skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analog is especially useful for neural networks, where small and cheap matters and you can deal with the “errors” through training and backpropagation.

Human brains are inherently analog…as evidenced by the fact that thinking becomes much more precise after a cup of coffee. Analog effect.
I needed the reminder to be patient.

I was lucky during the financial crisis to have cash that I could put in a term deposit for 5 years at 7%, my first-ever term deposit, To my detriment, I took out half after a couple of years to create an online game that failed.

However, when the rest matured, I was lucky to triple that money by investing in a couple of speculative ventures. Having used up my allotted measure of luck, I now look for solid investments.

I have recently liquidated about half my shares. I am waiting for the bubble to burst. I have my eye on a couple of solid companies whose share price may fall dramatically as people need the cash. I am approaching seventy and I need a solid portfolio that I can slowly sell down to meet living expenses.

My rules:

1) Avoid bitcoin, it seems so much like the "Souk Market": https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wires/the-greatest-bubble-yo...

2) Avoid meme and NFT stocks; they seem like the new tulip craze.

3) Avoid unethical stocks; they remind me of the South Sea Company:
https://www.britannica.com/event/South-Sea-Bubble

4) Avoid hugely inflated P/E ratios; remember pets.com.

In short, look for ethical* companies with strong fundamentals.

*However, I am not sure that ethical and profitable can co-exist. So my rule is to choose a company that has a product or service that I use and like, or a CEO/founder whom I admire. I try to research companies. But I find that other people's advice is rather limited, as they tend to know less about the companies than I do. In the end, you have to trust your own judgement.
Linux has no mandatory automatic updates in the first place,* so this situation doesn't ever need to take place.

To answer your question, it is possible to update the Linux kernel without rebooting, but you may run into some issues with kernel modules that would be solved with a reboot.

* Edit: After writing this comment, I remembered that Snaps on Linux have automatic updates that can only be deferred up to 90 days. However, Snaps don't handle Linux kernel updates. I don't recommend using Snaps.
Isn't it easier to port a console game to linux, than it is to port a windows game to linux?
Maybe this is new in Windows 11, benefit of the doubt and all, but this isn’t a thing on any other versions of Windows. Forced reboots aren’t a thing. Misclicks, however, are.
> At MS some department (marketing, sales, product managers, devs?) somehow coordinated a bunch of press leaks (not sure how these were even determined to be 'leaks'), made sure that media outlets collectively believed that they were problematic, and then used those leaks to influence sales?

You’re literally describing a thing that exists which is called public relations. I’ll admit it is unlikely for the call to be coming from inside the house, but this would be the exact kind of thing done by an agency contracted by Microsoft — for among other reasons, plausible deniability should anything become public. “Microsoft would never badmouth Zoom.”

> media outlets were keen to cover stories around Zoom

Hmmm, I wonder if there’s a field of professionals who make media outlets more keen to cover stories around a certain topic?
Revive servo, and call it drust.

Another one byte the drust quick song ala winamp on first launch.
Can you replace ‘free’ with ‘open source’?
Scientists Found a Cradle of Life Under Antarctica
I've had no luck with Photoshop in Wine or VB seamless mode (PS's custom window decorators are probably the reason for the latter). A full-desktop Windows VM is still good enough with guest extensions though, so I can easily resize the whole Windows desktop with just a maximised PS window inside.
Imagine an IPO for a company without any requirement to make money, follow conventional accounting standards, delivery any actual product. It's an open-ended but legalized form of money laundering and fraud.
Since when does Windows have mandatory automatic updates?!
The audio/video part of Teams is almost flawless for me up to, say, 20 people. I was actually impressed with how well they handle multiple devices - joining a meeting from a phone and laptop at the same time, or moving from one to the other is done in the best possible way.

Everything else is horrible - note taking is useless, the chat is full of visual noise and slow, the calendar is mostly useless and takes too long to update, file sharing is infamously convoluted etc.

We currently use Slack for chat and Teams for audio/video calls and I quite like this setup. Slack is absolutely horrible for audio/video calls, so moving to it entirely is a no-go, hope the company will keep being ok to pay for both.
> Surveying the landscape, it seems likely that if there is a bubble that it is not in equities but rather in credit. In an environment where low single-digit positive inflation is widely expected by market participants, how can it be rational for “investors” to buy long-term bonds with negative yields? ...

It can be rational if investors believe that interest rates are headed even lower. When that happens, bond prices will appreciate still further. There is no limit, technically, to how low long term treasury yields can go. Therefore, there is no upper bound to treasury prices.

