skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm French from Québec and the usual expression here would be the Catholic inspired "I'm X-ing myself of it" where X is one of Christ (je m'en crisse), the Holy Chalice (je m'en câlice), the Tabernacle (je m'en tabarnac) etc.

Although these swears seem extremely mild, they are actually quite heavy in Québec, even though no one goes to church anymore, because of how dominant the Catholic Church was until the sixties. They would be censored on TV, for example.
New York's JFK airport to get a $9.5BN “mega terminal”
TikTok overtook Google as the most visited website in 2021
Founder of Black Girls Code has been ousted as head of the nonprofit
I guess that's why I'm experiencing weird issues with Heroku:

remote: Compressing source files... done.
remote: Building source:
remote:
remote: ! Heroku Git error, please try again shortly.
remote: ! See http://status.heroku.com for current Heroku platform status.
remote: ! If the problem persists, please open a ticket
remote: ! on https://help.heroku.com/tickets/new
Keep in mind, that HN is intentionally structured around curiosity, and we're not tagging our submissions with ultra-controlled vocabulary, or annotate them with RDF triples.

Because stumbling across something that surprises us as isn't what we first expected is good.

If semantic precision was the goal, using the original titles wouldn't be mandated, but prohibited.
AWS might be smart enough not to make that strategic blunder. They won't want to draw attention to the inaccuracies of their status page.
They grew more in the north in tropical forests. I think I never saw one in a city.
"
- 2.4 Million Square Foot International Terminal Will be Built in Phases on Sites of Current T1, T2, and Former T3

- Private Partners Will Provide Financing to Cover Full Cost of Terminal;

- Port Authority to Build Supporting Road and Utility Infrastructure

- Groundbreaking Anticipated in 2022; First New Gates Will Go Live in 2026

- Project Will Create More Than 10,000 Total Jobs and 6,000 Construction Jobs

- Advances Plan for a Unified, Modern Airport With World-Class Passenger Amenities, State-of-the-Art Security and Streamlined Roadway Access
"
Well for "counting buckets" you can use `date_bin()` since Postgres 14 which groups the difference between timestamps into defined intervals.
Hmm my cursor disappears and from time to time flickers into existence on this page (FireFox 95.0.2 on Win 10).
You're just saying startups have lower qualification requirements.

The question is: how do you get an interview _for a position_ where you don't meet the requirements _for that position_?

So if it's a startup, then you don't meet the lowered requirements of that startup.

It doesn't make sense. They wouldn't interview you if you didn't meet their requirements.
Regarding the performances issues that you had with Qubes: I once disabled power management on one of my laptop and it moves Qubes from barely usable to usable.

Still close to unusable: Web conferences in the browser (webex for example).
CDC's FAQ on the delta variant mentions it "might cause more severe illness than previous variants in unvaccinated people."

Also quoted from CDC's FAQ:

> "In two different studies from Canada and Scotland, patients infected with the Delta variant were more likely to be hospitalized than patients infected with Alpha or the original virus that causes COVID-19."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-var...
Would be cool if this wasn't the region where AWS hosts their internals, making other regions unusable, right?
LG’s new 16:18 monitor
Trello is down as well (at least the checklists aren't loading anymore). GraphQL requests timing out in the Console. Not sure if it is connected to Heroku going down. Just wanted to add this here in case anyone else is also experiencing the same issue.
Plenty of "most of the time" on the way from DNA to proteins, and chances are that "code" developed through eons of diceroll trial+error will end up relying on ambiguities more than being harmed by them.

