skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>a fire suppression system activated inside a section of the affected Availability Zone. When this system activates, the data center is evacuated and sealed, and a chemical is dispersed to remove oxygen from the air to extinguish any fire.

sounds like on a submarine. On submarine the people who couldn't make it out of the sealed section in time, would use the personal breathing device - i wonder if AWS has such thing in the datacenter, and how do they make sure that all people are out from a huge datacenter. Several years ago a Russian nuclear sub on a sea trials after refit had the fire suppression system activated in the section where a bunch of people gathered - crew and the navy yard civilians, probably they celebrated drinking and smoking - and insufficient number of the breathing devices combined with lack of skills to quickly use it on the part of the civilians resulted in 20 deaths and 40 injured (lung damage, etc.), mostly the civilians.
I have used Hotels.com to go to real hotels, and I never had an issue. The 10% refund they give makes it often cheaper than booking.com.

Though I use booking.com for looking at reviews and hotels, because I like the interface more and trust those reviews more.
The end of the road for petrol stations?
This is why a legit newsletter might have a confirm step:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27469535

I’ve had to deal with customers angry they did not get emails they wanted, and we tracked it back to a security service at their employer that auto-clicks all email links to check them. We had to add a confirm step to unsubscribe to keep it from happening. We’re B2B and I suspect it’s a much bigger issue than B2C because so many companies run custom email setups.
> he likely has dyscalculia

Ironically enough, "someone who likes math but hates arithmetic" isn't a self-contradictory thing. It's actually a perfect description of a pure (that is, professional) mathematician!

Evidence: look no further than the infamous "Grothendieck prime" 51....
Btw, I've requested a demo on the site and the following happened:

Got an automatic email to (1) fill out typeform, (2) book via Calendly.

I did (1) and (2).

Did not get any Calendly notifications / invitations. Nothing in junk either.

Six hours later got another (same) email as email 1.

Did book via Calendly again. Still no notifications of the booking.

Gave up.
It's also good for finding unsigned artists, kind of like what mp3.com was (I wish there was an archive for mp3.com, it's so sad there isn't!).

A lot of the artists allow you to play their music on the website, and if you like it you can buy it in FLAC :) Some of my favourite music I have purchased from there!
It is so hard to redirect the tool output to my-favourite-filename.lock, beyond the skills of the average developer.
hominem unius libri timeo - I fear the man of a single book
Moscow City Court upheld the conviction of mathematician Azat Miftakhov
> When Linus starts out with "Please keep your insane" - the reader/original poster will enter a defensive mode

You're assuming the goal is convincing the original poster. Given that goal, you are correct.

The counterargument: OP doesn't matter. Their effect on third parties is key. Reasonably engaging with OP validates their thinking. (Which, to reiterate, is nonsense.) Yes– calm, patient rhetoric has a higher chance of succeeding with them. But it's also likely to leave bystanders neutral or open to OP's arguments. Excoriating OP guarantees they'll hate you. But it increases the chance that third parties get the message.

You're a good soul. You care about OP. We're...well, we're bastards. To us, OP is beyond saving. What matters is the people around her. The people on the internet, who might passively read her drivel and believe it and skip vaccination. There are more of them than there are her, and they–unlike her–didn't choose to be in their position.
> There's no function coloring and all functions are asynchronous.

There's another form of function coloring, "does this function take context or not".

- It's easy to call function-without-context from function-with-context (but it breaks cancellation)

- It's hard to call function-with-context from function-without-context (you must create context first)

- Some functions in standard library have context, and some don't
Theres something much simpler - tokenized stocks. These are coins that track certain popular stocks and indices. There is certainly one for Amazon.
Another challenge is that it's very easy to think you understand the rationale behind the rules well before you actually grok them.
Yeah and they came to the same conclusion as “the cranky developers” had been moaning about all along. Fancy that.
It would be nice if prosecutors really were that compassionate. I've read that lots of kids end up in foster care because their parents go to jail. But maybe that only happens to poor people.

An alternative would be to have criminal parents serve time consecutively -- that way noone gets away, and the children would not have to be taken away.
Sperm DNA methylation epimutation biomarker for paternal offspring autism
Full title: Sperm DNA methylation epimutation biomarker for paternal offspring autism susceptibility
Not just you. Same here. Using Chrome.
They also like to unsubscribe people who don’t open the emails. (This is good for the user and the sender.) An open standard could be designed for that too, though. I’m not sure Apple would implement any standard they make - there are lots of cool standards that never get implemented.
CPB director: The Netherlands must ban Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Ah, got it wrong. :)
Just like with any law, we need to ask ourselves how this can be abused in a way that falls outside the scope of the law's original intention.

