skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That still comes down to when they are considered "aware". If I emailed GitHub and told them the "microsoft" org was run by people in Iran, would they then be "aware" and need to shutdown the "microsoft" org? If you consider automated flagging to be a tip-off that needs to be investigated, then you aren't "aware" until it is investigated.

I don't think 100 million repos matters. What matters is how many automated tip-offs they need to investigate. It would have taken two minutes of investigation to find out this repo wasn't from a sanctioned country. If it takes two minutes to review a case, a team of five people could review over a thousand cases in an eight hour day. I work for a tech company that has a team of people that reviews uploaded content for copyright violations, it can be done.

Remember that the sanctions are for commercial use, primarily paid accounts. These sanction violation aren't happening at the rate of something like YouTube copyright violations. I wouldn't be surprised if it was less than ten a day.
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If I have to stay in the same house for the next 3 months, I might come to that.
There are plenty, 30-40GB uncompressed BluRay remux rips are very common. Will download in under 15 minutes.

You can also find uncompressed 60-70GB UHD rips.
This is already partially done with Automobiles, for example. Comply with local pollution and safety standards or a lucrative market is closed to your exports.
A few things that aren't mentioned:

- Web MIDI - access digital keyboards/synthesizers. I believe in some browsers there's no prompt, unlike Web USB.

- Screen sharing via getDisplayMedia, analogous to getUserMedia for cameras.

- WebRTC, peer-to-peer connections.

- Security keys (WebAuthn), specific support for cheap ($10-$50 depending on features) devices that do second-factor login to websites. Importantly, these devices communicate with the browser about which site you're logging into, making for phishing-proof logins.
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Because they have 1/3 less chance of death? Not enough difference to convince me (I'm O+)
Manchineel is more toxic but it only grows in the tropics.
> The government wouldn't ask if there wasn't a need.

I wish I lived in this blissful world.
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Humans also have our brains backing up the eyes.

Has Elon musk invented artificial general intelligence? If not, the point isn't a good one at all.
All you need is a handful of small court claims to wake Netflix up. They'll spend a magnitude more on sending Netflix employees to represent them, than all these prorated refunds would cost.
Add to that the fact that you are never going to get 100% fleet utilisation, will need to pay for qualified tele-operators, maintain/repair vehicle along with sensors...

I recently listened to a podcast episode of the Autonocast[1], where they interviewed a Harvard Researcher who claimed the economics of Robotaxis just don't work. Very interesting listen.

[1] http://www.autonocast.com/blog/2020/3/11/177-ashley-nunes-on...
What a joke. We're punished for being paying customers.

It's like the oppressive DRM that hurts actual paying customers of games rather than the pirates who circumvent it.
Can you quantify the human suffering avoided by lower prices borne out of supply chains?
I'm all about getting physical games, but maybe you could just get a digital copy this time...
That's exactly what a force majeure is. It depends on the specific contract and the jurisdiction whether a pandemic counts as one but it very well could.
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Is this the thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22602008
I'm not sure about other browsers, but Firefox asks once per website that wants a push, and even that can be turned off.

What's fantastic about not even having the option? What's fantastic about having to pay $100/year or reinstall your apps once a week, in addition to having Apple MITM any notifications?
You'd be very surprised.
I think having those capabilities is fine but I hate the endless notifications to use them from every damn web site! There should be a second and much more subtle notification system which does not obscure content or attract attention.
Or Sympy [1], which is very accessible, and embedded in Python, so connects directly to that huge ecosystem. I teach university maths, and use Sympy for every CAS need.

Live demo: https://live.sympy.org/

[1] https://www.sympy.org/en/index.html
The N64's RSP was quite exciting for the era because of the high degree of programmability. As it turned out, though, almost nobody did anything to program it. They used the microcode that shipped with the devkit. And since the N64 was the odd one out of the pack in other respects, it never really took off in terms of developer support.

So Nintendo's biggest lesson from the N64 was, in fact, that they needed to make boring hardware, because weird stuff wasn't going to be adopted anymore.

Sony learned the same thing almost a decade later with the PS3.
I am OP, and I'm definitely going to remain cautious. I appreciate your concern.

I will continue self-quarantine for another couple weeks, and will definitely continue social-distancing measures etc. etc. after that.
> reasonable amount of time

Depends very much on your own bandwidth. For someone with 400Mbps, 20GB+ doesn't take that long time to download in the end, especially popular torrents.

But then again, not many have that kind of bandwidth available.
Check out Kata Containers if you're interested in QEMU with a container interface.
I think that k3 example does illustrate weaknesses of k3. At that time, dictionary types were very limited and inexpressive. Pretty much all you could do with them was index into them and destructure them.

