skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for your response!

I read those threads, and it seems the conclusions were:

(1) There will be an additional mechanism that allows for up to 7 days -- and that includes daily acknowledgements. Oh, and it is desktop only, it does not work on servers.

So this means that if I leave my computer for more than 24 hours (like for the weekend) I come back and see my software updated. Let's hope that presentation was not monday morning!

(2) If I want to have deb-like mechanism I need to "Rebuild snapd itself"

(3) There is no work planning on replicating deb-like mechanism that allows indefinite postponement of updates. This is because every core developer thinks this is a bad idea.

Did I get this right?
Considering this going to be the strategy all over the world,

I think children should get the vaccines ASAP provided the vaccine is proven safe as missing a year of school is going to have profound impact on their life and society. Many students from marginalized society, especially from poor countries might never go to school again as they have been employed by their parents for meager sum.

But I think definition of who's 'vulnerable' is what going to be contentious, apart from obvious front-line workers and elderly whom would you decide are vulnerable? Immunity compromised individuals? I'm myself house ridden for over 2 years now due to spine surgery and so likely immunity compromised but there's no way that could be informed to the Govt. I just hope my elderly parents get their vaccine.
> unpopular President

Who set a record for votes. He wasn't unpopular, he was the 2nd most popular candidate ever.

People like to undersell how well the democrats did in 2018 and in 2020. Georgia going blue, Arizona going blue, and the blue wall getting rebuilt...it's pretty impressive. They kept the house, and may yet still win the senate.

The districts are already stacked against democrats as is. Republicans won't gain much from redistricting.
This is neat! Did not have much luck searching for that on neither SO or Github "python unique list values ordered". The first answer on Google is what I would expect: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44628186/convert-python-...

Given it is bound to a general shortcut ala Alfred (or Spotlight), would it make sense to integrate with the former for people who use it?
Ugh I have had nothing but poor experiences with Loebs, at least for Roman authors. It is quite a feat to make Tacitus sound like some flowery and long-winded 19th century academic, but they pulled it off somehow. Reading it in the original Latin several years later, I was pleasantly surprised by his unadorned clarity and conciseness
“Longer this, shorter that, better materials” is refinement, not “substantial redesign”.

The point is the essential form and function has remained the same for thousands of years. Knives, forks, spoons etc. are still knives, forks, spoons etc.
I don't think any enterprise can survive without chat.
I think its a combo. Ive also been on reddit since the early days and never witnessed a tectonic shift like that.
Fascists killed something like 70-5 million people during WWII. The neocon/neoliberal wars in the middle east have killed a couple of million.
> Everything has to do with human relationships at a certain point, so it’s really worth investing some effort in improving your likeability.

Also it's just a more enjoyable way to go through life- seeing everyone as a potential ally vs a foe. I noticed when I started being friendlier and liking other people more, people liked me more. It was just a more enjoyable way to navigate life, and I think can be a self-fulfilling prophesy when you assume everyone is interesting, everyone IS interesting in their own way.
Covid-19 Vaccine: Should Lawmakers Get Priority?
You're not arguing in good faith and what you're saying is, "I don't want to live in a democracy, I want to live in an authoritarian one-party state."

There was no election fraud of any kind and every single one of these lawsuits is really intended to undermine small-d democracy and invalidate the election.

Get the fuck out.
>and paraphrased operas like 'The Mikado' with ease.

He seems to have misspelled a lot of things in his charming "parody" version of it: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer_letter,_July_26...

He also easily could've had a recording or lyrics transcript at hand while writing it, perhaps from a library. Or even if he recounted the structure from memory, he could've just seen the play a lot, or at most he might just have pretty good musical memory. It doesn't necessarily indicate he's especially intelligent or that his rampant misspellings and incorrect grammar are deliberately planted and contain hidden meaning.
> All of this has already happened - keeping Trump and his supporters in "mainstream sites" did nothing to restore trust in elites, or mend the rift in media, so I'm not sure why it would suddenly work now that he's finally being shown the door.

