skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's just GitHub. I noticed everything seemed slow but thought it was just my ISP. Turns out from looking at downdetector.com there seems to be a large spike in reported problems across many sites and providers, all occurring at the same time.
They posted a warning that the uptick in Teams usage and general cloud use has meant they have much less spare capacity - see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft...
I don’t understand why AI or a search engine had to meet your or anyone’s expectations for diversity. If I searched for “shirt” and didn’t get shirt pictures in the color I wanted I would just tune my query instead.
I really really want to see this (with a embedded 10G NIC) in a new generation of NASes. It's embarrassing how much that space has stagnated in the prosumer space, and this looks like a nice replacement for the celery or atom processors.
Pretty cool! I like the idea of edit a file -> save in your repo -> edit -> save. Export as needed.
This is making a bad situation , adding oil to it, and lighting it on fire hoping that the problem will go away unnoticed.

I have a lot of WD(HGST) (more than 2 PB) in service as of now. I will never buy anything WD until they come clean on shit like this. They should talk to VW about Karma and how it bites your behind.
As a frequent cyclist these are generally good suggestions. Google Maps is helpful for planning bike routes, but the biggest problem I've found is that it doesn't differentiate between surface types. Some of the routes it recommends are really only usable on a mountain bike and not suitable for a road bike with 23mm tires.

I prefer to use Garmin Connect most of the time because it does differentiate between road bike versus mountain bike courses, and can do popularity based routing for either type. But sometimes the routing algorithm goes crazy and gives you routes that make no sense at all.

Strava data is available for license without acquiring the whole company.
Would love to hear any feedback you have on what made your experience with Delve more difficult than it needed to be. Feel free to open an issue describing the pain points your ran into, or send mail to the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/delve-dev.
We are feeling beings that think, not thinking beings that feel.
I would guess that since they introduced free private repos, usage has been increased a lot.
Eg. I used to use bitbucket but switched over to github when they did that, cus the github desktop program is nice and works a lot more smoothly with gtihub as opposed to bitbucket.
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In browsers at least, DRM doesn't work if your full page doesn't use HTTPS.

The encrypted media extensions (EME) are only available on secure contexts, which means the page needs to be HTTPS. Segments are typically fetched with standard XHR/fetch, which means they need to use HTTPS on secure origins as well. You really don't want to have to deal with mixed content.

Unrelated to DRM, Apple's ATS on iOS kinda requires developers to only use HTTPS origins in their apps.

At that point, you might as well just do HTTPS everywhere.
That sounds brutal!

Still, it seems like a very worthwhile project. I'm fed up with modern browsers myself (the "megabar" on Firefox 75 is, somehow, the last straw for me.)

I'm going to keep an eye on Stealth because it sounds like the perfect browser/proxy engine for an experimental UI I'm working on.

Cheers! Good work and good luck. :)
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Doctors are limited by the American Medical Association which sets the limit on residency slots. Basic biochemistry is done by low-paid grad students, a large percentage (possibly a majority at some schools) of whom are from lower cost of living countries, particularly China and India.
> buy a competitor's drive

Unfortunately... The competitor(s) you want, no longer exist! Here are some facts.

* Seagate - WD's main competitor - historically didn't have a reputation of high reliability in the industry [0][1]. Its ST3000DM001 [2] drive was terrible enough to have its own Wikipedia article, which is extremely unusual for a hard drive. In terms of reputation of reliability, WD was better, and HGST (Hitachi) had the best.

* Then WD brought HGST. It was kept as an independent operation for a while, since it was required by the regulators. But now it has been fully merged into WD. As parts of the deal, Toshiba received some hard drive assets from WD, thus, Seagate, WD, and Toshiba are the only three hard drive manufacturers, forming a worldwide oligopoly. Wikipedia has a great diagram showing the process of corporate consolidation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_Hard_Disk_Driv...

* Toshiba, Seagate shipping slower SMR drives without disclosure, too [3].

So what can we do? Not much. Buy Toshiba exclusively to make WD and Seagate less powerful? Maybe. But none of them is honest in the SMR affair. Nevertheless, relatively speaking, I do find that WD's denial has made the other two more honest comparatively.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8355860

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11110902

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22906959
I’m guessing things aren’t quite so clear cut as you think they are. Trivially, Apple has an engineering presence in various European countries, it wouldn’t make sense to have this clause in their employment contract if it wasn’t applicable everywhere.
Consider something simple and everyday like a test to see if you have <virus>. There is a true positive, false positive, true negative, and false negative. It could be any one of the four. When we think that there are only two outcomes, we lose track of probability quickly.
Not sure, but I think his concern was more about the introduction of opaque steps being introduced in the compiler and becoming something people depend on. A weak analogy might be nVidia drivers on linux, imagine a new arch where part of the toolchain is a closed blob.

