skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it difficult to compare a discrete catastrophic event with an invisible plague.

Hiding under your desk around the clock made zero sense when the odds of being hit with an atomic bomb were fantastically small due to geopolitics.

Hiding in your house when there's no way of knowing who around you is infected, treatments are still primitive, and many people are not taking it seriously is a much more rational decision.
> This is frequently stated as fact, but no evidence is provided.

I was referring to the U.S.; if you don’t live here I could see how you might come up with the conclusion That the state here is efficient. If you do live here it is more than apparent that there is no equilibrium of supplies and demands.

Come spend a month in San Francisco, pay our taxes then tell me if you think the state is anywhere remotely close to efficiency.

>Perhaps we could get SoftBank to measure government efficiency...

Lol, or we could from the private sector build the tools necessary for the public sector as sort of a public good. This would be a great way for companies like Google and Facebook to have some positive PR when it comes to privacy.

SoftBank is less a company but more of one man’s ego with capital. “Businesses” like that never last from generation to generation unless they have dumb luck. Again, I don’t think I need to cite lots of sources here for you when common sense makes things apparent.
Like I said and she said, none of what today is particularly odd given what we knew in the 90s. There will always be demagogues, there will always be pandemics, global warming was a known issue, people's trust in institutions is cyclical, but more easily lost than gained. &c.

Many authors wrote about many of these issues, so for one to hit a few high-notes isn't that surprising.

On the other-hand, if she is a prophet, then on the grounds of Xenogenisis, let me be the first to say: "I for one welcome our new triple-gendered overlords"
You're right but likely in the wrong direction:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02497-w

We may be undercounting the number of deaths.
At least two significant things happened:

1) It finally got anonymous functions in Java 8, so you no longer have to use anonymous classes and complicated design patterns as substitutes.

2) The distribution model changed from targeting a preinstalled JRE to bundling your own runtime with jlink and jpackage (i.e. the same as native applications and .NET Core).
leafboi’s account was shadow banned, meaning that any new comments are automatically, immediately marked as [dead].
I agree, these are problems. But at least in the US we can continue to pass legislation as we learn more about how to properly regulate these platforms

It is much easier to enforce laws on a US-based company than a foreign one.
The fact that China is doing it does not mean it is the right thing to do.
Yeah and I love the movie adapted.
I spent half a day with Bruce Gordon and bought one of his bikes a decade or so ago. He's gone now, but he was an interesting character in his own right - seems the bike world is full of them.
Of course there are differences, but I think the main takeway is that the variation within each country (and over time -- ACA is new and not necessarily going to stay stable long term) is larger than the difference between the countries. ACA hasn't ended medical bankruptcy.
Didn't know there was a movie! I'll have to check it out.
It's amusing that you think $100 for a toilet is wasteful, when that's about as much as a cheap toilet would cost at Home Depot. I don't think you've ever bought a toilet if you think that's too much to spend on one. Toilets that cost 2-3 times that are not uncommon.
None of these should be avoided, as long as they are accurate terms.
Well, to be specific that seems more about manufacturing efficiencies (optimizing waste, batches, waiting time, etc as a line learns how to be more efficient) while this law and Moore's law are more about the intrinsic design of the chips (hardware and software).
Ok. One word: Obesity. What do?
Depressing to think that the kind of oversight which was exercised in BCCI's case, going so far as to shut the bank down entirely, seems almost impossible in this day and age.
[Edit: Apologies, I got We Chat and Tik Tok confused...]

What seems outrageous to me is that this seems like simple retribution for Tik Tok users getting one over on the president [1].

So then Tik Tok tries to find a US partner, and actively searches for a Trump-supporting company, finding a partner in Oracle [2].

This seems like a corrosive use of power, an exercise in vindictive narcissism.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/21/trump-tulsa-...
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/19/21437850/president-trump-...
Well, apart from New Zealand and Vietnam, and a few other places.
Clearly you have not interacted with a kid who’s on the fence about programming.

It’s a hard business, teaching someone super young that it’s really worth staring at a bunch of code blocks all day.

It’s even harder to prove to them that not only is it useful, but it’s not boring.

Kids need fun and exploration to pique their interest in a topic. No, it doesn’t have to be fun all the time, but good luck getting them started with “build me a calculator in C please”.
Excess deaths can and have been tracked based on overall mortality and deviation from previous years. The estimate is greater than official COVID-19 statistics for the US, being 248,000 as of 11 September. Worldwide, excess mortality exceeds COVID-19 statistcs (presently nearing 1 million) by 263,000.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
> Does the 60 day timeline include the amount of time you need to be approved for the visa, as well?

