skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of people here, me included, are well aware that despite your best intentions and best understanding and application of testing, things can go drastically wrong at or after launch of a new anything. Eventually we learn what the issue is and make sure it doesn't happen again. But if you look at all the tests we have in place, you have to remember that a significant number of them came from discovering stuff in the field rather than before the launch.

This applies to everything from building bridges (University of Miami), through software products (Mars Climate Orbiter) to designing new medicines (thalidomide / paroxetine).

Arrogance that something is 100% safe is only ignorance. The point is we'd like to understand what the known risks are and the mechanisms are. Some of us would like to see a few hundred-thousand cars go over that new wobbly cantilever bridge design.

This is different from complete ignorance and denial which is a separate issue.
As someone who works in medical devices, there's huge sections of standards referring to confirming that software and devices reach the intended user untampered and analysing the risk of selling to an untrained customers and things like that.

The long and the short of it always boils down to, it's not worth the risk to sell to individuals. Because if something goes wrong and someone is injured or killed, the regulatory agencies are going to come down on you like a ton of bricks

I would assume similar practices exist for pharmaceuticals.
Nothing surprising here.

Travis CI made their exit few months ago with a Venture Firm , every venture firm use the same model of "Hibernation" to get cashflow from the platform without new investment.

Only two option to do so :

- increasing price

- reducing cost

Removing the "0$" price for Open Source Project is a disguised way to increase the price...

It's likely the majority of the staff was laid off and the project is now hibernating living from acquired customers not adding new feature or change.

Just being used as a source of Corporate Cash Flow.
> massive problem with trivial things like indentation.

Nope, someone wrote an article arguing for fixed formatting and Bozhidar Batsov decided to reply, but pretty much what he said is what is accepted by Clojure community anyway.
The living example of the aphorism "Si vis pacem, para bellum"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem,_para_bellum
The definition of "an acceptable FPS" has changed over time though. I certainly remember playing a lot of 3D games in the 90s that ran at 20FPS or less and were considered playable.
Hospitalised cases lag infections by weeks. For some reason you're completely ignoring the positive test results, which show a very clear correlation with lockdowns.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/08/covid-cases-an...

We shouldn't expect hospitalised cases to fall immediately - although they have been falling for the past week or so. Lockdowns - even excluding schools - clearly are effective at reducing transmission rates below 1. Unfortunately the lesser measures we're currently under don't seem to be - as cases have plateaued and are starting to rise again.
This is a pretty wild spin to me, if those taxes came with clean streets and blowjobs the well paid non-bazzilionaires wouldn't be leaving for QoL reasons. Why should people feel loyalty to a city that has tons of money to go around for bottomless budget traps like junkies and dregs from out of state but nothing of significance for the people who actually make those support programs possible in the first place? The only reason before was the money and now those earners can get that money while living in a less exploitive environment.
I think what it needs is a filter you create yourself that defines "playable" and only those games get the green light.
How it was measured:

> Both countries sent teams to climb the mountain using GPS and also trigonometry to make the final calculations.

> “Once the surveyor’s beacon had been placed on the summit, surveyors at stations around the summit measured the distance from the six points to the beacon, which meant at least six triangles could be calculated to determine the mountain’s height,” Jiang Tao, associate researcher at the Chinese academy of surveying and mapping, told the state-run China Daily.
Probably better source, the blog post at Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/oblivious-dns/

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25344220
I Am the Facebook Algorithm and I Come to You Now, Requesting a Swift Death
Some people find it scary, but I find it reassuring. The investigations always show an insane number of things that had to go wrong in a very specific way for the crash to happen. No engineering is perfect and things are going to fail, but watching those things shows how effective the swish cheese safety method is for 99.999whatever% of flights that never crash.
Perhaps you've hit a run of people submitting dodgy or bogus work?

One of the other commenters mentioned people doing phone screens who were clearly not the people in a f2f interview.

So maybe it's something along those lines? eg: people who've not really written the code, then being asked to edit it... and boom, they're screwed.

If you're having a run of people doing that though, it sounds like something about the way you're finding candidates needs adjusting. Maybe try through a different avenue?
A few years back, I called up our local newspaper to start a subscription. Called the number on the website, and a real human person answered the phone. I was so surprised that it wasn't at least an initial phone tree that I actually stumbled and had to apologize and explain myself.
What about burning? is it nice instead?
> Insurance is an old and established business, many learnings already exists. The industry presumably is quite good at estimating and pricing risks.

This discussion is going circular. The "estimating and pricing risks" IS the premium. Which is all anyone in this thread has been saying.

I agree that insurance is cheap for the piece of mind. Which is why I have all kinds of insurance. Still most people get nothing out of an insurance, and some people get more than they've paid.

