skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not so much that you need to have your own, its just much more complicated to do it in the cloud. When you have to be able to prove by audit that only US persons are authorized to access the datacenter and that only US persons have accessed the datacenter then you need a provider willing to do that as well as contracts, policies, and procedures. It all needs to be audit-able and evidence based. If you need to do these things in the cloud then you need to do them in-house too. Which means that you already do the basics in-house making it attractive to do things in-house.

Take Confluence for example, if I use the cloud version I can't store any files there or have any information about certain projects. But I can run the same Confluence in-house and then we can share project details. As you point out, its not always that easy.
I did my PhD in controls too, and I’d pretty much agree with all of that. There is a ton of really heavy math flying around with little to show for it. If your system is anything beyond weakly nonlinear, you are basically screwd. The best and effectively only tool we have otherwise was invented over a 100 years ago by lyapunov. And using it requires, I’m not joking, nearly divine inspiration.
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Thx. Had a quick look..

At $199/month I think it’s too steep to be a drop in replacement. That said it seems a full webinar & marketing platform so maybe worth it for some.

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That will probably be solved by the new pip resolver within the next few months.
In addition, there is a modern GCC-based toolchain for classic MacOS:

https://github.com/autc04/Retro68
It doesn't have to. But it can. This is an example of that.
You need
1. Dedicated room
2. Good setup - monitor, standing desk, ergonomic chair

I wfh and yeah there are times when I will work from the backyard in the summer, or by the pool, or from the living room with the TV on when am super bored. But the majority of the work is done from the home office.
C/C++ implemented custom protocols, no webrtc... What explains these security and compatibility compromises?
show proof or bullshit
That is amazing!

I hope you can share the toolchain that lets you convert from one to the other so seamlessly?
Can’t WebRTC support peer-to-peer video calls without running the stream through a server? I have vague recollection that it can but am not particularly familiar with the protocol.
We are both over and underestimating -- in that, we're counting deaths that would have happened anyway as COVID deaths, and missing COVID-caused deaths as well.

The net result is most likely an underestimate (as the article describes -- the situation in Northern Italy pretty much assures this must be the case, at least there)

Examples of overestimate: So, the first COVID "caused" death in Pennsylvania was a fellow in Allentown who fell and hit his head. He died of head trauma. He had been diagnosed with COVID. He was counted as the first COVID death in the state. There are certainly hundreds of cases like this, where someone died with COVID but clearly not from COVID.

On the other hand, the underestimate: Everywhere that is having COVID problems is also having unseasonably high "pneumonia and influenza" death rates. (In the U.S., for example, we're running about 0.5 above seasonal baseline (that is to say, about 1 in 200 deaths "too many" are being caused by "pneumonia or influenza") as of 2 weeks ago.

In Northern Italy, as the article points out, all-cause mortality suggests that almost half of the COVID deaths are going recorded as non-COVID. This will surely include COVID-influenced non-disease deaths (like someone who dies of a car crash or heart attack that would have survived, except that the healthcare system is swamped and they got no treatment -- apparently the ambulance system is sufficiently overstretched that if you're over 85, the ambulance just won't come for you at all) Those aren't COVID deaths, and they aren't counted -- but they're deaths that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

It's all a tangled mess.

We're also definitely terribly underestimating the number of COVID cases. It is certainly the fact that, in hard-hit areas, we're detecting less than 1 case in 3. Quite possibly worse even than 1 in 10. (but we won't know for sure for a long time, if we ever do).

The WSJ article covering the same ground cited experts estimating the true number of cases as anywhere from about 400,000 to 6,000,000.
The fact that it's fake is the funny part. Because hardware geeks love latching on to rumors so hard that they feel personally hurt if a thing is fake. I love it.
The petrodollar will keep the USD strong no matter how much "money printing" is done. The money "exported" to purchase goods represents the value that America gets to extract from the world from it's hegemony. We'll be fine.
Reminds me of these similar projects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Stanley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascal_Flatts
Think of the poor engineers working to roll out some form of legit end-to-end protocol while this blows up in management's face. Godspeed.
You could also get a headset instead of yelling at your built-in mic. As a 100% remote employee, even before Covid, the coworkers with headsets are much easier to understand, and have less background/foreground noise.

As a headset user myself, no one ever asks me to repeat myself, notices when I type, or hears anything not within an inch of my mouth. Plus, I've got a physical mute switch for instant, unambiguous mute, as-needed.
Unless you are super cash strapped you can get a second monitor, mouse and keyboard + some basic chair and desk for I'm guessing 300$ if you are resourceful. Buying used is risky now otherwise you could probably get even cheaper
Animate stack on react-router-native
A easy-to-use graphic animation framework for flutter
I love that the library is using its "copyright superpowers" here. I know not everyone approves, but keep in mind that this is just one more way in which this organization has improved the lives of many thousands of people. I was looking through my favorites the other day and it's just incredible how much value is being delivered at archive.org even prior to this move.

