skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>You want to ignore the fact that Trump was blaming China as a whole for coronavirus?

I think it's valid to blame the CCP government for the pandemic going global. Especially when the CCP instituted a strict DOMESTIC travel lockdown without a matching INTERNATIONAL one. Why did they let people continue to fly internationally from Wuhan?

>>So you want to tell me you are surprised when people see racism by the racist guy who does and says racist things pretty much constantly?

I'm saying that people are so wrapped up in their emotional response to Trump the person that it is interfering with their ability to accept sensible government policies. Policy decisions which are not distinctive from previous responses to global pandemic risks over the past 20 years. I see it all the time in my own (black American) community.

>>>I'm not going sit here and line by line debate you.

You asked if I wanted to continue the debate. Every one of my posts links to policy implementations in living memory, with citations. Your posts have no references, and you've doubled down on arguing about racism rather than debate policy, before bowing out of the conversation? So...concession accepted? This is why we can't have nice things...like a functioning government.

>>>There was no federal response to the domestic crisis here. We had no supplies. We had no leadership.

The US has known for a decade that it was unprepared for a pandemic[1]. Lack of supplies cannot be dumped solely on the feet of the most recent shitty Commander-in-Chief, in a long line of turds holding the office. As for leadership, half of the country spent the previous 3 years undermining the Executive Branch's authority because Orange Man Bad, and then was surprised when the massive (yet understaffed of key leadership positions near the top) Federal bureaucracy wasn't able to coalesce and pivot on a dime to tackle an emergent crisis? And you are SURPRISED at this? I'm not.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1936949/
Where can I put money that she will not use the deep voice. She doesn't testify it's a push.
Great start but the field is moving on from tensorflow. Torchscript support would be amazing.
My longer summary:

The author uses the story of Odysseus blinding the Cyclops in the cave as an example of techne (guile/cunning), and of the emergence of the self/ego out of the dark, primitive child state. Thrusting a sharpened beam into the Cyclops eye suggests the power of the focused, penetrating individual intellect overcoming an older, perhaps more innocent vision of the world.

There is a parallel between physical mechanical devices and contrivances we make, and devices and contrivances of the mind. The contrivances of the mind are associated with deceit and guile, this also occurs in Homer's greek.

The lame craftsman god Hephaestus is lame, representing the bias that is inevitable with technology, which implements only one aspect of our mental activity.

Technology can "serve as midwife" to the birth of the individual

This midwifery requires a well-calculated balance between the challenges we take on and our self-possession, our wide-awake, conscious resourcefullness.

Technology assists the birth of the individual by separating him from the natural world.

Today, 3K years after Odysseus, the technical world is much bigger and more powerful than wild nature. It is the ravening beast of technology that we must restrain. Techne helped Odysseus escape from anonymity, but today it cocoons us and promises endless entertainment, distraction, freedom from cares.

We are engaged in a continual conversation between what might be called frozen techne and the conscious, living techne within ourselves.

The powers of our minds crystallise almost immediately into gadgetry, we live within a crystal palace indistinguishable from a prison.
The machinery we make, this inert cleverness, is the greatest threat to our future.

This essay reminded me of "The Abolition of Man"; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gux4Ldy8cN8
> That is certainly almost all pure margin for them,

Yes. While there is a pretty hefty up-front cost to all the hardware and fiber interconnects AWS makes between servers, between AZs, and to the internet (probably in the millions per-dc including labor), the margin they charge per-gb is insanely high to the point where they likely made all of it back within the first day it was installed, with any extra usage in the years after being pure margin.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/
Every car accident (2) I've ever been in involved someone else making a mistake, so my driving skill isn't particularly relevant.
Perhaps wisdom starts by accepting the conjunction of both the saying and your retort, which is not so far from a better-known saying, "the devil is in the details".
It's all about timing. My computer and phone are work tools, and I can't stand the things they do at an OS and app level that get in the way of me doing my work, because most often when I do it, I'm in a really big hurry to get it done. A simple dismissible notice of "hey we need to talk later about some stuff" and an easy place to view that queue would go a long way to improving this state of affairs.
> Of every developer I have seen leave, their primary motivation was a higher pay.

That's the polite thing to say, without bruising egos or burning bridges. I left my last job because I felt unappreciated after being skipped over promotion, even after accomplishing all the tasks I had agreed to with my manager would give him the capital to push for my promotion. Instead, other members of my team got promoted - and that was the primary reason I started looking around.

