skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that more for load balancing than failover?

For load balancing I would consider this very likely because both are equally loaded. But "failover" I would usually consider a scenario where a second server is purely in wait for the primary to fail, in which case it would be virtually unused. Like an active/passive scenario as someone mentioned below.

But perhaps I got my terminology mixed up. I'm not working with servers so much anymore.
scp uses sftp protocol by default since v8.8. You'll need to pass `-O` parameter to explicitly use the legacy scp protocol if you still need it for backward compatibility reason.
I expect gp was referring to The Hudson's Bay Company / Rupert's land
I use example.com for that purpose :p
Can 'liquid workers' flow to tech's rescue?
Depending on the "bet" (alphabet company) there can be little to zero separation between them and Google (full access to internal systems, etc) or it can be run as a fully separate company with no special access. This will depend on the details.
Similar to finding a version of Blade Runner you like. Some have the narration, some don't.
HN is so reliable that I distrusted my wife first.

"Did you unplug the router?"
> The spam accounts angle seems like a convenient scapegoat, rather than a real surprise to him.

It seems apparent to this observer that the spam accounts thing and other metrics were always super inflated and perhaps now there will be a reckoning.

I also think it is very funny how there was much gnashing of teeth and literal tears at the prospect of him owning twitter but now they might end up chasing him and try to force him to buy them, thus further alienating the woke mob and sowing chaos internally. Look how the turn tables have turn tabled.

If they are greedy enough to go to court over it the question of just how fake this company is will stay in the news for the duration of the trial and the stock will tank. If they don't they might have to, you know, actually function like a real company.

This story is far from over.
This is such a terrible look for Elon. I’ve really liked him up until now but this just feels like playing with our emotions. Honestly starting to question how much hope there is for mars to happen at all.
I'm not sure I catch your meaning. Exceptional is a magnitude in my mind. It needs an adjective to go along with it
"anything not illegal is allowed" sounds decent to me

And there are numerous forums where that standard is applied; Twitter just happens not to be one of them because they like money.
> - Can't figure out what's going on (AM radio is non stop commercials)

Don't you have public service? Isn't that what CBC Radio One is, with no commercials?
Digital generation Is getting old enough to realize memory becomes pretty shitty if you arnt cautious
It is irresponsible to do something eccentric if you cannot afford it
You have too much faith in companies that set up elaborate offshore entities in tax havens just to escape paying any taxes in the countries they actually operate out of.

Ever wonder why all these honest and upstanding companies seem to have their HQs in Ireland of all places?
White men of property, you mean. Nobody else was exceptional.

Of course, Jefferson's words established no basis in American law. It was signed before America existed. The Treaty of Paris ending the war established America only as a sovereign country, not a free one. (We were free of monarchy only). In fact, the intended audience for both documents was international, not national.

Never a legal document, the Declaration was mostly two things: advertising -- in the hope that enemies of England might give us money in order to annoy King George, and cheerleading -- in the hope America's troops wouldn't lose heart at the slow pace of the war and its woeful prospects, and desert, as many did.

We continue to harken to the Declaration only because the pretty words make it easier to dismiss proofs of contradiction like slavery and wars of adventure.
Sure, but that’s bullshit. Twitter carefully couched each of this sort of statement in “we might be wrong” disclaimers.

It’s not like he came up with the “they’re all bots” theory after committing.
We had parlor but Amazon shut them down to help suppress the Hunter laptop story.

TruthSocial has had a rough scaling start.

Imagine building a product knowing that nearly all hosting platforms and services will try and shut you down.
I read an article recently on avoiding fallback in distributed systems.[0]

Is it more appropriate to call the strategy in this case fallback, or failover? Since the secondary server wasn't running in production until the first one failed, it sounds like fallback?

Perhaps higher reliability strategies would have been instead of having a secondary server, just have more mirrored disks on the main server, to reduce the likelihood of the array being compromised?

Alternatively, to run both the primary and secondary servers in production all the time. But that would presumably merely move the single point of failure to the proxy?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/avoiding-fallback-in...
And Paypal.
So say that then.

Saying gay men lack self control is a different claim entirely, not to mention offensive.
I can't wait for that point many moons in the future, where FSD is fully/widely-adopted, and where every Honda (or pick any mfg'er, really) on the planet stops right where it is because some key piece of their critical infrastructure went down.
Sure but then why skip diligence? That would be the ideal time to sell lots of Tesla stock and eventually say “You know what? Nah” without any sticky legal issues.
They have to be not only fraudulent but fraudulent to the point of having a "materially adverse effect" on the value of the company. Delaware courts rarely (almost never) find this to be the case.
Esper Edition - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0XmotXxfeORXbLUizdQ0xK
Should be fairly easy to tell, if more parents start balking at the "normal" vaccines their young children should be getting. Pre-COVID, the hardcore antivax group was tiny, so any growth should be easy to spot.
Boeing ended production of the 757 18 years ago and they still have no strategy for a successor besides more duck tape on the 737.
>How long before the public realizes that we are not Rogers' customers, but its hostages?

