skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of drones is an adversary fielding in large numbers for a few thousand dollars per drone? And how far can said toy drones fly so as to reach a destroyer in the first place?

Unless we're talking about China or Russia, how are they going to manufacture, move and maintenance those drones once we've pancaked their infrastructure? The adversary will be under non-stop bombardment, all of their relevant infrastructure will be targeted, all major manufacturing, their electrical grid, all transport roads, all rail, all bridges, all ports. How are they getting the toy drones out to deep water if they have no ports? How will they manufacture replacement boats / ships with no manufacturing? And so on.

Sure, if we're talking about war with China or Russia, that's entirely different. Then you're talking about something closer to WW3 (and good luck). Everyone else is trivial to cripple.
> how many drones could a destroyer

Destroyers aren't even anti-air. Cruisers are, since Cruisers have two CWIS per ship while Destoyers only have 1x CWIS.
Not a right to be awarded but a right to bid/be considered, certainly.
> Nobody will know if 10 years is too short until the issue is studied.

I disagree. Plenty of people already know 10 years is too short, and it doesn’t take a study to show it. Lots of businesses take longer than that to get established, even the very fastest-moving fastest-distributing businesses like software startups.
I’ve put a lot of thought into how the production of literary fiction could be adapted to the 21st century’s modes of consumption. Adding a seasonal feature for fiction might help. The chapters of a book would be available at the same points annually and then would become unavailable towards the end of the cycle. The coordination of readers in a way that is both asynchronous and synchronous could, in this fashion, give the readers of any given flight a sense that they are not alone in their interest in the work. If the reader’s discovery is entirely asynchronous, they may feel that the work lacks relevance. A loss of book culture is not totally fungible. The delivery of writing on a device that allows for ready diversion creates a complex of hazards that no amount of design can account for, or so it seems to me.
I would prefer http://foo.binarytask.com but that works best if you have you own custom DNS software.
This is similar to the concept of miswanting. Sometimes, the things we think we want aren't always what's good for us. Staying at home is easy and seems attractive, but is actually making us more isolated. Reducing effort sound attractive, but in the end removing friction doesn't actually bring happiness. Effort is difficult, but makes us better off in the end.
My hobby is lie down, close my eyes and think. I usually do this before getting up, planning my work, ideating about projects, composing music, or work on some philosophy. Shutting down senses that might be a distraction. I use my phone as a notebook in case I need to sketch or record some thoughts down. It's usually my most productive time of day, and definitely rests eyes.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ optimizer guy says he did not do good job, shits on optimizer?

There're many reasons to pick MySQL over PG at large scale deployments (economics, replication strategies, etc) - and the fact that some queries will run better on PG may not outweight those benefits.

Don't get me wrong, I know many areas where MySQL sucks, and that is mostly in lacking execution strategies and optimizer problems. Indeed, in many of these ways MySQL is stuck years behind, but in other areas (MyRocks, modern hardware use, etc) it is far ahead of PG.

The thing is, optimizing has costs, and bypassing those costs is useful, if you're looking at economics of your system, and storage engines that pay attention to data patterns are ahead of just naive heaps of data.

It is very simple to diss MySQL when your business does not depend on managing petabytes of data.

P.S. We've migrated a major social network from PG onto our MySQL-based platform and our MySQL DBAs didn't even notice. :-)
Anything you can fit in a backpack is not causing damage to a warship.
US-EAST-1 is the oldest, largest, and most heterogeneous region. There are many data centers and availability zones within the region. I believe it's where AWS rolls out changes first, but I'm not confident on that.
> You're confusing engineering and technology with fundamental research.

This pretty much gives away that you aren't a scientist. The vast majority of fundamental research opens up new ground in highly specialized areas. It slowly trickles out as improvements that you don't seem like "game changing concepts" but they required game changing concepts at a low level to get things done. That's scientific progress and that's the game changer.

> Game changers don't just mean you can make stuff cheaper, they mean you can imagine completely new kinds of stuff that were literally unthinkable before the game changed.

And I don't think you've ever dealt with transitioning science from the lab to industry. The game changer is the cost and availability. There are plenty of amazing things that don't matter in real life because they aren't practical. They aren't game changers.

> Before you can improve batteries you have to invent the concept of a battery. Which means having some basic understanding of electricity. Before you can improve computer vision you have to invent the concept of a computer. Which requires inventing a theory of computability.

