skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in a similar sector but have a strong belief that the software delivery can and should become a capability that occurs within the government.

They should be diligent in what capabilities they choose to support. And ruthless in continually developing and pivoting these capabilities.

This is true of any large organization or enterprise that operates in a software enabled domain, so yes, most industries. The idea that software development is too difficult and should only be contracted out to fleety consultants is one that needs to be properly put to rest.

And to be clear, I'm not saying that consultants have no place. But for the type of technology and delivery as required by the project in the OP - there's no excuse.
macOS Big Sur causes 28x TypeScript compile times
I've upgraded my MBP and all things Typescript/Node/Electron dev work crawled to a halt.
https://ibb.co/7bNbgh8

First tsc run was running as is on macOS Big Sur, second was running the exact same code inside Docker. A 28x difference.
It’s this false dichotomy where “if you’re not with us, you’re against us”. The worst part for me is that Europe is following US in this, as a loyal puppy.
I use macOS on a good old 24” 1080p monitor. It’s either “tiny text town” or “blurry shit town”.
If I look a the infection numbers of South Africa and UK, I completely fail to see how there variants are more infectious. Also, in Brazil, where life seems to go on as usual, there is no exponential growth of cases. Do you have any numbers that prove that the new strains are actually spreading faster in society?
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Oh we recurred already!
The author never says it and probably because he knows the reaction it would cause. "Decisive" lockdown at this point would likely be a troops patrolling the street type of event with extreme restrictions on leaving one's home.

I don't see that being anywhere near politically acceptable in many areas of the country.
I really like the authors philosophy. Too many developers use a bunch of tools, and you get the impression that it's just for the sake of tooling, or because that's how you're expected to do things. You can keep scaling a single server and deploying via simple git hooks for years until you need a more fancy setup.

Especially for side projects, you want to use the minimum amount of tooling that gets out of your way so you can focus on building a great product. To me, a weekend spent doing auxiliary or unessential stuff like configuring Kubernetes or whatever feels really fatiguing and demotivating when you don't have a lot of time to work on the project otherwise.
A benevolent dictatorship would always be more effective than a democracy, but what happens once it stops being benevolent?

Same here. A centralized app (like Signal) is more effective than distributed/decentralized approach. But what would happen if Signal would ever stop being benevolent?

Remember the days Google were "do no evil"?
Exactly this. Developers and their managers and the CTO must accept most likely their work/company does operate a huge scale.

Once you internalize that your priorities change from all the tech hype (k8s, react, whatever) to actually working on the business problems. Not solving technical ones.
I thought it was such a no-gui thing that the link to it was invisible
Ethics of mandates aside, there’s no strong evidence that universal cloth masking in a community setting reduces transmissions, and many theoretical mechanisms by which they could worsen transmission (increased aerosol generation, deeper breaths to maintain o2 homeostasis leading to more absolute aerosols, improper handling->contamination, altered social behavior, having to speak louder or closer).

So, I would argue that you don’t have to wear a mask now because of the pandemic, you choose to wear one despite a lack of scientific evidence (or are mandated to wear one of course).

SARS-2 is a zoonotic, endemic respiratory virus. If you’re tired of it, you need to accept that it’s here to stay and realize that we can’t put life on hold indefinitely and trigger a global food shortage that will end up eclipsing COVID-19 deaths anyway (oops).

Anyway, it is your right to decide that you would like totalitarian measures enacted upon you and your family. But you shouldn’t be able to make that decision for me, and unfortunately your “side” has already won and enacted [a half-assed version of] those very failed policies that you continue to venerate across most of the globe.

If people put risk in perspective the average person would be less (or equally) afraid of COVID-19 personally than the flu, and your average elderly person would be 5-10x as afraid as the flu but not the current level of fear (feels like 100x IMO). Oh, and schools would be open worldwide with no masks nor social distancing because children are rarely harmed by COVID-19 and are frequently harmed by lockdown measures.

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Just because she's not an island, Canada can still close her borders. I'm sure it'll be inconvenient, but short and sharp beats long and drawn out.
UK is an island and is the worst country in the world per-capita.

Australia, New Zealand etc chose to implement mandatory 2-week quarantining of all arrivals. UK did not. There is no evidence that being an island or not makes a difference. But plenty of evidence that an aggressive, science-driven policy response does.
I mean, the minks were going to be killed for fur anyways right? The culling isn’t really the problematic part.
“Mommy and I are one” is
considered the most
effective subliminal
message to aid in self
motivation.

