skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, who else actually uses them? Democracies (or those governments advertising themseles as such) generally don't bomb their own people with such aplomb and enthusiasm. ANd what about all those useful torture outsourcing orgs that the CIA needs so badly to fight its phantom war on Terrorism?

Look people, who is going to keep the lower classes in the outer parts of the empire down? We can't do that directly, it's too expensive, annoying, there's press conferences, sometimes CNN starts broadcasting about international news to the populace. All annoying and counterproductive to the voting powers and their corporate lords.

And of course, who's going to shadow fund all your actual wealth while you pull down a meager (by elite western standards) 175k salary in congress? The Saudis only care about the big fish like presidents (that's why there's a presidential visit TO Saudi Arabia near the end of every US President's administrations).

Oh, sure, it's "illegal" to get that money. Fine, let us just use Citizens United to funnel the money to your lobbying buds who will totally set you up.
> Once you have the effective cure, it will likely be economically a no-brainer to implement, because a whole lot of illness of old age will just go away. It's essentially a self-funding cure that drastically reduce the cost of healthcare.

Sure, it might be economically a no-brainer, but I don't see this happening. Why would the people in positions of power to implement this give it to the masses when they can have it and keep their power forever while the plebs have to continue to age and die?
Amazon down: Web services hit by technical problems, across internet
Probably cached for good measure
Jack Dorsey's Spiral Presents: The Lightning Development Kit
“Men know what a woman is in Holbeck.”
> Americans think China is literally committing a Holocaust right now

Yes, but they aren't exactly unaware that China's official position is that they are not, and the awareness of this official position doesn't come through random minor internet sites reporting “official” accounts machine translated after being received from anonymous friends who got release that were authorized by Beijing.

Getting the official story heard loudly and clearly and getting it believed are too very different goals.

> Besides, there is a strong explanation for why Beijing didn't broadcast this: they don't want to inflame tensions, especially in the runup to the Olympics.

Yes, that's a very plausible reason why, even if this highly improbable story were true, it wouldn't be China's official story right now.

It's not, however, even a remotely plausible reason why it would be the official story and simultaneously completely absent from official media and yet still authorized for release via the channel supposedly used here.
It’s definitely a thing, every major metro has tons of data centers doing it to various degrees of success. For the most part it’s for small/medium folks, as larger buy and staff their own equipment, and many smaller do VPS or cloud for various reasons.

Dedicated is starting to make more sense as cloud prices are kinda nuts + tooling is better now, so ‘roll your own cloud’ is becoming more feasible.

It just doesn’t get as much press as the big cloud offerings, and most of them are relatively local players specializing in their region (and associated network/property). OVH has several large DCs selling dedicated hardware for rent here in the US.
Generally speaking, charging into an aimbot gatling gun that has the sensor-network + AI system to shoot down 500mph targets is a bad idea.

Especially when said gatling gun reloads in just 4 minutes, you're over water with no terrain to hide behind except the horizon, the horizon is 30km out, and the supporting aircraft (E2-Hawkeye) can see 300km out because its the eye-in-the-sky.

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Hoping that the enemy runs out of $30 bullets before you run out of $1000+ drones is... a bad bet I think
Running Discourse on a Raspberry Pi
I am not moving goal post at all, you're the one that implying I was arguing about C++ modules being ready for prime time.

Well they are as ready for prime time, as Rust is for a large majority of C++ use cases.
I have seen the same latency problem (100-250ms) in Finland DC, but with IPv4.
That's an impossible conundrum. Who's going to pay for increased mass transit if there's nobody to ride it? Who's going to pay for more parks if there aren't enough people to use them? (Wider roads are counter-intuitive: dense development needs fewer, narrower roads, not wider).

One thing or the other has to happen, and there is demand for more development now. Let the development happen and the demand for infrastructure will follow.
Yes, it the only fair way is to allow density everywhere. If it is spread out, it becomes much less.
Not all your points are supported by data. Urban land and housing is the most valuable. Urban areas produce the most wealth.

Some of your points are self-fulfilling: Commuting from suburbs necessitates more expensive infrastructure, for example.

American urban problems mostly have solutions that are exemplified in other parts of the world: Social housing from Austria; highly trained armed response police separate from "everyday" police in several countries.

Letting go of American exceptionalism is in most cases a good thing.
Monero is untraceable and anonymous only insofaras you have confidence in their tumbler/aggregation functionality. But at least it's meant to be anonymous and untraceable; bitcoin isn't. Monero isn't fungible in any sense that distinguishes it from BTC.

