skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't encountered a showstopper arch break, but it might be a statistical thing.

When you install arch, you install each piece on-demand. So only the pieces you have chosen are dragged through updates.

my arch installations tend to be quite lightweight.
HOW. Youtube is a multi-tentacled beastie. What did you do to effectively block it?
I think the overwhelming majority of people are visiting grocery stores to buy food. (Or have someone in their household doing it)

If the studied presume this then it makes more sense.
And then they become a constrained platform worried more about litigation than enabling voices, and the disenfranchised move somewhere to hear the message. It’s already headed there.
As does "cable of sand".
There are things which are fake and things which aren't. For instance, if you get cologne, it can be nonsense.
The labs seem to be using Pi 3; if I wanted to follow along I guess there shouldn't be an issue with using Raspberry Pi 4 instead of 3?
"Only" qualifies "need". "you only need to wear a seat belt on public roads" and "you should wear a seat belt on private roads" are not contradictions.
we should really stop thinking there is always a direct parallel between web and physical equivalent. On the surface they look alike but the reality is that they are fundamentally different in scale and personalization/targeting/tracking possibilities which makes the online case completely different than the physical case. I can see all the products at costco, I cannot see all products on amazon for example. Besides, costco is not a monopoly, and I can go to target or safeway if I want to...
Shouldn't it be:

Half of the population is dumber than the median.

??
Glad you shared this experience as mine is very similar. I made an account successfully, I only used my account to follow artists I enjoyed, hours later I received an email notifying me that my account was deactivated and to reactivate it I would need to send them a picture of myself holding up a piece of paper with the ID code presented in the email.

I tried emailing back for more information as to why I was deactivated (since I did nothing wrong, unless following people without posting is wrong?) and all they could regurgitate was the shpeel that I had to send them a picture of myself with the code in order for them to help me.

Long story short, I will never use Instagram.
His actual speech (that Reuter’s reported on).

https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

The key sentence that Tedros is being criticised for is:

“First, there is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade. WHO doesn’t recommend limiting trade and movement.”

However, in the same speech:

“ we must all act together now to limit further spread.
The vast majority of cases outside China have a travel history to Wuhan, or contact with someone with a travel history to Wuhan”

and

“Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems, and which are ill-prepared to deal with it”

This leads me to believe that perhaps he was trying to have it both ways:

- flag the need for action

- keep a major player from “losing face”.

I don’t envy his job, or in fact any of the UN organisations. You’re at the mercy of your big funders; you’re trying to influence hundreds of countries who’d rather focus on their own internal politics; you have no actual power. You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. How on earth do you move the needle at all in that kind of environment?
(Disclaimer: I work for lambda store) Azure, not right now. We are planning to support Azure and GCP.
Thanks for reporting the docs issue; will fix it asap.
You have not made a case for why you think that public health issues — such as Covid — should be a topic fully exempt from restriction by YouTube. You've made the case that freedom is good and that YouTube can take all sorts of steps, but you haven't explain at all what your position on this tradeoff is.

As a country that restricts public behaviors when they conflict with public welfare, it is plausible to expect that YouTube would restrict contradictory information about Covid at this time. There are millions of views on content suggesting that Covid isn't real, for example, and those will — under this plausibly correct approach — end up terminated and removed.

What public good do you suggest outweighs the public harm done by allowing (for example) "Covid isn't real" content to remain visible online?

You haven't described any public good that lends weight to your argument, and without that, your argument won't sell to anyone who doesn't already agree with you. Freedom is not always a good thing, and we absolutely have laws restricting it for valid and serious reasons. If you wish others to consider that YouTube should exercise less restriction of freedom in this area, you need to be much more specific about why — to you, personally! — you think that good will come of them backing off.
> Heck, we already decided trashing the economy is worth "saving lives" (how many?),

People dropping dead in the streets will trash the economy.
> Twitter does something similar, where they say a phone number is optional, but they'll immediately lock your new account and say that a phone number is the only way to verify you aren't a bot.

Is this recent? I signed up for a Twitter account in late 2017, even used a twitter@mydomain.com custom email address for it, and I have never been forced to add my phone number. Twitter still doesn't have it.
Servirtium use in a client and supplier co-development
You say Amazon doesn't pay for ads, but by them taking the space of the ads others aren't buying, they're losing ad money, which probably equates back to the value of the ad. ?
Like the USDA food pyramid - it's SCIENCE!
There are different mitigation options other than just heavy suppression via lockdown. Flattening the curve doesn't imply lockdown, for instance.
In San Diego people under 30 are close to 20% of total confirmed and over 5% of hospitalized cases. About 7% of confirmed are hospitalized for this age group. Our positive test ratio is under 7%. Tests are constrained by policy but not dramatically so. https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs...

