skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were using Alpine Docker images. Every few months the docker build would fail with some random glibc / musl glibc-compat new issue.

The docker file is full of comments like the following:

# libc6-compat needed by outdated grpc-tools
# we get
# sh: node_modules/grpc-tools/bin/protoc: not found
# can be removed if we remove grpc-tools and assume an existing protoc for dev
# i.e. developers would independently intall protoc in order to generate
# grpc-web
# we install separate from the packages above to avoid a failure noticed on
# 2019-11-01
# apk update && apk add protobuf grpc gcompat libc6-compat
# ERROR: unsatisfiable constraints:
# musl-1.1.20-r4:
# breaks: libc6-compat-1.1.24-r0[musl=1.1.24-r0]
# satisfies: musl-utils-1.1.20-r4[musl=1.1.20-r4]
#RUN apk add libc6-compat

Bottom line is that it's awesome to have something lean like Alpine, but that can hardly justify the effort to maintain it. It feels like Linux two decades ago.
Autoscaling depends on requests not limits. Read my explanation on “chatty neighbors” in other thread.
Image Classification fast.ai L1 part1
South Korea stockpiled enough supplies to do mass testing and contact tracing right out of the gate. And they have a functional government and a public that knows when to obey.
I recently contacted the BBC regarding this as I was involved in the curation of a temporary exhibit at The National Museum of Computing.[0]
David Allen, the producer, along with a couple of others involved, were very friendly and keen to see this acknowledged for helping the home computer boom in the UK.
For me personally, I don't think I would be where I am today without these programs.
[0] https://www.tnmoc.org/news-releases/2020/1/21/reliving-brita...
You can have ads without the tracking, just like @andrepd mentioned.
Yeah, no one cares outside of hackernews.
Assuming that this is true, then even moreso you should advocate others get the flu shot to help protect you.

And yes, the flu shot isn't 100% effective. And yes some have bad reactions to certain vaccines. However, I find it extremely unlikely that you got it from the vaccine and instead that you were just very very unlucky at getting influenza. It's a bit of a sharpshooter fallacy to me.

And for those who are vulnerable, then their only protection is herd immunity where everyone else around them is immunized by vaccines.
It might be. But I think the takeaway from "we either let people die from the virus or die from slipping in our economy" should be "let's have an economy that's more robust to disasters."
> Just as the MMR vaccine is less about you contracting measles and more about your spreading measles to more vulnerable populations that are unable to get the vaccine

No, this is false. The MMR vaccine is very much about stopping individual people who get the vaccine from getting measles. Herd immunity follows, and is important, but the primary aim of the vaccination is to prevent measles in the people who are vaccinated.
What good are strict bans, if they are subverted and ignored on a regular basis? China already had a wild animal trade ban after SARS and yet, here we are. The only thing that can solve this, is actual medical education, eradicating this witchcraft traditional medicine...
Because everyone gets the flu shot in EU, or because nobody cares?
People of China, please step up and protest the government to stop the sale of wild animals such as this to prevent future outbreaks and protect humanity from animal-borne illnesses.
It is really beautiful to see a thread consisting of 90% comments downvoted into gray.

https://imgur.com/a/wQBKp4f
And much more effective. We need things that get results with fewer resources. We simply don't have the resources to do it the way a lot of people would like to do it.
Somewhere there is an architect saying "I told you so!" I can almost guarantee the requirement was to handle several hundred requests per day, an architect pointed out if we get deluged then we won't be able to handle it, so maybe they were able to get them to allow for one or two thousand requests per day.