The fact that I'd be paid more wasn't the primary reason, few people leave a job for a lower paying one, so it's often an effect, rather than a cause. When asked in my exit interview, guess what I said my primary motivation was? Hint - it wasn't "I'm disgruntled because you didn't keep your end of the bargain"
I mean come on, Google's egress is free. They lease their dark fiber to run backbone links and telecoms. How much do they pay to egress YT?
It's not though. Recent studies show long covid drops off about 4 months and goes away completely after 6. Only a tiny fraction of a percent see anything beyond that.
Yes, the crypto people got a lot of things wrong. One is the idea that you have to trust banks. You don't. There's a whole system in place that protects us from banks, or anybody else, behaving badly. It's called 'civilisation'.
^^^ The CEO of Cloudflare.
"Now let’s remember that the internet is 1-to-many. If 1 million people download that 1GB this month, my cost with
@cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With @awscloud S3 it’s $59,247.52."

When I first saw this, my thought was it's highly misleading since you'd normally be fronting S3 with a CDN, so you'd only have to pay once to transfer a given resource every few days/weeks/months if the CDN is doing its job, and it can be served to millions of people at no or low cost (already been free on Cloudflare for a long time).

Then I came to my senses and realised there's probably orgs who don't know/care about that and they're actually paying these fees for every request.

Anyway, it's excellent to see this released. S3 is not just more expensive and tied to a single data centre. It's also bad DX, e.g. setting up permissions is way too complicated and the console is "brutalist" in both look and function. I hope this spurs some more competition in the area of storage.
Writers at The Onion giving up and going home after seeing this headline
It is a special case of Morningstar's law, you can't tell people anything. http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
> NaN is a sentinel, and it exists outside the set of floats, despite being a float itself for type purposes, which is why it needs to be tested for using specific operators (isNaN) and not using equality operators. Part of the utility of NaN is that it can not be tested for using equality.

That seems like pretty bad type design - if you want a sum type, define an actual sum type. If a given type doesn't have a well-behaved concept of equality or comparison (and to be clear, that means well behaved for any values of that type), it shouldn't support the standard equality or comparison operators. I agree that you probably don't want to put NaN in a binary tree, but the language should support you in not doing that rather than silently breaking when you do.
And I would argue that they don’t have the right just as your employer doesn’t have the right to take your phone. Apparently a lot of parents agree with me which is what spawned this comment chain.
It depends, as you said. You can look at our network map and get some sense of where we likely have a little vs a lot of equipment:

https://www.cloudflare.com/network/

But we deploy enough equipment to meet local demand (so will roughly correlate to population served). And that makes sense for ISPs to support because the alternative is them paying for back haul bandwidth themselves.
AWS's lock-in is in the egress. If you already got multiple petabytes ingested into AWS (for free), it's going to cost you a lot to send them to CF once.
Probably a good decision, but one pair of conditions being 5.6x more likely out of the thousands of medical conditions, and only when you slice for gender...a total of <10 very serious cases in the country...

If this were a social psychology result I'd be super skeptical it isn't a statistical fluke.

Does anyone know if there's a mechanism for action that would make causation make sense? I don't know anything about medicine or biology.
Even-though the Anker brick I have does not have an Underwriters Laboratory logo on it, it does have a TUV and a CE logo. TUV is the equivalent to UL but is a testing house mostly geared towards Europe.

That being said, TUV like UL is listed as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) in the United States (for more information see: https://www.tuv.com/usa/en/ctuvus-certification.html) and thus is just as safe.

The UL logo may be more recognizable in the US, however they too certify for both markets, with UL also having their UL EU certification program.
It's not practical. That's why all the arguments for it involve overstating and hyperbole. The results speak for themselves. It's shit.
I really want to not need to care about object sizes. Whether I'm writing 1 byte or 1 gigabyte, I want to have the same semantics, same API, and same sane billing model.

The underlying tech can differ depending on object size, but as a user, I want it to all transparently look like one unified store.
what is the name of the application?
Also, Fauci's "great" career in public health started out by him getting just about everything wrong that he possibly could have with HIV/AIDS.

Including wanting to implement many of the same draconian policies we see today for communities where AIDS was discovered.
I think the work of the standards bodies needs to be disambiguated from Open Access journals. In no way am equating IEEE and ACM with Springer and Elsevier. For the longest time, I think they have recently relaxed a bit, but IEEE forbid authors from posting a copy of their paper on their academic web page.
After a week of physical troubles due to covid, as I started getting better, I found a sort of fear/anxiety of losing loved ones took over me. resuming Rigorous meditation and getting back to work help me beat it in a week or two.

Though I'm not fully convinced for needing vaccine if already gone through symptomatic covid. If I have got the real thing training the immune system, what real benefit a controlled training by vaccine would give over that?
> I can rent unlimited 250mbit servers for 14 euros a month from Scaleway.

