skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is there some alternative direction available where testing and verification are easier and cheaper?

A plurality of physicists now work in condensed matter. See e.g.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4110
Well, that's the sort of mindset people had after 9/11 or the financial crisis. Pretty much a decade (at least) of anticipating the next similar thing to happen. Did you think after Chelyabinsk that we should concentrate everything on meteor prevention? What about the rise of white supremacy in the US after the 2016 election? Hindsight tends to be myopic, kind of the opposite of 20/20. But then again, it is 2020, isn't it?
I don't know. But there's more than enough available now.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/bayer-preps-u-s-donation...
See also, from yesterday: "The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22615894
Hahahaha. There's an amazing flattering IR photo of me in there :)
You don't need to, your license is actually an attestation in your laptop's firmware: you can simply reinstall and it will automatically activate by itself
> Common advice is "it's okay to bite/taste any mushroom"

That is very bad advice if you ever come to Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_virosa

Even one of this mushroom will basically put your liver into necrosis and slowly kill you. There is no effective remedy in modern medicine apart from emergency liver transplant.

It also looks much like the common and delicious champignon.
I love this story so much because of that paragraph specifically. (I had read it before but couldn't find it anymore. Happy to see it show up again!)

> The only thing more insane was Intel’s 80486 running at 66 megahertz! Can you imagine? I was a physicist, I should know.

It's so perfect! I'm glad he gives us the benefit of his hindsight.
Hey, I'm Ramiro, one of the maintainers. We do several things to speed the whole cycle up.

When you are using Okteto Cloud to run your apps, you get all this:

- Build is run in big servers in the Okteto Cloud infra. It's based on buildkit, and it's heavily cached and optimized towards development scenarios. The build context is sent from your local machine to the service and everything else happens there.
- The registry in the same infrastructure as the build services. The image is pushed from the build service to the registry, instead of from your machine.
- The deployment runs in the same cluster as well, to speed up the time it takes to pull the image.

You can also use "okteto push" with your own infra, by providing your own buildkit service, registry and k8s cluster. Depending on where they are located with respect to each other this might be slower or faster (e.g using dockerhub for registry will be slower than using a dedicated one in your own cluster, mainly due to network speed and proximity).

The biggest benefits of this approach are being able to move all this to the k8s cluster, where you can leverage more compute power and faster network transmission. That way you are not pulling and pushing images across the internet.
Not only that, but I find the taste different. I'm one of those people who thinks cilantro tastes like soap. For me, it overpowers all other flavors in a dish, but I find coriander seeds to be mild and pleasant tasting.
Show HN: A lightweight online IDE to write JS SPA in your own GitHub gists
I wonder what's the incentive to write such a thing on company blog?

Any ideas? To help with recruitment?
The vast majority of upstanding Police are allowing their fellow officers to get away with it. Even if they aren't doing it themselves, they turn a blind eye and close ranks when one of their own is threatened.

So is it a few bad apples or is it the system in general?
Coronavirus Is Speeding Up the Amazonification of the Planet
It's also used to flash Android devices too.
Real Python is launching a Python podcast
Sure! We are actually currently building a platform on this stack (for eventual open sourcing) called Core [1]. Protobuf generally definitely needs some tooling and environment management work to make things smooth. But it is achievable and when you get there things work better a lot more often.

Drop me a line at parham@cloudsynth.com and happy to give guidance where I can.

[1] https://www.cloudsynth.com/products/core
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Also a previous submission of the website, a day later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18430031
I feel sure the vast majority of Police officers are doing upstanding work, so it's a matter of identifying and punishing the bad apples.

I strongly disagree that the vast majority of police office are doing upstanding work. Officers don't testify against each other. They refuse to help investigations of colleagues. The whole thin blue line mentality is a stain on the whole profession. As Edmund Burke said, "All that is necessary for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing." Police officers that refuse to call out the bad apples are themselves bad apples.
I have been following this and the wording here appears to have changed in the last couple of days. The wording you quoted has been removed.
I was out walking with my wife and kids and saw what i thought was queen anne's lace sprouting out of the ditch. When we were kids we would yank them out to smell the root to see if it smelled like carrots (hey, there was no internet). So I rip it out of the ground and tell my kids to smell it, i smell it, didn't really smell like carrots. So then i do the next logical thing and start chasing my kids around with the plant and (lightly!) whack them with the flowers.

Anyway we're having a good old time and this guy i know that's the ditch supervisor for the county comes down the road and slows to a stop. I'm like 'hey man what's up?' and he said 'uh..not much. you realize that's hemlock don't you?' 'Hmmm?' 'Yeah that's poisonous plant, it's a neurotoxin, better go home and wash off. If anybody starts feeling funny call 911.'.