The thing about bubbles is that at the top few are calling out "bubble." Instead, every bear whose mind can be changed has thrown in the towel and joined the party. It's all about how the old rules don't apply anymore. A new paradigm. The only voices of caution are the parma-bears with their tinfoil hats. They will eventually be right, but will have missed booking profits during the entire insane event in the process.
People don't get much of a choice. It's a bit like saying people must love Joe Biden because they elected him, which could only be true if you ignored a whole universe of other factors.
50 Laws of Investing
It appears that the CPSC in the US has decided that it's safer for babies to sleep in objects that can be tipped over (must have legs) than in a box on the ground.
The best is the furniture maker splash screen.

My wife says what does it have to do with the internet. I told her Mozilla has conflicting priorities.
Wait until you have apply a security update for teams in environments where users aren't local admins and get a desktop-wide install.

Microsoft wrote a not officially supported Powershell script to hack this in, noting this might be needed "perhaps for a critical security release".

https://github.com/microsoft/TeamsMsiOverride
CPSC has always been a way to get your chief competitor's products banned! Good old fashioned American corruption!
Our RDS instances have completely packed up. Hell knows what's going on. Here come the customer support tickets.
> I don't take sides in this crazy divisive topic but please don't ignore that no small amount of people died almost immediately after getting the vaccine as well.

That’s crazy talk. European countries have virtually vaccinated their whole adult population with a number of deaths linked to the vaccine so low it’s negligible.
Status page says there are issues. It’s not all green.
They sell the service, as evidenced by the fact that Poland got banned from using it, which would not be possible if they sold the "tech" as a reusable pack of 0-days: https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,27895266,israel-bans-polish-int...
> In 2020 a rash of anti-zoom propaganda that I'm almost certain was driven by Microsoft...

Perhaps it was driven by Zoom's poor security and privacy record?

Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws
https://www.fastcompany.com/90486586/zoom-banned-from-new-yo...

Google Told Its Workers That They Can’t Use Zoom On Their Laptops Anymore
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans...

Elon Musk's SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoom-video-commn/e...

Apple pushes silent macOS update to remove web server secretly installed by Zoom
https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/10/zoom-apple-macos-update/

Taiwan joins Canada in banning Zoom for government video conferencing
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/taiwan-zoom-video-conference...

Is Zoom the Next Huawei? ‘Puppet of Chinese,’ Say Critics
https://securityboulevard.com/2020/06/is-zoom-the-next-huawe...

Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/zoom-lied-to-use...

DOJ charges highlight Zoom's China problem
https://www.axios.com/china-zoom-charges-influence-1906e8e5-...

Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act
https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/

Zoom security issues: Here's everything that's gone wrong (so far)
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/zoom-security-privacy-woes

Mass move to work from home in coronavirus crisis creates opening for hackers: cyber experts
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber/...

Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_...

‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-tech...

Ex-NSA hacker drops new zero-day doom for Zoom
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-nsa-hacker-drops-zero-1400...

Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/

Attackers can use Zoom to steal users’ Windows credentials with no warning
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/unpat...

The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started
https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-backlash-zero-days/

Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500,000
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdqgv/hackers-selling-cr...

Researchers found and bought more than 500,000 Zoom passwords on the dark web for less than a cent each
https://www.businessinsider.com/500000-zoom-accounts-sale-da...

Beware of ‘ZoomBombing:’ screensharing filth to video calls
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/zoombombing/
I definitely agree with this sentiment in terms of general UX and performance.
I can't find a lot of messages and files that I'm looking for because it's so badly structured. And it has a very noticeable lag whenever I perform any function (clicking on "Activity" out of "Chat" for example).

The only good thing about it is video calling. Without testing this, I always feel it's much faster/smoother and has better screen sharing quality. Also the launch screen does a great job (in comparison to Zoom for example)
> it's still really important to recognize the deep ecological knowledge that indigenous peoples have of their environments

OP's point is that this is often overblown. Plenty of ancient civilizations ran themselves into the ground through environmental collapse. I'm currently reading The Big Oyster, which documents evidence of the native population over-harvesting the New York harbor.

Almost by definition, a colonist will be part of a more-powerful civilization than the indigenous populations she encounters. Bigger civilizations have bigger footprints. It takes care to disentangle which cultures are inherently more "at balance" with nature, i.e. could scale less destructively, versus those which are scale limited. (For example, Nordic versus Continental culture, for European examples.)
I think the person you're replying to is asking for your specific argument. As in what exactly do you think is the advantage gained by quantum computing and why is it important.
Can anyone explain the affiliation of stop.lying.cloud to Amazon? All of the legalese in the header/footer seem to indicate it's actually owned and run by Amazon. If so... why? Why not just... use the real status page?

I mean I'm glad it exists, don't get me wrong. Just weird that they'd have two status pages, one seemingly existing only to sort of 'mock' themselves...
This principle works in art also.
AWS is having issues in us-east-1 again -- are these two services connected?
> and without them the games simply won't get ported.

