skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't most outages happen because of unforeseen consequences of changes to the application/environment rather than machine failure? Is reducing the exposure to machine failure really worth exposing yourself to the vast complexity of distributed systems?
No, sorry, I just bought some generic brand on Amazon that was a good deal. I just like Merino Wool due to it's properties and it just feels very nice on the skin (no rashes, irritations, anything like that; just a nice, soft feeling)
I know that finding workers is a real challenge right now and many businesses are only open limited hours because they cannot find staff.

Your comment sounds eerily similar to the false "no one wants to work any more". It isn't like they are generally offering enough pay to cover basic things nor are they willing to actually treat people better to fill those jobs.

Not to mention that there are fake job ads out there - companies put ads out, but aren't hiring. Example article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-plum-job-listing-may-just-...
The Fremantle Highway was burning and at risk of sinking in the Wadden Sea, off the Dutch coast of just a week ago. This would have severely damaged the entire habitat - and that was a car carrier only. Spills from minor incidents are a concern as well, especially in habitats that are important, slow to recover and already under a lot of pressure.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66393507
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What could go wrong? Use a technology that is notorious for outputting wrong information to write a script that is really hard to get it right and then later reviewed by someone that can’t really understand it.

At this point just use something else.
> "I built Gumroad the weekend I thought up the idea, and launched it early Monday morning on Hacker News."

Being able to build something like this over a weekend is amazing to me.
Maybe in Italy it's better, definitely not as rosy a picture in Spain
https://thebanks.eu/compare-banking-products/savings-account...
I think you might be mistaken about Antarctica. It's a whole continent, 40% larger than Europe, there are bases on its edges, and Amundsen-Scott at the pole, but the rest of the continent is basically empty and unvisited, and the interior is extremely hostile to life, the penguins make it look easier than it is to survive there. So unlike, say, New Zealand, where when humans arrived they brought rats which decimated the wildlife [and then white people brought even better rats which made it even worse] our impact is very limited.

In July, mid-winter, there's a skeleton crew for the entire interior. Only the Americans, with too much money and a prime research facility (the only place on Earth that is "dry" land and effectively not spinning) operate a winter base here, the Russians used to have one at a less interesting location but they decided that it's too expensive and of too little value and so they only staff it during the summer now.
What about computer with AMD processor and Nvidia card installed? Can it just ignore the Nvidia card?
I hate news sites that do not have publication date on news
Isn’t that the ideal? Not letting work interfere with raising your kid?
A todo list in a markdown file. If it really gets too much I tend to create a new empty file and continue there. Not the most organized approach but I also don't build space rockets so it's fine.

I tried other methods but they all add too much friction and overhead.
No, I don't understand why this myth persists. Docker fetches tarballs, runs commands, and tars up directories. Often, Docker is used to run package management commands (e.g. `apt`, `dpkg`, `yum`, `cargo`, `mvn`, `nix`, `cabal`, `sbt`, `pip`, `npm`, `gradle`, `stack`, `guix`, etc.); the latter are the actual package managers.

Docker "solves" package management in the same way Bash scripts "solve" package management: you can use them to run actual package managers; but also, you probably shouldn't (e.g. Nix is better at creating Docker images than Docker is, for example).
Which is a researach-stage idea with obvious drawbacks: Moisture in air will also slowly decompose PCBs, making them age much faster than traditional epoxy-based PCBs. So then you either limit the maximum age of all your products severely (not very green) or you need additional materials to moisture-proof all your casings (also not very green).
I mean, there are incidents in refineries and plants. It's just hard to know how common they are because many go unreported or just don't reach wide public knowledge.

Eg. Y12 criticality incident - https://youtu.be/HaOc8FhMdWc
I have the Bangle.js V2 and can confirm, it is a slimmer and slicker overall design, feeling more like a Fitbit Versa. Honestly, it's been a boredom breaker since it's relatively easy to dump new code on to it. My only complaint is the vibrating motor is almost too weak for me to feel when sleep, and as such, is not a reliable silent alarm, so I swap back to my OG Pebble at night.
It really is amazing. I dearly wish Apple would open it up to the everyone else. Great when I need to talk to someone iPhone to iPhone or whatever, but I don’t understand why they don’t just move to replace all these services — the protocol is amazing and apple could be a global default.

I don’t get the strategy.
Well, it's important to keep this all in context: They did not want to release the paper, even as a preprint, at this point. The infighting in the group necessitated it when someone went off script and threw up the original shoddy paper, forcing them to release their marginally better one.

They had sent out some samples prior to this whole debacle, including to KENTECH (a Korean university focusing on energy technology), but are waiting to send out more samples specifically because they want to get a peer-reviewed article out there before they start sending them out to a broader audience.

