skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if I sounded hostile, but I'm saying that when you use a phrase and assume everyone knows what it means just because everybody uses it, that's not identifying a solution and it's not a starting point for a discussion.

I'd love to have a discussion about the corporate death penalty, as long as it's based on some concrete idea of what it is and why it should help.

It's a topic that comes up over and over and I wouldn't even comment if I wasn't interested in something substantive and different from the norm.
> Some states like CA were prepared

CA has a stockpile that was allowed to deteoriate due to budget cuts. So the initial impression was that we weren't prepared, but then we reassessed the situation and gave away at least 500 ventilators to other states as we felt more confident.

Luckily, Bay Area and LA residents travel to China a lot, so we already had substantial herd immunity by February 1.

You can see that in the Santa Clara dashboard, which never showed an emergency situation:

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx#ho...

Not the "sky is falling" narrative that HN and the press keep trumpeting, is it?
That means they find an unused grave and sleep in it [0].
Google images has some pretty disturbing pictures of the phenomena.

Iran had green movement [1] which happened earlier than Arab Spring. Peaceful protesters rushed to the streets after a fraudulent election and hundreds were murdered by the regime.

The other candidates have been under home arrest ever since.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_Dwellers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Green_Movement
What do you do if you have a script or a server that you need to make accessible to others in your team? Do you run it from your machine, or ask devops to deploy it somewhere? Is there something better than these two options?
Why would a content aggregator allow disinformation on their site during a global pandemic?

And now we enter the semantics game.
I’ve seen this movie, did we learn nothing from Ridley Scott? Nuke them from high orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
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Don't consider the downvotes as not contributing to the discussion, think of them as ... deplatforming your idea. It cannot be allowed to stand as-is, after all.
How many 23-year-olds know to do that? How many are going to remember, and actually do it?
So your argument is.. what exactly? 90% of startups fail, so let’s not make any attempts at understanding the trade offs inherent in decisions such as whether to hire, what price to put on things, which sales channel to pursue, what debt instrument (if any) makes sense?

JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!
I would speculate that most of what SA exports is heavily subsidized and unprofitable. Dates flourish in the Arabian desert around an oasis. Where are they getting the water for the dates and water for milch for dairy, ...?

Probably desalination plants run on Oil.

I am sure they can keep doing this but this is not a natural extension of any of their strengths. Their labor is over priced and mostly imported south asians, overburdened by heavy bureaucracy and lacking in the inputs of production.

Would you open a dairy farm in Namibia? If they really have to tighten their belts they will have to cut down on all these "extra-curricular" economic activities.
But probably not big enough to be a partner?

(I'm from Australia and would consider the "client state" assessment for us to be fair.)
You don't think the "yet somehow figured out a way" blame maybe lies with Microsoft for breaking it instead of the user? Nice idea, problematic execution it seems.
On Liberty John Stuart Mill [pdf]
White flour lasts a long time. Whole wheat goes rancid faster. Just like white vs brown rice.
Never has there been a better time to find evidence on this particular debate...

Here's a relevant search of Google News: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&biw=1265&...

Choice headlines include:

PPE suppliers accused of 'blatant profiteering' as prices inflated by up to 825 per cent.

Cost of PPE soars due to price gouging, surge in demand ...

Protective equipment costs increase over 1000% amid ...

There are indeed some headlines of investigations regarding price gouging in such matters. But it appears that high prices are being paid. And with lots of outrageous stories of millions being paid and the product never showing up, I'd feel relatively safe charging some sane multiplier as long as the product actually exists.
I have no degree at all and I've got a leg in. Keep looking in unexpected places like forums, fellowships, and FOSS. Keep making true friends. They will come through when it counts. I am more fortunate than a lot of people.
I personally agree that what David Icke is spreading is a bunch of nonsense. But I'm against suppressing him because otherwise I can't maintain a logically consistent belief system. That is to say, as soon as we can ban the lizard guy, we can also ban a lot more viewpoints that are not quite as controversial / outright crazy but straddle the line.

And just to head this off, the dimension of palatability to advertisers is separate, and if a site chooses to quarantine or whatever, so be it. I'm speaking merely from a framework of, "is this the kind of society we want?", as opposed to, "is it feasible for a profit-seeking corporation to adopt such an open policy"?
It's worth considering why the topic makes such a regular appearance. I suggest it might be because that so many users of this website find it to be a remarkable example of not only how something so widely unpopular can become so widely established, but also being something that they have to contend with frequently.
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I generally agree with you here, but there is still a limit to what extent and over what it is reasonable to interrupt a manager - given enough interruptions, they won't have any capacity left over at all!
Its not about the size of the packages, its about managing an entire system, for whatever definition of the word "system"

In the "olden" days, you would patch the vulnerable dependency and be sure that all services running on the machine have been updated to the new version. (in theory - if everything works great and there is ABI compatibility etc etc).

