skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea what makes people use Slack. We demoed it at our company, and most people hated it. I guess it's one of those things people start using when there's a handful of employees and then they just get stuck with it.

The worst feature about Slack is its "threads" feature. You're effectively manically thread chasing or you just have to learn to not care about past conversations.

The other annoying thing was input lag when typing sometimes. It was completely unpredictable when it happens (wasn't pc load, browser wasn't that busy, but i didn't check the profiler; internet was fine). It would come and go on its own. Not everyone had it either, and it seemed to be isolated to Linux machines.

We demoed Zulip, but some people didn't like that one because the UI is... It looks like brutalist design applied to UI. Most of us were ok with it even if it's a bit "ugly" (it's not ugly, but I'd call it an acquired taste). Quill was supposed to fill this gap for us, but the CTO said that the $15/user/month price is too steep. Lol.

We settled for the mediocre of both worlds: Mattermost. It's not great, but it's not shit either. You can't scroll in it (well you can, but you don't want to because it's buggy) and the search is crappy, bite you can usually find what you're looki for after a few tries.
What do you learn after 200,000 words on The Verge? "Buy more gadgets"?
Rumble just received a major investment, and has been the streaming alternative for when people got banned off YouTube. There's also LBRY/Odysee and Bitchute.

I quite like Odysee and use it a lot.
> so you can buy popular creators away from Youtube

...and this is also an incredibly hard sell to any upstart, since to creators, reach is usually more important than money.

Source: Worked for one of the last semi-serious local Youtube competitors in our country who tried this strategy and miserably failed, after which the site was effectively shut down and rebranded as a storefront for the TV station that bought it.
EventBridge, CloudWatch. I've just started getting session errors with the console, too.
If interested, this is sort of a part of mutualism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)
1981 Osvaldo Dragún Federico Herrero Teatro Escuela Central 'Al Violador'
When running things that tolerate interruptions, AWS Spot Instances are way cheaper than Hertzner or any other VPS service.
Is that making fun of his name? Or is it simply pointing out / wondering whether he a) chose a profession aligned with his given name, or b) chose a name aligned with his profession?
What is the benefit of an IPv6 only dedicated server as compared to a normal server that has an IPv4 address.
Idk maybe I'm still sour after they killed "We are hunted" 10y ago, but I feel Twitter acquired a number of companies and yet remained virtually unchanged for years.

They acquired WAH to merge it into Twitter Music that they later killed. They bought Vine and wasted its potential, idk if Periscope is still alive or not (also acquired).

Maybe this time it'll be different - their recent acquisitions of Revue and Chroma Labs (which I guess became Twitter Spaces) seems to be kind of working so far
AWS ec2 API requests are failing and ECR also seems to be down (error 500 on pull)
> Oh, by the way, if fired, then commonly get to continue medical insurance coverage for some length of time.

tell me then, why do a bunch of my US friends not have health insurance? even the ones who left their jobs during the pandemic?

to be frank, it sounds like your income is too high for you to actually know what happens when dealing with this 'patchwork' (as you call it) shitshow system in real life, to try to get the care you need to survive.

> Some of the scare is that single payer would result in some or all of (a) taxes way too high, (b) too much just wasteful, silly, and unneeded medical care, (c) low quality of care and, thus, too many people hurt or dead, (d) too little capacity where too many patients die from waiting too long for care, etc. I don't know what if anything is right/wrong with (a) -- (d), but these are concerns commonly voiced.

why state all these downsides and try to play this sort of 'neutral' card by saying "I don't know what if anything is right/wrong"? all of these so called reasons (or fears/scares) are just completely irrelevant when we can see that all other global north nations have single payer systems.

let me repeat that: the US is the only country that doesn't provide universal healthcare to the working class.

can you help me understand why you posted this comment? to me it just looks like a laundry list of the many failed strategies used by the US govt and huge pharmaceutical corporations that have helped them scam the working class out of trillions of dollars in the form of medical debt and pharmaceutical drugs, etc.. i could probably find all this on some wikipedia page about the history of the US medical care system.
> It should still be `printf '%s\n' "$(command)"` for portability

Damn that’s ugly though. Not much better than Perl in terms of characters soup. And Perl has a massive advantage with its deep integration of regexes.
Tread softly, there are some reports¹ that things like PIM/RIP are not working/not implemented.

¹https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=180896
We have federated login with MFA required (which was failing). It just started working again.

Scratch that... console is not loading at all now :)
Yeah I'm not really arguing that they're not, more that we're on a forum that tends to venerate startups, and yet the parent comment is using the same comments that startups use as a bad thing against crypto platforms.
Route53 is not updating new records. Console is also out.
Now you see if you'd stolen one bitcoin in 1979, it would still be worth one bitcoin in 2021! Price stability!
"Good at finding excuses" is not the same thing as "honest."
Have they fixed the performance issues with non-integer scaling?
Word on the street is the status page is just a JPG
Lots of services are only in us-east-1. The sso system isn't working 100% right now so that's where I assume it's hosted.
This is an incentive to dishonesty, leading to fraudulent payments and false advertising of uptime to potential customers.