If we're looking only at egress, we can even find cheaper alternatives. OVH, for example, offers VPS' with 500Mbps unlimited for 10 euros a month, 1Gbps for 20 euros, etc.
I have an image recognition service on GCP where majority of the latency is the initial upload. Pushing that closer to the user would be nice.
Just a lapse of memory and thanks for the benefit of the doubt. Another commenter mentioned turbolinks and I was like "whoooaaaa yes I used that and this timeline doesn't line up at all." This lead to a long internal discussion about when exactly did I play Bioshock and does that line up with my memories :-)

I guess I don't mind talking about it so much-- we made a sub $1 component that could compress certain specific waveforms and play them back-- the trick was that they were highly structured, so the compressed data basically just parameterized the silicon in what might be considered to be essentially an assembly instruction-- frequency, carrier wave, data to be sent, etc. The chip then would generate the signal and you could shove it out the electromagnetic radiator of choice with a little amplification a diode and couple of resistors. The problem with these signals was they required very precise timing-- they weren't super complex, but not something a general CPU could handle-- the variability in the timing was too high.

Now yes, you could use a general purpose DAC and an amp and generate the signals, but we sold you a turnkey thing-- with 10 lines of code you could be transmitting signals and the whole thing only use a few kb of ram.

It wasn't super high tech, but our value add was high. I'd say most of the major electronics companies used our chips at one time or another.
However, the most important piece of information, the _active tab_ is easily discernible.

Switching tab is easy enough, by clicking the centre of its label. When you wish to switch tab, you generally are going to read the label.

But when working out where you are, that can be total guesswork.
A lot of orgs use all AWS, with CloudFront for their CDN, which also has high outgoing bandwidth fees (cached or not)
Something new or just confirmation of latent suspicions?
I work on a bog standard ERP that was originally CRUD, but a whole module was refactored to event sourcing so clients could have a log and rollback.

A couple of months back, a QA review reported a bug - the log system didn’t work. Turns out it’s never worked. Nobody has ever done a rollback either.
Power AIX, i and Linux (HANA) scale up and out has been available for a couple years now

https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/power-systems-virtual...

Outsourced GTS stuff is going to Kyndrl
And how many of the people effected by that are unvaccinated? You are simply re-stating what I said, as vaccines rates went up AND hospitalizations went down, mitigations were removed. Then the Delta variant hit and has been an absolute disaster for those who have refused to get vaccinated and our medical care system. 20% is a significant amount of people, and hospitalizations have gone up and therefore mitigations have been put back in place.

I would love to get back to (semi-)normal, I'm sick of this shit. But I've done, and continue to do the things that are helping make things less worst, I wear a mask, I socially distance, I have my vaccine. If a new version of the vaccine came out that targeted the Delta version of Covid, I would get that too.

And I don't believe that Covid is going to be eradicated by everyone getting vaccinated. In fact, I don't know anyone that believes that. What I and others believe is that if we get very close to 100% vaccination, we can lift many of the mitigations being put in place.

Yes, people will still get Covid, but they will be less likely to get it, less likely to get sick if the do, less likely to have severe symptoms, less likely to go to the hospital, and less likely to die. And our hospitals won't be over run.
Ask HN: Remote co-founders, yay or nay?
Looks like the rise of remote, and hybrid workplaces is here to stay.

Thoughts on remote co-founders? Can it work? Have any of you experienced it? Or know someone who has?

Looking for the good, bad and ugly here.
> But you can also only access it via a Durable Object which limits its usage

Presumably with not-a-lot of code you could write a Durable Object to have an S3 compatible API...
> Having a team you like is nice and all, but owning a house or being able to go on nicer holidays is better.

You spend maybe two to four weeks a year on a nice holiday. The rest of the time, for around 8 hours a day minus weekends, you are going to be spending with a team. Even if you live in a nice house and you're remote you're still going to be spending that 8 hours a day with a team.

If you don't like the other people in that team, or they don't like you, that's a big chunk of your life that's not going to be pleasant, however much more money you make.
It's likely to be the same because an ARM vCPU has similar performance to an x86 vCPU. A lot of people overthink this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch%C3%A9

has this word ever cropped up in the workplace/culture?
I'll have to jump out and point out that this is exactly the type of study that I feel the academia nowadays more or less are forced to perform, but at the same time have questionable setup and limited impact.

Overall the study is performed a very limited time frame, with a last portion of the data analysis performed through emailing back and forth. The research scope is limited to 300+ organization, which in fact has 30000+ engineer in total. And the tool was developed without much of normal industry standard understanding, aka, introduce a code analysis tool requiring users explicitly invoking it (I think anyone who is at a typical senior level in large Corp knows that without management pushing, such change is never going to work). The mentors of the author might be full time researcher?

I am not really nitpicking or condescending. I am dismayed by the waste of time and effort on both sides.

I'll read the paper later. But I suspect it would be basically some well known facts in the dunstry...
Reading your about your style, I can't help but wonder what's the point of using react. You clearly don't like it (and neither do I).

Is it purely because nobody seems to care unless a GUI is built with it? You just want to be popular, that it?

