skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a recent addition to the HN guidelines, but it’s there now, and I think it’s a good one: don’t complain about name collisions.
Am I the only one hitting paywall while accessing this article?
Hetzner is now listed in a new category for VPS hosters. https://european-alternatives.eu/product/hetzner
I'm fairly certain that there exist logic mechanisms for analogue computers. An alarm clock is a fairly trivial example, but might serve as a minimal case.

Various mechanical governors (see Watt's flywheel governor), pressure relief valves, and similar automated controls within hydraulic systems, also come to mind. Similarly, a mechanical thermostat.
The UK and Germany have very similar vaccination rates averaged across the entire population, but the UK has very high vaccine uptake amongst elderly people who're most at risk whilst Germany doesn't. If you're relying on vaccines to prevent the hospital system being overwhelmed that probably has a disproportionate impact because they're massively more likely to be hospitalized.
Lower gun violence is a benefit.

Nonexistent GV would be better of course, and one of the steps to achieve that, is to have as few privatly owned guns as possible.
> There are also all the national holidays

Yes, but other parts of the world have them as well. Most EU countries have >13, while US has 12, according to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of...

Here in the EU, it is common to have >25d/y holiday. Some data I came across by living in multiple EU countries:
* Austria 25d/y, 38.5h/w.
* France: 25d/y, 35h/w
* Germany: 30d/y, 40h/w.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648286 aws is down
Seems unlogical that this is just a single region in a single US region
We are having issues pulling images from public.ecr.aws from an EU region.
> lowers sperm count

Alas!

We can probably have an interesting conversation about evolution, adaptation, and fitness for survival.

Besides the obvious potential for lower population growth, how does a lower sperm count of any entire set of generations impact the future species, and society?
> Does the wayback machine offer a JSON/REST API to check for URLs, in the sense of sending a URL and getting back a map of specific crawl datetimes that are available in the cache?

Have you looked at the headers that they send?

GET /web/20100330210402/https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112 HTTP/2
[...]

HTTP/2 200 OK
[...]
link: <http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112>; rel="original",
<https://web.archive.org/web/timemap/link/http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112>;
rel="timemap"; type="application/link-format",
<https://web.archive.org/web/http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112>;
rel="timegate",
<https://web.archive.org/web/20100330210402/http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112>;
rel="first memento"; datetime="Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:04:02 GMT",
<https://web.archive.org/web/20100330210402/http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112>;
rel="memento"; datetime="Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:04:02 GMT",
<https://web.archive.org/web/20110101203756/http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112>;
rel="next memento"; datetime="Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:37:56 GMT",
<https://web.archive.org/web/20211123040625/https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112>;
rel="last memento"; datetime="Tue, 23 Nov 2021 04:06:25 GMT"
[...]

The Wayback Machine implements RFC 7089. <http://mementoweb.org/guide/quick-intro/>
Yeah, we use the Orbi mesh network, but they don't mind hopping between satellites if 2.4 and 5 are split. Given the way my kids move the Oculus around a lot between rooms, being able to hop is important.
I don’t disagree with any of this as it is pretty much Finance 101. But what I feel like this sort of analysis tends to lack, is that the markets have always been decoupled from “reality”. The only difference is that, historically, there were less retail investors and more professional traders. These pros shared a consensus reality regarding valuation etc. But at the end of the day, the price of the stock has always been based on the supply and demand of the asset which can have absolutely no connection to the actual performance the underlying company. Think about it, a stock price rises or falls based on people buying and selling the stock. That typically happens when there is news about company performance but there is no direct correlation between company performance and stock price. If we all decided we actually value poor performing companies, their stock price would be through the roof, a la Tesla. It’s all smoke and mirrors, and it always has been.
Surely this is a thinly-disguised weapons test, right?
Seeing the individual sine-wave functions comprising a tide table was an eye-opener for me.

