skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see much of a difference if you're doing SSR though. It'd just mean not delivering code that never gets used. If I'm just showing documents, then that's what it is. It needs nothing else.
Okay so this is really interesting.

The plant is featured in Harry Potter in the very first book, but it completely understates the actual danger of the plant. At least based on your link, and how even touching it can be fatal.

For those wondering, it's the first potion class in book 1.
N95-Mask Donation Locations
Absolutely insane. It's barely started.
To speak for myself, I don't care about ink. I don't even use Apple's pencil. I want to type things into a comment box and be able to search for what I typed later.

This app got started in 2012. It's 2020, and I can't.
Study from Marseille seems well founded, although (of course) based on a small sample.
Why isn't this higher up?
I think this thought is extremely on point.

A lot of older unix abstractions have been heavily broken when we all started running tens, hundreds, or thousands of vms on the public cloud. Users are relegated to IAM. Most databases can't even fit on a single server. Many webapps are load balanced to begin with.

The classic monolithic 'server' named Mars or Jupiter outgrew itself cause we all were consuming so much software. So part of what we are asking here is why do we have 2 layers of linux? We have the underlying one for the hypervisor but all these legacy abstractions are still present in the guest.
Care to expand ?
I wouldn't blindly trust it _just because_ a doctor said it, but I would definitely put more trust in a doctor giving medical advice than someone who is not a doctor or similar. Isn't the whole thing with medical advice and doctors that doctors are being trusted and believed in, meaning they have credibility.
All of that rings true to me. Some will take issue with difficulty (From Software games are still difficult, for example), or balance or whatever. But generally all these rules apply.

The last bit of "magic" I felt was World of Warcraft. Stepping into a world that actually felt like world was an entirely new experience. The game felt alive in a way that no other game has since felt. Years later Blizzard would largely destroy this magic by turning that sense of awe into a grind, and allowing players to fast travel wherever they wanted. The magic of possibility and random encounters disappeared.

Every game since then has paled in comparison. After WoW, you also feel that every moment spent in a game is largely a waste of time. I'm incapable of playing these massive 30-90 hour games that seem to dominate the industry today. Sometimes I pick up Quake for a few quick rounds. But 30+ hours is a solid investment of my incredibly limited time.
What is semipowerful, approximately?
Log onto the internet at 1900hrs in central London on any normal day and be in for a shock
I probably wouldn't use language quite that strong, but the view from outside the US is definitely quite different.

The US withdrawl from the Iran nuclear agreement was more a result of changes in the US than of changes in Iran. Barack Obama brokered the deal and he stated his clear opposition to Donald Trump's decision to end it. (https://facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10155854913976749)

The European Union was also a party to the Iran nuclear deal, and they thought so poorly of the resumption of US sanctions on Iran that they passed a law making it illegal for European companies to comply. (https://dw.com/en/eu-to-reactivate-blocking-statute-against-...)
Considering how often Netflix has jacked up my plan prices, I imagine they already have the billing code in place.
Now if only it wasn't $350 for home use. Like any non-privileged student can afford that.
Well if the companies say so
Florida is still North America isn't it?
> 2. I have doubt that any broadband company would openly admit to not being able to handle the extra load.

Thank you! Found this entire thread very odd.
This is generally how the media industry works. Paying for content (online at least) is almost always more complex, less flexible and lower quality.

Add to that the various geographical restrictions (have the audacity to live outside of the US? No content for you!) and piracy becomes quite attractive.
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Wikipedia: In the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) limits the quinine content in tonic water to 83 ppm[3] (83 mg per liter if calculated by mass), while the daily therapeutic dose of quinine is in the range of 500–1000 mg,[4] and 10 mg/kg every eight hours for effective malaria prevention (2100 mg daily for a 70 kg adult).

How much less than 83mg/litre is unclear. You would do yourself damage with the sugar should you try to drink enough for a dose. Also it is unclear how effective quinine is compared with hydroxychloroquine.

Finally, quinine can have serious side effects, take care.
Android surveillanceware operators jump on the coronavirus fear bandwagon
To clarify, most of these work by asking for permission first, and you can set them to "always deny" in the browser settings: chrome://settings/content

There are similar site content settings in any major browser.
Maybe if we had kept using bittorrent for TV distribution we wouldn't have so much global traffic downloading "The Avengers" for the millionth time, you would just download it from the nearest host (also the way the internet worked before HTTPS, there used to be way more local caching of content being downloaded over and over again)
You can model behavior, which is very useful for economics.
This started with DVDs that had unskippable anti piracy messages that piracy tools would either bypass or automatically enable skippability.
Coronavirus conspiracies go viral on WhatsApp as crisis deepens
I’ve worked at a major ISP, for a decade, and spotting something like this should be so easy to spot. There are tools on monitoring of load all the time, and areas are routibely getting split etc. to improve bandwith, so I think your ISP are basicly amateurs..
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I agree -- I like Gasee and BeOS but there's no chance he would have managed to do the same with Apple. The modern Apple, like the original Apple, is Job's creation. In a way that very very few CEOs (who get all the credit regardless) can say.
Could you use an existing solution such as pushover [0]?

