skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was never about the big scary virus that eradicated the flu for a year
The UK is faced with a lack of choice here. My read is that people strongly dislike the current government policies but believe that the cons are "least worst".

There's been very little in the way of real opposition, sadly. For instance, when the Tories do make actual fuckups Labour usually resort to off-topic complaints about idpol so the Tories just do whatever they want with no push back.
Does the contract matter at all? The EU can just make a new law that says "vaccines made in the EU may not be sent to anyone outside the EU".
Get rid of the 1080, it's 2021.
Hmm... no.

I have been zapping through his videos for like 5 minutes now and cannot find any analysis of companies. There are gazillions of Youtubers out there who tell you what happened yesterday on social media, what they bought, how the current charts look like etc. The awesomeness of DFV is that he actually does original research on companies and comes up with his own theories.
Docker monitors only main process. If side process fails docker will do nothing about it. Means if you want to put multiple apps inside single container you have to add some manager guy to keep an eye on all the processes (e.g. supervisord).

Plus in case with separate containers the layers cache is reused better.
60ms is considered good? Is there some data or graphs on connection speed and latency in the US? Would be interesting to see.
Where i grew up the closest I'd come to an Asian community was the family run Chinese take away in my home town. Consequently I've completely missed bubble tea, and now I'm of the age where I couldn't really stomach that much sugar in one sitting.
Reads like a copy of Russian government contract practices. Put up a contest, list requirements in such a way that only one company would satisfy them without going bust or mad, award the contract to that company. ‘Make the thing using this and that technologies’ does appear regularly.
And yet so many critical open source projects have had majorly serious security bugs that have gone undiscovered or unfixed FOR YEARS.

Despite the claims otherwise (with 0 proof), FOSS has next to no advantage in the security realm vs proprietary stuff. At the very least the security guaruntee you get from open source code, is that you have the ability to verify the code (and not pre-compiled binaries you get from the project's website) has no backdoor or otherwise malicious crap in it.
Oh, my last disappointment of the week was being lectured via 2 screenfuls of Confluence with a “it’s more complex that what you make it” exposure of 2-3 layers of encrusted legacies. The PO was flexing and glowing how their managed to build into the new product this synthesis of bad designs. Which means entire departments get a list of rotating passwords by email every couple weeks. The network of ossified legacies just grew one more sprout.
A fun term I've seen being repurposed is occu-buy wall street.
Someday Disney will develop technology to delete copies of their movies from people's memories due to copyright infringement. People should not be able to simply remember the movie without paying for it after all.
Roughly $1.5 per GPU per hour.

For enterprise presentations, that's negligible compared to salaries.
The Indian government actively colludes with big corp; forget about breaking up monopolies (see: Jio).

As for the claim that the new laws allow anybody to approach a farmer with a better deal; sure that works in theory -- but notice that 1) that only works if there isn't a monopoly that drives prices (consider Jio that successfully monopolized telecom in India and now effectively sets prices throughout the industry) 2) farmers would be contractually obligated to sell produce (which would be a long-term deal).

The issue might be alleviated if the government promises to enforce a minimum price on all contracts made, but it will do nothing of that sort.

As for selling directly to end customers, in my limited knowledge, that is not a thing in India.
I agree. I suspect Docker does make sense in such projects. In my pretty vanilla web development, I just usually don't experience this.
Just read about Okuna, sounds like the first real alternative to FB I could get my non tech friends behind. Sounds really good.
how the efficacy of vaccines changes with mutating strains of the virus is I think still out in the open, but I'll second the general tone of the article. Complacency is dangerous. Already are there people who treat the vaccinations themselves as panacea despite the fact that in some countries like the US almost half of all frontline workers aren't even willing to be vaccinated.[1]

The pandemic will not magically end because of a miracle cure, but with enough state capacity and social coordination crushing the thing would be possible right now.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/01/02/large-numb...
but how is Lean related to Z3? model checking and dependently typed programming are totally orthogonal, right?
As Klaus Schwab clearly said: "The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world"

Wouldn't it be a shame if the window closed before the goals are reached? Also, I do not trust activist writers.
> There is no reason in principle that they couldn't do this as soon as you fill out the paperwork, i.e. on March 1st the instant you lose your other job and become a sole proprietor with no income.

But you won't really know if March is going to be income-less until it is over. On March 1st I may still be hopeful that tomorrow will be a better day. Soon it is the 31st and I realize I didn't make anything. You're still dependent on hindsight, no? Whereas UBI fronts the money and then if March 15th provided me a major windfall, I can give it back.

