skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that it’s an article about Carl Sagans SciFi side and it doesn’t mention that he’s the one who suggested the aliens in 2001 be just a big monolith without form. Also arguably a better sci-fi film (and more cerebral?) than Contact.

I love Contact myself but it was clearly not exceptional. I’d rate it comparably to 2010, 2001’s sequel.

For me it’s banalaity arises from its following of the one sci-fi trope that always disappoints me - the existence of an unexplained force/alien/species/molecule that transcends known physics as the main plot point. Pretty much every sci-fi show movie novel has this component and I’m just tired. The only two movies I know that don’t have it are the Martian and Gattaca. Those are the exceptional sci-fi works if you ask me.

PS: please don’t mention the moon, I hope we can keep the discussion to sci-fi works that are logically consistent at the least.
Unfortunately so many police departments are just gangs now with political backing. Just this 4th of July the NYPD decided it was their right to commandeer viewing areas for their families and prevent the public from using them. No repercussions, no politicians demanding an investigation, just armed people in uniform daring you to say something. This is a massive open abuse of power and its just shrugged off.
I don’t have an issue paying for good products and $50 is hardly egregious.

These open source alternatives don’t seem to have iPhone apps and they also lack some of the key features I rely on in Things.
As a US citizen you can't declare your income was earned in Ireland and avoid or reduce paying US federal income tax. You can't avoid US federal income tax even if you lived in Ireland and worked for an Irish company for that year.
> I wouldn't expect less deaths in Brazil by getting more guns in the streets and encouraging resistance

in this sort of situation, i'd rather die resisting than die placid and unable to fight.

Gun violence from criminals can't be solved via gun control.
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw and Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power by James McGrath Morris both cover the time period I'm referencing through the lens of two of the most powerful men in the industry at that time.

The Form of News: A History by Barnhurst and Nerone is a dry and academic take but a pretty informative one.
Amazon has a problem of over-optimization. They treated everything as tiny optimizable problems, including hiring. Now they hire only people that optimized themselves to pass the interviews, who then optimize to climb the ranks but don't bring that much to the behemoth. And it is the same for many of their products, optimized for artificial markers and slowly becoming irrelevant. The search engine of the store is a perfect illustration of that. And the sellers on the platform as well.
Our current technology is capable of doing everything you listed and more. The problem is their cost. There is no point to doing it while the cost is this great and there is absolutely no monetary return from doing it. And Musk's effort has been for reducing that cost so that he could do it with the capital he has.

If need be, large countries that have the technology like China, Russia, US could do it. But it would still require gigantic amounts of capital allocation and effort at this stage. So no one will do it. The biggest thing that is happening right now is China and Russia signing an agreement to build a base on the moon. (yes)
Musk already secured financing, and most of the recent financial engineering he was doing was in the service of minimizing his own exposure (ie, the amount of TSLA he'd need to sell to cover his end of the deal). His lenders couldn't "independently verify" the mDAU, because he waived diligence --- he was entitled to information as a contractual technicality, but he was not entitled to condition the deal based on anything contained in that information, short of a "material adverse effect", which is in practice an impossible bar to clear.
It must be nice to be an omnipath with unlimited time and resources.
This was even more wild because of the guns involved were somewhat complex homemade guns.
Clearly a correlation between 2 hard drives failing at HN [1] and the Canadian Rogers network outage [2].

[1] https://twitter.com/HNStatus

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/rogers-commun...
That was not the other side's "point". I routinely make the statement: Most sites submitted to HN have realtively static IP addresses, i.e., these addresses can change, but in fact they change only infrequently, if at all.^1 This is not an opinion. It is not a mindless regurgitation of something I read somewhere. I am looking at the data I have, not theorising. From where I sit, there is nothing to argue about.

1. Why do I state that. Because I kept reading about why DNS was created and always encountered the same parroted explanation, year after year. Something along the lines that IP addresses were constantly in flux. That may have been true when DNS was created and the www was young. But was it true today. I wanted to find out. I did experiments. I found I could use the same DNS data day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.

Why would I care. Because by eliminating remote DNS lookups I was able to speed up the time it takes me to retrieve data from the www.^2 Instead of making the assumption that every site is going to switch IP addresses every second, minute, day or week, I assume that only a few will do that and most will not. I want to know about those sites that are changing their IP address. I want to know the reasons. When a site changes its IP address, I am alerted, as you see with today's change to HN's address. Whereas when people assume every site is frequently changing its IP address, they perform unnecesary DNS lookups for the majority of sites. That wastes time among other things. And, it seems, people are unaware when sites change addresses.

2. Another benefit for me is that when some remote DNS service does down (this has happened several times), I can still use the www without interruption. I already have the DNS data I need. Meanwhile the self-proclaimed "experts" go into panic mode.
https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/tree/gh-pages/ike

https://beyondloom.com/tools/specialk.html
Ted Nelson on Zigzag data structures (2008)
>The plan was always "in the unlikely event that both servers die at the same time, be able to spin HN up on AWS.