I'll try to summarize it in another way:

For regular insurance, what is paid in by buyers is X. And what is paid out is X - premiums (overhead, risks, estimates, etc etc etc). That is much less than 100%.

In the case of the shipping scenario, ~100% of what is paid in, is paid out to affected parties.

That seems pretty effective, albeit all participants now own the risk, but save on all other premiums.

If you think there's a better way, I'm sure you can take a smaller premium than the alternatives and make a lot of money.
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I've pushed a Megapixels update that makes the app launch a bunch faster and the camera preview is a lot smoother too
If people weren't upset at being refuted before they definetely would when they paid 25$+ for it, no way that would be worth the headache
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Sounds a bit like KEO [0] which was intended to deliver messages back to earth 50,000 years from now. I first heard of it in 2002 but it still hasn't launched and I guess it never will.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEO
I’m good with the Apple’s privacy-oriented stance. But I can’t stop to think what will happen when advertisers knock on Apple’s door trying to get their hands on the users’ data that one else can access. Is Apple going to sell it out for more profits?
Unfortunately this is not the case in the US thanks to qualified immunity...
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A World of Communes
Eventually sure - but in the start one road block I see is not just total numbers of accidents but also the way it fails. Human failure modes are relatively well known and we build our infrastructure around them - AI not so much.
> we could be dealing with very highly infectious airborne virus, that is capable of spreading widely from a relatively small number of symptomatic and pre-symptomatic super spreaders.

The calculated R0 does not support this theory. Measles works this way. R0 for Measles is > 10

> that current public health interventions orientate around isolating individuals whether they are symptomatic, asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic

Everywhere, the restrictions are higher if you were tested and/or is suspected of having Covid. Of course a lot of people DNGAF about the restrictions, which is part of the problem.

Again, if your theory that people showing no symptoms do not transmit the disease then it should be super easy to go around and start finding people spreading it. But it isn.t
Well i am obarun user but beginner so i can't give lots of insights.
I know that artix uses systemd and systemd-libs dummy packages, because most of pkgs from arch have systemd in dependencies, which is completely useless...
obarun doesnt provide these. You can grab a pkgbuild and remove systemd dependency and other stuff.
Your best bet is to go on obarun forums and ask yourself
also obarun provides it's own 66 suite
https://web.obarun.org/software/

This init system obarun provides is bloody fast, you can configure your trees to suit your needs and your system will take 5 seconds to boot.
Artix is a bit like ubuntu of non-systemd arch linux.
This is obarun announcement that was removed from /linux reddit because it critises systemd
https://sysdfree.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/linux-removes-o...
How can the vaccine prevent entry of the virus in cells, yet the virus can still replicate? I can’t understand why they state we don’t know, because of how I image viruses and vaccination works. Can someone help me understand this paradox?
Depends on the terrain, really. I can't imagine riding a bike with no tyres 10 minutes along a rocky path, let alone 10 miles...
The "fluff" of the article answers your questions quite well, imo:

1. The location is either unsafe or the route to get there is

2. The location would be a pilgrimage site and therefore at risk of being destroyed
I just learned of a similar project by "hrvach" this week.

Apple 1 Emulator with wireless PAL RF Output on a ESP8266!

https://github.com/hrvach/espple
> if you do that in computers now, all the RAM will operate at the lowest speed

That’s correct, but irrelevant in this context. In that scenario, the memory is all on the same memory controller, and the memory controller used wants to run a single speed, so it has to be the highest universally supported speed.

Apple could have multiple tiers of memory with different characteristics, but just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I don’t have access to such a test bed, so I can’t speak to what the experience would be like.
> If a group of average men and average women are thrown into the ocean and left to their own devices, after a few hours more men will be left just because of physical strength.

Is that true? I believe women survive longer in cold water, because on average they have a higher body fat proportion.
And are you going to keep your borders closed forever?

And i guarantee some people still have it. There's no way it's been eradicated completely. All it takes is for one infected person to visit 2 people, and those 2 people to visit 2 others.
Probably the least know security mechanism, even more arcane than CORS.

It might conflict with heavy CDN usage, but it certainly should be defined for production use.

Don't really know exactly how browsers use it currently. I think it works as a deny-all as soon as anything is defined with exceptions for the named resources.

Otherwise an 'allow all' security policy would look like this:

default-src * 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' data: blob;

I think that would be worse than not having any, because browsers use some "sensible" default policies against XSS in case nothing is defined.
Texas uni scrapped its PhD-applicant screening AI over bias fears
> Clojure doesn't have a spec at all (it has documentation for the single implementation; it seems to have another implementation which is even more a toy since no real Clojure programs can run on it, because JVM is part of Clojure, really...)

