skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>before social media took off won the information war because they could bypass fact checkers that would refuse to pass them to their network

Lmao, my mother used to forward me these political chain letters. I'd reply all with sources debunking them. I quickly got removed from the list :^)
It seems not a twitter specific problem, every company selling click ads (=every tech and media company) has same problem.

Not sure congress or FTC can do much. Ban click ads? Ban Chinese advertiser? Ban links to Chinese-owned websites? Ban BGP to China?
Ah, but 8" floppies made better frisbees - personal experience :)

I used to work in the disk duplication industry, both at a copier (DisCopyLabs) and then later at the robot manufacturer, Mountain Computer, which was eventually bought by Nakamichi and combined with Trace, our competitor.

We used to be able to sail those suckers over the building on Wyatt Drive to the San Thomas Expressway... Next person to work on roof equipment probably had a curious experience, many discs that did not make it all the way likely scattered all over the roof.
The good of society needs to be considered. Rape is a far more serious crime than burglary.

Deliberately using someone’s rape to collect DNA so they can be later prosecuted for minor crimes is absolutely unconscionable in my opinion.
> Names should make you smile. Yes, you, specifically. You should get a dopamine hit whenever something you created comes up, even when it’s in a sentence like “Shelob has broken again.” Fun is one of the most important things there is.

I'll never understand this mentality, where a silly project name is a source of "fun." I would never dare tell anyone what should be fun for them... except in this case, where I will say that funny names are not actually fun.

I can only imagine working in the author's ideal company:

"Hey, does anyone know why Shmoop is down? I know I updated the BoomBoom and reconfigured Thanos, but now Klomgan is reporting a series of Lemonhead warnings. Should I talk to Meep team or the Chumbawumba admins?"
I'm also curious about this. I love challenging situations in flight sims and it would be fun to replay real scenarios, or even have a tool where you could just set it to randomly pick one or a couple problems off a list and cause them to manifest at some point in the flight.

I haven't done much simming recently sadly, WarThunder VR support has been broken for over a year and sadly my CPU isn't strong enough for X-Plane 11, but I'll probably be picking up one of the new AMD chips this fall so I'm excited to get back into it.
How do you/users programmatically quantify MTTR (and related metrics) per incident, or in aggregate? Although it shades towards problem management this would seem necessary to achieve the claim of “reduces mean time to repair (MTTR).”

Bonus questions, are you tracking or driving improvement in the related times for detection/response/mitigate/recover?

Disclosure: Principal at AWS currently in a similar apace. Though I ask in a personal capacity and interest.
That was quick. https://tinyacquisitions.com/tinyproject/the-money-quiz
They do, no one wants to make it harder to get justice for anyone. The issue isn't "oh no it's too easy to get justice" it's "victims of a crime shouldn't be afraid to report it".
> Justice after being raped is a right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmates_of_Attica_Correctional...
Be calm and breathe for 2 minutes
This, exactly. Seemingly misnamed services are a sign of architectural decay. That sign is useful if you pay attention to it. If it's embarrassing to explain to new hires, just fix it!
> Scala can be beautiful but in practice it gets messy.

And, of course, you have a peer-reviewed article to support your statement?
"Oh no, our crops did what crops do, better starting suing!"

Monsanto can get fucked, the idea of patenting nature is so obviously absurd on the face of it that I must assume you were not in your right mind while writing this comment.
It's also in weird way analogue for development.

You can just go for it and make a production chain for a product, but if next one needs same intermediates you'd be re-doing it. i.e. doing a spaghetti code.

You can section off the each intermediate into separate factory and just chain them to eachother and have relatively nice order, but when you try to expand production of everything, there is no easy way to grow that complex, so the best you can do is just copy the same block around.

Lastly you can build a rail network and put each intermediate anywhere you want without much problems, but wiring everything up will take a lot more effort, you will have to go to various places to debug any problem, any problems are less visible at first glance and lastly if you don't plan for capacity you might have bandwidth and latency problems
Meta asks 100 rivals to share secrets to help beat FTC’s antitrust lawsuit
Yes and the investigators should be allowed to use all the data available to them.

One would expect that in such a situation only the DNA of the criminal who committed the rape would have been recorded. My issue with the situation here is that a rape kit should not have been a source of data.

That the DNA of a victim should not have been saved and added to a database. It should not been made available to the investigators.
A quote which shows you were wrong and the person you were responding to was right. You do know what is meant by "impression" in that sentence?
This is what I'm getting at though. If you work inside a MANGA company or something, then I imagine your life is probably dominated by navigating a huge byzantine ecosystem of services with uptime demands and tons of legacy code. Presumably there's lots of $$ riding on evolving those systems incrementally. In this frothing, roiling context where the only constant is change, I can see how it will often make sense to expand components beyond their original scope. Ergo, your services should be named whimsically. Fine.

