skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> can you please explain to me how water intrusion in a data center cause a region failure? there is only one reason. they lied. most likely overhyping the region resiliency. how after seing that can you trust them to host critical apps is beyond belief.

Clearly, they fucked up, and didn't distribute critical infrastructure adequately across the region. There's lots of ways this kind of thing happens. I've had 'redundant fiber' that was running in the same bundle and got severed by the same backhoe, for example. The easiest way to determine if there's a dependency on a particular building is to forcibly de-energize all the equipment in it. In this particular case, it seems like there was a mistake in allocation of instances for the regional Spanner database, resulting in that database becoming unavailable when the building was de-energized; and then lots of services depend on regional Spanner, because that's its intended use.

It sounds like they did an audit of regional Spanners after this incident, but who knows what other hidden dependencies there are there, or at any cloud provider. Having your critical apps available in multiple distributed datacenters is best practice; having that all in one city isn't really. In an ideal world, you're not dependent on any single entity you don't control; but egress charges make that difficult.

Re: Bigquery, there's a separate post for that [1] which seems to indicate "The issue with Google BigQuery has been resolved for all affected users as of Wednesday, 2023-04-26 17:05 US/Pacific." The incident began around "26 Apr 2023 06:25 PDT", so resolution was next-day (but that's about 35 hours). If you've got other data on BigQuery, that's fine; I'm not saying your experience is wrong, I'm saying it doesn't match the public record.

[1] https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/TbcwMSkKy8MTmeeEiq...
"A solution if derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are proved."

What more can you want from a paper?
Terrible advice.
If everyone is a poet, then everyone is a poet.
> Apple was entirely Woz

Literally the most absurd statement. Woz wasn't even involved in anything Apple did later which led to the huge size they are now and the existing product line. Doesn't even matter if the iphone (or imac) was Job's idea or not. He was the driving force that made that happen
The question is whether or not the original authors were pawns or part of the scam.
Do you feel the same way about far more damaging addictions, such as alcohol and unhealthy food? Do you agree that the government should outlaw the sale of booze, soda pop, fast food, etc?
Iris, the fabled ethnicly Russian LK99 Homebrewer with the Catgirl Girlfriend, is not convinced :

- "70% CuS impurity" are you sure you didn't grab the Chalcocite by accident?

- There's no significant CuS in samples prepared at 925°C.
There cannot be.

- I tried forcefully introducing sulfide into pbo, it just. Doesn't work. Even at 600°C. PbS reduces lead in 2 PbO to 3Pb, leaving as SO2.

https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1691840478189384097?t=cB...
can you make wires from cermets? Thats the point. we need a substance that is malleable(?) enough like copper wire that electrons can pass through. Pottery ceramic wont work like that.
One million percent.
Yeah.. I think the two things I'd look for first on older codebases would be removing and JS shims and looking for larger libraries like moment and similar that can be removed. Expressly lazy loading any graph/chart libraries helps a lot too.

I'd probably reach for vite or parcel for a bundler, but using Rollup directly is okay.
They're not enforcing the laws. I lived there for many years before the pandemic and it became clear the police and the city were prioritizing the drug addicts and criminals on the streets over tax paying citizens. My theory is that those in power acquired a certain perspective of human nature that says that people are inherently good and only commit violent crime because of the economic system that we have (plus other grievances). As a result it becomes unjust and cruel to punish anyone and put them in prison or removing them from society, even if they committed acts of violence repeatedly.
This is dystopia to me.

It's impossible that all that money could be thrown away by companies without it being dirt cheap to produce the products. And it couldn't be dirt cheap to produce them without exploiting cheap labor and the environment. And it's impossible to sustain without tricking consumers into buying more than they need, and tricking investors that their sales numbers equal their value as a company.

Consumers are the fuel for a machine that pollutes and exploits, and churns out great wealth for a select few. Between 10 and 40 percent of the consumer economy has to be exploitative in order to sustain the return rate. Madness.
Free marketing for YouTube Shorts and IG Reels.
What is the point of this acquisition just if they are just shutting down the service?
x/w is a gdb command to dereference and print (x) 1 word-sized data (w) at the address given by the expression. So 0x08001ea1 was the unaligned address stored at $rsp + 8, passed as argument to __lll_lock_wait.
Good for you. I think I have PTSD from the first one, 22 years ago.
The world’s first rooftop solar panel
This is just some partisan talking points. Certainly you're not the only one with this view but it doesnt represent even the majority in Canada, and everyone that disagrees with you are not astroturfers or people who have been scared into seeking simple solutions. I see this "everyone who doesn't think like me must have been manipulated" garbage every day online and it's extremely offensive. People can think for themselves and come up with a different conclusion than yours, which is essentially the most orthodox mainstream media view there is.
Absolutely. I remember reading some biography about him that my dad bought me when I was in high school. I was like, shit finally I'll figure out what made this guy so great.

