skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! Reading the study, I don't see any hard evidence.
Sounds like the next Forsythia.
it is a no cost request for a government official to make and gives them a ready out should things go wrong, in that they can point and say "if only they had done what I asked"
Some projects enjoy increase in contributions once they move to Github. I think it was either CPython or Erlang which mentioned this effect.
If this was interesting, check out Eugene McDonnell's "1000 K idioms" (in k2): https://web.archive.org/web/20071230205056/http://kx.com/tec...
You're subscribing to the notion that it's good to put all your styles for all components in one file. Since the invention of variables, that is wrong.

Theming is no longer a valid argument for centralized style sheets. If you declare one central set of variables for, eg., colours or fonts, then you can still do "application level theming" (changing those colours/fonts in one place), without having to mash all the styles for every element in the entire app together in one file.

The advantage of using JS variables to represent this is you can easily ask your IDE to "find all references" to that variable. It's much easier for humans than reasoning about CSS inheritance and the cascade.
These are great, thank you for posting!
Regarding point 1, I imagine capacity is much higher during working hours due to so many people working from home.
https://youtu.be/FF-tKLISfPE

Transcription at: https://austenallred.com/steve-jobs-insult-response-transcri...

> The hardest thing is, how does that fit into a cohesive larger vision that’s gonna allow you to sell 8 billion dollars — 10 billion dollars of product a year?
One of the things I’ve always found is that you’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it. I’ve made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room, and I’ve got the scar tissue to prove it.
> Instead, the consensus has become that we’re at least 10 years away from self-driving cars.

I'm going to assume the founder of a self-driving truck company knows what he's talking about.

But at the same time, I have a hard time reconciling that with the fact that I sat in a car that drove itself all around San Francisco, dealing with a ton of edge cases.

Maybe we won't get to a 100% drive-anywhere-you-want-car in 10 years, but to be fair, a lot of humans aren't capable of driving a car anywhere either.

There are a lot of LA drivers who can't drive in snow, for example. I was one of them, until I got practice, and even then, I'm not that safe at it.

I think as long as we set the bar at "drive anywhere a car can go with 100% safety" we will never reach that bar.

But if the bar is at "drive as well as a human in most of the places humans drive", well, I've already seen a car that can do that.
A hyper-specialist will be the best at some thing or another, and bad at a lot. A generalist will likely not be as good at those things, but it can be good enough at them, and not nearly as bad at the other things.

The market, as you note, selects for hyper-specialists, but crises aren't kind to them.

Strictly inferior home-produced goods are better than no goods at all, and the capability to produce them may have systemic benefits (in flexibility, resilience, avoiding certain kinds of path dependence and local maxima) that are not visible when looking at the goods in isolation.

What law and regulation can do is keep a nation on a more generalist footing, and keep it from hyper-specializing too much.
Getting something to work end to end, however small, is so important. In my experience the earlier you do that, the better. Otherwise you have no idea what you're building.
No. there is an extra 4+ years of classes.
Can you explain what you mean by that last statement? It does not sound true to me. As far as I can tell (in my country) almost all consumer offers are asymmetric: ADSL, obviously, but also fiber. Symmetric offers are very much for professional access, and typically more expensive.
> home network capacity used to be at peak around 7PM IIRC. There should be significant spare headroom on the network during the working day.

That's because people used to be in the office over the day. Now many are working from home and thus at home all day.
Has the Covid-19 response gone too far?
How to optimise regular expressions and avoid catastrophic backtracking
Nice! Looking at it now.
According to the Wikipedia article manchineel actually hasn't killed anyone in modern literature, despite having a description of the taste of it's fruit. My guess is the tree doesn't directly kill as much as massively inflame flesh so it's still "survivable"
Movies look like garbage in >30fps.

That's why moviemakers beg audiences not to do frame interpolation.
My friends will come over for 4 hours on a Sunday. I will spend no more than 10 minutes when they're here figuring out controllers. I will spend no more than 15 minutes at any point ahead of time to keep things working.

When they come over, the thing we want to spend most of our time doing is 2 v 2 FIFA. If I spend 30 mins doing anything here, we're losing precious time. If I spend 60 mins debugging, I'm just not going to do it. I'll even take a zero probability of fixing if it means a lower probability of failure of any sort (even recoverable).
You can't generalise all of the European Union like that.
My ISP has been playing the same game with me for months. I finally cancelled the contract when it was about to renew, and I got a very interesting winback call from sales:

Not only did the rep freely share the utilization numbers with me (80% during the day and 90% at night), he also mentioned that things would not get better until end of the year when they would do a node split.

As consolation, they offered me 10x the download speed for half the price. I'm not really sure how that would help congestion...
>Essentially there are two extreme approaches: 1) create very specific markup for each UI element, which optimizes markup size and clarity, but leads to a huge amount of duplication of CSS; or 2) create UI-oriented classes that are then tacked onto a dense tree of nested divs, which optimizes CSS size and clarity, but leads to markup bloat and "class-itis".

