skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. A bigger point on "small social networks" that it's taken years for me to learn; I've always dabbled in the idea of social networking as its grown up, hacking together a little thing that looked like twitter before twitter for my friends, etc.

Here's the thing that may save you if you're trying to pull one of these together: You can't do it without something else. Meaning, the idea of a "local" Twitter/Facebook killer is great but (if you're me) no one will see the value and you won't be able to onboard ANYONE without some sort of "social carrot" separate and apart from the mere idea of "hey, new social network."

(This is one of those ideas that nerds like me just have trouble digesting, so hopefully it helps someone get through this. I've tried and failed this many times over. Will probably do it again :) )
> Once you’re in the game it’s rock solid, which leads me to question the “client networking issue” explanation.

Could be different architectures between the "queue" and the in-game session.

Presumably with the in-game backends, the client gets told to connect to a specific backend (or through an LB with a sticky session), which keeps some of your active player state in-memory; and because of that, they'd want those backends to be robust to disconnection, allowing the client to reconnect and resume the existing backend session on the same server.

The queue, on the other hand, is the first-in-line protection for the game — equivalent to Cloudflare for an HTTP site. It has to deal with bots, DDoS attacks, etc. I would guess that they "solved" this by requiring a kind of proof-of-work — that "work" in this case being "keeping a socket open and responding to pings for the whole time you're in the queue."

If this were true, "client networking issues" would technically be the proximate cause of a client falling out of the queue and having to get back in line at the end. It'd be a problem the devs created for themselves, but it would indeed be the problem.
I am aware. Just less aware of yours.
The reason for my question is not one of silence it’s because your statements are opinionated not facts.

I’m Black, I wouldn’t say I fully identify with the left or right politically, but I was raised with some conservative values because most of the rural black community I’m from holds those values. Where I from we seek to conserve values and traditions important to us and restore institutions we would like preserved. Whether that’s religious institutions or better education for community.

It’s just ridiculous to me that you would say identifying as conservative means you are not Black. Much of black people of southern United States have conservative values and identify with them, however voting for conservative officials doesn’t make one conservative. You can vote for someone who is in a left political party and still be conservative. Being Black is as political as non-black people make it. As stereotypical things go I can go about hunting, going to church, and whatever else without being labeled an outsider. Your assumptions drive just as much division from where I’m standing.

Point being I just think your view is limited and you should take time to see how Black populations may think in Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana. Carolinas, the list goes on.
Have new changes affected anyone else's Play Store Explore traffic?

Would love to chat if so. We've seen a significant decrease and can't figure out why.
and you think 60 miles without disenganging on a freeway means anything?

to quote wikipedias statistic from 2012:

- the United States had 3.38 road fatalities per 1 billion vehicle-km on its Interstate-type highways, often called freeways.[28]

congrats on your 60 miles i guess... only 295 857 928 more miles until your car performs as well as an average human from 2012.
For skyscrapers, what we've reached is the practical limit of interior space. You can't usefully add more floors because you consume that much space on the lower floors for more elevator shafts, support columns, and other infrastructure. It becomes more economically practical to build that space into another building instead.

There's a reason that most Manhattan skyscrapers range around 30 to 50 floors. Anything over that is mostly a stunt for visibility and publicity, not economic practicality. The main thing you gain from being taller is a tourist observation deck, but there's only going to be demand for a few of those per city.
Why would a non-European forum operator care about GDPR?
For perspective, the United States was spending $11 billion dollars every 90 days fighting the Afghan war from ~2001-2020.
> Especially if you have specific sidecars that only work on a specific infrastructure, for example if you have a Vault sidecar that deals with secrets for your service over EKS IAM permissions, you suddenly can't start your service without a decent amount of mocking and feature flags. Its nice to not have to burden your client code with all of that.

Could you please elaborate on this? I don't fully understand what you mean. Especially, I don't understand if "Its nice to not have to burden your client code with all of that" applies to a setup with or without sidecars.
Yes and no.

I am myself, my mannerisms, my mode of communication, the way I treat others, are all “me”.

But I rarely talk about anything I value, because my values are more traditional and classical, and tech companies values are what is popular.

It doesn’t bother me that my values are different, what bothers me is how you can loudly proclaim your opinions provided they’re in line with the status quo, but you will be cancelled if you hold a differing opinion, even if your differing opinion doesn’t cause you treat others badly.

At My current, more progressive, work place, I would be labeled as a conservative, yet at my previous more conservative work place, I was thought liberal. The difference was at my previous place it was ok to have and share differing opinions.
As far as I'm concerned there's not much reason to care either.
As long as we are clear about the circumstances, and we're not misrepresenting the situation so it appears it can scan photos not being uploaded to iCloud, sure.

