skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is indeed very surprising to see the sharp drop in Covid-19 cases in Germany.

If I understand correctly, this is also not a randomized trial. I am not sure how they constructed the "control" group here to which they are comparing. It is a synthetic group where they extrapolate cases from n-7 days where n is the day of introduction of mandatory use of masks?

It is hard to not be tempted to think about several confounding variables that could have played a role in the drop that is seen, like people being more vigilant, following distance guidelines, working from home more often, the list goes on. Nevertheless, it was an interesting read.
> Flow is limited by the narrowest pipe along the path

Ah, this was a concern I had too. To mitigate it, Offset allows paying using a multi-path: a few paths together. It happens atomically, and doesn't require intervention from the user.
Ebert newspaper articles from 1962 are in the medium article. Discusses helping high school students using PLATO in 1962!
Startpage is descended from Ixquick (launched 1998). I believe they have an old, uniquely favorable contract with Google as a result.
Transcribed police scanners in real-time
You seem to be ignoring the "especially by committing serious acts of violence or property damage" part of downerending's comment.

Curfew breakers? Sure, they don't need to stay in jail. Arsonists? Those who physically assaulted others? Different story.
> > We would need to build/staff a full-time Compute team

I'm not sure I get this objection. Presumably in a company like Coinbase there is already an infrastructure team that runs the AWS instances, helps build the AMIs, etc. This team could re-tool and hire some k8s experts to help them make the shift. The promise of k8s (at least one of them) is that you can do more with less ops resource, since the system is so programmable. The idea that you'd need a completely new full-time team doesn't grok for me; that new team should replace another team that's no longer needed, or more likely, involve a combination of hiring some experts and retraining your existing engineers.

I do take seriously the other issues raised RE: security (though one GKE cluster per security boundary is a perfectly reasonable approach and gets you further than you might think).

> Unfortunately, neither myself (nor the other data engineer) was a Kubernetes guy

I think this is a different issue than the OP was raising; in any case, in order for a technology to succeed, you need to have subject matter experts embedded in your dev teams, or a separate function that provides the service to the teams that use it.

In the context of the OP, I think your case would be more like saying "hey data team, you need to build your data jobs into AMIs, go figure it out". Regardless of the technology chosen, it's not going to succeed if the teams doing the work don't know how to use the tools.
Congratulations! You've got the fundamental building block of what I call "The Dev Lifestyle".

You can work PILLARS, CONTRACTS, and SIDE HUSTLES - mix and match to suit you.

Your PILLAR job is the one that provides a modest salary and very valuable benefits. It must not require many meetings and you need to be able to keep it with as little effort as possible, otherwise the rest of The Lifestyle becomes impossible. Don't take a management job there (more meetings). Keep it as long as you can.

Next, you'll want to start moonlighting as a consultant. This is your CONTRACT GIG. This will often pay MORE than your PILLAR pays you. Use contract gigs to develop a huge network of people over time who will hire you for yet more contract gigs. With the right accountant at your side, your overall tax rate for contracts (in the USA) will be ridiculously low, so you end up with even more in your bank account.

Along the way, you will get ideas for products or services. These are your SIDE HUSTLES. Develop and market them yourself. Push yourself to use new and interesting technologies in these endeavors. Eventually you might hit the jackpot and have a business that pays you enough to quit all other work.

Good luck!
I should have been clearer earlier: given the replies that my question prompted I completely understand why my post was flagged, even in isolation. I have no qualms about any of it.

The comment was not meant as "who does he think he is, putting words in my keyboard, I'll set him straight!", but rather a humble "whoa! instead of simply flipping an invisible switch, he took the time to explain what and why to some nobody: this is so cool!"

Thank you for sacrificing your sanity and keeping this site what it is ;)
“Yuval Levin is director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute, editor of National Affairs, and a senior editor of The New Atlantis.” Useful context before the click.
The Nikola Badger, a New Fuel-Cell Pickup, Starts Preorders June 29
It's interesting to see how "vertical integration" has gone from being an unacceptable form of monopoly to widely expected. The government broke up film companies for controlling production, distribution and exhibition in the 40s but it's been pretty par for the course in retail for the past 40 years.
I basically never use scp/sftp unless sending out a small list of small files.