It is true that Clojure doesn't have a spec, but it is very stable. I saw some very minor breaking changes in Clojure, and most code just works after a update (including very big projects). Clojure is very conservative in general, and this is something that Rich says as a explicit design goal.

BTW, are you referring to ClojureScript? Because ClojureScript is far from a toy language, it works well and we use in production. Sure it have some warts, but they're mostly workable and while I am not a fan, I am not a fan of frontend in general so this is probably part of the problem.
Most of these p2p systems need port forwarding. Which half the isps seem to block with botched cgnat deployments.
I completely disagree with this article. It is almost like he assumes that data harvesting at the level of Facebook and Google is normal and should be accepted. Quoting from the article, "Computers emit data as a matter of course, and the Internet makes the transfer of that data free. To strive for a world without the generation or capture of data is to fight against the very nature of technology."

No, my device generates data and I should be allowed to know who is gathering that data. If the application on my phone is doing things like trying to access my pictures or Bluetooth settings, I should know and be allowed to block it.

I have a right to privacy. I appreciate that Apple is making it slightly harder for companies like Facebook and Google to harvest my data.
> The issue is: the evidence they gathered was that her home was specifically NOT part of any drug rings.

If you are dating a well-known drug dealer, expect your house to be raided. This shit isn't rocket science.
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I think Damore is a perfect example of what you can expect if you gonna go against the justice-seekers.
Imagine you have 16 bright circle lights in a straight line, but you want to fill the full string of lights edge to edge with 9 perfectly uniform and spaced circles the same size as the lights?

You can't. You can turn the lights on in a very non-uniform manner. Extrapolating that to all the pixels on a screen, and you can't get quite the image fidelity because some pixels need to be partially activated for ideal images. Best case scenario you do exactly half (one fourth the total pixels) for images that align with your pixels, but at dramatically decreased image quality.
The US vaccination plan is state by state. In many states people working in food service and grocery stores, people under 60 who are overweight, have high blood pressure, asthma etc... will be offered the vaccine in phase 2. It’s not just doctors and the elderly, it’s a huge chunk of the population.

And depending on how many people actually want the vaccine and how many are approved it’s possible that healthy, under 65, non essential workers could start being offered the vaccine.
Of course no one can predict the future, that's true of anything. Not really an argument. We can only go by previous data - and previous data shows that we are anomalous, a tiny blip throughout time.
They're prepared to defend themselves because the individual was non-compliant for 20 minutes so they don't know if the people in the residence were setting up an ambush. I believe it's willful ignorance to ignore the facts of the case. Have you ever educated yourself on police training and tactics?
No clue what part of Google you worked at but that's the exact opposite of the company I worked at. Non-eng lived in fear of eng employees because the latter were widely seen as unfireable regardless of how bizarre or problematic their behaviour could become.
Opened this post expecting to be hating on another power grab dressed up as protocol engineering, but this one seems to actively /reduce/ the centralization of user data collection in DoH. Props to Cloudflare, I'm impressed.
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That's garbage: almost no crime is so time-sensitive and so unique that this is a problem. Heck look at the take down of Silk Road for example of doing it right: they clearly took their time (despite the impact being obviously greater), and no one had to pull any weapons because the situation was executed in a known safe environment.

Police deserve no leeway for this: the evidence points to repeatedly creating a dangerous situation (by them) and then shooting the person they've decided is dangerous (because they created a situation they thought was dangerous).

If there is not immediate danger to other citizen's lives, it can wait. And most of the time, it should wait because amongst other thing that lets you actually make a plan.

The only difference in this case is "could be dangerous" is being used as pathetically thin cover for ensuring the lives of a political opponent and their family were threatened.
Okay I googled it - and it does make sense.

Apparently "halvanden" means one and a half (halv = half, andan = 2nd, but for this "2".)

So, 50 is actually "halvtredsindstyve", which is ((3 - 0.5) * 20)... okay.. this is completely messed up! Only the Danes... only the Danes... making their language even less intelligible. ;-)

For the record, 60 is tredsindstyve, which is 3 * 20.. at least that makes some sense. The issue comes that 70 is halvfjerdsindstyve ((4 - 0.5) * 20) and 80 is firsindstyve (4 * 20), but fjerd and fir look like different words! They inbuilt extra confusion to make it even harder! 90 is halvfemsindstyve ((5 - 0.5) * 20).