Another data point is the US military. I believe they test much more widely due to their living conditions. So far the cfr is about 0.4%.
They're trying to measure infection rates by analysing people who are more likely to go outside, and more likely to be infected. There's no adjustment for this confounder at all that I can see. Quick example:

Suppose there's a 10% chance of getting infected every time someone goes outside. Suppose there's a million people of which half are type-A people who go outside once this month, and half are type-B people who go outside 10 times a month.

The type-A person will have a 10% infection rate. The type-B person will have a 65% chance to be infected after a month. The average infection rate is around 42%. Yet if you randomly select someone outside, odds are 10 to 1 that it'll be a type-B person, and you'll get a far higher average of 60%, which isn't indicative of the average person, only of the average person who goes outside.

Second, the article then compares the infection rate to the mortality rate. But the mortality rate does not include excess deaths. These are quite a bit higher for NYC, about 30% or so it seems than the official figures. But even this may be undercounting (or potentially, overcounting) the impact of the corona disease itself. Other deaths might be much lower (e.g. traffic, murder) or higher (e.g. untreated cancer).

Then there's the lag-effect. There's 150 thousand confirmed infected, 15 thousand dead. But the vast majority of confirmed cases are still active, not recovered. They're confirmed because tens of thousands were hospitalised. Of the incubated people, 80% do not come out alive. There's lots of people fighting for their lives right now. Once those cases resolve, many will not have made it. And that's just hospitalised people. Then there's lots of cases who just got infected, and will be developing symptoms in 1-2 weeks.

The way exponentials work is that lag is way more important. In the first weeks NY doubled every 2 days. That means if you have 10 thousand today infected today, in 10 days that's 320 thousand. That's when people start to get symptoms, and 10 days later people start dying from the symptoms. That means your infection count can go into the hundreds of thousands or even millions before seeing any death. But you can't conclude mortality figures from that, at all.

In short, the 21% and the 0.5% conclusions are extremely premature and should not be reported like this. It's good to report the measurements, in context, but you can't draw the conclusions about the population or disease from it.
I have heard that this applies to both iOS and Android, by the way.
Human Dimension and Interior Space [0] is an interesting book if you're into this sort of thing. I mean, it's actually mostly not. It contains a vast number of tables covering percentiles for various human dimensions broken down by sex and age group.

It does, however, also contain diagrams showing what measurements are relevant to certain activities. Chairs for instance, are covered for eating, office work, and lounging. Fun fact, the seat height of a chair is properly called "popliteal height".

I end up pulling it out to answer such questions as: "Can I make the apron on this table go any lower assuming chairs in a normal-ish range of popliteal heights while preserving enough thigh clearance."

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Human-Dimension-Interior-Space-Refere...
Yep .... and that is very often what untransformed data is like ! Thanks for the metaphor - made my day reading that one and given me a whole new expression to throw about during product management discussions in my day job. :-D
Reality doesn't work this way.

The only way to have real collaboration on a global level is to take no sides of any kind and only agree with absolute consensus. Anything else is picking a side and alienates part of the world.

I'm sorry that the WHO isn't playing into the politics you or I like, in this case it almost certainly would have saved lives, but that's kind of the point. As soon as they "wake up to the reality" of something such as, idk, Crimea being Russian territory? then suddenly they're alienating Ukraine and its allies.

It's stupid, and fickle, but the only winning move is not to play.
Whats the total program cost? Pricing on the website is a little confusing
All the Legendary Anime Quotes
This is Mattia from Lambda Store.

We are not using Redis OSS, instead we implemented our own Redis server. Because it's not very possible to scale it without increasing the costs and also it would be very challenging to adapt serverless use cases.

Different from the Redis OSS, we are using a tiered storage model which keeps the hot entries in the memory and gradually offloads colder ones. Also we can migrate a Redis DB to a bigger machine in a few seconds when a database needs more resources. We will share more technical information about our architecture in Lambda Store blog.
PointCast
They do... Dr. Squatch soap is one such example
The reason Zoom calls drain your energy – BBC Worklife
Thanks for the response. In another comment you mentioned that getting the CO2 would likely cost more energy than would be generated by burning the methane. Is there any reason you couldn't burn the hydrogen directly? I'm a chem noob so this might be a stupid question.
You should talk to this guy: https://twitter.com/daiwaka

He wrote this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/amazon-aws-clo...
This story seems to be dropping off the front page a little faster than it should "naturally".
Since when am I beholden to the WHO? I don't remember voting for any of them or agreeing for them to represent me in any way. They are not my elected government, why should I give the slightest fuck what they tell me to do?
They can just not deliver the service. Amazon Prime doesn't guarantee that any item you want will come in two days.
You have to really go out of your way to keep water hot for 45 minutes.
The ol' reverse psychology eh? I don't want this deal. Oh yeah, well you can't have this deal. WHAT!? I'LL TAKE IT IMMEDIATELY!
I wonder if even replying is encouraging this behavior.
they heap allocate strings because their string_range implementation is a shared_ptr to the original string plus two indices. It might be somewhat worth it assuming the strings are large enough. But if most strings are small, passing them around by move-value would probably be an overall win. One would need to benchmark it.
iPhone autocorrect always seems to fail in just the wrong ways.
> In San Diego people under 30 are close to 20% of total confirmed and over 5% of hospitalized cases.