But doesn't the software mindset, again, have better mental models for things like that than most other disciplines? Think "relying on undefined behavior", or that old question of bug or feature. Sure, there are many pitfalls and possibilities for wrong conclusions to be drawn, but I'd dare to say that the "coding mind" is better equipped to become aware of them than others and not worse.

edit, an example: we can imagine a piece of code that works both when compiled as java and when interpreted as groovy, but has a different outcome depending on what language it is. We might even have written some for entertainment (reminds me of that ambiguous-on-Apple PNG that made the rounds a few days ago). And we could easily imagine a system that would collapse unless it occasionally gets both, the "java" outcome and the "groovy" outcome. We certainly wouldn't deliberately build a system like that, but we could easily do if there was, say, an obfuscated gradle contest. And "deliberate" is out of scope anyways. Enter eons of dicerolls, enter a system that mostly controls itself via balancing (as we know full well from high level pharmaceutical science). Yeah, it's unpredictably complex, and the coding mind should be the last to jump from "GATC is essentially digital" to underestimating that complexity and unpredictability.

edit2: I think the core of what I wanted to say (but never even tried) is that someone not used to code will likely try to wrap their head around the "ifs" and "comments" and be so occupied by that that task that the result will be a mental model of predictability that won't map well to observed reality, whereas the coder, with years of "the daily wtf", won't for a moment see any contradiction between observed reality and "lots of kind of code-like things"
Binary Systems Reduced Punch Card Structural Soundness
Seems enough services in us-east-1 are down to cause most apps to fail. My simple app uses 10s of AWS services, at least some of which are out.
You had:

$ strace bash -c 'echo hi' | grep 'exec'
execve("/usr/bin/bash", ["bash", "-c", "echo hi"], 0x7fffe264aad0 /\* 24 vars */) = 0

Something seems off. strace(1) prints the trace to stderr not stdout, so you should need |& not | to catch it with grep. At least, that's how it works here.

Also, cat does not appear to be inlined for me:

rascul@smarts:~> strace bash -c 'cat /etc/os-release' |& grep 'exec'
execve("/usr/bin/bash", ["bash", "-c", "cat /etc/os-release"], 0x7ffe7b5334e0 /* 88 vars */) = 0
execve("/usr/bin/cat", ["cat", "/etc/os-release"], 0x562c447076f0 /* 88 vars */) = 0*
In Finnish: "Ei kiinnosta vittuakaan".

Translation back: "Even cunt would not be interested"
> so you close Giertych

It's mindblowing how skillful and cunning he was in avoiding any repercussions, including being freed without paying the bail. For an average person such problems would be beginning of an end, courts would cut off any appeals instantly. Gods are untouchable regardless of the side they are standing.
Are you sure?

strace -ff -e execve /bin/bash -c 'x="$(cat <<< "test")"'
... snip
[pid 311214] execve("/usr/bin/cat", ["cat"], 0x56280da76fc0 /* 3 vars */) = 0
In some countries, government support networks grow out of christian charity schemes where a powerful person will discretionarily share a tiny portion of their time and wealth with the destitute of their choosing and gets to be enthusiastically cheered on for this sacrifice.

This often does not translate well to actual country-scale structural problems.
Especially if in some of those countries' individuals also happen to consider paying taxes as a way in to government-scale decision making.
Suggestion to append "to December 25" to the title.
Your home ISP has 100% uptime? That's incredible.
That's more of a trademark issue, and would require a reasonable consumer to be likely to be deceived. Which they're not.
The word 'Ribosome' does not occur anywhere in the article, which I definitely would expect to be there if you're going to make a coding analogy.

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

For a computing analogy: a Ribosome serves as a molecular assembler (a processor) that depending on the instructions (the program) encoded in DNA (or rather RNA by the time the ribosome is working with it) pulls this or that molecule from the soup present in a cell to attach it to its working copy of a polypeptide chain (the output). Once complete (as signalled by a 'stop' codon, think of it as 'ETX') the thing detaches the product.

The Ribosome consists of a main engine and a 'cap' that can attach over the top of an RNA string so that it can start transcription at other points ('STX') than just the ends.
There is a very pragmatic, judgement-free reason: giving money in such circumstances is counter-productive, while providing services is helpful - which brings us right back to GGP's comment, to which GP objected in a way that is unhelpful.
Doing the same.

Partially what also interests me is that the "quant data" is just emerging. Meaning you have a fully new set of key indicators, of facts to look out for when making sense about a possbile investment.

OTOH I agree that SPACs are equally useful for fraudsters: Exiting a failing business no professional investor wants to purchase. E.g.

