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Is there any historical basis for how the traffic to cut is selected? Future flights? Existing flights? Short domestic flights vs international flights?
It’s also unclear what the actual definition of ‘cut’ is
Very true - there’s a famous scene from the movie Pi that talks about exactly this (and puts it very eloquently)
Wow! I didn’t realize the scope and duration of this outage. This must be doing some serious damage to some of their clients (catastrophic if this does impact JIRA, Confluence, and OpsGenie broadly on a company level). Is there any report of approximately how many (or specific) companies have been affected as a result of this?
What is with some of the responses in this thread! I understand some cases are not so clear, but if you do something as blatant as punch a flight attendant in the face I think that’s grounds to be put on such a list. There should be a policy so that after a period (or going through some program) you could then be removed from the list though..
It actually blew my mind when I heard that you could assault someone on a plane and not be instantly banned
I had a very similar experience as a child. I always wondered how other drivers could tell which way we were turning. My parents told me that they can tell from your turn signal. 6-year-old me just thought turn signals entailed the green flashing arrows on the dash (not also on the car’s taillights). I just assumed all drivers were tall enough to see into the other car and tell from their dash (for at least the next year or so)!
It has since been completed it seems: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/24/orbital-insertion-bur...
Not sure why the downvotes. Perhaps it’s due to referring to Fear and Loathing as a movie instead of the book it’s based on. The movie is actually a good representation of the book and almost all of the dialog is taken word-for-word
This is one of the few genuinely great ideas I’ve heard lately. I’m honestly surprised some of these games have implemented this functionality themselves - it’d probably help reduce player toxicity and frustration amongst other benefits
On top of that their deeplinking doesn’t even work. It’s completely broken. It takes me to the App Store when I already have the app installed and it’s literally impossible to go from a google search to a reddit post in the app smoothly. It absolutely blows my mind that an app where deeplinking is particularly important (google search results) is so broken. If you don’t want to build your own deeplink framework, then there’s plenty out there you can get to integrate like branch.io
About 9 hours ago when I first saw this I noticed the same thing on bing images (no tank man).
Now I see tank man when I search it on bing images....
I use to have many ant problems - and certainly not due to any lack of cleanliness.
It pretty much all went away once I got a cat. At first I thought it was coincidence, but over the years I noticed if I ever killed a random ant the cat would start rolling around and scenting the very spot the ant was killed.
I don’t have any scientific proof, but I have to think the cat’s scent/pheromones interferes with the ants and prevents more from following/coming.
Curious to hear any similar experiences
I’m extremely skeptical of all cryptocurrencies and most usages of blockchain. However this seems like the first interesting and potentially practical application I’ve heard.
It deals with art - something that’s value is inherently subjective. Plus it gives makers of digital art a better/additional way to fund themselves. Further, transactions would likely be limited reducing environmental impact. Finally, it could provide some competition to company’s like Sotheby’s.
Obviously there a lot of open questions (couldn’t someone else just duplicate a work and make their own coin, why not just pay an artist directly, money laundering, etc). But I think this at least warrants further discussion. It’s an interesting way to make digital art collectible/tradable
This top level comment chain explaining quantum teleportation was great and insightful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466836
Every single hacker news thread about the Cyberpunk fiasco has had a ton of top comments about they haven’t had any issues with the game.
Performance/bugs aside, what about the completeness issues? How can the game be acceptable or fun when cars run on tracks and NPC’s don’t have a problem being attacked?
That’s my main concern - I’m sure the performance/bugs will be worked out. But will the game actually be finished?
Thank you, Dang!
The Hacker News community is my favorite thing on the internet - and a good chunk of its success is due to your hard work!
Sounds like a corporate version of Psycho-Pass (a dystopian society where everyone constantly has their emotional well-being monitored and corrected by the state) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass
Your words almost exactly echo Marilyn Manson’s commentary on the columbine shootings. Interesting parallel. He was asked what he would say to the shooters and he said “I wouldn’t say a single word to them. I’d listen to what they have to say. And that’s what no one did.”
I think many people aren't taking into account the visibility of Trump's twitter. Trump making violence-glorifying or factually incorrect or medically dangerous tweets is far different from other twitter user's or even other blue-check-mark users because his reach is far wider than the vast majority of those users. Further, Trump has an established track record of doing this repeatedly. Those two facts establish a clear and rational basis for targeting his tweets specifically.
Completely agree with your second point though (not that there is any collusion to silence conservatives - but that this whole situation will be taken that way and used to energize that base).
Note that this is separate from his tweet that was discussed earlier (and arguably more noteworthy given that it happened during Tesla’s earnings call today)
“Levels Jerry... Levels”
The press release states that doctors have seen that patients on ventilators have higher death rates. But wouldn’t we expect that? If the situation is dire enough to put someone on a ventilator then they’re probably less likely to live anyway?
Edit: They do mention that it’s higher than other diseases relatively speaking, but don’t we expect Covid-19 to be higher than say, the flu, given it seems to primarily target the upper respiratory area?
I just recently learned about the Cabinet Noir [1]. This reminds me of it
There’s nothing bigger at play. The reasoning is obvious. It’s because there are not enough masks available and it’s more important that healthcare workers get them right now than the general public.
Once healthcare workers are covered, then we can make sure everyone else starts wearing them.
This as an excellently written article
I wonder if the popular HBO show Chernobyl will add any fuel to this fire. It paints nuclear power in a very bad light (albeit fairly — Chernobyl was horrific).
I’m afraid it could cause some serious resistance to nuclear power, which could be a very important solution to energy security and aspects of global warming.
I’ve always wondered whether show writers consider this. It’s similar to the ER/medical shows where an organ donor turns out to still be alive or something like that. I wonder if they consider the potential damage that has on organ donation and the ramifications of turning off so many people from signing up to be a donor.
This article on the front page is causing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341855
Once I hid it, things worked fine. I believe it’s the long title that is causing the issue.
They seem to be aware of it in that thread.
Title in question is: CNLabelContactRelationElderCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter
There are some potential downsides with the model that they are using with respect to the client-doctor relationship. See here for some more details: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/technology/for-him-for-he...
Do you have any further references about what exact military installation was doing this and when? I’m reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and one of the main characters builds a mercury-based data analysis machine that reads punch cards to analyze communication data in WWII and this sounds eerily similar.
Id also recommend Cryptonomicon by Stephenson. Undersea cables is a major subject in the novel. It also touches on many things that have become relevant today despite the book being written 1999 (cryptocurrency, encryption, etc). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38897904
I don't think it's that simple and I don't see why it's a given that refs are bent.
There is far more money at stake in maintaining the legitimacy of the the NBA (player salaries, tv deals, team valuations - all of these easily trump all the money made off of betting). Wouldn't that money fight a lot harder than any bent refs in order to fight corruption and maintain the legitimacy of the NBA?
If a bigger story about bent refs got out it would destroy the NBA and a lot of the associated revenue. I'm sure the NBA is aware of this.
I'm not arguing that there is no corruption, but I don't see why it's so 'obviously' commonplace as you and others suggest. I'd like a more concrete reason why than 'its good for marketing' since that seems like a weak argument in the bigger picture of money made from the NBA.