skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on what your reporting needs are I would definitely recommend TimescaleDB. I love Prometheus for storing server resource metrics or basic app metrics (counts/timers). For more business-facing data, having the query functionality and visualization tooling of Postgres is a major win. I am working on a similar use-case to you, we considered Cassandra, Timescale, and Clickhouse. With our insert rates and reporting needs, We decided to start working with TimescaleDB.
SNP and Greens in Scotland are considering it. Its unlikely to pass the 'study' stage though until Scotland gains full control of taxation and benefits.
If you don't bring value or fun to the person checking in, they get bored and you get less data to sell.
From what Mencken book/essay is this quote?
Again, you still aren't following. I'm saying many sites don't do that. You are correct, I should be able to see estimated shipping from my cart on any e-commerce site by just putting in a zip code in, and them knowing what is in my cart (product wise). It's a dark pattern that MANY sites don't do this, they make you fill out a ton of info to get to that point. It's sketchy and a dark pattern to put that many walls behind a final price including shipping. I understand there has to be a few walls, but you wouldn't believe how many sites put extra walls in there to try to "trap" you in their funnel.
I'm really surprised to hear so many horrible experiences with Home Depot ordering online. Over the past 2-3 months I have placed multiple orders for things that are shipped to my house, and that has gone off without a hitch.

I've also placed an order for "express delivery" which seems to be a HD delivery driver coming from either a store or a local warehouse. I placed an order for a bunch of screws, insulating foam, joist hangers, etc. My ordered was placed around 1pm and I had the items on my porch by about 6pm the same day.

I also ordered a bunch of lumber, sheets or rigid insulation, etc. that needed to be delivered by truck. The driver arrived on time, used his all-terrain forklift to navigate around a bunch of parked cars (I live in a fairly dense residential neighborhood), and place the whole load right where I wanted it on my front lawn. Couldn't be happier with the whole process.

Just thought it was worth sharing some positive experiences, as a counter point to the negative ones here.
while those are most blatant examples. There are plenty of examples from left wing sites too. All those people seem to have simply gone "underground" eg: https://twitter.com/rojospinks?lang=en from the famous 'travel bans dont' work'.

how do you know hes only referring to right wing websites?
Consider the odds conditional on: trying not to get it. Probably better than 30% if you’re not in a group that has to work outside the home.

Maybe 50-60% odds of avoiding? Still high odds of getting it, but not so high that it’s inevitable.
The question is, did they approach the VS code team and ask them if they where opposed to this feature. Assuming it does not break anything I cannot see why they would be. I get it, it's open source they can do as they please it just seems to me like the logical first step would be to say hey can we combine efforts. Maybe they did, I don't know, that is the approach I personally would take, improve an already awesome open source offering with my efforts as opposed to creating a one off. I would prefer to feed a larger ecosystem and make the pie bigger.
To a degree we deal with catastrophic threats aptly without having our responses deadened by past fears never having come to fruition regularly. For example we swim knowing that if we stop moving we will sink and drown, we drive knowing that a slip up we could well die.

We are collectively guilty of many errors in judgement but on the whole we show on average not only are we able to mostly behave competently in complex situations individually we are able collectively to make some systemic changes to decrease mortality over the years.

This gives me hope that we take the correct lesson from this terrible experience and adjust our individual and collective behavior to avoid a re occurrence.
Verifiability is about the ability to check some information using reliable sources ; it has nothing to do with having “verified versions” of pages.
We have been avoiding prepared meals until there is clearer data about how safe they can be.
Quite a few, here's one example. https://www.nber.org/papers/w26530
Just getting all of the taxes paid and collected would be a massive improvement on the status quo. Our elected officials keep giving writeoffs, not just bailouts.
I also hate a lot about the new Animal Crossing, yet it's outrageously addictive and fun. I love the game, flaws and all. Just makes me wish they'd let a switch have one island per player FFS.
I joined 4sq after the split because honestly, a more accurate Yelp is what I want. The gamification of check-ins was never going to scale or be sustainable long term. I use Swarm on a daily basis, and the critical functionality it provides me is to remind when and whether or not I (or my friends) have visited a place before.
My account was abused because of SIM swap. It was banned. I explained them that I did not do it. They won't budge.

We need to enforce tech companies to have proper customer support. We need to make a regulation that enables users to appeal or sue tech companies decision about their account. No more 'fix through hacker news submission or reply' please.
Thanks! Haven’t heard about it before, will check. Although I’v heard about Elk - looks like by the same guys. Recently started playing around with Bela as it has Eurorack kits.
Nah, Fox just clutched onto their ignorant statements longer than most media companies.
They're betting that you'll still buy something once you're surrounded by merchandise.

