skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an old investment scam where you start with sending a few thousand letters with half saying gold is going up and the other half saying gold is downing down.

Initially, half the people got "good" investment advice. Send another letter to the people who got the "good" advice say the US dollar is going up or down spilt equally. Again, half the people got "good" advice, so send another letter to the people who got two lots of good advice ie a quarter of the original number. Continue to send letters to the "winners" with half saying buy a commodity and the other half to sell the same commodity.

If you started with 2,000 marks after four letters you have 250 people who would have made "a very large ROI" if you had followed our investment advice. Then you sell them some very bad shit or a subscription to your investment newsletter.

Morral: Past performance does not mean it will continue.
That second link is a bit strange, in that people are not allowed to go to the gas station? That is considered essential in my state and I believe in most states.
Nah, let's unplug them right now, throw them in the trash, and never buy any such device ever again.

It's plainly obvious what's going on by now.

I certainly didn't fork over $999 so that this uniquely identifiable billing and accounting radio tag could be used calculate a multi-year, comprehensive geolocation log of 3D/XYZ coordinates (precision within ~100 centimeters) and accelerometer sensor values, that only large corporations, organizations, institutions and services can share amongst one another, but I cannot see for myself.

I'd rather spend $999 on SDR antennas and mess around with open-source spectrum analysis software, and join the eavesdropping party, and surveil all the tagged animals within range.
>I’ve never had the confidence to express it to a group of people, in case I’d look like an idiot.

One way until you get the hang of this, is ask questions that lead the person/group to your opinion or suggestion. This will hopefully help your confidence up and get you used to speaking.

e.g. Let's assume the task at hand is moving data from mysql to progress. When the meeting organizer asks for feedback:

- An extroverted person might blurt out the need to have some sort of reconciliation report that makes sure the data from both systems is the same.

- A somewhat introverted (not trying to label you! :)), might think a reconciliation report is needed, but instead ask how can we make sure that the data in the 2 systems are correct to give us the confidence that we aren't making a mistake. At this point some extrovert would blurt something out.

Good luck! Practice makes perfect.
Why is it that hospitalizations are expected to keep increasing indefinitely even with the interventions in place? I assume the graph represents point-in-time hospitalizations and not accumulated # of interventions? If so it would be nice to see some of their assumptions, like average expected duration of hospitalization. I just don't understand why hospitalizations keep going up in this roadmap when every country that has put strict social distancing measures in effect starts to see a leveling-off and decrease in hospitalization after around the 3 week mark. In short, I wish they could put more details into what goes into these projections, and explain why they expect to see hospitalization number to keep going up even withs social distancing. Unless someone messed up and put the graph of accumulated hospitalizations since beginning of year instead of point-in-time # of hospitalizations.
Techcrunch doesn't work if you block advertising.com

I guess I don't need techcrunch in my life after all
In my opinion very few of the smartest, most successful businesspeople attribute their success to anything they learned at an institution. There are essentially no traditional institutions that can teach you how to be a great entrepreneur, identify those people, or help them be successful.
If you spell it "dijk" it's even less racy, because it's no longer a four-letter word.
I live in Nevada County, which apparently has a very low infection rate (34 cases, none in the last week) but if you open this county, what prevents folks from other countries from flooding in and bringing more infection? This county was previous a tourist mecca so it would be especially inviting. But any county that was open would be an appealing destination for the closed counties.
It's all Mathematica/Wolfram Language. And a very, very warm computer.
> For building prototypes, Django is the fastest framework I've ever used.

I worked with Django full time for about 6 years. It scales up and out pretty well, too.

There was a peer comment about Rails. I'm a big fan of Rails, and Ruby is one of my favorite languages. But one thing I've noticed is the lack of magic inside the Django codebase vs. Rails' codebase. Spelunking in the codebases feels night and day different: I found Django very intuitive and Rails... less so. I think that was a combination of my lack of skill with Rails' internals, and the different in languages and communities. Python (and Django) try to follow the Zen of Python. Rails felt like every other method was monkey-patched and reduced to a single line or two. It was odd: I think the expressiveness of Ruby was actually a negative at large scale (sort of like Lisp vs. Go)

For 99% of use cases, you never need to get to this level of the frameworks, but it was an interesting experience.
Different regions have dramatically different population densities, and don't necessarily need shelter-in-place rules. In NYC, shelter-in-place is probably the only feasible way to reduce social interactions when case-count is exploding, but in Boise, where people mostly live in detached housing and drive cars and cases are measured in the hundreds, it might be sufficient to eliminate large gatherings and shut down restaurants. It's not just a matter of thresholds.

