skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brighsun’s long-range EV batteries to enter industrial trials
Aquarium makes discovery that could help dying coral reefs
The entire biotech industry? Surely you kid.

My wife works in biotech in SV and has never heard of him.
I think it's starting to happen because C++ has become so grossly Byzantine. C refuses to relinquish a bunch of niche applications. The heyday of OOP is past. 10 years ago the attitude was C is going to die any day now. Now it more like since C isn't dying it needs improvements. And none of them are backports from C++ nor make sense in C++.
This is one big storm away from being an ecological disaster.
And most French I know have this weird notion they somehow won WWII because the true French government was in London ;)
Why not? That's a pretty metal name. Don't tell me anyone still has appetite for yet another saccharine cutesy-wutesy "yay software squee" name.
I'm going to push back a little on this. I've run a Patreon and have a pretty good idea of what they provide for creators, and I've also looked into how I could replicate their services on my own -- and it turns out it's not really that trivial.

- I want something that handles tiered membership levels with paid access control.

- I also want something that keeps track of "goals" for donation drives (e.g., "if I bring in $500 a month, I'll do this thing for everyone").

- If I have rewards at different levels (which I did), it's nice to have something that keeps track of when I need to send those out and who I sent them out to.

- It's nice to have what amounts to a basic CRM, keeping records of who paid me what at what points. If I say "maintain the membership at the $9/month level for at least six months and I'll send you this widget at the end of the year," I want my membership platform to be able to tell me who was at that level for six months even if they're not at that level at the end of the year.

- It's nice to have a built-in mailing list if I need it.

- While Patreon is very up front about not being a discoverability platform, aggregation of creators still matters: it is way easier to support a half-dozen or more creators monthly when you get one monthly charge instead of many monthly charges, and in fact people do occasionally discover new creators by discovering who creators they follow are supporting. If I were running this on my own, I wouldn't get that benefit and I probably couldn't have a "just pay me a little because you're nice" tier: it's no problem to pay $1 or $2 a month to somebody if it's part of that bundle, but it's not worth the hassle if it's standalone. (This was why everyone on Patreon screamed bloody murder when they proposed unbundling charges a few years back.)

- Last but not least, not every creator is going to be comfortable putting together a Patreon-esque platform on their own. The more friendly the solution is, the more likely it is to cost money, and Patreon's pricing structure ends up being more competitive than you might think. WordPress membership management plugins that don't suck are often commercial, some with fees of $100+ per year; Memberful is free for limited use, but $25 per month otherwise; Substack charges 10% of your revenue and, like Patreon, doesn't cover processing fees that way.

Obviously none of these give Patreon a "lock-in" and it might make sense for creators to jump ship anyway; I'm certainly keeping my eye on alternatives. But I'm kind of a control freak. I genuinely don't think "anyone can build their own Patreon over a weekend" is true, and I don't think the amount of money they charge over and above processing fees is super unreasonable.
Very true, but OpenSSL in particular is rather infamous. Unfortunate given that so much relies on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7556407
I also noticed that on my Macbook 16", if I use my left ports for external monitors, fans are going louder sooner.
> For example, I can make programs and package them in Docker containers and run them that way, but I don't know how I'd play with Kubernetes in a realistic fashion.

Minikube: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/

Alternately, you'd take advantage of $CLOUD_PROVIDER's initial signup credit and start cloud instance equivalents.

Nowadays most things have good virtual environments floating around (you can even download virtualized mainframes if you want). A little bit of time tinkering with such environments will take you surprisingly far -- especially in fields like network engineering, where even most professionals don't know how to experiment.
You would need to read mail with a third party app.
You case seem to be straightforward because your mom only uses one service. It’s a mess that you need to care about when you use four or five calling services.

There’s frustration on a lot of aspects, one of them for instance being that both Hangouts and Meets are integrated to Google Calendar, so if you use both a private and corporate gmail, you’ll get a link to one or the other depending on your meetings. Sometimes from the same calendar screen. Some people won’t care, but there’s enough cases where it will be a PITA to remember which one you’re using or will be using, just to get back to the right window for instance.

But really the main frustration is you can’t give someone a Duo address. Or a Google Meet address. You have to give them your email, and then negociate what service they can/are comfortable using. And ghey have to remember what was negociated.
I've been plagued by this since I started WFH recently, been driving me nuts.

My work from home setup has me on the left side, instead of right.

Switched sides back, it's left me alone.

It's -crazy- to think this is a real issue.
You should check out Overwatch, which I consider to be TF3. They reimplemented many characters 1:1 including soldier (pharah), medic (mercy), demo (junkrat), engi (torj), as well as the 2 point capture and pushthecart modes.

