skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's especially crazy is that these guys have been on the radar already, for a long time.

https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/0...

https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/1...

Yes, the FTC, not the FCC, but look. Roy Cox settled and was permanently enjoined from telemarketing. Aaron Jones apparently just ignored the complaint altogether, and the FTC won a default judgment banning him from telemarketing also. Yet, here we are again with both of them allegedly involved in this scamming. Maybe the car warranty calls are not considered telemarketing?
Gosh, I wish I could trade places. If Canada would accept us as refugees, I'd move there in a heartbeat.

Change the world? Lol, maybe if you're Bezos or Zuckerberg. The rest of us mostly just stifle under their iron boots. If you don't get shot first.

IMO a country that prioritizes its average citizens over its uber-rich isn't mediocre, it's well-managed. America is a hellscape of greed and corruption.

Guess the grass is always greener, huh?
I think the US needs to regulate "news" vs. "entertainment news" and so on.

I remember speaking to some younger folks recently, and I mentioned journalistic integrity, and they didn't even believe the concept ever exists. I doubt they have ever consumed any significant amount of content produced by professional journalists operating under the stricture of formal editorials and fact checking, but it is still somewhat concerning that they don't even acknowledge its existence.

There's some things to be said in this space:

- Newspapers were never competently replaced, business model wise

- Web ads were never sufficiently constrained to not break web pages

- Ad blockers ultimately started to completely destroy any last chance that ad powered solutions could pay for professional journalism

- Entertainment journalism has a different business model, enabling it to be more readily available, and popular, than formal journalism

- I don't think anyone knows where to go from here

I really dislike the term "media" in these discussions, because it seems to lump "entertainment news" squarely in with formal journalism, and I do not think they're equivalent - moreover it's clear the difference is not well observed anymore, and that's extremely concerning.
Nah, the root cause was a double disk failure. Their primary server’s disk failed, and then their failover server failed. https://twitter.com/hnstatus/status/1545409429113229312?s=21...
I am not looking forward to wayland upgrade time. At the moment it's fine, and I'm sure it will all be figured out eventually, but the transition will be a hassle and I have my doubts about whether some features will make it or not.
> Java literally has a JIT to make generics fast

???

By the time it gets to the JIT, java generics have long since been erased.

Java's generic classes run at the same speed as everything else, because there's no actual generics there.

(Although I'd be very surprised if this doesn't change in the near future: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8261529.)
Please share your list of least biased for comparison. This would be very helpful.

Thank you
I’ve been saying for a long time now: if its actually important it will reach you by word of mouth

Now if only I could break the news consumption habit!
you can't do `T summer = 0`, nor `summer += v[k]` as there is no arbitrary sum operation for Number (e.g a method `Number add(Number);` or `<T extends Number> T add(T t);`).

though this can be solved either with types, as mentioned in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32029871), or simply by providing the sum operation:

static <T extends Number> T sum(T[] v, BinaryOperator<T> adder) {
T summer = v[0];
for (int i = 1; i < v.length; i++) {
summer = adder.apply(summer, v[i]);
}
return summer;
}

Float[] ft = { 0f, 1f, 2f, 3f };
// which can also be written as
// `float z = sum(ft, Float::sum);`
float z = sum(ft, (x, y) -> x + y);
It was earlier, ME or 90 SE.
In my experience, it's systemic in rails applications due to how many ways you have to shoot yourself in the foot - it "just works" but not in a good way.

"Oh, this route takes 6 seconds to load. Why is that? OH, because it's making ten thousand database calls."
I've stepped on rusty nails twice in my life. The nails maybe went into my foot each time by about half a centimeter. They didn't really hurt. The very small area felt mildly sore.

I've heard that getting stabbed feels like being punched. I imagine it's similar mechanism, just on a smaller scale.
This take would be a lot more reasonable if people weren’t turning to crazy Facebook uncles for information instead.
Sorry to rain on your evidence free assertion fest here, but let me push back a bit here:
> Rogers as their primary network. [...] backup network? Rogers.