No. You must start a new job within 60 days. Due to H-1B portability rules, you can start a new job as soon as your employer has filed paperwork with USCIS. The H-1B processing time doesn't count.

I recently started a new FAANG job on H-1B, and because I received an RFE it actually took nearly 3 months after starting to get the approved petition.
I used Scaleway and Hetzner so far. Both are good regarding GDPDR issues and both have well working APIs and can be integrated with Terraform. Hetzner starts at 2.99 €/month With the smallest virtual server.
True, but at this point, you can protect yourself if you wish with a proper n95 mask and limiting contact.
Except the native americans never got their lands & resources back, & similarly blacks have never been given a chance at their own self rule.

These other national examples are nation vs nation, where an outside oppressor came & then went. Missing from your anti-empathy sentiments is recognition that these peoples never were given their own sovereignty & resources to rebuild themselves. The most injurious piece may have ended but they remain bound up in the impacts all the the same.
Uighurs Can’t Escape Chinese Repression, Even in Europe

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/ch...

First they came for the uighurs, and I didn't speak up...
It historically has had tons of use. It was pretty much the only material used for making rope for centuries in Europe, and was used widely in building construction too. Hemp cultivation was a crucial piece of colonial Virginia’s economy, heavily promoted by the British government, and it was used for clothing, sails, and even fine textiles as far back as the Viking age (eg, https://www.nature.com/articles/srep02686).

I could provide more references but I’m typing with thumbs - they are easy to find, though.
There could be different motives for different parties though. A bank manager who just wants some quick money and retire in a few years wouldn't care too much about long term consequences.
Totally on a tangent but my experience with restaurant cooking compared to my newfound cooking expertise is that the restaurant food is drenched in oil and salt and is cooked at much too high a temperature
In San Diego at peak outbreak season more than half of the outbreaks were traced to bar/restaurants. The point is what you put on the denominator to have a reasonable ratio. It should be the traceable cases not total cases. Most community spread cases can not be traced. And even traceable cases may not all be meaningful: a prison may contribute a large amount of cases but not much to community spread. Counting outbreaks is likely a better measure.
Waiting for the Next Python Implementation
In China there is no such thing as medical bankruptcy, because they make you pay up before treatment, they don’t send you a bill. It’s just one of those things that distinguish between developed world and developing world healthcare.
umvi doesn't oppose something different, above, but says there the most optimal approach may be between either of the extremes (outright prohibition vs. completely unregulated, buying off the shelf at a gas station). So if you're going to argue with him, please be sure to refute something he actually advocates for.
All the times I have seen $100 on the road, it has turned out to be an advertisement i.e. fake. 50% of the time I have found money on the road, it has been my own.

I put coins on the road for people to find, because I remember the joy of discovering a coin as a child.

Overall it works as a joke, but fails as a metaphor for me!
I’m curious which parties you’re referring to. Conservatives are called that literally because they want to conserve something from the past.

In this case, the left is marching forward with all sorts of new policies—often ostensibly to deal with a societal problem, but causing more problems because the policy does not derive from first principles.
I grew up near Saqqara (few miles away). It's amazing that there are still things to be discovered there. We would actually often hear that artifacts would be discovered and just sold/smuggled. But i guess there is just so much stuff buried near and around Saqqara that there is still more to discover.
Was NYC "adapting" to its own growing needs before pandemic? I assumed not because it seemed clear that real estate price growth in most global cities were unstustainable.

I get that _some_ people who had plans to enjoy the growth pattern of NYC for many decades to come are now faced with this "black swan" and don't know what to do to keep their forecast earnings. But overall, the societal pressure to urbanize will continue. If anything pandemic just is making the true costs of dignifying urbanization more clear.
> Do people here know that even this 60-day grace window was only put into place relatively recently by the Obama administration?

My worst situation dealing with this was a TN status rather than an H1B, where I was told at a border that I could be ineligible for admission to the US because I had no left the day that I was laid off from a previous position.

I had to tell the CBP officer that there was a 60 day grace period, be told that the internet isn't a reliable source of information, and wait while he discovered this information on their own. Sitting and waiting I literally overheard this person, after learning of this grace period, ask a colleague if they had ever heard of it before. This was at a major Canada/US border crossing.

It is apparently not just people on HN who are unaware of this, but also individuals charged with making US admission decisions.
Bribes to top management? Criminal organizations infiltrating banks?
There was a string of bad pit accidents associated with refueling so they banned it
Horizontal and vertical scalability is something people have been talking about for decades.
Nearly every lawyer will encourage you to wait for the receipt notice, although interestingly you only need proof that you've submitted a petition to starting working; i.e., a Fedex proof-of-sending receipt.
Maybe the U.S. should fund its own social network?

