skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> are not truly independent of each other

> Indeed. They are even on the same planet!

Clever bastard, aren't you.

>> please stop blaming the victim

> Excuse me?

"If you're affected by us-east-1 outages then you're not hosting in other regions and you're doing it wrong".

Except: You can be affected by this outage if you did everything right. You're putting blame on people being down for not being hosted in different regions when it would not help them. You've effectively shifted blame away from Amazon and onto the person who cannot control their uptime by doing what you said.
> Human capital side would disagree with that I think

I hear this argument a lot, but every startup I've been involved with had a full-time DevOps engineer wrangling Terraform & YAML files - that same engineer can be assigned to manage the bare-metal infrastructure.
This argument is so basic yet it keeps being repeated over and over on HN...

It boils down to you can't expect a return on bitcoin hence it's shouldn't be worth anything. If that argument was true, then gold is a ponzi that shouldn't be worth anything and the same would apply to art.

A slightly more advanced rebuttal would be to say, yes but gold has some industrial use and you pay for art because you can enjoy consuming it. But the price of gold and rare artistic pieces is many times their "useful value" if defined as such.

All these arguments show a deep misunderstanding of what constitute money, the history of money [1] and the concept of "hard money". Bitcoin is the only way to transfer an arbitrary amount of money in a way that is fast, verifiable, permissionless and to an arbitrary location. This particular use, that no other tool makes possible, means it has some value to some people and consequently should be worth something. The question of what its fair value is harder to answer but just because gold is worth more than its industrial value doesn't make it a ponzi scheme.

[1] https://econwpa.ub.uni-muenchen.de/econ-wp/eh/papers/0211/02...
So a missunderstanding then I read it as:

If you want to meet people don't use Tinder, [not using twitter] used to work well in the past, it very rarely works now.
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> Blame those systems, not me.

Yes I completely agree with you, and if you don't need it, any unicode handling library is overkill and add more headaches than simply handling utf-8 string as byte arrays.

I just wanted to insist on the fact that some people will have to deals with theses kind of issues. And these issues are self inflicted, but it gets worse every time someone try to reinvent the wheel or rely on byte array when they shouldn't.

Having a standard library in the language make the issue less worse: the core of the language still handle only byte arrays, and for the cases where it's not enough you still have only one library so you don't add your own subtly different mishandling of the standard by implementing your own.

So memcpy is fine, but that's about it: for example, please don't use strcmp when you need to sort data alphabetically and please don't try to reimplement the standard algorithms designed for that, otherwise you will be part of the problem.
Does the modeled activity track any real world measurements, though? If we're going to claim any real veracity from a simulation then we need to crosscheck it against real measurements, right?
Most heroku users are using relational databases like postgres, and relational databases don't failover transparently. If client apps can't failover to other AZs, why does it matter for heroku's service itself to do so?

Getting geographic failover to work seamlessly generally requires application-level knowledge or at the very least, exotic datastores like DynamoDB or Firebase. For better or worse, that's just not the way most people want to develop.
Sounds sort of similar to a doula here in the UK, but they're not very common in my experience.
The more I see how Mozilla does nothing to allow Firefox/Gecko/Servo to be a base for other browsers, the more I start to believe that it's not just a problem of not having it prioritized on their road map, but it's actually undue influence from outside the company.

It's impossible that in the 10 or so years since people manifested desires to have a way to embed a browser engine which is not Google controlled in applications, nobody at Mozilla actually realized how good of an idea that is for their popularity, influence, and why not, monetization capabilities.
5K @ 27" used to be a thing around five years ago but those monitors have largely died off.
same reason why Facebook, Instagram aren't banned.
I'd actually recommend reading the whole thing quickly and frequently. No note taking needed. It's like playing scales on a guitar. Do it first thing in the morning for a few weeks, start out from different files.
It's against ToS for your profile to include other means to contact you, like other online profiles. That's my guess.
"Two nations separated by a common language"

Winston Churchill
macintoshjs co-creator Christian Bauer's personal website is appropriately 90s-website-y and full of goodies (recommend the Japan travel pics particularly!)
https://www.cebix.net
He became a believer before becoming a part of it.
"Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Einstein

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Da Vinci

I had been exploring this idea in my codegolfing.
For example: https://www.dwitter.net/d/15323
This is assuming quite a few things:

1. We the people are completely unable to use the power of market forces to come up with an alternative and supplant the established market leader

2. The government will regulate this in a way that is better than the alternative

3. That lobbying forces and the general corruption that is widespread in D.C. won't impact that in any negative way.

4. That big tech companies aren't experts in skirting regulations or that Google doesn't already have a plan B if something happened to one of their moats.
“Hybrid and multi cloud” is the future. In other words, give us more fucking money.
At high energy the lead time for the components is measured not in days but in years.
Absolutely zero weasel wording. The initial deployment of C-Band in the US is 100 MHz of spectrum from 3.7 to 3.8 GHz. The remainder of the auctioned C-Band from 3.8 to 3.98 cannot be deployed until the incumbent satellite operators clear the band on or before December 2023. For 2 years there will be a 400MHz guard band.
> Recovery mechanisms for private key based identities have been designed and implemented.

