skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decades ago, I heard similar arguments against restricting smoking in restaurants or public areas. To smoking proponents, smoking in line at the drug store was basically a constitutional right, and if you didn’t like cigarette smoke, just don’t smoke. It didn’t register that filling the air with cigarette smoke could encroach on the liberty of others.
No one actually has a working model of consciousness so that programme has a long way to go. But if the only evidence for time is change as Barbour likes to say, and change basically boils down the relative motion of particles, why not describe the whole thing as a timeless table of coordinates essentially? And let psychologists build sensation and a perception of a flow of time from that.

It's a tempting view due to its simplicity and the importance of math. But it is extreme, but so is every other theory or metaphysics trying to explain the same stuff!
> My dad used something called variational calculus to solve physics problems. It's beyond my understanding, but I gather it was more useful in the slide rule days

In (theoretical) physics, variational calculus is such a basic tool, it is no more obsolete than trigonometry! It's also quite mind-blowing and beautiful, how a single quantity (the Lagrangian) contains all information needed to derive complete equations of motion for a system, or the correspondence between symmetries and conserved quantities via Noether's theorem.
Nice article! Wish it also included (or linked to) some code samples on how to do each of those load balancing methods
From their Q1 disclosure,
Tesla made $272 Million from 'Proceeds from sales of digital assets' [1]. From the same disclosure, Tesla still holds $1,331 Million (~$1.3 Billion) of digital assets. As this is from their Q1 disclosure, they may have sold more since March 31st.

[1] https://ir.tesla.com/
This, so much this! I had a friend (who unfortunately has become completely lost to conspiracies) tell me, that the German government was incompetent because they did not take the virus serious enough and that covid was overblown and much less severe than the flu, in the same argument! When I pointed out the contradiction he said "you just think there is a contradiction because you have been indoctrinated by the MSM".

The exact same thing is happening with the mask discussion. The people who say the CDC lied about masks and it was obvious that they help, are the same who strongly refuse to wear them because it's a security theatre. It's completely dishonest argumentation.
Or on Android you can install NewPipe[0] which is an open source YouTube frond-end without ads too. You can install it from F-Droid[1] or Github releases[2].

[0] : https://newpipe.net/
[1] : https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
[2] : https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases
> To maintain that in reduced gravity would mean a lot of hours per day in resistance exercise.

There's zero evidence for this at all. We have no experimental data on living in partial gravity, only microgravity(zero-G). It may be perfectly fine, it may be just as bad as no gravity, we truly don't know.

There was a module for the ISS that was designed to test this but it got scrapped, a massive waste IMO, as it seems to be one of the most outstanding questions we have right now for space biology. Other big issues like radiation exposure is well understood.
Less than a week ago someone commented that they wanted their eldest son as sole inheritor; any daughters could marry into money.

OT1H that may not be as wildly generalising as this, but OTOH I found it showed such breathtaking callousness towards one's own flesh and blood that IMO it competes and perhaps even beats this.
Money market funds arguably act like a banking business, but are subject to regulation of their marketing material that obliges them to explain that they're not, and they certainly don't operate like a payments business.

Money market deposit accounts are a different story, and are highly regulated (and secured).

That being said, even if your comparison was accurate "hey, look at this similar business that caused harm and chaos during the last financial crisis" isn't exactly a glowing endorsement, is it?
> The people who have money to hoard gas are also the people who have the money to hoard gas at double the price.

But then the outcome would not have changed, the people who hoard will be worse off, the people who produce a valuable commodity will be better off and there is incentive for people to contingency plan and have gas reserves for when things get tight.

That is a strict improvement. Plus, you're probably being overly pessimistic - people will stop hoarding once the price gets high enough. The shelves would not be bare.

> These are not individuals with any knowledge of economics - theyre not doing it for trade, they're doing it out of belief.

The people with knowledge of economics don't have much of an advantage though, do they? When has an official body ever been banging the drum before a major crisis issuing panicked warnings? Every crisis it turns out all the people held up as experts had grossly misread the situation.

People with knowledge of economics often get bowled under by people with a knowledge of politics or of statistics when it comes to trading.
Agreed.
It also unlocks another level of optimisation
- the human one -
I'm much better at reasoning my way through code improvements when I don't have to manage dealing with switching language/runtime models in the middle of the code :-)
> Either of these approaches defeats a fundamental gRPC benefit: reusable connections.

I feel like that's not quite true. The server could notice it's over-worked and start telling clients to back off or otherwise to try another system. At this point the clients can make the call to either back off or terminate the connection. The server can increase its "back off for N ms" until it finally has to
terminate connections.

It requires a bit of extra coordination, but not much.

