skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That assumes that each location receives enough sunlight to keep the server operational for at least twelve hours a day

Only one of them needs to be up at a time. By choosing the antipode, by definition one of them will be in sun when the other is not (weather notwithstanding). The equinox would be the hardest day to deal with because they would both be at low energy at sunrise/sunset.

So yes, you're right, a third server would probably make it work almost 100% of the time.
The media is citing 1.3 million in Illinois alone with diabetes requiring insulin (out of about 12M population; over 10%) and at least some cases where the cost is over $1000 per month. Assuming it averages out to $300 per month as you said, however, that's still $20/mo. extra per person assuming the difference is distributed uniformly across all insured individuals, and that all individuals in the state are insured.
RDD: Resume-Driven Development

You often see this kind of stack rank of developer priorities:

1. What’s good for my career

2. What makes my boss look good

3. What is convenient for the development team

4. What is good for the company

...

99. What’s good for users
The data will be committed, but you may get a subsequent read that has the previous value, before it is overwritten by the final value. This would only occur if the shard where the commit is occurring fails, while the promoted shard replays the transaction before the final commit is propagated to the user. Since the shard as failed is impossible for a single transaction to experience this behavior, but an outside observer would be able to see this behavior. Transactionally everything would still be isolated, but outside the transaction you would see behavior you won't expect.
In gawk, as of 28 Jan, daily for 2 weeks, weekly for 100 days:

#!/usr/bin/gawk -f

BEGIN {
# Data as of 2020-1-28
doublerate = 1.71
dailyrate = 2/doublerate
cases = 6063
deaths = 132

now = mktime( "2020 01 28 00 00 00" )

maxdays = 14
interval = 1

printf( "| %3s | %-12s | %12s | %14s |\n", "day", "date", "deaths", "cases" )
printf( "|%-5s|%14s|%14s|%16s|\n", ":---", "------------:", "------------:", "-------------:" )
for(day=1; day<=maxdays; day+=interval ) {
date = strftime( "%b %d, %Y", now + day * 86400 )
printf( "| %3i | %-12s | %'12i | %'14i |\n", day, date, deaths * (dailyrate^day), cases * (dailyrate^day) )
}

printf( "\n\n" )

maxdays = 100
interval = 7

printf( "| %3s | %-12s | %12s | %14s |\n", "day", "date", "deaths", "cases" )
printf( "|%-5s|%14s|%14s|%16s|\n", ":---", "------------:", "------------:", "-------------:" )
for(day=1; day<=maxdays; day+=interval ) {
date = strftime( "%b %d, %Y", now + day * 86400 )
printf( "| %3i | %-12s | %'12i | %'14i |\n", day, date, deaths * (dailyrate^day), cases * (dailyrate^day) )
}

printf( "\n" )

}
It’s funny to me that, in a society where we buy takeout to avoid having to cook, we discount the energy expenditure for the “cheaper” option in so many other contexts.

And extra $20 bucks and I never have to think about this again? Yes, please. An extra 40? Okay. I’d have to think hard about $100 though.
Say, logging into your account in a fashion which trips whatever heuristic they have for deciding if your account is compromised or just 'breaking their terms of service' with no further explanation. For example using 'suspicious' IPs like from some cloud provider, or from multiple countries in a short period of time, as these algorithms were written post-internet but pre-air travel. Who knows, honestly.

And yes this has happened to me, coincidentally after a period of travelling.

Some backed up hard drives in my house and a family member's are probably more reliable.
Public benefit corporations sounds nice -- at least on paper. But ultimately, PBCs still tend to have a bunch of outside shareholders who are expecting to make a profit eventually.

What I'd really love to see is more organizations considering a cooperative structure.

Cooperatives are 100% owned by their members (in the case of consumer cooperatives) or workers (in the case of worker-owned cooperatives). There are no outside shareholders, and so the pursuit of profit is not the ultimate goal; the happiness of the owners is. That certainly doesn't preclude making a healthy profit, but it does preclude short-sighted moves that eek out a temporary profit at the expense of the broader business.