>We had done dry runs of this in the past,

Incredible. Actual disaster recovery.
The slippery slope keeps getting steeper and steeper... they continue to pass new laws to make the person recording a criminal act into a criminal, but do nothing against the person committing the criminal act in the first place that is on film!

See Ag-Gag laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag
I guess the RIAA has a lot more power to get noticed than booksellers…
>zoom audio needed active confirmation to connect to audio. On a tablet, where no options are available but the over-wifi audio.

It is annoying they ask it every time but there is, in fact, a different option: option to call your phone (which most people have) which could have lower latency and higher reliability. I have succesfully used it in places where internet is spotty but adding an extra step to join a call is too much.
Where are the elon haters that constantly love to say that tesla FSD is "far behind" the competition now?
But where will we ever find rubber pants our size?
We've only had 5 minutes to talk about it so far, but unless something changes, I don't see why we wouldn't go back to M5.
The algorithms which govern what we think
Is the vendor offering a counterfeit warranty? What do the updates and warranty have to do with it?
The only catch is you have to build five of them.
I think that requires a level of competence that Musk has failed to display in the past. Shotwell told an interesting story once, in response to a question like "what's it like to work for Elon?" She related an occasion when she got frantic calls from a meeting Musk was in. In the meeting he had decided to cancel Falcon Heavy to meet a schedule for something else. Shotwell went in and reminded everyone (Elon) they had customers who had already paid for Falcon Heavy and cancelling it wasn't an option and to find another solution. Elon responded like "oh yeah, ok well...."

Then there was BTC to purchase Tesla cars, then there was Doge. The point being I think these types of things indicate Musk, like a lot of smart people can be really, really dumb sometimes. Also a bit Hanlons Razor.
This was caused by the consolidation of the press by a handful of corporations (at the moment 4-5 i believe) after the regulations that prevented that from happening were removed. The number of 4-5 also paints a false picture: Those 'different' corporations would have shared owners and large investment funds among them, so basically all press is consolidated among a handful of extremely rich men at this point.

There was absolutely no reason why such people would not buy out all news and use it as a tool to propagate their own private interests when those regulations were removed. Especially by using them to push their public agenda to boost their business interest and different corporations' stock prices. Just like how it was in late 19th century with the Robber Barons.

And don't even start looking at its effect on the elections - that's a bigger cesspit than what you can imagine.
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How does that relate to the Rogers cell service outage, though? Surely SMS doesn't require BGP?

It feels like there's a big, fundamental problem affecting a variety of Rogers infra, where BGP and cell problems are just symptoms we can observe. CloudFlare says it looks more like a failure than an attack; I'm not entirely convinced.
Thank you! In my xp, companies that create custom multivitamins are overpriced however more importantly, I don't trust what they are doing with the health data you provide them.
Do you happen to know the make and model of SSD?
Most SaaS platforms don't really measure it. They just "do their best".

Plus, it's hard to quantify many cases because there is hard-down and soft-down (partial interruptions).
He has the financing. He secured ~1/3rd of the funds based on committed LBO debt, ~1/3rd in margin loans against TSLA, and ~1/3rd in personal equity. Since then, he's been working to minimize the his personal exposure, but he can't just pretend not to own the TSLA stock he's borrowing against and selling to close the deal.
> Is Loopring doing a shit carbon copy of the existing financial system?

No, that’s a shit carbon copy of order rings to facilitate the shit carbon copy of the regular market.

> How about FTX? You can claim some of the same bad characteristics, but certainly not the same systemic weaknesses, and frankly, types of disrespect.

.. that’s a centralized exchange like any other centralized exchange, with the added bonus of absolutely no regulatory oversight, compliance requirements, transparency and absolutely no asset protection. Considering that all this boring boomer-crap exists to protect market participants (so, you), I suspect that this is a level of disrespect and systemic weakness that’s almost impossible to achieve anywhere else. Anyway, what system, there is nothing “crypto” about centralized exchanges besides the assets being traded.

You’re probably going to contemplate decentralized exchanges now, so on this note I’d just like to remind you that not even decentralized exchanges like Uniswap or DYDX are actually decentralized, and even if they will be at some point, they will not be immutable, completely negating any of the hallucinated benefits to begin with, and they will probably never be either because it’s quite literally nearly impossible.

> How does this keep being repeated?

Because people with the faintest idea about economics or what a blockchain actually is are not in DeFi, so the echo chamber doesn’t even include the most simple concepts.

