skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And yet, perhaps counterintuitively, the main downside of such systems is that they are slow and expensive to change, not that they are unreliable.

They are slow and expensive to change because they are maintained because they have been, at great expense and cost in both failures and remediation efforts, made tolerably reliable (but still extremely fragile) so long as things are exactly within certain expectations (which often have been narrowed from the intended design based on observed bugs that have been deemed too expensive to fix), and it is inordinately difficult to modify them without causing them to revert to a state of intolerable unreliability.

They are systems that generations have been spent reshaping business operations around their bugs to make them “reliable”.
No.

Why is diversity an explicit goal anyways? What is there to gain from "diversity" in particular superficial diversity (skin color, sex) vs intellectual diversity?

> Over the last decade I think there has often been an unspoken preference towards candidates that improve diversity, and I don't have a problem with this.

You're part of the problem. Discrimination is always a problem, even if it's subtle. We (the tech geeks) should have pushed against this from the start, not let it fester and spread.
Fortran does it as well, I believe. The reason is that (A) is an expression whose value is that of A, and not a variable. This includes Fortran 2018; I am not arguing whether this is modern or not.
It's a months income for a huge number of poor people.
And thats why they just blanket spam ads to everyone :)
This image really puts it in context: https://images.app.goo.gl/13amCWF8aJ8q2eZAA

The red portion of the graph on the far right is the new variant.
Broken State of Data. In recent years, data has gotten a more
Somehow "best candidate for the job" translates far top much into "but they can't perform as well so need help" I've found.
I do find myself covering myself whenever I have to say no candidate X is just not as suited for the role and I don't care what their name/gender is.

For reference, I work with some excellent people of various combinations of gender, orientation, creed, background (unis are great for this) and frankly i just put together a big table of pros and cons to make sure every hiring I've been involved with the decision is defensible.

Yes, improving diversity is a pro, but so is 10yr+ of database management. But both get a score of 1 on the table.
A heck of a lot of people really don't want to move on from all this. Life is way too short to be wasted living the way some of society seems to think is necessary "in order to take this serious".

Disease and death have been a part of humanity since time began. All we can do is try to make the most out of the short time we have here on this earth. Playing this covid theater game for 2+ years is, in my opinion, an insulting to human nature. We aren't meant to do this.
According to the following graph deaths per 100,000 people
are:
18 for unvaccinated
3 for vaccinated.
at the peak of the graph between July and October 2021.

Doesn't that tell us that vaccinations help
to significantly reduce Covid-deaths?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-co...
The US has been pretty transparent on that, that the goal is not to prevent it from coming here (that's impossible), but to slow its spread here to give scientists more time to evaluate its impact.
Racial discrimination may be illegal, but good luck getting a supportive verdict on that for a white person unless he/she is applying to a majority non-white organization, and even then it would be tough.

In practice we now have affirmative action all over again. The best summary of my viewpoint on that comes from a guest speaker way back when I was in college: “If you think affirmative action is fair, I want you to look around the room, find a white or Asian person, and say to their face that a black student deserves to be in their seat instead, because they’re black.”
Please post photos of yourself.

Would help us to put in context what aesthetic perfection looks like.
> The Feds have hardly even looked under Google's corporate hood

"Well of course I know him ­— he's me" https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
I wrote my thesis in latex and convert to html in 1995. It’s still online, 27 years later, and totally readable! Only a few external image links are broken.

I don’t particularly like latex though.
I wasn't writing to the update process, as much as the original installation of a cert.

On a house you own, you can change locks and keys any time you want to keep security up to date (for example).

no house in "move in ready condition" comes without sufficiently keyed door locks of some kind (on day1).
Does Not Work. To others: Don't bother to try.

Kudos to effort maybe next time. Good weekend everyone.
And what evidence suggests that travel bans actually do anything to "slow the spread"?
I had a friend who worked in IT in a major Canadian bank some years back. He said they’d lost the source code (Cobol, I would imagine) for certain jobs and had taken to editing the binaries directly with a hex editor.
Control groups. But most countries and trials seem decided to get rid of them as fast as possible.
(Aus, white male)

Our (not a tech company) enterprise aims to make hiring diversity match applicant diversity, which at first glance sounds reasonable. (I know there are thorns here, please don't reply just to go down that path)

Does anyone have experience with such a system vs more explicit affirmative action as per OP?

As an guy who otherwise tends way towards the lefty socialist end of the spectrum, I would share OP's discomfort in such a situation.
In my state the vaccination rate is above 70% and the hospitalization rate has decoupled from the positive rate. The spike this winter ended in October whereas last winter it didn’t end until January. We’ve been on a downward trend even with shows and restaurants open and people having parties. So I would cite that as evidence the vaccine is protecting our population.
Koken man myself. But I appreciate your points and the points of the subcomment.

