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Attacking others is not ok here, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are.

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? You've been breaking them more than once lately, unfortunately.
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While I've had that as well, I've also had occasions where the hotel staff replies "oh yeah, to get the cheaper rates you'll have to go through <agent-site-with-lower-list-price>" when calling them, or even trying to extend an existing reservation at the desk.

Norms do seem to vary between regions and countries.
This reminds me of Bergson's theory of memory and present consciousness. In his essay "Memory of the Present and False Recognition", he argued that memory and present consciousness are the same, and what changes is a sort of "past tag" that is associated with the memory flow. He saw déjà vu as a mistaken tagging of the present flow, which we then perceive as past
People talk about these requirements being a blow to Apple, but Android phones are going to be the real victims. With iPhones getting USB-C and sideloading and so on, there are fewer reasons to get an Android phone.
I have not read the paper, but what is explained in the article is old news.
> would almost certainly spell the end of JavaScript.

No, it would just make many people interested in Dart and start using it, but the end of JavaScript would be as close as the end of C++ or Java.
You can't attack others like this, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are.

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Illegality is not an intrinsic property of a chemical compound, even though the title might suggest so.

What they have discovered is a previously unknown psychoactive molecule.
Quake is easy to learn, but difficult to master. People really explored the possibility space for that one.
It's not my job. They know this is an issue, it's literally written on their walls. If they wanted to address it they would have.

Edited to add - I did, the night guard didn't seem to care or even know who to bring the issue to.
Not sure why you are being flippant.

I am trying to point out that the methods we use to "determine who is a genius and who is not" are deeply flawed and rudimentary, letting people fall through the cracks and preventing people with different learning styles for succeeding.

Like I said in another comment, I am terrible at testing and failed my way through school but I am still able to have a successful career as a software engineer applying maths to engineering problems that other people are excited about and want to work on. The reasons for this are complex because I am complex, like all people, but not like numerical test scores.

> But that method will need to be able to predict future events that shape the person

I think individuals are capable of qualitatively assessing a person's ability and trajectory given enough information, time, and context. Humans may come to the wrong conclusions a lot of the time but so do academic tests...
> Almost all of the companies I worked at hired senior positions from outside the company instead of promoting from within.

It's one of those things that goes by "Yeah, yeah, we know the studies, doesn't work that way in real life, it's cheaper to just fuck over your employees, pay new employees more, most of the old dumb fucks are to stupid/lazy to ask for a raise/go to an interview", just like work from home used to be.
Until reality kicks in, some tectonic shifts happen and they start screaming they can't find good employees.
I would.
A few basic requirements are: git, linux, a desktop computer (or to be allowed to use my own)
> The impact lasted for almost six hours in total.

And faster monitoring, they detected the issue after 4.5 hours and took one to fix
Well, I didn't know about it because I am in Lisbon and can't see that far. I've ask the office team about it.
D'oh! You are right, it's right there below the links.
It doesn't surprise me that they are heavy on the marketing and light on the detail. Also fits with every outage they've had large enough for others to notice, the root cause is always some embarrassingly simple cock-up that only an intern would make.
VCS could be a proxy for other issues, a (non-code) smell if you will. A company that calls itself a "startup" but is using SVN and PHP 5.6 (actual company that I evaluated and turned down last year) is not likely to produce a productive environment nor happy, satisfied workers.

I wouldn't put either the VCS nor the laptop OS as a mandatory requirement, but rather as another straw on the camel's back.
You don't need to name chemical substances. The structure is the name.
>Even those coming from the founding fathers of the AV1 codec have added support for HEVC.

Shameful.
I had to work in secure environments where we had to use Windows and no possibility for local admin, it can very much impact the desire and ability to do the job
One of the sponsors listed on their home page is also blockchain-related.
I am not impressed with this. This merely answers what practical use consciousness would have under the (unrpoven) assumption that it evolved as a survival mechanism. It does not explain what qualia is or how it comes about (hard problem). Therefore it is a bit far-fetched to say this answers what consciousness is at its core.
I'd want the server to provide the baseline functionality to keep up the illusion that Ctrl+C copies into the clipboard, even accross application restarts. That doesn't preclude additional clipboard managers that do more (e.g. history) on top of that.
I had the experience you describe once when I was practicing diving. I was focusing on keeping my eyes open upon impact. It was truly a blissful experience I’ll never forget.
We tried really hard to impress the FBI with helicopters and stuff.

