skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in the process of migrating my stack from Elastic Beanstalk multi-container to Fargate so this looked like an interesting thing I could 'pick up'.

This does potentially unify the container definitions between compose and ContainerDefinitions in the task definitions, but for my self, that's not a super helpful tool.

Much of the complexity of running Fargate is outside of Fargate, wiring everything up so Route 53 => CloudFront + WAFv2 => ALB => TargetGroup => Fargate w/ security groups, subnets underpinning it all.

I can't recommend looking at this seriously as something to run in production. CloudFormation/Terraform is still the best place to sink your time.
Rebuilding messaging: How we bootstrapped our platform
A helmet can just protect the skull So a helmet doesn't have to be padded or help with g-forces to be a helmet. I think helmets were initially just to prevent skull fracture.
I spotted a typo on the linked page: "vistual"

The dot indentation syntax seems very strange. Why not just indent? Is the intention to reduce nested indentation a little?
That guy was right that there are 6-cylinder configurations with perfect mechanical balance (and not for other cylinder numbers), but the V6 isn't one of them so that's not the reason here.
I first really appreciated your thought - indeed, the fact that "Headphones are collecting personal data" alone feels like something unacceptable and shocking compared to just 10 years ago.

But then I had a counter thought: You know how in the early 20th century people said the dawn of recorded music would make 'music dead'? And many other examples of new tech being hailed as dystopian / would cause the end of the world? Sometimes the fear response to newness and unfamiliarity can be a little unhelpful. I think it's our lizard brains responding there.

So I guess what I'm saying is: The fact that a new situation is so different to an old one you were used to, isn't a cogent argument against the new situation.

Some new tech is genuinely awesome, and old things are genuinely terrible, e.g. old forms of industrialisation were terribly pollutive compared to forms used today.

I'm a person who greatly values my privacy, and doesn't follow the crowd - but perhaps one needs to compare on merits alone, not on the fact that things have changed.
Also car advertisements have to show the actual drive away price including all extra fees and taxes. If you advertise anything on TV, you can't get away with putting small print in the commercial that changes what a customer would be getting for the price displayed, e.g. unlimited internet. You can't reasonably expect a customer to pause the tv, get off the couch and get up close to be able to read the small print, only to discover that speeds would be capped after a certain amount of usage.
Ask HN: Learn about Finance and Cryptocurrencies
Lately I have been looking at Cryptocurrencies, wondering if I should invest into some.

Now the thing is, I barely know anything about finance. I am wondering, if there are any good sources explaining the fundamentals of both finance/trading and cryptocurrencies.

I am in no way looking for a way to get rich quick. I am willing to invest time and effort into learning about these things.

Any recommendations are welcome.
That sounds like r/imsosmart ... a simple low pass filter would be sufficient to negate the effects you talk about
Hey, if you need someone to talk to about anything please reach out I'm a good listener.
Jobs in Anti-Aging Research
Many comments here complaint that this article doesn't convince them to use PHP. Well, I think that is not the purpose of this article either. In my opinion, it only lists some feature of PHP to show that actually PHP as a language an ecosystem also has the feature other considered modern languages have.
> Usually injuries follow power laws

That's a pretty outstanding claim, do you have any evidence for this?
I almost didn’t get my MIT degree because I had neglected to take the swimming test, though I’d been swimming since childhood. I finally casually went in to take it and was told “you’re just under the wire, we’re closing it tomorrow for renovations”.

I don’t know if my leg was being pulled or not as I was already working full time and just finished my degree out of principle (and good thing I did!)
This article–and the many like it-assume that there is some universal truth that experiences will make you happier than mere things, when this is not true.

I derive a great deal of happiness from nice things. I suspect I’m not alone, and that people like me are the reason that the whole human environment isn’t just a pile of half-arsed crap designed to facilitate only certain types of approved experiences. We notice the qualities of the things around us every single moment of the day, and they can bring us great joy (or the opposite).

Materialism is clearly not in vogue (and I suspect there is a moral dimension to this), but for some people it will make them far happier than trying to chase experiences. I suspect there are many natural materialists out there struggling to conform to the new societal norm that only the ephemeral can lead to psychological salvation, and that all desire for material riches is a sin.
If that number was rolled back to 4 billion (ethically, somehow) wouldn't that be sufficient to reverse climate change?
Perhaps I was in an extremely corrupt environment (which eventually made me leave), but I would put the "intentional fraud" rate as high as 30% or so. I pointed out one of such instances once and that was the beginning of the end for me in that place.

More: My field was Biology. No one double checks anyone or anything. A measurement comes back and you can just pretty much ignore it, in the end you just write whatever you need for your thesis to hold (I mean not me, but that's pretty much everybody's dirty secret). In the rare case that someone actually wants to check it out (1 in 1,000), you can just say that the "original data was lost". Sometimes the only thing you can trace back is some sort of written journal, in which anybody could write anything and that doesn't make it true/false.

