skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not saying that I know for a fact that this particular meme was concocted by a PR firm, blessed by an internal department and rolled out on imgur, 9gag, 4chan and anywhere else it could find fertile ground. I do not have access to that kind of records. That said, by now it is publicly available knowledge that lobbying firms were proposing ways to handle OWS(1).

I do remember it popping up in a lot of places with anti-OWS message and I just found it interesting in terms of timing and how the subject was basically designed to be hated at the time. Like I said, it is this meme template. I can't find the one with exact wording, which is why it got my attention back then. It does not help that I don't remember the exact phrase.

I will add as a general note that memes are ridiculously easy to create and disseminate en masse. You can obviously create metric ton of variants and see what sticks best. To your point, they can be done Fox News types, Apple-haters, dog-lovers, apple pickers, you name it and tracking its origin can be genuinely hard.

1.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063843/Occupy-Wall...
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Is this not what the "Oxford study" posits, namely that many more of us have had it than we think? I believe that the transmission stats from the Diamond Princess are a strong counter argument, but by all means dig into it.
They work 24/7, I don't think you can presume their "A staff" always works day shifts.
> Development and unit tests for these functions is as easy as plain Javascript.

Since most popular product in the JS world are product to avoid writing Javascript (webpack+babel, typescript, coffeescript, jsx, etc), and plv8 supports non of that nor does it support standard unit tests framework like Jest, I'm not convinced.

To make things even worst, remote debugging is not supported anymore: https://github.com/plv8/plv8/issues/131#issuecomment-2377111...
Well, the FBI issued a warning in the public interest, not to persecute Zoom. And by the sounds of it Zoom is going to address these issues and absolutely none of this press going to hurt them in the long run.
> Subtle energy is real though.

Do you actually understand what the word "energy" means? What form of energy is it? Can you demonstrate with a controlled scientific test this energy?
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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If they're always-on, reboots are rare...I keep a similar workstation on ext4 over RAID-1 (once bitten by bad disks, twice shy; I seem to have been hit by an abnormal number of submarine drives back in the day).
As mentioned, PostgreSQL's documentation is some of the best in the software world. With most software project documentation, one ends up scouring StackOverflow, mailing list archives, and GitHub issues trying to figure out how to do something. With Postgres, I can just go straight to the official documentation, and read it. It has yet to fail me.
I don't hate them, but I find their hardware is typically not as good as the competition, and for a higher price. I also think most people that buy Apple devices don't know this, or just refuse to believe it.

For example, I can't tell you how many times I've heard "I tried a Moto g and it's horrible! My old iPhone was better", or "this $300 Dell laptop is way worse than my MacBook". Of course a $1000 phone is better than a $200 phone, and likewise for the laptops.

But when you start looking at high-end laptops like the surface series, or phones like oppo/Huawei, it's usually in favor of the non-apple.
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Yes, but it requires explicit support and is very platform-specific.
I think that there are two aspects to this problem of hardware disconnects: can we really sure that the disconnect actually cuts the microphone and then can we be sure that this disconnect is driven reliably to cut the mic when we want it to be cut.

Having a separate FET/reed switch is about the former: having a discrete component makes it easier to audit and make sure that the microphone is indeed cut off. Technically messing with the audio codec config or pin muxing is probably equally as efficient when it comes to muting the audio input, but that's a lot more difficult to audit.

But then all all that is pointless if the code driving the switch is broken or has a backdoor. Given that most people won't disassemble their phone or laptop to put a probe on the FET/reed/whatever driving signal I feel like this is just a marketing smoke screen.

If I have to trust Apple's firmware to drive the "hardware" switch reliably, why not make things simple and trust Apple's OS to mute the audio codec reliably?
as others have said, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS, VERBOSE) will give you IO stats within your query at a very granular level.
Just today it comes out that Safari would let sites silently spy on users through the camera and microphone.

Orders of magnitude worse than anything Zoom ever did. Will it be reported with the same level of hair rending?
Note that in addition to regular masks, the town is telling residents to use homemade masks, scarfs, bandanas or handkerchiefs to help halt the spread of coronavirus.
It's a bit surprising to me, because I assumed the difference was merely due to temperature (try to drink soda at the same temperature as a hot cup of a coffee, I guarantee you won't like it)
This (superficially) reminds me of Honeycomb's BubbleUp: https://docs.honeycomb.io/working-with-your-data/bubbleup.

Does anyone know of other products/APIs/OSS which offer this functionality?
They didn't explicitly deprecate TLS-SRP, it simply can't work in TLS 1.3 because although it superficially looks like a minor revision, and indeed (to defeat middlebox ossification) on the wire it appears to say it is only TLS 1.2 in reality it's a fairly radical change.

