skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There are people thinking an interface or feature is secure when it is merely a window dressing that can be bypassed with just a bit more knowledge about the stack. " -- Jessie Frazelle shares one of the toughest problems when dealing with complexity. It's hard to understand where it starts and where it ends, and we create holes all around us due to the inherent limitations - It's too hard for humans to reason about so many moving pieces. What should we do about it? I don't know. Maybe make it more visible so that others can make better (not perfect) decisions. Perhaps acknowledge our limitations and practice more concepts from Resilient/Choas Engineering to see where our intuition breaks.
Read Omnivore’s Dilemma. Corn is a human invention.
Why would you trust cost cutting shippers with nuclear reactors?

Install catalysators instead.
Hehe, since we're on the topic of shameless plugs, I have one in typescript - it's ready and I'm using it extensively. Serves locally as you described by using --serve

https://www.npmjs.com/package/plaf
What percentage of people who get the flu are asymptomatic?

I think the biggest issue with covid is people spreading it who don't even know they have it. A friend of mine just happened to get a test and was found positive. The only symptom they had was a headache.

Who can take a day of work because of a headache?
So the Edge TPU has been out for a while now, can anyone point out a large enterprise customer that is using this for real for something new that we couldn’t do before? Or is the “edge” just made up by salespeople. Like there needs to be super low latency requirements before someone decides they can’t use an internet api right?
It happened, but it is not even close to what COVID does. During influenza season, the hospital I work at sometimes cancel elective procedures if it's a particularly bad year for influenza. Luckily influenza season has an end date. With COVID, we hardly even had any capacity left for oncology, the last thing we might cancel. Luckily the lockdown effects happened just in time before we had to take drastic measures there. This was not just a local problem, as patients here are centrally spread over all hospitals in the country.

That's the real problem with the disease, not only the fatality rate and long-term effects, but how quickly and severely it can bring a hospital system and all associated healthcare to its knees.
Try running the ‘killall’ command, you’ll either be disappointed or relieved.
Speaking of bill pay, there seems to be some contractor that provides the Bill Pay software for banks because the UI looks nearly the same between my Schwab and BofA accounts and its always on a subdomain of its own.

Under the More -> Charities tab, one of the 9 charities in the world they have chosen to preload as defaults is Focus on the Family, a notorious anti-LGBT hate group.
If you have some constructive feedback on how I could have worded what i said to be better, I’m definitely open for it. I’m always trying to be better.

Perhaps it would be been better (for a number of reasons) to say “not all managers are male” instead?
Yeah, this whole thing seems almost impossible with SEPA bank transfers since the order is the other way round.

The sender tells their bank to send someone money, the bank checks the sender's funds and notifies the receiver's bank of the transfer, then the receiving bank notifies the receiver they got the money.

This whole thing used to take 2-3 days in the days of paper giros, but it's pretty much instantaneous now.
Oh for sure; I've just always felt like I've needed to have my code "nearby" to REPL it, or debug it. Maybe I've just not caught up with the times. We all know development sans internet is more or less impossible nowadays anyway.

Something about giving someone else control of my development environment just feels... wrong.
Apple and oranges. That flu fatality rate is without social distancing.
Gregg Semenza: real Nobel Prize and unreal research data – For Better Science
Is this your actual experience? Can you provide more specifics? I can’t imagine too many people hiring consultants from pure
Internet marketing.
I wonder if building MVP contracts is a very price-competitive market, at least in terms of how I interpreted that domain as the the OP describes it.

I believe there is a lot of value in helping clients determine what an MVP should be (i.e. understanding of the business problem to be solved) and then help them validate solutions by building (or helping them build) an MVP. It appears the OP has the skillset to do both, and off-shore dev shops can't do that.

Plus, you need a good understanding of local practices, culture and market to be any good at this.
My guess, based on reading Tesla forums, is more that they have such poor QA that a lot of customers were 7-day returning vehicles that Tesla told them would take months just to get the parts/service for a brand-new vehicle (e.g. panel gaps, poor sealing, unknown rattling/noises, etc).

They're trying to "solve" their ongoing QA problems by removing a customer safety net rather than addressing the underlying cause. I'm sure their metrics could be used to show abuse, but really it is Tesla's own community creating things like their own QA checklists which people were encouraged to go through on the first 7 and return if an expedient fix wasn't available.
We have this system though, it's just we also still support systems that should have deprecated a long time ago for being insecure.
Which one has a reputation for depth & accuracy?
> What if the virus causes substantial disease burden years to decades down the road? We can't know, and should take every precaution to prevent its spread.

This is the precautionary principle selectively applied, and it’s what’s so wrong with the “lockdown” debate.

