skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must at a place that is sane enough.

A non sane place would have 20 obscure mandatory fields per ticket, require the ticket to go through 10 different states that makes no sense, and last but not least, every click would take a full minute to load the page.
Delusional. For that, ~2700 more people would need to die in Finland. 14 people have died in Finland since June 1st and they're typically reporting 0 now. In Sweden, 40 people died ON June 1st.

Both countries have it under control now. But it's clear Finland's shutdown saved lives.
I wouldn't extrapolate what tech companies are doing across the entire economy. A slowing or stopping of growth in cities? Sure. Massive deflation? Tech workers make up a single digit percent of the population.
>A better solution would be for the DOJ to force Apple to allow other app stores and open installs.

Force them to make a different product that the one users buy on their own volition, despite a more open alternative with double the adoption, and which took Apple from a bankrupt company in 1997 to the largest company on Earth in 2020?

Did it ever occured to anyone that some of the success iOS has is precisely because it does restrict things a certain way (which enable other things, from security to quicker platform tech changes)?

And that as users we like it because of those things, not despite them?
i don't know what is the actual truth and we probably won't know which way was the "correct" decision until well after this pandemic is over (assuming it ends). i think the biggest issue with the US response is the bad messaging and iffy attempts at lockdown and reopening.

taiwan didn't go into lockdown but the country respects social distancing and masks and is very adamant about quarantining, tracing and cleaning.

do you think the average american citizen will adhere to any of that? forced quarantine for 14 days if you are infected or fly-in while a phone app afterward traces your movements to make sure future outbreaks can be traced? will people wear masks? will people maintain the social good over the individual? (answer for the US is apparently not)

i don't know culturally how sweden viewed these things but from what i can tell most people at least tried to maintain some form of social distancing. some swede can chime in here and correct me on that.

but what they've said about the nordic countries though, is that sweden's economy has shrank the same size as denmark's[0], while denmark which went into lockdown, suffered 8x fewer deaths, 5x fewer by percentage of population. that is the effect no lockdown has had on sweden.

also as a discussion to that both sweden and denmark's new cases are slowly creeping up, but denmark's is at about a quarter (~100/day) compared to sweden (~400/day).

[0]: 4.5 for sweden, 4.1 for denmark. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-c...
> We do NOT like relational databases. We think they are archaic and make development slow. Relational databases are full of remnants of the past that are no longer relevant

NoSQL has its place but on a generalistic framework this dismissal of RDBMs is pretty bad.

The choice of mixing deployment (k8s) with code framework is interesting.
Or, a second stage of a two stage earth-to LEO launcher. There's no reason to make the earth-to-orbit part single stage, just because reuse in space of that upper stage would be SSTO.
Is there any evidence to support this?
true that.

I guess my counter would be:

* It was solved at a greater expense of human life, its easy to say "those people would have died" but that is harder to prove ethically. Could the excess deaths have lived on _longer than a flu season_?

* Is there a good argument that it is in fact over in Sweden?

* Are there other variables that might have made Covid-19 not so bad in Sweden?

If I was to take more direct counters to the article:

> I am willing to bet that the countries that have shut down completely will see rates spike when they open up. If that is the case, then there won’t have been any point in shutting down in the first place, because all those countries are going to end up with the same number of dead at the end of the day anyway.

Maybe, but that could also be a case of thinking that the death rate is a fairly simple linear model, which would fly in the face of the various epidemiological models that we use (not just for covid but since the 1920s)

> No, because influenza has been around for centuries while covid is completely new. In an average influenza year most people already have some level of immunity because they’ve been infected with a similar strain previously, or because they’re vaccinated.

Is Covid-19 completely new? By this reasoning it would as stated be more infectious due to a lack of known immunity. With this line of reasoning why wouldn't a _different_ cornovirus also give a more uniform immunity? Why would a novel Cornovirus strain have a greater impact over a novel Influenza strain?

I could go one but I feel like I am sniping.

Personally I dont think the world wide response has been great, I do think we have overreacted but I also would argue that its not just another influenza and should be ignored as such.
> Investigators describe how Toshiba's corporate leadership handed down strict profit targets, known as Challenges, to business unit presidents, often with the implication that failure would not be accepted. In some cases, quarterly Challenges were handed down near the end of the quarter when there was no time left to materially affect unit performance. It soon became clear within individual business units that the only way to achieve these Challenges was to do so through the use of irregular accounting techniques.

So impossible targets set late. You basically tell them "be fired or cheat". Then the corporate culture, or maybe Japanese work culture, means no communication that the impossible is being asked. So, save your skin.

