skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Consumers do not buy the power on the market, they buy it from their utility at the rate they've negotiated beforehand.

The utility rate was not always fixed/negotiated: there's at least one utility company (Griddy) had an arrangement to pass-through market rate + small premium. Before the storm, this mostly meant getting rates modestly lower than the competition. The same customers were exposed to the power market spikes and received bills over $10,000. IIRC, Griddy has since filed for bankruptcy as the Texas legislature was generally supportive of individual customers not paying their bills. Paradoxically, Texas's political leadership allowed the utility companies to recover their losses by billing customers over years, which seems mostly performative/hiding expense from customers, but still decoupled from market forces.
NFTs are hypothetically a good way to launder money but practically not so. Governments and chain analytics companies their tentacles wrapped around blockchains insofar that, if trying to launder money in size, you'll likely be discovered.
I moved from Gmail to Fastmail recently, because Google Sites forced me to move from V1 to V2. However, in their defense, they gave me over a year's notice to convert my site and I still didn't do it. They made it read-only after a year, which is what pushed me into trying the migration. It was a disaster: the Google V2 site was slow (my release notes page took 15 seconds to load but used to load in a couple seconds) and the site looked like crap. So I had to do Takeout and hand-edit Google's 512KB-per-page of Javascript and HTML. But now, pages average 19KB each, the site looks great, and it's way easier to manage with Asciidoc instead of using a browser editing window.

My point: it doesn't matter how long they give us to switch - most people won't do it until they are absolutely forced.

This reminds me of Microsoft back in the day. Windows was (is?) crap, unreliable, and without the kindness of technical friends and relatives willing to work on someone's Windows issues for free, Microsoft may not have ever made it past DOS. I got sick of working on everyone's Windows problems so got rid of all my Windows machines and just told people "sorry, I don't have any Windows machines anymore and can't help you". And it was the truth - after about a year I really didn't know how to help them anymore! It's great!

Maybe it's time for technical people to stop working for free for Microsoft and Google. If their stuff is crap, let them sort it out with their wonderful customer service that you now have to pay for.
While trawling is more idiomatic, trolling is also a verb, and actually quite similar: it's fishing with a moving vessel except that it uses lines rather than nets.

In my headcanon, trolling is a slower, less directed process. So I might idly troll for bugs to fix on a bug tracker, rather than a trawl which would aim to gather everything matching some criteria.
It's more subtle than that.

For high availability, STS offers regional endpoints -- and AWS recommends using them[1] -- but the SDKs don't use them by default. The author of the client code, or the person configuring
the software, has to enable them.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credenti...

(I work for AWS. Opinions are my own and not necessarily those of my employer.)
> At least defund the police states a concrete goal.

A goal that no one wants. Every one wants police to exist. That means they want police to be funded. The minute that slogan reached the public conservatives started with "If they are successful you won't have police when you are in danger because they will have no funds to help you". The slogan has done more to hurt the changes of meaningful change than to help it.
I developed an integration for LTE for work a few years ago for a linux server, I found the experience the same in how little clear information there was. We tried quite a few different cards, though I can't remember the one that ended up "working" (the project wasn't ever deployed). I could not get qmi_wwan or wvdial to work consistently, which was crucial as if it went down someone would have to physically intervene. I ended up using plain old pppd and chatscripts, which was especially amusing to me as a late millennial who never expected to use such antiquated technologies. Another fidgety thing was the SIM pin, especially given the threat that multiple failed attempts to set it would lead to a lockout. That being said, it is far simpler to just get an LTE modem with ethernet ports and let that take care of the connection.
Project Lyra: A Mission to 1I/'Oumuamua Without Solar Oberth Manoeuvre
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Bundling and control of defaults are powerful levers. If users were presented a ballot on first use then perhaps these incumbents would have to compete on an even playing field.
I think this is a major step backwards, as it allows people to abusively block anyone who rebuts their posts / comments in public fora. Having such blocking functionality on Twitter or Facebook timelines makes sense, but in my opinion Reddit should be more analogous to classic forums, or to Facebook groups, where you can't simply block someone else in the community from participating in your threads as long as they abide by the group's / forum's rules.
LOL. Same.
The part of the article I could read was about spotify. I wonder if the issue is more that spotify users are less interested in podcasts.

Spotify pushes podcasts hard, including on people like me who have and never will listen to one inside spotify. I use it as a music app, period. Maybe this is more about their inability to break into that market?
Or how about giving a free platform to get into games development for young people that otherwise wouldn't have become interested.
Both are down for me.

redditstatus.com not indicating any problems, though. [1]

[1] https://www.redditstatus.com/
Reddit is becoming more and more people-, not content-centric. I suspect it will get its peak and then slowly die like the others: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=myspace,...
It should be a rental, more like how TV show residuals, not a one time purchase. So long as the invention keeps providing value to the citizens, the inventor should keep getting paid for it.

