skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there were more companies who went out of their way to handle only the metadata tied to my E2E content, I'd pay those companies, too!
Using just one vendor isn't actually all that bad for privacy (anonymity being another matter), but requires lots of trust. As a US citizen, I trust the Swiss more than a US company, and can see that Proton's choices (including arbitration) are in support of my key requirements to have uncompromising privacy. I would like to see more companies competing for my trust, but these guys win so far so they get my money.
Pages hosted on github pages also show the unicorn 503 page. However, https://pages.github.com/?(null) loads.
I get it, but it doesn't make it any less disappointing. And around here, a combination of defund the police and other factors have reduced the size of the police force.

Patrols are down 40% since 2020. Hit and runs and other traffic incidents are up. None of the alternate solutions to law enforcement intervention have been implemented so we're just stuck with crime increases. Like a lot of places, we're dealing with an epidemic of people stealing cars for the lulz or using the cars to commit more serious crimes.

I know there are plans to fix some of these issues and I hope our local government can stop arguing about how to do it and start getting stuff done.
I take your point, a well designed centralized system by a competent, benevolent government would be better than having to rely exclusively on a set of private banks not beholden to a constitution. My concern there, given the track record of most governments, this will not be built without tools for control, even if they are not used right away.
It also sets a precedent for government involvement in individual transactions. Today we'll have an optional cashless payment system, tomorrow banks will start shifting over to keeping accounts with the government directly, the next all financial services will be required to use the government system for transaction processing to simplify monitoring. Anything to stop money laundering for terrorism, you know.
I hope not. I am so tired of "but if you don't let us be evil, China will" as a justification to allow tech monopolies to operate unchecked.

We should regulate Amazon, and we cannot regulate Temu, we ban it.
Ack’d on twitter: https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/1674475870931808256
I'm actually not convinced this is going to go very well. The FTC for the last few years has talked a big game, and hired people who have talked a big game; but the actual lawsuits have been pretty mediocre and occasionally even poorly thought through. An example lately is their battle with Microsoft to block the ActiVision acquisition which, the general consensus of observers seems to be, isn't going very well and the hope of the FTC getting their injunction is dwindling. Another example would be the FTC's recent failure to prevent Facebook's acquisition of Within.
No, WE need to be MORE "Judgey" because one of the critical elements you're conveniently leaving out here is WE spent literally tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of OUR tax money searching for a sub full of rich, arrogant CEOs and Tourists who may have spent their own money going down, but who offloaded / externalized 100% of the responsibility and expense of any potential search and rescue effort to the taxpaying public.

OceanGate had no rescue plan! Their entire "Plan" for what to do WHEN, not if, something went wrong, was to call in the coast guard / navy and have the taxpayer fund their rescue and from where I'm sitting this whole oeuvre of dangerous, rich-guy-ego-stroking vanity bullshit is an egregiously entitled abuse of the commons that should regulated out of existence with extreme prejudice.
4. This is intentionally floated with nebulous veracity in order to gauge public reaction before making it official.

If so, the reaction I've seen is quite positive. Very unlikely though.
I am amazed to see people defending AMZN in these threads. They are so obviously monopolistic with such a plethora of problems with the way the treat consumers, workers, businesses, and the planet. More power to the FTC -- just wish they had taken these actions sooner.
There was that hilarious multi-hour AWS failure a while back where the status page was updated via one of their internal services... and that service went down as part of the outage.
There’s a high likelihood that it’s probably pornographic or otherwise controversial.

Use copyrighted material in porn that you charge money for and you’ll get slapped with a lawsuit faster than you can load the home screen.
Yeah the products liability one is especially interesting.

> Under a strict liability theory, the plaintiff merely needs to prove:

- the defendant manufactured, distributed, or supplied a product;

- the product was defective;

- the defect caused injury to the plaintiff; and

- as a result, the plaintiff sustained damages.
What if "folks around you who you care about the most" is Sacks and Calacanis? Some people live in a hell of their own creation.
status.github.com was a timeout error for me. githubstatus.com is the rainbow unicorn.

