skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an amazing David Foster Wallace essay called Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars Over Usage that you can read here (scanned images from a magazine, sorry)[1]. The most relevant quote:

> There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact---in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself---of vastly more help to conservatives and the U.U. status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. Were I, for instance, a political conservative who opposed taxation as a means of redistributing national wealth,I would be delighted to watch PCE progressives spend their time and energy arguing over whether a poor person should be described as "low-income" or "economically disadvantaged" or "pre-prosperous" rather than constructing effective public arguments for redistributive legislation or higher marginal tax rates on corporations.(Not to mention that strict codes of egalitarian euphemism serve to burke the sorts of painful, unpretty, and sometimes offensive discourse that in a pluralistic democracy leads to actual political change rather than symbolic political change. In other words, PCE functions as a form of censorship, and censorship always serves the status

1. http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-0...
JPM says CBDCs likely to threaten U.S. monetary hegemony
Setting up a new Laravel app with FusionAuth to register and login users
I've used k8s on an early phase project I later moved off from so I don't have much experience with it but I got the impression that simple scenarios worked like documented. You already had a docker based stack so it sounds like hosted k8s shouldn't be that far off from what you were running.

What issues did you encounter ? I had to spend a week working through it to get familiar with everything but I wasn't experienced with docker previously (I've played with it a few times but never had to setup stuff like custom registry, versioning, etc.)

I did end up in situations where the cluster was FUBAR but I eventually figured out that everyone just recommends rebuilding the cluster over diagnosing random stuff that went wrong during development.
I dont want some hick with a gun who couldn’t finish school knowing where I live.
The combat systems has small inexpensive ships which move too fast to be hit by large ships. This means that a frigate may take on tasks in a larger fight like electronic warfare, tackling (slows down the enemy movement so they can be hit better), scouting, stealth torpedo bombing, blockade running, etc...

You could build a disposable destroy, which can be a very high damage ship and engage in combat that way. You'd have a very low chance of surviving a particular fight, but you can go out guns blazing as part of a team.

Or you go solo with a small fast ship, tackle a big ship and slowly whittle it down while it can't hit you due to speed.

Maybe you just start mining in deep space or haul goods between a couple points while you chill.

It really is a sandbox game -- the end goal is what you make it to be. I played several years and the big scale politics was more background noise of the game and may as well been NPC's and backstory.

The point being, you can get in there and either solo or grouped begin immediately carving out your niche.

There is no ultimate class. If you want to fly a titan (monstrously large ship), it will not only take years of training your character and insane amounts of in game money/resources, you need fleet support. A lone capital ship without support is a target, not something which rampages through the game on it's own.

In the end it probably comes down to more player skill at a few tasks and good decision making for what to scout/where to go. It will be more about the player getting smarter about the game than training the character itself. You train the character to help accomplish what you want to do as a player. Switching between different tasks can range from a week or two up to months/years to max something out. But a character is typically perfectly capable far quicker than the player is.
He's just trolling. No need to respond.
You know how people are protesting the structural policing systems in the US in part because the systems seem like they're built to protect police instead of holding them accountable?

It's been my experience that tenure provides something similar in academia. As a lowly grad student, even in the most outrageous of cases, you aren't likely to succeed in bringing these issues to light. It would take tremendous determination and there's a very good chance you will derail your own academic career.

In most cases you have two options when you run into something like this as a Ph.D. student:
A) Stick it out, get the degree.
B) Bail.

Unfortunately I don't see folks within the system acknowledging (at least not openly) that the system is broken without extremely tragic events such as this one taking place.
From your Google Trends link I see a spike in “SARS” searches starting end of December and only minor fluctuations before that. OP looked at Baidu data which is more relevant for China and better supports your main point that the virus may have spread earlier than previously reported.
If humanity turns out to be the most intelligent thing the galaxy has produced... then the galaxy really needs to do better.
Government should investigate Apple for anti-trust violations, future analyst says.
An interview code submission that wasn’t even submitted changed our process
Not to mention that the default background color on the web is white.
Let’s unpack this somewhat misguided commentary:

First, Apple is building a search engine, in a non traditional sense, by providing a first level of results directly via Safari suggestions and Spotlight/Siri on client devices. That layer gives them enough ability to capture specific verticals should they find them profitable.

Second, and more subtle question, would be whether to become a full-fledged player in this space. Apple, of all tech companies, seems to care the most about the bottom line and does not go about reckless dick-measuring contests. Building search is hard, and it is questionable that Apple in the medium term would be able to profit more than it already does from Google search. At very least this would be a can of worms they open with unknown profitability. Note that to make money off of search you have to also build the ad side of things and then try to compete with Google who owns the rest of the ecosystem and has levers to undercut you. It’s even possible that the current arrangement is more favorable to Apple, as Google indirectly benefits by preserving their monopoly and may be willing to pay even more than that particular transaction should be valued independently.

