skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I needed most back then was to remote control my peer's computer (as in, providing Tech Support) and that's where the UI/UX is not as polished as the Windows version.

I didn't use the web version, because it's not possible to control the remote host that way.

It was very quirky (taking control and giving up control + the keystrokes needed to be used in the remote host) and getting in the way of providing effective Tech Support (the meeting bar flickered several times). Anything else worked fine, like holding the audio meeting itself.

So, I had to return to Windows, just because of Zoom.

EDIT: Typo.
> His 20 year experience was that the more expensive the kitchen, the less it is used.

I wonder how they verified that, probably didn't.
Site author here. These types of comments make my day. Is this the one? https://skins.webamp.org/skin/ca2270b3513a831fb566b0867b0466...
> It is time to stop obsessing about Covid. It is time to stop politicizing Covid. It is time to stop tweeting about Covid. It is time to stop reading about Covid. It is time to start healing and it is time to start moving on.

2,000+ (and increasing) Americans are dying every day from this disease—as bad as the bad old days of Spring 2020. Why is this attitude so pervasive? It doesn't seem to be backed by anything aside from boredom of dealing with living in a pandemic.

> We have vaccines if you want them. We will have anti-virals if you need them.

> And you can wear masks if you are uncomfortable on the plane or the subway.

This is the individualistic thinking that's caused us so much friction. It's no different than "if you want to be a safe driver, don't drink and drive!". The drunk-driver and the unvacced/unmasked put all of us at risk. It's selfish behavior, and should be treated as such, instead of described as "personal freedom".

> We’ve normalized mask-wearing in the US now and that is a good thing.

Have we, though? Across the country, people will harass and threaten you, for no reason other than they've seen you wearing a face mask. I've been mocked in NYC—the bastion of progressivism in the US. What do you think it's like wearing a mask in Kansas?
You do have a point, there—he seems to contradict himself—but his larger point is about hosting, specifically.
They don’t know what a free market is.
> there still isn't a choice.

It depends on what market you're in.

The uk for example, there are a bunch of EVs that are now coming nito the second hand market. For example Zoes and leafs.

Sure the range isn't great, but if you are in london, you don't pay congestion charge(£15 a day), or road tax(70-300 a year, https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables). Plus city driving, you're not doing 100miles a day, its more like 20.

But the secondary point is this, whats new now, in five years will be affordable to the rest of us (once this ridiculous shortage is out of the way) Cars value exponentially decays, so the more rich people buy them now, the better it is for the rest of us later.
If you only need a server, as in CPU, RAM, disk and bandwidth, with a more or less constant demand, then sure, a dedicated server is way cheaper than any cloud. You want to use cloud for the ecosystem of other services besides VM/instances, and especially to use them in an automated way. The other use case is elastic demand.
Thousands of Americans dying a day isn't bad enough? How much worse does it need to get before it's something we should still be very concerned about?

And deaths are in fact rising. According to your chart they were around 6000/day (7 day average) on Jan 1 and are 7600/day in the most recent data two weeks later.
Not every web app is high-scale, constant load. Many are ultra-low load and can do DB migrations by simply warning users about anticipated downtime.

I've worked in both environments. It's about understanding your business needs; "cloud" can quickly turn into premature optimization and burn time/money if you don't need it.
I would imagine that it's a fairly simple matter of probability:

The more cases the greater the chance of mutations. The more mutations the greate the chance of nasty variant.
I agree that this is getting out of hand.

I investigated this, but as more and more websites are non-functional until you chose a consent option, just hiding the modal with a cosmetic filter won't help. There are several browser extensions to achieve this, and I feel like this is a superior solution than my project.
I assume a ruling in favor of the challengers would mean Universities could only take into account GPA and test scores, but nothing about the background of an applicant? If you still allow background to be taken into account, you could look at things like an applicant's class, the neighborhood they grew up in, the schools they went to, etc. These could act as a proxy for race, so I'm not sure how much ignoring only race would really change.
Datapacket shows Discord on their customer list, I didn't know discord used VPS / Bare Metal or is it like they just tried it once and Datapacket struck their name to their landing page ?
The game is all about how you save your money. For this reason, every aspect depends on you, whether you seek professional help or do a DIY task. But in the innovative world, everyone is busy in their daily routine life. That’s why the only preference is to hire moving services in Niagara.
Sorry, the link to the documentation is buried.

https://looker-open-source.github.io/malloy/documentation/la...
Google is a long-finished company. The IBM of the 21st century. Join a startup, change the world.
Y Combinator receives about 18,000 applications a batch
That would depend on whether the company was doing something that needed to be done, wouldn't it? Which should be clear before a person starts.

