skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you submit the link without actually going to the page?
Someones hasn't tested or checked their code before deployment. Because there is an error on the page:

"TypeError: ReactOnRails encountered an error while rendering component: ArticlesShowPage"
Original message: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'children')
at F (ArticlePage.tsx:532:27)

Ironically the point of TypeScript is to check for type errors before transpiling to JavaScript and before deployment. Yet we still see this 'TypeError' issue once again.
What is causation then? Because the only thing you can ever measure is correlation.
SF opened savings accounts for kindergartners – now they’re going to college
I clicked on this because of Fortran and it had nothing to do with it. It was more an advertisement for Mojo.

If anyone is interested in Fortran for AI, I am working on a Fortran LLM project: https://github.com/rbitr/llama2.f90

It runs as fast as C but is generally a higher level language that makes it easier to work with matrices and manage memory.
Yes but not on roofs. They're so heavy.
I don't think they're arguing anything.

The parent wondered:

> It would be interesting to see what the corresponding figures are like for on-prem

They replied. Not everything is an argument.

Also, they didn't say anything about fixed capacity - they're likely just talking about 10Y deprecation which is a very common accounting thing to use - and "For everyone else the cloud is cheaper" is definitely not true. It depends on workload and architecture. If you're in the business of selling infrastructure, for example, using the cloud will eat most of your margins (this is not to say that it's not done, but usually there's some caveats, e.g. maybe you will get some cheap VMs provisioned and do your own fleet management ontop instead of building everything on top of say, firebase or dynamodb).
The JFK assassination has been such a recurrent theme for so long that I reckon I might have memories of it, even though it happened decades before I was born.
Depends very much on which side you are on. Unfortunately I expect that those people outside won't have much say in the matter.
Don't forget the OPM hack (2015)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
At that time, feel free to open issue at: https://github.com/cicada-lang/inet/issues

I will not miss an issue there :)
> Games that rely on deterministic gameplay can desync (two players don't see the same world state) and abort if one player's simulation drops a frame while the other doesn't.

Right. This is why lockstep deterministic (LSD) games are bound to the SLOWEST player's machine.

No LSD game in existence crashes the game if one player's machine falls behind. Instead you either pause the simulation for all players until they catch up or you slow down time itself.

Source: shipped RTS games that were lockstep deterministic.
The Math of Password Hashing Algorithms and Entropy
The blame here may indeed lie with whoever decided that reusing an old flag was a good idea. As anyone who has been in software development for any time can attest, this decision was not necessarily - and perhaps not even likely - made by a "developer."
Finland still large LAN event going called Assembly. There is summer (demo scene + gaming) and winter (gaming focused). You just buy a ticket and go. https://assembly.org/en
It's usually a satellite (or even virtual) location (or locations) that the parent university administers. Extension schools usually cater to past-college-age adults for continuing education, are often part time, and are usually commuter schools (and don't really have a live-in campus culture). I can't speak to any differences in quality of instruction, but I wouldn't be surprised if the admissions requirements at most extensions schools weren't as strict as for the parent university (which makes sense, because people attend for very different reasons, often at different stages of their lives, with different backgrounds than you'd expect for a high school grad going to an undergraduate university).

I think, though, that the disdain for saying "I went to Harvard" when you've attended the extension school is rooted more in emotion/ego/pretension than anything else. A "real" Harvard attendee might not actively look down on someone who attended HES, but would probably scoff at the idea that they "went to Harvard". Higher education has a lot of weird social signaling and other crap that's hard to unpack.

But I do think that the accepted meaning of "I went to X" is that you physically attended classes full-time at the university's main campus. Saying that, when you attended their extension school, is at best misleading.
I love facts like this, thanks!
I am reminded of an incident relayed to me by an office worker in the early 2000s. A colleague had left the building at lunchtime and had been witness to some kind of shooting incident where robbers or gang members on motorcycles had opened fire on someone or something else - I don’t think it was ever discovered what the target or cause was. This was in South America, so not a wholly unusual scenario. But the debrief of the employee was eye-opening. He described everything that had happened from his perspective: he heard gunshots, hid behind a bin, and waited until it was over. He said there were dozens of gunshots and he had stayed in hiding for about ten minutes, until he heard the bikes speed away.

However, upon reviewing the CCTV footage, it became clear that the whole incident, from bike arrival to employee emerging from behind the bin, lasted about 11 seconds.

The colleague was astounded to see the footage and couldn’t explain why he had felt it was so much longer.

I think there’s a good chance that stressful situations play havoc with human memory formation.
`Software Requirements and Specifications' by Michael Jackson
That movie always creeped me the hell out when I was younger.

I should rewatch.
Aliens are doing for the lulz.
Or thinking about the proper way: how an operating system distinguish between two different ICMP 'talks' to the same destination.