Hrm. Good point, that’s exactly what’s ended up happening. Just never actively considered it
What about the NYC Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot tweeting in February (https://twitter.com/NYCHealthCommr/status/122404315585253786...):

As we gear up to celebrate the #LunarNewYear in NYC, I want to assure New Yorkers that there is no reason for anyone to change their holiday plans, avoid the subway, or certain parts of the city because of #coronavirus.

And then again in March (https://twitter.com/NYCHealthCommr/status/123429834432909312...):

Despite this development, New Yorkers remain at low risk for contracting #COVID19. As we confront this emerging outbreak, we need to separate facts from fear, and guard against stigma and panic.

Or the NYC Chair of New York City Council Health Committee tweeting (https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1226566648729133056):

In powerful show of defiance of #coronavirus scare, huge crowds gathering in NYC's Chinatown for ceremony ahead of annual #LunarNewYear parade. Chants of "be strong Wuhan!"

If you are staying away, you are missing out

Or Bill de Blasio tweeting (https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1234648718714036229):

Since I’m encouraging New Yorkers to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus, I thought I would offer some suggestions. Here’s the first: thru Thurs 3/5 go see “The Traitor”
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. If “The Wire” was a true story + set in Italy, it would be this film.

Or does it only count when its Fox News?
Although, it not fun to think about, you should always have an exit strategy.

As mentioned above, HR is not your friend. I would think of HR as a place where you can document your future lawsuit and buy you a little time to find another job.

I had an issue with another programmer, (homophobic slur and he was getting cozy with the client/boss) so feared for my job. I filed a complaint and got it documented. It allows you maybe 6 months before they fire you or buys you sometime to get in a better space.

Although it's fun to think about suing your previous employer, it very rarely works out. That energy can be spent finding a better job.

There is a time to fight... but from what little I know, this doesn't sound like one of them.

p.s. I'm no longer at the job and have moved on and even more happier.
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The FDA would take years to approve a new ventilator that was an old one with a new paint color. A new design like this would probably be approved for use in US hospitals around 2025 if they're lucky.

Might be useful sooner in a country with a more functional administrative state.
Many left-wing parties in Europe are considering it, to gain support from progressive wings. However none of these parties have the political power to implement such a thing.
How a truly abusive work culture feels from the inside?

How to memorize "principles" and use them as tools to advance yourself and sabotage others?

Unless you're looking for a post-grad credential in sociopathy, find another cloud vendor or infrastructure provider that's more benign.
Many news media companies have been engaging in just that, trying to point out (hypocritically) where their competitors attempted to downplay the threat of the virus. It's not so much a problem with news media being wrong, it's a problem with most of them skewing towards pundit commentary and OP/ED's on the news, rather than just reporting the news.

If the news media blankly reports what is happening, and avoided adding layers of interpretation on top of it, their reputations would be in better shape right now.
If you lose your job, your lunch is being eaten.
i2c and high performance async IO are pretty rarely overlapping requirements. I’m curious what your use case is?
>It's remarkable how their fundamental "lateral" insight of the last decade was so blindingly obvious in this age of the smartphone - portability is king

Amen to that. I pretty much only have time to play on the go, so the fact that Xbox and Sony (don't even get me started on how they treated the Vita...) have completely given up on portability means I'll never purchase another Sony or MS console again. Simple as that. I want to play portably, and Nintendo has consistently been the best at it.

Currently I've been really into the PSP scene that I missed (because I was too busy on my DS at the time), and I've caught up on a few years of Vita releases already. They really are some great systems, and I cannot believe in this age of "entertainment everywhere" that two of the three titans in video game consoles couldn't care less about portable gameplay.
I’m reasonably fluent in it, so I can keep an internal Toki Pona voice going - the main bottleneck is my typing speed on this keyboard still (on a regular qwerty keyboard I can chat realtime fine with people in Toki Pona), but hopefully that’ll improve with time!
you have to hone your bs meter by making lots of mistakes. incidentally, that's life in a nutshell.
Sounds like I should give it a spin again.
I'd much rather have my work 'device' be a VM on my home phone.

Sadly virtual machines on phones are prevented pretty thoroughly by the android/iOS system design, at least in any kind of efficient way.

"Work profiles" don't really cut it...
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Aside from any and all statistical and analytical arguments made by people much smarter than me, the two things which cast the most doubt on their numbers are a massive drop in the number of registered cell and landline phones, and the fact they actively suppressed their SARS numbers in 2003.

https://www.ft.com/content/efdec278-6d01-11ea-9bca-bf503995c...

