skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah thanks. That sorts out why the passengers were tested despite dutch regulations.
Epsilon does come after delta. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Epsilon_variant
> For example, tasks at Facebook have SLAs and I saw plenty of games played to avoid dealing with tasks. Examples: changing priority to increase or remove the SLA, silently closing tasks, passing tasks back months later to the reporter asking "is this still an issue?", etc.

What kind of tasks are you referring to in the context of on call here? Tasks to remedy the root cause of repeated alarms paging folks?
Can you point to a good source on that? The stats books that I've seen seem to treat it as a collection of tools, and causality in computer science (AI) seems like a separate subfield with the do operator and all that.
The doctor notes that the patients she has seen have all been young, healthy men, with a very small sampling set. I'm not sure how much to read into that at this point, as every variant of COVID would average out to "mild" to non-existent symptoms across most of the population, but causes enough mayhem with a small percentage to become trouble at scale. Given the effective "punishment" of South Africa for being vigilant and detecting the variant, she's also incentivized to lean towards optimism.

Who knows. Maybe it'll end up raging across the population with little downside and the end result might be advantageous. We can't know yet.
The other way round. Only creators will be able to see the dislike count, probably in their dashboard
From the discussion thread on GitHub[0]:

A change in the handling of URL schemes was deployed a couple of days ago that caused the regression being discussed here. Due to the amount of traffic that the archive endpoints see, and the high baseline of 404s on them, this regression did not cause an unusual increase of errors that would've caused our alerting to kick in. The change has just been rolled back, so the issue is fixed. We will investigate this issue further after the weekend and take the appropriate steps to make sure similar regressions don't happen in the future.

[0] https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8149#discussi...
Missed title opportunity: "Do Ghostbusters Cause Ghosts?"
> What do you mean by “preservation” here

Preserve, as in, to maintain. Like, not let it disappear. That should be obvious from the context, so I have a hard time believing this was a good faith attempt at poking holes in what I said.

> Is doing that really even an active choice?

Mostly no, but only because choosing not to preserve your own life is such a startlingly rare occurrence we don't really think of it as an option. How is chosing to preserve humanity as a whole not a similar 'non-choice' in that case?

> What about the things that we do for our loved ones—is that on the same scale as trying to preserve our species from mass extinction?

It doesn't need to be on the same scale to be driven by the same factors.

> What if the commenter contributes to charity or puts out excellent work which improves people’s lives—does that not count as caring for the lives of one’s fellow man?

It certainly would, and would make the cognitive dissonance of thinking humanity is itself not worth preserving pretty stark.

> I don’t see how this is a rational response to the question that the commenter posited.

I am likewise confused how you thought any of this was a rational rebuttal to my own statements.
Other people deciding what books are for is one of the main reasons libgen exists!
Not yet, still working on that. Wanted to get a PoC out before I go all in
Scaling to $100M; how cloud companies grow operationally efficient businesses
The league is run by the team owners. They would not be getting this money, only the soon-to-be former owner would. So that $10 billion wouldn't impact their decision. (Possibly it might have a positive impact on their teams' values, but they're more likely to see this arrangement as an anomaly. DAOs would have to develop the capacity to buy a significant majority of teams in the league to overcome this hurdle.)

Also, sports team owners feel keeping detailed financial info secret gives them an advantage in negotiations with the players' unions. This is why the NFL banned public teams like the Packers. Having so many owners would make it improbable that they could keep a lid on proprietary info, which in the end will cost them money.
I am quit amazed at the general reaction of this forum to this standard industry practice.

If you want a cushy 9-5 job, go work for a code factory like HCL, TCS and whatnot. That way you can build crap and wash your hands after handling it to the customer.

In a startup environment, you gotta build your shit and maintain it to. It's an environment that's not for everyone.

I've been in oncall roosters several times in the past. And it made freaking sure we wrote the best software we could.

I also have been on the management side of it, and the way I set it up is that whoever was the oncall engineer, if he had to work for more than 2 hours after normal working hours, he would get an additional PTO day. It actually worked quite well.
> The correct number is somewhere around 50%

Do you have some source for this? I see random numbers being thrown around a lot, would be nice to have a citation for yours.
In Dutch it is the same way. We even have another word for billion. Billion in dutch means 1000x more than the English version. Compounding is translated as combined interest.
Your first statement is based on a misquote from a health official, and your second quote is false. If indeed there is some antibody evasion then you could catch both variants at once or sequentially.
While what you say is definitely likely, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) seems to be associated with professional soccer player status, and is believed to be responsible for some part of those sudden deaths in players.
Boosts deque let's you decide the the block size.
> then in my opinion the first thing to do is to go and research (or look up the research on) how professionals who aren't CS majors but write programs do it.