What if lockdowns cause substantial health problems years to decades down the road? We can’t know that either. Acting like Covid is the only thing whose aftereffects might be worse than we can tell right now is ignorance.
This reminds me of a story going around at the chemical department here (probably it is false). Graduate student was told by prof to synthesize a substance. Process is well known, but it is tedious, he would have to spend the next two month in the lab. Since this guy was resourceful he called up privately one of their chemical suppliers and ask if he can order this substance from them. They send him a quote and he ordered it.

A few days later his prof comes in, and said: "can you synthesize a bit more, the company we sometimes take assignment from has a customer who also needs it"....
I also believe this kind of thinking can have very real practical applications. As a trivial example, say you look at a criminal organization and treat it as a living system. Then you can identify what kind of failure modes there exist in living systems in general and how these can be forced, and then use these insights to incapacitate the organization. Granted, I'd expect that most of these forced failures, say destroying or overloading their communications channels, will already be known to practicioners of the field. However, there may be some methods that are overlooked due to how sciences dealing with other kinds of living systems are seen as completely unrelated fields living in their own silos.
> The family returned to the Tesla service center in the new white Model Y, where the staff apologized, told them they hadn't seen anything like this before, offered to service the car, and gave the family a rental, Nathaniel Chien said. The Chiens declined to have the Model Y serviced, instead choosing to return it altogether.

Tesla also gave the owners the option of a repair or to just to get a different new one.
As a person interested in guns, media platforms have been nothing but killing access to them: deplatforming, hiding, unpublishing, fake strikes, whatnot.

Ie perhaps it's more that people are not that interested in the left (not surprising since it's not a centrist viewpoint) if they can't give the same kind of concrete proofs.
Rackspace is very mature. However in their cloud offerings I'm not experienced or so sure.

This is kinda surprising this ever happened, no cloud company allows this with nuremous safe guards in place. This is very embarrassing for RS.
I have always had a hard time finding new products that i liked. Every time i wanted to buy a gift i spend hours trying to find one, but with no luck.. Therefore i wanted to make a platform that makes it possible to find new tech products at ease.

Prodafy is a curation platform of today's best new products. Discover the latest crowdfunding campaigns, consumer products, and the tech products that everyone's talking about.
Your email isn’t visible to me in your profile.
> I.e. why cant The New York Times call themselves a platform and just post whatever they want?

Because the NYTimes pays staff to create it's content and exercises complete editorial control over said content, and thus is fully liable for the content published as news articles on its site. The NYTimes however is not liable for the content in the comments section on said news articles, though, they are allowed to remove comments that they do not wish to appear on their commenting platform.

Twitter is also liable for content that it publishes, eg: what the Twitter support account posts. But it is not liable for the content that I, dlp211, post to Twitter. Twitter still retains the right to moderate their platform as they see fit.

This applies to not just Twitter, but to every platform on the internet, from the Twitters and Facebooks and YouTubes to the MyNicheVBulletinBoard to Palor, 8Chan, and 4Chan.

Now I have mentioned previously that I am open to tweaks. While I haven't thought deeply about it, I would be open to considering a tweak along the lines that the platform becomes a publisher when it promotes content via human or computer decision making. This may or may not be a good idea after I think about it more deeply and discuss it with others, but the point is that I am not of the opinion that 230 is the end all be all but I am also of the opinion that I would rather live in a world with 230 than without it. I say that as someone that believes that their politics would be greatly benefitted by the repeal of 230.
I have a mother, not a fatheress. (Esperanto speakers got the joke)
I think this is more in the vein of Cards Against Humanity shenanigans.
2 is obviously a real concern, where the cases spiked the hospitals ran into serious trouble - and they will spike if left unchecked.

Also, consider that they have to mostly shut down the rest of the hospital due to staffing issues - but also the highly infectious nature of COVID.

Left unchecked, every hospital will hit their limits quickly. That'a a distinguishing characteristic of this one.

Edit: here is what the curve looks like without suppression measures in place. In NYC they came essentially to capacity very quickly. Imagine if that curve had of kept going, it would have been very bad.

It's the same R0 everywhere, the 'effective R' will come down to the difference being the age and relative health of the population, and of course other suppressive measures being taken.

[1] https://forward.ny.gov/daily-hospitalization-summary-region
[2] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
The real answer is to reform how checks are processed. With the interconnectivity that exists between banks today, there is zero reason (other than laziness on the part of banks) to have a delay of weeks or months to confirm funds availability.
Reading these comments, I've noticed an interesting inversion of the usual pattern:

1. Some guy says something about Linux.

2. He gets several replies that are multiple variations of "well, Linux doesn't work for me!"

In this case, it's Windows users mentioning how the issues in TFA don't happen to them.

