skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Feel free to buy dividend stocks then. It's just that the growth types are expected to have a greater "total growth" over time.
> They don’t have to be what you described. The BSV network

There's always a "not true blockchain" in these discussions, isn't there

> more transactions each day than any other network at a magnitude less cost.

So. It maybe, barely approached real world. It's a far cry from "allow for micro transactions in a way we’ve not been able to do so far"

> Less cost in both user end and CO2.

I don't buy "we only run on clean energy" claims
I am amazed at how many interesting things I still have to learn in this life. Too many tools, too little time to see them all... :(
I do not think there is any need for trying to figure out how to calculate objective attractiveness. Just use someone’s likes and the value of those likes based on the likes of the person doing the like-ing to infer their relative popularities. Can use frequency and rapidity of messaging as an additional data point also.
When I moved to the US I lived in Atlanta for about 20 years, I've since moved away but Waffle House is one of those Atlanta staples I'll never forget. We used to always go there after the bars closed since WF was open 24/7, one of my friends joked he has never been inside of one sober.
And asking for a friend - how did you fix those guts of yours?
You're not wrong, but you'd better not have false positives.

In particular, it seems likely the author in this case got caught by an algorithmic badness detector or may have violated the TOS in some minor technical way rather than being abusive. I'm counting the latter as a false positive in this case; that's no way to treat a paying customer. People who know what they did don't usually blog about getting banned and post it to HN.

Chargebacks are an effective way to punish companies for this behavior.
Of course it might affect Poland's NATO status. I mean not like the formal membership. Turkey is still in NATO after all.

But relying on membership alone is plain stupid. If "spilling blood to protect such a country" becomes a problem, the response will degrade from actual help to some meaningless gestures. "We tried really hard to help them! Too bad our troops did not make it on time!"
Am I the only one that associates waffle houses with the most decrepit corners of a city? Specifically the areas where major interstates intersect, and prostitution, drug use, and homelessness peak?

I'm sure there are some nicer waffle houses down south, or away from the city. ..But that is unfortunately what I personally associate waffle houses with. Please tell me it's not this way across the US.
More of these articles. They don't spend time describing somebody's clothing, appearance or manners.

Yet it's "long form" writing at its finest.
I have heard that as well, may it be some underhanded programming?
It's revealing that you accuse an organisation's organ for not following criminal trial standards when making a preliminary decision, but you have no problem to denounce strangers "power hungry" and "rogue" without even having the slightest insight into their decisions or motivations.

You just assumed it's cancel culture and ran with it. You lost all your passion for "innocence until guilty" before you even finished typing your post...
That's the theory but in practice very few companies bother because it's expensive, complicated and most workloads or customers can tolerate less than 100% uptime.
Man, congratulations to making the cut to be included in the 2021 edition of "The Great Annals of Over-reacting Comments About Absolutely Irrelevant Stuff in the Internet from the Ancient Great Society of Bike Shedding and other Occult Arts."

We, from The Society, greatly appreciate your comment. Please keep up the good work and take this in jest.
There is a nice 10 minute discussion about this paper by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on her "Science without the gobbelydgook" youtube series (which I recommend). She considers the existential questions regarding necessity of complex numbers a "super-niche nerd fight". You can find the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALc8CBYOfkw&t=78s.
How do you propose they should have handled this? From the article, it seems like they quietly removed her during an investigation and she’s the one who made this a big public affair via twitter.
Folks need to understand that our current strategy is quite revolutionary. Basically everything goes against previous guidance. We've redefined illness to now mean positive pcr test. Wide spread testing of asymptomatic people, lockdowns, travel restrictions, medical passports. Vaccinate everyone with little regard for safety or necessity. Ignore natural immunity. Ignore outpatient treatment. Impose a systematic campaign of censorship, deception and propaganda. Noble lies and dishonesty are accepted. Informed consent is thrown away. Nearly every major tenant of our current strategy is anti science and is resulting in more suffering.

It is not obvious that these people who run these simulations are focused on positive outcomes on behalf of the population.
I just posted a top level comment before seeing yours, and basically I have started to think (with my obligatory tinfoil hat on) that it's not just the lack of vision on the part of Mozilla's board, but actually external influence and intentional sabotage which led to this.
> and chances are in the next few years it will be replaced by a new Sino-Russian system backed by Saudi oil.

Who will they trade with? Themselves? Will Saudi Arabia join in when it means the US abandons them, stops selling weapons, and takes other punitive economic measures? Cryptocurrency is a much greater "threat" to these systems, but even then it's more of a threat to countries with poor quality or unstable currencies.

> when the Greenback is no longer the reserve currency.

