skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
intimacy is very different culturally. but generally it is any physical interaction with your partner.

to give you an example, i have heard from an indian friend that they would not touch their husband in front of their kids. no holding hands, hugging or kissing of any kind. i don't know if that is common in indian culture. i am not trying to generalize.

the point that matters is that i feel very restrained in how i act when our housekeeper is present.
When Air Defense Fails – Saudi Arabia
I thought he recently became a GM?
After a decade of declines, battery prices will increase in 2022
Copyright is a set of laws, not a set of pixels. See derivative work: https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/what-are-derivative-works...
It allows for uncensorable transactions. Which is an improvement to people living in authoritarian countries with governments trying to stop its citizens from saving and transacting freely.
I had brake failure in my 2014 Model S, completely unable to stop, and I sailed through a red light before regen slowed me down enough to turn off into a driveway.

I know you're thinking it was pedal error or something similar and I would definitely dismiss someone else's story the same way. It was not reproducible. But I am 100% certain that the brakes were not responding even using both feet on the brake. My best guess is that something was unexpectedly frozen given the outside temperature at the time.

[ I still later traded it in and bought a new Y though, lacking better EV options at the time. /shruggie ]
That is a button that works via software, not a physical disconnect like on some other mics. When its a physical disconnect the os can’t tell if you’ve sent a mute command, just that all audio input stopped.
The failure of any component required for functional safety is absolutely a story.
I’m a counselor that works with young folks and teenagers. A lot of them are up late (1-2am)and some all night on their phone or playing video games. This naturally leads to fatigue, poor concentration, unstable or volatile moods, bad grades and avoidance. And it’s pretty normalized among kids. When parents restrict screen time we often see big improvements in behavior and mental health, even if they aren’t up all night. Screens and social media almost never turn off among many of this generation. I’ve seen four and five year olds with their own phones and I find it pretty worrying.
Probably because a country that once razed every city in North Korea has spent seventy years threatening them with nukes.
>At the moment that is still legal.

Is the discussion on what is legal or on what is moral to legally enforce? I had read the parent discussion as being the latter.
That's a good way to get executive approval to replace a system. Google or Apple can get away with this kind of behavior, I doubt Atlassian can.

This outage alone has spurred conversations in slack about how terrible JIRA is and why we should replace it. If this kind of shit was pulled, I can guarantee we'd be on shortcut, linear, or something else in short order.
Yup. The database schema of one of our products uses a tenant_id in most tables to separate customers logically.

I've eventually gotten a tenant exporter to work. Practically, this requires some deep and nasty digging through the information_schema to build a graph of tables and foreign key constraints. Once it had that, it generates selects with a simple where clause for tables with the tenant_id, and selects with weird joins all over the place for other tables to dump the tenant data.

All of that sounds complex, but that part took a day or two to hammer together to 90% completion, since it's just some graph handling. The other 10% were getting some weird date formatting questions right to produce a properly importable sql dump. And interestingly enough, it's working for more than just that one product.

But that's just where the journey started. After that, it took a weeks and months to sort out legacy tables, old tables, tables without indexes, tables no one knew about, tables that were important (but not), tables with inconsistent data, .... And it's just handling a single relational database. And compared to \copy in psql, it's slow. And at times, weird things happen if you import huge chunks of sql into a postgres with deferred foreign keys (because our schema has cyclical references).

Point is, I know how painful it can be to handle that kind of database schema, at a ridiculously smaller scale. I'm kind of happy to not work there.
Basically not counting lost sales their income for this year went down 2%, which is not as big a deal to them as it is to their customers.
Word likes precomposed Unicode characters. Decomposed characters will make the spell check go wild. macOS, on the other hand, loves decomposed characters, and will insert them in places where you don’t want them.
> Also, the one time when they used their nukes offensively that was actually to save lives.

That's contradicted by the historical record. US intelligence believed that Japan was ready to surrender. The goal of using the nukes was to intimidate the Soviet Union.
I'm dumbfounded by people dismissing this article by saying that it wasn't "stuck" simply because the brakes worked. The turn signals didn't work, neither did hazards, the failure of which means the driver can't communicate to others that there is a major issue with his vehicle, nor that he is about to perform certain maneuvers such as lane changes or sudden slow downs.

It also suggests that the vehicle was maintaining a steady 83 MPH. Whether or not you can brake to slow it down and come to a stop isn't the point; the car is insisting it is going to drive at a specific speed unless you tell it otherwise, that's absolutely not OK and yeah, that's technically "stuck". You've also got the additional damage that occurs by hitting your brakes when the motor is still trying to make it go 83 MPH.
Operational brakes vs 'brakes actually capable of overcoming the motor' are two entirely different things. You'll find that for many vehicles, the brakes alone will not be sufficient to stop if the motor is attempting to accelerate; you need to shift to neutral (potentially destructive), or kill the engine. Plenty of people accidentally drive around with their emergency brake engaged and don't realize it.
> He said all of the buttons and switches - including turn signals and hazard lights - were not working.

