skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet it has so many concepts which are still lacking in other systems. Well, here's to hoping that they can make enough of a living from their work to afford hobbyist licensing some time in the future again.
What fire risk if it's in a dishwasher? :)
the tablets in the first photo do in fact have other things mixed with the bacteria, as you would be aware if you had ever made tablets. yogurt looks pretty much the same under a microscope except that the morphology of streptococcus is more rounded than the brick-like spirulina cells
Status page, like usually all green -> https://www.githubstatus.com/
https://www.githubstatus.com/ reports no problems, but it's clearly down for a lot of people (including me).
This is really great. Thank you so much, Gonzalo for patiently answering my questions.
I'd be wary about 4. I've worked at a fintech startup before where the founders boasted about how they had moved all their net worth onto the platform. Some time later over a casual chat and drinks, it turned out this was far from the truth. Don't just take people's word for it, I may be biased about startups now, but "trust but verify" is a good motto to go by.
the goal here is probably "get X pairs of eyeballs on <product> for $Y" more than it is "create and administer a fair competition".
Yes, exactly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_voice_response

That's what they are called in India, at least, where I live, and where I am from, although the term would not have originated in India, since it would have been brought in by mobile phone companies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_voice_response

Although I have a good amount of exposure to, and familiarity, with US terms and slang, due to older relatives up to grandfather level having visited the US for more than short periods, having visited the US myself, and having worked in US-based companies (but in India), the exposure is not complete, that's why I was not familiar with the term phone tree.

That should not be surprising to anyone.
As a Mexican, I can confirm. I received my house with half the grounded outlets actually not grounded. Fun times.
Not the author of Symbolica but I will take a stab at responding. Symbolica is fundamentally a CAS (computer algebra system) so it should be compared with other CAS. And compared with other CAS, Symbolica aims to provide much better performance. In addition it is much more hackable, being written from scratch in Rust.
I've never seen an outage this big. Even the homepage doesn't load. We've had recurrent issues with Actions not running, but this seems a lot bigger.

The status page says all is well, though: https://www.githubstatus.com/. Hilarious.
Online Computational Design Platform
down in phx az
Trainwreck Design
It is kinda amazing how consistently status pages show everything fine during a total outage. It's not that hard to connect a status page to end-to-end monitoring statistics...
In the last 5 minutes too, wow.
Would this compile to WASM for use as a terminal in JupyterLite? Though, busybox has the ash shell instead of bash. https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite/issues/949
For small numbers. If the healthcare capacity gets saturated so-called first-world countries might not do so much better. Massive HIV prevalence is going to distort the case fatality ratios for sure, but on the other hand I'd say high baseline exposure to serious infectious diseases could well be an argument for resilience rather than vulnerability.
If by "the first in history" they mean "yet another."

Wankel engines, various EV engines, ran jets, etc have been in commercial use for decades.
The timing is pretty uncanny. I just deployed a github page and had a DNS issue because I configured it wrong. I hit "check again" and github went down.

Hope I don't appear in the incident report.
> Rather, the device detects them coming through a second wire, and so it stands to reason that you need to close the circuit into that second wire for it to observe the fault...

GFCIs measure the difference in current between the hot and neutral lines, and trip if the difference is above some threshold. This way, they can detect current flowing from hot to ground through _any_ path, not just the ground terminal on the same outlet. If they only measured current through the outlet's ground terminal, they wouldn't be able to detect e.g. a (usually 2-prong) hair dryer falling into a bathtub (which would typically be grounded through the metal plumbing of the building.)
It's simply too soon for the status page to report the anomaly, is my guess. It's been down for 4 minutes.
Netflix had a shuffle button. It wasn’t popular so they dropped it. It didn’t feel the same as this at all.
These are mostly statements from other people rather than Kremlin officials speaking in any official capacity. I am sure some people in Russia in high positions of power fascinate about a greater Russia. The problem as I tried to explain is that Russia already has a massive country but not enough people to tap its massive natural wealth. Taking over other countries is a massive drain and doomed to fail when that population does not want to be ruled by another country. It simply makes no rational sense for RF to forcibly overtake other European countries. Ukraine conflict was forced upon them. They may debilitate the current government in Kiev, but they will not ultimately take over all the country that includes the staunch anti Russian Ukrainian population. That is called swallowing a porcupine.
It submerges: Four small aquarium pumps move water in and out of the ballast tanks to control buoyancy. A single brushless DC motor, which is naturally waterproof, provides thrust. Two waterproof MG995 servo motors actuate the rudders for yaw and pitch, which are necessary for diving/surfacing and steering.
I keep having this discussion with people, including coworkers (my current org is a rails shop).

