skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who in principle would like decentralized/federated cryptomessengers to win what usually blocks me from using them (over Signal) is that most of the people I would contact via messenger are not tech-savy. To make them switch the messenger has to be easy to setup and feature wise it has to be so promising that they don't feel like I lured them into something half baked.

While being federated is a huge plus for me, it still needs to be a good and usable messenger on all other fronts. If I can't imagine my mother using it, you are doing something wrong.

I am not usually of the "software must be usable by a baby"-front, but for a messenger adoption is key, and unless I only talk to my nerd friends it needs to be both simple and at least up to task with Signal (videocalls, groups, easy to find contacts, ...)
Bullshit. The broken system Delloit developed is being replaced with Eventbrite in certain states, pen and paper in others. All the users needed was a simple scheduling system which shouldn't cost anywhere near 40M to develop no matter how you spin it. Is Eventbrite works for this, why did no one actually think to just use that (or the many similar systems created for this kind of thing)? Pretty sure Deloit itself just wrapped something like Eventbrite around a skin UI and delivered that.

The only answer I can come up with, even after trying to be generous, is corruption. The fact that there was no bidding should be enough for that contract to be highly suspicious. People in the top are pocketing most of the 40M and everyone involved knows it.
This is cherry picking as Taiwan and New Zealand are also on the list.
The people doing the development were likely not developers. A particularly common path is studying a random subject at university, doing a law conversion course, failing to get a pupillage or a position with a commercial solicitors, and going to Deloitte as a trainee consultant.

There, they put you through a six week course in which you become a developer, and you’re then hired out for £800 a day as a technical expert.

Source: literally half the people I went to university with.

Fond memories of sitting at the kitchen table and trying to coach my flat mate through unfucking the air ground traffic control system that they were writing for BAA in VB5, in 2005. No idea if it ever went into production.
Tesla is a leader in several emerging markets like electric vehicles, large scale battery production, and autonomous vehicles. While it's price seems high to me, it is perfectly reasonable to think other people legitimately value it that highly. Gamestop, on the other hand, is a brick and mortar retailer of essentially digital goods in the midst of a global pandemic. This week I was genuinely surprised to hear it still existed. No sane person does nor should see Gamestop as having a strong future outlook. People bought with the express purpose of market manipulation, and when they lose interest the stock will cease to be manipulated.
> Where are the mandis going? If they are non-competitive, they are out.

They would be non-competitive because of the no taxation clause that the bill has -- allowing big corp to undercut the mandis. Not to mention that corps are known to take losses just to establish market monopoly (see Jio).

> But in Punjab where they are there, no one is allowed.

I don't understand why you cite the mandi as a monopoly, when in the existing system a farmer can choose to sell anywhere they want?

Let the big corps procure from the farmers, at a "competitive price" as you say. Why should they deserve tax breaks?

The fact of the matter is that the mandi is desirable and has contributed to the material success of Punjab's farmers. There is no doubt that there are inefficiencies and leakages, but to do away with them in deference to the gods of the "free market" is a bit questionable. Unrelated quote: "the quality of public education might not be very good, but that doesn't mean we do away with it".

As for your comparison with other states, I would recommend you check out this article: https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/why-punjab-should-not...
Yes. If it means I can actually go to the gym and workout, meet my friends, etc.

I am tired of wearing the god damn masks, having to worry about my elderly parents,

Are you tired of the god damn pandemic? I know I am. Because we already have no freedom.
I don't have a lot of experience with Docker, but it's not what's holding me back. Here are some of my pain points:

1) Having to "docker exec" to get a shell in a running container vs just running the command (in dev) or sshing into the server (in prod).

2) Tests taking 3:30 min to run with docker vs 30 secs without. And then of course, you don't just run tests once but many times, leading to tens of minutes on a given day where I'm just twisting my thumbs.

3) Having to even spend time learning how to debug Python code inside a locally running docker container.

4) Having to deal with disk space issues caused by old docker images on my 500gb hdd.

All while not deriving any value from it in my projects.
Definitely a report we did not want to hear. Just the the record though, the author is factually wrong about Denmark being one of the jurisdictions that "chose not to stamp out this virus and blithely tolerated high infection rates" and is probably referring to Sweden - see https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2020/11/17/the-nor....

We actually wiped out an entire industry of mink farming in the name of stopping the spread of mutations, but that is a topic for an other thread (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/health/covid-mink-mutatio...).
The mandi system is a monopoly in the markets space, where buyers and sellers have only one place to do commerce. Ambani, Tata and Adani would be a monopoly in the buyers space. Big difference.
I agree, but it also doesn't help when the Labour opposition have had a string of weak opposition leaders.

Even Keir Starmer seems content to sit back and only critise the Government's response the day or days after a grim milestone/but of news.

