skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without taking the time to make a data-driven argument, I'll just hypothesize that, it's a natural result of lowering the barriers/costs of entry, to making changes.

30 years ago, if you worked in software, then you were almost certainly building shrink-wrapped products, that had to "go gold" before being printed onto 1000s of CDs at a factory. How quickly/easily could you change anything? Not for years, typically. Hence, you were very careful to try and build things right the first time, but the ironic thing is, with such long feedback cycles (i.e. you never really got feedback), that all this waterfall-style effort to plan everything and do everything right the first, rarely ever materialized as perfect/seamless UX for the end user anyways. It turns out, you need to iterate to improve.

Nowadays, the pendulum may have swung too far in the opposite direction... it could legitimately be said that, some things are too easy, tinkering with changes is too easy, and thus nobody expects to have to maintain something for a long period of time. If the cost of rewriting everything is low enough, people will be tempted to just do that whenever they change their minds about something, rather than forcing themselves to predict the future upfront and make durable decisions that will survive for 5-10 years out in the wild with no changes.

IMO, there's no single right answer for all scenarios, all products, all forms of engineering, etc. But it's explainable why such trends may emerge over time.
A factory reset should fix that TV right up.
I definitely learned a 'one true way' to write alphabetic letters in primary school. In the Netherlands. We had to write every letter in one stroke in one specific way. Then we learned to write whole words in one stroke. I was pretty terrible at it and was glad to be allowed to use 'block letters'. I don't know whether that was universal across schools here or whether they still do.
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Recently had to shop for renter insurance. Lemonade chat bot was the best one. It was the only place I could get insurance without talking a human being. AllState took 4 calls and multiple callbacks just to send me a final quote. While waiting for last callback I just went ahead and got Lemonade.

Most insurance carriers I called want to "We can't find your quote, can you please repeat all those pages again, so we can start a new one?" Most don't disclose what features they offer and let you customize it _fast_. Fucking AllState didn't even show much property cost is insured until I called them and it didn't let me add more coverage until I called. 9.99 a months is very cool, but I would like to know how much and what insured first.

Customer support is pretty good as well at Lemonade. One email and my old policy canceled and all personal items transferred to new place.

That is on top of the fact that no one goes above 300k and make you buy a 1m umbrella policy. All while trying to sell you car insurance, life insurance, shit yo pants insurance.
This completely out-geeks the PDP-8 I saw using timing loops to project songs to a nearby radio in the 1970's.
Yes, anyone trying to push these drugs on literally everyone is a fool. The reason people with pre-existing psychosis like schizophrenia are being ruled out of such studies is because the risk is plainly obvious.

That's why doctors often prescribe medicine with the caveat "do not take drug A if you have conditions XYZ"
You can often guess who the reviewers are as well. The most obvious tell is "also cite paper X" which is their own 99% of the time.
What about docker swarm? It seems to answer your request about an orchestrator as easy to use as Docker
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Did you evaluate A2Plus? Right now I'm building all my parts as independent Bodies in the same workspace, and haven't adopted A2Plus (since I like to design my parts within the assembly view, while it forces you to design parts then Import them into another workspace).
DuckDuckGo is ddg.gg not ddg.com
On the page where you add new inputs, I have a list of tips and advice for maximizing results relevancy. It's hard for me to automate what "better" is for a product like this.
I don't speak for mjburgess, is that really an entirely fair or good faith summary of what @mjburgess said? Is it the strongest plausible interpretation of the comments above? If it was said that learning alone is narcissistic, then I agree with you, that'd be confusing. I don't quite see that anywhere above, but maybe that's what was meant.

Don't you think that researchers sand-bagging paper reviews with requests for citations of their own work is a tad narcissistic? That behavior is rampant in academics, among many other behaviors seeking public name recognition. I don't fully agree with the views above, and they seem to have a pessimistic flavor, but I don't see the word narcissism being misused according to the dictionary definition you provided.

Anyway, I don't really care what the definition of the word is, it just seemed like you had an extreme version in the opposite direction that is at least as prone to confusion. It doesn't exactly help prove the point if your version has the same defect, or if weasel words are used to back-up the claim, right?
The upcoming version looks pretty exciting.
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Awesome! For anyone who finds this through search, here's that whitepaper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3342195.3387524

I don't think it helps at a server level, but it does provide me some ideas, especially looking at some of the algorithms they're using.