That's fairly concerning. If it was in self-drive mode, would the "you're on your own, autopilot disengaged" feature a) trigger and b) make the sound cue? Or would you run straight into the car in front of you?
Because an ICE vehicle has never caught fire.
And if the signals were not working, I wonder if the brake lights were? Hopefully they are independently wired and directly switched from the brake pedal and the 12v accessory power. Slowing down on the freeway without working brake lights is also quite dangerous.
"People need to be careful with psychedelics."

Absolutely. Psychedelics are incredibly powerful substances and they need to be treated with respect. Everyone considering doing them should educate themselves thoroughly beforehand and use them in maximally safe, constructive ways. James Fadiman's Psychedelic Explorer's Guide[1] has lots of great advice on how to do this.

"The afterglow wears off pretty quick."

It really depends on the substance and how it's used. Ketamine, for example, commonly needs to be readministered relatively frequently (though some people have lasting effects), while many people get very long lasting effects from between one to three therapeutic MDMA or psilocybin sessions (sometimes lasting for years).

It's people who tend to use psychedelics outside of a therapeutic context, to "party" and/or without constructive intention or post-trip integration that tend to lack lasting effects.. but even then it's not at all uncommon for the experiences to be life-changing.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Psychedelic-Explorers-Guide-Therapeut...
If you really want to move into a leadership role but continue IC-tier code output, find a company with horrendous WLB and try that out.
I'm only partially joking. Plenty of orgs will let you start out as an IC cranking on code all day, and if you're personable enough, you'll be hoisted into leadership roles.
If the job is sufficiently bad, your higher ups will expect you to simultaneously knock it out of the park as a leader while also keeping code output high.
This has happened to me in the past, just be ready to work 12-14 hour days.
It’s something to be aware of.

The first time I had ever heard of Zoom, it was long before the pandemic and it was about how Zoom was a videoconferencing app that was installing an http server (read, a security hole on the user’s computer) which remained even if you deleted the app. This was to “improve the user experience” so that it could quickly reinstall itself if you clicked one of their web widgets to start a call.

It’s worth checking in on exactly what software is doing in the background, auditing its activity and coming to a more precise understanding of 1. The reputation of the company behind it and 2. How they came to have this reputation and whether it is still relevant.
Indeed, there is rich prior work on example based program synthesis. Often these use inductive logic programming or aided by SMT solvers if these examples can be lifted to solver level values (think integers or booleans, or data types made from those).

However, not all program values can be easily lifted to solvers. So the goal with RbSyn is to allow the programmer to write the same tests they would have written anyway to check their program correctness, without any extra fiddling. As tests subsume examples, we expect more program behavior can be specified than just using simple examples.

> I do wonder if the benefit will really be significant enough to make it worth it.

I have often pondered on what makes a program synthesis tool useful. I expect writing code as art as much as it is science, and people like to express code in the way they model system behavior in their head. In that regard, I do not think program synthesis tools will enable you to automate away large parts of code, but I do think it will automate mundane parts of a program; like writing utility methods, or filling in a partial program when enough information can be gathered from surrounding context (such as the arguments you write for a substring function).
I have never heard display of intimacy being connected to the decision to employ hired house help before. I am revisiting this just to register my marvel at the perception dreamed up about india in the rest of the world. East and west, they will never meet. I am going with the assumption that you were sincere, but this gross generalization can be construed as a little odd. I never imagine how the westerners are intimate or conflate that to regular way of life even though I have lived in both sides of the cultural world. Thanks once again for opening up my mind to acknowledge the differences between the east and the west.
This is why I always buy ECC/EDAC capable servers. SEUs are a real thing.
… honestly, even the "number of 9s" concept is a struggle for some companies. I've seen a number of SLAs that fail to correctly state a unit: it's %/<unit of time>, and I see the "unit of time" get dropped every now and then, and the resulting thing is meaningless absurdity.
There was (and still is, to an extent) a concept of self-custody, but for both greed and regulatory reasons most people have turned to L2 chains and managed custody. It's a real conundrum, but also pretty funny to watch exchanges increasingly pivot to bank-like structures to appease their users while undermining the values of crypto in the first place. It's one of those things that reflects the inevitability of cryptocurrency's downfall.
Leaving aside the questions of whether this is a victimless crime, amply addressed by sibling comments, I'd like to point out that people like Virgil Griffith benefit from these sympathetic assessments, in large part for being part of our in-group, but most defendants do not. You wouldn't want to live in a system where these kinds of sentiments actually controlled even more than they already do.
Only short 5MPH. GREAT SCOTT!
I would attribute this to either a hacker, or malicious insider, with access to the announcements before they go public. Not official coinbase behavior. It's way way too obvious for coinbase to be doing this, and if they were why would it be in such small amounts. Twitter is great for getting the pitchforks out.