You come out the other end only thinking, wow. What a fucking asshole. A talented asshole, but an absolute piece of work
Even by nominal US allies like the assassination of Orlando Letelier by Pinochet's secret services, by a car bomb in Washington DC.
He was 22 at the time, so childish doesn't seem unreasonable.
There is also Piwigo which is open-source and can be self hosted.

https://piwigo.org/
Only if they are discretely identifiable, in a wide range of conditions, in a short enough time, and do not conflict with other circumstances...
This article contains an excellent description of the work of a mathematician. It should be part of any curriculum in the field.
> a new entrant isn't going to be able to sell a flagship phone with no apps; and you're not going to get apps without at least expected sales.

That's where you need the commercial talent to go out and make deals, build relationships, get mindshare before you even go to market. To do that, you need sexy software, a sexy experience that makes a difference, and a lot of money. A clunky OS targeting the low end will never be sexy, and you'll never convince developers to work on it "for the good of the web" or some other non-financial reason.

> The Android is really not that great; there's definitely room for someone to build something with UI that's not made of molasses

But the thing is, there really isn't. Android is actually pretty good, on flagship phones it works as well as iOS. There just isn't a massive quality gap to exploit. One needs a value proposition that changes the game, because you're not going anywhere with progressive enhancements.

> it's going to have to be driven by market share on the low end that goes upmarket over time.

Nobody has ever done that in post-2007 mobile. Nobody. Every player that saw the low-end as strategic, went there to die. As Microsoft demonstrated, it's a road to nowhere. You need to make a splash at the top end, make headlines, make people want it, or you'll never move the needle.
I ride a bike (have never owned a car) and am vegan and I think both of those are awesome, at least if you live in a place where both are common so that things are at least moderately convenient.

But I also flew about 100,000 km per year in the time before COVID and am still on track to fly about 30,000-50,000 km this year. This puts me right back among the people with the highest carbon footprints in the whole world.

There are lots of different things that people might be asked to sacrifice, not just one. And the general trend of development and rising wealth is a trend of greater energy intensity. You can find exceptions and substitutes where you can reduce energy intensity in some area without major sacrifice, but if you have to do it across the board over and over again, that's really a loss of material standard of living.
>In almost all applications of superconductors, they don't use high-temperature ones for one simple reason: Material properties.

The problem is that this is not true anymore. It was true when I was in high school. Modern methods of manufacturing cuprate superconductors have been applied to the largest-scale projects:

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

https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000075557/4402937

https://indico.cern.ch/event/775529/contributions/3309887/at...
Just figuring out what Lenovo laptops exist is an impossible task using their site. It's amazing just how unusable the site really is.

But I'm guessing that's the point - make it confusing and unusable to steer people to specific choices??
Unfortunately I have no experience in any of them. (mostly in Web app development, mobile development)

AI would interest me, but it would take many years of learning I guess. I am not very good at math, so I would have to re-learn that.
Believe it or not, Plex. It's a truly mediocre photo organizer, with glaring missing features, but because I already have a Plex server - it's zero marginal work aside from just dropping the photos in a folder on the NAS running it.

I use FileBrowser to autosync the photos off my phone, and family can easily access them because they already know how to use Plex. The fact that there is a client for every device I have ever used is icing on the cake.

If you have a plex server, obviously a very big if, worth investigating just turning it on for a folder of files since it doesnt write to the images itself by default.
That's the key. I'm reminded of the Helen Keller story. She was completely blind and deaf. Her teacher spent a very long time signing into her hand. It took a very long time before she realized that the sign for "water" designated the thing she could feel flowing onto her hand; before that breakthrough the signs were meaningless to her. An LLM only knows the structure of language. It doesn't know that there is an external physical world that the language refers to. It only can predict what words follow which other words, and which output is preferred. Without any senses (and the huge bandwidth of information provided by them) an LLM is very crippled.
They were off-topic, but they do have a point.
So who was number 2?
Yeah, you can find articles like this every year. Usually they (deliberately or accidentally) confuse inequality between countries with inequality within a country.

So Indian and Chinese 1%ers are catching up to Western 1%ers. That doesn't imply any meaningful change for the rest of the population.
Does this make it impossible to separate his approach and impact on Apple's design aesthetic?

