skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many cases analog solutions are STILL the most powerful. My company is working on one such right now. The digital standard implementation can't remotely keep up and is literally 100x large in volume to even come close even if you could implement it as SoCs. It may never be possible to implement it efficiently in digital.

Which is fine - it's about achieving the purpose, not celebrating a particular technology or design assumption! The best solution for the problem doesn't care about the implementation; only what is best.
Jokingly, "sudo service apache2 start" may also be considered pure Bash :-)
Nice work in that the output looks pretty close and it's super convenient to open it in CodeSandbox. Unfortunately it still has the same issue as all other plugins that try to do this in that the code is nothing like how it would be written by a developer and isn't responsive.

Anyone reading this whose looking for the holy grail solution of Figma to code that's written like a developer wrote it, I'm working on this (should be ready soon!) and would love to talk to you - please email me on emile@pygma.app (note that the current public version isn't very good and suffers from the same problems as all the others).
For me and my team CTRL+A randomly stops working for an hour. It happens every single day randomly for different members. Just mind-boggling BS every day with Teams.

My Android client randomly signs me out, sometimes multiple times per day.
Ok, enough AWS outages to say I'm tired of hearing about low end stuff being flaky.
Also running a big production app in east-1 and we're experiencing issues.
Uploading images doesn't work for me.
I think it's pretty widely accepted that AWS' own status pages are utterly useless.
You said:

> And, as expected, it appears to be far less harmful than Delta

And the title said:

> Omicron infections appear no less severe than Delta

Hmm, somethings doesn't seem right? I assume you misread the title.

> This is how a virus evolves, it gets weaker, which allows it to spread faster. Dead people don't spread viruses.

Yes, viruses usually evolve to transmit better and the host and virus usually co-evolve to a less severe disease. But, this applies only to viruses that transmit after people get symptoms. If people spread the virus first for a few days and then get sick, there is no inherent evolutionary pressure to select for less severe virus variants. Even the original SarsCovII virus (let's say Wuhan variant) had already the capability to spread before symptom onset as well as after. So it is unclear, how this evolves further.
Draw a square (using a compass), calculate its diagonal length, voila. Though it really depends on the accuracy of your compass and ruler, and it's kinda meaningless to do any complexity analysis (what even is 'N' in this case?)

For digital computers, square-root algorithms that calculate digit-by-digit would take O(N), if you take N as the number of digits. If your precision is fixed, then you can get an approximate solution by using iterative methods (like Newton-Raphson). In that case, the complexity would be more like O(log(N) f(N)) to calculate up to N digits (where f(N) is the cost of doing one iteration with N-bit numbers)
do you update your linux kernel on the desktop without rebooting?
Of all the bad solutions, Zoom is the best one. It is the only one with a native (= not a glorified web browser) client, which you can definitely feel. Both Slack's and Teams' calls bring my top-end (Intel) MBP to its knees, while Zoom is the smoothest (though absolutely not without faults).
Been running Fedora + Steam for over a year, now. The experience has been great. It’s hard to imagine going back. I do miss Mac hardware, though. My 1.5 year old Dell XPS already has a bad key, and a faulty WiFi card. It’s complete garbage.

My next laptop will be the Framework 15” 4K option whenever they make one…
Exactly. This completely frustrated me out. How many times I hit enter and sent the msg instead of creaing a new list item?

This can be remidiated by using the editor mode, albeit I found it frustrating still.
> when they routed American calls through the mainland

what about zoom-calls in other countries?
I've read this several times over the years. My favourite quote is:

> Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest.
What happens to cp and banned content ?
>What are the tests?

Tests == adaptation to the environment

E.g. short 2 minute video showing how bacteria evolves with random mutations to produce resistance to antibiotics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8

Likewise at a macro scale, if Earth's atmosphere becomes inhospitable because of global nuclear war or a big asteroid collision, then the new "test for life" is adapting to the radioactive dust cloud. Keep mutating across generations until survivors can thrive.
In the 90s and early 00s it was a sign of professionalism that applications used native OS widgets and respected the theming choices of the user. Sadly, that all went away (about the time the iPhone was released?) and we entered a UX dark age where users only ever get at most 2 choices about theming and UI is considered part of your brand.

People used to say one of the reasons Linux Desktop was shit was that it had so many different look-n-feel's for its disparate applications. Now it is one of the most consistent. People used to say one of the reasons Java was shit because it didn't use native widgets[0] and looked out of place, but now that's the default even for native software. Now we live in an age where developers loudly proclaim their love for bundling an entire web browser as their UI, nothing even remotely resembles the native look-n-feel, and they consider adding a bespoke 'Dark Mode' theme some kind of actually noteworthy achievement.

If personal computing survives the next few decades, future historians will judge us very poorly.

