skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope we learn that there is a secret chest in the trunk of Starman and may the best team win the race to reach it and return Starman to Earth.
Brilliant! That's some HBO Silicon Valley level parody.

Atlas Shrugged @ 5:15

Start at 4:55 for the set-up. SmartPipe CEO Kirk Peckley is played by Mark Proksch, who also played Daniel Wormald (a.k.a Pryce) the H2 driving Squat Cobbler from Better Call Saul!

https://breakingbad.fandom.com/wiki/Daniel_Wormald

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Proksch

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Squat%20Cobb...

K-Strass the Zim-Zam Yo-Yo Guy Super Compilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj9VF7LyffU

https://www.amc.com/shows/better-call-saul/talk/2016/02/bett...

>Indeed, Proksch – who says he took Gilligan and Gould’s reaction as “incredibly high praise” – says the K-Strass character isn’t much of a stretch from who he is as a person. In fact, he says there’s even a little bit of K-Strass DNA in his performance as Pryce on Better Call Saul. “Every character that I play is a variation of me,” he says. “I have yet to play an out and out asshole or a villain. It’s always kind of a pathetic guy wearing pleats. And that’s what I love. I’m so happy that I get to play these arrogant idiots.”
AWS offers the building blocks for this sort of thing via Elemental Media.

MediaConvert will transcode videos to various formats (MP4, HLS, MPEG Dash, etc).

MediaLive does on the fly transcoding for live streams, allows you to select various destinations (if you have a stream key for YouTube, for instance).

MediaPackage is commonly a destination for MediaLive and will act as an origination for live viewing (ideally with a CloudFront distribution in front of it). It also allows for easily converting the HLS to various outputs provided a timestamp (no frame specific clipping which is annoying); MediaConvert doesn't support HLS as input yet -- although you can do it.

MediaStore is basically a low-latency S3 for storage.

MediaTailor allows for stitching in ads.

So you still have to deal with transcoding, storage, etc. Azure has their own media services and Google uses (or bought?) Anvato. I think their service offerings are all pretty similar, but I could be wrong. Actually looking at Anvato, it looks like they provide a couple additional services.

Note: I don't work for AWS, but work for a video platform and we use AWS exclusively.
How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow (2011)
To what do attribute the difference between US and UK police deaths? Do you think police brutality is the main factor?
For a more optimizing compiler for a machine with more registers, you might, to be able to store the stack in the registers. The Z80 has few enough that I can't see it being an improvement.
By all means, suggest a better country to draw a comparison with.
This is almost exactly the architecture I’m thinking about for Supabase, except using our Real-time server instead of polling. If you’re open to it, I’d love to chat to you about how you’ve implemented this? My email is in my profile
I'm a generally technical person and I'm simply flat out uninterested in video content - the stuff that will be on this sounds broadly interesting to me but I'd rather read it in article format.

I understand video "performs" well in a lot of contexts (and thus is of particular interest to marketing people) but I am always surprised when content targeted broadly towards the technical community is done in a video-first manner. I know a few other people that feel the same, but I can only assume that Cloudflare have done some research on this and figured out that we're in the minority, and there is enough of a technical audience that would prefer to watch this kind of stuff than read it.

I know it's a lot of effort (although maybe automated transcription tools have simplified this?) but it would be awesome if text transcripts were made available of some of this content for the weirdos like me out there :)
> there is a tension between store of value and medium of exchange

This tension only exists under Keynesian reasoning. It goes away when you use a theory that does a better job handling equilibria.

The Keynesian claim is that if you have a deflationary medium of exchange, people won’t spend it. This isn’t actually true - the end result of a predictable deflationary asset (e.g. something with a fixed or essentially fixed supply) is similar to the situation we have now, but more efficient. Instead of having, say, 10% of your money in cash and 90% in spoos to avoid getting screwed by inflation, you can just keep 100% of your money in cash. You will have the same exposure to global capital growth, people too poor to have a brokerage account will have exposure to growth as well, and you don’t have to deal with converting between spoos and cash when you spend money.
That doesn't make sense. AFAIK with frameworks like Rails or Django you never expose their server directly to the Internet, you put a NGINX in front of it. And NGINX talks to the backend code via UNIX sockets, so support for it in NGINX is what matters.

And sooner rather than later you are going to need a load balancer anyway.
The first means "it doesn't make sense to compare these."

The second means "Even though you're trying to compare these problems, you've massively underrepresented the impact of systemic racism by simplifying it to the number of police killings."
Vodka works great too but just be aware that if you’ve got small kids you’ll have to be up in two hours to sing nursery rhymes ;)
Aren't Llamas South American mountain animals?

Were they really walking around the tropical jungles of Mexico?
I think there's not much evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence and what exists is rather incomplete, but it sure makes more sense to me than there was some massive slave economy that wasted all of that slave labor moving big rocks.

