skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The above is a highly skewed, and one-sided, comment that cherrypicks things in an apparent attempt to tear down what has been achieved. Readers should read the original article and decide for themselves.

For example compare this quote from the actual article:

"It was even equipped with OEM tires from a Porsche 911 GT3 RS (997), which are good on the track but also great for regular driving."

to what is said by the parent about the tires. That's a pretty wide gap to bridge. And that's just one example.
I wish it was easier to monetize free software. I am making an Indy game right now and it is hard enough to make money already with 7k+ games coming out per year (plus, my third party assets don’t have a license that allows redistribution in such a way)
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US colleges earn money off the meal plan and tend to be liability shy so having a full kitchen is a non-starter. Heck, it was against the rules to have a microwave in dorms (even room not in actual dorms) where I went to college. It was a pain in the butt.
Worked on this problem almost a decade ago, pre-FIDO. Happy to share experience:

The threat model reduced to mobile malware that grabbed private/secret keys, and how the harvested keys could be used at scale. Banks didn't want it, because the net improvements on passwords were edge cases and it didn't have enough standards based compliance assurance to transfer liability to the user.

Things like smoother UX, and customers not having to manage a passwd db were the sell, but those weren't really anyone's problems at the time.

The key problem isn't authentication, it's identity assurance, which means user enrolment that can be "trusted" and then secure personalization of the credential with unique keys. If you are extending the telcoms user idenity trust model, it's sufficient for a few things, but not anything I'd bet a $10k account reimbursement on at scale. You can actually trust an oauth2 partner for identity assurance with some additional data sets.

Second, (first really) an AuthN method is only as secure as it's recovery process, and so the benefits of adding factors, keys, and protocols are just shuffling cards in the same deck.

Apple can do this because they have a secure element on their phones that can store trusted keys, derive new keys, and facilitate personalization. Android fragmentation means you can't rely on this storage on other devices, and you are reduced to the security of the android ecosystem, which is almost as bad as the windows ecosystem in the 1990s.

So how could something as awful as passwords be better than what you are proposing? They are backed by standards, compliance, and maturity, the risk of a compromise can be passed to the user, they do not provide a false sense of security, it's marginally harder to harvest them from a user base using malware than a stored key.

The only people who have done this well have had a separate hardware device (apple's secure element, yubikey's physical device with an SE, etc.) and Authy/Google authenticator and Duo, which are 2nd factor OTP token providers. The only way to provide value in security is to process in a separate, privileged domain. Without this, there is no security value to add.

The privileged source of "entropy," whether it's as analysis or key material, is the only value we can provide in security. It is literally exogenous assurance. There is no endogenous security.

Maybe I've read your product wrong, but it's so similar to problems I spent time on there are some inevitable blockers I can spare you having to waste weeks or months trying to sound out for yourselves, and perhaps you've found the customer who is ready to make these compromises in exchange for the purported benefits?
Insolvency for US producers, followed by cascading loan failures.
This whole chain of comments started out with the following prompt:

>In what way are dorms worse than personal homes for diseases anyway? Are they not trusting their students to prepare their own food? Why don't they just close the dining halls instead?

Dining halls are inherently a highly trafficked gathering of a large group of people. That is exactly the type of things people are being instructed to avoid. It is likely a losing effort to try to prevent the spread of the disease through a college campus while still running dining halls at normal service levels. And once the decision is made to close the dining halls, you have to look at other options to feed the students. There is no clear answer to that question due to the reasons outline in previous posts so the ultimate response is to just send people home.
Modern Mac OS => iOS + iPhone, and with that addition to your list you’re looking at literally trillions of dollars annually that owe their markets to innovations that grew from NeXT.

I’m sure some of them would have happened anyway in some other form, but that’s still pretty amazing.
Data analysis, some related programming. All stuff I could do from home. And have done from home: For my first kid I was allowed to work from home a few days a week. Then at some point a single employee, literally one, was found abusing WFH (had a second FT job) and the whole practice was banned.
Considering that the Monkees TV show was mostly one big music video, that should have been no surprise.
Your last paragraph makes it impossible to take any of the rest of your argument seriously and it's hard to believe anyone with knowledge on the topics would agree without some asterisks. The rise of natural gas in the US from fracking has done more to cut down their emissions than every renewable category combined (the metrics exclude nuclear for those curious). Similarly, you're stoked at the idea of SAUDI ARABIA, of all people, solidifying its market leverage. Seriously, you consider the Saudis preferable to the Americans? The country whose loose grasp of its extremists enabled 9/11. That Saudi Arabia? You'd rather see OPEC, the group that America stood with Israel against over the Yom Kippur War, grow instead of the Americans? Get a clue, your agenda is nonsensical.
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It might be due to different tires. People in Sydney are very unlikely to be driving tires designed for ice and snow.
https://archive.md/BzVSx
Redis is slower than LMDB? This sounds very hard to believe, since redis operates purely in memory, and all the data structures are designed with that in mind. LMDB does disk writes for every key value set operation. So I find it hard to believe redis is slower than LMDB
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server-side-rendered HTMl with JS sprinkled (yes, that sprinkled JS can contain React). Works for most web apps.
> why not make a car that looks more like their already successful models?