That is not how blockchain works. Once someone has your private key they can make any transactions that they want, you cannot undo those changes once they are on the blockchain.
You still need to pay someone to manage AWS infrastructure. It’s possible to save money using AWS, but things often get more expensive.
As a software developer and team lead who's worked from and lived on a sailboat for the last two years, I'd agree with others here and encourage you to give it a shot. My wife and I both work remotely as software developers and we've been able to put thousands of miles under the keel, traveling from Mobile Alabama, to as far north as the Chesapeake Bay with multiple stops in the Florida Keys and the Bahamas, all while keeping our full-time software engineering jobs. It's been a really great experience and I highly-recommend it to anyone with a remote role.
Also `php -S` is very handy.
I am not the OP, but like him, I though Bitcoin was a scam until early this year. What changed my mind when a centralized entity like Robinhood took away the buy button of an equity in most capital-friendly country on Earth. I wasn't even involved, so I wasn't mad.

But rationally, if someone can wake up one day and decide you can't buy an equity with little consequences, then it is entirely possible for a bank to take away the withdraw button.

Even if we assume competence and good sense of the state and the banks (big if!), they will always act for the good of the majority - which is not always good for you or your family. (take the pros and cons of inflation for example)

Follow the logic of what's possible with the centralization of money, and quickly you would realize that you really own nothing, except what's in a cold-wallet secured by a decentralized, global network and mathematical facts. There is nothing stopping any central bank from inflating ANY national currency to 0, except good sense and competence.

You can and should still believe in their competence and good sense if you are in a democratic country with stable regime, but it would be irrational to not insure against it. Also, it is completely irrational to believe in the good sense and competence of someone like Erdogan or any of the many clown head of states around.
coughs
https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix/

https://github.com/Sandmann79/xbmc

https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.tubed

These might work better than using web launcher.
If that is the case then the board should state they removed her. And have a press release ready to go as soon as it's in effect. I've witnessed a few senior management removals in my lifetime. Rarely has it been unannounced. Even rarer has it been the founder.
Plan 9's rc-httpd is quite useful, supports cgi and serves many plan 9 web sites, many of which run werc http://werc.cat-v.org/

It can also run on Unix via plan 9 port (p9p) or derivatives.

https://github.com/9front/9front-test/blob/master/rc/bin/rc-...
Honestly, I think it's best if we have two modes of working. We could have an office mode, where you go in to the office and interact with others for whatever reason. Then we have remote mode (maybe the preferred mode), where we have an office like setup, at home with the appropriate equipment to carry out the company's mission. What do you guys think?
I think we are "instinctively on to something" but not because it's useful or somehow increases our fitness. Humans and their runaway brain power make all kinds of systematic reasoning errors, for all kinds of interesting reasons. The "need" to find some explanation for why the world is such a crap sack is probably powered by the same mechanisms that drive us to look for creative solutions to problems in the first place.
I think you're not understanding the fundamental problem that uncolletarelised DeFi lending faces, which is the fact that the borrower can simply walk away with the money. None of the companies that supposedly offer uncollaterilised borrowing do what they claim to do. This is obvious if you read the fine print. And it's to be expected, because if they did, borrowers would borrow all the available funds and walk away, never to be seen again. That's not a sustainable business model.
https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix/
> Can you expand on that? What feature do you use in east 1 that isn’t everywhere else that it’s your whole implementation?

Your question reads as a strawman. It matters nothing if EC2 is also available in Mumbai or Hong Kong if by default the whole world deploys everything and anything to us-east-1, and us-east-1 alone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/nztxa5/why_useast1_reg...
I should have been loadquotestarquotecomma8comma1.
All while making sure that these cloud solutions are not inter-dependent and that there are redundant paths to access these services.
As an industry, can we please stop making products like vacuums that can't operate unless someone else's computer is working in a field in Virgina? There's literally no reason for it.
the tinder app, like pretty much all apps, is constantly calling graph.facebook.com while in use. Because the app doesn't work without Location access, FB gets a lot of rich location data every time the app is in use, but I don't believe the data being sent back can be utilized for fraud detection.

There's also calls out to crash-analytics, firebase, appsflyer and Google Analytics constantly. The app will function if all these services are blocked.
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It's far less dramatic than you'd hope.

