skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I thought it is a well-written post-mortem with proper root cause analysis. After reading it for the second time though, it doesn't sound like the root cause has been identified? At one point, they disabled streaming across the board, and the consul cluster started to become sort of stable. Is streaming to be blamed here? Why would streaming, an enhancement over the existing blocking query, which is read-only, end up causing "elevated write latency"? Why did some voter nodes encounter the boltdb freelist issue, while some other voter nodes didn't?

And there is still no satisfying explanation for this:

> The system had worked well with streaming at this level for a day before the incident started, so it wasn’t initially clear why it’s performance had changed.

But I totally agree with you that the first thing they should look into is to rollback the 2 changes made to the traffic routing service the day before, as soon as they discovered that the consul cluster had become unhealthy.
11 years is a pretty significant jump. More than that, it's bringing it from 30 to 19. Having an international pilot rating takes some time and effort; Being able to do this at 19 is pretty impressive in its own right.

In terms of being a role-model for other women, showing that this can be done at 19 might be perpetually inspiring to the younger generation that otherwise sees 30 as pretty far away.
Its like calling Android Linux.

Yes
Technically true, and you can use it like it in a few places
but they are far from the same.
What’s awkward about lambda in python?
The estimate is of the kinetic energy and doesn't include thermal energy so I think your derived estimate ends up being circular:

https://www.axios.com/nasa-tonga-volcano-blast-5-6-megatons-...

Another difficulty is that you're essentially estimating boiling a blob of water away but that's not what takes place - the process is explosive, quickly dumping lots of 'excess' energy elsewhere. It also doesn't stop heating the water once it hits 100c vapour.
It is the Zeitgeist. "We know what it is better for you, peasant, we will create this cozy, little garden and you will never leave it, and if you complain you will be expelled, like Adam and Eve", or like the Xbox guy said recently "If you are banned from one online service you should be automatically banned from all of them"
> respective accessibility APIs that each platform exposes.

That's the problem, there isnt an accessibility API for the web, is there?

EDIT: At least not one that works without DOM
Associations Between Online Pornography Consumption and Sexual Dysfunction
Cancer cells can steal mitochondria from immune cells using nanotubes
This was an interesting podcast on the topic - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-is-a-right-win...
Change the image to Prince Andrew.
I mean, I do it. (Less now than I used to.) The amount of flesh I take off is unnoticeable visually or as a percentage of my hand.

But more to the point, if somebody from a coastal, extensively seafaring culture 2700 years ago says octopi sometimes eat their own tentacles, there is every reason to believe he's saying it because it's true. The options are (I) octopi sometimes eat their own tentacles, as advertised; (II) octopi sometimes engage in a behavior that looks very similar to eating their own tentacles, but is subtly different; or (III) someone made it up and nobody in a culture with extensive exposure to octopi ever noticed that it never happened.

Incidents of type III are far from unheard of -- I have a dictionary with the Tongue Map printed in it -- but they're not the way to bet.
yup after being so annoyed and seeing how well Gnome looks i installed Linux and have not used Windows since, no more forced updates that take forever, printers work without doing anything, no spyware everywhere, no advertising in my menus, no forced applications like candy crunch and the other crap it auto installed that i never wanted, only thing is GIMP UX/UI is horrible but found out about Darktable and that's 100x more capable then Adobe Lightroom
I once read a sci-fi book about vehicle that allowed the crew and it to get smaller and smaller. Nothing very special right? We've seen Antman. But when the travelers got really nucleus small they saw they were approaching a ball, and it turned out that ball was a universe and as they entered it they could then start exploring its things and as they get further smaller they got into the atom-size in that universe and then again saw a set of spheres and could go into them, and get smaller there and so on, without end. Within atoms there were universes within which there was more universes and so on ad infinitum.

Does that make sense? I've forgotten the name of the book.
It's more than a 12% difference for many companies.
At Google an oncaller typically gets paged, triages the incident and, if it's bad, they page other oncallers and or team members for help. For more serious incidents, people take on different roles like communications lead, incident commander etc.

During the worst outage I was a involved in basically the entire org including all of the most senior engineers worked around the clock for two weeks to fix everything
I understand that the commentary on HN can sometimes be frustrating, but many topics are nuanced and worthy of discussion. If you are looking for a forum which converges on one version of the truth and does nothing but repeat that version of the truth to itself, well, maybe try another discussion forum. If you are not interested in participating in those discussions, it's fine to just keep scrolling or collapse the thread entirely.
I worked on this very team for years and with the people in the article except the manager who joined after I left. Even in my time there was no shortage of people burning out and in my impression if someone fell behind due to personal issues or whatever you were put in the doghouse and had to earn your way back. I’m ready to believe it didn’t improve much after I left
There is a precisely zero percent chance that customer service works better in person. I have done it personally. My mom did it for over a decade from home. Engineering is not the only task that can be done remotely.
Key Points:

* Harvard, MIT, and BYU researchers discovered a novel mechanism for cancer cells to evade the immune system: using nanotubes to steal mitochrondria from immune cells. This hijacking of mitochondria depleted immune cells while strengthening cancer cells.

* The researchers co-cultured breast cancer cells and immune cells then used field-emission scanning electron microscopy, fluorophore-tagged mitochondrial transfer tracing, and metabolic quantification to observe the transfer of mitochondria from immune cells to cancer cells, and the resulting impact on metabolism in both immune cells and cancer cells.

* Inhibiting the nanotube assembly machinery significantly reduced mitochondrial transfer and prevented the depletion of immune cells. This may form the basis for a novel treatment strategy.

Abstract:

Cancer progresses by evading the immune system. Elucidating diverse immune evasion strategies is a critical step in the search for next-generation immunotherapies for cancer. Here we report that cancer cells can hijack the mitochondria from immune cells via physical nanotubes. Mitochondria are essential for metabolism and activation of immune cells. By using field-emission scanning electron microscopy, fluorophore-tagged mitochondrial transfer tracing and metabolic quantification, we demonstrate that the nanotube-mediated transfer of mitochondria from immune cells to cancer cells metabolically empowers the cancer cells and depletes the immune cells. Inhibiting the nanotube assembly machinery significantly reduced mitochondrial transfer and prevented the depletion of immune cells. Combining a farnesyltransferase and geranylgeranyltransferase 1 inhibitor, namely, L-778123, which partially inhibited nanotube formation and mitochondrial transfer, with a programmed cell death protein 1 immune checkpoint inhibitor improved the antitumour outcomes in an aggressive immunocompetent breast cancer model. Nanotube-mediated mitochondrial hijacking can emerge as a novel target for developing next-generation immunotherapy agents for cancer.

Paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-021-01000-4

Articles:

* https://scitechdaily.com/cancer-cells-use-tiny-tentacles-to-...

* https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/cancer-...
> it's literally a cold/flu
> they are spreading fear not based in facts or reality.

You can’t appeal to facts and reality and then also falsely claim COVID is literally a cold/flu. A cold and a flu aren’t even the same thing as each other. And COVID is certainly neither of those with over 5 million deaths worldwide. Even if you think the numbers are inflated, COVID has still killed something like an order of magnitude more people than the flu would in the same timespan.

You don’t convince others by listening by spreading your own lies. Rational thought is not built on misinformation.
Archive of the original:

https://archive.is/ox5cC

Link to current version:

https://reclaimthenet.org/us-government-planned-to-force-all...