TLS-SRP bolts over the traditional TLS key exchange mechanism, which made sense, but in TLS 1.3 that entire mechanism is gone, keys are either pre-shared or they're always agreed in the first protocol burst using an (elliptic curve) Diffie Hellman method. So by the time you'd have a natural opportunity to do SRP the protocol has already agreed keys anyway.
...that and money
I interpreted that as "allow only very technical post in Erlang or Haskell"
> Back then fever was still considered one of the symptoms, and I didn't have any.

Wikipedia still lists fever as the most common symptom (87.9%), before dry cough (67.7%). But their data is from a middle of February WHO report. Is there a more recent list of symptom frequency?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Signs...
I don't think that's it, otherwise we'd see mentions of software that is up to scratch, not the far inferior solutions from Cisco, Microsoft, and Google. I don't see any of these journalists suggesting an app with true E2E-encrypted video conferencing, chat, and screen-sharing. I had to google around a bit to find one -- "Wire" apparently claims to have E2E-encryption for video, but there must be some others.
I think permaculture has more to do with culture than it has to do with agriculture. What I mean by this is that agriculture has become, nowadays, the increasingly scientific study of how how to produce the highest yields for crop types that have the highest return on investment for that area. The naming conventions of how practices are done do not influence the practices themselves.

The reason why I bother to make this point is because there are many terms in the agricultural scene that are marketing terms ("organic", "bio" and even "free range"). They are marketing terms because they are not well-defined; they are well-defined only up to sticker restrictions. For example, if you buy "orangutan sensitive palm oil", do you have any idea what that means? Can we know that they don't cut corners? The term "organic" is especially dangerous, because of its connotation to organic vs. inorganic chemistry and the loss of information when converting between the technical definitions and cultural perceptions.

In Southern Africa, almost all game meat biltong is free-range, hormone free, pesticide free and yet it is not marketed as such, because those properties are a given! In contrast you'll have eggs in the same grocery store that are labelled as "free-range", because the chickens are in housing that can be physically picked up and moved around.
And compression! I've gotten compression ratios above 3x on real production databases, which is the difference between "we need more disks by next month" and "this hardware will last the foreseeable future". Not to mention that it improves performance when lz4 can decompress faster than the disks can read.
I'm curious to hear why and how Maria failed you.

For a reddit-like social site, we have a Maria database with around 3 billion rows in total, with the largest table (votes) spanning about 1,5 billion rows.

We can select data within ~3ms for about 20k-40k concurrent visitors on the site. Our setup is a simple Master-Slave config, with the slave only as backup (not used for selects in production). Our 2 DB servers have 128gb of RAM and cost around 200 EUR/month each - so, nothing special.

Of course you have to design your schema with great care to get to this point, but I imagine PG to be as lost as any other database if a crucial index is missing.
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I doubt this is the case.
Makes sense. I could possibly see the scooters survive in some kind of docked model, where the docks charge the scooters thus eliminating most of the overnight labor, but nobody's gone that route yet and at this rate it may well be that no company survives long enough to get there.

Anecdotally, a lot of the people using them are people who would otherwise have started biking. The scooters are less effort (helps prevent sweating in summer) and smaller. E-bikes are also growing in popularity.
I've built with Telnyx before: https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/v2/call-control/quickstar...

Pick up call - start recording - forward call to another line - collect recording & post it to S3, in no more than 100 lines, and that was before they had an SDK.
Compared to what?
In my average day, I experience 5-10 software failures/crashes/errors on various web apps, mobile apps, in windows, etc.

The last time I've seen a hardware switch fail was 2 years ago.

Further to that, hardware failures are predictable. Lifetime of switches is well know, and they are easily replaced. Good luck fixing a software glitch by yourself as a user.

Consider that a laptop already comes with a hundred switches in the keyboard, and they can easily last a decade if you dont spill coffee on it.
What is this title? Clickbait much?
I disagree, Zoom has chosen to make calls as friction free as possible because the perceived “cost” of having an insecure meeting is low. This increases the cost by creating bad PR. This has the potential to force Zoom to change their defaults to secure meetings rather than having something more friction free. The average user is not going to know about the need to secure their connection. Sometimes sensationalist articles can be a good thing even if they are manipulative.
This was exceptionally immaturely handled on multiple fronts:

> Thinking there were technical difficulties, some employees logged-off and were never able to return to the meeting. [...] Others tried in vain to join the webinar and got a message saying it was full, likely because Bird's webinar license didn't accommodate enough attendees.

> For the next five minutes, employees stared at a sparse slide with a dark grey background that said only "COVID-19." [...] A robotic-sounding, disembodied voice came on the line. The woman began by acknowledging "this is a suboptimal way to deliver this message."