You definitely don't need computability to invent a computer. And you've got the discovery of the battery exactly backward. First Volta made a battery by trying to replace frog parts with paper and brine. Then we could go back and understand electricity; that was Volta's real lasting contribution. Before we had batteries electricity wasn't understood at all.

> The point is there really hasn't been a lot happening at the game changer level for a long time now. Refinement is fine, but it's unwise to confuse it with fundamentals.

This is nonsense. Who are you to decide what is or isn't fundamental? Why are scientists and engineers supposed to bow to your aesthetic sense?

No. All that matters is results. And the result is, 3x productivity increase in 50 years. And all of those other things I showed you, hundreds of x improvements in all sorts of practical engineering areas that make daily life far better. What matters are all of the incremental gains because they enable technological revolutions.
Stop with the we all know.
All we know for sure is that people are extremely ignorant. If they cared about the topic they would quickly discover that sildenafil is a potent and long lasting superoxide dismutase prodrug that e.g almost totally prevent MDMA neurotoxicity hence no surprise it's a potent neuroprotectant.
The guy running that blog "has been in MAJestic", "which brought you velcro, LEDs, nanotechnology"

Uhuh. Right there, a highly trustworthy source.
Not much substance in the article so allow me a bit of a rant: As someone with both Apple Music and Spotify Premium subscriptions, I think the more accurate take is that discovery is not a solved problem, at least in the algorithmic sense tech companies want. Spotify’s idea of “discovery” is dedicating more and more home page real estate to bullshit podcasts I have no interest in, and showing me endless “upsell” notifications when I’ve already bought their damn product. I have “Product News” and “Spotify News and Offers” notifications off, yet I still find that whenever I open their app I need to close out of some popup telling me about some new bullshit their PM’s want to boost engagement on. They do have a dedicated “discover” tab on the app, but you can’t stream the audio from it to a network speaker so it’s basically useless for me. I will admit their “Daily Mix”’s are decent.

Apple Music is better about keeping out of the way, but their generated playlists often feel either boring or stale; good when I want to listen to throwbacks but I can’t recall the last time I heard a new artist I really liked from one.

In my opinion, the best source for music discovery continues to be local radio, especially college radio. The good news is that having been a part of college radio pledge drives, I can pretty confidently say that the discovery service provided by local/college radio is indeed a viable product. Just not in the algorithmic world-scale sense tech companies want to see.
> If you still can't, then you need to talk to a therapist. You probably have either never developed or allowed your social skills to decay and need help to get them back on track.
Yeah, there are "global" services which are actually secretly us-east-1 services as that is the region they use for internal data storage and orchestration. I can't launch instances with OpsWorks (not a very widely used service, I'd imagine) even if those instances are in stacks outside of us-east-1. I suspect Route53 and CloudFront will also have issues.
yes, they are to invade Ukraine in the beginning of 2022.
The Great Resignation? More Like the Freelance Revolution
I have, and the medium ones give me the best fit, but it's still not enough. The shape of the 2nd gen was just a better first for my ears.
What an excellently written and cogent take. Since so much of the covid messaging comes from the government and is filtered, approved, and "fact-checked", an odd echo chamber of information gathers strength. Almost 2 years into this and the only US official allowed to discuss the risks and threats of this virus is one person - Tony Fauci. The man is frankly in love with himself and his own celebrity. Why is this the only person we can get to speak to us about what's going on? I'm grateful we live in a diverse republic where the opposing party is openly critical of this man, his advice, and his record.

At this point, like it's been with chicken pox and other viruses, it seems less risky to just let our kids contract the Omicron variant than to expose them to a vaccine with the "rare" effect of myocarditis. I've never trusted the pharmaceutical companies in this country, so why should I now? Because "fact-checkers" on Twitter, Facebook and NPR, who receive government funding, tell me to? And yet if I try to express this sentiment in my circles, I risk being called a conspiracy theorist or worse, "anti-vaxxer", even though my wife and I are vaccinated. What's up with that?
I was not aware that this was a problem in need of solving. aren't computers so fast that this is already solved form a practical standpoint. Newton's method (as well as extensions of it to vector analysis) is ancient math. I was not even aware that this is an area of ongoing interest.
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With very few exceptions nowadays if a game doesn't run on Linux it's multiplayer based and due to developer choice as both EAC and Battleye supports Linux.
Zope had some things like the Language Is The Database trope that sort of remind of the things described in those Bank Python blog posts that have been floating around recently.
Yup - saw a tiny peak, came to read :)

> I would also disclose in the article which phones you've actually tested and how you tested them. One might presume that you've simply read online about all these options.

