skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early Transmission Dynamics of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia
There's an interesting history of one-way content delivery by satellite. Although info on the service is now sparse, since at least 1995 PageSat was delivering a constant feed of Usenet updates via satellite broadcast as a means for smaller ISPs and BBS operators to avoid the (at the time) substantial bandwidth required to receive NNTP - I once worked in a rural university IT operation that no longer used the service but still had the hardware lying around. This sparked an interest in the broader ways that content has been delivered by satellite, predating the practicality of two-way VSATs. A prime example is the use of IP-over-MPEG to deliver the downlink side of a consumer internet connection via satellite television broadcast, while the uplink uses dial-up or ADSL. This arrangement is unusual in the US today but still in use occasionally.

On the other hand, there are still organizations trying to use the same "broadcast internet" model. Cidera nèe SkyCache flopped on using satellite broadcast to deliver content to edge CDN nodes in the early 2000s, and Outernet is currently flopping (minor opinion inserted there) on delivering educational content using a similar model.

This is viable in certain niches. The broadcast industry, for example, makes use of similar systems with the Public Radio Satellite System (affiliated with NPR) using one-way UDP broadcast to deliver live events and recorded syndicated programs to member stations. This has the upside of lower and latency and much lower jitter compared to the internet but the margin of superiority over conventional internet delivery is getting narrower by the day.

On a slightly related tangent, the general nature of the design of satellite data relay (with spot antennas covering relatively broad areas of the planet) means that the downlink channel of any satellite internet customer can generally be received over a wide area, even if they are using a modern two-way VSAT. With reasonable encryption this doesn't pose much of a problem, but some satellite ISPs, particularly in the developing world, continue to make use of unencrypted IP-over-MPEG for their downlink. This allows a malicious eavesdropper anywhere in the region to receive the traffic one direction, which has the extremely important implication that it allows them to hijack TCP sessions by intercepting sequence numbers - this enables IP spoofing over TCP, something that is generally regarded as impossible. This is sufficiently reliable that it has been used as part of the C2 infrastructure in botnets. I have a research paper on this somewhere.
> (Maybe the junk food and video games examples are different, since some foods and games are deliberately addictive.)

Yes and no. I'm not sure who and where sells true junk food; the usual culprit - McD, KFC - sell food that's unhealthy in the long run, but it's also cheap, tasty and quick to get, making it desirable in many different situation.

(Also, frankly, I think McDonald's may be better for you than equivalents from a "normal" restaurant. Large fast food chains are ridiculously optimized, but they have standards to meet and an individual location doesn't have the freedom to screw with it. Meanwhile in a random restaurant, I always have to worry how cheap they get with the ingredients and their process, and whether e.g. the meat I'm getting was actually grilled, or was just microwaved and then decorated with grill marks. I don't know anyone currently working on the "back end" of a typical restaurant, but from second-hand reports I keep hearing, I'm not reassured about quality.)

And "videogames" as a product category is too broad for this consideration. On one end of the spectrum you have beautiful, engaging videogames designed by passionate creators who absolutely build what they'd like to play. On the other end, you have the bottom-feeding Zynga-like garbage that's essentially gambling in disguise, designed from grounds-up to screw players over.
i am a well-paid contractor who disagrees
I have the incessant internal monologue the author describes, but it runs much more quickly than I could verbalize it.
As they cannibalize or threaten small businesses[1], treat their employees poorly[2][3], and encourage/allow Chinese counterfeit products[4][5].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/16/popsock...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-describe-pe...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/02/revealed-...

[4] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/14/how-ama...

[5] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/amazo...
Then there would be a loophole where you make an independent entity that “makes” something that shields infinite liability. It makes sense to go after all beneficiary owners and parties.
Whoa, you just made me realize that my internal voice sounds like a typical Californian evening news TV broadcaster type person. Cool!
They didn't tell their colleagues to do that, they made a slightly humorous comment on a hacker news thread.
GAO forecasts JWST will have further launch delay to 2021, cost overruns
> By the standards of 2007 PHP this is good code

By the standards of early 2004 (when Facebook was originally written) this is still mediocre PHP. People who cared about writing good PHP were reading magazines like this (2003):

https://www.phparch.com/magazine/2003-2/june/

and having discussions like this (2004):

https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/to-hopefully-clear-up-...

They knew global variables and hundreds of lines of top-level code were bad PHP, they just didn't know yet that trying to ape Java wasn't good PHP. If I remember correctly, DHH came out of this period: he got so sick of enterprisey PHP that he jumped ship to Ruby and wrote Rails. That was 2005.

