skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And in Romance languages, Sunday is named something derived from dies dominicum, Latin for "day of the Lord".

My favorite weekday names are Japanese:

日曜日 nichiyoubi, "sun-weekday"

月曜日 getsuyoubi, "moon-weekday"

火曜日 kayoubi, "fire-weekday"

水曜日 suiyoubi, "water-weekday"

木曜日 mokuyoubi, "wood-weekday"

金曜日 kinyoubi, "gold-weekday"

土曜日 doyoubi, "soil-weekday"

Aside from Sunday and Monday, these names derive from the elements associated with the planets Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn respectively, as indicated in their Japanese names (kasei, suisei, etc.) -- planets named after the gods who gave the weekdays their names (or their rough Norse equivalents in English).
Regularity of clicking is considered a sign of robot behavior, which is especially frustrating if you learned to perform repetitive image identification mouse tasks in a computer with rhythmic regularity (think Turk, for example).
> Which is to say Germanic gods too, not just Greco-Roman or Hebrew.

Tuesday through Friday are all named based on the Germanic correspondence for a Roman god, as established by the Romans (Tyr/Odin/Thor/Frigg (not Freya) - for Mars/Mercury/Jupiter/Venus). There was no corresponding Germanic god for for Saturn, so it kept the same name.
Anecdata: some people disbelieve this ≤50% ops time figure. At the moment my SRE team is getting some flak for exceeding 30%, which exceeds the PA's guideline of 20% for the wrong reasons.
There's an easy test. Ask someone to visualise the face of a friend and then ask about some detail that isn't one people normally note, like how thick the person's eyebrows are. Those with the ability to visualise will be able to see it and relate the information. Those without, like me, will not.
If you have money, scaling resources like bandwith is as simple as 'paying bigger AWS bills'.
> I mean, its unlikely that someone who voted for Trump last time will be voting for Biden this time.

Why do you say that? Voter turnout during primaries was higher than 2016, and Biden was doing well. Even though it may seem like Bernie is more popular on the internet, Biden is more popular among people that actually vote (older people).
If you’re the typical hacker news reader, I suppose there’s a good chance you have a decent quality SLR or mirrorless camera. If it has a clean HDMI output, you can use it with a capture card (80USD or so) on amazon and you’ll have the best webcam money can buy. Couple that with a cheap lavalier mic or similar and you’ll have far better quality than any video call is likely able to transmit.

If you’re feeling really hacky you might be able to do without the capture card and use gphoto2 to stream your camera over usb, and then use something like OBS virtual am or V4l2loopback. This is fiddly though and only works with a few cameras.
Protection drones in combination with guard and herding dogs? Drones could patrol overhead and warn about incoming wolves, and employ noise or other techniques (some humane version of flash bang grenades?) to scare them off. Guard dogs to form the next line of defense. Breeds like the Anatolian Shepherd are well-suited to scaring off wolves.[1] Other breeds can keep the herd together.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolian_Shepherd
The problem is basically a variant of Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Publications want to use these benchmarks as a convenient proxy for real-world performance. Phones have "benchmark detection" and run their power management with different settings when they detect that a benchmark is running, defeating the purpose of running the benchmark.

BTW, I don't think this is about gaming vs. non-gaming workloads (there are different benchmarks for those), or even running plugged-in vs. on battery. My understanding is that some of these "benchmark modes" are so aggressive that the phones would become too hot to hold in your hands. No sane phone manufacturer could use settings like these for real-world usage.
I guess people didn't like that - "it might even be financially prudent to not chase those last 9s of uptime."

