skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Viruses are scary. My company switched to work at home maybe 18 months ago, so I no longer am exposed to the viruses of my coworkers.

At the grocery stores at which I buy most of my food I use the self checkout, so no interacting with humans there.

At McDonalds I order and pay at the kiosks, so no human interaction there except when they hand me the bag with my food. At Burger King and Wendy's I do order at the counter, so I am talking to another human who is maybe a meter or so in front of me.

Every three months I have to pick up prescription re-fills so deal with a human at the pharmacy, and perhaps stand in line there with other humans.

I live in a house in a low density neighborhood, with no other house nearer than 40 meters, although my neighbors on one side have an RV in their front yard that is only about 15 meters from me, with an older couple (their parents presumably) living in it. No human interaction here other than occasionally waving at someone walking their dog on the street in front of my house (about 20 meters away).

Yet I still get the occasional cold-like or flu-like illness in the winter. Who is passing on these viruses to me?
the_mitsuhiko is from Austria (according to his keybase linked in his profile). But it shouldn't matter, if there's no consumer demand then lobbying is irrelevant.
I found some info here https://getsol.us/2018/11/02/update-on-patreon/

but it seems like there is no way
No, packet processing needs way more bandwidth than raw processing power.
Holloways: Roads Tunneled into the Earth by Time (2014)
Chrome published an intent to freeze the user-agent string:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
There's more than one iPhone, more than one IOS version and more than one version of safari. Multiply the odds of someone having your exact setup AND browsing this site.
We could pause international travel...but no one will make that decision until its already here..so
> I don’t see where in the docs it says, it’s 2020 so do this from now on. Maybe that’s the problem?

I guess lack of clear direction is exactly the problem. For all of PEP20's supposed importance, it's notoriously difficult to discover which parts of the standard library to use and which ones to ignore unless you like reinventing wheels.
I’m surprised at how low the percentages are on my iPhone.
It says only ~35 other people have had the same fingerprint as me.

I’m running safari, private mode, plus a single content blocker app.
What about this:

I want to buy a book in my mother language (Italian), but I live in Canada.
The rights for the italian translation have not been purchased by anyone in Canada, so I cannot buy it here (the book is sold only in English). To buy the italian book though, I need to buy it from. Italy, using an italian address for billing. This is illegal, since I live in Canada and have no italian address. Lying on an official document can be punished with 2 years incarceration. So my only option to buy such book is traveling to Italy and buy it in a physical shop. Great for pollution, and sets the book price at something insane.

Alternatively, I can pirate it.
Have you ever looked at Google maps/Earth of Texas? Zoom out to a couple thousand feet, and look at all of the little white dots across the surface. Each one of those little dots is a fracking well. Seeing it from this view is quite shocking. Look at how close houses/schools/etc are next to these well sites.
SQLite Is Serverless
Of course human trump machines.

However, machines are much more consistent, never sleep, not get ill, and cost zero.
Indeed; we shouldn't care about AWS power efficiency but we also shouldn't assume that it's bad just because we can't see it.
Read old IRC logs.
The OP references real incomes which means they are inflation adjusted. People are definitely spending A LOT more than 3-5% more than they did in 1955.
True, but the design is licensed from ARM and tuned to AWS's requirements.
I don't think the 7nm one is complete yet.
GPON is time divided, not frequency divided. You have one wavelength for Tx and one for Rx and everyone on the PON has to split it.

It is certainly POSSIBLE to do WDM on a PON, but you need separate matched pairs of transceivers for each connection which kind of defeats the purpose (you now need a mux/demux at the end which adds more attenuation to the line, as well as more expensive electronics as you went from needing one GPON port to N Gbe ports). As such, wavelength division is typically used over point-to-point links to get more discrete links over a single fiber (or pair).
It has about the same meaning as the 5 or 3 in "core i5" or "core i3". It's all marketing.
Nope. Not at all. There is a browser[1] that tries to hide this stuff for you (it's the FF-derived TOR browser w/o the TOR bit). That should be a good start.

1: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/SecBrowser
Some British people believed that spaghetti grows on trees.

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_swiss_spaghetti_harv...
Care to quote a source for "twice as fatal as the flu"? Everything indicates it's way worse.

6 of the first 41 identified patients have died. That's a mortality rate of 15%. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... Caveat: 41 is a very small sample, and the first patients are likely to have been the most severe cases (pre-existing conditions, weak immune systems, etc).

And when you take publicly reported statistics, 42 deaths out of 1441 confirmed cases, that's a mortality rate of 2.9%. But the confirmed cases are probably under-reported (but so are deaths)...

15% or 2.9% are 150-30 times worse than the flu mortality rate.
Doorknobs, mail and Amazon delivery, sneezes upwind from your house, mosquitoes, rats, and such.
Thanks for addressing these. I'll try to answer most of them:

> I would have liked the article to start off by listing the use cases and trade-offs instead of jumping right on the hype train at full speed.

