skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
gitlab profile URLs are `gitlab.com/<username>`, so a user with the name "dashboard.html" would have the URL `gitlab.com/dashboard.html`, which obviously conflicts with the existing dashboard.html file.

Besides blacklisting certain usernames or breaking a bunch links to profiles, how would you fix that?

EDIT: IIRC, github has the same issue, but they have profiles as lower priority. So if your username conflicts with an existing URL, your profile page doesn't work.
I spent ~7 years or so at one of the large credit card companies. The adage "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" was very prevalent there, and anything that even hinted at touching the core payment processing code was scrutinized heavily and usually avoided entirely.

At the time, the cost of an outage was estimated in the $100K's per minute, and is likely significantly higher now.

When I moved away from FinServ, I found it surprising at first how cavalier some orgs are about ripping/replacing core services in the name of "modernization". Move fast & break things and all of that...
The problem is the same one posed by the consumption of pigs: needless suffering.
(Replay engineer): re: Windows, we have an alpha build out now, with a wider beta release coming later this year.

re: on-prem, it's definitely something we plan to support, and something we have engineered in to the infrastructure. If you're interested email hi@replay.io, we'd love to talk more.
The same phenomenon is probably much more pronounced among the boomers.
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That’s why we have backticks for inline code to resolve this ambiguity.

Also, by this and the author’s argument, shouldn’t there actually be two periods? One inside the quote and one outside? (The author does address this, to their credit.).
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>Thanks, I've already reported abuse but no response from google yet.

Just refreshed my memory on this company. It's just awful. I'm genuinely sorry you're being subjected to this abusive software. I wish you the best.
I met some Cobol programmers in an open office space at a bank.

Pleasant, relaxed bunch.
> for the greater part of history

Wow, you certainly have a shallow view of history.

> Third, there's still an under-representation of women in STEM.

And there is an under representation of men on college campuses.

Why is one of those worth worrying about and not the other? Or are both cause for serious concern?
> Respect in death as well as life.

Butt killing someone isn't respectful just because we say it is. If I kill you without you feeling any pain, it's hard to say I'm really respecting you, even if I say "respect in death as well".

> I have never killed an animal to eat and had it suffer

Have you ever purchased food that contained animal products? Because there is the overwhelming likelihood that the products came from a factory farm, which tend to be horrific for animals. Also, you say it _is_ worth it. Why? Why not just eat something else that doesn't involve killing an animal that doesn't want to die?

> Whenever they get smart enough to do that to us.

Ah, so not much of a circle is it then? A circle is reciprocal, and what we do to animals most definitely is _not_.
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Thats sounds like heaven. Outside we swung from -18 to 45 this year.
Use Kafka heavily, but glad to see RabbitMQ and others adopting many of the best features of Kafka, especially in something much less resource intensive.
Why not? Don't you have the vaccine?
For reference, the parent asked what studies support the grandparent's claim. I believe the comment has been deleted by HN algorithm and frankly it makes no sense to me - at least in this case.
I'm not saying this is the case - but it is possible to imagine a world in which transparency leads to higher pay for more productive employees - which causes them to become even more productive for even more pay.

Imagine you're a business and your employees bake pies.

Imagine the costs are fixed beside the pie. Imagine the pie costs $1 in ingredients.

Imagine the average worker bakes 10 pies per hour, and your marginal profit per pie is $9, and you pay workers $10 per hour.

That is the labor cost and supplies for a pie costs $8.

Each worker, generates $80 in revenue per hour after inputs and wages.

However, you have one worker that bakes 30 pies per hour for $20 per hour. This worker is happy to earn double the average worker. And you, as a business owner, are very happy to make $300-30-20 = $250 per hour in revenue after inputs and wages (3x).

However, If the worker is aware of how much more s/he makes - it is possible to imagine the worker becomes even more productive.

Maybe the worker can bake 45 pies for $30 per hour (3x). You're paying more per hour per pie, but you're making much more profit per hour = $450 - 45 - 30 = $375 (4.5x).
has no one replied that any VM that handles HTTP(s) traffic MUST open ports to start functioning, and is therefore fully vulnerable? what am I missing here
Unfortunately it doesnt work that way - the infrustructure required for the mass production doses (pfizer, moderna) is pretty huge and third doses will be avilable in most regions long before 'everybody else' has the proper infrustructure in place. For this, it isnt purely zero sum.
that's not the case, according to the article. If anything the article implies the opposite. Turing machines were a re-abstraction of Godel's computational model that provided a path to mechanical realization.