You could determine the value provided by auctioning off these patents through a Vickrey Auction, an auction that incentivizes people to always bid their true value. I'm fairly sure you could properly set this up such that very few people lost access, the inventor got more money than they could have made, and no one has to ever deal with the bureaucracy that the current system brings.
That's probably what they're incentivised to do. Chances are that "clearing" a dozen bugs that amount to "I am a fool and pressed A when I meant B, but I raised a ticket about it" is worth far more to an L1 queue monkey than correctly diagnosing a real bug that should have been caught during QA by somebody way up the ladder, and can be done quicker too.

Also, you ask if they don't "have phones" but to see this they need Android 12, if you bought a new high-end Android phone it might have Android 12. If you bought one last year, maybe it's qualified to upgrade to Android 12 but clearly this brings some bugs as illustrated. If your phone was not top of the line and you bought it say, before the pandemic, chances are you can't run Android 12 at least not today and perhaps ever.

Now, L1 support monkeys aren't flipping burgers or cleaning hotel rooms, I'm sure they do own phones, but there's no reason they own a good phone on whatever they're earning and if they do maybe it's an iPhone, which of course can't run Android 12.
Glad to see them calling it out but let’s be honest.. we all knew it was BS.
> It find it would be impossible to maintain a useful discussion that lasts longer than just a few hours without it.

What’s wrong with https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alkonaut? (Where the “threads” link in your top bar leads.) It doesn’t show discussions from weeks ago on the first page, but it does show a couple of days worth at the moment.
That's when I tell them I'm dumping their product.

Seriously. I sit on the other side of this a lot of the time, and bullshit like this makes everyone's troubleshooting harder. I'm happy to work with someone to troubleshoot a problem, but blindly ask me to waste my time, and I'll usually walk away. Someone else can dance for your pleasure.

I have gotten a lot shorter with this sort of thing, but that's because I've been burned being patient. Push all the effort and costs on to me and you won't have me as a customer.

(I am neither Google customer nor product.)
That is simply wrong.

There is one study that listed negative effectiveness against Omicron for the vaccines. That study did not control for any confounding factors, it simply was not designed to measure this particular thing, it was focused on a different question.

There are some strong fundamental reasons why we would not expect the vaccine to be harmful with future variants. And even then we would still be able to detect if it was.
One minor advantage is that you can import the type on its own. If an external app just needs the types, it can import them without affecting its bundle at all.
In your definition, an anti-vaxxer is someone who refuses the covid-19 jab or any jab? If it’s the former, I find that quite disingenuous.
Sorry for the confusing wording, I meant email accounts. It looks like you can only share the domain in your apple family sharing plan which means only 6 different accounts.
> Still, would be awesome to see support in Firefox and Safari!

Both Safari and Firefox consider WebUSB harmful, and will not implement. Their reasons have been voiced loud and clear to the Chrome team (as they were voiced regarding many other standards).

Chrome, however, is the dominant browser and engine, so they dont' care. At all. It's now a "standard", and you will never other browser implementers' positions on web.dev (which is now a full-on unashamed Chrome propaganda vehicle).
Proof by 1st order corporate brochure logic (CBL): "Hurting security" is a bad thing. "Hurting competition and discouraging innovation" is a bad thing too. One bad thing always leads to another.

QED.
Along those lines a friend was complaining about Samsung's contacts app search results.

I took a look and soon deduced it was searching on "sounds like" rather than the actual string, so an exact match is way down the list of partial matches that sound like the search string.

It is madness, like Google refusing to do exact matches only worse.
> So? That's up to you to determine.

Sure, which is why I find it useful to know about the source, and criticism of their past work, when evaluating an op-ed just published in a field that requires substantial domain knowledge to fairly evaluate claims. I linked an article not very charitable towards the author because I consider it valuable in exactly this sort of determination.

> You don't need an expert to tell you transparency is good.

You don't need an expert to tell you complete transparency can have downsides, especially where patients' medical data is involved.

HN usually takes a dim view of "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about", but the rapid release of raw medical records is the sort of scenario where people may have lots to hide.
So Roblox need a button to press to (re)deploy 18,000 servers and 170,000 containers? They already have multiple core data centres, as well as many edge locations.

You will note the problem was with the software provided and supported by Hashicorp.
The contacts situation from everyone is abysmal, only really good for light personal use. As soon as you are trying to keep your contacts organised or light work use everything turns to shit
Do they still? GKE supports 15,000 nodes per cluster.
I get it's a canned message, but surely part of that external triage would be "is there enough info here that we could reasonably just assign this to an intern to try out before needing to even ask for a crash dump [and insert corresponding "we're looking into it" message]." Unless it's a purposeful barrier to entry, which I also cynically understand.
>Tobacco smoke and fire smoke are generally entirely unrelated from a health perspective.

