skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whilst thousands of healthcare workers in the US —- those who are supposed to be proponents of public health measures and rational, scientific thinking - refuse to get vaccinated [...]

These people were considered heroes last year (and overwhelmingly exposed to this virus while everyone else stayed at home). Now their judgment is in question because they won't follow the herd, with all of their medical experience/expertise being rejected or discredited. The inconsistency is a work of art.

Everyone should read this: https://www.amazon.com/Rape-Mind-Psychology-Menticide-Brainw... — you will find an alarming number of parallels to our current situation.
Goro's story is tragic. By all accounts Miyazaki is far from the perfect father, to put it mildly, and it's difficult enough to live up to the reputation of someone like Miyazaki even under the best circumstances. The only example I can think of where a son matches the reputation of a 1st rate artist father is the Scarlatti family.

It reminds me of Jiro Dreams of Sushi in a way, where Jiro, as masterful at making sushi as Miyazaki is at making movies, has two sons. The older son is expected to live up to his father's name. Not surpass his father, not put his twist on things, but to do everything in just the same way so that one day he can take over the restaurant. As such, he is treated very much like a 50-something trainee and will likely never step out of his father's shadow (Jiro's younger son already has his own successful sushi restaurant). I feel like Goro is in the same situation. He's expected to do everything like his father, even if he doesn't want to or if his talents are better suited to something else. I don't know if this is a universal thing for successful, controlling people, or if there is something particular about Japanese culture at play here (I know, 2 points don't necessarily make a trend).

As far as artistic families where a child matches or succeeds their first rate father, I'd have to say Andrew Wyeth is a more impressive artist than N. C.
I worked on changing CMS regulation once and 80% of the time was spent proving CMS had the authority to do so.

Not surprised by this ruling at all.
I'm quite befuddled by this article, because the perspective is pretty exactly 180° of what I'm used to.

I don't (try to) control or manage backpressure. Backpressure controls - or rather, steers - me/my code. Getting backpressure right is massively important and frequently under-considered design aspect.

The most significant thing to understand IMHO is that you need to look at backpressure in the context of the larger system. More concretely, you need to ask yourself "is this telling me that another task should run right now"? Both for synchronously driven sources (e.g. blocking write() syscall) as well as asynchronously driven sources (event loop with "can send" flag), you need to make sure you (a) don't block other progress (held locks on DB) and (b) actually pull up other tasks (particularly important for partially-asynchronous code).

And this leads straight to the single most impactful design/scaling decision for these systems: is the source maintaining its outbound scheduling at a high enough level? This is best clarified with an example: say you have a key/value store that sends out change notifications per key. Does your application need every single step, or just the most recent value? And if it's the latter: you shouldn't even have a "true" queue! Instead, the code needs to track which keys are pending for which receiver, and whenever the receiver can accept data, it needs to send the most recent data for pending keys. This is the difference between an unbounded queue and a bounded by number of keys queue. The former can fail disastrously, the latter will just start lagging but once it reaches the worst case, it just stays there.

> For example, if someone says: “I made this new library with built-in backpressure…” they probably mean it somehow helps you manage backpressure, not that it actually intrinsically is the cause of it. Backpressure is not “desirable” except when it’s inescapable and you want to protect something else from receiving it.

… and this really encapsulates my disagreement. Backpressure is absolutely desirable. I want my libraries to provide me with backpressure when there is reason to do so, and do it in a way I can actually "consume" the backpressure!

And lastly:

> Backpressure Strategies: control, buffer, drop

"buffer" and "drop" are in most cases just bugs. And very hard to debug & track down, due to their load dependency.
StartCom refused to issue free certificates for free .tk domains, "back in the day", for spam-related concerns. Emails from these domains may be blocked, too, I guess.

So the tld matters a bit still.
Wonder if there’s any way to get advertisers to veto scraped content sites. Not really in their incentive to boycott eyeballs, but if advertisers were actively avoiding those sites, it’d dry up the incentive to make them.

This could backfire, but fining advertisers that show up on those sites might work. The difficulty would be all the claim verification and process of determining what exactly is a “scraped site”, and backfire scenario could be another hurdle for non established sites/more centralization of content. But if you targeted the advertisers rather than the sites themselves, the advertising networks would be incentivized to do that identification themselves.
yeah, and that's the reason why most of them have stupid names
No, I know someone who also experienced this with Stripe a few months ago.

Rescinding intern offers is also bad, but it's not nearly the same in impact as rescinding a full-time offer for a lot of reasons.

I haven't seen this from Google or Facebook, but we should call them out if it happens!
Smokers pay higher life insurance premiums, right? Risk-adjusted health insurance premiums for preventable lifestyle issues is a great idea.

Couple the above with with a ban on advertising pharmaceuticals and we would see a 50% reduction in per capita health care spend almost overnight.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, per the article:

He also said that often, lukewarm or bad reference checks can cause delays in the process, and recruiters may not be willing to explain this to candidates in order to protect the people who gave references.