Lunch time.
You can also ban games from your platform for even the vaguest suspicion that they contain AI generated assets, or probably even for complaining about the policy.
This article is all over the place; I got a neck ache trying to follow it. I can't engage all the points, so I'll just address the titular point. The software industry never exhibited the most salient property of talent/creative industries: rockstar economics. And that's a good thing. Otherwise a handful of Carmacks and Deans would rake in all the money, leaving the rest to man the Genius Bar until they got their "big break".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner-take-all_market

I agree with bullet points about keeping it simple and not using crap tech for your MVP.
"they aren’t taking a directional position yet"

Fixed it for you.

What exactly making it accesible to trillion $ capital is going to lead? lower price for decades? stable price for fixed supply asset? Just think :)
I would be more inclined to trust them if they had a warrant canary. I can’t seem to find one.
Not even close to a hull loss. Delta's Tech Ops will have this plane back in service very quickly.
AI #18: The Great Debate Debates
Per the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

> Gravitational waves are not easily detectable. When they reach the Earth, they have a small amplitude with strain approximately 10^−21

"strain" being the unit-less measurement they use for gravitational wave.

The ones we measured just now, if I'm reading this article right (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acdac6), are being reported as 2.4x10^-15.

I can say that's a lot larger, but I can't tell you much else about what that means.
Governments the world over attempt to manage the birth rate. Advanced countries mostly try to increase it; do you find that as objectionable?
> Rather, it’s an unfortunate adversity that needs to be overcome.

Well yeah, but again

> ideally with awareness, empathy, and support of other people even those who do not have to face that adversity

the question here is how much support and what kinds. Any amount based on race is still a form of affirmative action, it's just not happening in a college admissions office.
15 Years of Writing
https://archive.is/Ph5xE
AFAIK, most lists of "possible carcinogenic" are just lists of things people want to cause cancer but the evidence disagrees.

There's something to say about lists where people put substances we don't know a lot, to call attention for studying more. But I haven't actually seen one of those, it's always lists of substances people study a lot, and publication bias set them marginally into statistical relevancy.
>and you'd still need the manual procedure in case the camera didn't work.

And presumably if the camera doesn't work as part of the pre-flight checklist for whatever reason, you're not going anywhere until it's fixed/replaced.
I bet they could teach Co-Pilot to create a PR to make the change, and build some GitHub actions to automatically merge those changes.
Explain it to me like I’m a 5 year old
It's true... their thesis was to be a post-cable company, and then they end up getting acquired by a cable company... in theory I supposed Cheddar could have pull them into the future, but not looking great...
Maybe the plumbing for updating the status page went down too
All read, too. Don't think I've ever seen everything red on a status page before!
I actually agree, but what you're describing is effectively legislation. The courts were asked to make a decision and interpret the law as it's written and they did. Honestly, I care more that the court makes a decision than they make the right one. They took a dispute over ambiguous law and disambiguated it. After that the ball is in the other branches' courts. Legislation that outright banned affirmative action would have been constitutional and we let the status quo stand for 45 years without feeling the need to intervene. I can only speak for myself but a ruling that people just accept and don't feel the need to pass new legislation to correct is to me the gold standard.
Bullshit. When the expectation is that we'll fund any potential rescue efforts when something invariably goes wrong with our tax dollars, it becomes the rest of our business pretty damn quickly.
> If affirmative action is what enabled your father to become a doctor, then it almost certainly sounds like the success story that motivates the action.

But that begs the question: should GP still get the benefit of AA if their parent took advantage of it and succeeded in life?
I like that mentality
Strange stuff, as it works completely fine for me in the EU? I just posted comments to several issues.

