skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so very click-baity. Most any active volcano can erupt at most any time, and I fear any article or journalist who tries to bring certainty to the level of single years. Most responsible articles will frame the discussion in terms of "based on historical eruptions, this volcano could erupt in the next 100 years".

I bring this up because of the fact that we are inundated with dire warnings of catastrophe all the time. At some point people just sort of.. tune it out. I would say, and admit that I did this myself, that the panic over H1N1, SARS, MERS, MonkeyPox Part 1 etc. made everyone just sort of shrug at the early warnings of SARS-CoV-2.

Lets all agree to only cry wolf when we see an actual wolf.
Some of the explanations are questionable: I think they were overly simplified, and while I applaud the goal, some things just aren't that simple.

I highly recommend reading https://jepsen.io/consistency and clicking on each model on the map. This is the best resource I found so far for understanding databases, especially distributed ones.
I agree with this so much.

IMO if it's not mandatory I don't think it should be said at all in a code review.
> Safari is the new IE, there is a difference between a monopoly while still being able to use a competing product (like chrome in other platfroms), and forcing Safari(WebKit) while hindering the web because of Apples interests.(2-3)

Ehm. Chrome is the new IE.
Apple is using anti-competitive methods but its far far away from market domination.

Microsoft is doing even more, by pushing so much Edge-only stuff.

On iOS Apple forces the Webkit rendering, but for normal user it does not even matter much. They can download Chrome and get the UI they want.
Why are you relying on meta-analysis of observational studies when we have meta-analysis of RCT's?
Given you have to be a solicitor or barrister to even have the "Right of Audience" in certain courts, it would seem this violates the rules for RoA prima facie.

Note that as an America these UK rules make no sense to me (especially the solicitor/barrister thing - talk about assuring justice can't be served without money or power).
There's a couple mixed reasons for this I think, you see it in the US even where suits in the office are less of a thing until you hit upper management. One big one I think though is it's simpler to add layers to warm up for people who prefer a warmer temperature than it is for individuals to cool down. So given two groups that need different settings to get comfortable it makes sense to tend towards the low end. Of course Japan has it's own weirdness about this where suits could be slipped but office culture pushes back.
I like it - thank you!
Yeah, don’t short USDD (at least not yet). If Justin using His Excellencies personal wealth to bail out His Excellencies stablecoin sideproject, wait at least until the market cap goes beyond what he can bail out. It’s currently 3x over collateralized, you will lose.
Agree, and it's even worse than that

An incredibly small minority of people even understand your phrase with any actual fidelity and depth of meaning:

>>it can be verified there (including cryptographically, say by signing the file or even using HTTPS)

Even fewer of that microscopic minority have and understand how to use the tools required to verify the video cryptographically, AND even fewer know how to fully validate that the tools themselves are valie (e.g., not compromised by a bogus cert).

Worse yet, even in the good case where everyone is properly skeptical, and 90+% of us figure out that no source is trustworthy, the criminals have won.

The goal of disinformation is not to get people to believe your lie (although the few useful idiots who do may be a nice bonus).

The goal of disinformation is to get people to give up an even seeking the truth - just give up and say "we can't know who's right or what's real" — that is the opening that authoritarians need to take over governments and end democracies.

So yes, this is next-level-screwed material.
The video is only three minutes long. I would love for you to respond to it.
RMS? They simply canceled the guy a few years ago…
> I don't think there's anything better than AWS ECS out there

Do you have any experience with Kubernetes on GCP being less good than AWS ECS? I'd expect them to be the gold-standard when it's a project coming from Google originally and we haven't had any Kubernetes problems that were related to GCP.
My Kubernetes nightmare is not the software but the strident, intolerant, social justice keyboard warriors involved with the CNCF and k8s technologies.

They make up a tiny minority but they are loud and often nasty within their Twitter echo chamber and they are excellent at getting companies and people to do their bidding out of fear of reprisal.

It’s supposed to be the “most welcoming community” but it only takes you stepping out of line on the outrage du jour to get a proverbial face full of spittle and chased out of town with pitchforks.

I’m posting this with a throwaway obviously because I’m not trying to lose my job or get doxxed. Which would 100% happen if I posted under my real name.
what is the cynic mindset here? It will crash to $8K and stay put forever? Or keep going down to zero?

It’s hard to imagine the value will go to zero. Harder to imagine that these networks will not continue to improve and find new use cases each year or decade. Ten years ago there was no stablecoins. Five years ago it was hard to imagine how ZKP could reshape blockchain privacy and scalability. Two years ago there was no concept of optimistic and zk rollups that many chains are now adopting.

What happens in the next 5 years? 10? 50?
>Obviously there are crime issues in certain parts of the city but most of the people I hear loudly complain about it are old white people that don't live here anymore.

