skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it easy to setup in terms of reliability and failover?

Given what you and larrik are saying, I think I need to give it a trial run, but its a project with a tiny team, so I want to be sure it won't be the cause of sleepless nights when things go wrong. It sounds like RabbitMQ is quite solid and shouldn't be the cause for concern, which is promising!

Is there anything I should keep in mind for running it in production? Any best practices or gotchas, based on your experience (eg don't run in docker, or make sure there's lots of RAM or things like that)? I guess its all in the production checklist. I need to read through it all again!
FT8 for EME
I don't use Windows, and the only Microsoft product I have installed is VS Code (with telemetry explicitly disabled), but in spite of that about 10% of all the blocked DNS requests according to my pi-hole are to Microsoft's telemetry servers at watson.telemetry.microsoft.com.
This is a great point.

A better title would have been something like "Traffic fatalities in March drop to ####".

When I was in school, our statistics prof used to put up that daily chart on the bottom of the USA Today front page. He wouldn't start class until we found two or three things wrong with it. By the end of the semester, nobody in the class trusted anything from that newspaper. Great learning experience!
The cost of a home office setup is pretty negligible relative to a Shopify employees compensation, so I don't think it would change anything if they did. But I would be surprised if they didn't give them anything towards it.
> We'll do an autopsy on a dead body without its consent. Why not an organ donation?

Assuming you are a proponent of opt-out organ donation: Should then bodies be taken as needed for scientific research?
If the industry had not bastardized telemetry lots of people would actually opt into it.

As it is now, they don't deserve it and the dark patterns being deployed ought to be criminal.
This: perl ..
No, because one has a more or less free market with inclusive economic and political institutions, and the other is China
Am I the only one eagerly waiting on postgres to transition away from the process per connection model? It seems like that is the only glaring con for postgres compared to SQL server. This would really put the nail in coffin for MySQL and other alternatives.
> It's not the ventilation that was killing patients. It was the covid-19 that was killing patients.

I'm not a professional with years of slinging the lingo. But I think Kyle-Sidell's retweet of "Barotrauma is a real phenomenon" [0] implies [edit] that aggressive ventilation was actually what was killing people. Is it so unreasonable to propose that many of the prematurely-ventilated might have survived, if not for their ventilation?

Wikipedia has a page about Barotrauma, which is damage to bodies caused by pressure differentials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barotrauma

Dr. @erikfreyrMD's earlier tweet said "I don't know where this dogma of 'intubate early' came from. Intubation is a death sentence. " [1] (emphasis added).

[0] https://twitter.com/erikfreyrMD/status/1243775103071973376

[1] https://twitter.com/erikfreyrMD/status/1243697159037259776

[edit1: means -> implies]
The ability to have all information at your fingertips everywhere is a big big change.
The problem is the “assholes” never get told they are assholes, just mysteriously rate limited for some offense never explained to them, such as having an unpopular opinion.

That sense of powerlessness doesn’t mitigate things, it sometimes escalates them.
It is just clickbait.

People who do not get organs, die in hospitals, not in cars. With that logic person would be a murder, for refusing to "donate" their organs.
America has been over for a very long time. I know I'll get downvoted for saying this, but this is something that more people need to hear because the fact they can vote affords citizens the cognitive dissonance they need to believe the propaganda they were taught about the US federal government. I'd still choose America over China any day, but that doesn't mean I think the United States is a free country; it's a free-range farm.
I think the point is that the people -running- the bundle are reselling all of the keys that didn’t sell as part of a bundle. Not the end customer who purchased a bundle.
> Ignore the conclusions, instead look at the data.

Also, do not ignore the opinion, instead look for it specifically, and assume that the data has been curated to support that opinion. Then go find the gaps.
Marvel introduces two new superheroes, Snowflake and Safespace
Seriously. The FBI was watching Black Lives Matter activists for a while as “black identity extremists.” For merely saying “black lives matter” in the street.
This problem is really easy to solve. Make your forum invite-only and have a ban on a user revoke the ability of the person that invited you to invite new users. Do not make the links between who invited whom public. It's for moderation only.

You can still have throwaway accounts for commenting on things and the overall community will be increasingly more civil.
> A somber life without enjoyment does not show that you are "being a grownup"

Was there ever really a time when ppl thought this was what growing up meant?
> The only downside is once you get message-queue-pilled, ...

I think this is why email will never die. It's basically turned into a huge message queue. Even voice mails come into my inbox.

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EDIT - I meant to say "huge universal message queue" and left out the word "universal" accidentally
>you're fucked

I'm sorry but any anecdotal spinning of history and current events supporting a bold claim about the downfall of western society is just outright non scientific, immeasurable, and quite frankly below educated discourse.

