skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"GCP has excellent support with fast SLA-timed responses from support personnel"

You have to be kidding me. Their payed support is terrible. We recently had a problem with occasional timeouts contacting the GCE container registry which causes our autoscaling groups to sometimes fail to start new nodes.

I shit you not but this one of the selected support answers (after many prior back and forth). Obviously, this issue is still ongoing after many days.

"Thank you for your information.

I have searched our internal documentation about any service outage and any network issues open recently, And so far I can’t find any explanation of your issue.

However, I found the following instruction [1] where describe how to run a local copy of the Google Docker Registry.

In addition, also attached the docs where described about how to set up a private Docker registry [2].

If above instruction does not work then please let me know and I will be happy to help you.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27243294/unable-to-pull-...
[2] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...

Seriously? Run a private registry? We don't run a private registry because we don't want to deal with that stuff.
I was a bit worried what decisions were going to be made, but Abe and the IOC Chief have made the right decision.

The games are about celebrating the health of every country - winning has a tremendous amount of pride to go with it for an entire nation and its prosperity.

Celebrating health during corona would cause the virus to spread faster and decrease the health of all participants and viewers.

Looking forward to an exciting 2021 games!
I've been loving the comfort of working from home (childless), but I suspect you're right that it's not going well for most people. Most of my zoom meetings are disrupted by shrieks of needy children and a shocking number of cellphone ringing/notifications.
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To support rapid growth, we’re looking for full time employees to work on several exciting new projects and development of our industry leading technology and product. We seek strong full-stack engineers and scientists who want to have a real-world impact to join our elite team in our central London office. We also have internships available for the summer.

Full stack:

- comfortable building clean RESTful APIs (e.g. with Spring-boot)

- experienced in at least one statically typed high-level language (e.g. Java, C# or C++)
- know at least one common front-end framework (Angular 2+, React, Vue, etc.)

- able to design systems with distributed front-end/back-end logic (microservices, Docker, AWS/GCE)

- familiar with one scripting language (Python, bash, etc.)

- experience in (or passion for) UI, UX design or data visualisation is a plus.

Research Engineers/Scientists:

- love working on challenging, complex real-world problems and high performance applications (Java, AWS) for real business users.

- experience solving hard optimisation (e.g. NP-hard scheduling) problems .

Get in touch at hiring@minimaxlabs.com for more details
Per the linked article, the London civilian populace was widely equipped with gas masks. A chemical weapon would thus cause fewer fatalities than you might expect.

A 1,000 lb bomb falling on an apartment building, however, would definitely have a significant death toll.

Keep in mind that the total civilian casualty count on the British side during the Battle of Britain was 43k dead and 139k wounded, all from conventional explosives. Those are substantial figures. It's not clear how chemical weapons could have ever remotely killed as many, because after the first few successful attacks the gas masks would be emphasized even more, and everyone would be carrying theirs with them everywhere they went, ready to don at a moment's notice. As the article points out, you can armor even a civilian populace against chemical weapons relatively easily, but you can't armor a city against high explosives.
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ML studies using CT scans to predict Covid aren't useful
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Idk - the company I work for was totally prepared for this and the IT systems are absolutely OK.

Exceptions: weekly full-house meeting of 400 employees isn’t supported by hangouts so you can only participate in read-only mode

The only issue I personally have is my WFH broadband is horrible.

Basically what you’re saying is that “the company I work for does a horrible job of having it’s systems available for remote work”. But then it would also be true of other things
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- Full Stack Engineer https://jobs.lever.co/issuu/e80e3f6e-4e2a-4e63-b6df-61f16d4b...
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Must be qualified for a EU work permit.
UK government was open about that. (It spread faster than anticipated though, so was dialled back and we're now in 'lockdown'.)
Will the media ever understand the difference between "we underestimate tail risks all the time" and "we have been underestimating this specific tail risk"?
> It's really just like emacs/vi I think.

Do you mean that one of these techniques is a major mode, and the other is hard to quit?
Apple scraps curbs on online buyers of iPhones amid virus outbreak
It's the height of demagoguery to support your argument with evidence that you freely admit doesn't exist. Do you have any evidence that Amazon is anywhere near as dangerous as a crowded locked room with no fire safety machinery?
Firstly, this isn't about SARS-COV-2. It is about the more broad concept of viral classification.

Secondly, journal articles, yes, I agree. And a lot of government funding should be pouring into research to be published and that needs to be available to help us fight this.

Journalism articles though are more tricky. Because they need to pay their employees, the journalists, and cover their costs. Given that 90% is all news now (my guess) is about covid-19, then there would be significantly less revenue for journalism if it said it couldn't paywall articles covid-19 articles. Additionally, advertising revenue is likely to collapse as a second order effect of the recession this crisis is bringing. Finally, there is a lot of competition for news, so any major news story has multiple free articles about it that will be accessible to all (with ads of course).