The media and elites just spent four years burning their credibility in an incinerator. (Which I think is a tremendously bad thing for America.) Imagine if, instead of spinning out a yarn about Trump being a Russian asset for two years and having to massively walk it back, they had kept their powder dry and responsibly reported on the bad things actually contained in the Mueller report. Do you think that maybe folks would be less willing to believe the outrageous things Trump is saying now?
Get the fuck out of here with your bullshit.
Just want to add for anyone who comes after reading this, I think these types of recommendations are tied strongly to personality. If you have a similar personality, then take this advice. If you're more risk adverse, more anxious, more prone to depression, then it's possible that this advice is harmful. Obviously poster didn't intend any harm but it's hard to caveat everything with "this may not apply to you." Just be careful - some people have the resources and personality to learn "hands on" and some people would do much better with a lot more intellectual understanding or with a supportive community or with some other available resource. Know yourself.
The assumption is a pretty important aspect. Everyone agrees healthcare workers + a few other groups should be among the first to benefit from covid immunity.

But that's what, 5-10% of the population? There will be waiting lines for the other 50-70% of the population needed for herd immunity.

I hope to see us all act in a civil way, waiting our turn and being kind to each other during those times. I will take it when without asking for any special treatment (neither to be inoculated sooner, nor later).
Let's say the government does something bad. Say it starts an unnecessary war or something.

I want people to be free to criticize that without being worried about being targeted by the government or it's supporters.

It is extremely important that people are free to criticize the government, while being as immune as possible to retaliation for that criticism.
Reading the ending hits closer to home and made me more sad than expected!

Andrew Welch was uneasy about the idea of scaling up, especially when they could survive as they were just fine off their utility products

Way back in the day, YC always said not to worry about competitors raising tons of money (not sure if that's still the rec). The 2008 DHH boostrapping talk during Startup School is still one of the most influential videos on my career as a founder. But that path is increasingly less popular!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Lastly, for all the bolo comments out there, I remember the huge transition from modems to school ethernet that made it playable - it was honestly one of the reasons I was looking forward to dorm life!
Password reset is not working. Sign up is very janky and not very user friendly. Reach out to my email for a more detailed review, I'd love to incorporate weather data in my forecasting systems.
Cash flow failure.

For example, right now there is a LOT of empty commercial real estate in the US because you can claim that empty stuff at the same rate as when it was rented out but tack it onto the end of the mortgage. However, if you rent it out for less the bank gets to call you in and demand cash as your basis has changed.

There is also a bunch of this in malls: places like Cheesecake Factory simply quit paying rent. As a mall owner, what are you gonna do--kick them out?

This all works as long as there is enough cash flying around and the Fed is printing LOTS of money.

The problem is that once the defaults start they will go like dominoes.

Most likely scenario to trigger this would be the boomers starting to die en masse due to age and their heirs wanting to cash out their stock positions. Stocks are great--until you want to convert them to cash.
Your and likely most people's interpretation when they hear "ban" is that the FDA took some active step to specifically ban the J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines.

The other interpretation is that all pharmaceutical drugs are banned by default and that approving a drug is actually removing that ban. I suspect the original commenter was using "ban" in this context.
I’m pretty sure Nazi propaganda is banned on YouTube?
Does it work without the internet? As of right now I'm using Dash to search the docs of every language I use and stack overflow while I'm offline for maximum focus.
I do believe we have a 36-hour to vaccine protocol for pandemic flu (one of my coworkers ran a real run of the protocol against a novel flu strain almost a decade ago [0]), estimated weeks to first responders/highly vulnerables and maybe a month or two for general population.

This is really at the limit of what is physically possible (at best some sort of highly flexible distributed manufacturing network maybe down to weeks for general population?): Flu vaccines are very precedented, and though this protocol had many "new bits" efficacy, infra, and scaleup are kind of more "well known".

[0] it was considered to be a dry run in case of a real pandemic; he was told that he would get a phone call during the week, and was emailed the flu virus sequence one morning, built the vaccine over the course of a day, and fed-exed the vaccine seequence to the scaleup and testing facility and by 36 hours they had validation that the vaccine caused a positive antigen response. That year's flu did not become a pandemic, well by luck so far we really haven't had a major flu pandemic since that year.
depends on the degree. BA in psych doesn't usually require it, whereas BS typically does. BA in psych (unfortunately by far the most popular program) is like a sociocultural degree but with pretensions of offering treatment. BS in psych OTOH is reasonably demanding, sort of a pre-med lite. no Ochem and the highest required math is typically some sort of applied stats for health sciences.
That's how CGI works, but FastCGI has no such restriction, at least not inherently.

Web server implementations may vary, but Apache at least allows sending many concurrent requests to a single FastCGI backend process: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_proxy_fcgi.html
> less than half the deaths per capita

There's so much luck involved in those figures at any given point, not to mention the influence of different definitions and testing strategies, that I wouldn't make the claim that Canada is doing better or worse based on stats like that. Just look at the huge differences between different states (and in Canada's case, provinces).