rsync over SSH is so much better that's it's not comparable. Not sure if any GUI clients would do that. It's mad faster even with bunch of small files and will continue on from where you stopped it the last time and obviously has all sorts of useful options for many situations.
Airbnb is also a great example of gdub’s comment that “design isn’t all about the way it looks, it’s about the way it works”. [1] This applies not just to the website or the app, but to the entire user experience.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23456898
My country (Kazakhstan) issues certificates to its citizens. They are signed by a government CA. So if you want to authenticate a Kazakhstan citizen, you can ask him to sign something and check his certificate. I've heard that many other countries are issuing similar certificates. So it's possible to build an universal service which would work for many countries.
There is a chat group of a few dozen authors who in subsets work
on common topics and carefully ensure not to co-author any papers
with each other so as to keep out of each other’s conflict lists
(to the extent that even if there is collaboration they voluntarily
give up authorship on one paper to prevent conflicts on many future
papers)

is this normal ?
And here's a real-world build of the Animusic Pipe Dream project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCIkbr9HCcw
"One of those Amazon HR executives, Paz Patel, responded with this message, according to Hall’s filing: “Congratulations, I had a feeling that you would land there. Very happy to hear this news.”

Would be surprised if Paz Patel is still employed at Amazon.
Any other RED MEAT comic fans in here thinking "I hate you, Milkman Dan!" reflexively upon reading that headline? :)
Looking at the screenshots ... "video recognition in future 5G technology". Is that just straight up word salad? It sounds like the industry horseshit I hear in snippets ... "the convergence of machine learning and IoT". Does the phrase "video recognition in future 5G technology" have _any_ meaning whatsoever?
No country has successfully done isolation of vulnerable, while there are many countries that have successfully eradicated or at least brought it to extremely low levels.

With cheaper testing, pooled testing protocols, etc. we could potentially test every household in the US every couple of weeks for less than we spend on auto insurance.
> different from the service offered by traditional grocery stores which offer many different products, but are not arranging those products in relation to a particular request

That is incorrect. You may be surprised to learn that grocery stores sell prime shelf space to distributors/brands.[0]. In this case, it's the distributer's request - not yours.

[0]https://cspinet.org/news/supermarkets-%E2%80%9Crigged%E2%80%...
What I really wish is for a Hacker News TV
What does a Customer Success Manager do?
Claiming that the police are trying to "undermine civil society" is disingenuous.
That was a really poor read. Anxiety from lockdown is going to kill more people than coronavirus?

Like, I'm not exactly an ardent supporter of lockdown but it's clear we've saved many lives by keeping hospitalizations minimal. Even if that estimate is below what initial models suggested, it's inept to suggest it was useless.

Likewise you fail to actually link to any stats to support claims about increased suicide rates or deaths from heart attacks, while linking to a 404 as a source for New York state supposedly hiding pushing covid cases into nursing homes.

Science has issues but this is trending towards baseless tabloid journalism instead of a serious introspection of methodological flaws.
I'm in the same boat opting for docker-compose instead. docker-compose is much simpler to manage. Obviously it doesn't have feature parity with k8s but docker-compose does the basics well.

An inexpensive VPS runs compose well with more resources at a lower cost than the managed costs of k8s.
If you zoom in, "December" here mostly means 12/31, the exact day the virus appeared in public news: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2019-12-09%202...
> When a country is attacked, does its leadership typically first consult with its economists to determine if resistance is cost effective vs. just letting the enemy take territory or kill citizens with little opposition?

Yes, countries very often let the enemy take territory or kill citizens because resistance wouldn't be cost effective. All countries of course try to project the image that they wouldn't, that their territory and the lives of their citizens are priceless. But border skirmishes happen all the time and the vast majority of them don't lead to war.
Like slashing tyres?
One way would be to have a monthly payment similar to Trump's $1200 [stimulus check] every month. The government can later recoup that through more equitable tax policies on the ultra wealthy and massive corporations.

This has been proposed by legitimate legislators.
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1270000771132731397

As for your claim to a lack of a second wave, I'll have to defer to the experts on that. I'm looking at a historical case for a worse case scenario which I think is prudent to consider.
> Without items being registered on the blockchain, there is no way to know how rare or common something actually is, so there is no way to accurately price it.

What? You price them the same way you price them in the real world: domain knowledge and data.

EVE in particular has charts that tell you historical transaction amounts and volume.
This fits me, and I have 0 problems with it. Do I want to see my friends again? Yes. But as I don´t live in my home country anymore, I´m accustomed to only seeing friends and families a couple of times a year.

Takes a bit of effort and empathy to remember that I'm an outlier and people truly did suffer during lockdown.

I really wonder, how many people are there like me? What's the distribution? You naturally hear mostly from social people and extroverts. Hope there are some studies going on right now.
Being told "no" by who? Google? It doesn't make sense that Google would allow Amazon to sell all their products except for things like Google Homes and Google Nest Cameras which Amazon has direct competing products (ie Amazon Alexa, Amazon Ring Doorbell). If people can buy Google Homes and sell them on eBay but not on Amazon then Amazon is not an open market because Amazon is restricting selling specific products that compete with their product line.
"If – as I hope is the case – we are the only intelligent species that has ever evolved in our galaxy, and perhaps in the entire observable universe, it does not follow that our survival is not in danger. Nothing in the above reasoning precludes the Great Filter from being located both behind us and ahead of us. It might both be extremely improbable that intelligent life should arise on any given planet, and very improbable that intelligent life, once evolved, should succeed in becoming advanced enough to colonize space.