Also if you ever work with the turing machine (NFA hooked up to an infinite recording tape) it is not at all "intuitive" that this construction comprehensively captures the world of computation.
The social costs of forgoing the vaccine are unique in that they arrive all at once. Smoking, drinking, obesity, etc. increase lifetime healthcare costs, but realize those costs over a long period of time. Hospitals are sized appropriately, more can be built if projections indicate more need, doctors can be trained, etc.

A policy that accepts infection-recovery as equivalent to vaccination unconditionally and removes most/all other restrictions could result in lots of those social costs over a very short period of time, much shorter than the timescale on which resources can adjust. So much so that resources become exhausted, and the costs compound from merely high to truly awful. Personal choice resulting in an impaired standard of care for unrelated people in need for unrelated reasons should probably be discouraged or proscribed.

Once the risk of resource exhaustion is eliminated, a policy that's less than a full-court press for vaccination might be reasonable. But that risk is primarily determined by the size of the covid-naive population, which can only be reduced by vaccination or infection...
> But it's not legal to sell copies. Or to put the music in a "holywood" movie you made and make a profit.

Okay. Selling copies makes no sense anyway. So let people share their files in peace. No profit will be made.

> There are countries (e.g. Sweden) where it's legal to rip a CD and give a copy to your friends. "Always" has been.

My country has similar laws. Does it matter to the monopolists? No. They put DRM in their stuff specifically to stop you from exercising your legal right to copy. I remember one case where one guy backed up a game disc, lost the original and had to sue the company because the game wouldn't accept his copy. Judge made them give him a new disc. Fair use? Doesn't matter to the monopolists either. They'll DMCA content and sue companies out of existence whether they're legally justified or not.

Besides, the copyright monopolists are always trying to destroy these laws. They have considerable lobbying power and the US government imposes american laws on foreign countries via trade agreements.

> Could a reform be in order?

You can certainly make copyright tolerable. Make terms last 5-10 years. More than enough time for creators to make their millions. Anything more than that is rent seeking.

> Because when you say "abolish copyright", that means no more games or movies as we know them today.

Fine. Between computing freedom and the whole copyright industry, I choose computing freedom. Computing is much more important than some entertainment industry and I hate the way its potential is being limited because of these monopolists.

Stallman would probably disagree with me. Free software licenses depend on copyright to work.
Speaking to Gizmodo, Epik said they were unaware that they had been hacked, but would investigate.

What's interesting here is that if you are an ICANN accredited registrar there is a window in which you must report a breach to them, may be interesting to find if they have/have not reported said breach.
I don't think you need to be working, but you do need to have a purpose. There's a heavy overlap between the two, but it's not the only option.
COBOL Forever!

https://donhopkins.medium.com/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39
Neither will it need to deal with things growing on it, or oxygen.
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I don't think this is the right question to ask. The break may just need to be longer and they are using the walk to the bathroom as an example.
Good clarification as I don't believe many JVM users realize that the various GCs have different use cases.
UK recommendation was that immunocompromised people be vaccinated; they were prioritised, in fact, so ~all of the immunocompromised people would've been vaccinated for most of the time period.
I would begin by familiarizing myself with the Content-Type HTTP header:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...

As for actually performing this change myself, it would take me quite some time to grok the codebase.

Maybe I get bored tonight and see how hard this would be to resolve.
I manage some ColdFusion apps still going strong.

>the cost of replacement is high enough (and it works fine doing what it's doing) that no one wants to invest the time and money to replace it's usage

That's pretty much what it is. They're not hard to manage as they are and ... doing their thing.
It's more like saying "don't smoke." You'll live a longer healthier life if you choose not to engage with this particular vice. We managed to get many Americans to give up cigarettes, and even created a market for cessation products like Nicorette. So I do believe there is a market solution here but it needs to be coupled with the sort of public education I don't have a lot of hope for.
What does "Exposure available at .99 on the 1" mean please?

(I hate guessing in stats and odds - the jargon used to express things has so many subtleties)
> you’d be able to quote where I agreed AAPL qualified as a pyramid scheme.

Sure thing, here ya go (it's right there if you scroll up):

> > So Apple is a "pyramid scheme" right?

> Yes, to a mild extent

...you qualify it with "the owners don’t have much extent" unfortunately the no true Scotsman fallacy doesn’t work here.

> I understand that what people think of Bitcoin is of great importance to you

Sure isn't. Weird shift to a personal attack, but what else do you have left after failing so badly?

It’s easier to discuss this if you stay away from ad hominem.
1) airless?? there's air within the wheel spokes pressurized to 1 atm
I think my best bet at keeping all my files should be to only have it installed when it is required and then as soon as the test is over to just uninstall it. I could be wrong though
This data is out of date. The cut off is July 2nd, it doesn't take into account delta, or the fact not a high amount of people were vaccinated at that point.