Edit: Front page still loads and I am logged in. Everything is as normal. Status page shows everything is down. Lol.
There seems to be some suggestion that the sweetness triggers digestive system changes that could be harmful: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3772345/

It’s very vague though
I'm the author of the OP. Happy to talk more about the history of psychedelics.

I also wanted to flag that if anyone is interested in some of the historical sources I cite here (such as the Jesuit talking about ayahuasca in the 18th century) I go into more detail in this journal article, which is open access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/a...
I love electric mowers (all of my yard tools are now electric actually)

I have an electric push mower for our home - we have probably 1500 sqft of grass currently (including the strip in front of our house that might technically be owned by the city) a single charge can mow everything if the grass isn't too long/wet, but there is usually a mow or two after spring rains that has to be done in two parts.

I also have a "cabin" (hopefully future farm) property that was horse pasture a decade ago. My splurge toy last year was an electric riding mower - ours is greenworks - and it is really a joy. Can mow 1-2 acres on a single charge (depending on grass height/dampness). It's so fun my wife and I have actually had an argument about who 'gets' to mow next.

Perhaps my favorite thing about electric mowers is they literally start with a button. Pull starting sucks, especially when it isn't working.
That's a great idea, I might use it to enjoy the weather while working regardless of van-living anyway.
Same, in EU and is just as normal.
https://i.imgur.com/JWjLFlO.png

now that's how you know when a comments section is gonna be amazing
NBA CBA Chat: Chat with NBA's 676-Page Collective Bargaining Agreement
Yes, it's obliged to be the design you'd have been taught in the 1980s or maybe 1990s in a typical data structures class, linked lists of entry nodes rather than a modern open addressed map.

You can satisfy typical real world needs with better structures now, even when people want stable references to the nodes, but you can't implement the API that std::unordered_map promises with the faster choices. So there are "near drop-in" replacements, but you can't actually swap those into the C++ standard library.

The chained design has terrible locality, which means doing lookups (failed or successful) in the hash table will cause more memory fetches, which are very slow, compared to a modern design which was optimised for this.

Imagine we're looking at a Swiss Table, we're looking for 12530, we hash that, we get an index into our hash table, that causes our first memory fetch, to pull in the RAM where that part of the hash table lives. We check the key, this one is wrong, we step to the next, it's in the same blob of RAM but it's wrong, we step to the next, it's empty, we're done, one memory fetch, nothing found.

Now std::unordered_map, we're looking for 12530, we hash it, we get an index into our hash table, we do a memory fetch. We get a pointer to a node. We do another memory fetch, we have a key to examine, it's wrong, we get a pointer to another node, we do another memory fetch, we have another key to examine, this one is wrong too, but there are no more pointers, three memory fetches and nothing found.
Seems like the Hampton inn suites are the hotel alternative for family vacations. The ones I’m thinking of are basically complete with a fridge, cooking range, and apparently on premise laundry. Being able to get a separate room for kids with a door open between the two is a thing at many places too.

And of course you’re just dealing with a corporation. It’s not someone’s personal home. The management might be weird at a hotel or something but that weirdness would still be spread across many more units-and it has other mechanisms and people in play to normalize the whole experience. AirBnB seems much more ripe for abuse.
You Don’t Need Our Education – We Must Have Cohort Control
You are technically correct about the BAC, but they definitely cannot have one while "on duty", there's an 8 hour limit between your last drink and flying and some airlines have longer time windows by policy

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.17
My Weekend with an Emotional Support A.I. Companion (Pi from Inflection AI)
Not quite, there's also a rule that you can't operate an aircraft within 8 hours of consuming alcohol, aka. "8 hours bottle to throttle".
That you probably don't need rights to the training set in the US, unless Congress changes copyright law. This is being litigated.[1]

Humans can look at a collection of copyrighted images and draw a new picture. The legal basis for holding AIs to a higher standard is weak.