It just promotes bad mindset
Uhh... disagree? Even a 5 person startup should be responsible for every single thing their users post? Or do you want some arbitrary line of employees above which it’s illegal and below which it’s fine?
I work on this project, so I'm biased, for sure, but why not take a gander at:

https://github.com/sonatype-nexus-community/auditjs

By default we exclude devDeps (allowing you to run that later). The project functions off EXACTLY what you have installed in your node_modules, so it's a pretty accurate look at your actual risk profile. You can run it with --dev to get a look at your dev Deps, but we tailored it by default to your "prod risk profile". The notes y'all make are pretty much why. Every Dev Dep in the world seems to use lodash, so yeah, we get it, it can be prototype polluted, tell me what my actual risk is!
Yeah, more recently we have innovated completely unpredictable and exhausting working schedules assigned by computers that can't be questioned. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/us/starbucks-to-revise-wo...
padenot, although I am a programmer of sorts, I don't do web development, so I'm at a loss. Say I go to the jitsi website (https://meet.jit.si/), type in my four word passcode, and get a conference connection with my teacher. When you say, "instead of doing..." doesn't apply to me, because I don't do anything. It sounds like what you are describing is what the developer of that web page needs to do, but me, as a user, doesn't see any of that.
It might be a lower risk to innoculate in the the glute then getting a primary infection in the lung first. We do not know yet and that's what vaccine trials are for. We know that the spike protein is probably the target though. That protein and fragments can be amplified and expressed and tested as vaccines.

Your search for a live attenuated strain would probably take 18 months minimum and probably longer. You need widespread testing and sequencing which are both in short supply. You also need outcome data. You would also need a sufficient sample size and then hope that your predicted attentuated cohort is say not just all young people.

Sars-Cov2 mutation rate is <26bp per year. https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global?l=clock
A little late of a reply, but afaik, TraceTogether tracks phone numbers, so it doesn't provide as much anonymity.
Everyone who's spent 3 hours talking a parent through downloading and installing a Zoom client understands exactly why they're doing this. Mine are unable to (1) reliably download a zip file; (2) navigate to that file using Finder; (3) run something inside it.

By the time we were done -- I use copilot (basically VNC with NAT punching built in) -- and I got control of the laptop to just do it myself, there were 7 downloads and 4 unzip attempts.

My MIL and I have literally had facetime pointed at her laptop while I directed her where to to get copilot running for the quarterly cleansing-of-the-spyware.
I got one of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MZQ6KVR/
That webcamera_usb amazon storefront is actually ELP, who is a big player in that kind of lower-end industrial/security/for small volume integration camera modules. Also sells directly through their website, through Aliexpress, etc. They do have a few no-bayer black and white options. Mine shipped from Shenzen via Hong Kong, but (now that I check tracking) took exactly a week to get to a midsize city in the US.

The camera is adequate (I've done a fair amount of computational photography work recently, overly opinionated to follow), it's not hitting anything like the advertised high frame rate/low res modes in guvcview, but is making the 30-60fps higher res modes that matter for webcam use. It's USB2 and enumerated as UVC 1.0 so I can't say I'm surprised. The crop changes in somewhat surprising ways among the modes, I think the readout does a mixture of crop and binning or line skipping. It's not a nice Basler module or anything, but it costs less than 20% what the nominally-comparable offering from "good brands" would.

The lens is ...eh, I have noticeable barrel distortion and vignetting, but its clear, doesn't have the annoying color corruption you sometimes see in cheap C/CS lenses, and the FoV is nice for webcam duty.

It's a damn slight better than the old PS3 eye I was getting by with until it showed up, and being able to easily manually manipulate zoom/focus/aperture instead of hoping the auto does something good is great.
That could be an implementation of tagged unions. Without language level support (pattern matching, exhaustiveness checking, etc.) you gain very little from this.
This is cool, how do you rank the top 100 stores?
There’s an aspect to software development relating to speed/agility. NoSQL data stores offer a schemaless approach That reduces a great deal of unnecessary friction. The amount of time we’ve spent managing relational schemas is ludicrously expensive. There are still great usage patterns for relational, but operationally is not one of them. I’d argue it’s an anti-pattern.
Coronavirus scams are multiplying on the dark web: DarkOwl report
Looking back, there isn't actually any evidence that Zoom is not, as they put it, "encrypted from end point to end point". But it is clear that Zoom itself is kind of confused about the whole thing. I don't think that Zoom is all that good with technical stuff...

