skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
15 years ago on slashdot I read an article about this, basically as you say, it is entropy driven and tangled is a more natural state. I'll try and find it.

I cant find it - there is a 2007 Science article but it's not what remember. Anyway, this link has a short summary and a couple other good links:

http://uncommon-priors.com/?p=3437
One of the big issues mentioned was that one of the circuit breakers they did have (client back off), didn't function properly. So they did have a circuit breaker in the design, but it was broken.
Hasn't this exact thing (something in US-east-1 goes down, AWS loses ability to update dashboard) happened before? I vaguely remember it was one of the S3 outages, but I might be wrong.

In any case, AWS not updating their dashboard is almost a meme by now. Even for global service outages the best you will get is a yellow.
No problem with monasteries and gender restrictions of religions, but here we’re talking about a huge area (a peninsula)! We have similar restrictions for women in churches located in cities and these are generally accepted and followed, but only on “holly” grounds and not for large areas like Mt Athos.
From within a VPC, you can either access DynamoDB via its public internet endpoints (eg, dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, which routes through an Internet Gateway attachment in your VPC), or via a VPC endpoint for dynamodb that's directly attached to your VPC. The latter is useful in cases where you want a VPC to not be connected to the internet at all, for example.
Yes. I managed to reproduce the issue with slf4j + log4j2.
> Sure they might add a foosball table and buy a pizza once in a while, but by and large many companies don't treated tech especially well. I'm not sure if it is a lack of respect (some companies see developers as a pluggable commodity) or resentment for having to pay them more than they think they should have to.

And they tend to get crushed by real tech companies. Honestly the test is pretty simple; if you go grab a drink and it's anything other than free and if you see anything other than retina screens on the floor it's a red flag.

If you go as far as to negotiate an offer and it's not exclusively engineers or former engineers between you and the CEO or if there's no stocks/equity you know you are off to a pretty bad start.

> I guess it depends on where you live, but some cities just don't have a lot of pure tech companies, so you are stuck with places like these.

Just come to the valley/work remote.
One of the wildest things I have ever read
Ah yes, more government intervention. The cornerstone of any nutritious conservative breakfast
If you were deployed in 2 regions would it alleviate the impact?
how are auth requests supposed to reach the auth server if the networking is broken?
There are infinite jobs. What other parts are confusing about the ethos?
The magic comes from the fact that you can decompose a translation (as in your example) into a bunch of little ones. So you want an operator that has the property that F(a)g(x) = g(x+a) = F(a/N)^N g(x). Equating F(a) to F(a/N)^N (for any N) reveals the exponential structure. I’m sure there are other ways but this is the first that comes to mind. You can also try using a very small translation F(da) and that will give you some insight too.
Still sounds like a good deal despite the difficulties and toll
My favorite sentence: "Our networking clients have well tested request back-off behaviors that are designed to allow our systems to recover from these sorts of congestion events, but, a latent issue prevented these clients from adequately backing off during this event."
You’re not going to get that sort of fidelity from a smart watch, you need some brain traces
Ejabberd 21.12
Meditation is about being alert and present. Hypnagogia in my experience is a hindrance that impedes meditation progress since it dulls the senses and experience.
Playing MOBAs all day is much easier than programming all day. It has bigger lows like exhausting 100 minute techie games or getting tilted by teammates, but it's still somehow easier. I think it's because you get a fresh start every game and a good game is refreshing in a way that finishing a problem isn't.
Can't blame him, those investors sound pretty terrible...
> The entire time their outage board was solid green

Unless you're talking about some board other than the Service Health Dashboard, this isn't true. They dropped EC2 down to degraded pretty early on. I bemusedly noted in our corporate Slack that every time I refreshed the SHD, another service was listed as degraded. Then they added the giant banner at the top. Their slight delay in updating the SHD at the beginning of the outage is mentioned in the article. It was absolutely not all green for the duration of the outage.
> You do not need to update the entire screen all the time, you can do partial updates

You forget that you are expected to keep up to 8 reference frames. And you need to update them too.

