skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>zsync is open source, distributed under version 2 of the Artistic License.

Artistic License 2.0 [1],

>The Artistic License is a software license used for certain free and open-source software packages, most notably the standard implementation of the Perl programming language and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License (GPL).

>The Artistic license 2.0 is also notable for its excellent license compatibility with other FOSS licenses due to a relicensing clause, a property other licenses like the GPL are missing.

Hopefully saves everyone from Googling. At least that was my immediate reaction when I read the page.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_License
"school as the institution taking care of those kids"

But that's the question, right? Are schools facilities for education, or for taking care of kids?

The format is reasonable for education, but not for complete rearing of children. When children, for whatever reason, are not being raised effectively, a classroom is not going to do a great job with education.
This Safari refreshing thing annoys me very much, specially when there are opened sessions that gets destroyed due to that..
The thing about those videos are not the videos themselves, but the testimonies that come with them and the additional information, specially the "tic tac" video.

I don't know what is really going on in those videos, but, in my opinion, this gentleman, that it seems is a professor of epistemology!, is not following the scientific method.

You don't start with the solution and then fix the evidence to it. It's very easy to explain the videos away if you don't hear what the people that was there, or the experts on how the cameras work, have to say.
I don't exist, according to the site
Production Prolog (2014)
Let's try imagining another scenario.

You have ransomware insurance.

You fall victim to a ransomware attack.

You pay US $ 100,000 as ransom.

The insurance company reimburses you the US $ 100,000.

It is clear that financially that is 0.

But from a tax view point, if you cannot count the US $ 100,000 of the ransom as expenses you will be paying some form of taxation on the US $ 100,000 you received from the insurance.
Current AWS engineer here, can confirm. I'm absolutely broken. I'd second the point about the manager and pre-existing conditions making up the job. It's not clear to me if it's endemic, these are big orgs with teams run very differently.

That being said, the on-call sucks. It's really awful, and something I've never seen before. It's also typically the primary cause of team churn for people in my org. This varies, as I've seen other teams stacked with L6 engineers with very little churn (4-8 years of tenure each). This is very much a pit of despair of our own making, but I still haven't figured out how teams like mine get out of it. My own view is that normalization of deviance means that engineers who've only worked at AWS just accept that getting paged many times in a week at awful hours for false positives is OK.

There's certainly a view that the only way to get promoted (which is incredibly difficult) is to create new features or products. You read this of many orgs though, not just AWS. I'm not convinced it's fair to single out AWS. It can be endemic in some teams, and I've certainly worked with engineers who are clearly only focused on shining for promotion.

The worst I've seen was a team go from 8 engineers with > 2+ yrs tenure down to 4 people with < 6 months, over the course of a couple of months. This was for an enormous product. That team had a very tough 4th quarter.

AWS does handle operations failure incredibly well. If you've hopped on a LSE call before, the execution to identify, mitigate and review correction of error (COE) is world class. Doc / design review is also very thorough.

There's ample opportunity to learn a lot during your time at AWS, and many engineers have carved out incredible careers in this place. Just go in with your eyes wide open.
ISO 41001
This is a theory book, aimed at complexity analyses, convergence proofs etc. Useful mostly to researchers.

The 3 you listed are aimed at applications.
ISO 41001:2018 specifies the requirements for a facility management (FM) system to ensure conformity of an organisations FM operation in an effective and efficient manner in supporting the demand business.
Ground reality in all big tech seems to be pretty much the same? Like 1% of the people hoard 99% of the good work?

[Technically I imply a heavily skewed exponential distribution, maybe not exact numbers].
A person without actual expertise dismisses numerous accounts by trained pilots who saw this first hand by Googling for YouTube explanations and calling these witnesses liars or incompetents.

Does this person happen to work in tech?
I think a hot swap system would work best. The central office of an aid organisation could just send new drives along with workers delivering food and other supplies.

I imagine you could keep it relatively up-to-date that way.
Most of the time only a single decade is sufficient to flush out high-flying hype and revert back to fundamentals. How close we are to that point now is anyone’s guess.
Agree completely. That said, ideally I don't want either. Since a lot of people wanted to get vaccinated immediately, I can avoid that and the virus with very high probability. If needed, I'll take v3 or so of the mRNA vaccine.
For me, I'm not quite ready to give up on the dream having a job that I actually enjoy. I'm still young, so effort I put into my career now will pay dividends for the rest of my life. Giving up the most productive hours of my day to a company is a big deal, and I'd at least like the job to be intellectually stimulating, if not financially rewarding. At this stage in my life, showing up at work just for the paychecks seems like giving up on a brighter future.
I got a 404 at that address but this seems to be the same article (I had to override a TLS certificate warning to get it):

