skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything seems normal to me, it's the hyper-connected Twitter / HN / social media that's losing its mind. Everything is mostly the same and I'll keep the economy humming.
Apparently I’m wrong about the address limits but it’s running on a really narrow microarchitecture with very limited (probably deliberately) performance.
You do realize that every confirmed case (and fatality) is a lagging indicator, right? Further delayed by the fact that testing is still basically nonexistent.
What does sourcehut do when one loses 2FA codes?
I license all of my software AGPL and the reason I do it isn't gatekeeping or some theoretical argument about what software is. It's because I have put a large amount of effort into this product and decided to release it for the benefit of the community. I would feel taken advantage of if a company came in and hoarded that software while making a profit off of it and never giving back. The free market is great and all, but it's also OK to just ask that people give you a fair deal when they use your code.
Most manufacturers with interesting EV models out aren’t able to make them in any appreciable volume, because they don’t have the battery supply. So they just basically do lots of paper launches, while Tesla competes by actually making a ton of the cars that they announce, extending their lead in supply and battery tech, and expanding one by one into their competitors’ popular segments. Model Y is coming for the enormous crossover SUV market, supposedly first deliveries on the 15th.

Which is hugely ironic given their old reputation for paper launches.
I spent several years doing freelance editorial work rom home. It was a mixed blessing. Some of that mix had to do with freelancing and not having a steady paycheck or benefits, which is a different set of issues. But I can deal with being home and working. My current employer is telling us to get ready for it.
There are certain things that get consistently hammered on HN.

Referring to people as "fanboys" is one of them. There's a reason for this: it's an insult, for starters. Furthermore, it leads to unproductive discussions. More heat than light.

There's almost always a way to express yourself that doesn't involve being dismissive and insulting. You may not realize that's what you're doing by saying "fanboy". But it is what you're doing.

If you'd pulled a highfalutin' word like "partisanship" you would probably find a productive conversation. Just avoid fanboy, circlejerk, and other obvious flamebait, and you'll be fine.
> Threads are cheaper than processes. A default java thread carries 2MB overhead, a python process for a typical app can easily be 2GB without very careful memory consideration.

Threads are not cheaper than processes in Linux in any significant way. See the stack overflow question on that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/807506/threads-vs-proces...

A _langauges_ use of those may have poor performance.
That's good that you're patronizing Asian businesses, a lot of them have been hit hard by people avoiding them due to virus fears.
BSD was around, popular, and much more mature than the Linux ecosystem in that early 90s, but was dogged by the BSDi lawsuit. (In fact, SunOS was derived from BSD for most of the 80s, through 1992 or so, when they jumped to AT&T/USL Unix — likely as a result of the lawsuit.) This is arguably the raison d'être of Linux as well[1]:

> If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.

[1]: https://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/interview.html
Makes sense globally. Nationally, not as much
I have a degree from an elite college (Amherst, #1 liberal arts college in the country at the time I went). I took a gap year before and worked as a professional software engineer, where I learned a massive amount. Then I spent 3.5 years taking a variety of interesting courses that have been utterly irrelevant to my future career prospects, before flunking out of my physics major, switching to CS, and completing that major in a semester using the knowledge I learned while working as a professional software engineer.

You're paying for the degree. If you want to take interesting courses, learn cool stuff, socialize with intelligent students, and meet Nobel-prize-winning professors, most professors will let you audit their course even if you're not a student at the university, particularly if you seem genuinely interested in the material. (Hell, I'd taken half a dozen college courses as a high-school student before I even got to college.) It just won't count toward the degree, because the colleges know that their business model is selling a limited credential that the rest of the world values very highly.
Whoops. You just removed the fence which was put in place thousands of years ago to contain radioactive waste with a million-year half-life. You couldn't read the warning signs since they were written in an ancient long-forgotten script. So you assumed it must be unimportant.
1M with new battery technology currently in S3XY’s.
The end game is to develop a vaccine. In the meantime, stop the spreading by quarantine, social distancing, washing hands etc.,
You want me to be passionate about making rich people richer? How laughable. I show up for work and do my job to the best of my ability because if I didn’t, I’d starve on the streets with no health insurance.
> if they can get in.

These questions are framed in the wrong way. The filter isn't cost, it's getting in, and people from middle class and poor families are at a disadvantage in terms of accomplishments.
> As a rule (non fast-food) restaurants are very expensive in the US compared to most places in Europe.

This depends how you define fast food. Which by the way is already a massive segment in the US versus other places. There's a whole range of restaurants in the middle that serve cheap food that you stand in line to order, often serving working-class people, but aren't technically fast food. Maybe not so many in the expensive gentrified area adjacent to a big university of course.
This is a mistake on my part which I should have seen coming.

I said "value", and that conflated value to oneself with value to and as perceived by others.

