skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Main benefits of Kubernetes:

• Lets companies brag about having # many production services at any given time

• Company saves money by not having to hire Linux sysadmins

• Company saves money by not having to pay for managed cloud products if they don't want to

• Declarative, version controlled, git-blameable deployments

• Treating cloud providers like cattle not pets

It's going to eat the world (already has?).

I was skeptical about Kubernetes but I now understand why it's popular. The alternatives are all based on kludgy shell/Python scripts or proprietary cloud products.

It's easy to get frustrated with it because it's ridiculously complex and introduces a whole glossary of jargon and a whole new mental model. This isn't Linux anymore. This is, for all intents and purposes, a new operating system. But the interface to this OS is a bunch of <strike>punchcards</strike> YAML files that you send off to a black box and hope it works.

You're using a text editor but it's not programming. It's only YAML because it's not cool to use GUIs for system administration anymore (e.g. Windows Server, cPanel). It feels like configuring a build system or filling out taxes--absolute drudgery that hopefully gets automated one day.

The alternative to K8s isn't your personal collection of fragile shell scripts. The real alternative is not doing the whole microservices thing and just deploying a single statically linked, optimized C++ server that can serve 10k requests per second from a toaster--but we're not ready to have that discussion.
It's a bargain for someone who can normally afford to be paying more to store their insulin, sure, but for someone who's barely affording it normally, there's no difference between having it and not.

It's a pretty racist approach really, since those people who aren't going to be able to afford the bump are likely to be black.

The same forces that push the government to not work on its stock pile affects companies just as much. You could be selling those things NOW for the current price rather than spending money to store them to maybe sell them at a higher price and maybe have to throw them out. When the emergency happens very infrequently like this one, private companies' stockpiles wont do any better than the government's did. The government has better means to think long term though since they don't need to continuously make larger short term profits
This implies absolute faith in the system. What if the system is flawed or corrupt?
Amazon's Great-India-Sale-InfoScrapper Cum Notifier
thanks, TIL
If the author sees this, please post the journal club syllabus that this grew out of! Would be very interesting even without aligning references to your text. Thanks for the post.
At the time, some pediatricians used to give moms after birth a pint of blood to "pinken them up" (make their cheeks rosy.)

Of course, that gratuitous pint gave some of them AIDS or liver disease for no useful purpose.

More and more you realize hospitals are the most dangerous place to be, emphasized by corona, but the CDC maintains a list of about 18 infectious diseases rampant in hospitals today.
Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son (1922)
He's talking about fixed point, not floating point. The decimal type in SQL is an exact, fixed point numeric type. It can avoid loss of precision, like integer, but without the scale conversion step.
High risk but most infected have close to no symptoms which is nothing like AIDS which used to be a death sentence.
There are too many different tools in the space. I've been heavily researching workflow / ETL frameworks this week, and even after culling the ones that seemed like poor fits, I'm still left with:

- https://github.com/getpopper/popper

- https://docs.pachyderm.com/

- https://github.com/lyft/flyte

- https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/

- https://github.com/spotify/luigi

- https://docs.metaflow.org/

- https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster

- https://github.com/argoproj/argo

- https://github.com/prefecthq/prefect
It sounds like your first company did one thing well, and the second one was trying to do a lot of different things. So while volume was lower, complexity was higher.

Don't get me wrong. I'd still probably build that as a monolith in Java instead of a thousand NodeJS services, but I can see how you end up with Kubernetes.
http://typicalprogrammer.com/how-to-work-with-freelance-deve...
The abstraction was file a ticket and let someone figure it out for you, or script it if it happens often enough.
4096 _does_ take a lot of extra CPU resources, and it _is_ diminishing returns. But anyone who prioritizes this above all else is arguing either from a vantage point of distributed scaling across servers that cost money to handle millions of extra cycles per key times millions of keys, or from a place of defending the status quo just for the sake of defending their past choices, which I hate. Their motives for defending it have to be questioned.
The page says you gain very little, because by this point we are moving away from RSA to elliptic curves, from which you gain A LOT. Section 11.5 states:
"If you need more security than RSA-2048 offers, the way to go would be to switch to elliptical curve cryptography — not to continue using RSA." This is the entire point of this HN Thread.
A lot of smartcard and hardware vendors have a vested interest in the status quo 2048-bit RSA because they are stingy with embedded CPU resources or monetary resources in the cost of switching algos. And theres specifically an issue with GNUPG and Elliptic Curves and license compatibility
https://www.yubico.com/blog/big-debate-2048-4096-yubicos-sta...
If you are an end-user with personal keys only, and fast computers, switching to a 3072 or 4096 bit key is a no brainer. The largest overhead of additional CPU cycles is only consumed on generation, not on verification. Interoperability is nearly always ensured, and you gain some 16% percent security (which is NOT "almost nothing"). Beyond that, you should switch to Ed25519 (which uses less CPU resources anyway). Continuing to argue this point is beyond the scope of this discussion. You can research yourself why RSA-2048 is being deprecated, and everyone who can switch is switching Ed25519. Or maybe the OP will write another blog post better than I can, since nobody listens to me anyway. The point was to get you to switch away from RSA, not continue using it with 4096.
Was All-In MDB stock at $28. Glad I insisted my own opinions
Physical copy collectors? Oh wait that sounds like a collectible.
They’re bad because they force a lot of styling that is hard to remove.

