skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Availability zones are not guaranteed to have the same name across accounts (ie. us-east-2a in one account might be us-east-2d in another). You would need to use the AZ-ID to determine if they are the same.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat...
Spouses are also restricted in the current proposal.
The whole rationale for this line of argument is just bizarre.

If there is some desire to obfuscate what is actually going on in "the media", well, the media is doing a pretty shitty job of obfuscating it. All the major news outlets have the GDP report as top news stories on their sites. Some easy "liberal media" examples:

1. NYTimes: "G.D.P. Report Shows a Drop, Fanning Fears of a U.S. Recession - A key measure of economic output fell for the second straight quarter, raising fears that the United States could be entering a recession."

2. WaPo: "What causes a recession? The dominoes leading toward a new recession have started falling, so what happens next? There are two scenarios that could play out." And also "U.S. economy shrinks again in 2nd quarter, reviving recession fears", and perhaps very relevant to this discussion, "The 8 economists who decide if the U.S. is in a recession"

So the major news outlets are accurately (and loudly) reporting what is going on. I know in my lifetime it has pretty much always been argued that the official "start and end dates" of recessions are marked after the fact (e.g. I recall clearly the start date for the Great Recession was pushed earlier by the NBER after their research had concluded). But these news outlets certainly aren't hiding anything, nor even trying to dissemble - they're just reporting things as the current facts show.

But then some conspiracy theorists (and yes, I believe that term totally applies) are trying to argue that because news outlets aren't saying "we are officially in a recession" that it is "Orwellian".
Don’t do this. It’s against the site’s guidelines

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
Wish we had some longitudinal studies here of the effects of vaping so we could either confirm or put to rest much of the fear mongering. E-cigs have been around for 20 years. Are there really no studies tracking vapers' health over that stretch of time?
Of course!

I have a few outdoor/iPad type setups in the backlog similar to this: https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/140-jaisal-rathee
An 80% answer is all we need. CO2 emission does not (and cannot) be reduced to zero.

Not doing it because other countries won't is a completely defeatist point of view. It is not destructive to the US to do it, because the carbon tax can be offset by reductions in other taxes, making it a net zero effect on the economy.
> Spoken like someone who's never had to hear a slur about them in a joke.

"Personal argumentation on the internet is the bastion of the shallow." ~ Me

I cannot prove over this medium if I had experienced that or not. You cannot verify either way. Your use of this argument saddens me. You could have just left it out and strengthened your apparent position.

> Intent doesn't matter.

Mens Rea doesn't matter? There's more than a few hundred years and dozens of generations of judges and lawyers from around the world that would like to have a word with you.
Suppose it's time to setup multi-az and pay to insure against AWS' own failures. I don't know why I previously thought their EC2 uptime claims were sufficient. Lesson learned.
Yep, here's an extremely early preview (don't tell anyone):

https://question-page-test.web.app/question/0CRyWWs1MBLonFho...
> Film production isn't a secret. You can watch a documentary on it, read about it in forums or even get permission to observe a film shoot where they'll place you safely out of the way.

From the article: All in all if you ever get the chance to observe a film crew in operation I highly recommend it. It is a better "making of" experience than any professionally produced featurette or documentary.

> There are much better ways to satisfy this curiosity than just walking onto a set.

Next time consider putting the set in a private location instead of literally in a public square. Everyone gets the benefit of entering such a public location.
Take away vaping and the kids will start smoking cigarettes. And tar is the leading cause of lung cancer... And lung cancer is one of the worst ways to go. People slowly suffocate and eventually drown. This anti vaping bullshit needs to be put into context with the risks of smoking cigarettes.
AWS availability zones are randomly shuffled for each AWS account – your us-east-2a won't (necessarily) be the same as another user's (or even another account in the same organization): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

You'll need to see which availability zone ID (e.g., use2-az3) corresponds to each zone in your account: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/vpc-m...

edit: AWS identified this as a power loss in a single zone, use2-az1.
Yea that could work. I was thinking like,
“This is how Kenji Lopez breaks down his salad recipes so he can get creative with what’s in his pantry”
Thank you so much! In true HN fashion, you've not only identified an issue but provided a solution to it. We really appreciate it!
It's not that I'm taking Chekhov's Gun as an axiom. The rest of LOTR hangs together quite well on this criterion. I'm judging Tom by that standard. Gollum, for example, makes sense. In fact, Gollum is probably one of the best examples of a dramatically coherent character in all of literature. He is introduced as a bit player and ends up being a pivotal and very complex character, almost a protagonist in his own right. But that only happened (and let me apologize in advance for venting some frustration here) because he didn't just fucking vanish after being introduced!
Anyone else notice similar issues in US-West-2 a few hours before this issue in US-East-2?
> used their twisted tos to steal three thousand