Half of it fell over in court, but that came later but our government got to be be friends with the big guys.

I find it hard to believe NZ customs would be interested in music, pirated or not.

Try bring a bit of fruit or meat though, that gets them fired up.
The bottom line I think is that the brain is a complex assembly of parts responsible for a huge variety of cognitive processes, and only some of those are directly involved in conscious thought. Biological systems are often crazily interconnected with each other, with feedback loops on top of feedback loops, and the brain is no exception.

Sometimes we consciously think through what we are doing and make reasoned decisions, especially when learning to perform a new task. As we repeat the task and it’s variations we can learn to do it more automatically, less consciously. This could be a physical task like playing table tennis, but it can also be something like giving a public speech off the cuff.

When you’re having a conversation you often aren’t thinking it through word by word, you’re thinking at a high level consciously, but the stream of words just emerges far too fast for each phrase to be consciously selected and considered. So even speech, something we think of as most closely associated with consciousness, is in many cases an automatic activity. This is how we sometimes come to Mis-speak and say things we didn’t mean.
So I'm in the UK as well, and have you ever actually tried issuing a chargeback? Because I have - and unlike in US, where I understand that you can just issue a chargeback by just asking your bank to do it, in here I was asked to provide all kinds of proof, then they had to wait 30(!!!) days for a reply from the seller to give them their version of events, then it took another 2 weeks for the bank to reply that yep, looks like you've been scammed alright, here's your money back.
Thanks for the citation. I didn't realise it was so low, however I would point out the effect can still be large and exponential:

If I have covid and no vaccine and meet 100 people,I infect 50. Those 50 go on to infect another 1000 because that's what people do in cities, before running out of steam. 1%, aka 10 people die. Plus all the cost of dealing with the rest of those hospitalised and the long covid and the injuries etc.

If I have covid and the vaccine and meet 100 people I infect 38 (24% less). only 760 people get infected as a knock on. So now only 7.6 people die.

2.4 deaths seems like a lot of deaths to just accept because otherwise someone might lose a job...
I did. Having been used to working on Linux, I found it so painful to work on a Windows laptop, only to deploy the same software on Linux. I'd rather have my local setup close to what we have in production, Linux based OS.

I am currently in the market, and I reject any job offer where I know that the company is using Windows.
In the US (and probably Canada as well) that is blatantly false.

They can bar specific individuals with reason, but not a blanket ban like that.
Related article that may be of interest: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/the-loyal-engine...
I don't know how cloudflare is configured, but doing anything fast to caches is generally a really bad idea. Caches often protect upstream data stores from overload. If an upstream data store becomes overloaded with too much traffic, then all requests that use that data store will start to slow down. As requests slow down, they will either timeout and fail resulting in major error spikes or they will start to consume all the resources of the service making requests.

So if any caches were cleared in the process of rolling back, a slow rollback makes perfect sense to me.

I would expect a company like cloudflare would have previous revisions of software on their machines that could be reverted to near instantly.

Another thing to consider is what capacity they run at and how long a service takes to initialize. If you can only take 10% of your machines out at any given moment and each one takes a while to initialize, you don't really have much choice in the matter.

Lastly, if you look at the 530 graph, it seems that the drop in 530's was almost instant.

> 2022-10-25 17:38: An accelerated rollback continues with large data centers acting as Upper tier for many customers.

This leads me to believe they shifted traffic away from the low tiers, which enabled them to roll back as slowly as they like at the cost of a likely minor increase in latency.
This image is clearly showing JPEG artifacts, you'd never see such square blocks in an photograph that has not been compressed with a lossy algorithm.
The article talks about employees in general. A lot of us are SWEs or adjacent. Software has a very short development cycle compared to other fields.
The better one. Why are we talking about colored pills.
Uhm, what exactly are you trying to get at? I said subject GRE is a very good measure of eventual success in academia, do you have a solid response to that or just a rambling tirade?

