skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(One of the product managers on the Amazon EFS team here). We have many customers that use EFS for a wide variety of use cases, including hosting Postfix. As with all applications, performance needs are relative. Use EFS if your application requires consistent low single digit ms latencies, shared POSIX file system, and a pay as you go elastic usage model. As with all AWS services, EFS is always launching greater performance capabilities, including IOPS, throughput and lower latencies to meet the needs of our customers. As example, on 4/1, EFS launched a 400% improvement in read IOPS for its General Purpose performance mode, from 7,000 to 35,000. Given the type of file system operations that Postfix performs, it should nicely benefit from this improvement.
How good or bad is the new system on tor? ReCAPTCHA straight up was a 0/10 over tor for me.
This -> automatic upload to dropbox -> automatic link copied to clipboard is my most used workflow.

I use this in GH issues, my personal journal, Slack... it’s insane how sticky this workflow is.

This plus Zapier sounds amazing.

They hit the nail in the head with this one. Could argue it took too long but the fact that I consider myself a power user of this flow and want this Zappy thing asap is a good sign for Zapier.
I read this book a couple of years ago and thought it was very good. Not only does it cover the history of the 1918 flu pandemic, but also the development of modern, science-based medicine, which came into being during that time period.
There’s psychology behind the foods we don’t buy in a crisis
> I was pretty sick in late February, and ended up in the urgent care at my local Kaiser. It was packed at the time too. Seemed like everyone was sick with the flu.

The 2019-2020 seasonal flu has also been relatively bad compared to many other years.

https://time.com/5758953/flu-season-2019-2020/: 2019-2020 Flu Season on Track to Be Especially Severe, New CDC Data Suggests (Jan 4th).
It is insane to me that doing this is not a part of GAAP, and is very much the exception rather then the rule.
Works for me on Linux, after signing in (I'm using a paid plan).
Seems like you can't enable encryption without owning a SDK license which costs between €990-€1600: https://github.com/BearWare/TeamTalk5/issues/471
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakukko

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_bread
Your typical rideshare car isn't nearly that old, though, and isn't going to make it to nearly a million miles either. You've cherrypicked every single variable to favor your case, and you did the calculation wrong besides (you need to use the starting value of the car, not the ending value). Do it again for a newer more valuable car, and a lot fewer miles put on it. You can easily see depreciation amounts in the thousands of dollars per year.
Recently in Argentina there were news of a case were 400 people in a boat were exposed, quarantined and then tested. From official government sources, of all that tested positive, 70% were asymptomatic.

Edit: I rechecked, the numbers are right but apparently this has been the first test. It hasn't passed enought time to see if those that tested positive, but were asymptomatic, later on develop symptoms.
I feel that the changes to date haven't been that significant. Adding `dyn` was almost completely automated, removing the need for `extern crate` was welcome and very easy to apply, likewise `try!()` to `?`. The changes to futures were a bit of a pain but futures were always known to be in flux. `impl Trait` is useful but failing to use it where you could is not ugly enough to irritate.

There are some upcoming improvements --- that I'd like to see! --- that are bigger and thus may be more challenging:

-- Better `const fn` will make many existing `lazy_static`s become unidiomatic. Worth it, but annoying.

-- Const generics will make a lot of existing code non-idiomatic. Again, well worth it, but annoying.

-- Generic Associated Types ... probably similar.

The question is, if people decided those important features don't belong in Rust because they would cause too much churn in code that wants to be idiomatic ... then what? That would almost guarantee a new language --- perhaps a fork of Rust, perhaps not --- would eventually fill that niche. Wouldn't everyone be better off if that language was Rust itself, and people who don't want to write that "modern code" ... don't?
> And it's OK to have some rarely-touched modules that are written like it's 2015.

Indeed, the Rust compiler team has done a ton of work to build the "editions" system, so that you can do just that.
Perhaps I am heartless, but what percent of people believe Amazon should not ship non-essential items? I would guess very low.

