skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consequences? Brought by the DA? Besides having a very close relationships with their police departments, DA’s have broad discretion in which cases they bring and do not bring.

The largest structural consequence of note was the decision by Philly’s DA Krasner to not call officers whose testimony he knew was questionable, and release those names. He’s not very popular among police
Sorry, I misworded. We are using it on "production", but our production is a closed beta for now, so we are using the Basic tier too.

We are thinking in upgrade it to a better plan, but we are not sure because we are not sure that it will solve our problems.

I think that comparing to your own laptop is unfair because there is no connectino needed, everything is on the same CPU / RAM, etc. Remember when you connect to a external DB informatin has to travel from one point to another.
> can they just summon me to a Thai court?

Of course, but they cannot make it effective until you enter Thailand.
Hilarious that this was flagged. It's a shame how many Americans see facts they don't like and try to respond with censorship.

I wish there was a word like "cowardice" except with 10x the magnitude.
Someone with a high iq will be more capable of following a certain education path. So education and iq being correlated usually means the iq measure is working as intended. If however going to a great school improves your iq that proves the specific iq measure used is flawed (as its supposed to measure innate intelligence, not education). As for the other part, I agree my line of reasoning is rather unsympathetic.
Librarians are often hamstrung by their employing institutions into respecting copyright. That means that while they are on the clock, they cannot recommend LibGen to patrons, show them how to use it, etc. Loads of librarians are aware of LibGen and Sci-hub, and it isn’t their fault that they must ignore it.
And you assume we're all the same? All the cities in Texas are solidly democratic, fwiw. State politics are controlled by rural counties, similar to the US as a whole.
You should have a look at https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover

This project makes is super easy to setup a resilient and highly-available postgresql cluster.

And since the postgresql client lib handle connection to multiple replica... no need for some kind of load-balancer (pg_bouncer, pgpool...) in front of it anymore (even if they can still be useful sometimes).
Wow, thanks for your detailed comment. Learned a few things in here for our own EC2 deployment of PG.
the desire to explain the world is a built-in survival/thrival mechanism. it's not weird so much as fascinating what our brains can conjure.
You mean, imprisoning him for just a couple of years would be perfectly acceptable?
Come on now, you buy things every day.

The secret isn’t making everyone say yes but to have as few people as possible tell you no.
religion, is and was foremost, always a way to end a conversation, a debate, by declaring the topic holy and decided. Nobody could decide it, not your children, nor the woman or slaves, and especially not apostates or other religions.

As such it can not be part of any civil democratic society, which by its very nature demands that all but the most human basic rights be debat- and negotiable.

You can not declare something sacrosanct, cut the fabric of society without a reason, and expect perferable treatment by those whose society you trampled over because you threatened civil war.

Écrasez l'infâme
The particular microbe here has a cyst form for inhospitable environments.
Just imagine being a god and giving cancer to little kids, allowing kids to be abused, raped, murdered, allow women to be beaten and raped by men, allow mankind to murder en mass other species..

The above is why I believe that there is no god, of course people may believe whatever they chose to, but in REALITY no such thing exists. Also it is the perpetual question, if there is "one true God", who is it? My god? Your god? Zeus? Some other got of some other species on some other planet in some other galaxy? (The Delta Quadrant?)

The main problem is not the idea of God (imho god = love)

The main problem is the people who self define/proclaim as the god's chosen people on earth.
The point everyone seems to be missing here is that it's not like if you said something bad about the party then bam, off to the labour camps you went. The entire Soviet Union would be one huge labour camp if that was the case. That would happen to you if you somehow got published in a newspaper being critical of the government. Or if you were say a headmaster of a school or the director of a state owned company - then yeah, the punishment would be pretty severe. But your regular Joe making a bad comment at the wrong time? You'd definitely lose your job first, few phone calls to the right place and it would happen. Or maybe you got a mandatory re-assignment to a middle of bumfuck nowhere. Not a labour camp, just the same job you were doing already, but in a small town out thousands of km away from your family. Or maybe you were waiting in a queue to get a flat assigned to you - well, that's not happening anymore.