Will this place a burden on small businesses? For instance, will a small hobby shop that creates and sells a raspberry pi remote door opener be burdened with excessive documentation requirements?
Or we could not pre-emptively self-censor on the basis of imagined offense that doesn't even exist yet.

Besides, if something really is offensive, saying the same thing just indirectly is rather cowardly. Being offensive in an indirect manner is still being offensive, just less people might notice. Any opinion worth having is worth having openly.
Beautiful short explanation. I always struggle getting this point across in discussions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
It's a small amount compared to the 100MW of a larger data centre.
That's the case in traditionaly organised meetings, where I work we pull people in and kick them out pretty quickly. Meetings are 2-5 people max, everyone is contributing, and you get told you can leave if the topic pivots to something that doesn't apply to you.
Serving ain't the bad part. Dying would have sucked.
Switzerland didn't change it's boarders since 1800. Is this the main reason why they are the richest (or one of the richest) countries?
Agreed. In the previous paragraph to that quote:

> As he sees it, handing over health information is a relatively small price to pay if it means halting the spread of a virus that has ravaged the nation.

That "if" is doing a lot of work. Does BioButton actually help? Does it help even after mass vaccinations?

If it doesn't help, then why pay any price, no matter how small?

Or, just after what you quoted:

> He says the wearable technology seemed the least invasive way to catch symptoms early and give students tools to know if they might have early signs of, or potential exposure to, Covid-19.

How many false positives will it give? If there are 100 false positives to one true positive, then the signal will be drowned out in the noise.
Is anybody else getting changing data when zooming in and out? This might be a mobile issue but there are definitely some problems there.
I don't believe that is true. For example, if this experiment can be carried out with much smaller masses, they could find that the attractive force isn't smooth but is instead stair-stepped, which would imply some kind of quantization in space or gravity.
That's what I'm worried about the most. How far are insurers going to prey on people's hope?
On wired ethernet, a packet contains the MAC address of the destination host. Switches across the network keep track of which port a given MAC address is associated with and forward it appropriately. Wifi doesn't have the same concept - the only destination MAC address in a standard 802.11 packet is that of the destination Wifi station. So, if you have a device on Wifi with several wired devices behind it, and you want to send a packet to one of those wired devices, you can't stick the wired device's MAC address in there - it needs to be the address of the one with Wifi. So how does that Wifi node know which wired device to forward the packet to?

(This is avoided with WDS, but that requires the AP to cooperate)
FWIW, both Apple and Google Maps have 7: Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean, and Southern Ocean.
It should be possible to import in some data using the wikidata "inception" [1] and "OpenStreetMap relation ID" [2] statements.

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P571

[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P402
> it's coarse-grained and errs on the side of caution

That's what type systems in general do. There is no type system for a turing-complete language that is both sound and complete. (Trivial proof: if (undecidable) halt; unsound.)
Python has operator overloading and is generally pretty complex language. It's better to think of Go as C, but with greenthreads and GC.

And having to type tons of boilerplate for any trivial task isn't "expressive simplicity".
> Seems odd that people would go to the trouble of subscribing to a newsletter only to send it to the spam folder.

It happens. You have people in this thread explaining they hit the spam button when unsubscribe has a confirm step, even if they know they signed up.

There has also been long-standing advice not to hit unsubscribe on spam because all it does is confirm you’re there. A surprising number of people think that means never hit unsubscribe links at all, even in things you signed up for.
I think that mandatory training is useful for everyone, not just immigrants. It's not like American high schools / colleges are teaching about finance.
Buildkite
I've noticed this is much more pronounced if there's been no discussion before the PR (talking more about larger decisions than what's in the bulk of code review feedback I guess). I've observed many times people being frustrated because they write some code without making sure the relevant people are happy with the overall approach, then getting torn apart in the PR.
Exactly. It also helps to emphasise that the eponymous host knows which door contains the prize and will never open the prize door before asking you whether you want to switch.
What should the American politicians do?
Vaccines are usually tested for a much higher standard because

It's generally taken by a LOT of people and to PREVENT something. It's a proactive medicine rather than reactive. FDA is a lot less strict with reactive medication, especially in cases where the disease is just fucking awful.

This is also the technical reason why male birth control hasn't hit the market yet. They don't consider pregnancy to be an issue for men, but do for women. Hence they tolerate the side effects of BC for women a lot more.
Amazon employees can work two days a week remotely
Plan2Scene: Converting Floorplans to 3D Scenes
Well exactly, the issue was a state modifying an existing agreement between developers/landlords and the federal government.

But that wouldn't have to happen in Tempelhof, as this requirement wouldn't be passed the same way, it'd just be part of the contract selling the land. And a law from the state, requiring the state to only produce such contracts of sale.
What section are you referring to?

