skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And behind the scenes of internet-based services there's a whole ecosystem of "how can we do shit more robustly than just passing strings around" (or even for "better than XML or JSON").
It's probably more the signal than anything else. They sound like really talented engineers, but presumably Facebook has a lot of other really talented engineers. It's the signal of "top engineers are willing to walk away" being a proxy for bigger problems.
>> I can’t help but imagine whether Google Cloud’s low market share is related to this. If the internal culture is that clients must act multiple times a month to deal with impending breaking migrations, at least some of that attitude likely falls on external customers.

We've been GCP customers for five years and I can't recall offhand an instance of a forced migration due to a breaking change. They give a lot of lead time and plenty of notices, and then continue to support the old thing for a good period of time. It makes sense to me that they would treat outward facing APIs differently given that they span many organizations by definition.
For the average end user however, this is a distinction without a difference. A Galaxy S21 you buy from the store has Google Play and will be sending info of 99.99% of users to Google
Facebook is just getting scammed because they're the old senile pensioner excited that anyone is talking to them about how to stay hip.
> ... it must have a cost that our body plan discarded ...

Our body plan didn't discard this mechanism, any more than it discarded wings or beans. We never had any of those features in our ancestry, because mammals aren't descended from birds. Our most recent common ancestor is much, much earlier than bird ancestors began evolving any mechanisms related to flight or high-altitude breathing.
Very useful project! The great thing about email is that it's proactively pushed to all your devices, and the client keeps track of what you've already looked at. You're given powerful tools like labels and folders to organize the alerts and filter them as you see fit.

Years ago I built a little REST API for sending emails to myself. The main advantage is that you don't have to bother setting up a mail server. I still use it constantly for personal projects. It's just the quickest way for me to make my webapp tell me about new user registrations, or for some random Google Apps Script I wrote to let me know about an unexpected condition, or for me to create a bash script that tells me when my VPS is running out of disk space. I've even written scripts to monitor election results or check websites for vaccine availability.

I never did much to promote it, but anyone's welcome to use it as well (website: varmail.me). While I have had almost no downtime, I wouldn't rely on it for something that needs a particular SLA :).

Edit: I forgot to mention another tiny feature that I use all the time. The API lets you specify an idempotence key that will prevent the email from being sent if it's already been used. It's very useful to be able to only send an email the first time a user takes a certain action, or to set it to time()/86400 and only get one disk space reminder email per day. I've found a lot of uses for that.
Turns out defunding the police and not enforcing laws has consequences.
Dogs can indeed hear ultrasonic frequencies, but ultrasonic frequencies of sound, being sounds, travel at the speed of sound. Things that travel faster than the speed of sound go faster than sounds.
Because HN wants to treat its users as adults who can judge for themselves whether they should or shouldn’t believe something they are reading?

Why do you want to censor and stifle discussions that could possibly convert the person telling the lie because of some misunderstanding to change their views and accept a different perspective?
There are only ten songs on a CD. I don't listen to 75 million songs, but I probably listen to around 1000 different tracks per month.
It's apparently (based on an anecdote of 1 - further research appreciated) very straightforward to get meteorite coverage on your insurance - just ask for it and you'll get it added at no extra cost. I have no idea why it is that this one rare event is so straightforward, but I have a friend who gets it added to every policy he purchases and he's never had any resistance.
I think we need to start being more specific than "decentralized".

My critique of most crypto projects is that they aren't partition tolerant. Does that mean that they aren't decentralized? I don't know.

I'd love a taxonomy of decentralization techniques so I can say: "crypto project X has decentralization characteristics Y and Z, but only Y is consistent with its stated mission so it's less viable then project W which...

But instead we just decentralize=good centralize=bad and continue with politics as usual.
A pending lawsuit changed the original Dungeons and Dragons Basic Set
> But the solution that comes out of that framing is to somehow shame drivers into being better, as opposed to making roads better.

This tool actually includes a recommendation called "framing" which asks writers to incorporate sentences specifically to highlight the systemic nature of the problem as opposed to blaming individual drivers. Click on one of the examples to see, explained at https://visionzeroreporting.com/issues#framing:

Article lacks thematic framing. Readers who encounter episodic frames tend to hold individuals responsible for negative outcomes and put less pressure on public leaders to make changes. [Learn more about framing]

SENTENCES
None found.

HOW TO FIX
Include at least 3 thematic elements.
Disclosure: I used to work at MongoDB, left 2 years ago.

True, it probably would have made sense to stay completely within AWS. If I didn't know MongoDB very well, I would have used DynamoDB.

But I know MongoDB well, and MongoDB Atlas (the hosted platform) also has a free tier, and it's hosted in ec2, and you can setup VPC peering (so network speed _should_ be comparable to dynamo, but not sure).