> As the voice on the line was speaking, employees stared at their computer and began to take in the news that they were losing their jobs. Then their screens suddenly went dark and their company issued MacBooks restarted. By 10:40 a.m, everyone was locked out, just as employees were frantically trying to exchange personal numbers and emails on Slack and take screenshots of their contacts.

> It did not help that many managers were included in the layoffs and had no idea who on their team had been cut. Some resorted to messaging their reports on LinkedIn to see if they still worked at the company.

> [The person who gave the announcement] was not VanderZanden or a top executive. "It was a cowardly move," said a Bird manager. "Travis did not want to deliver the news."

> Workers were told they would be receiving three months of healthcare benefits but when they looked into it, they discovered the company is actually only providing coverage until April 30th.
There are local road and beach closures involved in these tests, which I think is why they tend to be at night.
They've lost two of the three Starship prototypes.

Thankfully, they seem to be fairly easy to build, and the tests aren't burning through the really expensive bits thus far, the engines.
Relevant recent "Launch HN", from Orbiter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22512972
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At the same time, the people who use this data also has to recognize its limitations.

When considered collectively, it is probably fine for an overall picture but it will have some limitations. For example: the people who are not submitting data (whether they found some way to disable it or simply don't use the technology) probably live a sufficiently different lifestyle to render the generalizations meaningless for that population.

When considered individually, it can be disconcerting. The accuracy of location data can be an issue. In urban areas, being off by a few meters can associate a person with one population instead of another. Data classification is another reason. In my area, it is currently a summary offense to enter a park. That can create problems for parks workers. The issue may easily be resolved, but it creates headaches at a time when people have other concerns on their mind. Then there is abnormal device usage. Exactly how do you treat people who leave their phone at home 24/7 because they have no use for it (currently unemployed), do not want to be tracked, or are simply unable to leave their home?

It is easy to argue that these people are professionals who know how to handle data, so limitations will be recognized. That's certainly partially true: governments, police, health officials, and the fine folks at Google are professionals who know how to handle data. The thing is, they typically know how to handle their own data and may not be familiar with handling data from other sources.
Majority of RTP media server listen into a separate port for each connection. That's how RTP typically works. This is not TCP connections.
I live in a tick-thick area. I get dozens of bites every year, and I know you don't feel them and they can get places you don't always check every day (in your ear canal, in the inguinal area, on the backs of your upper arms where you can't see in the mirror without doing extreme gymnastics). The beggars will ride in to the house on your clothes and bite you during the night.

I'm diligent with checks but I've been infected with Borrelliosis. Had the rash, had the Doxycycline 100 mg BIDx21.

Hate those guys.
The title quote "observe, orient, decide, act" is called the OODA loop, and it turns out the OODA loop is significantly more valuable than the article lets on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

The OODA loop was developed by military strategist John Boyd, to explain how to direct one's energies to defeat an adversary and survive. Boyd emphasized that "the loop" is actually a set of interacting loops that are to be kept in continuous operation during combat. Boyd also indicated that the phase of the battle has an important bearing on the ideal allocation of one's energies. Boyd's views on the OODA loop are much deeper, richer, and more comprehensive than the common interpretation of the "rapid OODA loop" idea.
I do that all the time. Just after typing, I notice some typos or something that could be worded better and I quickly go and fix it. I have never edited a comment after seeing a reply someone had made to it, and I don't even think HN let you do that.

And its funny that you say you're trying to be nice while dropping comments like:

> it seems that you have extremely limited knowledge

> I'd suggest learning before you make such claims before you make a fool of yourself.

I see you flagged my comment above, maybe you should flag yours too.
> Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it?

It doesn't. Intro section on Wikipedia [0] already lists five studies that concluded it doesn't work:
"Clinical research does not show reiki to be effective as a treatment for any medical condition, including cancer,[4][5] diabetic neuropathy,[6] or anxiety and depression,[7] therefore it should not replace conventional medical treatment. There is no proof of the effectiveness of reiki therapy compared to placebo. Studies reporting positive effects have had methodological flaws.[2]"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reiki&oldid=94822...

[2] Lee, MS; Pittler, MH; Ernst, E (2008). "Effects of reiki in clinical practice: A systematic review of randomised clinical trials". International Journal of Clinical Practice (Systematic Review). 62 (6): 947–54. doi:10.1111/j.1742-1241.2008.01729.x. PMID 18410352. "Most trials suffered from methodological flaws such as small sample size, inadequate study design and poor reporting....In conclusion, the evidence is insufficient to suggest that reiki is an effective treatment for any condition. Therefore the value of reiki remains unproven."

[4] Russell J; Rovere A, eds. (2009). "Reiki". American Cancer Society Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Therapies (2nd ed.). American Cancer Society. pp. 243–45. ISBN 9780944235713.

