skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently, the idea is that those "Crimean or Iranian" would get pissed off at their government and revolt. Which, as the practice shows, doesn't quite work taht way. They get pissed off at the sanctioning government as well, and are less likely to believe that that government actually worries about their interests and rights and not, say, as using them as a free battering ram against their current government/regime.
What do you mean by oldest and how would it skew the numbers? Are you referring to the age distribution of the people living there?
Where can I read about the guidelines that "contributions from certain people break trade sanctions". Am I reading that right?
A Google ad which got an investor's attention
Would having a decentralized repository be a good idea (one that is not subject to this kind of corporate/political issue)?
I was at ESRI when we were going to host this data, then Congress got involved and blocked it.
The linked page doesn't show the process clearly. Not sure about the target market, but it could be very helpful to show each step visually:

1) Print out QR codes for every table

2) Customer scans QR code

3) etc.

(or if that's not how it works, I didn't understand it either!)
Not only do barcodes do the job but better and cheaper image sensors and processors allow even 1D barcodes to be read at greater distances and from multiple angles. This was one of the promises of RFID, pallets could just stream off a truck and their ID could be read by some fixed reader on the loading dock. A robot could zip past shelves and take stock of everything.

Better barcode reading allows a lot of the same advantages for none of the marginal cost or dealing with extra regulation. Even handheld barcode scanners are starting to use cameras rather than lasers because they're more flexible.
The above claim that it started in Kansas is one hypothesis among many others. This is another hypothesis from the same wikipedia section: "In 1993, Claude Hannoun, the leading expert on the 1918 flu for the Pasteur Institute, asserted the former virus was likely to have come from China."
ZFS is not user land. It's kernel code but without being in the kernel. So it has to be built separately and may not even be compliant with GPL (still has to be tested in court AFAIK). Linux's promise to not break userspace is just that, It can not be held responsible for code that should be in the kernel but does not play fair with the license.
There are a lot of unsettling parallels between the era before WW I and today:

A major rising power that feels it is being denied its "rightful place" in the world order by the existing power brokers (Germany vs the UK/ China vs the USA) lead by a hardline leader that isn't interested in compromise (Kaiser Wilhelm II/Xi Jinping)

A series of interlocking mutual defensive pacts that will automatically draw nations into war (The alliance of the UK, France and Russia vs Germany and the Austria-Hungary Empire/NATO vs China and Russia)

Regional fighting that is close to leading to direct confrontation between said power blocks (The Balkans/Turkey and Syria)

Rising Globalism and trade interdependance, along with rising nationalistic rhetoric and jingoism, and intense competition for influence in 3rd party states (The scramble for africa/Africa and south east asia and former CIS states).

The major powers slept walked into a horrible war because the rising tensions made it inevitable, and nobody took heroic steps to stop it, sadly it looks like it might be happening again.

Nobody wanted a ruinous war, and most people thought that there was no way a war could really occur or at the very least be sustained due to the need for trade. (Germany at the start of WWI was critically short on stuff like gasoline, fertilizer and the raw materials for gunpowder)

It Happened anyways.

Don't think for a second it can't happen again.
Read the whole Twitter thread and all comments here and I still don't understand what trade sanctions are applicable here.
Boeing Calls for $60B in Coronavirus Aid for Aerospace Manufacturing
Never saw a 'drag-to-hover' design, but guessing from the name, could be a very neat solution to the problem I mentioned.

Worth trying. Startup idea: buy the rights of a critically-praised-comercially-failed adventure game from the 90s, port it to iPad with this mechanic. :)

I would play.
Ask HN: How can software engineers help with the Covid-19 pandemic?
I'm a software engineer that just left my job. We were working on a startup but helping with COVID-19 seems FAR more urgent.

Looking for ideas about how other software engineers are contributing! Happy to do something software or non-software related.
It's a totally different genre. Stardew Valley is essentially a "farming simulator". There might be one or two secrets I can think of that you can stumble upon, but they aren't essential to the game. There are also character stories you can discover, but they're again not essential to the core of the game.

Thimbleweed Park is an explicit tribute to LucasArts point and click adventure games like Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island. It's all about solving silly puzzles with silly characters and some deliberately obscure puzzles for that nostalgic frustration.
Why are you using the dot for your site but not for stackexchange?
Related from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18421016
Unfortunately US law dictates that you nuke first and ask questions later. You loose your platform protections if you don't.
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The huge, and frustrating, difference is that software is (almost always) deterministic and (in principle) can be fully understood. With enough time and money, I am positive that I can fix any bug you throw at me. Human illness on the other hand sadly often leaves one without a cure.
I never said supply chains should be slower or less dynamic, I said they should be less centralized and thus more robust, and arguably critical goods manufacturing absolutely also need a domestic presence.