Fair enough that Facebook hadn't done a major rewrite by 2007, but still: not good code.
How to find new music:

1. Track listening on last.fm (or similar social equivalent)

2. Find people who like similar things.

3. See what they listen to

4. Profit.
Losing the inbound routes functionality completes wrecks my use-case for mailgun. I've been using it as a way to have business emails come through a custom domain and then routed to personal email addresses. It actually works well enough as with personal email you can respond "as" the custom domain. I have a tiny startup with a few users that I use the routing to move incoming email to also their own personal addresses. Sure it's simple, but it's far cheaper than getting GSuite. If anyone has any advice for my situation, I could love to hear it.
or universal basic income...
Suppression is part of the point. Stuka dive bombers didn't have their 'Jericho Sirens' attached for no reason, despite their disadvantages.
I agree. The post is _very_ low effort, but at least the discussion here has been somewhat interesting. I've picked up a few new sources.
> lowering the barrier to entry

That's the opposite of a good thing.

> When I just need to Get Shit Done, Ansible is awesome.

"just" is the keyword. "just" instead of caring about long term maintainability and security
Yeah. It literally says right below that portion you pasted that several authors dispute that claim based on declassified reports of the recovered weapon:

They point out that:

- "the arm-ready switch was in the safe position, the high-voltage battery was not activated (which would preclude the charging of the firing circuit and neutron generator necessary for detonation)"

- "the Rotary Safing Switch was destroyed, preventing energisation of the X-Unit (which controlled the firing capacitors)"

- "The tritium reservoir used for fusion boosting was also full and had not been injected into the weapon primary. This would have resulted in a significantly reduced primary yield and would not have ignited the weapon's fusion secondary stage"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash#Late...
fast color film isn't my cup of tea, but I have shot Delta 3200 (in 120 format, 6x7 and 6x4.5) at exposures closer to 6400, and have gotten some great images. (developed in 24c Xtol.)
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I've found spelling and grammar errors after very common, even among "smart" people.

I think it's just a matter of what you've focused on in your life, purposely or not.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12848.htm

> The objectives as mandated by the Congress in the Federal Reserve Act are promoting (1) maximum employment, which means all Americans that want to work are gainfully employed, and (2) stable prices for the goods and services we all purchase

The qualifier "want" is a distraction, as everyone "wants" to work if that's what it takes to have a reliable bed to sleep in.

Furthermore, "stable" prices are untenable in the face of technological progress that makes everything less expensive. In order for the CPI average to keep going up, the price of housing has to shoot through the roof.

edit: Try drawing out the basic feedback loop. The Fed acts by creating new money. It doesn't simply give this money away to everyone (which would cause across the board price inflation), but it can only be accessed by taking on loans. Anything that can be financialized becomes awash in this new money - housing, cars, education. Consumers then have to settle for paying interest payments (rent) on sky-high asset valuations, rather than having smaller loans that can be paid off early to achieve economic bargaining power.
Wow, thanks, that seems to be it! Edit: doesn't seem to be actually maintained, though. Very noticeable and quite easy to fix bugs as old as 2017 still persist. But I'll surely try it anyway.
Well the only solution is a ballot initiative to repeal prop 13. That will change things.
But 5G is not meant for in house consumption. It is meant for crowded spaces like train stations, supermarkets to offload other bands. Then you get micro cells installed indoors inside of supermarkets. (what I mean by supermarket means mall and all those kind of shopping centers)

It is meant also for all kinds of smart sensors in area, but not like home sensors but utilities. We have that with LoRa, but it is really small data amounts, where 5G would be used for sensors that need more data, like smart traffic lights? Then you won't have to connect your old traffic lights to some cable network and they would get good connection capabilities.

Right now 4G is not used everywhere, in less dense areas you only get 3G. Of course providers will install base stations for 5G in places where it is economically possible. Places that have 3G now are not getting 5G anytime soon. It is also understandable that 900MHz is better for longer range than 1800MHz.
This isn't so hard to understand if you've ever meditated. It becomes clearer that the internal monologue is a process that just runs on its own almost endlessly, and the feeling that we control it is mostly just an illusion. You can test this for yourself by trying to find out what your next thought is going to be. You never know until you have it, which indicates that the process is spontaneous and involuntary. I have ADHD and possibly some mild form of OCD so for me a big portion of the mind chatter is just counterproductive noise, and the only (healthy) freedom is meditation. I envy people who have no internal monologue, although they probably get the same noise just in a more abstract way.