What idiots, right? But there is likely a bit more nuance here which this throw-away comment is ignoring, like using cellular/microwave/fibre/copper in a diverse and high-availability way. I don't know all the details of the network, but all of this stuff works pretty well MOST of the time, so I'd assume their core network is pretty well built and Interac has tight agreements that pay them big bucks for outages.

And, don't mistake this for me saying that having 3 national ISPs is good.

>"..." is not a good example of networks and failures.

Actually, it's a pretty rocking example. Right now, we have zero clue why this happened, and complex built to survive SPOF systems have complex interactions and weird failure modes. But those Canadians are all Cletus and don't know how to configure a router, right?

Could this be an incompetent configuration? Sure, and we'll find that out, as this one will likely spark hearings due to the length and impact.

Just wondering if a big AWS outage means that the US is "mediocre", or if a failure should reflect the organization that failed?
Yeah and everyone knew for months this day would come. After the stocks started falling in the spring there was no way he would not try to weasel out.

In my mind this is an insane conspiracy theory that fails occam razor, he was high and said we wanted to buy Twitter. People made fun of him so he dug in to prove all those stupid people. There is no complex deal needed here.
The Interac network uses Rogers for its backbone apparently.
Correction: H.264 requires patent license fees.

H.265 requires three patent license fees, since two other competing patent pools promised a handful of patent owners a deal on cross-licensing if they left MPEG-LA.

AV1 may not require a patent license, because Google designs the codec to only use unpatented or royalty-free patented inventions. However, there's still considerations of submarine patents - i.e. an unrelated entity that invented the same technology before Google. Parallel reinvention is not a defense against patent infringement - there is no inverse to prior art. This is the same reason why Microsoft refused to support VP8/WebM early on in IE - patent pools were supposed to provide an incentive against that sort of trickery. Then Velos Media and Access Advance came along and broke this, which is why the naysayers started piling on into AOM.
If you don't want to use big tech, there are smaller providers.
ProtonMail, MailBox, Fastmail, Postale.io, Rambx, mailu, and others
Where does the 1-2 year time horizon come from? What did you analyze to arrive at that?

Did you consider those that got 30 year 2.5% mortgages that will need to take out 6-6.5% mortgages currently & possibly higher in 1-2 years?
I first go on Twitter to notice people about the down. Then visit the Is it down? website every few minutes to see the status.
Musk is a retard, but he's still less retarded than anyone who expects firms and the market to take care of them.
> It also depends on what the Twitter board and shareholders want. Will they want to get bought out and owned by someone who clearly doesn't want to own the company, and may run it into the ground out of spite?

Uh, yes?

The shareholders, and the board as their agents, care about the company as a means to an end: and that end is making money. They’ve already concluded the sale achieves that goal.

If Musk wants to burn the company to the ground after they cash out, they don't care.

Heck, some of them may invest in competitors after the sale banking on that to make even more money.
I do wonder what world people come from when they praise the performance of Java. But the "cold start" is definitely my biggest issue, compared to the C#/.NET world where source can be clean compiled and the server accepting requests within seconds - I'm guessing Python may be similar (esp. with no compile phase).
this is pretty far outside my area of expertise so maybe i'm missing something, but isn't the cloudflare blog just describing what they're seeing from the perspective of somebody who monitors BGP traffic, rather than assigning the blame to BGP?

it seems like the BGP traffic signature of any isp-level outage, regardless of the cause, would look like this. they went down, so they stopped advertising that they could accept traffic. then they tried to accept a little bit of traffic, but that didn't work so they turned it off again.
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> Beautiful city, but something about it seems to attract the shadiest businesses.

