skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WTF yes they are. Only an utterly dysfunctional corporate culture would tolerate putting people under that amount of stress.

Ignoring "be a decent human being" for a moment, and only looking at the money (because this is one way to communicate with dysfunctional corps): companies have a duty of care to protect their staff from harm, and this includes mental distress. By not addressing the abuse the company is leaving itself open to costly legal action.
You have part of it reversed I think. The candidate seeds were found by the distributed system and the last 700k were analyzed on a single computer.
Uber Wasted $2.5B on Self-Driving Cars
Do you have any good references for SA? Thanks!
I think it is just an incomplete statement that sounds deep but is actually meaningless.

In what regard is life on earth insignificant and what is this sentence trying to convey.
Oh good, I'm not fired. My company's entire communication infrastructure is just down.

Was worried there for a second.
Whew this is a relief. I thought maybe Rob Pike hacked my Pi!
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https://copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf
Microsoft's "official" status page, which they will usually refer you to, can be found inside the admin center. They've been criticized in multiple previous incidents however, for experiencing an outage then telling people they can get full updates in the admin center, when the admin center requires a functioning logon to a service which is down at the time.

The page you've linked is kind of the "our real page is down" page, and after the issue is resolved what we usually see is all that replaced with something like "go check the admin center for outage information".
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. It leads to discussions that are predictable, nasty, and dumb. We're hoping to avoid those here.

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Are you saying that they are lying about the judges quotes?

Here is another source

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/apple-vs-epic-hearing...
Yes, I said that in the next paragraph. The debate is about whether or not a certain personality types are..

a) more appropriate as moderators.

b) able to (emotionally & psychologically) withstand the type of content they are tasked with moderating.

It's therefore my contention, based on the research I could find, that an Open personality is sufficient to fulfill both criteria assuming that we don't want moderators making distinctions beyond a certain point (e.g. is this content criminal/evil?)
Still no data checksums .. I will stick with ZFS
> I'd be a lot less at peace if I didn't see really good operators make it to the top using their own tolerable measure of this behavior

Fair points here, and I do think the amount of disgust generated by this environment varies considerably by individual. One thing that contributes to that feeling of disgust for me is that being authentic hasn't always come easily. If you are someone who has had to hide aspects of yourself for your own safety, or perhaps worked to overcome some mental illness, it can be a hard pill to swallow to go back in the metaphorical closest just to earn brownie points, but I digress :).

I've read your link before as well, and unfortunately I must count myself among the losers, at least so far. I've been clueless and even attempted some minor stabs at sociopathy (as defined at the link), but without much success.
Which subsequently impacts Azure AD B2C. Our SSO is down on all of our sites.
Covid 19 death toll as September 28 is 1 million [1]. Not millions. Please, don't spread misinformation.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus
Yes, nobody uses email anymore. That's why 99% of websites have an email signup blocker for discounts, or a newsletter, or just for the heck of it. But they do want that email address.
In the Bay Area at least it looks like Facebook Marketplace is the new Craigslist. There have been dozens of these ads on there on any given day in the past few months.
That Gervais Principle series, and the Company Hierarchy chart that opens it, was one of the first things that came to mind when I read this article.

My takeaway from the Gervais Principle: the only way to win, if you're not a sociopath, is to be a loser.

I've made my peace with that fact.

Or, well, a little more positively: just try to avoid the whole corporate rat race all together. But it often has a way of finding you as this great HN comment, which was actually the first thing that came to mind, explains:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18003253
Half-OT:

Can anyone recommend a game engine for making games in Minecraft style?

Preferably something that runs on multiple platforms and has some kind of map editor.
I guess it begs to be asked: why has McAfee decided to IPO now as opposed to any other time in the past few decades?
Storing hydrogen is much more complicated than storing methane. Not to mention the challenge of moving hydrogen from the production location (probably close to a river), to the storage site. Hydrogen rapidly corrodes metals, turning them into metal hydrides. Hydrogen molecules are small, and they permeate through metals effectively increasing surface area. Even if storage is widespread, transport is challenging.

Hydrogen gas would be useful for things like shipping. Such gas would likely be produced close to the port through thermochemical means, powered by a nuclear plant. This would minimize the amount of pipeline that needs to be built to transfer the gas to ships.
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A predicate is a computer program that accepts an input and returns "yes/no." A type system could be an arbitrary predicate which returns "well typed/not well typed" when given a term. But obviously there must be some difference between types and predicates, such as extensionality -- the type of an expression can be decided by examining the code alone.
Because we built the phone, we know what is the "state" of the phone and any information in volatile storage can be persisted in non-volatile storage.