It turns out that hasn't happened yet with LLVM and allowing such things under LGPL may have worked.
Have you tried a Stromer? They're beasts. I took one up Clipper street hill without too much effort (or I should say it took me up).

Though even the Lyft rental ebikes aren't bad. I had one take my 190lb bulk up the steep hill from Aquatic Park Pier to Black Point (by Fort Mason) without much effort.

I think at least a 500W hub motor is required for SF
Sure, just anecdotally this is my first time running into this so it might be that capacity issues are particularly acute right now.

Even that article states that there hadn't been any service disruptions in the US up to now, but I am certainly experiencing it now.
Rule #1 of bicycletouring: Never trust a computer.

I have several paper cycling maps that I maintain (sometimes they need to be updated) because one of my dearest hobbies is bycyclecamping.

I've let that computer betray me several times, no more.

I've used both Google maps and OSMAnd. One summer I tried using osmand offline feature to download my entire route.

I still prefer paper maps, a compass and dead reckoning.
I'm keep saying this (and it's mentioned in the original comment) - it's not criticism to the project, it's criticism to the 'suckless' philosophy. I have total respect to the project, and I believe that if this project can succeed in having comparable features with less complexity with FreeType, it will be great.

Also, the mention of CJK support is based on my personal experience. (I've mentioned it here[0], previously.) Much bigger open source projects like whole linux distributions or even proprietary software companies don't do CJK (or at least Hangul) properly. I'm pretty sure, from my experience that a small library fails to do it properly. If it does (as I've mentioned above), it would be great.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22933613
Practically all entry level developers are non-remote workers. This makes a lot of difference.
Yes, I read that.

So people with body length differences of 40 or 45cm are to use the same bicycle.

I find that hilarious. There's like 20 frame sizes in that range. Most good manufacturers offer at least a dozen.
Covid-19: The Data We Have, and How We Can Use It
It's not important to determine the amount of asymptomatic cases, but it's important to detect asymtomatic individuals so that their contacts can be traced and tested as well.

This was not done, and "strategy A" failed because of that.
I didn't see an important point that I think is relevant for fully-remote devs and correct me if I'm wrong: On-site benefits. If you work remotely, you can't use several of the benefits a company provides so a difference in the salary is common as a compensation for those.

Same for healthcare plans and taxes. A lot of remote workers have to pay those, which in many cases are completely or partially paid by the company, so a bigger salary is needed.
You don't need serverless/FaaS for that. PaaS has existed for a long time, and many providers will now let you run any container image which is a lot more portable than custom frameworks. Zeit v1 actually did this.
There's plenty of cheap drives sold as NAS drives which have no RAID, or enclosures which default to JBOD, so their suggestion seems to be that the standard Red drives are now only suitable for "Build your own MyBook" use.
Google has a Street View Trike to collect images from bike paths. It hasn't been widely used yet.

https://services.google.com/fb/forms/streetviewussuggestions...
3ID Connect: A whole new way to onboard 3Box users
Looks like React's originators (Jordan Walk and Pete Hunt) are funders.
I've long thought it would be neat to make a Factorio mod that lets you represent pieces of data as items that can be passed around and processed by different steps. For multithreaded, message-based programs it could really help one spot problems as the thing runs, e.g. messages never being responded to because someone's output buffer got full.
I've tried both - hub motors feel snappy and fun. mid-drives feel sluggish and heavy. With a hub-drive, it's like all the extra mass of the ebike is gone. With a mid-drive, you're very much aware it's there. I'd never get a mid-drive unless they solved that.
I'm also Dutch, and even for cars Google Maps isn't the best. Traffic info maybe, but routing? Here Maps does both, with better time estimates in my experience.
When the probabilities change people need some time to estimate the new probabilities, an in real life the transition usually is linear, so perhaps they detect that the previous winning strategy is becomming worse, that is they try to predict the future using a linear model not expecting an instanct change in probabilities.
> Why is it always hate, hate and hate.

I firmly believe that being mean (spreading hate) takes much less effort than being nice. It's like curse words. It is so much easier to drop an F-Bomb than it is to a word that's more descriptive. People just gravitate towards the low effort fruit, even if it isn't nearly as delicious.
You regret it now when you have more than half of your life ahead of you. But when you have nearly all of it behind you do you think you'll still regret it?

I don't think I will.
Yes, that happens sometimes, but no, there are not thousands of unnoticed dead people in their apartments in Japan.

Occam’s razor in this case is that the pandemic in Japan isn’t as bad as the author projected. It’s not a conspiracy or coverup and there aren’t dead bodies hiding everywhere, the author was just wrong.
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"Late game factorio feels exactly like coding, except you can't copy paste as well and make loops and other time saving abstractions."