Like, my point is, there were escalating punishments to criticizing the government. Some people here suggest that it was like "say something bad about the government = black volga picks you up and you disappear forever". It wasn't that unless you had certain amount of outreach.
I used to have this, but when I finally realized that I couldn’t run anymore due to knees I switched to outdoor biking and this problem got under control using mini doses of Zyrtec (I used to take daily fill doses). Not sure why it got better with the cycling.

I also have HEPA filter on the house HVAC.
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We have a really small web agency (5 people) and I agree that we don't need to be in the office, that we share with other people of the same company of another division, to get good work done. We need to be together to boost ideas more. Technology and remote tools stigma don't allow you to substitute that for now.
Show HN: File2DB, Upload CSV/JSON/Excel to a (PostgreSQL/MySQL/) Database
Reminder that any Coronavirus treatment, vaccine or mitigation is to be treated as insufficient, unsafe or invalid, unless there is an indefinite timeframe for approval.
Why you no have tattoo?
I heard Sean Carroll say that physicists understand relativity much better today than did Einstein. [1]

[1] https://video.vermontpbs.org/video/einsteins-quantum-riddle-...
Probably because:

- tradition

- because it worked for previous generations: America became one of the best countries to live in while being religious

- I guess some people also shared my experience that it worked, despite how unreasonable it seems. (Yes, this means I am an engineer who discuss evolution with you guys and have studied a tiny bit of astrophysics, but still pray to God and is heavily influenced by what I read. It kind of works like wave particle dualism: I use the model that works for the situation.)
Learn to love problems and look forward to things going wrong.
I would think so. Fatwas i.e. the Sharia rulings are legally non-binding (https://en.unesco.org/courier/2017-april-june/what-sharia-no...).
'Secularism, Sovereignty, Indeterminacy: Is Egypt a Secular or a Religious State?' by
H Ali Agrama is a very interesting anthropological account of Sharia law for those interested in exploring the issue further.
You know that psychiatric studies often belong next to fairy tales but want to use a "rational, scientific approach" over thousands of years of evolved tradition. How much better is sociology or management science than psychiatry?
> vacuous air bag

Colloquialism: 100% understood.

Reality: 0% possible...unless this 'air bag' is full of 'empty'.

In other news, always be careful breaking the neck of a CRT...you'll let the vacuum out!
I'm not sure what the above poster means by "outlaw", but yes police do investigate and have sometimes issued fines for public statements that don't invite violence or harass but espouse unpopular views:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-47005937.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-offensive-face...

This isn't just JK Rowling getting a Twitter backlash, it's being enforced by police.
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Dillinger: A cloud-enabled, open-source Markdown editor
> it's impossible to resolve or get in touch with a human

I worked in a couple of large internet companies. The army of support people work long hours trying to deal with endless stream of support requests from people who cannot articulate what they actually need, disappear after a couple message, throw insults at support, and in addition to that a lot of fraud requests, spam and so on. I read some of their conversations with users (when they were related to my work), dealing with them is really hard.

I belive companies technically physically cannot do much better at tech support.

When your car breaks, you simply go to repair service, and pay to get the issue resolved.

Asking to cancel any large internet company for bad tech support is childish.

Adult response would be: I want paid tech support.
Are We the Baddies?
I guess India, Japan, and China must be doing something very wrong then.
Why impugn all religions when this sort of extremism is unique to one religion in the last many centuries? Even then, there are presumably many Muslims who do behave peacefully and tolerantly. Moreover, in the west were seeing a significant spike in secular political violence (namely riots), and of course political violence has been far more common and severe than religious violence in the last several centuries. Perhaps the key factor is neither religion nor secularism, but something else altogether (I propose “tribalism”).

