skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very neat project! I think visibility into intermediate stages of a pipeline can be enormously useful for data restructuring tasks, where the individual steps aren't necessarily "difficult" to understand, but it can be hard to keep track of what's going on without a good feedback loop.

Here's a demo of a prototype live programming environment I made for jq, which similarly shows step-by-step views of the data but also gives live feedback as you construct your pipeline:

https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/1161033775872118789

By the end of that Twitter thread I ultimately morphed it into a tool for building interactive GUIs (eg, get API data in JSON, use jq to morph it into the right shape for your UI, output to a HTML template).
I've looked closely at this data for years, and I don't think so. What there's a lot of is randomness.

It's of course possible that some people are clever enough that we don't even know what they're getting away with. But I can tell you that HN's anti-voting-ring software catches a great many cases. So many, in fact, that we'll often go through that list and remove the penalty on particularly good submissions, because sometimes people were clueless about trying to promote otherwise good content.

Edit: the other thing is that we regularly get independent confirmations that the anti-voting-ring software works...so at least it's not totally off.
Hey of course :) Thanks for checking it out.
I travel in full bus squeezed tight with other people, but I am not socializing so I should be then fine, right?

This kind of double meaning will literally kill people out there. Physical distance is a clear term. Social can and will be understood in many ways. I can imagine somebody thinking if he isn't on facebook on phone, he is distancing socially.
I fully disagree, no one should be given priority.
Apple should officially expose the Unix underneath so ARM homebrew can be a possibility.
I think component systems like React are the closest we have to achieving that dream. This is why Vue, React, Angular etc. all look something like writing your own tags and then implementing them in terms of, eventually, standard HTML tags.

You can even swap out the web browser front-end, to an extent. I know that some mobile apps are done this way.
Interesting, Firefox is my main browser and it's always looked fine to me.

I also built https://socii.network in Svelte/Sapper but that's in need of a rewrite. Just a smidge.
I'm a huge fan of requester pays, and I frankly don't understand why we haven't switched more of the internet to it.

I'm also a liberal, so then I also think government should give everyone a monthly quota of internet usage allowance. Universal Basic Internet Income, or something.
I tried WSL - the moment you leave that little window you're back in the world of the registry, etc. No thanks.
I feel this was a bit scattershot, more about Kubernetes than containers per se.

Kubernetes isn't directly responsible for the sins of container runtimes and vice versa. Lightweight VMs solve some of these and I don't think it's controversial at this point to say so.

I may have reservations about the design of Kubernetes but I don't need self-serving conspiracy amongst the designers to hold those reservations.

Disclosure: I work for VMware, we do a fair amount of Kubernetes stuff, including lightweight VMs.
I still don't understand how this "Linux never breaks userland" thing holds up, it's been proven false.

The 4.13 kernel introduced a change to effectively namespace sysctl settings (prevent the change from default from being copied to the host system into container processes). This broke any container runtimes that relied on host-wide sysctl settings.

[1] https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/issues/789

[2] https://success.docker.com/article/ipvs-connection-timeout-i...
> Even in Berlin fast, reliable Internet is hard to come by. I often find my LTE turn into Edge at the blink of an eye.

If you're talking about fast and reliable why are you looking at mobile internet then? Fiber beats a shared medium on a fundamental basis.
I don't think this is accurate. Other people may know better, but from my understanding the maintainers of ifconfig realized that to update it to use the new behavior, they would have to end up changing the output. The output of ifconfig is used by a lot of scripts, so changing the output would break a million users, so they decided to write a new tool, rather than add a flag or something to opt into new behavior.

So it's userspace compatibility, not the linux kernel compatibility that lead to a new tool.

(and linux will drop old interfaces if it can be proven that no one uses them, or if they're insecure)
I concur. Common wisdom is to not consume caffeine after noon, but quitting it entirely has been a life changer. I essentially had to brainwash myself that I have a chemical intolerance to caffeine whenever the opportunity comes up. Now a lot of times even when I think I’m not tired or my mind is racing, I’m still snoozing ten minutes after my head hits the pillow
The problem is WHO and CDC and what not are political organizations, they are influenced by governments, they have agendas and pursue very different goals than your health and safety. "Official" here means authoritative information and power over individuals, not expert opinions to help individuals. Of course censorship is the first thing they reach out for when that power is under threat.
Perhaps Semantic UI?
Senator Richard Burr Warned of Coronavirus Effects in Private Meeting
Is it time to rethink the Bay Area and NYC having all of the tech jobs?
No, that's not how you run a working network. Bulk data doesn't need a higher priority in the first place, so giving it a higher priority will only do harm.
In my opinion, while Mathematica is the world’s best general purpose calculator, it does more harm than good in producing reproducible and explainable science and math. The topic of math software being closed source has been beat to death (by me and others), so I’ll veer into a different path.

