skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Us dearh rate is pretty low and excess deaths are almost back to zero. The problematic outlier is just NYC, where the problem was arguably exacerbated by Democratic mayor encouraging NewYorkers to party in Chinatown end of January. Overall Trump’s response was decent.

Edit: Looks like this triggered a few people. Low mortality rate:

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

Excess deaths almost back to zero:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
vuldb numbers are bullshit though
5 years serves 2 things, one is to show UK is with their partner US and two, 5 years is a long time for a punishment to be effective because so much policies can change(2 elections) during this, and China knows this isn’t really a big punishment.
I'm still conflicted about this. On the one hand I agree. On the other, I wish we could educate people enough for them to understand Proof of Concepts and Minimum Viable Products.
The trivial solution is to tie residency to property ownership or property lease, and payment of property tax. Then use the prop tax to pay for the health care, because almost all health care is local anyway. Have the hospital or clinic or whatever bill the municipal taxing authority wherever you live; for most people the house you live in.

Determining residency is not rocket surgery; could steal the entire system from state income tax codes.
TayPO, a Unifying Framework for Reinforcement Learning
So how would you operate each of these bespoke services? One service uses TCP, one uses UDP, one uses SCTP. What happens if your buffer sizes are incorrect? What about if your keep alives are too aggressive? What happens if a problem in your TCP connection pool makes it seem like there's a networking issue and so you play around with your network settings only to have all your other protocols dive in performance?

I sympathize with the OP for single developers or small teams (by small, I mean a team of 5 not in a larger corporation), but whenever you have more than a single team, you want to keep system management overhead low. Unifying around a single paradigm like gRPC and Docker containers means that not every team will have their own bespoke chroot configuration and you won't have to retune an HTTP client every time you interface with a new service.

I think there's in general too little representation from small-scale or indie developers. I spend a lot of time working with the Gemini protocol outside of work and I appreciate the simpler approach that the protocol takes. I would love to see these sorts of stakeholders have a say in greater net architecture as well, but let's not pretend like this is all complexity for complexity's sake; this stuff is needed at scale.
At most of the big companies I worked at (over 500 employees) there is a steering committee doing prioritization work and continuous integration test suites and an elaborate change control committee and process such that fixing a spelling error will take much more than two days.

Whats nice about the proceduralism is you can document that the steering committee only meets once a week on Tuesday afternoons and change control meets on Thursday. And everyone knows the automated test suite on DEV takes about half a working day. So if a change can't be worked into the schedule in less than a day, it'll never pass CI testing before the change control meeting so it'll take more than a week.

Whats bad, is mgmt would like you to complete multiple changes perhaps at the same time which always complicates the change control process especially if change #7 failed last week so company policy is to roll everything back and now we have 13 changes, two weeks worth, to complete next weekend. Also whats bad, is knowing its a corporate nightmare to make any change, why did I make a mistake to begin with of having the buttons swapped or a misssspelling or whatever.

I find the big metric now a days is backlog. Lets see the number of request tickets decrease this week instead of increase. That leads to intense pressure to roll multiple problems into one ticket.
Has happened to me too more than once. I usually reply that the UI prototype is like a Hollywood movie set: what looks like a real building is fake, just a single wall. The real building still needs to be built. That explanation sometimes works, often doesn't :(
Except you could totally break in to it and cut through the VM layer so that it does indeed matter if someone breaks in.

Some of this is an illusion of simplicity.
The ghost repo trick sounds similar to a subdomain takeover. I can foresee this being a vector for publishing malicious code.
And like virus scanners, it can't recognize anything it doesn't already have a signature for.

But, it could upload "suspicious" data to the home servers to be evaluated and fed into the signature database. Just like any other feedback loop in anti-cheat (and anti-virus) systems, only this one can access everything on your system.
I think Tesla probably called it 'autopilot' specifically to clarify the limitations - it just sets heading, speed, etc.
Wait till you see what BLM have in store.
But how do they get this data?

I wonder if someone just copy pasted this form without actually reading, though perhaps that is giving too much benefit of doubt.
That's a pretty bad breakdown in communication- the manager should have communicated how the contractor was paid and the programmer should have spent their time working in line with that - whichever end that breakdown happened on that sounds like that led to an awful lot of misery and wasted time - ouch
this happened to me.. except it was one line:
free(ptr);
/ here it is ---> */ ptr = 0x00;

a classic.
They've also been promising full autonomy for five years straight. The wording of "Current autopilot features" is intended to help deceive the public into thinking that full autonomy is coming next year.
Microsoft's ZeRO-2 Speeds up AI Training 10x
I have a stereo that has had a bit of modeling clay on its power button since the day I bought it (in 2003) because in some really smart design choice, the power button lights up red to let you know it's off. When the stereo is on, the light turns off but the display screen lights up. So even turning the power off to get rid of the lights in the room merely just turns a different light on.
Replying here because your other comment hit the depth limit.

