skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AWS also operates at a significantly larger scale. When was the last AWS outage due to two critical disks failing at the same time?
Research ADHD. Those are both symptoms. If you have it then medication is likely to help
Musk himself has addressed this, saying that the waiver is null and void if the data supplied to the SEC by Twitter is fraudulent. I can only assume he believes that is the case.

>>First, although Twitter has consistently represented in securities filings that “fewer than 5%” of its mDAU are false or spam accounts, based on the information provided by Twitter to date, it appears that Twitter is dramatically understating the proportion of spam and false accounts represented in its mDAU count. Preliminary analysis by Mr. Musk’s advisors of the information provided by Twitter to date causes Mr. Musk to strongly believe that the proportion of false and spam accounts included in the reported mDAU count is wildly higher than 5%.
Ask HN: ELI5 – What happened to HN for it to go down today?
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Protests are typically more of a unity thing.
Same, but I'm now 20 years older.
This is just one example of a broader problem with Amazon. It has become essentially a vehicle for automated salesbots to push anonymously manufactured goods of all kinds---not just books---to as many buyers as possible, drowning out storefronts for identifiable manufacturers and retailers who might have legal right via copyright or licensing to sell similar, often higher-quality versions.
that's very very likely true, but the law doesn't work that way.
>but I think the more efficient structures that lead to transactional bottlenecks and are necessary in things like Bitcoin are technical problems that can and I think have been worked out in currencies like Monero

That might be true, but the structure doesn't appear to have any technical considerations behind it. Following this comment:

>At the end of the day I am more and more convinced that all of this money and power stuff is downstream of relationships, culture, and ability to communicate and cooperate across differences.

If you ask me, the conclusion to this is that Monero has not actually "resisted" centralization, what it's actually done is become centralized around a group of criminals who all refuse to snitch on each other, and use the token as a means to do that. The key part is that "refuse to snitch on each other" comes before everything else including all the blockchain nonsense. These people are the only group who have any reason to bother using this token. Attacking the Monero network itself is orthogonal to what is typically done to break up these groups.
What does aws have to do with this article, piracy, or the retail side of Amazon
As my usual political stance goes, "fire them all!"
Oh that is interesting, I guess they just spun up a beefy EC2 instance. I'm noticing slower performance, I used to get about <200ms for front page. Now it's 500ms-1s? Or is this placebo with my bias to thinking AWS is slow?

NetRange: 50.112.0.0 - 50.112.255.255
CIDR: 50.112.0.0/16
NetName: AMAZON-EC2-USWESTOR
NetHandle: NET-50-112-0-0-1
Parent: NET50 (NET-50-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Allocation
OriginAS: AS14618
Organization: Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZO-47)
eh as long as it's _myyyy_ javascript I don't mind at all
Since it is at a nuke lab, one guesses that it will mainly be for nukes. Which, technically, could have some effect on climate processes if they were to, say, initiate an end to major CO2 emission (after the cities involved finish burning down; anyway burning steel does not produce CO2, a plus.)
It Looks Like HighlandPark Shooter Tried Repeatedly to Create Own Wikipedia Page
> They’re saying they’re lying about the numbers. Which would be fraud.

But they've been sending the SEC these same numbers calculated using the same methodology since 2013, right? If they were materially adverse circumstances, you'd imagine that someone would have caught this in the last 9 years...
For anyone interested in the world of analog synths, now is the time to jump in. The hobby is starting to get affordable enough for everyone, but elitist enough that you'd be fooled into thinking that synth owners spend a lot of money on their hobby. Joking aside, the Yamaha CS-80 sound that built Vangelis' career is easily a $60,000 synthesizer today, but you can still get 90% the same sound from a $600 Behringer Deepmind 6. Both instruments are obviously respectable in their own rights (and perhaps detestable in others), but I think it represents a really hopeful trend for the future of electronic music. I still have a hard time believing that you can get several high-quality polyphonic, analog synthesizers for less than a grand.
I went and cried in a corner.
If they can phish my password, they can trivially phish my OTP as well. The one thing I can see actually protecting against that is a physical hardware key, but that's a lot of extra inconvenience.
We shouldn't have moralized the response to Covid either.

Trying to shame people into getting vaccinated blew up in our faces -- we now have an entrenched group of people that seem to be opposed to all vaccines, not just those for Covid-19.

People will have sex in ways you and I don't approve of. If your plan is to get them to stop -- it won't work. Just as telling people not to visit their family during Covid didn't work.