Big thanks to IA, I will be donating again this year as usual, and I hope others will also.
China is hiding the extent and nature of its “debt-trap” diplomacy
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It is not just pointless for others. For some, it is harmful.

"Fuck this" is not an attack on the author's intent. it's a valid reaction to how it lands for some readers. If the pressure is nonexistent for you, great! But people other than you are also reading it.
I don't know about India. I practiced architecture in the US for more than a decade, am still professionally licensed, and came into the AEC industry in 1989. In the US, the "near zero dollar" market is reasonably well served by engineers with established relationships with contractors, architects, owners, and building officials. It's not uncompetitive.

Or rather, the many many local "near zero dollar" markets are generally served and somewhat competitive. There are MEP's already on the ground pretty much anywhere there is work. That's also the case with the national "near zero dollar" market and everywhere in between.

Which is not to say that what you are doing won't work. But it's probably going to be high touch sales and not self service. Too much money at stake in construction. Too many problems that occur during the process from inherent complexity, misunderstanding, and human fallibility. When things go bad, relationships make the difference.

In the US, you're not up against costs. You're up against relationships. Relationships developed over many projects and many years. Low cost probably won't buy you arm's length.

Good luck.
Conda has problems but generally it is pretty incredible. It was way more useful before python wheels were everywhere tho. It’s still amazing and you can install so many non python related things with it. Mad props to conda-forge too.
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I heard New York is having such a large problem is because they waited and shut down their state two weeks after New York and California shut down their states. If you remember correctly, Seattle started with the largest number of cases, but since they did a great job at containing it, the COVID-19 case growth has been linear but not exponential allowing many other big cities to surpass it.
Wow, you're right. I tried again just now and it worked fine. In the past I tried for some time to get this setup working and was never able to do it. I don't know what I was doing wrong.
How come Korea had it under control so quickly, "given" that China "obviouly" "conceled" the information?

Blame blame blame...more blame
The Zoom CEO and founder is chinese. He was refused a Visa to the US (8 times!).

It's not inspiring, it's scary.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-18/u-s-refus...
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Damning to Zoom, but possibly at least as damning to macOS.

where said code can piggy-back off Zoom’s (mic and camera) access
Very true. There's a second order reduction in deaths, too. The huge reduction in vehicle traffic leads to far fewer car accidents [0]. The temporary closure of polluting industries improves air quality. Working out the overall impact of this thing will be quite a challenge indeed.

[0] A pretty extreme example is here in Vietnam where I'm "sheltering in place" -- normally an average of two people a day die in traffic accidents in Saigon alone. Traffic has been reduced so much (although there isn't a strict lockdown) that it's apparently down to one person in two weeks. Meanwhile, Covid-19 hasn't directly killed anyone in the whole country (according to official figures).
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In my personal experience, extensions written in C don't necessarily compile at first attempt because the dependency management there is even worse. May be it fails with a missing openssl or readline library and I have to go find whatever OS specific thingy I need to do to recover.
There are some real issues with implementing revokable capabilities on UNIX and Unix Like operating systems.

For example, access to a file. Lets say you have a capability that grants file access. One can open the file and read and write to it when you have the capability. The file descriptor can be made to refuse access when the capability is revoked -- cutting off reads and writes, you'll really need a new error code for this as no others really explain what happened. However, this isn't enough, on UNIX systems that support mmap() your "access" capability now needs to be intertwined into the paging system, every page or mapping now has to be capability marked and checked. Paging is asynchronous, what happens when the capability is revoked? Is there now a hole in the address space of the process? How on earth do you communicate that to a process that might have pointer references into the mapped data? Which software programming language could support this? What happens when the process if forked? Does this duplicate the capability or not?

Similar problems exist with shared memory and semaphores -- revoking an associated capability could deadlock a system.

In my opinion, in order to make a system useable, a programmer or user must be able to build a mental model of how things work. Capabilities and resources suddenly disappearing is a challenging environment to work in.

Just look at all the issues / problems that plague pluggable devices.
Would a republican-heavy Supreme Court agree?
Ok this looks good.

Open-source web conferencing system.

Focussed around “students” and “teachers”.

But seems to have the needed features; including ability to unlock a session and share a URL for access.

Intro video on host features here:
https://bigbluebutton.org/teachers/

As it’s open source I think this means it needs to be self hosted. Not sure on usual expect video experience as you’re relying on own smaller infrastructure but do get back full privacy I imagine.
Signal used to not care much about call quality, I'm glad to see a massive cash infusion is turning that around!
If you're interested in this perspective, EUROMOMO[0] is worth keeping an eye on. It's the all-cause mortality monitoring data that Europe has collected on a per-country and per-age-group basis for a decade or so, for the purpose of early detection of increased mortality due to e.g. a bad flu season. There is some time lag in the data (probably more than usual right now in Italy/Spain) but increased mortality should show up within a few weeks there.

