skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a tangent, but at the All Hands where Jeff introduced Prime, he made it very clear that it was actually a money loser for the company at that point. He did it anyhow because it satisfied both the customer obsession and the long term growth principles Amazon has followed from the start.

Because of this, I very much doubt that Amazon will mind losing money on Prime member shipping during this pandemic. I wouldn't be shocked if some of the current management made noises in that direction and that was part of what got Jeff to take the reins again.
My gut tells me these statistics are heavily gamified. Is it daily active users for the app the shoppers use? Is this all shoppers who signed-up AND made deliveries this month? Is this inactive shoppers from 5 months ago? What about shoppers who sign up and never actually accept a bid?
Engineering challenges for children during lockdown
They'll probably cull everything that doesn't earn them ad revenue, to minimize the fallout. The content will trend toward sanitized garbage and the viewers will start leaking to somewhere else.
Can you post images using the web interface?
This is Mattia from Lambda Store.

We are not using shared Redis instances. We have our own Redis server implementation, which has a tiered storage model which keeps the hot entries in the memory to better utilize memory usage. Using this we can use smaller instances for the most of the time and migrate the Redis db to a bigger machine in a few seconds when needed.
If x is any nonzero value [example: 2], !!x is 1.

Any nonzero expression is true, and 0 is false. But the result of !, or ==, ||, or any of those other boolean operators is 1 for true.

Recall relatedly that C didn't have a bool type until the 1999 standard, which introduced <stdbool.h>. C++ had it earlier, but for a long time the C way to store a boolean expression into a variable might have been int, or some nonstandard typedef. This is why so many libraries and frameworks in the C world define their own boolean type.
For objects allocated at phase 1 and not necessary after,

I would use std::monotonic_buffer_resource added in C++17. It's implementation is consists of just a pointer point to large contagious memory. You want a n bytes of memory? return the pointer while adding ptr += n. Deallocation do nothing. Destructing std::monotonic_buffer_resource object deallocate the memory. If the objects has trivial destructor, as that is the case based on glancing the code, this is very efficient.
This is even more fallacious- the only thing that unsourced opinion proves is that certain types of criminal conspiracies that are uncovered are deemed sensational enough to sell news services. It says nothing about the commonality of successfully covert conspiracies nor about the frequency of uncovered ones that are hard for the general public to understand/care about.
I've probably seen this tweet 50 times now in the last week. Before that, not even once. It's easy to criticize now with 3 months of additional information and to cherry pick an instance of a few hundred characters out of all the statements the WHO has made. 99% of the criticism of this tweet that I've seen so far comes nowhere near the nuanced criticism you make here. In aggregate, the level of criticism this tweet has received has not been warranted.
It's likely that by the time they know this works (or doesn't work) and is safe (or isn't safe), many others will be in an advanced state of development. Totally plausible that there'll be a few available at some point.

This is a government funded university project, so "losing the race" is likely not a primary concern; I'm sure if someone else came out with a magic vaccine fully tested and ready to mass manufacture tomorrow the researchers on this project would be pretty happy about that.
Forget Waiting for Inspiration, Just Create
I suspect that by AWS going first here, they can easily go for more integrations whilst also eating some of the Zapier's competitors lunch.

This depends on price and by that time its possible that Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure will start jumping in on the integrations market too, further squeezing the likes of some enterprise-only integrations such as Tray.io which still has less integrations than Zapier in general.

It's still too early to tell, but we'll see how fast Amazon adds support for more API integrations or if GCP and Azure will join in and do the same.
This is true by default, the other depends on the distribution.
> Prior to March 3rd, the official position of the WHO was that "The flu is worse"

That wasn't their position, in fact they instructed other nations to prepare. The R0 and mortality rate they provided in the statement[1] is also much higher than of flu, so please don't spread misinformation.

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/23-01-2020-statement-on...
for now i just blocked it on the pi-hole, wildcard blocking:

googlevideo.com
ytimg.com
youtube.com
youtube-ui.l.google.com
ytimg.l.google.com
ytstatic.l.google.com
googleapis.com

and it works fine
>This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love”

Allow me to translate:

This is because we realized we couldn't collect as much data as we would like from non-signed in users browsing on computers. As our income is derived mostly from aggregating and selling the data of our users to third party marketers we felt we could increase revenue for our shareholders by no longer allowing non-signed in users to view our platform, ensuring anyone browsing our service is providing the maximum amout of data possible.
ha that's some fantastic nostalgia

but ATV and ATI commands not working to my disappointment
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM_(file_format)
And even worse it doesn't crash in realtime. It crashes parsing locally cached data caused by a bad update, meaning this possibly can't be quickly fixed merely by fixing the API.
The GPL does not solve our cultural problems. We’ve got to be doing advocacy for open collaboration and study its effects on our economic systems. If people do not understand the importance of open source the license won’t do much to help. And you’re right that GPL has its detractors. It’s highly restrictive. I use CC0/BSD licenses now. It’s perhaps overly permissive but it’s good to experiment.
It's actually important to point out, the CDC is very explicit that they are estimating flu illnesses, in their own words "an estimated 34 million people had symptomatic influenza illness"

