skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's put this in context: 2B searches/month is <1000 QPS. That's not a business. That's a single server side project. And this is after 10 eyars?

So cue the usual HN DDG responses of "I switched to DDG and it's fine", "I used DDG and went back to Google" and "I use DDG but !g everything".

I personally think DDG is founded on two false premises:

1. People care about privacy. 99% of people don't; and

2. Personalized search doesn't have value. I think Google's dominance here is a good example of why it does.

At the end of the day, you can search Google incognito if you want to. People do this.

DDG is inserting themselves between the user and Bing/Google. I just don't see how it survives long term doing this.
I’d agree it’s fair if we actually knew what all the gleaned from our searches and what they did with it. That’s sort of the crux of the problem. We aren’t fully consenting/aware of what is being harvested and where it’s going.
This is why I use Terraform for my kubernetes objects. Yes, it is a DSL and not perfect but it has many advantages over helm such as:

- State. I cannot express how useful having the desired and actual state of a system is. It makes it so much easier to determined what has changed in between terraform applies which in turn makes tracking down problems easier.

- Providers. Being able to chain resources together from other systems is very powerful. As an example, I can:

1) create a database with a random name
2) create a user/password for that database
3) save the data above as a kubernetes secret
4) pass that secret into my kubernetes container for the service to use.

And you can easily change database to be anything such as a storage bucket, dns entry, twilio account, stripe account, etc.

Now try and do the exact same thing with helm!

- Providers Part 2: You can write your own providers to talk to your OWN services. I have done this and written up some go code to talk to our internal APIs when setting up new customers. It is very easy to create your own terraform resources to do this.

There are more reasons but I have work to do :)
Technically, coffee is a drug :)
Capacity is ramping up. It's surprising that the reporter (Joel Rose) didn't mention a new large Dräger plant in Pennsylvania that has begun manufacturing completely made-in-USA N-95 NIOSH-compliant masks.

3M and Honeywell are responding to HHS and DoD contracts by double or tripling their monthly output (admittedly, most of their factories are outside the U.S., in China and other places).

According to Statistica, monthly production of these masks will rise from 45 million units in January 2020 to 180 million units by end of year. Maybe this is insufficient but it's certainly better than nothing.

One issue is the difficulty and expense of producing meltblown textile, the material that traps microscopic particles so effectively. Currently this material is in shortage, and manufacturers are reluctant to build expensive machinery to make it when the demand may not exist a year from now.

One could make a case that the government should guarantee such companies from loss, to encourage short term investment.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1135072/us-n95-mask-prod...

2. https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-09-10/sca...

3. https://news.yahoo.com/dr-ger-increases-n95-respiratory-1555...
Did you know that e.g. Firefox's built-in PDF reader allows to jump directly into PDFs by appending (here) #page=2 to the URL?

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1791500O/comparison-ffp2...
+1 on the issue of Mix commands. We also put in boilerplate code for database migrations, but eventually I decided this was stupid. Now I keep the source on the servers and just run Mix commands from there.
How can you tell if the battery is dead in a phone that you don’t control? Take a heat gun to it to melt the glue, disassemble, and test the battery with a multimeter?
Totally agree. One option is to make static scans a tollgate only at higher application risk levels and/or exposure. For example, low/medium risk internal automation and telemetry tooling? Go nuts. Internet facing, regulated, high/critical risk? Need code scans.
It's not. There's a factor of over 100 between fastest solves and novice solves with a guide.
FYI, there are CDC guidelines for extended use/reuse: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/hcwcontrols/recommendedguid...
Is it better for them to be able to buy masks at $10 or to not be able to buy masks at all?
Hahah! I get this one too.
You mean the teachers at my school district that regularly spend $3m/year on diesel fuel for busing students (and the drivers wages, half the drivers are 'temps') that are sitting unused?
Could you give one example? (Of making an agreement and then threatening to intentionally break it very soon after?)
This has been coming up a lot in this thread and seems to be one of those bug vs feature situations.

- Google sees you are speaking French and that you are located in Canada so they assume you want results from Quebec.

- DDG sees you selected France, so you get French results.

Google uses context/history/etc whereas DDG ignores all of that. From a privacy perspective DDG's less localized default results are a feature, and in your situation they are actually better results, but there are people in this thread who have run into issues where DDG just assumes US for any queries in English, or where switching location gives bad results for programing stuff.

It's interesting seeing people's different reactions to this.
I don't know why people pretend like the distinction matters.
It would also discourage hoarding. If masks are artificially cheap, people will buy more than they need.
You can do simulations, either run it in forward or reverse. Pick a random town, burn it down, run the flame front backwards and find the paths and lines that caused it. Then look at the probable failure rates of those lines.

Run it forwards, pick and event and allow it to run its course.