I'm not saying LK-99 is a RTAPS, and current evidence seems to indicate it is almost certainly not one, but the broader LK-99 team seems to have been attempting to follow the normal process the whole time.
Here is the funny part:

If you somehow land a job at these companies, you will notice that recent hires (your new colleague) are not particularly good at their work but they are experts in gaming the system.
They didn’t say more old people were _entering_ the work force. People already in the work force are aging.
Amazon serves traffic to China, they have an AWS region there I think.
There are a few reasons. Firstly people getting a pittance now for job X would also get ubi, so they'd be better off.

And second, when that crappy job ceases to exist, they'd have something to fall back on (the UK where I am has basically no benefits for people who lose their jobs).

If they quit, I am content for the free market to increase wages or otherwise make those jobs better.

Separately if like to see shorter working hours (and so more people working). But that's not a ubi change.
From my understanding they haven't been actively researching during that time.

It should also be noted that the team most likely did not intend to disclose any information already.

"Currently, two papers concerning LK-99 are available on the preprint service arXiv, which does not conduct peer review, and a related past study was published in the Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology in April 2023. Kim has only co-authored one of the arXiv papers, while the other is authored by his colleagues at QERC, some of whom also applied for a patent on LK-99 in August 2022. Both papers present similar measurements, however Kim says that the second paper contains “many defects” and was uploaded to arXiv without his permission. In that paper, the work is described as opening a “new era for humankind”." - From the New Scientist

The "second paper" referenced here is actually the first that was published, in which Young-Wan Kwon is the third author. If Hyun-Tak Kim states that this paper was not published with his permisison it seems like Young-Wan Kwon prematurely published it on arxiv to be the third author. The other paper was submitted by Hyun-Tak Kim just two hours later, listing himself as the third author.

Furthermore, Young-Wan Kwon isn't related to the Q-Centre anymore as he resigned from the function of CTO.
I don't doubt it, as a private individual buying Ampere Altra CPU's has been pretty painful -- at least in Europe.

I could only buy 4 in the end.

Sidenote: has anyone noticed that there's no price difference for GCP to use ARM?
> The rest of the market has been reacting to them for a long time

The rest of the market has not been reacting to them for a long time.
This from debian should indicate which version has the microcode update: 3.20230808.1

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-40982
> Docker (or container images in general) are great but they solve a limited set of problems well and tend to hide others.

I like container images and runtimes. Docker is awful, and its "inside-out" approach encourages and enforces bad practices.
Verizon is shutting down BlueJeans, bought for $400M
You don’t understand the point.
> You are ALWAYS the problem.

Would you say the same to children born during a (human-caused) famine, or born with defects cause by politically useful wars fifty years ago?

Would you say the same to children raised in traumatic households, with chronic self-regulation disorders as a result?

Your take isn't just narrow, and wrong, but also incredibly callous. We live in a world where some people have megayachts while 785 million people lack access to basic drinking water services. In the US, the wealthy have world-class healthcare but 530,000 families file for bankruptcy due to medical issues each year (pre-pandemic!).

The amount of luck involved in becoming wealthy is immense, and ignoring this most basic fact is both dim and cruel.

Perhaps this is a lot of effort to respond to a fourteen-day old account... Still, this demented view on self-determination is bizarrely common even among the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" set, and has been for hundreds or even thousands of years. I don't know if that's because it's so convenient for the already wealthy, or it's some kind of innate fairness bias, but it's embarrassing (and harmful) for the species that people actually fall for it.
I hadn't, thanks for the recommendation! It seems to be exactly what I want, I'll test it one of these days.
Tell HN: DigitalOcean London Is Down
All of my London DigitalOcean droplets have no Internet connectivity, and the same is true for everyone else I have asked with droplets in London.

EDIT: Seems to be back now!

EDIT: And down again??
If the VCs are willing to write off their shares then it’s surprising or unfortunate that it doesn’t happen more often. Maybe more companies could scale down and salvage something from the ruins with the right incentive.
Yeah, the esp32 is so power hungry that despite of its wifi, it is not at all mobile
Yes, the -oid suffix is cognate with words like video and vision, referring to sight, so X-oid means something that looks like X.
It's far from essence as well. A safe secret storage is not platform attestation.
Kind of surprised to read someone talking wrongly with that much certainty.

Catholicism isn't about "debit bad", it is about "interest bad" and this only applies to catholics owning banks. Historically this has left jews in Italy running banks and abusing its citizens (that cattle, or more accurately "goy" in native language of those bank owners) just fine since centuries.