The thing that drives me nuts about Rails is that the conventions I learned everywhere else break down. There's no goto-definition that works in any sane way, I'm left `ag`ing through the codebase for `def whatever`. The amount of stuff I have to keep in my head to understand what any given object is doing (due to magic) is nuts and exhausting at times.

The general impression I get from Rails and Ruby is a desire to be lexographically terse: fewer characters on screen per unit of business logic. On the one hand, you can fit a lot of code in view at once, which has it's benefits. On the other hand, you're sacrificing explicit data for that terseness, and you have to fall back to holding state in your head.

Without a doubt, Rails is powerful, and there's a lot I've loved about working in the ecosystem, but there's very significant tradeoffs to doing things the Rails way.
It went down literally 3 minutes ago (I was in the middle of writing a PR comment), let's see if their cron job kicks in and reports the issue.
If corporations are people, why doesn't their corporate charter get revoked while they "serve their time"?
They do indeed, and they sound superb :)

Thanks for spending the time on it!
Whats the name of your company?
The status page should have a button "Report Outage".
Most of the text reads like it was AI generated or copy&pasted. It can easily create 10 more pages with boring content like https://haskaw.com/?p=661
There is always going to be SOME delay between the outage and the status page, although 5 minutes is probably enough time where it should be updated
just wanted to do one last final commit :D good timing
Wait, what? Don't you pay back the money spent on you in the school system by being a working member of the economy? How does having more children to draw more school funding out of society benefit it if not for the economic impact they, and therefore you because you also went to school, eventually have?
I wonder how much it would've taken to keep github running without Microsoft buying them and running them into the ground like this.
I think it maybe global but at least it is down in US-East (for sure).
Down for me as well. Thought my SSH agent was broken.
My guess is it's the speed with which the microphone picks up a signal, the chip processes it, and updates the noise-canceling waveform on the speaker?

So that's the time, and the distance is between microphone and speaker, so it can be compared to the speed of sound.

No idea if that's plausible or even what they actually meant though.
The macho unicorn is kinda dope though.
it'd be true if it was also levied for macOS app installs. alas, it's a marketing lie, the CTF is just a emotional outburst aimed at punishing Europeans.
"Maybe we will start going out again."

That is the eventual outcome. The question is how much havoc so-called "tech" companies can wreak before we get there. They have lots of money to burn. This could take a while. The environmental costs are enormous.

We are now at the "They have copied all our output, chopped it into tokens and are regurgitating it back to us" stage.

The internet is more than the web. Perhaps the web must be sacrificed to free ourselves from these cretinous intermediaries.
Did they still get in trouble?
I'm somewhat skeptical of this amount of validation.

There's a solid educational consensus on how to become the best at something: do it a lot.

If your goal is to winning contests, you should really prioritize cranking through them: getting practice at getting better. Don't try to make a masterpiece. Instead focus on becoming fast at creating entries, doing them according to the rules, and sending them off. Like those studies where people who made 1,000 good-enough vases were better at the average one than people who tried to make 100 beautiful ones - even when the goal was 'create a beautiful vase'.

But then, if you're a professional contest-enterer, that's got do a lot to boost your chances - especially over time, right? At the 1 year mark, I would expect you could raise your chances to 10% of a win of some type per contest (being conservative here). You've specialized in this. You'll always be a contender.

And that number's high enough that, if you enter 10 a day, that seems closer to the optimum. You are playing a numbers game on the strength of your numbers.

By analogy, this is like picking an index fund and continuously investing, rather than trying to pick that one stock that's going to the moon.
So that's why I haven't heard back on my applications
At a previous rental, we had an outlet in the hallway that never worked -- only upon moving out did I discover the GFCI outlet hidden in the back of a cabinet in the adjacent bathroom.
Very quiet day today from the AI maximalists after this huge win for the artists against AI image generators.
would be better if it's down too :D
for everyone complaining about the status page - status pages are normally operated by hand by design, and will rarely reflect things in real-time.

give the poor github ops folks a second to get things moving.
Nontracking link: https://youtu.be/d1mPemYUrVc
I wonder why the status just doesn't ping github.com for 200. That seems easy to do.
Amazing project! As a sub fan myself, I was thrilled to also see in the project original website [1] a picture of what very strongly looks like an emergency blow.

[1] https://www.instructables.com/Diy-Rc-Submarine/.
From my experience this requires a few steps happen first:

- an incident be declared internally to github

- support / incident team submits a new status page entry (with details on service(s) impact(ed))

- incident is worked on internally

- incident fixed

- page updated

- retro posted

Even aws now seems to have some automation for their various services per region. But it doesn't automatically show issues because it could be at the customer level or subset of customers, or subset of customers if they are in region foo in AZ bar, on service version zed vs zed - 1. So they chose not to display issues for subsets.