I left it moored up at a port along the canal for winter (when the canal gets too shallow to traverse), the folks who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it didn't, uncharacteristic winter storms were blowing rain and muck all over the place, the cockpit drains got clogged, the cockpit filled with water, and things went downhill from there ;)

It was sitting quite happily on the shallow riverbed when I returned, but the inside was a swamp, and I had to tear out and trash the whole interior. At least it was fresh water, so the engine (mostly) survived.
I used to enjoy Waffle House when I took road trips in the South. I'd trade In N' Out burger for a Waffle House in California any day.
Your original program which is claimed not-possible-to-port is 14 LOC. This comparable program is 18 LOC: https://www.godbolt.org/z/xf4Tdr1Ps

Most of the difference comes from the demand that we represent unicode codepoints as integers at some point in the program, which is a nonsensical thing to do, because unicode codepoints don't correspond to anything useful in the actual text being represented.

You seem to have a habit of making false claims about the standard libraries of languages you dislike, and when pressed on the matter ask other people to do your homework. I certainly should stop doing other people's homework.
I have run high availability (HA) systems in prem and your statement vastly understates the difficulty and expense.

You need multiple physical links in running to different ISPs because builders working on properties further down the street could accidentally cut through your fibre. Or the ISP themselves could suffer an outage.

You need a back up generator and to be a short distance away from a petrol station so you can refuel quickly and regularly when suffering from longer durations of power outages. You absolutely do not want to run out of diesel!

You need redundancy of every piece of hardware AND you need to test that failover works as expected because the last thing you need is a core switch to fail and traffic not to route over secondary core switch like expected.

You need your multiple air con units and them to be powered off different mains inputs so if the electrics fail on one unit it doesn’t take out the others. I guarantee you that if the air cons will fail, it will be on the hottest day of the year a month amount of portable units will stop your servers from overheating.

You need beefy UPS with multiple batteries. Ideally multiple UPSs with each UPS powering a different rail on your racks so that if one UPS fails your hardware is still powered from the other rail. And you need to regularly check the battery status and loads on the UPS. Remember that the back up generator takes a second or two to kick in so you need something to keep the power to the servers and networking hardware to be uninterrupted. And since all your hardware is powered via the UPS, if that dies you still lose power even if the building is powered.

And you then need to duplicate all of the above in second location just in case the first location still goes down.

By the way, all of the possible failure points I’ve raised above HAVE failed on me when managing HA on prem.

The reason people move to the cloud for HA is because rolling your own is like rolling your own encryption: it’s hard, error prone, expensive, and even when you have the right people on the team there’s still a good chance you’ll fuck it up. AWS, for all its faults, does make this side of the job easier.
You could have just showed them historical data of both companies being unavailable for extended amount of time. What happened in the past few months is not new.
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They don't deserve complete credit, but do deserve equal credit for advocating and pushing through reforms that the Congress couldn't have done so easily. And there are differences in the communist politics in Kerala and West Bengal. In Kerala, Marxist philosophies dominated. Moreover, the anti-caste movement of the south, allowed the lower caste to thrive politically in Kerala, where as in Bengal it was still dominated by the upper caste (and some say that is why it lost political relevance there).
I think the key is to get a modest sail boat like a sunfish similar size. The cost are way more manageable.
How do you deal with the dumb crap related to not being connected when everyone else is?

Do you have any records or writings documenting your experience?
Windows 10 pro also did that. Not sure if it still does, because after it happened to me once I waded into the policy editor and disabled all that shite. However, there was at least one forced update that happened to me after that. No idea why.

But windows is also weird. People always talk about ads or having candy crush forcefully reinstalled after updates. I strongly suspect these things vary by region, because those two at least I never noticed.
Is there any alternative to steel?

Or, is there any promising technology that allows to use steel bars that have some space inside, so that when they rust, they don't break the concrete?
FancyZones (part of Microsoft PowerToys) works well for me. I also like the fact that it's first-party, free and open-source:

Project page:
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

FancyZones docs:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/fancyzone...
While I agree to an extent, the issue I see is that business partners, friends, etc likely know you far better than a site you enter curated information into in order to reach an end goal ever will.

The desirability of your profile aside, it's entirely credibly that any profile you create is a poor representation, many people may not know what it is about themselves that others like.
100% agree. I'm actually surprised AWS hasn't built in a Chaos Monkey into their APIs/console so people can test their resiliency regularly if an AZ goes down.

edit: of course, AWS does have this: AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Can't speak for everyone but I sure struggle to engage as much with long-form non-interactive media these days. If I'm not affecting a narrative in some meaningful way it's really hard to stay interested.
It's ever better if you use some type of AI for this, then no one "knows" that are actually doing that.
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Would be 99% for Standard German with its quasi deterministic pronunciation. Going from sound to spelling isn't hopeless, either.
> The fact is that no one is actually checking anything. Its all based on trust.

