skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In cases when the boxes overlap, there are ways to choose an arrow which will not cross the boxes. But this is prevented by the constraint that the starting and ending points must be on the midpoint of a box edge. If the midpoint of the a given edge is occluded by a box, or occludes a box, then that edge is not considered, even though it is partially visible and has a viable point for the arrow.

E.g. if we could start an arrow in the middle of the small protruding "ledge" of the bottom box, we could do this:

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It's not written in stone that box-and-arrow diagrams must be connected by edge midpoints. That can't even work well any time you have multiple arrows emanating or terminating on the same edge.

Very good first iteration round, though.
I added this, to get rid of the carousel of channels they're currently promoting.

twitch.tv##.front-page-carousel
Slightly more nuanced: you do not foresee (and have no intention of) being anywhere where the laws you broke hold sway.

There are laws that apply to anyone anywhere*; if you never have to worry about the consequences of breaking a law, you could choose to ignore it.

* Belgium has one on warcrimes if memory serves; the GDPR might also apply to anyone handling an EU citizen's data (but IANAL).
What do you consider acceptable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Ad... puts the loss for HVDC at 3.5% per 1000km. That would imply 4000km with 15% loss, which is pretty good considering that wind and solar are significantly more than 15% cheaper than nuclear.

Specifically, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#... puts the cost of wind/solar at roughly 1/3rd the cost of nuclear, so it's more (cost) efficient to spend as much on transmission as you do on generation and build a really well connected massive grid than to use nuclear.
I know they generate a moderate fraction now, that's the point of my post. I think they are backing themselves into a corner.

The problems to date include very high energy prices. Even larger challenges await; these will grow as renewables they become a larger fraction of total output. Renewable variability isn't a problem when they are a small fraction, but a very large one when they are a large percentage. These are unsolved problems. Land use is also an issue.
Yeah, CFPB is one of the newest, or maybe the newest, federal agency. The other consumer protection agencies (FTC) lack teeth. So it is a decent gamble to test the authority.

Of course they could just stop the predatory practices, but lets not be crazy here.
Just to be clear, they seem to be only excluding able-bodied cisgender white men. Which is not to say it's a great policy, but in the interests of precision:

> In accordance with UBC’s CRC Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Action Plan, and pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights code, the selection will be restricted to members of the following designated groups: persons with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, women and gender minorities (transgender, gender-fluid, nonbinary and Two-Spirit people), and racialized minorities.
> In accordance with UBC’s CRC Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Action Plan, and pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights code, the selection will be restricted to members of the following designated groups: persons with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, women and gender minorities (transgender, gender-fluid, nonbinary and Two-Spirit people), and racialized minorities. Applicants to CRC positions are asked to complete this equity survey as part of the application, and candidates from these groups must self-identify as belonging to one or more of the designated equity groups to be considered for the position. Because the search is limited to those self-identifying as members of designated equity groups, candidates must also provide their name to be considered.

Oh my god this is nuts
This is a specialised use case, just as I mentioned. Most people aren't on holiday at any given time.
Yes, heating and transportation are huge and almost entirely fossil fueled. Low-tech solutions such as heat pumps and better insulation alone could probably make a large impact.
But 0.85 million is honestly a drop in the water for India. That's still less than 5% of the babies born in India in that time frame.
> excessive export means more wasted electricity.

I'm not an expert so please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how is exported electricity wasted electricity? My intuition is that (assuming the exported energy is used) it would both prevent the generation of electricity by other (less environmentally friendly) means, and it would generate income. What is wasted here?
> Two-Spirit people

now this is new.
Ask HN: How do you professionalize/outsource customer service?
I'm running a printable escape room app, Escape Team (www.escape-team.com, HN hugged it do death when I posted it. But it is great to see that you're enjoying it!) – and it is scaling quickly.

I am at a point where I can't go on holiday without checking my email daily for customer support requests. That's great, but also I think I need to put in a system here that's better than my current one-man-show thing.

It's mainly people having trouble with a puzzle, with a voucher code they received as a gift, or other 'FAQ' things. Right now, this is a great driver for positive App Store reviews, as people like the responsive and prompt customer service, even if it's them forgetting to put the dashes into the voucher code. (I could even automate most of the things people inquire about, but I'd lose the source for positive App Store reviews!)

So I'm totally fine with giving them a human person to talk to, and I'll happily pay that person – but I'd like to hear your opinion on how to do that.

I'm thinking about

- hosting a ticket system on my servers

- renting a hosted ticket system

and forwarding my support@ email to that system, and then

- hiring a freelance customer service person on UpWork or Fiverr to work on those tickets

– and, of course, giving that person all the material they need.

I'd be very interested in your experiences with

- ticket systems (self-hosted or hosted, but these can easily get expensive?)