Why isn't he constantly saying that the UK should totally shut their borders, for example? He should be saying this and nothing else, and directing the rest of Labour to do the same. That's how an effective opposition works.

Instead he generally chooses silence.
Wow, that was so on point.

> Somewhere right now some poor developer inherits a Angular 1.1 project built with gulp.

That hit hard. I was reassigned to an old project from 5 years ago with an archaic framework, to refactor all the code to the "new shinny JS framework". Ironically, I was in the team that built it 5 years ago. It is dreadful. Rinse and repeat.

I feel like I'm doing something wrong when I advocate against projects that need 50,000 files and a 2-minute build when you could just do with HTML/CSS, native JavaScript and a simple CRUD backend.
I love the VS wrapper shoutout. It reminds me of VBA, which can do the same exact things inside excel sheets.
I remember working at amazon there were a lot of programs where the entire software was hidden behind an excel sheet using this mechanic. It would literally just be a small Visual Basic wrapper that runs compiled code. It was literally because your end user wouldn't trust software you write unless it was either a web app or an excel sheet. So if it had to interact with excel sheets, why not shove it inside one?
Until they open their borders.
Pakistanis get it worse. Most cash crops are only sellable by licensed dealers to "protect" farmers.

Those in their stead conspire to do price rigging, and wash produce down the drain.

The recent sugar, wheat tomato, onion shortages were due to them doing exactly that.
I swear the more progressive San Francisco becomes the worse and worse every aspect of life becomes in that city.
> In any case, if you want a point, whenever technical people bring up the technical superiority of X protocol or tool in a discussion

They are not talking about "technical superiority" though, but about "alive and kicking" and "work together pretty decently" and you followed up with a question of daily volume as somehow being the indicator of the maturity of the technology itself.

There are multiple reasons for a lack in adoption, of course. Network effects, FOMO and walled gardens, financial might and power of dominating competitors to name a couple besides just the quality of the tech itself. And it doesn't help when many people off-handedly state the technology is not good, because it is not yet as broadly adopted as the centralized giants it is trying to be an alternative too :)
Python shouldn't be blamed here, because the real reason that the Matrix homeserver is so slow is due to fundamental protocol design issues. It doesn't matter what language you write it in, it's going to be a resource hog by design.
I just set up synapse last week. The config file has 93,000 characters in it, which i joked is worse than IRCd. I'm running it on gentoo, pretty bare system, probably equivalent to double an rpi4. I did notice that the database file grows quickly. Currently the entire machine is using 272MB RAM, 0.8% CPU peaks, 0.01 15 minute load average.

Every part of setting up a server that will federate/host repeats again and again that you need a TURN server (and they recommend coturn) - which is another 26,000 character config file - in order to do VOIP. If you've ever run or used a pbx before, STUN is needed 100% of the time for nat traversal between clients. Coturn even says it won't run if it's NAT'd (it will, but that's irrelevant to most people.)

This is the fourth concurrent tech trial of chat daemons, with rocket.chat and mattermost being a couple of the other ones that we're testing. synapse/element/matrix has the benefit of forced e2ee by my configuration. I don't know of any other matrix federated servers, so i haven't tried that yet, but an associate says it works on my configuration - which means it's not as big of a pig as i thought it was based on the outlandishly, comically large config file - where whitespace matters!
It's almost at the point where there are bubble tea sellers directly next to each other in the street

That’s an example of Hotelling’s law [1]. Competing businesses are better off clustering together in high traffic areas rather than spreading out to cover the market in a way that serves customers more efficiently. It’s a weird phenomenon and a clear refutation of the invisible hand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law
Funny he puts more faith in Astrazeneca vaccin. True it's logistics are easier. But it's efficacy is not... Worse given the higher transmission rates of the new strains it in itself might not be sufficient to prevent further spread. Higher R0 requires higher efficacy to keep R below 1.
I will never use an Adobe product ever again. I know many that feel the same way.
In my experience, IRC is more active than XMPP. I only get XMPP traffic from spammers and during open source conferences, whilst IRC is active daily.
Instant Messaging Platforms (Visualization)
Yeah I think the mink culling was an absurd over-reaction and highly unethical. Those poor minks.

(Disclosure: I also think the same for the human lockdowns too though)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_procurement_in_the_...

This is the overview, there are other websites that go more into the details if you google it

But basically it is survival of the most boring and the most detailistic. Then of course you lose the tender because you weren't "in the know", or you missed the requirements of the Toilet Procurement acts of 1974 which specified the thickness and traction resistance of toilet paper used in government purchases.

