skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work with several large organisations, all using Teams.

In every instance, the previous solution (Slack/Zoom/Discord) was replaced by Teams following higher management making the switch for reasons like "it's included in Office 365" or a new hire influencing the migration to Microsoft solutions.

In every instance, the application was/is not well received by the employees - it's slow, buggy, crazy complicated and generally doesn't feel "right".

Microsoft is good at channeling security topics for their PR, but at the end of the day they make software, just like everybody else (and this software is subject to bugs, just like everybody else).

It's really disappointing that the vulnerabilities have not yet been addressed...
Not Linux-specific! The Windows version suffers from at least 1, 2 and 4 in my experience.
Extract vocal, accompaniment and various instruments from any audio using AI
You are, for example.
Lynx/links as a dependency. /s
> I didn't want to install and configure Apache or nGinx. In fact, I didn't want any configuration.

If you ignore all of the manual installation instructions and any dev time you took to create this, then sure.

I’m not going to argue that the author should have used something else instead though. It’s a personal project used purely on an internet system of his house. For those kinds it projects “because I could” is as good a reason as any. I just think more authors should be honest and say “I just did it because it seemed fun at the time”
Aren't Wine / some virtualization like VirtualBox seamless mode viable options?
Teams has a bunch of anti-features that I have to click off, including this one.

The micro update also tend to break something. For example a November patch broke list in chat, a futher one broke list in general. I have to enter the edit mode every time I want to enter a list.

I think the ability to use ''' to enter code snippets was also broken a while ago, and in another patch the indentation of such code block was gone as well.

I think they are trying to force us to use the editor mode.
For the occasional service where you are essentially just wrapping an existing binary, a bash server behind uwsgi can be totally sensible.
> The dogs look like they have the feeling that they are a nuisance to their owners, as if the owner is trying to communicate to them that he is forced to walk them.

Uh, no. Dogs don't take their owner's phone usage that seriously or personally. They are more opportunistic and free spirited than to get hung up about other people's behaviours.

The fact that you interpret things that way probably tells us more about you than it does about dogs. I imagine you are a considerate, thoughtful person (who doesn't know much about dogs).
One of our EC2 instances in us-east-1c is unavailable and stuck in "stopping" state after a force stop.
Interestingly enough, EC2 instances in us-east-1b don't seem to be affected.

The console is throwing errors from time to time. As usual no information on AWS status page.
I can't get to the console either, receiving a "Temporarily unavailable" notice without branding.
Ok, I guess you are right.

Let me rephrase it: if one also has a vitamin D deficit the chances of getting seriously ill increases significantly.

Would that be correct?

(Same is AFAIK true for being overweight but unlike increasing vitamin D levels which takes days or weeks, getting down to a healthy weight in a healthy way is a months long process.)
Make everyone culpable but make the maximum amount of damages never be higher than what income the software generated.
I'd much rather use that version of Slack.
Saving you a click: it’s the weather.

I’d be excited about it if it wasn’t taking this long. My friends and I were talking about this telescope in high school physics class in 2004.

The hype around the telescope is to the point of a down-on-his-luck divorced dad that consistently overpromises and underdelivers. (Remember that Sega Dreamcast I promised you when you were little for Christmas one year? Well, here it is now that you are all grown up.)

It’s an exaggeration, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Actually this all started in the Windows 8 days, which Gabe Newell described as a 'catastrophe'.
Lucien Hardy wrote a paper[1] showing how one "naturally" ends up with a quantum theory by demanding a few reasonable axioms. The paper also goes into how this implies complex numbers (and rules out quaternions).

Scott Aaronson has a more accessible (and humorous) article on it here[2].

Entanglement has been shown to be intimately linked to this[3] result, which is interesting given the experimental evidence[4] for entanglement.

Not my field, but I found this interesting at least.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101012

[2]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0695

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Notable_e...
> I know how to pronounce 'Kansas', and I was always under the impression that 'Arkansas' is the same with an 'Ar-' prefixed, which is apparently not the case.

The reason why they're pronounced differently is that they have different language origins. Arkansas is from the plural form of the French name of a Native American tribe, so you don't pronounce the '-s' while Kansas comes from the English spelling of a similar(?) tribe, where the '-s' is pronounced. English is notorious for just borrowing words from other languages wholesale but it seems to work most of the time.
presumably because of AWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648286
Yeah it was the update, but even thats a bad reason to be honest, the only thing that changes without the privilege helper is the user gets a prompt for an update.
I'm still hopeful my gamble in plastics will pay off
Thank you. I completely missed that.
It’s because Zoom was a joke from a security perspective, and the Chinese angle was a bad look, too. I use Zoom only via the browser. It doesn’t solve the potential spy problem, but it does solve the “not installing malware on my machine” problem.
> Roman Empire acquired almost every piece of land in Europe

Depends on what you mean by "almost" and "Europe" I guess. They never conquered (all of) present day Germany, Poland, Scotland or Ireland. None of the entirety of Scandinavia, or the Baltic states, etc.

