skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't know to what extent the "best practices" even apply in most of these settings. pretty much everything about good, clean code is either not relevant or needs to get thrown out the window as soon as it hurts performance in any way. There's typically no concept of "deployment" or "uptime" or "configuration" -- you are just running programs until they write out a result.

good testing is a relevant best practice and increasingly scientists are recognizing this.
I'm more partial to a self-contained binary type of solution -- C or Go, in this case. But that toolkit does look like a valuable source of inspiration. Thanks!
Naval Ravikant on Coronavirus [video]
WSL 1 and Expo don’t play nice with each other; Expo was causing ephemeral port exhaustion and making both Windows and Linux unusable. WSL 2 should fix, but I don’t want to jump to an insider build quite yet.

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/2913
National Library of Medicine historical AV collection: nearly 10k titles
Well, those guys are building something vastly more complex than advertising software, possibly without agile and scrum, and they deliver high stake working software.

Likewise, I've seen agile purists deliver totally broken login screens.

The difference, in my opinion, lies in the software's end goal; software you write for a NASA space flight might kill the astronaut you've met at NASA. Software you write for a login screen won't, as it's not as high stake. You're probably going to put on your head phones, pick a YouTube playlist, scroll through JIRA, and meme around on slack.

We've evolved thousands of years fighting real physical threats, and we have implemented processes to deal with these physical threats in order to survive. A JIRA ticket for a broken login screen just does not trigger the same brain pattern response as your astronaut friend burning to death during orbital re-entry.
It was my first email account ever, I would have been a paying customer if they asked. Or I would have been able to atleast download some important documents and pictures.

But they didn't even send a single warning or notification. I was also not aware when they added the inactive account policy to their terms.

Very stupid policy, whoever at Yahoo/Verizon made this decision.
It’s even worse than that, there’s a freight elevator in the building, but the other moving companies were either not told about it or not allowed to use it. The company that ended up moving the piano used the freight elevator. All of this could’ve been solved long before by just using the freight elevator, perhaps there’s more to this story?
My device runs Android without Google Play Services. Signal has often presented a feature to use its own HTTP WebSocket notification services after I freshly upgrade my phone by re-installing an upgraded ROM. It's not specific to any release of Signal, it just happens when it doesn't detect Google Play Services. There is a process to correct this and make it use microG which is much easier on battery life. microG still connects to Google's notification services, but there is no Google malware on the device. From what I can tell, Signal only uses Google's services to "wake up" the connection to Signal to check for new messages.
I believe it is still using virtio. Therefore, disk read/writes are not good enough compared to other virtualization tech such as qemu
iOS now requires Sign On with Apple alongside other auth providers
Ask HN: What is the coolest open source project you've seen in the past year?
There was a great scene in a sci-fi story from decades ago...

Aliens came. A farmer, hiding in his barn, saw them snooping around. They came across a rattlesnake and were about to blast it.
This -- the threat to the snake -- emboldened the farmer to get his shotgun and go out and confront the aliens.

The gist was that the snake and he were on the same side vis-a-vis the aliens... they were both Earthlings and needed to stick up for one another.
Azure also doesn't have an SLA, so that's why they don't charge.

Google started charging after they added an SLA.
The underlying assumption that there's some crucial process "education" happening at these buildings that mustn't be interrupted is daft.

The damned things close every summer and nobody loses their minds.

Keep your kids home. They won't turn into mindless thralls from missing a few weeks of "education".
Better go to where you can delete your Google account entirely. It's baffling to me that people would voluntarily submit themselves to the kind of invasive surveilance Google conducts.
Depends on which asset classes are used.
You'll notice in this case only the headline refers to code as "codes." It is referred to as "source code" in the rest of the article. Probably a mistake by the editor.
But in this case the program also creates the computer it runs on.
I can access my Hue bulbs over the internet without using Phillips' servers. I doubt Phillips' app will do this, but there are other apps that will, such as Hue Pro.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benchevoor...
Opinion – Are You an Anti-Influencer?
Linux Marketing Campaigns. Ever
What's the obstacle for making the Pebble framework open now that Pebble is gone?
There's the issue. What we need is complete automation, with fully automated machine-learning based students. This will help vendors attract more users and raise additional capital, and keep people employed.
You can walk around some Half-Life: Alyx environments in VR now, so I have
What is proprietary about Fargate? It's containers. I did not find any experience/knowledge (other than the basic knowledge of navigating the AWS console) that wouldn't transfer to any other container service.
Can I run a single process in a Firecracker microVM, or do I need to bring a full distro?
I doubt, and rightfully so anyway. It's a full system, you need to operate it, not to dissect and build upon. Same like your car on-board computer, you don't have access to its source code, you only need how to steer the car on your way to work and back.
> I was born in 1976. I understand that in the eyes of millennials 1976 is around the same time period as 1796. My son sometimes asks me if TV was invented when I was a child.