Many people are attempting to extrapolate asymptomatic COVID to estimate an infection fatality rate and then making comparisons to CDC flu data for symptomatic illness, which is completely wrong. Actual flu sero studies suggest a large fraction of the population gets flu every year[1] and IFR is more like 0.02->0.05%, so even taking NYC numbers at face value COVID looks 10-50x more fatal than flu.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Your scenario has already been playing out for about two months, except it's completely per-video and just a mention of corona seems to no longer cause a demonetization.

> so they can collect money and benefit from the videos but not have to do any payout.

No ads show on demonetized videos.
If we can acknowledge that societie's rewards aren't directly proportional to work ethic (Bezos works hard sure, but 5,000 times harder?), and yet everyone participates in a society that enables these rewards. Think of every civil service, roads, consumers buying your stuff, the fact that brigands aren't simply looting your factories and stores etc. Fortunes are built on the shoulders of everyone who does and has contributed to society.

So if you accept the above statement we can discuss what people are entitled to coming from the same place. If you don't accept the above (many don't, not judging) then we we'll be stuck on that and won't get any further discussing entitlement.

It's not about doling out money to lazy people. That's become a bit of a trope. The American dream is dead. If you are born into poverty then the odds of you getting out of poverty, regardless of how hard you work, is vanishingly low. Sure there are lazy people but I would argue that it's impractical to try and figure out a system that weeds them out at scale, and then you're stuck with half assed policy that does nothing or benefits a bunch of smart greedy pricks instead.
Have you ever cleaned out the dust from the Macbook internals? If you've never done it, and your laptop is ~5 years old then dust is almost certainly part of your problem.
And so the famine becomes guaranteed.

To save a few thousand coronavirus deaths, we will starve 10s of millions.
> and that is very often what untransformed data is like

in my experience it's not just the untransformed ones that are like dead fish in a hole.
You would need to repack the .APK, which would be a hurdle in the comparison.
> The reason why I want to see a virtualized web browser is because it is becoming an insanely complex piece of software with an insanely large attack surface.

This is true, and it's the reason Chromium goes to great lengths to sandbox itself to contain the damage regarding JavaScript engine exploits. Annoyingly Firefox is lagging behind in that regard.

> I do not want a web browser have ability to have GPU access outside the specific virtualized section of it that can only access the part of the screen and off-screen buffers associated with the window of a browser.

Virtualisation will improve your general security, but it's isn't a perfect abstraction especially when it comes to GPUs, and it's not a rock-solid guarantee of the isolation assurances you want. [0] I believe cloud-computing providers never split a GPU between customers, for instance. Disabling sharing of the GPU with the VM would further improve your security at the price of performance.

[0] https://www.hpcwire.com/2018/05/31/gpus-excellent-performanc...
But to be fair to the person you’re responding to, you still haven’t answered his actual question - who gets to decide?

The example you gave is only “obvious” because the majority think so. However we’re increasingly living in an environment where people are “fleeing the centre”. People have abandoned authority, and are increasingly abandoning science, even to the point of doubting or reinterpreting their own lived experience.

The key to “common sense” is “common”. When very little is held in common, where do you find common sense?

This is precisely why, in my view, the single greatest danger to mankind is - a “meta-danger” perhaps - is the explosion in deliberate attempts (irrespective of motive - lulz, commercial profit, political influence or psychological warfare) to misinform, sow discord, and erode trust. It is an absolute scourge and is already starting to bite us in the collective arse, by limiting our ability to act collectively for objective common good.

I have no idea at all how we fight this threat.

EDITED: SP. collect > collectively
Do you want people to seek the virus?

Because this will accomplish that.
> They really like std::deque<T> and use it everywhere even though the sizeof(T) is like a few dozen bytes at best so they should rather use std::vector. The data structure of deque is a list of array. while it can amortize the continious adding of the elements to front or back, since the element size is very small, they should rather use vector.

Are you saying that access patterns (push/pop front/back) never matter and std::vector is always better than std::deque if the element size is very small? I don't think that this is true in this generality.
This is still far smaller than other pandemics in the last 100 years. The 1957 "Asian flu" had around 1–4 million dead. AIDS is sitting around 770,000 dead per year and the total is vastly higher etc.

