skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool to see this here! I've been following your journey on the Software Social podcast [0] and it's awesome to watch the project progress. I also really enjoy that the podcast is not all sunshine and rainbows, like you actually talk about the ups and downs and it's great. We need more like it.

[0] https://softwaresocial.dev/
As someone who does full patches every couple of weeks on my servers and reboots every several months, I agree, however there's stuff that can live patch the kernel these days like kernelcare and livepatch by Canonical and more.

Another reason though to reboot every so often is for the server to do filesystem checks on the root partition(s).
Today I Learned, a more productive waste of time
Also Yellow Press, which was the big fake news of the late 1800/early 1900s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

For a while during the last half of the 20th century, this type of sensationalism was staved off though, as the FCC had determined anyone with a news broadcast license had the public responsibility to present different sides to controversial issues. And for a while, it worked pretty well.

This was the fairness doctrine, which was abolished in 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
I really like "Linear Algebra and Its Applications" by Gilbert Strang. It is not a textbook, the style is conversational, and he really tries to help you learn. It is one of rare math books that includes reason, context, application, and history without sacrificing rigor. The book also focuses on numerical algorithms aspects more than some popular textbooks, which may be helpful to understanding Kalman filter.
It's also a nightmare for software preservation. There's going to be a lot from this era that won't be usable 80 years from now because everything is so interdependent and impossible to archive. It's going to be as messy and irretrievable as the Web pre Internet Archive + Wayback are.
How are those better than using AWS/Azure/GCP/etc? I'd say the correct way to handle situations is to have things in multiple regions, and potentially multiple clouds if possible. Obviously, things like databases would be harder to keep in sync on multi cloud, but not impossible.
Change in the number of tech workers moving into major US cities
> Might also be a good idea to run AWS SSO in multiple regions if you're not already doing so.

Is this possible?

> AWS Organizations only supports one AWS SSO Region at a time. If you want to make AWS SSO available in a different Region, you must first delete your current AWS SSO configuration. Switching to a different Region also changes the URL for the user portal. [0]

This seems to indicate you can only have one region.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/re...
How are there shares if there’s no copyright? Do you own 10% of a movie that’s worth $0 since anyone can copy and distribute it for no cost?
Usually a hard cheese like a cheddar, sometimes edam.
Just submitted my profile for co-founder matching. Thanks for the tip!
Yet that thing is not a publicly traded multi-billion dollar media corporation.
I am super sorry. I meant strongly convex. Autocorrect on mobile.

Example from Boyd.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3408436/newton-rhap...
Elon Musk calls for Congress to throw out entire Build Back Better bill
For myself and a lot of people I know, discovery is nearly as much a reward as the music itself. And there is no comparison between the one- or two-dimensional "discovery" offered by social media and streaming platforms and the rich discovery experiences of any of the following:

1. listening to records with a friend
2. going to a dance club
3. attending a live performance
4. listening alone while reading liner notes
5. pawing through a stack of records at a flea market
6. reading a book

So for "discovery" to be a viable product I think it has to somehow be at least as engaging as any of these more traditional ways.

That's not to say that various curated playlists and algorithmic suggestions are useless. But it's rare that I'm introduced to something new that I like.

The algorithms are good at guessing that if I like the Zombies, I'll like the Turtles (which is true) but it never jumps to (for instance) current, contemporary indie/DIY stuff that is influenced by '60s rock and '70s punk. I make those associations all the time. Indie/college radio DJs do it all the time, but Spotify never does.

But again, Spotify is trying to sell millions of subscriptions for people who just want something to listen to in the car or put on at their dinner party. For the "hands-off" experience, it's fine. But discovery by its very nature is not hands-off.
Not a lot of opportunity for what?

Cities are economic machines. Everything is abstracted. There are overarching systems to everything. And it has to be that way, that's both the draw and the solution to the density.

Rural areas are entirely interpersonal relationships. People do business with one another. You have to do something within your local economy to get along.

So there's not a lot of opportunity to go work for the big chemical factory that used to support your entire company town. But there's plenty of opportunity to live a simple life, if that's what you want. The bug difference is that you have to do things for the people you directly interact with to get paid, it's much smaller scale. It's less about employment and more about interpersonal business.
Science disagrees on you with the harmless part. It is shown that violent video games desensitise people with regards to violence, just as violent movies do except there is a categorical difference interactiveness.