Not long ago, there was a group of scientists that went on to try to replicate some landmark results on cancer research (I'll update with a good reference if I find it) and found out that only a very low number of them matched their observations. Some of those were not even close ... like, waaaay outside a very generous experimental margin of error.
Sure. OTOH, you don’t have to be either an Aspie or a Business A-Player Career Superhero to give a pragmatic nod to the fact that work is where many people, perhaps most, spend their waking hours. It’s only natural and eminently human that for a lot of them, that’s where their friendships and relationships will form and play out.

In my opinion, it’s all the more so if they live in one of the many nondescript suburban places of which Middle America comprises. Having little to come home to or go out to, with our bankrupt concept of civic space and the public realm, it’s all the more likely many of us will unconsciously look to work as the locus of social possibility. It’s not because we want to, it’s just the shape of the situation.
> most people don't agree with you. You can certainly target a relatively niche group of power-searchers, but most Google users probably think that the search engine guessing their intent is part of what makes it "good".

Translate: Feedback from catering to the least common denominator boosts techie self-esteem.

PSA: Similar reasoning is responsible for political ads.
Temperature may play a critical role. Do you use them outside in the cold a lot?
They mean that all the pattern day trading rules apply to options just the same as stocks, i.e. you cannot be an options day trader with less than 25k in the account.
In my opinion, being cloud-agnostic is today’s being database-agnostic.

In more than two decades of professional software development, I have only once encountered a situation where an existing application was migrated to a different RDBMS instead of just being rewritten. Using an ORM framework for the sake of database independence seems hardly justified in that case.

I suppose that things will turn out much the same with cloud agnosticism.

Similar to the RDBMS case, being agnostic of the underlying technology prevents you from using that technology’s more interesting features, to the extent that you’re treating a database as a dumb data store or cloud hosting as a mere space for hosting your files.
US did not report Covid numbers today [pdf]
GPT-3 will not take your programming job
Airpods for years and then throw away seems on point. Those are notorious for being completely unrepairable even among true wireless earbuds.
* Note 2 - 26 July 2020, United States of America: no updates were received today prior to the data cutoff time, thus regional and global totals for new cases and deaths are substantially reduced. The figures will be adjusted when data are available.

Time to start scraping state/county data?
Can boosting interferons, the body’s frontline virus fighters, beat Covid-19?
End badly? The stock market will never see crash in our lifetime again. Since Jerome Powell nationalized the stock market, it's basically Federal Reserve policy to just keep printing money to inflate it. It's all priced in.
Ouch. Things certainly do vary from field to field and I was in one of the better ones (particle physics), so I believe you.

Given how hard an environment it is even in the honest research groups, that must have been awful.
You could just follow Ed Fredkin’s path and skip all the degrees and go straight to professor. I’ve been told he endowed a chair and then named himself the first recipient but I’ve been afraid to ask him (seems rude to ask if that is just a mean story. But great to ask if it was a clever hack).

In any case, however he came to become a professor, he was a good choice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin
I tried to review the things in my life that this article might identify as a misplaced goal. Almost all of them are tied to experiences. Maintaining, harvesting, and admiring my garden is a soure of pleasure in my life. I can say the same thing about my bike, my computer, my phone, my guitar, etc.

The example of sacrificing a short commute for a bigger house in the suburbs isn't so clear if people that you care about also live in the suburbs, or the house allows you experiences that you couldn't otherwise have - building things in a workshop, raising a large family, etc.
I've also aliased cat to bat but it causes me issues when I redirect the output of cat (bat) without \cat to a file as then the file contains color codes that are not expected by other users and tools and cause some tools to not behave correctly,while the issue is invisible to me (unless reading the generated file with \cat)
I have encountered this firewall problem (deploy service locally by docker). In that time, I managed to manually set iptable to solve the problem.

But, after some search, I found that simply setting "network_mode" to "host" could solve my problem. So, I ended up not to deal with iptable.

If someone want to deploy some self-hosted service, I would suggest using traefik v2. Outfit docker quite well especially with letsencrypt.
I think the steam problem was a store vs publisher issue. When No Man's Sky first released, you couldn't refund if you had player for more than 2 hours even though it was a faulty game. After the bad press spread, Steam stepped in and accepted refunds far past the 2 hour 'time played' requirement [0]. If Gamestop sells a faulty or unfinished game by EA (like Anthem), should Gamestop be obligated to refund you or should they ask the publisher if they want to refund the customer since the publisher might promise better future stability?