When designing simulation runs there are bunch of dimensions to consider

* Fidelity or simulation resolution, spatial and temporal

* Number of runs, it is a linear search, spatial search, random, gradient

* If you are testing specific parameters, like will this bridge hold this static load, multiple simulation runs are done with the inputs varied slightly, input sensitivity analysis. [1]

The simulations don't have to be entirely on the computer, they could also couple with them physical and human components. One could page k/n employees that might be on duty at the random time. Response times in real life could be inferred by response to the actual pages. But people were harmed, no actual failures occurred.

If society approached civilization seriously, we would apply the full power of science AND engineering while we fail horribly at the application of engineering and suffer its excesses.

Given other pro PG&E comments in this thread, and how so many factors were in play and this and that. It all boils down to money and acceptable risk and how to package that up in a way that PG&E gets a slap on the wrist. Well done!

It very well could be that we as a society, decide we are ok with these risks, but that we need mediation. And it could be that we A) turn off at risk lines during likely conditions, as shown in simulation or via direct perception B) Have fire bomber planes in the sky during high likely occurrences.

But money is cheaper. You gotta spend it to make it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_analysis
And in the state of California everything causes Cancer. The EU likes to ban things before actual evidence of harm
Oh, no.

Pay ten bucks per mask - and soon enough in every basement there will be a masks factory.

At least until OSHA comes after them.
My mother bought a house next to a bog. Needless to say, with the drainage being almost non-existant, it has started seeping in water, especially during the spring. There has been some exceptionally warm winters in the North of Norway the last few years, but we've also had record snow, so when it thaws, everything goes at once, leading water to saturate the boggy earth, and then to seep into the house. Luckily it can be fixed by digging out new drainage trenches, and filling them with felt and gravel, accordingly, to filter the water out into a small drainage brook nearby. It's still going to cost a fair bit to get it done, though, and proper drainage could have saved us the problem in the first place. Luckily the insurance company will rework the inside, as panels got wet and need dehumidifying and mold-extinction.
> Maybe in Germany an architect can make a flawed building and get away with it, but in America the buyer or resident will have recourse to the courts and will take advantage to the maximum possible.

The article that we are commenting on here is about a property in the US where they had absolutely no legal recourse, either to the seller or the builder/architect. The timescales are too long with houses for there to be any guarantee of there being a business to be held liable.
That's a fairly cynical take. How is this any worse than offering an API?

It's open source [0], there's nothing stopping you hooking it up to Gitlab, or pointing it at jira.

[0] https://github.com/cli/cli
Indeed, a project I work on has a release script which tags a release and all and currently uses a third party tool for the GitHub interactions. Now we can use the first party GitHub CLI commands instead.
The link is that FP is usually bottom up and InfoSec is top down and they fail to meet in the middle

Big FP shops will have solved this of course. I doubt StanChart or Jane Street are losing any sleep over it.
"US satisfaction" surveys don't do a good job of telling us how people feel about their economic well-being, because it is also a survey of social issues, foreign policy, etc. It's a survey of how Americans feel about the government. While important, it's a polluted data-point in the context of income and poverty in the United States, which is the topic at hand here.

The personal satisfaction survey captures exactly what we're talking about: how Americans feel about their personal well-being, and that's primarily driven by their personal access to resources/goods/services — in other words, their economic well-being.

> Your narrative games don't work on actual intellectuals. Sorry.

Not going to touch this, but you might be overestimating the positive effect statements like this have on your argument's credibility.
The thesis is manifestly insane. Do you know him to be insane? This "explanation" is always "simple", but rarely accurate.
If like to turn it around and ask for examples of wildly people who DO okay well with others.
N95 masks? or conventional cloth masks? A real N95 requires an expensive high tech layer called meltblown textile that a textile factory can't just start making overnight.
Only speaking personally, I've never felt this way about the GPL. The virality is a feature that I really like as a developer. It ensures the changes stay open which is the true nature of open source for me.

I find that business is the first to scoff at this, but just because your software is GPL doesn't mean your code can be readily "stolen". There's plenty of complexity in actually getting that code to users that can make it quite difficult for others to replicate your success.

That said, there are licenses that I also like that are weaker, like LGPL and MPL 2.0.

I'm often surprised MIT is chosen. Apache 2.0 is more robust due to explicitness.
But being able to “overcharge” provides immediate incentives for others to produce. And when production finds equilibrium with market demand, the price is back to normal (or even cheaper than before if there is too much product in the market).

Artificially cheap prices also encourage hoarding and opportunistic buying by those willing to sell on the black market. And that just compounds the problem.

So while your desire to prevent gouging is admirable, it is also counterproductive.
> If I re-type the words of a copyrighted text, it doesn't mean I haven't violated copyright.

