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A lot of Netflix's technical "secret sauce" is their own infrastructure via the Open Connect initiative.

You cannot get a silky smooth experience across that many congested networks with just bare AWS.

Why would Netflix want to take on the enormous risks of self-hosting? They don't have the experience and they don't have the skills. They can hire the appropriate people but it's extremely expensive. AWS provides a lot of very valuable tooling and expertise baked into the service price.
Britain to quarantine travellers for 14 days, UK airlines body says
It's not just journalists who think that Stefan Molyneux is an absolute nutcase.
Yay! Someone else on a Windows ARM machine! I have a Samsung Galaxy Book S.
Yes: but what was implicit in mine is that that output vector is no more or less informative than the current method of associating strong symptoms with specific diagnoses which have known drug dosages. Same idea, different representation.

The difference is whether the process can be automated, and that is where the problem of the black box comes in. With the current system, we know why the drug was prescribed. With an ML system, we would have no clue.
CNN had Richard Spencer, the nationally recognized neo-nazi white supremacist, on prime time.

As of 2020, there is no mainstream news that has any reputation for moral superiority and truth.
What Is the Execution Context and Stack in JavaScript? (2012)
But the fact that it's the 'last' car factory doesn't have any bearing on the choice of opening, right?
The other day I discovered https://favicon.cc, "in beta" since 2007. Instead of canvas it uses a html table for drawing (as well as the 1:1 preview!)
/me waves

I remember the arrival of Linux.

I'm not even all that old, but time sure does fly.
> Says who? You? You know how I know it's worth that much? Because he already has that much. The free market has decided.

Which only goes to show that the free market is absolutely terrible at deciding things.

> > That's where Bezos was decades ago.

> Nope.

Well, actually, Bezos did surpass the $10 million in wealth mark at least two decades ago, so I'm really not sure what you're on about.

> My principles don't discriminate by dollar figure or other arbitrary measures. That's what makes them principles.

What principle are you applying here exactly?

> I can do both? Isn't that what you were preaching before?

But you aren't doing both. You're just defending Amazon. You claim to care about worker's rights and not like Amazon and Bezos, but all I see you doing here is saying Amazon and Bezos deserve what they get and the workers deserve what they get, including subsistence-level wages and unsafe working conditions. If this is how you treat people you like and people you're defending, I hope to always stay on your bad side!
I'm gonna post this on our lab's meme group, if that's okay.
That YouTube channel is really great. Their older videos have a lot of lasers but they have expanded into many other subjects. I found them when searching about magnetohydrodynamics on YT. Highly recommended. I generally prefer consuming text but never have an issue sitting through their 30 minute long videos.

Recently they had a video about making very high performance thermal paste and were selling it, but three weeks later it still hasn't shipped and my email a week ago is unanswered. A shame, because their videos are still really great - I wanted to support them financially because the stuff they do is not cheap. But I guess selling a higher quality product for cheaper than the competitors isn't really a great monetization strategy. Meanwhile I had to settle for worse product at a higher price for my high power led project :(
Presumably the console manufacturers would not allow this. They want more control than that and don't want licensees acting as a sort of sub-licensor and building things for people like this.

You have to sign agreements with the console manufacturers - they get to set any rules the market will support.
Hey thanks for the reply! You make some valid points.

Regarding my previous Reddit account the user is 'kangabru'. I now notice that it's not visible despite the fact I can still log in - I guess it's definitely banned. What happened was that I posted a link [1] which is a splash page for one of my open source tools. It didn't receive replies, I checked if it was shadow banned, and the bot said yes. So I wasn't trying to hide anything, it just there's nothing there. I'm not sure why it was banned but I guess it was flagged as spam since my username matched the domain.

Regarding the game aspect there's a sister post which goes into the design of the game [2]. You make a great point though, I should make it fun for me too. I'm exicted for the 'zen' mode feature since that's something I'll definitely use. I'll keep that in mind as I work on it this month.

[1] https://color-identifier.kangabru.xyz/
[2] https://kangabru.xyz/2020/05/01/icing-addict-app
It's not just your website, mind you. I've been seeing it for quite a while even on other website but I've just been too lazy to report it ;)
> As a hiring manager I’ve run somewhere north of a hundred interviews, and honestly they get so boring and repetitive. I love it when people have questions because it shows you something about them which wasn’t on the script.

As an engineer, I've run at least that many engineers. I don't like it when we go off script, because it's hard to compare with previous candidates.

However, candidate question time is for the candidate to gather information, not for me. It's best for everyone if a candidate gets the information they need to decide they'll dislike the job/environment during the interview rather than during the first week.
Sigh, it is kind of embarrassing for me that I was a fan of this guy and even own a Tesla. Elon has gone off the rocks quite and bit and now is a straight up loon. He is now full on spreading FUD, which is weird considering the amount of FUD That was spread against Tesla for a while
>half will come out fitter, mentally and physically, more positive, with new interests and skills and stronger relationships

With you until the last part. This is an inward period. People are getting to know themselves, improving themselves, learning to be more independent, etc. because the space previously occupied by other people has been freed.

