skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wouldn't be able to visualize the impact of global warming with this data/representation. Global warming is roughly 1 degree celcius over the past couple hundred years, as a global average. This visualization only shows temperatures in 6 degree increments in specific locations. The historical data in many locations probably isn't even enough to capture that 1 degree average change, and there would be so much noise from "random" variations in local climates that there would be no way to accurately draw any conclusions from such a visual representation. If you want to see visualizations of the impact of global warming, I'd recommend the visualizations based on research-backed models on https://picturing.climatecentral.org/
I agree that it was stupid to take that route. You could always say it was a precautionary measure if effectiveness is low (it is for most masks). Although there is a limit on what you can propose here and it might cause a backlash if you do that too often and may affect future and more efficient measures.

But err on the side of caution for a new form of virus isn't that hard to convey. It was the hobby enforcers of rules that did the most damage in my opinion, with badly sourced data. People should focus to adjust their own behavior accordingly instead of that of others.

If supply for masks was critical, this should be communicated as well. There would be a run on masks, but it shouldn't be a problem to set aside contingency supplies for hospitals. This is what they should have focused on.
You don't buy it separately, but if you have Office 365 already, it's "free".

If you're already paying them money, it's just there and is somewhat integrated with the rest of the apps, but I doubt there's a lot of orgs out there purchasing Office 365 specifically because of Teams.
I have had SecurID tokens for ASB and SBS accounts. I have been told Westpac does not provide secure 2FA. I am not sure about other banks.
Germany produces a LOT of electricity from renewables as well.

If you include nuclear then around 60% of the generated electricity was produced with low CO2 emissions.
If I recall correctly, it’s around the 100,000km for a similar sized vehicle EV vs ICE, when the EV is charged from a mixed source electricity supply similar to what most developed nations presently have (mostly coal, some gas and renewables).
>Why are 28.8% of Debian stable packages currently "pending"?

They are separate systems. The CI/CD and the rebuilder are not doing the same job essentially.

The 28.8% on pending might be because of slow rebuild times as the integration system has had more time building packages with significantly more CPU power behind it.
This is absolutely false. Rich nations do not know what to do with all the trash they produce. Australia had been shipping their trash to Indonesia, Malaysia and other SE Asian countries [1] for quite a long time, until just recently when Malaysia decided it was enough. Australia is not the only rich country guilty of this.

The diabolical thing is that Australians believed their waste was being handled correctly, e.g not being shipped to poor nations so their rivers and streets could flood with our trash.

The fact remains that plastic exasperates the “disposable” mindset and it produces mindbending amounts of waste every year. Its a logistical and environmental nightmare

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-australia-sends-its-wa...
Titanium dioxide: E171 no longer considered safe when used as a food additive
> I don't understand why so many companies choose to use it.

Because it's a) "free" and b) comes with the right enterprise security/isolation features by default. (For example, there's really no such thing as a "corporate Telegram account".)
Is this a sign they have surplus pre-emptible capacity on their architecture for non-premptible VMs, and so worrying, if you think they have enough customers to sustain the model?

(google could run negative forever: the point is, some VP won't want to, and the KPI will morph to "kill it")
IEA: World is not spending enough on fossil fuels to meet energy needs
That second rebuttal doesn't seem too strong: regardless of what the point of the proposal was, the concern to address was that in practice there doesn't seem to be interoperability. Consider one of the mentioned successes:

> Dozens of VC-capable mobile wallet apps are now available in the app stores—the vast majority of which support at least one type of DID.

If most of them support just one or a few types, that doesn't sound like interoperability to me - especially if they all support different types?

(I should note: I know almost nothing about DIDs, so interpret this as a question rather than an indictment.)

Although I don't think public reasoning for Google's and Apple's stances are available, the "real reasons" section sounds very conspiratorial: even if you consider the stated reasons misguided, that's no reason to assume that those who made the argument believe them.
If we have a dynamic situation, why is it necessary at every step of the way for governments to arbitrarily ban things and then mandate them? Could they not just offer strongly worded advice in line with their levels of confidence?