Where owning the search space matters to Apple most is the option value, and Apple so far has a cheap way to do it (Microsoft had been paying the costs). In addition, Apple has been minimally boosting DuckDuckGo by giving it some free exposure for the just-in-case scenario.

My take is Tim Cook is going to watchfully wait and let this play for as long as possible while ensuring they have enough leverage to keep Google paying up, instead of pulling another Apple Maps.

Right now the focus is to take some Android marketshare mid-market and sell some services there. Once they own quite a big chunk of client devices, perhaps it will make sense to give the middle finger to Google.

P.S. all of this is especially true now that Pixel has failed to capture any meaningful share of the high end iOS market to be a real threat for Apple.
Not the GP, but I honestly couldn't tell you. A lot probably comes down to tooling, the applications you are deploying, security requirements, etc., as well as how familiar you are with k8s itself.

I migrated PCGamingWiki from running on some Hetzner boxes to DigitalOcean Kubernetes in a few days of work creating Dockerfiles and k8s manifests. I run a Kubernetes cluster at work fairly hands-free that hosts applications critical to our billing operations, and developers on the team deploy new applications with little or no support. Any of the issues I've hit are an artifact of migrating legacy applications not designed to run in more-or-less stateless environments, which is why the PCGW Community site still runs on its own server (Invision Community sucks).

I really don't see all the issues people have that aren't due to a mismatch of application design vs target environment (and no, it's not monolith vs microservice - monoliths run just fine on k8s; but you should be designing your application with a 12-factor environment in mind) or a misguided notion that you will be drowning in YAML hell (it's real, but you can manage it - and it's directly related to the complexity of the services you are deploying).
I'm still suspicious there's something going on that we don't understand with those tests. Someone I know was seriously ill for several weeks starting in late March with 9 out of the 11 listed symptoms for COVID-19. She eventually recovered and then tested negative on the Abbott SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody assay. We can't definitively rule out some other virus but based on the timing and symptoms what else could it have been? It certainly didn't present like influenza.
An npn transistor is not a computer, and in this case it's literal. The molecule had an negative, a positive, and a negative iron sulfur clusters. However, it most certainly wasn't acting in a logic gate; if anything it's activity functionally was closer to a diode than a transistor, by blocking bulk current flow in one direction but not the other (but, for quantum reasons, it has to be a transistor to do that). There were no data transformations in it's activity.

To wit: I didn't get my job done on that project because I thought of it as a computer, I got it done because having been a curious child who also did computers I happened to know (and remember into adulthood) how computers work at a very low level and was able to make an insight based on that, nothing particularly CSey.
Remember Reddit and the boston marathon bombing? They picked two suspects:

- Some shaggy guy who looked like the Unabomber

- Two middle eastern kids

Utterly worthless, based on laughably superficial characteristics. The kids turned out to be avid runners who were just there to spectate.
Apple has already been crawling the web in some capacity for its Siri Website Suggestion feature. There are obviously some hurdles to take, so there's nothing that says they couldn't create their own search engine.
I don't know if the field is underfunded. What I'd say is that the area is very risky (few ideas really pan out), there are lots of powerful incumbents who want to retain the many-billion-$ revenue streams, and it's very costly to test. But I also see people wasting huge amount of money chasing ideas that really would be better handled with shotgunning (the tech VCs I used work with said "why would I want to invest $20M in a biotech that fails after 20 years, when i can invest $1M in 20 tech startups and one of them will make $1B in 2-3 years?").

It's not clear to me that investing more money helps, either. For example, the NIH doubled its budget during the Clinton era, leading to far higher numbers of grad students being trained than there were positions (prof, etc) in their fields. So there was a glut, super-high competition for a limited number of spaces, and many people dropped out of the race to be a prof and instead went to be ML/data science people at ads firms.
Example audio: https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/29351

This is close enough to the Seattle feed that you can do a compare & contrast.

Heard: "clear my first call ocean nora 470"
On the site: "charlie my first call"

So, yeah, this still has a long long way to go. I considered and discarded this in 2011 because it was pure insanity, and as another comment suggests, it's highly context-sensitive.

"ECR" is El Camino Real.
"Vets" is Veterans Blvd.

But...

"Code 99" is the emergency button... for one department... and it means something else entirely for another, just 20 miles apart.

