skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My team manages a handful of clusters at work and I wrote on an internal redis client proxy (it's on my todo list to opensource). A few things I tell other teams to set them up for success (we use Elasticache):

- Connection pooling / pipelining and circuit breaking is a must at scale. The clients are a lot better than they used to be but it's important developers understand the behavior of the client library they are using. Someone suggested using Envoy as sidecar proxy, I personally wouldn't after our experience with it with redis but it's an easy option.
- Avoid changing the cluster topology if the CPU load is over 40%. This is primarily in case of unplanned failures during a change.
- If something goes wrong shed load application side as quick as possible because Redis won't recover if it's being hammered. You'll need to either have feature flags of be able to scale down your application.
- Having replicas won't protect you from data loss so don't treat it as a source of truth. Also, don't rely on consistency in clustered mode.
- Remember Redis is single threaded so an 8xl isn't going to be super useful with all those unused cores.

Things we have alarms on by default:
- Engine utilization
- Anomalies in replication lag
- Network throughput (relative to throughput of the underlying EC2 instance)
- Bytes used for cache
- Swap usage (this is the oh shit alarm)
(shhh, you don't bite the hand that feeds you!)
Yeah I use it primarily for tracking a TBR and the books I've read and when.

I also like reading reviews after I've finished reading a book. I rarely read reviews beforehand anymore.

But also, once, I almost didn't read what is now my favorite book ever - Battle of the Linguist Mages (definitely not for everyone, but I loved it) - based on a lot of negative Goodreads reviews.
I ended just comparing against a map of emoji strings.

https://github.com/makew0rld/go-isemoji
I don't follow US media that closely. But it surely may be both ... incompetence and corporate interests.

This is just one example of many (I've seen others in John Oliver's Last Week Tonight):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnIQalprvR8

In 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by fifty companies; today, 90% is controlled by just 5 companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership_in_the_U...
It also was not uncommon to have Friends help show you how to use irc. Maybe even in person.
That is still highly debated and the worst part is the dangers of sugar are well known.
The end of The article describes how 1 grapheme is a mostly good solution except that not all emoji work with the JS used to validate that, and the JS to validate it isn’t available in Firefox.
I find I'd much rather drive to the mountains, or a lake, or at least a nice big park, and recreate there. Walking to a store in Amsterdam or Munich or Vancouver or Moscow was neither much fun nor a lot of exercise.
This is incorrect and dangerous advice.

Ethanol metabolism consumes S-glutathione, of which you have limited stores, and which is resynthesized over time.

Acetaminophen is metabolized to a toxic metabolite, NAPQI, which can be eliminated by glutathione conjugation via gluthione-S-transferases. When glutathione stores are depleted, for example due to alcohol consumption or acetaminophen overdose, NAPQI builds up and causes direct liver injury and cellular death: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836803/

As it relates to alcohol, the combination is also dangerous because alcohol's metabolic byproduct acetaldehyde also builds up and causes cellular damage in the absence of sufficient glutathione (which soliloquizes it for urinary excretion)
Almost as bad are folks who only read one chapter and leave a review. Would you review a 2 hour film after watching just 10 minutes? It’s been a learning experience for me as an author. The first chapter should not be special, it should be like the rest of the book.
*emphysema
Processed meat is also a known carcinogen. Yogurt and dairy increase risk for breast cancer, but you might find them under a pink label. If you spend any time in California, you’ll notice many carcinogens are around us all the time.

Tobacco stands out above others as being a very strong, addicting carcinogen.
Tobacco leaves a lot more room between "unharmed" and "dead", so the analogy doesn't quite work.
Arguing is a form of truth seeking behavior. It's not a universal solution - debating about string theory being true or not is sort of goofy, it's a "get more data" problem.

However lots of problems exist that have sufficient data.

Debate, pedagogically, also forces students to take data and form coherent arguments, use logic and persuasion and even learn how to have stage presence.

