skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take an initial guess at where f(x) = 0; call it x1. Then you generate what you hope is a better guess x2 by finding where the line through (x1, f(x1)) with slope f'(x1) hits zero. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Things can get ugly--say, if the derivative is zero at your guess--and if your initial guess is bad, or f is wonky (say it has several zeroes near one another) it may take a long time. But as people have said, if you have a good guess, convergence is quadratic, doubling the number of good bits each time, so for floating point square root, peek at the exponent and take half that (multiply by sqrt(2) if it's odd). log2(#mantissa bits) iterations and you're as good as it gets.

Apparently this new method avoids the nasty cases and is still fast. Cool stuff.
So, anyone that had a personal attachment to that music is dead.

The current goal of copyright is to let companies own the culture you grew with. All the movies, music, books and games that defined who you are will not enter the public domain until you are dead or very old.

Companies like Disney were founded on well known stories. They will not allow anybody else too accomplish the same.
yes. but more importantly, they are extremely popular - big ecosystem of freelancers.

you can go on fiverr and upwork and get someone to remotely configure/manage it for you.
Celsius had several hundred Bitcoin lost in this BadgerDAO phishing attack.
It definitely wasn’t meant as a criticism - I think Rust is uniquely suited to writing web applications as well. I just find it funny that writing web apps is easy enough in Rust that it almost minimizes its opinionatedness, since you don’t really need to worry about difficult lifetimes or ownership when it’s JSON in, JSON out, and the database is just an externality, and you don’t have hard performance requirements despite Rust being made for performance. It seems like an impedance mismatch but it works out.
worked for me.
one suggestion though, get a serial cable, so in case you creative some too creative vlan config that will lock you out, you could fix it without having to reset entire box
I think its just the console - as my EC2 in us-east-1 are still reachable.
I am seeing some issues but only with services that have global aspects such as s3. I can't create an s3 bucket even though I am in us-west-2 because I think the names are globally unique and creating them depends on us-east-1.
That's a pretty transparent fallacy, slander and ad hominem.

Fallacy: "but there are starving kids in Africa" is a Generic Counterargument that can be applied to anything. It says nothing useful.

Slander: how do you know people who care about aging don't care _more_ about the homeless?

Ad hominem: you take an idea (death is bad) and make it about the character of the people supporting it.

Bad ckemere. Bad.
If you have trouble logging in to AWS Console, you can use a regional console endpoint such as https://eu-central-1.console.aws.amazon.com/
There's a ton of journey left in the software side for those more interested in that.
Oh, you can get pretty weaselly about what “down” means. If there is “just” an S3 issue, are all the various services which are still “available” but throwing an elevated number of errors because of their own internal dependency on S3 actually down or just “degraded?” You have to spin up the hair-splitting apparatus early in the incident to try to keep clear of the post-mortem party. :D
The contents of the main page aren't decided by editors and moderators. It's an algorithm... granted, a simple one, but an algorithm nonetheless. Weighted factor of upvotes and age.

It's even game-able, if a person has a large enough posse to dump upvotes on a topic after creating it.
Even better, when I try to go to console, I get:

> AWS Management Console Home page is currently unavailable.

> You can monitor status on the AWS Service Health Dashboard.

"AWS Service Health Dashboard" is a link to status.aws.amazon.com... which is ALL GREEN. So... thanks for the suggestion?

At this point the AWS service health dashboard is kind of famous for always been green isn't it? It's a joke to it's users. Do the folks who work on the relevant AWS internal team(s) know this, and just not have the resources to do anything about it, or what? If it's a harder problem than you'd think for interesting technical reasons, that'd be interesting to hear about.
The Oracle of Halicin: Antibiotic Discovery in the Age of AI
> I did actually find a site that basically boiled down to "Ted Kazinski Was Right And Here Is Why".

That's not a terribly uncommon sentiment. Usually people mean the manifesto, not the part where he bombed people.
It's because none of these companies are held responsible for missing their actual SLAs, as opposed to their self-reported SLA compliance.

So unless regulation gets implemented that says otherwise, there's zero incentive for any company to maintain an accurate status page.
link changed to https://www.lifeintech.com/2021/12/02/Microsoft-Linux/
If you enjoyed their work also check out the work of http://giorgialupi.com/ and https://www.accurat.it/
"By 48 hours, the news will have spread around the globe." (a more natural phrasing than propagate in the context of news, but I think pretty identical in implication) does not imply a push model, I just completely disagree with you.
Sounds like PornHub or similar could easily branch into providing a separate service for general videos if they wanted. They already have all this stuff down for the most part.
well, this is the first time I've seen it, so I am glad it was posted this time.
>Apart from network effect, and Google's Ad Monopoly, what does YT have that has made it a clear winner in this field? What would a competitor need to take on them?

