skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had our first baby 18 months ago. While we weren't charged for skin-on-skin contact, we were charged when the nurse offered to take the baby to the nursey so that mom could rest and recuperate for a few hours.

I can't remember how much it was, but I do remember being upset at the cost...

Also, in terms of out of pocket expenses, I think it really depends on your insurance, hospital, and even the state you live in (here in the U.S.).
What should we make of this? A successful business model? A warning sign that humans can't control themselves in the face of addictive products? Or just another fad, to be replaced by another fad in a short time?
I did a Mixergy interview so bad they didn't even release it
Will be interesting to see what they do.
If a body, then why not an egg?
At this rate I half expect the telescope's rocket to collide with Santa Claus on ascent.
Also, “sram na to” (“I shit on it”).

(Another less vulgar, if somewhat irrelevant, alternative is “ani ziębi, ani grzeje”, or “it neither chills me nor warns me up”).
If you use Chrome, aren't you sending all your data to google directly? Can any number of plugins ensure your privacy?
Is Learning this skill/achieving this long term goal for self improvement worth it? Will AI manage to do this in a few years and make this skill worthless? It’s very hard to know what skills to invest in during the rise of AI.
Which Schools Produce the Most Unicorn Founders?
Let them sue. I see the headline now, "Amazon sues status page website for accurately reporting on outages". Followed by lots of people hosting mirrors to stop.lying.cloud and saying things like "We are all stop.lying.cloud now"
You are right, I almost forgot about Win 8 already.
As I read I was thinking
Please don't use chromium
Please don't use chromium
Please don't use chromium
Please don't use chromium
Then I found it... Yes
Then I saw 'building or own'...
I thought. Why oh why.... sigh... At least consider Firefox
Bitbucket having issues too: https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/
I second it.

Specially because it is literally news from yesterday, already published in a better source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/james-webb-space-telescope-laun...

Leaving the title as is may trick people into thinking it was postponed again.
The comparison to oil isn't quite fair to oil. Oil has a lot of negative side effects, to be clear, but the benefits to society from the use of oil include pretty much all the things we depend on for modern civilization. That is why replacing oil with renewables is going to be such a challenge.

When it comes to crypto, on the other hand, I think the challenge would be listing any real benefits to begin with.
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Hubspot seems to be down too [0].

[0] https://status.hubspot.com/
This device represents so much hard work in pursuit of new technologies and new capabilities, it is absolutely worth taking an extra day or however many more to make sure things go correctly.
latency. us-east-1 is positioned very nicely relative to many large businesses in North America and Europe. This gives you pretty good access to a very large percentage of the economies of the world with good latency... while not requiring you to architect your application around multiple regions...
Not necessary. Quantum AI is basically explaining something mysterious by something else mysterious, even when there is no indication they are related.
Can you expand on that? What feature do you use in east 1 that isn’t everywhere else that it’s your whole implementation?
And only one AZ in us-east-1. But... it's clearly having a large impact as well.
Why would you set the benchmark at "the kid remembering it"?
Naming Schemes
No, it's not a trademark issue. They copied the work verbatim (including code, which is not covered by trademark law, but by copyright law), modified it, and then put the original copyright notice in the legalese. This is copyright infringement.

And consumers are clearly deceived - hence why my original comment asking about it was written and has several upvotes.
You're acting like this is an impersonal, natural event. It isn't.

Fate didn't choose kstrauser. An irresponsible academic sent an email blast to people who were not relevant to his study, without making even token efforts to filter things down.
Mines had 100% uptime for the past 2 months. I’ve had great value for money using a NUC for personal projects than public cloud subscriptions over the past few years.
"X is not pope/saint-like, so I will stick with Y which is openly a villain"
Great software feel obvious, it does not hide what it is doing, and where abstractions occur they are explained and they use descriptive structures and variables. Great software does not require you to learn something complex or non-trivial just to use it for a trivial task. Great software follows standards where standards exist, and follow conventions without variation where no standards exist. Great software is written securely, and where security issues are being handled great software doubles down on being obvious, documented, and documented with examples. Great software rarely comes from corporations, great software tends to come from lone programmers or lone teams with a non-trivial history developing together.
This horrifies me... This is why I'm not a biologist.
> The inlining is an implementation detail and I've seen it happen differently across different platforms.

Do you have more information on this? I would be interested to read more about it. As far as I was aware (and my knowledge is certainly not exhaustive), the only thing kinda related is as noted in the bash man page:

> The command substitution $(cat file) can be replaced by the equivalent but faster $(< file).
I have not. I considered one when I was replacing the EdgeRouter but I'm a firm believer in separation of concerns, I didn't want my router to be handling my WiFi or doing the switching.