A tool can be imperfect and useful.
I am not sure of the correct terminology but AFAIK you should be able to limit to display characters, not unicode codepoints.
> What's the alternative, an empty string?

Yes! NULL is relational for “don’t know”, and SQL is (mostly, with varying degrees of success) designed to treat is as such. That’s why NULL=anything is NULL and not e.g. false (and IMO it’s a bit of a misfeature that queries that branch on a NULL don’t crash, although it’s still better than the IEEE 754 NaN=anything outright evaluating to false). If the value is funky but you do know it, then store a funky value, not NULL.
There are US states with monopolies on liquor sales too. It’s not that bad. The plus side is they are usually very clean and don’t let people hang around all day. It’s strictly business and that’s a good thing.
Same, in firefox (current version) but not in chrome.

But the manifesto is good enough to deserve 2 downloads :)
Yep, it's easy to grow in quantity. It has a relatively large/complete plant genome and, I think tobacco mosaic virus was used to implant genes early on. Another plant often used is corn since as I remember it allows plasmids to be implanted for new proteins (and you can add more plasmids to increase production).
I don't care that much about the "safety" as described in TFA: there's a big mall across the street of where I live now, so I walk there. The sidewalk is a bit hectic: I don't care. What I do care though is that it is safe: as in, it's not an hellhole of a shit city where the risk of being mugged is high (well I did martial arts in the past so at least they'd get some for their money).

You aren't getting people to walk or bicycle if your city is a shithole where thieves are roaming free.

Fix insecurity in public transports. Fix pee/urine odors in the subways. Then I'll consider using your public transport (which I do now use, here, in Luxembourg, because it's both pristine and feels mostly safe: except around the train station but, well, nothing can be perfect I guess).

But if you city is insecure and your subway stations stink and buses feels like a place where little gangs makes the law, then, fuck it, I'm using my car.
Is it? Could irc not modernize?

Matrix seems more than executing.

What if an interpretation veers wildly of course?

Slack is fine for many things but if I were to look during the pandemic, Teams our executed to meet people where and how they worked.

Slack is also often seen with and without context. Most people have someone pay for their slack for them to keep that precious searchable history. Non profit or free uses uses lost so much value from slack deleting their histories every 90 days unnecessarily.

Irc had bots to help.

Irc if you all me has inspired alternate experiences be it hashtags based, or a central feed like Twitter.
Please don't cross into personal attack. It destroys what this site is for, and you can easily make your substantive points without it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
With respect to potential TW conflict the TLDR is PRCs ongoing massive distributed renewable rollout at PRC scale is very much part of strategic energy security in event of war.

Issue in TW conflict limited to TW and PRC is scale of asymnetry too large and growing - TW unable to stockpile enough survivable fire power to meaningfully degrade PRC energy production let alone long term, especially massive PRC MIC located inland. PRCs tangible advantage is her industrial base too large to be disrupted at scale and for long. For reference medium term nuclear as % of energy mix will go from 5% to 10% (2035) which is enough to ration around during war. Long term 2050+ still "only" 20-25%. Consider scale of PRC's current distributed renewable rollout efforts is enough to power all residential use this year and likely substantial % of industrial use in coming years. Hence PRC coastal nuclear still most enticing targets even if that's warcrime territory (queue blowing up 3 gorges meme). Ultimately if TW tried to hit PRC nuclear they better commit to massive preemptive strike on reactors with their entire inventory since substations/transformers (which PRC makes indigenously) can be rapidly replaced. There's no opportunity for TW to reevaluate since PRC has stockpiles to disrupt TW completely and prevent followup strikes in retaliation and TW can't be meaningfully resupplied let alone reconstruct under motivated PRC attack. And if PRC preempts, TW options even more limited. It's a matter of who can rebuild infra and out attrite, which overwhelmingly favours PRC. WW2 strategic bombing worked for US because adversaries couldnt disrupt CONUS logistics. Even that is increasingly challenged if US commits to total war with PRC in TW scenario since PRC is boostering global strike capabilities which will hopefully limit scope of war due to mutual homefront vunerability (between PRC and US at least).
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't a prototype iPhone get found at bar or restaurant at least once before? This seems reasonable of Apple as I would think many elements of its design would be of interest to potential competitors, particularly elements beyond its internal/custom hardware and software designs. Things that might be more readily ascertained without a complex teardown.
If timing like this amuses you, consider the timeline of azuread's hack and MS renaming it to "entra id" lol
>If you were in charge of public health

We need to define what to optimize for. Cost-wise, a society with smokes makes sense to some.

