skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, indeed, I had worked on a small project of mine and needed a really efficient and cheap way to serve terabytes of data to a lot of users, fast. I was poor and young (15 years old).

I re-created (I haven't invented this, obviously) a way to split the video file into keyframe segments and mark down the start byte offsets of the keyframes, and then I could "virtually" split the file for streaming, so that a user wouldn't 1) buffer the whole file, 2) need to have the whole file to share to others (P2P in the browser), 3) need to restart the stream and sharing if the connection broke.

This could've obviously been done with HLS or DASH, but that required remuxing the files and keeping lots of them. I instead remuxed files into TS container, indexed all the files, made JSON manifests, and had a network of reverse proxy "CDN" servers on continents that would pull the files from a few central servers, cache the small virtual chunks, which were created by reading byte offsets from the file and serving it as a "file" with PHP.

In the end, the project collapsed due to non-technical issues, and me loosing interest and doing more legitimate and useful things. I then resold the technology a few times to some people who wanted the similar thing but wouldn't have the issues I had, then I moved on and forgot it all.

It's history, it's made my career in some way, at least from my side, it was innovative for it's time, and made me nerdy-cool in school, both with other kids and the school staff.

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If someone wants to know a bit more, read this: https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/21/9585984/browser-popcorn-... (It's cringe, I was young and stupid, LOL)
> Searle might retort that the Room knows facts about the world.

IIRC, Searle's claims to show that the instruction book could not be written, and therefore the room could not exist, so he presumably does not attribute any properties or capabilities to it.
The brown ones are the cheapest properties just next to the go square. Installments in the sense that if you cant pay x amount in 1 go, you can pay after 3-4 rounds, or take it out of rent. Just some offline modification we made to play the game.
Today's BBC is as connected to Monty Python as Fox News today is to season 4 of the Simpsons. Probably less.
When you use ffmpeg with macOS, you can save a lot of reencoding time (a magnitude of time for H.264) by using videotoolbox, the Apple supplied harware acceleration backend.
France, Germany, Canada, and even US states/counties had to complain about this "dumping" from the federal US administration and also from american private buyers. The topic is getting inflamatory in Europe.
Tell HN: Happy 404 Day
"Slavery was no more pervasive in Rome than in is today" is a truly bizarre hill to die on.
TrueNAS (was FreeNAS) is pretty decent:

https://www.ixsystems.com/truenas

Also, it's Open Source.
It also needs per capita figures, which is dramatically more important than absolute figures, unless everyone happens to know the population figures of each country by memory.

You end up missing critical data points like the per 100k population mortality rates (from Friday morning):

New York 12, Louisiana 6.6, New Jersey 6, Michigan 4.2, Washington 3.5, Connecticut 3.1, Massachusetts 2.2, Colorado 1.7, Georgia 1.67, Nevada 1.27, Illinois 1.23, Delaware 1.2, Pennsylvania 0.7, Ohio 0.7, Florida 0.68, Kentucky 0.68, Alabama 0.65, South Carolina 0.6, Wisconsin 0.53, California 0.5, Oregon 0.5, Maine 0.5, Idaho 0.5, Virginia 0.48, Arizona 0.45, Kansas 0.44, New Hampshire 0.36, Iowa 0.34, New Mexico 0.33, Minnesota 0.32, Nebraska 0.32, Missouri 0.31, Texas 0.24, North Carolina 0.15, Hawaii 0.14

Italy 23, Spain 22, Belgium 8.8, France 8, the Netherlands 7.8, Switzerland 6.2, UK 4.5, Sweden 3, Denmark 2.1, Ireland 2, Portugal 2, Austria 1.8, Germany 1.3, Norway 0.9, Canada 0.37, Finland 0.34, Australia 0.11, New Zealand ~0

Most of the US is seeing very low per capita mortality rates and no surge in cases. You wouldn't know that by the headlines though.
All these people predicting cataclysmic change because of the Coronavirus are missing the fact that this all happened multiple times already, including barely a century before. The Spanish Flu went and wiped ~4% of the world population, including the young, right after civilization spent the last 4 years shooting at each other in trenches. The result of all this? America and Europe experienced an age of economic prosperity known as the Roaring Twenties, with any radical government changes attributed to war debt over anything the flu did
That is cool. Wish I had the hardware chops though.

I'll have to take a sw approach like so - https://askubuntu.com/questions/136942/extend-desktop-to-mon...
As a controls engineer, I’ve pointed people towards that series of posts more than once. Great explanations.
This must be a gutwrenching choice for persons who have dedicated their professional lives to helping others be well.

Lately I've seen numerous stories about health workers being demied PPE usage by administrators, or U.S. residents being told by government officials that masks weren't helpful to the general public.

Those stories seemed to be one sided; the only justifications from the other side seemed to be in the form of quotes from press releases, not interviews discussing their reasons.