Also, even without such a system, forcing a reconnect when a new instance starts up/ periodically still reduces connection load a ton. If you force reconnects every minute, and you have 10/rps, that's 1 reconnect per 600 calls.

I guess in theory a load balancer is the most information to make these decisions, so really you'd want it to be aware of 'back off' requests from the server. One way of doing this might be something with health checks? Dunno.
As someone who always has a terminal open, I consider Zulip Terminal[1] a native app.

1: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-terminal
N95s also need to be vacuum fit IIRC for max efficacy
Despite the pandemic, 85% of organizations completed their audits
Ha, you’re probably right. Time to get back to the actual product ;)

Good luck with the interview!
Metal vs gas is a poor choice of dichotomy: every element is a gas at the right temperature and pressure.
With flatfile you have to define the data model and the validation criteria in the client side code. Whereas csvbox.io is no-code - you can define the data model and attach validations right inside the app admin with a few clicks.
The First Private Space Mission to Venus [video]
I've had the same problem with Syncthing between Android mobile and desktop. Either devices don't see each other, or if I manage to sync one folder it synchronizes once and it never does anything again.

I've switched to KDE Connect for manually transferring files from the phone (it can't be scheduled on Windows as far as I'm aware, but at least it works every time).
This is nonsense: Amazon has about a million employees, the restaurant industry employs about 15 million.
I find that surprising.

It's pretty clear the EU health regulatory agencies aren't much better.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

500 to 2000 people died in France because the regulatory authorities choose to ignore multiple warning signs the drug has issues.

Maybe you shouldn't be so trusting?
USDC's "custody accounts" aren't cash either:

"US Dollars held in custody accounts are the total balances in accounts held by the Company at federally insured US depository institutions and in approved investments on behalf of the USDC holders at the Report Date."
It's not a given, but it's also not a given that it originated in Europe or anywhere else for that matter. Plane travel makes it possible for a virus to be anywhere in the world on the same day.
There is no meaningful difference between surviving extreme conditions on mars and extreme conditions on earth.

The only difference is that the number of people that can live in extreme conditions is much smaller than the number that can live in normal conditions.

Fighting against climate change is purely about making sure that the earth can maintain 7 billion + humans. Any mars colonization program will not progress fast enough to let 7 billion humans inhabit mars within the next 200 years.

>It's unreasonable to expect the entire human race to stop what they're doing and focus on one issue.

Nobody said "stop what they're doing" except you. But the usual argument is that Elon Musk is accelerating the progress toward mars colonization and accelerating that progress simply isn't needed because of time constraints that no amount of money can solve. It will take decades no matter what a conman tells you.
I'd like to see "air quality inspection" be part of a fire safety inspection.

Just have the inspector crack out a CO2 and PM2.5 meter during the inspection. Set legal limits and have a fee for exceeding them. Make it apply to existing buildings too, so building owners can choose to trade off increased HVAC costs Vs reducing the fee Vs costs of retrofitting better ventilation.

Obviously the measured numbers vary a lot day to day, so if a building owner isn't happy with values measured on the day, let them take an average over a week or something.
The NSA and FBI are built around secrecy and preventing leaks. Their opaqueness is a huge part of their advantage. They keep information from the general public as a rule. Everyone involved is vetted and knows the punishment for insubordination.

The CDC is for the benefit of the public. Peoples trust in them is needed in order to be effective. It is pretty transparent in that you can usually look at the data they are using to support their guidelines. If they were keeping something secret the chance of a leak is much greater and there is data from other countries that can be used to corroborate their conclusions.
Which leads to huge arguments which really benefits nobody as we just establish that we disagree.

Common sense seems to say that masks make s difference, but if that is the strongest argument, then why not let people decide for themselves using common sense.
This is a good survey of options with pros and cons. While one is at it please spend some time understanding failure modes and more importantly recovery from failures.

Let me describe a scenario my team ran into while using option #3 i.e., Look-Aside. We used etcd as service discovery store. Servers as part of their startup would register with etcd. Clients would query etcd and randomly pick a server to talk to. Now, for some reason the entire service fleet got isolated. A couple of hours later the network partition got back just fine but all the servers had shut down.

The real pain started when we began bringing up servers. As soon as a server was brought up it would register with etcd, immediately get bombarded by hundreds of clients and then would promptly die. No matter what permutation we tried servers would just refuse to come up because of thundering herd. The only option was to shut down the client app, which was another fiasco because we hadn't built a clean way to do it, and bring up all the servers and then gingerly bring up clients hoping they won't kill the servers.

The downtime lasted almost for a day. And this is a largish app based ride hailing business I'm talking about so you could imagine the shitstorm it created among customers and investors alike.