Assuming these sentences are somehow connected, and you have a millenial son (which you got by the time you were about 20), and at around 25 or so he is still uncertain whether TV was invented in the 70s; I'm sorry, but he is a bit ignorant at best.

Otherwise you are being more than a bit condescending towards a group of people, some of whom are little more than 5 years your junior...
The future now: this week in patents
Netflix will have to adjust their business model in order to stay competitive.

They sowed the seeds of that years ago when they started building their own content -- Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, and so forth.

They could license their technology to the other streaming services for IP revenue.

They could start advertising.

They could branch into AR/VR, music services, data cataloging, more interactive content, and so forth.

They can continue their international push.

They could sell their engineering services as a consultancy (Chaos Monkey!). They could build 5G-enabled multimedia content. So on and so forth.

In short, even though their primary market is now being sucessfully encroached, they have enough of the FAANGM knowledge capital to pivot profoundly. I look forward to seeing what Reed Hastings does next.
Searching for Coronavirus inhibitors: Rapid screening and open data
Gift Giving Traditions Around the World
IIRC the recommended way to provide possibly missing storage drivers to Windows XP installer was via floppy disk. XP was the go to Windows version in practice until Windows 7 release in 2009!
>Sufficiently expensive

I think people are just as mortified over the 1985 case where Philadelphia police firebombed a drug den and burnt down an entire block of lower-income housing. The police should pay for collateral damage, because it forces the public to reevaluate what kind of police action is worth the trouble of violence and destruction (versus earlier social interventions).

Likewise, if you find it offensive that police would be more careful with a wealthy property owner's possessions than with others, maybe that should prompt a reevalution of what kinds of wealth disparities are acceptable.
> disk read/writes are not good enough

This is an odd thing to say; surely that depends on the application? I doubt most FaaS users are disk IO-bound?
> children often end up congregating elsewhere in even closer contact

Well that's just fucking stupid. The situation isn't "get out of school", it's "stay home".

> stay open until there are actual cases associated with the schools.

That's really fucking stupid. By then it's too late.
Correct. It should.
This would have been much better as an NYT video. Their video team does a bangup job. It would have been interesting to watch how the movers handled that corner in realtime.
I get an error when trying to open any video :

Ooops, some error occurred :(
Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmpphtr8ehu/accompaniment.aac'

When running on the official Windows 10 SandBox (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-kernel-intern...)

Edit: it somehow works for some songs. The concept is really nice. I love it.
OpenNebula’s New Microsoft Azure Driver for Hybrid Clouds
How can a investor give advices on impact of a virus that is new?
... except you don't need physical or visual access to clone an electronic key, just proximity.

Which is straightforward when you want to steal a particular vehicle because you know where it is and can easily follow its patterns.
Music for Deep Work
I thought virtio was higher performance; why would that make it "not good enough"?
For me, I am most excited about MLFlow. Having worked in this space for awhile, good MLOps is a wonderful thing!

But I am always curious what else people are doing to save the world or, at minimum, make life better/cooler/smarter.
Classic case of Halo effect

>the tendency for positive impressions of a person, company, brand or product in one area to positively influence one's opinion or feelings in other areas

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
Twitter thread with more explanation:
https://twitter.com/MartinWalshDLS/status/123635508358517964...

An unrelated paper describing an inhibitor:
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30229-4
If too many people get this simultaneously we will overwhelm the healthcare system and this will switch from tragedy to horror. Everyone please do everything you can to avoid catching and spreading this until we have enough testing to track this and respond effectively.
Well a managed kubernetes cluster is not any more complex than the other solutions.

You can use GCP control panel to launch clusters, add nodes, launch containers expose and autoscale them without touching a single line of config file or a terminal if thats what you like. If you launch / manage your own cluster though.. It’s a pain.
Egress costs at those major clouds are ridiculous. Once you start having some traffic it can easily make 50% of all costs or more. That is not justifiable! Meanwhile hardware costs are going down. We need more k8s providers with more resonable pricing. Unfortunatelly both Digital Ocean and Oracle Cloud don't have proper network load balancer implementations which is a must for elastic regional clusters and to forward TCP in a way that client IP is preserved and be able to add nodes without downtimes or TCP resets. OVH cloud doesn't implement LoadBalancer service type at all. So the choice in 2020 is really just Google, Amazon, Azure with their rolls-royce pricing. The cost difference between them is neglible. And then there are confidential free credits for startups. So sad...
Don't get me wrong, I am not being a contrarian for the sake of it, and I'm willing to be proved wrong and would be happy to find out someone has solved this. I just can't see how - related to your point about Brave punishing privacy invading ads - forcing advertisers to behave can be done effectively. Do Brave hire an army of ad referees to check if they meet Brave's criteria for privacy invasion (I doubt it)? Does it only let through same-origin, static ads that are part of the HTML source of the site? That'd be great but I also doubt it. Do I have to trust Brave to curate the ads I am allowed to see? Because they're also profit driven and have investors to please and I would not give them my trust lightly either. I'd be interested to find out how Brave actually achieve privacy respecting and non-attention invading ads.
> All I'm saying is that since we're no longer compute-bound, I'd like to see more big-picture thinking. We're so obsessed with getting 99% accuracy on some pattern-matching test that we completely miss other options.