> you cannot call stripe ... the robots respond

solid problem statement on what next gen tos tools need to solve and also great alliteration in here
Great thanks! Just to correct my copy and paste typo, "Which part of an upright blender with hot liquid in is most dangerous?" :)
Why does Miguel call it nonsense?
The market is pretty rough now. Layoffs are flooding the market, pay is not going up and companies happy to interview are scared to hire.
Hah, frequency illusion strikes again? I just learned about the derivatives past Jerk yesterday.
No, it looks like the same situation as 3.x: Godot is MIT licensed, and they don't believe it's possible for them as an open-source project to sign NDAs with console manufacturers and build in native compatibility without violating either the NDA or their open source principles.

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-consoles-all-you-need-...

They mention a few other platforms where 3rd parties have implemented commercial compatibility libraries, but Godot is much bigger in scale & scope, and nobody's done the legwork on that.
But is showing you what you care about aligned with them making more money? It might be, or it might not be.
> 8 years later, it's safe to say it's not the language of choice for the new kernel or driver code, not the one for the hot new web framework and it's not replacing Python

Rust has become all that, and for a change, I am happy to observe that we're stuck with a pretty good language.
This doesn't appear to be a response to any of the content of the comment it is posted in reply to. Or indeed the entire thread.
Initially thought only Zoom is having issues so posted with zoom status. But it was widespread outage. Zoom seems to have recovered by now.
Also, Zoom has a variety of hosting + colo DCs at a lot of places.
Well, the company in the article looks like something that would be profitable starting from a very small fleet. I can easily imagine it being profitable with 4 or 5 trucks.

And from the numbers on the article, it would get a 50% margin, with something around 3 to 5 times ROI in an year.

That's certainly not young Google, but why the hell would somebody refuse to finance this pivot? (There's something clearly missing, either from the company of from the VC's side, but VCs seem to get on that situation again and again.)
The “abstinence only” approach is proven to wholly ineffective. By all means, you shouldn’t encourage non-smokers to take up vaping, but encouraging smokers to switch to vaping is undoubtedly beneficial to their health.

You can replace vaping with “any vice that can replace a similar vice but have less detrimental effects”. You can’t stop free will; you can only reduce the harm.
AWS availability zones (so like us-west-2b rather than us-west-2) are not the same between accounts. us-west-2b for you is something different than us-west-2b for everyone else.
Huh thanks, I didn't know so many vapers were ex smokers. I always thought it was some new fad.
> Looks like Snap, Crackle and Pop are down as well.

I don't work on cloud stuff, so I'm genuinely unsure if this is a joke.
> What I find pathetic is that saying we are in a recession is now a political stance.

This is such a weird information play. Recessions are defined after the fact by NBER. Always have. Always will be. There’s no set criteria.

Informally people cite the two quarters rule, but 2/5 past recessions (2000 and 2020) don’t follow that rule.

No one wants to communicate that nuance so we get mass confusion.

Sad to see that confusion even exists in HN.

What’s actually concerning to me is exactly that: every nuanced discussion in politics is now some gotcha where a reporter asks “yes or no” to a question that has a detailed answer.
I was amused to read in his review of Fellowship that one of C.S. Lewis' favorite characters was Tom Bombadil:

But there is more in the book still. Every now and then, risen from sources we can only conjecture and almost alien (one would think) to the author’s habitual imagination, figures meet us so brimming with life (not human life) that they make our sort of anguish and our sort of exaltation seem unimportant. Such is Tom Bombadil, such the unforgettable Ents. This is surely the utmost reach of invention, when an author produces what seems to be not even his own, much less anyone else’s. Is mythopoeia, after all, not the most, but the least, subjective of activities?

https://epistleofdude.wordpress.com/2018/11/17/c-s-lewis-rev...
I'm not a game dev, but I read you can deploy to desktop (across multi os), mobile and web. That sounds pretty multi platform to me. What am I missing?
Thank you, I didn’t have the time to put together a succinct paragraph like yours.
That reminds me of this article, and a few others Kenji has written: https://www.seriouseats.com/behind-the-scenes-in-kenjis-home...
> Rampant inflation, extreme inequality

[I'll add climate change to that.]

It's well known that burnout is often caused by work goals being misaligned with personal goal.

Obviously millions of people don't feel like the purpose of their life is to make some billionaire more wealthy.

