skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 or more people wanting to use a given plot of land contend with each other to do so. My use impairs yours and vice versa.

2 or more people wanting to use given a sound recording do not as copying has a marginal cost approaching zero. My use can be entirely separate from yours and we may not even know of the existence of the other. Land, for example, cannot be copied with a very small marginal cost, or indeed, at all.

These things are very different and those differences need to be taken into account in any regulation surrounding their property rights. I express no opinion here of what correct regulation for property rights for these two vastly different asset classes should be. Make your case for opposing property rights by all means.
> IMO people actually should "play Internet doctor" and research their symptoms

You should probably not play internet doctor if you’re a hypochondriac or prone to anxiety. The least probable cause of almost any symptoms is cancer or another deadly condition and you can probably find a gruesome description of someone’s experience online somewhere. If your nervous system can’t grasp that, stay away from googling your symptoms!
Life expectancy of adults hasn’t changed much (ie your life expectancy when you’re in your 20s). The life expectancy number you’re most familiar with is largely driven by infancy because it’s the mean and high infant/child mortality skews that. We’re really good at saving the lives of children now but I don’t see why that matters for copyright.

More hypothetically, let’s say human life spans got up to 500 years. Copyright is intended to promote the creation of art for the public good, not to fund the artist for their lifetime.

If you created a popular piece of art of music in your 20s, why is it useful to society to help fund the next 480 years of life in any way?
They can do this without an alliance. They very intentionally choose not to do it.

Every major company has moved away from having accurate status pages.
Most of their devices come out of the box in a sensible configuration for a home router, and port forwarding/vlans are very straightforward to set up. If you're really worried, you can run the cloud-hosted router software in a VM to play around with it and find out if it will meet your needs.
CloudFormation changesets are reporting "InternalFailure" for us in us-east-1.
Is there a name for activity that we want to have done, but don't often want to do in the moment? You know how lots of people want to exercise regularly, but at any given moment when they could choose to exercise, they end up not doing so? That's how I feel about going into the office. A lot of times when I end up in the office I overhear interesting chatter I wouldn't have otherwise heard, or I catch up with a colleague I normally wouldn't have talked to that day. In the abstract, I wouldn't mind going into the office a couple of times a week, but on any given day I can easily come up with a reason why it makes more sense to stay home that day.
Makes me glad I am in us-east-2.
I can't recommend using Poetry in production - I've had massive headaches with it due to https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/697

Basically if you have two dependencies that depend on the same package, but depend on different versions or non-overlapping ranges of versions, Poetry's only solution is "tell the maintainers of your dependencies to update their pyproject.toml" - building your package will just fail, with no workaround other than to fork the dependencies and update pyproject.toml yourself. Yes, in principle that sounds like the right way to resolve it, but in practice there are lots of Python packages with overly narrow dependency version ranges (or that are pinned to a single version), the maintainers understandably aren't always that responsive, and forking all your dependencies isn't a great solution.
We make heavy usage of Kinesis Firehose in us-east-1.

Issues started ~1:24am ET and resolved around 7:31am ET.

Then really kicked in at a much larger scale at 10:32am ET.

We're now seeing failures with connections to RDS Postgres and other services.

Console is completely unavailable to me.
> "You're not really supposed to subdivide networks beyond that point."

Why not? Does it result in technical problems? I know very little about IPv6 (but I know that a /64 is an absurdly large network).
I don't really care about AirPods, but that webpage fucking rocked. Rotating the scans as I scroll? Nice. I'd look at scans of anything on that website.
Society sucks. Everything we do ends up only making conditions worse, perhaps its time for a radical new way of living.
Loneliness isn't a problem. It's a necessary unpleasant state that promotes social activity akin to sleep pressure that forces you to sleep. The problem is that people are addicted to social simulacra (via social media) rather than actual social activity and so only accomplish temporary relief from the feeling of loneliness while retaining the state of loneliness (like binge drinking coffee instead of actually sleeping).

Regardless of the hype, social media is a poor substitute to physical human interaction and is more anti-social than it seems. I'm sorry, but Internet friends you've never met aren't your friends. They won't support you in the ways that really matter, they won't know you as you are rather than how you portray yourself. Internet communities have the capacity to broker relationships but those relationships have to flourish outside of those communities to endure.

Loneliness is good. It forces you to do the unpleasant, inconvenient and potentially risky act of actually getting to know someone and include them in your life. People need to allow themselves to feel it so they can act on it and truly relieve it instead of wallowing in digital emotion machines that simulate human interactions.
Where shall I start? Template specialization order? Recursive template definitions for variadic arguments? Conditional template arguments? std::enable_if ?
Are the actual services down, or is it just the console and/or login page?

