skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that wasn’t really true during the third and fourth generations (NES, SNES). Other consoles contemporary to the NES also used 8-bit processors. The definition of 8-bit depends on how you look at it, but I think we can agree that the Z80 is pretty similar to a 6502.

The SNES and Genesis continued the trend. You took a decent but cheap processor (65C816 or 68000), made a custom chip to draw sprites on the screen, and paired the whole thing with a dedicated processor to handle audio. You might call the 68000 a “32-bit processor” but however you label it, it’s not so different from a 65C816 which both have 16-bit ALUs and 24-bit address busses.

It wasn’t until later that we got people adding MORE CHIPS to make it go MORE FAST, and Nintendo stepping back from the race.

I did a homebrew project for the NES and before I started, I spent a long time sitting down analyzing how these consoles worked so I could choose the console I liked. The 6502 and Z80, despite their design differences and different clock speeds, end up being fairly similar in terms of performance (although I think the SMS is slightly faster).
I believe they use the term "coriander" to refer to the seeds, while they use the term "cilantro" to refer to the leafy matter.
How does this compare with open-source software like Optaplanner [0] from RedHat or ChocoSolver? [1]

I think this is really cool, and I've recently been looking into using constraints solvers for automating some of the manual scheduling processes at our startup and optimizing them (we do a variant of events booking, so essentially booking events at the times most likely to fill up and maximizing for profit)

[0] https://www.optaplanner.org/

OptaPlanner is an AI constraint solver. It optimizes planning and scheduling problems, such as the Vehicle Routing Problem, Employee Rostering, Maintenance Scheduling, Task Assignment, School Timetabling, Cloud Optimization, Conference Scheduling, Job Shop Scheduling, Bin Packing and many more. Every organization faces such challenges: assign a limited set of constrained resources (employees, assets, time and/or money) to provide products or services. OptaPlanner delivers more efficient plans, which reduce costs and improve service quality.

OptaPlanner is a lightweight, embeddable planning engine. It enables everyday Java™ programmers to solve optimization problems efficiently. It is also compatible with other JVM languages (such as Kotlin and Scala). Constraints apply on plain domain objects and can call existing code. There’s no need to input constraints as mathematical equations. Under the hood, OptaPlanner combines sophisticated AI optimization algorithms (such as Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing, Late Acceptance and other metaheuristics) with very efficient score calculation and other state-of-the-art constraint solving techniques.

[1] https://choco-solver.org/
I've had disconnected Zoom calls here (Netherlands) as well, but it seems that's just Zoom not being able to handle the traffic because Google Hangouts and MS Teams are both fine. And Netflix and Disney+ are also working fine.
Isn't that mostly a QoS issue?
My opinion is that `ip` is a more powerful tool, but it is not as useful for quickly obtaining information or performing a basic action like up/down.
I mean, there is always the productivity trade off. If hardware/bandwidth is cheaper than dev time... I guess that was the idea with Go, to be productive to write and more efficient to run than the dynamic languages.

I think incentives in commercial software are out of whack. It's often more profitable to make garbage software that is barely fit for purpose. But that same critique also applies to much of our economic system.

If we want a particular outcome, the incentives need to be aligned accordingly.
True. Now, compare the number of music albums produced per studio to the number of movies. We’re explicitly talking about paying per time rather than per work here; one movie versus one album is misleading and/or irrelevant.
Shelter in Place is basically just the Bay Area, right? And a lot of people still seem to be leaving the home for work there; notoriously, people are still making Teslas!

Also, California is mostly fairly urbanised and well-off. If Germany was the only place in Europe where people were being discouraged from leaving the home, this would be less of a concern. This is really targeting places, especially rural places, with poor infrastructure.
It'd probably be the 6th largest in the eu. Smaller than Italy, France and Spain which all have lockdowns.
I think they're saying NASA would add ~100GB of new data to this dataset every month.
Then worst case they'll get a class action lawsuit, appeal the verdict three times and then end up giving everyone $100 worth of credits towards a future Tesla. Lawyers will net a couple hundred million.
Crimson Contagion 2019 Functional Exercise Key Findings
There is no way to secure k8s. Really now. REALLY NOW.
If streaming works, but zoom doesn't, maybe the issue is with the zoom servers?
The initial upload is 247 petabytes
I thought I knew of all the APIs, but that one surprised me. Hadn't realized how well done it was...
> Can you share the name of your app

no, sorry

there are few forums with some really dedicated users if you ever want to hop back into it :)
But as far as I can tell, 'html5core' is just a subset of HTML meant for static documents, meaning it's just HTML.

