skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I go through 10-ish jars a year of various brands of coarse-ground, whole seed mustard. Personally, I feel there is no better topping on most meats and deli sandwiches.
At the very best this is really really bad science. At worse, this is misinformation with a veneer of science.

It's just a bunch of graphs with: "look at that! see I told you!". No controlling of variables, no hypotheses, no actual data or meta study of existing data, nothing about actually how masks work. This author is just cherry picking country/state level levels of Covid and making wide assumptions based on laggy and noisy data. This is for Facebook clicks to try and make people that don't like masks happier.

It's a peice of cloth over your face, is it really that bloody hard? If the mask stops only 10% of transmission, isn't that still worth it?
"On this one thing, I will ignore everyone else's opinion and say it's important to me."

It doesn't have to be just the one thing. It doesn't have to be something that's uncontroversial like a game. but it can be, and the reward of individual effort is no less valid if it is.

We can however, use that same urge to make the world a better place, if we wish. Just be prepared for the disagreements with those who like the world the way it is.
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No matter what, SK Telecom is going to be eyeball (ingress) heavy and no amount of engineering of Netflix traffic is going to help with that, as it's all inbound anyway. Not that Netflix's upstreams like Level3 or Telia would be peering with SK Telecom anyway. Reducing the amount of Netflix traffic can only help.
You beat me to it - I saw the updated CoC this morning and wrote https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/issues/2694

My thoughts follow yours entirely - the author is tweaked about the failure of the moderators and twitter is not a place for commentary on a pull request.

(There's a certain irony here to the author of the PR complaining about the difference between the intent and impact of a statement and then... completely missing the point of why their PR is meaningless).
Our brain could generates our thought using fractal pattern
New Repairable Fairphone Comes with 5-Year Warranty
banks break things all the time, thats why crypto exists
Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse
One way I've come to think of it is that Sybil resistance comes from having the next block producer chosen by a raffle, with some resource used as the ticket. PoW is an example of the resource being exogenous to the system and PoS is an example of the resource being endogenous.

A problem I see with both is that they are inherently plutocratic, in that the wealthiest participants will have greater economies of scale in the resources they devote to the block production process.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/03/trends-suicide

> The suicide rate increased 33 percent from 1999 through 2017, from 10.5 to 14 suicides per 100,000 people (NCHS Data Brief No. 330, November 2018). Rates have increased more sharply since 2006. Suicide ranks as the fourth leading cause of death for people ages 35 to 54, and the second for 10- to 34-year-olds. It remains the 10th leading cause of death overall.

>But it’s a different story in other parts of the world. Over roughly the same period, other countries have seen rates fall, including Japan, China, Russia and most of Western Europe. What is going wrong on our shores—and what lessons can we import from elsewhere?

I’ve always seen social media as a very artificial environment, it depends on the online environment. But I never associated it with more benefits especially among teenagers.
> Until we find the API for reality, many of these decentralized projects are hopeless.

That was nicely put. I see so many of these projects promising to end with banking, bureaucracy, but forgetting that at some level the bits and bytes have to be input or acted on by a human.
That too is true. As of March 2021, Netflix was the only over-the-top service that has reached 10M subscribers in SK (seconded by Wavve, currently operated by SKT and but only had ~4M subscribers at that time).
I'd wager that GitHub is one of the biggest publishers of larger-than-bite-sized Markdown documents, and this "selling point" (an argument which I both agree with about [original] Markdown and agree that this is a good property) is pretty much untrue for any given piece you'll find on GitHub. This is thanks to several factors including "GitHub-Flavored Markdown" differing so wildly from the original flavor, and the typical GitHub user just not giving a shit about how the raw form looks—treating it as just another non-WYSIWYG formatting language in the vein of HTML or TeX, since all they're really after most of the time is for their README to work as a substitute for a product landing page.
I've come to see a lot of these tools as sharp objects.

Used well, sprints can help figure out how to put tracks of work in parallel, and keep anyone from overloading themselves.

Used badly, they're perpetual deadlines that fault individuals for inefficiencies in planning and create all kinds of fun toxic incentives.

To add insult to injury, everyone that complains about agile just gets told they're "doing it wrong," which 1. no shit, that's the substance of that complaint, and 2. blames individuals for what's essentially a management failure.
"As a reminder: Reinforcing stereotypes can discourage new and existing contributors. As the project runs on volunteer contributions, please think before you post about if your words may discourage anyone from participating. A good way to do this is to ask yourself "am I singling out any particular group in my statements?" If you are, and you didn't notice at first, you're probably over the line. Feel free to reach out to the moderators if you have any questions. (Ideally before posting!)"

fixed it.
It's quite common datacenter prices to incl. bandwidth and data.