Please remember that the Vatican created its own bank (financial group) to escape the jewish monopoly on banks. Within the catholic circles you'd hear them now promoting Santander as catholic-friendly option in Europe for normal citizens to escape that monopoly. Money lending isn't an issue within European catholic groups as long as it avoids going overboard with interests.
Same here. Everything disconnected just before 11 local.

Edit: and back. 14 minutes downtime.
This is the most likely path we'll take, I suspect.
Nuclear criticality safety was one of my favorite courses back during my nuclear engineering degree. The failure modes, like the article mentions, can be incredibly non-intuitive. Swirling vortices, firefighting foam, and even the mere presence of a human body can lead to a fatal power excursion. A lot of complex computational modeling and simulation goes into determining safety limits for fissile systems, as well as a lot of sheer imagination.

The most important thing I took away from that experience is the concept of engineered compliance. People will break administrative rules and regulations all the time if they get int the way of work, so you need to engineer the physical system to account for that (e.g. flat or skinny geometry, or lots of neutron absorbers). This can apply to any compliance activity related to safety and security, so the lessons are universal.

Los Alamos published a good survey on various worldwide criticality accidents (PDF): https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0037/ML003731912.pdf. Worth a read for all the various ways things can go wrong.
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I've been thinking of recording imagery too with an action camera, using a phone for that purpose hasn't been too good in my experience because it's shaky, especially on forest trails.

Also what do you think of KartaView? I'm not sure whether to trust the Meta owned Mapillary, even though the current data has an open license.
I agree pollution from the industrial revolution started long ago (i.e. King James I) and it's killed people recently (i.e London 1952). I agree the correct rate is non-zero.

There should be some average rate that approximates whatever instantaneous rate would have been instantaneously perfect.

We have the benefit of being able to look backward on this era with near-perfect information. A proposal for taxation for externalities that is historically calibrated has a chance of being adopted. Otherwise, it's just fist shaking and chanting "externalities".
SMS is integrated in to the corporate messaging system on work mobile phones at banks (+ all calls recorded).
Just to be clear - climate change has an impact, but what's not said in this article nor here is that El Niño is the real culprit for this unusual drought in that region (and flooding in others). El Niño is totally natural, albeit it's likely to be stronger than usual due to climate change.

They expect these restrictions to remain in place until next September as it's also until then that El Niño shall be active.
That sounds like a no true scotsman argument to me. Given popular culture's tendency to already get things significantly wrong, claiming the mantle of "realistic" shouldn't have the level set at "eh, it kinda fine" (which is treating GoT very leniently).
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Things that cost $1M/gram tend to have very low yield, a bit like how in gold mining you need to process huge volumes of rock to find the sparse gold nuggets.
Have just noticed the same.

Their status page does not reflect any issues at the time of writing, I can access the remote console for my droplets although their interface is very slow.

https://status.digitalocean.com
Because the project is using nightly features? Which are specifically not guaranteed to remain or be stabilised?

That’s like complaining that the exp packages are not stable.
Sadly, coordination problems are not so easy to solve.

"Just mirror PBF files." is easy, mirroring community is harder.

But, yes it reduces some risks. And enables for example https://www.opengeofiction.net/ and https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/ which use OSM stack for fantasy and historical mapping.

And OSM open data is used very widely.
He put a tech wrapper around real estate and absolutely fleeced high-status investors across the globe until he himself joined the billionaire crowd.

If you want to look up to that, that’s your prerogative.
I reserve respect for people who make value and create innovation and not just repackage conventional business practices and sell it to the investor class (more common than it should be).

I mean I respect the salesmanship, but in terms of creating value for the world, whether WW happened or it didn’t happen few people will care in a few years — it didn’t change the world or make anyone lives better… so was it really “successful” or did it just redistribute a lot of investor capital using clever decks and expensive real estate?

I mean ra ra Adam Neumann — good for you dude.

But if there’s a business that makes a difference in the world or matters to the course of anybody in the long term, WW probably isn’t on many people’s list.
Microsoft has been abysmally slow to move towards ARM. They hitched their wagon to Qualcomm and snapdragon... which does not seem like a smart decision now (especially as Qualcomm seems to be moving to RISC-V lol). Windows on ARM for servers has been a bit of a pipe dream and joke--I think they finally have it available but I stopped looking or caring about it years ago. Amazon is the defacto ARM in the cloud/server leader right now and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Seems fake, sorry.
Like a lot of research, unless there’s a clear explanation supported by rigorous study, they probably randomly hillclimbed a bunch of cool new one liner changes and stopped when it was time to start writing the paper and doing ablation studies.
Wikimedia is mostly Creative Commons licensed. Not sure that "enriching someone else's product" is entirely fair?
> or something that would proper unit testing

<https://github.com/kward/shunit2>
Lemme put it this way. It highly resembles fibromyalgia. Most doctors in America won't recognize fibromyalgia because in a lot of cases there is no treatment and there is no way in hell industry is going to adapt to having sick people in it, nor is disability going to recognize it. Even if they did recognize it the US disability system is a lot closer to eugenics then it is a social service.

