skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two of the three dramatically upward trending lines in the chart are labeled "with intervention," implying they took those social distancing measures into account.

So while the measures have no doubt had an impact on slowing the spread, the models predicting dire outcomes were also quite clearly inaccurate, in some cases by at least an order of magnitude.
I prefer Teams or Skype for Business, they works best.

I don’t like the zoom UI or setup
Some notes from the about page (in case these aren't super clear):

- Strokes are synced across devices

- Home page is a "public" lobby without history

- "Private" rooms remember what's written on them (button in top right)

- Supports Apple Pencil on the iPad Pro
“AOC observed not too long ago that before being elected to congress, she expected the corruption to be transactional, i. e. money for something in explicit quid-pro-quo. As she noticed, lobbying in the US is really more of a social process, where politicians aren't directly bought, but spent a lot of time with lobbyists. And familiarity, as always, breeds sympathy.“

I think this is much worse in the long run. The people who are lobbied and the people who lobby become the same.
While I’m going out on a limb here, I suspect that you haven’t worked with good companies and/or managers. While they’re hard to get started, and every manager/managee pair needs to develop their own style, they’ve been an invaluable tool for me both as a manager and as a managee.
Even granting what you just said it is still far from your 20% claim. And your way of averaging does not make sense. For example in March there was a day when 3 tests were reported with 1 test positive for a whopping positive rate of 33%, which would contribute half a point to the number you just calculated. How is that reflective of anything meaningful? To get meaningful average, you need to total the positives and divide that by the total tests over the period of concern. You can't simply average ratios.
I seem to remember having problems with daemon, but I can't remember what they were exactly. The Jail is gone now, so I can't look at the end result to see what I ended up with. By all accounts, this command should do exactly what I need though.

I probably ended up with something like this[0], which doesn't use daemon. Home Assistant also provides a FreeNAS example[1] which uses daemon.

For comparison, the systemd unit file that I ended up with is:

[Unit]
Description=Home Assistant
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
ExecStart=/home/hass/homeassistant/bin/python /home/hass/homeassistant/bin/hass
WorkingDirectory=/home/hass
User=hass
Group=hass

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[0] https://gist.github.com/damoun/96add58f60572cb12c11

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/freenas/
This is part I that shows what code will be run under tests, part II will include the benchmark (load tests results of the same API written in Go vs API in Rust from part I)
Agreed - increased loan availability affects the supply/demand curve.
The creator wrote on their FB page:

"Sooooo many people here. Thank you for visiting :)
Gotta upgrade my servers.
GPU server is the bottle-neck, but my credict card billing is flying
Sigh ~"

And someone replied "put some ads on there", so the creator hastily slapped some ads on there to help with the server bills, and... this happened it seems.
The problem with Brave is that they're curing the symptom (people disliking and/or blocking ads), not the disease (the current state of advertising itself).

Let's assume they hypothetically succeed and Brave's BAT-powered ad platform is the only thing available, they'll then have the exact same problem of fraud as the current ad industry and will need to deploy invasive tracking in an attempt to curb it, without success.

The problem is that the advertising model of "attention" is broken to begin with. Even without malicious intentions, how do you determine the value of attention? Is it "cheating" to look away or mute when an ad is shown? Is it cheating if you're looking at an ad in a foreign language you don't understand? Is it cheating if you're watching a video in bed and fall asleep by the time the ad is shown? Is it cheating to be looking at ads intentionally (because someone like Brave is paying you in tokens) without having any intention of buying the advertised products?

In my opinion the solution is to not base advertising on "attention" but base it on real results, aka the advertised product/service making more sales. Make the ads time-based ("your ad will be shown here for the next 2 weeks") and then the whole idea of tracking or fraud goes away because the only result is whether you're making more sales, and if so then it doesn't matter whether real people are looking at the ads or bots are "looking" at them because the advertisement is delivering results. This is how advertising has been done for a century in traditional media like print and TV.
I think the real problem is that yaml encourages you to make things declarative (which is 99% of the time a good thing) but sometimes hiding complexity is the wrong thing, and so when you have clashing declarations, the imperative resolution path is not necessarily explicit, and hidden behind an operations layer that you can't really see or reason about.

For some reason YAML seems to be an attractive option to try to implement things that really should be imperative in a declarative sense. Other configuration languages are either semi-imperative (like the hashicorp stuff) or don't do that (I haven't seen TOML configs that do some of the thing that YAML does). My best guess is it's purely cultural, because that trend started with ansible, which, not to denigrate - in many ways did very good things.

The trouble is that 1% of the time always hits at a very inopportune time.
Remington Leads (1920s)
I'm working on an IDE for music composition.

http://ngrid.io

Launching soon.

