skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
State lock downs in the US generally lasted on the order of months (some amount of time between March-May of 2020), not years. If you're under the impression that you're still under a stay at home order and you can't see your family, or if you think your local music venue isn't putting on concerts, I would urge you to verify if that's truly the case. I mean, you can watch a football game on Sunday and see this. Also, treating a reaction to a global pandemic like it's an evergreen policy plank is disingenuous.
Really, one of the major issues for old and abandoned work is that it can be impossible to figure out who the rights holders are for a particular work.

A step of active renewal by the rights holder would at least create a public registry of the current owner for a particular right.
With all due to respect, your comment is an anti-specialization rant.

> Merely knowing the syntax doesn't make one a "C++ programmer"

Does knowing all the possible abstract layers (uh, it's an ocean) make one a C ++ programmer then?

> this is even more true when you are messing around in the Kernel

It's his right to mess around Kernel and learn things.
The content may have matured, but has YouTube really changed?

I always thought the point was to make it easy for anyone to publish an original video? (And then to make it easy for anyone to watch the video.)
If that was the case, why doesn't macOS support 8k displays?

If you want an 8k display at 60Hz, your only option is to use Windows.

Microsoft is also the only company that offers a high res 3:2 display (the Surface Studio at 4500x3000 pixels), a size that is more geared towards productivity rather than streaming movies.

It's weird that if you want to get nice displays, Windows is today a better option than macOS.
There's something interesting about the way we as a species think about death. Say you're working on "immortality" or on "solving aging", and most people outside a small subset of the tech/SV crowd will think you're a megalomaniac or just plain crazy -- death is obviously a fact, and to attempt to overcome it pure hubris. Yet we spend an incredible amount of resources on prolonging life in various ways through lifestyle interventions, treatments, cures -- and handsomely reward and revere those who succeed in pushing our life expectancy ever so slightly upwards.
Gensim is fantastic. Just used it in tandem with FastText to get a machine learning app running for one of my clients. Thank you for it!
FAQs are a microscopic problem, compared to the practice of putting up entirely scripted first level support people who are essentially contractually required to NOT provide any useful explanation or information.

It’s obviously not these individuals fault, but fuck every single institution or company employing this type of idiotic and wholly garbage triage..
I think if we're going to time limit ownership rights to intellectual property we should time limit ownership rights to everything - including land, buildings, shares and stocks, bonds, art collections, all of it. Except maybe trivial items like home furnishings and portable tools.

I've yet to hear any credible argument - one that doesn't reduce to entitlement and wishful thinking - for distinguishing between these asset classes.

If IP is effectively a public good held on a short lease, so is all property. If it isn't, it isn't. Any argument you can make about the benefits of putting intellectual work in the public domain, you can also make - more convincingly - about land and any other productive resource.
Okay, but for all modern media at those price tags, the overwhelming majority of the revenue is seen within the first year, often within the first month or even first few days (consider pre-orders on video games— RDR2 reportedly made $725M in its first weekend).

Why should this content be locked up for decades past the point where it has already made 90% of the money it's ever going to make? So the Disney company can have a century's worth of exclusive material ready to go when they launch D+, creating an absolutely impenetrable barrier to entry for an upstart?
Dedicated silicon is made for domains where such gains are possible: typically numeric, parallel, non-branching tasks that allow for multi-stage/pipeline processing. So this is an excellent example of survivorship bias.
Indeed they are. It's a pity that more governments haven't followed their example or that having clear, easy to use government websites is somehow still a too high bar to clear for so many countries.

I'm not sure the average Brit appreciates how good these online services are, on account of never having to use the "average" government website.
Depends on how easy it is to project a wormhole endpoint elsewhere in the universe. If it can be done at >= C then sensitive radio receivers don't have much value.
They were anticompetitive using multiple illegal tricks. Their competitors like dailymotion or vimeo couldn't compete for years. Now that google is under antitrust investigation around the world. They have started operating properly and that's why you get an ad every 12 seconds. Twitch only survived because big daddy amazon came in with the same deal as google. We will now see players like rumble finally taking off.
This is just extending the rent seeking. If the work is so valuable the owner can continue to extend their copyright, the public should receive that value after the 14 years (by which point, the owner has been made whole through collecting rents for those 14 years) versus the owner ratcheting up the cost to pay to maintain the copyright monopoly on the work in question.
It seems that only console is having the problem CLI works fine
YouTube is a huge technical achievement that would require billions of dollars to replicate:

1. It consumes nearly unlimited bandwidth.

2. It consumes nearly unlimited CPU for transcoding and serving media at different bitrates.

3. It consumes massive resources to police, from user moderation to appeasing content owners by building systems and databases like ContentID, etc.

