skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure the server is just serving an image rather than an html file hence the lack of a source.

I tested this using Safari and Google Chrome and when inspecting the image element, both browsers produced different <img/> tags which I assume is because of the browser itself.
It's a great paper, but I think you're hugely exaggerating its significance.

As the authors themselves point out, none of the fundamental building blocks of this system are particularly new. For example, the idea of partitioning a very large dataset into lots of independent slices, each of which is handled by its own Paxos group, is the same idea that forms the basis of Google's Megastore and Spanner, the former of which is more than a decade old.

Most of the interesting stuff in this paper is the discussion of the nuts-and-bolts of software engineering, such as testing, deployment and monitoring.
For K8S, I think the best alternative is AWS+kops. EKS also has a high fee for the control plane, and has a ton of shortcomings aside from that. AKS, at least the last time I used it, was much worse in terms of functionality. But I can spin up a kops-based cluster really quickly. It is capable of creating truly production-grade clusters.

If I'm running a small cluster, I can use a small VM for the master node(s) and get my control plane costs down much lower than $73/month.
>> I don't agree with Cory Doctorow on everything

> Honest question, why this qualifier? Nobody expects a human to agree with everything another person says.

These types of disclaimers are anti-intellectual and you should continue to point them out when you see them.
Reading this makes me think of GitHub. I recall GitHub having a large, distributed MySQL database at the heart of the system and when a partition developed the whole system faltered[1]. This seems ironic to me; git was designed to be decentralized and one can imagine a design for GitHub that did not involve a globe spanning MySQL database, or at least one that didn't directly impact the operation of all GitHub repos when it falls over.

Parts of this blog post also align well with another recent post: Simple Systems Have Less Downtime[2]:

[1] https://github.blog/2018-10-30-oct21-post-incident-analysis/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22471355
Yes, so the "work" as far as copyright is concerned is the performance. The "work" is entirely his own.
They probably could have pursued it further. Presumably their time is valuable (and that value is easily quantifiable) and they had to spend some of it defending this spurious claim. It feels very much like patent trolling but it's copyright trolling.

Cloudflare famously stood up to a patent troll and prevailed. In their first blog post about it [0], they wrote,

> This claim is a nuisance for us. The lawsuit will take our time, distract us from our work, and it will cost us money to fight. Patent trolls like Blackbird Technologies (@bbird_tech) exist to create these headaches so companies will play along and give them money to go away.

The only difference I can see is that patent trolls like Blackbird use the courts whereas copyright trolls use YouTube.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/standing-up-to-a-dangerous-new-b...
They've not been saying that for months, that's completely absurd. The disease started spreading in November at the earliest. Just a month ago very little was known about its transmission rate and lethality; estimates from reputable sources ranged from 1 to 20%.
Yep, that’s the account that no one aren’t doing: d death/recoveries. Everyone is doing deaths/infections what’s doesn’t make sense.
Oh sorry for my ignorance I didn't know that. Thanks for your comment and glad you like it!
Are you actually receiving conflicting data, or just conflicting reports about data? It's not clear to me how data itself can "conflict." As a made-up example, if you keep seeing alternating cases where one person had symptoms and another person didn't, that's not "conflicting data." That's just data showing that 50% of people have symptoms.
Or you could order your own batch of them and, right before handoff, rip off their sticker and then affix yours to cover the damage.

...which is presumably why these have unique serial numbers! They really did think of everything. (You have to make sure the shipper communicates the serial number to the recipient for that part to function, though.)
Taxis are paid directly by their customers.
> I can choose to combat the copyright claim (and during this process you check a box that says "you agree that you could have your account deleted if you don't win this claim" (something like that)), or I can give the $1/year revenue I got from that video to the scummy company that files these claims.

Obviously the problem is that it's completely unbalanced. Do people making copyright claims have the same threat? "By disputing this counter-claim, you agree that you could have your right to file any copyright claims revoked."

If not, then yeah, it's absolutely unfair.
You have just been told to work from home. Now what?
I think your theory is far-fetched and encourages unbridled police power.
Adam Neely (YouTube music educator) had an absolutely farcical run-in with this situation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM6X2MEl7R8) where he made a video defending Warner Music and Katy Perry's Dark Horse against Flame's Joyful Noise plagiarism suit. He lost the claim from Warner Music even though:

1- he was defending Warner Music

2- he didn't play any recordings, he just played 3 notes on a synthesizer (which is his whole premise that it's un-copyrightable)

3- Warner Music lost the actual suit (which implies they don't have copyright on those 3 notes?)

