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> If everyone is aware of what went wrong and the issue is unlikely to ever happen again, what is the point?

Because the only way you can make everyone aware is to write it down. Anything else is hearsay.

And going through the process of a thorough postmortem can ensure you do know exactly what went wrong and why, and how you can prevent the same and similar issues from happening again in the future.

Perhaps from this example it serves as documented proof that work on setting up staging databases needs to be prioritised and invested in? Maybe it's that scripts such as this should be reviewed by another engineer before running? Maybe the standard operating procedure is updated so a backup is taken immediately before running any scripts that write to the database? Maybe you create a rule to limit the blast radius in future and do smaller roll outs to 1k users instead of 100k? Maybe scripts should be developed with a dry-run feature?
LOL, anywhere on the planet where you would actually need to clarify a point to an audience, you'll have an Internet connection.

Do you honestly think you'll get into a philosophical debate so incredibly challenging that you'd need to fall back upon ChatGPT to argue on your behalf in the middle of say, the Australian bush??

And even if you did, RV Starlink is there to save the day.

ChatGPT doesn't "do work for you". ChatGPT is like having a subject matter expert by your side to guide you. And like every single person who has access to a subject matter expert, you're going to take away whatever you want, and leave whatever you don't. Lazy shitbags will be lazy shitbags with or without ChatGPT. But inquisitive people who want to soar with the eagles have an impossibly powerful tool at their disposal.
The future of money ladies and gentlemen.
I have two that I've been thinking about that I've been too lazy to cobble together myself:

A page change tracker that A: pumps the page through uBlock origin before each snapshot and B; produces an RSS feed with a summary of changes.

A web page to epub converter that A: sends the page through uBlock origin or similar, B: sends the result through the postlight parser, and then C: gives the user a chance to customize the result before packaging it up as an epub. Customisation would include setting a cover image (or none,) setting a title and other metadata, choosing to include a TOC or not, renaming any chapters if a TOC is included, etc. Currently my workflow for this involves someone's "web page to epub" converter personal project that isn't entirely designed for single pages and a bunch of time on Sigil cleaning up the resulting output.
> install a plugin

Feel free to link to a plugin you trust...
Ok. It’s better to use consistent terminology rather than move between two different technical terms.
It's news because it's happening to "good people".

Old stuff near the end of its life breaks, not news. New cars break, big news.

Some people have beef and get shooty in some low rent part of Detroit, not news. Some people have beef and get shooty with each other in some high rent suburb of Boston or SF, big news.
Wvquine.org (correcting typo)
The anti-ESG industry is taking investors for a ride
Your foster parents are dead.
Similar to software engineering its a skill that can be taught and honed. You don't get born as a natural salesman/woman but you learn the fundamentals, you practice and you get better.

Its funny how similar it is from the methodology perspective to programming despite it being about a completely different spectrum of skills.
This argument is basically the same as teacher's argument that 'You'll not always have a calculator in your pocket'. And I suspect it will age equally badly.
Adding different syntax to Lisp has been tried many times. No attempt has ever succeeded. Lisp users basically rejected all those systems, and they didn't gain any traction in bringing new users into Lisp.

The first attempt was Lisp 2. This doesn't refer to Lisp-2 (two namespaces for variables and functions) but to a follow-up to Lisp 1.5, which was tried in the 1960's. Lisp 2, IIRC, featured an Algol-like syntax, with types, for speeding up numeric processing. It went nowhere. In the early 1970's, Vaughan Pratt (of "Pratt parser" fame, I think) created CGOL. That also went nowhere. After that we can identify numerous other things in that vein.

Here we are today and most people using Lisp still have it (looking (like) this).
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Which image viewer?
The choice of the identity element, if one can be encoded at all, gives you one point with known key by design. Choice of the generator, if it isn't NUMS, can give you a second arbitrary value with a known key-- this latter one could even be a no-one-but-us backdoor but a somewhat contrived one.

