skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really dislike the way the discussion around this has been framed. It seems to have centered around two polar extremes. On on end you have the idea that we should stay in "lockdown" until there is a cure or vaccine. On the other end you've got the "it's just the flu" crowd who doesn't want any public life restrictions while also nay saying zero cost things like masks that greatly reduce risk.

Neither of those positions seems reasonable. Where are the reasonable leaders that recognize that it isn't practical to to have a "lockdown" waiting for a vaccine that is going to take a year in the most optimistic case while at the same time recognizing that promoting small inexpensive behavior changes that keep this in check and reduce risk while that plays out is the way to prevent the need for more draconian measures.

I also think the idea that taking any precaution even minor some how means you are "afraid". Total nonsense.
Bars and churches immediately come to mind, but depending on what city you live in there should be plenty of other opportunities: generic meetups, smallgroups, dog parks, volunteering, taking a class, etc.

Using hobbies is a great way to make friends if you enjoy that hobby. I just think it's a little disingenuous to go to a book club for something other than the book; it feels like going to the gym to just try to chat people up, or really any hobby-related gathering where you don't really care about the hobby. If you're not going to read the book for a book club, it just seems like you might have better luck finding shared hobbies with people at a different kind of club.

Then again, that's just my opinion of what my ideal book club looks like, but that's in no way the "right" way. Social book clubs are probably a great way to get more people to read things they otherwise wouldn't; I just don't get as much out of those kinds of book clubs.
If you call it that you can raise a million dollars first.
I'm not sure if they were ever in use outside the US.
Yup, you can put 280 of it into a single tweet.
Thanks a lot for the kind words! I think you should definitely learn Python - it's a very versatile language, but for the full-stack I would recommend mastering JavaScript instead.

As for me - I've been coding in Python at school for a while now (I'm a data science major) but I haven't really had any experience with the full-stack so I wanted to take this as a learning opportunity for me. In total, it took me a week to build the whole site - the relatively quick timeline is probably because I treated it as a personal hackathon with a one-week deadline.
The randomization they are working around is most likely

> WHERE indexedColumn > RANDOM() LIMIT 10

That can be bound on RANDOM() performance or we can rely on a seeded "non-random" PRNG to produce a random selection vector without running random() for every row.

If that has a syscall into /dev/urandom for every row, then that sucks for sure & is not representative of the actual intention.

In Apache Hive, we have a similar argument about unix_timestamp(), which was made deterministic, but stateful (MapReduce failure tolerance demands that if a task fails while running a query like > unix_timestamp() + n, the next attempt will produce an identical output, even-though some time has passed between the attempts).

So for that, we do the unix_timestamp() replacement per-query, instead of per-row.

I assume that's what was done here.
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"Powerful city merchants wanted the silk and cotton cargo of the ship for the great medieval fair at Beaucaire and pressured authorities to lift the quarantine"

So they also struggled with wealthy people bending the rules to their will even back then. The same is true today with large parts of the forces behind the "reopen" movement in the US.
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We don’t own our digital lives and it’s time we started caring about it
Re-train https://github.com/davidsandberg/facenet on cats?
I think there are open possibilities in making leaderless single-round-trip consensus systems for log-oriented FSMs, which is what pretty much everyone WANTS.

This is based on her presentation and some dinner conversation at HPTS 2019, so I don't know if there's actually a paper I can point to. The gist of is that Paxos normally involves an arbitration phase where there are conflicting proposals, which adds a second pair of message delays. But if you relax the consensus problem to agreement on a set of proposals, rather than a single proposal, you don't need the arbitration phase. Instead of "who won", it becomes "everyone wins". Then you can impose an order on that set via, say, sorting, and iterate to get a replicated log.

I read over bits of Elle; the documentation in it is absolutely top-notch. You and Peter Alvaro knocked it out of the park!

Thank you! Could I... hang on, just let me grab reviewer #1 quickly, I'd like them to hear this. ;-)
You have 4 litres of blood in your body.

You will die if you lose 2 of them.

A typical lab blood draw is ~10 ml.

Does this mean that for every two hundred people who get their blood drawn, one is killed?
Sci-fi legend Kim Stanley Robinson was a keynote speaker at our virtual conference!! I guarantee that wouldn't of happened if we were in person.

Virtual conferences are terrific. I just helped host the AirMiners conference [1] on carbon removal on May 13. Because it was a virtual conf we were able to achieve top speakers, international attendees, and just seemed so much more effective.
(KSR's keynote is here: https://youtu.be/9Pw0n0CeK0k)

It's going to be an uphill battle to get me to attend an in person conference again.