Amazon has prioritized essential items - but this was due to a surge against their capacity and it is a positive sign they can now handle other items.

The article uses the example that Amazon is selling bowling balls. Should Amazon stop selling bowling balls anymore than Bowling.com should?
In Wuhan they were welding apartment building doors shut, and the government was delivering food. There were drones flying around telling people to go home. There are videos of people being forcefully dragged home. None of the current "it's ok to go out and exercise and buy groceries," which is what is currently happening in NYC.

So yeah there are further measures available.
I think you're misunderstanding (or I am), the context. I'm assuming we are talking about an interview scenario, as you are asking questions about possible employment - not receiving a "cold call" email from a recruiter.

In an interview, you are expected to know what the company is about.
I would love to do frontend Kotlin, but is it one of those things that you end up painting yourself in a corner and wishing you used TypeScript all along?

"Don't do frontend development in anything else than JavaScript ... You will probably run in to an abstraction leak that causes problems if you do the frontend in Kotlin." https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/etzy5u/web_developm...

I ask this seriously. I would love to do full-stack Kotlin. I just don't want to take the plunge and later realize it was a big mistake.
Learned something new. Dates/inputs for data with Poisson distribution.
>Personally, I would try to stick to apps by companies headquartered in your home country.

Why is that? It seems like the opposite would be the best advice: make sure to use something from a company not headquartered in your country. Most people probably have more to worry about from their own government than anyone else.
>Edit: It seems like "kids" here might be referring to smaller children acting like teenagers. Even in that case, I think little kids playing with toys and games all day is fairly new. Most were doing chores or actual work throughout history.

The KGOY phenomenon tends to refer more to the sexualization (from skimpy wear for girls to glitz magazines for tweens to common widespread use of porn from age 10 and upwards) of children in media, and the effects that may have (if any) on the behaviour of children with regard to how they dress, talk, think, and act. That's what I gather from it, anyway. You can read more about it by searching up the phrase on Google Scholar.
Forget accidents, there’s a dropoff in heart attack, stroke, and cancer deaths as every death now is attributed to Coronavirus.
Firstly congrats on the launch! I am super excited about this I just signed up hoping to get my hands on it and experiment on different things

At $30/month I think its a steal the reason I say this is because for someone to do this with no-code they would probably have to hire a freelancer who would charge them way more than $30 for setting it up and probably no/little support. Love the idea I really think it fills a gap here.

There are several side projects I'm going to try with this
I had that machine. But I've used it always in B/W in a TV that wasn't NTSC so I don't even know the original colors :D
Sometimes they do the opposite, like trying to shove an obviously subpar product [Google+] down everybody's throat. Both approaches are bad strategies.
Instead of copying and pasting the registry entry into a text file, merging ("running") it, then deleting the text file, the following (PowerShell) command should do the same thing:

New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox" -Name DisableDefaultBrowserAgent -PropertyType DWord -Value 1

To disable the scheduled task (if you simply delete it, it might "reappear" after Firefox is updated):

schtasks.exe /change /disable /tn "\Mozilla\Firefox Default Browser Agent 308046B0AF4A39CB"

Or, you could simply disable the telemetry altogether and tell Mozilla that all this "opt-in by default" telemetry is bullshit.

Note: The above are untested as I don't run Windows (partly because of all the spyware -- excuse me, "telemetry" -- bullshit!).

(Edit: Sorry, changed forward slashes to back slashes.)
AstroTurf PR.
Tech follows a power law. Putting more work into something doesn't necessarily make it better. It could just be a bad idea no matter what. So failing fast is a good thing.
SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines: Status Report [pdf]
Pre-C++11 was. Modern C++ not so much. Things have drastically improved and dare I say, it's more appropriate to call C++11 and greater C++ v2. That said the tooling around build/test/dependency management/versioning leave much to be desired for. But a combination of meson (for build), Catch (for test) and CMake for dependency management can go a long way.
Somehow that didn’t seem to be a problem in Minecraft or git.