People under 30 are over half the population in San Diego, so you've just said there's 1/10th as many of them in the hospital as we'd expect if the total risk were equal.

The serology data tells us that an even greater portion of cases in the young are missed-- they are probably actually half the number of infections in San Diego, but a much smaller proportion of hospitalized cases.

The current data implies something close to what he said: about a 1 in 500 to 1 in 1000 chance of hospitalization for people under age 35.
Razer blade, Asus GX501, Asus GM501, Lenovo Y740S, Samsung Odysseus, 2020 Alienware M15, MSI GS65, 2020 Gigabyte Aero
The days/weeks/months/years it takes to get IT security in a highly regulated industry to let stitch/fivetran have access to my data.

This is one of a handful of very significant deficiencies in AWS's data/analytics portfolio. They haven't had good tools for getting data into AWS from the various places that profit centers store it. I hope they very aggressively pursue extending the number of supported integrations and finish building the product.

This is a huge step forward IMO.
This is a game of its own, right? I remember playing it as a child as "out/in" or hands face up / face down. Like as a very little child.
Thanks! The product pricing seems off to me. If you have a service that averages a continuous 10req/sec, that would be like $100 a month plus storage costs?
> How would the new streaming functionality be implemented over WebSockets? WS has no flow control.

Sure it does. WS is just a framing protocol on top of a regular TCP connection. Though it sounds like you're not talking about the protocol so much as the JavaScript API, which perhaps doesn't give you enough visibility into the underlying TCP socket state.

But a BBR-like algorithm could still work. Basically (massively oversimplified):

1) Determine the connection latency based on the fastest response you've seen.

2) Determine the connection throughput by tracking the highest throughput you've ever seen.

3) Set your window size to be a little bit more than latency * throughput.

This "should" saturate the connection with just a little bit of buffering. If it doesn't saturate the connection, then your measured throughput will go up until it does.

This way there is no need to ask the OS or browser to tell you how much is buffered...

Disclaimer: I have yet to actually implement something like this. Obviously, it gets tricky in the details.
As a consumer I highly recommend Amazon Fresh. No pre-paid tip bull shit if you don't want to and in 50+ deliveries I've had exactly one bad experience that I left a customer support inquiry about - which never repeated itself.

Amazon logistics are unmatched and there is a very clean continuity between deliveries that shows quality control or at least per-location notes on accessing buildings and units efficiently.

Down side is you have to refresh the checkout page throughout the day in order to get a delivery window. Sometimes you luck out and can get same-day delivery, sometimes you have to wait a couple days.
Anyone else notice that Krebs' site lacks TLS?
Young people interact with more individuals, and engage in more behavior that exchanges microbes such as unprotected sex, protected sex, sharing pipes/vapes, sharing utensils, etc.

We should expect that the proportion of people with Covid should be heavily biased towards the young for that reason, as it is for any disease that does not have a biased transmission.

Most indications I've seen is that the young are not harmed much by covid, but can still get infected just as easily, thus why we see:

"X% of hospitalizations are young people" as opposed to the statement that people actually interpret it as: "X% of young people infected with covid are hospitalized".

Does that make sense?
My guess is the reason is that they need to show they have an increasing user base and "active users" to Wall St.
Ionic Appflow is a very different platform but it is interesting to have products with the exact same name (except the capitalization of "F") in the software/platform world.

https://ionicframework.com/appflow
Interesting that Amazon seems to rarely acquire competitors. Instead they (slowly) begin to meet their use cases one by one.
Yes, it seemed to me that Donenfeld was pretty opinionated about 'updating breaks compatibility'. Donenfeld is the anti-Torvalds: we will break user space. This is the closest quote I could find.

If holes are found in the underlying primitives,
all endpoints will be required to update.

Unlike IP packets, struct message_header doesn't even have a version number. I suppose type could be used for that since it's 32b.