There are so many people working in this field now, you can be sure a lot of them are doing big picture thinking.

> I'd like to see a mathematical proof showing that these and all other approaches to AI like simulated annealing are (or can be made) equivalent. Sort of like a Church–Turing thesis for machine learning:

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you are saying, but I think the different optimization techniques/Metaheuristics you’re talking do actually have provably different properties.
It's not advice. It's an opinion piece.
You don't know that GPS was required, nor whether or not cell records were subpoenaed as part of this investigation. All we have is what Google told the guy in the story.

And as far as Apple, I don't think that's true. Apple has a location history feature just like Google does. If that data ever reaches their machines in a non-anonymized way, then it's subject to subpoena just like anyone else's data is. Do you have a cite that explains why this is impossible?
Maybe not your corporation per se. But the fact that corporations, which are legal fictions, can be created is because many societies have deemed them to be, on balance, beneficial. Once the balance goes the other way, things should, and are likely to, change.

Also, you are exhibiting all the signs of a troll. Please reconsider the way you are presenting your opinions.
At scale, some companies do employ folks dedicated to producing tests, yes.
Doesn't matter if it's multi-cloud or not, the HTTP server Netlify are using still has HTTP/2 issues

Suggest you look at at few more Contentful sites in DevTools the Contentful site itself has no content in it's HTML and requests all content as JSON which is then rendered via JS components.

The content is in all the page-data.json responses in this waterfall - https://www.webpagetest.org/result/200307_EQ_e60b0b3388b452b...
Is it so outlandish to you that someone would promote a cryptocurrency because they will personally benefit from its success?

Crypto holders shilling for their flavor of coin is a meme at this point.
What tools exist to analyze use of pipelines and caches?
Even before all of this tech, if you looked suspicious you would get stopped or worse. A story was when I moved to a different state, I went out walking in my new area. Exploring the suburbs. I had brought a book with me, and it was starting to rain. I kept my book under my shirt to protect it. As I went home, I was suddenly stopped by four police cars; apparently a resident thought my book was a gun, and I was casing the area or something and the suburb I walked through must have been worried about crime. It was darkly funny to show them my book, which was a defense of political civility. It stopped me from walking there, though, as long as i lived there.

I think one aspect of this is the surprise that an engineer would get swept up in this, but this isn't really something that can be solved by tech.
there is no reason why the average person retaining a lawyer can't go through the effort of finding one they are comfortable with.

You are vastly overestimating the ability of an "average" person to be able to understand and analyze legal complications for themselves. The average person, for example, does not have a college degree [1], let alone a degree in a technical subject that has trained them in analytic reasoning.

[1] Only 37% of people age 25-30 in the US have a bachelors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...
I'm certainly not up for censorship. A lot of it just comes across as American power projection (always the good guy American torturing the bad foreigner doing evil things), which I guess is just a fact of life unless you avoid Hollywood and stick to international/art house cinema. Aside from glorifying war and torture, it's such a low-effort cliche and it fails at evoking disgust when it's shrouded in a plot that absolves the good guys of all wrong doing. You know, the end justifies the means, and a side-effect is that now people think torture is good so long as you think the victim is bad.

Imagine how many people in Guantanamo have been subjected to over a decade of this treatment under the utterly delusional belief that they must have some information to offer and cannot, under any circumstance, be innocent, so therefore they deserve it.

As a counter-example, Antichrist features some scenes that could be seen as torture if the story was reframed. Same with Nymphomania. While that kind of shock value is par for the course for Lars von Trier, it doesn't necessarily celebrate it. I'm sure plenty wanted to ban or censor that; I just wanted to see something genuinely disturbing.
Added back now. I had to take out "conceptual" but I think it's implied anyhow.
I wish there was some mechanism to pay for websites out of your monthly bill. You pay x for internet, and y% is proportionally used to pay for your visits to websites a,b,c.

You wouldn’t have to pay to host your site or worry about it bogging down if its been posted on reddit or hn, if it is payed for by visiting users out of their monthly bill to their ISP.
It served its purpose nudging the relational databases to implement stellar JSON data type and querying support.