Like if you want to secretly know the private key of 0xDEADBEEF, set your generator to lift(0xDEADBEEF) x (1/$secret). Now the deadbeef pubkey has a DL relative to your generator of $secret.
Why isnt this a more widespread business model? DIY is "fun" but streamlining everything for the average household would have a much bigger audience. Offer a linux distro that is customized to provide from a menu of self-hosted services (with as little pain as possible), along with a subscription for support.

Could be offered as an extra service by the ISP provider or partners or entirely independent.
If AI pans out, it will be a huge multiplier of human progress. It may also deprive huge numbers of people of their livelihoods and dignity.

It's worth pointing out that the (ideal) inexpensive AI tech would remove basically every remaining advantage that human beings have over machines, at least if we continue to live in a society where human beings must work to survive and find meaning. AI is fundamentally different from the steam engine or cars or machine tools, in the sense that those inventions still left room for human operators. To the extent that AI leaves room for humans, it may only be due to the fact that "ideal" AI isn't achievable and what we build is (perhaps temporarily) some approximation of the more powerful thing people are worried about.
I thought this was a bizarre (OK, I'll be honest, shitty) article. The beginning starts out by seemingly making the point that Japan has low unemployment because it has a lot of inefficient, "make-work" jobs, e.g. "smartly dressed women help you use the lifts" (subtext being who needs help using an elevator) and "a team of four people was involved in the preparation of your correspondent’s gin martini".

OK, fair enough. But then it starts making the argument that employment in the West is going to look more like Japan. Except places where I'm aware where there are acute labor shortages (e.g. businesses like restaurants, child care, nursing, home services like plumber, electrician, etc.) look nothing like the picture the author tried to paint with his Japan vignettes. I.e. there aren't tons of spare waiters standing around waiting to make your drink where I live. More like you're happy just to get seated in the first place because places are so understaffed.

The current and coming labor shortages in the West are not a surprise - it's simple demographics, with nearly every 1st world country having a fertility rate that is well below replacement level. I think the pandemic did cause some folks to re-evaluate their priorities, but I think even there a lot of explanations are given for people "re-evaluating their priorities", but the reality is that labor shortages are causing some people to leave the workforce because the value of their "labor at home" is now relatively much more. For example, childcare in the US in many urban areas is extremely expensive. It's expensive to the point where if one member of a couple has a relatively low earning potential, it makes more sense for them to stay at home to raise their kids, rather than putting them in childcare, because the economics of it are no longer that favorable.
It's comforting to read something that reassures me if my Garmin is congratulating me on my activity minutes target every week, I might really be helping myself.
> If everyone is aware of what went wrong

Big assumption. Chances are at least someone was out on vacation or something. A postmortem can help spread the word - and perhaps calm those downstream who weren't in the loop as much, through a show of clear and open communication and ownership, instead of trying to bury it.

> and the issue is unlikely to ever happen again,

Also a big assumption. You can almost certainly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys your way into a broader pattern of something that will happen again, and can review what worked to expectations, what didn't, what should be improved, and what can be left alone - even if it perhaps will happen again - perhaps being more expensive to try and fix, than to merely accept the occasional failure as an acceptable price of doing business.
In one sense, this is what one would expect. OTOH it looks like a good survey that confirms expectation, which is great.

It’s reassuring that the already recommended 150 min/wk of aerobic exercise is the sweet spot (but push it to 40 if you can).

Also this is a CC licensed article in a BMJ open sub journal. Nice.

Also it’s
>but we are not yet at the point where a voice can be mimicked accurately from a voicemail or a clip on social media.

Have you tried using Eleven AI? We are very much at this point.
The ideas behind IPFS definitely seem to reflect the unchangeable URL intentions of this article. However, IPFS is also more limited, as edits and updates require special handling and interactivity is simply not possible.