So you've spoken to a large number of the hundreds of thousands of African Americans who live in the neighborhoods most plagued by crime and know that they don't complain about it? It just has to be some derogatory classification of subgroup such as "old white people", As if the hundreds of murders per year were little more than something for them to whine about?

>Chicago has a significant crime delta between neighborhoods that, if one were to read about it, can only be thought of in terms of extreme racial injustice.

"Only" in terms of racial injustice? So those violent crime numbers by neighborhood are entirely the fault of the aforementioned white people? The people actually committing them in these neighborhoods have no agency or fault in what they do to their own neighborhoods? This logic just keeps getting more twisted in the absurdities it has to push to sustain itself. Doubtless there is racial injustice in a U.S. city with a famously corrupt police/civil administration like Chicago, but in recent decades Chicago has had multiple black mayors and a large percentage of its government and police are staffed by African Americans or people of color in general. Yet they somehow have had no say or co-responsibility for anything that has remained problematic?
No because the company has other options for labor - it can fire it's entire workforce and rehire, or relocate. The same can't be said for cartels which have complete control over their respective markets.
> Something these types of high performance electric cars are continually proving now, is you don't need fossil fuel cars to go fast. It's helping to change how people think about cars, gasoline, and internal combustion engines. Someone's next sports car can easily be electric, beautiful, and fast.

As far as I'm aware of how things work, compared to ICE vehicles, EVs currently have better instant torque but lower top speeds. That said, is there anybody who doesn't appreciate many of the nice qualities of electric engines? Just from the perspective of the engines, they're extremely fun toys and I think that opinion is close to universal.

I think that most of the skepticism of EVs doesn't have anything remotely to do with the engine performance, but many of the complicated infrastructure and social factor questions surrounding their usage.
There are so many reasons why even what you're saying is actually just bad!

Someone mints a token which contains revenge porn, or PII, or whatever - just basically "bad stuff" about you, without your permission. Unfortunately, now it's permanently on the blockchain. There is no way to take it down, even if the culprit goes to jail.

You can send people tokens that contain smart contracts which are written to wipe our wallet if you accidentally interact with it. There is no way to refuse one of these tokens. They basically become landmines waiting to be tripped, and they're all made to look like something legitimate. How did anyone think that was good?

When you learn about how amateur all of the crypto ecosystem actually is, like in terms of its fundamental design, you realize that it's simply not that useful. Sure, you can fix some of these things, but then it just starts to look more and more like the kinds of systems we've been designing for decades. At the end of the day, it was always vapor, designed by people who weren't as smart as they believed.
So you finally got to the root of human nature, you're clearly disappointed, and this is your response?
Some weird impact assessments here. LPE from OpenVPN user to root is not high impact, these are VPN servers, they don't host anything else.
Correct - and I'm shocked at how many HN readers are so hilariously wrong about diet advice.

I've seen people here say "you can't outrun your fork" as though one of the greatest impacts of exercise (appetite suppression and hormonal renormalization) doesn't happen.

Also, the people trying so hard to disprove calories-in-calories-out here are even funnier. I can tell that the average HN user is overweight just from these comments.
I had a customer who had some sort of software that followed the link in the email we sent (no big deal so far), and THEN would follow every link and button on that page.

We had a handy quick decline and accept button on there so they were auto declining things…

I didn’t hate email until I got into web development….
> Almost 15 years and I cannot see any usecase for crypto

What about the use-case of sending money to pretty much anyone with a cell phone and no bank account?
My favorite guide on this is https://phauer.com/2018/code-review-guidelines/

There are also some great things in the book, Debugging Teams, like the Humility-Respect-Trust (HRT) concept.
This is why the industry is functionally begging for government regulation
At the risk of falling for a joke, I'm not sure "critical thinking" means what you think it means. It just means thinking objectively about things before making judgments, it has nothing to do with criticizing people. The things one criticizes are our own beliefs and reasons for believing them.

What do I believe? Why do I believe that? Why do I feel that evidence supports that belief, but not this one? For example, I can explain in a fair bit of detail why I believe that the Apollo landing was not faked. I wouldn't normally bother to explain those reasons, but all of them are based on beliefs and evidence that I've read about, and most of those beliefs are subject to reversal should counter-evidence surface.
> Kubernetes on bare metal is actually pretty easy.

I would not call it easy at all. Last time I tried that a year ago you still needed a special load balancer to get it going (https://metallb.universe.tf). Has this changed?
It's called picking up pennies in front of a steam roller.
Netop – a simple free (GPLv3) cross-platform util to transfer files over network
Netop is a simple (less 1k SLOC) utility to transfer files over the network. No pre-existing infrastructure except tcp-connectivity is needed. Can be easily ported almost everywhere.

As a matter of fact, already ported to Unix (including Android) and Windows. Has prebuilt binaries and the source available.

