skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty disturbing considering how necessary dating apps are today.

Let's say you get banned from Tinder and consequently Bumble. What do you do now? You can create fake accounts, but they'll eventually find you. Coffee Meets Bagel? Plenty of Fish? Match.com? Don't make me laugh.

It's already bad enough that women find it strange that a guy doesn't have an Instagram account (this has been my experience 90% of the time), but at least as someone who is dating you can work your way around that. But if you get shut out of even 1 of the few main dating apps, you've lost a massive pool of dates and potential life partners. Unless something has changed since my foray into that scene, these days those apps are pretty much a requirement for getting any meaning amount of dates.

I can't help but feel bad for the younger generations of today. I was fortunate to come of age during the tail end of where it was still largely acceptable to meet and approach women IRL while online dating was kind of a sideshow. Today, what were once the best places to meet other young single people, are not only where it's become unacceptable to meet new people at bars and clubs or meetups but they also are the places with the most COVID-masking (yes, this DOES affect attraction and being able to read the other person). For most young guys and girls, you're probably stuck with Tinder and Bumble unless you are a 9 or above.

The other day I got permabanned from Nextdoor, not because I did anything wrong, but because I didn't use my real name. Of course the name that I used is the name that I use in real life and as a professional. I logged in one day to find that I had absolutely no access to my account. There was no read-only access to my messages, my activity, settings, or anything. Just a page that said I'd been banned for not using my real name but that I could contact their customer service or whatever. Imagine if that happens to you on Tinder right as you're about to ask someone on a date, or to your Wells Fargo account as you just got a paycheck and are ready to make that big purchase.
Probably just speaks to who their target audience is
Pretty sure you can run Debian or Busybox as a FreeBSD jail if you want
@nostrebored Well, Hetzner never went down for the 7 years I managed a HA setup spanning three of their data centers. One of the DCs was unavailable for a few hours during a planned moving op, but we had no outages. None.
Once had a bank that decided that I had met a annual limit of foreign exchange swift orders and because of that I couldn’t receive my salary from the foreign company I worked for.
Sent then my contract, links to my face and name on the company’s about page and they simply decided I was probably some kind of terrorist or drug trafficker or whatever.
Thankfully was able to transfer the order to another bank and later sue the first bank and win
Because they are a public facing non-profit who relies on donations from some of the same people who might be on HN. So if the narrative is "out of control board ousts founder" the next time they have a donation drive the donors thoughts might be "I don't know, your org seems kinda sketch".

You ignore social media at your own peril. That is the reality.
Note that files can be restricted not just for violating ToS, but also "program policies"[0].

This includes files that are identified as: CSAM, Circumvention, Dangerous and Illegal Activities, Harassment, Bullying, Hate Speech, Misleading Content, Spam, Violent Organizations and Movements, and more.

Google further notes they "may make exceptions based on artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific considerations, or where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content."

[0] https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505
At-home Covid-19 test, by former Google/meta exec
> This is presented as a problem with "big tech", but I don't think most people would consider Tinder (Match Group) to be big tech?

I think you don't recognize the scale of Match Group. They make two billion per year, they have 2000 staff, and they own basically every dating site.
maybe making money with a product that you cannot support ought to be regulated.

i too grew up with oss-licences that tell me i'm on my own and thats kind ok, but i don't want to live in a world were commercial products are labeled "not fit for any purpose. use at your own risk"
Because there are laws on what you can and cannot fill with fuel. So you may find you have to make smaller but more frequent visits.

Also buying fuel for a petrol station is going to be more expensive than having a commercial tanker refill it. So ideally you wouldn’t be making large top ups from the local petrol station except under exceptional outages.

As for wider power outages affecting the fuel pumps, I suspect they might have their own generators too. But even if they don’t, outages can still be localised (eg road works accidentally cutting through the mains for that street - I’ve had that happen before too). So there’s still a benefit in having a petrol station near by.

To be clear, I’m not suggesting those petrol stations should be 5 minutes walking distance. Just close enough to drive there and back in under half an hour.
What model?

I just browsed through Lenovo's display offerings and didn't see a single 16:10 aspect ratio display listed anywhere.
(noticed your reply to my other comment too, please consider this a reply to both)

I wasn't aware of HP-UX Virtual Vaults, thanks. However, I'd say FreeBSD Jails still had an advantage, due to being free and running on various hardware platforms, and more importantly on commodity hardware.
My one and only (so far) meal at a Waffle House was on a road trip, it was located in Mobile, AL. In N Out burger is a fast food joint, while I'd call the WH I visted more of a diner. For example I was able to sit and eat at the counter, and there was no drive-through, which around here (SF Bay) seems to be the primary method of using In N Out.
What if you want to store an error message+status with the job if it fails? It means you have to commit something no? What if you want to mark the message as being worked on and what process locked it and when they did for some kind of job queue monitoring stats?

