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Ask HN: Cheapest way to host user submitted images? S3, Beluga, Imgix?
People can create listings like craiglist and submit pictures.

I want to host and serve these images as cheaply as possible.
Original SARS outbreak was zoonotic, not a lab escape, and SARS-CoV-2 very likely is, too. It is an odd coincidence that it appeared to start near a research lab which contained SARS samples, but maybe the lab was created in that area in the first place due to it being a region full of biological diversity, including among viruses?
Shameless plug for a thing I maintain, which is in the config management space but a little bit different from the usual tools: https://github.com/sipb/config-package-dev#config-package-de...

config-package-dev is a tool for building site-specific Debian packages that override the config files in other Debian packages. It's useful when you have machines that are easy to reimage / you have some image-based infrastructure, but you do want to do local development too, since it integrates with the dpkg database properly and prevents upgraded distro packages from clobbering your config.

My current team uses it - and started using it before I joined the company (I didn't know we were using it when I joined, and they didn't know I was applying, I discovered this after starting on another team and eventually moved to this team). I take that as a sign that it's objectively useful and I'm not biased :) We also use some amount of CFEngine, and we're generally shifting towards config-package-dev for sitewide configuration / things that apply to a group of machines (e.g. "all developer VMs") and CFEngine or Ansible for machine-specific configuration. Our infrastructure is large but not quite FAANG-scale, and includes a mix of bare metal, private cloud and self-run Kubernetes, and public cloud.

I've previously used it for

- configuring Kerberos, AFS, email, LDAP, etc. for a university, both for university-run computer labs where we owned the machines and could reimage them easily and for personal machines that we didn't want to sysadmin and only wanted to install some defaults

- building an Ubuntu-based appliance where we shipped all updates to customers as image-based updates (a la CrOS or Bottlerocket) but we'd tinker with in-place changes and upgrades on our test machines to keep the edit/deploy/test cycle fast
Leonard Susskind – Why Does Mathematics Work? – Differential Equations in Action
It's even more impressive that this is only a three-cylinder engine. It is super exciting to see Freevalve in a production car (even though it is generally unobtainable for the vast majority of people). I have high hopes that this tech will be licensed out and used in more affordable ICE cars.
That's not true. Obama gave the US government processes for dealing with one. That was the function of the NSC, and specifically the pandemic response unit. It was in response to the Ebola outbreak. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-cuts-nation... has a reasonable history.

The problem is that people are dumb and forgetful.
I often see the claim that K3S is much more "lightweight" than upstream K8S. Is this difference really that significant in practice?

I just bootstrapped K3S and kubeadm single node clusters to compare.

k3s-master Ready master 24m v1.17.3+k3s1 10.10.10.64 <none> Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS 4.15.0-88-generic containerd://1.3.3-k3s1

kubeadm-master Ready master 17m v1.17.4 10.10.10.21 <none> Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS 4.15.0-88-generic containerd://1.2.13

root@k3s-master:~# k top nodes

NAME CPU(cores) CPU% MEMORY(bytes) MEMORY%

k3s-master 43m 2% 643Mi 16%

root@kubeadm-master:~# k top nodes

NAME CPU(cores) CPU% MEMORY(bytes) MEMORY%

kubeadm-master 65m 3% 769Mi 20%
Ask HN: How do you deploy your applications?
Most people seem to be using Kubernetes these days, but seems way too big for small to medium-sized business. What are the rest of you doing when you deploy your applications? Using dedicated / VPS / cloud? Containers / Binaries / JAR files? Using anything like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or the like?
> new implementation of TLS in the kernel

This sounds like insanity to me. Is there an old implementation of TLS?
Well then good news, because it turns out you don't need an authoritarian government, just your local supermarket chain to decide that they'd prefer to retain their existing customer base:

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/fiag4b/handing_o...

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/fiajl0/props_to_this_...
it’s not that most governing magically happens at the local/state level, but that the US govt is explicitly designed such that the state is the canonical governing unit, delegating responsibility to both cities/counties and deferring very limited powers to the federal level.

we’re not designed to have many national programs to address domestic issues. it’s up to the states to address domestic issues, with the added benefit that the country can iterate faster to solutions through states working on them in parallel and piggybacking on each others’ successes.
You can say the same about any field. Nobody understands all of physics. Or biology. Or finance. That shouldn't prevent us from giving them clear places to start and giving them overviews.
Cyclecar
Moon-Eyed People
Yes, that's the headline. But the article is specifically about Corona and quite detailed:

> Coronaviruses are a genus of bugs that cause respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, sometimes mild and sometimes fierce, in humans, other mammals and birds.

...

