skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“We occasionally roll out bad software.”

Honestly, as a profession we very rarely roll out anything else. It’s one of the reasons we should be designing systems and procedures that are fault-tolerant from the very start.

In this particular case study, a very small, simple, obvious, cheap step (enabling server B to talk to clients A as well as clients B) was not taken during design and development, nor caught addressed during testing, resulting in very large, complicated, costly failure which the culprits then tried to mask instead of owning it like the professionals they’re supposed to be.

That so many other techies should automatically switch into CYA mode when it’s not even their own fuckup that we’re talking about here is a damning indictment of modern developer culture’s attitude toward professional responsibility and personal liability.

It’s excuses all the way down.
> Paris is one of the densest cities in the world and it doesn’t really get taller than eight stories high.

For the record, it is 24th in the world:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population_d...

And there are other French cities above it: Levallois-Perret is 8th at 26,432/km^2.
"So the biblical scholars mis-translated the Hebrew word for "young woman" into the Greek word for "virgin".
Key point: AWS Firecracker does NOT run on AWS.

Unless you want to pay for bare metal instances.

AWS Firecracker DOES run on Google Cloud, Azure and Digital Ocean.
Once the price got too low, the bottom guy could have

blackmailed the guy above

to blackmail the guy above

to blackmail the guy above

to blackmail the guy above

to blackmail the guy to make more money.

(was that too many levels?)
Windows 10x details revealed in major leak
> yet the chain you don't see is longer and everyone will switch there

No. No it can’t. No it can’t without somebody spinning up 100%+ more hashrate. And in PoS it totally can because there is no objective truth measure attached to it.

And again, 51% attacks are not solvable in principle and all your criticisms are basically “but what if your chain gets 51% attacked?”. Well duh, 51% attacked system gets destroyed, no matter if it’s PoS or PoW, the issue is that PoS gets destroyed in many more scenarios, not just the equivalent of apocalypse.

And you did bring up PoS multiple times. If you didn’t - we would t be having this conversation at all.
right, I copied the title and it was WHO. I will send the email.
I've seen UK company -> US company -> German company -> Ukrainian company

Although I worked for the UK company I did actually get to speak to one of the chaps from the Ukraine and they seemed a good team - though they had no idea who we were or why they were making the changes they were implementing. The Ukrainian team eventually disappeared though and this being 2014 we did wonder....
> Examples of this working in practice would be appreciated.

There probably aren't:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_in_the_park

Toronto is demolishing its community housing that was built this way and rebuilding in more modern ways. The residents hated it.
‘Significant Racial Bias’ Found in National Healthcare Algorithm
Interesting issue. I think the borders are floating -- if you host your own hardware at your employer, is it still self-hosting? What if you don't have root at a shared server which you share with friends in your local community center or association?

For me the important thing about "self" is that you have spent at least some thoughts where stuff is stored, who has access, and know your limits of control. My feeling is that the modern-age "Microservice", "serverless" and "cloud" generation lost that feeling. They fear to setup a Linux server. Even more, they fear running their own SMTP server. Gosh, in the 90s, it was a hobby for many of us to autodidactically learn how networking and Unix works. It really brought us some fundamental knowledge which I feel is lost in today's kids generation. "The cloud" just solves their problem. Self-hosting means being interested in everything from the power supply up to the uplink, from CGI over systems to HTTP caching and all that.
I completely agree!

I really don't understand why we don't simply ship SQL queries around, maybe a very simple subset of SQL so that it either works on most vendors or that it can be easily manipulated and adapt to different storage backend.

Can somebody enlight me?
Discussing your stock/option grant is salary negotiation, even if it happens out of the standard order :)
You'd have to keep users of your application in sync with database users though. And you wouldn't get complex backend logic out of the box without something like PL/(pg)SQL or database extensions (all of which are a bit unwieldy compared to an HTTP server).
police police police police police police police police.
Different laws are written, variously, from the perspective of intention (mens rea), and others are known as "strict liability."

Strict liability laws ask only whether the law was broken, and make no reference to the intent to break the law. A classic example here is statutory rape: being lied to about a partner's age is no defense, because the law asks only for the facts of the situation, not the intentions.
> If you want to see a good example of urban planning look at Singapore. Everything appears to be a park, road, tree or building and there’s plenty of the first two.

I'm not disagreeing with that. This is very far from the examples you cited, and more in line with large buildings surrounded by parks that I mentioned. In fact Singapore has drawn on Le Corbusier's idea of "Unité d'habitation" (which I mentioned in another comment)...
Most of my dreams seem like nonsensical surreal explorations. Not "recorded unconscious images" or "from age old memories". Are dreams typically historical for most people?
His next post on that list, on a different subject, is also pretty entertaining:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2007-August...
>You don't think that getting more attention, help, and outright handouts isn't its own form of bullying?