https://www.theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/...
Except for potentially things like moving money into your own foundation, then spending the money on your own interests rather than charity. (Not that that's what's happening here.)
I believe it’s also an indirect way of voting with your dollars. While they probably don’t owe that much $$$ to the IRS, I suspect this will likely cover some of it while letting them decide where their tax should go (I don’t really have an opinion on this strategy/system, just thought it could add to the discussion)
Ye 9 hour days are pretty brutal - my optimal would be a 7 hour day, even for a slight reduction in salary
Defeq undecidability is a feature of Lean in the sense that it is a conscious design decision. As we have seen both in this thread and in other places, this design decision puts off some people interested in the foundations of type theory from working with Lean. However it turns out that for people interested other kinds of questions (e.g. the mathematics of Scholze), defeq undecidability is of no relevance at all.

Here's an analogue. It's like saying "Goedel proved that maths was undecidable therefore maths is unusable and you shouldn't prove theorems". The point is that Goedel's observation is of no practical relevance to a modern number theorist and does not provide any kind of obstruction in practice to the kind of things that number theorists think about.
While I'm glad this one person has decided to do what in my opinion is "the right thing" it's also a prime example of how horrifyingly unbalanced our system is. As a result it's difficult to feel celebratory since the ends do not typically justify the means.
Same here. Maybe they only index people with a certain threshold number of comments or amount of karma.
How is you getting more competent not advantageous to your employer? Perhaps if the subject is completely irrelevant, but even then, I think it's nice to stay sharp and be ready to pick up new skills as our jobs evolve.
Just about any law can be boiled down to “compelled speech” or a restraint on speech if you twist it enough. Actions are speech. Murder is an action. Criminalizing murder is criminalizing speech.

Likewise, wearing a seatbelt is an action so requiring seatbelts is compelled speech.

And words are speech, too. So requiring car owners display their license plate is compelled speech.
You'll find plenty of jobs where a range is given and the bottom is half the top though, so no it's not a strawman. People actually do write job ads where they are happy with a newbie or a veteran.
As is common HN misleads on the reason why this is happening. Publishing pay range is not key issue - those are publically available for major cos. See Glassdoor etc

The issue is the other parts of the law. Everybody for whom the position would be an upgrade has to be given an opportunity to apply first - so now when they want to post for a controller CPA position of an in house counsel job - they need to first spend time and documenting that they have their retail front line workers the advance opportunity to apply . With thousands of employee s and positions that's just one tricky situation
For Johnson & Johnson, there are more women in the top best-paying quartiles.

It seems that what’s dragging pay down is the fact that there is a lot more women than men in the bottom quartiles.

So I guess a solution to this problem could be to greatly increase the proportion of men in the bottom pay quartiles?
Same - I recently switched to a 4 day week for 20% salary reduction and could never go back. I'm fine to take the pay cut as other aspects of my life have improved dramatically.
Posting a salary/pay range is no different than posting a job position and a location.

No plumber in Indiana wants to apply to a job that ends up being an opening for a brain surgeon in Botswana. Why should companies be able to waste time with wages that are below what applicants are looking for and only tell them after the seventh stage of interviews? It’s disproportionately advantageous for corporations.
Of course they are, but ask either authority about communications equipment approval and you’ll get radically different answers.

And it’s abundantly clear from context which one this deBACL involves.
Is it? From what I understand zsync also uses rolling hashes and retrieves as little data as possible. I just explicitly tested that by having a 1MB /dev/urandom file and appending and prefixing the string 'test' to it and checking the resulting HTTP requests when syncing that file:

sendto(4, "GET /test HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: zsync/0.6.2\r\nHost: localhost:8000\r\nReferer: http://localhost:8000/test.zsync\r\nRange: bytes=1048576-1050623\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n", 161, 0, NULL, 0)

sendto(4, "GET /test HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: zsync/0.6.2\r\nHost: localhost:8000\r\nReferer: http://localhost:8000/test.zsync\r\nRange: bytes=0-2047\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n", 152, 0, NULL, 0) = 152

In both cases it transferred the only relevant 2048 byte chunk resulting from the blocksize setting of zsyncmake. Would the casync transfer be smaller than that?
That doesn’t actually overcome the problem, though. Vast swaths of these organizations are good at raising money and little else. Donors who don’t know how to solve the underlying problem don’t necessarily know who is best placed to solve it.

Think of it like VC funding. Why do VCs hire people with tons of experience in the specific domains in which they’re investing? Because otherwise you can’t tell good investments from bad investments. Social investment isn’t any easier, and in fact it’s much harder.

