skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cited CDC weekly report has a graph that compares weekly ILI (influenza-like illnesses) cases per week for each of the last few flu seasons. For the same time period (calendar week), influenza cases are roughly the same for 2020 as in past years, according to the chart. I don’t see what the OP is referring to.

CDC do note that they are going to change how this is being reported in the coming weeks to include COVID. This could cause confusion when tracking both COVID and regular ol’ flu when the flu season cranks up...hope they make things better than worse.
The POC in BIPOC includes Asians, even if in the context of the tech industry East and South Asians aren't underrepresented groups.
conntrack timeouts don't just apply to UDP:

net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_dccp_timeout_timewait = 240
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_frag6_timeout = 60
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_generic_timeout = 600
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_gre_timeout = 30
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_gre_timeout_stream = 180
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_icmp_timeout = 30
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_icmpv6_timeout = 30

and even for TCP, there is a timeout after the connection is closed. The fact that UDP has no state and therefore no 'connection' doesn't mean that just because TCP does, that conntrack only tracks it while the connection is open. Besides, you could sever a cable and TCP wouldn't know that anything happened. So you do need timeouts for anything in a NAT table.
I never had durability issues with the phones that had replaceable batteries.
It was only with those devices where the battery wasn’t meant to be replaced where they would not go together as nicely as they did before the battery change.
It's 8 (two stacked along the same axis in each corner), so there will be some kind of redundancy.
I spent most of my younger years making sure that my family was supported and that my kids could go to university without crushing debt afterwards.

Now I try to make sure that when I’m gone, it won’t create too much work for them to clean up after me.

I try not to be attached to worldly passions. It’s not easy but it feels like the right thing to do.
From the time line, they left in a hurry, just before law enforcement arrived. It's also not easy to collect 100 scattered bullet casings in the dark.
Micropayments are actually very difficult to implement without accounts and some type of payment system. With Bitcoin, and Lightning, it makes it work.
> I don't believe robots will have human level walking skills in our lifetime.

If "lifetime" can be considered to be the next 50 years, I absolutely disagree with you. I'd even venture to say that we will see robots with human level walking skills within the next 15-20 years, at most.
I agree.

In two dimensions, a vehicle moving North-South and a vehicle moving East-West have to cross into each other's path at some point, and 2.5D solutions (bridges and flyovers) help but require significant investment in resources that simply isn't possible at every junction.

In three dimensions, this simply isn't the case; we can separate different directions of traffic by height, and provision of dedicated corridors for changing route is merely a matter of making regulation rather than infrastructure.

There's a reason why we've had autopilot on planes for significantly longer than on cars.
Even though I agree with you re: pure black text, I sense a lack of understanding that should be present here.

Design is always a trade off. Do you want more focus on content, or more information with less focus? Is your default setting more friendly to smaller or larger screens? Every person has different preferences, and every trade off has cost benefits you can run. Yet your statement here is very “black and white” (ahem), assuming everyone should think like you. That betrays a lack of nuance in understanding how design works.

In the programming world, you also have these trade offs, yet it’s easier to avoid thinking about them at times. Static vs dynamic languages are full of trade offs like this.

To avoid coming across as yelling at clouds, attempt to frame why it’s a trade off you prefer, rather than a platonic ideal others don’t see (because it isn’t).
Year Old May Have Gotten Covid-19 Coronavirus Twice with Reinfection Worse
I need to lift weight so I don't hurt myself carrying 65lb ladders down trails and in high wind for my job.

Is that ok with you?
The T420 is old, but still has some advantages over laptops currently on the market. Up until 2018 many laptops still had dual core cpus like the i7-7500u which are worse than the i7-3840qm that can be put in a T420, and the few currently available laptops that have 1440p displays and quad core cpus are still pretty expensive. Some other reasons people still use the laptop are being able to use coreboot with it and the upgradability of it. It's really cheap to upgrade the laptop to work with bluetooth 5 and wifi 6 and multiple ssd's can be added using the two 2.5" slots and the one msata slot. Using this, someone could make a large 150wh or even 200wh battery that would let this laptop last longer than most new laptops.
Or the guy fingered for the 2001 anthrax attacks.

If it was an insider, it was probably someone with a workplace grievance. Maybe someone who had raised concerns about security and wanted to prove himself correct, or just someone with a boss they disliked who wanted to make trouble.
It’s not an article, it’s satire. (Most of the commenters here seem to have missed the joke.)
I know from my own experience that even with normal news stories, most miss the point at some level because the journalists have incomplete information or cherry pick to reach a desired conclusion.

In these scenarios with the military, you’re guaranteed that anyone who knows what is going on isn’t talking. Especially on a SAC base. And it’s highly probable that anyone who is talking has no clue or is delivering BS information.

Just after this time period, there were a number of UFO sightings in the northeast, especially around Plattsburgh AFB, Rome AFB and Fort Drum. The UFO aspect was widely reported, and later the “sightings” were attributed to flight testing of terrain comparison navigation systems for cruise missiles. I’d look more at that type of explanation than anything else.
Gotcha! Thanks.
I'm quite serious.
Okay. So where are you gonna live? Do you have the blueprints for you new house? What are you investing in?

You didn't answer the question.
Well he’s good at saving money on VM’s
I don't think that's true at all.

My mother inherited my late-2014 iPhone 6. It still gets security updates, although it won't run the current iOS.

The battery started to swell, so she took it in for a new one. They replaced it with a refurb, since they aren't authorized to do replacements of swollen batteries on-site. It cost her as much as a replacement battery would. Presumably, the original has been refurbished and someone else is using it.

If Apple is planning for obsolescence, they're doing a poor job of it, compared to literally any other phone manufacturer in existence.
>Sniper attack

>7.62x39

One of these things is not like the other.
Exactly that. I have a 1.5 year old. We've been pretty much zombies for the first half a year, until she started sleeping through (most of) the night.
The issue is that Google has lost most of it credibility as an authority on ethics. Think about what would prompt one to add "don't be evil" to their company charter, then think about what would prompt one to remove it.
Cool, as long as we're doing anecdotes, I would constantly drop my flip phones and have the battery spring loose.

On one of those drops, the tiny plastic hinge holding the door on broke, and that was the end of that flip phone. It wasn't a popular enough model that I could find a replacement door online.
You're mainly paying to deal with deliverability (IP reputation, proper "ramping" of mail servers, and the increasing number of technical requirements for correctly operating a mail server).
This is an overwhelmingly male space and the culture here skews heavily "White upper class American male" in spite of being highly multicultural and international in membership. You aren't likely to get much in the way of good answers here because it doesn't feel like a very welcoming space for the types of people you are hoping to get answers from.

If you really want to know, there are some good things happening on Twitter in discussing such things, if you can find it.
BZFlag[1] was a favorite from that era, and it's still being developed and played online.

[1] https://www.bzflag.org/
Good article! I enjoyed that you used flatMap. And the FinancialRegulatorMonad is a great way to show that monads are not just IO, State or Maybe. :)
From a cursory search, it looks like they aren't banned, but the algorithm makes them fall faster. It stinks, they are often good reads (although maybe the discussion isn't always that deep).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23117614
Ah the old hydrogen fool cell idiocy has still not died out. No matter that end to end its less then half as efficient and more expensive. Doing basic efficiency calculation to going from a solar pannel to forward movement on a car, is so overwhelming that I really don't see how anybody can sill argue for it. And if we are talking about green hydrogen only, the fuel cost compared to electricity is like 50 times higher.

There is basically no infrastructure either. Additionally hydrogen infrastructure is incredibly expensive to deploy and to keep running. Using the already existing power infrastructure is just so much smarter its not even close.

Add to all that that nobody has ever produced fuel cells at that scale at anywhere the price you would need. It also contains lots of expensive metals that would make scaling to millions of cars very challenging. Compared to batteries that consists of lithium, nikel, graphite and silicon, with maybe some cobalt but that will be gone soon. All easily available materials that can scale.

Any automaker that is still perusing fuel cells will be dealt harsh kicks by the market over and over again. At least they can keep sucking in government money to continue development, instead the government funding sulfer-lithium batteries that have way more potential.
I'd be very surprised if most FAANG engineers aren't millionaires after 5-10 years. The caveat being that houses in the Bay Area cost a lot more than a million...
It Is Not Adultery If You Sleep with Your Husband's Brothers – Pastor V
"packaged slightly differently" has to mean "packaged durably enough to protect the bare battery from damage".

By the very nature of the design constraint, a removable battery will take up more space inside a device than the same chemistry packaged without the protective case, springs to hold the contacts in place, and so on.

That means by eschewing it, you can take your pick among: a thinner phone, more components, or a larger battery. There's no way around this.
We are talking about 1-2mm difference here. What’s the big deal?
Re: Earley being forgotten, I've been working on the "nearley" Earley parsing library for JS for many years now and it now has a very solid user-base (200+ dependents on npm). It's probably not the fastest a JS-based parsing library could be, but it's certainly no longer forgotten! Here's a small sample of some of the amazingly varied projects using Earley parsing (via nearley) today… https://nearley.js.org/#projects-using-nearley
Is the entire internet the world's largest supercomputer?
Oh yeah. The history of numbers is long and complicated. I think today we take for granted the idea that numbers are objects (in some abstract sense). In the past, there was simply no concept of number as a thing. Numbers were used for counting or measuring, so they existed only as adjectives attached to their objects of counting/measuring, not nouns in their own rite.
Not all requests are the same and they need to be treated differently. Some requests are rather optional and it's probably better to timeout if they don't respond in a timely manner so not to use up more resources than needed. Other requests, like payments, for instance, you probably want to give the best chance for it to succeed. So, no timeout is likely a good idea. If the actual TCP connection times out or is closed by the server, we can hope it was good enough to realise something didn't go well and rollback. So, we are probably safer to assume it didn't go through in that case.