- customer service outsourcing (which feels very very awkward, I'm having trouble letting go here).

Any thoughts are welcome! Do you outsource customer service on your projects? Or do you check your mail daily even while on holiday? As you might guess from the time of the year I'm posting this and from the nature of a 'family activity' like Escape Team – it's especially acute over Christmas and New Year's...

Thank you!
—Fabian
Most people going to China to make money don't come there wearing pink glasses. It's a Faustian bargain. Eat your soul for money, and an opportunity to run a factory without being sued by everybody on the day 1.

The remaining minority is unfortunately a big problem, and higher up on the status ladder the bigger. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/china-s-president-...

Such people come with real delusions. Either delusions of grandeur, or delusions of being so smart that they think they will trick communists, people who grew giving their whole lives to intrigue, and insane political culture which makes GOP look like kindergarteners.

The worst kind are ones who come there with genuine believe, and gravity towards fascism. A foul wish for "an orderly society" where they think they will be made into elites https://beyondinfinity.com.au/project-dragonfly-is-google-he...

I call both types "ones stupid enough to survive." Were they not, they would've been crushed long ago.
That's the issue though, everyone points out the correlation, but of course there's a correlation. Everyone's overweight. Need more analysis to show just how much it affects COVID outcomes. While it would have been nice for the governments to make more of an effort to get people to lose weight during the pandemic, it's not guaranteed it would have had the results some people expect.
I know what you mean. It appears that conscious thought is intertwined with language and greatly affected by it. I'm not quite sure how or why, I think some concepts and patterns of thought (maybe memories?) are linked with something language-specific, perhaps the words themselves.
But at any rate it negatively affects my ability to think the same way, with the same clarity and speed as before. I've recently been trying to use my native language more to revert my inner monologue back to my native tongue. It does hurt my eloquence in English but I don't care.
Sure is. There's millions of us walking around without getting shots every six months.
They should go after the board as officers and directors of the company do not get corporate protection.

We need to have officers and directors of those companies to go to jail.

Alas CFPB is pretty toothless.
git, which is in many ways a blockchain
Because hospital capacity is limited and despite what you might want, people will still be admitted to the hospital when they caught covid.

In Germany some hospitals are postponing "planned operations" and as much as this sound like no big deal, every operations that is not an emergency is "planned" so this affects cancer removals as well. People are dying of cancer because covid patients saturate ICU beds.
> Short term, gas is great for that

Still an unacceptable CO2 emission in my book. Natural gas is at 55,82 [kg CO2 / GJ], when coal is at 94,6 [kg CO2 / GJ]. [1]

So that's only 40% less pollution, and there are still huge quantities of coal that has yet to be replaced in Germany.

What's missing from your view is how you provide for baseload. Right now, what is baseload in Germany? It is coal: https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE

[1] https://www.volker-quaschning.de/datserv/CO2-spez/index_e.ph...
Are you based there?
> a Wumao

For reference, the initial W doesn't represent a sound, so this would be "an wumao". (Same for Wuhan.)
Yeah I have no horse in this race, just curious of your viewpoint as someone who works in the field!
Been several years since I even considered bringing a windows partition back to play some new game. It's pretty rare that I run into a game I want to play that isn't well-reviewed on protonDB. Albeit, I am only commenting because I went to launch a game just now and am sitting here waiting on the "Processing vulkan shaders" pre-launch step (that only processes shaders once afaik).
But is HCoV-OC43 harmless because the virus became less deadly, or because everyone has immunity from being infected by it when they were still children?
1. The quip was that people who don't want to get vaccinated will get immunized through infection. Yes, using "vaccinated" in this context ("the variant that will vaccinate") is not proper usage of the term unless we allow the interpretation that vaccines are milder than the disease and Omicron might be milder than Delta.

2. "obscure, experimental, for older strains": Look, the vaccines are not obscure. Billions had them. Experimental: Sure. Much as not getting vaccinated is. Remember, we haven't seen that virus before. Older Strains: Turns out protection against severe effects is still strong. I'd say experimentally you're better off partially immunized with one of the well-known vaccines than when waiting around for one of the variants to catch you naive.
Ah, but what are they teaching the kids about MLK, Jr. and civil rights?

> the voters as a whole deciding that one prong of the fix is educating the children

Did they? In which election was this a campaign issue?
web3 is just a scam.
Building an ISP requires investing in infrastructure. A dating app needs a UX designer and a few cloud instances. There's a world of difference in the required outlay when building a competitor.
How is this not discrimination of protected classes, and therefore illegal?
Why isn't this the story? It doesn't even have to be about ethics which nobody can seem to agree on. Sounds like the researchers were simply wrong.