[Trigger warning!]
the conservative coffee brand "Black Rifle Coffee" is IPOing via a SPAC. I would be really surprised if their grandiose revenue projections materialized without their Trump-base which they have annihilated recently.
[Trigger Ending]

But that's just one example out of many such SPAC companies, which will slash portfolios of retail investors. And in doing so tainting those SPACs with actual value and prospects.
The most delicate and quite popular is "It's purple to me" / Мне фиолетово.

The story goes that it came from chemistry, where a litmus paper is purple in a neutral liquid, so a person does not react in any way.
Here's my small webserver:

#!/bin/bash

while : ; do cat conference.txt | nc -l 80; done

Here's the story behind it:

https://www.go350.com/posts/finding-a-hacked-server/
Zoom’s statements were in fact found by a jury to be false and misleading. If you used Zoom prior to last summer you are entitled to a (small) cash settlement https://www.zoommeetingsclassaction.com/
One of my favourite things about the great work done on Proton is that some Windows exclusive 90s era games of my childhood run better on Linux than they do on modern versions of Windows.
> I didn't want to install and configure Apache or nGinx. In fact, I didn't want any configuration.

Personally, in that case, I'd use:

python3 -m http.server
It's like my grandma saying "Honey, the internet is broken again." xD
No but I access my home-server remotely from my university all the time and it hasn't gone down once.

Better uptime than paying for EC2 on AWS US-East-1.

Obviously this approach isn't scalable but it serves me well.
Yeah good catch, I forgot it since I didn't copy 1:1 the command line into vim when I formatted it for HN. I use fish + powerline so the command line doesn't copy correctly. In fish, it's `&|`, which would look weird anyway. I just forgot to add the `&` after the `|`.

The output was copied 1:1 though.

The inlining is an implementation detail and I've seen it happen differently across different platforms.
If AWS, GCP and Azure go down, we will be back in the stone ages, right?
> How is choosing Firefox over Chromium going to help in that regard?

Chromium is absolutely dominant in that space, since basically all major browsers except Safari and FF are based on it. Creating your own stack is hardly an option and Safari isn't forkable, so if you don't want to support the near-monopoly of the Chrome browser stack Firefox is the only option.

Now, I do agree that FF made some very questionable decisions recently, but so did Chrome (see Manifest v3) and the way it's going right now, we'll have yet another Internet Exporer-like scenario on our hands soon.
> but many folks prefer to not rename files.

That's like arguing that they prefer an unsorted pile of thousands of books vs. a library/bookstore. I mean if that's how they want it then fine, but you don't get the useful features.

There are a multitude of metadata managers out there which don't require the same directory structure but they are a load more effort than automatic metadata matching and a lot more effort than simply organizing your media in the first place.
I used to be a network engineer but since becoming disabled with a familial genetic disorder 20 years ago (Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Hyperlipidemia) I decided to get my genetics and study its implication in my disorder.

I think the coding analogy is more quantum computing than anything we currently know, which is why the binary analogy seems to fail. It is computing but on a whole 'notha level. Quibit instead of Binary, or maybe something we are yet to understand.

The chief complaint I have about that article is that it does not even get into the fact that we actually have two genomes that are symbiotic; Our Nuclear Genome and out Mitochondrial Genome. Glad he did touch on the epigenetics however.

I do know that understanding your genetics at the level that I have can help you manage any unknown chronic condition. It turns out my mitochondrial genetics were much more important for me (I am pretty sure I have a Complex I deficiency, thought really a trait) and that a sort of mismatch with my Nuclear Genome (mostly Calcium, Potassium, and Sodium signalling) makes me very sensitive to my environment through oxidative stress signalling.

If you can see this complex dance you will appreciate just how wonderful and complex of a machine we are that we will never fully understand. In the end my cure is more art than science. More feeling than data.

Some examples that might bother you:
- Long Chain Omega 3 PUFAs are crucial to my health and I cannot eat short chain PUFAs for any extended period. This is due o my FADS1 and FADS2 genetics

- I am Electro-Hypersensitive. Exposure to household low frequency EMFs from wiring increases oxidative stress ion my body and causes me pain, insomnia, and mood disturbance. This is mainly from how EMFs trigger the Volatage Gated Ion Channels.