Now if you have a thesis about the sunset of western hegemony backed by reduced gdp numbers, geopolitical influence, and crime stats, thats a more worthwhile discussion.

Call me old fashioned, but passionate cries of wolf really Re just that until you show me the data
Interesting that a slightly reworded version of the same article is also currently on the Washington Post home page.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-sign...

The headlines are different as well:

China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong

vs

China to impose sweeping national security law in Hong Kong, bypassing city’s legislature
That would depend significantly on whether there's a demonstrable shortage of bodies for scientific research of the life-saving kind.
I think you replied to the wrong person :) Incidentally, I do fully agree with you.
You make a good point. All online posts are equal, and that's a terrible thing because on popular sites a shouty bad actor looks just as credible as a real expert - especially if the former relies on dogwhistle rhetoric, deliberate confusion, and superficial point-scoring, and the latter is trying to respond with facts and reason.

Good moderation can keep out bad actors and promote an adult and civil tone, but it's insanely time-consuming and expensive.

There really needs to be a new legal concept - something like poisoning of free speech. It's one thing to have unpopular and unusual opinions and to argue them, but another to set out to knowingly and deliberately subvert and poison communities with calibrated lies and aggression.

There is no upside to the latter, and the face-to-face equivalent would usually have consequences. Free speech advocates online seem to believe that online communities are somehow magically strong enough to handle these threats automatically - but in reality they can be more fragile than face to face communities. Some formal appreciation of that might not be a bad thing.
iOT, networking, cisco certified anything (resume builder).
Sunday drivers 24/7
Wube was doing this, but the people who bought the keys of G2A didn't know they were stolen and got sad/mad.

Great factorio blog post on the topic:
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-303
In person, people value civility to keep the shared benefit of social groups. In the digital world, you can easily find another group so lesser value is placed on civility. And that turns easily into the division you see in today’s digital world and society. And if you threaten the integrity of communities and societies you threaten the state and country upon which those are built.
And if the thesis holds, the erosion and replacement of these institutions by the central state's preferred methods should result in a drastic reduction in prosperity for HK.
What is the long term downward pressure on salary and compensation with all these companies going full remote? It’s true many companies are paying SV salaries for remote work, but how long will this last when the labor pool opens up?
We're not sure about that conclusion either. One other possibility is that the population currently driving on the roads right now is more prone to accidents than the population currently staying home, and so fatality rates per mile driven have gone up. Perhaps they have older cars without the latest safety features, or their cars have prior accident damage that wasn't fixed, or they skew younger with less driving experience, or they're rushing to get to their jobs, or people are out for joyrides. In that case, fatality rates among drivers staying home have dropped (to zero) and fatality rates among other drivers have probably dropped (less to collide with), but because of Simpson's Paradox overall fatality rates have gone up.

You can't know which is a better explanation unless you have data with more granularity than is typically provided by the press.
And I was talking specifically about Microsoft products like Office365, Exchange, and Sharepoint.
Electrocutions, banana-slipping, fork-stabbing and ladder-falling down as forced self-imprisonment into madhouse soft-rooms reduces stupid domestic accidents.

Meanwhile in Russia, approx. 3000 people are reported to die of corona in 5 months. In 2019, 16'900 died in road accidents. That gives approx. 7000 in 5 months. Which is twice as many, but I can't remember anyone locking down the roads, scanning QR codes in order to unlock the car or zealously repeating the NEW NORMAL, THE WORLD HAVE CHANGED mantra out of every hole. Heck, neither can I remember anyone constructing concrete barriers instead of purely nominal double center lines between adjacent opposite lanes where possible!
Twitter has actually vowed to support pedos, as long as they don't talk about plans to hurt actual, particular children.

But the community of "MAPs" is protected by social media these days. Repeat the 13-50 statistic, though, and you're out (though the likes of "kill all white people" appears to be ok).
Karma is a social proof for being able to astroturf and control the narrative. And depending on what group you're a mod in, can provide a great deal of influence and control.
The releases happen once a week. Building from master is really easy but at this point weekly is probably fine IMHO.
Mainland China is already Taiwan's largest trading partner by a big margin (followed by the US at second place). A lot of Taiwanese migrate to Mainland for better jobs.

I am more curious what would happen, if say 50% of Taiwanese agree to some sort of reunification with Mainland through a referendum? How would the US react especially given the amount of US military resources and other strategic interests in Taiwan?
It would be great to see peer-reviewed papers, or even raw data to support these assertions.
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> Make no mistake,the CCP has no intention of being self-contained, if you are not with them,you are against them. Their intention is hostile.

One country _might_ think that. One country right out proclaimed it.

"You are either with us or against us." - George Bush
> This isn't usually an issue; for the most part moderators are benevolent dictators.

