skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from a photography standpoint, Jacob Riis is one of the most interesting characters in the field. He committed one of the cardinal sins of photojournalism: many of his photographs were lies, with staged subjects. He spent effort to make the conditions look worse than they were- for his own gain, and also likely because he really believed in showing the conditions of urban life.

many outside of photography will overlook fussy criticism of Riis- his work helped pass laws that positively affected the lives of millions, who cares if he directed street urchins where to sit and made situations seem more desperate than they actually were? after all, the conditions were often extremely desperate.

but his job as a photojournalist was to portray things as they were- especially since he portrayed his photos as journalism. arguably, his photos also flattened the immigrant experiance to poor, crime ridden, and full of disease, rather than poor, crime ridden, full of disease, full of opportunity, and often with a great sense of community that made up immigrant life at that time. He also directly profited from simplifying and lying about urban life.

to me, Jacob Riis symbolizes how positive change isn't always done by the most scrupulous of actors, and the complicated relationship of truth and nuance with social change and politics. in order to pass a law, society often needs to have an uncompromisingly negative opinion of whatever status quo will be overthrown.

https://research.steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/media/users/gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis
> a godsend for those of us who have bosses that want the app, "flashy"

I think that's part of the problem. Clients and bosses often don't know what they are doing and have really bad ideas about "spicing up the website."

It's the new version of what was formerly done with <marquee> and <blink> tags and DHTML.[1]

[1] http://dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex3/snow.htm
I keep trying to not look up Coronavirus news online, but I can't help it... and after reading this I'm genuinely terrified. The word "potential" on the title is entirely invisible to me.
Would this explain the apparent sudden collapse of people on the streets in China and Iran? [1]

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/people-collapsing-coronavi...
How about managing own k8s running on VMs / bare-metal?

Pretty much anyone who works in ops longer understood from the go that its impossible to be totally provider-agnostic. K8S is just a nice api on top of provider api that still requires provider specific configuration.
Let's Encrypt Revoking 3M Certificates
Thank you for this. Swimming is a basic human activity and everyone should know how to swim, at least to a "I won't drown at a pool party" level. It's like not knowing how to ride a bike.. it's really not that hard to learn, and there are no good excuses for an adult to not know how to.
"Doing better than me", or any other human, wasn't the problem proposed. Anything other than 100% accuracy means the problem isn't solved as there will always be room for a better solution.
It may not have ended up in the nightmare scenario but I still pay Comcast more money for less service now. If I want unlimited data I have to shell out $50 extra a month.

Also this is a symptom of a bigger problem.

You want the FCC to focus on problems which you feel are more serious. That's fine. I agree. The FCC should do something. Anything. The problem is the FCC is weak as hell and not willing to take meaningful action on basically anything at this point.
"Distributed computing project, Rosetta@Home, is using the BOINC infrastructure to model covid-19 proteins that may be drug targets. " - https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/f5as77/distributed...

I have run BOINC on my own computers for about 20 years. I really like it because it always properly steps out of the way whenever the computer is being used for something else (including config to do that when simply other processes need more resource), and because it's cross-platform.
Exactly. I look at a lot like this:

https://www.go-dove.com/asset/65/17113

And see monitors of various sizes and vintages, listed as "24 ea". Do you win all the monitors if you win, or is it first come first serve for the 24 highest bidders?

I'm guessing it's the former, but it's not like any of the FAQs on the site are going to clue you in. Instead they tell you that their web guys don't know how to scrub input properly:

Message received:

"Your bid is not in the correct format"

This means you have entered a dollar sign, or comma.
Here is an example: (Correct) 1000 (Incorrect) $1,000.00

I found another doc that may have the answer:

2. Items that have no tag number and are of identical kind and condition may be grouped on one SPMD-1A. Example (25 ea. chairs, wood w/arms).

https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/rules/0690/0690-02.pdf

Suggests that you are bidding on all items with one bid--if you win you get all of them.
Yeah, I agree. The cannabis sativa plant is very versatile and can be grown for multiple purposes. Some in combination with each other. What makes sense depends on the market you're going for.

