skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently on-call, essentially, for code I didn't write. (Not by choice, by necessity.)

We have a subsystem that is currently emitted millions of logs per hour, It's eating up most of the available compute. In a separate incident, it racked up a few thousand dollar bill by making millions of API calls that all failed.

It clearly has issues. But I'm not the primary dev: I have no familiarity with the code base, I have little idea what it is doing (and yes, I've asked). As I'm not a dev of the code (and have no time to become one — our agile sprint planning will never allow time for that, and, since I'm not one of the devs) I'm not able to add the information I need to the code to get the insights into answering "why is it eating up most of the compute?".

> The people who designed your car don’t have to change the oil in it.

No, but when the car fails to operate as designed, those people need to figure out the why. Also, a mechanic has an understanding of how the car is built, and how it functions. In software, the only people that have that are the devs.
Is there any viable way to bring back forums? I worry I'm going full "boomer," but damn do I miss the 90's internet.
But vitamin D isn't the cure though
I find it amusing that they advise bullying victims to completely ignore the abuse immediately after calling bullies disrespectful low-lifes.
Why would you need to write SQL if you are using grapql on postgraphile?
Graphql queries are much simpler anyway.
InstaTeX: Minimal TeX equation editor in the browser
People who play fretless instruments and trombone players are able to figure out where they're playing with just one marker.
How Close Is Humanity to the Edge?
No. This is terrible for the web. This closes of the the web to just their "legit" browser, like an app mandated by them. The very thing that made Google, Google is killing that.
What changes when you work outside an office?
So I am not alone
Recently a young orangutan died in our zoo. The mother carried it around for several days before laying it to rest.

Our zoo has a special area for apes that is built in with research mind. Scientists from the Max Planck institute can hide and observe and have access to rooms where they can do experiments. (e.g. shell games, etc)

There even is documentary soap on TV since 2003 with over 900 episodes aired till today, looking behind the scenes [0]. The caretakers seem to know a lot about the behavior of the animals, but I wonder how much of it is scientifically researched and documented.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elefant,_Tiger_%26_Co.
I live qutebrowser and this is frustrating.
This was published in an open-access journal called "Scientific Reports", one of many Nature-run-but-not-Nature journals currently diluting their brand. I'm not sure if the domain name confusion is deliberate or not.

https://www.nature.com/srep/about
Right now there are two rows (black and white), so more keys fit within the hand's span than if there were one row.

Would a chromatic keyboard have two rows?

If it does have two rows, then you must learn every scale twice, not once as you said.

If it has only one row, then either you won't be able to reach as far or you will have to make the keys much narrower and it will be easier to hit wrong notes.
You're right; I was being too broad in my critique.

Intellectually, I don't like domain DNS on the same box; practically speaking? It works and works well -- so well that it's often easier to disable per-domain DNS where my sites are hosted and just point A records over to the sites from MAIB.
Food for thought:

- The average age of death during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was 28 [1].

- 70% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths are age 70 and above [2].

These are very different pandemics, and it's not clear what comparisons between the two actually tell us.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoratio...

[2]: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/36/22035
I suspect there’s a bit more to this one. My immediate question was “do these populations differ?” because you could imagine some confounding effect where counties which rejected mask-wearing have something else in common, like say not following other best practices.

Skimming the paper (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6947e2-H.pdf), check out the chart on page 4; seems like when you look at the trend lines, the counties that didn’t enact mask restrictions had a lower rate of increase in infections prior to those restrictions going into effect, and the rate of increase didn’t change after. Furthermore, there was a really big spike around the time that the restrictions were put in place in the counties that enacted mandates. That spike didn’t show up in the counties where restrictions were not put in place.

I’m not sure to what extent regression to the mean applies in the context of infectious diseases; you could imagine some effects like holiday week where folks increase their risk for a short time and then stop again, causing the infection rate to drop again. I wrote that before checking the dates, and indeed the spike was around 4th July, so there’s a fairly good reason to believe that at least some of the reported post-intervention drop in infection rate was just due to people reducing their mixing/socializing back to pre-holiday levels. Though the rate started increasing before Jul4 so this can’t be the full explanation.

I support wearing masks, but this particular study doesn’t seem like strong evidence.
There is another idea I did not mention and that is "minimalising" the behavioural fingerprint. The most simple examples I can think of are DNS and Wikipedia.

User A makes a single request to download bulk DNS data or Wikipedia content, then makes it available on her loopback or local network.

User B makes a series of DNS queries for specific RR's or HTTP requests for specific Wikipedia pages.

How do the behavioural fingerprints of User A and User B compare?