It is still unclear - and will remain so for some time - if the lockdowns and knee jerk emergency measures were worth the cost.The economic ripple effects have started to appear and we'll have to see how bad it gets.
Most of those users are forced to use it because of company policy, not by choice.

I have problems with the Teams Android app, i have issues with Teams in Firefox, i have issues with the Teams desktop app, i have issues with Teams inside Citrix. Its just crappy experience altogether. I tell colleagues to write an email, if they want to reach me reliably.
Seems to be back 07:41 UTC.

I became able to reach our servers in London, and www.ovh.com, from UK locations and from DigitalOcean.
Isn't this problem trivially solved by hygienic macros in Scheme?

At least I'm sure it is by fexpr because with them you have complete control over evaluation.

For those who don't know, fexpr are closures (i.e., lexically scoped functions) that are called with unevaluated arguments (just like macros) and are implicitly passed the dynamic environment (i.e., the call site environment). That way you have all the powers of macros and functions with fexpr, and no scoping problem.

But for the capturing problem mentioned in the article, I'm quite sure hygienic macros are enough.
What I hate most about Teams, is that it is web technology wrapped inside a pointless app. If I try to use Teams via the website, it constantly annoys me with "install the app bla-bla". It's the same experience you get with the reddit/twitter websites on a cell phone; constant nagging to get me to use the app to view the exact same content.
Damn — you’re right; hadn’t made this connection.
The problem is that public health measures require participation from the entire community. Extreme individualism prevents rational public health policy, and becomes antisocial at some point. Unless someone has a medical reason not to get vaccinated, they should get vaccinated, as part of their responsibility to the people they live around.
"No impact expected" - famous last words
This [1] claims 21,725km for the US and only 13,518km for Norways energy mix. The 100,000km number is quite old and was corrected down and down again several times due to more efficient battery production and changing energy mix.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...
> If someone is slacking off at home, they will be doing the same slacking off in the office, just with extra steps of convincing you that they are busy.

I disagree. At home, motivation can be way harder for people. The "buzz" is missing. I've heard this regularly from my devs/ui/ux team. They like coming in. Motivation is lacking at home. You can wash clothes, clean or watch some netflix. Sure people slack off in the office, but the feeling that they are part of something is there and gives motivation.

This whole discussion seems to be about a minority which tries to argue that everyone should do it like they would've liked to have it for themselves. That's plain dishonest.

A lot of people in these discussions should really try different employers. We have a flexible setup. The maximum number of days people would like to stay at home is 2 per week. Most people come in every day.
>If you are really serious about saving the planet then you buy a bicycle.

bicycle is 100miles/kwh. Human body is 25% efficient, so it is just 25 miles/kwh for the energy coming in the food - so for all the bicycle disadvantages (low speed, open to elements, no meaningful cargo capacity) it is only meager 10x difference with that 2+ tons BMW i4 (and only 7x difference with my Prius Plugin).

The kwh in human food is much dirty than kwh for electric car, especially when electricity comes from renewables. The food requires tremendous expenditure of energy to produce it as well as it causes tremendous impact on the planet ecosystem due to agriculture.
Not only that, but you get better fuel efficiency, better acceleration etc.
> She and an RCMP officer dispatched to investigate suspected it was debris from a construction site on nearby Highway 1

Conspiracy theory: Meteorites aren't real. It's all just debris. Construction companies bribe astronomers so that they won't face criminal charges.
I guess the main drawback of such a solution is coughing up stuff? Probably harder to make air go the other way?
Is it that hard for Microsoft to hire a proper (native) desktop dev team(s)?
I’d love it if he were that experienced. Then he might actually be good for something :D
Still down from here
sleeping with aliens, you know, it would be kinda fun to build a defense system against asteroids. a system so precise that this rare possibility becomes even more impossible.

sure the roi on wouldn’t be anything but the idea of putting it on other planets gets my mind out there. that and i really want to build autonomous farming equipment that we can use for terraforming from other planets from afar.

you know like thinking way into the future, it’s going to happen eventually. maybe we’ll see a small portion of that
Tough timing, considering their IPO is tomorrow [1].