For decades ICE cars have been designed to drop off the mounts and go under the cabin while absorbing energy in a frontal crass. There's not some dramatically higher risk of the engine crushing your legs vs a BEV.

There are many reasons to prefer the BEV, but please don't spread FUD.
How would that work on a general purpose computer?
Why 'Possibly Undefined Macro' Means Install Pkg-Config
The defense I've seen is that it works reasonably well as a measure of productivity _if_ you're working in a similar team and in a stable codebase.

From what I understand a lot of product teams at FB have nearly frictionless development tooling for their use cases so the pressure is to produce volume.
> 4. From a financial point of view, I’m still paying the employee and the service, so either I need enough services and time savings that I can eliminate a job, or the service has to have positive ROI of its own.

More likely, there's other work that the employee could be doing that will help your company grow
This is my trick too. I have to build up the mental energy and then absolutely lay into it. Like I'd be wildly flailing around if my body wasn't switched off. Then when I'm moving I have to try to stand, or I'm just going to get drawn back in. Most of the time I don't bother anymore and just allow myself to fall back asleep.
> What security do you gain by being in a container instead of on a server without a container?

I'm not a container guru, but... this is obvious, right? You have to break out the container, which is an extra layer. In order to get root on the server, you need:

• Without container: application vulnerability (to gain access to the OS) + kernel vulnerability (to gain access to root)

• With container: application vulnerability (to gain access to the container) + container breakout vulnerability (to gain access to the OS) + kernel vulnerability (to gain access to root)

You make it sound like I'm missing something — what am I missing here?

Edit: are you talking about CVEs like this one (https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-3215)? I guess I'm assuming that a container vulnerability will give an attacker less to play with than a kernel vulnerability.
I think you are being downvoted because... well, exactly what other methods did you have in mind? Using trend data to predict future data seems pretty run-of-the-mill to me.
It's about stonk.

Elon became a master at low key commenting on features "soon to be released" and on the "verge of" but those comments are non binding. You know what those comments do? They become nudges for stonk buyers who want to get in on the deal early before the features are released & the stonk price goes higher. Yeah, Elon knows how to make potential investors go crazy with the "buy low and sell high" fomo; Just read his Twitter feed filled with carrots on the proverbial stick. Oh Elon, you cheeky, cheeky bastard :)

TTYl everybody, gotta go catch my robo taxi! opens Waymo on smartphone

PS: Never forget, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were the original Tesla visionaries, Elon pretty much just bought his way into the vision...and pushed out Martin Eberhard.
There's just a decent likelihood that in the past two weeks some sort of dispute has been made about this. Maybe the original owner contacted them, and they are trying to decide what to do about it?

If there's a dispute on something that I don't know how to resolve, just disabling it until I get advice from a supervisor sounds like a good strategy to me.
I’m not sure how my medical records can be taken from playing this game?
sounds about right to me. i've had product managers argue that we fix bugs fast enough that we should not actually try to implement real solution (python2 to python3 upgrade). This lady is like 'every py2->py3 bug takes less than 2 hours to fix. Why would we do the solution that takes multiple sprints?'

jaw dropped. since then i'm committed to being the biggest office space corporate schmo possible. let me cog it up, keep payin me 6 figs, lettin me work at home full time.
Nope. They're being tested for validity, meaning that their existence _as a treatment_ is under test. If it turns out they don't have an effect, will you say "we did have a cure for a moment: leeches; but it was rejected by the regulatory process, therefore bad bureaucrats for showing that it didn't work"?

Of course not, that doesn't make sense...if your goal is a cure. (If you're peddling hope, or just looking to make money off quack medicine, OTOH...)
I think it's more a case of the Trump administration momentarily forgetting the Harvard is basically a hedge fund that runs a college and that their revenue stream is not to be messed with.

If they added a clause that the rule only applied to colleges with an endowment of less than $1 billion it would continue along just fine.
Oh, very much so. I don't think it's a matter of how "old" the industry is - there will always be people who have never worked with software folks or are familiar enough with the ecosystem not to make the assumptions stated in the article.

This made me realize that working in a purely engineering team can sometimes be a perk. Not because technical people are "better", but because it leads to fewer frustrations like this one.
Flutter Real Time business apps
Hey! Maker here. Thought it'd be cool to mention this is a 100% static website (Jekyll + Netlify). No back-end whatsoever (e.g. Firebase, serverless functions).

