skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why the goals need to be 'maximum' anything. By it's nature, maximizing for something means something else needs to be completely minimized.

Life, society and the world doesn't work like that, regardless of whether there's an extreme event going on.

Any goals should include balance and shouldn't just be trying to maximizing one variable.

Even using something I personally can't stand as an example, models. In a model, maximizing a variable rarely leads to any desirable outcome and models tend to be a poor reflection of reality as is.

Reality is far more complex, having a goal be to maximize for one specific variable means your minimizing other variables that are in many cases complete unknowns.

Instead of working towards measured goals designed to minimize overall negative impacts, the reaction has been to maximize for saving as many lives as possible at the expense of all else.

The problem is, there's no way to even really be sure what we've done is maximizing the amount of lives saved, but at the same time we've ignored very real negative impacts in this blind rush towards maximizing saving as many lives as possible.

And to be honest, from what i've seen on the news, heard people saying, read on comments here...this seems to be the primary motivation behind this goal(or thinking like this)

>“Whose grandmother and grandfather and family members are you willing to sacrifice for this stupid idea?” asked Santa Clara County Executive Jeff Smith, whose administration in March led the Bay Area in imposing the first U.S. lockdown in the pandemic and has since been criticized since for its slow pace of reopening.

This is a logical fallacy intended to appeal to emotion. Wide sweeping policy decisions affecting the health and well being of most of society should never be based on emotional appeal.
Are you saying that you cannot post outgoing mail at the same location you receive it?
Thank you. You ruined my day.

Luckily it seems to require a fast shooting camera?

Technical spying is quite interesting. Like how you can see the picture of a remote display by radio disturbances. Reality is like living in a crackpots nightmare.
I just use laravel mix, as a wrapper around webpack, and then I can extend that if I need to for certain things, like maybe aliases, or something.
Just went with wikipedia's number for my hometown.

The city pop is 3k, but the county is only 16k, for an area of 450 square miles. I did not grow up in city limits, and the area was less than half the population back then.

Just was trying to give some very conservative numbers. More than happy to meet more yokels like me :)
> determine what that market might look like if Microsoft weren't interfering

Can we stop beating a dead horse? There is no Linux desktop market. The year of the Linux desktop isn't here, unlike mobile. Microsoft isn't interfering in anything, there just isn't good business incentive for Linux desktop gaming. Linux desktop gaming will take off when Linux desktop usages takes off, not the other way around.

In fact, if you want to take aim at anyone it should be NVidia and AMD for Linux driver support.
Surprised nobody has mentioned ASUS here. I have an old 66CU that’s been powering away for around five years now. One of the benefits of ASUS routers is you get to run the awesome Merlin-WRT custom firmware which makes great improvements on what ASUS offers out the box.
Not to mention, the 1-ply sandpaper most offices stock in their bathrooms instead of proper toilet paper. I imagine they use the 3 seashells at FAANG companies, but I'll settle for Charmin.
True, I don't see a point to prefab unless it involves a lot more than the framing. But it seems totally possible to do prefab installation of most of the ventilation, plumbing, electrical, etc.
January 22nd, 2020:

Asked if his administration was worried about a coronavirus pandemic, Trump says, “No, we’re not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/22/trump-on-coronavirus-from-ch...

January 30th:

The World Health Organization declares the coronavirus a “public health emergency of international concern.” • At an event in Michigan, Trump says, “We’re working very strongly with China on the coronavirus—that’s a new thing that a lot of people are talking about….We think it’s going to have a very good ending for it. So that I can assure you.”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...

Now, I will grant you that he established the task force on Jan 29th, but against that I will note that the "China travel ban" did not prevent Americans who had been in Wuhan and other affected areas from returning to the US. I would also add the person chosen to head the task force at the start, secretary of HHS, Alex Azar, on August 23rd (after all we know now) explained things this way:

> Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health and human services, defended members of President Trump’s family on Friday for refusing to wear masks at the recent presidential debate despite a requirement that the audience do so. The first family and the president are “in a different situation than the rest of us,” Mr. Azar said, because they are in a protective bubble."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/02/world/covid-19-coron...

I think it's fair to say that Trump's actions along with his then-private conversations with Woodward, can be reasonably (if incompletely) summarized by saying that he has tried to downplay the virus from the start.
Zig's home-grown backend is strictly for super-quick turnaround compile and link during development. For optimized release builds, they'll depend on LLVM forever.
> If you ask someone to itemize the costs of car ownership, they tend to miss or underestimate a few. The big ones are insurance and depreciation. I am confident that my total rideshare costs over the past year are less than just the difference between my city insurance premium and my suburb premium on the same used car, and my record is spotless. The math is surprising.