What makes things different about COVID-19 is how people are responding to it in the hope of saving vast numbers of lives.
An unrelated note (for the sake of intellectual curiosity): the author used the term "patroness" for a female in the role of patron, but that actually has its own word - "matron".
That is not really the point. The signatures are embedded in the APK. Repacking it to remove, or add valid signatures, would be a problem.
It certainly is possible. I learned about this after teasing my roommate for using a "lap desk" — now I use one myself for this reason.
Then I'm not sure why it's a problem. Ostensibly anyone could have bid to license that name; I see no issue with that.
seems to be fixed, but if you've had the crash you have to Clear Storage or you'll keep crashing
how about this one?

int main() {
fork();
printf("choo");
}
>In contrast, a hypothetical WireGuard protocol v2 can offer just two suites, the old one and the new one, with simple advice: use the new one if you can, and allow the old one for old nodes until they’re upgraded. There’s nothing unusual about this, except you don’t need to be a cryptography expert to configure it.

I don't think this is going to be as simple as the author thinks. Look at Git's migration away from SHA1. There was no designed mechanism for switching hash functions, and lots of code assumed 20-byte hashes. Three years after the first SHA1 collision was discovered, Git has not switched to a new hash function. I don't mean to be alarmist - no one has created a practical attack on Git objects, but the time to switch cryptographic primitives is when they start showing weakness, not after they are definitely broken.

IPSec has a standard method for supporting multiple cipher suites, and negotiating a common suite. It might be very complicated, but we have no way of comparing it to WireGuard, because WireGuard doesn't implement the same feature.
Since false positives can be low single digit percentages, anything outside the NYC data is pretty meaningless, and a bunch of meaningless data is still meaningless.
Meanwhile, Twitter, also not designed for this purpose, actually stopped recompressing (jpeg) files when viewed at the highest quality. https://twitter.com/NolanOBrien/status/1204557498990002176

I was actually pretty impressed by this change from a non-photo site.
Interesting, I pay for the professional tier, and do not see a separate dropdown available for storage. The professional plan lists 5gb/user (at a rate of about $5/month), and the only way to scale up storage on my dashboard page is to provision more users (up to 100, so max of 500gb).

It’s a non-issue now, but yeah I’d prefer to interact with my plan the way that you describe and be able to scale storage independently (and ideally at a cheaper rate).

Regarding filters, that’s great! I didn’t see that before and will likely utilize it heavily now that I know it exists.
There used to be a website dedicated to the ludicrous nature of BBC Have Your Say comments (of which these are the contemporary equivalent), but unfortunately I can't remember what it was called . They've always been ... out there. I can't deal with reading them because I can literally feel the brain cells dying off when I do.
100C is where intel typically throttles down clock as a life saving measure. You can run at 100C, or higher, but modern CPUs will cut down performance in an attempt to lower temp. High temp = shorter life. Macbooks adjusted that limit upwards so the CPU has a higher threshold before the auto-throttle kicks in.
More about that here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=947op8yKJRY
Does this count?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/26/gmail-hiding...
Hmm, but if the puller doesn't actually know what value of `n` is ideal, then what benefit is there to a pull-based model vs. having the pusher choose an arbitrary `n`?
I suspect that these rules are often rough proxies for player age, which is in turn a rough proxy for player experience. The polarity of the test is aligned with whether first player has advantage or disadvantage in that particular game, to give the less-experienced player the advantage. (Just a theory! No hard evidence beside observed correlation with player order rules for subsequent rounds in some games.)
Not the only position that changed radically over time. Head of WHO in early March:

> First, COVID-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza, from the data we have so far.

> With influenza, people who are infected but not yet sick are major drivers of transmission, which does not appear to be the case for COVID-19.

> Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms, and most of those cases develop symptoms within 2 days.

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

Also for a long time the medias were quoting 5-10% death rates when we have now evidence that it will be well under 1%, which infectious disease specialists were saying all along.
Since we can probably assume the copies of these books were made without the consent of the original author or publisher, would that make these pirate ships?
It will probably be significantly higher than 60%, since COVID-19's R0 without lockdown seems to be pretty high. The CDC has estimated it at 5.7 [0]. Herd immunity threshold = 1 - 1/R0, so the threshold would be 82.4%.

[0] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article?deliv...
At McDonald's you pay for a completely standardized product, delivered by a non specialized workforce. Healthcare is almost the exact opposite.
I have, and it seems unlikely that I would win any court case if I were to try and risk it.
So having killed 1.6 million in the US alone and run ICU at 100% for a year, you’re just going to hope people remain immune and the virus doesn’t mutate having passed through billions of people worldwide?
PhpDocu-Template to generate GitHub Wiki Pages of your code
Chwazi is great (and free), but you do have to have everyone get their finger on the device's screen (and, btw, some older devices can't recognize more than 5 fingers).

