skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> EU botched acquiring vaccine compares to most developed countries by months, in no small part due to the retarded mindset that pharma companies shouldn't profit off of this and trying to renegotiate prices forever

Eh, that's a dubious narrative. In practice, Europe made an at the time fairly reasonable-looking bet on the wrong horse; significant production problems were expected with mRNA vaccines, while no-one really expected big problems with viral vector vaccines.

As it turned out, mRNA production went amazingly smoothly (to the point that overdelivery by Pfizer/Biontec largely saved the EU programme) while viral vector production was a _disaster_. If AZ and J&J had been able to deliver what they planned, or even modestly underdeliver, the issue of contracts would not have arisen.
I wouldn't walk away from a company just because they were not using a given technology.

I would walk away if they were using a technology not fit for the job, or were actively building an in-house version based on out-dated knowledge (the use of the word "minion" in Kubernetes was deprecated in 2014 IIRC).

Think about this in another realm, like plumbing. If you were a plumber, would you accept a plumbing job if the company told you that they didn't buy materials and tools, and were instead designing and building their own in-house version?
Blue Origin successfully sends Jeff Bezos and three others to space and back
The point is that a respected mainstream newspaper is spreading crap in a fairly uncritical way.

The alternative isn't "Ban this sick filth!" but to apply pressure to the Times and other outlets which frame pseudoscientific crap as being on a level with actual knowledge.
I try to do code review religiously, and comment on structure, direction, and people committing the worst of all sins, mixing dashes and underscores in a single name.

One of my coworkers logs in once a day and approves everything. Most of the team never does any code review.
Syndicated at Ars Technica:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/07/apple...
No, we already have a tool to combat misinformation.

It's called education and publishing better and more trustworthy studies.
I've developed a rule over the years which says that any startup that has an "ideas guy", "visionary" or similar is one to avoid.
No, this is from one of the intermittent successful responses. You can see it on https://ably.com/support also, which seems to be still up.

And cloudflare caching of some previous successful page fetch seems to be turned off as well. A cf-cache-status header of "DYNAMIC" means "This resource is not cached by default and there are no explicit settings configured to cache it.".
Even a $5 VPS can easily handle like 10k page views per minute if you use a performant web server i.e. not PHP or Ruby.

Or even those with caching.
The state of app SEC testing: DevOps drives evolution
I was thinking the same thing. Would it be feasible to hide dozens or even hundreds of small pieces of code that, when deployed enough times, operate together as one large piece of malware. Say a few lines of code here that cause some memory to leak in a server context. A few over there that cause the server to occasionally reach out to some public destination and a few others that, if they should so happen to be reached out to will know the origin is poisoned and set in motion some sort of attack…it would be the opposite approach to highly targeted attacks. But, if we have tools that offer up code snippets then surely we’re going to have people blindly using them just through inexperience. So it seems plausible at least that it could act as an attack vector.
The "Website portal and dashboards" is picking up the disruption now.
Indeed, there is pretty much 0 feasible way of moving air travel to carbon neutral energy. Even biofuels are simply not economically feasible and may well never be, and batteries are a no-go.
Wind? Gravity? Leverage in how the metal leans on the plastic?

How could a ley line do nothing but make a metal bar wiggle arbitrarily and inconsistently?

Did you find any water?
Yeah I've spent weeks on a project, it goes semi unused despite lots of attention from customers.

A few hours on widget ... suddenly customers grapple onto this simple widget as a big reason to buy.

Who knows how you figure that out...
For many standards they do host the committees and do print formatting, redactions, end of life notices, etc.
Yes! Was going to say the same. Kubernetes is far easier to learn than some random bespoke setup. After reading the article, it just sounds like they reinvented the wheel but made it AWS specific for some reason.

Was brought on as a consultant years ago and found their bespoke setup of random ec2 instances and lambda scripts to be far more difficult to understand than just spinning up a managed Kubernetes cluster and having a generic interface to deploy the application, as well as monitoring, logging, metrics, etc.
Debunk what? There is no provable statement that was made, other than "sometimes these sticks move around."
Count how many times the words "custom $something" are mentioned in this article and you have a pretty strong case for using Kubernetes.
> I doubt EU would be willing to do the same things US did to maintain its grip.

I think you meant war.

I think the EU is unwilling to make even non-bloody sacrifices, like the US did in the beginning at the Connecticut Compromise (1787). Basically as early as 11 years after the independence, the large US states relinquished a lot of power to the smaller states. With that compromise they gave 2 senators to each state, no matter how big or small it was.

I really don't see Germany relinquishing that much power, or France for that matter.