We are currently in three at TP, and all of these choices (except the very last 2 places) are phones that either of us owns, or that someone I directly know develops personally on, in which case I contacted their Linux port authors to understand better the degree of support.

> That is the exception rather than the rule, anyone who says they can use it as a daily driver in my experience means as a feature phone (makes calls, sends texts).

Agreed. I have just tried to make the disclosures much clearer (big scary banner), let me know if it looks better for you.

- R.
Cloud providers are not just about web hosting. There are dozens of tools hidden from end users. E.g. services used for background operations / maintenance (e.g. aws codecommit / codebuild / or even aws web console like today). This kind of outages won't bring down your web site, but still might break your normal workflow and even cost you some money.
> He might be able to compel contributors to fork the code on his behalf

The US frowns on compelled speech and compelled labor. :)

> but he can't force the miners to use that codebase.

Miners aren't the relevant party of interest-- users are. He can't force users to adopt a version of Bitcoin that allows blocks which steal coins.

> What would happen, worst case scenario, is that the "official" codebase gets code included to give him his rightfully owned monies

Nah, that wouldn't happen. That repository would be shut off before that would happen, not only for ethical reasons but because anyone who distributed such maliciously backdoored software would be exposed to litigation by everyone else, especially if Wright established that in practice open source developers could be found civilly liable even though their license has a hard bar against that kind of liability.

> but an unmolested "fork" would be adopted by the network and continue on as the widely used codebase

Indeed, there are already many forks and alternative versions.

> probably contributed to by the same people, possibly under pseudonyms to prevent this horse shit in the future

That I doubt. It's not worth it to take the risk of millions of dollars of legal fees to contribute to a volunteer open source project.
The Japanese embarrassed a lot of Allied commanders in WW2. White superiority complex was the first casualty of the war.
That’s why many image CDNs allow signed URLs. With Cloudflare Image Resizing, you’d need to implement that functionality using Workers.
Big supporter of Mikrotik here, it’s a perfect middle ground between consumer “crap”, and $10,000 enterprise network equipment.

Rolled out a 10gbit / 25gbit network at home. My biggest complaints are:

* Wireless is really difficult to get “decent speeds”. I also have my ISP’s router and a Draytek at home, these easily do 500mbit, and it’s nearly impossible to get my router board to do the same. When asking support there’s mainly a lot of hand-waving “you’ll never get better than 100mbit anywhere anyway”, etc. Even if other router vendors use hacks / cheats to achieve what they do, I would want an explanation what exactly it is they’re doing, and why Mikrotik can’t do that.

* I know their Linux Kernel supports certain features, I would really like an “escape hatch” so I can just run traffic shaping commands manually. Eg if I want to use RED with ECN, the lack of a UI checkbox shouldn’t be the limiting factor;

* Upgrades while being in their development branch has been a big pain, many times losing crucial configurations; I guess this is fair game when I’m on the beta channel.

* Hardware is a bit underpowered for my needs, but I guess that’s why enterprise equipment is 10x - 50x as expensive. Doing traffic shaping on anything more than 1gbit is pretty much impossible; probably the best solution is to use some dedicated hardware with a whole bunch of network cards inside.
> Humans can't update their own algorithms. Can't directly share what they know in fractions of second. Can't be replicated in a fraction of a second. Can't scale up brain power in seconds or less.

We don't have any evidence AIs could do this either. Computers are not magic.

> Humans can't update their own algorithms.

This is the exact task your education has proved is possible. Companies update their policies to paper-clip maximize all the time. They react to environment stimulus and increase in sophistication over time.

"Complete Integration" seems like an artificial criteria you are creating as a "desperate post-rationalization to avoid the realization the singularity is long past and the rapture of the nerds left almost all of us behind."
> It's sort of like how the 2A in the USA says that the people have the right to keep and bear arms

Why leave out the for the maintenance of a well-regulated militia part?
Heroku is currently having major problems. My stuff is still up, but I can't deploy any new versions. Heroku runs their stuff on AWS. I have heard reports of other companies who run on AWS also having degarded service and outages.

i'd say when other companies who run their infrastruture on AWS are going out, it's hard to argue it's not a real outage.

But AWS status _has_ changed to yellow at this point. Probably heroku could be completely down because of an AWS problem, and AWS status would still not show red. But at least yellow tells us there's a problem, the distinction between yellow and red probably only matters at this point to lawyers arguing about the AWS SLA, the rest of us know yellow means "problems", red will never be seen, and green means "maybe problems anyway".