Paper authorship if the student is the first author shows grit and “gumption” I suppose? As if that’s what’s needed in academia at this moment (it’s important but not the main requirement). But almost no undergrad gets a first author paper. They get mentioned in the middle because they ran a bunch of sds gels. I wasn’t even interested in trying to become a professor and I got 10 papers before I finished my PhD, do you know how many I (or any of the folks I actually know who are now professors) had during our undergrad? Zero. And not for lack of trying. You know who actually got papers? The son of the department head.
Out of curiosity, why did you decide to pick up Dart instead of, say, Go? And what did you finally settle on?
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SourceHut's bus factor is something like 3.6
I'm assuming that the law is written such that it applies to ingredients which are both psychoactive and have no reasonable culinary value.

so sodium benzoate is okay (no psychoactive effect) and hazelnut is okay (use as a flavoring), but random alkaloids wouldn't.

buzzkill law, though.
I love the fact that there are the usernames, wallets and IP addresses to check for, there aren't enough security reports/post mortem with these.
Finals exams were pretty easy, you don't need grit to just show understanding of material, you just need to show up to lecture, listen, participate in class

I got A in all of my stats exams despite not doing homework, I still got a B in the class because homework is part of the grade

But why should everyone be forced to do homework if some people don't need the extra time waste?
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> short: IQ is a great tool to measure your ability to be a white collar drone.

But why so snarky?
Opposite reaction here. Set up browser to behave how I expect by default; loathe when websites insist on hijacking common keys for their own "helpful" JS implementations.
> My brain feels like it's been relieved of the task of managing the moment-to-moment decision. Instead I start noticing moves 3, 4 steps ahead as time slows to a crawl around me.

I think this is a common sensation to many who have trained playing an instrument enough. I get into that state every now and then when playing something on my guitar, it's like I can curiously observe my fingers pick out the melody I want to play, without thinking about or taking much conscious action in it.
In the blog post author states that he's planning on forming some organization for Bear, so this could help.
The article says that we sample random values by walking on a grid. But doesn't it mean that this way the values that we draw will be close to each other?

For example, if we have a 2-dimensional grid of size 1000x1000 and make 10 steps, all the values will be close to each other. Doesn't look like a good random sample.

Knowledgable people, please explain.
This incident report was out within hours of the failure. The team is now doing an internal retro to look at decision speed, rollback speed, and the circumstances around that function having a side effect. We'll update the post with more detail.
I'm in the process of changing jobs, not an employee, but I don't think it's HR's fault, but that of managers -- they should know the best what value people bring and what are the consequences of losing certain people be.
I am looking forward to when OpenTelemetry logs is no longer a draft and some vendors are in on it.
I suspect these signal other attributes about the stack. If you started a project recently, you very likely considered and chose git for version control. If you are using a different/older system, it could mean the project has lots of legacy code and hasn't kept the dev stack up to date. I.E. poor developer experience.

Same is true for opposite perspective: "framework of the week" could also signal a poor fit.
And also right now they need volunteers willing to work on rig and hull maintenance for food and sleeping quarters during its winter stop over in Barcelona.
> I/O usually means syscalls, I guess. If I install a library to encode and decode a protocol and it has no mode of operation that performs 0 syscalls, it is defective.

I agree, but that wasn't really the point that I was trying to make. Even without IO, there can still be different interfaces, such as specific interfaces for errors, attaching meta information like tracing, logging etc.

I don't know how ZIG solves that, but in Java this is a PITA because the language isn't capable enough - so everyone falls back to global runtime configurations, e.g. some file being somewhere that configures it. It doesn't compose and is super hard to debug. And that's just an example.

> I'm not sure how "write does not even return until the writing is done" can avoid handling backpressure.

That doesn't matter. The point is that you are using the reader/writer interface. So if you want to plug this library into another library that works with different interfaces then you now have to convert stuff around by hand all the time.

You could say that everyone should just use "standard" interfaces, but often they don't exist or lack certain properties or it's simply hard to standardize everything. Think about how many libraries for dates/times there are in Java or python.

EDIT: I can see that it might be a bit hard to wrap your head around what I mean because as developers (including myself) we learn to do plumbing all the time and it feels like you just have to do it in almost any language I always used.
I'm replying to my own comment to note that I'm getting downvoted for calling out a big company for what seems like software theft. That seems odd as I'm seemingly not the one in the wrong, I'm just sharing a simple observation.
I am seeing this recently. Imagine a place that hired dozens of really good developers in 2020. Now imagine that instead of focussing on retention and paying well, they focussed on ignoring the waves of developers leaving and instead on exclusively hiring graduate developers. Now imagine all that domain knowledge that left months ago... compounded by the fact there is only five developers left from 2020...

Totally not a real story at all...
This is the exact problem we are trying to solve with Remote Leaf[1](I'm the founder). We have been manually curating remote jobs and carefully tagging them each, finally sending the personalized list of jobs that fit based on their location and skills.

1. https://remoteleaf.com
How come everywhere else they get LESS money and have BETTER outcomes?

Hint: teacher salaries are a very tiny part of the expenses
I doubt you're getting downvoted for that. I suspect you're getting downvoted for your comment having nothing to do with the partial outage. And then going on to argue that you're doing the right thing by posting here and spending effort commenting about your comment rather than telling someone at Cloudflare that you spotted something bad.
Getting a paper in undergrad has absolutely nothing to do with your ability to be a good scientist or even a good PhD student. I’m talking about regular smart kids though, not people you could call a True Genius™. As I mentioned above, most undergrad paper authorship is peripheral where you just succeeded in establishing yourself in a lab long term and contributed to some research.

It’s great experience but I am saying again that my personal experience suggests this to be a worse indicator of success than a good standardized test.
> And if your service is already down, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

They had a 5% request failure rate at the peak of this outage. So a botched rollback could definitely do more harm than good if the impact isn’t 100% understood.
Same for me. Presumably there's some super narrow set of conditions when this works and that isn't applying for us but did let them put our a blog post at that point back in May.

Perhaps it's another facet of the problem Google had not knowing how many G Suite legacy edition users they had. Maybe they have so many combinations of experiments/features running on people's search result pages that they cannot appreciate that many people won't get this?
There are folks running for office that advocate for significantly less spending by the government as well as balanced fiscal discipline. People don't tend to vote for them.
The New Setting That’s Keeping Your iPhone from Charging
Ask HN: In Mac OS Ventura can you see the game controllers setting?
I can't find it on my MacBook. It's an M2 MacBook air.
Can you?
You could also check out reviews. But I think I recall Ragnorak having a very disconnected trailer from the actual movie. Like the MCU uses the same trailer people for each one and they never got that the Thor storyline was supposed to be funny.
What a nice blogpost! I really enjoyed how Bruno leads us through the whole process including his thoughts and strategies to find the code that needs to be modified and how to do it. Luckily the problem - how to get the bytes of a sqlite record - is small enough in scope to solve in a readable blogpost. That’s a „genre“ i really enjoy.

Interesting that he could also do purely by reading the code, or at least presents it that way. I might have started by hooking a debugger to the application and seeing where an insert takes me. Guess many roads lead to rome.
Well, I disagree on the last part since I consider it of value to signal to those running these companies that this type of marketing is over and done with. That is no "a swipe", it is a clear signal of intent: if you want to reach your target group you should find a different marketing strategy. While I understand this product is not meant to be free software it does need to compete in a market where free alternatives exist - nay, abound - so they have to find a way to convince potential customers how their products are worth the extra hassle, expenditure and technical risk of investing in a closed-source, proprietary product instead of using one of those free (as in speech) incumbents. This may have worked in the 90's - back when looking for free software often came down to scouring freshmeat.net for potentially useful projects - but it does not work now.
AI and LLM are a text interface to code.

Someone still needs to write the prompts.

It’s next level of abstraction.
As a rank and file employee, I'd not want to work with others at my same level who've made the company depend on them disproportionately to their level. Those exist, and they tend to obstruct progress.
> In other words, it’s mainly the unconscious mind at the wheel.

I'm always surprised this is introduced as news.

It seems to me that since the first half of the 20th century, there has been a continuous stream of evidence that the consciousness is, at best, a first class citizen but certainly not the main driver anymore.
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Having more data points can help give more insights into the quakes propagation. I'm no expert but I'd imagine it's not perfectly circular an is influenced by a variety of factor that with more data points makes it easier to learn things about under ground and quakes.
Lodish (a then popular cell biology book) and Lehninger (a 1500 page biochem tome) are substantial books. 101 courses would cover the first 5-9 chapters of 25. Reading back to back and understanding all of it puts you at the top of the best students in biology in the world.

I was lucky, I genuinely loved reading them. I think I went through them both once every time I had a bad breakup lol.
Massive solar storms are fascinating to me. They seem to be quite common in the scale of "catastrophic disasters", there is a chance it would completely destroy the modern life we are used to, yet compared to other catastrophes, the damage to human life would be minimal.

Sure, someone really depends on an electrical gizmo to survive, but most of us would wake up to a world without machines that we rely on daily, yet everything we actually need to survive is intact. There are fruit on trees, water is still flowing and drinkable, boars still roam the forests.

It would be like waking up to a very familiar, yet completely alien world for the vast majority of us.
WTF is lucky? You can hit all of the questions you know in one test. You can't be "lucky" on every test, that's a ridiculous claim