skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DNSimple has been solid. Easy to understand UI and reasonably priced private registration and other nice features like automatic dns setting templates for various services like gmail etc..
Sure, my pleasure. We use Outlook at work so it's just a matter of clicking on 'Recurrence' on the Ribbon under the Meeting tab and picking your selection.

Don't invite anyone to the meeting, just put whatever info you want to be reminded recurrently in the body of the message or in the Subject and/or Location fields

https://i.stack.imgur.com/h3WJg.png
This is a very dangerous strategy, given the 10% to 20% of the infected cases that will need hospitalization. I would also worry about the fact that the virus will mutate even faster as the number of infected will increase. The UK is heading towards a very difficult time at a period when most countries will be dealing with their own problems and are the least likely to help.

If the UK wants to follow this strategy they should find a way to infect the least likely to die, first. They can then deal with the associated hospitalizations in a more orderly fashion.

Good luck to them, I hope it works.
I had shit GPA and maxed out personal projects and self-taught a masters via MIT / Stanford. I could do research and build just about anything, but political capital is a bitch.

That said, I speak PhD, so I trend towards working with Google folks and people with fancy degrees. So far, my career seems to blow away everyone else I graduated with.

Plan is to work maybe 5 years, then effectively retire to graduate school or family / cave expeditions. Explore, research and build shit for the rest of my life. :) Compound interest should handle the whole 'you gave up salary to do some cool thing'
No such thing... better the return, higher the risk. Fact of life.
The oracles are decentralized

No
The best, most inspiring use of social media I’ve seen
There has to be a trade-off between "social distancing" and being a productive human being which can afford to buy food and medicine and can go to the store to get the goods.

One could make an argument that is more socially responsible to go to a small restaurant than to a crowded store.
Efforts to Control the Coronavirus in the U.S. Could Get Even More Extreme
I'm a former Jaguar developer too, and reading the article was a strange experience, remembering things from ages ago. I'd forgotten most of the details, as well as how it felt.

Also the Atari ST mention. I'm getting all sorts of 80s and 90s flashbacks from that story, of what it "felt" like to program on those machines.

All those fiendishly clever timing and register hacks to make the video and audio hardware do things it wasn't designed to do, well outside their design parameters, and other tricks to make 8-bit and 16-bit machines generally do things nobody thought possible, until it was.

That feeling is something I miss a bit, as it's difficult to find tricks that make the "impossible" possible on modern hardware.

[Edit: I suppose Spectre and friends qualify :-)]
Other countries (mine included) are in almost complete shutdown, with only super markets and pharmacies open. Any other place where people congregate (schools, night clubs, cinemas, cafeterias, restaurants) are closed. This is with fewer than 200 cases country-wide, and it's still probably not going to be enough.

I think there's more the US should be doing.
How to create code snippets in Xcode
Take https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/oaidl/ns-... and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/n... and try to sensibly read a bunch of _EVENTLOGRECORD's of varying lengths. "possible" is technically true but charitable.
To be honest it sounds pretty not clever knowing only 1 language and having your career depend on it
Well, "Clipboard.GetHistoryItemsAsync" does in fact exist. No clue what the rules are for calling it.
I get that you're frustrated. But there are lots of parts of the world that eat bushmeat for various reasons. They persist due to economic challenges that last generations. If you grew up eating a chimpanzee or bat or whatever, because at that time you had to, you might still do it decades later even if you're now wealthier and don't need to.

This isn't specific to China. The most probably cause of SIV => HIV transmission is also bushmeat [1]. The challenge is that many regions of the world have become mobile and interconnected faster than they've removed high-risk "survival activities" (the portion of China near Wuhan is apparently filled with bats, making them an historically important food source). China has banned all wild animal markets, like they did after SARS [2], but it's important to remember that many folks grew up with an incredibly different setting than today in the China/India/Equitorial Guinea of their 1960s childhood.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simian_immunodeficiency_viru...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-bans...
Would you please explain why you think pattern matching is an anti-feature? I used it in Erlang and liked it. I think pattern matching can make code really clear and concise. I missed it when coding profesionally in Java, C++, and Golang. But I never used pattern matching in a large codebase. Maybe I missed its negatives?
> when it detects you are not actively watching the video

How? By its very nature, watching video is passive. Unless they watch you through the camera.