When it comes down to UI there are even more options. Since you have a human on the other side, you can transfer to them the responsability of deciding when to timeout. The UI certainly shouldn't become completely unresponsive while a request is being made.
Flash Boys 2.0
Absolutely agree. In some ways I've done more than I ever expected, and in other ways I feel like I'm behind. But comparing my current self to what I thought back when I was 20 doesn't really matter at all. All that matters is that I'm happy with my life as it is, and that I feel like I have enough influence over things in order to change the things I'm not happy about.
Beats me. I can speculate a bit:

Perhaps professionals would be less likely to remove casings because they do not expect to ever go to trial, or know that the gun they used can not be connected to them (because perhaps it was issued to them for this job), are not local to the area or do not intend to remain in the US after the job.

Only 100 casings were found, which does not strike me as very much... Basically just three people dumping a mag each + a smidge extra.

It is interesting that the article mentions only finding 7.62x39. This kinda says non-NATO to me, or at least the shooters want us to think "ruskies!"
That’s the reason mentioned in my comment that Facebook chose profits and market over principles in India based on WSJ research and this article.

In India they choose the side of the govt, political party and an ideology, it’s again a reflection of the kind of staff managing Facebook in India and although they are duty bound to punish such staff they rewarded them and still defending them to secure the market and profits.
Fusion Power Breakthrough: New Method for Eliminating Damaging Heat Bursts
The one thing I really want (which apparently Monarch has) is histogram retention. I'm often called upon to summarize service latency as global p50 and p95, and at the sheer volume of data we have, we aggregate that metric. Thus I am left calculating an average of p95s, which isn't super useful.

To the best of my knowledge, nothing else in the market does that.
> Note that C bindings (cimgui) are auto-generated, you can use its json/lua output to generate bindings for other languages.

note about this. the C++ imgui library uses stuff like out-arguments (pass a pointer that gets filled out with a result) almost everywhere, which makes wrapping it with a pointer-less language non-trivial – in python, you want an interface that just returns a tuple and you'll have to code that part up manually anyway (or come up with a really clever generator)

[source: i've contributed to pyimgui, another imgui wrapper, and we looked at auto-generating wrappers at some point, but decided against it because of how much work you'd have to do on top to make it "pythonic". i think they're looking at that again now though.]
You don't have to already have blueprints for the house in order to want the million dollars. Once you get the million, then you have time to look at blueprints.
If you are looking for /varz, https://prometheus.io

If you really want /streamz with simple aggregation for distribution, description for metrics etc in an HTML page, I haven't encountered one yet.
Serious cryptography is one of the best textbooks I have ever read.
Computer Programming as an Art – Knuth
How to Pick a Quack: Data
We will literally have silicon anodes batteries in 2-3 years, we will have pure lithium anodes in 4-5 years, after that we will have sulfer-lithium batteries within the decade.

With lithium annodes we are at a point where you can replace most air-travel with battery planes.

There is way more upside for improvement in batteries compared to fuel cells.

Fuel cells have no future in transportation unless there is some fundamental breakthrew that nobody can anticipate, nothing I have seen even in research improves fuel cell technology enough to make it viable.
It's both. If the popularity of new languages is any measure, static languages have quietly won the static v. dynamic war over the last few years: TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift, etc. Also considering the onslaught of static type checkers and compilers for otherwise dynamic languages such as Ruby, Python, etc. One must conclude static type analysis is everything, or at least it appears to be. IDEs are for the most part measured by how well they incorporate static analysis with features such as deterministic code completion, navigation, usage searching, refactoring, and the like. New IDEs for old static languages are finally arriving such as CLion. Not that IDEs can't be built for dynamic languages, they can, but they tend to be less efficient and less capable because static type analysis is so much more difficult to achieve due to the inherent nondeterminism.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-entry-in-flying-car-race...
China Intervenes in TikTok Deal
If you want to keep your bones strong, there's no better exercise.

https://time.com/4803697/bodybuilding-strength-training/

It also increases your baseline strength, which is in turn one of the strongest correlates to maintaining health at any age.
I kind of wonder if this was an inside job since it seems like their plan may have been to shut down power but it completely failed? Maybe it was people who worked there who just wanted to destroy some transformers and knew it wouldn't disrupt power. Certainly not impossible. But if they were insiders you think they would have done something that was actually going to get more noticed.
This is good news. I'm going for one in a couple weeks, so of course I'm a tad nervous about it all. I don't normally get poked around like that. It's not the greatest rite of passage.