- Exposure to chemicals, which includes many medicines, triggers an immune reaction (drug induced Lupus) from the oxidative stress which is created through their metabolism by CYP450 enzymes.

I am able to remediate these issues by diet and environment changes and mostly through the supplements; Asocrbic Acid, Manganese, Zinc/Copper and P5P.
Like so much of finance, it's about risk.

If you're a company owner: If you take your company public in an IPO, you have no idea what people will pay. With a SPAC you can discuss and negotiate and fix a price. That might be 100% shares or 100% cash. But you know you will end up with X percent of the shares and Y dollars once the deal is done so you can manage your risk.

If you're the SPAC, you are taking more risk. But you think you're getting the company cheaper than the market will value it. So you'll profit from the first day of trading.

Public companies (in theory) are better run and have easier access to capital. So the act of going public should increase company value and that adds motivation to both sides.

Using a sponsorship deal and charging investors for it is just advertising really. If the SPAC wastes money on it, that's the investors problem.
You might not believe me, but these are genuinely held opinions.

I know there are 'experts' and lots of information, but I don't think all that is anything more than a talking shop. The information can be steered, be wrong, etc. Eg there are huge bodies of scriptural works, phrenology was a thing once, etc, etc - was that right just because it exists? Just because there is lots written doesn't mean I have to invest half a lifetime to get to grips with whatever is being discussed. Either it makes sense, or it doesn't.

Instead I take a simple position - if I don't have verified experience of whatever-it-is I take a closer look. I ask - what are the claims, what is the evidence. I'm not trusting that someone else has 'got this' even if they are credentialed.

Its illuminating. If nothing else, it illuminates just how little knowledge other people have on the subject, and yet they like to pretend they are an authority! And these pretenders will group together and dismiss the man but not the argument.

Anyway, if I've given you pause for thought, that's great.

Merry Christmas to you too :)
A jackfruit can weight somethin beetween 15kg to 40kg. So, they hit you like a anvil on the way down.
Which is extra funny as the actual proof[1] is so involved, roughly ~130 pages as published and spanning multiple very complex mathematical subjects.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiles%27s_proof_of_Fermat%27s_...
Yes. See Ubuntu Livepatch.
Thanks for highlighting the co-evolution aspect. I find it more likely that for viruses with a pre-symptomatic phase is the selective pressure caused by the virus on the host that ends up resulting in lower severity long term. By simply removing genes from the genepool that were particularly prone to complications.

With a pre-symptomatic phase the selective pressure on the virus is towards more infectivity and longer pre-symptomatic phase. Not necessarily towards milder outcomes.
None. Amazon hired all ex VPS, CTOs, Directors of small, medium large companies with Rolodexes.
I see, thanks for the info. Btw, Cloudflare do offer new registration now, though it's currently marked as "beta", maybe only certain accounts have access to it.
select extract(month from justify_interval(timestamp '2022-01-01' - timestamp '2021-11-01'))

returns 2
Apparently, from the discussion above, some bright bulbs here have banned the boxes, due to a lack of legs.

Perhaps, the US version would need some nubs, or formed legs or other thing to come with the box...

Frankly, when my spouse and I first heard about this, we thought the idea was fantastic.
> Does your server at home handle similar traffic to that of US-East-1 since you're comparing uptime?

Of course it doesn't. Why are you asking antagonistic questions?
That could be cool on a small scale. But H2O2 decays into H2O and oxygen, and is a very reactive oxidizer. With organic matter in the soil, it will produce all sorts of interesting chemicals. Those will end up in the groundwater.

(Or, just look at the fire diamond for H2O2. Proposing to bring tons of that stuff into a residential area would not be popular.)
"would of" "could of" are mistakes which no non-native speaker would make.
LGTM, would like to highlight a couple of things
- Projects are too good. I would appreciate some additional info (github stars, HN, quick demo or how it looks for all your projects)
- As the heading says, freelance engineer (but could not find anything on your portfolio to trust this)
- Sorry for being rude but a `software engineer` using no-code platform for his own portfolio website is turning me off.

