skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This didn't actually kill VMs, but it _did_ prevent them from being rescheduled for upwards of an hour. The vast majority of apps running on the platform had 100% uptime throughout the incident. The ones that didn't rely on our rescheduling infrastructure to recover from app errors.
Well, there's some article out there from pre pandemic where Fauci asays that the risk if a pandemic is acceptable in studying gain of function. It's not like He is a trustworthy advocate. Or would you trust the Chinese government?

Everything is political when you're trying to figure out why this disease was encouraged

(Torturing those who warn us of it is encouraging spread, no?
Ignoring warnings from competent authorities is encouraging spread, no?
Twitting out that there's no evidence of human to human spread while not verifying the claim is encouraging spread, no?

I mean, it was such a shitshow by the 10s of thousands of public officials whose job is to safeguard us from such an outcome that there's no way CYA isn't going to be the dominant motivation from those officials and they're superiors)
You do the same thing you do any other time there's demand for infrastructure...build.
You linked to a map that shows no demand-related outages.

The peak demand is caused when everyone's AC kicks on at once during heat waves.

Electric cars can easily be charged off-peak; even my ten year old model has a "timer" function to delay charging.
> Me thinks this feels more like vanity and laziness; the engineer is not to slum it with the call-center rabble.

Lol. It’s not that I have a 10 hour day already. Nor is it because I have a specialized, very expensive skill set that is not properly utilized. Nor is it that I already do 3 different jobs. Nor is it that I am already on 12x5 pagerduty rotation.

No, it is because I am filled with vanity and laziness. I don’t want to slum it with customer support.

Lol. On the contrary this is just yet another MBA spreadsheet jockey trying to “get their moneys worth” out of developers. We already do much more than nearly every other job title in this industry. Every task that isn’t immediately obvious it goes to someone else ends up on a devs desk. Just stop. Or pay me an extra 80k to handle CSR. Your choice.
This could be a special case of what I like to call "efficiency bias". It is probably cultural and probably driven by a huge (and widening) gap between what most people think they need and what they actually can afford. As a consequence, "have more for the same amount of $ spent" is perceived as obviously good, even at the cost of significant optimization effort. So then squeezing a bit more $ out of _anything_ is also perceived as self-evidently-top-priority.
So in other words, just as with nearly all new car technology advancements, it starts out with luxury vehicles and then gradually moves down the price ranges?

Is it supposed to be magically different than normal car development progression?
"the game became tedious for me after a while"

You can add a lot of variety and interest through Factorio's mods (there are hundreds of them).... however, eventually even that may not enough to stave off boredom because ultimately Factorio is just one game.

Still, I encourage everyone to try some of the mods. I'd personally never play unmodded Factorio after my first playthrough. They make this great game so much better.
Looks like the you have to visit the wayback URL at https://web.archive.org/web/20221028171605/https://usprlrlxs.... Direct linking doesn't actually work for some reason :/
It's MIT licensed, so anyone can incorporate based on the original author's work and turn a profit. He is not owed anything. This is an eventuality you are implicitly accepting when choosing MIT over GPL.
Not according to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

The FCPA basically says that as a representative of a US corporation (in my case, anyone at a Staff Engineer level or above), it's illegal to bribe an official of a foreign government.

It does try to make a distinction (sort of) between the kinds of bribe you're talking about but in my FCPA training, that "distinction" boils down to "go ask your lawyer." The lawyer will just tell you how to do it in a way that doesn't look like a bribe, even though it still is.
There are some historians trying to prove that Stoicism and the European Enlightenment are both borrowed from contact with Eastern Philosophy.

Someone did their PhD thesis placing David Hume and a Jesuit who wrote about his experiences in eastern India in a little French town a little off the road from Paris to Nantes, pre-enlightenment:

https://www.sjsu.edu/people/anand.vaidya/courses/comparative...
More to do justice to the story and its twists and turns this is courtesy of an AI transcription running on my podcast player (Snipd) :

>This story is a bit like an onion. It's got layer er on the most superficial level, that sort of papery outer layer of the story, if you like.