For example, the sign-up page appears to be working: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start

Are websites that run on AWS us-east up? Are the AWS CLIs working?
That's what I still don't get, they admitted the owner broke their TOS, and used the same listing for multiple properties. Especially after they said they're just the "middle man", you would think they would just issue a full refund, since they essentially just let stuff like this happen.

Them issuing a 10% refund just felt like an insult to me. Hence why we're taking it further as well.
Something like that has impacted the status page in the past. There was a severe Kinesis outage last year (https://aws.amazon.com/message/11201/), and they couldn't update the service dashboard for quite a while because their tool to do manage the service dashboard lives in us-east-1 and depends on Kinesis.
Why Germans Celebrate School with a Cardboard Cone
Oh sure yeah but it's unlikely spoof bid would be above theo.. too risky on the part of the spoofer
Happy to provide an anecdote here. Had my home searched for user generated content on a Hetzner server around 2014. Some reports were also forwarded to me when the service was still alive. Hetzner provided a signed statement of me responding to abuse reports within a few hours of me asking.
I recently built a fairly simple backend with a GraphQL API (fairly basic but bespoke e-commerce functionality, a few related models and a few queries/mutations) using Django, and then rewrote it in Rails, as a newcomer to them both (I knew bits of both languages but nothing really of the frameworks).

The reason I switched is more or less entirely that I hit performance issues with the Python Graphene library being really slow at returning larger datasets, and couldn't find a solution in a reasonable time frame.

My impression was that Django has a much more powerful and pleasant ORM – your migrations are derived from your models, so if you want to add or remove a field (for example), you update the model class then the migration command works out what it needs to do to make the database match the models. Rails works pretty much the other way – you create explicit migrations to add/remove columns, and the database is the source of truth - your model classes don't even have explicit accessors in the code for the fields you define in the DB. I found the Django way more logical, and I found things like many-to-many relationships much easier in Django, but the Rails way isn't too bad once you get used to it.

Rails is well known for being heavy on the "magic", which is quite expressive once you get used to it but I find it hard to know where to look if I want to e.g. know what methods a model has, whereas Django felt a bit more explicit in this regard. Personally, I find Python a more pleasant and easier to read language than Ruby, which has so many ways to express the same concept in different ways, but I am actually warming to Ruby.

If you're interested in adding type checking, it seemed that Python has better and more mature options here.

Ultimately though, for what I wanted (which was to build a backend with sensible defaults out of the box and really write as little code as possible), I think Rails is a better fit. The ecosystem of libraries seems more mature and better documented (I hit quite a few issues with Django related libraries which took a lot of Googling and some hacks to solve). The Ruby GraphQL library is much nicer to work with and much more performant.

The amount of code I have to write is generally pleasingly low (though I'll admit it's quite spaghettish already, I have been learning Ruby as I go and I can totally see how a large codebase could become a mess), and it's easy to Google for most stuff, and the defaults seem pretty sane. I will say on a slight tangent that I recently enabled GitHub Copilot, and am finding it surprisingly quite useful in a Ruby project, where I often struggle to know/remember the right syntax!

So... that's my experience. Ultimately it came down to a niche-ish requirement (performant GraphQL API) to force my hand, but I think I'm pleased with the end result. Both are impressive frameworks and I don't think generally you could go too far wrong, but for me Rails just feels that bit easier and more mature for bashing out a solo project.
I’ve found managed databases to be quite expensive at places like Azure and AWS. Especially compared to just installing pgsql on raw compute.

What managed databases do you recommend that adequately meet price/performance needs of indie developers?
> and "disable IPv6" seems to still be one of the best solutions for mysterious network problems

It's not really a solution to the problem, it's usually just ignoring the problem and hiding the symptoms.

I'm surprised Hetzner is the first to do this, it's an obvious move with the sharp rise of IPv4 addresses. Most companies don't need IPv4 anyway, because their infrastructure usually ends up at a caching proxy or CDN regardless. Your backend API servers will usually also be talked to by other servers, which usually also run from a place with widespread IPv6 addresses.

I can see a (bleak) future where consumers are all om CG-NAT and everything but the frontend is running IPv6 as a cost cutting measure.
> I keep buying because the alternatives are very weak in comparison and outdated, but really, if you get a bad product from Apple you are fucked.

I didn’t try/need convince them to continue buying Apple, I wouldn’t buy an x86 from them.
I'm fine with that, if you use the life expectancy for an adult. Infant mortality has contributed the largest component of life expectancy gain since 1790, and we weren't incentivizing the creation of toddler art with the life expectancy gains.

