skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years? IMO, looking at the stats of Western European countries, who are all slowly lessening restrictions, typically showing both carrot and stick (“we think x will be allowed again in w weeks, if you all keep following the rules”), unlikely, at least not for countries with significant tourist industries. They will feel pressure to allow tourist visits, certainly from ‘safe’ regions such as Australia and New Zealand.

(Whether those tourists will go on holiday is another question. Tourists may be wary of going far away on holiday, and if social distancing will be compulsory inside planes, and trains, travel likely will become much more expensive)

It also will be hard for countries to withstand the pressure from their population to allow them to go on holiday in other countries.

In the end, the better choice may be to allow some tourist visits, as that may mean people will follow restrictive rules better than when they wouldn’t be allowed to have go on holiday/to make some money from tourism.
PS: To be clear 2048’s point is still correct, black holes are a small fraction of the Milky Way’s total mass and a long way from filling the dark mater gap. It’s the actual experiment which is generally misinterpreted.
Yes, and ( Sadly ) No. I have seen quite a few open source project that refuse to host on Github due to its lock in, proprietary nature.

Personally I have no problem with Github, as its advantage far outweigh its disadvantage.
Disney is kinda touchy with copyright, and the pirate bay still exists.

I don't think the internet, where 4chan or the dancing coffin meme were born, is really a medium that stops at the threat of an outrage.
It’s a pure numbers game. There are less landlords than renters, so even if every landlord became homeless (unlikely), the consequences would still be orders of magnitude less damaging than if everyone was evicted.
Showers work...
As a follow on - my grandpa often said to "give each customer the best you have at that moment." Selling goods or giving attention, if every customer gets the best you have none will have reason to feel bad towards you.
Ads are a Trap
But it wasn't a terrible desktop experience: in 8.1 you had a strongly tiling window manager and a lot of apps designed for phone widths or smaller to tile. The tiling was horizontal only, but you could do a lot on a two widescreen monitor setup.

It moved a lot of cheese, sure, but it wasn't offering as much an "inferior" desktop usage as people seemed to think it did because they never bothered to learn what it did offer new/different/better.
This is so true.

Ditch the toxic people in your life.
That doesn't answer my question, though. I'm asking why the significand is in the range 1-2 instead of 0-1.
A restaurant business owner friend of mine is struggling to stay open and he lowered his fees to accept more orders on Seamless/Grubhub. Quite a bunch of people order food, receive it on time only to then, in a couple of hours, cancel the order. He filmed himself handing the delivery in to the person who ordered and showed it to the customer reps at Seamless/Grubhub and they don't do anything about it, he basically has to take the loss, multiple orders a day already. He isn't delivering to that address again if they re-order. But, at least here in NYC, there's no shortage of people who cancel they orders hours after they eat it.
Use vim adventures to learn. It will take the pain out of learning and will make you proficient in about a day.

After that, force yourself to use it. Install vim plugin in vscode. In about 2 weeks, you will wonder why you didn't learn it sooner.
Saying it's on Netflix indicates that they didn't go out and see the movie in a theater.
Public existence of such tool proves that quick glance at commit graffiti tells you nothing. And that's a good thing, because otherwise solving of big problems that require several days to produce a single commit would be discounted.

>hiring fraud

Committing to junk repositories is fraud too?
There are a couple of broad-based "fan art" reverse image search engines out there. One pretty comprehensive one is https://saucenao.com/.
I also dropped Google Analytics from my landing page. I just use Google Search Console for SEO and search engine traffic info, and my own tool, userTrack for on-page stats and UI/UX testing (userTrack is like FullStory but self-hosted and with slightly more Google Analytics-like features).
Holy fuck! What the hell is wrong with you people? You DO realize that a VAST number of property owners are renting out their basements to people. How you think saying "Fuck you!!!" to the property owner is going to help the renter is entirely beyond me. If the property owner can't make their payments because renters aren't paying them, then both the property owner AND the fucking renters are out on the street. Use your fucking brains for something other than envy and greed!
Most developers are pissed at programming on the cloud and want to do core development locally on their laptops, if you will force them to cloud edits that good luck getting developers to work with you.
They don't have to be followed in every possible instance, but they provide good guidance about what is expected when you see another person, and helps massively reduce the amount of situations where people pass each other going opposite directions. There's obviously no need to respect the arrows if you are grabbing something and going the "wrong way" doesn't put you in close contact with somebody else. By all means jump around lanes.

And yes, wait for the person to move on, don't squeeze past them, that's the whole point.

I have no data but it seems like something that would be helpful.
There actually is a related guideline [0]:

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

IMHO those guidelines indicate that neither Bryant's nor Schneider's deaths should be posted on HN. I can see why you'd be frustrated that one was upvoted and the other downvoted.

