skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a medical toxicologist, I'm surprised this tiny case report got picked up by The Guardian, and that it got on the hacker news front page, it's bread and butter stuff. Sulfhemoglobin is actually even less dangerous than methemoglobin, since it shifts the oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve right. We all have low levels of methemoglobin produced in our own bodies, but it can increase from certain exposures. Symptoms are usually very mild, but rarely it can become severe. It's typically treated with methylene blue, if treated at all. If anyone has questions for me, I'll check back later in the day.
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Thats not really true as generally IoT nodes will manage the traffic they generate to avoid synchronisation with other nodes.

For example, to avoid the 00/15/30/45 issue you offset yourself randomly over a few minutes within that range to avoid overloading mesh & cellular radio networks.

This has a smoothing effect on the traffic as a whole (as seen from the server) which reduces the "dynamic-range" as you're terming it.
He'd also been denied some lateral movement on teams / projects from what i've heard. I think it's easy to reframe all his actions into hero worship but we have to acknowledge that his original motivations may not have been the end results we see today.
Right. They were “probably willing” according to RMS. Totally fine.

@mods why was this flagged? It’s factual. We have his correspondence about how they were “probably willing”.
Nobody is beyond reproach and anybody that is going to blow the whistle on something is almost always going to have an ulterior motive. That doesn’t mean we should ignore them, though.
Serverful?
> > Writing a function in node 12 and then running it on node 4 and throwing your hands in the air cos it didn’t work isn’t the fault of Lambda.

> It's great to see that factual evidence is answered with ad-hominem by the Lambda hype crowd.

I don't think that was a personal attack.

We've answered technical questions with technical answers.

- You have a definition of stateless which includes having no persistence layer, which is at best at odds with the industry.

- You think serverless was created with AWS Lambda which we've been kind about, but most people would say you're simply wrong.

- You're advocating for containers, which are well known for having their own hype as people write their own cloud providers on top of the cloud provider their employer pays for with dubious benefit.
Your view is extremely simplistic and just doesn't reflect the sophistication of any abstract and complex conversation.

Especially if the topic at hand is a new territory with a lot of unknown unknowns. If no-one ever explicitly says that "OK, we covered topic one and now we move on to topic two. Is there anyone who wants to add comments?", then the conversation was not very civil, was not yet over, and whoever organized the meeting was an amateur, and let the worst thing happen: Alice and Bob change topics for no reason, instead of stopping them short.
It's a whole different league than with Jobs. Take a look at the glossary page on his blog.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html
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ElasticPyProxy: A controller for dynamic scaling of Haproxy back end servers
Simplepkg – a simple Python package scaffolding utility
https://pypi.org/project/simplepkg/

https://gitlab.com/b5n/simplepkg

simplepkg is a a simple python package scaffolding utility, the generated package is immediately ready for installation via pip, or upload to PyPI.

I built simplepkg over the weekend, I've increasingly been picking up python work and needed a way to quickly and simply generate python packages. This project does not currently aim to compete with feature complete tools such as PyScaffold - it's meant to be quick, easy, and simple.

I do have some improvements planned, expect to see these moved into the GitLab issue tracker:

* Auto generate year for license file.

* Include author, author_email, and description as args or config entries to further automate the generation of licenses and setup.py.

* Error handling - I glazed over error handling - I'm working on a simple logging lib that I plan to use in simplepkg along with other projects.

* Tests - I need to add tests to simplify update process.

* Add simple test templates to the generated package.

simplepkg is far from perfect, feedback and pull requests welcome :)
They're businesses that hyper-specialize in one area and have done so over the long-term. The markets are too small for some giant conglomerate to come in and dominate, so it gives an opening for smaller firms to dominate the global market for said good - while it won't have your next unicorn, the markets are great enough to create prosperity for the owners and the local region. Germany has this spread over the country fairly uniformly, so it creates a wide platform for economic prosperity even in rural areas.

The companies themselves are usually under 50M Euro and have under 500 employees, and export-oriented. They've been a big target for Chinese acquisition, usually for companies that don't have any family to inherit the enterprise.
From my recollections, the OLPC foundation never set out to create the subnotebook. Size was a factor because of the intended audience, but design considerations such as cost and power consumption were much more important. Contrast that to subnotebooks of the era for western markets, which tended to be rather expensive.