The intention of the implementation is that if a user asks Apple to upload CSAM to iCloud, that Apple has the ability to check it and stop that CSAM landing on their servers. They don't want it there, and feel they have a right to check for it in advance so their servers are clear of CSAM and it stays on the user's phone. Frankly I think that's a reasonable attitude to take to CSAM.
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That or gasoline is currently expensive, it’s up 60% over the last 18 months though closer to 50% from 5 years ago. https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts

I find including the gas savings number a poor choice even if you see the real price well before buying the car. It simply varies to much both over time and based on driving habits for any general number to be very relevant, also nobody shows the impacts of say insurance costs on different car models.
One of the methods that Cilium (which implements this eBPF-based service mesh idea) uses to implementation authentication between workloads is Wireguard. It does exactly what you describe above.

In addition it can also be used to enforce based on service specific keys/certificates as well.
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Darcula is dark.

Dracula is purple.
> In all honesty, maybe it's for the best. I'd rather work be a place where we show up, do work, get paid, and go home.

Agree 100%. It's just easier for everyone to have work / life balance. And with that comes boundaries.
No, 9011 is correct. "011", the international exit code for calling from the US, is what the + gets mapped to in a number such as "+49 xxx". It is followed by the destination country code (which starts with a 3 or 4 for Europe [1]), and then the local number. So for example, to call a number in Germany from a PBX in the US:

9-011-49-(German number) [3]

For long-distance domestic, the national trunk prefix should be used instead. For the US, this is 1 (unrelated to the US country code, which is also 1):

9-1-(10-digit US number)

For local calls, you do not need the trunk prefix, so you would dial:

9-(7-digit US number)

However, no US (or North American) area code nor central office code starts with a 1 [4]. So even in the above two cases, the sequence "911" should never occur.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_call_pre...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_calling_codes#...

[3] https://dcloud-cms.cisco.com/help/outbound_dial_patterns

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan#...
I think the world has been seized by an apocalyptic mood. Everyone is acting like the party is going to stop soon so they better grab what they can now.

This mood excuses a lot of behavior that would otherwise seem off limits. If the end is near, why worry about consequences? Get yours before it’s too late!

Why is this happening? Well if you can explain it, then you’ve got a good shot for at least a Ph.D. in sociology. The global pandemic obviously doesn’t help, but I think it just exacerbated a mood that was already there.

My own theory is that the root cause is decades of wide-spread awareness of global warming. Either you understand the science and implications, or you think it’s a global hoax being perpetrated to excuse oppression. Either way it sits in the background every day like a tick tock clock of impending doom. It’s huge and so far totally unresolved.

A lot of the world, to me, is just not acting like tomorrow will come, metaphorically. It will, though, and to me the interesting implication is that it seems a fantastic time to build new long-term things. If you can get the resources and talent, you could build something to win the next decade while everyone else is scrambling to grab what is sitting right in front of them.
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All good points. But you do have to recognize the tradeoff. Has AI come so far that it could perform better than industry specific human intelligence? You have to consider that maybe some Indian researchers could review the papers as they are doing that job as part time gig.

You have to test out both solution. And as these jobs are treated as contracts there is no significant commitment for choosing one over the other. We can't be certain if one method is better than the other without trying both of them out without prejudice.

I, for one am agnostic about either choice. Because AI is overhyped yet it has spillover benefits as a marketing-sales point but offshore human intelligence has a bad rep but could be effective if you have proper documentation, supervision and review framework.
Or is the "American Decline" a self fulfilling prophecy without real evidence? [1]

It brings to mind the "kids these days... (smh)" sort of comments that we have recorded history of going back to Roman era.

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/not-fade-away-against-the...
I think that was exactly the motivation in 2008. $4 trillion evaporated in the crash; the Fed created $4 trillion to prevent a collapse.

More recently? I'm less clear on that.

(Wow, 2008 was 13 years ago? And we haven't had catastrophe in that much time? That was... unexpected.)
Land Value Taxes are an immediate nonstarter for anyone who cares about the environment or conservation.

Imagine wanting to start an urban community garden and make your city a nicer place to live, but the taxes are prohibitive because you could have built a concrete monstrosity there instead.

Taxes predicated on the money you could have hypothetically made by paving over everything is a great way to ensure that you'll pave over everything.
Yet if you clear your cookies regularly in addition to cookie permission pop-ups you get web push request pop-ups, because it’s more effective to request permission and then trigger the browser UI.
It would be great if other platforms starts implementing crypto payments.
Thanks for the downvotes, folks. Really.