There must be a language/hearing center in the brain that's being activated for some people and not activated for others. When I'm consciously having an internal dialogue, sometimes my tongue is lightly flickering around in my mouth as if I'm actually talking!
Fed to pare back 'Volcker rule' to expand bank investment in venture capital,ect
Don't worry with age your brain will deaden. My mind raced, I learned somewhat how to chill it right out, and now it flat-lines far too much.
I prefer to think of it as "perfectly coded" projects have 0 commercial value until someone figures out a customer for it.
Having microservices means you can have 20 CI/CD pipelines that don't work instead of just 1.
«assume that when a case is confirmed the death or cured status is also determined at that moment»

This is why epidemiologists (ref: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ebf2/48c9fc0a1a23d1778b9408... or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22195827 for my comment on the paper) prefer instead this formula which only counts patients for which the eventual outcome is already known:

deaths / (deaths + recoveries)

With this formula, there is no need to guess the "patient timeline". If you do the math right now for the largest case study known to date (published yesterday: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... covering 99 patients, 11 dead, 31 recovered) you get:

11 / (11 + 31) = 26% case fatality rate

If you do the math on ALL data from mainland China (170 deads, 124 recovered as of 2020-01-29 http://www.nhc.gov.cn/xcs/yqtb/202001/e71bd2e7a0824ca69f87bb... or in english: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%932...), you get:

170 / (170 + 124) = 58% case fatality rate

This formula gives a pretty good estimate of the eventual observed CFR according to the paper I referenced above. Of course, there are caveats, for one deaths or recoveries may not be properly tracked: there could be many patients with mild cases that are not even detected/confirmed and end up recovering on their own.

PS: I am not stating the lower bound CFR is 26%! Another method I applied (described in twitter thread https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1222427708723879936) suggest it could be as low as 9%.
A lot of my clients fit this. What I’ve done to “solve” it for us, is to stop charging for hosting and “services” each month and realistically price it in to the initial contract. A lot of our projects are between £5k and £20k. I don’t want to be raising invoices for £20 or £30 per month. Their corporate finance department doesn't want to be processing small amounts each month either. All these projects have limited lifespan - 1 year or 2 or most. It makes sense for all involved to just price it in early. They like it, I like it. Sometimes projects run longer, sometimes they run short, on aggregate, it seems to work for us and them. Yes, if something goes nuts and costs thousands a month, that’s a conversation you want to have quickly, but in that scenario, the traffic they are getting is leading a different conversation anyway. YMMV.
I suspect American English, but I suppose we could look it up.
And I never experience dreams with that kind of visual detail. Occasionally I dream a dream that leaves an impression of being very realistic, but even those don't have any visual details to the point where I could read letters.

My waking ability to visualize is poor too. I have a very vague mental picture of what my wife's face looks like, and I cannot see it all at once. Nor can I visualize an entire chessboard in my head, despite being able to play chess blindfold well enough to beat novices.
So, not working with any insider knowledge (I work for Red Hat, but reading the news like everyone else), but the other news is that Jim Whitehurst is going to be the IBM President. Hopefully a big push in keeping Red Hat's culture relevant and influencing IBM to transform.
Military spending is the Republicans’ wellfare. Or something.

While it might sound a tad simplistic, I can’t but see some truth in it.

This is also a classic: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/12/18/congress-agai... (2014)
3.3 b earnings in a quarter. Most of which is from cloud I believe? They don't break down.

Shopping- Walmart is catching up (but will probably not beat. It's a lossy business for Amazon I believe and as people realize the counterfeit problem the business goes down )

Cloud- MS will beat them in 3 years (which doesn't mean they will lose customers but growth will slow down )

Other areas they have tough competition.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's a stock bought by faithful.
I think it was just a matter of time till TF would get superseded by PyTorch. The only reason we kept TF on prod is the java api which allowed us to quickly load and serve TF models. I spent so many sleepless nights trying to port Torch model to TF back in the days and make it work the same as Lua based prototype. Whole TF "experience" made us switch to plain Python services model throwing away all the boilerplate Scala/Java code for TF. It doesn't happen often in tech that a better engineered product gets more traction and recognition eventually and I am glad that PyTorch did.
One way to avoid this is to have the microservices to publish data changes to some other (monolith) system, like an MQ system with a specified scheme for the payload.

On the other hand, the notion that “microservices == completely independent of everything else” is an unrealistic one to hold.
I can't believe on this page "Users" exists. What happened to Apple's brand language? "Now you can" would make more sense to the reader.
> In my personal experience, Docker images (and docker-compose orchestrations) are more pervasive than Ansible playbooks and when it comes to self-hosting for personal use, hosting all my services in Docker has made it much easier to deploy/maintain them

Are you building every container your self? I hope so: https://blog.banyansecurity.io/blog/over-30-of-official-imag...
I can't speak for IBM specifically but typically the CEO is the face of the company to the public and makes macro decisions while the president is the face of the company to the employees and makes more micro decisions.
I run a gitlab for around 30 users and that’s around what I use on AWS to send my emails. It’s a bunch. Rarely do I send emails on weekends so it’s like 20 days a month I send emails just for merge requests and stuff.
I think your thoughts are right. I think once we have good neural interfaces, interpersonal communication will become much, much faster for some people. Both linguistic and non-linguistic (symbolic, abstract, etc.).