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Communism wasn't a threat to the USA in the 1930s. Have you heard of the lend-lease program? Billions of dollars in military hardware sent to the USSR to fight the Nazis.

US anti-communism was a Cold War thing. You're getting your timelines messed up here.
Probably depends on the watch and the fit.
After over 45 minutes https://status.aws.amazon.com/ now shows "AWS Management Console - Increased Error Rates"

I guess 100% is technically an increase.
> Lots of criticism of the short export window, but no one knows how many customers they have.

Even if they had only 1 single customer, that's not an excuse to close the service and allow exporting with just a 4 day notice. People and companies have lots of priorities, and now they've been forced to focus on this instead of whatever they were planning on doing. There should be at least 30 more days of service running, with another 30 days with the service offline but data exporting still available.
I realized something was fishy when I read "I’m Grady and this is Practical Engineering" at the end of the first paragraph... but still, I appreciate these articles, easier to skim through than a video. And if you're really interested, you can still watch the video...
Creates the odd incentive for people to die.
> When you make an offer on a house you're bidding against two-earner households.

what does that matter aslong as your bank has approved the mortgage. I don't see why seller would care.

are you saying that ppl are bidding for mortgages that high that bank needs both of their incomes? wow.
Found that it seems Lambda is impacted
Yeah I can't log in with our external SAML SSO to our AWS dashboard to manage our us-east-2 resources. . . . Because our auth is apparently routed thru us-east-1 STS
Can you link to the relevant comment? I skimmed the thread and only found mentions of IP being logged (something I already mentioned last comment) and GDPR related lawyering.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29471320
>When the percentage increase of the currency is faster(most fiat) than the value of the assets increases over time, and opposite of what you say, it(being assets) also becomes entrenched.

Productive assets don't entrench wealth because of inflation, they entrench wealth because they create returns to capital. The generationally wealthy would be just as wealthy relative to the rest of the population if fiat inflation had been zero for the last century. If you don't want wealth to beget more wealth you need to not only avoid deflation, but also eliminate interest, dividends, and other mechanisms by which holders of capital receive real returns to that capital.
There is some OS tooling in the SDN realm, like Stratum[1] for example, or a P4 board for the serious. But the hardware behind it isn't cheap.

I wish router for personal use were as "easily" programmable as an OpenFlow compatible equipment with a external controller. Even if you need some extra tooling to reach all the feature of RouterOS, like a compute node for the DNS. I don't know if this kind of evolution will ever reach the consumer space.

[1] https://opennetworking.org/stratum/
The language is stable. Julia code you write now should not break after future updates. This has been the case for quite some time.

The situation with packages is of course more complicated, but there isn’t much problem with breakage, especially with commonly used packages. Perhaps more importantly, Julia’s package system manages dependencies for each of your projects, which pretty much eliminates any upgrading danger:

https://lwn.net/Articles/871490/
Jiu Jitsu! As you get better at it, you'll learn how to do certain things by feel, because if you use your eyes your "posture" will worsen -- giving your opponent an advantage
Large corps with influence get what they want regardless. Status page goes red and the small corps start thinking they can get what they want too.
Yea, Amazon Music has gone down for me in the UK now :(

Looks like it might be getting worse
Last I knew, Amazon used all Microsoft stuff for business communication.
Do you have numbers to share? That sounds really hard to believe.

Can AWS Spot Instances really beat this? https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax
Japan's attack prompted the U.S. to declare war on Japan. That declaration prompted the other Axis powers to declare war on the U.S.

It's plausible in terms of cause and effect. The "if-this-then-that"s follow pretty well.

However, counting on something like Pearl Harbor is pants on head moronic. Japan shipped the majority of its fleet across the Pacific to hit a single target. If the U.S. was counting on an attack, they probably weren't counting on an attack of that scale. Which is poor planning.

And what happens if the Japanese never attack?

Over time, the U.S. would have entered the war, just like it did with World War I. Eventually, trade would have been hindered or too many U.S. ships would have been incidental casualties. The U.S. consistently thought that being across an ocean on either side protected it from being affected by European/Asian affairs and was consistently proven wrong.
I mean it's true at every company I've ever worked at too. If you can lawyer incidents into not being an outage you avoid like 15 meetings with the business stakeholders about all the things we "have to do" to prevent things like this in the future that get canceled the moment they realize that how much dev/infra time it will take to implement.
It does...

...but at the same time anyone who deviates from progressive orthodoxy in any way will be labeled alt-right.

