skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may work when a live stream is being watched at many locations from a single or few sources, but in the case of video on demand, the utility of multicast would be very limited – maybe some folks would coincidentally request the same packets at the same time, but the chance of that should be vanishingly low.
It is know to be a zinc ionophore so I would not call it random. That said, it is known to have some side effects. [1] My concern around its use is that it requires a prescription. People won't likely be using this until a doctor prescribes it. By the time a person has gone to a doctor, the virus has likely already replicated quite extensively. Zinc ionophores would be most beneficial if taken very early on after initial infection.

[1] - https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a682318.html
They could move everything to Tor onion services, and offer clearnet access via disposable VPS as reverse proxies.

Paying staff anonymously would be problematic, I know.
SSD the next gen dream? Samsung 980 pro is future tech? Lmao!
Aren't we talking about Europe?
The very first line of the article

> Netflix will reduce the video quality on its service in Europe for the next 30 days, to reduce the strain on internet service providers.

emphasis mine.
This is the right question, although I don't know if there is a happy answer. If we need ever more expensive experiments to learn anything, progress is going to become very slow.

Maybe that's why there is so much math; math is cheap. And there is always the hope of coming up with something testable.
> why is proprietary software less reproducible?

Proprietary software is less reproducible because the software artifacts literally cannot be reproduced in different environments. That's why I mentioned SMP as an example; even the vendors of the software can't reproduce their own artifact. Moreover, vendors rarely provide access to previously released versions, because "newer is always better". And nobody, except the vendor, is allowed to host or publish old/different versions. The availability of the source code does not also somehow prohibit binaries from being published.

> how are results not able to be reconstructed with proprietary software [...]?

Cost, legal viability, availability, shareability, etc. Cost is just one aspect. I also can't provide my copy of Mathematica along with my code that produces my results to you; I'm contractually obliged to not copy the software, and so even if I wanted to allow you to reproduce my results, I have no power to do so.

> and plenty of science operates by not being fully reproducible [...]

This doesn't mean we should be driving away from reproducibility just because it's lacking in some areas of science.
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In fact they are more efficient, but not as elegant.
It's not a normal procedure call within the same process.
The issue here with containers in general is that they break well known security boundaries. This is exacerbated by things like k8s cause it is inherently built to orchestrate many of them and assumes that there is a multi-tenant deployment by default.

Most recently Google themselves wrote about this just a few weeks ago:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...

but the issues have been present forever:

https://capsule8.com/blog/oomypod-nothin-to-cri-o-bout/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/doomsday-docker-security-hole-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/alpine-linux-docker-images-shi...
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Lately i was looking for internet transfer data for last, say, 60 days per day to confirm / reject claim transfer is higher now in Europe. But couldnt find it. And broken Google results does not help much. Do you know of any of such resources?
Music streaming may be falling because of coronavirus
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Happy for you ! Win7 was a good release indeed, as win2k.
That explains a lot. Fair enough though

> But it said viewers would still find the picture quality good.

I beg to differ and I'm watching on my tablet in bed and it reminds me of the Avi files we used to watch on lan networks in the 90s.
such a luxury
Nah, the landscape was vastly different then. These days every console game comes out on PC.
Apparently the possible utility of chloroquine was discovered because SLE patients on it in China weren't getting Covid-19 during the outbreak [0].

[0]: https://www.jqknews.com/news/388543-The_novel_coronavirus_pn...
Would any ISP actually openly say that it's "not fine"? Are these publicly owned companies? Wouldn't be risky to your business if you admitted things are not fine or that they are on the edge of capacity?
Hey Dan, could I ask you a few questions about what you learned at Starsky? I have a robotics background and what they tried to do is very very interesting.
The README needs to explain if the data is coming from the CDC or some other source. We all know how unreliable this data can be, especially in the USA where testing is woefully inadequate.
I don't see how it is possible for both sides to be grayed out if, as you say, one side isn't presenting arguments. With no arguments you can't get grayed out.

You can't even be sure it is Trump supporters doing the voting and flagging. Maybe some of the anti-Trump people don't want flamebait. The rules here are that you aren't supposed to use the site for political battle.

One side is unafraid to openly express political hostility. The other side is silent. That should tell you who is afraid to express an opinion. Imagine if Trump supporters did come here and make equally partisan comments, gloating about how Trump is the most capable person for handling the crisis and how he has done a fantastic job. Those comments would be well beyond gray in less than an hour. They would be [flagged][dead] and the users might even be banned. (don't test it now, days later in an aging thread)
“Due to the products we carry that enable and enhance our customers’ experience in working from home"

For example they probably sell headsets and webcams which can be used for video conferencing. Seems legit enough. At least as legit as restaurants offering takeout. (How is takeout "essential" when you could just cook for yourself?) If you are in a high risk group or you have contact with someone in a high risk group, don't go into GameStop.
I'm really bummed that this absolute nonsense is also prevalent on hackernews.