I can't think of any biological analogy for that. If/when there is a mechanism to save and restore the state of a human mind, we will have to add more nuance to how we talk about dying.
Zoolander couldn’t turn left, not right
too bad we are going to run out of water soon. such exciting times we live in... more war and famine. yes yes yes
Modern Flow
39 is my guess.
365+39=404
In what way do you think life on earth is insignificant and how is this changing?

I hear this a lot, but it always seems like an incomplete thought. What is the measure of significance here? uniqueness? Mass? Space?
It's only the start of the 20s. It's too soon. It's all happening too soon this time around.
I think the real reason is more that detecting and handling abuse would require personnel. This is the one area that makes google and youtube really successful: they've managed to offer services with an absolute minimum (or outright absence of (human) customer service). This cuts out a lot of overhead.

It also lets them avoid a lot of difficult decisions wrt policing speech which is something youtube has established a long history of being awful at.
The issue is that pirating games is a lot harder nowadays. Almost all multiplayer games have protections in place that make pirated games impossible to play online with people who legally bought the game, and for single player games updating means redownloading the torrent.
> atime doesn't quite work because it makes a read operation into a write.

I remember discovering this little fact a lot of years ago. It really shook my confidence in the existence of a rational world. Then I learned about noatime and never looked back.
well, not really
Azure DevOps' Git is also down (a git pull hangs forever) which is a bit surprising. I wouldn't have expected SSH key authentication to depend on Azure Active Directory.

Microsoft Teams also appears to be down so it's not just authentication that's affected as I was already logged in and it still doesn't work, just hangs trying to load forever.

Edit: appears to be resolved at 1:07 am London time.
That was part of the argument at the time: you aren’t a confused person, you were a registered professional. Clearly, it was also “we would like to make an example of someone high profile to discourage insider trading”.
That's good perspective. I do think it takes too much of my life at times goes towards work but I bet I could make some changes to make that better.
"The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) dates all the way back to 1970 in its original form, and exists to protect consumer rights when it comes to “accuracy, fairness, and privacy” of credit information. According to the FCRA, as a consumer, you have the right to: Be told if information in your credit report has been used against you. Know what’s in your credit report. Access your credit score. Dispute incorrect or incomplete information. Have incorrect or incomplete information resolved by the credit bureaus. Have outdated, negative information withheld from your report. Limit who can access your file. Give consent to your report being given to employers. Limit pre-screened credit and insurance offers sent to you. Seek damages from violators. Be given additional protections if you’re the victim of identity theft or are on active military duty.

"States may have additional consumer reporting laws that extend beyond what the FCRA provides."

(https://www.lexingtonlaw.com/blog/credit-101/does-the-govern...)

See also https://www.usa.gov/credit-reports
I'm holding steady on v5 to Backblaze as the v6 migration path was promised post-v6 release, in June, and still hasn't appeared. And it also appears that support responsiveness has gotten worse.

I run backups on three Macs every 48 hours, then once a month or so I will use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the two more important ones to sparse image files on a backup hard drive which is physically secured afterwards.
For my part I just want to answer basic questions that will help me understand the Linux kernel workings. The assembly and hardware details are a different, lower level issue.
You are still forced to upgrade your edition if you want to use certain libraries. I wanted to the newest versions of some async libraries and the update forced me to update my edition, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to use the libraries as they required me to use the async language feature.

Also, editions are no response to the issue of new features being added to the language, changing what is considered idiomatic, okay, etc. If Rust turns out to evolve constantly like C++ has in the past, then it'll be hard to keep up with it, in addition to the great one time cost of learning it in the first place.
> When an iPhone or AirPods device uses up all the recharges available in it's battery, that shows up as profit in the numbers Apple uses to make decisions.

You make it sound like only the batteries in Apple devices have finite charging cycles, which is obviously not true.
In that conceptual framework it seems life doesn't have non volatile storage at all, so it seems a bit of a non sequitur to use it in an analogy with computing systems.

The closest I can come up with using that framework is plasmids. But if you squirreled away the plasmids of a plasma before ceasing all of it's operations, then injected those plasmids into a new copy of the bacterium, you'd still say that the original bacterium died.
Think of it the way we wrote division in grade school, like:

___
113|355
There are practices for informative writing that have been developed over decades and decades that recommend, among other things, defining initialisms on first use.
Thronos Air - $13,999. Wow, that seems excessive.
Apple vs. Epic hearing previews a long, hard-fought trial to come
And it's been the subject of much criticism, such as yours, although none have really stuck.