To have any assurance that a video conferencing system is actually secure e2e you would have to have access to the verified source code of the client programs and verify the identity of each and every participant. That is likely impractical so I think it is safe to say that you should not use any video conference system provided by others to discuss secret things. If you absolutely must do so then you can set up a server under your physical control and then would not have to bother with e2ee at all.
Let’s get real here. The United States government is most certainly capable of doing everything we accuse China of doing and worse.
Check out the Flax ResNet50 example: https://github.com/google/flax/tree/master/examples/imagenet

It runs about as fast as any of the other popular machine learning frameworks, occasionally faster.

Disclaimer: I work for Google and use JAX, although I'm not on the Jax team.
Mapzen open-source mapping project revived under the Urban Computing Foundation
Blockchain, perhaps?

A lot of CAPTCHAs protect things that are very cheap, but where they don't want it to be free. One solution would be to charge money, but people concerned about privacy won't want to give away conventional payment information.

So, perhaps a nominal payment in some reasonably anonymous cryptocurrency? Or even just participating in some proof-of-work problem that would cost a few cents worth of electricity?

That wouldn't stop really serious botnets or people with stolen credit cards, but those are also both illegal and should be shut down for other reasons.
Do you think that any blog with a comments section should be legally responsible for spammers posting on it?
I think Automattic does something like this. I ran into the same issue after graduating from a boot camp, I had to freelance my way into a real job and even then I think it was dumb luck more than my programming ability.
Again, my question:

> fax machines were purely analog devices, not a scanner attached to a modem

Why would an analog scanner not still be a scanner? I'd call whatever component that's in even the oldest fax machines "a scanner." Even if it is "enitrely analog" (continuous brightness intensity read, like a tape head or record-player stylus) you'd still call the process of converting light from a sensor passing over a document, into electricity, scanning, and you'd still call the component that does that "a scanner." Just like speakers and microphones are still "speakers" and "microphones" whether they're just transducers attached to wires, or have a whole ADC+USB/Bluetooth signal path leading out of them. Am I wrong?
Maybe they were too busy writing the book :)
If $COMPANY finds themselves losing a significant number of candidates (at least some of whom they presumably need to hire), because they can't answer $QUESTION, and that information gets reported up the chain, what do you think $COMPANY's rational response is?
You prompted me to read the actual essay. It was considerably more interesting than the comments here would have suggested; which is not a surprise, given it was penned by Freeman Dyson.

His insight that Maxwell's contemporaries lacked even the language to fully describe what a transformative idea he had is acutely interesting. Once again language both shapes and traps thinking.

He makes the same point with quantum mechanics as well - that we're constrained by not having the proper language to describe the most fundamental behaviour. I think it's fair to say that point still stands today.
Don't! Saying there's an "industry standard" for an arrow color on screenshots is crazy. Don't just rebuild what already exists; I love the branding aspect of it :)
China had only one day off a week for everyone as recently back as in 1999 when I first visited. The Chinese 996 system is common at Chinese internet companies, fortunately American companies operating in China are exempt from that.
That's pretty expensive for what is essentially a rebranded Qotom. On the other hand, if you are in the USA, it's probably a good choice.

OPNSense 20+ also support WireGuard just in case someone gets confused about that specific version reference.
Don't forget "subbotniks" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbotnik ) - on weekends many workers would "voluntarily" do unpaid labor like cleaning city parks, etc.
Dynamo is sort of in-between Redis and SQL:

- Less maintenance around schema/migrations

- Data types and validation

- You still get queries (though not to the level of SQL complexity)

- You still get indexes

- You get row-level TTL's like Redis

- Hosted / infinite scale

- Billing based on storage/throughput, not fixed instance sizes
Eric Yuan is the real deal. He's an engineer and is taking this seriously. This isn't marketing spin.
Attack Surface Analyzer helps you analyze your OS's security configuration
In WA anyway, by law, range fees are based on market rates for leasing from commercial ranges. The ranges managed by tribes are also priced similarly.