The highest quality journalism is currently coming from two places: paywalled websites and NPR. NPR is free and fulfills a comparable market position as BBC. That is your "public option". But not allowing paywalls would kill the quality reporting of the nytimes and Washington Post and turn them into CNN / Fox / MSNBC.
"Utilize Cloudflare’s CDN to serve files"
How to generate traffic to your blog that is less than 6 months old
> Their pipeline is very full, agreed I wouldn't want to make a prediction there.

German here. I assume the recent hard lockdowns will work out pretty much for us... I'm more worried about the US, this is gonna be a mass die-off, and the Trump government's handling of the issue is... let's say abysmal.
I'm not sure is deprecated.
If you're free (paid by your own data), Hangout is the 'consumer' version.
Meet is the paid platform, with more business oriented features.
Obviously regardless of all the above, there will be permanent changes because of this, even if it wasn’t all voluntary and we can return to normal. I think we can be certain some things will change with respect to how people work as well as other behavior. For example, do we need all those extraneous stimuluses. Surely some people will overdo it in both directions. It all remains to be seen.
I agree. If anything business travel and in office time will increase - we’re gonna realize how great it is to be in the same room.
Labs Euthanize Mice in Response to Coronavirus
I really agree with you so not asking in a snarky way, but which other document formats do you have in mind? Something like HTML?
Topic-based versioning architecture for Scalable AI Application
Highly recommend this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNJ3fydeao

Rich Harris is an excellent speaker and it's worth seeing how Svelte approaches some things
LinearAlgebra is mainly julia code. It does indeed call out to BLAS for many operations, but a huge amount of it is native Julia.
I am currently typing this on my mid-2013 11" Macbook Air and it's still going strong. It's too bad that Apple is not making anymore 11" laptops anymore because I think it's exactly what OP wants. I had the same exact criteria when looking for a laptop and I work with similar technologies, but I've also done Android/Kotlin (using Android Studio) and C#/.NET (using full Visual Studio) with this laptop without any problems. I also play games via Steam (mostly indie games, not big AAA ones) on it. I have a bag¹ (side bag/satchel) that it fits perfectly into and makes it easy to carry around. It's been great taking this on vacation with me, super light.

I am looking to upgrade though and the new 2020 Air does look good but with the modifications I want brings the price close to $1699 and I'm not ready to spend that yet

¹ https://www.scaramangashop.co.uk/mini-leather-satchel-11-inc... <-- bought it from this company but they don't make my exact bag anymore, but this is the closest except mine is the "portrait mode" of this

edit: Forgot to add that I've also used Xcode on this in the past but I am not on Catalina yet so I have not touched Xcode in a while.
Hello, I'm Ankur! I've spent the last 8 years building frontend applications with a variety of tech, from modern-day React to jQuery and DOM soup in the Olden Days.

While the bulk of my professional experience is with front-end development, I'm currently trying to transition into a role that involves primarily working with Rust.

I've spent the last three months on a sabbatical where I've been experimenting with the language and contributing patches to an open-source GUI toolkit called Druid (https://github.com/xi-editor/druid), still in the early stages of development.

I'm most interested in a role where I can build web APIs and network services with Rust, but I'm open to other roles as well.

While my experience with Rust is limited, I'm a quick learner who can rapidly come up to speed with unfamiliar concepts and new codebases. I've spent a large chunk of my career working remotely, so I'm very good at written communication and working asynchronously.

Oh, and I'm always open to having a chat with other Rust users, even if you're not hiring :)

Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust (but open to JavaScript/TypeScript/React)

Resume/CV: https://ankursethi.in/work/

Email: contact@ankursethi.in

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ankurs3thi
How would better governance help? This is a once in 50 years event minimum and losing all your custom for three months is enough to wipe out the accumulated profit of a decade for all but the most well capitalized businesses, with no shareholders clamoring “Where are my goddamned dividends?” It’s not like you can take insure for a risk like this either. There’s a substantial risk your insurance company and their reinsurance company will go bust.
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The tube (subway) has been at half capacity for weeks.

If you're seeing photos of it being busy 'around the news and social media', it's either false, or TfL has overdone it in reducing service and so caused usual levels of crowding.

Excerpts from most recent service update email:

> Ridership on our services has fallen dramatically over the last few weeks.

