skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this cost bothers you a great deal, why not just deploy a new cluster?
Hardly much of a victory. In this case it was a civil suit brought forth by the private religious organization, the Jehovah's Witnesses for arguably silly reasons, and the final ruling rightly told them to piss off for being pedantic snoops. Had a government agency requested this against someone whistleblowing things about government incompetence and still lost in court, it would be more impressive.
> Uber is a public company now, it has not been VC funded for a long time

I don’t think those two things are exclusive are they?
All I know, is that if I receive a text from a volunteer from ANY candidate, they will immediately be on my "do not vote" list.
Edit: wrong story!
Nicotine can be absorbed through the nose and mouth. It's not as effective as through the lungs, but cigars have much higher dosage than cigarettes.
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That's because that bomber was built by the "greatest" generation. By definition, we aren't the greatest generation.
You can already do this to humans pretty much just as easily, I just need some orange cones

Then what? You have 20 palettes of dog chew toys or asian pears....? Some of the goods have serial/tracking numbers.

The reason people don't rob 18 wheelers or trains is because it's not a good criminal enterprise
Who wants to help make a design file for 3d printed nose plugs? If blocking the intranasal path is effective in preventing the CNS infection, as this paper suggests, nose plugs should be effective here.
Hi! Thanks for the heads up, could you please check if the website loads for you now?
>I should also point out that most people in the US face similar conditions to those in Wuhan.

I don't think that's true.
DO is for garage projects. If you need anything serious it's AWS / GCP or MS.
Seems a fair judgement since all the restriction make the drivers effectively work as employees:

> Drivers who use the Uber application do not build up their own clientele, do not freely set their rates, and do not determine the terms and conditions of providing their transportation service. The company imposes the itinerary and the driver’s fare is adjusted if this itinerary is not followed. The destination is unknown to the driver, thereby revealing that the driver cannot freely choose the route that suits him/her...
For last 7 years I am running DO and never had any issue. I never understand why it is looked down. In fact I have faced so many issues with AWS (particulary their old hardward). In one case, our ec2 instance was rebooting frequently. AWS team didn't accept any issue from there end and after few weeks ask us to upgrade instace because of bad health.

In my experience, AWS is a very expensive cloud with clunky UI and big brand name. During consulting gigs, I have seen many customers want to go with AWS only because of brand. And later they cry when bills start to hit roof with vendor lock in.
Great link!

Yes, it really hurts me, as a science-based person, to have scientists with authority say things that are unscientific.
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So can Uber force French drivers to work certain hours?

As an American, I have poor understanding of what employment entails in the EU. If the Uber drivers are just hourly employees, what changes for them?

In the USA, you only see real employment benefits if you are a salaried employee. An hourly worker gets paid their wage and that's it (no sick days, retirement, etc).
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I would agree if everyone exposed wore masks the spread of this contagion would be reduced considerably.

Logically, I might extend it to everyone wearing masks would considerably reduce the spread of exhaled contagions. This might first be encouraged in high population density areas, like parts of Asia, and first need to be integrated with fashion[0] to have any chance of broad success. I suspect it will never be a preference everywhere barring some sort of serious consequence (like death) for not wearing the mask.

In this situation, I think the most important thing is to know that normally available or homemade masks are helpful for presenting the spread of the disease. The more expensive masks are better but in this instance, not better in a meaningful way for the average person. The current supplies should be saved for those at-higher-risk populations like medical staff.

[0]: https://www.pinterest.ca/charmed4evr/fashionable-surgical-fa...
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That part is not as weird as it seems. It's not unheard of for VCs who are looking to maintain a relationship with a startup to provide an introduction even before investing as a gesture of good faith. Also, to clarify, the call was just a regular VC chat, the customer intro came later.

Granted that's usually the case when there's a competitive fundraising round that's coming up but it still not completely crazy.
Isn't the bedsheet heist just as plausible with a human behind the wheel? There's a chance he won't see the people in the road or will choose to run them over, but if he does the decent thing then he's a sitting duck.
Have you used NFS for persistent storage in prod much? I know people do it, but numerous solutions architects have cautioned against it.
They're powerful enough.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/16/vaccines-mea...

> More than half the states in America have seen a decline over the past decade in the take-up rates among kindergarten children of vaccines against diseases such as measles, mumps, hepatitis B and polio, as unfounded anti-vaccination theories have spread.