At the peak of the Roman Empire, the Iron Age had been going for about 400 years in Northern Europe, so it was clearly inhabited and not completely backwards: and if anyone feels like making the argument that there was nothing "worth" conquering in these parts anyway, consider that 1) you're just parroting what the Romans themselves would have said and 2) if that is true, why did the Romans ever attempt to conquer the Germanic Tribes? It's not like present-day Germany was a bastion of so-called "civilization" compared to present day Scandinavia. The simple answer is that the Romans couldn't.

So without taking anything away from how absolutely gigantic the Roman Empire was, I can't agree with the statement that they "acquired almost every piece of land in Europe" -- not that it really makes that much of a difference since many parts of the Roman Empire were firmly outside of Europe.
Yes, I agree it's a different situation. Only goes to show how those things are misused.
Why do you say the enrrgy desnsity is low? Comoared to hudro this is very dense storage, an ordinary warehouse would back up multiple Gwh
2 weeks paid vacation is a luxury reserved for those who have made it into an upper middle class office job- most blue collar jobs like restocking shelves offer no paid vacation at all, and many offer no maternity leave or health care either. You can always tell a working class person by their teeth, which by their late 30’s will have started falling out.
> Also, 'skin-on-skin' contact after giving birth is a chargeable extra.

Just had a kid in the US, not true. I’m curious to see where you learned this from, it seems hyperbolic.

Also, it cost me $2k after all was said and done.
That article had the most click-baity title. Here's why.
Bitbucket is affected, pages randomly take forever to load or return 500
My Elastic Beanstalk instances are completely unreachable. Seems at the very least ELB is down. Looking @ down detector it looks like this is taking a bunch of sites down with it. As usual AWS status page shows all green.
Yeah, "das ist mir Wurst" doesn't seem strong enough. "Drauf geschissen"/"Scheiß drauf" ("shit on it") maybe? Kinda close to "not giving a shit" (or "fuck") and also kinda works for the irresponsible case, "Er scheißt drauf, ob er jemanden verletzt".
"das ist mir Wurst" may not be as weak as you think - 'Wurst' can also be a euphemism for a large, firm piece of excrement.
Where are you located? "X is down" without location is only moderately useful.

I'm having issues with Slack from central EU (Poland) -- can't upload images, or send emoji reactions to post; curiously, text works fine). Wondering if linked
Paywalled but you get a couple of initial free articles as a guest.
I had the same issue with unavailable, but on an instance in us-east-1b. Finally just got the force stop to go through a minute ago and it's now running and available again.
> DNA is not like C source but more like byte-compiled code for a virtual machine called ‘the nucleus’.

This "virtual machine" gives feedback in 40 years, perhaps 1000 years. I am all in for fast innovation. But we should not give a pass to jocks who just want to spread their seed around!
The chain doesn't, but that's another whole batch of problems associated with payment reconciliation (which is incredibly complex given netting, collateral posting etc) and you have to get the trade reconciliation problem solved first before you have any hope of getting payments reconciled. The chain here would just act as a record of the definitive facts of the agreement behind the trade making it really easy for both sides to verify whether or not the booking in their systems was correct.

What's being traded in a swap are just cashflows. An example of a swap would be for the next 5 years every month I pay you 4% interest on 1m USD and you pay me 3 month USD Libor + 250bps (interest on 1m USD). The facts that we need to agree are all of those things plus a couple of others that are a bit more technical but are important to make sure everything calculates correctly (various dates, the calendar basis to pro rate the payments correctly etc).
As a cross platform desktop app developer I hate desktop linux. So many reinventions of the wheel that you have to support. Graphics, sound, video capture, GUI is all a mess.
The very first comment I posted -- the one to which you're replying now -- is a link to a paper showing that cellular immunity to Omicron is likely quite robust after exposure to a prior strain. There is now ample evidence that vaccines provide robust protection as well:

https://twitter.com/miamalan/status/1470712673629261837

You will be fine. Please stop panicking. And turn off the news.
Can't login using their id service https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/id.heroku.com
Kudos for scripting a great hack in BASH.

Since the title reads "pure bash" however I was expecting to see an implementation using builtin bash features such as /dev/tcp.

Have you considered solving this problem using BASH builtin support for TCP?
>app removal is totally opaque and sometimes requires to download a custom uninstallation tool (adobe creative cloud f.x.)

I mean, maybe, but you're comparing it with Windows that never had anything other than custom uninstallers that leave garbage all over your file system. Windows is 10x worse here.
I find the coding analogy for DNA or cell biology in general to be rather problematic. It's fine as a very rough and oversimplified analogy, but if you try to apply it to the details I think it hurts more than it helps.