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Would love to hear your inputs for my portfolio https://pankajtanwar.in/ (I know, its not the best, still improving on it)
I don't know about that. It was more like common knowledge that one availability zone in us-east-1 was a problem - you would have to figure out which one it was usually by spinning up instances in all 4 zones (now 6)... and that it was the largest of all regions making it ideal place to put your service if you wanted to be close to other vendors/partners in AWS...
Ive been gaming on Fedora for the past seven years. I think it has limited what I buy and play, so at tgis point I dont know what I'm missing, but it looks like at least 75% of steam's top 100 games work fine on linux [1].

[1]https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/a-look-at-the-top-100-...
Yep, I'm sure. It's not a guarantee (nor is it specified, to my knowledge) that the inlining happens. You also used a subshell there, which might make a difference.
I can't edit messages, nor create channels. Messages are only received with a several minute delay.
> This one should be called revenge of the ape

Looks more like an unhappy employee.
True, game pass is a really good deal if you want to save money and you don't care about ownership as much (also a problem with steam, but to a lesser degree). But they still struggle on PC. They just recently rebranded it to pc game pass instead of xbox game pass and they want to improve the horrible app.

I think Steam will at some point perhaps react to that, but many PC gamers are still quite vary of MS and I don't think it has affected their business too much. Not only because their older sins like GFWL.
My pet pevee is "loose" as lose.
Today DO also went down. We could not login briefly.
It's not gofai. It's locality sensitive hashing published in 2008.
I believe there’s also Russian/Ukrainian “It’s as high as my dick”.
There are many similar options. I think that awhile ago there may have been a list of one liner web servers posted to HN. Either way, I've been using python's for years and it's just muscle memory now.
The question you just asked is it testing.
The affected zone is use1-az4. Whatever that maps to (1a, 1b, 1c) is different per customer.
Wouldn’t ROFF require putting the format commands in-line?

Like so:

How much
.i wood
would a
.i wood
chuck chuck if a
.i wood
chuck could chuck
.i wood?

I have no experience with ROFF, so please correct me.
Rocky Mountain Basic
oh no :o
Can you imagine that some might see your position as one of unmitigated pedantry unfitting in any discussion of this - clearly jocular - website?
China regulator suspends cyber security deal with Alibaba Cloud
AWS doesn't follow their own advice about hosting multi-regional so every time us-east-1 has significant issues pretty much every AZ and region is affected.

Specifically large parts of the management API, and IAM service are seemingly centrally hosted in us-east-1.

If your infrastructure is static you'll largely avoid the fallout, but if you rely on API calls or dynamically created resources you can get caught in the blast regardless of region
I like how your first thing when complaining about a non-Mac laptop is a complaint about the keyboard. Oh, you sweet summer child :)
So we’re suggesting a 3rd-party PR firm likely coordinated public criticism about Zoom, an app that was undergoing hyper growth and entered the public consciousness in 2020 due to WFH and COVID. We don’t think media outlets would likely have wanted to voraciously cover Zoom stories because Zoom became one of the most widely used apps out of nowhere?

The logic appears to be: I saw a lot of news stories about X, therefore X was caused by Y, without recognizing that Z is just as likely a cause for X.
If you rely solely on east 1 maybe?
Indeed, something like converting the frequency of a laser to a usable clock signal has to be done in the analog domain, and not necessarily even in the electronic domain. Also, (as Horowitz and Hill pointed out) getting higher performance digital electronics to work requires understanding analog techniques.

I do some analog work too, but today's mantra is: Get it into the digital domain as soon as possible.
There seems to be a growing consensus around the idea that alternative search engines aren't viable without their own browser. Cliqz (acquired by Brave), DDG (obviously successful by some metrics, but not a real threat to Google), Kagi (pops up from time to time here)[0]. Given that Google considers it worth tens of billions of dollars a year to remain the default on Apple devices and Firefox, the default search advantage is clearly quite important.

I'm not sold on the idea that convincing people to install a different browser will be easier than teaching them to install an extension or choose a different default search provider, but clearly the latter isn't paying off.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28799049