skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Call me a cynic, but the whole "think critically and figure it out for yourself" solution is inefficient at best, harmful at worst. Global warming skepticism is exactly the kind of thing that often occurs when people trust their own judgement more than that of subject matter experts.

I don't think that's true. Lots of global warming sceptics point to some subset of experts who are themselves sceptics. Even subject matter experts have biases. If we ignored those, we'd probably still be unlikely to find many global warming sceptics who had done their own in-depth research. It seems to me that most people in this category (whether it's global warming scepticism, anti-vax, 5G death rays or something else) merely seek to confirm already held beliefs and end up rejecting the opinions of actual experts in favour of misinformation from the kinds of people the blog post is talking about.

Beyond that there are also people with deeper issues than just a disregard for subject matter experts. If you look to extremes (e.g. flat Earth believers), some won't change their mind even when they do the experiments themselves and find proof to the contrary.
GA is one of the ~10 or so states that has gone above 1.0 rt again, lol.
That might have been what one sign said, but picking that as if it were "their argument", let alone the best argument, is sample bias and clearly intended to belittle. That's politics: build up your own side as much as possible, smear the other side as much as possible. If someone actually wanted to be fair, they'd reference a stronger case for protesting the lockdown, such as the economic pain it has inflicted and the case that it also leads to deaths, such as by suicide and addiction, as well as social ills like increased child abuse and domestic violence. I'm not trying to take that side, just pointing out that intellectual honesty is the first casualty of politics, just like truth is the first casualty of war.
I think it's incorrect to only count deaths as the fallout from police attitude towards minorities. An entire group of people is effectively controlled and held back my the police. As we have already seen, the impacts are generational and have gotten us to where we are today. COVID-19 is the thing will most likely be forgotten next year with some sort of vaccine or herd immunity arising. Even if the protests are successful, it will still be only another step on a long road of equality.
Paid tutorials, especially in video format, usually serve different clientele. There's often 'show me how it's done' instead of 'let me figure this out after reading it' mentality.
The Spotify of books is a great way to look at it.

If a publisher had insanely high quality articles on everything, behind a paywall, I'd subscribe to $15 a month pretty quickly.

Every hour saved would pay for itself many times over.

The problem is having a wide enough array of content that such a site becomes the single go to. O'Reilly had that catalog, but I think the tech world had gotten much more complicated since then.
Java is very similar to C++. Its boring in the sense that most things have been around forever and really old code is terrible but you still have to deal with it because backwards compatibility is so good. If you don't consider Java boring I wouldn't consider C/C++ boring either.
I second this sentiment. I would even take it a step further and say that "throwaway" accounts are a good thing, it allows a poster to give a less-than-politically-correct take on a topic and actually encourages candid conversation.
They look a little like tardigrades.
neonate I agree with you. "I need a haircut" is a proxy for economic freedom of choice and freedom of movement, regardless the purpose. Freedom of movement only for the causes you believe in is not freedom at all.

They want to be the judges that get to determine which movement is worthwhile and which movement is not worthwhile.
The Typo That Destroyed a NASA Rocket
> Don't tell us there is no risk from these protests, but there is a risk from stay-at-home protests.

The difference is the stay-at-home protesters overwhelmingly didn't wear masks [1] and the BLM protesters are overwhelmingly wearing masks [2]. Hong Kong has proven it's possible to have massive protests while wearing masks and not being vectors of infection. [3]

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

[2] https://www.foxnews.com/politics/protesters-aim-to-bring-one...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/world/asia/coronavirus-ho...
It's totally worth it. Watch time definitely increases when production quality goes up. However when you're first starting out it's more about building the habits, learning the basics and actually posting content. You have to walk before you run!
Even the OO shortcomings of Lua aren't very different from the Javascript of the recent past. The two languages are quite similar, save that Lua indices are 1-based and JS comparators are nightmare fuel.

My pet peeve is that it's somewhat verbose in using keywords rather than single-character punctuation to mark blocks and clauses.
Good to know, any suggestions for making it clearer? Maybe thumbs up/down is the wrong labeling; perhaps something like "show me more like this" and "not interested"... though I have no idea what icons I would use for that.
Also in the letter

> Prepare for an increased number of infections in the days following a protest. Provide increased access to testing and care for people in the affected communities, especially when they or their family members put themselves at risk by attending protests.

The sentence "we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission" is a bit ambiguous, maybe on purpose. The idea is that they won't use the risk of COVID-19 transmission as a argument to disapprove of the gatherings.

