skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, I believe she spent the guts of a decade at Google and Facebook as a Production Engineer, so this isn't really that surprising.
ideally something like this
http://janos.io/
but failed!

Hope https://postmarketos.org/ will be more successful.
>I get that the disease is more deadly. But is this one of those cases where it's better to pull hard and rip the band-aid off in one go? Nobody seems to really want to broach this topic seriously.

If you "rip off the band-aid" then hospitals will be overrun and more people will die because they couldn't get adequate care. The idea is to slow transmission until we get better treatments or even a vaccine developed.
Netlfiy is great, but we (Cloudflare) also have Workers Sites, which lets you do it 100% in Cloudflare: https://workers.cloudflare.com/sites
Ex-cook here, more than 10 years. Learn about mise-en-place and implement it in your work. It will be painful as hell but you will begin working far more quickly and accurately than your coworkers and it will likely end up with you leading.

I see so many similarities in the jobs. Great mise-en-place makes a great cook just the same as a great dev. Remember though, even the best cooks have to chop garlic during service occasionally.
No, it means that "enough people have been infected that each new infection causes less than 1 infection." Lets say we're in the middle of an outbreak and reach herd immunity. The infected people are still going to infect others, just less than the number currently infected. And then those people go on to infect an even smaller number. And so on. This is called "overshoot" and can end up being a significant number of people. One of the reasons for the "flatten the curve" heard immunity strategy is that it limits overshoot as well as reducing strain on medical facilities.
Really? Facebook started censoring completely of their own volition? Not because Western governments started to apply pressure on them?

Facebook's handling of filtered out messages is honestly not an improvement over WeChat worth celebrating.
Pywasm 1.0 released, which the WebAssembly interpreter in Python
Was the game Miegakure [0]? It has the same author as this paper/post, and pretty much seems to be the premiere 4D game. The parent link says that the research shown here was developed for Miegakure, so it might be the game you're thinking of.

[0] - https://miegakure.com/
If you want to lose sleep, consider what would have happened if this had been something really nasty, like airborne Ebola.

Covid is actually not a highly deadly virus and on balance we've handled it quite poorly "because economics."

There are much nastier pathogens we might have to deal with in the future.
Show HN: Running a mock API server in seconds
I have never used them specifically, but usually its shared compute - you are not getting an entire cpu core for yourself.

In my benchmarks I have found that a laptop with 4th gen i5 beats a $80/month Azure VM. You are paying thoufh the nose for redundancy and stuff
There’s been some discussion on this topic here, though a slightly different angle, just for reference - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23103386
http://www.columbia.edu/~jls106/galanti_shaman_ms_supp.pdf
Cubic and HyStart++ Support in Quiche
I don't think that people are going to hurry to go back to restaurants while the pandemic is active, official lockdown or not.
Regardless of shipping speed, I'm concerned about quality and co-mingling with knock-offs. Especially with something medical like vitamins. But everything else too.
We didn’t learn our lesson about cam roulettes last time around?
Not sure about the OP, but I have a small devlog which is basically just a Bash script which I run whenever I need to write a new post. The script takes a bunch of markdown files in a folder and spits out HTML files (common index.html + files of each individual post) with a header/footer. This HTML is then served using a web server.

I just tried visiting the Jekyll website to see how to get started, the documentation page has the following under the Getting Started section --

1) Install Ruby, Ruby Gems.

2) Understand what Gem, Gemfiles, Bundler(?) are.

3) Tells me about it's community for some reason.

4) Finally there's a page which tells me how to make a 'Hello World' blog.

5) 10 more pages explaining what Liquid, layouts, includes, datafiles, assets, deployment are.

6) I still don't know how to make a new post.

Most static site generators have too much of cognitive load. I just want a bunch of plain HTML files generated (ideally in <1s + no JS) from a bunch of markdown files, I don't really care for 99% of the features these things have. I would rather spend a few hours a write a simple script to do it myself instead of wading through the documentation looking for the relevant parts.
I don't think life will ever return to what it was before.

Just like 9/11 changed air travel forever, this pandemic will have long lasting effects on how we live as a society.
GitHub Projects Getting Popular During Covid-19
The epidemiologists at JHU certainly understand this stuff better than I do, but a couple things about this article stood out to me. Is there an epidemiologist out there who could comment?

- The herd immunity threshold depends on the reproduction number of the disease (R0). There's a basic reproduction number which is the rate they expect based on properties of the virus, and an effective reproduction number which is what ends up happening in reality. When effective R<1 the virus starts to die out.

- The basic number can't be changed but the effective number can be changed dramatically. Lockdowns and social distancing have already changed it, with varying levels of success in different locations.

- I have seen numbers thrown around that peg the herd immunity threshold for COVID-19 at 50-70%. This number is actually influenced by R, the lower R is, the lower your herd immunity threshold goes. JHU uses 70% here and that's the most pessimistic estimate I have seen.

- Wouldn't good, sustained social distancing lower effective R and thus produce a herd immunity threshold lower than 70%, perhaps much lower?

- New York is at 15-20% exposure already.

I read this article from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine a while back which observed that the early estimates for epidemics and pandemics are invariably worse than what ends up happening in reality, and it got me thinking. https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-...

My personal bias is that I don't believe it is even possible, let alone wise, to keep people locked down on the time scales that are needed for controlling this virus, so they just kick the can down the road. But unprecedented levels of social distancing might be possible if we are smart enough. Every single person who works from home, wears a mask, or keeps their distance in public is helping.
Ah wow, I never heard of this. Just installed PlantUML into Jetbrain's Rider and it works great.
"Text is easy to read" wasn't in their guidelines.
A record 20.5M jobs were lost in April as unemployment rate jumps to 14.7%
Great concept for the winner take all world we live in now. It's very difficult to get your name out there in anything these days without having to invest a lot in marketing yourself.
Activ Surgical launches visualization tech for making surgeries safer
You need CPU to dither and compress to GIF too, and for me with Imagemagick that takes three times as long as compressing the JPEG version.
What's the effective tax rate on each quintile?

How has proportion of taxes levied from persons vs corporations changed over time?
Did you consider using DisplayPort as your, um, display port? Or would that also require a firmware blob?
I know some people in adtech, and the time they spend on "compliance" isn't really a very big chunk of the total time spent on why they need compliance in the first place.

But I'm eagerly awaiting your measurements ...

Truly. Even if it shows the really big numbers you seem to imply. Because that shows something about their choice. How much trouble they're willing to go through to track you regardless.
We have talked about “pull off the bandaid”- to have 200M people get the disease means we’re going to lose somewhere between 1-2M people (just in the US).

Doing that quickly means hospitals and morgues overflowing with dead from COVID.

We HAVE talked about this from the beginning - this is the point of “flattening the curve”. If we let a million Americans die in a short time, it’ll tank the economy and overwhelm our healthcare system and ability to treat not only this disease but all others at the same time.

It’d be one thing if we were testing and tracing to try and limit. But this YOLO strategy is a recipe for complete chaos.

Even more inportantly: we don’t understand the long term impacts for those who survive. What is the 5-year mortality rate from complications? The US DOD has already decided that COVID infection disqualifies you for future military service (ostensibly because of the lung complications, but they haven’t said why formally yet).

The YOLO strategy that some folks are proposing is insane given how much we don’t know about this disease. It would be like proposing in 1982 that we get everyone infected with AIDS so we had “herd immunity”. Think about how that would have worked out for us... and then tell me that it’s a good idea to do it this time.

There may be a time when we know enough to make smart risk decisions about this disease, but less than 6 months after emergence isn’t it.
Note that California has about the same population as all of Canada
Just having it on your device is a security risk in itself.
Hmm there was https://lonelystreams.com/ before but it doesn't work for a long time.
I can relate. It normally happens when I’m so overwhelmed with my system, PKM (Personal Knowledge Management), todos etc. Maybe I should just embrace the discomfort and work with the existing data by extending/hiding/refactoring instead of destroying.
This is the year I canceled Prime, and I'm trying to act in solidarity with worker actions (eg no purchases on May 1st).

We can debate the merits of individual choices, but collective actions have impact. I wouldn't be surprised to see an anti prime day or cancel prime day organized to coincide with Amazon's retail holiday "Prime Day".
Honestly, if sites like omegle had just created a dedicated pornographic section, it would have drawn that audience away from what was otherwise a pretty fun experience.
No. Don’t fall for this. Just because every company has some aspect that is bad, it doesn’t mean they are the same.

You can differentiate. It is not hard. Some extremes: Patagonia vs. Outbrain. Gates Foundaton vs. Juul. Same?

By that same rationale all humans are evil, so there is no point in differentiating.
>Feels like I've stumbled upon a [vastly more productive] clone of myself.

yep, same
First we need to make Common Lisp popular. Since it's nigh impossible to write Common Lisp in any other editor, Emacs will certainly experience a surge of popularity.
Those are some opinionated tests for performance checks. What both symfony and laravel routers achieve with their routers isn't comparable with this router library. If you want to go a bit further and implement ultimate fastest routing, create an associative array, routes as key, callable's as value. Will it be fast, yes. Will it be usable, no.

For more information about routing, plase see Nikita Popov(nikic)'s post about FastRoute.

http://nikic.github.io/2014/02/18/Fast-request-routing-using...
Comparing Ember Octane and React
But you can say that about anything. The flu kills tends of thousands of people in the US every year.
Lenovo Goes Double Barrel with AMD “Rome” Epycs
With that mindset, you’ll have a few million dead people (who are not contributing to the economy) by Christmas.

Nobody who’s talking “reopening” is thinking about the drain on our society that so many dead will be.

This is not a mutually exclusive choice, but “YOLO” isn’t a good risk management theory.
Review by someone claiming to be a ex-Googler here: https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/

If the original code was a single file and you’ve ‘fixed bugs’ then what is on GitHub can in NO way be ‘largely what was written’

This code was used to lockdown an entire country - defending the code now based on who it was written by and under what constraints is disingenuous. It must have been known that there were these issues and they ought to have been fixed before using the output for something that had such huge societal impact.
I can accept that opinions on whether GDPR or other multinational legislation is a good thing can vary. But there are things that nations have agreed on outside of institutions like the EU or the UN. So these things are not off the table.
Good catch! Must have used an old API that doesnt exist anymore, thanks for the heads up
Thanks for being willing to have a discussion about this.
1. > The difference is of course that the burger only kills the person ingesting it where a gun kills someone other than the owner.

Guns in general (both in the US and CA) have more self harm / accidental deaths to the owner than to others - If we wanted to reduce deaths by firearms, this is the number to watch out for. Which is why I brought it up. Far more people die due to drunk driving than firearm related deaths.

What I’m saying is that this issue has an significant amount of focus for an insignificant amount of return in Canada. (Again I’m referring to legal firearms).

2. I brought up PAL because just like we need a license to drive a car safely and the consequences of not having one and driving a car are serious, the same applies to guns as well.

3. > Indeed more should be done to keep weapons on the US side, however I don't think there's any reason we can't do both things at the same time.

I agree that we can do both at the same time - I don’t see anything being done about it though. I pointed (and feel) that this is why it makes this entire bill pointless.

I live in Toronto and have family in Scarborough - both places where firearm related deaths and crimes have kept going up YoY. (One of the people who died in the Nova Scotia’s shooting was a part of my interns family - a family that does have firearms btw - and yet they are against the bill). That said, I’ve yet to hear of crimes committed by PAL holders. This law has done nothing to keep us safe (or even relatively safer) while taking away a lot more.

Further, as a taxpayer - the buyback is going to cost quite a bit while our deficit is through the roof due to COVID.
And I’d rather we not spend money for show when it is much needed elsewhere.
I prefer Floyd–Steinberg, it's softer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither
Hackers Stole the Secret Data of the World’s Biggest Celebrities
Wonder how long it would take a 6502 to do dinner public key cryptography operations. Would be an interesting addition to an e-voting system.
Deploying a Microservice Application to Kubernetes, from Zero to Production
But these countries were isolated from the world in terms of technology, economy and influence. China, on the other hand, is a country the West depends on both for production and profit, and has not closed off itself to anything that can help it stay on top. From a state of pariah, it rose to superpower status, and there is no real competitor to take its wheels off - the western companies and governments are the first to rush and make business with China, instead of beating it at its game like they did with the rest of the communist countries.
NASA's EmDrive Leader Left to Work on a New Interstellar Project
Cool concept but I think you need to be clearer about the rules, maybe provide a demo video or something. It took me a while to realize that it was just a phonetic/weird spelling of the word. I had to flip the card to come to that realization. So it would be a good idea to build some kind of training video or more detailed example instructions. This is the sort of thing that people can teach other people to do when playing a game but that only works once you have players. Someone has to read the manual/try to play it first.
> and this mode or that mode don’t matter because the slowest part of the creative process is the creativity and not your typing.

This is like saying we should just throw out every helpful thing that helps us write code faster/better. On one hand you argue for VSCode's OOTB experience (extensions which are MODES), and on the other hand you're saying modes doesn't matter when it comes to Emacs.

Why not rip out every helpful thing from VSCode, too, then? No refactoring, no completion, because that doesn't save time?

Why even learn to type with more than 1 digit?
>A curious kid can pace themselves along with a the rest just fine. Are the topics taught too long for your talent? Then dig deeper in each.

This is not as practical as one would hope, because all of the assigned work and hours of lecturing would still be repetitive and boring. Can a smart kid stop doing times tables on problem 5 and do calculus for the rest of the worksheet? Can a smart kid decline to show up to class if they already know what will be covered? No, and that's why smart kids think school is too slow.
> This is good news because if means a vaccine will work, and we won't need a yearly one - like the flu.

That's way ahead of the facts. It means we're more likely to be able to develop a vaccine that works and it's more likely we won't need frequent vaccination to be effective.

Vaccine success involves a certain amount of finger crossing, because it's a natural system rather than an engineered one that we're trying to tamper with. If you've ever boggled at a large spaghetti program, the human immune system makes that look like two dozen lines of clearly documented Java by comparison. None of it has to make sense because Mother Nature doesn't care why she only does results, and in the most brutal way possible.

This is why we've got a bunch of different vaccine programmes in different centres. Some of them might work, hopefully at least one does, and hopefully it produces an immunity that lasts a useful amount of time, has minimal side effects and is cheap to produce in bulk. But there aren't any promises without us having way more advanced biotechnology than exists anywhere today.
I think this was a joke reference to current sitemaps?
What are some good ways to isolate that server from the rest of your LAN?
I still use enacts for all my coding (with cua mode on), mostly because I have yet to find another tool that does context sensitive indentation quite right. And I suppose I’m just used to it. But I don’t actually use most of the power features. I mean code is just text; all i really need is normal editing, and the occasional search and replace. I also use org mode for all my notes.
People like _easy_ solutions, which they call simple.
Show HN: Play Codenames Online with Friends
Everywhere in this thread I see vague and generic statements like this. Do you have concrete examples of specific things in your 10 year old Emacs configuration you "labored over" that can do something VSCode (and its extensions) can't and which makes Emacs "vastly superior"? If so please share, otherwise don't bother. We have already heard all this vague nonsense for years.
Thanks for sharing. I admire this guy's drive.

The ideal world is one where environmental sustainability and server efficiency are hand in hand like this.
Not even close to working properly on swaywm. Maybe you tiling WM does something special for Zoom?

Screen sharing only works on Xorg, and screen scaling doesn't work (so it's super blurry on hidpi).

I've never seen that thumbnail window either -- though I don complain on that item, I prefer not having something like that.
I don't like your project. Data aggregation is powerful but very dangerous and I feel that you are handling it carelessly. I also get a strong Borg vibe here.

In the current state, people don't know how to handle their data correctly. You are just making it easier for some people siphon other's people data even more. And having their data played against themselves.

Most people are not quants. And becoming one is not something trivial. Having people play unguided with their own data is like giving uranium to little kids. They will have a great fun !!!
Based on my experience as a patent examiner and a patent attorney, it’s definitely not “the majority” of applicants that can be considered any kind of “troll.” Like many other fields and aspects of life, it’s a highly vocal and visible minority that you’re mostly aware of, because the mundane players are, well, mundane.
Building a Platform Team – Laying the Foundations
It isn't in the US? What's the top options then?
Dithering is done once (not every request) so not a problem, I will add "once" gzip compression to images at some point but only when the load on my blog increases to the point of breaking bandwidth. I suspect CPU will falter first so no point worrying really!
Link appears broken, but hopefully this is it: https://github.com/ThomasHabets/goircd
human consciousness is not deterministic yet physical
ai won't match the breadth of human ability unless it gives up on determinism. 0 makes me happy.
How that boot taste?
A sensible federal policy by a competent administration would have consisted of nearly immediate mandatory mask usage in all public places. Bring up the issue with congress and have them pass a federal law with an expiration date so that police officers can enforce if you have to.

That competent administration would have used the already-existing six day a week delivery service reaching every mailbox in America (USPS) to distribute reusable cloth masks to every citizen in the country, along with clear instructions for use and maybe even some educational material.

That would have perhaps been achieved by invocation of the defense powers act: get a list of all mass production facilities that can sew cloth and divvy up the US addresses to them, telling them to drop ship the masks and compensating them directly.

I don’t think this is hindsight being 20/20, I recall the the CDC response in the beginning was infuriating, basically telling us that masks maybe don’t even work that well. They don’t have to work that well for them to be better than nothing!
As a Finn, this is really, really bad. Our performance in PISA and other metrics have been slipping and slipping from 2k.

We used to lead in education, with these changes we no longer do.
back in 1999 or so I did a small research to check cookie support on the main browsers at the time. There was a few odd ones, but mostly mozilla and IE4 were the big ones at the time.

The mozilla cookie spec used language like "up to" for everything. Microsoft released a copy of the specification on MSDN with all the "up to" replaced with "at least". So IE4+ would support urls "at least" 1000chars. cookies at least whatever-limit it was supposed to have. etc.

They basically one-upped mozilla by offering web devs infinite resources that would, by definition, break on any browser following mozilla sane specification. While, also by definition, supporting everything made under the mozilla specification.

And all the users and webmaster of that time are directly responsible for the privacy mess we are today. And sadly, they are repeating everything again by adopting GoogleChrome and it breakneck speed in setting "standards" that self-serve Google.

This standards trumping for convenience is the ultimate incarnation of embrace-extend-extinguish and we can't stop falling for it!
I've always wondered why there's no HTTP tunneling for misc RDBMS protocols. For example, a MIME-Type for MS SQL Server Tabular Data Stream (TDS).
Get Your Hands Off My Laptop: Physical Side-Channel Attacks on PCs (2014) [pdf]
The web is a lot more unusable WITHOUT adblockers.

In any case, even disabling the adblocker resulted in multiple redirects and having to accept multiple privacy policies before seeing the article.
JVM Performance Engineering and Troubleshooting