skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not saying ”no processes are needed” - I’m saying at big companies many redundant processes are never questioned.

Too many processes are never automated, and people are assigned to manually enforce and follow up on processes, that should be completely automatic.

This is where process busywork creates yet further busywork.
Prime example? ITIL (as this is an IT focused site many probably have heard of it).

If you don’t automate the heck out of ITIL you reduces quality, slow any pace down and the mess remains.
> What we need however is a world that is not anti-rational to the point where it destructs the planet.

If we really needed it like we need air, more action would be taken to move towards better circumstances.

I'd argue that it's not "really needed" for most people - almost no one alive today will experience the worst possible outcomes of climate change. Many of those who disregard epidemiological safety also won't experience the worst personal outcomes for themselves. Thus, they're free to disregard these, or even oppose them entirely, regardless of how far their arguments or feelings are detached from what would be best for the next generations and probably even believe that they're right in doing so.

People's ability to ignore anything that they don't like is easy to overlook.

I do agree with the actual point that you're making, though. We need more rationality in life.
FWIW, xsnow runs with wayland, but ignores the windows (even when i make then floating in Sway):

$ xsnow
Xsnow running in GTK version: 3.24.29
Detected Wayland desktop
xsnow 3.3.0

Probably works better with a non-tiling WM: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/563400-XsnoW-anyo...

xsnow -h says:

> BUGS

> - Xsnow needs a complete rewrite: the code is a mess.

> …

> - Xsnow does run in Wayland, but will not snow on all windows.
As another poster pointed out the Great Depression is a good example of deflation, and it is generally recognized that this was only cured by the massive expenditures of WWII.

Also Inflation vs Hyper-Inflationyper is a key distinction.

Ordinary inflation is relatively harmless, and the NET returns available tend to equalize at the actual growth rate of the economy. E.g., if inflation is 5%/yr the stock market is likely growing at 7.5%/year, yielding the same returns as if it were growing at 2.5%/year in a 0-inflation environment.

Hyper-Inflation is the killer - when inflation gets out of control, people lose confidence in the currency, which leads to the vicious cycle of needing to print more, which leads to lower confidence, etc.. Obviously, this is to be avoided nearly as strongly as deflation. It's why Volker raised the Fed Funds Rate to up to 18%, to killed the '70s inflation that threatened to run away. But even in the following decade it was typically 3-4%, as low as 1.1% and as high as 6.1%. Yet we're now seeing 3-4%, likely transient, and people are squawking like it's the end of the world.
You do not draw a distinction in intent between informing the public and furthering the goals of a foreign adversary? Not saying he was, just an example, of how intent absolutely does matter from a legal perspective.
I just logged in via standard console and things seem to be fine.

That direct URL aws.amazon.com gives me a weird error, but everything else seems to be fine.
The best technique I’ve heard of for nudging someone away from a deeply held (but maladaptive) belief is called deep canvassing:

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

The idea is basically that if you attack a strong belief head on, the person you’re talking to will reject your arguments instinctively. It’s a natural psychological defense mechanism. No one likes being wrong, particularly about things that are tied to their identity.

Instead of dictating facts, you start a dialogue and ask questions that encourage critical thinking. If you are empathic, patient, and non-threatening, they sometimes (sometimes!) start making realizations on their own that change their opinion.

And as many a good therapist has said, the patient has to want to change.
Not the only real solution. Maybe the only pharmacologic solution, but it's only a matter of time before someone hits the nail on the head with an accommodating IOL.
yeah.. any realistic case that is how you would do it..

but the scenario i was replying was install a server and immediately start it with a public facing IP before updating..

if i had to do that with no other sane option.. that is how i would do it.. custom install media with latatest patches bundle and ore-configured as much as possible..

