skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having taken a large organization's entire stack the other way in 2016 - from dedicated metal colocation to AWS, after a series of devastating ddos attacks on our datacenter - I've remained cautious and judicious in how I use cloud services, to attempt to prevent lock-in, for this reason. I build all critical systems (including outbound mail - which requires negotiating with Amazon) on raw EC2 VMs, allocated drives and RDS images, and more or less balance workloads between them manually. This involves a bit more hassle than e.g. putting frontends on elastic beanstalk with automatic load balancing, or using buckets or any of the nicer cloud features... I basically treat AWS as a colocation facility where I don't need to get anyone on the phone to reboot a machine at 3am. I've been told I'm "misusing" or even "misunderstanding the purpose of" the wonderful services provided by AWS. But for me, the upshot is that I could probably port the entire infrastructure to any other server farm within a few hours if necessary.
Lots of reasons, climate, waterways, lack of glass making technology, understanding of astronomy etc. More detailed explanation: https://link.medium.com/fCP369iaCgb
Well... improving performance because otherwise your server is being slowed down by the load from SSR?

That's still saving money in disguise.
Scientific image sleuth faces legal action for criticizing research papers
It's like all of these posters have never worked on a large-scale app, acting like the decision to lazy load content is made just because we don't have anything better to do.
What were they using before they started saying React? Backbone.js? JQuery? How big and how interactive was the website at the time they started using React?
The production of new C code is going away in many places that have a lot of old C code. In each project that converts to compiling with a C++ compiler, the new code is C++. Old C code hangs about, but is looked at less and less; soon, nobody wants to look at any of it. Parts get wholly rewritten in C++ when it seems like they might otherwise need much attention.

If it is meaningful at all to talk about a language going away, it is about a decline in writing new code in it. Obviously all the code written in badly obsolete languages still exists, somewhere, but the demand for people to write any more of it falls at an increasing rate.
Absolutely, agreed.
You should have data access layers if you're working on any decently sizable app.
Thanks for calling that out. This is the only example I've been offered and it's exactly the kind of "talking about the lab-leak theory" that I suspected was less innocent than posed by OP.
How to find American freelancers for offline work?
I tried freelance and craigslist but no luck.

Just two responsed (less than 2% response rate). Never heard back from them even though i was ready to pay $15 per hr for very minimal work.

any suggestions/ideas please?
Indeed - I have to give a plug for UPMC Harrisburg in Pennsylvania.

My wife gave birth to all three of our kids there, and while it was more institutional than what's described above, they were big on skin-to-skin contact and leaving it to the parents to parent while the nurses and docs took care of medical needs. Staff was uniformly great throughout all of our births.
Have you ever stopped to wonder whether you have been similarly goaded into believing your neighborhood is flush with nazis and white supremacists?
> The starting point for doing anything with React is where you call it to render a certain component at a certain point in your document

You're trying to use the literal meaning of "you call it" to make an argument but that argument doesn't support the position you think it does. Yes, React has `ReactDOM.render()`, but did you know Angular.js also has an entry point called `angular.bootstrap()`? Vue has `new Vue()` and Mithril has `m.mount()`. In all of these frameworks there are various callable APIs, but that fact doesn't oppose the fact that your React component code is called by React, not by you.

> It is possible to use React only as a convenient rendering library

This is also possible with Vue, Hyperapp, Choo, Mithril and many other frameworks.

> Nothing about that forces you to adopt any specific architecture in the rest of your application

Again, same can be said about various frameworks. You don't need to use Vuex. Lichess uses MVVM w/ Mithril. Etc. Ultimately, componentization offers a prescriptive organization pattern. Nobody complains about React code being spaghetti like they do about jQuery, and for a good reason (sagas and other auxiliary libraries aside)
Curious - what's the general rationale for hyperconverged storage at a bank across the entire footprint? I'd imagine that data storage systems would need to have highly restricted APIs and strong persistence requirements, so you'd naturally tier your services as you would between an application/service layer and a database layer, as would be common for web applications. Certainly the database layer would benefit from converged infra, but wouldn't it be overkill to provide that to nodes running application & service code that shouldn't be doing much, if any, persistence to local drives?
What's special about them (what are we missing)?
A bigger issue is how far and fast it travels. We have no surveillance program or early warning system.
SoftBank and WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann agree divorce deal
I think the kernel of the problem is this: you make money by selling a solution to a problem that someone has. You can do this by looking at the existing set of problems and coming up with a solution (product, service). This is good. BUT you can also do this by creating NEW problems and then selling a solution to those. It seems to me to be a fundamental problem in our economy and in our politics.
I haven’t found this to be as extreme as you say in my experience. More often, the things I find on blogs and Stackoverflow are just not the exact issue I’m facing rather than flat out incorrect.
I run such an AC pump, and I had good success adding a VFD controller instead of buying a new DC pump.

