skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I agree with you Jane Street's tech blog and published lecture series are great and probably the best I know of. They make for great advertising to boot. Lecture series like Jane Street's are common in larger trading firms (more than 100-150 headcount) but I haven't seen one of JS' caliber yet.

If you welcome general corporate blogs, I think Google AI's technical blog is quite good. Their frequent publications on distributed computing strike a good balance of academic and practical ideas:

https://ai.googleblog.com

Cloudflare also has one of my favorite more engineering focused blogs.
7 days is the side loading limit I think, so they're regarding these apps as sideloaded? Everything has to go through the App Store as a guess?
How does it compare to Sonic https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic
well, the name works outside of the pandemic and will get lots hits when covid-23 and covid-28 come out ....
Value to whom?
false? the only thing false here is k8s marketing - k8s is never a sane choice, it is insecure, performance sucks and costs companies unbelievable amounts of dough

k8s deserves to die in a fire
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I've noticed terminal rendering performance issues when dumping a lot of text. If that's part of your job, it's important to you. For me it seems to come up once every few years and I've poked around at alternatives.

I've also heard about performance issues with high res, large terminals. It's a lot of pixels to throw at the screen and I'm sure most terminal emulators were written with much smaller screens in mind.
If you allow a precedent to be set it can be very difficult to get the genie back in the bottle...
lol, you are such a fucking loser
First off, great concept! I would like to try this at least once.

But second, is that really true? I’m actually curious. I can’t imagine watching a rented movie in a private residence would be considered a ‘public’ viewing. If that is the case, where do they draw the line? Is it literally only for myself, the one person who purchased the rental? How many other people can be in the room? One, two, five, before the terms of said private viewing license are infringed?

If anyone has any sources where we could read further into the legality of these types of things, it would be interesting to look into.
Having had to work with Unity assets written in JavaScript, I can say they are the worst in both quality and comprehension.

"UnityJS", as you call it, is rife with landmines only discovered at run-time, as one would expect from a typeless language.
k8s posts == spam
Slack passes 12.5M simultaneously connected users
A good reason to get a webcam cover. And Dell even have a webcam privacy slider built-in in their newer models.

IMO this should have been done a long time ago. The next step should be a physical switch for the microphone.
Yes, and 2000 years before that you have the Egyptians, who also had metal swords.

Wikipedia tells me that the earliest artifacts of metal comes from 7000 years ago.
NOAA tsunami website faltered while Hawaii faced potentially destructive threat
How often do you handle them? I like them the size they are because in my experience I only really handle them when I get a new phone. For something I touch less than once a year, I'd rather they be as small as possible so they don't have to bulk up my devices.
Supplements for Coronavirus Probably Won’t Help, and May Harm
There isn't a sub Planck scale. That's the point. You'd need a sub Planck scale in order to reverse the computation.

Chaos theory is math. This is physics showing how the math applies to reality.
that rounding errors can quickly dominate the calculation.
PWA is in fact a corporate born, bred and sponsored definition created to push and promote an _arbitrary_ set of Chrome features. It was an attempt to build momentum towards a vision for the web where browsers can run "open" apps. Unfortunately visions don't die, and thus the term lives on. Sigh.
Figure out break even. Cut costs until you’re there. Do it quickly and decisively and take the absolute best care of your team you can under the circumstances.
I view this as an attack on the web as it stands.

Google wants to create a walled-garden net. Goog-net. All ads, shopping, videos, documents, email, locations, articles flowing through THEIR protocols and THEIR servers and THEIR fiber. No possibility of blocking ads they don't want blocked. No URLs. No Agent strings. No user control. Only user consumption.

If they have to allow some small chump players to have a piece of this cake (a la: "Oh trust us, AMP is an 'open' protocol and anyone can host it. it's not just for our own benefit in the end. Trust us.") in order for the entire population to accept their changes bit by bit, so be it in their eyes. They know we would reject an outright takeover.
Without businesses there are no jobs. I don't understand why people are so outraged about small business and corporate stimulas during this crisis. What exactly is their counter plan?
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> I can’t agree that JavaScript itself is great.

Especially when working in an environment where Quaternions[0] are a core concept and one which often must be manipulated. Never mind JavaScript's inability to encapsulate.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotati...
Ask HN: How do you update multiple disparate databases?
Talked to a CTO of a small bank. He has 4 disparate legacy databases which need to be updated when a mortgage rate changes, which is obviously a problem.

