skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have democratic consensus that group X is corrupt, sold out, etc, and you pass a law to cut their power off, that's democratic.

If you are some sub-majority of the population, and you go after groups you don't like unilaterally by illegally taking action against them, that doesn't seem democratic at all, really.

It could be fair to say they deserve it, I don't know enough about French politics. But I don't see how that particular type of action could be described as democratic. Lots of groups claim they are the good guy and/or represent the will of the majority, but I think it would only be democratic to substantiate that and take action through elections.
What's wrong with that? If the idea behind a company is worth say 10 or 20% of the company, then the idea of limiting a blogging service to 140 characters, or the idea of blurring people's smartphone pics to make them more "artsy," have been rewarded to the billions of dollars as well.
> Those who do not learn the lessons of history...

have greater velocity?
Google Maps also got the person there 5% faster than Apple Maps, in that study.

This really does call for a larger study, though. It would be nice to see how the error bars and potential differences come out across different trip times, and different drivers.
Google didn’t try and raise the price, they demanded user data in exchange for access.
Microservices are just the new EJB. Those of us who know better will only increase abstraction when necessary.
Transit app absolutely smokes Google Maps for transit directions in every city I've tried it in, if you're looking to reduce your Google footprint further. Depending on the city it also integrates with micomobility and car sharing and offers intermodal directions based on preferences.

https://transitapp.com/region/sf-bay-area#all-regions
You basically listed all features ever invented. There's not a single "hosted" chat app that has all the features you want.
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We did a massive rewrite of a 7 year old giant code base to microservices gradually over a couple years. One of the only few positives that we gained from it was that when we crashed we didn't bring down everything at once. The biggest negative was that we ended up with an extremely noisy event bus that made backups and diagnosing out of sync issues very problematic.
SMTP - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821

IMAP - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501
Fully automatic weapons have been strictly controlled for decades. Adding controls to them would probably have an unimpressive effect, since legal fully automatic weapons have been used in either 2 or 3 crimes since 1934.
It doesn't make much difference, since either way they can't run native code - iOS makes this virtually impossible.

More in depth discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18425106
Are temporary closures automated? I feel like in Waze I gave them enough information when reporting about things like construction or flooding that they could be integrated almost immediately--similar to road hazards or stopped vehicles.
Those are still built by dedicated defense contractors with a military purchasing process. It's like comparing Graf Spee with Vittoria Veneto, not comparing a Swordfish biplane with Vittoria Veneto.

I haven't really seen anyone analyze the threat model of attaching a shaped charge & microchip to a balsa model airplane or plastic DJI drone. The cost of those is in the $1000 range (including the chip and warhead), and they're virtually invisible to radar, or to the naked eye for that matter. Hell, for the cost of a single AMRAAM missile you could field > 1000 drones. You lose on range (~20 miles max) and performance (~200 mph), but for close air support, you probably don't need it: just blanket the whole airspace with tens of thousands of tiny drones so that the whole battlefield becomes a giant no-fly zone.
Had a writer say "We think in words. Without language, we could not form thoughts". Which is instantly nonsense. I can think of a blue elephant, then the Gettysburg Address. If I'm asked "What did you think of first?" I'd say "a blue elephant". So where was that blue elephant in the mean time? Still in my mind, still a thought. Just not at the surface, not words.

I look at code projects by scrolling through all the source files. When I'm done, I have a shape of the code in my head. Not a thought; not a memorization of the words that scrolled by. Some kind of abstraction. Now I can work on the project. That is certainly "thoughts" but not words.
I think it would be more helpful to cite actual epidemiology research and public health professionals rather than people who seem to use people's fears to garner attention.

Edit: In order to make this a little less dismissive, the actual argument in that Twitter post is that due to lag between first symptoms appearing and death, you can't divide fatalities by total cases to get the mortality rate, and should instead use total cases N days ago. Makes sense superficially, but

* cases that get reported are biased towards people who get more sick

* the 20-56% mortality rate claimed based on guessing N=6 is inconsistent with the mortality rates outside of China, where no one has died so far.

But I'm no epidemiologist, so don't believe me either.
The answer is the sunken cost fallacy. A government institution will view the sunken cost as too big, and solve that problem by throwing more money at it. The same thing that happens in Wall Street when they get into big problems.
I was expecting a Satya Nadella or at least a Microsoft joke there
It's currently 171 deaths, 8,288 confirmed infected, which is 2% dead. However, what needs to be taken into consideration is that infected individuals don't die the day they are confirmed infected, there is a lag of several days.

Assuming the average time from symptom onset and diagnosis to death is 7 days, we're looking at at 20% death rate (830 confirmed infected 1 week ago). Even a 5 day lag between symptom onset to death is a ~9% death rate (1,975 confirmed infected 5 days ago).