4. It generates endless PR and legal headaches, which also costs a lot of money.

5. A huge amount of work has gone into getting users hooked through algorithms that seek to maximize watch time.

6. A huge amount of work has gone into building a network of advertisers who want to pay to put their ads on the platform.

7. And importantly, a huge amount of work has gone into building up an ecosystem of video producers who make their entire living off of YouTube and spend countless hours producing content for them at no cost to YouTube. Obviously YouTube isn't giving out Golden Play Button plaques out of the kindness of their heart. That's marketing.

And despite all this, Youtube almost always works perfectly for almost all users. People click on their phones and the videos just play - all around the world, even while traveling on transit, etc.

There are very few companies who have the resources to attempt to compete with that. Vimeo has obviously given up targeting the same mass market audience. Other competitors without unlimited deep pockets can't seem to make a dent.

It's a lot like asking why doesn't someone just make "a better Google." Unless you have unlimited resources and an unlimited budget, it probably isn't possible. It's smarter to make something else tangental in video that can outcompete Google instead of facing them head on. See: Twitch, TikTok, etc.
> it's something that's been part of life for at least a billion years

I know right. The dragon is just a way of life, and will be for all time. Anyone who tries to fight the dragon or even suggest it could be slain is a foolish nuisance.
> They want the dynamism of being able to change jobs and careers, they all want the opportunity for career progression which for the most part isn't there (it's always been competitive).

Why do people want this though? 50 years ago, you could be a mechanic, work 50 hours a week and own a house. The wife could be at home to take care of the kids. These days, both have to work 60 hours a week to afford a rental apartment.

in the 70's, a home cost about 4.5 times the median yearly household income. Right now it's about 7 times the yearly income. That doesn't seem like a massive increase (even though it's more than a 50% increase), but employment of married women also increased from 40% to 60%. So while we have, on average, more earners in a household, we pay more of our income on housing. It's a double whammy.

So people want careers in order to start earning a living wage in order to be able to actually raise kids and live a meaningful life in a nice home. People don't just want a career because they want a career, they want that because they don't want to be wage slaves who don't get to live a life. Also, they don't get to raise their kids, because they don't have time for that.
I believe vimeo purposely isn't interested in much of the you from youtube, although these days youtube isn't either. Vimeo is looking to be a hoster for commercial content mainly.
> some songs cost millions to produce

Nobody is investing millions in a song that they think could take 95 years to earn enough to justify the investment.

Copyright is there to incentivize creating new works. If the copyright was shortened to max(life of the artist, 50 years), how many artists do you think would stop creating?

Frankly, there's an argument to be made that shortening the length of copyright to 25 years would encourage more new works simply because you can rest an your laurels.
I love that every time this happens, 100% of the services on https://status.aws.amazon.com are green.
I wonder what the usage metrics for disparate video hosts look like around the time of that change, and also the change on DDG to showing other video host results and their deal with Apple. I'd be willing to bet viewership on other sites went up and YouTube went down to some degree.
EKS works for us
Because Youtube can only make sense to run within Google. Youtube's actual service of providing free HD streaming video in exchange for showing the viewers ads is not, has never been, and cannot be profitable. Totally free, unlimited HD video streaming is just too expensive. It can only exist as part of a huge conglomerate because the only purpose Youtube can serve is to attract people into the ecosystem it's part of. No other company has an ecosystem valuable enough to justify losing that much money on Youtube.
That totally depends on what angular resolution you require and what distance you are comfortable with. Using that list Apple's Retina concept starts at 57 and 4K 27" is ~60. And even that is assuming you place a 27" screen the same distance away from your eyes as a 24" or even 21" screen as all the iMacs use the same viewing distance.

But I'm glad we got over the idea that 220dpi is a magical number. Otherwise not even the iMac or the Apple Pro XDR displays counted as HiDPI.
Didn't this get posted here, not long ago?
A good, explanatory article that could really use some diagrams, photos, or other illustrations.

"Both mechanically stabilized earth and soil nails are commonly used on roadway projects, so it’s easy to spot them if you’re a regular driver."

That sentence would have made a lovely caption to the photo of the "easy-to-spot" soil nail that the article didn't include.
This would just mean that rich companies/people will get to keep the copyright and others do not. We're in this whole situation where things don't enter the public domain for 100 years because of Disney's lobbying.
As the patron saint of my state, I'd also point out that she has used the money from her music to invest in other things. She is quite a shrewd business woman and I think even with 10 years she would have been fine.

Though I think 20 years is reasonable enough.
Jamal Khashoggi: Suspect in murder of journalist arrested
Medical reasons are now the leading cause of bankruptcy. (https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0310/top-5-reaso... -> 66.5%)

Half of all GoFundMe's are now medical-expense related.