Why did this plane have too little fuel? The very simple reading is

Speaker 1
They had a unit conversion error. So the people who were meant to be fueling the aircraft saw a number. They assumed it was pounds of fuel, when in fact, it was kilograms of fuel. And the reason they're even doing this in mass because if you fill up a car, you don't put the fuel in by mass, you do it by volume.

Volume changes based on the ambient temperature. As things warm up, they tend to expand if they cool down, they tend to shrink. And if you're flying in aircraft, it's important you have the amount of fuel you're supposed to have. And so they made sure, instead of using the straightforward volume, they were going to use mass instead.

And sadly, it was that attempt for extra precision that opened up the door for tis unit conversion era.

...

>Speaker 1
And it was even obscured by one layer, because when they were doing the calculations, they weren't actually doing it in terms of the direct mass. They were using something called the specific gravity, which is tha cod measure of the density of the fuel. And so they used that to get back to the volume that they then had to put into the plane. And because there was this extra one layer of an opaque bit of putting it into a slightly different way of looking at it.

They didn't realize that the units behind the specific gravity were based on kilograms,

Speaker 2
And they assumed that they were based the old weigh on pounds.
"Folks have been building sqlite3 for WASM since at least as far back as 2019, but this subproject is the first effort "officially" associated with the SQLite project, created with the goal of making WASM builds of the library first-class members of the family of supported SQLite deliverables."

Awesome news. SQLite is already a defacto cross-platform file format. An official WASM release will be widely welcomed and extremely useful.
And it's not like the West isn't blocking sites and even taking down sites that aren't breaking the law.
The status page is the communication mechanism we use for incidents. Definitely subscribe to that!
Some people interested in the Great Firewall wrote up weirdness they saw with one particular prototype of eSNI years back. A game of Telephone later this became nonsense like "China blocks TLS 1.3" but actually if you do that what you get isn't web sites stripped of protection but connection errors. Which is indeed what happens for some sites from the other side of the Great Firewall, but we just say China blocks those sites, because that is what they do. Protocol versions are not crucial to them.

The current iteration of ECH is designed to be GREASEd which means browsers might just always do ECH with dummy values regardless, so either you block or you don't, you won't be able to selectively block ECH. This doesn't magically prevent the Great Firewall from working but does mean specifically host matching is degraded as intended.
Yes. For organisms that aren't capable of sexual reproduction, it doesn't make sense to talk about sex.
I slapped together a really quick script to get oldest videos via Youtube API.
It goes through all the videos from a playlist ID and then writes them to a html file with oldest first. Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/ZxCgnBY.png
Not perfect but works ok

https://github.com/n0x5/scripts/blob/master/youtube_api_uplo...

Need an API key and also the Uploads playlist ID from the channel which can use this script to get: https://github.com/n0x5/scripts/blob/master/youtube_get_uplo...

It's a little convoluted I might implement get uploads id right into the script but the issue is it doesn't always return the correct channel when searching by name, in which case one has to manually go through the results and find the right channel id which would take longer to code to actually work all the time.
> Once I have to “refactor” my base the fun was gone for me. I like building stuff, but going back and doing janitor work is not fun for me.

That's entirely a chore you have decided to do.

It is entirely fine to just leave your spaghetti base producing stuff in its little corner while you go build the next step somewhere else.

I've did that few times, basically leave the old base to act as "mall" (just produce building to furnish the new base) while I build bigger and better, once I hit construction robots and can freely blueprint everything.

Hell, once you get to robots you can "just" erase it entirely easily if it displeases you, blueprints make it easy to change your mind.

> What would possibly make the game less tedious for me is if a single play through was split up into different levels with mini objectives. Once you complete the level mini objective you move on to a different map and start a new base at a higher tech level. That way you can just throw away all of the “tech debt” of the old base while starting at a higher tech level.

