skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that employers can no longer silently ignore call-out culture, as it moved from Twitter to corporate Slack and real meatspaces where petitions to punish X and Y are now circulated.

Either they hop on the wagon fully or do something against it, but looking the other way means that real power within the community of employees will snowball to the most effective organizers of new call-out campaigns. Who may or may not have the best intentions, but their incentives do not really align with that of the corporation.

This is really a case of "everything can be overdone". Most people want to have the ability to protest against big outrages such as a KKK-themed party in the workplace. But calling out everything that someone on Slack finds offensive is an overkill that polarizes the community and diverts attention from the actual job tasks that need to be done.

Constant culture wars are, among others, a giant waste of energy and time. Most private sector institutions cannot afford to join them full time.
Octopus Deploy and TeamCity are horrific. Jenkins is hilarious better despite all of its flaws. Concourse CI has a higher learning curve than Jenkins (at least for users, not necessarily admins), but once you get it, it's definitely a good contender. CircleCI is great!
> I assume this is getting down-voted either because is sounds like conspiracy theory

I would imagine that is true and it's because how you are presenting it is absolutely conspiratorial. You seem to be very adamant about involving Fauci with weak evidence which is the MO for almost all other biased conspiracy theorists in regards to this topic.

Fauci seems to be a scapegoat for many peoples frustrations with very little rational reasoning - similar to Soros and BLM. Conspiracy theorists rarely talk about the repercussions of their perspectives or tangible calls to action and instead get obsessed with who to blame and nefarious-by-default tangential financial associations.

Maybe if you addressed some of the evidence in the article or even the content of the comment you are replying to then your comment wouldn't be perceived in the same light.
Looking at that list, Gold looks ridiculously cheap.
I mean Coinbase can be a good investment regardless. It's like investing in a lottery company, that's a good investment, but it doesn't mean buying lottery tickets is...
I'm getting flashbacks to the game Fallout 4. It's a post-apocalyptic open world kind of game, and the first thing you fight, are huge mole rats. The studio (Bethesda) has been acquired by Microsoft recently.
Actually this term is not new at all. A company I worked with called Strongarm Technologies has been using this term for at least 5 years.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160109195713/http://strongarmt...
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I managed too, but the problem is a lot of people who didn't could have been great developers. Your ability/tolerance to math/physics isn't proportional to your ability to become a good programmer (not any more than any other mentally taxing activity at least).
DOJ to Treat Ransomware Hacks Like Terrorism Now: The Full Memo
No, you make your own judgements, but you don't publish them. Otherwise initially legitimate credibility gets amplified to unreasonable levels because everyone ends up circularly reasoning that the more credible people are more credible.
Oh not him! His eyesight and memory are infallible!
Let's be sure to use the same definition of "gatekeepers" for the past and present knowledge. What I see is, people look at the past examples of politicians and religious leaders telling people what to believe, and try to use those to dismiss opinions of present-day domain specialists. Which is a nasty case of motte-and-bailey fallacy.
Crime is a social problem but the US government is especially bad at fixing crime that originates from other countries. See war on drugs, terrorism, call center scams etc. On the other hand, a good team of security experts is very good at preventing computer systems from getting hacked into.
The vast majority of the world's population was born after smallpox was eradicated in the wild.

IDK how many people out of 10 would correctly answer the question "what was smallpox and what was its cause"? One in ten?
Wink wink, you/they should go to jail upon blatantly disregarding something meant to protect us.
You can buy shares in an ETF (exchange-traded fund) that tracks an index (buys and sells to attempt to keep exposure the same as the index).
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Years back I was at a deep learning conference and was reading Andrej Karpathy's blog during one of the talks. Demis hassabis had come in slightly late and sat at the last free seat that happened to be next to me.

He leaned over, asked if I liked the blog, and (slightly proudly if I remember correctly) mentioned that deep mind had hired Andrej for an internship starting soon.
How can Erlang and Kubernetes be compared at all? I actually don’t understand that.

