skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably the most interesting part: https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com/docs/reference/faq/#can-i...

> Can I connect my EKS Anywhere cluster to EKS?

> Yes, you can install EKS Connector to connect your EKS Anywhere cluster to AWS EKS. EKS Connector is a software agent that you can install on the EKS Anywhere cluster that enables the cluster to communicate back to AWS. Once connected, you can immediately see the EKS Anywhere cluster with workload and cluster configuration information on the EKS console, alongside your EKS clusters.

My guess is that this is similar to Google's Anthos Connect agent https://cloud.google.com/anthos/multicluster-management/conn... that initiates the bi-directional connection from the on-prem to cloud (as opposed to opening a firewall rule for the cloud to access on-prem). That way, the cluster shows up and is manageable through a UI that is hosted on AWS Console.

Another interesting point is that I don't see a fee or price for installing this to your local VMware set up. I am not sure if it has to dial to AWS APIs to work (my guess: not really). So it can be treated as just another Kubernetes packaging that runs the AWS' distro by default.

Props to AWS for putting this out there and doing it in the open. I look forward to reading on how it compares with other Kubernetes installation methods given this doesn't manage the on-prem Kubernetes for you.
If all else fails, you can move to:

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

I'm against 5G for now, just because I don't see what I need it for, and I resent being forced to pay even if it's not harmful.
“However, this study does not take into account the layers of skin, fat, muscle and skull containing the brain in a realistic head model”

Higher frequency radiation will be absorbed by the skin more easily and I think it will not reach the brain.
Agree. This is the weird kid down the street who gets by on manyioise and saltines. To engage persistent storage is to engage sql for the first 75% of all work. Hey you gotta have some competence in the domain of work. I like Jordache (orm) but not Calvin Klein (sql) isn't wisdom; it's merely personal predilection.
A promising answer, thanks :)
I'd say the real issue isn't even getting people there, but being properly prepared for the repair. Would we be able to know 100% everything that went wrong? Would we be sure that the right tools and parts for repair were aboard the repair craft? Maybe to be sure of a successful repair, we'd have to bring most of a whole new satellite anyways. Maybe it's easier to just send an actual whole new satellite up instead.
Debian Day 25: OK, now I get it
>In something like Zig I think it's OK that it's merely a stated assumption that these bytes are UTF-8, not actually checked - so long as people take that seriously.

And also as long as all supported operations on those bytes still result in utf-8 strings (there could be unsafe operations too, like splitting at a random byte offset, but there should be a clearly marked safe set that wont corrupt a valid utf-8 byte sequence).
Can someone who is smarter than me tell me if I should add this to the long list of ways I worry about dying?
> my partner is intergender but biologically female/female-presenting

Out of curiosity, would that make you bisexual?
Commitment to Staying Alive
the active ingredient of desoxyn, methamphetamine is schedule 1.

Plenty of substances are dual scheduled, desoxyn is just most prominent example.
I'm happy your platform of choice has no bugs nor quirks. Could you let us know which one it is? We can probably help you find the bullshit you put up with that has become second nature.
I see a lot of declamation in this article and a lack of argument and reasoning behind those claims.
"millimeter waves have short ranges of propagation, they are absorbed by water vapor and oxygen in the atmosphere, by vegetation, very strongly by water in the tissues of people and animals, and they are readily reflected off, and scattered by, small metallic and dielectric objects, urban clutter and large manmade and natural structures"

I'm no physicist...but this makes me think of my microwave oven and how super-uneven the heating is.

Is it possible that all the reflecting and scattering can create problematic spots where things accidentally focus?

Incidentally, I've found a way to improve my oven - I add a container of a small amount of water separate from what I'm heating. It quite definitely keeps, for instance, butter from exploding like it normally would.
If it's not a single official library, then this will just end up in a future mess...