Hopefully it results in a class action lawsuit for enough money that Amazon decides that an automated system is better than trying to supply human judgement.
Best source of truth on this (one way or the other), IMHO, is the issue I referenced in that article:

https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495
I have no inside knowledge or anything but it seems like there are a lot of scenarios with degraded performance where people could argue about whether it really constitutes an outage.
Sometimes, these large companies tack on too much "necessary" incident "remediation" actions with Arbitrary Due Date SLAs that completely wrench any ongoing work. And ongoing, strategically defined ""muh high impact"" projects are what get you promoted, not doing incident remediations.

When you get to the level you want, you get to not really give a shit and actually do The Right Thing. However, for all of the engineers clamoring to get out of the intermediate brick laying trenches, opening an incident can have pervasive incentives.
I'll say this again - it's completely absurd to ignore the issue of class / wealth inequality when considering access to social situations that decrease loneliness.

And it's dumb beyond words to write a fucking Harvard paper on loneliness and not mention wealth inequality once.

I don't believe these statements need to be backed up by science to be self-evident, and worthy of research. That's a tautology, and a dumb one.
SansyRox! what gift have you delivered us from the heavens. Could there be anything better than python and rust? a match made from a utopian planet. This is the jam! I can't wait to just this out. well done my human!
What. Such weird re-writing of history. The IJN wanted to destroy as many US Carriers and Battleships as possible. What difference does it make if they thought Hawaii was a territory vs state.
So it blocks paywall but doesn't bypass it? I don't understand the purpose of this.
Yep! I’ve been using the beta and it’s awesome. What other vendors include native WG support? Historically the concept of a performant VPN router pushed you into the realm of enterprise level expensive hardware. Now you can do it on cheap arm cores. It’s game changing.
What does Twitter even get out of this? There's no unique technology. It's not a competitor. And there are easier ways to hire people. Is it the data?
why is this stuff almost always Python-based?

Have we not learned? Python is a fine language, but it is dynamically type checked, and not compiled to binaries. There is so much evidence all around us that statically type-checked, compiled languages produce better, more performant code, and allow for application stability and longevity much more easily.

I get that Python may be your favorite language, and that's fine, and that alone doesn't immediately qualify it as a good choice for anything, if you're being objective.
> wallet extensions installed on the user's browser

Absolute security nightmare in both directions, this.
Big enough or just willing to fill out phony takedown requests, knowing there's never any consequence.
Electrons brought us a lot positivity with their negativity! Checkmate!
Where? All I can find is https://www.okta.com/uk/free-trial/ and https://www.okta.com/pricing/
No one was in the room where it happened
> but has YouTube really changed?

Unquestionably. If you recall, YouTube originally made its mark by having pirated copies of the SNL Lazy Sunday skit floating around, which quickly saw it become recognized it as the place to watch all kinds of pirated TV shows.

Eventually they started enforcing duration limits to quash people uploading entire episodes, but it wasn't until the content ID system was implemented that it started to see that type of content disappear and the 'homemade' stuff take over.

The home videos may have always been there, but it wasn't why people were using the service originally.
‘I thought I was a free man’: the engineer fighting TX ban on boycotting Israel
Yeah but that is akin to laptops having Windows installed by default. Actually, it is worse, because in case of Android: it is from Google, and so is YouTube, so it makes sense that they have a YouTube app pre-installed. I do not expect them to pre-install a competitor's one, no matter how successful or great that is. This is why you have billions of Android phones with YouTube app instead of something else.
Haha my developer called me in panic telling that he crashed Amazon - was doing some load tests with Lambda
No problem.

I have things split out where the Webpack dev server runs in its own container only in development. It uses the Docker Compose override pattern to skip it in production along with Docker's multi-stage builds to ensure production assets get built and digested with collectstatic when DEBUG is set to false.

I gave a talk this year at DockerCon on a whole bunch of patterns I use with Docker Compose and my Dockerfile to get dev / prod parity without duplication and overall best practices.

The video and blog post of that is at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/best-practices-around-product...

It walks through a live demo (0 slides) going over a Flask example app but it's 100% the same for Django.
AWS Management Console Home page is currently unavailable
> Rumble for now promises Not to become a censorship platform like YouTube is now currently.

Which is all fine and good until people start filing copyright claims, lawyering up, withdrawing adverts, and cancelling subscriptions. Not to mention the possibility of governments intervening.

Sooner or later regulation comes, whether that's directly, or indirectly via market pressures.