I know a lot of people know about how he treated his employees and his textbook narcissistic behavior (which you point out) and they just disregard his behavior because of his incredible eye for design how it impacted Apple's design for decades before he passed.

Its as if the impact he had was the greater good for the company so the rest of his questionable behavior gets ignored.
Catchup: New app to “cultivate intentional relationships”
> (after, it must be said, threatening suicide that day as well)

And having a significant amount of alcohol + anti-depression/anti-anxiety drugs in his system.

And a day after he was arrested (twice) for drunkenly banging on a neighbor's door.
It reads like PR, you bought too much into their powerpoint presentations. No, the tech world wouldn't be very different without Apple in it, I can certainly imagine a similar tech world without Apple.

Also I'm using Android and I don't see how it's supposed to be crappy, the iPhone was the worst phone I ever owned and I'm glad it broke down by itself, to each their own.
How long have humans been burning fossil fuels at scale for?
> We all worship the beast that feeds us, right until the moment it turns around and devours us.

Well said.
> When mixed with an open mind and reasonable skepticism, it's a powerful opportunity to get people engaged in imagining a different world.

I feel like this line is doing a lot of lifting in your comment.

The problem is that as lay people we are completely unequipped to gauge a claim like this. I followed along on HN and there were plenty of posts by people who were giving LK-99 crazy odds of success, fueled in no small part by viral videos of outright hoaxes from pseudonymous "researchers."

It's fun, in a science fiction-y way, to speculate on what a material with the supposed properties might have meant for the world, but the degree of skepticism that should have been applied was lacking for many.

There's a tendency on HN and similar forums to devour new developments - almost a fanaticism about learning the newest/latest/best before the general public. But in this case, a truly extraordinary claim had been proposed, and it was even published without the researchers' consent. There was precious little reason to give it any attention at all at that phase.

If people had viewed LK-99's properties as "almost surely science fiction" all along, I could find myself agreeing with you, but that's really not how this played out. Sadly this event showed there's a market for hyping up weak claims that people will be poor at evaluating, and I guess we can probably expect more of them.
I'd look to the indian subcontinent for that kind of climate suffering first. As far as cities falling to climate, Bangladesh might see it first, but they only have 3 cities of that magnitude (although Dhaka is almost a country upon itself at 21M)
To further your point, there is shockingly little education to the general public about cooking oil smoke points. I've cooked more or less exclusively with grapeseed or safflower oil since learning about it, but so many people use low smoke point oils (olive oil mostly, thanks health craze) for high-temp purposes and there's nothing to indicate to them that there is a problem
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is not a brand
D.B. Thomas for Calculus and Analytic Geometry

Later on, Tom Apostol for Real Analysis
If you’re feeling adventurous you can run the synology dsm os in a vm (qemu/kvm in my case). You use tinycore[0] as a boot loader to bootstrap the official Synology image[1]

It can be a bit of a pain to setup but once it’s up and running you can run all synology apps, including photos and even their nvr software, backup your home pcs to it, etc. If you pass through pci sata controllers you can bypass any disk virtualization layer and let synology manage raw disks exactly like a metal install in one of their nas machines would do. You could even swap the disks into an official nas later on if you wanted. The synology apps are highly polished and worth the setup imo.

There’s also a docker image that makes it all trivial, but it’s too many layers of abstraction for my tastes[2]

0. https://github.com/pocopico/tinycore-redpill

1. https://www.wundertech.net/how-to-install-xpenology-on-proxm...

2. https://github.com/kroese/virtual-dsm
Russian propaganda or useful idiot Tankies.
Apologies if this comes across as "gift horse mouth"-y but https://github.com/systeminit/si#local-development-setup and its https://github.com/systeminit/si/blob/main/docs/DEVELOPMENT_... friend are some wowzers for just tire kicking the thing. Is there any interest or intention to offer a docker-compose.yml for a little less "I want to spend an entire day just to see this run?"
> The solution is to burn it all down and start over.

I get the sentiment behind this, but during the collapse of everything between the "burning down" and the "starting over" phases we won't be able to do anything at all about climate change.

I still have a naive faith that even politicians and CEOs will remember they can make a difference and effect change once things get bad enough (for some version of "bad enough") if they can fit it in between the political backstabbing and the 3 martini lunches :)
Nice to see the key innovation described so well: "The system will be easy to keep up-to-date with a 'upgrading' script in the base system"

I don't know that dpkg was the first such upgrade system but it definitely still is one of the best. And continues to be, many later imitators are not nearly as effective. A key part of that is all the work done in packaging so that the packages are maintainable and upgradeable, of course.
>a single developer

you don't actually believe this
My framing is fine, in my biased opinion. Saying, "You can't please these people about this" is essentially the same as saying "Their attitude about this is not useful" - though one might be more polite.