There is definitely an aspiration to own more crap. My family is a key example of this and I used to be the same. Now I'm happy with my 1 good kitchen knife.

As for the gutting of the middle class, it feels like there has been a point sometime in the last 10 years where the ship sailed. Those on board with a house and life setup are destined only to get richer while the rest are left on the shore, paying rent for their lives.
Right, and this is why I have a problem with employer enforced mandates even though I'm vaccinated. The government taking away your right to work and support yourself based on some pretty flimsy data about the public good for something that should be a personal decision. Fact is, the vaccinated really shouldn't be losing much sleep over the unvaccinated other than maybe those dirty people might be taking up an ICU bed when I need one.

Ok fine, you want to enforce this: then just man up and imprison the unvaccinated using force. Don't hide behind employers and make them do your dirty work. Taking away a person's right to work is only 2 degrees separated from making them dependent on the state. It's a fear tactic they're hoping they won't ever have to enforce--not that much different than holding a gun to someone's head.

At the end of the day you're never going to be able make someone do something against their will. People who go against the mainstream will already suffer social consequences. If you have to do something with government resources then beef up the ICU beds .

While you're at it you may as well make it illegal to work if you're a smoker, or obese, or if you've ever had a car accident because those things may lead to eating up an ICU bed for some other person that stands on a higher moral ground.
This is just whitewashing it.

All discrimination is "positive" for someone. That's kind of the point.
There you go https://www.google.com/search?q=delta+1000+times+viral+load

If you call about 60-70% less transmission a little then you are right. Booster will increase this a little about 5x.

Now get your booster and get of those anti-vaxxer sites you have been on lately.
Students awarded $19k for rescue quantum computer from water leaking at 2am
It is illegal, but i haven't challenged it simply because I would lose my job.

I said "HR" in my comment, because it is effectively what it is, but the real name is "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team". Their mandate is to increase diversity, and since they also deal with HR duties they have a lot of power.

And to be clear, I was never instructed in writing. It was always during conversations. It would literally be "I say, they say".

Effectively its just a bit of waste of my time (and the applicants) since I'm not yet forced to move them to the on-site, or give them a different take home. It's probably coming eventually though.
some of this is a little unclear. in particular how the source invoices are identified and mapped and therefore what invoiceMap really looks like. but here is a group/sum in a madeup datalog dialect:

reconcile(dstId, amount) :-

Orders(srcOrder)

Invoices(srcInvoice, srcOrder)

unique(dstId, srcInvoice.id)

amount = {
sourceInvoice.id = dstId,
sum (srcInvoice.Amount)
}

that produces invoice/sum pairs. Orders and Invoices are your source relations. unique produces a set of unique source invoice ids, which drives the cardinality of the aggregate. the block notation is a scoping construct encapsulate the set cardinality changes.

not going to claim that this is inherently more readable or captures all the subtleties. but you can imagine that terse expressions of intent like this are more accessible to the reader and less error prone. if not, I should do a better job.
The probable cause for many variants of concern has been multi-month long infections in one immunocompromised person (obviously a different one each time), often treated with convalescent plasma or monoclonal antibodies to keep the disease in check but not cure it. This provided the virus a perfect optimization platform, and for it to quickly collect a group of mutually beneficial changes.

In the normal case the selective pressure isn't really there, since the virus will get beat back after a week or two anyway and just 1-2 point mutations probably didn't give it any significant advantage is infecting more hosts.

Given how many mutations this variant has compared to its most direct known ancestor, the former is almost certainly what happened in this case too.

See for example: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma...
Two years ago I worked at a company with a DBA team. In my current job, there are no database experts and people don't understand things like indexes.

In my experience, most developers don't understand databases (of any kind).

So I'd say none of the problems from that article are really solved.
Again, not the case at all in my experience. I feel like you’re reading different posts and comments than most people here.
Diversity is a stupid thing to target, but people have quite obviously failed to tackle discrimination by just not being prejudiced arseholes so this is where we are
True but the mRNAs have held up well against every variant to this point. It's not even something I'm comfortable banking on against this new variant, but we're far from concluding this is a problem, too. Edit-I'm thinking it's like 66% against this VOC from escaping the vaccines and 33% pro, very roughly.
There is none. There is scant evidence that any of these NPI's do anything at all besides give the appearance that government is "taking this serious".