So then the problem actually is that they misinterpreted the law. If someone misinterpreting the law can cause such stress and waste such time, shouldn't society safeguard against this?
So when does it become a market problem? Before or after we lose biodiversity on the planet?
I know the Oracle OCI cloud has a reputation for never going hard-down, but also realize HN seems to loathe Big Red (understandably, to a degree, though OCI is pretty nice IME and _very_ predictable).
At home I have an actual server that's a secondary (Xeon w/32GB ECC running FreeBSD w/20TB ZFS). Likely just use rsync between them.
The reason that this is different than what you might expect from a free market approach is that part of the “being in the military” is a host of new rules that have the force of law, and one of these is to not default on loans. If you do, and your CO gets a call, then you’re in for a bad time.
Sounds like there was some blowback after this article was published:

https://spreckelsdistrict.org/2021/statement-from-the-distri...
For a hot minute I thought there might be truly scalable and cheap POS DeFi system with validation running on my phone. If this was an easy technical problem, an answer would already exist. There are plenty of POW/pre-mined/centralized coins, but even ETH/DOT have little to show in terms of progress here. POS/POW DeFi blockchains haven't scaled so far despite plenty of tries. This is fact, and hard to refute. Just look at transaction fees, TPS, and level of centralization.
> In hindsight, I should have worn something different or put on makeup or something.

> lack of social awareness and missing social queues [sic]

> Do I wish he would take another photograph of me? Yes. I hate that face!

> I mentioned I had some trauma regarding my facial characteristics as a transgender woman.

If this aspect wasn't relevant, why mention it?
[Edit] too funny, the first three comments are all similar messages with three different communication styles (this one the most terse, I have much to learn)...

> The AWS account takeover was possible because a highly privileged IAM role had been assigned to the EC2 instance running the vulnerable Docker container app. While the Log4j2 vulnerability allowed initial access to the Docker container, the privileged IAM role enabled lateral movement and ultimately a total compromise of the AWS account.

Saving you a click... who would realistically give such a high permission set IAM to an EC2?
That is sad news. I have a Linux Desktop that emits not so sharp text on my 1440p monitor. I always attributed to that bad text rendering to the low DPI monitor. I was hoping that one day I could buy a hidpi monitor that would make my Linux desktop as friendly to my eyes as my MacBook Pro. Looks like not anytime soon :-(
Factoring in the Chicken McNugget Monoid (2018) [pdf]
(It would, for example, be great to have an app on my phone that I could use to oversee my new customer service employee responding to emails, without me having to go into my email. I'm avoiding mobile email to maintain my sanity, and I'd like to keep it that way.)
True. But you also just made the assertion un-falsifiable.
Yes! I had this same experience. I was in linux + steam for a while before I realized I had to opt into proton-ifying windows games. They should enable this by default and keep providing good UX about it being in play in case you want to disable it.
Long term effects? It hasn't even been known to exist for a whole month.

Look around this thread and you will find many links to data that indicates Omicron might have less severe outcomes, but it's really still a bit early to really have confidence in that data because there are a lot of confounding factors.
Ask HN: Short Form Video for Education?
I have learned quite a bit from TikTok surprisingly. Sometimes it is new recipe to cook. Other times it might be how to clean a microwave with lemon juice. I think there is a lot of potential for short form video. I am just not sure if any methods or tips exist to create repeatable content that is great for learning.

What are some of your favorite examples short form videos ( less than 2 min ) on any platform that you think represent some of the best techniques to teaching something?
COVID patients completely overran the hospital where I live. We're a not so big city that serves a lot of really rural areas. The ICU was full. The regular hospital was full.
The article states:

> Do I wish he would take another photograph of me? Yes. I hate that face!

It’s particularly difficult for the author I guess, because in the NFT they don’t pass at all. I can empathize with that on some level, even if I don’t agree with the politics of this person.
> Deaths didn't budge. At all.

The plot doesn't show that. You're looking at the moving average which doesn't move much, but the underlying data (daily, presumably) shows a drastic increase in the last one or two data points, in line with the expected lag time.

Others have already pointed out the other major issue with your comment, that the situation in South Africa doesn't transfer to many other places in the world due to the exceptionally high pre-existing immunity rate there.
In Nissan Leafs alone (450k) there is over 10GWhr of battery capacity. Grid scale batteries are just a capital problem. No breakthroughs necessary.
“as long as my shit city in germany is planning a 10km subway line for 15 years already … while china is builing the best infrastructure in the world, i will prefer the chinese system.”

And people wonder how Hitler came to power in Germany.
>that same CDC that says you should never eat raw sushi

Pretty good advice in my opinion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33095945
This is a helpful writeup in terms of specific queries to look out for, but any RCE on a host with privileged IAM access is going to lead to this scenario.

