skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is referring to this one Chinese diplomat's statement, I don't believe it is the official stance but it could be the CCP attempt to blame an external entity:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/asia/china-coronavirus-us-lij...
They are closed because members of the public wanted them to be closed. If you look at this https://www.elsevierweekblad.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2020/0... you'll see a pattern of denial.
It's time to rethink conducting business and trade with oppressive authoritarian and frankly communist countries. The world should not have to endure a pandemic every decade from countries that continues to suppress its people, its scientists its media. Enough is enough.

And to be clear, this is targeted at the country's government, and never its people. The government needs to be held accountable.
My dad was in agriculture.

When I was a know-it-all college student I would complain about farm subsidies and how they're inefficient and unfair to tax payers, etc.

But he would mention that America should never have a food shortage because of them. We've never outsourced our food to China or OPEC.

And now I'm really seeing the wisdom in that. For essential goods, like food, medicine, maybe energy, it makes sense to keep some production local.
What if people consistently vote against their own best interests?
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I installed it in the mid-2000s to be cool.

I'd say it's closer to the DMC DeLorean: short production run, works but has short comings, more of a meme than an actual commodity.

It's not vaporware though, they definitely delivered something that works. It's just that there wasn't a good reason to use it compared to other options.
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i recon you could build a manley in your shed with some decent mech eng skills and it could certainly be printed
They initially flocked from Linux to Mac OS X, so price wasn't an issue.
I don't think most programmers I know would have a very winning bedside manner.
Laziness, lack of awareness, being under the 5 Gbps limit a year ago when they took a look, any number of other reasons?
What frustrates me about these kind of things is how impersonal they are. How many orgs/users does GitHub sanction a day? Too many for it to be able to email the users and ask clarifying questions? Or even have a human dig in and double check what the algorithm says.

Basic human interaction would seemingly solve 99% of false account lockouts and takedowns. Even basic heuristics like this org has a repo with 11,000 stars, it isn't a new user that just signed up yesterday, we need to look into this deeper.
That's not how it works. Inflation and dollar value vs. other currencies is only loosely tied to bailout-type measures. See, for example, the mostly non-existent inflation following the financial crash bailouts last time. Also see current strengthening of the dollar vs. other currencies because it's a safehaven.
Lots of comments in here getting it exactly right. Asking Netflix to change will have almost no effect. Netflix already adjusts stream quality based on "internet weather" and already has most of the stream sources really close to the user. And has for years and is pretty good at it now. (Source: I worked there and worked on a lot of this stuff).

But it also makes sense for the CEO to make the political gesture and appease the EU commissioner.
> Wolfram Language is insanely great

That sounds exciting. Can you explain more?
Acetaminophen is just the American word for Paracetamol.
> ...reply to the "US accusation" that the virus was unleashed intentionally by the Chinese.

Oh that is an easy one. That US accusation was actually open speculation by Indian and German researchers examining the only data that China was willing to share with the rest of the world. They weren't accused of intentionally unleashing it, but negligence was speculated - the lying and secrecy is the cause for that, and they have only themselves to blame. China had allowed only one outside crisis team in, from the WHO (which lost credibility long ago) - and they only spent a single day in Wuhan. Around that time it was discovered that China had been under-reporting infections by an order of magnitude, every province coincidentally made the same calculation error for the same period of time.

> ...they're fairly common tactics worldwide.

This is all unprecedented. We have never seen such transparent lies counter-messaged in near realtime by way of opensource intelligence. Grassroots btw, the corporate response has been denial - followed by a week or two of softening messaging, then admission to the truth. The information surrounding cross species transmissibility is a good example: videos starting popping up of Chinese people hurling their pets from rooftops in response to government warnings with regard to transmissibility. The corporate media immediately swung into action, declaring any such talk as racist FakeNews™ - but they were wrong again.
Your points are valid, but there are other considerations. With open source software I can find and fix a bug in a routine and submit a patch for other people. With closed-source software, there is no guarantee that a bug I find will be prioritized and fixed if I submit it even if the company values quality (they likely have more open issues than people to fix). Now granted, I'm personally probably not going to track down some obscure bug, but others may.
> No one is adding <font> tags on all on all of their headings.

Ok? I'm not sure the official documentation is encouraging factoring out things like font styles to a central place, so you for example easily change the look from serif to sans, or adopt a signature font?

Am I missing something?

https://reactnative.dev/docs/text
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Coverup, because every country has things that can cause problems for others.

