skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't know how you know where you left your own things, but if I do know where a friend left e.g. their wallet or keys, I often do remember why. As if the novelty of the circumstance that allowed me to store the information also caused my brain to store metadata about that memory, e.g. the novelty itself.
> Craig Federighi seems to be happy with it.

There is a big difference between happy with it and not unhappy enough to quit publicly when part of your job is to spread koolaid and look happy.

If i were against something like this, but not powerful enough to squash it (especially if a gov had a hand in getting it pushed through), then i'd make sure to do a press tour and get it in every newspaper for all the wrong reasons, while making an all/nothing stance to torpedo the project.

I can think of no other reason beyond utter incompetence why they'd announce it how they did. Apple is known for being secretive, but why did they do a press interview and say "sure other 3-letter gov agencies may need to add to the illegal photos database in the future" unless you wanted to really make sure the project would fail? Why else announce it in the same press release as scanning messages for similar content? It seems like the rollout was designed to be as suspicious as possible tbh.
And unsurprisingly, NBC News quoted a women working at a nearby Amazon facility confirming that they never had any tornado drills nor had they sheltered in place for any of the warnings they've had in the past:
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/amazon-worker...
> What other data do you need?

Actual data. Emotional testimonials are a terrible way to set public policy. See also the security theatre we've instituted in our airports since 9/11. Going off of people's self-reported experiences is how you get policy driven by mass hysteria like the "Satanic Panic"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
Digital scheme pays Venezuela health workers from frozen funds
Log4jammed ?
If this were true, the right way to go about it would be to spin out iCloud into a separate company. Being one legal entity is what creates the larger situation where Apple is hosting content that Apple is also able to moderate. Splitting them up, Apple Software would be free to fully represent their users' interests with proper encryption, and iCloud would have zero ability to access to the plaintext.
Yes, that indeed is a very good point that I overlooked, I agree it weakens the case for (mandating) vaccinating minors even more.

Having said that, I've also seen graphs with 4 quadrants (vaccinated or not on both axis for the two persons involved in a transmission) where the transmission was clearly higher in the case neither were vaccinated. So I'm not sure if it does absolutely nothing for transmission, but at least not enough to be a strong argument in this discussion.
Brazil is bureaucratic by default.
Initial studies looking at infections and vaccinations in large populations didn't find correlation. A couple of aater studies that looked at infections in single households did. That is, they looked at the question "when a single member of a household is infected, how large is the chance that others in that household are infected?" and the answer to that is that the vaccines do indeed dampen transmission by quite a bit. Very roughly half.

I guess the difference is that the people in a city, say, may change their behaviour as the vaccination rates change, but the people in a household don't start/stop eating dinner together.
Hi!

Nice to see the evolution in this tool. It's pretty easy to replace reporting meetings out of the box. So it's easy to save 2/4 hours of meetings with the basic use case of this tool. Congratulations for the good job evolving this. All support to Cassette and their vision of meetings and company communications.
This outage is extremely frustrating to me. My company hosts all our apps in gov cloud. Gov Cloud West 1 is also down, but the AWS Gov Cloud status page indicates that everything is healthy and green. I thought AWS's incident response to the East outage last week was that they'd update the status page to better reflect reality.

Gov Cloud Status Page: https://status.aws.amazon.com/govcloud
> pipe them through logstash or something

logstash is also vulnerable to this though
Oh man, it is insane. During the aws incident last week we couldn't build software because bitbucket pipelines were all down, due to them running lambdas in us-east-1 only haha.

We've taken a massive turn away from a "decentralized" internet.
Zero values are definitely an issue, and it'd be hard to get rid of them while sticking to Go's imperative/statement-based style. Still, it'd nice to use an Option type instead of pointers.
Let's be fair, "[my group] is being persecuted" is the only thing most Americans agree on. It's the steady state fodder of fine-grained segregation of news sources by ideological subset.
> Is it a luxury product or an entry level one?

Obviously: Both.

The absolute "entry" point is the Mac mini.

The MacBook Air a low spec "luxury" quality device for people who want a well built laptop (that has decent battery life and a good screen) but do not have heavy demands on performance.

If your argument is discounts then I don't support that pricing model (unpredictable frenetic oscillation) anyway.

And, yah, if you're a company you get a flat rate discount based on volume with Apple products.
We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will have died.
The article discusses the environmental impact of producing and dustributing the toilet paper, but not the impact of manufacturing, installing and upkeeping the bidets. By my totally uninformed guesstimate, it would take a lot of toilet paper saved to balance the impact of one bidet installation. The article argues that bidets are better for the environment; I would need to see an estimation of how the bidet installation balances against toilet paper usage to be convinced by this.
Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder into Century-Old Problem
I guess not everything would need to lag. As long as you and your peers are working on not the exact same row, a slight network delay might not matter too much, especially if your own typing etc doesn't lag?
Satire.

