skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it could also mean that the very public failure of this project gave Apple leverage over whichever spooks were pushing for it in the first place.

This is my guess. I imagine it went something like this.

Congressman: "So tim, FBI talked to me and want some help. Please find a way to check all pictures on iphone"

Tim: "or no?"

C: "We'll make it worth your while"

T: "This goes against our marketing and history, it'll take a really big push. My team says we can manage X but we need to work with CSAM agency to handle optics.

C: "Great!"

T: "I was right, the public hates it and doesn't care about children, we're going back to our privacy stance in marketing because the backlash would out-due the political reward. We'll throw you under the bus if you push again on this. We totally want to help for real and not just because politics is a game and we have to play, but this cost is too high, even you can see this backlash and recognize we can't go threw with it. BTW thanks for giving us excuse to hire a few new expensive ML scientists from google or wherever. They got to write some nice papers."

C:"Gotcha. See you next week for gulf when we try again at something new? There is this israeli company i want you to meet"
Those glasses have been used in elderly care here in Denmark for quite a while. Nurses who treat wounds use a set of glasses to document the process so they don’t have to switch in and out of gloves a million times.

I wouldn’t too much about the big American advertisement companies getting a lead on it, considering how little they are trusted outside the US in anything related to enterprise.

Those glasses I mentioned are actually Google glass if I recall correctly, but with some completely different software because naturally you can’t use Google software to document patient data in the EU.
Post 2008, I'd say. I was a 2010 graduate, and the change between 'do what you love' and 'College is for MONEY' was like a culture bomb going off.
Some log libraries allow user configuration of logging. Some configurations can be as mundane as altering logging levels when debugging; other configurations could redirect the logs away from text files to something that preserves semantics.

But, depending on what your program is doing, printf/whatever can be "good enough."

Coming from the C# world, one of the nice things about log4net is that it has a standard exception formatter, and callbacks whenever anything logs to error. This makes it easier to log unexpected errors and phone home when they happen.
I've been thinking of throwing FreeBSD on an old Thinkpad and trying to use it normally. Right now I run Debian, with most of my work happening in Firefox or the shell.

Is there anything you didn't even think about that ended up being a problem, or noticeably worse? Or the opposite, something you thought would be an issue but wasn't?
How is this being downvoted? The objective of science is to further knowledge with study and revise conclusions.
You don't think it contributed at least a little to Go eventually adding generics?
The east-1 downtime was the interconnection between AWS hosted services, including the control plane, so most resources not dependent on AWS APIs stayed up (eg. non-autoscaled EC2 instances).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29516482
The difference is that being pwned by a random memory corruption, while unfortunate, is an unintended feature. This on the other hand provides a deliberate, standardized and convenient way to allow anyone to download *any* arbitrary code into a running JVM. This is something that it is NEVER ok, not in any form or fashion, not even your own network unless you enable some huge debug flag, and it's WAY worse than eval().

This whole thing exists because Java has basically kept around a way of pulling off something akin to

wget -O - someurl | sh

but with extra steps for more than 20 years. This is absolutely insane even from a '90s perspective, the whole idea is broken and it absolutely bewilders me that `com.sun.jndi.ldap.object.trustURLCodebase` was only set to false by default in 2018. This is utter rubbish; support for arbitrary URL codebases should have been canned decades ago, not 3 years ago.

The fact that JNDI can pull random code from a server like that is absolutely nonsensical trash, no matter how one spins it.
emphasis on when
Down for me, as well.
One can safely assume it's happening. For example: Nancy Pelosi IS in the legislative branch and doesn't even attempt to hide the sheer amount of money she's made on trading with insider information. https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/pelosi

If it's that corrupt to the bone with actual members of the house/senate, you can be assured the congressional aides are just as corrupt.
Maybe I'm just too inexperienced, but I don't see the point of this library.

The linked example shows a really basic sqlalchemy model lookup. What does spewing these new types all over my code get me that returning None or an empty dict/list doesn't without the overhead?

def find_user(user_id: int) -> Optional[User]:
user = User.objects.filter(id=user_id)
if user.exists():
return user[0]
else:
return None

Not only is this idiomatic, it conveys the same semantic meaning. I'm using an IDE, as is anyone else working in a large codebase. I'll be told at the point of invocation that find_user could return None and I need to possibly deal with that.
Confirmed experiencing significant issues in US-WEST-1 as well
"Guy's you're just not doing it right" or "there would be more competition if we would just remove those pesky regulations on the meat packing industry". It's very convenient that the answer is always just "remove regulations" as though most of them weren't put in place to solve existing problems that otherwise weren't getting solved by the market itself.