I believe Monero is less profligate with the environment than BTC or ETH, but I can't cite.
But people that choose to live in them really ought not complain about the facts of life of living in a city, specifically, that people are packed together like sardines.

What happens in most of these HN threads is that people who live in cities start telling people who don't want to live in cities that they have no choice in the matter, and that they're coming to destroy their town next.
Fun story: Hetzner lost a colocation due to overheating like almost 20 years ago. Everyone has to learn over time that eventually adds up to deep domain knowledge. Both Hetzner and OVH have built custom solutions for buildings, climate and energy monitoring.
Oh, sweet summer child.

The reason you care about your status page being 100% accurate is that your stock price is not directly linked to your status page.
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I was currently in the process of buying some tickets on Ticketmaster and the entire presale event had to be postponed for at least 4 hours due to this AWS outage.

I'm not complaining, I enjoyed the nostaliga - sometimes the web still feels like the late 90s
Many people are forced out of rural areas due to the availability of work. I would prefer a rural area with some land, but it's difficult to find a good job in those areas.
This may be a function of utilization factor but the modestly loaded 24/7 EC2 instances I have been running for the last 5-6 years are more reliable and about half the cost of co-location --- before even considering the cost of hardware. I can easily move back to co-location if needed but thus far, I have no reason to do so.
Often you can't opt out. My great-grandma was basically non-functional for her last decade: she couldn't move without assistance, couldn't taste anything, and seemed to be in constant pain. But her dementia came first, so by the time we started worrying about it, she couldn't think clearly enough to make any decisions about anything. We never put her on life support as such because we were pretty sure she wouldn't have wanted it, but there was no specific life-sustaining intervention to consider withdrawing, just a bundle of meds which each meaningfully improved her quality of life. So she kinda bumbled along in a cloud of permanent confusion and misery until the end.
For me, it's because -- let's face it -- it'll only be available to the extremely wealthy and well-off. It won't be available to the average citizen. This will just further cause our immortal overlords to be able to concentrate power and wealth, even moreso than they're already doing. That's not a good thing. Death is the Great Equalizer (especially if there's a very progressive estate tax), and if it is conquered there's nothing to stop that anymore.

Why would it only be available for the extremely wealthy and well-off? Where do you get the idea that such therapies must invariably be expensive?

Do you know what's really expensive? The imploding cost of healthcare, especially when concerning people who's entering old age.

That would be like saying we shouldn't develop mRNA technology because it will only be available to rich people.
Are you proposing an alternative measure? The market price is what affects people's budgets so that's the one I use.
Yes, he goes into it in more detail on the video about mechanically stabilized soil, but the techniques used to stabilize the soil mean the wall is entirely stable without the concrete face, and the face is there to keep the soil from getting eroded away and to look nicer.
You broke the site guidelines badly and repeatedly in this thread, with flamewar comments and swipes. Can you please not do that? We're trying for a different quality of conversation here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The US populace. The Japanese intention was a big blow that would force the US into favorable negotiations. Giving the US a propaganda win by attack our "soil" meant the population was willing to fight a long war that the Japanese knew they couldn't win.
SLAs. Officially acknowledging an incident means that they now have to issue the SLA credits.
Well depends on the person. to me personally I would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a couple acres of land in the country side, and would pay exactly $0 for any property in Manhattan
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Hey - you also broke the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread - can you please not do that? We'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Are you on hyperoptic?
I'm having trouble understanding what this actually does. I think it wraps existing open source ASIC tools?
I'd be happy with it being short enough that middle-aged creatives could build on material from their childhood, and old ones, from their middle-age. Say, 20 years. People should, at least, have full ownership of a good portion of their contemporary culture.
Now, having felt the pain first hand (including this particular library) and after a few years of react coding here is my tip for you, the aspiring web react developer:

Do not directly use library code in your react components, such as react-router (unless your top level route definitions of course).

Let your react components consume data given in their parameters, let them be oblivious to how you got that data. If you have to use a library hook, wrap that hook in your own hook and write a unit test for your custom hook because I promise you, the library hook will break in a version upgrade. I reapeat: the library hook WILL break in a future version upgrade

:)
Which kind of JTAG/debug probe did you use for the Dreamcast? Does it even have such a port exposed and enabled?
:) I imagine it went like this theoretical Slack conversation:

> Dev1: Pushing code for branch "master" to "AWS API".
> <slackbot> Your deploy finished in 4 minutes
> Dev2: I can't react the API in east-1
> Dev1: Works from my computer
> Why would it only be available for the extremely wealthy and well-off?