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/world/the-sars-epidemic-e...

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-closing-of-21-million-cell...
I've been a Dark beta user since last year and have built several small side projects on it. I think it's fantastic. But I'd describe it as "just code" and not "low code".

To make it work, you have to write all the code! However, you _don't_ have to worry about provisioning databases, deploying, etc, etc, etc.

Makes it really satisfying as a learning to build something and have it be live without getting stuck in heroku / mongodb / etc hell.
i live in kenya and frequently use m-pesa, this service is too expensive,
a charge for both sending and receiving money just won't fly,
sadly it's backed by powers that be who constantly stiffle innovation in the payment space,

kenya is still in dark ages in fairness and plurality of payment systems.
I've recently used it in HackerRank. It's a good idea but turning off autocomplete didn't work for me and was super annoying.
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else" --Churchill
My brain parses all caps ‘APT’ as ‘advanced persistent threat’.

In regards to the package manager, doesn’t OpenAPT imply a closed apt? Is that a thing?
Wow. Overall, I wonder if it wouldn't've been easier to write the code samples as diffs, and then compile them appropriately to a regular code sample + summary?
The article seems to be taking a shot at a reasonably easy target.

Almost all the talking heads are late Feb/early March. While it was clear something was happening "over there", and the fear was growing, it wasn't unreasonable at that point to not expect the unprecedented situation we are now in - and these people are not paid to offer nuance.

I'm not sure this easy soapbox judgement is much more constructive than the hacks it pillories.
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Replying to my own post but I also did this with VS Code. Brand has a lot to do with first impression. When someone I knew told me to try out VS Code my first impression was I have spent too many years in Visual Studio already why would I want to go to what is obviously the lite version. It was only after seeing it, and seeing the support it had in the community did it overcome that initial bias. I hold that same bias towards Eclipse and my initial reaction was great web enabled Eclipse, no thanks.
The original 4SQ was awesome, but it was also absolutely non-viable (no business model whatsoever, besides selling branded badges to advertisers).

Putting aside the nature of their current business, I really admire 4SQ ability to pivot and re-invent itself several times, while keeping beloved functionality like the check-in (even if it’s through another app).

This is a company that by all measures should have died in any of those past struggles. They even had a couple of down rounds. And somehow they managed to overcome all those dead-ends.

Very few startups have done that, and I can’t think of a single one that did it at 4SQ’s scale.
If they can't compete without mass privacy violation and tracking, then it is better for all if they fail. This comes off as a pithy dismissal, but these companies have no intrinsic right to our information, and if they've structured their business around it to the point where not having it means they fail, that is their problem at the end of the day.
Next version of #CoronaVirus should infect only Politicians; Earth will become a better place for Humans;
I often use this principle when explaining my code review objections: "I am slightly astonished that this code does X." If someone asks me if it's really astonishing, or what I mean by that, I explain the principle to them.
This is a key point. Especially for prime items, but largely to other items they sell that are not fulfilled by them. It just feels like there is more responsibility through the amazon platform than other websites.

I ordered a case of water through Amazon through a reseller. The shipment literally got lost. Amazon dispute, 20 minutes later, refund is done.

I am waiting for a resolution through Paypal from another website - off amazon - since Friday for toilet paper that will definitely not be sent. After looking at policies, etc.. they generally don't do refunds.

Though, I did have luck on one other site.
The average Google user is more likely to be someone running Microsoft Edge on a 6-year-old cheap PC, than Chrome on a 1-year old Macbook. An SPA requires the front-end do the heavy lifting, spinning up tons of Javascript. Server-side rendering means the browser doesn't have to do a lot of work -- just render the damn HTML, which is fast and efficient. Google results pages are not very hugely interactive compared to say Facebook, so it's better to keep the browser happy to make the page load quickly.
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TBH, >95% of the commentators here don't reach the education level of the editor of the article by far in terms of the specific domain, but still this doesn't stop them from criticizing it.

Not meant to be snarky, and in general imho it is good the be critical always - but this should include oneself. The latter part is often lacking, and the amount of lacking very often appears to be proportional to the lack of knowledge of the commentator.
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Liberalism and conservatism are essentially religions—there are core fundamental beliefs to them and a community surrounding it. Rejecting the political party is not just rejecting beliefs but also rejecting family, friends, and social structure. The battle has become so much more about red vs blue, left vs right, that principles and facts are no longer relevant. The vitriol and lack civility in the current political environment all but guaranteed this outcome.

Fox News is deeply wrong, but we should all look inward to our own behavior and if we’ve been unkind or unrespectful, we should take responsibility for creating this situation. Do you really think that yelling at, shaming, or embarrassing people will get them to change? I don’t think research supports that position.
Never had an issue with costco.com where I've made some of my big purchases.
There is plenty of sites to track predictions:
https://www.metaculus.com
http://longbets.org
http://www.knewthenews.com
https://predictionbook.com

I try to record predictions I find in the news. Most statements by politicians and journalists are too vague though. You need to get from "more people will die from COVID-19" to "more than 1.000.000 people will die from COVID-19 before May according to worldometers.info".
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> And i think this is the reason why even amongst the medical professional i've talked to, they first seemed not too worried at all.

Medical professionals aren't professionals in everything. You may have been asking the equivalent a frontend developer for advice on writing COBOL for z/OS.
The PSP did fairly well.

The Vita on the other hand, I maintain it was the high cost of the proprietary memory cards (combined with the high price tag of $250 for the console upon launch) that sealed its fate. They should have been giving those memory cards away for free (or used SD) because the online shop would have blown up. Instead they pigeonholed themselves by using more Sony proprietary cards and no one could afford the thing _on top of_ a cell phone.

The Vita has excellent games and it's my second biggest collection, behind the Switch.
If Tesla were to just build existing ventilator designs, like Medtronic's Open Ventilator, Tesla wouldn't be getting any criticism from anyone. That would be a truly useful thing to do in this situation. For example, nobody is criticizing Tesla's partnership with Medtronic to build the solenoids that are supply-constraining Medtronic's Western production of ventilators.

But Tesla wasting time and money on a new ventilator that won't go into production during this crisis is not praise-worthy, especially considering that what they have still needs weeks of work to make it usable in a clinical setting even if they wanted to start production immediately. It's just like the submarine they built for the Thai cave crisis. Lots of overthinking and self-praise going into something that ultimately couldn't be used by the people it was intended for.
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The date at the top is listed as "15 April 2020". Does that mean they intend to officially publish it on that day or is this a mistake?
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The first part sounds like a pretty terrible UI bug - it should be showing as out of stock everywhere :thinking: maybe the search results don't cross-check your selected store location but the detail page for an item does. (not excusing it just thinking where the issue could be)

A couple of reasons to show items they can't sell you right now in the search results...

1. The best reason I can think of is if you click into it and it isn't available then they could show "similar" items and cross-sell you on those - and maybe actually help you find a good alternative.

2. If you are searching for a specific item then the result should show you that item regardless of availability or you'd just keep looking for it and be confused about it never showing up in their results.

3. Maybe SEO? More listings - even out of stock listings -> more SEO juice
Win by not fighting. People like this are a red flag that there are bigger things wrong in the organisation. Unless it is your family's firm, it's not your place and it's really not your concern to be fixing it -- even if you succeed in doing so, it's highly unlikely you'll see any reward for it.

There is a non-fiscal cost as well. The more this is a subject weighing on your mind, the tighter your mind will wrap around it and the more difficult it will become to extricate yourself.

You can always get paid elsewhere, but you can never get the time back. Do not waste it in situations like this with people like this. Even if you win, it's still time spent you could have been doing better elsewhere.

Finally, always remember that this too shall pass. Good luck.
I'm happy to purchase groceries for you, I'm in the same area. Email is in the profile.

For other people who are also in a similar scenario: NextDoor and local FB groups are great for this.
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If you are not familiar with VC scouts, they are entrepreneurs and startup operators that work with VC firms to create more deal-flow opportunities.

Why it's a hot trend:

VC landscape is booming especially with the rise of micro-funds. It's harder to get the founders' attention when you are competing with hundreds of other funds.

Why every VC will have a scout program:

Scouts being entrepreneurs and operators, they are well-positioned to get the attention of their peers. It's easier for scouts to generate deal flow.

Examples of famous scout programs:

Indie.vc, Sequoia, Spearhead

How it works:

Most scout programs are based on a freelance-like business model, although some exceptions exist. Basically, you are paid a referral fee whenever you make an intro to the VC firm.

If you want to know more about this subject, here's a great article:

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Stay home, stay safe.
You are right, the biggest funding cuts came when the “Tea Party” led GOP came into control of congress, during the previous administration.

See e.g. https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stoc...
I don't think architecture has been the driving factor for console exclusives as much as intellectual property. MS and Sony have been in an acquisition war for studios for years in order to lock down exclusive IP. This is a pretty costly enterprise because Sony and MS have to buy and maintain entire companies to produce exclusive IP.
I know there might be more ops load and the bar is high to perform.

But is it really cut-throat in terms of co-workers trying to sabotage each other?