They cannot say the gatherings are safe, because they aren't, but they also want to support them. That's how you get such an ambiguous message. I would have preferred a clearer stance as well like "We, as health professionals, recognize the risks, however, blah blah blah. You can minimize these risks by doing blah blah blah".
NY Times editorial page editor resigns amid fury over op-ed
I'm so flabbergasted by this argument on behalf of killing innocent people I barely even know where to begin. In my mind, there is almost no cause that warrants the avoidable death of even a single person, let alone tens of thousands. Clearly you have a very different morality.
>Summary of an accredited self-development book
>Our expert opinion on how to incorporate the takeaways from the book in your practical life
>An actionable template to help you add value to your life based on the key insights and advice in the book

How is this different from blinkist? And why bother doing this? What problem annoyed you so much you tried to build a whole company around it?
It's not solvable without additional data. I'd assume the question is either incomplete (copied or rememberd wrong), allows educated guess (100 balloons per box sounds reasonable, Bob wouldn't by boxes of 1000 if he plans to use only a couple of dozen). Or the question's goal is to get shared as much as possible (Facebook likes, shares etc).
In my experience, the benefits of microservices are primarily better delineated responsibilities and narrower scope, and secondary benefits tend to fall out from these. There are downsides, but the "harmful" effects do not reflect my experience. I fully grant more things on a network invite lower availability / higher latency, but I contend that you already need to handle these issues. Microservices do not tend to grossly exacerbate the problem (in my experience anyway).

The other callout is clean APIs over a network can just be clean APIs internally. This is true in theory but hardly in practice from what I've seen. Microservices tend to create boundaries that are more strictly enforced. The code, data and resources are inaccessible except through what is exposed through public APIs. There is real friction to exposing additional data or models from one service and then consuming it in another service, even if both services are owned by the same team (and moreso if a different team is involved). At least in my experience, spaghetti was still primarily the domain of the internal code rather than the service APIs.

There's also a number of benefits as far as non-technical management of microservices. Knowledge transfer is easier since again, the scope is narrower and the service does less. This is a great benefit as people rotate in and out of the team, and also simplifies shifting the service to another team if it becomes clear the service better aligns with another team's responsibilities.
Thanks for the support. I fear the republicans will choose to enrich business interests at the expense of the common man = the top 5% will own more of the USA than before.
We sorely need some form of redress - capital taxes?
The democratic candidate is a total loser. Good time for a hird party = but it will not get enough traction with the electoral college system - that must have been thought up by the ghost of King George...;)
It's being explored.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/nation/2014/11/10/aircraft-ba...
>it's because all the "but what about white folks?" people in my social circle have been following the same playbook.

Consider that maybe it's not a playbook. Maybe people look at the data and reach conclusions different from yours.

Call to action: Let's work together to reduce police brutality. However, let's not sweep black-on-white violence under the rug while focusing narrowly on white-on-black violence.

The prevailing media narrative about racial violence in this country is, compared to available data, grossly inaccurate. The inaccuracy fuels political division and distrust of the media.

If protest organizers said something like: "Police brutality is wrong and there is reason to think that it is a worse problem for black people than for white people. At the same time, we recognize the disproportionate extent to which white people suffer from black violence. We may perhaps disagree about the extent to which the discrepancy is due to systematic racism or socioeconomic issues, but we recognize your concerns. We want to reach across the division and work together to fix all these issues." In that case, I would be totally on board. Because that would be fair, and transparent, and unifying.
The response to COVID-19 does not make me optimistic about the world addressing climate change at all. China reacted by covering up the problem, the US leadership called it a hoax and encouraged a vocal group of conspiracy theorists, and numerous countries are guilty of seizing each other's equipment and supplies. The author does not make a convincing argument that the response to COVID-19 by the global community was not an embarrassment. I think it demonstrated we don't have the tools to handle a global crisis.
I'm working on a reply to another HNer on just this point.
Arial is essentially a Helvetica variation. At it's most charitable, Arial is to Helvetica as RC Cola is to Coke, with Monotype owning Arial and Linotype owning Helvetica.
Florida has restricted test availability until mid May, had fired a data scientist who contends they are juking their numbers and has been (along with several other states) not counting deaths of people with covid symptoms as covid if the patients were not tested while living.

21 days indicates the incubation period plus adequate time for an infected person to become ill enough to seek testing or treatment. Cutting the number at 14 is a way to minimize assessment of impact.
Alan Turing on Mortality
This people keep pointing to black incarceration rates as a symptom of a racist judicial system. When debating I focus on murder victims as that has nothing to do with the racist judicial system.

Still there is a problem with government tyranny and it doesnt matter if it is just a handful of people. Being killed by a thug vs being killed by the govt really are two different things even if you are just as dead either way.
On average the police kill ~80 unarmed people each year, of any race [1]. By comparison, 40 million people are unemployed as a result of the pandemic and lockdown. Certainly, the impact of someone unjustly killed is vastly larger than that of someone laid off or furloughed. But is it 500,000 times greater? These are different issues. They aren't equivalent, but they're comparable at least. Pointing out the inconsistency here isn't "sticking one's head in the sand of relativism."

