skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These kinds of software are really good at having answers for “what-about”isms, so it doesn’t matter that the subjective experience is bad. For any objective “what-about” in terms of integration story or security story or whatever, they have a thousand different answers that can be applied, so the purchaser will always be convinced that all potential issues are addressed.

The endless branching feature list also results in broken spaghetti code that creates a horrible subjective and inconsistent experience.
AWS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648286
GCompris for the younger ones.

I also have some simple html/js games I made for my daughter. https://letter-press.netlify.app They aren't much, but I like showing her how I can change variable values to tweak the gameplay. She loves choosing her own emoji to play tic tac toe with.
Could we say that they are re-inventing the human mind architecture by enhancing "fluid intelligence" with "crystallized intelligence".

As humans age we apparently lose the former but compensate with the latter as best we can.
polote: "I got banned!"

wayoutthere: "If you want tinder to work for you consistently as a man, get your personal hygiene in order and hit the gym."

Did you just blame GP's getting banned on him not having personal hygiene or not being fit?
I use a 42" monitor and it's never worked as well as I wanted it to.

I wanted to have 16 windows open at once so I could see all the spreadsheets, text files, folders, pictures relevant to the legal matters I was working on. The 3840 x 2160 pixels lets me do it, but there are drawbacks and limitations:

1. Only the windows in the center of the screen are easy to perceive. I have to turn my neck or my eyes to bring the other windows into my attention, or sit further away from the whole screen, as if I had a smaller monitor.

2. The Mac menu is all the way up the top left. That makes using any app in any window that isn't top left difficult because I have to keep sending the mouse away long distance.

A friend got something instead which is better: Two very wide and not very tall monitors, which he arranges vertically stacked. What makes this so successful is that each monitor has its own menu.

I wish I could accomplish the same thing by telling OSX to split the screen horizontally across the middle so I had two menu's too.
And that single AZ took down all of Heroku? This'll be an interesting post-mortem to read.
I'm wondering in which what is the purpose of the stealth bomber on that specific day.
1. With exchanges, non-self custody solutions, and smart early adopters splitting their ownership in many wallets, no one knows the concentration of Bitcoin.

2. I much prefer the crypto dons of Lebanon[0] as the new elite than the old white guys currently running the shows. Bernie Madoff was literally the chairman of NASDAQ.

3. No one says Bitcoin will eliminate the elites, nope. Just erode the power of the current elites, where they made it via financial engineering, wars, and oil.

[0]https://restofworld.org/2021/the-cryptocurrency-dons-of-beir...
Not for me :(.

I recently wanted to play some rounds of de_dust (don't judge) and while the game runs its performance are way worse than when running under windows. I know, small GPU, etc. but still.

Months ago an HN user helped me a bit and I found a (temporary maybe) solution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25348159

Maybe I should try the flatpak version now that I am running ubuntu 20.04.

Anyway, don't have time/will to fiddle around so I booted in windows. And I played.

And then I wanted to play again the following day but Windows decided to update itself for an hour and a half and killed my evening.

#2021

Maybe I should start the flatpack version
I do not use it on the desktop so I have no idea if that works, I would guess that binary graphics drivers are unpatchable with live patch. I've patched the kernel on servers like that for a long time now, I recommended it warmly no problems so far!
You mean to ask if it's a joke? Yes, it's a joke.

Or you ask if it's a lesson about how real systems operate? Because yes, it's a very serious lesson about how real systems operate.

Anyway, you seem out of grasp on system engineering. Your reply downthread isn't applicable (of course fail-safes can fail, anything can fail). If you want to learn more on this area (not everybody wants, and its ok), following that link of system theory books on the wiki may be a good idea. Or maybe start at the root:

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

Notice that there is a huge amount of handwaving in system engineering. I don't think this is good, but I don't think it's avoidable either.
People are anxious, if you have a problem in your infrastructure at least set an automatic reply linking the status page or with a short text describing the situation.
Ah yes, because if the global financial system crashes we’re assured that BTC will be even more relevant!
I don't think so. Since consoles more and more resemble PC hardware it probably will become easier in the future for any platform.