Bam, you only need one computer and wireshark/tcpdump.

Sure, the article is nice and probably is enlightening for someone who never even thought about and doesn't have any networking understanding... honestly it's more about how to make a proper network lab and dig the sources but without thinking.
Can’t say I believe there was another gunman.

There may be forensics technicalities that are hard to explain but it seems that in any event that is highly ‘investigated’ people find too many patterns in the noise (9/11 for example)

Like most of those Cold War events, these cover ups look more like protecting intelligence sources and blunders than some large overarching cabal
I ran the background on an officer in a case against me. He had been found guilty in an internal investigation of badly beating an unarmed Mexican man. In his sworn statement he said the guy had run in front of his car. This didn't match the testimony of six different witnesses who all saw the incident.

The report found him guilty of the beating and noted his testilying. I think he was given a few days suspension for this. No criminal charges, obviously.

In another case, I told a friend to investigate the background of the lead detective against him. When we ran his file we found he had already been fired from the police department for using the computer system to change the upcoming court dates for another officer so he would miss court and not testify against a friend of the detective who had been pulled over for a suspected DUI.
Where is chlorhexidine prescription only? Here (UK) there are several brands sold everywhere as daily mouthwash.

Staining w/chlorhexidine appears to be very individual.
I don't see how anything here goes against it leeching off people
And even things which are now relatively simple and the same in every language and hardware platform become complex if you look through the lens of history and see the various alternatives that have been explored. E.g. signed integers
The Rediscovered Art of Wax Seals
It would surely affect settlement not just in the positive sense (more potable water) but also in the negative (people need salt to live and it wasn’t always as abundant as it is now)
He was loved by the people.

And he had ambition to deeply change the country.

And let us not forget that one famous speech about a certain "conspiracy".
It's a fair point, but here's a counter.

Large software companies still hire their own accountants and lawyers and HR correct? And this is largely expected and understood to be a requirement. Why should IT be any different?

Once you hit a certain size, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to say something like "let's outsource our IT, they are distracting me from focusing on our core competencies". You should have a CIO/CTO and a whole bunch of other people to be distracted for you. In fact, that's kind of the purpose of having an IT department, so that you can focus on your core competencies rather than keeping up to speed on the latest changes to AWS services or whatever.

This is weighted of course. The more your industry requires competent IT, the larger a % your company should probably be handling in house because then it is a part of what should be considered your core competencies if you want to stay around for very long.
I remember with 100 percent clarity doing great in sophomore high school math. I loved it and I went on to get a PhD. Then my mom passed and I got a box of stuff with my name on it from her house. It included my report card. C.
Static Hermes: Compile JavaScript to speed it up 300x (in microbenchmarks)
Most of our ancestors just ate much less refined sugar, so probably had less need for dental care in the first place.
They were market makers, which is different. They help so when you push sell on E*trade you actually get a price somewhat close to your order in relatively short time. No need to call up a broker who will route the order so a guy shouting on the floor.
Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZRUNYZY71g&t=23s
Why allow archive links to paywalled articles at all? Pay for the content or don’t read it.
Sarcopenia, commonly associated with the frailty of advanced age, goes beyond mere muscle weakness—it holds potential implications for our cognitive faculties. But what links the muscle's decline to the brain's? The answer, it seems, could lie in the realm of myokines—specific chemicals our muscles dispatch during exercise, intricately connected to brain health. Factor in disturbances like insulin imbalances, protein metabolism anomalies, compromised mitochondrial functions, mounting inflammation, and a portrait of cognitive erosion emerges. In their recent review, Oudbier et al. dissect these connections. In this research review, we dive into their analysis, revealing the biochemical and physiological connections between skeletal muscle and the brain, and the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying cognitive decline.
Yet regimes all over Europe adapted it anyway. The reason the US retained its system has less to do with the units being so intuitive and more to do with having industrialized early enough that switching would have been expensive.
I worked for IBM for 10 years in the outsourcing branch. We acquired lots of "business" hardware. By far the more horrible to deal with, was HP's.
Bordeaux winemakers switch to night harvests in response to climate change
Hmm, that's not quite what I was getting at.

By way of example, imagine a company that monopolises a certain shipping route. They might standardise the fleet by using the same model of boat as it saves maintenance costs. However, if an underlying defect is found on that boat, it can now take the entire route out of action.

A monopoly might also try to finely tune the system so that there's very little redundancy at each port. They can do this because they have a plan for what goods are going to be where for the next few months. However, the system is now extremely vulnerable to natural disasters or global events that cause dramatic shifts in supply and demand.
Shinzo Abe was killed last year.

It's not some grand conspiracy, just some guy with a gun.

I can imagine pulling off JFK 2.0... but I don't want to.