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
One of the best lessons I've learned in life is we as individuals are a lot less important in others lives than we think we are (immediate family excluded.) Leaving is likely to be a lot less devastating to others than you think. While it's good to be concerned about your fellow coworkers, be aware you are likely over estimating your place in their lives.

I assume other people have left your company before, was there bad fallout? Why? Can you avoid that? If there has never been fallout, why are you worried there will be now? People change jobs all the time, and 8 years is a long time in the same position.

Talk over your thoughts with your CEO and maybe peers. You don't need to (and shouldn't) talk about any external job offers, but if you ask them "My life has changed- I don't want to travel any more, I want to solve larger problems, and I want to interface with customers less, can I do that here?" then they can at least come to the conclusion that it's time for a transition as well. And maybe they have something up their sleeve. If not, they can work with you on transitioning in a controlled manner instead of a <1 month panic.

If your other opportunities allow, you can even offer yourself for reach back consulting on a limited basis - I've seen that be successful before.

Finally, so long as you are trying to be professional and collegiual about it, don't feel guilty about transitioning. Small kids change things, you need a different lifestyle. Coworkers who care about you as a whole will understand that.
Also I'm guessing maneuverability of a fighter aircraft is much better than a SAM which is more or less ballistic.

Not at all. Missiles are far faster and more maneuverable than aircraft. The only chance a fighter plane has against them is with countermeasures such as chaff and flares as well as electronic countermeasures (ECM). All of these are designed to fill the missile’s tracking and guidance systems. Without them, the plane is helpless against the faster and more maneuverable missile.

Missiles are also far cheaper than aircraft. There’s no need to sustain the life and health of a pilot and no need to carry fuel for return trips. This makes missiles very small and light (and thus cheap) compared to a plane.
How would the non-experts differentiate between true expertise and self-proclaimed one?
It's kind of impressive they accomplished so much without inventing the wheel... or has that been debunked and is just long outdated information?
This scenario suffers from what I call "IT-Dude-Syndrome".

IT-Dude-Syndrome is when IT-people come up with scenarios which hinge on "IT-Dude" being smarter than everybody else in the whole world.

First, if you're suspected of anything in a law firm, you're out until the issue is resolved, you don't get to "destroy old laptops" or anything of that sort.

In a high-security operation you don't even get to touch a laptop, and you will be handed a loaner-phone, while your own phone is turned off, signed, sealed and stored in a safe until the matter is resolved.

Second, if "standard procedure" in that law firm is to "wipe the drives before selling them", that law firm is not following best, or even minimum, security practices for the business they are in, and that is what the whistle-blower should report to the relevant authority.

Third and most significant, IT-dude is smarter than the obviously junior IT-dude called in to "check the drives" IT-dude "were supposed to wipe" ?

You know what, he's not.

In such scenario you can be damn sure, that whoever is called in to check is several levels smarter than IT-dude.

And you know what super-IT-Dude will do when she see the disks full of high entropy data ?

She will point to the final step in the official procedure for wiping disks, which is to write all zeros to the entire media to prove that there is nothing hidden.

She will write in the report that IT-dude did not follow a trivial procedure to the letter, and point out that the most likely, in fact the only credible, explanation for skipping a trivial step in the procedure, was that IT dude were trying to exfiltrate data.
Message from “Queen Elizabeth” to the shah played role in 1953 CIA coup in Iran
This is the kind of malarkey I'd get up to on a personal project of mine. Like, I wonder if I'd get farther if I'd written it in Forth/TinyScheme/Erlang? May as well completely overhaul it and find out!
Weird how many times I've heard people mention the overton window in the past week. Don't recall ever hearing about it before
> so "there are plenty" argument is BS.

Just like your argument, which pulls claims out of thin air. You haven't made any points at all, simply rambled about competence without backing anything up.

I've learned more often than not, that when someone claims "competence" what they're really saying is "I'm not finding the exact skills I'm looking for, which are hyper-contextualized around the problem I'm currently facing, at the exact moment I need them at the cost I think is best. Which will change in six months, at which point a different cohort of people will be labeled incompetent."
Is this incredibly obvious or did I miss the part where they specified the rules of the game? I assume they're not actually going to have the drone fire actual missiles at the manned fighter...right?
1. The statistics are 80% pits and pit breed derivatives. You are welcome to argue against facts and statistics but I wont be joining you.

2. Shifting all the blame onto owners is ignoring the clear trend. If 100% of gun owners were safe and responsible, there would still be gun deaths because of the capacity of a gun to kill someone. Same with Pits.