China should have used their resources to seal everything and everyone the minute they knew. I agree with Trump on this one, they should have stopped it there. Bats, civets were all linked to previous infections and we know bats have other viruses waiting for us
I think Twitter's motivation isn't to reduce the impact of the virus, or that their management trusts governments this much. They're anticipating politicians looking for scapegoats, they're ensuring they can't take the blame from governments following any negative outcomes.

From Twitter's standpoint, if as a business their primary goal is to continue to at bare minimum exist, this is actually their most conservative and lowest risk option. We could debate all day on what sources of information have been the best, government or non-government, but I don't think Twitter is interested at all in considering that side of it.
I see the current hyperconnectivity state as similar to what happens in human babies brains. They are much more hyperconnected than the adult brain.

To the Baby everything is a black swan event. The more connected we get we revert to that state where info is flooding in (similar to the brain on lsd etc). The ability to handle that load/decide what to focus on/what to filter out hasn't yet developed (and requires a culling of connections as we learn). Much like the baby bumbles about precariously in that state, similar story is playing out with our networked hive mind.

Everything is mesmerizing or frightening until we learn to cull the connections and reduce the hyperconnectivity

Based on Allison Gopniks work - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-it-like-t...

https://www.edge.org/conversation/alison_gopnik-a-separate-k...
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Are you implying that 794lbs is substantially heavier than a human, plus supplies for over a year, plus the extra delta-v to lift the human and half those supplies back up off Mars?
netflix&co are probably using BBR to shovel data to end users which takes latency into account too, not just packet drops.
You're still talking nonsense. Netflix has built their own CDN. This is one of their core competencies. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en_gb/
Hooray! We can finally dispose of Betteridge's "Law"!
Actually using Svelte its main downside is the giant file size. I consider it unusable for that reason alone. Any minor speed advantages is entirely negated.
Author here. I can tell you it wasn't much fun to thrash around trying to figure out how to build something, have it constantly change underfoot, have staff turnover on the project, and be apologizing for not delivering anything.

But maybe that's just me.

(I do think what you go through, where you get zero ramp up time, sounds pretty awful too.)
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Since the last time we've seen an economic disruption like this has been decades, if not a century ago (the World Wars and the Great Depression come to mind), I don't think our modern definitions of "recession" or economic response really apply to this current situation.

Government should be focused on keeping people healthy, fed and sheltered first, then focus on how to help businesses recover. For example, airlines are effectively shut down right now, only carrying a fraction of their normal passenger load, so there's not much that can be done to revive them until people can fly again.
A lot of countries did a poor job of the initial handling of the outbreak, which is why we're in this mess right now. If we're going to demand reparations from countries for a cover-up and exacerbating the situation, it shouldn't be limited to just China.
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You're also way off with Google. GGC has cache boxen in nearly all large ISPs that are willing to cooperate, and they also openly peer with anyone willing to at large IXes, not only in the metros they have DCs at.

For instance, they peer with us, a nobody (Warsaw Hackerspace, AS204880) over EPIX in Warsaw, announcing most of their prefixes to us there. In addition, they have a GGC node in EPIX.
WSL helps with the pain of having to use Windows, but it's still Windows for good (the trackpad drivers) and bad (pretty much everything else).
You can't attack someone else like this on HN, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. You owe the community much better if you're posting here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this again.
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Apologies. I was completely wrong.

Still, Google/Amazon/etc don't have the same level of distribution as you or Akamai. And they are fine. Blame should be in international fiber.
Yeah - I mean I didn't have an English source for the same initiative that in China.
I have family who are MDs and I have been working with MDs for over 5 years. I have always felt the same, but usually MDs don't agree that much - feeling special is part of the meme I guess.

I do feel, however, that the converse would not work as well: most MDs I met do not practice the "abstract" thinking that is required to be a successful programmer. But that's just my experience.
Another example of the “everyone should learn to code” frenzy.
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It's not an official stance. It's just yet another fake news from China.
Your own link shows 5 full AWS regions – with two more on the way – in Europe and that's not even the right link for this conversation since what you really care about for last-mile connectivity is less where the servers are running and more where the CDN edge locations are:

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/features/
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> It is 100% my team's business if my performance is suffering in my job due to my lack of sleep.