Music is fundamentally unsolvable by AI. We'll have AI writing code before we'll have AI writing meaningful music.
Exactly. In 12 months from now stocks may even be worth the roughly same dollars they are today, but the surge in money supply means more dollars chasing the same amount of stock anyway.

The S&P/Gold Spot charts will be the interesting ones to watch over the next few years. While S&P shows consistent 6-7% returns historically, that's valued against the dollar. When you chart it against gold the returns are closer to 3-4%, and there are periods where S&P goes down in value against gold for years at a time.
yeah it literally says waifu
I think it's an effective and impressive warning, which makes one think about the tale at length. And the warning is that if you piss someone off by being greedy, you might accidentally get much worse punishment than you actually deserve for a small mischief.

The tale wouldn't make nearly as much of an impression if, let's say, the crabs just roughed the monkey up a little bit and then they all made up and lived happily ever after.

Nor would it be a realistic or helpful lesson, because that is not now reality works: sometimes actions have serious consequences.
Work at a Startup: job list of YC companies most actively hiring for engineers
They won't be missed. I hope they use this as an opportunity to re-evaluate what exactly they're offering to students for the currently astronomical prices inflated by reckless borrowing.
Not OP, but I have an answer. Had to take some time off to deal with the fallout from a nasty divorce. Afterwards, was financially "desperate" due to alimony (which assumes that you never take time off and can always get a new job that pays the same as your prior one).

Turns out that it really is hard to get a job when you don't already have one.
> Have you considered the recent alternative, smol [1]?

I've been reading Stjepan's articles and am very interested in what he's doing but we haven't seriously looked into alternatives yet. He reached out to me after this post went live and I've promised to follow up!

> Do you have any plans to share source or build scripts for the glue components?

We'd like to open source bits of our work that are separable and useful to others but often glue code and build scripts fall way short of that because they're very much tied into our specific arrangement. I'm not sure there's much there that's novel in any event, it's mostly just using the set of crates I list in the post in the standard ways.

> How have you been able to incorporate native functionality such as media codecs and screen capture with shared logic written in Rust?

We don't handle video currently AIUI so we haven't had to deal with codecs. We primarily try to put platform-specific integration code in the platform-native part of the codebase, which is ObjC for iOS and Java for Android, and transform things down to a more straightforward form like byte buffers to hand off to Rust.

> Has Rust worked well when you also need to integrate with runtimes such as React Native or Flutter?

We have some React Native support and it hasn't been any worse than supporting the other toolkits we support. I don't think we have Flutter support in a place where I could speak usefully about it.
This concept is very entertaining. The PS3 game Haze and Black Mirror episode Men Against Fire have similar premises. Are there any other works of media exploring this?
It’s a fair point, but colleges also adjust program sizes based on what students chose to study. Just compare CS graduates in 1990 and how fast that grew and shrunk over time.
You don't have to do it yourself. You can find someone else who has done it and give me reference.

But I suspect you will be unable to find someone who has done it because it's simply not true.
Rob Pike is also the co-author of UTF-8.
I am really glad to be on HN. Thanks for sharing.
Um, cause we can't spend it? Planning on spending all this extra dosh as soon as society opens for business again!
> What is there to go outside for in your average US city? The mall? Even those were already half-dead before COVID-19?

Really? Bars, Clubs, restaurants, concerts, museums, art gallery's, and gyms off the top of my head. Street fairs, parties, festivals, conventions, sporting events, school concerts and events if you count less commercially driven events. That's only things that exist primarily in large cities, national parks, city parks, hiking trails, fishing, hunting, and boating outside of the city. There are literally hundreds of other things to go out for. If someone choose to stay inside that's clearly because they choose to ignore the large amount of things to do or they can't afford to in money/time terms.
The title should say Oracle cloud, otherwise it reads as the Oracle database.
How many students? As residence is basically a hotel with 4000-10,000 students, so 6 people seems low if anything.
I go with 30m a week, unless requested otherwise by the direct. It’s dependent a bit on personality types.
Recent, related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010868
It should be easy to write correct programs.
This interview was refreshing to read and the comment section far too toxic for the content.
What speed did you get in bridge mode with a single PC directly connected to the modem? Perhaps your router was hitting some hardware performance limit when doing NAT and everything at full speed.
"the top-level prior has 5 billion parameters and is trained on 512 V100s for 4 weeks"

If they used on-demand AWS instances, it would cost about 1,342,623 USD to train the top-level prior. So much for reproducing this work.
I work in AV development, and the number of refugees from the hard sciences is astonishing. I guess I don't blame them, but it's weird to have a physics PhD report to you and be able to use only a fraction of the skills she spent a decade and hundreds of thousands of dollars gaining.