Most auto manufacturers are limited to making things that are profitable. I'm sure any one of them could have easily sold a million electric cars if they were willing to sell them at cost-$10,000 and burn up a couple 10s of billions of dollars.
Many universities (but not MIT) are on a quarter system. I honestly don't know which one is more prevalent.
Self-hosted, super simple photo stream
PHP-s strtotime() will probably handle them all, even though it will make you cringe a bit.

I never understood why simple integer unix timestamps are not more prevalent in API-s? Or some monotonic count from any reasonable epoch, depending on the context. How many APIs really have to ever return dates predating unix?
Let's say you want to have two higher end monitors, those would get you to around $1k each. Coffee machine/dishwasher are cheap. You might also want to invest into some cooking machine or some kitchen equipment that could allow you to prepare healthy meals quickly.
Here's a longer explanation. https://www.brycevandyk.com/dissecting-firefoxs-no-remote-op... By default, Firefox looks for an already running instance and attaches to it, opening a new window in the existing session. --no-remote disables that connecting behavior.
Depends on the dorm, but in some older dormitories there might be maybe one full size kitchen for student use allotted to the entire building.
Or it'll go down as people get distracted by YouTube, video games, family, porn.
Probably a bit of both, but python and other dynamic languages make doing the smart thing very difficult. While I continue to work professionally in both static and dynamic languages, I've observed a few limitations that prevent writing a fast python webserver

- The Global Interpreter lock - you can't avoid forking processes in order to handle concurrent python code.

- 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.

- The pure single-threaded python runtime is 10-100x slower than your typical statically typed language, even when doing everything as carefully as possible you'll be 1-2 orders of magnitude off the best implementation in a statically typed language. Conversely a sloppy implementation in a statically typed language will probably work about as well as the best python implementation.

- Foreign Function Interfaces(FFIs) are slow, in Python an int32 consumes 24 bytes of memory whereas in C the int32 consumes 4 bytes. Stringing together 2 C calls that manipulate an int with python would require 4 allocations and 4 casts. Applications that avoid this overhead have to adopt symbolic APIs that inform an underlying C program how to connect multiple function calls and will grind to a halt if there is any python control flow e.g. TensorFlow.

Most of these limitations tend to be common to other dynamically typed languages such as Ruby, PHP, and Perl. While one can theoretically "drop down to C", it's often not that straightforward in common development scenarios. For businesses that require high(er) throughput, or low(er) latency the time spent fighting the interpreter or the associated AWS bills may not be worth the productivity gains from dynamic types in 2020 when compilers can perform an incremental build in milliseconds.
> no one blue collar who isn't already a hard fan chooses a Tesla

My friend is a Master electrician in the IBEW union. He is in no way a “hard fan” of Tesla. He put down a deposit on the new truck that they are making because he thought it was better than his other options.
FWIW, as a Xoogler, I find I can get pretty far with 1) abseil, 2) grpc, 3) protobuf, and 4) groping around in every open source Google project to find the thing I need (for example, until recently, Cord could be found in random projects but not in abseil). I don't know what it's like for ex-bookfaces but this gets me a good way to my goal, and as a bonus I get to use stuff I wasn't able to at G, like C++17, or io_uring, or even jemalloc.
Coronavirus is far too vague (there are many coronaviruses) and it gets confused with a type of beer. Those other names, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, are only slightly more readable than sha256 hashes and UUIDs. We also don't need the virus and the disease to have separate names, especially not ones that are so unrelated.

The common and original name is "Wuhan virus". That is easy to remember, easy to type, and specific enough. Use it, for better communication.
That's one of those totally worthless pieces of trivia that you can never forget. It works much better if you learn it in the opposite order though - I used to watch the Monkees as a kid, and was fascinated when I learned Michael Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper. It also helps that I'm old enough to remember what Liquid Paper was.
I currently have a stack of pem file management using terraform, lambda and this api.