Valorant, a beta game from Riot, is then a blend of overwatch + csgo, making it closer to tf2 6s.
MBA students demand refund, citing inferior experience of remote learning
Good point. IP law is such a headache.
Kind of a tangent, but the fact that signing credit card receipts is still a thing during this pandemic is absurd. Doing this was useless enough during normal times.

I don't actually know the reason, but it does seem like small businesses are more likely to require signatures than chains. Why is that?
When you can control every element: lighting, view angle, distance, background, etc, you can hide a ton of fatal flaws.
Exactly. It then also starts to make local storage (like powerwall) more interesting. When your PV generates a lot, prices will go down so better store the excess for times with higher prices.
And when you don't generate PV power but can still store, you buy cheap also to use when prices go up.

If there is also a dynamic price for using the grid, that usage will also spread.
> People who don't enjoy videos for various reasons would probably like a text version too.

Yes this. I went to the video eagerly looking for a repo link and was disappointed not to find one.
That inequality is still present, except that now, the system is:

* Poor people either get hit with huge bills because they're uninsured, or, if they know how to navigate the system, sometimes get these bills written off through "financial aid."

* Middle class people frequently have insurance, but get hammered by deductibles and out of pocket maximums, rarely qualifying for "financial aid." This can be ruinous.

* The rich still get what they want.

If the rich are "subsidizing" things anymore, it's not to a great enough extent to benefit the poor and middle class. The system has been broken over the past 40 years by medical and insurance costs that have risen much faster than the rate of wage growth for the average worker.
This is wild. IIRC, the TB3 ports in right side have lower bandwidth, so I've always plugged everything in on the left.

I wonder if this is the reason my MBP would get sluggish while kernel_task uses a surprising amount of CPU? I always blamed the corporate spyware/antivirus. Maybe I was just charging it wrong
28,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis
not OP but:

1) there won't be a vaccine - even if there will be, you won't be able to vaccinate everybody

2) the virus spreads fast but due to lockdowns not fast enough for herd immunity to prevent spread

3) lockdowns will be relaxed when new cases stop being found

4) all of it assuming immunity lasts for a few years, which it should, but it isn't a certainty

5) 3) will lead directly to asymptomatic cases causing flare-ups a few weeks after lockdowns are relaxed (see Singapore, Japan)

6) if 4) isn't true, we're toast
AOL github account's location is Dulles, VA. Thinking of what this does, the name's meaning and its location in 'the corridor' is giving me the creeps
> You are lucky if 99.999% of the time network is not a problem.

This reminds me of one time I was having networking issues (around a CRUD GUI). Oddly, I identified the issue the (business) day before my users did. I was working on a rather large change (OS updates, 32->64 bit) and noticed that multicast updates broke. The timing was funny. I was working towards a minimal reproducible example already, and I had a small test app that showed that multicast was broke on my PC. So, I ran down and tried the app on their computers, and it worked... between the two of them, but not the company et large.

That's when I vaguely remembered an email for Network Ops about a router change on my user's floor over a weekend. I went by the Ops team (they didn't like email for some reason) and told them what I was seeing.

The short of it was, yeah, the router change screwed my 2 users on the floor (they got put on the printer VLAN by accident, which didn't receive multicast). Separately, the issue I saw was a bug in how we built a 3rd party lib on Windows that provided 64-bit multicast support.
The presence of Cuban helps me to feel more at ease with the state of the world.. if celebrities I recognize seem to be okay with what is happening what do I have to fear?
Not true actually. The majority of employees do not get fired. Only a minority do

And the minority that is let go get 3-6 months of severance and unemployment benefits until they inevitably find a new job - which btw is far easier to do when you are not an executive of a floundering business.
I shouldn't have used "sunk cost;" I should have said "fixed cost."

Google builds datacenters to N-year-long plans that are expensive to modify. Whether they're running their batch jobs on solar energy or coal energy, the carbon footprint of the datacenter build plan is not going to change. They want those datacenters anyway (mostly for the non-batch work and whatever the next big thing is that hasn't been invented yet but can only be done by putting a beach's worth of thinking sand on the problem).
Interesting. I've noticed the fans going crazy way more when I use my laptop from bed (charger on my left side) vs my desk, (charger on my right side).

I figured it was the blanket restricting airflow (which I'm sure is still a big contributor). Interesting stuff.
For the extra labor I was referring to people actually receiving the mail, opening it and getting the samples into whatever tracking they have. My guess is that there's still real people doing that step, since a machine that can do that reliably and not screw up and/or contaminate systems with the weirdness they get in the mail is probably on the order of a machine that can accurate pick items out of bind in Amazon warehouses (or harder), and Amazon has thrown a lot of money at that just to find it's a lot harder than it seems. Even if it's just people receiving the mail and throwing it into a bin that's delivered to a specific lab tech, that still takes people.

The other labor was really just going by your own numbers.

