skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of other experiments.

One failed because nobody wanted to fund it, right during a crypto boom. It might be a bad idea too. Who knows? But everyone moved on to better projects.

One failed because we tried to clone Blue Apron but local logistics and payment infra wasn't mature enough.

One failed because of scope creep.

One failed because the CEO was bullshitting investors and they pulled out. It may not be related but probably is.

Some failed because I was the lazy one who didn't feel good about committing.

All of those did not fail from lack of hard work. But they're less interesting. Laziness is the one I'm really pissed about. It's also possible they'd fail later, but they did not get that far.

There's successes too, but that's off topic.
I pay for YT music and just a few weeks ago started getting some sort of ad inside the YT music app. It's getting ridiculous.
> I'm vaguely disappointed I can't go down to Costco and buy a 100-pack of localizers to sprinkle around my own property.

I choose to be very glad that my neighbors can't wait for an opportune gust of wind to spread a 100-pack of localizers to my property.
You've been downvoted, but you're not wrong. Witness the number of people who have left California.
Seemed to me an inditement of the general malaise of all previous discussions, not only this one.
> "With their lives, blood and tears, the young people in Hong Kong have demonstrated for us that one country, two systems is not feasible," Tsai said.

The saga of Hong Kong is so sad. They didn't take their freedom for granted, they struggled mightily, but ultimately they have been crushed.

The lesson for Taiwan could not be more stark. I can see why Tsai said this, and why she has received such support from the Taiwanese people in response.

It is hard to stand up to the CCP. If an individual with Chinese ties did so on a forum such as HN, doubtless they would be reported by omnipresent loyalists monitoring these exchanges, just as the students were at various US universities.

https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china...
How are they mimicking Windows? They've got a task bar (loosely), a start button (ish), and the traditional floating windows with a title bar that has buttons on it, but beyond that I'm not seeing any real similarities? Even then: The application menu is an actual menu unlike what Windows has had since... XP? The panel has launchers and open windows, but they're separate sections unlike Windows. I guess I'm just not sure what you're seeing that so reminds you of Windows.
This is why you always hold real assets. And, no, crypto is not real.
> Why not cooperate with China for mutual good?

This works until it doesn't. "American exceptionalism" is not unique to Americans.
Amazon has been under the spotlight for labor practices, safety, wages. I’m sure the journalists can still order stuff from Amazon.

As a programmer I can probably guess how AWS experiences problems: programming and networking are hard problems, they get exponentially harder at scale, and there’s no known way to prevent every problem.

If AWS or some journalists gave us details we would just see 200 posts about how they could have done it better with Rust, nothing actually useful for anyone.
I plan to keep working after FI, but I really only need a couple of days a week. I've always felt 40hrs for 48-50 weeks per year is way too much.
Yes. We should do that. We won't.

Pro: everyone is fine, the hospitals aren't overwhelmed, the anti-vaxxers will be fine along with everyone else.

Con: can't speak with disgust and disdain anymore to those who disagree with your medical opinions, or have concerns with how quickly you're forcing your experimental medications on the entire planet.

Not going to happen. I've already seen the usual suspects talking about how we need bigger, better, stronger vaccines for Omicron.

We're pretty excited by this RNA vaccine tech, and we're going to use it, no matter what happens.

There's too much money and too much political power on the pro-vax anti-immune-system side of things.
Just wondering, is it possible to have a calendar system that automatically adjusts to the Earth's orbit around the sun dynamically with a precision/accuracy as high as possible? I imagine the calendar would need to note how long that calendar year was, how long a day was, and to what precision it is recorded.

It would be interesting if systems never had to account for a leap day every n years. I suppose 0.003% of a day (the error rate each year) each year isn't a big enough concern, otherwise known as 2.592 seconds.
Yeah, that makes little sense. Ideally you would want to point users to documented hardware, running QMK, or other (potentially reversed engineered) open-firmware.
Well....that's how I found out about it when I took on my current role. We had pretty solid phishing attempt slip through. I was able to spin up a VPS as test it on mine and some other known tenants as well (with their permission). And since o365 uses a predictable name for their SMTP receivers for a tenant (domain-com-net-whatever.mail.protection.outlook.com)its easy to kind of....select targets and test it out.

So even if its not listed on the domains MX record but you can suss out they are an office365 tenant receiving mail, you may be able to relay off it and spoof to high heavens (especially if the edge device reccomends you....ahem...whitelist your own domain and not use transport rules). In fact especially if you can do this.

For example i think MS forced proofpoint to change their config recommendations as an outcome.[1]

from the page on [1]:

"Due to major complaints, Proofpoint has opted to change change to the format of ensuring Proofpoint mail is not scored via the O365 system. This rule will allow external email to come in still, but will follow O365 scoring. This is to ensure no mail is lost."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200807173336/https://help.proo...
I can't help but think of "hunter2", and others.
I haven’t noticed this at all.
I think that's just the point here: yes, strictly speaking they are, but practically speaking the alternative is to put the user's cybersecurity at risk.