Now of course we don't know what the architecture of this system is and what the deltas in cost would have been to allow this to scale-out more - but I do know that all too often the more robust solution giving you much greater protection and lower cost down the road is often discarded if it costs even just 5%-10% more. Then the day comes when the people making these decisions get caught flat-footed and they try to blame everyone but themselves. It doesn't always happen like this - but it happens a lot.
context: former theoretical physics grad student, dropped out ABD to start a company.

this comment is right on the money on several fronts:

- the Feynman lectures are great after you already understand some of the mechanics of "doing" physics and have some other exposure to the topics, Halliday & Resnick is a better place to start on any one topic

- with infinite time, i'd always follow the approach of learning the math first and then the physics, the book by Boas is pretty good for self study of the minimum necessary math

- there's no real reason to follow a traditional grad school curriculum ala Fowler unless you need to pass quals in a traditional grad school setting

- simulating physical systems on computers is a pretty good exercise, but very time-consuming, avoid if you already spend a lot of time in front of computers

and some thoughts of my own:

- "get a strong foundation in Physics" is a bit too vague to be a useful goal, some examples of potentially better goals: "be able to pass a classical mechanics qual in the allotted time", "be able to write down the standard model and explain it", "be able to grok N papers from the X section of arxiv per week", "be able to write down toy classical field theories and calculate their predictions", ...

- if you are looking to avoid computers, try supplementing your reading with simple experiments either by buying educational kits or by hacking together things

- the books by David Griffiths (esp the E&M one) are awesome

- try to follow curiosity instead of a program: trying to answer "how do superconducting materials work?" for yourself is better than "follow the grad intro to condensed matter that's available online"

- use the physics stackexchange and other forums: asking and answering questions can be very helpful
They are backwards-compatible (which is all you can do of course).
It should be titled, "The Revenge of The Pangolin"
How H-E-B planned for the pandemic
Someone can correct me on this if I am wrong.

Most of the unemployment is people on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of financials. Most of them are in the service sector. The middle of the pack group did not suffer because of this (yet). Whenever this clears the service sector, travel, restaurants, hospitality etc will bounce back very quickly. So all the people that lost their jobs could just get them back and the recovery will be sharp.

However, the kick in the nuts will be if the virus drags on for months. Then it becomes uncertain.
Why do rightwing populist leaders oppose experts?
The moment you offer in-app payment, apple gets a cut. This goes as far as not allowing apps that link to payment outside of the appstore's payment system.

There is a huge number of cordova apps out there. These are webapps inside a native wrapper, to access exactly those features that are crippled in safari. Reliable storage, push notifications, and not much more.
Yeah, I think the title should be changed. It's very misleading.

The VPN industry is all about manufacturing rumors about your opponents.
Discord as well, looks like it's hitting GCP https://twitter.com/hopeseekr/status/1243201607854108673?s=2...
Result shows "6d" (posted 6 days ago?). When I click on "Apply", it takes me to ZipRecruiter and says "Expired: over a month ago. Applications are no longer accepted."
The kernel can't abandon that thread entirely, but it could "detach" it from the process it was part of and arrange for it to clean itself up and disappear if ever it wakes. And so the parent process could get told of the child's death.
Stairway to Heaven has contrary motion in the top voice of the guitar arpeggio, which I consider a really substantial change. They did grab lots of blues songs, occasionally gave some form of credit, otherwise not.

It's an interesting question: blues is mostly delivery, so if you take a concept like 'lemon' or 'leave me' and deliver it in shrieky overwrought British rock star fashion, aren't you rewriting it, perhaps significantly? You can't copyright the pentatonic scale. It'd be like someone copyrighting the monotonic drone and then filing suit against half of EDM. I performed for a livestream recently and used a riff from Plastikman 'Marbles', except that riff is only note-note-rest-note-note-rest repeated infinitely on one note. Part of it is the tone and context, and I wasn't cloning that, just the way the extremely brief three-note chunk cycles over a 4/4 beat. Plagiarism? Plagiarism because I know of 'Marbles' and found it inspiring? What if I picked a simple repeating pulse because I'd heard that in some minimal techno, and intentionally did my own take on that because I'd liked it?
By outdated what I more mean is that I think if the greats of the ~1800 had modern computers they would probably not use mathematics in its current form to study physics. There already has been on transition of this kind. Newton used Geometry to study physics whereas today we use Math which more has its roots in symbolic logic.
Every one of the hosts has a vulnerability. I didn't realize you could click on the names of each of your cores to get additional options for that core.
I believe many are upset over them temporarily blocking the stimulus bill.
After the hospitals in Wuhan were quickly overwhelmed, we apparently thought it wouldn't happen outside China. After the hospitals in Lombardy were overwhelmed, apparently lots of people in the US thought it couldn't happen in New York like it happened in Italy. So I don't think the argument "It can't happen in NJ the way it is happening in NY" is a convincing one, it's just wishful thinking.