In k5/k6, dictionaries had a more complete algebra. If you only wanted to take the union of a set of dictionaries (more common) it's just raze:

,/([a:1];[b:2];[a:3;c:4])
[a:3;b:2;c:4]

The full problem could be expressed as

{k!{x@&~^x}'x@'/:k:!,/x}

Note that there's no longer any clumsy transposition to assemble the dictionary; generally much less nesting as well. The syntax for creating symbol-keyed dictionaries is also much nicer.

Something that apparently I left on my workbench for oK was the "adverb form" of drop (_), which would let you express filter more directly:

{k!(^:)_:'x@'/:k:!,/x}
For those wondering why there is all this discussion in these apps rather than just usingb vim or org mode; these apps mentioned here all are first-class-ink apps. (Trying to make the analogy to first-class-function PL’s).

So, here the discussion is on apps that have native ink support (for iOS, that would be via iPad and Apple Pencil).

So I guess they don’t have search because a majority of users use liquidtext primarily with inked notes or pasted inked notes from the clipboard. I guess text extraction is way harder of a problem to solve - hence no searching.

Text boxes are still very useful for title boxes and also detailed paragraphs of concentrated info - again, I used both of these in liquidtext but was immediately frustrated with even the lack of keyboard shortcuts for making text bold/underlined, changing sizes, or color. I did contact their support to request adding in keyboard shortcuts.. but instead they added in other more complicated features such as some weird inking mode switch. Hmmm adding in keyboard shortcuts for bold and changing size and color vs a switchable “inking”-mode .. surely the former is dead easy compared to the latter .....
>NASA is ultimately a science institution, I think diverting effort away from infrastructure management and towards studying data is likely a wise decision.

True, but once you're a certain scale, outsourcing everything just because it's not your competency isn't a good excuse. You can afford to hire enough people for it to become your competency.
This is exactly the kind of response we need. A well known, well understood medicine with a low risk profile that we can deploy as soon as possible.

If the CDC believes that destroying the economy to stop this disease is worth it, then I can't doubt that the FDA would agree that deploying this medication immediately is worth the risk.
Availability aside (bluray rips are a thing), most people can’t tell the difference between FullHD and 4K at all, at least in moving pictures[1]. I doubt bitrate will make much difference on top of that, as long as you start from some reasonable value.

I seriously can’t tell the difference between a very low quality YIFY rip and a proper Bluray. If you freeze frame they both look bad, and when they’re moving they both look great. I’ve done this as an experiment multiple times and it’s like judging wine... There’s a threshold you need to pass but beyond that you quickly run into diminishing returns.

[1] BTW most movies are still mastered or partially mastered (SFX) at 1080p still, and even if they’re true 4K you get high quality downscale to 1080p for free. But really most 4K movies are still upscaled from 1080p.
Here is for intra isp connections in Norway [1], but it does not really show "netflix" usage as most isps deliver the videos from a local server.

[1] https://www.nix.no/statistics/
~sigh~ just got this note from my mother, who has taken hydroxychloroquine ever since she was diagnosed with lupus over 30 years ago:

> just spent a nightmaremorning trying to get my Lupus meds. [after this hydroxychloroquine/covid-19 announcement], no pharmacy has any!

> I spoke directly to the pharmacist. she said that she has no control. this wil be first come first serve, she cannot give preferential treatment even though I have been diagnosed for 33 years and buying this med from her for a long time.

> she has reordered. shes gets many requests an hour today for MY lupus medication. im on a list
It is very much not dead and is used for educational products all the time.

We use it ourselves for our internal ecommerce backend system.

We made our own WebUSB Postage Scales and Label Printer that enables 1-click creation of consignment labels.

We pull weights from the postage scales and chuck raw ZPL over the wire to the Label Printer.

Being able to skip the bugs in operating system printing queues is amazing.

Demo:

https://vimeo.com/334547755/c387957a25
lol, very true! Put in that perspective, maybe it's a better idea to contain have international cooperation -- like we did for piracy -- to compat the problems that cause a country to be shut down, rather than assume international trade will always be a crapshoot.
How ready is this? I'm asking because a friend who volunteers in a charity is looking for something that would allow her to have a large video conferencing group, perhaps around 20-40 people. With it being a charity, their budget is usually zero. I don't really have any experience with this kind of thing and couldn't really give her a recommendation, but perhaps this is a possible solution.
Have you actually read anything about either of those APIs or are you just reacting to the names?

The Contacts API does not allow unrestricted access to your Contacts. It presents a picker for you to choose a contact.

The SMS Receiver API is not universal access to SMS messages, it is access to one specific message and only one that contains your domain name in the message text.

Both have very obvious utility to users. They don't look even vaguely terrifying.
Kind of off topic, but has anyone used Nvidia's Shield TV "AI Upscaling"? Super curious if it would make the viewing experience better for situations like this.
> So they're now using a mixed strategy of both out-sourcing and in-sourcing medical training to address high costs.