The actual effort required to port games these days is relatively small. The major engines like Unity and Unreal Engine make it a breeze to release games across all currently used major platforms.
> It's boring.

I understand your point - but there is a real point to what I'm saying. The fact is that no one is actually checking anything. Its all based on trust.

I know. Its dull, but you need to verify information before you actively promote or parrot it. Its the scientific method, and it should be applied personally. You cannot "know" unless you verify personally. You can trust, believe, etc but not know. If you say 'I know' without having verified whatever-it-is, you are in fact (unintentionally, perhaps) lying.

> It's boring.

Another way of responding is that the truth may in fact be boring. It might not be possible to say anything meaningful about stuff, especially when that stuff relates to events that may (or may not) have happened 66 million years ago.

Just because its boring, and there is not much to know, should we accept any old story that purports to explain things? Is that reason? Is it religious/magical thinking? Would it better to say 'I don't know'?
This is a very strong claim to make without supporting evidence that the vaccines directly caused or contributed to the cause of these deaths.
Now. It took a lot longer for that page to know/admit the problems than it did half the internet.
The amount of delays is comical. Ofcourse the launch day itself would be subject to a few bad weather events. Lets hope for the best.
> "It hurts in my dick" is just a more vulgar way of saying "it hurts in my ass" (the ass would be a place you wouldn't care if you hurt or not); more vulgar because "pula" (erect penis) is more vulgar than ass.

Oddly enough, "butthurt" is a modern English expression for nearly the opposite sentiment.
Israel banned Poland from using NSO spyware after this: https://wyborcza.pl/7,173236,27895266,israel-bans-polish-int...

"On November 25, the Times of Israel reported that the Israeli government has banned the sales of Pegasus to autocratic regimes, as well as to the governments of Poland and Hungary. The list of countries to which Israeli surveillance companies can sell their spyware has been reduced from 102 to 37. Among others, the blacklisted states now include the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco. In the EU, it is Poland and Hungary."
afaik there's nothing tying it specifically to GH (where the metatada is), and then the actual code is just in an S3 bucket, so in theory should be reasonably easy [ha!] to just host anywhere. In theory, I mean that's a massive lump of stuff, and surely wherever it gets hosted is going to face exactly the same issues (though if it does become very widely used, then you'd think every major provider that controls infra could easily have a mirror)
It would be hilarious if it weren't so sad how preferential treatment from the SEC is. I wonder if they're just lazy or if there really just is a wall street nepotism club.

Kinda amazing how much trust people put into an institution with the bulk of their net worth that routinely ignores and enforces rules arbitrarily.
From the official blog:

>Instead of forking Chromium or anything else, we’re building our desktop app around the OS-provided rendering engines (like on mobile), allowing us to strip away a lot of the unnecessary cruft and clutter that’s accumulated over the years in major browsers. With our clean and simple interface combined with the beloved Fire Button from our mobile app, DuckDuckGo for desktop will be ready to become your new everyday browsing app.

It seems they are making the desktop equivalent of Firefox Focus.
It's not official. The people making the page probably just copied everything, including the legalese.
Look at the rate of deaths. Last December was about half the death rate of december before that. It's looking like this year will be half of the prior year. This is despite the number of cases generally being higher in the latter years generally. Some dependence on when the virus first hit. Long term side effects and hospitalizations are going to correlate with the death rate more than the infection rate.

I find the the NYT data viz to be the best and most accessible: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/new-york-covid-c...

There is strong reason to believe that despite omicron's higher spread factor, it won't increase exponentially forever and will instead drop off rapidly as its done every year in every geography sometime soon. It's not a dud yet, but it's trending towards that through a combination of better treatment, vaccinations, immunity, and particularly vulnerable people dying.

Omicron looks like it could reach a much higher number of infected in new york soon, but I doubt we will see a higher rate of hospitalizations or deaths than last year in spite of this. We should have the evidence to confirm or deny these assumptions in a few weeks once we're comfortable with any lagging data issues.
That is exactly how it went where I work. Higher management decided for teams and office and it is just bad solution.
The latest Proton experimental version really improved over this(talking about battleye anticheat).

However the game vendor still has to make a minor change in most cases.Usually nothing starts if the anticheat doesn't approve it, so in most cases right now games that use anti-cheat on steam don't work because of "normal reasons"(i.e not using some special graphics flags, use vulkan/etc) not because the anticheat itself.
Since you haven't bothered to come to grips with the information available about fossilization - neither that written by experts in the field, and meant for a lay public, nor even the relevant Wikipedia entries - I'm not going to spoon-feed you my much less limited understanding.

You aren't skeptical. You're making boring internet arguments.

