skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how people lean so far out to criticize others only to find their own butt flapping in the breeze.

Amazon does this a lot, no matter what your order looks like. The most pathological I've ever seen was at an old workplace, they shipped 20 boxes of pens (12 packs or whatever size of disposable pens) each in a separate large box. The delivery person took several trips up the elevator to deliver them.

But, of course you have an answer to this problem, right?
You are right to be afraid. Get your PhD. first, then do what you want and try to do honest research if you still feel like it. It's like that in every field, apparently. I've been doing medical research for 10 years and I have yet to meet a honest professor. But with time, I got more independent and while I still have to put up with professoral bullshit I now also can conduct honest and independent projects from time to time.
Not OP. When considering this line of thought, I think of meme's in the original sense of the word. So one could take a mildly-conspiratorial take on it and say that the "meme" itself stands to benefit from this sort of division rather than a nefarious agent or group. It's a self-feeding cycle because I would argue that this cause done in a bad/unfair way sows more racial/gender/etc division and as such creates more reason for itself to exist.
Link to a prior post of mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23074528

China reports infectious disease counts and deaths each month. The numbers from December '19 were insane compared to '18
> Why don't grocery stores get in trouble then?

It would be argued that Amazon's specific point of abuse and power is related to its ecommerce market share. If a monopoly argument is going to be made against Amazon in retail, it will be about their online store (as opposed to eg in-store Wholefoods).

I think it's a fair point of separation. Amazon can simultaneously have an abusive monopoly online and a weak position in physical stores. Walmart could cultivate a monopoly in physical store retailing (hypothetically), and have a weak position online.

Other grocery stores don't attract anti-trust attention, typically, because they have no overwhelmingly dominant position.

If Kroger had 40% or 60% of the US grocery store business, they'd be a target of anti-trust focus persistently (as it is, Kroger is the #2 grocer and only has 10% of the grocery business; it's a very fragmented market, Costco is #3 with a mere 5% share). If Amazon.com only had 10% of the US online retail business, there wouldn't be so much concern about their potential monopoly positioning.
It's slightly faster than 6 seconds for me, but not much. The initial response for the html page already seems incredibly slow at around 500-1000ms. And then it does seem like there's at least a whole second worth of JS being executed before the site is actually loaded.
There are different tests out there, many are pretty bad. Some are pretty good, for example Abbott's clears 90% in both specificity and sensitivity. That said, given a low prevalence of the disease, this is actually fairly likely to give false positives. 93.8% sensitivity suggests the false negative rate should be pretty low with that test.

https://www.360dx.com/immunoassays/study-finds-abbott-corona...
I definitely think that we shouldn't be criminalizing drugs. I've had some good experiences and some bad experiences on both LSD and mushrooms and believe that they could be beneficial in medical settings under the right supervision. That being said, people are still going to have bad reactions sometimes. I would think that the benefits are better than the risks, especially compared to our current approach to medicating away depression.

My current view is that I can reach similar states of joy and grounding (including oxytocin release) through meditation, yoga, exercise, play, community, etc. I have been in groups where everyone is partaking in psychedelics - I choose not to and still have wonderful experiences. I think that the drugs taught me how to get to those states but there are not the only way.

The conspiracy theorist in me does not think that "the Man" wants us to be grounded and open in general, including through means of drugs.
Big yikes
For my work desktop, the main thing was to have more terminal windows open. Video was a secondary concern.
"What areas/industries/niches have you encountered with poor accessibility that can be greatly improved by an application?"

Huge swathes of the web (websites and web 'apps') are plagued by poor accessibility.

My suggestion is to build something that is not tied to a particular niche or industry, but almost everyone uses: email in the browser.

This would not be an actual working email service with a functioning back-end - it would be a front-end demonstration of how to implement a fast, accessible service.

Some things to aim for that will make it standout from existing email services:

- The email service when rendered in a browser will load instantly without complicated JavaScript tricks. Your service will be accessible to screensavers without the need to have two versions (a 'basic', limited version and a 'enhanced' version you can overstuff with JavaScript).

- The service is built with HTML with the correct semantic elements so that it can be navigated quickly by a screen-reader and by keyboard. JavaScript is perfectly fine, but the service should be functional even without JavaScript (e.g. progressive enhancement).

- The email service when rendered in the browser can be zoomed into at least 300% without breaking the display of elements and still remaining usable. There will be sufficient contrast.

- The site must load faster than any existing email service and be usable no matter what someone's connection speed (even a 2G connection).

- Finally, it must look aesthetically pleasing too.

This might all seem impossible, but with HTML + CSS (and JavaScript when needed) it's perfectly possible to create something lighter, faster, less complicated and more accessible than what the major players produce.