4- someone at Warner Music manually tagged the "infringing" part of the video, except the person tagged not the Dark Horse part of the play through but the Joyful Noise part of the play through (*^∀^)ノ彡┻━┻

changelog: improved ascii art
Gitflow was just a silly blog. I can't even begin to understand how it became dogma
There are a lot of things that make calculating a straightforward percentage hard:

- not all cases detected

- deaths are a laggy indicator

- recoveries are an extremely laggy indicator

- impact of demographics, healthcare quality

- sizes of effects of all 4 previous things depends on the country and the time

This has led to internet commentators coming up with wild numbers, ranging from 0.1% to 20%. At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I suggest we all defer to the expert numbers (2-3%), because the experts are perfectly aware of all 5 effects I mentioned, and more, and have already tried their best to correct for them, using better data than we have.
I don't think this is a useful view.

We, as a society, clearly want YouTube to exist. The fact that Youtube/Google's efforts and our current legal frameworks cause problems in edge cases doesn't mean we should just give up.
Hmm, that doesn't match my experience. If I remember correctly, I've mostly seen long-running branches where the conflicting code was moved/taken care of still having rebase conflicts because git is running the commits one by one, and is conflicting with the old commits (before they were fixed), requiring me to fix them yet again.

Merging doesn't have that problem, it usually just merges fine unless there are conficts in the latest commit (not all previous ones).
You can see my other comment for clarification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480827

It's not about habitats coexisting with each other or not, it's about them imploding internally because people develop factions, compete for resources internally, threaten brinkmanship with critical systems, and eventually someone goes too far -- like people do all the time in countries all around the globe today.

Except a company can go bankrupt and a political regime can be replaced without all their employees or citizens dying in the process, because none of them are responsible for maintaining earth's life support.
What exactly did MS compromise on for UWP to support Javascript?

C# / Java is way too verbose, though almost anything is better than PS script syntax
Taxis are paid directly by their customers, so one of the criterions does not apply. (Note that some taxis are employees of taxi companies, but they need not be, as far as the regulation at hand is concerned.)
Is it really a work of art if it doesn't include the obligatory ridiculous description? Something like "Opus #4, in mixed media. Through a re-imagining of the interaction between form and light, the artist challenges our preconceived notions regarding the interplay of history, science, and religion, transgressing the boundaries imposed by our own engagement in a patriarchal society, and forcing us to reconsider the role of art as a medium for change."
While it is possible to argue against it on a philosophical ground, in French law contracts are not the most basic construct, and they have to comply with higher legal norms such as law or the constitution. Hence a contact must be "reinterpreted" (i.e. is void) if it does not follow the law.

> On ne peut déroger, par des conventions particulières, aux lois qui intéressent l'ordre public et les bonnes moeurs.

> Le contrat ne peut déroger à l'ordre public ni par ses stipulations, ni par son but, que ce dernier ait été connu ou non par toutes les parties.

> Chacun est libre de contracter ou de ne pas contracter, de choisir son cocontractant et de déterminer le contenu et la forme du contrat dans les limites fixées par la loi.
I just want to highlight this quote from the WHO:

"With influenza, people who are infected but not yet sick are major drivers of transmission, which does not appear to be the case for COVID-19."

"Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms, and most of those cases develop symptoms within 2 days."
I hadn't heard that description of the mentality of Luddites before. Thanks for bringing that up.

It may be different for trucking for a few reasons

1) apparently there is a huge shortage of truckers in the US currently

2) autonomous driving may be great for highway today, but seems to still be a bit away from truly autonomous for city environments. This could lead to a hub & spoke structure which keeps truckers employed, but has them taking over for more local routes.

3) As I understand it, a mechanical weave was always significantly faster than a person, and cheaper to boot. An autonomous truck doesn't get to drive faster (yet), and doesn't burn less fuel. It's efficiency comes only from replacing the person behind the wheel. If the person behind the wheel owns the truck (which is common) it may make their work easier.

4) how many people these days are wanting to become truckers? As truckers retire, and we seem to be requiring more and more shipping (an entirely different issue), could this be a managed transition over 20 years?
I've stopped using Instagram to post pictures; I only use stories. I post a lot of trash/ephemera/jokes on stories. It's much more fun that having to figure out what to post. It's not permanent.
Thanks for the feature branch book recommendation.