This isn't quite a complaint: adopting math and physics PhDs (first as a mentor and now as a TLM) that are seemingly unproductive has been a consistent secret weapon of mine: they're often written off as unproductive, but it's not difficult to turn someone that smart into a solid engineer with a few months of guidance, as long as they're willing to learn. In specific domains, a subset of their actual skills are a good fit (they tend to be great at math), but it just signifies an unfortunate and fairly significant misallocation of resources.
thiswaifudoesntexist is better me thinks
Wow yet another 100% inaccurate hot take on the contact tracing system. "you will be required to enter your health information" - nope "it will be sent to servers" - nope.

Just getting that far told me that reading this was a waste of time.
Have you considered IBM SoftLayer? That would be the more serious contender in my opinion if one doesn't want AWS/GCP.
My problem is opposite, I am too indulgent and it’s difficult to be very productive
Walking 1x1s are the best. Not making eye contact by looking towards where we’re headed towards tends to help shy directs.
That is the thing, long time ago I thought this would be a good trend because it give incentive for ISP to improve the Router Modem Combo, so they would have less support call to deal with ( and better customer experience ). Turns out they dont want any of that, they just want to charge you for convenience.

I actually wish ONT are standardised like DSL Modem, so anyone could bring their own ONT / Modem with a username and password. I think Germany allows consumer to choose or bring their own equipment.
Going with Oracle however you want to paint it is not going to end well.

There are hundreds of cases to prove it.
Because when Redis forks to persist, every write will copy a 2MB huge page, and that's not good. All the memory will end to be copy-on-write-ed: latency spikes, big memory usage, ...
>There are two main reasons: First, trillions of dollars of stimulus money from the Fed and Congress come with an implicit guarantee that the government will limit investors’ risk no matter how bad it gets.[1]

When more people learn details about how much the Fed is pumping to keep the stock market afloat, there may be a revolt.

Investors/retirement account holders can't continue as before with 30 million (and counting) out of work.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/business/stock-markets.ht...
Many, many students choose those schools specifically because of the 'lifestyle' they offer. You are solidly correct.

What everyone seems to be missing in this thread is that those things only exist because people want them. I work for a bare-bones community college. We're less than 1/8th the cost of the closest large state school. And people choose to go there, and pay 8x more than they would at our institution because of dorm life, student life, and club opportunities.

Like it or don't, schools are only responding to what students want. There is obviously bloat in administration at schools - anywhere with a bureaucracy will (in my opinion) have that. But all of the other 'fun' things are because some students made a stink about wanting them.
Microsoft keeps shooting own goals such as buying Skype, renaming the popular Lync product (not be confused with several other Microsoft products also named after corrupted versions of the work "link") to "Skype for Business" just to make everybody confused.

Then later "Microsoft Teams" comes out of nowhere. Maybe I live behind a rock but I see people using all kinds of chat programs, and all kinds of Microsoft software, but I've never known anybody who uses "Microsoft Teams" and I wonder if it is as popular as "Hipchat" but backed by a company which gives in more benign neglect than Atlassian can afford to.

One constant is that chat programs are constantly churning, another is that every chat program seems to get worse over time, the third is the level of functionality that chat programs have had since early 2000s. (I helped reskin Paltalk for Brazil and it seemed to do everything that Skype and Facebook Messenger did today) The fourth is that consumers and vendors seem to learn nothing from past successes and failures.

(e.g. AIM was great, but AOL failed. Chat clients are usually an attempt to lock you into using services from a particular company, so whether they "succeed" or "fail" has nothing to do with how they succeed or fail, but just a function of what state in the vendor lock-in cycle they are in.)
Oh my god. Can you at least do your research now ? They wrote the core bits and not just userspace utils. Did you read what they wrote before blustering here ?
I think the point is that Go gets like a 90% score in most categories. You can get languages that score 100% in performance or testing or documentation, but they tend to trade off 60+% in several other important categories.

Further, I contend that Go has excellent documentation primitives, notably that it doesn't have any sort of markup or documentation package management. I've never seen a better language in this regard.
Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development environments
The justification for removing "The Things They Carried" seems particularly weak: "Profanity and sexual references"

Removing "profanity and sexual references" from high school curricula does not eliminate them; it only ensures that they will be learned through interactions within the prevailing culture - and likely never examined in detail by most.

Placing context around things that are "socially unacceptable" is one of the most important parts of the transition between childhood and adulthood. Why would anyone think it's a good thing to allow that to happen incidentally?
Yep. The article seems to muddle up and conflate a bunch of poor practices with "microservices." All the "problems" given are really just poor decomposition of the system into non-discrete components. The "audit" solution is a bit kludgy too.
>colleges won't reduce their rates nor increase their scholarships, they would just be completely out of reach of poor and middle class students.

