comments) and it can be nice for unsolicited positive feedback to occur too. Things like “I like how this was done”, or “I’ve never seen anything like that, clever” as opposed to an unending wake of negativity that tries to tear apart any given project.
I just wanted to give you props for actually understanding the point being made.

You don't need to agree with it, but at least you can see where I'm coming from!

I understand your frustration with there not really being an objective argument that would be able to deal with this thought experiment - I myself argued your case for a long time!

For all practical uses, the distinction is mostly pointless anyways, but it does make for some fun philosophical thought experiments! :-)
Sounds like a convoluted way of gambling on property values? I don't know why you would need NFT or crypto currency for that (other than making the whole scheme sound more complex and important to investors).
Yep, cause that never happened before. /s
Unboxing the Bento Components Library
>how does the linked NYT article support your position that fraud was committed at that site?

I never affirmatively said fraud happened. I have no idea. What the link proves quite conclusively that there is the appearance of some BS going on. Which in the context of where the democrats are forced to make sure things dont look like there's a 'voted fraud org' like biden said.

If biden was telling to the truth. This is exactly what it would look like.

>Did the bipartisan boards of county and state canvassers review the processes and results?

Doesn't matter. Bush vs Gore in 2000 was a big boondoggle. Russian interference allegations in 2016 that is questionable. Now this one?

In recent polls a super majority of US citizens believe the elections are fraudulent. Tremendously low confidence the election system is functioning properly. The republicans are paralyzed from accusing the democrats because it'll blow out democracy. How broken is the system if voting fraud almost certainly happened but did it happen to change the results and you can't call it out?

Every single republican report you will read about keeping democracy intact and the necessity to build a new more robust system and make sure votes are counted properly. They actively changed the rules everywhere they could.

Mind you, after biden said voted fraud org. The onus is on the democrats to prove the election was smooth. That sure as shit didn't happen.
The reasoning behind what was added is clearly described in the "Design and Evolution of C++" book.

Besides the main reason why C++ exists is because he swore to himself never to go through the Simula => BCPL downgrade ever again, and C is a tiny step up from Bootstraping CPL compiler, so....
Jean-Michel Basquiat Died for Our Sins
Well it kind of does.. A password is validated, and if you lose it there is usually some recourse. Reset or whatnot. It may be a hassle but always possible somehow.

If you lose a passphrase, no one can help you even if you hit HN front page and /r/all with a sob story. So backups and availability have a different cruciality.

Also if you store a private key on the same medium as a password store with weak encryption or key that contains the passphrase, they key can't be considered as strong anymore.

There are practical reasons to make a distinction and mistakes can be expensive.
Without real time errors you can't get in a "flow"?

That's hard to believe.
> But results may vary when the work is being done on an amateur basis.

Much, if not most, of Linux kernel development is done by employees of various companies, who are being paid for their work. Typically, that's in the form of device drivers, which also happens to be where I've seen the shoddiest, buggiest code in the kernel [1].

[1] Think "driver A abusing the 'private' pointer of driver B for its own purposes" kind of buggy.
The company that manages the NFTs reimburses them for right now.
That sample size isn't enough to say anything without some other controls in place.
Well, THEY have also changed the definition of "vaccine" and "pandemic" a long time ago. Go look it up.
Every time I see this video posted I watch it again from start to finish. Amazing what could (can!) be done with purely mechanical components.
> My ip with a reverse route can definitely be linked back to my country consistently according to past experience.

What process do you do to verify the geographic location of the reverse route?

The provider at the time was Frontier Communications, I don't believe they have a large presence in Canada.
I would love to see a screenshot!
The linked article both describes the mechanism and has plenty of recent references observing and studying the effect whether or not you think it makes sense.

The general mechanism is that recognition of the antigen by memory B cells produces a response that also inhibits (non-memory) B cells from reacting to the antigen. So when the antigen has drifted enough that memory B cells still recognize it, but the antibodies are less effective then at that point B cells are actively inhibited by the memory B cells so new and retargeted antibodies are not produced.
I bet a bunch of Wish, Amazon and AliExpress cheap goods are filled with toxic chemicals.
Exactly!

1. No updates released

2. No revenue released

3. An alert warning the user that the app is noncompliant and it’s use could result in data theft (ie think self-signed SSL in the browser)

4. Restrict all network activity from those apps to the first-party domain
well you don't get "less" IO, you get exactly the same. Also you said "like the Switch," so that means screen-inaccessible and vertically positioned.