This is exactly how the fatality rate of SARS played out.
David Graeber also pointed this out and came up with a rule of thumb: how much a job contributes to society is inversely proportional how much someone is paid to do it.
Openstreermap drives me crazy.

They use the designations “town” and “city” as a way of ranking places in terms of importance.

Here in the UK that designation is almost arbitrary.

There are several large towns with greater population and navigational importance than surrounding smaller cities.

All the commercial map providers, including Apple Maps, grok that. Only opensteetmap seems still rigidly to the town < city thing. Would be much better if they could use population instead.
Here’s another chart that’s more mobile responsive: https://flu.io/
In the 90s, friends just gave me copies of CDs.

In the early 00s I figured out how to rip Library CDs. They had a surprising amount of NuMetal.

During the mid-00s CNet had a music directory that was manually maintained. Looking back on it now, whoever coded the web page probably just put on whatever music they liked there. It was a great way to find new music.

Next I discovered Pandora.

Later I discovered dnbsets.de

Then YouTube.

Finally, BandCamp.
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Seems to me you are talking about a database access layer instead of microservices.

My understanding of microservices is a bunch of loosely connected services that can be changed with minimal impact to the others

Problem with the ideal is in reality this never works as complexity grows the spaghetti code moves to spaghetti infrastructure ( Done a network map of a large k8s / istio deployment lately ? )
Agreed; I switch between them as well. When I have a monologue running, the most common content is trying out and editing drafts of sentences meant to express thoughts or feelings that have arisen without words. I've worked as a technical writer for somewhere around half of my career. I wonder if that career and my frequent self-editing are somehow causally related (in one direction or the other).

Also, I occasionally seem to stop thinking entirely and just experience sensations, perceptions, and sometimes emotions. I rather like those intervals, and am prone to try to sort of savor them. They generally don't last very long before thoughts start popping up again.

I went to a Buddhist college for a while, and the curriculum included quite a lot of meditation. I wonder sometimes if those episodes without apparent thought are related in some way to the many hours of sitting I did (and still sometimes do). I don't really know, though. Maybe all that sitting taught me how to allow thinking to peter out. Or maybe it taught me to notice when it does and not interfere with the process. Or maybe it's completely unrelated.
I haven't really overthought it and just use Kindle. But then again it's just ebooks bought from Amazon - no pdfs.
Why is it so controversial when someone says “All Lives Matter”? (2016)
I've noticed reporting/analytics people going extinct around my workplace as micro services make monitoring easier. There might be some pent up hostility towards the technology side
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Akrasia: Lack of will preventing doing something that we know is good for us
I felt it was significantly more creepy when I received "How is <tourist attraction>?" messages at home. I can see the building from my window, but I didn't like being told.

I've had the location history disabled since it was possible to disable it, but I've since disabled all the notifications.
Yes, I agree with all of the above.

We specialise in this sort of thing at my work, I'm not suggesting anyone does this without first understanding the risks you mention above as well as the long term commitment required.

But done right, it is the most secure approach.
> Viruses tend to become less deadly as they spread because dead people don't spread disease.

This is why the longer incubation time of this coronavirus is such a concern. It gives a potentially fatal disease more time to spread before it self limits. Also, I've heard reports that some infected are asymptomatic, so it may continue to spread even while taking out some people.
BNO has a helpful timeline with a timestamp for each individual case update (and links to reputable sources):

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/01/the-latest-coronavirus...
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> Spend 12 months building ETLs

Okay, sounds reasonable enough for a complex enterprise.

> to feed a torrent of raw data to your lake

Well, there's the problem. Why is it taking a year to export data in its raw, natural state? The entire point of a data lake is that there is no transformation of the data. There's no need to verify the data is accurate. There's no need to make sure it's performant. It's just data exported from one system to another. If the file sizes, or record counts match, you're in good shape.

If it's taking a year to simply copy raw data from one system to another, the enterprise has deeper problems than architecture.
I'd probably reach for setting up a read replica (trivial) before completely overhauling my architecture.
Disclaimer: I work with Twilio SendGrid.

We have the inbound parse webhook which turns incoming SMTP into an HTTP post to your URL. Our free plan is is 100/day after the trial period which has a much higher limit.
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> If we plug in estimative models claiming 25000+ unrecorded infections

Shouldn't you also plug in estimated unreported fatalities too?
Exactly! And, to my point that's being voted down, it really only works the way it's intended if they have the ability to control each step of the ecosystem. If they allow people to replace experiences at different points then it's not possible to ensure the consistency that Apple's really known for.
> It's also worth noting that the ~8k confirmed cases are bottlenecked by how fast China can perform tests.