Anyone know of articles that offer some balance?
Same reason you pay for fire service even if you don’t burn your house down. It’s a public service, available to you if you want it.
> Like the Guardian, they never deserved their reputation and have gotten tremendously worse in the last decades.

Thanks for the comment. As someone from outside the UK I know very little about the BBC. Could you elaborate on your views regarding The Guardian?
"The most important choice in life is who your parents are."
Association of Sleep-Disordered Breathing with Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers
ITU has been china's puppet for years. Fenghuo(Fiberhome) start this Y.2770 crap named "Requirements for Deep Packet Inspection in Next Generation Networks" back in 2012.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57557347-38/u.n-summit-vot...

> Because Y.2770 is confidential, many details remain opaque. But a document (PDF) posted by a Korean standards body describes how network operators will be able to identify "embedded digital watermarks in MP3 data," discover "copyright protected audio content," find "Jabber messages with Spanish text," or "identify uploading BitTorrent users." Jabber is also known as XMPP, an instant messaging protocol.
I started with Motorola 68000 assembly in the late 70's early 80's (hobbyist not old enough at that time to work) while their where frameworks of sorts back then there really was not what we have to day. I can assure you though when you built stuff of enough abstraction you ended up with your own frameworks that helped you build new applications. Patterns of the way you do things and tried and true methods. Packaged up into reusable libraries.

You see it in every discipline, game programmers use game engines which are frameworks almost nobody is writing their engine from scratch because they don't need frameworks.

Enterprise programmers have saleforce, SAP etc. Hardly anyone is writing an ERP from scratch.

It's not that a lot of people that use frameworks don't know how to go it alone, I certainly do and most of the caliber of developers I work with certainly do. It's just that we realize we will, in the end, end up with something that looks like a framework. Because there was a day and time when that's exactly what we did and it was common practice. But that practice came with the additional overhead of training people on an internal framework, as well as maintaining documentation and the codebase of said custom framework.

It was more common and more acceptable before the internet and opensource that a developer or team would roll their own framework, create their own patterns and procedures and it was a very common practice to roll your own framework. But their where commercially available frameworks at the time for things like computer graphics, UI etc. Frameworks are a natural evolution of code reuse. The difference is today people tend to agree on third party frameworks as a standard way to develop as opposed to internally develop them. IN a effort to externalize, training, support and documentation of the framework.

I understand your frustration with developers conflating a simple page with SPA's. I only build large SPA applications I am not a web page developer, but if all I needed to do was provide a landing page, I would not use a framework because 90% of the deliverable is HTML and CSS. It's a lot of overhead to bring in something like React and the NPM build ecosystem because you have one tiny component of an otherwise static page.
Try the Sony WHX line. Got a pair last fall and they are great.
Dear Customers
nobody will notice the difference between 4:00 minutes and 4:30 minutes, is the difference of stopping on a red light or finding it in green.
Flying Down Empty Roads in Ferrari’s F8 Tributo
Yeah, but now people are spoofing the phone number to get other links to appear in the same conversation as the COVID-19 message.
> I'll never forget how the BBC "covered" the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - and David Kelly.

Are you serious? There was a whole government-sponsored inquiry over this that kneecapped the BBC basically because it had covered the intelligence that led up to the war critically.
Dev Productivity Is Way Down
Yeah, looks like they are doing weird stuff to load the actual content, not sure what that is about, maybe loading stuff dynamically from GitHub or something?

Looking at the source of the page, they are using some JS library called markdeep that seems to render the content, so if you don't have JS activated, it won't work. Similarly, overzealous or misconfigured adblockers would probably make it not work as well.
Top-100 of peer-reviewed Covid-19 research, sortable by citations, IF and more
Former [UK] Supreme Court Justice: ‘This is what a police state is like’
Polish e-Dowód management tool violates OpenSC LGPL license
https://archive.vn/aQzKP

https://dnyuz.com/2020/03/27/china-and-huawei-propose-reinve...
And the reason you’d leave it out is because a PI controller is guaranteed to be stable with positive gains. Throw the D term in there and you have to start checking pole positions to make sure your system doesn’t blow up.
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As far as i know, k8s stackdriver logs are included.

We create a few hundred gb k8s logs per month and we also run grafana/prometheus but i would highly doubt that running grafana/prometheus/loki etc. yourself is cheaper then using stackdriver.
BBC today is not just BBC News.
Corbyn was smeared as an anti-semite with "evidence" every bit as good as Vice's "evidence" on Stallman.

BoJo had his gaffes covered with kid gloves, the BBC going so far as to pass off obviously fake footage to make him look competent. Despite his talk of "watermelon smiles" and "picaninnies", or the horror Tory policies had inflicted on Britain's vulnerable, or the srious, international lies Johnson was caught in, the BBC gushed on how affable and charming his persona was.