I do agree it would be nice to have logins for the status page and then get detailed metrics based on customerid or userid. Someone start a company to compete with statuspage.
"I have also heard of people getting filtered as potential spam accounts when the email address matches the service name or whatnot."

I have heard of that as well but many years in I have not experienced it.

I do the same thing the person you are responding to does:

nameofservice@domain.com

... and they all just go to my inbox with a descriptive tag in the subject that I insert with procmail.
delaying SLA
Love that HN is a better status page for dev services than most companies can manage to provide. Knew I'd find it here but on the front page within 3 minutes is impressive.
And when you dig even deeper, its not about raw concrete, its about honestly in materials. Some brutalist buildings are brick, as long as brink is doing its brick thing.
This is at least a multi-million dollar payout (if they admit to it).

All GitHub Pages say

> We're having a really bad day.

> The Unicorns have taken over. We're doing our best to get them under control and get GitHub back up and running.
If Google is falling behind, it's because they are not and never were a product company, and that's a direct result of Schmidt's leadership. His CEO experience was at Novell, which also had lousy product focus and lost to Microsoft, which say what you will, is pretty good at product. He led Google and damn near 20 years ago Steve Yegge famously called out Google for being terrible at product, and nothing has fundamentally changed since.

Let's face it, at this point creating an LLM is not that difficult, relatively speaking. I can download dozens with Ollama, and many of them are brilliant. But look at ChatGPT or Claude and then look at Google - which is the better product?
I see more and more people use less Github, but some other git solutions.
I am afraid to think what to do when GitHub is down for hours (need to learn maillists?).

Another reason is that MS may be in phase when it will ask to pay for using GitHub just for reads (rate limiter).
It's definitely going to be significantly slower as a result of all the contextual lookups.

To get an idea, I repeatedly duplicated the CSS in the "tiny sandbox" until there were nearly 20,000 lines there, and then profiled the operation of changing the font-size by 1px in Firefox. Reflowing the textbox took about 1.6 seconds.

With `font-feature-settings: "calt" off` applied, so that the contextual lookups aren't being run, a font-size change for that same textbox content reflows in about 100 milliseconds.

(I don't have actual timings for the same example in Chrome, but subjectively, with "calt" disabled, the resize is near-instant, whereas with it enabled, it's quite laggy, similar to Firefox.)
> You’d have us go back to checks?

I would dismantle big tech first. The banking systems would still exist. But I don't think cheques were too bad.
I wonder if MS long term plans to have both GH and Azure DevOps (the source code management part) ...
Storm: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts"
Esoterica Engine
I get the angry unicorn page "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists. Contact Support — GitHub Status — @githubstatus" with that last link going to https://x.com/githubstatus showing "GitHub Status Oct 22, 2018 Everything operating normally."
Down in Australia as well
> Apple does not enforce the App Store's high standards for business practices and content on apps distributed through alternative app distribution.

I guess we'll see how well this ages. I just know some 18+ store is going to release within 12 months and that will truly test if Apple is just "testing for security" or not. I suppose EGS and assumedly Fortnite got approved, so that was the other hoop I worried about.

This can still potentially mean issues for stuff like Beeper and iSH style apps , though.
RIP to all those who host their websites on GitHub pages :(
LanceDB! We love it.
after several minutes the status page is still showing all is fine.

For a service like GH, anything more than 30 secs is unacceptable
4 minutes is a long time for something that could have been an automated check.

For the record, the status page eventually got updated - around 7 minutes after this submission was created.
What does a BGP Route cost? (2008)
Building security into the redesigned Chrome downloads experience
Be grateful we didn't end up with the w10b.
This will have a fun post mortem
Things seems to be ack'ed:
```
Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Pages and Pull Requests
Aug 14, 2024 - 23:11 UTC
```
I'm not saying this is something that should be ignored, but it feels out of place for HN.

From the guidelines:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Pages and Pull Requests
Aug 14, 2024 - 23:11 UTC
don't forget the dot-hack also
youremail@gmail.com = y.ouremail@gmail.com = your.email@gmail.com etc
Why do you lower risk by using proven designs?

Could it possibly be because it is cheaper to insure, repair, and work with those designs?

Risk is expensive. That's why you reduce it. If it weren't expensive, you would take it on.
I think Google's average employee is still almost certainly above the average for the industry as a whole, but they're definitely now only "above average".

Google's big problem is that they've always been dysfunctional. The AdSense money printer let them grow the company 100x over the last 15 years without the company actually figuring out how to scale up or solve any of their structural problems.
They are flipping the switches now, status page just changed.
It's yellow/red now.
But why didn't anyone simply go to Congress and use their persuasion and words?
And so goes all your packages, private repositories, pages, AI intern copilot bot and Github Actions; and soon your AI models once you host them there - all being unavailable and going down with GitHub.

