skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another pretty basic Lambda thing the author didn’t mention is the alias feature. So rather than having users-api-dev, users-api-qa - we just have users-api and it has a alias for each environment. The environment variable management is not amazing but just using a key-value JSON {dev: {a: “bc”}} works fine.

There’s also truly no reason one lambda function can’t have a collection of APIs (using the proxy method from API gateway). It’s literally no different from any other micro service setup. You can pick any abstraction for a function to cover.
"For me, Windows 10 is where I felt like I was no longer in control of my computer."

If Microsoft cannot not stop Windows computers from becoming controlled by a botnet, the logical solution is to create their own. Well, that is what it looks like.

Big tech companies will tell users that they will "protect" them from this, that and the other thing (including protecting users from themselves), but they cannot protect users from the company. Obviously, showing ads demonstrates that the user, what Microsoft knows about her, is now a "product". Nevertheless, it is fair to ask why any user would prefer to control their own computer 100% instead of letting Microsoft control it for them. It is possible that, outside of HN commenters and voters, most Windows users are ambivalent.

I can remember when Windows had no way to access the internet, only local area networks. It was much faster. Why not temporarily bring down the interface to the internet gateway when it is not needed, or just delete the default gateway from the routing table. For example, if one is only using a program that does not need internet access, e.g., a word processor, spreadsheet, dictionary, calculator, etc., there is no need to have a connection to the internet. A script could be used to automate this procedure. This way the user has some control over when Microsoft can install updates, send telemetry data, etc., i.e., when the company can "take control". When the user is done with her offline work or game playing, she can bring up the interface or re-add the default gateway and let Microsoft have control.
With record unemployment factory workers do not have such a luxury to just walk away if they dont like Tesla's plan.

For most this is "lose your housing/food" or "risk getting Covid"
The consensus IFR is generally in a lower range, from 0.2% to 1%. Here is meta analysis that pegs the range from about 0.5-1%. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.03.20089854v...

But note this includes estimates from February, with a lot more unknowns, and fails to take into account improved treatments (Remdisivir, Plasma, ventilator use improvements, etc).

Moving forward, given treatment improvements, I think a consensus IFR range would likely be 0.1% to 0.7%.
I've started learning Emacs a few weeks ago, and have had a similar experience as you. One different is that I considered going with Spacemacs / Doom but decided to take the route of starting from an empty init file and slowly building up from there (at least for now).
I identify strongly with the feeling of thrashing; the wealth of different information and flexibility of the program itself can be overwhelming. Would you be willing to share some of your favorite resources (and why you chose them)? That would be immensely helpful for a beginner like me.
Science and scientism tend to go hand in hand.

Science has saved us from the plagues of gross superstition. Did many of those have kernels of truth? Well, sure. But how do we analyze them as to why? More superstition doesn't cut it. One needs a set of thought tools that can systematically tear it apart carefully. And physical tools facilitate that. And then add in measuring and reproducibility, and there's science.

But taken too far, and #5 of their list is violated. Not everything can be analyzed. And some things, I would dare say, shouldn't be analyzed.

Although, with the more we see IoT, internet tied hardware, machine learning, neural nets, and the like, the more our gross matter doesn't appear to follow science. Why does the IoT thing do X? Well an update last night no longer does that. Or, why does Google searches act completely different between 2 people? Once matter was programmable and reprogrammable, it becomes much more difficult to perform science on them.
I think it’s a reasonable statement, in fact I’d say it represents orthodox economic thinking. Permanently removing hundreds of thousands of people from the economy (as well as temporarily removing millions) will depress both aggregate demand and productivity for decades to come.

The government and the central bank should support people of working age with fiscal and monetary policy for as long as they are kept safely on the bench.

Another point that’s worth making is that even someone in a nursing home is way more economically active than someone who is six feet underground.

In short, there’s no tension between protecting “the economy” and protecting people’s health. We avoid fighting a war that we cannot win, we bide our time, and then confidently return to full output when the medical crisis has been fixed.
"Yes they would. You can’t sent them a request without giving them your IP."

I suspect you know what I meant. They can't see the IP of your browser. Rather, they see a Heroku, DO, whatever IP.
In my experience I've found the best way to combat this is to pick a single thing and then pick a timeframe (something short like a couple of weeks at most) and then you aren't allowed to do any other projects until you complete the one you choose or the timeframe expires.

This is aided by putting ideas that come up along the way into a journal like mentioned in other comments.

For example I want to go back to learning go, and I want to practice foreign languages, and I want to work on small short term schemes. But I decided in mid april to work on a short list of four tasks until may 20th. I can only work on those tasks (unless some urgent work thing comes up). I find this method to be super relaxing because I know that as new ideas come up I can just log them for later and only have a short list of things to think about and work on. It's very freeing.
I don't see the difference between plan and guidelines from any practical point of view.