> You do not need to update the entire screen all the time, you can do partial updates

This would work only until first keyframe.
So far so good. I suppose there are a few acute medical situations that might cause me to fuck up driving on par with what FSD can manage to do.
Netflix was talking alot about circuit breaks a few years ago, and had the Hystrix project. Looks like Hystrix is discontinued, so I'm not sure if there are good library solutions that are easy to adopt. Overall I don't see it getting talked about that frequently... beyond just exponential backoff inside a retry loop.

- https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ3wIuvmHeM I think talks about Hystrix a bit, but I'm not sure if it's the presentation I'm thinking of from years ago or not.
Nowhere in the article does it provide even speculation about actual operational effect of the rust. Does anyone know if rust as pictured in the article has a detrimental effect to the combat readiness of the ship? That should be far and away the primary concern.
Yeah, probably. I haven't watched it this closely before during an outage. I have no idea if this happens in good faith, bad faith, or (probably) a mix.
Because to do that it'd become YouTube?

No one cares about a shopping list of pictures, people want engagement with a Real Human™ if they're going to spend their cash on a recommendation

So Pinterest would have to pivot to a niche video site, which is not exactly an easy thing to sustain
OS/2 was not a problem for Borland? Why? Because IBM paid us to do that! We didn’t lose money on that. Or not MUCH money, anyway.

The license agreement thing was a failure of imagination. The project team didn’t ever think we needed to review legal language. But after that fiasco we made sure that we did. I tell that story in my classes.

You are right about slipping quality. It was just an unsustainable rate of development. I was ringing alarm bells inside the team, and management was hearing them, but they said “look, either we ship or we start laying off the team.”

So you are mostly right.
Maybe? Why would you want to when a simple solution exists?
Something like that exists in C++ and Rust:

* https://www.jeremyong.com/klein/
* https://github.com/wrnrlr/g3
Agree, I should have specified “for the mass market”.

Totally different inside the enterprise, one reason Borland & Embarcadero focused on it.
Weed could do it. Other things too, but weed is always a good first stop for nice mind effects.
I see no difference in this kind of job as an NFL or any other sports player. Sure they might not be able to keep doing this into their 40s but who cares have to strike while the iron is hot.

If they grow out or decide streaming video games or whatever isnt for them, thats no different than a baseball player retiring.

Maybe they move into the front office and advise other up and coming streamers and entertainers what they can do. Who knows what the market will look like for this kind of entertainment in the future.
Disclaimer: I am anything but a medical professional, and I fully expect to be corrected on some things I write here. No offense will be taken.

You may very well have had AFib as confirmed by a cardiologist, so don't take this comment as attempting to say you did not have AFib. It's important for those reading this to note that flutter does not equal AFib, at least not in many (most?) cases. Afib is characterized by the absence of regularly occurring P-waves, and yes, one will often feel fluttering.

The fluttering I experienced was caused by a heart beat beginning too soon, causing a noticeable pause between beats. (EDIT/ADD: The premature beat also feels like it came too quickly. One will sometimes feel their breath catch when this happens.) It's probably the most common type of flutter. At worst, this occurred many times per minute, but never seemed to affect me when trying to improve my fitness.

I had fluttering for more than 30 years before being diagnosed with chronic AFib. It (the fluttering) had approximately zero affect on my ability to do hard work, or exercise vigorously for hours. Chronic AFib on the other hand, has been debilitating. Chronic AFib refers to continuous AFib present for more than two years, that is, one's heart is never in normal sinus rhythm. Average life expectancy for someone like me, who was diagnosed about mid-sixties, is about 10-years. The loss of energy and endurance is significant.

Paroxysmal (intermittent/episodic) AFib is more common and can often(?) be cured by ablation and medication. Ablate and pace (pacemaker) is another approach.