Most people don't realize how widespread cooperatives already are. Every single credit union in the United States is a cooperative. Many insurance companies are cooperatives. The ShopRite chain of grocery stores and REI outdoor stores use a cooperative structure.

Of course, the downside is raising capital. But sometimes taking on debt is enough, and cooperatives can flourish in a variety of industries.
Paket – A dependency manager for .NET projects
I think it depends upon their relationship to the noob. In a situation where the noob has a clear negative impact on the person, you can see a very negative reaction to noobs. Take a game like Dota 2 where a noob can be a handicap that can sink a team and how toxic the culture that game has developed.
Fault-Tolerance in Distributed Systems
Actually detect duplicate blocks. There's also commands to show the already implemented deduplication, of course.
This may sound snarky, but...

I really wonder how helpful such projects are. Making the Internet greener is undoubtedly an important goal, but I feel this is perpetuating a myth that we're gonna fix the climate crisis with small-scale projects from below.

Practically this is doing nothing to provide any relevant fix for the problem. What we should be doing is thinking about how we can fix the problem at scale, e.g. pressuring large IT companies to get real about the green image they like to peddle. (i.e. care more about news like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22167858 )
The wheels are in regular PyPI. They are uploaded by package maintainers. See for example here:
https://pypi.org/project/pandas/#files
Effectiveness of airport screening at detecting infected travellers
I'm not convinced that the stock market crashing (briefly, even) is inherently bad.
In the docker container you ARE the system python version. In fact many docker best practices would say that preferably only 1 application is running, and that would be your application.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19407847,

and from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075143
AWS S3+Athena Real-Time business analytics
Same here. There are tons of other languages to choose from if you don't like what makes Go unique. People seem obsessed with making all languages homogeneous rather than appreciating what makes them different.
Even in small areas we have CSMA (listen before talk) collisions in 2.4/5G bands that create high latency variance [1]. You can only have one transmitter per channel.

With Starlink there will be many ground-based transmitters that can't do CSMA (because they are directional). How many channels are available could depend on the dedicated bandwidth, but I have a hard time believing we won't see significant transmit collision issues.

[1] https://blog.parsecgaming.com/how-your-wifi-band-impacts-low...
Maybe it was just that I contacted the Rust programmer and suggested they might like to update their program :-)

(The changes were in the last month or two.)
Do they have access to purchase line items or only the overall transaction metadata?
A stylistically different example is One Central Park in Sydney [1], which appears to still be going strong. Although I don't know what the maintenance for it is like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Central_Park#Vertical_hang...
Drugs in Europe aren’t “cheap.” https://ihsmarkit.com/solutions/us-price-gouging-pharmaceuti...

> Based on our analysis of prices in regulated markets, the United States paid on average more than 50% that other developed markets.

Of course, that figure is before discounts:

> Hence, while US pharmaceutical reference prices are typically higher than most counterparts, it does not mean that the US also ultimately pays higher prices than other countries – a fine but important distinction.

But even taking the 50% figure at face value, that suggests we could cut our drug spending to German levels (from $1,200 per person per year to $800). That’s not the kind of huge delta you see when it comes to things like inpatient services (surgeries that cost 5-10x as much). It’s also not that much compared to the $5,000-6,000 more we spend on healthcare overall per person compared to Germany.
> Just because you can scrape the content legally does not mean you can also republish it on your own website.

Except IMDB copied all of its data by scraping publicly available data posted to Usenet back in the day. And they still rely on volunteer contributions. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb#History
To me the thing that bothered me most was that a mental health site (Psychologytoday.com) that I used to find a therapist was passing the information on my searches to Facebook, presumably to aid in targeted advertising.

Honestly, I think that health-related searches that are directly tied to a specific individual (especially without informed consent - I didn’t log in or receive any notice this was being done) should be covered by HIPPA just like any other personally identifiable health record.

