skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time a new AWS region is made public, it continues to highlight the disparity in services availability across the regions, as well as making information about services available. Many regions are "discovered" because the ip-regions.json file is updated long before the press release, but it will be some weeks to months before key information needed to spin up infrastructure appears in documentation, for example things like the ELB hosted zone identifier, which at time of writing is not documented.
This is what I'm currently using but I'm not totally loving it.

I landed on it because the speed is unparalleled, but there's a few too many quirks (recent repositories never seems to work for me) and the UI is almost there but it's too hard to instantly see the status of things, particularly whether things are staged or not staged.
Another "+1" for this approach. I usually default to the CLI for almost everything, however some repositories which have a really messy history I prefer to view the history in a GUI for to speed things up a bit. I'll also sometimes use a GUI if I want to commit hunks of large files as moving through the files and seeing the full context is often a bit easier.

I still always prefer the CLI and will use that first, but I'd feel silly dying on that hill for every situation.
Sign me up for early vaccine trials then.
That's funny - I always think "maybe we'll talk about the composer instead of that dang keyboard layout this time!"
Why is this considered a good thing?

The only "security" this improves, is of devices where the manufacturer has decided to lock you out!
Oh, people care. Google put a ton of money and effort into Stadia, but it flopped on launch and now seems quite dead. I'd put a good chunk of the blame for that on Google's reputation. Any online discussion or news article about Stadia mentioned Google's penchant for killing products. It's hurting them, but perhaps not enough to overcome their ad revenue, so there's not much motive to change.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/googles-constant-pro...
I think humanity is going to learn to accept coronavirus, just like we have accepted pneumonia or the flu. There will always be some cases and some deaths every year. The uncomfortable question is when those numbers are low enough that its not worth it to quarantine anymore.

Lockdown has very real costs. We are seeing crazy unemployment, a huge spike in calls to suicide hotlines, and very likely an increase in all-cause mortality as people are unable to get regular preventative care. Someone who would have had that weird lump checked out last year isn't going to right now.

We are already seeing protests pop up all over the place. And as most places have seen daily new cases start to fall, lockdown will become unenforceable as people get too restless.
I love games and linux. But never play one in linux.
Based on a hidden assumption:

> You don’t even need React: come on, I mean most of you are building simple disposable sites that won’t even be around in a year. Do you really need to build that brochure site in React?

That's like saying most of us are traveling short distances, and thus bikes are objectively better than cars. Bikes are nice, but sometimes I have to move furniture, Karen.
No, you're not alone in feeling this way. But I would assert that most people who feel this way are currently employed or have significant savings. It's easy to comment on hacker news from your cushy WFH job about "those silly protestors who want to re-open the economy." But there is a reason they are so frustrated. They are people who have been living paycheck-to-paycheck and suddenly find themselves without a job, but with bills still arriving and kids still asking for food on the table. They want the world to be healthy, too. They don't want to endanger you or themselves. But they want to feed their families.
> most hospitals are bankrupt for lack of running any profitable procedures

That's a very American problem due to having private hospitals...
En-Roads – Climate Change Solutions Simulator
One might justify keeping the original ticket price as it being unfair to early acquirers to lower prices but I don't find that a compelling argument; people are usually happy to pay extra for novelty. The early acquirers get something for paying the higher price.

Usually second hand goods draw prices of older items (ie less novel - shop-new but not design-new) down. But quashing of secondary markets for software allows prices to be kept high.

I have an irrational urge to acquire this 2nd hand now ...
I would assume that the market is self correcting.

If there was shortage of food, it's price would be up and farmers would plant food crops.
Is there an up to date docker? Tried to set it up a few times across the years but couldn't.
If you'd like to be adventurous, I highly recommend the Nief-Norf folks[0] who are streaming live music in support of modern chamber music, and having old streams available. Some really great music here. They're raising money there, but encourage people to listen for free if you can't support them. Full disclosure: I'm acquainted with Megan Ihnen, one of the people who run Nief-Norf... you should check out her singing, her voice is a force of nature, for example here[1] (where the recording doesn't do her any favors, alas, but it's better than nothing).

[0] https://dots.livemusicproject.org/virtual-norf-space/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb4OYwDurWo
I really like this take on the project!
I think we're saying the same thing from two different perspectives :) The 'managing process' is the daemon thread. The 'crashed process' is a worker thread. There's no need to worry about corrupted memory since all state is shared through the database.
Not enough that I’d trust it with anything I cared about. Drives have many mechanical failure modes, the higher density ones are more exposed to media degradation, and you have different environmental concerns – e.g. flash will survive water better.

