skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the article more carefully. The article (the text you quoted, even) clearly states that the machine didn't "restart". It crashed and didn't come back online.

And nowhere in the article do they state that this was a "catastrophic failure" - Railway itself didn't go down entirely. But Railway is a deployment company, so they are re-selling these compute resources to their customers to deploy applications. So when one of those VMs goes down and doesn't automatically failover, that's downtime for the specific customer who was running their service on that machine.

As they state:

> During manual failover of these machines, there was a 10 minute per host downtime. However, as many people are running multi-service workloads, this downtime can be multiplied many times as boxes subsequently went offline.

> For all of our users, we’re deeply sorry.
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> People won't use Chrome if adblock is ineffective

Look how long the most of humanity stuck to Internet Explorer, even with Chrome literally stickied on the Google front page and IE's more dramatic drawbacks.

Edge in particular is kind of a bloated mess now. I used to prefer it over the Chromium fork of the week (Currently Thorium and Cromite), but now its just too spammy and slow. No one is switching to that.

Also I have extremely mixed feelings about Brave. Maybe even net negative.
I was writing resizeable desktop applications in the 90s and it was easy then too. Differing screen resolutions is not a recent thing.

The reason for Electron's popularity is because:

1. web developers are cheaper and easier to hire than people with desktop software development experience

2. Electron is cross platform

Point 2 is a compelling reason. But it's not like other cross platform toolkits haven't existed. They've just been left to languish because of point 1.

If companies only hire web developers then of course everyone is going to invest time into writing Electron apps and banging on about the benefits of web applications. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I say this with experience having watched the tides turn, first hand, as a software developer.
I don't have the knowledge to comment on such crazy mathematics, but the article is definitely interesting, and do a good job of popularizing this subject and showing how the mathematicians approached the problem.
Maybe. But most fires in the California coast are human caused. Today, lightning is extremely rare.

Furthermore, be careful extending this train of thought to other biomes. My understanding of California chaparral is it's evolved to survive fire, but if it happens too often the biome disappears and turns into grassland. Some of the plants take decades of recovery before they are capable of fruiting.

Just because a species has evolved to survive fire doesn't necessarily mean it needs it.
This has been a known issue for a long time. https://bugzil.la/1535985
Detection of generated images works well, as reported by lots of works on arxiv. It's not catching them all, but lots of them.
One way to understand it is that DDPMs and their underlying neural network do leave patterns in the high frequencies, often invisible to the eye. Deconvolutions typically generate low noise "marbles".
What do you base this belief on?
I CANNOT SPEAK ABOUT STRIPE???
It's hilarious people are bashing GCP for having one compute instance go down and the author acknowledges it's a rare event. On AWS I've got instances getting forced stopped or even straight disappearing all the time. 99.95% durability vs 99.999% is way different.

If they had the same architecture on AWS it would go down all the time IME. AWS primitives are way less reliable than GCP, according to AWS' docs and my own experiences.
Wish I had read this a month ago before I wasted hours fighting against some of these things in tailwind and JS. That color picker trick is awesome, and the styled toggle switch looks extremely slick.
This is why these solutions take so long to catch on.

JavaScript is pretty well standardized, html and CSS is less so.
Beauty is worth spending and suffering for.
Here in the U.S. west coast mountains some land owners started controlled fires on their property to get rid of the stacking fuel naturally while preserving the bound minerals and helping the large redwoods and sequoias to fend of contenders. I have no idea how they managed to get a permit in this area where officials and population ate crazily scared of these natural processes given that uncontrolled fires make the news every year.

Also, a second generation redwood forest looks very different from an undisturbed one I recently learned from a forest guy who walked with me. He was reading the forest like a book. Very impressive. Turns out, my forest is a second generation and I should maybe take down a few redwoods, something I considered morally wrong before the walkthrough.
So, currently, as I understand it, piston engine planes are attainable to people who merely have more money than sense (my possibly unfair mental image is the sort of person who buys a 100,000 EUR car while still having a mortgage), but private _jets_ are the domain of the actually very rich. Any cost increase is likely to hurt them in a way that it wouldn’t hurt private jets.
As others have said: it depends heavily on the neighborhood. I grew up in a neighborhood with decent (but not great) tree coverage; my current neighborhood has full canopies on many blocks.

(This is one of the things I found most surprising about otherwise far more livable European cities: East Coast US cities tend to be far greener in a “diffuse” sense, if not in terms of total park area.)
You just made me wonder if those smart TVs have the ability to packet sniff what’s going on on the Wi-Fi networks in the homes in which they’re installed.
Oh hilarious! The business logic for getting optimal routing for faxes was... quirky. Picking the right source country/line/carrier to get the best quality line while getting the lowest cost and balancing capacity. In the old days all held in a complex queue in a MySQL db (sigh). I recall getting paged out of bed a number of times as an escalation to get it all working again after we hit yet another lock contention issue in MySQL.

