skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not that the applications are denied, it’s that they haven’t started operation. Below that quote it mentions another company that has gotten approval.
I believe in early days Amazon(and possibly even now) Bezos did not want employees to stay for more than 2 years, for the hope that Amazon was a stepping stone to other places for people.
If anyone is worried about combustion byproducts in their living space, I highly recommend looking into upgrading your furnace and hot water heater to direct vent models. Both appliances have sealed combustion chambers, and there are two pipes coming down from the roof that supply air in, and two pipes that vent exhaust gasses out.

I did this because I live in a converted industrial loft, so my furnace and hot water heater are essentially in the same space as my bed, and having open flames in the same space seemed risky.
Interesting parallels in this work to Tanenbaum's "RPC Considered Harmful"†; in both cases, you've got an abstraction that papers over a huge amount of complexity, and it ends up burning you because a lot of that complexity turns out to be pretty important and the abstraction has cost you control over it.

† https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/Publications/Papers/euteco-1988.pd...
The NRC said "yes" to 4 new AP1000 reactors in Georgia and South Carolina more than 10 years ago. They were all supposed to be completed years ago. The South Carolina project was abandoned after cost and schedule blowouts. The Georgia project continues to chug forward despite similar cost and schedule blowouts. Here's a brief synopsis of the Georgia project:

On August 26, 2009, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued an Early Site Permit and a Limited Work Authorization. Limited construction at the new reactor sites began, with Unit 3 then expected to be operational in 2016, followed by Unit 4 in 2017, pending final issuance of the Combined Construction and Operating License by the NRC. These dates have since slipped to 2022 and 2023 for Units 3 and 4, respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...
Frieght rail carries a stupid amount of goods. If you use a carrier like Hub Group or JB Hunt to ship containers cross country odds are the bulk of the mileage is on rail. This is doubly true for bulk goods. Nobody is hauling bulk goods very far by truck.

If you live in a major urban area you'd never see it though because the intermodal facilities tend to be at or beyond the beltway (more efficient to truck the last 20-100mi).
I suspect it’s because they want to verify they can withdraw from the account, not just deposit.
Maybe they have deposit-only account links but IIRC the default is two-way. That’s because, for example, you can subscribe to various services using PayPal (if you have no funds in your PP account they will withdraw it from your bank account).
I wonder if this is related to Firefox’ woes with HTTP/3[0] that prevented it from loading all pages the other day.

Either way, events such as these are likely to cause an increase in migration from Firefox to Chrome.

[0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749908
You can show people the door, but they have to walk through it. I learned programming, and a bunch of other stuff later in life (now 39). They all have the same process - you decide you want to do it, and you start doing it. You will absolutely fail hard and regularly at it. You'll pick the wrong course or book or language or whatever, but that's all part of the process. If people see you doing the work and are able, they'll help you out (ideally, not IME).

In a way its kind of nice to get started with something new, because you don't need a plan at first. You just start kind of doing it, and then when you take breaks, you figure out the plan. Its amazing how quickly you can pick things up once you get into the habit of doing it very regularly. That initial hump is always, ALWAYS a huge pain, but there's no escaping it. Failing and flailing for that initial period is how you learn, not how you fail.
One of the fixes mentioned is to disable http3 in about:config but that doesn't seem to work (macOS12.01/FF96.01) - or was that a different issue?
Removed incorrect information, sorry folks!
Not for me. Getting same "Blocked" message, but only on FF.
A while back I heard about Z39.50 [0], a protocol that libraries use for their catalogs. In the 90s it seems there were native clients for the protocol so that one could interact with the library catalog without using a web interface. A lot of the current web interfaces are terribly slow JS monstrosities now so I'd like to try something faster.

I never did figure out if any of the GUI clients [1] are still actively developed and I'd appreciate if anyone who knows about this could point me towards a good client.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z39.50

[1] Some software listed here: http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/resources/software.html
Works on Safari, but is 'blocked' on Firefox... I was researching Ukrain-Russian relations, and posting in r/Worldnews at the time regarding the recent news. Wondering if it's related, or if lots of users are experiencing this.
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Different teams.
Please stick to the site guidelines and don't be unkind here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure, email in profile!
It's for the best, really.
Happens to me as well.
I think it's because Firefox cares about privacy lol
I recently just left my job for another because of inflation, if the price of things go up so should my salary. The value of my work did not get cheaper!
There are JS objects you can look for, `window.chrome` for example is present on Chromium browsers but not Firefox.
> Firefox has witnessed outages recently

How does a browser experience "outages"? Uh... In my mind it is just a tool and any outage would have to be on the part of the server/website I am trying to browse.
Also on the mobile app, refreshing my feed results in a bunch of "empty" posts with media but no title. Basically every time, and for ages now. They also took away the "news" tab for a while, but then it came back again (though my wife never lost it).