Oh and if you're "lucky" your Health contract management software will suddenly have to be able to order pizza as well, you know, it's "just an extra thing". But you won't get paid while that doesn't happen (ok this might not apply to the USA specifically, but you get the idea)
None of the variants so far are any more lethal than the original. Isn't that right? I have heard nothing to the contrary, although this guy seems to think it's already happened.
But the money is supposed to be a crutch to make the blockchain work, and the payload is not the money transfer. It's the data that uncooperative peers turn out to agree on and it can be absolutely anything.
I find this is not true. There is more interesting content online than one can consume in a lifetime.

Personally I block reddit except on one laptop.
Same here! Then in the late 90s it was Friends, Frasier, and Seinfeld.
Its not really a question though when everyone already knows the answer.

The 'why' you have here is a more open question and there's a lot in there. Companies trying to make money from it, users not having seen many real privacy implications on a wide scale, police presence being up and down etc. etc.
Great, old concerts you can stream in high quality
It's a joke. Cruzcampo is the most popular brand of beer in the south of Spain, and southern people have a reputation for being lazy and taking siestas everyday.
I wonder what the effects of rapidly vaccinating your population would be, like Israel is currently doing.

There are still children and people who can’t tolerate a vaccine, but vaccinating 6.5M out of 8.5M people quickly (assuming 2M children and 800k that have or soon will catch COVID) should have a huge effect on the r rate.
Exactly. When network effect is in play, the bar for adoption must be set incredibly low. There is no way any of my non-tech friends is going to spend even 5 minutes investigating “XMPP” or whatever.

If it’s anything more than open app >> fill in phone number or create account >> see list of people to chat with, it’s already dead in the water.
I see.

4m length * 2m width * 1kw/m^2 insolation * 50% loss due to the panel area being calculated by ground area and it not tracking the sun and therefore not getting peak output * 20% cell efficiency = average power 800 W

My BOTE calculation above should use 25% instead of 50% for day-night average of PV panels horizontal to the ground. Can’t edit now, though. 25% is the planet-wide average for day-night and seasonal variation because that’s the ratio of the surface area of the Earth to the area of a disk intersecting the same flux of sunlight at 1AU (4πr^2 : πr^2).

With that correction, that’s 400 watts average over 24 hours (as in: no not merely the peak at noon); which means 24 h * 400 W = 9.6 kWh per day.

If you drive 60 miles per day, and each mile consumes 241 Wh of energy, then you consume 14.41 kWh of energy per day.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=martin+shkreli+...
Very few of the people who wrote to me are of conservative political orientation. Rather, a main thread in the missives is people left-of-center wondering why, suddenly, to be anything but radical is to be treated as a retrograde heretic. Thus the issue is not the age-old one of left against right, but what one letter writer calls the “circular firing squad” of the left: It is now no longer “Why aren’t you on the left?” but “How dare you not be as left as we are.”

This is the most revealing quote for me as a fellow left-of-centre person disgusted by this behaviour that overwhelmingly comes from our side.

It's shocking to me that after a few years of this stuff there are still people on the left - including regularly on this site - in denial.
Reading "Let me try to explain using analogies.", I was worried someone would come up with another car anology.

Seeing orgs as people with characters, oh my, my eyes are opened now. Sounds weird but it makes sense the few times that I have worked on contracted projects.

For me, an added complexity in gauging the other side of the contract is that their personality changes depending on the actual people that are involved. When some higher-ups join the project it in later stages, the personality may turns even more mental than it already is.
Exporting environmental waste, abusive workplace exploitation, unsafe practices and lack of self-reliance, are the counter arguments. We need a healthy mix of both, not the extremes.
People who make these sort of comments strike me as the same sort of people who box tick features in software development without ever giving consideration to UX. There’s always an open or decentralized alternative to whatever big bad closed/proprietary thing is being complained about. You can usually contrive together an argument for how it almost has feature parity. But only if stick your fingers in your ears and wilfully ignore the fact that the user experience is almost never up to scratch.
As already said by someone else, I don't think that's the right reading of it. I know it's anecdotal, but I don't know anyone here (I'm in the southern UK) who thinks that the government has handled this even remotely competently, but they also acknowledge that there's not really an ideal way to handle it. The only thing that seems to be going 'to plan' is the vaccine rollout, which has surprised me as I never thought they'd get near the target figures they now look to be going to achieve (i.e. vaccinating the four key groups by Feb 15).

You have to make some sacrifices to win the battle, but it seems we've paid a lot of the price (in terms of economic costs as well as deaths), but without the positives that should have come from that. As soon as there's any sign of let-up in any of the statistics, it seems the government wants to remove the measures, which seems to be a bad idea to me, but I'm a chump who's not making the decisions!
Tesla new Model S/X refresh: 12 new features yet to be announced
XMPP is nice, but I have never see regular folks use it. Only tech peoples.
The fact that you can't "install and go" is killing decentralized solution because when you ask regular folks the "server url" (or even to choose on a server list), they give up because it's too complicated already.