In the 1960s it created a government-funded television network to offer alternative programming. But television is an old medium, and less of a source of information today -- partly because it's been supplanted by social media.
Fun fact of the day: lobbying is legal and common across all of Europe. It's why the EU has such intense agriculture protectionism, the farmers act as an interest group that constantly lobbies on their own behalf. It's why Germany's domestic auto market has been specifically set up for decades to protect the domestic players against foreign competition. Go into Western Europe and try threatening Airbus, good luck, they'll lobby you right out of the EU unless you have a superpower backing you.

Lobbying does not mean corruption is legalized in the US.

In my observation, people that claim lobbying is legalized corruption in the US, don't know anything about the laws that surround lobbying, the limits, how it works, and how it doesn't work. It's primarily a popular Reddit-knowledge (aka low quality, easy to throw around, often wrong or incomplete) bumper sticker to post online. People routinely go to jail for violating the strict laws surrounding lobbying. You can't buy politicans and you can't buy legislation; trying that is a quick trip to prison.

Lobbying in the US is more lax than in most of Western Europe, that much is true. Althought the special interests in Europe are every bit as potent as those in the US. As a politician, just try going after farm subsidies in the EU, see what happens to you.

As is usually the case when it comes to fake Reddit-knowledge, the reality of lobbying in the US is far more nuanced and complicated. I understand people love their bumper stickers though, for artificial virtue signaling purposes ("Free Tibet").

You can hire a registered lobbyist and they can argue a position that you favor. That's most of what you can do. And nearly everything to do with lobbying in the US is public information due to hefty disclosure requirements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States
And words are?
aside from BCCI mentioned by another commentor please also Google Michele Sindona and the Vatican bank.
Still waiting for the day when import Glibc isn't a thing on Swift examples.
It seems to me that this point is addressed by the author:

Our threat is really from folks doing large-scale automated sweeps for low-hanging fruit

> The attitude described here makes sense for embedded, non-networked systems. It’s certainly fun to work on systems like that.

Well, more and more you are required to put encryption everywhere even when you are not connected to the network. Some certifications require that your device is protected against physical tinkering, even though it is inside a metal box behind a locked door in an access-restricted area.

Sometimes it feels like the "defense in depth" concept is not understood at all, because the requirements are written like if each line should be unbreakable no matter what.

I think that computer security is a noxious domain because it is so easy to FUD people; it is a domain where risk aversion has a field day any day.
You just saved me a lot of time. In the middle of migrating homelab from day from docker/swarm to kube and had not thought of this. Ty.
This has been one of my favorite thought experiments in a while.

It seems like there's inevitably going to be a need for some kind of content moderation -- but maybe that could be handled by local librarians, local newspapers. (At least that's a solution that actually scales.)
In principle, but it doesn't mean such practices can be acted out unchecked in US.

Right now, all things happened according to the slated procedures, including the challenge in court.

Trump and his supporters shouldn't expect otherwise, if they truly believe in rule of law.
Even in the absence of a specific law, medical providers can always be sued. Part of the push to redefine elective abortion from a right rooted in bodily autonomy to being “routine healthcare” is to open providers to lawsuits for refusing to provide them: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/390968-abortion-refus...
>> There wasn't a restaurant bubble prior to 2020 necessitating a huge correction.

There kind of was. It’s obscene how much people are charging for sandwiches and even a chicken/sauce/rice meal these days.

Delivery made the bubble bigger. $10 in addition to your already overpriced butter chicken or “street tacos”
This is what corruption looks like. Electing a chaos candidate results in chaos.
I have done this project to help the UNHCR and any other association that is responsible for refugee camps.
John Nagle commenting on Nagle's algorithm:

To avoid network congestion, the TCP stack implements a mechanism that waits for the data up to 0.2 seconds so it won’t send a packet that would be too small. This mechanism is ensured by Nagle’s algorithm, and 200ms is the value of the UNIX implementation.

> Sigh. If you're doing bulk file transfers, you never hit that problem. If you're sending enough data to fill up outgoing buffers, there's no delay. If you send all the data and close the TCP connection, there's no delay after the last packet. If you do send, reply, send, reply, there's no delay. If you do bulk sends, there's no delay. If you do send, send, reply, there's a delay.

> The real problem is ACK delays. The 200ms "ACK delay" timer is a bad idea that someone at Berkeley stuck into BSD around 1985 because they didn't really understand the problem. A delayed ACK is a bet that there will be a reply from the application level within 200ms. TCP continues to use delayed ACKs even if it's losing that bet every time.

> If I'd still been working on networking at the time, that never would have happened. But I was off doing stuff for a startup called Autodesk.