If you ask just about any user, they will say they prioritise their cybersecurity over the purity of their Free Software stack. The FSF seemingly disagree. That disagreement is an important one.
Ask HN: Fira code significantly improves the output of which terminal commands?
For example, loc displays lines made up of hyphens. These lines become solid with Fira Code.
“ In other fields, tools that affect our customers customers are very successful IF that drives more sales, or can affect the bottom line in some way.”

Very insightful - whatever solution you have must actually drive enough $ for someone to really want to give it a try. Which is a huge ask if someone’s business isn’t really tech oriented and they don’t really believe the optimization is worth breaking through existing ways of doing things.
And my retort is “that you know of”. If mine isn’t getting to you, who else’s isn’t? (For businesspeople) how much business are you losing because Google isn’t letting mail through? It’s one thing if the server is declining email and telling you why. It’s another thing to silently hide email.
That's the opposite of a sacred text; a profane incantation.
Can you provide some data about this?

Others replying to you have provided links showing that very few children die of Covid. Do you have specific links about long term disability DUE TO covid (not a disability caused by a car accident where the child was also found to have covid, for example).
Yes, and zero incentives to misuse that information, as the entire business literally depends on the trust between us and the user, and is entirely supported by user subscriptions. Incentives are perfectly aligned too - we have to constantly keep improving the product or you will jump to a (free) alternative.
OTOH, US did just this year lose its longest war and it was against Afghanistan. I rely on this closer event. Granted, admitting the loss there was the first step in road to recovery.
This is awesome. What’s the best track you’ve uncovered?
Dutch Security Researcher Receives Award for Hacking Dutch Tax Authority
I worked there and can vouch for what you said. AWS is built like a house of cards. They just painted it orange and white to make it look cohesive. What's funny though is that the CSS isn't even sourced from one place. They tell front-end engineers to use a dropper tool and to just copy and paste style from other places. DRY is not in Amazon's vocabulary.

Gotta love their leadership principles:

> Frugality (we'll give you a shitty laptop, shitty chair, and a shitty desk.)

> Be right a lot (are you too stupid to forecast the future?!)"
> not pay for the peace of mind that comes with "a human you can call up and say 'hey, why can't I get into my email' or 'hey, fix this please"

That stance would make sense if that were an option with google hosted email.
My friend keeps getting his posts banned for selling firearms.

Like the Apple Mac tower and a generator... very dangerous weapons.
On HN there's the process of shadowbanning entire users accounts.

By losing the noisy/spamming/trolling posters entirely, we might also lose their constructive/valuable content too.

Since I was a teenager, in the vBulletin v3+ forums era, I've wanted to develop an access control / rate limiting system where moderators would be responsible for categorizing posts depending on the contents of the submitted posts and the user who created them.
P(this comment | conservative) = 0.999…
I don't think it's racist to be worried about a nuclear power colonizing its neighbors.
Non sequitur. One person retiring early makes no difference in when others retire.
Every kilo launched costs a proverbial and probably nearly literal tonne of fuel so things are not as simple as that.

It's also has to fit on the rocket hence the once off folding mechanism. And after deploying it has to be perfectly aligned (remember the Hubble with its slightly off mirror)

I think having redundancy for everything would just not make for a launchable spacecraft.
> by "separate country", Taiwan is governed by a group that believes it is the true government of China in exile. It might be helpful to be clear about this.

The overlapping (though not equal) border claims by the ROC and the PRC don't change the fact that they are two separate countries. No clarity is required because it really isn't relevant. Border disputes between countries is entirely normal.
If you are a US customer you can currently get a beefy server with 256GiB of RAM, a few years old Xeon, and a huge amount of traffic included for €50 a month on Hetzner auction. If you are in EU you need to add local sales tax, still dirt cheap.

Works great for me!
Oooh okay. Thank you
It’s incredibly rude to respond to someone wishing you good will by criticizing how they do so.
This just illustrates how important it is that we take care of our environment. Travelers think they can just pollule whatever, but that pollution does have very serious adverse affects. Tens of thousands of people just pop out of existance when a major temporal restructing like this happens. The whole correcting calenders handwavium, while preventing mass awakening, will never undo that tremendous loss of life from one careless adventurer.
Thanks, that makes sense. I always like to know why I'm wrong, but getting that explanation can be a fine line to avoid looking like you're complaining about downvotes. I could care less about the votes, but I do want to learn. Much appreciated.
Even among "pl", even a quick sampling shows that these aren't necessarily correctly categorized. For instance, "advice-taker" according to the site is "an actively used programming language created in 1958". But Wikipedia, which I would take to be more credible in this context, says it "was a hypothetical computer program" and explains the philosophical point put forth by the idea. So it was not a language, not even a real program, and certainly not actively used.
Not to accuse any one person specifically of anything nefarious, but I do find the historical timing of these articles bemoaning self-hosting of email rather odd.