We can shrink the period even further. Let's say a day. If you cannot find a source of income on March 1st, you can submit the paperwork at the end of the day. But you're still looking to the past, whereas UBI would give you the money first and then adjust accordingly in the future. In the real world there is always going to be some kind of lag to the time to filing the paper work. There isn't a constant stream of conscious delivered to the tax man. And reporting daily is a huge amount of overhead for someone. I cannot imagine in practice that it would be practical to provide such reporting more often than a weekly/bi-weekly schedule at the very most. The length of period doesn't actually matter here, though. The logic is exactly the same if you report every second or only once per year.

I'm afraid I'm still not seeing how a negative income tax can ever provide you the money before you know what your income is (the past). In contrast, UBI assumes you will have no income and then is clawed back if that assumption is false (the future). That is not just framing, there is a practical difference in the real world as far as I can see in your examples.
Idpol?
I believe stripe's designers include @destroytoday, his design of paper 53 impressed me a lot several years ago [1]. Surely it also contains animations, but it's more elegant and smoother.

[1] https://destroytoday.com/blog/building-the-pencil-page
Few hours of annoyance per developer in the beginning vs. a few minutes every time you run tests or when you debug. Also add in the overhead of configuring a debugging system where you work in an ide and debug code running in a docker image. Doable (though many of my fellow Devs have just given up) but also takes time, probably more than to run pip and get psycopg2 installed on Macs. Also the majority of engineers probably don't even know docker that we'll (definitely far worse than they think they do, just like with k8s). The number of times I've seen Devs running webservers as root in docker containers is amazing.

My team insists on using Docker and against my better personal judgement I let it, but I set up the code to run locally without it. If I call the shots I'll not use docker absolutely.
Reducing time taken through the appeals pipeline to 1/5'th does not imply five times as much resources are needed.
And I think part of internet discourse should allow to posit questions without actually having a big point to make. Why is it necessary to pontificate about everything?

In any case, if you want a point, whenever technical people bring up the technical superiority of X protocol or tool in a discussion, I like to ask myself this question. How many people actually use the thing that someone is telling me is so much better for the world? If it's so good, why is nobody using it for practical things? Have they used it before and there's a decline, or is it a new up and comer and it just hasn't caught on?

I think just asking the question sparks a valuable train of thought.
Yes the federation completely killed my 5usd vps last time ive tried it. Ive been running synapse for 5+ years for about 20 active users.

I have it running on 4gb 8core arm sbc nowadays and i dont dare to federate. When somebody connects to a federated room with history and many users it explodes.

It seems future will be federated but with beefy servers.

Considering Matrix supposed to be the answer to decentralization... its mostly used on one main instance or in centralised silos like companies.
You can ask for it with less or no sugar. Not all places do it, but many do.
Males and females of vinegar flies are programmed differently in terms of sex
Lol, I worked in hardware development for 8 years and politics for a few and now government research.

100% of problem is the core underlying philosophical concept of the theory of administration and bureaucracy. It’s not a broken system, it’s a broken concept.
Sounds like sooner or later we will see a bankrupt broker. I think we'll see more attacks like gme, and the authorities need to tell the hedges and brokers to sort their stuff out as people are sick of it. Of course this won't happen
Some parts of Europe adopted it at different times, and curiously, it doesn't seem to be correlated with expat Asian population.

I first tried 珍珠奶茶 at the top of Taipei 101 in 2009, and have always sought it out since. It was a thing in Daegu when I lived there in 2012. In Austria, I was surprised to see McDonalds having bubble tea in mid-2012! It was the popping-bubbles though, not tapioca. I discovered new flavours (e.g. Yakult) in Shenzhen in 2013, and drank it daily in Taiwan from 2014-2018. (not always milk, I'd mix it up with passion fruit, pineapple, grapefruit, whatever else). My favourite way to explore was to ask for "yi yang" - the same as the person before. My favourite was actually NuPasta, then Coco, then Xian Cha Dao, then 50 lan. There was one place where it only cost 30 NTD, but one time I got it without sugar and realised it tasted awful, so after that I realised I should pay 50-70 NTD for slightly better quality.

Unfortunately the Gong Cha and Chatime in Auckland don't accept my loyalty cards from Taiwan :-P
You’re going to need that anyway to render the game in the first place.
Somebody had written this with exact purpose to give this contract to Deloitte. I would be very surprised if there wasn't bribery involved.
Lots care, but while caring they are feeding into their own biases.

>>> Lots of people care for Indians, the Chinese and Russians too!

One of them is not like the others. India is not an authoritarian, one party system like the others. It was that for a few years when the congress held sway. Now it is a vibrant democracy. At the state level there are state parties and at the national level there are national parties which get elected. There is no authoritarianism here.