Netflix/youtube cases it's the content providers that server the traffic, so most of it is generated by them. The client requests are tiny in comparison.
Braking distances have gotten much better as tires and ABS have improved. A kid darts out from between two cars and people hit them at speeds much lower than they used to.

On the other hand the height and shape of the average car has changed to make them less pedestrian friendly.... but any one of these vehicles also sold in Europe includes a bunch of measures to lessen damage to pedestrians.

So I feel very comfortable saying a study from the 90s is not relevant because too much has changed on both sides of the equation.
If anything, you would want elected officials to be invested in their country as a whole, so indexed funds and stuff like that. Yes they are lower risk, but they also reflect how a larger group of companies are doing vs the ones they have first hand information about.
If people see a lot of cops in a neighborhood, they start to suspect there is a lot of crime.

Seems like a variation of this. "If this community really needs a CoC, maybe it's actually full of bigots and assholes."
They didn't synthesize any data.

> We compared data from the USA National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to three non-governmental, open-source databases on police violence: Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence, and The Counted.
Singapore, Named as a Top Technology Hub in 2021, Is Now a Crypto Pioneer
I can't speak to South Korea's ISP market, but in the US the major cable providers are now doing very well.

Comcast is at $18b in operating profit, with roughly 18% operating income margins. Charter Communications is at $9.6b in operating income, with 19% operating income margins. Those are the two biggest cable companies in the US.

In the early decades of cable, profitability was notoriously flaky for the industry. Enormous amounts of required capital investment, and it took a long time to saturate - scale into - the US market. Now the market is settled and they're printing consistently giant profits.

Interestingly Charter has become a giant, worth $133 billion, and Paul Allen used to own a controlling interest in the early incarnation of it. It was part of his so called wired world collection of investments.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/paul-allen-cha...
And I am glad that the chains are paying more. But is the extra 1x minimum wage worth the noncompete?
The central evil is letting anyone control the standup that isn't directly participating in the work output of the team.

Because then it's easy for that person to forget that stand-ups have no independent value -- their only value is in making the other work go faster. And should be calibrated to maximize that.

Which is why you get the "We standup because we have to standup" shops.
Given the number of addresses available in a /64 IPv6 subnet, pick a value to statically assign to it and use that. If you have a SSH bastion host / jump box, perhaps pick ::22 as the end address part.

A friend assigned ::25 for the service vIP of his SMTP server/process, and ::143 for IMAP. Your web(mail) host could be ::80 and/or ::443. All on the same host (if you wish). If you have an HA setup you can have the vIP failover by using (e.g.) keepalived.

Using tokens may be of some interest as well:

* https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ip-token.8.html

You can have a public prefix address, as well as a local 'private' ULA address at the same time. In some ways I wish the best practice would be for IoT devices and appliances (like printers) only have link-local addresses, and perhaps ULA if advertised, with global addresses only configured via config switch. It would perhaps allay some the concerns that people have (like you do).
> Eventually I learned that hnrss has a flag to make the comments the primary link. I switched to that, and no more problem.

This has been my only annoyance with the HN RSS feed. I'm so glad to have learned about this.
Excuse the lack of formatting, but something like this:

https://pastebin.com/6UAcgKZu
Check What Information the Browser Leaks
Rocket Virgin Galactic cleared for flight, Blue Origin “bet and lost”
> with the company's inside information about itself

a company acts in the interest of its shareholders.

If you're saying that a majority shareholder hides this info from the rest of the shareholders, triggers a buy back under a false pretense, then realize that growth (making the share worth more), then that's just financial fraud.

If a company has an opportunity for growth, this information is unlikely to be private to the shareholders, and thus, the buyback would price in that possibility (discounted by the success rate and risk). So the scenario, where a company buys back shares (from current shareholders), then somehow improves it's performance/growth suddenly, is not likely.
Apple forgot to sanitize the Phone Number field for lost AirTags
Windows 10 was an upgrade over 7. Windows 10 UX improved over 7.