People feel burned out by working on SEO instead of things important for the future of humanity.
Error 89: Roomba has been running a mission for too long.
[10:25 AM PDT] We can confirm that some instances within a single Availability Zone (USE2-AZ1) in the US-EAST-2 Region have experienced a loss of power. The loss of power is affecting part of a single data center within the affected Availability Zone. Power has been restored to the affected facility and at this stage the majority of the affected EC2 instances have recovered. We expect to recover the vast majority of EC2 instances within the next hour. For customers that need immediate recovery, we recommend failing away from the affected Availability Zone as other Availability Zones are not affected by this issue.
Show HN: Equities.fyi – Startup valuations based on public company data
With the current down markets, we were wondering what private company valuations looked like when compared to similar public companies. We were inspired by the a16z article (https://future.com/framework-valuation-navigating-down-marke...) for calculating valuations and figured out the sales-to-valuation ratio of public companies at the time of the last fundraising round and applied the change in the public market to get the current startup valuation.

If things don’t look right, our defaults might be off - please feel free to change those if they’re too different from what you’d expect.
I've highlighted many "minimal" spaces that are mostly just a Macbook.

https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/032-teresa-man

https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/172-pat-walls

https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/168-samiur-rahman

https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/048-leah-fessler

https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/036-mike-slaats

https://www.workspaces.xyz/p/workspaces-020-devin-bramhall
The title of the study: "The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic"

Yet:
"the observation that the preponderance of early cases were linked to the Huanan market does not establish that the pandemic originated there."

What was the purpose of the study?
Way to go, lil brother! :)
If you're long on the games industry we are probably in the last generation of game console architecture. Everything is going to be Windows or Linux boxes with PC hardware next gen.

I could see Nintendo bucking this trend but they have enough IP to be their own island.

It might be smart for Godot to punt; it lets them go faster than Unity and catch up
WebEx too
> There's no real reason for a lawmaker or their immediate family to be buying individual stocks.

You lost me here. Participating in society is okay. Maybe in the case of a judge, who is supposed to be impartial, this could be the case. But an insulated lawmaker is definitely not the way to go. If a lawmaker riuns his financial status via the stockmarket, cool! Elect someone else.

> So they can do something like buy stock in a company, and then advocate for a law to pass that benefits that company, and then make money by doing that.

They could do same thing with real estate or vehicles or guns or anything else.

Imagine a politician attempting to pass a law banning guns but just before it passes that politician buys a bunch of guns.

Or, in 1930s, when an order was given that made it a criminal offense for U.S. citizens to own or trade gold anywhere in the world.

> What we want to do is separate "what's good for me" from "what's good for the country" and remove conflicts of interest like that.

Which politicians are interested in "what's good for the country" over "what's good for me"? And why is that why anyone is elected? I though we voted on issues, ideologies, directions-to-go-in and policy etc.

Every politician gets elected because what they'll do is "what's good for the country". And then we elect the next politician
I'd be curious if OP could chime in about that, since the service they posted claims they don't need you permission if you aren't on the Do Not Call list [0]

> Note: They don’t need your permission if you haven’t put your mobile number on the Federal Do Not Call list, but don’t worry, if you haven’t we tell you how to do that too!

[0] https://www.isipp.com/how-to-make-phone-and-sms-spammers-pay...
Regulatory capture explains most of these anti-vaping campaigns:

> Some studies have suggested that e-cigarette use can be modestly helpful for smokers trying to quit. For example, an analysis of 61 studies found that e-cigarette use was more effective than other approaches to quitting smoking. The study authors estimated that out of every 100 people who tried to quit smoking by vaping, nine to 14 might be successful. When only using other methods, such as nicotine patches or behavioral counselling, only four to seven smokers out of 100 might quit. A separate study suggests vaping may help smokers who aren’t able to quit reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day — at least for six months, the duration of the study.

Doubling the chances people can effectively stop smoking is no good for profits.

Source: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/can-vaping-help-you-quit...
well, how many years does that take though? That's a lot of time to not be earning. Then there's kind of a question of making sure the focus is something people are going to really need in the future. Feels risky.
Lawrence Lessig (Harvard law professor famous for fighting for sane copyright law) does a great presentation on the root cause of Americas problems. He also ran for president in 2016.

It can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE

The short version is that to win primaries you need money. Money mainly comes from corporations and rich people. Taking money from corporations and rich people creates a relationship where you have some loyalty to them or they can punish you if you don't act how they want. Thus the primary corrupting force in America is pro-corruption campaign finance laws.

The test for democracy is whether elected politicians pass legislation that the public at large wishes to be passed. Our very own Princeton did a study to answer this question.

The key finding: “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”[1]

In a very real, non hyperbolic sense we are in a plutocracy where money rules. We are not a democracy due chiefly to our campaign finance laws.

