skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you could stick your dotfiles and other config in a repo and clone it onto the new machine. Some examples of approaches on this prior thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797
Another consideration: Phoenix PubSub makes it simple and performant to add more servers. So if one (say) chat app server can provide acceptable performance for N users, you can serve N more users by adding another node.

See the architecture of Phoenix Channels (which powers LiveView and other websocket-based solutions in Phoenix): https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html
I'm not convinced that blind mathematicians count as their own species, nor that they echolocate, and so it doesn't seem to say much about his theory one way or the other.
As far as I understand, this is a combined / linked survey and antibody study. So evidence for this must be originating from the questionnaire.

How could you proxy for viral load? And more specifically: How reliable can this measure be?

So short answer: To a degree yes, but unlikely that it is a reliable finding.
A vaguely, but tangentially related fact, is that Stephen King actually considers the stories in his books as discovered, rather than invented. He talks about it in his book 'On Writing'. He considers the stories to be sort of preexisting things, and his job as a writer to unearth and discover them, rather than invent them. It's about his frame of mind while writing, I guess, but still.
Software Forge Performance Index
As it happens I just answered that question - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22898903

I've racked up around 10 years of AWS experience now so it's not so hard for me to throw something like that together. If I had to use Azure then I'd certainly do something simpler.
I would go with some middle ground. I have my bash and git aliases etc for fast local work (which speeds up my normal work), but I have nothing so complicated I couldn't live without them on a random remote server.

I would like to start using zsh but that would introduce too much of variation from the remote envs I might encounter.
Kind of disappointing to see someone else's drawing of the octospiders. Not very much like what i had in mind at all.
I've used Paperspace pretty extensively for cloud-gaming without the lock-in. Unless you're pretty familiar with their UI, it can be an extremely frustrating experience

I've had problems where I've been locked out of GPU types with little to no explanation from their staff. Instances have also gone completely unresponsive and essentially "bricked" from my end.

At some point I reached a decently stable state and haven't mucked around with instances. Sad to see things haven't improved for new customers
Having opened both my 2008 Macbook (with removable battery) and my current 2015 Macbook Pro (with non-removable battery), it's easy to see why: the 2015's battery is actually 4 different batteries of varying sizes & shapes. It's taking most of the space inside the computer that isn't taken by the motherboard (about half, actually).

Making stuff removable is a lot more work; you have to build a way to hold the thing while it's on, you have to put in connectors, etc. With non-removable batteries they can just glue them on & solder the wires.

Not really saying it's a good thing, but I understand the decision.
Copenhagen requires an extraneous assumption — which may turn out to have practical implications.

At the very least, we know it isn’t parsimonious, though that wasn’t clear until after it was developed (and the philosophical inclination to preserve locality was reasonable).
I want to third this, this last week I've been integrating payments and I'll soon be adding in Connect as well. It took me quite a bit of back and forth on whether to use Checkout or Elements and I then ended up with 2 different recipes which resulted in the same thing but both highlighted different "important information".

Eventually I just picked one and it seemd to work out really well though. I've also recently been working with the slack docs and they're the total extreme, 8 different guides with similar names and various different deprecation notices around.

On the upside I felt like having both recipes was really useful to get a good overview of the options and possibilities. I'm really happy with my implementation now and I don't think slotting in Connect should be too tricky. Using the stipe docs was a breath of freshair compared to the Slack api docs which I've been using recently and have been an abysmal experience filled with hundreds of open browser tabs.
Investment and economic perspectives post-Covid
I suspect this is due to USB-C providing a maximum power of 100 watts. This was a classic design trade off. “We can support an industry standard and thus allow ubiquitously available chargers to be used with the device, with the trade off being that the chargers can’t keep up when the device is run continuously at full throttle.”

Then it’s a question of how many are impacted and how often, how support for USB-C factors in to the decision to purchase, etc., etc.
Instead of EFS, use a WordPress plug-in like WP Offload Media Lite ( https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront... ) that immediately moves those uploaded files to S3. Cheaper and more resilient (if you want to to be).
Not sure how you can care about protecting the environment while explicitly ignoring investigation into what’s harming the environment? Unless you believe human activity is not driving climate change, then of course environmentalism is linked to anti-globalization sentiment.
Life After People Series Free on History TV
I always liked this series. But re-watching it now has made it even more interesting. While we haven't disappeared it is a great reminder that we do need essential workers and how quickly we - and our things, would become irrelevant.

https://play.history.com/shows/life-after-people#episodes
> I'd recommend not customising your shell and just learning to live with the defaults

Sometimes the defaults are not sane at all, for example urxvt, it's just a blank window with a very small font size, I'd advise to customize, but not heavily so that in a matter of seconds (the time to copy your config file) you can have the thing you're used to.
Meant to come back and make this comment. I've made a LOT of photographic prints at 150dpi and have never once had any comment other than "that looks amazing".