The best answer is multiple copies, preferably on different media: hedge your bets and use both, and verify it periodically so you’d know before your “working” drive throws a ton of errors when you actually try to read the data.
Rupert Cloud in Africa
Shut down the pubs and focus on the important stuff.

It's already surprising how much of the activity turned out to be "non-essential". And we can have oil at half-price to do the essential. :D
Thanks, that's it!

A good video and better than I explained it too.

The video says it's inspired by Taleb's Black Swan so I suspect I read it in that too.
Sorry to be saying this but the post seems so smug and smarter-than-thou.

> I know. I know. No one wants to hear this.

> But, but… vaccine?

Would this kind of antagonism really convince anyone?
Even that is far from adequate analogy if you think about the economics behind these things.

Buying a graveyard is essentially buying a piece of land (and maybe some very little amount of ongoing maintenance cost)

A web storage is not only for storing on a hard drive because unless you can reliably read from it, it means nothing. And THIS costs a lot of money, for maintenance and ongoing innovation to keep the costs down.

If storing someone else's data for free at scale was such an easy problem, none of the web startups would be going down.
Great job with a sensationalist unrealistic title. This isn't a scenario grounded in fact and it's written by a speculative software engineer. Not a medical professional or epidemiologist.
God this is awful. Tears of animals used to control populations of lab animals.

What is it with Hacker News and some fascination of this topic.

Here is from an earlier post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19867382 (possibly NSFL)
Don’t be ridiculous. Parents would have to teach their children how to read and write, which I can assure you is skilled work and takes a lot of time and effort. (We may all have to start doing this, but it certainly won’t happen by default.)
Countries that end their lockdowns early will be seen as a problem and we will see travel bans.
But the argument "These estimates are way to optimistic; don't pay attention. Here's my equally ridiculous pessimistic estimate. Pay attention!" carries no weight. It's that annoying person who always stakes out the contrarian position just because.

So the headline and thesis have been successful in getting us discussing the situation, but the content is weak with no evidence from a source with zero credibility.
The problem is we have no proof that they are better than no education (autodidactism) or even some other education, to begin with.
And in crisis times they signal their courses give no edge over the job market by.. laying off their own people.
> very tacky Fischer Price toy

As in "something even a child could use"? Indeed

> Why do we even need always visible scroll bars?

To know how long the page is, to know what state we are BEFORE we interact with it, to know that there is no such a thing as "above the fold" or other nonsense, etc.

Now allow me to ask you, with no intention to sound like an ass: why would you hide bars apart from saving 20px (which I assume was Windows' default, but let's say 100px for discussion' sake)?
I'm struggling to understand this comment. The GP is entirely correct here: any thinking adult knows that 5 years of lockdown would cause human suffering on a scale unheard of in modern history. There is no correct choice here for policy makers, but an extended lockdown will cause death and suffering as well.
Why don't they start with a proven technology of chemtrails?
Brain Computation: A Computer Science Perspective [pdf]
I agree with you. People are ignoring the very serious consequences of lockdown, and trying to frame it like the only reason you could want to end lockdown is because you're evil and greedy.
Yup. Humans collectively are responsible for a lot of unnecessary greenhouse gases just because they want to have a pretty wedding or a party.

I can understand the argument about money, economy, livelihood, etc., but IMHO some things ought to be regulated to avoid situations where a bunch of roses carry a non trivial amount of carbon footprint.

Wouldn't it be possible to use locally grown flowers?
ARM Development for the Office: Unboxing an Ampere EMag Workstation
Couldn't that invalidate research results
On the other hand, those who are likely to remain loyal will stay.

I worked at a place that went through hard times and the employees that stuck around were 'untouchable' in the owners eyes, for better or for worse.
There are always idiots out there who will break the law and cause problems. That does not mean we don't trust anyone.

If anything, we should expect government authorities to keep a calm head and exercise power judiciously, rather than panicking and issuing dramatic orders so they look like they're doing something.

In any case, we don't have any studies that show that a lockdown is necessary to achieve the desired goal.
Honestly, the lesson behind this piece is - break quarantine because the experiences are better than the sickness. Even when it talks about Twain being sick, it's in a hand-wavy passing sort of manner.

>The sickness prevented him from seeing parts of Syria, but he still found a cause to laugh: It was “a good excuse to lie there on that wide divan and take an honest rest.” He recovered, and the trip continued.