Remember all of those slaves had to eat. So every calorie expended pushing those rocks into place had to be raised by an even bigger team of farming slaves who also had to eat. The cost in calories to raise those rocks is staggering.

But you can go on dismissing this conclusion as flippant. It's not like anyone will ever really know because the security cameras weren't turned back then.
Interesting...though they are talking about replacing the MPD with something ("a new transformative model") at least, not leaving the lot empty, to continue the metaphor.
Your comment is a case in point: the takeaway the general public will have from this letter is that the virus doesn't really matter, and you should feel free to disregard it if you can come up with a vaguely plausible reason why your particular circumstances mean you should be exempt from caring about it.

Which we kind of were at anyway, but now public health figures have given their signoff on that interpretation.
How do you quantify the damage to those harmed by the original violations? Isn’t that where the blame should be placed, on those who did the harm, which called for the enforcement?
Well, a point I've made elsewhere in this thread (possibly not here) is that I don't think they did claim it's an objectively truthful conclusion.

I can reason about moving a heavy object from my car to my house using the general knowledge that dropped objects fall downward and often break when they hit the ground; I don't need to whip out the graph paper and prove it.
Some physicians noted that, for example, a whole lot of cancer screenings didn't get done in the last three months. There are healthcare consequences from the quarantine, and there will be (different) healthcare consequences from lifting it.
>I hope this will soon be a standard in houses.

I sure as hell hope is is not. Like every other piece of convenience crapware (pun intended) we've surrounded ourselves with, it would undoubtedly come packed with data sharing agreements with ad networks / data brokers.

If this ever becomes some sort of norm, I would encourage people to start mailing boxes of their own waste directly to Google for them to enjoy analyzing, as the data would inevitably end up in their hands anyway.
Which nation was this?
>Would you stay quiet and wait for the covid threat to die down before protesting or taking action?

Absolutely. The only reason you'd ignore a pandemic and risk your life (and the lives of your friends and remaining family) is an expected and completely valid emotional response. That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do (or safe), though.

I wouldn't risk being directly responsible for killing more people (especially people I know and their circles) just to protest something a few months earlier than I should.
there was no other method than anus scan for authentication? the fingerprint was not enough? if the anus is so reliable why bother with the fingerprint at all? how about voice authentication in lieu of all that?
I believe they're referring to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_HQ2
I think he is referring to Amazon’s search for HQ2.
Might be better to link to this, which gives a lot more context and explains how she did it & shows the knot she created to solve the problem.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decad...
Unions protect the interests of their members. That’s their job. From their perspective, the regulation needs to be better than the alternative.
> But then you are reliant on a different carrier and network for yours to work.

Why? You could easily enforce a policy that only who use your fiber network at home qualify for these femtocells. Considering that majority of backbone fiber is an oligopoly already, this wouldn't be an issue.

> Most users home routers are garbage for latency and loss sensitive applications, of which voice would qualify.

Do you have any source on this claim? IP network has become just as fast and resiliant as the pure teleco network (reason why 5G is based on IP in the first place). IP calls from Facetime, Google Duo, Skype, Zoom, Whatsapp and others work just as good as regular calls if you have decent coverage. And you can easily implement QoS for calls through your own network, which is what the old 3G/4G tech was already doing.

> And that easily opens up the network to cell site spoofing moreso than they already are

How common is WiFi spoofing in your experience?

> A big reason LTE, GSM, evdo etc were successfull was because the full stack, from the backbone to endpoint/user was managed by the carrier

The reason they had to do that was because IP stack wasn't good enough 2 decades or even a decade ago. Unless you are in a 3rd world country, IP network is just as good as 3G/4G stack today.

> Offloading that to home users who actively put routers in between interference sources like windows, fridges, washers/dryers and then tey and extend their signal with repeaters is a questionable goal at best.

Okay, you might want to revisit that thought couple of years from now :)
What does that have to do with

"Scores of videos in the last week show police brutally beating regular citizens who have assembled peacefully."

Those are two different groups of people.
Apps in the 90s didn't have user data. I was approximately as productive on apps from the 90s as I am in modern apps today. I am more frequently frustrated by modern apps.
"That doesn't negate the experiences of people of color, it just adds another facet to the way people can prejudge you. If anything, it should illustrate how bad things could be if you weren't white."

Yep that was exactly my point and why I related the story. I learned that people really are profiled and harassed based on their looks or certain assumptions about them. It really does happen.
Sure, I'm well versed in what happened in Iraq believe me. I'm not making a direct comparison here. I'm merely saying that a reboot of the civil bureaucracy is within the realm of possibility, not that we're going to see some kind of "deDFL-ification" of city hall.
A nation-state will ban or monopolize any competitive alternative to state-backed currency or debt (obligation transfers). Just look at current macroeconomic policy around the world, vast sums of obligations ("debt") being created.
Don't worry, private security contractors will step in and fill the void!