Beyond that, there's still the layers of management above, that while there are physically less of them likely, their pay scales higher as well.
I thought you couldn't collect unemployment unless your work has not offered you work?
Anyone know if any 2018 and 2019 Macbook Pro models also have slower TB ports on the right side?

I recall this being an issue with 2016 and 2017 models (edit: just the 13" models), not sure about more recent ones.
It would probably help to state the unexplained difference as a percentage of official C19 death count (and narrow the columns). I took the liberty:

| % | excess | official| unexplained
Location | extra | death# | C19 d# | difference%
--------------------------------------------------
Spain | 66% | 19,700 | 12,401 | 59
England | 33% | 16,700 | 10,335 | 61
NYC | 298% | 17,200 | 13,240 | 30
France | 21% | 10,500 | 8,059 | 31
Holland | 33% | 4,000 | 2,116 | 90
Istambul | 29% | 2,100 | 1,006 | 109
Jakarta | 36% | 1,000 | 84 | 1071
Belgium | 25% | 2,300 | 1,632 | 43
Switzer. | 21% | 1,000 | 712 | 42
Sweden | 12% | 1,100 | 1,160 | -4
There are so many parameters that even in a year from now we will never know what is the best way to deal with it.

Different way of measurement, different amount of measurement, different quality of measurement, different population density country wide and in the cities, different culture when it comes to adherence to government directions, different culture of "touchiness", different culture of how much you meet your family and friends, different weather, different exposure to people from other countries, different strain of the virus. That's just off the top of my head, I am sure there are more.

It actually starts to make me wonder also about global warming, not about the warming per se but about predicting the outcome of it all many years from now and the assumption there is only one way to deal with it.
Functions in Swift must be annotated to allow discarding their results without a warning.
Zeus is known a bit better and for more things than Moloch
I guess if you have a case for running a html+php+nginx workload, you'd build your source code with one (or a list) of the buildpacks and create a docker image and just docker-run it.
I also feel like that companies that do genuinely care about you will make an effort to make the topic of motivation to both you (the employee) and them (the manager) discussable. I wouldn't be surprised if top notch companies held both people accountable to be their best selfs as much as they possibly can, and if that doesn't always jive with work, then that's fine.

This has some limit of course, but I think that such a limit will take a while to get there when you are in a good team that fits.
Facebook Invests $5.7B in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms
No. Just saying many of our regulations may not be good regulations.

e.g. they could be just plain bad, or they could be poorly written, etc.
Agree that writing could have been clearer and much more concise
Announcing the CovidActNow.org API
The person you're replying to said he was disappointed to find that MacOS Catalina can't run TF2. Why recommend a game that won't run on any version of MacOS?
Bird adds a 'Warm Up Mode' for gentler acceleration
Doctor Was Removed from Federal Post After Questioning Hydroxychloroquine
Anyone who works on Linux probably knows that sometime you need to sacrifice a child...
Yeah, Florida is nice! Good weather, nice beaches. They even have bioluminescent organisms there!
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Fun fact, Moloch was initially created with funding from DARPA's famous Cyber Fast Track program! It's great to see that Moloch is still going strong since ~2013.

There is some previous discussion of Moloch when it was released in this older thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20586005
I am not sure if this relates, but this past year at Blackhat there was a talk on Messaging Layer Security and they broughtup a concept called TreeKEM, where users share keys in a tree heirachy to reduce the number of shared secrets.

Again, not sure if this is applicable, but the comments made me think of this.

[0] https://www.blackhat.com/us-19/briefings/schedule/index.html...
[1] https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Wednesday/us-19-Robert-Messagi...
A thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20586005
Yeah, I agree with you there. I'm going to guess that the LA area has early exposure to the virus due to our close ties to China here.
As someone who's reverse engineered large portions of a game with similar tech from the same era, I would be absolutely shocked if there were not remote exploits.
> Although I personally never bought into the hype of Magic Leap in particular, they did inspire a whole generation of developers in a way that hasn't been done since the release of the original iPhone

What on Earth is this claim? What XR developer was inspired by Magic Leap in any way other than the encouragement to bilk VCs out of their money?
I imagine access to your emails is what you would want anyway—these days it’s the strongest proof you have, stronger than ssn.
I think when someone says the following:

> More often you are glueing together tools or writing a bunch of boring business logic for some specific application at best.

That explains their mindset. They are not doing much of anything that would require CS (or maybe they picked up enough and don't want to label it as CS for whatever reason).

