skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just had someone claiming to work for amazon who said it was "routine" to "trawl" through CUSTOMER production data.

How are they trawling through all our buckets and databases without codepaths for access?

Again, they aren't talking about amazon data (ie, billing, support inquiries etc). They are talking about customer production data.
This isn't flamebait. This is a statement of my opinion, and a pushing back against wrongdoing. I intend to keep pushing back against wrongdoing, or else it'll keep happening.
Train your own GPT-3 on some other users' writings, and post the output from that instead of writing it yourself.

You could have your public persona that you write yourself in your own unique style, but use GPT-3 for things you don't want attributed to you.
Indeed, they temporarily eliminate the ego and its bias from the equation of the mind, allowing the rest of the mind an unfiltered view and clear understanding based on whatever intellectual capabilities one inherently has; ego death, ego dissolution.
" A headline like this will leave many with the impression that contact tracing apps don’t work, not that they just haven’t gotten much buy-in."

That would be an entirely accurate impression, contact tracing apps have a proven track record of not working so far. That one contributing factor is the lack of buy-in in the population does not detract from that point.
> I wonder if we will look back and see that we have witnessed the creation of the nuclear weapons of information warfare.

I wouldn't be surprised. What's the point of reading anything on the internet, or arguing with someone on a forum? Gmail-style canned replies were the beginning, now the only way I can be sure that I'm talking to a real human will be by meeting him or her face-to-face (and we all know how easy that is right now.)
This is pretty bad. Now, n=1, so we can't draw any serious conclusions from this, but for him/her to die even with existing antibodies indicates that the development of a vaccine is not going to be easy and lessens the effect heard immunity.

Let's hope the patient simply had bad luck.
Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Supermicro all have firmware patches for their current line of servers that replace the java kvm with html5 versions. I assume most other manufacturers are following suit. It would be exceptionally rare to buy a brand new server today with a java based remote console.
I think the problem is rather that the public was looking for ideally easy and hopefully definitive answers and were confused when they saw scientific progress unfold in real time instead, with all uncertainties, theories and what it entails.

I definitely had a good share of discussions revolving around "scientists are saying different things every week" in the last few months. My closer connections seem to understand now.
Conscience and Compassion: Karma Lekshe Tsomo – GP Interview #3
> May I translate: They saw improvements in things they could easily measure. They hope this translate into improved cognitive ability. But it actually didn't. But they still hope it'll do that later.

I find your translation misleading. They did see improved cognitive ability, just not superior to the conventional fitness program at the time of measuring. Increased BDNF, which stands for brain-derived neurotrophic factor, is actually pretty significant so they are not pulling potential future development from thin air.

Mind you the sample population is the elderly, for which the prospect of neural growth/protection is pretty important, and this might have further applications to other populations such as recovering alcoholics, methamphetamine users, and even depression/anxiety sufferers where hippocampal volume decrease is indicated.
Hey, I like this idea! Actually, I only have a single node running the control plane. And, to answer the original question, it felt like overkill to dedicate an entire NUC to running just the control plane. So, I decided to run two k8s nodes on each NUC. I guess there's potentially a bit of a performance hit due to the extra overhead of running multiple kubelets, but it hopefully won't matter too much in practice.
Did they break any laws?
> Every rep that’s done mindfully affords a unique learning opportunity.

Could you suggest a source on this? One that presents this sort of approach to resistance training, ideally for relative newcomers?
Depends on if you mean 10-15% real purchasing power or nominal. Most people think of cash as safe as possible but heavy inflation could wipe out 50% real purchasing power in a few years. Nominal? Sure, high yield savings account is safest, 1% currently, and won’t lose any nominal. You could even do a bond or muni bond fund, BND or VTEB, to gain extra after-tax yield ~2% without losing more than 10-15%. But you really want to not lose more than 10-15% real, in which you’d need to think of the money as a portfolio including inflation hedges like TIPS (inflation protected bonds), Stocks, and Gold, albeit in small 5-10% allocations because of their greater risk.
Sun Ra is part of the pride of Alabama. A lot of the esoteric and mystical aspects of his music come from the time he spent growing up and studying at the local masonic library in Birmingam. At the time, masonic libraries were one of the only places where black folks had full access to literature.

In fact, some of the most famous jazz musicians were masons. I reject the author's notion that he was a god. The writer seems devoutly obsessed, almost worshipful to his cult of personality.

However, I can agree that he was undoubtedly a legendary musician with an informed talent for creating myth and interpreting mystical concepts into his music. His music is challenging and experimentally mind-expanding. He lies buried next to Bear Bryant in a cemetery that holds a dear friend of mine, so the name always catches the eye.
Did this pervasive level of criticism, animosity, and negativity exist a hundred years ago during the last serious pandemic? Every week there's some new crisis.