The other weird one was the huge amount of data my bank was sending. 20+ requests per session. I have no idea why they would do that.
Output. Keep in mind that low-side deviation is anticipated and is a measure of containment success.

| day | date | deaths | cases |
|:--- | ------------:| ------------:| -------------:|
| 1 | Jan 29, 2020 | 154 | 7,091 |
| 2 | Jan 30, 2020 | 180 | 8,293 |
| 3 | Jan 31, 2020 | 211 | 9,700 |
| 4 | Feb 01, 2020 | 247 | 11,345 |
| 5 | Feb 02, 2020 | 288 | 13,269 |
| 6 | Feb 03, 2020 | 337 | 15,519 |
| 7 | Feb 04, 2020 | 395 | 18,152 |
| 8 | Feb 05, 2020 | 462 | 21,230 |
| 9 | Feb 06, 2020 | 540 | 24,830 |
| 10 | Feb 07, 2020 | 632 | 29,041 |
| 11 | Feb 08, 2020 | 739 | 33,967 |
| 12 | Feb 09, 2020 | 864 | 39,727 |
| 13 | Feb 10, 2020 | 1,011 | 46,465 |
| 14 | Feb 11, 2020 | 1,183 | 54,345 |

| day | date | deaths | cases |
|:--- | ------------:| ------------:| -------------:|
| 1 | Jan 29, 2020 | 154 | 7,091 |
| 8 | Feb 05, 2020 | 462 | 21,230 |
| 15 | Feb 12, 2020 | 1,383 | 63,561 |
| 22 | Feb 19, 2020 | 4,143 | 190,297 |
| 29 | Feb 26, 2020 | 12,403 | 569,731 |
| 36 | Mar 04, 2020 | 37,135 | 1,705,718 |
| 43 | Mar 11, 2020 | 111,181 | 5,106,750 |
| 50 | Mar 18, 2020 | 332,865 | 15,289,096 |
| 57 | Mar 25, 2020 | 996,564 | 45,774,017 |
| 64 | Apr 01, 2020 | 2,983,613 | 137,042,800 |
| 71 | Apr 08, 2020 | 8,932,639 | 410,292,352 |
| 78 | Apr 15, 2020 | 26,743,422 | 1,228,374,011 |
| 85 | Apr 22, 2020 | 80,067,114 | 3,677,628,161 |
| 92 | Apr 29, 2020 | 239,712,883 | 11,010,448,584 |
| 99 | May 06, 2020 | 717,676,247 | 32,964,174,931 |
Are you a doctor...and is he your patient?
> Politicians, both left and right, look at me like I'm from Mars when I propose this. Those on the left think high drug costs are all about greed and not our broken system, and those on the right have unwavering faith that "free" markets will always solve everything.

Do you think they actually believe any of this nonsense? I would have assumed the rehearsed political phrasing is just the public veneer over something to the effect of "and if I endorse this, X lobby group(s) will steer Y amount of PAC funding to my primary opponent and eat me alive".
Exploratory Infrastructure Projects
>"Hundreds of cities and dozens of countries, fine for living but previously entirely unsuitable for a place of business, will blink from red to green on the map once Starlink goes live."

this reads like a marketing piece rather than actual analysis. Throughput of a single satellite is 20Gbps. The finished constellation if I recall correctly is supposed to be about 12k satellites. So about ~250.000Gbps. So assuming you offer everyone a 100MB/s connection, that's... one city? And that doesn't account for transmission between the satellites or satellites not in range and so on, and the fact that those satellites are short-lived and need to be replaced.

How is this supposed to be economical or scale compared to regular terrestrial networks?

And one point on the social impact. We have heard this idea that you just need to 'connect people' over the internet to somehow give every disadvantaged place economic opportunity for decades now. This isn't how the real world works. Everyone still runs to California/their national equivalent You can count the areas where the VC money goes on one hand. Putting a satellite in the sky over Siberia isn't going to upend the social realities of geography.
Huh, that's my thread; didn't realize Hadley had commented on it. (also that thread is a reminder why I don't talk about tidyverse on HN anymore)
Excellent! Really nice app. Now I understand it a lot better.
Note that there's often an additional cost charged on the email provider's side to use custom DNS.
What a horrible heading that is not accurate. Lost steam? It's over 9K at the moment... Criminals still use USD, whats the point?
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That page says it's about drugs withdrawn for safety concerns. That's different from the typical complaint, which is efficacy trials that are overly expensive.
This is the purpose of something like PiHole.