I've seen and used tide tables. I'd never even stopped to think that these were probably a Fourier function based on a set of waves, though that's blindingly obvious the second it's mentioned.
I dont think they will, nothing prevents Apple pulling the same b.s than ms.
Bitbucket is down as well
"When a fail-safe system fails, it fails by failing to fail-safe." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
Yes, the horseradish here is a word that sounds similar to dick, and yet is inoffensive enough not to be tabooed. A similar kind of substitution in English would be heck instead of hell, or shoot instead of shit.
That is a very fair criticism.
Spread the risk? Smaller on prem and cloud / rented bare metal?
I'm quite surprised that Madoff's investors are being successfully pursued. Presumably they invested in good faith, and so are not at fault.
Looks like the bird ride from Golden Axe ("chicken leg").
Bitbucket is down as well because of this. https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com/incidents/r8kyb5w606g...
The Great Leap Forward, Tiananmen Square Massacre, Tibet tortures, Uyghur genocide.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ccp-at-100-years-a-century-of-...

But please, continue to shill for the murderous authoritarian regime with your whataboutism.
I don't care about crypto.

You comment seems to amount to "I won't argue because you're not rational. The thing you believe in is awful and should cease to exist".

Please reconsider.
It wouldn’t be the express purpose.

And yeah the SEC has input on the wording of the proposed target company vote. So they would eventually know.

But since VCs typically have single to low-double digit ownership of anything in their portfolio, it would probably pass muster just fine. Would just need to be disclosed.

I’ve seen SPAC investors approve buying newly formed companies, formed two months prior. So they’ll approve anything (except buzzfeed lol)
They’re arguing: better for developers is better for users. Developers get to spend more time on building features and less on the accidental complexity that comes with supporting all of the competing platforms and frameworks.
> Finally, am I the only sick of these stereotypical images of 'native indigenous cultures living in simple harmony with nature' a la Avatar?

This is a valid criticism of the depiction of aboriginal cultures.

But I've come to believe that there is a subtle racism in not accepting that aboriginals intentionally chose to develop cultures which were durable and in 'harmony with nature.'

They are the same homo sapiens with the same intelligence and nature as the homo sapiens of Europe or from other more 'advanced' societies. They could have chosen to develop their culture in such a way that led to being 'out of harmony' just as easily as some other peoples did.

Aboriginals in say, Australia, had plenty of time to develop a more advanced society (some estimates say they've been there 40k years). When western people depict them as living close to the land, I smell a whiff of the subtext 'because they couldn't do any better'. Yeah they could have done otherwise, but they chose not to!

I work with a group of engineers and lately because of attending a conference, we have started to talk a lot about climate change. Some of the ideas our group initially came up with are really ridiculous, like some kind of machine to extract carbon from the atmosphere and to sequester it.

It's called a tree, they are everywhere, and they do it for free. They will propagate by themselves if we just had the patience to let them do so.
I'm tempted to found a startup to help businesses migrate from cloud providers to on-prem infrastructure.
Could not edit my earlier comment where I made couple of typos. Sorry about that.

1. About 5-6 months ago, they raised a* compliance issue about an image on my game's page

2. I shared all of that in an appeal* to Google, but no effect
They do. I remember watching one of their sessions where they showed every rack having its own battery backup.
I went through pretty much precisely the same set of thoughts. Yes, quite elegant.
Auto-responders must still reply "Thank you for your message it's really important to us". At least you'd know the auto-response servers are still up.
>Correct grammar would say e.g. "Are you French?" but if someone says, "You are French?" or even "You French?" then the meaning is still there, especially if a foreign accent means somebody is not speaking their first language.