But i agree, i wold not install a public facing server while it is public facing, i would install it offline or in a private network, update, configure, secure and then expose it..
Small chance. Being the servile lap dog of the United States is official Tory policy.
A warp drive is easier than a gun? I don’t think that’s likely even in the UK.
So I played #HaloInfinite campaign last night and the night before. As a former Halo/Halo 2 player (I've played sequels as well) I'm ok with new campaign but it just makes you realize how much of a masterpiece and how great Halo 2 was. I have no way to demonstrate this but I was at one time one of the top Halo 2 players globally (top 200 or so) so I know the franchise well enough.

In Halo 2, you were fighting to save the world. That's awesome. From the moment the game started you felt like you were in a race against time to stop the Covenant. It was epic and the story progressed linearly.

The main issue with the new campaign is that you find yourself in an "open world". But unlike other games like Assassin's Creed or Skyrim, the open world doesn't add any value. You don't level up and the special weapons don't make sense.

Like ok I drive around the cramped spaces and then I can get this special “rare” plasma pistol. But I don't always use a plasma pistol. So... cool I guess? I drive or fast travel to get the special weapon? And the same with the mini-bosses. Why am I fighting mini-bosses? Is this Halo or an RPG?

Ultimately the game suffers from someone just not being in charge and lack of clear vision and direction. It has no soul in the design. It's like the developers saw that open world games were popular and said "me too!". You can see this in other choices as well such as the plethora of unbalanced and useless weapons. This can get fixed in the future, but the "kinetic" versus "energy" distinction and how you might be supposed to use both really (and the ammo crates everywhere which make 0 sense) feels forced and not well thought out. Like the plasma carbine.

And this is to say nothing of the Battle Pass system or any of the monetization aspects, map making, or multiplayer in general.

The one thing they definitely got right is the feel of the game. It feels great to play. I wouldn’t be able to tell any difference between it and Halo 2.

The story itself feels cringe. The writing is terrible. Like Hollywood cliche every step of the way. This guy who is always complaining about everything. There’s nothing EPIC about the game. In Halo 2 I felt like I had to rush to save the world and everything made sense. In Infinite I feel like I’m just trying to find a banshee so I can not have to fight through pointless groups of enemies to get to an objective. Ah yes the two hunters Marvin (or whatever) and they're on the UNSC’s most wanted list. Ok? Am I a cop now too? I guess I get an "achievement" for killing them. But what if we just didn't have them and got rid of the achievement? Sometimes when you add things you take away more than you add.

I was really surprised to see all of the positive comments here. Maybe I’m just an old guy yelling at a cloud now and don’t get it. Idk. Like does nobody remember how scary and creepy the flood was from CE? Whatever happened to the mystery and theater?
Tablet mode kind of solves the issue for the Start Menu and the window manager.

But you’re still using applications with tiny touch targets. Plus all the parts of Windows that don’t even work with the on screen keyboard. Try typing a password in the privilege elevation prompt for a laugh.

People with Windows tablets use them with a separate keyboard and mouse in the cover, and then they use the touch screen to draw on pdfs.
Main stream media are the media who used Assange's stories when it became clear they couldn't ignore them; then helped to smear him while ignoring his torture and a long list of disproportionate and illegal actions against him.

You can call them scumbag media, billionaire media, or tool of the warmongers media; but pre-judging people who use the term "main stream media" means you have chosen the side of the opulent oppressor, and willingly put up a wall of ignorance for yourself. Seems dumb, especially on a thread discussing this story of all stories.

https://chomsky.info/199710__/
It‘s a nice theory, but… what would that be? I can‘t really think of much. Sure a lot of us make money as web2 developers but we could switch to web3 without much issue. It wouldn‘t have a serious financial impact.

The people who are heavily invested in these technologies, like VCs, Banks, Social Networks, they all seem to love crypto.
Odd that a major landing page like aws.amazon.com isn't super HA. At a previous $work, the "marketing" page (ie: main dot com site) was horribly mis-managed and had countless outages due to various embarrassing reasons. Every time it was down, customers complained that the product was down (it wasn't, but people used the dot com page to get to the login page).
What is a meaningful number of people for your highness?
AWS was defrauded into delivering services that the account holder did not request. Those services were not delivered to the account holder but instead the fraudster. Therefore a charge back is appropriate in order to "reclaim money from the retailer’s bank when you do not get the goods or services you paid for".
>>The PS5 is basically a paper weight with these electricity prices.

