skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

For US data, I like how this table compares deaths from covid, flu, and pneumonia against the total deaths for all causes each week. I especially like that they show the ratio of current deaths vs the average of the 3 years prior for the same week.

The downside is how the data is slowly updated as each state trickles in data, so the most recent 4-8 weeks look lower now than if you check back later.

Still if you look back to April, flu deaths each week were in the hundreds, while covid deaths 9-15k. Saying it is 10x or more worse, doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

What really grabbed me is that the total US deaths in April from all causes was +40% compared to prior 3 year average.
We have a similar situation to yours and have had a very positive experience with Colovore.

We also run at 100% utilization 24/7 and frequently use the cloud for burst before we go out and buy more cards/servers.

Colovore was super easy to get up and running and we will save at a minimum hundreds of thousands of dollars with this setup over exclusively using cloud instances.
> I think maybe a better question/support would be evidence that anybody besides corporate diversity teams have said this is a problem.

Black programmers have been asking and pushing for this change for some time and many open source projects (which lack "corporate diversity teams") have acted independently to address this because it's an issue that's been raised by black programmers.
> but he had no picture of himself, ever. Now... granted - there may actually be some visual reason - some disfigurement, for example - that the person is self-conscious of (hadn't originally thought of it).

> However - we had no social media profile at all for this person. No pics of the person, alone or with friends.

People who are fleeing domestic abuse or controlling parents may have very locked down social media profiles, and may even be using different names for different parts of their life.
GoLand.
Daydreaming ruined my life

partial /s
Discussion during the outage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23161623
> I wouldn't recommend it.

Similar story here, and one often-ignored downside of starting college early is that, in the end, how old you were when you started doesn't matter, but the grades you made do (to the extent that any of it matters). I graduated with a 3.5 GPA - not bad, but I'll always wonder if I had started when I was the same age as everybody else, would I have managed to pull a 4.0?

I'm advising my own son to take his time, but try to get the best grades he can - you don't get bonus points for starting before everybody else.
I really struggle with the UI on this one. Some notes:

- No title bar makes using the window harder than it needs to be.

- Huge symbols I have to hover over to see what they do + a hamburger menu. A traditional menu would be easier to use for me at least.

- Speaking of hover, whats with the weird, animated back-button for folders that when it appears overlaps other elements?

- Font sizes. Really, they seem to big even for me as a visually impaired person

- General non-nativeness. That Options dialog as a website modal is just weird and jumps around when switching categories.

I don't mean to be to negative here, maybe I am just getting old, but this really seems not to be my cup of tea, though apart from the UI, I really like the idea and the use of pandoc/latex, YAML Frontmatter, saving as just files etc.

If this had a more traditional UI and would use less ressources it would come pretty close to a note taking app I often thought about but was to lazy to try my hand at myself.
Makes me picture a person who wants to learn lock-picking, putting randomized locks on internal doors between rooms in their house :)
How to choose a platform for your mobile app
I’ve said this a few times above but I’ll say it here. The funds are unused because the SBA threatened to criminal prosecute borrowers for obtaining loans when “they had alternative capital”. Lots of businesses owners worried that if they had home equity or credit cards available that would be “alternative capital” and they would go to jail.

After the SBA guidance application volume dropped off a cliff so the SBA, backpedaling, issued new guidance that they wouldn’t audit loans under $2M, but by then no one wanted to take the risk.
What about aggregation? I assume it's also sort based?
I find it funnier than whoever created the zip file also included all the OSX garbage metadata files in __MACOSX as well.
Yamaha Pacifica (311 or better, 112 is good enough, but for about $100 more you get a lot of nice little add-ons) and the Yamaha THR10ii modeling amp.

The Pacifica was a bit hard to find. I think the next batch is shipping in early August from what I can tell.

r/guitar and r/guitarlessons are good resources.
MPV Stops Supporting Gnome
Ah, you are right, LDI is only 16 cycles.. I will update the Z-80 entry. I like the jump in the middle trick to avoid the test after each instruction.
I look forward to Amazon moving out of Seattle completely.
Hmm... not sure what you’re getting at re: “invite myself from another account nothing happens”.

Do you mean the habit event isn’t moving when an incoming invite comes in?

If so: right now we don’t move things unless we see an RSVP of Yes/Maybe. Give that a try? You should see things shuffle after 10-15 seconds.
Ask HN: What features do you want from a podcast app?
I'm building an open source podcast app for Android, mostly for learning purpose. Data will come from listennotes.com and the app design and features will be heavily inspired from Spotify because I'm a big fan of Spotify UX.
I was wondering if I can add any specific feature to make it more interesting for frequent podcast listeners. Thank you.
There's the problem that money is an incentive. So if you pay to review takedowns, it is an incentive for Google to do EVEN MORE takedowns, because then they would earn more money.
Awesome! Yea, Liquid is a pretty robust language built by Shopify that is implemented in most languages to help with this exact problem. It might come in handy some day as you scale your app. :)

For Dropkiq, your app looks simple enough (for the Liquid part) that you could likely use our free version. For apps that have complex Liquid, we have our Pro version, which I'm currently offering beta pricing at around 1K per year.