Here is an example of an email layout from the Yahoo! Pure CSS framework - this is actually quite old, but the HTML source is less than 10kb: https://purecss.io/layouts/email/
It's really hard to strike the balance between giving players ultimate freedom to make a permanent mark on the world and providing a fun experience for new players, especially if you are trying to avoid pushing new players way out into the wilderness where they will never see anybody.

Ultimately players want to interact with other friendly players, but that's impossible because some players will be assholes and will try their hardest to make life miserable for your new players. If your have wide open PvP you have roving gank squads.
- Hypertext blog post with some pictures that takes six seconds to load.

- Exchange that crashes during any time of high volume.

"Here is why, in our superior engineering judgment, you should do things the way we do in order to preserve uptime."

(To answer you question, probably because it uses the Medium code.)
in that case it might just be dolphins.
It would support the parent comment if the point of the parent comment had been something like "The state of the web has changed a lot since 2005," but it wasn't. The parent comment was specifically castigating the JavaScript ecosystem for having so much "churn" "because the people writing JavaScript do not know what they are doing." Ruby on Rails is not a JavaScript framework, so if there's been lots of change throughout the web ecosystem in same timeframe, how does showing the same trend reflect negatively on JavaScript developers in particular? It seems a bit like pointing to somebody in an earthquake and yelling at them to stop moving around.
> Unfortunately, due to not understanding exponentials, many advocated for starting the lockdown later.

I think you misunderstand the reasoning. If you want to wipe a disease out you lockdown as soon as you can. If you want to flatten the curve, you lockdown just before the peak, so as to prevent it. Or if you are ok with flattening the curve for a longer time, you lock down just before you reach capacity.
Yes, "should it become clear" is the key passive language. Become clear to whom? This is at the heart of so many recent debates in the young adult fiction realm, where this issue has been most prevalent.
> Lots of things that are "normal" become highly anti-human when done with Amazon's scale and lack of human review/input.

This would make more sense if the consumers benefiting were not human.
Looks like you can, for example, https://www.exponentialview.co/
Chronos wasn't killed by k8s -- it was killed by Airflow.
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There's the fuel cost of adding length to the delivery route.
Have absolutely seen first hand the positive effects of psychedelics when done right. I've also seen/experienced the negative effects. If there's one thing I really hope this doesn't lead to is more certainty in spirituality.

It's totally awesome if someone wants to follow what-if-ism ("I like to think this, but know it's wrong and will cede the point in a serious context"). If people like to put up crystals and imagine them doing things, go for it. Brains are weird and organic, there's no happiness in being purely sterile about them. Everyone believes in some fantasy narrative most of the time, doubly so when they're happy.

But if we start allowing each-other to really, fully believe in these happy thoughts, we'll be setting ourselves up to be taken advantage of.
There are several cases where the Japanese and Chinese stroke orders are different for the exact same character.
It might help to think of the entire field of software development as a single living organism that's clumsily, through trial and error, trying to grow into maturity, to find the best way for software to go from concept to realization.

It's very young. Thousands of years passed between the earliest mathematics and the first calculus. Software has had, at most, a hundred years.

Things like microservices, SOLID, dependency hell, npm are all examples of the software organism trying to figure out what works in reality and what doesn't. None of the individual cells -- us developers -- can get a big enough view of the whole thing to understand ahead of time exactly what will work and what won't in large scales and over long timelines. We might argue from some ideology or personal experience, but we don't really know.

Software wants to be inexpensive, both in initial development and in ongoing maintenance. But what does inexpensive really mean? Does it mean that it starts with a formal proof that takes weeks to develop and then is cast into code and never modified again, or does it mean a function that's banged out in minutes and then has an entire suite of test cases written against it and is maintained in minutes and hours here and there for years?

The software organism has learned some things it shouldn't do, but that required lots of developers trying it out, and other developers wailing and gnashing their teeth about it and altogether saying, "this is bad and it doesn't work and we must do it another way!"

We aren't going to see software development reach maturity in our lifetimes. I don't think it will happen for another hundred years at least. I think, eventually, software might settle down to a handful of purpose-built languages, and somehow all the problems of code reuse and distribution and documentation will gradually get solved, probably over some massive and absurdly complex network. Developers might become more like immune system cells, wandering around the network and fixing up the little bits here and there that they specialize in. I dunno. In any case, before any fo that happens, we first have to find out why every other approach to software development is worse.
We could easily eliminate a greater share of premature deaths if the government sent soldiers to force Americans to exercise at the point of a bayonet. Probably more than will die in this pandemic (~650,000 deaths due to heart disease each year). Does that mean this is a wise course of action? Of course not. The negative consequences in terms of reduction of civil liberties vastly outweighs the medical benefit. The same logic needs to be applied here.

The epidemiologist isn't trained in thinking about the persisting scar on opportunity left by lockdowns. A response to a pandemic that solely cares about limiting lives lost due to the virus stands to inflict massive harm as people lose their jobs and social unrest triggered by the suspension of civil liberties.

Medical professionals are experts in medicine. Not in making holistic decisions about the course of society. They absolutely should have a prominent spot in sharing information with the leaders of society, but their advice needs to be weighed against the costs of carrying out that advice.
I’m assuming they’ve done some sort of calculus.

If you were cynical, you could say they’re pushing the bounds because they know they’ll get whacked for something eventually, even if just for owning a huge chunk of e-commerce (already the case). And if they are going to, why don’t they choose what that’ll be, and the thing that makes them hardly any money? I’m sure they’d be happy to pay basically nothing (what, use their lawyers already on retainer and wind-down contracting of white-label crap? — and maybe pay damages, which seems unlikely they’d let it go that far).
I'm surprised at how little effect even a strict lockdown (western style - Wuhan style was much more effective) had compared with the Swedish approach. I did not expect cases to rise so slowly and even plateau with the policy that Sweden chose, and I did not expect cases and deaths to decrease so slowly with the policies that Spain, France, Belgium and Italy chose.

I now suspect that ending lockdowns, temporarily banning just a couple of high risk activities such as conferences and clubbing, universal mask wearing, and extra protection in hospitals and long term care homes might be enough, at least until October (in the Northern hemisphere).
If you don't mind I'd be interested in hearing more details. I'm personally really curious about stories like this, mostly because I have the opinion the world would be better off if more people tried lsd or something once.
Some of us actually want to discuss politics with sane, smart people so I rarely flag thise stories (but I understand why you do.)
Come see what's happening in medicine and be really appalled...
> some people broadcasted the world soccer series in ASCII over telnet around 2007

Out of curiosity I watched the 2006 world cup final https://ascii-wm.net/doc.php It's... refreshing
>They try to explain the experience and are fully convinced they learned some fundamental truth but can't explain it in any way that makes sense.

Imagine trying to describe the color blue to a blind person, or the sound of music to a deaf person.

Some things cannot be described or understood without direct experience.
Can fully relate to the author. We have been struggling with effective k8s at our company for 2 years now. Too much to learn to get your first service in production. You will end up writing wrappers after wrappers that make you think “we can’t be the first guys to solve this” and after googling, you find that every issue you find is described as “just” one of the downsides of using k8s and here’s how we overcame it.

I wish someone can make a deployment orchestrator for your private DC that is as simple to use as Heroku is.
Edit: fixed typo.
Ok, so we're determining that you can easily keep the conspiracy going, with relatively minor evidence.
I use the hckrnews client which is better for seeing comments, and time of posting
Same with news.com.au? I've read that Italy has been suspecting the first being in Italy in November 2019 and may have been in Wuhan in October 2019:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...

This seems to be in line with the military games no? So far, there are no ongoing investigations into any of this, besides pinpointing blame on China. Once again, sets an incredibly bad precedence.
Oh that's nice to hear! Some questions:

Do you have to run this command manually, and does it mutate the shell state? That's one thing that frustrated me with opam in the past as well. I couldn't just jump into a directory and build a thing, then switch to another project directory - there was a lot of manual switching and unswitching of packages if I recall correct?

Is it possible to install multiple tools globally using opam that use disjoint library versions? Like, I might want to install Abella and Coq side-by-side, but they might have conflicting version requirements. I think I was super excited about opam 2, then tried installing one thing, only to have it break again when I installed something else.

Is it possible to have multiple versions of the same libray in the same project, or does the constraint solver need to find a single solution for each library? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23454917
Thanks for the advice, I agree with your assessment. I'll figure something out and will make onboarding a smoother and more palatable process than it is now. It seems like that's my biggest issue at the moment.
Is this widely taught in Russia? I took some Russian in college and asked multiple professors about non-cursive writing and I was always told it basically doesn't exist.
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We are certainly more efficient at that. Hardly anyone takes the time to understand anything anymore, thoroughly, and detail it for others. It feels like all surface-level stuff

I sometimes feel like every project is either learning a new thing as you go (for no other reason than that it’s new and cool) or maintaining some written be someone who was learning as they went (because now that bug ridden pile of crap is running in production).
Given Coinbase's reliability track record [1][2][3], I'm not entirely sure why I'd listen to devops "wisdom" coming from their corner.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/gh3b5t/coinbase_c...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6gtwyi/every_singl...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/ggr80l/i_do...
The flashlight fits Occam's Razor much more neatly. A pulsing lamp that goes from nothing to nova intensity with a nice neat period requires a lot more assumptions.
I'll respond in the hopes that you learn.

