skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels very apropos to a recent banking outage we had here in Singapore. On Oct 14, I was out buying groceries and was asked a very strange question by the NTUC FairPrice supermarket cashier, "which bank is your card from?". Expecting the usual "would you like this product on offer" type question, I didn't even register the question for a second.

Turns out that we had a major outage at a data centre that served DBS - one of the largest lenders, as well as Citi. [1]

The disruption was attributed to a cooling system failure at a data centre operated by Equinix [2]. Further digging led to information that the culprit was the SG3 data centre [3] marketed as their largest IBX data centre in the Asia Pacific region and one of the newest. It turned out that the cooling system was being upgraded on contract with an external vendor, who applied incorrect settings which brought it down.

Further, this particular data centre has 2N electrical redundancy but a cooling redundancy of only N+1 chillers, in comparison to other financial services organizations like the Singapore exchange (SGX) that offers [4] CoLo hosting with 2N chillers, which I believe is essential for warm equatorial climates.

Sadly, this outage was followed by yet another smaller payment related outage the following week, making it the fifth outage this year. DBS was trumpeting their move to the cloud [5] as part of their grand plan to transform themselves from a bank into a software company that also offered banking services [6][7].

In going all out with this questionable and misguided transformation they've lost focus on what made people trust them in the first place - the decades of trust that was built on solid, reliable, transparent and efficient banking services.

There were questions about why their backup data centre didn't kick in and there are no answers till date.

It's clear to see that the recovery mechanisms weren't tested, performance degrade modes were not implemented or not tested, disaster resilience utterly failed, there were no working mitigations for cooling system failures or DC failures, and as a result ATMs and other services were down from 3pm on Oct 14 until the following morning. For a country that prides itself on digital transformation, this is just the latest banking systems failure which makes it far more than an egg in the face, it's an erosion of trust.

Items (2), (3), (7), (8), (9) from the Google report directly apply to this failure. I can only hope something good comes out of it and lessons are learnt.

[1] https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/dbs-citibank-outag...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/equinixs-data-center-system-up...

[3] https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/asia-pacific-colocation...

[4] https://www.sgx.com/data-connectivity/co-location

[5] https://www.dbs.com/newsroom/First_bank_in_Singapore_to_laun...

[6] https://bankinginnovation.qorusglobal.com/content/articles/t...

[7] https://www.dbs.com/technology-future/dbs-redefining-the-fut...
I think that’s perhaps a selection bias. Tons of people work on windows desktop apps, Microsoft stacks (sharepoint/office/power..) but what they do isn’t on GitHub, it doesn’t end up on Twitter or HN. Perhaps not even on the StackOverflow dev survey. We just go to work and write software. I also think that it’s a matter of where you are at. If you ask anyone in Silicon Valley what tech they use, few will say Windows, C++, C# or COBOL. But if you ask in traditional industry (manufacturing, chemical, …) and perhaps in Germany rather than the US, you’ll get a completely different answer.
Another +1 for okcupid. I met my wife through it.
This is absolutely brilliant, thank you for creating it.
Right-to-Left Script
The main issue is that its very slow and expensive to browse the internet like this. The LLM will only perform well if you have it do chain of thought reasoning, and that has a latency hit because of a longer generation.
I don't think genetics really play any part in handling alcohol's part in the forming of cancer.

If it did then Finland shouldn't really have the incident rates of alcohol caused cancers as they do.

The same probably goes for other nations where heavy alcohol consumption has been a norm for centuries.

Alcohol causes cancer, and there is no intake amount that is beneficial to the body.
I found my current partner of 2 years on bumble. I was on the site for a month.

I sometimes wonder if people just have too higher expectations, waiting for 'the one'. Relationships are hard. You have to work through differences, you can't expect to find someone where differences are absent.

I'm not pro marriage per se, but I think we need more, work on the relationship you have, rather than ending it and looking for something better.
Maker Skill Trees
It can explain it. Better training and better equipment are (at least) two variables that improve people timings. Maybe a century ago there was an Usain Bolt, just didn't had neither the proper training, nor equipment, and those low factors avoided better timings.
These days in 99 cases of 100 I’d use something like Sqirrel to install per-user and enable self updates. But it’s still and executable and I still think Windows Defender will react poorly to an unsigned one even if it isn’t going to need any elevated privileges.
It's ironic that people are moving to suburbia to raise children in safety.
That was always the idea. There was a cheaper golden visa just for repairing ruins …
Yes, but all of that is unrelated to the original point

The commenter I replied to was complaining about weather stations not using decimals.

