skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile, stocks rally. We are beyond fucked.
Google and Google Cloud are largely different businesses, though I understand it's hard to keep that in mind in the context of things like this.

I encourage everyone to always stay nimble and keep your eyes on portability. I also encourage you to try to assess the REAL costs of doing things yourself. It's rarely as cheap as you think it is.

As a Kubernetes maintainer, I am fanatical about portability.

As part of the GKE team, I think we provide tremendous value that people tend to under-estimate.

NOTE: I was NOT involved in this decision, but I understand it, and I want to help other people understand it.
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Looking to develop a predictive maintenance program for a client and wanted to know where I can buy some good IoT sensors.
That sounds pretty strong as an indicator they were legitimately contractors - but it's always a complex question. Specifics like: would the drivers be punished or penalized for not showing up for work?, is there an employee conduct agreement the dispatch center enforces and how does it enforce that?, how does a driver qualify for eligibility to rent - can anyone with a cab license freely rent or is there an interview beyond that?

Independent contractor status is a really finicky thing to define and, in the end, it's a status that mostly deprives employees of rights in favor of an employer so any "grey" usage of it should be highly suspect.
If you haven't seen this, read it. Really. http://drownproofing.com/

Every kid should be taught this.
I really don't get it. Twitter has five thousand full-time employees. I have to assume at least 20% of them are in product development in some capacity. What exactly are these people doing all day?
I can't point to a single notable product innovation they've had in years. And they continue to ignore the drumbeat of user asking for an edit button, and are completely unable to come up with any kind of reasonable solution to the abuse or bot problems.

I don't know Kayvon personally, but what exactly is wrong with Twitter that it's so bad and slow at product development? This should be #5000 on their list of things to do.
Set fire to the truck after you rob it to destroy any on-board evidence (like hard drives containing surveillance footage), only commit crimes in a wireless dead zone so no data is transmitted outside (or better yet, use a police stingray so you can do it anywhere), and put all cargo inside a faraday cage. Also I'm not sure there's any reason to believe those kind of security measures wouldn't already exist for a manned truck if the goods are expensive enough, so really it's the benefit of not having to deal with a person.

I'd much rather do all that than kill an armed truck driver.

Now that I actually am thinking about this more, I'd just get a sniper rifle and shoot the sensor units on the truck so it would be incapable of driving further (as opposed to throwing a mattress onto the road).

But again, I'm not in the business of robbing trucks. I'm just saying I'd rather rob a robot than a person. I doubt robberies are a big concern for driverless trucks.
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I'm also on Firefox on Android and have been getting that block for quite some time...
Also, why your software should not be infinitely configurable, unless it depends on a network effect. Let the 5% of users with specialized needs go elsewhere.
The dispatch company - the company which, generally, has their name painted on the side of the taxi.
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People too young to remember the anti-trust days will deny it, but there is no good reason to trust that this isn't Microsoft's long term plan. You'd be a fool to believe Microsoft has the best interests of the open source community at heart.
> and one of the best tools a successful businessman has is being able to differentiate between which decisions actually need their input

A tool of a successful team lead is knowing which decisions can be deferred until there is more time, energy, and information to give them the consideration they deserve. And which ones are so easy to reverse later that drawing straws is a perfectly valid strategy.

For the canonical 'bikeshedding' parable: My preferred escape route for a bunch of highly paid individuals to stop wasting time on what color to paint a goddamned shed is to budget enough time and materials for several different options and to move on. No matter what color you paint it, it will need to be painted again in 5 years anyway. Argue about the color then. Today you're supposed to be worried about the QC history of the concrete contractor, since you are going to be using some of the most expensive concrete known to man.
This will be popular, and might even replace regular usage, as Stories have in Instagram. It'll enable people to be more authentic, transparent, and casual. It will help counter Twitter getting increasingly LinkedIn-like.

I made an app called Blink that did exactly this a few years ago: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/blink. Build it and they will come, not :)
no, most are independent contractors who lease the cab and the medallion from the taxi company. If you have your own medallion, you lease that to the cab company (so you are making money from it even when you are not working, which you can't do 24/7). Cabbies have always been independent contractors with very few exceptions.

The cab company leases the medallions and has some store of medallions it owns. It buys and maintains the cars and runs the dispatching service.
I know that if I spend extra time I can edit the URL but honestly this reddit block has allowed me to just stop browsing reddit unless absolutely necessary. A positive thing in a way...
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I gather that it's too early in understanding COVID to have robust answers to this sort of question.