I think that there is a value in making software that is powerful and does not immediately make apparent precisely how best to use it. Examples also include NLE video and audio suites, and much CAD/3D tools.

Your tools do a thing. The operator makes the workflow. Make good tools, not a yellow brick road sold as one-size-fits-all.

The first few times I opened Live or Illustrator or After Effects or Sketchup I had no idea how to use them; I had to watch tutorials on YouTube to learn the mental models.

What webapps are like that? I offer that they have a corresponding loss of power.
If China wants to waste its resources having people spy on me on Zoom while I play board games with friends on it, then this seems like a good thing to me.

But I wouldn't use it for work meetings.
This is the legal system right now. So, no.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
Building a super-app/platform like Grab, GO-JEK, and WeChat; for Africa
Hi,

I would like to ask you for some advice about building a multiservices' super-app/platform like GO-JEK, Grab, and WeChat, for Africa.

Any tips/ ideas?
Thanks in advance.
HCaptcha's enterprise solution is designed to detect this threat and other's.
On the one hand, this is a predictable outcome if you are trying to shepherd a large codebase through a fast-moving language. Idiomatic Python 1.6 looks dramatically different to idiomatic Python 3.x.

On the other, Rust isn't the language I would want to write lots and lots of code in either. There are a few projects and organizations where it makes sense to do so(namely web browsers, databases, and other kinds of "deep backend, large surface area" types of projects), but most of the things it does well also act as a hindrance to feature development, compared with an idiomatic Java, C# or Go equivalent.
How do you get 10%? On avg you expect 3.3 people to die if IFR is 0.1%, so it shouldn’t be as low as 10% likely to get 1.
You seriously think the Chinese government is going to stoop to K&R with random Americans?

The Chinese government is the last entity I'd be worried about with this kind of information (unless, of course, you live in China). Certain criminals in your own country are a much bigger concern.
Just to expand on the editions things, editions are local to the crate. A Rust 2015 crate can freely use a Rust 2018 crate and the reverse. So davidcuddeback isn't being locked out of using up to date dependencies either.
Stephen King Is Sorry You Feel Like You're Stuck in a Stephen King Novel
how is this compared to gpus?
I haven't tried it yet, but sofasession.com seems optimized for this. Using wired Ethernet instead of WiFi can go a long way, from what I've heard. Has anyone here tried it?
Japan is building new plants. You'll see that news a bunch. What you do not see is the why.

Japan has companies which are building new coal plants in order to replace existing plants. Old coal plants have lower efficiency. Old coal plants produce more pollution.

A none trivial reason why so many old coal plants are unprofitable is because other newer fossil fuel plants can out compete them.

Sure renewables play a part, but the single biggest reason those old plants cannot make money at current energy prices is simple competition. New plants are buying the same coal but getting more electricity per ton while using larger and more automated plants. Meaning more revenue per ton with lower overhead.

Coal as a whole will decrease, but along the way new plants need to be built. Yet the media treats all coal plants as a single monolith. "How could a country be building new plants when existing old plants are unprofitable". The media would do well to educate and inform instead.
Ironic the user name 'letsendpaywalls' posted an article requiring a subscription.
For better or for worse, every Hasid in Brooklyn (Crown Heights) was likely heavily exposed weeks ago. Is guess they've already passed their peak.
CU-SeeMe Project (1996)
Right! All these babies are clogging up my bathwater drain!
This is great, i get that nostalgia from time to time
I can't comment on that because I rarely use Sheets or Excel. I think my usage of Sheets is `=SUM...` :D
Totally - I think there lots of things that can be improved and lots of rules/laws or data policy that makes sense around privacy and civil liberties.

I thought Zuckerberg’s Georgetown talk on political ads was actually pretty good (digs into some of the complexity: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/17/zuckerb...)

I’d also recommend this: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033714.do

The main issue I have with the HN post is that it’s arguing against this nuance in favor of just banning it.
GraphQL works well for this also if that's an option in your stack.

It advertises lots of benefits but the enforced schema types are worth the price of admission even if you're doing simple CRUD with no graphs.
So what? Did you ever look at a production codebase? You will be hard pressed to find an idiomatic codebase and nobody in the world is going to update anything to be "idiomatic" every 6 weeks. I mean maybe your manager doesn't fire you right away if you try, but you better be doing this in your spare time lol.

For academic and self-learning use? Sure go ahead, but then please don't complain that you can't keep up with it. Nobody should be using a feature for the sake of using a feature. If you don't need it, don't use it. If its old and not "idiomatic" there is literally ZERO reason to change it unless you ain't got anything better to do.

Get your priorities straight.
Does Google usually dictate which products you can and cannot use in your personal life and free time? Why was this statement needed?
> This misses the point, just because someone sometimes added me to their phone contacts and uses signal does not mean I want them notified when I start using signal too.

It sounds like Signal is trying to solve a different problem than the one you have, so you should probably look for a different solution.

IIRC, Signal's goal is easy to use mass-market E2E encrypted replacement for SMS messaging. If they didn't automatically notify people's contacts, then most of them would probably continue to SMS or use FB messenger, etc.
Same on an iPhone 11. Bottom is cut off and no way to scroll down.
Superscript and Subscript Line Heights
The idea that we "stopped" the world economy doesn't really make sense from the point of view that lockdown orders don't apply to the economy, but rather to people moving around. A lot of industries will suffer but the idea that there is an economy switch which is easy to turn on/off as a trade off for human life doesn't seem realistic. If the virus is more contagious than expected, I don't follow your logic... that it's so bad that we might as well stop trying to protect ourselves? Also the idea that one person wants to view the world with a certain level of restriction "what more do you want" seems a bit bizarre. It's quite a wakeup call that even with these mitigation steps the virus can still spread. Things will be exponentially worse if we let up, not linearly worse. Also of course it's odd to blame "scientists" globally as though there is a single scientist who thought that the R0 value was 2, and now there is a smarter one who thinks it is 6....there are thousands and thousands of people sifting through data, in addition to layers of governments and nations and news outlets interpreting and communicating this information. No doubt this analysis from Los Alamos is only possible w/ data time and talent. We will probably learn much more about this virus moving forward, but I don't think that renders all old information or work pointless.
(One of the product managers on the Amazon EFS team here). Drupal is a common application that customers use with EFS, both in combination with a CDN and without. The following are two important considerations when running Drupal on an NFS service like EFS:

i) You should configure the OPcache so that it does not revalidate its cache on every request. Cache validation uses stat() in a serial loop on potentially hundreds of files, where each stat() would add O(ms) to the request.

ii) We recommend you store log files locally. NFS does not define an atomic O_APPEND operation, so appends require a file lock to prevent interleaving with appends from other clients. I've seen PHP application do 100s of file locks to a log file per request, each adding O(ms) to the total request latency. This is what you'd like to avoid.
There's little to no data that backs up your guess.

Studies on COVID-19 estimate that the true IFR is somewhere between 0.1% to 0.39%...why? Because the more we test, the more we find asymptomatic and mild cases. And we're yet to even do the type of serological testing that would give us such a decisive sample. Yet we're ALREADY seeing data that suggests that the IFR is lower than SARS and asymptomatic cases/transmission are common. [0]

I never read anything about SARS being mild or asymptomatic in the majority of patients...in fact it was the opposite. It was so severely symptomatic that the virus killed itself with natural selection. If you had SARS-COV-11 and exhibited high viral load, you were likely too sick to go spread it. The only serological testing they did on SARS-COV-1 deemed asymptomatic cases to be uncommon [1]. Quite the opposite of COVID-19.

0:
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-...

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3035549/
Nope. Viruses can only evolve within a host. I.e. while they are infected. If you've go the right vaccine, there won't be enough time for a virus to get a strong enough foothold to make that evolutionary leap, since mutations are always a shoot of the dice.

Remember, there is no intelligence to evolution. Only happy coincidence. An immune population has the same probability of having a virus mutate in a particular infection, but has many, many fewer cranks on the mutation slot machine lever before the virus is eradicated.

Where you run into problems is with things like dengue fever, where multiple strains can all provoke a single immune reaction, but the other strains aren't crippled as much by the antibodies as the original, and can actually use the immune response to increase the severity of the infection.

I've read no papers that suggest that is a factor here.
Those 10,000 individual policies are paid for out of a shared pool of risk. The payer administers it the same way they administer a group plan. It is literally identical to a group of 10,000 individuals.

I work in health insurance.
Improving your Internet for video calls
The funny thing is that Google doesn't even use recaptcha and instead use some awkward hard to read piece of shit. After 4-5 guesses, and they are guesses you might proceed.
This is silly

The article doesn't mention population density at all. Compared to NYC tri-state area (talking about NY State misses the point), CA is a bunch of small towns.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...
Another way to put it is that the study is enumerative and not analytic. Unfortunately, just about every study being done on COVID is enumerative.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_and_enumerative_sta...
probably as a swe or research scientist, yes, i was contacted by them for an SA position ~6 years ago
Scotland’s Seaweed Showdown
I am essentially asking if you are using Kafka and the codegen SDKs generated by Swagger behind the scenes.
you're going to fly multiple drones around for months across thousands of miles of territory (including forests) using who knows what recharging mechanism carrying bear mace on it and then accurately target a pack of wolves as a method for deterrence?
Air pollution linked to Covid-19 death rates
No checkboxes or confirmation on the common flow, just a little warning message on firstboot.
I believe they are talking about using Zoom to call friends/family from your work laptop.
Maybe on average, but it sounds like the variance is more extreme. I've heard enough horror stories of 30-somethings with no health problems being on death's door from this thing that I don't want to risk it, when I might for flu season (plus, there's a flu shot). I don't want to stop with the physical distancing until there's an effective anti-viral treatment.
spyware that firefox seem to emulate quite well given these news.

BTW, your suggestions do not in the firefox I have:

New-ItemProperty : Cannot find path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:3
+ New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:/SOFTWARE/Policies/Mozilla/Firefox" -N ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox:String) [New-ItemProperty], ItemNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewItemPropertyCommand

ERROR: The specified task name "\Mozilla\Firefox Default Browser Agent 308046B0AF4A39CB" does not exist in the system.
The Highland Park Drug Ring
The new feedback assistant is actually a lot better about this - you get more status updates and you can see the original bug state even if it was a duplicate.
edge seems the safer choice at the moment.
They install "allow any connections to anywhere" firewall rules on Windows too. Fortunately, it's "just" for the Firefox process but still...

---

I used to keep one last Windows 7 box around. It had the default firewall policies set to block everything by default and I had even went so far as to disable all the default rules that Windows creates and added explicit rules to only allow the specific traffic to the specific internal services I actually needed.

Then, I installed Firefox one day so I could use it to access a few internal web sites. Shortly afterwards, I went to add new firewall rules to allow connections to these internal web sites and discovered that the installer had automatically added new firewall rules for Firefox allowing it to connect to anything anywhere! Fortunately, this host was on a subnet which was blocked in the "real" firewall anyways, so -- in this case -- no actual harm done (it couldn't get out to the Internet anyways) but I was still a bit surprised to discover that.

Can you imagine the fallout and calls for beheading that would occur if Firefox for Linux added new rules to your Linux hosts' iptables firewalls!?
var myVariables = _service.SomeMethod();

Sure when you write non-obvious code `var` sucks. But:

var product = service.FetchProduct(productId);

If the type of var is not obvious to you then you have bigger problems to worry about.