There's no reason for that to have its own separate rendering path, or even to be its own thing. The process of validating it as 'html5core' would probably take more time than just rendering it as is.
While the whole world is trying to deal with the worst pandemic in 100 years, you are going to have to adjust your expectation levels for bullshit.
There might be special circumstances afoot.
The Internet doesn't have QoS.
No issues in the Netherlands either, we have a lot of cable (250 or 500mbit) and fiber (similar speeds) connections so I guess they're used to this amount of traffic.

I guess this kind of thing is more for rural DSL lines in other countries? Or maybe central London :-), they still have a lot of homes only connected by ancient copper telephone cables.
I don't mean to strawman but are you saying luxury businesses should be able to get away with not delivering on what their customers pay for because we are in an unexpected situation?
I don't think so. This is one company reducing the quality of their own content.
Supply shocks and sagging demand: A coronavirus 'perfect storm' hits Apple
I used to use NixOS, and I do have some of the best ZFS support out of the box I've seen on Linux. I'm not sure if the approach of using zfs boot environments would play well with NixOS considering how they manage the configuration and rollbacks separately. They also manage the bootloader, so I don't know if the changes would survive. Something could probably be set up to work, but it would probably feel as though you were working against the intended way the system should work.
That sounds like a sweet setup. Thanks for the input!
> investors have mostly bet on full autonomy

lol.

I used to live on one of the side streets in MV that Google's AV cars trained on. Saw three in a row once. They were usually the only traffic, so that annual report of millions of miles travelled was meaningless - they might as well have driven arounf the Safeway parking lot at 5 am.

I guess passenger-carrying quadcopters is next. Oh wait ...
He wasn't charged with theft, he was charged with accessing a computer system he wasn't supposed to (the locked server cabinet). He was also driven to suicide by the prosecution flipping his friend after he confided in her.

You don't know what you're talking about
I am in Los Angeles, and we have been told to stay home except for absolutely necessary trips to grocery stores or doctors.

Also, there are very large parts of California that are rural.
What a terrible hack... and I'd rather not give Cloudflare any more of my traffic than I already do.
The immunology department of Marseille, France reported 3 days ago that taking hydroxy-chloroquine and azithromycin together led to 90% of pilot program patients testing negative after 6 days.

There are also several publications under review at the NIH. Glad to see the US Gov. stepping up to the plate so fast on the subject.
Ok, 80USD is only approximate. But in the context of a discussion of the government's pricing strategy, that is probably good enough.
Yes, we could have mandated gloves masks and sanitizer for schools and food service, etc, implemented temperature taking for airports, schools, etc, but due to the total vacuum of any leadership or policy, we reverted to panic mode.
This one? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
That's a Layer 5 or 6 issue, or lower if you want to talk about IPSec, not a Layer 7 issue.
No, that would be the ISP playing "you can't use Netflix or Zoom unless you pay for Super Premium." This is the services themselves downgrading to handle the highest peak service they will ever see.
Interview with Rich Hickey (2011)
BBC: It is not clear if this applies to the special snow flakes on the island off of Europe.

Netflix: You're Europeans again, England. Suck it.

Scotland: Ha ha.
You need to use nested functions if you want to have nontrivial behaviour in a cleanup, and nested functions are awful in c.
> The database is also working to expand on the amount of free content available online to students

Don't worry JSTOR, Alexandra's got your back.
http://sci-hub.tw

Seriously though, to hell with paywalls and artificial barriers imposed on publicly funded papers by no-value-added rent-seeking publishers such as those whose material is archived by JSTOR.
The overcharging of Swartz was over the top, ridiculous, embarrassing, and destructive. It destroyed Swartz, but also Ortiz.

You can blame Swartz for his suicide, sure, but don't tell us Ortiz's nonsense didn't help him go there. She might not be liable in any way (not least because she'd be immunized as DA), but morally she sure was -- we, the public, have judged her. She should never hold public office again.
Regarding your second point - I don't have a horse in that race, other than tremendously enjoying my personal license that I pay for out of my pocket; but I found their arguments[1] quite reasonable. I think there was an HN discussion about this some time ago.

[1] https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op...
Torrents are only helpful when there's a large number of people who download the data and are willing to share it. There's not a large userbase for the vast majority of NASA data. It wouldn't be distributed in any meaningful way.
Almost half of coronavirus patients have digestive symptoms
The author fails to explain how these lightweight VMs would be orchestrated.

There are two directions that most organizations can go from containers, and they have opposite answers to this question.

The first direction is back to a monolithic application running in a VM. Orchestration no longer exists as a problem. What else do we get? Development is easier. Debugging is easier. We have literally decades of experience figuring out how to make it work.

