skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been advocating this strategy for years having direct experience in a highly regulated manufacturing sector business. I like to put it this way: The US has the responsibility to protect the world from the (externalities of competing in the) largest consumer market to ever exist. We currently do a pretty good job at protecting ourselves from that market, not just with environmental laws as you mention, but with safety and worker's compensation laws as well, but it is frankly a travesty to think that our current strategy is "good" by any definition but an entirely economic one, and as we are seeing now with this pandemic, even that is dubious. There is still an enormous toll on the environment and on our shared humanity when we allow business to off-shore their dirty practices, not to mention the loss of domestic security. Climate change and the Holocene extinction show that the externalities of business are everyone's problem, and we should start acting like it.
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The study is on the initial outbreak in Wuhan when testing was in short supply.
Because OpenStack is a piece of software, not a provider. And it's instructive to consider why none of the major cloud providers use it...
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I hate to make this political, but in a neutral sense: is this not precisely what Trump ran and won the election on? I didn't vote for him, but clearly the offshoring of factories to China has had serious negative consequences. These were noticed by everyone in "flyover country" a decade ago, but the coronavirus seems to have made everyone aware of the downsides of distributed supply chains, especially to a totalitarian state in a time of crisis.
How a 25-year-old dev made 600 apps without being able to code (2015)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22628302 more thoughts from someone smarter than me.
More than half that cruise ship was older than 60. All the deaths on the ship attributed to coronavirus were people above 70 years old.

https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/severity/diamond_crui...
Ventilator Challenge: Design a low-cost, easy-to-use, easy-to-build ventilator
Well sometimes you can't choose (Work PC), in that case using WSL on windows is a much better experience than DIY on Windows.

Also chocolatey -> brew etc
Yes, they're basically floating nursing homes doubling as casinos.
I wonder what is happening with France's burqa ban now incidentally?
4K 60Hz is 8Gbps at 8bit/channel 4:2:0 color. If you go to 16bits and 4:4:4, teach of those double the data rate.
As long as I don't have to take part, it could surely help. But I don't want to task my government to collect health data. Personally, I prefer to keep it between my doctor and myself without anyone knowing about it.

Because having the information out there are too many negative external factors. And health data is pretty hard to anonymize.
To me it feels very different.

Imagine for a moment that in order to access NASA data sets you had to have a Fastmail email account. Gmail won't work, Outlook won't work, it has to be Fastmail alone.

That would be very objectionable (as much as I adore Fastmail).

Ability to pay one specific cloud provider should not be a gate for public domain government data.
Not losing money but being a viable alternative to the incumbents would be a huge win for me.

I bet I would need to get some serious networking skills also, no?
Fewer people asked that question, so it never got added. Feel free to add it yourself if you think you have a good answer.
WSL2 offers Docker support. It will be included in the next update of Windows.

Many people are using it now but I don't have time to mess with beta software. I am exercising my patience.
> I am not sure, a completely dependent world may make us safer as wars will very hard to execute.

But "safer" doesn't necessarily mean "no wars." It's rare, but sometimes wars are just (e.g. ones against those who commit crimes against humanity). A world so economically interdependent that war is truly unthinkable is one where even peaceful coercion like sanctions are too costly to pursue. I don't want economics to enslave morality.
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It was wrong then too.
It’s also the mobile user’s password.
This is absolutely correct.

Quick recombination so that a beneficial gene can spread without losing genetic diversity of the population is is one of the benefits of sexual reproduction. And immune resistance to new threats is one of the top reasons why we need this capability.

In fact we broadcast signatures of our immune systems in pheromones and women are attracted to the smell of men whose immune systems are different from their own. This improves the probability that the children will be resistant to a wider range of possible diseases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odour_and_sexual_attracti... is one of many places that you can start learning more about this topic.
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It's possible (likely imho) that there is some missing factor that we have yet to discover that explains the funky nature of the data. Something about the people rather than a property of the disease. Almost like an allergy: peanuts are quite fine for everyone to eat, except those with severe peanut allergies.

What we do know is that it can't be quite "there were zillions of people infected so when we talk about 1% IFR really it's 0.01% so everything is fine", because there are accumulating bodies in various localized places around the world. There's nothing we know to say that pattern wouldn't repeated everywhere.
It's not quite that simple. People actually tried to update net-tools ifconfig (one of the two ifconfigs back in 2018).