I'm from Minneapolis. This was necessary because the MPD has been out of control for a long time, but I too am curious what the actual plans for replacement are, or if this is just a restructuring.
This isn't weasel speak at all. They're pretty clear that it's risky. They're just saying that they won't condemn protestors as taking frivolous risks the way anti-lockdown protestors or fun-seekers are. Police brutality, systemic racism, income inequality are all major public health risks in their own right.
If anyone wants a good primer on pre-Columbian America, read 1491 by Charles Mann.
I'm fine with this being left up to distribution maintainers. Arch Linux packages a fully open-source version of VS Code by default.
That's the common argument about almost every medical test. Prostate psa test could mean problems or not, and then prostate cancers have very different outcomes. If we scanned everyone we'd find lots of other anomalies that don't matter, but we'd find a few people with near term heart attack or stroke or early cancer. I'd personally take that risk.
If these were random accidents, you might just have a point, but they are neither random, nor accidental in the cases in question.
Load factor (g force) is actually a small percentage of what makes an effective air to air weapon system such as a fighter jet.

It turns out that the faster, higher aircraft has the advantage. If you have speed, you can deny your better-turning adversary an opportunity to engage you, and you thus dictate the terms of the engagement. If you find yourself on equal footing as a bandit, you can simply climb away at the enemy's maximum level speed and he will be unable to catch you.

Additionally, BVR missiles in particular benefit from a high initial launch velocity so they can use their finite delta-V budget to maximize range and closure with the target.

G Force tolerance only matters if you're in the air combat equivalent of a knife fight in a phone booth.

Methinks these trials coming up will not be fair: a human can continue making good decisions in a non permissive electromagnetic/cyber battle space whereas a drone cannot. Air combat tactics will have to evolve but I don't think we will see drones defeating piloted fighters (in actual combat) in my lifetime. Perhaps if there's a watershed moment in AI but we aren't there yet.
It's not about removing the MS branding.

MS does not allow their branding to be distributed in unofficial builds. So if you want a custom build of VS Code, you are required to swap out the branding.
The Root of AI Stupidity
Just my 2 cents, I don't/wouldn't use a service like this on anything other then an MVP or non-critical internal tool.

I say this because if you base your entire business on a 3rd party service like Parse was or like Firebase etc, your entire business is at their mercy and whim. If they decide to remove a feature you rely on you are potentially stuck trying to rapidly recreate it. If the service gets bought and the new acquirer decides you are a competitor or that they wanted the team but don't care about the service, everything can disappear. Of course, I am not advocating you never use/depend on a 3rd party, cause we all have too, but just that having your entire critical core infrastructure not being something you own is not smart long term. FWIW, Firebase as it matures within the Google ecosystem would be one that I'd be more likely to use in production. Technically my current solution does have Firebase integrated into Production but we are removing it as I disagree with storing any critical production data in a "database service" where it isn't something I can migrate easily. e.g. we use postgres in AWS as the primary datastore, I could use postgres in GCP/Azure or in my own datacenter and not change any code, but I can't do that with Firebase.

I do think services like Firebase etc are great for MVP's or for some proof of concept work, I just don't like them for live production services. I also have used them for non-critical internal tools or tools which have a short lifespan etc.
Like the immediate livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans?
Sounds like an excellent candidate for a browser extension or grease monkey script.
Yeah, if Gate dies without giving it all away, he said it wasn't going to his kids.
It used to be fairly straightforward to beat a chess engine... in the 80s.
https://www.chess.com/blog/FangBo/how-to-beat-an-80s-chess-c...
John is based in Lisbon, so it’s scheduled for his work hours. The live version, which will allow for the audience to interact and ask questions, will be during that time. I’d imagine many of those sessions will make it into our Best Of repository or be played in a recorded version at different times during the week.
The CDC revised their risk estimates towards the end of last month.

"The fifth scenario is the CDC's "current best estimate about viral transmission and disease severity in the United States." In that scenario, the agency described its estimate that 0.4% of people who feel sick with Covid-19 will die.

For people age 65 and older, the CDC puts that number at 1.3%. For people 49 and under, the agency estimated that 0.05% of symptomatic people will die."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/health/cdc-coronavirus-estima...
Lack of guns and also a totally different attitude to policing.

British policing isn't without problems but the idea of (say) police barging into someone's house guns blazing without announcing themselves (as happened recently) is absolutely unimaginable in the UK.

British police operate on consent whereas American police operate on fear (is the stereotype)
Sure. Email: daneatcloudflaredotcom.
No, and this is core to the point:

Science has found no universal "utility" function that applies to all humans. As such its impossible for science to maximize utility, or in laymens terms "outcomes" globally for all humans. We must choose what we find important and there is no scientific tool to do so.