> The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR), which is the focus of much activity by the so-called anti-vaxxer movement, is especially vulnerable. Alarmingly, the study finds that more than half of the states – 26 in total – have vaccination rates that have fallen below the target of 95% which experts state is needed to provide maximum protection against the diseases.
Modern policing is trending towards recording everything and then backtracing who you are and where you came from once the crime is identified. So the truck would record the robbery/footage of the incident, this would go to a company specializing in transportation protection services which buys a lot of data from everyone. They will trace the instigators of the heist and send out a friendly swat team for meet and greet.
I agree the rollout is a little bumpy but I'm curious what workloads you are using k8s for where a $74/mo (or $300/mo) bill isn't a rounding error in your capex?
I guess it's my turn to be the dipstick who complains about the website's design instead of discussing the contents, but I'm finding the font extremely hard to read in Chrome. In Safari it's better, but it still doesn't look great in terms of kerning. Anyone else seeing this?
I didn’t expect that login with Google will confuse people so much as it’s just a popular auth provider. However, thank you for the note, I will take it into account for the future.

Unfortunately, Firefox has issues with WebAuthFlow and I wasn’t able to deliver extension on this stage. Definitely, Firefox extension is a Must and I will work on a workaround to deliver it later on. I hope for your understanding.
I don't think anyone is arguing that, though. Lots of things humans notice e.g. "we speculatively upped the virtual file system cache and now the service has worse throughput but better high nines response time" is not something you can really build an alert for, and neither is it something you really want an alert for -- but absolutely something that would show up on a dashboard you're intimate with.

In other words, people are not arguing replacing alerts with humans, but rather arguing that continuously looking at your metrics give you a mental model for how your system behaviour changes in response to changes in configuration, whether intentional or not.
Could be a new hobby for the author. Like https://xkcd.com/148/
> AWS, for example, begins with high prices and then lowers them over time. It costs money but you know the maximum.

That's only true for official pricing though.

I know of multiple cases where AWS had initially given significant discounts, only to stop doing so once they believed the customer to be firmly tied to the platform.
Electronic invoicing in Italy is a thing since a couple of years, mandatory since Jan 1st 2019...
And it has been losing tons of money for even longer. Without VCs to bail them out several times a year, how will they justify operating at a huge loss in France without a viable path to profitability?
Hmm. Based on what I read, particles smaller than 0.3 microns have a widely "wandering" path of travel through the mask fibers on account of Brownian motion. My understanding was that 0.3 micron particles are the size that the N95 mask is least effective at blocking. Smaller particles are blocked more effectively, not less, until you get down to a scale so small that you pretty well exclude live biological material.

Not my original source, but discusses the same thing: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/376179O/nanotechnology-a...

This is to say, 95% filtration is the worst the mask will perform, with particles of any size, as it relates to coronavirus.
>But as just a passenger, aboard the truck but not driving it, you aren't using up those precious hours.

This is inaccurate. If you are sitting in the passenger seat you are classified as "On-Duty Not Driving"
You are only 'resting' (aka "Off-Duty") when you are in the bunk.
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Could you cite more primary sources? It looks like India related entries on Wikipedia were totally hijacked by paid wiki moderators[0]. Now I cannot trust any India related entry on Wikipedia

[0]http://www.opindia.com/2020/03/delhi-anti-hindu-riots-wikipe...
I suspect I'm in the minority on this, but I would love for k8s to have hierarchical namespaces. As much as they add complexity, there are a lot of cases where they're just reifying complexity that's already there, like when deployments are namespaced by environment (e.g. "dev-{service}", "prod-{service}", etc.) and so the hierarchy is already present but flattened into an inaccessible string representation. There are other solutions to this, but they all seem to extract their cost in terms of more manual fleet management.
Now I'm not sure what sure what we were paying for when we paid for our cluster? Isn't the price we pay to use/build the cluster the payment for the cluster?
That action in itself has some legitimate technical reasons at least - fighter jets are very envelope pushing and often cannot land safely while carrying a sufficiently full load of fuel. Say the jet can only land safely at 35% or less fuel capacity, is at 50% and needs to reach a target which requires at least 70% capacity to reach, fight, and return. Midair refueling isn't an option for whatever reason and others are logistically committed. Dumping 15% and landing to refuel before launching could make sense.

Granted stupid waste without any valid tactical or strategic edge case reasons aren't exactly unheard of in the military either.
I don't know if that's true. Our hourlies get benefits like health insurance, vacation, etc. Maybe not as good as salaried but it's not as clear cut as "hourly pay only."
Many places small and large put a large value on butts in seats.

For a less cynical take, there's a lot of conversations that do happen more efficiently in-person, particularly at a lot of places that aren't set up for "full remote".
Wuhan was infected at the worst possible time (CNY) where the entire population underwent a systematic distribution of the virus (visiting relatives) and also likely bodily fluid exchange (via sharing food - Chinese people don't use communal utensils with family).
Haha, no worries, thanks for the explanation :-)
This is called Structural Typing[0] and is in contrast to Nominal Typing[1] (e.g. Java).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_type_system

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_type_system
Yes. We will call it autotools.
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Not for a lot of minimum wage and service industry jobs. Millions of adults in the western economic world work these kinds of jobs, and shifts can be moved around, shortened, lengthened, or disappeared altogether (via being given to someone else, or because business is expected to be slower). This isn't at all OK, but it's the reality for lots of people.
Nocebo effect?