I'll give you a different suggestion - what you're saying may work fine on a small scale, but not on a scale where consumers can no longer realistically have any idea how something was produced. Consumers can't select against things they don't know about or don't understand.
Apple has stood up to unreasonable government invasions of privacy before. And won. They have the means. They have the skill. They have the incentive (their entire brand is arguably built around privacy) and their users have been pretty clear in voicing their opposition to CSAM.

Some nebulous political references in opposition to encryption aren't the reason Apple did this in the first place. They had and continue to have plenty of choice in the matter.
Exactly. Apple doesn't want to be in the unenviable position of making that judgement (is a hotdog or not).

As a taxpayer and customer, I concur. I'm glad someone is doing that job. But I don't want it to be a corporation.
Stripe as well
> That worked out pretty bad for him

I don't think so. He was incarcerated for unrelated reasons.
Looks like a hardware problem to me.
Experiencing significant issues in US-WEST-1
You need to buy insiders in order to influence insiders
> as long as primary incentives for those politicians are campaign contributions from corporations and wealthy donors

I would imagine corporations funding politicians would want their businesses not be vandalized. I get some NIMBY policies are pushed by wealthy donors w/ real estate but that should be balanced out by developers.

Something deeper is wrong. It's almost as these politicians are purposely destroying the vast amount of wealth built up over the years and letting in chaos.
The Atlantic article says, and I quote: "microbiologists can’t even agree on what an infection actually is." This seems to have the sole aim of shutting down discussion, basically throwing up one's hands and saying 'who knows.'

In any case, the term 'sterilizing' may not be one hundred percent biologically accurate any more, but denying that there are no sterilizing vaccines isn't really addressing the issue. So there are no 'sterilizing vaccines.' I think we can all agree that we want a COVID vaccine that is as effective as the polio or smallpox vaccine, a vaccine capable of eradication. Currently, that may not be an option due to how the disease mutates, but we should still talk about it, and discuss why we are not at least attempting to come up with a vaccine that is the flu vaccine (which may include 50 weakened or dead variants). Acting like the current vaccine options operate mechanistically like the old, very effective vaccines is misleading, and I think part of what is driving a lot of the consternation.
I've experienced it working well-enough in groups of 3-4, depending on everyone having decent internet at that time and on the software used. Just like regular mobbing IMO there's some circumstances where it'll feel like the right method, if it's a method you've occasionally practiced.

Here's some free marketing, I am not affiliated with any of these co.s: The best tool I've used for multiple users was CoScreen, because it shows everyone's cursors and allows simultaneous sharing of windows from multiple coworkers. So per that point in the OP that the major benefit is "trivia" knowledge, if you have one coworker who can quickly solve subproblem X from their terminal, and another who can quickly solve subproblem Y from their terminal, both terminals can be shared simultaneously and everyone can gain that context.
My experience was as described in both May and July. If anything, I think they said less about it on the second dose. It might vary depending on location . . .
QuickBooks Online seems to be down, and they seem to be hosted on AWS.
Electron was developed as a side-project by Github. Zed seems to be a dedicated company just making an editor.

Of course it's possible they have some idea of how to monetise it that Jetbrains and Sublime didn't think of.
"This isn’t an experimental paper, but rather a theoretical paper, one with a suspiciously low number (zero) of theoretical physicists on it."
Ian Freemen is a controversial political activist whose pro-liberty, pro-bitcoin radio station was raided by the FBI in 2016 and had their equipment confiscated. It was widely covered in the news, he was kicked out of at least one community organization, and last I heard, they still didn't have all their equipment back.

No charges were ever filed, and the media outlets didn't bother to update their articles.

I think false accusations happen, especially to controversial figures, and assume most victims just don't want to call much attention to it.
Let's see, step by step, if we put 2 in EAX what happens:

Init: EBX = 2; EAX = 2;

Loop: EBX = 1;//gets decremented

CMP EBX, 1;//it's 1 so we exit

Final result is 2. Sounds the edge case is not that of an edge after all
"Nobody ever got fired for picking [x]" as applied to cloud zones? Sadly, you are probably right.
I wonder if you really dug into most company's tech stacks, how many of their support tools (e.g., PagerDuty) are reliant on overlapping cloud providers.
It's weird isn't it, how Apple might become the first 3 trillion dollar company.... Even if all their products are overpriced horseshit. One could almost assume people value what Apple is making and are willing to pay for it.

Their products aren't twice as expensive, their upgrades might be (RAM, iPhone storage) but the base models aren't very expensive if you compare it with "closest to comparable" competitor models.
The issue is not specific to the US, same issues in Europe. Also, it seems not only AWS experiencing issues. Unless Google is hosted on AWS haha...
Three separate errors in point 1.

Point 2 is false.