If you let that run its course for a couple years then either the employers will have to relax their degree requirements or colleges will have to relax their price requirements. It'll be a game of chicken.
Well, a lot of college programs are just not worth it. The ones that are (engineering) tend to be four years of sleep-deprivation.
golang is not terser than Java for any non-trivial code bases, it's quite the opposite.
>for a long time was content that I barely managed to remember the new syntax for starting and stopping services when the distributions I used switched to systemd.

I've felt the same way, but then again I'm not really missing SysV runlevels either.

Generally I don't find myself tinkering with init systems too often, and a simple list of commands to run on startup in-order suffices for most of my needs.
If a product can't do something, whilst it's competition can without issue.

Then it's not really a case of going "but do you really need it?"
Ask HN: Where do you share your writing?
I write twice a week on my website about building and scaling your personal brand. My newsletter and website traffic is growing, but still looking for other places to share my writing. Any thoughts?

My site is arilewis.com
You become more productive by delegating work to the computer.

The better you are at delegating work to the computer, the more productive you will be.

Algorithms are elegant, data is not. If you are not careful, then data will leak into your program and you will end up with special cases for everything.

When this happens, your job becomes a glorified data entry job.

But you can be smarter than that and create abstractions over data that are reusable. And most likely that will involve types too.
How exactly is it "so easy to get huge loans" for college? My kid needs that, but we see only $5500 available for the first year.

Did you instead mean loans that the parent takes on, perhaps as cosigner?

I'm seeing nothing beyond $5500 that can be obtained by a student.
Flame bait on HN
Pop Culture X Strategy
This is kind of what I did, and recommend. Salaries are humble, but it's nice to have an employer that's grateful rather than dealing with contempt (of the sort we're seeing here).

And you can end up with an amazing amount of freedom on technical choices, etc.
Should and can are two different things in the real world.

We can idealize what people should do, or we can work with what they can do. Not both.
I skimmed it this time, and read it one of the 2 previous times it was on HN.

There is some thoughtful technical information in the article.

I admit it is hard for me to recover from click baity titles, and that probably lead to my choice of words.

I guess I would rephrase my salty comment as - “this article would be better if it simply focused on the value of SOPS + KMS+ git for some use cases instead of characterizing Vault as ‘overhyped’.”
My first computer was a TRS-80 Color Computer with 4KB. The pace of doubling has been a part of my life since home pong. And now a generation provides <20% boost over the previous leaves me with an uneasy feeling.
Ok, but for the "average" person, if there's an issue and they call Comcast to come out, if it is your router that is the problem, they'll charge you for the visit. That in itself isn't the issue, but, Comcast being Comcast, you need to sometimes be savvy because they will try and pull stuff.
< The biggest surprise about this is that there was a constant public rhetoric about the Internet that argued that it would be the most naturally competitive ecosystem ever invented, the one most resistant to monopoly, but in fact the opposite happened -- it consolidated much more quickly than any other major industry, certainly much faster than the examples that Drucker gives

This is a great great point!
If you are already setting up your own router, it seems like a huge waste to rent just the modem from them. Setting up your own cable modem requires little more than plugging it in, and your ISP should offer support if it's one of their approved modems.
it means soon you won't be able to use Zoom internally unless you have a 32 CPU license and PeopleSoft. /s
NASA Names Companies to Develop Human Landers for Artemis Missions
I had the same attitude pre-Covid. My local market (Atlanta) has completely tanked. There are still jobs out there, but salaries have imploded and I don’t think they are coming back for a couple of years.

If I didn’t have any other option besides the standard r/cscareerquestions “Learn leetCode and work for a FAANG” , I would.
My guess is that vertically mounted is better, but heat flow in moving fluids is very difficult.

When there are no fans, there are some empirical rules that give an approximation of the heat flow, but are applicable to very specific cases.

If there is a cooler and a fan inside the racks, my guess is that nobody know.

Note that a big fan on the side may also help to change the air between the racks faster and increase the heat flow. Some motherboards have a fan that sucks fresh air from outside the case and send it directly to the cooler.

Probably the only way to know is to try it. If you have a few spare boards you can try the different configurations. if you measure the temperature in each case and take a few photos, it can be an interesting blog post.
Some money maybe, but "the money"? Korean and Chinese families are paying 250K per kid in test prep?
I saw a startup at Tech Crunch London 2015 that was doing something similar, I think they were called JukeDeck but they seem to have dissapeared.
What do you care about TLS for a blog?
Genuine question coming from a lack of understanding of building a many-to-many video chatting app.

Wouldn't you want to send the data peer-to-peer between the users rather than funneling everything through the Zoom server?

You'd get better latency, and you wouldn't have to pay for the network streaming costs...
a good point.
Students will actually pay for those things though and they are willing to pay a premium.

My alma mater is concerned about having to run online classes next semester as they usually pay for many of the costs with the residence money...