If you are thinking about coronavirus, you are more likely to feel the symptoms of a coronavirus infection, or what you think are the symptoms.
Influenza has a CFR of 0.1%
COVID-19 has CFR of 2-3% (20-30x higher). Officially the CFR for COVID is ~3.3% but it is thought that is too high because there is thought to be many people who have it who are asymptomatic or have a mild reaction. FTR - 2% of 40% is 2.6 million.

The R0 is the highest driving factor for how many people will end up getting it the first year (aka R-Naught, is how many people on average an infected person spreads the infection to).

R0 for flu is 1.3. R0 for COVID is estimated to be 2.6, but I just read that the R0 is thought to be overestimated. and closer to 2.0. An R0 of 2.6 => closer to 70% of people. R0 of 2.0 => closer to 40% of people.

This is frightening as hell.
Just from looking at it there seem to be obvious sensor dead zones, particularly behind it.
It is common over the entire population that is complaining that exceptions are non-deterministic.

It is not common over the population of Facebook users.
It was in Brazil, I don't know the equivalent. The name here was "capitalization title", it has terrible profitability, liquidity, but you can win "prizes". Almost a lottery.
This theory is silly.

SARS spread in Singapore, where the average high temperature stays at 87-90 degrees twelve months out of the year. They don't have a winter/summer cycle.

SARS was stopped because infectious people were readily identifiable by checking for a fever.
Begin is a ridiculously quick platform for building modern web apps
Interestingly, Iceland has compulsory swimming lessons (not to mention, pools are part of the national identity). But, their drowning rate is relatively high, based on the first link. Of course, they also have a fair number of tourist drownings on their beaches - I don't know if there are enough of those to skew results.
I know plenty of people who are on-call or have jobs with random hours (think bartenders who need random breaks for auditions)
Replying to myself here.

Everybody seems to be stuck in the past, insisting on differentiating phones and desktops.

Smartphones are a relic from last decade. They were revolutionary when they arrived, and in a few years completely wiped out not only competing phones but also compact cameras, GPS gadgets and more.

Since then not much has changed. Apple invents something and Samsung etc, rushes to ridicule them and then copies the feature. Apple does the same (minus the ridicule). The smartphone innovation for the past 4-5 years has pretty much been limited to a missing headphone jack and a screen notch. Everything else has been incremental upgrades.

Still, the first iPhone didn’t have an App Store, and the 3G model had an App Store but no apps in the beginning. And people still bought them.
The iPad was ridiculed when it was unveiled, and yet it seems like everybody has a tablet these days.
The smart watch was curiosity until Apple launched the Apple Watch, and it was ridiculed for being ugly. Millions of people bought them, and today they’re pretty well underway to disrupting the fitness tracker and health monitoring devices.

Bring the right technology along with a developer friendly environment and that could easily happen again if the technology is disruptive enough.

I don’t just want a phone that is half bad at showing desktop apps. I want a completely new device. Yes it will (probably) be a phone sized gadget, and you will (probably) be able to make calls from it, but it most likely won’t be 2G, 3G or 4G.

It will (probably) be a 5G device that isn’t a phone as we know it, but instead an internet connected device that does everything over the internet.

“Desktop” is also outdated. 5G is here, and with it fast internet for everything that has a processor. Screen technology has also advanced to the point that your wallpaper can almost become a monitor today.

Point your device at the wall (using existing technology like the U1 chip in current gen iPhones) and suddenly your dining room wall is a 4K Cinema Display being broadcast to from your phone.
Your kitchen wall or office wall could become a desktop display, again broadcast to from your phone.
what you should take home from this is that you are not in immedate danger from a neurotrophic virus at this time.

what you should also take from this espescially if you are involved in policy is that this corona virus we are experiencing has in its distant heritage ancestors with reported neurotrophic properties. It is possible, that at some time in the future, this virus will accumulate signifigant genetic drift and gain or lose certain properties.
If you want to avoid the telemetry, make sure to set the appropriate environment variable (to anything) before running PowerShell for the first time!

