skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kubernetes got popular because it was the first system that came along that provided a CRUD API for resources of all kinds, including custom resources (CRDs), and was immediately compatible with public artifact hubs like DockerHub and Google Container Registry. The second one is the real kicker here, and I think is why Kubernetes "won" and Mesos et al did not. With Mesos et al you had to set up your own artifact storage. As powerful as Mesos was, there was no MesosHub.

Longer term, I think the contribution of Kubernetes will be getting us used to a resource/API-driven approach to infrastructure that abstracts away cloud providers, hardware, etc. But it will probably be superseded in the coming years by something that honors similar API "contracts." Probably written in Rust troll
I mostly skip 2. If I signed up, but not for this junk, it goes to spam.
Accommodation, transport, food etc. all need to be paid whether you’re attending school or not. If you’re trying to include all real costs foregone earnings are by far the biggest.
I don't know if you've seen a map of the area, but outside of St Louis way to the south, Minneapolis is pretty much the only metro area near the states of ND, SD, NE, IA, MN. Many minorities in these states have felt marginalized for decades (particularly the Native American people, but that's a whole different story). Driving to the closest metro area in solidarity is the only choice for many people to be part of the cause they support without having to do it individually.
lol why do people keep associating this with COVID-19? Nowhere did I mention COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine is primarily an anti-malaria drug, which the article is about.
Well, my point was that most automobile collisions aren't 'accidents' in the true sense of the word, and most automobile related injuries (and deaths) occur when someone does something negligent. The vast majority of collisions are caused by some combination of being distracted, intoxication, speeding, or just being reckless. Deaths (or serious injuries for that matter) rarely occur at low speeds, it's most often in situations that involve speeding.

There's a lot of data[0][1][2][3] to back up the correlation between speed and deaths, that's the whole focus of vision zero[4].

[0]: https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_...

[1]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/speeding

[2]: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/motor-vehicle-safe...

[3]: https://www.curbed.com/2017/7/28/16051780/us-traffic-death-s...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero
https://www.microgen-engine.com/ seems to be a commercial source, and https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/672465444/low-cost-ster... was a (failed?) attempt at developing a cheap 1kW generator. The more recent remains are in this blog: http://volodesigns-sterlingproject.blogspot.com/

It looks like the Kickstarter turned into https://seftonmotors.com/ , which are about 2000$ for a 1.2kW (full temp, pressurized) engine.
Wow - he made a triode! Several of 'em.
1. self hosted on ec2.

1b. Pip install airflow[all|what you need]
The airflow itself is easy to install. I’d say that installing the external tools is also easy. I believe installing pg, redis, or celery should be categorized in easy. It’s not the kafka or k8s level of installation.

2. Freedom.

3. Custom scripts
TP has relatively high shipping cost, especially as compared to its value. Dimensional pricing (charging by volume) is what kills you trying to ship TP.
The Voter Rights Act was a landmark civil rights act that isn’t obviously civil rights.
You are correct, but airplane companies already do that for the most part and much much more.

The difference in reliability between normal software and airplane software is so vast that "best practices" from normal software can not be applied to airplane software since that would be gross criminal negligence. To explain, in the 10 years prior to the 737-MAX problems there were 50,000,000 flights and software was not implicated in a single passenger air fatality. The average flight is ~5,000 KM which is ~4-5 hours. So, in ~250,000,000 flight-hours, there were two crashes due to software. A plane takes ~3 minutes to fall from cruising altitude, so we can model this as a downtime of 6 minutes per 250,000,000 hours which gives us an downtime of 1 in 2,500,000,000 or a 99.99999996% uptime (yes, that is 9 9s). In contrast, I think most software people would agree that AWS is high quality. The AWS SLA specifies a 99.99% uptime (1 in 10,000 downtime). So, by this metric, airplane software is 250,000x more reliable than normal high quality software.

