skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My bad. I misread their post but honestly wouldn’t have imagined myself trying to keep both the item and the money
I had a doc recommend me this instead of a Q-tip:

https://ototekloop.com/

Works great, and the guard keeps you from pushing it in too far and damaging your eardrum.
Even aside from the "MS owning your data" point other people are surely taking issue with - people are syncing their personal and work devices?

I do not want that at all!
A boxcutter is a type of knife.
I think of this as being a manager. Like having a team reporting to you, and you have to assign tasks, follow up, give advice.
This blog is always so vague. I can never follow what the author is talking about. It lacks context, comes off as a rant.
Ask HN: AWS Outage?
Would it not be terrible if this wasn't true? The implications of a persisting ahead of market fund are not entirely clear to me, but it feels like it's distorting the casino take on the roulette wheel.
Oral exams in person have the advantage that the students can not read out an AI-generated solution (or a solution purchased from somebody else). They have to come up with their own solution on the spot. For video recordings, they can cheat as much as they like.
Accenture is not even close to MBB in terms on hourly rates (~1/5) & “status”. They are a 3rd tier firm.
The author has spent his entire career attacking anti-smoking campaigns both as an author and the reason why the Institute for Economic Affairs was Big Tobacco's favourite think tank, so assembling this sort of list of "evidence" is par for the course for him.

Back in the day when "long COVID" was an unknown phenomenon and vaccines a dim and distant dream, the medical profession had already spotted the interesting correlation and started nicotine supplement trials (anecdotally, my very non-scientific experiment with nicotine patches for lagging symptoms showed no evident effect). It's possible there's been a massive coverup, but it's also possible the health professionals reasoning just wasn't as highly motivated to see success in these trials and an absence of confounding data as Christopher Snowdon...
I typically tend to boo with analysis, but it is booing nontheless.
The secret behind grooming (I've made it, I've finally discussed proper hygiene on HN and its contextually relevant) is that it boils down to 3 types:

1) Preference/Social - This is primarily smell and appearance-based. For example, you won't see medical problems from irregular bathing (as long as you keep wounds/orifices clean), not cutting your hair, or not wearing deodorant, society just politely asks that you do those things.

2) Modern-life Adaptions- This is things like tooth brushing. We need to do it more because of our modern diets than anything else.

3) Comfort - This is things like cutting your finder nails so you don't scratch yourself.

Using this framework, you realize you can get away with not doing a lot: pretty much everything except 2 is medically optional (especially after you let your body get back to homeostasis) - but keep in mind just because you and those close to you can't smell you, that does not mean strangers can't smell you.

Ear cleaning, FWIW falls mostly in 3, but maybe in extreme cases it becomes 1; if you're swimming a lot maybe it's a 2, but rarely is that true.

But also, given the above, please be considerate of others and do as much 1 as you're capable of.
I find the linked article pretty convincing but admit it's not my area of expertise at all, do you have any resources refuting it?
Yeah using an event stream like this requires synchronising the clock of participants. It’s similar to rollback networking in games. Peers can recover from receiving late updates but if all the updates are late from one peer the situation still degrades. To avoid that participants run time per tick slightly shorter or longer to keep within a desired window.
Yeah, even though I did know, inertia kept me going, still buying both StarCraft 2 (and expansions) and Diablo 3 (and expansions)...
I also worked at McKinsey. 5 years, with some of that time in the Johannesburg office. Agree with the above and don't have much to add. But AMA.
I've been playing a ton with making it simulate ransomware attacks. Going to try this :D
So everyone pays them and whoever pays them the least ends up with them wreaking havoc on their company by "helping" them to "improve" things?
>clean up at least 50% of the legacy shite hiding behind it

...but that legacy shite is where me and the rest of the IT folks can actually find the options that have been removed from the 'improved' interface!
Yes, and the internet is just a bigger set of interconnected BBS’s
Third field down after simulating the impact.
That's true if and only if the SUV is moving at a high relative speed. Otherwise an SUV will not out-inertia the Earth or anything bolted to it, like a concrete paver, a brick wall, or a lamppost. And yes, if the car hits you at a high speed, you're no better off than a pedestrian and the helmet is unlikely to help.

