skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they have a right to have their opinion that the earth is flat

"Is the Earth flat?" is not the kind of question you can really have an opinion on. It has a definite correct answer ("no") which has been established by numerous independent methods by numerous people acting independently repeatedly over thousands of years.

For that answer to be wrong and the truth of Earth's flatness to have been kept suppressed for so long would require a vast conspiracy operating over centuries or millennia involving almost all political leaders, educators, and scientists, and a near total control on information flow.

That level of conspiracy could almost certainly only be carried out in some kind of Matrix-like simulation, but if we are in one of those then the question of whether or not the Earth is flat is superseded by the question of whether the Earth even exists.

What word(s) would you suggest to describe such people? The OED defines "stupid" as "Having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense", which applies here so "stupid" seems accurate. It defines "moron" as "a stupid person", so "moron" seems applicable.

It defines "fool" as "A person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person". "unwise" is "not wise or sensible; foolish".

Putting that all together, "moronic fools" may be impolite, but it is accurate.
Global warming causes more "extremes" to happen and more often in local areas. It's because of how the planet's (now warmer currents) travel, because of how much ice they've already melted at the poles, and so on.

All of this means that weather in various local areas is no longer "how it was before". You're going to see snow in areas that never saw snow, you're going to see extremely high temperatures in formerly more temperate areas, etc.

Watch some documentaries that show how the North Pole's ice cap is now 70% or less than it was in the 80's (which is also eliminating polar bear populations, as they can now hunt on ice caps for 2-3 fewer months than they were able to do before, leaving them to starvation, etc). Same for Antarctica, where ice is melting much faster than decades ago.

You don't think this has global repercussions? These are undeniable changes in the global climate system. They can see seen from one year to the next or one decade to the next with satellites.
Worth noting that (IME) US day rates are a lot higher for pentest work :) your US rates sound similar to what I've seen but Morrbo's UK rates sound ballpark right for the UK (I'd have said a little higher but it does depend on the company and work)
What’s the solution?
I think a more difficult question is what happens if there's no herd immunity AND no vaccine. Will we be able to live like this forever? I suspect not, so how long will we try? A year? Three years? These are rhetorical questions, I hope we don't have to find out.
No and no, the don't produce cells in Fremont at best they pack cells into packs. Given there's no plant in Texas there's nothing concrete to substantiate your claims. Extraordinary claims require extraordinarily evidence.
Lenovo just dropped the Thinkpad T14 and T14s with AMD variants a few days ago. The base model is way more expensive on the US locale of their site ($1500 vs. ~$1200 in France or ~$1000 in Taiwan), but the US variant also offers options/upgrades not available elsewhere (500-nit touchscreen display, 32GB RAM).
That was my thought as well. It has a lot of the idiosyncrasies I've noticed in other GPT-3-generated articles: coherent, but meandering, with a lot of cliches and rhetorical questions that don't really add to the article. Of course, you also see that in human writing. :-)
even with the uptick the us death rate overall is still very low ~0.04%, where majority the cases are the old people. Inline with what has been estimated by most research publication.
You have made the standard comment that tells me I need a better video explanation. The primary goal is to decide what geometry to send right now, which is a different question than, "What optimization techniques can I use to cull geometry to speed up drawing a frame?"

Plenty of games already delivery content over the internet--think Minecraft--but they're loading entire areas in bulk. I'm trying to sent only what is visible right now, just-in-time.

I'm going to develop an Android client for the same scene next. I hope that will make the use case more obvious.
The person who posted this tweet? I don't think so. They also said this gibberish:

>Space junk. There HAS to be another way to improve internet communications, does Humanity and planet Earth's livestock need this (5G)? Really?
Hey EGreg, we're generating ideas, sharing feedback, and building climate solutions over at https://collective.energy if you'd like to join a community of no-nonsense doers
You can't (afaik) tell if it's a right-click vs left-click in HTML+CSS alone that causes the el state to change - that info is part of the JS event :)
Most museums are small and their collection is of little value except as a whole. This is especially true when you're talking about niche museums that are basically private collections that have been turned into non-profit museums so they could continue to exist in their totality by the heirs of the deceased collector. Treating their collections like assets would help them a little but not much.
Daniel Kahneman on Bias
s/ANSI/PETSCII :)
Aside: A reminder to HN to re-read The Gervias Principle by Venkatesh Rao. It is a deeply cynical look at corporate structures, everyone is flayed and ridiculed. But, there are many good lessons to be learned in it. Think of it more as another pair of lenses with which to view the world.

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The Gervias Principle: Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing Losers into middle-management, groom under-performing Losers into Sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort Losers to fend for themselves.
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https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
It is impossible to have an "expectation of privacy" over the DNA of your relatives. You need to live with it, and resolve your feelings to the reality of that situation.