That reminds me of a famous scene from La Grande Vadrouille, a renowned French comedy, where the protagonists of the film try to meet an English pilot grounded in France in hopes of exfiltrating him. But as it happens, both characters believe the other to be English : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YepP1M6eO4
> English phonetics are no worse than any other language- when the author writes phonetics he means spelling

I doubt that. I understand Italian at an A2/B1 level, however if I see a sentence or a name in Italian I will pronounce it correctly in 95% of the times even if I never saw it, or heard it before. That's the power of a phonetic language which Italian is for the most part.
In Argentina you can only buy 200 USD per month and even that isn't guaranteed, you have to make appointments with banks in a lot of places. And even if you get them, you can't use them outside of the country because such payments are mostly blocked. You can pay online services or internatioal shippings by converting to crypto first and trade it with a foreigner to deposit USD in a foreign bank account, and then make the actual payment.
reduced major first / minor first ratios, for reference:

16:18: 1.125 / 0.888

4:5: 1.2 / 0.8

16:10: 1.6 / 0.625

16:9: 1.778 / 0.563

2.38: 2.38 / 0.42
That can basically do anything you can think of and then more.
Oh, and "mineral" is ... stuff that comes from mines.

(Etymology is fun.)
This sounds like sound advice. Also, talk to someone with experience in these and they can help you see if it's worth your while to engage in the first place.
I don't know what's still true, but at one point us-east-1 seemed more critical than other regions because there were some things that had to be there. One thing that comes to mind is ACM certificates used with things like API Gateway (probably Cloudfront), they had to be in us-east-1 no matter where the rest of your infrastructure was.

So it's not shocking to me that something going down in us-east-1 could have impact on other regions.
If I try to think about the list of

- skills that AI has already made obsolete

- skills that AI is likely to make obsolete in the near future

I'm struggling to come up with that many. It doesn't seem like too big of a deal.
Did you read it? Teller is awesome, always worth reading, a very thoughtful guy as well as a master of his art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller_(magician)

TIL: Penn & Teller met as painters at art school!
It looks oppressive yes but in an attractive, clean, minimalist way.
Similar with GCP. We had a pretty bad outage once where the status page was showing all green. Google informed us that because the actual issue was further down the stack and didn't trigger any internal SLOs the status didn't get an update. It took them hours to acknowledge and fix it.
I guess it's extremely dependent on an org to org basis.

I worked at a company that's bread and butter was online services (e-commerce SaaS platform, similar to Netsuite) and we had significantly fewer outages than AWS had.

But we had redundancies built in to most things, I'm not saying it was perfect but it worked.

The major difference might be that almost nobody is willing to spend 20% of what they spend on AWS/GCP to have a self-hosted solution.

The reason "cloud is so expensive" is because they're essentially telling you what the price will be and even if they only spend 40% of that on actual hardware and operations: it's more than most companies would invest in themselves.

This is absurd, of course, but it's absolutely true.
> I really don't understand the persistent myth that blockchains are anonymous.

They are, at least in principle.

Sure, if you pay for something and have it delivered to your home, someone now knows the address linked to the wallet you used; do this a lot, and the chances increase that this link will end up in the wrong databases.

But that doesn't mean bitcoin & co. aren't, at least on their own, fairly anonymous.
I've got a few hundred games and the only one I noticed was noticeably worse on Linux is Star Citizen, and that's a game still in alpha so the optimisation in general is awful anyway.
Why do you think it matters?

If the owners gave validity to this collection later, it may accrue actual value despite being incapable of being a claim to any building or land or franchise.
I have a story from only a few years ago where the finance section, and a good portion of management, of Google had no idea how poor their GAE solution was for uptime, until they tried to do business critical work using software that was hosted on GAE.

Uptime improved rather dramatically after that.
> Britishized equivalent to pizzazz is

I suspect you want "frippery". :P
SfB only did the non-persistent chat and A/V calls portion of Teams and is really more like a VoIP PBX. SfB calls still have better audio quality than Teams today - I'm guessing they've optimized bandwidth down to meet a "2/5 star rating" ("technically intelligible").
I run the site and as many things in life this site is a work in progress. I got many suggestions for new services in the last days, so there will be many more services in the future.

I just added a new live chat service to the category called crisp (https://european-alternatives.eu/product/crisp), maybe it better fits your needs.
I was hoping for Ed Teller too. Also the inventor of geoengineering. His nukes made world peace possible (at the risk of global destruction). Maybe his geoengineering will make climate balance possible (with the same risk).
EV startup Nikola settles with U.S. for $125M
"echo" and "time" are explicitly bash built-ins, "which" and "cat" are not, and you will always get a process spawned there.

