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My two cents. Great proclamations of vaporware often come before a tech reset - be they VR, AI over reach, future money, or some other boondoggle that everyone is meant to love but actually sucks and people hate.

Facebook is pivoting to a non existant technology, and no one even knows whether anyone would want it if it existed. Everyone is dumping dollars on self driving cars and other AI tech that Keeps missing deadlines.

As long as there is free money, tech companies will burn it trying to invent the future. But at some point, if the illusion is pierced, everyone will just see a money pyre.
We have good security posture and a large ops team. We were unaffected by most of the large exploits this year. Print nightmare was a PITA but I agree with the other commenters that a lot of news is hyperbolic.
Except that you have high initial costs in setting up this hardware, especially in a scalable fashion; it quickly adds up to tens of thousands, plus you need employees that can manage something like that, including 24/7 support or monitoring.

Or at least, that's part of AWS' sales pitch. But it makes sense, if you're just an application developer, you can fire up a hosted, scalable, redundant cluster fairly easily and quickly, whereas if you go self-hosted you need to buy hardware, colocation, and either know or hire people that can set it up and mange it.
Interesting to see an article written in the future ;)
I feel like your comment supports the parent's point.

Lack of tolerance is the issue.

Which is ironic, given that traditionally the left has been known as being much more tolerant than the right.

I don't see that anymore, online or with the people I know personally.

My family has split over it. My brother refuses to ever speak to my father again because he believes my father voted for Trump.

The excuses I hear are similar to your comment, but mostly boil down to:

1) take a wedge issue

2) build a strawman around it and a dramatic case that doesn't reflect reality

3) somehow make it personal and claim victimhood

4) use that victim status to demonize the "attacker"
> Before COVID, I would never dream of calling my daughter in the next room, but now I do it all the time - not (only) because I am lazy, but because the call or text is less intrusive than knocking on the door and therefore has better UX.

Back in the mid-to-late 20th century, it used to be a luxury to have a whole-home intercom system. Eventually, the functionality was subsumed by cordless telephone systems.

Texting someone in the next room over just feels like the next step in the evolution of intercom.
Forced sterilization and forced abortions are literal genocide.
a large percentage of the planets population has some immunity from previous infection or vaccination
Right but there’s a difference between “X is bad because China is the one doing X” and “X is bad for reasons A, B, C that would also apply if it were not China doing X”
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This is stellar work from Tonsky as usual, nice to see the innovation here.

Though I made the same point about inline real-time evaluation being better than a REPL recently, and my comment received no such fanfare =(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217815
Cheat and install Bird Net: https://birdnet.cornell.edu/ works amazingly well. And once you have the song identified once, you can recognise it again.
> none of it is relevant to you.

> I guarantee you will hear about it.

Choose one.

I had to book emergency flights back to the UK on a day's notice last year before Christmas because all the countries were closing borders. My partner would've missed it and been stuck abroad if I didn't tell her about it. In a world as connected as ours, finding out what's relevant and what's not is a continuous struggle.
Get a job for Cisco or Juniper. You'll be moving and wiring up a lot of physical routers.
That link shows most (69%) have similar outcomes. 68.8% -- 19% had worse symptoms and 12.5% had milder symptoms.

Small sample size, but even similar result is somewhat surprising -- I would've thought the 2nd infection would be weaker.
I never said that SA had a vaccine shortage I’m saying are we really gonna blame SA when 1) there’s no evidence of wrongdoing on their part except to use their world reknowned infectious disease institutions to discover an existing variant that had entered their populace; 2) other nations are equally if not more flawed?

My understanding is the only reason SA even sounded the alarm was that they were smart enough to proactively be scanning for variants aggressively. They frankly did the world a favor and the world responded by assuming those poor African fucks are gonna dirty everyone with their disease.
what about openstack makes it a behemoth to operate?
Even when adding the upfront investment costs of hardware and ongoing cost of qualified personnel and support duties? And what if overnight your company needs 10x the capacity?
It would be nice, and seemingly feasible, if they could compare to recent Delta infections (or even current one, seeing as both variants are present right now). Presumably any kind of acquired immunity is more comparable to 3 months ago vs. 21 months ago.

It could still be that among people infected with Omicron, there is a larger proportion of vaccinated people, due to vaccines being less efficient, but that's still a better yardstick.
Do you have sources to backup this often repeated rhetoric?

I don’t think you can downplay the role of foreign capital and multi-nationals In South Africa’s economic problems for the past two decades - for example the role that The Guptas, McKinsey and KPMG all played in looting the state.
Happened to me, just a bit over $50k. Took a couple hours of work on my part (they asked me to enable CloudTrail and do some additional securing), and they removed the charges.