Which are definitely not the same thing, and I was referring to the market value of a degree from MIT.

I don't happen to think half a semester of working remote is going to do much to dampen the intrinsic value of an elite education, either. It will mark the cohort as remarkable, having shared the distinctive experience of being Extremely Online together.
I have the virus, and I'm young and healthy so I'll be fine. But I've been quarantining myself to protect people more vulnerable than me.

But hey, you're right! I'm fine, you're fine, let's all relax. I guess I'll go watch a football game, stop by a McDonald's, catch the subway back and maybe drop by an old folks home on the way just to volunteer and help the elderly. No need to panic. Business as usual right? Wouldn't want to miss that flight to tomorrow's trade show.
You can be as patronizing as you want, but you might want to make sure all the pieces line up first.

The first comment mentioned thinking about people living in an ecosystem before money. The second jumped to saying for some bizzare reason that "it will be horrifying when all the water goes away and large swathes of the US are evacuated" which is nonsensical in most contexts and has absolutely nothing to do with what they replied to.

Instead of realizing this, you went further off on a tangent of global climate change disrupting water supply.

Instead of recognizing that this is all a giant non sequitur to the philosophical questions of paying for fundamental human needs, you lost track of the conversation and insulted me instead. Focus up.
> FAANG learns about advantages of remote work

I'm not sure how you get to that conclusion. Or were you saying that as "they will now learn about the advantages after this experiment"?

I also don't think it's a clean experiment as many other factors are impacting people's productivity anyways, but the results will definitely be interesting to look at.
I assume you're learning, not debugging.

There's a period of time where it's worth trying. It varies a lot, depending on your willpower and how important a problem is.

If you're just trying to solve a Hackerrank problem, you should probably spend 30-60 minutes on it. You'll want to go long enough to not get frustrated with it.

Sometimes copying solutions is better. I learned map(), reduce(), filter() that way - these are all things that can be solved a slow way, but doing it in less lines of code is very good.

You can try copying a solution, then try solving the problem again based off memory. It's good to practice repeated basics like array manipulation and type conversion until it's muscle memory. Design patterns tend to be quite rare and it's fine to do it once and reference it every other time.
People are emotional, especially when they lose something of value.
And they should not be fired, they should just cover the loses...
Yeah, and FTA:

> In the face of highly variable responses from public officials, the media served as an essential ally of the public health community in fighting the pandemic.
It's a common thread in Incident Response & "Resilience Engineering" that preventative measures that reduce the blast of incidents are always blamed, especially if they work. Whatever ends up working to fix the incident, you should have done it sooner or it was too drastic a response. (No matter the fact that it _did_ fix the incident, outsiders will blame you that way).

One example is the Knight Capital trading disaster, where they eventually noticed (I don't remember the exact number) X minutes after the runway trading bot had been put into place, and shut it down, but got blamed for not shutting down the trading soon enough.

Can't find any links about this right now though :(
Yes, if I get the virus, I'll quarantine. But I don't have it! So I'm not going to freak out prematurely. This is the recommendation, no?
> It makes me sad that people are so sensitive that reading a message like the one ESR wrote drives them away from participating in projects and communities that otherwise would interest them.

If it helps, people are not actually like that (or least people that far along the bell curve are much rarer than you seem to believe). The people you're seeing are taking (no, I don't mean feigning) offence in a strategic attempt to shut down someone who disagrees with them politically.
Revisit this in a week or two
well the number of cases in China winding down because they lockdown the whole province of 60 million people and almost stopped all activities in other parts of China. Can US afford to do that for 1 month?
so you sell that list?
Well, lock yourself inside for the next 12 months then.
This is what institutions say right before they decide to fuck someone over. I've been burned too many times by people saying they'll do the right thing, because otherwise it wouldn't be right, only to later shrug and wash their hands of the matter.
$30k isn't the average either. The average is higher than the median value of $36k. You're confusing things by comparing one manufacturer to all auto sales.

And I'd say, sort of definitionally, that the median is the most reasonable figure to use here, precisely because it excludes all those insanely expensive hypercars driving the average up.
Obviously with a company that large you can't generalize either way, but many are fresh out of school living either alone or with other Googlers, and most definitely don't have much in their fridges. Freezers though are probably packed.
What I Believe Least
It privileges status-quo-bias over novelty-bias. Both biases are bad (neither is a substitute for reason), but Chesterton's fence presumes that status-quo-bias is less harmful.

Which is fine if you like the status quo.

Fundamentally, conservatism says 'things are generally fine, change will probably make things worse'. Progressivism says 'things could be better, change is necessary to make things improve.'