Not as much as they could though - there are still federal caps on the number of fellowship seats available as well as pretty strong restrictions for physicians coming from overseas (although if I recall correctly, California has less stringent restrictions than most)

We discuss insurance as a big part of the cost problem, but regulatory capture on the supply end is another huge (and unnecessary) factor.
Using Sonarr you can specify minimum bitrates to download. It fetches content automatically in the background for you.
It's tricky to compare SDKs when they are not at feature parity, like you mention. It's often the edge cases that make things difficult, so if you've only done the non-edge cases, you might think you're most of the way, but actually, you still have a lot of effort ahead of you.

You say this way is more low level? Is it perhaps that you acknowledge this, and you're externalising the extra handling in case people only need the basics, thus sidestepping the issue?
What limitations are there with those releases?
For sure and we should also expand the jobs that PAs and RNs are allowed to do.
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If you're going to spend trillions of dollars to dig point to point tunnels for autonomous vehicles, why not only spend hundreds of billions to build subways instead that can carry 100x the number of passengers?
I'm not claiming that Netflix and other services shouldn't help out the ISPs, because you're right that WFH > Netflix, but if they can't deliver what their customers paid for, they should be sending partial refunds.

It's really the issue on the part of the ISPs for not being able to provide enough service to support everyone's internet activity.

If Netflix wants to help them out with that issue they also have to bear the cost of helping them out with that issue.

If a university closes because of the pandemic they sure as hell won't charge room/board, and (if they're kind) won't charge as much for online courses.

The price factor is irrelevant ("a small sum"), and if it is, Netflix should have no problem refunding "a small sum".
Of course not. But when you're knee deep in the situation and it's time to draw straws it's good to know risk tolerance. (I'm O-).
I've been having major internet issues lately (Seattle area), have had 4 techs come try to figure it out. Yesterday's tech finally correctly diagnosed the problem as happening before the connection reaches our home but was unsure of the cause. He called his supervisor to investigate, and they found that the capacity for our neighborhood's node was nearly at 100%, while ideally it should always be under 80%. Fortunately they said they'll be able to fix it within a few weeks by doing a node split. The tech mentioned he'd never heard of capacity issues before in his ~20 years as a tech and that some smaller ISPs have been having issues keeping their internet up and running at all.

I've been tracking the performance with PingPlotter, if you're curious how bad it is right now here's the last 10 minutes: https://i.imgur.com/AnUqv3j.png (red lines are packet loss) Pretty interesting how current circumstances are pushing even tried and tested infrastructure to their limits.
For completeness sake, that is California Health and Safety Code § 120295, et seq. [1]

[1] - https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/16/read-shelter-in-place...
> You might feel you're Living Right and you're at no risk yourself, but - as has been pointed out many times but apparently not enough - It's Not Just About You. Your actions are connected to others' outcomes. There's a social responsibility to avoid becoming a vector for infection.

How is it clear that we shouldn't organize as an entire society to deal with influenza? Because hospital resources aren't taxed? That makes it enough of "your" problem vs "our" problem, when tens of thousands die per year?

Remember, when kids go to school sick, it's not some "individual" matter. Tens of thousands of people die per year from influenza. One might say it's a kind of murder. Oh wait, it's not. They're not overtaxing the medical system, what am I thinking. This is an individual matter. It's so clear now. This is truly moral clarity for children.

Lives are at stake -- so put the numbers on the table and explain who is sacrificing for whom. How many people are going to die from economic downturn? Five?
I think in the end the author's only complaint was that it was difficult to figure out what bitrate the Chromecast was streaming at, is a pretty minor problem. It reads like a complaint post, but that seems to just be the author's writing style.
so persistence is key. got it.
To achieve that tho you need a ton of superfluous non-semantic html wrapping everything in triple so that you have the flexibility to do what you need.
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Oh I hope someone can make some original strength tonic water and then g&ts can be of medical value once again!
It's kinda weird to compare REST to RPC protocols though. It's a completely different paradigm. Maybe you're just building a HTTP API without the REST part? (JSON-RPC is a thing)
I dunno, the NES was pretty unique due to CPU selection, but generally in line with other 8-bit computers and systems of the era. Key developers even ported lots of games almost 1:1 from some home computers like the MSX.

The SNES was basically a mid-range Apple II with some slightly different hardware. The scaling and rotation hardware was getting to be pretty common in arcades and had been around for quite a while in Sega and Taito games. Nintendo focused on tilemaps instead of sprites, and later games quickly added more hardware in the carts to overcome the limitations beyond what F-Zero and Pilotwings could do.

I agree with you on the N64.