My problems are mostly CPU related, whereas this paper seems to focus on Memory. I still can definitely get something useful from here. :)
He also made a this gem by Daft Punk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjrzu23Lc-4

And one more: Mortal Kombat theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeeN9JKvay4
Because it's one line to a dependency with a name, a documentation, a bug tracker, many users, and that could be improved in the future.

If you are scared about packages behaving differently, you should know that npm has lock files that describes your full dependency tree with versions and checksums.
Yes, but early. I changed my mind from thinking it was "just the flu - I'm going to get it, but probably won't be able to tell it apart from a cold" to "this is probably a big deal that I really don't want to get" in late February. Haven't found any information to make me change my mind since, even as public opinion has yo-yo'd.

The critical information for me was data on hospitalization rates, along with some math on hospital capacity and exponential infection rates. Before, I'd looked at the death rate for 20-40 year olds of ~0.1% and figured it wasn't a big problem for me. Then I realized that the 20% "severe" cases out of Wuhan was actually the percentage that required hospitalization, not just the percentage that develop pneumonia (which is ~60% of symptomatic cases, ~30% of infections). And it doesn't vary by age range nearly as much as the death rate does: while only about 0.1% of 20-40 year olds die from COVID-19, 3-5% end up in the hospital, only about 4x lower than the ~20% of 65+ seniors that do. (These numbers already account for asymptomatic infections, which are about 50% of cases. The Wuhan numbers didn't, so halve them.) And the average hospital stay lasts for 3-5 weeks. With the doubling time of unchecked COVID-19, we could potentially end up with 150M infections during the time period of one hospitalization. 10% hospitalization rate over the whole population, and that's 15M hospitalizations, well over the number of hospital beds in the U.S.

If you gather data from a wide variety of sources instead of grabbing the latest headline, most of the relevant data hasn't actually changed all that much since February. Back then we were saying a roughly 2% CFR; now best estimates are a 1-1.25% IFR, which is completely consistent with that when you add the new information that 50% of infections are asymptomatic, which was discovered in late February. IFRs in situations where the whole population was tested (eg. South Korea, the Diamond Princess) were about 0.7-1.5%, depending on the age of the population. The age curve data from Wuhan has held up remarkably well across Europe and NYC. R0 and doubling time was pretty consistent across most temperate northern climates before the lockdowns (1.5-2.5 days in most of Europe and the U.S.). The progression of the virus when unchecked was also quite consistent between Wuhan, Italy, and NYC, as was the effect of the lockdown.
> Lua can have functions that assume a "this" parameter (Lua calls it "self")

Even Lua's assumed "self" via the thing:funcname(...) call is just a charade and is secretly just thing.funcname(thing, ...). The split between . and : calling, IME as an informal Lua teacher, is confusing to programming newbies when they first encounter it and I kinda wish the language hadn't chosen _that_ as the thing to spend time implementing.
That could be the case. It could also be the case that those deeply rooted in the Javascript ecosystem aren't listening to domain experts.

The numerous security problems with how NPM installs dependencies was pointed out as problematic from the get go by language maintainers, package manager maintainers, & security experts from other projects.

I think it's possible that Javascript is getting better & more responsive here & I bet at least some of the defensiveness was that it has also been unfairly criticized which makes it hard to separate signal from noise.
The point is to prevent Google from getting paid for the work that the put into Android, the point is to foment competition in the search space.
It puzzles me a bit that they don't want to invest on.k8s expertise (at their scale, especially security-wise can be though, I guess) but at the same time they develop their own deploy system which sounds a lot like Spinnaker and they have their own secrets/config management system (Hashicorp's stack is pretty neat and battle tested).
You must be correct. They are a trillion-dollar company and they can certainly afford lobbyists and lawyers and accountants and consultants to tell them where the regulatory limits are.

And yet, I cannot see how regulators will just let them take over consumer goods given their size and clout, and the fact that they are using data from their users to drive their business decisions on which products to launch and compete with those same users. I just cannot see them not getting into major regulatory trouble for that.
> Amazon's brand (as a store / marketplace) is that it helps you sort through many options to select the product they believe you will like the best.

Is that their brand though? I've never been convinced of that due to all the sponsored results (which are very similar to how brick-and-mortar stores arrange their products) and most egregiously, not providing consistent per unit pricing. I've never felt like Amazon is helping me make the right choice at all, but rather duping me into a choice that benefits them.
Ahh cool - had some similar questions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23460980 - mainly, how much manual switching do you have to do? Or is it seamless, depending on what project directory your in? I think I tried the local switches in the past and got really confused when switching projects and everything broke, thinking 'wasn't all this meant to prevent this?'.
You and I know that but many people reading these blog posts don't.