Once you've decided what's important sure you can apply science to help you make the best decisions to achieve that outcome.
Content is king and the content for this channel is poorly advertised. If you are launching a video channel, there shouldn't be 1000 words before you mention what the content is. Instead of focusing on describing why you built it, focus on telling people why they should tune in.
There’s a lot of risk for these protests but I do feel like protesting for some issue other than ‘end the lockdown’ is more justifiable than just protesting the lockdown itself. Even if it were an anti-abortion protest, for example — something I am ideologically opposed to — I wouldn’t stand in the way of a group that wanted to do that.
Show HN: Nadeeni – an online community built entirely with Dart
Serendipitously meet and engage with people from around the world in a fun online community. App and backend written entirely in Dart.
Whoah, it's already ~4 years since the SRE book... How time flies.

I wrote two of the chapters in the SRE book but I have very mixed feelings about them. I'm glad that I got a chance to talk openly about some of the work I've been doing for the last decade, but I felt that, in the end, I couldn't devote to my chapters as much time as I would have liked, so I don't feel as proud about them as I would have liked. Boy, this really took soooo much time!

I don't know what I'm trying to say, I guess just that I find seeing someone praise the book interesting. What were your favorite chapters?
Very nice to see someone admitting and making changes after someone makes valid points!

You would think it would be the obvious action, but history has taught us people can go a long way in trying to convince others they are right, when they are not.

Hat tip
Ask me how I know you haven't known anyone that's died of COVID.
Actually I do, why?
Do we know where it was found. And how? It would be interesting to see how close people were and how it jibes with the clues.
When the communication loss (visual noise) from the added static typing info is of bigger impact than benefit type safety offers you.

All of which depends on a lot of variables.
Maybe they're hoping the protestors become ill.
Ok, how about if we compare to Canada? It sits at 9.7 per 10 million people.
March Madness – Finding calm amid coronavirus anxiety
A lot of commenters are questioning this in disbelief, wondering if a city could actually live without a police department. However, few are noticing that the council's decision is now largely irrelevant, as police departments in America are quickly falling apart on the inside, regardless of what the city council does. A few days ago 57 Buffalo police officers quit the force in protest[1]. If you think about it, of course they would, as they are now unable to do their job (in their usual manner) without the risk of either getting taken to court, or attacked by the public in ambushes and personal attacks[2]. In such an environment, it's no wonder that police officers themselves are refusing to show up to work. And just a few minutes ago during NYC Mayor Blasio's announcement to cut funding to the NYPD [3], a staunch police supporter, I couldn't help thinking: "what sort of collapse must Blasio be seeing, on the inside of the NYPD, in terms of morale." I can only imagine that individual police officers are now genuinely fearing for their lives and their career.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/us/buffalo-police-suspension-...

[2] https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-ambush-leaves-1-deputy...

[3] https://www.foxnews.com/us/de-blasio-nyc-to-cut-nypd-funding...
There's a Japanese startup that makes smart cat litterboxes. Clever stuff.
the goal was not to have less police
Are all the state-wide openings in May, the opening of casinos, and the festivities of Memorial Day Weekend, of which we are already seeing COVID impacts, more or less morally indefensible than the BLM protests?

When all these other non-protest gatherings of people were taking place, were you this outraged? If the answer is no: explain yourself.
Live video survives in two situations: when you need to see the outcome as it happens (e.g. sports) and when the primary draw is individuals and interacting with them (e.g. streamers).
The stumbling block is the police union president, Bob Kroll. Who has an outsized influence over the police. Also pretty consistent white supremacist, doesn't even try and hide it.
They quit a special task force (around riots) but still have their normal police jobs.
Coinbase Explains the Reason for the Outage When Bitcoin Surpassed $10k
I'm loving the synthy 80s ident.

@eastdakota any chance of a link to the musician who wrote it?
If you want to give back and are looking for a mentee then I would like to volunteer because I can’t seem to be successful with my side hustles for the life of me.
The story I’ve heard was that GPS was invented due to Sputnik. The Doppler shift in its beeps proved its speed and thus its orbit. Somebody (in the Navy?) wondered if the “reverse” could be done: could you listen to various shifting beeps and figure out your location?
What a fatalistic and pessimistic attitude. I hope that you're not that negative about everything in life.
Very interesting. I had a somewhat complicated question about sanctions, but I think the main question boils down to whether you are based in US.
I think you can draw this ‘core of an environment’ parallel between Forth and Scheme: both are small languages and they emphasize growing the language to the problem domain [1]. Common Lisp, on the other hand, is a large language: implementations provide much more than a foundational core, and a fairly comprehensive list of libraries exists. I think RPG’s Worse Is Better highlights some of the reasons why CL isn’t as popular as other languages [2].

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

[2] https://www.dreamsongs.com/WIB.html