riyadparvez

I've read this multiple times that AWS us-east-1 region is the one that has the highest number of outages. I am eager to hear others' experiences here.

I have read Airflow 2.0 release addresses lot of long-term cirticisms of Airflow. Hope anyone here experience with Airflow can illuminate us.

My secret sauce of using Twitter is simply

* blocking popular and/or controversial political figures

* blocking whole list of controversial or outrage keywords

* training myself to skip tweets by outrage machine when they succeed to sneak through above two filters

* unfollowing anyone who has poor signal to noise ratio. More tweets about outrage than about anything I find useful.

With all these my twitter experience has been relatively pleasant.

This. I've seen the same in my personal life. It intuitively makes sense. If someone is just outright toxic without any redeemable quality, you will not socialize with them. It's only when they have superficial charm to cover up their toxicity, you'll be interested or manipulated to have them in their life.

Some commands are compatible with bash, but not compatible with zsh. I do the same thing when using zsh.

The problem is software engineering discipline is wrought with missing the business context and ROI. Everyone talks about unit testing, clean code, refactoring, tech debt, documentation and whatnot. But no one talks about how much unit tests is appropriate for a project. A front-end for a simple simple CRUD todo list shouldn't have as many unit tests as a safety critical application. Unfortunately no one talks about this.

I have seen a startup where ciritical data processing infrastructure doesn't have any kind of tests because the management doesn't understand technical importance. While the front end team which develops a simple web interface for just showing the data to customers follows TDD, tries to achieve 100% code coverage, every single function has documentation, extensive code reviews and whatever new clean-code techniques you can think of. Not surprisingly the front end team has 6 times more people than the data processing team. Obviously bad management is to blame here. But I can't help but think how much all these tech debt and clean code artciles on the internet is responsible for this. Advising people blindly to follow some development methodologies without the discussion in which contexts these methodlogies are acceptable, what are the costs and what are the trade-offs. There's a lot of resume driven developers out there find these articles and waste business resources to fill in their resumes.

> Post-Microsoft-acquisition-GitHub is playing a different game.

Excatly. Microsoft owned GitHub is more interested into getting more customers for Azure than GitHub itself.

Are snarky comments like this really necessary or relevant to what's being discussed here?

I am interested into why they haven't released this feature in their main Google Lens app. My hunch is they released a separate app for experimental and beta testing. Once these features get robust and reliable, they will probably move these features to the main Google Lens app.

> Google has quietly discontinued sales of the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL.

They discontinued the sale, not the product support. Not sure what the outrage about. Am I missing anything?

> They do say not worrying about patents, but that's because searching for patents could indeed make you liable as you were influenced by prior art.

I've heard the same thing in startups and other companies. This is not something unique to Google.

I can certainly see his point. The more I grow older, the more I am convinced to spend less time on internet interacting with people. Not only the anonymity or pseudo-anonymity is a magnet for toxic people, it also brings out the worst in people. Even disregarding the outright abuse or outrage, the opinions I see on the internet is very hard to meet someone in real life who has that kind of opinions.

Every Google related thread immediately becomes a thread of bashing Google's history of killing products. I don't know how many times people need to have the same conversation again and again. This has gotten to the point that I don't open any Google related threads. I am here to read thoughtful discussions, not some broken records again and again. Internet forum is hard.

That's very interesting. Does Android have anything similar?

Prefect is workflow (particularly dataflow) orchestrator. Pulsar and Kafka are general purpose distributed streaming engines.

> all these things happen at a much lower level than conscious thought. We have approaches to achieving based on genetics, early upbringing, life experiences, etc. No amount of wanting things to be different will make it so.

You hit the nail on the head. The worst outcome of these types of research is implicit victim blaming. People growing up in marginalized communities never get the opportunities to be successful in life. There are a lot of reasons why someone is not accomplished and not having the "right" thought is pretty down on the list. Instead of very carefully describing the limitations of these techniques, they do complete opposites. They hype up and overgeneralize to have publicity and sell more books and seminars.