And important aspect of biology is that it is really much more analog than digital in many areas. Many interactions are not entirely on/off, and they are influenced by a lot of other factors in the environment of the cell. This is a part that really doesn't match well to how people understand coding. The digital aspects are also inherently coupled to their physical representations. That are not just four letters A, C, T, G in the DNA, each of them also has different chemical and physical properties.

Some analogies to coding concepts work quite well, but you really have to be aware of the limitations. And I often see computer scientists trying to use these analogies to understand certain parts of biology, but inevitably they will move out of the bounds of where the anlogy works unless they actually know the underlying biology.
> People in this country were up in arms when this was first suggested ...

Very strongly disagree with this.

Yes there was some grumbling from the usual attention seeking (read 'shit-stirring') pundits in the right wing media, but to suggest the country was up in arms is simply false. The plan was rather welcomed, the only concerns being how best it fit it in with other NHS natal treatment.
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.

Some smaller countries (or districts) also reported higher deaths of the vaccines themselves compared to Covid -- which isn't solid data to go by but it's still quite an interesting data point.

Your argument should go both ways for it to be objective.

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EDIT: And of course I immediately regret posting in a Covid thread. Even just trying to say there are shades of gray and I get immediately labelled and flagged.

Enjoy your echo chamber, guys. What an extremist age we are living in. :(

This was my last ever time I will be posting in any such thread (not only on HN). You won. Do sleep soundly knowing that there won't be any critical thinking process involved. Hope that "scientific" approach makes you happy.
AWS Console runs in us-east-1 so that points to at least that region having issues IIRC. I am also having Slack issues in EU.
also having console issues in us-east-1, bitbucket is randomly throwing bad gateways at me
Assuming crates.io is AWS-backed? Getting fun situation where direct dependencies of an application are downloading but then the sub-dependencies aren't.
The author gave a talk at SHA2017 about DNA: https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-31-dna_the_code_of_life
My portfolio is cash-heavy these days, but I don't believe a crash is coming, I'm just not comfortable being fully invested at the moment; and I hate that because the cash is losing purchasing power every quarter.

I get the feeling that investing in a quality company with a solid balance sheet is the better long term risk proposition because even if it goes nowhere for 10 years, what are the chances that my savings are going to grow in purchasing power? Probably zero.

This market has made me more comfortable with risk than I probably should be, but that is another reason why I refuse to go "all in", to protect me from myself. :D
"Zoom had and continues to have a significant developer presence in China."

So whats worse: a backdoor for China, or a giant hole for anyone interested?

I guess the latter gives us esual opportunity...
Damn you all eggs in one basket.
Weird, my apps are hosted on us-east but they are up, i just can't login to Heroku nor can i deploy to any app right now.
Slack seems to have some issues because of that - I'm not sure if anyone is receiving messages, as it became completely silent for the last 15 minutes or so.
Is there a history of AWS downtimes available somewhere? This makes what, three times in as many months?

edit: The question isn't necessarily AWS specific, just any data on amount of downtime per cloud provider on a timeline would be nice.
I'd think you'd want something with at least the features of Lucene, whose index is 20%-30% the size of the data.

https://lucene.apache.org/core/features.html
My problem with electron is not that the apps are slow it is that I can (usually) guess if an app is electron by seeing which ones are using up an entire core when the app is just sitting doing nothing
Do they sell the tech or the service? A business modelo where NSO decides for themselves whether a victim merits hacking seems more defensible than one where they imagine they can tell that a government will never do wrong if it owns the tool.
Tweetnacl's ed25519 signatures, ported to WebAssembly, 5x faster
> Work for a company that doesn’t use ActiveDirectory and Exchange… well now your in for at really bad time.

Another way to think of it is that the deep integration to AD and Exchange is the major reason IT departments like Teams. The video and audio calling is fine, the chat works, although it seems to annoy Slack users. The meeting calendar syncs with Exchange. Planner boards give a simple Kanban setup. File storage with Sharepoint and Onedrive integration mean that the stored files work almost like they are on my computer.
It's divided into two parts in Denmark, After birth of the first child, you're offered to stay at the hospital for a few days (unspecified duration, depending on issues being faced) to get help with getting breastfeeding going, diapers, and monitoring the babys health.