Also, the fact that there's no distinction between viewing a video and looking through the comments, but that accidentally pulling down on the video fullscreens it but the reverse doesn't revert it. Plus, if you pause a video then follow a link in the thread, when you return to the thread the video starts playing again, forcing you to scroll to the top to pause it and likely losing your place.

I'm not sure if the reddit developers don't use their own product, or if they just don't give a crap, but either there's no testing going on or the developers aren't capable of fixing problems.

Either way, it always makes me laugh when I see a technical blog post about "how we did X" from the Reddit team, the last software engineering team on the planet I would take programming or infrastructure advice from.
Searching HN is always the right way to go :-)
I suspect a laptop touchpad, because the touchpad might have buttons at the top, and the extra "b" could be close to them.
yes, had you read/quoted my entire comment you'd realize that your point is exactly equivalent to my point
What's the connection to information theory?
Libreddit still works

https://libredd.it/
I agree with almost all of this, however I believe that publishing random seeds is dangerous in its own way.

Ideally, if your code has a random component (MCMC, bootstrapping, etc), your results should hold up across many random seeds and runs. I don’t care about reproducing the exact same figure you had, I want to reproduce your conclusions.

In a sense, when a laboratory experiment gets reproduced, you start off with a different “random state” (equipment, environment, experimenter - all these introduce random variance). We still expect the conclusions to reproduce. We should expect the same from “computational studies”.
None of that is working for me, I think it's a different issue.
> description

Importantly, it's "famed" and "eerie."
Looks like FireFox is actually blocking Reddit rather than the other way around.

Edit: Firefox blocked the site from loading as it would have been unsafe to attempt due to the encoding problem. I wasn't implying anything else and even posted the browser's own error message. Relax.

Check your console:

The character encoding of the plain text document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the file needs to be declared in the transfer protocol or file needs to use a byte order mark as an encoding signature.
I use UBlock Origin and I have NEVER watched an advert ever as far as I can remember.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
I see it's already live, thanks very much.
Russian FSB busts ransomware group REvil at U.S. request
Although that's from yesterday, that's a separate issue, browsing wasn't working for any site.

In this case the Reddit servers are responding with a 403
It's like a peek at an alternative Internet where Gopher won instead of WWW.
Hah. I’m might need to get in on that protocol
old.reddit.com is showing "Blocked" for me, FF 95.0.2.

Edit: Updated to 96.0, and Reddit is back again.
That’s maybe why most stock starts vesting after a year (when employees become very effective) and stops after 4 years.
I love that the author complains about another popular Facebook page that’s using engagement bait to push a dropshopping affiliate program, while their own blog post has a sponsored ad for NFT perfume.
I remember reading an interview with Bill Gates about how "two way mirror" user testing where devs watch REAL users interact with their application is both incredibly important and humbling at the same time.

The above quote is from the days where people bought shrink wrapped software so it was incredibly hard to observe people using your application in the wild. Therefore, companies spent money to do it in house to get better data.

Modern web applications, I would argue, make observing user behaviour in real time trivially easy but I'm sure lots of companies don't even bother. In turn, this brings us to the incredibly complicated interfaces we have today.
They could be implying its an all-aspect jammer which is effective against air to air missiles while only verbally discussing the ground threat.

Civilians always think of ECM and jamming like a smooth omnidirectional output, yet it seems to me pretty obvious a kaleidoscope like randomish distribution would work much better as a jammer, so they have to assume that 0.00001% of the time the entire laser beam might hit water and reflect right back into their eyes. I suppose a REALLY smart AI controlled jammer could actively control its jamming signal to never output power in a direction that would reflect back at the plane, which would probably shimmer at like 10000 Hz as the plane wiggles thru the sky, so on average the plane would be well protected.

You know its a REALLY bad neighborhood if they try stealth technology to defeat incoming radar guided missiles. That's really hard core air transport operations.

Kind of makes you wonder if "ufo sightings" aren't air force stealth air transport vehicles. AFAIK there are no unclassified stealth air transport vehicles, but you'd think that would be terribly useful if you don't have total air superiority so either us or the Russians must have at least blueprints somewhere for something like a B-2 that can carry people and/or a tank or two. Or maybe fedex will restart the B-2 production line...
I partially agree, but how isn't the usual CS curriculum relevant for Sysadmins, DBAs, network engineers and the like?