"But we would have some grounds for hope that all or most of the Great Filter is in our past if Mars is indeed found to be barren."

It would not give grounds for that hope; it would merely, and at most, not give grounds for suspecting that the hope is in vain. Bostrom cannot quantify how likely his hope is, and what he is praying for here is to maintain that ignorance - to not learn anything that might help quantify the probability in a direction inconsistent with his hope.

This strikes me as contrary to the ideals of philosophy.
At least Amazon isn't hiding that an item is a store brand unlike most if not all grocery chains who go out of their way to disassociate a brand with the store name.

Now that is not to say there isn't a brand being sold on Amazon that isn't labeled as such. While I have bought many Amazon branded items there have been a few I skipped because of reviews.
Dear AngelList: Please don’t send me emails of support, open the door
Meanwhile in Ragnarok Online special items like "cards" had a 0.01% drop chance. Without a large player base that kills monsters over and over again, those items would never drop.
Haskell certainly has a _better_ parallelism story than OCaml but I wouldn't call it great. It's really nothing special.
It displays an a message "all input devices disabled" and when I right-click and choose input→devices, the only available option is the loopback tone generator.
My milkman service has been a godsend during quarantine. They missed a week early on while testing all their drivers, but other than that it's been flawless. I get fresh milk, bread, eggs, even ice cream delivered every week. They don't offer everything, but Amazon and the rare Instacart order fill in the gaps. Highly highly recommended (if there's such a service in your area, and they're still accepting new customers)!
>Cox defended the temporary 10Mbps upload speed for its gigabit-download plan, saying that "10Mbps is plenty of speed for the vast majority of customers to continue their regular activity and have a positive experience."

Great quote. I know another great quote:

>640K ought to be enough for anybody.
In the physical space, Walmart is still king though, so the same concerns that apply to Amazon's ecommerce would also apply to Walmart's in store product placement.

The anti-trust concerns would also apply to Walmart's own ecommerce. They're effectively leveraging their brick and mortar presence to establish their ecommerce business (which is presently the 2nd largest in the US). The 3rd largest is eBay, which leaves one to wonder how much of the hole left by Amazon would be absorbed by Walmart.
> You generally start with easy letters like „o,i,a,m,n“

Thanks (to you or your mum :-) -— it’s been about 20 years since he started Schule so I forgot the precise detail. Unlike him or his mum I grew up in Australian English so started ABC but was struck by the different ordering.

In general I found the German school system to be quite good!
I may be very dumb but are you suggesting that Fully Homomorphic encryption (FHE) could perform client authentication in the cloud?

Is it possible that I FHE-wrap my own private key, send it to you, and you can sign with my key without the plain text? that sounds crazy? Am I missing something?
This comment contains some really useful feedback. Highly appreciated. Not sure what would be a good branding instead of using the term "credit card". What do you think?

About the default servers, I always have the fear the system will become too centralized, so I tried to force the user to understand he can pick any server he wants. Maybe I am wrong here, this needs some extra consideration.

About the other defaults that seem convoluted: I picked those due to security considerations, but maybe you are correct, and it is better to leave things open by default there.

If you are interested in reviewing the next versions before they are published, please stay in touch. You can send me an email directly or join the mailing list if you like.
COBOL60 – Shaping the Future of Core Business Applications
Having used Kubernetes extensively at my last position, adoption of k8s strikes me as similar to the adoption of Linux as your desktop OS at the Turn of the century. Some people are doing amazing things with it! Other never figure out how to get their WiFi to consistently work and are bitter people keep talking about it.

Eventually something akin to Ubuntu will grow up in the k8 ecosystem and people will stop complaining that WiFi doesn’t work.
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I think you're missing some significant details. The NYT did a really good episode on it last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/podcasts/the-daily/george...

TL;DR When a cop is fired there are several safety nets that can reinstate them. If I remember right, the union reinstates ~45% of fired officers. Neither the Chief nor the mayor have the LEGAL power to even fire bad actors in the police department. They literally cannot do anything about the problem within the law.
Indeed.

In American society you could point at Edgar Allen Poe as someone who is only known for his fiction and poems, but who was a prolific critic in his day. He likely made more money as a lecturer than as a fiction writer in his later years. This has been researched a bit but sadly there are few texts that survive of those lectures, just newspaper opinions and advertisements about the lectures.