It's amazing what one can create with the constraint of keeping things simple!
When you click “allow” when its installer (or originally its store’s installer) asks for administrative privileges.
Cars are moved by turning though. From the pistons driving the engine, through the gearbox and drivetrain to the wheels.
One of the first things humans discovered about flight is that you can't trust your senses.
> They simply don't understand that the backend functionality is what's doing the bulk of the work

Even people who ought to know better don't understand this.
Hundreds of unvetted studies with questionable data are masquerading as sensational news
Hellenic culture played a similar role, including in Rome.
Students will have many open tabs anyway
> incentivizes teams to build things in small, shippable components.

Isn't this a bit of a fallacy? Not everything can be broken down into chunks of work that fit into a single sprint.

There's a reason I stopped bothering with Scrum a while ago, and this is high on the list.
Python becoming Tcl
This sounds like a bad idea. It creates more ambiguities in the language, and will require people to remember a lot more. It works in ruby because in ruby you can't assign a function to a variable like

A = len

But you can in python.

It seems python is adding more and more implicit stuff in every new release.

I think the day we can import braces from __future__ might not be far away.
I would more like to support some kind of pipes, eg.:

123 | add10 | str | print

UPD:
Some of my workarounds (dont try this at home lol):
[twitter thread]
https://twitter.com/tandavaya/status/1155925017848242176
So, is this just a syntax change or is this adding a new statement?

If it's the latter, does that mean that the execution environment is part of the language itself, instead of, for example, C where environmental stuff is only accesible through the standard library and the language per se is little more than a context-free grammar?
Incentives aren't just a part of discourse but any learning function essentially - if there isn't an incentive to change then it just "sticks to the default plan or lack of plan". If they don't have any incentives the system won't react to changes and if they are misaligned they will tend towards the wrong reaction systemically.

For better or worse in the real world fundamentals "leak" past the officially set incentives and may undermine them.

Monetary per-se and capitalism per say are an anchronistic terms as trade goods filled the niche for millenia be they perishables like food and furs or imperishables like gold and jewels. Communism could be called a deep retro throwback to palace economies. There is a lack of records of personal wealth or tracking and the indication there from sunken ships shows outgoing local goods and incoming foreign goods in bulk in amounts beyond personal production or usage. Essentially it is apparent that the leadership took all outputs and allocated supplies as needed to those under them. Sounds similar to "from each according to their abilities and to each according to their needs". It proved in the end eventually unpopular and unsustainable given the Bronze Age collapse and their complete lack of survival of old palace economies even with other benefits. Although given bronze age standards a lot of people wanted to kill their neighbors for various reasons (revenge for theft, captures, and killings) so it may have been unrelated to the economics.
A company I used to work for needed a website. They already had a backend and a REST API (served on the same domain as the website should be) and the old website was served directly by the backend that also served the API.

I am not aware of why it was chosen to retire that and separate the website into its own service - maybe there was a good reason, so I won't comment on that.

However the approach they (or rather some frontend developer) chose was a React front-end (fair enough) with a Node.js backend that translated between the REST API and GraphQL (WTF).

The existing API was served on the same domain so the new React website could've directly interacted with it without any problems. But no, this guy wanted to put "GraphQL" on his resume and so introduced an unnecessary extra component and potential point of failure that the company now has to support.
>the US was doing pretty well by most objective measures.

You can also say this when the US had slaves, so I'm not sure this should be a purely objective exercise.
> If you are running a truly enormous system and want to have off-the-shelf orchestration for it, Kubernetes may be the tool for you.

Not even then. If you're an enterprise using EKS, you still have to work around the pain points, missing features, incompatibilities, and do a metric shit-ton of custom integration. And that's before even touching CI/CD, and ignoring how you build the infrastructure.

It's like a Formula 1 engine. Really complicated, you still have to assemble the rest of the vehicle, and you need a team of engineers to understand what it's doing when you drive it.

I think the author is right. gRPC is bullshit that you only use if you're dedicating your whole organization to one protocol. They actually re-added that wacky backwards-REST API-gateway because people really needed a REST API. On the other hand, Consul not only has a REST API since the beginning, but it incorporates more useful (some would say necessary) features so you don't have to write them from scratch. So you can go with Consul and get more compatibility and features, or go with Etcd for the opposite.

But at the same time, a "lightweight database written around Raft consensus" is like saying "clogs for runners". Most people shouldn't use it, and those that do won't be happy with the consequences later.
> Field across the road used to be a blueberry field, and one of Wyman's huge freezer facilities is a few miles down the road, along a now discontinued rail line.

> Now its a high school. Ahh, goodbye nice friendly traffic pattern, I miss you.

I think I know exactly the town you're talking about.

