skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take DynamoDB as an example. The AWS managed service takes care of replicating everything to multiple AZs for you, that's great! You're very unlikely to lose your data. But, the DynamoDB team is running a mostly-regional service. If they push bad code or fall over it's likely going to be a regional issue. Probably only the storage nodes are truly zonal.

If you wanted to deploy something similar, like Cassandra across AZs, or even regions you're welcome to do that. But now you're on the hook for the availability of the system. Are you going to get higher availability running your own Cassandra implementation than the DynamoDB team? Maybe. DynamoDB had a pretty big outage in 2015 I think. But that's a lot more work than just using DynamoDB IMO.
What hate is there? the majority of comments are supportive.
You could easily synthesize something like this in real time now. But not many people do, which I think is a shame.

I've kind of been following very loosely along with this DX7 series with some (not DX7) FM and phase modulation in my own code. If you're running Linux, you can try something like this in the WIP graph-synth branch[0] of my mb-sound Ruby app/gem (feedback welcome on the DSL syntax):

play 300.hz.pm(
0.1.hz.triangle.at(1) * tone(300.constant * 1.618) +
0.04.hz.triangle.at(1) * tone(150.constant * 1.618)
).forever

[0]: https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-sound/tree/graph-synth
Aye that’ll be right. What’s more likely a flaw in cloudflare or a flaw in some pish ponzi crypto scheme? Stop wasting our time
I thought Edison's "visionary" status had been discarded and his primary skillsets were deceit and self publicity?

How much meditation time does it take to strong arm other people's work over and over again?

It's a talent, but visionary doesn't seem apt.
To those suffering it, it is normal reality, but to those observing it, it is chaos.
T90 was number 211 in the leaks. That is the top 0.003% of streamers.
Something I appreciate about Apple's attempt here is the precise phrasing of "Ask the application not to track". It makes it clear that the onus is on the application to abide by it, and it's a not so passive, passive-aggressive dig at exactly these sorts of practices. Apple probably has no real way to enforce true prevention of tracking, but they can make it very clear which side in this war is the one without scruples.
Even tought the article is about true random number, pseudo random is more valuable for scientific simulations. In those simulations you don't typically want true randomness, you want a generator that pass a suite of randomness tests while having the ability to repeat that stream of numbers to replicate your experiment.

Sometimes, you even discard numbers so different simulation runs with different parameters consume the same amount of numbers. A simplistic example:

if rand()<.5 :
doSomethingWithRand(rand())
else:
doSomethingWithoutRand()
rand()
> All the frameworks were built to attack Windows systems.

Well there you go. Perhaps using an OpenBSD USB bastion is the way to go.
This. We're under NDA too on internal support. Our customers know we use AWS and they go and check the AWS status dashboards and tell us there's nothing wrong so the inevitable vitriol is always directed at us which we then have to defend.
If you are clueless then you are in good company. Lots of self-proclaimed smart investors loose their shirt every day investing in things that are fundamentally scams pretending to be businesses.
Can't they change their sex on their driver's license/ID card? (it's pretty much all that matters, probably, as of today)

reply to comment below: What I mean is that you could say that you are a male/female or whatever you want and X years old and you would have documentation to back it up.
There's at least a potential moral responsibility (yes pls spare snark about banks and morals), and in some countries it can be a legal one, see eg emergence of the "right to disconnect"
People of HN has been extremely unprofessional with regards to AWS's downtime. Some kind of a massive zeitgeist against Amazon, like a giant hive mind that spews hate.

Why are we doing this folks? What's making you so angry and contemptful? Literally try searching the history of downtimes and it was always professional and respectful.

Yesterday, my comment was fricking flagged for asking people to be nice to which people responded "Professionals recognize other professionals lying". Completely baseless and hate spewing comments like this is ruining HN.
That video has been removed by the uploader according to YouTube.
One interesting thing about Go is that functions are more or less the only way to build abstractions and encapsulate computational complexity. So when you're reading code, if it's not a function call, you can more or less predict it's (fixed) cost. And good function signatures, good program design, where dependencies are explicit and side effects are minimized, does I think let you reliably make assumptions about functions without reading their source. But yeah I see your perspective!
Kahn was a poor visionary overall. He didn’t have a vision of the web at all. His vision— articulated to us in 93 and 94 was “client/server.” Close, but really not the same thing.

He drove constant reorgs that followed the pattern of: centralize then decentralize then centralize then decentralize… He bought Ashton Tate, which was a big mistake.

