skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this is exactly what ends up happening. People who are sick want to go to the doctor, the pharmacy, the hospital. What are they going to do if they don't own their own car? Uber.
That spike in demand will pass, and we will (we hope) settle down to a steady state. That steady state is (in the market's opinion) not much different from the steady state that we would have had without the pandemic. That's why the market is still predicting the 10-years-out state as being the same as it predicted before this crisis.
Right now we're best suited for app servers, databases won't (yet) run very well on fly.io. We are trying really hard to focus on what we have because it's so valuable but we love DBs so much we might end up trying to "solve" them soon.
I’m young and thus likely naive. But, is it not possible for a company like Mozilla to make a small tracking app that users opt in for. Then, they get rid of this when it is all over. I say Mozilla because, from what I understand, it is very privacy orientated, but any trustable company would do (ie not google, amazon, or Facebook).
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/elon-musk-chooses-keep-...
As do I, but in that case there are few practical benefits opposed to Alacritty.
also its cool that you can copy your settings and move them to another machine just by copying one file.
"Thanks, but I would skip this Mac Mini and go for the latest maxed out NUC instead."

Neat. Of course of the actual base of buyers for this, the fact that it runs macOS is a critical requirement. Running an outdated, hacked version is not a viable consideration for most (I'm fairly certain that the "I'll run a Hackintosh" comments outnumber people actually running a Hackintosh by at least 1000:1).

I don't think there has ever been an Apple release without a barrage of "Lame. No wireless. Less space than a Nomad" kind of responses. As if we are all unaware that it's a competitive space with lots of options.

Yes, there are alternatives. Lots of people buy those alternatives. But it is absolutely not an orange-orange situation.

As one fun aside -- I had a Mac Mini a few years ago and loved it. The power utilization of thing was absolutely bonkers tiny. It just worked 100% of the time. Bought it for like $799. Sold it after having it for I think five years for $500. The kind of bizarre ability of Apple devices to hold value is really a financial factor that many don't consider.
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Weird - I've got a newer Dell XPS and am making this post with WDE enabled and have had 0 problems. Anecdotal I know, but I've ran pretty much every major Linux distro (Ubuntu/Fedora/Manjaro) and am currently running Regolith linux.

I've not noticed any hiccups or problems at all around encryption.
These folks make such a great curated newsletter that they decided they didn't need to raise money.
Thanks, I had no idea eGPUs were a thing!
This. This right here. This is what matters. The only questions are:
Joystick, joystick with keyboard, or keyboard with n-key rollover
We are definitely missing out on customers because we aren't in India and South America. It's expensive to solve that problem but we're getting close!
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California preparing for worst case scenarios
I was thinking the driver's side. This would be a product to protect the driver, since they are the customer. But you could also do it for the passenger theoretically, but this would require a bigger pump because of the increased air volume and would increase the cost a lot.
..crisper as in more visibly pixelated? What is the point in that?
Installing and applying security updates on a Linux desktop is fairly automatic and uneventful.

Keeping a hackintosh updated (for even stuff like graphics card drivers) turns out to be a lot of time doing research, scrolling through endless forum posts, and bricking your install quarterly because you "did the wrong thing" (like absent-mindedly accepting a security update notification).

Yes, you can get it running. But macOS is buggy enough as it is, and is decidedly not-pleasant if you're relying on it as a daily driver and you just can't fix the Bluetooth mouse disconnecting after sleep unless you reboot, or the USB bridge not enabling after suspend, or the diaplayports deciding to not send signal if there are multiple monitors (fixed in the new GPU driver, but that driver requires the OS upgrade you can't apply due to other show-stipping bugs). You shouldn't be relieved every time you step up to your desk that your computer can turn on.

(FWIW: this was ~> year ago, on a machine built with the "best compatability with hackintosh" parts list. The landscape with T2 is most likely less comfortable).
CTRL-SHIFT-V works for me.
As much as I would normally get is enough for 4 people who are out of the house from 7am - 6pm every weekday.
Disney didn't win anything. Catmull and Hanrahan have had an incredibly large impact on computer graphics.
Well, whoever buys them would like to keep the customers, as it is already a profitable business. So, even if they completely close the business, they should provide a way to migrate, as nobody likes to loose money/customers.
The central bank can create unlimited inflation in financial assets. In, say, food, or cars, not so much. (I mean, I guess they could buy a bunch of food and cars, but that's pretty far out there, even for the current expansive definitions of what the central banks can do.)
For those following this series, Bob's update email said: "This is the second to last chapter in the book, and the last chapter that adds new functionality."
I’m experimenting with this, they have Redis at every edge, with a way (SELECT 2) to send commands to all edges with eventual consistency. No RDBMS yet, said they’re looking at CockroachDB.