These are absolutely indefensible statistics about our current system. Literally, anything else (already in use in other countries) would be better.
I think the only the console is down. CLI is working fine for me in ap-southeast-1
Don’t do it, hacker. If you do, consensus will always be whack.
You should give Wittgenstein a try :).
In WW2 the US was the first country that Germany formally declared war on, and was not required by its treaty with Japan, so thats an odd theory.

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

People forget the democratic/political constraints on Roosevelt though, including Hitler who thought of it as normalizing relations but Roosevelt wouldn't have had the political capital for declaring war on Germany.
bilibili is good. if anyone want, also can check the video of trailer,
https://www.dreamtruegroup.com/diesel-tank-trailer/
Not entirely true- we federate through ADFS and `saml2aws login` is currently failing with:

error logging into aws role using saml assertion: error retrieving STS credentials using SAML: ServiceUnavailable:
status code: 503
It's really a transcript for the accompanying YouTube video (channel of the same name as the blog)
It's funny that the first place I go to learn about the outage is Hacker News and not https://status.aws.amazon.com/ (it's still reports everything to be "operating normally"...)
I'm having CLI issues as well, they're using the same APIs under the hood. For example, I'm getting 503 errors for cloudwatch DescribeLogGroups.
Haha I thought you used emacs and were bashing vs code because you used it. Why dont you use emacs?
Big "if", but hypothetically, at least gas flows in a way that the pressure could be relieved.

The whole reason supervolcanoes are what they are is that the material can't sufficiently flow faster than pressure builds.

Converting that material to an escaping gas at scale would be an unbelievably successful technological achievement.
Microsoft Word has one primary button to make things bold, and that's in the Home tab. Since it's such a common tool, it also appears in the cursor toolbar, so make that two.

Of course, you can also use keyboard shortcuts or add it to the user-customizable Quick Access Toolbar, but that applies to anything.
The pandemic public policy reaction has deepened an epidemic of loneliness.

ftfy.
On top of that, the "Personalized Health Dashboard" doesn't work because I can't seem to log in to the console.
Seeing issues in ca-central-1 and us-east
I tried to use vimeo, but even if it had content on it that interests me, I find it very frustrating to use for some intuitive reason. Maybe it’s constant flashing of wait-spinners, maybe no place to discover things. It feels like yet another pic hosting but for videos. https://vimeo.com doesn’t look like a promising landing for 99% of users either.

I also signed up for a curiosity stream trial (or was it its competitor? idk), watched one video, only to delete my account afterwards. Their video player doesn’t support left-right keys and when I missed a sentence I had no chance to rewind just a little, because in an hour+ long video you can’t just point to a second with your mouse. It’s so stupid technically that I can’t imagine who could do that for a platform which is advertised from every crack.

I don’t think that youtube no-competition is just a network effect and ads and money. Even if we were to find youtube deleted tomorrow, both viewers and content creators would have a fucking hard time to continue their usual activities. I often blame youtube for its ui/ux, but—and this is my personal opinion—its competition is just trash.
is silicon also can making trailer like this?

https://www.dreamtruegroup.com/diesel-tank-trailer/
If the 1.11 project is in python 3 then it would be a piece of cake. If it's in python 2 then it will need a little more effort to convert to python 3 but but not much really. Django have hasn't changed that much since 1.11!
We're not down and we're in us-east-1... maybe there is more to this issue?
Quick question - this comment looks like it was aimed at another thread, or narrowly, another comment in this thread. Or did Arc just glitch?
Because RSS/Atom subscriptions as the standard for following things you like, across websites, didn't really catch on, in part because no browsers (or mobile OS vendors) really championed the feature in their UX to make it better than having lots of interfaces on different sites (looking at you, Firefox—add it to the list of dropped balls).

Because network effects let them pay creators more, so of course creators tend to stick around.

Because people default to searching on Youtube for videos, and Youtube Search only searches Youtube, rather than being like Google Video Search.

> What would a competitor need to take on them?

A shitload of VC cash to burn on both data transfer / CDN buildout and paying prominent YouTubers way more than they're making you in exchange for exclusive videos (time limited would probably be fine, e.g. 1 year exclusivity). Also, maybe, integrate something like Patreon directly.
Our services that are in us-east-2 are up, but I'm wondering how long that will hold true.
Yeah, I tend to go off of https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
I wrote https://github.com/mmastrac/webfont-dl for this purpose a few years back (although it was designed more for the command line). It still works, though I probably should change the defaults to be a little more modernized.
Makes me wonder if this is a case where regulation needs to inject competition, like when we broke up Ma Bell into separate companies.

What if The act of uploading and hosting had to be a separate company from the act of searching and viewing? What would "YouTube" look like if someone could write their own app that had access to all of the same content? What would "YouTube" look like if someone could provide their own uploading and hosting service?
our EKS/EC2 instances are OK
It's rare to see a non-commercial walled garden. But that's what the tildeverse is.
Unable to log into the console for us-east-1 for me too
The jailbreak subreddit has a solid sidebar with info on devices / iOS versions supported, and by what jailbreak method. Any current gen device is off the table at the moment, as is iOS 15.