Good times!
You Only Need to Test with 5 Users
PDF exploit
Here are the streches:

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AkOl7L0amzk1gZJkufVhfYr8q1vtbw?e=tjuBWD

And for the resistant band thing, kind of like this video. But I put the resistance band in a door at a 90 degree angle to my head and I focus on the "eccentric" movment, slowly bringing it back into upright position and letting it pull the muscles and lengthen them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EG7z_qsYNY&ab_channel=Rehab...
Integrating my personal and work lives helped me through a devastating loss
> What kind of dictatorship is this?

The private company kind. This site is their free speech. Ours is at their option.
> US impact on the worldwide death toll is often overstated for some reason

It is only perceived as overstated when the second-order effects of its actions are dropped from the count; the actions of the dictatorships backed and installed by the US never seem to make the tally. Kissinger’s (topical) Chinese containment strategy alone is responsible for as many deaths as the Holodomor. See accounts of Vietnam, Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Korea.

Should proxies, direct actions by those one supports, etc. not count? Who knows, but that always seems to divorce foreign policy decisions from their consequences when we do.
Can I suggest that you ignore all the criticism about the pricing on this thread and immediately find a sales rep or SE that has worked at an early stage DB company and begin cold calling high end customers with thousands of GPUs.

B2B deals at 200-300k+ are your best bet at selling this IMO.
With a couple of notable exceptions (Cambodia, and mid-90s North Korea) that still sounds like an improvement in their material conditions.
It was a lack of imagination. They didn't anticipate that case and probably just selected the contact IDs randomly. A bad RNG and an unlucky day is all it takes.
Seems like you have a belief, and this data that challenges that is rife with flaws while the data that supports that belief is good clean science.

> The users of many of the worst of sorts of drugs, such as heroine and amphetamines, tend to be average to lower weight. They will die disproportionately young, which will drag their weight cohort substantially down.

Right so this study was skewed by meth use, something that there’s a good chance they controlled for at least where they could, but other studies couldn’t possibly be skewed by drugs that cause weight gain and shorten lifespan.

My takeaway from this and similar studies is that body fat (especially as categorized by BMI) is mostly orthogonal to health. It’s possible to be fat + healthy, fat + unhealthy, slim + healthy, and slim and unhealthy.

And if that’s the case, burdening fat people with my own assumptions about their health is misguided, and dumb.
I have seen a similar situation about pg, Sam Altman etc.

Overall, I think it is a sensible policy because otherwise it might become really political.
Sounds like I should increase my climate / sustainability consultantcy fraud by 45%
Cool concept. As a reviewer said - if you get into the flow it's interesting. But the chunkiness of the controls kinda ruins the experience and make it harder than necessary to get into that flow.
Taipei
Google's business model is basically a fully-automated digital pimp:

Step 1: Surveil the ever-loving shit out of everyone and everything you can

Step 2: Pimp out (via RTB) anyone wandering by to advertisers who want to take a crack at them

Step 3: Profit

This plays into Step 1. If someone even thinks about going somewhere, Google insists on knowing where. Bitch better have my money!
Google might be trying to have their cake and eat it too - hamstring adblocking enough that their sites and ad networks can work around it but other sites and ad networks will remain blocked.
Heavy snow brings chaos to southern Germany as Munich suspends flights
Rand Paul successfully used the heimlich maneuver on Joni Ernst
Reading this back, I realize that this could be taken the wrong way:

"Once I write down my professional experience or we talk, anyone with a brain can tell I'm at the wrong place--I should be working somewhere that's a good job."

The idea being that this sentiment is either stated explicitly by the other person during the interview, or it comes across in tone. I'm not saying or thinking anything like this. I don't feel like I'm owed a "good job". (I do feel entitled to dignity, on the other hand.)