[1]: https://ipo.ovhcloud.com/sites/default/files/2021-10/OVHclou...
Likewise - incredibly disappointed. I don't even want to use their cloud storage; I'd much rather be syncing to a server I control. With the current pricing and the fact that I passed on my old rM1 to my wife when I got an rM2, we'd be looking at 2 subscriptions when we next upgrade devices - which pretty much rules it out.
>> un-seizes and starts turning again.

More likely an armature rather than a platter. Violence also worked when the drive would get stuck on a bad sector. Bashing the drive horizontally, while it was on, would sometimes move the arm enough for the drive to reacquire and hopefully not hit the same error on the next read attempt.
Is there scientific evidence linking marijuana to memory loss ?
There is a long discussion about the metabolic underpinnings of neurological diseases but the paper's reasoning about the underlying mechanism of disease is weak.

For example, the paper stresses that there is a dysfunctional signaling in AD and comes to a conclusion that it is inducted by a metabolic dysfunction. While this is a true statement, the amount of overall cellular damage happening under the conditions of insufficient metabolism goes way beyond that. The patients have not only "bad signalling", but also autoimmune-like response to damaged tissues. The paper fails to discuss that but suggests as a treatment target in "Therapeutic System 1.0".

The suggested treatment, however, contains the crucial elements that should bring the improvement to patients.

This is not a bad paper by all means. It is useful and even enlightening to some degree, but the theoretical part is tiny and not sound.

Regarding the critical article from The Lancet [1], it's full of emotions and nihilism. I.e. it is bad. I mean, really bad.

For example, here are some excerpts from critical article. "high out-of-pocket cost to implement" - bullshit. While the whole protocol may be costly depending on country, the mitochondrial (the most essential part of it) is dirt cheap, like tens-of-dollars per month cheap. Anti-inflammatory part of protocol can be implemented even with Aspirin.

"Readers might not be aware that the three case series
evaluating the Bredesen protocol appear in journals
considered by some to be predatory open access journals.
Predatory open access journals are scientific-sounding
publications that hijack the open access model for profit" - come on. The predatory closed-access model, on the other hand, has its own downsides, e.g. slow progress, walled gardens of authority, review rings.

"There are elements of the Bredesen protocol that
could be beneficial and are largely free to patients. It is
standard of care in dementia clinics to educate patients,
without cost, on the lifestyle interventions" - and that's it. No mentions to metabolic corrections other that "lifestyle change". Which is not sufficient by itself. It only works in conjunction with mitochondrial + anti-inflammatory parts.

"When presented with this information, there are people
who continue to hold a strong belief in the protocol’s
efficacy." - because it is. Rather than loudly criticizing other's work, it is way better to join the ranks and improve the research by covering the missing parts.

"When carefully examined, multiple red flags appear in
the scientific studies supporting the Bredesen protocol." - that's true.

"To date, the evidence does not support its claim to prevent
and reverse cognitive decline" - oh well, don't get me started. To date, the neurologists try to treat such patients with... antidepressants. And that's it. Most of them do not even know about neuro-metabolical cause and effect connections.

[1] https://sci-hub.se/downloads/2020-04-23/63/10.1016@S1474-442...
I don't think this a real concern. Frankly, most top colleges prefer to have students re-learn those courses in college, so they won't miss much. Plus, those schools have other metrics to determine "good" high schools besides just the classes taken. The rigor and distribution of students, the quality of essays, the breakdown of standardized tests etc.