During my time Downeast I was told I should cut down the wild berry bushes we had growing all around our driveway every autumn. Hell with that, said I. Next year, with no berries, I figured they might have a point.
It takes more than storing medical data to be covered by HIPAA. Usually you have to be a medical provider or have a business agreement with a medical provider. If I upload an MRI scan to imgur, imgur isn't instantly governed by HIPAA.

This means data harvesting companies can siphon up this stuff where they can find it. As long as they don't have a particular contractual relationship with an actual hospital, it's just like any other data, and they're not governed by HIPAA.

There may be some other ways to get governed by HIPAA, but that's the general rule. It's hard to do by accident.
Elixir has this. And now the linter puts parentheses back IIRC because of syntax ambiguity to the human.
No one can take you serious when you write drivel like this. I have driven many cars more silent than a Tesla. Even my own Alfa Romeo makes as little noise and way less for people outside. Hell even my neighbor's Ford Mondeo is harder for me to hear than a Tesla driving by on the 50km/t limited street outside my garden. It is so so easy to find the Tesla and Musk fans in threads like these. Owning both types (ice + ev) makes it even easier.
Firstly, the leader of the opinion section resigned, and secondly, it wasn't because of a republican opinion piece - of which there have been hundreds, but because the editorial standards of the Op-Ed section repeatedly fell short of the standards they claimed.
wait... you can seriously get a fully autonomous taxi in Phoenix right now with no safety driver? That is wild! has anyone documented this on video?
I get your point, and to a small degree agree with you. The Tesla owners I know understand the limits of the technology and drive reasonably. I'm considering buying a Tesla, knowing the limits of the technology myself. However there are two big ugly facts which bug the hell out of me...

- Their advertising is misleading to most consumers. Whether informed people or existing owners know what the product is capable of doesn't matter, they are advertising in a misleading way.

> no harm done.

It is clear that a subset of Tesla drivers puts too much faith in the effectiveness of Tesla's autopilot. Even though these drivers acknowledged and accepted the risks, it's clear they believe they can trust their Tesla to keep them safe even while they are not watching the road. Tesla's marketing clearly exacerbates this. The fact that Tesla's do the right thing 99% of the time reinforces that marketing message... up until that 0.01% situation occurs, then lots of harm done
Yes, it’s a real shame that China was the world leader in civilization, government, science, arts, and literature for only 2,000 years. If it weren’t for those damn Confucians, I’m sure they would have gotten in an extra couple of hundred years.
Seasonal burning probably is carbon neutral.

Burning forests, not so much (at least by standard definitions of carbon neutral). 'Carbon neutral' requires a reference frame; we usually mean from the perspective of the people doing the carbon releasing. If you burn a forest that you planted, you are carbon neutral. If you burn a forest that has been there for centuries, you are not carbon neutral.
I like this! I haven't used my own mail-server for much, however this is a great way to avoid a single "e-mail" that everyone can support :)
AI Dungeon now uses the largest GPT-3 model offered by OpenAI
Google has a much larger and better funded team that still doesnt seem close. Karpathy is no doubt smart but google has like 10 karpathys for every one TESLA has.
Someone was building an empire by having employees do manual data entry instead of parsing json files. All the way up the mgmt tree there are fewer direct reports. Nobody ever gets a job title promotion by having fewer direct reports.

Even worse, someone else now has to explain "why they did it wrong to begin with" regardless if the replacement technology existed or not at the time of original process creation.
> Do people actually have fights like this with management at their companies?

There was a time when I thought this video was funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
The FAA guideline is "ready to fly manually" -> key word "manual" from the Latin manus meaning "hand". Tesla is going a step further by requiring hands-on contact at all times, which makes this system a MORE restrictive autopilot.

Contrary to what has been posted in other comments, pilots don't just get up and start walking around the aircraft. There must be one pilot always ready to take IMMEDIATE control of the aircraft.

I hate when arguments devolve into semantics, which is the premise of this whole thread. But for the sake of discussing semantics, the use of the word "autopilot" is technically accurate. Its vernacular understanding is not. But this was also the case with cruise control. See this case where a driver set a cruise control on her RV and got up to make a cup of tea:

https://www.suffolkgazette.com/news/motorhome-crash/
We need more laws about this for financial data, surfing history, customer purchase data, location data etc.

Hoarding customer data should be a liability!
Everyone wrong? Including this author.
Why is there another surge of infections in the summer time here in USA?
Seems to violate "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
Isn't doom eternal mostly single player? what's the deal here?
Social Construct’s computer-optimized buildings could shake construction
Are you trying to describe China here, or the United States?
I like EVs but the biggest thing that prevents me from buying one is range anxiety. I say this because I think it's funny that you consider having to visit gas stations a weakness of ICE, when I consider it the only reason to still own an ICE.
Does it actually work though? What's stopping me from running the game in a virtual machine with GPU-passthrough and emulating inputs?