The point of this is that the standard for airplanes is almost inconceivably high compared to normal software. To think that they are incompetent or suggest that all they need to do is adopt X or Y common-sense/best-practice is a gross misunderstanding of what is being done and what needs to be done to improve. It would be like someone trying to tell a civil engineer making a 50-story skyscraper that they really need to adopt high quality wood construction techniques from makers of doghouses. To actually improve it, you need to consider practices 250,000x better than "best practices" and go from there.

To put it another way, the solutions are actually really really good, unfortunately the problems are really really really really hard.
Police Unions
East is corrupt and west is not. Right!

Does it ever occur to you that other agencies might have better relationships and trust with other countries? That people might just not respond very well to bullying money or not ?
> I just wonder whether the WHO could have been repaired as-is
But that's the thing. The WHO isn't perfect and I'm uncomfortable with how much power China has inside of the UN in general, but I don't understand why people are saying it's broken. I've been searching for those arguments and the only sources I can find are conspiracy theorists and far-right news organizations. Could you please explain the reasons you think the WHO isn't functioning?
An sh script is a series of things that almost any developer who uses Linux can understand: command line statements. We use them all the time. Suppose the complicated declarative model you've made doesn't work one day and the person who originally wrote it is gone? Even if you have someone to debug it who knows the k8s languages: usually you can't just use the yml files alone, you need terraform or something, plus maybe some other services and "sidecar" containers that do other things for you. With a sh script, you just have the script with a bunch of commands that you can understand and look up easily, in a linear order, to figure out the problem. You might not understand every command, but you can run each one until you get to the error, then focus in on that area. With k8s, you need to figure out a huge series of intermixed deps and networks and services just to start, then find the one that is failing (if that is the one failing and it's not just being masked by another failed service that you didn't know about).
This is nice !

> So how to discover novelty?

Everyday I'm listing all the non-commercial blog posts submitted to HN for people to discover new blogs. You can see it here : https://hnblogs.substack.com/ (yeah substack... but free)
I started doing iOS stuff in 2012, so a lot has changed since then! If you're just getting into it now, I'd probably recommend diving straight into SwiftUI, which is Apple's new UI framework, and likely the future of iOS dev. Paul Hudson's "Hacking with Swift" website has a "100 days of SwiftUI" series that I've seen people really enjoying – might be worth checking out!
There are thousands of species of mosquito, dozens of which transmit malaria, and only a handful which do it really well.

Many of the mosquitos are invasive species anyway. The point being, there are many many of species which would fill up the ecological niche left if we extincted a few.
Ask HN: Why you do what you do?
Hi Hackers,

We all have project and reasons/motivations why we are on it. For some people it’s just money, but is it sustainable on the long term ?
For others it’s charity project, to see people going better.

On what project are you right now and what is fueling you ?
Just playing devil's advocate for a bit: the horror of your Bisquick scenario depends in part on the assumption that salt, flour, etc are fungible across applications, which is not quite true. Flour, sugar, and probably other trace ingredients for managing texture benefit from using different types in different recipes. If any of those benefit from economies of scale, it could well be optimal in some sense to have mixes for everything. This is much closer to being true in software, where different circumstances demand different concrete implementations of abstractions like, say, "scheduler" (analogous to grade/type of abstract ingredient like "flour").

Ed: I should say, I really like this metaphor, and I expect it will crop up in my thinking in the future.
Planet of the Censoring Humans
Conversely I think the trend of writing infrastructure as yaml may be the worst part of modern ops. It’s really hard to think of a worse language for this.
I think a big reason for the persistence of RSA keys is that they are easier to understand than eliptical curve.

Basically, every first year computer science student who has taken discrete math can write a (horribly broken, ineffecient) implementation of RSA encryption and decryption and have a pretty good intuitive understanding of what is going on.

In fact, I did that just for fun as a first year CS student.

With elliptical curves, I have read through the multiple websites and explanations and over several years and still feel I do not have an intuitive grasp of what is really going on.
https://aliimmam.com/2013/11/03/i-want-to-be-just-like-mommy...
> It is important to consider that a significant portion of the public thinks "the troops" aren't going far enough to end the protests in Minneapolis.

It should be noted that most mainland Chinese shared that same opinion, with respect to Hong Kong.
There are no fingerprints in authorized_keys. I should have looked into the file before speculating. So no updates to the file needed.
Relying on free hosting for a commercial enterprise is not smart!
Online Grocery Shopping and Delivery Apps UI
> patches in emails

Cringe.
Who allows the third-party sellers to set up shop there?

Relatedly: Amazon doesn't provide a way for you and I to report price gouging.
> Chalk one up for time wasted not addressing what people really need...

As a Swift programmer, I find this particular project to be useless. I can't imagine why I ever would want to do this. But: they make it clear that it was a community effort, and even singled out the non-Apple-employee who did the legwork to make it happen.

At the end of the announcement, they reiterated that the source code and process are both open, and provided links to the Swift forums and issue tracker, and called for more people to get involved.

I agree that Apple doesn't seem to be improving Swift in the ways I want it improved, but this is not a good example of that. This is the story of someone (not at Apple or Amazon) who saw something they wanted to do (use Apple's tools with Amazon's services), and made it happen. Good for Fabian! I'm not going to criticize Apple for offering some help and writing a blog post about it.
Not to mention the majority of professors would be considered at least moderate risk. Maybe I just had a particularly good experience but I got to interact with a number of profs quite a bit during undergrad. Paying for in-person with only a bunch of TAs just wouldn't be worth it IMO, plus things like campus events would also have to be limited. It would take most of the benefits of the college experience out of the picture. I think gap year is the way to go for anyone that can make it work, regardless of whether the schools try to do online only or make accomodations for in-person.
*neglected/abused dogs of various breeds

Many dogs involved in attacks are erroneously typed as pitbulls (which is, in fact, a designation encompassing at least 3 different distinct breeds); genetic testing later reveals that they were not. Pitbulls are the "Moors" of dog breeds.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109002331...
https://dogbitesohio.com/are-pit-bulls-unfairly-being-design...

Unfortunately, the stigma surrounding pitbulls is influenced by shaky notions of racial and behavioral genetics that mirror eugenics and its progeny.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/08/racism-and-the-americ...
Horizontal scrolling (a.k.a. side scrolling) then?
The obvious reasons not to do that is because it is stupid, disproportionate punishment, prone to abuse and irreversible if there is a mistake.
What I didn’t know about “content” in CSS
I think the famous rule for short memory capacity (we can on average keep 7 words/numbers/objects in out short memory) should also apply here. Up to 7 words/operators per line, up to 7 lines for a function etc. are optimal.
Wow, I'm jealous. Good luck!

You're in pretty rarefied air. There's only 20-25 a year and they've been doing it for ~10 years. So maybe there are 250 Thiel Fellows total. [1]

There's a list of notables on [1] that you might be able to reach out to, or maybe you could contact someone doing admin at the Fellowship to connect you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiel_Fellowship
It doesn't matter functionally. You can make the end token "waffleiron" or "mariahcarey" or "%^*~$". But there does need to be an end token to make multiline lambdas work and recognizing that is the first step to solving the problem.

Once you have the scaffolding of the syntax you can turn it over to the bikeshedders on the mailing list to make it pretty.
1.5 Suicides 800 000

The traffic, and suicides, are the two main dangerous things for younger people in non-malaria and not-a-war zones.