Those were not the only technical design considerations. Durability, sunlight readable screens, and protecting children from theft and surveillance also come to mind. Very few of those things were factors in the subnotebook market that preceded or followed, except for cost. In all likelihood the OLPC drove the development of other low cost portable computers.
You can differentiate the two by looking at which is closer to pre-illness behaviour. I've been on citalopram for ten years now, and my mental state and personality on the drugs feels very similar to how it was before I became ill, apart from a few of the usual side effects mentioned by other posters. My initial reluctance to go to the doctor was absolutely a consequence of the disease. In addition to being depressed, lethargic, and anxious, I was worried that the drugs wouldn't work (and that I'd therefore be stuck without any future hope) and simultaneously that they would work and I would end up a different person.

As for dose and med, I was fortunate in that I responded to the first SSRI prescribed (citalopram). Fiddling with the dose is trivial, though. Once you're on top of your condition the doctor will probably take your lead if you suggest going up or down, and in any case your own customised dose is merely a pill cutter away even without your doctor's permission.

[Standard disclaimer that SSRIs are unlikely to solve the underlying problem, but can buy mental scope to address it, etc. etc. They can also be difficult to withdraw from (I'm now on my third go) so it's not like they're a panacea, or in way "happy pills"]
I am very curious to know if the rule of "being responsible to the link a website links to" applies transitively, i.e. a link in the link my website link to. If applies, then can the law be interpreted as my website needs to be responsible to the entire internet. On the flip side, if the rule only applies to one layer deep, then a url shortener would defeat the whole law
I am afraid this business will fail (as a business). People, on average, prefer to have freebies at the expense of losing their privacy, than pay even a moderate amount for a service.

One can see this in how quickly various products fall when a free alternative exists. How many people buy an email client, for example?
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A lot of inaccuracies and mixing up of categorically different things, one sentence it’s talking about, from an implied early realization that search data could used for machine learning and then implying it has something to do with the Page Rank Algorithm. I think Rank Brain was one of the first uses of ML as a signal for Google Search and that didn’t happen until 2015, 18 years later.

It sort of reads as something trying to invent a top down narrative for what was in reality a haphazard and unplanned for slow evolution of many pivots over nearly two decades.
Sounds exactly like the tool for spinning out quick mockups I was in need of.
Stallman did his best to convince everyone he was guilty.
> The ideal language would be one I can memorize, and then never have to look things up.

If the language is so small I never have to look up anything when using it, it's also so small I'm going to have to spend ages re-re-re-implementing basic functionality that I get for free from a higher level language.
Low latency for 1m requests in one second? Yeah, Lambda won’t help you with that. Their cold starts will stop you dead. Particularly if you’re in a VPC and they have to allocate servers with the appropriate ENI. Not to mention, you’ll be hitting concurrency limits.

Sure, if you ping your lambdas frequently to keep them from having cold starts, and you’ve worked with Amazon to increase your concurrency limits 100 fold, you might be able to handle 1M requests in a second. But then you’re being charged a lot more than just for those 1M requests.
I’m looking forward to the proof coming from the company that was unable to succeed because of their own ability to execute.
No one watches the watchmen.
> ... Me thinking: Uhh, start small and STAY SMALL?

This does happen. We have a serverless API forwarding service on Azure that was designed to simply format and forward calls from a vendor. We know the volume, there will not be any surprises, and it is immensely profitable over the old solution to the tune of thousands of dollars per day. Our use case is probably pretty uncommon, however.
I just finished the book; it's uneven, but incredible. Some of her conclusions and how she frames the problem are arguable, but her presentation of the facts and her underlying hypotheses about how the situation has arisen are fascinating.

This passage, and really her whole summary of the history of Google, (which goes beyond just this excerpt) are particularly compelling.
It's not about who gets to be treated, it's a reporting of an actual event, so it spells out who was treated ("a woman").

And if she was famous and her name to have any relevance to the readers, then instead of "a woman" it would be her name in the title ("X treated for ...", and ditto for a man).
Your point about 'action' vs 'talk' is valid.

In this case what is being asked is not a grudge that needs to be addressed. Keep in mind the underlying context of the suggestions => "what can Microsoft do". So this is, in my eyes, more of something that Microsoft can choose to do for themselves - admit that they said things in the past that were not exactly true. A self initiated internal cleaning of the air as they continue to engage the public community. This is not something that they have to do to address a grudge. It should be mostly symbolic to the external world. So, is there value in Microsoft actually coming out and saying it? Well, that's for Microsoft to decide.
I think you should reread the article, it has very little to do with copying features. If Snap are correct then Facebook

- actively discouraged IG users from discussing Snap

- prevented Snap from trending on FB

- used data from an acquisition Onavo to track what users did on other apps (such as Snap)

Furthermore - whether or not these shady practices were the downfall of Snap does not absolve FB from doing them.
I'm trying to prove this hypothesis wrong :) Obviously it's a big experiment.