Yes, if we distort bullying out of all sense to just mean "different treatment"...

In that sense, a rich person who receives more attention, the best seats in the house, VIP treatment where they go, are also "bullied".
A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster
LOL, "cool as Christian rock" would make for a nice expression!
The generic issue seems to be that stuff like containers can be escaped with pretty much any privilege escalation exploit ... and such exploits are reasonably common in the world of Linux.
Ontologies of the Virtual
To make sure the process works?
I know the parent talked about salary but that's not the only important factor. The reason for coming back to India could be spending time with old parents(who usually don't like moving to other countries at old age), kids' future, and weather.
No, after cancellation of maven, it made no sense to pursue it.
Breitbart is mainstream conservative ...
Could you please define 3rd world in this context? That term is a relic from the Cold-war era.
Moviemaker initial release: 2000

Who was CEO during the planning and build out phase when they originally decided to make a mess?

It’s not as if MS suddenly turned into a disorganized mess. Windows ME released 2000.

The culture he’s complaining about was already deeply embedded in the DNA.
When I am abroad I say I am from NY, not the USA. Not that I dislike the USA, but I am proud of where I am from, and identify with being from there first. I wouldn't knock Texans for that either. I also would not be for NY leaving the USA either.
Depends how much you care about safety, and how much safety is needed. If you're doing an FEA analysis or whatever, fine disable all checking. But a video codec is guaranteed to be used in dangerous environments.

Also depends how much it affects performance. It it doubles it, ok I'll accept the risk. 10% faster? No thanks I'd rather play it safe.
it is unlikely that all the data sources you will be querying now are directly available in an SQL database.
The last hitman should have hired the first hitman.
yes, it counts the numbers for you.
Show HN: I built a JavaScript library to encapsulate API calls
Love it! Haden't seen that video, thanks for sharing. The noodle record is priceless!
And it would probably be one of the best things that happened to them if they could manage to do it peacefully. They are a completely different culture, language, economic prospects, etc. Spain just wants to keep taxing them to support the rest of the country. But how is that ever a good reason for keeping an entire culture subject to historical imperialism?
I was nowhere near anywhere good enough to participate in an IMO officially, but judging by the types of problems they ask I'm not super optimistic. This might come back to bite me, but I'd predict that EC2 won't be around when this is solved.
I’d be curious to see some of that research. Some technical tools I use have migrated to ribbon UIs. Matlab is one example and it’s utterly broken. Tiling the main IDE window beside a text editor (a standard way of using matlab) on a 15” MBP results in many of the ribbon sections turning into big empty gray spaces requiring yet another click into a cascading shitshow. Fortunately I rarely need to use anything in there as the wasn’t enough there to warrant a ribbon in the first place.

Another example is CAD software like Solidworks, but that’s a masterclass in awful UI design all on its own.
Haxe 4.0 has been released
Apple could do something smart with the Tips app – if the phone 'notices' someone not able to position the cursor, or doesn't know about the hidden gesture. They can send a quick how-to via Tips. They can even do an overlay on the screen to get people started.

This is only for things like keyboard. Even the OS won't understand that somone wants to save a photo and isn't able to discover the save button.
Why wouldn't Breitbart be on Facebook News? Just about every news site these days is full of strong bias and misinformation - none are objective. They've made it hard to justify why we should listen to any of them.

Just take a look at the NBC scandal with Matt Lauer, or the fake Syrian war footage ABC was spreading around that turned out to be a shooting range in Kentucky. Not to mention the Project Veritas releases concerning CNN and others.

Trust is low with all news organizations and I think The Verge is just continuing to push their own bias onto users with this article.

*edit - I see downvotes but no comments. I'd love to have my mind changed if someone has good reasons other than they don't like right wing media.
Depends on the textbook, but most ones used in schools are quite formulaic while IMO problems generally require significant insight to solve.
what about this:

http://k5n.us/wp/webcalendar/
> Until AI can create an Angular application with a .Net Core Azure back-end that meets ever-changing customer requirements ("can we remove the need for Bootstrap 4? Can we make the integration with Active Directory seamless?") on short notice, not very soon at all!

I think you are arguing for "Not all programming tasks that can be automated away by a bot that can win IOI / ICPC."

However, what I'm asking is: "Does there exist 10% of programming that can be automated away by a bot that can win IOI / ICPC" ?

Furthermore, I think you are also assuming that human programmers remain static, while the AI has to be a 'drop in replacement for humans.' On the other hand, if we look at AWS -- AWS didn't build some AI that is a drop in replacement for sys admin work. AWS built their own API, humans adapted to it.

