skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had Windows spontaneously restart on me while I’m doing stuff, to apply an update. If it was somehow my fault, I have no idea what caused it, and so it’s Microsoft’s fault after all since it wasn’t clear.
But that is copyright infringement. You're not allowed to copy some work, modify it, then slap the original copyright on it. This is an illegal website, prone to being taken down by AWS.

It's just strange.
Then I presume you never had the misfortune of using Skype for Business?

We used this prior to Teams, and in comparison, Teams is great. I'm guessing a lot of Teams users come from Skype for Business, so they are really happy with the improvements.
All these fiver guys are really bad, lots of them just copy and paste or provide you with stuff they find on the net.
I think you might have confused it with "West of Eden" by Harry Harrison?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Eden
The linked talk is full of half truths and misinformation by omission and already was when I first watched it in 2013. Most significantly the speaker conflates the X protocol and Xlib which nobody was using to write new software even back then. He says that gedit performs lots of blocking calls during startup. That's a problem of Xlib. With XCB you can perform all of these calls in parallel. He says that referring to an object that doesn't exist causes your program to abort by default. That's a problem of Xlib. With XCB, this simply returns an error that you can handle like you would do with any other API. He gets called out for this by one of the attendees but brushes it away with "but it's really hard to do". It's actually not.

I'm not going to go over the whole video since it was primarily made for entertainment and therefore any point can be defended by "he was exaggerating for comedic effect". Invoking this video is akin to invoking late night tv hosts when talking about politics.

And then of course he also has some valid points which are unfortunately diminished because the uninformed watcher will not be able to distinguish them for the invalid points.
I got an error trying to download the git client for Windows... must be this too.
Ok, now please do the comparison with a more modern zOS mainframe or upcoming ones based on Telum. These still seem to be running the world in the background?
For anyone on their edge of their seat to commit a stats fallacy, don't forget that the base proportion of the population vaccinated is ~4x higher than the unvaxxed. The unvaxxed are comprising a massively higher share of the infections than their share of population here.
> especially since `cat` is often inlined, without process spawning.

That would be surprising. How would that work? `cat` is definitely not a bash built-in.
For the masses, not the classes?

The C64 is the most important change in history, it will be celebrated as long as we still can afford 15W.
I created a ticket through Salesforce's "premium" phone support, but the URL of the ticket is hosted at help.heroku.com, which is also down. As of now, Heroku's status page appears green. Our Heroku app is hosted in Amazon East, but appears to be functioning at the moment.
> I get the feeling that investing in a quality company with a solid balance sheet is the better long term risk proposition

From a risk perspective, you are better off investing in an index. Any individual company might stagnate or go bust, but an index is highly diversified and constantly rebalanced to track the best performing companies. The risk reduces even further as your horizon increases.
5ish years ago it was common knowledge that us-east-1 is generally the worst place to put anything that needs to be reliable. I guess this is still true?
Because it's built on AWS and uses the AWS status page for it's status info?
To me, the greatest appeal of analog computing is in representing equations in mechanical, visual, directly modifiable, 'hands on' forms. Having different concrete representations or implementations of abstract concepts makes them so much easier to understand. I've read somewhere that the technicians working at MIT with Vannevar Bush's mechanical differential analyzer quickly learned advanced calculus and "debugged" the math of university professors that would use the machines for various computations.
It is not the continuous nature of the variables that is so interesting, it is the concept of computing by analogy and the benefits to understanding that come with that.
> The author says it’s easy for Italians to understand Sicilian, but I’m sure anyone who learned Italian as a second language from textbooks won’t feel the same.

Sicilian is not intelligible to italian speakers. The only dialect that is fully understandable is Roman vernacular.

He said that Italians understand each other when speaking Italian.
Supposedly, one application of analog computing is simulating systems governed by differential equations.

The discrete time step in a typical numerical simulation introduces some artifacts, often seen as an error at high frequencies. In an analog computer, you set up a system of differential equations by using integration components that you plug back into the system to literally form a feedback loop. Because such a setup is physical, it can simulate the target system without any temporal artifacts.

The CCC hosted a great (English language) talk on this that really blew my mind: https://media.ccc.de/v/saal_mp7_og_-_2013-07-07_14:00_-_anal...
There are plenty of games that have no DRM or invasive anti-cheat. They’re not AAA titles, but there’s no shortage.
You should complain to Slack then. It's their problem to choose a reliable provider, and AWS seems to have trouble with keeping this status.
So why are people not migrating out of us-east-1? Operating in ap-southeast, we weren't that affected by the us-east-1 down time, although our system is reasonably static and doesn't make lots of IAM calls (which seems to be a large SPOF from us-east-1).
Shipwrecks, Stolen Jewels, Skull-Blasting Are Some of This Year’s Best Mysteries
VSCode is the outliner in Electron and not the norm. M$ had a whole team on VSCode dedicated just for performance. Outliner to Outliner you may want to compare VSCode to Sublime Editor.
Since Windows 10. It is possible to disable it, but Microsoft fought very hard to prevent people from doing so by putting up a ton of road blocks. It was a loudly decried 'feature'.
Would need one hell of a compressional algorithm to keep the data exfiltration costs down.
> FreePBX . . . gives users the tools to build a phone system tailored to their needs.

