skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The "we need to keep load on providers nearly even for business/political reasons" constraint is fairly unique.

Where did that constraint come from? Did I miss it in the article? Their initial approach, after all, had all of their load going to a single provider.
You don't have to use Google Play Store. You can sideload .apk's or use alternative platforms. There's nothing like that on iOS.
It’s also not strategic or necessary.
From the Readme:

> The countries have been grouped according to regions defined by the World Health Organization.

And, yeah, they’re a bit weird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_regions
Since anybody who says no seems to be taking a karma hit, the only answers you are going to get will be yes.
For bookmarks I use my own webapp called Kyselo, which I also use for writing my diary. See https://github.com/severak/kyselo

It has simple Wordpress-like tagcloud. Fulltext search is currently not implemented at frontend, but I have adminer instance on it and I can search in it.
From some time in the 1950s or early 1960s to a few years ago, the US consumed more oil than it produced. I am going to guess that for more than half of that time, it produced less than half of the oil it consumed.

Then US companies figured out how to profit from extracting from shale oil deposits (by fracking).
Do you feel the same about the Internet? Just not worth it, cause there's a heap of junk you can access if you go out of your way to access it?
I cannot praise the UI design on gov.uk more. It is a beacon of light in this dark age of web UI usability and I am not at all surprised that they have a coherent design system.
As long as they will last, sounds like some of the stockpiled masks were rotten...
It is really hard to estimate because it isn't quite apples to apples. With Aurora we pay for what we use, not what we provision. We used to have some big write spikes for about 5 minutes each hour and so had to massively over-provision IOPS. With Aurora we just pay for the IOPs we use on those spikes.

Right now, on a multiple of the traffic we had before we moved to Aurora we are paying less than half what we used to for IO.
Well, having a few websites of my own, I really do think that point 1 is the worst. I can't filter bots that disguise as users from my access logs, and they actually hurt my work (i.e. figuring out what people read).

Totally agree with the rest though. Maybe adapt the "large delay" of 1 second to the kind of website I'm scraping though.

Thanks for your feedback!
I wouldn't call it "hidden", it's public knowledge. It needs to be filled however because oil is so cheap.

And for the keyboard nay-sayers that are typing on a keyboard made of ABS, walking their down on a nylon leash, holding their iPhone in a TPU case, drinking from a polycarbonate reusable water bottle, wondering how we're going to refine steel for wind turbines, oil is an incredible useful substance.

Let's learn from the N95 mask shortage. It's incredibly important to have national stockpiles to decouple ourselves from the events in the world (like the one happening now).
I literally fight this battle with my kid every day. That word is the new "like".
How are you ever supposed to add any experimental features to a browser, then?
why would now, while we're in the midst of a public health crisis and the ensuing economic turmoil, be a good time to radically change our energy infrastructure to something that still has a higher unit cost?

I can obviously see that, politically, now is a good opportunity to push agendas that would otherwise not be accepted, but does that really make it a good time overall?
Cool, didn't know about this. Thanks!
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Why use any new & upcoming tool when an older, more popular tool inevitably has more community support and third-party components?
Thanks for those links. To me, only the 2nd link there is outright "evil" though.
Mediocre work, lame headline.
How do you "make one keep" for each project? Separate Google accounts?
Absolutely beautifully put. Cars and suburbia are destructive:

"Few people can prepare themselves for the degree to which Americans have, in the last half-century or so, taken this entire corpus of human experience and thrown it completely into the trash, with the exception of a few older cities–not the places where the majority of Americans live. What has replaced it is a surreal moonscape. For those accustomed to the traditional urban civilisation, the primary question in America is: where do I go? What do I do? Looking around leads to an intangible but intense realisation of emptiness. "
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this might sound like nonsense but i keep a small list of titles im really interested in and just search HN.
Yeah that's a must do, but I think most websites don't even bother making a robots.txt beyond "please index us, google". However that wouldn't necessarily mean they're happy about someone vacuuming their whole website in a few days.
Making an invertible function out of non-invertible parts
I have been using US keyboard layouts for more than 20 years. You can get them relatively easily from German online retailers, even for notebooks. I've been working with Lenovo/Thinkpad hardware for 15 years now and eventually found the US variant for each model (also because Lenovo gives exact part numbers for each variant). I also own several external Thinkpad keyboards with this layout. The only problem is that you often can't configure them when you first buy the main unit. Therefore I have a stack of German keyboards lying around here :)
With billions confined to homes, which living arrangements are most common?
The global spread pretty clearly happened before China locked down in late January.