Maybe this will help some understand that replying with "for me, it's broken!" (Whether it's about Linux or Windows or anything else) is very likely not helpful at all, or completely pointless at worst, because it might be perfectly possible that it isn't broken for the people who made the original comments so there's not much discussion to be had.

Maybe.
> My employer has over 2000 clusters running k3s

Oh wow.. Why so many clusters, and what kind of resources per cluster? Are you running 100 000s of physical servers?

Or are you just using k3s over three physical nodes as a way to achieve hardware redundancy and rolling hardware replacement?
Two things: first, you don't need every hospital to be overwhelmed for it to constitute an issue.

Second, every successful preemptive measure is by definition an overreaction. Perhaps you don't see more overwhelmed hospitals precisely because lockdowns are effectively preventing that.
#1 Pursue electoral reform to ensure you are democratically represented. Elections can't change policy for the long term without a proportionally representative democracy.
> Is your mortgage held by some fly-by-night bank

Even if it's not, it might be if someone decides to sell it. years ago, I went with a well known company, and in the disclosures they have fine print saying "we may sell this". 2 months after closing, they sold, and the new servicing company required $5 per payment 'fee'. I never agreed to that, but... essentially have no choice in the matter. Options? Spend another 4 figure amount to refinance and hopefully get a different servicing company?
I had a flat CRT TV a 30-ish Toshiba widescreen. But I was seated on a couch ten feet away so no problems there. I never had a flat CRT computer monitor.

I think my reaction was due to being so close to the computer CRT monitor. My brain had adjusted to the curve but when I got the LCD I felt like I was going to throw up I felt so disoriented. It took about a week to get over it.
Maturity has nothing to do with age, even 50 year olds can be imature.
> privacy trade-off for cards

A check literally has your full address and bank account number on it.. doesn't get much worse for privacy.
Agreed; however, it ignores return value of the build step.
Anyone have any issues with the messaging for a medical product with no proven success? "Use our product because the other option is poison!! Also we're only in phase one!!!"
There are more components to maturity than age.
I was always under the impression that this was the intent and was trying to imply that English was basically bastardized German. Is that not what Twain meant?
If you're waiting for a book to reach a reasonable price, the site camelcamelcamel.com lets you set a price target for a book and informs you when the Amazon price falls to that target. It also provides historical price data so you can see if the current price is good or bad. (I have no connection to the site except I find it useful.)
We have this system though

Are you sure? You're certainly correct that many popular payment methods are well overdue for being discontinued, but many methods of transferring money that you might think are permanent or even immediate can, under some circumstances, subsequently be reversed.

Unless you've been the victim who sent money to a scammer, of course, in which case all too often it mysteriously turns out that the method you used doesn't suffer from such a limitation. It's almost as if there's a whole dark industry of people who know which methods can be exploited like this and use it to abuse innocent people who made reasonable but incorrect assumptions about the competence and security of the financial services industry.
> massive increases in education resources

This is why China is the most advanced country in the world. They have entire camps set up for immersive education for people who talk about religious nonsense! How progressive!
Wingsails like this generally have a 3x to 5x advantage in lift/drag ratio for equal area.
They work under that exemption, but by having an algorithm that preferentially shows certain material to each user, they are exercising editorial control. Worse, the editorial control is a black box from the outside.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't understand why I would need to discover new products. Usually I buy products based on a specific need or use case.
What's the correct price?
> It amazes me that in 2020, we still struggle to implement a simple system where someone can reliably and permanently transfer money to someone else as the default, expected behaviour of the financial system.

Did you ever wonder why many transactions will accept money orders, but not checks?

The system is in place, and has been forever. It just isn't checks.
We don’t know yet, which is a reason to be cautious.
That "some immunity" is clearly insufficient, because people who actually got infected with Covid itself and then again with Covid, in many if not most cases have more severe symptoms. In fact, the scarce evidence suggests Covid might be a subject to Antibody Enhancement; that would mean that every next infection will get worse and worse. In any case, Coronaviruses have long be known to cause very short term immunity. Even more importantly, constant reinfection may debilitate the organism so much, that even a healthy person will eventually fall into the risk group.
32 in the US and I still have to write fucking checks, most commonly for paying rent. No landlord wants to eat the ~3% fee for taking a credit card. The other day I had to pay for some trees to be cut down and pruned in my yard, cost a couple grand which I am never going to have in cash on hand - same deal, the landscaper does not want to pay the 3% fee so it’s cash or check only.
Obviously, but the reason is unclear. Quality issues? Or people abusing it by taking a 5 day citytrip and bringing it back? etc
It's not like there isn't a number of screen recording and keylogging tools and/or malware available for any mainstream desktop OS.

