skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The WHO January:

> International traffic: no restrictions recommended. Wuhan city is a major domestic and international transport hub. Currently, there are no reports of cases outside of Wuhan City. Given the heavy population movements, expected to significantly increase during the Chinese New Year in the last week of January, the risk of cases being reported form elsewhere is increased. WHO does not recommend any specific health measures for travellers. It is generally considered that entry screening offers little benefit, while requiring considerable resources. In case of symptoms suggestive to respiratory illness before, during or after travel, the travellers are encouraged to seek medical attention and share travel history with their health care provider. WHO advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the information currently available on this event.

It’s a good thing Trump didn’t listen to them and limited immigration by end of January. They made many more reckless recommendations like this well after they knew people were dying, it was spreading rapidly, and it was a coronavirus.
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Hollywood is an artificial monopoly. I just hope with the recent surge of more "indiehackers" and bootstrapped businesses, it means VCs arent held up as arbitrary gatekeepers to capital and starting a startup.
Easy to formulate as a principal - much harder to execute in principle - we have actual data protection laws at this point in time that should in principle negate a lot of this but they’re openly flauted all the time!
> but the city streets are decaying and filled with crime.

Although there's been an uptick in recent years, violent crime is way down compared to the 70's. As for nonviolent crime, I'd like to see numbers.
Alternative title: Reseller of Pranayama.

I'd suggest to check out Anuloma-Viloma, Kapalbhati, and Bhastrika. All amazing Pranayama methods and breathing exercises.

Anuloma-Viloma is very easy and very powerful, helps reducing anxiety and stress levels.
Amazon has a legion of lawyers and probably quite a few technically apt ones that are actually comfortable diving into questions around whether a chef/ansible/whatever script to provision a linux box will go against GPL - and additionally whether pre-baked containers qualify or if a service to dynamically build pre-baked containers would qualify...

These are, honestly, expensive questions to answer as the tech gets more complicated - at what point is linux part of the binary you're distributing vs. an external dependency and, if you get the answers wrong, you'll potentially create an outage that will wreck havoc on the economy by grinding the cloud to a halt and cost Amazon tens of billions in revenue.

This is a very, very, complicated situation.
Outages are not always caused by bugs you deploy to production. They can be due to capacity issues with too many users at once using the platform.
>"Like if I were in his shoe, this is how I would treat myself."

This is a very healthy way to think about things as a manager. I like knowing why I have to do a task, to have the chance to give feedback, and to get leeway to push for what I think is best. I try every day to support those things for my team.
Patents and copyright are the parallels in other industries, although they compensate inventors more. Eventually it all goes into the public domain.
Cox Communications announces scheduled outage for network upgrade
A thought which had come to my mind while reading this thread. One of the UK's "lane closed" signs, perhaps? ;-)
My POV is from American politics where the left is in lockstep with the censorship going on at Google, Facebook, and Twitter. This very story is about how Joe Biden is being protected by those tech giants. Those tech giants also are the ones protecting leftist movements like Antifa and the Democratic Socialists of America.

Maybe there's a part of the left outside of the USA that still stands up for free speech? Not here in the USA. That game is over. Except for a few voices in the wilderness like Brett Weinstein and Sam Harris, the left is comprised of those whose interests and actions now align with the tech giants.
True, but have you ever been involved in purchasing at a big company? Trying to procure and ship a pony would take longer than just writing the software yourself (I'm not even joking).
> So you're saying the only courtesies we should render to others in life are ones that we're duty-bound by license agreements or other contracts to give?

Isn't that the whole point behind the rule of law and the civil society?

Anything that isn't well understood or known in advance of someone engaging in an activity, and then later faces unfair retribution because apparently they didn't do what wasn't told to them that needed be done, or did something that wasn't told to them shouldn't be done.

All these "social norm" sounds like guilt trip and power grabs to me. You did something you said was free and that you were giving it to me no string attached, then you come back and guilt trip me saying that there were in fact strings attached and that you expected things in return.

Now, yes I understand that maybe when you said hey this is open source with Apache license, you had in mind an audience of students, or one man startups, or hobbyist, or amateurs, and hadn't really thought if it applied to big corps. And I actually wonder how the courts normally handle this, when someone who put the conditions forward first was in a position where they couldn't have anticipated the event and thus couldn't have pre-conditioned it. I'm not too sure how to handle it myself, but here I'm guessing is a lesson to learn for others, choose your license carefully, think about the various possibility.
No I totally get that. It is designed for data warehousing workloads rather than transactional. I'm saying that I have seen it more as a feature of "you use your existing tools and drivers" since it speaks the postgres wire protocol.
> I think it should be possible to modify the GPL3 to disallow any usage in a for-profit setting

That's not how GPLv3 works. Both in terms of selling [1] and in terms of additional permissions under section 7.

