skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So amazing. Haha. Wow. Very ballsy move but given the alternative outcome probably the nicest outcome possible. Serves as a nice real-world dramatic thriller of sorts. It worked. And it’ll probably be the only time this ever works. But still, a great use of that one time.

I find it really interesting that Ghosn (I’m just gonna call him “Ghost,” k) was head of two other gigantic car monoliths and actually reduced Nissan’s expenditures. Given Japan’s “employed for life” culture that still pervades a great deal of companies, I wonder if that rubbed people the wrong way. Pure speculation, I don’t know what cuts were made. What I find really impressive is that he can run a car company so well that he’s recruited by other companies to take the reins for a while. Talent that can migrate among organizations and boost them all a little bit. I suppose what works at one will probably work at another.

To get to that role, I wonder if he started in an executive space or rode a small car-related company up to the stratosphere and then moved laterally, or what.

Complimentary joke: He is one of the quietest musical instruments around.
Firefox needs to become the default browser for web developers.

They need to go all-in on developer tooling.

The manifest v3 issue may help by poaching technical users from chrome.

They also need to stop being so "principled" about features such as WebMidi. If I have to keep another browser around certain websites that Firefox is too principled to support then why bother using Firefox at all.
Lying? You mean changing their understanding of something new as more information becomes available? That's how science works they use the best info available, and change their understanding as more info becomes available.
Wow. So much reading into so little text. Color me impressed, even though I file this in the fiction department.
Is RabbitMQ something industry used to use before AWS/Azure queues?
Stopping a Saw Blade with Electrical Capacitance [video]
Comparing case counts in 2020 was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

It all depended on the availability of tests.
It's strange to refer to it as "never seen before" since I'm in my 50's and knew about this in my childhood. There was nary a birthday party without this playing out at least once.

Some people refer to it as Bloody Mary. There are a lot of different stories to go with it, but in all cases, you basically stare at yourself in a mirror with the lights dim (typically a candle, for the mood). Eventually since you don't move your eyes, your eye saccades become inhibited enough that things black out except for a few details.

Those few remaining details tend to look like other people's / demon's faces. Your brain has a weird way of "filling in the blanks" when it needs to. It is famously frightening to children and people who believe in ghosts.

That's it. This has been known and regularly documented for a very long time.

Here's the wikipedia article on this very phenomenon, with artwork from the early 1900's describing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(folklore)

The history actually goes a lot farther back than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catoptromancy
A few comments

> Our mobile and web app shows you who's at the office, how many seats are available, and who's working from another location. You are invited to set your status for the current week and next week (10 days of visibility) and it's done in 10 clicks. You decide where to work from based on who’s where.

If I say I'm working from home this week but decide to go to the office one day, can Café correct my status?

Also, can it auto-book conference rooms based on the number of participants whose location is known?

Is there a way to set status as "away" or "vacation time"?

Other than that, looks good!
Do you provide the ability to consume, translate then forward? I am after a ubiquitous endpoint i can point webhooks at and then translate to the schema of another service and send on. You could then share these 'recipes' and allow customers to reuse well known transforms.
I love synths so much I have basically banned myself from them.

I started with Generator in 1999, the precursor to Reaktor. I want to say it was on a 150mhz Pentium.

Reaktor is so much fun but when I think of all the time I spent on it, something more productive would have been better.

If I was going to start right now I would get a Waldorf Blofeld. Just hard to beat that synth for the price, sound and features.

I search for the latest Blofeld videos some times on youtube to get a little synth fix but that is the closest I will let myself get. If I bought a Blofeld I would do nothing all day but make weird sounds for the next 5 years.
> But getting banned by Twitter seems to take some deliberate efforts.