After all, two months ago you might have said that Sweden did much worse than the EU. Yet at this moment, the EU average reported deaths-per-capita is just slightly below Sweden's, with many countries significantly above.
> How does it compare with "links", a more modern implementation of similar type.

I've used both and links is vastly preferable, IMO.

Although I tend to use the name "elinks" since it's much more google-able.
Many societies have believed some version of this myth. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/7/5/eternal-subju...
So, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Heart of Gold and Infinite Improbability Drive.
I’d imagine google would at-least make both appEngine run on the same core primitives that cloud run uses. So while the public facing api is the same, the internals are replaced. At-least that’s how I’d approach it. Deprecate app-engine in that it will be infinitely supported until the last customer, but all new stuff is advocated to be used on cloud run.
I used to wonder why so many different programming languages and why so many opinions about them.

After couple of decades i learnt about Domain Specific Language (DSL) concept.

I started out coding COBOL and some assembler after learning Pascal and others during education. I now code in python, c, c# or whatever us best fit.

My opinion and experience suggests these are all DSL just as COBOL was probably one of the first. It is excellent for business logic and business transaction oriented data processing.

Like all languages and tools the in output is mostly unreliable garbage in the hands of the ignorant and unskilled/ill-disciplined.

I don't think the popularity of languages is as much to do with their technical merits add it is about the community that builds around each. Each community if like a tribe and the tribes have norms arising from their environment and common needs.

My 2c.
> All the jurisdictions I know will blow through the entire supply of existing doses allocated to them very quickly. It doesn't go on a slow distribution ramp gated by approval like your ridiculous source suggests.

You misunderstand. "Blowing through entire supply" and being left with nothing is exactly the "slow distribution" Alex Tabarrok, a professor at GMU, talks about in the link I gave. He contrasts it with vaccinating entire population on day 1. Read it carefully.

> What governs the ramp is production rates, which have been running flat-out irrespective of this decision.

I consider the vaccine production regulation people to be just as incapable at cost-benefit analysis as vaccine approval people, so I assume that most production constraints are just as artificial as the approval constraints.
> similar broad brush claims about government are completely lacking in content.

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

Or, specifically:

> Due to the slow response to the hurricane, New Orleans's top emergency management official called the effort a "national disgrace" and questioned when reinforcements would actually reach the increasingly desperate city.[10] New Orleans's emergency operations chief Terry Ebbert blamed the inadequate response on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). "This is not a FEMA operation. I haven't seen a single FEMA guy", he said. "FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control. We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans."[10]

On COVID:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelyncorley/2020/04/10/us-g...

I think that two colossal failures are enough to convey a "The government responds inefficiently and generally poorly to significant humanitarian issues".

> absolutely destroys the private sector in efficiency and effectiveness for many important things.

Maybe. Lots of private sector work is held up specifically _by_ government.

> I'd rather let the CDC work on vaccine distribution protocols than leave it to Taco Bell.

I mean... I agree. But I never suggested we leave vaccines in the hands of chain businesses. I just pointed out that, historically, the US government botches jobs like this spectacularly. The confidence lots of these comments have in the govt efficiently distributing the vaccinations based on need, to me, is not in line with the realities of the US government wrt issues of public health and safety.
Only the FDA does things this way.
Will Vaccinated People Still Need to Wear Masks? Will They?
I agree. Moving is job one, followed by legal name change (change the kids names too), followed by complete disconnecting from social media, followed by going off the grid for a bit, lay low for a bit.
SSA will let you change your social security number in situations like this. If it’s a life and death matter, this is how you’ll have to do it.

Edit: Also consider hiring a private detective to see if the person is actually doing serious physical stalking, or buying things like guns.
Looks like you’re doing everything right. That is just a fun project. Thank you so much for sharing.
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> They aren't just saying it sucks, people and politicians are calling for a repeal of Section 230 of the CDA in a knee jerk reaction.

Politicians and citizens have the "right" to change the law.

That's how society works. If those companies don't like it, then they can pack up and move to a different country.
What an FDA Committee Weighed in Voting for the Pfizer Covid Vaccine
That doesn't mean that it didn't create more rage in the rest of society...
Honestly, haven't we already covered the YouTube content policing story thoroughly enough in the other recent, heated threads on this topic? This is getting really tiresome.
TL;DR: Scott Adams made some allegations about the election that have been demonstrably falsified, and YouTube enforced their content policies much the way any private company might.