For anyone wondering, like I was.
As on other HN threads, transmissibility (Omicron is almost certainly more transmissible) has an exponential effect on healthcare demand and severity is linear (1). Plus if you're wrong about it being less deadly, no do-overs. Though, arguably, it's already way too late to do anything but look like you're doing something.

(1) Pseudo-linear? It's more like shifting the peak of a bell curve.
> However, if the autovacuum is running to prevent transaction ID wraparound (i.e., the autovacuum query name in the pg_stat_activity view ends with (to prevent wraparound)), the autovacuum is not automatically interrupted.

I had fought this many times before when building ETL processes on top of Postgres, especially back in 9.4 when there was a bug that caused quadratic growth of the multi-transaction IDs.

In fact, this was my only understanding of how vacuum locked interacted with other processes. I had no idea a normal autovacuum process would surrender to standard user operations, so that's a TIL for me.

Thanks for the write-up!
> BUT X IS THE UNIX WAY! << so what is the 1 thing X does, and what is it doing well?

Provide an X server :-P.

The Unix Philosophy not only isn't really a philosophy but also isn't meant to be a dogma - it is meant to be a guideline that, when it makes sense, can be bent.

For example not even the original Unix kernel followed the Unix philosophy because sometimes you need some programs to do more than one things - often in order to enable other programs focus on their "do one thing well" aspect (e.g. window managers).
> 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.

This also makes it impossible to resize the window. Well, sometimes. There are times when it works, and I have no idea what makes it work.

Thankfully, I usually use Qubes OS which doesn't let programs do these user-hostile things.
I have no hope anymore. It won't get better.

If people want 500 zł monthly and are willing to sell themselves and the country for that - let them...
Noticed this when trying to build an Electron app; atom.io and therefore all related artifacts are down.
In Russia they have a specific name for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
Here's my "it's not stupid if it works" fix (that doesn't involve restarting Teams). Click on any message in a chat, click CTRL- (or CMD-) A, and congrats, select all works again. Please don't read this as a defense of Teams -- I'm just another frustrated user.
Define your target first, protect your source code? or protect your data?
I was curious too. An HN user takes credit for it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24499159

Apparently it does some simple transformations of the actual status page, which is why the Amazon copyright stuff is in there.
I don't see how you got from my post to that conclusion. Did I forget a word or write something extremely unclear?
Ah and I thought it was my fault that lists stopped working all of a sudden.
How about leaving your 16 year old twin boys to fend for themselves at home? Yes. We got a visit from CPS ... SHEESH!
The best way to improve your odds of success is to stay invested over time, no matter when you start.

https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/is-t...
That is such an annoying thing in codebases. It's the same issue the other way around, I want to see all places in frontend that calls /v1/resource but then some people go and abstract the url into multiple variables.

If it was up to me the constant part of the relative url would never be abstracted away in the codebase. Just a simple grep would instantly get you everything you are looking for.
Cat is not a specified built-in but many implementations do build it in to speed up scripts that use it quite heavily.

Other examples include `which`, `time`, `echo`, etc. They're usually promoted to built-ins when it's clear that's the intended command to run, but there are still analogs on the PATH if need-be - I'm not sure exactly how bash would detect a non-standard executable there to know when it's unsafe to promote to a built-in, though.

For example with echo:

$ bash -c 'echo hi'
hi

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

$ strace bash -c '$(which echo) hi' | grep 'exec'
execve("/usr/bin/bash", ["bash", "-c", "$(which echo) hi"], 0x7fffe36c6cd0 /* 24 vars */) = 0
execve("/usr/bin/echo", ["/usr/bin/echo", "hi"], 0x7fffe2e16ff0 /* 25 vars */) = 0

In fact for me, `cat` always gets inlined, even if I call it with its full path or with `which cat`.

There are cases where the built-in and the actual executable differ - the most prominent case being `time`. The built-in does not have the command line arguments to print out things like pre-empted scheduling (forced context swiches).

$ time --help
--help: command not found

$ /usr/bin/time --help
Usage: /usr/bin/time [-apvV] [-f format] [-o file] [--append] [--verbose]
[--portability] [--format=format] [--output=file] [--version]
[--quiet] [--help] command [arg...]
> can't have more than 4 people on screen in a video call

You can if you use it in Chrome. I thought Teams was an Electron application, which makes this even more strange.
A link preview vulnerability in Teams vs a backdoor for China. I choose the vulnerability!