I believe the entire us-east-1 could be entirely missing, and they'd still only put a yellow not a red on status page. After all, the other regions are all fine, right?
As someone with moderate networking experience in a Cisco environment, and having set up Ubiquiti products and a pfsense router, MikroTik tops the cake for worst learning curve. I wasn't even trying to use it as a router, I just wanted a basic L2/L3 switch with some VLANs. It's set up now and I'm happy with it, but prepare for lots of trial, error, and head scratching.
I believe the authors were also consultants on the recent Midway movie.. which is surprisingly accurate.
The only possible scenario I could come up with is someone crashing internet on purpose, e.g. some crazy uncatchable trojan that starts DDOSing everything. I doubt such scenario is feasible though...
Multiple cursors as well.
Uh, four minutes to identify the root cause? Damn, those guys are on fire.
Ye sure, but you can have a state space representation without doing a Kalman filter.
> Both crypto and the anti-monopoly movement are reactions to the destruction wrought by neoliberalism.

Such a weird statement, given that crypto represents the financialization of everything, and has the exact same rich-get-richer dynamics as neoliberal capitalism.

I guess satoshi was just wrong about how it would play out.
Like I said, they've refunded the 10% service fee that they normally take, and this was only after pointing out that the owner had broken their TOS. The other 90% is still lost, and they claim there's nothing they can do about it.
Why collapse? It could be bad news, but not necessarily...
PDE 5 inhibitors are beneficial for women too (although at lower dose), we just live in retrograde countries.
Who defeated or went to war with China's PLA in the comparison story? Vietnam?
EDIT: As pointed out below, I missed that this was for the Amazon Connect service, and not an update for all of US-EAST-1. Preserved for consistency, but obviously just a comprehension issue on my side.

At least the updates are amusing:

"9:18 AM PST We can confirm degraded Contact handling by agents in the US-EAST-1 Region. Agents may experience issues logging in or being connected with end-customers."

WTF is "contact handling", an "agent" or an "end-customer"?

How about something like "We are confirming that some users are not able to connect to AWS services in us-east-1. We're looking into it."
You mean like website visitor statistics or something else?

For myself: I only do the most basic AWStats-style review these days. It feels more like reviewing basic overviews of server logs.

For others I work with: I offer them ethics-based processes and training and bring it up when appropriate. It's important to have some structure around this process and generally I find that people appreciate it. Nobody wants to be big brother if there's another way to get what they want or need.
It's possible, but they were also influenced by the British attack on Taranto [1] the previous year in 1940.

That battle kind of proved out one of the concepts that the Japanese used later at Pearl Harbor: namely using ship-launched torpedo bombers to attack other ships in shallow water.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto#Influence_on...
bitcoin-cli verifymessage "address" "signature" "message"
There is no such thing as "no-blame" analysis. Even in the best organizations with the best effort to avoid it, there is always a subconscious "this person did it". It doesn't help that these incidents serve as convenient places for others to leverage to climb their own career ladder at your expense.
This is less about bands and more about startups building listening platforms. The article is basically saying that data about what people are listening to has almost no value past the present moment. There are already too many places to get that data and it’s basically already stale by the time you aggregate it.

Even with “indie” artists (many of whom are ironically mega-millionaires in their own right), there’s a workflow aspect to the promotion side of things. You can do it yourself, but there’s no money in streaming (artists in 2021 are influencers first and foremost who look at streaming as a way to acquire new listeners) so you gotta go through concert promoters, which usually means means hiring a manager to rep you. The money is in the live shows these days — which is why the pandemic hit musicians so hard. But the fundamental problem is still getting people to listen to your stuff, same as it ever was.
It's really super fascinating. Also many people are never taken and see that it's fake all along, even blowing the whistle but it just gets ignored. It often seems to take a long time for scams like this to really collapse.

Or, I should say I'd find it fascinating if I weren't a target and a victim of it. :( being forced to live it is less than fun.
Federal employees move up the pay scale at regular intervals. No other career promises that.
Thank god it's yellow so you can migrate faster.
Show me a homebuilding article or video that doesn't discuss essential tools - that's kind of my issue with not mentioning Proctor Tests in this context, as they are fundamental at the pro geotech level. Its not too much to ask.
I assume each service has its own health check that checks the service is accessible from an internal location, thus most are green. However, when Service A requires Service B to do work, but Service B is down, a simple access check on Service A clearly doesn't give a good representation of uptime.

So what's a good health check actually report these days? Is it just about its own status, or should it include a breakdown of the status of external dependencies as part of its folded up status?