skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ColdFusion had much more limited exposure to the general world than say PHP. Also, arguably and IMNSHO, ColdFusion was quite bad at a lot of its own features. Custom Tags specifically as the given example, were barely more than duct tape over SSI (Server-Side Includes) and never really had a "proper" Component model or DOM for most (if not all, again IMNSHO) of its history.

(CF is a language on my list of hopes to never see again.)
It's a known issue, the work around is to manually add .gif when prompted before recording starts.
On this note, a public postmortem from the 16 Oct 2018 YouTube outage does not seem to exist. If enterprise customers are impacted, there will likely be a public postmortem for this incident, but it is still publicly unknown what caused YouTube to go down.
FYI - these charts are more than likely updated by hand, by a person, with a bunch of deliberation and very high level approval (your actual SLA is probably based off of this person's call). At least that's how it was at another FAANG.
They may not have the same DRM restrictions as actual content? It's not that Firefox is not technically capable of rendering the videos, it's that it doesn't give the DRM the control that Netflix and rightholders want to require in exchange.
Vulkan – Management of Command Buffers and Multi-Threaded Recording
I really hope that is the future. Plant based meat or just proper free range farms and hunting I guess. Industrial meat production is too cruel and just another pandemic waiting to happen.
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Because the last time I needed to do that job I couldn't find any native tools that were anywhere near as good as LICEcap.
Feynman lectures are fine as a supplement to more standard text.
We don't have enough tests to do it. The testing backlog is getting worse — not better. The current backlog is estimated at 7-14 days in some areas.
Denver here, I got a few 500 errors earlier this morning on search.
Hospital Capacity Crosses Tipping Point in U.S. Coronavirus Hot Spots
Apple’s attack on Service Workers
My perception of registered Republicans (not so much people who might incidentally vote Republican) is that the average age is pretty high. I wonder how these viewpoints sit with the older party members.
Yes they lifted the ban.
You seem to be an extremely cynical individual. I'm sorry to see that. Wish I could help.
I think that graph is biased towards the fact that the east coast is awake while the west coast is not. Also almost 50% of the US population lives in a state that touches the Atlantic.

It was down for me here in California.
When I started to learn other languages after learning bash then Perl first, I was really dismayed at how clumsy it was to build up a data structure of any complexity. So verbose in the Java/C++/C# land.

Having those constructs so effortlessly available with a minimal amount of syntax spoiled me. To this day, I would likely still prefer to do any kind of complicated ETL involving deeply nested structures with Perl.
Vegans do make that argument sometimes, and it's often countered by the fact that other diseases and bacteria can spread on veggies, like salmonella and E. Coli on lettuce. And proper handling and cooking will kill viruses/bacteria, so it theoretically shouldn't be a real problem...

Note that I'm not arguing one way or the other, that's just how I've seen it play out a few times.
> The 2009 swine flu epidemic originated in the states

As another comment [1] mentioned, the 2009 swine flu originated in Mexico [2].

The 1918 Spanish flu, on the other hand, originated in Kansas [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22694893

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic#Mexico

[3] https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/flu-epidemic-of-1918/17805
Population densities, ease of travel long distances around the world.
You can also use http://isup.me
Outside of fuel and labor, the resources spent to enable travel are quite minor. I don't think trying to stop carbon-neutral travel helps the environment in a meaningful way.
“Dear Computer”: A World Where Computers Email Each Other So You Don’t Need To
Now you see that it's not only Microsoft problem...
It fits the narrative that this is mother nature's revenge for our abuse of cute animals. A lot of people believe this narrative, that mother nature will seek revenge for environmental degradation, especially when it involves cute animals, and it being true reenforces their feeling and hope that justice exists in the world, so it naturally occurs to them and they will look for information to confirm its truth.

The way that harm to cute stuff can energize political ideology and activism should never be underestimated.

To bring it back to Hacker News territory: One can use a cute mascot for one's company, especially if it's a consumer brand, so people will tolerate your bugs and frustrations more easily and have an irrational love for your company. Wufoo did this with dinosaurs and stuff. There's a great startup school video on this.
I would much rather watch the YouTube video GP posted than look at the ad you posted.
The definition of "sick" matters here.

A dead-virus vaccine like the flu shot cannot give you the flu. It can cause "sick" side-effects (for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain%E2%80%93Barr%C3%A9_sy..., or the fairly common aches and pains from the immune response), but not the flu.

A live-virus vaccine like the flu nasal spray can give you the flu, especially if you're immune suppressed or something along those lines.
> the rise of precarious work

I'm not going to disagree that there was a rise in precarious work, but I think many people don't realize how valuable having this work as option is.

Brazil has been economically struggling for almost a decade now, which is the same decade when this type of work appeared. For many people in Brazil this has been a godsend. It's provided an employment option where previously there would have been none. The option wasn't between precarious work and non-precarious work. It was between precarious work and no work.