A key learning for us was to isolate service startup from load-balancer registration. A service should not be responsible for registering itself with a load balancer that should be for someone else to do.

While gRPC does have lots of positives it still has some way to go before it reaches the operational maturity. People will discover these deficiencies in a painful manner.
How building a DSL has helped me organize my work
Disagreed politically? I’m talking about major markets like California opening up, not whatever happens already in Georgia or Florida. So I think these more risk averse jurisdictions will also have a few businesses that try to maintain independent restrictions without support from the state, and I think they will have lost tolerance from their entire population or market base by then (a few weeks from now). This is not political, as the Federal government and the state government will be of the same political leaning. Nice try though.
Not sure what you mean about Slack encouraging disjointed chats. It supports threading too and people use it almost all the time at my work.

I agree it is hard to find things again, but that's mostly because Slack's search is pretty bad, not because of any inherent properties. It's no easier to find old emails or old IRC messages or even wiki pages.
Do you actually remember this in real time? Do you remember at the beginning when everyone was wondering what to do and they said wear a mask and then they said not wear a mask and everyone around you was like, "What?? What is going on??"

And then a short while later they said wear a mask again. These things have real world ramifications. You can't just point to a snopes a year later and retain the context within which this trust destroying episode went down.

People have memories. They felt the frustration. They felt the betrayal.

And they have yet to recover from that. To dismiss that very real feeling of betrayal as "well, this is what snopes says" is rewriting history.

And, all of that comes on the heels of big tobacco, DDT, thalidomide, BPA, climate change, and then the new climate change, big pharma with their oxycontin and big medicine fleecing Americans and they won't even discuss medicare for all and we have to protect corporate profits over saving humanity?? Seriously??

And you dismiss all that with "science is a process."

Except the process has been completely dismissed as well. Science created the process that takes years to approve a new vaccine, all of that has been completely dismissed exactly when a brand new technology for creating vaccines has been created.

No part of this is science. This is politics. Period. 8 Months ago Kamala Harris herself said she would NOT get Trump's Vaccine.

And so now it's somehow a different vaccine that we should all get? Now folks who don't want to get Biden's vaccine are science deniers?

This. is. not. science.

This is politics and a lot of people are refusing to get the vaccine purely because it's politics and NOT science.

Did you watch Fauci get destroyed up there this week? He's a liar. Period.
The main clue is that you are not noting that it is misdetecting anything, just that you think what it is that it is detecting is not very special.
> This suggests a potentially disturbing trend -- companies or managers that will start implicitly punishing employees for working remotely.

Unfortunately, a company where any significant proportion of staff actually works from an office will implicitely have remote workers at a disadvantage — pass-by discussions with actual decisions might never reach them, so they'd be missing a lot of context (at best, they'd get decisions without the reasoning).

Basically, remote work requires full team to switch to remote-friendly practices, like relying on written forms of discussion. Basically, the office should only be a place for chit-chat and building the team spirit. Some people need more of that, and others need less.
https://insomnia.rest already supports gRPC, but isn't restricted to gRPC.
That has significant costs on the energy efficiency of buildings and would blunt a lot of the progress we're making on combating climate change.

Not saying it shouldn't be done but it should be done in a smart way that balances between tradeoffs.
> people didn't care if you wore a mask or not

I mean, imagine it was a more simple situation. What if we knew for a fact that if you wore a mask when you had the flu, then you wouldn’t spread it. In my opinion, it would be fantastic to have a healthy social expectation for an individual to limit their infectiousness while sick, instead of just going to work or school and blatantly spreading the flu. That would prevent a lot of sickness and even death! Having the flu sucks.

COVID is similar, but it’s not as easy because it’s not clear when you could be spreading anything. COVID’s a sleeper, and sometimes it spreads with no symptoms. Super dangerous, eh? That’s why it makes sense to extend that first, simpler example so that we can be more cautious as a society towards something which has caused more than three million human beings to be terminated. Not only does it make sense, but I’d argue it’s even the moral option to be cautious until we can be more confident of our society’s combined immunity towards the disease.
Interesting, i know eth and cardano are moving to pos method and i feel like all cryptos have to inevitably move in this direction if they want to scale
Those European countries have markedly different age pyramids than India
I've been following David (hey, it's @hieussr) for sometimes and I think this is a game-changer for many people.

Hackers like us pick up a new language easily. Though I have seen people struggle to learn the necessary languages for building dynamic web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). I guess that's the reason Tailwinds got popular, because people don't need to learn CSS. Or Flutter/React Native, you write in one language, and able to publish to platforms that require Java and Swift/Object-C.

I was amazed when seeing Remake. It's like a dynamic HTML.