When you don’t want that kind of styling you are better off not using tables, instead of making them work for you.

I guess that is exactly what you are saying though ;)
They did absolutely nothing. Reagan didn't even say the name of the disease for FIVE years.

He did, however, relish that it affected gay men. See e.g. his comment from 1981, "maybe the Lord brought down the plague because illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments."

He finally, in 1986, allocated funds - so ridiculously low that congress allocated the five-fold amount. He tried to cut it down before passing that. In 1987, he did cut down the money allocated for research. (Which has sod all to do with drug use or sex - we didn't even know what AIDS really was)

The gay community lost an entire generation of men. Because America had a Republican administration that, during an epidemic, chose to gleefully[1] let people die instead of acting. Meanwhile, they chose to privately help their friends - Reagan helped his buddy Roy Cohn to get experimental drug trial.

The whole "they just wanted to suppress recreational drug use and unprotected sex" is BLATANT retconning. Nobody was aware how it spread, people assumed you could get it through touch, saliva, etc.

Trying to spin this blatant murder of gay people by an administration into a public health concern is frankly disgusting.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids
Or put it like this.

In NY alone there have been 23K deaths due to covid 19.

911 had about 3K dead.

This was over 7 911 events in a matter of 3 months.

Nationally it's about 33 911s in 3 months.
It's always good to challenge assumptions but this looks like it will need quite a bit of replication and pairs of eyes to go beyond the stage of measurement/protocol anomalies, if I understand the linked articles correctly (more accurately, their abstracts).

I do wonder what would the consequences of cosmic anisotropy would be for the nature of the universe and of its physics. I'm so out of my depth there that it's a land of fantasy to me.
And remember how they immediately jumped on "Legionaries' Disease" even though it only affected a room full of geriatric legionaries.
I read an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that was bitching that the government was spending way too much money on AID's research instead of important things like heart disease.

I read that, looked at their statistics and backed out an estimate of number of years of life lost for AID and Heart disease. And yeah AID's was a really big deal unless you were a sociopathic old white male editor at the WSJ.

Reading what the Wall Street Journal thinks about SARS-COV2 shows they haven't changed a bit in 35 years.
That's a good one. I also wonder how many other maps there are, and what _they're_ good at. Consider physics really deep and full of leverage that's currently really helpful to humanity...but still only one general system of map design. The nice thing is that lots of alternatives are considered within physics, but we also like our "best" concept; take Wolfram finding the "best" universal rule system for example. This immediately begins discarding alternatives. And maybe they're just different, not just worse.

Even the map metaphor starts to break at this point because it's hard to think of an alternative map that's not a literal map, and maps all seem the same (i.e. resolving down to the geometry-based, literal "map system" we already know) if you squint your eyes enough. The map is the territory, and it's not, and we can say the same of the pencil, and your shoes, and the concept of intuition. Just as a way of putting "known physics is the map" into context.
"We're in this together" is Latin for "no tuition won't go down, my mortgage won't pay itself".
I herald from Italy, basically Ground Zero of the Western impact with the COVID-19 pandemic, so maybe my view is somewhat biased (though I saw it from afar, as I am currently in nearby Malta).

I honestly think it’s way too early to fret about lost freedom. There are very valid reasons why certain behaviours must at the present time be enforced or curtailed.

The loss of freedom will only become visible if, once the emergency subsides, the prior ways are prevented from being reinstated. Certainly, some concern is... understandable, at this moment in time, but it’s far from a done deal.

I think the right way of framing it is in terms of what (for example) the British endured during World War II: blackouts meant you were not allowed to illuminate anything outdoors during night-time, so as to avoid giving bombers any aid to navigation, and rationing meant that simply having money to spend didn’t necessarily suffice to buy what you wanted — both notions that would make latter-day people bristle. And yet that phase came and went, because it was mandated by circumstances, and ultimately the governments of the day had no nefarious reason to deprive their citizens (subjects, actually, in the cause of Britain, but I digress) from the freedoms that they had enjoyed previously once the reason for suspending those freedoms had passed. Not to mention freedom of the press...