My background: tryplainjane.com is my company. We farm and manufacture as well.
> (That means that Rive and Musk are genetically half-siblings.)

Apropos of nothing, I'm now imagining a world with forms of address based on the natural logarithm of shared genetic material.
Telling people they should wear masks because they don't put them on properly is like telling people they shouldn't drive cars because some people drive them into trees.
Can confirm, grew up near the sea, was free diving for shiny rocks and shells by 7 or 8 and would spend hours in the water every day of vacation. Parents had to basically drag me out so I wouldn’t starve.
The ecosystem of stuff is the first thing that comes to mind. Windows has never been an environment that was well suited for modern automation practices (infrastructure as code).

For instance, it's not straightforward to take a database or XLS document of users and transform that into an Active Directory implementation.

Here is a tool that would help with that: https://github.com/dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc

Normally you would need to run this on a Windows machine ... but now I am excited at the thought of using it from my mac.

I'm in the middle of doing a rollout of new network infrastructure, VPN, Firewall appliance, Hyper-V hosts, Active Directory, O365 sync, File storage, etc... for small/medium sized business. I am primarily a software/ops consultant, so I like to build infrastructure 'as data' and then use that data to assert the real thing. IE, terraform apply.

tl;dr – with cross platform we're closer to bringing modern ops tools into Windows land which is exciting. WSL is useful when you are on a Win box, but if you are trying to build infra from Linux/macOS you are struggling.

Here is a big list of powershell crap I have starred recently on Github:

- https://github.com/dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc (linked above)

- https://github.com/rmbolger/Posh-ACME

- https://github.com/DrEmpiricism/Optimize-Offline (not relevant to cross platform)

- https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 (not relevant to cross platform)
I doubt cloud computing fits for their use case. They need constant power, and using "cloud" would be much more expensive than to have their own hardware (and of course even more expensive than using someone's else's computer).

The reason why SETI@home is not popular anymore is because how our hardware adapted. Back in the days the CPUs were constantly operating at the same speed. So if you left your computer on, it was using the same amount of power and generated the same amount of heat. SETI@home took advantage of it, by saying, let's make use of that wasted energy to do something useful.

As computers became faster the heat and power consumption became a bigger issue, mechanisms were added to allow CPU scale its frequency down, and have "micro sleeps" during the time there's nothing to do. OSes similarly adapted. Instead of having an interrupt triggered at regular interval they implemented so called tickless mechanism, when those house keeping operations are fired when needed instead of regular intervals.

All those advancements helped a lot with portable computers (laptops, pads, phones etc) but also made it to the desktops and servers.

Because of those advancements it is no longer "free" to run SETI@home. If you run it, your computer will get warmer, it will turn extra fans too cool down and it will use more power, so people are less motivated to run it. That's what made me stop using SETI@home myself.
where are you getting the info to say only 15-20% percent of the cases show symptoms?
Yeah that's what it's opposed to, before we knew nothing about their plans to expand and now we know it's happening soon instead of "soon" (hopefully)
You'd have to link to something more specific than "African immigration to the US" to make your point.
It is likely MIMO, I don't see any obstacle why it couldn't do multiple spatial channels simultaneously.
EDIT - Just to be clear, I'm not saying that people shouldn't take precautions or that it's not worth protecting vulnerable groups. I'm simply suggesting that perhaps there is news coverage about other things (remember the whole Hong Kong situation that we aren't hearing about suddenly?) that might still deserve some air time.

The media is profiting off this story big time. It's like when the plane went missing and a news station actually put some moron on the air who said there's technically a chance a black hole swallowed the plane. It's disgraceful, to be honest.