I'm not sure what you mean by "as well", but Factorio does have various rather sophisticated methods of copying and pasting. For instance, there's the regular Control-C sort of copy, which allows you to rotate the entities before pasting, should you prefer. Then there are blueprints, which let you select which entities in a copied blueprint to store, what icon(s) to assign them, and let you have a library of blueprints and folders of blueprints even. That's more sophisticated than some text editors' copy/paste features.

As far as loops go, you can actually create loops in Factorio.

First, there's the simple belt loop. Those can be pretty useful (like with Koravex enrichment process, and coal-powered coal miners powering themselves or each other are also pretty popular).

Inserters can also be used in loops (from box to box, for instance).

Then there are more sophisticated loops involving trains and entire factory groupings.

Then there's the circuit network and combinators, which provide a visual programming language in which loops are possible. Some mods provide combinators will expose the full power of Lua programming to you in-game.

This is not to mention the possibility of writing your own Factorio modules in Lua, which literally is programming in text in a traditional language, and where you can write loops to your heart's content.

As for "time saving abstractions", with the Factorissimo2 mod, you can even abstract away parts of your factory and reuse those parts as modules. These modular parts can themselves be abstracted or nested as submodules of other modules, etc.
Reminding the individual that their fate is in their hands is the way to go ! Even better when they can remind themselves!
Most Docker CVE scanners are failing to identify common packages
CircleCI's having a lot of trouble, too. Intermittent 500s, and even the images on the 500 page don't load.

Seems like something bigger might be going on.
No, people make the best decisions they can, because evolution. The brain is a gland.
What to do when typing hurts (2015)
In an ideal world, pushing new features would have no impact on stable mature features like browsing files, comment threads, etc
Meh. Since this article is largely anecdotal, I might as well add my 'dote to the anec:

I'm on Book 5 of Dune (Heretics of Dune), averaging roughly one a week since this started. I read my weekly issue of The Economist throughout the week with breakfast.

For my "project" I'm studying up on STM32 low-power states, something I've wanted to do for ages and now have more free time. So I'm going back and fixing some of my projects to be more efficient. I've also finally figured out how to use Eclipse -- efficiently! -- on Linux with the ARM GCC toolchain. So that's a plus. Now I'm studying Silicon Labs Simplicity Studio. These are things that have been backing up on my project list for almost a year.

Also grinding through the Linux Networking Drivers book, but that's an effort.

So, I'm reading a lot, both technical and (pulp) literature. Granted, Herbet isn't Pynchon, but it's still reading.

EDIT: Yeah, this is a not-humble-brag, but what the hell!
Congrats, you mentioned everything that's less likely, even came up with a conspiracy theory but managed to avoid mentioning the most logical explanation (increase in the use of existing repos, new user growth and bandwidth scarcity that can't be fixed within a short timeframe).
He works for Stripe in Japan and is presumably worried about disrupting professional relationships in Japan. I generally assume he knows more about Japan than we do, having lived there for many years.
A month ago it was obvious to Patrick that there was a great deal of untracked community spread of COVID in Japan. If the Japanese government was aware of that they would have shut the country down. In reality they only did that four days ago[1]. If they had done that a month ago there wouldn’t be such a shortage of PPE they’re calling for donations of raincoats. There are going to be thousands of excess deaths in Tokyo and they’ll be triaging people leaving the old to die like they did in Lombardy before the month is out.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52313807

> One poll shows 75% of people think the prime minister took too long to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo.
After a recent spike in cases in the capital Tokyo, experts warned that the city’s emergency medical facilities could collapse under the pressure. Officials in Tokyo have also urged people to work from home.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, centre, declared the state of emergency at a special meeting of medical experts
After the initial state of emergency came into force on 8 April, a number of other regional governors called for the measures to be extended to their areas, saying that cases were growing and their medical facilities were overwhelmed.
Japan’s two emergency medical associations also issued a joint statement warning that they were “already sensing the collapse of the emergency medical system”.
At a certain point, it's more efficient to read the primary source of educational material, which is the documentation of whatever project/language you're working with. With some exceptions for complicated domains, it's usually much more efficient to read the docs rather than some tutorial that has probably drifted out of date. If you're interested in how other projects manage things, just read their code on github.
Of course, people can work on whatever they like on their free time. The developer in case chooses to abandon his open-source projects to work for a company of his choice. Nobody forced him to take this job, it was his choice.
Investing in a 401k does not make you a hedge fund manager. Passive investors don't make decisions and do not vote, and thus have no impact on the choices execs make. Most people just tick a box when they start a new job and never take action on their retirement accounts.

