skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I am more interested in union in it's power to uphold moral values. If you ever were to be sued for whistle blowing something despicable or wrongly fired for defending a coworker's right and other behaviors we see at the likes of Amazon. There is power in unity beyond money.
"Man stabs someone, no evidence of murder"
As somebody who does a fair amount of DBA work, Oracle is my favorite RDBMS to operate. Low level administration is easy to manage, the optimizer is very performant, and the plan management features make tuning easy, and statistics management much less risky (and it can be very risky).

I wouldn't use it on any of my own projects though, but only because I wouldn't want to pay for it, and because I have enough faith in myself to be able to manage the trickier bits of Postgres.
What do you mean? By giving his book way for free, he was able to get HN attention (and thus get more sales).
What does "Charged for any portion of a GB." mean?
I think hundreds is a very low estimate. It seems not that it spread from China to Italy and France late last year and that seems unlikely but not impossible if only hundreds Chinese people had the virus.
This is the first I've heard of this. Got any articles about this or want to give a longer explanation?
I mean, for as much as I've said so far, I'm pretty comfortable working from the knowledge that one side is a corporation worth enough billions that the specific number is both indeterminate and irrelevant, and the other is some people making minimum wage who'd like their working lives to be a little less shitty. Also, the corporation can fire those minimum-wage workers at any time, for any reason or none at all, and leave them zero effective recourse under the law - because most of what the law says is what the lawyers convince the judge trying the case it says, and one of those sides can afford hot and cold running lawyers out of petty cash while the other is living paycheck to paycheck and can't afford them at all.

That an engineer whose work I greatly respect, whose VP role gave him vastly more knowledge of the corporation's inner workings, walked away from seven figures of RSUs and whatever no doubt sizable other compensation, because he agrees with the folks making minimum wage that their situation is bullshit, I'd think should add considerable point to the argument.

But Bray's action, while commendable, is severable here. If you need convincing that corporate power vastly outweighs labor power in the United States of 2020, I'm not the person to do it, for the same reason I'm not the person to convince anyone that water is wet or fire is hot. You might try struggling along paycheck to paycheck for a while, working some place like an Amazon warehouse, if you don't know what it's like. Or you might try listening to people who do when they tell you what it's like. Beyond that, I really don't know how to help you.
This is just like the real world because with the first example I have no idea what the deliverable should be or what data is available.

It's almost too immersive.
It really depends on how many cases they have had, I think it is hard to trust any information coming from there with no verification.
Karabiner also lets you disable the Touch Bar escape so you don’t accidentally trigger it.
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear.

I was trying to explain that during my initial browsing of the Caddy site, I found several references to using the API endpoints to configure Caddy, but nothing in the same places to say how to secure it or whether it was enabled by default. I wasn't talking about any sort of cunning attack, simply the issue of having such functionality accessible to anyone who could visit /config/ and knew anything about HTTP.

I did later discover the relevant configuration in the JSON config structure documentation, including the flag to disable it that is what I really wanted to know about. It just seemed like the kind of important detail that would be worth linking from places that introduce the REST API, such as the section about it on your v2 landing page, if you're refining the site.
You can trivially use Cloudflare Workers to implement that functionality on top of B2.
Where do FedRAMP/FISMA require manual deployments?
I spent 17 years going through that. I can't say I recovered my optimism, but I stopped being cynical and am now realistic (which people tend to think is pessimistic), but without it being negative. Get off the drugs, move into the country and eat a lot of peaches. Technology will never be enjoyable again, and that's a good thing. Grow your own food, make your own tools, build your own furniture. Use your intelligence to make your life better instead of helping greedy people try to shove more ads in front of people.
Not to mention insanely dense and hot, so there is a lot of heat reserves.
I think that bug may be fixed in jemalloc by now.
The version of jemalloc that the jemalloc-sys crate tracks is from two years ago.
I tried bumping jemalloc to latest master but that makes the jemalloc-sys build fail (trivially with a missing script but still).

Also there is this: https://github.com/gnzlbg/jemallocator/issues/136
I think you'd be surprised about how many really do believe the Earth is nearly that young https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creati... "People you know" is a very unreliable way to get an idea about various populations.

Regardless I think the comment was about applying current "solutions" to prior times and seeing if agrees with what we'd call a good solution in retrospective, not what people believe currently.
Lots of edtech companies gave away their tools for free [1] to support distance learning during school shutdowns. I'm sure most of them hope to garner additional sales in the long run, and possibly the short run also.

My edtech startup has been giving away our most popular tool for a couple months, and paid sales are probably up 30% during that time. It certainly wasn't why we did it (we've had philanthropic programs from the beginning [1]), but it doesn't hurt.