It actually infuriates me when YouTube auto-lowers the resolution (usually because I have slow Internet). I almost always set it to 720p or 1080p, but I have to do it every time because it doesn't remember my setting.
Shea Serrano is a writer for The Ringer. He’s not rich, but he’s doing fine (has written a couple books). However it went to another level in my mind when his followers started paying each other’s bills midway through the thread.
Economic activity supports employment, and large portions of the world economy are being paused. There are many people already losing their jobs over this event. The question at this point is: how bad will it be?
No it isn't. Have you met a startup?
I cannot tell if you are intentionally misreading my statement. If you are not, what I meant is that the union would be removed.
Plenty of us saw this coming as soon as news came out of China - even me [0]. The problem was none of us were able to do anything about it, either on a social or individual level beyond stocking up on food and other essentials in January before the masses panicked.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156140
if you look at graphs of net new cases per day, US is about 2 weeks behind Italy. The current measures are insufficient to prevent it getting as bad.
> All of these other countries, including my own, had the opportunity to see what China was dealing with and to act quickly and decisively to prevent ...

You’re missing my point. Why should the other countries have to keep acting to clean up China’s mess? Shouldn’t China be responsible for that?

Also, given that China concealed the full extent of the outbreak for as long as they could, I disagree that the rest of the world had a fair opportunity to deal with it.
As a host I can confirm. 3 days ago I had March 100% booked. Yesterday the entire 2nd half of the month was empty. I slashed prices and bookings are starting to trickle back in. April is looking really lean, though, and May has multiple bookings from European citizens. It’s only money, not health, but the economic impact of COV-19 seems immense.
A big part of the problem here in the US has been a complete lack of national leadership from Washington, which has left all the various states to come up with policies on what should and shouldn’t be closed on their own. The results are (predictably) all over the place.
It is clear you don't care, and nobody cares about you either. But it isn't just your grandparents. Many young people are caretakers for their parents/grandparents and can't just "cancel the trip". You risk spreading it to them that way.
Packet counts are a poor estimate of cost or usage. They might as well charge customers by the minute with variable rates based on how many hops are required or which companies' "web partners" you visited for all the sense it makes.

Do you know how many 'broadband' customers you can get out of a 1000/1000 strand of fiber? Way more than you'd guess. And at our monopoly rates, you could pay off everything you needed to serve it to them in less time than Comcast's and AT&T's CEOs will spend caring about actually providing service that meets the definition of broadband.
as stated maybe that sounds true, but you can visit a crowded store once with one person and then feed a family of multiple people for a week (perhaps 21 meals).

Multiple people have to visit a restaurant once for each 1 meal.

So on the whole it would seem to scale much better if 1 person per household visits the store once per week, and the store should also not be super "crowded" if everyone is doing the same.
The precautions that would be needed to prevent hospital overloads would be things like nearly shutting down cities. We are seeing some time-buying measures enacted by local governments (event cancellations for example) along with some from the Federal government (border closing). However these measures buy us at most a few days of replication time. Factors like average age and population density slow it down, but that only delays the wall-hitting.
Just wanted to say you're not a sociopath, these guys are being assholes and fear-mongering.
We already have that through congestion control!
The news feel under-informed to me. Much of the backlash against Son is carried-over from his other comment to send free masks to medical personnel. People are “wondering loudly” where on earth does he get so many masks when almost literally nobody in Japan can buy any. Doesn’t his move make the problem worse? The test tweet is under similar fire. How is he going to “provide” these tests? Japanese people are not getting tests not because they cannot afford them, but there is not enough medical resource to run the tests. He offering free tests does not move the needle much, but on the other hand may disrupt the already short-handed medical personnel.

Son has long been criticised in Japan of deception via selective facts. The reputation may or may not be justified (he might just not be good at expressing himself and never felt the need to clarify), but his recent tweets are very on-brand with a bold claim and little detail, and it’s understandable for the Japanese to express the same doubts based on his persumed track record.
Introducing the WebAssembly backend for TensorFlow.js
Where did you get the bit about suicide? I was rather frustrated that author didn't bother to explain the cause of death.
I imagine one way to do it is to make the attacking request to a redirect. Since the back-end conflates the attacking request and the next request (or a portion of the next request), you can get that next request, including the headers (i.e. cookies) as the body/payload redirected to that external site. If the attacker controls that external site, they then can see the cookie data.

Another way would be to make it so the next request is the content of a param which is displayed in some manner. For example, if it's the content to a message post to a slack forum.

Those different than what they outline in the article, but neither seems unlikely to be found on the back-end in some manner. Redirects are often locked down, but not always, and finding something that sends a variable back to you (such as a form port target that you know will error "helpfully") doesn't seem like it would be hard to me.
> If we want security standards, they need to be legislated democratically and applied to all devices -- not left up to consumer choice.