Singapore starts screening inbound travelers January 3:

https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/precautionary...

China locks down epicenter of Wuhan outbreak January 23:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-who-idUSKBN1...

The initial response in China was to try to cover it up, only after it was out of control did they start locking things down.
Random thought but I think it’s funny how about 40 years ago, people would write about their tricks to save program memory usage. Now, people are talking about how to shave costs of doing API calls.
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http://www.oecd.org/els/family/LMF2_6_Time_spent_travelling_...
Instead of requiring that, a better alternative is: You can still use software that doesn't comply, and commercial organizations can write software that doesn't comply, but then they can't call it a compliant web browser program. (This way, the user is properly informed what it is.) This way, it won't stop anyone's freedom to do something, especially that of the user (who might or might not also be a programmer).

But I think WWW is too messy and complicated. Better is to not require a web browser at all, if it can be avoided. (There is also gopher, telnet, postal mail, etc, depending what you need. The web pages can still be provided as an option, of course.)
That's great advice! Especially the one about response times. I didn't think of that, and will integrate it in my sleep timer :)
nvAlt on Mac for plain text notes synced in a Dropbox folder, iOS with 1Writer (excellent IMO) for mobile, plain old vim with those notes on Linux.

And pinboard.
My apologies, I was mis-remembering. Dr. Li Wenliang was arrested, questioned, and officially reprimanded for warning about the Corona virus outbreak. Looking now, I don't see that he was actually thrown in jail.

That being said, it does still speak to the point of the Chinese government and their attempts to control the narrative. At least for me, that makes me start from a point of distrust over anything they say.
To be precise, it was never banned. It was regulated. So every export had to approved. And an export regulation is something different from seizing products outside the US, which were produced outside the US. It is also something different from rerouting ships to be able to seize their cargo.
>the developers can be protectionist of their skills and careers as developers on the Apple platform.

Legally, no, they cannot. Apple owns 100% of the platform and the developers own 0%. I would not bank on this changing any time soon.
I'm a lot more motivated to do data science on topics I actually care about :) Unfortunately those topics (or websites, in this case) don't expose ready-made databases or csv files.
Is there a particular reason why, judging from the graphs, the rate suddenly drops every 6 minutes or so? Batching or something like it?
Yeah the real confusion for me is why even bother looking at anything other than these actual existing SAR-2 antibodies.

"Hey these SARS-1 antibodies 'almost' work"

Meanwhile there's literally a ton of antibodies out there that work well.
What scares me with Keep is that there is no access to the notes beside the app.

I am a GSuite user so it would be nicely integrated with my workflow but I am afraid they will close it someday and I will lose them.

Their refusal to add an API is weird as well.
Yes. But just like various items in demand now ( ventilators, masks and so on ), it is not a bad idea to have a strategic reserve of those for those times when they would be necessary. I am a alternative energy proponent, but it seems misguided to simply ignore current situation and not take steps beneficial to the taxpayer ( buy stuff while it is cheap ).

The other side of the argument appears to want to cause maximum amount of pain to force people to move to the other sources. I understand that argument. I do not really buy it. National stockpile should not be subject to that. It serves a strategic purpose.

edit: added not before take
What? no
Wow, walked away for a few hours and such activity, LOVE IT! Thanks for all the response, now to try everything out ;)
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You're not alone, wikipedia for zip says

> ZIP supports a simple password-based symmetric encryption system generally known as ZipCrypto. It is documented in the ZIP specification, and known to be seriously flawed. In particular, it is vulnerable to known-plaintext attacks, which are in some cases made worse by poor implementations of random-number generators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#Encryption

IMO the fact that the author was able to recover the password at all indicates weakness. Something encrypted with AES-GCM would presumably be all but impossible.
I use OneTab too in the same way. I guess the part that is missing for me is that it is only for links and that the content just disappears and I end up with a huge backlog. It is a cool tool tho!
No idea about Armenia, but that wouldn't be that strange in latin america. Of course not everyone would take the day off but many would offer to go to the hospital with you.
Indeed it is useful. It's usefulness was never in debate(it is it's ability to pollute that's the problem) but most of the things you named has a substitute made from other materials exist.
Professional typesetters have an aversion to underlining text. It's ugly. The line interferes with descending letters: f, g, j, p, q, y. The underline is as thick as the stroke of a character, so decorative marks compete with signal marks. It's just too strong. That's why you see text underlined in homemade flyers but almost never in books, magazines, newspapers, or other things designed by pros. The recent addition to CSS to specify that underlines go behind the descenders is a welcome change.