I'd love to have it, but it still seems out of reach.
The police can hold someone for 72 hours if there is probable cause, until the prosecution can put a case together. That said, you do ask how many people actually needed to be held because of suspicion of serious crime, and how many were held because the cops want to harass protesters and discourage protesting. Since everything is recorded by police anyway you do wonder why they keep anyone longer than necessary.

Anyone who mentions rioters and does not talk about police brutality needs to examine their motives carefully.
Testing/tracing is very, very hard in the United States. In my own community, we have immigrants who are afraid to talk to the government at any level due to fears of deportation. You have the libertarians who refuse all but the most basic interactions with anything government. You have some other specific immigrant communities who are here legally, but have a deep, deep distrust of government due to abuses back in their original countries. Add in a language divide and a population strewn across many different jurisdictions (several major cities cross state/county lines) and it is just a mess.
The problem is that you can't isolate the most vulnerable fully. The current lockdown works because it reduces the spread through the wider society, including all the people who are in contact with the most vulnerable. If you don't do that, then we have the Sweden scenario where inevitably there's someone young and fit and infected who brings the disease into the institutions that should be protected, because these young and fit and infected people work there or go there to deliver things.

Alternatively, you need a total quarantine isolation - e.g. anyone working in a care home should live there and can't touch their kids if they go to a school where will be spread because everyone else's parents are not on lockdown. Or the most vulnerable will die.
They've been doing this for a few years now.
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ruby/rails/is-a-ghetto
> Although customers don’t necessarily realize it, brands have for years been able to bid on search terms to secure the most visible listing positions at the top of Amazon’s product search results pages, where their products carry a “sponsored” tag above the description.

And where they're blocked by an adblocker, as they should be.
Privacy browser Brave under fire for violating users' trust
I hate these things.

Richard Garfield took the concept from a fantasy novel, kind of said "Yeah, kind of like that" and didn't think any more of it.

The reason is to limit the players' choices. If everyone has access to everything, there is no variety.

There's a lot of bleed between the colors and a lot of things that just don't quite make sense.

And they're also wrong according to Mark Rosewater, the current lead designer of the game. For example: Black isn't satisfaction, it's looking out for yourself. It's a selfish philosophy. Whereas one can find satisfaction through altruistic acts. And you can argue every color is looking for satisfaction, it's just that every color defines satisfaction in a different manner.
It's also worth pointing out that a "customer" in the ISP industry is a household, not a single person, so it's a bad idea to have a single hard throughput limit indifferent to the number of people using it.
That was exactly my point (and a reason why getting an antibody test is still useful in the context of a single person). Thanks for explaining it better than I did.
No offence taken! Your first comment was constructive. I am looking forward to make the paper better.
Oh yeah there are lots of evidence showing psychedelics can be useful for sure. I just don’t have much patience for religious zealots, even when they’re part of my own religion.
Given the effect on early Android adoption, it might not have backfired.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23451560
You say this as if Atom is some sort of widely used standard. Atom and VSCode are just two players in a wide ecosystem of editors and IDEs, most of which Microsoft has no control over. And I'd bet that most people using other tools (e.g. Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Emacs) have very little inclination to switch to Atom or VSCode.
300k confirmed cases / 59M population = .5% of the country having had the virus.

Of course, this is inaccurate, since many more have had it and not gotten confirmed positive tests.
What you're saying makes sense, thank you.

I'm wondering though, are you saying it because the study did indeed fail to account for all those factors or are you basing it my (probably poor) interpretation/description of it? :-) If you're going off my comments, I may have done a disservice as my laypersons understanding of the topic is pretty rudimentary.

FWIW, the study does indeed model other countries like the US and Italy so I'd be surprised if much of what you speak of was not taken into account.

I certainly don't think they modeled one nation and simply extrapolated that out into the world without other considerations. I apologise if my words gave that impression... Even I can see how stupid that would be.

Here's the link if anyone is interested https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2404-8_reference....
Why use cronjobs at all for this? This is a classic work queue problem.
Linux Terminal Goods IV
I'm trying to compare and explain how to make a responsive thumbnail, with CSS or Javascript, and why css way is better
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027
Emphasis on was, they are slowly killing legacy. Elks for life is the new paradigm.
Have people also started growing vegetables and herbs at home as their creative projects?

