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For me I'll only downvote if they're derailing the conversation or being a jerk. I won't even downvote if I think they're objectively wrong or just don't agree with them. I'll upvote good arguments.

I do this because of how downvoted comments get hidden and they only show the added total of votes. If one person has this view then others must have the same view. And let's be totally honest here, people aren't going to go through an entire thread to unhide every single comment in every thread they visit. Hiding wrong comments are a missed opportunity to set other people straight. I've learned so much more from the old forums from the early to mid 00's where wrong comments were quoted and set straight further down the page than on Reddit where all those comments were hidden. And because of that back then it was far less of an insult to be called out when you were wrong, because it was natural and normal.

Now when people downvote subjective things, that's where it really destroys the community. Say the up/down vote split on a comment was 900/1000. This is obviously a hotly contested issue with a small percentage of people thinking negatively of it. But if you were to only see the total (how the site does it now) you'd see -100 and the comment is hidden. Looking at this now if you didn't have an opinion before you might think this person is "obviously" an idiot and people start calling them a troll. This isn't just a ding to that commenter either but the other 900 people that up voted their comment. Do this enough and that other 900 people will start looking elsewhere. Now if the sub is some fanclub for something that's another story. But there's subs that are suppose to be more broad that have succumbed to being dominated by a side and drove away any opposing views.
I can't help but think this glitch was a good thing and Robinhood investors would do better if they traded less anyhow. According to an OpenFolio correlational study, traders who trade more than 12 times per year make 0.5% less than traders who trade less than 12 times per year. OpenFolio was one of the first three websites to have an API integration with Robinhood portfolios.
The skills and supply chains are just fundamentally different in crucial areas. A prime example is the specialized techniques for welding together thick hull sections of specialized steel alloys to build a complete submarine. There's no equivalent in civilian industry. If that production capability is ever lost due to a long gap in new submarine orders then it would take many years to reestablish. Institutional knowledge if a fragile thing.
We currently spin up dev clusters with a single node. $73/mo is going to basically double the cost of all of these..
The only time I'm forced to use PowerShell is when dealing with edge cases involving MS products. In our case, we needed to refresh SQL Server Cube data within an Excel file and we didn't want to use iron Python, so we relied on PowerShell for doing the refresh work while Python controlled its process.

Personally, since MS has made Javascript a 1st class citizen on Windows now, it would be nice if Javascript and Typescript were better integrated into PowerShell. It would be nice to have one language to rule them all. I hate the time wasted with context switching. Also, I still hate using PS script. They make a lot of strange style decisions like with method / parameter declaration.
> So let me ask a dumb question for someone with actual biomedical knowledge. Are they saying that infection of the CNS is somehow easier through the nose, in which case high-quality face masks actually do matter?

The olfactory receptors (nerves that smell) are among the most exposed nerves of the body, and IIRC they are single cells stretching from the mucus membrane in your nose all the way to the brain. And because smell is such an evolutionary ancient function, the relevant brain region is really close to the centre of the brain (and brainstem).

So it's really just two hops from the outside world to the command post of your autonomous nervous system (i. e. breathing)
You linked to the estimate of one scientist. It's stretching things to say "scientific agreement" with the implication that there's a consensus in the narrow band of 60-70% based on a data set of one.

I've seen estimates quite a bit lower than that, like 20%.

Although it is disturbing that 20% is about the lowest estimate I can recall seeing. I don't believe there are many (or any) scientists saying this will be a minor blip that only infects 1% or fewer. And 20% would be devastating, let alone 60-70%.
The 'cluster control plane is free' selling point was basically the _only_ thing I saw from all the different groups I worked with which was in GKE's favor. Yes you can get one free cluster but anyone serious about using Kubernetes would have _at least_ two clusters (a prod and non-prod staging cluster), so unless you're a true hobbyist (and the use case for K8s in that realm is pretty slim unless it's to backstop work projects) this effectively means you're going to pay as much for GKE cluster control planes than you do for EKS.
Twitter is testing ephemeral tweets in Brazil and calling them ‘fleets’
It wouldn't surprise me if Azure charges for control plane at some point. Seems like EKS and GKE can get away with charging so why not...
Why are you disappointed?
Attempting to capitalize on a competitor's announcement isn't cool and doesn't look great.
They should be building something that more closely resembles an armoured RV with a gun. Perfect for achieving and maintaining occupation.
It's about psychology, not numbers.