A more important piece of legislation would be to require governmental security agencies to inform companies of the security flaws in their products and to require the companies to fix them. Organisations like the NSA stockpile security flaws in secret in order to exploit the flaws for their own ends.

The WannaCry malware caused worldwide economic damage and was a direct result of the NSA losing control of its EternalBlue exploit. Had the NSA reported the flaw to Microsoft the problem could have been fixed before it ever became a problem:

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

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/16/the-real-roots-of-the-wo...

It's unacceptable that these organisations are permitted to act like cowboys with our common infrastructure. These are not messes I want to spend my days cleaning up.
I still think, consistent (as in ACID) persistence layer is a huge gap in the early design of k8s ecosystem, so it still feels like you're wrangling against the architecture to have something persisted.
A good example is an otherwise excellent Monzo banks's architecture, they've built a very impressive backend it seems:
https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-bac...
but they still had a production outage cause by Kubernetes:
https://community.monzo.com/t/anatomy-of-a-production-kubern...

I really see a big conceptual clash between a consistent database view and k8s ephemeral everything, not sure of object storage is the enswer to that.
It is important to not that this is 1) only for federal loans (so not Sallie Mae or Navient), 2) this is only interest, so you still have your monthly payments (you are paying the same amount, but it goes directly to principal), and 3) this is almost certainly temporary.

Given this, specifically #2, I'm not sure that this really helps people that are having financial problems __right now__. You are paying the same bill after all.
You may not be able to import them.

It's likely that if you literally fly out, buy them, pack them in a suitcase and fly home they'd make it, but if you try to buy a crate of obviously non-compliant Product X and it arrives at a port there's a reasonable chance somebody says "This Product X is non-compliant, so, why the hell is that here?" and you're not going to receive it.

You might think well, surely they don't look in most crates. And they don't. They don't look in the forty identical crates of compliant seatbelts going to Ford, because why would Ford be like "Hey, let's order 39 crates of complaint ones, but order 40 crates with #8 non-compliant to kill a few customers as a joke" ?

They're going to look in your crate because you never ordered any crates of seatbelts before, and "Bo Yang Belts" never sent anybody in your country a crate of anything before. Because their products aren't compliant to anybody's standards and so you're their first foreign sale.

But actually you may never even get to buy them. The huge first world economies like the EU and US order such enormous volumes of stuff and require compliance to their standards that it just often doesn't make sense to make Product A for them and then also Product B that's much worse but a bit cheaper for domestic use. I wouldn't like to guess if seatbelts are such a product.
> Cannot stay 2 meters away at the check stand. How would that work?

There are plenty of photos Italians queuing up two meters apart, so just maintain extra space like they do?
Rhinovirus is responsible for the common cold, not corona virus. I have no idea how that article doesn’t mention that. The corona viruses you link to do not change year to year in a way that evades the immune system like influenza does. And there is no evidence that this corona virus changes in the way that influenza does. If you have evidence that it does, then post it.

This is just unbelievable. Here I am citing a virologist who studies this for decades and is an expert. He says with no ambiguity that corona viruses that are responsible for a small fraction of colds do not change themselves to evade the immune system like the flu. And your source is a Wikipedia article that doesn’t even claim that those corona viruses do that. And then you make this wild assumption that an expert is suffering from some kind of mental bias, meanwhile you and everyone else is suffering from the oldest, most well known and most common and obvious mental bias of all time which is fear and panic in the face of the unknown. Which do you think is more likely? Do you even have any kind of background in biology? You vapid insufferable twit.
Yes. Huge amounts of it. It is less relevant as time goes on but almost every .NET job will require you using some VB.NET.
We don't have nearly enough isolated ICU beds or ventilators on hand if we take what happened in China and Italy as a warning.

The sad thing to me is that there is at least one American company that still makes ventilators here in the states, but they reported that they haven't been asked to ramp up production.

They even make a simplified and hardened version of a ventilator specifically aimed at meeting surge demand during a pandemic, so the engineering effort has already been done.

http://www.alliedhpi.com/mcv.htm
Namecheap. Cheap, decent UI, good customer service.
Wait. How does this work? I have an small spray gun that I use for small metal and wood projects that I hook to an air compressor. It can be used for smaller detail work on cars. Is there a way to reclaim my paint or is this just for larger industrial processes?
As I have said here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22572536 , DOCSIS 3.0 supports 216 Mbps usable upload capacity with 8 upstream channels, halved to 108 Mbps with 4 upstream channels. That speed is, however, shared with ALL users on a CMTS, which could be dozens or a hundred, since the coaxial infrastructure is based on a shared medium where all devices connect to one physical cable that leads to the CMTS and share the available RF bandwidth.