I’m running a single central Postgres server on Heroku and planning to use the Redis edges to cache.
Had a look at the network pricing. I wouldn't host anything there. Takes "the cloud is expensive" to a whole other level.
> I was at a company that got acquired before. It was so awful. I'd rather just work on this forever than get absorbed by a big company.

How do your investors feel about this / what's your exit plan?
I've not tried it but wouldn't split-screen (or whatever Apple calls it) do the trick?
They were unfit because a giant asteroid is as much a part of the environment as anything else.
In Intellij IDEA when debugging the touchbar has a debugging-specific menu with all those controls. I don't find myself needing to look at the touchbar all that often. My muscle memory has adjusted over the past couple years I guess.
You can just setup a budget and shutdown traffic if it goes above it.
I'm surprised at the number of people who use a real number confidently. I just grab enough to feel "safe". I'd guesstimate 4-6 on average of the double thick rolls but never stopped to count.
There is one: https://ish.app

Open beta, but sadly not released to the App Store yet. Works quite well.
> But you are the hypothetical CEO of American Airlines and your loyalty is to the shareholders.

Because screw your employees!
I use a MacBook and a fully loaded (with GPU) System76 laptop. I really like both, for different purposes. The System76 is much faster for large builds and is obviously much better for deep learning training. The MacBook is light and portable. I like having two laptops, at extremes of the weight/portability vs. computational power spectrum.
I agree! I primarily work on a Mac and love iTerm 2. I occasionally use a Windows computer and saw everyone raving about Windows Terminal a few weeks ago and decided to give it a go. It was quite a frustrating experience to try to configure anything. I eventually decided not to bother.
The bit that caught my eye was...

"In readying the National Guard for action, Newsom’s office emphasized that it’s for duties routinely performed during natural disasters and other emergencies. But Newsom grimly added that “we have the ability to do martial law ... if we feel the necessity.”"
Congratulations on the launch! I've been following fly.io ever since I stumbled on it 2 years ago.

A few questions, if I may:

> We run a mesh Wireguard network for backhaul, so in flight data is encrypted all the way into a user application. This is the same kind of network infrastructure the good content delivery networks use.

Does it mean the backhaul is private and not tunneling through the public internet?

> fly.io is really a way to run Docker images on servers in different cities and a global router to connect users to the nearest avaible instance.

I use Cloudflare Workers and I find that at times they load-balance the traffic away from the nearest location [0][1] to some location half-way around the world adding up to 8x to the usual latency we'd rather not have. I understand the point of not running an app in all locations esp for low traffic or cold apps, but do you also "load-balance" away the traffic to data-centers with higher capacity? If so, is there a documentation around this? I'm asking because for my use-case, I'd rather have the app running in the next-nearest location and not the least-load location.

> The router terminates TLS when necessary and then hands the connection off to the best available Firecracker VM, which is frequently in a different city.

Frequently? Are these server-routers running in more locations than data centers that run apps?

Out of curiosity, are these server-routers eBPF-based or dpdk or...?

> Networking took us a lot of time to get right.

Interesting, and if you're okay sharing more-- is it that the anycast setup and routing that took time, or figuring out networking wrt the app/containers?

Thanks a lot.

[0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/caveat-emptor-code-runs-i...

[1] https://cloudflare-test.judge.sh/
Hobbiests construct air plains from off the shelf components fairly often. Large passenger planes are difficult but not impossible. It’s not like all the engineers working on these just disappear either, they’ll want a job doing what they’re good at.

Bailing these things out only protects executives and shareholders, I hope you’re not arguing that those have been doing a good thing for the world recently.
The phone already is where the fancy camera is. The iPad back camera is far worse than the iPhone's cameras.
I just poked through 50+ the first ~4000 things in that list. Of them, every single one was either

- Unrelated to an actual web standard (such as a guide for authors of web pages(www.w3.org/TR/html5-author/dimension-attributes.html
), or a guide on how to create a PDF for a W3 event (https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-WCAG20-TECHS-20160317/pdf_no...)

- a raw xml file (www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-its20-20121023/examples/xml/EX-locale-filter-selector-2.xml)

- a diff (www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/diff.html)

- an error (www.w3.org/TR/unicode-xml/index.html)

None were actual signal that relates to the web's specifications.
Ask HN: What are your plans for healthcare if local providers are overwhelmed?
It says in the article:

"More than 75% had high blood pressure, about 35% had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease"

Which makes sense considering most of them were older people
Alive Geralt of Rivia. AI lab reviving NPCs in video games
Whawhawhat?
How about to the workers those for-profits are currently not supporting?
We attempted C++ about a year ago, but I was never confident in our ability to clean up memory allocations (we had leaks) or avoid undefined behavior (we had segfaults).