Merry Christmas.
Lots of people with in-demand skills still not really employable, so that's one advantage of poker.
If you want to try an example of a truly scalable and snappy GUI experience with lightweight Java check my node/tree editor out: http://move.rupy.se/file/logic.html
It achieves multiline block text in bash, which is otherwise a PITA to reason about. It can keep certain scripts cleaner, especially since `cat` is often inlined, without process spawning.
Would they drip-feed what they found though? Sounds like you need some form of coordination for that at least.
Sad to see it postponed but what is another day when it has been so many years waiting! :) Will be great to see it launch when it does
Honestly my server at home has more uptime than US-East-1
If I am reading the graph of infant mortality in Finland correctly their rate is 2 per thousand children and the USA rate is 6deaths per 1000! Maybe we should write to Biden and get cpsc crooked rules revoked and start giving out baby boxes?

Medical Xpress: U.S. infant mortality reached historic low in 2019.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-infant-mortality-hist...
EDIT: To add a simple analogy: Is a parabola only x^2 -- just another polynominal -- or is a parabola a conic section first and foremost?

polynominal in x == "flatland" view
DDG has been very lightweight with regard to user experience. And they actually have to, otherwise, they couldn't distinguish themselves from the competition (ie. Google). So there's no realistic risk of invasiveness.

WRT the features: Firefox needs market share above all. I'm actually terrified by a future where companies can't be bothered to put even a minimal effort to make a website/service run acceptably on Firefox. Try to use Slack on it, and you'll see what I mean.
Totally agree. Would love to hear more about what you're thinking about. Didn't see your contact info listed. How can we keep in touch?
My favourite feature of English grammar is the Garden path sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence#Examples

Bonus: There is the secret adjective order rule that most native english speakers have no idea about
https://qz.com/773738/how-non-english-speakers-are-taught-th...
Same as claiming that Covid caused a lot of deaths when doctors in my country have been caught writing off car crash victims as Covid deaths, en masse, several times in a row over the course of months? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I try to keep an open mind and observe objectively. Both "camps" have their pretty wild claims and at this point in time it's more of a religious war than anything else.

That's what an average guy like me is seeing. But feel free to keep citing the need for supporting evidence in an age where there are strong financial incentives to take one of the sides in this debate.
Yes. I once drove through a storm which lasted well over an hour, with continuous fork and sheet lightning around the entire horizon. An absolutely fantastic sight, never seen such a dramatic spectacle before or since, it was absolutely stunning.
It's affecting Substack.
Can't log in to their console either. Apps are running. seems the id service is down.
~~Right. "Pure" bash would mean they somehow got sockets working in the scripting language itself, which is not possible unless you're on a system with `/dev/tcp` (which isn't many these days).~~

I am wrong! See response.
Works perfectly fine for me. Safari 15.1 on Monterey. Same on iPad with iOS 15.
The people who maintain the unofficial site would have, at some point, used their CTRL and C keys followed not immediately, but closely by, their CTRL and V keys.
Yes, Heroku is a (PaaS) built on top of AWS (IaaS).
Heroku isn’t “low end,” it’s a PaaS built on top of AWS. So you’re really just hearing about another AWS outage lol
Oh, I remember how Lync had different maximum message lengths for the first message in a conversation vs subsequent ones. I believe it was using SIP internally and sending your first chat message in a "begin call" workflow, but it was always unpredictable when a new "call" would start or not. Horrible kludgey solutions...
Can we barely model it yet? I thought they weren’t at the point of getting able to simulate any actual work behaviours?
Why isn't Heroku showing a status error despite being offline?
I hope that’s the only case but Canada is saying “this will be the worst wave so far”. They are closing schools and most restaurants and bars and gyms.

Far faster and more restrictive than ever before.

The UK, Netherlands, Germany are all imposing new restrictions when a few months ago they had removed most.

For whatever reason they think Omicron could be a huge problem.
This is how I do it - consistency is key.

Every day just need to work on my project for 10 minutes. If I can only manage 10 minutes, then that's fine...

The same goes for exercise, or anything you need to get done.
Status site: https://status.heroku.com/
What a way to start my day
You should probably resubmit as Ask HN.
Yes, you should also remember that when using third-party KDE themes like qt5ct, or hidden KDE settings, or anything else really that wasn't intended by the developer. In my experience with all of those settings, they do work sometimes but with certain apps they can break. That's mostly what unsupported means. I've already said my piece on themes but with keyboard shortcuts, the app can set key bindings that conflict with those and then you'll end up with a broken app again. It's a bad idea to use those settings unless you're willing to revert them at a moment's notice when they break some apps, or unless you're ready to become a developer and fix some of the underlying issues that are causing the breakage.

>despite the apparent impression most people seem to be under when they use GNOME Tweak Tool

I'm not sure what that impression is, GNOME Tweak Tool has always been this way. Other desktops like XFCE can of course expose the setting and make it supported but that's only guaranteed to work with XFCE apps that they've designed to work with that setting.