It feels like the entire media is always trying to highlight the next systemic failure. "This is wrong." "This failed." "We don't have enough ventilators." "New York cases are surging." "California cases are surging." "We don't have enough PPE." "We don't have hand sanitizer." "We don't have masks." "We don't have enough tests."

Are things actually this consistently bad, or does the media magnify the negative and ignore the positive developments (of which there are plenty)?

It's like the difference between acute inflammation (which is good for the body when it's fighting an infection) and chronic inflammation (which causes a lot of problems).
You could try using steps(new cards part) for setting up your own intervals. I don't know how much it is fit for your purposes though. What do you not like about Anki's current scheduling, s9w?
> I believe Dart is a more exciting language than Go.

Almost every language is, that's not difficult.
Yes

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/cambridge-analyticas-paren...
It felt like overkill to dedicate an entire NUC to running the K8s control plane. So, I split each NUC in half. Only one node is running the control plane (and, I have prevented any other workloads from running on the control node as a best practice). The other 5 nodes are available for running whatever workloads. There's probably a bit of a performance hit from running two separate OS's and kubelets on each NUC, but I'm hoping it won't matter too much in practice.
You can unsubscribe. This is not sleazy, it’s a standard business practice that most companies engage in.
The title makes it sound like a significant fraction of them are taking this long, which is simply not true. The article takes a few anecdotes and makes it sound like it's like that in every case. Then the article predictably shits on Trump, whose (verifiably true) statements that the US leads the world in testing throughput at the moment it is unable to refute with facts, so it uses the aforementioned anecdotes to make it seem like this doesn't matter, tacking on a few more anecdotes and opinions towards the end.

This is why the press is not trustworthy.
Instead of wget-ing localhost, maybe it's better to use Frozen-Flask[1] instead. I use it to implement my own static site generator for my personal website and it's working great.

[1] https://pythonhosted.org/Frozen-Flask/
I don’t know why you’re in denial about the actual situation, in both directions, but have fun with that fantasy.
You know, if you're going to make a comment on links, you should really read the damn things. Do you think faking achievement in your (apparently useless) crotch fruit offspring is acceptable behavior? Do you think forcing your underlings to use hand signals to communicate with you in case you're on the phone with the Dalai Lama is reasonable behavior for a member of the human race? Did you read about how he treats the help?

"Those who didn’t measure up suffered the consequences. Meriwether, who joined Shaw staff as a 22-year-old Yale graduate, was fired after forgetting to put snacks — bottled water and Asian pears sliced a quarter of an inch thick — into the car that picked the children up from school, according to two people familiar with the incident."

Shaw is human refuse. No amount of accumulated money or bribery will ever change that.
I agree that equal representation isn't in the best interests of the more populous states. The problem is that there's a fundamental tension here. Regardless of differences in population size, it's not reasonable for the legal system in a less populous state (say Idaho) to be dominated by the interests of those in a more populous one (say California). Neither is the reverse acceptable (for Idaho's interests to dominate California's). Short of somehow enforcing an equal population distribution across all the states a simple solution just doesn't exist. To that end, the original intent behind the house and senate is an elegant compromise.

As a matter of principle government should be as local as possible so as to minimize such concerns. Even without bringing population size into it, it doesn't seem reasonable to be subject to the whims of others across such vast distances. Too much is done at the federal level; states such as California, Texas, and Alaska are already far too large from a governance perspective.

> The smaller States, considering how peculiarly their safety and welfare depend on union, ought readily to renounce a pretension which, if not relinquished, would prove fatal to its duration.

This is the one line of argument that I do buy, but I think it will always be a fairly subjective balancing act at the federal level.

Honestly I strongly suspect that eliminating the interstate commerce clause and outright banning simple plurality voting schemes in political contexts at all levels would resolve most of the currently perceived political dysfunctions.
The site already existed, but they wanted to serve it statically to save on complexity and money.

If you dig into the repo you'll see that it's maintained using a YAML file, which is a smart way to deal with small sites that still contain structured content.

I do the same thing for my https://github.com/simonw/museums site.
Good luck making it work in a hyper individualistic society. Person A who has been told they're required to do contact tracing will get annoyed that their neighbour B doesn't have to do it but is still getting money. Add to that mix the antivaxxers, conspiracy theorists, people that dislike government, etc.
newtype dart proposal: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/working/st...
At the time the belief was that COVID spread largely through touching infected surfaces. That combined with the fact that there was a massive shortage of masks meant that they warned against using masks. Also, the role of asymptomatic carriers wasn’t all that clear.