> DDR4-3200 is an expensive boutique product.

You have to be fucking kidding me. On a desktop Ryzen?? Most desktop PC builders are gamers. That's just a fact. They drive the market. That's why every motherboard looks like a gamery stealth bomber. Outside of Asrock Rack and one or two Asus Pro boards, there is simply nothing out there that matches what the server world is seeing with SuperMicro.

I have 1x32GB DDR4-3200 UDIMM ECC on my Ryzen. But I have no delusions about the cost. It was expensive as fuck compared to non-ECC RAM.
Indeed. We could even embed a WASM runtime (headless v8?) so one can execute arbitrary JavaScript in-kernel… wait :)
I don't agree at all with the thesis

In terms of GDP, stock market gains, innovation, STEM research, the US is probably ahead of the rest of the world. Look at how US companies pioneer the Covid vaccine for example. The biggest and largest of tech companies are based in the US.

One explanation is that none of this is our fault. We picked all the low-hanging fruit, solved all the secrets, invented all the easy inventions, told all the good stories, and now it’s genuinely harder to keep up the pace of idea generation.

In some ways this is probably true. Science and technology are much more complicated than they were in the 1890s, or in the 1790s. But the fear that nothing is left to discover has always been misguided. In the mid-1890s, the U.S. physicist Albert Michelson famously claimed that “most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established” in the physical sciences. It wasn’t even 10 years later that Albert Einstein first revolutionized our understanding of space, time, mass, and energy.

This is probably the answer to why it seems like things have stagnated, but it doesn't not means there is stagnation or that America is running on fumes.

Throughout the 20th century, Hollywood produced a healthy number of entirely new stories. The top movies of 1998—including Titanic, Saving Private Ryan, and There’s Something About Mary—were almost all based on original screenplays.

But many movies were still based off of real life events or books. Truly original screenplays that are not based off a historical event or a book are rare, afik.

What sort of innovation do people expect to see for things to not be stagnating? I think expectations are too high.
> I believe this is the entire point of Crew resource management [1].

Not at all, CRM is about cognitive and interpersonal skills.

It's completely orthogonal to having some software that monitors the plane for (subtle) faults and unexpected behaviors and provides good contextual information.

> I'd rather take my chances with the crew with 60+ years of combined experience vs. an AI model.

That's a false dichotomy and also I did not talk about AI.

I'd rather take my chances with the crew with 60+ years of combined experience TOGETHER with a all-seeing monitoring system.
I wonder how people will deal with this at the time of tax return, when one has to disclose all crypto transactions. Hopefully since this coin provides no gain, one can just ignore it as much as one doesn’t list all USD transactions. Surely in terms of taxes and transparency this could be a big deal
Thank you! I swear some people just have blinders to things just so they can be anti-Apple. Apple makes these promises everywhere and especially to America.
That would explain why they are trying to convince/coerce/force developers to hand them their signing keys during the last years.
I've seen every David Mamet movie and Musk is no conman by any fair definition.

Politics works like this:

1. Politician "shares a vision"

2. People buy into that vision by voting politician into office

3. Politician never achieves vision but makes progress towards it or fails to

The vision can be something like "everyone should be able to go to college," "a good job for every American," "no more homelessness," "healthcare for every American" and so on. Is this lying? In some sense, yes, but I would say we should judge politicans by how they change the world (for better or for worse) rather than whether they actually achieve their vision.

Is it possible to make progress towards some goal without an unrealistic ideal providing inspiration?
> Because it should never have gotten to this point. They are lucky that somebody has not already died.

This is such a stupid argument, so out of the billions of android phone, it should never never happen? If you don't want hardware / software to fail never use it then.

Next you use a landline phone, for some reason 911 does not work, oops. But I was told 911 should work 100% of the time.

Problem will always happen to some degree.
Agree. If a video on how to tighten a bolt or change gas in a mower is 36 mins long then that's a total waste. I don't want to hear somebody's rambling life story if I'm trying to directly find info. Short and sharp videos get more view from me. I agree also that Twitch is a waste of time. Never understood the utility of watching somebody doing some task.
The basic issue with cryptocurrency is that very little of it is actually new. You talk about ideas which threaten monetary policy--except those 'ideas' were actually the typical monetary policy not a hundred years ago. So it's worth asking yourself why monetary policy was changed from your favored position before trying to convince everybody else that it should be changed back.