Erlang is a programming language that allows message passing between concurrent actors. Are you saying that, containers are comparable to actors, and that using IPC between them is equivalent to message passing?

Maybe - but that requires the internet to work. That’s a pretty large dependency to bring into what Erlang does in a single process.
>Do you think we should have alternatives to banks

Yes.

>something that cannot be stopped by governments?

No.
Fascinating how your PoV is so fundamentally different from mine, even when archive browsing the web a bit now.

Regarding:

> calling people fearmongers and racists (?)

I remember asian (or of asian descent) acquaintances being spit on and yelled at in the vein of "you're killing us!" on the subway for ostensibly looking Chinese (I'm guessing), at a time when the virus was already likelier to spread from other countries, and I'd say the more left leaning were pointing this out. People doing that don't reach that stage of racebased profiling independently without someone drumming up "chinavirus" as soon as it was no longer feasible to shrug it off. Is that maybe what you're referring to?
Their points system in the warehouses/FCs is literally "survival of the fittest".

They hire anyone, but the "weak" get weeded out pretty fast, so only those who can sustain the rather high workload continue working there.

And tbh, everyone is built differently, some can take much more physical abuse and pain without breaking a sweat, others break down and get depressed.

I'm in the latter category, I sometimes (used to be a lot) complain about my knees and back, but then I see others with healed broken legs and arms still working, limping but doing their hard job. And I think, well, fuck me, maybe I should shut up.

Still, it would be great if companies wouldn't push people to the limit. We have one life, let everyone enjoy it as best as they can.
>"Shi Zhengli herself had publicly acknowledged that, until the pandemic, all of her team’s coronavirus research — some involving live SARS-like viruses — had been conducted in less secure BSL-3 and even BSL-2 laboratories."

This is important for another reason that may not be immediately obvious. The WIV (BSL-4) is ~8 miles from the Wuhan Market. There's a BSL-2 lab (the CCDC) that's literally just a few hundred yards from the market. If the lab leak theory is correct, it may have escaped from the latter rather than the former. Or a visiting worker may have inadvertently transmitted it from the former to the latter before it escaped from the latter.
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> why not just do a bash script with a switch in it?

Because with bash scripts you'd be re-inventing the wheel when it comes to dependencies, among other things.

Make certainly might not be the right tool for having a bunch of "dev commands" that aren't targets/recipes, but bash isn't it either. There is plenty of task runners that allow you to have a single source of truth for dev commands.
43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training
Is there a certain time interval at which you scrape for data?
for example - get data every x seconds.
What is the 'x' here?
This reminds me of Alexey Stachanov[0], Hero of Socialist Labour, and the movement that sprung up around his efforts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Stakhanov
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In retrospect, and knowing what we know now, do you think his advice and direction has been inadequate?
a bunch of school computers running XP? Or maybe the principal still runs xp and only 4 other people visit the site
If field is childhoodPetName and other case labels are e.g., mothersMaidenName, and the common operation is to perform input sanitization, then this new field would have introduced a security hole if it's just ignored.

It's a matter of correctness enforced at language level, and why languages like Rust's match statement enforces all checks at compile time by default.
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yes and if i want to make it responsive i can't change the colspan/rowspan via css. that was my point.
Maybe this is naive, but what the issue here? These people are alive, the documents exist, the physical locations are accessible. This isn’t archeology.

Couldn’t we ... just... check? Like maybe the UN or the group of 7 or something similar?

You shut down the globe for a year, seems like it’d be worth running down all the Rabit holes.
People can have different definitions and still communicate usefully, and I think there is not 100% agreement on the exact boundaries between the two.

That said, for me: they are distinct but related, and that distinction is useful.

For example, Hypothesis[1] is a popular property testing framework. The authors have more recently created HypoFuzz[2], which includes this sentence in the introduction:

“HypoFuzz runs your property-based test suite, using cutting-edge fuzzing techniques and coverage instrumentation to find even the rarest inputs which trigger an error.”