The tragic thing is that neither I nor anyone else needs to argue against this ridiculous "worst case" of 880 hospitalizations (that apparently assumes no growth beyond 4402 cases on March 25): all we need to do is wait until later today when the new numbers come out.

If you're looking for on-the-record sources, every ICU bed in Atlanta is full, according to the mayor of Atlanta.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/489374-atlanta-mayo...

That's with 1,387 confirmed cases Wednesday, up from 1,097 confirmed cases Tuesday.
My wife is an ER nurse. One of her coworkers recently went through a nasty divorce. Yesterday her estranged husband filed paperwork to get full custody of their child on the grounds that her mother (an ER nurse) could not provide a safe environment due to exposure to CoVID19.
People outside of the healthcare system don't realize that even in non-pandemic times, ERs and hospitals are some of the most dangerous places to spend your time. Doctors won't say that publicly, but the ones I worked with all had that sentiment.
This boils down to the reality that governments can take measures to mitigate the economic damage caused by an idled labor force (direct payments to workers), but can do very little to mitigate the economic damage caused by a sick or dying labor force.
You should give it a try.

When comparing it to Git{Hub,Lab}, it misses an issue board, pull requests and many other features in favor of different approaches. It might feel limited because of it.

That being said, it's brilliantly clean, simple and fast.

For just hosing a repo online it's perfect.
Because after tens of thousands of years we are no closer to the utopian ideal as the cavemen were. Also because you can't cooperate for a mate.
In the US, health authorities encourage the entire population to get an annual flu shot. My understanding is that most European health authorities are more skeptical.
Yes. This is my position.
中国人不需要吃这样的动物。我们一起会改变中国。
I switched to it recently as a refugee from Bitbucket since it supports Mercurial. No complaints so far, though admittedly my needs are pretty simple (just a few private repos).
Designing the Waymo Driver – SXSW Virtual Conference
>> Can/do supervisors poll for this situation?

Sounds like a hack.
There's actually a really nice documentary on Netflix about pangolins. It's mostly a black market for being able to eat them. They are mostly being poached/smuggled/etc.
Thank you for your feedback. We will write a script to filter expired jobs.
Why are Scandinavians the way they are?
Investors Still Writing Checks During the Coronavirus Crisis
That is a fair question, in my opinion. Depending on the topic, the New York Times isn't always reputable.
WHO reverses advice on Ibuprofen and Covid-19
I got a 503 from Google Classroom, but it seems intermittent.
I made sure to get my flu shot very early last year. I only wished the shot cover every possible viruses.
I don't know what you can see, but the full title shows that it's about websites

and their info section shows that they only analyzed websites. "In order to analyze these websites..."

i get what you mean, but i think that's a bit more about reading comprehension than what they've been doing.
I think China banned consumption of all wildlife meat recently. Set me straight if this isn't correct. Governments banning trade and consumption of wildlife meat would be a great outcome but for that the note had to reach only the policy makers.
As long as linear execution time is acceptable, okay. Give me a couple million dollars and I'll have it to you in a week.
"The hospitalisations of young people all so far appear to be exceptional cases."