All in all, cholera doesn't sound that bad according to this.

The problem is, at this day and age, any editorial choice seems to have a political angle. From this particular organization, that angle will be conservative at best.

Maybe the world is making me paranoid. Maybe not everyone has an agenda in media and politics. But I genuinely believe this type of article is meant to further a larger message. This one is 'quarantine = bad and breaking the quarantine = good'. It's subtle, but it's there.
I'm not playing word games.

Template metaprogramming and constexpr doesn't help being faster in HPC or GPGPU, it helps reduce the redundancy of your code, for example if you want a generic algorithm on float, double, int, complex.

What helps speed is being able to control memory allocations and having the tool to place the data required on registers, L1 cache or L2 cache as required by your kernel (and similarly for GPU).

On current architectures, what is hard to optimize is memory and data movement, if your data is at the wrong place or not prefetched at the right time it will be literally 100 times more costly than a saved addition from constexpr.
Using Jest to Test Your Express-Backed React App
Show HN: Chrome extension to blur personal data before screen capture
Code is available in C++, Python, Ruby, R, and Rust at https://github.com/bhatiasiddharth/MIDAS
Yes you're right. In fact the fact that they are asking for you money is what ticks me off the most.

Let me put it this way instead. They are essentially saying they will pay for the hosting and data access usage and networking costs forever, and you can enjoy all these things for free forever, if you "only" pay an upfront cost. And that's a lie. There's no such thing as forever, especially if it's run by beings that won't be around forever. The scammy people behind this initiative will all die in hundred years. Without an economically viable model, it will all go.

In my eyes, what they are doing is essentially trying to make it big with a one time splash, and don't care what happens next. No different from all the scammy blockchain ICOs that promise "forever immutable storage".
I don't think most consumers of content use patreon to get at the creators content eg I use YouTube to watch forgotten weapons.
I am pretty sure it’s deliberate, I mean did ‘98 have clear type yet? Did it work?
From the abstract:

'The brain carries out tasks that are very demanding from a computational perspective, apparently powered by a mere 20 Watts.This fact has intrigued computer scientists for many decades, and is currently drawing many of them to the quest of acquiring a computational understanding of the brain. Yet, at present there is no productive interaction of computer scientists with neuroscientists in this quest.'
Maker here. I have built the DataMask Chrome extension out of personal frustration when manually hiding private data in screenshots for my blog articles. I was spending a lot of time opening Chrome Dev tools manipulating website content and then finishing the job with Sketch. I wanted a tool which would let me do this work without leaving the browser and remove the need to use dev tools or design software all together.
With this in mind DataMask was born. After several iterations it can now automatically scramble all text on a website, draw blur rectangles and enable basic HTML edit capabilities.

Give DataMask a go and let me know how I can improve it further.
If you've ever tried to monetize NSFW content in a context that involves credit cards, you know it is an absolute nightmare. If Onlyfans is seriously NSFW, it may have no problems accepting credit cards but its days are numbered and it runs the risk of the credit card processors unilaterally refusing to service them anymore (especially Visa, IIRC)

Patreon is at the scale where they would be exceedingly aware of this. One of the side-effects of the earlier 'not tying payments super tight to individual creators, but just charging patrons for ALL their committments' is that it let them aggregate charges in such a way that patrons were doing business with THEM, not 'NSFWCamGirl69', while still supporting CamGirl as the patron intended. The credit card company didn't really have a way to dig in and go 'prove you're not giving any of this money to porn creators'.

This changed, but Patreon remains a platform where it screens creators pretty well from the moral expectations of credit card processors (and governments? kinda? It's a very tough problem if they expect to do business at all in certain countries)

The question is more 'will Onlyfans be cut off from service by credit card companies': 'growing faster' is not useful if it's doomed. They have to also stay in business and maintain relationships with processors that have a record of showing intent to blacklist certain types of creation.
> We design interfaces for the many first, and keep them as simple as possible but not simpler.

The many being able bodied, literate, touch-device-carrying people? I am not sure interfaces should be designed like that.
Thank you very much! That's exactly what I was looking for.
Opensnitch is not a port from macOS. It is a GUI layer-7 firewall, like good ol' ZoneAlarm or -indeed- Little Snitch. Code-wise, it has nothing to do with Little Snitch. The development is also stalled (there's an active fork though).

Does OpenBSD's pledge require or have user-friendly GUIs? Are there good GUIs for PF?
Your comment here is far more uncivil and aggressive than the one you're replying to.
Don't forget B2 involves putting that data onto multiple hard-drives and ensuring it isn't lost. What if that single disk were to be lost? You're paying Backblaze to ensure that GB can be accessed in the future
> Why don't you read the optimistic reading more often? It's almost like people think fear was virtuous.