I agree with you, this mindset is not good for our industry. It's fine that there are jobs out there that require a programmer who doesn't have much theory/background, but the mindset that CS is somehow not needed for our industry is just wrong. If only there was more focus on theory and building a good foundation for us then maybe we wouldn't have all the problems that we have now (who knows though).
Every good rule has an exception.
That's correct. I could have used Accessibility API to allow scrolling but apple would not allow me to publish my app on the app store as the app wouldn't be sandboxed.
They surely need to support all official iOS SDK languages, which includes Objective-C and C++, otherwise there are a couple of APIs that wouldn't have much use, including stuff like Metal.
Because they're rich, and have the deployable resources and relationships to ensure that they got the money when they successfully asked.
Does anyone use Apple email?
I have no clue about the NBA, but yeah, I'd say being a part of a reality tv show isn't in the same league as building rockets to go to Mars.

The Kardashians are in reality tv shows. They are not building rockets.
Url changed from https://github.com/aol/moloch, which points to this.
Nothing about go is magical, and you probably solved the problem blindly.
I thought this was different between the 13” and 15” versions.
There is an updated EA build available.
Mental Models are definitely useful, so not a fallacy from that point of view.

It's kind of like using analogy as rhetorical device, it works up to a point; but when you get to the details it's not worth extending the analogy.

Mental models can be good for raising questions, but then you have to actually find answers to those questions.
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Any experience clustering or classifying documents based on these high dimensional vectors? Also what have you found of dimension reduction techniques such as UMAP or good old PCA?
The issue with OsmAnd and OSM.org in the US is often that roads are either not tagged properly or they are tagged as cycle paths because the local government has designated them as a cycling path, but the street itself is quite unsafe. There's no real problem with the path routing libraries, a lot of it is just the data.

I've thought about exploring an alternate set of tags to tag something in OSM as a "popular" cycle path, but I'm not sure how to go about proposing that tagging system.
> Is it sufficient to have a single key shared by all "ends" for the room, or must each user have its own key?

It is enough that a single key is shared, that being said some systems do more because they want to provide additional properties to end-to-end encryption for groups.
Thanks, glad you like it. We haven’t really pushed it out yet as we really want to get the debugger and App Store released before we can say it is useful
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Couldn't you in fact make the opposite case?

Sweden as the outlier is not reporting accurately and others are?

The UK has seen huge excess mortality above the average which is being attributed to large numbers of undiagnosed deaths in care homes and in the community.

Its far too early to make any claims as to superior accuracy when almost every country is struggling with accurate testing across their entire population.

In which case you'd expect Swedens numbers to get revised strongly upwards.

Sweden also has no conclusive sign of flattening yet.
It is, what makes you think it isn’t? The article even states that this vulnerability grants access only to the process that is parsing mail which, depending on the OS version, is the mail application or some background process.
This still uses a single shared secret for the whole group.
As the n95 masks are going on, other masks are coming off.
Mmmm yeah I would believe that. I guess it could've been better written with something like "even so, some users are leaving and the ones doing so due to financial hardships..."

Thanks
They don't host a content editing UI, only a "dynamic" version of the site that you can embed or link in a CMS for draft previews etc.

I use and like gatsby a lot and don't think it is generally overcomplicated for what it does. They are really pushing static at all costs though, and these cloud solutions are needed because of that.
When seriously evaluting a 100.000 pages / dozens of editors project, if you ask what the benefits and the costs of static really are, I think you might come up with a different answer than Gatsby Inc. I think Zeit+Next actually has a better story there, because its not "static at all costs".
You both are right, what is not scalable is not encrypting messages to all when there are multiple keys, what is not scalable is sharing this shared secret and rotating it when members are added and removed frequently.

This scalability issue is a non-problem imo:

* I don't expect large group VCs, and I don't expect the member set to be updated frequently

* For large group VCs, the threat model is much different and you can do broadcasting (use the same key)

For group chat I would say that confidentiality goes out of the window when you start having a large group, so having one key is just more simple to implement and makes sense.
I would figure that the people who get to decide whether it is safe are doctors.

Politicans can choose if they want to re-open, but they don't get to declare a re-opening safe. They aren't qualified to do that. Just because the Kremlin said that there was no radiation risk at Chernobyl didn't make it true.

If I take my car to a mechanic, and he tells me that my brakes aren't working, I can drive away without choosing to pay for repairs. But I can't go around telling people that my brakes are fine.
"The correct path is to evolve a reward system"

Only if you like grey goo.

Or, in a similar vein, I remember reading about how some tree drops vast numbers of acidic leaves, because its strategy for getting ahead in life is to bury competing seedlings in toxic waste.
SafeGraph Unveils the ‘Shelter in Place Dashboard’
I think these articles will only make a difference to managers who probably are looking for ideas. these are not the ultimate ideas, but some value can be taken from here. I mean, I might js share it with my manager. My 1-on-1 with him has been great for the last 2 months since work from home started. And if he would for once check on my status, ask me how my days are going, how am I coping up etc, I would feel good. I think motivation not tangible, it is really an emotion. So if I feel motivated I would do better.I found this good because I being an employee can maybe have some take-aways, for my own self.