And that's how i learned what hemlock looks like!
We (the public) are being misled about either the virulency, the morbidity rate, or both, with regards to SARS-CoV-2. The real numbers simply do not match the models.
It will be too late by then. After 20,000 people have died on the streets more than 56% of California will be infected with COVID-19.
Need more developers:

* security engineer

* iOS engineer

* Android developer

* Dart engineers

* Flutter developers

* Engineers with health industry experience

* backend infrastructure

* backend security

Goal: 1-2 months to MVP deployment. Maybe sooner if people pile on.
Such an excellent and cogent discussion of the challenges of making an autonomous vehicle startup work.

I really resonate with the challenge they had making safety "sexy" from a coverage point of view. It seems it shares that attribute with "security" which, when done well, means nothing happens.

I had a lot of hope that we would get four lane (two each way) "freight ways"[1]. These would be paved roads designed specifically for autonomous trucks to move freight from one point to another. With sufficient freight ways between key cities on the coast and further inland, and efficient way to move goods with somewhat worse costs than rail and quite a bit better in terms of reaction time.

[1] Like a free way but designed specifically to exclusively service autonomous trucks carrying standard containers.
Re 1st point: and kids are often heavy bandwidth users in evening. Network bandwidth is mostly about supporting peak usage, a pipe with capacity per second and not a fixed volume per day. Plans often regulate by volume cap, but high capacity networks regulate by bits per second peak usage.

Re second point: you are misquoting, and making a point that is obvious. The next sentence is "The smart move would be to tell Netflix to downgrade more aggressively" to help your canonical zoom conference (which is a super poor example - apparently Zoom failure is due to Zoom and not network capacity).
If you've incorporated as an LLC equivalent, they are no longer hiring you but engaging in a business - business transaction, which is governed by contract law instead of employment law. That doesn't always make it easier (and also usually comes out of a completely different part of a company's budget).
Because the NOCs may not be all that competent. I remember talking to the Cablevision IP NOC back in the mid 2000s about their internal backbone circuits they were running hot that went to a POP we peered with them. I had Cablevision at home and the congestion was breaking my VPN to work. The NOC said "an OC45 was down" (no such thing, it's an OC48) and that congestion is okay because TCP will work with it okay and there won't be a problem. I shutdown the peering session with them force traffic around a diff city (sent it to Chicago). I remember talking to the eng team at Cablevision about their NOC and they had a good chuckle and admitted they're only good for the simplest of operations (link down, go fix).

In some parts of the world running links at 95 percent is okay because look 5 percent left (totally ignorant of buffers or microbursts etc.).
Why try to predict anything? In a pandemic you need to prepare for the worst case scenario as soon as possible. If we do nothing many people will die and Americans need to know that is a possibility.
I am really wondering whether this means they have to re-encode all the streams at 25% less bitrate, or whether they already have them available at that exact bitrate and can thus just change a default.

Because what I usually observe when Netflix compromises the streaming quality because of bandwidth problems with my connection is a far larger drop in quality than would be expected at just 25% less bits - it normally feels more like 75% less bitrate, if it doesn't switch down from HD to SD entirely.
How the coronavirus is impacting downloads of business apps
Definitely would add Bezos and Musk. Bezos is one of the most managerially/business astute CEOs and Musk is able to will futuristic companies basically out of thin air.
I haven't done chemistry since high school, but was a curious as to what a simple setup would look like. This 'gentle introduction to flow chemistry' [0] article seems to do a good job.

[0]: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/mh/c4mh0005...
> I’ve worked at a major ISP, for a decade, and spotting something like this should be so easy to spot

MRTG graph, ISP circa 1995. Colorized.

See a flat line? that's congestion. Now figure out where it is coming from. Sorry, we have been doing this for thirty years so I'm kind of cranky. It is not a rocket science.
The impact of a nationwide quarantine on App Store downloads in Italy
Luckily, every teacher I know is still being paid. Even those who are completely off and don't have to teach virtual classes.
How on earth is the on/off switch for the body camera under the officer’s control?
Not really? Then you casually say "if you exclude the iPhone" which kind of undercuts the entire argument, doesn't it?

70% of Apple revenue comes from the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Services revenue is entirely and absolutely based upon that, and certainly didn't originate post Jobs.

Even the Watch -- have one and love it -- exists on the back of the iPhone.

So, yeah, really.

Everything Apple has done that has been successful since Jobs is entirely in the halo of the iPhone, which of course still accounts for the vast bulk of Apple's profits.
Creating criminals is necessary to keep prisons crowded and the associated businesses going. Just like hotels.
There is no type safety in grpc or any other protobuf RPC scheme, full stop. The recipient of a message makes an assumption about the meaning of the message and decodes it accordingly. Any encoded protobuf might successfully decode as any other protobuf.

