skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used both. I was introduced to Rabbit at one job and at another, was "fed" Kafka during a selection process. At that time, I was definitely not opposed to Kafka because, hey new resume item. I ended up yearning for Rabbit for three reasons.

1) Much easier to implement and maintain for small to medium architectures. However, war stories I've heard is that it starts to become a hassle for large clustering architectures.

2) Because it's a traditional message broker, the input and output ends, which I was responsible for, were much simpler to write because I didn't have to worry about replays when it came back online. Rabbit knows which client it has already routed to and where messages went. Kafka is not that sophisticated in that regard. Kafka has been described as "dumb broker/smart clients" while Rabbit is "smart broker, dumb clients."

3) The scaling. Rabbit is very scalable. Once you get to the Uber/Paypal level (like, a couple of million writes per second), then Kafka becomes the obvious choice. Rabbit handles thousands or writes per second just fine. However, at that second company and like many others, they thought they'd have to suck up all the data, so of course, Kafka was the more scalable tool long term. Spoiler: We were never, ever close to PayPal-level transactions. If the size of the sun represents paypal/Uber transactions, we were basically Manhattan.
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Have you considered that China had vocally threatened military action against democratisation.
Will they? In my little view of the world I see younger workers who use the office for a social atmosphere as the ones who want to go back. Those of us that are older with older kids/wives seem more content at home. At least that's what I'm seeing in my current company.
I'm not taking about myself. I don't have any trouble making friends and I'm not introverted. Also using that as a jab is... well we will get to that.

I'm talking for people I've known who were in this situation because they won't talk about it themselves... Because they are introverted they are only going to talk about it with people they are close to. I've been close with a lot of introverted people because I love getting to know people and I care about them.

You seem to think that introverted people are not as good as everyone else because they struggle to make friends. That is fucked up. That is the kind of shit they deal with all the time and you wonder why so many introverts have social anxiety.

I never said all work relationships are shallow and I'm not devaluing shallow relationships either. I'm saying shallow relationships have less value for introverted people and it takes social energy for them to participate in these relationships that could be better spent elsewhere.

I personally love being in an office where I can spend time with my co workers. I go to the social events, I spend time with them outside of work. Because I have more social energy than introverted people and I don't care that I won't see most of these people in a few years.

I personally think the ideal situation for an introvert is a long term job working at a small company with the same people. Unfortunately that's hard to come by. Most introverted people would be better off with remote work because they can then live in the same city as their close friends and don't have to expend so much social energy just to get a paycheck.
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Aside from the other examples brought up, pulling up an actual, physical calculator and typing into that can sometimes be faster and easier than using computer tools.
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Walkers and cyclists are using the Covid-19 crisis to swipe road space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...

Let's not pretend that things are materially worse than they were back then. We certainly aren't blackmailing civil rights leaders into suicide anymore within the FBI.
Talking about terrible statistical presentation - I don't know if you saw this graph[1] that Georgia published displaying corona virus impact but if not... there is something a bit off with it.

1. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/05/19/18/28584104-8336989-...
How does corporate security handle permanent work-from-home? It seems that there would be vastly more risks added.

E.g. When Joe Employee walks into the office, we know it is him and what he does and where he works. At home, Joe Employee might have a friend who looks over his shoulder at the project launch document he is completing, at the financials that are being submitted to the CFO.
This is a recipe for disaster, at least in my experience, chores pile up and before you know it's 4pm and you still short on hours worked/output emitted..
I meant older as in more seniority.
As a side note: I'm optimistic that there will be more solutions to the symptoms of Parkinson (not sure if this is the case for this post but sharing anyways). For example https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-emm...
I am a US citizen who resided in HK for 5 years, until this last December.

I think Hong Kongers' efforts to resist increasing Chinese encroachment, while admirable, are probably futile. They are simply too British. British culture is completely incompatible with any kind of successful resistance against a hostile government. They are too scared of weapons and (justified, defensive) violence to make Chinese occupation unviable. The absolute most extreme behavior we saw from protestors was thrown bricks and the occasional molotov cocktail. Almost none of the destruction was targeted at Chinese government facilities in HK - instead they went after easy HK-controlled targets like road equipment and the airport. This is not a winning strategy.
That's exactly what it felt like to me too. It's why I enjoy featuring the custom watch strap shops, they provide a break from the affiliate angle. I also try to make my guides a bit longer than usual and also more in-depth with model numbers, etc.
Yeah fair enough, but if my job let me live anywhere I think I could find a reasonable approximation for a significant CoL reduction somewhere else.
Going full tinfoil hat...