Like in any language with any lib that is not self-contained (cuts across all aspects of a program and can be used anywhere) and has many different implementations and no sanctioned one.
Literally everything is a Lambda nowadays it seems, so it seems like it's just Lambda -> ECS -> -> -> raw EC2 unless you're building directly on bare metal.
You don't have a lot web apps on mobile because the mobile web browsers provide a worse experience compared to native applications, unlike Electron or Chrome on Desktop that provides a much better experience in general (unless you have a 10 years old hardware with very little ram or are into old school GUI I know).

The companies making web browsers and mobile operating systems are the same companies making native applications stores and requesting 30% of the revenue, so they don't have any good reason to make web applications better. They are not non profit.
This shouldn't have been downvoted; external digestion, usually known as "cooking", is one of the most important features of human biology, explaining why our intestines are so short.
> Are you suggesting that vaccination alone is sufficient and that normal people should ignore additional simple steps they can take to reduce their risk

Yes
Has he been fingerprinted during the fake ID incident?

Fingerprint records will come up at the border.
I've never written a line of COBOL, but pay me enough money, and I'll be up and running in a mainframe terminal by the end of the month.
Learning COBOL doesn't require you were born in the 1940s though. If COBOL jobs were paying what "AI" jobs are now, more people would start learning it.

A shock or major unforeseen event could cause a shortage for a time. But we've been hearing about the dire shortage of COBOL programmers for 30 years or more haven't we? Yet in that time apparently they haven't either migrated their systems off COBOL, started paying people more, or decided they don't need to invest as much effort into it? Doesn't seem all that credible.
The only Apple device I buy Applecare for is the Airpods because the battery really does degrade dramatically. I set a calendar reminder for a few weeks before expiration to get them replaced.
Make an external antenna as a sticky throw ball
I always thought this was normal, but I bought a new cheap modern microwave from LG and the heating is virtually perfectly even these days.
This doesn't appear to be true: https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/orangebook/c_cs...

Are you sure you're not getting it mixed up with MDMA or something?
what does zig offer over c/c++ with sanitizers?
That was quite a bit more dramatic looking than I expected.
I’d think that it’s not about her safety. It’s about a policy of saying “we don’t allow people with felony convictions in”. Which seems sensible to me.

There’s not an immigration service in the world who wants to choose which felonies should be enforced on a case by case basis and generally not a populace who believes that fame should get you a golden ticket.

Would I personally let her in? Sure! If I ran an immigration department? Nope.
How the Pandemic Is Changing the Norms of Science
As I pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28466243, this doesn't appear to be true.
Yea, but imagine how secure we could make the blockchain! /s
Though I knew the story of the Snow Cruiser in general terms, I didn't know the information in the last few paragraphs nor the final image. Thanks for posting.
Guam court clears the way for ‘tele-abortion’
I do believe I was mistaken in my original post and that a locally constant magnetic field will not produce an appreciable diamagnetic force.

Diamagnetism works by inducing dipoles in the medium, and
a dipole placed in a constant field experiences no net force. It may experience a torque if it is not aligned with the field, but in the case of diamagnetism the induced dipoles are naturally aligned, and so there is neither force nor torque.
The real contortion is describing mRNA gene therapy, that is non-sterilizing, and requires frequent boosters, as a "vaccine". Can you think of any other vaccine you have taken that works like this?

Of course, this is novel tech. So perhaps we should expect a few differences. But typically HN is more appropriately skeptical of such innovations and would not cheer on government mandates that require them for 12 year olds immediately after FDA emergency authorization ends.
In particular, by the time a problem becomes prominent enough to be noticed by politicians, it has often already been solved and the ensuing legislation is nothing but a deadweight loss.

For example, before 9/11 the assumption was that hijackers would try to ransom the passengers for money, so it was better not to resist so they didn't hurt anybody. After 9/11, the assumption had to be that they were planning to crash the plane, at which point all the passengers resist and a hundred passengers can easily take on half a dozen hijackers and it's well worth the risk of one or two getting hurt in the process.