But without a helmet, it really doesn't require much energy for a head strike to be a fatal or life-changing injury. If riders face a baseline risk from non-car collisions, there's a strong case to be made for mandatory helmets, even if it means the risk from car collisions increase.
These are FX swaps, so you can't really say that "it is what it is." Currency and interest rate fluctuations can cause massive changes to the market. The pound literally almost collapsed just a few weeks ago due to interest rate swaps forcing a fire sale on gilts.
This sort of UI elegance is why I keep around an XFCE container with the Platinum theme: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/04/12/2330

I love using it when I need a break from GNOME.
Former McKinsey employee here. They have a large office in Silicon Valley and serve most of the big tech companies (largely on boring non-tech topics).
Very reminiscent of Chas T Main (bought by Parsons in 1985) as described in John Perkin's "Confessions of an Economic Hitman".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas._T._Main

The chapter in Perkin's book on the post-oil shock economic entanglements with Saudi Arabia is very relevant. It's fundamentally about the establishment of the petrodollar recycling scheme that was intended to solve the balance-of-payments crisis - i.e. dollars flowing into Gulf Arab dictatorships represented a current account imbalance on the US/Europe side, which in turned required a capital account imbalance on the Saudi side. Thus, buying Saudi oil with dollars required the Saudis to invest those dollars back into the USA and Europe, and in exchange for agreeing to this scheme the House of Saud got military protection, engineering assitance, etc., with outfits like Chas T Main and McKinsey and Vinnell serving as the glue that held it all together (along with extensive arms sales). While many have forgotten, the Shah of Iran was also a key player in that system before the Islamic Revolution.

Notably, the vast majority of Saudi citizens live in near-Third World conditions, particularly the Shias in the east and the tribal groups in the south, not that this gets widely reported, while the 15,000+ members of the House of Saud and their hangers-on (the bin Ladens, bin Mahfouzes, etc.) collect the vast majority of the wealth that isn't re-invested back into the USA.

Understanding current world events really requires an understanding of this balance-of-payments dynamic, because that was essentially the same deal that was offered to Russia in the 1990s under Yeltsin, via the same entities, and which Putin eventually rejected after 2003 in favor of using Russian oil money to rebuild the Russian military and generally increase the general standard of living inside Russia. Prior to that, Putin was regularly praised in the US media (much like Syria's Assad before his 2009 deals with Iran and Russia).

This also accounts for the differential treatment of various authoritarian government leaders by the USA and its economic partners like Britain, i.e. Saudi Arabia is not treated like Iran or Russia. For example, if Putin had taken that deal, then today's war in Ukraine would likely be called 'a fight against neo-Nazi terrorist elements' in corporate media, much as the Saudi assault on Yemen is protrayed as a struggle against Al Qaeda and so on.

This is certainly no defense of Putin, who has held onto power for decades now - but there aren't really any 'good guys' in this storyline, the 'democratic norms and humanitarian values' claims are all nonsense. It's more like how the New York City mafia organizations or the Mexican drug cartels fought each other over access to territory and profits than anything else.
Crypto Had a Credit Bubble
Notionals on a swap have nothing to do with their risk exposure, but they have everything to do with clickbaiting the public and getting politicians elected.
People who are paid to have credentials that are deffered to in courts of law.
Cool! Some info on tidal waves for water hits would be even cooler
This raises the question of how vital elephants having tusks is in the first place. Presumably in a world without poachers, tusked elephants stay alive better than tuskless elephants, otherwise they would not have evolved tusks in the first place.
Gaslighting. Is that when someone pretends not to understand a key part of a question being asked of them because they know they don't have a good answer? Or is that something else?
and yet despite his alarm at aging ducks the author also has multiple articles on fermented foods on his site...
Interesting to know to what extent McKinsey is liable under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act here....
> nice to know some incesteral relationship between directors/VPs were able to make a nice pay day.

you should read the book.. The industry is rife with this type of behaviour.

