skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know a good resource with these tricks? I often struggle to predict exactly which schema migrations will lock tables aggressively and what the smartest workaround is.
If you had stated as much in times where the status of NA was actually at stake instead of now when it doesn't matter what you think, the US authorities and US society in general would not have been happy.
Ugh. 380% increase in the immunoglobulin cost in a decade. Large increases in the vaccine cost. 2-3x markup at the ER. Plus, the ER charges thousands for administering the shot. $20k for the first round alone in one case (most of which would have been hospital fees - the drugs don't come anywhere near that despite the massive markups).

Absolutely disgusting.
I didn't say Monero is KYC.

I also didn't say you transfer directly into Kraken. Instead, you would use at least 1 or 2 other wallets before transferring into Kraken, because that bypasses their scanning.

Kraken is still cheaper while doing that than paying a 10% fee for an ATM.
Analysis: Venture Capital Investments in Artificial Intelligence
Really cool!

My $0.02:

I wish this looked more like hacker news: IE, same colors, same fonts, same text size. I've been using Hacker News for so long that its look and feel are part of its queues. Different colors / fonts just gives the same content a different feel.

I'm torn on how you display comments. One thing that I don't like in Hacker News is that a top-level comment with a lot of replies ends up pushing other top-level comments too far in the page. Your approach, though, is the polar opposite: Never show replies until I select a comment and push ->. Perhaps show a few of the replies with smaller text?
Thank you! It took me longer to write then I expected it would. I was originally just going to do some small examples of each idea.

But once I got the idea of aggregating the book review data from amazon I felt I had to see it through.
Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor Pressure
Cloudflare could really shake things up on the ML side of things. The egress costs and GPU prices on AWS and GPC make them a nonstarter for most companies, forcing people to rack their own hardware.
On Windows, probably the easiest way is to use Scoop [0].
You can then install org-mode with `M-x package-install org-plus-contrib`

If you want to set it up in your `~/.emacs.d/init.el` config, you can use something like `use-package` [1] to make the installation easier :

```elisp
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("Org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/"))
(use-package org
:ensure org-plus-contrib
:mode ("\\.org\\'" . org-mode)
)
```

[0]: https://jrhawley.ca/2020/03/08/emacs
[1]: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
Derek Banas is learning chess from scratch
Derek Banas is one of my favourite computer programming gurus. I loved his ruby videos, and through him I learned to love coding.

He is not only an avid coder and youtuber, but a very good learner. 4 weeks ago, he asked his fans what they wanted him to learn next, purely so he can demonstrate to viewers how he learns new things so effectively. His viewers chose chess!!

He's around ELO 600 at the moment, I will be watching his progress, and "learning how to learn" along the way.
Yes maybe it is fraud it would depend on the contract. But he delivered something and did they accept it as in take possession?
There’s a Ruby gem called strong_migrations that does this. It’s fantastic and I include it on all of my Ruby projects.
Many times there are authorities that have formalized protocols for systems involving people. For example, the FAA has prescribed thresholds where pilots should be alerted of possible failures when navigation system measurements have exceeded those thresholds. Other times thresholds like those can be found just through user testing and feedback. The goal there is to ensure safety without losing the confidence of the user or overwhelming them with information.

There are a number of general Software Assurance protocols. I'm not super familiar with them, but DO-178C is one I hear about often which is a process specifically for assuring/certifying airborne systems.
"Flagging" is done by individual users, at their own discretion, for more or less arbitrary reasons. If a posts accumulates enough "flags" it goes into the state you are seeing. It's really hard to say why a specific post received flags, unless the exact individuals who chose to flag it decide to speak up.

I wasn't one of the people who flagged your post, so I can't really say much more than that.
Sounds like you know this, but Rabies PrEP can be had overseas far cheaper. IIRC, the WHO protocol is down to two doses from three.

Did my last round of travel jabs in India. Ended up being less than $200 for everything, including rabies prep, for two people.
Safari gets undeserved flack around here for being dated, yet I’ve been for quite a while impressed with their pace. They refuse a lot of new and intrusive Chrome proposals, and they used to lack agility, but the combination of a huge performance advantage over any other browser + fast pace recently has made it my preferred choice. I think the narrative is outdated.
Corporations colluding to fix prices as high as possible?
My first year at Bloomberg: “I studied harder than I ever did in school, ”
I love the keyboard interface please don't listen to anyone trying to change that part :).
Sure, but those are two extremes. I can't believe that there isn't some middle ground (even if that "middle" is much closer to Gemini than the WWW) that continues to achieve Gemini's goals without sacrificing so much on both the user's and developer's sides.
"Eating AWS's lunch" seems quite speculative. R2 is a blog post. S3 is the industry standard to the extent that everyone else creates products based on a subset of the S3 API. S3 is also a cornerstone of the AWS ecosystems which has enormous gravitational pull.