It seems to me that in a world where such an IOI/ICPC winning bot existed, programmers would adapt to it (just as programmers have adapted to AWS), by figuring out "how can I leverage this API so that I don't have to hire someone to do FOOBAR"
1. It’s very nice to be introduced to Landé and Duane.

2. After so much emphasis on reason and experiment and evidence, it is jarring to switch gears to a conspiracy theory about scientists concealing or ignoring theories in order to make themselves seem “superhuman.”

3. It’s very nice to be introduced to Landé and Duane.
Bill Gates: Windows usability flame (2003) [pdf]
I found it quite interesting that they removed the reply button. Afaik HN also has a limited reply button - there is no notification attached to it. This discourages talk/debate like discussion (lack of personal reaction) and encourages more a discourse style interaction around the facts.
Woah!
Really amazing

What's the technology stack?
This is a real problem and , oddly the solution is to build even more immersive technologies that bring people closer together, thus making the jump from virtual life -> real life smoother. We can't expect to just tell people to "go out and meet people", because people's expectations have changed, and the street has no "mute" and "block" buttons.
Until India starts hiring Americans, we should cut the h1b, . Until we get reciprocity ...
If it meant they improved their prospects for economics, culture, etc. then sure, but it wouldn't. And currently it wouldn't for Texas. But if at some point people thought it would be a better deal to be independent for economic or ideological reasons, why should violence determine whether they stay? Might as well just put it to a vote. Britain has got that right, they have let their former colonies leave (mostly) peacefully. And in the case of Scotland, they have even stronger historical ties and integration than a lot of US states, but it was actually put to a vote.
The one and only time I looked at Breitbart, because it was mentioned online, must have been around 2015 or so. The news site looked like a UK tabloid/yellow press Fox News clone, nothing special really. I then looked at the public comment section and users there were discussing how to best gas as many Jews as possible in the US. I'm sure they cleaned up the site a bit since then, but this is a true story.

Bottomline of the anecdote is that Breitbart cannot possibly be considered a "high quality news site."

On a side note, from the people who criticize "mainstream media" I have never heard a single halfway sane suggestion of where else you could get news. The best suggestion I've ever gotten was "Wikipedia", and the best wrong answer so far was "books." Most of them don't even seem to know what news are, they seem to confuse the term with "political opinions that I like." We live in crazy times.
Does not crash!
IMO problems are generally proof-based and don't always lend themselves well to brute force solutions using analytic geometry.
Getting some real crackpot vibes here.

How does Duane's hypothesis account for the diffraction pattern going away if the particular slit the particle goes through is measured?
My software shits itself all the time. What matters is that it does so safely. And when it doesn’t, I can tell you why, because I know what corners have been cut and why, and I’m not afraid to accept and acknowledge my responsibilities in such fuckups.

And yeah, I count on the fingers of one hand the number of web developers I’ve dealt with over the last decade who I’d be willing to cross the road to piss on were they on fire, and still have fingers to spare. They’re just the worst of the worst.

There was NO excuse for the failure described in the article. There was NO excuse for the described response to that failure. Yet such base incompetence and gross irresponsibility is not only systemic but entrenched, rationalized, and embraced in this industry. With responses like yours, it’s not hard to tell why. Buncha Children.
Why would this be hard for the machines? A lot of math contest problems are about trying some rearrangements or substitutions, using a few principles to guide you towards the solution.

If you give the machine some equations, wouldn't it find a path to the solution pretty fast? Aren't there solvers that aren't considered AI that do that sort of thing?

I did some math contests in school, and a lot of the problems needed some brute force element along with a bit of overview so you didn't waste too much time. Often there'd be a problem that you'd look at and think "hmm this will solve via integration by parts" but the thing was complex enough that you'd potentially screw something up.

I looked in the Gitlab, it seems the problems are already encoded in Lean. Haven't you solved a major part of the problem already if you can formally encode it like that? Half the fun of math contests is getting over the WTF feeling.
This explanation doesn't seem to leave any room for the experimental observation that simply knowing which slit the electron went through - not some physical interaction that disturbs it but simply having that knowledge - changes the pattern.
OpenSSL Ported to WebAssembly/WASI
You forgot that you are talking about a nation with more than a billion people. Providing everyone quality education is definitely going to be tough (the Education sector has actually seen many startups in recent years). What matters is that the education coverage should increase every here.
Few Games to learn CSS the fun way
From earlier in the thread, someone pointed out that graduates from elite colleges are also ultimately competing for H1B slots against Infosys type body shop IT people. There’s no reason American citizens can’t perform the body shop type IT work.