So by 9/12, another 9/11 was no longer possible. It was already solved. None of the government action that followed was actually necessary and the TSA is completely pointless.
I know right, lots of opinionated statements and very little to back it up. Here is just one paragraph in the intro:

> Nihilism makes you miserable and ineffective.

Why?

> That is not OK.

Why?

> It also erodes our cultures’ and societies’ ability to improve lives and tackle urgent problems.

Why?

> That is also not OK.

Why?

----

None of this is answered in the rest of the blog post.
I read the entire paper.

My conclusion: the blue line is too high.

I guess my iPhone 13 will have 5G disabled.
You can write new code in Zig and gradually refactor the problematic bits of C
How quickly people forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Travel_Init...
It doesn't help that for the major consumer platform (Windows), Microsoft can't make their mind up about how to replace Win32 or WinForms. It seems like every other week there is some new framework announced, so even if you have a need to make a native app, choosing how to do it has become near impossible. Is it .NET Maui? Should I try Electronize? or take a huge punt on Avalonia? It's easier just to wrap up a web app and hand it over. Sure, that is kicking the can down the road a bit, but until Microsoft can manage to provide something other than vague, half finished plans we're all in limbo.
Yes, premature scaling is the death of many startups,

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanfurr/2011/09/02/1-cause-o...
I think Japan disabling their fission plants after Fukushima, and Germany following that path are clear manifestation of the opposite: that people fear nuclear and democratic governments act on this fear, against development of the technology.
Sure, somewhere above climate change, nuclear war, but below COVID-19.
> I do want to see a return to native apps but there are no worthwhile incentives to do so outside of "our customers demanded a native app."

Every native app I have ever used has been many times snappier than its Electron/Web equivalent. Think on why customers demand native apps.
I believe the creator is on record on some youtube video or something stating that the intent is to replace C.
This is measuring how much of the RF energy is absorbed. Which on It's own isn't a risk. It says nothing of interaction with DNA etc.
1. Is this much repair indicative of abnormal use, or are Apple products not really robustly designed?

2. Why are repairs so damn expensive? Several hundred dollars each to repair a scratched screen or replace a torn earcup fabric!?!?!?!?
As I scroll through the wall of heat transfer equations and long-winded extrapolations of how some derived formulae can be used to predict a temperature rise in a specific contrived scenario.. I can't help but wonder if the paper is attempting to disguise a mundane conclusion (when we crank radio waves into a waveguide we can heat stuff up, obviously) within a wall of intimidating text.

I feel like if there were anything to be worried about re:5G, they'd be presenting the conclusion front and center in the abstract?
In our family, we've given our kids dumbphones and (I kid you not) pagers. They can play with their friends' phones, but that's obviously pretty limited. And thanks to Covid, we've been much better about getting the kids to keep to themselves and focus on classes. They're 11 and 9, so we'll see how it goes when they get older.
Ahhh, the ol' "I have a girlfriend, she lives in Canada!" gambit!
Open source, industrial-grade portable air quality monitoring
> With the arrival of smartphones, social media are with you 100% of the time.

Think twice before getting married today.

You could be stuck with somebody addicted to social media, or worse, tindr.
Not to mention device level access like Bluetooth integration, making phone calls, using the camera etc. Mobile apps are hard to do as web apps if they are anything more complex than a front end for some web system.
AWS EKS Anywhere Now in GA
The problem with euthanasia is that the certainty of it defies all human survival instincts so it’s psychologically very difficult to press a button that ends our existence. What would be better if you could legally hire a service, while healthy, that would sneak up on you and kill you painlessly if you were in a terrible condition with nothing but pain and misery to look forward to. You could cancel them at anytime, but if you didn’t, they’d bump you off mercilessly when you needed it.
Its not really clear what the author is arguing.

I am not sure why if someone simply believes that they cannot prove, with the fundamental aspects of reality, that there is provable "meaning", that this automatically means that such a person will slide into some sort of existential "Catatonia".

