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Or perhaps ideas need not only be had, but also pass through more layer of filters to make it into the world proper. Ideas that were had more than once had more than one chance. Ideas that made it into the world but were only once, were lucky. So that would mean there is a bias when looking at ideas that made it. So the correlation might be due to an inversed cause and effect.

> Why do you think that this indicates a problem in identifying zombies?

I understood a zombie to represent a client that is dead and will never come back to live again. Since they came back to live they were not actually zombies. So manual action from actually alive clients was required. That may be ok, since they behavior was not acceptable, but in the spirit of not penalizing it would be better to not block those clients if they can be identified and sufficient resources are available to shoulder their misbehaviour.

> The pause may have simply been the reason that someone became aware there was even a problem.

I didn't take that into account and it would be neat. But why would they become aware after this change? Because the error message(/code?) is now different?

Mirror snapshot: https://archive.ph/hJHNM

Thanks for all the work that goes into this crucial service!

3% and "3,200 people manually unpaused issuance" does seem much higher than expected to me and no cause for celebration, especially at this scale.

Are there no better patterns to be exploited to identify 'zombies'? Running experiments with blocking and then unblocking to validate should work here.

I guess this falls into the bucket of: sure we can do that, given sufficient time and resources

The frunk fell off

> these systems greatly improve some situations, but it’s not acceptable to do so at the expense of worsening others

Can you elaborate please? E.g. do you mean that such tradeoffs are not acceptable, even if they result in a net benefit?

Corporate org level announcement mails

> humans likely are nothing more than that

Relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44089156

Or survivorship bias: the major issues, that have been addressed, do not cause problems cause they were addressed. Some of the minor issues that are not addressed randomly do cause major issues.

I think it's about expectations, for me it's my favorite mobile game with a minor learning side effect.

To make it less ambiguous, you could let the user describe the diagram with what the software is supposed to do in some sort of more rigid unambiguous reduced English /s

> Celia Kirwan, a close friend of Orwell, who had just started working as Robert Conquest's assistant at the IRD, visited Orwell in March 1949, at a sanatorium where he was being treated for tuberculosis. Orwell wrote a list of names of people he considered sympathetic to Stalinism and therefore unsuitable as writers for the Department, and enclosed it in a letter to Kirwan.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell%27s_list

I wish I could search on GitHub without logging in

I think we got very different reads here. I understand the comment on the author to be judgemental to be very gentle. Dillydog is a person who affords everyone a rich and deep hidden inner life, so much so, that assuming people are so shallow to be read by a glance makes them angry on their behalf. I think they are in a good place already, emphasizing deeply with others.

Of course just my interpretation.

Are HackerNews Comments the Next Victim of this Crazy Trend?

> If he's acting under NK command, this wouldn't be insulting, it's just doing a hacker's work.

I understand where you are coming from, I wanted to express my idea that their person cult shaped culture might be so alien to us, that what seems obvious to us, might be a non-option to them. At least at the level where I imagine such operators.

> you cannot have it both ways: either North Korean hackers are a "50ct army" or they are a credible threat

I assume the people performing the en-masse long term infiltration are not the same with technical skills who the execute technical attacks.

My best interpretation of their comment would be that to ban owning ninja swords or rape does not prevent either from happening 100% of the time. But it's still the 'right' thing to do and prevents it some of the time.

But I am guessing here.

Farms without immune pigs can still claim it. Do some sampling tests, culling etc and call the product "virus free". But calling modified pigs not modified is tougher, I think.

Jest aside, do we know how such failure was handled in the USSR?

Not sure some rank and file 50ct army "hacker" wants to take the risk to insult their god-dictator.

This claims 180m subscribers 2024

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1223385/amazon-prime-sub...

> Global connectedness is holding steady at a record high level based on the latest data available in early 2025, highlighting the resilience of international flows in the face of geopolitical tensions and uncertainty.

https://www.dhl.com/global-en/microsites/core/global-connect...

Source for counter argument?

How do you do the citing? Reverse-RAG post processing?

Universal healthcare and having everyones medial chart stored centrally can be related, but must not be. There are many countries with some form of universal healthcare and no centralized records.

Someone who can translate an ambiguous business need into a computer system that solves it.

> Posted Jan 1 2023

*some traversal attempts

Dropping 0.5% of requests will prevent even the most sophisticated attacks (think APT!). Sometimes.

I think so too. Otherwise every Google maps user would be an awesome wayfinder. The opposite is true.

I doubt its realistic for powerful states like California to cecede. Is there a path from here to a near (think 50 years) future, where California and the US, sans California, exist?