What CS curriculum doesn't include networks, relational theory, hardware architecture, os architecture? How can anybody in those roles be successful without at least informally understanding the rudiments of big-O notation or without having some light scripting skills?

Certainly CS curricula could be improved, but a good one doesn't do too bad of a job at preparing you for technical roles IMO.
Blocked on firefox but not on Safari. Also other computers in my house on the same IP are not blocked.

I was researching Russian-Ukranian relations abd posting in r/worldnews about the crisis there. Wondering if it's related, or if lots of users are experiencing this as a blanket issue.
"Child" is common parlance for pediatric, a teenager is both a child and pediatric, and the pediatric covid death number includes teens. Also, you keep not addressing why it’s safe or scientifically credible for the FDA to break long-standing vaccine approval processes. The cited CDC source document said they certified a new covid test because it unlike the decertified one can distinguish influenza from covid.

Sometimes I ask myself if the FDA and CDC credibility died with covid, or because of covid. Likewise with my fellow acadmics that has failed to defend the scientific method and instead defend "Science" administrative institutional processes even after obvious corruption that make them unscientific.

To make matters worse administrative institutional representatives often obviously misrepresent the core document, contributing to misinformation for political aims and profit. E.g. making it seem like approved vaxx is injected while approval doc reissue Emergency Use Authorization that has a liability shield and only EUA vaxx is injected (see FDA approval page 3 [1]).

People that defend health and science organizations that break the scientific method as well as best practices, all while having revolving doors with those they regulate, are enablers. It's like living in a house infected with termites with people that ignore the signs. Without you guys defending them in forums like this their bullshit would be much harder to pull off, and we could have nice things such as a healthy scientific discourse and probably many fewer covid deaths.

Many like myself will pry science back out of "Science" hands, because it's annoying to get political answers to scientific questions.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download
I feel like I can always replace “BATNA” with “alternative” or “option” and the statement conveys the same information.
Previous post was taken down within a few minutes by an unhelpful poster causing it getting it flagged with an abusive post. Two good questions were asked there so I will repost them here:

>Posted by 'version_five'

"This sounds like one of those "bible code" things.
As someone who knows nothing about DNA sequences, what is the probability that two codes could be matched? (In a birthday paradox sense where you can go looking anywhere)"

>Posted by 'whoomp12342'

"isn't it well known that one of the main reasons why we got a vaccine so quickly was because we had done a ton of research when SARS originally broke out?"
That thread is from two months ago.
Honestly, the number of complex web-applications that are degrading slowly in firefox is only getting longer. At my office: the HR benefits system is completely broken in FF, some of our training modules in the training system fail, Azure DevOps needs me to close the browser completely and re-open to clear some kind of JS or shadow state or something...

It's bad and getting worse and I don't know how much longer I can stick with FF.
The method used is Cellular Automata, or rather, a variation of it:

https://slackermanz.com/understanding-multiple-neighborhood-...

The simulation was done on a RX 6800XT, and ran for ~4.5 million GPU-frames, which took just over two hours at 1024x1024 resolution (~560 FPS)
For something as rare as MS, "spin again" is ninety percent of a cure.
notoriously Philip Wadler says that computer science has two problems: computer and science.

It's not about computers and "You don't put science on your name if you're a real science"

He prefers the name informatics.

source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU
Does anybody know a good SQL formatter and linter?
I'm surprised to hear that as I've spoken with extremely wealthy people ($5M+ homes) to people renting a room (That have lived in CA almost their entire life)and a common narrative I hear is "Oh California is the best, there's no other place like it so these problems aren't really that important".

People will lament on Nextdoor, Reddit, Facebook, forums, but in the end, the people I spoke with, won't leave the state or make drastic changes.
At best it's pointless. Everything is apparently cloud native, so why even bother?

At its worst the cloud native landscape is complexity nightmare. Why are there 12 API gateways? Are they all equally good? They certain don't do the same, well mostly they do, have fun figurering out which one to use. Almost none of the product are named all that well, so that's no help.

Right now the cloud native landscape is just a collection of pretty icons that look kinda cool. It doesn't really mean anything. Best I can tell: Graduated doesn't even mean that you're guaranteed that these product will work together... They might.

I get that others look at the cloud native landscape and see endless possibilities, a smorgasbord of options, and that's wonderful. I just see complexity, confusing, and shameless self-promotion in an attempt to ride the Kubernetes/container wave and make a name for yourself and maybe a few bucks.