I used to think 300dpi was "bare minimum", having studied computer graphics in college and Nyquist limits and all that. And then one day my father printed a 640x480 cellphone camera photo as an 8x6 and... it looked fine. I was blown away.

And then I finally remembered: human eyes don't detect absolute light value, we can only see relative differences in light values. Gradients don't provide enough change to see the edges between colors. You can see it on a computer screen because the screen amplifies the contrast of the image (another old lesson I eventually had to relearn so as to compensate when making prints of digital photos).

Nobody knows what resolution you print things when they see the print. If the average joe "knew" how the photo was made, they might scoff at it. I guess people think that craft requires fine precision at all steps of every process. Certain craft does, but some other craft requires randomization and binning, and others have diminishing returns on extra effort. So I find it kind of fun to print low-resolution photos. Feels like I'm winning a game against overly officious critics.
The NBA and Microsoft
Do you think other alternatives to Cuda will have the same drawback as OpenCL, that Nvidia won't support it properly and therefore not be a viable option on their hardware which is dominating the market at the moment?
Coronavirus is no match for 8-year-old's birthday party
That's misguiding and unproductive. Any group is made up of hard-liners and on-the-fence people, and hard-liners change too, just slower. Being dismissive is as damaging as misinformation.

Anti-intellectualism, anti-science, etc. will always attract some people to some degree. Within those constraints there's a world of difference.
That's happened in the past with items I've ordered, as what appears to have been part of an arbitrage scheme - list items on Amazon that Walmart.com sells for less, and when you get an order, reorder it from Walmart.com with the Amazon buyer's shipping info. Every time it's happened and I've checked prices on Walmart.com, they've been ~20% lower than what I actually ended up paying. Seems like a cute little grift, all in all.
I was able to get Senior at £74k in London. Nothing to sneeze at in principle, save for the London cost of living.

Moved to New York following Brexit, now making literally twice that. (Paying twice that for housing, too, but my housing is more like 15 minutes from work instead of 60 and I have a real subway option instead of putting up with Southern Rail and the strikes.)
That's pretty nice actually. I can just keep my config files in EFS or perhaps even just store them in S3 and download them on container startup. Thanks.
I second this, a little customization as close as possible to the default experience.
A Lisp Interpreter
There used to be prestige, mystique, exclusivity, and desirability associated with being a YC company.

I kinda feel now it’s just become a numbers game machine.... back as many as possible, some will win. There doesn’t see anything special about the investors or the investors in this model, it’s just about churning out as many companies as possible and playing the numbers.

Am I right or being overly cynical?
I personally wouldn't build my own infrastructure. I'd use something like https://convesio.com/ and let them handle the scaling.
Michael Jackson “another baby dangling”
The sentence quoted comes directly from the IG report, not the journalists. Don't blame them for the IG's wording.
Show HN: A gradle plugin that integrates xmake seamlessly
The ownership and distribution models aren't the problem. The problem is that while everyone is locked up at home, no one consumes, we don't go to restaurants, to malls, we don't do tourism. And in some case we don't produce either, construction is halted, etc. There is almost no economic activity going on.

No economic model works when everyone is effectively on house arrest.
Right, your point is that normally, new theories don't fully refute the existing ones - the existing ones turn out to be special cases of the new one - the old theories are not entirely wrong, but rather only right sometimes. Like how Newtonian physics work fine as long as things are not traveling very fast or are very heavy, at which point we need relativity. I fully agree with this. But being only right sometimes is still a falsification of the theory (as a complete theory to describe and predict all phenomena that it pertains to). My point is that nothing in my top level comment is at odds with this. Relativity has once again not been falsified. Newtonian physics have been falsified (in general - though they are contained as a special case within relativity). The body of evidence that a new theory needs to deal with in order to replace and subsume relativity has just been expanded even more - yay!
I don't think it's fair to call that political. Everyone agrees that the current COVID19 restrictions are extraordinarily costly and should be relaxed the second we're able. If he believes he's found new evidence suggesting it's safer than commonly believed to relax the restrictions, of course he'll be desperate to tell people about it.
I've been basically "using the defaults" for the last ten years after spending twenty years customising everything; I've noticed a couple other good advantages:

- It's easier to understand what your customers will see: If they customise things, they'll need to figure those things out themselves anyway, but if you customise things, there's a chance you'll forget a detail and it'll leak out to your users.

