skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They only want popular, cool stuff - and catering to the disabled and less fortunate isn't popular or cool.

While the former is certainly true, the latter is definitely not. It's literally in the mission statement.
"Most geniuses have terrible shadows that are as dark and long as they are brilliant and tall."

This may be true. But it's not right.
Thats awesome, is there a publicly accessible copy or is it internal only?

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It's not super revolutionary. Other languages (like elixir) have something similar.
It's not clear to me that volcanoes don't release both CFCs and HFCs. Do you have a citation?

I'm looking at the wiki articles, and then at the related chem articles about HFC types and synthesis. I'm not a chemist, but a quick look around makes me think the known CFC, fluorocarbon and halomethanes in volcanic gases would suggest the same or similar compounds as in our engineering uses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_gas#Composition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halomethane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluorocarbon

On Hiawatha, agreed it's not yet dated, though it is recent: "The age of the crater is presently unknown, but an impact sometime during the Pleistocene is consistent with presently available geological and geophysical data." - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6235527/

They also raise the possibility that some of the radar returns indicate it's still hot in the center of the impact area(!). If so, it's probably one of the YDB impactors.

Btw, there's been another one discovered near it: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018GL07.... They say they don't think it's related, though it does still have large features that should have been eroded away if it were really old. We'll see!
It still is, but five nines availability is a different matter entirely!
Here's a funny thing: as of two days after this post was created, pairing hasn't been mentioned once in the entire thread. If this thread is any indication, maybe it's developers who have an incomplete understanding of DevOps.
Azure Is Down Worldwide
Affectings Teams, etc.

Title: We're investigating a potential issue affecting multiple Microsoft services

User Impact: Affected users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft services and features.

Current status: Rolling back the previously described change did not resolve the incident as expected. We're evaluating additional options to remediate the problem.

More info: Existing sessions do not appear to be affected. Affected users are encouraged to keep existing sessions going and to avoid re-authenticating to Outlook.com services.

Next update by: Tuesday, September 29, 2020, at 12:00 AM UTC
Which goes down a encrypted transport connection. The t in https.
I'm going to come clean, I am a shitty software engineer.

I'd like to have things like CRDTs under my radar to pull from when architecting technical solutions. But I don't.

I have been coddled by the bullshit of "just-good-enough" web development for nearly a decade, and I feel like I will be haunted by it forever at this point.

I WANT to employ mathematically proven solutions, but not only has it been 10+ years since studying computer science (and with it, the relevant mathematics) but I never even graduated.

So here I am, another under-educated over-paid GED holding Rails engineer putting together shit solutions I know will eventually leak.

So, having said all of that, is there hope for adding things like this to my toolbelt? And where do I even start? I feel like going back to school full-time is out of the question, because I have a life now. Maybe online classes? I'm curious to hear thoughts from people who maybe came from a similar pit of despair, or otherwise understand what I am talking about.

It's just... sad to know enough that I produce less than optimal work but don't know enough to confidently prevent it from happening over and over and over again. Is this just the profession I have locked myself into?
Yes I don't think you can/should rely on TM only. It's convenient to keep running in the background but you'll still want to do manual backups to multiple places (external disks, Dropbox, Github etc)
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-non-subscription-office-s...
That will likely take years to reach actual users. Many existing phones may never see Android 12.
>I look at a new device, the first thing I need to do is remove notifications I've already seen. Sometimes I have to click into an app and navigate to notifications just to get the red dot to also disappear. Sometimes I have to delete an e-mail notification as well.

That's weird. Is it really that difficult on IOS?

I'm not being snarky or sarcastic, but as I don't use Apple gear, I had no idea.

On my mobile device, I just swipe down to pull up all notifications, then pull them up a bit (if necessary) to reveal a 'clear all' option, and they're all gone, both on-screen and in the status bar.

As for sharing state between all devices, that's more complicated.

I guess it would be nice, but I'm not sure I want to give whatever application that performs such actions that much access into my life. Especially if it was something controlled "in the cloud" (read: On someone else's servers). Even more so if it was owned/controlled by the user data Mafia (Google, FB, Apple, etc.)
> You will not "make it" some day and suddenly reverse course.

There's a bunch of ways this effect shows up all across life:

"How things start is generally how they continue"
(rails feels like rails in basically every part, from the stuff a rank beginner does to diving into the guts for advanced usage)

"This was my last job. Every job was 'my last job'."
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneLastJob

"A hippy in motion stays in motion, a hippy at rest stays at rest."
(the mindset with which you start a thing tends to persist)

And, I don't know if there's a name for it, but the game of Go is legendary for players being able to replay games exactly as long as they can remember the first few moves. If the conditions and players remain the same, why would the game go any differently?