That said, it looks like the rate of fatalities is overblown significantly [0](0.2% in a healthy population (COMPARED WITH THE 3.4% NUMBER BEING SPOUTED ALL OVER THE PLACE). I've yet to see coverage that is remotely reputable about long-term health effects after recovery.

EDIT 2 - Case in point about premature statements being made.

> [1]“I think it is likely we’ll see a global pandemic,” said Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “If a pandemic happens, 40% to 70% of people world-wide are likely to be infected in the coming year. What proportion of those will be symptomatic, I can’t give a good number.”

followed by:

> [2]"Because I am now less certain of where the R0 will end up (and how it may vary geographically) I am going to revise downward the range of outcomes I consider plausible to 20%-60% of adults infected. This involves subjectivity about what range of R0 may turn out to be true."

[0] https://institutefordiseasemodeling.github.io/nCoV-public/an...

[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-many-people-might-one-perso...

[2]https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1234879949946814464
Far expanding in the soon future
If politicians or the police actually wanted to ensure this wasn’t going to be a slippery slope, it could be done.

With great power comes great responsibility, which time and time again is shown not to be the case.

If the police want these powers to go after child abusers, let’s give it to them.

But I want to see enshrined into law some consequences to ensure they act responsibly.

For example:

* all use of the technology must be audited and reported upon each year. Any case of the technology being used, but not included the audit leads to a penalty.

* any use of the technology outside of the acceptable use cases put forth (child abuse) leads to a penalty.

The penalty?

* the police department in question loses 25% of their budget.

* loses access to the technology

* the officer in question is fired without pay

* the manager of the officer is fired without pay

* the head of the department is fired

* the minister responsible for the department also fired.

This doesn’t happen. It never happens. Because it’s intended.

Australia’s meta data collection laws were immediately abused to obtain data on journalists. Consequences? Not worth investigating...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/apr/29/publi...
If people's lives don't depend on the economy, why don't we all stop working?
How often do you have data that is

1) important enough to display on a dashboard
2) not important enough to record so you can track it over time

?
A wise practice.

As a young egotist I would often omit parens in complicated C expressions. I did this intentionally and in a very self-satisfied way - writing multi-line conditionals and lining them up neatly without parens with a metaphorical flourish of my pen.

Then one day, chasing a hard-to-find bug, I realised it had happened because I'd mixed up the precedence of && and || in a long conditional. I was an idiot. Since then I've made a point of reminding myself that I know nothing and that there's nothing to be gained from pretending I do, and putting parens in everywhere.

Sometimes, even now, I get those grandiose moments when I think the code I'm writing cannot possibly go wrong. Those are the moments that call for a bit of fresh air and an extra unit test or two.
GKE can't offer financial backed SLOs without charging for the service. This is something that, I assume, significant customers want and that competitors already have:

https://aws.amazon.com/eks/sla/
Maybe some subreddits, but on other subreddits you get actual top people - I´m in a couple of card game ones and I sometimes get answers from a top 50 player. You also get advice from not so good players too of course.
What the coronavirus forcing me into lockdown's taught me about cooking
Outcome of critical cases is heavily reliant upon whether the medical system can handle the number of infected. If someone requires a ventilator and you're out of ventilators they're kinda fucked. There's also evidence that lots of people show little to no symptoms. There's probably a large number of people that simply don't know they had it. Which is both good and bad.

If we manage to keep it from spreading too far too fast, from the variety of studies I've seen then anywhere from .5% to 1% is probably more realistic. But if we don't, expect something higher. This is why waiting for "enough" people to die as evidence of severity, then responding is a poor response.

FWIW the Spanish Flu infected 27% of the world's population. 60-70% seems really high.
And what happens to those stockpiles...do they get smuggled around the world, feeding the arms race?
I think they mean Texas soon, and New Mexico in the near future. Maybe better to have written:

and we'll soon expand to Texas, and New Mexico in the near future
Will this version of powershell ever be baked-in to Windows? My Windows 10 1909 install is currently 5.1.
Are these semis truly driverless or does the testing that Waymo is conducting still require staff to monitor the drive? I want to parse through the hype here.

