skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ says (emphasis mine)

> Strictly necessary cookies — These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Cookies that allow web shops to hold your items in your cart while you are shopping online are an example of strictly necessary cookies. These cookies will generally be first-party session cookies. While it is not required to obtain consent for these cookies, what they do and why they are necessary should be explained to the user.

See the "Cookies and the GDPR" section for discussion.
Suicides are definitely up, though I haven't been able to find numbers.

This lockdown is very hard on many people's mental health.
I use it for all of my dev stuff, and I like it. I'm mostly a windows user, a few of our devs are heavy gamers, so they appreciate having a windows machine. With WSL, we run our servers in linux, and have browsers open in windows, and running VSCode in windows.

The other benefit for us, is with the graphics work we do, and most of our users being on windows, in Chrome or Firefox, we're developing using the software our users are in, while developing in the same server environment our servers run on.

It was fidgety to get set-up the first time, but now, that we've got that sorted, it's quite nice.
Cars kill us: Far fewer car crashes, more sleep as no need to commute so early in the morning, no horrible drive into the office screaming and honking at the idiot driver, no horrible drive home while texting.
Alcohol kills us: no drunk fights at bars, drunk driving, falling in front of moving vehicles.
Not saying it explains it, but a lot of people get hurt and die for stupid reasons.
iCloud down since 6PM PST last night
When you go to print something on your iPhone and you are presented with the thumbnail of the first page (the iOS equivalent of the print dialog), two-finger pinch to zoom in on that thumbnail.

You will be presented with a PDF of the output, with a share button in the corner to shoot the PDF wherever you'd like.

Most useful ultra-hidden feature ever.
18 minutes ago:

> Server side change is already reverted. The crash will vanish.
Exponential growth. Learned properly when I was maybe 7 or 8 years old. I was learning about the game of chess, and the story describes that the reward for the inventor was one seed of grain on the first square, double that on the second, double that on the third... and so on.
In just about every way possible.

In essence, this is a jet with a unique compressor, using microwaves to create high temperatures rather than burning fuel. The benefit is that the reaction mass can be entirely normal atmospheric air.
doubt this very much since google is currently getting waaaaay too much free ML training data from captcha, and most users are blissfully unaware and happy to continue filling out their puzzles.
Anecdotally, I feel like stress has gone way up for most people, not down. Not sure it's that's true or not on the larger scale, but it definitely seems true for me and most of the people I know.
Without revealing toomuch:

What industry are you in?

Are you concentrated in 1 geo location or... across USA / across 1 county / global?
My experience as a pro artist is that once you can swipe from eight people whose work is mostly unrelated to each other, you have a Unique Style.
The bigger question is, how far will "but we did it first!" carry a business? After all, Github wins that battle on the core feature set.
Zombie Deer Disease, transmittable to primates, in 24 US states (2019)
I knew the Rust community would be all over this.
Unreliable internet.

A retail company may decide that the best place to put up a new branch is coincidentally (though there might be a correlation) at the edge of what the available ISPs currently cover. They might have to make a deal to get an ISP to extend their area to where the store is going to be. However, because of lack of competing ISP options on the part of the retailer, and the lack of clients in the retailer's area on the part of the ISP, that service is probably not going to be all that reliable.

Also, that retail company may experience a big rise in sales after a natural disaster occurs, when communications (phone/cell/internet) are mostly down for the area. One tends not to think about stuff like that until it happens at least once.

It's very important for the ERP/POS systems to be as operational as possible even when the internet is down.
I am going to cheat a bit and give you three things that have had a lasting impact on me:

First is this quote from Lincoln, "I hate that man. I must get to know him better".

This has helped me shed biases and prejudices that stop me from liking someone on the first few interactions. Instead of shunning them, I seek to know them better, in the hope that I see past the veil and reach out to the actual human on the other side. This ties in nicely with Stephen Covey's quote, "We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour."

Second thing that has stuck with me is this zen-koan about a disciple having a tough time forgiving their master for a sin [0]. The koan ends with the thought that the disciple who's holding on to resentment, disapproval, outrage, disappointment, grudge is really the one who's in distress and enduring the punishment and not the master. It is really powerful, at least to me. If I liberally tie it to the 'broken windows theory' [1], it explains to me why such resentments over time aren't simply good for me, personally, despite how few the broken windows may be, they need to be fixed.

And the third is producer v consumer mindset [2]. Do not consume excessively, refrain from stifling the production line with tendency to consume all day, every day.

[0] https://medium.com/@soninilucas/two-monks-and-a-woman-zen-st...