Every time Github went down multiple people post on HN saying "every since they were bought by Microsoft, ...". As annoying as those Rust evangelists on every single memory corruption bug.
Yeah, I found the original hype overblown. The claims made were also for a configuration that was odd, at best. Intuitively, there are any number of geometries that ought to produce greater 'negative energy densities' while being easier to manufacture and test than the sphere-in-a-cylinder one if the proposed effect isn't just a mathematical artifact.
Yes but no one wants the finger pointed at themselves. Even if innocence is proven, someone will go through your files and you will have to deal with the law.

The recourse should be before this reaches the law.
Corey is gonna have fun with the current US-WEST outage too!
Honestly, I think this has always been how most journalism has been, we're just noticing it more.

But to be fair and I think to support your point, the bastions of so-called 'real' journalism do seem to have gotten fewer and fewer.
> "In libinput the edge scrolling is hard coded to 7mm and previous attempts at making it configurable were rejected."

I guess I should have quoted that full sentence. If somebody else does the work for him he'll still reject it. I've read the blog post you linked, he's most concerned about keeping the software simple, not making it actually work for real people. I think I have better things to do with my time than try to bring this guy around to my way of thinking. When I said "somebody should tell him" I was being facetious; that different people have different size fingers should have been obvious to him from the start, so he's clearly a lost cause.

> The synaptics driver might be able to do some things better but those things can also cause bugs to manifest in other areas, and have historically done so.

Well hypothetical or historical bugs don't concern me. Synaptics is working for me and always has. And I'm certainly not the only one.

> But that's not the case at all. I'm sure you understand, there are a lot of other devices out there besides your particular touchpad and synaptics touchpads in general.

It's a common misconception that the synaptics driver is only for synaptics touchpads. From the manpage:

> The name "synaptics" is historical and the driver still provides the synaptics protocol parsing code. Under Linux however, the hardware-specifics are handled by the kernel and this driver will work for any touchpad that has a working kernel driver.

Edit: I realize I probably sound unreasonably annoyed by software I don't even use, so let me explain: because of Red Hat, distros are now defaulting to libinput and I now have to work around this to continue using synaptics. It's caused me inconvenience despite me never wanting to use it in the first place. I earnestly wish it would just go away.
I think the real calculus should be do something that interests you, but also consider ROI and if education cost is worth it.

Most of the people I know with the worst financial outcomes overpaid to study stuff they didn’t care much about (and isn’t marketable or often even valuable) because they thought it was what they were supposed to do.
It's possible people are reporting the issue as CloudFlare because that's whose error page they see when a box on EC2 is unreachable.
DNS A record suggests a dedicated server from this company:

https://www.m5hosting.com/
us-west-2 EC2 looks like just came back online.
The invisible Spectrum – an interview with (film) colorist Matt Wallach
There is no meaningful restorative justice experiment in SF.

If you want to know more about restorative justice in practice, New Zealand and Australia are good examples.

If you don’t live in SF, it’s hard to understand why you support Chesa Boudin.
What does downdetector run on?
Isn't that what the "take over immediately" message accomplishes?
Funny, I can't do that, because my mind's eye moves with my eyes, and if I count things, my eyes naturally move, so my eye pointing causes the tiger to move rightward which prevents counting the stripes.
I have apahantasia and one thing I don't quite understand is how people without it visualize when their eyes are not closed.
If you are thinking of something, maybe listening to an audiobook while driving, does the imagery in your head still show up? Or are their like two modes, eyes open and eyes closed?

Because I don't see anything either way, there is no change. How does imagry and imagination work for you without apahantasia, when your eyes are open?
If that were true, the line should be flat-ish, but it and playstation's show the same extreme spike at the same time as aws etc.
most of which the companies have not been shielded against, like in this case, and again most of which was not developed in a rushed fashion to address an immediate need.

have you forgotten about the people having heart issues after receiving the shot?
I just want to be able to fart at my desk in peace.

I haven't tried pair programming. It sounds miserable. I figure I'd end up paired with one of those people that can't stand to see you looking for something. You know the type: you're looking through cabinets for something and they demand you tell them what and they demand you go directly to the right place. Sure, I'm looking for something, but I'm also learning where other things are.
Haha wtf?
about 3 years of no issues.
"A long-time friend of mine started posting about Sandy Hook being a hoax - that the school had never existed. I pointed out that a friend-of-a-friend of mine had lost two children there, and my friend just went ballistic and started calling me the most unbelievable names, "Do your homework!""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_s...