> The AWS account takeover was possible because a highly privileged IAM role had been assigned to the EC2 instance running the vulnerable Docker container app

This attack isn't unique to Log4Shell; it's a symptom of giving your (compromised) EC2 instance global admin access.
Thanks so much! Codecademy taught me to program and it’s something I’m still getting paid to do 10 years later. Amazing product!
If you're looking at the UK the daily numbers for London (which is ahead of the rest of England, and the rest of the UK) are here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...
A lot of it is finding the people, beyond the physical space. You can't just 'spin up' nurses like AWS instances. They're in short supply right now, and many are feeling burned out. There's a post going around about a doctor who got assaulted by deranged family members of a man who died. Don't know if it's real, but a lot of people were saying they've experienced similar and are just done with it.
What is threat intelligence?
> io is the 5th result even on https://search.marginalia.nu/

To be fair, it is quite heavily biased toward the tech sphere. I try to make it balanced, but even so, not a single result about the poor woman who caught the eye of Zeus.
I spent a lot on CRT monitors (Nanao, Sony Trinitron) for work and then was was an early adopter of desktop LCD with DVI digital connections. I was so happy to get pixel perfect addressing and no analog softness, ghosting, or flicker. I remember going from 1600x1200 to 1920x1200 and easily accepting the idea that this was a bonus screen area to the side, not some sort of compromise.

Then, I was bitter when everything became 1920x1080 and feeling constrained by the limited vertical pixels. However, I am now quite happy with 28 inch 4k (3840x2160) on a desktop, rarely making any window full height nor full width. I even dragged home a second 4k monitor from the office at the start of the COVID WFH era, but never bothered to set it up properly. It just doesn't seem like I need that much screen area.

I still feel constrained by a laptop 14 inch 1920x1080, and my work style changes. I prefer to go back to the desktop for "real" work and mostly use the laptop for more basic communication or browsing when I don't want to stay in the home office.
Net export does not matter when it's at times when nobody wants tp buy it because they have their own renewables...

What matters is amount of electricity bought from Germany, not amount of generation ran.
Save, Save and Save!
We are being told that the are still issues in the USE1-AZ4 and some of the instances are stuck in the wrong state as of 16:15 PM EST. There's no ET for resolution.
What did you contribute to X?

I kind of trust Daniel Stone way more that some rando from internet?
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=Daniel+Stone
I'm not sure that MAD is always a bulwark. China only has a few dozen ICBMs that can hit the US, plus another couple dozen SLBMs probably on three to four submarines.

It's a very dangerous game to play, but I can see the same sort of group think that led to the Iraq war saying "our defense systems could totally handle that".
It seems like UBC is purposely trying to avoid clarity.
What exactly are they waiting on?

Probably waiting on hospitals to be fully staffed and less busy.

My sibling moved from being a pedatric nurse to a non-patient care position (not at a hospital). She'd been nearly permanently removed from her pediatric role and moved to be on the front lines for COVID care for over a year with no relief in sight. She spent 2 years in Iraq and said that this is much more tiring and exasperating since she's treating people that largely could have avoided being in the hospital at all.

Her hospital has been cancelling elective procedures, so everyone is suffering from the COVID wave.
I wonder if "thee" comes from "thou". Definitely distinctly Yorkshire. I wouldn't use it as I think people would accuse me of taking on a false Yorkshire accent.
The NSO exploit started by pretending to send a GIF, that was sent down to some decoder that did automatic file-type detection based on data rather than filetype and "correctly" detected an PDF, the Apple PDF decoder in turn supports JBIG2 images where the actual exploit lives.
> I think the initial sync issue is one of the worst problems, because someone joining in to leave a quick comment will be waiting for the system to synchronize

The initial sync issue is only a problem for large accounts which have joined many rooms. Cactus comments creates a guest user for non-logged-in commenters, and an empty guest account is pretty much instant to load in my experience.

You can go to my cactus comments instance (running on aforementioned 1gb machine) to test out the speed
https://karmanyaah.malhotra.cc/tech/2021/06/website-things/
Much like the old kind of racism needed also some whites to stand up and say "we do not want to benefit from this poisonous system, it is repulsive and we reject it", this new kind of racism will only end when at least some people who are intended to benefit from it start organizing and saying aloud "not in my name, I do not want to be treated like this".

Individuals do that already (like Sowell or Ayaan Hirsi Ali), but their total numbers haven't yet crossed a critical threshold, so they can be ignored. So far.
It is fascinating to see how Germany is shutting down nuclear and encouraging natural gas (while still using lignite, of all things, phasing it out only slowly), while the Netherlands is starting to reduce its use of gas and investigating building new nuclear plants.
I really hope that's not the case. Mass transit that's just cars that are even more noisy and can drop on people from the sky?