I have been told outright to dumb down my resume and that I'm obviously overqualified. Anyone paying attention can pick up on the clues that I "shouldn't" be there, that it's only a temporary accident that I'm even available, and they're understandably hesitant to say "yes" if they feel they're just going to be back in the same situation looking for another worker shortly down the road, once I get back on my feet. They'd rather take a chance on a so-so worker who's not exactly reliable and is somewhat irresponsible if it means there's a chance that person will be around for an expected 2 or 3 years, rather than me, the wildcard. That leaves the people who aren't able to put things together. Accordingly, working for these people is generally miserable either by accident or takes a turn to being exploitative or abusive by intent (because "the cruelty is the point").
Yes, we have also experienced undocumented limits for Cloud Run. For us it was an obscure quota for max network packages per second per instance. Really infuriating and took 6 months to track down what it was. I think it has been documented here now: https://cloud.google.com/run/quotas#cloud_run_bandwidth_limi...
What sort of input are you looking for in particular?
This implies we are so stupid we won't realize we are seeing ads where we never saw them before.
My thoughts exactly, albeit not easily extracted from my comments.
Do you have concrete examples that are much harder in the web than in native? When I started developing, I very much liked the web technologies for not being in my way - you have to learn their pitfalls and so on, but once you're up and running, you can do anything you want. Compared to that, every time I touch a native toolkit feels like an absolute nightmare the second you leave the trodden path. Even things like "changing the color of specific parts of a control" are often times either completely impossible without fully re-implementing it, or lead to bugs that make you wish you didn't try.
A bit of it. But it is besides the point: A messenger, that is working reliable and intentionally designed for the masses - does not come with the need, to fiddle with configs, to get basic functionality working.

I do not like Meta, but I never experienced with whatsapp, that someone send a message and this message just vanishes, so the sender thinks he is getting ignored. But exactly this happened way too often with signal.
Mine is due to hearing damage from being stupid.

I can modulate it as well using my jaw muscles.

What I’ve always found interesting is that I can’t describe the sound. It’s high pitched, but I’ve never found a frequency of tone that matches or even comes close to the tinnitus.

I would imagine the signals my brain receives from the damaged nerves is very complex. Not white noise, but probably the equivalent of a tone with lots of specific harmonics.

As for my experience, it’s been an issue for so long it doesn’t generally affect me. It’s always there and I can’t ignore it, but it doesn’t disrupt my life, other than having generally not great hearing.
According to official statistics [1], in 2022 Germany produced 33% of its electricy from coal (up from 30% coal in 2021). Of this coal, one third is brown coal. Judging from these numbers, the situation in Germany is a catastrophy from an ecological standpoint. Any german green that acted agains nuclear in Germany should feel deeply ashamed for what was achieved in the country. A green catastrophy in a country that could have been a leader! A national shame, I say.

[1] https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/Graphics/Energy/2023/_Inter...
Remember kids, if a minority is a "rounding error" it's okay to ignore, block, and hurt them though your profession. That's what webdevs tell me.
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I’m stuck on a 16 hour flight with limited WiFi and even more limited space. To pass the time, I wanted to see how far I could get building a GPT entirely from my phone. This is the result.

It’s not revolutionary but I learned a lot. And it’s definitely the most impressive app I’ve built without opening a laptop or IDE.
Many websites that use JavaScript, particularly news sites, would be much faster without it.
> Yet you think tying people's hands and forcing them into furthering the interests of a foreign business venture's goals at the expense of the locality is okay?

i did not write that.

my point was that as long as there are laws enacted by the state that mandate using a specific intermediary and then that intermediary refuses service to a 3rd party, that means that the law needs changing as that intermediary now has unintended power over both the 3rd party and the state. double so when it comes to something as mundane as postal services.
> The newer frameworks just have too much "magic" going on

Either that or they don't have nearly enough magic to separate the developer from all of the paradigms of the web, so they can apply their own idea with any clarity.

But yeah, they sit there, at just about the worst possible spot. One can improve them by going either way.
yeah but we are not talking about politics, we are talking about Stripe and how they destroyed my business
Funny how the first two submissions didn't catch on here. I guess the titles weren't catchy enough.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sqlsync.dev
The big tech companies are not private; they are public companies that rely on state force to maintain their monopolies. Just as an example, intellectual property laws rely on the state for enforcement.
Portland Tree Viewer
I’ve been playing it for several days now without fully understanding all the rules. I like it but I win every game easily. I just neutralize the opponent’s marks and then lock them in. I’m not quite clear on how to make it harder…
More. JavaScript is deeply constrained by design.

If you're using Deno and run into the limitations of the JavaScript language/ecosystem, you use its FFI to call out to libraries written in languages like C and C++.

Similarly you might address a performance issue in your C code by writing assembly code, which is the most powerful language essentially by definition, and which of course has plenty of downsides.
Is the standpoint "everything is spyware until proven otherwise"? I really dislike how commonly spyware is used, it really dilutes the word's meaning.
Firefoxer here, HN folk are one of the most if not the most tech savvy communities in the whole planet. I don't understand why, in the name of an open internet for ours and the future, you don't refuse to use an actively hostile Chrome in your personal devices. Someone please explain this to me
that's really sad to hear, pretty much they can help Stripe to do all the dirty business, shutting down accounts, taking people's money. Do you know where else we can share this?
(o ) "Do you want to receive marketing emails from our partners?"