Cloudfare is an exciting company with a lot of great products. But they're less than 1% the size of AWS or Azure. Let's see what happens.
Well, where do you draw the line? Eventually you arrive at just running an emulator without bothering with hardware at all.
Thanks! Glad you didn't think I was in bad faith after the semi-rhetorical question and disengage.

That whole thread makes me sad. Another, more subtle way IP is ruining the world. But that's neither here nor there on this debate.

Just to flesh out my current thinking a bit more:

* I'd really like a study to understand how much complexity old GNU tools have gained in the past 2 decades. Because that would not be due to copyright concerns. But I'm not sure I have the necessary skills. (I'd like this study for non-GNU as well, but I assume copyright is not a concern there so the study doesn't have to set crisp time bounds.)

* I share some of Drew DeVault's frustration in https://drewdevault.com/2020/09/25/A-story-of-two-libcs.html. I've viscerally felt the immediate sense of disempowerment he describes when cracking open an open source package. _However_ I vehemently oppose his cavalier lack of concern for locales. Internationalization is important. ASCII is just as effective at disempowering others.
> Hotel Seattle
I can't access website, status page and app. Looks like issue with DNS? What could be the cause of this?

https://ibb.co/kKxk9w0
Solid list. But there's a key idea missing. That is:

Your site is not the customer. Google doesn't care. The customer is the real human person doing the search. Google's top priority is make and keep that customer happy. It's wise to try to do the same.
The joke has already been made on twitter ... with AWS folks also jumping in.

https://twitter.com/BentTerp/status/1443083172221161474
This looks to be the original letter

https://www.lioness.co/post/bezos-wants-to-create-a-better-f...
There's no insult, implied or otherwise. You just don't seem to understand the dynamics of this situation.
Dropping customer's database would indeed cause a lot of harm
Yeah, I agree with all this. Amusingly, from your extended list I have also written a non-trivial amount of Java, JS, and Perl too which perhaps demonstrates your point further.

I hadn’t before considered the laziness part of Haskell, perhaps I simply hadn’t made it far enough to be aware of it before. Maybe that perspective will help me next time I feel the urge to try out fp again.

fwiw to your point about other languages, Rust has certainly presented a challenge due to new paradigms but it’s never felt insurmountable. The rust book is truly an incredible piece of writing that imo makes the language so much more accessible than it would otherwise be.
Same here, I have tried it time to time and while I like it, I (this is probably heresy, I realize) prefer having a separate application for notes.

What I've been thinking of is running two Emacs instances, one of which is initialized just with Org mode and the other as my text editor/IDE. Haven't quite dove off that cliff yet, though.
This is not a valid Show HN - please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. I've taken that bit out of the title now.
No, on average people would benefit if they worked together but in a tragedy of the commons situation often a many individuals abuse the resource so much that they wouldn't benefit from cooperating. See for example Californias water use situation, California is over using water each year and its aquifers are depleting, but the farmers who use all the water wouldn't benefit from all the farmers stopping.

Similarly if someone worked their way up by creating a really important bottleneck everyone has to go through rather than facilitating productivity in others, the company and many other employees would benefit if he changed but he wouldn't benefit from losing his reports and thus well paying job.

This is different from prisoners dilemma where everyone benefits if everyone cooperated.
This could also create a shitload of jobs.
Correct. As acknowledged, if you read my responses.

In both cases, the public messaging is that vaccination provides substantial benefits throughout the entire funnel.

The point is that the public messaging is damaging if it turns out that the conditionals are misleading. I don't know how many times I have to say it, but I would like to see compelling evidence to dial in my priors. The links you have shared so far do not talk about this problem.

Edit: Maybe before replying again aggressively, you take a stab at repeating the overarching argument back to me, and the consequences of if it were proven true. Hint: if it were proven true, the result would not be to reduce the incentives of vaccination whatsoever.
> Exactly, it's so sad hearing someone not realize that their hiring process is basically discriminatory in nature.

I've come to the sad conclusion that this is a fundamental tension.

Ignoring the pre-interview filtering, our industry has, on one end of the spectrum, a relatively nondiscriminatory process that assumes basically nothing and tests you on as much of the field as they can before hiring. It's nondiscriminatory in that it doesn't matter where you come from as long as you can solve the same structured problems as everyone else. This is the whiteboard interview everyone hates, and it's not all that inclusive.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have the fuzzy 'does this person seem like they could become capable quickly and work well with me' process. It's inclusive in that it doesn't require you to be able to solve those stupid problems yet, just be bright enough and hard working enough to learn. But it's not at all unbiased.