What solutions does the HN community have in dealing with this issue?
What about if you have plenty of cash? How to protect company against monetary uncertainty? Inflation adjusted t-bills?
Higher taxes are not the only economics implications of a Sanders presidency, especially when you look at some of the governments Sanders has praised over his career. A better tax structure is necessary and the easiest thing to do, but I don't trust Sanders to figure that out. Even Warren comes up with a wealth tax instead of just fixing the income and capital gains tax brackets.

Hint: add three more brackets with 4mm+ at 50%, 20mm+ at 65% and 100mm+ at 80% and do the same relative adjustments for capital gains. No need for the government to seize the means of production when you haven't tried the obvious thing. Our current tax brackets are a joke, topping out around 500k when some people make 10,000 times that.
"Scroll" is the name of the company that Mozilla is partnering with, and they actually do the integration with sites to disable their ads, manage subscriptions, and manage payouts. See: https://scroll.com/about

Since Scroll is a separate entity, they can freely make the same extension available on other browsers.

So all the heavy lifting is being done by Scroll. Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) is the "second half" of the offering here named "Firefox Better Web with Scroll". But ETP is just a regular feature of Firefox now. So the real thing that Mozilla is adding here is their size. By attaching their name to it, they legitimize the concept of replacing ads & trackers with subscriptions and payouts determined by engagement not clicks. Though, I might wish they had come up with a catchier name.

This is GREAT! It's something I've wanted for years now! [1][2] Thank you Mozilla, for daring to approach the biggest problem facing human communication this century. I've never heard of Scroll before, so I'll need to do some research, but I'm just happy that someone is trying this again.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9721917
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11622050
Once you clone the repository, you can search locally using Git Grep, Git ls-tree, etc.
ParcPlace’s Smalltalk VMs (PS and HPS) were JIT VMs in the same period (if not a bit earlier).
The page seems to have vanished in the last few hours. (Whups, now it's back).
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Elasticsearch is very memory-intensive, and it's difficult to know exactly how much memory it will actually use, so you just have to throw a lot of RAM at it to avoid OOMing, then monitor it carefully, and hope your query concurrency won't accidentally blow the limits. Understanding why Elasticsearch is caving unpredictably under load is difficult, and GC pausing can be a significant performance sink.
But if one was actively picking up the other while oncoming drivers flashed their lights to warn people, and he drove his motorcycle at an excessive speed through the crosswalk?
It's Apache licenced, so presumably ingest / transit, compute, and storage costs are whatever you normally pay for them.
Hey, don’t be rude, be civil please. Any flu can leave permanent damage or scar tissue to the lungs. SARS did more than others. We don’t know much about coronavirus because it’s happening right now but the assumption was that it could leave some survivors with problems. Why are you so angry? I didn’t downvote you
Can you please update the default keyboard shortcut to change between pointer and pencil.

Ctrl + Opt + Command, commonly known as "mash" are three keys commonly set by devs. In my case used for moving my displays around using SizeUp. Mash + left arrow (move window to left) etc.

Command + Options + some letter would be fine.

It's making the app unusable for pairing right when I want to be able to use it without issue, as you're not affecting just one keyboard shortcut BUT ALL shortcuts that use Mash as a base.

Better yet, option to set keyboard shortcuts, but Im sure that's low on your priorities right now. Or maybe just add.. turn on/off keyboard shortcuts, this would also solve it.

Thx
Rsnapshot is great. Super simple and reliable.

I keep seeing new time machine-esque backup tools and feel like they are re-inventing the wheel in a more complicated way.

Some complexity is acceptable sure, say to encrypt backups for remote storage.

But the rsync hardlink approach used by rsnapshot is super rugged and just works for a majority of workloads.
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In practice, I found docker to be much more brittle than kubernetes, even when kubelet uses docker underneath. K8s minimizes the amount of "features" used from docker, and unlike docker is properly designed for deployment use out of the box (and generally has cleaner architecture, so figuring out server failures tended to be easier for me with k8s than with docker daemon)
> assuming you are open to being locked into the .NET family

Which is not different than being locked into e.g. JVM family, or even being locked into OCaml itself.
There are a variety of these sources.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/07/coronaviru...

https://www.statista.com/chart/21173/hospitalization-icu-adm...
This is a great tool, and very useful. It has great, easy-to-understand data. As a designer, the UI makes it my favorite source for getting recent data on COVID-19. The comparison tools and the customization of turning countries off/on is awesome. Great job, guys!
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1. Companies cannot be lazy if they do not exist anymore.

2. Companies may not care to update software if it gives no revenue anymore. That is not lazy, it is called for-profit. Specially publicly-traded ones that do not care a single bit for the customer.