Sega had a completely different philosophy, theoretic backwards compatibility all the way back to the beginning. The SG-1000 was a spec revision of the Coleco and MSX specs, the Mark III was a rev of the SG-1000. The Genesis/Mega-drive had the same hardware, but then added an entire other console's hardware around it (IIR Master system compatibility was just a pin adapter). The Sega-CD was a console wrapped around the Genesis. The 32X was a console plugged into that.

The Saturn dropped the 8-bit stuff, but kept theoretic compatibility with the Mega Drive (it had a 68000 in it and a cartridge slot and was rumored to be geared up to be fully compatible at one point IIR).

Sony more or less followed suit for a while as well. The PS2 basically contained a PS1 in it.
If you are facing similar problems you should know traffic via Cloudflare from B2 is free. I am not 100% CF would be happy if NASA picked the CF free tier but probably their quote would be magnitudes lower than Amazon's.
> Shorter load times is an attractive argument,

Visible shorter loading times are not the main effect. Cernys talk was enlightening. A big part of level design is making sure that the player doesn't move so fast that the hardware cannot deliver the assets any more. So, you get corners and corner, and elevators and whatever tricks dev use just to make sure they can load the next part of the level fast enough without showing a loading screen. If a game can request assets and they are almost instantly you don't have to redesign levels again and again because "yes, this looks the way we want, but the hardware isn't fast enough".

For me the interesting question is if developers will use the playstation specific options. For playstation exclusives it's a given, but for multi platform releases there probably won't be different levels for playstation vs pc/xbox, so much of it could be wasted. Same for all the other things. Doesn't help much if the controller has six levels of priority if game devs don't use them because PC has only two.
If you are trying to fight nonsense, please don't promote additional nonsense.

Generally, in game development, the term "optimization" refers to the holistic process around getting the game performing at speed, be it compiler optimization options, SIMD-ification, or even adjusting texture resolution (graphical fidelity) or AI parameters. It often starts with profiling, and identifying bottlenecks, and focusing on what can be done to get the game to perform within spec.

Optimization is entirely about context, so, while I generally agree with your comment about Tetris, I'd say your second example is "poorly optimized" by definition.

As to your comment about being determined by how much the developer wants to push... Yes, aiming for higher fidelity will use more resource, it's hardly every simply the "developer's wants" that determine the performance of a particular title, instead performance ends up being the end result of thousands of tiny decisions and elements that contribute to the final experience.
We need AGI or we need to ban humans from driving, pedestrians, bikers, children, deer, and anything that can disrupt a perfect computer model.
What's really disturbing and hard to doubt is the growing daily death count in a country as Italy [1]

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/#gra...
Or none of the above. So, you can apply statistics to medicine in the form of incidence of a disease, and likelihood ratios to increase or decrease the chance of disease in diagnosis.
The problem is, the data for these is so difficult to interpret. Likelihood ratios in papers often have huge confidence intervals (like anywhere from 2-15), making their use problematic. Then often, they are quoted only for very specific patient groups, and applying them out of these groups invalidates the rule.
Then things like prognosis are so variable, taking quantitively becomes a bit pointless. It’s especially true in cases where treatment or investigations are changing constantly, such as cancer.
For diagnosis, the history is often more useful. Humans are story tellers, and the description of the problem varies hugely between patients, as does the significance of certain symptoms or descriptions. It’s an art to work out what is the real symptom and what isn’t. To work out the real picture isn’t always easy either.

Ultimately for things where there is relatively good evidence to practice statistics they are made into algorithms (see MDCalc for examples) but again it’s hard to apply them out of the correct patient population. Even these rules seem to poorly apply in many situations.

Then, real hard statistics rarely change management. You think of the reasonable causes and risk reduce as far as possible. Knowing the actual probability doesn’t really change what you can do. Same kind of goes for prognosis. Most patients don’t really know what to do with exact numbers (especially when they vary so much between different patients).

So, ultimately this is why doctors don’t use statistics regularly.
Are they going to deliver the lower quality videos with AV1?
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Very common.
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No, that is just ridiculous. NASA is more than capable of running their own server infrastructure. They've got expertise, they've got DC's and they don't need 99.999% uptime for most of their services. Cloud providers can turn out to be insanely expensive. I am not against cloud - mostly I would recommend it for businesses but when reaching a certain size you have to consider doing your own cloud infrastructure.
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Or "The Pillars of the Earth", or "Heaven's Vault"... As adventure games have been maturing, it is increasingly more difficult to pull off an "old-school" kind of adventure puzzle game; and so, the linked advice piece gets even more relevant for game designers who want to land on the better side of the Sturgeon's Law.
> That level of resolution doesn't matter at all for driving. People can drive just as well through a video feed, like Starsky was doing.

I can tell you from experience this is false. It usually works, but when it doesn't you're fucked. People wildly underestimate, by orders of magnitude, how many and how complicated the edge-cases are for self-driving.
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