As you point out we can predict averages with a better accuracy, but services which have that accuracy do use decimals, where decimals aren't used is in consumer weather forecasts where an accuracy of less than 1 degree is anyway useless because

> the devil is in the small details which are inherently turbulent
>But you can't do that for meters, whereas you can for feet- and I only need to remember one body part for one inch (and one for one foot, naturally) whereas you have to remember several because the centimeter is too small, and the meter too big, to use in this way (you cannot even really generate 1 cm- so you have to do multiplication every time you want to do this).

I never had to measure anything with my fingers or other body parts. I don't know what the point of that is. Being off by an accumulated error of 5 mm is often inaccurate enough that you failed and have to redo things.

I don't have to remember "several", because kilometers, meters, centimeters, millimeters are just meters with zeroes to the left or the right of the comma.

The thing is, Americans use their own nonstandard metric system. They use metrics like thousandths of an inch, which is just 0.0254 mm or as big as 25.4 micrometers. Thousandths makes things sound smaller than they really are. Then you realize it's just 1/40 of a millimetre and it sounds really big at that point and the engineering profession shows it, by having another unit. Ten thousandths of an inch. Wow, amazing. We have almost reached parity with the micrometer!

The average Joe massively benefits from the fact that the measurement relates to the planet, because the planet is a shelling point common to all humans and therefore a good way to reach an agreement. Meanwhile your ideas are great if you want to divide humanity into multiple disagreeing camps.
Couldn't you theoretically show the video 30 seconds later to the user so that if there are a total of 3 ads in the video, you can automatically detect when they play and then skip it? Idk how to explain this better since English isn't my main language.
Linux running on RISC-V emulated in Scratch
Not just substack. He deliberately instructed the team to delay links out to multiple specific websites.

People keep saying he is some bastion of free speech, when talking about a guy who literally fires people who contradict him, bans people he dislikes, and downright disconnects his platform from the rest of the online discourse.
Which PD module do you use?
All in one audit, or a specific metric? Tell me more.
The only part I disagree with is the historical perspective. When was this time that people believed in personal growth? For most of history the nobels were nobels, peasants were peasants and that was that. If anything, the sense of having dynamic control of one's destiny throughout one's lifespan is a recent invention. (Well at least in the west)
Privatepkgs: Private NPM Registry
I am in Australia and the situation is largely the same.
One problem that a new site/app would face is that, to be useful, it would need a geographical density of users. If you have 100k people signed up, but they're spread out across north America or Europe or wherever, then very few of those people will ever meet irl. So at best you have a messaging site for lonely people, but more likely just an unsustainable business. Achieving the necessary user density needs scale and advertising budget.

Something highly local might work in a big enough city like Paris/London/NYC.
> The sieve of Eratosthenes comes alive in this animation, which shows multiples of each prime loping along the number line.

A more accurate depiction would not have a bunch of prime curves starting from 0, but would have each one sprouting from its prime just when that prime is passed over by all existing prime curves.
Rather I would say that Tinder is not hip any more, so the "normies" are out and the usual suspects of dating sites linger.
Is this an AI-generated comment?
A family member was going to get screened, and the insurer would only pay for a sigmoidoscopy since there were no indications of any issues. He paid for the full deal, and they found cancer they would not have found otherwise. He paid because a coworker had died due to undetected cancer - undetected because they didn't do the whole colon.

A paper may talk about percentages, but that doesn't represent you - it represents what an insurer or provider might find interesting to lower costs. You either have cancer or you don't. If you want to find out, you need to check.
Clockwork uConsole Kit R-01
Related:

"Languages using right-to-left scripts":

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-scripts
Someone asking you to pay money for quality isn't hostility.
Working less seems like reasonable advice all around.

To be honest I rarely have more than 3-4 productive hours in a day, where I actually get hard stuff done. Sure on special days I can be productive 8+ hours; but those are rare.
I am going to try this. I found that boxing my self is far more productive than anything else, and it leaves me time to do whatever other thing I want.
It's in the article. You should read it.

tl;dr - healthy individual without family history could be more likely to refuse the screening (less refuses were diagnosed with CRC than the control). This is the reason the study can't omit refuser from calculations.
I think it was about Zaporozhets. Lada was bit better built, especially the first models which still had a lot of Fiat in them
Looks like it's been implemented since python 3.8 : https://stackoverflow.com/a/55890523
With the walrus operator :=
Depending on where you are and what the doctor prescribes, you might also have several days before that, on which you are not allowed to eat many simple things like tomatos, because their skin could linger in you digestive system for a longer time and make seeing things more confusing or difficult. Then after not having eaten properly for a few days, you top it off with that day or two before the actual thing.
The high end of that range is much higher than the baseline rates of colon cancer (also mentioned in the article), which are 90/100,000 in the USA.

That's one thing that I wish the author had spent more time on.
Building it is easy, moderating it is hard
Still, high profile projects should be able to raise this type of money with ease.