Won't happen. The average Canadians are one of the most sheep like docile people out there.
I hope it's temporary. Would hate HN to move to the "cloud" from bare metal.
Ok. I had understood corporations chose Delaware merely because of the anti-consumer bias in Delaware's laws, but it's good to hear otherwise.
Static typing requires good test coverage too.

Tests confirm correct results. The fact that they also confirm expected types is a free side effect.
His legal team can maintain that the sky is a vibrant chartreuse, but that doesn't mean it's true.
Temporary rate limiting on Elon’s firehouse API account[0] does not sound like a material breach of contract.

[0] - page 5 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922...
For comparison, the watch is the same thickness as a US quarter dollar coin.
I don't see any reasoning for Ruby or Rails, just why they are sticking to a modulith rather than decomposing into (micro)services.
I'm American and the first time I remember hearing the term "American exceptionalism" was when I was about 30 years old. Even then, I've almost always heard it brought up in the context of questioning it. Maybe once or twice I've heard a politician on TV professing to believe in it. To this day I'm still not sure I know what the phrase is supposed to mean.

So I don't think it's as widespread as you say, though I can easily imagine that it's a popular idea in certain segments of the population.
Out of touch billionaire realises that he has to sell quite a lot of stocks in his companies in order to buy a dying social media platform that's mostly gamed by PR firms, bots, and the occasional actual user who wonders: "Why am I here again?"
He’s been skirting regulators and manipulating shareholders for a while now. If they “can nail him they will” was true they would have acted by now.
> Musk's misguided approach to free speech, which says anything that is not explicitly illegal is allowed

Genuinely interested, and not just trying to argue: how would you otherwise define free speech? It sounds like you think free speech should have defined limits - which surely means it's not free speech any more?
Why business is booming for military AI startups
With all the countless ways a deal for anything can fall through it is disingenuous to attribute a deal falling through as Musk lying. If anything it shows that Musk announces deals too soon.

Does it look bad for Musk to say he is building a factory then not doing it? Hell yeah.

Does that mean Musk lied and was never serious about building a factory or buying Twitter? Not at all.
This attitude is kind of the ios-flavored "computers are appliances I license from the manufacturer at their pleasure" not "computers are general purpose devices I purchase and can then do what I want with"
Ask HN: Doesn't the Rogers outage prove – network as a single point of failure?
High Availability and Disaster Recovery and Auto-Scaling and a design in place to avoid SPOF (Single Point of Failure) always ignore Network being a SPOF. But, Network can be a Single Point of Failure too.
Well, here's the tweet from Bret Taylor (chair of the board at Twitter)...

https://mobile.twitter.com/btaylor/status/154552608708969676...

> "The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery."
The mainboards are swappable at $400-1000 which means that if you like the chassis, your next upgrade would be considerably cheaper (and because the CAD files are available, you can easily buy or 3D print a case to use the old mainboard as a NUC). Although personally, the Framework doesn't seem so outside the pricing for the laptops I've been comparing it to anyway, tbt (in my case: ultrabooks that are Linux friendly with decent displays and that can get to 64GB of RAM) - the Slimbook Executive 14, Tuxedo Pulse 15 Gen2, Star Labs Starbook 14, are all around the same ballpark price. The HP Dev One is a bit cheaper, but on the flip side, the HP Elitebook 845 Gen9 is double the price.

As for the marketplace, the keyboard, trackpad, case components, battery, and displays are also easily replaceable/repairable, which certainly matters a lot to me and I'd imagine would matter a lot to people who are looking at being able to upgrade or keep using the laptop longer term, or that are concerned about value/TCO.

I think their are enough people that would be sold just on the "repairability" angle, but the modding culture stuff is cool too. I'm a big fan of some of the stuff happening, like this Eink display mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=480xteW2wq4
>But it's unclear to me what he initially thought he was getting out of this

Answer: some sort of stock manipulation whether it be Tesla's or Twitter's
No, they’ll sue him for the actual damages and/or to force him to actually complete the transaction, which is much more than $1bn.
Eh… Duolingo? Or other bite-sized language material. I personally like Beelinguapp. Its readings are small enough yet are quite fun to read for a beginner
You might enjoy this classic site - youarelisteningtolosangeles.com - ambient music overlaid with live police chatter.
The creator has made other versions since; the Quebec one is nice if you want a different language.
Elixir is a homoiconic language with hygienic macros. Macros are a great tool when you need 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? Certainly some shareholders will just want to take the money and run (the agreed-upon buyout price is quite a premium over the current stock price), but others will be more interested in protecting the future of Twitter as a company and platform.