> Some Tube stations that do not interchange with other lines will have to close until further notice

> From today, Friday 20 March, the Waterloo & City line will be closed and there will be no Night Tube or Night Overground services until further notice. Emirates Air Line will have a reduced service until 20:00 today

> From tomorrow, Saturday 21 March, Emirates Air Line will be closed until further notice

> From Monday 23 March, we will also gradually reduce other services across the TfL network

More here: https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/coronavirus-covid-
Why would I pay Amazon's workers for not delivering on managements promise? The entrepreneur should pay. Management should pay the workers to work, and only take money from customers for services delivered as promised. If Prime prices go up after current contracts expire, that's fine. Jeff Bezos doesn't need my charity.
It generally seems like evolution is better described by continuums, not discrete entities: if one gene is changed among thousands, is the result worthy of a new name? Just like with languages vs dialects—those are the same thing, but on different scale.

Edit: to clarify, I'm aware of the criterion of sexual incompatibility, and that genes don't usually work one-by-one, but still—slapping an arbitrary Latin-ish name on each of the millions of, say, fly species seems of dubious use, at least to an outsider.
Type 1 Font Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
You should really remove all these negative keywords in your URL: https://meet.jit.si/NorthernLiesImprisonExclusively

"lies" "imprison" ...
The Coronavirus Has Postponed the 2020 Olympics to Next Year
My vary first post had, given 3 years to prepare as a benchmark for people to make the jump. Anyone can get training. I don’t question how long it takes to reach the top, but if people can get there at all. The games are selecting for reflexes and spatial awareness so I don’t even question if their more likely to make it than the general population.

My only question is what percentage could make the jump if given time and training. And if we’re already giving people time and training as a basic assumption then the skills they already had are irrelevant for that question.
What's stopping you from getting out of the house? Cycle before work, and after work.
A collaborative spreadsheet of “Coronavirus stocks” opportunities
As others have pointed out, 8" is probably a bit too small, and you'll have to make a painful tradeoff between performance vs. battery life as well. I'd go with something in the 10-11" range. There are plenty of tablets that you can get keyboard covers for, but those are IMO poor choices due to lack of a real OS supporting real apps (though they can be great as "terminals" for real systems elsewhere).

The two I'd consider would be the Microsoft Surface Go or the Asus Chromebook Flip C101. One is Intel (but Windows). The other is real Linux underneath (but ARM). Both are pretty cheap and seem to do well on most measures considering their size.
It's funny how these devices keep appearing but never gain a real foothold. My first thought was the HP 95LX.
CMS (US Gov) | Product Managers | Woodlawn, MD | Onsite | https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/561960700

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the federal government is hiring product managers (I believe its the first time that CMS has posted with this position title).

It's in WOODLAWN, MARYLAND, but some of the multiple openings at CMS won't require in office work most days of the week. The role would work for people that are relatively junior (with at least one year of professional experience), but there's also room for someone senior to make a big mark at an agency that processes the 1.5 billion/day in Medicare payments, in addition to supporting Medicaid, CHIP, and many other services.
It's not a software problem: packet round trips are just too slow for singing. A good ping time in gaming is 15ms to the gaming server, achievable with good internet and a wired connection. Double that, because both you and the other singer needs to talk to the central server and we're at 30ms. Then if your system is using 128-sample buffers at 44.1kHz (tight but doable) there's ~3ms each for ADC on your end, DAC on their end, ADC on their end, and DAC on your end, which adds another 12ms. This best case is a total of 42ms, which is still too high.

Singing rounds does work, though, and https://www.cockos.com/ninjam/ is an open source tool for it. You could also imagine some sort of bucket brigade approach for larger groups (https://www.jefftk.com/p/series-singing) but I don't know of any implementations.

Really old style circuit switched landlines get down to the speed of electricity in copper (~0.7c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor#Typical_veloci...) over the distance (to your local exchange and then to your neighbor) which would be fast enough if you lived nearby (c is l ms per mile). But today it's all packet switched which adds latency in exchange for much higher capacity.
At that size/portability, there's really only one serious contender on the market today.
The FxTec Pro 1 is the first proper android phone with a slide-out keyboard since the Motorola Photon Q in 2012, and it's also probably the best sliding keyboard I've ever used, I could quite comfortably use it for quickly writing small programs as OP describes.

https://www.fxtec.com/product/fxtec-pro1/

Discounting Blackberries, with their locked down bootloaders and weird android emulation layers.
That sounds like a great idea, could you please elaborate further?

Which instance and pricing are you using?