For all the various politicians are talking about "following the science", there's very little actual science backing up these measures. We're pretty much making it up as we go, and you would be hard-pressed to find "scientific" justifications for most of what we're currently doing.
Backward compatibility is a laudable goal and is not to be broken lightly. But sometimes, things are so fundamentally broken that we would be far better off with a clean break.

Interoperability is quite possibly a good argument for coming up with some reasonable restrictions on filenames. Today you could easily (case sensitive names, special characters, etc.) create a ZIP file or similar that cannot be successfully extracted on this platform or that.

In an excellent article, David A. Wheeler [1] lays out a compelling case against the status quo. TL;DR: bad filenames are too hard to handle correctly. Programs, standards, and operating systems already assume there are no bad filenames. Your programs will fail in numerous ways when they encounter bad filenames. Some of these failures are security problems.

He concludes: "In sum: It’d be far better if filenames were more limited so that they would be safer and easier to use. This would eliminate a whole class of errors and vulnerabilities in programs that “look correct” but subtly fail when unusual filenames are created (possibly by attackers)." He goes on to consider many ideas towards getting to this goal.

[1] https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
Or questDB if you want that sort of performance but prefer sql
Its still pointer arithmetic, its just done compile time rather then at execution. Still, you deserve style points :-)
How is the support for AWS ECS? I really like terraform, but it is pretty bad at handling changes made to the task definition outside of it. Most of it is due to the declarative nature of the thing (You cant at the same time fetch the latest resource and create one if it doesn't exist). So the hacks we have to do to make it work with CD are just plain bad. I am considering moving our stack to pulumi (3k lines of terraform).
Lambda architecture for data processing, as popularized by Nathan Marz et al [0], has two components, the Batch layer and the Stream layer. At a high level, Batch trades quality for staleness whilst Stream optimises for freshness at the expense of quality [1].

I believe what GP means by Lambda is that, you'd need a system that batch processes the data to be amended / changed (reprocess older data) but stream processes whatever that's required for real-time [2].

An alternative is the Kappa architecture proposed initially by Jay Kreps [3][4], co-creator of Apache Kafka.

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[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617290343

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

[2] https://speakerdeck.com/druidio/real-time-analytics-with-ope...

[3] https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...

[4] https://dataintensive.net/
There are gaming consoles, or you can just not run their games, it's not like there aren't literally thousands to choose from. They're also just games, cheating is not a life or death thing, or it shouldn't be.

Alternatively, you could stream a game from a remote server like on Stadia. These anti-cheat systems are only for online games anyway, and you can let Google deal with their kernel driver.
I just wish that Kotlin had a testing solution as great as Spock (groovy), or rspec for ruby, for that matter.

Have you tried using Spek?

[1]: https://github.com/spekframework/spek
For someone considering their next build with a usecase of:

- programming, docker, golang

- gaming

can anyone recommend a resource for determining the relative performance of processors? With all the new of how well AMD is doing, I’m still not sure how to look at a given task, and determine which processor would perform better.

Does anyone know of such a source?
The cold call approach is something I've been hearing a lot. It's scary to just start talking to people when you have no experience, but I think that's just life. It was the same with negotiating salary, learning new thing and meeting new people. You just need an objective goal, courage and a way to learn from failures.

Thanks for your input!
Yes. That is what AMD is doing with these chips; e.g. the 32-core version has 64 cores with half disabled and you can disable more if you want.
Where does it say that? The chart only goes through May.
If everyone is cheating, then you don't have an advantage, so what's the point?

I guess you could look at it as another level of metagame, though.
Satellite internet? Autonomous vehicles? Nvidia and Arm? What's "interesting" to you?
Thanks for the breakdown
That would just be a cube, right?
I usually don't let them leak into public interfaces, and don't allocate VLAs, but really like VLA pointers for multi-dimensional array processing such as []:

double (*a)[N][P] = (double (*)[N][P])a_flat;
for (i=0; i<M; i++)
for (j=0; j<N; j++)
for (k=0; k<P; k++)
a[i][j][k] = f(i, j, k);

The alternative would be

a_flat[(i*M+j)*P+k] = f(i, j, k);

which is a lot more error-prone. I understand that some implementation (MSVC) declined to implement VLAs, but I really wish that at least VLA-pointers could have remained a mandatory part of C11 and later standards.