We've seen the GDP number manipulated during this crisis, Gov propping the economy up with lots of self-debt that we cant pay back.

We've seen that other developed counties in the world bawk at us. Example being the American woman who killed a guy in the UK by driving on the wrong side; and the US said she had diplomatic immunity, when she did not. [0]

Crime stats... Crime isnt crime if it isnt punished or even taken to the courts proper. A sitting president was impeached, but not removed from office. He was charged with high-crimes. If you need a statistic, just look at how stacked the government is from a 2-party system.

I'd completely agree that America is fucked.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn
The scary takeaway here is the draconian measures the US is expanding while everyone is too busy worrying about COVID-19 to notice.

The very same tactics that "taking the red pill" support. The NYT examines that misguided tweet with extensive background information (which the author of this article, it seems, doesn't consider). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/elon-musk-tesl...

He also apparently considers shutting down digital public services in one of the most hard-hit metropolitan areas with dick picks and memes as "hope."
His website also has some great stuff: http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming
I've written a few utilities that have been released to the public. In my eyes the most important aspect of a single executable is simplicity. I personally prefer applications that I can just drag to any folder. I think, even though I don't like the OS as a whole, macOS does a pretty good job at creating a compromise with .app folders. You can keep framework dependencies, embedded resources, etc contained within one area that you can move around easily, but you don't have to package it up in the binary.

I see the whole thing as more of an issue of your target demographic and the scale of your application. Things that run as background services would make sense to distribute as an installable package. Larger applications like Office or Visual Studio are much too large to throw in a single executable. Something else though like Acrobat Reader or FileZilla I think would make sense to distribute as a single executable. Most times I just don't want to install anything. I use FTP so seldomly that I'd rather want to just download a portable FTP client than keep something installed or even have to extract a multi-file archive somewhere.
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On Reddit there are some pretty intense videos and other first-hand accounts of democratic-leaning lawmakers in Hong Kong being forcibly removed from government buildings. I’m surprised this isn’t getting more press. But also it’s pretty clear China is doing this now during coronavirus since the world has bigger things to care about at the moment
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Our government are happy to sell us out for minimal payment...
I love RabbitMQ but deploying/managing a cluster can be tricky. We had problems with network partitioning and since we didn't really need a cluster for performance reasons - only availability - we switched to a single node.
>China isn't pretending to be free.

What does a sentiment like this even mean?

Take a look at China's own propaganda, they very much celebrate their idea of what freedoms their citizens have.
Obfuscation of popular open source libraries doesn’t seem like it would do much to help?
You are quite delusional if you think the ratio is 10:1 in favor of WFH. One thing that the recent lockdown and forced WFH experiment has revealed is that while people are strongly in favor of flexibly WFH the ratio is closer to 10:1 against having no office at all.
Interestingly, the border is actually right in Xiamen's bay, not all the way out at sea.

They can wave at each others (almost).

Xiamen from Taiwan:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@24.4496222,118.2383558,3a,75y...
Some commercial real estate will be leased out as individual offices to people who have WFH jobs but want to have an office (don't have space at home, etc.).
Fill your oil tank now while prices are low. If you can get the company to let you pre-buy at todays prices, I would do that too.
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A relative of mine works at the central hospital in my city. She's been seeing with her very eyes that the department of infections is empty since the circus began. People with infections other than corona are sent home to cope or die, because empty beds are reserved for corona. Explain, please. And also explain by what magic the U07.2 in death certificates is transmuting into U07.1 for the news and statistics. If you don't know what that means, lookup the WHO's disease IDs.
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In March the UK parliament broached the topic of Uighyrs;

https://twitter.com/nomsolence/status/1237906111837040642

The 1:20 clip I posted is the final summary, but the entire 20 minutes is worth watching.
The other day when HK leaders were dragged out of the legislative building was surreal. It's something that I would have thought would only be seen by a dictator in the developing world, not in one of the most advanced cities in the world. It only adds to the adage that freedom must be continually fought for.
"A quick one-to-two-year hack" ... that is an impressive attitude. Respect.
> That's why there is an advert for ADT or Ring at the top of every feed, every day.

can't speak to this, as I use adblock when browsing. I don't doubt you, though.

> That's why crime posts are distributed to your whole city while general posts default to your neighborhood.

