skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a useless PR. What was the "enforcement action" ??

>The whistleblower’s information and assistance helped the SEC staff devise an investigative plan, craft document requests, and ultimately bring an important enforcement action focusing on serious financial abuses.”

What financial institution?
I'd be interested in hearing more details here.

Are you saying that you use s3 as your only data store?
The population is only increasing due to an immigration flow that the Trump administration is busily shutting off or disincentivising in every way possible.
I wonder if this is also the reason it's been mostly concentrated on the United States' west coast so far, seemingly to the north end
Mice do not equal Humans for one simple fact.

Mice produce l-Ascoribic Acid already, where humans cannot.

I would argue that guinea pigs would be a much better model, because guinea pigs, like humans don't manufacture their own vitamin C.

I would argue that testing any vitamin C therapy on animals that product their own l-ascorbic acid is a waste of time.
Any and all payments made to SXSW are not refundable for any reason, including, without limitation, failure to use Credentials due to illness, acts of God, travel-related problems, acts of terrorism, loss of employment and/or duplicate purchases.

I wonder if they change their tune if enough people say they are coming from effected areas / experience symptoms.
Almost all commercial insurance policies exclude pandemics and terrorist acts.

Where exactly do you propose they buy this mythical insurance policy that includes pandemic coverage?

(On another note, insurance is literally the socialization of losses. It's just a privately run socialization of losses with your fellow policyholders.)
More that you can't easily quantify the value of crises that never came to fruition because of a competent IT staff.

Invisible == worthless to the Harvard business school types.
Since it's Day 2, def appears to be an architectural scalability issue, not some bugs. Quick scan of their engineering blog shows the following stack:

-Zookeeper, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Faust (Kafka Streams in Python)
-Kubernetes (was/is SALT + Terraform)
-AWS Aurora, PG, ES, Influx
-Presto via AWS Athena, Redshift
-homegrown solutions for a data lake & managing k8s microservices

Fwiw, their team does appear to have a rigorous internal post-mortem process (SEV reviews) [0] drawn from industry best practices.

Let's hope a public one will be made when issues are resolved. (FINRA will be asking for one anyway.)

Not piling on. I genuinely feel for all the infra engineers staying up all day/night fixing this.

[0] https://robinhood.engineering/creating-a-sev-process-that-sc...
Moscow Didn't Get a Winter This Year
How to write non violent creative code
> realize that your child may not be interested in anything you are interested in, its ok.

I've been trying to get my son into STEM (robots, arduino, raspberry pis, everywhere). Alas, he is an artist and enjoys drawing manga, writing stories, and playing guitar. At first I was concerned because none of these are useful employment skills. I've learned to just go with the flow.
I have found that users, especially in a business setting, will happily adopt new software as long as the benefits of using that software exceed the pain of adopting it.

> In these cases, the users complain endlessly that the software is too complicated. The clients in turn blame us when the users refuse to use it or find work arounds.

This reaction sounds a lot like the software is incurring more cost on the users than benefit.

Are you sure that the software is not, in fact too complicated? Are you sure that the companies using your software aren't misusing it in a way that increases complexity and cost to the actual users?

> I feel like this is a management problem and not a software problem.

Why do you think this? You haven't gone into enough detail for me to really know, but it sounds to me like the software is either too complicated or foreign to the users, or that the software is being used in an inappropriate way.
No, there is no solid evidence of persistent infections. The few reports of repeat infections are highly likely to be caused by testing artifacts. The imperfect sensitivity and false-positive rate of the tests means you'll always see people who tested negative at one time, and positive at a later time.

As an RNA virus, it would be extremely difficult for SARS-COV-2 to establish persistence. I'm not aware of any known mechanism by which that could happen. It's been proposed that some COV's may have neurotropic capability [1] that might allow them to achieve latency, but it's just that -- a proposal.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6212673/
I would not want to be an event organizer these days. None of these decisions are easy.
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Unfortunately all the people who are going to make the decisions about whether the world burns are first-world people, and their problems are the only ones that they care about.
I recommend investigating the world of sweet and foxy wines: Concord, Catawba, and Muscat wines.
Towards Crystal 1.0
There are examples of successful co-ops outside of tech: Mondragon, REI, and credit unions like Alliant come to mind. The absence of co-ops in tech could just be because the model hasn’t been tried yet. It doesn’t provide any signal about the viability of the model, or lack thereof.
I think you are confusing Sanders position against fully open borders vs an allowed, but controlled immigration process.
Whistleblower: My Journey to SV and Fight for Justice at Uber: Susan Fowler
While i think you are right about that the coronavirus will most likely decline as the weather heats up, I think a better comparison to look at would be the Sars epidemic in 2003 rather than the flu.