I definitely feel more confident about our Rust code. It's no silver bullet, but it prevents a lot of unsoundness with its compile-time guarantees.

I can't really compare to C++, but it's easy to write new code or refactor old code. It took some time to get there, though.

All in all, I would recommend Rust wholeheartedly. The ecosystem is growing and getting more mature every week. The community is very helpful in general, especially the tokio folks.
A decade too late. This is like complaining that Flash and ActiveX are gone. The world has moved on. C# is easy enough to learn and unless there's maintenance required on legacy code, it's irresponsible to continue using VB on any new projects.
"30 %" seems like a good amount more.
also https://twitter.com/variety/status/1226710675554091008

every year they get worse
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Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong Face Second Wave of Coronavirus Cases
Adding Purism to this list.

Slightly more pricey, but worth it. Typing this on one.
Handbook of Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment [pdf]
That's awesome, your use case is perfect for region scoped persistent storage.

We're testing persistent storage privately with a few customers now and the results are exciting. My favorite is using minio as a private global s3 for caching.

What are you using for the index storage engine?
Not to mention the only way to park $14bn would have been to diversify it across an investment portfolio that could be liquidised easily. That cash would also have seen some damage during this time too.
>Buybacks are just a scapegoat when in reality an airline parking 14b$ in case of a black swan event would have made absolutely no financial sense especially since shareholders expect some reward for their risks. Imagine if they did that and ended up with just 4 more months of operation at incredible losses. Stocks would probably have plummeted to similar levels anyways and the shareholders would've ended up with no returns at all.

If they are the only airliner left standing after four months I think the outlook would be quite different. That only works if the government doesn't bail out their competitors leaving them at a disadvantage.
Another way to make it seem more intuitive: "all of these are true" is the same as "none of these are false" (assuming values must be booleans), and clearly nothing in an empty list is false.
> When's the last time the US actually imprisoned a leader? Or even held a powerful person to account without pardon?

Chelsea Manning comes to mind, and that's just in the past month.
When was it ever responsible to use VB on new projects for anything more than hacking excel?
I have never seen a person take a picture with an iPad using the rear camera.

What I want from the front camera is mostly good light sensitivity and color rendition. I don't need more than 1080p video on it though. It feels like it should be possible without making it very expensive. If it isn't possible, then for an iPad I'd sacrifice ALL the rear camera functionality for just a slightly better front cam, in a heartbeat.
I think it's kind of the reverse. Stocks should sell at risk-adjusted rate-of-return parity with bonds. If inflation is 1% (and is expected to stay there), then what's $1 of corporate profit worth? $100 (same as $1 of bond interest would cost). So the stock market has soared because interest rates have fallen. Money has moved into the stock market, seeking rates of return, and has continued to do so until the rate of return of stocks was not higher than the rate of return of bonds.
"I won't use anything from smaller or new companies or Google in case it goes away". That's silly, how is this the top comment? Are people that conservative in tech of all places? This is a docker runtime. If it goes away you'll be up and running again without delay on AWS or anywhere else, you just won't have the edge performance characteristics.
Agreed, shitty, but those aren't hard to disable, and it's one of the first things I do on new installs.

(I only run windows to do cross-platform testing)
Highly doubt that. The vast majority of users do not notice, or care.
But only because we allowed them to purchase all of their competition -- letting them become too big to fail.
HN is clearly in a tail spin. From fairly intelligent discussions in its early days via fairly unintelligent ones on politics now down to commenting on peoples stupidity? Time to leave, methinks.
You haven't been forced to deploy something that builds a local K8s cluster and builds and runs 10+ containers just to get a microservices app up and ready for development, I see... (only partially /s).
if you contact them, they will likely upgrade it, Apple tends to let you bring a machine back if one has been released 3 months after you bought yours.
Launching Version 12.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
people really should be stocking up on psyllium husk powder (metamucil). one roll of TP will go a lot farther when your bathroom is experience isn't "like wiping a felt-tip marker"
True, if you ignore the difference in terms of UI/UX. For me, MacOS is the killer feature. Hard to estimate the price but still worth to buy a Mac Mini over a NUC. Hackintosh is not something I would like to waste time on.
I saw mention of "radiology services" but I didn't see any specific mention of a CT scan.

I needed a CT scan recently. It wasn't for reasons of blood flow or anything like that. But the radiologist must have been bored (or perhaps concerned about liability) because he threw in this comment: No abdominal aortic aneurysm with mild circumferential atherosclerotic calcifications

Wow.

I didn't know that CT scans were useful in diagnosing atherosclerosis. There were all sorts of other similar tidbits in the report.

If I were rich enough, I'd want a full body CT done, perhaps every year. It shouldn't be done too often because it's ionizing radiation.
Compared to the other laptop they launched today, the iPad Pro actually has more computing resources.
When they turn in the extra tracking, will non-American data get collected too?
Fair enough! I signed up, looking forward to DBs on Fly.io!