> live in prisons of their own making

I have found nothing more painful or exhausting than fighting oneself; when we hold ourselves back - put ourselves in prisons of our own making - we're both the occupant fighting the bars and the bars fighting the occupant. IMO something like RSI also shows up if you do that long enough.

One way I've found out of it is - and this might sound a little weird - apply a bit of Flatland. A circle is only a wall while you're in 2d; add a dimension (a direction orthogonal to the current ones) and walk around it.

(another way is talk therapy; and meditation trains the "muscles" (and more) that you use for any of this)
I finally figured out what got Google scared enough to get rid of video annotations, when I realized that around the same time they also disabled the ability to make embedded YouTube videos full-screen.

Because, if a website can embed a YouTube video of a Windows desktop; and either use Javascript to make it fullscreen, or convince you to make the video fullscreen and then "animate" the video closing itself to give you the illusion that you're no longer in the video; and then use annotations to turn the Windows desktop video you're now staring at into an image-map, such that the user will click on the video, thinking they're closing a window on this "desktop"... then you can get all sorts of bad things to happen.

Remember: many websites (e.g. blog hosts, forums, commenting systems) that don't support Javascript per se, still support automatic YouTube video embedding by posting a YouTube video URL.
Yep, I can imagine the feeling of doom when the rollback didn't work. Push back from the desk, head droops down, hand on forehead. Then I whisper, "Fuck".
There is work to get Rust qualified for safety critical domains [1]. Someone else pointed out that parts of the borrow checker have been formally proven already. Still a long road ahead, but I'm glad people are looking at it.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/
I've been on a number of conference calls where people (both male and female) break down in tears from pressure or bad coworkers. Tears aren't all that rare or a big deal.
The problem is that nice things require guards. Unless the nice thing is profitable, it cannot exist as such things require that guards be paid for.
Ask HN: Thoughts on how we can alleviate homelessness?
I've lived in the Bay area most of my (32 yo) life and in the past 7-10 years, the level of homelessness seems to be spinning out of control. If you've driven on 580 through Berkeley or parts of Oakland, you have seen encampments and trash piles that would seem unfathomable for the "5th largest economy in the world". It isn't normal.

What strategies/initiatives should be considered outside of the traditional methods (shelters, methadone clinics, street teams sharing helpful resources etc) that may be able to help with this is increasingly prominent issue??
Perhaps, but since I originally commented there's a lot more buzz about an official M$/Linux OS. Microsoft has shot itself in the foot by creating a proprietary OS with so many inane backwards-compatibility throwbacks that barely work and in many cases were only implemented to support features that themselves were removed. It's evident in the inconsistent UIs and Settings/Control Panel fragmentation. Microsoft taking advantage of all of the community support and documentation of the Linux kernel is not just a fan theory but a logical business move and comparable to OS X's new-at-the-time UNIX basis. It wouldn't be Microsoft VS Apple VS Linux in the desktop market anymore, it'd be Microsoft, Linux, and (questionable) software freedom VS Apple, UNIX, and (questionable) user-friendliness.
"The idea behind this is understandable: As social networks decline and anonymity in cities rises, the social pressure to behave in an acceptable way declines as well. China now replaces this social pressure with the Social Credit System so that people even when living anonymously in any city behave in an acceptable way."

Holy sh*t. That's some straight up Orwellian thought, there.
Here are some more citations:
"orderliness is associated with disgust sensitivity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMl8HwDpae0

"We found that trait core disgust was associated with higher orderliness"

https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/cognitive-and-persona...

"We propose that trait disgust is associated with the specific motivation to create and maintain order"

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(14)...

"The results found that Orderliness mediated the association between disgust sensitivity"

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/77383

"trait disgust encourages a generalised search for order"

https://www.narcis.nl/publication/RecordID/oai%3Aresearch.vu...
(and of course, censorship and rug sweeping)
There was a big one in 2018 involving authentication. A handful of datacenters outside of Houston couldn't get enough power and the shutdown procedures prioritized saving data. Some critical Azure system service was only located in that geographic zone and the data recovery priority caused that low level service to fail its migration. It caused a huge authentication failure across all Azure services globally. MS got blasted about it at Ignite pretty soon after.
You don't need any type information at runtime if your type-system is strong enough. You need only types at runtime to do reflective checks, and you need those only if your type-system can't give the needed guaranties statically at compile time.
I just finished convincing old-school management to move to Office365/Azure/Teams after we've been doing everything on-premise, saying we can reduce our maintenance and increase in reliability since we're a small operation. Needless to say this isn't a good look for me.
One method to distinguish between the things we think are real, but are not, is to see what you can change by pretending things are actually like X. Whatever doesn't change - that's evidence that's "real".

