skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That some people are asexual does not invalidate the immense importance of sex. Likewise that some people are apathetic towards music doesn't render music any less important. Certainly none of those people who don't care about music are spending oodles of money on merch either.
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If your statement is true, then why is the AWS status page widely considered useless, and everyone congregates on HN and/or Twitter to actually know what's broken on AWS during an outage?
> It's kind of weird to work for free though, isn't it?

Agree with the sibling. Trying to get compensated for everything you do - particularly hobbies - is what is considered weird in most of the world.

> For uBlock this free money would be a fairly large amount, I'm sure. Even if that'd require some legal setup, I assume those fees will be largely covered.

I think you're highly overestimating how much he'd get. I recall many years ago another developer stopped receiving donations and he posted in detail how much he would receive. It really wasn't that much, but while it may just have covered all the overhead fees, when you factor in the time spent on record keeping, etc, it was a net loss.

> Or they could re-donate it.

Consider this his way of trying to make things more efficient, and giving people the hint to donate elsewhere rather than him being the conduit to donate elsewhere :-)

> leaving those money on the table is pure waste.

So are so many aspects of our lives: For the majority of folks, eating at an average restaurant and paying tips is leaving money on the table - both literally and figuratively. If you look at the efficiency of how people use (and waste) money, you'll see almost everyone does it - including anyone who buys a car less than 6 years old.

I don't know much about the author, but say you have a job and 2+ kids. You are very likely in the "negative" when it comes to free time. You value time more than money, and only want money if it can buy you more time. In this case, it's really not clear whether the money he would get from donations would be worth the tax hassle alone. Also: Consider that many of us do our own taxes, so it's not a matter of "just throw this at my tax person".
N. Virginia consistently has more problems than other zones. Is it possible this zone is also hosting government computers/could it be a more frequent target for this reason?
You and many others here may be conflating two concepts which are actually quite separate.

Taking blame is a purely punitive action and solves nothing. Taking responsibility means it's your job to correct the problem.

I find that the more "political" the culture in the organization is, the more likely everyone is to search for a scapegoat to protect their own image when a mistake happens. The higher you go up in the management chain, the more important vanity becomes, and the more you see it happening.

I have made plenty of technical decisions that turned out to be the wrong call in retrospect. I took _responsibility_ for those by learning from the mistake and reversing or fixing whatever was implemented. However, I never willfully took _blame_ for those mistakes because I believed I was doing the best job I could at the time.

Likewise, the systems I manage sometimes fail because something that another team manages failed. Sometimes it's something dumb and could have easily been prevented. In these cases, it's easy point blame and say, "Not our fault! That team or that person is being a fuckup and causing our stuff to break!" It's harder but much more useful to reach out and say, "hey, I see x system isn't doing what we expect, can we work together to fix it?"
Isn't this just saying popular things are "clearnet" and not popular things aren't? That doesn't sound right.
I think part of the faq benefit is that its designed for people who hone in on faq pages already. Some people are not researchers. They are delegators. They'd rather come to your office and ask you "what is the minimum setback for structures" knowing full well its probably listed somewhere on your website/documents/etc, but they'd rather delegate the effort of looking up that information to you.

A faq page attempts to catch these people, and say "hey delegators, check here if your question has already been answered first before you spam our customer support." In that case, a document that's like a faq but not a faq won't do you any good. These people will just ignore it like the primary document and pound your customer support resources.
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I've always wondered why services are not counted down more often. Is there some sliver of customers who have access to the management console for example?

An increase in error rates - no biggie, any large system is going to have errors. But when 80%+ of customers loads in the region are impacted (cross availability zones for whatever good those do) - that counts as down doesn't it? Error rates in one AZ - degraded. Multi-AZ failures - down?
The topic that this article raises, resolution of opacity, is pretty interesting IMO, but I feel like the argument itself could use some help.

> Figma accepts up to two decimal places in its opacity text fields, providing 10,001 possible steps (0.00 to 100.00). That’s plenty for most uses.

That’s overkill. Because the author assumed 8-bit color channels at the start, it’s worth noting that anything above 255 steps is guaranteed to be unnecessary. Having 10k steps to control the opacity of an 8-bit overlay is wasting a minimum of 5 bits.

One thing the author doesn’t mention is that when you’re blending between two values, you only need as many steps as the difference between them. So if you’re putting transparent pink over red, you won’t need 255 steps, you might only need 50 steps.