0: https://bgr.com/2016/08/29/no-mans-sky-refund-steam-pc-ps4-s...
We’re thinking about doing a similar migration. One of my concerns is that the current Beanstalk infra isn’t described in code, and when I’ve experimented a little with Beanstalk in CloudFormation it’s been horrible to write - for something a lot simpler. I obviously want us to move to using CloudFormation or something like it if we migrate, how good or bad would you say using it (or Terraform if that’s what you settled on) for Fargate is?
I'm gonna disagree with you. Very few companies manage to successfully pivot to a line of business that's substantially outside their original area of core competence.

The reality is that different organizations have ingrained cultural DNAs that's usually both optimized for their specific niche and painfully difficult to change. When an industry reaches its inextricable decline, most companies would do better to gracefully return money to shareholders (either in the form of dividends or buybacks).

9 times out of 10, that produces a better outcome for investors than a desperate attempt to reinvent themselves. We tend not to realize this because of survivor bias. But for every Apple, Western Union or AT&T, there's a dozen companies like Polaroid, Sears and DEC littered across history's dustbin.
I think they are referring to the Bose 700 model.
Your numbers are way off. The current best estimate of infection fatality rate is 0.65%, which is significantly lower than 0.9 - 1.1%. Even when hospitals are overloaded the IFR is nowhere near double digits (10%). Nor is the hospitalization rate anywhere near 30%.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
What really bugs me that there is really no opt out. You can ONLY click “I agree”, or don’t use it. So I don’t.
Hm, on the metadata page [0], the size is less than a mebibyte, and there's only about 18 bytes per row. Is this a compressed size, or have rows been redacted?

I'd check myself, but honestly I'm not sure I could resist the temptation to bypass the Terms of Use and redistribute such a small and politically important dataset.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/civilian-compla...
https://web.archive.org/web/20070428004836/http://www.formul...

"For 2006, engines are reduced in size from the previous 3-litre V10s to 2.4-litre V8s. The aim is to reduce costs and improve safety."

You can also tell that it's mostly about performance, given all the other design restrictions (no variable valve timing, no intercoolers, just one spark plug, etc ).
> There needs to be a process to allocate resources that takes into account competency for the job.

Counterpoint: the current system doesn't do this.
It optimises for competency to attract funding. This occasionally overlaps wroth competency to perform good research, or competency to perform research well, or competency to oversee, nurture and guide research in others. But that is far from given.
Number of unarmed civilians killed
The MSY case was nothing short of incredible to watch go down. They were required to put a massive notice on their websites landing page about it too.

From memory, they tried to hide it or make it tiny to view and ACCC came back and went "You really didn't learn huh? Wanna go for round 2?" and they went back to prominently displaying it again.
MongoDB only binds to localhost for at least the last four versions (4+ years). Someone would have had to install a really old version or intentionally configure it to listen to public IP.
No need to downvote. I'm familiar with the keywords. My point was that omitting them sometimes produces better results. I suspect that putting hackernews in the query tricks it into realizing I'm looking for technical topics.
I guess Docker gave up on Swarm?
Not sure about DDG. In google, it's under tools. Click the "all results" dropdown.
Harry Turtledove has some very interesting short stories, such as "Road Not Taken" that concerns alien invaders in our near future.

But overall he's a master of the alt-history genre and worth the attention of reading his books. Guns of the South: General Lee on the cover holding an AK-47. He's a historian and did original primary research for it, but, 'nuff said. Worldwar In the Balance: Aliens attack in 1941, during fierce WWII fighting. Well fleshed out.
> with only about 10% gaining faculty positions themselves after many years of postdoctoral training

There are no (steady) places for everyone, sadly. That's the way things are, where they demand postdocs to be extra productive, promising a permanent position somewhere (or a letter of recommendation, whatever).

Currently, the postdoc 'experience' has multiple names: research associate, research fellow, research engineer like it is a 'career' to pursue, with minimal benefits, salary attached to research projects (so it could stop at the end), etc.
It seems ridiculously patronizing to try to lock people that aren’t already rich out of legitimate investment opportunities while other types of gambling like lotteries remain perfectly legal.
As a Dreamwidth user, I would like to use this occasion to express my thanks for this decision. I've seen too many blogging platforms being swallowed by large companies, shut down, "improved" into oblivion by marketers and made completely unusable in the chase of "growth". You're doing it right. Thank you.
This isn't true in Australia, you are meant to pay tax on barter, even individuals - I could even see the tax office pursuing it for big ticket items like heavy machinery
Simple: increase free Drive space by 500MB, or even 1MB, each time it's updated.
I think you miss the elephant in the room, which is my email address. That's not something that easy to fake, and I'm pretty darn sure they have it in their database.

If they have other details about me, like my phone number or address, they can offer to give me a call, or send a letter to confirm my identity (btw, another company I filed a request with did just that). This won't expose any further details. The fact is, they didn't suggest any reasonable alternative.