The most up to date data comes from Public Health England.

Public Health England published a report last week which gave us this data for the period of August 9th to September 5th.

It shows that of 2,381 deaths in this period, 1,659 or 69.7%, more than two thirds, were in the double vaccinated. Six hundred deaths or 25.2% were in the unvaccinated. This is very different to the ONS statistics as quoted in the press that 99% of deaths were in those not double vaccinated.

In the over-50s, the PHE report showed that 1,621 of 2,222 deaths or 73% were in the double vaccinated compared to 499 or 22.5% in the unvaccinated. Once you take into account the proportions of the over-50s vaccinated and unvaccinated this works out at a vaccine effectiveness against death of 68.1% – respectable, but a far cry from the kind of claims being made by the ONS.

It’s not clear yet how well vaccine effectiveness is holding up against serious disease. Data from Israel indicates that it may drop to 55% in the over-65s over six months. The age profile of Covid patients in the U.K. has also been rising again, which may indicate declining efficacy.

It’s depressing to see the ONS seemingly allowing itself to be used as a vehicle for the Government’s vaccine propaganda campaign.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccine-...
My job involves a lot of projects with IBM i and Z so I meet a lot of them. It's pretty much the "greybeards" you'd expect, but also surprisingly there's a LOT of older women in these roles. Like, proportionally way more than an in open systems world in my experience. I've always wondered why that is, I have heard that programming used to be considered a "woman's job" so maybe that's it.
If I have 67 green M&Ms and 33 red M&Ms, red is both in the minority and common.

There are a great many different minority groups. It's common for someone to be in one or more. That doesn't stop them from being a minority.
Glean - the work assistant that searches across all your company's apps
I worked with some at a bank (of course).

Nowadays a "mainframe" is just a 1U server and it's incredible how some old names in IT can still charge enormous fees for some very old software.
>Prediction markets would influence the processes they're supposed to be impartially observing.

Who said anything about impartiality (/cordially a strawman)?

Changing behaviors is a feature not a bug. Your health insurance writer (who's bought "No optimalsolver will not get sick") loses money if you do in fact get sick. Your fire insurance writer has an incentive to provide you free fire inspections because it reduces their payouts. A farmer plants a lucrative but fragile crop because a meteorologist can better price weather risks than they can.

Swapping exposure across space and time is a productive act.
And now for something completely different: prediction markets and patents!

I had the idea, back in 2004, of a prediction market for "patent NNN will be invalidated." The idea is that this creates a financial incentive to build the case, usually with prior art, to invalidate garbage software patents. Because most software patents ARE invalid.

I actually pursued this at Google for some period. The implementation details are kinda prohibitive, though:

must ALL the claims be invalidated, or just some?

can the patentee amend his claims to avoid the invalidity ruling?

by what date must the invalidation take place?

who's going to bear the cost of invalidating it?

Nice idea, though.
That generally holds when you stick to public APIs. But there are many libraries that used reflection to access unstable internals. And that broke with modules.
Yes totally agreed there
This article is a jumble of broad strokes of conjecture with effectively zero empirical substance that vaguely alludes the just nature of the "meritocracy"; I have a hard time not interpreting it as a puff piece for the status quo.
This is normal now. There is no pharmaceutical product which provides sterile immunity. There is no population where transmission has been eliminated. Vaccine As A Service is the new business model. Or if you like gallows humor:

Two weeks? What do you need to flatten the curve for? Here’s your mask, now wear two until we have 70% vaccination, and I’ll let you out of the concentration camp when we reach 90% vaccination. Now you just owe me two weeks for delta.
What you're calling "terse" and "biting tone" is frequently flamebait. When you do this, you're breaking the site guideline which says:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

as well as "Eschew flamebait", of course.

Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515653

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514509

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28531159

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28530286

Comments like that aren't worth it to have on HN because the negative effect they have on the threads, and on the culture of the site, dominates any value they're adding.

It seems obvious, reading through your comment history, that you have an agenda about this topic. There's nothing wrong with having a view, of course, but an agenda is something different—that's when you're using the site to wage a battle in favor of your view. At that point curiosity has left the building, and curiosity is supposed to be the animating value here.
I'm an American and was taught the British Style as correct US English. I didn't realize there were different styles - I just figured some folks got it wrong sometimes.
To be fair, workers are not interchangeable pieces. If you're paid less, it's not necessarily because your employer is ripping you, there are many factors: performance, commitment, disposition, ambition, networking, etc.