(Also I got permission denied when attempting to curl the script when writing to /usr/local/bin, I needed sudo. I'm on Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine. Not sure whether security implications for `curl | sh` outweigh convenience, but I trust you guys and my connection. :P)
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I'm trying to upgrade from a 2013 VAIO which I totally love so that's also a good tip. Crazy times indeed.
Reading your comment I realised I actually love "heated keyboards"... I often lay my hands on my laptop to warm up cold fingers :)
Did you make the diagram with d3?
But your most valuable customers will need to interact with an app server plus database for any real life use case. Can you share some applications where only placing the app server close to user works?
Is the database back in Virginia?
The DOM is the easy part IMO, it’s layout and hooking it up to a JavaScript vm that’s hard.
Same here. My iPad mini is nice to read and annotate PDF (love the pencil) thanks to its retina display but that's it. And any task involving inputing more than two words is super painful anyway (pairing an external keyboard with bluetooth is painful too).
I understand why Apple does this, but having owned an iPad without ever successfully being productive on it I just wish I could get root if I really want to. I wish it were hackable.

Revoke my warranty, do whatever, just let me use the device I bought!

It's gotta be the most beautiful hardware of a machine I've seen. It's a shame the software is so anti-user.
There must be a subtlety I don't understand. To cover the number line at precision of at least 10^n, just cover it with intervals of 1/10^n, surely?

IOW, to approximate an irrational number to 10 decimal places... use 10 decimal places? Geen, use 11 decimal places just to be double-sure and not have to worry.

What am I missing?
If you get one of those $60 bidet attachments, your tp usage goes down significantly. You can also do without if you use towels.
>such as a guide for authors of web pages

I explained why I included these in my methodology doc. They felt this necessary to document, so I included it. The same is true of other specs I compared against, such as POSIX.

>a raw xml file

This XML file is 18 words according to my measurement. The total words I claim in my article are 113 million. Do you really think that this changes anything?

>a diff

Okay, I should have caught that. There are ~700 of these and I am computing the difference these make to the word count now. I expect it will be within the >100M word margin I left on these figures. [Edit: 28M words from diffs, which eats up about 25% of the 100M word budget I allocated for errors]

>an error

123 words. See my XML comment.

Out of curiosity, is it your intention to also look for flaws in my approach to word-counting the non-web specs I compared against?
These are totally bullshit things blown out of proportion. These are trials that never went live, and/or weren't even nearly as bad as the uproar make them to be.

Come on, the Pocket hysteria? It's a bit of JS and a one button you can turn off with two clicks. Pocket is now owned by Mozilla. It's a Firefox feature now, and not any more of "mandatory plugin" than the Sync or Add On Store are. I thought you were at least flipping out about EME, which is a 3rd party code and actually a plug-in.

Your central point is valid. There's no need to embellish it with clickbait backed by sources that are clickbait themselves.
It makes me think of a sacrificial temple. Many ancient societies would sacrifice animals to the Gods.

It specifically reminds me of the Jewish Temple (I & II) which was on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in the Old City. It was used for animal sacrifices by Priests.
I'd also like to add one more clarification: Cauchy sequences require _any two_ elements after N (the "certain point" mentioned above) to be within epsilon of each other.

Why? I won't explain it fully, but hopefully a counterexample can convince you so: Take the common harmonic series (a_n = 1+1/2+1/3+...+1/n) Each successive element differs from the previous by 1/n. Therefore, informally we can see that their pairwise differences gets arbitrarily small. However, this sequence is _unbounded_: The infinite sum of the harmonic series tends to infinity. It therefore cannot be Cauchy. (Cauchy "bounces around a fixed point")
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I mean Domino's managed to pull it off.
I tried dual-booting an XPS15, which did not go well [0]. I understand the 13's are more Linux-compatible, but I got so badly annoyed by Dell Support I'm never buying Dell again.

[0] the drive management software didn't like GRUB, and would complain that there was no drive if GRUB was installed. Repeated reboots later, it would suddenly say "oh look, a hard drive!" and boot into Windows, removing GRUB in the process. Dell Support were worse than useless at diagnosing the problem, let alone fixing it (still unfixed, the machine is now a rather shitty games machine)
At risk of reinventing a wheel I'm not aware of ...

What about just mandating that they all pay some fraction of revenues into a common insurance fund that pays out "holding pattern" costs (furlough wages, hangar rental, etc) in times of travel-restricting emergencies.

That way, no airline could gain a competitive advantage by running with a dangerously fragile buffer.
They used to last forever, because you could replace the failing parts that wear out, like the hard drive.

Then they soldered the SSD onto the motherboard.