skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Experts are also credited with creating an easy-to-understand message of avoiding what are called the “Three C’s” -- closed spaces, crowded spaces and close-contact settings"

This makes sense. In the US and other countries, people have become obsessed with things like runners not wearing masks or people gathering at beaches or washing their groceries, but all of those things are extremely low risk. Evidence keeps piling up that outdoor transmission is very difficult and surface transmission is remarkably unlikely. The primary way to spread a virus via droplet transmissions is to spend a sustained amount of time around lots of other people in an indoor space. That accounts for virtually all of the super-spreader events and avoiding these activities is likely responsible for the vast majority of the reduction in the transmission rate during these lockdowns.

I think we're gradually moving towards a system of restrictions based on universal mask wearing when indoors and avoiding crowded indoor spaces altogether. Most other restrictions are likely not necessary to keep the transmission rate low enough to avert catastrophe.
How much performance are you able to get out of your router7 setup? If it's unable to saturate the gigabit, do you know where the bottleneck is?
I really love C, although I'm no expert by any means. C++ and Rust (and D) are different kinds of languages, they have many many more features. There isn't an adequate replacement yet. Aside from having GC, if anyone mentions Go, yes the syntax is simple but the runtime is a massive magic black box, I don't like magic. The closest things that I can see are Zig or the yet unknown language that Drew Devault is working on[0]. So people know about Zig of course, but the reason I mention about Drew's language that he has hinted at with snippets is that I can see by his posts that he both loves and respects C and he cares about complexity[1], I really really look forward to seeing what he's been up to.

[0]. https://drewdevault.com/2020/04/15/Status-update.html
[1]. https://drewdevault.com/2020/01/04/Slow.html
It's being attributed to API Gateway, but I think this is really just Cloudfront doing all that.
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And I would hope that they do not bother to. The current offering is arguably perfect as-is.

I would prefer to implement things like horizontal partitioning myself using business keys and logic that make sense for my problem. I do not want a database to manage this sort of thing for me, because I want perfect visibility into exception cases so business logic can be developed around them.

I.e. if one of the drives fails, but I was only storing a lower-priority business entity on that particular partition (e.g. user preferences), I could decide to just continue processing without it (e.g. reset to defaults). With a hosted database solution where you do not have this degree of granularity, a catastrophic loss of part of the storage array would mean the entire database is down. Even if the important data isn't directly impacted.
They said they're in the final stages of testing right now, they'll first roll out slowly to customers that they're already working with, then the waitlist and then do a wider release for everyone by the end of next month.

Best bet would be to sign up on the waitlist for now https://coscout.com/dashboard
Chill everyone. Ammon didn't mean to betray anyone's trust. He just executed public profiles feature very poorly and compared them to profiles on anonymous platforms which was naive.
Before a lot of people see this and delete their profile if I were him I'd do this>

+Continue keeping it an opt-out feature. But give a long lead time. A month or two. Regular emails warning that profile will go public and a personalized screenshot of what exactly would be included.
+If users want to approve the public profile, they will stop receiving these emails. They should also be able to choose who to show in their profiles.
+If users forget to approve or deny, make an extremely minimalist profile public with only initials of the name listed.
Most people are wearing masks, maybe 90%.
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patio11?
How long ago was this?

I used AWS for a recent personal project. Lambda was not the right approach for me and primarily due to cost. I had an idea of how long a request takes to process (ball park estimate) and the expected throughout (requests per second). From that I knew that at minimum, I would be paying $x a month, and as the execution time of my code goes up or I get a spike in my traffic volume, it would only increase from there.

If you’re at scale, AWS Lambda blows up real quick.
Engineer in the EU, even if they are US citizens - there are over 100,000 US citizens in Germany, not counting current military or their dependents.
I normally try to heed the rule against snark here on HN but I'm going to go out on a limb and opine that yours will be the only really sensible comment in the thread.
note - I'm the project's maintainer

You're correct about the API calls & potential CloudTrail costs.

Regarding making calls to non-existent resources that doesn't tend to be an issue. Typically we start by making a call to whatever endpoint lists resources, and then fetch additional information for these resources.

As for permissions the wiki (https://github.com/nccgroup/ScoutSuite/wiki) has guidance towards the required privileges (including a minimal policy for AWS - https://github.com/nccgroup/ScoutSuite/wiki/AWS-Minimal-Priv...)
My buddy has one he's used for ages..5-10 years at least. He swears by it. Definitely a learning curve though.
Focus solely on research and open source. For a side project start a motorsport team. Not f1 because of politics but lmp or formula e(until it also becomes too political).
I remember during the last recession (2008) everyone I knew was going through their credit card statements and removing subscriptions/unneeded charges from their bills. It makes me think that Netflix has the foresight to see this next recession as quite bad and create some good press and become the good guy. Who wants to cancel the good guy??
You mean post-COVID or pre? I'm talking about pre-COVID, I imagine most people are wearing masks now.

EDIT: Reading the comments again, it seems that they're talking about post-COVID, so I misunderstood.
Living in Japan, the handling of the virus has been nothing but disappointing. We entered "state of emergency" but besides schools and a few stores closing nothing has changed. It is less people than before but the trains and buses are still packed, there are lines at the supermarket, even fast food chains (for takeout) and convenient stores, and families now chill outside and meet other families because children are at home.
Parks are filled with people and the governments response has consistently only been "please stay at home" which, based on my experience of doing grocery runs, got ignored mostly outside of the major areas like Shibuya/Roppongi. Some business like pachinko parlors flat out ignored the governments requests and the reply to that was "close down or we will publicly announce your name".

People that got sick weren't allowed to take the test unless they fulfilled some checklist someone came up with. People with pneumonia symptoms got turned away at hospital after hospital and instead asked to rest at home which also had an effect on the low number of confirmed cases.

Some articles of people that got confirmed coronavirus but instead of getting quarantined, asked to please not work and self isolate (<- there are also reports of people that were sick for weeks but just continued working with a mask until they were no longer able to). Same for charter flights and people from the cruise. Some people just denied getting tested, so they went home directly.

I have no idea how Japan got away with this but it's true that we are much better off than other countries. The official numbers don't reflect reality a single bit, but I can't argue about the low number of fatalities.
I just realized that this might happen to me. On my home PC my alarm bells would definitely go off when Firefox stops suggesting credentials for a supposedly known domain, but on my work computer we're a bit higher security and a password manager integrated into the browser (even with master password and quickly installing patches and whatnot) is just not up to scratch. So what I realized is that I may not notice a lookalike domain because I need to grab the creds from another program anyway.

Is there an add-on for Firefox that warns when you enter credentials on a new domain? Or puts a warning triangle in a password field when today is the first day you visited the domain or something? Firefox already tracks the latter, you can see it in the page info screen, so both should be easy to make but I'm not sure anyone thought of making this before.
Made a doorbell out a real rotary phone hanging on the wall.
We could do with HN's own patio11 to weigh in on the subject. He's been tweeting intermittently about it: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1260181776086925312 https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1255879667271086081 https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1255618267885924352

"Some observations from a socially distanced walk around central Tokyo yesterday:

* less foot traffic than you’d expect on beautiful day in spring that was holiday, but still high

* 98% mask usage

* 95% of neighborhood boutiques shut down"

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1255091793130950657

“How serious is the state of emergency? I heard it is not a lockdown?”

As of tomorrow, there is no McDonalds in the nation which will let you eat there."

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1254836838344175616 "This is the WSJ, and I’m just one guy who happens to be able to read Japanese, so weight appropriately, but the consensus of experts is we’re at the brink of losing the capability to do emergency medicine over approximately half of the country." (in response to over-optimistic WSJ coverage)
Yeah, agreed. I canceled my NYT subscription a while back in protest over some of their editorial misbehavior. It took me weeks to get in canceled and all my money back. Especially frustrating is that they dragged out the process and then charged me for the time that I was trying to unsubscribe. Eventually I just made American Express take the extra $2 back.

I want to resubscribe eventually, as they put out a lot of good journalism. But there is no way in hell I'm doing it until it's as easy to quit as to join.
1987 by the look of it.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.c/CYgWkWdWCc...
It is so sad that for us not in the Apple Ecosystem it is impossible to find a desktop HiDPI display. We are stuck in 4k for the past 5 years. This Dell is the only "option", but I don't know how many of us can afford spending $5k on a monitor with a lifetime of ~ 3 years that has not shown great reliability.

Meanwhile, Linux has made the lives of 4k display owners unlivable due to the lack of non-integer scaling. A 5k display with 200% scaling at 27" would help the situation, but we don't have that option.

Many times I have considered jumping on to the MacOS boat, just for the high dpi display availability & scaling support advantage.
Energy generation, and storage.
For Netflix though, it applies to less than half a percent of their subscribers.
It effortlessly satisfies a full gigabit, otherwise I wouldn’t stick with it :)
How Zoom became my “third place”
Can someone breakdown what the most exciting CPU developments have been recently? I stopped paying attention a long time ago, but find myself interested having recently gotten back into 3D animation. I know GPU renderers are gaining steam, but there are still CPU renderers out there and putting my toes in the water I’m finding it difficult to parse the advantages of one new chip vs another.
Between pricing games and how hard it is to unsubscribe, I won't give them a penny.

Washington Post gives you upfront yearly billing and cancellation is a few clicks, and I am a happy paying customer for them.
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"you should be researching by iteration"

This!

Research doesn't just mean to read stuff.
I disagree that clicking a hyperlink is not bad. If you have a determined attacker with some 0-days up their sleeves, simply opening a hyperlink may result in arbitrary code execution.

See an example from last summer: https://blog.coinbase.com/responding-to-firefox-0-days-in-th...
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I take this to be a criminal threat to dox users.
Japan has tested just 0.2% of its population -- one of the lowest rates among developed countries.

Yet the curve has been flattened, with deaths well below 1,000, by far the fewest among the Group of Seven developed nations. In Tokyo, its dense center, cases have dropped to single digits on most days.

excuse me, but given that testing rate, how the crap do you know that 1. the curve is flat, 2. deaths are at any particular number at all or 3. case rates are in any digit range at all?!
Congrats Krita team for Android tablet release!

I bought a pen tablet with screen recently, the Gaimon PD1161. Incredibly cheap compared to the Wacom Cintiq, and it works great with Krita (on Windows). My girlfriend uses it all the time now: https://www.youtube.com/user/PapillonMarianne/videos
Agreed that the "pressure" from ones that actually care about what you do is a major driver.
Writing down worries and fears is new to me. Will definitely try that out. Thanks!
It doesn't look that way. The i9-10900k (10 cores) at full load uses 254W, but the 3950x (16 cores) only uses 144W. There are AMD processors that top the i9-10900k in terms of power consumption, but they're 24/32 cores, consuming 280W/286W respectively.

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph15785/116012.png9-3...
I've had a Sonos system for maybe 5 years and just started dismantling it a week ago. The hardware is great, but the apps have always been terrible -- they add just enough friction that I've been subconsciously avoiding using the system for some time now. If you're into voice control, it's probably OK, but I'm not interested in that. The Spotify app (via Spotify Connect) is probably the best interface for Sonos, but I'm not a big Spotify fan and want to be able to easily play from other sources.

I also looked into DIY options and came to the same conclusions about reliability and time spent fiddling with it.

We have mostly Apple devices, so I decided to just give Airplay 2 a shot. I bought a used Airport Express for our living room hi-fi system and a portable Libratone Zipp speaker to use elsewhere (it's in the kitchen right now). If the system continues to work as well as it has over the past week, I'll probably get a couple more Zipps. But because it has its own battery power, it's easy to just unplug and carry it to where I need it, so I don't think we'll need one for every room like we did for Sonos.
He fell for literally every meme. Consumer blogspam.
last i checked, they let me cancel prime effective immediately, not allowing me to continue my year that i purchased. There isn't an option to stop auto renewal.
> How did you manage that?

I probably started coding, and then forgot to finish it ...

(not in LabView to be clear)
Depends on the market. Enthusiasts/gamers/etc. are going to want a discrete GPU. For a random desktop / family (without too much gaming needs) / corporate usages, an APU is not only fine, but it does not even make much sense to use anything else. Now laptops are fashionable too in that area, and I don't know any hard figures, but I would not be surprised if most desktop client x86 CPU shipped on earth actually are of the APU variety and used without discrete graphics. In which case AMD APUs are actually really good: not many people will want an unbalanced system, and they are properly balanced. Beefy CPUs used with their integrated graphics are for specialized tasks (e.g. non-graphic related dev)
I definitely feel there's some poor-UX lazy loading of results.

But literally mystified why there isn't a prebuilt index table that instantly loads the top results.

All Windows apps / panels + last 250 files opened shouldn't be hard.
Don't new features go against the whole IRC idea?

The original protocol is amazingly simple. But if you want to support connection persistence, you will need to pretty much redesign it - and in this case, why not go XMPP or Matrix? Both can already do that, and they are open source as well.
Can you take a screenshot of how you'd want it to look and put it in an issue for me? :-)
I only use virtual cards for online payments. I use Citi and they have an option to generate a card with specific amount and expiry.
That plus "avoid pure virtual classes", "no use of the heap", "C standard library and header-only libraries only", "compile with no exceptions" gets you close to embedded C++. Except also with classes.
> Weren't we all sick of Intel churning out 10% incremental improvements every year on an entirely new socket every time? They were phoning it in for a long time.

Sort of yes (although, they often did two generations per socket in recent times), but then they started just rehashing Skylake every year, and we long for the time of predictable incremental improvement. On the server side, the predictable incremental improvement also came with more cores each time too, so that was nice.
And who decides what speech meets that standard? Have you read the other posts in this thread? The "official" position on a variety of facts and best-practices has changed multiple times during the course of this pandemic. It's profoundly disturbing how enthusiastic some people are to start censoring anything that goes against the official narrative.
Twitch Subscriptions can be "gifted". You might want to check that ecosystem for concrete begging behavior and such.
Closing access to beaches and wrapping up park benches did not have any material impact on the virus spread. Would happy to be proved wrong if you have other info, though the Japan situation makes me think that’s not likely.

If anything, being in outside spaces where we can get fresh air and synthesize vitamin D in the sun probably has broader positive impact to our immune system — even if it comes with abstract risks.

But then again, I’m just spitballing here! Just like our elected officials did when they put their heads together and said “let’s wrap up park benches so people can’t enjoy the sun here to protect them from the virus”
One minor nit: The recent FB blogpost wasn't really "research" - it was mostly a reimplementation of this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08435
I'd say this is what any distributed system looks like, it's not exclusive to AWS and serverless architecture.

It's not even exclusive to distributed systems, most computer systems look like this when you actually think about it.

Consider what an application would look like if you mapped out each service and object, it would easily look as complex.

This isn't a new concept, we've had the idea that everything in computing could be represented by little computers communicating with each other since the 60s, Alan Kay called it "object-oriented programming".

The only difference is between the 60s and now, is that instead of mainframes we have platforms, so now we can actually have "little computers communicating with each other".
Write it down:

When debugging

When planning

When getting assignments

When attending meetings

When things are due

Engineers are notorious for recording artifacts of everything. I noticed when I started to do that, my skills and performance increased significantly.
I am confident the numbers are somewhere between 0.00 and 1.00
> The primary way to spread a virus via droplet transmissions is to spend a sustained amount of time around lots of other people in an indoor space

In some ways, very similar to TB, although a much shorter exposure time is sufficient for transmission.
Thanks, that advice in that post is really useful, I had started just keeping on with the task at hand and I'm glad to hear that was the right move. Breathing exercises just made me feel worse in the moment.

As to the therapist, I've had them off and on during particularly difficult times but nothing very long term and that has helped me so I think you're right it may be time to work out another couple month arrangement.
Schools will have to be outdoors-only when they reopen in the fall. This will work great, for a while.
I bought one of those usb to dvi converters for a white polycarb macbook that only had one external monitor connector.

While you couldn't run a game with it, it worked great for work. They seem to have some embeded video card.

(mine is no longer availble . But this looks similar: https://www.newertech.com/products/vidu3dvia.php)
To an average user, Google in 2003 was a search page. In 2004+, it was essential internet infrastructure.

That's a pretty big difference.
Debt investors lay claim to islands, cruise ships and theme parks
I'm interested in starting drawing on my computer. What tablet is best for Linux?
Please don't make your team work on a U.S. holiday weekend for this. Just don't hit the deploy button on this change and now there's no deadline and no need for crunch.
The Dell P2415Q would be my runner-up recommendation: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-24-ultra-hd-4k-mon...

I used one of them for a few years.

A colleague of mine uses 2 HP Z27q 5K displays and is happy with them: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04591534
It sounds like it was introduced at the EU in a budgetary context, and that's how the article begins, but the party is not just looking at money. The first thing they say about it is: "Open Source Software improves transparency and trust from citizens".
I've come to love the ultrawide 34" format @3440x1440 for "I want things side by side". Most of these can work as multiple monitors and split the screen if you plug in two cables, but you'll obviously have zero gap between them.
When you ask about top of the averages, it becomes critically important at what scale you average and how you gerrymander. Given that Singapore is both a city and a country comparing it to either seems fair.
How can you do near zero testing then declare the curve has been flatted? You can claim anything if proof isn't required.
This is valid question from someone. Why downvote?
It's a question and not a statement.
That's not a requirement or anything. There's no law that says you have to maximize short-term revenue at the expense of customer happiness.

I think it's become common because the average public company CEO tenure has fallen by 50% over the same period that their compensation has gone up 10x. Now it's in their strong interest to juice the quarterly numbers and not worry about anything particularly long term, because that's going to be the problem of some other sucker. And similar incentives apply all down the executive hierarchy. The faster people move around, the easier it is to make bonus-related metrics go up even if it harms things a few years down the line.
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I have a ryzen 3900x and it's unreal. Compiles instantly.
It's less than half a percent of their subscribers, so the cost is less than you might expect (especially considering the huge gain of users during Q1 2020). It's a altruistic and morally the right move, with the plus of having positive PR.