Suddenly, Evangelion makes sense now.
Transmissibility is a key component to the death rate. People who don't get infected don't die from it, but as more and more people catch it, more roll the dice.
"who have essentially zero risk of COVID-19 mortality."
With current virus, that could change with each mutation.
Right now yes, but solar is still getting cheaper. I’m expecting it at some vague point in the not too distant future, but not in a surprise tweet from Musk tomorrow.
This is the quote that makes it look like you have a strong opinion on at least an aspect of this topic, including discriminating against people for who they are not what they post. So I thought you might have some unique set of beliefs. Turns out you don't, and see it as a rabbit hole, which is OK and we can stop here.

> I totally believe that Facebook doesn't have any legal or moral requirement to host anything they don't want to. They could literally just punt me tomorrow because they don't like my name and that's their right.
True. There are many frontends for Z3 that focus on various domains. For instance, those developed at Microsoft:

- Dafny: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dafny-a-lan...

- Coral: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/q-program-v...

- Ivy: https://github.com/microsoft/ivy
New Zealand did the same.
Yes I agree. Canada has a long border but just with one country. So think it’s in a good position. It’s way more difficult for a European country for example.
Why will anyone pay the Mandi cess if they are not operating in a Mandi?
The 3rd party Rust server is Conduit: https://conduit.rs
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/25/fauci-uk-coronaviru...

The UK variant which will be the dominant strain in the USA in a couple months is more deadly, and I believe the same is true for the South Africa version. Both more infectious, and both more lethal.
US universities (maybe universities in general) are extremely left-aligned environments [0]. There is presumably a general background risk of Maoism, Stalinism or other form of Communism developing in extreme left-wing environments.

The natural follow up question from this article is, I suppose, "what moderate force is there to ensure that the universities cultivate a liberal left-wing culture rather than an authoritarian left wing culture?".

I diagnose the key issue in articles like this as that left-ness has been identified as the virtue in opposition to right-wing ideals, rather than liberalism in opposition to authoritarianism. Where is the impetus supposed to come from to encourage academics/students/administrators lean away from authoritarianism?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_American_ac...
Just as a side node: I use Element currently and have done so for a while. My comment was about me not recommending this thing to my non-techie friends, not about me inventing an excuse why I won't use it.

And I want to be able to recommend it. I just currently can't, this was the point of my comment.
Feynman said if you understand a concept well, you can it explain it simply

in the age of computing, if you understand a concept well, you can simulate it.
I have been running my own Matrix instance with federation on my 20 dollar/month Linode VPS for 5 years already.

I use between some friends and family and I'm also connected to massive channels like the official "Element Android" and "Element Web/Desktop".

And it runs... just fine. The server can be a bit performance hungry but I also host plenty of other services on my VPS (email, HTTP server, Seafile, VPN, etc) and I never noticed any degradation in performance in any of them.

They have been making a lot of progress in improving the performance of the Synapse server and it is very usable now. And it is not difficult to configure at all, it's easier than configuring Prosody.

I would say that the bottleneck now is more about improving the UX and the Voip capabilities of the clients.
As a former left leaning person who saw this coming ten years ago when will you say it’s too much and vote against the left?
The capital incentive makes it susceptible to those that is willing to provide it.

There are some ways this can yield "good" result:

- "Good" investor provide money for "good" cause. This sometimes are charity, but "good" cause and raising capital isn't mutually exclusive. This relies on the investor's goodwill.

- "Good" executor trades "goods" with investor's money. Executor can use the resource available to do the "good" deed while keeping investor "happy". This is of course harder as the executor has to either constantly persuade executor or be rare, as in, nobody else can replace the executor in getting what the investor wants.

- Raise money without investor, sacrifice income. The one the parent comment mentioned.
> they sell you ability to have people download your apps.

How do you construct that as “selling user data”? Does my local farmers’ market sell my data because I can go there and buy some food every week? This “both sides” argument is just as wrong as when it is used in other contexts.
Capacity is only one aspect - the article is about the grid and distribution of the power to where its needed.

And the historical selection of 110 V in the US doesn't help.
Viruses generally change to be less deadly and more transmissible. The “new variant” is just more transmissible.

It doesn’t make sense to argue “oh what if this virus magically evolves to hurt children”. You need to propose a theoretical mechanism of action. Otherwise spend your time worrying about flu and tuberculosis which kill far more children than COVID-19.
So that's whats causing people to believe it's a fraud? How does policy packing counter all the people that have died and/or gotten sick from COVID-19?
Denmark’s fur industry is old, but now also dead.

Morally, raising mink for fur is equal to eating meat or consuming dairy products.
Future earnings over the next few decades is the traditional definition of value (returned as dividends, or price increase, doesn’t matter which).

Periodically people lose sight of that and start talking about a new paradigm and new valuations (usually because using that metric means prices are insane), but it always returns to future earnings.