All that is being missed is students having a harder time in high school.
Yep. It's also a general signal that you'r a good actor willing to do the work. An observer with no interaction can see what you did for the librarians and put in a good word for you somewhere without you ever even knowing.
You might enjoy this book, in which philosopher Ken Wilber humorously suggests we should tax incentives euthanasia for the elderly:

Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free is a polemical 2002 novel by American philosopher Ken Wilber, principally designed to explain Wilber's integral theory and to explain his concept of "Boomeritis". Wilber characterizes this as the deadly combination of a modern egalitarian worldview with a deep unquestioned narcissism commonly held by Baby Boomers and their children in the green meme of Spiral Dynamics, as opposed to Wilber's universal integralism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomeritis
The Information Bottleneck Principle and Corporate Structure
also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28849319
Ah, I was wondering why my scraper was failing a lot this morning. good to know
$2000/month in India is a very good salary. Are you suggesting it is low?
Eh, it's not so bad once you realize that free will can only exist due to the crushing grasp of determinism.
Probably but, but at that point any insurance payout would be a rounding error
Let's hope it is not another container fire.

[1] https://thestack.technology/ovhcloud-fire-strasbourg/
Keeping Tabs on Spontaneous Spend
Getting something to display is not hard, but getting full Unicode support, font support, high-DPI support, accessibility, translation, fluid layouts, auto-completion, table rendering, dark mode, cross-platform, including mobile, while not looking like something from 2000 is a massive undertaking, and you often end up re-inventing the web browser doing it. Then if you need a diagram or graph rendered, you need to write it yourself or accept 3rd party library with poor style choices, where there are many great packages for the web. Any if your widget library falls short (and it will), you need a native developer to make a kludge.
Look for Barbara Oakley's Learning how to learn. She's an expert in the field of learning.
A Reddit User Has Created a Laser Cut Map of the Elder Scrolls World
Mattermost v6
I would be annoyed if 10% of my development time was consistently wasted because no one cares about building a foundation that doesn’t shift like quicksand.
Kinda funny your last sentence, as personally for me, hearing an engineer say they don't believe in blockchain tech makes me devalue your opinion.
probably bgp? It seems bgp is always the issue?
Let me guess: BGP? DNS?
Both my Montreal based servers are still down. Seems like their resellers are also, unsurprisingly, impacted
A middle ground could just be adding some caching?
I don't know why you were downvoted, I came to write the same idea.

The brewer paid for the energy required to clean the saline of unwanted energy, and the shop owner pollutes the saline by adding unwanted energy back into it, incurring an additional cost for the brewer as he must expend more energy to also remove the energy added by the shop owner.
Busy work feeds people.
Hej, I started "office hours" when anyone can call me to pair program, get a coffee and chat or rant: https://sonnet.io/posts/hi/ (Feel free to come and say hi!)

I'm not the most social person in the room, but I've met so many fascinating people through this channel. Even though it's not the same as sitting with those people in the same room, I was surprised to see how much energy, satisfaction, inspiration I get from those calls.

It also makes it easier for me to meet people IRL and helps my consulting gig.
Same way they can afford anything else - Either they work to earn money pay for it or their parents pay for it.
But, as a company you should also focus on your own bottom line - working, stable, predictable, reliable software, a codebase you can still hire people for ten years down the line.

Java and C# are safe bets. It probably won't get you the hip polyglot hype developer type, but I'm not convinced there's any company that thrives on those. Maybe for the POC or MVP, but long term you need a reliable tech stack.

I mean take Google; their backbone is/was C++ and they're moving towards Go, which is even more boring than C++ is.
This can also be caused by persistent sleep problems, which a lot of people have had during the pandemic.
Our whole OVH infra is down, composed of OVH baremetal + SoYouStart an OVH sister company.

http://travaux.ovh.net/

is also down which is their WIP tasks dashboard, having worked there I can tell that something definitely went very very wrong
PWR are not actually good at that. In theory, with a liquid fueled reactor you should be able to be almost completely load following. Most GenIV reactor that are trying to go threw regulation is able to load follow at least as good or better then PWR.

The reason we mainly use PWR is because the military wanted them for submarines and the government and industry had a massive program them into commercial use. From there we got a large amount of legacy, knowledge and infrastructure around them.