Very, very few of the people reading this post are solving problems harder than ones I was solving decades ago using that kind of stack. Other than the fact that your resume won't look as good, there is zero reason not to do this.

The other is, as the post's author recommends, even further into isolating the app. Down to something even simpler than a container. In which case you will need a solution for orchestration, but it won't let you leverage a single running VM to a whole cluster. Limiting the attack area will be good for security.

As a bonus things that container folks say work, but don't, will work. For example autoscaling fails in adtech with containers fails hard because the time that it takes to boot up new instances exceeds the time that you are getting flooded by your ad. But if your unikernel boots fast enough, now autoscaling does work.

Now there is a third use case. And that is organizations like Google whose codebase is so big that they can't run it monolithically on a single machine. Containers solve that in a distributed environment by letting them run only some of their code on each machine. There is a hidden cost that RPCs over a network are inherently an order of magnitude more expensive (in time, latency, and resources) than a function call inside of a running application. So you order an order of magnitude more hardware, and containers are the sweet spot for you.

But that problem is of a kind that very few organizations have. And making it actually work takes a lot of thought and organization that very few in the containerization world seem to understand. Certainly if you read a few blog posts, install Docker and Kubernetes, then start deploying through Helm, I am willing to bet large sums of money that you are almost certainly making rookie mistakes.
I think this is the one you need. Interesting, thanks for the suggestion to search for it!

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
And my part of Rural America was supposed to have a local government broadband taskforce meeting next Tuesday. The county commissioner concerned won't reply saying whether the meeting is canceled or not though the emergency declaration said county offices are closed to the public. I sent the commissioner a message imploring him to find a way to keep the matter going as there will be an end to this crisis and our decaying, limited, legacy infrastructure that the local broadband incumbent is not investing in is holding us back.

I'm not holding my breath.
Thanks so much for the swift fix, apology, and the current work to try to find out what happened & prevent the recurrence of the mistake. Mistakes are inevitable, especially at scale. I think taking those steps, when the inevitable mistake happens, is all we can ask of anyone.

Good job!!
Net neutrality is the idea that your ISP shouldn't deprioritize content from someone else in order to benefit their own competing service.

For example, Comcast not counting their on-demand, over the internet, streaming against your data cap. Whereas watching Netflix/hulu/etc would count against it.
It's amazing how many epidemiologist don't understand the difference between exponential and polynomial growth.
That was the promise for the last generation of consoles as well, and some of their generation-closing consoles still had small internal storage quantities; the launch PS4 had 500GB, and the latest PS4 Pro only has 1TB (about 150GB more than the PS5).
I don’t know what things are like in other parts of the world, but the US market has shown a preference for renting large-library access over buying individual works. There are exceptions, when the costs got skewed too far and the perception grows that the “large library” is actually a small library plus a lot of dross (see Cable TV), but even then it took decades of Worst-in-the-nation service issues, billing ‘hijinks’, and predatory pricing to convince Americans to start cutting the cord.
good thing no one is advocating for laying one brick and stopping
I wish capnproto was included in this.
When I had my Internet from Cox here in Phoenix and they started to invoke data caps, I was forced to rate limit my TVs here in the house.

I have to say, Netflix does a GREAT job making sure their content works well under lower bitrates as compared to HULU and Amazon Prime.

I was getting pretty good 1080 quality at 2.5mbs. If I didn't do the caps, Netflix (and other services) will stream as fast as they can.
I read when having bicycle frames made in Taiwan you get the best price/quality ratio if you have a permanent onsite observer in the factory. That guy doesn't really do anything but they wont cut corners if he is around.
> Are you saying that wrapper code implementing an old interface by wrapping around a new interface is easier to do correctly in userspace than in the kernel itself?

Yes.

> I think I need you to be more concrete in pointing to a specific performance penalty or avoidable maintenance burden.

I already did: socketcall. And NT does all 32-bit compatibility in userspace.
> Are the numbers there... not high enough for you?

They're not high enough to put strain on hospital resources, and therefore to move from a mostly-individual to a mostly-collective type of problem. Nobody else is likely to die because you didn't get a flu shot (BTW the existence of a vaccine is also a factor here) and tied up a ventilator that they also needed. That's a real concern with COVID-19.

> hinting that things are so obvious that a child can understand it?

I wasn't hinting.
Would it really be better if we didn't evolve the web, and we had more OS-specific unsandboxed applications and greater fragmentation between OSes (and a stronger incentive for everyone to stick to one OS, like Windows) instead?
It must depend on the industry. My experience is the opposite.

I've had programming jobs where every single day consisted of me running into a bug and wanting to fix it, and my manager saying there's no ROI in that and I need to add new features instead like The Roadmap says.