A better plan is to get people vaccinated, make testing fast and easy, and to inform people about risk profiles.
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Elon Musk is pulling out his deal to buy Twitter
This is what copyright was actually for... Publishers would put out a book, it'd get popular then cut-rate copies would swamp the market. Copyright was done to protect the publisher from this sort of abuse (and secondarily the author, as the publisher was their only means of reaching an audience).

This should be the top (and only IMO) priority of CC enforcement instead of going after sci-hub and the like.
Making up your own definitions of words does not a persuasive argument make.
As Matt Levine explained [0] the “waiving due diligence” doesn’t really mean anything now. What does mean something is that he signed a binding agreement to buy Twitter, giving Twitter the right to compel him to close the deal, and there’s no “too many bots” exception, nor a “you were wrong (or even lied) about something you said” exception. He has to prove that it’s a “material adverse effect” which I understand is nearly impossible (he’d have to convince a Delaware judge that the company is worth at least 40% less than stated because of this, and in practice it seems these suits almost never succeed).

[0] https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1545151445057536001
I think we're most likely going to see them using this as justification to let Rogers get their way even more. Maybe the CRTC will try to convince the rest of the government that it's a reason to give away more cash and preferential treatment to Rogers and Bell as well.
What kind of pieces should it be broken into?
In general the site is not mobile friendly.
Microservices are one way to help with scaling the organization, not necessarily the product/code.
I (america) also have only one internet provider to choose from (Spectrum TV, formerly Time Warner Cable). It's really annoying as just barely a mile away, my neighbor has a choice to use Verizon DSL (and does). -.-

I dropped TV and a landline a long time ago, and use cell (google-fi/t-mobile).

The annoying thing is all the spam mail I get from spectrum to bundle all the above for much lower than I'm paying now for an introductory rate. I don't want to play that game but it kills me what I could be saving for at least 6 months to a year.
Also from the Times: “Will There Be Enough Monkeypox Vaccine?”

Jynneos, the company that makes the better vaccine for monkeypox, was in the middle of refurbishing the one plant that produces it.

“The manufacturing facility that could make more has been shut for a planned expansion since last August. The facility is not expected to reopen until late this summer at the earliest, and additional vaccine manufactured there may not become available for at least six months after that.”

(https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/health/monkeypox-vaccine-...)

So that’s a bit of a problem. We do have a smallpox vaccine that seems to have significant cross-reactivity to monkeypox, but, the side effects can be unpleasant. (https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/monkeypox-vac...)

Will this actually become a serious pandemic? I dunno. I have friends who have contracted this. But they did so at…um…let’s say underground parties. I’m really unclear if this will spread to the general population, as it is primarily spreading within men-who-have-sex with men networks. (My friend who got it over Memorial Day shook it off pretty easily, other acquaintances contracted it too recently to judge the full course of the disease yet.)
I'll just put this here ..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=znSlYT5AnnQ
Does someone who doesn't pay you at all have a legitimate problem? Producing this product is charity, not indentured servitude
I'm also a Manning author and this also happened to me a couple years ago. Amazon was allowing a counterfeit Kindle edition of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python to pose as legitimate on my own book's page! Only emailing Jeff got a solution. Manning seemed powerless to solve the problem themselves. I still have some bad reviews as a result of that counterfeit Kindle edition that plague my book page. Totally unfair!

Here's my original Tweet thread about it:
https://twitter.com/davekopec/status/1302578592552022018

Here's the Hacker News discussion about it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24399301
Feynman's 1964 Lectures at Cornell
that's awesome :)

What's awesome about venice airport is, when you get off the dock, you're basically in the terminal!
This was a good article, and before making a snap judgement and skipping it, you should note that the author means exceptional in the literal sense of being an exception or being different, rather than the colloquial sense of "really good."

I think the conclusion is interesting, so I'm going to paste it here in case you don't want to read the whole article.

> To put it simply then, the United States might be typified by an emphasis on achieving greatness (as traditionally defined) above almost everything else.18 The very bigness is the goal, driving forward towards larger profits, newer technology, more clicks and views, greater military power, more allies19, damn the consequences. That’s not the only thing at the heart of America, but it is one of the things.

> And on those terms it is hard not to conclude that the United States is a success, indeed, it is a country that has succeeded on those terms like no other country has ever succeeded. It has resulted in a country which is not merely exceptional, but exceptionally exceptional – that is, the United States is highly unusual in an unusually high number of ways. And, as I noted at the beginning, it is unusual in fairly obvious ways, evident enough that one has to accomplish some serious mental contortions not to notice what a strange, expansive and powerful country the United States is.