Currently, there are only a handful of large technology companies in control of most of the world's inbox. Google is the first that comes to mind. At the same time we've just had some of our most highly publicized hearings involving these tech companies (facebook and google) as well as our first hearing on cryptocurrency and the larger web3 infrastructure. There is a rising public awareness and therefore political will to regulate these technologies and companies. This would formally fold google and the like into the USG despite their long standing less formal arrangements with the intelligence agencies.

The one way to make this regulation and upcoming legislation moot? Decentralization by any other name. Self-hosting of email servers, or distributed computing and storage with web3. Perhaps its is only my latent paranoia, but I can't help but shake the feeling that the glut of the 'don't bother hosting your own email server' sentiment is, at least in part, artificially amplified in order for the coming formal regulations to have more of an impact.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if google themselves was helping to facilitate this in order to steer conversation towards stalling any potential competitors as a part of the new regulatory framework. It is for instance a lot easier to argue that outlawing self-hosting of email servers (or requiring a license to do so) makes a lot more sense if you can point to a 'general public sentiment' that hosting your own email server is 'too complicated' and 'less useful' and 'less secure' and therefore would only be done by antisocial actors such as 'criminal elements' and 'terrorists'.

Seeing as we are at the cusp of a new distributed infrastructure movement, all this feels like preemptive damage control to me.
Agreed, userscripts are the better approach. There's at least three on here for closing the tab, I haven't tested them:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/by-site/zoom.us
It’s your responsibility to do due diligence for the code you’re going to run. Don’t run it if you’re not capable of doing that due diligence.
> Smart and effective vegetarians who want to promote vegetarianism don't fill a balloon with red paint and throw it at someone while screaming 'meat is murder!'

Are the GNU/FSF folks doing that? The most I'm aware of is strongly-worded blog posts, which is rather short of physical ... outbursts.
What is web3 exactly? Is it about world wide web or crypto?
> Assuming they're not marking legitimate discussions as extremists.

Which they do. They're fining Github (threatening to block it) for not removing a repo with "candidates without ties to the ruling party" during election. The justification is the repo was created by FBK Anti-Corruption Foundation which was declared extremist for "undermining the basis of the constitutional order". Nobody would admit it here but something equally ugly is going on with J6 stuff.
> anticipates 538 and all the other media on elections that ultimately disenfranchise voters.

Serious question: how does "media on elections" disenfranchise voters? I would have thought that they usefully inform voters, or at least remind voters of the importance of voting.
Wow, webmd made it really hard to find the primary source for that.

To be clear, they are attributing this drop off of this flu strain to be likely due to pandemic mitigation efforts, as well as maybe lucky timing and some specifics of how this strain spreads

Since it doesn’t seem plausible to repeat the wide scale pandemic mitigation controls any time soon, I doubt we can keep wiping out flu strains, but we could certainly reduce the damage the flu does if we want to

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00642-4
Yes, Camry used to an official car for government ministers in India till recent, replacing Ambassador cars, and now getting replaced by Prado or Pajero.
Sorry I am Italian and English is not my mother language, I saw it used that way and thought it was fine but forgot about this other article https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161028-native-english... :D

But if you can't trust native speakers to understand a language then where the world goes?
I just use, hmmm:

`tt` binds to `:tabnew`
`gt` binds to `:nexttab`
`gT` bindts to `:prevtab`

I can `vsplit` (yeah diff!) and `vsplit` again and I can do `split` and I can do hmmm, `ctrl shift hjkl` to cycle. Anything more I can't. I am bad at managing and mentally mapping buffers. Ditto for `tmux`. It's easier for me to manage multiple windows (yeah tiling manager!) than vim/tmux's buffer. Aaaand I can recycle that knowledge for any apps.
What are the histories of the other coronaviruses? And would those histories be more relevant than histories of non coronaviruses?
I think the real problem is that in most countries the healthcare system was "optimized" to such extent that even seasonal flu was almost clogging it every year. And now SURPRISE, any disease, even a tad bit more deadly and contagious than the seasonal flu would make it collapse. TOTALLY UNEXPECTED.
Anyone who doesn't have a long list of problems with LaTeX doesn't use it enough, or doesn't go beyond the built-in templates. Unfortunately, those templates are designed for print and not screen viewing ... so you really have to edit them.

I'd be happy to argue this in detail, but I see that others have already hit many of the big points. (Some more: The typesetting is suboptimal, even if you improve it with the microtype package; the default symbols for real and imaginary part (\Re and \Im) are horrible; the cleverref package should be built in; the geometry package should be built in; the artificial distinction between equation and align environments is because the engine can't space properly around aligns, so this should be fixed and they should be a single command; \left and \right for delimiters often make really bad choices; the default font is the only good option if you need matching mathematical characters, and it grates on you after years of use; I could go on for hours...)