Furthermore, IPFS is too slow to be usable in practice. I'd love it to become a serious alternative to the web in terms of documents and blog posts, but the amount of timeouts and 30+ second loading times you need to tolerate to get any IPFS page to load makes it very difficult to tolerate.

At least with the NFT scams IPFS found a real-life purpose, something I hadn't expected to see. That's dying down now, I think, so who knows how long the most active pin servers will stick around.
They should go to grad school instead.
> everyone is aware of what went wrong

This is never true past a certain company size threshold, and even for smaller companies once you start asking the "five whys" you see there is never just one root cause. Even for straightforward cases where everyone generally agrees, it can still be informative to capture the analysis for future reference and review of reliability patterns.

Incidents are a learning opportunity. If people are pointing fingers then that's a sign of a bigger cultural issue, one which will not be solved by avoiding discussing and documenting incidents.
What language is a better choice?
Huh? The universal wavefunction doesn't preclude you from modeling isolated systems with their own independent wavefunction. I.e. Psi(world) = Psi(system)*Psi(outside world).

The extent to which you can model a system as truly isolated depends on its size and quality of quantum isolation. This can be calculated theoretically as well as measured empirically.
> Even if these compostable service items can’t be composted at least they would degrade in the environment, right?

No, most don't.

I was flabbergasted when I discovered this. Until recently I thought "biodegradable" and "compostable" meant that the item would degrade naturally in the "biosphere". In other words if you put it outside and came back in a decade, it would be mostly gone.

Instead what happened is the plastics industry managed convinced politicians to redefine those terms to mean "will degrade in an industrial composter". Turns out the industrial composter's they had in mind used high temperatures, and a very specific mix of chemicals to break down the plastic. Quoting https://theconversation.com/t-156566 :

> But most certified compostable plastics are only for industrial composts, which reach very high temperatures. This means they’re unlikely to break down sufficiently in home composts. Even those certified as “home compostable” are assessed under perfect lab conditions, which aren’t easily achieved in the backyard.

It appears to me the plastics industry solved the environmental image problem by getting the legal meanings of "compostable" and "biodegradable" redefined to mean "there exists some industrial process converting the material into something biosphere can consume". All they have to do to get earn the right to stamp their products as "biodegradable" is pay some industrial chemists to create an process that transforms their product into something a plant can use.

But as far I can tell it doesn't mean they have to actually do any composting in practice. In fact doing it seems unlikely because there are already lots of very cheap ways to produce compost that don't need an industrial plant or lots of energy (heat). Which they've solved their image problem with a small one off cost - no need for any costly collection or recycling efforts. And no need to actually reduce the environmental impacts of plastic pollution either.
I’m curious to know the answer here as well. I’m not a Firefox user, but given how common it is for sites to use localstorage, this is a really surprising design decision.
It seems like a test artifact on the latency test.

> L3 issues seem to be gone with a bandwidth test, with similar results using Windows or Linux. We see over 200 GB/s of L3 bandwidth with an all-thread load.

Somethings weird. There's definitely an L3 and it definitely works but not as predictably as most cores.
"Glassed"? In that sense? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Glassed
Oddly, I've noticed the opposite. Since around 2015 or so, I noticed a very sharp increase of anti-Chinese rhetoric (or any rhetoric for that matter) on the internet and news. Not that it was positive before, but it was barely mentioned. Now it feels like Chinese this and Chinese that come up in every other political conversation.

Not that I was around for the Red Scare or Cold War, but China feels like it replaced Russia as the Boogieman.
Loved the soundtrack, too! Very fitting.
Thank Google and other adtech for lobbying and fighting to keep tracking legal.

The popups are malicious compliance. They want you to hate the popups, so that you will turn against privacy laws, and fully submit to the unimpeded surveillance business.

And it’s working: people are installing “I don’t care about cookies” extension that agrees to data collection, deanonimization, profiling, and sale of this data.
How many of your high school classmates died before graduation?