First, your general assessment is wrong. The news was already reporting about US intelligence knowing about this in autumn of 2019, as well as China knowing about it [1]. So I doubt a few weeks ago people were saying "no evidence" to the suggestion that China knew about this in autumn.

That being said, what exactly is "this kind of speculation?" This article isn't "speculation." It's far more than that. So what do you mean "this kind of speculation?" What articles like "this" were posted a few weeks ago that were met with responses like the ones indicated?

> until suddenly there is evidence.

That's the difference between speculation and what "this" is. This has evidence.

> ...what is the accepted way to talk ... which doesn't illicit those dismissive and heavy handed responses?

I don't know what you are referencing a few weeks ago to offer up any specific suggestions. What I can say is that your comment hints on specific things, so I offer suggestions based purely on my assumptions.

1. Stop with the hyperbole. Be precise in what you are saying. Your comment here doesn't do that in the slightest.

2. Be humble. An active imagination is being equated to a researched article with sources.

3. Don't have an agenda. Your agenda here is questionable at best, and it's easy to see with the choice of words.

If you are serious about having these conversations, the best approach is start to prove the opposing side first. Look to validate the opposing view from your speculation and approach it that way. If your speculation is correct, it will come out.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/intelligence/49...
<pedant>ONC-RPC and DCE/RPC and MSRPC and JRMI are dupes</pedant> ;)

That said, I recently ended up looking at the code so far and thinking "I should have used CORBA". And nothing so far managed to dissuade that thought...
Buy them online, if you found hacker news, I'm sure you're smart enough to figure out how to do it safely

Edit:forgot to mention mushroom spores are legal in most states, fun enough experiment to grow a personal dose
I'm very new to Forth, but find this intuition really appealing; do you know of any examples that demonstrate/prove this correspondence?
Call me a cybermonarchist in defense of white hegemony, but sure is a lot of woke-sounding buzzwords in the summary.

It's also a little early on to claim that the digital revolution has failed to deliver a post-scarcity society. Perhaps wait a century before making such a claim.
I mean, what if your vacation is 3 weeks hiking in the wild with no reception?
Am I supposed to be shocked, surprised, or enraged by this? It seems fully expected (and desirable) for the military to plan and practice for this.
Single-Screen sharing (on ubuntu) does work with some apps, but definitely not all. I find that any app that allows sharing of a single application window (google meet and zoom for sure) works fine. Slack wants to share my whole three-screen desktop - which is completely useless.
> Instead the focus seems to be on parsing complex and ambiguous written instructions.

I love how this almost sounds like a compliment, almost.
as usual... when services are for free... you are the product of any value
> This isn't really about the article, but why does it take 6 seconds to load the page

Because the website is hosted on Medium.com and they make heavy use of lazy image loading.

It took ±8 secs to load for me, content was visible after 6 secs: https://i.imgur.com/6A09CDS.png

To be fair, I’ve visited websites that continue loading stuff for +3 minutes, Coinbase’s blog is lightweight in comparison.
Thanks! I appreciate the input.
No precedent since the days of medicine being about the four humors of the body may as well be no precedent at all given how different the world is.
In the Netherlands, I don't think this was even attempted, apart from forbidding visitors.
There are just less handguns in Canada period. The U.S. has roughly one handgun for every two people. In Canada it's about one handgun per 35 people.
Hopefully this will allow me to change the hard-coded Google search box on pixel home screens!

I have the DDG search widget, but I cannot remove the Google search box that appears to be hard-coded to the home screen with no way to remove it or change the search provider (... unless someone knows otherwise?) So now I have two search widgets...

I can use a separate launcher I guess, but it would be nice if I could just configure this without resorting to that.
I've been contracting with a mega-big insurance company for a few years. From discussions with fellow contractors in siimlar-sized insurance companie, we all tend to reach the same conclusion..

Ιmagine a spaghetti code. Now think of an IT eco-system that has grown with half-baked interfaces, patches, MANY MANY MANY MANY spreadsheets, legacy systems (and I mean having MS Server versions 10+ years old), and nobody dares to change passwords because there will be pain.

Now imagine that a mega-big insurance is growing by M&A, and it becomes mega-big by absorbing other companies, (speghetti-zed) IT eco-systems, and they try to absorb processes and data with even more spaghetti-ish manners. One sneeze and the world is coming down...

Now consider a new, modern company that has the talent, and none of the inheret problems/risks. They may not be mega-big (yet), but they got the potential to slowly steal chunks of the market, only if/the grow clean, fresh, and organically.

In the UK it's a (growing?) trend to have your app on someone's phone, tracking motion from the phone's sensors (accelerometer, GPS/speed, etc.) and they can give you lower premiums. The possibilities are endless... as long as they are modern enough.