It still runs off AC but internally runs off DC and back to AC again. It now has soft start and variable speed control, and draws about 30% less power than before.
Really confusing statement to parse. Would have been easier to read as

"A six figure job making memes at a legit company"

I originally read the statement as a six-figure meme, which is making a job.
You need to follow the Spa Disambiguation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa_(disambiguation)

In that sense Wikipedia is a bit like Google in that they try to guess what the user is searching for, perhaps what is most popular. Thus, a search for "SPA" automatically redirects to the article on Spa as in therapeutic water treatment. A link to the Disambiguation page, if it exists, will always be provided (cf. "Did you mean ....").

However, change the search string "spa" to something more specific and then see all the search results.

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500&profile=all&s...

Increase limit= to a number greater 500 if desired, or smaller if want to speed up the search.
Wow! He plays Spider-Man and translates Ancient Greek!
Right, so you're saying that actual reality is too hard for self-driving systems to deal with, so we should change reality in order to coddle the self-driving cars so that they can handle it.

...which reinforces the point me and the grandparent post was making: You can't solve self-driving without AGI.
You're not the only one.

A possible lab leak has seemed reasonable, given the circumstances, since early on. If it weren't for all the politics around it, I think it should have gotten a more careful treatment.

Unfortunately, it also became a political football. US-China trade wars were still in full swing at the time and both countries were jockeying for advantages in negotiations. There were lots of political people here that saw "blame China" as a way to force trade concessions, and others who muddied the waters further by going beyond an accident and wondering out loud if it was an engineered weapon.

On The Media recently had a little bit of coverage of this [1] and the guest, Alina Chan, had the completely reasonable conclusion that a science-based approach to investigating a lab leak is merited, that lab accidents do happen, and that if it was discovered to have been a lab leak, then the reaction ought to be to move labs like this one away from dense population centers and enact some quarantining protocols for researchers working with infectious diseases.

But this is still a subject that's going to be difficult to have a grounded discussion about because now it's being used as a political football against perceived media biases and censorship and the failings of liberalism and yadda yadda yadda.

[1]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med...
I cannot wait for this.

However I also do not see when I will buy a full shelf of gear, even though I would love to. Will they also release a maxi version, micro version and a nano version? Ie. 2U server, PRO workstation and an small formfactor?
I think the innovations they have done to these computers deserve to be even more places than just in a massive and awesome data processing rack.
That was about the total for each of our hospital births.

Medical experiences and costs in the US really are crazy variable.
I've had COVID, and this is why I will not get vaccinated, despite CDC recommendations. It's very creepy how they've buried treatments and promoted experimental vaccines.
I mean if a benign intervention doesn't actually work and it causes people to avoid a real intervention that is problematic. There's definitely plenty of alternative medicine misinformation out there that makes similar arguments about safety and history.

That said, it is wrong for YouTube to be removing these videos IMO. First of all, who at YouTube reviewed the material? Do they actually have the expertise necessary to filter out fake claims? There are plenty of natural treatments out there that actually can be helpful, and I doubt YouTube hired a doctor familiar with the relevant literature for its fact checking operation.

Second of all, why is YouTube so fixated on removing COVID-related videos? Is this sort of content about possible preventative measures really more harmful than countless videos that exist on YouTube about natural "cures" for cancer?

And really these are just implementation concerns, there's also potentially more fundamental problems with silencing information like this. I haven't read enough on what the OP posted to comment on how real it may be, but even supposing it were false information, deleting the videos entirely may not be a net positive.
Wake me up when multipath support is included... Till then I prefer TCP b/c I can use MPTCP to utilize all of my rural LTE bandwidth for each single flow (e.g. downloading a file)
what happened to those scientists/lab reports saying their were fatalities in California as early as August/September 2019?

The youtube accounts that mirrored it were all deleted and I've not seen a word on it since.
Yes, although (thinking personally, right now my kids are still little): before you have kids, you lack the audience and the experience; once your kids have grown out of picture books, you've lost the audience; and while you're bringing up little kids, you have no time to write books!

I've considered book-writing on occasion, but never seriously considered childrens' books, mainly because I have no illustration skills.
Used cars around the world are experiencing unprecedented price appreciation
Would it be straightforward to integrate with https://n8n.io/ based on the existing no code/low code integrations you have?
This thread is full of people saying what's wrong with the book without posing alternatives. I get that it's dogmatic, but do people seriously take it as gospel? I'd read it along with other things. Parts are great and others are not. It's not terrible.
Anatomy of a Tech Blog
Is HN any better? I got censored and ridiculously rate limited today for trying to post a similar article.
Traveling with Medication
If you click on an <a> tag before the JavaScript has loaded and React has hydrated, the browser will do a full page load of the URL that you clicked on. Assuming that new page is also rendered on the server, it should work fine and feel just as good as if it was a traditional server-rendered HTML web site or if you had JavaScript turned off. (Of course, things that do require JavaScript for interactivity, like custom tooltips on hover, custom form validation, etc. won't work until the JavaScript has loaded.)
I caught it in mid-February and had virtually no symptoms except for loss of sense of smell.