Precarious work at least lets workers get back on the work ladder and just being on the ladder makes it easier to grab the next rung on the ladder and pull themselves up. It's especially valuable that the precarious work also tends to be flexible. This lets people study for new skills and go to interviews, which is something much harder to do with scheduled work.

The economic situation in Brazil would have been far worse if another million or more people doing this precarious work had been unemployed for the last decade instead.
Now you have more than a billion people poaching rare animals to extinction because of superstition, in totally unsanitary wet markets that, frankly, have no place in a modern country.

What changed are the numbers.
There's a difference in timeframe and scope here. You can get away with testing and individual quarantines if you start early.

Now, 1 in 3 (!!) tests are coming back positive in NY. Too many people have it at this point for it to be effective.
> why are researchers still agonizing over all these alternative theories?

The evidence currently implicates a virus that jumped from pangolins to bats and then bats to humans (EDIT: bats to pangolins and then pangolins to humans [1]).

Understanding that transmission mechanism is crucial to reducing the odds of it happening again.

[1] https://www.cell.com/pb-assets/journals/research/current-bio...
What appears to be a new ZOMBIE SAT
Any instruction to run this under macOS. Qemu can run of course. But ovmf.fd (or install from edk2) seems no clear instruction under macOS.
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." -Dr. Ian Malcolm
Vice had a nice report from the Ebola outbreak in Liberia 2014. Showing how people can just buy bush meat from the markets: monkey, bats etc. Worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XasTcDsDfMg
(long-time lurker here...)

Yip, there are definitely topics I butt into where I hit a wall too -_- . But with time I got much better at navigating them and have had several-hour-long conversations IRL as well as online using just Toki Pona (without resorting to compounds really - I don't know if it's what you're referring to, but compound phrases with fixed meaning aren't really in the spirit of the language). There are people online who I talk with regularly exclusively using Toki Pona.
At least in that case and the Blurred Lines case there was some component that was verifiably the same.

(But yeah, QT was and is a jerk. Especially when you consider how he ripped off City on Fire.)
The origin of the virus. The mainstream media assumes the virus was created in a natural process of mutation and jumping species, while there's this little paper [1] in Nature Medicine from 2015 where authors (virologists) confirm that they created a novel, human-transmisible coronavirus, based on a new virus they discovered among bats. Some of the authors of the paper are from Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
> Consumers are another problem. They have no understanding of PWAs...

Really? You're blaming your customers for not being sufficiently tech savvy and not wanting what you're providing?

Personally, I am happy with Apple's decision here.
Because good science is humble enough to humor and analyze reasonable alternate possibilities.
Yeah if the nurse was able to fight this in the court (that's the whole other problem, where will she find time / money to fight it during a pandemic), the landlord is in deep legal trouble, no?
Oh, I honestly would have thought it was more. I'm not saying that it's a level playing field. I'm just saying that Godot is making some in roads to normalization and hitting mainstream acceptance in the games industry.
That's not killing. It's negligent and reprehensible, just like the trivialization of the disease's seriousness by the US president was negligent and reprehensible.

There will be many unnecessary deaths as a result of both leaders' inaction. That doesn't make it murder on either of their parts.

In the US at least, the dismantling of the public health systems in the name of efficiency is something that occurred in several previous administrations of both parties, backed by a public who supported those cuts in order to receive greater investment returns and lower taxes.
> Most April Fools pranks are tedious.

Reddit usually nails it with their April Fools events. I would hate to see that lost because we are supposed to be dark and gloomy in times of crisis.
Turkish newspapers are almost universally subservient to the autocratic government. Any free press that's still somehow around has way more consequential dictatorial abuses of power to report on, if they dare.
Now bingetogether.com has multi language support :D
Discord was down for several minutes earlier, as well. Related?
Scrolling-Based-Progressbar – React
After decades of successful and unsuccessful self study, the thing I have found for myself is that I have to have an end goal in mind of what I want to do with the knowledge. Then it's usually pretty obvious how to work backwards and figure out how to get there. I've been tremendously unsuccessful when trying to learn just with the goal of learning. It's much harder then to quantify what is good enough, and just end up with a very surface level understanding even after putting in a lot of work.
That is probably because you think expression end evaluation are isomorphic. They aren't.

Not all functions are referentially transparent. All Mathematical functions are assumed to be.
Sure, I'll just be giving you half your wage with each coming hour.
You're going down an end-less rathole...

Ulrich made tons of bad technical decisions, and mistreated everyone who disagreed with him, was the reason Debian forked glibc for a long time, etc. There are some famous bugzillas that are utterly unexplainable.
React(Js framework) is close to PHP as a concept. Facebook's team had to take ideas from their exisitng code. With JSX, we could potentially call it a new language.
I'd normally agree but this isn't an essay - it is a timeline.
Ytmdl – Download mp3 songs from YouTube with metadata from sources like iTunes
Sure - I’m just skeptical that the optimal level is one you could never get without a lot of supplements.