Chesterton's fence is preserved by default because Chesterton assumes it's not doing any harm.
I've been supporting their API for several years, with a 3rd party library. It's always been mixed feelings, remembering the early days when the ecosystem was exciting and growing, yet the intermediate years when it felt like developers and businesses that built on their platform were getting screwed. Overall, it would be great if they could figure out how to clean up the bad actors, yet build a thriving platform for innovation - a balance they seem tortured to achieve. While a lot of developers have come and gone, I'm still hoping for better.
I totally don't. I have long-ish hair and no beard at the moment. What does this even mean? I'm trying to visualise glasses that require those things to "pull off" but I'm drawing a blank.
This doesn't seem to be accurate, especially as far as OSI and OSD is concerned. Say what you want about the AGPL, but the license does not discriminate against any field of endeavour - it does not state "you can't use this software to offer a network-based endpoint" or anything like that. It just triggers a source distribution requirement in case of such use, by analogy with distributing the software itself to the public (an analogy which is in fact supported by copyright law itself, viz. "public performance" of a copyrighted work). The MongoDB approach post-relicensing is very different.
I think Germany is probably a lost cause and the majority of their population will get the virus. Higher population density, open borders / lack of geographic isolation, aging population - none of those things help them any.

Sadly, I think the majority of (much larger) US population will get the virus, too. H1N1, for instance, affected 57 million people in the US and caused almost 12K deaths. And COVID19 is much deadlier than H1N1, so we're probably looking at a low six figure death toll at least, when all is said and done, no matter what we do. I'd be surprised if we manage to escape this outcome.
No other option but to lock yourself in your house with all these carriers everywhere!
In 886 F.3d 1179 (2018) [1][2], the Fed. Cir. noted that:

"62 classes (and some of their methods), spread across three packages within the Java API library, must be used. Otherwise the language itself will fail."

"On remand, the parties stipulated that only 170 lines of code were necessary to write in the Java language. It is undisputed, however, that Google copied 11,500 lines of code — 11,330 more lines than necessary to write in Java. That Google copied more than necessary weighs against fair use."

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=107451649356761... [2] https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20180327178
See, usually it's me saying that (because I'm usually replying to the people upholding rural living as some kind of ideal) but the thing is, people are moving to these cities, from other urban areas, mmmmostly for work. Not because they're great. They are great! But the gravity is because of the jobs more than anything else. Without that gravity, I tend to think people won't keep moving there in the same numbers and more of them will leave.

If you can get 70-80% of the desirability for 50% of the cost (Boston would be like 80-90% and 60-70%, by my reckoning) while retaining 90% of the salary, and you make it perfectly acceptable on all sides to do so, a lot of people are gonna do that.
If you have common ICE car, it is very inexpensive to keep it running when you can wrench yourself. I spent less than $600 in 15 years and 160k miles for all parts to repair 2005 Malibu. I had to go to dealer once, because ABS control module is locked. You need dealer codes and 'programming'. $240 for 15 minutes work.

For 2005 Malibu:

Oxygen sensors: one is $19, still running on originals.

Catalytic Converters: one side Carb Compliant $319, still running on originals

Spark plugs: Iridium NGK 6*$5, took me 1 hour to replace

Thermostat: $4 + $3 shipping, 15 minutes to replace

Mass air flow sensor: still original $62

Prices from RockAuto.
This is how RStudio and certain other great open source tools get bigcos to pay for licenses. They are allergic to AGPL and therefore will happily pay for alternative licenses for tools their employees demand.
For 2020 Honda only has a single model in the US that starts below $20,000, the Honda Fit. And that is only for some trim levels of the Fit. In 2019 Honda sold 35,414 Fits, out of 1,450,785 total Honda vehicles sold[1] (384,168 CR-Vs, 325,650 Civics, 267,567 Accords, being the top sellers).

So roughly 2% of Honda vehicles sold in the US cost less than $20,000, and that is without taxes and other fees. The Ford F-150 is the best selling vehicle in the US, and the average transaction price of an F-150 (as sold) is around $50,000. New cars under $20,000 basically don't exist in the US.

[1] https://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/honda/
Don't buy face masks. Face masks are useful for keeping germs from others, not to protect you from them. You should wear a face mask if you're sick to limit the amount of saliva you spread when you cough or sneeze. But if you think a face mask is somehow protecting you from others' coronavirus, it's not.
This sentence is reasonable. Your earlier "if I get it so what?" Implying you don't care about others around you if you do catch it is what's not reasonable.
> Everything seems normal to me,...

Sounds a lot like "this is fine" when considering the less optimistic death and injury rates are surpassing the flu by multiples of ten.
lmao, you are DUMB
Well, ventilators anyway. Iron lungs are for a different kind of respiratory issue that isn't occurring with COVID-19.
Just FYI, you're being (deservedly) mocked on Twitter about this

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1237577750480740353?s=1...
I don't think simple comparisons between Japan and US are meaningful. Japan has a universal health care system so everyone is covered by health insurance. There is little incentive to leave hospitals prematurely.

