skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can attest to this method. Similarly to the GP, at some point in my early teens while swimming at a small lake, I decided to try swimming across the lake (more of a cove) and back. I was never a great swimmer but I was confident I could make it because I knew I could just flip over and leisurely kick if I got tired. Sure enough, my arms started to burn about halfway across, so I just flipped over and eased the rest of the way.

It's not nearly as fast as "proper" swimming but I'm sure I could keep it up approximately as long as I could walk. Maybe even longer. It makes for a great option in dangerous situations, and is likely a good fundamental technique to teach anyone just learning.
> He's prone to regular and incredible insights. Like a great stand up comedian, he frequently notices things most of us manage to miss.

Can you give an example?
Well maintained roads. Easy access by engineering teams from California. Cheap local wages for test drivers.
Expect a transition with a human still onboard to last for a while.
Oh but it's just marketing...

Yeah those excuses run thin. Actively participating in this stuff is not acceptable.
I don't work for Azure and having used both GKE and AKS, I can say GKE is superior, however, I don't understand why this comment isn't cool. It's not like they're capitalizing on your misery. It's a decision you have taken and it's a fair game IMO that they want to emphasize their advantage over you.
Yikes, of course it should be noexcept instead of nothrow in my previous post!

However, I don't find any referenc to noexcept having gotten defined behaviour. Do you have any pointers?
Stealing a comment I saw the other day in a thread where a open source ventilator was shown, if you need a ventilator you'd need intensive care as well.
I think growing up 'back in the day' some of us may have known people that we viewed as smart and having just good answers about things in general (if not a topic they had specific expertise in). Someone in the neighborhood older or a friend.

But the thing is that was more or less earned. They'd say something and then over time you'd find they were right or not and so you tended to listen to what they said more and consider them 'smart'.

Sometimes you'd consider them smart just because they had answers to things that you didn't [1] and often even because you didn't (pre-internet) have a way to see if they were even right at all. So it was easier for sure to run circles around people when knowledge wasn't so accessible.

But very generally wasn't something (that I recall from my experience) bestowed on people based on things that vaulted them to prominence which could be attributed to luck.

[1] A good example of this on HN for me is tptacek who amazes me with his writing and what he knows (that I don't) but honestly I don't know enough to know how correct he is and I suspect others may not as well. Noting that on a topic (that I will not mention) that I am an expert on a HN discussion is typically totally wrong many times.
IIRC this has already been spotted in action on Facebook. I can't find the article, but about a month or 2 ago there were thousands of profiles being created on Facebook with profiles pictures created using GANs.
There isn't a HTTPS version of the site so you get dropped into the default vhost for their hosting provider, DreamHost.

DreamHost could automatically issue LE certs for their customers but that's not how they do things and don't enable it without customer approval.

It is impossible for DreamHost to not give you an error in this case. You connected directly to port 443 with a name that they don't have a certificate for. They could just close the connection but I don't think that would be an improvement on the situation.
New 2nd limited-permissions release was added.
Customs sites are not working, but now users have a choice.
As it would seem to affect smokers harder, I'd call that a draw.
Decision fatigue is also major problem associated with the use of stimulants.

Decision fatigue is a problem with exhaustion of cognitive endurance rather than a problem with cognitive overload. The former, like physical endurance exhaustion, occurs from becoming tired due to exercise over time without sufficient rest. The later occurs in a short time when the variables comprising a single, or focused set of, decision overwhelm the performance of a timely or adequate decision/response.

When a person becomes tired from continuous exercise, whether physical or mental, there are symptoms that occur that negatively impact performance. These symptoms are a way of telling you that the body is entering a state of heightened stress that can be resolved, to some degree, by appropriate rest. Stimulants work in the body to increase some performance factors while simultaneously impairing the association between exhaustion with the need for rest.

While these results from the use of stimulants can increase performance in a short term they are not a substitute for rest. Performance will degrade once the short-term high from the stimulant fades and especially as continued use results in tolerance to potentially catastrophic results.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880463/
No, there is a 2009 study which compares N95 mask efficiency with surgical masks, because they predict that during a pandemic N95 masks will be in shorter supply. (1)

They don't find significantly more efficiency for N95 masks, but other studies do find N95 masks slightly better. (2)

(1) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/184819

(2) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1750-2659...

Do a search on Google Scholar for "N95" in combination with "virus" or "sars" for more studies.

Really a shame that authorities, including the Surgeon General, claim that masks are not protective, despite medical science to the contrary.
A very related concept & book: Paradox of Choice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

The book was excellent, made me more-cognizant of choices and about having a strategy for dealing with it all (statisficing rather than maximizing).

