skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I sit here trying to imagine the manner it which someone could come to the same conclusion as you I find myself unequal to the task. I don't know how it is possible for a person to come to the same conclusion after watching the tape.

It took 8 minuted for him to die 3 minutes of which he was unresponsive while people warned the cop and asked him to stop. The victim informed the murderer of exactly how he was being murdered and asked him to stop. He called out for his mother then stopped speaking at all while he died in silence. The method he was being killed would have been completely obvious to anyone who possessed a pair of lungs or understood how breathing worked.

Nobody gives precisely one hot damn what manner of training he received. It was obvious he was murdering his victim to a human of ordinary capability. The logical conclusion is that he didn't care or wanted to murder him.
My view of frameworks and tooling has translated into other facets of my life.

I wouldn’t by a chainsaw until I felt the pain point from using an axe and branch cutters, or buy a leaf blower until the raking/sweeping got old.

There’s a lot of problems a framework can solve but as a software engineer you should know intimately what each of those problems are before relying on more powerful tools.

I actually find frameworks limiting in a lot of ways so I prefer mixing in specialized libraries
It’s pretty close to get it up and running. It’s not close to operating. You have to roll your own load balancer, health checks, method of updating and managing the underlying nodes, you don’t have operators or guarantees about the control plane, etc...

Spin up a K8S in any major cloud provider and you get all this with a consistent API, which is where the value lies.
Source? I tried to find out this but couldn’t. Would help me make a compelling argument to a conservative friend.
Inventing just about everything ever? America also has 50% more GDP per capita than the UK. Perhaps the extra 200% traffic deaths are needed to provide that boost.
I think this varies by os.
No text editor that I know of intelligently word wraps code. Vim doesn't and Emacs doesn't either.
4 spaces allows you to have manual line wrapping, for example:
if (a < b || b < c || ...
|| d < e || ... )
Do something.
Is openSSL? How much domain knowledge should developers be expected to have across the broad array of capabilities modern apps require? Should we be implementing our own tcp stacks?

Frameworks catalyse development. It's much easier for a new team member to read the very rich and well explained Django documentation than to pour through reams of poorly documented code for a custom mvc for instance.

This feels like both tilting at windmills and irrational expectations on devs who for the vast majority need to turn out features, not core libraries.
When you start making the same mistakes over and over. As long as they learn new things with each iteration it doesn't matter if they blow up 5 or 50 ships. The actual material cost of these prototypes is probably in the low 6 figures. The biggest cost is the labor, but by iterating rapidly they are learning new manufacturing techniques, so if they weren't blowing up these prototypes they would be stacking them in a field or tearing them down anyways, since the value is in the process, not the final product, at this point.

Also, there are only an estimated 300 employees building Starships (although there are probably more working on engineering), so on-site labor costs are probably about a million a week. Since they can pop out a new iteration every few weeks they cost is probably only about a few million per ship. That's a lot of money in some industries, but it's a rounding error in rocketry. They could build dozens or even hundreds of prototypes for less than the cost of a conventional disposable rocket, like SLS.

The idea that the cheapest way to build a rocket is to blow up dozens of prototypes is a bit counterintuitive, but I believe it's the future. Organizations that move more slowly to avoid failures will fall further and further behind, since the tortoise only wins if the hare falls asleep, which SpaceX shows no signs of doing.

Civil engineers are able to use mathematical models to develop bridges because we've been building bridges for thousands of years, and they can build in huge safety factors. Fully reusable rockets have never been built before and can't afford the luxury of large safety factors due to the Rocket Equation, so testing to failure is the fastest way to learn, and when almost all of the cost is labor, fastest = cheapest.
Quick - lock it down. Double unemployment payments. Wait it out in your basement with the light out.
> less wrong than a system that implicitly assumes need is proportional to disposable income.

you keep mentioning disposable income, as tho that's a measure that determines buying power. It's not. The measure is available funds, regardless of source.

A person with a lot of available funds _do_ have a higher claim than someone who doesn't. The source of the funds may be their prior work and savings (aka, disposable funds), or it could be funds collected from many people (such as donations, or family pooling funds). It is not clear how you can make a distinction between many people pooling their funds, vs somebody who has collected large amount of funds prior (from income or wealth). This is why price fixing doesn't work well, except under quite exceptional circumstances (e.g., all transport infrastructure is disrupted), in which case, rationing by decree works better than price fixing.
You might want to check out: https://quarkus.io/
> supposedly enlightened site

Yea... about that. The tech articles are fine usually, but the social articles bring out some crazies. Same as anywhere else.
This is an election year. Lots and lots of money will be spent on Facebook ads. Simple as that.