Really, only two approaches are viable? There's no middle ground here? What would be the point of highlighting the extremes?

It's as if the entire tech industry has lost the ability to tell a designer to sit down and come up with a basic typography set and color palette even. Obviously you can't just create the entire style sheet set in one pass, but can't there be an iterative approach rather than throwing the entire thing out and building giant systems just to let picky designers pointlessly tweak small pieces of the application, in isolation?

What does a complex, "dynamic" widget have to do with not using standardized typography and colors in your application? Once you start there, can't you just evolve the styles to meet product needs? It just seems to me that 99% of the time, the point where it's decided that this whole thing should be thrown out, is almost always the point where someone wants to put "built a component system" on their resume...

Another grey area:

>create very specific markup for each UI element

vs.

>create UI-oriented classes

There's another middle ground here where you just have really big CSS selectors, and many things share styles, while still pointing to structure-oriented html classes. Can you achieve a middle ground better than individual styling, without resorting to UI-classes?
Yeah, you’ll need some serious source to backup this claim. Having a deal with a lab from the same country, that produces a drug you’ve been studying for decades in your lab and hospital isn’t something that justifies dumping on someone’s reputation. Especially if the person in question looks like he has enough papers published to justify his claims.

Ps: i do agree that his tone and style looks unorthodox. But results is the only thing we should care about.
Things that QA testers wished they’d learned earlier
$75k/mo is tiny in the enterprise world. At Oracle they’d give a 22 year old fresh out of school ~30 accounts that size, for reference. I worked on a team of 9ish on a ~$5MM/mo account. (Not cloud, but a comparable business unit)
Why are you paying for it?
I'm fairly sure they don't serve any content from Amazon.

edit I'm pretty confident I'm right: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3427839/ten-years-on--... , https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/netfl...
Most FTTH connections in Italy are 1000/100 or 1000/300 Mbit/s. I guess most people wouldn't even notice the difference in upload between 100 and 1000 Mbit/s.
Smart guy. I'd be about 30% richer today if I did the same.
mtr uses UDP data packets, as far as I am aware.

Yes, the ICMP response packets could still be skewed, and the effect you mention is definitely real, but on a good connection, usually there should not be much to drop at all, neither TCP/UDP traffic nor ICMP packets.
The lengths devs go to become priests..
you _can_ but no one will write a game for that PC spec for another few years at best.
Tech companies asking people who could work from home to come to the office
A "last foot" tech might not even have access to those tools, much less know how to use them.
How to install the FileCloud server on Ubuntu 16.04
I've had a really great experience with using http://nextdns.io/ for this purpose. It comes with a lot of pre-defined things to block (Social Media, Advertising, Genre of Distractions ...) that can be helpful especially when working from home.
That's true as a quip, but what's also true is that piracy flourishes if and only if there are no comfortable means of obtaining content legally. Music piracy was a big thing until it basically dropped dead from one day to the other when music streaming services like Spotify packed all music into one easy subscription. I would also say that movie piracy also dropped significantly when Netflix subscriptions became mainstream (not necessarily in terms of number of available movies, but certainly in terms of market share).
I farm in the SF bay area and the reason we never grow or server white carrots is that we have lots of water hemlock on the farm. I like to teach visitors that not everything on the farm is edible because Berkeley.
OK, I got it after reading the code. It's a neat trick, but you never actually explain how it works (even the comment says ‘this part I'm confused about’ lol).
Rust Cargo.toml Scanner
Large residential buildings (condo and apartments) need a small edge Data Centre in them.
This is called a CDN, and they are very ubiquitous especially for video streaming services
I will say that on a number of people I am calling to do orders or follow-up before we close, that I have heard a large amount of children in the backgrounds. Lot of apologizing which isn't really needed, but I guess it is a bit different for folks and some of them might be ready to do gin experiments soon.

I do answer their survey that they all are very professional.
Actually, we've never NOT been Europeans, and we've never NOT been in Europe. Europe's just a continent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe).

However, we did recently leave the European Union. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union.) Completely different thing, but very commonly confused.
It's The Register, people. Don't take it seriously. It's practically The Onion of the IT industry, especially the comments sections.

I've written two articles for them and the comments are a joke. They're all anti-Cloud, anti-progressive. Try selling them Kubernetes has a solution to their problems: they'll think you've come to steal their children. I know, I've tried.

In short: this never happened. NASA didn't forget anything. It does, however, make for a great eye catching headline!