Since the library is installed in a well-known system location, there are only a few paths in the filesystem that you would need to check to make sure it's up to date. This makes machine maintenance easier.

Nowadays, to patch a vulnerable dependency you need to potentially go to all individual projects, check whether they depend on it, update the version for that project, make sure to rebuild any containers that... contain it. Rinse, repeat.

There is also not a single place where the dependencies live, so you can't just run the same command across multiple machines to do the check - you have to check the directory structure of every individual service.

This can be very slow and painful.
> remote login, start screen, ctl-A d (detach), log out, log back in, screen -r (resume)

I just tried it on a fully up-to-date CentOS 8 box (which uses systemd), and it worked perfectly fine: after logging back in through ssh, `screen -r` restored the screen session as expected.

From what I have read, that screen session would only be killed if I had set KillUserProcesses=yes on /etc/systemd/logind.conf, which is not the default.
Not using software -> more human interaction -> more human error -> more vulnerabilities. It's a mathematical fact.
The internet is already available. Anyone can rent a vps and host their videos.
What if you really believe that drinking bleach does cure covid? What if it is cow urine or holy water that you bestow your belief in?

Are we going to also ban religion, and the whole mess of lies it brings with it?

It is not even a slipper slope at your point, it is a cliff with a waterfall
But under your logic, Hitler was not the problem, and should have been free to say whatever he liked, correct?
Agreed. Also, nobody is, or should be, using deep neural networks, for legislation and law enforcement. Explainability should be a core design decision when making an algorithm, and not slapped on top of an inherently black box algorithm. Black boxes and even their explanations are used to launder bias and unfairness. And most of these tricks are not even explanations that can be trusted. "Oh look, the cat's head is highlighted, so that's why this picture was classified as a cat!" no insight, no justification, just hoping the network learned some higher level features like humans do, but oh no, when we flip the picture it is suddenly a dog, and when we photoshop the background to be snow, now it is suddenly a polar cat or a pinguin.

Let deep learning do what it is good at, without explaining their performance and errors to anyone: invading your privacy on social networks, helping hedge funds make more money by analyzing Elon Musks tweets, and building military surveillance.

Leave the justifications and explanations to inherently white box models (they are nearly as good in performance as black box now, at least for structured data), and hold off on firing radiologists for a few decades, even though your train set performance is overfitted to be on par with "human-level".

Somehow, somewhere, the deep learning revolution started to drink its own kool-aid and became alergic to critique or solid verifiable computer science. Explainable deep learning does not exist, since half of the time the engineer that build the system can't even explain why it works in the first place. "Strong inspectable feature engineering is hard and time-consuming, so here we shook a box of legos a million times, burned six holes in the ozon layer, and out comes a deep net optimized with gradient descent". End-to-end learning is supposed to be really end-to-end, including the explanation.
Maybe Microsoft was trying to "help out the Python community". But what they did was just awful. Python is, by far, the most popular system glue language in the world. People have spent decades writing it and running it on windows. It has years of culture built up around version detection and deployment strategies, so that developers understand how to get "python" and exactly what they are getting when they do.

And now all of a sudden you run a "python" script and you get something that is not a python interpreter.

That's just insane. I don't doubt Microsoft's motives, but good grief is this dumb.
> I've never seen a bad or immoral or harmful idea die out when more people learn about it and scrutinize it.

Exactly. Despite the claims of the piles of misguided comments below, there has never been any such thing as a public "marketplace of ideas". At best, there's a used car dealership. Just about anybody with the slightest bit of cleverness and free time can convince any trusting person of anything whatsoever, no matter how horrible, given enough exposure. Bullshit is easy to produce and, once it's burrowed in, almost impossible to counter.
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The problem is that MS's python can end up taking path precedence even if you install via the installer, I've hit this before. It's Just A Bug, one that I'm sure that Microsoft would be very happy to fix if folx complained to the right people. The stub python.exe could very easily search PATH to see if it's getting put first and delegate, or the official Python installer could recognize and fix this
I mean, they are supposed to be closed now. So, not really...