Why wouldn't it?

> Where do you get the idea that such therapies must invariably be expensive?

Because those with power and wealth will want to keep it from those who aren't as well off, and they control the pricing of it. It seems the logical endpoint to me.

I don't see them working on making it cheaper for the common person out of the goodness of their heart. And I see their desire to keep their power as stronger than their desire to worry about healthcare costs.

Maybe I'm super cynical and pessimistic, but if the cure for aging is found, I don't see it being made widely available, ever, for simple reason of power and politics. Humanity isn't at that point, and likely never will be.
The infrastructure is not the problem. Cities can build this easily with increased tax base. Most roads are way overbuilt anyways.
Twitter doesn't really understand what made it so successful. What did it start as but a blogging service limited to 140 characters? That's why they are so resistant to change. So they're looking for a company that has a user experience that the trust, not just spinning up a crew to spit out a feature.
Is the fee going away or just being hidden, aka bundled into other things?
I know it's "in" to shit on ubiqitui right now - but the new Ubiquti Dream Router and the older Unifi Dream Machine are the best spiritual successor I have seen to this device. The UDM comes out of the box with the switch and AP, which performas well, while the UDR also has PoE switches and WIFI 6 in case you want to run other APs or security cameras.

And before anyone else jumps in with old information,as of the latest firmware, it does not require cloud access. And the PPoE performance problem has been fixed.

It was a bumpy transition for a bit because they moved off of Vyatta to generic Linux for the routers.
I used this tool many times to download fonts and host them directly for a number of reasons:

- Avoid Google tracking / cookies

- Offline access (software for museums / exhibitions)

- Development even while offline

- Fonts can get updated, and updates sometimes affect letter geometry. I'd like to test before updating things to my users.

However, word of warning: I found at least one broken font. "Exo 2" has noticeable clipped sections where two curves overlap. Make sure to check your fonts... specially since, if you have the TTF downloaded from Google Fonts installed in the computer you're testing with, you might not see the text as your users do.
Bitcoin's self-proclaimed inventor wins trial over stash worth $54B
The AWS status page no longer loads for me. /facepalm
Status of post-quantum cryptography implementation
we have this problem and we're just going to keep calling them Dockerfile, even if podman is doing all of our builds from now on. Admittedly we're just using buildah bud and not trying to reinvent our little world
I'm complaining. I could not get my Happy Meal at McDonald's this morning. Bad start to the day.
That sounds annoying, but honestly pretty much any cloud backup service will sort this for you iCloud's not great, but Google One, Dropbox etc all work fine on iPhone.
AWS services are all built against each other so one failing will take down a bunch more which take down more like dominos. Internally there’s a list of >20 “public facing” AWS services impacted.
Automobiles are the main factor. Cars made it possible for single family home culture -> cities were designed around cars -> now this culture is the ideal as it is what cities are explicitly designed for.

Self driving will be an interesting addition to the mix. We will probably come up with new cultures around that technology.
> I make music. What we do isn't a commodity business

So do I. Yes, it is. An incredibly popular one:

https://www.google.com/search?q=aerial+photo+of+woodstock+fe...

https://www.google.com/search?q=areal+view+of+glastonbury+mu...

https://www.google.com/search?q=aerial+view+of+Donauinselfes...

I could post 100 more of these of course. The product being sold here is people coming to hear and see the performance of music. It's one of the most popular things there is. Millions and millions of people spend time and money daily just to be in the proximity of people making music.

It's also art. It's also a hobby for many. It's many things. But my point that it is, all by itself, a tremendously popular product for people, seems inarguable.
Well yes electricity is the medium, but the media still has importance. I think my comment would be more logical if you replace medium with media?

Learned something new today: https://www.shmoop.com/grammar/spelling/media-vs-medium

Thx!
I'm a big fan of shellcheck, but use it for your new scripts. Don't try to change working code that depends on shell idiosyncrasies.
Those people get screwed the most by high rent and long commutes... that are the direct result of prohibiting dense housing.
> > You build the drones before the war, not during.

> Which is an admission that you can't stay in the war once it begins. You'll quickly get wiped out.

You can apply that logic to any equipment, and drones are going to be easier to build than a lot of other war waging equipment (eg how long does it take to build a ship?).