After switching to the physical world, there's definitely an understanding that while we shouldn't be slow, we should take as long as needed to do the job right. If we screw up, people could die. As they say: "OSHA regulations are written in blood."
> They have no reason to hide (except for the massive amount of cyber crime they originate, where VPNs are used)

And, well, trade sanctions, which is why the parent comment wondered if they used VPNs.
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This is why you always need positive identification of a plant when foraging. Match all the details and know the look alikes. Compare a list of edible berries to poisonous ones and you'll see lots of overlapping features.
Have people ever flocked from Linux to Mac OS X? I've only ever heard of people flocking from Windows to Mac OS X and a small number of people moving between either one of those and Linux.
Microsoft especially has been aggressive in courting large companies away from AWS for cloud needs.
Sounds like an ISP issue.
Jellyfin is really nice if you have a semi-powerful, wired-network machine to run it on. Former Kodi user, now a convert.

Kodi on an Rpi makes a good cast target for it, though.
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Yeah, but not this kind of bullshit. How is COVID stopping Netflix from lowering their rates accordingly?
For (C)RPGs the problem might be that developers try to give players so much freedom that the character ends up being more of a blank slate, and it is pretty difficult to write meaningful development for that. And even when the character is not a blank slate then it might be something very bland/average so that most people can identify with and immerse in that character. As it turns out, most people don't really seem to want to play a role, they want to play their own thing which is very different.

Think how much character development a play writer can write if they expect the actors to form their characters on a whim? And the actors being not professional ones who would be very good at it but your average common people.
It wouldn't surprise me if there is a problem, on Netflix's side.

As in this puts too much stress and thus too high of a cost on their end.
This article is enthusiastically declaring that the CEO of NanoVMs doesn't understand the audience he is addressing.

Containers were never meant to be "secure" and Kubernetes has nothing to do with security in general.
Application level containerization solves 3 problems:
1- repeatable builds
2- software distribution
3- infrastructure mutability

Docker solves brilliantly all these problems: we can build software in controlled environments that we call images and the product is an image itself, that we can share by means of software catalogs called registries and that we can deploy the same way we can play CDs in a computer, without modifying the host system.
Security was never meant to be a concern, it was never part of the plan, at least no more than running a process in an operating system. And containment systems are just a smart way to launch a process, that's it. They can't replace security functionalities beyond what is already provided by host OS.

Is this a fault? Would you blame a hammer for not being able to unscrew a cork?

NanoVMs CEO spends some time also making fun of "stripped down systems", accusing them of recklessly "ripping out components of a system that simply don't belong in the virtualized world of 2020", namely users, SSH logins and desktops. Again, there is a big misunderstanding here.
Linux processes expect some facilities to be present at runtime, namely system calls to retrieve Process IDs and user IDs. But these facilities were merely retrofitted in containment systems to avoid processes crash upon syscall invocations. As all retrofitted functionalities, their implementation is barely beyond the dummy level. Therefore, we have PID 1 everywhere, no SSH logins and dummy users.

Now, Kubernetes.
K8s is just a scheduler, an orchestrator. It has nothing to do with security, it is mainly concerned with resource optimal usage and container placement. And it is a fundamental component in microservice world, otherwise we would be paralized by operations at each deployment.
"You spin up a linux box and call it a day - done". Seriously? Is this really the whole understanding of the world of operations?
I've been in ops for 12 years and I'd never want to go back to the old bad days of 2008, where most of us managed an handful of servers and services and, yet, datacenter ops were at one with deployment ops. That was the very world of manual and error prone ops.
Orchestration has been a bliss but requires a unit of scheduling. A container, in this case. But it may be a VM as well.

So, the saddest thing here is that NanoVMs could be a perfect replacement for containers while retaining the benefits of orchestration (as in Kubevirt, for example), but the CEO prefers to throw away the dirty water along with the baby for marketing hype.
About a decade ago or so, there was a spate of fan-made games using the free Adventure Game Studio. I recall fondly Yahtzee's "7 Days a Stranger", which sparked some sequels. A horror game with the look of a LucasArts game and some experimental gameplay.
Your aggression is unwanted and unnecessary. I haven't validated anything; I speculated, with appropriate qualifiers.

I'm happy to defer to actual stats if you have any.

Page 5 of the recent well-respected Imperial paper on modelling approaches to managing the outbreak has statistics on hospitalisation that I imagine are the current best estimates.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

For example, 3.2% of cases aged 30-39 require hospitalisation. Could that rise to 40% after triage? I'm not sure, it seems high, but it depends on what pressures the system is under.