[0] http://euromomo.eu/
Good, maybe they'll learn a thing or two about how to build reliable space vehicles.
The way these video meeting services work is the participants all connect to the service's servers. Each participant sends their video feed to the server, which sends it on to the other participants in the meeting.

It's that server that wants to be able to dynamically downgrade outgoing feeds based on the bandwidth between it and the meeting participants, which can vary from participant to participant.

Alice, for example, might be on a symmetric gig fiber connection with consistent and low latency. Her client can send a high resolution feed to the server. Bob might have no trouble with receiving that, but Carol might be on slower, less stable connection, and need a lower resolution version.

If you aren't trying to do E2E encryption, you can handle this by having the server deal with taking the high resolution feed from Alice and generating a low resolution feed and then sending the other participants whichever is the best version they can handle. That works because without E2E encryption the server actually has access to the video, so it can do things like resample and re-encode.

If you are using E2E though then the only parties that should have access to the video itself are the meeting participants. The server should not have access to the video except in encrypted form.

The problem then is how to encode and encrypt a video stream in such a way that a server that is copying that stream between a sender and one or more recipients can alter a copy of the stream in such a way as to reduce the resolution even though it does not have access to unencrypted video?
Sarcasm critique: I think a quote would make it clearer:

> > iCloud isn't some separate entity from iMessage. It's all Apple.

> Got any sources for that? Sounds a lot like FUD.
However, the distancing measures are also having unanticipated positive effects: traffic and workplace accidents are way down, and reports from Japan indicate that incidence of regular (non-COVID) flu are far below usual levels.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-sees-silver-lining-to-cor...
To answer my own question: Yes, WebRTC supports peer-to-peer video calls but does require a “signaling server” to help establish and close the peer-to-peer connection. [1]

[1]: https://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/webrtc/basics/ "Getting Started With WebRTC"
This will obviously be studied for years but I imagine plotting taking "total deaths in region X for time period Y - total deaths in region X given comparable previous time period Y" will give a pretty good estimate of the complete effect of Covid. It won't be able to pinpoint individual cases but it seems like a very simple and unbiased way of getting the complete delta in deaths due to Covid.
> It combines both simulators into a single simulation and allows the simulation to run NES roms (albeit at roughly 1/1000th of the speed of a real NES)

What is this emulator doing that causes it to emulate so slowly? Even if it's doing perfect emulation, are modern processors still so slow that they can't emulate a couple 35-year-old processors at something closer to real time?
I will as soon as the indentation technology has been worked out, and the API stabilized and a documentation framework has been completed, targeting 4/1/21.
Partisanship is so 1990.

There is only one party, the Property party, with two wings: Democrat and Republican. - Gore Vidal

Tribal bikeshedding about flavors of lying, corrupt sociopaths and their particular brands of chicanery is the surest way to remain divided-and-conquered and ignore the 800 lbs. gorilla in the room: calcified, entrenched corruption that has ubiquitously surrounded and infiltrated the political, economic, judicial and mainstream media systems such that idealistic reforms from within are tilting at windmills while waiting for Godot. It doesn't matter which flavor of party does what, they serve the same masters; the only differences are the theatrical renditions of pseudo-democracy. Voting, petitions, "antiestablishment" candidates, and other ostensible but weak measures are futile to restore power and public administration to work for the people. It is imperative that any actual, successful revolution separate church and state and wealth corruption as a prime directive to prevent a painful relapse.
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I've had a lot of dogs, and dog ownership isn't a new thing to me. That said, the last dog I got was during a break between jobs that I ended up extending. I watched videos on Youtube to train her with (Thanks, Zak George) and worked with her in ways that I've never done with another pet and wow, this is easily the best dog I've ever had.

The very early bits were the usual stuff. Kennel training is sad, so I made it a little easier by sleeping on a palette next to the kennel, with my hand through the cage for contact. Two or three nights of that, and I've never had another kennel problem again. Teaching a dog to sit (the right way) takes about 5 minutes if you do it right, and another couple of weeks of periodic reinforcement. Teaching a dog to sit when she's excited you just got home? That takes longer.

I'm rambling, but the point I was trying to get to is that I won't ever get another dog again unless I have at least a couple of months to devote to that initial training. Forming that bond, building those habits, it's made me realize how much of a disservice I've done to every other dog I've ever had that I've gotten and then left to go to work.

For the folks who've adopted new dogs in this, I almost hope that we're self-sequestered for long enough that their dogs get better than what I've historically given mine, but either way, a well trained pup can brighten every day they're around, and I'm happy to see the trend of what I hope is responsible pet adoption.
This is just wrong, this disease was not some mystery three weeks ago and implying that the Amazon managers just learned of the dangers last weekend is absurd.