I don't trust your statement.

I don't trust your statement because everything I've done to actually check on thing shows it to be correct.

Again, does North Dakota exist? Does New Zealand exist? Was the universe created last Thursday?

> but you need to verify information before you actively promote or parrot it.

I have verified it to my satisfaction. Just because you are not satisfied does not mean I am parroting thing.

I have never been to New Zealand. I am satisfied that it exists.

> should we accept any old story that purports to explain things?

Absolutely not. Which is why I don't accept your story that "It's all based on trust.
so if i'm not from or don't care about US pages, can you at least share some info about what you do there?
I'm guessing GQL but I'm just guessing.
'Dealing' with Esc for Vim would fall under RSI prevention in my book. Using Vim almost necessitates some form of easier switching modes; swapping Caps Lock, `jj`, etc. are all considered valid and 'normal' for the general Vim community and to say only one or even none of the options are "okay" in the company, well, unless it was my preference this would be an immediate resignation from me. That or the company better be shelling out and allowing time for employees to configure programmable keyboards they can pop in with their keys hardware configured.
God damnit you're right. They own Plenty of Fish, OK Cupid, the list goes on.

That sure is a monopoly.
So could Google just put spyware (sorry "telemetry") in the rendering engine?
You know what?

I'd guess that Elon, as "crazy" as he is, might have an idea or two about solving this problem (e.g. 3D-printing the part, etc).

Tweet to him. There's a tiny, tiny chance that he will respond and decide this is worth pursuing.

Edit: scratch that, I tweeted to him about it [0].

I should never miss a good opportunity to do a micro-tiny amount of good to someone else.

[0]: https://twitter.com/simon/status/1473673346583773187
Will be interesting when they all switch to biometric login.

"Hey Doc, I need a new face."

"Mafia? Witness protection?"

"Tinder."
That's true for on-prem infrastructure, but is all already handled for you if you rent servers from hosting providers such as OVH/Hetzner or even rent colocation space in an existing DC, and is still cheaper than the cloud equivalent (and as we saw recently, actually more reliable as well).
> In this case, the game isn't "going down less than Amazon", it's about going down uncorrelated to Amazon.

It's possible to go down in a mostly uncorrelated way to Amazon by just being down all the time.

Obviously this is implicit in your comment, but I'll say it anyway: your backups need to actually work when you need them. You need to test them (really test them) to make sure they're not secretly non-functional in some subtle way when Amazon is really down.
> But occasionally, it happens that I still get it wrong. For example, just a few weeks back, I've heard 'Arkansas' pronounced in the News - totally different than I would have pronounced it. I know how to pronounce 'Kansas', and I was always under the impression that 'Arkansas' is the same with an 'Ar-' prefixed, which is apparently not the case.

This example also happened to me (native British English speaker), mistakes will be made if you don't hear how a word is pronounced.
For IDEs, CTRL+SHIFT+F can be a good replacement for grep. There are similar shortcuts for Jump to Definition and stuff without installation needed.
Recent historical stock market returns have been very high, but to the extent that is due to higher valuations, future returns will likely be lower. There is obviously a tradeoff between higher initial spending and a higher chance of running out of money.

A Fortran simulation of spending rules assuming normally distributed returns is at https://github.com/Beliavsky/RetirementSpending . One can use the free gfortran compiler (part of gcc) to compile and run it.
I remember using codecademy the day they launched, January 2012, to start learning Javascript. The interactive CLI based courses were a breath of fresh air from the old school W3 style tutorials that I had gotten stuck on. It sent me down the path of building a serious career and making a six figure salary that I could have never dreamed of otherwise as a high school dropout.

Thanks codecademy.
I agree, though I think your characterization isn't entirely fair.

Firefox might have become irrelevant in terms of market share, but it's far from being a "corpse", if you meant anything by that outside of the "Weekend at Bernie's" analogy. It works quite well, its extensions are far less likely to get totally nerfed for the purpose of showing ads, and it even still develops features before Chrome does.

It's definitely being dangled out there for the sake of excusing Google, but it also seems like someone's seriously holding it back. The Servo debacle was pretty inexcusable. Servo of course still exists under the Linux Foundation, but we'll be lucky if we ever see it mean anything to Firefox or become anything other than a curiosity.
Unless the ATS breaks, which happens.
Those millions of vulnerable IoT devices don't have that much of an impact to strategic infrastructure, even compared to just individual separate ransomware incidents at large organizations.