Current litigation: [1]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/16/23557098/generative-ai-ar...
Fanfiction isn't as protected as many people think it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction

Fanfiction and fan art also tend to run afoul of the infrequently (but occasionally) litigated part of copyright - copyright of fictional characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_ficti...

I came across this with the Eleanor lawsuits - https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42233053/shelby-estate-wi... - and while I believe that that instance Eleanor falls on the "this shouldn't have been copyrightable" (took a bit to get there), the question is "what protects the representation of Darth Vader?"

In general it tends to be ignored and tacitly encouraged... but it isn't protected.
If you're having trust issues in an adventure, maybe you should skip it altogether.
The earth going around the sun produces gravitational waves, and some of the energy is lost.

If all of that energy could be harnessed; it would be sufficient to power a small toaster oven.
Well bloody good luck with that mate, I'm desperately looking to switch away from Thunderbird (started using it last year) and while I genuinely hate Microsoft (see many of my past posts), Outlook just plain works. Thunderbird has just been one bug after another.
Hard or impossible to visualize, but as the temporal dimension is so much larger, most of the deformity is in the time dimension.

But yes, spacetime itself is jiggly like Jell-O.

As we can't visualize 4d spacetime, most analogies will be wrong. But as photons don't experience time themselves, thinking about the geodesic path is probably less error prone than thinking of it as squishing physical objects.

Objects being pulled towards slower flows is the intuition that matches the math best for me.
An expert successfully doing the thing they trained for can still be praiseworthy.
> The engines on the 717 handle it just fine, but anything else on the market will require the planes to sit on the tarmac for a significant length of time between landing and takeoff for them to cool enough

Is it just a matter of the brakes and tires/wheels needing to cool down or other parts need the cooldown period as well?
Every day just after 5pm, sitting in my college's Engineering atrium, I would start to see a veritable army (dozens and dozens) of youngish, well-dressed people walk out to the parking lot and leave. They weren't faculty, because I knew all of the faculty, and they weren't students. They had little embossed metal nametags.

I suddenly realized that the classrooms and labs I knew were only a tiny part of the actual building, and we were outnumbered.
Which ties in to a larger topic in nutrition science, which is that ultimately the research quality is so poor that health risks from deviating from the more historical diet are likely higher than the benefits from jumping on every superfood and banning "bad" foods from your diet.

Eat a bit of everything in moderation, drink water and exercise. Be vegetarian if it's an ethics thing. No need to overthink it.
maybe they used gitops
Your requests made it farther than mine - mine get to charter in nyc and die there

6 lag-26.nycmny837aw-bcr00.netops.charter.com (24.30.201.130) 158.033 ms
lag-16.nycmny837aw-bcr00.netops.charter.com (66.109.6.74) 29.575 ms
lag-416.nycmny837aw-bcr00.netops.charter.com (66.109.6.10) 30.077 ms
7 lag-1.pr2.nyc20.netops.charter.com (66.109.9.5) 81.351 ms 37.879 ms 27.877 ms
8 * * *
Works fine for me too.
Because just like with the iPhone mini, a small but vocal minority is not worth serving if development costs are too high.

Most people don't care about hacking their phone. They just want one that works.
It's tough, I wish LinkedIn gave you the ability to reach only a segment of your connections. For some posts, I'd want only my close colleagues / former colleagues / school friends to see... for others, I want only people in my industry to see...
Pretty much. They want the burden of proof for SLAs to fall on the customer, not on themselves. If a customer has to prove that an outage specifically affected them, they are much less likely to have a successful case against the failure to meet their SLA.

(Not directed at GitHub specifically, but at bogus status pages.)
Gitlab’s AI-assisted code suggestions
The real news is CNBC reporting this.