I don't see this. first of all, I don't actually see a specific "crime" category, presumably this falls under "safety". if I try to add a post to a specific category, I don't notice any difference in the default settings.

as for what I see in my home feed, I only see crime related posts from users in nearby locations (ie, my neighborhood and immediately adjacent ones). I only see city-wide posts from city officials, and these are on a variety of topics.
I don't think they mean that literally, but are saying that there is some mechanism that is causing the virus to spread less.
That's clever so long as it doesn't impact those who can't donate due to medical issues, eg. auto-immune disorders, cancer, etc.
Unfortunately, this creates two classes of workers, with in office workers being better politically connected and preferred over remote workers who are treated akin to contractors.

I'm biased as a remote worker; I want more orgs going remote so there are more jobs to choose from, and commutes are soul sucking. If you want an office, rent a coworking space near home (with an employer picking up the tab, with a reasonable ~$300-500/month coworking stipend). A local library near me offers one for free, coffee, desk, wifi, printers, and free parking included.
I would argue that in a system where the content is "almost infinite" the average value of each content item is "almost zero". Cache hits stats could be interesting to see what percentage of the content is never watched.
I'll add that the AMQP 1.0 spec (supported in Rabbit using a plugin) is a peer-to-peer protocol that supports both the traditional broker use case, 'direct' p2p messaging and opens some interesting uses of message routers like Apache Qpid Dispatch Router.
I avoided Factorio for years because it sounded like the sort of thing I'd get addicted to. At one point about a month ago, I saw it here and decided to give it a try.

I barely slept for the next two weeks, I played something like 100 hours in that time, and kept going to bed at 7 am.

Luckily, I never played again after launching the missile, it's kind of lost its appeal after I saw the full tech tree and there was nothing else to research.
> epic fail on the restore if you don’t have users and roles

?? in my lonely research world, the PG backup defaults and restore behavior have always been gentle and predictable. I generally backup per-database, never by cluster
I didn't say regression was ok, maybe I should have preempted such an accusation since I was criticizing the West.

I pushed back against imperialism dressed up as liberation. Everybody's soooo concerned about Hong Kong civil rights, just like they were about Iraqi civil rights.

Other places, where it's not to our geopolitical advantage? Crickets.
As mindless replicators, viruses are also incentivized to mutate into less deadly forms over time, so as to spread more effectively.
Can someone comment on Blunt vs. Tailwind?
Just interested in ideas. I'm not going to tell you were I got that old quote from, it has an incendiary speaker! :P
On the topic of Microsoft is not less evil than before : today I needed to use Teams, I was pleasantly surprised by the fact it supported a web client. I tried to use it and got caught in a tunnel of dark ux. You go to the website, click to sign in, get asked for your email and password, then verify your email, then you discover that you actually signed up for something else and now you can signup for teams. You follow the wizard again, then you are told to use Skype because you are not a company. You restart and make sure to check the box saying you are a company, then put your company info, it works! You try to start a call, and you get told it does not work in firefox...
That happened to me a few days ago. It was at like 5pm when my hours were set to 10pm. It didn't even give a countdown. It just restarted in an instant. I so annoyed as I was installing a game at the time and it completely corrupted the installation.
It also doesn't make G2A "A black market for software".

G2A is fundamentally a consumer empowering type of market/organization, businesses who sell keys do not want their completely legitimately purchased keys resold, and if you don't think they are going to stoop to painting the people who enable that as horrible monsters, you have ignored the entire history of markets and PR.

G2A has a standing offer to pay devs 10x what any fraudulently obtained keys cost them, and they are making good on that offer here, the fact they are still being treated like some kind of mafia-esque organization in these comments says a lot about the power of PR.

Remember when the RIAA was coming out about the evils of used CDs and was asking congress to make their resale illegal?

We are at that point right now with digital goods, with the majority of people cheering on this blatantly anti-consumer bullshit and painting those that enable fighting it as scumbags
I agree this not a private sector overall trend, but seed for the thought experiment.

Recent news and surveys do indicate significant change expected in remote work changes and real estate footprint changes.

"Large companies already expect more of their workers to continue to work remotely and say they plan to reduce their real estate footprint, which will, in turn, reduce the foot traffic that feeds nearby restaurants, shops, nail salons and other businesses." [1.]

This is part of data from a deport by Deloitte [2.][3.]:

> "In a year, 75% of CFOs expect more of their workforce to work remotely and nearly half expect a smaller real estate footprint."

[1.] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/business/economy/coronavi...

[2.] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deloitte-cfo-signal...

[3.] https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/finance/articles/reope...

Regarding salaries due to support expensive city lifestyles: True, I would like to see how remote-first companies handle hiring people in such cities.
Only if they want to end up like Yahoo. Taking away a benefit, be it free cokes or working from home, likely would cause a huge exodus of engineers.
During the Civil Rights era things were pretty terrible.