It all makes some sense if you understand what is going on. Buy why?!?
It reminds me of today's Twitter. Faster way to get relevance is to be a white, rich, western woman. Most people dont like to be reminded of that inconvenient truth so let's leave Bill Burr to say it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVMmiltdp1U . As the famous saying goes: “If you are going to tell people the truth, you better be funny or else they’ll kill you.”
A castle gives you a hard time when you only have a gun. If the military has aircraft, missile launchers, and artillery, they'll be flattened before any fighting occurs. Plus it's a pretty easy target.
I'm not a Swiss, so I don't know what your army strategists are preparing for, but generally a military staff plans for dozens of scenarios, not a single one. The overall trend of conflicts has changed, but the frequency has not. This might surprise you. There have been many conflicts since WW2 and even the end of the CW

https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Du...

I agree that a bottomless barrel of funding is the wrong approach and they should get it together
Yep, it is still a matter of abandoning the monolith and building a new scalable system in whatever fashion you choose at that time, micro services or whatever.

In today's cloud deployments where cost is not a mega concern (as compared to having physical servers in a DC), this approach is very much feasible.

You could run two systems in parallel (monolith v/s scalable) and ditch the monolith once you have the necessary cutover logistics in place.

Of course, the sooner you do this, the better and it is non trivial to figure out the 'when'
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So, having read the blog post from Cloudflare I don't understand why the proxy (needs to terminate|terminates) TLS.

I thought HTTPS proxying (or rather: Any TCP protocol) was a solved problem by the HTTP CONNECT verb or SOCKS proxies.

What am I missing?
What about a gas fireplace?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25343592

>with privacy

There is no privacy with all proprietary drivers. There is no security either.
I am not sure if I understand what you mean with multi-file and why it matters. As a lisp, the program is already in memory, I can interact with it through the repl. I am sure I can ask it to format itself?

If the program has syntax errors, nothing can happen, how would it know how to format it self if it is not correct?

Perhaps the approach is very different in lisp (and smalltalk which I have some experience with), there is no parsing of the program from the outside - or - if you take that approach and treat the s-expr as dead text you have to sort of reimplement the parser (or the system) in order to have some understanding of it, which in my mind seems very inefficient.
Which one said they thought there was no chance of violence?

I am trained in a law enforcement program and do self study (more than many officers do) on tactics and the law.
The user's IP address is masqueraded by the proxy, and neither the DNS mothership (Cloudflare) nor the ISP get to see both who the user is and what they requested. It's an extremely desirable property DoH currently lacks
Like your article says, most of those deaths are things like less people smoking, and small increases in treating/early detection of specific cancers. But the underlying problem hasn't been solved. That is an evolution, not a revolution. Which is my point - less and less revolutions, more and more money spent, for small evolutions.

> Most other progress depends on cheap energy and governmental policies, which we’re getting again.

Which, again, isn't scientific progress. If it's a sociological problem it's not really a scientific breakthrough - it could have been solved decades ago if the will was there.

In fact I'd say we can gain MORE from sociological improvements, not pie in the sky science.
Yeah. That's the real story here and a very interesting one, but journalists would rather commit suicide than cover it.
It's just marketing. Apple has already shown they will sell you out with PRISM.

Who knows what other backroom deals are happening outside our knowledge. The only reason we found out about PRISM is because the gigantic scale and Snowden sacrificed Everything to let it be known.
I don't mean to be crass but it's amusing to think there's some sort of distinction between "knuckle draggers"and "crayon munchers."

That said - if it was done with a gizmo or a bunch of guys the remarkable thing is that they got it or them into and out of the country. That the says something either about the competence of perpetrator or the incompetence of the Iranians.
America: The Land of Litigation

The key to understanding (at least this particular case) is: The case ... was brought by a Chicago real estate attorney named Barbara Andersen

The key is that this attorney doesn't have to pay anyone to file the suit. She does it herself. She's working pro bono on behalf of herself. A lot less expensive to do it that way.

Maybe she's bored? Maybe she's developed a bad rep and can't make enough money as a real estate attorney? Maybe she just enjoys the lulz? At any rate, all it's costing her is some filing fees. She's probably not paying an attorney by the hour to advise her.

This type of shit would go away if there was something approximating true "loser pays" in USA court. Right now the guy would have to file a counter suit, hire an attorney, and hope he wins the counter suit. And then hope that the judge awards significant damages.

In the meantime he could wind up spending the entire worth of the treasure on legal fees. Too bad he studied to be a doctor instead of a lawyer. :)
Somewhere around "people who are motivated to follow the rules and norms of the game" this made me think of the US election...
Thanks for posting that article.

That article is going to be a bad one for convincing people. They overstate COVID lethality and downplay people's worries about the side effects.

If this article is representative of the public messaging on the vaccine people are going to start being hesitant to take it. We've already seen some of this.

They should instead be talking about the # of people to whom the vaccines have been given and compare their outcomes to accurate COVID stats. This is how I've worked with people who are nervous, but I don't actually have the vaccine trial outcomes (other than # who got COVID) because I don't think they have been published!