skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People where is your fundamental freedom desire?

Knowing the price of something you consume is taking away your fundamental freedom? If that's the case, you should probably stop looking at prices when making any purchases - all things from groceries, electronics, cars ... wouldn't want to lose more of it.

It goes to show how meaninglessly people now use that word - it's essential become a flag for "anything I like (or dislike)" with no bearing on reality.
The status page is working great for me. Did they make it multi-region after the last failure? I'm on the east coast.
We're seeing AWS issues with us-west-2 at [medium-sized tech company]
Here are a couple of good ones, with good diagrams of how the attack works:

- https://blogs.juniper.net/en-us/enterprise-cloud-and-transfo...

- https://www.govcert.ch/blog/zero-day-exploit-targeting-popul...
It's the George Costanza of web apps. I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC8PzhNuh7w
I’m not any kind of downvoter because it’ll take me a decade to have enough internet points to be permitted to contribute in this way.
Also, Xi is not very satisfied with CRDT [1]

> The main thing CRDT buys you is the ability to propagate edits through a mesh-like network, exploiting local connections, as opposed to requiring a central server. I think that's appealing if you're actually editing in such an environment. For large scale organizations, I think it does make sense to treat the set of analysis and review tools as a form of collaborative editing, but those are also cases where a centralized server is completely viable.

> The flip side of the tradeoff is that you have to express your application logic in CRDT-compatible form. How do you represent the merge rules for soft spans as a monotonic semi-lattice?

> So I come to the conclusion that the CRDT is not pulling its (considerable) weight. When I think about a future evolution of xi-editor, I see a much brighter future with a simpler, largely synchronous model, that still of course has enough revision tracking to get good results with asynchronous peers like the language server. The basic editing commands, including indentation and paren matching, are more simply done as synchronous operations, and I think avoiding that complexity is key.

[1] https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187#issuecomm...
I was about to say as well, JavaScript, SQL, were both niche DSLs that are now mainstream enough that people prep them for general software development interviews.

JavaScript is now a general language, but maybe the most popular DSLs break out of that once they've gained a certain mindshare, at which point they're no longer a DSL.
"Under the leadership of Chair Maria Cantwell..."

opensecrets.org reports that Cantwell's #4 lifetime donor is Boeing (Microsoft being #1 by a good margin). No conflict of interest here I suppose... Also, searching the report for 'director' is interesting as there's no mention of the role Boeing's corporate board played on exerting pressure to get the 737MAX to market in order to avoid Airbus getting a ton of orders, right? [1]

Another interesting issue is how the software testing took place at Boeing, another subject that seems to be lacking in the Senate report. According to reports testing was highly outsourced to low-paid temp workers [2].

> "Bloomberg's Peter Robison reported on June 28 that Boeing and its suppliers outsourced some of its 737 Max software development and testing to temporary workers. These temp workers, some of whom were recent college graduates, were employees or contract workers for Indian tech firms HCL Technologies and Cyient Ltd. Some of the testers and developers made as little as $9, the longtime engineers told Bloomberg. Former Boeing flight controls engineer Rick Ludtke said the move to outsource was centered on cost-cutting."

I suppose asking some of those $9 an hour employees to testify before Congress about their roles in testing would have been just too embarrassing to Boeing. Cantwell instead wants to push the blame onto the FAA for lack of oversight, thereby protecting Boeing's corporate board members from responsibility.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/business/boeing-737-max-c...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-outsourced-737-max-re...
npm seems to be down. Maybe related?
Twitch seems to have recovered, is it back now for everyone?
Works for me. It's the usual static page with everything green.
> The objection obviously came later after it was reviewed to the public.

Why is this obvious? Normally, when you have an objection to a company policy, you voice those objections in private to people within the company. This seems "obvious" to me, but to explain--(1) it's against company policy and often considered a fireable offense, (2) employees have an interest in presenting a united front, (3) those who want the project to fail publicly want it to happen without interference from inside the company.
> Google's 68th Operating System or 69th

Maybe those are iterations for them
They are so deluded they don't even realize the only reason they do it is to virtue signal how much better they are than everyone else, which is just another contest to come out on top in the pecking order.
I like the Homer one.
Or branding...

Which I can accept.

As could I, easily. As long as that was all I was sacrificing.
Yep, it's broken again. I was trying to install some Thunderbird extensions, and stuff started breaking halfway through. Never thought of an AWS outage borking my mail client I guess...
For this kind of thing it's usually better to just use a user-driven site like: https://downdetector.ca/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

Some users are clueless, but the clueless users average out over time and the spikes make it clear when there are actual issues.
The search function does not work, and npm install does nothing for me.