Being pessimistic is not the same thing as being afraid. Being cautious is not the same thing as being afraid. Acting on negative prediction does not mean one is acting out of fear.
It seems that everyone has become an epidemiologist in the past two months, despite never having even heard of concepts like R0 or herd immunity before 2020.
Worse thing is, starvation will be the lesser concern if it were to happen. People won't let themselves die of starvation, they will kill for food. Food scarcity will be nothing compared to the ensuing violence.
>you expect them to have solid authentication/authorization framework which they use for all their products

haha
I appreciate general knowledge and wide interest Polish shools can give you, especially after I worked with people from UK, and I noticed I knew more about their history than they did, despite graduating computer science :).

But one effect the Polish education system has is rampant cheating. It was expected (if officialy discouraged) that kids good at "hard sciences" will cheat on "humanities". Kids who were good at biology and wanted to become doctors were supposed to care about math and language less, etc. But they still had to have good average grades, so they were cheating on everything that wasn't on the entrance exams for medical schools (nowadays there's final exam at school instead of entrance exams at universities, but it changes nothing - there's still a few subjects you have to be good at and everything else you just have to have good grades in).

In effect adults are saying "this you should really know if you want to be X, and everything else you should somehow have good grades in, I don't care how".

So kids cheated on the subjects they weren't considering important for their future. I had wide interests and treated most subjects seriously but still I cheated on some geography tests because they were absurd - teacher expected us to remember top 5 exporters and importers of each of like 30 different resources and foods. And to remember how many tons of X each produced...

It was literally remembering tables of hundreds of numbers for 1 test and then forgetting them immediately. And that test was the same every year (data was from like 10 years ago :) ), and we had the test and the answers from the previous year. I'm sure the teacher knew it, but making a new one was too much hassle. It was basically an exerise in cheating the system and showing kids how absurd it is and how dumb you have to be to follow the rules.

And then there were subjects that were unimportant for everybody (no entrance exams depended on them), so even teachers teaching them expected everybody to cheat. And that was like 30% of all the subjects in high school - stuff like economy, plastic art, music, philosophy, religion, ethics, defense training, politics and society knowledge, even computer science (because computer science entrance exams were all about math, and computer science in high school was mostly microsoft office tutorial and playing games while teacher pretends to teach).
Ask HN: 5G Connectivity for IoT
With 5G networks rolling out when, if ever, will inexpensive connectivity be made available at scale? Looking at the major wireless carriers, it looks like they are currently selling 5G as just a faster 4G with the same pricing.

How far away are we from inexpensive wireless broadband connectivity?

Are there any competing technologies that could be viable?
I did have one, but I was working for an American company.
You are two years out of college with a good amount of savings. Now is as good of a time to quit as it ever will be. You are not going to have more time or less responsibilities going forward.
Show HN: My book 'Why cryptocurrencies?', explaining the use of cryptocurrencies
After more than a year of writing a little here and there, my book [Why cryptocurrencies?](https://whycryptocurrencies.com/) is now completed and it's available to read online for free.

I started this project because I got tired of the misconceptions people had about cryptocurrencies, even in highly technical communities, and on the constant focus on the investment side instead of the possible utility and usefulness. The phrase that grinds my gears the most is how "there's no use-case for cryptocurrencies", which I hope to put to rest with this book.

The book isn't aimed at any specific cryptocurrency, but on the potential of them as a whole and we'll cover topics such as:

* What money is and how cryptocurrencies might be the best money we've ever seen
* How cryptocurrencies can compete against other digital payment systems with their low fees and irreversible transactions
* The importance of truly uncensorable donations and the problems with permissioned payment systems
* How cryptocurrencies might help you reclaim your financial privacy
* If you're tired of the shenanigans of the central banks, cryptocurrencies represent an alternative financial system
* That you can build applications on top of cryptocurrencies, such as provably fair gambling or a timestamping service based on mathematics instead of social proof.

While the online part of the book is finished, my plan is to take it easy a little while and then start working on an e-book and a paperback. (If you're aware of a way to provide a self-published paperback purchasable with cryptocurrencies, without me handling the distribution, please let me know!)

If you enjoyed the book please help spread the word or consider [donating](https://whycryptocurrencies.com/free.html#donations-is-a-perfect-use-for-cryptocurrencies).