[0] https://pushover.net/
A word of warning to all who consider stocking up on and self-medicating with Chloroquine: while this is a well-studied medicine, it can have severe side effects, particularly in the eyes (including blindness).
That said, let's hope it has some effect as current anecdata suggests.
In 2003 I was a developer on a website that served a million pages per hour using 2 databases, 4 webservers, and associated networking. Most of that hardware was there for automated failover.

At that scale, orchestration is simply not a challenge. We wrote a deployment script to roll out code changes and life was good.

2020 hardware is not worse than 2004 hardware. And while that business eventually failed, it was not due to technology. (And it made a lot of money before it failed.) As I said, most here are not doing something harder now than we did then. The same class of solution works.

As the old saying goes, KISS. Know when it works, and when it doesn't. As another saying says, YAGNIY. (You Ain't Gonna Need It Yet.) Deal with the limits of being monolithic after you encounter them. Don't complicate your life to tackle problems that don't exist.
I had a PS2, an Xbox 360 and now a PS4. Total hardware cost of playing the latest games with zero performance issues, hardware worries or upgrades in the last 20 years is around the price of a single gaming PC, which lasts what, 4-5 years tops?

It's just not the same market.
And acquire cirrhosis before the the virus even threatens your lungs.
At least it will be the same bitrate every time :)

The keyword you should be searching for is "remux", as in identical video/audio streams to a BD but in a new container (probably MKV).
Another interesting note is that Parsoid, the nodejs service that turns wikitext into the Visual Editor, is being ported from js to PHP.
I wonder how likely this guess is. Not only specific to one country, not just a state in that country, but an area of a state. Wonder how the chance of successful guess looks like, compared to the total users here on HN.
Ok it's obvious I can't eat this... but what happens if I touch it?
Except residential upload speeds are usually only 1/10th of the corresponding download speed.
Thank you for sharing this very candid article on the Starsky Robotics and generally the autonomous vehicle space. It's a real eye opener. I've been following your progress for the last few years (and I also read about your company through Reilly Brennan's "Trucks - FOT" newsletter).

I am sorry you could not get investors to believe more in what you and your team, especially as you required a lot less funds than many other companies in this arena. I also thought you had a clear business case (I worked in ride-hailing and also logistics so understand some of the problems in this space).

I wanted to ask you a question: I am building a startup in the dash cam video analysis space. We are building a large and geographically diverse dataset of road videos, where our users can annotate/label the data. We then are going to look at detecting specific events like accidents and edge cases on videos. Do you feel this type of business, the data we collect, and insights we generate would have value for a AV startup?

All the best in your next move.
Stay strong - you can be proud of what you and your team did.
With half of infections being completely asymptomatic, this doesn't work. You need to do what South Korea and some towns in Italy have been doing successfully: widespread, fast, free testing, and then anyone who tests positive is isolated for 14 days.
Wasn’t Netflix originally p2p in some manner? I can’t remember the exact details (and I may be wrong), but I could have sworn their original architecture was distributed in one way or the other.
BeOS might have worked well enough in the short term but it would have turned into a disaster later. It lacked the fundamental security foundations that Nextstep already had built in. Retrofitting that level of security would have been extremely difficult, perhaps just as hard as adding preemptive multitasking to classic MacOS.
Agreed. Searching in non ink should be a piece of cake. I suspect it’s been unimplemented for the same reason that my own request for keyboard shortcuts for bold/underline/change-size has been ignored - they don’t really care about user needs and only do the stuff they like. Which tells you something about the management of the product ...
Like the travel industry does with their non-refundable charges?
Yeah, but everything will happen so fast the market won't have time to react as you think. The value of stocks et al are based on what people think will happen in the future, not what's happening right now.
It's not Netflix that can't handle the load, though. It's your ISP. If there's anyone to be angry with, it's them.
Tor 0.4.2.7 released. Many bugfixes including a major DoS vulnerability
You can run containers in userspace, use app armor, etc and you get better security. Aside from maybe one or two major security exploits, what issues have you want into?
Is this not insider trading? He made decisions based on info not available to general public.
I'm curios to what load the cellular networks are seeing
Anyone know where that remote is from in the picture?
A Message from Italy: It’s Going to Get Worse. Much Worse
I’d rather see 60-144hz before any increases in resolution above 1080p and maybeeee 4K.