Fully automated, point-to-point, driverless semis seem far off, as Hotz of Comma.ai was pointing out. Am I wrong on this assumption?
Nothing at all! 802.11ax is fast and efficient!
Presumably in anticipation of upper respiratory tract infection. COVID-19 is a lower respiratory tract infection.

I haven't heard of nasal irrigation using soap; hypertonic saline solution is usually recommended.

http://www.elvisstudy.com/
> I have found that subreddits almost become an anti-expertise forum over time - when actual experts show up to give advice, they are often downvoted if their advice goes against whatever that subreddit is cargo culting (which, as you mentioned, is often not great advice in the first place). Then the expert is discouraged from participating ever again.

/r/programming in a nutshell.
> and the docs linked from the email are not updated yet.

That about sums up most things Google does for developers.
Interesting correlation pattern speculation :)
Surely you have elderly friends and relatives, give each one one of your masks (once things are dire enough that people will actually learn to use masks properly and not waste it.)
Amazon's bandwidth charges are still extortionate. Have those ever gone down?
Looking at this thread as an interesting datapoint. Typically HN is thoughtful, well reasoned, and well informed. This thread is not holding that same level.

Wonder what this says about the level of concern over this bug.
The European cannabis market is early and developing. Many companies have been bitten by building out capacity before demand. All of the Canadian cannabis companies way over produce for the Canadian market so they planned to sell to Europe and possibly the US. Other countries like Columbia are also aiming to get this international export market.
Like serious side effects? If you want to vaccinate virtually the whole world and your vaccines turns out to have serious side effects in 1% of people because you rushed its development and didn't go through the regular extended long term tests it wouldn't be that good
Nobody knows what the real numbers are, so it is pointless to ask that question.

2% might be the overall death rate if this thing keeps coming back until eventually everybody has been infected. Or maybe it mutates to be less deadly. Maybe the hypothetical vaccine is only a .2% chance of deafness not blindness - or a 10% chance of your little toe falling off...
Yes, exactly. Seems better than a blanket ban. As pointed out elsewhere, the FDA is basically trying to keep dramatic risks/outcomes low, to maintain confidence in approved drugs, but tends to have a high false negative rate. What's interesting is that Vioxx was approved, but later appeared to have huge negative impact when it was given to large numbers of people (and apparently, it was also evident in the raw clinical trials data which was submitted to FDA).

It's an entirely non-trivial, multi-dimensional, systemic problem.
I've only read the abstract, and it seems to clearly say that the virus can get to the brain via the lungs. So I have no idea what people ITT are on about regarding purposeful infection or masks for prevention. Regardless, this abstract also does not explain the mildness of the disease except for the immunocompromised and elderly, which to me renders the link between how you get the infection and fatality a bit suspicious.
I think that'll be pretty useful for a lot of companies but I'm not sure whether going with container count as limit will work.

Staging is where the software is tested as a whole before the production and in many cases it's more than a few containers. I'd not pay $500 for "Up to 5 containers/env" to set up a staging environment for my app that consists of many microservices deployed on Kubernetes. My two cents; change the pricing model. It's not only expensive but also container count is not that helpful. Number of environments is a good proxy for the value I get but I don't want to be punished just because of my number of containers; cpu + memory could be more acceptable.
Yes I agree. But this industry is driven by fashion not engineering or risk analysis both of which are changed to fit the scenery. There are very few purists left who understand this.
What to Expect When Your Loved One Is Dying
There were non-air-conditioned subway trains in New York City well into the 1980s.
The most likely outcome from all the scenarios you mentioned is that nothing happens. Kids do these things all the time and are just fine.

Injuries occur occasionally, and even less frequently are those injuries fatal.