Also the EU cannot function like the US without the absolutely massive transfer of cash from rich to poor states.

A poor state in the US receives as much as 10k per person NET from the federal government https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/federal-aid...
Imagine giving out 200 billions to Romania alone every year... At best we get 10 billions a year, but only for a limited time. In the previous budget we got like 3-5 billions a year. For those funds, the richer countries expect a lot of obedience in return, always dangling the threat of cutting the funds if we "don't behave".
DocumentDB, MongoDB and the Real-World Effects of Compatibility
I am a researcher, and this seems incredibly useful for me.
Will definitely give this a try when Linux builds are available.

One feature request that I would suggest is synctex support. I can see this to be being useful when writing a paper using LaTeX as well.
The main takeaway is that it is very unlikely that the climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere is less than 2C, meaning the optimistic scenarios for climate change are also unlikely.
Interesting site. I currently work at a hedge fund, but have a small dose of NLP in my academic background, so it's always interesting to see concepts like this come out.

Two questions:
- Are you using EDGAR's 'Facts' function? It seems to make SEC Filings a lot more like structured text than they have been previously, but I haven't seen really convincing tools developed to use it yet

- How/do you ever see yourself interfacing with similar 'red flag' screening tools that just work on the numerical side i.e. accounting ratios ?

Also, you've got a grammatical error on your Values and Vision page.
Normally I wouldn't comment to point that kind of thing out, but for an NLP startup it seems more appropriate ('its volume' not 'it's volume')!
It's for passengers, the human driver is supposed to be looking at the road.

It's beta, why would you expect the part where it displays stuff for humans to be perfect?
Fifty people linked to Mexico’s president among potential targets of NSO clients
Objective doesn’t mean "promote baseless claims" - it means to impartially judge claims (regardless of who makes them) based on evidence, and use claims that are evidently true to support a line of reason.

Not everything has two sides - sometimes there is only one side that is evidently true and sometimes there are many evidently supported positions - so reporters and journalists shouldn’t treat everything as having two sides.

Proponents of dowsing have no evidence to support their claims and a whole body of evidence to disprove their claims. Their claims should not be presented as an alternative alongside fact in a news article.
25-30 seconds, with https://www.gozerog.com/ offering 15 parabolas totalling 6.5-7.5 minutes for $7500+tax. Much better total zero-gee time at much cheaper rates. Of course, you don't get the view above the atmosphere...
His influence is a multiplier for his attitude, the good-bad-ness of the attitude matches baseline humanity so it makes no difference in that regard.

His power is a multiplier for his actions, which are better than average, and so in that regard makes him a net positive.

If it turns out I’m being overly pessimistic about human attitudes, the result can be inverted.
Got curious and started looking around and found a few blog posts about being on HN front page, and it appears like you might get a traffic spike of 15-50k hits over the course of the day. That is a ridiculously low standard...basic WordPress with a caching plugin on a free tier AWS instance or raspberry pi can handle that sort of volume.

If you're going to make a big deal about being contrarian with your technological choices, you either have to be really good at what you do, or be really honest about what tradeoffs you're making. I'd be extremely embarrassed if I pushed this blog post out.
Tattooing isn't exactly a forgiving medium. Every work is inherently novel in it's application. Trying to get somebody to copy a "high effort tattoo" vs one of their own design is a short road to a shitty tattoo.
Yes, just use Netlify or something similar.
For some reason KDE Clock sounds to me much more professional than KClock
Ok, where to start...

> Packing servers has the minor advantage of using spare resources on existing machines instead of additional machines for small-footprint services. It also has the major disadvantage of running heterogeneous services on the same machine, competing for resources. ...

Have a look at your CPU/MEM resource distributions, specifically the tails. That 'spare' resource is often 25-50% of resource used for the last 5% of usage. Cost optimization on the cloud is a matter of raising utilization. Have a look at your pods' use covariance and you can find populations to stochastically 'take turns' on that extra CPU/RAM.

> One possible approach is to attempt to preserve the “one VM, one service” model while using Kubernetes. The Kubernetes minions don’t have to be identical, they can be virtual machines of different sizes, and Kubernetes scheduling constraints can be used to run exactly one logical service on each minion. This raises the question, though: if you are running fixed sets of containers on specific groups of EC2 instances, why do you have a Kubernetes layer in there instead of just doing that?

The real reason is your AWS bill. Remember that splitting up a large .metal into smaller VMs means that you're paying the CPU/RAM bill for a kernel + basic services multiple times for the same motherboard. Static allocation is inefficient when exposed to load variance. Allocating small VMs to reduce the sizes of your static allocations costs a lot more overhead than tuning your pod requests and scheduling prefs.