3. It may not be possible to move to 64-bit without a major rewrite.

4. It may not be possible because dependencies are not 64-bit.

5. Not everyone uses a major engine (I guess you are talking games here?).

6. Even if they do, updating is never trivial and is definitely expensive, specially for games. See reasons 1-4 as well.

In short: no, it is not possible for a myriad reasons. Killing 32-bit support is a very bad move for customers.
Rather than bailout the corporations, bailout the workers who lost their jobs.
This is the best and most recent series of tutorials i’ve seen on integrating D3 into React, and it uses up to date Hooks and React Functional Components:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZ4p-ENjbiPo4WH7KdHj...
Everyone is trapped inside trying to stream HD video and all physical medium has limits. Especially coax. Why does supply and demand surprise anyone? This isn’t a conspiracy.
One solution I find interesting is that the government exchange equity for the bailout and hand it over to the American workers.
A lot of people think of multi-cloud as some kind of arbitrage where you jump quickly between markets. Running applications in cloud environments is a lot more like leasing property. Once you set up there are costs to moving.

The portability argument boils down to saying you are not boxed in. If things get bad enough you can move. This is a big long-term advantage for businesses because it means you can correct mistakes or adjust to changing business conditions. That's what most people who run companies are really looking for.
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As you hint at, unemployment numbers are directly proportional to suicide rates. The effects of shutting down the world are much higher than just missed paychecks and business bankruptcies. You list a few of them.

There must be a cost-benefit analysis done where we find the breakeven point between lives saved by quarantine vs. lives damaged by quarantine side effects.
Well, the ultimate example of "social distancing" were tiny island nations. They got visited by Europeans, caught whatever bugs they brought and now they're all dead.

If you do not train your immune system it'll fail you. When we have some major epidemic with an ugly consequences coming then sure social distancing can help. However taking social distancing as a generic strategy for out future lives I think will lead to a major f.. up.
Ever since that game came out, I've been waiting for something else to come along and scratch the same itch. This was it! Loved it!
Eventually everything will be of, by and for the github so you're probably fine.
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Home-bound users furious as video apps do not sync with televisions
GraphQL also moves the N+1 problem (data fetching being dependent on other data that you are fetching) to the server side where latencies should theoretically be lower.
As much as I like Guix (and like the idea of Nix but find it infuriating to actually work with), they don't solve anything that is covered by kubernetes, except possibly building of container images (as one can equate OCI containers with nix closures).

Where does Nix/Guix manage dynamic binpacking of applications to servers (preferably without a blood sacrifice on the altar of "infinite recursin")?

Where do they handle nicely (de)provisioning and attachment/detachment of special resources, whether those are filesystems, block devices, any kind of special device etc.?

How about integrating various special networking resources like load balancers?

No, NixOps and related do not handle it well, as they need static assignment upfront and can't dynamically adjust as the system runs. Even at my small scale, all those features above are crucial, and k8s let's me not worry about problems most of the time (Rarely we have a black swan, that pretty much always ends up being "not k8s fault that network died or nginx got hung")
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Even if our mind were computational, we could detect if the universe was not.
Homoiconicity of lisp made me go with Guix over NIX. I work with lisp and guile felt much more natural, another reason is guix documentation is really very good.
I've theorized this about sexually transmitted diseases, too. It's even less realistic to imagine compliance, but suppose everyone only had sex with people who were born the same year as them. Any given disease would lose the ability to spread into younger people, and simply fall off the end of the age conveyor-belt.
In my opinion only we ourselves can save ourselves from Google. By using things like AdNauseam and educating everyone and their dog about ad blockers.

I don't think the way to fix ad bullshit is to close down everything, I do think it's in opening everything and educating everyone. That way people actually win, not corps, as it should be.
Might be pretty fun for the code golf stack exchange too!
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I would honestly recommend jqbx.fm instead if you have a spotify premium account. plug.dj goes through constant ownership changes, prolonged site closures, and suffers from over gamification+monetization. JQBX is a much cleaner experience with much better support for mobile / streaming on different devices that are connected to your Spotify account.
TimeMachine underneath is pretty much a fancier rbackup. There are no integrity checks, but there are checks for motherboard serial number, as that's how backups are matched to systems.

That said, a friend of mine had been complaining that TimeMachine backup didn't backup anything of his Homebrew-installed stuff...
I've been using it for a month now and have only seen this happen one night at first, but the past 2 weeks have been very accurate. Might be learning or something?
You raise an interesting point, and one that I have thought about quite often.