In 2019, I simply wrote an ifconfig that uses the netlink API, because for portability I needed a Linux ifconfig that had a FreeBSD-like command-line syntax. It doesn't have the old interface aliasing mentioned in the headlined article, and has no problems setting up and reporting IPv6 addresses or additional IPv4 addresses.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com./a/504084/5132

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/ifconfig.xml

I have a system to convert Debian /etc/network/interfaces into a BSD-style rc.conf, which then in turn gets converted into a suite of native service bundles. One of the service bundles is ifconfig@interface , which invokes ifconfig with a uniform command-line syntax across Linux and FreeBSD, hence the need for a more FreeBSD-alike ifconfig on Linux.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/rcconf-amalgamation.ht...

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/rcconf.html

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/networking.html
I have more than twice that in my garage for image/video/3D rendering.
Netflix also is deployed directly in ISP's DCs.
https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
It's 0.5% of people who were tested for the flu, not the general public.
All those who repainted their pages in dark mode should take lessons from "Steel".

Not all fonts are readable when displayed white-on-black, and some seem to forget about that.

Also this is something that's being slowly undone by ideas like Styled Components and Tailwind. My take is that those two are a step back.
Apple's hardware business model is driving margins by bundling unnecessary features in the "trim levels". They don't want you picking and choosing only the parts you need.
You're right that we can't do much to change the power structure in China, but we can change our own relationship with them.
I moved from 100 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s (up/down both times) and haven't really noticed a difference. I'm still the only one using it in my household, mostly over wifi which caps me around ≈ 300 Mbits/s effectively.

I think you have to consider the quite limited multi tasking for bandwidth consumption. Worst case scenario I'm downloading some big file and streaming video at the same time, but that happens very early. Most realistically I'm only using one service at a time.

We also have to consider the asymmetrical nature of service consumption. Netflix et. al aren't event close to saturating a 100 mbit/s connection with video, nor are most places I download stuff so fast that I'm saturating my wifi-link.

This will probably age bad, but I think "100 Mbit/s low-latency bandwidth per person ought to be enough for anyone".
Let’s Build a Simple Interpreter: Nested Procedure Calls
Isn't there anacron for this?

(also does systemd handle this stuff now?)
Because the most important part of the paper is formulating the question it is answering, and stating why asking that question is interesting and useful. That is not something anything short of AGI can do.
I don't know what the term would be, mental model, but I just can't get jq to click. Mostly because i only need it every once in a while. It's frustrating for me because it seems quite powerful.
I think the power grid is tested like that once in a while after the 2003 blackout - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003#Lon...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04287-5
Yup, the niche science site may have a big working set for a single server to handle a worldwide random workload, but it is still cost effective versus trying to pay for a CDN that will have such low user density.

The conventional science community approach is volunteer mirror sites. We could have many benefits of a CDN without the big recurring costs.
This is genius. Better to have an artificial failure inducing system that have rare but catastrophic natural failures.

This really should be implemented!
That's what X410 is for; not sure what the status of GPU support is.
> Where are the WSL files and the docker volumes inside it ?

In WSL1 files are stored in a protected folder of %LocalAppData%. It's protected because using Windows and regular NTFS-expecting tools has a bad tendency to mess up Linux ACL metadatda. More recent versions of WSL1 added a Plan9-based file server that shows up as a pseudo-device in Windows under a UNC path \\wsl$

In WSL2 the files are stored in a VHD-like file (VM hard drive) and the Plan9-based file server is always available in every version of WSL2 (under \\wsl$ still) and additionally used in both directions (/mnt/c/ is no longer a direct NTFS mount on the Linux side, but now uses the file server, because WSL2 is more VM-like in every facet).
I often use my sleeping heart rate to know when I am becoming ill. I had the flu about a month ago, and saw a spike of 9bpm at the peak of the fever. At least for me, this metric is a really good indicator of health.
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And has the testing story improved relative to the need?

Also from the article and the same Science paper, For every confirmed case of COVID-19, there are likely another five to 10 people with undetected infections.
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Not to mention it is still extremely difficult to be tested in the US. Yes, doctors can test you, but you basically can’t get a test unless you have all of the symptoms and are sick enough to need to visit the ER.
> The only to prevent this would be to conduct regular massively coordinated updates to system utilities when the kernel changes, and properly version applications for specific kernel releases.

Well, no. What you do is create a new struct with correct behavior and let new applications use that. The old struct becomes deprecated but continues to exist until things stop using it. Which may be indefinitely, but that's not really a lot more work than maintaining a compatibility library to serve the same purpose.