Surveillance cements consequences.

If it was Israel, then who cares? Are we doing diplomacy by assassination now? The reality of politically motivated, err, unpleasantness, has existed forever.

Let's not forget the 20yr war that happened straight after 9/11. Less killing the better, and a death in cabinet doesn't always get the change 'the powerful group' may want.

I'd be more worried about getting on a submarine with a console controller now.
thanks for the link, it mentions the wet lab but not the equipment it entails.
Companies are going through the "reduce our cloud bill NOW" exercise. They have to cut the unnecessary, wasteful infrastructure and raise prices.

So, after all these years of hearing "who cares about performance and cost - just buy more engineers, CPU, and memory", gravity is once again being the bitch that it is.
this is what stood out to me reading the story. i wonder if there was a reason why they opted for this, however half-baked.

it reads less to me like a case for devops as it does a case for better practices at every stage of development. how arrogant or willfully ignorant do you have to be to operate like this considering what’s at stake?
> Had Knight implemented an automated deployment system – complete with configuration, deployment and test automation – the error that cause the Knightmare would have been avoided.

Would it have been avoided though? Configuration, deployment and test automation mean nothing if they don't do what they are supposed to do. Regardless of how many tests you have, if you don't test for the right stuff it's all useless.
As far as business ethics, I feel like a little overpromising with legitimate confidence you'll actually deliver isn't the worst. It's high-risk high-reward.
ITT we’re all learning why people don’t honestly share their mistakes. Be better folks.
We already have a reliable way to break up biofilm, it's called brushing ... unfortunately you have to repeat the process twice daily.
Because they release 50 phones per year with different specs.
The thing about the shadowy elite is that it's non-falsifiable.

We can certainly have a discussion, but it's outside the realm of logic, because there's no possible evidence that could disprove it. That doesn't make it true or false, but it does make it useless to discuss in the terms of logic, and trying will just lead to frustration.

What would we do differently if the shadowy elite was behind JFK's death? What would we do differently if the shadowy elite wasn't behind it? What ends were gotten by the shadowy elite through the means of mysterious assasinations to help the Rolling Stones sell records?

These are all reasonable questions to ask, but the philosophy of logic won't help us come to answers.
You're clearly a very serious person. It might help you to be aware that some other people take things, in general, a little lightly.

Out of context guidance consisting of little faux-wise aphorisms like that of the OP is just kind of inherently amusing, especially when offered earnestly, precisely because it is open to misinterpretation - and my suggestion that it could be interpreted as advice to keep your manager apprised of who's currently on your enemies list was meant to illustrate that risk.

As putative advice to senior engineers for how to conduct themselves, it struck me as something which some toxic engineers might take as endorsing their superior attitude. That makes it bad advice, and that's why I'm mocking it.

But how I react to the idea of this sort of thing being offered as career advice, respectfully, tells you absolutely nothing about how I conduct myself in my professional role.
My C++ setup for personal projects
It does, but seems to suffer some of the ills in the article[1]. I haven’t tried it, though and should to confirm.

[1] http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.UDP.h...
Since it's a race with time do you guys think burning more energy irresponsibly could lead us to faster innovation in geoengineering advances that would help us fix the problem before it's too late?
Path dependence.
Got bad news for you about what the console SDKs run on

(Also, the consoles don't run Linux)
SLO Tribune readers strongly oppose battery storage plant planned for Morro Bay
Did you look at the article? It’s largely the exact same content as your comment, complete with a link to the same paper…

>Despite the excitement surrounding the study’s promising results, some experts are advising people to not get their hopes up quite yet, as clinical trials are still necessary.
And all Zf transmissions had a major design fault up until the current 8 Speed. Now they are pretty good. Not only European cars use them, many Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram cars have ZF 8 speeds in them.
I think you're conflating authoritarian communist governments with socialism. Moreover, isn't that just trying to deflect from addressing climate issues?
Yes. IPCC AR6 estimates about 0.4-0.5C of warming is masked due to anthropogenic aerosol emissions. Given the conservative nature of IPCC estimates, it is probably more.
Leeching implies someone has found a way to skim value from you without providing value.

Someone taking on loads of risk to carry out your commands efficiently is providing value.

You can argue whether they are doing so competently or not, or whether they are pricing optimally or not, but they are not just ”takers” or “leeches”.
You have to factor in humidity.

Scottsdale airport currently (1:40PM) is 108F (42.222C) w/ 14% humidity, meaning a wet-bulb of 71.11F (21.72778C).

London tomorrow at noon is 86F (30C) w/ 52% humidity, meaning a wet-bulb of 72.76F (22.6444C).

London will actually feel nastier.
lol. No. Deployments were not the issue. At any given time an automated deployment system could have had a mistake introduced that resulted in bad code being sent to the system. It does not matter if it was old or new code. Any code could have had this bug.