If something has to be done, then avoiding it makes you "smart" like avoiding taxes makes you "smart".
These devices actually require a similar amount of water to be moving through the drain pipe/heat exchanger and the cold water line that's refilling the water heater. So they're really only effective during showers.
The economics mostly depend on the temperature of the water coming into your house and the ease of install in your house. They are supposedly code on new construction in large parts of Canada now.

The economics were also better when copper prices were lower.
https://github.com/kernc/xsuspender

- Prevents pasting from clipboard while the selection source process is suspended …

- Won't work in remote X sessions.

- Won't work with Wayland.

…

- Processes that take a long time to shut down after their window already disappears may be stopped in the middle of their termination routines.
Supreme Court will consider challenge to affirmative action in college admission
I would agree that the real money is always in being a lawyer.

Also if you have web development & SEO skills, legal marketing is stupidly lucrative and you need to be a lawyer to actually take advantage of co-counsel fees. You could advertise personal injury on the side and outsource your case qualifying to a few big firms and just collect money by selling leads.

(I worked at a law firm doing exactly this for 3 years)
Can't seem to find an English version translation
Followup to my own post: don't forget about Scheme! Same nice properties as Lua, but you get some extra conveniences from using s-expressions (which can represent objects somewhat more flexibly, like XML, than Lua, which is more or less 1:1 with JSON).
RDS is amazing, we upgraded our postgres DBs from 8.something to 11.something with one click/db and 5 minutes downtime a few weeks ago. Bigger/smaller instances and read replicas are also one click away in case you need to scale up or down. The builtin snapshot and backup capabilities are working out of the box, set it up and forget about it till you need to restore. Easily managable via terraform or your choice of infrastructure as code tools.
Clog making? We should probably add witchfinding to the list of happily-dead professions. Times change. Some jobs disappear.

>> "Compass making NEW FOR 2021"

Really? There isn't a single company making a compass? All those people building specialized electronics for satellites and military aircraft and none of them include a compass in their products? Or does "compass making" only mean the old-fashioned floating needle compasses that were long ago replaced by electronics?
Glad to know scotus is reconsidering the policies. I'm struck by "Race Conscious Admissions". Hopefully they'll see the same fate as "Race Conscious Water Fountain Usage Rules", and will join other nakedly racist things now on the ash heap of history.
Just here to say, as someone who both worked for a gaming company, has designed games, and has a shelf FULL of things like Fury of Dracula, Root, and Mansions of Madness, I consider myself a serious board/table top gamer.

Light games are great. Ever play "The Mind" or "Exploding Kittens" at a party? Super fun.

Everything is personal biases. If you have the time to set up and play Gloomhaven, great! But many people don't, and that doesn't mean that they're wrong or you're right or that the value they place on the games they play is illogical. If your goal is "have fun with some kids for a half hour" then setting up a solo-play of Mage Knight is a worse choice than shuffling up the Uno deck.

That said: Candyland is both the lightest "game" ever designed and is terrible. It's the gaming equivalent of waiting 10-20 minutes and then each player rolling a d100 to see who rolls highest and wins. /Candyrant
CDC: Three monkeys caught and euthanized after crash near Danville
> I dislike both of them!

> With this, I don't think we need to steer the conversation into Trump vs Biden

Whole-heartedly agree on both counts.

> You seem to have very unorthodox view of the events.

Google "russia says georgia shot first" and you'll get hundreds of millions of hits with articles claiming both ways. If you think this is an unorthodox view I'm afraid you just didn't follow the news of this story at all.

> So you concede that Biden never actually said he will send any troops to Ukraine?

No! He made it quite clear that if NATO decides to defend Ukraine we have a moral and legal obligation to do so as well. It's in the very same interview.

> ...in the cards right now.

So obviously in the very same interview he isn't taking it off the table - it's just not what he will be doing right now

> The United States is discussing the deployment of American military forces to Eastern Europe with its NATO allies, a senior administration official said Monday, as President Joe Biden weighs options for responding to Russian threats against Ukraine.

This is from an article posted 45 minutes ago from NBC News. Obviously Biden has not taken sending troops off the table.
> I thought the general theory of "virus evolution" was towards less severe variants.

That's probably only in the case where the disease is so severe it kills the host before it can spread very easily, not some general rule.