There is a statewide timeline and counties can open slower/faster. There's a list of criteria for counties to consider. This is a slide deck summarizing things at a state level, it notes a variety of metrics that are being looked at:

https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Update-on-...
It does make me wonder if the web would have been better off if we had stuck in the direction of personalised styling and simply vended html and nothing else.
Hi Chris, as a heads up, Stan actually has had three built-in methods for a while now. There is a non-stiff Adams-Moulton solver introduced in 2018. It unfortunately was only just exposed in the Stan 2.23 documentation: https://mc-stan.org/docs/2_23/stan-users-guide/ode-solver-ch.... Certainly, the devs have been talking about adding more solvers for a while, including SDE and DDE solvers, and your DifferentialEquations.jl ecosystem is an excellent model; it is an area that we know Stan has been lacking in. I think Steve Gronder will be trying to work with you regarding benchmarking.
100% as a fellow non-HEP (practicing) physicist -- There's so much more to physics.

Science, at least from the funding perspective, has always leaned toward what's fashionable -- "nuclear" dominated following WW2, "particle" has had it's moment, and we're moving full force toward "quantum" (& "AI"!)

Scientists seeking funding bend themselves in knots to ensure they include all the key words in their grant applications
There's no faster way for me to know that someone is a person I'd never want to work with than if they participate in a reply all storm. It's 2020. Learn how email works.
I have never really understood the "Linux is a mess" argument. While I do agree that it is a mess, it is not as though Windows is any better. The big difference is that the Linux development process is open and the end user is more likely to tinker so a lot of criticism bubbles to the surface. Contrast that to Windows, where there is very little point in discussing how things work under the hood. You may have to know enough about it for setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting. That is about all.

The arguments also ignore some of the great things about Linux. One of the things that I marvel at is how easy it is to setup and maintain a Linux system. Things like software typically being installed and updated through a single source is a tremendous time saver. While many device drivers are lacking specialized features, most hardware will work out of the box. There are also fewer concerns about what is happening behind the scenes. Walkthroughs like this one are fairly common in the Windows world: disable advertising, delay updates, block telemetry, improve performance.

None of this is meant to imply Linux is good and Windows is bad. Both platforms have their benefits and drawbacks. Neither is ideal for everyone. It's all about which trade-offs you're willing to accept.
Is there an Uber for Mother's Day app yet?
Outlook does that by default when the email goes to more than a few hundreds people. Don't remember the exact limit.

It also works if it's a single destination email that happens to be a distribution list with 500 people.
Curriculum Timeline – Stylus (CSS) Tutorial
Science is a pursuit of relating physical effects with causes, without consideration of ultimate consequences of such knowledge and its applications. In contrast, other animals just focus on their biological needs and don't care about understanding, using or influencing their surroundings and changes in it, beyond what is needed for their basic survival needs. All scientific achievements were unnecessary for the goals of human survival and evolution.
Swearing had a noticeable impact on my ability to use more nuanced and descriptive vocabulary and it has been really hard to undo. I've also noticed that not swearing and expressing things without expletives tends to make me more memorable to people, which seems beneficial in some circumstances.

That said, I'm all for not taking the loony puritan angle when it comes to language and kids.
That reads to me like an admission that they know their normal bandwidth charges are ridiculous.
> With Cognito, they are presented with an embedded WebView, prompting the user to log into Facebook again in the embedded WebView.

Off-topic, but this is an antipattern right?
There often are exceptions for execs for rules like this, which can cause their own sets of problems. I was at Microsoft when Steve Ballmer sent the company-wide email announcing he was going to step down; Reply All was disabled for most people, but some poor VP in MSR, who I guess was high enough up to be an exception, accidentally reply-all'd the whole company with his positive reaction to the announcement. That guy must've had an awkward day.
wtf is the point of a two-minute call? text me
Totally see where you're coming from, but I do think it's a nice reminder during quarantine. Time is passing so weirdly now, it's hard for me to keep track of what month we're in, let alone the date.
I've played a bit of https://skribbl.io/ recently and the votekick mechanism works very well for getting rid of people who just want to draw dicks and write swear words.
Will there be recordings of the lifestream somewhere to dl later?
Ask HN: What share of software you use is American?
How much of the software you use daily is backed by a US-based company? Has the number been changing over the years?