I see no siblings on the list of victims. Your friend-of-a-friend story sounds like some information was omitted which impacts credibilty.
Yes, it could be network peering related. But there's definitely a lot of us-west-1 and us-west-2 users complaining and people saying that us-east-1 seems fine.
Send a signal to a driver to bluescreen the box?
I think you’re describing this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_pri...
This might be a multi-region problem. Auth0 as an example has three US regions and two of them are down.
The vaccines are the magic future where a small bit of technology prevents disease and death.

> don’t get it and you deserve to starve

It's not by chance that you have to make up ridiculous words and put them in my mouth to attempt to criticize the comment, either in this part where I quoted you, or in the weird assertion about no one having to work.
> For developers who are ~35 and up, almost 100% true

I'll come up with one of the few exceptions to the rule, i.e. me. I'm in my very early 40s and I went in it for the money 20+ years ago, I hadn't even played with a computer as a kid or as a teenager for the simple reason that my parents couldn't afford to purchase me one (and I wasn't really thinking of becoming a computer programmer back as a teenager, I found the work boring).

Pretty soon though I discovered that I liked this, I even, in a way, avoided a career path that would have brought me into larger companies so into management (I think it's harder to remain a computer programmer in a larger company once you pass a certain age, I can't explain the reason for why that happens).

Either way, I'm almost 100% sure that no-one can spend 15-20-30 years in this job if they don't like it, i.e. only for the money alone, at times it can be really draining on one's mental condition.
> TDD/FP/Agile zealots

So his phrasing is a little hard to follow here, but I take this as being part of the ongoing TDD backlash, which is unfortunate because in my 30 years of experience, the opposite of TDD is "not testing anything at all". Or rather, when somebody pushes back against TDD, they usually push back against any form of unit testing. The net result is that the code itself is difficult to impossible to actually test... so nobody ever does outside of QA who does end-to-end black box testing and just kind of hopes they've covered all of their bases (hint: they didn't).

I guess I'd have to understand better what his definition of a TDD "zealot" is because I've been accused of being one for insisting that non-trivial code that doesn't have unit tests (and doesn't even allow for them) is unacceptable.
Yes, but oftentimes you want to log user generated events (especially ones that might otherwise be ephemeral) to create, well, logs, of what has happened. You expect the log library to dump whatever string you direct it to to the correct location (based on config and log level and etc), with any necessary sanitizing, and you otherwise forget about it. You don't expect the log library to try and execute any part of the string.
We are in the same boat. Finally updated "We are investigating Internet connectivity issues to the US-GOV-WEST-1 Region"
Seems to be resolved now. And seems they hid / took away any mentioning of possible issues. Sigh.
Well, look at the positive side, as a CTO you probably don't have much time to code anyway.

Jokes aside, did something happen before? Did a software not perform or caused problems? You say growth is fast. Sounds good and that means to make compromises here and there in software that might not fit your aspirations of quality.

Is this a new position? Or did you see a topic that was just beyond you in any conceivable way? I guess making wrong decisions comes with the job, but as long as business is good...
Yeah. It's inconsistent but a number of my production servers appear to be down. Along with my New Relic logging.
seems to be up again
This also seems to affect NPM, I can't install packages locally :/
It's the only realistic multi-cloud provider scenario I can ever come up with that I would consider actually implementing...
Alternatively, most of the production has already been snapped up by large customer(s). NEC is offering them as an option for their commercial displays, for instance.

They do have a history of underestimating demand, though. The original 26-pin Raspberry Pi was unobtanium for a long time after it was introduced. Some things never change. :) The pandemic-related supply chain woes can't help.
wohoo! ssh'd back in. ty
Yes, https://proxy.golang.org/

You can also configure go to use your own for internal projects or if you just want to avoid the global proxy.
The "System.out.println" one would be more true to life as "Hasn't updated the pom in 16 years and is still using log4j 1.1.3".
PagerDuty Outage
Google had the head start here with Glass, and then in classic Google fashion they let it die.

I'm always baffled how bad is Google at playing long term games. Their biggest mistake with Glass was trying to productize it too fast and stopping when they saw it didn't have good consumer fit.

They could have instead go more incremental by releasing developer hardware and learning from that. They could have kept that program small and nimble, but instead they pivoted into some bizarre enterprise program that has always gave me the impression of a "save face" move. Weird company.
Rubbish article. They hide way down that the auditors are in this area because of election "errors" that Democrats claim gave 200 vote counts to Democrats and was just a folding error.

Fraud or error in this place? Nevermind! You best not look or you are a racist impinging people's voting rights. Or whatever.

They also don't really point out the issue. The voters roles can be very very suspect, and it's not outside the realm of possibility that people used the EXACT SAME publicly available data to register, request ballots, or vote under someone else's name.

Two claims are true at the same time:

1) It was the least secure election in the nation's history

2)There has been no widespread "fraud" found yet.