3. I agree but that's your logic, not mine.

You are also shifting focus from Pits attacking other dogs (the point of this thread) to attacking people. Fine, they account for most dog attacks on other dogs and on people. You seem to have your own justifications for why that is, and why it's ok, but those only work on you. Because you want to believe your Pitbull is an angel from heaven and not a well trained, but inherently dangerous animal.

https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities-2020...

Entry after entry is pitbull.

"Pictured are the two most deadly dog breeds in America: pit bull terriers and rottweilers. Research from DogsBite.org shows that during the 14-year period from 2005 to 2018, canines killed 471 Americans. Pit bulls and rottweilers accounted for 76% (358) of these deaths."
Can you accept yourself the way you are and feel? If you do stuff to drive away feelings, you'll always be chasing away from life and its many depths. Sometimes, life throws you curveballs or one just feels like shit. Doing something to "remove" shitty feelings, doesn't really resolve or accomplish anything. In Hinduism this is called "karma" (action), which is the opposite of "dharma" (right action). When we get trapped in patterns, we tend to go in circles (karma). When we break patterns, mend stuff and go on with life, intuition about our life's purpose is unwrapping and what we then do, even when superficially misunderstood or unseen, is called dharma. The root of dharma is often intention to do good, while the root of karma is often the chains of action-reaction. Without karma, there's no dharma, they go hand-in-hand.
Sorry I’m not a native English speaker. What does do not cross examine here mean? I thought cross examination is good?
UK could class loot boxes as gambling to protect children
1940 HMS Glorious disaster blamed on secret mission, not its commander
makes sense though, have you seen twitter recently?
Thanks for the shout out.

The problem with auth is in the authorization realm, not the authentication realm. It's super easy to do authentication in nginx for example using client certificates, basic auth, api keys, or in your app layer via checking a separate DB or cache for tokens, say via a JWT.

However, it's not trivial to say user "a" owns document "b" but not document "c", and that user "a", in fact, shouldn't even know that document "c" exists at all, while also maintaining the replication that CouchDB has built in.

What we want is one single DB that has all documents, and can replicate all documents on the server level with another DB, but can expose a user-specific changes feed that replicates only data that user has access to. I should be able to grant / revoke access to a document at any time and have it propagate, and all documents should be owned only by the creating user by default.

The choice they are requiring us to make is to shard data ourselves by user (which is unusable in the context of 2 users sharing data), or implement a separate layer that can understand CouchDB replication and can do the filtering of the changes feed as well as the write access to ensure that the documents are restricted correctly.

Take this a step further and now that I have to implement my own authentication AND authorization outside of CouchDB and protect it from the end user directly accessing it, and you could ask the question of why do I even need CouchDB then? Why not just speak CouchDB replication protocol on top of my own auth database and store documents there too?
Culturally, the engineers and management who created the mess should not be demonized. The situation is the enemy, not co-workers current and past. (Your private opinions can be unvarnished.)

Always steer towards how things should be looked at going forward: “we’re making this better for everyone as we add features/remove bugs”. “It probably looked like a good idea at the time” is a phrase I use a lot.

Newbies will see all the crap sooner or later. Knowing that they have more-senior allies in a shared battle, and having some ability to do stuff beyond fighting the crap, will help keep them on-board and engaged.
What do you do for fun?
“Aliens” sure doesn’t sound like a serious comment about the posted article. And if you feel like it is, then yes, you have a lot of explaining to do.
Not a Muslim, but I think this is right answer. You were made for something, what is that thing you were made for? What set of tasks? Why live? The answer is really not up to you, but up to God.
Thanks, I have my doubts but I'll definitely give it a read.
I swear there was some startup that raised millions of dollars to do exactly this, but can't remember the name. It could be a YC company. Anyone know?
I don't agree that "I need a haircut" is a good argument, or even that what it is a proxy for is a good argument. It's also lousy politics because it's so easy to dismiss.

The good argument is that if we care about mitigating suffering and death, we should also be looking at the suffering and death the lockdown measures lead to. Counting one side and not the other is dishonest.
There has been a lot of confusion if FL does/will list deaths from 'snowbirds'. IMO, this highlights the weakness of poor federal oversight and leadership in the pandemic.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/11/floridas-cou...
>That isn't a double standard but a fundamental result of judgement of costs, values, and outcomes.

What do you think the definition of a 'double standard' is? You know, applying a different standard to the same behaviour (protests).

>Circumstances and outcomes vary, a form of 'neutrality' that ignores that fundamentally isn't a useful metric.

Sure. And it's still a double-standard. You just associate the phrase 'double-standard' as a negative and you don't like to apply something negative to behaviour you approve of.