It's just a fancy title. Dollar is the reserve currency, but Euro, Pound, Yen, etc. are all reserve currencies too. It's not some sort of designation bestowed upon the dollar from which the downfall of America will lead to it losing such status, it's just what central banks and governments hold in reserve. If the US dollar loses market share (if you'll allow here), it'll probably drive up the value of dollars since the US federal reserve no longer has to print dollars to help maintain global liquidity. The whole RESERVE CURRENCY thing is just FUD.
It was over a decade ago, and google fails me. Sorry.
The 500 PLN extra for kids by itself was not necessarily going to cause skyrocketing inflation. I don't necessarily agree with how it was implemented, but it's true that we had a huge lack of important support for less wealthy.

However, on top of that, you have a lot of simply bad management, and also ridiculous amounts of fraud by ruling party politicians. This means that a lot of money is leaking from the budget in various ways into pockets of people associated with current government, and another (possibly bigger) chunk of money is lost by mismanagement - including things as simple as replacing experienced people with nepotism-pushed ones who then fail to process documents for EU funds.

This year we ended up with huge fines (increasing daily), with direct cause being continued operation of Turów surface mine. What is often missed in discussion is that Czech Republic didn't want it closed or fined - they requested that in exchange for continued operation, Poland funds waterworks necessary to ensure nearby villages & towns on Czech side of border have access to potable water, as the mine caused considerable lowering of water table.

So rampant spending on often idiotic things, which also heavily goes into pockets of party nomenclature (so it doesn't even have the benefit of being "make work") results in considerable lack of funds in the budget...
An interesting way to pack bytes into a MIDI SYSEX message
On Linux, one can instruct the BIOS to turn on the computer at a specified time after suspend or even power off using rtcwake [1]. I don't know many things about Windows but I guess they are doing something like this.

[1] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/rtcwake.8.html
I haven't tried much in the way of very recent games. It is nice to be able to play games I've bought on steam over the last nearly 20 years on underpowered laptops I put linux on. Makes me look back through my library and focus on the older ones instead of more recent or competitive games I'd play on my primary gaming pc.
What is the alleged impropriety which she was removed for? The article is missing the most important piece of context.
Parent didn't say it's not possible, and your situation is anecdotal.

If over 50% of people (and growing) say their relationship started on OLD, it's easy to say you're limiting your options by not participating [0]

[0]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/06/10-facts-ab...
My daily driver is Ubuntu 20.04, and I stopped dual booting with Windows back in December 2019, which up to that point had been the way I did all of my gaming.

I haven't looked back since.

Sure, there have been some games that haven't worked. Some of those just needed some tweaking, and for some I just waited a bit until Proton caught up. For the rest that still don't work, I am content with just shelving until such time that they work.

I have been consistently surprised at what games actually work through Proton. For instance I played Titanfall 2 & Battlefield 1 without any issues this year. On Linux.

I probably spend around 200$ each year on video games, and this initiative by Valve will be the sole reason I will continue to do so (and not having to run a Windows instance in my home).
Because string processing is not slow enough? Making string operations eat the performance impact of that context switch in and out of kernel is not a good idea. Library is better. This is not string but I'm thinking to some language like Rust where the "time" crate is not language feature but just about standard and all the other library use it. This is possible if a library like it is good quality and exist early in the language.
If you can’t notice your mouse pointer stuttering from one monitor to the next, then I don’t know what to tell you.

Maybe one day you will, or maybe you won’t, or maybe you don’t care. And there’s no right or wrong answer so no shade here.

To me, the difference is beyond obvious and the nefarious bit with the refresh discussion is that this take is sometimes met with incredulity.

And maybe this whole thing is more like an accessibility issue like colorblind options rather than something the general market will actually care about.

Also an under-discussed issue in the refresh rate discourse is how snappy your machine is. If you’re using a ten year old think pad well then maybe that’s it?
They should really add an HN guideline that title pedantry is discouraged. This is the fourth article I’ve jumped in the comments just today to find the top thread is about debating some word or other in the title.
Here's a partial list:

- Dark Night Mode

- FireShot

- Force Background Tab

- Google Docs Offline

- Google Mail Checker

- Hacker News Enhancement Suite

- Image Downloader

- Instapaper

- LastPass

- Linkclump

- Popout for Youtube

- Privacy Badger

- Read Aloud

- Reader Mode

- Reddit Check

- Reddit Enhancement Suite

- ReviewMeta

- Send from Gmail

- Tampermonkey

- The Camelizer

- uBlock Origin
This happened to me because I uploaded a picture holding a pepper from my garden that Tinder's AI flagged as phallic. To a human being, it was no more phallic than any other pepper and definitely not sexualized. Tinder refused to manually review the photo so I was banned with no recourse.
Most people here probably know it, but for those who don't:

The key point 'Chromium fork vs. OS provided Webview' is somewhat non-relevant, because they aren't very different. Chromiums rendering engine 'Blink' is a fork of WebKit and most OS provided Webviews are either Blink or WebKit based.