But many software projects are. not. that. That's really all I'm getting at. This web service developer bubble annoys me because they never feel any onus to introduce themselves in their blogposts and caveat their opinionated recommendations with the context they're coming from. In my world of robotics, just making a random family of services with non-descript names is a bad idea. The services in the system should have roles, and if the temptation arises to add functionality beyond that role, it probably means you need to step back and do some thinking about why that happened.

Also: I know you were just making a rhetorical point, but notice that your example is still clearly some web service that we're assumed to be running :)
Completely fictitious content is bad PR for Wikipedia, but it doesn't really materially affect its usefulness as a reference. Nobody's coming to Wikipedia looking to write their thesis on a band that never existed. The reason fictitious pages like this survive is because nobody is reading them. Even infamous long-lived examples like "Jar'Edo Wens" had essentially no real-world impact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jar%27Edo_Wens_hoax
The tech doesnt matter one bit. You can be tech illiterate and still understand foreign threats, freedom of speech, contract law, markets, etc.

None of this is new.
If I recall correctly, the game does somewhat try to dodge that by having the player crash-land on the planet. Everything they do is, theoretically, in service of building a rocket to get off-planet again.

...now, do players go wildly beyond achieving that victory condition in ways that play into the colonial-exploitation vibe? Perhaps.
What's the alternative? Change the semantics of the comparison operator so that code looks cleaner? That means that when you read a comparison in source you have to know how it's going to be compiled in order to tell if the code is correct or not.
Once again you're so far out of your lane and think you're smarter than those actually working on it.
Funny, I have the opposite view. If you have invalid data, you should fail as early and loudly as possible, not wait until it's decoded later and you have no idea where the faulty data comes from.
seriously. when they make me twitter cto for a day, my one change would be a public graph of build times (as a proxy for 'how long are backend devs waiting for builds')

I suspect this would be deeply embarrassing + would lead to change

in my (limited) experience, large scala codebases are not productive

scala adoption was all like 12 years ago and driven by bored developers looking for a brain teaser / resume builder. same trend as companies like linkedin / uber, who have no reason to invent infra, contributing a bunch of half-baked java projects to apache
I have no idea what you are expecting from "high tc record"

I'm getting links about the highest temperature on earth and it is listing it in Fahrenheit so if the "tc" means "temperature celsius" it is failing for me.

All the other links are about high temperature superconductors.
Which other actor can stop the Crown from breaking the customs and principles if its actions are entirely lawful?
What's the difference between wanting to be fit, and not wanting to be fat? Wanting to be rich, or not wanting to be poor? Yet you're calling one healthy, and the other one producing unhappiness.
“Rather, the model’s configuration of numerical weights stores different attributes and features of a training image — edges, shapes, colors, and even abstract concepts related to what’s depicted”

How is this kind of information extracted into the model in the first place? Let’s say I train the model on pictures of dogs. How does the information about the dog’s body parts, their look and proper orientation end up in the model?
Naming things is hard.

I agree that bad and/or misleading names are, well, bad. However, I don't agree that we should just give up and name everything {SomeCrypticNameIThinkIsCool}.

Invest time in naming things well the first time.

Invest time in renaming things to be more accurate when it is feasible.
Marketplace is the only reason a lot of people still use the site. This is since especially true for people looking for beater cars since Craigslist started charging $5 to post ads for cars.

If Apple or someone else with an ax to grind with Facebook really wanted to bust Meta's kneecaps, they could off to subsidize this charge. Maybe also help them out with fraud and spam detection, since that's where most of the overhead on that section is going to come from.
I don't doubt it does, my 12700k's iGPU handles it just fine at 1440p too. I was talking more about the old Skylake machine from earlier though, much different (see: slower) beast.
Alright, well, this is not a Scala community so I'm sorry you've seen this in your select social circle to the point of annoyance. Still, you aren't forced to read it.
Yes! I am Brazilian.
> One thing is not trusting the NSA, another is being asked to dismiss the work of well-know independent academics because they engaged in an open selection process run by NIST without any objective proof of technical issues.

The selection process wasn't as open and transparent as one would like given the importance of cryptographic standards. I think we agree there, as you also think that the FOIA is good - which means that there needs to be more transparency.
It took 6 years until there was proof that Dual_EC_DRBG really has a backdoor, which has been suspected since the beginning. Shouldn't we be extra cautious this time? If there was some backdoor again, it might take years before it is discovered.

> Again, the FOIA is good, the framing and FUD is harmful and part of a pattern that might be hard to see outside the community.