Maybe I went amiss, maybe I need perspective, but I don't see why a consideration for a re-frame is necessary if one still gets their point across; albeit maybe with more "passion" than necessary.
Just as an aside, Ron Popeil products were generally crap. He made a lot of money because those products mostly were bought as gifts for people (who were afraid they would offend the gifter if they returned them).
Nope, I think the politicians at the top are hopelessly naive or simply too maliciously self involved to care. And are more concerned with appearances than any of the values they claim to espouse.
>Edit: I notice nobody's trying to claim capitalism isn't doomed. Funny, innit?

I don't think it's doomed. How do you think it's doomed?
> They would be 'legions' comprised of men like the the Qanon Shamaon I take it?

No, more like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, the QAnon shaman did serve as a pretty effective media distraction, though.
My experience tallies with this, used to work for a hosting company and we got plenty of emails from guys in India, Pakistan etc who had 'run burp suite against X and found Y'. We had no bounty program as we were fairly small fry so we said thanks and fixed the bug. You can't compete against the volume. And the big payouts take a lot of time and skill to find and exploit.
People are allowed to hate music styles; and IMHO his criticism of "jazz snobbery" is pretty dead-on. Frank Zappa made a similar point decades ago, although he was much nicer about it, and hell, even SpongeBob parodied this in a episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlmZ05LfAxQ
You're right. Electric bikes are pretty awesome at addressing these problems, though. I know they remove some of the exercise element, though for many it might add exercise since they're otherwise doing nothing at all.

It's also okay to be a little uncomfortable. A lot of us are quite obsessed with avoiding discomfort, but it's often exactly what we need. I like riding my cargo bike with my son to his school, getting soaked and blown around in the wind. Sometimes he hates it, sometimes I dream of dry sunny days, but when I get home or to the office I'm in love with my awesome bike and all the cool stuff we do with it. Camping, shopping, errands—it's awesome, and totally worth the discomfort.

Like in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: on a bike, you're in your environment, not just watching it go by. You're a participator, not a spectator. You're in the weather, you can reach out and touch some tall grass or a low hanging branch. That aspect makes little parts of the day so much more immersive and interesting. I love that, and I'll take getting hot and sweaty or cold and soaked over driving my car 95% of the time.

I know it's only my perspective, and many will never consider it, but I hope a lot more people do. Bikes made my life so much better.

For what it's worth, I'm out of shape and a bit overweight, so I'm not some fit and out-of-touch athlete telling people they should just go ahead and do a difficult thing.

I'll admit though, there are definitely financial barriers. If you take the bus for economical reasons, an electric cargo bike probably isn't an option. If you own a car and need it, and you can barely afford it as it is, an electric cargo bike also isn't a realistic option. It's definitely a privilege in a sense, and I won't shame someone for relying on a car in those circumstances. Well, I won't shame anyone regardless.
> I will look like a god damn idiot.

Pride isn’t a good look or smell.

Try humility instead. You may not like to eat humble pie, but others love to watch that.

Also, perhaps some introspection would give nuance to why being wrong bothers you so much.
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> Is there a reason the magnifying glass is always on the USA to make changes?

The great majority of countries are too small to make a difference.

Some large countries are too corrupt, or perhaps even stand to benefit from climate change, to make a difference (Russia, middle east).

Some large countries are too poor (relatively, per head of population) to be able to be leaders in climate initiatives (E.g the other BRIC countries).

Many developing countries don't have the technology base to create green energy technology solutions, so can't share in the benefits of selling it to others.

There are only two global powers that are powerful enough and influential enough to move the needle on climate, and not coincidentally, have been at the forefront of plundering our planet for the last couple of centuries and have benefited enormously from their abuse of the commons.

One is the USA. They have a chequered history, but it does include saving the planet once before from an existential threat. That's why people look to the US for leadership.

Unfortunately the US is riven by internal division, and half of the population think that protecting female bathrooms is more important than protecting the atmosphere, and/ or that a mythical being in the sky will fix everything up anyway.

So that leaves only the EU. They are the only hope for humanity. If the EU can get their shit together on climate, then force action on their trading partners, and the US can awaken from their obsessions and fall in behind, then just perhaps we have a chance to stop this runaway train.