I don't know how you measure the two but I think your vague implication here is pretty wrong / represents a real misunderstanding of what the government was up to in the civil rights era...
As a side question: As a moderator, you basically create the tone and feel of a subreddit. If a subreddit is successful, it's because of the moderators.

When reddit goes public, moderators get nothing. The employees of reddit will become defacto IPO millionaires, but moderators who create the success of the site, get nothing. Has anything been discussed along these lines about how unfair this is?
To beleaguer your "cleaning the pools" analogy: It is not as simple as just cleaning the pool of grime brought in through normal use.

The shit-peddlers outside the building are constantly convincing pool-goers to join a shit-peddling pyramid scheme so that they bring boxes of shit in to the pool.

And besides that, some people just want to trash the pool for their own enjoyment.
I've honestly felt the same way. I started reading HN a few years ago and it's gone slightly towards how reddit operates.

Also noticed the CCP sympathizers are more numerous now than when the political posts started.
How are you deciding whether a source is right or left leaning? Is the rating a manual process based on some set of factors, or are you using an external rating source?

IMO, Media Bias Fact Check [0] is on of the better external rating sources if you haven't come across them before.

[0] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
This one is behind a paywall and i'm not a Bloomberg subscriber. Here's a long article published today at Vox that gets into this: https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/21/21234242/coronavirus-co...

"A survey of senior finance leaders by research firm Gartner found that 74 percent of organizations plan to shift some employees to remote work permanently. Consulting company Global Workplace Analytics estimates that when the pandemic is over, 30 percent of the entire workforce will work from home at least a couple times a week. Before the pandemic, that number was in the low single digits."

This is kind of terrifying. I started working from home a few months before this mess, and i've found that work-life balance hasn't really improved. Yes, my day is more flexible — i can spend a few hours in the morning with my kid and make up lost time in the evening when she's down — but the days stick to one another, and i'm having trouble disconnecting completely. I used to get home from the office at 4:30, hang with the kid, get her to bed, and then have a few hours to either write or go to the gym or hang with my wife. These days, work is always on my mind to some degree, accompanied by low-level anxiety — and not just because of this surreal and disorienting pandemic.
People blame FB for social media woes, but I feel that FB is different from the other social networks in that it’s the world you fully curate and manage. If FB is giving you grief, that’s people on your green list giving you grief. If you need FB to come in to manage that, then you’re basically saying you can’t even handle the agency involved in freedom of association.
Remote-first is the future. I'm not sure why anyone would be against it. No one is forcing you to work from home. From a compliance and operations perspective a remote-first company is effectively forced to do a lot of things many companies do not or will not undertake:

- Make meetings accessible to everyone

- Communicate more effectively and transparently internal to the organization (and even externally, for the adventurous types)

The main "downsides" of working from home (which is not necessarily remote-first) - not seeing your colleagues in person, life <-> work separation, etc. will be a new industry that will end up resolving itself. I've seen office space costs. It would be cheaper to fly literally every employee out once a quarter and throw a giant party than to maintain an office space sized for the same amount of people by an order of magnitude in a large, popular city (NYC office space is approximately ~$100/sqft/month - a desk sized for two monitors, a keyboard and writing space is about 2 x 4 minimum, so 8sqft, or $800/month just for a single person in a nice space)

In other words, being forced to do anything - whether that was working from home or from an office - is an oppressive activity. Remote-first simply gives back that freedom of choice. Companies can maintain more minimalist offices for those who insist, and coworking spaces will grow for those who don't like the office and want separation, and finally those who have the space in their homes can work from home.

I'd be curious to hear a good argument against all organizations that can be remote-first being remote-first.
The security risks aren't any different in permanent work from home vs "once in a while when I have to watch the kids" work from home, and most companies have long since allowed the latter. You just don't give sensitive documents to people who can't be trusted to protect them.
Agree - "Outed" implies he was doxxed, but per link in the article his name was known in 2016
The confusing issue here is the dispersion factor: the variability between infectiousness of carriers, which appears to be quite high in the case of covid-19:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/why-do-some-covid-19...
Let's see:

How long does it take after boot for disk I/O to stop if you've got a 5400 rpm hard drive? It's maybe a few minutes after login on 7, and I've never seen it stop on 10.

Why does the calculator take seconds to start? Why does it ignore keypresses when it has focus?

How many clicks does it take to set my IP on an isolated network with no DHCPd? How many different contol interfaces will I see on the way?

On Old Edge (I haven't tried Chrome based Edge), why does the stop button sometimes not stop until the page finishes loading over several seconds? Why do the back and forward, and url navigation interactions queue up in that case?