Great short summary by the author in his classic TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choi...
It's huge for Azure automation. Spinning up machines, deployments, any task that you need to perform in the cloud.
Doing load balance, DNS, and egress has been way uglier in the Google Cloud K8s than I expected. Pushes projects towards doing it themselves in cluster IMO.
> This is great feedback, but clusters should be treated like cattle, not pets. I'd love to learn more about why your clusters must be so static.

What’s inside our clusters are indeed cattle, but the clusters themselves do carry a lot of config that is set via GCP UI for trivial things like firewall rules. Of course we could script it and automate, but your CLI tool also changes fast enough that it becomes an ongoing maintenance burden shifted from DevOps to engineers to track. In other words, it will likely incur downtime due to unforeseen small issues.

It’s also in you guys’ interest that we don’t do this and clusters are as static as possible right now, since if we are risking downtime and moving clusters, we’re definitely moving that cluster back to AWS.
Looking at it, seems like Microsoft mostly intended Powershell integration to be used for admin/IT tasks, rather than end-user task automation. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/powers... Am I off base?
you think? https://twitter.com/methode/status/1166643751659429888

when is the last time you got a "heads up" before an algo change?
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This sentence betrays a basic misunderstanding of money's fungibility.
> you have to have some way of communicating that to prospective buyers.

Only if the prospective buyer is actually interested. This too often gets translated to "I have a right to spam everyone!"
So, in your opinion, the news coverage is totally justified and the lack of coverage for every other subject is okay? There's already 'effective interventions' being discussed openly from n95 masks to quarantines and travel restrictions.

Getting irritated at me for pointing out that the average person is not at severe risk of death, contrary to what the media is currently saying, seems a bit of an over-reaction.
Amazon has it's own Linux. Why not Microsoft?
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Azure and AWS both have managed Kubernetes ...
marvindanig understands that, judging by their comment. But the portfolio companies used to do Show HN, just like everyone else. Lately, they've started doing Launch HN instead, so they are separate. I think the question is around why that changed.
people might be more willing to engage with you if you didn't present the existence of youtube compilations as serious evidence.
The Department of Defense is 99.9% offense, 0.1% defense. You can use the argument that the best defense is a good offense, but that doesn't really excuse the number of (largely unprovoked) attacks on and occupation of other sovereign nations.
I haven't run benchmarks but I also haven't noticed a difference in performance.

With Vue.js, I use computed properties + v-for in html template.

With D3 I use the the enter/update/exit pattern with d3.selectAll(...).data(...).join(...).

Both seem to only modify the needed DOM elements. Vue.js uses a virtual DOM while D3 attaches a __data__ property to DOM elements.
Another AWS component with TLA+ use. I'll shill it again because I think TLA+ is one of the most practical formal methods toolkits out there at the moment. It's great. Try it out.

You're not getting rid of implementation bugs with TLA+, but it's a huge breath of fresh air as a formal documentation language.
I took a Russian friend there, and her comment was basically that - "we all grew up like this, what's the big deal."
they may become fomitic , actually carrying aggregations of virions nestled in expectorated particles of mucous
Kubespray works well for me for setting up a bare bones kubernetes cluster for the lab.

I'll use helm to install metallb for the load balancer, which you can then tie into whatever egress controller you like to use.

For persistent storage a simple NFS server is the bees knees. Works very well and a NFS provisioned is a helm install. Very nice, especially, over 10GbE. Do NOT dismiss NFSv4. It's actually very nice for this sort of thing. I just use a small separate Linux box with software raid on it for that.

If you want to have the cluster self-host storage or need high availability then GlusterFS works great, but it's more overhead to manage.

Then you just use normal helm install routines to install and setup logging, dashboards, and all that.

Openshift is going to be a lot better for people who want to do multi-tenant stuff in a corporate enterprise environment. Like you have different teams of people, each with their own realm of responsibility. Openshift's UI and general approach is pretty good about allowing groups to self-manage without impacting one another. The additional security is a double edged. Fantastic if you need it, but annoying barrier to entry for users if you don't.

As far as AWS goes... EKS recently lowered their cost from 20 cents per hour to 10 cents. So costs for the cluster is on par with what Google is charging.

Azure doesn't charge for cluster management (yet), IIRC.
A pool needs at least two lines of protection. One day the three year old will drag a garden chair or the box someone left out to the fence and climb over it.
> (Scuba is super cool too, btw. But that's like... super advanced swimming. Baby steps.)

I've met more than one scuba diver who were weak swimmers but avid divers. To your previous point, flippers turn a weak swimmer into > an olympian.
given the longevity of webservices online I bet HN is gone before that day happens
The article makes it very clear that he is speaking of the immediate forecast (next 3-6 months) not the longer term (6 months to 1 year or more). The virus is already all over the globe, so technically it's already edging near a pandemic. The question to ask (and the article asks it) is do we have something that will materially alter spread in hand today or at most within the month. If the answer is "No" then the virus is likely to spread. "No" is a correct reading of the facts as they stand today.

This isn't about FDA conservatism or anything like that, it's "what do we have in hand?" No matter how promising current experimental treatments might be (perhaps Remdesivir will work well), they WILL NOT stop the spread in the short term. They WILL MAYBE help with treating acute cases and lower fatality rate. Still, good confirmation is a few months out, so for March/April we're still looking at very little.

The only therapeutic that could stop the spread is a vaccine. That's even further out, they're just starting some tests, but it's not going to be ready for wide deployment for another year. You don't want to inject things into healthy people on a massive scale without doing a few controls.

All of these approaches suffer from production questions too: it takes a while to ramp, but yes that could be helped by a massive effort.

In short, wash your hands. A lot. Don't touch your face. If you're sick, quarantine. In 6 months we'll hopefully be better equipped therapeutically, but don't expect that to solve the immediate problem.
Agreed. 60GHz appears to be allocated for fixed inter-satellite communications (probably for this reason):

https://transition.fcc.gov/oet/spectrum/table/fcctable.pdf
We changed the URL from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPYy_g8NzmI, which is a copy of this.

It was discussed at the time, but only a bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16292410
When I was in Malawi many years ago cannabis was incredibly cheap. It's got a climate where you pretty much just have to drop some seeds by the road and a while later there are plants. I doubt it will cause much food shortages.
> their position in the market as the second, inferior choice
Who's the superior choice? EKS?
What industry would you prefer he support? Every industry is corrupt, depending on who you ask...
I was actually wondering about this because both the Spanish Flu and the 2009 H1N1 pandemics left life-long brain damage for some survivors in the form of narcolepsy with cataplexy. The vaccine for H1N1 caused it in a very small amount of patients as well. After the Spanish Flu they called it "encephalitis lethargica". It appears that it damages the hypothalamus.
We paid for long-lasting wildcard certs because of that. Which Apple killed a few days ago. It’s going to be fun when they are close to expiry.
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It has been widely reported that CORVID-19 affects the lungs, and that smoking may play a role in the severity of symptoms. Also there have been plenty of studies linking high sugar diets with reduced immune response.
There was an article recently about an US mask manufacturer (small one, not 3M), which for years warned that this will happen: a pandemic will hit and there will be a severe lack of masks anywhere.

He also recounted how after the 2009 flu scare everyone was telling him how after it ends they will now stockpile masks to be ready for the next one, he increased production, but then was stuck with it because people stopped taking his calls the moment the flu faded.
This capitalization is automatic by the HN software and happens when you do the submission. You can edit the submission afterwards and it won't do it automatic anymore, but still does it the first time.
> They are the Ryanair of the cloud.

Isn't Ryanair literally the Ryanair of the cloud(s)?
Also, you need to wear eye protection as well.
Yes there is the psychological utility consideration of not having debt hanging over you. But in a less subjective sense aren't there also considerations of risk of ruin and optionality? If you have no mortgage to pay off, you are free to do a lot of things you could not do otherwise (including buying more property to get rental income). If you have a lot of debt, you are in a leveraged position where some bad luck could bankrupt you.

Then there's stuff like, just cause you have a lot of money in your retirement account, doesn't mean you can actually consume it all, depending on the rules of your country.
Uber driver reclassified as employee in France
Cigar smokers FTW...they dont inhale ;)
Given there's no herd immunity, and the virulance of the strain, estimates are 40-70% of the population will contract the virus within a year

0.2% of 40% of the US Population is 260,000 deaths within a year[1]

"it's just the flu" greatly underappreciates just how deadly influenza actually is

If the mortality rate is more in the 2%+ range, we're looking at millions of deaths in the US alone.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.2%25+of+40%25+of+US+...
Show HN: A minimalist phone launcher to optimize the way you spend your time
Are you able to ride a bike to work?
it is very likely the same circumstance.both those virus conserve the same cell fusion machinery, to the end of causing the same effect. The host may be variable and there is a basis for the range of morbidities observed. the central problem with lung damage involves disruptions to the RAS system that will lead to accumulations of extracellular fibres in the lung tissue
It says approximately nothing unless you're somehow tracking individual users' behavior over time.

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Don't panic.

Stay home and encourage others to stay home. We can't stop the virus (yet) but we can slow it down and buy time.

"The only way to fight a pandemic is decency." (I'll link to the source if I can find it, I think it was an article in the Atlantic that went by here on HN this week.)
The person you're replying to still has a point, that you probably reinforced with the example of Macy's: the time constants of a given feedback loop can and do influence greatly the necessary input (the money they saved) to get to a similar or better state (what you mention as tightening the feedback loop).