The last major rendering engine that is different is Gecko/Quantum which is being developed by Mozilla for Firefox. Everything else is based on WebKit nowadays.

The only fun thing about the situation is that WebKit is a fork of KHTML which was developed by the KDE developers for their browser Konqueror for Linux.
It is a poor representation, you then meet in person and start from square one, no different than how online always has been. You just have to get your foot in the door with people you would have never otherwise met at all. Its just an additional venue amongst other venues also available.
> Should Bob get a refund?

Yes - Bob should be returned a pro-rated amount based on the amount time he originally paid to use the service for and the day his account was terminated.

EX: If Bob paid for a month, and Alice cancels him on day 5, Bob should be refunded approx: (30 - 5)/30 * (Cost of subscription).

You do not get to charge people for a service you are no longer providing them.

You're NOT refunding him, you're terminating the contract that allowed you to charge him in the first place. So you bill for time used and return the rest.
> or are all these apps that are failing built wrong

Deploying to multiple places is more expensive, it's not wrong to choose not to, it's trading off reliability for cost.

It's also unclear to me how often things fail in a way that actually only affect one AZ, but I haven't seen any good statistics either way on that one.
After checking reality, online dating's the #1 way people meet, and its market share (>50%) is growing. [0] [1]

[0] https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/21/online-dating-popular-w...

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/06/10-facts-ab...
Why would they do that? There is an ongoing investigation. It sounds like they essentially put her on paid leave during the investigation. Making a giant public statement about removing her before the investigation is concluded seems wildly inappropriate.
"How is this word pronounced?" ― "Ugh, exactly how it's written? visible confusion"

Compare e.g. to "Worcester" actually being pronounced as "Wooster". Well, why don't you just spell it like this, then? Na-a-ah, it'll be fine.

P.S. Compare "In Russian, letter a is generally pronounced as English a in father" with "In English, letter a can be pronounced as а, эй, or (very wide) э, depending on what else surrounds it: ...". That's the main problem with English spelling: the language itself has way too many vowels to comfortably use only the basic Latin alphabet. Russian actually can, but instead it has much more variety in its consonants: look what Czech and Polish, which have similar problem, have to do to cope with it!
This kind of thing is what they're talking about.

> It was determined that the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men

[1]. https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...
really wish the author didnt insert their opinion in the article at random
AWS is under-reporting the severity of the issue though. The primary outage may be in a single AZ, but there are parts of the AWS stack that affected all AZs in us-east-1, and potentially other regions as well. For example, even now I'm unable to create a new ElastiCache cluster in different AZs of us-east-1.
JWST Launch Delayed Until December 25th
Same here, but I never understood how BSD jails or Solaris zones are better over normal hardware virtualization which is used in Qubes OS. In addition, you get a great UX in the latter.
As much as I prefer DDG over Google in terms of search, and perhaps other services of DDG provided them, I'd beware of allowing them to take on the all-encompassing nature that Google imposes.

I can see it now... it's the year 2525 and there's DDG search, DDG browser, DDG email, DDG video chat, DDG social network... and they announce the addition of personalization features based on user behavior, restriction of ad-blocking for "helpful ads", and then they just get bought by Google anyway.
That's not how cancellations for subscriptions or refunds for services work though. If Bob has paid Alice to send cards, and she has sent them, then obviously no refund is necessary. Alice just needs to ban Bob from using the service again.

In the case of Tinder banning someone, they should automatically cancel the subscription because the customer no longer have access to what they're paying for, and if there's a part of a month left they should refund the value of that. Companies should not be allowed to issue 'punishment' to customers. That's what the criminal justice system is for.

This is not a hard problem. Companies should only charge for the service they provide, and if they choose to withdraw that service they shouldn't take any money for what the user can't use.
Author here!

This is an old post of mine which I happened to find useful. Orchestration of jails moved quite bit forward lately! For example, you can manage your jails quite nicely with containerd today! See great post from Samuel Karp about the topic: https://samuel.karp.dev/blog/2021/05/running-freebsd-jails-w...
Imagine you're Turkish, Venezuelan, Argentinian, etc.

BTC might be your best bet.

Now guess which 1st world countries are next.