Your second strace is misleading, you didn't trace child processes.

$ strace bash -c '$(which echo) hi' 2>&1 | grep 'exec'
execve("/bin/bash", ["bash", "-c", "$(which echo) hi"], 0x7ffddfcdaee0 /* 59 vars */) = 0
execve("/bin/echo", ["/bin/echo", "hi"], 0x55eb565cb0b0 /* 59 vars */) = 0

$ strace -f bash -c '$(which echo) hi' 2>&1 | grep 'exec'
execve("/bin/bash", ["bash", "-c", "$(which echo) hi"], 0x7ffd09b3e228 /* 59 vars */) = 0
[pid 81493] execve("/usr/bin/which", ["which", "echo"], 0x5560d172e0b0 /* 59 vars */) = 0
execve("/bin/echo", ["/bin/echo", "hi"], 0x5560d172e0b0 /* 59 vars */) = 0
AI's weakness is it doesn't work well where there's not enough data. It can memorize all the recipes and correlate them to produce a good one. But it can't reach the level of the best chef in the world, because the best chefs don't have their methodology down as data. Even if they did, it would change rapidly enough to stay ahead.

With chess, it's the same board and pieces. A thousand years of experience and it can detect all moves, even the meme ones that crop up recently. Similar with DOTA, Go, music.

I tried to get it to write dialogue, and it writes very good ones! But it can't produce the shivers down your spine work nor do something like Harry Potter, which is about human relationships.
Interesting. I don't hear anything when I use the -a flag.
Agree. Now viable alternatives exist. The nextgen cloud providers will learn from the weaknesses of incumbents and innovate.
You rightly noted that deaths occur a few weeks after contraction of the virus, and hospitalization usually somewhere between those two dates. So the hospitalization curve also follows the infection curve with a delay. Therefore, hospitalization might still go up.

The following argument is often completely ignored, even if Omicron hospitalizes only half as many percent of infected people as Delta, it will reach the same absolute number of hospital patients one doubling period later, which is around two to three days later for most countries. I.e. it doesn't matter for the question whether public health systems collapse if you don't stop the wave of infections.
I think crypto "investing" might be here to stay, for quite a while at least.

Not that I think it should: it's a non-productive asset valued almost totally based on the greater fool theory, and there seem to be very credible indications that there may be large-scale price manipulation going on. But it appears to have managed to become entrenched in culture to the point that my non-tech-savvy colleagues talk about it like a normal thing, and financial media personalities comment on the price movements alongside securities and other asset classes.

But to be fair, in some ways securities are quite disjoint from "true value" as well. If I buy a share in AAPL from another investor, the minuscule dividend and voting rights I acquire do very little to justify the price of the stock. I am really buying it in hopes that the market value will increase in time to make my retirement a bit more comfortable.
A typical complaint about getting banned with a thin veneer of "big tech bad" to make it seem worthwhile to the reader.
Case Fatality Rate = ~0.3% Delta vs ~1.9% Original
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant
Never happened before, and now again!
Steve Jobs passed, and his heritage is all the way in Syria.

A lot of people come to the US and inherit its institutions, because of the way they look, and drop all the baggage they experienced from the places they come from. It is very common for people to conform by changing their name and accent and dress style, if their skin color did most if the blending in for them. (Note that Just as many “white” people don't figure it out, and experience poverty or mediocrity which is also quite harsh in the US even if the living and food conditions are generally are decent.)

The same concept has not been conducive to people with more divergent physical phenotypes like eye shape or skin color.
Assuming you have a support contract the rep should send out a post-mortem page.