GPLv3 without a CLA essentially requires you make the modified code available, but not when it's behind a cloud/webservice. For that you need AGPLv3.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
It’s hard to look at your list and be impressed with Silicon Valley since around 2010.

The 2010s seem to be a decade where existing giants scaled, without any fundamentally new technological developments.
I completely agree. I recently made a similar change; the removal of the cognitive dissonance between "I'm a person who likes X and not Y, but I admire people who like Y and not X" was refreshing and invigorating.

On a side note, it's interesting to meta-analyze the strategy and realize that the kind of person you want to become is also shaped by the same factors. However, I find I have a much better chance at arriving at a "correct" or "best" aim by objectively analyzing identities other than my own, and then changing my own to match, than by simply following my own random impulses.
Maybe my lack of lower level language knowledge will show here, but how does that compare to Rust? I keep seeing and hearing about these new-ish languages Rust, Nim, Zig, etc. that all claim to be C/C++ perf lvl but better developper experience.
Any of these is preferred for API/Web development? Does it yield much advantage over something like Elixir that already provides significant perf increase over a Python(Django-Flask)/RoR stack?
Received an email this morning about a scheduled outage for network upgrade in the next 2 weeks or so. Unsure as to how widespread this will be, but have can confirm customers in Tucson, AZ and Phoenix, AZ are on this list.
Thanks for the response! This really shows the lack of clarity in your thinking. We can review each item quickly:

1. He could honor people doing racial justice work - Does not doing this make someone a racist? Silly. Also, here is a direct quote from February 2020 (see how I use actual evidence) "We’re here with some of the black leaders of our country and — people that are highly respected and people that have done a fantastic job and, for the most part, have been working on this whole situation with me right from the beginning." Does that sound like something a racist would say?

2. He could stop stoking fear of immigrants - This is not a specific example.

3. He could insist on full investigations of police violence toward black people - This isn't the responsibility of the president. If he got involved in police business people would say he is overreaching. This is again a subjective thing you "feel" he could do. The agencies that are supposed to be involved are.

I try to stick with concrete facts to base my opinions on. This has been a great example where you really want to think he's racist because of what you see in the media but have so far provided 0 objective evidence for your claim.
Took me a while to understand based on my own hearing loss that it's not about decreased sensitivity to sound. Hearing is about sound volumes that occur between two limits: The threshold of sensitivity (above which you discern that the sound exists), and the threshold of pain (above which the sound is painful). Between those limits lies hearing.

In age-related "hearing loss," the threshold of sensitivity rises while the threshold of pain stays the same or even decreases slightly. So the range of volumes you can comfortably discern becomes narrower. This explains why simply increasing the volume often does more harm than good. What's really needed to treat hearing loss is frequency-specific volume compression.
That’s fantastic. Did you come up with that?
I was in a T-bone accident where another car hit me centered right in between the driver and passenger doors. My left ear now has tinnitus, and I too have a hard time hearing conversation in large groups of people. However, after the wreck, I visited hearing specialist several times. I always passed their tests of the faint frequencies. They cannot explain where the ringing originates.?!?! It's one of those things it is hard to get a doctor to believe you since they can't actually see anything wrong. No broken bones, no lacerations, not bruising, nothing. Just ringing that they cannot hear.
It’s open source, if you’re mad a company used the software in a way you don’t like, you’re not really getting it.
Behind Facebook lay an event bigger threat to our democracy: a population lacking the educational foundation necessary to build informed opinions on issues by seeking and critically evaluating available sources of information.
The story is more interesting, especially in the case of Wirecard.

The FT started questioning Wirecard's accounts years ago, and Wirecard and the German financial services regulator, BaFin responded by... launching legal attacks on the FT, accusing the paper of colluding with short sellers.

The FT kept finding and printing more and more evidence, EY kept giving Wirecard audit cover, and BaFin kept up an aggressive defence... of Wirecard.

Then finally €1.9bn was found to be missing. The various "evidence" provided to EY to "prove" the money was real shouldn't have fooled anyone who had even the most basic grasp of professional auditing. When the shares were in freefall, BaFin finally admitted that perhaps there was a problem.

Then EY's CEO sent a letter to clients in which he said “Many people believe that the fraud at Wirecard should have been detected earlier and we fully understand that. Even though we were successful in uncovering the fraud, we regret that it was not uncovered sooner.”

The part in italics is simply a lie. EY did not uncover the fraud. The FT did. And in fact what finally killed Wirecard was an independent audit by another Big 4 member - KPMG - which was supposed to vindicate Wirecard, but actually found "irregularities" which Wirecard couldn't explain.