“Well cigarettes aren’t that bad really when you think about it,” Devine said. “It might shorten a couple of years off the end of your life, but that’s a good thing. That actually saves money in the long run for the health system.”

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37343/do-smokin...
Are the billions of parameters all symbols, or are you referencing math manipulation as symbol manipulation?
I'm not sure that "time spent directly addressing violent crimes" is the best heuristic. By that metric, Judge Dredd is the best officer of all time. Mega City One is not a nice place to live.
Vaping is in every quantitative way safer than smoking tobacco, and this is agreed on by everyone with any knowledge about the subject, including people crusading against vaping.

> just incredible

Statistical reasoning here.

> Plus you get more nicotine

Nicotine wasn't giving people cancer or COPD.

What makes vaping dangerous is that the government refuses to regulate it, with the support of vaping companies and antismoking activists, the latter insisting that it would be absolutely impossible and absurd to inspect vape cartridges and set guidelines for (as a critical example) oils used to adulterate THC vapes which killed a few people and ruined a few lungs. The antismoking activists say the only way to regulate the safety of vape cartridges is to ban them, because otherwise they'd be allowing a dangerous thing.

A really murderous position to have, and a real government should ban all danger ideology. The kind of people whose grandparents thought it was a great idea to poison industrial alcohol during prohibition.
> then who will?

A good slogan I’ve heard repeated in more activist circles: “If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
Eggs are good for you, eggs are bad for you.

Sugar is good for you, sugar is bad for you.

This will likely be the same science flip-flopping you'll see until you die.
I think you misread the comment.

What I'm saying is that the GP says "selling cigarettes is bad, because cigarettes are bad for the buyer". Who are you to decide that? You are implicitly saying "the buyer of cigarettes is stupid and doesn't know what's good for them [and therefore enabling them is bad; in which case the reverse, preventing them from acting, must be good]"

I say they make a choice to buy cigarettes, and while I personally think that's dumb, it's just, like, my opinion, man. Someone might judge my choices (like, mountaineering? That's dangerous and who pays for those rescues, why not just play golf? Wait, that destroys the planet and uses up so much urban land, why not just go for a walk? Frankly you could get hit by a car, just do weights at home. OTOH free weights by yourself are injury prone, nobody can have any exercise hobbies except for stairmaster)
I don't see many questions here about the employer and their role in hiring candidates that may need some kind of visa. What kind of resources would a startup need in order to hire somebody.

Also, what would the potential cost be if we found a candidate that needed an H-1B visa and we wanted to hire.
The sun is considered carcinogenic, is it still moral to let your kids play outside?

I think how carcinogenic a thing is, how the thing is delivered, and what the thing is replacing, if anything, all matter, along with a hundred other factors. A highly carcinogenic habit that is addictive is morally much worse than a potentially carcinogenic sugar replacement, especially when you consider diabetics exist.
There was some controversy recently where people were upset about rainbow flags on Lichess. Maybe it's them. Or maybe it's the same people who were DDOSing Chess.com last week. Either way they suck...
I'm sorry this is upsetting you, but I'm certain that no matter what sort of information I provide to you, it won't change your mind.
Without reading the article, I’m going to guess that it’s because most mortgages are fixed rate.