To paraphrase, "reality is that which, when you pretend otherwise, continues to be the way it is."
I've gone all in on Microsoft for my company (high Office usage) with O365, Azure and friends and I'm regretting this decision.

OneDrive for Business is almost unusable on Windows 10. The web apps are incredibly slow. Teams is very inconsistent for users between desktop and mobile usage. It's a mess.

I'm planning on switching to Amazon next year. I hope I can find an alternative to the Office situation (maybe offline licenses).
You had to specify if you wanted the nines to be leading or trailing when you signed the SLA.
Off on a tangent but does anyone else feel depressed at the state of TV streaming? We have 3 companies with their own proprietary streaming devices and protocols which all work great inside their own ecosystem but suck outside of it. Apparently open standard protocols exist but implementations are broken or incompatible on tvs and OSs are dropping support.

I have a few chromecasts sitting around but now I have an iphone they are all useless and I have to buy an Apple TV which is 4x-5x the cost of a chromecast and only works on my apple devices.
yeah probably a bad child-rearing approach
Thanks! I was not aware of this news and I'm incredibly happy to hear it.
(though WFH due to COVID has truly brought to bear the shitty upload speed my home connection has)

What’s the old saw about “the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes”? Yeah, that. It would be faster (if obviously not economical) to just mail a hard drive back to the home office every week than trying to back up my entire machine over residential cable internet.
This task would be good for captcha fodder.
teams are still down as seems like everything else.
Playing with an early LED watch chip from Texas Instruments
100%.

The world is based on PERCEIVED merit and performance. Anyone sitting around bemoaning that no one notices or appreciates them deserves to be left behind.
I also don't think captions are used widely enough to make or break a video site.
"Negative factors: dishonest and fraudulent financial behavior, playing loud music, violating traffic rules, making reservations at restaurants and not showing up, failing to correctly sort your waste, fraudulently using other people's public transportation ID cards"

Some of these things are not like the others.
Sadly, I'm not so sure about the last point. I've seen and still see people doing all of the above without doing good work and are considered successful and routinely promoted.
Check out http://www.roomservice.dev

Turns your front end app multiplayer with a library.

They manage the hard part and give you a simple API to get the benefits of realtime/syncing/diffing.
I too use a custom "search engine", because I want to use a different provider depending on language of query.
It's worth pointing out that the trend is seen not just in Japan but in other major developed economies too:

https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/0784d9d63336606d4ca025...

The usual explanation given is that these countries have outsourced their energy-intensive industries to other countries that have a corresponding increase in energy use, but there is reason to be optimistic even when factoring in "imported emissions" of CO2, in the UK, for example:

"While UK carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions peaked in 1972, once we consider imported emissions – such as when the UK imports products that are manufactured abroad – UK emissions peaked in 2007."[0]

Of course, peaking emissions isn't the same as peaking energy usage, but it does assuage some of the concerns about outsourcing our manufacturing to countries with "dirtier" energy like China.

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoracco...
Until a few years ago the Uighurs were exempt- as minority- from the one-child policy applied to the rest of China. Would you say they were being racist against the Han then?
This sounds like a pretty strong argument to make sure the plant is tied in too. I'd hate for everyone to get a break but them.

How frequently do you think this sort of thing would have to happen before your org considered a significant change in arch?
I can’t speak to GA functions, but GA antenna synthesis has been very successful. Probably because the number of decision variables can be tightly constrained.
Additionally, much of advertising spend goes to ensuring your ads are shown rather than competitors ads.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/
Pop OS 20.04, which is derived from Ubuntu 20.04.
My kids' school district is doing all online over MS Teams; things started crashing and burning around 3PM PST (no "Dad Support" can fix MS's servers though).
From personal experience, I've always had better results from Simulated Annealing than Genetic Programming. I hasten to point out that it's entirely possible I've been doing GP poorly - but part of the problem seems to me that GP has so many more knobs/dials/parameters that need to be tweaked correctly in order to yield good results.
If the standard expectation is to find DNA based life-forms, it could be fairly rational to suppose that alien life shares other evolution tricks with the Earth based life-forms.

So alien viruses could directly and initially interface with Earth based life-froms cells (humans,the biota inside the humans, etc.), with probably also, somewhat predictable results. Or at least novel coronavirus like outcomes.
Yeah; that's the real lead here. Outage on Office web stuffs is bad. Outage on Azure AD is catastrophic.
What specific version of one note are you using? The search in OneNote included with office is noticeably better than the OneNote for Windows 10 that is preinstalled. There is an addin, NoteHighlight2016 that adds code syntax highlighting. OCR for text within images is another helpful feature that is missing from many alternatives.
> If I read the article correctly, Time Machine's switching to something similar to overlay FS, but nested? I really hope they get it right: backup is where my tolerance for bugs is really low. ... I've been generally happy with Time Machine's stability, but this is getting me a little worried.