The thing with ip vs. ifconfig was more to do with there being somebody interested in creating ip and nobody interested in maintaining ifconfig. If you want to go add support for multiple addresses on the same interface to ifconfig, nobody is stopping you -- in fact that has already happened now.
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I am pretty sure that one of the common reasons that people flock from MacOS to Windows is because of the absurd price of their hardware, not necessarily their software.
In fairness, if your hourly workers are working overtime to "ramp up production" you need to pay them overtime of 1.5x (In China, it can be double or triple (forgot which one) since their workers were working during Chinese New Year) . Their costs increases and should be able to reasonable increase price to accommodate.
I think in order for this to work we have to be more pedantic about expertise. A minister whos expertise is in being elected to UK government official, has expertise in exactly that, being a UK government official. That doesn't make them medical experts, not one bit.

That government official is an expert in the UK government's official policy position regarded the pandemic, but they are, again, not a medical expert.

Whether Twitter is able to distinguish between the two, I don't know.

Big picture, I'm all for Twitter shutting down tweets that proclaim that a specific combination of essential oils will shut down a viral infection.
My current position is involved in Supply Chain, and this hits the nail on the head.
There are so many different departments with fragmented knowledge of the supply chain that isn't shared or sometimes even documented.
One of the senior people trying to fix this specifically mentioned Walmart as an example of having their supply chain being a competitive advantage because they focused on it so much.
I think Apple was also one of the ones we discussed.
This is vaguely like insider trading. He knew something was bad, based on privileged information he had from the government, and told a small group, who had bribed him with campaign donations, so that they could "benefit." Meanwhile, publicly, he said things weren't so bad.
If it was a sun clock it wouldn't have to be coordinated, it would just be.
I have the opinion that Vue and React are ideal when you do need a SPA (example: when you want to make something that works offline, uses a lot of browser side storage, etc).

For every other application, my favourite tool is https://unpoly.com/, and alternatively Turbolinks + Stimulus.

Most applications do not need Vue or React there is a HUGE abuse of client side JavaScript these days.
Not a counterpoint. I just hadn't heard that, yet. That would be most welcome news. There are other steps (releasing nonviolent offenders from prison and other confinement) that might be politically unpopular but urgently need to be done.
I have no idea if I understood it right, but what I interpreted was:

current systems throttle down when things start to overheat, this is "non-deterministic" and depends on environmental factors etc. this is harder for developers to optimise for

whereas the PS5 knows it's own power use and power budget, as long as it stays within that budget then it won't overheat. and this means the throttling is 'deterministic' - the same code running will always throttle in the same way at the same time, so this is easier for developers to test and optimise for
Would edge servers alleviate some of the bandwidth issue for this?
> The price advantages of globalised supply chains vs. the relative rarity of an event like this means that, during normal periods, firms using them will enjoy a significant advantage over those doing the "right" thing and market forces will weed out the latter. So I don't expect management to be taking a lead on this.

That's correct. It's a market failure that needs to be remedied through law and regulation.

Hyper-specialist species can amazingly exploit their niche, but they're the first suffer and go extinct when things get disrupted. It's the generalists that survive.
Well, Kodak tried to breed it's own cows, to control the quality of gelatin (used in film manufacturing) https://www.fastcompany.com/1806686/way-kodak-died
Did not work that well.
Pythonista readily lets you inspect the code you’re running, since it’s just a Python script.
There you go - socialism at work!

What happened to Net Neutrality?

Where is the government to throttle users' Internet connections?
This is just trying to avoid too many deaths until the vaccine is out, correct? I doubt we can all be quarantined until the virus dies out.

dumb question: what happens to the virus a month after John was infected, does it die out?
You could make the opposite argument by picking the other number (8%), which would be a very high rate. So the independent variable here is how you choose to see it.

The other problem is that if the 1% Rule has any validity, then this is true of the internet in general, so you can't really meaningfully single out HN. I agree that finding communities that deviate from the rule would be interesting, if they weren't super small. (Super small communities are interesting for other reasons.)

By the way, if you saw the number of times we email people out of the blue about their HN submissions, offering them help with making them more interesting to the community, or simply letting them know that we were re-upping their post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), you might feel a bit less like this place is corrupt and so on. Optimizing for curiosity is the way we try to manage HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Which one?

1) Don't wear a mask unless your sick or caring for someone who is sick?
2) Masks help reduce spread.
Those sound like two horrific months. I am not exactly insomniac but very much a night owl. The few times I have tried morning running have been simply awful. (Adrenaline gets me though my one race a year, though I would love to try the Las Vegas Marathon, which begins at midnight.)