So do you go for unbiased and give people the same standardized questions, or go for inclusive and have a real conversation? I've found the best people come from the latter process, but I would say that, right? I'm biased.
Intentions aside, Gemini is not a shovel. At best it's a handheld transplanter, but I'm leaning toward "hands" as well.
https://www.jrothman.com/pragmaticmanager/2002/01/volume-5-n...
I would use the new reddit interface specifically if they re-enabled the old comment experience. The current one is terrible.
You can change the battery (I actually bought two when buying the phone, it makes a really tiny powerbank) like other parts, but they had a lot of sourcing issue making some spare parts unavailable for long periods.
Same. I'm already long since shortly after the IPO, obviously I wish I invested much more. The passage about fixed bandwidth costs due to relationships with ISPs really resonated with me.

Wish I worked for them and was getting those sweet, sweet RSUs.
Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
There's no such thing as "simple" when it comes to HA setups, the requirements are simply too varied. PostgreSQL has great documentation for their HA featureset, but when it comes to systems-level concerns (detecting that a primary is down and arranging promotion of a replica to primary) you're expected to address those on your own.
A smallish study out of India on hospitalized-only patients focusing on mortality specifically:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8313045/

> A total of 332 (28.4%) patients died. Among fully vaccinated, 12.5% (23/184) died while it was 31.4% (309/984) among unvaccinated. Being fully vaccinated was associated with lower mortality than either unvaccinated (Unadjusted OR 0.3, 95% CI 0.2 to 0.5, p < 0.0001) or partially vaccinated (Unadjusted OR 0.3, 95% CI 0.2 to 0.5, p < 0.0001) status. There was no significant difference between unvaccinated vs. partially vaccinated (Unadjusted OR 1.2, 95% CI 0.9 to 1.6, P = 0.3).
Why Is It So Hard to Hire People on LinkedIn?
Open letter by Blue Origin employees on safety and culture issues
Futhermore. It's a process. Once you get past the initial basics, it comes down to repetition.
The gem does not solve these issues, merely tells you about them (and even then it can't catch all of them, only the ones that Rails defines).
Yeah this is how we do it... Even with terrabytes of data it seems to be pretty efficient and robust, and easy to just keep up the replicating version until you're satisfied it all looks good.
How to spend your time. If you want to create content, SEO it, make some money, use a pre-existing blog or CMS. If you want to build a CMS, build one. If you want to create content and your first thought is "but first, I need a CMS!" then you'll probably* fail at both.

* Everybody knows that one person who succeed in both, yay. There's way more that failed.
What Impeachment Teaches Us About How Lawyers Misread the Constitution”
When the San Francisco Bay Area tried to move to a single means of payment, a digital card Transit-Link or whatnot, it was delayed more than a year by BART due to arguements over who holds the cash payments from ticket sales, and when those funds are released, exactly. The funding of MUNI, BART, Alameda County Transit and others, have different histories and cash control, so they fought about it.

source: public news story at the time
The FSF has long been shifting from being a political organization to being a religious organization. Its policies are no longer consistent with their own views of user freedom. Read the thread for more info. They are literally promoting things that hurt user freedoms - things like promoting ignorance of security flaws, promoting hiding proprietary firmware (because it's only a problem if it looks like a blob), promoting actively crippling hardware (thus reducing its usefulness with present and future free software), and more. Those who blindly support them without taking a deep look into whether their actual policies are consistent and rational and further their goals are no different from religious fanatics who stand by ancient scripture while ignoring thousands of years of progress.

I support user freedom. I support users having control over their own devices, knowledge of what software runs on them, and knowledge of what choices are available so they can make an informed decision. I spend most of my time working on reverse engineering and porting Linux to proprietary hardware (Apple M1) so users have the freedom to run whatever OS they want. I cannot support the FSF, an organization which supports censoring security vulnerability warnings when fixing them involves updating proprietary firmware (that already exists anyway); that supports burying proprietary firmware in non-introspectable read-only memory because then they can "pretend it's hardware", then selling the result as "fully libre" (even though the same device with the same firmware visible and accessible to the user would be much more free and transparent, allowing introspection, auditing, and replacement with a free alternative); that supports physically destroying hardware components that presently require a proprietary driver to function, ignoring the possibility that free software drivers might appear in the future. These are real FSF policies and actions. This is what you are supporting when you support the FSF. It's not user freedom any more. It's religious nonsense like "blobs in /lib/firmware are bad, we can't have any blobs be out in the clear".
Title was too long and ragebait. This hopefully is a better submission title.
Oh wow, by "work on" you mean "the core maintainer of". Thank you for replying. :)

The main part I reconsidered based on was the level of effort taking the data from kafka and landing into snowflake, especially around handle postgres schema changes safely. I also have no experience with kafka, so I'd be out of my depth's pretty quickly for a critical part of the architecture. He also expressed the need for building quality checks into the kafka to snowflake code, but those details were a bit sparse (if i recall correctly).