To repeat, grpc has no "type safety" whatsoever.
The native file system access mentioned near the bottom sounds like a massive security hole
Ad free-ish at the Sac Bee:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article241349341.htm...

If 56% of CA is infected in 2 months then we aren't being told something about this virus.
Now I get why the app is in the top 10 most popular apps in Italy...
Cilantro is the Spanish word for coriander.

My speculation is that cilantro/coriander leaves entered the American mainstream via their use in Mexican food, which is why the Spanish word stuck when it comes to the leaves. But I could be wrong.
Is that drug going to be available to large groups of people for reasonable prices? Or is there a problem manufacturing it?
out of curiosity why haven't american companies been outsourcing to Mexico or Canada instead of China?
Maybe they took some cues from the people who released an eight-processor system in 1994? Granted, only two of those are CPUs.
What about honey made by bees who collected the hemlock flower pollen? There's some inception.
Making guns illegal will do little if it is not accompanied by getting rid of the existing guns. People are poor judges of risk and it would not surprise me that cops are more fearful of guns than they are of cars even if it ought not be that way.

You may be right in the direction of causation that questioned. I look at it this way. Suppose we create a more prosperous, egalitarian society and find out the cops are still jerks. The experiment shows you are correct but at least we'd end up with a better society in other ways. There does not appear to be any harm in performing the experiment.
They were (exempt) but they passed a law to make it illegal though I believe they watered down. Previous to the law it wasn't illegal for them to do insider trading.
>At least Canonical is getting paid.

WSL1 wasn't restricted to just Ubuntu. All the major distros were available. Canonical's cooperation is useful from a trademarks standpoint, but I don't see Canonical having any leverage in this arrangement.
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Please don’t give The Sun the oxygen of coverage or links, it is as authoritative as The National Enquirer.

Not to mention they are known lying scum who traduced the 96 dead at Hillsborough.
Chat is probably one of the only functionalities that are still better served by an ad-hoc app

If you need notifications, just use a native app (or even a web one wrapped in a native app)

Anyway, most of these "features" are used because they are already there, remove them from the base install of the browser, distribute them as a plugin and make the devs consider that the feature could not be present and they will stop nagging the users begging for their attention

Any website I visit from mobile wants the permission to notify me, 99% of them don't if I visit from desktop

Why is that?

I guess we all know the answer
If I wanted to know the difference between gold and silver, I would research the difference between the businesses of gold miners and silver miners.
This is arguing over whether the iceberg sank the Titanic or the decision to remove bulkheads to make room for the grand ballroom.

It is of course both. Global supply chains and JIT delivery have made us more fragile. But China reacted well - locked down a region of 60 M people - then sent in the resources we of 1.5 BN to stop the spread to the rest of the country. Now they are basically hanging on till a vacccine.

USA pandemic teams probably had similar plans - shutdown California for example - in other words steering away from the worst of the icebergs.

Is China's strategy "best"? Hard call to make - especially now. But it beats many many alternatives.
It depends - if we think nothing is off the table - including isolating older people or doing war-time like strategies, then maybe we are overreacting.

But if the only cases we consider are traditionnal approaches - confinment vs doing basically nothing, then the short answer must be no - if anything, we are underreacting (by we, I assume you mean the West - EU and US).

I've tried to be smart about the numbers, which are definitely not rock solid now, but just look at what happened in places that tried to underreact - Wuhan (not their fault), Lombardy. Have you ever seen military trucks coming into a city, during peace time, to move coffins out ? Here you go: https://twitter.com/guidosalva/status/1240555847849312256?s=...

We can argue as long as we want about age structure etc, but this kind of horror, definitely never happens unless there is something extremely unusual (and deadly) happening.
> what are we going to do about this?

Line the cunts up on their knees and shoot them in the back of the head.
> the browser is the main attack vector on mobile

Citation needed. Browser-based attacks are difficult to come by, because it's just easier to attack an application instead.
> 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.

Influenza kills tens of thousands per year, and people are getting sick through social contact. The fact that the medical system is having trouble doesn't change the how -- sick people getting other people sick. That's the part that makes it a social problem, the part where one person's actions potentially kills another.

The "logic" can be made pretty clear but you just prefer to respond with... "logic" instead of figures. I've asked who is paying for whom and how much. That is the uncertainty I see in the situation, and the discussion which I see lacking.

