skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Right now, blocking a video will lead to Google being unable to earn money from it. Their incentives are aligned with those of the video creator."

I would say that's only true if the volume of video content was a bottleneck for their advertisers. They have more than enough content.
Yes, the Spanish flu infected 1/3 of the world and resulted in 50 million deaths. It's possible covid-19 will get there as well but we're not anywhere close to that yet.
Diversity among the Black Civil Rights Establishment now means 'what percentage of the workforce is black'.
I'm not trying to be antagonistic here... but who cares how many lines it has unless you plan to maintain it?
TL;DR meta point is: "The reason that we haven’t been doing any significant work on this HAProxy stack is that we’re moving towards Envoy Proxy for all of our ingress load-balancing"

The legacy system supporting Slack in production was heavily resource-constrained as they were moving to a new fancy system. Slack admits here that the legacy system likely wasn't getting the attention it needed and lo-and-behold it started failing in mysterious ways.

Organizational failure by not properly calculating all the risks caused by rotating out part of their load-balancing system. They probably should've asked for more budget here to keep their existing system functional as they slowly transitioned to their new system.

They admit that COVID caused all their systems to become stressed, they probably had appropriately budgeted for the transition to Envoy whenever they asked management(probably pre-covid). The team likely was never meant to support both the load they're now seeing during COVID while transitioning to a new system.

Either way during any transition, there's a period where you must support both systems at full capacity until the legacy system can be gracefully decommissioned.
There does not appear to be any fine print at least as seen on the only three pages documenting the program at the time of my comment (https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Astripe.com+"%245%2C00...):

• https://stripe.com/docs/atlas/details

• https://stripe.com/docs/atlas/next

• https://stripe.com/atlas

I've archived the pages for the record:

• /details: http://archive.vn/xRojd and https://web.archive.org/web/20200707231048/https://stripe.co...

• /next: http://archive.vn/5eyFp and https://web.archive.org/web/20200605003821/https://stripe.co...

• /atlas: http://archive.vn/5m2s2 and https://web.archive.org/web/20200707231646/https://stripe.co...

CoreSet, you may be owed $4,000 in AWS credits from Stripe.
1. When you need to communicate across the network and don't have a library to do it for you.

2. Troubleshooting

3. Insights. Knowing how things work can sometimes give you big insights into potential solutions or pitfalls to avoid
The EU zone as a whole just adjusted their projection for the year to contract 8.3%, FWIW.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/eu-cuts-economic-forecasts-f...
Fatmap [0] has a Strava integration, so you can see your rides/runs on top of the terrain.

[0]: https://fatmap.com
Thank you for returning past. It is one of my favorite HN features.
I hope all of these questions would be asked only after everything was working again!
godep was awefuly slow and buggy.
By choosing to lobby for less taxation/redistribution and taking advantage of the benefits they lobby against they are folding on their principles.

And yes, the same for those who argue against tax cuts. They give up their principles by not sticking to them when they are inconvenient.

But there's also a practical concern: it's not possible to keep track of all counterfactuals / hypotheticals when it comes to tax/welfare laws. In Ayn Rand's case, she couldn't afford to live without social security in her later years (if the reports I read are to be believed). We frequently don't have the means to be consistent in our principled stands.
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-v','--version',action='version', version='demo',help='Print version information')
parser.add_argument('-d','--debug', help='Enable Debug Mode')
parser.add_argument('a','arg', help="Argument Documentation")
args = parser.parse_args()

Personally I feel like this is more readable code, gets me better validation, and help docs for "free". That's the attraction.
I don't see why @IG_Semmelweiss comment here is dead, it's not wrong...banks were incentivized to provide capital to their highest debtors / longest clients who otherwise were at greater risk of default and loss to the bank shareholders. It's not complicated, they acted in their best interest because there was by design nothing stopping them.
I think it's misleading to phrase things, as the article does, as just "more deaths" vs "the economy". The drawbacks of a large-scale mandatory lockdown (as opposed to asking people to do their own social distancing) also include other things like psychological effects on the population, political consequences (setting a precedent of severely restricting personal freedoms), and, well, enjoyment: making 10 million people more happy for a few months doesn't seem entirely negligible from a utilitarian perspective.