Not exactly that but look up at Warptorio 2 mod. You basically have limited sized base that teleports every XX minutes to a new planet, so you carry a small base with you but have to rebuild every warp. It is pretty hectic on default settings tho
True.
I'm interested in hearing from people I follow, and the comments they make and even the posts they like or retweet.
But to recommend other posts to me because the people I follow happen to simply follow (not interact with) other people, really screws with my feed.
Sure: https://github.com/kevinfiol/youtube

Some things to note if you'd like to use it:

1. I deploy to Github Pages via Github Actions. See .github/workflows/build.yml for details. The only thing you might wanna change here is the `schedule` of how often to build your page

2. I define my subscriptions in src/feeds.json. It's just an array of tuples [name, rss_url].

3. I currently redirect to an Invidious instance. You can modify the `YOUTUBE_URL` const in scripts/render.js to `youtube.com` if you don't care for this

EDIT: By the way, I also wrote this scrappy user script to quickly download my youtube subscriptions as JSON: https://gist.github.com/kevinfiol/da63cd137327b8f8d6b7070601...

It'll just create a `get feeds` button at https://www.youtube.com/feed/channels
Not confident, just saying it’s not a for sure bad thing. If you 10x the number of people who can explore story space, you might capture a larger audience?
In my opinion, Jetbrains IDEA was a better tool ten years ago, before they decided to make versions for every language imaginable. In some ways they’ve improved and occasionally still delight, but in others their Java support is remarkably weak or non existant. Support for working with JNI is one that comes immediately to mind
> Because a majority of my devices now use this single connector, I’ve lately found myself traveling with far fewer chargers, cables and dongles (the terrible name for the numerous adapters and other tiny devices that plug into our computers).

I recently visited a university to give a presentation, and I brought a USB-C to HDMI adaptor so that I'd be able to plug in. Sadly, this didn't do the trick, as they only had VGA. Someone called the IT desk and then ran an adaptor over. Experiences like this make me wonder when I'll stop needing my HDMI adaptor and be able to count on a conference room having a USB-C connector for video.
>My hot take is that it's OK to mock senior government officials, actually.

Mocking senior American government officials is the most protected speech in the country, in fact. I do it liberally an encourage others to. It's the most fundamental part of holding them accountable.
I find Embraer's rationalization for this (and, presumably, its acceptance by the relevant regulatory agencies) to be particularly galling. Even if it was true at the time that no procedure called for both cables to be disconnected at the same time, did they have any equivalent proof that no such procedure might be introduced later? Did they have any equivalent proof that no-one would misunderstand the instructions, or that it could go undetected if that happened? Could they be sure that this constraint, or its relevance, would not be overlooked at some point in the future? Well, we know they did not. Nobody addressed the question, "what could possibly go wrong?" with sufficient rigor.
To Sell Toys – Transformers
> newly formed 150-kilometer crater

editors need to learn difference between kilometers and meters
> That's not free speech.

Do you also believe that it impedes on your free speech when you boss decides to fire you after you repeatedly call them racial slurs?

Freedom of speech does not mean “freedom from consequences”

And ofcause there will be consequences if your using hate speech and insults to harass minorities at demonstrations.
China’s space station is almost complete – how will scientists use it?
This seems to be another guy who doesn't know https://quarto.org/.
> The hidden premium is that you either pay for planned obsolescence (your hardware going to 3mph after 4 OS upgrades) or you stop upgrading your OS.

I don't think that's a real hidden premium. The android scene does worse on this front, and used to do significantly worse.
Healthcare lags behind most industries to the point many specialized software only runs on windows/ie
One of our vendors started requiring a monthly password change. Now, you can walk through the office and see half a dozen passwords on Post-It notes in plain view. I explained this to them, and received a response that seemed to think I was asking what a password was for.
Me too, and yet I feel immense satisfaction from building out terraform deployments. I think that might be part of it -- a TF deployment is actually doing something so the payoff feels huge. Making a counter go up in a video game just doesn't compare...