The more interesting question to me is: What should be done about this? LaTeX seems too embedded in the scientific community for there to be a clean break to a new technology (see, e.g. arxiv.org). Also, I'm not sure an entirely new markup language would be desirable, since the core LaTeX language is actually not so bad – it's the transformation of the markup to the final document where the problems occur. What we need is a new backend or shim layer that keeps the basic language but allows for more aesthetically pleasing rendering and better control of the layout.
Absolutely true, and this is where i found subscribing to those through Apple’s App Store helps. This way, i am subbed to a bunch of newspapers, and i can always easily cancel them with a single click from a single UI in the “My Subscriptions” section of the app store.

I did that experiment with NYT (note: not a California resident), where i signed up regularly through their website first and tried canceling, and then did the same through App Store.

With the first one (website), i had to call or email them to cancel, no way to do it through a UI. Took me a few days to get it done. With the second one (App Store), all it took was one click from “My Subscriptions” page that has all my subscriptions from App Store.
So direct an article towards all things climate change and resource management. That’s not what this is. This is attacking people unrelated to that too far and too too harshly.
It wasn't a conventional war. I don't think there is any defense to the massive fuck up in the Afghanistan exit strategy though. But, to say that US military is incapable of doing anything is a pretty lousy argument.
You’ve picked a subset of a subset of a subset.

There is a little more to it than that, and a similar style summary of your preferred culture would be pretty dark.
Quite possible that the US is going down the same route Turkey is. The US has an entrenched financial system that might take an extra 6 months to enter a crises.

The current belief is that the fed will manage inflation appropriately, and that the 7% headline number will vanish in a few months. Housing increasing 20% last year is a sign that the same incentive is there, getting a mortgage at 2% and then earning a free 5% interest is too good a deal to pass up.
The accompanying blog entry has a somewhat friendlier overview of the major changes:

https://www.darktable.org/2021/12/darktable-3-8/
We built machinery, processes, IP, etc using saved and invested capital. That machinery wouldn't be built without the capital. And thus labor would be nearly valueless. The machines and processes also stop functioning when the ownership structure is destroyed as we have recently seen in the Venezuelan oil wells. With capital its very much the virtual (ownership) driving the creation, maintainance and operation of the real (machines, processes, etc).
Do we have any thermal paste or other solution that works for 5+ years without degradation? ( I think I looked into this before but I forgot the answer )
One very unconventional suggestion for HN but I really enjoyed the "Trash Taste Podcast". The three hosts have really funny stories and talk about a variety of interesting topics, more than just Anime, despite being branded as an Anime podcast. They also bring in a great selection of guests.
I've been saying and hearing Merry Christmas wishes from people of all cultures all across the world and the only people who cannot bring themselves to say it are pretentious rich white priveledged bay area progressive tech bloggers on HN.
Escape velocity is very very small so navigating between small asteroids entails a fixed non-solar fuel supply and a function of how quickly you want to jump between asteroids (speed-burn-up and speed-burn-down).

We would not be fighting the Sun’s gravitational pull as most asteroids are in the same orbital pathway.

Also once landed, releasable anchor bolts can then be fired.
I'm unclear on what you're responding to. I wasn't saying an apology was the right remedy, nor did I suggest they should have zero issues.

Customer confidence is an issue because they've had 4 notable issues in a very short timeframe.

Edit: I think you're reading something into my comments that's more than what I've said. I am curious what the AWS response to 4 major incidents in a month's time will be. That's it. At least in my circles, it is an issue for customers. I respect that it appears not to be in your circles.

Ahh. By "response", I did not mean the incident summary. I meant the overarching company response, if any. Like policies around change control, capacity additions, and so on.
it's been obvious since march of last year that this was the inevitable outcome of covid, yet we've spent nearly two years hand-wringing and fearmongering over it. it's the novelty of the virus combined with the general unpreparedness of our immune systems (obesity, sickness of all sorts, and age correlate with lowered immune preparedness) that's created this wave of initial severity as the virus works it's way to a steady-state similar to other coronaviruses.

most people had, and still have, very little idea about how these things work, yet grandstand and moralize on about ineffective but distruptive remediations like masks and lockdowns that they hear about via propagandized media. even vaccines need only be seriously considered by the aforementioned immune-deficient (obese, elderly, etc.), not everyone (this article providing that evidence for children specifically).
I don't follow; linux-libre still has drivers; nobody's saying you can't write per-device drivers, just that the whole of the code to run it should be FOSS.
The record of the Babalon workings of Jack Parsons with Hubbard are on there, at least: https://sacred-texts.com/oto/lib49.htm

More on it @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babalon_Working