On console you can develop some things differently, a prominent example is physics and player input depending on frame rate and the renderer. That is perfectly fine since you have a completely controlled environment on consoles. It can solve some problems that are otherwise much more complicated to implement.

But on PC where everyone has different hardware this will cause problems. But lately, also with the variants that console manufacturers release, development for consoles and PCs has become more similar, so porting should be easier as a result.
Interested to try it out. As someone who’s done a good bit of pair programming this way with tmux+vim on a cloud vm I’d love to hear what the advantages are over that kind of setup and the differentiators from tmux or screen.
Whoa, nifty.

Why does firefox shows the "chose an application to open this link" when you access the http://localhost link, but shows the content correctly when you access the 127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0 ip-based version?
Amazing. And as long as "technological progress" sufficiently obscures the impact of such ridiculousness the more such projects will continue to occur.

It's a real shame that the collective world of technology does not properly respect the simple solutions that work.

It is almost funny the dichotomy here. Most technological people "admire" the simplicity, elegance and extensibility of the command line. But tell those same people that the best data store for the solution is a relational database and their nose crinkles up.
Dinosaurs survived and are still with us as birds. They didn't evolve "civilization" but some have some intelligence, as we can see with ravens and crows which have complex problem and puzzle solving abilities and complex social structures.
> This has nothing to do with Big tech. If you want to meet people don't use Tinder, that used to work well in the past, it very rarely works now.

EDIT: It seems I misunderstood this statement. I read it as "If you want to meet people don't use Tinder, [not using twitter] used to work well in the past, it very rarely works now"

I don't understand your reasoning here. You're suggesting that tinder is a vital service for some aspect of life now(I agree, unfortunately), but also saying it's not a problem with big tech? This kind of thing is exactly why big tech needs to be regulated.
4:3 is 16:12, so this can be considered as a 4:3 monitor that's taller by one-third.
I think English has embedded itself in the technology niche so deeply that it's not going away anytime soon.

Everything in tech is English based, from programming languages to kernel boot messages. Even the way we think about text doesn't let itself well to Kanji, never mind RTL languages. While GUI operating systems can handle that, your average recovery command prompt cannot.

Other languages might become dominant in new (or currently under explored) areas of science maybe in quantum computing, bioengineering and such, but computing is going to be tied to English for a long time.
'shellfish', 'jellyfish' and 'starfish' are not commonly considered fishes, despite the name.
Yes. Waffle House makes me think of him too:

Sean Brock: "You don't come here expecting the French Laundry. You come here expecting something amazing."

Bourdain (without missing a beat): "This is better than the French Laundry, man."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bct8stbZafI
I want to kind of evangelize that i3/Sway are reasonably powerful, while at the same time being really clear that if EXWM is working for you, it's fine to stick with it, EXWM is great.

Hoping my parent comment doesn't come across as "you need to switch" as much as "if you want to try something else or if you want to move to Wayland, don't let this hold you back."
There's a wonderful British television story called "Jonathan Creek" were the eponymous Johnathan is a stage-hand and magic trick developer who helps a reporter solve locked-room mysteries.

In the pilot episode he says something to the effect of, "It's not magic. It's never magic. People just can't imagine, or can't be bothered to do this much bloody work"
By emulating Windows, it did wonders for OS/2.
Always a risk. Public charities don't let anyone have more than 20% voting control. Tricky one to navigate.
There is a good book on this, I forget the name of the book, was it biography of Andrew Wiles?
I'm 44. Too old for autotune-music, apparently too young for Teller the magician. Or just spent too much time immersed in books instead of a glowing screen.

I'm still of the opinion that the title is misleading, but I accept that most people think differently than myself. That's been a common thread my entire life )) I think that a popular technology company even made a slogan out of it.
> "In the future, people will be trying to please the algorithm. They will double-check if what they are doing right now could be considered by algorithms as something strange, something that most people wouldn’t do."