Keep us in mind as you grow! :D
I couldn't tell which was the cart and which the horse, but the SpaceX telecommunications satellite launch I saw had a rideshare arrangement going on. I suspect what happened is that someone only needed half a payload, and SpaceX filled the rest with their own stuff. But the PR person made it sound like the opposite was happening.

I'm not sure what happens when they reach full capacity on their sat network. Space for research projects, or launching surplus consumables?
These companies need to be broken up.
This is honestly not a shitpost, I truly feel that Google isn't doing anything better than they were 10 years ago. Search has noticeably declined in the past year, and I am regularly struck by how readily they will rank matches based on removing parts of my query over results that include all of the terms. Every Google Android app I use asks for some kind of interaction every time I start one up. "Got It!"

This happens most surprisingly when navigating with Maps. I have shortcuts for destinations I regularly use, and the number of times I've tapped one of those and had Google cover 90% of the screen with restaurants nearby and the announcement of some feature and the "start" bar across the bottom...my conclusion has been that Google's Maps UX philosophy is based entirely on discouraging use while driving.
Citrix Bugs Allow Unauthenticated Code Injection, Data Theft
Go modules and the entire package management and versioning system is just embarrassingly horrible. It looks like it was designed by people who have no background in software engineering at all. The language as a whole despite being now universally used as the backbone of cloud native, it honestly looks like it's intentionally designed to be horrible and insulting for anyone with sensible mind. Every obvious right decision looks like it's intentionally being replaced by a bad one if it's the right path is easier.
Though that would be a rather small percentage of disbursements... but aside from those corner cases it would be financial fraud...
What is, according to you, and the SRE book, a good time during the day/week/year to do these real test outages? How much downtime could be ok?

For, let's say, a b2b saas

They notify the customers first? Like, "we'll a little bit sabotage our, well, your, servers this weekend, to find out if they fail and shutdown completely and cannot start again"
:-)
How can you know if people leave legit comments? Anybody can write a message in a GitHub issue.
I Dont Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People (2017)
Whatever the reasons for flat earthers believing what they do (ignoring the ones who don't actually believe it, but are doing this for attention), are they really that different than other religions?

There's enough cases of "regular" religions promoting views that are harmful or cruel and can have a direct negative impact on the health and happiness of others.
I'm not saying that I haven't been harrassed, but something like that might happen once every couple of years. In contrast, when I used to ride closer to the edge of the road/lane, I frequently experienced close overtakes.
I agree with this. Any argument about moral hazard is out the window. Any argument about this being like “too big to fail” is misapplied. Banks in 2008 created the crisis and their risky loan portfolios and balance sheets. No company created Covid or state shutdowns. Let’s come together with a spirit of generosity and cooperation. Not petulance and resentment.
That is pretty much all the "free speech" debate these days; copyright infringement and child porn will get hammered wherever they are, regular porn has its own infrastructure, and FOSTA-SESTA sex workers appear to have been effectively suppressed. That leaves material which is not illegal but is incredibly unpopular.
The Younger Dryas saw temps swing from glacial temps to interglacial temps back to glacial temps before going back up to present-day Holocene temps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas

Those kind of oscillations in climate had to be massively disruptive for all life on earth.
I studied material science, particularly semiconductors, in college. When I first came up to the Bay Area right out of school, I started working in adtech despite having no creative background or knowledge about digital advertising. Most of my skills at the time, notably working with data, translated pretty well and rapidly learning on the job (plus on my own time) helped me become savvy with product & growth marketing.

What's really been fun has been taking that experience and expertise to help the friends I've made in the local entertainment industry!
> Any site doing this is breaking the law. Report them please.

To who? What do I say? The issue with GDPR is that it's for all intents and purposes unpoliced and unpoliceable unless you happen to have sway with a local regulatory body.

I live in the UK, and ICO are toothless. Ive filed multiple complaints - inability to opt out, misuse of PII for advertising purposes, and each time have received a cookie cutter response telling me to report it to the company and respond to ICO if it's not to my satisfaction. That was the last I heard of every complaint, despite me following up.
> Does the average white person really benefit from mass incarceration of urban minorities

Have you considered why Amy Cooper called the police on a black man for making the heinous crime of asking her to leash her dog? Why there are white people calling the police on black people that did nothing wrong?
Show HN: Oracle Rank – Forecasting Contest
Trying to launch event as soon as 200 players sign up. Currently finishing up the app and ranking system.