This is why Bill Gates’ approach is so brilliant. (But obviously hard to replicate.) Social enterprises need skilled allocators of capital just as much as private enterprises do. That’s something Gates brings to the table that Scott doesn’t.
I worked at a company that hired several people out of Amazon. Amazon is a big company, so there is significant variation from team to team.

However, several of the ex-Amazon employees were clearly scarred from their time working at Amazon. Whenever something went wrong (delays, outages, missed deadlines) one of them went so far as to spend hours or days preparing documents showing how it was actually someone else's fault, not his, because he thought it was necessary to avoid being fired. He said his experience at Amazon was basically one large game of "not it" whenever it came time to assign blame for the latest issue, and everyone had to become very good at blaming someone else. The worst was when he was actual at fault for something, because he would panic and scramble to distract from the issue he caused by raising concerns about everyone else around him. Easily the most toxic person I've worked with in the past few years.

On the other hand, I've known other ex-Amazon people who said their work was nothing like this, so YMMV
any plans to make this site public?
> And now taxpayers are on the hook for shitty security. Hell why not?

They already are for more conventional crimes. If a business burns to the ground, its loss of assets is a business loss for tax purposes. Even if it doesn't, insurance premiums are a deductible expense, so the government sees its deduction for the amortized fire damage regardless (since insurers recover expenses plus profit via premiums).

The full article covers this. It's not like there's a specific "pay criminals, get a refund" item in the tax code, it's that damages and losses from crimes are treated like any other business expense.
Funet – the computer network for Finland's universities and research institutes
Many downvotes, but no cited refutations; TDS is strong as ever.
I think the fundamental issue is that you trust these institutions but many others don’t. Your statements make sense if that trust is present.

I was trying to show how the actions you’re confused by are rational given a lack of trust. Whether or not the lack of trust is justified is a different debate.
> ... if everyone had to re-create their work (including its dependencies, its dependencies' dependencies, and so on), there would be 1,000,000 times the demand for software engineers than there is today and innovation progress would be much much slower.

The greater demand for software engineers stems from the pervasive adoption of software in billions of peoples' lives. With less powerful open abstractions, innovation would have happened more slowly (which it sounds like you agreed with in your point), leading to less pervasiveness of software => less live software applications => less demand for software engineers.

Our leverage in fact comes from building abstractions that enable more rapid product development that leads to greater software pervasiveness in all of our lives - leading to greater demand of the engineers needed to maintain these abstractions and build on top of them.

Now, I agree with you that open sourcing might not be the best way to maximize the value you capture with your work. That's a problem worth solving - I see great value in better incentivizing valuable open source project creation and maintenance w/out overreliance on a couple of large cos.
No, let's not discuss flossing. Maybe we could look at the literature and conclude something other than "periodontal health significantly benefits from flossing," but this anecdote is not particularly scientific and could be harmful to health.
I’m pretty sure that these were added to the defender list after they were signed and seen in the wild…

Same goes for VT they only classify something as malware after there is sufficient evidence that it is malware.

For the most part the only difference between malware and non malware is the intent of the operator, pretty much any functionality can be abused for malicious purposes.

This especially holds true for most security/system management suites they have pretty much the same capabilities as any decent RAT malware the only difference is the reason behind why they are deployed.
As for me, I don’t share everyone else’s frustration with Apple’s tight control over its mobile devices because I don’t even think of them as fully-featured computers, as opposed to mere consumption devices, pocket internet browsers, or note-taking devices. I think it’s possible that people’s frustration is misplaced because they’re getting confused about the market positioning of Apple’s mobile devices versus Macs.
Principality of Sealand – A Micronation
I admit I have posted it before, and will stop doing so - my bad
> We had a lot of little scripts here and there which would solve extremely specific situations but no focus was ever put on in building a general framework or trying to reduce the ticket count.

wow, honestly this is surprising. For me as an end customer I was always impressed with the way the services are engineered. Kudos to people like you for making this happen. But then I was also under the impression that AWS has very good best practices to take care of repeating issues.

Wouldn't interim patch-ups cause stability issues in the long term?
Let's Fix Omnifocus (2020)
Totally anecdotal, but my wife who was very ill with both covid and then long covid, only lost her smell for a day before it returned.

Another friend who had very few symptoms still has no sense of smell 9 months later - her smell can come and go, and she will also now 'miss-smell' smelling nice things as horrible and horrible as nice.
If many people do what you are doing, some percentage can get the virus and allow it to mutate further, reducing the vaccine efficiency, putting others to risk.

