skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that if Facebook were to go away entirely today, people would still want another Facebook. It would be difficult if not impossible to change those billions of people's wants by merely trying to convince them by argument. They've already seen that humanity is capable enough to create Facebook once, they've become used to what Facebook offers them, and they aren't going to accept reverting to a previous stage of technological progress. That will create a market that other players will quickly be pressed to fill, and without regulation there will be nothing preventing one them from becoming another Facebook, by virtue of Facebook being a product that a significant portion of the entire population of Earth uses.

Is it possible to decouple Facebook the technology from Facebook the corporation? In the past, there hasn't been a corporation of this size in existence. Where would the finances come from to operate a service on a scale of billions of users, if they're not going to come from dark patterns?
> The thin wire will melt apart before the power lines do.

It's a bit more subtle than that. As far as I understand, the thin wire might melt, but its vaporized remnants would be enough to keep an arc going between the phases or a phase and the ground. Then the protection devices at both ends of the line would detect the short circuit, turn off the line, wait for a bit of time (enough for the vaporized remnants and ionized air to disperse), and turn the line on again automatically. Since most high-voltage power grids have redundant circuits, it's likely that no consumer would lose power even for a moment.
> If you won't trust the voting public enough to give them the whole truth and instead treat them like blubbering fools, how can you--with a straight face--pretend that their ability to pick leaders or vote on actual issues is a correct way to run a country?

Mr. Politician replies, "I trust the individuals that voted for me. They're smart. Its the public in general that can't be trusted."
> Like don't offer items that are low stock

The issue with an actual store is that the "physical world overrides the virtual".

Your database in the virtual world may say that 20 items are in stock. When you walk over to the shelves, you only see 2 items. Well, I guess only 2 items are in stock. It doesn't matter that the remaining 18 were stolen by a shoplifter (or maybe scattered elsewhere in the store). You may have had 20 items enter inventory, but what's on the shelf is your final database.

There's not really any way to keep that up to date. Even if you have a bunch of minimum wage employees count the items constantly: as soon as the first customer walks through that row, your count is obsolete.

If you hook up your inventory system to the checkout: that still doesn't work, because thieves exist, and many customers pickup items, suddenly decide they don't want it, and then drop the item off randomly in the store (maybe they pickup some cheese, and then decided they didn't want it. So they leave the cheese in the clothes aisle and now the cheese is spoiled)
Do you have any evidence that ineffective gene therapy hesitancy is correlated with effective vaccine hesitancy?
That, and longer, were very common before they fixed ENI->VPC. Not everyone needs a Lambda to connect through the VPC, but it's reasonably common.
But if the simulation hypothesis is correct, any empiricist worth their salt would say that you cannot infer anything about the "real" laws of nature, much less causality because these aspects of human knowledge are derived from experience (in the simulation).
I’m… cautious but optimistic. They have actual installations so it must not be complete bullshit.

Absorption and emission bands matter. They are in fact made of exotic materials (rare earths IIRC) so it’s at least plausible.
About Halo game's back end
You bring up good points, fair enough.

I might being naive here, still:

- losing customer data: the backup must be done frequently enough. So I'm not risking losing data.
- downtime: I'd expect that RDS could still go south as well, maybe less frequently, but still. In my case I start another VM, run again the container and apply the backup.
- data breaches: Of course one can misconfigure something here, but not sure how it'd be different using a managed database.

Regarding the cost, I know that there are companies spending hundreds of $$ on their infra, but it just baffles me for most use cases.
I still feel that one can get really far with just a budget of 50$/month.
M1X and Mini-LED here we go.
I use the exact same setup, works like a charm. I can definitely recommend it for anyone concerned with the privacy issues of current mobile OSes. Furthermore, it never feels limited after getting used to this suit of apps, which may take up to a week at most.
Here’s why the reframing matters:

Accidents are “oops” that are to accepted as fact of life. The no reason to change the system. Accidents happen.

Crashes are not accidents. They have a cause and the cause can addressed. Crashes can be prevented.

So the reframing shifts from talking about a system we should accept how it is to one that can be improved.
A fully integrated docker desktop + vscode would be a game changer for all involved. Docker + VSCode is already good, but more integration would be way better.
A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe (2015)
It doesn’t melt, it vaporizes, causing a live plasma channel to form and a giant arc between the lines that is self sustaining. If they have a arc interrupter, it might stop it before it destroys the lines, but not often, and at the power levels we’re talking about here, it is a very difficult problem.

The technique the US Military uses to destroy enemy power grids is to detonate a ball of long stringy aluminum confetti/Mylar above the enemy power substations. The destruction is apparently substantial.

Check out Mylar balloons and power lines (lots of compilations on YouTube if you don’t believe me.
The only answer is to find the biggest glass
> But instead of just saying that, the message from the vast majority of public health officials (and media types like Sanjay Gupta) was that "masks don't work for the public".