the parent post referenced Thalidomide. a disaster like would seriously shake public confidence in medicine, across the board
Your statements about the FDA are way off mark. There's plenty of very dangerous drugs in use now riddled with misinformation around their safety. Fluoroquinolones and statins are some of the worst offenders with terrible irreversible cumulative side effects and the fda barely has done anything for them. Many in the know believe they're conplicit on the matter since those drugs go out to basically everyone now at some point.
>Very few subs have FAQs or rules asking newbies to search the sub for their question

People don’t follow that, anyway. First, the rules for subs, on the sidebar on the desktop, are fairly hidden away now in the ‘about’ link. It’s doesn’t matter, though. Even when it’s at the top in a sticky post people don’t read it - take /r/scams, for instance, and the ‘I installed a RAT and filmed you watching poern so give me bitcoin’ scam. People post about that every day for months despite a highlighted bold post at the top of the sub for 6 months. Or /r/celiac. Plenty of links about diagnosis in the sidebar, but people ask ‘I have this and this symptom, do I have celiac?’ about 4 times a week.

Overall people come to reddit or a forum to have a discussion. Searching and reading is what they don’t want to do.

I’m on the fence as forbidding previously covered topics makes a forum dry and cobwebby. On the other hand, repeating the same basic advice 5 times a week for different people feels very repetitive, like you say. It takes a community of dedicated posters, basically obsessed volunteers, to make a sub consistently give good advice to everyone who comes by. I essentially do this as a hobby, myself.
I heard lesotho has a huge business of selling medical marijuana to Europe. [1] I met a guy in this business, the scale is huge.

1. https://time.com/5752765/lesotho-africa-cannibabis-exports/
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I was driving a car like that few times, with beeping when the limit was exceeded. Annoying, but informative, unless road sign was limiting vehicle mass to 10t and not speed to 10km/h. It was carsharing vehicle, so I didn't bother to turn it off.
Your first bit is just tautological. Yes, healthy companies are healthy. The questionable part is your notion that 17% of investment is healthy.

As to the bit about Lean Manufacturing, you're just wrong. Toyota in particular is known for close relationships with suppliers where they are well supported and trained in Lean approaches as well.
"if" we get to 70% of the world contaminated and "if" the death rate really is that high globally then yes the maths checks out. But that's already a lot of "ifs".
They already had this reputation.
People are not isolated from the rest of the world into specific areas, they know what broadband internet is like and this sets expectation of quality. I know of some organizations that use links on that frequency and not working in rainy, snowy or foggy weather always comes up, but they can deal with that, while consumers can't.
> No operator precedence rule is inherently sensible regardless of the context within which you are attempting to figure out how operator precedence works: It is an intractable problem.

I disagree. FORTH got it right. Postfix notation is inherently sensible, as any RPN calculator user will tell you. It eliminates the need for both precedence rules and parentheses, unambiguously.

1 2 + 3 * is 9. 1 2 3 * + is 7.

It's infix notation that's the problem, precedence confusion is a consequence of it. (Prefix notation can work too, but requires more parentheses).
Great. I work in an E.R. and my neurological system is already being ravaged by M.S. I'm not sure that I would not just walk off of the job if we are inundated with COVID-19 patients.
I sure they take more precautions like make sure women who take the medications are not pregnant.
For sure! That's why I said, "Don't marry yourself to a provider, stay portable". Compute is a commodity, treat it as such.
> I still see very little (or almost zero) industry movement towards any of those scenarios people were claiming was going to happen a year or two ago during all the hysteria over the move to "deregulate" the FCC.

Look up "network slicing"
Recently I started listening twiv.tv podcast and that's how they talk. For instance, they said there are many videos in social media of people dropping unconscious to the floor, but the virologists said not to trust those videos because "it's social media". I stopped listening to their podcast. These people don't reason unless they are shown a peer reviewed paper saying people drop unconscious. I mean, how likely is it that those videos are being faked?
We already do provision clusters, using the aforementioned tools. There is some setup involved, but once done, provisioning and upgrade is relatively simple. Indeed, we used to exclusively provision and upgrade via Terraform/Ansible. When we started using GCP, any data that could be stored by a US company without causing compliance issues was offloaded to GCP over other providers due to the auto provisioning/management at no cost.

If you guys find it hard to maintain/upgrade clusters, that's your business. All I am saying is that as a company giving you business, with this change, you are now no longer the cheapest, most reliable or most convenient. As a result, we will be moving to provision instances with other providers from now on.
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This highlights a sorta-weird consequence of this pricing change: suddenly pricing incentivizes you to use namespacing instead of clusters for separating environments.