(Note that this isn't necessarily a bad thing - or a good thing, for that matter - just a thing. An example where it might be seen as more positive for, say, a government intervention to occur is Facebook/Meta. I'm certainly losing patience with Mark Zuckerberg's indifference to the individual and societal damage his platforms are causing.)
What's striking here is the Japanese trust into their own intel. If someone came up to me with a plan for a "surprise" attack that the defender had wargamed not once but twice and wouldn't know about any countermeasures I would be highly suspicious of a trap.

For instance, how did Japan not consider that the US Navy deployed top secret radar after the first wargame that then perfectly warned about the second attack? You can easily stack multiple wargames in one. Another option could have been a submarine screen that "intercepted" the attacking force.
I agree, but does come with increased challenges with false positives.

That being said, AWS status pages are up.
Slack is working fine for me
"Well, you need a lot less fuck-off money if you’re living off-grid,”

What a load of (albeit, compostable) shit. Who goes "off the grid" to save money? Sure, the house/land cost less. The rest of it misses out on economies of scale. You think you can generate electricity for less than the company with multi-megawatt generators? Sure, use solar panels...in British Columbia...in the winter.

Okay, fine, you're off the grid and it kinda sucks. Hey, wait a minute, what's the giant propane tank in the picture? How in the hell is that "off the grid"? Propane tanks are for places that are way too far out to run a gas line, but in my book you're "on the grid" and the part where the grid carries energy is being done by a big truck full of propane. I grew up with a propane tank in our yard. Not once did anyone think we were living anything but a normal life. Same with the diesel generator. Same with the wood that was purchased, for that matter. All of them reliances on some other part of society to do the work for you. Perhaps it's semantics, but I consider "off the grid" to work even after society collapses.

In the end, it sounds like someone should have done a few more camping trips before leaving the big city to go live in the woods. Be it tent camping or even a 40' Class A tour buss RV, one quickly finds out that just about everything is more work and more expensive if it doesn't come out of a water tap or electrical outlet.
It depends on which Amazon region you are being served from.

It is very unlikely that Amazon would deliberately make your messages cross the Atlantic just to find an American region that is unable to serve you.
I've got a few Mikrotik devices (CRS328, CSS326). Maybe I just haven't gotten it, but I find their RouterOS WebUI extremely confusing. Like go into three separate top-level tabs to assign a VLAN to a port. The CLI is okay, once you get stuff working and just need to duplicate/modify lines.

Mikrotik's SwOS is alright and has most of the options you'd expect from a switch, but is missing the ability to have a human readable text config. I've got a Netgear switch as well, and I'd label its obtuseness on par with RouterOS. At the end of the day it seems every network vendor has their own bespoke proprietary UI that you have to suffer through.

In general I'm much more at home with Linux's iproute2/bridge-utils/nft. What I really want is some low power switches that can run OpenFlow or the like so I can centralize all the config back to my Linux router. On a home network, most devices shouldn't be talking directly among themselves anyway!

Another thing I really want is for network switches to have an RGB LED on each port that can indicate what VLAN it's configured for.
Source? At least in the US mortgage payments (adjusted for interest rates and inflation) have been trending down since the 90s.

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/...
Looking back at this story now, I think I disagree with its argument. Yes, old age today is a costly drain on modern western societies but mostly because people are living much longer. If our society was accepting of euthanasia for people who don't want to suffer in old age as it was of trying to keep the old living as long as possible then maybe the cost wouldn't be so draining. The idea that we MUST live for as long as possible without any sense of what the person who's living through the suffering of the diseases that become more severe with old age shows how little we value those people. If we really did value the elderly we'd ask if they want to continue to live or allow them to choose to end their lives with their own subjective sense of dignity instead. This isn't to say I'm opposed to any kind of medical research to improve life in our final years. Anything that retains physical autonomy and removes pain from old age is great but the obsession with death itself is problematic to me. In my opinion, life ain't worth living if it leaves me in an adult diaper being constantly pumped full of drugs to just keep myself sane with the pain and indignities.
I've been running various (small) servers with Hetzner for the past 9 years and I've never noticed any downtime or any issues of any kind.
Yes, exactly!!

Wireguard is a must for us now! I've been using professionally on MikroTik, too, almost everything worked as expected!

(only some issue with being able to export settings... I hope it's solved now)
Don't forget user surveillance and data mining. Probably a profitable market for them to sell user profiles.
I just checked on FF Android, and the examples worked fine. Maybe it's related to the Android version you're running? I'm currently on Android 11.
Say Goodbye to the 1% Investment-Adviser Fee?
My company's Slack instance is currently fine.
That's why your status page should be completely independent from the services it is monitoring (minus maybe something that automatically updates it). We use a third party to host our status page specifically so that we can update it even if all our systems are down.
Agree that the best tool for the job should be used. In this case if python is gluing together different technologies to get this working it might have been the best tool for the job. Generally I would rather have my code compiled (into silicon in this case) be fast, even if it means the compiler itself is slower.
Interactive Video Service (IVS) is down too
Some feedback: on the landing page on desktop, I spent 4-5 seconds trying to interact with the image, then I tried clicking on the underlined "interactive" word.
You can decide it is good or bad or that you want to accept it or not accept it.