Growth Mindset is a cognitive technique. Many techniques that fall under the umbrealla of congnitive and behaviorial technique is rife with overhyping, overgeneralized claims and false promises. Here is an article about the growth mindset controversy: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debate-arises-ove.... Life and success is hard. Be careful when someone tries to sell you some easy techniques to be successful in life.

Off topic, doesn't Twitter use their own data centers and GCP? When did they start using AWS?

Yes, it was a part of Google search. I guess they removed it because not many people were using it. Too bad I was a big fan of this feature.

Is there any other good resource on time series modeling and forecasting other than exponential smoothing and variants of ARIMA? Pretty much every tutotial on the web is on exponential smoothing and ARIMA or some lazy LSTM tutorials.

It's funny how it's named Vision Fund and invests in a company like WeWork. I'd be more forgiving if they have lost money investing in companies working for techonological breakthrough like nuclear fission or drug research for incurable diseases. Instead they invested in a real-estate office space sharing company trying masquerade itself as a tech company.

If animals to human transmission can happen in a wildlife market, then it can also happen unintentionally in a virology lab researching very same family of virus. In the absence of substantial evidence, both theories are equally plausible to me.

It seems very similar to Android feature called Google Play instant: https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant.

Not to mention lots of psychology research has been done using affluent white college undergrads as research population. If you take lots of these therapy approaches outside of this demographic, they simply don't hold upto the claims made in original research papers.

As someone who is in therapy for quite some time and read quite a lot about psychology, I can please take any claims of "evidence"-based short-term therapy approach with gain of salt. Particularly, if it's a very short term manualized approach of therapy eg, CBT style therapy.

Lots of research in CBT is plagued with abuse of statistics, manipulation of randomized controlled trials, sensalization, and over-hype. For the vast majority of time CBT is good for symptomp reduction and patients relapse frequently. Frankly, the depressed people I know in real life, I don't know how many of them would be benefitted by CBT style therapy.

My own experience is it took me almost a year of therapy, reading psychology and philosophy, lots of self-relfection and going to dark places in my mind to see marked improvement in my depression. If you are suffering from depression, please give psychotherapy a try. It'd be hard, but it's worth it!

I am not sure how this is comparable. There is a concept called degree of risk. Bats are known for being reservoir of zootonic viruses unlike common farm animals like chickens, cows etc. Moreover, eating bats is easier to give up provided that we already have lots of other safer alternatives of meats.

> Yes, the press has reported that a market in Wuhan sold exotic animals, but it seems this is uncorroborated, and after asking an acquaintance in Wuhan about it, I was told it's fake news, and that said market sells farmed animals as far as she's ever seen.

Fake news, seriously? There's an entire wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huanan_Seafood_Wholesale_Marke.... Please verify your own news source before spreading more fake news/

I specifically mentioned that

> Yes, outbreak of zootonic diseases is still possible through widely consumed firm animals (chickens, pigs, or cows). But we can dramatically reduce the risk of next pandemic if we stop eating exotic wild animals like bats, which is not hard to give up.

Washing your hands is not going to stop every single disease on the earth, but it'll reduce the risk. What exactly is the unsound part here?

Exotic animals are not something poor people eat because they can't afford. It's absolutely the other way around. Exotic meats are mostly consumed by the powerful people as delicacies.

> I thought that the bat soup origin was debunked

Bat soup was used as an example. It would help the discussion if we stop taking everything in the most literal way possible.

As someone who is been in psychotherapy and an arm-chair psychology enthusiast, not every kind of therapy will be effective for everyone. This also goes for psychiatric medications.

CBT is often oversold as a cure for every kind of mental health issues. New meta-research has found that the effectiveness of CBT has been decreasing for quite some time and long-term effectiveness of CBT is arguable.

Regarding effectiveness of AA, I think it makes sense. Lot of people with addiction suffer from childhood trauma, emtional neglect, and abandonment. In psychological term it is called attachment injury. A community where you are not shamed, validated, understood, and accepted would give corrective emotional experience, which would in turn heal your attachment trauma. I've heard this phrase somewhere: "what cures people in therapy is love". So it's not surprising that finding a community where you are accepted would help you treat your addiction.