Professional web designers have the same aversion that print designers have, they are birds of a feather. But now they have another reason to hate it. Underlining has come to mean hyperlink. Because of their original aversion, they will often use CSS to remove that default underline, maybe bringing it back only when you hover over a link. But because it is still a widespread convention throughout the web, and probably always will be, they would never, ever emphasize something by underlining (they use border-bottom ;).

Since you should underline something only if it is a link, which has its own markdown, and since underlining is ugly anyway, and since bold and italics are enough ammunition for all your emphasizing needs, and since it is an established convention from the old days that underlining meant eventual italics when it went to press, it's okay in my book to repurpose _underscores_ for italics.

Slashes instead on both sides like /this/ --- hmm, it's not bad. I'm undecided.
What was the cod?
Textile got this right: https://movabletype.org/documentation/author/textile-2-synta...
fair point

only thing I can think of that I'd want that grepping doesn't provide is some ability to define multiline sections that get captured in a search
I tried the elegant way before, after creating a mobile application to find fuel pumps around the country for a specific brand. My request was greeted with a "don't publish; we're busy making one; we'll sue you anyway". I guess where I'm from, people don't share their data yet...

Totally agree with the point on accidental personal data, thanks for pointing that out!

PS: they never released their app...
We bootstrap security teams in a long-term engagement. We staff bug bounty programs, but do not bill for that service separately. If a client uses H1 and pays them for triage, it fairly straightforwardly removes a cost for us.

The bug bounty nonsense spray I'm talking about is "sev crit: DMARC is set to quarantine instead of reject" and literal descriptions of how session cookies work (that inexplicably get paid out for: we've seen it happen). I assume we're in agreement I should not be fine with people putting that in pentest reports; if that's the case, the quote is not really controversial: all it says is that H1 has a lot of nonsense reports.

The mechanism GP describes would require Latacora to be a proxy good for H1. Do you believe that is the case?
Apple is thinking about putting a camera in your bedrooms
A thing for people not familiar with reST: check out ASCII-art tables - https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#... :)
While that's definitely better than single letter variables everywhere, I still think an explicit variable name is better.

In general, I follow a rule of "If I can't search the file for this variable and find it easily, it's a bad name".
From the article: "If we ended up sending only a small number of messages through one provider over the long run, they might not be massively incentivised to be a provider in the future."

Gotta keep the service provider happy to ensure they still go along with the program.
> In the large public university that I attended, easily 80% of my courses were taught by graduate students not much older than I was.

How typical is this? It doesn't match my Canadian large public university experience, but maybe that's because I took clinical/tech programs? Or that our class sizes can be bigger? What would one prefer, classes of 300 with a full professor, or 30 with a grad student?
https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

I don't think any of the "keyboard nay-sayers" are saying that petroleum isn't useful, and it's worth engaging with their actual arguments.
There are a number of gotchas around tuning though. Buffer cache, for example, was fully redesigned for Aurora postgres. Aurora defaults are pretty good, but in our case we had some tuning of cache settings in place before moving over and the result was terrible. Wiping out our tuning and just using the defaults was a good fix. Also, pgbouncer didn't play very well with the aurora reader endpoints and we had to mess around with that.

But from the application perspective, it all runs pretty seamlessly. We've never had a behavioral difference between development against postgres and production with Aurora. Perf has really been the only difference, and perf in development never represents perf in prod at large scale anyway.
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Additionally, they (actual Jeeps from FCA) were marketed/priced aggressively, and quite a few went in the rent a car segment.