It would be nice to have more examples where single bit precision is necessary, and a demonstration of a visible problem that crops up if the precision is too coarse. I think there are some such examples out there. One that comes to mind is color correcting after doing transparency work. Another might be workflows that involve recovering transparent colors from baked colors. (There is a technical term for this called “un-premultiplying”, which is well known to have horrible precision issues.) Another huge reason to consider transparency is with High Dynamic Range workflows, where the source colors have high precision, and may exceed the range of displayable colors.
There are a couple other Satoshi impersonating scammers. None of them are anywhere near as capable at Craig at it, partially because Craig landed such a large source of funding. So if you've got a few tens of millions you'd like to blow there are some scammers you could throw it at that would probably provide the entertainment that you're looking for.
> Which kind negative curvature does the drive need?

The issue with your reasoning is not what kind of curvature the drive needs, but the idea that there is a "natural" bending of spacetime at all. There is no such thing.
> ...you own your dependencies. You don't blame others.

Agreed, teams should invest resources in architecting their systems in a way that can withstand broken dependencies. How does AWS teams account for "core" dependencies (e.g. auth) that may not have alternatives?
Don't the big players penalize mail coming from hosts without ipv4?
I'm trying to login in the AWS Console from other regions but I'm getting HTTP 500.
Anyone managed to login in other regions? Which ones?

Our backend is failing, it's on us-east-1 using AWS Lambda, Api Gateway, S3
No one is stopping companies from offering these kinds of arrangements. Just let us know when a company starts offering programming gigs, with no benefits, for +75-100% salary premiums over full-time employment for the same job, and allow us to choose which option we want. I'll wait.
I've been bitten by this, was a pain in the ass to figure out that something was messing with the iptables rules.
Naming someone is how you discover that not everyone in the organization believes in Blamelessness. Once it's out it's out, you can't put it back in.

It's really easy for another developer to figure out who I'm talking about. Managers can't be arsed to figure it out, or at least pretend like they don't know.
That's a copy-paste, we got the same thing from our AWS contact. It's just enough info to confirm there's an issue, but not enough to give any indication on the scope or timeline to resolution.
Who is going to host the actual content? This seems like a missed opportunity to create a decentralized music hosting platform, where artists get paid in proportion to bandwidth used. Something like file coin.
So comparing to more traditional established providers like Cloudinary it's much cheaper and has less options? Seems reasonable.

But surely pricing and analytics is something that needs to be resolved.
The reasonable question is - why is this better than the existing mechanisms for governing things? Corporate law allows for an almost infinite number of ways to structure organizations. And the things it doesn't allow for are mostly things which society has deemed they don't want (ie, laws/regs disallowing something).

This isn't to say DAOs aren't useful - but it would be nice to see a concrete value proposition. Like "that thing which people want to do, like in example X, can be done significantly cheaper/faster/more conveniently than the current way to do it."
Love the banner. Thanks for all that you do.
> but then your starting point is already at the optimum

Newton raphson is used to find where f(x) = 0, not where the derivative f'(x) = 0.

For the function given above f(x) = 0 when x = 1 and x = -1. Not when the derivative is at 0 (when x = 0).

You'd be done in 0 steps to find the minimum of the function, or the point of 0 derivative, but that's not what you're looking for with newton raphson.
What's the difference between a heart and a token? If tokens can be redeemed for dollars, why can not hearts?
There are probably a few thousand users of submarine navigation software. But the willingness to pay *should* be quite high, which in most other markets would translate to a quality product. The tool should help submarines:

* Prevent groundings (loss of a $3B platform, 120+ lives in worst case)
* Do their missions better (increase the value of the platform)
Maybe something has changed in the last few years, but the last time I used it, I found their Electron app to be a resource hogging pile of garbage. But that's just my opinion.
Is jwz behind tildeverse.org?

EDIT: it still redirects there from a new tab for me. Is it like this for everyone, has it set a cookie and I'll always be sent there? In any case, I don't care about this product anymore if they're going to be an asshole about it.
A “Mini-Ice Age” Could Hit Earth by 2030, Scientists Warn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_standoff
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Yikes, ring, the security system is also down.

Wonder if crime rates might eventually spike up if aws goes down, in an utopian world where Amazon gets everyone to use ring.
You said it! Powerful handheld portable devices fpr privacy-conscious folks.

Also, devices that are extremely customizable/configurable and NOT locked-down or artificially restricted to a subset of what is technically feasible.
Only in a relatively few places.

But it's not really necessary most of the time.

It's often done more for political reasons than technical ones, because it's easier for the public to understand and trust UV disinfection than the other, much more complex processes that are typically used.

Cobb County GA is an example of a plant that has large scale UV treatment right before discharge into the Chattahoochee River. But it's effluent is cleaner than the water getting pumped into their water supply.
Cloudflare Pages has a show stoping bug at the moment.

Link a repo from GitHub then change the name of your GitHub repo and the pages breaks but won't let you relink your Github repo anywhere.