I would love a quantitative analysis, but I don't need one to see the truth. They can't be trusted much more than the Daily Mail or The Sun.
Interesting. Was it like that in original Transport Tycoon? I haven't played much OpenTTD, most of my experience is with TT, and I remember planes being very weak early game. Later on when you get big airports and fast jets they become viable, so do ships, but early game, it's all about coal and iron trains.
The Most Dangerous Cheese
A bit slow when searching, also there seems to be an issue with umlaut letters. But keep it up!
Oh please, give me a break here. Browsers are essential to modern life. Anyone from a young student to an old person about to retire needs them to survive these days, so yeah I want them to regulate this.

> What’s going to happen when someone decides that browsers must have content restrictions?

You're joking right? You think the government can't do that already? Ok,let's see the logic here , let's say that's the case. What happens when Google decides to have content restrictions? Nothing! It's not regulated activity so it falls under Google's freedom of speech,they can restrict any content they want. However b.s. it might be, in theory at least you have some control over your government. Google does what is in their best business interest, you are the product, advertisers are their customers.

Your illusion of freedom is to have your own government as far away as possible. Would you be comfortable if General Motors or Ford decided the safety standard or road-readiness of cars? Certainly you can't have government take away your freedoms by telling them what is safe and acceptable for the general public to use? What if the government decides to have them restrict cars from driving to certain places!
Yeah, I think you can't cache gmaps data, each user has to request at the time of use, "to ensure the freshness of the data".

But I'm not sure if it applies to this use case.
I made a script to do this a while back for cutting intros off of videos.

https://gist.github.com/iwalton3/c034ec5a942466206fbee859184...

The notable function that does video cuts without a full re-encode is shortenVideo, which cuts a certain number of seconds off the beginning of a video. I've never had any issues with it, but I only used it on h264 mp4 files.
Trespasser was raw unadulterated ambition. As a teenager when it landed over twenty years ago, I eagerly anticipated its release only to let down by the tedium of the end result. But you could sense the future in it.

At the time, I couldn't help but dream of a day when virtual reality headsets would arrive to make such a game feasible and fun. In took a while, but I'd vouch that the recent game Boneworks (https://store.steampowered.com/app/823500/BONEWORKS/) is a contemporary reincarnation of Trespasser.

My take on this sort of physics-based game design now? it's feasible, if not quite fun. Yet.

Side note: Seamus Blackley, the producer of Trespasser, went on to become a key player in the creation of the XBox gaming console.
The Controversy Surrounding the Internet Archive’s Emergency Library
Yes. Have you ever read a NIST standard?
the analogy seems fine to me, if a bit anthropocentric.

every living organism has some way of perpetuating itself, either by growing indefinitely or by making copies of itself. there's no reason "why", other than that organisms that can't do this get filtered out very early in the game. this implies having some sort of "strategy" for traveling up the energy gradient.

short of somehow evolving the biological capability to fuse/split atoms, all the usable energy on earth comes from the sun. so the first link in the chain has to be something like photosynthesis, where you collect and store energy directly from the sun (ie, "building a house"). but in doing this, you change the gradient, creating an opportunity for other organisms take your stored energy for themselves. in some sense, it's much "easier" for a rabbit to eat a plant in one minute than it was for the plant to collect all that energy over its entire life. there's only so much solar radiation per square meter, which limits a plants energy budget. a rabbit can eat many plants in a day, effectively multiplying the area of the solar radiation it can capture (and spend on acquiring even more). but then the rabbit creates an opportunity for a predator to harvest its stored energy and the cycle continues...

it seems like you're maybe asking "why can't all life just cooperate"? this would probably look like a planet full of plants (or a similar lifeform at a different scale). the problem is that this leaves a huge opening for the first "defector"; it's an unstable equilibrium. life does not evolve to leave opportunities on the table.
FTR, There is simple Covid-19 plot utility for Ukraine data, but could be used for any other data set.[0]

[0] https://github.com/marianpetruk/covid19_Ukraine
There's also the historical issue that the ITU championed OSI, while the IETF eventually formed around IP. OSI was a plan-everything, top-down-control, international government system, which reflects the ITU's own structure. It's hard to get involved in the ITU. Anyone can join the IETF.

OSI's remnants are basically the concept of a 7-layer stack and the X.5yy standards that became certificate formats and, drastically simplified, LDAP.
Nice you to ask this question and think about how to be as considerate as you can.

Some other thoughts:

- Find the most minimal, least expensive (for you and them both) way to get the data you're looking for. Sometimes you can iterate through search results pages and get all you need from there in bulk, rather than iterating through detail pages one at at a time.

- Even if they don't have an official/documented API, they may very likely have internal JSON routes, or RSS feeds that you can consume directly, which may be easier for them to accommodate.