The ones who benefit from stock buyback programs are board members and executives who hold large amounts of stock. When they initiate stock buyback programs, their assets spike in price and their wealth grows. It's nefarious to ignore this and point the finger at the people getting screwed over the most by these tactics (the general public).
I'm bit befuddled why the author decided to use volumes for /source and /install instead of just installing the game into the container image. That way you wouldn't need to keep the game files floating around on the host system and overall would have more self-contained container. You could even get fancy and use multi-stage container so that the installer wouldn't need to be included in the final image.

The installer could be run under `expect` so that human interaction is not needed.
Story of my life.

Jokes aside, the article starts with the assumption that there's an absolute "best" result, and doesn't really consider that "best" is relative to your value system.

If you choose to take the slower route home, maybe you just find it less frustrating. If you don't choose the optimal game strategy, maybe you just want the thrill of a big win because you didn't care if you lost.

And even if you do have the same values as the article assumes, all of that stuff about humans being bad predictors and naturally being inclined to gambler's fallacy and such is nothing new.
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On the contrary, this library currently cannot deal with a composed code point e.g. for “LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS” either, as TrueType fonts tend to only contain glyphs for the base letter and diacritical marks, but no combinations of them. This affects most accented characters from Latin-1, but not unique ones like ¶ or Þ.
Thanks for the interest in our shared video gaming past. I had a lot of fun making that video. The PS1 was a fun machine as it was capable, complex enough that you felt it had secrets, but not so bizarre or byzantine that you felt learning them was a waste of time. And you were pretty much the only one in there as the libraries were just libraries, not really an OS. Still true of the PS2 although that was a complex beast, but by the PS3 there was more of a real OS presence. If you want some more, slightly different, slightly overlapping info on the PS1 or making Crash, I have a mess of articles on my blog on the topic: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/
If the other person isn't close to you no system can do it. At about 1000 miles you will be out of sync no matter what system. Sensitive singers will run into trouble at just 500 miles. Speed of light in different mediums is slower that vacuum, radio can probably get over 1000 miles if you can get line of sight.
Google already placed their bet by buying Fitbit. There is zero chance they will buy Garmin. But Garmin might be willing to license their cycling heat map data for enough money.
> but most research jobs pay significantly less than research jobs.

I think your comment has a typo, but my answer to the question I believe you are asking would be that there are far more people seeking to have medical jobs than there are positions available in licensed medical schools.

There is no shortage of qualified people seeking to do medicine. They just can't do it as there are hard licensing restrictions on who can do it and those restrictions require formal degrees.

Of the people I know in the more poorly paid biochemistry research field, most have tried or are trying to jump over to medicine/medical research. They just can't get admitted to med school or can't get approved in some other way. There is no rise in the price of labour because there are just so many potential and willing workers that medicine is not altering the supply of labour for biochemistry research in a meaningful way.

In the case of the developers, there are no restrictions on who can be one. There are no formal requirements at all. You could be a high school dropout and if you can code well, there is work for you. If you have the skills, you can go be a developer. It is more as though nobody wanted to be in medicine as biochem paid more. In that scenario, there would be very few doctors.
I feel compelled to repeat my earlier sarcasm:

If only there was some kind of distributed version control system. /s

I don't feel bad being an "old fogie" who demands local copies of my dependencies.
As I said, I don't know US law. But I studied Swiss law which is quite similar to the law of other European countries. Even though Apple is a large company and sometimes behaves as if they are above the law, their subsidiaries are still subject to the laws of their respective countries. The clauses in their contracts that violate applicable national law are invalid.
STL! Ha. Wonder what's going on. I'm on CenturyLink here in the Twin Cities.
NAND is down to $.12/GB, and HDDs are at $.02 (source: checked newegg just now).

Hard disk raid rebuild is basically an offline process for wide stripes and raid 6. Assume 2x parity overhead (eg 2 raid one disks, or a 2+2 setup) for hard disks, and close to zero for NAND (5+2) and SSDs are 3-4x more expensive than spinning disk.

Also, you can be more aggressive with compression and dedup with NAND, and it takes up less power, cooling and case space.

So, NAND is somewhere between 4x-1x the price of disk for archival. At scale, to get to 4x you’re probably talking about nearline retrieval.
I wonder if after COVID-19 more companies will realize having remote people is viable and be open to offer more remote positions (I'm looking at you FAANG, unicorns, etc.)
Why would you need docker for wine?
Anecdotally, I can say Ive made a less than ideal decision and been very cognizant of it at the time. As Neil44 says in the comments we are feeling beings that think. I dont think Im unique when I, to use a trival example, weigh the cost of staying up later and watching another episode on netflix vs getting the sleep I need. Instant dopamine vs long term consequences...
UIs reached their peak with Motif and it's been downhill ever since.