I think there will be certain superusers who start using them from a very young age and will be able to communicate and transform information with incredible density and clarity. I'm not totally sure how useful that'd actually be for conversing or teaching, but for writing, programming, and creating art, I bet it'll be very significant.
Not if this Coronavirus is asymptomatic for two weeks. These are still China claims and the west is still suspicious. But if this is true then holy cows.
I thought this was an interesting take on intellectual property/patents i.e. “gongkai”:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
are the SDE's also pulling crazy hours?
Huh ... it's a cheaper way to get into the Haken Eaganmatrix too, vs $3500 for a half-size Continuum. That's a really trippy synth and given what the Continuum needs, a great choice for the Osmose
Tunisia but as you can see the list of supported countries is short for directions (compared to standard )
https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#maps-directi...
"Tiers" imply some sort of vertical partitioning. These "non-micro" services may coexist on a layer, transcend boundaries, overlap, etc.

In any case, there's already such a term. It's called SOA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture. Microservices arguably evolved out of this.
We don't know.

We don't know how many people are infected. We only have numbers of confirmed cases and those numbers are heavily skewed because 1) people don't know they are sick 2) stay at home or 3) are not diagnosed properly. Those diagnosed in China are probably severe cases with a multiple not being diagnosed. Also, it is unclear how good the reporting is.

We don't know how many of those who are infected will die and how many will recover. We only know of deaths of confirmed patients in the hospital. Of roughly 10000 confirmed cases 200 are dead, 200 are recovered and 9600 are yet to be determined. From that you could deduce 2% or 50%, less than 2% or more than 50% or anything else. Right now we don't have good data. Also we don't know how long it takes to die or to recover and on most patients we will probably lose track.

Since the infection takes about 2 weeks, we have to wait a few weeks until the smoke starts clearing.
> "no jail time and you have to sell your third and fourth house to pay the fine"

I might be too cynical, but I half-expect the company to have insurance to cover it.
YMMV, but I find cannabis consumption requires that _pretty much every subsequent action_ be done at a conscious level for the duration of its effects. Reading, coding, speaking, typing, etc. This can occasionally yield interesting results by forcing you to think through minute aspects of everyday things - and sometimes by extension craft questions you might not normally think to ask - but at least for me it seems to disable the majority of unconscious "muscle memory" systems. "hardware acceleration" is a perfect phrase to describe them though!
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I suspect there is some truth to this. But I wonder how much of that effort could be directed to more useful infrastructure projects and still maintain skills.

The other issue is that some fraction of defense spending seemingly can be viewed as funneling public money into a get-your-friends-rich scheme. I don't think you can find much net upside to that aspect.
Well, it's debatable if that is "solving" the problem or just hiding or mitigating it.
Just this afternoon I saw a post on a photography site where someone is worried about cancellation of events he wants to photograph due to Coronavirus, in September and October.
Why should Apple give away their improvements?

I’m genuinely curious why you think they should do this.
Mailgun does not owe you or anyone a free tier.

Start charging your clients money to cover costs that comes with their business.
That is nice. I can't conjure an image like that at all. Also, seeing a graphic image doesn't stick with me very long since I don't keep seeing it like a lot of people apparently do. People with aphantasia would probably do better moderating images than those without. Still not great, though, because while I can't see the image again I would still remember the circumstances involved.
It's helpful for simulating different thoughts and feelings from different viewpoints in real or imagined scenarios. It doesn't grant super-empathic powers of comforting, or mirroring feelings in the moment. Moreso it hinders my ability to mirror emotions because I'm dont live "in the moment" as much.
in fact, you can get black and white film (Adox CMS 20 II) that will out-resolve just about any lens you can get (800 lp/mm) unfortunately, its really hard to shoot and develop.
Oh, well. Shouldn't you be citing me into silence, then? This mere unsupported assertion ill befits a man of science, after all.
Interesting. I have very little mental visualization and find ignoring TVs to be extremely difficult. I had thought it was because I grew up in a house that did not have a TV on very often.
Have you tried Sendgrid Inbound Parse [1] + ActionMailbox (in Rails) [2]?

[1] https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/parsing-email/setti...

[2] https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailbox_basics.htm...

I'm building a security case management tool [1] where users can generate inbound addresses in the UI, and then I create a case for any emails sent to a generated inbound address. I'm using the two tools above for this.

[1] https://truepositive.app
Also ADHD and experience the world in a similar but slightly different way. All my narratives are about potential immediate futures and how they might tweak the longer term outcomes. It's interesting but insanely draining and often depressing. Since I've noticed this about my self I've been intentionally trying to take steps to slow my thoughts and be in the moment, but when I do I'm constituently thinking about how doing that will effect my future self, lol. Still, I think I've found that intentionally trying to take moments has been helpful and beneficial
AFAIK yes. For AMZN deadline is everything, no one cares how you get there.