Given that we all are in the same information bubble, I wonder if we are over- or underestimating the lead of the US software industry.
Sweden unlikely to feel economic benefit of no-lockdown approach
My biological mother died yesterday. I didn’t know her as well as I would have liked to because I found her only three years ago, but I loved her, and now I wish I’d called her much more often than I actually did. I thought I’d have many years to get to know her but I was wrong.
Favor? haha
I don't think this is about cultural geography as much as about particular family dynamics. Not all are happy families, not all people need the same cadence of communication to maintain a relationship, etc.
(This is my first try to play with FUSE. I hope it's still OK.)

Windows support will follow later this year. Maybe. I’d really prefer to have two not-too-diverging code bases here. Need to experiment a bit...
This is a common misconception. Flat Earthers aren't unintelligent, as your wording implies. They are misled and miseducated. Indeed, humans have roughly been at their current level of intelligence for a hundred millennia, and show no signs of either getting especially smarter or dumber.

Since I anticipate somebody appealing to the Flynn effect [0] or similar improvements in intelligence-testing scores across the recent centuries, I would head them off by mentioning Spearman's hypothesis [1]. The obvious reading of the hypothesis is horribly racist, but we can take its contrapositive: If there are largely no changes between humans in recent millennia, then the differences in testing scores are due to cultural biases in the construction of the test and the education of people. And it happens to be the case, due to pedigree collapse [2], that we can be mathematically confident in the homogeneity of humanity (to say nothing of confidence from molecular biology [3]).

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearman%27s_hypothesis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/ng1435
Looking at the original Apollo 12 code listing (and the 1202 fix)
Interesting take. Can you explain more about why you hold the opinion that sounds that are meaningless are bad for human life, to the point of being unacceptable? In my experience a good sigh or happy noise are net positives.
Absolutely agree. Unfortunately I don’t think nations like the US will ever have the balls to break up their wonder children.
Maybe we're so connected that our lives and relationship run smoothly without constantly checking on each other?
I don’t think that man apologized to Elon for telling him to shove his sub up his ass either (which is what kicked off the spat).
Caps Lock is a terrible idea
In the US there are three major meat producers that dominate the market and thus when they go down, so goes the meat. Europe on the other hand has lots and lots of smaller producers, often focused on the local area, and no one dominates. Right now in Europe there is no meat shortage. Distributed production is less likely to be disrupted. It's less cost effective (from a pure business perspective) but much more robust in the face of problems.
Labor's value does not come from its output; I am not talking about economic value. I am, rather, talking about opportunity cost; for what amount of money would I spend time, my only personal and non-renewable resource, on anything besides what I want to spend it on?
And yet here we are on hacker news, where many, many commentators have no problem with either of these facts.
> Yeah, the cultural presumption seems to be that if you don't call your mother you are a callous bastard who does not care about the person who brought you into this world and nurtured you.

I don't think this is true. The cultural presumption is that you love your mom and that she was basically a pretty good mom. In that assumed case, not calling makes you a callous bastard. And of course there are people who will badger you to reconcile with estranged parents, but are they the majority? Most people understand that abusive or otherwise shitty parents exist, they just (correctly) assume that it's not the default.
It's somewhere in between SARS and the Flu. Definitely much more deadly than the Flu, definitely less deadly than SARS (but more contagious).
Can someone please help me understand?

I feel such a strong aversion to acknowledge almost every holiday, especially marketing-driven ones like Mother’s Day. Frankly saying “happy Mother’s Day” feels like I’m defiling myself and mindlessly buying into propaganda.

Isn’t it enough to treat mothers/fathers/etc well on a regular basis? Doesn’t that mean more than a call/card once a year?

I don’t want to be this way. Help me.
Do you have any research or data showing that the lives of the elderly and immunocompromised are less valuable than those considered more safe?
This fear of servers being turned off forever is overblown. Most people will have stopped playing by the time the servers have to shut down.
Have they invented ghost phones yet then? I would totally call my mom if those existed.
Famotidine study shows Covid-19 patients less likely to die
I was in the same boat as you.
A parent's bpd is hard to endure as a child and as I grew up I was always scared that I would inherit this trait.
Thankfully I did not.
I got to reconnect with my mom in a small way prior to her death and I feel good that I made that effort.
I'm still pissed off about all those wasted years but I did what I could.
Bpd is a horrible condition.
For everyone involved
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I can't understand why a screenshot tool would generates the macos window UI.
Don't forget that Ubuntu is moving into same OUR_USERS_ARE_IDIOTS model. Obligatory reminder: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for... Avoid Ubuntu at all cost or you're just going to step from frying pan into fire.
This is true, but for most intentionally optimized storage engines that syscall overhead is below the noise floor in practice, even on NVMe storage. A single core can easily drive gigabytes per second using the old Linux AIO interface.