Unless you're talking about cohabitants? Seems to me that excessive contact would ruin the strongest relationships even faster than no contact would.
You can consider subscribing to hacker news telegram bot(@hnrobot). I've been following them for a year now. Coupled with the feature to notify you if a particular post's points are above a pre-determined threshold of points, you can now get notified of posts that have been treading. Over the past months, I've also been starting to write and curate some of these posts that I think are meaningful. Hope you all will find them useful for learning! Cheers. (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-02-29-articles-in-sec...
https://jonathanweisberg.org/post/inductive-logic-2/

(K+1)/(N+2)
It is, and it's one of the more annoying MOTDs I've encountered. You won't see it unless you get rid of the login manager and login at the terminal. Or, use the server edition.
I think on the balance contributions from Pokemon Go players are a positive, but there are people that fake in data to try to manipulate the game.
No one will know, and those that do will never reveal it. But I can surmise that it's a mutually net beneficial arrangement in the short-run, with Netflix expecting a better solution to present itself either internally or externally at some point. Otherwise, you're right, Netflix wouldn't use AWS and AWS would not supply to Netflix.

In a way, they're allocating money and resources to Amazon rather than developing internally simply because the long-term ROI doesn't warrant it.

And let's not discount the most obvious reason why it's probably not even a concern for Netflix: Amazon Prime Video sucks. Sure, Blockbuster probably said the same thing about Netflix at one point, but it's hindsight. I think most people, at the time, would have never guessed Netflix would be the one to pivot to online streaming either.

It's a very though provoking question and there's no way to distill it into one answer, so I'm just providing my POV.
I'm trying to read this, but a lot of it is way over my head. Would you mind explaining it?
Growth hacking on Reddit Public Access Network (RPAN): 1,263 uniques in 38 min
Horn Effect
What part or parts did you find to be too alarmist?
May 18th, the exact date Alameda County was going to allow Tesla to open until Musk had another hissy fit.
How does the brain link events to form a memory?
I too have started my own blog site this year to share some of the learnings I've encountered in my job as a Software Engineer. May I also add this into the mix?

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/
I've always been a night owl and WFH seems to fix my mental health after years of trying to force myself to work during "normal office hours" (let's just agree to call them bricklaying and farming hours) in noisy office environments (I'm doing a mixture between natural science and AI which requires plenty of focus).

I'm slowly regaining trust in my ability to focus, getting into flow, and feel "normal" again. I'm starting my day with food-related stuff, sports and work communication, then going for an open-end session only towards late afternoon when communication slows down, working into the night.
StreetComplete doesn't have the interface to resolve the note.

It's just asking the user to add information to a note that has not yet been resolved. It's likely enough that no one has looked at it (and it could be resolved just based on the initial note), but it won't hurt anything to add the information.
My head hurts from just trying to read the first few paragraphs.
The podcast was boring nonsense. Elon or China claiming things don't make them true.
> But I’m terrible at coming up with questions during dynamic meetings. I find that I need time to reflect on topics before I can form a clear idea of what I need to ask.

The trick is to have a set of general questions handy for all situations. "What is the meaning of life", "Is there life after death", "little endian or big endian", etc? The same thing with jokes. Just have a few ready to use on any ocassion.
I've seen quite a few professors who did a stint in industry and went back to academia with their tail between their legs.

A professor in a good school is like a small-business owner with a guaranteed income and a supply of free labor. In industry, the money is much better, but you're paying with your dignity and your self-respect.
TensorFlow 2.2
That says more about the audience that can't listen and judge the content presented instead of who's presenting it.
And traffic bandwidth?

I know it is not Christmas yet but it would be great if those prices trend to marginal cost for the sake of innovation.
> virtual output data structure, where the output may be rendered to a screen.

Sigh. Virtual DOM has nothing with rendering.

Virtual DOM was introduced as a lightweight construct to generate and modify tree of nodes.

When the structure is generated it is used as a prototype for updating "master" DOM (or any other tree of nodes).

Any modern UI system is a tree of widgets/windows - child has one and only one parent. So vDOM can be applied as to HTML/XML DOM as to native UI tree of widgets/windows. That's why there are React, Native React and my native implementation of React in Sciter (https://sciter.com/docs/content/reactor/helloworld.htm) for that matter.

Just treat "DOM" as a short name for tree of nodes where each node has a) tag(or type or class) b) collection of attributes and c) collection of children. Nothing more, nothing less.