Trackers generally cannot see the individual DNS queries or HTTP requests for Wikipedia pages that User A makes over her loopback or to addresses on her local network. However all of User B's individual DNS queries and HTTP requests, including timings and context, are easily visible to a variety of trackers operating on the internet.
The first time I downloaded the GIMP was when I realized that MS Paint wouldn’t cut it for making convincing Runescape “fakes”. I was too chicken to pirate Photoshop but knew that I needed better tools to do what I needed. I went on to use the GIMP to make Runescape forum signatures (proud member of $clan, $skill in woodcutting, etc). That was the first time I had people PMing me, asking me to make something for them. The first time I “sold” anything. A thrill I don’t experience anymore.

I went on to use the GIMP to make textures for Morrowind mods, diagrams and design mockups in college, and my wedding invitations.

Today I use the GIMP to design software architecture diagrams, mockups, and my D&D battlemaps.

I don’t mean to beat the dead Free Software horse, but this tool was indispensable for my creative young self. I’m gonna go give them some money now for the first time in 15 years of using the software. Thanks for sharing this.
I'm of mind that all government "monetary disincentives", e.g. fines, sin taxes, pollution taxes should go into fee and dividend scheme. Solves both moral hazard (we want more fines/driving because we need revenue) and regressive nature of those.
No. I do not want to install an app to read a website. That is what my browser is for.
Krita is a painting app comparable to Corel Painter. You can't compare it with GIMP or Photoshop.
"A friend owns a three-unit building in San Francisco, occupying the top floor himself. The two tenants underneath have fled. One lost a job and the other kept the job, but decided to lose the California tax rates and mask/shutdown protocols. Both units are now vacant.

"I asked how much rents have fallen and he responded with "30 percent." Why not rent the units out at the current market rate? "If you ever rent to someone in San Francisco," he replied, "you can never raise their rent more than about 2 percent per year after that. You're locked it at whatever rate you start with. So I am waiting until the shutdown ends, hoping that market rents will come back closer to what they were when I bought the building."

Tax property more when it's vacant.

Problem fixed.
Tell HN: Blind People Are Calling for Help with CAPTCHAs
There's an app called "Be My Eyes". It allows blind people to make video calls to the volunteers across the world for help with their day to day activities. I have been using it for quite some time now but what surprised me the most is that 98% of calls that I have received are for help with CAPTCHAs. I am pretty sure other volunteers are having same experience. If you think about it the blind are not calling for help with other day to day activities but something so trivial i.e. CAPTCHA which also has an easy fix: audio CAPTCHA!

I should also mention that most of these websites were Indian. So I will try and spread awareness among Indian developers that I know but if you are developer and working on some application that uses CAPTCHAs please include audio CAPTCHA as well. It helps the blind immensely.
Not clear what you need. Different products have very different needs.
Are you saying the company has asked you to build something based on what competition is doing and you want to build something else?
It’s quite funny because when I was around 18 I worked with an older guy (he was around 55) repairing and restoring printers. He was complaining that when a motherboard broke we just switched it out for a new and threw the old one out. He remembered a time when he used to replace the broken component on the motherboard and had it working again instead.
You think Netflix is polluting people’s minds? What’s OK with you, reading Wittgenstein over backgammon?
It’s probably not the number they got though; the STDDEV calculation or whatever error measure you choose will usually give you lots more decimal places. The decision was taken to round to 4 significant figures.

If you got 10 decimal places in your calculation, it would obviously be nonsense to give all of them.
In safety critical environment, you'd better have done your FMECA and designed the system to be "fail-safe". The problem with the 737-Max is that it wasn't.

Fail-safe doesn't mean "no failures" or "no breakages". It means that when they happen (and they will), the system fails in a way that is safe.

QA "gates" in terms of the "throw it over the wall to QA and they will test it in all possible scenarios to ensure quality" is different to QA "gates" that are "throw all of the failure modes that have been identified as dangerous and ensure that the system fails in a safe manner."

That can be part of a CI/CD pipeline in exactly the same way as in the web/cloud world, including generating all of the necessary documentation and evidence for ISO etc standards.
Rent control is keeping renters safe in San Francisco.
Ip6.sh – IPv6 Address Tools
with great power comes great responsibility.

ruby is amazing and once you get past your keanu stage and learn some of its most common pitfalls it's insanely good. it's one of the few programming languages that brings me joy when i use it.

also as a side note: if you believe rails==ruby you are limiting yourself. ruby is so much more than rails
So if rents go down, even temporarily, you potentially get trapped underwater? Who would want to rent out apartments in that environment?
The sexual connotation gets its name from the slur[1], because the suit handicaps the wearer. The name of the image editor originates from Pulp Fiction, which uses the sexual connotation.