Could you explain which pattern you see there for us outside of the community? So far I don't see harmful FUD or a framing that is baseless, I see concerns that I feel are valid because of lacking transparency and the NSA's history of interfering with NIST's standardization processes. Why do you think that these concerns are harmful?
He might just be sticking it to Twitter because they ousted his friend, Jack, and that just happens to line up with another opportunity to shaft them along Elon's axis. Coincidence but not entirely random.
Uh... Fulfilling expectations has nothing to do with making decisions on your own.

I can guarantee you that no matter how good or bad their manager, if you don't meet their expectations, you are in trouble. By all means, own your local decisions, be proactive, keep your manager in the loop - AND MAKE SURE THEIR EXPECTATIONS AND YOUR WORK MATCH. That doesn't mean waiting for requirements, but that means your manager knows what you do and agrees, at least in broad strokes.

Surprising your manager unpleasantly never leads to good outcomes for you. There's only one person holding power in that relationship. (Positive surprises do work, but they usually take the form of "I did what you expected, AND".)

Totally agreed that the 1-2 days in the future thing is wrong. As a senior you should be at least a couple of weeks in the future, better if it's months. At the staff level, 6-12 months. At the principal level, 2-5 years.

If it's just a few days between each level, a) somebody is failing at their job, and b) yes, information will be outdated by the time it reaches you.
The operative word is value:
Many conventions and activities have value, some don't.
I once met a senior developer who created in c++ the Class Byte for our codebase
to tackle portability with it. I was a noob and I really thought that learning
that had value. Years later I realized that there was really no value to the solution and it was more of a gold-plating activity. Yet, there was value on learning to recognize superfluous code. As a code developer their is that is that ironic and somewhat painful enlightenment along pacing along many dead end trails. What about those activities that truly not only do not have value but chip away the value of other valuable efforts. That is the time to dust off your resume.
Fans are tribal. Recent reviews shows practically no difference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzokcKkEyuE
Those are rules that a covered entity must follow regarding disclosure to a law enforcement agency. They are not rules that law enforcement must follow.

HIPAA does not obligate law enforcement to handle data in a particular way.
In case my previous post wasn't clear, old banknotes are continually withdrawn from service and are automatically replenished with new ones. This happens when they're deemed to scruffy to use (i.e. won't be recognised in automatic note/pay machines, etc.). Thus, every country has a deemed service life for notes which can range from some months to several years, moreover high denomination notes are less used so their estimated service life is longer.

Given the change of monarch, the Elizabeth II/Turing note would be expected to remain in service and follow its normal life cycle (whatever the UK deems that to be) but come replenishment time it will automatically be replaced with a new Charles III note.

Essentially, if the UK follows normal precedent then no more Elizabeth II/Turing £50s (with the possible exception of uncirculated stock) will enter service. That is, they'll soon become rare, especially so new uncirculated ones.

Again, if the UK follows tradition then the 'components' of the new note will have likely been in the design phase for quite some time. I'd bet that various designs of the new King's bust already exist and are now awaiting the King's final approval.

Thus, if I wanted a mint condition £50 or for that matter any note of current issue then I'd be on the immediate hunt right now.

Coins are totally different, they remain in circulation indefinitely. The exception of course was when the currency changed with decimalisation, old coins no longer represented useable values of currency so countries such as NZ, UK and Australia were forced to remove all LSD coins and notes from circulation with the change of currency.

Those of us who were around in the pre-decimal era were used to seeing coins with every† monarch on them back to Victorian times. It's why I've still got boxes of pennies and halfpennies with Victoria's bust on them.

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† Of course, Edward VIII excepted, although some uncirculated coins with his bust on them do exist (and they're now extremely value). The fact that they do is evidence for what I said above about the preparation of new currency being well in hand well before the actual event.

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Edit: FYI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII_coins.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/17/rare-coin-featuring-king-edw...

Note the value!
Very interestingly, this is the first true use case I have noticed where new, bleeding edge technology is much better, seemingly, on M1 than Intel GPUs.
it is utterly naive to accept such statements at face value ; deception is a daily tool in politics and in court
Sorry, I didn't read your link carefully enough. I stand corrected, that does indeed seem to be the only reasonable interpretation. That said, this clause only exists in this particular OSL license, so it only applies to software distributed under it. Some quick googling indicates that OSL is 20 years old, and OSL v3 (the latest version), is 17. Despite that, it doesn't appear to have any significant usage. PyPi, for example, lists 10 software packages distributed under it [1], out of 387,658 total. So it certainly doesn't seem like a practical solution to the problem.