In any case, I have no idea where here is the place for "grid of pixels ".
you may find this interesting:

"Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?"

https://blog.mecheye.net/2019/05/why-is-2d-graphics-is-harde...
I didn't test the isolation. I wanted to avoid accidentally destroying the chip, since that would mess up the analysis. I was tempted to hook the chip up to the 40 kV spark generator we had sitting around, but that would probably be a bad idea.
Dont be silly.
I can appreciate all sorts of tech nostalgia, but reading the intro my first thought was "wow this is cognitively impairing me" and then "please don't". Achieving it is surely a feat, but the actual effect is to make it as hard now to use my computer as it was over 20 years ago, because the type is illegible.
Slight Differences Between Singapore and Australia Tracing Apps
Can you give examples of what you consider "genuine debates" then?

I care more about the content than where it's hosted.
You should give a preview of what an invoice looks like so I can see if our definitions of awesome are the same, and then decide to signup :)
1. That link does not suggest a causal link between the halving and the drop in price.

2. If it did suggest that, it would directly oppose the law of supply and demand--a reduction in the rate of increase in supply should increase price, not lower it.
Food Ideas for Startup Guys from HN (2007)
Generally speaking, NDAs are structured such that you are allowed to share information/code/whatever with anyone else who is also covered by an NDA with the same entity.

Considering that Epic, and Unity clearly share their console API code with developers with agreements with MS and Sony it's clear that this is the case (+ or - maybe some exceptions specified in the agreements)
Console development is sickening with all the NDAs and such, so it's hard to combine their dinosaur approach with normal open development model. Console makers really should switch to the new century already and drop all their NDA garbage.
"The price reduction you receive, depends on the region you choose, whether you take out a 1 or 3 year term and finally the instance family you commit to in your agreement. Price reductions vary from between 1% to a massive 18% on what you were previously paying"

18% reductions for 1 year terms in Europe.

8% in mnt US region for 1 year term. No savings elsewhere.

Some prices reductions elsewhere in the world.
>> “All of this said, chronic procrastinators will procrastinate just about anywhere,” Pychyl adds. “That’s just something that’s inherent. It’s just your disposition, and it’s not going to change overnight.”

Well that's depressing.
I was once the recipient of a sales pitch for some GCP Apigee products and during the demonstration the control panel glitched at least three different times with loading screens of death and was very slow.

That kind of stuff sticks with you and you know that during an emergency or outage you're going to be battling the UI as well as the underlying problem.

Needless to say we didn't proceed.

AWS might feel a little 2010, but at least I know the control panel is responsive and works. No fluff.
How does this compare to a general macroeconomic GDP forecast over the next 3 years?
Basically, Minecraft is doom for today’s youth (minus the technological prowess)
Thank you! We're both lovers of retrocomputing, and I think especially right now it's easy to feel nostalgic for simpler times. We wanted to capture a bit of the wonder and weirdness of the early web, before corporate walled gardens took over and made everything look the same.
In order to get infected you need to get exposed to an infectious dose of the virus; based on infectious dose studies with MERS and SARS, it is estimated that as few as 1000 SARS-CoV2 viral particles are needed for an infection to take hold.

As far as I know, this statement is somewhere between "completely wrong" and "very misleading". There is no minimum number of viral particles necessary for infection. Rather, there is a curve of probability of infection depending on the number of viral particles. Going by the definition in the link[1] the author provides, "The minimal infective dose is defined as the lowest number of viral particles that cause an infection in 50% of individuals (or ‘the average person’)."

Which is to say that there is no dose that is "safe", only doses that are less likely to cause an infection. Very brief exposures to 100 contagious people is just as likely to cause infection as a 100x exposure to one. Chance of infection is not a linear function of number of viral particles (since one can't be infected more than once) but can be approximated as linear at low numbers of particles. I feel like this makes most of the rest of the article moot.

Am I wrong? Is the risk of infection actually sublinear below some threshold dose? Is there thus some "safe" exposure time that can be relied on? Or is the article as wrong/misleading with regard to the risks to an individual as it seems?

[1] https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-questi...
Why do MMO players gravitate towards the server with the most players? I don't play MMOs but I'm guessing it's because they can only play with users on the same server as them. Federated services don't have this limitation.

As a counter example, if the behavior you described really did happen in federated systems then why hasn't it happened to email?
FAANG is a little bit different, because you're not really evaluating people as much on "how much do they want to be here", because the answer is essentially the same for most people. For smaller companies, this matters a lot more, and a couple of key hires can really elevate or drag down the office culture.
I can’t agree with this enough. I’d love to hear more about how to accomplish what you’re asking in the current state of the fediverse. I’ve been reading into it but am not sure how to use my own instance as my “who I am” and “where I am from” while not allowing others to be from my “home” yet still safely connecting and conversing with others.

It’s marketed as easy, but once you start digging into the details, it quickly becomes more complex than I was expecting.