It doesn't change it.

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

That story contains all sorts of infantile ideas, for instance the idea that society chooses to sacrifice the elderly instead of the young.

If civilization had some choice in the matter they might well sacrifice the poor so the rich can live on. Sacrifice the weak so the strong can live on, etc.

Life extension is a realistic goal and I am all for it. But that story is full of ridiculous counterfactuals and it irks me that a bunch of dittoheads sit around and congratulate themselves for believing it.
This is surprising to me given the rubber tips - have you tried the other sizes?
Org-Roam
Yes, I do. But it turns out that their issue is pretty much always only tangentially related to Gensim (or any other open source library / technology). They're solving a business problem. That's what brings them money, with which they pay me, and I acknowledge that.

This leaves me with two choices:

1. Help narrowly, with the Gensim part only. Pros: easy for me. Cons: doesn't truly help the customer; feels dirty.

2. Help solve their actual business problem. Even if it means not using ML at all (a very common outcome), or suggesting a different architecture.

In my experience, most companies are so lost as to what to expect from ML, or how to get there, that I didn't feel comfortable with the "narrow" help. Lipstick on a pig.

So I went the full consulting route for a few years. But that felt too draining so I dropped it and created a product instead.
It is a great benefit to each one of us, and to society, to have open, honest, long-form discussions with hosts like Joe Rogan.

I can only hope that other great hosts apply this as an inspiration to develop their own podcasts.
literally no one is telling you to get medical advice from the media or Twitter.

ask your Dr for medical advice.
Fair enough! It’s difficult to get the tone across in writing.
Like I said I never worked there and this is all hearsay but there is a lot of nuance here being missed like partial outages.
It's not scoped to anything. Think of it like assembly. If you understand your problem domain at a sufficiently deep level, you can design a more optimal architecture.

For example, Google TPUs don't just have fast-paths for numeric computing. They change the memory layout & chip communication architecture to optimize for ML workloads so that your chip is constantly fed with data and not bottlenecked on memory access or cross-chip communication (in addition to direct dedicated access to a large memory that stores your data set which requires synchronization with system RAM and cross-chip cache invalidation, there's dedicated on-chip memory that's usable as scratch/storing a part of the data set that doesn't need any of that).

There are of course potentially problems that aren't made meaningfully faster by going to ASIC just as there are problems where going from ASM to C++ or C++ to JS don't benefit. However, typically any problems that are hitting some kind of performance bottleneck could benefit & then it just becomes a matter of cost vs reward.
Presumably, people who understand messaging
Grady's web site seems to be experiencing the HN hug of death right now, but I watched the video last night on Nebula, and there definitely are visuals and they definitely clarify the lecture. And as usual, Grady has built a practical demonstration of the forces and it also helps.
Yes, but nothing is stopping you from typing and organizing everything, right? I agree that it's not the default, which isn't ideal, but you can do it fairly easily (and keep it enforced).
AWS Connect is down, so our customer support phone system is down with it
> I guess we have a significant philosophical difference

Yeah, if arguing in good faith or not is a philosophical difference.

> we do insist on proper lighting of designated pedestrian crossings

Really? Even when two residential streets (which I specifically mentioned) cross? Nope. Show me the statute or GTFO. Restricting this only to "designated crossings" makes it circular.

> Pretty sure walking + more street lights is far more environmentally friendly than driving + no street lights at all.

This isn't about a future/hypothetical world where more walk and fewer drive. It's about the here and now where the two mix. Another red herring. It would be nice if you or the other "let the little people drive for me" folks could write a whole paragraph without a fallacy.

> I approach it in much the same way as a woman would deal with the threat of being raped

You're seriously trying to compare auto accidents to rape? I already anticipated that bullshit, e.g. by mentioning the third-party risk. An accident is not the same as an assault. Rape is horrible and auto accidents are horrible, but they're different in many ways. That's a false analogy, appealing to emotion rather than reason, and I won't dignify it or you by engaging further.
> Not sure what illegal consumer practice are you talking about.

> I was part of "Consumer Psychology Team" at Booking.com for years. That team was/is one way or another involved in pretty much every functionality you mentioned

You were part of a team that cooked up new ways to harm consumers.

Playing the same word games here too is a bit tasteless. When your company is forced to "align practices presenting offers and prices with EU law following EU action", that means you've done something illegal, and you were caught. Nothing else matters.
I can still hit EC2 boxes and networking is okay. DynamoDB is 100% down for the count, every request is an Internal Server Error.