So in addition to the hyper-toxic folks, you will get people looking for a platform allowing debate and a broad range of ideas.
YouTube used to have a 10 minute video limit. While I like that 1,2 or even 3 hour podcasts can now be uploaded in a single YouTube video, other than that I honestly probably wouldn't even notice if suddenly every video on YouTube was under 10 minutes. Same with things like full-HD / 4k support. I'm fine with 720p 99% of the time. In most cases I suspect a video hosting service with a 10 minute video limit and a 420p / 720p resolution would suffice just fine.

IMO what YouTube alternatives should focus on is being unique and different from YouTube in someway -- at least initially. Maybe focus on short-form video and build algorithms and moderation tools that ensure users are only served extremely high quality videos. Perhaps a video service providing something like a daily digest of the best daily / weekly videos that match your preferences could work.

As the platform grows it could then increase the allowed video length and expand into a more general video hosting service like YouTube. We see this trend in social media all the time, Facebook has a lot of competitors, but non of them are competing directly with Facebook. They're all doing something a little different and a little better than Facebook.
Have folks considered a class-action lawsuit against these blatantly fraudulent SLAs to recoup costs?
How do you become multi-cloud if your root domain is in Route53? Have Backup domains on the client side?
Can someone just have a site ping all the GET endpoints on the AWS API? That is very far from "automating [their entire] system" but it's better than what they're doing.
Yep. I was an SRE who worked at Google and also launched a product on Google Cloud. We had these arguments all the time, and the contract language often provides a way for the provider to weasel out.
First time I've seen it too. Definitely not my first "AWS us-east-1 is down but the status board is green" thread, either.
Yes, but possibly with more ambition to be a budget alternative to Cisco and Juniper. Looking at the presentations under https://mum.mikrotik.com/, it seems there are quite a few ISPs running on MikroTik kit, especially in less-developed parts of the world.
I do too, let me know if you know/think of a good place to host these. UG must be one of the most user hostile resources I've ever attempted to use.
While this is an interesting optimization strategy, getting and applying professional feedback for one's interview skills has a better ROI in my opinion.

If you're amazing at interviews, the interviewer will remember you and want to hire you. They will even rave about you to their colleagues... "Hey, this person was awesome, we need to hire them."

Accomplish that special human ability, and you don't have to worry about such micro-optimisations.
Time and time again, this blog does not fail to impress. I especially liked her piece on Diffusion models from earlier this year; It was a very nice, simplified version of a complex topic that named some of the most important papers and contributions over the last few years. All the while, the blog wasn't overly simplified like other blogs seem to do all to often (not providing key derivations of formulas, discussing topics at a glance, reading more like a PR piece than an actual informational blog.)
Forget iPhone: TSMC Is Already After Metaverse
You are right! I misremembered. It's `ps x`.

From `man ps`:

x Lift the BSD-style "must have a tty" restriction, which is imposed upon the set of all processes when some BSD-style (without "-") options are used or when the
ps personality setting is BSD-like. The set of processes selected in this manner is in addition to the set of processes selected by other means. An alternate
description is that this option causes ps to list all processes owned by you (same EUID as ps), or to list all processes when used together with the a option.
Seems like a poor implementation of hash URLs. There are hash URLs on openstreetmap.org, but they do not pollute browsing history.
If you think about paid leave schemes like sick leave, vacation time, parental leave and the like, they're actually counter to ensuring people can afford time off. What's going on amounts to a company managed savings trust. What companies should be doing is making sure to pay people enough money when they are working to where they can afford to put some back for those times when they can't work (and won't get paid). This then puts the onus on the person to manage their finances adequately, and enables them to have more flexibility about when and why they take time off.

Instead we have a situation where people basically cannot be trusted to save for times when they can't work and that compensation is held in trust by the company, which then enables the company to manipulate with it and hold it over people's heads. People feel stuck at their job for this compensation just like with healthcare, to reference a point you made elsewhere in the thread, why not decouple them both?

IMO if we are going to have these paid time off schemes, they should be negotiable (in the banking sense) by law so that people who want to receive the compensation as money rather than time off can do so. Some companies do this, others do not, but these are part of our compensation, we should still receive it if we don't use it, like we otherwise would if we were just working for money.
https://downdetector.com

Amazing and scary to see all the unrelated services down right now.
subtitles have to be added the video. youtube imo does this automatically for some videos but i am not sure

https://framatube.org/w/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3

here is a good video intro to peertube which has subtitles
Ah that may be a miscommunication on our part! In the context of the app, paywall block == paywall bypass.
Most of the answers I was referring to are miles away from those requirements. Postgres fanbois love to suggest it for everything - for which ahuge percentage of the time is simply 'This csv is too big, how do I load part of it?'.