This is literally the day-to-day of anyone trying to leverage their profile on any social media account. Endlessly chasing after the algorithm, trying to" hack it" by keeping up to date on its moods and preferences. As someone who used to roll that way, I can attest. The future has been around for years now.
Mapped to joystick buttons or full keyboard? PICO-8 just maps up, down, left, right and btn1/btn2.
To continue your analogies, German would probably be Rust (german grammar is strict and pretty inflexible but leads to correct linguistic output), and Mandarin would be C++ ( because you have to learn so much syntax before you can do anything).
(no offense to anyone)
DHS Withdraws H-1B Selection Final Rule
Does anyone know why they have to do weekly micro patch? I mean who is the PM and does he/she really believe it's enough to do tests for weekly releases? The last patch on MacOS was released on the 16th and today I see anew patch.

BTW the picture issue is still there.
They do. However, I was responding to your claim which is objectively, probably wrong.
Actually I wonderd similar. However I guess the resolution comes straight from the marketing department since 16:18 is 16:9+9 which is, as already kinda mentioned in the article, 2x 16:9 screens stacked on top of each other.
You're almost certain given which evidence? You provide none.
Modern games can be run on Linux three ways: with native Linux builds, with Proton/dxvk/d3dvk or SteamPlay, or with VFIO.

The Linux native builds tend to be a version behind or have poorer support than the Windows ones. It's based on the devs, of course, but the take away is that it's historically been a crapshoot.

SteamPlay/Proton provides native or better performance over Windows for what I play. I've been using it so long that I actually don't know which games have native Linux versions anymore. It 99% "just works".

VFIO is virtualization where hardware is passed through to the guest OS. I use KVM+qemu on Linux and attach PCI devices like GPU and storage to the VMs. This is a native Windows game build on a Windows VM on a Linux host. It performs within a tight few percent of bare metal Windows, and the host is fully functional while in use.

Linux gaming options range from direct and inflexible, to feature parity with native performance and compatibility, to complex but guaranteed native support. I've relied on the first and last less and less over the years as Proton has improved.
Why am I struggling?

Why is everything becoming more difficult every day?

Why did I go from top of the class to bottom? Were all my previous successes all flukes? Have I always been this stupid?

Where is all my energy gone? Where is all my hope?

Is this the right path? Is it of my choice or have I been conditioned to pursue it?

Is there a role for me in this world? Am I just a side character in my own life?

Where can I find some guidance? Philosophy, Religion, Science, History?

Is there something wrong with me? Why haven't I been able to connect with people? Do I want to connect with people in the first place?
Curious, what boat model is that?
This is a little more broad, beyond just cloud infra providers, but includes some of the kind of data you're looking for (post-mortems for outage events): https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems
No, there isn't. Maybe at the very beginning when people were genuinely entranced by this Internet thing and hadn't figured out the best way to milk loneliness for profit, but now it's all rotten and beyond repair.

If you want to meet new people, find yourself new real-life hobbies.
Porting anything to Linux, let alone doing it the Right Way, is kind of a big ask for a lot of development teams, let alone the publisher who's surely seen the (admittedly improving!) graphs for Linux use among gamers. We can dynamically link things, but I don't want to be up to the elbow in some game's ass for compatibility's sake when a better and more durable option exists, plus less-technical friends literally can't do these kinds of fixes. And this doesn't even address any anticheat the game might require!