At work we were briefed in detail by spy from CSIS to avoid Zoom. I trust the Canadian spy before a trust I company with CCP ties.

The only thing I can add from that briefing is avoid Zoom, Huawei and product from Facebook, use Telegram if you can and Teams or Google current messaging solution if you can't.
How is Brave openly hostile to FOSS?
We have an integration with Teams and it feels like a beta in my opinion. Random 500's from the API, hundreds of JS errors in the console are not uncommon. We've had fewer problems with Zoom.
I would get a lawyer
"Firefox has been very lightweight with regard to user experience. And they actually have to, otherwise, they couldn't distinguish themselves from the competition (ie. Google). So there's no realistic risk of invasiveness."
I would be worried because getting taken down is Amazon’s speciality.
Security researcher 1ZRR4H has identified the first Log4j worm
Yes mate, Internet Police Officer Jeff Bezos has been dispatched and will take this illegal website down right away.

(Using copyrighted material is permitted under fair use; this website is a parody. I’m not a lawyer but at some level preserving the copyright notice is probably better than claiming it as their own.)
Well, apparently mummification has happened accidentally.

But have you ever heard about Piltdown Man? I was taught this as fact, when I was at school (and I'm not _that_ old):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

It is now an admitted fake. Why would they fake it?

Anyway - it seems that sometimes this research is faked. Is it possible that in 30 years some of those examples are also admitted as fakes?

(you can also look into:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars)

I actually think it is possible for a body to be buried in a bog, and perhaps be in reasonable condition after 100s of years.

Do you think an egg would last though? For 1000 years (as per another commentor), until it fossilises? And then not be assimilated into the rock that it is surrounded by? And then be found? And then be cracked open to reveal the skeleton inside?

Can I get some odds on that please!!
Amazon's own status page sort of lies. So someone probably wget-ed the status page, kept the same html and css and hooked it to their own API to display correct info.
Not a security expert, but I believe security applies too. It is difficult to claim a system as 100% secure. So long as what is being secured is less worth than the effort to hack into, you are good.
A mix of Firefox , opera(I kinda like some features), safari without the proprietary issues and the chromium parts minus the tracking would be amazing.

Rooting for the team, everyone used to say it's too hard to create a new browser from scratch, the monopoly is too overwhelming etc.

But we got brave, at least it's something fresh. And it appears duck has generated money or investments for following googles path.
Next they could go for an email client, a good copy of the Ms suite and a video platform and google might become dethroned some day.
Huh, that's interesting. Didn't know that, but makes sense.
Hasura v2.1.0 – Transform Any HTTP REST API to GraphQL
Absolutely.

Sadly this site is only reachable without TLS. Works only with http not https.
That subtitle is misleading: the actual claim being made is that the electromechanical fire control computers were more than precise and accurate enough for their purpose of firing long-range guns. The remaining inaccuracies were elsewhere in the process, and required guided munitions to improve upon.

"...but take away the fancy GPS shells, and the AGS and its digital fire control system are no more accurate than mechanical analog technology that is nearly a century old."
It will likely be too difficult to do a study to answer this precisely. But if you recently got your initial vaccination completed, you shouldn't be in a rush to get a booster. The booster is there to reinforce the immunity after it has had to wear off.
FWIW `lying.cloud` is registered with Namecheap. `amazon.com`/`aws.com`/`amazon.ca` are all registered with Mark Monitor. And I know that AWS uses ghandi behind the scenes for domain reg. Given that, I'd hazard a guess that it's not owned by Amazon. Definitely not a guarantee though.
I do wonder if the great resignation has anything to do with this. My team (no affiliation with Amazon) was cut in half from last year and we are struggling to keep up with all the work
It's magic!
I was hoping for new information, but the points on severity in this article just summarize the recent imperial college preprint, which has been discussed quite a bit.

In contrast to just about all the headlines I’ve seen based on that article, what the data actually show is that it was still too early to infer anything about severity of omicron at the time of analysis (over a week ago now)
Yeah, I agree it does not have to be blockchain, any "consistently online" and widely adopted thing will do.
Nature's not under threat, just biodiversity. We could not destroy all life on Earth if we wanted to. What we're doing is ripping leaves and branches off the tree of life. It's sad beyond belief, but it's not a threat to life itself.

It's fun to imagine, but we have as of yet no reason to believe life in its totality per se is agentic. Ultimately this problem, the motivation to solve it, and any solution to it must come from humanity. Nothing else cares.
How much more frequent do these outages need to become before it starts triggering SLA limits?
It is nice to see how replies have persons real name and organization in the header, something you rarely see in internet discussions today (FB being one big exception). Brings back memories of using usenet in the 90s.
Considering the previous extraordinary claim that it may be less severe, I would’ve like a breakdown of the reported population, and numbers for the hospitalization rate even if it’s similar to delta.
Windows 10 Home used to have mandatory automatic updates:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window...