After 3 Mile Island the nuclear regulatory system changed and regulation were made technology specific. So even if you wanted it would be practically impossible to get a license for anything else. Thankfully this has now been realized and they are changing their regulation to make them less technology specific.
It looks like only IPv4 is affected. IPv6 is working fine to a couple of test endpoints.

3 2a02:c28:1:6506::106 2.131 ms 2.124 ms 2.117 ms
4 2a02:c28:11:6::100 15.695 ms 15.689 ms 15.682 ms
5 2a02:c28:1:1900::19 15.998 ms 15.991 ms 15.985 ms
6 2a02:c28:0:1819::18 15.259 ms 15.051 ms 16.975 ms
7 2a02:c28:0:1718::17 16.968 ms 16.403 ms 15.619 ms
8 2a02:c28:0:1731::31 15.406 ms 18.620 ms 18.554 ms
9 2001:7f8:4::3f94:2 12.025 ms * *
10 * * *
11 2001:41d0:aaaa:100::5 21.622 ms 38.813 ms 2001:41d0:aaaa:100::3 37.231 ms
12 * * *
13 * 2001:41d0::25f1 19.507 ms 2001:41d0::c68 20.892 ms
14 2001:41d0::513 19.685 ms 19.674 ms 2001:41d0::50d 18.248 ms
15 2001:41d0:0:50::5:10a1 19.092 ms 19.917 ms 2001:41d0:0:50::5:10a5 20.126 ms
16 2001:41d0:0:50::1:143f 19.375 ms 2001:41d0:0:50::1:143b 24.609 ms 2001:41d0:0:50::1:143d 18.933 ms
Yes the weather is one (I've spent most of my time since in really humid places). The hiking. The proximity to both mountains and sea. Restaurants and bars I had gone to for years. And of course friends.

But the upside is that coming back to visit is really great. I get to enjoy the things I miss and leave before all the things I hated come to the fore.
Why nice weather? Tech used to be based in Boston before SF.

I'm pretty sure it'll be based somewhere that has a population of accepting and curious people. People (and government) that are open to the latest startup idea, people that don't laugh at you but instead think it could be cool, and importantly enough people to hire at said startup to build a team that can actually succeed. Oh and a place without non-competes of course :)

Thats why the old east coast cities lost tech - the startup scene didn't like the stodgy traditional mindset and the employee protections (like banning non-competes) were lacking, so starting a business was more lively in SF.

Could be Florida if they court people a little more with employee protections.
Yeah I really hope ms will finally have clear path on their native apps.
You can like or dislike Apple but it's really nice that you know that they will support swift with swiftui as the main thing for native development on their platforms for at least couple years.
MS has so many tools for the apps that I am not even sure which one to use when I want to write a light modern native app for their platform.
When you use OVH you have to be ready for this kind of stuff. They are cheap for a reason.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FBkA6ZrWEAA9olm?format=jpg&name=...
I was just going for a peaceful morning walk, trying to start the day with some sunlight. As soon as I sit on the first bench with sun I can find, the dreaded message comes: "everything is down".

Thank you! I had almost forgotten about my beloved provider since the last outage :)
I thought this too. But reading your criticism, I felt "yea, but this is a news-take on a peer review paper: They will have had to address this to get above the threshold for publication"

eg correlates to other events, evidence of known occupied areas and confounding wildfire signals.

Its like treerings. They're going to work with sediment levels which include strong signals of widespread events, and volcanic events nearby, and discount them scientifically
Thank you! about:blank is as extreme as it can get, hehe.
How similar is this thing to the Phoenix.LiveView?
You will make it through this. Life is long. In a few years this trouble will be a distant memory. Right now, take care of yourself. Meditation is a great idea. Also, go for long walks. I like listening to audio books while taking walks. I recommend the Culture series, Rainbow's End, and the Ringworld series. Spend time with people who care about you. I hope you will have peace.
Update:

We recovered our OVH sandbox env (yay) but prod is still very down, guess they are rolling back DC by DC