1: https://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/

2: https://medium.com/@BeeLineReader/why-every-edtech-company-s...
When I visited the Google office in Mountain View, I noticed the streets around it were packed with parked RVs. Do those RVs belong to homeless employees?
Work on interesting things or make the things you're working on interesting. Don't work only for yourself; take on the mind of a servant and you'll often be grateful. Don't look for total fulfillment from the things you can see, or the things that pass away. Store up treasures in a place that won't fade away.
The harsh future of American cities
The magical power of random sampling
A few things:

- He had no problems locking down cities after the severity became known. Is fairly Reasonable to think that in the beginning they thought it was something they could keep quiet and it would go away

- people in China don’t report things that might be negative for fear of consequences, he is creating a situation where he doesn’t get to know things before it’s too late this way
People don't change. Leopard don't change their spots. Gates has always been a secretive, grasping, amoral actor. He was notorious in the 80s and 90s when he was the head of Microsoft in being the instigator of Microsoft's nefarious practices.

Don't take my word for it, the evidence of that is available all over the internet. Google for it. Some words you might want to Google together with 'Microsoft' are: AARD, OOXML, Halloween Documents, Netscape + 'take away their oxygen supply', _NSAKEY, Stac Electronics, etc, etc, etc.
Stay home science project: Enlarge gummy bears to reveal the secrets of osmosis
The Source of Solar Energy, ca. 1840-1910 [pdf]
Look at Maidsafe and SAFE Network :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23050160
Tracking Covid-19's ambiguous death counts
I think the implication was at the time this article was written that was a common belief. Therefore, the possibility that something was millions - or hundreds of millions - of years old would have been against the current orthodoxy and therefore would have been banned.
What it seems like to you is your business. But, to extend a metaphor from
my prior comment, you're going to need to go a lot further than you have to convince anyone that the guy with the shotgun needs to be worrying about the guy he's pointing the shotgun at, and who is also obviously unarmed.

It's not impossible to convince people of that, but you're going to need to work at it, because you're asking them to believe something that's the direct opposite of the situation they're actually seeing with their own two eyes.

If you want to call something lazy, why not start with the kind of thinking that takes such a mealy-mouthed, "we can't know for sure until all the facts are in" approach to that?
Right, but if the message from his blog post is "do what I did, and you'll see similar results", then it's not sufficient just to give away your book. You also have to have a notable story to tell about it, and then go tell that story elsewhere. It's an indirect effect, not a direct effect. Also, if lots of people do this, then the publicity benefit of blogging about it will shrink because the stories won't get clicks anymore.
Holy crap lmao.

Are you completely oblivious as to how much of a dick you sound like? Here's a societies claimed moral compass nice thing to do: tell him you aren't friends, possibly give him the reasons why, and leave it like that.

Don't come to HN trying to humble yourself in posting this. I bet you're a ton of fun
Is there anything an average person can do to help? An organization I can donate to, or something I can bring up to my representatives?
Contact tracing isn't bullshit. It is how they dealt with sexually transmitted diseases four decades ago...it works.

The issue is that the UK govt is composed of a combination of incompetent and corrupt people (one of the companies involved in this is owned by a minister). And they are trying to go with the low-cost option (whilst the govt is subsidising 1/4 of salaries paid in the whole country) rather than the old-school, proven way.

It is kind of shocking but it is the result of a political system (and culture) that rewards incompetence and sloth.
Remarkably accurate aside from the healthcare stuff
Yev here -> That's awesome to hear! Ease of use is one of the things that we strive for at Backblaze and I'm glad that the S3 Compatible APIs are going to unlock some use-cases and make things easier for people that don't have the bandwidth to maintain different codepaths!
When I worked for The Atlantic, I learned that Django/MySQL was not made to work for dates in the 1850s... I forget what the exact nature of the bug was, but you had to be careful which date class you were using because some can’t go past 1900.
A misunderstanding is that this system results in instantaneous contact notification and isolation (which is what one of the original papers on digital contact tracing efficacy assumes).

The reality is the entire 'human in the loop' contact tracing process is still manual. Health staff working in state contact tracing teams still need to call and interview every contact to determine whether they could be considered a close contact from an epidemiological perspective.

Also consider that close contacts include anyone you've spent more than 2 hours in an enclosed room with.

So that immediately limits the utility of any bluetooth proximity app: you still need an entirely manual process for home, work, social gatherings - any situation where you are in an enclosed room.

We've taken a deeper look at the assumptions and expert opinion, both from individuals and institutions, which appear to discount this kind of system from providing significant value.