I did this exact analysis on my car some years ago, after 5 years of ownership. I took into account all repairs/maintenance, purchase price, depreciation, insurance, gas, city fees and parking (yes, I keep track of all those expenses).

It came out to $288.77/month.

In reality, it was a bit less, given that 2 years later someone wrecked my car and their insurance paid more than it was worth (with no major repairs in those 2 years).

I then bought a much, much cheaper used car (about same value as my old one when it was wrecked), so the cost would be significantly less what I show above ($100 out of that $288.77 was just depreciation).

Depreciation seems to be the major cost, and my car was fairly used (8 years old when I bought it, but low on miles). Don't buy a used car for more than $10K - mine was less and you can still see the amount of depreciation! A lot of people think they're beating the game by buying a 2-3 year old used car, but the depreciation will still be really high. Of course, you can get good cars for under $4K, but it may be risky to go long distance in those.

Of course, the other trick is to get a reliable car. Pick only models with good histories (buy the Consumer Reports guide as one reference for this), and do a buyer's check before buying it. If you go to a used car lot and they don't let you do that check, then refuse to buy it.
i downvoted it because it’s not a dog whistle. people insist on seeing race everywhere. a risky area by common sense is an area with increased violence, regardless of the racial makeup. if you can’t see why somewhere with increased violence would possibly require police to have increased capabilities i’m not sure what to say. or how it’s magically a dog whistle
Then Microsoft will use a fraction of those assets to pay bug bounties.
While conceptually I agree with the idea, I'm not sold that the identified things the writer labels 95% idle are correct. For example my brother and I easily averaged more than an hour a day outside on a half acre lot growing up. And it's very nice to be able to sit on a patio and not worry that the neighbors can hear everything.

I also find that in the modern world it's often cheaper to buy low quality stuff and treat it as disposable ish. For example I bought a very cheap electric chainsaw with the intention of destroying it (very sandy environment) because it was less expensive than renting the right tool for a job, and now I still have it if I need to cut a small branch or something.
I can't speak to strategy or whether Microsoft is "nicer" now, but speaking to the day to day as a grunt in the organization: Linux is getting openly embraced. Depending on the context, open source and Linux based solutions are often considered viable choices.
The feature set looks pretty good, the UI is decent enough (I personally dislike Material designed stuff but it's better than most), but frankly I think the name is a bit off-putting. Whether or not it's reality, people often don't like the idea of "tracking their users" but instead liking to think that they're only "gaining user analytics" which of course means the same thing in reality.
your blog server sits idle 95% of the time. don't pay for capacity to handle hypothetical peak load if you were to go viral by hitting the frontpage of HN. if that were to happen, just fail and let the punters read the blog from archive.org / google search cache
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Which, based on GP's logic, would indicate extreme lockdowns are not the right answer. I'm guessing that's their point.
And you're not driving 200 mph.
I'm very into mountain biking + backpacking and I've realized that it's totally worth it for me to own a car. I've gone years without owning one and I've regretted it later. Yes, it sits there 98% of the time, but that 2% of the time it connects me to absolutely magical moments.
All these constructs are implemented in terms of unsafe code. This makes the unsafe API surface (which, in the context of security, becomes attack surface) very large.

Compare to Java or C#. Vast majority of stuff, including these collections, are implemented on top of memory-safe primitives. Usually (unless explicitly writing unsafe code which most people don’t do), the only attack surface is the VM itself.

The attack surface is much smaller in comparison, both JVM and CLR are very simple from the outside, 202 and 234 instructions, respectively.

The attack surface is well-contained, third-party C# or Java libraries don’t patch the VMs, while unsafe rust is used in many third-party crates not just in the standard library.

Also, these VMs are well-audited (most of the implementations are open source now) and widely used all over the industry, including very security sensitive applications like banks and military.
It's interesting - as someone in the market (but not actively looking) i glanced at Ubiquiti and found it bizarrely confusing. Granted, i'm definitely no network admin, but i'm just used to the days when i'd hook up a simple Router behind a Modem and get basic firewall, wifi, etc features with a moderately complex and useful admin interface out of the box.

With Ubiquiti i had no clue what i wanted or where i should go. There were all these tradeoffs (Cloud vs not) where i didn't even understand the context for making a decision.

Coming from a simple (old) TP-Link router next to me, the idea of needing some complex setup or an easy "cloud" option both seem bizarre. It's a router.. what is Unifi offering that changes everything so much?