Typically, the per unit price is less than comparable commercial/private range rental because the price is adjusted downward because the government ranges provide almost no infrastructure support as compared to private ranges. Also, they offer less food per unit.

https://www.dnr.wa.gov/programs-and-services/product-sales-a...
If we'd want to go all in on mandatory apps it would be possible to create much friendlier lockdown controls than what we have now. For example instead of flat out forbidding access to recreation hotspots like parks it would be possible to ration access so that everybody can enjoy them occasionally but they never get too crowded. This would be completely unfeasible in a paper bureaucracy even outside a pandemic situation, but computers could easily do it. The missing "technology" to do that without also enabling police state is not so much crypto and blockchain (though something along those lines might certainly be part of it) but social achievements like data protection laws and how to enforce them, processes to build trustworthy organisations and so on.
I haven't had a weekend in 8 years.
Brandon and Ishmael are awesome people, y'all. I remember sitting down with them in the early days; excited to see all the progress made since.
Yep, if you need aggregated data at all for operational purposes, Dynamo isn't a good choice. A lot of the hardship people have with Dynamo is not really understanding how to model their data correctly. If you don't design it correctly from the start, you are f*cked, and I sympathize with that.
Java added them in version 8, which was 6 years ago. And it was one of the last mainstream languages to add that feature - even PHP and C++ had it for many years by then. So I don't think it's a useful metric for "cool" in 2020, and it hasn't been for a long time.
Why do I have to sign in to zapier? Also, what data are you collecting with mixpanel?
Two new potentially fatal bugs found in 737 Max software
A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16255745

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11999649

(Links for the curious. Reposts are ok after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Yeah, I've been seeing this all over. For example my sister in law hosted her wedding over Zoom this past weekend. Approx. 0% of the people who attended couldn't have cared less about encryption or security concerns. They just wanted the easiest way to join in on a video feed with their friends and family. It's even become a verb now: "zooming in" e.g. "Please zoom in to our meeting". That's the mark of something that's going to stick. Once searching on the web became "googling" in the general population it became impossible to unseat Google. I think the same will hold true for Zoom.
Facebook Launches 'Tuned' Messaging App for Couples
No, and they wouldn't be by any informed understanding of the law. That's not how the law has ever worked in any developed society.

Generally, law has both the concept of intent and reasonableness. As such, a company that inadequately polices malicious and abusive content because that content is wildly profitable (hi Google and Facebook), we should have the legal ability to fine these companies into oblivion, because their behavior is not reasonable and the intent behind it can be divined from their records.

Meanwhile, if you an individual with a blog, see someone making a bad comment on your blog and you ban the person, the law would recognize that as a pretty reasonable moderation practice.
What does a lizard have to do with SRE?
I've been following the whole ventilator fiasco for weeks, esp. since they have a 66% - 90% mortality rate with corona.

This is one of the best articles by far.

A summary is:

- corona's effect on the lungs resembles altitude sickness, not common diseases

- stay on a cannula, cpap or bipap as long as possible, preferably at home

- US doctors are choosing ventilators to prevent aerosol contamination, at the expense of patients' lives.

AMA.
This article downplays the magnitude.

Loss of vertical stabilizer control is very, very bad...
Imagine having WireGuard wrapped up in PulseSecure or one of the other 'enterprise' solutions. We'd see silly exploits in no-time. Not that WireGuard in itself is perfect, but those enterprise products have not shown any benefit over 'the rest' so far. (except more money moving around and giving sales people jobs)

It's often not the protocol that has the problem, as with OpenVPN, it's whatever gets layered around it usually causes the issues (as was with those 'SSL VPN' solutions and stuff like Citrix).
... and the recruiter said, "welp, I tried to find a U.S. citizen and couldn't, H1B visa here we come!"
But. That’s what they say in the book.
Using anything by Google (except Gmail, it seems) presents such significant platform risk such as aggressive monetization controls, shutting down the platform, accidental DMCA violations, and critically — being unable to exit after — that I'm not sure "free" is good enough.