This isn't to take position for or against Sweden's policy here, but there are far more variables than simply excess deaths (or DALYs) and economic impact.
Huge fan of Reclaim! I spend a lot of time programming my calendar and always challenge myself to be more proactive BUT my nature is to give in to reactive work first. With Reclaim I'm able to "trick" myself by having the bot add proactive things to my calendar that I want to do, but never get time for (like taking a mid-day exercise break). My brain perceives this as reactive work (i.e. I didn't schedule it, someone else did) - and as a result I'm more likely to make the time to do the proactive work.
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U.S. “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps
It's bit early to compare death figures. We are in the middle of a pandemic.
A second wave can change the numbers.
My main problem with the swedish way is, that it all depends on building herd immunity without even knowing if an infection leads to a long term immunity neither do we know the long term effects of an corona infection.
Studies found lung damages in people with mild symptoms, if these will heal or be permanent is unknown.
Also other long term effects are unknown.
For examlpe the corona virus just has to raise the probability of lung cancer and the swedish way will have severe consequences.
The Martini JS library is ideal for on-demand generation client side. If you're looking to pre-generate your mesh with the same algorithm, I ported it to Python/Cython: https://github.com/kylebarron/pymartini
Simple math, except it might take years for them to compute it... That's why you generally want to keep your tax records for at least 3 years.
He's made a long string of bad judgement calls and spurious statements.

However, I'm more appalled by the government's complete mismanagement. They have completely pushed responsibility onto this single man, who cannot be held accountable in public elections. His job is to be a key advisor. The politicians are the policymakers and the only enforceable decisions they've made is pretty much to prohibit gatherings of more than 50 people and close down high schools.
Their website looks a bit thin, I assume they're new?
That the policy was arrived at democratically doesn't change the fact that if something is taken from you, it is morally consistent to take it back, while arguing that the policy of taking in the first place is wrong.
I did not misspeak.

I will try to clarify this once more:

from an high level/abstract point of view, all deaths (I am now specifically referring to the coronavirus, but this works for deaths in general) should be avoided. This is obviously not possible in practice, hence some deaths have to be accepted. What can be considered acceptable is relative, but it helps to look at the countries that have managed to keep their deaths low and take their numbers as a yardstick for other societies.
I feel like cryptocurrency micropayments could 'solve' the seeding problem with torrents. I think licensing is the biggest issue - need a mechanism to give seeders confidence that the true content creator authorized them being compensated for seeding without being exposed to liability for IP laws.

I'd love to set up a seedbox that works like a ~bitcoin mining rig but consumes upload bandwidth rather than CPU/gpu time. However I'm not sure anyone has figured out a good way to do this while avoiding copyright issues.
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Slack isn’t some random company, they have enterprise practices and there are third party companies that do data management on slack.

An enterprise can adapt to use tools and apply security to the tools used and needed.

Also there is really basic “don’t post sensitive data to the wrong places” training. I think there’s a difference between banning posting sensitive data and stopping teams from planning a meeting agenda.

A company that can’t stop an enployee posting sensitive data to Slack also won’t be able to stop them posting it all sorts of bad places.

I expect that sensitive data is protected in an org. With something more effective than firing people from posting it to Slack.
You can plug it in?
Those things didn't cause covid, but they did cause the companies to be unable to handle the crisis. The outrage is mostly centered around companies who are wildly profitable and/or spend tons of money on stock buybacks and dividends instead of planning for an inevitable disaster.

Look at this: in 2019 Delta Airlines spent around $2b buying their own stock [1]. They also spent $300m buying their own stock in March 2020. In April 2020 they received $5b in government assistance [2]. What if instead of spending billions of dollars to improve their stock price, they saved some of that money in case they ever had a crisis to deal with?

It's not like this is the first time the airlines have been bailed out before, either. 9/11 wasn't that long ago.

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/DAL/stock_buyback

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/major-u-airlines-accept-gover...
I’m just 40, I started programming in 87, got serious around 93, I remember getting my hands on a copy of turbo pascal from a family friend - not expensive but was for a kid and it was amazing.