Apparently the original "plans" became "planned" in the url
The other theory is that they know exactly who it is, but refuse to blame them publicly for political reasons.
Love this. It’s surprisingly good on mobile. Do you have any plans of working on a native app soon?
100% remote and unlimited PTO or don't bother trying to recruit me.
“Genius”
That's kind of what I mean though. None of those are particularly innovative and certainly aren't going to end up somehow protected. It wouldn't be hard to just follow along. In the time it takes to do that, a small fraction of the user base will have actually purchased a new machine. The majority of all customers will never even know the other company actually came up with that cool color scheme/whatever first. Not that they'd care if they did.
Just a bitly clone that they use in their apps, not just when characters limits exists.

For me it’s a disguised company-wide router used because nobody at Microsoft is responsible for URL schemes on official domains so nobody is confident that it’ll not break.

I don’t even think it’s a bad strategy tbf. But the domain is so awful and just looks like phishing if you don’t know MS is behind.
The Windows logo has a gradient on it now instead of plain white. The corners of all windows are now rounded, (but they've had rounded corners before so not that new). The tiles are finally gone, and that's growing on me. The Settings interface is much improved. The window-docking feature is improved: If you set up a layout of several docked app windows, you can then treat that group of apps as one big window which you can then minimize and restore as a unit, which is very useful.

That's about it for the changes. Overall I find it a net positive.

What I worry about is this: If Microsoft used all their telemetry-gathering powers to determine that very few people used this now-missing feature, and that's why they removed it, that's a bad reason. I don't agree with removing features just because few people use them or didn't complain loudly enough during the beta. As a power user, I'm sure I rely on features that few "common people" use, and I'm sure eventually the rug will be pulled out from under me if Microsoft continues to remove features that only 2% of users rely on.
Pardon, I'm perplexed here. When you say this is propaganda, what I take that to mean is that it's framed to serve a certain agenda at the expense of the truth, that is, that it isn't merely erroneous but that it is manipulative to serve a certain interest. Do you mean something different than that? If not, what agenda do you propose is served by this? Cui bono?

I don't know what the truth is here, and the article you cited doesn't have a date on it, but the sources it cites are pretty old - flipping through them, the most recent seems to be 2017. The source that's cited in that quote you posted is 20 years old. Nutrition is a notoriously difficult field to study. It's easier for me to believe that the consensus has shifted, and is perhaps not yet stable, than that there is an organization which stands to benefit from people believing alcohol is a modicum more harmful than it is.
Fix the implementations.
That doesn’t mean it’s not linear to some degree; surely 24 cigarettes a day is worse than 1 a week.
I have been using it in an environment where I could not hook in IDE debugger but could sprinkle in breakpoint()s and rich.inspect away to my heart's content.
> The hoops that the State of CA makes employees jump through yearly is annoying at best.

What hoops are these? Tax related or something else?
I think it's the root of the problem: when you are running your 10K Watt resistance heater full blast it's very likely that every neighbor is doing the same at the same time (both because it's also cold for them and they also have electric heat as the whole neighborhood probably does not have a gas line).
But what do you replace Alcohol with, Soda? Thats not good for health either. May be tea is a good substitute for social ocassions.
Reminds me how Mozilla removes various things from Firefox such as [Compact density](https://www.pcmag.com/news/firefox-redesign-will-see-compact...) because their telemetry tells them nobody uses them. And oh boy the backlash from the community...
I counted 6 passes of the wave(s) on my home sensor, and maybe 7, but I have to go check neighboring sensors in the next state over to verify that the bump really is from the eruption.

https://partofthething.com/thoughts/measuring-the-tonga-erup...
A surgeon can easily be worth 3x the cost. Some surgeries have a significant risk of death, for instance. Or a low chance of success. Both of those factors may change dramatically with surgeon skill.

And those are no brainless. A more skilled surgeon on cosmetic surgery with lower recovery times and or prettier work could easily command a premium because their supply is so low and rich enough people have huge demand.
To each their own. Linux DMs (including KDE, Gnome, and many others) are still way behind in basic UX flows like multimon and snapping windows, and Mac has barely even tried. Keyboard shortcuts for moving windows between monitors, snapping, launching pinned apps, etc. are also sorely lacking on alternatives. I use Linux (Gnome 3 these days), OS X, Windows, and Chrome OS on a daily basis and still prefer Windows for my personal devices.
Nah, at least for me the best improvements have been: 98>95>XP,all the rest have been minimal or total disasters.
So I am low functioning because I have a human brain? Task switching is not free.