For software that supports scale-out I also wonder about the price/perf if you choose an instance size that corresponds to the Intel peak.
You're agreeing with the comment you responded to. They're saying amazons value is that they don't do that, showing the best products for you instead of the highest margin ones. Not sure I agree with them considering the top products are ads though.
I agree with you – allow/deny is easier to understand anyway for global non-native speaker (which all open source projects are).

There are many practical reasons to do this, I just wasn't clear on the race-related reasoning for blacklist/whitelist, as these words don't have those etymologies.

The color black is associated with many non-racial things that we do deem negative, things like death with black clothes at funerals, things like the darkness being the absence of light (sunlight is brighter/whiter), being blinded, where we do mostly see black. None of those things are racial, what should we do about all those?

Perhaps a better change is to stop associating our skin color with those words which are clearly inaccurate, and serve absolutely no useful purpose.
> We've since migrated to cloud functions (on GCP; but AWS lambdas could also work) and it's just been a breeze.

Did you run into cold start delays with GCP cloud functions? AFAIK it is one of the reasons many prefer AWS Lambda over GCP
I have anxiety and used to have REALLY bad anxiety. My girlfriend at the time encouraged me to try weed because it helped her. I was incredibly nervous and after just one inhalation I had one of the worst panic attacks of my life. It was as if I had no control at all.

I understand how psychedelics can help in theory, but man I'd be so freaking scared to even try them because I hate that feeling of losing control.
>and Amazon's sole advantage is product placement, is it still problematic?

Potentially, but stop focusing on the act and focus on the result.

You brought up retailers and their shelf space. First no grocery store puts "Grocery Store O's" in a better placement than Cherrios...but fine lets assume they did. Does putting "Grocery Store O's" force Cherrios out of the market? No. However, seems to be no shortage of examples of a successful vendor on Amazon being forced out of the market altogether after Amazon copies their successful product.
Eheh, I don't remember the software in 1997 being all that good and reliable. And when it crashed, it crashed hard, all the way to BSOD.

The selling of personal data is a good point, though. We surely could use less of that.
In some countries it's illegal to have just one of a kind of some animals as a pet.
In case anyone is curious about [1], there is a paper called Lightweight higher-kinded polymorphism -- http://ocamllabs.io/higher/lightweight-higher-kinded-polymor... -- that goes into some of the possible encodings.
What you're describing is the competitive advantage of shoppers preferring Amazon though, at least from how I'm reading your post. If a seller alliance or rival omnicorp can't entice consumers then they need either better marketing or better deals, competing in short. If they can't succeed at either of those in a manner significant enough to challenge Amazon then how is targeting Amazon with legislation actually helping consumers? It seems like most policy proposals boil down to making Amazon less competitive rather than cultivating an environment that results in more platforms capable of reaching Amazon's combination of scale and popularity. If Google was worse at Search there'd be more competition in the space but it'd hardly be a win for consumers unless you change the definition of a win.
"Please update the references to include recent literature" sometimes makes it clear, too.
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Enough space for a C-Band dish. They can get rather bulky.
Can you share your statistics? Author claims there is data to prove his point but doesn’t include it either.
They are a shortcut to insights, that without, might take a person years to come upon otherwise. And that is if they are actively trying. For most people who aren't normally driven to spend a lot of time actively self-reflecting and critically observing their world with the intent on finding truth, rather than merely confirming their beliefs, psychedelics might be the only way to kickstart things. An important property of psychedelics is that they peel away the ego, which frees one to confront ideas that might normally be too uncomfortable to think about. Of course, psychedelics are not for everyone. Like, it's probably not a good idea for people with, or at risk of developing serious mental illness. And no one should ever feel pressured to take them if they feel uncomfortable about it. But the effects are long lasting-to-permanent with regard to opening one up to seeing the world in new ways, askings questions, and not taking for granted that things are as they seem. So while I agree with you that the idea that everyone should take psychedelics is grandiose, I also agree with OP's sentiment that the world would be a nicer place if more people took them. There's too many people roaming around thinking they've got it all figured out and that there's not much else to the world than what they are familiar with in their own little bubbles. Psychdelics, essentially immediately, pop your bubble and alert you to a much wider plane of existence. It's humbling, while at the same time reassuring, to truly get a sense that we are all connected. And I think it's rare for people to actually experience this without the aid of psychedelics.
Oh man, I don't want to get into an argument on HN. But you didn't really read the previous comment with a generous eye. The poster never mentioned "faster than light" travel at all. In fact, they specifically called out AT or NEAR light speed, and then gave wormhole travel as an example of "not traveling via speed".
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> It is just much more prevalent when those ecosystems are still "maturing" - which I think JS, Node, NPM, etc still very much are. Even the early Android days were plagued with