You might be happiest by putting this in the "imperfect system manned by imperfect people" bucket. One can only get worked up about so many issues before going bitter and crazy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
the statnews article says that too
How is this not an example of commodity fetishism?
Can you give an example of when this has informed a decision and how?
Chair, desk, distraction free environment, fast computer, fast internet, multiple screens, consistently good sleep, diet, and exercise. Stable emotional environment (relationships). You could easily get better than 1% from each of those. I'm ruthless about optimizing these.

Software tools, keyboard shortcuts, libraries, frameworks and saas software are also good targets to optimize that often don't get enough attention.
Lidar Project with Schematic and Code
PII and draconian security policies. We are not a tech company, so we can't fine-tune or have nuanced policies, we just have to build a wall around everything . In our web password recovery process, we can't tell people if their login was correct or not, because that might help a brute force attacker infer they got that right. Even though we have that rate limited anyway. I don't know why we can't just tell people the login was found or not found like banks etc.
iCloud Email Not Delivering Since 5 May
On the other hand, for many systems the energy is related (in some way) to the square of the value. For example, voltages, currents, photon counts, etc. So if energy is finite, then you get CLT behavior.
It took a deadly pandemic to get Toronto to embrace a faster building methods
Browser fingerprinting is a thing. In fact I suspect most of the supposedly GDPR compliant (so no cookies or local storage) still use fingerprinting in the background because you can't prove it's happening from the client (and the law is not being enforced anyway).
> That is a great idea. I really want my email hosted some place and that I could write my own "post arrival" simple business logic.

You can do this in gmail with filters, unless I'm missing something about the use case.
It depends on how you define the cognitive decline. If it’s losing your creativity, generating less ideas, not being able to be focused on a book - it may be a psychological trauma. I would recommend going to a good psychologist and trying to see if something is behind your current state.
Immunology of Covid-19: current state of the science [pdf]
> sometimes clients on a VPN have a smaller max packet size

This sounds like a path MTU problem. There's a couple ways to solve this.

-1) Make sure you're not dropping icmp needs frag packets.

0) Ignore it --- it's not really your problem, and it's 2020, people shouldn't screw up MTU like it's 1997 anymore. This is easy, but not very effective.

1) clamp your outgoing MTU to 1480. A lot of big sites do this, and it avoids problems in most of the broken networks, but you're adding overhead. But it's pretty easy to do. Doing it so you send lower MSS back to the client helps with large packets they send you.

2) Clamp effective MTU to whatever the other side told you in the TCP SYN - 20 (or whatever value you like). This isn't easy, but it fixes a lot more networks.

3) Like 2, but targetted to only networks were you detect path issues. This would be a lot of work, but very effective. (I haven't been able to convince people to do this, but I've seen packet traces that show it would work). You could also try to reach out to the most broken networks, and change the world for the better.

4) Your OS almost certainly has path MTU blackhole detection, but it might not be enabled, or it might not be very fast acting. Check if you can enable it with a fast timeout.

(To the thread; sorry, this isn't related to the article at all)
This hits the mark.

Anyone can be moderately good at most things if they work and try hard.

But to be truly exceptional it often requires built in talent.
Only once, and only as an example:

> Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them.

From: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL....
This is a such an epic situation that I'm sure we'll be talking about for the rest of our lives.

Pick two or three groups to save: workers, landlords, bankers, or businesses? Not everyone can be saved, and the political positioning of these classes makes this battle all the more impactful. This author chooses to sacrifice the banks and the landlords, and makes a pretty good case for why.

The wrong answer could spell the end of capitalism, at least as we understand it today. Maybe "wrong" isn't the correct word here, I don't know. I've never seen such huge decisions laid bare like this before.
How much higher ISP, and how much more engine weight/complexity? If it’s 15-20% higher but requires heavier engines that are harder and more expensive to maintain or use, it’s not going to be that useful or revolutionary. If it causes excess vibrations, it’s unusable. If it doesn’t scale up over a hundred thousand pounds of thrust, it’s a not very useful toy.

The biggest cost in space travel isn’t fuel, fuel is so cheap it’s a rounding error in today’s launch costs. The big costs are the manufacturing cost of making expensive hardware.

We already know the solution to dramatically lowering the cost of space access, it’s reusability. Burning up your entire stack every launch is insanely expensive. SpaceX ‘s reuse of Falcon 9 first stages saves as much as $30M per launch on the already cheapest stack due to mass manufacturing techniques.

The Shuttle cost was around $50k per pound of payload to orbit. Before SpaceX commercial launchers were $5k to $10k per pound of payload. A expendable Falcon 9 sells for around $1,500 per payload pound, a reusable Falcon Heavy launch sells for near $1,000 lb.