I have very high levels of antibodies and was advised by my doctor to hold off on getting the vaccine. Several coworkers in mine have insisted that I get the vaccine or they will not participate in a picnic where I am present. They are all vaccinated so I don't really understand the reasoning, but I think there's some strong psychology at play just like your mother-in-law.

I'm pretty racked with guilt at this point because I was strongly encouraging my mother-in-law to get the vaccine so she would stop living like a shut-in.

My wife just came home from the hospital and it's official:
Her brain activity has continued to deteriorate to a point where she is brain dead.

It turns out that there are several cardiac arrest events for every 100,000 shots administered.

So it is a rare event but not as rare as many people think. Obviously the media isn't going to report, because it would cause millions to not get vaccinated. It's understandable, but yeah, my head is exploding right now.....
I honestly can't see where you think it's discriminating against anyone in either the tweet or the actual posting.
Yep, there the ones with stressed out Ops staff running around replacing hard drives at 3 AM and with managers trying to work out how they are going to pass the next security assessment because they don't handle end-to-end encryption or have sufficient controls in place.
Why this got downvoted, I have no clue, but I assume it is from someone who would rather using a WYSIWYG and a mouse rather than make anything.
To honestly make that statement, it would first require conscious awareness of it. I believe that this is the root problem: people, even smart people, are literally unable to realize that they do not know under certain conditions. On certain topics (fight or flight mode?), it's like the mind stops supporting trinary logic and downgrades to binary only.

Consider this: how frequently do you find the logical styles so common in this thread in threads where the topic is technology or things of that sort?
Both ends need to grok MPTCP. Which services and devices meet the requirement?
I never made a comment one way or the other about whether the cancellation was logical, I was just responding to the claim that there was no funding to begin with.
No, they just for some reasons missed /blog/ part in the path.
This resonates with me. I recently tried to create demo videos for https://nocommandline.com . I had assumed it was a simple enough task (I've seen multiple websites with demo videos, I've created demo videos with Adobe Captivate at my 9-5 job) but in the absence of an expensive Adobe Captivate License, it turned out to be much more difficult and time consuming than I expected. The thought I immediately had was - there are probably lots of other SMBs struggling with this; you should blog about this and what finally worked for you.

The thought of blogging about what I struggled with is usually followed by - but you're not an expert in this domain; maybe your solution is actually wrong which means you'll be leading others down the wrong path or maybe it was a hack. I usually counter that thought by making sure that a blog post would clearly show that I'm not an expert in that domain and that I'm simply documenting my experience (sometimes, you're just looking for a hack to get you over a hump so you can ship and then you can come back later and build a more robust solution)
This is only sometimes true. Other times, cutting the server rendering makes things a million times easier because maybe you're not contacting your database, or you're offloading large per-user objects to the client instead of keeping them in ram for thousands of uniques per minute, or, or ...

Some calculations are less heavy on the client side. It's not building the html itself once you know what you need that is heavy, it's that awful dropdown menu with dozens of nested filters that rely on user-input data which is awful to build serverside, but incredibly easy to build client side.
But even a block is syntactically just a list of statements.
The problem is there's no way to adequately test a 3000 line function.
It's an accounting phenomenon: Deducting expenses reduces income tax, which is levied on net income. It is also beneficial when considering the time value of money – money available at the present time is worth more than in the future due to its earning capacity.
That seems like a good excuse for when there are multiple lists of things, but when it becomes the standard behavior for pagination of a single table of 10 rows, it's ridiculous.

> can be cached as needed

For requests of < 30kb, client side caching has very few benefits. If it's a slow database query, then hopefully the server side is caching something to lessen load.

> trying to return a single JSON object

Certainly there are some cases where JSON might make sense to return to a browser, but the cases that I'm frustrated by should never be serialized as JSON when sent to the client, and should be sent as tables or other HTML. Having JSON transformed by JS as the only method is displaying data feels like the fundamental architectural error that is degrading the web for users.

All these years later, huge advances in compute and bandwidth, and in many ways that good 'ol 28.8k modem in a Penguin box was as responsive.
I do think there is a problem with how tightly some big corporations have locked down social media - but the 1st amendment (and equivalent laws elsewhere) don't cover the requirement that anyone actually listen to your speech.