I'm in Europe.
From the few I know, the classes are mostly shortcuts to css features (container are one of the exception), which are of course defined as custom classes but they don't create a new layer of (name,meaning) unlike what I assume we were all doing.
Looks like both npm and Auth0 are related to a possible AWS outage. https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
This is a grossly disingenuous analogy. A vaccine is trivial to get, takes no willpower, isn’t a result of addiction, isn’t negatively influenced by such factors as advertising, restaurants, food deserts, requires no trust in individuals, etc.

I have never seen a person trying hard to get vaccinated with available vaccines all around them unable to do so. I have seen people attempt to lose weight. The fact that it’s big business is a testament to this.

Sexual behavior, well yea there is careless behavior but also deceit. How would you tell the difference?

With vaccines, the end goal is to get people to get the vaccine so they can live their normal lives. There is no one time simple action someone can take to prevent obesity. There is no vaccine for all stds I’m aware of.
We should kick all the progressive losers out.

There are conservatives in the SF Bay Area than people want to admit to and I think that number went up heavily in the past two years of covid fascism.

Don't hire these people.

Don't let them on your board.

Fire every single one you can at your company.
I can’t believe you want to make light of it!
Nor can they create something better that will eclipse any of their work you purchase.
Possibly due to an AWS outage https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
If they're monitoring AWS downtime they might want to rethink this.
us-west-1 also seems offline, but us-east-1 (ironically) seems fine
Electrolytic hydrogen can be cheap as long as 1) electricity for electrolysis is cheap and 2) electrolyzers are cheap. 1) is reasonably easily assured by shaving off overgeneration of electricity from renewable power plants. 2) is a matter of electrolyzer R&D, although it's true that it's slightly complicated by the former solution of 1) by decreasing their duty cycle. Nevertheless, 1) is the dominant problem.

As for storage, it's true that storing hydrogen is problematic but once I calculated that even existing facilities for natural gas in, say, Germany would be sufficient for a whole month of the whole country's grid running off of hydrogen. This is less than the several months provided by using the same storage for natural gas, but since in the following decades, the demand for this gas is going to shrink severely as German buildings are going to be replaced by low-energy buildings (pursuant to the 2010/31/EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and the 2012/27/EU Energy Efficiency Directive, as well as presumably future regulations), this capacity might be freed up, and in any case it's a much larger capacity than is predicted to be required (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429211...) for a 100% renewable grid in Germany.

One interesting idea I don't know the feasibility of but is tempting anyway is ultra-large-scale liquid hydrogen storage. Considering the square-cube law and low density of liquid hydrogen stressing the structure (just 70 kg per cubic metre of liquid hydrogen tank, as opposed to 1000 kg per cubic metre of a water tank, for example), ultra-large-scale storage of hydrogen could be feasible in principle -- certainly much more than for example liquid hydrogen storage for a car, and in industrial settings to boot (as opposed to cars handled by ordinary citizens).
Whenever I transpose my comments to HN, I usually do some light editing. The following comment is unedited because this headline kinda fired me up.

Considering how Google’s treated AR and VR in the last 10 years, hyping people up then quietly pulling back support and finally cancellation after just 2-3 years, I don’t see this going well.

They had a toehold 6-10 years ago which they could have easily kept iterating on and making small marketshare gains, but I guess that wasn’t good enough. Now instead of entering 2022 with 10-20% marketshare, a mature platform, and developer/user mindshare, they’re starting the new year with none of that and the idea “Hey maybe we should try AR/VR stuff again.”

Get bent Google. You shouldn’t have cancelled Daydream and killed the small amount of goodwill you were starting to cultivate. Lenovo got burned, developers got burned, users got burned. And they still want to try again?

Instead of taking your Google Glass ball and running home with it after everyone was mean about the idea, maybe listen to the feedback and change the product? But no, despite Glass being introduced almost purely around consumer-targeted ideas and concepts, it’s now an “Enterprise” product out of reach of us mere mortals.

ARCore, with its many naming and branding changes, has also failed to catch on like Google hyped.

Google, you’re charging into battle with Apple and Zuck and you got a dildo made of American cheese. Good luck.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkXnLUpXgAEz6Yg.jpg (via HBO's Succession)
> Go to a university and look around at all the MacBooks owned by non tech people

Depends on where.

In Italy it's absolutely not true.

I am a consultant for an Italian University in Milan.

I see a lot of Chromebooks, people don't have 1.500 euros to waste on a laptop + rent + food.