This is just wrong. The numbers are changing all the time, but as of a few days ago, 38% of hospitalized coronavirus patients in the US were between 20 and 54.
Curious why you guys didn’t got with IPFS by default? Is it related to how you wanted to incentivize backups by default, or was there a more technical reason?
From your first paragraph it sounds more like it’s saying that early careers have a low skill ceiling and so it’s hard to demonstrate high skill compared with the pack. Once you get further in your career and have access to exceptionally hard problems, it’s then possible to demonstrate exceptional skill.
Google ads is insanely slow.
People called Romane they go the 'ouse?
I think this is a good list. I think if you are interested in physics just for intellectual breadth, and not to become a physicist, it makes sense to focus on "big picture" ideas. Analytical mechanics and Noether's theorem are appealing big picture ideas.
And how will you get feedback on being throttled other than shit is randomly failing e.g connection timeouts?
The US's rate per capita is still only about 20% Italy's. For now.
Haven't noticed issues here in Switzerland
I heard they lifted the ban after a year - is that incorrect?
Emphasis should be put on the fact that it's both an endangered and internationally protected specie (from which China is a signatory [1]). It had nothing to do in those markets in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITES
Works fine here (Denmark)
their entire business model depends on privacy and security. it's like playing with matches
I didn't say same system, I said same time.

As in, trying to run one program with both.
Setjmp/Longjmp Exception Handling with C
No, you are getting it backwards. The states predated the general government. The states delegated powers to the general government.
I'm a current PhD student in physics. Here's a bit of an oddball idea, that might be complementary. Read, sit with, and understand this paper:
https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.106.620

I say this because
-- It motivates and sketches statistical mechanics, which I expect is the most interesting topic to you given your specialty.
-- It elegantly makes a point that I think is very important about physics: that physics is _almost entirely_ mathematical. The remainder is just about constraining the math to reflect the possibilities that seem to be actually realizable in nature.

Of course there's a lot more to physics than is described here, and you'll want to study the particular phenomena that emerge -- that's the whole point. But I think that given your background, setting this perspective will allow you to ask the right questions when you approach a new topic, and allow you to go out of the normal order.

One more note about the nature of doing/understanding physics: a huge part of it is taking the right limit. Reasonably complicated systems described in the language of some theory are generally intractable to analyze exactly, or to draw general conclusions from, so you need to throw something away to make progress. Figuring out the right limit is the same as figuring out what details you can throw away while preserving the core phenomenon you're interested in.
I can make the nginx instance do that.

Was just thinking for "simplest possible deployment" it would be nice to be able to have clients hit the meili instance basically directly to take maximum advantage of the speed.

Note that I'm not saying "this should be priority 1" or anything, I'm already thinking about how to configure nginx to handle the hmac crap if I try meili out :)
County-by-county social distancing live scoreboard
Looks like issues are primarily on the east coast: https://downdetector.com/status/google/map/

No issues with any google services thus far for me in Denver.
How can you do without the modem? Which ubiquity product is that?
Here's my anecdote - I had to drive my wife to the emergency department yesterday because she was having trouble breathing, and the ambulance service was busy. She's been sick for 2 weeks. 47 years of age. Only for the fact my sister-in-law is staying with us since the lockdown began I'd have had to leave my 2 panicked kids (14 and 11) alone in the house

Wife didn't need to be ventilated, and is home and seems to be improving. We're all still pretty on edge though. We live in Ireland FWIW
land lords are bad. shelter is a human right, not an investment.

"landlords are indignant because they thought they'd get all the perks of investing in a vital resource and none of the moral imperatives"
This twitter thread had some good info from NYC:

https://twitter.com/ArmstrongDrew/status/1242648015959187456

> Another common trend -- 95% of people who have died so far had an underlying health condition ... BUT

> Keep in mind those underlying health conditions include things like diabetes -- which affects about 10% of the U.S. population. Oh, and hypertension -- 29% of adults. And cancer, heart disease, kidney diseae, etc. That's a LOT of people. Not some tiny, sick fragment.