The suggestion of Postgres is very often not required, because there isn't a need for multiple users, different permissions, password protection, etc.
They put the most important paragraph of the article at the end:

> there is a lot of choice of mobile Linux devices right now, although their level of maturity does not often allow them to be used as a reliable replacement of commercial solutions. Think of them as beta devices for a new ecosystem, or playgrounds for the future mobile Linux environments.

Their #1 choice, Pinephone, is an incredible project. But still under development, not ready as a daily driver for normies. I assume this means all their other choices are even less stable.

Looking forward to the day when Linux phones are indeed daily driver ready.
Nebula is pretty good but they need downvote / upvote options or some method of curating bad videos from good videos.
I much prefer the regular/original Airpods with the tapping instead of pinching.

Whoever designed pinching, obviously doesn't listen to books or podcasts. Three pinches to skip back 15 seconds? No thanks.

They also don't have winter. Trying pinching with a stocking cap on.
they're a bit later than normal with their large annual post-thanksgiving us-east-1 outage
Indeed, I can think of a few areas of progress where social imperative is much greater, such as agriculture, healthcare and carbon free energy
I never heard about it, thanks. I moved to wine-staging and tried building it but it failed probably due to my screwed up install. I'll keep a note to try it on the next reinstall however.
Gender differences in student perceptions of instructor humor
> The Connecticut alone carries enough torpedoes to destroy any other nation's entire nuclear submarine force.

Nitpick, but isn't that a lot like saying "this magazine carries enough bullets to kill a whole platoon of soldiers"? I mean, it technically does, but only if they're all lined up in front of you and you never miss, which is almost certainly not true in real-world conditions.

> This failure to intervene is probably the most egregious shortcoming of VMS. But it's notoriously awful along other dimensions. Here's some of what I remember, mixed in with conversations with folks more recently onboard:

It seems like the military really ought to give the users of systems like this the ability to say "fuck no" and send it back after doing some user testing. Some of the issue identified are egregious and maybe the kind of thing that could get a submarine that's actually fighting sunk. I mean, it sounds like it's so bad it nearly got a submarine that was just cruising around sunk.
Perhaps reward structure should be changed to incentivize the post-mortems. There could be several flaws that run underreported otherwise.

We may run into the problem of everything documented and possible deliberate acts but for a service that relies heavily on uptime, that’s a small price to pay for a bulletproof operation.
There had been a low-grade conflict for a few years with German U-boats attacking American ships carrying goods to England. Given that’s how we got drawn into WWI, it was certainly the most likely outcome at the time given our “special relationship” with England.
We're not talking about 'fire retardant'. The quote is:

> macOS still has a completely retarded implementation of DisplayPort MST

> completely retarded

It's extremely frustrating how many people in this community chose to defend this comment as if it were an eloquent description of the issue.

Calling attention to problematic language is not hostile or inflammatory. This term is flagged as offensive in the dictionary in this context. Don't shoot the messenger.
https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495#issuecomment-374...
Ask HN: Is Cloud Native development a cash cow by big tech?
I was looking through the CNCF tools and certificates, with all the cloud deployment options, and realised the main advocates are Google and Amazon. They appear to make these cloud options seem sexy while it's also very hard to move away from a cloud system once it's built. By sexy, I mean people like to build things how Google builds things and Resume-driven development means that this can result in higher salaries for the people using these tools.

This might be a cynical view, but is the modern approach of software engineering just a giant sales campaign ran by cloud providers to increase their profits?
I think he can't move bitcoins because he has them in multisig wallet or Satoshi group has them in multisig wallet. So all or more than one member must sign
their keys in order to move bitcoins from joint wallet.
> go to a coffee shop, library....

Don't forget your mask. The pandemic is still on.
I'm now getting failures searching for products on Amazon.com itself. This is somewhat surprising, as the narrative always was that Amazon didn't do a great job of dogfooding their own cloud platform.
They may not have to even offer a separate service. There's a math tutor sharing his lessons on PornHub already: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyp8wa/math-tutor-video-less...
There has been a suggestion that Japan should have been more decisive at Pearl Harbor and invaded and occupied Hawaii. A recent blog post [1] analysed this idea.

[1] http://rethinkinghistory.blogspot.com/2021/06/pearl-harbour-...
I wonder if we never find the original keys for this crypto, if he is declared the legal owner he will be able to somehow force ownership of this crypto via some type of forced code change in the Bitcoin blockchain?

Given that $50B are at stake, I could see things getting weird.
Gaming on linux would be fine. Its photoshop that blocks linux for me at home. And whilst alternatives to photoshop might exist, I am simply too used to its interface to switch. Besides that lightroom for photo organization is even harder to replace.

If anything, gaming blocks a mac more than it blocks linux for me.