It would have been my top choice had I wanted to stick to an "all in one".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosomal_frameshift if you really want to bend your brain a little.
> In 2020 a rash of anti-zoom propaganda that I'm almost certain was driven by Microsoft led to a company-wide prohibition on using anything other than Teams "for security reasons" where i worked.

It was not propaganda. There was no privacy protection. I work for a K-12 and there was literally no way to configure Zoom such that it wasn't a massive FERPA violation waiting to happen. There was originally no way to gatekeep entrants to a virtual Zoom classroom. It even earned it's own term: Zoombombing [0]. It was completely unsuitable for use. It's like it was designed for the Internet of the 1990s.

The only way we figure that so many districts were using it was:

1. It was free when basically nothing else was.

2. There was no time to evaluate alternatives when the pandemic started.

3. They were hoping nobody was looking too closely.

4. They didn't properly evaluate Zoom or they just didn't tell anyone how Zoom didn't ensure privacy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombombing
Automatically installed, yet no automatic reboots. Maybe it’s because I’ve never used the Home edition, but I’ve never had Windows force a reboot on me. Sometimes my laptop won’t wake up out of sleep mode and it reboots, but that’s about every 2 months.

The last time I was really angry about Windows was with Window Me. The entire TCP stack took a dive which I couldn’t recover from. Even replaced the NIC. Replaced that with Windows 2000 and haven’t had a serious issue since.
Big list of http static servers:

https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255
This has nothing to do with the validity of the case, though. Just because it's a ridiculous court case doesn't mean it's not legally sound...
The IP leak one is really interesting to me. Considering the quip regarding the fact that centralized servers are performing the link preview operation because it's not using E2E encryption... But if it was, and the client machine was generating the preview, then wouldn't that force exposure of the client's IP to the remote server?
An analog computer that I'm not giving up is my dial caliper. Accuracy aside, the dial "updates" itself continuously, and you can even anticipate where it's going to settle. It takes a very high quality (expensive) digital caliper to match the responsiveness of the dial.

I'm not giving up the nice analog stereoscopic microscope in my workshop. Digital microscopes exist (still the optics are analog) but actually making a user interface that's as snappy as human vision remains a hard problem, and companies like Keyence who succeed at it aren't making it cheap.

These are user interface issues rather than accuracy issues. A problem with bringing many archaic technologies into the digital domain is actually understanding what problem they were solving.

(I'm also not giving up my nice Mitutoyo vernier caliper, but that's more of an aesthetic thing).
My computer once decided that 1 A.M. in the night is a great time to automagically boot up and do updates. I had to physically turn off power, so it wasn't able to do that. Even disabling that feature in the bios didn't work for some reason. I still don't know how the machine was able to do it. Fast boot wasn't even enabled, because it caused other problems when it was.

It stopped happening someday, but it's still haunting me. It doesn't really build trust.
> Doesn't help with the fact that the icons on these buttons are drawn as if there's no pixel grid and so are a blurry mess

Are you using a MacBook by any chance? Out of the box the Air and 13” Pro are set to render to a higher resolution than the panel, which is then non-integer scaled down. So everything is just sort of fuzzy.
This isn’t so far from the truth. NeXT era Steve Jobs:

I had three or four people who kept bugging me that I had my rear over the Xerox PARC and see what they were doing, and so I finally went over there. They were very kind and they showed what they were working on, and they showed me three things.

But I was so blinded by the first one that I didn’t even really see the other two.

One of the things they showed me was object-oriented programming. They showed me that, but I didn’t even see that. The other one they showed me was really a networked computer system, there were a hundred Alto computers, all networked, using e-mail, etc., etc.. I didn’t even see that.
I was so blinded by the first thing they’d shown me, which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I had ever seen in my life.

The simplest way to explain NeXT is Steve getting back to those other two things after turning the first thing into a product with the Macintosh.
I wonder what it will take for states to eventually get fed up enough to ban NSO outright.

I guess they would probably have to stop being happy customers themselves first though…
Boil water, let cool one minute. Brew 16:1 ratio. French press increases LDL cholesterol levels, drink sparingly. Coffee machines are a series of tubes, they grow mold if you don't descale them regularly.
Anyone using VMware Cloud services is probably laughing. Just chuck it at Azure or GCP or back on prem.
I worked for a company for a decade that grew through acquisition. Their business model was slow moving, risk averse, and lean staff. And they made a ton of money.

They bought troubled companies that were agile, over-staffed, and most importantly unprofitable and our job was to integrate them and then gut the staff to bare bones. Typically those unprofitable companies were profitable within 12 months. The existing staff at these acquisitions hated it because they had only ever known their unsustainable unprofitable way of doing things.

"I used to call X and he could do this right away".

"Interesting. Is that why your company was bleeding money and the owners came to us begging to have someone buy their sinking ship?"