Low framerates are almost always completely unrelated to optimization. I can make a horribly optimized version of Tetris that still runs at 144hz on modern hardware.

Likewise, I can write a perfectly optimized game that still runs at 20fps on modern consoles.

Framerates are determined by how much the developer wants to push graphical fidelity/AI etc.
It has been over 3 months. We are going to look back and realize this disease isn't that deadly. The places that had excessive deaths like Italy will turn out to have been poorly managed, equipped, and staffed. Not to mention other things like majority of cases being 70+ yo with 3+ diseases.
Sounds familiar!

One thing that's struck us is the lack of accessibility of optimization tools to software engineers. I worked as a developer long before I ever got into OR. When I switched over to being an analyst, it felt like there was an invisible divide between the two worlds.

A great success of the Data Science movement over the last decade seems to be making statistics and visualization easier for and more widely adopted by tech. We think optimization and simulation are about to go through the same thing.
> now you have to design your game so that the battery indicator doesn't cover up an important part of the game

You should not be able to do that; It's a feature that you cannot do that.
So they are throttling because they can't fulfill the demand and want to save money on network traffic?
Seems like this snowballed:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

"418 I'm a teapot"
The thing is that k8s != containers. I’ve been using containers for years, but I don’t use k8s in any of my current projects (although that might change at some point)

That’s why I had to stop reading this article. They repeatedly conflate k8s with containers. From the users perspective, one is an extraordinarily complex orchestration framework, and the other is an incredibly simple packaging system.
I think it is entirely fair to criticize the value of theories that cannot be tested in the forseeable future.
That sounds awful.

I'm on MacOS Mojave and the main issue I have with Netflix is that every few minutes there is a white flash for a few ms. In Safari and Chrome if i remember correctly. But I never investigated that as I don't stream a lot.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/17/spanish-fl...

This article goes into more detail, and describes how some of the political corruption in the city resulted in the Spanish Flu having a greater impact.
I used to use an Iranian based VPN. Sanctions are almost always implemented by billing address, not by IP address. Geolocation services are crap when you start getting in to third world countries.
https://www.guiavegano.com.br/vegan/acervo-vegano/respostas-...

Has some background about gelatine (not breeding).
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Can you imagine a single person who would turn down the role of CEO of the biggest airline in the world because it only paid $80K? I can't.
>won't be a good bet until the market at large finishes its fall

Normally I'd agree with you but under these circumstances millions of people are going to have absolutely nothing to do sitting at home for months, both adult gamers and children. And everyone's about to get >=$1000 to spend on whatever...
"The crematorium of Bergamo, working at full capacity, 24 hours a day, can cremate 25 dead."

Chilling.
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Great intel from on the ground. The story arc makes total sense. I also have starry eyes for orchestrated unikernels, but otoh linux is so configurable scaling down the kernel also seems very reasonable. How do the boot times compare? To me, the unikernel's chief appeal is that it could potentially start up in about the same amount of time it takes to load a native binary. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. I dont see there any anomaly. Just one higher spike and than normal transfer. So... There is no increase?
Fair enough, I shouldn't have made that assumption. It doesn't change the fact that this is marketing from someone trying to sell their own product.
Linux's stable kernel ABI makes tools like rr and strace much easier to maintain. It sounds like maintaining rr for FreeBSD would be harder since you'd have to keep updating its syscall model for changes to existing syscalls as well as new syscalls. And that's if we only supported the latest FreeBSD in each rr version; supporting multiple versions of FreeBSD would require a lot more code.
So they are rolling out gigabit fibre in homes but 5mbs is overloading the system?
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Occam's razor is for the obvious, it was a cross species jump of a disease from another animal (in this case a bat). Which happens somewhat regularly, and was already known to be a concern.
Your supplier's supplier is most of the time confidential information and part of your secret sauce. When one manages to take an omniscient seat, it's easy to see the flaws in the system. In practice this rarely is true.

