skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dairies are consolidating because scale factors make the big ones more competitive than small ones.

Though with modern shipping taking milk from the middle of nowhere makes sense.
According to David Graeber, the concept of race conveniently appeared when would-be slavers in Europe were looking for justifications for enslaving Africans when the medieval Catholic church consistently held that slavery was wrong. The concept of race was helpful in arguing the position that while God's law applied to the peoples that the medieval church knew of, there might be human-seeming creatures to whom it doesn't.

The effects of race-justified practices were so far reaching that they can be said to shape our societies, just as decades after the abolition of Apartheid, most South Africans know exactly how they would have been classified. At this point, for social scientists to abandon race would mean we would live in a society with features that neo-fascists have ready explanations for and no systematic standard of evidence against which their claims could be exposed for the fantasies they really are. You need to have the concept of race before you can see why the reality does not support the claims of the racists.
Avirus with such shape... spread such a scale...

let me tell you the wild doesn't have this signature...

the only signature from such a context... is "madness" and the only ocuring madness on earth is human spread...
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While true, generics are on the way to be released on the end of the year as first step.
> No structural homelessness problem (beyond the rare addiction victim), new social housing being built rather than relying on housing built 60+ years ago, no/few state subsidies to a private rental sector preying on social tenants etc etc.

I'm not sure what you're referencing -- most social housing is done by private entities with state subsidies. Many local governments have set a minimum amount of social housing for new projects, so e.g. 30% of apartments (or by square meters) have to be done as subsidized housing. That aside, I'm sure that it's possible to do worse, but that doesn't make it great.

If Vienna has found a way to make the state work efficiently, I'd love for them to export it. So far, I've not seen that happening in any of the industries it is involved.
I use mbasic whenever my mom texts me that she sent something on Facebook, it's my only interaction with the site. It works fine, though.
not many on this site trust the NSA or the CIA.

But, both orgs have stated both privately and in public that that is not the believable case.

The question should be raise purely on China health concerns as the world will still face it taking 5 to 6 years to vaccinate China.

But at the same time we want China to accept the vaccine help rather than harm that effort in over-asking them to endure public pain of their health focus failings.

There will be no fast and easy answers here
Yep I hear you :)

I am working to add Topics which I am calling Shelves toward July/August to expand the experience and get closer to what I hope to achieve.

Here is a really rough preview of part of that:
https://forauthors.shepherd.com/shelf-pages

Please keep in mind that is a very early mockup and I am currently redoing it heavily. But the idea is to recommend books one by one to start, as well as better ways to view them (ignore the bottom of the mockup as that is all being redone).

The back of the book jacket costs about $1,000 to $2,000 a month to license, so I can't do that yet. But down the road I might look at that. For now people can click through to the store to see that too.
I grew up in one of those places. How else would I have developed such disdain for that economic model?

Replacement of whatever (necessarily small, otherwise the big city money wouldn't be a problem) industry there is/was with entertainment and tourism isn't the issue. The reality of an economy that is dependent on a specific image or perception (many would say facade) of quaintness is the problem.

You get all sorts of terrible "crab-bucket-esque" feedback loops that quash people's desire to do anything different, innovative or ambitious for fear of harming the golden goose. A large fraction of the people who actually want to do things (boring old normal business endavours that underpin a sustainable economy) leave because whatever their trade is doing it elsewhere and not putting up with all the extra overhead crap of doing it in a tourism/entertainment economy. The fact that a much larg(er than in a "normal economy) portion of the customers any given business sees will only ever transact with them ones creates a bunch of perverse incentives to do dishonest business.

It's like everything that's wrong with a college town combined with everything that's wrong with a wealthy retirement community.

Edit: strike CT from that list of examples, I was going for a "Cape cod but in the NYC economic region" and that part of CT is more like NYC's wealthy NJ suburbs.
I personally really need to know the purpose of life, the origin of the Universe and so on, but I don't get to.

The origin of COVID-19 will never be known for certain for logistical, factual, and most of all political/diplomatic reasons.

What I know for sure though is the media will chew that topic and spin soft-conspiracies around it for years to come. It's a TV pundit dream to have a topic like this. No one knows for sure, which means their opinions can boldly go into speculation and science-fiction and nobody could claim otherwise for sure.
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If the Chinese government reveals more about what happened, shows any sign of anything being covered up or censored, then information will be revealed that can be spun to put more focus/attention on them regardless of the root cause. Cooperation has been disincentivized by the political rhetoric about China's potential culpability in the outbreak.
> "This obviously would require the cooperation of the Chinese government, which we have not seen to date."

That's an understatement; I would actually go as far as to say that if you write an entire article and this your conclusion, it was a waste of time to write the article.
Awesome thanks. Yeah I'm vaguely familiar with the history but certainly not the state of the art. Will take a look at this open AI project.
Ask HN: Are there any bots among us?
Considering how great GPT-3 is at generating text (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23885684), I thought maybe someone already started generating HN comments and posting them.

1 - Did anyone try this without getting caught?
2 - If someone creates a bot that always manages to contribute to discussions and keeps it within the rules, would that be against the rules itself? Should it be?

Note: This is not a project proposal, I'm just fascinated by GPT-3.

Note2: No, I'm not a bot.
"I have 10k followers on FaceTwitterStagram but my family is only 4 members. Yes, people love me more on social networks than in my own family."

In other words: apples and oranges. :)
Closure compiler is much older than that though, it was written for Gmail (and used by most Google web properties). Closure is just the name of the OSS release.
You just need some glow sticks.
Massively Parallel Rendering of Complex Closed-Form Implicit Surfaces (2020)
How is this better than just using VS Code with the vim extension?
How do updates to a database work through that pipeline? Do migrations run through and rolled back automatically as needed?
You could argue investing in Coinbase had lower risk than investing in Bitcoin directly (was it?). Then the risk adjusted return would be even better.
I feel like there's a big online niche for intermediate-level programming tutorials. I googled around a few months ago for SQL resources to assist a team member who'd progressed past basic operations and joins and found little of use. I ended up writing my own set of questions like "write a query to remove duplicate records from this table".
If we look at the broader problem with infectious disease, it seems most have their origin in our relation with animals: too many animals, in bad living conditions, mingling with humans.

The solution seems to be: stop using animals for our food/pleasure/clothing/medicine.

We knew this before C19. But sadly the solutions is most advertised are: more virus research labs (which also needs animals), more vaccines, more distancing... These are not actual solutions.
Yeah, I don't really get the point of Munin now that we have things like Zabbix (coupled to grafana) or LibreNMS ?
How about Powerline? I use them and they're quite good.
A quick search for "rust", "kotlin" and "cpp" on npmjs.com shows a lot of packages. Not all are language tools, but I see stuff like linters, interpreters, compilers and lots of stuff related to WASM compilation and codegen.
Is there a coin that rewards newsletter subscribers?
I run a small newsletter about building great products and have been thinking for quite some time about a way to monetize that rewards Early subscribers.

I’ve been thinking about creating a cryptocurrency whose economics reward holding or buying in early (e.g. fixed supply).

I’m not a crypto expert so I’d prefer to use a service that thinks through the token dynamics for me so I don’t make stupid decisions.

Any chance something like this exists today? I think my subscribers would dig it.
I'm not asking about whether guys can refer to both men and women. I'm asking explicitly about precedence. Is gentleman similarly problematic because of the phrase, 'ladies and gentleman'?

This seems like a completely made up problem.
I recommend just running conduit to everything during your next renovation, that way you could easily upgrade down the road. I wish conduit was used for all of these coax lines in my house.
From [0]:

"Aquinas believed that it was specifically immoral to raise prices because a particular buyer had an urgent need for what was being sold [...] Aquinas would therefore condemn practices such as raising the price of building supplies in the wake of a natural disaster. Increased demand caused by the destruction of existing buildings does not add to a seller's costs, so to take advantage of buyers' increased willingness to pay constituted a species of fraud in Aquinas's view."

"Aquinas believed all gains made in trade must relate to the labour exerted by the merchant, not to the need of the buyer. Hence, he condoned moderate gain as payment even for unnecessary trade, provided the price were regulated and kept within certain bounds"

So if this is true (and I'm sure certain tacit assumptions are not mentioned in this Wiki page), then it seems that crazy market price fluctuations have to do with the divorce of market value from labor which was "replaced by the microeconomic concept of supply and demand from Locke, Steuart, Ricardo, Ibn Taymiyyah, and especially Adam Smith".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_price
I guess when he got the award he forgot to say "no backsies".
Why Software Developers Quit
It's not like "going round the world" is even well defined either - you could just walk in a circle around one of the poles. Thing is, are you doing it because it's an amazing experience, or because you want to have satisfied some arbitrary criteria?

And quite frankly, if you manage to pass through every line of longitude while lugging a bicycle the whole way, I don't give two hoots how many boat rides it took. That's heroic.
they are very comparable. Owning shares in a company that takes money to provide essential services? That has been the model of capitalism - fee for service - for a long time, and it has worked. The service gets provided, at the right price that the market can bear ,and still produce a profit for those providing the service. The alternative is to not have that service provided at all!
That tiled room gets me through the workday. In that ilk: Fear n Loathing. Art of Minimal. Trippy Cat Music. Beamer. A bit further from that sound but still great for coding: Cercle, Radio Intense, Cafe de Anatolia.
The Culture of Whales
OK - I didn't want to be 'that guy', but here I go: DevRant is garbage! I like the concept, but the execution is a marketing black hole.

First of all: the linked page doesn't scroll on an iPad - they are trying to be clever with scrolling and it actually breaks scrolling.

Secondly: they take pushing their app to an insane level: none of the links works, they all point to 'Get the app'. This fact alone has just gained the site a place in my DNS blackhole.

Archive.org link - that actually works better than the original site: https://web.archive.org/web/20210420050504/https://devrant.c...
I can't help but think of the Onion headline

>Bitcoin Plunge Reveals Possible Vulnerabilities In Crazy Imaginary Internet Money https://www.theonion.com/bitcoin-plunge-reveals-possible-vul...

The whole thing's slightly nuts.
I like it! Professional looking slideshow in a minute!
> at the end of the day I'm optimizing for my own quality of life

This kind of self-centered thinking, at scale, is what lowers the baseline quality of life for everyone.
Hardly noticed it at all. In fact I didn’t see anything. ;-) That design is so user unfriendly.
I know what you mean. Things are objectively better now, but they used to be weird and a lot of us love that about the Saturn. (I just started exploring this wonderful mess of a console this year)

What's tragically hilarious about the Saturn is that despite the deep weirdness and absolute gobs of silicon, it's still not particularly good at anything.

...relative to its contemporary peers, I mean. The Saturn was an absolute beast at traditional 2D games, but even then, due to the paltry onboard RAM it required the 4MB RAM expansion cart to really shine and do things that the Playstation couldn't.

A good counterexample might be the original Amiga, which was "weird" and employed gobs of custom silicon and was indeed actually a generation or so ahead of its peers when it came to graphics and sound.
Have not yet read that one but have read the Three Body Problem by Cixin and am a fan! More of his work is definitely on my reading list.

Indeed nature of the story is to focus on individuals. Still for example interstellar, you fully follow the dad/daughter and all that tubular space station building just happens completely off screen. And its assigned to the brilliance of the daughter instead of the coming together of people (how i interpret it!) curious how you view that for example :)
No pills needed for this acid burn. Well done :)
The title is a bit misleading, I still don't know why we need to know the origin. Will that somehow help prevent future pandemics? I'd love to understand the origins out of scientific curiosity, but sadly I'm afraid too many people will pretend this is somebodies fault. I'm american and I know 2/3 CDC labs producing covid tests contaminated PCR tests during an early review. I'm quite certain we'll blame a Chinese lab leaks for covid while sweeping our own mistakes under the rug quite readily.
I honestly don't get a lot of the comments on this thread. So, say I can work remote or retire and live basically anywhere I want. Is the suggestion that I have some moral obligation to live somewhere that's already expensive?
WebStorm/IntelliJ is another missing example.

GWT sorta should make the list as it did include a complete JS parser and compiler in it via the JSNI declaration mechanism.

So technically you could use GWT to compile pure JS by embedding it in a Java file as a native method.
I think there were attempts to rewrite a subset of TS in another language. I don't mean assemblyscript, no.

Also, if I could use TS on the backend without node (say, with the lib/runtime of another language), that would be amazing.
The question is not IF, but WHEN.

So ideally you have some kind of monitoring that reports/shows how many services are alive (and where they live in a cluster), how many errors they generate etc. Then based on some thresholds you can take them out of circulation and let them cool down. If certain kinds of errors occurs, or at a certain frequency, the system can notify a site reliability engineer (or equivalent) to check it out. Then they can decide if it should be permanently removed and to log an internal support ticket and so forth for the developers or product teams.

Production issues are a part of life. You need to have some visibility on issues and their severity. Every company and tech stack is different, also depending on their SLA's and uptime promises.

Ads not rendering in an app might be less severe than a pump failure at a fuel station, so they have different kinds of monitoring and and reaction times to faults. Obviously things like hospitals, banks, airlines/aircraft manufacturers have way different requirements and infrastructure from say a system that manages all school libraries for a state/province.

There are too many products and approaches to mention here if you were looking for a list of those. I have one or two favorite approaches and a handful of tools for this kind of stuff, half of which is homemade, so not something you can google. But you can google it and see a few different approaches. "microservices monitoring java" or "microservices monitoring best practice" or something along those lines will get you on a path. Try to find 5 different approaches and reflect what each one is missing or how they may help you, and then ponder what would you like to see from a reporting system with hundreds/thousands of services.

And then obviously the the best lessons will come from production itself.

Good luck!
Ya the problem is that people use it to search for books 95% of the time, and they think that way :). It is this weird thing where I'd like to avoid it, but you can't if you want to connect with how people think and search for books.
Different time, different context.

This would have been around 2010, when powering anything with USB was relatively uncommon. Some USB peripherals required a separate power supply or dual USB connections in order to provide enough power. Devices that charged via USB typically provided a special USB power adapter in order to facilitate faster charging.

Even today, dual battery compartments have marginal utility. Since it is built-in, it offers extended battery life without carrying around extra modules. Spare batteries are mildly more convenient to carry around (no extra cables). Mostly though, it enforces user replaceable batteries.
Flushing a public toilet? Don't linger, because aerosolized droplets do
Agreed, I wish everyone wouldn’t keep supporting their attempts to crush competitors and harvest everyone’s data. It seems like antitrust laws should be rewritten to apply here.
I’m building https://codeamigo.dev which only works with JS/TS atm but the goal is to support many more languages. Love the idea of executable tutorials written by the community.
> A common pattern in these systems is that there's some frontend, which could be a service or some Javascript or an app, which calls a number of backend services to do what it needs to do.

I think an important idea here is that you should be trying to measure the experience of a user (or as close as possible). If there is a slow service somewhere in your stack, but has no impact on user experience, then who cares? Conversely, if users are complaining that the app feels sluggish, then it doesn't matter if all your graphs say that everything is OK.

I find it helpful to split up graphs/monitoring into two categories: 1) if these graphs look fine then the service is probably fine, and 2) if problems are being reported then these graphs might give an insight into why things are going wibbly. In general, we alert on the former and diagnose with the latter. Of course, its nigh on impossible to get perfect metrics that track actual user experience, but we've definitely found it worthwhile to try and get as close as possible to it.

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Another fun problem with using summary statistics is they can easily "lie" if the API can do a variable amount of work. For example, if you have a "get updates API" that is called regularly to see updates since the last call, then you end up with two "modes": 1) small amount of time between calls and so super fast and 2) a large amount of time between calls and so is slow. Now, in any given time period the vast majority of the calls are going to be super quick, but every user will hit the slow case the first time they open the app for the first time that day. This results in summary statistics that all but ignore those slow API calls when opening the app.
So you want to drag the majority down in order to reach a level of lowest common denominator of "equity". Pure insanity.

Yes the life you are born into is not "fair". But you must also appreciate that the family unit is one of the strongest forces of altruism and inter human bonding for the majority.

Break the family and you break the parts of society that are not run on finance. It's would truly cause an incredible amount of damage undermining the family bond. We are not robots!
If it did come out of the lab in Wuhan then the US/NIH also has to answer questions regarding their involvement in the lab. For this reason I doubt we will ever find out what really happened as there is a lot of blame to go around.

Do we really need to know? Lab leaks are nothing new and regardless need to prevented at all cost. Maybe there needs to be an independent international regulatory setup that inspects these labs.
It seems to me that no government will accept that they owe the world complete transparency on anything, much less virus research.
There's usually pretty incredible benefits in signing away your soul to the Devil. Happy that it worked out for you in the end.
Upvote!

Private property ownership and intergenerational wealth transfer is the foundation of middle class, and bigger middle class leads to better education for the masses, and a more democratic society!
I agree, it's better to differentiate based on revenues rather than just age.

In my country, if you're poor and if it's the first house you buy, you can ask a 0% tax loan from the government and use it to pay your stamp duty with it.
Significant part of the standard library (lib folder) is in JS
Having to pay >60% of monthly salary on a mortgage for the next 25 years isn't exactly my definition of financial freedom.
If the market crashes you have no freedom to move for opportunities elsewhere.

Here in London, rent is <50% of mortgage payments on an equivalent property.
Firefox to regularly nag users to change their default browser
You know how you can build an app's tests to generate new tests based on a schema, to test all possible permutations of a data structure using all possible data inputs? That, but for databases.

In Security this is known as "fuzzing", but instead of looking for security vulnerabilities, you're generating test data for databases. Your test data should cover all possible customer data inputs. Then you not only don't need real customer data for testing, you catch bugs before a customer does.
I hear that a lot about Singapore. The thing most people don't seem to realise is that in 1960 Singapore was essentially a giant slum.

All these "collective" behaviours have appeared since then helped along by government campaigns: https://remembersingapore.org/2013/01/18/singapore-campaigns...

(Note that one of those campaigns - speak Mandarin - was encouraging people to abandon their native languages and learn a completely different one. It was highly successful. I think by comparison "don't throw litter" would be extremely easy.)
You can thank Californian and SF officials.
In my experience it's pretty lightweight. But never properly measured its impact. Just didn't notice any big impact to pay attention to it.
Well you just inspired me to switch on my monitors :)