skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, OK, that's a whole different approach then what I expected. If one calls the expectation that the law of physics work the same tomorrow as they did today and yesterday and all the days before a belief, then yes everyone believes in that. It's so obvious that it doesn't mean anything anymore, at least to me.

> perhaps we "know more" but we are certainly not "smarter" than religious people of the past

Oh, I never said that we are smarter than people of the past. I would leave religious out of it though, since I think being religious is independent from being smart.

> And a related but different angle: I think even secular/atheist/agnostic people who aren't even necessarily militant weirdos like Dawkins/Harris ...
By Dawkins I guess you mean Richard Dawkins? I don't know that much about him, but he doesn't really seem like a weirdo to me? I don't know Harris so I can't comment on they being a weirdo or not at all.

> ... unconsciously must contextualize themselves and their life in a world of belief. Trivially, you not believing in god is not an absence of delusion or whatever, but necessarily a belief.

I don't think it's trivial at all to state that not believing in god is necessarily a belief. Maybe it's true, maybe not, but I don't think it's at all trivial. There are infinitely many things that I don't belief in. Surely we can't say that for each and every one of those I actively belief in their absence? Or is there a fundamental difference between god and other things I don't believe in? Or is the distinction between absence of belief and belief of absence a distinction without meaning, just a play with words, not much different from discussing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Bankruptcy protects the corporate entity, but not shareholder equity.

That is, shareholders can lose all equity claims. But that doesn’t mean destroying the business. It can be sold off to new shareholders and then sale proceeds used to make creditors whole.
Anecdotally, I've had an interesting experience on SO for a few months after I was fired from a small web shop in Boston. Literally every question I asked across the SE ecosystem was serially downvoted and/or had "request for closure."

That's when I stopped looking at SO as a place to get help. When ChatGPT came out, I loved asking it SO-esque questions and not dealing with elitist/asshole humans.
It's weird for it to be their _entire_ playbook, but most outages that I've exacerbated were because I panicedly tried to fix things instead of just rolling it back and then taking stock.

I often have to work hard to convince people of all experience levels that it's the best way forward.

- "It's just a little bug I can just fix it [and definitely won't make it worse with code that I haven't tested as rigorously right?]"

- "My KPI/bonus/project plan relies on this going out today"

- "My code is fine it's the infrastructure [that I didn't warn] that can't handle it. They need to fix their side now."

I don't know about your VP but "how fast can we get back to before it was broken?" is reasonably the first thing you should be asking
How is this technically done by microsoft? Are they intercepting the network requests?
Yes. The biggest companies, with the most political power, believe just that. I pray smaller companies make themselves more competitive by offering WFH but that’s yet to be seen.
check this out - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/uptimelab/compute-blade
I am waiting for this to you with my RPI Compute Module 4
Also on the BBC at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jc11

"Ancient knowledge
Start the Week

Carlo Rovelli, Ann Yee and Kapka Kassabova discuss ancient knowledge, radical thinking and watery worlds with Adam Rutherford."
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/JohRK
I went with the Daikin 5MXS48TVJU for the condenser and 3 models of the head units. All Daikin. I didn’t want a bunch of condensers around the house, and I didn’t want to run power everywhere. I’m not sure about efficiency compared to multiple condensers or the IRA stuff.
Probably best you ask Bing or ChatGPT instead.
Wait until someone starts to conduct nuclear tests, not simulated.
There was a good post about how the “red line” got crossed and you can no longer trust anything on the screen to be “from the program” anymore.
I much prefer YAML rather than having to write more code for a build system.
I'm finding it fascinating how much dogmatic religious junk is being thrown around in the comments here - discussing an article where one of the author's central points is that none of the dogmatic religious junk helped him.
In Berlin there is "Gieß den Kiez"[1] (water your block). It not only shows you the species and age for every tree on public property, you can also adopt trees and be responsible for watering them.

> Gieß den Kiez is a participatory platform where you can inform yourself about the trees in your neighbourhood and their water needs. You can explore individual trees in Berlin and find out about the proper watering of trees. If you want to water the same trees regularly, you should create an account, adopt the trees and show that they are taken care of. This way, coordination takes place in the neighbourhood.

[1] https://www.giessdenkiez.de
And just like every profession there are idea people and people who think they are idea people. Unlike engineering, you can’t as easily make interview tests that pretend to be able to discern between those who are good at something and those that aren’t. Idea people are left to hitting a home run, succeeding and making a name for themselves. No one is going to hire a first timer into Chief Idea Officer.

Paul’s letter is a reason we don’t see more Jobs type people. Industry has been told to dismiss those who don’t do. Instead of finding a way to harness them.