> Another reason is that coronaviruses as a group are very changeable, very protean, because of their high rates of mutation and their proclivity for recombination: when the viruses replicate, their genetic material is continually being inaccurately copied — and when two virus strains infect a single host cell, it is often intermixed. Such rich genetic variation gives them what one expert has called an “intrinsic evolvability,” a capacity to adapt quickly to new circumstances within new hosts.

...

> Bats, though wondrous and necessary animals, do seem to be disproportionately implicated as reservoir hosts of new zoonotic viruses...
A few days back, there was a Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything") thread with a UK doctor who mentioned a similar situation in Italy. Here's the thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fgfspi/im_a_cr...

The doctor says:

> Italy exceeded their critical care capacity days ago.

...

> This is the first time I have seen guidelines in a first world country suggest that older patients (who have survivable illness) are not considered for intubation and ventilation in order to allow capacity to treat younger patients.

It isn't clear that the situation got so bad that they actually needed to make these kinds of hard choices, but the thread links to a document with guidelines in case it's necessary. And apparently those guidelines do include considering age when choosing who not to treat, should such a situation arise.

From a machine translation (the original is Italian) posted further down in that same thread:

> Recommendations

> *3. It may be necessary to place an age limit on entry into TI. It is not a question of making choices merely of value, but to reserve resources that could be very scarce for those who are primarily more likely to survival and secondarily to those who can have more years of life saved, with a view to maximizing of benefits for most people.
I would buy 10 because that would last me 2 months (current expectation) to a year (normal usage), so I don't need to think about it for a wbile and, yes, I would not need to worry that they would run out.

"I expected that (because my locality had announced anti-price-gouging laws) I could go back and buy another one if I needed it"

Anti-price-gouging laws might stop people selling at high prices near you, but they don't stop people buying up all local supply, and re-routing it to places without such laws.
Obama tested 1 million Americans the month after h1n1 broke out in America. Your memory seems to be quite selective.
Count me in!

> revisit the concept of an Uber-like platform for healthcare delivery

Where has this been discussed before? There are lots of referral services, some of them charities, some of them private businesses. For example, in Washington state there's the Korean Women's Association: https://www.kwacares.org/
Get a dedicated instance at Hetzner and stop paying for the imaginary "premium traffic" that you have to pay elsewhere. Not a affiliate but a happy customer that is making good use of their unlimited traffic.
Japan does virtually no tests at all for example. On the other hand South Korea is a lot more into testing everyone.
Reddit seems a good suggestion, did not think about it.
I will hit all social channels to find a community.
Thanks!
I think you got my point backwards. I wasn't justifying including bad code.

> ...we included just because...

Bob from marketing is the one who asked for the integration.

> We should talk to Bob from marketing to make sure...

Bob has no clue about this stuff.

We're not asking Bob what the SDK is doing, we're telling him. And any other decision makers in the vicinity.

Then we see whether the decision about the SDK changes. If not, we have to make our own personal ethical decision about what to work on.
Yes! They also reduce unexpected side-to-side pack movement which helps to avoid losing balance when clambering over rough terrain.
Poor people not getting to have toilet paper is not an acceptable solution.
>Protections like this are useful in the short term.

Explain how this "protection" will stop the stated problem of people hoarding and reselling. Since when have fines or punishment stopped black markets from existing?

>It already failed so I don't see why suggesting the status quo is useful.

"The car brakes couldn't decelerate the car fast enough, they failed, so I don't see why suggesting better brakes is useful." Decentralized, free market pricing is enormously robust and flexible and has allowed the global economy to flourish. But since it has failed you, what would you like to replace it with?
The idea that the correct solution to this is that supermarkets should be charging the same as the profiteering hoarders (say $20 for a small hand sanitiser and $40 for a pack of toilet rolls) is totally insane to me. This isn't some mythical free market model in a textbook, this is the real world, where real people live. Luckily society in general, through its laws, social judgement, etc... agrees to some extent that this level of greed shouldn't exist.
It's interesting that in naturally aspirated mode, the engine creates around 280hp. That's right around what SUVs and Crossovers are currently producing.
This engine has a real potential to be a game-changer; if the freevalve tech can be made cheap enough and reliable enough for mass production, it could really improve average efficiency and emissions for a large number of cars. Great Tech!
Mycroft can only kinda sorta be run offline according to the project/company: https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/about-mycroft-ai/faq
>>The other issue is people, like in the article, just buying up a bunch of stuff so that other people literally can only buy from the opportunist.

While I am sure there are opportunists as you call them, that is not the primary reason people are buying up the stocks of goods. Most people are not bulk buying with the intent on reselling.

>>Consider the battle for concert tickets, which the band might sell for $20 but a scalper would buy and try to resell for $100.