Your analogy is flawed. Microsoft is a corporation, not a person.
This is not a productive comment. Comparing military rations to what civilians eat is apples and oranges. The focus of military rations is getting enough calories and to avoid any short-medium term health issues (notice the conspicuous reference to a lime juice ration to fight scurvy).

But let's take it at face value, these rations are calculated for target activity level. Any idea of what that is? Cause I'm pretty confident that it's higher than the sedentary North American lifestyle.
5nm zen4 can probably beat 7nm zen2 on efficiency, which would help battery life. Perhaps it isn’t a big enough factor to matter, however.
I love premortems at work. Gary Klein came up with the idea of asking why a project could fail before you start it: https://hbr.org/2007/09/performing-a-project-premortem
In terms of annoying-once-you-notice-it idioms, should readers assume dishonesty on all other statements made by people that prefix only some small subset of their claims with 'Honestly ...' and 'To be honest ...'?
This only works until people notice that many at the top (company/society) were the cheaters.
Measuring associations is one thing. Intervening in people's lives to reduce disease and mortality with exercise is another. Here's what real science has to say about the latter:

Exercise did not reduce all-cause mortality and incident CVD in older adults or in people with chronic conditions, based on RCTs comprising ∼50,000 participants

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=10512580439138189...

The average sedentary HN reader, take comfort! Being a gym rat is good for you. Forcing yourself to become a gym rat from being sedentary has unclear benefits regarding hard outcomes.
Finding Undocumented APIs
social recovery wallets mitigate this

look at argent.xyz
> It's about waving the appropriate flag and feeling the tribe strength wash over you and the energy of pure unity lift you skyward.

Like opiates. And, also like opiates, once you get hooked, it's very difficult to get off even when you realize that it's not actually good for you.
Was there as much handwringing about computers and databases putting secretaries out of work?
Distributed differential privacy for federated learning
No, in the olden times this didn't work. Women were shunned and shamed when out-of-wedlock pregnancy occurred, and not only was it common, it was so common that there were multiple institutions set up by religious organizations that such women were forced into by their families where many of them died from the mistreatment. Check out "mother and baby homes" where thousands of unmarried women and children died.
"three phase" generally means 3 hots, each 120 degrees out of phase with each other. You may or may not have a neutral with a 3 phase system.
Thanks to a user called Noah2 and thanks to archive.org. (You can see the name of the uploader in the bottom right corner.)

Unfortunately you can be relatively sure that this kind of stuff is released without permission from the copyright holders. (Just food for thought; this is not an endorsement of copyright laws.)
This noosphere is only big enough for one superpower, it seems.
Does “self-host”, also include purchasing (not renting) the server you’re hosting it on and collocating it at a data center or hosting it from your house?
I remember my dad’s friend joined 3dfx in ‘94 and we became testers for all their prototype cards. Being able to play Virtua Fighter on our PC still ranks as one of the most magical moments I’ve had with technology.
“Your File May Violate Google Drive's Terms of Service”
According to Google,

> $name contains content that may violate Google Drive's Phishing policy. People that you've shared this file with will still be able to access it, but they will see a warning on the file. If you think this is an error and would like the Trust & Safety team to review this file, request a review below.

…if I open it, the Google Sheet tells me "It contains links that might be used to steal your personal information." But it doesn't tell me which like.

The sheet is a list of wedding vendors — we're trying to plan a wedding. So if one of the wedding vendor's sites has be pwned, a.) I'd like to know, and b.) how TF is that my fault, such that it translates to a ToS violation, Google?

Of course, the appeal button offers me no ability to include an explanation, or a request for which link …
This is great, the approach I’ve seen work best in a couple orgs now is giving the candidate options. You can either walk us through and open source project you wrote, do a take home test, or do a live coding challenge.