Let's say you have a virus that's super contagious for two weeks with no symptoms and nearly everyone who gets it dies within a month. What evolutionary pressure would it be under to change as long as it has fresh hosts to infect?
"66.5 percent of all bankruptcies were tied to medical issues —either because of high costs for care or time out of work. An estimated 530,000 families turn to bankruptcy each year." [1]

The data is very clear Americans pay the most for healthcare out of every other OECD nation and yet receive worse outcomes [2].

[1] https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.3049...

[2] https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2020/07/how-does-the-us-healthcare...
And better credibility when you say “Our vulnerability was on AWS and configuration is hard, but at least we had the default VPC config” rather than “We maintained our own stack and being sysadmin is hard, and the port was exposed on the web.”
100% on restructuring to improve tooling. discoverability is the big thing we lack. from would be a little more verbose than necessary but otherwise yes!
I don't have enough experience with FreeBSD (outside of FreeNAS seven years ago), but I've never had any success getting it to run on a laptop. Every time I've tried installing it on a laptop I get issues with either the WiFi card not working, issues with the 3D accelerator card not working at all, or the lid-close go to sleep functionality not working.

I've been using Linux since I was a teenager, so it's not like I am a stranger to fixing driver issues, but it seemed like no amount of Googling was good enough for me fix these problems (googling is much harder when you don't have functioning wifi). As a result I've always just stuck with Linux (or macOS semi-recently, which I suppose is kind of BSD?).
> when 80,000 Americans died over a ~6 month flu season

Where are you getting that number? CDC estimates 27k:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

which puts it below current COVID numbers by a big chunk.

> We didn’t keep kids from school

At this point schools are largely closed because there are too many teachers out sick to teach effectively. There isn't a particularly simple answer here.
FreeBSD is a nicer, more logical Unix than Linux in general. Now as soon as you have a package or hardware that you want to use and it's not supported by FreeBSD let us know how that goes.
Performance benefits of UB aren't obvious, and even if they existed, it's not obvious they are a good tradeoff. It's not only security, but any application mildly interested in correctness. Which leaves gamedev as the only consumer of aggressive UB optimization, and with the advent of online gaming even those might be more interested in security.
It’ll happen.

Many companies and people keep getting their inclusivity goal’s implementations wrong and will continue doing so with the current laws and incentives.

Until they simply begin educating and recruiting in different areas, they’ll continue their pipeline problem excuse.
So it's a "CoffeeScript for SQL", sounds intriguing...

Though, some more examples with real-world use cases would be good.
That was perhaps about Ethereum, whose Blockchain seems to be so unwieldy that one very few companies manage to process it directly, and everybody else uses their API.
>Covid was terrible, we are scarred from it, but we cannot let it divide us and we cannot let it drive us crazy. There are more important things facing us and let’s go deal with them now.

C-19 is still very fresh in our minds. Let's use that to drive action to learn from it and try to ensure the next one is less catastrophic. If we turn our attention away too quickly, this won't happen.

Even as we speak, we have school districts in the US closed indefinitely* and many nations around the world without testing, vaccines, antivirals or proper healthcare. The future may be here (let's hope that this is the beginning of the end while being healthfully paranoid that it may not be), but it is definitely not evenly distributed.

* https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2022/01/21/flint-public-schools...
That's not really it.

The funny business in Amazon's pricing is their Egress Bandwidth, everything is rational.

You're looking at the pricing from a 'cost plus' perspective which is not generally how things are priced.

AWS core use case is IT departments being able to offload all of their infra.

It's a massive, massive advantage. It's so, so much easier and more flexible to use AWS that there is no comparison. It's a 'no brainer' from a cost perspective, which is why, cost usually isn't a barrier with AWS.

Cost only becomes a primary issue when the margin of AWS services is reflected in the cost of the product itself, i.e. when you are hosting a lot of content.

So if you are Phizer, and your IT department uses AWS, the cost is irrelevant.

If you are Dropbox, selling storage for $X/Gigabyte, and your competitors are reducing their prices and you're giving all of your margin to AWS, then you have to do something, i.e. 'make your own infra'.
Flu season doesn't lead to insanely high excess death rates, and overwhelm hospital capacity, making things like biking now a much higher risk activity as any visit to a hospital due to a broken bone or something is far more likely to result in a lack of proper treatment. That we are in 2022 and still discussing this leads me to, very grimly, believe that we are in some period of hyper-darwinism, where this train of thought will only go away once the virus has incapacitated/killed those who seem to not understand what the word "excess deaths" means.
That many people are dying a month right now. It’s nearly an order of magnitude different situation.
I don't think that's what they are saying. They specifically said they wouldn't want to spend 80% of their wealth at 80yo to live for another year.