As a tiny anecdote, a colleague of mine recently published a paper in quantum computation and computed a representation of some mathematical object, specifically the exact value of an angle which modulates a particular quantum gate. In the paper was this bizarre continued fraction along with arctans and pi’s that no experimental physicist in their right mind would have derived themselves.

“Where in the world did this come from?” I asked, while reviewing the paper.

“Oh, it’s just what Mathematica gives,” he responded. “I don’t even fully understand it. But I do use it as proof that the angle is an irrational number and thus breaks its inclusion in some known finite group.”

You might call out this otherwise accomplished physicist for what appears to be misusing the tool—taking results at face value without understanding them—but I guarantee scientists and engineers are doing this stuff daily, in more consequential places than abstract quantum physics papers.

Wolfram and his team have built something amazing, and built an incredibly successful business, but I hope he uses his business acumen to find a way to contribute to the “greater good” while he continues to enjoy running a company and making money.
I use their daily updated website* for statistics which don't break down age/hospitalization.

Deaths will come either by the coronavirus and/or by the poverty created by the extreme social measures suggested by the ongoing mania. I tend to believe the latter will kill more and be longer lasting.

* https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=00...
I have the impression that "it barely helps" is a gross exaggeration, if not a white lie, motivated by "hospitals everywhere are out of masks"
You might be right over the long term, we don't know yet. Related observations have been made - people used to talk about how countries with MacDonald's franchises never went to war.

But it does open up avenues for conflict less intense than invasion. The term 'weaponized interdependence' has recently been coined for this. An exploration:

http://henryfarrell.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Weapon...
It stays within the container. It just emulates alpine linux. It's a VM. If that weren't allowed, how is Pythonista on the app store?
It seems that falsifying would provide an escape route. Unfortunately it doesn't, because you would first have to establish - without a doubt - the truth of the contradicting statement. That works ok-ish for collapsing bridges, but it breaks down for less direct observations, e.g., when reading experimental data from a computer screen, collected to refute a Physics theory.
Can you please quote me where I'm drawing conclusions?
If you can, great. For a lot of us Windows is a reality we've made our peace with so having WSL is great. And tbh, W10 has been basically rock solid for me.
That's an over reductive view, and throws out the baby with the bathwater. China is not a monolithic entity, and while the CCP has, and exerts a lot of control, it is not omnipotent. The number of cases as reported by China will always be suspect, but we are already seeing some information from China being borne out elsewhere. In particular, Italy has been showing similar numbers as China - Covid-19 is particularly lethal to those over 80, less so in children. There are other bits of information we can learn from them, even if we never believe the number of cases is accurate.

As far as the emergency hospital situation and the number of cases in China, I'm sure the US government has been keeping track of the situation via spy satellite. The CCP would never have let the fact that one of the hospitals collapsed escape the country otherwise.
I took a look and saw two:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20422094

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18363410

Those are both a bit too bureaucratic to be what the HN community finds intellectually interesting. There are a lot of submissions like this, often from trade journals, and they rarely do well because they lack motivation for a non-specialist audience to find them interesting. Usually there needs to be something tasty to entice the reader in, some hope of curiosity being satisfied. You can sometimes help with that by posting an initial comment in the thread explaining why you personally found an article interesting, especially if there's something non-obvious about it.
The important number for videoconferencing is the uplink. That is typically set at an insultingly small fraction of the downlink, so in practice you need to buy the Ultra Hyper Globo Super Duper Speed Pro package to get anything better than a Mondrian painting slideshow.
I haven't been able to make heads nor tales of his logic. In Guangdong province, at the peak of the outbreak, 0.47% of people tested were positive. Guangdong province has a population of about 110 million people. If that was a representative random sample, that would mean a lot of infections, so he's clearly relying on the fact that it's a sample of people who saw a doctor because they had symptoms. Except that I don't see how you can use that to say anything about asymptomatic cases. It just doesn't make sense.
If you are in the US and need to renew your passport, it can also be done via the mail.
A quick google suggests that 84% of the population is under 65, so this isn’t especially surprising. Every other data source I’ve seen has used age 60 as the benchmark which is probably skewing how we think of these numbers in the US context.

% of ICU patients in ages 20-44 is just 2-4%.