> The interesting question then is not if the United States is a great country but if it will be a good country, if all of that vastness in wealth, technology, influence and power will be put towards some worthy aim, both judged against our ideals20 and against the historical behavior of other great powers.21 It’s a question that only Americans can really answer, in our doing. I strive and hope that we answer well.
Texas and Florida do a much better job educating their minority and ESL kids going by NAEP scores.
ECS fargate is a great platform but the API interface to it is pretty bad. It's such a shame.
They’re comparable. Minivans are a bit better with kids, SUVs are often better for recreation (e.g., pulling a camper). Lots of people also depend on pickup trucks, contra the parent’s viewpoint that they’re rarely legitimate.
Ebola is also a highly visible disease and it isn't spread through the air. In terms of containment, it's far easier to identify and confront than Covid. I don't believe it's a fair comparison.
Presumably he will have to pay the $1 billion walkaway penalty. But the complete collapse of his trustability among potential business partners will cost him a lot more.
Tell that to anyone who can barely get past the Ubuntu installer. Every step making installing alternative OSes harder is newsworthy, for the simple reason that every bit more difficult installation means literally fewer users capable of getting through it.
Section 6.4
We're already posthuman so we might as well lean in.
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Come on. I’m not an electric car driver, but it’s obvious that centralising the emissions is a necessary step towards containing or reducing them.

And producing them now uses fossil fuels, but given critical mass of electric infrastructure and economy of scale for batteries then there will be a tipping point where the guy who drives the electric mining truck gets to work via his electric car.

Without any progress in these directions we will always have emissions.
On the off chance you haven't seen it, that's what "noprocrast" does in your profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

While looking up that link, TIL about what "delay" does, too, so thank you :-)
Travel back in time with me to the halcyon days of 2012, when Tumblr was the hot new thing. highscalability.com did a writeup on their novel "cell-based architecture", a whole decade earlier than this paper. It certainly inspired me at the time. We don't talk about Finagle as much anymore, but there's lots of good stuff here that still applies.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architectur...
Having spent some time in Japan and knowing many Japanese folks and many Western folks who have lived and worked in Japan a long time, my impression is that Japan is (like many East Asian countries) obsessed with looking perfect.

It often means actually nearly perfect (on some axis, at least in Japan, but with clear ‘acceptable’ issues on others), but coverups, suppressing inconvenient facts, oppressing or exiling troublesome elements, etc. all happen too.

Folks call it ‘face’, and it isn’t unique to East Asia, but it is very pronounced in Japan.

Japan also being an island and very culturally homogenous, makes it possible to take it to real extremes not doable elsewhere, and it can be a very oppressive environment if you don’t fit in (and are trying to do so).

If you’re ok with being treated as a foreign curiosity, everyone is very friendly and helpful.

With everything tightening the screws lately (Covid, economy, etc), it’s another example (like the attempted subway gassings) of something slipping out of control and blowing up where it can’t be swept under the rug.
maybe when we are all replaced by robots that is true, but its not possible for the average person to take abuse constantly and keep a level head. That's not how our brains are wired
a call to go back to sleep for others
Or just trade it for some other asset or currency that isn't crypto? Why are those your only two options? I don't understand how you jumped from "I need to trade something" to "my only option is cash or crypto". Those dots don't line up.
So then it looks like the "right wing" / anti-establishment tech pantheon is then set:

Rumble, Brave, Truth Social, Subscribe Star

Locals and Bitchute gave it a shot (and aren't dead yet). And an Elon owned Twitter might have been interesting, but at this point that's who the players are.
You just described the counter to “don’t run things designed for Google if you’re not Google.”

The real advice is “don’t run stacks that make trade-offs or give up guarantees to be able to scale to a size you’re not at or solve problems you don’t have.”
They'd have to prove it in court. Good luck with that.
For me, HN is one of the default pages when browser's open.
It seems apparent to this observer that he developed cold feet pretty fast after an impetuous decision, and has been looking for any reason to back out of it since then. The spam accounts angle seems like a convenient scapegoat, rather than a real surprise to him.

He's clearly eccentric in his approach to decision making: I don't think any Harvard Business School course will teach "the Musk Principles". But it's unclear to me what he initially thought he was getting out of this. In the original news, he said, "Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it." Either he was breathlessly arrogant or astonishingly careless in the first instance. And I say this as someone who has huge respect for his accomplishments in other industries.
The math is off. Divide the deaths by the population, that column is wrong. Canada is actually at less than a third of that number, based on their own columns.
What if he doesn’t care about the “best it can be” because his product is already so widely used? What if he thinks “my product might be a little worse, but I’ll feel a little better”.