[5] "Reiki | Complementary and alternative therapy | Cancer Research UK". about-cancer.cancerresearchuk.org. Retrieved 2020-02-12.

[6] Bril, V; England, J; Franklin, GM; Backonja, M; et al. (2011). "Evidence-based guideline: Treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy: Report of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation" (PDF). Neurology. 76 (20): 1758–65. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182166ebe. PMC 3100130. PMID 21482920.

[7] Joyce, Janine; Herbison, G Peter (2007-10-17), "Reiki treatment for psychological symptoms", in The Cochrane Collaboration (ed.), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. CD006833, doi:10.1002/14651858.cd006833
Thanks! that's neat.

I found this:

> Set the apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag to yes to turn on standalone mode.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...
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You should not use switch in JavaScript, because it is a language where switch requires break, which means it's 100% going to bite you in the ass unless you have a linter that checks for the break. It's not worth it for such a simple case.
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No doubt an affiliate marketing scheme for a laid off employee
In Canada though you're gonna be 1) very VERY remote, and 2) you're gonna be extremely cold. It's no surprise that the most expensive cities in Canada are also the furthest south.
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Well, well, I guess we are a movement then. I got a secondhand T440p three years ago, with a 240GB SSD. This machine is indestructible - it had already seen heavy use in an engineering company, and I really haven't spared it either. Running various permutations of Arch and Xfce all the way through.
Last month, I finally did upgrade the SSD to a brand new Samsung EVO 1TB. The old unit (also a Samsung EVO, as it turned out) is doing just fine, though, but now running in a non-critical convenience setup.

I can't really sing enough praises for this ancient ThinkPad, now also with a new very cheap, ridiculously superb display and stuffed full of RAM. I have a newer, sleeker, faster Lenovo Something sitting around, but somehow the 440 is what I always end up using.
> I self-admittedly love esoteric databases and storage engines to a fault.

Any interesting notes and observations after using those esoteric tools?
Thank you for insinuating the night crew is not just as capable as the day crew. It really makes it seem like you have never worked In a 24/7 industry
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Photopea (http://photopea.com) can also open Sketch files and is also Free.
It's really not difficult to think of many ways that would have been an improvement over what they did.
The OODA loop was invented by Col. John Boyd during the Vietnam War and is being adapted here for the business environment.

The point is for some hard decisions, you will have to act on imperfect or incomplete information. A good leader will make a decision, because doing nothing and hoping you get more info will in fact be worse than making the wrong decision. As you get more information, you can then alter or tailor your decision. This is especially true in a military environment.

For an example in a popular movie, look at 1st Lieutenant Norman S. Dike Jr. in Band of Brothers.
I get all the comparison, but Redis? I still use Redis as a cache on top of my PostgreSQL queries. PostgreSQL simply can't be as fast as a K/V like Redis.
Well, with Oppo and Huawei in particular, its pretty easy to beat the competition with state sponsored industrial espionage subsidizing their R&D costs.
Why is preventing "rumors and backchannels" so essential as to take priority over trust and human decency?
One of my memories that always makes me chuckle was an argument I had with my older sibling about this. I always thought Canada was bigger than the US, but only based on how long it takes to get between city centers in the middle part.

Population density was hard for 9 year old me to grasp. But oh, boy, was I certain I was right.
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Another nail in the coffin for the "masks don't work" side of things.
wear the shame proudly.

in 10 years you will have moved up several steps on the ladder using this technique. and probably earned a good salary.

the dept you lead is in constant turmoil, no long term planning is done, the code is brittle and un-understandable and un-changeable, but somehow enough fires are put out for things to almost work.

all caused by you doing something 'quick and dirty', being rewarded for it. and this becoming an example that others follow.

welcome to 95% of the world.
Not only Nigeria. The downside is that such "elites" are creating VIP covid hospitals (or wards) for themselves thus robbing ordinary citizens of a chance to get proper treatment.
The first ideas for starship seem to have started in 2012 (according to wikipedia). It's now 2020, and the craft hasn't even gotten close to orbit.

There's no way they'll land on the moon in 2022.
Definitely not. Viruses perform key roles in ecosystems, particularly in ocean ecosystems. Their infection and subsequent killing of organisms provides a vital mechanism for cycling nutrients. They also help keep algal blooms in check. Viruses kill 20% of bacteria in the oceans everyday.

Viruses also provide a mechanism for horizontal gene transfer. A protein that is critical to the formation of the human placenta has a viral origin.

Viruses have a massive impact on life, but we're just now starting to realize it.
That's true, and I feel the same about the oddity of referring to the 1990s as the 1900s

In contrast, I think 20th century versus 21st century doesn't feel as wrong, and I regularly use 20th century to refer to time periods that include the 1990s.