In that case, rather than diminishing rapidly in March, it diminished in May. [1]

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

In either case, any step at delaying the spread of the virus will have a dramatic effect on the ultimate death toll.
My microservice that returns “Hello World” via HTTP has been running solid for 5+ years now with zero downtime.
> So, most of those 700 are recent infections

But the vast majority are less recent than February 20th. Almost all of them have been showing symptoms for longer than the average time to hospitalization.
More time to prepare and possibly ship a vaccine for a second wave.
Didn't mean to imply that it was inherent, see the comment about powershell bellow - just that that this is the standard we unfortunately came to accept as adequate.
That's great for you. In that situation, if my company buys your product, we have zero opportunity to pitch in to Busybox and are not able to spend any of our billable time upstreaming our patches, because the device is locked down. Who wins here? It's not the project who wins, because they lost contributions. It's not my company or any of your other customers who win, because we can't contribute. It's not you who wins, because if you get a different job then you lose access to the device and can't contribute, and you also lose the billable consulting hours that you could have charged to my company. It's not your company who wins, because they lose the shared contributions from my company.

I'm not making this up either. Even in my personal life I own lots of random devices that I know for a fact are running Linux and Busybox. But I have to go out of my way to find a device that I actually have a chance to get a toolchain running on and can actually start working on patches. It's usually limited to old devices that had no security or had their security broken. So any contributions I make are limited to things that only work on insecure old legacy hardware, stuff that is not going to be of interest to your company working on the next new hotness. There is a real problem here that's in-part solved by the GPLv3, but you have to actually acknowledge that it's a problem.
If someone had a $5/ton carbon removal machine, they would be demonized as standing in the way of the policies that advocates want.
It's a false analogy. Not all search engines track or monetize you. A user can choose DuckDuckGo. There is no DuckDuckGo for ISPs.

This hypothetical is even less relevant when you consider that Mozilla protects you from Google using blockers and also from ISPs using DNS over HTTPS.
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Then don't read what you write, keep turning to the next page. It's fine also to throw away what you write, until you think something is good enough to keep.

One reason for not throwing them away is: once you get a little bit better you can see the past as the past and see how much you have improved in contrast rather than identifying what you think is bad with "yourself". If you think you are not good enough, say this: you are not good enough "yet". The yet is very important. Know that you will improve. It's fine to improve. To be able to improve you need to accept that you are imperfect.

This exercise is a wonderful opportunity to not get so attached to impermanent things.

Eventually your writing will get good enough.
It's almost like someone who wants to tax the utter shit out of you wouldn't be your first choice to have in office!

Maybe we should look into elections meddling at home instead of looking halfway across the world for a boogeyman.
True.

This is my opinion, not backed by hard data or numbers or anything else - just my opinion. I think that the world (or at least the west) became dependent on China's capacity. We outsourced and off-shored, and a bunch of factories closed and companies shut down. China didn't add capacity, it replaced capacity. So in the short term, if China shuts down, there's an actual shortage of capacity, because much of the other capacity is gone.

In the long term, as you say, sure, we can start back up here. It will take a while, but we can get there. The buildings didn't die, and the people who knew how to do it didn't all get lobotomies. In the medium to long term, we'll be fine, whether China comes back or not.

Note again: This is my guess. Anyone with real data, feel free to supply it.
We Don’t Know How Bad the Coronavirus Epidemic Is
Imagine how many startups could bloom if Medicare for All were the policy of the US.
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I realize I still have the hard copy of this book on my bookshelf for 25 years!
In my experience you do end up having external dependencies and more than one service. You do end up breaking out some code into special instance types, (high ram for video processing or what have you). These are problems you do have and do have to solve so you might as well come up with a plan. Deploying microservices really isn't that hard once you make it routine, imo.

But what do I know? I would not have expected Instagram to run things like user login on the same instance as photo upload and processing.
It's run by the same lady that made Intel buy McAffee in 2010 for several billion. Years after it was already a dumpster fire. Yeah, I'm staying away from their products.
That argument gets brought up again and again, and is just wrong. Can't people see the basic contradiction in that reasoning? Trees have always died!

What matters with forest-based offsetting is the increase of forest biomass - the deaths of individual trees don't matter. If you grow a forest, the corresponding CO2 is offset for as long as the forest stays there.
At the low level of C and Unix, text is the language of the API. Something has to be that low-level - either the OS and the language it's written in, or the extra level of abstraction supporting the OS and its implementation language (in which case the complexity is much higher, and a lot more bugs would be exposed). Either way, there's going to be some point in the layers of abstraction where these kinds of errors are possible. I'm not seeing how an overall improvement could be made to the API without adding abstractions.