Think of it like trucks for transporting packages. Yes you can pay AWS to rent you just the right truck, in the right number for each package you want to carry. Or you can just rent big-rigs and carry many, many packages. You'll have to figure out how to pack them in the trailer, and to make sure they survive the vibration of the trip, but you will almost certainly save money.

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Does the dailyrecord (whatever the hell that is) hijack the back button for anyone else??
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Me personally, I don't necessarily disbelieve in ley lines, but to assert their existence should involve independent verification from other means of observation.

This is easier in the dowsing-for-water case than in the ley line case, where the construct itself is disputed and depends on a narrow band of observational methods (right now). Unless you already had other reasons to believe in the existence of ley lines, you yourself should have remained slightly more skeptical.
Zoom Killed Phone Numbers, They Just Don't Know It Yet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Jupiter

>"Buy Jupiter!" is a humorous science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the May 1958 issue of Venture Science Fiction Magazine, and reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. The original title of the story was "It Pays," though it was never published under this name.

>Plot summary: Government officials of the Terrestrial Federation negotiate to sell the planet Jupiter to an energy-based alien race. The beings refuse to reveal their plans for its use and whether or not they are at war with other similar beings. Eventually, the aliens reveal that they wish to suspend letters in Jupiter's atmosphere as an advertising slogan (i.e. Jupiter is to be used as an advertising billboard), to be seen by passing spacecraft. The main Earth negotiator reveals to his colleagues that he has outsmarted the aliens, who clearly are not experienced hagglers, having neglected the other Jovian planets. So when rival beings come to do business, Saturn, with its fancy rings, can be sold for an even higher price.
“Optimization” would literally mean installing a cache plugin in 2 minutes.

I’m no WP expert but maybe they have a good reason to leave caching out of the core.
It will be a while before synthesizing CH4 is "carbon neutral". Sure, you could set up a massive solar farm and pump it out, but that solar farm would be way more effective offsetting other power production methods on the grid at large.
Unfortunately it currently can't. But I do plan to add it eventually.
This seems a fantastic example of people caring a great deal because the stakes are so fantastically low.

Just list everyone alphabetically. Problem solved.
I'm putting myself in the mind of someone hundreds of years ago that literally has no idea where to dig a well.

If it is all to chance anyway, there are probably a lot worse ways to "flip a coin". At least you can feel like you're divining where to dig.

How that ever persisted into the 20th Century and to now is perplexing but probably says a lot about human nature.
Forever? Patents have a 20-year lifespan and require you to disclose your methodology, allowing others to copy your idea as soon as your exclusivity period is up. In a world without patents, small inventors would have their ideas stolen immediately by corporations that have the resources to build and sell the invention.

The big corporations have the resources to build and sell the invention and defend against a patent lawsuit regardless.

Moreover, the big corporations already can use patents against smaller competitors and can fund more R&D to get patents and can simply sit on it.

Also, it isn't always a good idea to disclose how your stuff work. For example, SpaceX doesn't do that because the Chinese government will copy their stuff. Not that it matters. The problem with the space industry is that the old space contractors and governments rest on their laurel even when SpaceX became the Goliath of the Space industry.
If you threaten to throw the CEO/President/Chairperson in jail the vast majority of organizations suddenly start acting like individuals.

Large systems are more than the sum of their parts, but not nearly as much as those parts want you to believe.
People like Aleister Crowley, Austin Spare, and modern psychonauts interested in chaos magic have worked/played in these spaces outside of established traditions and communities. And there have always been people like this. But they also fully expect some weirdness to occur.

Meditation within a community and tradition is certainly a safer, and often more fruitful way to go about it, just like traveling anywhere with a group, a guide, on established paths, and with a good map. It's a good way to learn the ropes but some folks like to take more adventurous approaches.
In Western psychiatry, the loss of a sense of self is dissociation, and is a mark of psychosis (to diagnose psychosis, you'd need some other marks, especially delusions or hallucinations).

I was over-simplifying when I said "destroying the belief that you have an independent self" - the cause of suffering is attachment to the sense of an independent self. Attachment in general is seen as a cause of suffering, but attachment to the sense of self is the hardest attachment to get rid of.

The term "ego" is used in Western discourse about Buddhism, as a cipher for the attachment to the sense of self. That is not what is meant by "ego" in Freudian or Jungian psychiatry (basically, the focus of consciousness). I wish Western Buddhists would stop using that word.