My belief is that with the right incentive system, and right messaging & social proof, you can fix the problem. We're not there yet, but we are seeing it work on a very small scale.
One person, with god knows what motivations, who must have also been on pedo island, attempts to protect Minsky's reputation and all the other circumstantial evidence of where he was, who he was with, and what everyone else was doing, let alone the initial accusation, goes out the window?

Next you're going to tell me that Bill Gates, one of the wealthiest men in the world's, excuse of "I used Epstein to meet billionaires" was believable.
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I read it, you didn't describe what you think you described. You didn't say regular address, you said street - which doesn't tell you which apartment in a building you live in.
They seem to know about decoherence, and in a later post associate interference with probabilities, so I don't think that was the issue. Maybe a typo?
There's a difference. The govt doesn't have this ability to print money and pay debt. The Fed does.

Which means that the Fed has been keeping interest rates already artificially low by printing money.

It'll take one misstep or one recession for the debt requirements to be so high that the Fed will have to make a choice between keeping rates low, causing massive inflation vs high causing massive drop in gdp and jobs.

The govt will have to make a choice between cutting services vs paying the debt.
For laser trimmed resistors, there's always hand sorting resistors. Even today, that's how I've seen it done in commercial op-amp characterization. Tests like CMRR (Common mode rejection ratio) require precisely matched input resistances or the result is thrown off by mismatches.
api gateway is costing too much. good thign we can trigger lambda by many other ways.
I agree on the recommendation for Dobbs' book.

"Thirteen Days" is an enjoyable movie, but it does overlook the recklessness of some of the Kennedy administration's actions. For a more critical view, see this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/the-rea...
What makes you think most of those have no career path? The number one, Retail Salespersons, have the obvious path into becoming sales managers for the local office, then the region etc. Even fast food workers can become the store manager.

And those jobs often have less competition for those management positions because they're so often held by college students who go on to jobs in the industry they've studied rather than competing with other salespersons or fast food workers for the office manager position.
So how many times have each of the search engines been sued?
Actually, compatibility with macOS and iOS is just something I see that could ease adoption (and if somebody brings their Apple device, I can hope for some interoperability).

I’m not sure I’m particularly lucky, I would rather think (hope!) that those things made stuff easier for many (most?) people besides me and this is the reason number one I like them. When I set up a GNU/Linux system on someone else’s computer, they make my and the user's life much easier. I've not conducted or read a study about this though and if it actually broke many users it would definitely be concerning.

As a direct consequence of these considerations, no offense to you, but I actually hope that you are unlucky :-) (and I wish you luck for the future and that what broke on your side will get fixed!)
Do they patent something which is available naturally ?
If there are no mandatory background checks, then it's legal to buy/sell your guns without a paper trail. It is legally possible to have guns that the government doesn't know about, or to dispose of them without the government knowing about that.

That makes a registry of limited value. If they ban a gun you own, and they come looking for yours because it was in the registry, you can say "I don't have it any more", and that will not be a confession to a crime that is punishable by jail time and a lifetime ban on gun ownership.
lambda is perfect for high volume bursty traffic. you will never have to worry about a server being overloaded or going down.
Like the housing bubble, our debt hasn't been a problem and it's not going to be a problem right up until it is a problem. It will be a black swan event and afterward everyone will claim that they saw it coming and "the other guy" ignored it.
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Snap’s not a bankrupt Startup without product, they’re still a 23.5B company with growing market share and features Facebook has been copying hand over fist, that would be arguably be worth a lot more if FB had to come up with their own features instead of Xeroxing Snaps ideas.
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It seems that they changed the name from hidden service to onion service.
Ballmer was more specifically referring to governmental funding going to free software, his competitors.
Yes, Monsanto is the big example.
There is a bi-annual conference about Constructionism:

https://www.constructionismconf.org/

http://www.constructionism2018.fsf.vu.lt/

http://e-school.kmutt.ac.th/constructionism2016/

https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/constructionism2014/

http://constructionism2012.etl.ppp.uoa.gr/

http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=607...
TIL. I really thought SQLite had better support for concurrent behavior.

Do you know if the problem you cite is distinct separate processes of SQLite? Ie, can a single process (aka one web app) handle concurrent behavior properly with SQLite? Or will it fail even in that scenario?
I'm only just about to be closer to 40 than I am 30 and I feel kinship with these people. Almost every day I see something going on in the industry or on HN or even just whatever horrors the Windows Update team have unleashed recently and need to go outside and shout at clouds for about 20 minutes.

If you find me being less than pleasant on this site, it's usually because I'm talking to someone who is making me feel this way. It's like the modern technology landscape has somehow forgotten the wisdom that was built up over generations. It's infuriating.
>Is it going to kill you to not say it?