Think of 25,000 to 35,000 for a "Jeep Renegade" (which is rather common in Italy), vs. 50,000 to 70,000 for (say) a BMW X3.

https://www.quattroruote.it/listino/jeep/renegade

https://www.quattroruote.it/listino/bmw/x3

Speaking of the Renegade, they are manufactured in Italy, and have the same platform as the Fiat 500X, and they are largely 2 wheel drive.
Now is the worst time. Millions are losing their jobs, the last thing we need is to promote more expensive energy. A steady supply of energy right now is critical to literally keeping the lights on. Imagine our current situation but with more expensive energy costs and an unreliable supply. Like it our not, oil is critical to our survival right now. Cheap, plentiful energy is also going to be essential to driving the recovery. It’s also a strategic necessity.
Can entire supply chains switch over that quickly? I would imagine that if something catastrophic were to occur and supply chains had to switch, we would need some buffer.
I mean, as an American, it's really hard to argue against the views and scenery in New Zealand...
I searched for "preact" in the thread, since I'm a big fan. Its small size and compatibility with React API make it suitable for use in "embedded widget" type situations, where a dependency on React would be too heavy. It's also perfectly suited for building full apps, or static sites. I've been using Preact on various projects for years, I love it.
Didn't know about that search engine. Thanks a lot! Actually found a few fun datasets, made my day :)
A question to the Armenians: Would I as a Turk with a Turkish name but a European passport face any difficulties or danger when visiting Armenia?
No Evidence of Antiviral Clearance of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin
Having multiple bathrooms (with showers) is nice because in the mornings people can get ready in parallel rather than in serial and so people are less likely to be late. It's a good thing to have, but yes, it isn't really a necessity. It's a relatively new thing even in America -- the 1960s era house I grew up in America in the 1970s-1980s had just one bathroom for the whole family.
Two naive questions:

Does the salt of the actual cavern dissolve in the oil? And does that effect the quality?

Are these reserves easy military targets? It would seem causing an explosion in one of these would be catastrophic. I can see why this wouldn't be, but I'd like to leave this question as is to promote (fun) discussion.
If you want a GUI on top of it, you can do the same thing in VirtualDubMod for many file formats using the "Direct Stream Copy" option:

http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/virtualdubmod_cutavi_...

Admittedly it's aging a bit and doesn't support a lot of newer formats, but I still find it useful. As much as I enjoy command line, having the gui is nice to mark in&out points and do the trimming all in one spot. You'd still have to open a video player to figure out where to start & end.
Does anyone know any good book with PostgreSQL tips and tricks and cool snippets? Coming from MySQL, I'm always finding exciting things: checks, date ranges and GIST, to_tsvector(title) @@ websearch_to_tsquery('foobar')...
I doubt she threw away her career. They need medical people, she'll get another job.
How does this take traffic into account? It is clever and I enjoyed the read, but it is essentially doing some of the work GMaps is doing for you yourself, losing some accuracy in the process. That's probably a great trade-off in this case but not always.
My suggestion, though, is different. If NIST has such an approval process, then, Apple/Google/Mozilla/anyone else doesn't have to go through an approval process, but if they do go through such process then they can put on their product, the sign "Approved by NIST as web browser compliance".

However, I am not so sure that such a thing is even necessary at all. I think the use of the web browser should be reduced in order that this is not necessary.
Story needs more development
> some kind of „International English“ ISO layout with a tall return key and a short left shift key

Those exist here in the US too. They're just a lot less common. I've had the misfortune of having one, in the past. Needed a new keyboard, went to the store, got the cheapest one, came home to... "what is this layout?!"
"pasttime" is a good description. On slow HN days when there is less interesting content to me on the front page I'll check out my favorites and then have an "holy cow! I have so many interesting articles I need to catch up on" moment :-)

What I would really like to do when I have some spare time is write a browser extension that will randomly inject a few of my favorite links into the HN frontpage for me so I can passively revisit these posts and discussions I've saved.
The impression I've got is that this also actually a rare victory of politics. My understanding is that GDS was set up under the Cabinet Office with enough political power to dictate to the various bits of the government how their web presence would work. It's lovely that that has (mostly) worked and that there is a great design being delivered!
I feel like when one is omitted (and the deceased was relatively young) it's usually suicide.
I use diigo.com , mainly because of its ability to highlight content on any web page. But it offers support for tagged bookmarks, notes and snippets as well.
Huh, I guess it was.

Anyway, it was all a whole lot of "semantics-washing" anyway; it's lot like people strictly adhere to strong rules of when text should appear bold or in italics anyway.
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