[] Has there been any discussion of adding GCC's "typeof" to the standard?
Does anyone know how big of a program this is for things like vox, go media (former gawker) etc? It seems like a huge rate cut and given that some sites have huge sections of their site dedicated to "buy on amazon" could this be a big hit?
Similar but more general question: is testing available to everyone, e.g. random asymptomatic passersby?
i'D fuck you and jerk off to your conclusions; in inseparate orders. Sign me in
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I think, learning a tiny bit of assembler, even if in an emulator, is very valuable to teach the basics.
ESXi is indeed available as a target (here: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-vsphere).

The reasons that self-hosted infrastructure is less prevalent in tools such as Pulumi (and Terraform) are many - not least demand - but one reason is that vendors make it INCREDIBLY difficult to test thanks to proprietary license costs.

I brought up an ESXi provider for Terraform in 2015, and VMWare were not even remotely interested in giving us the ability to test it via a license grant, and I was obviously not about to pay VMWare to test integration for a product I don't even use. In the end I never released or upstreamed it, preferring to work on targets whose vendors were more co-operative.
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Casualties of the Iraq War
I don't know about specific tasks, but I've been using https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/ to compare CPUs.
I don't think that's the same, because e.g. in French, e, é, è, and ê are all used, with different pronunciations.
william gibson is a krakile disturbed jew, just get over it. He's nothing much
> That seems oddly narrow. As a contrived example (I like stress-testing ethical intuitions) would you consider barricading the doors and windows of someone's home and waiting for them to starve to death to qualify as physical violence?

Yes, the barricader has “initiated force” because “man” owns his body and his possessions. Vandalizing the possessions is analogous to assaulting the body. (My language is clumsy.)

> I'll also perfunctorially object to terms like "man" or "human", but I doubt that's a contextually relevant distinction, given linguistic history and the lack of any other sapient species respectively.)

Noted.
I've been there. Once you start thinking to yourself that there is no long term future ahead of you, the kind of choices you make becomes almost like a sick joke. Buy some fruit and vegetables to eat so that you can feel nourished and live a long life, or eat some feel good salty sugar loaded fast food because you have no fucking future anyway? Study and gain employable skills or play video games right now because you're going to die homeless next month after you can no longer pay rent due to a pandemic?
Arguable but irrelevant. I'm arguing against your absurd universal and inhuman suggestion (nay, command!) to keep politics out of the discussion. On the particular topic at hand I think I'm somewhat in agreement with your conclusion (though I'd need to reflect more to be sure).
It's no accident that many of the original team were compiler or CLR engineers ;-)
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I found this list of open source SSO providers to be useful in learning about CIAM options: https://gist.github.com/bmaupin/6878fae9abcb63ef43f8ac9b9de8...

I'd also love to hear any experiences comparing KeyCloak with commercial providers (Okta, Auth0, FusionAuth).
This entire plan is based on models that do not align with what we are seeing. The graph on slide two[1] of the official CA govt plan shows hospitalizations With Intervention rising exponentially, exceeding our hospital capacity in early June. The actual new infection data shows that the rate of new infections has been decreasing since at least 4/4 [2], meaning that the graph of active hospitalizations should be a bell curve with a maximum value of ~10,000 on ~4/20.

The mismatch between their models and the observed data does not engender confidence.

[1] https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/California...

[2] https://covid-19.direct/state/CA
It has nothing to do with ethnicity and everything to do with jurisdiction.

There is obviously more transparency when companies must comply with American or British courts vs the Chinese government. At the same time, all three show very little regard for the privacy of their citizens, and seem to have no problem paying off or breaking into domestic industry to gain information or exert control.

For your case in this exact instance, the Chinese government has no disincentives I can think of from pwning your computer through this kernel driver, besides that it is obviously way more effort than you are probably worth, so you probably don't have to worry about it.
Alternatively, were your own government to pwn your computer through this kernel driver, it is possible you could seek legal recourse. Was legal recourse not possible, you could go to the press, who would (I think? I'm not from the UK) be free to print your story.

So yeah, I think its pretty obvious installing a kernel driver from a company under Chinese jurisdiction is less safe than one from a company under American or UK jurisdiction.

But noones targeting you anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I use Java 14 now. Java 11 in production.
The problem with "luck not skill" people is that they are defining all the elements of skill as a matter of luck.

Bill Gates made Windows which was used by millions of people all over the world, well he got lucky because he was born at the right place in the right time (a point made by Malcolm Gladwell).

Elon Musk/Thiel made billions, well they happen to be at the right place at the right time with Paypal. Once you make billions, then making more billions is super easy, that's not luck, but a function of wealth.