[0] It could, but people used Swing in practice.
The "leading edge" of most corner technologies are usually better in analog. For example, SDRs in radio are only effective up to a certain data rate and frequency bandwidth. At some point analog signal processing (in this case classic "analog radio") is more effective and often the only possible implementation.

Thankfully I work on the leading edge of several technologies and I'm trained in analog so I see this stuff all the time.
All 3 heroku hosted sites which I look after appear to be up and running normally, despite the heroku console being unavailable. Not sure if auto-scaling is impacted yet.

Edit: all my apps are in the EU region, which is eu-west-1 (Ireland)
My biggest issues are that a) it starts up in the foreground (none of my other autostart apps do this) so it can happily intercept keypresses you're doing in other apps -- and b) it does not respect standard system titlebar / borders, which puts it as the only app in my KDE environment that works in a non-standard manner.

A/V issues, navigation, inability to find an existing conversation / conference (happening now on another computer) on a GNU/Linux machine, etc are almost secondary.
don't get your hopes too high up, forecasts for the next two weeks are basically the same
Slack handles it cleanly. It tells you the paste is too large and tells you how to add an attachment instead.
> x^n + y^n = z^n

> There's a cute little fact -- unfortunately I won't have time to prove it in class -- that the above equation has nontrivial integer solutions when n=1 or n=2, but not for any larger integers n.

I love this type of humour.
awful product.They have improved the search functionality in the last few months by adding more filtering options so it isn't as bad as it used to be for finding stuff.
The crates.io index is hosted on GitHub, but the application/API is hosted on Heroku (so in the us-east-1 AWS region) and the downloads on S3/CloudFront. And yes crates.io is currently impacted.
4:35 AM PST We are investigating increased EC2 launched failures and networking connectivity issues for some instances in a single Availability Zone (USE1-AZ4) in the US-EAST-1 Region. Other Availability Zones within the US-EAST-1 Region are not affected by this issue.

via https://stop.lying.cloud/
If you use 'national capital' as a measure then Norway is by far the richest country. It's sovereign wealth fund has more than 1.3 trillion dollars, and owns "about a 1.4% stake in all the world’s public listed companies."[1]

I don't think many Norwegians would say they feel like they're the richest people on Earth though.

EDIT: According to Wikipedia the wealth fund is worth 2.3 trillion now. That's for a country with a population of 5 million people.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/palashghosh/2021/04/07/norways-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sovereign...
> Like I said, you clearly don't understand fossilization.

That's right - I don't. I don't understand how an egg can remain unfossilised yet intact with liquid in for 10,000 years. You do apparently.

> claims still edible after 2 years, so I can believe still with liquid after 20.

Yes - while I used 20 to illustrate the ridiculous point you are making, you actually said greater than 10,000.

> You have yet to used your skepticism to analyze your own arguments. If your understanding is wrong, then your conclusion about what is possible to belief is likely also wrong.
and
> use your skepticism on yourself.

That's not how it works. I'm not making the claim that eggs can last for thousands of years, without degrading, then be converted to stone, then be found millions of years later, then be opened up (somehow!) to reveal the stone 'skeleton' inside of the creature inside. It is fine for me to be skeptical. I'm asking for evidence of these outlandish claims. I don't think there is any.

You think you do understand fossilisation etc - so much that you accept the story above. Feel free to explain it in more detail, or how and why you started to believe these sorts of claims. I'm especially interested to hear how you verified what was said.

> Why are you so trusting in the correctness of your beliefs?

I'm not trusting anything - I even think my experience can be wrong. But the argument I am making aligns with common place understanding. You would leave an egg in some mud and come back 1-2 years later to find it as you left it, right? I'm saying the same rules apply to everything - saying 'millions of years' or whatever shouldn't mean reasoning is deferred. What are you trusting?
What region are your apps hosted in? My apps are still up all on us-east-1
I'm also in east-1 and completely down.
Even more confusingly, "ate" is pronounced differently depending on the temporal tense: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ate
I think you may have missed a stage. Microsoft had Skype and Skype for business already. It is Skype that became Teams and added the deeper integration.
Erm, I immediately understood it as the very famous magician Teller, of Penn & Teller. The bank teller interpretation didn't occur to me and I wouldn't have clicked if I thought it was that. The article was exactly as expected and I read to the end with interest.
Same: only normal text seems kinda working

- edits failing or working with big lag;

- "Threads" view slow;

- can't emoji-react;

- can't upload images;

- people also say they can't join new channels.
Here: https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/issues/1
that way you can have HTTP/1.1 support even with arbitrary output lengths. I was planning on sending this to the linked repo so the owner doesn't need to use HTTP/1.0.