I don’t think Kahn was good at leading a big company, and it seemed to me and my friends there at the time that he was floundering.
Once you have a few millions secured, it is hard to blow it if you invest and save prudently. It's not like when he turns 30 he will be back to poverty. There is too much negativity and doom and gloom. These gamers, e-celebs are making a lot of money and will not be destitute when their star fades. Today's internet celebs are much better at saving and investing their money compared to celebs of decades ago, who blew their money on extravagant expenses and saved nothing.
> before that in the 90's there was a group of programmers that liked to generate code until no colleague understood anymore what was happening.

Ah! Just write a quine and be done with it!

> I have seen more projects fail because of too much unneeded abstraction than by all other causes together. I even have seen companies go almost bankrupt because of projects engineered by lone wolfs where nobody understood the abstractions anymore except for the designer himself, and at some point he himself not really anymore either.

"cake pattern" on one side and scalatest on the other.

As for

> I’m constantly surprised to see this type anti-intellectualism.

You hardly need any Category Theory to theory to understand type theory or mostly important Scala's type system. This the exact knowledge and allows you use it effectively. Yeah, the way he puts it makes those who like to understand the theory behind everything look bad.
nice, now your aesthetic is coupled to your information hierarchy

style is orthogonal to semantics
Meditation is a wide range of practice.

If your goal is to be aware of yourself in the immediate, to feel things directly, then the hypnogagic state can work well. Obviously your mileage may vary.
There's a difference between "playing the game" and playing the game. I can sit at a chess board and move pieces around and say that chess takes no focus because I chose not to focus
They'd already cleared the trademark!
I really enjoy when these hobby projects get posted. Tinkering for the sake of it is so much fun. Thanks for sharing
Queue the armchair infrastructure engineers.

The reality is that there’s a handful of people in the world that can operate systems at this sheer scale and complexity and I have mad respect for those in that camp.
FAA says lack of whistleblower protections hindered Blue Origin safety review
That is not true. There was hours before they started annotating any kind of service issues. Maybe from when you noticed there was a problem it appeared to be quick, but the board remained green for a large portion of the outtage.
He just want to be more successful in Tinder xD
> it's pretty much all that matters, probably, as of today

Not really understanding this. What does it mean?
Sigh. I deeply appreciate the work that Michał does. This post signals a bunch of work that I will have to do in the future to mitigate the eternal churn in the python ecosystem.

> all the breakage is dumped on distribution packagers.

This line sums it up for me. It is the fundamental disrespect for other peoples' time, and the lack of any attempt to maintain backward compatibility that goes along with it that have convinced me that the whole mindset around python is not suitable for any project that needs stability.

For example, I foresee a future where the academic python codebases that happen to have avoided the superfund site of jupyter notebooks will be broken and useless within a decade because no one will be able to install them and use or reuse them due to some as yet unforeseen change from upstream. The maintenance overhead of using python is absurdly high, to the point where it seems that every single project has to have an active maintainer otherwise it rapidly becomes completely useless.

Maybe it will get better, but it would require a significant shift in community priorities.

edit: Oh, don't miss the circular dependency introduced by tomli. You can just curl it onto your system right?

edit2: No more data_files? Wow. That's a disaster.
Nothing is stopping you from using your keyboard in VR.
I certainly wouldn't describe it as “a pass” given how commonly people joke about things like “friends don't let friends use us-east-1”. There's also a reporting bias: because many places only use us-east-1, you're more likely to hear about it even if it only affects a fraction of customers, and many of those companies blame AWS publicly because that's easier than admitting that they were only using one AZ, etc.

These big outages are noteworthy because they _do_ affect people who correctly architected for reliability — and they're pretty rare. This one didn't affect one of my big sites at all; the other was affected by the S3 / Fargate issues but the last time that happened was 2017.

That certainly could be better but so far it hasn't been enough to be worth the massive cost increase of using multiple providers, especially if you can have some basic functionality provided by a CDN when the origin is down (true for the kinds of projects I work on). GCP and Azure have had their share of extended outages, too, so most of the major providers tend to be careful to cast stones about reliability, and it's _much_ better than the median IT department can offer.
In large part because:

"The commercial space industry is in a legally designated "learning period" until at least October 2023 — a "learning period" that has been extended several times, most recently by a 2015 law called the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act. The idea is to allow the industry to mature and give companies a chance to self-regulate without overbearing government interference. But that designation effectively bars federal regulators from implementing certain new rules or wielding the same oversight powers for commercial space companies as it does for aviation."
But obese people don't live in vacuum, they are much more likely to take away the hospital beds from others in this pandemic. Also the world has socialised medicare (par America) so the costs have relevant effect on every citizen for anti vaxxers and obese.
Automated Deployments Using GitHub Actions, AWS ECR, and Webhooks
Hey, don't forget about these bundles of engineering awesomeness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive
how are they separated though? if your css rules apply based on hierarchy they are incredibly tightly coupled to your html.