Doesn’t mean that isn’t true, but I’d need more to be persuaded.
U.S. looks to place troops near Canadian border
It's possible that these viruses jumped to humans all the time in the past and killed a particular village, town, city. Now we have global travel enabled by planes/cruises/cars. The spread is what's killing us with this latest pandemic.
there are other threading options available than C11.
Singledispatch from functools will often work in a lot of situations where you might want to do something like this: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html

This is a cool post from the author, though. I interpret this as more of an exploration of Python under the hood versus being a recommended production solution.

Python certainly could use a facility to do that based on an arbitrary predicate fn versus type comparison, though.

Python is well suited for this.. maybe it is time to throw a PEP in the ring.
US now surpassed Italy in number of Covid-19 cases
Stanford Researchers Develop Ankle Exoskelton that boosts running speed by 10%
It seems to me that the health care system in general is one institution that has shown severe signs of strain in this crisis, and perhaps will need to be rethought along with others.

Interestingly enough, questioning the health of that particular institution is much more taboo than most in this crisis. Given the practical importance of patient faith in the healthcare provider that may be reasonable, but for my money I'd like to be able to try and imagine a better healthcare system in a public forum without getting downvoted for criticizing its current incarnation.
I'd never seen that one. Wow!!
This is a great resource, thanks for putting this together.
If people in 1800s had modern computers we'd be sitting now on ruins of the global nuclear war of 1850 all watching TikTok.
Unexpiring cookies shouldn't be okay either.
But they usually also decrease the severity of the symptoms, even when they don't completely block them. This is almost as important as the full effectiveness as helps decreases death and hospital time.
ProtonVPN is one of the most popular ones out there, and is also listed with 0 trackers.
Is Clojure really “mostly dead”?
If anybody else is wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual
Clusters of villages being turned into major urban centers, connected by high-speed rail, further connected to the rest of the world by air?
Coronavirus is serious. Also, get your flu shot. I don't understand why this is even remotely controversial.
Thank you for your input everyone, a lot of great resources a student like myself appreciate.
API access is through here: https://developer.usajobs.gov/

Good luck!
isn't 4% difference in DNA pretty significant? that's comparable to the genetic difference between a human and a mouse, iirc.
IKEA and Pizza Hut Make Table Inspired by Pizza Box Stands
How to effectively build and manage a remote development team
Thanks :)

My friend spent the last year rewriting it! She is amazing! We went from Ruby on Rails, AWS, and a $800+ a month server bill to paying almost nothing to run it (and with better checking).

We are working on launching a blog for it and she is going to write up a full breakdown of the project. I'll post it to Show HN then.

This is a write up that covers it a bit from how we got featured on CloudFlare last week:
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As for how we're using Cloudflare workers...

The actual frontend website is a fairly tiny Nuxt/VueJS app and that operates in AWS Lambda right now, but we have about an 80% cache rate normally, so Cloudflare is serving most of that anyway. It's on AWS primarily because we have credits with them, plus that is where I started working on it and I had used Lambda in previous projects. At the time we relaunched it early last year, Cloudflare workers was still in beta and not as refined as it is now, especially now that it has better CLI tooling. The only reason the site itself doesn't live in Workers is because deploying JS apps was a bit...rough last year due to lack of tooling but it looks like that has improved significantly and I will probably eventually move the frontend site, too.

The backend portion of the site that checks if a site is down is just a simple HTTP API, which also was first written for Lambda/Node, but I later rewrote it in Cloudflare Workers primarily because I liked that it executed the worker in the edge closest to the visitor automatically, instead of us having to deploy our app in numerous AWS regions. It's a perfect use case for how our site works.

The other way we use Workers is in conjunction with the key/val store service you have. Our site gets a lot of attacks and I made a rate-limiting system that will rate limit and then automatically block abusers that do not relent in the cloudflare firewall via your API. It uses ELK + Elastalert to accomplish that, which gives us a bit more control over how and when we want to rate limit / block than the one in built-in to Cloudflare. I struggled a bit getting these under control with AWS (even with their WAF) and had a fairly frequent events that paged me requiring manual intervention, but now I barely ever get paged for issues on the site, it's been 100% uptime for months.