Cope - That's the only explanation for people attributing the success of other people as luck. If it's luck then you're not a failure, just unlucky, but if it's skill then you have to be responsible for your actions and failure.
I agree -- and beyond a catastrophic crash, I wonder how practical the PCB frame is for longevity of the quad, vibration dampening, etc.
Consider that contact tracing was what worked reliably against Ebola. Those outbreaks took place in rural areas of developing countries. South Korea is having excellent success with contact tracing and quarantine.

You do ask what billionaire funds that website you cite. No contact details usually indicate a Citizens United style slush fund.
They likely don’t make a lot of money because people, including many people here, do their best to block ads and bypass paywalls. Without fail, someone here will always paste an archive link or some other paywall-bypassing link.

A second point (that actually justifies the practice of paywall bypass,) is that who is willing to pay for news when news outlets function frequently as PR organs for the constituencies they “cover?” The idea that you have to be nice to subjects in order to cover them is nonsense. What that actually means is that reporters lack courage or even basic training on how to get stories from confrontational subjects. So what if China gets pissed off. Publishing Xinhua-approved stories isn’t journalism, it’s PR. It’s not different than publishing DNC or RNC talking points. If all the journalists in China get kicked out, that still doesn’t preclude covering China — it just makes it harder — but it’s already hard, so there isn’t any difference. By letting China dictate coverage, that’s worse than no coverage at all since only an approved version of the story is all that gets out and people then are inclined to accept that “truth” without challenge because $some_international_media_outlet reported it.

China’s obfuscations and outright lies during the Coronavirus situation makes this topic even more noteworthy — outlets promoting and parroting the CCP official line have been deadly; one example was China officially reporting that the Wuhan Coronavirus wasn’t human-to-human transmissible even after they knew that to be completely false and they themselves instituted mitigation for human-to-human transmission that, according to them, couldn’t happen. Even more ridiculously, the UN appointed China to a human rights panel on free speech.
I wonder if this will finally drove the price of a Tesla down enough that I can afford it
well a lot of things in the business section had a different production which could directly import the data from the old one or different migrate the data. like business server essetnial or dynamics marketing most often the new stuff was more expensive.
Even skype for business online is upgradable.
some stuff has less features, like hotmail which could use all custom domain names and not only godaddy ones like outlook.
That's kind of my point: doing something to protect the best interests of your company isn't inherently malicious. Sure, altruism has benefits, but they're much harder to measure than the bottom line.

Also, FWIW I think we need to move away from GitHub.
It was obvious to anyone that was looking as of about a year ago.

It was so flagrantly obvious that it didn't even get the chance to make it to the public markets to flop, because it was clearly visibly a bad enough idea for everyone to run screaming before that was able to materialize.
>pretty good record with this frame in mind

No, they don't. The average VC does not even return the S&P let alone make significate returns.

You always hear about funds making huge profits but that is for one particular fund for one particular VC. Even the best of them struggle to match 10-year index funds due to their cost structure 2+20%.

Large fund make heaps of money for the GP but not for the investors.
> Name one major social media site today that was based on a “new protocol”? Answer: None.

If one already existed then this title of this post would be 'ActivityPub is the Now' instead of 'ActivityPub Could Be the Future'. Efficiency isn't the only metric and comes at the cost of freedom and resiliency.
Feast or famine works really well if you’re selling stock options as soon as they vest. Well assuming the cycle time is fast enough and you’re staying through multiple cycles.

It’s like x every year vs cycling between 0 and 4x.
Really? New York current has quite a few times the casualties of all of China (10834 vs 3341) with a small population than Wuhan and the casualties haven't stopped there. New York by itself has one of the high casualty levels in the world by any measure.
I don't understand why so many upvotes. While the underlying concept of the article is correct, and the author deserves credit for that, the argument made to support it can be true only if the reader accepts the premise of the article itself (option B is made having the user at the center), which the author openly admits he/she has no clue if that is the case.
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To avoid redundant threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22871806
I think that "disease" is a misleading term, because it makes it sound like an act of god or nature. I'd say it's more like a moral evil. Because there are people in power who have the ability to eradicate this, simply by paying their workers more, or allocating government money to public services rather than to tax cuts for the rich, but they don't. They push austerity, they exploit greedily, and those are deliberate human acts of selfish evil.

I'd say that the global implicit and explicit ideology of "greed is good" and "might makes right", as well as the tendency of our systems towards nearly boundless concentration of resources and power in the hands of few, is the real disease.
Thanks, so it's definitely easier said than done! Good explanation.
I think the person above is mostly pointing out about dynamic blocks , since that do allow abstracting blocks of config and also allow subtle differences