Node is about half a year younger than Android, and npm another half year. Javascript is, of course, over a decade older.

If JS, Node, NPM, etc is "still maturing" after all that time, then that is a pretty strong indication that there is something wrong with that ecosystem.
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> What happens to your WoW diamond's investments when the next Wow expansion brings out UltraDiamonds and the latest shiny hot BiggerNumbersThanLastTime weapons and armor can only be bought with those?

Well that's the beauty of the blockchain. You just have a contract in place saying that weapons and armor can only get X% more powerful each year, so that way there is a fixed amount of inflation.
I think that you are making the same mistake that you are accusing healthcare workers and officials of making. You are assuming that these protests will "obviously" result in thousands more deaths because it feels that way to you. I believe that that's pretty unlikely, though, since there are probably fewer than a million protestors across the country. Many of the protestors are wearing masks and the protests being outside reduces the risk of spreading the disease. There will certainly be some spread due to the protests, but probably not nearly as much as at grocery stores or churches. You are also assuming that this is just about unjust police-involved deaths; it is not. It is about the many millions of negative interactions with the police and justice system that perpetuate poverty (police lying under oath, egregious sentences for non-violent crimes, etc.) I don't think it's a bad faith argument to say that correcting these injustices is more important than maintaining a totally strict quarantine.

The reason both sides talk past each other is because they have different values and different assumptions. Based on your post your first priority is preventing deaths and your assumption is that these protests will cause more deaths than they prevent. My first priority is living in a fair world, with preventing deaths being a close second. My assumption is that the protests will not cause a large number of excess deaths, but that they do have a high chance of moving our justice system closer towards real justice. I also am making the assumption that living in a fair and just society will increase overall health outcomes over the long term.

I believe that most (but definitely not all) people don't argue in bad faith, they just have different values and make different assumptions. There's not much that can be done about having different values, but better data can help every side have more similar assumptions, which should help opinions to converge somewhat.
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Amazon will make you work ridiculous hours.
As someone who is in MA and has a fair amount of experience with psychedelics, I don't think they are likely to trigger a relapse of other drugs. I won't say that there is never a risk of addiction to LSD or Mushrooms (I met someone yesterday who used psychedelics every week for two years), but for the vast majority of people it's an intense experience that they don't want to experience often.
People's lives and livelihoods are strongly coupled to the economy though. Heavy economic damages result in skyrocketing suicides and homelessness. It's not like shutting down the economy only hurts "gluttonous corporations" and "greedy capitalists"
This is the same scaling problem that all market places have had. eBay used to have quality stuff on it, now it’s pretty much just a drop shipping front, same thing happened to Etsy. The Amazon marketplace is increasingly filled with low quality products, completely fake reviews, illegal knockoffs, and it’s search has been getting worse over time.

The key advantage that Amazon has over other retailers (for consumers at least) is that its logistics are so damn good. I’ll usually go to Amazon first to look for what I want, because I know they’ll probably ship it faster. But more often than not I usually end up buying from a more specialized retailer for one reason or another.
> The only way to sanely run Kubernetes is by giving teams/orgs their own clusters

Funny, we're running it sanely without doing that. We've separated our clusters based on use-case - delivery vs. back-end, aiming towards the "cell-based" architecture.

> Managed Kubernetes (EKS on AWS, GKE on Google) is very much in its infancy and doesn’t solve most of the challenges with owning/operating Kubernetes (if anything it makes them more difficult at this time)

...some details on the challenges they don't solve, or indeed make more difficult would be good.

But yep, K8s is complex. So, to paraphrase `import this`, you only want to use it when you have sufficiently complicated systems that the complexity is worth it.
Avoiding addressing that feeling of losing control is analogous to an obese person afraid of exercise and diet. It will certainly help but is extremely difficult and painful to start.