This is absolutely a dark pattern.
I think it’s still much easier to attribute a physical attack than a digital one.
I've used Meteor. I thought it was a good system. It didn't have offline capability, at least not back when I used it. It really needed to be connected to work. But conceptually, yes, it had a very similar system.
valid point, but at the same time people should be free to resign and employers should be free to fire their employees.
Total aside: but related to ambiguous true/false designation: A lot of times when people write articles like "Ten Myths About NodeJS", it is unclear in each of the numbered items whether the stance initially described is the incorrect myth, or the correct view as proposed by the author. To make it worse, some writers vary the structure between items!
are you using anxiety with a bit of hyperbole here, or is it really making you anxious? I can see it being confusing and needing extra time to really look at it rather than being instantly obvious, but it's nothing to cause stress. It's just a setting/option. It's not going to cause significant issues if misinterpreted. You can just set it the other way, and do it again.

Is this the same thing that separates those that like to mash all the buttons and twist all the knobs to see what happens vs those that don't want to touch anything because they don't know what will happen?
I love The Hole, it’s incredibly weird. Feels like the middle if nowhere but you’re near highrise projects.

If you go there by car, you need a 4x4 with some lift. The flooding and road quality are downplayed. It’s really something.
It’s convenient for me to use Chromium (in the guise of Brave), because that’s the most important browser for web dev.

However, the day that MV2 is removed in Brave I will switch to Firefox.

Not sure why anyone would use Chrome over Brave though.
The Thermoelectric effect can produce electric current from a temperature difference (i.e. potential), but heat by itself can't do any work unless it has something colder to heat up. Refrigerators just do the inverse, they use an electrical potential to create a difference of temperature between the outside and inside of a box.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
This is a really odd recurring meme. To be clear, pre-acquisition Twitter had positive free cash flow from 2016 to 2020, before falling negative due to a one-off legal settlement in 2021. It was also net profitable for some of that period. It had significant ability to raise funds if required, and a fair bit of opportunity to cut costs. There was no real prospect of it going out of business.
Some years ago I was consulting for a new credit union; they found their implementation choices very constrained by the NCUA (regulators).

I had to walk away from that job. I told them I could not take responsibility for the stability and security of their systems with the constraints they required.

Was a horror show. No logs. Public IPs for the DB server, for vendor remote access. "We don't know what our originating networks might be, so no firewalls on that." "systems" networks and "public" network is too confusing, we need to be able to access our porn from any terminal, alongside client financial data.

That place was not representative of the industry, I think; but I still hope that the situation improved.
Given the archaic age of one of my analogue hi-fi systems, the title made me expect something with actuators, solenoids, and related robotics tasks with smart home connectivity.
I Lived in Taiwan around 10 years ago and went to Japan after I had been to Taiwan. Taipei reminds me of a smaller version of Tokyo.
It seems like this might
Work even better with a two sided OLED screen (2 screens back to back) rather than led array, for better resolution? I think that are sufficiently wide angle, at least the monochrome ones.
> undermining your everyday conversations with comments designed to trigger discontent.

"All warfare is based primarily on deception of an enemy. Fighting on a battlefield is the most primitive way of making war. There is no art higher than to destroy your enemy without a fight by subverting anything of value in your enemy's country."

-Sun Tzu, c. 500 BC "The Art of War [0]

"Rules of Revolution"

"1. Corrupt the young, get them interested in sex, take them away from religion. Make them superficial and enfeebled.

2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial issues of no importance.

3. Destroy people’s faith in their national leaders by holding the latter up for contempt, ridicule and disgrace.

4. Always preach democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

5. By encouraging government extravagances, destroy its credit, produce years of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.

6. Incite unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of the government towards such disorders."

- Tomas Schuman (post-KGB-defection Yuri Bezmenov), "Love Letter to America" [1]

An effective way to prepare a child (newcomer to language) for the timeless bombardment of foreign ideological subterfuge is by telling a simple story of how paradise was lost [2] because the soothsayer targets the spirit of the life-affirming (compassionate) component of the city-state as the most direct path to that which provides its strength. The taste of judgement is forbidden because you will then spend your days (as an agitated, less productive civilian being physically protected by an authority) wondering about how local conditions should be changed according to your personal opinions&comfort which means you have rejected the requirement of loyalty&obedience. At this point you are not worth being provided for since you become the source of expensive internal convulsions, and are therefore cast back out into the unorganized chaos for which need of the nation-state arose. In the same breath, through this story-telling, you elevate the ideals of the assignment of order&purpose, creation, cooperation, and organization as central tenets for the foundation of civilization.

[0] https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/subversion-death-fr...

[1] https://ia800602.us.archive.org/11/items/love-letter-america...

[2] https://youtu.be/2LhrsbtRhlo?t=1674
I just want any map provider to make the compass feature work reliably and easily visible. That’s all I want. But for whatever reason both Google and Apple seem incapable of doing this. I’m puzzled…