Overall, feature branches work well as an approach for relatively modern systems. I once worked on a distributed, multi-process system from the 90s that powered more than 40 factories across the world monitoring and steering production of goods. Every factory could decide whether to upgrade and to which version. Each upgrade was a separate project, which had to go through a public offering and deploy at times when the factory was not operating.

The inability of central IT to exercise influence on the factories to upgrade (due to the rollout costs) and reduce the number of parallel versions, caused a multitude of support branches to be maintained for this system. We maintained at least 6 active branches in parallel, backporting bugfixes across branches and being able to release hotfixes at any point in time for these versions. Although another VCS was used for managing source code and build artifacts, for development, we have successfully managed to use git with multiple, long-lived support branches and merge fixes across these, like in gitflow.
I asked Flutter team to add an iOS checkbox widget. They refused, saying that I can just use the switch widget. They don't realize that checkboxes are far superior in usability. Checkboxes are part of the iOS widget library, used frequently in iOS Settings and Apple apps.
> Put another way: reasonable people think that x & y == z should be parsed the same as x + y == z.

That seems very unreasonable to me, and not just because & analogizes closer to *.
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> estimates from reputable sources ranged from 1 to 20%.

What reputable sources have said anything close to 20%?
Even the worst projections of climate change are not "doomsday" events. Global nuclear Holocaust is doomsday. Extreme weather and displaced people is not doomsday. Which goes to exactly my point about the clock being used by politicized scientists.
That's good news. Early-onset symptoms (in particular, a fever) was part of what made tackling SARS possible.
If you do find yourself in this spot. Have a look at Invoke-Build. It adds some sanity to such scripts, to the point of almost being enjoyable.

Edit: (I only use it to orchestrate and combine other build systems though)
Also dangerous to inhale, so maybe not the best idea to be launching it into the air in one's living space.
Cool, perhaps I use it for my app page.

But enabling Javascript messed the fonts up, went from https://imgur.com/6H3mIPl to https://imgur.com/3XNnjBr
> It's honestly crazy how much time we as a community of software developers spend thinking about Git.

It's funny, I can't remember the last time I had to give serious thought about how to use git.

Sure, there's a learning curve. When I was just starting out, I didn't get it all right away. But it's been years since I've thought much about branching strategies and stuff. And I don't get myself into "terrible messes" that take hard thought to get out of.

Not saying you're 100% wrong. But it doesn't line up with my experience.
Kubernetes consumes a lot of CPU even when idle, due to the polling design, which makes Minikube is a really poor fit for developer machines. It's well known [1] to sit there eating 20-30% CPU, draining your battery and frustrating your life while doing absolutely nothing. This applies to all the Kubernetes distributions, including Kind and Docker Desktop. Not sure if the same applies to K3s, though.

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/3207, https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3065, https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/3539, etc; there must be dozens and dozens of these
How many programmers scored higher on verbal SATs than math?
GCP is not second, but third behind Azure.
The clock was at 7 minutes during the crisis, and they didn't feel it necessary to move it. Yet now it is at 1 minute 40 seconds?
All Countries except for South Korea are NOT counting the mild or asymptomatic cases. When you look at the SK numbers, 5,621 confirmed cases and 35 deaths. That puts the death rate at 0.6% (same as severe influenza season).

Everybody just needs to chill.
Human behavior is no more complicated than that of anything else living. We just have more complicated ways to justify our actions.
> But it could still add a script to the dom (and it would execute) or it could open a hidden iframe and do a bunch of wild stuff with that.

Maybe right now this stuff is a free-for-all, but shouldn't these scripts + iframes be executing, in some sense, under the CORS origin of the extension? (Not quite CORS in the traditional sense—you do want e.g. Greasemonkey to be able to mess with pages on all domains, even ones that don't want it to—but you could re-use the CORS origin-tracking, and just relax the rules slightly where extension:tab interactions are concerned, while still having rules.)
Exactly, that something as trivial and obvious as version control costs so much mental overhead is completely bizarre.

Sure, SVN doesn't have as many features as git, and merging sucks, but it offers the most important features of version control (recording "who has done what, when", and undoing changes). Teaching SVN usage to a non-techie takes literally a few minutes (especially with an intuitive UI like TortoiseSVN), and it's very hard to break something.
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BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design
'Baby machines': eastern Europe's answer to depopulation
> defer to the expert numbers (2-3%)

Latest expert estimate of global mortality rate, as published by WHO, is 3.4% as reported here:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/WHO-global-mortality-...