I think if we see social media as being a necessary modern medium for speech then we're going to need to get a government sponsored something in the mix - whether that is a common required protocol for messaging or a full blown nationalized social network is an open debate we can have. The main issue is that as long as we're blindly trusting the market to fix itself - it has decided the fix is that monopolies are great when nobody is breaking up big tech companies.
> It's very strange to hear modern music coming through it what with it's old art-deco styling. Sometimes I think about who the original owner must have been and what they probably listened to on it. Old jazz and rock and roll songs maybe? News updates on the Korean War? Who knows. But it's interesting to think about...

Another reason why open standards and are so important. If you have a recording, I'd say the same about the reason we should not be so lax with DRM.

I remember a friend of mine telling me how he lost a bunch of animations he had done on Corel MOVE! Corel simply didn't support their own format after version 5 from 1996. He gave up waiting, couldn't find older Corel versions and deleted the files. In 2012 an open source parser appeared: http://cmvparser.sourceforge.net/
George Hotz attempted to reverse engineer the virus. His attempts at doing so can be watched here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StGm-m1EUgk
I'd encourage you to give React a try for this use-case! I've done this exact thing -- slowly introducing React in certain places in a large web app -- and it's worked great.

You're right that tooling/tutorials are mostly geared towards SPA usage, but React itself is designed to work for both. You'll have to decide on a pattern for "bootstrapping" React in a given page or element, since there aren't well-established best practices, but after that it's smooth sailing.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a lovely book, but I do wish it didn't have the caterpillar enter a cocoon and come out as a butterfly. It's caused a lot of confusion over the years (only moths make a cocoon, butterflies make a chrysalis).
Fascinating result!

Very happy to see older generations acknowledging code and seeing it as a way to collaborate with younger generations.

Great work!

Quietly linked in the article (uses Sage!): https://github.com/liuyj8526/Computation-of-Elliptic-Units
In fact, that's one of the major contributors to React's success. It's so easy to integrate into an existing application. If you take any major tech company (that's existed before React) that has adopted React as their main framework, I will bet the majority of them are, to this day, running React in parallel with another framework (and many are running it WITHIN another framework).
Not that poster, but Scheme.

Chez Scheme can be embedded with a C API, is Apache licensed, and crazy fast.
Sure, there's lot of code to write, but is the end goal writing code, or making a web app that's great for users?
Amen.

Also thanks Eric Carle for getting my kids to eat apples, pears, plums, strawberries, oranges, chocolate cake, ice-cream, pickles, Swiss cheese, salami, lollipops, cherry pie, sausage, cupcake, and watermelons (and nice green leaves)!
I'm not sure the goal here. Do you want increased or decreased moderation? Repealing 230 and making social media companies liable will lead to more moderation and bans not less.
> However I don't feel comfortable ruling out alternative scenarios

I haven't suggested we should, not do I think that would be wise. We're in the uncomfortable position of having effectively no evidence in favour of any theory of COVID-19s origin, so we're reduced to trying to imagine which bits of missing evidence are the least likely to have been missed.

It seems true that Wuhan is outside the flight range of the horseshoe bats living in the mine, and that a sample of RaTG13 was brought from the mine to the lab in Wuhan. If RaTG13 was a direct predecessor of COVID-19 (likely), and if the lab in Wuhan was the direct source of the initial infections in Wuhan (hard to estimate), then I think Occam's Razor suggests we have a good enough explanation for how RaTG13 got to Wuhan. It would be a remarkable coincidence if a sample of RaTG13
was in Wuhan to be studied, then RaTG13 independently mutated into an unknown COVID-19 precursor outside of Wuhan, then the precursor was separately brought to Wuhan to be studied, then the precursor leaked and became COVID-19!

...but as ever with this mess, I don't know of a reason we could rule it out. At most we can try and estimate the odds of the lab having a closer precursor than RaTG13 but not realising or, if they realised it, not admitting it, but I'm not sure how to even start evaluating that scenario, so...
Gitcoin is doing great work supporting the eth ecosystem and their whole quadratic allocation model is very innovative.
Over 9000!
I don’t see anything above or beyond. Just an effort to comply with civil rights law. I mean Steve Jobs was infamous for parking his Benz in handicap parking spaces just for convenience.

The companies are just as committed on principle as a real estate developer who puts in curb ramps to stay out of court.

That doesn’t mean the designer who drew the plans and the building inspector who approved them don’t care about the plight of the disabled. But the ramps are there because of the law not goodwill.
Personally I love SPAs and would still use them all the way instead of Django/Rails. The problem with server-side rendering is you need to start duplicating all the code the moment you need some front-end interaction. Also, I prefer when the interactions are snappy, and having to hit the server on every click to fetch some html feels so slow.

I do agree though that building SPAs is too complex and that we haven't yet found the perfect solution.