Many students ask me what they can buy with their budget, that, on average, is far below a thousand euros.
This article could have been 2 or 3 sentences but instead I had to wade through paragraphs of fluff
> That's not a violation of any rights.

There is no medical secret anymore? Being vaccinated or not should be, and remain, a private decision - with your doctor as a counterpart. Your employer has nothing to do in it.
> Many teams don't do continuous integration. They have branches over branches over branches. There are many changes that are not in prod. Continuous integration is about integrating several times a day. David Farley frequently talks about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl62gQpAl1w

Preach. As a consultant, I have been trying to implement continuous integration in a team and it has been so hard to convince project owners that delivering frequently and continuously to production behind feature flags is a net gain over accumulating "features" in dozens of branches that get outdated, poorly documented and even forgotten.

Some days the team crawls to snail pace trying to pick arbitrary branches to merge into integration branch. Then it takes days to be tested, adjusted, approved and merged into master. The process is so convoluted and cognitively loaded that it has been a major source of bugs.

They need better tests and continuous integration to become nimble.
When you say we "understand" what it's supposed to be, what do you mean? That morality is an attempt to generalize required behaviour over different situations was the point. The utility of the morality project is that has the goal of preventing any situation from going to hell. That's what makes the game compelling to participants. From a selfish game theory perspective, the repeated interactions is the argument for it.
>You can open them and reflash then with Tasmota but they are a pain to open.

Not sure if you tried it, but depending on the age of the stock or the tardiness of the OEM in applying security patches, it may be possible to flash them without opening them first.

https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert#procedure
Still getting errors in Houston

edit: some streams back up, chat still buggy as of 09:55 local time

edit2: appears to be back ~10:00 local time
Is it AWS or could it be an ISP?

AWS seems to be working for me, but I’ve worked with clients in the US and spectrum internet tended to drop connections to us sporadically, which looks like an outage to our clients but is something we obviously can’t control.
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I do have a Macbook Pro from circa 2010. I understand that by Apple fanboy standards, another older than a year is ancient, but to me that's pretty recent hardware.

Only way I found to make this useable is to treat it as a SSH server I connect to remotely.

Its touchpad certainly wasn't anything special, it's probably worse than the non-Mac average, only ever clicked correctly in some parts, before quickly getting stuck forever.
My monitoring is on fire, flipping red to green every minute because of connectivity issues with every single LB in us-west-2.
It's missing this one https://i.imgur.com/zTGw5zN.png
It sounds like their systems design interviews aren’t rigorous enough.
Cineplex awarded $1.24B in damages in takeover suit, Cineworld to appeal
We are aware : https://status.cloud.mongodb.com/

"Investigating - We have received reports of the "Next" or "Login with Google" buttons being disabled on the login screen for MongoDB Cloud and MongoDB Support. We are investigating the issue and will update this post shortly.
Dec 15, 15:28 UTC"
Twitch Is Also Down
There’s some scaling constraints using stdout with kubernetes. That logging load hits the kublet/control plane. This is an issue for those already pushing k8s up to the edge of its current scalability.
Show HN: Cassette – Structured async meetings for remote teams
For most people, yeah it's worth it. Afaik, yeah they do allow fully offline backup/restore, you don't need to use iCloud for that.

I switched away to an Android, so this isn't something I'm taking advantage of personally.
npmjs has problems too :(
> The idea that you could completely immobilize someone at a public library so rapidly and without their awareness that they could not even move their arm 20 cm or so during a struggle seems ludicrous to me.

Well, they did — and without even touching him.
The funny thing about the American dream is that the quintessential examples used to be blue collar or back office labor jobs like mailroom processors could work hard and rise to the top. Kind of a pipe dream but it did happen. Even if you believe that to still be true, gig workers start even lower, below the bottom rung of the ladder. They’re contractors doing spot jobs in mailrooms. Most janitor jobs are gone. They’re now contractors too. Healthcare is to blame for a lot of this. The cost of a low level employee is simply too high when companies need to cover the healthcare coverage costs.
Looks like its taken down SendGrid, NPM, Twitch, Auth0 so far
Oh wow, yeah. Finally looks like FreeBSD grew out of the 2005 era. I say that only half jokingly, the previous design was very dated, but still every bit as functional for it's purpose.
Though I'm ok with my Thinkpad X1E Gen 2 (not super happy but ok), I had made up my mind about Framework being my next machine. Now with Asahi Linux's progress, build quality of the Macbook combined with flexibility of Linux makes it a serious option. Very interested to see how things turn out on both these fronts in next few years.
I wonder if there have been any efforts to sabotage crowdsourced AI training and content moderation by signing up on crowdworking platforms and intentionally providing false responses. A large and tech savvy enough sabotage ring could use a browser extension or the like to keep their responses straight and increase the odds of their fake answers being accepted.
This is going to the brave souls who were on call the week this happened!
I am not sure if they can block me on firms internal chats :)