Agree that there will be a massive legal fight, but my guess is that it will be over how much extra Musk has to pay to get out of the deal (beyond the $1B breakup fee), than over making him perform. But who knows; only time will tell.
All the facts here are fine but I'm left wondering, what are the stakes of "proving" how great America is? What good do all those aircraft carriers do me? Holding down the Chinese, I guess. But then, isn't holding the rest of the world down while the "American way of life" carries on the whole point of all this "greatness"?

At the end of WWII, America was the last rich country standing and proceeded to go round the world kicking out left-wing governments (unfriendly or not) and installing right-wing ones. The result was unprecedented profits and security for American corporations, and some of that wealth undoubtedly trickled down. But I'm left thinking about the cost. Is it any wonder Russia, Iran, South America, etc. would distrust us and want us out of their business?

The comparison at the end to the Mongols feels apt, since while their empire was undeniably great, it is very difficult to argue that they were a force for good in the lives of the people on whose backs that greatness was won.
Haha. A building of ours in Canada lost internet at the same time.

When I saw hn was down, I double-checked the news to see if a major part of the internet had gone down.
Exactly, this is the point that seems to be missed over and over again: you can't back out of a deal that you've inked because you regret it.
I suspect that was a reference to the Hudson's Bay Company. I would have to brush up on my history, but they effectively controlled a huge tract of land pre-Confederation and continued to serve many smaller towns until well into the 20th century. I don't think the Hudson's Bay Company was considered a crown corporation, but they were granted a royal charter.
Going by their own words, the motivations of OSS maintainers are weird. They complain that people don’t appreciate their efforts. Little money in it. So when do they get some payoff? Apparently these moments of catharsis where they get to vent their frustration against the freeloaders. They’re like rich people who hate taxes and yet pay double on it anyway, just so they can tell off people who they consider to be freeloaders.

Just upload your code and forget about it, then. Or keep the code to yourself. Because the social side of OSS doesn’t seem to be working for you.
Not only was it blatantly obvious from the start, but it wasn’t the first time Elon liquidated Tesla shares while misdirecting. Both his fans and the media continue to fall for his distractions to this day.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-voters-back-idea-of-elo...

https://www.autonews.com/executives/elon-musks-tweet-about-t...
IMO Safaribooksonline is the gold standard of content piracy. In the sense of how rampant it is.
I didn't factor in Roe vs. Wade.
It was not intentional or any veiled sarcasm.

What I meant is that unlike a lot of countries where you are bottlenecked by choices of educational specialization, profession, career & personal development, as a US resident one doesn't face any of these. There is ample scope to pursue your interests or take risks to change your career path, things which are unthinkable in the aforementioned situation.
The 2011 version makes me sad. It was completely unnecessary and inferior to the original.
the man has plot armor, he can do what he likes knowing that the Department of Defense is counting on him and his launch platform for the next generation of space warfare [0] - any efforts to reel him in will be met with a phone call like Alexander Acosta, "above your pay grade", "leave it alone"

[0] you didn't think Starlink's purpose is to let fisherman watch YouTube did you?

</tinfoil>
They'd be nuts to do so.
> Great! Maybe home prices will become affordable for folks looking to enter the market

Well the problem with that is that housing busts are usually associated with rescission (can't buy a house without a job) and rising interest rates (can't borrow the money anymore).
I think Go's generics are reasonable, but not quite powerful enough to scale.

It's all well and good to generalize basic containers and functions (good, in fact), but I wish the language was better at inferring types.

I'm sure this is something that will improve with time, but a bit after generics were released, I tried to build a type-safe language evaluator in Go using generics and found them lacking the kind of type-narrowing necessary for fully-generic architecture.

Short write-up of my conundrum on SO, if anyone is interested: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71955121/how-to-type-swi...

TypeScript has me spoiled. :)
I doubt that though. Digg was hyped way too much and the inevitable decline that comes after a hype killed it. Some things are good enough to survive that phase but Digg wasn't. HN never had a hype phase, just slow but strong & steady growth. And not growing too much either.

It seems the perfect circumstances to really last. It doesn't have an invasive business model, or investors screaming for ROI either. That's the kind of thing that often leads to user-hostile changes that so often start the decline into oblivion.

Also, I would imagine it's pretty cheap to host, after all it's all very simple text, I don't think it hosts any pictures beside the little Ycombinator logo in the corner :)
You're projecting your own views onto other people without any evidence. In their letters they make it clear that they do now feel his behaviour has become unacceptable, and that's why he's become an electoral liability. They're years away from an election so your argument that it's all about electoral liability lacks explanatory power (why now) and boils down to "politicians innit", which isn't really an argument at all.