- Pay attention to response times. If you get your results back in 50ms, it probably was trivially easy for them and you can request a bunch without troubling them too much. On the other hand, if responses are taking 5s to come back, then be gentle. If you are using internal undocumented APIs you may find that you get faster/cheaper cached results if you stick to the same sets of parameters as the site is using on its own (e.g., when the site's front end makes AJAX calls)
Yeah. Mapbox is getting there but I don't think they have the same volume of users contributing traffic data as Google does.
I like the assumption made while the bus is between two stops but that could be very inaccurate in a geography like Mumbai. I have seen your posters at one of the metro stations and assume that you operate in the city. I feel the biggest choke point in the city is the number of signals - around the metro stations - and hence the uncertainties around timing before and after crossing the signal. Traveling in a cab, this is where Google maps timing fails too by about 5-10 minutes. Not a big deal as a customer, just a mildly interesting titbit in my daily travel (before Corona)

One thing to look at given you would have everyday data is to see if there is a pattern (if not already did it). Then you can suggest commuters to take the bus now and save commute time v taking after 15 mins.
Probably but I’d still prefer a link to a www.sba.gov page that links to this form.
Hi Mike, your service and interface remind me Exploding Topics [https://explodingtopics.com/].

Known as Trennd before and launched here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20478339

I noticed you have a related searches section with amazon queries and youtube queries.

Do you plan to display accounts/pages ranking the best for these queries?
Actually there is now a silence unknown caller options if you have an up to date iOS
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT207099
I'm not sure I do have suggestions for such resources sadly :( If anyone has any please drop them here!
Hey, yeah, it's probably overload from HN. Thanks for the feedback!
The Economist has a good baseline for charts.

The New York Times has some stunning data visualizations (from the UI/UX perspective), see e.g. "You Draw It" series:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/15/us/politics/y...
I think I read about it in one Mitnik's books years ago.

Basically, if you hang up your landline, it doesn't sever the connection.
Rats come out of hiding as lockdowns eliminate urban trash
Why is it good? JSX is just a declarative syntax for creating DOM elements (usually), and in practice it works really well.
Are you able to share which other sources?
A MacBook Air Review at the Worst Possible Time
The wrong kind of “do things that don’t scale”
The food is a good example - you could buy handmade quilts at a surprisingly cheap rate, but you could not buy fresh Lychee from Asia at any price. You could buy an encyclopedia, but couldn't buy a single Google search. A Roman emperor could wear a handcrafted sword of the finest exotic steel, but could not get a single AK-47 in his army.
Amount of 'smart sounding' and trigger words that are shoveled into this block of cra..text to semi-insult people is the exact reason I'm reading HN and practically nothing else online.
The fantastic book[1] The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality by Branko Milanovic points out that the 3 most-important correlated determinants of financial success in life are, in order:

1. Geography (which country you're born in)

2. Parents' finances

3. Your gender

These 3 explain the vast majority of the variance in income between people. Knowing these 3 facts about a person allows you to predict their income with high accuracy (small 90% confidence interval).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Haves-Have-Nots-Idiosyncratic-History...
Zoom StayHome Apple I Birthday (April 11): how computers work with Apple I exmpl
France did this to the UK

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8137039/French-bord...

USA did this to France -

US buyers waving wads of cash managed to wrest control of a consignment of masks as it was about to be dispatched from China to one of the worst-hit coronavirus areas of France, according to two French officials.

The masks were on a plane at Shanghai airport that was ready to take off when the US buyers turned up and offered three times what their French counterparts were paying.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/global-battle-...

Lots of stories in the new wild west over bits of paper that should cost nothing.
Now I can't help seeing the potential of the lever as a mechanism for a DIY suicide booth. Not the cheapest method in material or effort, though—if one wishes to ensure the efficacy.

Not sure it's a bug, though: I think I've experienced a variety of ‘stepping on a rake’-style effects back in the day, of differing severity.
I’m not sure this is the right place, but... I see a potential subtle bug there too: it doesn’t seem at first glance that the classes get added in the same order as they’re specified in the virtual element? If I made div.bar and then changed it to div.foo.bar, properties of .foo could override properties of .bar because it looks like it would end up with classList [“bar”, “foo”] instead of [“foo”, “bar”]? Maybe?

Edit: please don’t take this as criticism. I love the project and think it’s awesome! That’s why I took the time to read through the source and grok it!
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I have a friend who runs a company which genetically engineers cells to make chemicals for a living. This doesn't seem like 2040-era science fiction.

Indeed, I'm not sure it's out-of-scope for 2020-era technology.
Yes, until mass immunization happens, I think it'd be consistent with an increasing number of deaths.

Social isolation/quarantine measures would also possibly take more time to take effect for reducing new confirmed cases/deaths.
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