So, yes, I can see why people are worked-up about this. But I think the “jury is still out”on these issues. After all, we’re in a totally extraordinary circumstance.
It depends on if it is possible to make precise time estimate of how long the task is expected to take for an developer with same level as your dev. It also depends on the quality of the specifications you have written. If you are unable to write clear and precise specs then hard for someone to commit to a set numbers of hours. If there are elements of research and development in the task it is also hard to set a firm price. So the answer is that it depends on the quality of your specifications and ability to describe and explain the work that needs to be done
My assumption is that this door is an exit — perhaps an emergency exit with a push bar. The room is big, 1152 square feet according to the article, so it probably has a real entrance somewhere else which couldn’t be photographed.
It's like five jetliner crashes every day for the last three months.
> no water available?

but it's not "no water available", but that the seller knows the value of water has grown due to an unavoidable problem (e.g., natural disaster). And without state intervention, the freemarket is gonna cause the price to skyrocket.

As a society, people have decided that it's wrong for price gauging.
If you're only using EC2 you're overspending by a factor of 5-10. Compute is cheap.
And the protests are clearly also not about the death of George Floyd. Unless you think all of these small businesses being burnt to the ground were somehow complicit in his tragic death.
Not just that it can be traced, there's a long-lived distributed ledger of the transaction. In a way, it's one of the worst choices.
Well I said elsewhere that they should probably skip the humans since it is so different, but I got pretty well downvoted.

Malaria is almost exclusively spread by mosquitos, so there is a certain logic to saying "mosquitos kill a lot of people." But you are right that most times you are bitten by a mosquito, it is nothing but a minor annoyance. It's a bit different from a lion.

Some people include deer in such charts, because people die by crashing their cars into deer. But that is pretty different too.
I sincerely beg your forgiveness for forgetting about a feature that’s only about a year old, and a feature we can’t take advantage of in our own kubernetes environment, or with the Vitess cluster.

Forest, trees.
The problem with this idea is you then get these web site designers who take it as dogma and try to force a particular width, without regard for the browser window size. This results in sometimes 1/2 or more of the horizontal area on the page wasted by this giant white space border. If you must have a margin, at least make it a reasonable percentage of the browser window width. Or better yet, don’t force my browser to render a margin.
Yeah. They already know where you live, and they already have all your car's info. No fancy license plate scanner needed, just a database.
It depends - ancient ancestors had a lot of different lifestyles. For example, Soranus of Ephesus reported deformations in the bones of children as early as the 100 CE.

However, this is I think what you are trying to get at:

One particular epidemiological study stands out as a guide for what typical 25-(OH)D levels might have been be for our earliest ancestors.

Luxwolda et al. studied populations of pastoral Masai and hunter-gatherer Hadzabe, sampling their blood for 25-(OH)D levels and taking note of their daily habits in reference to UV exposure.

The mean 25-(OH)D concentration in these populations was 115 nmol/L, with a range of 58 nmol/L to 171 nmol/L.

This study provides a general framework for the expected 25-(OH)D level of active, healthy humans working outdoors at a low (< 5 degrees) latitude. Humans have modified their living conditions greatly from this model of ancestral life, leading to reduced exposure to UV radiation.
When people around you told you that you were murdering and it took 8 minutes to kill your restrained victim 3 minutes of which the victim was unresponsive there is no plausible scenario in which you can claim that you didn't know you were killing him.

There is no cause to review how he was trained or how his actions comport with said training except to prevent it from happening again. There is no scenario which allows you to knowingly cause the death of your fellow citizen without just cause. A police officer is "a normal person" the same laws that apply to me apply to thee. If those whose job it is to enforce the law treat another officer differently it is corruption and cowardice. Cowardice is a character flaw not a justification.

“We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Pinging a Lambda is the blind leading the blind. Your Lambda still gets periodically shut down and you still have cold starts! To avoid cold start, don’t use Lambda!
I think if one were really practically and honestly worried about freedom one would be a lot more careful about who you let rule over you.
> There's no need for the SJW act.

It's not an act. It's not fake. An entire generation of people like me were wiped out and the attitudes displayed in the comments I'm replying to are the reasons why - homophobia.

And it is 100% homophobic to imply that gay men are reckless and risking their life, and that they're having sex orgies, or sleeping around constantly. <- All things in the comments I've replied to (not yours, of course).

And as I've said in other threads - no one is questioning that gay men are the majority of cases in the US. But that's not what I'm arguing about. It's everything else that gets said alongside that statistic - as though the one true statistic gives the rest a pass.

So it's not an act, and I don't really feel like stopping. I don't want to let harmful, homophobic statements go unchallenged here.