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/40730/was-the-wo...
Here's what I don't get: Why not just block the ads, which has two benefits:

1. Reduces profitability of advertising companies
2. Makes browsing the web sane (not to mention 30000% more pleasant)

And then after you've blocked all the ads you can just search for $subject_or_product_genre_that_interests_you, on your own terms, without worrying about scumbags tracking you and mining crypto via javascript in your browser?
What has Intel been doing all these years?
Cliqz, ads in the address bar, Mr Robot malvertising. Firefox has a long history of throwing users under the bus for cash. The cash they get isn't reinvested into Firefox either, which is lagging behind both Chrome and Safari in a lot of ways. The cash is thrown at highly questionable Mozilla pet projects that are shuttered with nothing to show for it years later.

Mozilla is a mismanaged shell of its former self.

After users widely complained about the disastrous launch of Firefox Android that stripped most of the useful features, a senior Mozilla developer sent out a tweet giving the middle finger to users. [1]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/i8nuyb/firefox_de...
As someone who has never used
an Adobe product (other than read-only), you get used to it and learn to love it.
Monocle, great mix of art, lifestyle, politics, food, architecture and style
If someone is affected by the "copy-delete on move" problem on S3: there is a way to mitigate this https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.1.1/hadoop-aws/tools/hadoo...
Well... taking that cheap pill in a blind RCT would show the arrow of causality.

People have known about this correlation for months now. If it were really a thing, clinicians would be publishing case studies like crazy of successful treatment with vitamin-D. I'm not seeing that in the literature... so I doubt it will pan out.
TIL Lokl. Only ten stars yet but a nice concept for sure. Thanks for the knowledge drop John. If moving back to static is in the cards, I may take you up on your offer. Cheers.
I don’t think you’ve been paying attention.

Apple just released their first laptops with custom silicon cpu/gpu, declaring their independence from Intel.

They dropped Nvidia ten years ago.
Really hitting home how low pay must be in journalism.

How else to understand just how trash journalism has become?
> The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures."

> Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.
On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
Problem not fixed for the tenants.

I know landlords of rent controlled units in SF, and believe me, those tenants are making a huge tradeoff. Yes the rent is low, but forget about ever really liking the place you spend your life in. There is zero incentive to upgrade anything ever. If your toilet is leaking it will be fixed. But get ready to live with 30 year old fixtures, cabinets, carpets, etc. So sure, rent is low and that’s great. But it doesn’t come free. It’s definitely a major sacrifice to be making as a tenant.
I learned on software like PaintShop Pro and Photoshop, so I find GIMP to be incredibly frustrating software. I use it at work for editing and cropping photos since I don't have access to Adobe's suite and I'm fairly quick at those few tasks. But I just can't be bothered to learn anything more than that when I find it so frustrating and inefficient to use.
The Caretaker – A Pure CSS Horror / Puzzle Game
It’s also keeping a lot of homeless people out on the streets and forcing others to commute from Stockton.

You’re either lucky on the inside, or completely shit out of luck.
They do use it. You can find U-6 mentioned in many federal government documents.
Retailers Cut Back on Choices; ‘We Don’t Need Three Types of Red’
Stop using SQL already. We now have at least 4 decades of experience with them and found out that they are a suboptimal solution to the problem.

Just use an ORM or any other kind of library that removes the boilerplate and is 100x more maintainable and productive.

See how useful it is to not explain anything.
Woodworking. I’m 40+ and I enjoy old-fashion woodworking whenever I have spare time. I also have in mind to learn piano in the near future.
Yes, D is fat-soluble, so it won't increase much in serum levels until the fat is saturated with it.

But your criticism doesn't necessarily check out as the average BMI of group B was actually lower than that of group A.

See page 4 of the PDF [1].

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77093-z.pdf
Nice! I love you app. I’ve been working on a similar one I call App Maker that’s more for developers. https://appmakerios.com

I’ve even made the entire App Maker app inside SwiftUI to prove to myself just have viable it is.
How I signed the biggest deal of my career with Microsoft
Reasons to Set Up an Industrial Business in Dubai Industrial City
Dubai Industrial City holds an irrefutable reputation of being a manufacturing and logistics hub in the region that is enabling the businesses to achieve operational success steadily. The Industrial City has been at the forefront of supporting manufacturing and logistics companies in local and international markets through its efficient facilities and policies.
imho this is the reason he allowed the authorities to catch him. it was between getting caught or keeping his promise
I don't think it's seldom mentioned - it's both common knowledge among people who pay attention to financial/economic news and repeated monthly (when the new jobs report comes out). They're usually reported side by side.