Edit: as I think Naval said, crypto is insurance against politicians.
Yep. Had the same moment wondering if was about Edward Teller or the magician. In both cases I think it would be worth reading the article not clickbaity at all.

it is not like the title was "learn this clever trick from Einstein" and then you figure out the Einstein in the article is a dog.
Also: consider the possibility that bigco bought your littleco not to nuture/integrate/leverage it, as they said in the press release, but to kill it. Help your new corporate masters achieve their nefarious goal by taking their paycheck until you find something better and then split.

It's stupid, but are you really willing to try to solve all of the world's stupidity?
> "If you're affected by us-east-1 outages then you're not hosting in other regions and you're doing it wrong".

You are attributing a quote to me which I never expressed, nor was that expressed elsewhere in this thread. You are even using quotation marks....

I certainly didn't mean to blame anyone. You appear to see this AWS issue as one of victims and victimizers. I was just trying to point out an agency that people may have in some situations.
The thing is many countries have their disaster management strategies for pandemics. But when it comes action, the strategiea fail. There are many reasons for this.

First of all, previous pandemics like bird flu had fast infection but it was known to the experts and easier than COVID-19 to handle. But COVID was unknown and it took more time to respond properly and actually there's still more unknown things that the responses cannot be validated. It's hard to respond unknown unknowns.[1]

Second, the strategies are great on paper but when it comes to implementing them, it is all about the politics. The politics of funding the research institutes and academic institutions, the structure of the nation's health care system, economic situation and use of state budget to support people in the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, the policies to allow human movement such as lock downs and restrictions... When it comes to actions, it's just the decision of the politicians.

Third, the strategies are created with stakeholders based on previous experience. And when they exercised, they are based on either previously occurred issues or predictions of the experts/participants of the strategy. You cannot be prepared for everything so you create many different feasible scenarios and exercise them. And they are limited by the capability of the participants.

Finally, strategies are already flexible because they are not binding for the states. A government can change the strategy on the go. A government can also totally ignore the current strategy for its political agenda.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns
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Well, that was quite something.

> The funny thing here is that I'm 100% aware that our stories are wrong. Our own stories, doubly so. We back-fit narratives. Our minds rewrite what we remember ourselves thinking at the time.

What are some ways to break out of this mode, and look back upon the timeline for what it was? robfitz wrote 'The Mom Test', so they must know!?

> So our stories are wrong. But they still matter.

I guess cognitive dissonance is how most of us are keeping our world-view intact. Especially when you realise that nothing really matters in the grand scheme of things [1].

[1] https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4iC9Qi3y9q8
Or nuclear reactors that fail safe by dropping all the control rods into the core to stop all activity. The reactor may be permanently ruined after that (with a cost of hundreds of millions or billions to revert) but there will be no risk of meltdown.
Yup. I'm still upset (but not angry) about https://status.linode.com/incidents/kqhypy8v5cm8.
Absolutely, I algorithmically fetch prominent public news/media pages from a list of us cities of at least a few thousand and get the comments from each page.
S3 and (others) have version history that can be enabled.

If you have to take care of availablity and redundancy and delete protection and backups then why pay the premium S3 is charging ?

Either you don't trust the cloud and you can run NAS or equivalent (with s3 APIs easily today) much cheaper or trust them to keep your data safe and available.

No point in investing in S3 and then doing it again yourself.
I don't quite feel for 4:3 aficionados, looking back on my monitor progression there were the 4:3 CRTs (probably something like 1280x960), the 5:4 LCD with 1280x1024 pixels, then the horrible 1680x1050 16:10 LCD (shoulda gotten 1920x1200 one..), and now finally 2560x1440 16:9 display that I still use.

What I notice is that despite aspect ratios becoming wider, the monitors have pretty consistently also become taller in absolute measure. What I don't understand is why I'd ever want 1920x1440 (4:3) monitor over 2560x1440 (16:9) one, unless I'm really space constrained
> the IMF is an NGO made up of a few wealthy people.

I was under the impression that it is an international organisation that is backed by most countries.

Wikipedia calls it "an international financial institution consisting of 190 countries" and says it "came into formal existence in 1945 with 29 member countries"

Even though it had a few wealthy founders, one of which is John Maynard Keynes, probably one of the most well known economists, I wouldn't describe the IMF as "an NGO made up of a few wealthy people".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund
You're supposed to build your app across multiple AZ's but I know a lot of companies that don't do this and shove everything in a single AZ. It's not just about deploying and instance there but ensuring the consistency of data and state across the az's
As I understand it for something like SQS, Lambda etc, AWS should automatically tolerate an AZ going down. They're responsible for making the service highly available. For something like EC2 though, where a customer is just running a node on AWS, there's no automatic failover. It's a lot more complicated to replicate a running, stateful virtual machine and have it seamlessly failover to a different host. So typically it's up to the developers to use EC2 in a way that makes it easy to relaunch the nodes on a different AZ.