Well, the use cases are pretty much large scale applications that are developed by multiple teams. We had clients like that in the past and we currently have 2 clients that have such a set up.

Point being if you just want to transport a single functionality or if the whole frontend just serves a single purpose then don't think about microfrontends.

What should I have mentioned here? Can you give an example? Happy to improve to post here!

> how do components get assembled into the main application, is network traffic overhead is going to be a problem, etc.

Maybe we should have the architecture diagram on the main page of the documentation, but maybe this contains what you are after: https://docs.piral.io/reference/documentation/reference

Otherwise have a look at: https://dev.to/florianrappl/microfrontends-based-on-react-4o...

Network traffic should not be much of a problem: If you render everything client-side you may (!) have more requests than usual (may, since you will / should use bundle splitting anyway), however, if that is a problem you can already fuse your app server-side.

We would love to improve the documentation and make it more accessible. Can you tell me what you've been looking for specifically? Any input appreciated!

> this article seems to be setting people up for scenarios like the Bell micro-services disaster

Sorry, actually it was meant for the opposite, i.e., if you don't have any of these reasons then don't do it.

Just to be clear: The beauty of a solution like Piral is that you can just start development of a new feature without touching the rest of application. You also deploy independently.

How it works is as follows: Each pilet (= a microfrontend in Piral) is produced as a kind of library that is self-contained and exports a function which is called later at runtime (here assumed client-side, but works the same on server-side).

The only question is now: How is the web app knowing what libraries to load? This is where the crucial component - the "feed service" is coming into play. This is the missing piece of infrastructure. This service exposes an endpoint to be queried for obtaining what libraries to load for the current user.

Hope that helps!
As a federal agency, they are consulted by other federal agencies. So they are an advisor and regulator in the government space.

They are secretly able to modify/control what private companies do globally, and have done so for decades, so they are a shadow regulator in the non-government space.
Great point!

I think ISPs are fine services, they can host and serve websites like they’ve always done. I pay for my service, you pay for yours, we can connect, it balances out.

If you decide to do something that adds value for the both of us, I can chip in to help you cover your costs.

One thing very valuable to me is a search engine. You promise to index all sites you can find on the internet, but you need funds to buy disks and servers. I think you’d do a great job, and I’ll pay you a monthly fee to keep giving me access to your wealth of information.

It so works out that the more people you can serve, the more income you’ll have to become a bigger player. Nothing wrong with that, just as there used to be nothing wrong with Google’s search.

It’s when they asked not the searchers but the advertisers to pay them that things went awry.
I don't buy the 'no demand for it' line. It has never been offered by the big players. They don't want consumers uploading large amounts of data. I suspect this was originally done due to piracy concerns. But with so many homes having Nest products (and the like) that constantly upload, we need higher uplink speeds.
Using the user agent string for this is not needed and is not common now for new projects.
While I stewed after the dotcom crash during early 2000s, I had a short 2-year gig working as a headend tech for a small cable company.

It’s not about demand, it’s about climbing poles and rolling bucket-truck crews to replace filters and other expensive equipment on a massive scale.

The top comment in the link there is spot-on.
https://superuser.com/a/1519918

I was involved with the “digital switchover”, moving the traditional analog channels over to the digital QAM channels, potentially freeing those now duplicated analog channels for upload channels. Maybe more upload is technically possible but the work on the poles is going to be expensive.

[edit] oops, pasted duplicate.
There is and the government had provided resources to provide the supply, but the market is a duopoly.
My fonts alone makes me pretty unique it seems (<0.01%). 180 or so fonts that the browser is happy to share with the world. Does seem a little unnecessary.
As I wrote on another thread recently, I come from a time when "send help" communications weren't the norm and I resist a bit the notion that you--either as an individual or a group leader--are under a moral obligation to make such communications abilities the norm to the degree possible.

That said. I'd probably get an InReach these days if I were going to spend significant time in remote areas. Leaving your plans with people was always a bit of a tricky exercise. You haven't checked in by a specific time. Now what? Go to the trailhead if that's even practical? Call in SAR? Give them another few hours/a day?
Qwerty keyboard layout yields 0.7% uniqueness? Do other browsers just not declare this?
I appreciate that you pointed this out, I would have missed it.

Brilliant and terrible.
If you want less hyperbolic information i recommend https://promedmail.org/
I don't agree with the conclusion here. It's all about the input data.

GPT-2 is trained on words people actually write on the internet, which is an inherently incomplete dataset. It leaves out all the other information an "intelligence" knows about the world. We know what sources are authoritative, we know the context of words from the visual appearance of the page, and we connect it all with data from our past experiences, school, work, friends, our interaction with the world. Among a million other ways we get data.