This one is one my personal favorites from the ones that weren't lost...

https://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom2t038.htm
You skipped over a lot, and we will see about the rest. I can’t prove most of it right now, but it is what I think. In fairness it is perhaps way too cynical for your taste, so if you prefer a serious introspection, try this: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/science-without-v...
Well, if your life is fucked up and not in a stable mindset before deciding to take them, or there's a history of mental illness in your family, those would be some red flags to seriously consider before purchasing your ticket.
I have never liked zoos! The animals look so sad. The San Diego and Cincinnati zoos are very large and that helps, but I still don't enjoy going to them. The reptiles are usually fine, but many of the mammals really shouldn't be locked up like that. A polar bear swims up to 600km a day in the wild.

I like aquariums. Most fish are fine in a big enough tank; turtles too. I avoid aquariums with Dolphins or Whales. Considering how much they swim in the while, that seems cruel too.
Legacy LVFS S3 bucket takeover and CVE-2020-10759 fwupd sig verification bypass
IMO stuff like <$> and >>= are fine. They're part of the standard library and are very widely used so you just learn them once. The real problem is when random libraries invent so many symbolic operators that they become their own little incomprehensible DSLs (looking at you, lens).
I can only think of joining alliances. Alliances with thousands of players and immense military power have been brought down by single individuals before(or crippled by spies).
This has been discussed in threads below, but the jist of the issue is that Amazon is pretty much a monopoly as an online product discovery service. If they put their own products at the top, people will end up with no way of discovering other companies. It would be using its monopoly position as a product discovery service to profit its own manufacturing subsidy.

> Every retailer can compete with Amazon on any axis they want to, whether it's selection, price or service. Walmart does, IKEA does, and Ebay and Etsy and FreshDirect and Target and Powells. I buy online from all of these companies.

That's the crux of the debate IMO - whether or not Amazon is a monopoly. You say that other retailers can compete effectively as a product discovery service. I am not sure. I think the vast majority just searches on Amazon at this point, so it is sort of a monopoly.
Zed Shaw Puts the Smack Down on the Rails Community [2008]
Hi! Author here. First of all thanks to whoever shared this on HN, it was amazing to see it on the front page :)

> but it's not really what it claims to be at all

I agree that the content may be interesting (only) to Coq newcomers, but I disagree with the quoted statement.

If you extract the code to Haskell e.g., and put some IO handling you basically have a line editor.

> the length of the paper almost halves and the amount of substance becomes clearer

Thank you for this. I can amend it in a future version once I get more/other comments on the paper.
I am fully aware that this is non-scientific, but I'm in a covid 'survivors' group of ~52k people on FB.

What I'm seeing there is very few people saying they tested positive for AB and a whole lot more who say they know they had it and tested negative.

Truth is, we just don't know either way. =(

Update: This was a good post from the covid group, sounds like people also just don't develop enough antibodies to show up on tests... https://medium.com/@mrina.nair/my-familys-covid-experience-2...
IMHO the ideal workflow for me is: write -> test -> install.

Nothing more than that.

Perhaps the complexity increase when we start giving funny names for simple things, opinions, personal preferences...

Countless hours can be wasted arguing what "deploy" is, what an "artifact" is, "container", etc.

Boring is better.
That's react-native. React (http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react) does have... several: 5 of them.
You implied it by omission

> A model for this is the PSNI in Northern Ireland

> Seems to be working given that there’s been 19 years of peace over there.
Perhaps, in the box-ticking sense.

I'd be surprised if they have the same operational maturity, which translates to uptime, which was what I was talking about.

A quick search turns up these SLAs:

<bad link>

vs

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...

EKS: 3 nines

GKE: 3.5 nines

So Google is committing to 1/2 the downtime.

(Note the GKE SLA is for regional clusters, which is what you should be doing if you care about uptime. The zonal cluster SLA is 2.5 nines. I couldn't find a difference in EKS, maybe there's an equivalent better SLA for regional clusters I couldn't find.)

Edit - that EKS SLA link formatted weirdly, and so I did a little more digging and found a more recent SLA which matches GKE: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/03/amazon-ek...

So, per my original comment, I am surprised. (Having never used EKS directly I have no idea what their actual uptime is; in my experience GKE has been way higher than 3.5 nines, but obviously I don't have enough data to make statistically significant observations on this.)
In Cataclysm DDA you can kill zombie children and it will decrease your sanity. That might sound like an interesting mechanic until you see a run down school and are flooded with zombie children. Your best option is to just burn the whole place down so that you don't have to see the children die again.
> Nowadays, the Haskell IDE engine is good enough for general use. It's pretty trivial to plug into every general-purpose editor.

Strong disagree. Even in small hobby projects it's slow, has limited functionality, and needs frequent restarts to function properly.