While an ad-blocker will only work on devices that can install one, a PiHole will drop traffic you don't want regardless of the device requesting it.

Very useful, and no subscription needed.

Is that not sufficient for what you need?
This article prompted me to clean up my playlists, which have been 'append only' for quite a few years, and wow. What a disaster.

First: swipe-from-right doesn't reveal a red delete button, like you'd expect. So I hit the search engine, discover you have to long-press to delete. Annoying, but okay, progress.

Now, there are some albums on my Playlist page. Which is weird, and I don't remember putting them there. But when I long-press those albums, it gives me "Add to a Playlist..", which is... weird, can you add a playlist to a playlist? Anyway, there's a "Remove.." as well, let's try that.

The option screen lets me Remove Downloads or Delete from Library. I try Remove Downloads, since this is an album I put in iTunes myself and I don't want to lose it.

This... removes the album from my phone. And keeps the Playlist. There seems to be no way to remove the playlist, and keep the album.

That is, of course, what I want to do. It's an album! It doesn't need to be a playlist!! When I want it, I go to Artists or Albums!!!

This is madness. Does anyone at Apple actually use their own software?
Unless you mean a village with just two houses, typical villages are covered by cellular networks just fine. Starlink looks like a system for people in deserts or people in third world where LTE doesn't exist. Not sure if this is big enough market.
I meant partnerships in broad sense, not in USA classification of entities sense. In that sense, corporations are limited-liability partnerships.
As is often the case, the most obvious target for optimization (the computer, 1-2W) has already hit diminishing returns. Their biggest energy hog is the router (10W), which they aren't running on solar.
The entire point of organizational transparency is to prevent organizations from trampling the rights of individuals, so in cases where organizational transparency would trample the rights of individuals, the rights of individuals supersedes the need for organizational transparency.
What about https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc? It provides a glibc apk for Alpine. The miniconda Dockerfile makes use of this before continuing to install miniconda. https://github.com/ContinuumIO/docker-images/blob/master/min.... Would this solve all of the issues raised in the article?
> .. nothing wrong with what followed?

Nope.

> Why did you just quote the beginning

Because the rest can be extrapolated from it.

> We are on Hacker News please

So? Just because we happen to be on Y Combinator's corporate propaganda machine doesn't mean I'm any more compelled to respond to things about which I care not.
Ubuntu Touch on the Pinephone
I just tested if timestamps are factored in, and I was wrong. According to the documentation:

https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/dockerfile_be...

> For the ADD and COPY instructions, the contents of the file(s) in the image are examined and a checksum is calculated for each file. The last-modified and last-accessed times of the file(s) are not considered in these checksums. During the cache lookup, the checksum is compared against the checksum in the existing images. If anything has changed in the file(s), such as the contents and metadata, then the cache is invalidated.
The gig economy: it won’t replace traditional employment
This page layout is messed up. Too wide for my window, and somehow it defeats horizontal scrollbar. Things are cut off along both the left and right sides, and there's no way (short of making the window bigger) to see them.

(xwininfo says my Chrome window is 1114 pixels wide.)
Photocheck: Grammar and Spell Checker
https://tn.com.ar/policiales/de-un-dni-mal-cargado-una-cara-...

and

https://www.nueva-ciudad.com.ar/notas/201905/40692-los-error...
Which is 100% misleading, and strips all accountability from the predictor. Show us your prediction and the difference between the actual and predicted results to see how well you did.

Stop moving the goalposts too. Make the prediction for all days in the future once, and don't change it based on the current numbers.
My understanding is that Netflix just pays a fixed, pre-agreed amount up front (either paying a licensing fee for existing content, or funding the production of their own Netflix originals). If lots of people view a show, Netflix takes that data into account when deciding whether or not to renew the the licensing contract (in the case of existing shows) or order a new season (in the case of Netflix's original productions).