This is what happens when we've been affected by outages (even without involving support).
Accusing MS of a coordinated PR smear campaign against Zoom, with zero evidence other then "it feels like it", is a far cry away from pointing out ethical issues.
TikTok overtakes Google to become most popular site on the planet
I am always open to suggestions. You can write your suggestions here, in the chat bubble on the site or on Twitter.
Printing happened. Literacy of the middle class meant Latin was less useful as a vehicular language, as it was spoken by an increasingly small share of the literate population.
it was not a total power loss. out of 40 instances we had running at the time of the incident only 5 of our instances appeared to be lost to the power outage. the bigger issue for us was ec2 api to stop/start these instances appeared to be unavailable (but probably due to the rack these instances were in having no power). The other issue that was impactful to us was that many of the remaining running instances in the zone had intermittent connectivity out to the internet. Additionally, the incident was made worse by many of our supporting vendors being impacted as well...

IMO it was handled rather well and fast by AWS... not saying we shouldn't beat them up (for a discount) but being honest this wasn't that bad.
Just call credit card center for a refund and get a burner number…not a big deal.

Regarding banks: get some Bitcoin just in case, as it can be much worse when banks ban you.
you can find out which zone is mapped to use1-az4 for your account with awscli:

aws ec2 describe-availability-zones | jq -r '.AvailabilityZones[] | select(.ZoneId == "use1-az4") | .ZoneName'
You switch to a coin that uses proof-of-stake?

Several of the totally OG cryptographers, like Chaum or Micali, have created blockchains that are using PoS (Micali is behind Algorand and Chaum behind an upcoming "elixxir" coin I think, forgot the name).

Of course there's also Ethereum which is currently switching to PoS.

Cryptocurrencies haters better find another argument than "energy consumption" because I think the gigantic energy waste is coming to an end soon.
It would be more helpful if you could say what changed your mind. From your comment I can't say whether you changed your mind because you learned something in your studies, or because BTC went from <1$ to 10k$+.
Keeping a Grocery Store Lobster as a Pet
Two things here:

1) Having multiple skills is a “skill” too. For example DevOps (programmer + system admin) or full stack developers (front end and back end programmer) combine multiple skill sets in one person.

2) Overspecialization can be bad when the need for a skill disappears or lessens. For example, if you’ve specialized in building webpages in a CMS that isn’t popular anymore, you will need to retrain.

I think you are interpreting Adam Smith to strictly. Instead of looking at brewing and baking as a skill you should look at them as a job that is a set of skills. Skill sets of jobs evolve over time and vary by employer (even if the job description is the same) and not everybody is going to be good in all of the skills required for a job.

Whatever skill set you have, the best general recommendation would be to find the job that matches the skill set you currently have best and adding addition skills to specialize in your job. Those skills with also help you with other jobs and might not help you to do the same job for somebody else.
How many web developers get peeved when they see news of another prospective web browser, I wonder?
To use C++ terminology, It's any type where operator+(), operator-(), operator*(), and operator/() are defined and behave as they do in rational numbers.
Right. I've had an excellent experince with Vultr for the last couple years, for about 1/10th the cost of AWS. I use other small VPS providers as well. I run my own small business and I need to keep costs down to stay competitive. I used to use AWS more but the bill always creeps up to inappropriate levels. AWS billing is insulting, oh you forgot to renew your reserved instance? That's going to be double this month. I still use cloudfront, route 53, and a few of the smallest instances for mail servers and asterisk though. It's foolish to go all in with AWS, or with anything really.
Can you update everything else on a Linux box without rebooting?

How does this compare to Windows updates, and how many of them require rebooting?
It wasn't reliable. I heard of many more who weren't able to get in that way than who were, and was in the former category myself.

We didn't take any downtime, but if anything had gone wrong there would have been nothing we could do about it until IAM came back up.
I think most people on here are coming from the perspective of startups, which scale out of a single server setup pretty quickly. At a bare minimum, most will have dedicated purpose-built servers like Redis or a DB, and often there's separate background workers, or a load balancer with a couple of web servers.

When your server requirements get into needing 5-6 servers (not at all atypical for a startup in their first year of being launched), running your own stuff becomes more of a challenge pretty quickly. Factor in 2-3x growth a year, and the challenges just mount.
A non-paywalled link was provided in comments above https://archive.md/sQhtq