skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I fully expect a notable outbreak in some college to start a wave of media noise, followed by all the universities sending everyone back home again.

I'd be surprised if that happened. Stanford's in a heavily populated part of California. It might make sense for them, based on the student population (mostly rich or at least well off) and location. My university has plans to keep students in campus housing even if we're forced to go 100% online, and I think from a public health perspective, that's a good thing. You don't want college students moving around if you have an outbreak. And once they're home, they're definitely not going to all just sit in the basement - they'll still be going to bars and parties. That would be a disaster. And the only place that there's hope they'll be tested or interact with others that are tested is on campus.

> My son's state university is forcing students to return in person.

That's horrible. As much as possible, we're accommodating students that feel safer online. About the only way I could see someone being forced to return is if their remaining credits were a lab science class. The worst thing you can possibly do is increase the density on campus. Everyone here is encouraged to work off campus as much as possible. Many of our courses are online or hybrid, where you reserve the in-person interactions for the parts where it delivers real value over the alternative. It's that 20% where face to face matters, not the other 80%.
hmm, the only thing it hides for me is the protocol, and that one is easy understand: a padlock shown: https. "Not Secure":http.
I would not count them as trades, because people typically talk about trades when they talk about work that requires manual or mechanical skills.

I never seen anyone talk about medicine as a trade nor mean doctor when they said trade.
What about a B2C app that solves a real problem for real users in a new or better way than existing apps? That seems like an easy way you can deliver real value. That's what's gotten me moving on all my personal projects so far—though granted, I haven't published/monetized them yet, just shared them with friends and family. But I get value from them and my friends and family get value from them, and that makes me feel good.
I have never had that experience. Maybe there's something wrong with your browser.
So what if its outbreak? Why afraid? We know by now that vast majority of people will be fine.
I'd say that it's just as common to hear "google Our Brand" as "www.brand.com" at the end of television adverts now. That's entirely anecdotal, but Google (or other search engines, but basically Google) has been for a long time the way to access sites.

I see people every day searching for a brand and clicking rather than appending ".com". It's more convenient. If Google can profit off laziness, they will.
I only get B&W QR. (In case it is important, I used the first photo (one with three vertical yellow bananas) https://www.google.com/search?q=banana&rlz=1C1CHBF_esAR839AR... )

> If QR does not scan, then Re-Generate with more (+1) safer settings

What does this do? Can you give a technical explanation?

I don't like when the outline is so small that it doesn't cover the horizontal o vertical part of the grid. (This is a personal opinion anyway.)

Note: Remove the two spaces before the links in your comment, so they become clickable.
What about this, a mere three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22962145
> Never deal with authorized_keys files ever again.

For servers with an access to multiple users via SSH with PKI auth you have to use AuthorizedPrincipalsFile anyway. edit: and to avoid gazillion issuing CAs for managing group access.
Yeah, I should have been more clear. I'm 100% for using normal deploy steps and I'm not recommending cowboy-ing updates in a container.

He was asking about using non-containerized infr though. If you can commit a code hotfix and quickly deploy the code package, you can roll forward without the slow container build/deploy.
Disclaimer: I'm a container infrastructure consultant at Red Hat, so take all of this with a big grain of salt :-)

What you are complaining about isn't really containers (you could still pretty easily run stuff in a container and set it up/treat it like a "pet" rather than "cattle"), it's the CI/CD and immutable infrastructure best practices you are really sad about. Your complaints are totally valid: but there is another side to it.

Before adopting containers it wasn't unusual to SSH in and change a line of code on a broken server and restart. In fact that works fine while the company/team is really small. Unfortunately it becomes a disaster and huge liability when the team grows.

Additionally in regulated environments (think a bank or healthcare) one person with the ability to do that would be a huge threat. Protecting production data is paramount and if you can modify the code processing that data without a person/thing in your way then you are a massive threat to the data. I know you would never do something nefarious - neither would I. We just want to build things. But I promise you it's a matter of time until you hire somebody that does. And as a customer, I'd rather not trust my identity to be protected because "we trust Billy. He would never do that."

I pine for the old days - I really do. Things are insanely complex now and I don't like it. Unfortunately there are good reasons for the complexity.
On other sites, much of the posts are fueled by indignation. That's a bit less here, and very few people are going to reply: "yeah, I know. It's a shame.", especially because that's against the rules. But it's only a possible factor.

> Why is this on HN?

Relatively many students and recently graduated under the members, more than on e.g. reddit?
Do you have sources saying the fatality rate is capped at 1%?
Looks interesting, thanks. I've forwarded it to the relevant parties.
SpaceX will deploy Planet Labs' SkySats aboard upcoming Starlink missi
I work on programming projects I find fun. What makes it recreation is that it's something I want to work on, I don't have others imposing deadlines or requirements.