What the issue was, and it’s one that I see often. Firstly no vision into the system. Not even a dash board showing the softwares running version. How often i see people ship software without a banner posting its version and or an endpoint that simply reports the version.

Secondly no god damn kill switch. You are working with money!! Shutting down has to be an option.
Sounds like we're trying to put the cart before the horse with some of these ideas.

Yeah they might help, but let's ask more why questions and then solve that.
While I could talk at length about the intuitive advantages of customary units (and how that alone isn't enough to outweigh the advantages of the metric system), pounds aren't intuitive (humans are pretty bad at intuiting weight in general) and neither are miles (humans are decent at intuiting human-scale lengths, but miles are just too long).
Double Click, Android, Instagram, Oculus

All reduced competition and juiced markets with predatory pricing
Mirror [1] as they sometimes paywall some regions

[1] - https://archive.ph/Xcq8t
“The code that that was updated repurposed an old flag…”
Was as far as I needed to read. Never do this.
The high seating position has pros and cons but there have been a couple close calls since I've started driving a SUV. I used to do things old school when reversing and turn my whole upper body to look out the rear window but it's next to useless in my car. Now I have a wide angle rear camera right above the license plate that has saved me a couple times from hitting my neighbor and her stroller.

I truly believe in urban environments it would be useful to have a wide angle front cam - even just for intersections and crosswalks when stopped.
I've had several hygienists and dentists tell me Closys (sodium fluoride) is great for killing the bad bacteria without staining.
APTs hit aeronautic firms with Zoho and Fortinet bugs
You scenario seems to only correlate increasing price with lower consumption.

I think there should also be viable paths where increased prices for some energy forms translates to increased demand for cleaner forms instead

A carbon tax matched by a matching carbon dividend could transfer funds to poor
people.

A fuel consumption tax can be matched by a matching tax cut on miles driven. Transferring demand from fossil fuel to other transportation means.

There may be loads of pitfalls in those two example of course, they are mostly meant to illustrate the point.
> A project spec comes out of those discussions, but the discussions themselves have significant technical and business inputs.

Then managers should learn whatever it takes to be able to make these types of decisions. There seems to be a double standard where engineers have to do all of these non-engineering tasks, meanwhile non-engineers never have to learn the systems in depth.

I think programming is a hard enough job that warrants 90% of focus, at least to be able to reap the benefits of computer science. At the dawn of generative AI, we can clearly see software has no limits, yet limits are implicitly imposed by re-prioritizing an engineer's time with "soft skill" tasks and having them spend a huge amount of time thinking about things that have little to do with computer science.

If a business needs that specific intersection of skillset, perhaps it should be a new role, instead of stretching the role of engineering and missing the opportunity to innovate at the software level, which in the end would help the business anyway.
> The blame here lies squarely with the developers--the code was written in a non-backwards-compatible way.

The blame completely lies with the risk management team.

The market knew there was a terrible problem, Knight knew there was a problem, yet it took 45 minutes of trying various hotfixes before they ceased trading. Either because they didn't have a kill switch, or because no one was empowered to pull the kill switch because of the opportunity cost (perhaps pulling the switch at the wrong time costs $500k in opportunity).

I worked for a competitor to Knight at the time, and we deployed terrible bugs to production all the time, and during post mortems we couldn't fathom the same thing happening to us. A dozen automated systems would have kicked in to stop individual trades, and any senior trader or operations person could have got a kill switch pulled with 60 seconds of dialogue, and not feared the repercussions. Actually, we made way less of Knight's $400m than we could have because our risk systems kept shutting strategies down because what was happening was "too good to be true".
Reed-Solomon erasure coding. 2 data blocks, one parity. Basically raid-6 but distributed
Still not 20 years, but it's probably better to start at Office Communicator which was from 2007. Skype for Business was a rebrand of a rebrand of that, and apart from name has no relation to Skype.
There’s always going to be missing evidence. Almost all business decisions can be made without 100% certainty. Make your conclusion with what you have available and find out if that’s good enough. Don’t dawdle trying to get more info that’s probably not needed.
You could approach data quality testing as if you're testing another piece of software by writing tests. We use dbt and it makes writing tests against models (think tables in a db) very easy.

For example, if you have a regional_orders table. You write tests in SQL to test your assumptions about that data:

* I expect regional_orders table to contain no duplicates entries.

* I expect regional_orders to ship to only a specific region.

* So on...

This has worked fairly well so far for me. But are these kinds of tests sufficient? Am I missing something?
Literally everyone in quant finance knows about knight capital. It even has its own phrase; "pulling a knight capital" (meaning; cutting corners on mission critical systems, even ones that can bankrupt the company in an instant, and experiencing the consequences)