I opened a ticket with support. I have gotten no where in two months (Opened on October 7th 2021).

We ended up switching to Netlify that has a more mature product.

In case someone from Cloudflare cares to investigate this is request ID# 2275043 in your support system.
While this is mostly correct, the mention of derivative works is a red herring; derivative works are copyrightable, they're just also subject to the copyright of the original.
I've worked in defense as well. Older software seemed to be tested more, or otherwise more reliable. Sure, it could be outdated, but generally it was usable.

As they moved away from embedded to more networked and newer tech stacks things got terrible. The software world of today is not compatible with the needs of the defense industry.

Plus all the red tape and misdirection. The software need comes from an organizational budget that has to use money to justify receiving money. Then it funnels down into political buckets, who use the dollar amount given to determine needs/wants. Then it goes back up the chain to the government. Then to a contractor, then a flurry of subcontractors. Then finally a developer. Rarely is the warfighter who will actually use the system consulted. Even then, rarely will the programmer meet that person using the software.

Yet they all call themselves "agile" now.
> And there are easier ways to hire people

Nope, there really aren't. Picking up an entire established team that has a hierarchy, works well with each other and are subject matter experts is easily worth the savings in recruiting time and money.
I know that the Asuswrt integration with Home-assistant lets me manage devices which is kind of cool, but I too would love a little deeper access via a 3rd party app. Most of these things use web scraping or ssh to the device though, not an actual API as very few routers give access to one.
Here we have someone claiming to be the creator of a cryptocurrency and the owner of a large balance in a distributed ledger in a court of law (!), in front of a judge and a jury., while journalists at a reputable organization reporting on the trial are trying to figure out whether this person is being truthful or not. And of course, there isn't even a single mention of "private key" in the article.

Yikes.

We live in a world in which the vast majority of people -- including the vast majority of judges and journalists -- lack the education necessary for understanding the fundamental building blocks of modern computer security. They do not understand, cannot explain, and cannot reason about public-key cryptography. The notion of "proving ownership publicly by signing a sequence of bits with a private key" is utterly foreign to them. Our hopelessly outdated educational system deserves the blame for this widespread lack of education.
No one is asking how Youtube got there. The question is, how can you complete with it and I believe the above commenter gave a very reasonable answer.

Your side point about it supposedly being an anti-trust violation isn't even a proper answer to the question.
> 150 CIWS bullets per drone for cost-equivalency?

Sure. The scary bit of drone swarms is not the individual basis, but the fact that shoot down ten drones and your CIWS is empty.

> There's a reason why China is mass-producing Destroyers.

You don't think they're also playing with drones?
OpenWRT doesn't run on higher-end routers.
There was a talk from comma.ai with a part on what they did to prevent corrosion running a datacenter in their garage to avoid the nvidia datacenter tax or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0JO5dr8cPE&t=15m12s
I suspect it would just go unnoticed, other than to whatever extent he managed to disrupt the Bitcoin Core software project. Wright already has a fork "Bitcoin SV" that most people have just ignored.
> What effect is that going to have in the long run?

This is where we get off in the weeds about the architecture of the internet. Ideally, we would have a decentralized domain registry and everyone would use tools like onion sites for everything. Hopefully that is the outcome, but likely not.
We are in the discontinuity between national states and burbclaves.
Funniest news I've seen in a while. Poor Turbo!
This is an instance of "it's technology which allows you to break the law". It's true... but I think everyone is aware of that ?
On one hand, if there is a new media outlet via new distribution model that's winning the market, fair. So if an online-only news source is taking away traffic and money away from physical newspapers, there's part of me that'll feel sad, but whatcha gonna do.

On the other hand though, it's a completely different model in my mind to scrape/link/copy/extract somebody else's hard work and news and editorials; and then become the majority/sole recipient of monetization (direct or via ads or other means). It's not good for society, it's not good capitalism either as it'll simply dry out the sources and then nobody can play and have fun anymore.
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I recently moved from OVH to Hetzner as I could get better hardware for the same price.

No issues so far, but OVH's network seems to be better, especially for people in other continents.

Edit to add:

- I'm using their Germany DCs, not the Finland one (which is cheaper but peering is worse).

- Using a CDN does improve the latency/speed for users outside Europe, but it still influences performance as CDN exit point often connect directly to the origin to fetch uncached content.

- I lost a VPS with OVH's DC fire, but I had backups somewhere else and fixed it quickly. A good thing about the lower prices is that I can have backups on multiple services (also cheap - Backblaze B2, for example) and still save money compared to AWS, Google Cloud, etc.
Only when used with non-gradable adjectives/adverbs
(from the same surce:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/qui... ) (and yes, uniform, is quite non-gradable)

(non-native speaker here, quite frustrated about the quite different meanings of 'quite')
The real reason is us-east-1 was the first and by far the biggest region, the same reason that new services always launch there but other regions are are not necessarily required (some services have to launch in every region).