I'm a huge proponent of serverless if the project fit is right and I've definitely enjoyed working with Cloudflare a lot more than Lambda.
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I think we are entering a stage of the world where particular regions can't have their own esoteric customs/traditions if you want to have a global economy and trade. Actions taken by people around the world affect everyone. Are we going to a future that's just normalized and beige?
I agree that it's terrible, though it can be nice in cases where a package ends up forked— for example allowing Pillow to be a drop-in replacement for PIL.
In HS I built a toy language where it was `foo's size()`, if you want to play even further down the English-like rabbit hole, even trying to stick to BNF-ish CFGs. `'s` is actually a surprisingly unambiguous token in a language without a "char type" and that sticks to double quotes only for strings.
Trivia: Strictly speaking a box that does NAT is not a kind of proxy. Proxies act as the destination end point of one connection, establish a separate connection to another endpoint and forward data between the two separate connections. A NAT device changes IP header information such as the address field and if also doing PAT the port field but doesn't act as the source or destination for connections.
That’s not realistic if you ever go on call. When you’re responsible for the uptime of a service and people’s first line of contact for issues is a slack message, you need to always have it be in a state to interrupt you.

Your personal website is down, btw.
1) Richard Wolfson's _Essential University Physics_ is excellent! It doesn't get lost in math, but also doesn't oversimplify. It's thinner than Halliday & Resnick, e.g. I've read a lot of Classical Mechanics books, and this is my favourite for a solid foundation for university-level physics. The first half (volume) is Mechanics, and the second volume is on electricity and magnetism.

So, that's a typical first-year (two term) course in physics.

After that, do Purcell for Electricity & Magnetism

You'll often get advice, like "you need to learn XYZ math first". Don't listen to this! Just learn the math as you go along -- it's much more efficient. The have to learn X first puts up unnecessary roadblocks and chances to get discouraged. You can always circle back for more elegant treatments once you math up. E.g. learning 4-vectors makes special relativity a lot less ad-hoc and weird seeming. It becomes obvious.

P.S. I was prototyping a subscription app to teach E&M, but started to think of just teaching physics in general. Would you pay something like $15/mo to have a adaptive-learning app/game/personal AL tutor to teach you first & 2nd year physics?
Conversely, is there anything that would sway people like you from neocommunist rhetoric?
Yes, or just shadow them with newer versions and run your own repo.
From 'Yes, Prime Minister,' a comedy show in the UK in the 80s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
I used to skip the flu shot because getting a week home from work every 3-6 years was nice. This year I got
>The reason is to actually to build the so-called "herd immunity" I think. Same thing with antibiotics (no need to give evolutionary "ammunition" to virus and bacteria if we don't need to).

I don't think that's the right comparison. Herd immunity refers to stopping a disease by spreading by making enough of the population immune so it can't spread. It doesn't have anything to do with evolutionary pressures or superbugs, like what you're alluding to with your second sentence.
Doesn't that apply to for-profit hospitals as well? In both cases, there is an incentive to avoid paying for excess capacity.

The cost advantage of a single-payer system is in larger negotiation. A single person has no leverage at all in negotiating with a hospital. An insurance network has some leverage when negotiating with hospitals, but results in user-complexity trying to navigate the in-network and out-of-network agreements. A single-payer has a large amount of leverage when negotiating with hospitals, and can avoid price gouging from manufacturers.
TCM = traditional chinese medicine I presume.

regards, your friendly neighbourhood abbreviation hater.
that's great. i didn't even notice that. automatic upvote
My workflow is:

1. Come across paper pdf on the web.

2. Use Zotero firefox plugin to import it into Zotero. Zotero is able get citation data, and automatically exports it to a bib file.

3. Use emacs helm, which reads the bib file, to cite papers in my documents.

I would have really loved to have this workflow during my Phd, but I was doing everything manually back then. My only complaint is this recent silent change in Zotero, where the exported bib file has entries in alphabetical order, rather than in last-added order. With the last-added order, when I popped open emacs helm, the last added paper would be on top. Now I have to search for it.
Not here in Rochester, NY. Our ICUs aren't full yet, and the county is giving "number hospitalized" and "number in ICU" distinct numbers. Ours are about 50% ICU right now.

https://twitter.com/CountyExecBello/status/12431834845097861...
That’s unfortunate.
I was happy to see the Crisp chat tool in the bottom right hand corner - the folks who make that do a great job. I used it "early on" in the product's life, back in 2016, and really appreciated how responsive they were, etc.
More like BANgolins now amirite
> If you had a button you could press which let you retire immediately, but (with probability P) took the life of some random person in the world, would you press it? With what value of P?

Death is not a problem, everyone dies, nobody knows when they will. Could be someone pressing a button, could be a bus, could be old age. You can die tomorrow. But suffering, that really matters. I wouldn't make someone suffer, but if it's quick painless death... way harder question.

I just really dislike the focus on living rather than focusing on the value of life. I mean this in a pre-pandemic sense. Hearing people talk about fear of death, and yet accept a lifetime of meaninglessness.. just irks me.
In my book (and free github repo) I have a lesson about 3rd-party integration.

https://github.com/kay-is/react-from-zero/blob/master/16-adv...

I used this in a few projects after playing around with wrapper libraries. This gave me the most flexibility.
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