Stupid maneuvers all around.
Write Cypress Specs in PHP
There are a lot of experienced developers in the U.S. you can hire for 100k too, outside the large metropolitan areas.
H-1B (Part-1): Exploratory Data Analysis
H-1B (Part-2): Cost of Living, Housing Affordability and Inflation
It seems implausible that most entertainment will be closed for years to come.
Why wouldn't they bring up the war crimes and unrestrained murder of civilians instead? People seem to have a very romanticised view of the allies. We were the victors so we gloss over the horrors committed by our own hands.

Civilian causalities in Germany and Japan was about 12 million people. 6 million died in the Holocaust.
> “ How much are you getting paid? How much equity do you have? All that shit becomes very important because it is often all you have.“

Yeah, “all that shit” like the way you can buy food or send your kid to college...
Attacking a fellow HN user like this is not ok. People need to be free to show up to discuss their work here without getting ripped a new asshole. Please don't post like this, regardless of how you feel about someone's employer.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, adversarial interoperability is a fantastic antitrust tool that isn't discussed or used enough these days: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...
> We're probably looking at end of 2021 for enough vaccinations to happen for things to go back to "normal".

In my eyes, that is the best case scenario.
Sweden has adopted virtually every recommendations without it being mandated. This is an enormous difference from some Florida Man arguing why lockdowns are unnecessary. As much as people focus on face masks, in Sweden the sparsity of people given their response makes it much less of a necessity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/i58jjj/helgtr%C3%A5...

There you go -- read about Swedes talking about their COVID-19 experience. It is a universe removed from normal, or what Florida-man-using-Sweden-as-their-no-biggie-example claims.

Here you go - https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vast/nastan-alla-fick-coro...

Someone had an ill considered party. Despite the amazing herd immunity nonsense this guy is arguing (again, contrary to the entire expert community), most of the partiers got COVID. Ooops!
Listing 3 things you are grateful for each day will improve your whole life and all your relationships. As something that is likely to do good and isn't much of a sacrifice, it's the same thing, and you didn't answer the question.

> Because wearing masks shouldn't be a political issue if you can't develop a reasonable counterargument.

You are the one making it about the masks and only the masks, even the protests aren't, and I for one said IMO the pushiness is the problem, not what is being pushed.
China already did this. These are just tariffs for the digital age
You can get treason charges for spying on the US.
I don't know why but to me the background is #000 black with #fff text by default...

It's such an intense "dark mode" that I couldn't read the first full article of interest I found because the contrast was killing me, and then coming back to regular HN left me nearly blinded for a few secs
Yeah, I was in that mode for a while.
Perhaps they meant in a single year of any war? Not to mention, we have 1/3 of this year left to go.
Idle suspicion is the elimination of childhood disease via vaccination may have played a role. For instance my generation born in the early 1960's the was first to be vaccinated against measles. And measles can cause neurological problems decades after people recover. There is also a trend to suspect that Alzheimer's is caused by inflammation.

But idle suspicion.
A lot of this is manufactured bullshit; it's not losing shit (or shouldn't be). It's being bankrupted by absolutely fucking insane benefits requirements imposed on it in 2006.

From: https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis...

> In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation.

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS INTO THE FUTURE. This shit would be laughed out the door at any corporation... or any entity that isn't literally trying to be destroyed for no reason.

Look at the actual balance sheet; most of the payments revolve around having to pay for retirement benefits, see labeled "ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS" for yourself: https://about.usps.com/what/financials/financial-conditions-.... The difference is is astonishing close to their loses.. I wonder why... Oh yeah, from the first link I posted:

> If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements, the Post Office would have reported operating profits in each of the last six years.

This bullshit privatization push needs to end. Postal workers seem unhappy? No shit, they work somewhere that's being bankrupted for no reason. They're having to make budget cuts because of a manufactured problem. The public makes zero effort to be informed and then listens to shit like this...

Yeah, be stoked they don't hot shit on you porch everyday that's what we probably deserve leaving 'em high and dry like this.

If you like people, and don't think manufacture crisis are cool, call your senators and push this thing through: https://defazio.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/defazi...