I agree backups are important to get right. I'm not as confident as you are in Time Machine today. I've gotten this message a few times:

> Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on "nas.<mydomain>". To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.

which I'd paraphrase as "oops, we corrupted your backup. try again maybe?"
> A virus wound be absolutely shocking.

Indeed,
it would imply coming from an origin with reproducing DNA.
Use DuckDuckGo for bangs and Google for everything else
Thanks for the writeup! How much did it cost, if you don't mind sharing?
Show HN: Smart running shoes that help improve speed
Yes, they work for the manufacturers, or more likely, an agency of the manufacturers. Most of the retailers even require suppliers to put up their own advertising in the stores - the signage you see sticking out of shelves and on the floor and hanging from the ceiling (which, of course the retailers require minimum spends on - as a way to squeeze margins further in their favor)
> Like when the first parameter you pass to JQuery can be anything in the world: a DOM element, or collection of elements, or an object, or a function

That specific part is called overloading in OOP (java). Don't know about the rest.
Amazon generally doesn't allow employees to purchase AMZN options.
I find One Drive frustrating as they don’t have a gitignore type of option. A few thousand other users agree, but MS has not implemented it.
Please don't post unsubstantive or flamebait comments to HN, and especially please don't cross into personal attack. It only makes things even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
DNA is generally non-mutable, so that's more akin to the (read-only) /system partition on androids. There's still the /data partition which is mutable and gets saved even after you power down.
What are they about?
How much collateral damage from the system itself are you willing to accept?
Thank you for this comment! I remember the radius excess from undergraduate relativity, but for months I've been unsuccessfully looking for its name or a brief reminder of how it works. What luck!
The question "does X have subjective experiences" could be addressed by a theory of consciousness. Such theory should be able to tell what physical systems, and to what extent, are conscious. Interestingly, attempts of such theory already exist: Integrated information theory is a good example.
Having grown up skateboarding and being totally consumed by its subculture, I feel this loss pretty strongly. How awful for his family. Condolences to them.

Forty-six.

Cancer..what a bastard.
It absolutely is (and IMHO the only way I would want to go). It's just that you want to be big enough that the major business functions are handled by skilled folks otherwise it's just keeping 10 plates spinning until you quit.
To do that, they'd have to lower those prices. They have been the same since 2017
Everybody needs to try King's Quest, Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 1/2, and Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis at least once in their lives.

(I still can't beleive the levels of stupitidy this universe must have for Lucasfilm to not have made an Indy movie about Atlantis, instead of that crystal skull crap)
You have to know the root of the tree to do anything:

void *tsearch(const void *key, void **rootp,
int (*compar)(const void *, const void *));

void *tfind(const void *key, void *const *rootp,
int (*compar)(const void *, const void *));

...

rootp points to a variable which points to the root of the tree.

You can't operate on a tree unless you have a pointer to it, i.e., it's root.
Google shakes down alternative payment systems
Also, even though you misunderstood the leverage of options, the complaint doesn’t tell us what kind of price they’d bought in at either.

That is, the stock went up 2.87% the day after the earnings, but they had purchased it over the weeks beforehand (but kept adjusting their bet, both in scale and price). So even in “regular stocks” of 1:1 leverage, the SEC telling us only that Amazon shares went up 3% that day doesn’t tell us how much it went up from when they purchased their securities. Amazon stock had moved quite a bit during January 2018.
Incorrect transformation: (llvm.maximum undef, %x) – undef
Zerologon?
Please don't take HN threads into ideological or nationalistic flamewar. It leads to discussions that are predictable, nasty, and dumb. We're hoping to avoid those here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not my mother, ha. Entering the workforce.

You get taught your entire childhood that the only thing that matters is how hard you work. That you're only as good as your word, and the path to success and happiness is paved by your work ethic.

But that isn't how it works, is it? The people that wind up the most successfully aren't necessarily the people that had the most determination, that put in the most work. (Not that it doesn't help)

It seems you can viably make a living by either working yourself to the bone, or by being really good at bullshitting and office politics.

Having acquaintances that are much more successful than you, yet couldn't produce value if you held a gun to their head really makes you think.

And that's not the worst bit -- many of them don't actually care about their work/job, or what they provide to a company. It's a means to an end, they do as little as possible.

How do you live with yourself like this?