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

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555237
I'm in rural iowa and you really can't bank on a solid internet connection. One of my clients decided to iaas-ify all their servers and it works great except when it is windy out. They're on fixed wireless and the remote mast has some sway to it. 3-4 times a year they get struck by lightning and have a total work stoppage until all their outside gear can get replaced. Even their VDI is remote so all the thin clients just disconnect and they are done for the day.

Also, my clients aren't software development firms. They are banks and factories. They buy a software based on features and we figure out how to make it work, and most of the vendors in this space are doing on-prem non-saas products. A few do all their stuff in IAAS or colo but a lot of these places are single-rack operations and they really don't care as long as it all works.

A lot of people in small/midsize banks feel like they are being left out. They go to conferences and hear about all the cool stuff in the industry but the established players are not bringing that to them. If you can stomach the regulatory overhead, someone with drive could replace finastra/fiserv/jackhenry. Or get purchased by them and get turned into yet another forever-maintenancemode graveyard app.
On a scale of unicorn to Nazi, helping businesses connect with each other is pretty far from Nazi.

Im pretty sure
almost every one on Cyberlead's list sends annoying "drip campaign" emails.
No horned animals? Discrimination!
If you set up a new CA, you're not immediately in browser roots until you can prove you're running your CA in a responsible fashion. It's usually easier to pay an existing CA to sign your root cert as if it was one of their own intermediates, and follow their rules to get established before tackling getting approval in browsers. Even after you're approved, you need to wait for users to upgrade to new browsers/OSes/devices (depending on use case) to have your cert included in their trust store.

This even applies if you are the browser vendors, Lets Encrypt was cross signed for the first year or so of its existence.
I'm at a big slow non-tech corp and as much as I would prefer "move fast and break things," I can't see it working here. "Move fast" becomes "hurry up and wait" as you end up being dependent on another group's input (10-20 people total get involved, 3-10 meetings) to move forward on something. You end up trying to over-plan because it lets you schedule things to happen in parallel. Everything has to be a huge depth first search because being on the wrong track can cost months and even be fatal. By the time you figure out it won't work, you're way behind schedule and restarting would take another 10+ meetings to coordinate. You have to exhaustively evaluate every path beforehand because it's so slow to right the ship, at an institutional level.
I lived like a student when I was a student and did not change much of my lifestyle and could not be happier. I usually save 2/3 of my salary and do not miss anything. My runway today is about 15 years.
This is worst kind of argument one makes. You are constructing it in a manner that only serves to make the other person look like a jerk while the reality is much more nuanced.

Without any prior knowledge of the actors involved you assign all good traits to one side; the restaurant created a hot meal and the delivery person really tried their best to deliver on time, and then assign bad traits to the customer, they were unreasonable and should be more understanding.

There are people who don't do the right thing and if I am paying for something then I expect to receive what I paid for. You don't know me. Maybe I am struggling financially and the meal I ordered was a once in month treat for my wife and children and we can't afford the luxury of eating out. Maybe we were all looking forward to a family dinner. Maybe the restaurant fucked up. Maybe the driver is running multiple delivery apps and making a killing in these while the orders go cold.

So you can just fuck off.
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"nobody gets fired for buying IBM"
Driving is by far the most dangerous thing that folks do on a regular basis. If I get delivery I don't drive, but I am offloading that risk to someone else.

Either way, I disagree.
And there is the challenge that many of the most vulnerable are even more devastated financially by this situation, they have to keep working, and many low pay (now essential jobs) haven't done a good job on ppe. People in those jobs have less access to good medical care and they have to keep working.
I think the Surface Book design is getting a bit long in the tooth. I don't think it was ever a winner for style, and the hinge and gap are not only strange, but also make it feel like a thick machine for such a premium laptop.

I normally love Microsoft hardware design, but the Surface Book is the one device that stands out as needing a change.
My thoughts exactly, if you're holding yourself to commit every single day your commits are probably not meaningful or are so broken up that reading your repos history is a nightmare.

Just because you can commit every day means absolutely nothing if the commits are garbage.
Here are two example sentences that catch my attention:

1. "Most robots these days make use of some form of Deep Learning." This is not obvious. What is the basis for it?

2. "Robots themselves have been around forever, but, with a few exceptions, have been disappointments." In historical context, this is hardly true. Look at assembly lines, at automation, just to start.
I mean this sincerely: WTF does that mean? Mass murder is the opposite to technology?
Given the NZ borders are open to residents does that mean they are open for NZ tourists elsewhere? Or is it a one way border?

If you are a New Zealander are you allowed to go to Italy for a vacation? Or a conference in the USA later on?
Windows Terminal has picked up panel split since v0.7: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...
> Therefore, in your model of the world, an evil conspiracy of bad actors are looking to strategically undermine the law with various dastardly convoluted schemes.

