skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking from experience, it is much, much, much more feasible to reach the burning point of wood or the melting point of plastic in a datacenter than the melting point of the metals used in server construction.

One of the jobs of the case is to contain a fire if it starts. A plastic case wouldn't do this, and a wood case would actively be hazardous.
> Further, 2 days ago some numbers out of China stated that up to 14% of previously infected became infected again.

The numbers weren't that 14% became infected again. They were that 14% were found to still have the virus after being declared recovered. Many are speculating this doesn't mean reinfection, but could be an indicator that the tests have a higher false-negative rate than previously believed, or that people's bodies purge the virus in spurts as recovery takes place.
The difference is, we are not shy about "protecting" our companies interests with the full force of our military and central banks in the US.
Ask HN: GitHub API had downtime 4 times in last 9 days?
GitHub is usually rock solid but their API has had downtime 4 times in last 9 days. See for yourself: https://www.githubstatus.com/ (Feb 19, 20, 25, 27)

Is this coincidence or something systemic is happening?
> Most states have non-partisan elections for Judges, only 18 allow then to run with a political party.

So: In 18 US states, the courts are entirely captured by party politics, but in the other states there's at least thin pretence that this isn't the case? Hooray for US justice. /s

Also when you say "Federal judges are appointed" you forgot to say "By politicians". Unsurprisingly the British system doesn't let politicians (who will be judged like anyone else) pick the judges, it has independent Commissions† for this purpose, just as it does for deciding electoral boundaries.

And that's how the US went many months without a functioning Supreme Court, so that a political party could ensure their party preference overrode any other consideration, and today the Trump administration basically just dictates to its five tame Justices what the US Constitution "really" always meant which just coincidentally is whatever Trump wants it to mean today. Nice "justice" you've got there, hope your life is never on the line.

† The JAC (which picks most judges including this one) is a mix of existing judges, independent lay people and non-judge lawyers or law experts. It was told to pick people on merit, but only those with "good character" and that it should try to reflect Britain's diversity (so e.g. not replace all the old white male judges with more old white male judges). It appears to work pretty well.
Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers
>These two issues have been relevant for over 20 years, older than today's college grads...

My very 1st reaction - wow it's 2020 already and the issue is still hot. And the truth is that they are quite common in practice.
I mean, from the matter of internal security... Its pretty obvious this is putting a big load on their health care systems. Quarantine is a measure to attempt to stop/forestall unrest
Well to be fair it would be quite imprudent to have a file system where everyone can see what everyone is doing.

In particular it's pointless to be able to circumvent censorship if you can't do so anonymously.
GitHub Down Again
Yes. Edited to clarify.
Silicon Valley’s Spandexed Biker Bros Are Going Extinct
Best-Performing Cities 2020: Where America’s Jobs Are Created and Sustained
I imagine it would be useful for some information. Crop reports etc for helping predict market fluctuations. All aqueducts lead to the city after all! Where the markets are.

Anyway its nearly free, and the infrastructure was always in place. I'm just surprised it didn't get used.
G4S being a private company working for government increase their profits by providing the services that the government are willing to pay them for. If they're not incentivized to do the right thing then that's down to the government asking for the wrong thing. In this case, they're incentivized to keep the public safe - which is what they are doing.
Thanks for the link! He says that there have been door to door testing of temperatures, and I'd nitpick by saying that's not quite the same thing as testing everyone for the virus, but it is better coverage than I had realised.
Yep, it actually takes decades to lower the immune system: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870374/ .
Once the beds are all occupied it doesn't matter how many a country has.
Yes, or a specific HLA type that is more prevalent in the population.
Collecting data from those processes is arguably easier done with Wi-Fi
To me the Google Maps and Earth might be the most impressive piece of software in existence. To see it working on standard web technology on competing browsers is awesome.
Building a Blazing Fast Object-to-Object Mapper in C# with .NET Core 3.1
Could not much the same effect have been achieved by pulling on a piece of string?
In Brazil they usually restrict the flu vaccine to just risk groups at the start of the vaccination campaign, but after that they open it up for everyone if there is still leftover stock.
Several years ago the Abe government "suggested" corporations issue dividends at about 30% of their profits.

Now: nearly all corporations pay dividends at about 30% of profits as policy.

Japan may not be reactive or proactive, but it does voluntary unity pretty well.
“There used to be websites that only worked on IE, well there still might be”

Work in a large corporation and you will see plenty of these.
When I hire a decorator I ask them to paint a wall a specific colour, but I don't get to pick which paint brushes he uses. If you tell a security firm to keep them public safe, you let them make the judgement of what is safe.
"If you looked at that table and went like "Oh, just 0.2% for me, great! No need to worry!" you are a terrible person."

Or, with a bit more empathy, they just haven't put it in the right context yet.