Even the product lead of Singapore's TraceTogether app, as a natural advocate for this kind of initiative, admits the technology is oversold and is only an additional tool (due to the significant potential for false positives / negatives):

https://blog.gds-gov.tech/automated-contact-tracing-is-not-a...
I love advertising from the first half of the 20th century. I recently stumbled upon Willys-Overland’s WWII ads featuring artwork by James Sessions: https://oppositelock.kinja.com/willys-ads-wwii-1841716141
Are you disillusioned with technology? Or maybe is it the VC growth model that you are disillusioned with?

I made a short deck about it a while back, might be of interest:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oynXnYdZQGincUQUj4g2...
Exactly, if you aren't willingly hanging out with each other outside of work, you aren't friends, you're just friendly.
The movement to run the government as a business is at the heart of a lot of these problems.

Governments have a different risk model than a for profit business.

For profit businessEs can’t in any way financially justify to it’s stock holders the spending of money to protect against something that might never happen.

I ran DR & BC for a very large global firm, I reported to the Board, and I can tell you these people thought I was insane, even to protect against things like fires.

“When was the last time you heard of a large office building having a major fire with more than a couple of casualties?” This was actually said to me when I was proposing to improve the company’s fire protection system. I got out voted and they “ saved” the money. They still haven’t had a fire, so as far as they are concerned I was stupid.

Electric companies are necessary so they know if something does go horribly wrong they get bailed out.
My favorite is the erroneous theory of immunization that informed Pasteur's successful development of a vaccine:

Accordingly, why was Pasteur such a genius as to discern how the immune system functions to protect us against invasion by the microbial world when no one had even made the distinction between fungi, bacteria, or viruses, and no one had formulated any theories of immunity. A careful reading of Pasteur’s presentations to the Academy of Sciences reveals that Pasteur was entirely mistaken as to how immunity occurs, in that he reasoned, as a good microbiologist would, that appropriately attenuated microbes would deplete the host of vital trace nutrients absolutely required for their viability and growth, and not an active response on the part of the host. Even so, he focused attention on immunity, preparing the ground for others who followed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3342039/

I had heard this years ago and recently was trying to place it. I finally tracked down a credible source.
> in a way that you can primarily use a GUI

Rancher filled this role for me. Would recommend.

https://rancher.com/

https://github.com/rancher/rancher#rancher
How do you know they are not the general population? I honestly have no idea what anyone else believes in that regard. Even if someone told me what they believe, I’ve learned that often people’s beliefs are different than the words they say when they think their beliefs might be unpopular. In other words, maybe they are the general populations beliefs and maybe they aren’t. I just don’t know how anyone can know for sure.
This slots into the wider story about how science found out about the age of the earth, which is fascinating!

In the 1860s Lord Kelvin presented[1] one of the first physical arguments in favor of the earth being millions of years old. His argument was that we could predict the age of the earth by measuring the temperature gradient at the surface of the planet (which is related to the amount of heat that is being radiated to space). He modeled the earth as a cooling solid sphere and using the heat equation[2] he computed that if the earth started at the temperature of molten rock then it would take some tens of millions of years to cool down to the current surface temperatures. Conveniently, this estimate matched contemporaneous theories about the sun being powered by gravity. If one assumed that the sun was slowly shrinking while releasing that gravitational potential energy as light, it also ended up with an age of some tens of millions of years. (Remember: back then neither radioactive decay nor nuclear fusion had been discovered yet).

The major flaw in Lord Kelvin's calculations were only discovered in the 1890's when Irish mathematician John Perry suggested that modelling the earth as a cooling solid sphere would not be appropriate if the earth's core were actually liquid. The key difference is that a liquid core transfers heat much more efficiently, due to convection. In the presence of a liquid core the surface of the earth receives more heat from the interior and takes longer to cool down to the present temperatures, compared with an earth that has a solid core. Once Perry corrected Kelvin's model to account for convection the age of the earth jumped to the billions of years that we now know it has.

It took a while for the theory of the convective mantle to become widely accepted but it was ultimately proven correct by radiometric dating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth#Early_calcula...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_equation
I work in academia and get mild burnout twice a year (after the semester ends). I have actually found Churchill's advice on overcoming burnout quite helpful -- in short, find several real (physical) hobbies like painting or gardening.

Here are some excellent quotes from Churchill's small book "Painting as a Pasttime":

Painting as a Pastime
by Winston Churchill

The tired part of the mind can be rested and strengthen, not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

It is no use saying to the tired 'mental muscles' – if one: such an expression – 'I will give you a good rest,' 'I will go for a long walk,' or 'I will lie down and think of nothing.' The mind keeps busy just the same. If it has been weighing and measuring, it goes on weighing and measuring. If it has been worrying, it goes on worrying. It is only when new cells are called into activity, when new stars become the lords of ascendant, that relief, repose, refreshment are afforded.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

The need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential.