Wrong.
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal (2013)
There aren't many productive language discussions that include sentences like "Blub's loss is Floop's gain". If you want to learn Rust, go learn Rust. We call them "languages", but they're just tools we use to solve problems. Use the one that makes sense for you. We use both Blub and Floop; it works out fine.
CFO's makes the worst CEO's for a reason.... This has been true for all of time, if you work for a company that has a CEO that spent their entire career in Finance... RUN
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I do not recommend getting an MBA or some other financial degree. Rootsudo's response is excellent. There are actually very few financial concepts involved in these types of analyses (e.g. discounted cash flows, IRR, and NPV).

IMHO, the best thing you can do is work with someone in your FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) group discuss your investment idea and why you think it is a good idea. If they are a decent analyst, they will help build a model to describe financially your investment opportunity. This is what they live for.
The whole story is a bit hard to untangle, but I wouldn't be surprised if both that he literally saved Nissan and funneled money off to personal projects is true. He strikes me as the type of executive who believe he can do what he wants as long as he shows result.

It was rumoured that the house he lives in in Beirut actually belongs to Nissan and they've been trying to get him kicked out, but with little success.
Just fyi, you can use homebrew on linux.
I know this kind of colleague unfortunately. Actually there are a couple of different types that express themselves in the way the article shows (or slight variations of).

One type is the one that just never gets it. They really have no idea how to do their job but they know how to work other people to do their job for them. As long as _someone_ responds to them this will continue. If _everybody_ stopped responding to them, someone in charge might actually get a clue and just get rid of them, because their "output" would go near zero.

Some do this via being nice, sociable people, while others try it through intimidation. Like "I need to get X done. You need to help me, VP of XYZ needs this by EOD", basically implying that you're on the hook for their work and the VP of XYZ would see it as _your_ failure if you didn't do this guys work for him.
To be fair most of us regular humans are way way too concerned about overtraining. It’s really hard to get there.

If you have a typical office job, you almost certainly don’t even have enough time in the day to overtrain.
> One of Google's proposed standards — Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC for short — would eliminate the ability for advertisers to track specific users' web behavior with cookies.

No, Floc will not "eliminate the ability for advertisers to track specific users with cookies", the phase out of third party cookies on Chrome will do that, Google needs something to replace the current tracking method for his ad business and is trying to push Floc to do that. But this are two separate things that OP seems to mix up, Google needs something to keep tracking and is painting the notion that third party cookies can not be phased out without implement Floc before, and is not the case.
Anyone know of any studies regarding whether the vaccines reduce the risk of long covid if you catch it after being double vaccinated? They're only supposed to be about 95% effective after 2 shots, so if you catch it in that 5% probability how likely is long covid afterwards?
Bear in mind that the "infinitude of different approaches" means an infinitude of purely mathematical solutions, all of which seem to involve physically impossible concepts like negative energy.
Moreover, higher CO2 content in the oceans leads to acidification. This is bad for coral and organisms that build shells. I don't recall the exact reason but my understanding is that it tends to dissolve carbonates.
It's pretty easy for Mossad to pick up whoever they want, but he's accused of white-collar crime, not matters of national security; I'd be surprised if Israel (or any other country) would be willing to deploy their intelligence services and violate another nation's sovereignty over it. Is that something they've ever done?
If you absorb 25% (you wrote "plants absorb about 25%" and same for trees), then 75% remains, so apply ×0.75 twice instead of applying ×0.25 twice.
Seeing as multiple people just resigned from FDA over a new dogshit (but "safe!") prescription drug, I'm going to guess no.
It's fucking ironic how AWS selling point was how it was more cost-effective than managing your own infra.

Yet another classic SV-style rugpull.
Probably because....zookeeper
> In our dashboards, Firefox does not even exist.

Where are your dashboards getting the data from?

I use Firefox, but like many Firefox users I use uBlockOrigin so I block requests to trackers like Google Analytics and StatCounter.
If reading it in English, seek out the modern Robin Buss translation, e.g. in Penguin - it is far clearer (and completere) than the older public domain version - and has excellet footnotes.
Nim + sdl2 + wasm works ...