I have no doubt there will be very valuable applications for cryptocurrency at some point, but this shit ain’t it.
Musk does yet another brazenly out of pocket thing and forces the world to look at him. Yawn.
What specifically would prevent this?
Facial challenges to a law are rare and courts don't like them. A normal challenge would have to come from someone who had had the law enforced against them. Give it time.
Yes, exactly. BGP withdrawal is likely a symptom, not the cause.
Twitter has a binding agreement to get its shareholders cash at a price that’s nearly 50% higher than todays closing price, a value that the board concluded was superior to their standalone prospects and other alternatives. Why wouldn’t they enforce the agreement and close the deal?
If there's an extreme AWS outage, you're pretty much stuck to in-person or POTS.
This line of reasoning could probably be applied to any scientific debate between two greats. Both experts are trying to qualitatively describe how the current model coheres or disagrees with their internal models of reality. Since both have very good (but also very different) internal models, you get two accurate impressions of the bigger picture, however vague or incomplete.

It's like the parable of the five blind men who encounter an elephant.
"it appears that" = "we have no demonstrable data, but we'd like this to be true, but we're not making a material claim".
Thanks for the tip! I'll add this in the future
I agree and disagree. The driver issue is frustrating, but I think this is mostly a choice of hardware issue. If you can get a wifi chip with officially supported drivers it’s pretty painless. Broadcom, in my experience have consistently been the most painful.

There are ui configuration options, but the last I tried them (long ago) they felt inconsistent and painful. It quickly became clear that you needed a terminal to solve most issues, and when you didn’t start that way, you’re now faced with both an uncomfortable environment, and a problem to solve. So I opted to get used to the terminal, and I totally fell in love with it.

For my (not experienced) level of use, I find that it’s just several different systems. Once you know the name of the system, you can read it’s docs, find it’s configs, etc. I think one of the reasons for the recent popularity of arch is that you are given the choice of, and are made familiar with several of these systems to build your install. Maybe you’re using netctl, dhcpcd, or networkmanager - but you made that choice, and probably the initial configuration.

I don’t like the control panel, and the registry is difficult to navigate. Suffering through deeply nested menus to find a setting is a horrible experience for me. I’d much prefer grepping a directory of files for keywords. I have more tools at my disposal. Plus then I can version control and automatically provision a new machine instead of a hunt through ever-changing uis. You’re right that the original configuration takes some extra research and time, but I find for my own setups that the automated setup is worth the investment.

This is all very subjective —- I certainly don’t think you’re wrong, but I wanted to share some perspective on how it can be used (in the off chance you weren’t aware) - i hope it might make it more friendly the next time you cross paths :).
Our thinking was: (1) keep a hot standby to fail over to when we need it—that keeps downtime to seconds in routine cases (like pre-planned maintenance) and minutes or an hour in most failure cases—for example, when our primary server died last night, HN was down for about an hour while we brought up the standby; and (2) In the unlikely event that both the primary and standby servers fail at the same time, be able to bring up a fresh server from backup within hours, not days. The latter case is what happened today, and in the end we were down for just under 8 hours. (Assuming we don't sink back into the pit of hell overnight.)

Assuming things don't fail again in the next day or two, since we still have a lot to take care of (fingers crossed—definitely not gloating), I feel like this was pretty reasonable. We don't have a lot of dev or ops resources—few people work on HN, and only me full-time these days. The more complex one's replica architecture, the higher the maintenance costs. The simplicity of our setup has served us well in the 9 years that we've been running it, and I feel like the tradeoff of "several hours downtime once a decade" is worth it if you draw one of those risk/cost managerial whiteboard things.
That's not what "bad faith" means. If GP didn't care if their statement were true but just said it to make Musk look bad, then it would be in bad faith.

Musk has been very publicly coy about his intentions for several months, so it's hard not to have an opinion at this point. Just because that opinion may be wrong doesn't mean it's offered in bad faith.
But TWTR’s market cap is and will be influenced by Musk’s series of actions and announcements. Both parties would have to come up with a hypothetical number for how much TWTR is worth if Musk walks away without paying anything, and there’s no way their estimates would come close.
I agree with this. It would be nice to have a reduced grace period for books before they're public domain - something like 40 years seems reasonable to me.
No? I’m including suicides for Japan as well.
So, what does "close" mean? 1000 ft with a telescope?

I can understand not interfering with the immediate official duties, but this seems like it will be overturned on 1a grounds.
> someone on HN tried to argue with me that IP addresses will never stay the same for very long

Deeply deeply agree with you. Not whoever was arguing. :) My "dialup" VM in the cloud I use for assorted things has had the same IP for at least 7 years, probably longer. (Thanks Linode!) After a few years, it's honestly not that hard to remember an arbitrary 32bit int. :)

$ w3m -dump http://846235814 # ;)
"Nothing to see here. Please disperse. And stop recording."
Also, the CRTC helpline and Service Canada and CRA account logins. We were unable to access government services.
If it was made overseas and didn’t go through the same QA process for production Cisco equipment, I’d be worried it’d be bugged.
How idealistic.