Feedback welcome!
Favoritism on the part of banks was real.

Source - applicant for 4 separate, PPP loans that were eventually awarded.

Banks are not stupid. They awarded funds first to their clients that had outstanding loans with them. That meant the banks' own portfolio was not impaired, thanks to influx of PPP
> FE videos might be removed because they explicitly promote falsehoods as fact. By that standard, religious videos would be similar.

You have to be careful here, because you cannot prove God isn't real or that a religion is false.

You can prove the earth is not flat, however.
The Ayn Rand Institute Takes a Loan from Paycheck Protection Program
We do this all the time with clients
Because mass incarceration of urban minorities is only one problem.

And there are many ways that the average white person benefits from mass incarceration: prison labor, electoral over representation, not to mention that I strive to have empathy for others.
Americans [and wannabe Americans] are very easily "awed" -judging by the sheer number of things they find "Arse-Sum".

https://stiobhart.net/2015-03-23-arse-sum/
You might want to use a bot like Bors [1] that creates and tests a merge commit before pushing it to master.

[1]: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html
> Couldn't that have been said about the World Wide Web itself in 1994?

And for a long time, it was!

Let's not forget, that the novelty/impact of Internet ("a new world, we need it!") and an abstract concept like a "net in the net" is very much different. While the former is cool, the latter is, well: "who needs that", the average person says?

You don't need seperate distibution networks for Facebook and Twitter, email, shopping and the web. And that's where the majority of the people wannt to hang around. Yes, Netscape was around, when Microsoft introduced IE, but it really came to everybody with IE and Outlook Express (otherwise, the net would still be a more refined and better mannered place, I dare say).
How does not knowing how bad Covid is or might be figure into your approach?
I'm not based in US (I live in Europe). Long time ago I worked for Honeywell (they do lots of industries and their headquaters are in US, their SCADA products often need local software specialist who knows how to integrate it with other systems- in my country I was the only person capable of doing this), also Johnsons Control (not Oil and Gas but industry in general). Also Rockwell, Siemens, GE - these giants are like FAANG in industry, with many divisions in different areas of proper industry. And each of them want to be 'smart', not only to hang equipment on the wall. There is lots of demand for software engineering there.
>Preventing you from seeing the page you request if you do not consent seems a lot like the provision of a service conditional on consent.

You are correct. However, the prohibition against "a service conditional on consent" can be overcome (inter alia means "among other things") and one of the ways it can be overcome is if the user is given a choice to instead select "a consent-free equivalent service for a reasonable remuneration."[1]

This is the result of a ruling by the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA) evaluating an case in which users could access an Austrian newspaper by either (a) consenting to personalized advertising or (b) paying a subscription fee of 6 Euro / month.

The DPA found that these options were not considered a "significant detriment" to users (i.e. it was not considered coercive) and was therefore valid.

It's worth noting that the UK found otherwise, saying that "for the user to have a genuine choice, a consent-free alternative would have to be offered free of charge."[2]

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[1] Austrian Data Protection Authority (case no. DSB-D122.931/0003-DSB/2018)

[2] Validity of consent coupled with free online services - Chair of EDPB opens a path https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=5125ca7c-84fa...
It was the first game of its kind, the UI and the AI obviously had many weaknesses which Westwood improved upon in later games (while C&C still had issues that are annoying by todays standards).
That being said, Dune2 for 10 year old me was magical, like many games of this time.
Great, we can now walk around with pitchforks. I'm kidding These loans have benefited numerous small businesses but we can now keep an eye on those who did not really need it.
Yeah, I don't understand the obsession with means testing support through such a crisis. Forgetting the issues with means testing in general [0], in this specific case, you can genuinely go from not needing it to needing it pretty quickly.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_test#Criticism
My web scraping related blog posts helped me to get the current job and many side gigs. All because I had written not only code related tuts but also discuss about theirs efficiency and other stuff that help non coder people like CEOs etc to learn about me.
One approach is to have two different monitoring checks that could catch the same root cause.

In this case, one check could be for max age of actually deployed load balancer config, the other could be for new webapp instances getting traffic.

It's unlikely that both monitoring checks fail to trigger, and if only one of them triggers, one should investigate why the other didn't trigger.

Of course, that requires some decent amount of awareness from the on-call engineer (and/or an explicit step for that in the playbook); far from perfect.
"..the Unabomber gets remembered as this struggle's John Brown, not this struggle's Abraham Lincoln."