There's no need to straw man secret cabals of conspirators, when it's just business. (Or if you want to get political, capitalism). When big tobacco companies pour money into lobbyists, fund skewed studies, and buy ads to flout anti-smoking legislation, no one calls it conspiracy. Businesses are incentivized to respond in certain ways.
I assume that your business doesn't advertise, yes? Since advertising is a scourge that steals time and attention.
But fewer externalities like bars, parties, stupid accidents with friends, rushing to meetings, traffic, physical work env stress, in some cases work altogether. Not to minimize the mental torment some people feel but I think o there is a huge reduction in certain kinds of stress.
Around 10 years ago I figured out the vast majority of mid and upper level management have no frickin clue how to do the thing they're tasked with doing, no capacity or desire to teach themselves, and will gladly fork over $250/hr or more to work with a consultant or agency who will help their immediate supervisor never catch on to that fact. Learning this took me from an overly-qualified low earning tech and marketing generalist employee to a very high level earner doing agency and solo consulting work pretty much overnight. Wish I had figured this out a few years earlier than I had but just happy I figured it out at all.
> They simply want to better target their offerings to their customers

They can do it without the cookie notice. For example, Amazon can track what I'm looking at on their site and what I'm buying and store it to their database. They can use this information to offer me what they think I'll like. Also, another user-friendly approach would be for a site to ask me to select categories/topics that I like. Whatever it is, GDPR gives me a right to export the data, review it, and ask for it to be deleted if I don't want the site to have it anymore. No need for cookies in this scenario. What they need cookies for is when one site wants to track what I do on other sites.

> allow for you to keep items in a shopping cart

This is a functional cookie and there's no need to ask for consent to store a shopping cart. This is just a perfidious argument that data tracking companies use to ridicule the law.

> Could it simply be that, most businesses put cookie popups on their sites because they don't want to get fined? Not because they are embroiled in an elaborate scheme to undermine the law? Not because they are embroiled in an elaborate scheme to undermine the law?

The law is very clear about when you need to ask for consent and when you don't need to ask for consent. Most sites implement it in a wrong way, many of them use deliberate dark patterns, for example, when you deny cookies you get a loading spinner that spins for a couple of minutes. These are all attempts to condition the user into avoiding pressing the "slow" button.
From my research, maybe the most interesting characteristic is that all these companies seem dependent on the sucker gripper. I haven't worked in this field, but you'd think it'd be easy getting other gripper to work well, especially since covariant is combining simulated training with non-simulated training.
I’m pretty sure you can disable those if you look in the manual.
At my workplace (vaccine r&d), we're using software written for XP on W10. Like we actually just double click the original installer that came on a CD and it works out of the box. Basically, if you purchase software and the vendor goes out of business, or they want you to pay for Version 2 (so it works with OS Version 2), or if its an F/OSS app - the project is abandoned, etc, etc, that shouldn't affect your ability to still run the software you purchased, decades later. I don't believe any other platform comes even close to this kind of backwards compatibility. Not saying Windows is perfect, its just far far ahead of the others.
> What industry are you in

Something plumbing-y; the company is not well known

> 1 geo location or...

Global, although probably 50% in the US
I wish /newest had a “hide all stories on this page from /newest” button, so that it always showed me new content and didn’t make me try to remember if I’d seen this page 4 before as page 2 or something. Then the heuristics wouldn’t be necessary since it would just show me anything I hadn’t hidden.
Zseries are a huge deal to move to the cloud; it’s just not worth the risk for most organizations.
What kind of business is that? That level of spending seems insane based on headcount. At least without knowing anything about the business. Are you running public facing services or something? What does that look like as a percentage of revenue?
In my experience, it can't even do it for TS either.

WebStorm seems to understand Microsoft's TS better than the VS Code Plugin. Complex refactors actually work.
Were people going to the doctor and ER less before covid? As employers move to offer only high deductible health insurance, the cost to see a doctor is increasing quickly. When a single doctor visit can cost from $150 to $1500 depending on what they talk about and you're paying that entire amount, one tends to put of seeing a doctor unless it's a true emergency.
Why use Reddit data over Facebook data?
> That's really one of the tragedies of COVID-19

More like one of the tragedies of fearmongering.
Hopefully you have more to show for your hard work than some green squares on your github profile that nobody really cares about.
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Perhaps what we really need is a personalized feed.
No, not really.

People just don't know the Eastern Bloc all that well. It is shady as the OP says. It's a mentality and a way of life that the more polite-class citizens of those countries there are trying to unwind and return to some bastion of civility, but it's hard when the modern-day mafia runs the governments and does it's best to stay in power.

At least here, the corruption isn't as obvious. Over there, they wag their tail right in your face and ask you what are you going to do about it.