Another free option that just requires you to select the player-count and then tells you who goes first (i.e. no fingers needed) is Who Goes First? [0]

But the most streamlined app is Fast First [1] for $1.99 which, every time you open it, generates images of players sitting around tables for player counts ranging from 2-7 (for Android and it looks like up to 17 with iOS, depending on the device) with a start-player selected for each player-count. That is, you get a screenful of images representing a table of 2 players, a table of 3 players, etc. each with its own random start-player selected. So, if you have, e.g., 5 players at your table, you just open the app and look at the image for 5 players and use the start-player shown in that image.

It does take away the fun interactivity of the finger-based apps, but, that makes it fast to use.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnolol....

(There doesn't appear to be an iOS version of this app by Daniel Lew -- there is a similarly named iOS app but it's different).

[1] Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pinnaclega...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fast-first/id847875906
Just to check, are you looking for the Amazon logo on the delivery vans? Because I've seen tons of deliveries for various services arrive in plain white Sprinters. You don't know whose van it is unless you can see the logo on the package. Some of them even seem to be subcontractors who work for multiple services, ie, Amazon and DHL packages arriving in the same truck.
Not sure where the impression of giving a cut is involved, there is no mention of that in the description?

Re your point, developing ones brand does not discount the possibility of falling into a blind spot anyway, it is one of the side effects of a sporadic cashflow lifestyle.
Three reasons to why it may not have been "noticed":

1. Early on it had only spread in a small percentage of the populace so the absolute number of deaths was too low to be noticed.

2. The deaths from the regular flu this year were very low, see: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

3. The antibodies test out of Europe and NYC are pointing to an IFC around 0.35-0.6 which could "only" be 3-6x the bad 2017 flu season, note Covid19 is still the worse pandemic in decades.
> my arch installations tend to be quite lightweight.

That may explain why you don't get that many problems.

If you start pulling in many different components, the set of potential interactions grows exponentially. And if you add to that external software, it easily becomes nightmarish.

I've seen other comments saying that they've been running Debian or what have you for years without any upgrade hickups, and personally I've never had that.
The easiest way was always to simply remove as much as possible, start the upgrade, and then pull back whatever I removed, so that the system setup would correctly fall back in to place. And even with that, I sometimes get problems.

The main issue is probably not that upgrades are issue-less. The problem is perhaps the lack of cooperation between distros so that everyone could benefit from the experience others built along the way. But How does one organize that sort of cooperation?

Or maybe there's too much friction between distros and upstream developers?
Tell HN: I recorded a short presentation, and sold $14,379 in the first day
Hey HN — I wanted to share some data to show how useful it can be to have a decent audience on the internet.

Earlier this week, I spent no more than 16 hours prepping and recording a short video about I topic I know well. Yesterday I put it for sale on Gumroad [1], tweeted about it [2], and I already sold 234 copies for $14,379 worth of videos [3].

Last December, I did the same thing with a short technical ebook about AWS [4]. Since then, I sold $78K worth of PDFs in just under 4 months. At the time, I had 11K followers on Twitter. Now I have 25K.

I've been building an audience for 14 months. I started selling online 4 months ago, and now I'm close to making $100K [5]. I'm really fascinated by the opportunity of making a living from my own digital creations, and if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them if I can.

---

[1] https://gumroad.com/l/twitter-audience/hn

[2] https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1252963753647316992

[3] https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1253447751779487744

[4] https://gumroad.com/l/aws-good-parts/corona

[5] https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1253161719108493313
> If you miss a constant percentage of cases

We are talking about 1 serological study at a single point in time. We have no idea what percentage of cases we were missing before or after that point.
Some of it is also that, much like in comparison to schema-less protocols, it's a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparision at the RPC level, since capnproto's RPC is so much more expressive -- but also complex to implement. I think only some of the difference in available implementations is due to reduced engineering effort; the long-tail of serialization-only implementations is testament to the fact that implementing cap'n proto rpc is Not Trivial. Unfortunately, I think a lot of this complexity is inherent to what cap'n proto rpc is trying to do.
What is easy is to write C++ as if it was Java. (You just stick to the standard containers and use smart pointers when allocating objects on the heap.)
Oh wow, 250,000 new employees? That’s a lot of benefits and overhead this is going to cost them.
what planet do you live on?
Yes, but there's a world of difference between Rt=1.5 and Rt=2.5, both in the degree of controls necessary to bring Rt close to 1 and in how far it can get out of hand if your controls are somewhat insufficient.
Here's what the Whistle (dog tracking app that uses the Google Maps SDK) just sent everybody via email:

> "Hi William, We have identified an issue stemming from an outage with Google Maps that is causing the Whistle app to immediately crash upon opening. Our team is aware of the issue and monitoring the situation closely. While there is no estimated time for resolution from Google, rest assured that the safety of Bella is still our top priority. Please keep Bella close for the time being. [...]"