-e- Direct Source ("Daily Syndromic and Case Data Update"):
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-main.page
Yes, hospitals actively breed antibiotic resistant infections. They are a primary source.

This is another point I have made in prior discussions that people didn't like hearing.
Show HN: Curl wrapper around RubyGems.org API
Hangouts seems to be down altogether
The Changing World Order – Ray Dalio
Check out the details of the small business forgivable loan package just passed by the Senate. I think they took some actions to help sole proprietors and self-employed people also.
Wouldaspent – Support small businesses in SF
Gmail down, search working, youtube working in Cincinnati ohio.
The fact that we're more likely to listen to a politician (or a media figure) rather than someone who has spent the better portion of four decades studying a topic is one of the most existential threats we face.

We need to figure out a way to get through the tribal mentality. Right now, a significant plurality (if not an actual majority) of people are more concerned about their side winning points than about effectively dealing with a crisis.
Negative effects of LocalStorage expiry for 1Password
Meanwhile their status page[0] is all green. The less they publish on their status page the more nines they preserve.

[0] https://status.cloud.google.com/

Edit: status page not entirely green now, took them 25 minutes to acknowledge.
It isn't the virus that is sanitizing people of their humanity. They lost their humanity a long time ago, and the virus is simply revealing their nature.
Hopefully people who skip the flu shot because it makes them a little sore realize that increasing herd immunity SAVES THE LIVES OF OTHERS. I'll take a day of sore arm to save a life.
Michael Osterholm called this out during his episode on the Joe Rogan podcast back on 3/10, presumably from prior research - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw&t=1180
I've seen in the past postings for 5 years experience with Windows server 2016. And this was in 2016.

Typically they wave that error away with an, "oh we just want someone with 5 years of any Windows Server experience, we just happen to use 2016." Quite the double standard.
I think the guide is ok, but I actually believe some of the things that are in the graduate section should be in the undergraduate section.

One thing that is important: Everything starts with classical mechanics. Newtownian phsyics is the base for everything and you will never advance without knowing this really well. That said, in my undergrad mechanics class in my first term as a physics student, we started out with classical Newtonian mechanics and then quickly moved on to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of classical mechanics. I don't see why that should be something reserved for graduate classes.

Further, since you're not a math or physics student, I assume you will quickly reach the limits of your math education. Things that are required for properly understanding the theoretical foundations even just mechanics are:

- n-dimensional calculus (think Tensors, Gradients, divergences, Laplacians, etc.)

- complex numbers and functions

- basic knowledge of differential equations and ways to solve them

- things like Fourier transforms and things like Vector spaces, groups and symmetries

- basic statistics knowledge of course

- linear algebra

Second, like some people have already mentioned: Just reading a book will not teach you physics. Actually solving the problem in whatever resources you're using will, though. They take much, much longer than just reading a book, however.
SnapEase – A tool for bulk tweaking and processing of images
Can you explain the differences?
Hack the Crisis – Sweden a.k.a. National Covid-19 Hackathon
I have been diagnosed by a doctor as probably having flu, but they don't always test, and I have had pneumonia, albeit not from influenza. But please understand you're preaching to the choir on vaccinations. I'm just saying that telling people something they actually experienced just isn't real just because it's not infectious is equally incorrect and counterproductive.
> MP4s aren’t as supported as GIFs.

That's barely true for H.264 and it is a much worse format in every other way. Effective quality is higher with modern video formats because the lower data rates afford higher resolutions and higher frame rates. Even the LICEcap demos show that.

It's a neat tool, the user interface is really cool, but it would be better in a different format.
Look at Italy; look at Spain. These are not unreasonable extrapolations.
There is such a thing as Software Engineers, but most developers are not that.
"Chinese people don't need to eat these kinds of animals. Together we can change China"

* Still learning Mandarin.
Unfounded certainty is a byproduct of abject stupidity