Do you have more info on this? I thought the test was a simple swab deal that a country like China could crank through like nobody's business. Like, at least for a few more orders of magnitude.
Good correction! Though I recall that negotiations broke down across both factors.
I love the idea of switching from Waze, which is increasingly frustrating and wrong.

The problem is that having the speed traps and radar sites on there is just too crucial to give up. I've never found a replacement that does that.
Except that VScode runs a Node on port 3000 of your server, and doesn't care if you already _have_ a node server on port 3000.

Easy to solve once you find out why, but when some dev connects with VSCode and the production server goes down... not impressed.
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It IS possible. Anyone saying otherwise is asserting Microsoft have no experience in writing OS at all and that is absurd. The only sticking point is corporate strategy - for which I currently see no evidence.

But possible. Wine shows it is possible.
After using Waze for over a couple of years, I really started getting the impression that I was just a data pawn in a bunch of A/B tests -- like send this one down that route, send that one down the other way & see what happens.
So if I am rich or can convince the people that I have the right sort of idea, I can try there? I don't think that's quite the same thing as letting a person succeed on their own merit in the free market. It sounds like much the same as what I saw elsewhere in Europe - the state or a group of rich people picking winners, who more often than not don't win.
http://www.somafm.com is an utimate treasure chest for me ...
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I don't think it's unfair to consider the historical demography of those (service) jobs, in addition to considering the network effects on perceived value in work that is often done in the background.
This sounds like extremely wishful thinking. Is there some support for this claim?
> in Europe in general, you can't open a business cleanly without a permanent residence permit

What about that e-Residency thing Estonia created?
It took me until my mid-20s before I realized that not everyone thought this way.
Tesla has lost -6.5 billion, so, yeah, I'd still stick with the Bears.
Anyone know what APIs is the map hooked onto?
Who cares though? If you have customers the cost to send an email is still almost zero.
Rather than subjecting oneself to the whims of recommendation engines and random people, I recommend starting with the artists you like:

-Find out who they've toured with - this is one of the strongest signals possible

-Find out who produced their albums, and check out other albums produced by those folks

-See if people in their band(s) have released their own work

-Read interviews to find out who their influences are and who they like currently

-If they're on a small, focused label (Amphetamine Reptile, Elephant 6), go listen to their labelmates
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Google's market share globally dwarfs Apple's. That comparison isn't the same at all. If Google pushes their own products on consumers using the power it has established in that market, it's a monopoly and the EU is 100% in the right in enforcing restrictions to that. It's exactly the situation Microsoft found itself in during the 90s.
On the other hand, this probably allows you to put yourself in someone else's shoes more easily.
You're correct. See [1]. It's usually less than 50% effective, and as low as 19%. A troubling fact is that effectiveness has been on a downward trend the last 4 years.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies....
Have you never seen a bureaucracy in a hurry? It is not, to borrow a word, agile.
Very interested in trying LSD or other psychedelics for this reason. I'd love to be able to experience what it's like to shut off my default mode network.
Oh look, it's the gateway-drug argument [0] all over again.

The short version is that, for those other drugs that the grandparent listed in their comment, they are already scheduled for medical usage. Only the psychedelics are scheduled away from any legal usage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_drug_theory
Why would you want to start a Finnish company? For targeting purely Finnish clientele?
is there an article on the details?
Does it need to be always on though? Scuttlebutt-like gossip networks and caches might be more what I was thinking about. In the ideal case you find the content local to you in one request, cache it, and the solar-powered server is none the wiser.

The network might be slower overall but we're talking about optimizing for lower power consumption so I feel like that would be a lesser priority.

Now I'm starting to wonder if there is a away to simulate the power draw of such a network.
Exactly this. The DoD basically took the mistakes of the F-111 program, doubled down on them, and added on some reckless new mistakes.

The result is the most expensive weapons program in history.
On the other hand, there simply cannot be literature to back it up unless it is tried systematically. These two things are in direct opposition. In any other experiment, we wouldn't treat the presently available level of evidence as indicative of the final state of knowledge on the matter.
Here's the imagery based version of this: https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...

From what I can tell, if you don't have imagery, you don't have audio. If you happen to be someone who can hear audio internally (audio hallucinations) yet don't form imagery internally (historic iconic memories, faces, shapes, creative viz, etc.) hit me up on email.
Sample size is just me, but I have both a strong monologue, and also love audio books and podcasts. Though sometimes my own thoughts will distract me and I'll miss pieces, especially if I'm on a walk or something.
I agree with this. I use both Waze and Google maps. I opened Apple maps after a long time a few days back and i was suprised not only with the effcient directions but also the maps and the fact that i can clearly see the name of the road.
Such things bites everyone. But writing to closed channel is regarded as programming error. You potentially lose values. So logic should be watertight, which is hard with concurrency. Doing simplest approach to locking helps.