Stay safe out there. We have to work together to help each other out on this one and related matters.
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Maybe they're directly delivering your information for a price. From you to them, directly, via Chrome.
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The R0 of Omicron (BA.5) is estimated to be around 18.6. Unless you live alone in the woods, you're going to pass it on to many people if you catch it, probably before you realise you even had it.
AI is being used to give dead, missing kids a voice they didn’t ask for
If you only want the current text of English wikipedia, the dump is 22GB compressed (no images, history, talk pages, or other languages) [1]

Wikipedia also publishes an index file with that compressed dump, which allows you to extract only a portion of the compressed archive to get the article you want without ever needing to decompress the entire dump. [2]

Thanks for reminding me to update my copy.

[1] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-page...

[2] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/enwiki-latest-page...
We’re currently using zerolog, I’ll also give a try to slog when I have an hour to kill. One less third party dependency is always good to take!
Why do they need to explain it if all this person did was spout propaganda without explaining anything? Weird double standard to me personally...
I was referring to the 'Swiss cheese' model, and GP argues that ventilation is a substitute for lockdowns, it isn't. But both are better than either and either is better than none.
Having the same issues. Both my droplets and multiple sites hosted on their App platform have all gone down.

Edit: Just as I posted that everything came back online.
Is anyone experimenting with the WASI feature?
I'd love to see a little language which compiles to _readable_ bash. Could it be so hard? There's a dead project that comes up now and then called bish.

https://github.com/tdenniston/bish
Every meeting is already I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.
Definitely, however that goes beyond it being Intel, ARM, or whatever.
> A lot of the limitations are probably just Mozzilla hating anything that could be used for tracking, and not trusting users to manage permissions.

Don't denigrate Mozilla for protecting users. There are a lot of privacy issues that can't be addressed by permissions models, Android serves as an example of that. Enumeration is not effective.

If Mozilla are standing in the way of invasive webpages, more power to them.
Obsidian + obsidian-git extension + github private repository.

It just works.
I saw a talk at Defcon many years ago showing this. I think they just used statistics. I can't find the video, but here is the PDF of their presentation:

Sniff Keystrokes With Lasers/Voltmeters - Side Channel Attacks Using Optical ... https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2017/DEF%20CON%2017%20pre...
The idea of 911 working by patching you directly to an officers phone cracks me up
Thousands of agorophobics do not concur.
I'd like to think that if I were this type of assdouche I'd at least have the decency to be ashamed of it.
iirc they went open source the other day on github but it puts me off that you are required to login to use their desktop app.

with obsidian i can just open a git cloned repo folder with my notes and i can use it without sign in walls.
I agree and I'm not sure the economic arguments along the lines of "overaccumulation crisis" have much predictive value, similar to much economic theory.

I also visited China fairly recently, China in 1983 and other culturally Chinese places like HK, Singapore, Taiwan and western areas. My take is the Chinese are a generally a hard working educated people who will do well given the chance. In 1983 the place was reduced to 1$ a day type poverty by Mao style communism. When Deng Xiaoping dropped that and allowed normally capitalism and trade the place boomed as the population started catching up with their cousins abroad.

Now Xi who is a Mao fan is rolling back some of the economic freedom such as arresting the AliBaba guy, and threatening the neighbours militarily which is causing the rest of the world to cut back on trade such as the US moving chip production away. I hope Xi doesn't go too nuts politically and start WW3 or something but otherwise I think China will do ok but not boom quite like the pre Xi period.
Agree. Although it's often in the page source:

"datePublished":"2023-08-09T10:11:54+01:00"
"dateModified":"2023-08-09T10:11:54+01:00"
"description":"Hosting provider Uberspace has taken down the website of youtube-dl after being held responsible for the website linking to the software on GitHub."
While this promise sounds good, pure no-code/low-code solutions often reach their limits when it comes to designing complex solutions. Things get exciting when a programming interface is also available...
Why grow fuel, and not a fertilizer/top-soil additive for agriculture or soil remediation? If you've got a product which contains that much carbon, covering fields with it is a great way to take CO2 from the air and put it in the ground while also improving the soil.

Cover millions of acres of marginal/desert soil with sheets of algal mesh built for moisture retention. Plant trees or crops into it.

That it can't be burnt and turned back into CO2 seems like a positive, not a negative.

Oh, it doesn't make money? I guess that's the rub.