My use case is media work when abroad. So 16Gb RAM, as much disk space as possible, around 8h a day.
Recommend: Gingkoapp
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It's two samples of 15. 13/15 and 14/15 successes. Much too small to draw any conclusions. It's even noted a larger sample size is needed
its trying to communicate to an (optionally started) osc-bridge-script. (you can download this at shaderoo.org (see help section) and start it manually on your localhost to be able to communicate to an OSC-device to adjust parameters - e.g for VJ'ing)
If the worst thing you can say about a job is that you might lose it, maybe it's a good job -- probably the best job. They aren't trapped in a farm in a company town getting ripped off by the company store where they can't leave for 3months. They aren't visa hostages. It seems your criticism of Amazon should be leveled at every single other employer offering worse.
The markets are liquid, the government is making sure of that. They might not have the pricing that companies think they deserve, but such is life.
Another (possibly simpler) approach is to set project specific settings in the `.git/config` file, right in the project directory. As for the OP's example, in:

`~/src/github.com/work_org/.git/config`

without modifying the root `~/.gitconfig` file.
I’d buy that!
Wow thanks for the comprehensive reply, I wasn't expecting that! I can't wait to see more from you. Best of luck - it seems a good time to be working with drones.
Nice list! We are tinkering with an idea [1] to provide metrics (revenue, newsletter subscribers, tracked time …) , graphs for all of that, but also a little bit of background story too.

Why we think it’s valuable to see all of this:

1. It’s a huge motivation for others to get something started.
2. I alway try to learn from other numbers to see what works and what doesn’t work. Though most things depend on the type of thing you build, I feel like I learned a ton from those open pages already.
3. For indie developers trust is key. Funny enough some people trust big corporations more than single developers. That’s one way to build trust.
4. People want to see indie developer succeed and that’s a great way to let them follow your journey.

Keep on going, great work!

[1] https://floatie.app
> or go back to office and put up with everything related to a multi-hour commute - infection risk in public transport, gas/insurance costs, endless traffic jams, hours lost each day that can be spent with partner/s and children instead, or simply with sleep

This one unfortunately (because, choice inertia)
Except that top-flight militaries are ready for them. All of our armored vehicles are already air-tight, and hazmat suits are widely available throughout the military. It doesn't help the chemical weapon's case that the countermeasures to it fall into the broad category of Nuclear/Biological/Chemical, all of which need roughly the same countermeasures (airtight vehicles, gas masks, hazmat suits). Militaries are still equipped and ready for these kinds of attacks.
You might as well go for vt at that point. It's the total global market. The USA is a massive portion of this anways, so it's just extra diversification.
Coronavirus Survives 17 Days on Surfaces on the Diamond Princess Cruise
I have a Surface go, and I use to write scratch ideas in F#/C# Typescript in visual stuidio code. I then punt them via git to my main dev box later. It's a really nice way of keeping ideas flowing with out letting them go flat, or forgetting about them.
You will need to purchase a keyboard (Doesn't have to be a microsoft one), but not a stylus. Battery life is about 6 hours for me.
It's small, fits under myarm, in my bag. I can code on it, look up recipies on it, messaging, Spotify etc.

I like compact devices, I miss 11" form factor netbooks Samsung NP netbooks, great for sticking in my bag and just using/code with.
I doubt that. It’s more likely to depend on the viral load you’re exposed to. Being a nurse with inadequate PPE intubating someone and being exposed to large quantities of COVID once will give the virus a head start, whereas running through a cough cloud and just barely getting enough to infect you five times over the course of an hour will give your immune system a head start.
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Data: https://covid19.colorado.gov/sites/covid19/files/COVID%20-%2...

This is a summary of all cases in Colorado. All of our state's (small handful of) fatalities have been among residents aged 60 and over. The hospitalization rate is ~5% or so for adults in the 30-50 year old range, and it rises to about 20% in the elderly age groups.

Caveats: with only 600 cases to draw inferences from, there's a little less than one digit of precision in those estimates. Testing availability is also still somewhat limited in the state with a little more than a 10% positive rate.
Reasonably okay. I get out 2-3 times a day with mask/glove for a few minutes to let my dog out, and catch some fresh air (all while practicing social distancing).

I try to follow a routine daily - get 10 minutes of meditation in, at least 25-30 minutes of workout in my tiny room. Learning to play guitar as well, now that I have some more time back.

Focusing on my work though...That's a whole different story - that's gone to shit.
This is the reason I have only bought the bidet attachments. One day, I will run power to my toilet area and start with a bidet seat, then eventually I will get the full toilet.
Whether and how tech companies will be impacted depends on who your market is - we have some market segments calling in, asking for help, asking for more services, while other market segments are refusing calls from sales people, saying they are not going to even entertain discussions during this crisis. It all depends on which markets you serve.
Yes, about 2 year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Germany_(Weimar...
I bought the basic Luxe non-heated bidet attachment from Amazon for $35 last year. They are closer to $70 now, but you don’t need to spend hundreds.
Amazon jobs require a strong bladder and God bladder management. They retain people with strong bladders and good bladder management. If they couldn't fill the roles with strong bladder employees, they'd have to relax that requirement.
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From vodka and gin to hand sanitizer