skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ridiculously over the top.

I run our organization's WordPress sites on Elastic Beanstalk (just do a "eb deploy" from your Git repo of the site and it gets up there), plus RDS (Amazon Aurora) and CloudFront. EB and Aurora auto-scale and CloudFront does its CDN thing.

I highly, highly recommend Elastic Beanstalk ( https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/ ) to anyone who wants their org to concentrate on creating value (new/better code) and being cost-efficient (use the compute power needed that minute instead of overprovisioning) instead of fiddling with custom server configs and wondering if you're fully patched up. It was a game changer for us.
I've spent 9 years maintaining a userscript for a website that now has a new beta in React. Boy, is that a pain in the behind comparatively. I'm pretty sure what I'm doing on the old version of the site won't be possible, but that is yet to be determined.
I feel like this article is conflating things... it is absolutely possible to do SQL string concatenation safely. I've done it many times to work around aggressively-bad SQL APIs. Assuming SQL concatenation is automatically bad is the kind of thinking that makes me roll my eyes at security researchers.
OLA Connects platform opened by Indian cab aggregator OLA to fight Covid19
You have no idea how correct you are on this. I have had to deal with multiple philosophy types who just knew that special relativity (rather than general in this case) could not be right and had a variety of "proofs" against it; key to their delusions was this misapprehension that Michelson-Morley had been done just one time only!

Dr. Clifford Will's Was Einstein Right? is a now-dated book about the various experiments over time, which is very handy if you want a summary of just how many attacks have been weathered. I don't doubt that it could use a second volume by now.
England and Wales Deaths – Covid Impact Tool
Isn't this bad design? Surely if plugged in, you should be able to use everything on your laptop at 100% utilization (screen, CPU, disks, fans, etc) without having to worry about it.

Otherwise, what's the point of having those things?
No, failure to control the spigot equates to lack of influence over the output.
Likewise, I ordered some stuff with 2 day shipping about 10 days ago and it's still slated to arrive in 3 weeks. Hopefully it's a little sooner than that, because every other thing I needed for this project (including a king size mattress) shipped in under a week, and it's just sitting around unused.
While this is indeed overly complicated, you have to take into account the fact that there are websites of all shapes and sizes powered by WordPress these days, and not just blogs, but things like eCommerce, booking, dating sites, forums and more, some of which would actually benefit from an overly complicated setup like this.

If you're just running a simple WP blog, you could host it on a cheap shared hosting package and not worry about devops, and as long as you use a cache plugin that will serve your entire site as static content, you'll be able to handle a large volume of traffic easily.
Free will is a philosophical concept which is essentially dualist. It's an attempt to reconcile two subjective experiences - the feeling of making a decision, and the fact that sometimes we can't predict the actions of others - with universal determinism.

There's no reason why universal determinism and free will need to be related. So trying to "prove" free will with math makes as much sense as "proving" free will with weather forecasting.

Even if that weren't true you still can't get to Conway's Step 3, because "free will" could just be statistical noise, and not willed in any sense at all.
Intelsat 901 Satellite Returns to Service Using Mission Extension Vehicle
> non-essential

Amazon already has a classification for this. correct?
[I posted this as a "Show HN" a few days ago [0]]

I wrote a short JavaScript snippet to export HN Favorites to a CSV file. It scrapes the HTML and navigates from page to page.

Setup and usage instructions are in the file.

Check out https://gabrielsroka.github.io/getHNFavorites.js or to view the source code, see https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788236
> Take a look in the UK. They are subsidising employer payments to employees, for 80% of the employee's salary. Also upping state welfare, reducing the approval time to a week, and don't require check-ins: effectively a UBI.