All the best for Remake, David!
I don't know how to make sense out of this. What about thermodynamics and entropy?
I assume you meant `.ok_or`, not `.expect`. Either way, I'm not really how this or your `.ok_or_else` comment is relevant to this sub-thread. `.map` is not a method on tuples.
Delighted to see this. Installation of psycopg2 can be a nuisance thanks to the native compilation steps which don't always work as planned and rely on specific versions of libssl.
Yeah I’m sure a year of lockdowns had nothing to do with it, as lockdowns are free, right?
Thank you, yes, this is where I arrive at.

Describing patterns observed from within space-time and ending up modelling a timeless universe seems incoherent to me!
> How do you "admit" something unknown? Either way we know it couldn't have been too much before November/December, considering everything we know about how fast it spreads.

Actually, this is not so clear. The evidence of community cases in November/December in e.g. France were not picked up at the time either. There is a phase were a new disease can fly completely under the radar, because we are still in a very slow growth and only see a few isolated cases, which often don't even get seen by the same health professionals. This is particularly true in the case of covid were there is evidence that spreading is disproportionately from "superspreaders" (unless some of that information changed now?). So unless there was a superspreader, you only have few isolated cases.
That's true, I guess I was imagining more of a Newtonian approach, modern physics has everything.
The thing that puts me off is that you have to choose a subject for every message. Bit of a pain. And I can't see how it's threading is significantly better than Slack's.
Reading this comment is like what back mirror was before it went down hill.
Time Enna – A Timezone Conversion Utility App
Twitter marks link to reputable investigative journalism site as spam
Ya, it's Irish (aka Irish Gaelic aka Gaeilge). He's just saying the up on the mountain is where the sheep used to be. Not the clearest diction though.
One saves lives, the others ruin and take lives.
Please tell your parents the truth, that the J&J vaccine is not produced using a fetal cell line.
Genuine question, why did they not lose credibility when they started recommending them due to political pressure rather than “the science”? As I understand it, there is still very flimsy scientific backing for the effectiveness of masks.
I think this is one of the main points in moonwalking with Einstein, discussed in a sister thread.

By the end of the book, the author wins the American memory championship and the following day he forgot where he parked his car.

These memory techniques are like a notebook. They won’t make you remember stuff any better, but if you wrote something down (in your memory palace or notebook) you can look it up.
>I don’t know. Did any of it matter

I bet a lot of companies, including Colonial, are investing more in security, including hiring more people for security.
I don't think you can call gaming on Linux excellent if it still involves WINE / DXVK. Until Linux gets first party support, it will never be excellent. More like 'good enough'
If the PC is otherwise idle, why is it a problem that a process takes all CPU if it needs it?
So, most shops (at least the ones that have been existing for a few years) are just starting their move to Prometheus (or in the middle of it) and we already have a newer, better implementation to migrate to? I love the tech world! (I'm half ironic and half serious with my last sentence)
Videos like this reminds me that regular people can do cool and unique stuff. Sometimes I think the internet is just people reposting and copying other people's things. TikTok is one of those places, copies of copies of copies of copies. It also reminds me that I should maybe get more creative in my life and maybe regain some sense of wonder.
Tailscale!
You could still want CORS if, for example, you're testing a front-end service that typically calls out to a remote resource. Maybe you typically deploy both same-origin in production, but for dev you want to be able to feed it some specific data. In this case a different port would require CORS.

There are lots of ways around this (put the files in your static folder, embed it into the file you're debugging, use a library which provides mock data, probably more), but it's not inconceivable to just want to be able to point the 'api' configuration param to localhost on a different port so you can just feed it json files from a directory that already has the data you want.
The signals I'm seeing from India strongly suggest that their death rate is massively under-reported.

http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess...
I don’t think anyone trusts the Indian government numbers; they are downplaying, lying, and just overwhelmed. It will take a long time probably before before we get a real accounting for deaths, but everything I’ve read points to at least 5x - 10x the official numbers.

You’ll eventually get your answer though to the question of “what if we didn’t do lockdowns and just let it run” - I don’t think it will be pretty.
How about 1,300 deaths a day from smoking?

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...
> I personally follow the CDC guidelines

I don't believe you. Do you use a food thermometer when cooking food? Do you make sure to cook eggs until the yoke is firm? If you're a woman, do you make sure you never have more than 1 (alcoholic) drink in a particular day? Do you never eat rare steak?

People ignore almost everything the CDC says in their regular lives as the CDC is completely optimizing for health, not quality of life.
EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled
Essential worker can a) be an anti-vaxxer or b) unable to get the vaccine for various reasons (allergies).

Now, if it’s a) and you’re arguing that maybe they deserve the risk of infection then that’s another argument.
what defines an "approved investment" ?