EDIT: I began drafting this comment before others posted their flame comments. My bad for bringing nuance to a “flame religion” thread.
Background to this comment: Vitamin D is commonly artifically added to milk.
Yeah but how are you going to do that while quarantining? Going outside and having fun is verboten.
The desire to explain and justify our sins is evil masked as religion.
With respect, it’s a mischaracterisation and a huge overreach. It’s like saying democracy is a disaster because it leads to Trump, or the next populist.
That is the software engineer mantra: "There is no way that bug could happen... Oh"
I'm not talking about any specific location. Just the idea that it's some bigoted idea to say that, if year after year an area is burned to the ground, we shouldn't spend taxpayers dollars to fund a disaster area.

If insurance can calculate costs and decide what is too expensive to insure, we can too. That's all.
> The 21st? The iPhone? Meh.

Humph. I think the iPhone (actually, smartphones) is right up there with the biggest changes of the 20th century. It's what put humanity on the Internet. That may not be so obvious to someone from developed countries, where pretty much everyone already had a PC with Internet connection by then, but that was only about 1 billion out of our nearly 8 billion population... about 6 billion more were connected by smartphones over the last decade. The final billion can't afford those yet, but that's changing fast.

The thing is, the smartphone wasn't just cheaper than a PC; it's more accessible and provided greater motivation for connecting people. Messaging like WhatsApp has lowered the cost of what people were already considering essential (staying in touch with friends and relatives) enough to justify the higher initial cost, and voice commands and voice messaging made it usable even for people who were essentially illiterate. The impact on billions of people's daily lives has been enormous.
I've been wanting to try this: lnbc1u1p0hphp0pp5dp6fyfuttast7jnxd2qf3sd2q7lwsw6xwsfr3ng5ajz3qfsajrzsdqqcqzpgxqyz5vqsp5pqzhlpxnlu86aa5g9rw6wwzddfwx9jex7enft689vxtu62n9f2rq9qy9qsq08ncw74lylcsy2ehn3ymfj4mfj667n0gnhgl8q6xsvyven77n67kvx3vga4v0c97cyatv292w3p5zagm7japmgvajtqezwy42j659mcpxnndzv
Learn to apologise. Learn to get over yourself if you have had a fight or an argument, and be the first one to apologise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo
In addition to the other allergies people mentioned; I'll add mold / black mold.

Adding a HEPA air filter to your bedroom might help.

Washing all your bedding in hot water with allergy safe detergent; mattress protector; deep clean carpets; and always showering before bed would reduce pollen / mite activity.

A few over-the-counter supplements you might try:

* Mucinex D - an expectorant; common name 'guaifenesin'.

* NAC 'N-acetyl cysteine' - an amino acid - loosens mucus, among other benefits.

* Hot saline sinus rinses (ex Neilmed bottle)
I've made diagrams for my talks in both style (with code and with Inkscape or, these days, Lucidchart). Writing code to generate diagrams had a much larger setup cost but once I had it going, iterating on the diagrams became much easier.

I had a talk about radix trees[1] where I wrote some Haskell code that could take trees and generate diagrams from them. Getting the code right in the first place took a few hours but in this case it was clearly worth it in hindsight for two reasons:

1. I ended up with a lot of tree diagrams. Once the code was working, the marginal cost of adding an extra diagram went way down and I think that improved the talk as a whole.

2. Code made it much easier to iterate on my examples. I had an extended example[2] that I changed several times; if I had had to manually redo the diagrams for it each time, I would not have bothered.

These days, this trade-off (up-front vs ongoing costs) makes the decision reasonably easy. If I'm going to be making a single diagram and I don't expect to change it much, I'll do it manually; if I'm going to be making a series of similar or related diagrams or if I expect to iterate on the diagrams a lot, I'll write some code for them. So far, I haven't regretted following this approach in either case :).

[1]: https://jelv.is/talks/lambda-world-2018/slides.html#/sec-tit...