separate files != separate concerns
it is different. the old celebrities were chosen by media execs, who wielded all the power. now the audience decides.
That affects you when trying to get elected. I'd argue a strong candidate who takes no BS is something that the people are clamoring for. Trump fit that bill to an extant but he was an idiot and a bigot. He had a real opportunity to enact real change but he blew it.
Typically Cloudfront would sit in front of this service and either serve the requested resource from cache or forward the request to the origin (Imagor) if missing from cache.
Meditation, if you don't overdo it (namely no longer than 30 minutes) has the same effect.
Incredible! I didn't see that in the article — do you have a link?
I enter such state quite often, as a result of a pattern I used to enter lucid dreams when younger I can recognize and voluntarily drift into 'aware naps' - apparently based on wife feedback I can do everything from chores to rocking my daughter bed but speech patterns are garbled, even if internally I hear the conversation and interiorly think coherent answers. She just has to wake me and I can immediately and accurately answer.

People would think narcolepsy or sleepwalking, but it's voluntary, I keep memories, and keep doing whatever I need to be doing.
I won't defend Adobe, but Photoshop is (or was) free for students, and I recall a friend buying first licence for 10 dollars or so when I was studying (this was licence only, you had to get the software "somehow"), so at least they are covering this ground. Maybe it's different now.
Yes. Exactly. Pay double. That is what all the blogs say. But no, when a region goes down everything is hosed. Give it a shot! Next time an entire region is down try out your apis or give AWS support a call.
I mean he should at least look it or something...
Yes, the new thing is the emergence of mega corporations that profit from platforms that are essentially manufacturing workaholics. Freewill notwithstanding, exploitative incentives are a real thing...
This explicitly supports what most of us assume is going on. I wont be surprised if someone with a (un)vested interest will be along shortly to say that their experience is the opposite and that on their team, making people look bad by telling the truth is expected and praised.
Yagankar: Hire Freelancers from Afghanistan
> JNDI, a part of the Java Enterprise API set, providing uniform, industry-standard, seamless connectivity from the Java platform to enterprise information assets

From https://web.archive.org/web/20040908114732/http://www.sun.co...

I guess the marketing claims were true. I am completely mystified why this feature exists.
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs yelled at employees a lot. Whether they did so as an intentional technique or a byproduct of having a short temper, I don't know. Any insight into that?
Check the rent for the places that SF'ers fled to. Your rent went down because a bunch of affluent people left and opened up a bunch of units.
I think the biggest issue is about the status dashboard that always stays green. I haven't seen much else, no?

It seems that degraded seems down in most cases. Since authorization of managers is required.
> All countries which do not spend anything like what we do on defense, are not under Chinese or russian domination, AND nearly all have longer life expectancy than we do while at the same time spending much much much less on a per capita basis on health care than the US does.

They are under US domination, though we call it Hegemony.

The 2% of national budget spent of the defense of these countries is not holding the geopolitical balance of power in check. Infact these counties would need to pay much more without the US.
Big corporations are paying more than ever, in addition to surging stock prices for even the biggest of companies, so working at a trillion dollar company is more lucrative than most startups. It did not always used to be that way.
Half a tab of LSD can get you there and keep you there for hours.

BRB, trying.
On the subject of favorite FM pieces, this 1992 track from Jill of the Jungle (rendered by one of Yamaha's OPL2 chips on a Sound Blaster) burned its way into my brain as a kid. Still a fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pcxdYvp8uQ
Convenience. Security is bothersome, anyways /s.
> There seems to be a lot of animosity towards deep learning, to the point that it comes off as jealousy

This happens every time people post research here. Any article about new battery tech will have people saying "What about all the other new battery techs that never went anywhere? This is just a prototype, it wont revolutionize the industry", and they are right. The difference is that when people say those things in a thread about ML, then AI optimists who thinks that these things are evidence that the singularity is near starts to argue that no, this time is truly different! And they do that every single time, AI optimists have believed that computers will take over any day now for 50 years. If those AI optimists didn't post so much then those threads wouldn't grow.
The stuff that's exclusively hosted in us-east-1 is, to my knowledge, mostly things that maintain global uniqueness. CloudFront distributions, Route53, S3 bucket names, IAM roles and similar- i.e. singular control planes. Other than that, regions are about as isolated as it gets, except for specific features on top.