This is completely obvious when you see how Hurricane Maria led to drug shortages because Puerto Rico was the sole produce of some critical drugs, or how China recently had to halt outgoing shipments and everyone else in the world started running out of masks and medical equipment.

> But the solution to supply chain issues is more complicated than just building factories.

Right, it's building factories in the right places, and ensuring they can tolerate disruptions.

> Many companies are also simply unwilling to take a profit hit by diversifying their supply chains or moving to longer production cycles.

Sure, just like banks and investment firms would be unwilling to have more robust debt ratios in order to improve their returns when all is well, if we didn't force them to maintain a less risky debt ratio in order to avoid catastrophes when all is not well.

Manufacturing isn't meaningfully different in this respect, it's all about managing risk. Corporations should have more responsibilities to quantify and manage risks like this.
Mainly because it is genuinely exhausting for any medical practitioner. That lots of patients "enjoy" googling symptoms and coming up with far-fetched self-diagnoses is a given. But couple that with the perceived intellectual superiority of (software) engineers and you get a recipe for disaster. It's the equivalent of a doctor leaning over your shoulder while you're coding and telling you to remove random keywords.
Wishful thinking and false optimism.
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Please don't put "Show HN" on posts like this. See the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

I'm sure it's fine reading material, but if we allowed Show HN to be reading material, every submission would be a Show HN.
Mathematica is mostly used for relatively small, notebook-style, applications. Both features, while probably useful for some people, don‘t seem to be necessary for the more popular use cases.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb discussed how superspreaders have a big effect[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX_bqMQfWlw
> If there's a marginal cost for each copy of the data that's transferred to a user, I don't think asking the user to cover that cost conflicts with a requirement to "give away the data".

Charging the user for data, even if it is on a marginal cost basis, conflicts with a mandate to give data away freely. Because “at the marginal cost of delivery” is not “free”.

(It's true that it is common for mandates to specify something like at marginal cost of delivery rather than free—sunshine laws providing copies of public records often work that way—but that's not the applicable mandate here; in fact, since without the separate mandate here the data would be available on a marginal cost basis under FOIA, the main reason for a separate mandate is to negate that cost.)
Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects
Sure, but the difference isn't that big.

Just like when people were switching from the blue e to firefox/chrome: these were different browsers, with different UI, but the concept of browsing the internet was the same. So in the end, the different UI didn't matter.
The incentive has already been created by Covid-19 exposing the vulnerabilities and need for decentralization. Diversification will emerge such that the next time there is a shock companies that diversified will survive, while others fail.

There is an incentive for now. When the current supply shock goes away, the old market pressures will reassert themselves, and those companies whose supply chains are narrowly focused on the lowest-cost/highest-quality producers at the expense of diversification will outcompete those whose supply chains are diversified.

The parent questioner is asking, in essence, how can we turn this incentive from a one-time shock into a continued incentive to maintain diversification? As it currently stands shocks are far too unpredictable and episodic to serve as a market incentive. In practice, people don't diversify unless there's a constant and ongoing pressure for them to do so. It's much easier and cheaper to find a good supplier and rely on them as much as possible.
In fact "recession" is the new word. Previous downturns were called depressions. But after the Great Depression, they wanted a word that said "a downturn, but not like that", and they invented "recession".
It is not my fault that people drive around newer than 10y/o cars, and buy Starbucks every morning, and eat out every day at the 30 minute lunch they get from their callcenter job.

Learn to save for times like this.

Our corporations need to learn the same lesson. Let them fail.
Thought this would be interesting to share--applications are due March 31st!
Microsoft announces new Teams features as usage skyrockets nearly 40% in a week
Medical devices have a lower fault tolerance and higher need for traceability because manufacturing defects mean lost lives.

In your example using rusty tools for brain surgery is a good analogy, as it highlights the false dichotomy you've created. A surgeon could also potentially stabilize you for long enough to search for less obviously deadly impliments. Or decide that, rusty tools or not, you're too far gone to help, and divert their attention to people who have a fighting chance.

Emergency doesn't mean we abandon common sense and decide rogue medicine is the only way forward. Even during a time of war, you'd need your tanks to operate as intended, not randomly fire or seal off the interior so tightly it causes suffocation.

This isn't fiddling with your laptop's inner workings. Medicine has a high enough need for precision that doing it poorly, or even forgetting one minor, necessary step in the process will cause more death and suffering than if you had just sat on your hands. The tight regulations are there for a reason. That doesn't mean we need bureaucracy for sake of bureaucracy, but some skeleton regulatory infrastructure will need to be observed for manufactuers efforts to save more lives than it loses.