[2]: https://jelv.is/talks/lambda-world-2018/slides.html#/slide-o...
What are you counting as a house that hasn’t lasted? 50 years? 100?
The house I am in was built in the 1940’s by the state as an employment and housing scheme for returned servicemen post WW2. It’s wood framed and has a fair few years of life left if cared for.

The bulk of NZ houses are wooden, and have been for its entire history. They are also cold and are often damp, though these problems can be solved with decent building practices.

Concrete and brick are not that desirable in an earthquake prone country.

And yes, milling big old trees is bad. They are now made of treated pine, which comes with its own environmental concerns.
Thank you kindly for the reply and I share your moments of trials.

I think it’s important to expand further in this direction. Confirmation bias or not, I’m compelled to dig further under these ideas. Thanks.

I notice you’re on a throwaway. If you’re on any other platform I’d enjoy staying in touch. My profile has sigs.
The analogy between working in IT and playing sports
A small post I wrote where I try to clarify that people working in IT don't have the answer for every tech-related question or problem. ️
One trick these days is to take advantage of semi-prepared food (sliced mushrooms, chopped onions, etc.) in the supermarket. It probably won't be quite as fresh and will end up costing you a bit more--so I don't usually do it--but it's a way to do stir fries, pasta, etc. pretty quickly and easily.

Even before the pandemic, I was mostly working at home when I wasn't traveling. But when I was going into an office regularly I tended to have a list of recipes that I knew I could throw together in 20 minutes or so.

The other way to optimize time is to make stews and casseroles that will often take a bit longer but which you might get 3 or 4 meals out of. (You can freeze some so it doesn't get too monotonous.)
The fascinating thing about this spatial audio wave to me is that it was basically available almost a decade ago.

I remember one of the first apps I downloaded on my iPod Touch in middle school (~2011) was a "binaural audio" app that catalogued similar spatial audio experiences as this app (+ voice-acted stuff like getting a haircut, etc).

The integration of motion tracking with that technology is a really cool level-up, though. Really cool example of new tech unlocking an interesting combination with stuff that's already been around.
When you got poisoned and had to go to the hospital, then yes.

If it was ketchup instead of curry, or if they put 8 nuggets instead of 9, I very much doubt so.
The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks, and "A Land Fit For Heroes" series by Richard K. Morgan would both make for awesome TV series'.
Hey, I'm a Jew and an atheist. I pray to a God I don't believe exists. My wife was raised as a Christian and she hates organized religion but still has me put an evergreen up in our house every December. The Nazis and Soviets were atheists. Which is all to say, people are complicated and if they want to find a way to demonize each other, they'll find one, religion or not, God or not.

I'm ambivalent whether religion has done humanity more harm than good, but I think that it probably on balance is too humanity's benefit.

In any case, what we have here is a case of extremism. Let's call that out instead of using it as an example to bash all religion.
So Pandoc written in Haskell ought to be easy to integrate, right?
It seems there is a PDF version of it available, is it the same version? https://www.holloway.com/b/founding-sales
Is he mean? Or do associate those views with mean people.

I just don't understand why everyone needs to be a PR polished suit. These people work on computers, not administer public policy. We can appreciate their contributions and ignore their quirks or the fact they don't have all the popular opinions.
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It's not perfect, but TypeScript goes a long way toward making frontend feel as safe as backend. You still have the potential for weird bugs when interacting with external JavaScript, but your internal code is pretty safe. Also, TypeScript's type system is impressively flexible, and I often find myself missing features (like unions) when working with other languages.
> The main problem is not the idea of God (imho god = love)

Well there goes your problem, you're countering something that these religions don't claim in the first place:
None of the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc.) claim that God is pure love, butterflies and spreads happiness on earth.

Their scriptures explicitly talk about how life on earth is (also) filled with pain, disease and man-created problems.