Glad you used this term, because it is descriptive of the idealized leadership of a sub.
GraphQL Tools is back: next generation schema stitching and new leadership
Video games over the past decade have made big strides in metrics and feedback. There is near infinite stats on playtime, player progression, play-testing with people, bug tracking, ect. People will complain pretty frequently when stuff doesn't work. Communities spring up helping each other with technical difficulties.

The problem is on the business side of software.
A lot of academic research is locked into a particular model where every project has to be doable by 1-3 main people, most of whom are "trainees", and produce a (positive) result in 1-3 years. It's not totally impossible to do other things, but the career incentives push pretty hard in this direction: trainees need 1st author papers, it's harder to fund postdocs after a few years, etc.

Proper staff scientist jobs would help break out of this mould and might even be more cost-effective by reducing churn in the lab and providing people with more guidance.
The old network partition problems people remember about RabbitMQ are solved by quorum queues.
It’s a false dichotomy.

A moderator’s work primarily benefits, directly, the users, because it allows them to communicate safely. The platform only gets help indirectly.

Charities often have salaried or reimbursed employees; do you volunteer in order to get their salary paid? Of course not, you do it because it helps actual users; the fact that this allows people to get paid, somehow, is an indirect benefit. Same here, really.
Implementing a low-latency and dynamic feature flag service architecture
You have less than 3% chance of getting COVID19
Agree that actions matter. But if there is a meme (having kids is bad for the environment) that is systematically removing people who are more likely to take action, then less action with be taken.
> Say you do for sake of argument. It has shellfish on it and you are allergic. Can we reverse the exchange and create more value?

More value relative to the state where I now realize I have a sandwich I can't eat, yes. But that's just because I was unaware, when I made the first exchange, that the sandwich I was getting was one I would be unable to eat. If I had known that before, I would have refused the first exchange.

More value relative to the original state, before the first exchange, no, since if we re-exchange the sandwiches back, we're just returning to the original state.

A simpler way of describing this case is that people can sometimes have mistaken beliefs, which causes the perceived value to them of something to be different from its actual value to them. The actual value is what matters for wealth creation. In the case where the sandwich turns out to be inedible, the first exchange actually did not create wealth; I just thought it did. Then I realized it didn't, so I was willing to undo it. In fact, given the actual facts, the first exchange destroyed some wealth, which undoing the exchange restored.

> We could also take a bite before exchanging again.

How would that make either of us want to exchange the sandwiches back again?

> (I'm not trying to prove a point, just curious how the logic extends)

I think you're missing a key aspect of the logic, which is that people make exchanges, not to satisfy someone's abstract, highly contrived thought experiment, but because they want to. So asking about exchanges that nobody would want to make is pointless.

(At least, that's how it works in a free market, where all transactions are voluntary. If people are forced to make exchanges they would not choose to make, you can no longer count on those exchanges creating wealth even if everyone's beliefs are accurate.)

> by your refusal, is value lost or gained?

Neither, because nothing happens if I refuse.
Interesting, for me it’s far better even today.

You both should file bugs!
How is this relevant to technology?
It's because the amendment was never to authorize spying on browser history, it was an amendment to BLOCK it which was voted down for being a distraction and potentially limit FISA spying in other ways.
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I am showing my age when I remember PBS having an entire show where two sides discussed an important issue of domestic or international concern. It was called "The Advocates"[0]. It ran for five years, and included a moderator and two teams that basically had a debate as a TV show. Michael Dukakis, who later was the Democratic nominee for president, was one of the moderators. (Dukakis' Wikipedia page has no mention that he was on national TV for years before running for president, which is pretty odd.) My understanding is that The Advocates was a result of the fairness doctrine, where television licensees had to show both sides of a subject. When the fairness doctrine went away, so did that show. At the end of every debate, viewers were encouraged to write in about which side they thought won. One reason I read for the demise of the show was that the letters received pretty consistently favored the right wing argument.

The modern spin on The Advocates is Intelligence Squared[2].

[0] http://openvault.wgbh.org/collections/advocates/full-program...

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11014804/

[2] https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/
Machine Learning in Dask
The PC must grow to meet the needs of a growing factory
I’m not familiar with Kiss but it looks interesting; what’s the benefit of Kiss over something like Arch Linux which is already minimal?
Speeds are definitely up. There's a "30 mph" road near me with a stretch that's as long and straight and remote as any highway, and even the cops are driving >50mph there now. Normally it's packed (it connects two high-density areas) so you're lucky to get near 30mph.
The headline says TI-83 Premium. It has a Zilog EZ-80, which is basically a hopped up Z80. As far as I can tell, all of the TI-83 models have Z80's.
Even if they did it would just be a strongly worded letter. The only way I can see to stop an eventual Chinese takeover of Hong Kong would be a military intervention, which would amount to an invasion of the Chinese Mainland. Which means not only taking and holding Hong Kong before Chinese forces can secure it but suppressing their Naval, Air and Rocket forces. Oh and they're a nuclear power.