I don't like that fact either but to ignore facts because they don't mesh with my politics is bad.
You could have a local copy onboard. There should be enough rack space on the boat to keep a copy that gets updated when the boat gets connected to shore data. Also for sea data, the data set would be much smaller because it hardly changes, and you don't have as many variables(i.e. live traffic, construction, etc), especially under the sea.
I'm not a fan of Disney's egregious lobbying for extensions to maximum copyright time, for what it's worth.

Agreed that by now it should be okay to make your own Mickey Mouse cartoon or merchandise and sell it without permission from Disney.
I think a concrete example of what you're saying is that a rotation vector field (e.g. F(x,y) = [y, -x]) is not the gradient of any potential function.

And I think you're saying it's intrinsically easier to find where a vector field vanishes if it has a potential function. You can just follow the vector field and you'll get to a zero. But if you follow a rotating vector field, it will take you in circles.

But given that you're doing Newton's method, I don't think one problem is easier than the other, right?
People prefer housing they can’t afford. Allowing housing of different densities allows people to optimize their trade offs.
There are good ones. They just cost real money. Which is the issue.
The account deletion when not having any services is a result of their privacy policy. Most European companies should do that but I think it's rare in practice. What they didn't do very well is that it's of course better to email you before deleting.

The HDD thing is (was?) definitely an issue with Hetzner. I had the same experience some years ago. Best option was to get hardware raid and SAS disks, those were datacenter quality instead of consumer and worked great.
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It's amazing that people can't be bothered to even read a summary of the last 60 years of civil rights and social justice movements - the good, the bad and the ugly. It's like they stop at 1964 and just forget all the movements and groups that have come and gone and morphed into other things, etc. It's difficult for some to see the difference between the formal meaning (yay diversity!) and real meaning (so-and-so gets resources because of their race) of politics and issues.
At the risk of garnering controversy, I understand why and even support it.

The reality is that there is seldom a great choice in many places. It's usually choosing between two or more dictators.

When the US supported South Vietnam, it's not that they condoned everything south vietnam did, but had to make a tactical choice between lesser evils.

I guess my takeaway is there is a pragmatic versus idealistic debate here. Ideally America really does want liberal democracies -- if every other nation was a France or Korea, we would be better off.

But there is a pragmatic reality that funding non-free leaders may be a local maximum of stability.
Well I can only speak for the german version, but yes... I mean I would describe it as 'tech./big-bang-theory-nerd' lifestyle magazine with interviews interesting for 'I am the next startup millionaire' peeps who like apple gadgets (and without fun bbtn stuff like comics/shows etc) - well I guess it shines through I didn't like it much and never looked at it again after reading 3 issus. What surprises me is that you just subscribe to a magazine you didn't ever really read(?) and it comes off like one of this wired alt-right rents that complain that rage against the machine is suddenly political and should stop injecting their politics into anything Rofl...
I don't think all of those problems are unique to government software. Some (a lot?) enterprise software is atrocious and disliked by end users. That's because the people making the purchasing decisions != end users.

But it's flabbergasting just how bad VMS is considering it's the navigation system for these national assets. It's not like an HR system with poor UX--navigation is essential to the safety and effectiveness of the whole platform!
Hosting and processing all the photos for the California International Marathon on EC2, this doesnt make easier dealing with impatient customers any easier
Eh, most companies in the world aren't as efficient as Amazon. I know it's fashionable to complain about big government, but I think everyone can learn from Amazon. The idea that it's only the government that is inefficient is such a strange thing to me
Yeah this is basically what I was planning to do before I learned about cloudflared.
Yeah after finding no difference in performance between dcpu and the normal hetzner offerings in my benchmarks I didn't benchmark all instances
factor of safety on a typical bridge 2.5, so not really.
I don't think anecdotes like this are even worth sharing, honestly. There's so much context lost here, so much that can be lost in translation. No one should be drawing any conclusions from this post.
A "National Cyber Director"? Wow, that's a broad and difficult job.

Having spent a decade or more in "cyber" related activities I think it is vital that the director have a deep understanding of how attack and defense ACTUALLY works. This is a very complex, fast changing topic and you need to be able to distinguish the money-seekers from the actual effective proposals.

You'd need a lot of time with the military to understand their issues. You'd need a lot of time with industry to understand their issues. You'd need a lot of time with the blackhat community to understand their issues. You'd also have to fight "stove-pipes" that try to keep their information secret (e.g. 0-days).

You would almost need to create a "cyber immune system". It would have fast response teams (i.e. antibodies), "reserve units" able to help overwhelmed fast response teams (i.e. macrophages), "tactical units" that have expertise in specialty areas, such as air-gap attacks, cache-poisoning, and row-hammering. You'd need a wide network of organized reporting (i.e. a lymphatic system). You'd need specialty consultants on subjects like LoRa exfiltration (i.e. t-cells) and a large library like the one at CMU with a collection of malware (i.e. memory t-cells).