Why isn’t the formula for a startup finding a Jobs and pairing them with a Woz? The idea that there are no more Jobs has almost become a self fulfilling mythology. Let’s see a bot write those two sentences on its own.
For loads of tabs it does. For docker or VMs maybe not. Requiring a large amount of fully allocated RAM, like 8G+ seems like a deficiency in the software/dev environment, and definitely an edge case. In my whole career I've not needed that, but seen some poorly done dev environments configured with 4G+ VMs, so I don't doubt it can happen.
We have a long ways to go, but our end goal for moonbase is basically buildbuddy, but for non-bazel users. Right now moonbase requires moon, but we're looking to decouple it.
I noticed after last week’s “don’t be cute” discussion the error page stopped saying “you broke Reddit” and switched to a generic 503-sounding message
Similar thing I made a landing page for but never built to take utms from other users and attach them to your links, break GA sessions, etc to make your traffic adversarial and attempt to make a sites GA data not so good.

https://hello-kill.github.io/
Why do you think the EPA has trailers or is responsible for housing people?

This seems to be the role of a disaster management organization
It’s always DNS.
Not sure about that, there is a huge market for refurbished Apple products.
That seems like something that FEMA would be better prepared to do.

I think FEMA should be in the role of protecting the individuals, evacuating people and providing food, water, heating and shelter.

EPA should have more focus on directing the cleanup of the area, and making the area safe for residents to return to.

And the railroad should be billed every penny of the costs of both.
Extremely based, everyone should install this
It's not controversial, it's just clear this will in the not-too-distant future be relegated to the same sort of high school level introductory course that introduces a person to saving files on google drive. I worry that people are believing this will be a thriving space and a new frontier for tech talent, when really they exist to the extent current interfaces are failing. And current interfaces are improving at impressive speed.
"make customers stay on Edge" is a great corporate slogan
Theoretically, maybe, but we'd need real numbers to even start to evaluate that.
I write code full time. I run Docker as little as possible, preferring to run everything “natively”. It’s so much simpler than figuring out how to get whatever shitty webstack working with reloading etc. It’s faster. Battery life is better. There’s no downside in my experience as macOS is a good enough *nix that almost everything Just Works™.

The only time I run Docker is to test an image locally, which is in general only to debug my Dockerfile.
it's actually a very open question, even theoretically, whether we can build an "hard on average problem" from a "worst case hard problem" in NP. This is why we haven't yet managed to design cryptography from 3SAT, for instance.
What you are talking about is slightly different.
There are plenty of communities where there are a variety of single-family homes, and MDU's. I actually live in one. However, the majority of the residents are of roughly the same economic status. Some have large homes and growing families, some are empty-nesters that downside to a smaller condo in the development. But for the most part, they are all of the same economic class.

This is different than thinking there is going to be a large number of upper income single family housing units that would find living next to a Section 8 kind of development desirable.

I know people who grew up in "affordable housing", and put in significant effort to get away from that kind of neighborhood, and would not want to live near one.

This is a real challenge, and it can't be legislated away, the fix (IMO) is far deeper than zoning changes.
Having lived through the dot-com bust, my wife and I around the same time (20+ years ago), began to set some funds aside for the "rainy day" of not if, but _when_ I might lose my job in tech, given the often volatile nature of the industry. We've been fortunate not to have to need to dip into those funds for that purpose over that time, but I think it's a wise practice, one that the church teaches, and follows.
Microsoft always reeked of "me too/notice me!" desperation :)
That's FEMA's role, but otherwise that's a damn good question. Yes the company that caused the mess should rightly be on the hook for cleaning it up, but there's still a need for federal disaster assistance.
Is this an ad or something?
Clarkesworld spammed by GPT
Way to leave positive feedback, sheesh, people seem to forget there’s actual people behind this doing it for fun and for free.
I want the stable diffusion version where I just sketch a dashboard then it makes it in vega or matplotlib or something
Isn't communities being uncomfortable with new members and change as much of an all-kinds-of-communities throughout history thing than an online-in-2023 thing?
Ex-Tweeps Bet Social Media Is Ready for `Something New’
Why You’re Angry at Netflix
It honestly just sounds like you're not very steeped in the subject. You're re-hashing very simple arguments that have been covered many many times by prominent atheists, if you're interested. If you're not interested, that's fine, but I'd stop arguing about it online.

> I have found that when you argue with a flat earther or an atheist, they typically argue the same way. Flat-earthers have tons of "scientific evidence" they want to show you.

Sure, lots of people argue by presenting evidence. Evaluating the quality of that evidence is something humanity has gotten much better at in general, but it does take some work. The fact that scientists and crackpots both claim to present evidence doesn't mean that the act of presenting evidence is flawed.

> I have never ever ever met an "athiest" in the world that would even think about questioning their own beliefs. Wouldnt it be irrational for them too?

It sounds to me like you've literally never met an atheist. Talk to one. And no, questioning your own beliefs is almost the defintion of rationality. Why would it be irrational to question your own beliefs?

> What could ever make an atheist change their mind?

Evidence.

> God could come down and tell everyone in the world she is real, and I bet atheists would pick it apart, going over the footage, proving how it wasn't really God.

"Footage?" It's not clear whether your hypothetical is "Clouds open and God appears before you, speaking in a divine voice" -- evidence! -- or "someone comes out with grainy footage of something that could maybe kinda look a bit God-ish". Details matter!

> How could they not, it would mean throwing away so much of their work and existential commitments (I would be like this I think).

I have done literally no work being an atheist. It takes none of my time, except for the occasional pointless online discussion like this. I have literally no "existential commitments". It's not an important part of my identity. It's literally the lack of all of those things.

How much work has it been for you not believing in Zeus?

Honestly, we're trodding the same exact path that has been trodden a million times. Literally read any prominent atheist and you will have the answers to most of your questions.
If the punishment changes based on who you are that kind of shits all over the concept of justice being blind.

>Also, the fine is intended to discourage the behavior. If the money obtained by breaking the law minus the fee is still positive

The money saved not renewing your registration on time is roughly the same regardless of what you're driving so that would seem to favor the fixed fine.
But of course bisection doesn't just apply to curves, and bifurcation only refers to certain kinds of division. You wouldn't bifurcate a cake or a number, for example. I feel like it refers to a continuous process of splitting e.g. in time like a species that evolves into two species or in space like a road that forks into two roads.
7pm meetings?!

It sounds like we can both agree that all people, regardless of their sleep pattern, are capable of being buffoons.
And if anyone's interested in this extension, you may also like this one: https://www.trackmenot.io/

It sends bogus search requests in the background. And it seems like it works as intended, as the extension is banned entirely from Google's Chrome store.
Conversely, if moon required code instead of config, I wouldn't give it a second look. Ecosystem needs vary greatly.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230218154249/https://clarkvisi...
I think at some level AAA publishers realize that making money does eventually require providing fun, novel experiences.
I think part of the problem is that a really thorough investigation from the NTSB (https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20230214.as...) will by definition not be quick. We'll definitely get answers, but it will take time. As a result, we have an information gap which is quickly filled with tons of speculation.

I think it's fair to be concerned until we know that the impact was somehow limited. Toxic fumes and spills are incredibly dangerous. Not just deadly in the short term, they can cause severe long-term health problems. It's not like the spillage/smoke just simply disappears, so it's good to be concerned about them until there's proof the impact is minor.
At least for this specific case, you hit the nail on the head. Here is a comment[0] from the reddit thread that found the actual questions (that the OP asked on SO) and explained in very clear terms why they were closed.

Not really happy with how trigger-happy SO is with closing questions based on wrong assumptions in general. But in this specific case, it feels very justified.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/116vvpp/saying_good...
And Paris: https://opendata.paris.fr/explore/dataset/les-arbres/map/
You should not poll a payment provider in a general flow. Do you realize how many requests that will cause if everybody did that? A payment flow is event-driven by nature. The payment provider pushes the states back to the initiating system. If that fails it is up to the consumer to detect problems and make sure that the system is in sync with the provider. Some payment providers do push data up to at least 24h. It is an obvious design flaw...
I think the overt issue is that both state and fed gov completely bungled their response. Their absurd, stubborn silence, even after the issue has been lighting up social media for a week, gives the impression they know it's deadly but don't care -- whether or not that's the truth.
Major news sites are so annoying (pointless even?) these days. They are a paragraph of text + a paywall. When you get access it's just a summary (assuming they understood it correctly) + fluff text and ultimately points to a tweet or published document somewhere else where you can get the actual details and direct quotes.

Notice how they don't even include a link to the sources like https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/02/21/u-s-supreme-... does.

Copy of source: https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/wikimedia-v-nsa
Tilt Doom: Doom running on a Lego brick
OpenAndroidInstaller – graphical installer for alternative Android distributions
Something is off there... those look like mock-ups, not real UI. Also, I just tried on my Windows 11 machine, running the latest Edge and all I see is a pop-up (not injected into the HTML of the page, but separate from the browser window), just like in the past.

It's possible they got some PM's "smart idea" that no one will ever greenlight. Or it's possible they're on some pre-release / insider builds where MS is testing / experimenting with it.

Either way, I'll reserve my outrage for when I see this in a released version.
Wikimedia article: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/21/u-s-supreme-court-decl...
There are many ways to improve on TCP for specific use cases. You can get maybe another 10%-20% of performance, as Google did with QUIC. Used outside that use case, performance may be worse. The design goal of TCP was that it should Just Work. It needed to be interoperable between different vendors, provide reasonably good performance, work over a wide range of networks speeds, work over possibly flaky networks, continue to perform under overload, and not have manual tuning parameters. It does well against those criteria.