The CDC never really said that "masks don't work for public" [0]. Some other health officials and media did. Now, if you relied on the CDC for information everything would be more or less fine. The two things that make this situation worse is - (1) An ever-changing landscape of information and (2) "Whom to listen to?" problem. We are not good at (1) itself, because we are terrible at updating our priors. Then, you throw in (2) in the mix and there's mass confusion.

Zeynep Tufkeci can say that "oh tell the truth" but there's no guarantee that her version of communication would play better than what we have.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
It was an algorithmic/lock scaling limit. Originally it was single threaded, then when it was first multi-threaded it scaled up to 4 threads. Then I split up some locks and it scaled to 8 threads (depending). Then I rewrote the LRU and now reads mostly scale linearly and writes don't. If there's enough interest we'll make writes scale better.

Partly this is because the software is so old that the thread scalability tends to track how many CPU's people actually have.
No, the money in tax havens is invested back into the real economy via offshore corporations that operate and invest throughout the world.

I recommend you study up on how investment finance works, and stop assuming that any characterization of the world that helps to protect rich people's profits is a lie to hoodwink the masses. That's a common reaction, and leads to erronous beliefs about the world. Wealth accumulation in the market is not zero-sum.

https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/08/04/we-have-an-ingrained-an...
NIH’s Nobel Winners Demonstrate Value of Basic Research
It should be noted that 'self sustaining' only means that the entire pellet undergoes fusion. The process still stops after a few instants of time, requiring a new pellet of fuel, a new laser burst (consuming at least twenty times the power that gets deposited in the plasma), and worst of all, a new monumentally expensive hohlraum, machined to nanometer precision.
Doesn't sound like he was in the Facebook app at the time, though.
Google distributing 10k security keys to journalists, elected officials
> no matter what the government told people to do, there was going to be a contingent of people that would do the exact opposite because we are a stubborn and distrustful people.

Americans are this way because the government continually gives them a reason to. The lying through the pandemic, the Iraq war, it just goes on.
>They put politics and driving wedges between people to further entrench their positions

The current vice president of the united states when on tv in 2020 telling the world she wouldn't take "trumps rushed vaccine".
Indeed, the word nuclear is so bad that nuclear-magnetic resonance (NMR) has to be called just magnetic in medicine. You go for an MRI, not NMRI.

When nuclear-magnetic resonance is used in a scientific or industrial setting for analyzing the chemical content of a sample, it is properly called NMR.

[Source: organic chemistry prof pointed this out, almost 30 years ago.]
> Xi was selected to fix Deng's unequal growth phase strategy.

Xi outmaneuvered his rivals. I highly doubt that the others wanted to forfeit their own power for his. Deng's policy was also already proven to work. Expanding it and not destroying it would have been more logical and responsible.

> And Deng's policies only worked due to the base Mao built. Cultural revolution secularized and mobilized human capital, even great leap forward was massively successful in building industrial base

That sounds delusional. Mao's policies were a complete disaster that killed millions of Chinese people. It didn't prepare China for the future. The only things it accomplished were massive suffering and international embarrassment. It was a complete mess. That isn't to say that Mao didn't achieve anything good, but the Great Leap forward and the Cultural Revolution are not good examples. If anything, that greatly hindered both Zhoe Enlai and Deng's reforms, and that's putting it lightly.

> He's regulating previously underregulated industries.

He is centralizing control and power. In his new order, there's no room anyone exceptional in private industry, or really anyone else. There's only room for his cult of personality. He is slowly regressing China into a Mao style of rule which completely throws out most of the lessons from the past: decentralization is more efficient and yields more production vs a centrally planned economy (relics of 20th century Communism)

> PRC's has demonstrated to be more nimble and focsing on correct priorities.

How can you be nimble when you're re-centralizing everything?

> It's why US and others are trying to copy PRC's industrial policy, which PRC once copied from west.

I don't know what you're trying to convey here.

> Also the fact that Xi managed to build SCS islands and modernize military sufficiently that US now discusses greater power competition in miiltary terms handly justifies his leadership

In a world with global ballistic nuclear missiles, it looks like Xi just copied a bad US habit, which is a source of massive corruption and waste.

> He may sound and look dopey as hell, but his results have been remarkable.

If it walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck; it's a duck.

> his results have been remarkable

This is still up in the air and highly debatable. For example, Xi is extremely impatient. One China Two Systems was working until he decided to completely trash it. We can assign the mess in HK and Taiwan's new calls for independence on him. If he didn't interfere in Deng's policy, China would have quietly completely swallowed both in a decade or two.
So here’s my logic but sounds a bit different than yours…

While vaccinated people can be infected, the rate of infection is significantly reduced and therefore fewer opportunities for the virus to mutate.