> John Nagle

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048947
How about adding standard decompressers to the Dwitter JS environment so they can be executed with less code?
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I set up my own controller. No such issue.
Given that the last time the U.S. banned alcohol it was a total disaster causing thousands of deaths, and we now live in a time where public sentiment towards many currently illegal drugs becoming legal is positive. I don't expect prohibition to come back any time soon.
>The difference between TikTok and WeChat and FB/Google/Twitter is obvious: the former are to some degree controlled by China and the latter are private entities.

It is documented fact that FB, Google and the rest are tapped by US intelligence agencies. Anyone remembers Snowden? We know for fact that pretty much every single global US network works with the US government, but when comes to TikTok and WeChat something yet to be proven(I am sure they do but the evidence is weaker than the evidence if US internet companies working with the US government on surveillance).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

EU was trying to fix this through GDPR and such but US seems to desperately wanting to embrace the Chinese model and with US cultural lead, this will inevitably open the way to other governments ban FB, Google and the others because if TikTok is a national security risk to the USA then obviously Facebook and Google are to them. Probably Amazon and all other ad networks too. Anything that can be started from a dorm room will no longer be able to go global.

This will lead to a world where if you want to do a global project you will have to incorporate in every country you want to operate. It is even possible that internet to break up in patches and operating even a forum website becomes like Coca-Cola opening a plant in another country.

It is a very bleak future for humanity if you ask me. Can be good for local businesses though.

I wish the US went the EU path(regulating data handling) instead of Russa/China path(banning) so we could still have global networks and kids in their dorms could continue creating products with global impact.

What a shame.
So what did you do with those ideas?
Because a child signals are potentially easier to understand, due to the parent and the child being from the same species.

Kind of funny, we did make a similar choice (although only in terms of which one first. We wanted children) and the feeling of being incompetent dog owners was one of the reasons pro "no dog"
I'd say a painless, easy to understand program is more impressive than a short one
I agree - we could all do with a dose of serendipity...
Models used by government leaders to make decisions predicted that, by the end of this summer (coming soon!), the US would have >2 million deaths.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/coronavirus-fatality-r...

Even with lack of leadership, we have had ~ 200k, a 90% reduction. Not too bad?
> The word "lots" is what's called a weasel word [1]. 1000 is "lots". Is it a lot if there are a million drug dealers? How does it compare to other crime correlations? Or general rates in the population?

Let's be serious, you and I both know, I meant a high percentile. This is just a bad faith argument made after using an anedote of knowing 12 drug dealers to say a statement about a high percentile of drug dealers would commit other crimes to make money if drugs were legal. Despite the fact that a high percentile of current drug dealers commit other crime. The reason I'm not using an exact number is because I don't want someone like you saying "Well the in the US 26% don't do that" when I found a stat for differnt country. We both know what is meant.

> Your logic is fallacious. You know what has a 100% correlation with dealing drugs and committing those other crimes? Breathing. Drinking water. Eating. Correlation tells us little. Perhaps it does hint that a disregard for authority exists.

My logic is: Someone who got into selling drugs to make a profit because the barrier to entry is low would move into another area of criminality to make money because the barrier to entry is low.

Your logic is: ???

Is it that they would still sell drugs? Why don't they sell something that is legal? Is it because the barrier to entry is higher? That they just wouldn't try and make money anymore?

> Also I'd say most of those crimes are not victimless...

Drugs is not a victimless crime either. Drug users are often victims of shoddy drugs being sold with dangerous chemicals in them. And I never said they weren't victimless, I just said they weren't against a person. A company is not a person.
Skip the hardware slide, it's mostly cringeworthy marketing fluff with little solid technical detail.

best-of-breed/Enterprise Focus/Powerful Core = Enterprise Strength + AI Infused/World-class/Enterprise Cloud/Powerful Core : Enterprise Strength/you get the picture

edit: take that back a little, the 2nd half gets a bit hardcore
Dumps are able to handle human waste. That's where diapers go.

$1 seems way too high for plastic, that would definitely come down with volume and competition. You can buy plastic bags in the store for $0.10 each easily.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24534610
The idea is even if the data itself may not be in china, an AI model is trained using that data inside the U.S. (to predict opinion and behavior) and that is sent over. Which is essentially the same as having the data. No one actually wants the data to go though it one by one, its all to train a model that extracts meaningful things from it.
Theory is that both of these platforms seem to be a threat to trumps election. For tiktok he has to balance banning all his fans. So he tries to control the data, effective or not. I bet he could control moderation and crack down of news opposed to him on tiktok. This is “national security” of course. Politicians play a meta game.