But not from a scientific perspective.
Trial participants sign agreements to be part of the trial and usually receive compensation or free medical treatment in exchange for being part of the trial and continued health monitoring. This is a hard rule from the FDA, and failure to do so is subject to criminal liability.

Individuals receiving drug under an EUA are not part of a clinical trial, regardless of what you think of the drug.
It's polite, pedantic, and incredibly useful digressions like this which keep me coming back to HN. I had no idea this homonym could describe two separate actions (i.e. casting a broad net to grab whatever is in the path vs. a systematic search covering a specified area) that both still work perfectly to describe how I interact with the Internet Archive.

I'd say it was intentional, but that'd be a bald-faced lie.
Right, but it only went live on the DB that failed the day before. Obviously, hindsight is 20/20, but it's strange that the oversight didn't rate a mention in the postmortem.
The Consul streaming changes were rolled out months before the incident occurred.
> On October 27th at 14:00, one day before the outage, we enabled this feature on a backend service that is responsible for traffic routing. As part of this rollout, in order to prepare for the increased traffic we typically see at the end of the year, we also increased the number of nodes supporting traffic routing by 50%.

Seems like the smoking gun, this should have been identified and rolled back much earlier.
Yandex Translate? http://translate.yandex.com

Or Babbelfish? https://www.babelfish.com/
We both saw a request for more information met with the reply of "get over yourself," but we came to different conclusions about whose response was horrible.
> But what is the horizon problem? Is it some single well-defined concept or a catch-all term for many phenomena?

Granted this article is largely above my reading/comprehensive level, but after describing multiple types of horizons and then saying a wrap drive horizon largely resembles a black hole horizon, I can't see where the author actually defines "the horizon problem".
Love how people won’t even admit this fact into the conversation. Thank you, sincerely, for bringing this up.
Netflix Fourth Quarter 2021 – Letter to shareholders [pdf]
Clearly lots of us obsess, a LOT, about fonts. I'm always evaluating terminal fonts (currently favor Comic Mono), but one thing that Iosevka's front page demo made very obvious to me: zero with a dot (IBM Plex) are (IMhO) much more readable than the Ø kludge (go ahead, look at 08800008 in a monospace font and scale it down one step. Not so easy?).

Really, sometimes I wish I could pick and chose individual characters.
Some changes are extremely hard to rollback, but this doesn’t sound like one of them. From their report, sounds like the rollback process involved simply making a config change to disable the streaming feature, it took a bit to rollout to all nodes, and then Consul performance almost immediately returned to normal.

Blind rollbacks are one thing, but they identified Consul as the issue early on, and clearly made a significant Consul config change shortly before the outage started, that was also clearly quite reversible. Not even trying to roll that back is quite strange to me - that’s gotta be something you try within the first hour of the outage, nevermind the first 50 hours.
#private fields are not slow when used natively.

It's true the down-levelled code that uses WeakMaps is slower. The decision to downlevel is in the hands of the user and is controlled by the tsconfig "target" option.

The only environment that needs downlevelled #private fields is IE11.
literally every co

if you want to know why capitalism causes this, start a startup and prioritize quality, do not get to market, do not raise money, do not pass go, watch dumpster fires with millions of betrayed and angry users raise their series d
Sure. And that process is stupid in that case, and should be called stupid. If Google refuses to create a bug report themselves even though the issue is clearly described, then they can get lost.
Anonymization is difficult and sometimes impossible because reidentification attacks are extremely difficult to prevent. Anonymization is much more complex than people typically assume; see [1,2] for surveys.

The more data you release, the more difficult it is to ensure that subjects cannot be reidentified by combining the "anonymized" dataset with other publicly available data.

Important note: It's not just a case of putting in the work and being willing to share. There are impossibility results in this space. That is, there are reasonable formal threat models for which it is mathematically impossible to release any version of the dataset that is (a) useful (ie contains enough data to replicate findings) and (b) not subject to unacceptable levels of reidentification.

I am generally in favor of releasing data and code/spreadsheets, but anything involving patients becomes difficult quickly. There are also reasonable middle grounds between "no access for anyone" and "throw it in a public s3 bucket". E.g., making data more available to researchers and medical practitioners -- or even sufficiently interested & motivated members of the public -- but under strict data handling rules, enforceable audit trails, and legal consequences for being reckless with sensitive patient data.

