skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't use a service, use (Free) software and handle your personal data yourself. https://keepassxc.org/ is one option to do so.
Even my local grocer's website somehow needs Kubernetes skills all of a sudden, not kidding at all.

Maybe I’m hurting myself, maybe I’m helping, who knows, but it’s become a recent tactic of mine in job interviews when a company demands Kubernetes skills (which isn’t to say I don’t have them, I’m just not as effective as I’d like to be...YET) to look dead in the camera and ask:

“How many nodes are in your production cluster right now, how many are control plane nodes and when was the last time two of them failed?”

Just to see if they’re putting in Kubernetes because they actually need it, or if they’re just faffing about with new tools because new tools and are struggling to even keep the lights on for their 3 microservices.

If there’s a better question to reveal this, I’ve got an open mind about deploying it to production.
The exact same thing in Ruby:

f = ->(x) { x }

g = ->(fn, x) { fn[x] }

g[f,1]
But what of trolling then, a sort of counter reaction to the echo chamber where large outliers enter the room and disturb the equilibrium?

For my part I think it's asynchronous written debates that are the source of these problems, so even earlier than facebook.

On a large massive forums, people write for themselves, not the others, and barely read the discussion. Oral debates or written rendering of them, had the advantage to be slow, less variate, and adaptative to a single argumentative line.

Nowadays when you discuss an issue online, everyone starts new train of thought to escape adaptation, and care little about an audience they d need to seduce or convince.

I suppose I just did the same anyway, you can reply but I wont read :)
> What is the best? The one the user likes to use, day in day out.

No.

The road is most used when there's a traffic jam.
This surprises me as I thought SQLite locks are db-level, not table-level. Is this not the case?
> But my instinct tells me a node will eventually have more attributes and methods.

I couldn't agree more with Jack Diederich's thoughts on that sentiment, at 5:40 in the video linked above:

https://youtu.be/o9pEzgHorH0?t=340

> Lots of times people think they might need something later. You don't. Or, you can just do it later.
> Why did this reporter have to go and publish Scott's real name when Scott requested him not to?

That is completely normal thing to publish when you are writing about something like that.
`copy to` yes. That's what bulk insert is. How can having the feature make postgres bad at it?
"in memory csv" no. You don't need to create an in memory csv file in order to load in bulk. Your language binding should provide a way to stream data into a `copy to` process
I can't imagine how unnest is related to bulk loading. It's a query feature to unnest arrays.
I'm so happy to see this posted here along with the lively and mostly civil discussion.

There is a lot of crossover between the tech and firearms community and for good reasons. The engineering and design of the firearms, gear and especially optics is fascinating. The external ballistics and math involved to hit targets at 1000 yards and beyond with all of the apps and sensors required. The breathing, aiming and movement techniques brings a nice physical element as well.

I've taken several firearms classes over the years and I'm amazed at how many hardcore tech people I meet there - top engineers at top companies (Uber, Google, etc.). These aren't mid-level PMs or entry-level script kiddies either; these are the top guys solving for the hardest engineering problems.

Despite the stereotypes, the tech community as with all other communities is not a monolith that walks in lockstep. It's disappointing that some of us need to hide our hobbies from those who would unfairly pass judgment because of their own phobias and biases. The firearms community is no different than the people who are into fast cars, motorcycles, beer making, wine tasting, maker faire, etc.
Not using transaction is just very bad practice. If people are using wrong approach to solve the task they should not complain about results.
Hi! I have found this forum by google search.
I see that you are talking about the research being conducted at Fred Hutch for HSV.
If you still do no know, there is a Reddit Group that is in close contact with the researchers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HerpesCureResearch
I'm in the group as well, helping with moderation and awareness on this research.

The group has started a fundraiser with Fred Hutch less than 2 years ago, in order to extend the study further to HSV2 and guinea pig testing, beside the research on HSV1 in a mouse model, supported by the NIH.
The fundraiser has had a great success and it has collected all the needed funds for the study in Guinea Pigs through the donations from many sufferers and thanks to a large donation of 250k from one person.

Because of this financial support that has been given, the researchers are in close contact with the reddit group that has supported their work and they communicate with them periodically during the year on the various milestones, sometimes to single members that are representative for the initiative, sometimes with an online meeting with questions and answers from all the participants.

If you are interested in following more closely this research, you can join the group.
The next milestones for this year are the communication between Fred Hutch and the FDA, to find agreements on starting clinical trials at the end 2023 - beginning 2024. After this, the reddit group will receive an update from these agreements and suggestions on how to support Fred Hutch further.
At the end of summer the results of the study on Guinea Pigs will be presented to us.

There are also opportunities of volunteering for the research group for the ones that live closer to their area.