It appears to primarily be an optimization for storage that was not well-optimized to begin with. It is not obvious that it would make high-performance storage engines faster.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23129035 sorry for crude link to links
Companies big enough to need real HR departments typically prescribe "pay bands" for every job position, e.g., a "Software Engineer II" might have a band between $100kpa and $130kpa, and to go above that band an employee either has to be promoted or receive a special exemption. Typically the midpoint of these bands (e.g., $115kpa in my example) are targeted to some percentile of one or more salary surveys done by companies like Aon. Those surveys are what set the "market rate", generally. At least for non-FAANG companies, though I imagine FAANG companies use them as well, but with (much) higher multiples.
And the heart goes out to those bearers of hard stories.

May healing find them.
I'm sad. I cannot understand how the question is reduced to a call on one day over the year!
Cannot say more!
I think the most extreme version of your point #2 was when health officials and scientists made public statements that masks were ineffective - despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, in order to reserve mask supplies for healthcare works.

Spreading misinformation in the name of good.

The most clearcut evidence of this was a world renouned epidiamologist admitting exactly this on the podcast This Week In Virology a few weeks ago. I will add the source (also in my comment history) when I get home.
I wouldn't be as critical when it comes to making only demands that will be accepted. That's not really manipulative IMO, and Swiss authorities were also very open about doing this.

Announcing a short lockdown then extending it (when it was clear from the beginning) is more problematic - basically, giving people false hope because they know that telling people to lock down for 3+ months would lead to a large number of people either rioting or ignoring the rules. Conversely, I suspect that some of the reductions in lockdown strictness are there to reduce the risk of dissatisfaction/loss of compliance, not based on what is safe.

The biggest problem are the outright lies (e.g. about masks not helping). This may have helped alleviate the shortage, but at what cost? The next time authorities say "you don't need X", people will remember and depending on other evidence, fewer or more will take it as "I definitely need X".

As a specific example, schools in Switzerland will reopen tomorrow, with the government claiming that this is safe because children don't spread it much. This may or may not be based on science (there are contradicting studies supporting either side), but because I know that I cannot trust the official statements, I am assuming that the motivation is letting more people get back to work, and expect a spike in cases. Thus, I'm restricting myself less now than I would be willing to if I could reasonably expect the situation in three weeks to be better, not worse, than the situation now, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I love using ten key-less. Moving the mouse closer makes a big difference.

I've used Cherry MX blue switches for years now, in a few different keyboards I've had.
Interesting, but i’ve found the html output of orgmode to be maybe too opinionated. For a project that i’ve been trying to launch for a few months now (can’t find the time and with covid-19 and no schools for kids is even worse), I wrote my own org parser and html exporter in clojure. The result is a semantic html output that looks gorgeous with mvp css[0]. I’m planning on releasing this as OSS but need to find time to fix a minor bug in the link parser.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[0]: https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/
OK seriously we need to have a talk about this whole 'posture' thing.
Note that this was not an RCT, and the researchers caution that we should wait for more information before prescribing to patients.

There is also no indication that famotidine prevents infection, just that it might reduce severity.
I'm envious of people who have a kind of "best friend" relationship with their parents. My father, for example, I have almost nothing in common with. He's the political opposite of me, doesn't have any hobbies or share any of the same interests, and doesn't have the same sense of humour, so our conversation always falls flat. I bought him a laptop and introduced him to the internet because I thought he might find some new interests, but it just resulted in him watching radical YouTube videos and ranting about politics even more.

For the people in this thread saying they call their parents every second day, is it because you genuinely like talking to them, or is it more out of a sense of obligation? Do I still have a duty to call my parents multiple times a week, despite us never having anything to talk about?
It seems like you're having trouble either understanding or believing how bad some mothers actually are. What about the ones that leave their baby in a dumpster? If that kid grows up does it have an obligation to try and maintain a relationship with its mother?

Abusive parents are one of the most tragic and debilitating sources of trauma there is. Many people are doomed to suffer this trauma for their entire lives despite their best efforts to move on. Please don't encourage these people to reconnect with their parents. You are opening old wounds and I don't think you understand how deep they are.
Only RSA keys are supported by default on AWS. Surely, if you can run some arbitrary cloud-init code to initialize the instance you can install whatever is supported by the sshd in the image.

I had problems pushing for solutions that used non-RSA public keys in my $dayjob because of this
and thus scientism ultimately eliminates science
>where would it get its momentum from?

The Sun itself, surely?
I think its big enough already.

It took a four man team most of Christmas to assemble.

The additional thrust is provided by what creationists call "the guiding hand". Mid flight power into very high orbit provided by grandads new chairlift.

In a serious of unplanned aborts the SRBs proved the most resilient component.

Satalite payload went the way of Galileo shortly after lunch.