Hell, odds are better than even that your employer made you sign a document that would allow them to sue you into oblivion for forwarding some sure-to-be-doomed product launch draft to the wrong person. Being at least that careful with fine-grained medical data on hundreds/thousands of patients isn't exactly unreasonable...

Drawing a hard line on 100% complete, anonymous, and consequence-free access to troves of patient data isn't a reasonable position.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jo...

[2] https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jullman/cs7880s17/DSSV.pdf
Simply removing the name isn't enough to anonymize the data, because as another commenter noted, the data submitted includes detailed patient histories and information about all of their other conditions, which is more than enough to uniquely identify someone.

And you can't simply strip out that data, because a lot of the subsequent analysis of effectiveness is dependent on it.
They dropped a bunch of new content around Christmas and numbers still went down...

Not that much of it was very good, but I would have expected a little temporary goosing for Cobra Kai or The Witcher.
I read it as wearing a mask outdoors
The CDC has been unfortunately hopelessly politicized. It happened long before the pandemic.

OTOH, I would make the differentiating point that air travel has positive benefits to society and costs and one has to weigh those against each other. You can’t make the blanket statement “earth would be better off if air travel went away completely.”

It’s hard to find any benefit to smoking, first hand or second, so it’s easy enough to just shit on it. The ROI on whatever ills aviation may have is a topic of discussion, there’s 0 ROI on smoking.
I’m unsure if the license has changed recently but I know that as of a year or two ago you basically had no license to use the font for anything but the system apps that it shipped with. Not that I particularly care much for it, but it’s not really very usable for general use if you want to “stay legit”.
i'd recommend trying weed before putting too much more thought into this.

they're really not interchangeable as recreational intoxicants. i find marijuana a very different experience to alcohol, and personally i much prefer the alcohol. i had had the same thought as you, that maybe marijuana would be better for me, but ultimately i don't think it matters if it's better if i don't like it.

also, beer and whiskey are delicious and it's more about the enjoyment of consuming them for me than the effects of the alcohol. weed isn't very enjoyable - smoking is terrible, and edibles are just worse version of sugary treats.
Other opinions are possible though, I suppose. Perhaps we should all be called out on our faults, and that would somehow lead to a more accurate and error-free existence. And it's possible that that is, already, abstractly, somehow what this blog post is doing.
Envy Code R is great. There is a power line version out there too.

https://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-co...
It's not any more difficult than writing the markup in any other language or library, but if you're making websites then you're going to need to know how to use HTML.
> it can be hard to argue with them that vaccines are totally safe and effective for them

That is especially hard since there is simply no way to know for sure whether the vaccine will be "totally safe and effective for them": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29206892 .
Google engineers are good at white boarding and terrible at coding.
Wow very interesting! I don't know too much about the legal brief use case but it sounds pretty similar to researching a coding task.

> I imagine pressing 1, 2, 3, etc. to assign it to the corresponding bucket.
That's pretty much it. It's a compound command which allows you to do different things with the shortcut. E.g. 1g to go to 1. 1m to move notes to 1. 1q to create a new bucket in 1,

Re: Ability to create new buckets on the fly
- We have that! (keyboard shortcut for it)

> Some balancing mechanism for the buckets - a learning algo
Don't have that yet but could be pretty interesting.

Key thing is that your notes are reasonably organized without slowing you down.
Hubble Finds a Black Hole Igniting Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
That depends on what you consider a conflict of interest.

Avoiding any actual names: if Charity X advertises itself as a leading way to fight hunger / homelessness / animal abuse / poverty, but 90% of X's budget goes to raising more money, I call that "a conflict of interest." (90% is not a disqualifying amount, by the way.)

As a donor, if you think you're fighting <whatever> but what you're really doing is providing salaries for friends and family of the founders, then you're actually doing something else. What would you call it?
The original gun probably wasn’t going to be fired at all. A trained responder could talk then down. But throw in a hostile force and you’ve increased the likelihood of a shootout.

Also it may not even have been a gun. The police will also treat a knife or a motor vehicle as a deadly weapon and respond with lethal force.
> [...] they want every community to feel equally welcome (this isn't possible, but it seems to be their goal).

> I'm explicitly saying I see your complaint as invalid and something I don't want Pine to fix.

What a joke.
Makes sense. Google goes to incredible lengths to avoid having one person do a job well, when a microservices-based machine-learning hyperscale blockamothing can do it incredibly poorly.
This German it site has a story on it. Probably a translation service does a good enough job on it

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-...
Yeah, that is one of the shady companies I've mentioned. If, for the sake of argument, we call that a "utility" then in that case every single customer had a choice to go with a capped rate of a regular utility anyways.
> The OS, of course, could enforce that at a technical level, which weakens the argument significantly.

This is simply not true. An app can lie about what it does, and nothing at a technical level can prevent that.