Why don’t you try it out and see how well that works out for you?

Very, very few people of privilege know what having an adversarial state is truly like.
But Musk set the price at $54 by agreeing to buy Twitter at that price. If this deal were guaranteed to go through, shares should be trading at that price until the sale is complete. Trading at above that price means shareholders would lose money at closing, and trading at below means someone is leaving money on the table. Market forces should cause the price to converge at $54.

The fact that it’s trading lower means that investors don’t expect the deal to go through. And who exactly as been doing his best to very publicly bring the deal into question? Elon Musk.
I don’t believe those three statements can be reasonably supported.

And no, it doesn’t tell you my political affiliation. It tells you that I believe Trump to be a brazenly corrupt individual and that I hate brazen corruption.
I agree with that. I don't consider him intelligent at all. My suspicion is that it's just a case of him having a loose collection of these outcomes that he considers wins, and then he just kicks it off, hoping he can manipulate things along the way towards one of his wins. I don't think he has an actual plan. He's an improvisational manipulator, very similar to a former president.

Then again, it seems the main "win" he often has in mind is just getting attention, so maybe his need for attention exceeds even what I thought.
I read a book. Went to the gym.
Save themselves? Isn’t their strategy doing alright business-wise? Your users are passionate and retained when your partisan enough (but not so partisan they can’t trust you).

Republicans view NYT as very biased, but democrats almost entirely believe it’s unbiased and accurate. The NYTs rides the line really well and continues to grow.

On the flip side, both democrats and republicans largely regard Fox News as entertainment news and more biased. They don’t ride the line too well.
This seems very basic. Not to dunk on prof. Lemire, i know he has some great posts. This one is just barely scratching the surface of what makes a language good at supporting polymorphism or not.
Does Haskell make it through your filter, with its multi-disciplinary foundation and mix of industrial and academic sponsors?
FYI:

If you're interested in looking at broadcast rundowns by day, the Vanderbilt Television News Archive is invaluable. It permits keyword searches (for how a specific story was covered), or looking at broadcasts from the major networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News), dating to as early as 1969 (for ABC, CBS, and NBC, with CNN and Fox being added at later dates).

https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

For websites, navigating archives by date on the Internet Archive can be useful. It's difficult to pick a canonical time of day for stories, and archive timing varies, but you might choose a target such as 6pm US/Eastern to designate the end of a daily news cycle and find the copy that most nearly matches that.

As noted, there are organisations which perform this work themselves, including Ad Fontes (which I've already mentioned), Media Bias Fact Check (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/), and more. Sourcewatch (https://sourcewatch.org) is another.

There are of course partisan bias-check organisations (e.g., the Media Resource Center on the right, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on the left). There are also groups which look for under-reported stories, most notably Project Censored (https://www.projectcensored.org/).
In that era, there weren't even seatbelts on cars.

We used to have a much different view on systematic rare danger.
A synergistic mindsets intervention protects adolescents from stress
It's not unheard of getting Cisco to give you discounts on hardware as deep as 80-85%, provided you're able to commit to buy a lot of equipment -- say, several millions $ per year. Other major networking equipment manufacturers have similar policies.

If you're a small company, you have basically two options: the first is that you buy the big three equipment through a distributor with a lower discount.

The other way is to recognize that the vast majority of the modern switches -- even brand name ones -- have very similar hardware: they're basically an x86 computer with a Broadcom switching/routing chip bolted on through PCI-E.

Broadcom sells their chips on the open market, so you can get relatively cheap switch hardware from a less known vendor (FS, Quanta, Mellanox at least until recently), and install a networking operating system such as Sonic.

However, you'll be on the hook for supporting and debugging it yourself. There are intermediate options like using the switch's vendor operating system, but you probably won't get support at the big three level -- no next business day replacement, no TAC handholding (Not that the bar is too high.) This is a dealbreaker for many: you want your network to be solid, or at least have access to people able to quickly troubleshoot the arising issues. It's easy with Cisco, slighly less so with Juniper, and practically impossible with whiteboxes.

Basically, Cisco is the IBM of 1970s: nobody gets fired for buying it, and the only thing they should fear is accidentally disrupting themselves.

With the recent chip shortage, lead times on the big three gear shot up, so there is a prime chance for Chinese manufacturers (Huawei, H3C) to step up and fulfill the need -- at least outside of US and Europe.
Basically - NIH syndrome from the 60s.

Some more historical research here:

https://www.kalw.org/show/crosscurrents/2016-07-05/hey-area-...

Seems highly likely that keeping freight trains off the tracks also factored into the decision. Huge shame that they didn't consider the ongoing maintenance cost of using a non-standard gauge.