If they would say “Would match our ‘donation’ and donate $10 each year that we put in $1k in labor to this project?” that sounds like some commercial users would accept. But the first problem with medium scale OSS like this is that it’s no one’s hobby to manage projects or beg for money.

It’s also a problem that OSS contribution/sponsorship isn’t normalized in corporations. I could much easier get permission to buy a $5k piece of software than donate $5 to an OSS project that powers out largest project and has been maintained for 10 years by a single person.
For me the open question is if you decided up-front to only work 3–4 hours, would you be as productive as you are in those 3–4 hours out of an 8 hour day?

Highly job and person dependent I suspect.
I guess this allows them integrate with proprietary code on their back end if necessary, whilst making it hard for a competitor to take their code and undercut them, since most corps with proprietary software to protect won't touch AGPLv3 with a barge pole.

Nothing prevents an AGPLv3 fork if OpenSign goes proprietary in future.

I'd rather this approach than yet another non-standard Amazon-proof licence.
I think they buried the lede a bit there:

"The new rules of dating mean approaching strangers in public is more frowned upon than it was previously"

I wonder if dating apps have helped promote this viewpoint to boost business?
How do people here even make time for dating in the first place? At least for me atm, doing part time graduate school, job, and interview prep, I feel so burned out after it that I don't want to do anything

And I'm probably not even in as deep as some people here, some of this computer stuff is so ridiculously time consuming. I'm not even working on anything remotely hard, but still: how the hell do you make time? Without sacrificing your own projects?

It's something I've been thinking about for a while now. How do all of the people maintaining all of this hard, important shit get to where they are and still manage to have some semblance of a life? Not only just maintaining the stuff, but learning all of the background necessary to get there
I doubt this is actually a problem. People seem to yearn for places to express themselves in that aren't run by parasites
The amount of complexity they add with all combinations or render modes, caches and abstraction layers is incredible. For most webapps you can just ship html or create SPA and it's fast enough. If shipping 30kB of js on first load is an issue, then send plain html.

I tried nextjs and for a simple site with few pages and echo endpoint it creates like 2MB of javascript. I could make the same result in 100 lines of code but apparently it's not fast or modern.

The issue is that static file hosting and effective servers don't generate money for infra providers. So better run some js cluster** to get a login form for client.
The Polish government licensed the right to build several Fiat cars under the brand “Polski Fiat”. Fiat was pretty open to doing a deal with communist states if they could, and communist states were more than happy to be “inspired” by other manufacturers when designing cars, either by stealing ideas (Trabant 600 has lots of ideas taken from VW and Saab cars of the era), or through proper licensing deals. The first Lada for example is a Soviet government take on the Fiat 126p.
Guide to Transition from Py2neo to GQLAlchemy
In almost all (modern) families I know, both parents work.
There's a song by Atheist Rap, a Serbian punk rock band, who sings about the band happily touring around Vojvodina villages in a "Blue Trabant", until one night they left it parked near a pigsty which resulted in Trabant being eaten by pigs - a reference to it being plastic. Luckily, they managed to convert an engine into a power saw for sawing firewood.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5YgRvIhdtk

The track was quite popular so they made another one about Wartburg.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvG7vi3bFCY
I kind of disagree. 1s aren't generally the type to start their own business, 2s are so you aren't going to be competing on technical merits.

Yes 3 is always valid. But I don't think you need to be the best individual at anything to 'succeed'

Although your use of 'founder' suggests a go big or go home mentality. There's nothing wrong with finding a niche.
> Wait, if they are turning on red it means the pedestrian also has a red.

Not sure about OP but the dangerous situations I've seen when car turning on red was not looking around untill it reached the cross traffic that was a danger to him. Happily driving without looking through pedestrian crossing perpendicular to the direction he was comming from that now had green light.
I play on Lichess, so yes, you could say that. Too bad this name was taken by someone else on Lichess. Love Bergman, by the way.
Well I'm from germany, working for a quite large software shop. Windows is definitely going away. Ten years ago Windows Apps had around 50% of devs allocated, now it's down to at most 15%, dying quite fast. Even the windows devs use mostly WSL tools where they exist.

SaaS is the future, and Windows didn't find its place in that space.
The OKRs myth: Why so many organizations get it wrong and how to fix it
Sometimes I too find getting things out of hand.
I have been working as a frontend dev for the last 5 years now , tbh sometimes there are pointless discussions over the app architecture

for 90% of the cases it is simple React SPA app + REST APIs , thats it
and then people try to put SSR there and what not which tbh is not required even from a business pov.

It takes the joy out of things.

Although i hear folks say the same about backend , but honestly i have not done backend so cant comment about that,

planning to move though
Hey, I’m the author of wg-easy, nice to see my project in here!