Any death from this is unfortunate, but many things can kill you and many people have accepted a low mortality percentage for lots of things. They may just initially perceive that smallish number as another one among many (e.g. the normal flu, biking). It may be a big number compared to other stuff, but it looks small and I can see how people might be dismissive. That doesn't make them terrible people, they just don't (yet?) have the perspective that you do.
I have a feeling that the authors of this map is biased an uninformed. I'm sure you gathered up the expert historians from each of these countries to identify the oldest business, then this map will look very different.
A Common OpenGL Renderer for UWP and Win32 Using Angle and Win.UI.Composition
Agree but they may also be constantly reinfected.
Citing individual deaths is sort of meaningless without an idea of how many people are sick. I suspect it’s in the many thousands in Iran already.
Why do smart companies and orgs make stupid mistakes?
Surprised! I worry about unintended consequences. During an epidemic, officials visit every home! Potentially spreading the virus unintentionally thru healthcare personnel. Don't know if I'd open the door to somebody who admits having visited thousands of people before getting to me...
Plague Inc. pulled from Chinese App Store over 'illegal' content
While I agree about String. EscapedString is conflating rendering/output with data model which is the core of the issue. Application developers should not care to touch escaping, nor text rendering on their right own for formats like xml, json, sql, etc.

There should not be xml build by concatenation, instead use DOM + proper render/transformer/write. Same for SQL, prepared statements + bindings...
> Why the negativity? Why the "OH FUCK YOU - FUCK YOU, IT EXISTS (author words)" tone

I can think of plenty of reasons, but they pretty much all boil down to, "Because that gets you bigger numbers next to the little heart icons."
It's not straightforward at all but it's better than it was five years ago ... you can use something more "meta" like SymmetricDS (https://www.symmetricds.org/). I haven't used it personally but a dirt simple way to get an HA, scalable PostgreSQL instance would be to use Amazon's Aurora DB.
hmm makes sense, thank you!
They're probably experimenting with their own apps as well as feeling out the market in terms of costing. Plus its "a bandwagon to jump on". They might jump off when they are ready however.

Another aspect is their scale. A small business can feel a delivery app taking out a few dollars. A bigger one might be using it as a cost that might only last a few years and seen as "research" to be recovered later.

Both can use these strategies however. The smaller businesses converting people to call direct might end up with their own apps and deliveries etc. A lot where I am are actively doing this. UberEats had them but I've noticed a few are setting up their own deliveries now. Others are keeping their options open.
I would wager that it's fairly common for people to be ordering Uber Eats to be making >$20/hr. So it's worth a $10 delivery fee just for the time, not to mention having to put on outerwear, brave the weather, etc.
I wish there was statistics available on mortality for people taking immunosuppressants (secondary immunosuppression).
The article doesn't mention IPNS at all, nor does it talk about the need for mutating an image while it is being shared, so I'm not sure why you think IPNS is even desirable in this use-case?
Tech Leadership: The Work Is Not the Work
What's been incompetent about the UK pandemic response?
Seems like a pretty strong overreaction. The flu leads to about half a million hospitalizations in the US each year, while COVID-19 has lead to dozens. So your team is thousands of times more likely to transmit the flu then COVID-19 - even if COVID-19 is 50x more dangerous, it is far more likely that your team will cause hospitalizations due to the flu. I don't see why anyone should be taking precautions for COVID-19 that they weren't already taking for the flu if they are in the US.
Good luck with that in the US, where school is often used as an alternative to childcare.
Asking the real questions right here.
They can jail you for a mistake, let alone a lie.
Do you accept that increasing the size of a local factory creates local jobs?

Why would an airport be any different? >50% of the employees are going to be ground crew, security agents, etc.
GitHub throws API errors 500
> sometimes

Well that settles it, I'm not moving to Minnesota
If you’re infected by a couple of individual viruses, it’ll take a while before it starts spreading throughout your body, which will have more time to prove an immune response. Compared to essentially bathing yourself in it for days at a time.
But "reasonable next step" isn't so obvious! Often one can toil away at their hard startup for years without a product with customers. The "reasonable next step" here would be to first build a related product in the space that doesn't yet solve the hard problem but helps establish your brand and revenue streams.
This is the aspect of the disease that is so interesting to me. With many diseases, like the flu, the most at risk are the elderly and the very young. But barely 1% of infections in China are children younger than 10, and 0 deaths.
> Of 461 cars, 27.98% yielded to pedestrians.