A fully reusable launch system would be dramatically cheaper. Each Starship launch is expected to put over 200,000 lbs of payload into orbit for about $500,000 in fuel. Keep refurbishment costs to $10M per launch and amortize the build cost over dozens of launches, and your cost per pound of payload is down to roughly $100. And it would be the largest, most capable lift vehicle ever made.

And it will do it with engines 20% less efficient than the Shuttle. Efficiency is only useful if it’s application cost is low.
Are those certificate logs indexed? It’d be super handy to know where they are and how to use them
Which distro logs tty0 console output from echo ? Debian does not. Fedora does not. Gentoo used to, but it broke.

Both /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/messages log printk output from inside the kernel. They do not log echo output from userspace.

Are you sure you are an admin?
> magical solution for junior devs not be dragged in those kind of setups in the projects that you're referring to

That's exactly what this is. The setup is part of a clonable environment. So for large scale compiled projects, you wouldn't have to:

1. Download the massive thing
2. Get it to compile
3. Potentially not have to compile many files that already have their `*.o` (or equivalent) file in the environment.

It could be like just walking up to some other developers fully functioning station, and getting started.
We don't get a practice life. There's no "play again." Make the most of it.
We are a 1000-2000 person company and we have probably on the order of $100M of servers and data centers and whatnot, and I think we spend about 2/3rds of that every year on power/maintenance/rent/upgrades/etc.

We don't generally trust cloud providers to meet our requirements for:

* uptime (network and machine - both because we are good at reliability [and we're willing to spend extra on it] and because we have lots of fancy redundant infrastructure that we can't rely on from cloud companies)

* latency (this is a big one)

* security, to some degree

* if something crazy is happening, that's when we need hardware, and that's when hardware is hard to get. Consider how Azure was running out of space during the last few months. It would have cost us an insane amount of money if we couldn't grow our data centers during Corona! We probably have at least 20-30% free hot capacity in our datacenters, so we can grow quickly.

We also have a number of machines with specs that would be hard to get e.g. on AWS.

We have some machines on external cloud services, but probably less than 1% of our deployed boxes.

We move a lot of bandwidth internally (tens of terabytes a day at least, hundreds some days), and I'm not sure we could do that cheaply on AWS (maybe you could).

We do use <insert big cloud provider> for backup, but that's the only thing we've thought it was economical to really use them for.
Yes, you need a mobile app. Users won’t order from the places that don’t have a mobile app.

Mobile apps do things that mobile websites can’t, such as integrated payments and geolocation.
Mostly, headspace. If I run my own server, I just need to apply my existing Ubuntu sysadmin knowledge. If I use AWS, I have to learn a whole load of AWS-specific domain knowledge, starting with their utterly baffling product names. My time is more valuable than that.

Also, sheer cost. Literally everyone I know in my particular part of the industry uses Hetzner boxes. For what I do, it’s orders of magnitude cheaper than AWS.
Stumbling upon "Latticework of Mental Models" concept of Charlie Munger [1] really helped me over the years to develop mental clarity, ignore noise and focus on fundamentals in many aspects of life.

[1] https://fs.blog/intellectual-giants/charlie-munger/
Founder of a growing startup:

Started with a cluster of Raspberry Pis and expanded onto an old desktop. Primarily did this for cost (raspberry pis alone were more powerful than a GCP $35/mo instance). Everything was fine until I needed GPUs/handling more traffic than those Raspberrys could handle. So I expanded by including cloud instances in my Docker Swarm cluster (tidbit: Using Traefik and WireGuard)

So half on-prem half in the cloud. Honestly just scared GCP might one day cancel my account and I'll lose all my data unless I meet their demands (has happened in the past) so that half on-prem stores most of the data.
Ben Krasnow took some steps in that direction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIKhUizkXxA

As with his Raman setup, there were some good questions raised in the comments about whether he really saw the effect in question or just got lucky with plausible-appearing artifacts. It's hard to assess validity from the presented results alone, which is unfortunately common in Ben's videos. In the Raman video, he didn't test anything but a single styrofoam cup, and in the mass-spec video he didn't do the obvious baseline run with a clean filament.

Ben's channel is one of those rare ones where the comments are worth reading. You can really see how easy it is for a scientist to inadvertently fool themselves and others. I often end up yelling at the screen, but it's still my favorite YouTube channel of all time.
Do you have a source on this?

By any reasonable metric, onprem is much much cheaper than the cloud.
AFAIK, GDPR only really becomes an issue for you, if your blog crosses a certain threshhold of views/comments.

Not sure where I read it, but it was in the range of something around 10,000 per day/week/month.

Definitely not something to crack your head over, if you just want to host a personal blog (unless you're a celebrity?).