[1] http://airminers.org
This has only been occasionally available in my experience, and itself introduces perhaps worse problems. If I'm explicitly arguing against someone's theory, they are likely to be a relevant judge of the merits/demerits of the arguments.

Having a good editor who can discern the difference between a reviewer's relevant responses and 'turf warfare' is probably best one can wish for.
I'm not defending mongodb in and sense and had stern talks with some of my junior developers who were too eager to try out this new hot mongo thingy on a new website, but there are plenty such jobs.

For example, climate data gathered from hundreds of thousands of devices every minute can very much survive some data to be lost. Or some astronomical observations data.

I wouldn't choose mongoDB for it, though.
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> It'd be especially interesting given that MongoDB claims this:

> > Postgres has both asynchronous (the default) and synchronous replication options, neither of which offers automatic failure detection and failover [12]. The synchronous replication only waits for durability on one additional node, regardless of how many nodes exist [13]. Additionally, Postgres allows one to tune these durability behaviors at the user level. When reading from a node, there is no way to specify the durability or recency of the data read. A query may return data that is subsequently lost. Additionally, Postgres does not guarantee clients can read their own writes across nodes.

> From http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol12/p2071-schultz.pdf

This is like those commonly seen tables comparing your product with others where your product had checkmarks in all categories, and of course competitors are missing a bunch of them. The problem is that the categories were picked by you, and are often irrelevant to the other product. This is the case here.

PostgreSQL is not a distributed database, the master is the one doing all writes. The replicas are read only. By default replicas are asynchronous which means they won't affect master performance, at the cost of having data there being late by few seconds. Since you can't write to replicas, this won't cause data corruption, only delay which often is acceptable. If you design your applications in such way that will have two database endpoints: one for writes and one just for reads, you can then decide based on context which endpoint you want to use. The read only is easy to scale, but as mentioned earlier it is read only, and might slight delay.

Now, for failover, you might also opt on using synchronous replicas this will add extra latency, but then you always have at least one machine that has the same data. They mentioned that if you have multiple synchronous standbys then it only one needs to write. Actually that's configurable, you can specify group of synchronous machines and how many and which need to be synchronized, the remaining ones are a backup in case those that you specified aren't available.

Besides, the writes don't work the same way as in mongo, when a standby node is in sync it isn't just in sync for that particular write, it is completely in sync, so their following argument about not being able to specify durability/recency of data on read is redundant. If you contact the master or synchronous replica, you will always get the most recent state. If you don't mind slight delay you should query asynchronous replicas (in fact you should prefer them whenever you can, since those are cheap to add)
As someone who got to embed with a mixed client/Pivotal team, this was a great experience for me. I had never seen pairing or TDD done in a disciplined and thoughtful way, or participated on a team that was "Agile" in more than just name and appearance. We certainly had plenty of room to keep improving, but by the end of my time on the project we were deploying a high-quality product on an ongoing basis, making good design choices, and delivering substantial value for the users every few weeks. It felt great and I'm sorry to say I haven't gotten to experience it again since.
Apple and google’s system apparently doesn’t store location information. Actually it’s getting pushback from health people because it doesn’t collect data.
Just FYI, the article does not make clear if this was the source code or a binary. I do not disagree with you, but this isn't the best evidence for your case.
I tried to refuse walking through yet another xray upon arriving in Laos in 2014 and 10 agents appeared out of nowhere. So you walk through the xray.
Why does this need to be genomic? Why is psychological proof not enough?

There is plenty of evidence that shows that humans are susceptible to these types of fallacies, whether it's at explaining the world around us or even explaining our own behavior. My favorite study on self-justification is the split-brain experiment. But essentially if we are susceptible to after-the-fact narrative fallacies of our own behavior, we are definitely susceptible to it for the rest of the world, about which we know much less and which is far more complicated.
Make something you want.
> My general understanding is that most people do take peer review to be such a filter.

If they do, then they're wrong, since peer review explicitly disclaims any indication that a paper is correct or should be believed. And this is supported by the fact that a large fraction of peer-reviewed papers turn out to be wrong.

> I'm also someone solving a real serious scientific problem and I'm dependent on trusting that people with PhD's who answer questions of mine about cell biology or whatever can be trusted because, unlike me, they had the capacity to pursue a PhD.