One of our children spent a week in hospital and the out of pocket cost was 500yen (about $5USD)[1] plus food. My mother in law joked that it was cheaper then childcare.

Hospitals are also not incentivized to mess around with trying to extract the most from billing because its prescribed.

A friend from Australia needed stitches while in Japan and didn't have travel insurance. We went to the local doctor explained the situation and they refereed us to a hospital. They didn't charge us for the consultation because "they didn't do anything, only gave a referral". At the hospital we explained the situation and the bill was less then the excess they would have payed in Australia. My impression is that they didn't feel the need to extract every dollar because they were getting full payment from everyone else.

These are exceptional cases and the usually out of pocket is more like $30~$50 for a consultation.

1. Where we are children cost a flat rate of 500yen for a consultation and as the hospital stay was a result of the consultation that was also covered.
That’s quite a nice sentiment. Unfortunately, “flattening the curve” is not what propels the world to action. People getting what they want is. It always has been, and that’s not changing for Covid-19.
Blockchain and DAPP Developer Jobs
I always hear how in demand they are, but I do not see that many positions being op for grabs, at least in my city of Toronto. I only checked Indeed and linkedin for listing.
Is the demand for Blockchain devs really there?
I'm split.

IBM wanted companies to embrace SQL - because then people implement applications already compatible with their database product, and conceptually could migrate without rewriting their applications.

Amazon wanted companies to embrace S3 - for the same reason. Or maybe they didn't, but they decided that the API was the least significant compelling part of their product - that people would still choose S3 regardless of whether other storage offerings had the same API - for the cost, and durability.

Sun wanted Google to use Java. Because more developers using the language, regardless of the underlying implementation is better for the entire ecosystem.

Oracle doesn't.

So to some degree i do feel like consent matters here. It doesn't matter if Oracle copied Amazon's S3 API illegally if Amazon doesn't care enough to pursue it.

Finally, I hate arguments that say "It's just the API". We all know a good API makes or breaks developer tools.

Ultimately, I feel like it goes without question that a decision in Oracle's favour will cause irrevocable damage to the industry and permit all sorts of bad actors to start looking to purchase ownership to APIs just so they could sue those they consider infringers.

But I can't help but feel that ultimately Oracle has a point :(
From the AWS Compliance Shared Responsibility Model: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-mode...

Operating system maintenance falls under the Customer responsibility side. With using this new OS, would this responsibility shift back to AWS?
burnt popcorn used to be a way to cover the smell of pot.
That's a valid concern. Although, I'm more inclined to think that it's rather linked to our leveling up in the Maslow hierarchy. Caring for next meal is replaced by caring for some other concerns that are less controllable.

Also, regarding the social customs, the point is that groups of people are an organism that has to adapt to the environment and that environment has changed. Social customs hold a small town together, but it's absolutely unreasonable to depend on them in a city, where you're living next to strangers that change all the time.
I also wonder if giving people time to discover and sort out their health problems would save many people. I know more than one person that hasn't gotten a doctors checkup in years.
I honestly don't understand why people think hiding out at home is the solution. How can we possibly hunker down and hide in our four walls for the 6-12 months it would take for this to maybe fade?
Time to send in the Nazgûl

https://lotrgames.fandom.com/wiki/Nazgul#Behind_the_Scenes
Certainly the recommendation is not "freak out prematurely" so yes, you're doing a good job. Practice good hygiene, practice social distancing measures. Make sure you have the supplies you need for a successful quarantine. I'm glad I did.
Egypt does something similar. They do "soft blocks" where a site they don't like will be sporadically blocked and unblocked on different ISPs, on-and-off. Visitors of that site learn to expect that the site may or may not load when they try to access it, so they bleed away and just stop trying to access it.

And the government can just say they're not blocking anyone and that it's ISP-related technical issues.

Source: am originally from Egypt and my previous startup, an independent news aggregate, is suffering this fate.
The problem with that though is I perceive nuetral as negative. Neutral is registered same as negative because it's not positive. This is why gratitude is hard because people like me can't find the positives nearly enough to start recognizing and changing how I think.

In fact, I find it difficult to think that people are okay with neutral because how is that any better? You arguably still failed at whatever you were trying to do, just the results weren't as harsh. I dont know. I think I might just be really far gone at this point.
To answer your first question, AFAIK, standalone services that can be used on their own are prefixed with Amazon (eg S3, EC2, DDB), whereas services that are deeply integrated into AWS ecosystem are prefixed with AWS.

Disclaimer: I work for AWS, but this is not an official answer. What I said is correct to my best knowledge, but I cannot guarantee its correctness/accuracy.