EDIT: changed link to the github issue I created with inlined utility.
Console is sluggish for me, but S3 (us-east-1) seems to work fine.
Yay! Adult snowday!
A less harmful variant was hoped for, based on the initial data from South Africa for Omicron. However, the demographics and history of infections in South Africa are different from other countries, so this wasn't certain. Data and research on what is happening outside South Africa was needed.

Now Reuters is reporting on that research, and the results indicate that the initial hope was false. It doesn't make sense to then go back and point at South Africa to contradict the news. I guess you can disagree with the research conclusions, but then you need to critique the study methodology instead of just pointing at South Africa.
First SMS sold as non-fungible token for €107,000
I would not exist if my mother had been in the US or another location with private healthcare when she was pregnant with me. She had a tough pregnancy and had to take a significant amount of time off work and was on bedrest for approximately 3 months. During those ~3 months, she had a medical professional come to her home every day (her midwife and doctor alternated days). This would simply not be possible if healthcare were not free at the point of care as it is in the UK and many other countries. I don’t know much about the postnatal care, and I know things have gotten worse in the UK over the past decades, but I’m eternally grateful to the prenatal care that the NHS provided.
This raises a few questions:

* Will this be open source?

* Will this support WebExtensions? Assuming they'll have to develop their own implementation since they are using the operating system's own rendering engines, so they will most likely have to have their own implementation.

* Will this allow ad-blocking and tracking protection? Once again, seems they will have to develop this feature themselves. Will the ad-blocking whitelist their own properties or does the user have granular control?

* Will this allow usage of other search engines within the browser, or are you locked in to DDG only? (Of course, ignoring actually navigating directly to the relevant search engines own website).

Interestingly enough, from their blog post[1]:

> 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.

On macOS, Safari is probably the most anaemic "major" web browser out there. Interested to see how it compares to that. I'm not convinced a more minimalist browser compared to Safari is actually useful?

[1] https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-2021-review/
I think of Adam Smith’s idea of comparative advantage.

If you had some skill of above average value you would specialize in that skill to maximize your returns.

If you don’t have such a skill you get minimum wage.

The ‘generalist’ who gets good results is either the recipient of privilege, a specialist in something high-value but invisible, or both.
Well, I don't know much about donating semen, but it doesn't seem outrageous that the semen quality of donors might be monitored, such that old data is available to be compared against new. Or do you actually know that this isn't the case?
Live in the pod, eat the bugs, load the anticheat kernel module.

Or don't play the game at all.

Viability of Linux as a game platform means that sooner or later, most of the shitty things about gaming on Windows (root-your-box anticheat, root-your-box DRM, a million shitty storefronts) will come to Linux because they're table stakes for the publishers' business model and without them the games simply won't get ported.
Thanks. it has true in the title. it definitely is the ultimate source of truth.
Geez guys, just because ONE book says something it doesn't mean you have to believe it as the gospel.
What? Omicron aside, Delta was more harmful than the original wild type, not less. More severe, higher rate of hospitalization and mortality.
I wonder if there's an s3 compatible service with similar pricing that can be used as a fallback? Are digital ocean s3 compatible storage accounts's backed by real s3?
Or Patrick Orlando and Donald Trump, who reportedly discussed their SPAC merger months before Orlando sold shares to investors. But then, I think enforcing this no-contact law will be hard, i.e. difficult to prove unless regulators obtain explicit proof of a conversation between interested parties.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/business/dealbook/trump-m...
My first association was with Teller from Penn & Teller. But to be fair, English is not my first language, and bank tellers are a thing of the long past to me - everything a normal teller would do is self-service and has been for many years, where I live, and my last interaction with a regular teller was maybe just before the turn of the century.
Yeah, it was just to confirm that this time was no different :)
Shopgram, the all-in-one Shopify data tool
Ctrl + A is also broken on Mac. Quite surprised to see it is broken on Windows as well
If this is pure bash then so is

```
caddy file-server --browse --listen :80
```
Yes DNA is more like a lego assembly language.
Some software are hit and miss, or just fail to work on wine. Big one for a lot of people is the Affinity suite.
Shopgram is a search engine for Shopify stores and products. It gives you instant access to the data and analytics of more than 1.2 Million Shopify stores and products based on different metrics.
I really hope they end up using servo.

If you're ignoring established engines, it's a pretty good first step

I don't think the web is fixable as it is though.
Performances are going to be terrible no matter what unless we pick a subset of functionality and provide native code to handle that.

EDIT: ooh, they're going to use the native engine on each platform! Wow! This is a non news.
If you are a tech jack of all traits... "architect", but seriously...

I have somewhat gone this route and I would say it isn't ideal - the logical trajectory becomes to gain deep domain knowledge and move into a psuedo technical role translating between executives / operational people and various technology specialities.

If you try to be a pure technologist with only average or less skill in everything and no area of deep technical skill, it is hard to progress to senior levels - because you are not better than a cheap junior at what ever they want you to do. They want T shaped people.