Look at a recipe book. That's how non-CS majors do it.

And then look at the number of people who can't follow basic recipes.
I've actually lived there, and it's so bad I couldn't believe it.

People quite literally stoking up their houses in bad winters because they don't have money for wood for their woodstove. I've never seen anything like that anywhere in the world and I've spent some time in pretty poor places.

Of course you don't have to believe me, I couldn't care less. But it's depressing how down and out people are there. It's a combination of a weak economy and a rather fragile social security safety net. In theory it's all there, in practice it is quite easy to fall through the cracks, especially when you are older, unable to work or of native descent.
macOS is not a mobile OS
How many people aren’t murdered because of armies though? Humans have been grouping and fighting each other for thousands of years now. You’re under the impression everyone should just… what… pretend it doesn’t happen?

When attacking a neighbor state costs more (because your neighbors have arms too), it’s less likely to happen.

The cold war had plenty of awful hot action with proxies and third parties but the entirely hot version obviously would have been far more calamitous.

I suggest reading Herodotus’ Histories, or you can read up on Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler, Alexander, the Crusades, or the myriad other conquerors and conflicts that have occurred.
“They” is Bitcoin holders, of which I will no longer be one by Dec. 1. Proof of work makes no sense anymore and proof of stake will take over with the launch of Ethereum 2.0 in 2022. I’m unbiased, this is just the market and math I see coming.
> Most online stores have only implemented browser-based defenses, and criminals capitalize on the unprotected back-end. Security professionals should really consider the full attack surface

What's the entry point for such a RAT? Does it scan for vulns in the server and plant itself there, or what? Article is lacking explanation of how a Linux e-commerce backend actually gets comp'd.
Shift work has been a thing for decades. I would imagine hiring some percentage of your devs for the night shift wouldn’t be that hard as many people enjoy that lifestyle. Then you already cover the majority of the 24 hours with normal work
An audience is an audience.
How about this thought experiment: what if we had no PCR tests.
We would not care about asymptomatic or mild cases.
Right? Our worst problems here seem pretty mild compared with the expense of a meaningful human establishment on a far away rock. It would be massively cheaper to build settlements on the most hostile desert on earth.

But more importantly, a Mars colony would require an incredibly stable society on earth. Because it would take decades and massive amounts of money — and that ain’t happening in the midst of societal collapse due to a failure to solve our problems here at home.

I’m a fan of space exploration, and I don’t think we should hit the breaks on it. But I don’t think we should be delusional to think there’s any realistic chance of it solving problems here on earth fast enough. Me must find a way to live sustainably here over the next few centuries.
Could quite possibly be true, although the article presents very preliminary evidence that we do not have vaccine escape (or not complete, anyway).
You might want to not pick up your pitchfork so quickly.

> A change in the handling of URL schemes was deployed a couple of days ago that caused the regression being discussed here. Due to the amount of traffic that the archive endpoints see, and the high baseline of 404s on them, this regression did not cause an unusual increase of errors that would've caused our alerting to kick in. The change has just been rolled back, so the issue is fixed. We will investigate this issue further after the weekend and take the appropriate steps to make sure similar regressions don't happen in the future.
Yes, that's what's been happening for the longest time. But it doesn't scale endlessly because of real world practical scarcities like affordable electricity and enough affordable silicon to mine on.

Which then results in situations like miners buying up the majority of new GPU releases, leading to shortages for any other users, and still not having enough to keep up with the difficulty increases.
Unfortunately this advice is irrelevant (or suicidal) in many climates. Canada’s prairie provinces are completely unridable for 3-6 months out of the year.
Just read reddit's FAQ on bodybuilding or fitness, depending on what you want.
To whom would it be a shame that no one is around to listen to the likes of Beethoven and Mozart when your premise is, exactly, that no one is around?
Let's do the laziest back of the napkin math. Let's pretend you make $100k and work 2000 hours a year. You make $50/hr. Let's say you do 50 hours of week between trying to impress your boss and getting woken up to do call. Congratulations, you are now a $40/hr employee!

Also, in my experience, the people who aren't getting woken up at 3am (aka. your boss) don't value the time and effort needed to stabilize these systems. So they want you working on the new shiny product feature that will get them promoted. Fixing the crappy data pipeline that shouldn't alert every other night isn't a priority when you aren't the one being woken up.

Well, it should be a priority, but I also don't work at that previous job for this exact reason. I took a nice pay increase and have never had to be on-call. Don't settle.