You were bought. If you don't like the new company, you can leave. You can try to tilt at windmills, or you can stay and open your mind and maybe you will learn the real reason things work the way they do at the new company. Finally, maybe you are right about all of this. I would quit and start your own company and crush your current employer's inefficiency in the market.
True sad fact. I first thought it is a management problem but lately I see it is the tech bros who push for fads in the hopes of staying relevant and not asuming responsability for choices.
Windows 10 will definitely update and reboot without the user taking any action.

One thing to remember is that many streamers are using dual-PC setups and the bigger streamers may only run these systems for streaming -- not for personal use.

It's very possible the streamer missed any update nags because they are mainly interfaced with the gaming PC.

And depending on their setup all the user input might be going to the gaming PC and the streaming PC might think it's currently inactive but with a pesky OBS process left running.
Nope. Because these laws also protect people who make such websites from the corporations they're commenting on, too. The respect must be mutual, else e.g. OSS has no basis for legal protection, either.

Being concerned for the proper respect of IP laws is something that benefits everyone.
Some additional French delicacies:

- Rien à foutre : "Nothing to cum for"

- Ca m'en touche une sans m'en faire bouger l'autre: "It touches one of my balls without moving the other one". Actually popularize by French President Chirac :)

- Je m'en branle : "I wank about it"

Seems like involving sexual organs is pretty much international.
One of them can be fixed with a software update.
This occurs for the same reason the spike protein "spikes" in the ovaries: the epithelial receptors for ACE2 and in the ovaries and in placentas are also present in the testes.

BTW Nicki Manaj was correct about her cousin!
Imgur is suffering from this too, I think.
It seems that it's due to powerloss.

[05:01 AM PST] We can confirm a loss of power within a single data center within a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region. This is affecting availability and connectivity to EC2 instances that are part of the affected data center within the affected Availability Zone. We are also experiencing elevated RunInstance API error rates for launches within the affected Availability Zone. Connectivity and power to other data centers within the affected Availability Zone, or other Availability Zones within the US-EAST-1 Region are not affected by this issue, but we would recommend failing away from the affected Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) if you are able to do so. We continue to work to address the issue and restore power within the affected data center.
Which isn't there outside GTK-based environments.
After the usual government ID requests were satisfied and the automated e-mails started saying "we're done here," I just googled it and found a few anecdotal cases where someone had gone the Oculus route. It worked for my daughter. She had a really tough time returning the Oculus. She's a slightly more than casual gamer, but she's also a poor grad student.
Crypto=/= Bitcoin

Bitcoin offers a decentralized, supply capped alternative to central banking.

If this seems useful to you, use it, if it doesn't, don't use it. Simple as that.

Currently people find the ability to have unconfiscatable money attractive.
Interestingly, I have windows software that were working with wine previously but new versions don't seem to work for some reason. I used the new bottles thing. Compared to a copy of among us which played seamlessly.
I thought it was the best I've used. It was very intuitive and I could easily test my mic and sound. It handled my 5mb hotspot connection without stuttering. Contrast that to Teams: Desktop or web version? One allows anonymous use, the other doesn't. You have to Google to find out how to test mic and sound, which brings up the desktop version. I was using the web version and ran out of time for searching. The video would freeze every 30 seconds or so.

Zoom did it right and that's why it's popular.
Perhaps, but the status page could exist within legal boundaries with a few trivial changes anyway. Why not just do that?
I have a legally sound case to divorce my wife (anyone does, you can divorce for no reason), however she need not worry as that would be colossally stupid on my part. The same goes here.
This is a reductio ad absurdum comparison.
> How is the norm for viruses to continue to become more lethal?

The norm is for viruses to end up somewhere in the middle, but chances are that the lethality is still very high. The whole idea that viruses evolve to be less lethal simply isn't true and very much outdated.

> That does not align with anything I've ever heard.

That is possible, it is a pretty persistent thing but it has been dealt with decisively since the 80's:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224043344_Coevoluti...

In a nutshell: it is likely that viruses (and other parasites) change once they have made their jump to a new species. This change is mostly random, selection pressure will lead to maximizing for R0, which may or may not lead to a lower level of lethality but this is by no means guaranteed. Some outliers may evolve to become more lethal, some other outliers may evolve to be (much) less lethal, but for the bulk an intermediary level of lethality (which can still be very high) is the normal outcome.

This is experimentally confirmed over and over again over the timescales that we have been doing these.

The shortest way in which you can condense all this is: "to a virus it is replication that matters, not what happens to the host after it has replicated". Of course viruses don't have any conscious plan but the evolutionary mechanism selects for (more) successful reproduction so it will seem like that from the outside.
Oil and natural gas have lifted billions of people out of generational poverty. It wouldn't be possible for you to type that comment on your computer or laptop and post it to Hacker News without their existence.