Also, it's less of a "hack" than a likely publishing of AWS keys (if you publish them in a public Github repo, they're compromised in seconds)
Also, most people who would have died of Covid in South Africa already died during the Beta and then the Delta wave.
Think iron lung, not shrink-wrap.
I don't think that's right; absent data is really common and a desirable feature, and ergonomically handling it warrants built-in support.

Outer joins inherently require a concept of absence of data, so you'd need a built-in Optional type which would be nullability in all but name. And you'd want lifting of operators on the inner type to the optional type for ergonomic reasons; doing a pattern match for every selection of bar.* where bar is left-joined would be extremely painful. I think you'd end up where you started on the null front.

Sum types generally, for columns etc., maybe (pun not intended), but I'm skeptical about complex types in a relational language - structure ought to be represented as relations where possible so that everything else composes.
Yes, but I'm not entirely sure it is related. The reason I think I've taken up more real-world hobbies and moved farther away from online stuff is that it seems like everything online these days is trying to sell me something. If not a product, then a scam, or FOMO about some new fad, or the latest conspiracy theory, or outrage about some thing or another. I don't think it used to be this way, it used to be a place I could go to hang out with people who had similar interests and talk about them. Theoretically that's what this place is and it still seems like people are trying to sell me shit all the time (mostly blockchain nonsense, web frameworks, and cloud services).

Has it gone this way because of the ever-increasing monetization of it? I'm inclined to think so, but it's also possible it's just the natural result of becoming more widely used. Tragedy of the commons and all that.
AWS doesn’t oversubscribe on EC2 instances outside the T family.
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Similar problem here. I actually notice that the imagery is a fleeting caricature trying to capture what Im attempting to observe, some kind of CGA resolution image of a lake, trees and so on. It’s also very confusing that I can actually transpose myself within my imagination where I barely notice Im blind because I can feel it all around.
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I'm not getting a 404 (from the UK), but here's an archive link:

https://archive.md/Ih5eQ
If it’s the Pfizer CEO talking then two is not enough. You need at least 4.
I.e. those hires are expensive. I am sure there would be candidates with an offer of $1M/year.
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Is it possible that everyone has "aphantasia" but some people confuse remembering having seen something with actually seeing it?

No. Visualizing gives you access to data you weren't consciously aware of and also allows you to make accurate predictions. For example, in the elephant portion of the article I thought about the sight of a bull elephant
turning and charging directly at the viewpoint. I was surprised at how significantly the flared ears affected my perception of the size and power of the elephant, and I wondered if they flare their ears specifically for that purpose and if so why I've never heard of that. I googled it and yes, that is the case.
No, they're referring to bit rot on flash storage due to slow leakage of the charge that represents the data. It occurs on long time scales, definitely years. But the more bits per cell (SLC vs TLC vs QLC), the more likely it is.
The high upfront cost only applies to buying the hardware. What about renting from Hetzner or OVH?
Are you at least getting paid better?
Yep! The potential for a massive demographic crisis has to be worrying for the CCP we well. The current generation will know a higher standard of living and have higher expectations than their parents and if/when growth slows that could be a serious difficulty
There's actually a term for this - monopsony. I've only ever heard it used in the context of universal healthcare.
I would suspect that most people who are were already vulnerable have already passed or built immunity if the virus is equally dangerous, resulting in a lower than equal death rate despite equivalent risk.

Although... Can we never, not even once, be a little optimistic? To me, the news that we may be replacing COVID with a less severe strain is some of the best news of the year. COVID clearly isn't going away at this point, so by all means try to replace it with something weaker!

EDIT: Also, on a side note, the actual doctor who found Omicron said it was less dangerous. She even described it as "extremely mild." https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgddw4/omicron-variant-inter... Needless to say, politicians and news hosts decided to completely ignore her description about it.
I would say that security ops (SOC and Vuln mgmt in particular) at a small/medium sized company has to be kind of awful all the time. There is never enough time, funding, or management support to make meaningful change. This is further exacerbated by the fact that once you get a headcount or two, it can be exceptionally difficult to find qualified people (and those people are expensive). I did this type of work for 5ish years, and while I would never trade the experience for anything, I am glad to have moved past that point in my career.