Better with panic than silent errors and flawed logic.
>LSD turns off some people's inner monologue.

I've never heard this from anyone I know who's tried the substance n=dozens
I use Apple Maps, but I still think Google Maps is superior at directions only because Google offers more alternate routes and Apple sticks to the usual routes almost all the time. I also think Google is better at updating accidents on highways and ETA calculation.

But Apple Maps has one massive advantage which is the reason I ditched Google Maps and that is the UX. I love how simple it is to read the maps. Important information is shown prominently during navigation and the UI feels super clean. Google Maps, on the other hands, feels really cluttered and slow. It takes a good few seconds just to see the map after you open the app because they are loading all the unnecessary BS like new restaurants, nearby events etc.
There are some options in the $3-5k range. $3k gets you a used Pentax 645Z which is pretty nice.

(I know, I know, only $3-5k, what a deal. Better than the "cash payment for a pretty nice car" range though.)
But we perceive it as yellow ... it's only white if you are outside the atmosphere, a condition to which we are not evolutionarily adapted.
Any chance they are A/B testing this?

I'm a MG user and haven't received that email and their page is showing me 5K/month free tier.
I was surprised by an NPR blurb yesterday talking about how China may have to put off its annual Communist party planning meeting, and how that would be an embarrassing concession by the Chinese.

I was so disappointed in them. How should it be embarrassing to take a deadly and contagious pneumonia outbreak seriously? Do you want them to feel they should hide it?

(You being NPR). I know you don't mean anything bad by it.
While the fact that there are two types of people in this respect is interesting, the article seems to be over the top with the "it's ruining my life" bit. Yes, people are different, and some of the ways in which they are different are very fundamental. Deal with it.
Depends if you can turn it on or off. I used to have songs stuck in my head when younger. Now I can more or less stop or start it on command.
I am fine with that, I miss the simplicity of PHP and Delphi sometimes.
I don't think this is a fair assessment of Spotify. I discover new music all the time through Spotify, here's what I do.

Choose a song, artist or playlist that you really enjoy, right click and select "Go to _______ radio". Spotify will instantly generate a whole new playlist for you based on the selected song/artist/playlist.

I've spent hours discovering new music this way, good luck.
We might be laughing now, but this kind of things bring us new laws, limitations and regulations.

Drones are a great tool, even in the hands of a total amateur. Some regulation is needed (eg. not flying over crowds of people), but otherwise a top-down view shows many, many interesting things, from far crash remains (missing people, atleast finding a body) to illegal dumping operations (eg. a company pouring toxic waste into a river), etc.
> Where are you located, and what version of the OS were you running when you reported these things?

I live in Germany and I think I was running iOS 12 when I reported the issues.

Maybe Apple only looks at reports in the USA...
IIRC, those devices had 4 safety mechanisms in place, and 3 failed in this situation.
Microsoft got in trouble for licensing deals: strong-arming OEMs to force them to bundle Windows. Apple doesn't license iOS.
Are you aware of any such estimates?

Death is more difficult to hide than fever.
If the useful product is intellectual, and proving work involves publishing the product freely, how do you monetize it? Selling support contracts a la FLOSS?

It also happens that both these conditions (intellectual product + must be published freely) are the typical approach of PoW blockchains.
Doesn't seem that different. Basically, you're expected to be on the road and obey road rules, but you're allowed on the side walk if the local ordinance doesn't ban it and you give right-of-way and a wide berth to pedestrians.

i.e. riding on the sidewalk is more of an exception, and is typically allowed for kids.

This is pretty common, I believe. I looked up my local (Cambridge MA) laws and they say the same thing (and have a list of the sidewalks you can't bike on), and New York state looks the same.

In the dot.ny.gov FAQs, they explicitly say that sidewalk riding is legal unless posted, but is specifically intended more for young children.
I saved a company 20k a month by creating a job server in AWS. Lambda isnt cheap when you start using it hard
I think you misunderstand. I mean an innovation on par with the iPhone, where it basically changed how people live their lives. I'm quite sure Europeans can make a phone, the problem is they can't hit an innovative home run to save their lives.
Opened one. Unfortunately I'm not very knowledgeable about cooperatives, just pondering the idea.
Apart from more people falling sick (as bad as that is), is there a more fundamental concern that if it runs wild in a less developed country, it'll mutate into something more dangerous? As infections climb, the coronavirus (based on less stable RNA) gets more chances to mutate into something even more virulent or deadly?
Same! Satyanadellaview.