And it was probably the right call based on the information we had then (the real question is what the US government was doing for the many months notice it had and why it did not use its powers to deploy companies to manufacture masks or as in the case of GM agree to pay the at cost rates they were offering the US government for manufacturing PPE and ventilators).

Once it became clear that asymptomatic carriers and spreaders existed, and that the majority of spread was through water droplets emitted during actions like speaking and singing (unlike most other viruses where it’s usually sneezing and coughing), the advice was changed rapidly since regular cloth masks could be effective for this purpose.

This wasn’t a failure of expertise but was the natural consequence of facing a novel threat that was moving faster than we were learning about it.
Haha. I'm a little bit lacking in my "k8s ops" skills and hope to learn by practicing! Currently there isn't any serious "production" workload running on the k8s cluster. Perhaps if I become more comfortable with managing the k8s cluster, I will migrate my other services onto k8s. We'll see!
Compilers Do Static Analysis, They Just Don't Tell You
This is a really big spectrum, and I wonder what the true cost is. Due to my position, I have a lot of firsthand knowledge from people who have either been unknowingly or knowingly 'scammed'. That is, some guys knew the women just wanted money in the end, but didn't mind because they loved having someone to talk to. Many were married. Some even 'married' women and brought them to the USA, under a relationship more akin to a caretaker than a wife. I guess both sides benefit in some way, but in reality, it's still a scam, if not to anyone but the US Government. And some truly just want money and disappear, which is what the article references. This happened to my aunt, and she wrote off her family for trying to stop her. Really sad.

I consider all three scams of some sort, and the real money involved would balloon.
Roche validated the test using stored blood samples from before the pandemic started, when the base rate was 0.
What would be even better is some way to use swagger/graphql to jump from frontend api calls to backend code
It also happens to be the case that Houston is the major processing center for all of the major lab groups for the south/southwest. They literally pointed at the single most congested part of the network, during a period of global supply shortages, and went "well, that's not working well."

Well, yeah, it's not fucking working well. We're cranking out tests and running analyses at an unprecedented level. And we're doing a decent job of ramping up, actually, but not perfectly evenly across the board.

My healthcare center is not particularly large or particularly well-connected. We've been getting our tests back in 3 days. At one point our partner started getting too heavily inundated, things were lagging to 5 days, so we switched to another that didn't require shipping to Houston for processing. We're back to 3 days.

But we're lucky - we're small enough that we don't have to partner with a Houston-based center. Others aren't.
I think the strategy is to avoid someone who doesn’t have a job locally that’s verifiable and not give them money.
Since this is an open source project, could you remove that part of the code?
Yes, I think the same argument applies to everything. That's not to say all hazards are equal or all substances need identical regulations.
Yeah, that's some nice marketing.

Tangentially: I've heard that Nunzio Tartaglia -- despite the astrophysics background -- was basically a banker installed by MS to keep a leash on the quants at APT. He took over, pissed off Bamberger, and that set off the stat arb diaspora.
Widespread logging threatens the Congo Basin’s critical rainforest
Imagine you were making a visual novel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_novel

you could write one is not voiced, voiced with some exclamations ("Are you sure that's safe?" gets replaced with "Yikes!") voiced in some places and not voiced in others, or fully voiced.

In 2020 you need to hire and direct a voice actor because TTS is nowhere near good enough. If there was a good enough TTS you wouldn't need to hire the voice actor although you'd still need to direct the TTS.

Two of my favorite speakers are Lester Holt and Tanaka Rie and I'd like to see a computer voice that approaches that kind of person.
Whilst I understand the motivation behind this guideline, it seems to be applied with little regards for it's usefulness.

Post titles need more context than the original article title because posting to HN strips out most of that original context.
Typo: should be `[0; x * 2]`
yeah. I kinda agree with the sentiment, but being rude doesn't help the cause
Pretty uninteresting list. At least danger should be estimated by encounter: huge numbers of humans are killed by other humans, does that mean I should be more afraid when I encounter a human or, say, a polar bear?

Also confusing direct killings with transmission of diseases makes little sense.
How interesting. I didn’t think differential clocks where a thing back then.

Or maybe they’re not differential and they’re just routed together because it’s convenient. Since they store with coupled inverters I can see why having both phases could be useful in some flip flop implementations.
Tuple in a Tweet
This sounds really nice, congratulations. I'm hoping to do something similar in a few more years.
UIUC iMBA has all classes on Coursera. I think Coursera+ is <$400/year so you can take them all without paying individual subscriptions.
Yeah, I guess it's somewhat "half-and-half" currently. The k8s cluster is definitely an experimental zone. The spare cycles on the main ESXi host are also available for testing out ideas, etc. However, I guess a benefit of having regular backups and an easy way to re-provision the services with ansible means that the risk (and cost) of breaking something is fairly low.
Fast getdelim() replacement: https://github.com/ThePythonicCow/rawscan

ebuild: https://github.com/jakeogh/jakeogh/blob/master/dev-libs/raws...
France had literally lost control over it’s government about 6 times since 1815.