That was its purpose, and I think that's beautiful.
While simple actions o prevent spread are probably not unreasonable (why aren't we doing these every flu season)? I think the scale of horror is grossly misperceived. For example, It's most likely that the scale of death from covid-19 will be at least one, if not two orders of magnitude lower than annual vehicular deaths in the us.
Hmmm that’s cute now that you mention it, but didn’t add value IMHO. The piece was cool, despite the UX.
if it's the government's fault, I would say it does (or should) owe you compensation.
Yes, it is absolutely more limited. That, single-IP load balancers, and no direct equivalent of VPCs spring to mind as the biggest differences. AWS still makes a lot of sense in a lot of cases. It is worth noting DO has a decent API, so if wouldn't be _that_ hard to implement autoscaling yourself if you needed it.
The piece does contain one bit of advice, "young healthy people should try to avoid getting Covid-19 for as long as possible."
Software+-+Tutorials
Which of qemu's many disk technologies are you proposing as an alternative?
I’m not sure it is. Look up tests per capita. As of March 2nd Italy was at 386 and USA was at 1

To look at found cases and assume that is a reflection of reality at this point is wishful thinking
> My dad always told me the first rule of business is "know your customer."

Is your dad a prominent VC?
Heh. My kids ask me what it was like to see the dinosaurs.

(And, yes, they know. They're pestering me, but they're not stupid.)
The issue with Scrum is everything revolving around 2 week sprints. That doesn’t allow for much in terms of variability, longer term scheduling, or planning dependencies across multiple teams. Plus, in order to try to make the commitment/forecast accurate you have to invest a hefty amount of planning time every 2 weeks.

The Scaled Agile (SAFe) approach is dramatically better here. You plan 8-12 weeks at a time across all teams and invest heavily in planning for 2-3 days of that entire time period. The planning time is synced up for all dev teams so they can communicate and work out cross dependencies.

The other perk here is that you’re goal is to commit to the 12 weeks and not every 2 weeks. That allows for more ups and downs and there’s a built in 1.5 week buffer at the end specifically to account for overrun.

You end up with a clear picture of what’s coming in the next quarter or so without flavor of the week course changes outside of a significant emergency.
Most other places will have a mix of high rise and low rise, tight spaces and plenty of space. NYC tends to be mostly tight and high.
Spectrolab XTJ Prime cells are 30.7% efficient (and fall to 26.7% over 15 years), but I suspect they are on the order of $10-100/W as they are space rated and the minimum order quantity is not kind. The LCOE of them is amazing if you are building something in orbit, not so much for things on the ground or air.
> Culture of concealment, production pressure, self-oversight, conflicts of interest, faulty assumptions

Funny - these same attributes are prevalent at my employer. But all we do is make software.
The argument that won Amazon an injunction against Microsoft’s Jedi win
Is this a contest for how to convey the least amount of useful information in the space of 1 blog post? Why even waste the time? Just say "it's probably bad" and move on. I'm willing to bet you have little to no idea what cascading effects are impacting treasury yields. It's just a finance news talking point.
There are quite a few universal vaccines in the works. The window for a truly horrific pandemic is closing.

https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/ending-pandemic-t...
"Ah yes, let’s build a park around a nuclear reactor"
The New York Times doesn't have ads in its printed edition anymore?
How does loser-pays protect the poor? As noted above, unless you have significant resources, bringing suit against a large corporate entity is extremely risky, as you could get stuck paying for their army of lawyers, paralegals, and investigators.

In the US system, a poor person can bring suit, using a lawyer working on contingency, and not fear for being stuck should they lose.

Your argument seems to hinge on the "correct" party always winning, but that's far from the case.
Funky Karts Demo Game
I doubt they have missed out on anything, except riddling their software with bugs. I’m just glad that my engineering software just plain works. The people who write those applications typically come from an engineering background, and they are definitely not brogrammers.
As mentioned above, it’s supposed to mimic stairs.
Jira is just a tool. Blame the players, not the game. Or, in this case; the users, not the tool.

Developers just want to know what they're supposed to be working on. Managerial types want to know what people are working on, when things will be done, and goodness knows what else. You obviously need to give developers the room and time to get actual development done. But at the same time, unless you work for a truly tiny company, there's always going to be some level of crap reporting that feels useless to most developers, but is important to someone else.

It's hard to strike a balance that works for everyone.
Proji 0.19.1: The powerful project scaffolding tool now supports cross-platform
On another note, I really hate to be called a "coder". I am a programmer
Previous discussions at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(Reposts are ok after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Note that the population of Italy is 15x that of Oregon, so the proportional rate of testing is much closer.
For everyone else, this is pegging Covid-19 deaths to ~36,000 [0]

(was curious)

[0] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state...
>Core concept is to get people to return to the platform (daily) because of FOMO.

Is that how it works?

Hell, this is a whole new darkness level in abusing human behavior patterns. How far is it from an actual drug dealing?