Remember when the news wire was pwned? Someone was selling that news to various investment banks, who would trade on it. I smell a similar thing here.

If coinbase were doing this themselves, would it be illegal? I'm not an expert but I don't think so. Still, it's a very bad look and it strains credulity.

It could also be dumb luck. The same way people look at successful startups and think that is normal. I'd want to see a deeper analysis before judging.
Amazing comment, this is wild. Thank you for sharing this!
You could use it as a material breach of the contract and possibly get out of any arrangement you have with Atlassian.
It sounds like you've been hurt by the some terrible management practices, I'm truly sorry that some managers think their job is to control their subordinates.

However, regarding ticketing systems, in team environments, it is very effective and helpful to have a system that manages the data about the work that has been completed, is being worked, and is planned to be worked on .

Part of that system might be defining restrictive workflows for some teams, not for control, but to ensure the agreed upon process is followed for quality or consistency.

One of the many problems Jira has is that if you don't have a Jira admin on your team, it's impossible to build an effective and efficient workflow for your team. Coupled with Jira making many things global by default (it takes a lot of care to make a change that only affects specific Jira projects) most configurations end up being a pile of garbage automatically inherited from changes an admin(that is not part of the team) made when intending to change something for another specific team.
I had the pleasure of working with the author for a brief time, and I attended his presentation. Great stuff. What I found particularly interesting is some later work that characterized the probability of error based upon the device type, and the ambient temperature (based on IP Geo-location).
I recommend doing disaster recovery steps for your personal data as well, such as Gmail. At one point recently I was creating filters to delete bulk messages and - when the filter got created, it somehow missed the from:@xyz.com domain part and I ended up deleting => delete forever all emails. I noticed the issue right away but it was enough to wipe 2-3 months worth of emails (all of them, even Sent ones).
That article doesn't show both sides of the story. It, as well as the response, paint Stallman as a moral paragon whose flaws are just points of virtue, and dismisses criticism of him as nothing but cancel culture hysteria. It doesn't even attempt to be neutral or sympathetic when portraying the "other side."
Unless their revenue takes a long term hit over the outage, no reason for the stock market to care. There isn't news of people actually planning to stop using Atlassian products over this. The only direct consequence is going to be the one time payment of SLA credits. So I guess the part I find surprising is how little impact this looks like it will have on people using their products more so than I am that the stock market doesn't care much about this.
> can be legally sold

Copyright law doesn't only cover when things are directly sold (see piracy and the birthday song).

This comment section is filled to the brim with posts missing a "IANAL" disclaimer. IANAL.
It's not so much work ethic as it is mental discipline. If you have not mastered yourself when it comes to the dishes, you cannot master yourself in tough periods of life, and so on. You have to be present in each moment, regardless of whether it's doing dishes or having the best day of your life.
Your body feels exhausted but your mind is quite awake. So you’re exhausted and energetic at the same time. Your joints can kind of feel tense if you’re not moving. Walking is enough but then you can also feel overheated pretty easily. Hours 1-4 were largely uncomfortable for me on both.

LSD gave me diarrhea for a solid 4 hours. I think that’s rare but I felt better the next day than I had in years. Probably something to do with gut science but I have nothing to back that up other than my story here.
I'm not actually in your situation so take this with a hefty pinch of salt, but if I was, I wouldn't like to keep that received money in crypto, unless I was speculating. It's not like you can use it as a currency (in terms of purchase goods or services directly in the currency, and even if you can, prices are never set in terms of crypto because it is too volatile, and therefore there are constant arbs... the problems stack up). And I presume there are difficulties in turning crypto into local currency, the same way there are difficulties with international payments. If not, then I would suspect those companies were just bullshitting you or being lazy -- no technological solution for that.