So of course it’s capable of changing how it’s governed - it was never a choice.
I'm not sure if it's just because of a change in my own mental filter or due to an actual increase in this type of content, but it feels like I've started noticing more posts and general information about homelabs showing up in my various feeds recently. If that's the case (for either an actual increase or a change in my mental filter), I wonder if it's related to the ongoing pandemic.

Maybe since people are suddenly spending more time at home, there are certain resources that they'd normally have access to at their work that they don't have access to anymore and need/want to create themselves, or are suddenly more reliant on their own infrastructure, or may just spending more time at home leads to interacting with their home set-up more often which leads to more tinkering with it. I know I've put much more effort into working on my home dev set-up this year than I did last year.
Kyoto station is one of my favorite places on earth. I highly recommend visiting and walking around if you like architecture.

As opposed to some of these, it is very accessible. Just take a train to Kyoto.
So in short they want Apple to do it the way of American customs and laws everywhere, including in China no matter Chinese customs and laws. Somehow I doubt this goes both ways and that they will agree that Russian and Chinese companies should follow Chinese laws and customs in th US. If they don't they are hypocrites. This smells of someone thinking the US is a shining beacon of light that others should follow while in fact most of Europe would be a better lead. So how about forcing GDPR on Apple inside the US for its American customers? Or how about if selling Lego to children in the US has to follow Danish laws?
That’s crazy. It seems like it would make the software so much harder but I guess it would get the density up. I wonder how they closed timing.
Absolutely, this looks like the first case report of its kind so we can't draw any conclusions, but hopefully this incident draws a lot of news coverage so that the global medical community is on high alert for this disturbing possibility.
Roman Glass
I recently started working as a software engineer and don't have a degree.

Build a strong portfolio of projects.

Supplement missing courses with MIT, stanford, etc from Youtube.

Don't take short cuts. Learn data structures and algorithms.

Be upfront about not having a degree. Call yourself "self-taught" it will cause you not to be so anxious. Well, that helped me be less anxious.
It’s a really nice and useful project. It makes it easy to deal with large files (models) and use familiar GitHub workflows for managing code and data together. Their documentation is also pretty good.
> does the media magnify the negative and ignore the positive developments (of which there are plenty)?

The media crafts its daily narrative with an eye on objectivity and plays right down the middle. Just the facts, always. To suggest otherwise is quite dangerous.
Well, for one thing you have only one ABI to consider if you go with the LTS instead of hundreds we have today.

Treble is Google's attempt to fix a problem they - at least mostly - created themselves thanks to their NIH attitude.

Not sure I would attribute use of device trees to Google. I think the ARM-fication of the kernel happened a few years before Android.
I suppose ever since newspapers were invented they've done whatever they can to attract readership

fact is the news needs their audience to feel that news is essential to their daily life, and if it was just good news I could make the choice to watch something a little more interesting, but by choosing stories that feel urgent and dramatic, they create the urgency to stay tuned to 'stay informed'

No one needs to stay informed of the good news, although I do miss when the late night shows would make fun of light hearted news that was a once daily reminder that there's a lot going on in the world that's not american politics
“The Far Side” Returns to a Weird World
No, spin up a worker that listens on a queue and thumbnails an image on request so in an event the thumbnailer crashes on a corrupted image the entire app does not die.

So the same for all other complicated tasks.

It is not that handling run time errors has demonstrated to be a trivial tasks for a main app.
Too many to count...I joined a FB group called Quarantine Culinary where people share amazing dishes they've cooked at home, often with limited supplies or ingredients. I bought a new griddle and I have been experimenting a lot on that. I am particularly proud of the Mongolian BBQ I have made on it.
Rate limiting by data UUID might actually be pretty effective. I should add that to patchbay.pub.
Do you have experience? If a person has the right kind of/enough experience I wouldn't care about their degree or lack thereof.

In the case of malware analysis I would expect somebody to analyze malware and write a report, I am sure you have seen these. These aren't too different from the kind of reports you would write in school; if you blogged about how you took apart a bad SD card you bought, that would demonstrate you have the research and communication skills that somebody might have learned in school.

Malware analysis also requires a holistic understanding about computers that a CS education is supposed to give you. You can get that understanding through reading and tinkering if you have aptitude for it, enjoy it, work hard at it and manifest that.
You are guaranteed a price that is equal or better than what you'd get on the exchange. Why would you want to bypass that?
No, a hundred years ago people accepted that death from infectious disease is common and got on with their lives. Certainly they had no months-long lockdowns at the time.