What’s worse is that when the recession hits, the H1B will still be employed while US citizens will be looking for jobs. The H1B system doesn’t get rid of H1Bs fast enough when the economy tanks. Maybe the bid price should include a multiple that is reindexed each year based upon the US Citizen unemployment in that field. Example - Initial bid is $50k/year. The H1B is hired, and for two years, the employer pays $50k, until in the third year, when the recession hit, and software developer unemployment rises to 8%, then the tax increases to 75k, causing the employer to get rid of their H1B and to hire a US citizen.
Three “programming” board games that will tickle your pseudocode
When I watched a goofy layman’s explanation[1] about the double slit, it stressed the importance of the effects of observation on the behavior or nature of the electrons.

When observed to see “which” slit the light passed through, they no longer created the interference pattern described by Duane’s law. And when left unobserved (at the slits) the interference pattern emerged even when shooting “one electron at a time” at the slits.

Does this article or Duane’s Law cover or appreciate this? It seems like it only describes the interference pattern.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1YqgPAtzho
I would guess that a computer beats humans on the IMO before a computer beats humans on the IOI/ICPC -- but also think that the latter would have far greater impact.
I don't know what images the "rest of you" are using, but I have literally never had the windows update problem. I have never had Windows update go off at all when using the images provided here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/v...

Even if you run into a situation where Windows update is for some strange reason bugging you (even though the vm's provided are only for testing purposes) then you can always run through the update and simply snapshot the vm so that you don't have to go through the process again, as described by the usage instructions:

> These virtual machines expire after 90 days. We recommend setting a snapshot when you first install the virtual machine which you can roll back to later.

I haven't done that though and have been using the same Windows 7 VM to test IE changes for close to a year now.
The answer to me seems quite clear:

1. You want representation of both sides of the political spectrum, otherwise you'll be accused of bias. The number of right leaning news sources is relatively few (from what I have observed), I don't imagine there were many for the pick.

2. If you actually read the front page, the majority of their news appears to be reasonably good [1] (at least compared to other popular new sites). It's hardly the Daily Stormer [2].

3. There are more right-leaning people out there than the majority of people realize. In fact, they number roughly half the population in most Countries. As a left-leaning person you should also be aware of what the other side thinks, rather than being subjected to news source that reinforce your own bias.

4. I think the "negative" impact of Breitbart is largely reduced when depicted side-by-side with other sources of news. If anything it simply allows people to know that there is more than one opinion on the subject.

[1] https://www.breitbart.com/

[2] https://dailystormer.name/
Holy false equivalency, Batman.
The most common cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is obesity/metabolic syndrome. If someone with a BMI > 30 came in asking for a workup for auto-brewery syndrome that would be an unreasonable work-up and a waste of limited healthcare system resources as well as the patient's, unless they provided additional signs and symptoms that were suggestive of alcohol intake.

In the absence of obesity/metabolic syndrome, I'd be pursuing a work-up of cholestatic injury, A1AT deficiency, and viral and autoimmune hepatitis before I start looking for auto-brewery syndrome, in the presence of isolated fatty-liver disease.

I doubt fecal transplant would be curative; fungi are tenacious. It might be a more effective repopulation method than the probiotics used by the folks in the article, though. Probiotics are kind of crap, no pun intended.
Or better yet an agreement with gsm operators were made ahead of the time so they did not charge the "eagle calls", and they were all made to a single cloud-or-whatever-distribution-center.
Stripe was in the order of $10B in the previous year and we were above $1B. We were doing well for a small company, can't deny that, but ultimately that's all pocket money when it comes to payments or large companies.

Lyft and Slack were much much smaller back then, also private companies that don't publish any numbers. Not exactly great references at the time.

If you have to learn something from this, it's that Stripe is a long term play, that really needed the capital to sustain and grow the business. The main growth factor by the way is the second-order effect of growing with their customers, and they're very smart to advertise to the HN crowd.
A lot of political compromise always seems to me of the form: we have a cake to share, I want the whole cake and you, being reasonable, want the 'fair' portion of half a cake. So we compromise and I get three quarters of the cake and you get a quarter.
What's the problem with right arrow? I use ctrl+e (a la emacs) to accept the ghost completion.
I'm not sure I'd agree; they both seem like they'd be of similar difficulty to me. Why do you think that IMO would be easier for computers?
Exposing that much of your internal implementation details could be very problematic.
There are many compelling technology projects in this space. However, there are many different use cases on the web and when it sounds like you solve all of them, the value proposition gets obfuscated.

One of my favorite web sites is https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

It captures the promise of the web and accessible boutique information. I hope there is a rebirth of that early web movement for high quality highly curated content and knowledge. It starts with people though. The tech is just a tool.
Technically _all_ the states have that option. The Constitution doesn't prohibit it, tenth amendment reserves all other powers to the states; they entered voluntarily into the Constitution believing it would help them each individually. The reason it's "debunked" is because of the might makes right attitude that took hold because of the Civil War. That attitude doesn't take people to good places...
Is it advisable to actually try and use .intel_syntax and -masm=Intel?