I have never been a member of an organization with more than three people who didn't have at least one member incapable of understanding headphones mean "don't talk to me".

Informal conversations happen in team chat now so it can be asynchronous, I never miss overhearing something relevant in the team room because I am away at a meeting, I can sync up at my convenience.
It’s an optional power user add in you’re complaining about not a system wide change. Just disable that feature if you don’t like it.
If you prefer, you can build it from source.

https://github.com/superfly/flyctl
I think we are in violent agreement on substance.

Your comment is somehow relevant to the article and insightful wrt the topic but also off-topic in this thread.

The type data you are suggesting should be shared -- and, more importantly, the consent assumptions -- are not related to the current discussion.
there are both kinds of humans. I guess the question with octopuses is whether they're all psychopaths, or only some of them
no very wrong.... you can even install your own deb packages on it, what makes it not Linux? its running a Linux kernel ain't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS

Chrome OS is built on top of the Linux kernel. Originally based on Ubuntu, its base was changed to Gentoo Linux in February 2010.
I've always been suspicious of that attribution.

Pretend everything else about the iPhone happened; The charisma and leadership of Steve Jobs, the brilliant marketing, the countless number of talented software engineers, but instead the device basically looks like a blackberry.

Physical keyboard, plastic case, More or less a knock off aesthetically.

We're deep in counterfactual territory but I think it can be argued that this imagined iphone with a very conventional aesthetic would have done effectively just as well. It still connects to iTunes and hooks up to your Mac, having all the same technical features and functionality.

The point is people see something successful, then they assign one of the attributes as the driver of the success and there seems to be very little reflection of the two core questions: (1) is it true? (2) is it generalizable to other companies?

And let's say it is. Are you really going to make something that's more iPhoney than an iPhone? More macosy then macos?

So even conceding those two points, which I think are utterly contestable, It still doesn't make any sense. Maybe that's why it's never worked. Maybe. Who knows?
You have absolutely no evidence that any UX study was done in the Microsoft case, or what the results would have been. So you're just talking nonsense. Especially considering that the new design is objectively worse.

Just look at the laughably bad screenshots floating around. They all show a giant desktop, with a taskbar that's 70% empty space, with no option to actually use that space now that apps are force combined. Looks pretty, but dogshit user experience.
Oh okay. So what I'm understanding from your post is that, a monad is just a way of applying the return value of one function as a parameter for another function.

Sorry if I misunderstood. I've been reading many explanations for monads, but insight seem to elude me.
Ah yes ! Nothing better to start the day than to type "term", Terminal appears furtively, "i" Enter.

"Would you like to make edge your default browser ?" No !!

"3 results for termi - bing"
Nope. There's never been lightning and thunder like this. It went on for over and hour, and then there was a separate explosion 3 or 4 hours later.

The whole of the country heard it.
I'm fine with alcohol being the high water mark. We can fairly objectively rank the health and societal harms of various drugs. Hard to quantify, but straightforward to build an ordinal list. Caffeine, weed, basically all psychedelics, amphetamine, mdma, and tobacco all make the cut (the latter just barely). Coke, meth, heroin, unsurprisingly worse than alcohol, ought to have some distribution controls at the very least. Prescription opioids actually look surprisingly bad.

At the very least, the US drug schedule system is completely out of whack with actual risks. There's tons of sched 1 drugs which are objectively safer than alcohol.
Not my experience at all.

The last two companies I've worked for where 100% remote, in both of these places engineering was a lot more productive. I personally invested less total time in work (about 7 or 8 hours total) and got a lot more done.