That is not what is happening right now, and personally i have no issues with scalpers but I am also anti-social and never attend events for which a scalper would be able profit from. The solution to scalping is not price gouging laws, but non-transferable tickets, or individually named tickets. Many events are already doing that because the practice of scalping hurts attendance and the fan base. No government intervention is needed to resolve that issue

>but it’s fine for a society to determine it’s better for everyone

This will be our deviation point in philosophy, I am an individualist, holding the individual rights are in fact more important thank what society determines to be "better"
End all meat agriculture and urban sprawl globally, and the risks of developing novel pandemics would fall precipitously. They are the major sources and they are entirely deliberately chosen.
I've taken my "gaming PC" to Ubuntu for running Tensorflow & Keras. Is there a Linux version of this?
During one of my internships I was charged with setting up one of the laptops[1] Bill Gates's demo'd on at CES.

The demos were carefully crafted between the ISVs, Microsoft's marketing, and for the real bleeding edge stuff, Microsoft's own developers.

What I remember most is how carefully the machines were setup. We'd come up with install scripts and manual installation steps that were designed to ensure maximum stability for what were often beta releases. The entire process was designed to be repeatable again and again with excellent documentation so if something popped up on the showroom floor getting back to a working state was as close to foolproof as possible.

[1] Obv. I did other things, but there was a lot of work around prepping for trade show demos.
I've had some good experience with https://snips.ai . Works like advertised. easy to implement. Hardest thing was getting the microphone and the pie to get along.
A Stanford health expert was planning on traveling to Taiwan when the outbreak news first came out and published a JAMA article on a study on their approach which so far has contained the outbreak.
https://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/news/how-taiwan-used-b...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689
Yup. We do this. When our servers need a change, we change the AMI for example, and then re-deployment just replaces everything. Most servers survive a day, or a few hours.
NL63 Corona Virus
I guess the other scenario here is that manufacturers of soaps, sanatizers, and masks/gloves are drasticly ramping up production to meet this demand. In hopefully short time, the market will be flooded, guys like this are washed out, and if corona is the new normal for the next 6, 12, or 24 months, then the public will be in much better shape to combat the threat and return to semi normal.
So save the images directly to a dedicated server's hard drive?
This shouldn't be a surprise really, the human brain does not have the capability to coherently reason and act consistently over long time and distance horizons.

We're just not designed to be able to take third and fourth order effects into consideration in our day to day decisions at scale.

Just look at the current pandemic and this toilet paper stuff. We smoke, we drink alcohol, we don't count externalities in our consumption etc... The best thing we can do is build systems that nudge us to making better decisions in the longer term.
According to the Wang et al study only 50% of cases present with cough and 70% of cases present with fatigue. It seems on your website that cough is a requirement for the corona diagnosis. Is my assumption correct?

(https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2761044?gu...)
> So, of course, any union would love to represent game developers for a share of their income

You're talking about the large, collaborationist unions we know in the US - e.g. those in the AFL-CIO - where "the union" is an external entity to "the unionizing workers"; and often with the bureaucratic motivations you describe. I specifically mentioned that's not the kind of unionization I advise.

Also, payment is just one of many issues in a workplace. The basic need for a union is that the company's owners have the mechanisms for thinking, discussing, deciding acting collectively and concertedly, but its employees do not. That's what a union should be.

On that basis, employees may want to tackle issues like:

* Treatment by managers/management
* Workplace culture
* Physical working conditions
* Workforce size vs. "squeezing" of existing employees
* Advancement opportunities within the company/organization
* Professional standards

and so on.

Finally, remember that a gaming development house has a lot of employees other than developers per se: QA, art, production, administrative etc.

> Nowadays people mostly crunch ... or because they are paid OT.

If people make a good salary, they don't work overtime because they don't need to. There must be some kind of psychological pressure in that direction. Overwork should be avoided.

- who have joint interests and may wish to discuss things, take decisions, and act collect
That guy isn’t an overprepper. He tried to buy a monopoly on the product so he could price gouge.
We have to wait for evidence (numbers) before declaring it a pandemic. Cooler heads must prevail. Plus, Roche would not have been able to obtain a 24 hour approval turnaround without the official declaration of emergency.
Christian theology was historically a great impediment to learning about physics; some Christian cults continue to impede people from learning about biology.

People who are really good at manipulating other people seem to have a hard time learning to do productive things, maybe because it's too easy to manipulate other people to do them instead, but maybe because people sometimes follow the Law of Attraction, where you make wishful thinking come true by believing in it hard enough, while software and Volkswagen engines do, if anything, the opposite.

More broadly, I think any field of learning carries with it a sort of implicit value system: we consider things x and y centrally important, while things a and b are inconsequential details. Much of learning a field involves internalizing these values to the point where you apply them automatically without even being aware that there's an alternative. But often they are suboptimal or even counterproductive in a different field. Volkswagen engines don't care about paint color or whether your grandfather just died, but they do care about thousandth-of-an-inch tolerances and not making mistakes. Interior decorating doesn't care about thousandth-of-an-inch tolerances or clean abstractions, but it does care about paint color and whether your grandfather just died. Debugging software doesn't care about not making mistakes or paint color, but it does care about clean abstractions.