Now I grumble if it’s a pain to install a massive open source tool chain for free and these days it’s rarely painful.

I should stop and appreciate that more once in a while.
I guess technically you can call him a CEO, but from the looks of it he was just doing small time AWS contract work.
I'd be really interested in seeing performance comparisons with Martini!
James is so cute
> You missed the entire point of hurricanes, before any damage occurs governments order shutdowns and evacuations, there is no taking and there is no compensation for those shutdown and evacuation orders.

The time between evacuation order and landfall is at most four days. The economic damage from that phase is minor.

There are businesses in some parts of the US that are in their fourth month of being forcibly closed. The situation is not in any way, shape, or form comparable to a hurricane evacuation.
I didn't say the average protester was a Marxist. I said exactly the opposite: BLM contains a "majority of well-meaning people who simply want to eliminate police brutality and inequality."

But several of the BLM founders are, by their own description, Marxists, and that is a very different thing from happening to "find self-described 'Marxists' among" the protesters. People with lots of different views can happen to find themselves on the same side of any issue. I do think it's different when you're talking about the founders of an organization that is the de facto figurehead of the movement.
I wonder if FB is doing all these things in non-english markets too, like Philippines and Myanmar..
Rather than leaving all this to the many registrars, what about a SaaS (let’s call it usemycustomdomain) that allows you to point a CNAME record for a subdomain to it, then when you sign up to an app that supports custom domains, you can oAuth2 to usemycustomdomain. Then usemycustomdomain can do the SSL management and termination and proxy the traffic to different SaaS products. It could even support custom URLs on a domain.
Except in EE.
Quillette has argued numerous times on behalf of phrenology[0][1]. More receipts[2]

How do you think they’ll react to an African techie?

[0] https://theoutline.com/post/8104/phrenology-hirevue-quillett...

[1] Phrenology is "the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities."

[2] https://www.pinkerite.com/2019/07/yes-kevin-drum-quillette-i...
I'm having some difficulty understanding your statement:

>"It's not possible to accurately argue "she would have received a better/more efficient education in a free market society" because that's a counterfactual."

Do you mean to say that nobody can ever argue that a historical counterfactual might have been preferable? This would seem to be a rationalization of history, through a refusal to consider alternatives.
Remember, the game plan that virologists came up with for COVID acknowledged that most people will get it eventually. The point of the lockdowns was not to eliminate spread, which is impossible, but to not overwhelm the system.
Donald Trump to Ban Chinese Social Media App TikTok in the USA
The "San Francisco tech CEO" angle is pure link bait.

LinkedIn Solid8 appears to have either 1 or 2 employees.

The guy in question is a recently convicted criminal. (1)

But titling "Convicted criminal kicked out of Carmel Valley restaurant for bad behavior" would be a lot harder to fit into the divisive classism / racism narrative.

Please flag.

(1) https://gritdaily.com/michael-lofthouse-racist-tirade/
People did walk away eventually. But not immediately because when you have a family, for instance, you can't leave a job without making sure you have health insurance etc., People eventually left once they found other jobs.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it is morally consistent to take something that you paid for, while putting forth an argument that you should not have been made by others to pay for it in the first place.
Just a coincidence I’m sure

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexVonStrapon/status/12806131526...
We're VC backed, dude, that "money we haven't earned" ship sailed a loooong time ago.

On the flip side, the way you "pay it back" to your Noble Investors is to keep the ship afloat and deliver a ROI with a healthy and competent team.

Increasing shareholder value and also doing the right thing and coming up with a way to give our furloughed teammates health benefits during a pandemic was, I suspect, an easy decision for senior staff to make. I'm a lowly scientist, I don't get to make those calls -- but you won't hear me complaining about this course we chose, either.
Coordination of lockdowns makes no sense past a county or small state. Do you believe NYC and rural Nebraska should be coordinating schedules when they have vastly different situations over time?
$100k? That’s amazing. How did you manage that?
This is straight up false advertising in my opinion. You're paying for a product that includes $5k in AWS credits but you're only receiving $1k in credits.
Belgium is the closest of the 8 countries/regions considered in that article - not of the EU or the world. Reported deaths there comprise 93% of excess deaths.