CNBC is part of a totally different news bubble than HN, but it is the exact bubble Reddit leadership is trying to court.
Oh man, this is awesome. I learned a lot from collecting this data and one of the big takeaways for me was how diverse the set of news sources on HN is (to your point, very little "traditional" journalism here). Glad you're doing this!
First you buy worthless tokens, hype them through the roof, and dump it on retail investor suckers..
Most paid status monitoring services cover BGP route problems and ISP issues by only flagging an event if it's detected from X geographically diverse endpoints.

For the 30 seconds where you wait for failover to complete: that is a 30 second outage. It's not necessarily profitable to admit to it, but showing it as a 30 second outage would be accurate
Finally. Someone questioning the actions of these wealth management companies doing such move instead of endlessly screaming 'crypto is scam' all day long in threads like this. [0]

It is a labyrinth of manipulation with the news. It's very important to not listen to the hysterical critics in [0] or the crypto maximalists on social media. BlackRock, Fidelity, etc filed for this AFTER the SEC decided to 'crackdown' and sue Coinbase, Binance, etc (to prepare for FedNow) implying that they wanted to jump in at a much lower price when the crypto market got spooked over the SEC's actions.

The people in [0] are dead quiet now after a bunch of these companies filed for those Bitcoin ETFs. Not all of these ETFs will be approved, but these critics are sure waiting for that outcome to happen. The crypto maxis shouldn't get over themselves yet either.

One other thing in that I said in [1] notice how as soon as the US runs down the crypto exchanges, China (Hong Kong) does the complete opposite. [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36302231

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306757

[2] https://www.ubs.com/global/en/media/display-page-ndp/en-2023...
Life of a CoAP Message
I live right in the middle of the Silicon Valley and I observe the same timings.

Hacker news loads to content faster than Google or Bing search.

In fact hacker news is pretty much the only website I can actually feel slower to load when I am in France. Because the latency is actually not lost into the noise for once.
Sure, they can "want" whatever they err... want.

Doesn't seem like they should get their way when it comes to people's id and other personal docs, if that's what's really going on.

Potentially stranding international passengers without their passport (etc) is really not on.
Like any company, Proton must follow court orders, but our encryption can never be bypassed. Also, in 2021, Proton won a court case that changed the way the law is applied (https://proton.me/blog/court-strengthens-email-privacy). Also, Switzerland has no logging obligations for VPN, so you can always use Proton VPN.
I was referring to the latest results using pulsars.
That's for the gravitational waves we can detect from LIGO. These new ones, as I understand it, are being detected by changes in pulsar frequency over 15 years of measurements - so they have a pretty different character than the ones wikipedia's talking about... I don't know how that translates to anything that makes any sense tho
seems to be a network issue, not a service issue
https://codeberg.org open source GitHub without Microsoft (it's a German non-profit). You can also host your own lightweight https://forgejo.org instance

In case anyone questions whether centralizing literally everything onto GitHub is a good idea, at least as a mirror for things you depend on
The assumption that Germany has no historical baggage is pretty bold.
Thomas was anti affirmative action going back 50 years to when he graduated from yale law. he grew up very poor.
found the neteng guy
The Essential Neil Gaiman
This isn't always possible, though. You could grow up with parents and teachers who do not push you to study. Perhaps you are malnourished or abused. Having the environment and support to study hard is something not all students have. You cannot hand wave studying as the solution to the disparity in educational outcomes.
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What is “artificial intake”? Would it have been preferable to “real” intake of sugar from regular Coke?
Sounds like a regional network fault then
No it isn't, it's working absolutely fine and has been all afternoon.
But how do you use lenses?
> If it were true, Harvard etc wouldn’t also discriminate against Asians.

This logic makes absolutely no sense. Why can't they have a legacy admits AND discriminate against Asians? Are you seriously trying to claim Ivy League schools don't have legacy admits?
I heard from somebody at GitHub that this one will make a good incident report. No other details or estimates for recovery time.
That's actually a feature of the underlying platform I work on:

https://onlineornot.com/api-monitoring

If it doesn't quite match what you expect I'd be happy to add additional features!