I think lower quality rips show themselves a bit more on high quality playback devices, but I generally don’t hit low quality releases purely for Snob factors so I could be wrong.
You might be thinking about Spotify, which had a torrent-like technology originally. Nowadays I think it's fairly limited.
It's not a counterpoint. Netflix's actions, from a network perspective are not neccessary, at least not Europe-wide. My ISP is more than able to cope with it. I've been checking at peak times and I can consistently saturate my gigabit connection piping traffic to/from Amsterdam, about 800km away.

Maybe Netflix feels the need for its own business reasons (e.g. it pays for some of its bandwidth and now users are using enough that they're unprofitable) but it's not needed to ensure the integrity of Europe's networks.

Were it necessary, the ISPs can simply shape Netflix and let adaptive bitrate take care of the user experience, the same way mobile ISPs do in the US.
If you’re downloading ten segments from ten different uploaders it can all balance out I think.

Bittorrent can be damn quick. Haven’t used it in a while but it was certainly fast on well seeded items.
Japan doesn't seem to be testing aggressively like some other countries, so the number of Coronavirus cases could be underreported. But I would assume the number of deaths would be harder to undercount? (Also, a government official is quoted in the article as saying there has been no spike in pneumonia cases. You would expect this to not be the case if there were many Coronavirus-caused deaths not being recorded as such.)

I'm just bewildered that Japan, which bungled the Diamond Princess response so badly, is packed with people in its largest cities, and is not under lockdown like some other countries, seems to be faring better in this crisis than other countries that have had a much stronger response to this virus. Is this a reason to doubt the effectiveness of lockdown measures that have caused severe economic pain in Europe and the US?
> on a monitor set to high contrast and relatively low brightness in a well lit setting

That's 3 pretty big assumptions :)

Sure, in that situation light mode is great, but if I'm browsing HN on my laptop at night in bed in the dark, I would definitely prefer dark mode.
The Deep Life: Some Notes from Cal Newport
Just because they're selling you Gigabit, doesn't mean that they actually have the capacity to provide you a guaranteed Gigabit pipe. They're overprovisioning their network and hoping that not enough people want to max their connection out at the same time.
Again, not true. Take a look at the HTML from the Zen Garden page and you will see it is very semantic.

Also, just anecdotal: I am working on a Vue.js component which I want people to customize the styling however they want. This is forcing me to drop the CSS part of the components. I am not adding any cruft HTML and yet I did manage to get a "basic" theme and a good chunk of the "materialize" look already. Two themes, two separate SASS projects. It can be done.
Not an expert on the topic, but IIRC this is the rough outline:

- The main ISP of Germany is Deutsche Telekom, a formerly state-owned company that was privatized ~25 years ago, which Germany still holds stock in

- In the past Telekom was awarded big contracts to expand broadband access across the country

- Telekom is/was really slow at fulfilling those contracts, and at the same time behaves in an anti-competitive manner towards any independent ISPs that try to fill the void

- The government doesn't punish any of that behaviour like they rarely do with a big German company, even more so with privatized ones that they have a stake in

To also be fair towards Telekom a bit, Germany is a very decentralized country, which is a boon in a lot of situations, but also challenging for any infrastructure projects. Part of the contracts was that they also have to expand broadband access in all rural parts of Germany.
Wow "Web Coffee API" - something I didn't know I needed
Yes, but...

"Spotted water hemlock grows in freshwater marshy or swampy areas throughout the entire continent of North America, save the island of Newfoundland. It can be found in Alaska and Florida, in the vast unpopulated stretches of the American west and in the parks of New York City. It is not especially common, but its range is massive."

And before you respond, refer to: https://www.xkcd.com/386/
That's again cash flowing from the airline to the airport, so if the airport can keep the fuel flowing, the airline should be OK landing there.
> wildly equivocates between containers and Kubernetes

The conflation of containers and K8s is pretty damning. I personally believe k8s is an early realization of orchestration and will be superseded by better ones. Building yet another orchestration system is a cottage industry at the moment and I've noticed that the existence of k8s hasn't impeded it.

And "spin up a linux box" is deeply naive. It is the habit of spinning up linux instances that leave companies and other institutions with huge collections of neglected, mis-configured, vulnerable linux VMs spread all over the planet with 0.1% average utilization.