Note: all of the above are probably outside the scope of debezium. :)

Note 2: your article [1] on using cdc to build audit logs w/ a "transactions" table blew my mind. Once I listened to your data engineering podcast interview [2], I knew there was some implementation of "event sourcing lite w/ a crud app" possible, so I was excited to see you had already laid it out.

1) https://debezium.io/blog/2019/10/01/audit-logs-with-change-d...

2) https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/debezium-change-data-...
Seconding MobX; it elegantly solves most of the issues with events (both maintainability and performance) while also being more ergonomic/concise. I can't praise it enough.
Most companies except the ones paying AWS/Azure/GCP a combined $100B+ per year and growing fast?
True Scotsmen. (I mean your practitioners.. everyone else is of course, not a true scotsman).
The moving goalpost argument goes both ways. I'm vaccinated but here's what I hear.

- just get vaccinated
- we need booster shots
- we need booster shots every 8 months
- we need booster shots every 5 months

And you know there will be something next, it never moves in the other direction.
But perl is available by default in almost every free *nix, and for most people, Windows isn't a requirement
The immediate concern is that, if a metric indicates a problem, who will be forced to change? The student or the teacher? If Mrs. Smith realizes little Timmy isn't paying attention, is she going to accept and consider the possibility she is boring, or just punish Timmy? For perspective, consider how often children are currently drugged when they are found not to be paying attention in school.

Privacy may play a useful role here in directing us toward the good futures rather than the bad. For example, maybe schools are allowed to use heart rate attention monitors, but the data must be aggregated and anonimized. It's okay for Mrs. Smith to learn that 74% of her X (where X is greater than 50) students pay attention when she speaks and this puts her at Y percentile of teachers across the country in her subject. It's not okay for her to know the attentiveness of individual students.

Of course, in reality I have zero hope that this would be used in a positive way.
Teaser FTFA:

Ask the public if impeachment is important, and
they will say “yes.” Ask a constitutionalist
whether they teach it, and they will say “no.”
Why the disconnect? In part this reflects a
simple problem: constitutional law teaching in
many law classrooms is not really about the
constitution.
Any other book you think has been critical to Cloudflare's successful mindset?
> gemini is user/information first

It's hard to take that seriously given the limitations of gemtext. A lack of inline links and images, and basic formatting, is the opposite of "user first".
Lots of great AWK tutorials in here that are more in depth, but I'll share another. I always go back to Brian Kernighan's personal help file:

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring19/cos333...

Brian Kernighan has a knack for explaining languages very precisely and elegantly.
Sorry, I didn't mean offense.
What I meant with "nobody coded it" is that the migration DX features that don't exist yet, likely don't exist simply because they haven't been made yet (and not because eg they're architecturally impossible or because the postgres team are stupid or sth).

Its hard to complain about OSS without attacking the creators, I tried to do that right buy clearly I failed nevertheless :-) Thanks for your contributions!
Slack Is Down
Ironically, status.slack.com is down too.

Confirmed on their Twitter account: https://twitter.com/SlackStatus/status/1443612591406780424
The rabies vaccine is relatively expensive compared to others, even abroad.

When vaccinating in India, the rabies jabs were the most expensive by an order of magnitude.
>Some of this works because of mismatched expectations, like companies who are trying to sell magic.

We were asked to look into a company that had an, I kid you not, "AI-powered problem solving platform".

The suggestions it spit out in their demo for agriculture were things like "What if the earth was upside down", and I read it like "Maaaaan, what if, like, just imagine like, the earth wasn't like below, but it was like, above... Duuuuude. Just imagine.". i.e: you could get these recommendations with a few dollars worth of haschish.
They do have a 32-core SKU, but its 1.7GHz. $800. Appears to be targeted for power consumption.
Cooking recipes used to start with the name, then the list of ingredients and maybe cooking apparel, and finish with list of preparation steps.

I don't know if you have visited any online recipe website recently, but that's not how things are any more.

Now people preface all that with how they feel, their car problems, the last show they binged over on Netflix, and the entomology of the word "chinchilla".

It's frustrating.
I don't see the point of FyneDesk; I'm sure that a clever person could reproduce this environment with FVWM.
As someone who's never used awk before, I really enjoyed this write-up and I think it was very well written!