The scale of the problem alone makes it difficult.
That doesn't match my memory — it was novelty at first but an awful lot of people very quickly figured out that it was nice to be able to order things online, where it's really easy to see what's available and thinking about what you want and saving the time delay of mailing catalog orders or waiting on hold. There was a generational divide, of course, but while a few old people made jokes by the mid-90s it was normal for non-tech people to talk about online ordering or stock trading.

The difference is that online ordering was useful: it was easier, saved time, and businesses loved that it was cheaper, reduced errors, and avoided needing to pay people in phone banks to avoid busy signals. If you built things on the web, you had clients beating down your door from all kinds of businesses because they and their customers saw immediate benefits from adopting it.

In contrast, that Bitcoin pizza buyer was going against the grain of a deflationary currency — they paid a processing fee to use a more difficult, slower process to order a pizza and the deflationary model means that they were taking a long-term loss versus holding it — and a decade later, the vast majority of people still have no benefit to using a cryptocurrency.
Did I mention legitimacy? No.

Stock trading is actually not that far removed from trading fictional coins: it's almost pure speculation that has little basis in reality.
I agree - on one hand the findings were basically helpful, in that they incrementally help debunk the (harmful) urban legend and industry propaganda that "moderate" drinking has a minor longevity benefit.

But on the other hand -- was kind of an obvious omission, to the point of being basically dishonest, to reduce this to a blanket "alcohol has no benefit" pronouncement. People drink for a reason, and it isn't simply because they're addicted, or to "escape", or even to blunt social anxiety.
I don't think the local newspaper in their community would have broken the Epstein news story either. The Miami Herald is one of the largest in Florida, and where many of Epstein's crimes took place.
Yup, and backed up with magnetic tape every night.
If you are in it for self-expression, you're entirely free to self-express to your heart's content. Copyright doesn't matter, publishers don't matter, studios don't matter.

The minute you want to express yourself to others, you're no longer in it for self-expression.

And regardless of your opinion on what should and should not exist, people should be fairly compensated for their endeavors, even if those endeavors are to create leisure activities for others.

Copyright is an attempt to enable creators to get compensation for their work. This is one thing the people who rail about the ease of reproduction miss. It was never about the difficulty of reproduction, it was always about the difficulty of creation.

How do we reward that when we are allowed to freely copy their efforts without the need to consider their contribution? It's one of the few things I like about a subscription or Patreon model. We're paying directly for the effort of creation.
Microsoft starts rolling out redesigned Notepad for Windows 11
is it really?? you're the second one to post this
It needs a caveat. If you're paying, you still might be the product. Or even: Only if you're paying there is a chance you're not the product.
Amazon doesn't have to pay for roads or a military
Netflix runs a CDN for the video nodes, but runs on AWS for everything else (eg login microservices). The CDN, which includes hardware deployed inside of ISP), represents a huge capital outlay (over decades) and is a competitive advantage for delivering large amounts of data around the world.
> OP, how did you even get the sequence to begin with? [...] no one is willing to pay for it.

My neurologist ordered sequencing for me from Invitae, to determine the subtype of Ehlers-Danlos I have and rule out neuromuscular diseases. She said insurance usually covers it, and it's only a few hundred bucks if they don't. Invitae appears to do WGS for such panels. I've also heard of Nebula genomics offering affordable WGS and exome sequencing.

She said she'd take a look at the results, and if anything popped out as unusual, I'd see a geneticist.

> A question you might want to ponder is: suppose you isolate the problem to a single missense/nonsense/truncation mutation in a protein that seems likely to cause the phenotype. How do you plan to use that information?

Identify the molecular pathway involved and see if there's any drugs available that might modulate it in a therapeutic way. You might also identify similar diseases that might share similar treatments, once you know the etiology.

Once a mutation or gene responsible is identified, other patients can be as well, which can slowly lead to mouse models and clinical trials etc.
I think the US misses the cold war and is trying its damn best to find a new adversary to compete against. It’s been said before, winning the cold war made the US arrogant and complacent.

Nb I’m talking about countries as if they were people, I do not mean that people in these countries are thinking these things.
It's still extremely heavy compared to any native Mac app. On my M1 machine, Slack (plus it's 4 separate helper processes) is currently using a total of 679MB of RAM. The Mail app, in comparison, is using 147MB.
refined sugar is almost the exact same stuff that is in most fruits, just the balance between glucose and fructose is slight different. It makes no sense to recommend fruits while advising to not eat anything with refined sugars in it.
I think this status dashboard needs a status dashboard.
If world of warcraft hadn't added any content in 15 years it wouldn't be making much money.