It sounds like that's their choice, but made no mention of applying this to others.

Their scenario is an 80yo living for one more year. It sounds like that's significantly different than your scenario.
These are good points. Doctors in general are against it because they're from an economic class above most of the population. In the US, you need to spend a lot of money to become a doctor, this make people see the profession as a capitalist investment that needs to pay a good return.

The point about liberals is very true, not only about health care. Just like the current president, they're elected to find a compromise, which essentially guarantees that nothing important will be done. They're in effect a tool of the very wealthy to placate or dishearten the population, disconnecting them from the democratic process. In contrast, right wing politicians are very effective in achieving the goals designed by their elites.
Awful toxic boss.
You mean a sane, fair, and objective system of evaluation? Yes.
I’m a truly happy attorney! So is my wife. But it’s a client service job. I think a lot of Americans suffer from delusions of grandeur, especially more highly educated ones, and the reality of being a cog in the machine really bursts their bubble. I think of myself more like a very skilled tradesman. People need legal representation, just like they need electricians. My trade is intellectually stimulating and highly remunerative, so why shouldn’t I be happy?
Wisconsin Judge Rules 7 Health Care Workers Cannot Switch Jobs
I'm not entirely convinced the cloud magically makes all these things low maintenance? A lot of the work seems to depend on how simple your architecture is, cloud or no. I also read about plenty of things that go wrong on the cloud: misconfigurations, huge bills, having to do premature optimization work because you pay for every CPU cycle and each GB of RAM.

I'm not saying the cloud doesn't have a place, but I think 99% of the long tail of services don't even need to do migrations at 3am. And running a MySQL instance on a dedicated server with humongous amounts of RAM and speedy NVME drives for $100/month or so is not a bad deal.
maybe we should have
> there is no way to specify dependencies

# PROVIDE: mumbled oldmumble
# REQUIRE: DAEMON cleanvar frotz
# BEFORE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: nojail shutdown

* https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/rc-scripting/

* https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rcorder
> author implies that he would consider the Taycan, a car that retails for > 100k USD

Which is the same price as a tesla model x.

However I get your main drift. I'm not pissing away 40-80k on a thing that will depreciate 3/4 of that value in 4 years. No matter how much the wife insists, buying a new car is a fool's errand.
If you're using Nix on your system, you can also find nixpkgs symlinked under ~/.nix-defexpr/channels/nixpkgs/pkgs/ or so.
> Well you proved you don’t know the market at all and you’re willing to just make stuff up

I know how the real world works. So no need to make stuff up.

> Anyone can make an NFT and they can attach any IP rights they want to the NFT, it can be a copyright assignment, it can be a license or it can be none. The market utilizes all the above.

That's not how copyright works.

To quote U.S. Copyright Office, "Mere ownership of a copy or phonorecord that embodies a work does not give the owner of that copy or phonorecord the ownership of the copyright in the work."

Besides, with NFT you don't even own a "copy or a phonorecord".

> There are underlying legal contracts that are enforceable in court that license the copyrighted work to the owners.

If there's an underlying legal contract, then that contract governs the license/copyright transfer, and not the NFT.

NFT literally mean zero. Nothing about them is legally binding or enforceable. They are the definition of made up.

> For fuck sake owners of Apes have used their commercial license

1. Commercial license is not copyright

2. For a commercial license you literally have no need for NFTs
The US government is capitalist. It primarily operates to defend the profits of large corporations. Yes, under either Democrats or Republicans, although the industries each represent only partly overlap.
> I’ve lost track of the number of times my employer thought it was time to get back to the office

This has nothing to do with employer thinking and trying to predict covid.

This is all about some managers feeling lonely. And even as it sounds cynical, I really mean it and think it is factor in this. The other factors are also some management feeling less in control or thinking it will be more productive. But imo, them feeling lonely, especially those who have no real social life outside of work, is a factor.

People love to pretend that companies and management are all about rationality, but they are not. Their emotions influence their actions a lot (so are developers emotions etc).
You don't just need the detector though, you need the landowner's permission and the time. And the already tiny chance of finding anything of non-trivial value gets smaller if everybody else is doing it. If you think we have a lot of people finding ancient gold coins, you'll be even more amazed how many lottery winners we have!
For a simple web server? sure you don't need the cloud (still you'll have to do a lot of things manually and hard to reproduce, maintain your own database etc but yes, makes sense in many cases, esp on a budget).