Rogue medicine is a waste of resources and lives that will only serve to make this situation worse, as will unreliable medical devices.
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I'm kind of confused why this is an article on HN,

Somebody else mentioned "continuous flow chemistry" earlier today[1], and I was intrigued by their comment and started looking for more information. Thought other people might find this of interest as well. That's pretty much it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627973
Is it really a problem? Obviously, now, it is. But everything is a problem.

Having the supply chain less globalized doesn't mean there is an excess. Now, there is a shortage of surgical masks, but that's because the demand is too high, not just because they are made in China.

You have to balance efficiency and reliability. And normally, the global supply chain is very efficient, and surprisingly reliable. Black swan events happen regularly and besides a few price hikes and some company coming and going, business continues as usual. A de-globalized supply chain will certainly be able to deal with such event better, but at the expense of permanent inefficiencies.

Of course, right now, it is far from "business as usual", but that's because there is a freaking virus in the air, and if you catch it, you may die. Still, you can still buy food, and the essential shortages are of things that are directly related to the disease, like masks, hand sanitizers, and respirators.

And governments and companies alike do plan for shortages. Most countries produce more food than necessary to account for the risk of famine. There is a reserve of essential medical items, and it is being used right now... within reason.

One thing is for sure, it is too soon to draw conclusions.
Ah, the three column layout with equal heights, the holy grail.*

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_grail_(web_design)
As Italy quarantines, swans and doplhins appear in Venice canals
So disgusting their response: "If a user"

Addressing someone in the third person is about a far from empathy as one could get. Clearly, the signal is strong to begin the exodus from Github as soon as practical.

They can no longer be trusted, and are no longer developer friendly.
The site predates smartphones by maybe five years. Mobile friendly wasn't a thing yet.
Thanks, understood.
When someone says "Starting at $8/mo" that usually means you can start getting something of value at $8/mo. In this case, that's false.
Why does he think he needs to "advise" Trump. He should stick to investing - although he wasn't terribly good at that either.
>..then boil that frog up with extra charges.

That implies a level of dishonesty or nontransparency that AWS doesn't have. Their pricing is disclosed, up front, and they offer a calculator to model your costs out. Knowing how much data egress you're going to have is not some arcane art, NASA just plain forgot to do it.

It may be complicated, but so is any workload at this size. Figuring the cost is part of due dilligence, and they've made it as straightforward as possible.
A CPAP is fixed pressure, what your thinking of is a APAP or the bilevel type of positive air-pressure machines. And there lies the problem with you're miniumum feature set; not all *PAPs are fully-featured machines. Maybe only 10% or so are suitable for ventilator duty, which means they too are supply-limited
I've got Manjaro XFCE on multiple workstations for almost 2 years now. Setting up a new Manjaro workstation is far less annoying than setting up Windows 10. I just did a comparison the other day because I needed to work on a SQL Server project that requires the use of Visual Studio + SQL Server Development Tools (SSDT).

On Windows 10 Pro - ssh didn't even work correctly in Git Bash after I ran ssh-keygen. I could only git clone from a cmd prompt.

The only 2 things I kinda miss from Windows are TortoiseGit and SSDT. Luckily, I don't really need them most of the time.

(Before Manjaro I used Windows since version 3 and I only used Linux for server since Red Hat 4 or 5. A couple of years ago I couldn't have imagined using a Linux desktop but now everything I do is just better on Linux.)
Ah yes, in times of crisis we should all be yanking on our bootstraps and "hustling", trying our best to profit from panic and fear.
And in that moment Hacker News was enlightened.
yeah, it's hard to get to that out of a stock/flow differential model (that's what this is under the hood right?) but if we had some sense of effect of different measures on R we could at least build in different "presets" thanks for your work here! wasn't meaning to disparage it, just calling out a lack of anything clear I could offer friends to help that understand that point...
Using Machine Learning to Detect Design Patterns
It looks to be restored: https://twitter.com/EisenbergEffect/status/12407000629397913...
However what's the alternative?

Country 'A' would like to build a weapon of mass destruction. Country 'B' asks them nicely to not do that.

They ignore the request and continue building the technology. At that point you can either do the following:

- Ignore it and hope they don't destabilize the region / world.

- Economic and Trade sanctions to slow down their progress, and impact the economy of the country.

- Physical blockade / severing of Internet connections.

- Declaration of war.

Unless you're saying we should simply ignore these states and let them do what ever they want. I don't really know what solution you would envision that would be _less_ impactful to the average citizen.
Maybe so, but somehow containers aren't really there yet. As a trivial example, when I 'lsof' a container process (as root), it often cannot "see" all of the information about the process' open files, apparently because they're mapped into a different chroot, or because of other cgroups/namespace issues.

This is one of a number of issues that make containers hard to deal with.