People emigrate from these countries to say, North America or Western Europe or UK in search of a better life.
Official EC2 price list via JSON API is 1.3gb
Infrastructure. Datacenter costs are a relatively high percentage of revenue. No public facing services - only large clients.
What if immunity to Covid-19 doesn’t last
Life After Ventilators
We're looking at moving from AWS to having some machine space rented in two data centers. The reason is purely cost.

There are still some computers on site due to equipment being tied to it, telephony stuff, etc.

My last company was looking at "moving to the cloud", with the idea that its data centers were too expensive, but found out that the cloud solutions would be even more expensive, despite possible discounts due to the size. They still invested in it due to some Australia customers wanting data to be located there.
That's an excellent point, and most likely lost on 99.99% of tech enthusiasts. If I could get people in science and engineering to understand one concept deeply, that'd be it - that grand narratives of progress are often used as tools of oppression, including mass murder; especially for those whose stories don't fit neatly into the overall plot. Power regimes co-opt key constituencies (such as technocrat/builders) with these progress narratives to preserve the order of the world.
Don't discount the impact of reduction of air pollution on all causes of mortality. It's not often discussed, but every so often someone makes the connection between small particulates and heart attacks, etc.
That one Aqua Teen episode is probably a preview of their reaction.
I mean it could just be that us non-furries aren't attuned to the subtle differences and conventions of fursonas.
I changed my blog to be static. I don't trust any of these embedded comment systems, and don't don't want to risk the legal burden of hosting comments myself. I killed off a small community this way, which felt not great :(

I guess it was assumed that a GDPR-compliant software infrastructure would be able to grow from the ashes, but I haven't been following, and don't know what the state of the art is. It seems people mostly offload to other platform (twitter/discord) rather than host themselves now?

I miss when websites were more participatory - I respect + envy people who still do blogs with lively comment threads.
My wife is a doctor. Not an ER doc, but had to do rotations through the ER and frequently interacts with the ER in other rotations.

The amount of non-emergencies the ER department sees is astounding.
reminds me Datalegreya - https://www.figs-lab.com/en/projects/datalegreya
Not this portfolio, but I don't see the point of buying bonds anymore, at least when you invest a relatively small amount of money. Low interest, risk is relatively high compared to what you can earn, and no inflation protection.
It's not gross. More power to them if they can find someone who finds it worthwhile to pay them $10/mo for it. Or even $10,000/mo.
The title states "Name one idea that changed your life."

I haven't considered the research, I'm just talking about the positive changes I've seen in my life as a result of changing my mindset from "I can't do this because I'm not smart enough" to "this is hard, but I will learn it."

In the case of the former I was a non-starter. With the latter, everything becomes much more accessible.
> GDPR isn't very hard to understand

It may not be terribly difficult to understand, but it is indeed very complex to enact at scale, especially with large systems that were designed under different constraints.

> Looking around for loopholes to do analytics that aren't actually what the user came to the site for is fundamentally the thing that the legislation is targeting...

Totally agree, and this shouldn't be done.

> ...this handwringing about cookie popups and consent and anonymized data is "complicated" simply because it is not in the nature of the law. You do that, you need permission, period, and you need to be OK with people saying "no, I'd really rather you not do that".

This is where we disagree a little. Calling it handwringing is hand-wavey and dismissive -- this stuff isn't easy to get right, and it's arguably a large cost for the wrong solution. Cookies come in HTTP response headers. Don't want the cookie to do anything? Don't read it! Tell your browser to ignore it. Don't like the JS that's being run? Disable JS.

Waging a war against cookies is just a cop-out for fighting the actual problem. What's next? Opt-in banners for JS in webpages? For using HTTP? TCP?
Agility CMS is also free for developers and no credit card required
agilitycms.com is similar to Contentful but more marketer friendly because it has page management built in - also saves time for developers so you don't need to reinvent the wheel
1. 500TB of storage for 3-6mo of CCTV footage.

2. Bought a hanful of $700 24 core Xeons on eBay 2 years ago for 24/7 data crunching. Equivalent cloud cost was over $3000/mo. On-Prem paid off within a month!

3. Nutanix is nice. Awesome performance for the price and almost no maintenance. Got 300+ VDI desktops and 50+ VMs with 1ms latency.
Are just the ERs empty? Or the whole hospital as well? If hospitals are empty, it's time to stop sheltering in place, because it means it's working too well. What's the endgame? We can't just keep the country shut down indefinitely. Life must move on. Even though there's still a lot of fear, I think reopening the country is the best option (while still maintaining social distancing, etc).
It sounds like you are operating a cloud.....
Also: Tinder, Venmo, GrubHub (think of the botched deliveries heh), and more. An ongoing list here: https://twitter.com/aburninghilll/status/1258169688959352832

Also see: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1373