Also, Atlas (MongoDB's Cloud Platform) has a really nice "charts" product (sort of like a built in web based tableau) which I use for my internal dashboards (it takes <5 minutes to setup, for stuff like "how many customers do I have", "at what stage in the pipeline are they", "how many renders does each customer average", etc), and they have a nice web based "query explorer", which I randomly use when debugging something, when I don't feel like connecting with terminal.

But yeah, if I wasn't already biased, I would have used DynamoDB.
and also 2 years at a FAANG is normal and non-news
> Yes, even more important than Battle of Midway.

I have to disagree here. While a loss of Midway would not have changed the ending of WW2, it would have massively changed the way the ending was arrived at.

By mid-1942 the US was absolutely certain it could produce the bomb. With a loss at Midway, the US would have decided to focus on Germany (as pre-agreed with Churchill and Stalin) and then finish off Japan with the bomb. Germany would have been defeated maybe one year sooner, and the Pacific would have been taken back in no time by the US with a campaign of nuclear bombing. The final conclusion of the war would have been around the same time, Fall 1945.

But the US would not have invested so heavily in its Navy; it would not have ended the war with more than 100 aircraft carriers, about 20 of which were full size fleet carriers. The US Navy at the end of WW2 was larger than all the other navies of the world combined. That would definitely not have been the case if the US had lost at Midway, because the terms of any truce with Japan would have stipulated a freeze of the naval buildup.

With no armada of aircraft carriers at the end of the war, the course of the Cold War could very well have been different. I guess we'll never know.

But because of Midway, the war ended the way it did, with a massive and dominant US Navy. Which kept its dominance for the subsequent 76 years.

A loss at Midway (and the subsequent inevitable truce with Japan) would have meant no Essex-class fleet carriers and very likely no Independence-class light carriers. If all 3 carriers at Midway were lost, the US would end the war with only Saratoga and Wasp as its main fleet carriers. Maybe even those would have been scrapped as part of the armistice with Japan.

Building carriers then would have been unthinkable. The US, like all other countries were tired of war, and looking forward to peace, and disarmament. The bomb was the perceived guarantor of peace, what need was there for a strong Navy? The theory in the years before the Korean war was that the Navy was a thing of the past, the Air Force was the way to the future.

Now, if the US did not have a strong Navy, as soon as the Soviets had the bomb themselves, the balance of power would have been very, very different.

But the US did have and continues to have a strong Navy. It is because of this Navy that there are tensions now around Taiwan. Without the US Navy, Taiwan would have been a part of China long time ago. I'm personally happy that the US Navy is what it is, my point is that the victory at Midway made that possible, and we see the fruits of that bright and clear even to this day.
> They want the "war" on CO2 to be about personal sacrifice and de-industrialization.

What's their motivation for this? (I see something similar and I don't understand. I have explained it for myself by Hanlon's razor.)
Syntactic closures are another hygine system that provides the same construction techniques as common lisp macros, while also allowing the macro author to choose which bindings should be set in the macro's lexical environment instead of the expansion's lexical environment (or vice versa).

http://community.schemewiki.org/?syntactic-closures
It's for insights like these that I come to HN. Thanks for disabusing me of the notion that Oculus was a classic garage to greatness story.
I have to confess that I haven't tried it recently, I was still reading regularly a few Medium blogs back when I had it installed. That's no longer the case so I no longer use it.
I feel the discussions i. the thread are of better quality and more informative than this ignorant opinion piece.
All he seems to claim is that if governments had trusted the public they would have locked down sooner.

The headline make this sad little piece seem more interesting than it actually is.
I may be reading it wrong, but I believe they were being sarcastic with that last sentence.
You may not approve of Biden's job so far, but Trump's presidency was on an entirely different level of bad. Trump's failure to fully divest himself of his business interests left doubts about the intention of every decision he made. Trump's administration was filled with criminals. Trump managed to drag white nationalism from the fringes of society into the Republican mainstream and even had white nationalists and their sympathizers working in his administration. A good argument can be made that Trump led and continues to lead a fascist political movement -- Trumpism exhibits all of the characteristics than define fascism and the argument is mainly one of degree.

There are plenty of things to criticize Biden over, and I am sure that people with conservative points of view are not big fans of his various policies. However, we can at least go to sleep confident that we will not wake up to news that the President had tweeted some radical shift in US policy that blindsided his entire staff and administration. I would love to hear people criticize Biden for policy decisions -- the fact that Biden has a well-defined policy agenda to criticize is itself a huge improvement.
People aren't interchangable parts. They have specializations and deep domain knowledge.
Which is why fin is in New York and New England
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is disappointing. My wife has one and loves it, and I was about to buy one my own. Now I don't know if I want to, knowing I'll get one intentionally crippled in comparison.