Ablation for chronic AFib is sometimes attempted in cases where open-heart surgery is sometimes required for another purpose, as ablation is required both inside and outside of the heart and pulmonary vessels to be effective for chronic AFib. Ablation via catheterization is rarely effective in chronic AFib. However, a company named Atricure is experimenting with a catheter-like approach that utilizes three(?) catheters to ablate both inside and outside the heart and pulmonary vessels. They claim improvement in about 67-percent of their attempts, if memory serves. It's an understatement to say it's a rather involved procedure.

For those with chronic AFib, the treatment is often just anticoagulants and rate-control meds, e.g. metoprolol.

(EDIT/ADD: For those with paroxysmal AFib, treatment often consists of rate control, anti-coagulants, and anti-arrhythmic meds. Sometimes cardio-version is required to restore normal sinus rhythm.)

Anyway, I'm not an expert, just a layman with a dog in this fight. Hope a cardiologist chimes in.
Good point, but in my case this caused a horizontal scroll bar to also appear, which looked awful, so I guess it was critical functionality to me and not just an enhancement :)
I find myself thinking if a giant golden horse rolled up to the gates of Troy.

I bet Larry Ellison is hiding somewhere nearby, having sent his racing ship of to sea without him.
You don't use CSS to move stuff around. If you for example want to place paragraph-1 below paragraph-2 you simply move it in the HTML.
And if you want to add a line break you add <br> in the HTML.

If you want to make a word tiny, you can use the <small> HTML element.

Here is the CSS for my example

body {
font-family: sans-serif;
background: #e4e5f8
}

figure {
text-align: center;
background: #fff;
border-radius: 1rem;
padding: 1.5rem;
max-width: 40rem;
}

figure img {
border-radius: 50%;
width: 7rem;
height: 7rem;
object-fit: cover;
}

figure blockquote {
font-size: 1.125rem;
margin: 1rem;
}

figure b {
color: #0ea5e9;
display: block;
}

The trick is to keep things simple.
Then when you have mastered the rules, you can break the rules. eg. when you can style semantic HTML however you want without adding div's and CSS classes, that's when you can start adding a little div and class here and there just to keep things even more simple.

Simple code is most of the time faster to load, and easier to maintain.
And php is even more popular ;)
I'm just going to criticize the writing here, but the callouts are annoyingly distracting and useless. They're supposed to be context free, but "Does that sound familiar? It should. It’s the way Apple innovates." is not understandable without the previous sentence. The first callout is repeated in the paragraph immediately after it, geezus christ what's the point...
We used 3.1 as our internal benchmark of quality.
It’s so hard to know what was the state of the system when the monitoring was out. Wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t have the data to investigate it now.
In the February 2017 S3 outage, AWS was unable to move status icons to the red icon because those images happened to be stored on the servers that went down.

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
You misunderstand. Transition procedures do not change one’s biological sex and transgender communities have never claimed that they do.
As Facebook plans the metaverse, it struggles to combat harassment in VR
This is pretty silly. We can't throw away http because http solves problems that VR does not alleviate.

>A real-time, dynamic, stateful two-way client-server protocol. As such, it will be if not fully RTP then close to it.

Why didn't we always have this if all we needed to do was ask? So...realizing we still have the internet of today, what we actually need to rethink is html and the concept of the web as documents alone.

I would be interested to see some work on hyper-objects. As in, hypertext beyond text. The article should be "HTML for VR" and we should be musing about how to find, load, interact and link web based virtual objects.
> there's a purpose-built tool that doesn't overload an already existing concept

I'm not sure which came first, but structs are a ~60 year old concept. That ship has sailed.