I don't think it's a good idea to dictate fixed salaries, but it's a great idea to make them transparent. It would be nice seeing how much the best employee earns, so you could use them as a role model. It would also be nice to see if the slacker brother of your boss is earning accordingly to his performance.
Tried running a Java applet recently? ;P
Also awkward:

Did you ask, "Is this your dog?"?
They say that by activating this you are going to lose IMAP and POP email services.
> yeah sure. but this isn't a breathless soundbite

Neither were most of the mentioned publications - Gore's hockey stick excluded. The problem lies in the extreme predictions which the authors themselves know not to be realistic but which they also know will be used as if they are, in this report that would be the cascade of extremes leading to, well, the same results as Malthus/Ehrlich/Meadows/Randers et al came to.
Living near a highway can have profound and long-lasting detrimental effects to one's health.[0]

[0]https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/who-is-at-risk/highw...
> That's not what "legal" means.

Law is paper. What makes it real is police enforcement, prosecution. If this real stuff is not happening, there is no law.
Astronauts could use their blood and urine to make Martian concrete
social networks are a cancer. i realized that when its thought to be cool and never used any since then.

Good thing is its very easy to get rid of this from one's life.
There’s a 2018 blog post from Uber Engineering[0] which has more technical details about the system, and explains:

> Since it is not possible to tile the icosahedron with only hexagons, we chose to introduce twelve pentagons, one at each of the icosahedron vertices.

0. https://eng.uber.com/h3/
> manipulating reality in order to win money in the market.

Analogy: working extra hard to make your company succeed because it'll increase the value of your company stock.

I think the idea is that these prediction markets are set up in a way so that the outcomes are generally deemed desirable (increase GDP for example) and it's OK to manipulate reality (do work) to achieve them while making money.
This is all sorts of meta.
The thing about the "average line of code" is that a line of COBOL rarely does much.

You can do a lot more with a line of Java and, of course, with a line of Perl or Python you can do very complex things.
Depends on your use case. Hex's have a lot of advantages when you are a transportation oriented company. All hexes are the same size and the distance between the center of any two adjacent hexes is always the same distance. https://h3geo.org/docs/highlights/aggregation

As an example of where this is useful, it makes it very easy to get a list of all hexes with distance less than X from a current location.

Here's a comparison they give to some of the other common geographical partitions https://h3geo.org/docs/comparisons/s2
At the byte code level, maybe - but any language as large as Java is (over the course of 20+ years) going to have changes to its libraries, including deprecations / removals.
I am certainly confused. Do you think drunk driving on shared roads should be allowed or prohibited? I'm also not interesting in discussing whether anyone's "mind has been destroyed," but I am interesting in discussing whether specific ideas are good ideas or bad ideas.
Myocarditis is not a side effect?
I think this sums up whats wrong with pay transparency perfectly. You feel cheated because a company didn't pay you the same as another employee.

But your value should not be measured by how much somebody else is getting paid, but by how much another company is willing to pay you.
>Your vaccine immunity will only last a few months.

Source?
Using your poor reasoning, the collection of issues derisively referred to as "men's rights" (how men get absolutely financially/psychologically shafted in family/divorce court, how most suicides are overwhelmingly white and male, stuff like that) are also alt-right "dogwhistles", and are therefore racist and taboo to discuss, correct?
Im not familiar with all the history nor what they mean there, but this is a better source and i think explains the story better. I havent seen the dev make that claim at least.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/iphone-keyboard-...
Scientists like using R instead of because the language lets them get set up and coding quickly with RStudio. More importantly, the language, tooling, and ecosystem is very forgiving when it comes to code quality and style. There is good R code out there, but the R community generally lacks the wide acceptance of good coding practices you see with Python users: unit tests, sane dependency management, type hints, documentation, safe namespacing, etc.

It's really saying something when scientists think writing Python code is a pain, because Python's a pretty forgiving language, too.
It's common to require a certain old Java version or newer. In general Java is extremely backward compatible.

There have been a few minor breaking changes from JDK 8 to JDK 17, but the worst ones have had command-line options to disable them.

Maybe you're referring to JEE and/or specific "enterprise" software which does tend to move much more slowly.
Banning driving would almost certainly cause more people to die for other reasons than those who currently die in automobile accidents.
Note this does assume that you are not immortal and will eventually die. If you’re holding out hope for Mr Bezos to discover an anti-aging elixir, you might interpret these stats more pessimistically.
I can't remember but didn't some company try to implement this for an actual connected tea pot?
Amazing Search tool!
There is literally nothing dishonest in this report, and yet you seem very eager to call it propaganda.

The Delta variant does change things a lot over the past two months, but that's a different story that will warrant additional study and likely a v.2 of the vaccine.