I still plan on eventually going Unifi since all my coworkers recommend it with glowing praise - but i keep kicking that can because every time i open their page it sounds like some big project. I just wanted a replacement Router + ~4-8ports + wifi haha. I probably would have already purchased something from Uniquiti if i had any clue what to buy from them.
Transportation should be around 5-8%.
I don't know, almost every day I regret the invention of JavaScript...
I'd always assumed that malware was malicious software disguised as something else; the layman term for trojan. TIL that it's much more generic than that.
Because serverless is not serverless. Fundamentally this doesn't work because if you've gotta have a server in the end, why not either admin yourself or use one of the cloud vendor's other products for more control?
Assuming all else is equal. But what if you need to move further from work to get a house with parking space for your extra vehicle? Then you should also account for your extra commute time.
>I think the point is that there hasn’t really been 3-phase double blinded trials to determine [safety, tolerability]

Psilocybin is well known to be one of, if not the single safest psychoactive compound known to man, in terms of physical toxicity. Obviously, mental harm can be a possibility.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-toxicity-of-re...
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> I'd love it if free speech advocates were uniform in their attack on "cancel culture". I have two friends, each faculty members at top schools, who have been personally attacked on Fox News and called enemies of America. This has led to hundreds of people sending them death threats via email and constant calls to their department chairs demanding their firing. Not a peep from organizations like FIRE.

FIRE focuses on the exercise of free speech in education, so if your friends weren't fired or reprimanded for exercising their rights, FIRE probably won't weigh in. Doubly so if no one writes to FIRE on their behalf asking them to cover the case. Ultimately, FIRE can't cover every case (they're a nonprofit), so it might also just be bad luck that your friends' case wasn't selected. Hard to say. It certainly could be that FIRE is discriminating against your friends' for the content of their speech, but FIRE and Fox News are rarely aligned (indeed, FIRE got its start defending academia against conservative illiberalism).

> And why is sending an email to somebody's boss saying that they are an asshole and should be fired fundamentally worse than posting on social media about how so-and-so is a secret jew who works for the new world order and literally sacrifices babies to satan?

No one is making this argument.
Git is not a success story, but a failure as a system with a bad user experience
Poll: Do you set up healthchecks for your side projects?
Hey folks, out of curiosity - how many of you set up regular healthchecks for your side projects, so that you're alerted if they're down?
- I don't use healthchecks for my side projects
- I use a healthcheck service offered by my cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etC)
- I use a third-party healthcheck service (Cronitor, Healthchecks.io, etc)
- I use a custom healthcheck service I built myself
The old desktop is not where the money anymore. It's on smartphones, where the global leader is Linux-based Android, and on cloud-based services, which by and large don't care what OS you're using.
You aren’t required to always drive fast in a fast/quick car.
> It's looking more and more like this deadly virus is going to be part of our lives for months or years to come, if not decades

I don't understand this attitude. No, we will go back to normal. This cannot continue forever. We cannot live the rest of our lives in fear. This is not how we evolved and I'm honestly sick of it.

There is growing evidence that there is immunity out there beyond antibodies; including memory T-cells. It's likely we'll be fine long before a vaccine is produced, through a combination of herd immunity and just better therapeutics (there are some big studies on inhaled steroids right now that are promising).

Mississippi, Florida and other states are starting to go back to normal without any increase in fatalities (and don't go on about cases, because there is no distinction between people who test positive and people who test positive because they've actually been sick). Fatalities are going down across the board. Exponential growth does not go on forever. It ends.

Things should have been back to normal months ago. All these lockdowns have just delayed the inevitable. When this is over and we can prune all the data, I expect to see the same fatality rates between countries that did and didn't lock down, excluding places like NYC, northern Italy, Michigan and other places where we put all the elderly people together.

In 2030, we'll look back at this as a time of overreaction and mass hysteria.
RCMP are regular police everywhere but Ontario and Quebec. RCMP are closer in remit to the US Marshals, but also have the investigatory powers of the FBI. "Gendamarie" isn't inaccurate, but they're not militarized any greater or lesser than the SPVM.
Unfortunately, streaming sites like Netflix block access from HE tunnels, because they could be used to skirt around region controls (like VPNs).

My ISP (RCN in Chicago) doesn't support IPv6 either. I tried HE, but ran into the above issue. Now I'm seriously considering getting an IPv6 block directly from ARIN (and paying the few hundred a year fees) to use with HE tunnels, to work around the Netflix block.

Would love to find a cheaper solution though.
The issue is that they represent in some manner an 'alternative architecture' that's less mature and hard to piecemeal break out of.

You need to move a few pieces around.