Now, I write software for a niche Information Security team at a Fortune 250. I am still impacted by these major events, but it is usually in the form of "can we add X detection for Y vulnerability". The work is challenging/enjoyable but I am still able to maintain a good work/life balance.
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The archive is a few years out of date: https://legiblenews.com/archive/
Most people can see things in their mind that they don't consciously remember as discrete facts. For example, many people have a visual and motor memory of things like passcodes, but do not consciously and discretely remember the digits. A fun example from my own life: when I was a child, during a spelling test, I couldn't remember where to put the "h" in "ghost" until I called to mind the cover of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0448405776
Fantasy football is actually interesting in that it happens “off hours”. So if you are a company that has an “on hours” business, running Fantasy Football is free if you utilize multi tenant hardware.
I believe they test this with the "paper folding test". Something like this: https://www.123test.com/spatial-reasoning-test/

If you can answer at least one of those questions you probably don't have aphantasia.
I would suspect not, unless they left and went to another company.
That's also just memory. I couldn't describe most servers I've had after a few hours if it was the only time I saw them. Try to imagine a barista. Imagine a scene in a coffee shop, it will get filled in with your actual memories of places you've been and people you've seen. Can you produce a detailed (but not accurate to reality) mental image of such a place or a barista working there that is comparable to your recall of your wife's face? (maybe not as detailed, but not as fuzzy as trying to recall a specific barista)
I got diagnosed with MS and I take it for my muscle spasticity at night to help me sleep, so it's completely unrelated. I have -20 vision with severe astigmatism and was completely uncorrected until I had eye surgery at 4 to fix some eye muscle issues.

It reverts when I don't take the drug, but I can visualize a little bit whereas I used to not be able to 'see' in my mind at all. Like right now there's none in my system so I can vaguely imagine an apple as a red, roundish object, but not more than that. I read to fall asleep, and I noticed when I started 'seeing' stuff in my head in addition to 'hearing' it.

I do wonder if it's connected to the fact that one of the side effects at high doses is hallucinations, which I do also experience.
I'm no expert, but to sell this to the skeptics (if they'd even buy it), I guess an analogy would be, if you wanted to preserve an ice cube in a freezer where the temperature is -20C, incrementally rising the temperature won't matter, until it does: when it reaches the melting point of the ice.

Are we at melting point now? Or very very close to it?
> Are you saying that wealth extraction from Africa to its former colonial masters does not happen anymore?

Nothing happening to the wealth of South African today is happening without explicit authorization by a political party that have had a legislative majority and/or super majority for almost 30 years. Pointing fingers at the west for what South Africans do to other South Africans won't fix any problems South Africa has.
So what should I be looking at here? Is it that the red line (mean temperatures) is much above the green line (climate, ie average over previous years)?
> Although... Can we never, not even once, be a little optimistic?

No. This is a perfectly good crisis and to do so would be to let it go to waste.
I have a question for anyone who has a serious level of knowledge on virus evolution: As viruses evolve over time is there any correlation to severity - do they have trade offs as they evolve?

I am hoping that it would be some kind of trade off that the virus makes in that it can spread more easily but not be as severe (I understand that it is unlikely nature requires a trade-off). I ask as my concern is that while this variant might be much more effective at spreading and hopefully less severe in its disease - are we not just making a massive breeding ground for the variant after this one that could potentially be as quick spreading but with a greater severity of disease?
You can form a pithy but unnuanced and unhelpful caricature about every level.

Junior software engineer: arrogant, self-entitled child who thinks they know everything but doesn't even know what they don't know but insists that their ideas are better, creating a people-hostile minefield across the org.
Answer: I misunderstood the submission prompt, thinking my comment would be attached to the post and not lost below. I linked that as a halfway-there example of what I want, and also because I'm a slave to SEO and HN ranks posts higher if they have a link.
You really have to have a zen mindset and refuse to let these outside issues control you. There is infinite bad shit out there and you can work for years and barely make a dent in it. That is just how it is.

Personally, I am helped by being a client server. It constantly amazes me the kind of risk a business is willing to accept for barely anything in return, and if I actually had a personal stake in what I am seeing at clients I think I would be much more stressed.

Also, the issue is not just 'are security professionals ok'. Good security starts with good operations, and good operations is a rarity. We need devs to ship products that can run with least privileges and have secure defaults. We need operators to have a good understanding of their own environment and to design things on purpose rather than just improvising. We need security people that can offer more guidance than just printing out a nessus scan. We need business analysts who are pragmatic with concessions and who are willing to spend the resources needed to do things right the first time.
WASM actually started life as a subset of Javascript called asm.js. Code in other languages was compiled to this subset of Javascript so they could execute in the browser. Once that proved useful, they decided to skip the Javascript step and agree on a binary format that browsers could execute directly. That's WASM.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asm.js

> asm.js consists of a strict subset of JavaScript, to which code written in statically-typed languages with manual memory management (such as C) is translated by a source-to-source compiler such as Emscripten (based on LLVM).[2] Performance is improved by limiting language features to those amenable to ahead-of-time optimization and other performance improvements.