Availability zones are supposed to be another fault boundary, and things are generally pretty solid, but every so often problems spill over when they shouldn't.

The general impression I get is that us-east-1's issues tend to stem from it being singularly huge.

(Source: Work at AWS.)
There's a pretty good Numberphile Podcast episode[0] about this. It doesn't go deep into mathematical details of the topic, it's more of an overview of the current state of things and an explanation of ways in which ML can help coming up with new theories/conjectures.

[0] https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/deep-mind
Covid Booster Cuts Death Rate by 90%, Israeli Study Finds
you know its good when so many people hate it
Hard disagree. There's so much junk science that articles need to be treated skeptically, particularly if they have strong headline claims that reinforce some common belief combined with details which are hazy and unexplained.

Being totally open minded is actually not a virtue, you can be so open minded that you'll start to believe any sort of drivel you pour into your head because it sounds persuasive rather than being correct.

I will happily flip my impression of this paper on a dime if someone who is actually qualified to review the actual lab methods and procedures (and if adequate controls were used, etc) pops up to defend it and to explain how cells that don't express ACE2 could possibly be important in COVID-19 pathogenesis, but until then my default setting is to be critical since the paper "smells" bad. It is not a particularly "great" theory, its a very fishy smelling theory.
> you could say that you are a male/female or whatever and X years old and if someone ask you for proof, you would be able to provide it

Identifying as male or female is pretty much an arbitrary social structure in today's society. Your age is not.
>These technologies are allowing people to display their talents and allowing them to make money off of them. Back in the day being good at video games was a fun thing to do when you had free time. Now there is a small chance you can make a living off it.

People have been making money from e-sports for a long time, at least two decades. it's not a new thing. The new platforms however allow gamers to reach large audiences without having to join a major gaming league.
Same thing as yoga nidra?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_nidra
Only resource/protocol I know of for long COVID: https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-recover...

"Given the lack of available treatment recommendations in the setting of large numbers of patients suffering with this disorder globally, the FLCCC developed the I-RECOVER protocol in collaboration with a number of expert clinicians including Dr. Mobeen Syed, Dr. Ram Yogendra, Dr. Bruce Patterson, and Dr. Tina Peers. Although our varied yet often overlapping treatment approaches were initially empiric, while based on both preliminary investigations into and prevailing theoretical pathophysiologic mechanisms of LHCS, the consistently positive clinical responses observed, often profound and sustained, led the collaboration to form the consensus protocol below. As with all FLCCC protocols, we must emphasize that multiple aspects of the protocol may change as scientific data and clinical experience in this condition evolve, thus it is important to check back frequently or join the FLCCC Alliance to receive notification of any protocol changes."
I had a good chuckle reading your comment. This is not unique to Amazon. Unfortunately, status indicators are super political almost everywhere, precisely because they are what is being monitored as a proxy for the actual progress. I think your comment should be mandatory reading for any leader who is holding the kinds of meetings you describe and thinks they are getting an accurate picture of things.
I'm not following. I can be explicit without being duplicative. The more I repeat an expression of a single concept, the harder I make refactoring when I discover the concept needs to change. That's why, e.g., copy-paste programming is such a bad idea for most projects.
Maria Ressa's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech [video]
Ah I remember that one, the point was that the teacher was giving Reece bad grades no matter what he submitted. This became clear when he cheated by handing in something that Malcolm had written and still got an F (I think). Lois demanded he give Reece a good grade or she'd out him, even if it made Malcolm look bad, because Malcolm would do fine in life either way.

That show had some great plotlines.
I once fell asleep while coming down from LSD and woke up with sleep paralysis. I was wide awake, still buzzed from the acid and completely paralyzed. Fortunately I didn't panic despite not knowing about sleep paralysis and thinking the LSD had paralyzed me. It took me awhile but I managed to shake myself into movement finally.
Appreciate the general point, but, um ... Retinas aren't everything.

There are monitors with fine enough colors, and (actually more important my PoV) better base / stand infrastructure, for example. And don't know about you, but some us don't particularly like seeing that dystopian forbidden fruit logo everywhere you look. Or supporting the company behind it any more than strictly necessary.

Point being - yes, beware of sweat shops with substandard hardware. But brands aren't where it's at.

Oh and also: just give me decent cash comp, 40 hours at most, and a useful amount of actual, real PTO (not this "unlimited PTO" nonsense). And an office (to the extent I have to be there) that doesn't make me feel like I'm losing plasma by the end of the day. And investors that don't make my skin crawl, please.

Equity is nice, but it's just gravy.