Also- recently ordered a Japanese New 3DS and am glad to hear you are enjoying it, looking forward to having a great emulation machine- maybe one day I’ll get around to installing a modchip in my switch lite too
Up to the 1990s it was possible to buy a home on a single income in NL.
If everything goes downhill, I have a bunch of retirement funds I paid into. Then there is family and friends.

But, of course I hope to get rich before 50 etc.
Seeing as anything with a dailymail link makes me suspect, I read the opposite side: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021...

> “ ‘Winners’ are never determined,” Capt. Zachary Colvin, the communications and strategy director with the Marine Air Ground Combat Center, told Military Times in a statement. “This exercise does not provide an opportunity to ‘surrender,’ ‘keep score,’ or ‘reset.’ The objective of the exercise is to heighten unit performance and increase readiness.”

https://taskandpurpose.com/voices/us-marines-didnt-surrender...

> In short, among several statements made in the opening four paragraphs of the Telegraph article, none was accurate. I know this because – as they say – I was there.
I would love to go to the office more often, but honestly it's just not worth it. Nowadays I live in a country that is notorious for its strict work-life separation, and just trying to get to know people during lunch, or go out for a beer on a Friday is almost impossible. Most of the tech department is from abroad actually, but I guess cultural assimilation is a very real thing.
Selling to Zerodium is not equivalent to getting a bounty from MSFT. Selling exploit code hurts people. Microsoft will patch the vuln to protect its customers. Selling exploits to Zerodium is very bad. Be a force for good in this world.
I was already thinking about leaving social media when the genocide in Myanmar happened. But it pushed me over the edge, and led to me deleting facebook, whatsapp, and instagram.

Most people I speak to about facebook aren't aware of this issue — and of the similar situation brewing in Ethiopia.

If you want to live a life of intention, one that's aligned with your values. I really suggest deleting facebook. You'll find that you're happier and healthier than before. Maybe make it a NY resolution.
Running your own mail server is something that should be taught in schools -- along with building linux from scratch and creating a basic website. Computer literacy is only going to be more important going forward so understanding the basics of some of the most fundamental aspects of the internet will go a long way.

And for those who become programmers: they SHOULD roll their own crypto stack at least one -- if for no other reason than to understand why they should never do it again (unless that becomes their specialty).
> I don't think the US Navy is prepared for drone zerg tactics.

I don't think any military is.

Look at what happened to Armenia recently.
My org (250-500 employees -- most in manufacturing) has 5 AWS accounts.

We have dev/staging/prod and then a master account used for organization management & consolidated billing. Just stood one up today for another department too.

I implemented SSO recently and am exploring the idea of giving each developer (we have a small team) their own lab account to standup whatever they need. Right now we have folks sometimes overwriting work in the dev account.

When I joined we had 3 accounts (staging/prod/payer) but slowly as we build real DevOps process its sorting itself out.

The rational for having different accounts across different departments - it helps with billing and ensuring the correct department pays for their share of AWS usage. Also better access control with Single Sign On & added benefit of reducing spillover effects from improper access/actions.
Getting 502 in Parameter Store. Cloudformation isn't returning either -- and that's how we deploy code :(
Status pages are hard
Sure, but IPv4 just works. IPv6 mostly works, but isn't universally supported, is the less tested configuration, and "disable IPv6" seems to still be one of the best solutions for mysterious network problems. It just doesn't make sense to use anything other than IPv4 as long as you get a free IPv4 address with every server.

Which is why I'm very happy over this move by Hetzner. More monetary incentive to move away from IPv4 is exactly what we need to break the cycle of "nobody uses IPv6, so nothing supports it, so nobody uses it"
Thank you, this is very insightful.

> development is an expense you should put off as long as possible.

That lines up with all of my experience in startups and PMing, and yet, it is SO tempting to start building. I’ll try to remember this.
> Happened again recently

There is no suggestion in the article that the non-US forces were required to operate with their hands tied after the reset in order to allow a US victory.

More generally, many exercises consist of multiple 'phases' anyway, which are in effect wholly separate parts of an operation set within the same broad scenario. They might separately test (e.g.) advancing to contact, a contact situation and then some sort of holding operation. Resets are wholly expected: each phase usually starts in a pre-planned state independent of the previous phase. E.g. if a force fails it's objective in the first phase and gets wiped out it will start the second phase in a refreshed state so that the force can train for the second type of activity rather than waste the sometimes significant cost of assembling the exercise in the first place.
I thought the article was in a weird place. It read like a very long introduction. If its the first in a series, its great. If its a standalone article, it lacks needed depth.