Know that this research is very active and it is aimed at reaching clinical trials and the market.

Beside this, you will find many other informations on the website, like the similar research being conducted by ExcisionBio, in collaboration with Fred Hutch. And the clinical trial being done in China. Communications with Dr.Friedman on a therapeutic application of his vaccine and updates on clinical trials for herpes being conducted by other companies.
You missed my point. Go back and try again.

To address your points

Half of this is a good thing. I want my doctor to follow the proper process and checklist everytime, no matter what. There are many one in a million cases that have the same symptoms as the common thing they see daily. The process is how you catch them and treatment. The doctors office is no place for creativity until everything else has been ruled out.

That doesn't mean there isn't room to improve the user interface. However doctors are in the wrong to be so technology backwards
> But all of the rationalists I have met in life were personally odious

I think it is more likely that you mean this about people who build their identity around rationalism. Most people with a single dominant interest are tedious in one way or another.
You sense spacetime directly too. It's what holds you do this planet we inhabit.

I think atomic phenomena may feel somehow more familiar because it takes far less energy to make them dynamic than it does for gravitational phenomena. If we were somehow huge beings made of binary stars or something, gravity would probably be the very familiar force and atomic phenomena almost inconceivably small to you.
> Oftentimes, media will use imagery or illustration that are there for illustrative purposes

"Hitler was a really bad man. Here is a picture of Hackernews user `kenneth` for illustrative purposes."

Something like that happened in France a few years ago. A TV channel illustrated a news segment about cybercrime with the first B-roll of computers they could put their hands on. It turned out to be shots from a segment on a not-for-profit org teaching computer skills to the poor (including former inmates). The org was pissed, the TV channel just said it was "for illustrative purposes", as if that was justification enough.
"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

- Bertrand Russell
Lastpass is very popular but has had a very unfortunate security track record, with several security incidents that make one worry about their whole approach to security. Information on these is widely available and IMHO, the details would've sunk a less successful product. May be worth reviewing those if you're considering it, or if this change in the free service is making you reconsider using it.
At the same time, it's probably true that for many users, Lastpass is better than no password manager at all, with one reused password on a postit.
Sure, no problem. I didn't mean it as a personal attack, just helping the other poster out by bringing it to their attention.

In regards to the other unsubstantive comments, is it possible to know which ones you are referring to? I do add some comments which are short, is that what you are referring to? I know I should write longer comments to substantiate them.
> don't listen to your local audio signal, you only listen to the mixed signal coming from the server ... I don't think it'll work very well because his acoustic kit will be too loud

Yes, that sounds right. Whether this sort of approach works depends a lot on whether your instrument is naturally quiet enough that you can just focus on what you hear from the server. People are actually surprisingly good at adjusting to instruments that are "slow to sound"; just like you can bounce a basketball on the beat with a little practice, even though it takes many milliseconds for the ball to hit the ground after leaving your hand, you can learn to play keyboard etc with a similar delay.
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We have devices that register electromagnetic radiation spectrum emitted (by ”atoms”) which can be visualized as an image. But this is at the heart of the parent comment: does the atom exist, or is it just a concept that describes the end result when strong interaction, electromagnetic force and gravity make particles stick together in a (usually) consistent way? If we call the atom real, we can call other aggregations like the economy or game theory real as well. But they are just concepts
I think the real summary of Scott Alexander's community was written 80 years ago.

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

> Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy. He has been concerned with general ideas since the age of ten and has one of those minds that can scintillatingly rationalize everything. I have known him for ten years and in that time have heard him enthusiastically explain Marx, social credit, technocracy, Keynesian economics, Chestertonian distributism, and everything else one can imagine. Mr. G will never be a Nazi, because he will never be anything. His brain operates quite apart from the rest of his apparatus. He will certainly be able, however, fully to explain and apologize for Nazism if it ever comes along. But Mr. G is always a “deviationist.” When he played with communism he was a Trotskyist; when he talked of Keynes it was to suggest improvement; Chesterton’s economic ideas were all right but he was too bound to Catholic philosophy. So we may be sure that Mr. G would be a Nazi with purse-lipped qualifications. He would certainly be purged.

Now this is not to compare modern liberal sensibilities to naziism, beyond the broadest of generalities such as "they are both political movements." I do think we can see that the modern liberal political body is inclined to purge SA's group of "deviationists" who they see as insufficiently ideologically pure.
I disagree with you.
Your argument could be made about anything, there is no such thing as a "human" either, it's just a big bunch of wave-particles that does not have some clear limits.
Yet when we talk about a human, we all know what that is, and when a human is seating on a chair we don't think the chair is part of it.

The same applies to atoms, we all agree on what they are, and we can show pictures of them etc.

