skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd suggest reading some scientific papers before going too far in that direction. I've read a lot of them. These scientists routinely do things like cite papers that contradict the claim the citation is meant to support. They write papers based on circular logic. They conflate simulations with reality, they make claims that have no basis in biological science. They do not know what the false positive rate on COVID testing is, but are happy to draw conclusions that flatly contradict decades of biological understanding on the basis of data analysis that critically depends on knowing the correct value. They write models in C that are filled with memory corruption bugs and race conditions. When the results randomly change from run to run they claim that it's an experiment and so averaging the results makes it all perfectly fine. And when professional programmers tell them that incorporating memory corruption into their calculations is not fine, they assert those programmers don't understand science (see: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/165)

And that's just the scientists. Public health officials like Fauci have lied to the public and then admitted doing so, more than once! That isn't the data evolving, that's them deciding to change their story and explain that the previous one was a lie. What are we to make of such people?

You believe "experts know nothing" is insanity. I've read what those people are writing and am absolutely sure they know nothing, because if they did, they wouldn't keep engaging in these illegitimate, unscientific and desperately concerning practices.
Do you think the leaked documents themselves are suspect, despite the UK Foreign Office itself confirming the hack[1]?

[1] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-uk-government-p...
How would you test the potential long term effects of these new vaccines in an accelerated fashion?
Show HN: The Build in Public Cheatsheet
Hey folks, Ch Daniel here

Launching today: the v1.0 of a Cheatsheet, that might one day become a Handbook

The problem - why

It's very simple: I'm running my main business, which has got tens of thousands of paying customers and ~6,000,000+ all-time viewers.

I heard about building in public a few years ago
It wasn't for my main business' audience
Recently, however, I started building a side-product for my main business: it's meant to help SaaS founders find&set the perfect pricing
The main business felt natural, to be BiP now, as the side-product can benefit from it
Because of that, I wanted to build in public this new tool called PriceUnlock

And I am! But I was clueless and afraid that I won't know what to post.

The solution

The Cheatsheet initially represented my notes, but as I shared it with others, it got some positive feedback: it was not only wanted, but also needed.

I made a few extra steps (which I wouldn't have done if it was just a private note) and here we are.

I also plan to expand on it, as the responsibility is on my shoulders. I hope those 'internal' notes would help *you* get started, or help you become a better builder in public.

The how

Don't forget to duplicate the Cheatsheet, delete what's not relevant and make it your own.

Once inside, you'll be able to find:

A list of different types of posts, as well as practical examples (tweets, screenshots etc)
A public list of those who build in public
You can join the list as well, there's a form inside
A board to plan your BiP journey
Principles of BiP
A list of tools for BiP
Many more

I'd love to know how you'd make this better, what else you would need or any kind of feedback

— Ch Daniel
[Plug] If you're an emacs user, here's a project which renders all math in LaTeX documents to SVG preview images automatically as you type:

https://github.com/dandavison/xenops

I've used it a lot and I believe the experience is better than preview-latex in auctex (that's the only thing from auctex that it replaces). The main drawback at the moment is that you
can't use the full range of math delimiters, but it does support the standard/recommended AMSMath ones.
Running AIX 5.1 on QEMU-system-PPC
As always when the LRB comes up on HN ...

Please subscribe in some capacity to the LRB - they are, perhaps, the best print periodical on the planet right now (perhaps neck and neck with The New Yorker) and have great coverage across a broad range of international issues.
Also I think the question is pointless without a real example to compare to. Because you would be silly not to switch to municipal broadband if you assumed that it would be faster, more reliable, and cheaper.

Surveys like these don't carry any useful information other than whether people who what municipal broadband is and their general view of government provided services.
It should be clarified that running a node isn't worthwhile as a "set it and forget it" contribution. If you're not actively using it for something, it will just silently break if the network does something against the rules and does nothing to improve decentralization. It doesn't even really matter from a software signalling perspective, because Sybil attacks are easy from someone with enough money to run lots of nodes.

At best it's a gateway drug to get people more involved.

Interestingly, running a lightning routing node actually is a way an individual can run a full node to not only generate some fees to cover the cost, but actively and consistently participate in the cyber economy and have a marginal voice in enforcing the rules. The nodes you have channels with are incentivized to care about your vote if they want to stay connected to you.
> I guess if you have huge amounts of data (10m+ rows) already loaded into a database then sure, do your basic summary stats in SQL.

This is not huge. This is quite small. Pandas can't handle data that runs into billions of rows or sub-second response on arbitrary queries. Both are common requirements in many analytic applications.

I like Pandas. It's flexible and powerful if you have experience with it. But there's no question that SQL databases (especially data warehouses) handle large datasets and low latency response far better than anything in the Python ecosystem.
> Not every city in America is terrible.