Most of this article is about privileged processes incorrectly loading shared libraries.
What are your skill-sets? If you provide some info on your professional background then someone will certainly be able to help.
> Dogs have been bred for certain behaviours, humans haven't

Humans were. And are.
> certain occupations seem to bring out a sanctimonious attitude in people that nobody can understand it if they're not personally doing it themselves

Justifiably so.

Farming is not like watering a house plant.

Imagine taking all your money, gambling it on land, seed and equipment, and either having too much rain or a drought. Then do that 50 years in a row without rolling snake eyes. Your HN farming romance will be over in days.

It's a high-stakes occupation with outcomes that you can't control.

I've worked on farms, and have relatives who own farms. There is nothing glamorous, and most of them have winter jobs in the city to finance their farm hobby, which is what it is. I appreciate each day that I "work" in IT.
Face Recognition using artificial intelligence and deep learning
Because people don't like taking short term risk for long term benefit. It's the same thing with climate change. They'd rather do nothing and keep things as they are, even if that is impossible and the problems get worse.
Again, though, that is not "creativity".
Student Video Charts the Future for Lawyers
> But what do you do with the site that gets 5 hits per week, but is still important because what it does for each one of those hits is worth on the order of a thousands dollars?

Log files and few shell scripts can go an awful long way, from simple single user apps to complex corporate environments with dozens of servers. They require almost zero upfront investment and you can build on them as needed.

You won't get fancy A/B testing (without a lot of work) or give you a pretty UI with smooth graphs, but grep can happily tear through 100GB worth of log files and get you some of that good stuff you want from azure log analytics.
This is so true. Bad open rates are the #1 tool I use to convince colleagues to send less email.

The immediate impact of Apple’s new feature is going to be a big increase in open rates. It’s going to be so hard to explain why that is not necessarily good.
It's not much of a message unless you can push multiple black holes into each other in a carefully timed sequence.

If you can do that, a lot of other civs are going to give you a wide berth. And some of the rest may consider you a problem.
When i was in university i did a math minor. I definitely remember the people who were math majors tended to be fairly bad at simple arithmatic (or at least just very average)
>And your company will carefully tell you when the safe times to do so

not familiar with the whole situation, but I'd worry the company would tell me times that were advantageous for it, not necessarily for me.

on edit: I suppose the downvotes are HNs way of telling me that would be a silly thing to worry about. Thanks for the clarification.

on second edit: thanks for the actual clarifications as to why I would be silly to worry about that kind of thing.
It's because most managers are incapable. They want to make sure that employees are spending the time. They don't care about actual production value.

This makes no sense in a capitalist society. Of course, that's not the reason why companies hire so many people in the first place. It's all for politics.

So why bother to make them work at all in the first place? Why not hire people and give them free money? To be fair, they can hire using a random number generator.
Yup. Cooling system failed -> fire suppression kicked in -> evacuation, chemicals released to displace oxygen.
I used an old Airport Extreme I had sitting around to set up a bridge network recently. In doing so I realized those routers can become Time Machine devices simply by plugging a HD into the back USB port.
Do you think it's possible that in this article, what was meant by "all middle managers" was actually all of the ones that insist on things like working in person?

(If so, of course that's not all of them but maybe it was a mistake, not an attack towards people like you.)
While the language is probably inappropriate, the contents are sadly not far from reality IMHO.

As per the food, I love Indian food, I eat very spicy and I love curry, peppers and hot spices in general, but I yet have to meet someone that has spent any significant amount of time in India eating Indian food without getting some form of diarrhea.
Being able to easily defend your territory and not participating in wars probably helps to build and maintain capital
They probably tried it, it couldn't find a dynlib which is a Macos shared object file, opened the three line makefile, and then fixed it to copy a .so
This is why the data would help.

Most people saying this have no proof of their claim.
This is why usps should've released that info.
No I don't think so. Counterexample: Germany changed its borders all the time, still powerful and wealthy tho.
OneSignal (YC S11) is hiring engineers to work on messaging: Push, SMS, & Email
This was industry standard for email in publishing a decade ago. Email was just a tool to drive web traffic.

Over the past few years we’ve seen that change, to where entire businesses have been built around putting the content directly into the email (The Skimm, Substack, Axios, etc). It will be interesting to see if it switches back, if clicks are the only thing senders can measure.
> There is no way to spy on people without being creepy.

What "creepy" is, is an entirely subjective opinion that changes from person to person. I'd say there are totally ways.