BJP may not come to power next time because of a myriad reasons. If they actually come to power it is because people want them to. Of course people may detract this saying populist (which has become a dirty word now), but whatever all the power to the people man.
One caveat is that the insane valuation could let the company raise enormous amounts of cash and attract talent. Perhaps enough to revitalize the company into something with a legit growth story.

I'd say this is very unlikely, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility that GME becomes like a TSLA or AMZN that is constantly trying to catch up to the absurdly high expectations of investors.
"...To change that, change where the money goes..."

Creative work is currently having its sources of income decimated, from all sides. We should get used to reminiscing.
Not nearly enough.

Based on some yearly port-scanning surveys [1], the developers of the Prosody XMPP server think there are over 50,000 servers running Prosody (out of a total of over 85,000 XMPP servers). There are a handful of large public servers and then what I imagine would be a very long tail of tiny private servers.

[1] https://blog.prosody.im/2020-retrospective/
Completely off-topic reply:

You had replied to a comment of mine asking what I’d meant by “Google figured out hardware didn’t matter on the server” by 2000 and how that changed the internet to make Bill’s vision come true. I do not check this site often and found I could not reply, and there was no email on your profile, so I am replying here:

To keep it brief, Google was the first company to figure out server farms of cheap machines were cheaper and - counterintuitively - more reliable, than massive, powerful servers. Solaris, DEC and IBM would ring a bell to a lot of the sysadmins from that time. Once Google figured out you can decouple work from hardware, handle hardware failure in software, and drive utilization from pathetic levels (20% at most internet companies over a year) to high 80s for free, the modern internet got a huge shot in the arm. At night, you could run batch jobs. It was a beautiful monstrosity. If not for the work by some of the guys (including 6 or 7 of my friends) who went from DEC - ironically due to the dot com crash* - AWS or cloud computing would not be a thing.

* - another ironic twist: If the utilization problem was solved, a lot of these companies’ finances would have looked much much better to the point that the bubble burst would not have been nearly as devaststing.
Please index source code files that are "too large to render". It seems like the indexing misses these files, which are sometimes very long automatically generated stubs, but I still need to figure out where they are defined. For example, the python kubernetes modules have data models that are large, and sometimes tricky to find (at least until I learned the code, but the lack of search results was confusing).
Do you federate or these are silos for few users?
Nope, I've had two 4k screens under Ubuntu Mate for five years. It's literally one checkbox in the control panel.
> I mean this is utterly condescending and racist.

There is nothing racist about the international community raising concerns about violations of basic democratic rights such as free speech and right of assembly.

> I think anytime anything happens to some minority in the the Great USA, us Indians also need to call our MP and ask them to create noise.

I would support Indians doing this. Please raise concerns with your representatives when you see human rights violations in any part of the world and ask them to speak about it in international forums.
In the past, India has done a commendable job in helping minorities persecuted by the CCP. Many Tibetian Buddhists were given refuge in India, including Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959. Contrary to it's history, India is staying mum on contemporary persecution of religious minorities in neighboring countries such as Rohingyas in Myanmar and Uyghurs in China.
Tell that to the people on this thread trying to justify how 45M is reasonable for a project like this because "software development is just a small part of the process". If a state can use freaking Eventbrite for this, clearly they are wrong.
Countermeasures:

* Move coins to cold storage wallet.

* Memorize seed phrase.

* Destroy written copies.

* Walk casually through checks at airport or frontier as a tourist, carrying nothing but chlothes.

* Do whatever you want to do with your money.

You can choose to leave your country for good taking your wealth with you against your government laws, if things get really bad.
Very parochial take. The FAA is a US agency.

You do realise Starlink is polluting the skies outside of America?
or it'll turn into just another cold/flu that we get used too and ignore.

How many thousands die a year from the flu and it was all but ignored?
> The globalization movement that started in the 90's<

What was this?
I build things quite fast with flask and bootstrap, perhaps now with fastapi. If I have spare time I'd rather spend the time validating ideas or tech in new domains rather than learning more new tech that's just similar to this.
They come in all kinds of fruity and milky tea flavours, not all of them are sweet. You can ask for half or 0% sugar on the ones that are. The tapioca “bubbles” are optional, too.
Faith has very little to do with it once this thing starts dropping
How much experience do you have with Docker? I am not being snarky -- all the things you say sounds like something I would have said until I pulled myself together and learned how to use it properly. And granted, that did take a bit of effort but now my perspective is that Docker is extraordinarily easy to work with.