The times I have done this, I end up with a workflow where the "select for update ... skipped lock" is used only to initially mark the job as "taken" so that other processes do not start working on it. That update is committed in one transaction and then the "work" is done in second transaction.
The point of a simulation isn't for technologists to practice business continuity and recovery plans, it was for executives to determine who they align with once their primary stakeholder relationships fail.

When you think of what such a coordinated attack would look like, and by who, the only plausible scenario to me is a Russia/China axis setting up a SWIFT alternative for client states and then attacking the US network as a way to ride to the rescue with the new one and use it as a forcing function to overcome switching costs. Otherwise, the economics of mere vandalism at that scale don't make sense. They'd broadcast their intentions anyway if that were the case. (e.g. de-dollarization, China's SDRs, etc.) I don't think they're ready yet.

There is a cynical view that this was related to a trial run to determine whether retail deposits could be shifted to a U.S. Fed and ECB or other temporary* liquidity facility, but the failure of the US admin to install its favored comptroller of currency nominee, who would be supportive of the scheme, has reduced its momentum. I don't know that this was part of the simulation, but shift from a monopolar world and the vacuum it has created means we're literally in an age of conspiracies, so it's one of those 'when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro' situations. When it clicks that "cyber" just means governance, these exercises become a useful signal for overarching power plays.

Imo, the real threats to the "global financial system," aren't really to it at all, as cyber is a tactic in support of other co-ordinated activities to destabilize individual governments by undermining civilian infrastructure. I would interpret these exercises as more of a war games demonstration for policymakers who may be thinking about supporting populist national policies in their countries and deviating from the emerging hegemon.
Bumble banned Sharon Stone and then backtracked when they realized who she was.

https://www.nme.com/news/film/sharon-stones-bumble-dating-pr...
IE6 post-dates the conclusion of this lawsuit, and held ~90% of browser, not desktop browser, but browser market share for the better part of the next decade.

What changed? Firefox was released, Safari was released, and quite a bit later, Google Chrome was released, but it would still be a while before IE6 would lose its dominance even once IE7 was released.
> I don't know what happened in this situation, but generally refunding money for TOS violations is a bad idea.

You can learn the article and learn what happened. We are not talking about things in general, but about this particular situation. Basically, it's pure theft. But since the amount is so low, nobody will sue them. In this way they can scam thousands of people and go unpunished.
GNU Screen multiuser mode allows for separate focus, but only one cursor active in a given tab:

https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Multius...

It allows for multiple viewers of a single tab, but not mutiple cursors like Zellij has.

GNU Screen does allow multiple users editing in separate tabs in a single session. It was quite useful for devops code reviews of emergency configuration changes on remote servers.

I look forward to trying out Zellij.
There are plenty of critical pieces of software that rely on the fact that they produce different behavior when interpreted as a different language.
The Timeline We’re on Is Even Darker Than ‘The Matrix’ Envisioned
True, dialects differ. My father was a cockney in London and my mother was Irish, we lived in Wales during WW2 and my father was a Major on the Burma Road - came back with a love for curry that the cook soon adopted. We often had Canadian and Australian officers stay with us.
The net result is I am fluent in all British dialects, and adapted to the Canadian dialect in school - kids who spoke funny soon learned Canadian-speak.
Once, on the phone, my mother asked me a question, and back I went to Oxford English to answer that question - when I returned to my call, the called asked me who was that? I had switched back to UK-speak and back to Canadian-speak instantly. I also learned Yiddish - my father was a stained glass artist, and while he was in Burma the home office asked him if we could accommodate a family from Poland who had given my father as a reference. It was Mr Berger, my father's art glass supplier in Poland who had escaped via Spain as a DP family. Father and mother, 2 children and their grandmother - we had the space and my father agreed by telegram. My mother and me at 4 were immersed in a Yiddish family. It was great, I soaked up the language like a sponge. In 1946 my father returned and the Bergers went to live in a house they rented.
In 1948, we came to Canada. Many of the storekeepers in Toronto were amazed at my Yiddish fluency, as we often shopped in Yiddish store - no supermarkets then, we shopped 2-3 times/week. Butchers, fishmongers, bakers, grocers, greengrocers all a melange of differences - I still long for these aspects as I wander Costco these days.
You don't have to monetize anything or have customers to be successful. If all the things you built brought you joy as you built them, then you've done amazing.

We don't need web traffic or money streams to be happy. You've done more than anyone else really could on average. Most people are slogging away for a company, afraid to step out of line or build anything. When they are gone, the company will leave their name on nothing.