I don't agree that 'once you've gone K8 why bother, just use that' - I don't think K8 is as elegant as the promise of serverless, and it has it's own 'lock in'. Just so happens you may need to have K8s anyhow ... so the pragmatic question then is 'We already have K8s because we have to have it ... so in that context, we can just use it'

If we had a 'severless' version of Docker, i.e. some de-facto standard for it, I think it would obliterate a lot of architectures, just because the promise is powerful.

Developers don't actually want K8s or even true DevOps complexity, we just want a giant computer we can run stuff on and not have to worry.
Isn't this just a personal cost benefit analysis?
I don't have a link on me, but I recall that Rust reported some improved compilation time from upgrading to LLVM 11 (which is the default for 1.47, released last week).
People place such high expectations for new innovations solving all of their problems. No, it isn't a panacea: apply it only when it makes sense to do so.
You could 25x their budget and everything would still suck. Money is not the problem, competent governance is. Until they fix that the public should refuse any further tax increases.
I've only tried Emacs' eshell on Linux and MacOS, it works great, and I'm sure it works great on Windows as well. Maybe has been the one true shell all this time :)
Not really. You would think in a forum full of techbros, FB being a private entity would be the end of the discussion. But because it's white supremacist viewpoints that many of the forum users are sympathetic with, it gets moved into a conveniently gray area.
I really don't know why they removed this feature. It's great for accessibility and language learning. I am trying to learn a language and YouTube captions were a great help.
Good idea. Thanks for the suggestion!
I think if most of the exec level at a company changes alongside the messaging about changing course it's reasonable to maybe let them rebuild a bit of trust. If it's still the same people then I agree - if you ever think something like that is okay no amount of "we're better now" is going to convince me - you're clearly not to be trusted.

I don't know about Microsoft though - the CEO changed, but what about the rest?
In my workplace our main product is written in PHP.
Still we have a bunch of Lambda functions written in node we use all the time
The examples are so copy light that it does not really represent a real resume. What data do you have to support that this is the way to get past ATS?
ForgeFed was working on ActivityPub for code collaboration, but I haven't kept up with how far they are: https://forgefed.peers.community/
Yes that's my point. It can easily change for the worse again. I don't want to be tied up in all their stuff once that happens (which my work is quickly doing lately)
Are you planing a hosted solution?
Actually I would prefer to just give some more cash and not host it myself :D
Calling something politics doesn't make it politics. It's business, plain and simple.

> and anti-user in essence

How is it any different that cars having different parts? Is Ford anti-user because I can't snap in Toyota parts?

> Stadia isn't huge as desktop Linux, not even close yet

The potential market size for Stadia is exponentially larger than Linux desktop, and is a safer risk for game developers and publishers to get behind than Linux desktop.

> It's not about potential or size of the market

Of course it is. What else is it about? Google is willing to make the investment to make Stadia successful, to create a thriving customer base which in turn needs content. That's good business. No one is willing to do that for Linux desktop.
Kind of surprised the article didn't mention lack of reasonable development environment.

At least on AWS, the "SAM" experience has been probably the worst development experience I've ever had in ~20 years of web development.

It's so slow (iteration speed) and you need to jump through a billion hoops of complexity all over the place. Even dealing with something as simple as loading environment variables for both local and "real" function invokes required way too much effort.

Note: I'm not working with this tech by choice. It's for a bit of client work. I think their use case for Serverless makes sense (calling something very infrequently that glues together a few AWS resources).

Is the experience better on other platforms?
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It adds complexity in the name of simplicity.
I happily voted NO on Prop 16. Please go and read the proposition text - this is some crazy stuff. I literally could not believe that this is actually is on the ballot.

Currently the government and public institutions cannot discriminate against or grant preferential treatment to persons on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, public education, and public contracting. A vote Yes would remove this ban.
Companies paying less “because they can” as opposed to “because they must” will always lose out to the companies that will pay more “because they can” in an employee’s market. And if the both companies are in the same market, that means that both the work and the profits are of similar kind. So it’s not exactly wise to adjust your wages down just because it seems like there’s nothing stopping you. Pay your employees according to the value they produce, not where they produce it from.
Has it? We've been simply throwing huge Django projects into Zappa and seeing huge benefits.

The biggest issue we run into is the more servers you have, the harder it is on the database.
In other words, you want more WA State Patrol (white cars, light blue uniforms) than Seattle PD (navy blue for both), it seems. Though I recall the move to the navy blue uniforms in Seattle was for cost reasons - their old baby blue uniforms were custom, so they cost more.
Wasn't the point of serverless to reduce complexity?