So in other words -- some bright sparks inside the hiring pipeline at Stripe sat down and consciously decided to give candidates "offers" -- with the full appearance of being, you know, actual real, true, final offers -- knowing perfectly well that they were still in due diligence phase. To make things, you know, "faster".

I guess that's just the way Stripe is, as a company.
> a nuke will permanently destroy every electronic device in a large radius

The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) produced by nuclear weapons detonated above the atmosphere [1] is destroying many electronic devices in a large radius. "Every" seems too strong of a statement, though, a majority of devices which are small and not connected to wires may survive. The problem though is that even just destroying a large part of devices is enough to disrupt food and water sources and transportation capabilities in a wide area. EMP, while radiation, is not ionizing radiation--its frequencies are below a few 100 MHz. It damages electric and electronic equipment by voltage surges produced in (longer) wires attached to the devices.

> old, rad hardened devices

Radiation hardening [2] is referring to protection from ionizing radiation. While nuclear weapons of course produce lots of that (and it is what is then partially converted to the EMP when it hits the atmosphere), it is of somewhat more localized (~tens of kilometers rather than thousands from the point of detonation), and it appears, secondary concern. Ionizing radiation affects humans and devices similarly. Radiation hardening for devices presumably only makes sense if humans are protected, too, lest they can't use the equipment anymore. During my research I ran across "systems-generated EMP effects", though, which may be an exception (an amount of ionizing radiation low enough to not kill or damage humans much, but high-densitiy enough due to the short duration to destroy electronics). Maybe you were referring to this, I don't know. It seems that EMP protection is more important, though, especially considering that the context here was writing documents, which is probably not a priority if surviving the nearby low-altitude nuclear detonation that's necessary to produce systems-generated EMP effects?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening#Systems-ge...
GoDaddy will also be able charge your old expired credit card.

A few years ago my dad had mistakenly signed up for some dark pattern "premium" SEO/marketing service on GoDaddy for one of his domains. It was over $600 a year and was near useless.

Cancelling this "service" was behind multiple clicks. He gave up on cancelling mistakenly thinking that since his old card had expired he would have a chance to cancel at at a renewal.

Of course GoDaddy was able to charge another $629 on an expired credit card...

Moved all the domains in my family from GoDaddy to Namecheap with no regrets.
Ahhhhh! I had to make partial search indexes for anything I wanted to be searchable as the user typed, so infuriating and unbelievable
How is state ownership of the means of production embedded in the core Internet protocols?
I just never stop interviewing. Keeps your leetcode skills up and you can easily carve out time with silent quality increases.

If you aren’t going to be there in a year, fake the code review.
Meta usually doesn't even bother finding you a team before hiring you, at least at L5 (senior) level... they hire based on a standardized interview process, you start with a 6 week bootcamp to get familiar with their systems, and then you have two weeks to find a team. There are a few cases where you're hired for a specific team and skip the 2 week team-matching period, but this is the general pattern.
Not really - the U.S. (except Montana) makes work at-will, where either side can terminate the work immediately without cause (although it can't be for reasons discriminatory of a protected class like race, religion, etc). You might be able to get damages for misrepresentation at most, but you'd have to show they never intended to hire you in the first place, or perhaps on the basis they allegedly didn't clarify that the offer is contingent on a background check.
And for anyone celebrating the holidays day 10-15 tends to be where I find real life holiday planning/activities start to rapidly take over my free time. I'm certainly not going to miss out on eggnog with friends and family so I can solve a few extra AoC problems.

I personally don't mind, if I spend 10 days learning a new language and solving some problems I'm satisfied. I'm still very excited when AoC comes up every year!
I loved Darebee a few years ago when I was a teenager and didn't have any equipment to exercise. Their programs are quite easy to follow and the most important thing is that they instill a habit of exercising everyday.

Feedback on form/routines/diet was also quite good in the forums.

For those asking about why they need funding, if I remember correctly they test all their programs before release, as well as film the exercises with the correct form, so it's not only hosting that they need to pay for. The videos are high quality, for example: https://darebee.com/exercises/push-ups.html
If you are using Safari, the DevonAgent app[1] that was linked to in another thread also has a denylist feature

[1]:https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonagent
Yeah, only one guy is wearing a hoodie, and it's light grey. Everyone knows hackers wear dark grey hoodies.
Stripe's recruitment pipeline is well known (at least in most ruby dev circles) to be fucked. I've experienced this first hand and even gotten lip service from exec leadership (see my HN comment history). Stripe is very good at PR, aren't they?

The thing is, there are lots and lots of companies who don't have these types of problems; that don't treat candidates poorly, follow thru with the offers they make (I can't believe I'm typing that!).

Hiring is already a power dynamic slanted for the employer... this shit just seem excessive and like 0 fucks are given.