I'll try someone less likely to exploit the network I help them create.
Hmm, fair enough. This is ~what I was thinking, making inference from their flow through the site. I have seen that book on the desk of design folks I've worked with, but I've not looked through it... not a bad idea though. Thanks.
Hey everyone - Seth from Google here. Thank you for all the positive comments about the book. I'll be around to answer any questions you might have. As noted, the book can be downloaded for free in digital formats.

PDF: https://landing.google.com/sre/static/pdf/SRS.pdf

EPUB: https://landing.google.com/sre/static/pdf/srs-epub.epub

MOBI: https://landing.google.com/sre/static/pdf/srs-mobi.mobi
> As a user of their cloud services, my perception of their reliability is pretty low compared to competitors. I still like GCP the best though.

I guess we tend to notice more the flaws of the services we use the most
This is the standard scream of incumbent players when they want to discourage regulation. It both ignores the fact that what's "reasonable" for an incumbent monopoly and a small startup are different, and that the law generally accounts for scale.
Genuinely curious: What secure and reliable systems has Google built? Nothing really springs to mind.

Android, their most popular end-user product, is a security disaster [1].

Chrome, "the most secure browser in the world", has a huge list of serious vulnerabilities [2].

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~drt24/papers/spsm-scoring.pdf

[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224...
Unless and until there is a vaccine.
The array is 256 entries big, because it's a palette for an 8-bit VGA color mode, where each pixel is an index into it. The link is very obvious and natural here.
Botnet detection using Deep learning
As a user of GCP I agree. And anyway, bad things happen, a few bad things if handled honestly and transparently do not affect my trust.
I love postgresql.

Did business with a startup, signed up, started getting service, they play an intermediary biller / payor role.

Because of an issue in company name used in signup their billing system fell over and didn't setup billing.

But what was crazy is a quickly realized this shop was a noSQL shop. NOTHING connected to anything - so since they hadn't built any reports to cross check any of this they literally did not notice (I noticed other consistency issues elsewhere).

In a SQL database this stuff especially around accounting / money is 101 stuff, but noSQL seemed to really struggle here based on how they'd set it up.

I finally bugged them to charge us, but even that was a bit goofy (basically it looked they exported some transaction to a credit card system - but I doubt had any logic to handle failed payment issues etc).

We have one other vendor where the amount actually charged is a few pennies off the receipt totals - issues with doubles, rounding and application logic or something which doesn't simply use the same number (from database) for order / item detail and total and billing.

So at least in finance / accounting, a ledger which is basically a source of truth, and is linked / summarized / etc in various ways to other parts of systems (sales tax, receipts, credit card charges by order etc) really results in some free consistency wins that don't seem to free in nosql land.
Will investment into autonomous cars dry up in the short term?
Wow, nice job. Women is one of my favorite bands.

I randomly get these weird urges to build playlists around certain bands or songs, so this sort of service helps a lot. The others I use, which take way more work, are last.fm, rate your music and Pandora.
Great question. As an O'Reilly author myself, I can tell you that we have no control over the animal selected. There's a fun animal selection process, but the publisher's decide.

Disclaimer - I work for Google and worked on this book.
Does anyone can tell anything positive about her?

I am not saying there isn't any, I don't know her. My limited knowledge about her, is that while she was chairwomen and interim ceo, Firefox marketshare dropped a lot, while her compensation went up a lot - and it seems she was responsible for firing 70 people from the mozilla workforce, while she never wrote any line of code of firefox.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/86-browsers/13394-mozilla...

So from my limited understanding as an outsider: she does not really seem the best fit, for the job.
This is an editorial (i.e. the authors' opinions) rather than a study with patients. It provides yet more opinions similar to those we've already heard.

Nothing new here.
I have been using LightShot ( https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html ) on my Mac for quite a while now. Does a neat job of what's it supposed to do.