Sorry to be bitter about this, but publications like The Register serve little purpose these days. It caters to a specific kind of IT personality that can't let go of their physical tin and they think public Cloud has no place or use at all. Again I know, I've tried convincing these people of such things.
You get what you pay for. If you aren't paying for the guy to be the observer there's no one to observe.
Covid-19's Impact on U.S. Commerce via Foot Traffic Data
I would like to see that too. Hopefully we can keep working on fly.io and ultimately do all those things.
Is WebRTC really peer-to-peer if you need a server?
If you don't need that, you can cmd-comma and disable that.

But there's no such an easy way to enable a feature you need, but which wasn't implemented.
There is a directory of sorts here: https://github.com/nayafia/microgrants

(Not with deadlines though, as far as I am aware.)
The math still does not work out.

On an 1:10 asymmetric connection, users would need to remain available for seeding 10 times longer than it takes to download (and presumably watch) the film to have a net positive impact on the system.

That's not exactly realistic, considering that a lot of traffic goes to mobile devices where this would outright kill battery life.
As someone already mentioned here,I think it's probably not a goood approach. The way we store info in dstabases is very limited compated to what we can do in our heads. For instance we know a concept of a table.It can be made of almost any material,can have whatever shape,size, and colour we want and yet we can instantly recognise it without having some concrete data points on what it should look like. I can make a glass cube,put it in a middle of the room and people would know it's a table.How the hell we operate this way,I have no idea.
Yes. Did they ask for a refund for unused services as part of their cancellation? It sounded more like they were just moaning (my fave past-time!).

The "Europe" qualifier seemed necessary as many people on here aren't in Europe.
A bit rich coming from NYT, considering that they were publishing a "what, me worry?" line about a week ago (from an expert hawking a book on innumeracy, no less):
https://www.nytimes.com./2020/03/12/opinion/sunday/coronavir...
I'm not sure that's (entirely) it. I don't know if this is why Netflix doesn't do it, but Germany doesn't have the same First Amendment laws as the US. In particular, there are some writings that are illegal under German law. Thus, locating a box in Germany that could potentially hold material that is illegal under German law is ill advised. That the box is operating simply as a local cache doesn't seem to change the lawyer's perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Germany#Re-unifi...
WARNING: To all those who are reading threads like these and intend to self medicate: you should not do this unless you are medically qualified or have a doctor prescribe you whatever medication might help. The risk of side effects is substantial and there is a reason many countries keep quack laws on the book to go after those who practice medicine without a license.

Medical advice should be given by doctors and what works for someone else may not work for you (be ineffective), cause side effects of all degrees of severity. Note that the original title includes the word 'potential'.
Upload: Upcoming Amazon series where the dying get uploaded into the Metaverse
Yes I'm well aware of routers policing TTL=1 packets, but if you see consistent loss all the way down it's usually a sign. This compared to seeing individual spikes on intermediate routers which are usually control plane policing.
Is SICP worth reading? I keep hearing about it, but it seems like it's mostly a resource for learning lisp. Is that not the case?
My connection is 1000/50 – theoretically.

On a good day, that works out to about 100/2, thanks to my provider vastly overselling their shitty overcongested network as "fiber to the home". (It's just cable.)
Mozilla funds a few things. Some stuff is funded by other companies. Mozilla pays the most folks to work full time, but the amount is tiny compared to the overall set of teams, let alone contributors.
My Comcast gigabit internet is capped at 35Mbit upload as well.
I like LiquidText. But I couldn't really do anything with the notes, so I stopped using it.

I would pay $200 a year for something on iOS/MacOS that combined Tinderbox and LiquidText and let me set formatting for export.
> Never require a player to pick up an item that is used later in the game if she can't go back and get it when it is needed. It is very frustrating to learn that a seemingly insignificant object is needed, and the only way to get it is to start over or go back to a saved game.

This reminds me of Return to Zork, in which on the very first screen the player sees a small plant growing out of a rock. If the player misses or ignores it, or if they choose to cut it or tear it out instead of gently digging it out, they won't able to defeat the last boss.
1. Are there any good examples of this sort of thing that scale down to level where a DIY'er could experiment with it, and that involve things that aren't crazy dangerous to work with?

2. Is there a canonical text or other reference that you'd recommend on the subject?
Ask HN: What new/cutting-edge in novel materials
Do you mean the proprietary Apple push notifications in Safari? In this case I've only seen it ever once (as opposed to seeing the "normal" notifications on pretty much every shitty blogspam website) so it seems like the 100$ acts like a good filter against BS notifications.
Ioannidis paper: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

Lipsitch response: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/18/we-know-enough-now-to-ac...
To those who aren't aware of it, the reason someone thought to try this is that this type of drug has shown intermittent promise in treating viral infections for years. But to date it has never really panned out in clinical trials. (If it had, we would all be taking chloroquine every time we caught a serious virus like the flu).