% of ICU patients under 60 is going to be, eyeballing it, maybe 25-30% with most of concentrated in people in their 50s.

If you’re young and would be hospitalized (not ICU), I think it’s pretty unlikely you would die from this even if just left at home.

This is a serious concern. It is not apocalyptic. If you’re young and healthy, you are still vastly likely to come out of this just fine even if infected regardless of hospitals.
> You also have control over your own susceptibility and spread of something like the flu or the common cold, but no one in the US ever wears a mask to prevent that (though in other countries that is a common sight).

The mask culture in the US is lacking as you point out. But there is a flu vaccine. They give those out free at every corner/office in the country, pretty much. Yet the US still sees 10s of thousands of dead per year. Also of note, the flu is less fatal (case level) & less transmittable than COVID-19.

> If 97 people have died in the US so far

160[0]

Look back at 1918, 1957, 1968 flu pandemics[1]. 1918 isn't too recent, but the last two mentioned killed 100k+ in the US, and at least 1 million worldwide.

If we get less deaths from COVID-19 than we do with seasonal flu - that doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't worth reacting to.

With how easy COVID-19 spreads, the relatively high % of required hospitalization, and lack of a vaccine is exactly why Hubei/Lombardy got in the state they did. Some would prefer to "wait and see" if it gets to those levels in the US, but many would rather act now instead of later.

It will certainly be interesting to see how the COVID-19 situation pans out. For the record, I hope you end up being correct!

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_pandemic#Influenza_p...
Lack of virtualization and container support within the WSL was a major blocker for me, has this been resolved?
It depends on the type of product you're sourcing. I run Lumi.com which offers high redundancy to our customers, but we are a marketplace for packaging/collateral which are highly commoditized products. For manufacturing techniques that are more specialized doing this at scale can be much more challenging, because vetting, implementing training, QC, etc, has a high upfront cost.

https://www.lumi.com/features/source
I'm sorry but what does this title even mean?

Define "beat Covid-19."

Not to be a hardass, but I'd prefer real information not babyfood. Something akin to "Currently predicted US deaths without social distancing: X. With social distancing: Y. Potentially recurring each year"
Anyone for Waffles? An open-source file upload library for Elixir
I think the term "asymptomatic" gives a wrong picture of the severity of the disease, when various authors use it to mean "testing positive before disease onset" or even outright untested due to testing criteria and availability.
The filesystem performance on a Windows FS mount is absolutely unusable in WSL2. They are aware of it, but it does not seem to be a priority right now. Looks like I'm going to be stuck on WSL1 for quite some time unfortunately.
If we are making changes solely on the basis of COVID-19, then isn’t the lesson that whatever you do, make sure you’re manufacturing and hiring people in China? (Or South Korea).

I mean, China was the first one affected by this, and after a few weeks of covering up (something western countries like the US also engaged in despite having already witnesses the negative effects of COVID in other countries), China took swift and drastic action (the kind which other countries may not even be able to do legally) and got the situation under control.

The US, on the other hand, is gonna be shut for months, and if the global supply chain was dependent on the US we would likely have been even more screwed.
How many of those outages were multi-region and would have taken down a properly distributed application? How many outages and instances of lost data would the average enterprise, likely without their own datacenters, redundant power, hardware staff, etc have taken in the same period?
At the age of fifteen I didn't yet even have an internet connection.
I've tried everything, and once my 2 year old daughter goes to kindergarden I plan on trying again, BUT the only working quick fix has been 300-450micrograms of melatonin taken at exactly the same time every night.

Melatonin at this small dosage is just amazing for me.

I don't want to dismiss all the good practices, but meltonin in the 300-450 mcg range just lets me fall asleep within one hour of taking it, as long as I take it the same hour everyday.

I'm also searching for some time-release low dosage melatonin because I only sleep about 7 hours.
It'd be interesting to me to play the KQ series but with the parser replaced with something more state-of-art.
Japanese drug Avigan 'clearly effective' in treating coronavirus
Just an FYI, if somebody wants a legitimate license of windows 10 pro (well, pretty legitimate) eBay vendors sell “OEM” keys which have been pulled from scrapped hardware for a for dollars.

If you’re getting audited by Microsoft this is probably not OK, but I have never had any problems with it for personal use.

There are also numerous ways to get upgrades from 7 to 10, your employer might offer etc. etc. Microsoft is being pretty liberal with windows 10 licenses these days, even pro.
Netflix solve backbone pressure with open connect. Last mile delivery is still up to the ISP but that won't "break the internet."
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Just launched a weekly newsletter on tech tools I use that help me boost productivity.