Someone read the article and tell me if I’m right.
And microplastics too, and sugars, and puss, and blood, pesticides, estrogens ... and?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
For me: being around drunk people for hours on end gets very tedious and you're no longer desensitised to your eardrums being pounded into the centre of your brain by the "less talking, more drinking" music volume.
I mean yeah, real life is more complicated than an HN post, and that comment was mostly aimed at kids around 10-14 who are going through this particularly tumultuous, socially exploratory period. (As an aside, learning & applying rules without understanding sounds very developmentally appropriate for a 5 year old).

What I’m really getting at is that we don’t always point out to other adults when they’re being rude, and when we do, our goal isn’t to teach them that they’re being an ass. With kids and teens, it’s worth taking a conscious effort to reframe these kinds of interactions.

Specific language choices are also very important - eg always “that’s rude” and never “you’re rude”.
That's the spanish spelling of the city's name.
Freedom means enabling the bad things too.

Which I think leads to two things. One is that maybe freedom isn't that good by itself. Second is that every system will have its flaws, and so, its abusers. And sometimes the system shouldn't be designed to be as abuse-free as possible. Sometimes that throws out the baby with the bathwater.
Wait no, this doesn't make sense. You should be comparing the rates of bad actors against the number of potential actors (ie rates amongst church staffs vs rates amongst school staffs). Comparing the volume of potential victims is meaningless. To draw an extreme example, what would you say about a religious sect where 100% of its leaders were rapists but there was only 10 people in each congregation? That's okay because public schools have tons more students?
I mean… they might try to, but that line of reasoning doesn’t hold up to even cursory examination.

The position itself—about othering certain groups—would hold up by itself of course. Unfortunately for those you mention it’s most often employed by those on their side of the debate about groups they dislike (Muslims, gay, trans, etc).
> Here’s a brief timeline of the development of the different high school debate formats: ... 2009: Parliamentary debate is founded

I was doing parliamentary debate in high school around 2002 in Boston; where does 2009 come from?
That person can have those beliefs, but they have disqualified themselves from being a judge. By their own words, they have said that they cannot and will not judge objectively. So they should be disqualified from judging.
> A friend once asked me to watch a video with her that she was going to display on her computer using Netflix. I declined, saying that Netflix was such a threat to freedom that I could not treat it as anything but an enemy

The madlad. I love it.

I appreciate all that Stallman has done for computing and continues to fight the good fight
re: Japan, I think it has to do with having higher density, meaning many things are within shorter walking distances.

I also think Japan is generally a lot more pleasant to walk in than the US
Birds are a lot less happy about mirror glass buildings; in some places it literally rains dead birds.
Totally fair. The concept of bots though comes from somewhere. Irc I think.
Almost certainly autocorrect. Bilingual devices sometimes forget (or mistake) the language you’re typing in. I’m typing this on a Spanish keyboard, for example.
Sweet, sweet anecdote.
I got at least one inaccuracy in thirty seconds of play. I'm pretty sure Slashdot wasn't around in the '70s, yet the "Slashdot Effect" is claimed as a '70s neologism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1970s_neologisms?uses...
From the article

> Tobacco is the easiest land plant in which to manipulate Rubisco and so serves as the test case for developing a more efficient Rubisco that can be transferred to more agronomically relevant species, Gunn said.
tl;dr: suggestion: DNS is really hard to unlearn.

I do not agree with the implied sentiment of the article.
And thus with some of the comments (from "both" sides) of the arguments presented here in the comments.

Hard is not defined, but is implied to be "harder than you believe it is."

That is a general characteristic of perhaps most topics worth pursuing in our field: computer science/engineering. (Defining it in this closed field space on purpose for brevity.) And especially in distributed systems, which DNS in some way falls under.

Further you have business interests, which have affected and will affect DNS -- we like it or not. And have added on top of it.

A number of individuals then use hard as "it is intractable" [to learn].

Is DNS harder to learn than BGP routing: I think not.

Does one need to spend a decade focusing on using and debugging DNS. I would argue not.

Does one need more time to dive into BGP than DNS to do state of the art work: I would argue yes.

DNS is simply not the hard and hot scientific problem people go around tackling from a research perspective.

It is a federated business (and political perhaps) problem at this point.