Now it sounds like what you really want is what I use: a single cord connected to an LG Ultrafine that has it's own set of built-in ports, one of which is connected to a port replicator (legacy USB-A, ethernet, etc).
That is an accurate assessment doc, getting dangerously close to mid thirties
My fun times at AMD
I'd be interested to see that benchmark. A ~3 GHz Pentium 4 sounds like a good reference point for single threaded performance since it's a reasonably modern OoO microarchitecture and reflects the moment that clock scaling stopped.
It makes sense for unlockable cores on server grade hardware, it would allow bootstrapping companies to buy in low and then upgrade on demand, but it's pretty safe to say that this is going to overflow into the user space, where you can buy a 16 core processor for your max budget and then find out there are another 16 cores that software prevented you from accessing and that would require a monthly fee to unlock, which is ridiculous.
note that it’s not that the flu virus mutates so much more than other viruses, as it’s using the same (imperfect, mutation-inducing) machinery to replicate itself as other viruses, it’s that its genome is sufficiently resilient to mutations that more variations can survive to infect others. perhaps there are many more, or just more flexible, non-critical regions that can be swapped out willy-nilly without damaging the core replication function. or the replication-coding regions of the genome can be swapped around more easily without ill effect. or there’s more error-correcting. or a number of other plausible mechanisms than being better at mutating, because that’s unlikely.
Yes, the vowel diacritics are definitely an issue. I'm familiar with Hindi and Tamil. Hindi's _matras_ are pretty regular, and Unifont is designed so you can just type a single diacritic in the same spot as a consonant and have the thing look right (albeit terrible).

Tamil, however, doesn't have this property. Does Myanmar?

At the moment a single diacritic is the extent of my ambition.
As a counterpoint security in e.g. Bluetooth has been an ongoing problem and even "mature" code like ext4 has recurring problems. Somehow I doubt the problem is that the people involved are not smart enough or trying hard enough. Maybe it's worth revisiting what tools we use.
In case you aren't already aware, you can use Nitter [0] as an alternate Twitter frontend (you can install an extension to automatically redirect you there, if you prefer). At various times nitter.net may be rate limited, in which case you can look to a list of instances and pick a different one [1].

Here are some direct links to the accounts the parent mentioned, for example: https://nitter.42l.fr/jkbjournalist and https://nitter.42l.fr/KlasfeldReports

[0] https://nitter.net/about

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter#resources
It's the easiest way for 3,000 people to own a single building. Managing an LLC with that many owners is an accounting nightmare. It wouldn't make sense to only charge $50 to invest and to pay rent each day if you had to manage it "the old way". The old way being REITs, which I used to invest in, but you lose a lot of money on management fees that way.
How does it being decentralized make it unattractive for money laundering?
https://twitter.censors.us/jkbjournalist/

https://twitter.censors.us/KlasfeldReports/
Twitter is currently completely down, so hard to read the tweet.
It might be fun for a laugh.

What actual value would an AI that produces answers similar to the average person have, though? Non-expert answers for interesting questions are pretty much meaningless -- the whole point of an advanced society is that we can avoid knowing anything about most things and focus on narrow expertise.
This is exactly how I see it as well. Rust used to be an obscure language with a compiler written in OCAML. If something was written in D or zig, it’s noteworthy so you mention it. I think rust has come into the mainstream enough that we can drop the “written in rust” line imo.
If you do legitimately have a workaround for this, I can put you in touch with those grabbing metadata for the return dislike extension. They’d love to see it. (If it’s the averageRating endpoint, then they’re aware, and it’s likely going to be removed anyway.)
The Holidays Are for Hacking
No idea, I kept away from them as best I could, but I did see comments (on the indexers that, I guess, were there for "rating" the links) lauding most of them as such.

Honestly, it reminded me a lot of the early 90s www - that is that anything and everything just couldn't be trusted unless you knew the source outside of the web, too. (Like you know the author's personally, or you have confirmation it is a university site, etc.) and that put me off quite a lot. I really didn't fancy the idea of even accidentally opening the wrong link and seeing these images so I basically stopped using Tor altogether and haven't been back since.
It makes more sense than most NFT products. Ownership of the NFT does something. There's an piece of artwork that isn't a total joke. It gives you some connection with other players, like owning a skin someone known was wearing when they won something.

Of course they don't need a blockchain.

A big fraction of the NFT sector is Axie Infinity, which is a Ponzi on the downslope. Their Smooth Love Potion Token is down 75%-80% from peak, and their Axie token is down about 25%. Thousands of poor people in the Phillipines have bought into this Ponzi. Since all the money comes from new users buying in, it has to collapse at some point.

OpenSea is most of the rest of the NFT sector, and most of their offerings are low-effort junk.
Someone is selling "colors" - solid color squares for each of the 6 hex digit combinations you can use on the web. Really.

I'm worried that the NFT clown car is going to take down the entire virtual world sector. I'm all in favor of interesting metaverses, but what the NFT crowd is producing is total crap at insane prices. About two new vaporware NFT worlds are announced each day on Reddit.

If you are selling an NFT to US persons for something that doesn't exist yet, it's a security offering and you have to register with the SEC. The SEC brought the hammer down on the ICO crowd in 2018, which is why you seldom see ICOs any more. NFTs are mostly an effort to get around securities regulation.

The window of opportunity for crypto is closing. China has pretty much banned it. India is cracking down. The major countries that allow crypto are starting to regulate them as financial institutions. Scam operators are retreating to the Cayman Islands and Bulgaria.