Unless you have vast amount of clients and money there are almost no incentives for you to build from ground up your own supply chain. Mid size businesses, when very successful, manage to break away from a 3rd party factory and build their own. That's a massive win. Most of the raw materials will come from downstream providers and the task to get either redundancy or break away from them is going to cost you a lot of money and business margins.
New E2 cost-optimized VMs for Google Compute Engine generally available globally
This is the kind of subculture I was inquiring about. Surely some large minority lives off the land in Alaska? A far larger proportion than the general population in the US, I expect.
> Thankfully, once you know what to look for, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

Hopefully. There's been a big uptick in interest in elderberry due to coronavirus, so we'll see how good people are at telling the difference in a few months.
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Wow, I wish I’d known this. I bought the handheld-only Switch for BotW, and lamented not having an HD edition that ran with good frame rates.
>As things are now, flagship games on the PS4/Xbox One struggle to stay at 30FPS, frequently dropping to 20FPS or less, without the option to reduce graphics quality or resolution PC gamers have.

Developers are doing what they can here, but the average game that has these sorts of drops is dealing with limited CPU resources, budgeted around a 30FPS target. Especially on consoles like Xbox One X (due to its powerful GPU but limited CPU), it becomes evident that, on average, resolution and graphics cuts have little effect on performance in these situations. The only mitigation is to build your game with a higher frame rate target in mind from the start, requiring serious compromises to things like simulation complexity, for instance.

PS5 and Xbox Series X have a good chance of pushing past this limit. Current generation consoles are using aged laptop-grade CPUs while the upcoming console generation features desktop-grade Zen 2 processors at surprisingly high clock rates.
You can get the binary releases here, https://anaconda.org/shaktidb/shakti/files
I think that there is a general rule that the more optimal a system is the less robust it is. So, it seems that we have to choose a balance between the two. And the current market incentives are to choose the minimum costs.
I think this is largely correct, but I think we have to add that POSIX is not the future either. The model of process isolation and shared resources that is built in to the POSIX model is just too hard to get right.

I think the post-POSIX world will have to look somewhat like the IOS model of isolation, something like the NIX level of packaging, and something like the Docker model of running. A shared filesystem where certain information is held in certain locations in the filesystem is just a nightmare to manage, but it is currently not possible to replace it.
I think people are getting excited by Shakti (or maybe it's coordinated?). I'm hoping array programming is going to break into the mainstream, it's remarkable that even many experienced programmers know nothing about array languages. And when exposed, most just dismiss them out of hand as 'unreadable' or 'line-noise.'
Are any of those folks thinking to launch a new robotics oriented start up? I’ve been wanting to get involved with that. (Email in profile)
Any physical theory that cannot be tested is a mathematical theory that can produce results useful in other places.

In general all of theoretical physics is mathematics that takes inspiration from experiments, and takes shortcuts when proving theorems:).
In either case you need to put a quarantine in place. But with artificial spread, it's needed for a much shorter duration.
Massachusetts General Hospital is looking for people who can 3D print masks
well, that helps explain the CEO's responsiveness in sorting it out
This is sad news.

I worked at Starsky Robotics as a perception team intern after graduating high school. I will always be grateful for the team for the opportunity, it was a fantastic first job and everyone who worked there was very kind (especially Stefan).

Unfortunately, Starsky had effectively had no machine learning in 2017 (when I worked there), using solely classical computer vision techniques. This didn't match the company's ambitions of not using LIDAR and there was a strong stigma against switching to a deep learning approach. At the time, very few object detection models had public implementations and I spent a lot of time trying to get a YOLO9000 and RetinaNet implementations running at real-time speeds. Frustrating, as a small startup the labeling services kept screwing us over by returning poorly annotated images.

I think what I took away from the experience is that deep learning in domains with long tails requires a enormous investment in a labeling pipeline - dwarfing the computational aspect - to get decent results. I don't think any solutions are on the horizon that will allow us to bypass this reality. You don't see improvements between Comma.ai and Tesla because it's about the improvements far out on the tail.
So do you trust statistics from America then?
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Being old and working from home now means having my own stereo and CD player handy, and my 30-year stash of cds.
Having just looked into this recently, I can also safely say that moving to REST HTTP/2 on its own already provides a significant speed benefit. Closing the gap to GRPC (or even substantially beating it) is possible by switching to a fast serialization format (eg; flatbuffers, msgpack, capnproto).

While GRPC has its place it also comes with headaches like pretty lousy generated interfaces, horrible debuggability, and unpredictable scaling.
> maintainers would be afraid that if they accept our contribution they may face consequences

But that isn't a result of GitHub's actions, if anything they are trying to protect maintainers by blocking Iranian contributions.

Sanctions are 1) implemented at a federal government level and 2) intended to make it almost impossible for the sanctioned country to get anything done. It's like not letting your kid take their Switch or iPhone with them to timeout. Yeah it sucks and makes everything awful, but that is exactly the point.
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Cool! I don't know if a comparison of these really makes sense. You'd be conflating transport, serialization, and stream format (unary/stream).