> why would rockstar spend billions developing gta 5 if it was public domain after 10 years?

Because that's still a ton of money. Also every time they update the game with more content, that's something you can only get if you buy or wait even longer. And it's easy for them to require payment to use GTA Online.

> it’s still the cash machine that runs the business today and it’s 8 years old

I don't think it would be a tragedy if they had to put out a new game at some point in the next few years to keep making as much money.

Also the game was already completely free for a week in 2020.
Lines of Elixir
I'm surprised Netflix is down. They are multi-region: https://netflixtechblog.com/active-active-for-multi-regional...
You are so certain of this! Why not use this kind of information to make a killing on the stock market?
Tim Cook's $275B Deal with Chinese Authorities
Union Pacific Announces Climate Action Plan and Commits to Net Zero Target
Well that’s the one decent remaining bit of windows fucked up.
Buying a home? Research identifies 55 dangerous chemicals in building materials
Where did you get 25:1 from? ngrams?
They probably have a laundry list of requirements (like nuclear containment?) before they even get to software.

I've been in many a design meeting where a "must have" was pushed out to the next version because "the user can just do this manually for now".
This seems like an architecture issue, rather than a framework issue. At some point you need to split these 400K and 40 devs out into different applications. Different application should not be able to access each other's database, but rather communicate through an API.

I'm not saying that you need micro services, but you should find a way to split this up into a few applications with well defined interfaces between the applications.
Surprised Netflix is down. I thought they were hot/hot multi-region:
https://netflixtechblog.com/active-active-for-multi-regional...
Imo that's a must have feature for any cloud hosting provider - I don't want to bankrupt my company/myself because I misconfigure something or write a bug.

I recall there being discussion about it on HN before and a lot of people being confused as to why anyone needs it though.
Okay. Sorry about that. I thought it was relevant enough, but I defer to your judgement and expertise on this issue.
Defense contracts are awarded extremely subjectively: there is very much an old boy network in play here. There are only a few primes. If you dig deeper into the "small businesses" that are awarded contracts, many / most are started by people already deeply involved in the defense space.

The Air Force has an initiative called Kessel Run [1] to embrace agile software development — that might be your best route to building better software for the DoD. I'm not sure if other branches have similar programs.

https://breakingdefense.com/2021/10/not-going-solo-air-force...
I agree with your characterization of court music, but again I don't understand why it should represent the entire history of the music business. At the same time that European royals were commissioning symphonies as a status symbol, musicians were holding independent concerts where people paid money to hear some music and then went home.

I don't think it's really relevant that many musicians are poor. Most writers in history have been poor, but the history of the book business is still mostly about people paying money to read a book.
Former Tesla employees say 2016 ‘Full Self-Driving’ video was staged
It's even more ridiculous when you realize they were a part of it's growth. Like they only wanted it to grow up until the point they moved in.
The issue is that there are conflicting use cases — "I want to refresh myself on how `re` works" and "tell me what order the arguments for `re.match` go in". I think the second use case is most frequent, so an index and some basic examples should go first, but after that a more in-depth synopsis can be very helpful.
when I learn about an artist or song through a friend, I end up having a mental association between that person and the song/artist which feels good
This is perhaps tangential, but since it was all part of the same operation, maybe it is fitting. We also tend to only talk about Pearl Harbor. It was but one piece of a much larger strategy for the Japanese.

On Dec 7 or 8th over a roughly 12 hour period, Imperial Japan launched simultaneous invasions of Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, what are now Indonesia and Malaysia, and a half-dozen small islands including Guam and Wake, with about a million soldiers across a theatre spanning some 8000 miles. Allied control in Asia was essentially eliminated within two months. A systematic, wilful, underestimation of the Japanese potential before their flood outwards is a theme throughout, from Pearl Harbor to "Fortress Singapore".
While the agreement seems a little weird, the contract was more or less straight forward? If the music label didn’t spend the $50k promoting the music, then that’s one thing to complain about, but otherwise it seems like the terms of the agreement were all laid out ahead of time.
Hearing trending music over and over probably not good for mental health
A disc of failures resting on elephants of failures resting on a giant turtle of failures? Or are you more a turtles of failures all the way down sort of person?
>The fun thing about these types of outages are seeing all of the people that depend upon these services with no graceful fallback.

Whats a graceful fallback? Switching to another hosting service when AWS goes down? Wouldn't that present another set of complications for a very small edge case at huge cost?