Something about it? Lol it was the cocaine capital of the USA.
No, it's completely configurable

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1773
If you don't understand why in a geostationary based link, the antenna size at either end matters a great deal for overall link budget, gain, Eb/No and what modulation you can use at a certain MCS and code rate before it gets too blurry in a QAM eyeball chart, there's no sense in talking about satellite communications with you.

I note you didn't answer my question because you have no idea of what modulations, channel size and such are required to actually push 10Gbps through a satellite link to a single terminal. I think you're going off Viasat's marketing material where they're claiming aggregate throughput of an entire satellite or something.

Show me the exact hardware configuration of modems you think are capable of 10Gbps by geostationary and how much transponder MHz it needs.
Cool, let's do the solar panel scammers next. I still get multiple calls/week for California solar energy, despite moving out of state two years ago.
Comments on the Third Review of Canada’s Directive on Automated Decision-Making [pdf]
Hope you are having a great journey with it!
Not too interesting technically - it's just a bunch of divs that are manually filled with text and defined to be a fixed size. I was hoping to see something that would automatically reformat text into columns based on screen and column size, per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29172083.
>Electrification and self-driving systems (and the resulting fleets of cheap automated taxis) will go a long way towards reducing the waste inherent to automobiles.

Why would electric vehicles reduce waste? Cleaner, sure. But we’d be just as capitalist. City people didn’t ditch their cars and buy their pristine 4WD Ford Trucks that they use to transport their kids because this was the cheaper and saner option.

Electric vehicles will just mean these people will ditch their current vehicles and buy a new Cyber Truck every few years.

Lock downs during the pandemic showed us what needs to be done: Get rid of as many vehicles as possible. Remember all the wildlife that came back and the cleaner air?
Everyone talking about this claim drops the important word. Less than 5% of _monetizable_ daily active users are bots. A non-monetizable user can exist and many do: people with ad blockers, people using third party Twitter clients, and people using APIs to interact with Twitter. Bot accounts are very likely to not be counted as monetizable daily active uers.
If this fails, simply tell the cops that your taxes pay their salary. They are definitely no match for that.
No; Musk has demonstrated with his actions that he is a liar and his word means little. You could look at his “taking Tesla private at $420; funding secured” tweet, or his late SEC filing for his large ownership stake in Twitter where he claimed to be a passive investor days before making this offer, or any number of prior examples. If you assume good faith from Musk at this point, you are a fool.
>Why can't efficient self driving cars also be public transportation?

Cars are inefficient. It has nothing to do with the operators, ride-sharing, time-sharing, clever routing, the powertrain, energy storage, emissions, etc. The form-factor itself is horrendously inefficient for moving people. In terms of traffic density cars are virtually the worst mode of transportation we have.[1]

It's not an argument against automation, it's an argument against cars. (Particularly in America: where people seem to want the largest, heaviest vehicles they're allowed to operate w/ a typical license. On a daily basis I see multiple vans or trucks, most weighing in excess of 4,000 lbs now, transporting a lone individual.)

>In my opinion the main benefit is the most overlooked - NOT spending X hours of your own mental bandwidth and focus worrying about crashing a deadly vehicle.

You can get that, right now, without investing another cent in self-driving cars. There is plenty of time (and space!) to curl up with a good book on a train, for instance.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06IjfbqdnNM
> Can you imagine the absolute field day the mass media would have if Trump had a son like Hunter Biden?

The only way his sons are not like Hunter Biden is that their dad is the bigger train wreck.
Completely unrelated. Network in questions was advertised from Rogers for last 3+ years.
Have you spent much time on "anything not illegal is allowed" forums?

Try to talk about popular movies are TV shows and you get things like this on such sites [1]. Want to discuss an episode of PBS Space Time such as this one [2]. Don't be surprised if this is the discussion you get [3].