Being able to talk about fuzzing and property testing as distinct things seems useful — saying something like “We added fuzzing techniques to our property testing framework” is more meaningful than “We added property testing techniques to our property testing framework” ;-)

My personal hope is there will be more convergence, and work to add convenient first-class fuzzing support in a popular language like Go will hopefully help move the primary use case for fuzzing to be about correctness, with security moving to an important but secondary use case.

[1] https://hypothesis.works

[2] https://hypofuzz.com
Even though it seems to only officially support CentOS, I gave it a shot on a GCP Ubuntu instance. `pcicrawler` output some info, but `pcicrawler -t` was just blank.

Seems similar to `lstopo`
Amazon's PR department is just making things worse. Same as with the zen cubicle things - it just comes across as here is your dedicated crying space & you're allotted a full 3 mins of crying time per day.

Yes mindfulness etc, but it just doesn't come across as genuine.
> Previous examples of zoonotic sources have always turned up evidence in animal populations within a short time

Which specific examples do you have in mind? In the case of the 2002 SARS outbreak, the most likely source wasn't identified until 2017: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9
'This turns out to be an existing problem, dating back to 2019 when Google said it was fixed.'

(Only tweeted 4 minutes before your post, easily missed)
The bullshit-jobs thesis may be bullshit
A story from a decade back. Setup a site, low traffic, not much change over months. Added AdSense, within days traffic increased.

I was thinking, yeah Google, why not turn the knobs a tiny bit - people will hardly notice and it's win-win for both of us anyway.
I'm not triggered by the word "whataboutism" or "two wrongs don't make a right", they are just word plays to end a discussion.

The way I see it, nobody really cares about emissions, energy use, pollution, the environment...at all. Most people commenting on Bitcoin are likely to enjoy a US middle class existence, or even upper middle class.

They have ACs running all day, 50 electric appliances in their home, move themselves with 2 tons of steel, indulge in purchasing clothes made from slavery in Bangladesh, consumables stiff from palm oil (destroying rain forests), likely regularly eat meat, take airline flights, and produce tons of plastic trash.

The above lifestyle, if it were to be deployed globally, would require 6-8 planet earths, by estimation. Yet there's no concerted outrage, call for regulation, outright bans on any single aspect of it. Obviously because that would mean giving up comforts you enjoy yourself. As it comes to principles, people have none as soon they are tested.

Therefore, it's much easier to attack something you don't use or understand, as there's no personal cost to it. I reject your environmental abuse yet will defend mine.

Still, its a fair and valid point that in a world of environmental collapse, adding to the pile doesn't help. I'm with you on that. I'm optimistic that it will be resolved, and rather quickly. Mining will pretty rapidly become renewable, CO2 neutral, focus on stranded energy, etc. A headline may be forthcoming this week even.

Dogecoin is shit because the creator says it's shit. When interviewed about its purpose, inflation scheme, energy usage, he openly admitted he considered nothing at all. It was a joke. Dogecoin has no functionality nor scarcity. It doesn't even have a development team.

Still, the joke is widespread enough for it to sustain for quite a while. If only enough people hold it, a full crash to zero becomes less likely.

The main differences with Bitcoin would be scarcity, the network effect, institutional adaption, L2 solutions, exchange support, ETF funds, etc.

The difference between a "serious" coin and a shitcoin is easy to see in price movement. When BTC dumps, say 30%, a shitcoin dumps 80%. A shitcoin is speculation only, whilst a serious coin is speculation combined with long term value, or the belief in long term value.
>>No, as long as it has drastic side effects that affect others.

If the side effect is pollution, then prohibit pollution-emitting energy consumption. Don't use this as a pretense to suppress activities you don't like, by singling those activities you personally don't like, among the innumerable many non-essential activities that consume electricity, for prohibition.

The rest of the effects, like retail gamblers losing money on bad investments, are voluntarily assumed, and could not possibly be worse than state-run lotteries consuming 8% of the poorest households' annual income.

>>Poe's law strikes here hard.

I substantiated my claim with multiple examples.
I've found TeamCity's pricing to be pretty reasonable; It's free to start, $300 per extra agent after 3 agents, or $2500/year for support with 5 build agents (which is where we're at right now). It's also 50% off for startups. Compared to any other bring-your-own-agent solution, it's very reasonable.

The dependency bug sounds rough; have you got a youtrack link to it by any chance?
By the time it is deemed a variant, it has been sequenced number of times across the country and the health authorities always have a code or name to refer to this particular strain.
Console hardware tends to have fast processors & cache but extremely slow RAM. Benchmarking a console's memory vs cache access tends to be one of the first things a team of principal game devs do and that information becomes bible for their titles.
Murex does this. eg

Take a plain text table, convert it into an SQL table and run an SQL query:

» ps aux | select USER, count(*) GROUP BY USER
USER count(*)
_installcoordinationd 1
_locationd 4
_mdnsresponder 1
_netbios 1
_networkd 1
_nsurlsessiond 2
_reportmemoryexception 1
_softwareupdate 3
_spotlight 5
_timed 1
_usbmuxd 1
_windowserver 2
lmorg 349
root 134

The builtins usually print human readable output when STDOUT is a TTY, or JSON (or JSONlines) when the TTY is a pipe.

» fid-list:
FID Parent Scope State Run Mode BG Out Pipe Err Pipe Command Parameters
590 0 0 Executing Normal no out err fid-list (subject to change)

» fid-list: | cat
["FID","Parent","Scope","State","RunMode","BG","OutPipe","ErrPipe","Command","Parameters"]
[615,0,0,"Executing","Normal",false,"out","err",{},"(subject to change) "]
[616,0,0,"Executing","Normal",false,"out","err",{},"cat"]

and you can reformat to other data types, eg

» fid-list: | format csv
FID,Parent,Scope,State,RunMode,BG,OutPipe,ErrPipe,Command,Parameters
703,0,0,Executing,Normal,false,out,err,map[],(subject to change)
704,0,0,Executing,Normal,false,out,err,map[],csv

and query data within those data structures using tools that are aware of that structural format. Eg Github's API returns a JSON object and we can filter through it to return just the issue ID's and titles:

» open https://api.github.com/repos/lmorg/murex/issues | foreach issue { printf "%2s: %s\n" $issue[number] $issue[title] }
348: Potential regression bug in `fg`
347: Version 2.2 Release
342: Install on Fedora 34 fails (issue with `go get` + `bzr`)
340: `append` and `prepend` should `ReadArrayWithType`
318: Establish a testing framework that can work against the compiled executable, sending keystrokes to it
316: struct elements should alter data type to a primitive
311: No autocompletions for `openagent` currently exist
310: Supprt for code blocks in not: `! { code }`
308: `tabulate` leaks a zero length string entry when used against `rsync --help`

Source: https://github.com/lmorg/murex

Website: https://murex.rocks
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1) You could just as fucking well be paid in something that doesn't use as much electricity as Switzerland.

2) Electricity is one of the few things that are about as fungible as money. All your blithering about how "crypto uses only the most environmentally friendly energy!" is bullpucky, since that only means that some actually useful stuff must now run on other, less environmentally friendly energy.

3) You misspelled "I sincerely apologise for my unfounded and calumnious accusation". Please stop being such an egregious arsehole.
I saw some research to back this up but I don't remember where. Its not like zero in other places but a far, far lesser extent.
One of the many reasons that I love Backblaze as a cloud backup solution is that they publish these numbers regularly. If there are bad drives in the market place, we as consumers have a much better view of it than Amazon reviews et al.

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
Buildkite's problem is they only support git, unfortuantely.
Except for the Spanish flu, the Brazilian flu, almost every single mammarenavirus strain...
You're selling an enterprise product. The service component of it is going to be key to revenue growth. You should probably be working to get to the point where you can hire professional sysadmins to think about it so that you can disconnect on the weekends.

