skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evolution doesn’t care about longevity or quality of life: it’s all about passing genes on. If some kind of mosquito resistance didn’t lead to increasing the number of children you have there’s not going to be much selection pressure for it.
How is this different from the Innovators Dilemma?
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> don't use a 'setter', use a carefully named API that describes the purpose instead.

Call it whatever you want, the requirement is for one class to produce a side effect in a completely unrelated part of the code (happens all the time). This doesn't fit with the current architecture, and there was no way of predicting it beforehand. Now what? Rewrite everything? What happens if you're in a department of 30 developers? Tell them "hold on while I go back to the drawing board to create a clean design"?

OOP isn't a hammer, it's duct tape, and carpenters are taught from school that duct tape is the main way of doing carpentry. It's duct tape because it ties data to functions in a way that makes it very difficult to extract or reuse that data somewhere else.

When OOP is your religion you don't blame the bad carpenters, you blame the master priest.
I'm not criticizing. I've actually used kubernetes and read the source code. It's a good tool, I just think its too much mental overhead for most companies since they won't use most of what it provides. If you're working on a large team with responsible parties who have a clearly defined roles it is a great tool but I've seen two person projects with startup infrastructure waste obscene amounts of time learning Kubernetes when they could have just stood up something basic with configuration management to get started and migrate to Kubernetes when it was reasonable to do so. People need to start with a goal and then ask what tool meets the objectives of their goal. In a lot of cases people complain about the tool they are using because they start with Kubernetes and then try to figure out how they can use it on the job.
You are generally hire to fix problems which means you need to close the holes you find.
For some reason this link re-routes me to "advertising.com".
Believe me, it's absolutely disappointing. Not unexpected, mind you, but people would definitely prefer to not have things blow up.
My father grew up in rural India, has zero faith in dogs, and always carries a wooden cane on his daily walks to this day.

Growing up, I was ashamed that my dad was so scared of dogs, but the dogs he grew up around were incredibly violent and unpredictable compared to the domestics we’re so accustomed to here in the States. I think he and his brothers raised a puppy they found in the village, and it bit him pretty terribly when it grew up, so he has zero trust for animals. And he’s the most rational man I know, so it was weird to see him carry this memory so strongly into his 50s and 60s.

I don’t think he’s ever used it before (he lives in the Bay Area), but he’ll literally turn back from 5 blocks away if he realizes he’s forgotten it. I guess I’m trying to say: these kinds of environments are really traumatizing, and you should totally believe what the parent is saying. It’s a different world out there.
or, as with my experience in licensing IBM stuff, the charged per CPU.
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Fans are terrible this days, but tomorrow this shoes could worth millions so, just in case... better safe than sorry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_points_of_light
There's a very short list of what that person can be:

Either the video is fake or real. Let's pretend it's real.

Either the video is staged or not.

* if staged, then this is a person trying to spread the idea that there are agent provocateurs
* if not staged, then this is a real person that did this

If this is a real person that did this, then:

* they either did it of their own free will, or
* there is a group of people encouraging them to do it.

If they did it of their own free will, then either:

* they want to steal things
* they want to break things
* they want to get back at Autozone
* they want to cause a suggestion that there is violence in the protest at that location
* they want to _start_ violence in the protest at that location

If they did it as part of a group effort, then they were either coerced or not; but, in both cases, the intention of the group that caused it is what matters:

* the group wanted someone to steal things / break things / get back at autozone
* the group wanted to cause a suggestion that there is violence in the protest at that location
* the group wanted to _start_ violence in the protest at that location.

Then you need to look at the probabilities of each of these situations, especially the person themselves and their attire.

I think it's reasonable to conclude either:

* this guy just wanted to do harm to the location for themselves
* somebody, acting alone or with others, is trying to either make the protests violent or make the protests look violent
* it's staged and the people staging the video are trying to make it look like there are agent provocateurs
out there trying to either make the protests violent or make them look like they're violent.

Did I miss any combination?

2 of that final set are especially bad, in my opinion; and, they're sufficiently likely as to not rule them, out.

( edit: formatting )

edit: sorry, I did miss one:

* he's trying to cause an insurance claim for the autozone
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Why do I need 30?

1 rack in a datacenter is plenty for a database backed web app with a million users.
A doubled price of TP isn't going to prevent almost anyone from not having enough. (Yes yes, I know there are edge cases where $5 matters, but weigh that against the alternative.)

On the other hand, a doubled price of TP means that hoarding 10,000 packages becomes far more expensive, and less profitable.
Kubernetes, I think, exists in the 'hedgehog' at the middle of the diagram of various drives and fears.

There is some tech so simple that you just learn it and start using it, others that you know you can pick up when the time is right.

And software you would be happy to invest time in... as long as someone is paying you to do it, software you fear might keep you from getting a job if you don't invest in it.

There is software so simple it might be right (it isn't) and software so complicated that it must be important if people are using it/working on it.

So it's not that Kubernetes is good, it's just that it makes people neurotic enough to jump on the bandwagon. Been a few of those in my career. A few have stuck, most have not.
So charge appropriately for shipping from 1000 miles away.
> We could stop storing code as text

Why is this terrible? Syntax errors would no longer exist, it would allow editors to work directly with the AST and not text... I think this is a fine idea personally.

Our current editors already try to do this - letting you work with syntax and not text - via smart completions, boilerplate templates, and syntax highlighting. Working with an AST directly is only taking it a step further (and better, it removes the reliance on context-insensitive regex based tooling in the editors).
The original article is about malaria and mosquitoes, so feel free to quote me as extensively as you would like.
Technically ya, but in modern usage it refers to a previous wave of immigration to Taiwan from Fujian.

Taiwanese aborigines are firmly in the KMT/mainlander camp.
Guys, the usual "but BitTorrent can be used for so many legitimate purposes!" fig leaf argument doesn't work here. Sonarr isn't for downloading Linux ISOs. The only thing it does is schedule downloads of TV shows as soon as they air. You can't even use the "but my library is only composed of DVDs I purchased and ripped myself" excuse here. Sonarr only makes sense in the context of automated downloading of stuff that's on thetvdb.com (which is 99.99% copyrighted material).

You may or may not think that's a fine thing to do, but it is the only thing you can pretend Sonarr is for.
Thanks a lot.

If I may ask one more question, would you happen to know if the authors or other researchers who are entertaining any theoretical work on the experimental design and training methodologies of GPT/BERT? As in why does it work? What is the significance of training via the "fill-in-the-blanks" method?

Don't get me wrong - the work is great and the SOTAs are amazing, I would be just happy to have a chat to discuss and bounce some ideas what all this means and why do these methods seem to be working so well. Papers/articles/blog-posts are always a pleasure to read!
JavaScript is such a terribly designed programming language. But it doesn’t seem like anything will ever replace it. And newer tools, just get built on top of it, and transpiled down to JavaScript, thus adding evermore to be cruft of the language.
> Only high prices are an incentive for new producers to enter a market.

States of emergency tend to be associated with abnormal market conditions which inhibit normal responses and may prevent entry of new sellers, and price gouging laws are, as a rule, tied to states of emergency (and often require active renewal based on new determination of need for price protection for longer emergencies; e.g., regardless of emergency duration, California’s price gouging law requires renewal of price protection at 30 day intervals.)
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Ask HN: What would JavaScript and CSS look like if it were created today?
JavaScript and CSS have evolved since their creation, and are currently used to create software that we never would’ve imagined possible judging from their humble beginnings.

That said, both technologies have some warts, largely due to design mistakes and backwards compatibility issues.

What would JavaScript and CSS look like if they were created today?

In other words, what design decisions were mistakes? What design decisions were good? What would you keep, what would you toss?
To me it is immediately fascinating. I am ignoring the political component to focus on something else.

Sanctions in US can be amazingly broad, if enforced. The only reasons most people are not aware of them even existing is the banks did a relatively decent job of ensuring general public is rarely inconvenienced by them. And here the hammer hits pretty hard too ( Twitter may actually end up bowing to that pressure ) . There is a reason Github blocked a lot of Iranian accounts[1].

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/github-ban-sanctioned-coun...
I have using loom and its working fine so far. Very easy to share.
Am I the only one who noticed that 'Innovation' was by far the shortest section of that article?
Plus I'm sure that e.g. volunteer groups distributing supplies to those in need can negotiate the ability to buy higher quantities.
I’ve also started building my curated list of blogs after reading the recent HN posts. If anyone’s interested it is at
https://blogs.sirodoht.com/
If you're running pods as root, you're doing it wrong. That was a no-no with docker, and it's still a no-no for kubernetes. People still run non-containerized services as root too...
You must be older because I've found my parents get a lot of junk mail. My wife and I get very little junk mail though we also rarely provide our physical address.

I get tons of email, a lot of it being spam. I've had my email address for well over a decade.
Kubernetes makes it easier to run your application if it’s already way too complex for it’s own good.
Isn’t that the problem? The Japanese treated Taiwan as a first class province, while Chiang Kai Shek was much more authoritarian with his take over of the island (killing off a lot of the island leaders and educated people to prevent dissent). This has led to a much closer relationship between Taiwan and Japan, and a harsher relationship with the mainland.
Cops were perfectly willing to use those methods pre-COVID.
>I always wonder why Democrats, while in power, don't something about this and other problems that African Americans face?

Do what? Make violent crimes legal?

>It is okay to accuse Republicans for blocking some reforms. Why can't Democrats address systemic injustices when they had numbers?

Those damn Republicans and enforcing rule of law!

Police brutality aside (there needs to be State-level inspectors general), African Americans need to stop commiting crimes at orders of magnitude higher levels than other minority groups.
I'm pretty damn sure that's very unlikely.

Covid made this very clear. Countries that limited price gouging had far less panic buying and far fewer actual shortages than countries that ignored it.

Far from "creating supply" price gouging is read as a signal that supplies are precarious and may run out at any moment. So buyers tend to stock up, just in case. The result is widespread shortages.

And of course generators are useless if they're >500 miles away. No affordable markup is going to get essential goods into an emergency zone if they have to be trucked a long way.

Bottom line is you're going to get much better results from organised community preparedness and intelligent collective response than from a few random spivs hoping to make some extra dollars.
I'm working on a game for phones. It's defnly a mix of $ and stuff I like; if cash were no object, I'd like to be spending my time doing some mix of trying to make a replacement for emacs, trying to make a better language learning app, and learning more about art. (Though I'm not sure I actually _would_; unfortunately, I can be lazy w/o an external motivation.)

I'm not as passionate about games, but it's still pretty interesting to work on, and I can get paid...which, I need. :-)
That is wrong. Police forces originated in North, where slavery was outlawed. Slave patrols were not formed until nearly 70 years later.

https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/history-policing-united...
> racism and colonialism

I don't disagree with you at all, I am just not sure how these concepts are related. Xenophobia?

You're absolutely right that western nations developed by radically altering environments. There's a certain sort of hypocrisy with environmentalists lobbying developing nations. I remember an elementary school trip about DDT and how it affected local peregrine falcon populations.
To be fair, PHP5 really was quite a nightmare for honestly a lot of reasons that JS was never. I think most people remember PHP5 and compare it to fairly modern JS, but I must say, modern PHP is a lot better than older PHP (i still prefer just about anything else.)
I know that. I wasn't addressing college. The OP was talking about in his profession, which I think was safe to assume was a different industry/profession.
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There is some clever (maybe too clever) stuff in here, but isn't this pretty much inline styles with new non-standard albeit shorter property names?

If I'm going to have to add `style="--bg:cyan"` all over the place, I'd rather just stick with the standard `style="background:cyan"` so that my dear colleagues and I can avoid having to learn and relearn whatever cute names each next microframework comes up with.

In my experience, functional CSS can be great if it's limited to a very small set of very common properties with a smallish set of common values. But this seems much closer to how we did in the 90s back when it was a free-for-all...
I used to say stuff like this, but now I think it's mostly a lie I would tell myself. For most people, the "experience" of college/university is basically the a four-year party (or five- or six-...). For those who attend elite schools, they get a networking benefit. Most people aren't learning anything in classes, nor are they learning much outside of class beyond their ethanol tolerance.

I think you stumbled onto a big truth, though: college kids have by and large zero "real world" experience outside of contrived scenarios posed by their teachers/coaches, so college classes can often devolve into the Chinese Room thought experiment with students memorizing the lookup table without having any concrete idea of what they are talking about, based on lack of experience. (When I realized that this was also true for a significant number of the faculty and almost all of the administration–people whose only cultural experience is within academia,–I started treating my time in college more honestly.) I think a better system would be one in which people actually do gain some experience before attending college. It would be much more efficient (working for free as an intern or apprentice seems preferable to paying several tens to hundreds of kilobux to maximize learning during free time).
You think people are going to vote for that?
Or more likely because very young dogs would grow some basic traits of character while influenced by the behavior that their parents exhibit in front of them.
The POTUS can bar senators from entering the room. Then what?
Why not just migrate the resources?

Spin up new instances, load data from snapshots, get back to work.
Here's some context you didn't ask for, but hope you find it helpful.

There's standardization work being done to enable SAB behind a new security context. Mozilla has a good summary: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

At the moment, I think only Chromium enables SAB by default for devices that have "Site Isolation" enabled (avoids spectre attacks by using process isolation). That's a browser feature specific to Chromium, and is disable for some low-memory devices, so it's not universal.

I'm not familiar with how far along Chromium or Firefox are. If you're interested in using SAB, start reading up on COOP and COEP.

Source: I work on web tooling at Chrome.
Looks like the methane flare is what lit it, although it's difficult to judge distance in the video.
The change to elevator and stairway rules to incorporate social distancing is sweeping. NY offices (and other skyscraper-based office buildings) will, practically, never re-open while everyone had to maintain strict 6' distances.
>If you can't avoid reflexively jumping on phrases long enough to see the parallels to a common sci-fi theme, then there's no conversation to be had.

I have no clue what you are talking about. What sci-fi theme are you talking about?

>All I can say is that if you want conservative thought to remain relevant, try applying it where it can be useful.

Again I have no clue what you are talking about. I am not making a conservative point. I am just refuting the claim that Target is racist for arresting thieves.

Also seeing how I am being upvoted and you are being downvoted I am guessing my "conservative thoughts" are relevant to many people.

>Hint: the breakdown in law and order here started with the police department itself.

And? That has nothing to do with Target which is all we are talking about.

It also doesn't justify destroying other people's property.
> Paying an extra $30 for ten masks is one thing, but the hoarder who had been intent on buying ten thousand then has to pay a premium of $30,000, which leaves them with all risk and no profit.

That assumes the price is stable or near the peak. But if the price curve is rising, that's no different than a stock that's going up, is it?

You're still buying low and selling high. If the price goes up $10/week for 30 masks, you're making money by hoarding them.
No they give tons of scholarships and grants which amounts to a lot more than the loans these days. At least when it comes to tuition. This is true for private schools at all rankings.

Jacking up tuition then offsetting it with scholarships is both a bigger phychological drawn for students who end up paying the same, plus gets more money from the small set of students for whom money is no object.
Upvoted. The recent UIKit APIs with all sorts of “configurator” and “provider” closures are very bad (e.g. check out the UIContextMenu APIs for a good cringe). You don’t know if something is sync or async, called once or multiple times, which thread is it called on, etc. I don’t think they constitute good API design, especially since we’re talking about a reference-counted environment, where capture semantics are of utmost importance...
Not to detract from your point that aeronautical industry software is reliable (it is), but the 737 MAXes that crashed were all new planes. There wasn't even 24 months between the first delivery of a MAX to the model being grounded.

The issues with the MAX were also clearly preventable and there were multiple failures of the systems (regulators, internal reviews, etc.) that were in place to catch these kinds of issues.

But as you point out, the aeronautical industry has an excellent track record for software reliability, if you evaluate reliability by hull losses. By other metrics, it's a bit more debatable (eg. the integer overflow for Dreamliners such that they need to be restarted at least every 248 days), but still keeps people moving safely.
I had a friend who was attending Stanford. He did a class trip to Africa, then back to the US. He also started to feel ill (but not too bad), so decided to fly home for winter break. He died of malaria on the flight to London. He was only 32 years old.
This is a proposal that we delegate not just domain names, and not just TLS certificates, but authentication for applications themselves to a tree-structured PKIs whose trunks are controlled de jure by world governments.
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However, solar panels don't make more solar panels at 20% efficiency
Fortunately, in the United States we have figured out how to avoid failure by continuously bailing out companies that get too large. So we fixed that.
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10022/who-coined-t...
The supply chain makes no distinction between people who buy hand sanitizer for $2 in Tennessee, and people who buy hand sanitizer for $2 in New Jersey, but are desperate enough to pay $20 for it.

The supply chain has no incentive to redirect resources in the absence of a proper price signal.
No. It varies by age or location but it'd be once a year at max - unless perhaps you had already had it or for some other reason were extraordinarily high risk.
What's wrong with logging in to a server? I love logging in to a server and tinkering with it. Sure, for those who operate fleets of hundreds it's not scalable, but for a few servers that's a pleasure.
I'm learning Elixir now, and it's quite confusing to me how one would go about deploying Elixir with K8s. How much you should just let the runtime handle.

How much of K8s is just an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Erlang.
The problem is that SARS-CoV-2 is so capable of infecting and disrupting a broad variety of cells that many multi-organ symptoms might manifest, so it wouldn't be a surprise if that's what's presumed to be the cause of an ailment at first considering its reproduction number.