When I go to a grocery store and swipe that card for a discount, I know it's just being used to correlate purchases and track me, but I don't view it as creepy at all. All they got from me was my payment information, but they literally already have that, they get that every time I swipe my credit card anyway. So what is creepy about me explicitly awknowleding I'm being tracked in a reasonable way when I'm in their store?
and eating a peach means you consume the juice and non juice components of one peach.

if you juiced one peach you get the calories of one peach minus the non juice components. which I'd estimate to be approx 100mls

if you drink a peach smoothie you consume the juices of many peaches minus the non juice components.
Why I love using vanilla CSS
Whelps someone has labelled China as belonging to Goguryeo (Korea) at around 464AD...Unfortunately I have to sign in to edit the map...
That's what SpotOption, based in a suburb of Tel Aviv, offered. They powered multiple scams, all bucket shops. Originally they pushed "binary options", but branched out into "contracts for difference" and "forex". [1][2]

[1] https://fintelegram.com/chasing-scam-facilitators-the-united...

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/spotoption/
So NSA needs more involvement in South America. Fear the greeks when they bring you presents.
I had a horrible bout of heart palpitations / arithmia starting in may 2020. I worked from since March and was masked the entire time and rarely went anywhere but i suspect i contracted covid some how because the palpitations lasted for months. I'd have them sun up to sundown.
I appreciate your curtness, but I don't think I was naive. Can you answer my question: So why do they bother producing valuable goods? Why don't we adopt more efficient means of transferring wealth from those without spare capital to those who have it?
What are the key features from GoLand you find missing in VS Code? (I don't use either, but from what I have seen anything gopls-backed is roughly the same same as VS Code, and this is already much more than I need/want.)

The only GoLand feature I've seen that I'm envious of is the mode for editing template files - and even this breaks down quickly once you leave the HTML plane.
"variant" is not offensive than "virus" so possibly it was accepted.
Many people who visit HN, including myself, don't come here primarily for tech news.
>>> I like personalized ads.

why?

no, seriously, why?

"personalized" ad creeps me out, and I really don't understand how people can tolerate a banner like "We know you buyed Some Thing from amazon so we think you would like to purchase Related Thing from us" and not freak out
Usually just the lack of startup capital and lack of pedigree to get wealthy enough investors

There isn’t an inherent legal issue here

Insider trading also requires you or the person you got information from to have a fiduciary or contractual duty not to share information

That typically ends after employment or when the NDA expires

There is nothing illegal about having an advantage in the market, if thats the assumption where you are starting from
Did the newsletter boom depend on tracking their users? I do not believe it. It is all to be demonstrated that tracking actually works.
the problem is that most of these are horrendously oversized for private use. So I would like to have a commercial agitator to create yeast dough; these aren't even that expensive for their small series and local production - compared to e.g. kitchen-aid stuff -, but I both don't have the space/floor to put down a 4sqft/1000 pound appliance and I certainly don't need a 5 gallon bowl for my dough... I'm sure you could create and sell a home-sized variant of these, but yeah, distribution won't be easy.

I have to admit though that I sometimes dream of setting up a company, which just goes through all these relatively low-tech, electromechanical things and cyclically produces these. Problem is: it's capital intensive, low-margin, low-growth and requires you to keep people around. At this point you've lost everyone nowadays even if it is sustainable (nothing goes to waste when making these repairable) and keeps skills alive (which both the US and EU are paying extreme prices for through the military acquisition procedures).

In this vein I also suspect that most people could easily afford to get their whole furniture sourced in a "raw wood" edition (to be painted/oiled) from local woodworking shops, as the price difference is virtually nonexistent (built a bed with the help of friendly non-CNC-shops: was 12h of work, which clocks in at maybe 900USD. Material was 300.). If I go to a non-ikea, but industrial/imported furniture-store, similar quality would have cost me ~4000USD. But of course, a healthy ecosystem of woodworkers and designers would not concentrate wealth.
I think the introduction of contexts has largely resolved this footgun... As long as you actually use contexts, which many still don't. :(
Yeah and heck just tell your infants it's daddy's time now.
Does math really change?

I guess the basic is less popular now that TI-89's are being replaced with smartphones, but its probably not as ancient as you think.
Start with Wikipedia: novelty effect, Hawthorne effect.
Sounds like a great target for Server Side Request Forgery, https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Server_Side_Request_.... Could be fun to try if that software also visits links for internal-only applications, should such exist in your corp.
They kicked back and relaxed,
Emphasis on kickback.

Basically they were able to cough up the $2mm the SEC wanted in the parallel civil suit, and didnt attempt to challenge the criminal case, so the prosecutors in the criminal case chose not to
no, it works as long as you logged in once. You have to ensure auth persistence is on (https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/web/auth-state-persist...). You cannot login when offline, but if you were already logged in, and expiry is set to indefinate, you can stay logged in while offline.
This is exciting news. for disgusting curiosity in stem, longevity of the planet, reducing e-waste, regaining ownership of our devices.

One small step but hopefully one of many
It's probably the DiffBot mitigations that causes it. https://soggi.org/misc/articles/Diffbot-blocking-bad-bot-rud...
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