Fine, but MANY are. In the past 5 years I've lived in two of America's biggest cities and only had one ISP to choose from.

> I also don't want the government tracking my internet history in any fashion. Too many government services could tie into knowledge about you and I want the government to have only the minimum information necessary to provide those services.

As if the government can't/doesn't already subpoena your ISP for this information.
> For Apollo, it’s an opportunity to further invest in the digital media space — an industry it has already put money behind with deals for Shutterfly, Rackspace and Cox Media.

Cox Media was my first employer (it was called Cox Interactive Media at the time), Verizon Media, my current employer.

At the time, I was on the team that ran CIM's web farm which hosted the web presence for all of Cox Enterprises' newspapers, TV, and radio stations. It was a couple dozen Sun Ultras with content on NetApp filers.

We ran the farm from Atlanta and connected to it over frame relay. We were colo'd in a datacenter in Sunnyvale. We were a few racks. Yahoo had a presence in the same DC. It was a room or two, PC's running FreeBSD and also quite a few NetApps.

The biggest spike in traffic we ever saw was when the Starr Report was released.

A couple years later, I was working for Loudcloud, now living in Sunnyvale. Visiting another datacenter, I recall seeing a bunch of exposed motherboards mounted in racks on simple trays. It was an early Google presence:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Google%E2%80%99s_Fir...

Today, I work as part of the mobile tools team for Verizon Media. The product I'm responsible for is hosted in a combination of AWS and Verizon Media datacenters.

In some ways, there's been a lot of changes over the years, but in other ways, not so much.

What I used to run on Solaris, today I run on Linux, sometimes on a VM or in a container, but sometimes still on a dedicated server. What I used to code in Shell or Perl or C or Java, today I code in Shell or Python or C or Java or Go or JavaScript. What I used to package into RPMs, today I package into docker images. Databases are still databases. SQL is still SQL. Application servers and web servers are still application servers and web servers. The web is still the web. Input still can't be trusted. Buffers still overflow. Applications still crash.

Same shit, different day.
> as much of a monopoly/monopsony as Walmart is, it's far less than what Amazon is.

Walmart retail sales are significantly larger than Amazon's retail sales.

For 2019 (chosen to avoid the disparate impact of pandemic), Walmart sold $514B while Amazon retail sold only $135B first-party and $200B third-party. Given the growth rates, Amazon will pass Walmart, but I don't think Walmart has "far less" power in retail than Amazon.
As an audio-free alternative to `say 'success'`, you could use `tput bel`. Konsole, and many other terminals, can flash the screen or show a normal OS notification when a terminal bell is triggered in a non-active terminal window. This doesn't do the success/fail thing though.
All the experts are concerned too. I work in vaccines (not claiming to be an expert) and I'm concerned too. Long-term safety trials take time, and so the question is how long are you willing to wait for the data? Its a shitty situation all around with the loss of human life, the impact to the economy and the politicization of every damn thing.
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You are correct that there has not been time to do a thorough study of the differences between natural infection and the response to a vaccine. It is not crazy to want to wait a bit if you were recently infected.

However, there are good reasons to think that vaccines (particularly the mRNA-based ones) have a longer lasting protection than that a natural infection. They include only a very small part of the spike protein; with the booster, the force the body to create lots of targeted "memory" cells that are designed to last a long time. A natural infection may (i) target part of the virus that changes faster than the spike protein and (ii) without the booster effect, not produce as many memory B-cells.
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Yeah, pick guns aren't great for even medium security locks or paracentric keyways. Standard schlage, kwikset, yale... They aren't too bad. But any of their models that allow them to be re-keyed by the end user generally don't use pin & tumbler designs so raking it and pick guns are useless.
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Intel to Invest $3.5B USD into Foveros and EMIB Production in Rio Rancho
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies:
- JVM backend (Java, Kotlin, Spring, Hibernate, Ktor, etc.. the usual suspects)
- Node.js backend (Express, Mongoose, Knex, Mongo)
- React frontend (with Next.js too)
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, S3
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Email: info@hexworks.org

I have 15+ years of developer experience, I worked on a wide array of projects.
I'm mostly familiar with the JVM platform, Node.js and related technologies. I also know React.
I consider myself a generalist, you can throw your problems at me and I can solve them (or if not
I can point you in the right direction). I also have a problem solver mindset. I like to wrap my
head around business use cases and come up with solutions that are best for the product.
I'm a pragmatist, I'm not a fan of specific technologies and I don't care about hype.
Especially since it's coming from the guy who just sold Yahoo, and he's not going with it.
How energy efficient is this new proof of stake? And was energy usage part of the motivation?
I think it is much more likely that what he is hallucinating is a representation of how the brain stores information.
Sounds like he's describing the Chinese model of development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_economic_zones_of_Chin...
I think this problem is more complex than many talk about and it ends up just being fear based news.