Unfortunately basics of agricultural farming are not part of school curriculum. I wonder if that was so at some point in the past. Wouldn't it be so great if everyone of us knew the basics of farming like we know basic maths? It could in theory result in growing more plants (good for environment), getting some fresh vegetables or fruits every now and then, a past time activity to enhance one's mental health by getting to work with your hands and creating something from bare minimum?
People seems to forget how many people program in JavaScript. Just because the average is low doesn’t mean there aren’t just as many really good ones out there as any other language. It might be common to have lots of dependencies but I can tell you gist hand you only need a few with a really shallow tree to build a full featured web app (both server and client).
Zonealarm's "!1ALERT!! x.x.x.x is h4x0r1ng you with ICMP packets!" sold $millions worth of placebo in early 2000.

http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/media/pdf/ZA_Manual.pdf
> That's not too bad if your on one of the big managed providers (GKE/AKS/EKS) but can get complex for people who want to deploy on-prem.

Go spin up Keycloak, join it to your user-directory of choice (or not and just use the internal directory), configure it as your authentication provider, done.
Plain old linux is the alternative, which is also "learn once, use everywhere" whether its AWS EC2 or GCP Instances or nearly any machine under the sun.

I don't see how k8s avoids the need to learn about cloud vendor specific tech. e.g searching "aws RDS k8s" gives me a beta github packages and a bunch of blog posts on how to configure it right. It doesn't sound like much less work than learning how to use RDS without k8s - read their docs, figure out the API.

Maybe i'm an "old man yelling at new tech" but meh i just see very little value in k8s because you inevitably need to understand the layer beneath - linux (k8s is far from a non-leaky abstraction imo), PLUS all the complexity of k8s itself. I do see the value when managing a big and complex infra with 100s of servers or something, but very few people have that problem.
Regardless of how insufficient the response was, it was still far swifter and more effective than the response to the Spanish Flu. Also, the knock-on effects will influence significant changes for years come. We learn slowly, but we learn.
>whitespace, black hole, blackbody radiation, white noise

I don't think these are fair comparisons. In "blacklist" and "whitelist" there is clearly an association black = negative and white = positive. That is something that should be corrected.

In "blackbody" and "black hole" the modifier "black" corresponds exactly to the ordinary meaning of the word "black" in English: it absorbs light. In "white noise" we again correspond closely to the usual understanding of white light. "Whitespace" comes from the usual color of paper, which is the original medium for typesetting. None of these terms indicates a value judgment.
The idea that the "great filter", if there really is one, remains in our future seems to me to be extremely improbable. The fact is, we already have the ability, just about, to colonise space.

Semi-plausible plans exist to colonize the asteroid belt and there's a plan to send a microscopic probe to the nearest star. Those plans are a far, far cry from any colonization of the stars, any really impact on solar systems other than earth.

It's worth that if an earth society existed on every star in the galaxy, none would be able to detect the others - all communication fades to quantum noise before it gets to the nearest star.
Sure, but it's commonplace enough to be understood (roughly) as September-December without much thought... yeah? I've always lived in a 4-season bubble that uses Fall and Autumn interchangeably so maybe I'm wrong.
To protect 1%, you need to isolate them absolutely from everyone else who will be infected.

To protect 90%, it's sufficient if you reduce the rate of spread below 1, which means that it's sufficient to have a (realistically achievable) "quarantine" that reduces the number of contacts 3-4 times. It's possible to have much less contact with people, it's very limiting to have no contact at all.

There's a huge world of difference between the contact limitations required for a true quarantine (essentially, zero contact) and what "lockdown" has meant in most places, with most people continuing to work with other people just with much less contact.
All the statistics. Maybe start by googling the replication crisis.
I see the value in the author's mission to create a replacement for pangrams, but it sounds less like he replaced pangrams (on which I've always been sold as being a tool for content creators to quickly visualize a font with loose approximations of common use cases) and more like he came up with a quicker letterproof. http://famira.com/article/letterproef

Almost like unit testing a font more efficiently rather than using a full letterproof for that process. Which is pretty cool and probably fills a need, though maybe not the same need that pangrams address more broadly.

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I'm not an expert on this topic and am prepared to have what I've learned in the last five minutes fact-checked by someone who actually does this for a living.
Without an AV Receiver, how would you drive a set of speakers?
Hey Lindsay, I'm the one who just added EBRCS to Calls. Wondering if a solution to both cost problems would be to (optionally) have submitters upload a transcript along with each call? Could build a model into trunk-recorder maybe?
An Introduction to Linux Permissions
And you post this without any hint of irony that Conservatives were the ones calling the estate tax the "death tax", and during the health care debate naming things "death panels".

Words have implications - people care about the implications of words. All groups use and choose words to promote abs convey certain ideas they want conveyed.
No, you cannot have a third of my life
Plone: The Ultimate Headless CMS
Couldn't you get nearly the same behavior using some basic Ansible playbooks? My impression was that the killer feature of k8s was scaling, automatic failover, etc., although to be fair it's been several years since I last looked into it.