Keyword arguments and structs are both named collections of values. Structs just happen to have broader uses. You can argue that we should use the more specialized one, but that's pretty silly--do we implement a general "add(a, b)" function or do we use more specialized add1(b), add2(b), add3(b) functions? Of course we use the more general tool even though a more specialized tool could exist.
What are the government regulations that drive this? (If that’s what you mean?)
I worked at Amazon. While my boss was on vacation I took over for him in the "Launch readiness" meeting for our team's component of our project. Basically, you go to this meeting with the big decision makers and business people once a week and tell them what your status is on deliverables. You are supposed to sum up your status as "Green/Yellow/Red" and then write (or update last week's document) to explain your status.

My boss had not given me any special directions here so I assumed I was supposed to do this honestly. I set our status as "Red" and then listed out what were, I felt, quite compelling reasons to think we were Red. The gist of it was that our velocity was negative. More work items were getting created and assigned to us than we closed, and we still had high priority items open from previous dates. There was zero chance, in my estimation, that we would meet our deadlines, so I called us Red.

This did not go over well. Everyone at the Launch Readiness meeting got mad at me for declaring Red. Our VP scolded me in front of the entire meeting and lectured me about how I could not unilaterally declare our team red. Her logic was, if our team was Red, that meant the entire project was Red, and I was in no position to make that call. Other managers at the meeting got mad at me too because they felt my call made them look bad. For the rest of my manager's absence I had to first check in with a different manager and show him my Launch Readiness status and get him to approve my update before I was allowed to show it to the rest of the group.

For the rest of the time that I went to Launch Readiness I was forbidden from declaring Red regardless of what our metrics said. Our team was Yellow or Green, period.

Naturally, we wound up being over a year late on the deadlines, because, despite what they compelled us to say in those meetings, we weren't actually getting the needed work done. Constant "schedule slips" and adjustments. Endless wasted time in meetings trying to rework schedules that would instantly get blown up again. Hugely frustrating. Still slightly bitter about it.

Anyway, I guess all this is to say that it doesn't surprise me that Amazon is bad about declaring Red, Yellow, or Green in other places too. Probably there is a guy in charge of updating those dashboards who is forbidden from changing them unless they get approval from some high level person and that person will categorically refuse regardless of the evidence because they want the indicators to be Green.
Interview with C#/TypeScript designer Anders Hejlsberg on language design
> The experiment isn't entirely meaningful, because it is culturally dependent -- not just the star-ness, but the expectations of the performance. You don't have to go back very far in time to watch actors who were highly praised but seem off now. And go 20 years in the future, and a lot of what you see now will seem weird and fake.

Exactly that. I was just watching King Kong the other day, and most of the acting reads as terrible today. Delivery's bad, physical acting's way too much, timing's extremely bad. Ed Wood level, much of the time, and that's not an exaggeration. Some of the best (to my modern-viewer perceptions) is from the side characters. Yet, presumably, the leads were at least considered OK actors, at the time. This is true for lots of older films, especially before the 70s or so when the typical style seemed to shift to something much closer to what's in use today, and requires adjusting expectations and some, if you will, immersion therapy, to get over that hurdle and start to enjoy them on their own terms.

But then again, you can go back all the way to the silent film era and find some performances that still feel real and very good, even today and without much expectation-adjusting. Some of it seems to depend on the country producing the film—so, again, it's about culture. And comedy seems nearly immune to the problem, I guess because actors in comedies in all eras are rarely even trying for "believable", and are always kind of in on the whole thing with the audience.

You also see this with oration. Old speeches that are recorded sound totally strange. Part of it's that we had entire accents and styles of speech that were once common, that are now all but gone, a century or less later. Makes one wonder exactly how alien the past might have been, really, if one went even farther back. Written language makes it seem so close, at times. And yet....
Sure. is there a way to contact you?
No, the problem is not with the rules of the monasteries, but with the rules of our religion against women. There are no Greek Orthodox women priests, despite the fact that we have many women Saints! And just to be clear, I’m against all religions that are discriminating people and putting them into groups.
> Customers accessing Amazon S3 and DynamoDB were not impacted by this event.