It depends on what questions you're asking them and what their basis is for their answers. If their basis is solid experimental knowledge of whatever aspect of cell biology you're asking about, then yes, their answers are probably trustworthy. If their basis is speculation about something we don't have much experimental knowledge of, then no, their answers are probably not trustworthy. In either case, you're not going to find that out by looking at whether what they're saying has been peer reviewed. You're going to find out by asking them how they know the things they're telling you and critically evaluating their answers.

> I'm too busy solving a scientific problem

> I sort of have "infinite time"

You can't be "too busy" if you have "infinite time". It's just a question of how you choose to employ your time. It would seem to me to be a better idea to employ it in becoming an expert yourself, so you can critically evaluate what other experts are saying, than to look for a shortcut filter, whether it's peer review or anything else. Asking other experts questions can certainly help with that; but it might be helpful to view that not as looking for answers from them, but as using what they say to help you build your own expertise.
If you are extrovert and you are OK with dozens of strangers around you it will work.

If you have hard time getting along with random people and you need time to open up and get confident with others that is really bad idea. I think book club where mostly the same people who are also less outgoing is better option.
They actually weren't that much work - I recently found this amazing website called Lottiefiles and have been using some of the art I found there as placeholder until I had the time to custom make some of my own, and since this project was intended as an MVP, I didn't really manage to get around to doing that, but I definitely want to in the near future!

And thank you for your encouraging words! I never had any experience building webapps from scratch - I've always resorted to no-code solutions like Webflow because I'm more into design myself. Here's one of my other projects that I'm working on, which I built with Webflow, if you're interested: https://www.sedge.io/
Mozilla does not control Rust.

Google and Microsoft are both already using Rust for real products.
Anyone with one can comment on performance?

Because the pro made me think “enough to be a dev machine” but the price suggests otherwise.
OP is from New York City according to his linked profile + homepage.

It is indeed low effort.

Your comment may be more insulting than the one you're replying to :)
Most "scripting" plangs are both strong and dynamic typed at the same time.
No. It's a totally different car. The Impala is (as previously mentioned) 7" longer - 201 vs 194.
I can relate to the author 100%. The on-boarding process just sounds absurd. I have been there. It was awful. I hated it.

The worst that I experienced was a requirement that all new hires complete a training course for Splunk, the log aggregator. Why? Apparently, Splunk was a shared resource for this massive company. As a result, careless queries or logging could result in degraded performance for other teams needing to query their logs in Splunk.

Ok, no big deal, right? That's what I thought too. I dutifully started working on my training to get it out of the way. I took detailed and copious notes like my job depended on it. After an entire week of eight hour days doing nothing but taking Splunk trainings I was finally done...with section 1.

What the hell? There is another section? As it turned out, it took most new hires 2-3 weeks to complete the trainings. If a new hire did not complete the training they could not access Splunk, and apparently this meant they could not do their job. Absurd on many levels. To add insult to injury, this was a new requirement and many on my team were given access and were never required to complete the training. Those very same people kept telling me "oh, just do it, we don't expect you to be productive right away".

Well, I didn't do it. I refused. I told anyone that asked that I thought the requirement was unnecessary and a waste of time. Eventually, my manager got very pushy about it. I continued to stand my ground. In particular, I told my manager he needed to go to bat for me and get me access if he wanted me to do my job.

LO AND BEHOLD, I was given access.

The author is right for not wanting to be forced to do stupid things and have their time wasted. I don't know where some commenters get off calling the author "entitled" or "not a team player". Why are they so invested in this?
Yes, how have the other 3/5 fared?
Its understandable since this is BBC, but it also ignores the dramatic financial impact being hospitalized for COVID19 can have on the average family in the US. It could be 0.0001% fatality regardless of demographic, and people in the US should still be very cautious if the hospitalization rate stays the same.

How many can afford to miss 3 weeks of work while recovering, let alone the bills afterwards or long-term health impacts. Will survivors end up needing expensive prescriptions or frequent doctor visits to maintain a normal quality of life post COVID19?

If the US really wants to 'restart' the economy and have things kicking, government-guaranteed health coverage (at minimum for COVID-related issues) should be priority #1.
Damn I had kind of the same, also the worst computer I ever bought after having done research for a long time to get a Linux computer. I send it back two times and they fixed the Bluetooth and audio two times and then it broke again. And the glue under the plastic bezel around the screen started dissolving, I lost most of the screws and then I think it started overheating and switching itself off in both Windows and Linux. I payed about 1000 EUR for it and after 1.5 years later I had to buy something else.
As far as i know, No.
The compiler stubbornly refuse to inline any method calls.