To me, it seems better that there are fewer layers so that the architecture is clear, the elements of the OS and language are known, and the points where such errors are possible are clearly marked - as was done in this article submission.
The difference between quarantine, isolation, and social distancing, explained
After evaluating tools and stuff, finally settled with Dropbox synced plain markdown files. I have a generic file per week (making one per day was too much hassle), also separate files for specific projects.

I also recommend G.M.Weinberg's the Fieldstone Method on Writing.
Lear New Things Now
With awareness as high as it is already, I think most infected people will seek treatment and for the most part they'll be ok. That's not to say it won't have an impact, and it may very well be worse than the flu, I just don't think it warrants the level of paranoia and fearmongering that the news has been pushing.
The absolute highest outlier (like, only one case so far) seems to be 27 days, with the vast majority being under 5 days.
Randomly initialized weights do work for neural nets. I'm not much into AI tho.

Think of it like this: You can make a rather arbitrary nonsense claim and still hope for a response that corrects it, or has something interesting to say at least.

Alas, I am not the response one would hope for the most-- not offering a map to the kingdom either, while a connectome alone isn't worth much anyway.
Take care, you may be wrapping your connection pool around a built-in connection pool. Furthermore, some dbs might not like log-lived connections.

http://go-database-sql.org/connection-pool.html
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thirty seconds and a context switch to a man window is a lifetime, compare with an environment where I just type utiltiy.<tab> autocomplete to 'option', have an inline documentation displayed under the line and a seamless choice box that allows me to choose from several valid values for that option while displaying inline documentation for what each means.
Maybe I'm just looking at the past with rose-colored glasses, but postwar US built the most advanced highway infrastructure, hoover dam, landed on the moon. Now we rely on rate cuts and tax cuts to inflate our paper wealth. California couldn't build a high speed rail with all its wealth. Our astronauts had to hitch a ride with the Russians to get to ISS.
Why were stocks invented? It seems that stocks were not even invented for trading but for funding things. Being able to profit from trading seems secondary. The whole idea that stocks must rise forever or society collapses seems insane to me.

I've always had a pet theory that 401k is a Republican ploy (or extremely useful). Tie everyone's retirement to the stock market as the only thing that matters.
hey, careful how you talk about my balls
I can count at least 3 years in past 10 years without required temperatures for ice wine production. Even in years with harvest we see it later and later in winter, which leads to loss of grapes due to the rot making it not economically viable anymore. 20 years ago you did ice wine harvest in late November/early December. Now you are lucky harvesting in mid January.
I don't want to use RCS in supported regions, so I suppose that's fair.

I don't like RCS because it appears to eliminate several aspects of SMS that it an acceptable messaging system for me.
No way to win an argument with religious fanatics, there's always an "answer" to why the predictions haven't come true.
Yes, GCC 4.2.1 for tier 2 and 3 architectures only (like MIPS or PPC) for quite some time.

Clang/LLVM was imported into FreeBSD base in FreeBSD 9, released in 2012[1]. I don't believe it was the system compiler for any arch at that time, but could be wrong. In FreeBSD 10 (2014) it became the default compiler for amd64/i386[2].

[1]: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html

[2]: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/relnotes.html
Crops failing is a first world problem? I think you have it backwards.
Right, and they have seen mice in labs visualize their learning of paths in a labyrinth. Chances are mammals have a basic kind of consciousness shared, which built up to humans.
Of course we had a lot to do with it, it's a construct of Man. These are not innate laws of the universe passed down to us.

That being said, it is absolutely legal as well as cultural. As a corporate director you can and will be sued if shareholders can show you intentionally made a choice to lower shareholder value even after knowing it would.
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But more cold does frequently mean less snow.

After a certain point the air is just to cold to hold any humidity.
Less syllables, rolls of the tongue better.
This seems like a very important point, thanks. Many people are pointing at differences between nations and comparisons with Diamond Princess to derive different fatality rates than are commonly mentioned in the media and to point at an "iceberg" of unsymptomatic (and uncounted) cases. It's good to be aware that some of these discrepancies might just be artifacts from the way the data is registered.
Things are shifting around.

Simple way to imagine it: take the first interactive graph at https://www.intmath.com/trigonometric-graphs/2-graphs-sine-c....

Imagine x=2π is Wyoming, x=3π is Berlin, y depicts average winter temperature. Expected situation is b=2.5; current situation is b=2.75.

This is of course a silly example, but illustrates the idea of what happens when you push around parameters of a periodic function. Weather is spatially periodic.
Feels like C# to native ;) will give a try
People are here obtusely misunderstanding more than just how FreeBSD works.