I should probably put my stupid maze generator somewhere so I could link to it.
The question I have is what does one do once the Pandora's Box is open. Some things are more important than money and attention. Zuckerberg, who claims he is in control, lacks the character to do the right thing.

Programmers have an obsession with licenses but how many actually understand licensing (not many, IME), and how often do we see a programmer try to enforce a license (rarely). Certain uses of software, e.g., to destroy privacy, can be limited in the license grant.

You should try re-submitting at a different time. Submitting a link to the patent itself, or the story of the current patent litigation, might be interesting.
Lebanon is an economic disaster area right now, so while this won't directly affect the fabulously wealthy Ghosn, he's ironically sort of imprisoned in a failing state.
"The io/ioutil package has turned out to be a poorly defined and hard to understand collection of things. All functionality provided by the package has been moved to other packages. The io/ioutil package remains and will continue to work as before, but we encourage new code to use the new definitions in the io and os packages."

It will never be removed, thankfully.
Their fraud system errantly flagged my account because of my name and they deleted all my data.

I got an email saying there was an issue with my account, called them within 10 minutes of the email and was informed they had already deleted all my data.

They reinstated my account which was just a blank shell, nothing remained but my username and password.

You get what you pay for.

If you go with them make sure you back up your data to a separate provider.
>In other words - is there something unique about Covid?

No is my guess, based on anecdotes, experience and observation.
According to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel... this is included in Firefox 90, just released today. So that means Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox all support it.
> “Just general mistrust towards financiers doesn't look quite right...”

financiers, including startup investors, focus on money above all else, and that alone justifies mistrust (aka skepticism). with that kind of focus, it’s inevitable that decisions are made selfishly and greedily. that doesn’t mean it’s a tool that can’t be wielded for generally positive outcomes, but that the deck is (intentionally) stacked against it. beyond that, the flint situation sounds like a real failure of leadership all around (at the very least, basic due diligence/risk analysis). that often happens when decisions are made far removed from the expertise needed to make them.
Also Check Flixel or rather Haxe. I never was a fan of flash, but damn Haxe makes it easy to write something that looks same on every device
Sounds like the real question is, how does 1 hectare of stick frame buildings compare to 1 hectare of mature forest? What stores more carbon-per-hectare, and how many years does the building actually lock up that carbon?

While a hectare of forest may be "only" CO2-neutral, a hectare of buildings are typically net CO2 emitters.
REvil: Ransomware gang websites disappear from internet
Tramp is one of those "reasons to use Emacs in the first place" packages. I've been using Emacs since the 1990s, when someone impressed me with syntax highlighting in Lucid Emacs, and I only picked up Tramp last year. In the last 6-9 months or so, almost all of my development has been over Tramp.

What's particularly impressive about Tramp is that other Emacs packages tend to work well with it. For instance, you can Magit over Tramp --- or, better put: Magit just works in Tramp buffers. Same with language server stuff. It's kind of wild when you think about what's happening under the hood.
They asked for small and not 100mb overhead ;)
Ah yeah, what I get for not reading the entire release notes first :)
Googles business is advertising.. take away their ad revenue and see what happens to them.
The website seems to be crammed into the left side of my screen unnecessarily.
You think asking people to wear a piece of cloth over their face and maybe not go out to eat if they’re vulnerable is “truly horrific?”

Seems to me that, for the vulnerable portion of the population, the social distancing guidelines worked perfectly. Spend a year chilling at home in safety, get a vaccine, go back to normal. “Rain dance?” Bullshit.
Turns out though, they're coming up with a way to support basically any TCP based protocol via WebTransport:

https://github.com/w3c/webtransport/blob/main/explainer.md
I would hope we're past the point now where we can write off legitimate complaints or concerns about the overall direction of COVID mitigation strategies implemented in most developed countries. Many well-intentioned anti-misinformation campaigns have been proven misguided and potentially harmful (for example, the debacle around the lab-leak theory, and the subsequent censorship and ostracization of anybody who dared suggest it), so we should be careful when we accuse others of arguing in bad faith, lest we repeat our past mistakes.