After you get home, a nurse will schedule regular (weekly at first, then gradually longer between) visits to weigh/measure the child and record if the baby appears to be developing correctly, and provide advice in matters concerning childcare. This goes on for the first year.
crates.io is directly hosted on GitHub, but I'm sure some dependencies use S3 or other AWS services for things.
I think I'll just write something similar and wrap Apache with a shell scrip, claim that it's a web server written in bash, post it here and see what reaction I get, just for shits and giggles.
Astonishingly clickbait title. Teller is the name of a magician, telling about the secrets of his profession. There is no (bank) teller with secrets to tell, as would be the normal interpretation of such a headline.
I use Chrome for everything. I have 27 plug-ins running right now. But if Manifest 3 turns out to be as bad as predicted, I’ll abandon ship for Firefox without a second thought.
It is the same in Hungarian. "szarni rá" is the exact translation of the German expression.
I'd say three times in as many weeks, give it or take
https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
My first year at university, I finished my last final exam (calculus I believe?) I walked out of the testing center feeling excited to be done, but just tired from all the stress. In the ~15-minute walk home, I got sicker and sicker, with a headache, sore throat, and incredibly stuffy nose. While not usually so dramatic, I often have similar experiences when taking vacation.

My theory is that my body breaks down from the stress, but can summon some adrenaline or whatever hormones to survive what I need to, but then crashes once I start to relax.
Thanks ! Pretty smart !
Your us-east-1b may be the parents us-east-1c.

The letters are randomised per AWS account so that instances are spread evenly and biases to certain letters don't lead to biases to certain zones.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37555048
I'm not sure if we should say "AWS is down" if only us-east-1 is down. That region is more unstable than Marjorie Taylor Greene on a one-legged stool.
From my knowledge US airlines are the most lax about enforcement. Any data/calls in the flight have to use local base station or wifi calling going over satellite due to mobile signals being simply unavailable, and these days airliner crews consider it mostly a way for harm reduction during takeoff and landing.

Anyway, enforcement ultimately depends on flight crew, and you really don't want to know what's the upper limit of their authority.
You could update your storage as you go, the indexing doesn't appear to be that expensive.

For many tasks it wouldn't be helpful because the input is small enough to be covered by the context already, and for summarizing and question answering tasks, you want it to repeat information from other documents, but not from earlier in its own output.

It might be interesting for a long-context task like "given the first parts of this book, complete the next chapter".
Yep, S3 possibly the villain here
"Safari" refers to the browser app built on top of the WebKit engine. Browsers on iOS use the WebKit engine (and not the Safari browser itself).

The same engine (WebKit) is available on all Apple platforms. One can also build a desktop browser on top of WebKit like DuckDuckGo suggests it may do on macOS. This approach has a tremendous advantage for solid platform integration and allows them to focus on building a good user experience (and, in this case, secure* good user experience).
Instances stuck in the "stopping" state is pretty common, in my experience.
Sending and receiving messages works here, but editing them does not, it throws an error. Statuses such as "calling" also do not seem to be updated any longer.

Edit: Restarting Slack does update the edited messages.

Edit 15:24 CET: Slack is back up.
Fields of green here https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Anyway I can access the web console with no issue (eu-west)
Ask any third-world country how inflation is the way to go if you want to have astronomical wealth inequality.

That's why I laugh when I see first-world born HN'ers who never have been in the 80's Israel, Brasil or Argentina to say we should just print more money to pay for UBI.

Yeah man, that's exactly what the bankers and all the other fat cats want you to believe.
Our MacOS users receive regular updates? It is an Electron app after all, it is virtually the same as Windows?
> congratulations to Apple for conning even IT experts

Which one is more plausible?

a) Apple actually "conning" tens of thousands of highly skilled, [mostly] intelligent, [mostly] educated people into spending money on hardware they don't actually need.

b) You not understanding some important aspect of the situation and/or having different personal preferences.
New messages seem to be ok for me, but editing old ones and uploading images both seem to be broken right now.
So, how many execs are going to push to move to self-managed hosting in the new year?

Packaging a way to migrate off AWS could be a unicorn idea.
Generalist in what domain(s)?
Hear, hear.

I generally am lucky enough on shorter flights to fall asleep sometime around safe climb is achieved and wake up for landing, but transatlantic is a PITA.
Um, just think of what you're suggesting. 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?

It's a stretch to attribute to malice what can be attributable to other environmental factors. Could it be that Zoom was/is the dominant player in the video conferencing space in 2020/2021, so media outlets were keen to cover stories around Zoom? WebEx and Google Hangouts vulnerabilities have also not received as much coverage as Zoom.
"Het kan me niet bommen" maybe? "Bommen"[0] apparently being an otherwise completely unused verb meaning "to strike something giving a hollow sound".

0: https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/bommen
Depends on your skillset but web and media are usually good for generalists.

Media: Drawing, Painting, Illustrating, Writing, Music …

Web: The same as Media + Programming and System Administration

If you are a bit of a showman and know your way around food and drinks (wine, craft beer, whisky ...) there might be a place for you in restaurants, bars and so on. Media and web is still going to pay more.
Yep, just botched a merge likely because of this.