EDIT: Original 2000 hours comes from 40 hours a week * 50 weeks. Like I said, back of the napkin math here.
At my house it is currently 6F. There is six inches of snow and freezing rain on everything, so roads are icy. Biking would be stupid.
My god. It's linear!
As a Dutch speaker, I think of having the numbers "backwards" as a neat feature. You can give someone a phone number (12345) and then verify it by saying it differently (twelve, thirty four, five). If you verify by repeating the same numbers then there's a decent chance of introducing the exact same error the second time.

English itself isn't all that simple either, because they still follow strange rules before reaching 20 like many other West European languages. French even stuck to its base in 20, unlike English (though "four score" is still often used to say 80 in the famous quote). The word "million", from "mille" meaning 1000, is used to express a thousand thousands. The American system also switched to the short system (million, billion, trillion instead of million, milliard, billion) and UK English has made the same switch relatively recently but only because of American influences.

I don't think there's any natural or logical way of saying numbers per se. If there was, we wouldn't have been doing it "in reverse" for hundreds of years in Europe.

I can't feel strongly enough about it to be for any change but forcingeeveryone to change their habits is annoying and probably costly. You can't force a change in language, language changes by itself.
Golden ball for messi or mbappe or neymar
> Deaths lag on the order of two months

Pure BS.
I just read most of the article. As I understand it, the failure mode isn't that one attacker could hand you a malicious node, it's that the network doesn't actually reach unambiguous consensus -- all/most "stakers" could simultaneously be signing a different transaction history the whole time, at virtually no cost, which is just as valid as "the" one you believe in; there's no (cryptographic) way to distinguish them. And so it's possible for, one day, the whole network to get pulled out from under you. "Nope, this other one is the real deal."

Is this a problem in practice? As the article says, no ... but only because there is a sort of vaguely specified "proof of authority" that backs the current chain, which actually just reintroduces centralization. The author cites the Bitcoin Cash and DAO/ETH Classic forks as cases where that proof of authority gets tested and shows the actual centralization.

It's my understanding that Algorand has something on top of pure PoS that ensures the consensus (which the article says is necessary) so I'm not sure the same criticism is applicable there, but can't comment further until I get more familiar.
I think I agree. Instead of stats I would propose critical thinking. Critical thinking was one of the more engaging classes for me. It covered a vast array of fallacies and how they can be exploited in real world. I am not sure if it is a common requirement now, but it certainly should be.
1) if people with mild or no symptoms keep moving among the population, but people with severe symptoms stay at home, then there would be a strong evolutionary pressure to cause milder symptoms

2) "dead people don't spread viruses"...UNLESS it's a zombie virus
Task is a general all-encompassing term here as well as the internal task tracking tool everyone uses (called "Tasks").

Tasks could be filed by users of your service or external reports that get routed to your oncall or an alarm that fires because a metric moves outside of a "normal" range or whatever. Alarms ("pages") will come to you and need to be ACKed. Often they'll also generate a task. That task may require separate action or not. Many times those will just get closed or merged to existing tasks.
> Just because you think that humans aren’t special doesn’t mean that you should commit suicide, though.

No but it implies there's nothing wrong with suicide.

> If we can think of terraforming Mars, heck we should be able to stop all kinds of pollution right now, but that’s not even the kind of rhetoric that I’m seeing here in HN.

Really? I see it all over HN. Lots of posters are very concerned about global warming and pollution and those posts are often highly upvoted.

But I don't think we have to choose between colonizing Mars and treating the Earth better. We can do both. (Well I'm not optimistic about the Mars colony but I certainly think we should try).
It's interesting how this mechanism, purportedly for grown-ass adults, is a loot box mechanic.

Pump more energy in! Because you haven't hit a coin yet. And it is getting forever more unlikely that you will… but at the same time, the payoff is even greater than it was last week! Maybe you won't even hit a coin. Your operation is not big enough. But if you do…! So, MOAR…

Loot box mechanic. Turns out it is not just for manipulating children.
Hi thanks for the comment! What do you mean by "more neutral domain"? What is non-neutral about locke.id?
Reproducible builds via IPFS when?
>the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

vs

>I think civilian ownership of guns is fine if very heavily regulated and with a purpose

Your heavy regulations is the infringement the 2nd amendment was designed to protect against.
It’s not. There is a huge gulf between Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto space. Bitcoin is certifiably decentralized hard money with an ossified monetary policy. I believe it is reasonable to conclude that something like Bitcoin can only happen once. The rest of crypto space isn’t really trying to be money, or is only pretending to be.
> sender.send(receiver, message, params)