When I got into Bitcoin I wasn't a "victim" and I'm still not one. Maybe you're the victim of your own preconceived notions.
At least the delays are decreasing.

Let's just hope the series converges.
I don't, sorry. I just know it's something some implementations opt-in to (especially drop-in replacements to bash). It's behavior I've observed quite a bit and have leveraged it in some cases to improve the performance of some critical bash scripts over the years. I'd also be interested in some prose about it.
It doesn't make a difference to me, some people are susceptible to actually playing along with that idea of responsibility. My observation is that some of those people are less applicable participants than others.
I don't get it. How much surface area is 1kg supposed to be?
That is the difference of specialised software in comparison to duct-taped solution like Teams. The first one has code to decide what is meaningful for the user in a given context, the second "just renders" the whole thing and show the user a thumbnail, probably without even knowing what kind of content it is dealing with.
Anti-cheat is really only a problem for the big multiplayer games.

But it’s a huge problem. Cheats are big business for the top multiplayer games. My gaming friends and I simply stop playing for a while when new cheats come out and run rampant because losing to cheaters every other round gets old fast. I understand why developers have to do something about it.

If a Linux version was released and deemed easier to cheat with, scores of cheaters would be installing Ubuntu that night just to start cheating. This is why I don’t see Linux versions of AAA multiplayer games coming any time soon.
If you haven't seen yet, news is it was a power loss:

> 5:01 AM PST We can confirm a loss of power within a single data center within a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region. This is affecting availability and connectivity to EC2 instances that are part of the affected data center within the affected Availability Zone. We are also experiencing elevated RunInstance API error rates for launches within the affected Availability Zone. Connectivity and power to other data centers within the affected Availability Zone, or other Availability Zones within the US-EAST-1 Region are not affected by this issue, but we would recommend failing away from the affected Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) if you are able to do so. We continue to work to address the issue and restore power within the affected data center.
Hey, no matter how you buy a ticket, it'd have to be verified by the official eventually.

> How often do you actually know who that really is? Let‘s say Beyoncé is coming to the arena closest to you.

Interesting, so you are saying either:

- Beyoncé official publish nothing about the event
- We have no way to look up the ticket info

Not likely IMO especially if we are talking stars like Beyoncé.

> Plus, if I have to go to the central entity and check all that data, where is the benefit of going decentralized?

Well, de-centralization is nothing about convenience, and it's not just about ticket-selling.

I totally agree that blockchain & web3 is not mature at all comparing to how it is now, and I don't think it's going to be success unless they find a way to generally interact with real-world technically and legally.
Another mist opportunity is that in fantasy stories indigenous people always wear drab brown. In the real world indigenous people, like everyone else, do care about fashion and how they look.

In the real world indigenous people often wear colourful clothes with very complex patterns. People's clothes can say a lot about their culture, religion and hierarchical structure. Spending some effort on clothes can add a lot of depth into stories world building.

https://www.jenmansafaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Ang...
https://vietnam.travel/sites/default/files/inline-images/vie...
> I don't understand the strong certainty against the idea that there's some physics based piece of the puzzle that we're missing.

There is a missing piece of the puzzle all right, it's the huge role the environment and body play in developing intelligence. Everyone's focusing on quantum effects or just the brain forgetting that all they learn comes from the experience of the environment on the body.

The forces that shape and restrict life are the same that guide our learning process and evolution. We're looking too close to the brain and missing the big picture. Embodiment is the thing we're glossing over.

Quantum intelligence or consciousness seems like a detour, a blind walk into mysticism unless someone can prove there are things in neurology and AI that only make sense from a quantum perspective.
you have let Your emotions take over And are blind to everything. Please explain Why is gold not a Ponzi scheme?
I was more making the point that you seemed unaware of the concept of public relations and instead thought that Microsoft developers would take the initiative to sow the seeds of Zoom discontent themselves.
Yet another Google Chrome clone with privacy mods. How many of those we have already? Four? Five? Good job cementing Googleopoly of internet.
The job ads for their positions will have different experience and education requirements.

Even judges understand there is a difference between "entry level" and "senior."
Given the hilariously awful reputation of the AWS status page I would hazard a guess that such a page would also be incredibly inaccurate.

If you can’t even admit you’re having an issue how can you keep an accurate record?
Brave might not be FOSS-hostile, but they are still a re-badged chromium with some crypto-stuff on top.
> It’s a defense.

That's warped view of the world. A corporation can always take you to court and harass the crap out of you, the court will side with your defense because you were right and claimant was wrong, you had the right to do what you did.
yes agree
> Obviously this approach isn't scalable but it serves me well.

It's perfectly scalable. Just give everybody their own home server.