Point 3 is too vague to make any sense.
That ship has sailed a long time ago. There is a good chance that everything you do outside of your home is being recorded by someone or something and stored somewhere. Including your neighbors' Ring cameras, traffic cameras, shop cameras, and workplace surveillance. The only saving grace so far is that it's not getting automatically uploaded to YouTube yet, but somebody has access to it.
Down Detector doesn't really detect anything other than people saying "Is [service X] down?" on Twitter, which does mean that Xbox Live appears to be permanently offline if you believe them because the typical user for Xbox Live will declare anything from tripping over their ethernet cable to a tornado levelling their house preventing a connection to mean Xbox Live is down.
Seems like a lot of tedious work at low pay for little impact, particularly for people who are tech savvy enough.
I always carry my phone, even if moving to another room. I assumed that a similar behavior is why you got rid of your wristband.
Ask HN: I've lost faith in myself as a developer, how do I get it back?
I've been a software developer for about 12 years, the last 8 of which I have been the CTO of a company that is growing like crazy. Recently I have been doubting every move that I make and have lost all faith in myself as a developer. When I look at a new feature I just think that I will make it shitty or get called out on not doing things the "right" way. The thing is, I know I'm a decent developer but I find myself doubting every single decision that I make. Is this burn out? How can I get out of this funk and move on?
It's not just hyper-scale products that preclude having nice planned maintenance windows. Serving a handful of countries spread out across the globe is enough to throw the concept out the window. I had an application that started out US-only, and was built assuming that 11pm-7am Eastern was available to do big data imports, run reports, etc. But once a couple other countries got added, there was no longer any time of the day or night where that assumption held true. A lot of processes had to be re-architected because of that.
Add SceneForm to it, announced with fanfare at IO and slowly forgotten.
Yes, stipulated - bad websites are bad.

But I just picked a few obvious high profile information-oriented sites and none of them had that problem. So… which websites are the bad ones?

Are you looking at the first site that comes up when you search for ‘chocolate chip cookie recipes’ and holding that up as an example that the web is a disaster area?

That’s like picking up a gossip magazine from the rack in the supermarket checkout line and complaining that American literature has really gone to the dogs.
Okta Outage
Wow, yeah, us-west-1 AND us-west-2 are reporting connectivity issues. I'm guessing this is related to the Auth0 outage that's currently going on too.
It sounds like journalism is achieving its goal - getting more clicks. Like you said, everyone clicked it and read it.

Not sure what the solution is when the only way for these outlets to stay afloat is to get more and more clicks.
Multi-cloud is such an odd idea to me. You're either building abstractions on top of things like cloud-provider specific implementations of CDNs, K8S, S3, Postgres, etc...or using the cloud just for VMs. The latter would be cheaper with just old-school hosting from Equinix, Rackspace, etc. The former feels like a losing battle.
Have you lived in SF for any length of time? Everyone I know who has lived in the Bay Area for a decade or more has seen the decline.

It seems like you are trying to understand what is going on just by reading news reports, which I agree is very hard.

A lot of people have seen it with their own eyes.
Northern EU, down as well. AWS Management Console in eu-west-1 opens up just fine though.

Edit: Hitting refresh a bunch finally got it open.
>If you think that rule of law is a good thing, then companies must comply with local laws. The alternative is not a humanist utopia; it is the rule of unaccountable corporations.

In this case there is no law to force Apple to scan on device, they can scan iCloud only if the law forces them to do that, or scan only iCloud images that are public or shared if the law forces to do only that.

Before 1989 listen to a specific radio station was illegal , but the good part was that the radio device could not snitch on you , if someone would have invented snitching radio then I am 100% only those radio devices would be legal to be sold in my country at that time. So if you create a snitching device then you invite the bad governments to add the laws after to profit from that and make their lives easier.
Of course not, but then you're saying USB is a security flaw.

My point is that given how universal USB as long as a device can do both input and output it's going to be very hard to stop some exfiltration from being possible.

Do you really think a bug report should be filed on all OS's for allowing USB drives and keyboards to be plugged on a running system?
I don't know about AWS, but I know a lot of us uptime monitoring makers use (and pay) for competitor's products to know if we're down.
How does this service work?

It seems to have all the look and feel of AWS, and somehow has more up to date info than the official AWS status page?
Yes, the abstract sucks. Those are the numbers without batteries or over-building. To get to 99.99% you have to add all the mitigations: 3x overbuild, 3 hours of batteries and a continent wide grid.
My job bought me whatever laptop I needed, so I got a beefed-up XPS 15 (i9, 64gb).
If the M1 max could run Linux I would have bought that instead.
If you have the time to share the details, I would definitely appreciate them (looking to do something like this myself). In particular, on which hardware did you build the kernel? Or did you cross-compile it? Also which bootloader did you use? Thanks in advance!
Remember, every 12 secs take one 9.
Not OP, but check out LineageOS without Play Services.
_NOW_ she's mad as hell and won't take it anymore? Why the sudden epiphany?