So, if you scaled it from the life expectancy of an 18-year old in 1790, to the life expectancy of a 18-year old in 2021 then I'd agree with that.
France Seeks to Catch Up on Reusable Rockets
Meanwhile I can use my desktop as a personal heater if I max it out (Threadripper Pro 64 cores).
Is the author's name really Grady Hillhouse? Surely that's a stage name?
For me one of the best things about the article is the link to the awesome 32-page WWII OSS sabotage manual [0]. Section 11 (General Interference with Organisations and
Production) is a great list of behaviours and anti-patterns that seem to exist in dysfunctional organisations and individuals. E.g.

If possible, join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the management. See that the procedures adopted are as inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more than one meeting for each grievance, bringing up problems which are largely imaginary, and so on.

and

Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw. Approve other defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/page-images/26184-imag...
I agree about the bash+ansible bit. For me it is usually using ansible to push bash scripts to some remote machine. Those remote machines may or may not have python or ansible. So ... bash for those bits :(
Nothing wrong with making clean room equipment in your garage. It just doesn’t inspire confidence in their ability to contribute to cutting edge gravity research. In other words, the author list and the paper as a whole fails the sniff test miserably.
It's a kind of optimization when you think about it. An optimization of the worker. His lifestyle is modified for maximum time and energy invested in work. All other needs (sleep, socialization, leisure, eating, exercise) are reduced to a tiny high-efficiency pill form.

It looks planned but my bet is on accidental.
us-east-2 is truly a hidden gem
It's interesting that many content producers are starting to create their own websites, complete with ad free and extended content. I predict YouTube will become like Pandora was. Used for discovery but when folks want to deep dive on a specific content producer you go to their site or content portal directly.
Maharashtra: Mimer develops nanorobot for rapid cancer diagnosis
Especially if enough Amazon internal tools rely on it - would be funny if there were a repeat of the FB debacle where Amazon employees somehow couldn't communicate/get back into their offices because of the problem they were trying to fix
I hope you stay being the only person who has said that, 1 region being gone is enough for me!
What use-case of YouTube would you want a competitor to though? Personal video hosting? Independent creator video distribution? Social network for video? Music video streaming?

One of the greatest achievements of YouTube is basically serving countless audiences and numerous use-cases under the guise of a single service.

You'd need to roll-up WhatsApp video sharing, Vimeo, Facebook Watch/Tik Tok/IG Reels, MTV, and then throw the aspirational element of creator payments over the top of it. I'd question whether anyone would actually want to do all of that.
See a YouTube video titled “This video will make you angry.”
This belief appears to be an artifact of people spending way too much time on social media, where suppositions are amplified into emotional Armageddons with little basis in reality.

The United States' status of "doomed" isn't supported by any metric.

> The utter insidious evil of the election theft lie from trump is going to destroy the USA by removing any trust in elections.

This kind of invective is just utterly counterproductive. If you want to see a brighter future, start building.

The world is not that presented by the distorting effects of the shrill voices of the doomsayers.
We've had reports of some intermittent 500 errors from cloudfront, apart from that our sites are up.
Hong Kong Covid: The Cathay pilots stuck in 'perpetual quarantine'
At this point I have no idea why anyone would put anything in us-east-1.

Also isolation is not as good as they would have you believe: I am unable to login to AWS Quicksight in us-west-2...
A tour of high-frequency finance via the Julia language and QuestDB
No. An ML-style functor is well-designed and can be type checked at the site of definition. If C++ had functors I would be very happy, but functors are not "zero cost" abstractions..., maybe they can be in a compiler like MLton, though.
It seems that IMDB and Goodreads are also affected
Isn't that trademark?

IOW, when Steamboat Willie's copyright expires, it doesn't give you the right to make a new Mickey Mouse film. Disney still has a trademark on Mickey.
IP is not about physical goods, it's inevitably a creation of the mind. If I take your home or land, you lose it and can't access it anymore. If I "take" your intellectual property, you still have "it".
There is no way of ensuring that you have found a global minimum if the function is not convex, or if you don’t make equivalent assumptions, in the general case (if the domain of the function is continuous, and/or infinite).

If you don’t make assumptions, you would need to consider every single point of the domain, and there is an infinite number of them. The job gets easier the more assumptions you make about the continuous, differentiable, and monotonous character of the function.
Knowing Edison, he can get up from the grave any day, to sue you into bankruptcy.
It's funny how many complex ideas are "just" simpler ideas mapped to the right sequence of steps. The jargon and naming conventions can obscure the idea from outsiders, but allows for brief and accurate communication. If they'd explained the idea Barney-style, they'd have needed twice as many pages.

Thanks for the breakdown, it makes the paper more accessible.
This part was almost comical...

> I wake up with the worst existential dread I’ve ever experienced. I cried for an hour straight. Not because amazon specifically, but for the broader state of labor in general.