And also as reported in OP's link.

https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

> "Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died."
Keep in mind that almost 20% of the Diamond Princess cruise ship's passengers and crew (700+ of 3711) were infected with the coronavirus. However its infection rate compares with the seasonal flu (which is a much less dangerous illness overall), it clearly has the potential to infect a large number of people in the coming months.
Do the Office 365, Active Directory, etc modules actually run on Linux or MacOS now? Last time I tried Powershell on my Mac, it couldn't do any of that stuff, and I felt like it was pretty useless to run on anything other than Windows.
The strange terror of watching the coronavirus take Rome
I think your last paragraph is pure gold and encapsulates the point of all these discussions.

Use something by applying it with common sense, in the right amount and customization and it will have a chance to work.

Use something as if it is a religion and it will introduce weird side effects.
Are you implying that French courts change their rulings to benefit the government policies (hurting foreign companies in this case) rather than simply basing them on the law?
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Amazon reviewers claim the 'Bug-A-Salt 2.0 Lawn & Garden Model' works well on palmetto bugs, which I think it just what they call giant roaches in Florida?
Reed Exhibitions intends to hold a ~100,000 person convention in Seattle next week, at the same time local companies are asking workers to remain home.

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Such events are known to spread disease among attendees — the “con flu”.

Enjoy.
How often do you click on the avatar of people you follow? I think it’s a rare action.
> Even national geographic documentaries are probably "lies"

That's exactly what the OP said.
Another quote from the WHO:

"We don’t even talk about containment for seasonal flu – it's just not possible. But it is possible for COVID-19. We don't do contact tracing for seasonal flu – but countries should do it for COVID-19, because it will prevent infections and save lives. Containment is possible."
Whenever I've asked why a driver is only driving for one its usually for one of two reasons.

They don't know they can do both and went with what they believed to be the most popular. These are usually uber only drivers.

They had a bad experience with too many customers on one platform. These are usually Lyft drivers that are actually using the platform for the occasional side money instead of a full on job.
Can anyone explain why we need separate laws for self employed people and employees? To me it seems like they should have the same criteria. So for example, if a self employed person don't bring in enough money to pay minimum wage and all benefits then he is no longer allowed to work and must file for unemployment and look for another job immediately so that he can get a better paying job. Then Uber would no longer be able to get any riders unless they paid better which would fix the problem. What is the problem with this model?
Sigh. Forest roads are absolutely not dedicated to logging, they are frequently used by hikers, backpackers, cyclists, and equestrians, and just people driving to a picnic spot. At least in America working forests are also public lands.
The highest estimated r0 in a non-peer reviewed paper that I've seen is 6.6.

himinlomax may be referring to individual cases like the one involving a cult in South Korea where one lady was confirmed to have infected approximately 70 people
Never heard of it either, here's someone else making the same point:

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/im-sorry-but-twitter-babe-y...

Twitter acknowledging it: https://twitter.com/TwitterComms/status/1235271981462720512
It's come true many times and is already happening in California because of AB5.
The only winning move is not to paint.
> Another interesting tidbit in there was that very few cases (1%) appear to be totally asymptomatic

I believe this was based on mass testing in China well into the lockdown period, so it's a reason to be optimistic but may not be they case in other parts of the world, particularly during the early outbreak phase. Even more complicated because they now know there are multiple strains.
I feel like the Diamond Princess is an atypical case and it's maybe a mistake to extrapolate too much from it.
Yeah, we're running in the customers cloud account so charging based on compute was a really awkward conversation when we had those initial conversations. (Different if we're hosting it). Charging based on the number of environments feels right to us and our customers because that's when they derive value. The number of containers is just a proxy for the amount of complexity we are orchestrating for them. I'm 100% certain we don't have pricing figured out and I really appreciate the discussion.
We, as a society, clearly want streaming video hosts which allow free accounts and public uploads to exist. Youtube doesn't need to be (and isn't even) the only site to offer that.

Also, Youtube didn't have a lot of these problems before getting acquired by Google, so they're not inherent to the nature of the platform. Youtube could still exist with different, less hostile policies.
It's arguably the most interesting/novel of the points, and HN titles have strict length limits.
Alternatively, don't use kubernetes.

https://doineedkubernetes.com/