You could be right about this. But then you could be wrong. Ideas still matter, and their particular expression still can have material impacts. Time will tell. Will Kaczynski's work inspire the sort of material, decisive impact that Martin Luther's works inspired during the Reformation's wars?? or Will Kaczynski as you say be more like John brown, while the real decisive impact will be made by those that actually organize and lead. (Just staying with your analogy). Only time will tell.
Would love elaboration.
Some of you may find this quite interesting.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_N...
I just wish the community would have agreed to terms before making changes, instead of everybody for themselves.

Allowlist/denylist are perfectly fine if everybody uses them. But fragmented blocklist/denylist/etc sucks.

A lot of the suggestions for master/slave don't illustrate the same relationship between components, roles.
Thanks very much for the feedback. Yes, I think your point is right. For some domains, I try to match the url with sources from "sources" list, and for others I extract source field directly from the url, I think there is a small bug when doing the former, thanks for pointing out. I will fix it soon.
If Netflix is having those problems it's more likely your ISP causing them than Netflix or it's distribution model. You've got a sampling bias simply because your ISP isn't screwing with torrents the same way it is with Netflix.

Torrent streaming has a lot of scaling issues that you've just been lucky enough to avoid. A new torrent will have issues with its initial seeding. A new torrent is limited to the seed bandwidth of whatever seeds have the complete file. The initial members of a swarm can't help each other because they're all downloading the file sequentially so can't really share with one another. They only increase seed bandwidth to subsequent participants in a swarm and only so long as they seed the content.

In the traditional BT model swarm participants download blocks out of order so they can share them with peers. So even the initial members of a swarm can share with one another. Streaming requiring blocks be received in sequential order breaks that peer amplification.

With torrent streaming unpopular content and new content can easily stall or just never begin playback. At a small scale torrent streaming is workable but it quickly starts requiring a lot of infrastructure costs. Long tail content on BitTorrent is virtually impossible to find as popularity required for availability.
> Ask Terry Crews or any Black conservative.

Can you point me at something in particular so I can see clearly what it is you're talking about? I'm not doubting you, I just don't have something clear in my mind to go look at.

> what you say

A lot of the time I see this happen, what's being said is some variation of "this is the experience", "this is our experience", or "this is your experience". I generally don't see people be ignored or discounted who say some variation of "this is my experience".

When I do see people ignored or discounted who say "this is my experience", it's usually some variation of: in a conversation about a movie, one person saying "I watched the movie" and another saying "I did not watch the movie" and like duh, the second person has a very different role in the conversation than the first. And if the conversation is, say, a critical analysis, their role is "audience".
> then you probably don't need to be writing unit tests for internal APIs, since they might as well be considered private entities.

The reason to write a unit test _is to try to find bugs._

If your most effective way to find bugs is to test an internal API, then you should do that.
Make sure you restrict access to the production environment, too. I once worked at a company where the "dev" office was VPN'd into production at all times. We actually didn't have a QA system for most of the time I was there. Anyway, a developer ran his server with the prod config for a couple of days before anyone noticed that requests were being processed elsewhere.
I've used it and found it handy for all sorts of things too
Something I knew starting out, forgot, and learned again, is that there's a huge liability to spending your entire career working for one company.

There will be things they do so well they aren't even on your radar, and you will have a huge blindspot there. And there are things they tolerate that pretty much nobody else will. So you will either suffer in ignorance or learn some nasty, nasty habits.

Without moving you see no diversity, and without seeing diversity you shouldn't be put in charge of building anything for 'everyone'. You are only qualified for niche solutions, which unfortunately outsiders might not clue in on until they've invested heavily in your ideas.
Yes. The authors of this document were all engineers who worked on QPX/QRES.
I'd never imagine I'd see James Hoffmann featured on HN's front page. If I knew you guys would have liked him, I would have linked his stuff ages ago.

He recently borrowed a high speed camera and filmed espresso, and, somehow, produced beautiful art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzEiZdcss88
We did the math and decided to buy. For us, the break even point (including everything) was nine months of running 24/7.
"...The White House has officially moved to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization... Withdrawal requires a year's notice, so it will not go into effect until July 6, 2021, raising the possibility the decision could be reversed..."

Bait. Meet Click.
One of the common "excuses" for earth's timeline in religion is the notion of time. What is time, and is it measured the same from all beings and perspectives?

We understand time in relation to Earth. If a being is not from Earth, or has some other non-human perspective, the notion of time can get very tricky to reconcile.
My last job was supporting some hardware companies' design VC. Absolutely insane.

I think it's also a cultural thing. Like you said, lots of your own special secret sauce, and so many issues trying to fix bugs that may have to do with that secret sauce.

Can't say I miss it at all really.
Not a good look for the Ayn Rand Institute lol