When creating an ec2, we call a module that creates a tls key, a keypair and an object in a bucket.

This object creating triggers a lambda that downloads the objects contents, namely the pem key and calls the api to save it to 1password as a document.

This newly created document is available to every member that has access to the vault without having direct access to the bucket itself.

Another use I had was to create credentials for sonarqube automatically. We have a relatively large team on github and wanted to add sonarqube to the stack. What I did was just read every members name, email and username from github, create the respective users using sonarqube api and register their credentials using the sdk. It was trivial then to send them a copy of their credentials, a lot easier and less error prone than doing it by hand.

Many other use cases can be thought. You could implement iam key rotation using this. You could share support credentials for your team using 1password and have automated tools read from the same source.

It really just make everything easier to replicate, integrate and manage using this api or the python sdk. The last thing you want is to screw someones credentials because of a human error (typo, forgot to save the password etc...)
Is this an accepted view among historians? I'd like to know more about that.
That’s why there’s an exception for them?
or vice versa. When the crisis does not escalate others will attribute the success to the decisive actions of leaders! "See? We should do this more often to save lives"

Of course who knows what would have happened without the response.
I think they might have to normalize closing campuses and dorms every flu season (All of winter semester). I don’t know why we tolerate the lackadaisical attitude towards a theoretically preventable or slow downable communicable disease.
Depends if you include used car sales in that figure.
The standard Ruby VM (MRI) is about the same speed as the standard Python VM (CPython), aka on the slow end. Twitter famously moved from Ruby to Java/Scala, largely for performance reasons.

Node.js is much faster because V8 is much faster, but it's still basically single threaded, so you need to run process-per-CPU, which is what the original blog post (to which this post is a follow-up) was complaining about.
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But the data so far indicates it’s no more contagious than a common flu (R0: 2-4).

Are all of these 10% hospitalized were hospitalized because they are in a serious condition or because of the panic?

The fact that the panic puts a stress on the healthcare system does not mean the panic is justified.

I’m ok with the panic if the data says this is serious. So, again, do we have such data?
FYI, Galileo was called out because his science was considered shoddy at the time, notably because of the poor quality of instruments that didn't take things like parallax into account. That he turned out to be right afterwards is more of a coincidence. Also, he called the Pope an idiot. The moral of the story isn't that truth prevails despite the evil church, it's that no one likes a contrarian smartass, especially when their arguments are wrong.
The problem with right wing anything is that they often bend the truth. Even you did this in your comment, you say Trump ordered millions of masks weeks ago, but the linked article is not 2 weeks old (it's 9 days old at the most) and the headline has the words "plans to", and the body says 3M hasn't had anyone from the admin contact them.
Why take risks where you can fail when you are getting paid a fat check every month. It’s a “no one was fired for keeping the company running” kind of thing.
Another Googler (joined late 2016). I would say that the orientation has been pretty scripted for a while given the volume of new candidates. It's actually other of the things I would expect to go most smoothly over GVC (video conference) or live stream. Meeting your actual team and learning from them by overhearing conversations and answering questions is going to be the real challenge. I recommend asking to be added to more meetings than you usually would, so you have maximum opportunity to call in and absorb information.
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How do you "think" you have it? Wouldn't you get quarantined if you were likely to have it?
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Right, but... how many $1,000,000 dollar cars get sold with how many $20,000 cars, for "Industry Average" to be $40,000? :D

I notice average for Honda, Kia, Nissan etc in your linked article is $30,000... and that's explicitly exclusive of incentives and whatnots. AND inclusive of their luxury brands (Lexus, Infiniti, etc). That leaves room for lots of $20k cars, given that each of the brands has luxury models skewing the average as well.

It would be interesting to see either median, or # of cars in some representative brackets.
Thanks for this - but its the age-old argument of dynamic language vs static/compiled language mixed with hey bloated libraries! and hey bloated features! etc.

0. Performance isn't everything, especially to a lot of companies where having something at all is more important than just being the fastest

1. Dynamic languages are generally require less LOC, which generally equates to faster implementations

2. Rails, Django, <your favorite dynamic language framework> sure are generally bloated, but being able to drop in a library for nearly anything you need cannot be overlooked. Especially for small-midsize companies, spinning up another app server is generally easier than writing a whole bunch of multi-threaded code.

