skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We keep rewriting history when we evaluate the decisions of the previous administration regarding their response. Thankfully there is the internet. I remember a Mayor who told us to go celebrate on the streets mid pandemic and many other health officials who claimed that acknowledging the virus was xenophobic.

https://qns.com/2020/02/mayor-dines-in-flushing-to-encourage...
I really like the book "How to Break Up With Your Phone" by Catherine Price [0,1]. It has a 30-day step by step plan to restructure your habits around technology, and I've found it more effective than anything else. I especially like that it is gradual, gentle, and promotes mindfulness rather than trying to force an all-or-nothing approach ("cold turkey").

[0] https://www.amazon.com/How-Break-Up-Your-Phone/dp/039958112X
[1] https://www.powells.com/book/how-to-break-up-with-your-phone...
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What books would you recommend? Have similar not good enough feelings towards work.
Same reason he never invested in Beanie Babies.
1. Singapore is not a democracy. It is a dictatorship, although a well run one.

I lived in Singapore for a very long time. It’s very strict. But it’s certainly not a dictatorship. If you want to try and understand it, these sorts of comments are not helpful.
The official public answer is "millions of servers" (see, for example, https://engineering.fb.com/2018/07/19/data-infrastructure/lo...).

Keep in mind that this includes Instagram and Whatsapp too, as far as I know. As for "wasteful", well..

1.88 billion DAU (Q1 earning report)
/ 86400
= 21759 "users per second" (note: I made this up)

Multiply that by N where N is the number of frontend and backend queries it takes to service one user, and you have a lot of QPS. Now add in headroom, redundancy, edge POPs and CDN to put servers as close to users as possible, etc.

It's hard to fathom just how big traffic to FAANG services can be, until you see what it takes to serve it. Is there some waste? Sure, probably, but not as much as you'd think.
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I think you can go to jail for jaywalking and flogged for speeding.

How's that for "strong government "?
I contributed my flag and downvotes.

And fair enough, it's not gossip. Celebrity news still doesn't belong here.
That's 100% true. For some people. People who have ffmpeg installed would know doubt find it easier to enter the command for this, but the majority of people don't have it downloaded. More than that, most people don't find CLIs to be the most intuitive interfaces out there so I figured creating a GUI interface would be helpful.

Technically speaking, ffmpeg could accomplish 99% of what I'm building at https://mastershot.app/, but GUI > CLI for most people.
Government agencies are structured in a manner which avoids attribution and accountability, the antithesis of revision control. If forced to implement Git, the agency would do so in a manner that would render it useless.
"I knew Peter Stafford and as a teenager did graphic work on his book: Psychedelics Encyclopedia."

That's really cool. I loved that book. Cheers to you and Peter Stafford from a fan! And thank you both for the good work you did.

Regarding priming, perhaps the priming material needs to be seen or heard near the peak in order for it to influence the peak, and of course if you're getting a message from the sermon that seems to be the opposite of sacred to you (such as self-righteous fire and brimstone admonitions which you don't believe in or consider ridiculous) then you're likely to have a negative reaction.

But you could choose to be in a sacred space you actually like.. like a peaceful, beautiful cathedral or mosque with gorgeous stained glass, mosaics, or other artworks you really appreciated, and go there in a quiet time when you can meditate on the material rather than be yelled at from the pulpit by someone you don't respect. That's when I'd expect mystical experiences to be most likely.
Five years ago, I hit a woman with my car on I-75
> Kids are a distraction to intense work.

For what it's worth, I've done my most intense productive work after having children.
My biggest complaint is that Lighthouse has a longstanding open bug where out-of-process iframes are counted in the main thread, thus causing third party embeds to wildly degrade the LH score, even when real performance is not affected much. This even happens to Google's own YouTube embed. Add one YT video to a page and see how destructive it is to a LH score. It's really difficult to explain to customers when they track their LH score like a professional bodybuilder tracks fat percentages.
The headline seems at odds with this line from the body of the article: "But by 2020, the Trump administration had disbanded the pandemic response unit and these doctors were forced to go rogue."
It's up to you what kind of clients you take and what boundaries you set. Personally, I won't even entertain any arbitrary constraints on my schedule (or even arbitrary meetings; I go the extra mile for clients who don't need any synchronous communication at all), but I know plenty of "freelancers" who are indistinguishable from FT employees in every practical sense.

It helps to quote for deliverables instead of time spent. Then the client has no incentive to concern themselves with your schedule (plus if you know what you are doing, it's the easiest way to achieve really high hourly rates).

But people who do 8-5 "freelancing" as individual contributors in a dev team, I don't know what is the point of that (besides tax evasion)?

I particularly like working with small(-ish) business owners who don't have any corporate background whatsoever. They never use phrases such as "catch up" and tend to be genuinely human.
This really needs an explanation of how the “UUID” is generated. What properties does it have? How secure is it against attackers?
"deserve"? Sanctions are not about people deserving anything, they are about trying to influence to preserve one owns interests. Iranien people do not "deserve" sanctions, nor do North koreans sufferings from lack of food.