(We also see an issue where containers interact badly with the OOM killer, leading the entire system to hang because /proc/*/cmdline cannot be read at all.)
Profit => Helping people get what they need in their hour of need.
Isn't this what Eric Weinstein is on about in his podcast as series The Portal?
maybe examine the prevalence of all those conditions in the US?
WFH Happy Hour
That second one is very practical, thank you!!
I mean yea, MATLAB is indispensable for the working engineer in controls or signal processing. Python is coming in vogue because of ML applications, but it's primarily used in the wild for scripting together builds and tests, which often are used for testing data generated by MATLAB models.

I've never seen a workplace use R or Julia or list them on a job posting outside data science or academia. Julia in particular is missing major components that make it useable, particularly in signal processing.

MATLAB also has the advantage of being useful as a CLI calculator for linear algebra, which is how a lot of engineers use it in their day to day. The REPL's of python and Julia are far too slow for that kind of work, frankly. Especially Julia. the JIT takes forever to warm up. It really doesn't fit into my workflow at all, and I've tried to force it.

Also, Simulink.
It doesn't take much of a thought experiment to understand it could be a problem. China and the US have worsening relations, what if they get much worse? We are at their mercy.

Also, isn't competition a good thing? If the companies of the world had dual supply chains, in China and elsewhere, that would foster competition, which isn't just good for a lower price, but also for higher quality.
I've been a die-hard Linux user for about a dozen years. Recently I had to do some development with MS Powershell. I was very reluctant at first, but after getting familiar with the technology, I almost fell in love.

"Cmdlets", basically commands used in Powershell, output "objects" instead of the streams of text used in a more classical shell. Powershell has built-in tools to work with these objects. For example, you can take the output from one Cmdlet, pipe it through `SELECT` with a list of fields specified, and get a stream of objects only containing those fields. Other operations can be performed against those objects as well, such as filtering and whatnot.

Back to normal nix commands, we're starting to see more and more commands introduce direct JSON support [1]. There are even tools to translate output from common commands into JSON [2]. We'll probably see `jq` shipped directly with modern distros soon. Eventually we'll reach a tipping point where it's expected that command supports JSON output. Tools like `awk`/`sed` might get updated to have a richer support for JSON. Finally, we'll have ubiquitous Powershell-like capabilities on every nix machine.

Powershell _is_ available on Linux. The model of piping objects instead of JSON is both powerful and more efficient (For example, there's no redundant keys like in a stream of JSON objects, leading to less moving bytes, like how CSV headers aren't repeated with every row. Plus, binary data is smaller than text.) But, most developers are hesitant to switch out their shell and existing workflows for a completely new tool, which is why Powershell will likely only be adopted by a small subset of sysadmins.

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/03/17/curl-write-out-json/

[2] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
I wonder how Bitcoin is going to fare during all of this.
What do the in-app purchases provide? Is there a sign up required? Does this requires/stores data on a third party server?
I'm amused at how I glanced at your comment and my mind sort of yelled "hey, that opening tag never gets closed! that's going to invalidate everyone else's comments below by making them part of that element!".

Maybe I'll say </table> here just in case. :-)
Probably none, and some automatic thing triggered in error.
"Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers" https://helpwithcovid.com/
(yesterday's HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22615453)
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Absolutely agree with this, and if Gitlab's hardware requirements seem a little expensive, I can highly recommend Gitea[0]. It runs very happily on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but for my basic needs, and presumably as a panic backup, it's a great bit of software.

[0]https://gitea.io/en-us/
If you're serious about messing around with your own k8s cluster, you're way better off just using virtualization. If you really want to run on your own hardware, grab an old laptop or desktop computer and KVM and have at it.

The Pis are just fun toys for people who enjoy tinkering with hardware. This kind of setup isn't really useful (or even educational in any kind of general way outside of the Pi specific details), but some people enjoy it.
So who takes care of the non-development tasks that AWS (or any cloud provider, really) is handling on the backend? Schlepping the hardware around, swapping failing drives, hardware monitoring, actually speccing out and running a datacenter, physical security, and so forth?

It's generally not the same people who are going to be at their computers running awscli (or if it is, now we get to figure in how much time they're spending on tasks that are not their primary job and how many extra of them we get to hire to maintain the same velocity, not to mention the occasional bit of firefighting you get to do when you manage your own infra)
Direct link to actual readable image: https://i.imgur.com/SzOTCL3_d.jpg?maxwidth=2640&shape=thumb&...

Aside: why would you want to run it in the background? Just curious.
> Doesn't adaptive stream quality or any form of responding to congestions require the link to be saturated first.

It does not in the case of Netflix. Netflix monitors the performance of entire network segments, and if a segment is starting to get overloaded, it may kick down other streams on the same segment. Netflix uses the info from every one of its clients as a sort of continuous end user test so they get a really good read on every segment's network congestion in near real time.
Lazy copy and paste on my part. (-: