skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many years ago, my wife crashed our truck. The insurance guy took a look, estimated that it wasn’t a total loss, and directed the shop to fix it.

Unfortunately, he missed several significant signs of expensive damage. The engine had to be replaced, the frame required more work, etc. etc. At the end of the process, GEICO bought us a very expensive new old truck.
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This is exactly why we still use compose as well. Everybody is talking about kubernetes, but I honestly don’t see the point in adding a huge dependency only for balancing and restarting failed containers..

I just wish there was some SaaS platform which allows you to upload a docker-compose file and run the containers for you. That way, you don’t have to touch the underlying OS.
The "Top Programming Languages" slope-graph with gradient is chart-junk and makes my eyes bleed. There are spurious emotional comments throughout.

However, it is sad and somewhat surprising to see South America and Africa so far behind.

Who is surprised that the continent of Africa lags behind? How could anyone, at this point, be surprised by the struggles faced by people across the continent of Africa?
200M daily active users according to their blog post https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-u...
I've been mostly avoiding Docker, Docker-compose etc. (We got stuck at the "Ansible > Digital Ocean works fine for us" stage. Docker was too new at the time and never really had a reason to re-examine things)

But just this past week after a ton of pain previously trying to get a working Geodjango stack running on my Mac locally for experimentation I discovered a docker-compose script that gave me everything I wanted in about 5 minutes. A sample app. Django, nginx, redis, PostGIS and all the complex dependencies - all working together. I literally typed "docker-compose up" and I had a working web GIS-enabled web app running on localhost. And the fact that the deployment to staging is hopefully just as simple makes me smile.

Of course - production is a different story as I then have to worry that all the magic pieces aren't full of backdoors and security holes but I guess that's a job that needs doing anyway.
What Covid-19 Tells Us About the Tragedy of the Commons
Linus Torvalds uses a Cooler Master keyboard. No rgb. No nonsense
Just launched. Would love your feedback: https://rb.gy/vwt4mp
Doctors and Nurses Beware: Hospitals Are Watching Your Facebook
Effectiveness of Surgical and Cotton Masks in Blocking SARS–CoV-2
There has been some talk how ventilators may cause more damage than good. On damaged lungs I can see this.
Matrix adds featureful decentralised e2e-encrypted chat alongside the voice/video conferencing, and makes it possible to coordinate the location of a given conference for a given room. It doesn't impose additional auth currently to the conferences (but it could). It also maintains your displaynames & avatars for you inside the Jitsi :)
I really enjoy your posts. Keep up the great work.
Machine Learning-Driven JavaScript Bundling
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog
You say seismic vibrations increase the noise a lot but not, that I saw, anything about what measures you take against them?

Presumably you do some sort of active noise cancelling for vibrations (like noise cancelling headphones)?

Seismic noise must be a common problem in physics experiments, which other experiments have the best environmental vibration cancelling systems ... do people pay for use of them like they would for use of a space telescope?
This is the case if you're doing a completely custom configuration. Their quick install took me about 5 or 10 minutes to set up.

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/quick-in...
When I saw marketed at Gen X, the first thing I thought of was at that time, one of the conventional bits of wisdom about Gen X was that we were resistant to being marketed at. I'm not sure that I buy that—Gen X bought into a lot of lame stuff marketed at them, but this seemed exactly the sort of marketing campaign which would support the conventional wisdom.
To contest one point only: A strong placebo effect that lasts is quite valuable, and should not be undervalued when it comes to depression. If this ends up being a way to consciously strengthen the placebo effect to successfully treat patients, there's a lot of people who'd benefit.

It should still be distinguished from non-placebo effects where possible and I agree with all of the concerns and worry expressed in this thread.
Has anyone tried Quibi and is willing to offer opinions/comments on the content?

I am in the UK so haven't tried. All I've seen review-wise is a particularly waspish piece in The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/apr/06/quibi-s...

I'd welcome something more nuanced - unless it really is that terrible.
Recent version of Firefox have the ability to check ratios built right in. I use the tool daily.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Accessibility...
My point is that they almost certainly have both IE and Edge installed. It's entirely possible to continue using IE for their legacy app and use Edge for everything else. In fact if their IT department cares at all about security, it should be pushing them to do so.
YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview
Oh, depression definitely exists. It tends to be over-simplified and is too stigmatized, but it most definitely exists. Keep in mind that "depression" is a very general spectrum disorder with many different forms. Saying someone has depression is a bit like saying "they're sick"; but they could have the common cold, flu, COVID-19, ect.

It's worth noting that there are people out there with what I'll call "inexplicable depression". In other words, everything could be going right for them. You could look at their life and find no flaws. Loving parents, deep, rich friendships, good profession, success, loving relationship with a partner, and comfortable financial situation. They seem to have it all, but just want to die.

More often there's at least some trauma and adverse experiences. On the flip side, you can find people whose lives have been and continue to be just awful; yet they're fine (or at least no depression). It's not always predictable whether someone will have problems, just like how some smokers never get cancer.

There's a scale of severity and even some people with it can't relate to everyone who has it. Someone who grew up in squalor and abuse isn't going to relate to a wealthy person with body image issues.

I've had some amount of depression myself, but I've still been unable to relate to my friends. For example, one that flunked out of college, because he wouldn't get out of bed. I've felt bad, but never to the point of letting my life completely wither away. I guess the guy just couldn't do it. He was abused growing up, experienced some relationship problems, and starting having severe issues. I have absolutely zero doubt that the person was sick. Healthy people aren't bedridden.

Posts like this concern me. You don't have to accept everything psychiatry as a field says. You can be skeptical. However, there's too much backlash to the slightest amount of acceptance and de-stigmatization of depression. Yes, it exists, you really don't want to get it, and it's a serious problem we need to keep addressing.
Ease of use, probably.

Now every private room is by default secured with a password, I think.
It's weird - I don't think I remember ever seeing corp.com as an example from Microsoft - they usually used contoso.com or microsoft.com. I do remember reading books that used corp.com however, but they weren't printed by Microsoft.
That's not what I said- you can still make claims against the data.

But when people are looking at N=x, most don't realize that N<30 is usually in a completely different category than N>=30. You almost shouldn't look at it as "N".

Novice "statisticians" are just (very) limited in the tools/formulas/methods available to use, because so many (entry level/basic/standard) statistical methods are only valid for normal distributions (or other constraints on data, that people typically don't check for).

Without details stated up-front, most people will (wrongly) assume that a normal distribution automatically applies, even if they don't know what that means. Similar to situations where people ask for the average/mean when they should be asking for the median.

The data isn't useless, but needs strong context and disclaimers.
I like it - great work!

I like your design choices here. Did you use an off-the-shelf theme, a toolkit like Bootstrap/Tailwind, or is it all custom?
Does Time Flow? New Clues Come from a Century-Old Approach to Math
Roughly speaking we're seeing Jitsi serve around 1000 concurrent streams (i.e. 25x 50-user conferences) on a typical 4 core box with 8GB of RAM. However, it's worth noting that Jitsi is pretty low resource - all it's doing is forwarding streams of data around the place. All the heavy lifting is done by the clients when displaying all the concurrent videos, so it's the clients which tend to be the bottleneck.
I believe the term “head shrinker” is a reference to a practice originated in the Amazon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jivaroan_peoples
Show HN: A random tweet from your like list with every new Chrome browser tab
VisualVM is still being developed: https://visualvm.github.io
Thanks!:) What was even more confusing, but I didn't mention in the article, was that visiting domain.name in my browser did take me to a similar website. That was because firefox will try www.<doman.tld> when <domain.tld> fails, so it was actually www.domain.name I was getting instead of domain.name. This behavior can be turned off by setting `browser.fixup.alternate.enabled` to false.
None of your ad hominem counters the articles the other poster found.
AT&T takes on $5.5B loan to boost 'financial flexibility'
https://guille.site

A blog on physics, math, stats, optimization, ml, etc. Mostly a combination of my PhD research topics and thoughts that aren’t yet coherent enough to publish.

Posting this here as I’ve had several posts remain half-written in my drafts. Maybe this will get me to write some more...

> And why should I (and everyone else) read it?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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> I guess mr O’Connor (who sold the domain) made a nice retirement today.

The original article said he was trying to auction it starting at $1.7M. There's no indication that an auction ever took place, however. It also sounds like the owner wanted Microsoft to buy it and was willing to work with them, and ultimately this is what happened. My guess is that it went for well under $1.7M.
We started off the thread with "these TOS are dubious, they can be ruled unconscionable..."

They aren't dubious, they aren't ruled unconscionable. If you sign up for some service and agree to the terms of service that include arbitration, you're going to arbitration and nothing else. Yes, your click on "I agree to the TOS" is binding on you, no, no one cares that you were closing your eyes or crossing your fingers or whatever. Your use of the service shows your agreement.
Sorry I did not mean to say you were wrong, I just meant to say 'it exists', for reference. I understood your first explanation, didn't know whether this RFC encrypted substream by substream or the whole session (I should have read more before posting). Thanks for the clarification. And your patience.
> I write about logistics and supply chain topics at greenleaves.io.

Clickable: https://greenleaves.io/blog/
SyncPlay: Synchronize VLC with remote friends to watch together
Why your website forms suck (and why that should worry you post-Covid-19 world)
ha, the more you know!
> assemble ad-hoc clusters using volunteer browsers

It sounds far-fetched, but I think it may eventually become practical with WASM and WebRTC, to use peer-to-peer networking for distributed computing.

Closest example in that direction, I've heard of malicious WASM payloads that mine cryptocurrencies:

Persistent drive-by cryptomining coming to a browser near you (2017)

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/11/persistent-...

I'm optimistic that people will find socially beneficial application of this idea.
TIOBE usually provides this information.
I absolutely love your site's design and content. The photographer in me is so happy.
Why can't you update it?

There could be a release of a new model every 6 months or something (although even that is probably too often, the incremental improvement due to statistical changes in the distribution of images being compressed isn't likely to change much over time), and you just keep a copy of all the old models (or lazily download them like msft foundation c++ library versions when you install an application).

The models themselves aren't very large.
You issue is with people upvoting things into HN frontpage, not with N.

There are multiple reasons why small N is not bad thing.

Firstly, multi year research projects are not silent for years or decades before they deliver final paper. They publish interim research, technical reports, exploratory research or preliminary research to clarify issues and fine tune the direction of research. You do something and you publish it.

Secondly, multiple studies where N is small can be more reliable than one big study with large N. There are errors other than statistical errors.

Thirdly. Effect size is much more important than N. N=1 can win you a Nobel price if the effect size is big enough. Grow a mice that weights 10 kg and N being 1 or very small number is good enough. There are many studies where N is tens of thousands (p < 0.001) but the effect size is so small that the result is not scientifically interesting.

Finally, statistics is not the final arbiter of importance of the study. It has become standard to add it into every publication, no matter how small. But researchers don't focus on that.

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Everyone wants to participate in the discussion and most people in comment sections know something about statistics but little to nothing about the subject, so you always get the 'correlation is not causation', 'small N' so it's irrelevant talking points.
I blame all those '80s college movies showing college being all about drinking, partying, and getting laid. Gives kids a false impression that that's what going to university is going to be.

I don't know where/when those people you mention went to undergrad. When I went, it was brutal and endless. In order to graduate in 4 years, I had to take 18-20 credits per semester. When I wasn't in the classroom, I was in lab, and when I wasn't in lab, I was working on hours and hours of assignments. The professors never coordinated workload, so it all came at once in waves. All the exams were done in the same week, too, so you'd have to frantically cram. EDIT: Then, there was the job hunt during junior and senior years. Resume after resume, application after application, interview after interview. If I actually did any partying, I certainly don't remember it. Those four years were a blur of coursework that I still have nightmares about and am glad are firmly in the past. No job I've ever had in the decades since has come close to the amount of workload I had in university.
Soon we will be seeing "Top programming languages to learn in 2021"
The next time someone said water boarding is bad, remember when you were thirsty and had a cold glass of ice water.
https://artminnow.com : I occasionally do interviews with visual artists. I ask them questions, think about their responses, and ask more questions, until I can't think of any more I want to ask. I think they've turned out well, but it is a lot of work (my gosh its been three years)

and then there is a group blog of which I am a member

https://deadvoles.wordpress.com/

One writer is an anthropologist living in Japan who worked in the advertising industry for many years there; another is a liberal arts college professor and a farmer; a few others. All interesting people, with interesting thoughts, and lots of big questions.
I operate a matrix server but I recently found Jami which supposedly is p2p encrypted. Does anyone use it? Downsides?

https://jami.net/
Agree, that was in my 3rd paragraph above.
OTOH, getting that much attention for depression seems quite rare, and given that there are strong learned behavioral issues with depression that require a lot of retraining, that means high frequency intervention is needed.

Talking to a therapist 1 hour a week doesn't help you manage those waves of depression you feel 20x a day 6 other days of the week. If you are going to change any subconscious or neurological patterns, you need to intervene in those moments of symptoms.
Effectiveness of convalescent plasma in Covid-19
I ended up implementing a primitive tag cloud[0] to keep track of different topics.

[0] https://sheep.horse/tagcloud.html#book
Jitsi uses about 5.5Mbps per connected Chrome user. This math doesn't line up, but if Jitsi isn't transporting the 720p video 10Mbps might work for 6 users.

1:1 video uses P2P and doesn't require video going through the Jitsi bridge.
Customer Loyalty in Micromobility
Ask HN: Where to contribute to open-source bio-tech software?
Just looking for suggestions/discussion on best bio-tech open-source projects that we should all be contributing more too. Preferably, anything that will help prevent or better control another pandemic of any kind.
A friend of mine and I get together to watch movies but with lockdown we have started using syncplay with great success. I use it with the mpv media player and he uses VLC.
Ask HN: How to learn hardware capacity planning for on premise infrastruture?
I am currently struggling with deciding on premise hardware/capacity planning for a project we are working on. The VMs will be used to install on premise Kubernetes clusters. I have never worked on system administration but have done basic devops. What are some good resources to learn this skill and get decent estimates?
As white collar automation starts to hit hard over the next 5-10 years, the number of desk jobs will massively decline. Also, most of the remaining people who work desk jobs will be doing some sort of programming.

> I refuse to bow to the notion that everyone should learn to code or become programmers...

Why?

Most programming isn't as hard as people seem to think.

I used to think that a perhaps some really smart middle schoolers can learn enough about programming to build a simple CRUD-based web app: a bit of Python or PHP, just enough SQL (the idea of tables, columns, rows, and cells; SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements), and just enough HTML/Javascript.

However, after doing a few semester-long middle school enrichment activities with randomly (not self) selected students, I am now relatively certain that EVERY "normal" middle schooler can learn enough Python, SQL, and HTML/Javascript to build a CRUD web app.

> ...because trucking jobs will be gone.

Driving a truck is quite a bit more difficult than people seem to think. Frankly, I'm fairly confident that truck drivers will be better off than your average white collar worker, even if trucking is completely automated.

In the world where "everyone at a desk does some programming", any properly educated person within a std.dev. or two of average intelligence will be fine. The only question is whether there will be enough work to go around.
Did the news about the death counts flattening and missing projections by a lot today bum you out? I can’t imagine having my identity so wrapped in Trump losing the election that I would be hoping for hundreds of thousand dead and the failure of the American health care system. Enjoy the next 4 years of the Trump administration.
Thank you! Taking photos for my posts ends up being a considerable effort compared to the outlining/writing parts but also think it adds a lot. I tend to spread the shooting out over a few days, take more shots when I'm not happy with some, try new orientations.. then eventually pick a handful to use from 500-1K+ shots each time.
The encode/decode is almost certainly not optimized, it's using Pytorch and is a research project, a 10x speedup with a tuned implementation is probably easily reachable, and I wouldn't be surprised if 100x were possible even without using a GPU.
Ace, your content is really well-thought out. Appreciate the effort.
> Nobody likes to support IE11 but dropping support moves Bootstrap 5 from "just use Bootstrap" to "Bootstrap has tricky pitfalls".

I mean, if you're writing for IE11 that's true of any library or framework you might consider, even the ones that "support" IE11.

If you're still supporting IE11 I don't see why it's so weird to do so with Bootstrap 4.
Can anyone comment on if this will run successfully on a raspberry pi 3 for a small number of users (<10)?
Double Standards of United States Govt
How to Spice Up Your Love Life During the Lockdown
I also have had a blog (joelx.com) for 15 years with 7000 posts. I like damninteresting.com, I have seen it before and recognize the name as having articles I enjoy! I have done a few long form articles but it is more just quick notes on things.
DARPA taps Rigetti Computing to support quantum tech effort with NASA
> On Monday evening, he wrote to say that Microsoft had agreed to purchase it. O’Connor said he could not discuss the terms of the deal, nor could he offer further comment beyond acknowledging the sale of corp.com to Microsoft.

Not an auction. There's no indication the owner did anything beyond mentioning the desire to auction it.
I always found logistics interesting. Moving stuff around efficiently seems to be a real art. Many opportunities to use data. We use a few different logistics companies and I kick around the idea of bringing it in house sometimes.
Homeless Americans qualify for stimulus checks even if they haven't filed taxes
Im glad I scrubbed my HN profile I am sure you are the kind of human garbage that would try to Dox me over having a different opinion than you.
Dunno. (IANAPhysicist) But that's hella cool. Cheers!
Growth Story of Houseparty App
https://philipkiely.com/essays

I write about aspects of technical content development. Recent titles include "What I Learned about Style and Writing from Watching Bruce Lee" and "Making Useful Charts and Diagrams when you Suck at Drawing."
Stock Markets Lose $12T as Bitcoin Bounces in March
If you don’t need issue tracking then also check out cgit.

Gitea is very slow (eg 4s GET requests) for large codebases. cgit is like lightning.
Same here. I studied really hard while working 30 hours a week. I am so glad I never have to go to college again. It was easily the hardest time of my life. But it was worth it. I now have a great job (which is tons easier than college) that pays really well.