I'm not sure why this criticism ("What kind of god gives kids cancer") on religion is so common in Western countries... it's a giant strawman that a simple question to a believer of such religion would dispell.
SwiftMetalPlatform: Metal API Implementation in Swift on Top of the Vulkan API
> we have reduced our cost by $1751.48 / month

It doesn't look like a huge win given how much complexity you added, while RDS manages it for you.
We just never should have allowed filename extensions to have semantic power. Resource forks are far more elegant and you could do simple look ahead checks to verify types etc.
That sounds like ethnocentricity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism

Religion is a codified belief system while science is a codified knowledge discovery system. They cohabitate just fine until one is mistaken for the other.
1. The reason for the change is generally thought to be email: you read least specific to most specific from left to right, like non-American dates, e.g firstname.lastname@group.department.university.edu

2. also I think ! was used rather than . for some networks at some times. Certainly I’ve heard this anecdote from some early users of the internet (or maybe other computer networks)

3. Traditionally the dot is the zero-level or extra-top level domain, a bit like / for root in the Unix file system. Indeed if you use dig you may be familiar that it writes domains like “www.google.com.” My web browser only partly seems to accept this format.
I'm getting a registration wall.
you can also be right libertarian without demeaning others with modern-day heresy accusations
Looks like at the moment he simply lets them drop:

$ dig -t MX bar.com +short
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Never heard of it. Can you share some link please?
Gulf Arabs are loaded and still deeply religious. I don’t really see your point here...
I’m sure the finding that former clerks win more is relevant - but are they controlling for the caliber of attorney? The clerks as a whole are an extremely hard working and talented subset of the legal industry and I would expect their results to also show favorably in almost any context later in their careers. It’s hard to overstate how competitive getting a scotus clerkship is.
Virtues and Vices of Misanthropy – Dr. Ian James Kidd
Obviously not. But what if just scolding him leads to riots, your town in ashes and the boy lynched?
Not every society is as peaceful as yours [1].

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/another-blogger-hacked-death-banglade...
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A letter from Cloudflare’s founders (2020)
Hopefully the Standard (or whatever they call it) tier will solve both our problems. If IO performance is the bottleneck (you can see it on the Azure console - in my case that graph goes up to 100% with very light use) then hopefully the next tier will solve it.

> I think that comparing to your own laptop is unfair because there is no connectino needed, everything is on the same CPU / RAM, etc. Remember when you connect to a external DB informatin has to travel from one point to another.

Yes indeed, but in my case I was talking about DB query performance where the network plays a minimal part. If a query is near-instant on my laptop I expect it to be the same (or better) on production infra, but with Azure's Basic tier I noticed the opposite. I agree that if you're firing off lots of queries then network latency starts to add up, but in my case I haven't even reached that point - network latency is insignificant compared to the actual delays I'm seeing on the individual queries themselves.
> What are they buying?

part of the system?

In their profession they are equipt with a lot of power and influence because of the money and the instituiton they inhabit. They do eye watering hard work but at the same time many are questioning how the system works when it is unpopular or fails.
YouTuber was arrested and convicted in Britain for teaching his dog to do a nazi salute. It's not a ten year sentence for 13-year old but still a very real legal sanction.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/youtuber-count-dankula...
It seems like the unfortunate reality of having a flag button and just giving everyone the ability to use it is that only the content that least offends people's political sensibilities makes it to the front page. If it makes people uncomfortable (such as the realities of police abuse in America) then it gets flagged off the first page.

I worry that it makes HN a bit of a bubble where the people who are made uncomfortable by certain truths and need to hear them the most are also the least likely to hear them because they will flag them away. You can kind of have an entire alternative reality here where police abuse doesn't exist and the police do face accountability for their actions. I wish there was a way to fix it.
At least they are trying, most countries have no legal support of any kind for free speech.
Do you have advice on learning AWS/cloud for people that don't know anything about it? I have a Django/React project I'm hacking on where everything runs locally, but I don't understand how to put this thing on the real internet.
I'd imagine this varies by country, and that should give relatively easy statistical comparisons?