(As a security person: ugh.)
Mask fit testing isn’t really about whether you feel like it’s fitting or not but if you have the money I don’t see a reason not to wear the N95
Then there’s Canada, where you can grow it or buy it (from legal distributors), but import/export is verboten without a license that’s impossible to get for personal use.
To be fair, what is the best way to handle expiring credit cards? For one of my SaaS products, I give a 30 day grace period, then delete the data. If they didn't have a backup, that's on them...

If they delete the droplet the second a single CC payment fails, that's one thing, but I don't believe that's how their system works.
"Quite simply, the continued human expertise and organization necessary to manage and sustain such a system is far, far beyond anything we have today."

You don't need "a system" for doing this. You only need one. 9,999 of 10,000 habitats could be staring into their naval, but the one building more will still be building more. So, I think you ought to flip the intuition around; it's not a question of keeping everyone on board, it's a question of what it takes to extinguish everyone's ability to do this, which, once it gets going, would basically amount to "a local supernova".

"I have even the remotest faith we could manage space habitats politically"

Again, I think maybe you're envisioning a world in which all the space habitats are just peacefully co-existing... but this is not a necessary precondition for them to exist, or propagate. Yes, they'll war, and they'll split, and they'll join into groups, and there will be diversity that makes the current diversity on Earth look like boring homogeneity, because there won't be such a strong force pulling people back towards a single species mean. It doesn't have to be utopia to exist.
You're making a somewhat dangerous mistake in your analysis. South Korea's death rate is not well established yet: 7% of their cases were new just in the last day, and they've had very few people with confirmed recovery yet. There are likely to be more deaths to come.
I’ve seen this on medical subs. Doctors get downvoted and their posts disputed. This is often because members have had poor experiences with doctors and the doctors underestimate the level of sophistication of the patient members, and their own level of knowledge is not always what one would expect.
> I am not sure how full legalization contributes to the betterment of citizens, especially young citizens.

Your mistake is to assume a simple relationship between legalisation and use, and that there are no benefits to those young people already using or who would use anyway.

Keeping kids out of the criminal justice system is a huge thing.
Show HN: Slsqp4j - a JVM Wrapper around the popular SLSQP solver
So...

You guys roll out a free service. You tell your sales people to hype it up as a benefit over other providers. You somehow don't anticipate that some users will "abuse" the free service, so you hike up rates for everyone?

Sorry, I don't think you're likely to find much empathy on this one.
It is a matter of diminishing returns already somewhat accounted for in the approval process. Cancer drugs are under far more lax standards given the alternative is death by cancer as even an ironically carcinogenic cancer treatment which gives it again later is preferred to dying of it now.

As opposed to a slightly better allergy pill which more caution may be afforded. Not perfect by any means but it isn't totally blind.
Slsqp4j is a JVM wrapper around the popular SLSQP solver included in SciPy. Slsqp4j is distributed via Maven Central so can be imported easily. Currently only Ubuntu is supported due to shared libraries.
>>" delivery of completely factually wrong information, that you are either American or British"

Not the gp here, but I think that comment is uncalled for.

I'm not American or British and I have been totally wrong, and convinced that I was right, many times.

The gp was commenting in a normal tone. I think a simple correction should be enough.
There's a rideshare company called Via. Is this intentionally designed to take away their SEO?? I'd be surprised if there isn't a trademark challenge for this, they're a competitor with Waymo.
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Memorizing large amounts of factual information just isn't something I have much use for.
if you can filter out the noise (takes effort). It is a decent guide.
Yes, I agree with this. But if you're relying on humans to look at dashboards to keep your actual service up in the moment, you're not seriously committing to automating (just like if you SSH to every machine you Terraform to tweak things, you're not really committed to Terraform).

What you should do is rely on automation to detect problems and alert people, and in postmortems, look at graphs and have humans say things like "Hey, this queue kept steadily climbing for three hours before the outage" or "We would have noticed it in this metric but it's so noisy so we can't alert on it" or something. Then you can write more automation (or focus on some prerequisite dev work).
This is super scary. Before I read this I was happily thinking hey it's no worse than flu. Now... I'm wishing I didn't live in a huge city riding the subway daily.
>and we’ll soon expand to Texas and New Mexico in the near future

pedantic but, as opposed to soon expanding in the far future? A little redundant.
I work at mostly early stage startup and setting up ONE staging environment is always the default option. Sooner rather than later, we'd run into broken staging, botched demo, etc... and waste countless hour debating on how to make it better. Ephemeral environment based on PR came up often as the ideal solution but wasn't implemented because it's not easy

Using release at my company now and I wish they existed 5 years ago
I’ve read most of his stuff and find him to be no more compelling than just about anyone. He just packages it all up and puts it out there. But his foot-in-mouth ratio is also really high and he often tweets or writes about the most banal things as though he were discovering new physics.
I think this is common for entrepreneurs. I've found focusing on my personal mental health has generally been positive for my company.