I live in the UK. These are again, temporary schemes with highly variable payments which the vast majority of the working age population is not entitled to. Subsidising employers based on their employees' wage levels and [in]ability to work is actually considerably less like a UBI than most of the decades-old elements of the UK's welfare state.
It seems like they are out of most essential products, though?
I should point out that the way you phrased it sounds very much like "Yeah, you're gonna carry a pager and like it. Deal with it." This, if true, entirely disqualifies Stripe for me as a potential employee; I am not interested in ever being on call, unless I'm getting an absurd slice of the upside that a company Stripe's size is not offering.

Do you want to clarify your phrasing or is that actually how you operate? :(
Free addictive game raises money for Corona relief
Not a program, but using SCSS instead of CSS saved me 100s of hours
That seems to be the case, as most of my orders have been way ahead of schedule. I did have one random case that was estimated for a couple of weeks and did take nearly the whole amount, though. It wasn't out of stock or anything either.
Whenever I see these, I suspect it's more along the lines of someone at Slack is using this product.
Mainframes Are Having a Moment
'make it easier for non-technical folks to safely editing config files' gives me the heebie-jeebies
As someone who has made a number of userscripts to improve his experience with various websites (mostly for work), I'm glad they're getting some attention :)

So often simple UI changes like resizing a textbox or adding the ability to collapse comment threads can make a big difference to your experience.
Unfortunately, some people tend to think so.
Connected, but at What Cost?
How do you handle file uploads from the front end, like when users upload pictures for their blog posts?
Fired IT Workers at Billboard, Hollywood Reporter Get Revenge
Sounds like naturally occurring case of optogenetics - "Optogenetics is a technique to introduce light-sensitive ion channels to neurons, allowing them to be switched on or off, sometimes it is also reffed to optical monitoring of neuronal activity".
It'd be interesting to hear plans for viable ways forward, instead of one side saying there is no problem, and the other side saying there is a problem and the only solution is X (which is a tragedy of the commons type solution). It'd also be interesting to hear the potential upsides (along with the catastrophic downsides) with what is going on. And, if there are absolutely no upsides and everything is going to end horribly no matter what we do, then how can we make the best of our remaining time?
I think initially it was because they didn't want masks to disappear from the market causing a shortage for hospital workers that 100% need them.

From what I've read, its also early on so there weren't a lot of studies about how to prevent.
Seems astonishing that nobody has run into this in the wild. How does it do on finding ‘www’ in ‘http://www.example.com/, for example?
I’d recommend against using ligature fonts in your shell. If there’s one place you don’t want any ambiguity about what glyph you’re using, it’s in the middle of sed, awk, or grep.

Programming code has special semantic considerations. Ligatures in programming fonts are likely to either misrepresent the meaning of the code, or cause miscues among readers. So in the end, even if they’re cute, the risk of error isn’t worth it.

https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures-in-programming-fon...
I'm crossing my fingers that the two SSDs I ordered in B&H's last order window ship today because their stores are closed and the warehouses are on reduced hours.

Always buy from good small businesses first (vote with your wallet). Megacorps are unfortunately a practical, but depressing, evil last resort.

Btw, Instacart (YC S12) works here in Paradise, CA with a smaller chain discount grocery store! :) (Local CVS ((still listed on IC)) closed due to loss of customers, there is a Walgreens franchise in-town ((not on IC)) and CVS delivers medications by mail for free right now.) And our most recent shopper was lightning fast and a good shopper too.
Crabs escape on airport luggage pickup
Yaw modulation with unstable rigid body andsteering caudal fin in yellow boxfish
3.5 floppy and CD-ROM are replaced by something that does everything its predecessor does and better. Whereas bluetooth headphones are not 1:1 replacement of analog headphones. e.g. they have a battery, their audio quality is worse.
React Native vs. Flutter: Which is for you in 2020?
Not just puppets but muppets!

https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Farscape
The statements are similar so they are stating this community went through the worst case scenario and ended up with 0,37% fatality.
> Please don't take this as truth, I'm just theorizing, I'm not qualified.

Any climate conversation in a nutshell.
There's a lovely WordPress plug-in called WP Offload Media Lite ( https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront... ) that takes the upload locally and re-ups it to an Amazon S3 bucket of your choice. Five minute setup job (put in your keys and the bucket name) tops.
Ice Lake, yeah. It's the i7 1065G7 [1]

[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/196597/...
The issue for me (and apparently also gwd) is that this does not seem to be a conclusion that could be made from the sort of evidence collected from this study, and I cannot imagine how that would result from a translation error (unless a whole sentence or more was simply dropped in translation?)
The Far-Right Helped Create the Most Powerful Facial Recognition Technology
is this a joke? Aren't you the one spreading misinformation? it is well known that haredi disregard all manner of reasonable health recommendations

https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/coronavirus-hasidi...

including transmission of oral herpes to babies by oral suction (no I'm not using a euphemism)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4608492/

>200 Jewish K-12 schools in Brooklyn

how many haredi children go to k-12 schools instead of yeshiva? this article puts attendance at 160,000

https://www.jta.org/2020/01/13/united-states/new-york-is-try...

given that there are only ~2 million haredi I think that's quite a large proportion. and no yeshiva is not the same as k-12 orthodox school (same article explicitly distinguishes).
I'm not fixating on anything. This entire chain started as a reply to a post you made where you switched to math over CS, and specifically to this statement.

>The best programmers I've worked with have mostly not had CS degrees (tended to have degrees in maths, physics, or that sort of area).

That's the entire context of the discussion. The assertion that CS majors have worse outcomes (with respect to programming ability) than math, physics or similar majors.

>A category which would include engineering, at which point we're at 20-25% of professional programmers with degrees by your numbers (which I still think are significantly biased).

If you are including math, all natural sciences, and all other engineering degrees you get 17%, not 20-25%.

>My mental model is that it's an equal split between CS degrees and not, and per your own sources that's accurate. You're fixating on a couple of specific examples of non-CS degrees that I mentioned when that's completely beside the point.

There is no other logical way to parse this statement

>There isn't anything unusual about professional programmers having a degree in maths or physics rather than CS. At least in my experience it was pretty close to an equal split.

than that you were talking specifically about math and physics.

I get it, you don't like that there are numbers that contradict you, so you are grasping at straws trying to find alternate interpretations to reconcile your statement with the numbers. You obviously don't like being wrong. I don't either, that's fine, but no one other than us is reading this far down. There's not point denying you farted when there's only 2 of you in an elevator.
Sigh. Let's destroy a vast ecosystem and fundamentally change the atmosphere of a hugely important agricultural region. Let's not solve one problem by creating 10.
For every person that gets SQL strong concatenation right 20 get it wrong. And there are simple and safe ways to write arbitrary SQL queries without using concatenation. Parmeterized queries are available everywhere. There is a reason we tell everyone not to do it and that reason is that it’s dangerous and almost everyone screws it up. I have found your case to be the exception in 13 years as an infosec researcher and consultant.
There is an interesting accidental study about this regarding norovirus. (Back in 2014 I think, not the 2017 Tennessee thanksgiving event)

Some guy vomited in a restaurant. Then you can clearly model the time from exposure to symptoms in everyone else based on how far away they were when the guy vomited. Though in this case the viral exposure was very high for everyone in the restaurant.
Not from the inside, but several talks of the yearly Sloan conference are online and on YouTube, with links to its papers. Good stuff.
That sounds overly complicated as well. I upload my WordPress site with FTP to a web host and it just works.
As it happens my company has hired a marketing company who wants to use Wordpress for our new website.

This design really isn't so far out from what I planned but the NAT gateways aren't necessary and I was going to use Fargate instead of EC2 to host it. Also, I was going to host it in a single availability zone as the impact of downtime is minimal.

EFS seems like a natural choice also for upload directories, etc, and you can attach EFS volumes to Fargate containers now.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has done this and what their experiences are.
Native Modules for React Native
ISPs Ignore Toothless FCC Demand to Not Kick Users Offline During Covid-19
Super healthy trained people can fight the virus easier? Who would have thought...
But honestly, the main reason people use Zoom is that it is by far the most reliable video conferencing app out there. Anyone who has used other video conferencing systems on uncontrolled networks knows the pain that Zoom seems to magically avoid.

Now, it seems lately others have been getting better, but I'm not really sure what the source of that is; when I've been pulled into Zoom calls over the last five years, they've been absolutely rock-solid.
That's such a deep thought for a shallow puddle.
The SCO that birthed all the lawsuits is pretty long defunct. I doubt SCOcloud is at all related. Their site doesn't seem to match the MO of the old SCO.
I took a COBOL course and I liked it
I own an iPhone, Macbook Pro, Work Macbook Pro, Surface, and a desktop gaming PC.

Switching your bluetooth headphones between 5 devices can be... a chore.
Trying to demystify building Native Modules for the current React Native bridge architecture. What changes do people anticipate with the re-architecture this year?
Covid-19 Data Landscape – Sources going beyond just cases/deaths
> This massively depends on the architecture of the package manager though. Composer (PHPs primary package manager) only serves the metadata

See also, CocoaPods. But we're really talking about two things here as if they're the same, and I think it's because the language we use for them isn't clear: package managers (like CocoaPods and Composer) and full-blown package registries (like RubyGems and NPM). I mean, the difference between them is slight; and there's overlap. They both resolve package dependencies and sort out problems, for example. But they're such very, very different things!

It's not really fair to compare these two approaches and say things about Composer like "this allows them to serve the whole community with a team of 2-4 people": they're just not directly comparable. Those 2-4 people + the entire GitHub staff is what supports the whole community.

Now - don't get me wrong: I think it's fine that GitHub does this! I'm not saying that CocoaPods and Composer are making the wrong choice here at all. In fact, I'm proud to work for a company that provides this service to everyone. But it hand-waves away a lot of stuff as just an "architecture" decision, when in reality it's a decision not to do the hardest part - which is hosting, because it requires gobs of money and dedicated staff and people on-call 24/7.

Framing it as just a different "architecture" implies that registries like NPM are making the wrong choices by hosting their own downloads, which I think is not nearly that simple. Because what happens if GitHub or Bitbucket decided to not allow this type of usage? It would be devastating for the community - so I think it's very appropriate for package managers to make a decision about whether or not they also want to be a registry. They're considering what could happen down the road and what that would mean.

CJ's comments on all of this, re: entropic, are really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO8hZlgK5zc
I think the argument would be that psychopaths don't really know they are doing evil, with their lack of shame being a direct consequence.
Holy smokes!

And I just did a WordPress demo site using AWS Lightsail for $3.50 USD per month (obv the lowest tier).

Took me less than an hour to get it all rolling.

Just check out the feature list:
https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/features/

There are some oddball finicky things about it (like not seeing the instance except in the Lightsail interface unless you manually fix or migrate it) but it was easy as pie.
I'm pretty sure he's thinking more about distributed filesystems vs raids than what you're talking about.

I.e. ceph with pods distributed over a bunch of disks without a raid
> but within a few hours I just stopped noticing it, and stopped caring

> there's no point worrying about it

So continuing that logic, people should not care about, or notice about something mozilla spent time and resources on, and made a risk on. Bad project management IMO then.

> Change your mindset

why? if it's not worth the frustration, why is it worth the change?

I'll admit, I didn't directly notice it immediately, but it felt off. What annoyed me was reading the reasoning - "Focused, clean search experience that's optimized for smaller laptop screens", yeah, I don't want that optimization. This "help you focus" crap (in general, for years) is ridiculous. I like density, but not stupid density. I didn't pay for screen real estate to get "beautiful" whitespace.
I'm not sure much of value is lost. the .org TLD has not been a strong signal of credibility for some time now. for example, "4chan.org" has been registered since 2004. AFAIK, there has not been any requirement to actually show that the registrant is a non-profit for decades.

with the possible exception of .gov (and local equivalents), people should not be encouraged to use TLDs as a positive signal of credibility. imo, the only things that matter are that domain should point to the expected entity (eg, wellsfargo.com points to the bank, not a phishing site) and that disputes over who gets to use a specific domain get handled in a reasonable way.
Are we really at the point where we know for certain how this pandemic came about? Is there really only one true view?

There's basically 3 theories that have been put out:

1: The US military developed it. This theory from some CCP higher ups was quickly discredited.

2: It originated in a wet market in Wuhan

This theory does not account for a few things, such as (a) how did the bats end up there? (b) Is there any proof that there were every any bats there? (c) What about the early patients who had no connection to the market?

3: It originated from a lab in Wuhan

The report shows that there are 2 labs in Wuhan, and both of these labs dealt with bats that have a high probability of having this virus. They show this through the published research from the labs as well as other items such as job announcements, etc.

This at least puts the bats (and virus) in Wuhan, explaining how they ended up being there from so far away.

The report goes to great pains to state that no conspiracy is needed, or tie in to bio weapons, or whatever. We simply have some labs dealing with these bats and viruses, in the location where the pandemic started, and there are many possible avenues as to how the virus could have got out.

I don't see how the report delves into conspiracy theories.
Kindles don’t use a backlight. They are semi front illuminated, more like shining a light on your book. The light can also be turned off
So simple and elegant. I have adopted it. Thank you !
They aren't testing random people. I know someone who has recovered and is waiting on test results before he is allowed to donate.
Why not just use AWS Lightsail to start?

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/features/

It's super easy...
Just use lightsail? Literally what it’s for
Hacking against corporations surges as workers take computers home
Potential infinities are just saying, you don’t have an infinity in your hand — you just have a recipe for arbitrarily large numbers (or arbitrary accuracy on real numbers, etc).

Eg, the “natural numbers” are a recipe to make as many as you want (by taking the successor of the last one) but not an actual (as in existing) infinite collection — the only ones which exist are the ones you construct, and the “potential infinity” refers to the fact that you can always make a new one.
It's the other way around, classical logic is a restriction of intuitionistic logic that arises when you affirm the Law of Excluded Middle.
But good science teaching and reporting can make the anti-science crowd smaller and less politically influential than it would be otherwise.
On the other hand I'd recommend customizing as much as reasonably possible on your home rig. You stand to learn so much more about how your system is constructed. Once you get to a certain level of understanding, most machines that you come into contact with that sport a terminal are easily usable.
EBS volumes have a ~99.9% reliability rating so on a long enough timeline you're going to need to restore from snapshots.

Writing to EFS however means that you can just treat your EC2 instance as a stateless front-end server that can be swapped out whenever needed.

Couple that with an autoscaling group and when the instance inevitably dies, it'll automatically come back up on a new host.

I don't have an ops team so I prefer AWS to be responsible for stuff like this wherever possible.
Summary: Install Oh my ZSH and never look back (Did it already)
Everything depends on your organization's scale and complexity! We've got multiple developers and have a workflow built around Git (feature branches, pull requests and all that); in my opinion a professional development outfit that doesn't use version control is failing at one of its basic responsibilities.
If you're stuck on Windows, the new Windows Terminal by Microsoft is somewhat promising: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal-preview/9...
Domain Services: A domain name extension scam
Monitoring the Covid-19 Crisis from Space
This is unknown, it's individual, and varies over orders of magnitude between different diseases.
Well, then it sounds like your reasoning gets it backwards: the axioms that produce systems without significant consequences or connections outside of their own abstract realm end up being ignored.

Or in other words: the constraints on maths are imposed from outside of maths.
And the issue with the festival outbreak is that it skews the demographic distribution?