You've built amazing tools that will always have your name on them. That legacy is one to be proud of.
That is possible. But still very much counts as pulling the trigger.

Holding the trigger and manipulating the hammer is how “fanning” works. The old times cowboy fast hip fire technique.
If you remove American and UK influence, I expect the resulting English would rapidly mutate into its own thing, even more unlike US/UK English than the international dialect of English mentioned in OP.
> You didn't, but millions of people when they see the headline on social media.

Then we have a much bigger problem than the headline.
The thing folding out on JWST is not a solar panel. It is a heat shield that keeps all the detection equipment cold and completely shadowed from sunlight.
Kiitos, olen erittäin iloinen, että tämä video opettaa minua avaamaan oven oikein. Olen käyttänyt huonompaa ruotsalaista tekniikkaa, nyt tiedän paremmin!

Hyvää Joulua!
If I only make 5 units of something, I can state it is sold out as well, yet it won't take the market by storm.

Lots of things sold out, what matters is sustainability.
How would the software know the presented configuration is correct? Cheat software should easily be able to fake a "safe" environment
The pros of Teams search is it is pretty good at finding things, like random chat message from someone who has left the company years ago.

The cons of Teams search is it is almost useless when you can only view the single message in the result list, e.g. a single chat message without any surrounding messages for context, and also no possible way to jump to the conversation for that message.
Counts what you are afraid against. There's always some side channel attack that could possibly used to gain information, even on VM's this is true. Off the top of my head there could be some timing attack to gain information on which libraries others are using by reading in libraries and seeing if they are warm in the buffer cache, counts if you care about sharing the same kernel. I generally find them secure enough considering how fast they can be brought up and down.
>This has nothing to do with Big tech. If you want to meet people don't use Tinder,

As I said in my comment up-post, Tinder has a near-absolute monopoly in my area. If you're not on Tinder you basically don't exist on the local dating market.

Yes, the future sucks.
Humans aren't covered in a hard external shell which has evolved to resist simple crushing.

Why must all or even most fossilized eggs be deformed?
If it's not on Steam, you'll have to use Lutris. It's a slightly better experience than having all those stores on Windows, but not as simple as Steam.
Nhtsa investigating Tesla over infotainment display gaming feature
If the US really regarded cyberattacks as an act of war, it would be actively shooting missiles and bullets at China right now. The US regards cyberattacks as acts of war when convenient, nothing more.
Yeah, to me this makes this kind of a non-issue. Because I always assumed that any cloud provider like this would be capable and willing to block sharing of files based on their policies.
I always use this argument: If you wanted to make a big honey pot to collect people's data, how would you market it to get the most users? Exactly how DDG is marketed.

While there's no evidence of it happening, it's entirely possible they sell data to people on the hush hush.
Even if they were (big if without really any evidence), we have no idea how, so adding a quantum computer to the mix won't get us any closer to general AI.

It would be like adding a classical computer we don't know how to turn on; it won't help anything if we don't know how to use it.
And yet forming priors based on experience gained in a classic multi arm bandit thompson sampling approach with appropriate exploitation exploration tradeoff is generally the dominant strategy in any static unfamiliar space.

Alternatively, contextualizing things into niche stats frameworks doesn't make you correct, or sound intelligent.
Well said! There has been near zero attention by the main agencies in power on therapeutics. E.g. even if ivermectin doesn't work, why can't we focus more on finding what does? It's only been vaccine, vaccine and more vaccine. Not even a mention for lifestyle or diet or supplements
Ask HN: Has anyone used Curated.com and what did you think of the model?
I was impressed with their ratings and the way they are using experts. Has anyone used them to buy ski equipment or something else and what were your thoughts? Did you like it? Any annoyances?
Even the positive reviews there are rather damning...
While this is true, romance scammers also often try to obscure/spoof their true location - so I can see why it'd be something the Tinder algos would be sensitive to
there is also a method for sharing pirated media using google drive. TBH I'm surprised they havent started earlier
1 and 2 are the same for me (although, I don't say amen often, so I usually try to say it like everyone else which varies). But for 3, it's more of uh-mend or uh-llowed.
Except we need the release notes! And there aren't any.
Because Tinder is a woman's menu of fuck buddies and for that they aim at the top fraction of 1%. It's unreal but is where their fantasy is taking them.
The title of the current article doesn't change the numbers from South Africa indicating that Omicron puts 80% less people in hospitals than Delta:

> Early data from the South African health ministry released last week found that only 1.7% of cases in the latest wave have resulted in hospitalizations so far, compared with 18% at the same point during the previous wave, which was dominated by the Delta variant. [0]

Their methodology also seems better than that used for the U.K. numbers in the article, which compared all past cases to current Omicron cases. I personally think that's a more complex comparison, with perhaps more room for confounding factors.