For example, I nap now whenever I want. Whether I lost sleep b/c of some late night problem or just stress, I vigilantly make sure I get enough sleep. Exercise is huge too. Your mental state builds on your physical state.
'customized systems (kernel)..FreeBSD..bare metal': Which is what most of us still do if we care about performance for a single application. Running openmp fortran code for both host/accelerator on oversubscribed vmware or vanilla kvm/qemu for a good laugh and a lot of pain. Simple systems approaches are best even when what you are doing is complicated.
I believe most versions of Anne Frank's diaries, at least those versions that appear in school curricula, are edited and censored in places. That is fair, because the historic value of the overall ideas shared doesn't justify violating a deceased person's privacy 100%.
Covid-19 dataset in a Google spreadsheet
> Past performance is no guarantee of future benevolence or reasonable behavior.

Sure, but pushing prices down and eating competitors margin to the benefit of the customer has been Amazon's MO since inception.

Google seems to make a lot of missteps wrt pricing and the cloud. Remember the geo pricing change that put a lot of projects out of business??
In the linked figure in the article, the SK tests have about 5x more per million people so their denominator is likely a better idea of the true number of cases.
What's unfair about the situation is the fact that Google's sales people hyped this up as an advantage over other providers for years.
I worked as a lifeguard at a lake's swimming area as a teenager, and I think it's a little less difficult than it sounds. It's not like staring out and hoping your peripherals catch something.

Guards typically have discrete areas they cover, and within those boundaries you can check for a certain number of people and boundary crossings. By doing things like mentally running through the list/number of people in your area and noting the higher-risk ones, it's a little less mentally taxing than you might think. Combined with some overlap between guard stations and regular rotations between areas, coverage can be pretty good. The real difficulty comes in when you start adding numbers of people- the boundaries become less clear, the number of high-risk swimmers increase, and the total cycle time through everyone you're covering increases such that your margin of error between a situation presenting and your time to react starts decreasing.

Anecdotally, I always found the behavior changes from a normal to tired swimmer to be one of the easier parts. Lack of forward motion, intense focus on the activity of swimming itself, falling behind from a group. Again, it's more difficult the more crowded an area becomes.
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The way Facebook works, you never see 90% of the people or pages you are following in your feed, and maybe 10% of the content from those. If I “liked” a page that turned into a washing machine page, I wouldn’t even know for months and when I saw it, I’d be confused about how I “liked” it in the first place, rather than connecting the old page to the new version.
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How much of these subsidies are cash, and how much are tax breaks? Cash subsidies from taxpayers are bad, I agree, but at least with the tax breaks, the taxpayers are not worse off: if the alternative is no factory at all, then they don't lose anything on the tax breaks, because that tax revenue wouldn't have had existed anyway.
They have done it before. Remember Google Maps?
I will argue this is wrong: Only N95 or better masks have studies proving their effectiveness. I don't think we have good data on weaker masks or even "home made" masks- It's totally possible they are also effective, with proper technique.

Please somebody show me data that proves otherwise, I'm totally open to it. (Note: I'm not saying I want you to post opinions from people in authority, I'm saying I want to see data)
There's a lot of things called Via, including a rail company
That’s interesting - I think you’re right. We might move our staging cluster into our main production deployment.

More likely though, AWS or OpenShift running on bare metal on a beefy ATX tower in the office. We want to have production and staging as close to each other as possible, so this is an additional reason and a p0 flag on reducing the dependency on Google-specific bits of Kubernetes as much as possible, hopefully also useful for our exit strategy as well.
Not sure what sort of evidence you're looking for. There are certainly approved life-saving and other valuable drugs. If they had been approved sooner they would have had a greater benefit. There is an institutional bias towards avoiding costs due to approving a bad drug versus delaying approval and incurring unseen costs.
The article rests on the notion that this is confusing, but fails to prove it:

int x = 0, y = 1, z = 0;
int r = (x & y) == z; // 1
int s = x & (y == z); // 0
int t = x & y == z; // 0

None of that surprises me, but moreover I would never expect myself or anyone else to be sure about it, I would refer to the operator table to be check. The article also supposes that this line has some natural meaning that everyone expects, but I'm not seeing it:

if(x() & a() == y)

I think the author is projecting their own cognitive patterns onto the rest of us without justification.