This sounds more like 'MS bad, must hate MS at all costs' then actual legitimate complaints.
Vietnam abandons zero-Covid strategy after record drop in GDP
Depends on the company, I think the only SaaS you really need is the payment provider (eg. Stripe/Paddle). Apart from that you might need hosting, I would personally go with a cheap VPS instead of cloud services.
Well, not the same way SV does. They did almost break the global economy in 2008, so...
Fungible doesn't mean replacing one item with the exact same item in the way he's using it. It means you're replacing it with something else that serves the same purpose.

Fungible: Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility;

The entire premise was that coal is fungible because you can replace it with solar, and nobody* cares as long as their lights still turn on. You can't do the same with food, you can't replace beef with soy beans - in fact for most people you can't replace beef with anything, they want beef.

*coal miners care, the vast majority of the public does not
By analogy, that's also how type inference works. If you know X, and either the type-rules for arithmetic, or Z, you can figure out Y.

The constraints of their usage can be used to determine the type required of that data.
Is it a bull market or a supply-constrained market? Bull market implies your work is heavily valued in a trendy way, whereas supply constraints mean it's simply very hard to find skilled engineers.
A Trump lawyer wrote an instruction manual for a coup
Heheh. If there was ever proof they were a monopoly….
At least the Android app does have the ability to do downloads, and I thought it had the ability to schedule downloads for off hours, but I don't have it in front of me so I might be misremembering
Sure, the article doesn't say who is funding them, and they aren't "based in" Russia. But looking at the big picture, is the war-torn semi-recognized developing eastern European country of Kosovo really investing its limited resources into funding large-scale efforts to destabilize Western culture and discourse? To what purpose? Isn't it much more plausible that there's a superpower involved somewhere? Isn't it extremely likely to be the superpower we know already does this?

Sometimes big true-true different from small true-true.
There is no better wat to encourage additional production/reuse/alternatives. Shortage just tells binary signal, prices lets you actually esimate how much this and that will cost.
I find this thinking just bizarre and displays quite a bit of hubris from the ISPs and/or S. Korean courts.

What's happening here is simple: Netflix is so popular that an ISP dare not block their content. Really, put simply: Netflix costs money to deliver, yes, but it is an expectation of ISP customers that they have access to Netflix. If an ISP were to block/charge more for access to Netflix (assuming that's even legal, but let's just say it is), customers would move to another ISP. Outside of cases where moving to another would be impossible[0], that should be the end of it.

It's interesting to me that the article focuses entirely on the courts getting involved. What's happened is that a business made assumptions about cost (that "unlimited" would mostly be users surfing lower-bandwidth web sites, not delivering video) and the market (all of their competitors likely land somewhere near eachothers' pricing) and discovered that those assumptions were wrong. Instead of either accepting that they are not a commodity that will always chase the lowest price and operating accordingly, they've gone to the courts to have the government require Netflix to reward them for their mistakes.

This idea that as an ISP customer, you "paid for unlimited service at a certain rate" but "don't you dare actually use that unlimited service" is absurd. Watching Netflix, even the vast majority of the day/night, isn't a matter of abuse -- akin to bringing a sleeping bag and living at a 24-hour gym that you have a membership to -- it is what most ISPs are advertising as a reason to subscribe to them. They know they can't turn around and tell their customers (that have choices in service providers) that they're going to charge them for access to something that is central to that service, so they go after Netflix. What if Netflix refuses to pay and just leaves the S. Korean market or decides to say "screw it" and shut the business down (ala Atlas Shrugged)? Would that make S. Korean ISPs service more valuable?

[0] In these cases, they're a monopoly to those customers and should be regulated accordingly; preferably in a manner that brings in an ISP that can handle Netflix traffic without the charges.
How did you get started in contracting? Did you just start with a previous employer or do you use an outside firm?
Monad tutorials are hard to understand because nobody actually wants to tell you what a monad is, because that would defeat elitist thinking.

A monad is just a very concise definition of a List. In java terms it's as if you're defining the List interface in only 5 methods. It is of course a very restrictive definition, but this makes it easy to redefine listy/listlike things as Monads with minimal fuss, and it turns out that when you put on listy glasses, you find listiness everywhere, because it's a fundamental concept in computing. For example, a string is a list of characters; a map is a list of keys, a list of values, and a list of key-value pairs; a byte is a list of bits. Java programmers get excited about the new Optional<> class, which in the monad world is famously a list of 0 or 1 generic things.