This isn't 2020 anymore, we should be able to take a sober look at what likely worked (universal mask-wearing, vaccines, border closures, quick contract tracing) and what may not have worked (closing otherwise safe outdoor spaces, obsessive surface cleaning, the "6-foot-rule") without judgement now.
This game and many others are made using Unity.

It uses C# but compiles to web too, and has a very complete (if clunky) toolset.

Importantly, as compared with some of the alternatives, it can be used with very little actual programming, since it has a visual editor for levels, UI, animations, and whatnot.

as someone whose day job is making games in Unity, it is a bit finnicky for larger projects, but for this kind of scope it is perfectly adequate!
What does being cross-cloud have to do with whether SSM is the most secure way to SSH into an AWS instance?
Agree with most of what you said, but want to add some nuance to some statements.

The IE comparison in dominance would be accurate, but it's worthwhile to point out that Google aggressively pushes web tech forward, whilst IE largely stagnated it. I think that's a meaningful difference, at least to developers.

And it's not just a passing note either. Firefox' once strong position was made possible by the gap left behind by IE. There is no gap now. The dominant party is speeding ahead.

Edge is an interesting case, as it shows the vast power of Google. Edge's market share is an embarrassing 3.4% in total, and on mobile about zero.

This shows that even with a desktop monopoly, they can't push it effectively. Supposedly, desktop users still keep using Chrome. Why wouldn't they? Edge is Chromium. Further, Microsoft does not have a single mass consumer service (like gmail, youtube, etc) to push it either. On mobile, Edge has no meaningful presence, and if mobile is some 70% of traffic these days, one can only conclude that all powerful Microsoft is completely unable to push a browser.

If they can't, how can Mozilla?
Thanks. These symptoms were always there with respiratory illness forever. And suddenly in 2021 these symptoms were given a new cause.
It's very easy to say what Mr. Ghosn should have done in a retrospective analysis. Unfortunately, he didn't have a crystal ball.
>are they all terrible? I literally can't believe that - yes, they are not high cinema, but there is enough variety there that surely you can't describe all of them as terrible.

There is no real objective measure of a movie's quality. However by the standards we do have such as Rotten Tomatoes scores from critics, the Marvel movies all range from fine to great with the lowest RT score coming in at 66%. That means even in its worst installment two thirds of people that professionally assess the quality of movies had positive things to say about it. I don't think people appreciate how difficult that is from a quality control standpoint. For comparison almost half of all James Bond films failed to reach that 66% mark.

Someone who thinks all Marvel movies are terrible either isn't giving them a fair chance or is simply out of step with popular culture.

Now if you want to open it up to the general genre of superhero films, there are plenty of terrible movies in that group.
On short time scales, the oceans take up a lot of CO2 because there's an equilibrium with the atmosphere. However, increased acidification of the oceans is bad on its own, and this buffering hurts when you try to take the CO2 out of the atmosphere since then the oceans will turn into a net contributor.
People would choose different because operating Raft/Paxos clusters at scale isn't fun. Also, scaling reads is the hard part! At this point the trade offs are pretty well known: you either send all reads to the leader and limit the leader's overall throughput or you pay the cost of reading from a majority.

Your opinions are very specific to using consensus in orchestrators and control planes but the overwhelming majority of writes and reads to a Paxos or Raft cluster are in much higher throughput and latency sensitive systems such as databases.

Indeed we don't need better consensus algorithms. We need to closely examine our problems and step down to weaker consistency models and protocols that aren't worse to operate than Raft/Paxos or harder for developers to program against where ever possible.
It was nice of Macron to exempt law enforcement from the vaccine mandates and pension "reforms," wouldn't want to have any of the country's police forces crossing the barricades to the other side.
I went to a wind turbine some time because I was curious how loud it would be. It doesn't seem that loud actually. Maybe it's more the looks? (Personally, it's not that terrible and, well, we don't have a choice so define some nature reserves and for the rest go ahead.) Either way, I meant it more in the proverbial NIMBY sense rather than that literally everyone feels the same way about them.
This was not a time when you had to say it. None of the existing conversation was about languages or ecosystems, and taking cheap shots was wholly unnecessary to the suggestion of using SMTP.

SMTP itself is interesting, although it comes with fun new footguns like STARTTLS.
I've heard of some latency issues with gp3 vs gp2--not sure if that's been resolved. Of course, services like RDS don't support it yet, either (same with io2)

As for cost consumption, splitting services into separate AWS accounts (even per-environment) helps if they're large (plus then you're less likely to hit rate limits, worry about IAM segregation, etc)
On AMD64. ARM64 (landing in 1.18) has shown improvements of 10-17%.
If you consider haxe that compiles flash source to HTML5 and more I am not sure there is a gap or just a broken market.

For some reason kongregate decided it's not worth getting new games anymore. They must know why
I think you nailed it in the last sentence. AWS will one day be able to extract near monopoly profits due to costs of migration.

I expect the ES didn't realise how popular it'd end up being so went open source, and later realised they'd shot themselves in the foot but knew they'd rub people up the wrong way if they went closed source so they kicked the can down the road... And here we are
I use it for live data, but I put it behind BunnyCDN. I serve a few terabytes per month using that setup, no problem.

Most real world uses that I’m aware of follow the 80/20 rule, meaning you’ll store much more than you serve. And your hot paths are quickly cached by a CDN.
Wow. Thanks for reminding me about Datastorm, the first Defender come I ever played (Amiga, around 1992). I just installed the Amiga emulator fs-uae and downloaded the ADF file. IT WORKS. It's amazing how much detail you remember from a game you played when you were in your teens 30 years ago. That intro tune, man.. they really knew how to make music on those things. The game rocks too. I remember it being a bitch, and I just got my ass kicked a by it again. In fairness, I'm using cursor keys and right ALT.
Again I posted the original story - I have zero connection to seon, I just really like his work and wanted to share since there has been so much discussion recently about esp32 boards. I only recently got into learning electronics and really found tinypico to be one of the easiest boards to work with. That said I’m super sorry I upset you.
> picking CFR of course because it is the bigger number

And it changed over time. You remember hearing news media 3% at the beginning of the pandemic?

When did you hear them update it to <1%? Nope by that point they had moved to raw case counts, which by then then the higher statistic.

Selective reporting all day long.
We (humanity) can still treat the symptoms - and the damage they cause. Eg the specific mechanism for covid-induced heart palpitations may not yet be understood, but a heart rate of 160 or even higher for prolonged periods will damage the heart. Beta blockers will manage that - but not all doctors have been willing to prescribe medication to people that clearly need it.
New ways to elevate knowledgeable experts in Facebook Groups
Not a user. But I know someone who got addicted and his testosterone are too low now.

Got bald and can't grow facial hairs now.

Better to take precipitation meds than self medication for ADHD
> raising the total of reported post-vaccination deaths to 9,048

Even if all those deaths were directly attributable to the vaccine (and that is unlikely), the US has vaccinated 159M people - that's 0.0057% or 99.9943% safe.

If you want to include all the illnesses as well to bring it up to 41,500 incidents, that's still only 0.026% or 99.974% safe.

For what is almost certainly the single biggest vaccination project in human history, with more scrutiny than any other mass medical intervention, those are pretty damn good numbers.
OP/Author here. Mail is fine. Or, was. The problem is that it's based on a 50 year old paradigm of trust (ARPANET) but has the unwashed masses using it (Internet) where there is no inherent trust. So, that trust model had to be added on after the fact, which was too late. So email was great. Humans abused it to death.