There's not even a 6-month vision for what's going to happen.
Isn't this article about all of Europe though?
Web MIDI is really cool. I recently bought a new MIDI keyboard controller from Novation and was really impressed when I learned that the configuration tool can run entirely in the browser without requiring local installation. In Chrome, it displays a permission prompt.
I think the situation will eventually converge to a point where certain animals will be banned, but not the market themselves. The markets will probably be moved into buildings with better sanitation and surveillance with modernized regulations. IMO High density Chinese pork farming, which caused the disastrous pork crisis due to African swine flu last year is a more likely vector for future outbreaks. China has to move to high-density animal husbandry for food autonomy, especially pork. It's one of their key strategic interests that's not going to change, or is even more important to pursue depending on the geopolitical fallout of this pandemic. If anything now is the time to focus and embrace artificial meat. But at the end of the day, it doesn't resolve the fundamental unpreparedness of the world if the cause of COVID was some chance happenstance like some farmer smelled some bat poop.
HTTP is a reasonable enough transport layer for RPC frameworks (e.g. gRPC is built on top of HTTP/2)
Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley resigns from Boeing board, opposing gov aid
I think there are few thoughts here.

a) I don't necessarily agree with that statement - witness HashiCorp's recent raise:

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/hashicorp-scores-
175m-funding-round-5b-valuation/2020/03/

b) The vast majority of container users run their workloads on public clouds like AWS and GCP which run on top of virtual machines to begin with.

I'm not stating you need to use terraform (I definitely don't) - what I'm saying is that you can use the underlying orchestration provided by the cloud of choice - be it the networking or the volumes. There's no need to replicate that on top as container workloads do. When people who speak of kubernetes/container complexity - this is what they are complaining about.

If you look at a lot of the configuration mgmt software out there - chef/puppet/ansible/salt/terraform/etc. it all involves configuring a linux system whereas with unikernels it's literally just one application and instead of having to plumb your network together or ensure that your workloads or 'stateless' vs 'stateful' you just use the underlying cloud facilities. That's the magic. It actively removes complexity from the provisioning.
You are seriously overreacting.

He is suggesting drinking a few glasses of tonic water, saying why it is helping him, and prefixed a warning.

There is nothing dangerous in his suggestion, and it is obviously not given as a complete medical solution to the epidemic to use for your family.
Companies have been outsourcing to Mexico for a while.
Time for the Negroponte Switch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negroponte_switch
I still think that AI shuttles and buses driving predetermined routes and schedules would be tremendously useful. Especially if they could operate continuously 24/7. And that should be possible, with maybe tele-operators dialing in to override the edge cases or sending dispatch crews to takeover for any issues that come up.
yeah anyone serious about gaming has a pc and will go with ps5 this gen

with microsoft and sony getting into game streaming even someone without a good pc will be able to play xbox games, xbox exclusives are worthless and the library doesnt have any real competitive ip

xbox console is essentially doa
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People <say> they know :-) Many hardly can write "Hello, World!".
Hopefully Sloan MIT will retool their supply chain masters courses that train managers in the efficiencies of just in time global chains https://scm.mit.edu
Google isn't the topic right now.
It's not true to say that A&A don't oversubscribe. Instead the situation is that they're happy to buy more capacity to fulfil their offer, within reason.

If A&A subscribers could in theory move 10Tbps (if they all simultaneously did some sort of download from a hypothetical unlimited source) but in reality they never do and it peaks at something like 100Gbps, A&A are fulfilling their promise by ensuring they've got 100Gbps to do that.

Typically you'll never notice the difference, except on your bill, because if they had 100x more bandwidth upstream they'd pay a lot of money for that, even though it was unused and they'd have to pass that to you in the medium term.

However, the reality is a little closer to oversubscribing. Suppose A&A are paying for 10Gbps on a particular port somewhere, and at their busiest time of the week it typically runs at 9.8Gbps. Unfortunately the company selling it only wants to offer 100Gbps as the next step up, for five times the money. Another 10Gbps port isn't an option as there are no 10Gbps ports free. So A&A decides to sit on the problem, nobody is suffering at 9.8Gbps.

Next week it hits 10Gbps and seems likely it'd have gone to 11Gbps if that was possible. Oops. The firm they're buying that capacity from still has 100Gbps available, but they agree at last that they could add more 10Gbps ports, and will do so for the same price as the existing port. Unfortunately it means buying a new Cisco router, which Cisc says is on back order, it'll arrive in July.

Are A&A going to throw five times the money at the problem for this burst of maybe 30-40 minutes per week? Or are they going to tell you sorry but it'll be July and until then bandwidth at that peak across that particular link isn't what it ought to be? They're going to do the latter. Because at the end of the day it's a business. RevK is a good guy, but he's not looking to bankrupt the company to make some point.
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