This new protocol the sort of thing Osterholt is known for. He came up with "log" file systems, which are optimized for the case where disk writes outnumber reads. Reading then requires more seeks on mechanical drives. If you're mostly writing logs that are seldom read, it's a win. If you're doing more reading than writing, it's a lose.
Denied Wikedia Foundation on basis of “state secrets,” upholding a lower court ruling:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-snubs-wikiped...

Seems like these justices simply want to wave this away as too complicated, a valuable secret. Well, if it weren’t secret it would be illegal.
Incident response should always be: (1) get people enacting the final disaster recovery plan and rollback whilst we (2) see if we can recover from where we stand.

Doing #1 puts some serious boundaries on how bad it can get
Event-Driven Architectures vs. Event-Based Compute in Serverless Applications
This is like arguing that newsstands are pointless because the owner yells "This isn't a library!" when you open the newspaper and start reading without buying the newspaper first.
Thanks for getting it! It's a bit of a subtle point.

Actually it took us years to begin thinking this way but once we figured it out as a principle it changed a ton about how we moderate HN threads.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
This probably really depends on the type of business you have. I work for a CDN, our outages are usually caused by one of our network peers/providers borking things. There is nothing to rollback.
routers care about tcp (or udp) because of flow hashing. write a new IP proto and see what happens when you try to push >100 gbit
> I'm thinking about what I've read on social media (twitter, reddit, etc) about the event.

Social media is social media. It requires critical thinking skills to navigate what you can trust versus what you cannot. I would have put this point in your GP, though. The GP otherwise reads like it has an agenda.

> relevant authorities do not seem to agree with this.

They're (probably) a more reliable source than social media, so I'd have to refer to the relevant authorities.

Social media (likely) isn't out there gathering soil samples, air quality metrics, and water quality metrics in a uniform or scientific method that would qualify 'social media' to make a judgement call about the impact of the disaster.
Twitter to try to open source recommendation algorithm by last week of Feb 2023
To prove malicious intent without doubt would require me to have access to the minds of the perpetrators of a plan. I don't have such access, I do have access to their intentions through an agenda document and their further actions afterwards in government, such a plan would not be presented as malicious so I can only derive its intents from their agenda and actions to the results in reality.

The results in reality is a system that has not coped with its usage, one such example is presented in the op-ed article I shared on [2] which states that McKinsey was commissioned to provide a report which they concluded there would be less need of nurses, which was false, that report was used to reduce the budget for nurses which as a result caused further reduction in force of nurses as they quit because of lower pay. I can only derive that it's malicious since the report is wrong and no action was taken to correct the government's actions when reality hit. The same op-ed links to another analysis with this exact question [0].

> “In other words we didn’t have enough nurses before to provide a high quality service? Ah!” said John Humphrys in shocked tones - as if this was a revelation the BBC’s flagship news programme had never heard before.

> But the BBC failed to ask the key question – why were all the warning signs about nurse shortages, ignored?

> After all, NHS chiefs and ministers had been warned clearly for years that there would be a shortage of nurses, as a result of David Cameron’s coalition government cutting training places for nurses and doctors from 2010 onwards. From 2010 through to 2013 the numbers of nursing places commissioned at universities in England were cut by 12.7% – resulting in 2500 fewer places. In 2012 experts warned that this would result in a “disaster” in two or three years. In all, the 2010 cutbacks (reversed only relatively recently) meant that around 8000 fewer nurses were coming into the system.

Can you point me to any counterpoint to this where the government's actions align to a non-malicious plan to actually help the system, as misaligned as that plan might be? Because every action I can find points to a plan where the system is put under further struggle without giving a good reason why it is sensible to, for example, train less nurses when they were advised by NHS chiefs and specialists they will require more. You can't say that ignoring your chief specialists is not malicious.

[0] https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/nhs-staff-shortage-s...
N.B. And are quite happy doing so because it makes app develop a breeze.

Being able to use tools like tcpdump to debug applications is important to fast problem resolving.

Unless everything you do is "Web scale" and development costs are insignificant, simple paradims like stream oriented text protocols will have their place.
This is also the business model for the private rail in Hong Kong, Singapore, and now Florida with Brightline.

The Brightline model is surprising because it shouldn't work. Miami and Orlando aren't well thought of for there public transit systems. Yet, this premium intercity train is expanding. I'm not convinced they are profitable as a train, but they own the property around downtown train stations which is really hot right now.
NASA's planetary radar captures detailed view of oblong asteroid
Service Cutter: A Structured Way to Service Decomposition