But if the primary originator of variants are immunocompromised people then this wouldn’t be such a benefit.

Fundamentally, very viral replication has a similar probability of a mutation happening and so therefore (it seems to me) that immunocompromised people are only more likely to generate new variants bc their infections last so much longer. Is this correct?
That's just the thing though, isn't it. Is the vaccine good for you and the people around you? Since we know asymptomatic carriers are a thing, does getting the vaccine protect those around you? Are you even able to get reliable reporting on the side effects (of various shots) and what groups are likely to be at risk for them?

Assuming a disagreement about reality is a disagreement about values is a great way to straw man without knowing it.
presuppositionalists claim that they receive knowledge through divine revelation i.e. direct access to God, which is objective, absolute, and true by definition.
That's the point. Nuclear is getting over-regulated to be safe, not to make any mistakes. I don't disagree with the regulators. I disagree with overly cheap nuclear. Overall, no power generation method can replace nuclear's steady output with its level of cleanness and safeness.
Well we won't know until Democrats start supporting it...
I'm guessing any possible energy generated by manmade fusion plants would be miniscule compared to that hitting the earth from the sun every day.
I have noticed this as well. Much easier too when it's saying which lane to be in when you're exiting a highway
Seriously. The vendiagram of people who would be for interment of a minority they distrust or a war for retribution, and the people currently rallying against mask/vaccine's would almost be a perfect circle.
Let's say all that is true. How does using a computer program to reword all traffic accident reports as being caused by drivers solve this problem? Doesn't it just make people trust accident reports less?
Most in EU do this or will do - it’s part of EU bank regulation (PSD2). SMS isn’t considered safe anymore and debit/credit card payments are confirmed through banking apps (you get a push and confirm).
They certainly weren't talking about the risks and side effects when telling the entire country the only way to get your life and rights back is to take the vaccine. The message was: get the vaccine, get the vaccine, get the vaccine, do your moral duty
This is really good advice, thanks!
sigh JS is imperfect but it doesn't just make everything it touches slow. I would be very surprised if in Discord for example any JS was blocking between you pressing a key and the key appearing in your text box.

In fact I took the time just now to run a few samples in Discord and it's looking like I'm getting the same 35-40ms keypress to photon latency as gVim with one 80ms outlier out of the 5 runs I did.
Indeed, nuclear power plants requires way less concrete by kWh than wind turbines.
Mantine 3.0 released – production-ready React components and hooks library
Your partisan comments are so toxic. Try making your point without spewing that Facebook garbage around here.
But I also don't approve of apple's control over what I install and I think it's stance on browsers in anti-competitive.

Now I feel stuck.
Strange and sad that Apple's approach to remote play is more open at this point than the Google one.

Like open IoT protocols, we need to move to open "AirPlay" protocols. The locked-down nature is so pointless.
What are you doing about it?
Not really. We test for uranium contamination of water. There's actually a lot of areas where naturally occurring uranium puts it above safe concentrations and it has to be filtered out. This is the case in much of California, the Rockies that feed into this area's water supply naturally had high uranium concentration [1]. Given that we already test and treat water she to naturally occurring uranium I'm not too concerned over waste sites.

1. https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/120396/uranium-contaminat...
> But for anyone uninterested in support services who just wants to buy a PS5 or presumably any of the other hottest tech wares that are currently impossible to find, Best Buy's new program arguably makes it look little better than a corporate scalper.

Or... you know, any membership-only retailer ? Is Sam's Club also a scalper now ?

This also gets rid of the actual scalpers fighting for stuff in your store which is arguably better for everyone
> the ones we have been telling you are so greedy/evil/incompetent."

I haven't seen any claims of incompetency, only of greed (to the lev of being evil) - is that an actual theme or did you just lump that in? It's a significant different in this context.
You can't disprove creationism, only young-earth or otherwise Tolkienesque creationism. There's always another variety that doesn't involve believing the thing you can demonstrate is wrong. Frankly, we don't really know whether the universe was created or not. We know a few specific things about topics covered in creation myths, but if you ask someone about them you will see response ranging from "nah I don't think that part is right," to, "if you look closely you'll see that what it's really saying is..."

The platonic ideal fundamentalist only exists in atheist cultural myths. ;) It would be awfully convenient for atheism if believers in religions weren't also trying to square away contradictions, but they are, and they have brains too - about the same brains because we're all the same species - and they're not entirely unsuccessful unless you count the activity of squaring away contradictions itself as evidence that the divine author lacked foresight into what people would think when they read Genesis millennia after it was put to text.

The essential question about apologetics is, how reasonable is to to put a lot of effort into coming up with interpretations, when the text was supposed to be written to teach you? If the only way to correctly interpret the text is to get the information elsewhere, that doesn't speak highly of the text as a vehicle for knowledge.

