skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I personally realized and often told to people I mentored that consider the promotion ladder separate from your work and your career growth.

Most larger tech companies have some kind of leveling system. You should work with your manager to understand where you are currently and what are you lacking to move to the next level. Start doing those things (even if no-one asks you to do them) in a public way, document everything and share it with your manager. Managers generally want to promote their people but usually only 5-10% of the employees can get promoted in the cycle so they have to fight other managers for the promotions. So the better case you build for yourself, the easier it is for your manager to sell. I find the promotion game is easiest because you just need to do the required thing once to check the checkbox, and the quality of the outcome doesn't even matter much.

For career growth, think about what you want to do or be after this job in the company. Even if you plan to stay in the company, I find it better to think outside of the company, since you focus on things that are transferable, rather than company specific. You skills and general knowledge transfers, political alliances or knowledge of the particular codebase doesn't. For example if you consider being a founder, VP engineering, lead Swift engineer, then think about what kind of skills should you practice or people to know.

Then for work, try to find opportunities in the company to work projects that you actually are interested in, help your career growth or/and work with people you enjoy working with.

The problem what I saw is that people though promotion is some kind of automatic response if they just do their work well and ended up disappointed when it didn't happen. Ideally it would be like that but unfortunately in reality there are ~10 promotions available the cycle, and management has to choose who receives them. Or they would join project they didn't want to, hoping they would get promoted but in the end didn't because they were still lacking other things. Or work you might find interesting or important, might not be something that helps you get promoted. It's just easier think promotion ladder as a side metagame you need to play to win some prizes.

So career growth is about investing to the future, work is about being happy/fullfilled in the present and the promotions just increase your salary, and in some cases access to information and increase freedom choose projects you want to work on.
"Current status: Rolling back the previously described change did not resolve the incident as expected. We're evaluating additional options to remediate the problem."
I like how this isn't Critical (yet)
There was no messaging error. Everyone was talking about flattening the curve, no one was talking about preventing cases. I wonder where this gaslighting comes from. It seems like we don't even need 1984 agencies to rewrite history, people do it themselves in their heads to keep up with the current agenda...
Yup, the article even has Google recommending multiple services and paying for people's subscription to an external service for 6 months.
By snapshot I mean filesystem snapshots as implemented by zfs and btrfs. So functionally they're snapshots, but space usage wise they're incremental backups.
If curious see also

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501812
Could society be a body, the internet its nerves and the economy its blood?
>The AA twelve-step program isn't Gospel, and it wasn't handed down on tablets at Sinai.

>But it does encapsulate a lot of wisdom, and the first step is to admit powerlessness over the addiction.

That's right, except about being powerless. I'm not downing AA, as it has helped many people over the years.

In fact, My brother is a friend of Bill and has been clean for 36 years. And up until the lockdowns, he still went to meetings.

However, the twelve steps aren't a panacea. In fact, some estimate[0] that only 5-8% of those who engage with AA actually end up clean and sticking with it.

I disagree with the idea that you need to "admit powerlessness." And the rest of the pseudo-religious mumbo-jumbo is just that.

Addiction is not a failure of willpower. To beat it, willpower is required, but it's often (usually) not enough.

>Look, it's obvious this isn't a subject you know anything about, and congratulations on that. But maybe stop making confident pronouncements which don't work.

It may not have been for GP, but it is for me -- not just WRT my brother -- but in my own life and issues with substance abuse.

There is no one right answer for everyone. And AA's methods, while not harmful (and often beneficial, even if the message is couched in hokey religious terms) can and does help many people. But it's not the only, nor is it the best, way to help people address addiction -- whether that be alcohol, drugs, technology or anything else.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irr...

Edit: Corrected estimate of success rate for AA.
Fun read.

Only tangentially related... the podcast "Everything is Alive" is really enjoyable. The host interviews a variety of everyday objects: a can of soda, a magic eight ball, a towel, a song, etc.

The first episode, "Louis, Can of Cola", is my favorite.
> In China's case, it is only as good as the CCP dictator. What if the next leader of CCP is corrupt or even worse, incompetent af?

You make it sound like their current leader, who’s no better than Hitler, isn’t corrupt and incompetent af. His incompetence just caused a pandemic that has killed millions of people.
You were wrong then and ESR is wrong now. :-)
Still follows the same logic, why should it be removed for the minority if the majority abuses it?
People don't understand that "fun" is an essential evolutionary tool, and playing is a form of learning.

On top of that there's a nontrivial chance the person you replied to is a couch potato whose quarantine's greatest achievement was binging tiger king. I'm sure they have a lot to lecture others on how a massive educational project is wasting away the talents and gpus of society.