In addition, Economic development is not linked to deforestation.

Brazil has now less forest coverage than Japan and South Korea who have wayyyy higher population density, and both used to be poorer than Brazil.

Brazil was on its way to development previously when the industry started to settle there and services started to follow, but bad governance and corruption made it all too fragile and some official just chose another way.

As usual, natural resources are more a curse than a good thing for development as it encourages lazy politics and low productivity.
> Now who is the winner and who the loser?

Depends on who's awarding the points.

Could be either one of them. Could be all of them. It's not like they were competing, or even playing the same game.
Because contrary to popular belief, Bitcoin is not any more a "hedge against inflation" than any speculative stock?
> I don’t think anyone would blink at hearing that a dad only sees his kids on weekends

Unless it’s a bad case of divorce, of course that would seem weird and detrimental. Who would consider that normal?
Bill and Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years
I wonder what an updated picture might hide?
Ask HN: What's your experience with NATS JetStream?
We're currently evaluating lighter alternatives to Kafka at work.

At first we tried using Redis streams but the data we're streaming needs to be retained for at least a week (customer requirement - not much we can do about it at the moment). Since we're looking at tens to hundreds of thousands of messages per second, there's no reasonable amount of RAM that can hold all of that for that long.

We've now come across NATS JetStream. NATS has a reputation for being solid for pub-sub, but JetStream is still fairly new and we're a bit disappointed at the documentation.

If anyone here is using JetStream in production, I'd love to hear about your experience with it so far.
I would have flagged this post too if it was linking to a newspaper... not sure why it was flagged though.
Wonderful observation, enjoyed reading this.

I am surprised though you did not recognize DMR (Dennis M. Ritchie) and BWK (Brian W. Kerighan). :-)
Right, the most "successful" friends I have are all childless or divorced without children living with them.
I don't think gender roles is a problem, why did we decide that it is? On average women want to care for people more than men, it is manifesting also on the type of jobs they choose which are more on the care taking side. Gender is just a marker like any other marker, physical strange, IQ, social skills and you could find disparities in average work choices also based on those parameters. The genders are not the same, not biologically and not mentally and average differences should be expected and even encouraged, we don't want to push people to do things they don't want and suitable to do.
Bill and Melinda Gates Divorce
I'm not sure why my sibling is downvoted. See for example page E-17 of this manual

> When the radar transceiver is energized, it poses a microwave radiation hazard to personnel. The hazard distance for the Q-47 is much greater than the distance for the Q-37. The hazard distance for troops extends in front of the radar for 217 meters over the radars full 1600-mil area of scan. The radar also poses a hazard for electrically detonated explosives. Figure E-14 depicts the radar’s radiation hazard area.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141226051243/http://armypubs.a...
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I am torn on the issue. On one hand, there is definitely useless technical debt, over-abstraction, no longer useful features slowing down our programs. But at the other hand, we are actually handling every language on Earth properly (or at least we very well should already), instead of just saying that yeah ascii is good enough, somewhat care about accessibility though far from enough, etc.

Also, actual native GUI apps are quite fast imo. Only electron apps are slow, but I really do think that it is mostly due to the web having a wrong abstraction for GUIs, not due to other reasons (of course there are shitty web apps, as well as shitty programs everywhere else)
> I do have a second “dumb phone” (Nokia flip 2720) but due to having a “mobile only” bank account I have to have access to my iPhone.

Could you switch banks?

Could you move you sim card to your Nokia phone and uninstall every iPhone app except your banking app? (Effectively turning the iPhone into a single-purpose banking device.) I’m primarily thinking about setting up parental controls, with a friend as the “parent”.
Bank of England interest rates at the time were between 5% and 5.75%, and inflation rates were between 2.5% and 3.5%.
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The one with kids has visitors so probably them. Old people can get pretty lonely if they don't have descendants. It's not talked about often but it's a really important part of not being miserable when you're 90.

When your body isn't good for anything anymore and you can't even enjoy spending money, being happy about the people you created is more or less the only thing left - and you can really be happy about it. But that's only if you have a good sense of empathy for the happiness of people you care about.
Why does this story keep getting flagged on HN? As multiple people have pointed out, regardless of the personal issues in question, this affects a large number of people (such as those at the Gates Foundation).
In my country, the law requires anyone who possesses a gun to buy a proper safe,where It'd be stored when not used. The country is very safe and the likelihood that you'd ever need to use it while at home is close to zero, however situations where a burglar could walk out with a registered gun and potentially cause endless problems for the owner down the line is more probable,so a good safe sounds like a good idea.
It could be down to the flame-war detector being triggered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159031
Debugging this is indeed quite hard. I have only used it for 1 on 1 p2p calls.
They must have a reason. Probably helps them resolve otherwise costly failures in good time.
"John" is another word for bathroom. So is "loo", at least in the variety of English that Ringo speaks.
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Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are splitting up after 27 years
also this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004098

w3c distributed id spec/primer
You can be a Marine rifleman, NFL quarterback or EMT _and then be_ a successful startup founder. You can also be a parent _and then_ start a startup. There's no age limit and kids eventually grow up and move out.

Unless we're relegating/gatekeeping 50+ year olds from starting startups? Especially during retirement, there's still a lot of time to do stuff.
Don't views and materialized views give you reuse?

Can't you do composibility with foreign references?
I feel much better about Sony doing this than “Oh no, the disc is just a license” Microsoft

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
Once had to argue with a company that on Firefox the website is just blank (white), a Javascript error prevented any content to be shown. Response was that based on their analytics Firefox isn't used by anybody and thus not a priority to be fixed.
When large chunks of UK use the London Subway system (or other mass transportation), while the USA is filled with people in personal cars... you have to wonder why you want to compare ourselves to our European allies.

The USA is far more rural and less urban than Europe. We should have had a major advantage in this fight.
I love this and have been looking for a program that's like Photoshop for sound.
There that horrible feeling when sometimes you search for a stock on Yahoo finance and it sends you out into the regular Yahoo search. WTF.
In my opinion, the hard part of habit change isn't discovering the specifics of the changes you need to make in order to alter your habits. The hard part is meta aspect of actually doing the things that you know you need to do for long enough to break your old habits and to form new ones, all while your subconscious mind is longing for the sweet comfort of your old habits! We are masters at fooling ourselves, at talking ourselves into momentary pleasure at the cost of our long-term wellbeing, at repeatedly procrastinating 'just this once' until we completely forget that we were trying to make a change!

In my experience, the solution to this problem is good old-fashioned journaling. Sit down for a few minutes every morning and write down a few words about the change that you want to make and why. That way, every morning you have a chance to re-affirm the importance of this change, and hold yourself accountable for failing or procrastinating. If you're anything like me, as you attempt to change your habits you will fail repeatedly. Your journaling session is a dedicated session during which you can be honest about this failure, consider why you've failed, and to change your approach and to press on toward a better future.

To start, get out a journal (like, right now!), put it in a place where you can't miss it, and commit to writing a single sentence every single day. Don't beat yourself up about failing to execute on your target habit change on a given day, but do commit to never missing a single day of journaling.

If you can pick up the pen once per day, you can get it done.

Also, read Atomic Habits, which is an absolute must-read for folks who want to make changes in their lives.
> Chances are someone is far more likely to break your window than pick your lock.

There are also laws in many states against possession of lockpicks during commission of a crime (esp. burglary). Criminals probably avoid carrying lockpicks because they if they are caught, the lockpicks will cause them to face more jail time. Carrying lockpicks while trespassing might also be used to show intent to commit burglary.
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I tried both Simple Analytics & Plausible but both are blocked by Adblockers which made then useless to us.

In the end - ditched Google Analytics and just use log files & sales data.
Configuring "Do not disturb" mode to allow calls and important texts through is my default phone mode all day long.

Makes a big difference.
prepaid without data bundle i just managed to pay 2 euro to almost send a message. it ran out just in time to not send anything
> But according to Lewis and his sources, then-CDC Director Robert Redfield refused to test them, saying it would amount to doing research on imprisoned persons.

NPR doesn't understand informed consent? I'm shocked.

The CDC could have offered testing, and perhaps it did. But forcing people to undergo a medical procedure — yes, a test is a medical procedure, and a particularly invasive one since it involves giving up personal information — to avail themselves of the right to come home is unconscionable.

(ETA, because I thought of a way this could be uncharitably misinterpreted: Enforced quarantine for those who do not test would have been, while heavy-handed at the time, nevertheless morally and ethically acceptable. But I promise you the headline would have been "Xenophobic Trump puts more people in cages!")
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The first implication in your argument is that it's a constrained supply like nukes in the 50s. However most geopolitically relevant countries have the ability to synthesize the novichoks, with some outright publishing public literature on the topic. Iran's publications on how it breaks down over time and what that means for identification via spectrometry are actually really interesting if you're into chemistry.

The second implication is that only Russia would have anything to gain from it, when the geopolitical machinations have worked out against Russia's favor. The sanctions put an extremely important pipeline for them on the back burner at best (probably canceled), and the Skripals had just about run out of usefulness to the west so it's not like the west lost anything really for that to happen.
About every country in the EU failed in the same way, and we don't have the CDC.

Containing a pandemic is a political matter and there was no winning move.

I compare it to the Year2000 effort : if somebody had taken proper precautionairy measures, we wouldn't have had a pandemic and this somebody would have been roasted over wasting everybody's money and sending the economy in a recession for nothing.
They might catch the oceans 11 crew one day! Just you watch!
Yes, I find yahoo finance better than all others
> It's bad enough we have to entertain obituary threads

It seems your personal relevancy radar is out of sync with the larger HN community. Not a problem in itself, but probably not something you should get up in arms about.