Don't get me wrong, many of these tools are fantastic, but that some people can look at that massive graphic and think that the industry is moving in the right direction it troubling. Half of these product are dead-ends. We just don't know which yet. The room for mistakes are enormous and some poor soul will pick the wrong API gateway and be stuck with it for the next ten years.
It certainly is.

Here's a (probably totally unrelated) comment that I think is good food for thought: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29917158
After finishing the article, my main take-away was how impressive it is that such a quirky tech setup could work for both of them. I was comparing it to my relationship and how difficult it is to share any item/space which is also customized to either of our preferences. It gave me hope.

Then I read these comments.
Every time I've read about someone making a fuss about PayPal freezing their account, as you get into the details of their business, it quickly becomes apparent that knowingly or otherwise, they're doing something risky enough that it triggered something related to terms and conditions that they didn't bother to read. I realize that's just my anecdote, but when you're working with money, there's a lot of boring reading you should do. Quickly becomes apparent why that opportunity to fill a seemingly obvious hole in a market isn't the opportunity you thought it was.
Well, you don't know how many years humans will need in order to solve it ;-).
Of course they can and they do. But the Australian opens are then a tournament where the highlight is the match between the second best and the third best.
Seems to be working for me. Is it only blocked for users that are logged in?
If we keep doing things the same way we do them now, yes, DC cannot replace AC. Heaters cannot run on DC without fat wires, but why are we running electric resistive heating? Electric cooking requires fat wires on DC, but why are we using resistive heating. Air conditioning requires a lot of electricity, but low power DC heat pumps exist, and geo thermal exists and is viable even on smaller plots of land using various coils.

12V DC is perfectly fine to replace all the wiring for our lights, and our plugs that are mostly used to convert the AC power back to DC in electronics. For the bigger appliances, there are 48V and 96V options that are used in RVs and tiny homes, and have been for decades.

DC at the home is quite viable if you shift your view from an AC only world.
In the US, the kind of programming most immediately useful for sysadmins and DBAs, and other operations fields, are, or were, typically present in community colleges and technical colleges, not university programs (where CS dominates, or "programming for engineers/statistics" basic classes). At least that was the case 10+ years ago, have they stopped teaching those classes and providing certifications/associates degrees appropriate to those fields?
Same for me (Ukraine) on both Firefox on Windows and Android. Firefox Focus on Android works fine, though. As well as Chrome, Edge, etc.
Phew.... Not just me.
Oooh, so it's not user-agent it's detecting, but something else?
No, that just means that there is no encoding sent in the header (or HTML http-equiv tag).

Anyway, it's back up for me.
if you're writing an application, it's generally ideal to have everything declared consistently in the same language. I'd personally rather not have to edit XML files by hand, and try to shoehorn XML-declared widgets into a Rust application.
"a sophomoric work of prescriptive pretension, not the type which observes and reports in verisimilitude a plausible description of human affairs."

Huh?

Isn't the literal plot of Atlas Shrugged trains being looted? Govt not preventing issues? Not sure the sophomoric work has to "reports in verisimilitude a plausible description of human affairs" to remind someone of a parallel?

The book itself sold 9M copies I think. I personally couldn't get through it as it's not my style particularly, but I could see how someone would find a parallel.
Anyone else have the immediate reaction/thought "oh God, IT has finally caught on and blocked reddit because of me"?
I agree. I published code that I used for my dissertation (more than 30 years ago). I think it led to thousands of citations.
Unless every piece of knowledge is documented in a clean and understandable fashion, then the edge represents the ability for team members to collaborate with the node to either resolve issues or develop future improvements on the project. While you don't forget a project you worked on, it is unlikely that you worked on the specific pieces that others in your team were assigned to.
I prefer TypeScriptToLua's approach: https://typescripttolua.github.io/

The data structures are unchanged, so you have to remember to use base index 1 etc, but you get modern syntax and TS's great inferred typing system.

Definitely scales better than raw Lua but you get the perf and compat wherever Lua[jit] is supported.

It's nice if you used to use Lua and you use TS as a daily driver, you just have to remember the differences.

There's also Teal (https://github.com/teal-language/tl) but I haven't gotten around to trying it, it may be less confusing to others.
Uhh not really having any problems with me on Firefox 96 on Ubuntu. Granted I didn't have an issue with the HTTP3 bug either.
sorry, I shouldn't have thrown that in there.
It's just a warning firefox is logging because the "Blocked" response is just `text/plain` and doesn't have a header specifying the character encoding.