You don't get a choice if your uncle, grandmother, aunt, niece or son share their DNA with law enforcement.
I think that for it to make sense, Netflix needs to be removed just as much as Microsoft needs to be added.
That is awesome. It's too bad the Wayback Machine doesn't archive those .wav files from 1997.
if you have a job that you can do in 1 day a week, and your employer is happy, why complain (other than the fact many people derive satisfaction from achieving things)?

It sounds like a great deal to me- in the past, I certainly would have felt personally guilty, but at this point, I understand the value I provide to my employer and how much work is required to achieve it.

A lot of my time is spent paying down technical debt that other eng have introduced, so we can get back to reasonable velocity. In the past, my company didn't really see that as valuable, but I articulated it in terms of potential revenue gained and they immediately let me get back to what I knew was the right thing to work on.
Agree, it's sad and strange that they can't provide that.

Still, hosting an IPv6 service on AWS is fairly simple (at least in my experience).
How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger (2019)
It's Walmart and not a financial institution but this is a great talk about immutability applied to the backend services using F#: https://youtu.be/FskIb9SariI
The Busy Beaver Function
Elasticsearch was (is?) like that with AWS. The managed version lacked a lot of important enterprise features (LDAP integration) and was "optimized" to require several times as many machines for the same storage, since you had a ~1.5TB disk limit per node.

But I went from needing technical support from elastic 4-5 times a year, to zero and found work arounds for the other limitations, like cognito for authorization and storing less data in the cluster. The end result was a six-figure savings on licensing and less weekend work for me at the cost of a five-figure increase in AWS costs.

I'd say it was worth it.
At full pay? My company is giving 12 weeks of childcare leave at 60% pay.

I took 6 weeks of parental leave when my kid was born. It definitely hurt my career and my bonus was 1% instead of the target 8% (we're pay for performance).
We're still convincing a significant portion of the US population that covid-19 is real. Climate change is dramatically harder in two ways:

1. the timescale is decades and centuries, not weeks and months

2. there is a trillion dollar financial interest against fighting climate change

Given what we're seeing with covid-19 and how much harder climate change is to deal with, I'm not optimistic.
That's only looking at O365, the cloud-based version of Office. Not all companies have migrated to the cloud version yet. If you look at all versions of Office, some sources claim Microsoft has 90% of the Office Suite market. I'm not linking to any, because I don't know which, if any, are trustworthy.
For those people to publicly give up their political beliefs. But political beliefs are more important than climate change, so they won't.
Elisium
Here's hoping they release a getting started project now that they've dipped out of general consulting.There must have been a standard-ish template in use.
> Nubank has grown to 600 Clojure developers, running 2.5 million lines of Clojure code in 500 microservices

Wow, that's enormous especially for a concise language like Clojure. Very happy about this announcement as a Clojure user. Sounds like it's going to be viable for at least another decade.
But to add to the complexity, many virtualization systems use QEMU as a support library to achieve stuff.
If ransomware starts encrypting your files then the sync will just upload that encrypted data.
I'm just remembering the sad collapse of RethinkDB...

The task of making a viable commercial database in 2020 is herculean and I can really empathize with the team's need to both keep cashflow and have a sufficiently sized deployment to debug against.

Can also say that everyone I've met at nubank are really passionate about the ecosystem and seem like they'll be excellent partners
Yeah, it's never simple unfortunately. Good luck all the same.
I often use grids when flex would do just to take advantage of the grid gap features. Once the more general gap feature lands in most browsers I’ll probably start using flex more again.
Neither of these things are true, they're at best modified off the shelf cells. They don't make cells at Fremont, at best the pack them into packs. There's no regulatory filings for cell production at Fremont.

The whole argument is that they could use off the shelf materials at scale to attain profitability, since that hasn't happened the goalposts keep being moved by Musk, rumors, and myths.
I'm currently using MacPass on macOS and KeePaasium on iOS, and syncing both through Dropbox. But that means I need my Dropbox credentials, in addition to the KeePass file secrets, if I lose both the Mac and the iPhone (after a fire or a robbery for example). Not sure I'm comfortable with that.

I'm considering switching to 1Password or Bitwarden. But I'm not sure about BitWarden using the same password both for encrypting the vault and accessing Bitwarden server. Chrome for example has an encryption password which is different from your usual Google Account password.
The truth is most people will never notice the Starlink satellites. Because light pollution obscures the night sky so much you can only see the brightest of stars and nearly nothing close to the horizon. How many kids are hearing about this comet in the sky, rush out at sunset, and are then disappointed to only see the haze of city lights?
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Function Overloading in Rust
Unless you have a 15" one, last few I got from my employer had numpad :(
By migrate I think the OP meant take away their IPv4 address. IPv6 adoption may be at 42% but unless it is at 99.999% you will have a lot of issues when not allocating an IPv4 address.
It feels to me like too many conservatives identify with the goal of simply having or making the most money, and damn any other consequences.