I use a reusable mask, and honestly, I don't wash it very often. It's there mostly so if I absentmindedly touch my nose I don't actually touch my nose, and so I never remove it until I've thoroughly washed my hands.
Expiring tweets seem interesting, and it would be interesting to see how they handle that alongside their recent change to "remind" people about things they've missed.

I've just deleted my account because their notifications keep spamming me with reminders "Have you seen this tweet: ...". Those fake notifications are not things I care about, and are impossible to disable, the most you can do is say "Show me less of these" which never seems to actually result in a change.
The good ol' bait and switch tactic; lure new customers in with zero fees and switch out the fee structure once they're locked in.
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I don’t think most taxi drivers have a connection to any ‘dispatch company’ they just pick up fares as they drive around.
Chang'e 4-lander and rover complete 15th lunar day on moon's far side
Infinite configuration requires infinite testing.
Given the size of the viruses, N100 is the minimum
Where I live the company has to set aside 12.5% of the salary paid for next years "vacation money". You can chose yourself when to withdraw this money in the following year.

For a full time job you are required to take 25 days (or 5 weeks) off work outside of public holidays which is about 10% of the total working time so you usually have a bit more to spend in this period even if the vacation itself is unpaid :)
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>Multiple people have gone to jail for corruption / bid rigging on the project

That would be a new one, can you name a few?
Additional comments:
You could limit the number of nodes in the always-free-tier clusters. Above n nodes the free tier clusters aren't free.

With the new pricing, I can't choose to use GKE instead of app engine/cloudrun and get the same availability (by this I mean multiple zones) without having to pay for both the nodes and the new control plane cost. Those managed products run over multiple zones in a region. It's disappointing that even just one multi-zone cluster is charged. I'd be very happy to see you include at least a single multi-zone cluster control plane in the free tier.
> some people drive them into trees

I wouldn't say it's a certain type of people ("some people" vs. "sometimes people"). You could argue for it, though seems like a hard argument to push.

Cars are inherently dangerous, because there isn't a reasonable guarantee that something will not go critically wrong (as opposed to, say, a train). Also, when driving a car, you're not only betting that you won't make a mistake, but also that someone else won't make a mistake (that would affect you).
.2% if you are 30, .2% is greater than your cumulative risk from driving. It's a huge risk.
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It's sometimes seen as a security issue, especially if you are not provided with a company-issued laptop. Or your work may require specialized equipment like beefy machines for 3D rendering or local access to a server.
Are you arguing from the framework provided by a presumably not Western European legal system?
I'm a hard believer in decision fatigue, and live my life accordingly. By doing so I've noticed that I've dramatically increased my quality of life - and quite frankly I no longer have "brain dead days".

My favourite mechanism for doing so is prepping my clothes, prepping my my next day, and preparing my lunch - all the night before. Similarly knowing what we'll eat for dinner the next night. It might not work for everyone else - and I'm not the planner type, but this has dramatically improved my life.
No deep reinforcement learning?
I’m paying Comcast ~$50 a month for a decently fast connection, and 1TB monthly data transfer, it’s actually cheaper, faster, and a higher limit than it was for the equivalent plan 10 years ago.
I don't think that was calmworm's qualm with it. Heh.
Now I need to decide how many spoons to start the day with.

Am I allowed to use the spoon for the decision of what to have for lunch to eat it or has soup just become much more costly?
why does the government need to bend backwards to allow underpaid jobs ?
I agree with the author's point here. I've long considered it a red flag if I've been contacted by someone to do something for them, but then get pawned off on someone else to work out the details.

That tells me either that the person who contacted me is just being used for their name -- in which case I'm being manipulated -- or that the organization is so large and bureaucratic that I'm going to have further complications dealing with them.

> Would he still write the same if the ceo used a bot to perfectly impersonate the ceo?

I don't know about the author, but I would consider this to be even worse.
That's a point; there is a tendency to some protest. But that wasn't really what I meant. I mean that, to control a government, they must fear that the people will remove them in the time-honored fashion.
And it's why computer-assisted driving is so nice. You've felt decision fatigue if you've ever done long car drive.
GraphQL can be totally be used to represent and query true graphs, not just trees. The data gets materialized into nested JSON (which can be thought of as a tree) but that doesn't mean it doesn't represent a graph.