3. The appserver is generally not the bottleneck, rather, of course, its the database.
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>I'm the opposite, I find Teslas to be (externally) ugly.

I'm 100% with you. The X is one of the most awkward looking SUV's ever made, and the 3 looks awkward past the C pillar. In my opinion their best looking vehicle is the S because it looks correctly proportioned, and also because it has the semblance of a grille, even though it's just black plastic and doesn't actually function as a ICE car's grille.
Google’s allergic to copyleft licenses, so that’s about what I’d expect. But smaller software companies, consider this a sign: want to be FOSS but don’t want the tech giants to swallow your business? Go AGPL, they’ll avoid it like the plague.
why would you create yet another "operating system" a.k.a linux that is specifically built to run container and k8s workloads? another coreos? isn't the world's software insecure enough without the constant barrage of clueless container folks making it more insecure?
> beyond very basic hanging fruit like eliminating monogenic diseases etc.

So it does work.
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I'm sure this is tongue in cheek, but Googlers are just people who also go grocery shopping and have families to feed.
Please don't be a jerk on HN. Also, note this guideline:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>a successful response would be seen by the uninformed as an overreaction.

Seems likely. Since solving the problem would make it look like there was no problem in which case what was the point of all the work.

This is also one of those cases where you have to overreact to begin with because once you have an actual problem its too late.
I thought this was just some crazy fake news but they are planning on studying coronavirus strains. Not the Wuhan Fever strain but other less serious strains.

Heres a link to the company's trail web site if your interested.

https://flucamp.com/
This just doesn't work outside of urban areas. Both rural and suburban need cars and America is built around that concept
Tesla has burned through more money than all of them combined.
This sounds like it is happening before anyone has been infected yet to prevent a future problem.
Can you add the copyright attribution to the map (Mapbox, OpenStreetMap it seems) or at minimum on the /about page? It's part of their terms of service and not optional.
Vast majority of people who contract the virus just have mild cold or flu symptoms. Very small percentage of infected people end up going to hospitals.
I think it can be much more productive if done properly. The problem is most likely of our established companies are only equipped- culturally- to do things the old way.

I’ve never grown more or learned more from other people than in the last 13 months at a remote startup. Even if it all folds over tomorrow I’m better off because of the opportunity. I say all of this as someone who is vocal about the challenges of remote work here and among my friends and colleagues.
Let them have it. All.
Wait until they fall.
Because bikeshedding Gerrit is not fit for merit.
Bitrotten incest is their best.
Fork in silent stealth, away from the screaming masses.
Enjoy the silence, and clear air.
No obnoxious gases anymore, just code and score.
While THEY have nothing to show, except screaming fits.
Dumb shits!
"This is the Memory Palace - I'm Nate DiMeo"

https://thememorypalace.us/2016/02/the-wheel/
That's one possibility; the other is what is happening in Italy right now, i.e. initial 2 weeks of infections are done and now the severe cases remain and pass away. Like in South Korea 98% cases are in progress, so the outcome is not known yet and making any stats out of those is premature (i.e. too optimistic)

I think you're putting forward a weirdly deceptive view that the two possibilities (under-diagnosis and long-dying-process) are exclusive. It seems extremely likely both factors are involved in current statistics - nothing in one excludes the other.

A nation that's systematically testing and finding all the cases will start with a lower death rate and watch it creep upward - but for the manageable number of cases they will see as they get patient quarrantine. A nation or region that's not systematically testing will have a high death and high recovery rate as they only see cases after the fact but then they'll see all cases spike, their health system overwhelmed and things in a mess (ie, Italy now, Hubei earlier).

I'm heartened that the US is now finding more cases rather than just seeing more death but clearly the US slacking on testing and surveillance.
Many decades ago, the health department should have shut down the shared bathrooms and shared bedrooms. We knew it wasn't OK as soon as we agreed upon the germ theory of disease.

It would be great if this disease would finally put a stop to the madness of typical dorm living conditions.

An extra benefit would be a huge reduction in conflict. Roommate conflict is stressful and often leads to violence.
Generally when you’re moving to a new city as a non-student, you’re expecting to have to figure all of that out, plus the apartment you’re moving into will generally have a fridge and stove at a minimum. I don’t know how many students we’re talking about here, but at my university there was a small public-use kitchen in each dorm, but it would be madness to try to feed the whole dorm out of it. It was handy for making late night macaroni after coming home from the bar, but... not so much for everyone eating 3 meals a day.