A mechanic can enjoy working on his own project car in the off time.

Both of these things are productive in a way that playing games isn't, but they're still recreational. It's not spending your life chasing dimes. It's looking at the different recreational things you could be doing, and choosing the ones that also intersect with being productive and have a side-effect of helping you professionally.
Apple to launch 'Apple One' subscription to bundle together all of its services
Citation needed. I’ve “fucked” with many prod systems over the last 15 years and not caused outages, or extended them.
Whether they'd be willing or not is another matter. I know a few though, people that have very high levels of secondary education working trades or other simple jobs because it keeps their stress levels down.
Spectra Attack Turns Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Against Each Other – PCMag
The Internet of Things with ESP32
Recently i learnt that each and every lambda event source has completely different model / structure. Which is hilarious and shows that internally AWS has huge issues to maintain standards.
I must be misunderstanding, but isn’t that symbol access limitation entirely useless? If someone has the technical knowhow to develop a kernel patch set, they certainly have the capability to do so on a kernel they’ve recompiled without this limitation.
This is a delicious reversal of common wisdom :)
> It sounds like the build tooling was forcing them to distribute a dependency across every lambda build, which was forcing a redeploy of all services, which is a code issue that maybe looks like a tooling issue. Just going off of context.

Yea, you are probably right on the money.

IME lots of folks struggle with DRY when trying to actually implement their services. In teams I work with, we frequently see attempts to build a shared library and have to re-hash the discussion every time
Stop being mediocre
They are relatively unlikely to _die_ from COVID-19 (and please do not repeat the false claim that these are only “people already on the cusp of death” - the average victim is losing at least a decade of life based on actuarial data) but we know that there are a much greater percentage of people who will experience significant health problems, potentially with life-long impacts.

Similarly, not everyone on or near campus is a health 19 year old and not every college student can afford to live in their own apartment or with a few healthy roommates. Universities have large numbers of staff of all ages, and no college town functions without a similar all-ages mix of people living near those students. The entire reason why there's so much pressure to re-open is because the lack of federal support means that city and state governments (at least 30 of the states have recent laws preventing them from running a budget deficit during a crisis) are desperate for the revenue generated by those students, and that is another way of saying that lots of people are literally banking on having those students be in contact with a fair chunk of the local economy.
If you like chromium ecosystem, I suggest trying the Vivaldi browser. https://vivaldi.com

It won me over with
(1) the ability to split the window into multiple tabs
(2) ability to turn any webpage into a side-bar "applet-thingy" -- great for having whatsapp, todoist, always on the side while you switch tabs.

It also has plenty of other features aimed at power-users.
Learning technology you don't need right now is a waste of time
Trades have been more lucrative than many liberal arts-esque jobs for decades. Awareness isn’t the issue. The issue is social acceptability.

Until plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc. stop being a part of the undesirable Other to middle and upper middle class Americans, nothing will change. Paying $100,000 for your kid to study underwater basket weaving at Harvard is still socially superior to running a multi-million dollar business in the trades. It is a problem of culture, not economics.
I rewatched the Drone footage [1] js2 linked to and I think I made the same logical error that the captain/crew did; I mistook the breakwater as the edge of the reef and missed the slightly deeper ridge that juts out perpendicular to the island/lagoon.

The "coral ridge" that they hit is obvious in the many photos that are shown in an image search results on "aerial photo MV-Wakashio". I was surprised by the drone footage since it looks like the ship was perpendicular to the reef edge which means that the ship was heading directly at the large/populated island at near full speed but this was not the case. They were probably running parallel to the breakwater and hit this hidden anomaly in the reef and then wave action trapped the ship in this literal corner. Without tugs I don't think the ship could back out even if undamaged so I guess one outstanding question is whether a timely deployment of tug boats could have prevented the break-up of the ship.

The accident occurred at 8pm local time (16:00 UTC +4) so it was dark but the crew would have been awake. Tragic overconfidence.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN3SyPM9m2U
I was sick most of my freshman year. Went to school halfway across the country. Entirely new set of viruses versus what I was used to.

Happens to people who move to different countries too.

Common enough in basic training that it's got a nickname as well.
https://afwm.org/life-during-bmt/bmt-illnesses/
I was not prepared for the length of that article but I couldn’t stop reading
Newsweek Defends Birtherism V2
Newsweek doubles down on its op-ed questioning Kamala Harris's entitlement to hold office by arguing the meaning of Article II, Section 1 of the constitution.
The process is pretty simple but their documentation is pretty good. When I was starting out I found this video which helped me get started: https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/manage-ssh-with-hashicor...
> the scalability of the technique was limited because it used high-order rationals requiring 80 bits of precision. We address the sources of numerical difficulty and allow the same computation to be performed using 64 bits. Crucially, this enables computation on the GPU, and computing a 10-billion-triangle model now takes 17 days instead of 10 years.