SOURCE: I self-host a personal blog in Germany, and had read up on it a year or two ago.
Brim: Open-source Electron App, adds Linux, Zeek log ingest
Why do I need to use a Headless CMS?
What's the difference between private cloud and on prem?

Does it just mean you let everyone spin up VMs etc rather than requiring them to go through IT?
Yes, that would be great. How would you DM me? Twitter?
Just for some context from someone who is involved in robotics, both Google X and Samsung Research have research teams working on robotics arms. I would expect to see a lot more of these companies in the coming years, weaving a narrative of RL ( currently getting hyped a lot in academia, again ) and factory automation.

Manipulation is another task that appear deceptively simple, but is actually very complex for machines, similar to autonomous driving. Personally, any solution involving manipulation with fingers cannot be viable. Thankfully their approach appear to use a simple gripper. Most of their publication is around general RL (https://covariant.ai/our-approach). And again similar to AVs, the sim to real gap is pretty big here too.

One good thing is that warehouses is a more constrained environment and can be further structured around specific robots. And Amazon has internal robotics teams and have deployed robotic arms in limited settings. It works there because the entire warehouse is structured around robots, that's what it takes.
How is this not at the top of HN? This is hilarious. "Just average all the runs and call it stochastic, nobody will notice that we can't reproduce the results"!
It'll be a racist pervert in search of dank memes.
I wonder how many people in this thread are upset by Cyberleads selling people's emails and GitGardener making people's Githubs look better... but at the same time commit piracy all the time and make all sorts of excuses for it.
Toilet paper.
A tool to show your Spotify “Now Playing” status on your GitHub profile
At $35/month though GCP would only have to save you a half an hour of maintenance for it to be worth it though.
US social security is fine as a pension program. It’s disability payments that became a problem. Because high income earners don’t pay for SS, it’s politically very tempting to use that money to pay for vaguely related social programs which then grew over time.
We use servers on the cloud (IaaS) but still self-host all our apps.
Their original delivery was an absolute clusterfuck. Decided to try it one day. The checkout barely worked, the app had no time estimate and the rebranded Postmates subcontractor got 40% of the order incorrect.

Walmart is making a big PR effort to rebrand as a tech company but it seems to be marketing driven.

Edit: this was pre covid.
Thanks. That wasn't available when I tried it circa 2016. You had to tap an icon with 25% steps which never resulted in the brightness I wanted.
That’s not a job. That’s collecting money from someone else who has a job because you own something.
People in America don’t exactly lack patriotism. They’re quite capable of making sacrifices in the name of their country or their community if need be. It’s just that many were led to believe that they were being forced into something for no reason. This was an active effort. There wasn’t just a lack of leadership, there was leadership in the direction of sabotaging a coordinated response.
I switched from Isso to Commento, but the latter has had an open bug that prevents login for almost a year:

https://gitlab.com/commento/commento/-/issues/174

For my site, I think I might as well not add comments at all, as I haven't found them to be terribly useful. The most useful discussion happens on HN, Twitter/Mastodon and email.
well, a zombie pandemic is a 100% undeath rate... 0% dead but 100% contagious forever after is a practically unbounded r_0.
> I'm not an expert on laws, GDPR, when consent is needed, by whom, etc.

> This is a side project that just started gaining a little bit of traction, and I'll certainly look into all the above.

You are selling a product without even knowing the legality of doing so?
"Write Once, Run Anywhere"

* The concept is powerful, and at the time Java popularized it, Java was the only practical system where it worked. C, C++ and scripting at the time were heavily environment dependent, with little hope of non-trivial code running unmodified elsewhere.

* The effort Sun put behind it (compatibility testing, enforcement, massive testing suite using a wide range of hardware and operating systems) made it actually work.

* It continues today in frameworks like TeaVM (http://teavm.org) that let Java and other JVM languages target the browser.
Seriously doubt fast charging a battery of running car from battery of another running car.
Not at all. There are no objective criteria to define spyware that do not also apply to Windows or VS Code (and probably the GitHub mobile app, but I have not yet confirmed that).
So then you agree, blue collar American workers should actively work to keep their wages low and quality of work environment low?
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23090858
Windows Phone 10 "Continuum" was pretty great, as brief as it lasted. It is too bad Microsoft gave up on trying for phones running Windows.
This debate is harder than usual because nobody knows what is happening right now, therefore nobody can claim to know why. How many people are suffering, and what of? What is the supply chain about to do? What are the long term effects? Nobody knows. We're in uncharted territory. Problems can't be solved if nobody knows what they are and why they are happening.

The policies that are implemented in this environment will not be thought out. Until this crisis ends it will be an ugly free-for-all to find out who has political power at the moment and can implement all their long-standing agendas with no special regard for current circumstances apart from some extraordinarily big handouts.