> Everything said in the previous comments was reported in the press of the day

As a parting note, consider that the press reporting homophobic garbage had an impact on public opinion, and ultimately contributed to the crisis. Just because it was reported does not mean it was true, nor helpful, nor good.
>obamagate propaganda arm (Twitter leadership)

>China's health propaganda ministry (WHO).

Jfc. Who are these conspiracy theorists that you are interviewing?
> allowing cops/the military to be the judge, jury and executioner is somehow okay?

They already are. Consider the case where the police shoots someone that is threading the life of someone else.

> no matter how your thinly veiled racism is clearly making you think they're not.

Are you claiming that the looters are of certain racial background(s)?

> Comedians are not the fucking president

Cool, and?
This essay feels like "philosophy lite[0]." One one hand, it's great to introduce new eyes and ears to these deep concepts, but on the other, there's a deep historico-philosophical morass that one needs to wade through to get to the modern state of the art. There's an incredibly rich corpus discussing emergent properties[1] (most notably of which is, arguably, consciousness) but even the SEP article (which is orders of magnitude more informative than the blog post) is quite terse.

[0] For example, putting emergentism and reductionism on two ends of a spectrum is not strictly correct. There are reductionist emergent theories out there (in both phil. of science, as well as phil. of mind).

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/
doom emacs is just an emacs with a particular starting config.
The indirect fallout from this will be huge.

From delayed diagnostics, to "elective" surgeries that can't take place, to suicides. It's going to be on the order of the direct deaths at least.

The only real measurable indirect improvement is a lot less people dead in traffic accidents.
Maybe this is a perfect opportunity to cut costs and make college more affordable in the process. Higher education is getting quite expensive and I believe these costs should be rationalized. If you take the average cost of some higher end schools (say 150k) and look at the opportunity cost of investing that in the stock market for 40 years. That’s about 15x return (7% for 40 years). Thats $2.25M at retirement. Probably better than most end up with, no?
In JS, frameworks have helped us to work out which bits of "magic" we really value, and over the past 5-7 years especially, that has informed the evolution of the language. And now, most of what we'd want is built into the platform (raucous applause). I build pretty much everything - from simple to very complex - with arrow function closures and direct DOM manip, and it works beautifully. I occasionally use lit-html if I really need to to make quick progress. But otherwise, it's the raw DOM API with one simple, functional pattern...
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Are you claiming that if tweeter had taken it down the danger of the police shooting looters would be gone?
Air-travel is so safe, yet humans insist on being completely paranoid about it.
Thanks, I was wondering if there was a way to change the default.
Successful first flight of the world’s largest all-electric aircraft
> Not disappointing - the more things that go wrong during the extensive series of tests developed and cataloged over the past several decades, the more we can correct and cement into permanence.

To some extend, but just as with software, I’m super happy if my program just has zero bugs after all the testing is done.

This has never happened, but it’s nonetheless something to strive for.
You learn how to read and you learn basic math. That’s really it from a useful educational standpoint. Happy to debate it.
Confirmation bias as an argument?

How many of those successful products are actually being made in a free market, and didn't rely on government intervention somewhere along the way? Subsidies, grants, safety standards, etc

Similarly, plenty of government run services are great and cheap -- they start failing when free market evangelists start sabotaging them to feed these kinds of arguments
what's the difference between a law and a policy? redlining explicitly excluded black neighborhoods from FHA loans.
Quoting one of the authors: Yes

... the declarative pattern is a part of React’s way.

Where there is a “framework’s way” of doing things, there is a framework.
Thanks for the recommendation, just got it on Amazon! I generally buy every (interesting) book I see mentioned on HN, and here's hoping it's a good one ;)
But how do you exclude all those other causes? We know that cigarettes kill people too so if you intentionally sell them to somebody, you're being reckless or negligent too. It's a continuum so where do you draw the line? At breaking the law? That's arbitrary and depends on the country.
According to the dictionary, a framework is "an essential supporting structure of a building, vehicle, or object".

In software it's the same thing. The framework defines the structure, you just fill in the blanks like you would fit floors, add wheels, etc.

The pro is that it's an easy way if you want to build an application that closely follows an existing type of application. But it's too constraining if you want to be able to customize the structure down the line; all of a sudden, you realize that it's defined outside, in a technology that is not your own and you don't understand.
Then we have to figure out how to use whatever power we have within this corrupt system to decorrupt it.

The "fun" answer, to burn the system down, does not leave a better system in its place. The individual components are left to scramble to develop their own systems, which in the absence of strong moral leadership, are inevitably just as as corrupt as the larger system they came from.
Gutenberg.org is just so unreadable. It’s a damn shame that the classics of the ages are hidden on a website no one would choose to read on. Why is there no Penguin Books for the web?