Interestingly enough I did sink a ton of hours into Rimworld, though, which has some factory like parts but more of a human simulation element to it.
it does sound a lot like a bribe to me.
Agree with most of it. But I think the response to the PR was unnecessary. I would have pointed out that it does not work and told the person to remove it or fix it.
So the cooking thing would be totally valid if the person just said "It was too salty?", allowing the relatively uneducated/unskilled to make claims about quality even though they could never reproduce it? That's not how the original claim was framed.
Who's "they" and why are we paying to uphold their power to make this decision whenever they want
Elon Musk Could Kill Twitter
[2] is Suspended for me. :-)
Sadly no mods on the Switch.
Yes they won’t be just because of it, but I think it’ll be a very influential factor
Soliciting a bribe is probably illegal.

But accepting a gift to do your actual job, how could that be illegal, hmmmm?
The key part of "neurodiverse" is "diverse". It helps some people, it doesn't help others. I don't even know if we can narrow it down to specific conditions because neurodiversity walks hand in hand with personal coping skills. Again, what works for you might not work for another.

I'd say that it can be a wonderful experience, so it is worth trying.
> who cares if one in 100 canines is friendly - much safer to avoid them!

Hum... That's really not overfitting. In fact, that's the opposite of it, an incomplete model.
When will hackernews support Markdown to it's comments?
These RTX4090 cards are absolutely gigantic, why would an engineer choose such a small power connector? There's plenty of room for largers connectors or multiple connectors.
I'm not the person you replied to, but of course people should respect Ye's name change. I expect in many cases it's simply laziness, though I do think there's some slack to be granted where a reporter may use "Ye, formerly known as Kanye West", because people may not know or understand what happened, and the point is to clarify. If a news source were to say "Elliot Page, formerly Ellen Page", I think that's fine too. (Only sorta related, but a while back Cardi B amused people, including me, by noting how much Donald Glover and Childish Gambino looked alike.)

Anyhoo, the Bee wasn't accidentally calling someone by the wrong name; they were intentionally doing it to bother the person, which is asshole behavior. It is also when people do it to Ye, and if the kid in your neighborhood had changed his name to from Karl to Brett, and some other kid always ran around saying, "Hey look, it's Karl. Where are you going, Karl?" I'd say that also qualifies as asshole behavior.

Even so, asshole behavior should be allowed, if discouraged. The problem is that the Bee was using their reach and audience to blast a specific trans person, publicly, with the goal of belittling and ostracizing all trans people, who generally already face harassment from society. This would be problematic beyond the simple question of manners whether the target is trans people, Kanye, or Brett.
> I'm not sure their example of "improved" short-form messaging improves things much

The bad short form message is bad because 1) it's ambiguous and 2) it has a short lifespan. By lifespan, I mean the time that a message can be read and can be useful.

Using terms such as "it" and "she" leave a lot of ambiguity. If you read the message 7 days later, 1 day later, maybe even an hour later, all context of what "it" is and who "her" is could be lost.

Using names instead of "it"/"her" means you can read the message 24 hours later, maybe even a week later and still understand what it was, or at least it gives you more information to figure out what the context was.

In short: I think the improved message is significantly better than the first.

> The terser the better.

In general I agree with this. I have no evidence but I'd bet some people prefer the conversational message over the status update. Again, it depends on the context. If it's a status update, make it a status update. If it's a conversation, let it be one.
Yes - they're equivalent in terms of cash and market cap, but not equivalent in terms of number of outstanding shares or share price.