All indicators are we are near the top of a spectacular bubble in assets from bitcoin to spacs to tech stock prices the red signs are flashing. Who knows how or when it ends though.
Yes, agreed. It’s embarrassing for the UK... my point was that there is no example of a western, liberal country not being an island that was able to reach zero Covid. It’s just way easier as an island state.
If you go one step further along that thought, they would have died of old age anyway, so who cares..

Then you extend that to humans, so now nothing matters.

This is not very helpful.
The main issue is a voting system that only allows two parties to compete and makes parties between fractious groups of people with very different views. The Tories for whatever reason are just far better at aligning most of their party to the goal of winning.
It will have effects, sure. But they still don’t prevent tracking, and if the trade off is so compelling for users as some people here seem to imply, then users will just accept it.

It is difficult to say that the users being aware of what they are giving away is a bad thing, unless you are a crook whose business model is based on deception.
Id want to see some figures there - it does depend on how long a battery pack lasts (and the recycling costs of disposing of dead battery packs) - you can swap out a ICE engine relatively easily and you can DIY it on your own driveway.
I use XMPP with "regular folks". At least on Android it works well to point someone to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.cli... and that's it.
I tried to fill it out for both of my parents in different browser tabs and sometimes their info would get mixed up (janky session management?). Fun stuff, I hope you have more luck in the future with appointments
I don't understand why Labour doesn't bring up Australia.

UK is 2.5x the population of Australia and has 136x the number of deaths.
About cultural identity: It's not only a rich blend of cultures in China, I'm sure there are just as many mixes that we don't think about in the American part of Chinese-American that don't really fit you. After changing home location, there is always this feeling of where do I belong now? Am I a Swede or a German? Well neither, Germany has moved along since you emigrated, and you are now trying to catch up with Sweden.

Same thing with south and north Sweden, there are places I can't even understand what they are saying. This on a small place like Sweden, can't imagine the differences you have in America and China.
This is a new disease, we don’t know what is going to happen in the future. There could be chronic consequences we don’t know about yet, for example. The virus could evolve to have much higher mortality next year. By allowing it to become endemic, we are also bequeathing it to all future humans. There is surely a more risk aware scenario between endemicity and total eradication.
Is there a good place I could read about how Australia did it?
Deloitte's habits of stealing tens of millions of dollars to deliver broken technology to the government are so deeply ingrained they couldn't even stop themselves from taking this critical assignment. People are going to die because of this, there's no way around that.
I don't actually know any such people, nor do most of the people I have asked this question. I have yet to know anyone for whom the pandemic is personal in any way.

So I think the death toll is just an abstraction to many. Others believe that there is no change in deaths and the government is just re-labelling them.
Yes, but here in NZ we didn't wait until there were 500 infections to act. The lockdown was instituted around the time of <100 active infections being detected and our level 4 lockdown is far more stringent than any US state lockdown.
It's absurdly common and has nothing to do with Russia other than plenty of Russians also do it. The reason you pay more to get a political job than political jobs pay is because you get control of contracts. Contracts get you rich.

edit: Speaking from direct American government experience.
What’s the difference between dividends and selling a portion of a holding every year?
That the mink industry still existed in this day and age in a country such as Denmark was in my opinion a complete travesty to begin with. Having all these animals in ridiculously small cages just for the sake of their fur - the cruelty is appalling.

As cruel as Corona itself is - it did bring a few good things, killing the Mink industry was definitely one of them in my opinion.
They're both a measure of 'available' resources at a given time though.
> Do you think that creating such laws magically solves the problem?

Creating laws has done a lot to solve the related problem of "mugshot sites". They're illegal in enough states at this point that they're approaching impossible to run -- which is a good thing; they were a morally bankrupt extortion scheme.
New Zealand is about as large as Europe. Larger than the UK.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/08/map-how-n...
His last video seems to be from 2017?

I looked through a bunch of those videos now and the bad audio quality really turns me off.

Also, calling your thoughts on the stock market "lessons" is a red flag for me. The stock market is kind of a superbrain made of millions of individuals. You might have some theories of being able to do trades with an above average risk/reward ratio. But if you are so sure about your theories that you call them "lessons" you are probably barking up the wrong tree. Or simply try to impress people who want to be believers.
I find the notion of China having the virus under control hard to believe.

CCP is known to misinform with less at stake than this, and to not care all that much about large areas of rural territory (recall the one child policy, which was more or less unenforced outside of larger cities and resulted in the depressing phenomenon of millions of “invisible” children who are outside of the system and do not have access to education or healthcare). With that in mind, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the virus has been raging over the countryside, unreported.