But it has been proposed in JEP 303 [1]

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/303
Not sure if any representative from Tuxedo are reading. There are spelling mistakes;

Another highlight of the TUXEDO Book BA15 is its elegant and durable chassis, which is partly made of magnesium allow (AZ91D) (display cover as well as baseunit), while aluminum is used on the bottom panel.

Magnesium "Alloy", and "base unit". And in other places, "videostreaming",

On another note, if AMD have sufficient capacity right at launch for AMD Ryzen 5 3500U to be used by so many ODM models suggests it might not be doing so well in the Top 5 laptop brand which represent 80% of the market. And if you exclude Apple, it is close to 90%.
Hahaha, I'm sorry about this! I've come to realize how this site can be used with malignant intent - even domain registrars could be stalking this site and bump up the prices for domains that people have been viewing a lot. I guess I can just hope that these things don't actually happen and that I've built a tool that can help people find their dream domains. :')
PostgreSQL doesn't offer multi master replication. There are extensions that do, but if aphyr will evaluate them he should emphasize that he is treating them not the PostgreSQL (unless he finds a bug in PostgreSQL itself).

I think he did something similar for MySQL when evaluating the Galera cluster.
I had ordered one of the other models early last year and it did take 2-3 months before I heard that it was shipping, and then it was another 2-3 weeks before it arrived. Their packaging was good enough to protect it, being in a plastic case. I have no issues with the one I have and, pending seeing other's experience with this new model, will definitely consider one of these. Be patient, that's all I can say.
> If that's the case, why have a "book" club at all

To get a conversation started, but it doesn't matter where it ends up.

Do you understand people making smalltalk and the purpose of it? It's like that.
For a longer term study of the measured cosmic radiation exposure rates that one could expect from commercial flights I have followed this study:

https://spaceweather.com/

They also regularly launch balloons to track atmospheric changes. This is a long-running experiment with data gathered by high school kids. Pretty awesome. You can sponsor a flight and get a token item that has traveled to the edge of space in exchange. Great website.
This is another good chart:

https://xkcd.com/radiation/
Apart from "it is an evil, vile country", etc., above, here are the two past cases when we've chided your current account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20357430

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22538538

But there are more recent cases like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23135072, which is obviously unacceptable.
The human body (and most systems like it) essentially have lots and lots of systems whose essential purpose is to prevent the cells in our body from competing with each other, and when these systems break and allow our cells to compete freely with each other it leads to cancer.
That's understandable. I wish there were a way of separating these two types of book clubs then, a casual versus hardcore variety. I think by doing so, fewer people would be disappointed when it turns out to be the opposite variety of what they expected. Thanks for your viewpoint, it helped me understand the idea better.
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By coincidence, the same author has wrote an article about that very recently: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/. In particular, see section II.

I'm still processing the article in my head, but as I understood it: it's important that all cells in your body share the same genome. For some reason, evolution in multicellular organisms can be seen as two-tier - competition between the cells, and competition between collections of cells (organism). The higher-level competition forces the individual cells to behave in fully-cooperative way; those organisms that can't enforce order within get cancer and die prematurely.

The mechanics of it seem sound, and it's a nice model for a lot of things, natural and otherwise, but I'm still confused about how such two-tiered evolution could've arisen in nature wrt. multi-cellular structures.
I would argue it's doing what's right for the situation but with a few top level goals that should constantly be in view.

- Simplicity: you should be creating simple designs / solutions

- Feedback: you should be getting continuous feedback as to whether what you're doing is working and self-correcting

- Courage/Communication/Respect: you should be fostering a collaborative environment where people feel free to tell the truth and feel they're respected as people and professionals

The practices (pairing, TDD, etc.) are just a way of getting to those goals. You can follow any other disciplines you want, but if the end result doesn't look like what I just described (or if it isn't the explicit goal of your activities) then I don't think you're doing XP.
People are increasingly wanting to try before they buy. Still, enterprise sales will require talking on the phone, demos, RFPs. For the others, you will likely want a means for them to try and buy without needing to talk to a human
Yes I am! And I totally get it - I'm pretty much a branding geek myself. I've been debating whether to remove the dashes even when I first started building the site, and this just gives me more reason to remove them from the word list. Stay tuned for the next update! ;)
That shows the effects of partisanship on people’s memory and perception of reality. Partisanship is extremely powerful.
Thank you for the source. I only checked Google data and wasn't aware of the report.
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I've wanted to try building a toy database to learn more about how they work - any suggestions for good resources?
Yes, hence the large gap in death estimation
That's not really true though. Sometimes when I submit stories, it just adds a point to an earlier submission posted by another user. It detects the duplicate properly.