The situation improved after the May 2019 update, but the updates will still be automatically installed after you pause them every 7 days for a maximum of 5 times (35 days total):

https://www.howtogeek.com/410183/microsoft-abandons-windows-...
Agreed it is super frustrating. I still have a ton of ties with Poland and the level of disillusion among my contacts there is absolutely overwhelming. Brexit has caused a lot of Polish people that had set up shop abroad between a rock and a hard place: some of them were planning to move back but those plans are now on hold forever. And the ones remaining in Poland that were trying their hardest to move the country forward are now also thinking of abandoning the country because they feel the current slide down will not be arrested for a long time.
It’s been a while, but didn’t the program knob in those machines turn in discrete steps? If so, then that system was — to be pedantic — a mechanical digital computer, not an analog one.
> English phonetics are no worse than any other language- when the author writes phonetics he means spelling, which I suppose is more difficult than average (being Danish myself, I don’t see it as more difficult than “normal”)

But Danish is even harder. Written like Norwegian, spoken like Dutch.
I was thinking hydrogen peroxide, since it seeps into the ground just like water and decays into water. Also I imagine it's much cheaper than liquid nitrogen.
Those jurisdictions are few
I don't know about AWS, but both Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud maintain at least a high level history of past outages. See https://status.cloud.google.com/summary and https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/history
That's nice in theory but when you are personally dragged down right along with them then that it becomes a very practical problem.
My apologies. I had only Microsoft's and Google's browsers in mind.
Why Bitcoin is worse than a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme
5th episode of Vector Podcast with Tom Lackner, VP Engineering at classic.com explaning the choise of Qdrant vector DB for his projects.
Delivery Hero exits Germany for second time, citing high costs
I will never understand people who express their indignation about a title that is ambiguous. Would you really have preferred "Teller (magician) reveals his secrets"?

Or maybe "Teller (magician (of duo Penn & Teller (known from Fool Me (a British TV show)))) reveals his secrets"

Just because you would have preferred a story of a bank teller… and had it been this way, another one like you would have complained that it's not about the famous magician.

Language is ambiguous. "Teller" is his name, there is no conceit in the headline.

And as long as there is no conceit, your accusation is out of place.
Yeah I’ve always maintained that MS is an enterprise software company that cosplays a consumer software company from time to time. They don’t make a ton of money outside their enterprise software division; the rest of the company more or less breaks even.
But that's relative, right? I mean, I know Python and PyQT and I am way more productive with them than, let's say, Typescript + Next.js
Largest offshore wind farm generates its first power
I just noticed that I cannot upload images on Slack. Tried to use imgur to post a link and that doesn't work either.
Do you have a source on that? My understanding is it was more transmissible, and suspected to be more severe but there was no hard data.
How is the performance of games? What I understand is that proton is a layer/adapter to run windows games and should create a FPS hit. Or do you get the same performance of running on widows?
Ah I was only thinking of marginal costs. I’m pretty sure the $2/GB figure is the cost of adding a little more data to the IA, not the total cost.
> Every single neuron of the human brain could be utilizing quantum mechanical effects

Yes, they are, in that neurons are made up of molecules which are held together and bind due to quantum effects. But that's the limit of it.
At this moment we are probably seeing second order effects were people that should survive the virus are instead dying because the known effects of chronic stress on immune competency.

On the other side, I believe that as with masks, lots of people become complacent after vaccination, because they had no idea their efficiency would diminish over time. This false-safety make them more reckless.

Making things mandatory, and manipulating people through fear instead of relying on personal responsibility and the natural instinct of self-preservation also made lots of people rebellious and distrustful, making mitigation behaviors an all-or-nothing affair among the population.
HN is generally also critical of Alphabet, Meta and Amazon. And rightly so. We should be pointing out ethical issues, urging companies to improve. Especially the large and powerful ones. It's just Apple that somehow seems to gets a pass on some occasions.
Was stuck on stopping in us-east-1b. Cannot start now.
It will take an enormous amount of effort and money to fix everything they brought down. But I believe in Poles - they rebuilt their capital from ruins after WW2, they made an enormous progress after they became a democracy, so no doubt they will also manage to fix everything the populists are destroying right now. But as you say - it's a pity Polish people lost a few years and lots of opportunities.
is there a support email?
i sent an email via support@heroku.com with title urgent but no reply yet
Satire is the loophole of Copyright. If you satire ANYTHING you can use their copyrights in the satire. One could safely and legally drive an entire nation's transportation industry thru that loophole.
They've gone this long, hopefully there won't be Challenger type pressure on them to launch instead of waiting until conditions are right, even if that ends up being two weeks.