The rejoinder is that the Bible, or the Torah, or whatever, was not written to be a science textbook, and its value to us as a textbook did not matter at all to the author. Given that religion is focused more on saving souls that it is on natural history, it doesn't seem like such an unreasonable picture of the motives involved to say that the divine coordinator would gladly confuse generations of internet forum posters in exchange for a little more symbolic significance in the text.

The rejoinder to that is: why would God be dealing with tradeoffs? Well, at this point we've completely submerged ourselves into arguing about the personality of the creator.
> It is hard to understate the damage.

It is hard to overstate the damage.
I certainly think the same argument applies, FWIW - I don't think Apple is being reasonable if they ban people from services for fixing their own devices or other people's devices. Not sure if you were implying I would feel differently about that instance.
Like pretty much everyone in this thread, who are at the very least failing to acknowledge the fact that this is a feedback loop.

I'd be a lot more willing to acknowledge the notion that the media and government are so terrible if the alternatives that most people have chosen to trust instead weren't so laughably bad sources in comparison.

This isn't people making an informed judgement about what sources to best trust, it's people being caught in a wave of bullshit and not actually thinking about anything. A lot of the comments here in this chain are just part of the wave.
https://imgur.com/gallery/LVkDKeV
It seems great, and then on a rainy night while I'm running late it brought me to the wrong place...

It was only about 200 yards up the road, but it brought me to someone's house, and had me turn in the wrong direction.

So, I was even later...
Edit: Everytime I point this out, I get hit by multiple downvotes

That's a pretty poor example since people had already decided covid wasn't even as dangerous as the flu.

The recipient of the highest civilian award in the US said this to his 15 million audience.

>"It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump," Limbaugh said Feb. 24 on his radio show. "Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus … I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks."

>"The drive-by media hype up this thing as a pandemic," Limbaugh continued.

Most popular cable channel said this about Covid while Covid was raging in Wuhan and Italy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh4uS4f78o
A lot of Apple products have bad font issues, and Apple Maps is among the worst. There's simply no way anyone at Apple has checked contrast or font size for accessibility in Apple Maps.

Once the road labels were so frustratingly small that I took a screenshot and opened it in Photoshop just to see how small it was. One label was 4px. Another was 6px. How is anyone supposed to read a six pixel tall word?

Here's an example of Apple Maps using a FIVE PIXEL TALL font: https://twitter.com/Reaperducer/status/1277319668194148352

Seriously?
The Romans were into the "invade everything" business, 2,500 years ago. They ruled over kingdoms all around the Mediterranean.

The Greeks (well, Macedonians, if you prefer) built an empire that lasted 1,000 years, and stretched from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan. All during the lifetime of a warrior who died aged 32 (?). That was around 320BC.

So you have to go quite early in history, to find a culture that precedes "invade everything" imperialism (I doubt that there is any "beginning" to invade-everyone imperialism).
It's interesting just how little rooftop area needs to be covered with panels to provide power for a house. Modern solar panels have gotten a lot more efficient than they used to be.

Our whole house is powered by 12 solar panels, covering < 20% of total roof surface. Each block of 4 is about 7x10 ft. The house next door had panels installed ~2014. They have 20 of them, covering maybe 30-40% of the roof's surface. In 6 years, efficiency basically doubled and price fell by about 3-4x.

Solar panels are on the new Moore's Law.
I'll never understand how we got to this point of learned helplessness where people think hosted services like Lambda are the only ones capable of being secure and robust. It's madness..
Playing with the Seeed Studio Grove Starter Kit for the Raspberry Pi Pico
For a couple of persons team it is important to keep the changes small, so errors can easily identified. That means daily or bi-daily upgrades. It also helps if you focus on a certain small project and finish that, before moving on to the next project.

SVN checkout development, meld into testing. Copy production db into testing. Run a db upgrade script in testing. Test the new function for a day.
If all ok stop the production HAproxy at 3am. run production DB backup, Checkout testing into the production server. mount the new dir into the NGINX path. Upgrade+start the DB, start production HAproxy.

Except for the meld and testing part, this is all automated.

A rollback on the app servers is pretty simple, just remount to the previous location. Even though there is a backup of the DB, a rollback there is not really feasible.

Everything is running in LXC containers, which I treat as cattle. Creating new ones is either automatic based on time/demand/failover or a few clicks in a custom web interface. HAproxy automatically pics them all up via DNS.

SVN and production DB are always backed up nightly and copied to a S3 compatible storage. Everything older than 6 months gets deleted.
All the free space on the servers is globbed up with glusterfs to give a decent amount of fast,free storage.

Using Bash as scripting language, there is literary no problem in devops which hasn't been solved with bash and the solution is somewhere in the internet.