Notably absent from the press conference: Chesa Boudin. Go ahead and arrest anyone you want. Boudin will have them back in society post haste.
I have Google announcement fatigue. It's just so pointless to get excited about anything they say they're working on. I wonder how employees feel after spending years working on a new product only to see it tossed aside and forgotten. Years of their life wasted, discarded like they never mattered in the first place. It makes me shudder to imagine that as a possible trajectory my life could have taken. I mourn for any of the multiverse versions of me that lived that experience.
That seems like a great expense to go to for the sake of a possibility the guy might do more than peek out of the window and then go back to what they were doing.

Surely there were a bunch of other options to consider before "let's stage a car crash"?
If the dollar is getting stronger, then it means the inflation we are seeing now is actually worse than it looks. The fact that inflation is happening on a strengthening dollar actually means that the purchasing power of a dollar in the US is dropping even further than the suggested rate of inflation.

More evidence for the meme that the "real" economy is unrelated to the stock market and the bankers economy. For rich people, everything is going up. For ordinary people, everything is getting worse. These things are not mutually exclusive.
> So there is a rational push for boosters right now.

I very very much agree.

But what I am saying but failing to get across in a sensible way is this: A double jab will protect you from serious illness. so there really shouldn't be the narrative that double jabbed people have little to no protection.

> last jab was 6 months ago, and you get exposed to omicron, it is a much worse scenario

I do disagree slightly with this. Yes, old people (75+) who've had almost a year since the last jab will be more vulnerable. Boosters are very much needed to keep them out of hospital (just like the flu jab). But for the vast majority of the population, I am reasonably confident that 2 jabs will be enough to stop you having a really bad time. Sure you'll get symptoms, but it shouldn't be serious.

However I must stress that I have had the booster, and I would have rolled them out in july/august when they were approved for use. I would have not sat on the fence and waited, like the JVCI did.

In summary, I think we broadly agree, but down to my miss communication I have implied that boosters are not needed.
You don’t find a character poisoning her husband (maybe to kill him at first) dramatic?

That said, I agree they are different, but I love _The Master_ more dearly than most all films. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the source novel for _Inherent Vice_ so not super into that film. Loved _Phantom Thread_.
He received the award after the downing of the plane.
Is it bad that I can almost see that being a quick and dirty MVP to get out the door while you built your own cloud solution?
Raises serious migration and cost issues, but... would be interesting.
> I'm curious — what does Hacker News run on? It seems impervious to any kind of downtime...

On a dirty, disgusting dedicated server.
Discovery of and#39;split&#39; photon provides a new way to see light
We are ALL being distracted from solving problems caused by the industry
It is not scanning all of your files, only those which will be send to iCloud. Scanning for part of pipeline in sync process, so it even can’t scan other files.

But yes, currently Apple can access all your images on the cloud, but with this change they would have been E2E encrypted, hence improving privacy.
I recently described an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29567729
Declaration syntax has nothing to do with "pointers everywhere".
> That’s not how infectious diseases work. You can be getting other people sick.

That's not how vaccines against COVID-19 work. They diminish the risk of severe illness and death, not transmission rates.
That's why they have such a ridiculously low market share in Europe.

Phone market share in Europe[1]:

Apple 35.42%

Samsung 30.81%

Xiaomi 11.71%

edit: some other sources have it Samsung 32%, Apple 28% and yet others Samsung: 30% and Apple: 22%, but either way hardly "ridiculously low"

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/europe
Reading this description - a fast native code editor with collaborative editing as a key feature - reminded me of Hydra/SubEthaEdit, which first came out in 2003! Talk about being ahead of your time.
"US-EAST-1 or bust" being manifested right now.
You may need to update your priors. In Seattle, for example, going about your business naked in the city is not only legal, but determined to be a Constitutionally protected civil right by the courts decades ago. (And as is very evident, some people choose to exercise that right.)
Why do you not consider hashes of my photos to be my data?
I'm definitely pro-vaccine, but I'm also concerned about the long-term impact of alienating whole swaths of the country with policies like these. Perhaps there are less onerous policies that would be similarly effective?

To address the risk of transmission for in-person employees, would a combination of masking and testing be similarly effective at minimizing office outbreaks?

As for the increase in a company's health insurance costs it seems like we could simply let health insurance companies consider vaccination status when calculating an individual's health insurance premiums (like they currently do with smokers). It seems like the reasonable free-market approach to ask people to pay for any increase in risk they willingly choose to take on.
What kind of equipment does one use to do this?
I wonder how many are now furiously headed back to us-east-1, building the conditions for the third event :)
Whether an injunction would be Constitutional was the issue, and it's been decided.
LineageOS has near-nightly binary releases, you don't need to build or "redo" anything to keep up to date, other than a 5-10 minute update over adb about once a week.
Fast – Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together
Root logins are suffering some kind of "captcha outage." The buzz has just begun https://twitter.com/search?q=aws%20captcha&src=typed_query