People that claim this kind of stuff "just makes sense" aren't taking into consideration the second order effects on human behavior that might make things even worse. For example closing outdoor parks probably made things much worse because people would meet inside instead...
Having just replaced my door lock, I can assure you that they too wear out and need replacing. (one of the springs inside broke)

The pricing on Let's Encrypt is literally zero, and they provide (also free of charge) the `certbot` utility which you can run as a cronjob and which will automatically renew your certificates for you. The whole thing comes extremely well documented and with install scripts that take less than a minute to download, verify and run. If you think even that is too much of a burden I don't think any topic in programming is simple enough.
>Having ready spares is great but I'm sure the HN crowd knows how much crib-death there is on new, replacement bits of all kinds.
>Until it's actually been run-in for a while how do you really know it's going to work when you unbox it to replace a truly dead piece?

We had the unfortunate experience of installing 4 new 16 bay chasis with brand new drives (10+ years ago now). We designated one of the 16s as hot spare for each chasis, plus had 2 cold spares for each as well. 72 brand new drives in total. All from the same batch of drives from the manufacture. Set them all up on a Friday and configured all for RAID5 (pre-RAID6 availability). Plan was to let them build and have some burn-in time over the weekend for possible Monday availability. Monday provided us with multiple drive failures in each chasis. Drive manufacturer confirmed a batch batch from whichever plant, replaced all and delivered larger sizes for replacements. Luckily, they failed during burn-in rather than 1 week after deploying.
It's more than adequate for personal use. I've also been serving myself and a few friends for years.

Download being 300Mpbs but upload 20Mbps IS kind of irritating though.

When did 100Mbps become popular for home LANs even?
Your points are fair and it is always a healthy situation to be suspicious of ominous news. At the same time, it is important to keep looking for answers to our misunderstanding on the climate change. The good news is that the IPCC did a really great job for pointing all the resources in their executive summary.
The main answer to your counter intuitive observation is that the internal variability of the climate is huge. For example, the European countries might know no warming during 10 years and then a sudden rebound in a few years. So it is important not looking at the small scale but only at the global scale.
It is difficult to summarize the internal variabilities on a single comment, but you will easily find a lot of explanations about it on the iinternet .
You aren't going to find a well-informed answer on a forum for software engineers.
The battery swaps don’t need to be done with the instrument powered. You can solder a “surrogate” pack with a series current limiting resistor across the or diode and ground while you swap the battery out.

You can also recalibrate it from the front panel easily if you have another meter to compare it to with similar or better resolution.

Guess who screwed one up :)
Because those are dependent on the response to the disease, not the disease itself.
Are you in Washington DC? I heard the ads around there can get wild.
>This is for the Honai Police Dept.

*Hanoi
This submission is flagged, but it shouldn't IMO. Everyone goes through hiring processes, everyone has been in a team onboarding people, and this of course isn't alien to tech companies.

This submission, from my POV is clearly on-topic.
This is a pretty good breakdown of how it likely came to be, but leaves out the satanic rituals and incantations that also (seemingly) play a big part in how microsoft makes decisions.
> Sky Mavis has acknowledged that Axie relies on new entrants for growth and promised to release new features that will make the game more desirable for people who are not primarily motivated by cashing out their earnings.

Right now, it's difficult to differentiate from a pyramid scheme. There are RNG elements related to breeding, which means the best this game can hope to be compared to is poker, except it has the added layer of cryptocurrency "investment" which taps into the same energy as gambling and pyramid schemes, which I guess makes sense.

Without being mean spirited: do you also see something profound and interesting in GME and other meme stocks? Because in my opinion, just because it got a lot of attention and money doesn't mean that there is something meaningful there. Bernie Madoffs scheme took from the 90s (maybe 70s) to 2008 to implode, bitconnect rose and fell faster.

And as I clarified in another comment, what is causing me to voice disgust is the fact people are using these schemes to get rich off of others. And I think that even if we cannot to anything else, social shunning still has its place as a soft regulatory mechanism. If it people want to go to Vegas, let them have Vegas, if they want to gamble in this, let them gamble, but we can still express our distaste and deny respect. (Not that I think I matter much here, even if people were to follow my lead I'm sure the founders will dry their tears with dollar bills)
The 8KB pages could also be broken down into 128 byte blocks, so that you could map a (contiguous) portion of a page, and not have to use the whole 8KB. You could also use the same feature to give yourself guard 'pages' (but really guard blocks). It specifically supported the ability to grow down for stacks and guards.

And the abort issue is around restarting indirect addressing modes, which will result in repeats of accesses. Technically this is an issue if you were pulling pointers directly out of MMIO regions, but it's one of those "doctor it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do that" kind of situation. If you're getting real cute with advanced addressing using MMIO regions to bounce out to other regions, do that in the kernel (as you probably would be anyway). Then you can do all the fun virtual memory tricks.
The source of the documentation site is a good example of it being used:

view-source:https://md-block.verou.me/

Nice and clean.

