skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But under your core product the only options for running Windows or Ubuntu are server instances. From what I can see I can't run a graphical desktop on top of your Ubuntu VMs.
When JEDI was first proposed, AWS had already been the vast majority of cloud services for the Intelligence community. This led to them having a distinct advantage because they already had the certified infrastructure to handle US Secret and Top Secret information. This was (in my own thoughts) why that immediate capability was stressed so much in the initial request for proposal.
>barred from answering questions on the subject during interviews

So probably yes.
I saw this book precisely once at the bookstore and could never find it again.

Thanks for posting this link since now I may actually be able to get hold of the book. Previously I couldn't remember the name even.
I mean, in an ideal world I'd think this would be an automatic DQ, but we live in the darkest timeline.
Western U.S. is locked in the grips of the first human-caused megadrought, study
Micrograd: A tiny autograd engine (~50 LOC) and a neural net library (~60 LOC)
Of course you can construct an argument for anything if you can just make up things. The fact here is that there is only one reality: your option 1. Those are the rules for any closed bid procurement processes. Who is going to bid for anything if they know they will be in a race to the bottom even after spending all their time on the initial bid?
And some billions from the Marshall Program
Isn't the point though that Amazon knew about Microsoft's bid and other proprietary elements and STILL bid high (while Microsoft was blind to Amazon's?) They already had the advantage of information. #2 has already effectively happened.
On my mobile browser, as I open one accordion, the others collapse, but the browser doesn't scroll to the top of the opened section. Pretty annoying.

That presentation plus the IMO shallow insights left me unsatisfied.
Well we'll know whether they were asymptomatic or presymptomatic in about five days after the typical incubation period has passed.
Give yourself a non-trivial project. It doesn't really matter what it is, you'll be 'building it to throw away' anyway.

Now start building it, with one hand on a good reference, and the other hand on the Google search page.

It'll be terrible code, but you'll be learning as you go. By the time you've built that program to your satisfaction, you'll have learned a lot.

So much so, that you will want to throw that first piece of crap programming away and to rewrite it properly.
Star Orbiting Black Hole Just Confirmed a Prediction Made by General Relativity
Improving G1 out-of-the-box performance
so identity federation isn't a thing? and is cloud the same as office ? because the former is all about supporting separation on the latter.

disclaimer: former aws, and always oss, and actually used aws/azure/gcp in anger
Sure, but in that chart Italy for example has had a declining graph for over two weeks, which means you can be reasonably sure it's not growing exponentially there.

And in Sweden's case, if you also look at the number of ICU admissions, they've been flat for weeks, and those numbers have very little lag.

I'm not saying everything is fine, I'm not saying we're over the peak, but I am saying that it's not the case that any country is experiencing uncontrolled exponential growth and is going to turn into a zombie wasteland in a couple of days.
There are surprisingly few desktop apps for basic sql -> charts, so I was happy to stumble on Falcon. It's similar to their web offering (or Periscope, Looker, etc) and works quite well (regardless of a few UI quirks).
The former health minister was considering the economy and had speaked public a few times about it. He recommendations were based in the fact that the government couldn't simply switch from a horizontal isolation to a non planned vertical isolation. He main responsibility (at least the short term one) was to not overload the hospitals and put the health professionals in risk, and at least that he has achieved.

On the other hand, the president wants a "vertical" isolation without a plan, he simply wants to "reopen the economy" (whatever it means). Remembering that he has largely underplayed the issue, calling it "just a little flu" (probably it would be better translated to: "just a cold").

Brazil doesn't have enough tests to make good decisions about which areas should be in a horizontal isolation or to be instead in a vertical one.

The former health minister was clear that all the information coming from his office should be backed by science (and this alone was bugging the president a lot for some reason). This also meant that he, as the health minister, couldn't go public and say that a specific medication was effective to treat the covid-19 just because some tests worked in vitro (any doctor or scientist knows that this alone doesn't mean that it'll work efficiently in vivo).

The president behaviour was the opposite, many times he went public to say that a drug tested in vitro was enough to have the horizontal isolation lifted out. And as a consequence or his irresponsible pronouncements, many of his followers ran to the drug stores to buy certain medications, leaving people that really need them for other diseases without medication.

So the main issue turned out to be the fact that the former health minister was becoming popular because of his common sense, and everyone knows that in the eyes of a populist, "there can be only one".
I'm not against using DB objects as an API in small doses, but in defense of GQL what about:

Client side caching

Subscriptions

Authorization & Authentication - stuck with w/e rdbms provides you here rather than being able to choose your A&A solution.