There are always stories about how "senior manager" X is basically a shadow employee. While they work for company "Y" their real job is to send business to the consulting mother ship.
I've been making historic cocktails with uncooked US eggs (either whites or yolks) for the winter season, and have yet to get sick. But sample size me and usually with a decent amount of ethanol.
Given the ubiquity of Markdown, and how painful it is to build a completely compliant parser, I really hope Djot (or something like it) would take off.

Shame that the creator of Markdown blocks any efforts to to fix or standardise the format.
Feel free to express your thoughts. But I browse for content. And if AI has better content than you, then I prefer AI.

Note that if we're talking about triangulating human sentiment, it becomes a different story.
Yeah, that's what I see too.

I'm trying to teach it to properly count beats in lines of music. I can get it to be correct by teaching it to split the line in half and count each half separately, but even when explicitly told to use that method it fails again.
But it is inconvenient. And, if we look on history convenience have always won, eg plastics.
The only one I thought I'd use (I have Windows 11 on my laptop) was

> I can change speaker volume just by hovering the mouse cursor over the speaker icon next to the clock and using the mouse wheel, just like in Gnome or KDE. Really love this one.

Except Windows 10 (on my desktop) has this one already!

(I do like WSL - which is on Windows 10, but haven't tried WSLg yet.)

On my laptop, I can forgive the horrible limitations of the task bar, the regressions of the start menu, the gross clickbait news widget (I want the weather widget but I'm not sure if it's worth the trade off. Much prefer the Windows 10 weather live tile and app.) I just turn on my laptop, fire up games, and try to ignore the rest of the mess that is Windows 11. I only put it on there to validate my suspicions that I would not want to use 11 over 10, and that is exactly what happened.

Edge is on Windows 10; I'm not sure why you list that as a feature of Windows 11.
There is a massive gulf between "deny the drunk unruly passenger boarding" and "BAN BOOZE".
Consequentialist arguments aren't very good for punishing actors for bad behavior. For example, we don't let murders free just because the lives of their children are forever impacted if the murder goes to prison.
How does water get stuck in an ear? How could earwax possibly prevent water getting stuck? I.e. disallowing entry of water would also mean disallowing air and thus being clogged by wax.
Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine
About 15 minutes ago I got a call from a customer that our site was down. "Works for me," I said, because I could bring it up on my laptop. The customer said he couldn't get it on his phone, and then I confirmed I couldn't get it on my phone either.

The AWS Health Dashboard (https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status) reports no issues at all. But DownDetector (https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/) shows a spike in reports.

I can't even reach the AWS console through my phone.

So, AWS has connectivity issues to certain networks and their own health dashboard is lying to us about it. What gives?

(All of this accurate as of 2:10 pm CST).

Update: as of 2:26 pm CST, the health dashboard reports that they are "investigating an issue". So, 45 minutes after Down Detector sees it, they do.
They continued the practice after it was reported in the newspaper. It's reasonable to assume senior mgmt discussed major negative coverage of their company. That means the practice continued after senior mgmt was aware of it. That makes it their responsibility.

What should they have done instead? First, inform every employee of a new temporary policy that any report to the police about a customer purely about the theft of a car the customer had rented now has to be approved by a senior lawyer. Second, figure out the scope of the problem and how to fix it. Third, replace that unpleasant temporary policy with something more tailored once you understand what went wrong.
You're right, if anyone was rational we'd all wear helmets in the car all the time.

It's all irrationality and a belief that cars are much safer than we pretend they are.