It's much more misleading to suggest that the people not included in the unemployment rate are the "hopeless" since it includes children, the retired, and those unable to work.
“If you ever rent to someone in San Francisco,” he replied, “you can never raise their rent more than about 2 percent per year after that. You’re locked it at whatever rate you start with.”

A perverse incentive system for landlords locked in by governmental rent stabilization strategy? Perhaps a during the great reset which could dramatically shift the out of whack supply-demand curves due to work from home, which allows Twitter or FB workers freedom from being tethered to the physical offices and certain neighborhoods would allow a freer market wherein lower income workers could contribute to a vibrant streetscale of shops and restaurants to serve customers all along the economic stratum.

Behold better neighborhoods and communities by not locking out workers and families who contribute to the base resource needs of say the Tenderloin by allowing them a vested property interest in those communities. Sounds like a reasonable strategy to me and leads to Lee’s government interference and picking winners and losers based on solely economic factors such as maximizing rent.
They are an ARM licensee. ARM was acquired by NVIDIA. If there's bad blood between NVIDIA and Apple, all the more reason for Apple to drop ARM and go with a custom, Apple-designed ISA.
This was also not clear to me when looking at the pricing page. I assumed there was Free and Enterprise, and that to use this beyond 250 working days, I would have to go to Enterprise.
Wasn't the average height much smaller back in the 1880s when the current standard was apparently implemented. In which case, small-handed people might actually be closer to the size for which the current piano was originally intended.
About 3/4 of Reddit threads I've seen and wanted to comment on have been locked due to that time limit.

Sometimes the OP's original question is unanswered and I could have helped.
It was MS who forced it big; they wanted standardisation on both professional and 'home computers'; IBM PC (clones) and MSX[0] respectively, both running MS software. MSX failed, but the idea was the same; a hardware standard everyone would adhere to and MS would have the software for. MS was a huge factor in making that happen; no-one knows what would've happened if they would not have done that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
Tried booting an old dual Xeon (Nocona, circa 2004) with 5GB of ECC ram a few months ago with several Linux ISO's. None of the kernels would get very far into the loading process before just stopping.

Meanwhile, FreeNAS worked and booted fine on it. Even though it only had 5GB ram. ;)
Does it matter? Populations for ref:

Maharashtra pop. 11.42 crores

France pop. 6.7 crores

Germany pop. 8.3 crores

Clearly, there is a bias in favour of western authors in tech. No harm in offsetting it a little bit. It's also not like anyone is forcing people to read about it.
"If the old lady swallowed a fly. Just have her swallow a spider to catch the fly. Problem fixed."
> You say an amateur video is proof for widespread fraud.

Project Veritas are not amateurs. I did not say it was proof of widespread fraud, but certainly more than 12 cases.

> You say that inspite of this being the US and the election being the most watched in the world from media all over the world.

How many countries sent international observers?

> You want me to believe that not a single media entity picked upon it and pursued it?

I am not asking you to believe that. [0] They did a cursory report and stopped covering it. Media report on PV regularly, frequently lying or misrepresenting the truth, and often having to issue retractions. [1] You are free to come up with your own interpretation for this behavior.

> There is a multi billion dollar right wing media like fox and others, that live for these and you want me to believe they didn’t look into this?

Actually I want to illustrate that your perception ("One person finding 12 cases of fraud is a huge deal and I think you would be hailed a hero and be on the news.") is not accurate.

> On top of that you also say that the trump administration has extremely credible lawsuits and proof of fraud?

I didn't pass judgment on their credibility as the sworn affidavits of many witnesses stand on their own, since the witnesses would be subject to perjury charges if what they have said is found to be untrue. However the videos of Raquel Rodriguez are indeed proof of fraud. I'm not surprised that people who find them inconvenient would latch onto any interpretation ("dramatic reconstrcution") in order to maintain their worldview and/or rhetorical position.

> I was discussing purely out of intellectual curiosity

To be frank that doesn't seem to be the case.

> if am done here. Have a good one.

Yes, you as well.

[0] https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minneapolis-police-omar-bal...

[1] https://www.projectveritas.com/wall-of-shame-retracto/
The problem is the conversation threads. You can't read them in the new format. They constantly elide them so you have to click on them and it jumps around on the screen.

In the old view, I can read a page full of threaded comments on a thread I've clicked into. In the new layout, you get maybe five comments, and a scroll to the next thread. It is awful.