Doesn't mean it can't be beneficial this time for this particular virus; we should always keep trying. I'm just saying it's probably a bit early to be calling miracles based on one small study.
No, he doesn't. Derek has a favourable opinion of favipiravir and in the footnote he calls the French trial "messy". That's very polite, considering the shape of the data.
This is not a rigorous study and doesn't pretend to be but those are sufficiently impressive results that it is still a cause for hope.

You need meticulous study design when you're looking for small effect sizes, with a large enough effect you can extract useful information even from flawed data.
How is this legal
Agreeing: If a pandemic isn't a force majeure then wtf is?

Perhaps if you signed up last week, then you could argue they should have foreseen the current situation from then. Prior to that, then it seems "best effort" is all one could or should expect. Perhaps with a monetary credit/refund if the mitigation is less costly than normal service.
But then you get "search bias" which would lower the credibility.
> Don’t make us orphan our two toddlers.

I mean, if that were to happen it would be more due to the parents' altruistic choice and less about the actions of others, no? They've made the socially right choice but they can't blame the consequences on someone else.
My connection in Germany is 50/5.
The server is for convenience.

If you can handle signaling in another way, you're free to do so.

When I played around with WebRTC the first time, I did it by copying the signaling data via TextAreas and WhatsApp.
Mass masking in the Covid-19 epidemic: people need guidance
I've been looking for Mac Mini alternatives recently, but both the Skull Canyon NUC and the HP Z2 Mini G4 had plenty of reviews complaining about fan noise, plus they require large external PSUs. The Ghost Canyon NUC isn't super cheap either. The Mac Mini really has a lot going for it.
I am concerned that the "dark mode" and "reduce motion" detection features can be used for browser & OS fingerprinting. Does anyone know if any countermeasures are in place against that?
The only improvement C really needs are true constants that don’t rely on macros or enums. How this still isn’t in the language is baffling.
Not a medicinal chemist, but here is an overview of the synthesis routes we know of:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/chloroquine

From this, it doesn't look like there are any major hurdles in the necessary precursors. E.g. chloroaniline is very commonly used for making many drugs (incl. chlorhexidine), methyl acrylate is similarly in the six-figure-tonnes-per-year category, and that diamine also looks to have a nice synthesis route.

Fingers and toes crossed for this one.
Italian ICU capacity is completely overwhelmed, if not this virus, why?

Being a truly evil Devil's advocate for a moment:

1. Because it's not actually overwhelmed. See this discussion from 2 days ago about a Reuters report where the head of ICU for Lombardy says nobody has been turned away due to lack of beds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22605144

2. Because ICU demand expands to meet available capacity as nobody wants to switch off life support and modern medicine always gives one more intervention to try. Thus doctors are always describing their hospitals as overwhelmed the moment demand increases even a little bit.

Hospitals being described as overloaded, patients being treated in tents and doctors describing their wards as strained/at the edge of disaster/etc is not something unique to COVID-19. Here is the same thing happening in 2018 in the USA:

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

Here are some quotes. Remember, all this was Jan 2018 but it sounds like it could have been written yesterday.

The 2017-2018 influenza epidemic is sending people to hospitals and urgent-care centers in every state, and medical centers are responding with extraordinary measures

"We are pretty much at capacity"

Tallia says his hospital is “managing, but just barely,” at keeping up with the increased number of sick patients in the last three weeks. The hospital’s urgent-care centers have also been inundated, and its outpatient clinics have no appointments available

The story is similar in Alabama, which declared a state of emergency last week in response

In California, which has been particularly hard hit by this season’s flu, several hospitals have set up large “surge tents” outside their emergency departments to accommodate and treat flu patients

Nurses are being “pulled from all floors to care for them," ... "Many nurses have also become sick, however, so the staff is also short-handed."

"More and more patients are needing mechanical ventilation due to respiratory failure from the flu and other rampant upper respiratory infections"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5279685/Californi...

Flu drives hospitals into 'war zone' conditions: Tents on the street in California, 'state of emergency' in Alabama, and Boston is using GATORADE to plug shortage of IV drips

Remember - all that was in 2018. The world didn't end. The exact same terms and language are being used now.

Now, I'm not saying this case is the same as flu of 2018 in the USA. Clearly, there are critical differences and this one is much more serious. But how much more serious is being muddled by the fact that our data is all useless and so people fall back on testimony from doctors, which sounds extremely dramatic, but there's a history of describing tough flu seasons in exactly the same way.

In a way it makes sense. ICU capacity is expensive. It'd be weird to have lots sitting idle all the time, unused, whilst other people were being switched off life support.
Apparently they have a really good cooling solution (which they haven't disclosed yet) so that even in a (almost) worst case scenario, developers can rely on the performance specs.
How about next Monday, when all of the EU are trying to remote-school and remote-work simultaneously. Will there still be bandwidth to spare? (genuine question, I don't know the answer)