As for all the license discussions, I just don’t want a company to pack my work and sell it as a commercial device or service. I’m open for a better license which covers that.
Quote from article to support this:

> GM chief executive Mary Barra said this week that “moderating the pace of our EV acceleration” would allow the company to maintain strong pricing.

And several other complaints that there's too much competition.
Sorry but that's pure urban legend.

My father at the time had Skoda and before that a Siren. Each year when he tried to transport grandparents 20km for Xmas eve, when the temperature dropped it was half a day of tinkering with no guarantee of working.

Meanwhile over last decade I pulled multiple 3k km+ vacation trips over the Europe in 13-15 years old cars. Worst thing that happened was single random "check engine" light that went away later.

Communism was shit. I hope I won't ever see it again.
That doesn't mean all that much though, there were several Fiat cats being built in eastern/southern Europe.

E.g. Zastava was building them (the Yugo, "crappiest" car in the world was a licensed Fiat platform, same with 101 and 750). Polski Fiat was another example of Fiats common licensing of their platforms to Eastern Europe.

They weren't very good, but they were available.
I've often wondered how exactly I might increase my sprint speed, in terms of form. I've never met a sprint trainer, so all I can do is just try to naturally sprint, but I'm clearly not very fast and never was. But somehow I don't even know what the fundamentals are. What do you need to do to be fast?

The other amazing thing is that marathon runners seem to be faster than I can sprint, and I really don't get how they maintain it. If I could just sprint that speed, I would be going pretty fast.
Not at arduino prices
That is about as proper as VNAs get :). Would be interested in that but will not share my email here as this is my trash account. If you can attach the sweep on imgur I can look at it there.
So this exploit requires control of the local network, since such a request isn't valid DNS and therefore wouldn't get forwarded through a typical users DNS resolver?
It parses complex payloads like images in code written using an unsafe language.
It’s not an issue using it yourself with your own data but I’d be wary of putting it anywhere in a pipeline where it would be fed user provided data, e.g to generate thumbnails in a backend or similar.
I think they're pretty much all unbranded and look similar, but now there are some with through hole outputs instead of pads to solder wire. If I didn't already have a stash I would probably get those and some right angle male headers.

Just watch out, 12v isn't a thing anymore in the new specs and might not work, best to build around 5v, 9v, 15v, or 20v.

Although usually if I just need 5v, I'm building around a D1 Mini ESP32 module that already has 5v built in.
This is BS, the AVERAGE age of a car on the road is 12 years, with most easily lasting for longer.

Cars have massively improved in reliability these days to the point where you've all forgotten all the stuff we had to go through as owners of carburator driven cars. Not staring in the winter, empty batteries, having to heat up diesel, dealing with constant light bulb breakages...
Right, that's the self hosting part.
Creativity thrives when constrained.

I have been struggling with organising my time as well, and I found that fewer hours every day means I only focus on what's important, and I can achieve a state of flow, with a good routine, every day. I do 4 hours of 95% effort, no distraction deep work, and then I need to recharge the batteries.

It all depends if you're doing creative programming work, or menial one. I'm building a business, and the software underneath it. It's not too dissimilar to sculpting or painting: bursts of intense work, with tons of space necessary to digest, plan the next step or just daydream and think out of the box around hard problems. Some people thrive in a brute force approach to creativity (work until the problem is solved), for others intuition is the driving force (think until the problem is solved)

The issue is that as a society and the corporate machine is tuned for the brute force approach. We celebrate the 100 hours/wk Musks and Carmacks, and forget that their physiology, and more importantly, environment is much different than most of us.

How many hours do you think Musk spends thinking about paying rent, cost of living, standups with a boring boss, endless Zoom calls that cut into his focus? How many hours does John Carmack spend, bored to tears, plugging yet another Slack library into their CRUD app for a boss than makes 500x his salary?

How many hours of "brainstorming", daydreaming and reading up on exciting tech do they count as work? How many hours of daydreaming and "digesting" can you do sat in an open space cubicle?

(Sorry, started talking about creative force, and went on a societal critique.)
i was surprised by that too! but if i'm not wrong it's relatively okay in small doses, but large amounts can cause mild discomfort like vomiting and stuff
You don't actually need everyone to sign up at once. Once someone signs up you send them emails when they get a match. When there aren't as many people they don't get as many emails, but now they're on the site, which creates more matches for people who join tomorrow.

People need some way to find out about it, but not everything has to be corporate. Wikipedia has this page which ranks near the top for search queries like "list of online dating sites":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_dating_se...

You're an online dating service, so you get added to pages like that where people end up when they're looking to choose an online dating service. And then your site compares well against the other ones that are screwing everyone -- look how few of the heterosexual dating apps have free messaging. So people sign up and give it a try.

You make sure your site is listed in places like that where people go to find dating sites, and people find it. And the more people find it, the more useful it gets, because that is how network effects work. At which point people start recommending it and you get even more users.