This is... pretty bad!
That’s the whole idea behind the term “identity theft”. They are too cheap to set up proper systems so let’s just move the problem to the customer.
Training a deep learning model for deepfake detection
World's smallest fiddle. I hope they get the ever living snot sued out of them so they understand they can't throw security to the four winds and just swim around in their profits. They were reckless and irresponsible in assembling that data and I have no doubt they were reckless and irresponsible in storing it.
This is currently about scooters so no license plates and you don't have to be a city bureaucrat to be concerned about scooters and where they are.
I'm sorry to say this but this is how business operates. When an engineer comes to his manager requesting a raise, they will think how likely the employee is to leave the company and how much they are willing to increase his salary to keep him there.

If he is on H1B he will be exploited because his bargaining power is low. If you are a citizen your leverage is much higher and you are more likely to seek more.

However, if your friend has not pushed for more, it is his fault. Sometimes, we must ask for more because honestly it is in our interest. Some businesses are better at giving raises to their top performers, others are hoping to save money because some employees will stick around anyway and maybe become lifers. If an employee delivers and negotiates aggressively during reviews, the employer knows this and might be more likely to give them annual raises. It is a game.
At least up until Gen8 you could use any drive; the bays came in standard dimensions and took my Western Digital drives without a problem. I don't see why that should have changed in the meantime.
My Ex-Boyfriend’s New Girlfriend Is Lady Gaga
I agree. PostGraphile needs to market itself though. They need a Dev Rel to make more people aware of it.
I think both Chrome and Safari have negative connections with memories of IE. For Safari it's the stagnation of IE6: installed everywhere but rarely updated with new features that other browsers have.

That's not so much of a problem on desktop because people can always install another browser, but on iOS you're literally not allowed to use any other browser engine.
That was the point, it's "ask" in the sense of "we're not really asking."
Link to the paper:

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/02/18/191722211...
I believe the company determined that diversity and inclusion issues are private by default - they used to be pubic.
The reasoning is that restaurants are using this money for advertising - either they pay to mail out fliers or they pay for listing in the online aggregator. It's a very similar model to paid ads in search engines.
afaik viral infections increase at an exponential rate. If the initial load is higher, the peak infection before your immune system can get things under control will be much higher/dangerous.

Ex: 3^10 v.s. 30^10
duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22427864
none, but the USB controller is expensive
When using my account. I research family sharing and it won't help in this case either, it would let you "transfer" the game but unless you go online. This was 1 year back and I did not research again but I think they did not fixed it to I can permanently transfer games to a family member.
> "Wuhan, almost everyone has been tested"

Very doubtful. This is a city of 11 million people. I doubt they would have the kits or lab capacity to test even 1% of the population so far.
> With an appointee you are stuck with their views for an unknown amount of time

If their views impact their judgement it will be overruled and they can be disbarred.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/15/constance-br...
I haven't tried this before but it reminds me of tachyons from what I'm reading in the comments
It’s a good analogy. It explains the word “ask” in this case means “requires”.
My point is not that input sanitization is a solution, but that parameterized database input is not the end of the issue, from a broader, whole-systems security point of view.

Many data types have some concept of well-formedness, and in those cases, there are pragmatic reasons for only accepting well-formed input that go even beyond the security aspect.
No, they cannot jail you for a mistake if in fact you honestly think you did everything right. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheek_v._United_States
For me it was;

- Lego

- Which led to Lego mechanics

- Which led to mechanical engineering

- Which led to manufacturing

- Which led to automation

- Which led to programming

It's a long but surprisingly common path I've found...
Early in my career I had this illusion that working only with senior devs would make everything better. But the first time this happened was not what I had expected. Every single bit of grunt work was engineered away. In theory that sounds like it might be nice, but rather than write a little repetitive but clear code, everything got a processor or an engine or something, and with some generic computer science name instead of using nouns and verbs from the domain. To figure out what a piece of code did, even generically, you had to decipher it to know what.

All of the code did something but none of the code said anything. It was horrible.

I very quickly embraced the notion that software wants a mix of developers of different skill levels, so that any task that must be done can find an author who will remain engaged, and not have to create baroque code to get themselves to do the work.
I find the niche answer to this fascinating. With kosher restaurants (captive audience) in my city:

1. They increase their prices on skipthedishes and friends, in order to account for the price difference.

2. They add a piece of paper to EVERY ORDER indicating that if you call or text your food would be 30% cheaper, which includes a flat $3 delivery fee, and no need to tip the driver.

3. Many of them run targeted sub-brands on these platforms, under 'regular' (re: non kosher) restaurants and do the exact same thing, thereby expanding their reach.
these are still no match for https://github.com/cyanharlow/purecss-francine
In terms of expressing the linguistic point being made, it seems like a fine analogy.

The point is, apparently, that "ask" is a euphemism for something that you are effectively obligated to do.