It's actually not. It's 100% your team's business that you're underperforming, period, but any reason you give is on your dime. Since you're giving reasons, it is in your personal best interest to communicate to your team a need for reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act even if you don't describe to them the details of your condition.
We do that too. :)
Hopefully you're right and this is why the market is stable for now. Maybe it will happen that Italy will stabilize. I don't think there are any epidemologists right now who don't think that Italy will reach 80k cases and 160k as well, but the distance between 80k cases and 160k might be much longer than I mention.

But this brings its own uncertainty. If we succeed in not overwhelming the medical system then everyone will remain on lockdown longer which will have it's own unique economic impact.

The point I'm making is that it most certainly will get much worse, but exactly how and what that means is very uncertain right now so virtually impossible to price correctly.
I am not surprised that you are being downvoted. Most of HN does not understand that a majority of the US lives paycheck to paycheck. In their world, all work can be done remotely and this pandemic will increase the transition to remote work.
I live in a city where the local economy is tourism based. I am estimating that as of this Friday, the unemployment rate in my city is closer to 70% if not more. The minimal amount of unemployment insurance is not even enough to put food on the table, let alone pay rent.
... which diminishes the likelihood volunteers will join your project, because now they have to go learn another site.
Microsoft lets Github run independently https://www.businessinsider.com/github-coo-microsoft-azure-e...
Oracle certainly seems to disagree here.

And if the seller is a monopoly on a critical good while the buyer is a tiny fraction of their business, the relationship is asymmetrical and the seller won't suffer nearly as much from a war.
Large commercial projects. The problem is the mid sized projects, especially FOSS ones, there isn’t the time needed to curate every pull request and bikeshed. There is also something to be said for having less abstractions, moderately wet code can be easier to follow and fix than needlessly dry code.
I mean, this is basically sanctions, right? I guess I would prefer those in charge to weigh the value of holding people responsible vs the chaos that sanctions on China would bring.
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Direct peering is probably not quite the same thing as installing a cache in an ISP's racks.
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It's called the invisible hand the free market for good reason.
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What a debacle. If GitHub believes this is necessary to comply with sanctions, they should provide a "rather than shut me down, please block contributions that GitHub would consider sanctioned” switch.
Chaos monkey, but for supply chain. I actually like it...it would make our systems more robust.
Sorry, I don't know anything about poker, but didn't Riker do this all the time on TNG?
We can only hope so. Unfortunately animal agriculture as it currently exists is just as dangerous (e.g. chicken CAFOs breeding bird flu). IMO we need to rethink meat production altogether. Meat production needs to be environmentally conscious, health/epidemiologically conscious and at least minimally animal welfare conscious and the price of meat should reflect that all of that extra work is being done.
> smallest bit that would possibly work

Nice thought - but I've tried that in the past, though, and smashed into unreasonable expectations from the clients themselves: "Why just do the smallest bit? We need the whole thing!" This only works if everybody understands the value, and this shared understanding is rare, to say the least.
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What does "standard definition" mean today? NTSC, 480i, 30FPS? HDTV, 1080p, 30FPS?
Yes. Highly placed individuals promote conspiracy theories. Given our President's past behavior on Twitter, we are in no position to criticize.

However the official conclusion of China that I have seen matches the international community - this started in a wet market in China.
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I guess they have additional legal constraints that don’t allow them to just “land space” here or there - the vendor must probably be security-vetted, compliant to a hundred government-produced checklists, and willing to go through extra-long sales and support cycles. It will inevitably push up prices significantly.

In fact, I can imagine ops-teams at Nasa licking their lips at the idea of doing away with a lot of that bureaucracy once they switch to AWS... note how the report mentions that some of the controllers are actual sponsors of the move: it’s obviously a conflict of interest, but it might well arise when the org as a whole is a bit too happy to steer away from a suboptimal situation.

This said, AWS will rob them blind, simply because they can. Like all outsourcers (which is effectively what they are), they get in with the simplicity argument, then boil that frog up with extra charges. It’s good that somebody pointed out one of those charges, but I doubt anything will change substantially- Amazon will probably cut them a discount and that will be it. And once you’re invested in a cloud env to the tune of hundreds of petabytes, you’ll likely not switch away for decades.
This is a common approach and I use many apps that use this trick. Examples being Termius, Pythonista, and any app that can log sensor data in background. I hope apple doesn't give a shit about your report.

All those apps clearly state why they want the permissions.
There is a difference between making college cheap and universally accessible or cancelling all student debt.