This is even true in subfields within the same field: real-time engine control software cares about memory allocation in a way that seems completely insane to anyone who programs in Python, for example.

BASIC tends to reward novice programmers for banging on a piece of code cluelessly until they get it to work in some cases. Dijkstra, by contrast, believed that what was important was having sufficient logical understanding of the program's space of possible behaviors that you could be sure it would work even before testing it; he in fact designed and successfully taught an introduction-to-computer-programming course that used no actual computers. It's unsurprising that someone who had internalized BASIC's value system would be extremely resistant to Dijkstra's preferred approach, and that Dijkstra's disciples would be extremely resistant to the BASIC approach, even though in fact they are complementary, and each one works best for some classes of problems, so those who are best at one of these ways of working are those who would gain the most from learning the other.
Freevalve is awesome.

https://www.freevalve.com
> the rise in price incentivises the market to produce more of the product / incentivises more producers to enter the market

I really don't see evidence that it does. Remember that there are two steps here: production and retail sale. It certainly incentivizes price-gouging resellers to collect more of the product and incentivizes people to become resellers - see the various folks who are "hustling" by buying out their local Costco and reselling online for a markup. I haven't seen evidence that e.g. Charmin is saying, "Thanks to higher prices, we're able to see more toilet paper" or "We're limited in supply, we're going to have to raise prices."

That was the original point. At the top of the thread you're replying to:

> These products are being made in sufficient quantity for everyone. There is not a significant decrease in production. There is a significant increase in hoarding, and in many cases it is for the explicit purpose of creating artificial scarcity to increase the price of a product.

If you disagree with that, please present evidence of decreases in production / insufficient production / etc. There's been plenty of evidence in this comment section about the existence of profiteers.

(Perhaps the confusion here is whether price-gouging laws prevent your local corner store from selling more expensive toilet paper if their actual wholesale cost goes up? I would think they don't, and I would in fact agree that they should not and such a law would be a bad thing. It should prevent them from charging more markup, and either it should prevent them from buying from opportunistic intermediaries who are charging them more or it should apply to such intermediaries directly.)
The total population matters only when you measure effects that change when the scale changes.

I see no reason why small cities and countries can't be used as examples in youth health. They are often perfect places to used for testing things.
> only the producers who could scale without "too much" cost would scale.
> the rise in price incentivises the market to produce more of the product / incentivises more producers to enter the market

It sounds like this is built under an assumption that there is extra capacity available without significant or permanent costs. I don't know the level of capacity at which they are currently producing, but rationally speaking the mere fact that the shelves are empty due to demand would mean that intelligent companies would already have ramped up that capacity in response. So if the shelves remain empty, is that a sign that we've reached the level of demand where the cost of additional supply becomes more expensive/ongoing?
Yeah, fair enough, my good faith line was a bit pointless. I was just trying to be nice before disagreeing with you. Ham-fisted of me.

I was (quite vociferously) of your opinion till Boris Johnson's press conference on Thursday. I changed my mind during it listening to Whitty and Vallance explain their strategy. I now think it makes sense.
Facebook rumor that TP comes from China, and that the shipments were being blocked. In reality, the stuff come from Wisconsin and we have plenty of pulp.
This is very dumb and probably (ironically) hurts the business environment in Germany
CDC's test instructions and (more importantly) the target RNA/DNA sequences were posted more like 6 weeks ago -- I think I first noticed them in early February, around the time CDC announced that they had applied for an emergency use waiver from the FDA.

They've been revised considerably since then (with a big "research use only" warning on them added).
Show HN: Subvert go's type protections and expose values/functions
I just got a Boxster, and while the engine in it is amazing, this would be a hell of a swap (not at all easy, perhaps next to impossible, but the idea of a 600hp engine that actually fits in the Boxster... whoa).

Edit: I knew their cars were expensive, but it seems Koenigsegg cars start around 2mm and up to to 10mm? I'm gonna guess that there's zero chance of just buying an engine for $10k and throwing it in another car like an LS swap
Best thing written yet about what to do after we survive this crisis!
Ars Technica guide to the coronavirus – updated daily at 3pm EDT
Being European I'm under the opinion Europe is filled with delusion. We have no technology to show for and the insanity Europe is trying to force on innovators is getting out of control.

No Silicon Valley would have meant no internet, no computers and no wearable magic toys. If Apple is forced to adjust the iPhone they should just flip the middle finger and refuse to sell in Europe and these shenanigans will end.