Deeply nested data - duplicate data or you do multiple queries

Business logic in DB - complex backwards compatibility views, CASE statements scattered all over the place, ugly ass row level permissions. All good to say it's avoidable or maybe you don't care, but I prefer not to deal with it at all (dealt with db objects as API for several years, wasn't...parra pa pa paaa lovin' it, so to say)
I used to be a glaciologist, specifically. People don't grow significant crops in those hot deserts. Afganistan has hot summers, but not horrifically hot compared to some areas. Afganistan also has low humidity, which is key for our ability to perspire. The worst-hit areas are humid tropical climates.

Middle eastern populations in the hottest and humidest areas usually have AC. Most other places aren't quite so bad, due to lower humidity if not lower temperature. Traditional populations lived in stone or mud brick houses that can withstand the midday heat better.

There has been several occasions recently where the heat index has gotten near fatal in Rajasthan and Punjab, which caused quite a few deaths.

Greenhouses aren't that hot, usually not more than 30C. Not many plants like it super hot. Even plants in hot climates will do better if its a bit cooler. With hotter climates, plants (at least the ones people rely on) undergo more heat stress and have shorter growing seasons. Much of Africa is drying, especially the Sahel. Similar situations will occur in many parts of S. America and Asia.

A big distinciton here is timeframe and how much mitigation happens. We are more or less locked into a 3C rise, which is really bad. And that's our effective best-case scenario. However, if mitigation fails, and it has thus far, a 7C rise by the end of the century is not out of the question. That will lead to a total civilizational collapse and probably eventual human extinction. We wouldn't be able to maintain an industrial civilization in such an environment, and we'd have to fall back on localized, less industrial production. But, the environment would be so degraded that non-intensive agriculture probably couldn't provide enough food to stave off continual population declines.
I'd like to just store the saved version in the same directory as my note, and use a relative link to the filename.
Useful link with more info about what's in Vue 3

https://madewithvuejs.com/blog/vue-3-roundup
I don't think that's too long at all, and I'm sure it helped.
I too am a 'pretty sure I had it already' person. I have also spoken to others that, like me, think they might have had it already.

In the weeks before the story went crazy I bought a dehumidifier in the belief that this might help me eradicate a dry cough that would not go away. Not for one moment did I think I had coronavirus at the time, however, as time went on, I began to wonder. Placebo or not, the dehumidifier was an extraordinary measure and my symptoms had been remarkably similar to those of the dreaded disease.

Because none of us were tested and because we didn't go to hospital we can be readily dismissed by those that only believe the TV news.

The founding myth is also a bit odd. We have a flying mammal - a bat - passing the disease on to an ant-eating mammal nobody ever sees in zoos - the Malayan pangolin - for this creature to be smuggled into China to then make it to a seafood market to then infect Wuhan. The sources for this are lacking and it is lazy reporting dressed up as science. I am surprised Father Christmas isn't in there somewhere.

The Spanish Flu of a century ago was only called that because neutral Spain wanted to know what was going on with the flu whereas the warmongering nations were blind to the epidemic that was wiping out their troops. There is a theory that the Chinese folk brought in to dig the trenches of WW1 were the source of the so-called Spanish Flu.

I am open to the idea that the Chinese happened to do the research and pick up on covid-19 first, hence the idea that it came from Wuhan. But did it really? There are 7 billion or so humans with many billions of intensively farmed animals yet it was some endangered species that doomed us all? I am increasingly believing the anecdata is stronger than this 'pangolin story'. I am definitely open to the idea this virus was doing the rounds outside China although there is no proof. However, I see this as like the Spanish Flu, now believed to have not started in Spain.

There is a Chinese saying about people too afraid to eat food in case they choke on it. Right now we are on track for everyone to stay indoors for eternity lest a Baby Boomer get it.
I don't believe in 100x engineers, but I've seen 0.1x engineers and some who probably go negative. There's a limit to how badly you can stock shelves, but a bad line of code can (and has) destroyed companies.
Having been on the winning side of a contract once for a bid that was clearly 100% written by a competitor, the Big Dog in our industry, in such a way that they absolutely thought only they could ever be meeting the terms - and then winning that bid by offering a better product at a lower price, and faster, I can a little bit imagine how satisfying this win must have been for the Microsoft bid manager or whatever they'd be called. And my project was only 6 digits.
First off - I don't know that it's normal for a competing company in a protest to post a press release like this. I know things have gotten nuts recently and people protest for giggles these days, but this seems... weird.

I also wonder to a certain extent why additional ceiling was not added under the current vehicle to do this if AWS was the preferred solution. MOUs signed, dollars routed, etc seems to be the easiest route rather than a massive procurement for something like this. It doesn't make any sense unless they're awarding an entirely new data center.

It also sounds like there's a disagreement about a core requirement / availability definitions which significantly impact storage costs, which obviously would change one's bid?
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252480585/AWS-hits-out-a...

DoD IG Report on the process:
https://www.scribd.com/document/456555063/Report-on-the-Join...
Are campus party events similar to demoscene? In Mexico (Guadalajara) they were renamed to talent land, but still have the same vibe as campus party.
A quote past the first paragraph of the story:

> the IG said "we believe the evidence we received showed that the DoD personnel who evaluated proposals and made the source-selection awarding Microsoft the JEDI Cloud contract were not pressured about their decision on the award of the contract by any DoD leaders more senior to them, who may have communicated with the White House."

As with most articles, the juicy, salacious lines are at the beginning but the real details are 10 paragraphs in.

Based on the following paragraphs, the IG did find evidence of ethical misconduct by Amazon as they hired the DOD guy who helped form the JEDI program.
ZenHub migrating from MongoDB to PostgreSQL for performance wins
The implicit question is what makes GraphQL and SQL different layers?

They both seem to be solving the same problem allowing clients to query data with joins and projections so they can get exactly the data they want in one query. I could imagine translating GraphQL to SQL and SQL to GraphQL in a relatively straightforward way. Contrast that with attempting to translate SQL into ASM and then ASM back into SQL. This suggests to me they are at about the same level of abstraction.
Natural Language Processing for Competitive Market Analysis
> They contacted Clearview and made sure that the issue was fixed before sharing the information they found with the press. What problem do you see with this? The researchers have no responsibility to keep Cleaeview's failures secret.

No problem with disclosing the vulnerability, but it's definitely problematic making the video footage publicly available—sure, anonymised, but we know how reliable that is, even if done with the best of intentions. At least, that's how I read your parent:

> But it's disquieting that this story appears to include sensitive private information obtained through security research and released directly to a media outlet, including camera footage apparently taken from a compromised cloud storage bucket. That's not how security research works.
this list exemplifies the biggest issue i have with IRC. it's not federated. these are all islands, and i'd have to sign up on each one of them to join the community there.

that said, none of the newer alternatives are any better unfortunately.

it seems jabber really was the only federated system with any moderate success, and maybe matrix is getting there too with its ability to integrate different services.
I’m guessing this is Mayo Clinic?
"The evidence we received" is fairly meaningless when coupled with "we weren't allowed to obtain the evidence we wanted".
$800 / $0.18 per hour = 4444.4 hours

I think you did:
$800 / $18 per hour = 44 hours

Pretty big difference! Curious, does this change your value assessment?
Where was it mounted? On your helmet will tend to make everything seem far away and slow. Stick it on your ankle or on the board itself...
For the 'feet wet' question:

Some people have suggested assembly. That would be a good idea if we were still back in the simpler, less complex, 8-bit era of the Z80 or 6502 CPUs.

In today's world, I'd go for the "high-level assembly language" or in proper terminology, the C programming language.

To learn that, I'd buy the book of the same name: "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie.

Then follow the procedure laid out in my other comment.
Guess you never heard about Facebook trying to trademark simple words... "book"..."like"..."face"...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/08/can-f...
It would tend to add weight to the growing evidence that public health officials in most countries have been pursuing the wrong strategy all along. We could save more lives in the short term and avoid overwhelming the healthcare system by focusing our limited resources on providing safe voluntary quarantine spaces for the elderly and others at highest risk.
Show HN: Track your audience growth getting your metrics delivered to your inbox
Hi everyone. For the last 3 weeks, I’ve been working on the following project. The thing is that I own several accounts for my projects, some Instagram accounts, twitters, mail chimp lists, GitHub repositories, etc (you know what I mean). So it was really hard to keep track of how my audience was growing (or not) in any of them. I never remind how many followers, or subscriber I have in each one, and if my audience on them is really growing. Any of the most known platforms has a historical view neither :( .
So I decided to build my own solution. I create a very simple app, that sends directly to your inbox a report showing the followers (subscribers, etc) you have in your accounts. Also, it saves the historical data, so it shows how much your audience has grown.

I choose for an email report, because I don’t want another app to remember, I don’t want to have to log in and check metrics in a dashboard. I prefer to receive a scheduled report that I could check when I read my emails. Easy and simple. I tell you, is really exciting to check your emails and see you have received a new report, willing to see what your audience is growing. As I really enjoyed the result, I decided to release it to the world. Is FREE, but I added a premium plan, to see if I can make some money with it haha.

For the tech lovers: I built it with ExpressJS (Node), Vuejs + Bulma, Mysql DB and Nodemailer. I would love to answer any technical questions if you have any.
Thoughts on Estimates 2
Having Fun with Rust
Tortured artists have produced some great work, true.

J. S. Bach had some hardships in his life, but he wasn't tortured.

J. R. R. Tolkien, similarly, was not tortured.

da Vinci's life doesn't seem to have been horrible either.

I think they stand as strong counterexamples to the idea that tortured artists make the best art.
Your comment got me thinking, there must be a lot of anxious people out there, out without a job and/or worried about dying. At least where I live the social system is very robust (here's hoping my judgement is right), so there should be less of said anxiety; in India there are millions of day workers who had zero savings before the crisis and are now jobless and homeless, and unable to travel to their hometowns because the train network is shutdown. A week or two more of the shutdown and there will probably be riots there.

Elsewhere, anxiety will lead to bad behaviors and crimes...
> "Phone number based apps are vulnerable to SIM hijacking". Signal users can choose to "lock" their account with a PIN so that an apparently new phone with that number doesn't get access unless its owner presents the PIN.

But it's only OWS that control that check, right?

> Harvesting every single SMS message is trivial and so undoubtedly the NSA does it, they can run simple keyword matching an statistical analysis, and keep everything in case it's interesting. Each SMS message carries the sender, recipient and full text. In contrast harvesting even the encrypted Signal messages is difficult, and even with a successful (and relatively unlikely) breach of Open Whisper Systems itself neither the contents or in most cases senders are revealed by doing this. (Messages to friends or to those happy to receive messages from strangers don't need to reveal who sent them to Signal's own systems, only to the recipient). So instantly such government bulk collection isn't possible.

Comparing to SMS is a strawman. If the best thing you can say for your crypto is that it's more secure than SMS, it sucks.

Practically Signal offers little advantage over any messenger with transport encryption (e.g. Facebook Messenger): in both cases you pretty much have to trust the organisation itself.

> GPG's security is definitely not "superior" because it's based on the PGP hybrid crypto which is from last century.

It's based on a mature cryptosystem which we know the NSA tried and failed to break. That's better than using something novel and unproven.

> For example there's no Forward Secrecy, so it makes sense to steal encrypted PGP data on the expectation that you'll some day be able to decrypt it. In contrast old Signal encrypted messages are probably completely useless because the keys needed to decrypt them likely no longer exist anywhere.

True as far as it goes (though the PGP standard has good support for key rotation via subkeys - it would be good to improve the UX around this), but think about your threat model - reading messages from 10 years ago might not be the biggest vulnerability. In contrast, using Signal means an attacker who gains access to one person's phone has immediate access to phone numbers for all their contacts - which for a government means probably getting immediate access to their names, addresses, and real-time locations.

Signal does do a few good things that PGP-based cryptosystems don't. But the downsides massively outweigh the upsides in my book.
I quoted the single pricing which includes the Single Supplement. Traveling solo is only slightly less than the price for 2 people.
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I see, that's fair.

I don't recall paying extra for Radar and I definitely received an early warning from them, but after the transaction went through. It's apparently included on standard Australian pricing but costs an extra $0.08 per transaction if you're on a negotiated rate. Good to know.
Is it really "ripping them off" to use SI prefixes for base 10 just because (a huge number of) other people are accidentally using SI prefixes (base 10) when they really ought to be using IEC prefixes (base 2)?

Calling it a a "2 TiB disk" when it's actually a 2,000,000,000,000 B disk would be a blatant ripoff.
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) Tutorial
Really? I'm not very knowledgeable about the subject but I always understood that discharging the battery was healthy. Is there somewhere I can read up on why that is?
Tesla asked for money.

Hedge funds asked for money.

The U.S. government works for, and is run by, big businesses.
> They want to maintain the head start they made with GovCloud as long as possible and keep other companies out. Icky.

I'm not picking on you as an individual, but there's great justice in Microsoft suffering this.
Yes, it is normal. Even small government RFP contracts often have do-overs when losers challenge the results.

I remember when Boeing first was awarded the US Air Force tanker contract. It was soon rescinded for, among other things, fraud. They won the project again the second time around.

Recently, the US Air Force has refused delivery of the tankers because of manufacturing flaws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darleen_Druyun
This can't possibly stick. Xi will have egg on his face. On the other hand, it will make a great distraction from the emerging virus scandal.
I'm surprised nobody mentioning the similarity of TeXmacs to Tioga editor within the legendary CEDAR desktop environment from Xerox [1]:

I've read somewhere some years ago that if you can create a usable hybrid combination of MS Office Word document (WYSIWYG) and TeX then you have a killer application for document editor. Additionally, similar to Tioga with the fact that you can also use other programs inside TeXmacs (e.g. spreadsheet, Octave, etc) is a huge boon for productivity [2].

I think the naming of the TeXmacs does create confusion though since it creates the impression that this is combination of TeX and Emacs but it's neither of them. Just like the Holy Roman Empire after the collapsed of Roman Empire, it's neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire.

Now hoping for the modern incarnation version of CEDAR desktop environment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

[2] http://cajun.cs.nott.ac.uk/wiley/journals/epobetan/pdf/volum...
More precisely, it looks like Amazon hired the DOD guy who helped write the scope. Being involved in those pre-RFP discussions, understanding the reasoning, and secondary undocumented concerns would be immensely valuable.