- Nudge; Your automation tends to spread: If I have a deploy_to_prod alias, chances are it can only be used by me, but if my project has a deploy.sh script, then there's a path to get other people on my team to use it. If you've got the discipline for this by some other way, then that's great, but having to eat dog food meant I first had to make the dog food, and requiring (of myself) helped me build that habit.

- It's one less thing to think about.

Of course, the downside is that one day I woke up and found myself using zsh.
In what was is that the "original" article, and why the dismissive tone, as if OP ought to have posted that link? The one linked is significantly deeper, with more information, images, etc.
> The PCR test has an incredibly low false positive rate, below 1%.

Do you have a source, offhand? The problem with asserting any sort of false positive rate is that you need to benchmark against a source of truth. What source of truth are we talking about? A second PCR test? Clinical diagnosis?

If we benchmark against the clinical diagnosis, for example, then clearly this is a huge false positive rate -- most of the patients are clinically diagnosed as negative, which is all this article is saying. Benchmarking against a second test doesn't really tell us much if trace signals are being amplified, or if the laboratory is in any way compromised because of the urgency of the testing.
It's a common theme among sculptors too: the shape is already in the stone, they just have to uncover it.
Building SQL queries from strings is possible safely, in the same way that C's memory model is safe.

It can be done... But not by most people. Are history proves it, time [0] after time [1] and time [2] after time [3].

It is simply not worth it, if you can make use of parameterized queries.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20161024090111/https://ico.org.u...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-s...

[2] https://www.baltimoresun.com/education/bs-xpm-2014-03-07-bs-...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20150219165019/http://www.batblu...
"Sure, they made a lot of mistakes" - is a strong understatement given how they have been treating the users. Just look at the history of posts about Zoom here.

Upd: These are not mistakes. They did all that intentionally, fogetting about the security for convenience even when it was beyond reasonable imho.

Upd2: Why downvotes? Some recent headlines from Hacker News:

- "Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China"

- "Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing"

Are you calling these "mistakes"?
That's because science is a distillation of consensus experience, not absolute truth.

That doesn't make it invalid, because the "experience" part really really matters.

But it means its validity is limited to "for all practical purposes" - which is perfectly good enough as a baseline, and certainly more useful than "It's just my opinion and I'm right about everything because I say so" or even "Because my god says so" or "I'm going to lose money if this turns out to be true, so I'm going to spend some money up front on a PR campaign to persuade people it isn't."
>> While this is indeed overly complicated, you have to take into account the fact that there are websites of all shapes and sizes powered by WordPress these days, and not just blogs, but things like eCommerce, booking, dating sites, forums and more, some of which would actually benefit from an overly complicated setup like this.

It's amazing what runs on Wordpress and how relatively easy it is to scale with straightforward infrastructure. I think the diagram is for to enterprises which adore the complexity (because the enterprise architects won't be doing any of the maintenance), and is conditioning people to solutions which will have high consumption cost (because your money is best left with whatever cloud provider you choose.)

That doesn't mean you shouldn't go all in on taking advantage of your cloud provider when you have a good model of costs and performance. However, you are best starting with the needs of the application and working from that point as you allude to.
Setting aside the security ramifications of getting SQL string concatenation wrong, your RDBMS query planner may be able to cache a paramaterized query plan, whereas a query built by string concatenation may be seen as a new query to be compiled and optimized.
I don't order often enough to justify Prime, so the wait so far isn't much worse than normal. Not being able to sit at my computer has given me some much-needed perspective on how I use it, so it's not all bad.
>Free will is a philosophical concept which is essentially dualist.

Is it though? I came to the conclusion that one could consider free will the self-realization of a person in space-time -- in other words, free will is the only and only choice one can make (at each decision they face), that they make because of who they are thus far.

In that sense, "free will" is the same as the "person" (or the person's essense) -- and would it make sense for it to be any other way? Randomness wouldn't be free will, and having a second entity (e.g. a soul in dualism) do the decision making just moves the question and degree upwards (from "how the person has free will?" to "how the person's soul has free will?")

If a person faced with a choice A or B could go either way, then I wouldn't call that really free will (even though for some reason that's what most people have in mind when talking about the subject).