Your way out of this is to get a specialist role and stay in it for a few years, or to enter a knowledge intense domain like finance, medical, or science - and become a T shaped person who knows a lot about prop trading and a little bit about devops and web programming. Then you can supervise the specialists who do those things, with the domain knowledge to ensure they are building the right thing.

A qualification in the non techy domain subject of your choice is useful - qualify as a CPA, do a masters in financial engineering, or computational biology...
I recall that bash can't create a server socket, because bash doesn't bind().
How do I?
Ah, back to normal now. Getting intermittent flickers on some of our apps but all seems solid-ish again
Not down as of 7:40 EST. US-EAST-1 hosted site (athene.com). Cognito, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, Cloudfront.
The elite DevOps teams are always assigned to the status page
As a Pole, it frustrates me to no end as the 90s and 2000s were the time of incredible optimism and opportunity, then the country joined the EU in 2004 you could see *everything" improving very very quickly, huge level of growth and opportunities for everyone, country slowly becoming more and more progressive too, and then PiS got elected and everything went to shit, 6 years down and I don't recognize this country or its values anymore.
I update my Linux systems manually on my schedule, my computer does not decide it wants a reboot right fucking now.
Discounting a different product to kill competition? I'm no antitrust expert, but isn't that illegal? If not, it should be.
Cassian Harrison, media star and founder, shares experiences on how to build and launch one of the top 10 best-selling paid apps in the UK.
Totally agree. If I had a dime for each time I saw people make bad oversimplifications based on "DNA as blueprint" or "DNA as code" I'd not be rich, but I would be able to buy myself a nice dinner, at the very least.
I actually see many of the lessons of the Old Testament (I don't know about the sequels, didn't read them) to be as relevant today as they were when written.

You have to take the books in the context of the time in which they were written. They didn't have the same standards of Source Needed as the Wikipedia generation is used to, but attributing the requirement to love your neighbor as being the spoken word of the creator himself, was good enough to get the point across. It is still the basis of Western society today, even if it has been reencoded into more specific laws with more specific punishments for non-compliance.

Your comment is like hoping that Turing's work will one day be regarded for historical interest only, because it was not written considering the features of today's latest Javascript framework.
I'm getting a plain "504 Gateway Time-out" page when trying access anything past the console homepage in us-east-1.
> Electron is an impressive engineering accomplishment

...it is? How? It's just a web browser hacked up to allow shit we decided it was a terrible idea to allow a web browser to do just so it can be a GUI for a local application that's probably an order of magnitude or more smaller than it is.
This seems like an odd usage of cat and command substitution to me:

HEAD_TEMPLATE=$(cat <<EOF
<title>Sherver example</title>
<meta name="description" content="Sherver example">
EOF
)

https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/blob/master/scripts/ind...
Before you claimed that Universal Paperclips was not good while you were away from the computer, which makes it a dubious idle game.

Also, Wikipedia defines incremental games as a synonym for "clicker" games. Factorio is definitely not a "clicker" game, unless you define clicker broadly as "you use the mouse to click", which would make StarCraft and point and click adventures such as Day of the Tentacle also clicker games.

I find it harder and harder to understand your point. At this stage, wouldn't it be easier to just admit Factorio and Universal Paperclips have very little in common, and that Factorio isn't an idle game, instead of sticking to your guns?
They reported lower deaths from COVID vs. vaccines because they didn't have rampant COVID but also had high vaccination rates, it really was that simple, and it is damaging (and strictly incorrect) to discuss this 'data point' without the appropriate context. Because of this, the vaccine looks like an 'unnecessary risk' until you start getting major outbreaks.

And calling this a 'divisive topic' lends too much credence to anti-vax dogma
Zoom has a free version and the UI isn't that bad - and it scales to quite large groups. It's not nearly as confusing as Webex. And the video and audio quality are better than Teams. And no one knows what Google is offering this week (I think it's Meet, but maybe Hangouts or Duo or are they all the same now?)
That's a good point that I didn't really address. Why can't you just have a centralised database?

1) If you had a centralised database, it would be extremely difficult to prevent the people operating the central database from exploiting the fact that they literally know how every bank in the financial system is positioned. It would be the juciest inside information ever.

You definitely need some kind of system where both sides can know they have agreed without anyone within the system being able to get access to all the facts globally in a timeframe where they would be able to take advantage of this knowledge.

2)Who would run it? The only feasible bodies that I could see would be the central clearing houses and they definitely haven't shown the level of operational competence that would be required given that if this thing went down pretty much all finance would stop until it was fixed. Banks use the swap rates to bootstrap their discount curves so if the swaps market disappeared for a few hours literally noone in the world would be able to accurately risk-manage any sort of trade that was dependent on future cashflows.