This is grass roots election integrity, verifying voter rolls and looking for potential fraud. Nothing wrong with that.
I was ready to open my wallet, then saw it was "pseudo open source".

Shame. Looks really cool.
npmjs is Down
They really need to stop requiring SVPs or higher to show non-green status on the status page, as other HNers have revealed in last week's AWS post. It's effectively not a status page, and they could probably be sued if it can be demonstrated that X service was down but the status page showed green (since the SLA is based on status page). Should be automated and based on sample deployments running in every region and every service. And they should use non-AWS instances to do the sampling, so they can actually sample when, say, we experience the obligatory black friday us-east-1 outage every year.
There's a difference between providing a way to call the interpreter and giving people a convenient way to download code and execute it. No matter how you spin it, it's basically the same as standardizing `curl | sh`.

PS: eval() is also very bad per se, and IMHO it's a dangerous feature when used outside of a REPL or a debug environment. The fact that others already have bad features or are doing dubious things doesn't give you a free pass for doing them yourself. It never does, it's like saying that committing a crime is OK as long as everyone else does the same.
> I've scrapped out a perfectly good (and exceedingly nice to use) M1 Mini

Given that the CSAM issue turns out to be moot, I assume you feel regret at doing this.
If I remember right, the hidden partitions are indistinguishable from random data on your disk and it was necessary to provide an offset to the first block (or whatever) so it could be decrypted. You could easily overwrite it accidentally because it just looks like free space.
It is essential to stop sharing those files no matter what. It might not help on getting them caugh, but those who buy these pictures or find elsewhere, might try to share them as well. They might not be tech guys, so they might try to use some familiar service. And yes, there are many people like that. iCloud would be flooded if no action is taken against sharing.
> self destructs in a reversible way

Reversibility is not a feature of destruction, lexically-speaking. A better description might be "locked".

More importantly in this case: if you are able to reverse it, you can be compelled to reverse it. This is no different than having a secret passphrase.
IDK, don't you end up with a bunch of extra costs? Like you're going to literally pay more money because now you have cross region replication charges, and then you're going to pay a latency cost, and then you may end up needing to overprovision your compute, etc.

All to go from, idk, 99.9% uptime to 99.95% (throwing out these numbers)? The thing is when AWS goes down so much of the internet goes down that companies don't really get called out individually.
Until late 2020, maybe early 2021, I could always find the Pi model I needed from _somewhere_. And usually the local Micro Center had at least partial inventory of all the range of Pi models.

Even midway into 2021, I could find at least a couple of each model at Micro Center, and more than half the SKUs would be in stock at most online retailers.

As 2021 progressed, though, it became impossible to even find the less popular varieties in stock, to the point I haven't seen a Pi 4, CM3+, or CM4 in stock at my local Micro Center since September. I'm glad I picked up a couple spares and placed orders for a few 8GB modules in January—otherwise I'd still be waiting indefinitely.

Pis are only one of many devices that are basically screwed by supply chain issues this year. Eben Upton mentioned that they're producing more than ever this year, but they've sold through and are still going to be fighting supply issues until 2023 [1].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/20/raspberry_pi_supply_e...
Duo issues here as well.
Monetisation. The old internet didn't have enough rent-seekers gatekeeping the content.

Even Wikipedia begs for money it doesn't need.
Why wouldn't Amazon, Google and EBay want products to be stolen from their competitors and resold on their web site?
I'm not sure what your maths is trying to but when I've been for jabs there have been queues for the injection but the waiting room has always had plenty of space. The waiting room was never a bottleneck so removing it would make no difference. I'm not sure where they got the 23% figure from.

Ah I just reread it:

> that under the conditions of a system working at full capacity (as is needed now) the 15-minute wait reduces throughput by 23%.

So they're saying if they add a load more vaccinators the waiting room may become a bottleneck. Fair enough.
BusKill does not ship with destructive triggers. The current app is limited to locking your screen. Future releases will include soft/hard shutdown.

We do have a "LUKS Header Shredder" trigger (which we call self-destruct as it renders all the data on the FDE disk useless), but we (intentionally) don't include it by default and raise the barrier of entry because of the risk of data loss.

We'll be publishing a more detailed write-up on the LUKS Header Shredder in 2 weeks. You can subscribe for updates on our website (buskill.in) or the campaign directly (crowdsupply.com)
Is this just a case of infelicitious wording? It's strictly true that "people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus". People with the vaccine can be infected with COVID, and infected people can spread the virus.

But it's not true that people are infectious just because they've been vaccinated—a person who claims that is lying. This article seems to exploit the ambiguous wording to assert that Twitter is penalizing people for saying the true statement, when they're in fact penalizing people for saying the false statement.