I do agree there is a lot of caching involved, which creates a ton of coherence and invalidation issues. That does not make the topic hard, it makes DNS problematic. (The other word I would use, and that I think Ms. Evans [the author] implies perhaps.) I agree totally with that.

I also think it is a point of approach the learning path to it for the average scientist here. A lot of people are introduced to DNS (or email to that extend) as: here is the sketch idea, we make sure it works, trusts us, and there is this single deified entity that makes sure it works, and it is not patched with other branches "constantly."
All of the aforementioned sentence of course is a lie. But a lot of engineers learn that.
(I was lucky to not have that introduction.)
And then it comes time to debug a DNS issue -- when they actually realize it is a DNS issue.

So I would recommend a revised blog title to: DNS is really hard to unlearn.
A responsibility to one's self or one's children, but not to you.
The passenger list, security footage, passenger descriptions, blackbox all prove saudi nationals hijacked the planes. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim so the ball is in your court to disprove existing evidence and prove CIA involvement.

Proof and evidence mean things other people can take and corroborate independently without speculation,presumption or bias.
> You can detect if one sensor fails as the two readings will start to deviate and then replace the faulty one

But how do you know which one is the faulty one?
"1953 'Phantom' A-bomb film 'Hiroshima,' with 88,000 extras, screening in Tokyo" > The 1953 movie "Hiroshima", about the atom bomb, will be screening in Tokyo. The movie had 88,000 extras. (The word 'Phantom' is confusing. According the article, the movie is called a "phantom" movie because it was produced in Japan but was not released in Japan due to a dispute between the publisher and the filmmakers.)
Yes, I think you're right. By the time I was a senior lieutenant, junior captain, in my mid-twenties I had probably internalized a lot of what the Army teaches. At that point I was looking to fill in what I felt were specific gaps; detailed things about managing time and information in a knowledge / office work environment (whereas most Army training focuses on the tactical, combat environment), effectively delegating and coaching and giving feedback to subordinates, running a staff meeting, etc. I found specific and helpful tips for that stuff in the business management / consulting literature.
Avoiding recidivism is fine. Doing what CA does and not arrest or prosecute people at all is already a horribly failed ideology.

People do not go to jail without deserving it. So how bad was your friend's record, Lancelot?
Reminds me of the runin I had with someone from San Rafael north of SF. They corrected me when I pronounced it as the spanish name it is. Apparently it's officially pronounced ra-fell, and they're adamant about it.
You might be half-remembering the TNG episode "Relics" in which Scotty is rescued from a Dyson sphere after seventy-five years in a transporter buffer.

Scotty demands, and eventually obtains from Guinan, an actual bottle of Aldebaran whiskey. He has the holodeck recreate the bridge of the original Enterprise and drinks the whiskey there.

Picard shows up, Scotty offers Picard the bottle, then at the last moment warns him that it's real alcohol. Picard responds "I know, who do you think gave it to Guinan?"
I imagine more people who've traveled, and are not from the Netherlands, are likely to have been to Amsterdam than to Maastricht, meaning it's easier to index on how Amsterdam functions than Maastricht for discussion.
> something I put there from my website

No, I understood that this was your intention. I'm trying to explain that even if you have the best of intentions, there is a risk you introduce a bug where your website _doesn't_ put something on the clipboard, so then when your app tries to read it, it instead reads whatever unrelated data is on the top of the user's clipboard. And if your app tries to append this value to a URL, then you are effectively sending clipboard data to your server, i.e. risking worst case scenarios like user passwords showing up in your server logs.
Oral debate is the lowest form of argument.
"Alcohol is humanity's oldest friend. How could I abandon a friend?" - Yang Wenli

The difference is the huge influence alcohol has had on all human cultures throughout history. Yes, it's poison, but it's our poison.
Or you could say the ai is simply a reflection of humanity. And if it produces grotesque results it’s because of humanity’s nature.
No, it's appending a suffix that maximizes the likelihood of the model itself continuing with "Sure, let's..."