Overreporting is possible too. Ireland is at 150-160% according to recent reports [0].

[0] https://www.thejournal.ie/covid-19-deaths-ireland-hiqa-51404...
Im curious what "deeper interventions" look like? What metrics systems work?
It says that they got $1,000 instead of $5,000.
Dont fall for the numbers game. The numbers in Sweden are reported on with an expected delay of 7 - 10 days for some deaths. The other game is the break-point in time 1400 - each day when public health agency ( state run ) report their numbers. They reported no new dead in Stockholm and then later on tuesday afternoon Smittskydd Stockholm ( regionally run ) reported 7 new deaths in Stockholm since monday...
I think they are using "force" in the "the state has a monopoly on the use of force" sense.

Also, I think it's fine to argue against the current state of laws. It's not as if we are actually a democracy (at the federal level, the founding fathers didn't give us any direct democracy tools and those who could vote were an elite subset of the population). Even today we suffer from bad laws drafted by special interests and voted into existence by those who accept campaign contributions from those who drafted the laws.

There is little in the form of "direct democracy" in our current system of legislation.
I believe they tried but couldn't get it to pass.

This is the Australian model. If you don't have insurance there's a Medicare surcharge based on your taxable income. The Gov gives you a tax rebate if you do have insurance.

https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Medicare-levy/Private-hea...

Premiums go up each April within an allowable increase and are published on a Gov site.

I worked on integrating this for a comparison site years back - the market is pretty competitive, but has been broken to an extent in recent years by providers signing up as preferred partners with various insurers and insurers just buying up providers.

An interesting side is the APRA regulations regarding how many policies an insurer is allowed to issue based on the capital they hold. They needed monthly caps on how many policies they wanted (we got feeds back on leads that signed up) and some of the smaller ones occasionally asked to be removed from the panel when they were hitting their limit.
But at whose expense are ALDCs chosen? I suppose we cannot know, but are there rejected non-ALDC white students that could fill those spots who the model would consider deserving to be there? FWIW MIT is ~40% white without AL(DC?) [0], so that is closer to H's current distribution.

The whole admissions situation is of course an opaque, handwavy, crapshoot. But I am just curious in practice what would happen to the distribution if Harvard decided to drop say legacy status.

[0] https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/profile/
Number and type of devices are still useful for fingerprinting when combined with other sources of information.

That's how modern fingerprinting tends to work. A few bits here, a few bits there, all combined.
Digital Ocean hands out credits pretty often. I actually just got my first bill of the year this month after running my side project on free credits for months. Usually it's things like testing a new service or doing a survey. I'm not sure what it takes to get these credits, I've been a customer for nearly a decade but my average monthly spend is only like $20-$30.
On HN the cutoff date for reposts is about a year. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Btw, it was part of how pg trained me to moderate HN back in 2012, so I assume it was always the policy.
I wonder if that's related to this...bug? feature?...where at least once per minute (in Android) there's what is something like a spontaneous app swipe to itself without having touched the device. This infects other apps too, so it's been hard to figure out where it's coming from but I'm pretty sure it's caused by Maps. Like there's a hypervigilance in the attention the app pays to rotation.
This problem has been addressed in Go 1.13 with wrapped errors. If you get an error from a filesystem operation, you can

return fmt.Errorf("ListThings failed: %w", err)

which is a different error type, but the caller can downcast it into the original filesystem error type (even across multiple layers of wrapping) if they're interested in specifically these types of errors.
Of course, this is standard moderation.

When a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we bury reposts as duplicates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
This is unfortunately the case in many of these offers where the big banner number is used to entice people in, but the actual amount given is much lower. There is really no accountability to these types of over-promises as its not really regulated like a sweepstakes or other free contest. And providing no easy to understand rules keeps anyone from figuring out how to actually receive the top amounts.

Not sure that is what's going on in this case, but without accountability or penalties for bad behaviors this is likely to continue to be the case. No fine print necessary.
>The greatest problem with the Cultural Revolution, its defining characteristic in most people's minds, was all the mass murder.

I'm not sure that's true. Stipulating that it was "the greatest problem", how could it be the defining characteristic considering all the other historical instances of mass murder?