You're reading much too far into it.
I don't know of any studies looking specifically at smoking vs non-smoking, but its been highly speculated to be a strong risk factor. Apparently, there is a big gap in prevalence of smoking between men and women in China (close 50% for men, closer to 5% for women), which is thought to be at least partially an explanation for the differences in deaths (2/3rds of deaths were male, 1/3 were female).
Preprint paper of Iran infection estimates the number of infected around 18k. (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.24.20027375v...)
Is there a Python library as well?
I've been saying the same for at least a decade, e.g. in https://palant.de/2016/03/02/why-you-should-go-with-secure-b.... It's ridiculous that somebody still has to explain it.
HN already has a 'Github downtime' post as soon as I find Github weird and check HN if it's only me. How is everybody so fast? :-)
Part of what I'm doing is working on a CRUD backend.

The thing has a bunch of complex business and authorization rules. Not to mention a bunch of per-client customization. There's also some neat handling around versioning and copy-on-write type behavior to provide a mix of immutability and space saving.

To me, this is CRUD because: most resources literally have 4 endpoints (create, index, update and delete). We write a ton of tests to cover all the cases. It's time consuming, even tedious, and it's boring / simple compared to the user facing stuff we do.

I've never touched GraphQL, so can that really save me months of work? Or would it save me about as much time as Rails would (which would be not a lot) ?
He has a history of releasing classified documents unredacted putting people's lives in danger. Do you think he'd be willing to do that again? I suspect so.
So that's where the Sun 2 box was UUCPing email from. ;) Decomm... that sounds painful.

One of their main products, CORETRAN, was a Monte Carlo reactor simulator written in millions of lines of FORTRAN by nuclear engineers over ~60 years. I helped port to Win32 and sped it up 300% by disabling swap (128 MiB of RAM in 1997 was a lot).
LLVM IR wasn't competing with WebAssembly. WebAssembly is designed as an abstract machine _target_ instruction set whereas LLVM IR is an abstract _internal_ intermediate instruction set for compiler passes. I think they fit nice together but don't have deep expertise in either of these IRs, just general compilers.
I do consulting work in the grocery business and serve as a point of contact for software and tech purchasing for a handful of retailers and producers.

Uber Eats has been calling me every year to sell their platform to some of the stores I work with.

Grocery product margins are about 30 percent in the happy case (specialty foods), usually much lower. Uber Eats wants 30 percent of the basket on each sale they make.

The last salesperson who called, after I gave him that context, suggested this would be a new revenue stream. I remarked that we would lose money on each sale. He clarified that Uber Eats would only take 30 percent of what we sold through their platform, not all of the sales made by the store (how generous of them). I thanked him for clarifying and said I understood that.

He then suggested to me that customers who buy from us on Uber Eats might do so only once, and make the rest of their purchases in store.

I asked him why they would do that, and he uncomfortably said a few words about how Uber is working on something for grocery stores and said they would try back later.

They have reached out to me about once a year since 2016, and pretty much every conversation goes the same, and their pricing is the same.

It's ridiculous to me how they don't bother to understand the customers they engage, and that they train their sales people to continue goad businesses into working with them even after they've made clear they would lose money. Either way, it's very clear to me that this model is indeed going to be short lived. It depends primarily on weaknesses in labor laws and operators being swayed by their bizarre sales pitches enough to act against their own bottom line. In any case I certainly won't be sad to see it crash and burn
I don't see comments on this yet but I'll says some of that is because of the Olympics based in Tokyo this summer. I heard the other day about how there's kind of a cutoff point in May determining if it needs to be postponed, pushed, or moved. The Olympics is still huge and if your country is hosting, I can see them wanting to close schools to try anything to stop the possible spread for people to trust and want to still go and compete.
Just because the statistical probability of something happening is very low does not mean that it is physically impossible.

Flipping a coin 100 times and having the results all be heads is extremely low but still physically possible.

We can be skeptical about China's official numbers but just because something is statistically unlikely to happen and it happens does not mean immediately that there is foul play.
Yes IR35 has been a PITA for contracting in tech for a while and it is about to get a lot worse come April. Heck, it will near on kill of a lot of contracting avenues.

That and IR35 effectively treats you as an employee with all the associated tax aspects and none of the perks - no holiday pay, no sickness pay, other company aspects.

Which is irksome given how if your building a house instead of software, you get special NI perks and other aspects....

Sad cruz is that tech is a new trade in the grand scale of things, no unions or the like that other established industries have and equally - when the certifications in tech are so dynamic and change each year compared to those other longer established industries like construction, accounting.... there are times you kinda feel shafted.

Which is why I got out of contracting last century, then ironically joined a company working on a project that ended up busting 80 hour weeks and only paid core hours and the ew contractors we had, well they got their hourly flesh.

But hey, being good at tech, don't mean you're good at business, or indeed negotiations for remunerations - I know I'm terrible upon the later and sold myself short too many times. Sure you learn, but it is one of my kryptonite area's.