(To be clear, it’s also true that Zuck is a disingenuous, unethical charlatan who is probably also listening to that vampiric hypocrite Thiel way too much. But that’s the silver medal, not the gold.)
Who decides which Tweats to fact-check:
If someone is famous enough, you can bet that there will be at least one reporter frothing for the opportunity to be counted among trusted fact-checkers. Twitter might have to figure out a balance among reviewers but thats a lot less work than fact-checking each message.
https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...
I remember how little was known in the beginning, when it was called GRID. For a while it was theorized in the media that semen hitting the bloodstream was causing the immune system to freak out; my friends, who had just started puberty, asked me (as the designated science nerd) what I thought of that, as they had somewhat random scenarios of nocturnal emissions striking road rash from skateboarding. I thought it unlikely, given what I knew of history.

We had very little idea of what constituted "transmissible" and what did not for a period of time, and so while our parents had "free love" and The Pill, with the biggest risk being herpes, at least a section of my generation got "sex = death" internalized on top of all of the other apocalyptic gloom.

Of course, even what would be transmissible was subject to propaganda: on one side, you had people arguing for any gay sex being a risk, but on the other side, some activists insisted that heterosexual intercourse was exactly and precisely as risky as homosexual (male) intercourse. Quite a lot of misinformation floating around.
What are you changing all the time in your config?
This is the best comment on this thread

I think too many forget the risk of having ~1/4th of your youth population sitting around with no money, no goals and no life.

Its a powder keg and you dont know the likelyhood of ignition or in which direction sharpnel will go.
Network storage, NFS or other, is never optimal for DB storage. It can and is used, but it’s never going to be as good as local storage.

I had forgotten about local storage; it’s not something we can use in our environment.

It’s a moot point, in either case. Vitess doesn’t rely on persistent storage, it relies on replicas and backups.
There are certainly levels that we can't comprehend because we are physically incapable of it, just as an ant is incapable of understanding a book. Perhaps with neural augmentation we will discover new vistas previously unavailable to us.
>"But the deadliest animal in the world, in terms of how many people it kills every year, is by far the mosquito. As nicely illustrated in an infographic by gatesnotes, mosquitoes kill at least 725,000 persons every year"

And yet, we never seem to hear this fact on the News...

Yet we do get stories of the form "X killed Y people", where X is some person/group/phenomenon, and Y < 725,000...

And usually, Y is not just less, but several orders of magnitude less -- than 725,000...

Also... if you happen to leave a window open at night (accidentally, not intentionally, I might add!), and a mosquito should happen to get in -- does that make you an "accessory to murder" ?

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This is one of the stranger articles I've read regarding the quarantine.

A radically anti-regulation economics journal conveniently misinterprets a paper regarding the Flu to demonstrate that WHO flip-flopped on the issue with the subtext being that there is some sort of conspiracy that is pushing WHO's hand towards more restrictive (and more economically "harmful") measures to contain COVID-19.

As to why an economics journal is opining on epidemiology or why it would make allusions to specific anti-WHO conspiracy theories aren't all that unclear. There is a clear political subtext for such a piece.

I predict the mention of Sweden's "more liberal approach" wont hold up well.
> Optimal reading width is like 40-90 characters

That statement follows along the same line of thought that many people that want 80 char lines have. That it's better because "it's optimal". I have yet to see any significant study actually showing this to be true for the case of something like code.

Personally, I like longer lines where they make sense, and shorter lines where they make sense. But overall, I like a line configuration that lets me understand as much as possible with one screen of lines. That's the same reason I prefer short functions, because I can understand more in the same screen space from a single function call (by the name) than I can if the same code is inline.
I'm quite sure this guy could afford a bottle of ethanol at the higher price. He just didn't want it enough to pay that much. If price caps were in effect, he would have bought some ethanol and someone else who wanted it more (as shown by their desire to pay more) would be without. As I said, this is an example of the price system ensuring efficient use of a scarce resource.

But to address your point: Allowing consensual trade between buyers and sellers doesn't limit usage to richer people, and there is no system that prioritizes goods by who "needs it the most" (which is an extremely subjective judgment). If you institute price caps, you simply prioritize people who are lucky enough to get there first. Moreover, those people tend to buy more than they actually need because they're worried about the good being scarce in the future, and the price is currently low. This creates more shortages since more of the scarce good sits unused in people's garages and pantries. At best, some of those goods are sold on the gray market at an even higher price than if the store had sold them at market rates.