What's even cooler is the following. The OS X "Universal" binary supports 5 hardware platforms (ppc, ppc64, i386, x86_64, arm64) - every OS X capable hardware known to mankind. And will run natively everywhere from Jaguar on G3 to the BigSur+ on Apple Silicon.

Handy to use when transferring large amounts of data from one PC to another. Super useful for retro computer file sharing.
+ Cookie wall with 20 checkboxes. Pass
All of these papers describe different molecular mechanisms -- underscoring the fact that this is not an established phenomenon -- and most are trying to apply some level of rigor to a term that has no definition. The very first link makes it clear:

> In this Viewpoint article, 18 experts in the field tell us what exhaustion means to them, ranging from complete lack of effector function to altered functionality to prevent immunopathology, with potential differences between cancer and chronic infection.

Also, the final link explicitly rebuts your claim:

> However, because CD8+ T-cell exhaustion is not evident in patients with COVID-19, it is assumed that COVID-19-experienced individuals successfully develop functional CD8+ T-cell memory following vaccination. Recent studies have reported that a single dose of mRNA vaccine robustly induces spike-specific T-cell responses in COVID-19 convalescent individuals [131].

> whether the differentiation state and transcriptional profiles of functionally impaired CD8+ T cells in respiratory viral infections are similar to those of exhausted T cells is not clear.

> In addition, the differentiation dynamics of CD8+ T cells during the course of COVID-19, particularly whether SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cells become exhausted, remain enigmatic.
Code reviews are primarily a way to detect bugs and to verify compliance with a set of rules.

Most comments are therefore expected to be 'negative' in some way.
Does that matter when they stakes are as high as these arguments always claim?

If we're doomsaying about a "post-truth society", we're talking about high-stakes society-scaled skullduggery.

If you're aiming for that level of disruption, easy deepfakes vs hard video/photo editing is not an issue, getting people to trust your made up chain of custody is.

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This is like when people worry about general AI becoming self-aware and enslaving mankind... the "boring version" of the danger is already happening: ML models being trained on biased data are getting embedded in products that are core to our society (policing, credit ratings, etc.), and that's really dangerous.

Likewise, people worry about being able to easily make fake news, when the real danger is people not being equipped to evaluate the trustworthiness of a source... and that's already happening.

You don't even need a deepfake, you tweet that so and so said X, write a fake article saying they said X, amplify it all with some bots, and suddenly millions of people believe you.
> Chrome doesn’t have independent business model.

Wut? Independent browsers existed before Google, and still do.

The browser is such a key element of the web experience that the possibilities for commercial exploitation are fundamentally endless; the number of players in the space is kept low only by the amount of resources required to really compete with the biggest IT companies on the planet. If you could forbid such players from being in the market, you'd see a plethora of new entrants.

> if Chrome is removed from Google they could create another alternative based on Chromium

The point is not to remove Chrome, the point is to forbid web-giants like Google from being in the browser market, because it enables monopolistic practices towards their web properties. So they would obviously be forbidden from restarting the project as "ReChrome" or whatever.
It's about more than just emissions though: it is also about fossil fuel independence and sustainability.
It shouldn't be, but it is. So the lesson when a company ghosts you shouldn't be one of personal insult (although it's hard to avoid that feeling), it should be "that company is poorly led and/or managed."
I miss it too, even though I smoke and might be too young to have seen a world where you could smoke around other people.

I love the idea of a culture more relaxed and less stuck up about health and safety. Not feeling guilty everytime I smoke or drink or eat unhealthy. Now you gotta drive slow, save gas, eat healthy, avoid alcohol, wake up early, exercise 3x a week blah blah blah

Even just visiting Sydney I see unsupervised kids everywhere - on trains, in libraries, in coffee shops and fast food joints. This is apparently too dangerous to work in America.

Earlier generations embraced some danger as part of life. Now we have to live in bubble wrap and be more afraid even as the world is less dangerous.
Our company occasionally does "test phishes" to see how well people resist them. Every time, some of our most security minded engineers end up on the "clicked on the malicious link" lists, when all they did was forward the message to IT to report the phish. I'm wondering if the bingbot leak is the reason.
Did you see Pastrana's ridiculous Subaru with active aero? It puts the wings away when they're dragging and they pop back up when the downforce and/or drag is wanted.
I disagree here. If I'm looking for companies in San Francisco I want to see companies in the city not in some other area like Oakland or San Jose.

I used to live in Oakland and had to commute to Redwood City for a time so I'm personaly scarred by this lol.

On the Employbl dashboard anyone can add an array of cities they're interested in and query by that. For the Los Angeles post I did include surrounding cities though so I guess personal preference

https://www.employbl.com/blog/top-startups-in-los-angeles-20...
Also: It was bad for Microsoft if browsers became too good as the Windows OS then could too easily be replaced by cheaper platforms. So Microsoft wanted to keep browsers back as much as possible.