An interesting question is how will this play out with Wireguard going into the Linux kernel itself.
The headline is pretty sensationalist. It's not like he is coming out of retirement. He is just updating his schedule to focus on immediate problems rather than longer term projects (like every other CEO in the world right now).
Other coronavirus vaccines have been developed before, though not brought through the full process. And this is really pretty early in the process; this is the start of human trials. Even if everything goes wonderfully there won't be mass manufacture of this for a while.
I'm curious about the price difference between HFCS and sugar in Mexico. My understanding is that in the US, HFCS prices are artificially low due to corn subsidies while sugar prices are artificially high due to protectionist policies. I wonder if HFCS is any cheaper outside the US.
Switching the charging port to the other side has dramatically helped with the other issues I mentioned. That was a bit of a surprise.
His job is world health. If he put "saving face" for China, or trying to keep his job, over recommending a travel ban to prevent the spread of a deadly virus, then he is incompetent and he failed to prevent deaths... and my point still stands.
In what sense has Intel vertically integrated design and fab according to you?
Taiwan is an interesting case. They are not recognized as, really anything, except part of "One China" by the UN. Anyway - WHO wouldn't talk to them, even when they asked nicely.

But they, like HK (and Vietnam, and SG and I don't know who else) are part of the "China is asshoe" club (i.e. the TW believe that the Chinese government will always lie and obfuscate, true or not), and had pretty direct experience with SARS and the other corona virus (not MERS, but my brain isn't working). In any case - they had protocols in place start mandating masks - pretty much day 1. They also paid for a factory expansion of the largest vendors, pretty much day 1, and pre-paid for a pretty large order.

I heard a rumor that the Vietnamese actually hacked a Chinese "mainframe" and stole materials that allowed them to prepare. I don't know if this is true, and it is not related to Taiwan's already-in-place response plan.
> Can one discuss that on YouTube, or would one be contradicting the WHO?

It's not contradicting the WHO to say "local laws say to wear a mask". That's also a statement of fact. And I can't imagine YT taking down a video saying "follow the law".
That's why you should use a Linux Laptop with Libreboot firmware and arch linux and not an emasculating MBP.
Are Flash Drives Optical or Magnetic?
Yay! Sugar water!
When your cheapest smartphone is faster than the fastest competitor smartphone, I’d say you are far ahead. But your point on how well that will apply in desktop PCs is certainly valid.
> How are the employees of YouTube or any tech company exempt from those forces? What makes them somehow wiser or smarter than everyone else in history?

Forget history (it's popular) what about technical ability to do this? We can probably share information about "my sharona" after all.

Also, does youtube really want viewers it constantly has to protect from bad information?
do you think someone at google is saying: 'hmmm, I analyzed all the points and did fact checking and this video should be flagged'.

They'll have some lazily built ML algorithm that flags the whole channel with a video that mention 'corona' and demonitize them so they can collect money and benefit from the videos but not have to do any payout.
Why Linux needs Rexx (2005)
I hate to be the one to have to explain this to you. A private entity is deciding what content is and is not allowed to be hosted on their private servers using their private services. This is very different from government officials that you vote for censoring free speech.

Anyone who doesn't like YouTube's policies are welcome to post their content on Facebook to share with their friends, on Twitter, stream it live on Twitch, or, host it themselves on their own servers.
Disturbing new study suggests Sean Hannity’s show helped spread the coronavirus
> because it is true

I don't have an opinion on whether it's true or not myself. I’m not qualified to say.

I just know that reputable authorities disagree on it. So how can you enforce a truth here?
Getting too real while teaching the fundamentals of web development. [video]
If you don't want to plan out proper (as in performant) data structures and memory management, C++ is indeed the wrong language. And judging by the stuff discussed in comments above, this is exactly what happened here.
Have you ever lived in the US? You're statement is probably only somewhat valid in the worst neighborhoods. People don't shoot you in the face when you open the door...
First off, all those numbers are once again absolute deaths and not related to case numbers so my prior complaint still stands. If you look at the first chart, you will see that COVID-19 deaths didn't start becoming a problem until March. Distancing practices were not widespread until mid-March. Meanwhile flu deaths weren't dramatically cut until the most recent timeframe. So taking into consideration both the first chart and the second chart that breaks out the numbers by age range, there seems to be an implication that COVID-19 deaths are much higher for young people in recent weeks. Therefore the absolute numbers would look totally different if March 1st was the starting point. I really don't see anything here that demonstrates the flu is as dangerous as COVID-19 for young people.
Perhaps because their mission is to keep the world's inhabitants healthy? Of course, they have no legal authority over you, but listening to them is generally a good idea.
I wonder when there'll be the Obfuscated Rust Programming Contest.
Would the energy cost of moving the electricity be lower than the energy cost of just transmitting it over power lines?
So would you support banning everyone on YouTube who went against WHO’s tweet[1] saying there’s no evidence of human to human transmission? That was only in January.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/who-haunted-by-old-tweet-sayin...
... And eBay/Paypal won their era's fight because they offered the better experience compared to the others, they were considered the safe and reliable one.

Early web shopping really was wild. And not the good kind.