A friend of mine supermaned head-first into a tree while snowboarding last year. The tree was probably a foot in diameter, and he was going fast enough to shake snow off the whole tree. What happened? Nothing. We all laughed about it and kept snowboarding.

We are pretty resilient creatures when it comes to impact damage.

Drowning though, completely different. Much like filling a car's oil intake with dirt and then having the engine immediately seize. If you start breathing in water, you're do some serious damage to your lungs and cutting off oxygen to your brain, and further inhibiting basic survival functionality, and quickly resulting in death, if not remedied immediately.
I hope that Microsoft has a long-term plan for Powershell. It started as a simple shell and has evolved into an almost full-fledged programming language.
Correct, but they can actually petition the feds to change their time zone. Whether or not that is likely, I don't know. It seems like something that would be very rare.
This seems like a difficult thing to test maybe even unethical. In order to detect the rate of false negatives you would have to re-test drugs that were shut down for being too risky.
This is the sort of "made up data that is politically convenient" that I would expect to see only from the most corrupt governments in some of the poorest, most underdeveloped parts of the world, not from the most powerful nation on earth. I'm speechless.
Oddly enough, I was on the "pandemic" bandwagon early enough that my period of anxiety and insomnia has now passed already. People get used to new states of affair pretty quickly.
This has been true of every HN thread in the past week or two relating to COVID-19. The typical objectivity you see among the usual audience has disappeared.
That's true. A higher risk vaccine may be worth it for folks at high risk or with high exposure.

Risk tolerance should be seen as a sliding scale, not as a binary.
This is probably the most interesting thing I've read since the outbreak started; it's a really fantastic read. I think it gives a more authentic look at what's actually happening in China compared to the average news outlet's columns on it, plus it goes into some really fascinating things on cooking. (The cooking is the main highlight, so maybe I got the order of that list reversed.)
The public seems able to understand that there is a cost/benefit tradeoff in driving cars. They could probably understand that idea in the case of drug approval also.
Azure AKS is pretty terrible TBH in comparison to GKE.

Also lack of SLA / shady SLA does not help.

Ps. Talking as someone with hands on experience.

Ps2. Azure support is terrible and their response times are constantly breaking SLA..
Sorry for technical tangent but curious. Your decision making on GCP appears to appeal to best of breed + cost. But you put SQL Server on AWS? If you are saying SQL Server is better on AWS than on Azure it would be interesting to learn why.
That's correct. Vault Enterprise (at my last math) was ~$125k/yr, so that management cost is negligible :)
Thanks. The overloading of the healthcare system, which you and others mentioned, is something I had not considered. It makes sense that two flu-like[1] virulent diseases at the same time can overload it and that it would be a very serious matter. I still think panicking is not the answer, but I'm now convinced it's a more serious matter than I first thought.

[1] for the sake of argument, even if coronavirus is not actually similar to any flu strand. I'm not a specialist and I cannot tell the actual differences.
People get terminology wrong in niches like this all the time, especially when the terminology is so similar.

The fact that the OP even knows that a backdoor Roth IRA exists (much less a "mega" backdoor IRA) puts this person leagues above the average person, who probably doesn't even know the difference between a Roth IRA and a traditional IRA, much less what an IRA even is.

Honestly, I trust sources like OP mentioned more than most financial advisors because advisors tend to pitch a product instead of conveying information. Schools aren't doing it, so that basically leaves communities like this.
I'm unsure of the long term potential of hemp seeds. I don't think the genetics have been optimized for growing seeds yet. Most people breed for CBD, THC, and specific terpene profiles. The higher volume, lower margin goods like seed and fiber have been relatively unexplored by the market.
Moldy? Psh, that's nothing. The real excitement begins when you play with the sweat coming off the dynamite, like we did back when I was a kid in the 80s!

Note: the above is sarcasm. "Sweating" or "weeping" dynamite is dangerous and you should immediately leave the area and contact your local equivalent of 'the bomb squad' to report it.