In archaeology, there seems to be an assumption that people in the past only ever did things for two reasons: Utility and religion. If an object doesn't seem to have an obvious usefulness, it's assumed that the artifact is of religious nature.

People have not changed much in the last few thousand years, and thins that we find interesting today must surely have been interesting in the past. In your example, why wouldn't a person 1000 years ago consider a replica "ancient thing" just as interesting as we do today?

Just imagine a future archaeologist looking at the modern work with the mindset of current archaeologists? What kind of religious symbolism would they ascribe to a picachu cosplay outfit?
If we have the virus dna, why can't we just have a pcr or similar kit to home test a swab? Someone can make their own pcr for $25 and synthesize significant segments of cov2 for a couple hundred dollars. I don't understand why cov2 testing is so difficult.
> Testing for antibodies is still very important as people continue to shed a viral load post recovery in many cases

Any hard data on how long this is the case?
FWIW, Jane Street is not a hedge fund nor take outside client money.

(Edit: I work at Jane Street.)
This is only possible due to the way that the BEAM VM and its languages are architected; the gc itself is "not the smartest", but it doesn't have to be because there is no shared memory and process boundaries are failure domains.
I'm extremely interested in "cutting AWS costs by 50%". We already downscaled out EC2 and RDS by about 50% by ourselves.

However, I'm really interested in hearing how you negotiate that bill again? Are there free AWS credits? The AWS Support seems really hard to reach
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> 112/200 top U.S. cities have seen internet speeds increase this past week

And no matter how hard we try, half are below the median!
I can understand including the browser and version (to work around bugs that are not detectable with feature detection), the OS, OK I guess there are also a few OS-specific bugs?

What the heck is the CPU architecture good for?
Nonsense.

I made a healthy 6-figures pa in the Mac App Store with zero marketing for 3-4 years when I first got into software. That was about timing and getting a few products right.

Plenty of stories like that. Just like there are plenty of stories where companies, say, had everything locked down but engineering and failed.

I've never met a successful entrepreneur who spoke in absolutes. To a person they've all admitted there's a lot of luck / timing / chaos involved.

I've met failed entrepreneurs with degrees and funding and plans -- people who on paper did everything right.
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Article summary:

- No claims of intentional undercounting.

- Some undercounting likely because testing is reserved for living patients where test results could affect how that patient is treated.

- Some undercounting may be temporary because of lags in test-results / reporting / tallying.
It allows websites to run arbitrary code blobs which interact with a hardware backdoor in your CPU with a higher permission level than the OS. With the multiple exploits that have been found in intel cpus and the Management Engine itself there is no way you should be letting any website do that.
Sure, but a difference of 0.1% of storage to go from 80-bit key to 1024-bit key for 1 Megabit of data (that's 118 bytes out of 128KiB), or 0,00001% for 1Gbit (128MiB) seems not worth raising as a concern.

(I've chosen example numbers just to make calculation trivial)

So I can't ever imagine storage size being the driver for choosing the key size, though from the other threads, it seems that there are algorithms that do have a storage overhead that might be related to key sizes.
NISTer here — We still have a password rotation policy, which I assume you are referring to in reference to [0]. I think they are working on it, but I’m not sure if we set our own password policy or if it’s something that needs to go through Commerce or GSA or similar.

But in fairness to NIST all of their machines have been smartcard auth only for a while now. Internal services are still under a password rotation policy, but you need a smartcard to access any NIST computer, and smartcard or RSA token for remote access to the network.

So in my opinion it could be a lot worse in terms of an actual security risk. (I am not a security researcher, just a random NIST scientist with personal opinions)

[0]: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
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How do they manage the heat at these speeds? I've seen even MicroSD get ouchingly hot.
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Can you link me to a standard? I checked the W3C, and other than the disparate API's used by PWA's I don't see a "PWA standard" anywhere.
I think aiming to be a responsible housewife has been looked down upon by American elites for a while now.
> 4.) Defer payments to vendors. If it's 15 days net pay in 60. Our customers do this all the time.

Not good advice if you think the crunch may last more than 60 days.
That would surprise me greatly. The one example is an ER doc who says there was 3 instead of 1 in a county? What is the implication here, complicit participation of all healthcare workers in a political scheme to undersell deaths while screaming for more resources? Incompetent testing? Poor reporting? We report every death to the medical examiner regardless, this would come up and be strictly tracked, even after the fact if the test results later. Would be nice to have evidence of a discrepancy to go off, otherwise I worry this just spreads fear.