Jokes apart, a big kudos to those who were on call :)
Maybe they got so much flak last time for it being worthless, that they just decided to pull it this time??
> in the precious few early weeks where lockdowns had that potential

We have enough data by now, worldwide, to clearly say that lockdowns were completely bullshit and ineffective. There is virtually no correlation with viral spread and lockdown status.
It’s hilarious to see HN flip from “I dream of a future where no one has to work and fall under the yoke of greedy employers” to “just get injected with this drug and be thankful you have a job; don’t get it and you deserve to starve”.
Intel's compute features are in a separate open source package called Intel Graphics Compute Runtime.[1] Integrated graphics from 2014 (Broadwell) and later are supported. Support for discrete graphics (2020 onward) is in development.[2]

AMD provides an open source OpenCL solution for Linux called ROCm, but the project is too limited to be helpful in many use cases. ROCm supports a total of 6 GPU models, all from previous generations,[3] and does not support GUI-based software applications such as Blender.[4]

[1] https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime

[2] https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/issues/469#issuecom...

[3] https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Instal...

[4] https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/1397
>All of this also points to the complete absurdity of this mass hysteria: it is insane to ruin someone’s life just because they have a picture on their device. It is just thoughtcrime, at this point.

But it happened, some guy was falsely accursed because someone made a typo in an Ip address, he lost his job and he was forcefully kept away from his wife and children.

>Seriously, if a government is after you, they will get you regardless of the content of your phone

That is false, for example before 1989 listening to a certain radio station was illegal here in Romania but the government could not ask the guys the made the radio to give them a list with all people that listened to this radio station.
Your claim is that the govberment knows my name and what I did they can fuck me up, that is true but this imnplies the gov already knows and has the proof, in this case without the file scanner they won't know I own political/religions materials that is illegal but after the file scanner runs and reports me , only then I am on the gov list.

I hope is clear, tech makes the job of the bad gov easy, so in this case you as a random user you gai nothing from your device scanning for CSAM but many lose from this, the question is why if you gain nothing and this can be done with a simple iCloud scan? (because for sure it will be extended to private messages and documents)
Intelligent adults generally get vaccinated (unless they have a preexisting medical condition), so I can imagine that Googlers don't have problem with saying goodbye to the few antivaxx colleagues.
It's not just AWS - check the down reports:https://downdetector.com/

Cloudflare having some significant issues as well on certain domains.
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Republics are a form of democracy, but I think that "bringing democracy" was always just an excuse to invade countries for natural resources and to fight proxy wars to contain other world powers.

If you're complaining that i.e. a k-12 education misrepresented the government in the USA and didn't adequately explain the reasons behind it, this is a common gripe among conservatives/republicans, that kids get educated to believe that the republic system is unfair due to states electing presidents and congresspeople instead of direct democracy, and that the system would be better if it was a direct democracy. In particular, the Federalist Papers #10 discusses why representative democracy is more anti-fragile (to use a modern term) than direct democracy.
I only got the "transfer them to a remote host, and then execute them" bits, my bad. Probably because I see no reason for the first two steps.
Like all things, the answer is it depends. Returning consistent API responses will usually be better for future API consumers. If you are deciding between sending back 1 field or 5 fields, it’s going to about the same since the overall request overhead will outweigh payload size. But if your widget has 500 fields, or deeply nested fields, it may be useful for the API to provide parameters that a consumer can use to specify which fields to return to avoid sending extra bytes.

The area I find dangerous for response sizes are load everything endpoints. Say it takes 5 API calls to build a page, you may have the great idea to create one Uber endpoint that returns the data for all 5 in a single call. These usually work initially but scale very poorly if your response body has any sort of list.

For delete it’s pretty common to not return much beyond the status code. If the object is successfully deleted, then it no longer has data, so what are you returning it for? If you need to store a snapshot before deletion, then send a GET first.
Yup. Having issues with IT Glue and Duo here.
Our IaaS vendor, Aptible, reports us-west-1 is down / throwing errors
It has been this way for a long time it’s just that people thought reading manuals was tedious and ugly.
I hope it does. :)
> Alphabay

Related video is all I could find about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXrXD1M6kXk