That being said I've never used web components and haven't really planned on. Not sure what their status has been in terms of adoption.
As a white male (and simply as human being who believes in fairness), I would say I'm concerned with this trend. Positive discrimination for some means negative discrimination for others. I think we should give unprivileged people access to good education, but I'm against quotas.

I used to work in academia in computer science. There were no written rules but the recruiting committees always favoured minorities and women. It was obvious when looking at the stats.

I work now for a big tech company. The policy is that the hiring bar is the same for all candidates, but they're actively looking for candidates from minorities to interview. I'm fine with that approach.
Your account has been using HN primarily for ideological and political battle. That's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of what they're battling for. We have to, because it destroys this place for its intended purpose.

I'm not going to ban you right now, because I did notice a few previous comments that weren't doing this—though I had to look pretty hard for them. If you keep this up, though, we're going to have to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Out of genuine interest, what is your opinion on the OP?
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/ukhsa-vaccine-surveillance-...

case rates are as high or higher among the vaxxed in every age group that matters.

as for 100% vaxx rates as our way into the promised land: a) lmao and b) this is unfalsifiable. we could get up to 99.9% vaxx rates and corona fanatics like you would still say it's the intransigent 0.01% holdout are keeping us from crossing the finish line. you are just like every other ideological zealot who dismisses the empirical failures of their ideas (nazism, communism, etc) by saying all those real life examples weren't really the True Ism, and that we would have immanentized the eschaton already if not for all those pesky people with their free will.

not to mention there are stable wild animal reservoirs of the virus and those are never going away.

again, you haven't made any coherent argument as to why I can't just look at the case rates by country and compare them to vaxx rates and draw the obvious conclusion. am I not allowed to say the sky is blue without a peer reviewed study?
Once you IPO your material worries are gone and you can move into the next circle.
If Alan Kay is to be believed (which I hope he is!) then the internet was originally inspired by multicellular lifeforms.

I'd say the internet has some sort of a "biological" architecture. Robust in the sense that organisms are robust; extremely messy, sensical from a high-level view, chaotic from a low-level view.
>vaccine developer

>Chair of ...Maryland's Newest Anthropomorphic Convention!

Not sure how I feel about this. Are many vaccine developers also furries?
That’s where I’m not sure and you’ll need to do some research. It’s been a while since I knew these things and even then I didn’t know them well. But I am aware that banks don’t always check your credit right away when you open a new credit card, so even with a credit lock or credit freeze someone else could still open a credit card in your name. Or at least that was true once upon a time, regulations may have change by now.
It's OK. For these discriminations, mainstream media, hollywood and politicians have your back. 24/7.
And yet obesity whilst being a problem for decades has not caused an epidemic of obese people.

Why is that ? Because obesity is not contagious and most people don't make decisions about what they eat and their activity levels based on choices other people make.
Read this thread carefully and you’ll understand. It’s marketing genius.

I wouldn’t have remember the name of the company. But thanks to you and your fellows here I will. I can even tell a story around it.
Math? Any particular transmission event is chance of someone being infected X probability of transmission. Reduce the first term and the total number of infected individuals at a given time T is reduced (until any exponential growth swamps the terms).

Point of saying "it's impossible to prevent" is that it's not possible to reduce the first term to 0.
Ask HN: Is the Processor vs. Memory speed gap in the future shrinking or not?
Up until now the gap between processor and memory speed was growing. Do you know of any hardware advances that this gap is going to shrink sometime in the future?

I'm thinking about data structures, which are currently outperformed by smarter cache-line friendly algorithms as for instance balanced mutable binary search trees vs smart trie or B-tree implementations. These index structures are of course meant as an example for the wide range of algorithms, which have to take cache-lines into account nowadays.

Do you think these "old" algorithms are getting some kind of renaissance in the future?
Risk is zero if it’s powered down and disconnected from the circuit under test. The main risk is from the circuit under test leaving dangerous voltages inside the multimeter or the power supply of the multimeter only if it’s a mains powered bench meter.
Sony. Don’t forget Sony too
Imagine being given almost 2 years to build capacity to put that fire out so the community could go back to normal life but instead zero additional capacity was built? Hospitals had almost 2 years to build capacity. Where is it? Why is society being asked to continue bailing out institutions that have had an enormous amount of time to prepare?
I'd imagine many people in power have various hobbies you'd consider odd if you knew about them. (nevermind fetishes, oh my god!)