How do we demonize greed / powerlust, and make cooperative goals more attractive?
Perhaps. But you see my point, right? There is something morally corrupt in offering "free" content while compiling a spam mailing list.
>or better yet, 2560x1600

I couldn't agree more, I was given 16:10 monitors for my current job and I'm not sure if I'll ever go back to 16:9 if I can avoid it. Next laptop is a 13" MBP for sure too.
Modern JavaScript frameworks have support for this and a result of Flash's experience is that browsers have specific APIs for that ... however: each new generation of developers has to learn :)
Found these:
https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=128709

https://www.51nb.com
Well, and if it's so tied into an in-house inventory system just tossing a bunch of code into a Github repo is about 99% useless. There is almost zero value to just tossing some open source code over the wall.
No! They would comply, post an apology and continue the same way. You need to sue them for data breaches and endangering personal info. Of course legislation has to come up for stuff like this. Best day for that would be yesterday.
Yes, I assumed tracking as it's basically a mandatory requirement when you do telephoto astrophotography, and definitely used in the OP photo. The alternative is to shoot wider angle and align the images during stacking, but either way you have to get your subject's pixels aligned or the result is just blur.
A fundamental mistake that I used to make while practicing meditation
When I got started with meditation a couple of years ago, I used to really find it hard to sit and concentrate. Random thoughts used to come to my mind and some of them were extremely uncomfortable.

So the first thing that came to mind was to try and stop thoughts willfully. Needless to say, that was a recipe for disaster. Fighting with thoughts led to me greater distress and irritation. Meditation was supposed to calm me, and exactly the opposite was happening. It was getting more and more restless, irritated, and angry ever day.

We are so used to taking up things like a task "that needs to be done perfectly". The worst part is that we also start judging ourselves for not being able to meditate properly. I was treating meditation as a hard task that needs to be done efficiently.

Now when I look back, I realize that I was falling into the same old trap due to the past conditioning. It's so fascinating what our minds are capable of.

So I decided to create a video about this, where I talk about the common mistakes beginners make when starting meditation.

I know a lot of you are much more experienced and knowledgable than me. Maybe, you guys can shed more light on this topic and help learn more.
Nubank is one of the biggest startups in Brazil and I am a Nubank customer and I must say they have the best service available. Treating customers as customers.
I'm sure there are other services that are cheaper in some of the areas, but at least the argument about "insane complexity" is moot; if you've used AWS before it's no problem to set something up from scratch. I've done it numerous times and it's a one day job to setup most of the infrastructure required with VPCs, IAM users, policies, databases, scaling groups, storage configs etc.. That part of it is not really an argument to switch at least.
And also, we are not his therapist. I am not concerned with helping his depression.
Creation and solving of jigsaw puzzles and checking adjacency of puzzle pieces
Short term economic damage is a) hard to measure and b) meaningless

Sweden’s betting on long term recovery in light of second/third/etc waves. As much as it detracts from the catastrophic fear and loathing narrative, it has sound economic and epidemiological foundations.
Last time I tried, Google maps wouldn't do any kind of offline routing for walking or cycling, amongst other annoying limitations.
I'm pretty sure that's part of Russia's long-term plan. Thawing out Siberia to get at its natural resources.

This was only possible because Western countries could not agree on a climate plan. Thanks to the distractions created by Russia's bot army: Trump, Brexit...
I’ve used both Matplotlib and gnuplot extensively for visualizing the results of simulations and other tasks. I’ll try to briefly explain why I say that the gnuplot solution is portable while the Matplotlib solution is not.

You don’t get plots from Matplotlib just by using Python, nor even Python + numpy. You also have to learn the conventions of the Matplotlib library, including the horrendous mechanism for making and storing settings. This amounts to learning Matplotlib’s domain specific language, which is at least as onerous as learning gnuplot’s scripting language.

When you move your simulation project from Python to another language (and this is a common sequence, as people often prototype a calculation in Python but then want to make it bigger) you will be able to keep using your Matplotlib routines if your method was to store the simulation output in a file and, in a decoupled step, read and plot the file with a Python/Matplotlib program. This is a trivial form of portability that goes without saying. But you will have to maintain a Python + numpy + Matplotlib + [maybe more] ecosystem, with the Python world’s notoriously shifting set of dependencies. In contrast, gnuplot is a compiled, standalone program. There is no ecosystem to maintain.

If your plotting phase was not decoupled from the calculation, and you have plotting code in your simulation code to plot things on the fly, you have to start over. Obviously you can’t use this plotting code in your Fortran program. In contrast, gnuplot has universal interfaces through sockets, FIFOs, and files. You won’t have to touch the plotting code, just trivially rewrite the lines of code that, for example, open and talk through a socket.
And we'll have to go back using sqlite again
Using Spring with Kotlin or other?
True, although if Flash had stuck around long enough (i.e. if iPhone hadn't signed it's death warrant) I'm sure eventually we could have come up with a solution for a11y.