Your comment makes it sound like this is a problem that only X11 has.
"Vacation Settings" for Amazon sellers doesn't show the listing to buyers, except when it's Fulfilled by Amazon.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/help.html?itemID=20...

eBay seems to have a similar option with "Pause item sales":

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/ebay-stores/manage-ebay-st...
I think you are thinking of the old Java-optimizing instructions on the older ARM processors.
This exactly. I get that banks have to release the funds by law, but they should show the status of the checks to their customers in a way that shows the potential risk those customers are taking on
Local/county governments and landlords tend to pressure people to use checks in my experience (northeast US). Property taxes where I live, for instance, you can pay with a credit card or EFT but the fees are absurd. I don't know why people don't want to at least take an e-check, but that's the way it is.
I don't know the US telco situation well enough, but I would assume either it is not profitable enough to provide this service, or the physical infrastructure is private, and it is prohibitively expensive and socially-wasteful to install parallel infrastructure.
Good to hear that you realized that management is not for you; it's not for everyone.

Alas, being a consultant is a lot about being in sales, how are your selling skills?

I think for a while you need to continue what you're doing, as you're doing; AND - along the way - investigate ways on where to bring your consultancy. Besides the usual suspects of books on selling, I also recommend the following reading:

* So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
* https://www.joelonsoftware.com/
* Rework
* Little Bets
* http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
If your discard outliers you get usable data.
Visualizing the World’s 100 Smallest Countries
That was a story from 2009, and it was referring specifically to sulfur dioxide rather than all air pollution:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping...

The high SO2 pollution was because heavy fuel oil used in oceanic shipping could have a very high sulfur content, up to 4.5%. The global limit has been lowered to 0.5% this year. In designated Sulfur Emission Control Areas the limit has been lowered to 0.1% since 2015.

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

The sulfur dioxide emissions from shipping have been slashed since that Guardian article was written. Other air pollution from shipping was not greater than that from cars in the first place.
There’s an irony in Atlassian failing to manage their internal roadmap and timelines.
Why cloud computing is considered as a revolution and challenging tech?
The commenter you are quoting is praising free speech. Yes, it is a good thing.

To belabor the point, what's ironic is that in the 1990s it was the right, 'the religious right', that wanted to censor free speech -- such as the speech of rap artists. Now it is the left that attacks free speech and wants to censor rap artists.

Previously it was the church that wanted to censor free speech. Now it is progressives, who 'f------ love science', who want to censor uncomfortable scientific results.

Somehow the teams, and costumes, changed.
> To me, social norm is just another form of force to impose ones will on others. And thus an attack on liberty. And the idea of a social contract is that I consent to give away some liberties for being able to participate in a functioning society. But when the social contract isn't explicit, and expectations arn't stated, I find that unfair, no matter if the force is physical or psychological.

Welp, good luck with that. There's tens of thousands of social rules that are understood by 99% of people, and you're not going to find an explicit list somewhere of how far to stand away from someone when talking to them, to what kinds of initial conversations are appropriate, to saying "thank you" after someone gives you something, to attributing an idea to someone else, etc. And failing to follow them will rapidly earn you scorn.

> For example, what is Amazon supposed to do here? Should they offer a job? Pay up some amount of money? Cancel their project? Put a banner on amazon.com thanking the contributor?

If the product is 98% built upon some open source stuff, you put in the 2nd or 3rd paragraph description that it's "built upon" or "powered by" or "makes use of." Even a footnote might be OK. This is pretty obviously the right thing to do, and it's also helpful to your users in understanding what your product is.
> So if the government is stepping in here and moving the liability from the platform to the content creator as a favor to the company, shouldn't the company be required to not be allowed to selectively allow posts (assuming it is legal content and related).

That's what the law was before 230, except that it essentially applied to illegal content, as well, because of the company tried to actively moderate even for just illegal content then it became liable for all content (it had to be 100% right if it tried to moderate illegal content.)

Being liable for only known illegal content is distributor, not publisher, liability, which is what it superficially looks like 230 does on its face (courts have applied 230 to provide no liability, not even distributor liability; expressly imposing distributor-style liability would be a modest reform.)
Not sure this can be solved at personal level. I always put emphasis on repairability when buying tech, but my tech still gets less and less repairable every iteration.
I think you mean ones like these https://www.google.com/search?q="my+first+is+in"+riddle ?

I've read about them en passant but never met one myself.
It appears however, that the whole strategy of "learning of living with Covid" might turn out to be unrealistic, we'll be forced to go for virus eradication route. NZ and TW, and partially CN did it, and they are doing very good.
No. A Full HD replacement screen for a last year's Lenovo Thinkpad can be had for as little as $59 on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/BRIGHTFOCAL-Thinkpad-1920x1080-Replac...
Herd immunity has never happened without a vaccine.