What almost always happens on such forums is that the people there who aren't racists, sexists, antisemites, inane conspiracy theorists etc., leave, and the forum ends up being largely just such people.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201225021055/https://voat.co/v...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlXdsyctD50

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20201223123156/https://voat.co/v...
So... I'm sure it's not as easy as I think it should be, but isn't this just a DMCA takedown notice away from getting fixed? As much as the DMCA is generally horrible and abused, this seems like an actually good use for it.

Of course, the counterfeit seller can just create a new account, and then it becomes a game of whack-a-mole, but perhaps that could be grounds for a lawsuit against Amazon directly, for failing to rein in all the copyright infringement occurring on their platform. (Maybe even a class action, since this problem seems widespread.)

Again, I'm sure this isn't easy or fun (or cheap) to do, but tweeting at people to not buy your book from Amazon seems to be... not all that useful a response?
Cool to see this (I’d somehow missed the early access link until last night).

Your storage strategy makes sense - building from first principles. To be honest, I figured you’d not done that though, and I imagine this makes portability a bit harder.

I’m eager to play with the service, but I wonder how local access patterns (e.g. dev workflows) differ - upon the right abstraction it shouldn’t really matter, right? I.e. a conn is a conn and a cursor is a cursor - the storage is opaque to the client. But does this somehow fall over with transactions and connection limits?
Sure, but the obvious question is why we would care about "counterfeit" Cisco equipment that is... technically... only if you're an obnoxious pedant... but technically... exactly identical to genuine Cisco equipment.
I did my usual (probably excessive) amount of news/periodicals reading, but grew frustrated frequently that I couldn't post to HN to get comments/input from others. One notable example (during the first of yesterday's outages) was an NYT article [1] The Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Recreate the Elgin Marbles. This hadn't been submitted to HN at the time (as far as I could tell), but it's there now [2] - sadly, with no comments at the time of posting this.

Anyhow, the article referred to "3-D printing" to make copies of the marbles, but the writing was confused and to me it looked like automated carving, so I wanted to post it to see what others here thought. As it happens, having just checked the article again, the original copy has been amended to read "3-D machining" rather than "3-D printing" - but there's no correction notice to say that the article was changed. Mind you, the clue is still in the url: ... science/elgin-marbles-3d-print.html

Without HN, then, I read my stock sites as usual, but felt deeply that I missed the sanity-checks/informed input from HN commenters. It was lonely, in a way, and also made me fret about my missing issues with articles that usually others at HN would point out; different perspectives, questions about credibility or robustness of stats/data/methods of obtaining info on which articles might rely.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/science/elgin-marbles-3d-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026156
The downvotes are most likely because it's a specious claim that Elon's legal team is making, not supported by fact. He waived the due diligence phase. Twitter provided his team with information. He's just trying to get out of the deal because he made an impulsive and stupid decision.

Parroting the statements of his legal team without adding the context around those statements is going to garner downvotes.
Credibility is not about absence of bias, which is not a reasonable thing to expect from anyone. Credibility is about journalistic practices like checking sources and using editorial discretion about what level of certainty is needed to print something. Surely you have seen one of those charts that plots credibility vs politcal bias? e.g. https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc
680 news is AM radio version of CP24 at least.

680 news is owned by rogers and cp24 is owned by bell lol!
Well, I developed and now manage dev for a Rails app that has half a million customers, with holiday demand peak times, etc. I haven't lost a night's sleep in the almost 10 years to the app.

I'm interested in what impracticalities are involved in our threaded deployment of Rails?
Speaking of the US, and generally, we have the media and the politics that we deserve. I just laugh at these polls. Yeah, our news media is super low quality, but so is our average citizen.

edit: To clarify, I laugh not because it’s funny, but because all the other more appropriate emotions have long since run out.
and you just finished mine
I’m totally fine with folks trying - plenty of companies want to build self-driving cars and investors want to buy into those companies, and all that can just sort itself out and win or lose.

The problem is when folks - and I’m not saying just like this thread, but this is a phenomenon in some governance - when folks say that self-driving cars mean that we should reduce public transit or rail investment now, because those problems will be solved, right around the corner, as soon as the cars work.