It'd _literally_ fix the post office's solvency problem. Oh, also firing the asshole running it would be another stellar move.
What's the sample size of "BLM people" that you surveyed to come to this conclusion?
The novelty will be if it's profitable / something people want.
Because much of the US doesn't have capitalism for ISPs. It's largely monopolies and oligopolies all around. And not the nonprofit, regulated utility type.
They might be using App Bundles dynamic delivery [1] on Android, in which case this isn't really an issue. Helps keep the initial download size small, while allowing larger features to be delivered on-demand.

https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle/dynamic-deliv...
This works: https://bitbucket.org/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-c...
Or... Walk around in nature :-)

I'm lucky enough to live in a relatively green, sunny area.
I share your concerns about authoritarians using this occasion to bend things in a bad direction but are you asserting that the virus is not a real thing or that some group with authoritarian aims is behind its release? Because if the virus is a real thing then surely protesting by gathering into crowds and falling victim doesn’t harm the bad guys right? Help me understand if you don’t mind, serious questions it’s hard to word things so they don’t sound incendiary to one side or the other (or both) since the issue is so politically charged.
These types of warnings are pretty routine from the state department aren’t they?

The warning level for NZ (“exercise caution”) is lower than most of Europe where the guidance is (“reconsider travel”)

It seems reasonable for the US to warn it’s citizens of all countries where a highly transmissive virus exists.
Hm. Another company in this space, like Neeva. Are people seeing opportunities going up against Google?
The Cocoa Text (Input) System maps shortcuts on Cocoa method selectors via a plist, so it makes sense that it originated at NeXT.

https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html
Thanks! Always good to remember the CTAs :) We'll take a fresh look at the page with that in mind.
Actually your example is not that oversubscribed.
I've seen a couple of big production webservers which are running a threadpool of 1000 threads on < 100 cores. And they perform by far not as bad as all the new hype around async IO tells us.

One key here is however that those threads typically all run very independent workloads. If there would be a massive amount of synchronization between those threads or lots of context-switching due to message passing between them it would likely be worse.
English is a language with pretty reduced inflection mechanisms and overloaded word meanings. Translated into Russian you would be forced to use different builds for different meanings: “St. trinian’s is a pretty (in female gender, nominative case) school for little (in female gender, genitive case) girls” or “St. Trinian’s is a school for pretty little (both female gender, genitive case) girls”.
Honestly, even if I knew of a bunch of potential markets I'm not sure I would won't you to know. Your motivation isn't that you care about a particular market or problem. It seems your just looking for the most efficient way to 10x your profit. Dispite knowing much about the people/ product/ market you may serve.

I've lost count of the things that I have used in the past that I have stopped using because the product sucks now and is of lower quality or they have blessed me with a subscription model that only cost $5 or $10 a month. Instead of sucking it up and paying for something once I have to die by a thousand cuts and pay for something the rest of my life if I want to use it. Sure it's great for the profits of that company but not for me.

So maybe that's the underserved market. A product that respects privacy and leaves you the heck alone.
However if you get your subscription through the app they will demand 30%.
Despite my other comment (sibling to this one), I do regret mentioning Republicans and Trump. It wasn't necessary to make my point and was in poor taste and poor form.
All right, but then comes the question: Replace it with what?
> I don't participate in social distancing because my government says to, and I certainly don't stop because my government says to either.

In an ideal world, the government would listen to the experts, they would reach some reality-based and science-based consensus, and then the people would follow those conclusions because it's the right thing to do.

But that's an ideal world.
What do you mean by linguistic progress? AFAIK there isn’t any evidence that human language was much different during the cave painting era than it is now.
More info on how to access the data:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/08/0...

A link to the GitHub repository:
http://github.com/washingtonpost/data-2C-beyond-the-limit-us...
So if I understand you correctly, although Sweden hasn't closed schools, children aren't attending?

And although non-essential businesses aren't closed, Swedes aren't going to those stores?

And masks aren't mandated, but most people are wearing them?
A lot of libertarian mythology thrives on Hacker News.
In my mind user-mode threads are much more about engineering productivity than raw performance. The comparison is wasteful blocking network calls using threads written in a simple synchronous way vs efficient user mode threads making network calls in a non blocking way also written synchronously.

Today to get non blocking efficiencies you need to write async code bc without loom there is no otb user mode threads, even if user mode threads aren’t as efficient in raw numbers it’s still waaay ahead of the predominant way threads are used today in Java (mostly wrt network calls).
Judge ends consent decrees that prevented movie studios from owning theaters
This is very cool.

I'm trying to get a better sense of how this approach differs technically from rootless Docker / usernetes. I understand that it's not there yet, for many reasons, and I see your FAQ about it, but it's clearly working towards the same goal, right?

I think what's going on is that you depend on shiftfs from Ubuntu, and SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF (or something?), unprivileged user namespaces, cgroup namespaces, etc. from the upstream kernel, but the major missing parts in the upstream kernel are procfs and sysfs virtualization and making shifts feel se amless, and so you've written a syscall trapper and a FUSE filesystem that run on the host and emulate the things you need. Is that approximately right?