The question here is whether spacetime is something like that, or if it is a proxy concept with no grounding whatsoever in the universe, but with good predictive powers?

For example, for a long time we believed that Aether filled space, and although we now know this is not the case, the mathematical model provided by the Aether theory was pretty useful. You could very well imagine a world where we know Aether is not real, but continue using it for lack of a better theory as it is a useful framework.

> It's even called the atomic _theory_

Theory, in scientific theory, means the opposite of theory in our everyday language though. Theory does not mean a guess, it means a body of work accepted as valid and robustly tested.
It's par for the course for them.

During one of their previous price-hikes when the yearly membership cost doubled, I reached out to their support and asked if I could renew my membership before the price-hike took effect. They refused.
Agreed, Syncthing has been rock solid no matter what I throw at it. 500gb of music files? source code directory with 100's of 1000's of files from npm_modules accidentally included? Photos? It just works. It also plays well with other sync providers (I sync a subset of dirs into iCloud files so phone/iPad can access things)
Good point. I look forward to a time where newspapers stop using anonymous sources and publish their names to let people decide on their credibility.

After all, if it's important to an individual's therapy, it's even more important for government policy (foreign or domestic) affecting the lives and futures of millions of people.
Terminal gurus might like what I've been working on lately:

https://github.com/timvisee/prs

Free and open-source, keep control in your own hands, forever. Encryption with gpg, sync with git. Compatible with pass, which means better support and easy migration.
I can recommend the Boox Note Air. Basically an android tablet with an e-ink display.

Excellent for PDF annotation and taking notes. Quirky as it runs Android apps.

Excellent display for reading
The link to upgrade on their article is broken. Good start.

http://www.lastpass.com/buy-premium?cp=LPP2021-DT-25CS

500
You think it's a superpower that an animal with an extremely sensitive nose can smell that a biological organism is emitting smells of decay and death? Keep in mind, death is a process and these are advanced dementia patients, they DO have a smell as I have volunteered in the building and met many of the patients (before COVID). This is not new to science, there are human individuals world-wide who can smell diseases, for instance the Scottish woman who a physician proved could smell Parkinson's on testing her sniffing of numerous T-shirts. Biological processes can emit smells, it's really not a superpower.

By the way, in medicine, you don't need to do a randomized controlled trial to be considered a "real study". Do you think the study that found out that HIV was killing gay men in San Fransisco, a case-series study without any trial or randomization, was not a "real study"? Case series and observations are valid real studies, though not gold standards for establishing broad truths.

If you get 20 Oscars and 20 normal cats, feel free to do the RCT, or you can take a moment and do some simple Googling before going full-on skpetic on a situation you don't know anything about.
Well, you know the saying about eggs and omelettes. I wish you luck with getting AWS to listen to you!
I wrote a blog post about something similar. I view Clubhouse as the future of talk radio: https://vancelucas.com/blog/clubhouse-is-the-future-of-talk-...
And if someone managed to build a model of the human brain and "uploaded" your brain into it such that it acted identically to your biological brain, would you also consider that "you"? Are there two of "you" now?

Note: I'm not disagreeing with you, just kind of following the road your comment lays out.
I have moved from using reddit to frequenting a traditional forum where the content is ordered chronologically and that makes an insane difference to the quality of the conversation.

You go from the most outrageous at the top to the most discussed at the top. All content gets a chance to be read. Even if it the first user find it uninteresting. On reddit, if what you post gets a downvote very quickly, you're basically done.
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> I think often the things that don’t exist are not there for good reasons... using Stripe’s api for example from a module is pretty trivial in my experience, it’s just HTTP and you don’t need to be super clever about it.

It's way more involved than inserting an auth token header into an HTTP request and calling some API endpoint.

For example, what about verifying webhooks? The official libraries for Stripe (Python, Ruby, Node, PHP, Go, JS, etc.) deal with this for you.

But with Elixir, you're on your own. This is very low level code to have to deal with and it's extremely important you get it right.

You're left having to parse Stripe's specification on this and then implement the code yourself in Elixir. It's so tricky and involved that the Dashbit company (the creator of Elixir and members of the core team work there) wrote a blog post on it at https://dashbit.co/blog/how-we-verify-webhooks.

But before a few months ago that blog post didn't exist. Also this isn't the only thing you'll have to do yourself when it comes to interacting with Stripe using Elixir.

Then you'll have to do similar things for other payment providers all which are different in a lot of ways, but with Rails you have the combination of having official Ruby clients from those payment providers and even the Pay gem which lets you support payments from multiple providers. That could easily be a few months of dev time just for that abstraction alone if you had to go about that from scratch and your implementation wouldn't have any track record until you start using it and ironing out the bugs from real world experience.

> Again notifications doesn’t sound particularly difficult and I don’t see why I’d want to rely on some complex gem that does every option when I don’t need them

Don't take this the wrong way but this seems to be the mindset of almost everyone I chatted with when it comes to Elixir. When someone asks how to do something, the answer is it's trivial or easy to implement but there's rarely any examples posted on how to do it and almost never in a production ready way.

In my mind trivial or easy means I can sit down in maybe a few hours or a day and write a production ready solution, complete with tests and have it work exactly how I want without running into any major roadblocks.

I'd be curious to see how you would implement https://github.com/excid3/noticed or https://github.com/pay-rails/pay in Elixir / Phoenix. Based on your responses of saying these things are easy I'm guessing you've written large apps with Phoenix where you've developed features like this in a production app? It would be fantastic if you could post some code examples or a blog post on how you went about this. Not just to answer my specific question but I'm sure the community would appreciate having concrete examples of how it's done. This way maybe more folks would use the framework.
Do you need datacenter grade? Fiber can probably serve a lot of requests per second
True, Google is at least trying to make it easier to bind to C++ [0]. It's still pretty experimental, though.

0: https://github.com/google/autocxx
I've seen all kinds of wonders during my life so this one is no surprise. If however someone is doing stupid things it is their problem. They're free to complain to themselves.
I'd guess about 99% are basically ok with reviews. The trouble is if only 5% of those bother reviewing and 1% of the bad ones post a bunch of fakes.

Incidentally I use argos.co.uk a bit and have found the reviews there always ok so far. Maybe Argos polices it or that crowd doesn't bother faking? It's different from Amazon in that there are no independent sellers so the only people motivated to fake would be the manufacturers.
Hmm… Wonder whether it would improve things to create a virtual environment with point sources actually that distance apart, and model the reverb / echoing you'd get from that, so your brain "intuitively" understands the delay.
I wouldn’t call it “meh”. For almost all sites, it’s at least a slight win for the significant majority of users; for most sites, it’s a moderately significant improvement for most users; for some sites, it’s a huge improvement for most users. Certainly high-latency, high-loss networks undermine its benefits, but it’s still generally a definite improvement over HTTP/1.1.
So there isn't anything incorrect about calling them Marxist.
The vast majority of the time you see someone say they're making an argument "from first principles," they are insufferable human beings. Whether the end argument is wrong or not isn't even entirely relevant.
During the alpha Minecraft divided the world into 16x16x128 grids of blocks called chunks. Each chunk was its own file. Large worlds suffered from very poor performance because there were tens of thousands of files in a single folder.

Some random modder basically just put multiple chunks into one file so that each file is 2MB. If Notch had just put the game world into a SQLite database he wouldn't have had to reinvent the wheel. There are games that did that, such as the alpha of Cube World and they work just fine.

Heck, notch went one step further and invented NBT aka named binary tag which is basically a weirdo binary file format that stores JSON like data.
Using it for about the same time. On mobile (Android), deskop Linux in GUI, on some servers to hold the ansible-vault- and superuser passwords and in my browser.

Migrated from keepass and seahorse. Migrating did require some time and effort, mostly because seahorse had no proper export function.

I still need to dive into what features premium offers over free, I'll gladly pay, just never had the need for that.
Didn't know HN has shadowbanning.
I used to subscribe, then the service was acquired and the price doubled so I stopped subscribing and relied on the free tier. With this announcement I think it's time to move on (probably to Bitwarden)
Bitwarden is a F/OSS software that you can install its server on premise [1]. I hope it to be lighter, though (its minimal memory requirement is quite large).

[1] https://bitwarden.com/help/article/install-on-premise/
That will always be a risk, as long as you rely on cloud services.

I started using Lastpass as well, but moved to Keepass as soon as they were eaten up by Logmein. I moved to Keepass and I keep the keyfile on OwnCloud. It works very well, and even better than Lastpass (at least as it was when I last used it). Keepass has actual desktop clients, so you don't have to use a janky web-app.
You scoff, but would you honestly say those concerns were entirely unfounded?

Habits we develop as children tend to persist through our lives. People who grew up very active tend to stay at least a little active, people who grew up eating healthy diets will tend to continue to eat well. The opposite also tends to be true.

We have record levels of obesity in many developed nations now. There's a lot to blame for that, but surely our sedentary lifestyles is a factor. That includes watching too much TV.
The span of 'red' and 'white' wines is pretty massive. I don't find it too hard to believe that if you took a robust, heavily oaked and acidic white (perhaps with some skin maceration) and served it at room temperature with red food coloring that it could pass as a light bodied, low tannin, red from some grape you weren't familiar with.

Obviously if you had a Barolo and a Chablis and asked people to pick out the white wine then people would easily manage.