I’ve been looking into Mastadon, Pixelfed, and Matrix to use in this way, but it seems pointless since I don’t want to host my friends and family’s content, and they’re not going to sign up for some random odd sounding instance. I’m then left with an empty social network or communication tool that’s little more than a tech demo.
That's fair enough, i think it's a matter of taste, really. For me, it evokes a warm sense of nostalgia for a simpler time. Not that it necessarily was, and definitely not that it was better – i was a kid back then, so that has definitely coloured my memory of it all.

I see this more as a "just because we can" art project, than anything else.

EDIT: it also occurs to me that i have tons of respect for the hours of effort that would've gone into making fonts back then be beautiful at such small DPI. I think it's a good example of constraints producing interesting/good/impressive art. But i should avoid waxing too philosophical!
Cultivating This Trait Got 10 National Championships for John Wooden
Is that low or high?

Because I'm trying to get a photogrammetry pipeline working, and able to produce 50M vertices near-term. 1G long-term. All without deferring to chunking. 10fps on the serial parts is a medium goal for throughout.
I'm way in on junk food and no exercise since the pandemic started. I've decided I'm okay with it. I try not to be too unhealthy but this lockdown is difficult and junk food is comforting. At some point I will put a stop to it but for now I'm just enjoying an increased diet of junk food.
Okay fine I said I was exiting the conversation, but I am more than a little miffed that you intentionally misquoted me to make it seem like I was saying something I wasn't. Aren't you proud? You win, you're right, I'm wrong, I'm sorry for having the curiosity.
My biggest bash QOL improvement has been pointing my HISTFILE different places depending on what I'm doing. I do this as part of a more complicate setup, but if I had to pick between the separate HISTFILEs and all the rest of it, I'd probably take the HISTFILEs.
Why does this impact SEO? Thanks!
I mean, a lot of it is just the kind of complex one-off text transformations that would normally require a throwaway script or program to express. (They do in Emacs too, but you can write it as inline Lisp forms in the replacement side of a PCRE find-and-replace, and not deal with any boilerplate.) Refactors and stuff like that all happen through LSP providers, just like in VS Code.

If you're looking for a strong reason to think Emacs is worthwhile as a totally new user, I'd point instead to Magit, an extremely powerful and comfortable git porcelain, and Org-mode, which is simply the most powerful and flexible single-user notetaking/outlining/live code notebook tool yet created. Those are the two Emacs features I see most often mentioned as the subject of sentences like "I don't use Emacs for anything else, but I do use it for X because nothing else comes close".

That said, as I mentioned above, I'm not really here to evangelize Emacs. It definitely does have a steep learning curve, enough so that unless you see a clear killer feature (in my case, TRAMP's transparent remote file editing, since I edited remote files a lot in those days), it's not likely to be worth the trouble.
That's about right.

Debian's packages are generally older and more thoroughly tested. Debian also didn't customize things as much as Ubuntu does, so the software you get is much closer to what the "upstream" projects originally released.

Debian is famous both for having extended support for all releases, and for obsessive attention to seamless upgrade-in-place support. Some people will keep a single Debian install running for a decade, upgrading as they go without ever reinstalling.

Ubuntu is fantastic if you want a user-friendly desktop system out of the box. Debian is really nice for systems that you want to run with minimal maintenance for years at a time.
My recent use case is needing an alert if a certain metric of my system exceeds a threshold or is not present. The simplest viable alerting tool might take these parameters:

* alert threshold

* comparison operator

* expected datapoint interval (in units of time)

* whether to consider missing data breaching (boolean)

* if missing data is breaching, margin of skew allowed (in units of time)

(assume the tool magically has access to metric source, that’s not important)

I’m not sure whether the concept was named prior to this tool [0], but this tool’s name has become a colloquial term: a “Dead Man’s Snitch” style of alert. Once familiar with the idea, I found an exception-monitoring vendor [1] that I was already using at the time had built this feature in. I quickly found use cases and was broadly able to eliminate large volumes of “cronspam” and email filters in favor of the much more elegant construct — because it was so easy to implement and maintain, it was viable for a whole long tail of second class system metrics that otherwise didn’t deserve proper instrumentation.

CloudWatch on the other hand is lower level and more flexible (naturally with higher learning curve). It fundamentally provides similar value by offloading alerting state and logic to a trusted managed system, but is distinctly inferior for my use case:

* It treats missing metrics as literally breaching the threshold and makes no semantic distinction, which spikes the whole abstraction. You can (only partially) workaround this by splitting the alert into two distinct alerts.

* It doesn’t have a “permitted skew in units of time parameter”; you need to do the arithmetic and translate it into their parameters. This spikes the abstraction and makes the alert logic opaque to my team members and future self.

[0] https://deadmanssnitch.com/
[1] https://www.honeybadger.io/