Both of these companies had a culture of writing things down, so everything was documented, an all important conversations where posted in the open for anyone to see. Everything is searchable.

For the kind of work I do (web development) in-person interactions are only good for middle managers that enjoy micro managing as a way to justify their job.

What does not work is to try to keep doing the same things you did in the office in a remote way. You need to adapt to the new context.

If your company went remote and suddenly you have 5 video calls a day, you're doing it wrong. Of course it will be worse and less productive.
Exactly.

Actually, set aside consent entirely.

The problem is NOT "how do we de-anonymize". That is super easy.

The problem is "how do we de-anonymize IN A WAY THAT LEAVES RESULTS OF RELEVANT STATISTICAL TESTS INVARIANT". Much harder. Remove a bunch of probably non-random points and make any logisitic regression on that dataset return the same result within some delta. There are trivial impossibility theorems. Really, really trivial. "Left as freshman exercise and if you can't some up with an example maybe step back and stop talking about this topic" trivial.

Now, add back consent. "how do we delete a subset of data that is likely not uniformly distributed with respect to risk variables and also de-anonymize the remaining subset of data.... AGAIN, IN A WAY THAT LEAVES RESULTS OF RELEVANT STATISTICAL TESTS INVARIANT". The position is untenable.
Fascinating though this looks I don't have the semester+ required to study it properly.
How are you supposed to have a discussion on a wiki page, by editing in a comment?
The point I’m making is about the floor. I agree with your statement that the market is amazing for the average, even the 25th percentile. But there is some percentile after which the market no longer prioritizes the people (except to rent seek). It’s simple market dynamics: At a certain point, the marginal value of acquiring users is no longer worth the marginal cost of acquisition.

For example, not everyone in the USA has smartphones[0]. The biggest discrepancy is by age, which we can possibly factor as a choice. The second biggest discrepancy is by wealth. There is a 2000bps difference in rates between people making more than $75k vs people making less than $35k. There is no profit in a $5/month smartphone plan. So the poorest will consistently be excluded.

This isn’t a market failure. Markets are in their nature utilitarian on a single metric and truly aren’t designed to improve the floor of the human experience.

Take the trolley problem for example. It’s supposed to be a hard problem because of all the nuance. The market “solves” the trolley problem trivially by running over the least wealthy group of people.

Markets aren’t a solution for improving the floor. At best, the market is punting the problem (until that group of least fortunate dies) and at worst the market is rent seeking, exacerbating the problem.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/
Something to remember about the MSR test. The high level conclusion that we draw from it is a large leap from what the experiment is able to show and we haven’t been able to distinguish it from any number of plausible theories.

For example, I caught my dog looking at me through the mirror in the room when she didn’t have direct line of sight and we were the only two in the room and I was talking in ways that would get her attention. That indicates some level of recognition of the role a mirror plays and that the image in the mirror is a reflection and not a mystery animal. That animals utilize their senses differently and find different things interesting to them says more about the limitations of our ability to evaluate other animals than it does about their actual sentience and intelligence I think. Eg maybe the MSR test is simply a test that works well on animals that have a similar working sensory model to us (or at least vision is important enough and interest in mirrors is aligned).

> there are different things like ability to see and project oneself into the future and to assign value to those projections, the ability to empathize, the ability to miss things that are no longer there, etc. are often metrics used for higher levels of sentience.

That’s a bold claim. I’d say at most we have a sample size of one species because we’re able to communicate and compare notes with each other + within a species animals work fairly similarly enough for the most part. We have absolutely no knowledge of whether the things you said are important for sentience/intelligence. Not if candidates we think are likely closest in intelligence (elephants, dolphins, crows) demonstrate these traits as it requires a degree of insight and communication we don’t have. - we have to do convoluted experiments to try to tease out effects but we don’t actually know what the experiments are telling us.

Maybe if our brain imaging technology gets better some of these questions will become more answerable.