So - what to conclude? It's hard to avoid a cynical interpretation - that auditing at this level is basically PR with spreadsheets, intended to reassure investors that everything is fine, and not a serious effort to reveal financial irregularities.

It's not just EY. KPMG, Deloitte, and PWC have all had issues of their own. The underlying problem is that these companies are hired by their clients to provide a clean bill of health, and if they're too thorough they're not hired again. So the incentives are - let's say - heavily aligned against too much stringency.

The FT Wirecard story is well worth a read. The FT is (expensively) paywalled, but some of the reporting is free.

https://www.ft.com/content/284fb1ad-ddc0-45df-a075-0709b3686...
How so? The thing that defied explanation was the fungi, not the twinki itself.
Thanks for this one, I forgot about it. This is relatively new addition, in times past the only way was to listen on separate protocols (one process on TCP and one on UDP, for example).
The travel "ban" was political theater, targeting only foreign nationals; red meat to add on to the existing trade wars. It had already escaped China at the time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/01/debate-ear...

> The measure that the Trump administration implemented could not be described as a “ban” that “closed the country”: It only prohibited U.S. entry to foreign nationals who had visited China in the last 14 days. Americans and U.S. permanent residents returning from Hubei Province were still allowed, subject to a 14-day quarantine. After these policies were enacted, hundreds of thousands of travelers continued to arrive in the United States via direct flights from China. Until Feb. 27, no other travelers to the United States faced such travel restrictions and quarantine requirements — even if they were arriving from other nations that were reporting coronavirus cases.

> Restricting flights from China did nothing to prevent the virus from arriving from other parts of the world. Genetic analyses have shown that the large epidemic that unfolded in New York was linked to travelers from Europe. In the early days of the U.S. epidemic, testing was restricted to people with a travel history to China, which limited the ability to detect locally the cases and infections among travelers from other countries.

> By the time Trump expanded travel restrictions to Iran on Feb. 28 and to European nations on March 12, it was largely too late. By mid-March, the United States was approaching 2,000 confirmed cases and experiencing severe shortages in testing capacity that meant many infections likely went undiagnosed. The travel restriction did not initially apply to the United Kingdom, which already had hundreds of reported cases. And, implementation caused chaos. Photos showing large crowds of Americans stranded together in long lines and tight corridors for hours at airports may have increased virus transmission among those travelers who eventually made their way back to the United States.

https://apnews.com/article/0dc271ad7f7917374a5a0cfb49273783

> A recent study from the journal Science found China’s internal crackdown modestly delayed the spread of the virus. It cast doubt that travel restrictions elsewhere will do much compared with other preventive measures, citing in part the likelihood that a large number of people exposed to the virus had already been traveling internationally without being detected.
Benign enough to spread without concern
Well it's mostly because partnerships are extremely flexible flow-through structures.

If it were a corporate structure, there is corporate tax, so you have more of an incentive to spend as much as you can as opposed to tight spending and paying people as little as you can so you get as much profits as you can (partnership flows directly to the individuals, so there is no form of double taxation).

Also with a partnership you just rewrite your agreement which you keep 100% internally and do whatever you want. Corporate structure has a lot more overhead, you have requirements that should be met and so forth.

There are good reasons.. most of them the same old bs taking advantage of the system in one way or another.
Nicaraguan Sign Language is a sign language largely spontaneously developed
The author compares it to asking about 2+2, but I think it's more closely analogous to asking "What can we say about 4 and 2+2?" Given the ambiguous wording, I wouldn't expect anyone to answer confidently, and lost of intelligent people would answer eight rather than "they're equal."
'Sex ban': England's Covid tiers throw new obstacles in way of romance
300 years is so far off, you are basically implying a worldwide conspiracy

EDIT: i read through other comments by you and you seem to be dangerously deep down a rabid hole of believing society to be hocussed by descartes' demon, throwing around words like propaganda and indoctrination that imply evil intent and planning. There is philosophical insight in cartesian doubt, and that radical constructivism you seem to hold dear, but the path you walk is very dangerous, as it is beset by highwaymen that want to break peoples sanity and hook them on their ideology, cultism or concept of enemies. Please be careful.
French is well known* to be on the complete opposite spectrum in terms of speed of evolution or disposition to adopt new words/constructs.

Surely there is an happy middle ground.

* as most well known things without strong factual basis
100G networking in AWS, a network performance deep dive
"1. you work on the next feature in private"

That's precisely what I did with Sciter development all these years.

"3. release a video of you demo'ing the feature"

That's what the Kickstarter campaign is all about.