PS: programming career started in diablo 2 and wow. Hear hear, fellow gamer-dev :)
If by "here" you mean the USA, consider this observation written by Neil Postman in 1985:

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism.

Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumble puppy.

As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists, who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny, “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.”

In 1984, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.”

-- Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Because very few people pay for their healthcare. Insurance coverage separates the consumer from the cost of the service making little incentives to market on price.

Additionally hospitals and insurance companies both benefit by overcharging. The insurance company gets to negotiate a discount on the bill, then advertise these discounts to employers and individuals when they sell coverage. Hospitals get to write down the difference between the inflated billed price, and the actual paid amount.

One sector of healthcare where market forces have reduced costs are procedures not covered by insurance. Eye surgery and cosmetic surgery.
> It's not incredible - but it's also not awful or unusable.

If your use case is (1) being vocally excited about machine translation, or (2) having fun in your spare time, then machine translation is good enough for you.

If you have a genuine need to know what something in a foreign language says, machine translation is unusable.

This isn't really a good usability profile.
I spent some more time on this and now have a comparison table, with citations in my doc. V8 volcanoes still look more energetic and happen once every million years. @ancientworldnow, I'd note that the figure of 4 Hiroshimas/second is the measure of Global Warming, not of human energy production. Hansen acknowledges this in the linked TED talk from your citation, at about 7 minutes in ("it's about 20 times greater than all the energy used by humanity"). To get a sense of comparison, I also found that is the total energy released by a hurricane (note, ~99% hurricane energy is released in evaporation, the kinetic is ~1%):

Mt. Toba 74kya, VEI 8/M8.8 eruption energy: 1e21-1e22 Joules

Global Warming: 7.88e21 Joules/year

A hurricane: 1e21 J

Hiawatha Crater impact energy: 3e21 J

Human energy production 2013: 5.7e20 J/year

Mt. Tambora 1815, VEI 7 eruption energy: 1.3e20 J

Largest earthquakes 2: 1e19 J

Mt. Pinatubo 1991, Krakatoa 1883; VEI 6 eruption energy: 8.3e17 J

Mt. St. Helens 1980, VEI 4 eruption energy: 1e17 J

World nuclear weapon stockpile yield (estimate 2, extrapolated from USA): ~1e16 J

United States nuclear weapon stockpile yield 2020: 1.37e15 J

M8 Volcanoes once every million years, but M7 yield > 10x more energy over time:

“Analysis of this dataset indicates that eruptions of size M8 and larger have occurred with minimum frequency of 1.4 events/Ma… While the effect of any individual M8 or larger eruption is considerable, the time-averaged impact (i.e., erupted mass*frequency) of the very largest eruptions is small, due to their rarity. The long-term, time-averaged erupted mass flux from magnitude 8 and 9 eruptions is ~10–100 times less than for M7 eruptions; the time-averaged mass eruption rate from M7 eruptions is 9,500 kg s1, whereas for M8 and M9 eruptions it is ~70– 1,000 kg s1. Comparison of the energy release by volcanic eruptions with that due to asteroid impacts suggests that on timescales of <100,000 years, explosive volcanic eruptions are considerably more frequent than impacts of similar energy yield. This has important implications for understanding the risk of extreme events.” - Mason et al2
Okay, so you can calculate the diameter of a gigantic circle with ~40 digits worth. Big deal. Most mathematical formulas that use pi aren't about circles at all.

I am wondering if there is a physical application that actually would benefit from more than 40 digits.
I was going to buy an EZ myself but went with the Moonlander because of the smaller size as it felt counter productive to have a split keyboard for ergonomics but have my hands hurt because they keep stretching to reach the thumb cluster.
Its only a matter of time before there are no more 'existing sessions'. I also like how they call it 'non-regional' and not say 'global'.
If the censorship of text is complete (i.e. just the text "[censored]" instead of any word at all), then in a false-positive scenario, the "[censored]" will appear entirely out-of-context (since it wasn't the right word to begin with), so there'll be no way, just by reading the resulting text, to intuitively figure out what word the system thought it had recognized.
One of the coolest grep features is exposed in the -f argument (aka fgrep) - it implements searching for any token present in the file argument. This basically implements the Aho-Corasick algorithm and is pretty amazing.
You don't need a protocol "Swiss Army Knife", curl, to query dictd servers. The protocol is so simple, netcat or any other TCP client works just as well.

echo -e DEFINE all $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 '\n' QUIT|nc -vvn 216.18.20.172 2628|col -bx|less

echo -e MATCH all prefix $1 '\n' QUIT|nc -vvn 216.18.20.172 2628|col -bx|less
Forecast? Sunny with no chance of clouds.
Yeah, saw that after writing the comment. This was a doh moment. The tone of the first half of the article and the second half don't reconcile for me. I thought based on the first part that it was still ongoing. Missed the conviction part.
Remember when x5 9s uptime was a thing?
If I'm reading that right, it's O(n) to compute the n-th hexit.
Nah, I prefer the most relevant stuff regardless of the ads. I have a Pi-hole to deal with ads.
Oh well so I have interpreted things wrong after all this time. Though sadly we still don't know if immunity can be achieved against covid19 and flattened curve can do the work.
Not a bad idea. When do you plan to add a privacy policy?
I have two on my keyboard.

One is set to PageUp/PageDown, which I've also set to scroll my terminal.

The other is just the Up/Down arrow, and I don't use that so much.

Both could change what they do if I hold a key, if I wanted volume or similar. Mouse wheel scroll is also an option.
"Some people will abuse it, therefore no-one should have it" is a strongly growing mentality in these days, and woe betide us if we keep pursuing it deeper without proper consideration for each case.
On the contrary, 2020 is a leap year. In such a year, "Microsoft 365" asserts only two 9s of uptime.
>A ceasing of operations and erasure of all current state seems more like death to me.

but some state is preserved in non-volatile memory.
Options are not leveraged 100:1. Rather, the price you see is the per share price. The price you pay is the 100 share price.
This is why I have high respect for Apple, which routine ships new accessibility features and maintains them, despite them being very low usage. A few of those features end up becoming handy for non-accessibility users, like the ability to make your screen black and white on the iPhone or the ability to detect sounds.
Options are awesome. When you are long options, you get massive leverage without the possibility of getting margin called while the price moves against you.

When you are short options you can take down the whole financial system with you.
For the opposite take, I remember a short story with aliens that were intelligent, but not self aware. They instinctively attacked the humans because they interpreted entertainment broadcasts as a malicious attack.
> they're not a video captioning company

I mean, Google kind of are a video captioning company. Google Video was created with the goal of letting you search videos by indexing the automatic textual transcriptions of their audio content. YouTube still performs that role for Google Search; that's why Google's automatic transcription is as good as it is already.
What does it matter? And would an Xcb-based window manager perform well on a 68020 with only a few megabytes of RAM and a 1-bit display?
I’ve done this over the last year on a tiny scale for my own needs: gorillafind.com. It’s from scratch and just for government sites to sidestep some of the challenges (but so far only has 50 sites). The cost per site is around $1/mo for crawling, indexing, converting file formats and then serving up results. It’s difficult but not impossible and very educational. If you’d like to hear more about doing it yourself and some of the challenges feel free to email me with the contact info on the site. My system isn’t open source but I’m more than happy to chat about the research I’ve done and how you can make one.

I’d start off with not doing state of the art because it’s overkill for an “MVP”. And if you don’t need proper browser rendering of pages, there’s open source crawlers out there like Nutch that might work. If you’re making one yourself, the outdated academic papers and presentations by search companies are a good resource as the basic ideas of crawling and indexing haven’t changed too much (even if ranking and other components have changed a lot). A search engine is really a set of related components and there are many examples out there to use as inspiration for your MVP.
Data dump reveals the astonishing breadth of Beijing’s interference operations
They do it “pour encourager les autres”.
I wonder how they'd feel about me hopping into the dev-console to just hide it.
And when you die, your DNA can still be sequenced.
Why not writing an article about how you use them?
I assume that’s because there is a parallel criminal charge against the husband by the US Attorney. I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know the intricacies around the language used in this kind of statement, but allegation or not, the defendants agreed to the judgment and that let them be clear of any future charges in this case by the SEC.
These bangs have honestly changed the way I browse. With Ctrl+T, Ctrl+L, Ctrl+W, and tab-switching, the browser feels like vim in a small way.
Without my mouse, I can open a new tab or switch to a new tab and immediately search Wikipedia, Amazon, IMDB, etc. All of this helps me not need Google if I know the best domain to look in, and it saves time.
Azure AD down. We started getting impacted around 420pm CT.
It's called Office 365 for a reason. 2020 is a leap year, but there is no reason for the outage to occur exactly on February 29 or December 31.

Wasn't there also a widely-publicized outage in 2016?
This is the clearest and most detrimental aspect of shutting this down. So many blind and/or deaf YouTube visitors depend on user-generated captioning.

One nitpick, I would disagree that accessibility features will always be low usage. Many accessibility features have become ubiquitous and essential features of many products. And many people preferred such captions who did not identify as needing accessibility features.
That's strange, I assume it doesn't work when you aren't connected to the internet either?
is this a national risk? - think other countries taking out these massive, saas offerings. must be easier than simultaneously targeting thousands of disparately configured, onprem implementations
Blockpad (https://blockpad.net) isn’t such a bad attempt, but mainly focused towards civil engineers.
I read the whole article, it was well written and fascinating.

But for those who don't read to the end, you will miss out on quite cool link that OP posted -> https://github.com/knadh/dictmaker (He wrote an OS project that runs all the infrastructure for your very own dictionary website.)
> But anyway, the reason people are uneasy all over the thread is quite simple.

That's a nice simple explanation, and perhaps there's truth to it, but people aren't just "uneasy" - if that was all that was going on, there wouldn't be such a massive variance in perception of reality, and I also suspect we wouldn't be observing so many instances of weird cognitive failure on simple tasks. I don't know what the explanation is, but something unique is going on that you do not see in other threads, on more complicated topics.

> Banning a platform this way is a serious interference on the freedoms of expression and initiative, but letting the platform unchecked is a serious offense to the US sovereignty.

I have the same take as you, but ours seems to be a minority opinion. Personal opinions on what should be done about the situation are perfectly appropriate, but widespread disagreement and confusion about what the state of affairs of this rather simple scenario, that seems like something else entirely.
Arthur Ashkin, 98, Dies; Nobel Laureate Invented a ‘Tractor Beam’
> But nothing in Zig would stop me from having a global variable with an allocator, and using that without passing it around.

That's correct and you probably should do that in your own applications, but it will be frowned upon in libraries, and people will not choose to use them if you make that choice.

There's also another pattern, where you stuff a pointer to your allocator in your struct and have your "object" carry around its allocation system, you don't have to pass around allocators that way.
That is awful and why I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud.

Just yesterday I had a similar issue with Resharper, where our local licence server was down for the day. Luckily I was able to enable a 30-day trial. (and I guess Resharper isn't that mandatory to get work done)
yup its authentication. So 365 is one of many top level MS services not accepting new sessions.
That sounds great! I have a workflow that uses a network mounted HFS+ image for Time Machine backups that are then backed up to my GDrive. Anything to reduce the incremental backup size would help this.
> Your solution to anti-competitive behavior is to complete eliminate the competition?

You'll note that I wasn't focusing on anti-competitive behavior at all. I personally don't like sites that commingle 1st party retail with a 3rd party marketplace, because I think they're a bad user experience.
https://admin.microsoft.com/servicestatus
This is (among other things) how people learn to solve groundbreaking problems, and find their passions. Impressive work.
Can you actually have automatic updates for other app stores? Even on 3 year old phones that do not get updates anymore? Because it that is not the case, a lot of users will continue to prefer the Play Store.
I have used CCC in past and liked it, I am currently using SuperDuper[1] which has also been good for keeping a bootable copy of my machine's SSD on an spare 2.5in SSD I had kicking around, in a cheap enclosure.

1: https://shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.ht...
For an office suit? If my computer is on, the LibreOffice is running.

I think I once did something stupid like try to patch GoOffice into OpenOffice and couldn't get it to build. But the distro packages still worked!
The article describes a third way which is neither mtime nor hashes. It's basically a database of (mtime, size, inode number, file mode, owner, group) tuples.

So it still requires keeping a database. But because all of that would come out of inodes, it avoids all the I/O of reading the files' contents.

Compared to mtime, it's harder to implement, but more resilient and at a similar cost. Compared to hashes, it's almost as resilient but much faster.
What would you want to see?
I know many posts in this thread have been jokes, but I do hope this outage helps MS reconsider their offline iterations of Office. I use Office on a near constant basis (writing and building lecture PowerPoints). The subscription model isn't feasible and would ultimately be more expensive in the long term. When Office 2019 was released I quickly picked it up out of worry that MS would shift their academic licensing programs to 365, which they ultimately did.
Being exposed to this as someone who was raised by a hyper-capitalist mother has forced me into therapy because of how badly it messed with me psychologically.

It really put me in a dark place.
I’ve always heard the IRS doesn’t care where your income comes from, just that’s it’s reported. IRS website even talks about how to report “illegal income” and “bribes”.

And the IRS has no authority beyond tax collection. They can’t do a (non-tax) criminal investigation.

Now, could they flag it for the FBI? Sure.
I would expect someone with principles to behave differently. There certainly are principled people at Google (the recent-ish google walkouts come to mind). Maybe the principles I'm thinking of are no longer valued at Google.
There’s no etiquette issue in the principle’s email use. Cc’ing your spouse is your way of communication with your spouse. It does not follow from that that your spouse wants to be copied on the reply. I know this from personal experience as the spouse to someone who copies me on email I don’t care about being a part of. Historically, some were school related. Not that I didn’t care, but the executive summary at this end of the day was enough.
This is more what I meant.
kinda cool, except right now there is an outage with Azure AD and i cant see any mention of it on that site.

not very NEW NEWS...