It's mostly a collection of online apps, products, tools, that I've bookmarked over the last couple years that have become almost of second nature to me. I tend to share these face-to-face, but this seemed like a better way to get to many people at once.

https://thetechletter.com to sign up (first article is in the archive page)
No, Italy doesn't need to manufacture microprocessors. But Italy should be able to source microprocessors from more than one country.
I'm going to stop paying my bills. We'll see how far this "demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth" really goes.
Subsystem here is a reference to a Windows subsystem. There are many subsystems within Windows that handle various OS functions. In this case, a subsystem was created to handle running Linux.
Can't they just use the current DAACs as a caching layer? Seems like the least ugly way out of this mess.

Also - can't they use torrent tech? I wouldn't mind helping out a bit on space & data
There are many factors to why Italy isn't do great. Including their population skews on the older side and they have the oldest population in Italy...which unfortunately has a 1 in 5 chance of dying if they catch the virus.
Nice! I struggled to learn jq initially and I made a similar page for my team.

One suggestion is to use with_entries as a replacement for the 'to_entries | map(...) | from_entries' pattern. For example:

jq '.metadata.annotations | with_entries(select(.key == "label1"))'

is equivalent to

jq '.metadata.annotations | to_entries | map(select(.key == "label1")) | from_entries'
Two things to know:

1. The current test is designed for the scenario that someone shows up to medical provider with symptoms. Test answers the question: are the symptoms caused by COVID-19?, quite reliably (negligible false positives, low false negatives).

2. The current test won't produce terribly useful data in someone without symptoms (either before, or after the illness). This is why for example certain well-known political figures saying they have been tested and cleared after potential exposure is not very meaningful.

Therefore ideas like: let's randomly test the population to see how much of this is out there, and I had what I think was COVID-19, I want to be tested to confirm, are not practical.

A test that can determine if someone was infected in the past is in development still.
Right now would be a fantastic time for these ISPs to start installing Open Connect Appliances. It'll keep most Netflix traffic off of the backbone.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/
HN's guidelines are designed to dampen that. Example: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

Of course the existence of guidelines does not imply the existence of guideline-following.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5697672,00.html
ASCII art and permadeath: The history of roguelike games
The German virologist Christian Drosten mentioned in his daily coronavirus update that some specialized labs at least in Germany are able to do an antibody blood test.

There are also some commercial antibody tests, which have some error rate and as all antibody tests can identify the virus after 7-10 days after onset of symptoms.

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/15-Coronavirus-Update-In...
Link: https://x410.dev/
how the hell is twitter going to know what counts as "expert guidance"? coronavirus has existed for 2 months. there are many more unknowns than facts. heres a fact: published science says closing borders to travllers is ineffective. but its done anyway (so politicians can be seen as "doing something" instead of nothing). now twitter can say they are "doing something" to stop the virus too! LOL
Assumptions are common, you're right.

I assume that people won't tell you to drink less coffee if you say something specific to your circumstance like "nerve discomfort keeps me awake at night" rather than something vague like "I have trouble sleeping".
For me, it's obvious that a virus that starts on the other side of the world and could kill millions of Americans is an urgent national security problem and the defense department should be involved.

And if we don't currently have a need for extra ventilators (which I'm sure we do) there are other countries who do have that need and this virus doesn't care which human defined borders it is within.

If it were me, I'd ramp up production across the US, so that WHEN we have the need, we will be operating at high capacity and if we have excess, we distribute them to the world to save human lives and protect future American lives.
My immediate response, as someone who does not know css that well and is trying to learn, is to open developer tools, choose responsive design mode and then iPhone 6. Only looking at the top four, none of these are that great. Where is a way to navigate? They don't seem to be using vw which I expected. Are there good examples that work well with responsive, provide navigation and don't use horizontal scrolling.
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https://www.xkcd.com/1053/

> I try not to make fun of people for admitting they don't know things. Because for each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, every day there are, on average, 10,000 people in the US hearing about it for the first time. Fraction who have heard of it at birth = 0% Fraction who have heard of it by 30 ~= 100% US birth rate ~= 4,000,000 year Number hearing about it for the first time ~= 10,000 day If I make fun of people, I train them not to tell me when they have those moments. And I miss out on the fun. Person #1, about to have a messy fun time: "Diet coke and mentos thing"? What's that? Person #2, in a delightfully pro-knowledge mood: Oh man! come on, we're going to the grocery store. Person #1: Why? Person #2: You're one of today's lucky 10,000. {{Title text: Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.}}