I assume the U.K. numbers are a week or two behind the numbers from South Africa. I assume more numbers will be forthcoming in another couple/few weeks, along with early numbers from more countries. Time will tell.

The post you replied to also mentioned that coronaviruses often evolve to be weaker because that helps them spread. I've seen experts say the same. You said:

> this applies only to viruses that transmit after people get symptoms

Are you saying that Covid-19 does not transmit after the onset of symptoms? Do you have a reference supporting that?

I found sources saying that Covid-19 may be transmissible starting two days before the onset of symptoms, but nothing saying that it stops when symptoms start. I found the CDC saying to isolate at least 10 days after symptom onset [1]. I would assume that those days of symptoms would be the optimal time to transmit a virus, such as when coughing, running, and sneezing. Are you saying that Covid-19 is only spread asymptomatically?

[0] https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-africas-drop-daily-covid-14...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isola...
It was the difference between a wikipedia article vs. a biography (i.e., a collection of facts vs. those same facts, but arranged around a narrative).

A specific example came up while trying to explain my first company's pivots through three products (trying to figure out a social/UGC ad stack before Facebook did). If you looked at the business model, our value prop, customer segment, etc. all of that stayed the same. Which was the unifying thread, and which I can now articulate at least semi-coherently.

But when I was describing it to Andrew, it came out as three completely unrelated products, and that we were just wildly changing plans without any coherent vision or direction. I remember that moment due to his look of profound confusion, where he was really trying to figure out how these three things I had just described were related.
The "but you can request a review!" handwaving all these massive tech platforms use to assuage concerns about heavy-handed (and coldly automated) policy application is really long overdue for serious consumer protection regulation.
I have a story to share too:
I talked a considerable time with a girl from another country and was about to travel to visit her. Then, I started having mixed feelings, wasn't sure about everything, decided to stop, told her and she got angry (well, until that moment I understood her quite well).

A while later I tried to use Tinder again, and my account was banned. I don't really remember how I discovered it, if she told me, or a representative told me, but the thing was: She report me as I had verbally abused her, mistreated her and shada shada, because she was angry I dumped her.

So they closed my account without even checking our conversations at least (there was no insults or nothing at all)
Good question - I'd assumed that most countries' educational systems teach the formal grammar of their native language(s)?
Dogs notice when computer animations violate Newton’s laws of physics
I could read stories like this forever, they are educational and engrossing, thanks for sharing
We've had alerts for packet loss and had issues in recovering region-spanning services (both AWS and 3rd party).

Yes, some of these we should be better at handling ourselves, but... it's all very well to say "expect to lose an AZ" but during this outage it's not been physically possible to remove the broken AZ instances from multi-AZ services because we cannot physically get them to respond to or acknowledge commands.

edit: just to short circuit any "well, why aren't you running redundant regions" - we run redundant regions at all times. But for reasons of latency, many customers will bind to their closest region, and the nature of our technology is highly location-bound It is not possible for us to move active sessions to an alternate region. So something like this is... unpleasant.
> that our immune systems become adapted.

Perhaps, but the first person in the US known to have died from Omicron had already had Covid once before. According to the news, he was also in his 50s with other underlying health conditions.

I think, much like the flu, Covid will continue to be a threat to people who are elderly and/or already in poor health. And much like the flu, yearly deaths will probably decrease somewhat but continue to number in the tens or hundreds of thousands.
> We were supposed to be moving towards a more transparent society, this is anything but transparent.

You have to love that the chief way HN addresses this concern trolling is for users to click a button that literally makes the comment more difficult to read. :)
That and I'm not sure how different this is from cloud file sharers that disable file shares for reasons like piracy, which is something that I'm pretty sure Google Docs was doing already.
That is great. Why would you have a "business" account on tinder?
Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formulary_of_Marculf

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formulary_Book_of_Somogyv%C3%A...
I may have seen more of these posts than you. The last one I saw where “AWS is down” was us-west-1.
I don't know if I was the last kid in the US to buy a slide rule, but playing with it is how I came by my first understanding of exponents and logarithms in 8th grade.
1280x1440 is not at all close to a 4:3 ratio. For starters, 1280 is a smaller number than 1440.

It looks like you were using "4:3" to simply mean "closer to square than typical widescreen aspect ratios", which is pretty confusing.
The poster was speaking more of the power delivery going to the power supplies, not the server's power supplies themselves. So say each PSU 1 is wired to circuit A, each PSU 2 is wired to circuit B. Circuit A experiences a failure. All servers instantly switch over all their load to their PSU 2's on circuit B. Suddenly circuit B's load is roughly double what it was just moments ago. If proper planning wasn't created or followed, this might overload circuit B, meaning all PSU 2's go dark regardless of the server being able to do the change over or not.