You could sell 1 user 100 Mbps upload with 4 channels, and have one user on a CMTS. You can also sell 6 Mbps upload to 36 users, guaranteeing them 100% of the capacity, or to 72 users, guaranteeing them 50% of the capacity.

It is not feasible to sell packages with more than 50 Mbps upload on most coaxial networks (even HFC, if there are many users, i.e. more than one apartment building connected to a node) as users will not be able to use the full capacity, and the speed will inevitably drop to the sub-10 Mbps level, but the user will be unsatisfied as they are paying for and expecting higher speeds.
A brand name that starts with “Flu” seems risky right now.
Ask HN: What Happened to Digital Ocean?
Not too long ago DO was touted as the #2 cloud behind Amazon [1]. I'll grant that was always a little suspect but it really seems like things have gone off the rails in recent years:

- in 2016 Moisey Uretskey literally Q&Aing on "What happened to DigitalOcean?" on Quora [2]

- in 2018 Ben Uretskey handing off to Mark Templeton [3]

- in 2019 replaced by Yancey Spruill [4]

- in 2020 laying off 10% of the company [5]

How do you go from one of the most hyped IaaS companies to suddenly losing steam? If it worked for them from 10m - 100m ARR, how do they lose steam from 200-275m? Its not like the market for their stuff is that small, Azure and even GCP have proved that. I'd love for some perspectives from people who know this market, because it's baffling to me.

1: https://a16z.com/2016/01/06/a16z-podcast-what-software-developers-and-therefore-every-company-need-2/

2: https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-DigitalOcean

3: https://blog.digitalocean.com/the-next-wave-digitaloceans-new-ceo/

4: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/30/digitalocean-gets-a-new-ceo-and-cfo/

5: https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/17/digitalocean-layoffs/
right. Sociopath is that guy who tested positive for covid-19 and still got on a JetBlue plane.
>Iran

Potential Chinese client state

>Italy

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47679760

Italy joins China's New Silk Road project

>Japan

Par East Asia competition and nose thumbing

>SK

Ibid.

>Spain

"Does the EU really mean anything to you in times of crisis?"

It's the usual astute PRC maneuvering.
I think it's partially because we're taught to treat "Apps" like candy, and "Applications" like something a bit... well... more?

At some level, I think this means that the expectation is that I should just, on a whim, download and play with an App. But when it comes to Applications, I should do my homework. Plus, Apple's already done my homework for me amiright /s.

This is of course completely backwards, since the App Store doesn't let me try before I buy, while Applications (as I'm trying to use the term) exist on platforms with less hostile restrictions.

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It's also partially because we're becoming more sensitive to these issues as society, and most people use their phones a lot more than their computers, honestly.
While I totally agree with what you say here, I think it goes deeper. Some devs/shops are complicit in this, knowingly adding dependencies for shady reasons.
LineageOS has a "Trust HAL" [0] for restricting USB gadgets while a device is locked.

Android (AOSP) also has a "Default USB Configuration" setting deep in the Developer Options [1] to set a device to MTP, PTP, RNDIS, charging etc...

A device would have to be really misconfigured by either the user or the OEM to allow plugging in a USB cable to extract system from the userdata partition without user input or awareness; or someone is just burning 0days on the general public.

0. https://review.lineageos.org/q/topic:%22trust-usb%22+(status...

1. https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/dev-options
It bothers me how much good computer science Facebook does with the proceeds from something that has basically helped destroy the fabric of society.
Brutal. Restaurants are already often hanging on by a thread.

Over 400 closed in SF last year[1] due to the high cost of doing business there - some that had been operating for over 20 years. And that was with normal demand! Imagine now that their traffic has dropped 51%?

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/411-restaurant-closures-...
It's been a very difficult, helpless feeling watching this all happen. A lot of people were watching from afar what occurred in Wuhan, then saw it spread to SK, Japan, and eventually Italy. When Disney and Starbucks shut down in China it was extremely concerning, and when FoxConn shut down it was terrifying.

I've been telling my friends and family that they should be gathering extra food, medications, etc. if for no reason other than the coming supply chain disruptions. At first they laughed, but at this point they seem like they're actually mad at me, and in some senses blame me for the currently bare shelves in supermarkets. It sucks.
Wuhan: Life Under Lockdown