We've seen plenty of S3 errors during that period. Kind of undermines credibility of this report.
It has its moments.
The inefficiency may not matter if the inconvenienced workers don't get a say. A virtual environment is a corporate dream come true in terms of monitoring. Imagine an AI manager that could monitor workers and virtually walk up behind the ones that aren't being productive. With spatial audio every worker could feel like they're being monitored continuously when it's really just an AI manager monitoring everyone.

Just think of everything in terms of observing / monitoring / tracking and you can see why some of it will start getting pushed really hard.

There are some neat things. If I could have a virtual workspace that rivaled 4k monitors and brought my real keyboard / mouse into the VR world, I can't say I'd be opposed to setting up in a virtual office with an amazing view instead of the 10'x10' box I currently live in.

> I also have a hard time imagining management sitting in meetings while wearing a 400g headset for 3h.

I have a Quest 2 and after about 1h I need to take it off and have a break. That's not an issue for gaming, but it has a long way to go before being a productivity tool.

There's also going to be huge commercial benefits for anyone that can convince the public to adopt VR environments instead of real environments. Imagine a generation of movie goers where friends gather in a VR theater to watch the newest movie. They still pay admission, but you have no costs beyond licensing IP. There are apps on the VR stores that are already laying the ground work for that type of setup.
I would argue that is more due to stress than focus. Top players usually don't take laddering seriously (I.e. not stressed).

Also, if you're playing for that long you end up making a lot of mistakes even if you're a top player. I don't think it's comparable to programming.
I figure that info is out there in the wild in the hands of criminals after countless data breaches.

And I'm less worried about those criminals having my data than Oracle. I think they only see the world in two colors: 1) Current customers 2) people to sue. And lots of #1 are in the second category as well.
I had a mortgage with them in 2019, at the time their operations were mostly in America. In order to scale out its clear they cut corners like every other operation.
You still don't understand the mistake you have made. Again, don't go into finance. You don't understand basic elements of what is going on here.
I've been naively setting up our distributed databases in separate AZs for a couple years now, paying, sometimes, thousands of dollars per month in data replication bandwidth egress fees. As far as I can remember I've never never seen an AZ go down, and the only region that has gone down has been us-east-1.
> there are at least four different competing methods, all with subtle tradeoffs

So choose one at random for each sample :)
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Multiple AZs are moreso for earthquakes, fires[1], and similar disasters rather than software issues.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B...
NLTK might not be the best example of this--it was originally written for pedagogical purposes[1]. One that was sorely needed, too, as in 2006 it was very difficult for a student in an intro to NLP class to easily track down and use existing implementations of various algorithms. NLTK continues to be useful for similar reasons today, as it provides the only relatively usable interface to some valuable but poorly engineered (by modern standards) academic resources such as FrameNet.

Anyway, original commenter seems to presuppose that there's no value in collating and polishing existing resources. Isn't that all, say, a Linux distro is? Is it true that "[Canonical] just wrap all the open source [code] into a [distro] and just want to sell the hype"? If it seems like curating and polishing has value on the market, maybe we ought to at least entertain the possibility that this value is not an illusion of marketing. That's why I agree with dang that OC is a facile dismissal.

Also worth noting that spaCy isn't just wrappers. spaCy's tokenizer, which is an original work, is used in at least two cutting-edge academic NLP libraries, AllenNLP (@AI2)[2] and Stanza (@Stanford)[3], presumably because using spaCy's tokenizer was better than the alternatives.

[1]: https://aclanthology.org/P06-4018.pdf

[2]: https://github.com/allenai/allennlp/blob/e0ee7f43d5da973e77d...

[3]: https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza/blob/68aa42653d656f613...
I share the same feelings. I think we've been witnessing a generational, technological and social transition in the past 10 or so years. I do not wish to add more fuel to the fire but judging by what I read (and crossing them in several different ways) I believe this is a MISO (Military Information Support Operations) disguised and foreshadowing the next war (or maybe we're already in it albeit in a very mild form). I just hope I'm wrong and that it's just noise.