I don't doubt that my body would adjust if I forced it that hard, but it sounds excruciating.
That's fair, I do my best to avoid making broad statements that would then send me down the rabbit food of citation finding.
The problem is in Europe Google/CloudFlare/Akamai/Netflix/Amazon tend to have DCs in Ireland/Netherlands. And there was obviously little investment in backbone fiber connecting across countries. And even worse for services based in USA.

Now EU politicians are shift-blaming after they blew their budget and have nothing to show.
"Germany" didn't neglect it.

Companies who can't make a good ROI because the government won't let them, did. That's what even a mild form of Net Neutrality gets you - Obamacare for Internet access.
The thing I am worried about is excessive power to shape public discourse.

I am certain the power to decide what is and what is not acceptable should not be vested in private companies.
This is it 100%. I work at a major financial institution and we invest ridiculous amounts of money, effort and, frankly, delay, in understanding our supply chain, its security posture and risk management model. It's a unbelievably gargantuan effort and if it weren't for the scary shit that we find all the time one could easily argue it's a waste.
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I remember going to a Linux meetup in downtown Seattle in about the spring of 1993. I was surprised at the large number who attended, probably a couple hundred.
An anecdotal story as a reminder to listen to your users
This flopped as a "Show HN" so sharing the story not the product:

Just another reminder/story to listen to your users (despite what you think you know). I've been working on an Arduino-like hardware platform for a while now. The TL;DR is for folks out there who like to make IoT devices, you're often repeating the same 5-10 steps to get a prototype started (connecting a processor of some sort to a Wi-Fi module, adding the ability to log data, make noises, light up, etc). So my idea was to build out a board that had all these things out of the box.

However, I realized that the way I built hardware projects and the capabilities I expected from an out of the box dev board was such a tiny fragment of how other makers and engineers built prototypes so I decided to enlist 173 folks who represented ideal buyers in the maker community and created a voting process where they could nominate components/functionality they'd like incorporated on the boards and (much like HN/Reddit) +1/-1 the ideas.

Through their feedback I was able to affirm some of the ideas I already had, but also challenge myself to apply my ideas outside of the scope I had originally envisioned. It was through the voting system where functionality around addressable LEDs (controlling many lights with a single pin), removable jumper pins (being able to re-use the pin of the maker didn't have a need for one of the built-in components), and selectable VIN (toggling between USB and battery power) all came to fruition.

Despite the difference in physical products and software, I think the notion of "listen to your users and seek feedback" holds true.

For anyone who wants to watch the project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/builtwithframe/frameiot-an-arduino-compatible-dev-kit-for-wi-fi-projects
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and because a ton of software was available or easy to port from the start, not in the least the GNU project. That's the value of a standard like POSIX, even if it has plenty of warts.
“This is a real life Kobayashi Maru test.”

Do you know empirically that that’s the ideal way to screen candidates? Because that would be the only good reason for so many companies to hire in that manner. There are many great engineers who, precisely because of the traits that make them great, would “fail” that Kobayashi Maru test and settle for a suboptimal role. Not only do they lose out on experience befitting of their aptitude, but the company loses out on the best candidate, and the economy loses out on the surplus created by ideal labor matching.
Your fault for mistaking a growth strategy as principles.
I'm smelling ISP lobbyists.

They want to abuse the situation by inventing a problem and getting support from politicians with no knowledge and plenty to lose during a humanitarian disaster - all of it to be able to introduce "HD packages" and similar later, so you get to pay more while they get to invest less. This is a great first towards selling "services" (by holding them hostage) and not being a "pipe" (which is their job).

Think of the children.
That’s what the openconnect service does. It’s an appliance installed directly into the ISP data center.
> For me, it's obvious that a virus that starts on the other side of the world and could kill millions of Americans is an urgent national security problem and the defense department should be involved.

Well, as I understand it, Defense Production Act would mean for-profit companies who are earning lots of money on the current event would earn less money. If any of these people who earn money on the current event is sitting in the current administration, it makes sense that they don't see any huge issues with not using the Defense Production Act. I guess that's what you get when a country solely focuses on capitalism since it's inception.

The following quote, while not exactly for this situation, comes to mind:

> It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It
>Never heard of them.

We had an argument in a CS class once about what the most "pervasive technology" in the room was. We were examining claims that "computing would become so pervasive and ubiquitous that it would become invisible" like electricity and that zipper.

The reason it won was because we could count more of them than any other piece of tech in the room. Every person had more than they thought -- often as many as half a dozen between their pants and schoolbag.