There is no better way to ensure that a scarce resource is put to use than to let people make voluntary transactions. That incentivizes more manufacturing, more conservation, and more substitutes for the scarce good. In the best case, little harm is caused by command economy practices such as price caps, rationing, and first-come-first-serve. In a crisis they can be catastrophic, such as when entrepreneurs are arrested for selling ice after a hurricane: https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2007/Mungergouging....
Northwestern creates wearable sensor for detecting Covid-19 symptoms
I think a better definition is: Has the term "{library_name} developer" been adopted as a title? "react developer": yes. "moment.js developer": no. "rails developer": yes. "devise developer": no.
Much better turning excess heat into steam to drive a turbine or flywheel than this. If you have a large water tank you can store heat for days to keep a house warm. I have 27kw cast iron wood burning fireplace and a wood/coal brick / ceramic kitchen and oven on the other side of the chimney. If I run both in -10c the house gets too hot. Once heated the house needs about 4 18inch logs a day. This is the only heating system. Burn oak, beech and birch. Burning pine or any conifer is a disaster for your chimney. Burns like gasoline and you have to keep feeding it.
Not sure where you get the idea that that's not already old news for the bitcoin blockchain.
I'm curious how long ago you were at that company serving 3m customers a day. I have not been in the industry very long, so I don't really know what things were like >5 years ago, and don't want to sound as if I'm pretending to be an expert.

That said, a couple thoughts that came to mind:

1. having only 4 servers in 2 locations serving 3m customers a day seems crazy to me, atleast in the context of current practices regarding highly available systems.

2. not sure your cost comparisons are fair, in the first case you're talking about cloud costs (so including hardware, 3rd party services/api fees, etc), but in the second you're just talking hosting fees.

If your first company had a relatively static, hardware-heavy (gpus doing most of the work) workload, easily handled by a few servers -- then it would be crazy to pay for a cloud provider. And it wouldn't make much sense to bother with k8s or containers either (imo).

On the other hand, if the more recent company has a dynamic/spikey, software-heavy workload, with a ton of different services, orders of magnitude more infrastructure, and (being fintech) much more demanding SLAs... then it might make a lot of sense to use a cloud provider and take advantage of k8s. Especially if you're a start up that doesn't have the time/expertise to deal with datacenter design.

I agree that there's a lot of unnecessary fixation on the latest and greatest these days, but there are definitely situations where kubernetes can be very valuable.
That's not as cool as their Reference SATA Cable https://jcat.eu/product/reference-sata-cable/
Randall Munroe (xkcd) did a video [0] a while back to promote his book "How To" where he addressed several (mostly silly) ways of powering a hypothetical home using only energy gathered on-site. In it, he calculated that 0.2 acres of trees only produces about 38 watts of usable power, if you burn them to generate electricity at the same rate they grow.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1tcyEo2tQk
Flexo vs. Bender
My children have learned far more than reading and basic math in their K-8 schools. This is an obvious fact and not open for debate. Distance learning is not an acceptable replacement. It's time to immediately reopen all primary schools. Education is essential and worth the risk.
But "mole flop" is one of the best units ever. It's better than furlongs per fortnight.
I feel that often a framework can give you a jump start into something new Where you don’t know what you need but at some point you may outgrow it and be better off doing your own thing because now you know exactly what you want.

Happened to me for example with ORMs or third party WPF components. They were good to start but at some point became limiting.

I think you often can’t or shouldn’t skip that step because otherwise the learning curve would be too steep.
And the band played on. Great film that tells the story
Why did you change your belief? I've heard both beliefs too but never seen evidence for the blame-the-owner one so I'm never sure.

I hope your logic is not: "I can imagine how A might cause X, therefore I believe B cannot possibly cause X." Easy way for people too fool themselves into believing unsupported ideas.
Just came to say that it is an amazing and extremely thorough job they have done in all these runs. And also still mind-blowing how much work the fastest frameworks can do.
> lift the hinge pins and pull the door

That’s a bit of a myth. It won’t work on normal door hinges going back many decades. When the door is closed, the knuckles of the left and right sides of the hinge overlap, so the door won’t slide out even if the hinge pin is removed. You need to swing the door open at least 10-20 degrees to disengage the knuckles. (I wish I found a decent close-up picture of hinges on a closed door to include here.) The easiest way to see this is to walk over to the nearest door and look at the hinges.
What do you mean? Linux uses tabs.
> contact your representatives

In California, the correct answer would have been to fucking vote out Feinstein. She practically built the surveillance state.
Oho! I really like this! :)

Very clever!
>Again, someone please produce evidence that this person was a cop or agent provocateur, or stop posting this rumor.
I love to read when some tech we are using @ Nursoft.co about 1+ year is "getting" popular, it's feels good.
>I remember reading that being overweight but not obese correlated with good health better than being "normal" weight did.

This is mostly selection bias. Society is so fat that being normal / underweight is correlated with sickness/disease.
If you have time I would recommend two movies that touches deeply upon this topic. They are 'Philadelphia'[1] which garnered a 'Best Actor' Oscar for Tom Hanks and 'And the band played on'[2] starring Mathew Modine.

'Philadelphia' a fictional movie that touches on the social stigma associated with HIV and 'And the band played on' captures the politics of why it was ignored by Reagan and his supporters for so long and the sad politics and scientific infighting in the chase for a cure.

Both are incredible movies.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107818/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106273/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I find that K3s is great for getting started. It has traefik included and its less of a learning curve to actually be productive, vs diving in with K8s and having to figure out way more pieces.
Facebook Launches Collab App Inspired by TikTok
Facebook ’s app-oriented new product experiment team launched the Collab app on Wednesday, a TikTok-style app for making music with friends.
We decidedly did not make it worse.

The smaller ~20lbs dog was being courageously held onto by its owner underneath both dogs for the entire ~fight~ mauling to prevent it from being taken away and killed by the ~100lbs pit bull. I didn't see in that situation that I had time to consult with a respected behaviorist and get into the dog's upbringing, give it some positive reinforcement, tummy rubs, and treats, but I did finally get its attention.

Stabbing the pit bull ended the attack within seconds. My intent was to kill it at that point, but I was unsuccessful. That is my only regret in the situation.

Another bystander took the small dog and its owner to the pet hospital in her car where emergency surgery saved its life.

I'm not sure the eventual fate of the pit bull but I know that it was turned over to the custody of the local SPCA and the owner was given some type of citation.
https://youtu.be/0KthBMpST7Q

A 90's film telling the story of how AIDS was ignored.
I find that Dokku requires me to do too much on the machine itself, well as forcing me into a certain model.

I currently use exoframe with docker-compose files, and it's fantastic.
But the thing to remember is that you don't need to have a rule of "lines must be no longer than this". Instead, it should be "aim for lines no longer than this", and then sometimes, you need longer because it makes sense in that specific case.
The Spectator is a right wing oped paper that is focused on signal boosting narratives that are in line with a pro-business, anti-regulation position. It's a shame they've decided to take the anti-science route here, as they've been a good paper for a conservative perspective for as long as I've been alive.
Earlier this year, the rapper Zuby was suspended for tweeting "Ok dude" to a trans person:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ok-dude-twitter-susp...
Somewhere I have a picture of daringfireball taking up around a quarter of the monitor width and just blank space around it.
You should leave snark for topics you have some knowledge of. PVs based on network attached drives have been around from the very start. Their performance is quite good. Vitess can use them (https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/tree/master/helm/vitess#c...)
btw in florida the voters literally overwhelmingly voted for an amendment that re-enfranchised felons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_Amendment_4

and republicans are still trying to subvert it by sneaking in restitution as a prerequisite. it was challenged in the courts, overturned, and now appealed

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/27/844297011/voting-rights-for-h...

check out this tweet

https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1264687609995026437

Edit: what exactly am I getting downvoted for? Did I post something that wasn't factually correct? Did I use foul language? Did I antagonize?
Surely you can imagine a situation where those two points are not the same.
Sure, but getting AIDS from "regular" sex is pretty rare and difficult. The chance of infection is very low.
Ah so you're "tabs" haha
Blood of recovered Covid-19 patients is becoming a hot commodity
Good line length for 2020 is 80 columns.
If I remember correctly, Elon said they expect ~20 failed tests throughout development as they test various designs and assembly techniques.
"Powerful psychoactive substances shouldn't be taken by people who are not mentally 'balanced', meaning just fine, happy with themselves or similar."

But therein lies the crux of this kind of reasoning: those kinds of requirements are vague and highly subjective - what does "mentally balanced" entail? who determines that?

It would require a high level of self-awareness and even then, some woundings/mental illnesses may not be apparent until some sort of traumatic event (such as a bad trip). It's incredibly difficult to know ahead of time what kind of reaction someone is going to have to such powerful mind-altering substances and IMO although the advice of "set and setting" is important, it in no way will prevent all possible issues from happening.
systemd-nspawn seems overlooked by many.

Name may not be pretty but it's an official feature of systemd which is used to debug the systemd development and it is far easier to take backups incrementally because the container files are just plain files in /var/lib/machines/ and apparently you already have it if systemd is on your system. (May need an additional package to be installed from OS package repo.)

I run nspawn instances as development environments for developers and I can also run docker inside it.
This. The problem itself has nothing to do with the number of characters you have on a line - the problem is that the vast majority of programming tools today conflate content and presentation.

The job of making sure the line length is reasonable is not up to the writer of the code - it is up to the tools that are used to read it. Lines should be as long as necessary, and then intelligently (i.e. syntactically-aware) soft line-wrapped by the editor when opened.
Sure, Will definitely take this into account.
California’s draft guidelines for reopening schools include costly to-do list
I didn't mention K2 because I didn't study it. I make no claim to expertise, only familiarity.

Personally, I eat dark green leafy vegetables every day - one serving of kale contains 443% daily value of vitamin K and I probably consume 2-3 servings a day.

Most food we eat doesn't contain vitamin D. A serving of farmed salmon, for example, contains about 250 IU D3 - 32% of the daily value.

In any case, I highly agree with not trusting anonymous internet opinions.