Either that or get over the "I don't work weekends" thing and recognize that if bootstrapping an enterprise vendor were easy, then everyone would do it.
I have worked on a number of embedded products which ran from compressed root file system from eMMC. The overhead was a wash because RAM is so much faster than eMMC. What you spent in decompression time was covered by reduced eMMC access time.
I think more effective would be if salaries were tied to company revenue (Not profits, as they disappear with creative accounting), so that employee gets a fair share. Offshoring work to countries without employee protections should be illegal as well.
If revenue-salaries gets company under, they could apply for tax credits.
I think unions need a reform and more accountability. Often they work in their own interest instead of employees.
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It would be great if the companies that push people to the limit actually had a good reason for doing so. I don't believe Amazon has one.
Weight, was that a pun?
Unless something has changed, I believe Instagram is still on Django
> From my point of view, the lab-leak hypothesis is presented in a political way and not a scientific way, so it's hard to challenge scientifically.

I think my problem is that I'm looking for a detailed analysis of a possible scenario, but the more I read it seems the lab leak theory is not a single theory, but rather a large number of possible scenarios without supporting evidence for any of them.

So asking for a detailed scientific analysis is kind of hard, because you'd have to look at dozens of possible scenarios, and evaluate each of them separately.
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At the risk of appearing a philistine, I got nothing out of this. Scientists have interesting things to say about our perception of the present. I'm not convinced the same can be said of artists.

In Dan Dennett's lengthy Consciousness Explained, Dennett shows various ways our consciousness doesn't work the way we intuitively think it does. One of the examples is our perception of time. Scientists (I'm afraid I don't recall who) have studied the latency of our senses, and different senses have different latencies. If I recall correctly, we're able to respond to visual stimuli faster than auditory stimuli, for instance. Interestingly, the latency mismatch is hidden from our consciousness, which is to say we experience a sort of 'smeared now'. Intuitively we might think we experience a single point in time, slightly behind the present, but that's not the case.

I was hoping the article would be scientifically substantive.

> "I’m fascinated by all the different ways people think about time," she says. "Some say it exists. Some say it doesn’t exist."

Oh come on. There is interesting work to be done here, we don't need to settle for this kind of thing.
Thank you so very much! That's why I read HN.
Alfredo Canziani is awesome and did a lot of the heavy lifting for this course. I agree with siddharthb_, it would be great to include his name in the title.
I read Biohazard by Ken Alibek years ago and the current situation reminds me of one of the anecdotes in it.

He was a Soviet scientist in charge of creating bio-weapons- the book starts with him planning world war 3.

In one of the anecdotes talks about a lab leak they had, caused by someone not replacing a filter and the the lab accidentally pumping out anthrax all day and killing a lot of people.

The government blamed it on local meat sellers at the market and executed them all. Blaming the local market seems to be part of the bio-weapon-denial playbook.

It's a great (but terrifying) book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0031RS5DI/ref=dp-kindle-redirec...
You basically pay for a tool that scans running images for vulnerabilities, then you have to rebuild images and redeploy them all.

Then you get to version pinning and other things you need for stability and you discover containers are no less of a hassle than patching traditional os were.
The world saw a shark-pocalypse 19M years ago, and we don’t know why
If you want to sell your code, just use a commercial license. He released his code as OSS.
No, there is no public evidence that the miners were infected by the virus. The common story is the WIV sent people there to check if it was a virus. From there it diverges to the WIV saying "turns out it was a fungus" and then an obscure masters thesis about the cases that just assumes it was a virus.
Doesn't amazon already pay way more than anyone else? 15usd an hour, more in most places, healthcare and a bunch of other benfits compared to minimum wage and nothing else at most alternatives...
"Hyperion is offering a ninety percent off sale on all New-U respawns! This offer expires in three-two-one-zero aww, better luck next time."
It is, but this observation generalizes. It's easy to talk brave and be picky if you have nobody that depends on you.