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/04/546d5ad5a60d-all-...
Heh, as a Canadian living in the city, I often buy Kirkland brand allergy pills and ibuprofen off EBay from the US because it’s cheaper.
It sure worked well with Milo.
It's easy to accidentally waste a lot of money on AWS. My company cut our costs from ~20k/month to ~6.5k/month with no degradation of UX or dev velocity. It was all due to unnecessary redundant builds and integration tests and lingering unused resources. We used the CloudForecast service to identify and track costs (https://cloudforecast.io/). An underrated side effect of this service is that making costs visible to the engineers incurring the costs can encourage them to spend less.
I got a nav tablet for $80 (bamboo wacom) and it worked great for a year before the usb leads came loose. Look for smth in the $120~~ range and you will save on buying a whiteboard (which has a singular purpose). Keep in mind, I invested for art, but found much more versatility.
He's not commenting on that. He's commenting to the guy who suggests that "drinking bleach cures covid" should not be covered under free speech.
> Global air travel does not need to be stopped.

This isn't what the WHO said. They said bans on air from specific places (especially those that disrupt supply chains) are bad. This is true. Banning all air travel to/from china would have hurt medical supply chains in the US, with very little benefit.

> 2. There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

When this claim was made (in early january), there was not clear evidence of human to human transmission. It was revised a few days later when there was.

> 4. Masks don't work (but health workers need them!).

This isn't what was said. They said that random people shouldn't go out of their way to acquire medical PPE (save it for medical personnel)

> 5. The CFR is like 4%.

Depending on the country, the CFR varies between 1.5% and like 15%. 4% seems like a reasonable estimate there. Unless you rely on the unfounded belief that there are large completely undetected swaths of the population that are infected but entirely asymptomatic, (which would have been found in South Korea, for example), the WHO's estimate is reasonable.
Oh a fellow Technotux member! I also burst into nostalgia reading your comment. I'm glad I was able to help. I Wish the same for you.
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Benjamin Franklin ivented the t notes way before this. I learned it in college.
Early stage is also about ensuring that the levers are understood and that the thinking about the right things to measure and what to action are appropriate in understanding the business. Less about the numbers, more about the variables.. why are you measuring this, why arent you measuring that? What actions will you take to try to get to this number? This would give the investor a better sense of how the founder thinks.
The only difference is that it's more finely grained? I don't see how it's completely different
No, which is exactly why I'm happy they defer to the WHO. I don't trust the WHO unconditionally either, but I trust it much much more than David Icke.
I must admit I find your reply a bit frustrating, because I literally began my comment by addressing what I feel is exactly your argument:

> I very strongly feel that we should be very careful to avoid adopting a legalistic attitude towards freedom of speech. That is, I am opposed to the argument that private corporations are not bound by the first amendment, and therefore it's okay for them to suppress content. I agree that they're not bound by the first amendment (I don't claim to understand the nuances of the "platform" laws so I won't address that), but that's different from saying that we as a society should want our private platforms to engage in such censorship and suppression.

In other words, do you see how your response is taking exactly the "well, technically it's legal" attitude that I was talking about, and how my point was about that there is a difference between what is legal and what we actually want in a society?
Your external hard drive that's disconnected from anything else should be OK. If there's a solar storm strong enough to fry that, you will have far far greater problems. Like whether you live or die. Caring about pictures and videos will be way way down on your list or priorities.
I think they are both categorically grey swans.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/grey-swan.asp
COVID-19 especially because of the previous impact of Spanish Flu.
Corporations now spin off new companies so that they hover just below that arbitrary number that turns them into a public space. Instead of YouTube, we have YouTube, MeTube, ITube and UsTube.

We're now back to square one, because those companies hover below said number and advertisers control what content is allowed on said sites. All of those individual companies ban 5G conspiracy theories because it's bad for business. Next step?
> The comment is about total bread consumption, not home-baked bread consumption.

If the majority of bread-eaters have pivoted to baking it at home, total bread consumption has very likely increased.
Hard to imagine that this is some nefarious plot when Microsoft also provides one of the most popular Python editors (Visual Studio Code) and an excellent Python extension for it, and makes appearances at Python conferences etc. It seems more like a garden variety screwup.
And/or secondhand is a viable option. That bamboo can also be set up wirelessly with a wireless chip and a rechargable batt. That's what I did when the usb connector failed.
And very good Vodka, apparently due to being produced in a former Grey Goose distillery.
Lest not Google. I can't think of how Google can benefit itself from the COVID situation
Cicadas my be harmless, but my wife running away from cicadas can cause significant damage to property.
Some automation is good, but no one reaches for these tools because they need "some" automation. They do it because they have already obscenely over-complex applications which require these levels of complexity just to stand them up. Or worse, they don't have that level of complexity, but they use these tools anyway, which means that they account for more than half of the software's complexity in the first place.
Or someone looks over your shoulder for 2 minutes and finds it..
The '5G coronavirus conspiracy theory' is a convenient broad brush to paint any dissident thought as inane, even if 99% people entertaining dissident thoughts are just as appalled as anyone at the 5G theory.
MTV is a de facto public utility by the same measure, yet they stopped showing music videos decades ago. How DARE they??? That's censorship! I want my MTV, money for nothing, and chicks for free!!!
This web article could cost a satellite or mobile internet customer several dollars to view. Quality in megabytes, not quantity, please. Take a byte out of I/O crime.
Have you used faxburner? Most of the comments above are people talking about other services they have founded or used.