As a job seeker, don't waste your time interviewing at companies that have these fundamental problems just getting in the door. The odds will never be in your favor, but these types of problems make for a much larger mountain to climb.

Knowing these things, and how good Stripe is at PR, I wouldn't be surprised if things on the inside are actually a dysfunctional mess. I hope not.
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thanks for mentioning this, I've never heard of such a thing

I'm both terrfied and eager at the thought of going to one

interesting idea in this day and age - espically with covid

I accidently touched a finger of bar worker at a pub (in the UK) whilst paying and I instantly got massive shivers all over

and also last week my male colleague from India (living in the UK) linked my arm - I do know this happens a lot in Denmark, it did feel very strange walking around the pubs at night linked arms with another male - not unpleasent though
Yeah he always took some pride in being that early patient in a study.

As an aside, I’ll have to be careful here because I think I might be confusing some of the trials he was a part of with actual treatments he received. It’s been a big mix of throwing a lot of different things at the wall.
Bcachefs has gotten a lot more development time and seems close to ready for mainstream use, and this seems like it's much more in very early stages.

It'd be cool to hear a conversation on the overall design of each project from the authors of both, though
"Greater good" has been the justification for the worst atrocities committed in history.

Be careful about so willingly giving up your right to self-ownership.

You may not ever get it back.
The answer is, if someone can make money by doing something shitty but not illegal, they will do it.

Almost everything on the web is some scheme to put ads in your face so someone can make some money.
At the time of my comment, their post did not include that link, only a random quotation and "that's bullshit, here's my take".
You're thinking of SIGSALY. Not only was it not analog, it was the first digital system to use PCM for audio.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY

The analog TV stuff isn't encryption, it's scrambling. Those systems used proper digital crypto to generate the keystream, then scrambled video lines using a digital line buffer. They aren't secure (you can decode the picture by correlating lines without having the key) and they still rely on digital bits to do the processing, even if the image itself is transmitted as analog.

So no, analog crypto doesn't exist, though you can certainly obfuscate analog signals in various ways. For crypto to be analog the actual cryptography would have to be performed in the analog domain. To my knowledge, that doesn't exist and can't exist.
The ancient 'computer' that shouldn't exist
No it isn't. Ads are their core business. Those crap sites almost all run ads from Google
Doesn't work - there is a constant churn of automated edits (e.g. to add language links to other Wikipedias, or to add archive.org backlinks for expired source links).
.me is absolutely fine and, as an employer, I would not mark down an applicant for using it.
The domains at this point aren't really tied to the goverment.
My comment was sarcastic lol, considering they are almost never fired despite underperforming. (I'd like to be immune to productivity requuirements and leech off society, only ironically)
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Yeah, I kept searching for how this used postgres and ultimately was disappointed. What an odd name.
Details are important. The media campaigns are claiming he wanted Muslim identification, a system THEY proposed in their hypothetical. When he didn't confirm they said "he wouldn't deny it" as their proof of support.

> The below quote is already bad enough. He still proposed surveillance based on religious identity.

He said nothing about citizens or monitoring them based on religious identity. He said look at mosques, that's all. Mosques are often the target of attacks.

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aren't the existing forms of transparent compression for filesystems better than that?
This is why I only use .com and .{country code of stable country, like iceland}, as the likelihood of shenanigans on these is so low.

.io definitely is one of those cool CS street cred domains, but 2x- or 3xing the price is just ridiculous :(
What you're saying is correct, Wikipedia doesn't really have any "maintenance" criteria anyway.

> Deleting content prevents this from happening.

If somebody creates an article about their sock collection, they might be somewhat increasing detail and thoroughness, but possibly decreasing overall accuracy. Wikipedia might send a representative to verify this fact, but I'm not sure if the Wikipedia's budget would be sufficient for that. If not, then I think deleting would actually contribute to and not impair the overall goal.
A lot of folks are focusing on whether or not the officer's use of force and destruction was justified or not in this or other cases, but really this is orthogonal to the question of who should pay for it.

The right answer is that the police department (not the officers) should pay for all damage caused, regardless of whether it was justified by the circumstances. Implicitly then, the taxpayers are sharing the load for the full cost of police protection.

We should expect that the police will occasionally cause damage, and this is just part of the cost of funding a police force.

This would also add a nice check/balance, since the taxpayers will be more aware of how much damage police are causing and have an incentive to say something about it if it becomes excessive.
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When the limiting factor for IO perf that you’re trying to measure with your benchmark is the filesystem, rather than the disk, you don’t actually want a real disk backing your filesystem; that would just introduce noise to your measurements. Instead, you want your filesystem to be backed with an entirely in-memory block-device loopback image or some equivalent — which VMs are perfectly capable of (and in fact better at) providing.

Think of it by analogy to e.g. GPU benchmarking: you’d never use anything slower than the fastest CPU you can get your hands on, because you want to benchmark the GPU on its own as a single system bottleneck; not how well the GPU idles when held back by a bottleneck somewhere else in the system.