Developers popularized containers, independent of the cloud or the troubles of operations. Containers solve tough development and packaging problems and have value whether the ultimate deployment abstraction is 'docker' or some microVM system. The most likely use case for whatever microVM product one might imagine is running containers.
The documentation goes in much more detail.
Doesn't really matter though, still means (Slightly oversimplified) that a peer can connect to 10 hosts and not have to download at all from the origin server. Also this simply isn't true in a lot of European countries where upload and download speeds are equal, but that's a different thing.
Ignoring the financial decision (manual vs automation) this suggests they are more concerned about false negatives than false positives.
So it was invented twice?
How can we tell if HN comments have been edited?

[I have now edited... but please don't say "I see that you added something in brackets"]
I agree, though I think containers are a very useful incremental approach towards solving the problem. Declare bankruptcy on fixing the current OS, stick it in a tar, and surround it in a new encapsulating system (Docker/k8s) that has isolation/deployment properties closer to what the ideal OS would have. Over time, we can shrink and eventually remove the "old-world OS" in the tar, and develop the new encapsulating system further. We can easily experiment with new features in the encapsulating system without needing to first reinvent everything in the old-world OS. Maybe we'll eventually just shrink the old-world OS out of the picture entirely, or we'll create a brand new purer system in the image of the encapsulating system without the old-world OS involved.

Something that really bugs me about a lot of criticisms of containers is that often you get two groups of people agreeing that containers are bad for opposite reasons: one group is fine with the old-world model, and one group that thinks containers don't go far enough in squeezing out the old-world model and replacing it with something better. It makes me worried that it's very easy for the audience to think the conclusion is "containers bad, old-world plain linux server good", which is detrimental to the second group's goal.
Also Voddler I guess?
I wonder if there is a point where literally everyone just gets a dose of chloroquine. My understanding is it stops the virus replicating and so is almost a preventative rather than a treatment.
Fun fact: AOC and Ted Cruz have cosponsored legislation banning Congress folks from lobbying for life. I’m unaware of the current status, but people still work across the aisle and not all hope is lost. We must push on. This (excellent) reporting by ProPublica is part of that.
Does anyone know how quickly the production of Chloroquine Phosphate and Hydroxychloroquine can be ramped up (say, to the tune of 500M people * 7g per "course" = 3.5 million kilograms?

I tried finding out how much chloroquine is prescribed world wide per year, but couldn't find it. It may give us a clue into how much is already being used.

I know that it isn't used except for pregnant women as a malaria treatement because the first line antimalarials aren't proven save in pregnancy, but also that the malaria protozoa has some resistence to Chloroquine in many countries (Ecuador, among others)
Thanks that might be right!
Because every 10 years you have people who haven't been around for the past 20 years (re-?) inventing things.
It sounds like it's time for some popcorn.
https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/commit/c8b1f15359...
It's a pretty radical alternative but I've been playing a lot with the postgresql-typed library. It actually connects to the database during compile time, validates the queries and calculates appropriate type constraints for your application code.

Simple typos are caught of course, but also more subtle problems. If for instance you drop a NOT NULL constraint on a column in your database, your application will not compile until you add in the appropriate NULL handling.

Like I said it is a bit radical, but to me it clearly feels like the future and I miss it whenver I work with a traditional DB mapping.
At least in the US, Netflix colocates a box with the most popular content on premises with the ISP, so the last mile could be the bottleneck here.
This is a great idea, but I wish was slightly larger. Most people with interesting side projects aren’t stuck by a lack of $500.

I suppose it is enough to take the risk away from paying for hosting if you are quite uncertain
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This move is just a solution in search of a problem.
We still have better internet than you in ALL places, including mobile connectivity, literally everywhere. I can say fiber to the home 250/250 & coax 500/500 dominate the market. There is pumped up ADSL everywhere country-side.
This move is coming unilateraly from a person who doesn't understand internet and woke up and had to be busy with something.
Many IX report a slight increase in capacity, from 10% to 20%.
As I understand it Netflix has hardware in ISP data centers to do exactly that. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
> In 2003 I was a developer on a website that served a million pages per hour using 2 databases, 4 webservers, and associated networking. Most of that hardware was there for automated failover.

fwiw, Stackoverflow runs on a similarly sized/deployed stack.

But that is because Stackoverflow is fine with their employees running a cheap, un-complex system that works (I can't remember the last SO outage!), and their employees are also happy with this.

Others, especially startups? Gotta chase these hipster credentials and use the free AWS/Azure/GCP credits somehow... and the employees don't want boring old school stuff, they want the newest hipster crap that's barely alpha tested, but in production. Utterly ridiculous. Most of them would be fine with three sub-$10k AMD servers and a bit of work by a seasoned Linux sys-admin. But eww. Linux management. Not cool/hip.
Covid-19 Analyzer
No company will trade efficiency for resiliency. If you prepare for black swan events your company is eaten by the efficient ones that don't. Even if the black swans come every 10 years.