I wonder if the same can be said within China?
Wall-E had the hilarious floating thrones as well.
My uneducated guess at a summary after reading and watching the video; which is like distilling a Nobel prize effort into a sentence, it seems the two big parts are

a) The clouds are a static map that is placed at a fixed location and moves over in a known pattern per time-step. So by extracting the cloud map and correlating that to what you see in the image, because you know where the clouds started you can get a good idea of where you are in the map.

b) A high-up waterfall has a low chance of spawning because high waterfalls are rare to even try generating; and additionally it requires rock and air around it, further reducing the chance it can actually occur.

So (a) lets you know where you are, then you figure out the waterfall location from that (a lot of tricks described above to figure out perspective, etc.), then use elements of (b) as a fairly fine sieve on the generator ("could a waterfall generate at xyz") and you have a tractable way to find possible world seeds.

Maybe? A very fun project, anyway.
Contrast that with these words:

I pledge Allegiance to the flag

of the United States of America

and to the Republic for which it stands,

one nation under God, indivisible,

with Liberty and Justice for all.
This seems similar to the rocketbook, but more permanent and less reusable.
You and half the country. The rule is actually you match the lanes left to right. Aka if two lanes are turning left into a three lane road the second from the left goes into the middle.

I suspect that people happened to have just zoned out during this part of the class, although a friend of mine recently said he was never taught that one is suppose to stay as far right as needed to allow people to pass on the left either.

And its not just random drivers, the more esoteric parts of the law (driving on the shoulder in TX, free right turns, uturn laws, center turning lane, etc) aren't even understood by many traffic enforcement officers.
How do app developers make money with F-Droid?
There are 2 kinds of options: calls and puts. Calls allow you the option to buy 100 of stock at a certain price any time before the option expires. Puts are the opposite, they allow you the option to sell 100 stocks for a certain price any time before they expire.

Note, that I said "option", you're not obliged to sell or buy stocks; however, if you let the option expire you lose the money you spent on the option.

I haven't bought options so I can't tell you exactly what the price of an option is relative to a share (some posters say 100:1), but it would have to be much less than the price of a share to be worth it. Since to make money from an option, the stock has to move enough to pay for the price of the option and if the option is too expensive, the stock price would have to move a lot.
I have always been very sceptical of software moving to the cloud.

Me too. After a disastrous episode with DropBox while travelling in foreign countries nearly a decade ago, I instituted my own File Server that's accessible via the Internet. All of my data is 'safe at home' with daily backups.
Eh, I think if you replaced all the people with others, but left the power structure in place, you'd get a similar result. That's why it doesn't just happen at MIT, but at pretty much every university I've heard the inside scoop on.
Gut feelings, obviously.
I am in this photo and I don't like it.
After they abandoned my platform after supporting it and promising to always support it, and after they failed to support Linux, I decided not to pay for any of the newer versions and stop playing the game. Don’t get me wrong, it looks great and is decently fun, but it feels incredibly limited to even Frontier.
Sales is completely different because individual contributions are far easier to measure than e.g. engineering or product management.
G Suite account recovery for cancer widow advice
Google G Suite issue for cancer widow. Her blog domain is expiring in Google Domains on her LATE HUSBAND's account. She is the estate executor. She can read his emails via his phone. If his GSuite password is not in KeePass, what recovery options does she have?

My friend was 38 years old and didn't even know he was sick until January & died from an aggressive cancer by March. They were not prepared for this. Fellow geeks don't turn your home into corporate IT and make your spouse & kids feel trapped by technology while grieving your loss.
Genuinely curious.
Have you given any thought to the long term consequences of the zero sum game in a society where rapid technological innovation is making it increasingly easy for a single individual to say, release an already developed bioweapon, to end the species?
You're right — fixed :)
This reminds me of the time I booked a vacation rental in Italy on Expedia and then realized it was a scam after looking through the confirmation email. The phone number wasn't Italian, and googling it resulted in finding forum posts about other vacation rental scams. Reading through the fine print, it became obvious that it was a wire fraud scam (wait until after the free cancellation deadline, then require a "deposit" via wire transfer, or cancel and lose 50% of the booking fee. Either way, the property doesn't exist.)

I used one of the photos of the property's balcony to confirm that the venue couldn't possibly exist at the address on Google maps/Earth. A reverse image search didn't turn up much, but I was able to track down a distinctive cathedral tower in the background, then match other less unique background features to eventually find the real location of the balcony in the photo about 10 miles away in another town.

I then tried to cancel the booking, and expedia's site glitched out. I had to call in to get the refund processed. I also emailed Expedia and several other similar sites with the same property listing, telling them about the scam and providing proof. Last I checked, the scam booking is still available to be made on Expedia and other sites.
Manual backups fall by the wayside in every environment I’ve seen them used. You are a better person than me and those are me.
I’m a big fan of backblaze for this reason.

As an aside, I’m surround by people who consider cloud syncing to be a backup, and just yesterday witnessed someone in the grief stage when they deleted a load of photos to save space because they thought they would remain in the cloud. They had even clicked through the “delete delete? Are you sure?”.
When Bezos announced the fund via Instagram, he said that he would 'begin issuing grants this summer'. Summer ended 6 days ago. I'm going to out on a limb and suggest that this concern might be a tad premature.

I have zero doubt that Bezos will spend the money he said he would, and much more. It's straight out of the mogul handbook. It's what Rockefeller, Carnagie, and Gates did, and many more before them. Bezos has made a name for himself as a (ruthless) businessman, and now he wants to make a name for himself as a philanthropist. The man did not announce a fake 10B fund to gain momentary praise. He will give away this money (and much, much more) because he wants to build himself a legacy.

As of now, he's six days behind schedule. If he hasn't made in grants in a year or two, then it might be time to give him shit. But six days? C'mon.
Yeah I just realized that too. The spacebar should be 2u instead of 3u.
I would think so, if it weren't for the fact that similar stories come from so many different Ph.D. programs, at so many different universities, over so many decades.
> The major downside of having an “always syncable” data structure is that it gets really big, really quick

Perhaps it would be prudent to read the actual article before tossing off this sort of comment since it's indeed the whole point?
I really like what you're doing here, but oh my goodness that Jsonnet cries out for a more readable format which lets one focus on the semantics more than the mechanics of the mixins.

This looks way more legible to me:

(service make-it-rain (gocardless/make-it-rain)
;; Example service called make-it-rain, powering a dashboard of falling
;; gold coins whenever anyone takes a payment via GoCardless.
;;
;; Banking teams love money, which is why they created this dashboard.
;; It's officially owned by banking-integrations, but core-banking
;; sometimes optimise the React code.
;;
;; It consumes data about new payments from Google Pub/Sub, and has a
;; separate Google Cloud Platform project for each of its environments,
;; of which there are two: staging and production.
(team banking-integrations)
(alerts-channel make-it-rain-alerts)
(google-services pubsub.googleapis.com)
(environments
;; By default, every environment should have banking-integrations as
;; admins, and core-banking as operators (they provide on-call cover
;; for the falling gold coins).
(* (admins banking-integrations)
(operators core-banking))
(staging
(google-project gc-prd-make-it-stag-833e)
(argocd.new (cluster compute-staging-brava)
(namespace make-it-rain)))
(production
;; Unlike most services, the production environment should permit
;; a non-engineering team to open consoles. Sometimes we take a
;; manual payment outside of GoCardless, and banking-operations
;; open a make-it-rain console and run a script, so we don't miss
;; any gold coins.
(operators banking-operations)
(google-project gc-prd-make-it-prod-1eb1)
(argocd.new (cluster compute-banking)
(namespace make-it-rain)))))

It would be really easy to write, too. Basically a service takes a mandatory name & repo, then all other elements are mixins. You could take a couple of different approaches with the way the environment mixin works, too. You could still compile it to JSON, if that's what you need downstream, too.

I think there's a huge win in having a more man-readable, machine-computable format that JSON or Jsonnet: as the system and the tooling grow, I think eventually the Jsonnet will become an unreadable mess of spaghetti (some might argue the example already is!), while a well-thought-out S-expression alternative would not, I think, have the same problem.
This is how you do that:

Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (<a href="...">CRDT</a>)

...then you use "CRDT" for the rest of the document.
Well I didn't mention programming skill, I just mean like, the ability to solve one's own computer problems. Knowing how to touch-type, or knowing keyboard shortcuts.
Don’t you just love this timeline?
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>I'm not sure your vitriol is called for here, it seems very easy to selectively enable and disable monetization [1].

Easy for who? And for what purpose?

Implementing an HTML tag that will attempt to charge you money is wrong on so many levels.

If I walk into a store (click on a link), even though I know there's stuff to buy there, the store (website) doesn't have the right to charge me just for walking into the store (hitting the landing page) -- unless they clearly let me know that (perhaps a big sign on the door?) before I enter the store.

And as for what you would or wouldn't do, that's great! You're a stand up guy[0].

Sadly, there are way too many people who would abuse this in a hot minute. Especially since many folks wouldn't even find out about it until they get some sort of transaction notification (with a credit/debit card, that could be weeks).

[0] N.B.: That's not snark or sarcasm. It's good to know that there are still other people who will do the right thing because it's the right thing to do. Thank you.