If/when self-driving cars happen, sure, that’ll be great! People who are skeptical about the technology aren’t going to stop Tesla or Waymo from forging ahead. But car-centric planning does, currently, reduce public transit investment, and self-driving car hype does reduce the political will to build rail.
( cont. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32028998 )
probably flat, if only because it takes a lot of energy to move freight, which isn't usually particularly light, up and down hills.
I behave the same way, but I have a feeling that most people do not.
I'm very familiar with the stark difference between North American and European transit systems. I've actually visited the Netherlands multiple times, and many other European cities. Totally agree that we generally do public transit miserably in NA, and have a lot of room for improvement.

All I was getting at with my original comment is that "trains for everyone" is as ridiculous of a concept as "cars for everyone".

> You're saying that you would choose a personal vehicle, but does that choice have the potential to change if the surrounding circumstances change?

Sure, as mentioned, if severe artificial barriers are put up to car usage, I would begrudgingly change. Absent that, no, I like my personal space. I like not getting rained on, not getting snowed on and not walking through -30C temperatures. Currently, I can get into a personal vehicle inside a garage, and proceed directly to my workplace's garage. Buses and trains will never match that, at least, not in the city I live in.

> Making cars self-driving is putting lipstick on a pig. It's like taking high blood pressure drugs instead of losing weight.

It's tremendously frustrating to constantly butt up against the foregone conclusion of "car is intrinsically bad no matter what". Safety and environmental impact are commonly accepted as the two largest issues with cars. We are poised to address both of these over the next two decades. Yet cars are still somehow intrinsically bad nonetheless? Is usage of a vehicle bad if one is not sharing the interior of it with a certain number of other people at any given time?

At the end of the day, I am a strong believer in enabling people to live their lives the way they want to, when reasonably practical. To cover most of the population, this means building pedestrian and cyclist friendly infrastructure, public transit, and supporting the safe and efficient use of personal vehicles too. And there's nothing stopping this from all coexisting, as you've already stated.
The problem with saying institution X is "not as a source of information, but as an instrument of the establishment to influence and control" is that most people who say this do believe some institutions. The ones that tell them what they want to hear are obviously honest. The ones that say otherwise are obviously corrupt.

Believing "institutions are corrupt" without addressing specific instances of corruption is an abandonment of critical thought itself.

You can LARP life for a while, but reality continues outside your fantasy, and at some point you will have to reconcile the two. You may find at this point that you weren't on the side of truth and justice after all.
I recall getting a dime in the 1950s and I was overjoyed.

I gave my daughter a Kennedy half dollar in the late 1980s.
For who unaware: M5 hosting https://www.m5hosting.com/ It's not EC2 M5 instance.
They turn there because what could be less establishment? The establishment gives its imprimatur to the news media, and they've proven untrustworthy, so the (weak) reasoning goes, why not turn to whatever the establishment condemns? Listen to Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Sargon of Akkad, Q, the Doomsinger of Alexandria (okay, I made that one up). They don't trust any of it anyway, except a few of the worst Q addicts, but they figure, we know CNN lies and twists, and they hate us, so might as well listen to the liar who's on our side.
Many of them are turning to new sources of opinion-driven news, like the daily wire and the young turks. I can't say for certain that this is a worse future than what we have had over the last 5 years in mainstream news, but it cements the balkanization of information channels.
I saw this on /r/conservative today
Please email beta@neon.tech and we will bump you up on the waitlist. Portability is key - we can't fork Postgres.

Apart from branching it's the same Postgres - so you can develop locally against vanilla Postgres. We are thinking how to connect local and cloud environments. What would be some good patterns here?
Very cool, this approach will inevitably catch on, I think.

I built a similar typed PL and compiler for Morgan Stanley back in 2013:
https://github.com/morganstanley/hobbes