Most of the flash sites that I really remember consuming were actually very simple documents that relied on flash for presentation, so it would be easy to provide a screen reader friendly version of the content.

Also a lot of flash content was cartoons and games which don't lend themselves to screen readers anyway.
How about we legalize the drugs, because the drug war has helped exactly no one, and release everyone convicted of a non-violent drug offense, AND wipe the conviction from their record and offer them free educational assistance? That would be a start, would probably get rid of half the prison population, and would prevent a whole lot of future arrests, and would defund the gangs.
1. Dozens of localities have controlled the virus via lockdowns, social distancing and masking, they all show similar curves to NY but with lower peaks. NY therefore offers no evidence that herd immunity has been reached.

2. Your Spanish study shows 90% of those with a positive PCR test also had antibodies. The low symptomatic positive rate could be easily explained by other seasonal illnesses with identical symptoms.

3. There is no evidence beyond supposition that I can see for the Wuhan clinical workers having the virus. An alternative explanation is that protective equipment and protocols were effective.

4. The idea of 80% of the population being T-cell immune seems inconsistent with the outcomes on the Diamond Princess.

I think you are cherry-picking data to support a far-fetched theory. The outcomes in confined places where the virus infects everyone, like the Diamond Princess or nursing homes, seem especially hard to square with the idea of widespread t-cell immunity.

Edit: I was misremembering the Diamond Princess, not everyone on the cruise ship got the virus. However, Marion Correctional Institute in Ohio had 80% test positive for covid; the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington had 2/3 test positive. These don't seem consistent with widespread T-cell immunity.
Using a Generic Bit Kit on a Leatherman Crater
It’s only recently that I finished building my EDC kit, and it all started when I scrapped that awful clone knife and decided to get a real one. Again, as always, budget was the main problem here. I learned from being a Batman fan that superpowers don’t come cheap. And the same could be said for our everyday gear. Even the so-called budget lines are still far more expensive than cheap clones. Yet it’s all worth the pennies as you are assured that your gear won’t break in times of need.

And after almost four years, I still have my very first quality EDC gear with me.

It will come as no surprise to anyone that anything with a Leatherman name will last a lifetime. And for four years, my Leatherman Crater knife is still in a great condition. I carried that thing everywhere, from hiking, test laboratories, warehouses and even in self defense class. And among my small blade armory, the Leatherman Crater is the most used knife thanks to its extra feature. True to its multitool roots, the knife has folding screwdrivers, carabiner and bottle opener.

Right now, I decided to leave my knife in my working kit after discovering its hidden feature. Well, not so hidden as some of my friends already know it. We just found out that you can use cheap generic tool bits on the knife.
There are also quite a few offline navigation and hiking/adventure apps. Standalone GPS devices can be rugged but that's about their only advantage. It's silly to complain about smartphones not working off the grid when all you have to do to fix that is tap a button before you leave home.
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OT but seriously thanks for rg, it makes massive log file analysis so much faster for me.
Why? Who is going to grease politicians to write that law?
Seeing kids swimming in a lake in Siberia, they were having a good time at least. Also I'll long have fond memories of the year 2018. Being snowbound for a week (unprecedented here since 1947) and then a long glorious Summer. Bliss. BTW, I don't have a car any more (I've been solely remote working for 5 years), last time I flew was six years ago so yeah I'm doing my bit for the planet but I'm going to enjoy the good it brings and not worry about it.
Microservices vs Monolith at Different Stages of the SDLC
The relationship between climate and weather can be locally counterintuitive. When a lot of ice starts to melt, you get colder weather.

At a smaller scale I got acquainted with this paradox as a child—where I grew up, every spring temperatures drop substantially for a period of time as rivers and lesser ice caps unfreeze.

“Why is it getting colder?” “Because it is getting hotter!”

At larger scales, if say parts of Arctic melt, that would cool a lot of air, and where this airmass ends up there will be cold weather.
Sometimes people with real domain experience on one topic try to have opinions on other things. It doesn't always go well.
Cool, when fargate launched they didn't have a spot possibility (AFAIK) and since we run ECS on Spot instances it would just be a massive increase in cost to switch to FG, but if it now can use underlying spot instances, it might be worth looking at again..
Functional css totally changed my perspective on css. In the same way that react made me enjoy writing JS again Tailwind made me enjoy styling with css again. All that nasty coupling disappears.
It's not manageable, it's below replacement which is a risk of disaster if it's not increased. It seems we need poverty to make new humans and we're running out of poverty.
The privacy rule only applies covered entities. If a covered entity works with cloud provider, they sign a BAA. The cloud provider is not a covered entity.