For better or worse no one's wading into that clusterfuck in the name of civil rights, and no one outside the US has the force projection capacity to even consider it. Maybe we'll see some economic sanctions, but from an ideological perspective the CCP cannot and will not allow Hong Kong to leave China, it would invalidate a cornerstone of their existence (their ability to keep China united, a very rare historical anomaly).
I think Podcast Addict is back on G Play. Google apologized for the removal.
Sorry, I was unclear. I was guessing that low-regulation states might allow watching the kids of more than one family.
I'm not sure what GDP, geopolitical influence, or crime stats have to do with a theory that the values set down in the Constitution are degrading.
China is a huge market and ecosystem for tech, and many tech people are interested in knowing what is happening there, to say the least.

Even ignoring the Chinese issue, many people here are interested in security, privacy, freedom of speech, environments, that is, broader impact of tech.
They've been able to get away with whatever they wanted in Xinjiang because it has no bearing on their economy. But HK has ties to the west, and enough people old enough to remember something resembling liberal government.

HK's only play at this point seems to be the Northern Ireland strategy--be as ungovernable as possible, and rely on China having a bit of shame. I don't see that working, though--the UK in Northern Ireland had a reputation to maintain. I fear that turning HK into a prison camp would do to China's reputation exactly what they want it to do.
Coldplay star backs Bitcoin app “for the masses”
Yeah that sounds about right. Of course if you had 200 connections and 50 queues you'd more likely be seeing 100000 msg/s. The number of connections and queues has a big effect on total throughput.
My hydronic system is heated by a tankless and costs almost nothing. Would that be a possible conversion?
It's not that they're [selling facemasks] they're doing so at incredible markup, encouraging and incentivizing sellers to create even more markup.
Does `M-x compile` not work for you on windows? This is what I use to do run build scripts async.
Thanksfor your comment.This is very interesting for my Raspberry Pi. The ability kit it out according to function is great.
I don't mind the occasional post that is big news like this could be, but it feels like the number of politics posts has grown a lot lately. Most of it US-centric
> It's trivial to get the quality right.

Is it really? I've looked into this a good bit myself and it seems that many who have tried this have trouble keeping the diameter consistent.

I suspect that if it really was trivial, then you'd think just about any commercial supplier could get it right, there's a lot of junk filament out there. Maybe you are just very good at it; +-0.02 is pretty good even by commercial standards. The entire first page of Amazon best sellers are +-0.03 or +-0.05.
I really couldn't disagree more. While I understand the desire to work with your coworkers in person, the benefits of working from home are huge for me.

No commuting, which on its own is reason enough for WFH since it's such a massive waste of time. Commuting would add an extra 10 hours to my workweek, and I don't get paid for it. Add in things like control over your own workspace, no "open office" nonsense, access to your own kitchen/bathroom, together all outweighs the benefits of working from the office.

The ideal situation for me would be WFH by default, with the option to work from an office if you want to or for specific situations.
But are traffic accidents contagious? We're at 10% infection now. What will 50% look like?

Its cute to deliberately conflate dissimilar things. Corona is different among mortality statistics in that, everybody can be at risk if we're not careful.
"Learn to program"

People are still repeating this meme?

But seriously while Uber and other companies are laying off thousands it's probably one of the worst times to try to enter the market as a new SWE.
Hardly surprising that a video full of dangerous misinformation has been pulled. It would be worth reading about this particular professor on Wikipedia, particularly his support for alternative medicine, his false claim to have been a professor at Imperial college, and his claim that the UK's NHS is "the last bastion of communism". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_Sikora
One reason it could be different - your blood is yours now, but your body after death isn't yours any more, it's just a corpse, any residual rights over it should not supersede society's claim on it for the needs of the living. So this would suggest that by Kant's Categorical Imperative it's fine to only use organ donations from the dead as medical treatment on those who agree (or whom society has taken to agree) that their organs could be likewise used, because if you don't want your dead body used what right could you have to do otherwise?
In March, Shopify offered a stipend of $1000 (which is quite low) for workers to convert from office to home, with a note that they should take home their office workstations and install them there.

Presumably that implies that, at the very least, new employees will be offered the same measly one-time $1k payment. Hopefully their restructuring of offices will include a more appropriate reallocation of that spending to cover the true costs of remote working.
I used to live in West Seattle and driving over that bridge in a 1971 VW van on a windy day was ... fun.

Now I drive a semi truck pulling a 53 foot trailer, and driving over any bridge on a windy day is ... fun.