Prisoner's dilemma at play.

meta edit: I don't like your post becoming completely gray and therefore up-voted you. It's a view that many people hold and it needs to be answered not by screaming "down-vote the selfish!" but rather with good arguments.
Researchers explore microbial ecosystem in search of drugs to fight SARS-CoV-2
At some point you need to weigh work life balance, career fulfillment, responsibility(more at a startup) vs a FANG salary. Some people don't mind either working their ass off for a large salary or being a cog in a machine. But for most, the idealization of FANG is not what it's cracked up to be
Yeah, that’s kinda a downer.
> I live in a country where welfare benefits allows me to eat and have a home.

that just means you're living off taxation of the wealthier. It's not sustainable if everybody did this - at least not under today's technological capability.
We switched to this at Buffer over a year ago. It’s been great, and I can’t imagine going back.
Letting the library keep a single copy is hardly funding distribution. Historically books were expensive so unless you were wealthy the only place you would have access to books is the library. Saying you think it’s ok to ban a book from the library so long as it isn’t totally banned is basically arguing to keep ideas that are too dangerous away from the unwashed masses.
You may get used to it, but that doesn't mean the negative effects disappear. 3.5 hours of sleep is well into the territory of chronic sleep deprivation, regardless of your genetic makeup.

There is no known combination of genes that makes 3.5 hours of sleep acceptable. The "short sleep" genes don't shrink the sleep need window that much.

We obviously can't know your personal circumstances, but I would caution that according to everything we know you are likely to pay a price for this chronic sleep deprivation, especially if it continues.
I wish I could get people that don't understand the nuances to deeply look into, study the mRNA vaccine, currently known issues including long haul COVID symptoms of people who've only had the vaccine (via the spike protein which has turned out to be cytotoxic and seems to break away causing issues), and look seriously into the Ivermectin research and its suppression; and yes, certainly I'll be downvoted because people prefer to do that instead of actually look into it - and I won't bother linking to resources related to Ivermectin etc - just go to my comment history and see them there, downvoted of course.
AFAIK the optimal is known to be 5 hours. I can't recall the sources but I believe this is backed with some recent neuroscience or empirical productivity experiments.
Not so.

Disparate impact cases revolve around the reasoning for a rule. A rule which is "reasonably designed and administered to achieve a legitimate business purpose in light of the circumstances," including its potential harm to a protected class, is legitimate. This is why an employer like a fire department, or a moving company, can have fitness qualifications, even though these have a disparate impact on the elderly, while age is a protected class.

The EEOC identifies the following criteria to help evaluate the soundness of a rule:

- The extent to which the factor is related to the employer's stated business purpose;

- The extent to which the employer defined the factor accurately and applied the factor fairly and accurately, including the extent to which managers and supervisors were given guidance or training about how to apply the factor and avoid discrimination;

- The extent to which the employer limited supervisors' discretion to assess employees subjectively, particularly where the criteria that the supervisors were asked to evaluate are known to be subject to negative stereotypes;

- The extent to which the employer assessed the adverse impact of its employment practice on the protected class; and

- The degree of the harm to individuals within the protected class, in terms of both the extent of injury and the numbers of persons adversely affected, and the extent to which the employer took steps to reduce the harm, in light of the burden of undertaking such steps.

I'd comment on applying this to Colorado but it is meaningless because there's not actually a disparate impact.
I have some materials and a full process I can share with you Andrew @ AM Escher .com no spaces. It’s a full step by step process including how to set up positioning and scripts which are important.
> I doesn't help at all. I have a coworker who as using ivermectin as prophylactic and went to ICU (he is recovering now).

This is an anecdote, and it is dangerous to generalize from it. I have several family members who seemed to respond well to Ivermectin, and recovered better than their initial condition would have indicated.
"TALK TO BANKERS and some will tell you that when it comes to cyber-crime, they are second only to the military in terms of the strength of their defences"

As someone who works in tech for a big 5 bank this was the funniest statement I've seen in a decade.
I personally don't need much more than five hours. As in, even when I'm completely on my own free time and I don't set an alarm I'll go to bed at 24:00 - 1:00 and wake up at about 5:30 - 6:30. My father is the same, he even often sleeps only four hours, I guess it's genetic.
You forgot one: it gives engineers influence over the "landscape" in which engineers will work -- influence that would otherwise be wielded by managers, investors and entrepreneurs.

The fact that Python exists and most of the details of its design for example were decided by engineers.
Oh no, someone shilling a website? On the internet no less!? Have they no decency!
I don’t think the laboured kidnap scenario is useful. Neither is the song and dance about democratic regimes, I’m not arguing the government shouldn’t regulate, I’m saying that I don’t think they should regulate like this.

But I do think you should be able to do whatever you want with what you purchased. I just don’t think that includes forcing them, or using the government to force them, to make changes to their software to suit you.

So yes run your own OS, but if you bought a product and expect its software to do things its creators are clear it doesn’t do, then that’s on you.
0.957 here. I'm twice as unique as you are!
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