Western psychiatry doesn't pretend to address anything like the state of nirvana. It's mainly concerned with curing pathological conditions. I don't think any reputable psychotherapy traditions propose to take you any further than a condition of being free of the most-obvious kinds of hang-ups (Jung and his followers might be exceptions - I'm not sure - Jung's views were very expansive).

The Abidharma is the closest thing in Buddhism to psychology; it presents a detailed, practical (for meditators) way of thinking about the mind and how it works. It doesn't resemble Western psychology at all.
> Hungary aside, most of Israel's allies in the region are dictatorships

Not just in the region. In the 1970s, Israel worked with apartheid South Africa to develop nuclear weapons. South Africa has subsequently been disarmed, but Israel has not been.

Incidentally, in 1963 JFK was trying to stop Israel's nuclear weapons program because American intelligence had failed to turn up any evidence that other countries in the region were pursuing the same. In a letter to Ben-Gurion, JFK wrote:

> "I can well appreciate your concern for developments in the UAR. But I see no present or imminent nuclear threat to Israel from there. I am assured that our intelligence on this question is good and that the Egyptians do not presently have any installation comparable to Dimona, nor any facilities potentially capable of nuclear weapons production. But, of course, if you have information that would support a contrary conclusion, I should like to receive it from you through Ambassador Barbour. We have the capacity to check it."

Egypt never developed nuclear weapons.
The difference is, in Poland "umowa o dzieło" isn't hard: if anything it's easier than normal employment, because you don't have to care about things like ZUS, and it's much cheaper (in terms of labour costs).
Yep, it's totally divorced from the teachings it developed in. No wonder there's issues.
Aw cool! Can I hang out with your Dad? ;) We do pick up on overly promotional/jargon-y language to some extent. For the most part, however, word lists haven't worked for us.
> questioning whether such extreme accumulation of wealth is optimal in the first place

But why is it anyone's choice? People are already taxed disproportionately, why can't Musk spend his money, or the money people invest in him?

The US is free to outlaw large accumulations of wealth, it would just lose a lot of people in the process (assuming emigration wasn't also outlawed).

People in the US are, equally, free to move to places with fairer tax laws.
.. and Kubernetes does health monitoring!
> If I hear the phrase "I'm an ideas guy" one more time

No kidding? People actually say this unironically?
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> calculus was given a new name: Analysis

"Mathematical analysis of the infintesimal", peaked in the works of Euler, was just that: an attempt to mathematically analyze, among other things, the notion and applications of the infinitely small (and infinity in general); for some reason the words "mathematical" and "infinity" were subsequently dropped, and we are left just with a generic term "analysis" which now requires context to be understood properly.
Using branch-prediction to perform software value-speculation
This is in no way exclusive to porn. After running a B2C business for a while I realized that if, as an owner, you should be wary of some people, it needs to be your biggest, most vocal fans. They are the most emotionally attached, feeling they’ve personally invested their money, time and faith into your brand and they are the most violent when disappointed. At some point they all expect special treatment, which makes disappointment that much easier.

Of course not all fans are like this but it just takes a very vocal minority to create a big problem.

But then again, it takes some insanity to become a brand fan in the first place.

I’m sure that when trading desires and emotion like on OnlyFans, the things I’ve mentioned become 100x worse.
Every time you see a SoC just check if Armbian supports it. This is the case here https://www.armbian.com/odroid-hc4/, and if there is Armbian for it you can just use the Armbian sources to build the kernel for any other distro with ARM support. Including Archlinux ARM, NixOS and so on. Once you know enough about u-boot it's very easy to run any distro provided you have a kernel for it.
Sure but the guards likely overhear all the external insights given out in tours and when subject matter experts see and discuss the piece.
No debugger is going to help you understand most of the concepts in a good CS curriculum. It isn’t coding school, it’s learning how computers work at the most fundamental levels.
Thanks! I do use this for LaTeX myself and synctex support is on my to-do list.
Pegasus project turns spotlight on spyware firm NSO’s ties to Israeli state
2021 is a great time to own a small regional / community bank. All the mature FinTech companies are trying to buy a bank to expedite the cumbersome bank chartering process (+ mortgage origination and servicing companies are too)
> Russia had vacation faster, China as well.

... Wait, what makes you think that? Per OurWorldInData, except for a brief period in early January, EU total doses per capita have always been ahead of Russia and China, until June, when China drew ahead (Russia is still _far_ behind). And even then, that wasn't supply-driven; if you consider EU countries with high vaccine acceptance (Ireland, Germany, Denmark etc), those are still ahead of China; China overtook the EU as a whole due to vaccine reluctance in parts of the EU.