As someone who has worn a helmet in the car from time to time, a lot of cars don't even leave enough headroom available for someone 6' tall to wear the helmet without their head hitting the ceiling.
Not really, under the old Wade-Giles romanization system the city was transliterated as 'Peking'. Under the newer (~65 year old) pinyin system it's transliterated as 'Beijing'. The pronunciation in Mandarin never changed, just the way that sounds which don't have any exact equivalent in our alphabet are represented.

Chang used to be a very common Chinese surname, but Zhang is now. It's the same name.
It's pretty similar to Netlify's per-user pricing and team limits. Which is ironic as we moved some our sites away from Netlify over to Render due to that pricing change and now the same thing is happening with Render.
https://archive.ph/IVS7G
This is close: https://decentpatterns.com/library/

...but my general belief is that UI patterns need to evolve as (1) specific UIs before they become (2) general patterns, and we simply don't have enough good solutions yet to make a pattern library out of them.
Rendering at every intermediate size means that it is slower (by default).
I think modern US designs are fusion boosted, making them immune to predetonation. Older experiments are increasingly dangerous, especially high-yield uranium guns.
They can. It did. It is what it is.
A Spooky Dance, a Collective Memory, and a Weird Little Puppet
Based on the smokers I know, I wonder if it is because smokers, by and large, have been banished to the outdoors. They're much more likely to sit outside at restaurants, they frequently go outside for smoke breaks, they tend not to go places that are overly restrictive of smokers and thus less likely to be around larger groups of people.
Can you explain more? When a story is clickbait, it's helpful if knowledgeable people help the rest of us understand.
Escape velocity seems to work, I recommend it if you haven't played it.
I think the most likely outcome is for a certain subset of the population to think “I don’t need to get vaccinated, I smoke cigarettes.”
I worked at a tourist destination in Canada one summer during school. A foreigner came up to me and asked, "what are these beautiful birds we keep seeing?"

Well ma'am, those are magpies, and we all complain about them. I still laugh about that, but I do think it's sweet to be able to look at even magpies through a fresh perspective and see they are beautiful, and wonderful, in their own way.
Escape velocity works here!
Baker McKenzie is a law firm, that’s not the same company.
Spot on with verification. It's going to be big. There could be neural nets specialised in verification.
There's nothing quite so "tell me you worked for Accenture without telling me you worked for Accenture" as referring to MBB and Accenture as "Big 4".

It's like Deloitte consultants referring to MBBD.
Good luck getting any customer support at OVH. Something happens with your dedicated, it may be a week until they reply to your ticket. They say its better with French-language support. But for English, their support sucked a few years ago when I tried them.
Seems so: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33871204
I'd love to know this too. I have a zfs over 4 drives with the radxa sata hat, running ubuntu and I'd much rather run FreeBSD if I could. (Pi4, 8gb)

The great thing about zfs is the portability Linux to BSD and vice versa, feature flags noted. I've done it many times on racked servers.

The sad thing about the radxa card is that it presents as usb. You don't want to run any raid-like fs over usb if you can avoid it.
I am a fellow USian, who is haunted by the first good baguette they had. Paris, December 2012. Only half of the loaf made it to the hostel. I still vividly remember how it felt to tear that first piece off of it, the delicacy of the crust, the crumb, the warmth and aroma. I remember it better than the first time I had sex, not a joke.
So you're suggesting that a main feature of US food culture is shit bread?
Swimmers and divers usually rinse their ears with fresh or sterile water after being in the water. I don't think many do q-tip cleaning.
Show HN: Chrome extension to have ChatGPT as a sidebar
>Automation tremendously increases the danger involved. It is substantially more difficult to audit whether the government is operating within those legal guardrails when software is involved rather than humans.

How is it more difficult to audit when software is involved? If anything, it makes the possibility of immutable audit logging and rule-based alerts for potential misuse much easier to implement than with manual processes. There's a reason that high levels of automation (and associated software-enable audit capabilities) are strongly preferred in regulated business functions (e.g. financial reporting).

Further, the fact that the general public might not know how data is stored or its access is controlled doesn't prove the point that these things aren't being addressed adequately by institutional controls. In any case, that's a matter of governance that has no link the the fundamental legal questions concerning privacy that you've brought up.
Voice Loops as Coordination Aids in Space Shuttle Mission Control (1998) [pdf]
First, I'm not complaining about anything. I do not give a fuck about whether India manufactures stuff or not. But there was a question about a number, I provided an answer for how it could be derived. You're welcome!

I disagree with your objection. Actual current output is a great proxy for actual current manufacturing capability, assuming even a tiny bit of rationality. If the two are not linked like you imply - and in fact India already has as much capacity as China - then somebody built 10x more factories than they needed, and lost unimaginable amounts of money doing so. Is that what you're suggesting happened?

Now, the claim is not that the factories, supply chains, trained workforce, etc could not eventually scale to the same size in India as in China. But somebody actually needs to do that work. Until it is done, the capability possibly does not in exist.
I understand the rationale and how CommonMark parsing is not trivial and could be simplified, but the resulting language misses, for me, the best part of Markdown: that it happens to be pretty much just what I'd write in plain text anyways.

The odd newline requirements on lists and blocks, the special syntax for raw HTML and so on makes Djot feel more artificial to me.
I wish I had it on while driving
IIRC, it periodically scans the blocks level metadata during lulls. Reads don't take much power but for some larger drives something like 20% of activity was towards maintenance and the guaranteed retention period without power was only something like 2-3 months.
Everything about this is misinformation.

The neck torque thing constantly has been trotted out by anti-helmet motoryclists and has never been shown to be real.

And there are many bicycle helmet standards, some of which are very strict. CPSC, the European equivalents, SNELL bicycle certifications, etc.. There are separate certifications for bicycling disciplines with higher risk like BMX, Downhil/Enduro mountain biking, etc.. as well.

The SNELL standards for bicycles don't require the same levels of protection as motorcycle or car motorsports helmets but are very strict in that they will go and buy helmets in the field to hold the manufacturers honest. CPSC famously lets the companies self-certify.

CPSC Standard: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/part-1203

SNELL Standards: https://smf.org/stds

EU Stanard (EN 1078): https://www.helmetfacts.com/standards/en-1078/
I realize that but I was following that author’s other posts and they just seem into restricting the rights of everyone to prevent disorderly conduct. So where does it stop??

It was a “throwaway” so I suppose I shouldn’t expect actual discourse.
They basically played the role of willing useful idiot. A side story really.

The real story here is that it took a decade+ to arrest (not convict...arrest) the Guptas and the vast majority of the money is likely never to be recovered (disappeared into middle east). i.e. Functionally this was a successful heist of multi-generational wealth.

Same story on government enablers size - Zuma clan is now wealthy.

The will to go after players like this is simply not there - in SA or internationally. Good business breaking countries it seems
CDS are credit derivatives, not insurance contracts.
There is credit insurance, but it only covers a company’s own receivables (or payables).
Also, obligatory step with most of these things: smell it. If it smells bad, throw that example out.

We survived for a few hundred thousand years without an ability to see or quantify microbiology.

Our noses are pretty damn effective.
You can turn on Increase Contrast from the OSX System Preferences Accessibility section. I do that for this exact reason.
I would say that there is an overemphasis, although understandable, on the usefulness of what happened or was used before the current state, position or technology.

For example, with regard to technical drawing, we might say that using the pencil, the square, and the drafting machine gives an understanding of drawing that the use of the computer cannot. But, for some reason, we don't say that using your finger and sand, or a rock and string to draw a circle helps even more. And we don't say that simply because the people who used rock and string (the good old days) are long dead.

The same goes for clothing, for which we say the 1990s, or perhaps the late 1960s, were better, but no one says that between 1900 and 1910 people dressed with such great taste.

The same goes for romantic partners ("if he hadn't dumped you and made you cry for a year and a half, you wouldn't have found your wonderful wife/husband"), and many other things.

It is very human to rationalize the circumstantial.