Monads enable a sort of programming-language parlor trick where you can flatten a bunch of nested for-loops into a single "for-comprehension" (or do-comprehension, list- comprehension, whatever) that looks like a fancy for-each-loop but is actually desugared calls to the Monad methods. The semi-magical part is that because Monad methods are all callback-based (lambdas), this makes it easier to resolve the problem of "callback hell" where you discovered lambdas, got carried away, and then you have a nested mess that you really want to flatten out.

That's pretty much it. Monads are clever, but not remotely close to being some kind of window into ultimate truth of everything. Elitism==extinction, and so we don't get to have nice things.
And how expensive is it to eat beef from these cows? How many people that currently have a taste for beef could afford eating it regularly if this was the only option?

I'm all for it, but in effect this is just the "massively reduce consumption" argument.
I have some doubts about "it's heavy so it's probably oil-filled". There are two common materials in transformers that are much denser than oil: iron and copper. There may or may not be oil in addition.
> archaic notion of whether this cousin is related to you via a female blood relative (either your mother's sibling, or your father's sister).

This is a "doesn't share your last name" relationship in a conventional western family structure.
So debezium is offering a nice way to listen to the replication logs? Awesome. Will have to check that out :)
I am a senior engineer and I have managed large professional organizations. I have experienced burnout and I learned how to manage my work-life balance to avoid it.

It is true that professional desk work like software, accounting, legal, writing proposals or CAD design can result in burnout. But I disagree with the comparison to blue collar work.

Blue collar workers can’t set their own schedules, they can’t take breaks as needed, they aren’t paid nearly as much, they are paid by the hour and their work is generally much more mechanically repetitive. Professionals do not work this way.

Professionals have many more options to control their work environment and schedules. And they generally have much more freedom of movement within their career path and within the industry.

But it is incumbent upon the professional desk worker to proactively build breaks and approaches (physical and mental) into their work routines. This is not taught in school, but it’s a necessary skill for professionals. It is possible to be successful professionally, to still have a life away from work and to avoid burnout.

Sometimes, the job demands, the managers or the work schedule may just not be a good fit. So the best fix is to move on and find another position.

There is much written about how to build a strategy to manage burnout on the Internet, for example:

https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/avoiding-burnout.htm
Honestly the sampling here is so tiny this doesn't mean anything, other than Facebook's own research is also rubbish.
They may have a code style book to avoid foreign language terms.

Also, suppose you’re localizing something to German. You have to learn English to understand the labels, but why would you also have to learn Chinese, etc (how many different languages/cultures gave rise to items in that long “see also” list?)

Finally, if this happens to also be a special case in some other language (I wouldn’t know), why prefer the Chinese (transliterated) name?
I also left a PhD in the field (albeit right at the very start of the PhD) but this was also my impression.

I was shocked at how bad the state of the literature was with so many dubious papers, especially since the explosion of ML techniques.

I came from a Physics background and there you could generally trust the literature was legit and not just smoke and mirrors to get published.
> Teachers, social workers, public defenders, armed service people.

I don't agree with that in all cases. I have a friend who is a teacher and admits teaching is a great job for him (2nd grade) and he doesn't know what he would do otherwise. Probably some type of physical work. He is a great guy, but just isn't that sharp. He is punctual and dependable, but not real good at thinking on his feet. He makes about $82k teaching (20+ years experience in a reasonably affordable area) and I can't think of another job that would pay him that well, give him the summer off, great healthcare and a pension.

I know a few more teachers and perhaps it is the group of people I hang out with, but they all are closer to him than to some person making a sacrifice for the good of society.
While I broadly agree with this, I would say that my own attempts at making mint sauce were fairly disappointing in comparison with shop-bought - Colman's mint sauce is an awful lot nicer than anything I was able to make, and (though I've never tried to make it) I bet their wonderful mustard is too.

You will probably also not be able to make at home anything all that similar to the mayonnaise you buy in a shop, though what you can make at home will almost certainly be equally as nice (my children were confused by the yellowish colour of home-made mayonnaise, which is sort of backwards since the confusing thing ought to be why shop-bought mayonnaise is white!).
> Don't be an asshole.

A whole lot of the reasonable parts of "woke" boil down to a few things:

(1) Don't be an asshole.

(2) Don't meddle in the affairs of others if those affairs do not concern you.

(3) Evaluate other people from first principles and starting with a positive assumption, and check yourself for subconscious biases against groups of people that you might have picked up without really thinking about them. This is really a subset of checking oneself for irrational cognitive biases, which is a good practice in all areas.
This must be for the chinese market? I know they have a lot of words for family relations...