A Dockerfile is almost exactly like your requirements.txt file, only it works for everything. Need Imagemagick installed on your server? Just add it to the Dockerfile. Need to run a pre-start tool that was written in Ruby? A line or two in the Dockerfile can add that. And if it turns out that you don't want it after all, you just remove the lines and feel confident that no trace is left behind.
I’ve heard of tons of these patches people write for libinput, yet they are never in master. There’s nothing in the libinput README or FAQ about how they’re looking for help, and there are quite a few different authors. How is anyone supposed to know help is needed?
Naive question but can you not target just one use case: ml, graphics etc to begin with? Something like tpu? Why does it need support every use case of a gpu in the initial design?
Anecdotally, the packing of other policy goals into the pandemic response has caused several people I know to believe that it is all a fraud.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/great-reset-trudeau-poiliev...
Iced bubbled tea doesn't really work without any sugar at all tastewise. But they work with very small amounts of sugar.

Here in Singapore some places do hot bubble tea. That one's taste works well without any sugar at all.
> I mean this is utterly condescending and racist.

I thought they are asking them to write to their Indian reps. If that's not true, then it's outright interference.
Whole of media, all of the literary intelligentsia are left leaning. What are you talking about? NDTV, Hindu, Telegraph, Indian express, Deccan Herald all of em are against the BJP government.

I am not railing against these media houses, it is their choice, but this meme that the government is controlling whatsapp, facebook, media etc needs to stop.

No one talks about what congress was doing with cambridge analytics, its like everyone thinks they are the underdogs now. Congress ruled india for 60 years. In fact they were the system.
SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic, (fairly) highly infectious endemic respiratory virus. Eradication is literally impossible, and even if we could wave a magic wand and simultaneously eradicate it from all humans on earth, you still need to worry about it jumping back over from any of the many animal species infected with it.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_dise...:

> The selection of infectious diseases for eradication is based on rigorous criteria, as both biological and technical features determine whether a pathogenic organism is (at least potentially) eradicable. The targeted organism must not have a non-human reservoir (or, in the case of animal diseases, the infection reservoir must be an easily identifiable species, as in the case of rinderpest), and/or amplify in the environment. This implies that sufficient information on the life cycle and transmission dynamics is available at the time an eradication initiative is programmed. An efficient and practical intervention (such as a vaccine or antibiotic) must be available to interrupt transmission of the infective agent. Studies of measles in the pre-vaccination era led to the concept of the critical community size, the size of the population below which a pathogen ceases to circulate.[2] The use of vaccination programs before the introduction of an eradication campaign can reduce the susceptible population. The disease to be eradicated should be clearly identifiable, and an accurate diagnostic tool should exist. Economic considerations, as well as societal and political support and commitment, are other crucial factors that determine eradication feasibility.[3][4]

SARS-CoV-2 satisfies none of these pre-conditions (except for having a vaccine now). It is not only unrealistic but actively delusional/deleterious to argue for “COVID zero”. Don’t fall for it.

Remember herd immunity doesn’t mean eradication. The virus stays endemic. Which is fine; over the long run the set of all COVID-19-naive individuals becomes dominated by the very young (infants/toddlers), who have essentially zero risk of COVID-19 mortality.
Russia at some point instituted a law that all contracts have to be published in a centralized database. So, to award contracts to specific companies, an array of techniques was developed to prevent anyone from using that database to bid on those contracts. The names of the goods are misspelled, spelled using a mix of Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, the items are required to be of specific model with tiny modification from common one that only one (pre-arranged) provider happens to have, unusual names are used for goods, etc. etc. It's a whole branch of art now.
>This year, the Heterodox Academy conducted an internal member survey of 445 academics. “Imagine expressing your views about a controversial issue while at work, at a time when faculty, staff, and/or other colleagues were present. To what extent would you worry about the following consequences?” To the hypothetical “My reputation would be tarnished,” 32.68 percent answered “very concerned” and 27.27 percent answered “extremely concerned.” To the hypothetical “My career would be hurt,” 24.75 percent answered “very concerned” and 28.68 percent answered “extremely concerned.” In other words, more than half the respondents consider expressing views beyond a certain consensus in an academic setting quite dangerous to their career trajectory.

By its own admission academia is no longer a forum for intellectual exploration.
China and Vietnam get the virus under control by using centralised quarantines.

I wonder how many people supporting the sentiments of this article would be ok with someone arriving at their doorstep, taking you to a prison basically whether you agree or not, and quaranteening you there for at least 10 days with other covid people. Perhaps they also take your family too, in case they are also infected.
Are you willing to pay that price?
I don’t know but before COVID I used to get a flu shot each year. This year wasn’t as important as 1) restrictions also decimated the flu, 2) my country used up all the shots it ordered (which never happens) before I had time to get one myself.
Yeah good luck getting something to market quickly if you aren’t in any way familiar with any of those technologies
This and all other countries mentioned are Islands (Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan)