skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia (and New Zealand) have no clear strategy to defeat the virus. They have won the opening battle and are claiming the war is over. Unless Oz and NZ cut themselves off from the rest of the planet, no, the virus war isn't over.

Herd immunity through vaccine or infection is the only rational strategy for a disease like C19. There is no vaccine, and possibly will never be a vaccine. Sorry to be a realist.
Facebook chose to make Facebook Login spyware, and Spotify didn't think anyone would mind when they did, because who cares about tracking? and/or wasn't aware, because who could realize this from the unclear Facebook docs? (Either is possible!)

That was a very pre-2019 decision, and now that Facebook just set the world on fire, we're probably going to see a lot fewer Login with Facebook.
How do you know they would send you to the ER? Did you not have insurance? Did they actually send you to the ER for not having it? Honestly, sounds like you simply had insurance, filled out a form and just assumed it was required. I've been to multiple walk-ins, and you can visit without insurance. They will ask for insurance up front, but you can simply say you don't have any. Then you will offer payment options. The average Urgent Care visit is under $200. The point of Urgent Care is literally to handle things that don't need ER visits, and at a much lower rate. I don't know why I've been down voted above, you can simply Google/Bing/Duck "no insurance Urgent Care" and find tons. The CVS MinuteClinic, which is everywhere, doesn't require insurance for instance.

https://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/insurance-and-billing
We are small team startup and i am personally annoyed about pricing of a clouds.

I have a 3 smallish VM for build server + managed SQL. It cost 500$/mo. It doesn't make sense. Having my own VMs on ESXi makes everything very different - most of the time this VMs do nothing, but you want to make them performant from time to time, so there are a plenty of resources because all other vms are too mostly IDLE.

In cloud they are billed as if they are 100% loaded all the time.

I am not really satisfied with latencies and insane price for egress traffic. I just can't do backups daily since it could cost whooping 500$/mo just for the traffic. This is just insane, i can't see how it could scale anywhere for B2C market. For B2B it might work really well though since revenue per customer is much higher.

We are not moving to our own DC, but just keep realtime stuff in the cloud, but anything that is not essential is being moved somewhere else. Bonus is that you need off-site backups anyway in the case if cloud vendor will just ban you and delete all your data.

Startups might move fast and iterate, but if you don't have your own servers you always reduce your usage because it could grow fast effectively reducing your delivery capacity.
There is also another answer... I work for a CDN, so we can't really use the cloud when in many ways we ARE the cloud.

Although we do often make jokes about "what if we just move the CDN to AWS?"
I did not notice that at first! It appears to be complete too.
That was already possible with Travis CI though. Not sure how the situation is now, are they still up and running?
Seeing the Tartars
This has echoes of Stoicism, as well, which teaches that emotions and feelings, to a large extent, are not under your control, but are fleeting impressions created by your mind. How you think about and act upon those impressions, though, is under your control.

I have an exercise I like to do when I experience pain, which is to tell myself that this sensation I'm experiencing is just a signal in some nerve. It does not actually hurt me in any way. Interestingly, this usually makes the pain a lot more bearable.
It’s a huge pet peeve of mine, including manipulating the copy buffer.
Using Dry:Container for Dependency Injection
Do you have link to the developer productivity analytics? Or is it stuck in video form at the moment? Very curious
A Brief History of the Cypherpunks
Want to continue to use the Wink Smart Home platform? It will cost you $4.99/mo
Oh Adventure Time - has such a special place in my heart.

If it does for you too - I could not more highly recommend Pendleton Ward's latest project The Midnight Gospel.

"How did you almost know my name?"

"I have approximate knowledge of many things, child..."
>Being able to spin up my entire infrastructure with Terraform, build out images with Packer, setup rules for off-site backups, ensure everything is secure to the level I want it, etc. - It takes me next to no time at all.

Interesting. For me, that equation is the opposite. Learning cloud technologies takes a long time. It depends a lot on what skillset you already have.
I think this is backwards. We have been using infection rates as a proxy for death rates, since deaths are a lagging indicator. It is certain we are missing a huge percentage of cases, and expanding testing will uncover those. It is completely unclear that uncovering more mild and asymptomatic cases will result in more deaths, so new cases are a bad proxy for future deaths.
This has been the most profound for me in terms of decision making. It is just so applicable to most decision making situations. Also led me to expand my mental models so I can be more certain about my decisions before I act.
> You're forgetting the human part in this cost. Installing, securing and maintaining the machines costs as well.

I'm not sure where to even to start with this. It's not even wrong ...

For hosted and colo servers, you can have "remote hands" unbox, rack and cable your servers. My colo facility, he.net in Calif., does that for free, including IPMI configuration.

AWS does not secure your servers. They have a "shared security responsibility" cutout in all their contractual language. So they have private networks, but you're responsible for iptables, application security, etc.

Their AMIs aren't even encrypted, ffs. That's right, 99% of AWS customers don't do disk encryption, even if they're required to do so for compliance reasons, because you have to do an extra step yourself to encrypt it with your KMS. (GCP does encrypt.)
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If you interested, here is an article about how Bank of America chose to build out its own cloud to save about 2 billion a year.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-americas-350-million...
My company moved from all on prem, to all in AWS. Having used both, I'd much rather go back to on prem. I did architecture, capacity planning, system tuning, deployments, etc. I knew everything about all of them, and treated them as sacred. The next generation came in, deciding not to learn anything about systems and brought in the 'systems as cattle' attitude and everything that comes with it.

I try to remain objective, there are some pros to AWS, but I still much prefer my on prem setup. It was way cheaper, and deployments were way faster.
SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV bind with similar affinities to ACE2. [1]

1. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30262-2?_re...
I've been looking for a better way to make changes to my personal projects from my Chromebook.
It's annoying when the products aren't what the names describe. It would be like naming a brand of facial tissues "Motor Vehicle" or a brand of computers "Apple." ;)
That's an adequate slam at the end there, but I'm more interested in your claim about "to justify expanding their feature set." How about you give me the elevator pitch on that. Because the obvious alternative explanation is that Github was doing what a lot of companies have done: use a loss-leader pricing scheme to establish market dominance, allowing them to charge more to customers for whom that dominance is a feature.
Bingo for the Japan observation.
Snap was spending 2B over 5 years - so 400M/yr. By comparison, Uber, who operates under managed colo, spends nearly 200M/yr alone on real estate for their datacenters. Who knows how much they are paying in engineering salaries so manage those datacenters.

Personally I don't think there's a one size fits all solution, you will have to do the math (like I'm sure Snap, Netflix and others have done) to see if cloud is worth it. However, I agree, for most teams the default should be cloud.
Male Trees in Cities
Reading Joseph Albahari's Threading in C#. Must read for .Net Developer.
IMO, the cloud providers' main advantage is that they will professionally manage all of the underlying hardware. Optionally, they can also manage the low level pieces of software also (e.g. databases, file store, etc.). It's a safe bet that GCP, AWS, Azure et al. can manage/architect their data center much better than the vast majority of companies.
Close Look at CSRF Tokens
This reminded me of Revealed Preference Theory[1], which is about observing consumer choices, but the idea is broadly summed up as "It is not what you say, it is what you do that reveals what you want." or who you are.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference
I’d be interested in your take on AWS Outposts - do you see potential in this type of offering?
Proof of value vs Proof of concept.
Nutanix is a nightmare when it's over-utilized or you have random node failures. We have 12 nodes and I think lost about 4 man-weeks last year to supporting it.
Do minor platforms count? I suspect Sailfish has higher native UI adoption. IIRC back when I had a Sailfish phone, all the apps I used including the third-party ones used the same standard UI elements.
It's not just CS. The computational chemistry and materials science crystallography folks can have jobs that run for days or weeks too.
@nemothekid Can you provide a source for your claim on Uber's real estate costs for their data centers? I couldn't find anything on Google that corroborates your assertion.
> Yes, you’re paying for a ton of stuff there that you probably don’t use

This is the antithesis of any cloud. You only pay for what you use.

> At $5B it would not cost anywhere near that much to replicate.

If you can recreate GCP for $5B in capex, there are likely some VCs lurking here who would like a word with you.
It’s one of the reasons I refuse to open Reddit anymore, 95% of the comments are insults, made up facts, misinformation or people living in their own bubble and refusing to accept any opinion other than their own.
I watched Ira’s video probably 9 or 10 years ago. And while I didn’t notice it back then, this message had a huge impact on me and resonated heavily with my world view over the years, serving as a great motivational driver on my most challenging times.

The funny thing is, as time went by and I valued this lesson more and more, I couldn’t, for the life of me, find this video again, nor the author of the quote. I remember going on lengthy google sessions trying to find it back, but failed hard every time, to a point I thought I had dreamed of it, or that it was lost for good.

And here it is, 10 years later, on HN, and we meet again. Finally!

Thanks for posting this.
It's the "natural" direction on a touchscreen, where you're literally acting via a fixed viewport while dragging/flicking the content (i.e. the actual "scroll").

The other direction is more natural when you're using something like a mousewheel or a touchpad scrolling area, since that renders it quite "natural" to think about dragging the viewport, or a representation thereof such as the scrollbar handle. Dragging the "handle" downwards on a mouse or touchpad is also more ergonomic, so it's better to match it with the common direction of scrolling.
The difference is habbit.

We are not in the habbit of doing this now.

This change may change that habbit and encourage a new one.

Im not saying it will, but its naive to brush literally every suggestion off because you can already do something similar.

At least think it through before making a judgement on a new idea.
I’m puzzled. They got a load of people’s public keys? So what?

Or they got something that's not clearly described from the article. I don’t know what “ssh password” is stored in clear text. A private key's passphrase isn't cleartext and isn't on the server!
Because implementing a shadow fork is sooo hard.
Venturing a guess, a possible way for #1 to hold true (in some sense) might be the maturity of camera-based object detection and classification, which even the most risk-averse industrial robot builders might have justified to adopt in their latest offerings.
I thought ReFS was suppose to give Windows different atomics and I'm surprised they haven't push it further into their client OS.
I’m calling it “lefb-pad”
Eh, I'm not so sure. Early retirement is in reach for much of this group, as long as it's accompanied by an adjustment in living standards; that's practically what defines them.

If the rentier/laborer divide is the _only_ important distinction, why is it so relatively easy for this group to skip across the line?
How can you reconcile this with the unfortunate situation that the world’s most popular browser is made by the world’s biggest tracking (aka spyware and adware with consent) company?
Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military
It seems you left AWS in 2014 and so your impression is everything is like it was then. Lambda is used by everyone and it's great when it fits for a startup. don't understand the bet your startup part, are you insinuating lambda will shut down
> I don't know if you can rectify RF energy like you can with voltage.

You can in essence, because charged particles have inertia, they don't instantly follow the EM field. That's how RF particle accelerators work. But there you're working with a beam of charged particles, not a neutral plasma.

It still sounds to me that they are essentially using the RF energy just to heat the plasma and in that case the parent's objections seem valid, though I don't know much about jet engine design.
As if the email addresses weren't already publicly available on one web page or the other.
Ah, too bad. Thanks for the heads up.
Unrelated to the actual article but the animated headline/hero image nauseates me. It's such a huge and inappropriate area for animation in general much less a choppy loop of a glaring bright iPad screen.
I read textbooks recreationally, in addition to genre fiction. I purposely try to read broadly across multiple topics, but have a horrible habit of getting hooked and doing deep dives in particular areas. In my case, I think it stems from enjoying reading college history textbooks (from my mother) and music theory textbooks (father) starting at about 10 years old. I enjoy the dry non-narrative and technical writing.
UberEats's customer service, even prior to this has been awful.

While I'd prefer not to use UberEats, they've basically become the only option for a large number of restaurants around.

I've ordered food from a variety of places, including large internationally recognised chains.

About 20% of orders have something wrong. Sometimes it's minor things. Othertimes it's significant - like drinks and dishes missing.

So, I report them to Uber, and get a refund.

However now I get these snarky customer service form emails a few days later that gives these snide tips like "To better improve your delivery experience - make sure to be ready to collect your order promptly" followed by a semi-veiled threats of "We take fraud seriously and will terminate any suspicious accounts"

I'd be more than happy to submit photos or videos showing that the delivery driver gave me one bag when it's marked "1 of 2", or what items were actually in the bag - but no, just shit customer service.

e:
I forgot to add - there's also zero way to contact them other than for a specific order.

I wanted to report to them a number of fake restaurants that someone is running out of their apartment. (The restaurant address is an actual residential apartment building, there's no commercial kitchen) There's no way to do that.
Great is the matter of life and death

Moments go by swiftly and are lost

To squander time is a great shame

Do not waste your life
Actually it’s unclear how the people in the article would vote as that section of Georgia was subject to de facto voting restrictions in the last two elections.
I'm reminded of this study: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...
Code review of the Imperial College London Covid-19 modelling
> there's actually not that much heavy maths.

Uh... sure if you know measure theory.

The later chapter especially in Dirichlet chapters assume you know measure theory.
They posted their double-blind submission on arxiv? Seems very shady. Is this common in AI conferences?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05862
a dormmate used to play life goes on on repeat in college. i couldn't help but learn the words even as i quickly got tired of it. that 2pac was a lyrical genius.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

> paying Google $5B

You were off by 10x :). The annual commitment was $400M/yr on average. Snap’s S1 [1] said:

> We have committed to spend $2 billion with Google Cloud over the next five years

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312517...
Have you ever worked in a large enterprise? It doesn't seem like you actually have.

In large companies asking IT to do things is a death sentence for a project. They are viewed as a cost center and therefore typically under resourced and often times lacking in skill. Bringing in a consultant is even worse. They'll be gone as the tech rots and nobody will know how to fix it.

Democratizing these kinds of things to the users is highly successful and enhances business productivity. The old school only the pros know what they're doing mindset is awful.

The success of companies such as tableau and alteryx are examples of the huge value add that companies can get when they just let their business analysts do things that used to require coders.
Switch to Sequel Pro nightly build. You can install it with homebrew. It’s very stable despite the nightly moniker. I haven’t had a single issue with it and it resolved several issues I was having with the regular release.
Usually mutated forms are less deadly. In the case of Covid-19 we've seen both more and less deadly mutations.

In the book and original movie "Andromeda Strain", the deadly virus mutates to a non-infectious form and the world is miraculously saved, an impossible ending.

The author, Michael Crichton, was not known for writing good endings for most of his novels, despite being incredibly skilled at writing a suspenseful first half.

The author C.S. Forester, in his memoir "Long Before Forty", wrote how different authors often have completely different skills. For example some can conceive story ideas easily but are slow to flesh the story out; others, given a story line, can fill it out easily but are simply unable conceive an original plot. Forrester says almost no author has all the skills to be an excellent writer and so writers often discuss writing amongst themselves and swap ideas in their work.

Crichton was blessed with the skills to both conceive and initiate stories marvelously but IMO he should have handed off the last half of most of his books or possibly co-authored with someone more skilled at endings. We all would have benefited greatly: a poor ending is a true disappointment, all the more after a perfect start.
The biggest mistake you can make with the 10-step Korean skin care routine
It's natural if you've never used a mouse before and only ever use Apple devices. Honestly it is pretty cultish, there was a perfectly good standard before but someone at Apple decided to make their mark on the world in this annoying way.
I think it's bais towards catgirls and other anthropomorphized anime characters which is skewing the results. If you go to FA, you would have to look hard to find feminine like this. It's either using a catgirls, as you say, heavy dataset or mixing two unrelated datasets.

I don't like the word feminine, because it's not really what furry feminine is. It's a human-applied-to-furry concept.

ACTUALLY. As I refresh the page, I get the feeling that it's the result of weird mixing between flat shaded art and mixing anthromorphic and "cargirls" (for lack of a better term- and I don't want to say east vs western, because catgirls dont' fall under furry)- anime inspired furry. It's weird, and makes me ponder. If the underlying datasets are a more similar art style and didn't have anime inspired art mixed in, I think the result would be less confusing and cooler.

Still an awesome project.
I appreciate your feedback. My question above is not about the mechanics of deploying commercial scientific software (it certainly somewhat varies between fields and organizations, though common themes and methods are pretty standard). It is about the procurement processes within national labs ecosystem. That is, about governmental gating / filters "in front of" vendors' go-to-market strategy and processes (RFPs, pilots etc.).

Re: more details - I'm not working in computational chemistry per se, but in the adjacent and closely related, as you understand, field of materials science and engineering. Will be happy to discuss my plans (within limits - currently very early and in stealth) through direct channels. You can connect with me on LinkedIn or shoot me an e-mail (see above).
Australia's strategy started off as 'flattening the curve' and as far as I know officials never stated that eradication is now the strategy. There's still about a thousand confirmed live cases and of course there's many thousands more that are not symptomatic or otherwise carrying covid without being diagnosed. Eradication as far as I can tell is not realistic.
The remaining 5% are the same jokes and memes repeated ad nauseam.
Do developers use vim to write code (Java) on a Windows OS?
I hope not many people enjoy this or can relate. Your endeavors are shameful.
I'm a former LLNL lattice QCD postdoc and current user of the LLNL machines (and others). I have to say, I was wildly spoiled.

Every other computing center where I have an account cannot hold a candle to the helpfulness of the LLNL support, the ease of use (except for the 2-factor requirement, which I understand), and absolutely insane power.
I'm going to buck the trend and say cloud is great. We do cloud, on-prem and colo (16 racks in two different DCs).

Procurement is a nightmare especially when your vendor is having problems with yields (thanks Intel!) and the ability to scale up and scale down without going through hardware procurement process saves us millions of dollars a year.

We avoid the lock-in by running on basic services on multiple cloud providers and building on top of those agnostically.

Spend is in the millions per month between the cloud providers, but the discounts are steep. We're essentially had to build our own global CDN and the costs are better than paying the CDN services and better than running our own hardware & staffing all those locales.

It's a no brainer. We'll continue to operate mixed infrastructure for quite some time as certain things make sense in certain places.
We are going to the cloud, but you have to be careful. With on-prem the limit of the cost is the server. Someone writes inefficient code and it just doesn’t work. In the cloud there are 1000 ways to overspend and the vendors purposefully don’t make it easy to track or keep things under control.

It’s kind of like outsourcing. If you don’t know what you are doing, cost goes up and quality goes down.
Wow. This so perfectly simulated a click feel for me that I didn't even know this was a fake click until reading your comment.
Have you tried tap to click? After discovering that on my laptop years ago, I would never ever go back.
That's a bit like saying that nuclear secrets should be made public so that people can "take precautions" because "anyone can have a nuclear weapon, not just state actors".

There are few reasonable ways to "take precautions" against nuclear weapons and there are few reasonable ways to "take precautions" against something like this short of swearing off of social media entirely.

Without reasonable defences, all you really accomplish is ramping up proliferation.
iPhone home buttons do the same.