The price hike on the Marker Plus to incentivize the subscription is a nasty choice too.
Cathie Wood: Exodus from high-cost cities will push down inflation
Last week, on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver talks about PFAS, which was very interesting. Not only teflon, but all kind of repellent fabrics like Gore-tex:

https://youtu.be/9W74aeuqsiU
It's like how Git is decentralized. Yes, it is indeed decentralized and that has enabled a lot of interop (eg. git push heroku) but for anything public, people want a nice way to view code, have the README front and center, etc. so they often prefer their main datastore be GitHub or GitLab. It helps that they do some maintenance automatically for you, eg. garbage collection and effectively guaranteeing you won't lose data (besides when the services break and it's down for $x hours).
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I just watched a talk that covered that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgJUT3C5OFg
I thought that going into the article but after reading it it provided some interesting analogies to luxury goods that expanded my perspective a bit.
What do you use JSONB columns for? The only use case that comes immediately to mind is stuff like settings or config blobs for individual entities
> Their strategy of information control backfired, and they doubled down. Now we've got a huge swath of US citizens that will never take the vaccine.

These people have free choice, and they are making a bad one. They aren't victims; they are the problem, infecting their neighbors and allowing a pandemic to spread.

Much more significantly, I'm not sure how we can omit the overwhelming messaging from a certain political segment of society, and is spread by leading news outlets, governors, members of Congress, the prior administration in the White House, and very many influencers in every domain. The messaging claimed the the pandemic wouldn't happen, that the virus is inconsequential ('like the flu'), the vaccines are dangerous, etc. That omission is a standard rhetorical technique of that political segment, which is to always attack - always keep your opponents on the defensive.

If your theory was true, we'd see vaccine denial across society. Instead, AFAIK, there's a very strong correlation between political beliefs and vaccine denial. These people clearly, IMHO, choose politics over health and they have what they choose - they have their political movement, at the cost of health - their own, and millions of others. Again, they aren't victims; they make their choices, and are responsible for the consequences.
Unpopular opinion: I'd not let either side off the hook. Politics caused multiple screw ups in the pandemic response. Still is.

Partisan politics aren't a good idea when forming public health policies. Nor is fear. Especially the fear being used for political gain.

The most enlightening aspect of the whole COVID debacle was just how bad politicians are with science. Democrats criticised vaccines just for political reasons. Republicans did also.

As for censorship, that never leads anywhere good. If the public discourse cannot openly mock bad content because it has already been "disappeared" then we are not better off.

I'm just hoping this pandemic doesn't cause a meltdown into outright authoritarianism. We've already seen what nazism and communism did and I'd rather not have society try either of them again.
What support service?
> I am using Lineage without Gapps, and every app on my phone came from F-Droid.

Did you transition or quit cold turkey? I switched to Lineage OS with micog. Actually, now that I look through what I installed via Aurora, I'm surprised how few apps there are. 3 required for work. I guess I could reduce that to one with some effort. A few financial / shopping apps that are nice to have vs using their website. Google maps (not sure the replacement to that is).
What about the over hundred million people who have already acquired natural immunity? Do you think they should also take the risk of vaccine side effects even though they already have immunity that is more robust than the vaccine can provide by itself?
Add TinyStacks to this list. They are just getting going, but I got a demo recently - sort of a cross between Vercel and Heroku, but on AWS.
Mark Zuckerberg responded with multiple assertions that "Facebook truly means well" and "cares about you as a user."
I mean, there was never an intervention in the USA comparable to the lockdown in China - right? Is there an instance where 50 million Americans couldn't travel to a neighbouring city without suffering criminal penalties?
You know how war hawks and neo-cons's answer to foreign politics they don't like is throw war at it?

Well, in SF, the answer to social ills is more compassion -always. Oh, people are sitting/squatting and begging in front of doors, let's not enforce loitering ordinances (poor old Ross had to pass a new law specifically to address this scourge in the Haight. Oh, people are shitting on the street? Oh, we must be doing something wrong, we'll not enforce any sanitary or defecating in public laws, that will surely alleviate the situation (look, Tokyo has very few public toilets yet their homeless don't shit on the streets).

Also, SF projects and wants to solve the issues that plague the rest of the country (or sometimes the world). Oh, the police in Podunk Alabama beat people up 100% of the time? Gosh, we better make sure the cops will never have that chance to make that a problem in SF. City government in Podunk Oregon has discriminated against amputees? Well, gosh darn it we'll make sure we never do that in SF and to prove it we will only hire amputees going forward!
There seem to be a lot if you count the really tiny ones: https://kottke.org/21/05/the-micrometeorites-all-around-us
The issue is that natural immunity is highly variable, while vaccine derived immunity is much less so. Some recovered patients have antibody levels 1000x lower than others.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/antibody-testing-sug...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/prior-infection-vs-v...
This makes two of us. "I'll just strive to understand well" didn't get me very good grades vs taking the time to memorize. It felt like I kept some sort of integrity, but really I probably would have even wound up with a better understanding if I had memorized.