Here is a campaign that aims to work on this:
https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
I don't think that's unavoidable, but businesses typically fail to correctly reassess the value of those employees.

If the business responded appropriately, I think people could be convinced to stay.

E.g. if they offered:

1: An instant promotion with raise for anyone not at the max level for an IC, to acknowledge that they are now the most knowledgeable people on that product.

2: Double pay until those slots are filled and newbies are trained.

3: A contract saying they get a month of PTO when the slots are filled and newbies trained.

4: Assurances that they are offering above-market rates to get the slots filled quickly (which should still be lower than the new rates for people who stayed).

What usually gets offered is pittances. A 10% raise to work 30% more hours. Maybe some flex time. It doesn't make sense for workers to stay, they can usually get better benefits and lower working hours by leaving anyways. Businesses need to offer substantially more than employees can get elsewhere.
Yea so we're all in agreement that vaping isn't as bad as smoking - that doesn't change the OP's point that vaping is still bad and something we should probably seek to discourage. Young folks I've worked with vape a lot I've met people in their 20s that put people with chain smoking habits in their 50s to shame when it comes to stepping out to smoke/vape.

Profiting off of driving an addiction with health side effect is abhorrent - to me at least.
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home. That I can tell you off the top of my head because I remember the scene you are talking about.

But the rest of the story requires reading: https://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2016/02/25/did-a-w...
Haven't yet but I like that idea and it could be something fun to explore soon!
Some humans treat some dogs like they treat people, or even better than they treat people. It's very normal and common to treat a pet dog better than a human stranger. Many animals are at least as smart as dogs; however dogs seem to have distinct abilities in understanding and empathising with humans (because they have been bred to do so).

Animals have some of the same rights as humans - it's illegal to torture animals for instance.

I'm not making a strong argument that animals ARE people, because I don't have a strong belief that animals are people; but some people do have that strong belief, and I feel like history will be on their side.
I think many people would say that in principle, you could make a QM force field with an accurate enough basis function that an infinitely long simulation would recapitulate the energy landscape of a protein, and that information could be used to predict the kinetically accessible structures the protein adopts.

In practice, the force fields are well understood but to be computationally efficient, they have to approximate just about everything. Examples: since number of inter-atom distance pairs goes up with N**2 atoms, you need to have tricks to avoid that and instead scale around n log n or even n if you can do it. When I started, we just neglected atoms more than 9 angstrom apart, but for highly charged molecules like DNA, that leads to errors in the predicted structure. Next, typically the force fields avoid simulating polarizability (the ability of an atom's electron cloud to be drawn towards another atom with opposite charge), also because expensive. They use simplified spring models (lterally hooke's equation) for bond lengths, bond angles. The torsions (the angle formed by 4 atoms in a row) haev a simplified form. The interatomic relationships are not handled in a principled way, instead treating atoms as mushy spheres....

After having made major contributions in this area, I don't think that improvements to force fields are going to be the most effective investment in time and energy. There are other bits of data that can get us to accurate structures with less work.
Somewhat parallel to your point is how traditional media seems to have blended and adapted their business model to work pretty well with social media. I remember years ago people talked about how the internet and social media would displace traditional media (I consider The Atlantic to be a traditional media source). But, in reality, traditional media has a big presence on websites like Twitter or YouTube and journalists at traditional media companies have large followings on social media. I think they are a major stakeholder of social media at this point.
Hey, remember back in 2009 or so when everyone was cheering that we were "out of" the Great Recession, but everyone not part of Wall Street was still bleeding? I feel like this might wind up being a reverse of that; and the reason for this is that most economic data are aggregates that are missing the whole picture.

GDP numbers are back up? Great - except that's just higher because the handful of companies that can really capitalize on 0% interest rates are doing so. Everyone else is still down from 2007.

Unemployment is falling? Great - except that those people are leaving the labor force or taking lower-wage jobs than they had before.

There's all sorts of ways that the headline numbers can hide the discontent of a large group of people under the rug. And likewise this can happen in the opposite direction. The economy as a whole can be screwed over in ways that happen to give small business owners or the working class more negotiating leverage or a greater share of the pie.
If you haven't discovered it yet: Andy Serkis narrated audiobooks for the Hobbit and the entire LoTR trilogy, and it's a joy. His voice and singing for Tom Bombadil is stuck in my head forever now!
And the reason that works is because HN is mostly hosted on its own stuff, without weird dependencies on anything beyond "the servers being up" and "TCP mostly working."
It's possible you are compensated for this though. It's not unlikely that the shoot pays your locality for the inconvenience and in turn your taxes are lower than they may otherwise be.
Many police are also not getting paid that much and working long hours, so I guess whatever impact they have on their community is just fine as well.