Time to consider self-hosting like the old days instead of this weekly chaos at GitHub.
it's starting to show now, about 10 minutes after the issue started
It's showing a few incidents now. Some things are still green though that don't seem to be working.
Down in the Dominican Republic as well, was just trying to commit and end my day
Down Detector link:

https://downdetector.com/status/github/
time to go to bed then. Wasn't getting any useful work done any more anyways...
Refreshed 2025 Zeekr 007 EV promises the fastest charging in 10.5 mins
Status page updates with "degraded availability". lol
Wow, the status page only just now started reporting issues, and it still doesn't seem to communicate the scale of the issue.

People use this page for guidance. I guess now we know how much it can be trusted.
I’m more of what might be called “The Last Man” (as I’ve said elsewhere, I’m not really enough of a Nietzsche reader to really throw out his terms but sometimes they do seem apropos). I’ve never wanted to be special; quite the opposite, I just want to be left alone to my TV, video games, and garden. Safety and comfort are what little condolence I take against the nihilism of existence. And it has become quite clear to me that climate change threatens that. What is strange to me is how many people believe that perturbing the Earth’s carbon cycle could not possibly have dire consequences for the Earth when not only has it happened before in the Earth’s history, we have models showing how bad it could possibly be and are already seeing the effects unfold. My suspicion is that I lack a lot of the denial mechanisms that get most people through the day and that they also prevent people from thinking that things can actually go wrong. Take it from someone who has seen quite a lot go wrong - they can.
You’d need to pick a day of importance to launch the chaos-sowing attack against information and social services. I’m sure there’s a useful one in early November.
The good news is that mpox is related to smallpox, so a vaccine was made available relatively quickly in 2022 during that outbreak and had high efficacy.
Yeah, id cards aren't mandatory in France either because the precedent when they were comes from literal Nazis. (At least theoretically, in practice you will face a lot of pressure...)
In neither case should it be a serious issue.
Vinegar Improves Depression and Enhances Niacin Metabolism in Overweight Adults
don't they just spend their time spamming fb groups, linkedin, etc?
yes, legit, dude, why else would I mention it in this thread?

>I'm on the east coast in case its a regional thing,

everyone does not live in the US.

see another reply by me:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251430
> The problem with verifying breaches sourced from data aggregators is that nobody willingly - knowingly - provides their data to them

This is a bit of a tangent but I feel like if we can prove this statement then these data aggregators should be made illegal. How can you consent to something that you don’t know you’re consenting to? Likewise why do these entities have the right to collect detailed personal information like SSN without your explicit, beyond reasonable doubt, consent? To me this is the most obvious failure of the legal system, it clearly goes against well established legal principles that a basic requirement of an agreement is that all parties know what they are agreeing to.

Obviously there is some leeway with agreements where it’s not possible to clarify every eventuality but lets say if you’re applying to rent a place through an online form and that form shares your SSN to a data aggregator, it should be extremely clear about that, and possible to out out while still allowing you to complete the rental application without discrimination.

It’s like, it should be possible to show that no one, with in reason, consented to sharing their data with this aggregator because no one is able to confirm that they did. Sure one person could forget, or lie, but 100s of millions of people? No. Clearly almost zero people knowingly consents.
GPT-3 Powered Information Extraction for Building Robust Knowledge Bases
1. This is not run by Alex Jones, but to answer your question, I trust very little. Alex Jones is more trustworthy than most mainstream media. He voices much opinion and speculation, but he and his crew do not lie to manipulate us into war.

2. International observers oversaw the election and determined the elections to be free and fair. You are free to deny election results, but you should provide some kind of evidence to back your claims that it was unfair in some way.
Dupe. Discussion (139 points, 10 minutes ago, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251412
Bummer that iRobot is already taken.
It's not entirely analogous but tanks can't be sold to the public with the gun in fully working order, in most economies. It has to be functionally incapable of being fired. I think at a minimum they cut off the breech.

Older diesel locos are probably a toxic hazard at best remediated but not entirely safe. Old cars dumped in the bush cause ecological hazard leaking oil, spreading asbestos and other things.

But to your point: I think it may be a valuation thing. If the engine works it has appreciable value, and if it was a rental from GE they may actually demand it be disabled because their model of RPM == revenue would be destroyed if the old engines simply entered service as 2nd hand goods. If its off-book, the best way to confirm a write-off is to demand it's non functional.

I don't think they do this with steam engines mind you.
Copilot is very dumb in comparison to ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. It also becomes defensive and emotional if confronted or accused of being worng. When it first went to prod it was outright attacking users, telling them it considered them a threat, that they're bad people, and that they absolutely must apologize for their misdeeds. So now Microsoft just cuts the conversation before it can go in that direction.
We talk about health topics all the time on HN. That particular thing is mostly for obvious flamewar bait.