> asm.js is mostly rendered obsolete with the introduction of WebAssembly (wasm), which has a bytecode format that is faster to parse. Efforts to extend JavaScript with more low-level features like SIMD.js has also been suspended since 2017. asm.js remains useful primarily as a "fallback" for wasm
Fortune 500 companies have hundreds of internal apps that each have their own stack. Multiply 2 or 3 for lower environments.

At that scale in a single company the ability to provision verticals weighs heavily in architecture and design choices.

"Should we spin this new feature out as a microservice or fold it into an existing app so we don't have to wait weeks and do crazy cost accounting for new environments?" And the answer has follow-on effects because now it has to be accounted for in a specific teams' backlog and we encounter yet more waiting.
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In May, the pollster Frank Luntz reported that "more than two-thirds of Republicans believe that the election was stolen”.
This was a fun read. Love the twist at the end.
I don’t agree with the policies around land without compensation but the economic prosperity that the people of the USSR and PRC experienced after instating those policies can not be denied.
The miners aren't the only ones who need to store the blockchain. If you don't run your own node, you are trusting someone else to tell you your balance and whether or not someone has paid you which is..not ideal.
>The ones who fight corruption are the most corrupt.

>The ones who fight injustice are the most cruel.

>The ones who fight intolerance are least tolerant.

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. This is what this sounds like to me.
Worth bearing in mind, 19% -> 3 patients, 12.5% -> 2 patients.
Old people have the most unequal (between them) share of overall wealth than ever before.

Yay, free market!
Not comprehensive, but link between radiation - viruses - cancer here

https://www.ted.com/talks/madison_campbell_viruses_in_space_...
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Fyi I can sign my pdf resume with my national id card with a legally binding digital signature. This provides all the same guarantees, without using a third party blockchain-based service.
Lots of pandemic downtime gave hackers and script kiddies more idle time to sharpen their tools and tricks, and more businesses going online gives a greater target vector (even though we only hear about the big ones getting hacked)
Log4j vulnerability became big news Friday evening. I did not have a weekend. Monday I went to bed at 3AM (technically Tuesday) and I was up at 8. It’s midnight and I am not yet done for the day.

Am I okay?
Discussion about the site mentioned in this article:

"Paper Website: Start a tiny website from your notebook" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29174478 (32 days ago, 271 points, 70 comments)
The media calling January 6th an 'insurrection' is a perfect example of the problem.

It's pure sensationalism.

There were no guns, there was no centralized organization to indicate an insurrection, the 4 people who died were all protestors, mostly from being dumbasses.

Clearly those people who damaged the capitol should be punished, just like the Black Lives Matter protesters who damaged the Foley Federal Building.

But calling it an INSURRECTION is just pure disingenuous sensationalism by the media.

What story will make the media more money:

A protest that got very heated?
Or an insurrection?

And of course the more extreme opponents of either side will seize on the identity politics and propagate this narrative and we continue down the path of polarization.

I have no idea how to fix this issue of media propaganda other than teaching people statistics and critical thinking, but that starts with education from an early age. I don't know if most people even have the time to research alternative views so they just trust their news sources, which worked up until the past decade(?) or so.
And outside of the Covid crisis of course; nobody should be traveling unless absolutely necessary, and nobody should be visiting museums unless fully vaccinated (for their own safety), masked up, and there's a strict visitor limit. I'm not convinced ventilation would be good enough in a museum given they can't open windows.
Being able to blame someone else for a security problem is a reason to use the cloud.
>quality of life gap on the other hand has never been smaller.

That's a concern for animals.

Human cocerns about wealth have always been comparative and relative, not absolute.
I've done some OCR side projects during hackathon weeks over the years (with google tesseract). This is a neat idea, I can only imagine the difficulty with which transcribing the variety of terrible handwriting will cause frustration and an eventual flood of refunds.
I'm not technically a cybersecurity person, but yeah I'm working through the holidays to make sure a portfolio of container images, vsphere templates, amis, openstack glance images, anywhere log4j can be hiding, is cleaned out or revved up. I'm getting despondent and was really looking forward to the first mental break this year. I'm bad at pushing back, and don't get anything personal out of playing a martyr. I'm good enough at my job to be the person who has to fix it on Christmas, not important enough to be the person who has to fix it on Christmas.

I know I'll see half of y'all online with me :-/
What?

Operating a small ceph cluster is almost a full time job, at least if you care about your data...
Big smile on my face, fun read and nice video.
Honestly I think this just rolls down from management.

"Oh you can spend $x * 80 hours debugging or $x * 2 hours putting a patch to constantly restart"

It's hard to quantify the impact of having a house of cards system with components constantly restarting to side steps bugs until the whole thing lights on fire in a cascading failure later (oh the service scheduler was down for 30 mins and things are restarting so much a massive amount of capacity went offline during that time)