If the management team is compensated with unvested stock or options, they receive the benefits from share buybacks, but not from dividends (since those only go to actual shareholders) - which is part of why management teams prefer buybacks.
Install LibRedirect and you never need to visit youtube.com again.
Melty Molices mostly affected the old 5 1/4" HDD connector and that was only really a problem because of extremely poor tolerances in third-party connectors leading to bent-open sockets. Mate-n-lok, which is the same type of connector (available in a gazillion variations), is used in huge numbers to this day and has zero reliability issues because the connector design is unproblematic if done correctly.

What's sorta new here is that these are genuine connectors - not aftermarket dreck - and they're already having issues at, as I understand it, around 70-80 % of the specced load (specified for >600 W, while these GPUs are normally limited to 450 W or so).
No worries, it's purposeful ambiguity day at the cloud factory
It's a report from the minority senate staffers, aka the republican staffers. It's a political ploy filled with uncertain language yet proclaiming a certain verdict. These types of things are constantly being flagged on HN (for good reason).
In bicycle culture they do an unorganized event called critical mass; in the past I've seen these events hijacked by a "xerocracy" where someone shows up to the meeting point, starts handing out (xeroxed/photo copied) fliers with a map with a different route and then take off in that direction and.... most of the crowd follows them. Different kind of Do-ing but very effective in truly flat hierachies when executed well.
> But beyond documenting and archiving and debunking disinformation, what can be done?

Lots.

> How do we respond to this emergent property, an artistic movement born of the digital age?

Framing disinformation as an Art movement IMHO is wrong. Sure, it shares properties with artworks, but Art is more local in time and space. The initial production of The Rite of Spring (and other orchestral pieces that shocked people) sent people out to the streets. But it didn't do it for months across the whole world and the author was known and legitimately and sincerely was trying to create an emotional and aesthetic experience, not twisting facts to their own end.

Disinformation has two parts, the lie and the believer. Stop the lie from transmitting by cloistering off areas where anonymous individuals can get free megaphones. No more world wide Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTock, etc... except for maybe governments and legit news stations. Billy Bob Joe the Racist Uncle doesn't need a megaphone that can reach a billion people. In fact the world is worse off if people like that stereotype do have that platform.

Stop the believers by subsidizing education and paying teachers what they're worth. Mostly this is a complaint for the USA.

Totally missed the mark there Wired.

The Global Village was a noble experiment. It failed because all the village idiots got together, validated themselves, and made life worse for the rest of us.
I figure I could totally main a Raspberry Pi in a pinch. With Emacs and some programming tools, what more do you need? I'd have to budget browser tabs and I'm not going to edit 4K video or run some corpo enterprise microservice architecture on the thing, but it's still more than enough computer for many basic tasks and fairly significant programming.
Well, I do know SPARQL :D

TerminusDB uses a datalog under the hood, but GraphQL can expose a lot of datalog like power with the right interface. Ultimately we want to have named parameteric queries in datalog exposing "pseudo-edges" in GraphQL which can be treated just like a normal field but are actually calculated.
Since when was their job to protect democracy?
This is fantastic. It reminds me of when I was a child playing around with what was called DHTML on my Geocities page (or perhaps it was some cPanel-based shared hosting). Such a feeling of nostalgia. Love it!
Let me know if that doesn't work. I used to work for them (only to make the release deadline). I can contact the creator directly if necessary. But the forum is probably the better route to take.
Anyone here own Factorio & Shapez who could compare them?

Might sound silly but Factorio's tutorial/learning curve complexity has intimidated me, so I started w Shapez, as easy mode Factorio. Liking Shapez so far.
with circuit python (basically Micropython) from adafruit you can open a screen session to the USB port and get a REPL interface. I wonder if you could set something up to script input and output from REPL (i'm not a python expert). If you could then you'd have a little pipe to the micro-controller where you could enter python and have it execute and return a value. From there you have all the GPIO and other features available on the microcontroller available to you on your computer.

I have one of adadruit's RP2040 boards and use the REPL a lot to talk to other things connected to the i2c bus. For example, controlling servos from a servo board, or getting orientation data from an IMU. Basically, i treat the circuit python REPL like a command line

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4884