Other than that though, you are quite correct, the two do not serve the same purpose.

Neo4j has an extension that exposes a GraphQL API that converts the queries to Cypher (https://neo4j.com/developer/graphql/#neo4j-graphql-java). I've used it for some basic things but for anything complex you need to be careful and inspect the queries it produces.
In this video I recognized pretty quickly who the drowning kid was, well before the lifeguard jumped in, but upon further reflection:

1) I was already primed to find someone drowning; I knew based on the video title that there was someone in danger. For a lifeguard, it's probably common that they'll go through entire shifts without having to jump in.

2) Even after identifying the right kid, I had doubt: I wasn't 100% sure until the lifeguard jumped in and confirmed my choice.
it wasn't anything in the diamond princess. The diamond princess is ongoing, and the rate of hospitalization is more important if the infection rate becomes too large.
Have you considered the fatality rate and what would happen if it reaches the same percentage of population as seasonal flu?

Check out Spanish Flu for worst case scenario.

China restrictions have been much more stringent than what you imply. People in Wuhan were prevented from leaving their apartments at all and needed to wait for food from the government.

The jury is still out whether softer forms of restrictions can work once the disease is widespread. We will see about that by watching South Korea and Italy. (We know it works if there are not too many cases around, like in Singapore.)
We had something like this built at my previous org using nothing but Jenkins API and plain docker with a few bare metals for persistent stuff (RDBMs, Solr, Redis etc.). It was created circa 2014 so no fancy stuff like K8s.

I miss it a lot at my new org. Will definitely look at this and suggest to leadership if it aligns.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ which lines up with the Johns Hopkins dashboard posted here recently.
Occupationally I'm a diesel mechanic,so I suppose I could be lumped into the non occupational rocket scientist category. Im learning python.

Yes, we wear n95, but we also get OSHA/niosh specific training on fitment, changing, PPE exposure limit, and appropriate environments. You do not. What people are hoping is that an industrial particulate mask is going to somehow prevent the flu or corona, which honestly I have never understood. Wearing a mask while pressure cleaning a paccar12 engine? Yes, you don't want fine grease mist in your lungs. Powder coating something? Better mask up. Wearing it for a fire? Yes, but change it out once or twice a day and check it often. The flu? How?
They have committed to continuing to run the servers.
Even a simple homemade mask has some efficacy [1] though it significantly less. The primary author’s summary of wether they would be protective is “no” [2]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...

[2] https://twitter.com/chaiclate/status/1232972182667612162?s=2...
alright, thanks.
Cut from the same cloth my friend!
I use pwsh as my main shell on both Windows and Linux. For me it's just more sane than bash with less pitfalls that I've experienced. And if there's something I can't do in pwsh, I have the full power of the .net CLR to do it for me.
This is correct.

Particles smaller in size than 0.3 microns will have HIGHER capture efficiency.

This is similar for HEPA filtration as well.
Sure- but in plenty of communities the dress costs $10K.
Nice idea. Frankly I don’t understand why some people care so much about some irrelevant details, like cloth to wear for a normal day. My girlfriend is expert at indecision and when she ask my opinion and I reply in a second she looks impressed and ask: why? Of course, I don’t reply "because both are equally valid so I just chose one arbitrarily", I come on with some believable argument. But the truth is spending thinking about the options is wasteful. I tried to teach her the head-tail method for binary choice but she’s not convinced.
The problem is that a mask that isn't regularly replaced and handled very carefully actually increases your chances of catching the virus, via a mask->hand->face transmission.
sorry that you have to work with such low-IQ people that made this decision. Followed your work on k8s, thank you, its better because of people like you and others.
I should have phrased that differently: if something is good enough in some key metric, it extends to other uses - even if it makes a poor fit.

So I insist: everyone will WANT to use clickhouse as a general purpose database, and will create ways to make it so (ex: copy table with the columns you don't want filtered out, drop the original, rename)

It is just too fast and too good for many other things, so it
will expand from these strongholds to the rest.

A personal example: I am migrating my cold storage to clickhouse, because I can just copy the files in place and be up and running.

I know about insert and the likes, I have a great existing system - but this lets me simplify the design, and deprecate many things. Fewer moving parts is in general better.

After that is done, there is a database where I would benefit from things like alter tables or advanced joins, but keeping PostgreSQL and ClickHouse side by side, just for this? No. PostgreSQL will go. Dirty tricks will be deployed. Data will be duplicated if necessary.
> either a contractor can subcontract, or they're not a contractor.

This doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. I often work as a contractor. If I decided one morning to send a friend into a clients office to fulfil my duties, I would not even expect them to be able to gain entry to the building.
Is working in Eclipse still as painful as it used to be?
That was the most interesting part to learn about for me, but they don't have the outhouses, and many of the tours are in units that were retrofitted with indoor plumbing and bathrooms later. Those units look essentially the same as they do now, except they have older furniture and kitchen fittings.
I will just say, you are not exactly wrong. No more details than that.
operator precedence is arbitrary to a language. There is no universal "right" or "wrong" and the LISP postfix people know this, there's no operator precedence there, just a sequence of operators and the operands that follow that explicitly declares the order of evaluation. It does have parentheses though :-)

So the mistake here seems to be expectation, which is arbitrary. Everyone knows the +-*/() precedence of basic arithmetic, but boolean operations and others? That isn't at the cultural level of basic schooling, so the author's contention that the precedence is wrong isn't a priori.
Is this really actually a bug with either vim or tmux? It sounds like it's just a bug with a vim plugin involving tmux.
Cold start? My cold start is 20 seconds but after that about the same as you so I did a rough "average" to try to convey that :)
TL:DR:
The most effective use of disposable masks for blocking germ transmission is by the people with the germs who might pass them to this without but at risk.

Surgical masks are meant to protect surgery patients from the medical staff and the droplet-encased germs they emanate. N95 masks are meant to protect the wearer from particulate matter (harmful dust) in the air, specifically those particles over 30 microns. SARS-CoV02 is roughly half the size, so as an aerosolized virion, as opposed to droplet-suspended virions, they may have limited effect. N95 masks also often come with exhalation valve releases to improve inhalation fit - so exhalation pressure does not break the seal around the sides. A sick person wearing a mask with a valve that releases right in front of their mouth may be better than no mask, but it is a potential bypass for droplet suspended virions.

The US just doesn't have the culture where everyone puts on masks during flu season, like some places (HK for one), and that level of herd usage is really what might be likely to slow transmission to a breakable rate.
Hourly in US can also get benefits depending on company's discretion and some mandatory laws. For example, state of NJ has a sick day law that was passed in late 2018 where it made mandatory for employers to provide accrued sick leave to any employee (salaried or hourly) as long as they are on W-2.
> I've long said that tiered ISP pricing will never be a thing (ie, Comcast offering a "movies and social network package" vs a normal broadband monthly deal or mobile operators doing the same), regardless of lack of FCC protection, because it just doesn't make any sense as a business model or service, not to mention it would face a big industry backlash - an industry the whole arrangement relies on.

This argument is bizarre because it’s already a thing! Just not in the US. For example, Telcel Mexico offers unlimited “social media” plans[1].

It’s not clear why US carriers have not moved forward with similar plans. Perhaps they’re waiting for the patchwork of state net neutrality laws to be repealed/overturned. But this isn’t some purely hypothetical business model.

[1] https://www.telcel.com/
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I would agree that Powershell has less quirks than bash which sometimes feels like one big quirk. But I think they could do much better. During my project we ran into a ton of issues around scope, return values from functions and other stuff that were really hard to deal with. You don’t see that with small scripts but our project has thousands of lines and becoming hard to manage. Now some smartass will say that Powershell is not designed for a project of that size but the cmdlets almost force you to use it for certain types of tasks. It would be pretty difficult to rewrite that code in another language.
How big of a deal is this for North American growers?
he is like GKE, once you start him, you can't stop :)
> Would your team consider tweaking the pricing as I mentioned, with the goal of helping early stage startups choose GCP?

To be clear, it's not my team. I'm relaying feedback, but I can't make any guarantees or promises.

All this feedback is super valid and important, and it's being synthesized to the product team.
If someone got belligerent about it, I might allow that it's just plain fatigue.

Being tired or worn out reduces our ability to function at a level we demand of ourselves or others, leading some people to some pretty bad issues they don't know how to handle.

It can be vigilance (which for some of us includes deciding things), overstimulation (background noise), understimulation (loneliness, boredom), physical exhaustion, illness... any or all of these can induce us to make other sorts of highly suspect decisions, including how we spend our free time, money, or how we treat others.
I would say hacker news abides by these rules, most in most subreddits people just downvote things they disagree with