On Linux, for example, you'll want to add something like this to your initialization / startup files:

export POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1

(Even then, I'm not sure that works for the "AppInsights" stuff!)
No regulation was going to prevent a death where developers intentionally disabled all safety checks.
> 1) Uber is a public company now, it has not been VC funded for a long time

They also typically lose around $1 billion per quarter. Unless they figure out how to be profitable, they will eventually run out of money. So really, they are still burning cash on the roughly $20 billion of VC capital they raised, plus the money they raised during IPO.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20793793/uber-5-billion-qu...
Interesting, will be interesting how they are received and utilised. Whilst they don't allow reshares, it is common for people to screenshot a tweet and share that screenshot - this won't prevent that and wonder how Twitter will police that.

Also wonder if they will allow customisable expiration (up to a point), say 36 hours etc. Or allow shorter duration posts, say an hour for spot promotions - which would be a great use for this.
Well, I let Gosling speak about Google's then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y&feature=youtu.be...
Those are called zero hour contracts. It seems like they exist in France also:

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/france/articles/what-to-kn...
Which is actually a problem. Not uncommon to see obvious sham science propagated with an official-looking PubMed link at nih.gov.

"I'm allergic to WiFi."

"No, you're not. Nobody is allergic to WiFi."

"Yes, I am. Here's an official PubMed citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26372109 . Why do you hate science?"
As a whole, an AGI is so general that we'll probably never be able to quantify its intelligence level. But we can quantify the intelligence of various "cross sections" of an AGI. As an extremely simple example, whatever the heck an AGI is, presumably an AGI can play chess. Therefore, we could instruct an AGI to compete in chess games and we could compute its Elo rating. This wouldn't be a measure of the AGI as a whole, but it would be a measure of the AGI as a chess-player.

More generally, we can consider the AGI to be a reinforcement learning agent: not that the AGI reduces to nothing but a reinforcement learning agent (that would be ridiculous), but rather, whatever the heck an AGI is, an AGI would certainly be capable of performing in reinforcement learning environments. Various methods have been proposed to measure RL agent intelligence, ranging from more practical to more philosophical.

Again, an AGI can be considered as a knowing agent, and identified with the formal set of mathematical theorems it knows in some language. Again, this isn't to say that's ALL the AGI is---that would be absurd. But it is one facet of the AGI. Whatever the heck the AGI is, it presumably knows some set of mathematical theorems in any given language (possibly the empty set, possibly a non-consistent set, etc.) There are various ways of classifying and even quantifying sets of mathematical theorems in a given language. See the slides I linked above for some details on this particular cross section.
From what I have heard recently, they may not end up doing the solar roof there. It sounds like the hardware for that is coming from China instead. OTOH, they are getting new production lines for superchargers and other things.

You are definitely right that it isn't clear cut. From what I can see, Tesla has met their contractual obligations even though things haven't gone as planned.
1 toilet or outhouse per 20 people? (The Tenement House Act of 1867, https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/tenements)

"The Conquest of Pestilence in New York City" http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/tenementmuseum/files/20...
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That is talking about one-off sales, not SaaS.

Monthly billing changes his numbers drastically - because now software priced at $1000 is sold as $100 per month instead.
Correct, but the control plane nodes _were_ free and had no SLA. This changes that. [edit: spelling]
In Ontario (at least pre-Ford) you can get full-time benefits as an hourly worker, as long as you work 40h a week or more (or maybe 35?). It's been awhile though so I'm not super confident on the details here.
Between Reddit and bogleheads, that is all the financial wisdom you need. Bogleheads has deeply shaped my investment approach and it should be the same for 95%+ of other people as well.
Thank you for pointing this out, you are right, that doesn't seem right. Fixing now.
But you don't commit to that contractually. "How you see it as a company" is a worthless promise.

I don't think these people get being a B2B company at all. They think they can get away with "we can do anything" consumer type terms. If you consider dealing with this company for non-toy projects, you need to have a lawyer review the contract. That's all I'm going to say.

(My public designs are on GitHub. Works fine. You don't really need these people for open source work.)
You're clearly not from a place that has tourists… ;-)

Service industry in general of course, but tourists vary even more depending on the weather and whatnot.
It's the same price as EKS...
https://aws.amazon.com/eks/pricing/
Are they selling this? If not, why waste effort making a page for it?
SARS-CoV-2 for the virus, COVID for the disease it causes.
Yep, there's actually is a reason why it's called a weed. It's so incredibly easy to grow, and very forgiving.

They require a lot of water/irrigation, though. Probably also why they grow so fast.
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> clusters should be treated like cattle, not pets

Heh... how many teams actually treat their clusters like cattle, though? Every time I advocate automation around cluster management, people start complaining that "you don't have to do that anymore, we have Kubernetes!"

Some people get it, yes, but even of that group, few have the political will/strength to make sure that automation is set up on the cluster level—especially to a point where you could migrate running production workloads between clusters without a potentially large outage / maintenance window.
Do flocks of birds regularly hover in one place for an extended period of time? Coming up with increasingly bizarre limitations here.