While improving numerical stability is interesting and useful work, a GPU isn't strictly limited to 64 bit math. You can glue two 64-bit floats together to act like a much more precise float. It will be a big hit to efficiency, but nowhere near a 200x hit!
I would propose that companies which can have such major consequences on the environment must put a sum of money in some kind of Escrow, and it gets released for purposes of cleaning up the mess.
Without Google she had no way to search and see if she'd already published it somewhere.
How Elon Musk Makes Tesla Employees Productive
Friedman and Simpson are, unfortunately, dinosaurs who don't grok categorical concepts. This became clear on the FOM list when Pratt and other abstract algebraists who know category theory but do not depend on it were able to pry apart the problem. Friedman and Simpson deny that certain mathematical objects exist and are equivalent to each other, and while I won't begrudge them their nearsight due to spending so much time with weak/reverse maths, I won't excuse the mistakes.

I had to go find a blow-by-blow of the drama because it's good. Simpson cannot imagine topoi which don't implement standard set theory [3]. Friedman demonstrates a total misunderstanding of sets vs. categories [4]. McLarty and Feferman claim that categorical FOM make sense once one is used to categories [1]. Finally, the truth is laid bare: Friedman and Simpson simply don't agree with us on whether categorical logic is philosophically valid [2].

For more on this perspective, check out Pratt's take on Yoneda's lemma [0].

(An interesting aside: Simpson is an Objectivist who hates postmodernism! I wonder if this is part of what causes them to reject topos theory, where there are many different logics and collections, with a single barren plain Boolean set theory?)

[0] http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/yon.pdf

[1] https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-March/001309.html

[2] https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-March/001467.html

[3] https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-January/000782.html

[4] https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/1998-January/000835.html
I fail to understand the argument. What's specifically wrong with a "markup language" that makes it unfit for GUI?
Stanford and a number of the well positioned universities can weather the storm, which is why the are cancelling in person after hoping not to. https://www.profgalloway.com/uss-university
I don't know why people use HVAC as a boilerplate example of working-class work.

Jobs come from where the booms are. Unless there's an HVAC boom, why would you anticipate a surge in HVAC workers?

Not a criticism/denial of your larger point, just an observation about that point specifically.
If you can get hold of them, I had to wait two months for a pair of Schwalbe Marathon Tour tyres.
> Meanwhile, I disagree that “underwater basket weaving” degrees are the problem. At least, these tend to be real subjects that students are actually interested in. The real problem is "Online Marketing" degrees, or most business degrees excepting accounting and finance.

I somewhat agree. Sadly, I find that of the degrees offered online, they mostly seem to be either the "underwater basket weaving" degrees or the "online marketing" degrees.
UIUC in Champaign/Urbana (Illinois) is still bringing everyone back to campus. A friend just moved his son into the dorms this week.
> If you image has correct caching

This is the hangup for most CI/CD systems with containers. Typical configurations (e.g. Gitlab basic setup) don't leverage any caching, so every container is built 100% from scratch, every time.

Adjusting the system to properly utilize caching and ordering your container builds in a way that the most volatile steps are as late as possible in the build will massively speed up container builds.
Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks to Get Software Updates
I think it's a bit of both. I have that with all games too, though generally I have it less-so with games that don't take my creative energy which I would rather use for coding or arts.

I have little to no problem getting myself to play Starcraft II or other strategy games which I love. Low-effort story-based games are also easy to get into.
It’s for this reason I personally dislike factorio as a game. Don’t get me wrong, the game itself is fantastic, but I don’t have the patience for it.

Rather, I find myself trying to build a factory top down. I write a bunch of sticky notes with material requirements and calculate backwards “how many labs do I need?” “How many gears do I need to make the beakers?” “How much do I need to mine to match that hourly throughput of gears?

It’s the perfect candidate of a game to write an algorithm for. Assuming a known seed, it’s trivial to design the most efficient system based on those parameters.

And at that point it just becomes work. It’s really designed as a bottom up game, but I think about problems top down and for that reason factorio drives me nuts.
All of those were military projects except for the clean energy research and electric vehicle subsidies which I don't think were necessary (and both of which started under the Obama administration).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra#Government_support
You think having 5 already wildly successful games on the front page somehow means Steam is only accepting "good games", is that a joke?

You realize Steam was accepting under 1 game a day when it launched right? And for many years after?

Like there was actual meaning to getting on Steam. It wasn't they couldn't get games, they only wanted the best

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If anything you are literally making my point in regards to discovery.