I applaud your ideological purity, but when something like Proton exists, wishing for competent devs and motivated end-users -- while dismissing anyone who doesn't meet your standards for either -- seems self-defeating to me. The referenced incompetent devs don't even really need to think in Linux terms or do much extra work -- they just have to watch their elbows and tuck in their shirts while writing the win32 calls they had to write anyway. If you were a dev team, BigCo or indie, shitty or competent, which would you rather do: target two OSes, or one?
> so it's 3 days before Christmas and you wake up to discover the organization YOU created and built from the ground up has been taken away by a rogue board with no notification

If this isn't cancel culture run amok, then I don't know what is. Somehow, we've enabled a culture that now assumes one is guilty until proven innocent. The worst part about this is that there is zero transparency around the alleged offenses. We were supposed to be moving towards a more transparent society, this is anything but transparent.
Question to the sysadmins here: Is it really that outrageous of amazon to have such issues or are people way to spoiled to appreciate the effort that goes into maintaining such a service?

Edit: Not supporting amazon, i generally dislike the company. I just don't understand the extend to which the criticism is justified
TBH I'd rather the bugs be disruptive than being irritating. If they are disruptive people will just use other tools or MS will treat it more seriously. Now they are just irritating so they ignore or push them further.
Most AAA studios don't care about such standards, as proven by game consoles and Metal already being supported by Unreal, Unity, Ogre3D, Xenko/Stride, among others.
Me: Hesitation at last job moving absolutely everything (including backups) to AWS because if it goes down it's a problem I'm a firm believer in some kind of physical/easily accessible backup.

Coworkers: "You're an f'n idiot. Amazon and Facebook don't go down, you're holding us back!" <-Quite literally their words.

Me: leaves cause that treatment was the final straw

Amazon and Facebook both go down within a month of each other, and supposedly they needed backups

Them: shocked pikachu face
For young kids Ubisoft free game "Rabbids Coding" is fun, they learn about loops, conditions while having fun watching Rabbids doing silly actions. Not many levels but just enough to learn the basics.
Most AAA studios don't care about GL, it isn't even a thing on most game consoles.
Dell's newest is the P2421 (near the low end in terms of cost, at least - I believe they've got a 30" for roughly a thousand dollars). I have three U2415 monitors that I've been very happy with, and the P2421 seems to be the recent evolution of that model.
Purely out of interest, I'd like to know more about your streaming architecture. I assume postgres just holds the meta data, and the actual video content is stored elsewhere? What strategies have you employed to scale the streaming part of your service? I imagine 4 million users a month is quite a significant amount of traffic!
Currently, I use Geforce Now [1] to play games that have unsupported anti-cheat solutions. When I started, they didn't support Linux and you had to fake a ChromeOS user-agent, but nowadays you can simply use it with Chrome/Chromium.

[1]: https://play.geforcenow.com
Okay? So do ID verification. Tinder won't see your ID. They don't know you are the same person.
Yes, I guess by "Safari isn't forkable" he means the GUI application, but WebKit itself is definitely open-source and has been forked before (and is itself a fork of KHTML).
That's true, and good advice.

I've only used index investing to get exposure to specific markets or segments where I find it difficult to do decent research, but you're right that it's a better way to park funds over a longer term.
I cannot say for tinder, but I just opened bumble for the first time in weeks and apparently I have 50+ likes.
Is Bumble big tech ? No, still they have the same tactics than Tinder.

I'm not saying there is no problem (I have wrote several article criticizing Match group and the app dating market), I'm just saying this has nothing to do with big Tech. Any dating app (and some do) can do the same as Tinder
Very likely. Anthony Bourdain at Waffle House [1] is worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPLxppm6DI
> It is a period, from 400-800BC, when, for reasons not entirely clear, radiocarbon dating breaks down.

That’s rather unsatisfying. Does anyone know some articles that summarize the current theories?

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_plateau
Good luck with that, Steam Machine were selling like hot cakes.
Journalist sues Twitter after ban for saying vaccine doesn't stop transmission
Amazon is down again, they won!
Ask HN: does building a site for creators to find a job be useful?
How to Care Less About Work
"It is cheaper to design a system that must be up which accounts for a data center being totally down and a portion of the system being totally unavailable than to add more datacenter mitigations."