Worth noting that The Federalist has been repeatedly[1] implicated[2] in authoring[3] and disseminating[4] false news.

[grep Federalist in the below]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-fact-check-biden-vote-spi...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/04/fac...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/05/president...

[4] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/06/the-electi...
Tilling is plenty common in the midwest, but in any case there are many other implements for which the same principle applies—bigger fields => bigger implements => more power.
My uni, NC State, has a course (CSC 326) called Software Engineering that has students contribute to an existing project created by the staff in teams, with the best contributions being merged into master for the next semester students to work on.
I have decided to learn Rust to replace C (for me) instead of Zig, which I like, but Rust has more support for my learning in terms of community and documentation. I plan to return to Zig when it matures a bit more. I get my dose of FP when I program in J or APL. I use them for very mathy and fun things, and I don't even think about FP; they are FP. I am working my way through an 11-page paper that implements a CNN in APL in 10 functions that amounts to 10 lines of APL, 1 function per line [1]. Amazing and simpler than my stabs at Haskell and Idris or Scala and F#.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3315454.3329960?download=...
If it gets to the point where we have to fear the government retaliating against us, then that government would have probably already shutdown or blocked the popular social networks.
Children are low on the priority list because they get severe symptoms at a much, much lower rate than adults and especially older adults.

And the schools are not closed right now because of the fear that younger children are going to get the virus. Schools are closed because teachers are (rightly) concerned about getting the virus, and families are (rightly) concerned that their children might pick up the virus at school and bring it home with them and infect more at-risk individuals. If the teachers and family members are vaccinated, then I think it is pretty clear the risk/benefit analysis would highly suggest sending children back to school, even if they aren't vaccinated yet.

Schools in the US have already opened in many places before there is a vaccine, so I don't doubt schools are going to be opening ASAP, and that is almost certainly before most children are vaccinated.
If you don't mind, can you send me your repos if it's public work? I'm interested in 0-copy stuff, too, the database I'm doing can benefit from 0-copy (again, a small part of the codebase but a big part of the technical challenge), and I'm seeing that linear types help a lot with that kind of thing from the reading I've done lately. I'm mostly a tinkerer and like to see what's the newest cool stuff people are making. My email is in my profile.
For a small/medium sized business trying to optimize expenses, Microsoft can gain a competitive edge simply off having teams “bundled” into it’s offering, without actually being a superior product.

If your argument is that there is a tendency towards monopoly and that’s just the way of thing, even in a “free market capitalist” economy which is based largely on the idea of competition, then I don’t find it convincing.

Consumers end up with bundled solutions with 2-3 companies precisely because those companies take steps to make that the outcome (eg Apple making integration sub-par when it is not first party)
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> then youtube needs to be paid a portion of gov't taxes.

No actually. The way society works is we can just force them to do it, via the law.

It is our right as citizens to change the law.
My partner is Asian and she is actually the one who suggested it. It’s very normal in her culture.
As I pointed out regarding Musk's move, it's the companies with the strongest links with reactionary politics (and Trump): Thiel/Palantir, Musk, Ellison/Oracle. Does HPE somehow fit that mold?

For the sake of their many stakeholders, I hope the CEOs are not overreacting to the reactionary idea bubble - that they are not taking too seriously what is political rhetoric - or acting for political purposes. Many people do not share their political views.

It also matches the corporate outrage / take-my-ball-and-go strategy: If someone dares to regulate or tax a company - the outrage! - they say they are leaving. Think of Amazon in France and other places (IIRC Philadelphia passed a law requiring businesses to take cash and Amazon threatened to leave, then backed down). Think of Uber and Lyft in California. It's childish and I think if someone called them on it, it would be revealed for what it is. It's not clear to me how it's good for society that they don't have to contribute and pay their share.

Finally, where will these companies recruit from? The University of Texas is pretty good, but not close to the level of Berkley and Stanford, two of the top ~6 schools in the world. Also, many more people want to live in the Bay Area than Austin in general, and IT professionals want to be in SV where the center of their industry is. Austin is nice but simply is not real competition.
>Probably because its dangerous to democracy to silence people

YouTube is not silencing anyone. These people are free to espouse these views espouse these views anyway they please just not on YouTube's private property. The New York Times is not a danger to democracy because they refuse to publish my article on why the earth is flat.
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