Once upon a time if you released a game on steam you were guaranteed some modicum of traction by virtue of being a new game on Steam

In 2019 more games were added in 1 year than in the DECADE after Steam launched.

(I mistyped in the last comment, it was meant to be thousands of games per year, but you get the idea)

Every single game you described already has a massive following.

Gone are the days where you could launch with a small following and rely on Steam to do half of what a publisher exists to do... market your game.

That was what was worth 30% of your revenue, having Steam pickup your game and give it halo status.

Now Steam really is a crapshoot and saying your game is on Steam doesn't mean it was curated, it just means it's on Steam.

The completely and utterly demolishes the value proposition of the platform as a publisher.
It's hard to run a micro-policy in a contradictory macro-environment.

The incentives (mostly via credit, but also social incentive) for regular college is already super-high... as is the incentive of colleges that receive this credit as payment.

You would need to overcome that with even bigger incentives... creating the same inflation problem, but now for trade schools. If you don't, trade schools have to compete with colleges funded by the ever increasing student loan complex.

Imagine a country that has a suburban housing policy similar to the college education policy. Contractors get subsidies, donations, grants. Buyers have access to easy, no money down, no question mortgages backed by a government. Prices inflate. Houses get bigger. A massive debt pool keeps growing.

You say: "this is really inefficient. Don't some of you want downtown apartments instead?" This isn't going to work while competing with the other housing system... no matter how reasonable the plan is. Throw in a stigma about apartment-dwellers... your plan is now doomed.

Unless students are paying out of pocket (student loan schemes don't count), then you need price controls.
Third-party content purchased while using the BMW/iPhone that you want to use with your Honda/Android. Plenty of apps are cross-platform, like child seats.
With the history between nvidia and Linux, it wouldn’t surprise me if they had people employed to keep nvidia from treading on kernel dev’s toes.
There are substantial (but still very unclear and lacking in stats) reports of long term health conditions among even young people after covid.

Besides, by your argument, why should we even have bothered eradicating polio?
> our source told us Moz will likely pocket $400m to $450m a year between now and 2023 from the arrangement

Why in hell did they lay off MDN, Rust/Servo and Dev Tools teams?
I'm all for balanced debate, but strawmanning doesn't help anyone.
God help you if your decryption key is destroyed somehow and you no longer have access to your own data. Fuck that.
> First, this could only happen to small, isolated, and bottle necked populations. This on its own eliminated the vast majority of humanity

I disagree with several points made here. Firstly, I would question your reasoning behind the prerequisite of the population being "small", because in fact larger societies face different and more complex challenges than small ones, which in turns favors the ability to navigate the challenges of large human groups. More to the point, environmental pressure is applied regardless of a group's size.

Secondly, an isolated population does not eliminate the vast majority of humanity - far from it. While there's always some form of mobility between societies, until very recently that was a relatively rare phenomenon. By and large people lived and died within artillery distance of where they were born.

> including any racist notions like "asian" or "black."

This is actually the first time I've heard those designations described as 'racist', but that's somewhat orthogonal and more of a passing observation

> In your dog metaphor, it's like looking at a dachshund and then saying "all dogs with short hair are also have short legs."

I don't follow this extension to my analogy, which is probably a reflection of the problems of using analogies as a discussion aid in the first place

> Between the occasional plague and the occasional famine, you have times of war and times of peace. You have changing aesthetics, shifting cultures, values gained and lost.

Yes, but at its core an urban, even if premodern, existence places emphasis on different skill sets than a hunter gatherer lifestyle. This goes back to my point above about the social challenges of navigating large human groups - aesthetics can change, but figuring out how to grapple with complex social dynamics, as opposed to taming nature, is a constant (and one closely correlated with the evolution of human intelligence to boot)
I wonder if this also ties in with tying grades to scholarships. When I was in college, I had to get a certain grade or I wouldn't be able to afford to go to my college. I wonder if that knowledge ties into how professors grade? The other thing is that it would be interesting to see if the current generation is better test takers. So, even if they don't learn as much or are less literate, they're able to see through the test and answer the expected answer or write what the professor wants to see. Personally, I've grown up taking tons of tests and would argue I'm just a good test taker now. Same with my wife. She was a lot worse of student than I was, but was an amazing test taker. She could pass almost any test put in front of her, even if she didn't study. While I think the article has a lot of good points, I think we also have to bring some different perspectives into the conversation. The author seems to have a single focus as to why this is happening, and I think it would be interesting to see what other people think around this.
Any parent who thinks that way is a moron. Educated uselessness is to the detriment of the kid.

If you want to be happy and healthy in America, you must have a way to make money. (Or your parents must give you so much money that you're set for life.)