It's good for Google when Chrome is good. So Google has a great incitament to improve Chrome. The only drawbacks would be proprietary functionality others can't use.
> Edit: Also, when I nitpick your code for one reason or another (which generally only happens when I am enforcing a company style guide), I will often say "Nit:" and then use the sixth style. If you are new to the team, I will quote the guide to you. Most people don't feel so bad about the nitpicks when you admit that you are nitpicking, and that it is for a reason.

This. We do it on our team as well. Especially when it is smaller things like spelling, indentation, etc, I might have quite a few nits in one PR, so it makes it a little bit easier on the receiving end when you see a dozen comments but they're all marked as nit.
I don’t think movies and music are on a downswing currently. I think they the consumption is just transitioning into more and more pulp. If you compare literature and pick a new novel completely by random you will most likely pick a dumb romance novel written in less then a day (perhaps mostly by AI). However that is hardly an indicator of the state of the art. I think movies and music is undergoing a similar transition that books went through in the 1950s. Consumption is getting easier and cheaper with streaming service, and the market is being flooded with cheap and easy productions. However—just like literature—great works are still being made, and will continue to be made into the foreseeable future. It just won’t be as prominently displayed as during the heyday of these mediums.
I think you can reasonably represent inheritance using struct embedding, and that's quite idiomatic in Go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz–Makeham_law_of_mortal...:

“The Gompertz–Makeham law states that the human death rate is the sum of an age-dependent component (the Gompertz function, named after Benjamin Gompertz), which increases exponentially with age and an age-independent component (the Makeham term, named after William Makeham). In a protected environment where external causes of death are rare (laboratory conditions, low mortality countries, etc.), the age-independent mortality component is often negligible. In this case the formula simplifies to a Gompertz law of mortality. In 1825, Benjamin Gompertz proposed an exponential increase in death rates with age.

The Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality describes the age dynamics of human mortality rather accurately in the age window from about 30 to 80 years of age.

You probably remembered the first part of the sentence following that:

“At more advanced ages, some studies have found that death rates increase more slowly – a phenomenon known as the late-life mortality deceleration – but more recent studies disagree.”

Even if that were true (something wikipedia contests. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-life_mortality_decelerati...), that doesn’t mean rate of death decreases, just that it increases slower than this model predicts.
I grew up in Beverly, on the south side of Chicago, and moved to Lakeview when I was 18.

I moved from Chicago to San Francisco (I lived at 7th and Folsom), and then back again, regretting only that I hadn't moved back sooner. Then a company I started got funded and I got hauled back to San Francisco (this time in Noe Valley), where I stayed for another couple years, before moving back to the midwest (Ann Arbor), regretting only that I put up with San Francisco for as long as I did. We lived in Ann Arbor for 4 years before moving back to Chicago and putting down roots.

I had vastly bigger problems with crime in San Francisco than I did in Chicago.

I've only heard about the public school problems in San Francisco; my kids public school here has extraordinarily well-compensated teachers who ran a pretty competent college-prep playbook that got both of my kids into hardcore STEM majors (the boy's a biochemist now, the girl is out in Utah doing geology field work).

The weather was literally the first thing I missed about Chicago.

I don't know what "culture" means to you, but one of the first things I noticed about SFBA was that none of the touring bands I followed ever played there (a track record of closing every music venue in the city for like a decade couldn't have helped, a story you'll find well told at Jamie Zawinski's blog), and last call at the bars was, like, 11PM. Does culture mean museums? Check. Public art and architecture? Check. A theater scene? Check.

I'm sure Colorado is lovely and don't begrudge you your preferences. I don't think it's at all true that if you "ask any former Chicagoan" you're going to get agreement on all these points, or even most of them. If you'd said you grew up in Evanston and then lived in Kenwood, or Humboldt Park, the violent crime thing would be easier to take seriously --- but you lived in Evanston and Lakeview, which means that as far as violent crime exposure goes, you might as well have lived in Glenview. Chicago has a violent crime problem, but it's a deeply racist violent crime problem (not just demographically, with crime endemic to regions of the city that were de jure segregated until the 1970s, but literally racially: violent crime will follow you across the city border into the suburbs, but only if you're Black and have Black friends on the other side of the border).

I'm a startup operator in Chicago, and we do not have a good startup scene. Don't let me be taken as saying there's no tradeoffs to being here. You don't come to Chicago because it's going to be a game-changing win for your startup.
> Firefox security patches are applied to prevent vulnerabilities

Sure, but at what rate? If Mozilla releases a critical patch today, and the core maintainer responsible for build maintenance is away on vacation for two weeks, what happens?
Sounds like crypto promises?