Either a person is a concrete personality/being and that manifests through its choices (which means that when faced with the A or B dillema they can only chose one or the other based on who they are), or they have some degree of randomness in their decision making (which makes them less of a person in my eyes -- randomness is not tied to our person, it is, as the name reveals, random).

When some people say "free will" they actually mean "free (independent) from the person". But that's not a will then -- a will denotes something being tied to a person (a person is their will).
I don't think so, because CMOS circuits are not restricted to being series-parallel like, as in logic expressions. For example, one can implement, e.g. not(AB+CD+E(A+C)(B+D)) with just five gates (one per input) for each of the direct (pull-down) and complementary (pull-up) network.
GNU Stow[1] and chezmoi[2] are two decent approaches for solving common dotfiles problems.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

[2]: https://fedoramagazine.org/take-back-your-dotfiles-with-chez...
Interesting, thanks for putting this together. Curious – have you found good sources of granular data for credit card spending and movement patterns, perhaps from traffic/ride-sharing/mobile (that's anonymous/protects user privacy ofc)?
Ubuntu 20 04 LTS (Focal Fossa) review – 2020
From the first line in your link.

"Common examples include price increases of basic necessities after natural disasters."

The parent post specifically said non-essential products.
The article complains about one set of restrictions... And then admits Google and Apple are working to lift them in the next two weeks. Then it complains that they will only have push, not a pull model. But that seems an entirely suitable way of solving this problem. And one that won't immediately be abused by horrible regimes.

That sounds smart and fair and effective to me. But I guess an article saying "Apple, Google work hard and are smart and effective" won't get many clicks...
I like to say that the BEAM's preemptive scheduling provides non-blocking IO AND non-blocking computation.

To expand on your workload description: things like waiting for a database query or an API result are smoothly handled in this paradigm; the process goes to sleep for a bit whle another request is processed.

If your workflow is like a delivery truck which makes a lot of stops, "faster trucks" doesn't help much with throughput. "More trucks" is better.
This video of stars orbiting Sagittarius A* taken over 20 years never ceases to blow my mind.
https://youtu.be/DRCD-zx5QFA
Ask HN: Incompetent people are promoted how to deal with it
I really liked this perspective from Bartosz Milewski in this (very good) podcast episode: mathematics is not inherent to the world, it is inherent to the human brain (paraphrased, around minute 32 in the episode)

https://corecursive.com/035-bartosz-milewski-category-theory...
You ascribe beliefs to me via stereotype. I don't "believe" in the Big Bang Theory. I'm content knowing that I don't know. It doesn't strike me as rational to speak in such absolutes about subjects which are beyond human comprehension. To each their own.
I'm pretty sure it's the (lack of) package managers.

The presence of a defacto package manager completely changes the library dynamics.

I can't even link and test properly against GMP on Windows :/
Doesn't this imply that, while you can invent all the axioms you like, you must discover which ones are consistent with each other and with experimental results.
So, not order of magnitude then?
UBI is taking money from those who work and giving it to those that are lazy.

There are already too many "social programs".
That's a pitiful amount. That's the cost of two F22 fighters, or a single afternoon fighting a war in Iraq.
Physical Measure of a Pandemic
This is addressed in the first paragraph of the article.

> "I feel that sharing files between different computers is now a solved issue, and the benefits I get from having personalized my work environments are so great that I gladly pay the small price of synchronizing that configuration between my computers."
Preliminary data from China suggests that a non negligible percentage (maybe 5%) of recovered patients never produce the neutralizing antibody.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047365v...

This would mean the antibody test alone cannot tell the full extent of community spread. There's a brief summary of antibody knowledge here.

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/what-do-antibody-...
you can run your own. get one computer, run multiple VMs and run the cluster on them. Or buy multiple computers and run your own cluster. unless you're dealing at scale, the overhead of running and upgrading your own k8s is usually not worth it.
You actually hit the nail on the head. We have been growing like crazy and the copy on our marketing website hasn't changed since we quickly put it up. I truly appreciate the candidness.

fwiw - re-patriating of funds would be when a company based in the UK for example, is doing business in the USA, and they are getting paid in the USA, in USD. Moving that money back home to the UK in GBP would be the re-patriation of those funds.
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Thank you for your letter. I haven't read it and won't be answering any of your questions or concerns. Here is some bs from a pre approved press release about how great I am and why this is important. You are important to me, which is why I haven't read this and won't be reading it, now be quite while the adults make decisions that will wreck your life.
Server-side tracking: surprisingly easy (2020)
Millions of Americans Might Not Get Stimulus Checks
I hear magazine and tv divisions are still very much separate.