The us-east-1 region is consistently pushing the limits of scale for the AWS services, thus is has way more problems than other regions.
Honestly the grandparent comment reads like a bunch of learned wordbabble. It's easy to understand why parent got it wrong. I think the thrust of the violent reaction to GP is that it is clinically picking apart a thing which is fundamentally about human expression in music, which is primal and precedes capitalist notions of "selling yourself" or optimizing some crap "vertical" that could only be uttered by a business and economics graduate.

My favorite band, Crystal Castles, didn't become a global success because some brand-guy figured out how to sell weed-pops emblazoned with "CC" logos. They were playing shitty dives in Toronto and smaller venues and almost suddenly became a global success because they made something that was really fresh and much needed by the disaffected youths of the time like me.

My love for that band was never tied up in any kind of notion other than the one that spoke to my heart. Any attempt to dismantle that in verbiage is going to make me angry too.
Even if you were to bribe 51% of miners it doesn't necessarily "work". You could do this today, let's call this new fork Bitcoin CraigVision. The trouble is convincing people to value Bitcoin CV or consider it "the real" Bitcoin. But it's not obvious to me why I should value Bitcoin CV above Bitcoin just because it has more electricity being burned to mine it (after all, just because someone works harder doesn't make the product of their labor more valuable). And this altcoin would only temporarily have a higher hash rate, until those miners realize people aren't interested in buying their coins, major exchanges aren't listing it, etc. and they go back to wanting to make money by mining Bitcoin.
It's widespread industry knowledge now that AWS is publicly dishonest about downtime.

When the biggest cloud provider in the world is famous for gaslighting, it sets expectations for our whole industry.

It's fucking disgraceful that they tolerate such a lack of integrity in their organization.
It was never unusual for cypherpunks to use nyms. Amongst the many ideological and practical reasons, for example worries about if authorities would treat a creation and its creator hostilely — it separates the creator from the creation and lets you judge the creation purely on its own merits (whatever those may, or may not, be).

I do appreciate your curiosity, but thank you for understanding. To date, to my knowledge, no-one ever guessed correctly, and maybe that's for the best. If they'd have wanted anyone to know who they were: they'd have said. They never have, and likely never will. I don't think you'll ever see anything from the genesis block or those keys. It's got to feel incredibly strange, yes, but remember: they _wanted_ to walk away from the whole thing, and I feel strongly that deserves respect.
Came to say the same thing. As a candidate you really don't control internal processes and I don't believe you can influence the scheduling much. If they like you (and you like them), everything will happen fast.
I wince. As someone with a funny name, I get that a lot. "Is that your stage name?" "Did you pick that out yourself?"

It really sucks to hear that, as well as every other oh-so-original joke about my name.
Benedict Evans, Three steps into the future (Dec 2021)
China is playing with DF-21 missiles and relying upon them.

200km/hr drones (or slower) won't be effective against any of the US Naval forces. There's a reason China is spending billions developing 5000km/hr homing "ship-killer" missiles.

If a $5000 drone could even pose a threat against any US Warship, China wouldn't have bothered with 5000km/hr hypersonic speeds or research.

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The goal of China's naval forces is to search for the US Fleet. Once China finds the US Fleet, it shoots the DF-21 ship-killer missile at it, hoping that the Chinese Fleet can stay in the game long enough to provide accurate targeting against the US ships.

That's called A2/AD, Anti-access area denial. This works because the missiles move very, very fast, so the US ships need to kill the enemy Chinese ship within 15 minutes or so (ie: the time it takes for the missile to travel from China to 1000km out and hit a US ship).
I'm not so sure that's true. Scientists enjoy breakthroughs. There are always oxen gored and there are certainly instances where science advanced one funeral at a time, but I think people overstate the role of the lone, contrarian genius.

Especially in cases where they say "I am lone and contrarian therefore I am a genius". There are many who seem to want to make themselves unpopular as if this somehow singles them out for achievement, but it just makes them a*holes the vast majority of the time.

We just don't hear about them, while we do hear about those rare circumstances where somebody really did manage to achieve something despite being a jerk about it.
It would be interesting to do a study on popular myths/fairy tales that have and have not been adapted by huge media companies.

For example, if I search "Beowulf" in Amazon, the first link is for 2007 movie, the second for the book, and the third for a TV show. If I search for "The Little Mermaid", the whole page is dominated by the Disney franchise or some off-brand adaptations. Hans Christian Andersen's book is nowhere to be seen.
It's not the prisoner's dilemma?