You know, a decade ago, I actually thought that cryptocurrency and blockchain were interesting ideas that might be well worth pursuing. But it has increasingly felt like a solution in search of a problem--it's hard to find any use cases that aren't already better solved with other solutions. And in these kinds of discussions, the cryptocurrency adherents themselves struggle to proffer any such problem that doesn't boil down to--as someone else put it--wanting to live in Galt's Gulch. Which isn't exactly a compelling problem for most of the world's population. And comments like yours aren't helping to move the needle in the direction you want it to move.
exactly. the costs go up as floors increase.
There was definitely a self-policing movement in the 70s and 80s; the state-run police didn’t like it very much. Mumia Abu-Jamal is still in prison for trying to protect a community member from an abusive police officer.
Agree. If they're really your friends, you already have their phone numbers.
You're missing out on life if you think birds aren't real.
You call the PSAP's non-emergency number and ask to schedule a few test calls. If you don't know how to reach them, call your local police non-emergency number, they'll be able to put you in touch.

You're supposed to do this when setting up new VOIP service too, to make sure location information is reported correctly. It's quite a normal thing and they're not at all surprised by it.

I would go so far as to say there are 2 types of phone people: Those who've placed a lot of 911 test calls, and those who're placing their users at risk.
Energy companies accused of bid rigging and racketeering in US lawsuit
RIP. Some ugly truths are surfaced by the case of Major Fishback:

- People who are motivated to do hard things like go to West Point and SFAS sometimes have mental health issues; anecdotally, would say maybe even at a higher rate than the general population

- People who have found their "mission in life" often can be pretty abrasive about it, alienating friends and former colleagues -- especially when it's a "moral imperative" mission like ending detainee abuse

- In the social environment of an infantry platoon and/or ODA, contra what they tell you in the officer pipeline, "just doing the right thing" isn't enough; you have to do the right thing AND sell your guys on why it's the right thing. Fishback clearly failed to do the latter, especially as an ODA commander. Having your guys criticize you as both too timid and too aggressive isn't an indictment of their ability to think rationally, it's a sign you've lost their trust and confidence

- The veteran mental health care system remains generally fucked, largely because the animating force behind the VA is CYA, not a bona fide desire to help patients. If their CYA interests converge with what you need, you'll get great care. If not, you can slip through the cracks, as Fishback did

- On a related note, veterans can be a difficult bunch and VA mental health people are often overworked and cynical. In the case of someone like Fishback who was in crisis and probably not the easiest person to interact with, it is sad but not surprising that his care team was lackadaisical about following up and getting him the care he needed
One thing though, a movie theater is still a special place. It makes the experience different than at home.

Now it's true that big tv shows have funds and tech to match the high grade results that only movies could afford.
The statement at the bottom confused me: "The compliance with the reporting has reached close to 60%" but "zero incident reports" may lead to non-compliance (bad SQL queries ... anyone?) ... what scared me: When only 40% of all police departments file zero incident reports ... that mean that 60% of all departments had violent incidents.

Makes me sad.
Same, dracula and dark mode all the way down.
The "required fields considered harmful" opinion was a hard lesson learned through real experience -- the experience of repeated outages of large, complex systems like Google Search, GMail, etc. Certainly, prior to this experience, everybody assumed required fields were a good idea.

More abstractly, the hard lesson was: In a large distributed system, the site of use is the only reasonable place to do data validation. If you do it anywhere else, you will create a more brittle system that can't handle changes. The reason is pretty straightforward, but is more of a human reason than a mathematical one: when someone decides to modify a protocol for some new feature, they know they obviously have to modify the code that produces and consumes the protocol in order to implement the feature. But if they have to update a bunch of other places too, that's at best more work, and at worst easily forgotten. It's really important that any part of the system that is just a middleman will be agnostic to the data and pass it through unmodified -- even if the data is based on a newer version of the schema than the middleman is aware of.

So yes, you actually want the validation to be in your business logic. But you don't want it to complicate that business logic too much. Most of the time, optional fields (with default values) provide the right balance between making changes easy without making code ugly. Sometimes, a more drastic change -- like declaring a new version of the protocol and writing translation layers -- is a good idea, but this is an expensive step that you want to do rarely.

Now, obviously you don't agree with this. But your arguments sound like they are coming from a place of intuition, not experience. That's fine, intuition is critical to innovation. But you can't go around claiming your intuition is "superior" without proving it out in practice. Intuition is always based on a simplified model in your head, and the real world often doesn't work like you think it will. I assure you you don't know anything I don't, in decades of working on this stuff I've heard all the ideas. The only way to prove yourself right is to actually build systems your way and show success in the field. Of course, there will likely never be a definitive proof that one idea or the other is superior, only anecdotal experience. However, the fact that a large majority of successful distributed systems today are built on Protobuf or a similar model to Protobuf suggests that experience leans heavily in that model's favor.