A lot of very bad corporate software has informal object-oriented-programming implementations that either look like this, or map to it directly.
Fair point, you can accomplish the same by comparing the ip adress that the image request came from against your servers.
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In this case, F10 and basic Gimp cropping Skills also do the job.
Wouldn't anyone then be able to provide proof of that participant having exited? The participant would have generated a signature the moment they exit.
DoH and DoT don't have the same failure modes as DNSSEC --- a TLS failure during a DoH lookup is much more likely to actually be the result of a break in the chain of trust than a DNSSEC failure is.
This is 100% correct.
Chance is such a significant factor in the outcomes we observe in our lives, yet the majority of us have been fooled into believing otherwise. Sometimes you just have to do what you feel is right _for you_, and hope for the best.
If we send humans into space they won’t be part of our civilization, they will be their own. They may depend on us at first, but that bond will lessen over time and they will likely eventually demand independence and autonomy from Earth over time. This will be denied to them, and a bloody interplanetary war between Martians and Earthlings will ensue. See: America v. Briton.
How is that different from 8000-of-260k multisig?
I ... walks away from conversation...
> There is no situation where it’s ok to contact someone to do work outside of their work hours.

This lacks perspective.

Imagine that your system runs banking, healthcare, telecom, etc.

Of course someone needs to be on call 24/7. The best people to hold the pager are the engineers that work on the system.
> If Github doesn't at least monitor their 404 error rate for large-scale spikes

"Is that a service we can charge for?!"
Thanks for the links, wasn't aware of these products until now. Will have to checkout their services more but does seem to be the same in essence.
The first part is a joke... Keep reading and you'll get it
Not saying this is you. Normally your comment is a trope by the right to paradoxically imply how they are such victims in 2021, but the other side are snowflakes and want to cancel every one.

There’s an overlap with hard left and a few other niche political views as well. Though with less victimhood and more consistency at times.

Personally, I care very little for appeal to authority myself. The bias among experts based on their political views is generally going to be very high.
Designing a Programming Language for Advent of Code
Telling time in Dutch breaks my brain. Saying “it’s ten for half five” means it’s 4:20. (I think?) I’m really not sure I’ll ever have a solid understanding.

Why can’t we just say the numbers? Why must we dance around them? In a game of tell me the time without telling me the time the Dutch will win every time.
This is going to be a crash of titanic proportions when it finally happens.

I worry that what 2008 didn’t destroy, crypto will finish off, especially amongst the under 40 crowd.
Keep calling them anti-vaxxers. It's definitely win them over.
And then your IPFS pin service has a down time.
Every time I hear the word Omicron, I have to stop myself saying "Om-ni-cron".

Apparently that's the title of a movie "A cognitive science student enlists the aid of a paranormal psychologist to investigate a demonic conspiracy".

That name would REALLY have got people going. :)
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The former is more accurate, which is to be expected seeing as it's a detail from the main body of the article rather than a headline. Thankfully, the latter article also goes into accurate detail.
Can you imagine complaining about sources after the last five years of media malpractice? Omicron so far is nothing but rumors and conspiracy theories, just like Russiagate, just like the pee tape, and Delta was a big nothing, two weeks to slow the spread didn't, social distancing didn't matter, cloth masks do nothing to stop aerosols. The last few years have seen many Batboy level conspiracy theories promoted by "reputable" outlets.

Doesn't matter who the source is, if they've got receipts. And it doesn't matter who the source is if they DON'T have them, either.
> I'd just argue it's not what books are for.

Who are you to decide what books are for, especially on a pirate site? I use libgen for research. Trying to figure out if a book is good for what I'm looking for is hard! In a traditional physical library, I'd sit in the stacks and scan through sometimes dozens of books before finding what I'm looking for. Then I'd check out those few books and read them more in depth.
The tech industry is filled with a special kind of person who thinks they are the best at what they do. They get paid a lot (for now) so they make the mistake of thinking they’re at the same level of real professionals like doctors, lawyers, and engineers. The industry encourages this delusion by throwing around essentially made-up feel-good titles like “software engineer”, “senior software engineer”, “staff software engineer”, etc.

When these people begin to doubt themselves and their line of work, they’re told they have “impostor syndrome” and everything is fine.

The reason the industry does all of this is because it discourages their workers from forming unions. They trick their workers into thinking unions will slow them down.

There will come a day when the industry is flooded with enough saps that their high salary is pulled out from under them and they’ll understand the reality of the situation. They’ll be left working for pennies and at odd hours of the day.
It's not actually forwarding, it's sending a new email with the same content. I haven't seen any issues with them going to spam but definitely a concern of mine.
The number one metric: Consistency. If an app is similar to itself in all places, it's very easy to understand. Better yet, if it's similar and consistent with how other things have been built, we can call it "clean code".

Back in the day we called these things architecture, but I'm old and salty.
I've seen front end developer folks on UX teams that do a blend of design work and quick mock/prototype development. We've also used them as consultants for the development teams for implementing final UI code.