If you're a columnist or random commentator, fine, argue whatever you like. It's kind of absurd that you teach politics though. Surely such people are supposed to work hard to be as neutral as possible. I don't believe for one second you're politically neutral on this topic.
IMO it's the advice about THIS vaccine, not the other long-established vaccines that are normally given in childhood.

People are nervous about new vaccines initially. There's some history to justify it, for those who remember the Swine Flu in the 1970s. They want to wait and see if they are safe. That doesn't mean they are opposed to all vaccines, or even that they are being completely rational on the basis of statistics. This is normal human fear of new things.
I once had a small fleet of SSDs fail because they had some uptime counters that overflowed after 4.5 years, and that somehow persistently wrecked some internal data structures. It turned them into little, unrecoverable bricks.

It was not awesome seeing a bunch of servers go dark in just about the order we had originally powered them on. Not a fun day at all.
100%

We are so focused on "simplifying" everything... to what end? Maybe it's actually good for people to learn the thing they're using to some degree rather than hiding the functionality away because it "looks cleaner".
Agree 100%. I’ve never met Elon but his online behavior in the run up to and immediately after the Twitter deal sure seemed hypomanic to me.
Went for a walk with my toddler. We found bits of broken glass on the playground.

There was an attempt to ingest them, but I prevented that from happening.
This would have been switching from an overinflated stock to a much more overinflated stock.
Having formerly lived in Canada for 30 years, I can concur.
Don's editor is excellent and I've used it for all my modding work. Great tool. Thanks.
If I was (re)designing this, I would keep the existing bare metal server but I would also put in place double (or triple) cloud redundancy/failover. We all love HN so much that it should have zero downtime :-)
I'm very much in that boat myself! Zero synth or really even musical experience, picked up a Korg Prologue on a lark from a local CL seller. Do you have any recommended introductory resources? Right now I'm focusing on learning the basic modulation the synth offers alongside some very basic music theory to get a grasp on chords/melodies/etc.
No, mini vMac runs in color just fine for me.
I’m not terribly familiar with the specifics of the deal but IIRC there’s a penalty clause that’s dependent on who, ultimately, backs out of the deal. It seems like Musk is angling to get Twitter to pull out and Twitter is doing everything they can to engage with Musk’s requests in “good faith” so he can’t claim Twitter has constructively backed out— a bit of M&A malicious compliance/a game of chicken, I believe.
>Maybe when it destroys the whole Canadian economy for a day

Won't happen. The average Canadians are one of the most sheep like, docile people out there.
How would it be adverse? Are you suggesting his data scientists are querying the API so much that they are DDoSing Twitter?
It's easy to listen to everyone in good times. That has been the case with Netflix since they were the only streaming service available. Now that the competition has increased, it is best to focus on what the service is all about and that's entertainment for many different views. The world is not all about ERG. There are many views in the world. And it's important that it presents them as part of the service. There are limits but they can't all be based on the ERG mentality.
>I don’t understand is fascination with it

I think it's simple.. he is insanely egotistical. He thinks he is some super genius. I'm not saying he's not a smart guy, but he was able to benefit from the early dot-com era mostly because of timing- he happen to be a smart guy at the right age of tech when it was much "easier". There are millions of people who are really smart and work in tech but it's not like they can just magically make an insane amount of money like early on.

He thinks because he is the richest person in the world that he has also worked the most and is the smartest. Both are extremely far from reality- but you can't convince someone of him like that.

Anyway- my point is he loves being able to just post a tweet and have however many people read it and talk about it. Similar to someone like Trump- they just love all the attention to an insane amount, and unfortunately technology makes that possible these days.
Twitter has already said they'll sue for specific performance: https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768
I am going to let Sacha Baron Cohen, of all people, answer your question [1]:

Voltaire was right when he said "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." And social media lets authoritarians push absurdities to millions of people. President Trump using Twitter has spread conspiracy theories more than 1700 times to his 67 million followers.

Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach. Sadly There will always be racists, misogynists, anti-Semites, and child abusers. We should not be giving bigots and pedophiles a free platform to amplify their views and target their victims.

Zuckerberg says people should decide what's credible, not tech companies. When 2/3rds of millennials have not heard of Auschwitz how are they supposed to know what's true? There is such a thing as objective truth. Facts do exist.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM
He is saying

>"waived due diligence" and so can't bring up the bots thing

is not a reason why he can't bring up the bot thing. He is buying Twitter now. If there is something wrong with the deal, he can sue Twitter CEO's, Goldman Sachs, and some previous shareholders but Twitter is his.
He was funding it with loans leveraged against his stock if I understand this correctly.