I was in an a little bit conflict zone recently, and people asked if I was worried and said I should be careful. They didn't know -- the local people living there -- that the traffic is 100 times more dangerous than the slightly ongoing conflict. They just look at the news and feel worried about whatever the newspapers write about, which is _not_ the traffic.
even with mosquito nets that we've had for centuries, possibly millenia, we're still losing 700K+ per year, so the cheap solution (free, in many cases) isn't working.

covid is trending toward the same death rate. therefore, we should lock down against mosquitos to be consistent.

i get it, cognitive dissonance sucks, but "nonsensical ideologies" indulge in the panic and anxiety rather than fortifying your resolve against the hysteria. your fear is someone else's power.
If you’re not part of the solution there’s good money in prolonging the problem.
What's not mentioned is that Trump agrees that the police need to be investigated and brought up on charges.

The reasons behind the violent protests in Minnesota doesn't even make sense and should be met with the full force of the law.

The cops were immediately fired and are now being investigated. Justice is being served. The protesters want mob justice, which would take our system of laws back to the middle ages.

The funny thing is that the lockdown protestors at the Michigan capitol building had more people in the media condemning their actions and not a single shot was fired nor a single piece of property damaged.

I would also like to point out that most of the protesters are not wearing masks or social distancing. Nobody cares about spreading Covid?
> At which point you're assuming everybody has the same need, which is completely wrong. Someone walks into the store to buy on behalf of six dozen people because their ordinary supplier is out of stock and you won't give them any more than what you will a single individual. Requiring every individual to come into the store one by one is both highly inefficient and, in this context, the exact opposite of social distancing.

The assumption that everyone has the same need is less wrong than a system that implicitly assumes need is proportional to disposable income. Someone walking into a retail store to buy on behalf of six dozen people is theoretically possible, but definitely is not common, and almost certainly less common than someone trying to hoard excess supplies for personal use.
Yep, I just started with a Jekyll template and tweaked it over time. But, fair warning: I am by no means a web developer, and most of my "tweaks" are just poorly written css changes.
The best part? It happened again just a few months ago. Same MO: Van Gogh, Amsterdam, hammer smash :)

https://m.gooieneemlander.nl/cnt/dmf20200422_37766724/deuren...

Sorry for the Dutch article, couldn’t find an English one. But the gist of it is that a guy stole a painting by smashing a window with a sledgehammer during the corona lockdown in the Netherlands. And got away with it.

I’m curious to learn more about the thoughts behind the security measures of museums. Balancing accessibility with “stealability”.

Edit: Here’s an English resource and video:
https://nltimes.nl/2020/04/22/video-released-van-gogh-theft-...
It's JavaScript; you can't really know.

Math.round = () => "haha";

Now `Math.round(3)` is a string.
Suspension of Entry as Nonimmigrants of Certain Chinese Students and Researchers
And is it okay if I ask how old was she? / are you?

I feel sad to hear
Still traceable.

Authorities follow Bitcoin transactions and ask questions which points them right to you.
Setting the Amdgpu HDMI Pixel Format on Linux
Hire someone to make high quality counterfeits, and sell those .
https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
MSDN's Channel 9 has quite a few talks/interviews with him [1]. I especially enjoy this one [2].

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term="Anders+Hejlsberg"

[2] https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Anders-Hejlsberg...
- There are big names behind it.
- It will replace VM orchestration platforms.
- Fear of missing out.

Jokes aside, when you've lots of teams, all working on small pieces of a large product and shipping on their own, iterating fast... you need a platform and ecosystem on top to meet their requirements. As you reach planet-scale, you need to NOT let your cost grow exponentially. Hence it is popular.

What if you're not planet-scale? Well, it will still help (attract talent, design for scale, better ecosystem etc.). Hence it is popular.

If you're building a business however, focus on business and time-to-market, definitely not the infra, i.e. kubernetes.
Stream Like a CEO
> Higher prices often discourage people from over-buying an item.

Sure if prices are stable. But prices lie on a curve over time. And because prices are on a curve, the price itself is not what the market sees, but instead the curve of the change in price over time.

Price hikes cause FOMO. If you need something, and you're worried about the price going up, you're going to buy it now. This has most commonly happened with gasoline. During 9/11, the government had to tell gas stations, e.g., to not hike their prices, because that would cause even more panic -- there was no supply shortage.

The second aspect is those that can afford the risk see the sudden spike as an investment opportunity. One of our neighbors in the development used it to buy toilet paper and sell it at $5/roll. They're expecting the price to continue to rise. This is not much different than buying stock when the price of a stock is rising.

So yes, in if a market is rational and prices are stable (but high), then you're right. But lately, price spikes seem to be causing fear -- which, btw, people seem to like to game.

(Edited for clarity)
Ask HN: How do you share/discuss code with friends?
My friends and I typically email/message each other or take screenshots but it's not a great experience as we are often using different stacks/environments.
That's why companies grow to a certain point, and then start failing.
It's definitely a lot older than Mr. Robot. They were only playing into the established trope.
Why is the upper bound on thinking horrifying? We are currently the upper bound within our own domain, and on the whole, we've been getting better as we lifted that bound.
I hadn't heard of them either. They don't seem nearly as terrifying to me as murder hornets. They're dangerous due to disease.

Their nests are pretty cool though. Kinda like a flat hex grid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduviidae#/media/File:Assassi...
SubLedger was another startup in this space a few years ago, which I thought had the right idea. But they didnt really follow through. They seemed to focus on uber and their ilk as customers, where as I felt they would have been a killer if they focused on being the accounting backbone between business apps. Like Xero is, but api first / only.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/subledger
The arguments used to consistently market software

1. It's portable

2. It's fast

3. It's declarative

4. It's fun / productive / easy

5. It's safe / automatic

6. It's an integrated framework

The opposites are also used to detract competitors.

The idea of k8 is that it will be portable to all hosting providers and linux distributions as opposed to developing shell scripts for Red Hat, especially multiple versions. I don't think it's easy or fun or fast.
Talk about proving the point guys.

It's a brilliant stroke of irony that this post is getting silently downvoted instead of anybody giving a substantive response.
> "the average font size has been steadily creeping, maybe 1.5 pts per 5 years."

To be fair, so has the monitor resolution and its density. I'm looking at HN, and imagine, ten years ago, I was using 1280x1024 then, this very font would've physically been a much bigger picture. So in effect, the font-size increase may only counter-measuring the resolution increase...
That's one of the biggest flaws of the Trump administration's thinking - that everything is always about money.

In my limited experience, people join NGOs like the WHO because they seek influence, recognition, or personal "mission" based fulfillment.

If China has been developing relationships and giving officials the above, then it absolutely could have influence far outside its financial contributions.
If you see the community, or the people, as a single organism. Then yes it is reacting in harmful way to an attack. And it is hard to control where the harm is directed.
Motivation hunting: launching a small business during isolation
It's terrifying. A friend of a friend of my wife just lost her baby. It was something that would have been easily seen in a routine screening, but because of COVID the OB/GYN wasn't having patients come to the office. It's heart breaking.
Yep, I think snazz said it better than I could have here! I'll emphasize the last point especially, about saying it out loud – I may not /actually/ read my stuff out loud, but I'm always very focused on how my writing would sound if I was talking to someone. I want it to sound comfortable and natural, while also keeping it well-structured and grammatically correct.
Okay, that's some information, and certainly half is a lot.

If you didn't read my link, I suggest you do. Plenty of polls are designed in a way that almost encourage terribly inaccurate results.

Perhaps these aren't, but I'm not going to be convinced they're accurate by just a cursory glance at results.

I'm not saying they're necessarily wrong, either - just being skeptical until I see a really strong case.
why not? In a lot of authoritarian state this is what happens. Look at Hong Kong.
They have a few videos up on youtube too https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7edFw3ys5w6eN6xMrIcOWg/vid...
> The ongoing militarization of state level police forces without the democratic consent of the governed for a start?

Are you living in the same country as me? The “governed” love this stuff, and keep voting for the people that do it. Civil liberties has always been something that has to be achieved through anti-democratic means.