The most common form of diversion is reading.

'What shall I do with all my books?' was the question; and the answer, 'Read them,' sobered the questioner. But if you cannot read them, at any rate handle them and, as it were, fondle them. Peer into them. Let them fall open where they will. Read on from the first sentence that arrests the eye. Then turn to another. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas. Set them back on their shelves with your own hands.

Since change is an essential element in diversion of all kinds, it is naturally more restful and refreshing to read in a different language from that in which one's ordinary daily work is done. To have a second language at your disposal, even if you only know it enough to read it with pleasure, is a sensible advantage.

To restore psychic equilibrium we should call into use those parts of the mind which direct both eye and hand. Many men have found great advantage in practicing a handicraft for pleasure.

But best of all and easiest to procure are sketching and painting in all their forms.

We must not be too ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joyride in the paint-box.
She and Her Dog Lived in a Shopping Center for Two Years. Then Came a Stranger
We may not have a choice, in that we're not guaranteed to have a useful vaccine in massive doses anytime soon.

But rebutting your individual points:

> millions would die

Unlikely. Improved estimates (thanks to serological data) for infection fatality rate range from 0.3% to 0.5%. If we can protect the most vulnerable populations, we can have a lower death rate than this-- e.g. in the under-30 crowd, the risk of hospitalization is 1 in 500 and the risk of death a tiny fraction of this (1 in 5000 or less).

Further, any variance of susceptibility or contact density means you don't need to reach 60% for herd immunity. Some estimates say that the real threshold may likely be 25% or less: e.g. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.27.20081893v... Further, lighter weight social distancing measures can further reduce Rt and attain herd immunity at a lower percentage.

If you assume we need 40%, and 0.25% IFR from protecting the most vulnerable-- you come up with 328k deaths. This is bad, but less bad than many alternatives. Note that the shorter lived the controls protecting the elderly and other vulnerable people, the more effectively we can protect them, too.

> health systems would get crushed

We'd not want to do what New York did, but let's look at it as an example. New York's health care system (barely) sustained the load. Now they're very possibly most of the way to herd immunity in NYC. Yes, we'd like to flatten the curve a bit from this and be better prepared.

> the virus is unlikely to disappear entirely, so would simmer around the world, triggering epidemics every few years or so.

The long term immunity question is interesting. Of course, vaccines could help improve this picture even if one ends up with disease-spread based herd immunity.

My personal belief is that A) total antibody-based immunity will last a few years, based on our experience with SARS-CoV-1; B) partial antibody-based immunity will likely last longer than that; C) memory B cell / T cell based immunity is likely lifelong and makes any subsequent course of disease less severe.

That is, I think it's likely that the current human coronaviruses that cause the common cold might very well cause a high death rate and be very transmissable if exposed to an immunologically naive population.

Of course, your third point holds even more true when it comes to interim suppression and containment efforts while we isolate and wait for a vaccine. It's an even more intractable issue to try and maintain suppression when the vast majority of the population is still susceptible.
If the Japanese word you are thinking about translates better to soulmate than to friend, then why not just assume it means soulmate instead of friend.

Surely Japanese people have relationships that fall between soulmate and coworker/acquaintance.
After watching the self-driving car hype crash and burn (so to speak) over the past 5 years, I wouldn't bet on having fully-autonomous vehicles in the next 20. In fact I don't think we'll have them until they no longer have to coexist with human drivers, which could be a chicken-and-egg scenario.
I think the difference of opinion is whether or not you think on-paper democracy includes lobbying as a natural mechanism for law making and whether or not lobbying is, respectively, a workaround.
The UK has passed the point of parody. If you want to justify any action, just say something about how great the NHS is before you do it.
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Next.js and Docker, Made Easy:)
But how good is $newtech really? Is it someone trying to screw over other older employees in the name of his job security? Is Mr. $newtech in touch with the salespeople hawking this product? Is he being incentivized to advocate for it? How many secondary changes will $newtech result in, and will they deliver so much more value as to justify the expense, inconvenience, retraining, and tears that will come from replacing $oldtech?

My guess is, in most circumstances, probably not

"New tech" lately feels more and more like whatever the next breed of inexperienced geeks decided to reinvent
> Second pain point is the number of retries needed for uploading a large batch of small files.

We upload a few hundred GiB to B2 daily and have this issue as well. Really annoying…
That's why they don't think they had it, but are wondering if they could have. You are reading things into other peoples statements and dismissing them because of your own mistake.
I too love the touch bar.

For example I love that apps written to use (eg VS.Code) now have labelled buttons rather than imposing on me to remember strange function buttons.