I agree that he’d be under an ethical obligation to listen to a rude security report. But it doesn’t follow that he must therefore listen to all rude bug reports.
Ah the elusive PorN method
One senses there are hoards of lawyers out there gleefully rubbing their hands together and salivating over the feasting to come.
It's not like Twitter doesn't also have money and lawyers.
Had the same experience with (identical) SSDs, two failures within 10 minutes in a RAID 5 configuration.

(Thankfully, they didn't completely die but just put themselves into read-only)
Maybe as a kid. But Florida kicks California's ass in K12 education these days. https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?chor...
I do not think that he can pay the termination fee. I.e. the termination fee itself has rules. Otherwise, he would have payed it (the fee is equal to the daily move of his TESLA shares).
> try to find simple access control models

Can I finally make a fly.io API key that isn't all-powerful? All I see is "Create" and "Revoke" buttons. There's not much access control visible, to this user.

I'd love to delegate ability to scale a specific app up/down to some automation, but currently all it seems I can do is let that automation become me.

(For the peanut gallery: https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/)
Did they wait for Matt Levine's article to drop today before they submitted this?
if you want a vision of the future, imagine an ambulance stuck behind an automated vehicle trying to update its firmware when AWS is down, forever
What an odd perspective.

Someone built a tool they thought was useful, and released it under the MIT license in case other people might benefit from it, but not putting a screenshot in the README is wasting people's attention?
Pretty much. I think it's more likely he's trying to set things up to make the claim that Twitter wasn't co-operative and forthcoming with the information and then try to reduce the break fee in court.
Am I missing something here? Ars Technica article from OP is dated 7/8/2022 but the referenced source is from February 2020

> The US Justice Department is gearing up for a possible antitrust lawsuit against Google's ad business, and a new report from The Wall Street Journal [1] outlines a "concession" Google is proposing in response to the investigation. Google might split up some of its ad business and move it to Google's parent company, Alphabet.

Even the archive link [2] shows this is from over two years ago from when archives were taken

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-ramps-up-goo...
[2] https://archive.ph/L9NwY
Men who have sex with men (MSM) are quite adept at changing behavior as needed. Before HIV was even identified as the cause of AIDS, it was known from the basic epi that unprotected anal intercourse was a high risk activity. There was a grassroots effort to (among other things) encourage condom use, and a dramatic shift towards using condoms. It's only with the subsequent generations of MSM who did not see their friends die (thanks to better medications starting) that condom use started waning. A similar behavior shift happened after 2012, when HIV PrEP was found to be effective.

If you're interested in this topic, there's a couple of really good documentaries about the early HIV epidemic and how gay men adapted: "how to survive a plague" and "we were here" are two of my favorites.
If you don't have static typing, you just need to make sure you have good test coverage. I work in ruby/rails and don't run into this problem.
We can say the same thing about maintainers of PyPI. They host your libraries and serve it to anyone who wants, free of charge. The only thing they ask in return is to maintain a minimum level of security so that they have less headache in the future.

I think they also deserve some respect.
Almost the same for me. It's for sure 10 years ago, but when I do the calculation, it's 20. :'(
If you're deliberately engaging in risky behavior, you don't also get to blame the government for the consequences. The government is not there to facilitate every possible impulse people have at all times.
Linux Sucks 2022
Fraud is not enough. It has to be fraud bad enough to cause a materially adverse effect, which means it would have to seriously impair the value of the business.
A 1B termination fee is relatively small given that Twitter's market cap is down 10B since the beginning of April.
This is a common misunderstanding of the meaning of the word 'exceptional'. The origins of the phrase "American exceptionalism" had nothing to do with greatness or thinking one country is better than another. It is exceptional only in that the country was concieved as an exception to the rule of where its power ultimately comes from. The normal foundation for the state was upon a divinely anointed monarchy. America was founded by the people who loan their power to representatives. That power can be revoked at any time by the people. It was a dramatic departure from the expactations of sovereignty at the time.
Could be one of two things:

1) the site has connectivity so only Interac is down

2) the site has no connectivity and can process credit transactions offline and queue them (don’t tell anyone their expired card will work), but not for debit.
Sorry which planet/ alternative universe are you referring to? Example of infectious disease outbreak you wouldn't consider a "nothing burger"?
Yes it does. I'm petty and proud. If they wanted it fixed, they would've taken the personal responsibility to have been born with a brain big enough not to be rude.
There's no need for monkey patching in Nim. x.f(y) is fully equivalent to f(x,y).

The functional approach requires currying and data-last parameter order, which are both unidiomatic in Nim.
For me Nemo studios have such a mysterious vibe. I can imagine Vangelis walking around the city and spending days and nights making his music there. Must have been amazing times.

He will not be forgotten.
I think he realises that it is worth a lot less than he offered, he will probably walk away from it and get sued.

Any legal experts out there?