Imagine this:

"Microsoft has removed Notepad from Windows!"

"You dummy, no it hasn't; you can still get a Notepad for Windows from the Microsoft Store! Microsoft only removed it from the base installation of Windows, not from Windows as such."

Doh? If that happened, you would no longer be able to rely on any installation of Windows to have Notepad.
Do you not believe that a fiduciary responsibility exists between the board/executive leadership and corporate shareholders?
Well, loosing your job, or preferred wine, is a different kind of problem, than loosing your island. Thats what he or she meant.
Agreed, I think many people in the administration and at the Fed were itching to cut rates for a while, and this is the perfect excuse to do what they were already planning to do.
The contempt America's wealthiest show for those around them is exceedingly disappointing.
Indeed. No idea why OP changed the perfectly reasonable title.
I think this is a lovely article and it puts into words a lot of feelings that I've had about corporate North America.

That being said, I don't understand point #7, exiting such that you get a significant payday always seems to involve either an IPO or an acquisition so what does it mean when he says "Maybe the new peak accomplishment for a founder should be successfully exiting their company in a way that sets it up for long-term success." when neither of those exit strategies do that?
Oh, I forgot about the consulting angle, where one could potentially get paid to come in and help fight the malware that they wrote. No one better qualified, really. They ought to remember to charge more for the consult than it would have cost to pay them off to unlock the ransomware, too.

In case anyone needs a Poe's Law check, this was all insincere. I was just trying to draw attention to the fact that Maersk is essentially drawing a huge target on their back for aspiring malware authors, by firing the people that pulled them through their last crippling encounter with malware. It is extremely unlikely, when they get hit next, that any of their former employees will be involved. (And even less likely that any of those people will still be around to pull their asses out of the fire again.)
The trouble is that the nominally risky thing -- allowing banks to create a lot of money -- has already happened. Consumer debt is very high. Most of the borrowed cash is now in the coffers of corporations that never spend it, which keeps inflation low, but also keeps anyone from using that money to pay back what they borrowed. So they just pay the interest. Which they can do as long as rates are low.

The only way out of this is to get enough cash into the hands of regular people that they can use it to pay down their debts at the same time as interest rates increase to provide the incentive to do that. Either that means the money corporations are warehousing has to somehow get paid out as wages (which would require some kind of major e.g. tax policy change), or some other new money has to be created by the government and not banks (by fiat rather than as debt) and then transferred to regular people via a UBI or similar.

In the meantime we can pretty much keep kicking the can down the road by keeping interest rates low for an arbitrarily long period of time. We could even go further into it, because the lower interest rates are the more debt load people can carry. But that keeps increasing the amount of idle cash in the corporate coffers. Something something wealth inequality.
FED is not the government
You can "program" any motor via an MCU. All motors are "dumb" unless we are talking stepper motors, and even then they are still "dumb", just not even useful unless you have support hardware
To me the funny thing is that he spoke about climate scientists in their ivory towers, yet dreams up genetic engineering plans that have no basis in current reality. It's even unclear he understands realities of DNA-based terrestrial life as we know it, if you look at his writings on seeding the solar system with life. In my day we called such people "bullshit artists."
True, but a populist who has managed to accomplish nothing during his entire career is not going to make it happen
You're absolutely right - the world is full of cooperatives! REI, every credit union, Vanguard, and State Farm all spring to mind.

With that said, might some consider it noteworthy that these are primarily customer-owned cooperatives rather than worker-owned ones? That seems like it might not be completely inconsequential, but perhaps I am being excessively picky.

Please accept my apologies for being less than entirely clear. It is my opinion that FOSS projects are unlikely to be considered good examples of worker-owned cooperatives that are also successful businesses. As you say, this offers no comment in any way on the viability or suitability of the model.

A quick search suggests that the worker-owned cooperative model is being tried! https://www.techworker.coop/
Not unless they make money and that money is distributed to the contributors.

So no.
TV money is several multiples of ticket sales for major market teams like LA, NY, Chicago.

Loss of attendance revenues would devastate smaller-market teams.
10.0, 2014 for amd64/i386. Much later for MIPS and Power (within the last year). Sparc was deorbited as part of the GCC4.2.1 retirement effort — no one showed up to implement Sparc support in Clang, and the version of Sparc hardware FreeBSD ran on was extremely obsolete anyway.
I’m really surprised that they don’t have insurance to deal with scenarios like this.
The “central bankers’ bubble” is another one I’ve heard.
To those of you who like the idea of themselves journaling but don’t do it currently or consistently: What’s stopping you?