That is not to say I know one way or the other, but merely to point out that relying on official information may not be correct—one ought to look at secondary signs, such as new hospitals being built or some inconsistencies in numbers. Claiming that centralized measures helped get the virus under control based on official numbers from a totalitarian regime may be disingenuous.
I will install wordpress for them for $43M
There is often the expertise in house, but over years the internal teams get terribly under-funded and the poor service that results is then used to justify spending vastly more amounts on external suppliers.

This always comes down to piss-poor and craven senior management decisions.
Google has to have a method of determining whether a search query originates from a manual request, or if it is a link to the results, such as here.

There are many ways this could be detected: The Referer header from old browsers, the massive amount of data that the search query URL contains (the parameters that are not "q"). Probably Google even has session tracking, and the session would be missing everything before the results page.

Given that Google applies ML so heavily, and that this query would be an outlier in so many ways, I can't imagine how they wouldn't detect this.
I never claimed that they always work as expected. That is not an excuse to do away with them.

As for the shtick that they will not abolish mandis, that is already demonstrably untrue [1]. It is trivial to observe that big corp will utterly destroy them and then coerce farmers into bad contracts when they have no alternative.

As for your argument that the "free market" will improve the situation, for the record, it has been done before and has miserably failed. [2]

For posterity, I would recommend that you don't cite sources that are essentially blog posts with zero data or theory. I might as well cite the Communist Manifesto then. There is actual serious work on this matter.

[1]: https://www.newsclick.in/Fallout-Farm-Laws-New-Laws-Paralyse...

[2]: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/bihar-scrapp...
Whoa.. if that logic holds, it’ll be game over for almost all brokers who stopped trading.
> Lockdowns work. End of story

This is not true. Hard lockdown that people follow seems to work. But lowdown only doesn't work.

1. Not all lockdown are equal, look at Germany how long they have a been in a soft lockdown so that death can decrease? like 2 months? Not sure at this point this is due to lockdown

2. If people don't follow the order it doesn't work, Peru one of the toughest and longest lockdown but yet also the highest mortality in the world
Laugh Along with GNU
This island nonsense needs to stop.

All of the European countries were able to implement border controls as the Schengen Borders Code permits.

They easily could have had a mandatory 2-week quarantine for all foreign approvals and had a similar result to Australia and New Zealand. They chose instead to mimic themselves after Sweden and opted to contain rather than eliminate the virus. Even now Macron refuses to impose a lockdown.
Ah, see, this is the perfect example of why Docker helps, especially with Python: consistency.

The team would no longer have to make these deployment decisions and argue about which tool is a better fit. They'd make the decision once, hopefully follow best Docker practices (unprivileged user, multi-stage builds, etc.), and have documentation available for how to integrate the setup with IDEs, work with volumes, etc.

Once this initial adoption hurdle is overcome, IME the productivity gains are greater than the issues of dealing with Docker. It becomes trivial to setup CI/CD, onboard new developers and integrate the app into other workflows.

Docker and containers in general have become mature enough to prove their use case and benefits, so the cargo cult argument doesn't hold weight for me.
With no borders to other countries
Is it? I've been riding on bare virtualenv and pip since around 2014, maybe longer.

Inside containers and without Docker alike.
Reading the 'in the realm of hungry ghosts' from Gabor Mate I learned that is not the substance itself but 3 major circumstances which trigger addiction in the human: powerlessness, isolation and stress. These key factors bring up behaviour patterns for addiction. Let it be sugar, sex, Screentime, drugs, food, sport, buying things, etc....
Really helped me to reflect on my patterns and I also learned about the difference between passion and addiction.

My 50 cents here.
Australian here, living in Victoria (where we had a second wave and a strict lockdown that took us to 0). They didn't round up the whole country and put us in prison (!?). The rules we had were:

- Stay home. The only allowed reasons to leave our homes were essential supplies (eg visiting the supermarket), caring for family, going to work (if you couldn't work from home) or exercise (eg going for a walk). Or if you needed medical care.

- Unless we had a really good reason, we had to stay within a 5km radius of home at all times, and couldn't leave home for more than 1hr each day. We also had an 8pm curfew - though I'm still not sure what that was for.

- No visitors unless they're an intimate partner

- Masks mandatory any time you left your home. On the spot fines from police if they catch you outside without a mask.

Basically everything indoors was closed - no gyms, takeout only at restaurants, etc. Supermarkets had security guards to make sure nobody entered without a mask on, and they had complimentary hand sanitizer at the entrance.

That strategy was enough to go from 700/day down to 0/day in a couple months. Those months were awful, but just about everything has opened up again now since we've been sitting at 0 local infections in the whole country for the last few weeks. We only broke our streak today - a hotel quarantine worker was infected in Perth. The city has immediately locked down to make sure it doesn't spread.

If the whole world followed the same strategy, covid would be gone already and international travel could have resumed months ago.