If so, I'd be really curious whether you see a path to get onto upstream runc at some future point. It seems like you'd need shiftfs to be upstreamed, but if an unprivileged procfs2 + sysfs2 shows up upstream, I think you can use that? And you'd probably fit in at approximately the place something like vpnkit fits in for managing shiftfs?

I have a use case for this sort of thing at work, and we've been exploring rootless Docker and unprivileged containers a bit. I"m trying to get a sense of why to prefer Sysbox EE instead of waiting for (or, ideally, contributing to) upstream support for namespaced procfs/sysfs, for shiftfs, and for properly teaching Kubernetes about user namespaces. I suppose the answer is that your solution works right now, and upstream support might take years?

I guess that puts you in a position much like OpenVZ and even LXC itself, which both had significant out-of-tree code in years past and seemed to be decently successful businesses as stuff slowly got upstreamed.

It seems like the major benefits of Sysbox EE are paid support and not using the same uid_map for each container?
I specifically did not claim that it's a "both sides bad" issue, just that both sides will be outraged no matter what Facebook does. Beyond that we appear to be looking in the same direction, even if I don't fully agree.
Maybe he didn't know about that war?
I worked for Toshiba America. The story is the CEO at the time told his underlings "I cannot report such earnings to our shareholders". His executives then went ahead and cooked the books.

Beyond that, Toshiba was a company in crisis. They announced all sorts of forward looking partnerships via press releases and had powerpoints about them, but allocated ZERO budget to implement them.

They ordered their existing units (seemingly hundreds of business units) to stay the course on obsolete and non-competitive products that were not generating revenue any longer.

Their cloud and "chip to cloud" plans were Potemkin villages, devoid of tech or investment.

Their PC division was non-competitive with flash storage, even though Toshiba's disk division INVENTED flash storage (and that was unpopular in that division--it went to market with much opposition, driven by ONE guy).

Toshiba basically played fortress Japan, where they made handshake deals with other moribund Keiretsu would just cross sell to each other.

They were being out innovated on all fronts, and were paralyzed to make the big changes, as the culture was one of never rocking the boat, and hanging on till retirement. The dream was to retire and perhaps be asked to consult back to the company.

The same thing was going on with the other firms there, like Sony et al. Disruption, the cloud, open source and innovation just destroyed a firm with an amazing historical legacy.
No, you're right. Pandas totally sucks. But the one good thing it got right is support for row/multi-index.
I don't see how the title or the concluding statements are justified by this story whatsoever. And publicly blasting a former manager for this when their described behavior doesn't support it at all? I don't know who the author is so maybe there's some context I'm supposed to know, but this just seems distasteful, on top of the confusing writing
As far as I know, this is by design; your migrations are supposed to operate on a frozen state of what your models and code _were at a point in time_.

If you would rely on code outside of said migration, you would be breaching that frozen state and potentially end up with unintended side-effects (e.g. running a migration created 2 years ago that imports your code that changed today). This is why you might have to sometimes copy-paste logic to your python migrations, but you also guarantee that the migration always runs the same way.
How about being able to swing public sentiment by

a) funding a massive 50 cent army
b) censoring any information the state does not want you to see
c) jailing anyone who say the wrong thing with their data
d) controlling pretty much your entire life through the social credit system

You guys are drawing lots of false equivalences. Streamers in China have been 'disappeared' for weeks for offenses as harmless as singing the national anthem badly, or saying nice things about Taiwan.

When tech companies start doing this, maybe we'll have an equivalence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTXb6bEMfI
Not going to school in person isn't fatal.
> It does not matter if the "secret sauce infra" is better than equivalents.

That is what the OP suggested.

> What matters is that the code you have is based on it

It is the nature of infrastructure is to be independent from business logic. I’m not saying any migration would be trivial, but it is also not as cost prohibitive as you seem to be arguing for. RPC is a very old and generic concept, so unless reader was depending on Google specific RPC mechanics, the cost of swapping one RPC tech with another is not going to be to the extent of warranting uttering of concepts like anti-trust.
TIL! That definitely makes the use case a lot more dubious.

Doing some googling, I'm wondering whether the original intent was to switch everything over to SCTP: data channels seem to have used the same protocol as media pre-2014. Maybe no one got around to it and things ossified?
Uneducated rednecks are a bit better than educated rednecks. At least they have an excuse.
Looks like by "this" you mean contact with reality, evidence-based reasoning, and a scientific approach.

Just curious - what do you thing will happen in the long run if the whole world chooses to live according to some mythology, as you propose?