For fullstack dev, I've been immensely happy with grpc/protobuf over http because of the type safety I get communicating between Golang and Typescript. This eliminates a whole class of bugs but is only a serialization benefit.

Generally: use the thing with the best tooling!
I enjoyed Flexbox Froggy but IMO Flexbox Zombies is the much better game for memorizing various Flexbox things.
This is because of DRM integrations. If any part of the chain between netflix and secure memory in your display cannot be verified, or does not meet some standard, you get the degraded experience.
> packaging software alongside all its dependencies in a standalone package that is (to varying degrees) isolated from the underlying host

You mean like vmdk or qcow2 images did for nearly a decade before containers rose?
Nadella has been amazing and Huang underrated. Bezos should be on that list?

Grove vs. Jobs is interesting (for discussion; not that we can't just put them both in the same very small group at the top). For example, difficult to envision anyone being a better CEO for Apple than Jobs was. On other hand, if you take any_random_company, and put either Grove or Jobs at the helm, then Grove is likely the better fit for a much higher percentage?
You do need to demo the one-brick wall and convince the suits it will work out in the end. You do this for every brick.
Too bad about it being closed source.

Once they get a C&D and they close shop and disappear into the void taking the source with them, the patreon supporters are going to feel so dumb.

My advice is to _Never_ support the development of a closed source emulator.
Switch is a weird case because plugged in its 1080p and in handheld mode it runs at 720p.
Yes, but your comparison isn't fair. How many distinct functions does TXR Lisp have? I guarantee you that k has less.

Moreover, if I can do something in a couple of characters, why do I need names? This trend towards huge stdlibs and intellisense and heavyweight IDEs is ridiculous. I can write k or q with notepad if I felt like it. The ability to understand the entire language and never have to reach for documentation is very powerful.

I've noticed you criticizing k and array languages in general in some other threads so I'm going to ask you a genuine question: do you have any experience with them? Not even professional experience, just like, spent a weekend programming something cool? Because before I tried them I was very dismissive and now I absolutely adore k.
They're talking about a 50% increase in voice and 25% in data on mobile networks. The problem is not the wired home connections. In fact, they even suggest that you use your landline for talking instead of the mobile networks.
Worse than the manchineel?
ZeroMQ and its bindings are well-proven, extremely well written, and the ZeroMQ guide is a work of art. That said, the bindings are not created equal. We've seen some unreliability with the Java package even though the official C/C++ and Python bindings work perfectly (the Go package too).
It's not a fear based decision. ISP companies sell more bandwidth than is actually available during peak times but because of everybody staying home now their services are oversubscribed creating slow downs or outages.
Would love to see the world evolve past POSIX.

Unfortunately, that's where we drew the line on "startup innovation tokens" - maybe round 2. :)
First of all, that kind of tone is not appreciated here.

But beyond your tone, why do you think right now "staying alive" means that a business should be collecting an extra $5 per person, instead of it staying with people?

Considering the difficulties many people are going to have making rent etc... it seems like the default sympathetic position here should lie with the customer, not the business. To me, that's "getting your head straight." Siding with the common person over a corporation.

It baffles me how anyone could defend the current situation as an opportunity for more profits that customers should just shut up about.
wow it loads waaaay faster than that on my PS4
Disclaimer up front: I work for General Motors. I don't work on AV. Any opinions are my own. I have no special knowledge of GM's AV strategy.

> It didn’t matter that that jump from “sometimes working” to statistically reliable was 10–1000x more work.

There's 2 states of functionality:

1) It doesn't work

2) It sometimes works

The inverse, for disk drives: Failing and Failed.

Think about apps/services. You could say that your app is working, but over a long enough time period, it is only sometimes working. It's working while you have disk space, free memory, and a working network connection. It's working while your business assumptions hold true. It's working while your datacenter has power. We've developed strategies for managing all of these things; for load balancing and Active/Active hosting. But even with that, it only sometimes works.

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With all that, I think it may be useful to think of self driving in terms of tasks.

If you can put a box around what you expect a computer to be able to do, you can define tasks that will always return a reasonable output.

The more tasks a computer handles, the easier it is for the human in control (think driver assist, like lane keeping and automatic cruise control).

If you add enough tasks, and perform them well enough, maybe you can take the human in control out of the vehicle.

I think I'm in agreement with the authors that I don't see the day when there isn't a human in control. Or the other way to say that is that if there isn't a human in control, sometimes your AV will just stop.
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