Whats wrong with just accepting that we could have unprovable axioms, that we simply take for granted?

For example, I think that killing is wrong. But that is an unjustified axiom. If someone comes up to me and says "Well, technically, you don't believe that you can prove that killing is wrong", my response is simply "I don't care".

People can simply be OK with having values that they care about, and accept that they will never be able to fully "prove" them in the way that hardcore philosophers might want them to be provable.
> everything other the browser and the text editor is now a
web app

video editing, DAWs, music notation, CAD/CAM, 3D modelling (think Blender), compilers, linkers, IDE's other than VSCode, local photo management, media players, messaging services (telegram etc), device management ... these and many more called and laughed at your claim.
> our customers demanded a native app

Isn't customer demands are the main incentive for any developer?
I think if they presented it in an alarmist way, it would probably be dismissed early by the academic community as anti-5G propaganda?
It's not about whether they're native code or using a cross-platform API, but the fact that they're not web pages running in a browser. This allows them to "phone home" even when they're just running in the background, push notifications and bypass certain types of Adblocking (such as uBlock in Firefox).

There is a good reason why so many websites push you to use the apps on mobile.
"In popular use, the term commonly refers to forms of existential nihilism, according to which life is without intrinsic value, meaning, or purpose."

So the whole post argues against something that most probably isn't even meant.
To give some numbers to that idea:

"Around 0.9 billion hectares of land worldwide would be suitable for reforestation, which could ultimately capture two thirds of human-made carbon emissions."

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2019/07/how...
surfing is great lol anything on the water should be good though. i like painting though i do use a laptop to pull up reference images. magic the gathering is fun, should be able to find some games at a local game store. lsd is a good time
I'd say both. C++ is so insanely complicated at times with the various things you mention. And every release it just seems to get worse, because while "nice to have features" are added, the old stuff doesn't go away, and the syntactic gymnastics they have to go through to get it all to coexist are the programming language to who's on first.

But the stack of stuff it takes you supposedly need to get stuff to compile is often insane. On one project I demonstrated that just find . | grep ".c$" | xargs gcc ... and a final link ran significantly faster than the mass of recursive nested/fake/etc makefiles that were supposed to speed up the compiles by doing dependency computations. I remember showing someone the basic "we turn the .c files into .o files, and then we make a second pass to link 'em" and they were like "really? that's all there is to compiling a C program?"

The real straw for me when I was contributing to the Cairo project was recognizing I was going to have understand this stuff more, and so I sat down and read the Make manual: 16 chapters. Now I need to understand Automake, read the manual: 26 chapters. And then Autoconf: 21 chapters. It was like it was just spinning bigger and bigger.
There was recently a discussion here on HN about the billion years of lost sediments on earth, and one article mentioned that that the crushing of that sediments into the sea lead to much more minerals in the sea and to the Cambrian explosion.
We've gone from quoting a part of the article leaving out the part that discusses cloth mask efficacy to full blown denial of what the study concludes about cloth masks, regurgitation tired old anti-mask rhetoric.
Is this malice or stupidity? Does the FCC stand to gain anything by jeopardizing the health of the general public? Genuinely curious as I don’t know much about the lobbying or incentives that would lead to such a situation.
I definitely see where you’re coming from. When I first got it I was freaked out by the frequent spikes of VOCs, before determining that it’s actually hypersensitive to farts. I’ve come to ignore most transient fluctuations and just use VOCs/CO2/PM as guides for when to open or close the windows.

I’ve also found that regularly glancing at the 5 minute resolution charts of just temp and humidity has helped me get a better sense of my own comfort range…for example I like to run my AC as little as possible in the summer, but I’ve learned that playing chicken with the heat is foolish beyond 81F as I only wind up sitting at my desk grumpy and unproductive.
Chrome is not memory-hungry. Webapps are.
And neither did any other invention until they reached a certain scale, price point or level of sophistication. The counter to your comment would be, fusion is still very much in the R&D phase. As being in the R&D phase like so many other products were at one time, of course it has not met your expectation. But neither did Airplanes after the first flight.
Sanity.

Seriously. You get these tests for free with zig, no extra tooling, if you use testing allocator in your tests. This also is a carrot to get you to write tests. Hell, I even mocked libc's malloc/calloc/free to make sure that my code doesn't leak memory:

https://github.com/ityonemo/Primes/blob/ee81d05e80d68854ab11...
I'm sorry, please help me: where does the study say cloth masks help?
Would anyone know if this is a US/western specific issue?

Hard to fathom that the banking system in emerging markets would be running on Cobol or using it.
In contrast, the insured often relies on a recollection of their history and a ton of emotional reasoning to decide if they will be the statistical oddity to make "a profit" of having bought insurance.

This isn't generally the point of insurance. The point of insurance is to amortise risk. Yes, the insurance company expects to, on average, get more money from insuring my house than the cost of any damage to it. But if something really bad happened to my house, it would cost far more than the sum of my insurance payments to fix it, and I don't have that sort of money. I am losing money on average, but I guarantee I will always have a house, so overall I am better off by reducing the extremeness of the worst case situations.

This is why I don't buy insurance or extended warranty for anything I can pay to replace. A company wouldn't offer it if they didn't expect to make money, and I can afford to replace a phone or my luggage, so I'm happy to just take the risk. I buy home insurance because I can't afford to replace my house and travel insurance because there are countries where emergency medical bills can bankrupt you. The government also forces me to buy third party insurance to drive my car, which seems fair enough since I can't afford to pay damages for someone permanently crippled from negligent driving.

In the case here for apple care, I'm not sure. What apple charges for repairs almost definitely has markup, so it's possible that they can provide insurance that averages out below the expected "cost" of repairs but still makes apple money. So maybe it is actually a win-win. Definitely makes sense to add it all up and see if you're getting value for money.
Unpacking Observability: The Observability Stack
It may be that I'm just using your comment as a convenient coat rack for my own frustration with the framing here. Canada is doing something that it has done consistently for decades without any comment from this community (or really many other communites). But then they do it to Chelsea Manning, and now we're discussing a headline "Canada aims to block Chelsea Manning".

Actually, Chelsea Manning has better odds of being let into Canada than a lot of "boring" people with felony convictions. And that's kind of a problem.
Or be in their shoes, and a little perspective will work wonders to show you why they feel that way?
Not everything newer than COBOL is a fad. Python or Java will still be written many years from now. Maybe not 50 years from now but some languages will not go away anytime soon.
To be fair, reading wikipedia it really does seem that they are trying to deport him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Oberlander
The Linux desktop finally succeeded even though nobody is running Linux on their desktops.

Hooray indirect wins!
you turn off your wifi and phone before you sleep every night? why the meter?
In Japan, washing by continuously flowing stream of water is normal because we love cleanness and water shortage isn't a thing in most places. There's nearly zero chance kitchen to have two sinks.
I was thinking more along the lines of paying other tenants to buy beer and then I'd sell at a premium to those who want more than 6 a day.
Might also include common areas/gardens, commercial buildings and so on.
I don't know how old you are, but at 57 and having been "computing" for 35 years, I'd say that this is wrong, on two levels.

1. C has been the green field language for application for decades.

2. The major obstacle is precisely cross-platform development; without a fairly thick layer to abstract away the OS API/platform, it's very difficult.

In addition to those two, there's the detail that lots of development projects want in-browser capabilities, and that essentially rules out compiled languages (ignoring the developing options for webasm, even though they still do not take it as far as native C/C++).
Well said.
Incumbents
"Industrial Incumbents"

You didn't patent that did you?
Some Starbucks does not have a bathroom especially in NY. Also we don’t want to drink when we want to pee.