It's already HARD enough to get them on Signal because they can't just click on the "Connect with Facebook" button.
I got my mom on Signal and she actually converted other people to use it because it was not much harder than Whatsapp to set up.

XMPP nerver killed MSN back in the day's for the same reason...
And at the final step it shows no appointments available even though the LA County link that takes you to the calvax link says there are appointments available.

Calvax doesn’t remember your info either.
I have now answered the same questions about 10 times.

Calvax has no contact information to report the issue.
I have been running a Synapse instance for nearly 3 years now. My instance is not for open registration but just for family and friends, currently it has around 7 users on it and federates with the rest of the Matrix ecosystem. I also have some experience writing apps that use the Matrix APIs.

The federation API on matrix is a little too chatty for my taste. But that in itself causes no problems. The problems start when a user on your homeserver joins a massive room on any other homeserver. Most commonly these are the bug rooms on matrix.org. Once someone joins one such room, synapse will start slowing down and taking tons of RAM. This has significantly improved in the last year, by huge leaps and bounds. It however does remain a memory hungry process.

VoIP / video on the other hand has been a success story for me. 1:1 calls run smoothly after installing a TURN server. Me and my users use the calling functionality multiple tines a day and don't seem to have any problems with it.
This is assuming that Mandis work as expected which is not always true. In reality, there is corruption and gaming the system. While these laws to incentivise alternative markets, they do not abolish Mandis.

https://finshots.in/archive/agriculture-will-never-be-the-sa...
You miss the point - a virus with a 1% death rate of those infected, that mutates into a virus 50% more transmissible, with a 1% death rate of those infected, is obviously likely to kill more people.
I have to say I've been really disappointed in KS - I wanted him to win the leadership, and was expecting a much more robust performance from him. I wouldn't say he chooses silence, but he often sounds a bit whiny and little more.
Given that toleration is understood to mean recognition of the rights of individuals and groups to hold dissenting opinions' it might be interesting to ask cancel culture' advocates as to the views which they <do> tolerate together with some examples. This is likely to throw into sharp relief their extreme stance. Worth noting that for the cancel-culture crowd, 'giving offense' appears to be a characteristic which cannot be applied to their own pronouncements.
>>> There is nothing racist about the international community raising concerns about violations of basic democratic rights such as free speech and right of assembly.

Basic democratic rights were not hampered, also right of assembly.

It is this Right of violence which has become a problem. The government allowed the agitators to assemble until violence started. We see this again and again, a vocal minority taking it to the extreme and then when law is enforced people always blame the government.

No one talks about how normal people were affected both during the CCA (when regular throughfares were blocked by the agitators) and now when state roads were blocked. Can you hold the capital to hostage? I mean what does this talk about law and order people are allowed to go berserk in the capital. This is India's Capitol insurgency moment, nothing else.

>>> India is staying mum on contemporary persecution of religious minorities in neighboring countries such as Rohingyas in Myanmar and Uyghurs in China.

India has taken in Rohingya refugees just like Tibetan refugees before, but India also cant take more since we have our own problems and the demographic change problem is real, just read up on what is happening in the Indian state of Assam. India also does not interfere with other countries' policies.
> The advantages of P2P are undeniable and profound, but few are effectively addressing the privacy implications. The one I know of that is, Briar, routes all traffic over Tor; every node is reached by a Tor onion service.

Bisq (p2p exchange) does the same thing.
That doesn’t answer the question of whether the numbers exist in a separate Platonic realm. This question is as old as philosophy.
Which file are you talking about? The homeserver.yaml?

Mine only has around 100 lines without comments.
He is also factually wrong on at least one other thing:

“He finds it astonishing that COVID-19 has boosted its infectiousness by 30 to 50 per cent over previous strains by doing what viruses do: evolve, mutate and adapt for more effective reproduction.”

The UK strain seems to be 25% more infectious. It’s still bad but less than mentioned.

EDIT: source is the latest Drosten podcast, where he referenced to some new evidence and papers. Here’s the transcript (in German), see page 9 bottom.

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/coronaskript262.pdf
Lockdowns work. End of story.

Melbourne, Australia had a 4-month lockdown which turned an exponentially-rising 500+ cases a day scenario into elimination. Saving thousands of lives.

No other place has managed to do something similar and it shows hotel quarantine of foreign arrivals, aggressive contact-tracing, mandatory mask-wearing, social distancing and lockdowns work. The Swedish laissez-faire approach does not.
> WSL2 is a Linux VM

That is a singularly useless statement. WSL2 is a first-party deeply integrated VM-based system.

"All that entails" is very different between WSL2 and non-WSL2 hypervisors, even on windows.
Creator of Reviewable here. It's been a while since I used Critique, but if anyone in the know wants to tip us off on features we're missing that would make Reviewable a "five dollar" tool we'd love to add those in!