People aren't hesitant to get the vaccine because it might have Bill Gates microchips, they are hesitant because this was the fastest rolled out vaccine in human history (>3x faster than the second) and people don't trust the government. Their concerns aren't founded in science, but they are reasonable. So treating them as unreasonable is going to make them double down on their position. What's worse is that some news organizations ask similar questions but never answer (come on, you're the news and you can't google? WTF, no wonder people don't trust you). If you want to see the exaggerated version of this look at Russia where few trust the government and there is higher hesitancy to take Sputnik V.

Also we can't forget how the definition of herd immunity has changed. Back when the pandemic started I and many others warned that changing the definition of herd immunity to mean only herd immunity built through natural infection would empower anti-vaxers. Places like Nature[0] are supposed to be the place to get scientific news but botched this (even disagreeing with the experts they are quoting in the article), and they aren't the only one. This makes things rather confusing for people. This build distrust, and now we're seeing the repercussions of that. So when someone like Tucker Carlson goes on air and asks a bunch of questions and is always saying that the government wants you to "shut up and listen" (a common phrase) of course people question.

But these people will change, I've seen it. They have a bunch of questions but no answers, and like many, often don't know how to find them. This may be obvious to us who are so used to the internet and google daily to do our jobs, but these people don't even know how to do that or find credible sources. So it then comes down to us, the "smart people", to help. To talk about how doctors have been taking the vaccines for months before we got access. That politicians and wealthy white people wouldn't take it if it was an experiment. There's a lot of data to show that this isn't some grand experiment (well it is, but not in the way those people think experiments are. Maybe leave that nuance out?). But you have to do this without making the person feel like a fool. If you do this I promise they will soon change their minds. As for the 5G/Bill Gates people, well luckily they are a very small minority. Let's just not give them a platform. And don't equate vaccine hesitancy for that. It will just make the path to herd immunity more difficult.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02948-4
I don't think the story is an example of conflicting messages though. Different messages at different times based on new data, but not at a single point in time.
As a Hasura user, I highly recommend it for OLTP workloads. And for the specific subject at hand (memory usage) it is fantastic. Its (in-database) serialization speed just completely runs circles around anything we could do before in Ruby.
The issue with duplicates isn't reposts of articles as such, it's not wanting significant duplicate discussions. We allow reposts as a way of mitigating the randomness of /newest. But once a story has gotten significant attention, we bury reposts as duplicates. (But after a year or so, enough time has gone by that a repost is ok again.)

In the current case, the previous submission didn't get much attention, so we didn't count this one as a dupe. In the case of your post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26812145, the previous submission of the story did get a big discussion, so we marked the repost as a dupe. There's no contradiction.

Does that make sense? If not, take a look at some of the previous explanations. If you still have questions after that, let us know.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Given that Elon Musk raised billions of capital on that exact claim in 2018, there obviously are.
Wow - I did not know that was the case.

Look - I'm pretty pro-vax, I went and paid for a bunch privately a couple of years ago because I was travelling and thought 'why not get them all?' (like going for the nice-fancy-extra car wash program), and always get the flu shot - but that, wow, sounds frankly outrageous.

[EDIT] As a Brit in Europe - I do sometimes get the feeling that a lot of this is political maneuvering managing the fallout from the EU's less than stellar program (people can debate all they like, but the objective facts are: They tried, for the first time, to procure vaccines centrally, and after the same amount of time, demographics in the UK and US have them that don't in the EU), so maybe that's why they're so protective about it.
I suspect targeting the military was not a mistake on their part.

You're dead on the money about making claims that are very precise, and then leaving the door open for the media to generalize them to make headlines.

In this case, it may well be vaporware, but it's also possible it outperforms conventional aircraft in a way that's not particularly useful to consumers (small lifting capacity, high acceleration profiles, simple landing/takeoff requirements, etc) but might be useful for drones or military applications.
You will continue to have Yahoo email addresses for the foreseeable future.
As a woman who has endured a standard helping of sexist toxicity in the workplace, I'd much rather front-load it like this rather than be surprised that my department hired yet another jerk.
You realize they achieved this by effectively locking down their borders right? Now, imagine the response if Trump had suggested this. Actually, you don't even need to imagine it:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coronavirus-borders_n_5...
I thought education was funded via local property taxes in most states? If Apple brings in a bunch of tech workers who then bid up property prices in the areas around Apple offices, wouldn't that increase money for education (since property tax increases as property value does) rather than decrease it?
What is the kubernetes for if this is a starter kit? I presume this is for businesses without an existing infra and possibly a domain mame and a simple VPS/Shared host?