Again, not sure what you mean - PS5 uses very very little power compared to a gaming PC, about 200W under load - my own GPU uses about 300W and that's without the rest of the system. An hour of gameplay on the PS5 costs about £0.05, and that's if you hit the electricity cap and are not on a fixed tariff. At my prices it's more like a two pence per hour. If these expenses turn your PS5 into a paperweight, I have to question how were you able to afford one in the first place.

And in addition - not sure what PS5 has to do with this?

>>So what happens when these kids grow up and don't have to nag their parents?

They buy whatever they like, not sure what you are trying to suggest here.
Yup, my traders are getting the "sorry!" error when trying to log into QuickSight, so looks like another great day at AWS.
That’s kind of like asking what most people eat for breakfast.

Excel is certainly widely used. WordPress, Shopify, platforms like that give small business an easy way to get on the web. I work with small businesses and I’d say it’s a big mix of stuff.

The important thing is learning and understanding business domains.
The language was crap - the IDE/designer was excellent.

For me - the sweet-spot that I used for all of my own personal projects after outgrowing VB1-6 was... Borland Delphi.

The IDE/designer was at least as good as VB - but the Object Pascal language was so powerful. It was truely object-oriented and if one wanted, one could work at a high level of abstraction. Yet it could also natively drop-down to low-level Windows API's, and handle pointer-based work if necessary.

Unfortunately - for my professional career, Delphi never captured the large-scale Enterprise market - that went to .NET or Java and the rest is history...

(Occasionally I noodle about with FreePascal for the nostalgia factor)
I have seen the ‘gamers buy 3 games’ stated by various people before. Do you happen to know off hand what percentage of gamers that applies too. I am trying to figure out if I am just a rounding error when publishers and devs are trying to pitch and develop new games.
Analytics Console
The desync, tickrate and performance problems are just impossible
Yes. I am trying to access the console and there is an error message. I am from India.
The method responsible for variable substitution is here [1].

There are other lookup mechanisms, (didn't check them all) but they only retrieve environment/static values (this one [2] for example retrieves kubernetes attributes). I think the jndi one is the only one that load and execute code.

Edit : I think my understanding of the docs is incorrect so ignore the next paragraph

From the documentation [3], I have the impression that these variables should be evaluated only when loading the pattern layout configuration. But in reality they are also evaluated when formatting the final log message (log.info(...)).

I agree that the input should be sanitized but only if the formatting behavior is a bug and was not intentional.

One possible explanation for the current situation, is that developers assumed that all lookup mechanism will retrieve only static values (env variables for example).

And then another dev introduced the jndi lookup which execute code, but no one noticed the impact on the already existing behavior (evaluation variable when formatting the final msg).

Edit

1: https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/9df31f73b62ba2...

2: https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/blob/c2b07e37995004...

3: https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/lookups.html
Lot of them in jackson in recent years, IIRC.
https://console.aws.amazon.com
up.
Such great memories. I don't know if youth of today feel the same things when playing overwatch/minecraft/fortnite.
I mean it really depends on the drug. Pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) is used to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest, potassium chloride to stop the heart, and midazolam for sedation. Those are drugs used in lethal injection.

Besides forcing a civilian to take a drug without due process is blatantly unconstitutional, and the people declaring these mandates know is unconstitutional, yet they do it anyway. Trying to convince the US citizenry to do something using authoritarian methods never works and the powers that be should also know that. It's a completely bungled affair.

You can be pro-vaccination or anti-vaccination just like you can be pro-sterilization or anti-sterilization; making it compulsory is a whole different thing.
It's for much the same reason that BASIC (in general) was maligned and people wax nostalgic for it today. A lot of people cut their teeth on it, may that be learning how to program or embarking upon a career in programming. In other words, they have much to be thankful for.
History is fiction in the not-fiction area. 95% is missing taken to the grave in silence and the 5% that is allowed to be there is embellished according to a reinforcing narrative agenda of a kind that sells enough copies to make it worthwhile.
I tend to prefer alt-scrollwheel myself. Not sure if that's available in Ubuntu though.

Joycon keys are an interesting idea. I had an idea for a keyboard-mashing library that would map all keys into groups of several directional zones e.g. up down right left, and you could mash generally in the zone of your choice to steer a flight sim or paint or modify paint dynamics. Anyway.
Yes this point about needing to "pay" for what so far has been free will be a blocker for 99% of people I expect.

It will be a hard enough ask to ask the average non-tech user to dump whatsapp or tiktok for something else because of the network effect, then if you tell them "oh and you need to pay with this weird thing you've never heard of too" it will be impossible IMO.

People can go on about paying vs "users are the product" etc, but the truth of the matter is the average person doesn't seem to care that Google et al sells ads.
An example closer to home, though perhaps not as stark, is the loss of expertise in various industries that have been outsourced. The US is a good example. This is one (of many) arguments against outsourcing your industry just because it's cheaper and increases the profits of the outsourcing company. The tradition and culture that allows a certain industry to flourish is interrupted and destroyed and rebuilding that is no small task.
majority of americans who are brainwashed by whatever they see on the mainstream media.
Let me re-iterate my point, because I see a number of commentators here making this logical mistake. When scientist A shows a result, and scientist B can't reproduce it, it does not mean the result is wrong.

Of course the result could be wrong, and, assuming scientist B knows what they are doing, it's an indication that the result is indeed wrong. But it could also be true.

This is not a comment on the state of science and whether incentives are set correctly at the moment (they aren't).
This feels unnecessarily snarky. If you wanna write in Haskell, use Haskell. Rust is a different beastie with different use cases. There's no reason why any language shouldn't benefit from a powerful type system if they can manage it.
Oh yes, I forgot about that!
> our historical understanding of these peoples is clearly incomplete

That's the point being made.The conventional wisdom lens frames them as inferior, instead of us being the ones who are flawed.

There's a difference between "They couldn't have done that..." and "We didn't realize they could have done it."
I used to use a Chromebook running Ubuntu that had a built-in touchscreen, and it was nice. A lot of websites build with touch in mind now, so having access to that kind of interaction ends up being a pleasant add-on.

Instead of thinking of it as a screen upgrade, think of it as a trackpad upgrade. The touchscreen on this Chromebook wasn't even that good, and I still really appreciate it having it. I'm sure one on a MacBook pro would be a really nice experience.
I use public transit every day, I love it. I used to live in a city with a light rail system 2 blocks away. Even with that, I would still find it easier to drive and park downtown due to the delays, congestion, and slowness of the light rail line. Walk 5 minutes, wait 5 minutes, cram on, take 20 minute ride, walk 5 minutes VS 15 minute drive. Public transit needs to be either faster or cheaper than driving and it rarely is.
If you’re a private American with no EU-based assets, why should you care about GDPR? A US Congress that would enforce an EU fine is a Congress that no longer has legitimately to govern the US.
Exactly, the whole web3 blockchain movement seems to assume these contracts are legally binding in real world. For that to happen the same 'untrustworthy' government authority will have to trust the decentralized contracts on internet.
CalyxOS and others which is a daily driver for myself and many I know is all based on AOSP and freely available software from F-Droid and Nextcloud ETC which replicates virtually everything I once used Google for.

This fact has not killed Google because Google controls the App Store that has all the proprietary social media apps most people want.

Apple could dictate their App store
and cloud services are only licensed/supported for use on Apple branded devices just like Google does and still keep the overwhelming majority of their market.

Open source won't kill a monster as big as Apple, but this rabbit hole is kind of moot because Apple will always maximize profit, consumer freedoms be damned.

A forcing function would need to happen like some of the scattered mandates in Europe that only open source software be used in some education, government, and critical infrastructure environments to avoid lock-in.

If enough did this Apple would have to open source or else lose support contracts to those that do.

That's what I will be pushing for longer term.
One of the interesting possibilities for the Fermi Paradox is the fact that we've wiped out the readily accessible deposits of iron, coal, oil, etc. A second go at the industrial revolution would be much harder, if we regressed that far.
I think it's more likely due to that native-Wayland windows are not visible to XWayland clients. XWayland clients, however, see all other XWayland clients' windows.
Sure, that could happen and be the result out of all this. I think that is jumping to the worst possible conclusion though and the result will be a bit more nuanced than that.
Debit cards, credit cards and ATMs came with new best practices to be aware of. And no, not all gaffs result in reimbursals from the bank.

Here, we are acknowledging thats there are humans that commit malicious actions and they shouldn’t do that, and also acknowledge that there are programs that exist in perpetuity to do this which means there is no malicious human to educate, and requires (not just advises) the potential and actual victims to have agency themselves and their victim status is prevented by actually following the best practices that all predate the malicious actors to begin with.
“Freedom of the press” isn’t about your favorite 2016 candidate.
As far as I know only Nazis and evil Japanese military leaders committed war crimes in WW2. According to the books. How is History working for you?
I think this adds some momentum to the pendulum swinging back the other way. Maybe cloud teams can patch your services better than your in-house team can (See 2 critical issues in Azure the last 3 months, _caused_ by MS itself).

Maybe the cloud has a higher uptime than your on-premise infrastructure (see the AWS, Azure outages). Make sure to compare the actual outage time v.s. the stats doctored by various political pressures and weaselly worded SLAs (how do you mean you had an outage? Only 49% of your requests were failing!).
Or just say, “sure fine us another €40million. How do you plan to make us pay?”
Guess whos status page is all green?
Uh… isn’t this exactly what the (typed) relational model is?
Because everything works fine? So a landing page does not work you need to put defcon 3?
Consumer Price Index – “Entry level items” used in calculation
> We're so frightened of mystical thinking and being wrong that people aren't willing to entertain "dumb" ideas.

As the pandemic has showed, quite the contrary we embrace too many "dumb" ideas.
This still seems to work for me, replace region with your region:

https://<region>.console.aws.amazon.com/
"you'll be fighting all these strip mall tenants and owners who are making a living mining the public investment in roadway capacity for their own gain."

The gall of these people. I, in contrast, ride public transportation down a publicly maintained street to a workplace where I earn a salary. No mining here.
I'm still able to log in to the console. Seems to just be the AWS landing page that is down.
I'm a bit biased on this one (worked at a Shipibo ayahuasca/dieta retreat for a year), but that description is very apt. Many master plants work through dreams, not just ceremonies.
For those looking for more support (or criticism) for this way of thinking, the reasoning behind the priority view is quite similar to John Rawls’ arguments that people would adopt a maximin (making the least good outcome as good as possible) strategy when behind the “veil of ignorance” (imagining setting up a society in which you don’t know how advantaged or disadvantaged you’ll be). Here’s more: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/original-position/
Meanwhile radio shows were taking out individual ums and errs, even in the analog era.
Yeah the feedback effect is great. I built a phased timer with espeak for feedback and after a while the default voice had me wishing for ASMR-style TTS of some sort...it was just too harsh.
Rust – Build Your First Web App with Rocket and SeaORM
While I'm not particularly sold on the shadowy organisation argument, what the majority of Americans want should be fairly irrelevant to a matter of British law.

One would presume that Americans want possible crimes against them to be tried in their courts, but the purpose of an extradition hearing is to determine whether what the other country wants is acceptable.