Citation needed - the same issue with testing, data races and expensive bandwidth come up.
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Momentum Dash: Your space for focus
Interesting theory, but I'm still unconvinced.

AFAIK, the electric potential of the tower is a product of the signal that is being sent multiplied by the carrier wave. When the potential on the tower is high, it will burn the weed stronger; when the potential of the tower is close to 0, the rate of burn of the weed will not change. The burning weed will reproduce the potential of the tower: signal times carrier. Since the carrier is too high a frequency for our ears or the weed too, we only listen signal that is inside human hearing interval.
Different teams (and skill levels probably). I'm actually thinking MS leaves unimportant work (like Teams because it's bundled) to newbies or new PMs. Good developers are expensive.
Welcome to the wonderful world of large_corps. Yes this is normal. The crazy part is it sounds like you are in a good one, since you didnt have to sit in three seperate four hour meetings with a project manager for this request. The good thing is now you are work free till sometime q1 2022. Get a part time job and double dip. Take long walks and level up skills. Learn the corp structure and internals.
Cool! Would be especially interested in your feedback as someone who tried this before.

I think a big difference is that you'll get to have two different cursors in the same tab (and are able to focus on different panes).
"Electrical power systems are designed to be fully redundant so that in the event of a disruption, uninterruptible power supply units can be engaged for certain functions, while generators can provide backup power for the entire facility." https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-center/infrastructure...

So they have 2 different sources of power coming in. And generators. They do mention the UPS is only for "certain functions", so I guess it's not enough to handle full load while generators spin up if the 2 primaries go out. Or perhaps some failure in the source switching equipment (typically called a "static transfer switch").

Some detail on different approaches: https://www.donwil.com/wp-content/uploads/white-papers/Using...
You never see an emergency without an ambulance showing up, did you think that the EMT's are the real villains!

This is a truly simian approach at pointing the finger at people who plan on preventing disaster because simply uttering its name causes it to be.
I'm using a 55" 4k Curved TV (which they've unfortunately stopped selling) and it really helps with the "only the center window is easy to perceive". I'd previously used a small 42" 4K TV that was flat and the only way I could really use the corner "windows" was when I was using it on my standing desk to I could lean left or right.

The other thing that's absolutely essential for using these larger format monitors is window management software and in general a more keyboard/macros focused workflow.
I believe that is the only way indeed. Though another commenter noted that these kinds of apps are heavily dependent on a network to work.
Perhaps it can be an extension on Mastodon somewhere in the future.

Matchmaking is such a generic problem anyway. Friends, Business relations, Vacancies, Partners, Sex buddies. We'll get there, I believe.
It was updated on the 16th and the 22nd on my side. TBH I'd rather it NEVER got updated since the beginning (about a year ago). I don't need all those features.
I saw somebody say once that a hundred years from now, the default common language will be English as it is spoken in China.
And if we're just complaining about Microsoft anyway, who on earth decide it was a good idea to step away from 'every keystroke will be handle eventually, in order'?.

Nowadays trying to search in the start menu or trying to log in under heavy load you just have to hope it recognizes all keystrokes.
Fair point on comprehensiveness. I think I'd meant to write "Wikipedia lists 18...", but lost that compiling the comment.

Point remains, though, that for a species (or possibly family) that existed on Earth for a few million years (Wikipedia gives 68--66 mya, so only 2 million years, same article you cite) ... has turned up probably fewer than 100 surviving specimens, out of an estimated total 2.5 billions which had ever existed. That's literally a one-in-amillion chance of fossilisation, preservation, and discovery, so far.
Damn, I should have been C64SysRef.
Sure! But when the question is "Is country x rich or poor" it's hard to gauge it any other way than using macroeconomics.

"How would you feel living in country X" and "how does a person in a similiar position as myself feel living in country X" is quite personal question and probably quite detached from macroeconomics unless comparing countries with wildly different GDP:s.
I've never owned an XBox and have no idea what their platform or catalog are like.

Are there any Linux+XBox people here who can share their experience?