How would GPT-2 determine most facts from the input dataset? If the only thing you knew was all the text on the internet, with zero other context, you'd have no way of knowing what is "true", or why that concept is important, or anything else. I bet you'd behave just like GPT-2.

It's a robot that is really good at writing, because that is all it knows. I think it doesn't know anything about how to make sense on a macro scale because I don't think the input data contains that information. It seems to do well when the input data contains relevant information.
Modern browser engines are reasonably portable. When a new OS arrives the developers will just port Firefox or Chromium to it.
Standardization on only a few design variations might fix this? People would complain about monocultures, though.
Having the width include the border because that is how a physical box works has to be one of the all time stupid design decisions of all time. What sort of management structure would lead to something like that? It suggests there was some guy/girl who were supreme dictators who made lots of these decisions.

While committees often make crazy decisions this is the other end of the spectrum.
Similarly, orders from the office team for extensions.

The stories behind these things would even better reading.
I don't know why this was downvoted. Sea level does indeed suck as a baseline.

Traditional vertical datums like NAVD88 get their baseline zero elevation from an averaging of mean sea level at a small number (~5) of tidal stations around the area of interest.

The reason why multiple stations are used is that mean sea level is different from place to place. This is because of ocean currents and (I think though I can't say for certain) different levels of gravity at different points on earth's surface.

This is most clearly demonstrated with chart datum, which is a local elevation datum particular to a single maritime chart (eg a single harbor). Chart datum is the mean low tide for the area in question (useful to know if you don't want your craft to run aground...). The point of mentioning this is that: there are different chart datums along a single seaboard. Mean sea level is local.

The current practice is to use geoids which are based on the force of gravity. Einstein described geoids as surfaces on which clocks run at a constant rate. This is analogous to mean sea level on a waterworld in free space, eg sea level without the confounding factors of currents, weather, climate, or astronomical objects.
Apparently I'm the only person in the world using linux-5.4.14-zen with a Radeon VII. Which would be kinda cool if that information wasn't being broadcast to every site I visit.
On the contrary; it is our slavish devotion to Keynesianism that promises a continued future of boom and bust cycles:

Keynes vs. Hayek, Round 1 & 2:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
Have you been to China? I think you would find that most people's (i.e. the vast majority of people you talk to) approach to health and medicine revolves around hot and cold energy (i.e. nonsensical superstition) and very little thought appears (from how people act) to be given to viruses/bacteria and how they might spread disease.
Some Thoughts About GNUstep
This may upset you... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180206090650.h...
Is time on our side? (2006)
It's amazing what that monthly check can make people look over when the wells are placed on private property.
I’d rather catch a coronavirus than something like mad cow disease, anthrax, or tuberculosis, which all come from animals westerners eat.
Based on documented facts and best epidemiological guesses about the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV, I think it will probably turn into a pandemic affecting most countries. Let's review:

• human-to-human transmission while asymptomatic, truly the killer feature [1]
• 15% mortality rate in first patients (6 of 41 are dead) [2]
• cases/deaths doubling every 2 days [public data]
• epidemiologist predicts 100x more infections in 10 days [3]

Caveats:

• mortality rate sample is small (41) and the first patients are likely to be the most severe cases (pre-existing conditions, weak immune systems, etc); so the true rate could be less.

• public reports of cases/deaths could be increasing slower than reported because Chinese authorities could be trying to be more truthful (IOW reported numbers are finally catching up w/reality); or alternatively public reports could be lagging reality because authorities could be increasingly hiding the facts or simply be less and less able to report and monitor as Wuhan is turning into a bigger unmanageable chaos every passing day

• availability of medicine may limit the outbreak. The pulmonologist who discovered the SARS coronavirus says they have several medicines ready: https://twitter.com/hhh05146721/status/1220953373622534145

[1] https://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(...

[2] https://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(...

[3] https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.23.20018549v1
https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/189965935059/human-ps... for an orthogonal point of view—-I feel Marcus is a bit too embroiled in this particular debate to make level-headed criticism on the merits/potential of GPT-2
For some, no it would not really be possible.

The Canvas fingerprint is the biggest one, as it relies on different forms of hardware acceleration which is based on GPU+CPU+configs for your computer and browser.
Uranium precipitates out of igneous hydrothermal waters when it encounters organic carbon. So it is probably concentrated in some oil deposits. Then some radiative isotopes of uranium will decay into radium, alpha particles (ionized helium) and other elements.

Most of the worlds commercial helium is mined from natural gas, which may have fractions as much as 5%. This helium is thought to be from uranium decay emitting alpha particles and not primordial helium.
They are right about null. To say it is a billion dollar mistake is completely over blown. Maybe it was at the time but now a null pointer exception is extremely easy to find and fix. It doesn't compare to the other complex bugs one has to deal with most of the time.
> At McDonalds I order and pay at the kiosks, so no human interaction there except when they hand me the bag with my food. At Burger King and Wendy's I do order at the counter, so I am talking to another human who is maybe a meter or so in front of me.