The current world brings it down to a really small reaction time (i.e. the system can change dynamically within 1s, give or take an order of magnitude). I believe there is still room for even faster feedback loops (say, when a google-glass-like device reads in real-time a person's biometrics and feeds that to a system that optimizes what the user is interacting with), and I would not be surprised if Facebook already had considered that since they deal with VR devices (Oculus).
Certainly, First Nation People of Australia had a language of their own for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_kinship
Self has such mandatory parentheses for mixed operators (binary messages)
You should write your code with consideration for the next person tasked with maintaining it. If for some reason you can't manage that (?!?), I suggest coding with consideration for _yourself_, six months from now, still slightly drunk at 2am when the page comes through...
The idea that Bloomberg and Yang share any sort of common philosophy is laughable.
I think that different sources are using different definitions of "effective" here. If a simple surgical mask cuts down transmission rates by 50% that isn't anywhere near good enough for health workers working with sick patients every day. But it might still make a significant improvement in your chances of getting infected and, combined with social distancing, might drop the R0 below 1. Hence why Chinese and Korean authorities are encouraging everyone to wear surgical masks but the CDC saying they're ineffective.
I agree, but there are definitely people out there that shouldn't be driving that are.
Sifting through bullshit on the internet is a 21st century skill.
Thrown their citizens to the wolves and caused all of one death, and no other problems to speak of? Seems like they made a great call to me.
You can dedicated nodes by namespace, at which point the isolation is pretty strong.
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First, you didn't describe an exception; you described additional restrictions. But now you're pivoting to talk about exceptions.

These are fundamentally different things. One enlarges the set of actions a recipient is free to do relative to what vanilla GPL allows. This is permitted (and in the case of the classpath exception, endorsed) by FSF. The other attempts to shrink the size of that set by denying the user things that the GPL would otherwise allow. The FSF simply does not permit the GPL to be used in that combination (and there would be extreme contrast in your last sentence and the failure to recognize the FSF's say in this).

And secondly, you've yet to substantiate your claim that Java was ever distributed with such GPL-modifying restrictions.
While you're at it, take a contrasting tour at the Merchant's House Museum just a few blocks away:

http://merchantshouse.org
In many cities/countries that's more dangerous than just getting the corona.
Pretty scary how nobody bothers actually downloading the files even when they're illegally watching it.
I thought the idea was to get away from the cloud based nightmares that are currently the norm...
The reason is that we need the N95 to keep our healthcare workers from getting infected and letting the rest of us die.
Meanwhile in South Korea everyone has masks. In WWII we built one bomber an hour at one plant, and now we can't figure out how to build millions or billions of masks.
More incentive money pissed away. Your hard earned tax dollars at work. There's a lot of things I miss about Buffalo since moving south, but this isn't one of them.
Yes, the virus itself is small enough to get through, but typically the virus comes in a water droplet (as in being coughed or sneezed out) and those will be mostly stopped by an N95 mask.
The anti-vaxx movement would like a word...
Professional driving comes with hours limitations. In most industrialised countries you can't work more than so-and-so many hours driving without so-and-so many hours of rest (I don't know what the US rules are but I know they have them). But as just a passenger, aboard the truck but not driving it, you aren't using up those precious hours.

I can see this making sense where the driver also has some skilled role at both ends, e.g. supervising loading and unloading of a particular type of cargo. Otherwise it may be just as sensible to build giant truck parking lots at key locations on big highways and have a human board trucks when they get to the closest lot to the final destination. In that model all truck drivers would go home every day, which means it's a less well paid job but also one that's more compatible with having a life outside work - long distance trucking would become something trucks do but drivers don't.
In hindsight, trucking seems on the more obvious usecase for autonomous vehicles rather than daily commutes or ridesharing.

1. Most time spent and miles driven are on freeways rather than city streets. Last mile can still be done via human drivers meeting at an off-freeway ramp hub.

2. The cost and availability of labor is a significant damper on trucking. Remember during the oil boom in Alberta, Canada, how truckers were making six-figures and higher due to the high demand.

3. Humans get tired, can't drive for more than 8 hours due to legal restrictions and safety concerns. These are problem that machines can solve.

4. (Mostly) don't have to deal with pedestrians, bicycles, bad weather and other complexities. If there's a snowstorm, trucks can just do what they do now, wait it out at a truck stop.
Especially one with a direct side effect of increasing the person's appetite.
Yes ... I have no qualms about killing flies either. All I was getting at is that a) even back then there was a line you could cross as shown by this candidate and b) that my personal views on killing have changed.
I just saw that I was downvoted... I have no idea what's wrong with my comment. That downvote button should definitely force to comment and explain why you downvote.
What now? Does this mean Uber can't afford to operate in France anymore?