All you need to do is look at the subs the same mods mod...

r/Anarchism
r/Anarchy101
r/IWW
r/LateStageCapitalism
r/lostgeneration
r/Socialism_101
r/mutualism
r/radicalmentalhealth
I have alerts going off because of that…
The Amazon.com storefront was giving me issues loading search results — this is the worst possible time of year for Amazon to have issues. It’s horrifying and awesome to imagine hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars of lost orders an hour — just from sluggish load times. Hugops to those dealing with this.
> Does an attacker only need to control the guard and exit nodes, or the middle relay node(s) as well?

No, only controlling the guard and exit nodes is necessary.

> If the latter, can you configure Tor to use more than one middle relay node, depending on your threat model?

Tor makes dozens of circuits in a typical use. You never stick to a single circuit. In the Tor Browser you have first party stream isolation so you get a different circuit (and hence different middle and exit nodes) for each first party domain that you visit.
Is this true or a joke? This sort of policy is how you destroy trust.
Is it the kids combining or the companies that bought the golden goose?
Not really sure who I was intending to respond to, but I don't think it was you. Sorry.
Join the afterlife
Our services in AWS East are down.
> Google Fonts downloads are used for fingerprinting and browser identification: https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2020/08/google-fonts-privacy...

ctrl-F for "fingerpr": 0 matches

I skimmed the article and it looks like the only thing that's logged is your IP? Calling that "browser identification" seems like a stretch.
The author is just doing what the keynote said with the exact model of the Sony monitor.
Except that it had a significant outage just a couple of weeks ago. Source: most of our stuff is on us-east-2.
I think the dragon-tyrant here should be interpreted as a metaphor specifically for death through aging, and not death generally. Because death is not any single condition (representable through a token), but the vast set of states that vastly outnumber the set of "living states".

Solving the problem of aging wouldn't solve the problem death, curing all sickness wouldn't solve the problem of death, preventing all accidents wouldn't solve the problem of death.

Indeed, if we get philosophical (and transhumanist), we need to find a reasonable definition of death (and life), possibly detached from the necessity of continuous physical existence.

[edited for readabiliy]
The Expressions API in Polars Is Amazing
They announced their US datacenter recently! Welcome news for myself too
>> I don’t follow. Is it not possible in the US to criticize Israel?

> You're reflexively labeled anti-Semitic and often castigated for it.

So? Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism or reproach.
Uhm, and this is relevant to discussion because…

I am sorry but I don’t really get it.
I would suggest looking at their wiki and screenshots or youtube of their UI.

I've managed cisco amd juniper routers. And I can't make heads nor tails of it.

As soon as you wonder off the default track, you're expected to understand deep level networking terminology abstracted in a UI tailored for experts.
Not everybody whose Honeymoon is over immediately gets divorced.

You might go from believing that you've found somebody flawless to discovering that actually two weeks with them on a sandy beach or in a hotel room was maybe more exposure to their specific quirks than you are OK with, and you're quite glad to spend a few hours every day not with them - without that meaning you wish you were with somebody else instead.

For example, you might start out very happy that Rust's assignment operators have no value, and so lots of trivial C and C++ mistakes can't happen, but as the Honeymoon wears off, you realise two things, firstly, that once in a while it would be convenient to use values of assignment, and so while on the whole it's better to be rid of them you do miss them, and secondly that some other mistakes are needlessly still present, why didn't Rust fix those too?
The state of European tech 2021: things you should know
Does MikroTik live in the same prosumer space that made ubiquiti products so popular early on?
An imaginary conversation with Peter Schiff – TaMeR
Copyright ant patents are monopolies on “infinite” resources to incentivize the creation of such resources. Property is a restriction on other people’s utilization of a finite resource that belongs to someone
This is a transcript of a YouTube video. I'm sure there are diagrams and visuals in the video.
All a competitor needs to do for me to prefer them is not be part of the Ministry of Truth, i.e., to not set itself up as the arbiter of whether information is correct. It should know its role: to store and play videos and such. Odysee, Rumble, Bitchute, Gab TV, NewTube, all of these fit the bill. All of these are very valuable in an era when censorship has been normalized.
The add says "from 4G and 5G"
maybe it isn't so crazy, if you look at the increases in average lifespans over the fast couple centuries - prolonging lifespans is something humans seem to have a good track record with (at least at a high level)

"solving aging" is the above taken to the limit, which no one has ever even come close to solving ever - so the societal consensus is "why fight it"?
> Homes they can afford to own

In Germany where I live home owners are in the minority (40%). In Europe on average homeownership is about 70%. Yet, we are one of the richest countries in Europe.

Furthermore, buying a house on credit does not mean you own it — since as long as you pay your debt it’s the bank that owns it really.

Finding a partner and maintaining a relationship got nothing to do with owning a home. I am saying that as a dad without owning a house.

Looking at this list:

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

I am also not really sure I really would want to live in the top countries with the highest percentage of home owners.