These may not be that much better - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/29/mcdonalds-touchscreen-kiosks...
Mind expanding on this? Where can I learn more about this attribute?
Tech Startup in Jacksonville, Florida?
I'm a physician not coder but along with a coder brother-in-law here from Germany, I've almost got my MVP for a medical related B2B software product. All my research says I'm doomed to failure -- but that isn't happening. I will only be in a few hundred bucks and airfare and I'm going to have a huge positive impact on patients lives and healthcare delivery in my niche. I'm trying not to misstep. Any help out there?
Although one aspect that it's very hard to get true information for the citizens. You'd also need to be very good at doublethink, I would assume many are not, and thus we see mass panic & chaos on the streets.
Tan-Through Cycling Jersey
I have multiple attributes that are each unique:
* Content language (HTTP header)
* Content language (JS)
* List of fonts (JS)
* Media devices

A bit surprised that it doesn't even need to do any fancy combinations of identifiers to get a uid in my case.
Ubuntu Budgie updates are not driven by Solus updates. Ubuntu Budgie is independent and downstream from the Budgie project.
Are you avoiding human contact because you are worried about infection?
Byte – looping video app from the creator of Vine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22144411
Piracy is not theft, it is copyright infringement.

If I steal your car, you no longer have a car and are deprived of the benefits. If I pirate your book, you are deprived of the vague possibility of some income from me -- there's no guarantee I would have bought your book if I could afford it, and there was no possibility of piracy. You still have the book though.

Then there's the whole area of pirating things you already bought because of the offensive forced trailers and warnings on DVDs, or rampant copy protection that causes machine issues, or finding an ancient original CD, or simply because music piracy is as quick but less hassle than ripping a CD and adding artwork.
Down here in Australia, we have had a few similar incidents with 'free range' eggs. It really needs the quotes as the more demand there is for free range eggs the more that are available. The farmers move them from batteries so pens that have similar area.
Tangentially related but what is the experience of introducing Sorbet into an existing Ruby codebase? How does it compare to rewriting Javascript code to Typescript? Does it provide benefits quickly or only after the whole thing is typed? Are there many gems already typed?
Firefox worked great for a few months after the big fuss over Quantum coming out and then went right back to just being a browser for enthusiasts and privacy activists. And that's after that whole dumb advertising push they did with billboards reading scary stuff like "Big Browser is watching."

If anything, Firefox is a good example of why it's probably better for aspiring browser competitors to start off by just spinning off from Chromium like Brave did. Not that Brave is perfect either, especially not on desktops, but the saved resources let them focus on finding ways to surpass the competition like improving the mobile ui.
> I wonder how many of them would even care. This week the EPA dismantled the Clean Water Rule.

This week, the EPA rolled back an Obama-era executive order interpreting the Clean Water Act. Hard to see how rescinding a three year old executive order could “dismantle” a 47-year old statute.

The Obama-era interpretation was ridiculous on top of everything else. The Wikipedia article is actually pretty good:

> The Clean Water Act is the primary federal law regulating water pollution in the United States. The language of the Clean Water Act describes itself as pertaining to ‘Waters of the United States’. These the act defines as ‘navigable waterways’, which connects the act to constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce. Two U.S. Supreme Court decisions, in 2001 and 2006, interpreted the law to include waters not presently navigable that were formerly navigable that might be readily dredged to be restored to navigation or be made available for navigation. The scope of these decisions cast into doubt lower court decisions interpreting the act’s authority to extend regulatory authority to streams, wetlands, and small bodies of water not navigable in the sense of the interstate commerce clause.

So the Clean Water Act says the EPA can regulate ”the waters of the United States,” which is defined consistent with “navigable waters,” contemporaneous with Congress’s Commerce Clause authority over navigable waterways. The Obama EO extended it to include even small bodies of waters like ponds, such that farmers would have to get EPA permits to make modifications on their own land that was nowhere near navigable waters.

Maybe we need a law that requires permitting of everything that could affect any body of water no matter how small, because it’s true that pollution can flow from such waters into navigable waters. Maybe there is a way to even make such a law constitutional (e.g. setting up state regulation of water bodies that fall outside the commerce clause). But the Clean Water Act is not that law, and the permitting framework under the CWA is not appropriate for farmers doing work on land far from rivers and lakes.

So just because farmers supported rolling back this rule, why would you assume they’d be okay with radioactive materials polluting their land? Is there any room in our politics to acknowledge that agencies sometimes overreach, and just because you want to push back on that overreach doesn’t mean you want get rid of the agency or long-standing laws entirely?