This thread marks me giving in and admitting my stubborn philosophy didn't work.
Who needs insurance?

> [Michelle] Knapp had just purchased the car for $300. Immediately following the extraterrestrial impact, the vehicle was sold to Iris Lang, wife of renowned meteorite collector and dealer Al Lang, for $25,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peekskill_meteorite#Specimens
Well, I agree that there are valid reasons to make different risk calculations, however, part of that calculation has to be the chance of catching and spreading Covid to people who have higher risk.

I personally have almost no risk from Covid. But if I don't take precautions I could easily kill grandma, who can't vaccinate, and others at the nursing home.

I agree that there's no one true risk calculation for everyone, and there are costs whatever we do, but a lot of this would be solved if we were trying to help each other instead of fighting.
Probably the technically best client I worked for had a 6 month rolling deprecation cycle. Every library must release at least every 6 months (or, in the case of an external library that hasn't made a release, the dedicated internal maintainer for that library must assert that the library is still being maintained). If you depend on something that's more than 6 months old, your build fails.

Everyone was forced to do their migrations (exemptions would generally be approved but only once). But they had fair warning and could schedule it to fit in with the rest of their work.
It's like money, but decentralized. And controlled by Facebook. They'll have some sort of committee to help them pay lip service to social justice, and then promptly ignore their advice.
>Get better at defending your beliefs in the marketplace of ideas.

This is sort of the Joe Rogan argument: fight misinformation by talking louder and more convincingly. I am legitimately curious, in what way could the pro-vaccine community do a better job of defending their beliefs in the marketplace of ideas?

The data is clear that vaccines save lives, they have generally mild side effects and they reduce transmission of COVID. This data has been made freely available to the public in an unprecedented way. Politicians, celebrities, athletes and scientists have all spoken convincingly in favor of vaccinations. Despite these efforts, the country that first developed the vaccine now ranks 52nd globally in terms of number of eligible individuals vaccinated. What went wrong?
Same here. Funny enough they seem to have done the adjustment for the similar cities feature (“far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar”) but when you click to compare them the charts are all unadjusted.
I've been entertaining either a Remarkable2 or a Boox Note Air, but with remote-work over the last year it's been much less compelling.

Plus here in Australia we pay a significant premium for these types of devices - f.e. they're advertising the remarkable2 with Connect for USD$299 - but for Australians it's AU$499 (~ US$366).

On top of the death by a thousand cuts that is yet another subscription service, the AU version of that page indicates a subscription price of AUD$12.99 / month - compared to the USD$7.99 / month.
USD$7.99 is around AUD$10.89.

The AU page's FAQ retains the ".. bought your reMarkable before 12.10.21 .." qualifier, and I think that translates to 2021-12-10, which sounds like an encouragement to buy before December to get this offer grandfathered in, but 12.10.21 (if assuming dd.mm.yy) would make more sense given today is 2021-10-13. (This is why we have unambiguous, international standards.)
well, maybe in the over-inflated-before-the-pandemic-areas a bit, but things already cost a good bit more everywhere else, or are being shrinkflated. more like it will just transfer inflation to smaller economies, who will see it as deflation and those moving to those smaller economies will feel less inflation compared to their old location. Just perspective, but it doesn't help the fed handed trillions to hedge funds that have largely used the pandemic stabilizing money to buy up single family homes. Which in and of itself will lower the perceived lessening of inflation by those moving to smaller economies.
The origin of Covid-19: Evidence piles up, but the jury’s still out
> He didn't have a CS degree so obviously he wasn't as intelligent as me

Is that supposed to be a joke?
>>>Why not always wear a mask?

Facemask usage has been common in Asia, I think largely due to SARS ( I didn't live here back when that kicked off). It's normal for customer service staff to wear masks even if they just have a mild sniffle/headcold.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-shocked/2020...
You're not wrong. But not all maps are tile based. A layer can come from a tile server, yes, or local cached data served with the web page, or geojson, or bitmaps, or algorithmic shapes, or geo databases, etc.

OL is much more than a rendering library, it understands different geospatial input formats (raster and vector, tiled or not) and dynamically reprojects them to the same map projection, and lets you overlay UI elements (points of interest, polygons, lines, animations, etc.) or blend layers together (backgrounds, base maps, hill shades, etc.)

Check out the examples:
https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/
Thank you all for one of the most calm, reasonable, and rational discussions I have seen in the past two years.
Luckily, this wasn't an issue - the owner sold the car to collectors for something like 100 times its pre-impact value, and the stone itself for twice that. I trust she got a nicer car with the money.