If you've managed to successfully navigate all these difficulties, then congratulations and I'm not telling you you're doing anything wrong, but I don't see a budding alternative in the making, I see uneven economic development.
You can store crypto in your head, and you can certainly use it to put together funds which would be helpful to escape.
rm literally has a specific handling of / that requires the `--no-preserve-root` flag to allow you to run that. Software should generally warn before being super destructive, and it's usually best if the process for doing something super destructive and day-to-day use are very different.
> But I believe cryptocurrency as an asset is well worth it, for the competition it provides to national currencies. If these decide to overinflate, crypto provides you with a relatively-uninflated asset

Given their volatilities, cryptocurrencies are neither inflation hedges nor currencies. Somebody with a bunch of USD trying to hedge inflation will buy gold or real estate before they buy cryptocurrencies.
fun fact, on the Model S (2016), before tesla removed solitaire while driving, you could reliably crash the infotainment computer if you dragged the cards around fast enough. Actually, just tapping very fast could do it too. The car would still drive (headlights on, accelerator and breaks worked) but no turn signals. fun prank as the passenger :)
Meta reportedly plans to release its first AR glasses in 2024
Sure, if you host it yourself you have to pay someone to admin it (usually significantly more expensive than a license), and if you use a hosted solution you have to pay the host.
Someone somewhere got a promotion sooner because they lowered the slope of a line a little bit.
Calling the M-M experiment a "failed experiment" is a bit misleading. The experiment was successful; the result was definitively negative (no aether). Previous experiments had failed to reach a conclusive result.
For all those people calling it a clickbait headline... You're not wrong the headline is a deliberate scare tactic.

At the same time... While Tesla is marketing it's "Full Self Driving" terminology, I'm actually glad that someone else is also using misleading language to grab attention, and remind the public that the state of the art is still quite limited.
Yes those mute lights have been stuck on "lit" (= "mute") on my Windows forever, both the mic and speaker lights. However recording and playback work fine, the lights just stay on. Very annoying, a little unsettling.

My daily driver is Ubuntu where both lights work fine, on the same machine (dual boot). But now I know not to trust them.

Lenovo ThinkPad P51
Electric cars are a bit harder to extinguish.

https://www.motor1.com/news/315476/bmw-i8-fire-reponse-nethe...
Well, yes, it can be turned off and yes it can be not sent, but that's at the discretion of the client. They can "hack their client" to send it anyway which is why everyone has to "refuse" to receive it from a "muted" client, as well. It's a second line of defense. Never trust the client.
> OK, so you restore backups to a separate system, and selectively copy the stomped accounts data back to production

This seems to be exactly what they are doing, as described in the article. They don't have automated tools to do this.
stallmans the founder and face of the free software movement plus most people like him despite the numerous hitpieces and toxic comments such as your own
If you're looking at the dominant platforms or artists then yes, of course, things look the same. But there is an infinite amount of diversity if you look around.

For example if you dislike Netflix / Disney approach, you have platforms such as MUBI (https://mubi.com/) where you have handpicked selections of worldwide movies, with lot of more artsy and unusual styles.

Regarding music I cannot even start to imagine how you can say this, there is almost no limit to how many different genre and niche, unique content is available even just on Youtube or Bandcamp.
Huh, isn't this the default behavior? I never set that and all meetings I attended mutes me by default
Bit Calculator – Convert between bits/bytes
> allow any ticket to be a child of any other ticket?

I have no idea why you would want this from a work management point of view, but you can just use issue linking to describe a parent <-> child relationship.
That’s true. I’ve never tried it with the camera off.
ICE vehicle fires are a lot less scary than lithium fires.
That sounds like a great idea, but how much would it cost? We are kind of strapped for cash.
> it's just a threshold after which I think you're entitled to some money back for that month

That is exactly what SLAs are.

There are just a lot of people applying the wishful thinking that SLAs are a goal or metric of uptime.

Consider the AWS S3 page on the topic: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/

"Reasonable efforts"; if not met, you get some fraction of the money back.

S3 has worse uptime than my desktop PC over the last years, but affected users got some fraction of their spending back.
I thought I remembered reading something similar a while ago (except for the speed being stuck), a quick google yields quite a few similar cases:

https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+computer+shutdown+whil...
Who do you think is the best leader to grow the Free Software movement?
I'd say it is deeply ideological. Not necessarily anti-US/pro-NK, but anti-any government and pro market supremacy.
I always use my browser instead of these native apps precisely so I can deny microphone permission whenever I want it muted.
Long-term thinking in the world of software: ephemerality vs. impact
You're assuming the goal is some sort of democratic revolution rather than keeping the economies of those countries constrained so they have less money to spend on weapons.
One very large video game studio has tons of automation for Jira. Imagine someone deciding to add new weapon. The automation creates 100s of tasks for concept artists, 3d artists, animators, sound artists, software developers with complex dependencies better those. Most importantly, automation creates multiple QA steps for each element of completed work.

The same exists for levels, enemies, quests and tons of other elements.

I would not be surprised if a lot of studios had similar workflows.
Taiwan Civil Defense Manual (English Translation) [pdf]