It means a decision will be made without Carol's information that she'll have to live with, potentially hampering her ability to deliver something she's accountable for. If her manager finds out she knew something important and held onto it out of politeness, that'll come up in the leadership/collaboration section of her next review. If her manager doesn't know that she knew, it'll look like a hard skills problem.

>Best thing to do is wait until the end and circle back with a question that leads into discussing topic one.

Maybe this is a quirk of my meeting culture, but the success rate here is approximately zero.

>Does this need to be said by me?

This is a good one keep in mind, I do sometimes find that the point I've been hanging onto eventually gets said by someone else, and it's really satisfying.
I hope he got paid well for that talk, it was probably his last paid speaking engagement.
The only application where I've found serverless to work well is for simple plumbing/event sourcing in AWS. They are less apps and more "tiny scripts that automatically run". 99% of the work is still done in containers on actual servers. The serverless portion is by far the least "developer ergonomic" but that's not a problem if your code is less than a hundred lines and rarely subject to changes.

The idea of running your entire app as serverless sounds like pulling teeth. Thought leaders are free to pat each other on the back on that one... I won't mind being called a luddite.
Unless it's physicists with turbulence envy.
Can you move all softirqs into different cores? That's usually one of the dpdk tuning steps.
The person FTA is saying interference is what causes issues, so I believe there is a mix up.
>> Was this possible with ALSA?

> Sure

Fair enough. I did look and I couldn't find any way to set up independent outputs from different inputs. In any case, I still don't see the dumbing down.

> Besides that, when PA came out you couldn't do any of that either, it was barely usable and the most frequent PA related activity was 'uninstall'.

Most FOSS software is released to the public at a very early stage. The problem is trigger-happy distros including it by default too soon, but that's not PA's team fault.
Talking about results go for Firebase and Functions there, it's cheaper no need for API Gateway complexity / costs.
So, I get only what I am looking for, in return I lost the whole bunch of other text which other OCR services offer.

What if the characters are incorrectly identified? like "Owl" as (O/0)(w/v)(l/i/I/1); i just missed everything and left with no chance of fuzzy finding things.
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Halfway through, I also thought this was some next level satire.

Don't listen to these bums, there are much more people that agree with you. Its just that butt-hurt is a greater comment motivator than agreement.
I don't understand what editor allowed the A.M. section to remain in the article. Felt like an afterthought.

They built up the 'Voldemort' file but then barely referred back to it.

Would have preferred they wait to publish when the had the report in hand or could at least quote directly from it.
when contributing code, the contributor can specify a strike price. if the upstream chooses to integrate it, then they're responsible for forwarding appropriate payment. this is one of the key motivations, ie to facilitate two developers to collaborate without prior discussions of financial details

and by the same token, the downstream is able to distribute directly (with or without source), and forward payment to the upstream, ie it's symmetric

if something like this license became widely used, it would make sense to adopt or build infrastructure to facilitate distribution of payments (perhaps licensezero ?)
>Literally the only other thing to maintain with a Fargate service is what container you run your tasks with. If you have a Nodejs app, use the public Nodejs container. If the container version ends up with a vulnerability, bump the version in the task definition, and do a rolling restart. This isn't some onerous, complex task that only the most cunning sysadmin can fathom

If you're doing a toy demo app, or a website for your local flower shop, yes...

Any non trivial company's systems are not just some random container with a "Nodejs app" inside. They need to keep state, handle caching, redundancy, global CDNs, and lots of other layers.

You either build all those and full ops on top of containers (or whatever), or you get them off the selves and ready to play with a serveless service and their state solution, plug-and-play ready-to-use caching layer, and so on...
I would love to see you succeed!
They can, but I'm not so sure that "may or may not possess illegal content" is enough for a search warrant - it's true for most of the population after all (running an exit node or collecting funds on behalf of a third party on the other hand is true only for a tiny fraction of the population). Granted, the chances are somewhat higher for IT people and higher still for people that write crawlers, but "we think he might, it's not impossible that he doesn't" is a bit thin, and unless they're trying to go after you for unrelated reasons, DAs don't love to have their asses handed to them by judges.
I was also wondering that! I’m imagining my own grandmother: “No, I said 3,000 barrels of West Texas Intermediate, dammit! Make it happen or it’ll be your ass! slams down rotary phone”
The rule applies to the content you end up seeing after your browser follows all automatic redirects and possibly even interstitials (ads/disclaimers). Redirects are an irrelevant technical detail in this context.
>Three requirements have to be met for the licensing:
>
> The variety must be new.

I'm curious, what's the legal status of existing varieties that aren't patented?