A better solution still would be a one time initial handout to all us citizens over 18 years of age of 100k$, and then every us citizen that turns 18 100k$ of free money they may use however they see fit.
I'm not sure why you'd lay the blame at Microsoft's feet. You could self-host and your ISP would still take you down if you were violating US sanctions in most parts of the world. If they did this by accident, and you've got some proof the decisions was made by someone that's actually FROM Microsoft and not a legacy Github employee, by all means present it. Otherwise you're just gas-lighting.
Note: I have not used this service before.

I'm pretty sure this is an almost exact competitor to Vagon. You're not creating an environment. It's a full desktop right out of the box.
Does your company monitor its entire supply chain, or its supply links?
“Wet market” is like combination slaughter house and grocery store where floor never dries from constantly hosing down fluids. It’s not sanitary.
Interesting, did AMD just sold the same RDNA 2 GPU to both Sony and Microsoft ?
Yes, these trade sanctions will definitely cause these issues--if they operate a business or do any dealings with businesses in countries which are embargo'd they will lose their ability to sell their product internationally, since Microsoft also fulfills defense contracts it probably makes these obligations even stronger, though I am not a lawyer.

I think at this point Fossil is looking really really good.
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No worry. You can set up a room default-mute-off on the setting on the app :)
In a world in which online presence is an essential attribute of... commerce, professionalism, etc., deplatforming cannot be allowed to be so trivial to effect and difficult (in many cases impossible) to challenge. At some point human rights have got to include sufficient due process to deal with accidental or unjust deplatforming.
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Money is fake in a way that physical products aren't. So the parties have very unequal bargaining positions, the one with the "real" stuff (products) can walk away much more easily than the one with the "fake" stuff (money).
How about this. Next time this happens, instantaneous travel and trade ban. Full stoppage.
While true in general, it's not a hard and fast rule. Exceptions get made when it makes sense.
> by tomorrow be productive member

As a perm employee for the past 20 years (four different employers), this isn't just limited to consultants. "You're a senior developer! You should already understand everything that exists!"
Makes sense if you think of them as separate companies (which is how they are run)
One counterintuitive piece of advice I can offer is to take a cold shower right before bed. Some might think a cold shower would shock the system so much that your body would be on high alert... but that's very temporary... and when you slip into your warm bed sheets afterwards, you feel like your in a safe place.

Your milage may vary. I've seen conflicting science on this. Here is the positive case:
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Can’t speak for others, but I for one wouldn’t want this switch, and would be offended by it. I would defend people’s rights to contribute to open source regardless of their nationalities by taking my project elsewhere.
This is kind of a subtle idea, but in some instances, the illusion of safety can be harmful. It is occasionally (not always) better not to give people the illusion of safety when that safety doesn't actually exist. Sometimes putting an ineffective railing along a mountain path increases accidents, because it's human nature for people walking on that path to watch their footing less when they see the railing.

>> Do not use random libraries. A good library should have even some basic docs outline its API and how to use it.

> A whole lot of the time, especially in Javascript land you will join projects where libraries are being used, and where documentation is lacking. Your advice here is basically to not be part of those projects? Instead of developing and using tooling that will ensure that these situations no longer happen?

I'm not here to hate on Typescript, I think it has its uses. I use Typescript in some places. I generally avoid it for personal projects, but I would probably encourage it for larger orgs.

But the idea that Typescript protects you from needing to care about interfaces is exactly the problem with over-reliance on Typescript, and is the source of a lot of really badly written code that treats interface design like an afterthought. If you're using Typescript for documentation and you're treating it like a tool, you can write some really elegant code, you can catch some shallow bugs around types and assumptions, you can integrate your documentation into your IDE. If you're looking at Typescript and saying, "this is an efficient way for me to document what my code does", then this is all very good.

But if you're using Typescript and saying, "now I can pull in any dependency I want", then Typescript is doing you more harm than good.

The specific advice orange gives in those two sentences is good advice. If Typescript is giving you a false sense of confidence about using random libraries, then that's a real negative.

I use both pure JS and Typescript almost daily, and I consume plenty of dependencies written in Typescript. I still occasionally need to debug the stack traces in those dependencies. I still occasionally need to read through their source code to figure out what they're doing. Badly documented dependencies are not a problem that Typescript solves.
> No one writes down boring stories.

Millions of people on Facebook and Twitter are doing this right now.
No. I have no interest in doing that.
if angular 1 had a opinionated love child with itself it would be called Aurelia.
Multiple authentications are important. I know Zoom's personal ID, but it's not dedicated to always-on. For realizing the always-on room, showing the real-time status is necessary I suppose.