Because Netflix pays for their content up front, they have to take a bit of a gamble. (Maybe they spend a bunch of money for a new Coen Brothers film, but nobody watches it, so they take a loss on that project. Or, as was the case in 2008, maybe TV networks grossly under-estimate the value of their catalog of old shows, so Netflix gets to pay peanuts for the content that serves as the bread and butter.)
The web and its ecosystem are huge. The browser is essentially the new OS and no matter how complex and quirky js, react and the rest of the tools are, we're gonna stick with them for a long time. Big technological advances like PWA's, WASM and rendering engines like servo and webrender are only gonna shorten the gap between native and web UI experiences. Look at what happened to the desktop. Native UI development became a niche and even apps like photoshop are now just websites(figma) or electron apps. This is eventually gonna happen to mobile development as well. There will be no need to create native apps for most cases and no need to use those centralized app stores to "install" apps on your device.

That being said the web is not quite there yet and that's why solutions like react-native and flutter exist. I don't believe that react-native is the future. Many people have explained in great detail why the idea and the execution behind RN are just flawed and why it makes development hard and complex. Heck, it doesn't even eliminate the need for native developers. React-native is just a transitional tech we'll use until the web and PWA's become good enough for 95% of the cases. The future of RN is the Web.

On the other hand, flutter and dart seem to solve all of the problems we have with UI development. It's an amazing tech that combines all the best ideas from QT, flash, java swing, delphi and react-redux in one project that is completely free and open source. It's what we've always dreamed existed in the UI world. The development experience is great and designers seem to love it as well. Despite its advantages, flutter is still a huge bet and i can't see a world where everybody writes in Dart.

If I had to make a guess, I'm still betting on the web in the long run and hope flutter captures a small market share among frustrated mobile/web devs and designers. I just can't see react-native anywhere in between.
K3c – a lightweight docker alternative from the inventor of Rancher
It's actually not too bad. You don't even have to put those native code as a separate plugin. You can simply add the native code directly to the generated ios/android project like you do a native app.
Microsoft has been building Word on Windows since the 80's, so it's never going to be re-written. I'm not that familiar with the Mac version of Word, but I find the Mac Excel version lacking compared to its Windows counterpart.

For Word and Excel for iOS and Android they use... React Native [1].

[1] https://blog.appfigures.com/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-react-n...
I have a Kobo Forma and it comes quite close to ideal for me at least.
"Positive right" is just political marketing for privileges. Universality is implicit in the notion of rights, e.g. treatment that every human has a valid claim not to be subjected to and which must be observed in order to have a civil, liberal society. The enumeration of specific protections may have to change with technology, but the underlying principles do not short of radical psychological/physiological alteration as a species. If we abandon that concept then rights have no meaning, they're just a list of popular demands which can shift arbitrarily, and including privileges does just that.

It's obvious why people are in favor of them of course, but we have to be honest about what it is we're asking for and why instead so we can make a rational analysis of it, instead of torturing the intellectual and moral foundations of our culture to make something outside of it fit. And it's foolish not to be suspicious that politicians' incentives have basically everything to do with making promises that get votes, and basically nothing to do with actually making the system work long-term.
Turns out Warren Buffett won’t be the billionaire who saves newspapers either
We actually do nab people who break the law in countries we can’t extradite from. People identified working in APT (advanced persistent threat) groups get labeled and watched, then grabbed when they travel to a country where the USA or affiliated can extradite.

It normally happens when they go somewhere warm for a vacation.
> Their hardware was compelling enough that people just suffered through their software because they had to.

I couldn’t disagree more. Apple, from my understanding, is famously successful because they make both great hardware and great software. It’s the combination of both that made their hardware products sell like hot cakes. It’s the reason that year after year people keep complaining about the “Apple tax” on comparably-specced hardware. Customers don’t care because they want Apple software on their machines. Their operating systems are well optimized and user friendly. Their core apps range from decent to really great (presumably because the teams working on them are highly independent). Many of their core apps don’t even need third party replacements because they do everything you’ll ever need them to do. I just don’t see the argument for their software being consistently bad. Are there also bad examples? Yup. But I would pick Apple over Microsoft for consumer software any day of the week despite the former being “a hardware company” and the latter being “a software company”.