I suspect the reason that nobody uses it is due to its toxicity - it taints anything that transitively uses it in any practical way. This leads to all sorts of nonsensical violations. For example, say you write a document in a word processor that uses a leftpad lib distributed under this license. Then you email that document to someone else. Congratulations, you're now in violation of the license - you distributed a "derivative work" of the leftpad lib to someone "other than you" over a "network".

The terms of this license are so restrictive and cumbersome as to make it basically useless. Anything you publish under it can't effectively be used by the vast majority of the people who would want to use it, at which point you might as well not publish your work at all. I certainly wouldn't view this as a panacea for solving the SaaS-wrapping-OS-code problem.

[1] https://pypi.org/search/?c=License+%3A%3A+OSI+Approved+%3A%3...
I'm sorry but that is not how science works. We will be studying this for years and changing healthcare policies as a result of this. Its not "second guessing bullshit" its looking at what happened, the results of it, and changing our future actions accordingly.

There is an entire branch of study - one which I work in - whose entire job is to run either observational studies or post-hoc studies using real world data to find out if something had an impact, a positive impact, negative impact, and what the likelyhood of your own study being correct is.

If you think this is 'done' and we shouldn't revisit this to see what we did well / did poorly then that is as anti-science as they come.
The point of FB is to make profit for shareholders. The platform can evolve into something new and profitable. There's no need to salvage the old. That's why the poor guy is driving his VR vision so hard!
Yep. I've learned over time to just walk away from problems like this that make me go "that's not possible!" or "there must be a compiler bug!"

After at least a few hours away (ideally not coding) your fresh eyes will often spot it.

Similarly, demoing the bug to someone else is a good way, and often through the mere act of demoing it you'll find it yourself (also known as "rubber ducking" [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
> the ‘metaverse’ is cruelly mocked in all corners

The Metaverse thing is just a passion project. It's what you invent when the initial vision of your main gig (Facebook) starts going down the doldrums. Facebook is basically in maintenance mode now.
Ohhhh, a transpiler is fantastic. It means I could use C23 + extensions and still use VC as a backend when I have to. (One C codebase I work on has to build on older VC, too, which means accepting obnoxious limitations.)

EDIT: I see it has an option to target C99, but I wonder if it's sufficiently constrained C99 to support VC's not-quite-C99-hah-hah dialect of C. I'll have to try it at some point.
Alpha – A portable distraction-free writing device
As a bird lover, I'm a big fan of coyotes.
Ima be facetious here and suggest that the above is meant in the sense that K8 is the ultimate leaky abstraction and you have to "master" it first before even starting starting to achieve anything with it.

And Helm is just closing the cycle of Samsara - if you really want to base your operations on string templating, just use bash lol. Or hand-written forms on paper, still faster and you still get a better idea of what's going on.

There's also the problem of many developers nowadays just not having the hacker mindset/actual high-level abstract thinking/attention span, so instead of seeing the whole of K8S as the pointless kludge it is, they only see the interface - yay, YAML, I know that language! (usually they know it from everyone's favourite "dead" tool, docker-compose; which is a gem) - and they go on to fight with it tooth and nail, with corresponding feelings of "achievement" and "mastery".

I think the "10 years PHP/Java -> 3 days Go" thing from granduncle's cousin post is meant to point out this particular paradoxical situations.

But it could hurt people's feels to say it like that so let's just let Google do all our thinking for us instead. We truly live in a gilded age of computing.
People post liberally to private Groups you're a member of, and you don't need to be their friends. Group posts should be the majority of your newsfeed.
> but it’s another thing when I’m being recommended posts that encourage hatred and wild conspiracy theories that flirt with sedition.

What you're describing is literally one of the two mainstream political viewpoints of 2022. Imagine the backlash if those viewpoints get banned on Facebook.

(This is, by the way, not a good thing.)
Your Skylake laptop has about 10x the single threaded CPU performance of the Switch. I wouldn't be surprised if the switch started lagging with one 8 reactor nuclear setup.
I complained to the nursing board when police took me to a hospital without a warrant nor being under arrest, chained and cuffed and they lied to the doctor and told them there were drugs up my ass. The doctors and nurses discussed my protected health information with police.

I specifically complained to the board regarding this and was told anytime a nurse/doctor is acting upon request of police they are exonerated from whatever happens afterwords. In fact the board in my state's position is that a medical professional can perform warrantless searches on behalf of police, and they are relieved of any personal liability.

Basically, in theory maybe HIPAA applies. In practice the police and regulatory boards act in lock-step to automatically make any interaction between medical professionals and police beyond reproach.
> It's fully possible someone else is living a life that is what I want my life to be

Its fully possible, but its also statistically improbable for enough number of people to be doing that, and even more improbable for it being a common aspiration in the society. The aspirations and standards of the society generally follow the lines of money and a hip/desirable status at any given time according to the dominant fad.