My mother had one done when I was a kid. I only remember her being absolutely humiliated by the "air" on the trip home - as children we couldn't not giggle about that particular after-effect. Even back then it was an out-patient ordeal. She did say it was like going to the dentist - scary but otherwise a breeze! (her pun, not mine...)
I do intend to read the manual cover to cover. A lot of the advice in it isn't difficult or labor intensive to apply, and a lot of it makes sense outside aerospace. I do want an "excimer laser wire stripper" now though.
Games should ask users to chip in to their Facebook marketing budgets. Cost offset is revenue earned!
I preferred amber monochrome, the ergonomic choice. Especially at night time.
Perhaps they should ask for that when the user is closing the program. "Would you like XXX to update so that the next time you open in you'll have a the new version?" I think I would probably say yes under such scenario.
My motivation in writing yet another web framework was to get pure performance while providing maintainability of more dynamic languages. Check the implementation of lithium, it is one of the most concise implementation of TFB: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
For those of us too lazy to think this through, do you care to post an explanation?
I am gradually coming to the conclusion that active censorship of information should be illegal, on any platform, public or private.

These companies control most of the modern society's information intake, you can't keep justifying everything they do with 'it's private, they do what they want'. The potential for abuse is just too great.
Far less likely to support modem formats and features, though.
EIL5 Answer. Power (mostly) follows the path of least resistance. Like water does.

To divert power certain stations or links in the grid can offer resistance via either terminating, or other means.

Another thing is, It’s a common understanding that power facilities can produce and modulate power. But they can also spin in reverse, thus using power.
This reads like parody... Hahaha: tyranny of chairs! Ya... Let's have a war on chairs... Hilarious.
The dirty secret is that stock holding has slowly shifted to be the safer hedge against inflation, which has been creeping upward in the classic tradition of frog boiling.

Government bonds are safer still, but on the right time horizon index funds have had better rates of return.

Point is, you have to park your savings somewhere, because if you leave them in the bank, the paltry returns of a savings account won't maintain purchasing power relatively to inflationary devaluation.
> It implies arbitrary []native[] code execution.

This is simply not true in a plurality of cases (eg, it implies that applications running under qemu are incapable of having RCE vulnerabilities) and frankly sounds like a distinction that was made up to avoid admitting that script tags are RCE bugs in web browsers.
> That lacklustre support response

Frankly, this makes my blood boil. Full disclosure: I used to work at Sendgrid's competitor (Mailgun) and I'm quite familiar with what's happening under the hood. You allowed spam to be sent from your account. You poisoned the IP space (not just one address you were sending from, but the IP block, affecting others) with spammy reputation. These blocks are expensive and hard to acquire (due to IPv4 shortage) and at this point you have caused more damage to Sendgrid and their customers, than your account value can probably compensate for. What kind of "support" do you expect at this point? You rented a hotel room, gave the key to someone who erected a meth lab there, and you're unhappy with the hotel's reaction?

Sending email on behalf of other people is hard work. The margins are not great, the ratio of spam-to-ham for new accounts is insane, and they're constantly under pressure between their customers who pay very little but want to spam the entire universe (I am sorry but most of you do!) and ESPs not wanting that traffic.
The liberal Time magazine is at it again with its hit piece against independents and conservatives! Shut up Time magazine!
And there were no fingerprints found on the casings, which suggests they had either planned to leave them behind, or planned for the possibility that they'd need to get out of there before they could collect them all.
If someone wanted to cause real harm to the infrastructure and they knew about the infrastructure.

They wouldn’t have taken out a few transformers that could be easily rectified.

They would have used a boat and dragged an anchor across the bay.
FAANG pays well, but not necessarily more challenging
The dream is so far out of reach, it doesn't even exist. Yet we chase the money anyways. Thank you for explaining.
I think you're missing the signed agreements by all parties involved not to do the thing that the farmer is angry about.

You're just going to ignore contract law because lots of people wanted the thing, but not to do what they agreed?
Travellers shift from other modes of transit until the "pain levels" even out again; that's independent of the travelers drying up altogether for other reasons though.
Hey Colin! Did you write anything about your business recently? I've been following you for a while and would love to read more about Tarsnap.

Edit: by the way, I knew your background was good, but didn't realize it was THIS good: [0]

> Dr. Colin Percival studied mathematics at Simon Fraser University, entering at age 13

[0]: https://www.tarsnap.com/about.html