You should really try using Vue. Everything boils down to event systems anyway
I think they knew that, as they mentioned they could get the location that way. Though Apple can’t use AirTags to triangulate positions, since they are just uncorrelated random number to Apple—only once they are decrypted locally can your device find the location of another device that it knows about.

The other way to be aware of by which websites do get location though is from GeoIP.
I'm surprised such a Haskell-wonk blog post is on the first page of HN. This article is deep in the GHC Haskell culture. But it was very good - serokell never fails to deliver.
The road to 5G: The inevitable growth of infrastructure cost
> Who cares how many people are vaccinated, what the goal should be is reducing hospitalizations, deaths and long-Covid

I mean, sure, but in our toolbox of interventions, vaccination is far and away the best one we have in service of those goals.

Right?
Several ways to do this, but a simple one: You can generate a unique address where you would know where the payment possibly came from, but nobody looking on-chain could deduce the sender.
Unwanted Corkpull
Exactly. In the past ARM has been excessively paranoid about cloning, to the extent of even threatening students.
Eclipse had refactoring from the start. It was pretty advanced IDE for the time.
On Logic, and How Not to Do It (1913)
> Well, if you have state you're already not functional.

That's just wrong. State will exist, wether you like it or not, and you'll have to deal with it.

Again, you're using FP to say pure FP. Is Standard ML not functional according to you?
I have a singular request - so Wireguard is unusable in any high security environments with compliance requirements - because it doesnt support any 2-factor auth out of the box.

We get rejected on stuff like PCI-DSS because the standards mandate a 2-FA. I am not a security expert and wouldnt know about the pros and cons here. But the fact remains that most high-sec compliance needs 2-FA.

We have filed tickets on wireguard and it has always got rejected - things like epass2003, fido keys, etc. We have requested the most popular wireguard self-setup - Algo - but also have been rejected.

Of all the open source software here, only Pritunl comes somewhat close by layering google auth - https://docs.pritunl.com/docs/google . But Pritunl doesnt let u setup google auth as a second factor and its generally tricky to config.

If u can have a simple 2-FA - even something as simple as getting a google auth login link while connecting as second factor - that would make the killer feature here. As of right now, Tailscale is the only closed source solution that works.
A study in mice found that the condition occurred with some frequency when the vaccine was administered intravenously. So, possibly inadvertent injection into a vein, causing mRNA to be taken up by heart muscle cells which then express spike protein, and either the immune system attacks those cells or the cytotoxic nature of the spike itself kills them off.

Aspirating the needles could help avoid this but the CDC explicitly says it is not necessary.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...
The FDA estimated hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses in that age group to save one life, accepting dozens of cases of Myocarditis in the process. That is assuming literally no one dies from the vaccine.

Let us say the vaccine kills one in 100,000, that would be easily dismissed as chance. None of the trials could capture this. Yet, it would make the vaccine worse than the disease for that age group.
I don’t think anyone avoiding talking about single threaded bottlenecks. The main one that matters is on sstable streaming during bootstrap, and the zero copy streaming was directly to address that. There’s not really any single threaded pieces in cassandra that matter beyond that? If anything the opposite is true - thread pools everywhere leading to context switching and data copying for no reason.

On a deeper note, it probably says something about the user base that people who don’t run it in prod think the perf is really bad and yet there are very few people submitting perf improvement patches. Maybe most of the power users aren’t that worried about perf because they either know how to tune a JVM or they happen to size their clusters based on bytes on disk?
All the books Bill Gates has ever reccomended
I read the article and have the following two comments:

1) The troubleshooting and graphs are very nice.

2) The savepoint logic is, and was, absolute trash.

The correct logic if you're doing an insert in SQL is to try the insert and trap the status, not whatever was shown in that post (SELECT before INSERT is a race condition.) It appears an application programmer is confusing application state transactions with simple SQL logic, or there's some obfuscation being caused by RoR.

I would never +1 code like that.

IOW, you 100% deserved the intermittent system degradation.

Source: DBA.
The answer is in your question. Because event sourcing is a niche skill, devs see it like playing on a higher level of a computer game.

But where it’s really needed, nobody would choose a novice. So novices learn to do event sourcing on systems that don’t need it, and proceed to make a huge mess. Most companies don’t have any kind of architecture review to prevent this happening - they have managers who naively trust the developers.
Me too… but I don't think anything really does this.

_Maybe_ Firebase Store for certain scenarios, but it has its own tradeoffs too.
It was not designed with the explicit intent of never being updated, it was designed with the explicit intent of being complete one day soon. There will come a time when Gemini will be done, and even now any changes are taken very cautiously, but it is still in development.
They don’t need to ban flat-earther videos, just saying.
> There is no scientific proof, e.g. RCT, that lockdowns work

Nor that parachutes work!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/