> Assuming this was someone unknown and not Acxiom, this is a valid point and unfortunately I don't think there's a great answer. In this case, it is Acxiom and you could've quite easily discovered that they're a major corporation and not a random data harvesting shop.

The fact that they're big is irrelevant. They already shared my data without my explicit consent. They're a company I never ever signed-up for, interacted with in any way, yet they hold data on me. They share it and make profit out of it. I'm definitely not keen on sharing any additional info with a company that aggregates my data as their core business.

I hope you see the huge imbalance here. To get my data I need to jump through hoops and expose even more data about myself (to a data broker which makes money off of it). To sell, aggregate, share and abuse my data without my consent and very likely in violation of GDPR requires no validation that indeed the data belongs to me, nor even an attempt to contact me and ask for consent.
having moved thru a number of diff apartments and diff cities i've found the balance for me, personally. the example in the article is very true, shortening commute and location of a home is probably #1 on my list of things that can increase your quality of life.

not sure if this falls under appearances, but i've also found that spending a more on the "quality" of your home or items (not size) also makes a noticeable diff. having amenities that are important to you, say... a gym, doorman or package delivery stuff, "new" appliances did a lot more for me than i expected. only when i moved to a cheaper place at the expense of those things did those annoyances crop up.

i think in general this has led me over the years to buy less stuff, but spend more on quality or aesthetics or what not, even how it makes you feel. most likely placebo, but you tend to take better care and pride of things you feel you've "invested" more in. i don't throw around my clothes or shoes. i dealt with a no frills corded hoover i had since college and hated vacuuming, then decided to get a cordless dyson cordless and now it's a "joy" to clean on the weekends or randomly lol. dumb example, but you get the point.
Drip pricing is very similar and also illegal: the dark pattern of letting someone get all the way through a checkout process and then springing an extra expected (by the merchant, not the consumer) fee or charge on them in the hope that the sunk cost fallacy wins the day.

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/online-shopping/drip-prici...
A highly educated worker will, only sometimes, leave a poor nation and instead work in a rich nation. India has more university graduates than most countries have people. Even if they all wanted to emigrate to a wealthy country, they wouldn't let them all in.
It's too big a problem to go into detail, but it's more of a social/cultural problem and the wrong incentives.

Poorer families and cultures are encouraged to have kids, because kids can bring in more money, take care of other kids, feed their parents. People are often told, "Who's going to take care of you when you get old?" Having kids as an investment/retirement plan is bad.

Then there are those who really want kids and would love to take care of them. 2-child policies are bad for them and the punishment can be too harsh. It's better for those people to have 4 kids, while other individuals have 0.

Policies should be more towards the quality of kids and not quantity. One of the biggest expenses is college, medical (especially special children), and housing. Housing is hard to fix, but we could probably subsidize college and special education more.
> That's clearly not true. Amongst others, credit companies in Australia do this frequently and haven't had issues with the ACCC over it.

They don't list _arbitrary_ third parties. For example, Mastercard tells everyone "MasterCard requires members to register all Third Party Processors (TPPs) and Data Storage Entities (DSEs) with the MasterCard Registration Program system.", and then all of those are available for the public, usually via a link, within their policy.

> What specifically? I'm Australian and I'm not aware of any law that specifies anything like that at all.

Enough information that informed consent can be considered. It isn't specified, because it were, then companies would work around it. Australia makes use of a Common Law system, that which is "reasonable", rather than that which can be litigated.
That is the opt-out. They provide services in exchange for you clicking 'i agree'; if they can't generate value from your use of a service, they don't want to be obligated to lose money by providing you some service for free.

The only problem is how consumers don't read the privacy policy and/or don't understand how valuable their data is to these companies.
No thanks. That sounds miserable. I'd rather take my chances with the virus.
Some of those companies are even more eyewateringly expensive than the story in the article.

I worked on a project a few years back where the client were paying $10k/month as a "managed service" fee, on top of about $4k/month worth of platform at full on-demand prices. I showed the client how they could have it all running on reserved instances for Prod and spot instances for dev/staging for under $2k/month - but no, somebody had signed up for $14k+ per month just to have someone to blame/shout at 24x7 if something went wrong. (And that company was ~85% likely to call me and blame it on the app before they even bothered looking to see if the platform was working...)
This isn't the case with thorium salt reactors or, if we had enough funding to finally crack it, fusion.
yeah, my wife and I are empty nesters (kids grew up and moved to different states for work). After 6 weeks of sharing our 1600 sq ft house to WFH, and we put it up for sale to get a bigger house. Don't get me wrong. Two years prior, when our kids moved out, we downsized from 3000 sq ft. We were FINE in 1600; before we were WFH. The house we're moving into now is about 2300 sq ft, and we are hoping: just about right.

I don't know how people with small kids actually cope. I have a co worker who is at his wit's end with his 2 year old, who is requiring constant attention while we're on slack meetings.