"5. if not, you delete it"

Yep :)
If it’s too severe the hosts take mitigation strategies which reduce the spread
Never hang out with an audio mixer. They point out some many noises in day-to-day life that I have just tuned out or never even noticed. Once they point it out though, I can't not hear it. To be fair, I'm that way about video and compression pointing out to people how shitting cable quality is. I'm a TV sales rep's worst nightmare.
Yes, I get that but wouldn’t launching new features be adding pressure during an outage which complicates the things? Capacity issue also could have been caused by a new feature probably acting greedy on the resources too.
Yep, a manager can focus on climbing the ladder once they offload their responsibilities onto the people beneath them. If their boss can't detect this abdication, or worse, doesn't want to see it, then the manager's opportunism will naturally be rewarded, and will encourage the opportunism of other managers in the org.
That would then imply that the previous provider is a publisher not a platform. The whole point of this discussion?

Of course you can build your own everything, you could build your own electrical grid with your own power generation too but instead we reasonably say that if you can afford it you have access to it.
Why do you think it’s shitty for Amazon to use an open source project this way? Do the licenses really mean nothing and the unwritten expectation is that the author of open source software should get rich if a someone else successfully productizes it?
How does the endowment affect apply here? It looked like the babies tended to choose the novel item instead of the item they hadn't chosen previously.
Incorrect. If you are standing on the street, everyone will hear you whether they want to or not (though they may ignore you), unless they are deaf.
But that’s exactly what happened here. The NY Post thing had leaked PII data, hence the removal.
> I think the article misses what I think is a vitally important part of the job: being a crap shield.

One of my first jobs, it was described colourfully (it was in the UK) as being the team umbrella. i.e. Protects the team from the ever circling pigeons from above that like to frequently 'deposit'. :)
Say No To Elected Kings.
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> "The proper way" is not an objective thing and to present it as such is disingenuous.

I agree that it isn't objective, but how is believing it is disingenuous?
Absolutely. This is especially relevant, these days, when HR departments are basically taking an actively adversarial role towards employees.

I used to get crap from HR, if I chose to resolve personnel issues without involving them.

The problem was, they had only two speeds: Do Nothing, or KILL ALL THE BABIES. Nothing in between; despite their constant harping about how they were "on our side." Their job was to keep the C-suite happy. It was absolutely amazing how many rules that were "hard and fast," and "applies to everyone here," would suddenly fail to be implemented, when it was a C-suite doing the rulebreaking.

There were also companywide policies, meant to appease union employees, that would also apply to the other 90% of the company that wasn't union (and thus, did not have the mitigating benefits), or that were in place to manage hourly employees, but also applied to exempt (from a life) employees.

It was my job to try to mask that kind of crap from my employees, and I got called on the carpet a few times, because of it. I would do it all over again, if I had to.
I’m curious to know whether it is your definition of “virtually everywhere” or “cheap” that is very broad?
The quote at the end of the article about computers being for community, not insight, resonates well with me, especially given where this is posted right now. I also empathize with the author's take on reading rationalist literature basically making me feel less alone rather than helping develop any kind of special insight or skill at winning anything, really.
>Tyler Cowen once called rationalism “just another kind of religion”, but if so, it seems to be a fairly unsuccessful one.

it's much worse, it's basically self-help or Oprah for nerds, religion at least has some spiritual value. I honestly don't know how anyone can tolerate that stuff, it ranges from cringe inducing harry potter fan fiction to bad takes on AI. One of the worst things I've experienced working in software development is that there's way too many people who keep sending me these blog posts.
> tons of music and culture

High living costs and living conditions will have the starving artists that make these things you consume flock somewhere else or never move out to the Bay in the first place. Consequently the next generation of these artists won't be coming out of the bay, ironically you'll start to see more culture and art come out of places like Detroit.
I do believe your wishes and even your knowledge of the space of what is possible is a product of exactly those things.

My wish to change and then taking an action to change is a function of the environment and everything that came before, probably I read or heard about it somewhere. Similarly, perhaps by me writing about it here a neuron will flip in someone else's mind that the way "they are" is not immutable, and that they can take an active role in molding their own personality and likes.
I agree this question is phrased very strangely in a way I find hard to parse. Perhaps this is a common way of speaking in academia, but "what can we say about…" was not a phrase I immediately understood. I was also unsure if he meant `not A AND not B` or, casually, `not A` and also `not B`. If it was phrased more precisely, I think I would have been able to answer better.
This whole thing reminds me of old-style, bad tech interviews where the interviewer is really selecting for someone similar to themselves, i.e., someone who understands a particular obscure phrasing of a problem, and immediately knows the correct answer.

However, he does point out that he tried explaining things, and different phrasing, so maybe there really is something here.
Water is a feature of all cities for historical reasons. Hills are common as well. As for old : you a practically new born, compared to cities in Europe.