Also I personally would prefer a paid service, faces typically are secure private documents I would want some level of guaranteed and privacy.
Not only is it delicious, your home smells like a bakery with every fresh loaf and who can resist a fresh loaf of bread still warm?
MS is doing a good job of making me move the *nix lately. I can't even _open_ Windows store anymore, let alone check out their python stunt.
> 2. There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

This is one of those completely false things that people only believe is true by repetition. Go back and actually read the full set of WHO statements in mid-January. They have a bunch of statements saying that nations should get prepared, one saying that specific studies haven’t yet found hard evidence for person-to-person transmission (because at that point most of the cases they’d managed to find were tied to the market). The WHO never, ever said that it can’t be transmitted, and they absolutely never said that people should do nothing about COVID-19. They were urging nations to act for months before they actually did.

> 4. Masks don't work (but health workers need them!).

They don't say masks don't work either, they say that health workers need them more. Here you need to remember that the W stands for "World". They worry the most about the poorer countries who have much fewer masks available.
> I've owned a couple Intel NUCs and the GPU performance just sucks too much.

"Smooth 4K video at 60 fps".

But I guess you're doing a lot of Deep Learning so 4k @60fps wouldn't work for ya.

The box has the specs that completely match my requirements (I have no use for GPU so I'd disable it in BIOS if possible)
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You're right, it's an implicit assumption in the declaration, made explicit in the Constitution.

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

Rests on the assumption that slaves are not "men". But something else.
"More importantly, I've also seen the opposite: Private platforms actively suppressing people trying to harm humanity does work."

On who, really? David Icke and the dude from infowars? Are these the big players in the harming humanity business? I don't think so. I'd go as far as to say they're irrelevant. David Icke was a crank on youtube and now he's a crank off youtube-- which might sound significant until you remember he was a crank before youtube, and could well be a crank after youtube.

The big players, the significant forces harming humanity, they won't be challenged by private platforms, because the private platforms need their money, or need access to them, or in some other way have their interests entangled.
Safety as in unsafe blocks means what you say. But safety as in why so many people use rust is actually what arcticbull says. I think this is something that gets lost on a lot of people who don't use rust. The first form of safety is properly called memory safety.

Rust as a language isn't just designed to avoid undefined behavior, it's designed to make you write correct code, where correct means it does what you want it to. Obviously rust doesn't always succeed at that broader goal, but it actually does a pretty good job all things considered.

Arcticbull's description of rust's ethos is spot on.
The problem is that your bad ideas are my rules to live by.

Canceling the spread of ideas itself because you disagree with it or fear that others may agree is downright scary.
But will youtube defer to the right group on every issue? Is there always a right group?

This issue will pass but now they have a precedent.
Free speech is something unconditional by definition. Congratulating YouTube for thwarting this is a performative contradiction.
Or even worse - crazy ants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasberry_crazy_ant
Cloud providers are not recession proof; they would have a hard time collecting money if most other businesses are doing badly.

Chapter 11, and voilà, AWS needs to stay in line with countless creditors and get a tiny fraction of what the customer owes them.
>A person willing to express hateful speech is a person who is also more willing to engage in hateful acts.

Considering how hate speech is a very flimsy term, I don't think that this always follows. I do believe that there's likely a correlation, but I doubt it's strong. Some will say that claiming that there are only 2 genders is hate speech, others that claiming that abortion is murder is hate speech. Not to mention that there are many cases where something clearly not hate speech is labeled as hate speech.

In the UK a teenager was arrested for quoting rap song lyrics on an Instagram profile page. This was labeled a hate crime by the prosecutor.[0] Do you think that this makes her more likely to engage in hateful behavior?

Bullies at school often get away with their bullying, because they bully in ways that are not overtly noticeable. They will use terms that aren't offensive to make fun of and hurt others.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921
>YouTube is a company founded and operated within the United States.

Which grants them a personhood and free speech rights of their own. They can not be forced into speech they do not approve of.