There is a large diversity in how developers are effective. When you force people into one funnel you lose the rest of the ecosystem. Meet people where they are, the only metric that should matter is effectiveness
> Last I checked Bun still handily beats SWC (and ESBuild) on basically everything

What did you check?
Bun only has basic transpiring currently. I can't imagine what "everything" is, and without bundling, minification, and down-transpiling support I don't see how any meaningful project could have been tested on.

> Bun’s perf obsession has been percolating a lot of optimizations upstream to WebKit/JSC

Source?
AFAIK claiming either "bun devs made a lot of JSC perf optimization PRs" or "bun devs pointed perf hot spots to JSC devs" would be incorrect, but I'd love to learn otherwise.
Unlikely to be the other definition, so... yes.
Because not a lot of people care about this being a thing, ask anyone outside of HN if they would run Linux and they most likely don't even know what it is.

There's not much upside for anyone using that over free Gmail/Drive/Photos for everyone except a small group who thinks they need to own their Email and Google is evil. It's a fair standpoint, but unrealistic to anyone not deep into the topic.
This conversation needs someone fiddling in the background.

No one had a normal economic life for several years. It’s a miracle that these levers have been adjusted to the point that everyone is like “well no one going to work for three years had no impact! What over-reactionaries!”
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I am GP? So I’m still confused as to your intent. Are you agreeing with or lecturing me?
The government can’t take away your hard-earned crypto if you lost it forever.
You can make thermald ignore that protection by using the `--ignore-cpu-id` flag. See thread leading up to: https://github.com/intel/thermal_daemon/issues/268#issuecomm...
You can get people to stay longer as long as they are getting material to pad their resume. This seems counterintuitive at first, but one thing devs are good (bad?) at is avoiding pressure sales or getting “trapped”. An employee who feels stuck has lowered expectations from another job, and so it’s easier for them to leave. They don’t wait for “better”, they wait for “not here”.

Amongst a group of people I talked about this with, we estimated that places that allowed resume farming saw between 6 and 9 months longer average employe retention times. For a place aiming at 3-4 year turnover that’s a substantial fraction of your goal.
it's on an IronKey.
I'm extremely verbose and proper in written communication by nature, so none of my clients have even noticed that I've been using ChatGPT in my workflow for the past three weeks.

Personally I couldn't be more tickled shitless at this creation. It's cheap ($20 a month!!), it's fast, it's already learned my writing and coding style, and it is probably saving me 30-40% time every week. The amount of projects I've been able to start working on, that I had on the back burner, is just incredible.

I really could not be more excited about where GPT 4.0 and 5.0 will go.
Hi you are describing my game, Lexicode.

https://greatfilter.itch.io/lexicode

I am currently remaking it as a web app rather than a unity app.
The "fault" lies with any function which fails to uphold its contract. I would argue that if `foo1` were documented as async-signal safe, then it would be at fault for the memory corruption it causes, if called from a signal handler.
The drive's firmware could be preventing that from happening: https://www.trentonsystems.com/blog/self-encrypting-drives

Although I don't think they have the auto-destruct feature.

But with 200M+ at stake, I'd put out a bounty for someone to reverse engineer the firmware.

Edit: sibling commenter says it's IronKey, reading about it, reverse engineering won't be that trivial...
This is a fair anecdote about response an active production incident. While there is a live incident, the focus should be on resolving it, and restoring service to customers.

But, this anecdote does not comment about a postmortem or other organizational habits that can be used to review historical incidents or near misses (after the incidents have been resolved and everyone has had time to rest), diagnose risks, identify contributing direct or indirect causes, then use this feedback and learning to set goals and drive changes to reduce the risk of similar incidents recurring in future.
honestly doing my assignments seems to have gotten many of my less honest peers better careers. (my smarter peers mostly did better too though)
That honestly sounds way more plausible than Islamist hardliners poisoning 50-60 girls' schools without leaving any trace. Poisonings usually leave some biological marker and if it is people from the same group poisoning the schools it is odd that no one has been caught.
Firefighting vehicle doesn't need parking space