There is a long history of unsophisticated groups waging long and successful wars against large, powerful nations. Preparing for the previous war is superpower 101.
On a technical level, it sounds near-trivial... Would need a very strong bizdev posture
Which Twitter needs because they're chat absolutely blows.
MATE - because I like Gnome 2 and don't like Gnome 3
When is the crash? I need a new card but I am hopping to get one once the demand drops sharply enough that the price collapses.

Some how I have the feeling Nvidia and AMD will prevent that from happening.
Buying a company is often a very efficient way of getting something built. The price may be lower than you think and they get a team that's already worked together and isn't bogged down by internal Twitter politics. If the executive running the acquisition can protect the team from those politics they can get something built faster than they would otherwise, and at $10m Twitter revenue per day, getting something out the door faster has a lot of value.
I tried it when Unifi was in bad straits last year. It's a poor copy of the Ubiquti interface. They copied the worst aspects of that UX.
There are so many things that can go wrong with a single provider, regardless of how many availability zones you are leveraging, that you cannot depend on 1 cloud provider for your uptime if you require that level of up.

Example: Payment/Administrative issues, rogue employee with access, deprecated service, inter-region routing issues, root certificate compromises... the list goes on and it is certainly not limited to single AZ.

A very good example, is that regardless of which of the 85 AZs you are in at aws, you are affected by this issue right now.

Multi-cloud with the right tooling is trivial. Investing in learning cloud-proprietary stacks is a waste of your investment. You're a clown if you think you need 25 people internally per cloud is required to "do it right".
Hasn't one of the big lessons of COVID been that anyone can work from anywhere that there's a decent internet connection?
Email the CTO, he's always around here and he's very responsive.
Morally, I'm very pro-high density housing. Just like I'm pro-public transit. But in reality, my expressed preference is a single-family house with a yard and the convenience a car brings. I'm not sure how to square these things.
It's funny watching far right startups realize most of the far right lives to troll people and without people to troll, those platforms just don't gain steam.

It's an existential mystery no one needs to solve: white supremacy requires a "equal and opposite" force that just doesn't exist unless they manufacture it by hook or by crook
If Microsoft doesn't care, why should he?
Histidine also plays a part in remyelinating the nervous system, so erections could be viewed as security service type metadata for health of the brain and nervous system and red and white blood cells amongst other things. It can also help keep cataracts at bay.
> - It is driven entirely by formal requirements and specifications

Can you explain why this is a bad thing? I've found that formal requirements and specifications are almost always good unless they're just vague (in which case: they're not really formal)

> - These requirements are approved by "the customer," which is a set of people completely independent from "the actual users."

Well, yes. That is indeed a problem.

> - A requirements document cannot easily capture "the UI/UX doesn't suck," because that sort of thing often tends to be more subjective or not well thought out in advance.

I've found that very very few people actively request people to say "your UI sucks". Instead, they want "constructive criticism" and/or "describe why it sucks!". Which, is sort've fair. But it gets to be extremely tiring to explain why the UX doesn't "just suck" but is fundamentally flawed.

> - The developers often pat themselves on the back for meeting the requirements.

Nothing wrong with that either.

> - The customer has to accept the software and foist it on the users, because it meets the requirements.

The customer has to accept the software because that's how contracts are done. But they don't have to foist it on the users. They just want to show that they've been able to deliver on their promise of a software solution.

> - The competition is entirely about who gets the contract to build the software, and not for which software is actually the best.

Well that's quite a problem.
Wouldn't the cost of it roughly follow every other technological innovation? Extremely expensive and only affordable by the wealthy at first, then cost will go down over time as competition ramps up and economies of scale take effect.
Because I know half the people won't read it if it takes the extra click, here's the abstract:

> Virtually every city in the United States bans multifamily homes in at least some neighborhoods, and in many cities most residential land is restricted to single family homes. This is the case even though many metropolitan areas are facing skyrocketing housing costs and increased environmental degradation that could be alleviated by denser housing supply. Some scholars have argued that an unrepresentative set of vocal development opponents are the culprits behind this collective action failure. Yet, recent work suggests that opposition to density may be widespread. In this research note, I use a conjoint survey experiment to provide evidence that preferences for single-family development are ubiquitous. Across every demographic subgroup analyzed, respondents preferred single-family home developments by a wide margin. Relative to single family homes, apartments are viewed as decreasing property values, increasing crime rates, lowering school quality, increasing traffic, and decreasing desirability.

My personal values make "decreasing desirability" is the biggest factor, but I can't read the article to see if I'm representative.