Copyrights are hard. Even if you look at public domain works like Sherlock Holmes, whose original stories are in the public domain, you can run into issues by giving him personality traits that are associated with derivative works that are still under copyright.
I’ve had good luck with a concrete product called Xypex for waterproofing cracks (in my case between a foundation and bedrock). It’s is much more within the scope of a DIY project so maybe something to try first.
Escargotic Commotion: The Internet of Snails
Just what we need: more ammunition for the recalcitrant and bellicose denier crowd.
> A sizable percentage of people don't want to live in condos. And they aren't necessarily small, either.

Most condos are small. If a sizeable proportion of people don't want to live in condos, that would make them cheaper. The fact that they're appreciating similarly that is further evidence that the premium for size is not the driver of what's happening.

> That's an extreme understatement. A glitzy refrigerator might only had $500 but marble counters might add $20,000 or more. Same with flooring. The price difference on a house full of stick on vinyl and real hard wood might be an additional $20,000. Then you get to other cosmetics such as crown moldings, jacuzzi tubs, walk in showers, vaulted ceilings, heated towel racks, and more.

Most properties don't have jacuzzi tubs or vaulted ceilings. You're not wrong, but they're not relevant to the discussion of what's happening to the median home buyer.

It's nonsensical to think that the price of housing has risen primarily because of quality increases because many, many houses have seen large appreciation with no changes.
I did not; neat!
be aware that an extension ('Search DuckDuckGo bangs') provides DDG bangs to Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/search-duckduckg...

it might simply redirect your !-searches to DDG, I don’t know. but I find it pretty useful.
>Additionally, they are often motivated by concerns for their own safety, because they feel like an afterthought in a transportation system dominated by cars.

Because bike lanes were an afterthought. Cycling is very unsafe.

Originally bikes were expected to ride on sidewalks. The problem arose was that sidewalks were unsafe. Pedestrians would just walk into the way of the cyclists and the cyclists would be hurt.

So politicians looking to raise tax revenues started making it difficult to ride a bike. Helmets are required, bans from sidewalks, 20km/h speed limits of bike lanes/paths. Many reflectors on the bike. Bell or horn on the bike needed. This is all to harass cyclists.

Now that bikes are on roads, now you have cars just driving into the way of cyclsts and hurting them; possibly even killing them.

Why are cyclists always being hurt by everyone else?
Amazon and Alibaba in talks to buy the Brazilian Postal Service
The C# compiler uses recursive descent.
PEGN, Parsing Expression Grammar Notation
This is a fascinating idea but sounds crazy. You would basically have a house in a cave. Would you prefer that over just building your house on open land?
As written further down, I'm currently going with netcup.de, which some consider kind of a "discount hoster", but it works for me.

You can also choose hetzner.de, which I think is somewhat of a "higher level" hoster and it's still pretty cheap: https://www.hetzner.de/webhosting

2 or 5 €/month is just worth it for me. Even if I could get a VPS for free, patching it, making sure everything runs just fine would take more time than it costs me with any (German) hoster who takes care of all the things I don't know about.
We're not WP or Ghost, so there is really no other instance of the platform. You could copy paste the files on the zip and use them with any SSG though.

We would also like to have a WP plugin so you can import the zip into a WP install, although there's so much to do right now that this is not really a priority.
Limited reuse. If you read it, "extended" here means "several patients in the same day". Hours, not days/weeks.
That it runs in an emulator on Windows XP is a nice touch.
Patents are really the stupidest things ever.

The idea that something or an idea can be limited to a particular chain of causality is irrational. The only reason someone likes the idea of saying only one chain of causality should exist for an idea or, better put an idea that makes money, is because they themselves like money or think they can gain access to that money.

Even the Cornoavirus has been shown to innovate, through mutation, by changing itself. It is not a single change, either. Many, many viruses change themselves to a new same same configuration over time. Now some may not, but some definitely do, which means that change is available to all.

Just because someone is able to get resources to patent an idea is not a good reason to allow them "protection" over another who did not have the resources, but still arrived intellectually at the same conclusion.

Are we to say all things we do are protected if they bring value? What about all the things we do not do that bring value? Will those be protected next?

If I had resources to spend on a thing, it would be to invent a space drive to get the fuck off this planet and away from all the greedy people.
I guess it really depends on what you mean by "stimulating" manufacturing. They're only recourse, really, is to make purchases of the equipment (does increased demand count as stimulating?). The federal government, and only the federal government, has the power to compel industries to manufacture under the Defense Production Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950

This was a major point of contention at the beginning of the outbreak in the US. Governor's were lobbying the feds to invoke the act, although the administration declined to do so. The end result was that states were competing with each other for heavily inflated PPE costs. In some cases, the feds themselves were outbidding states.

https://news.wbfo.org/post/cuomo-asks-federal-defense-produc...

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-...
Yeah, I think that is a fair assessment.

What I meant by "edge case" though was not necessarily the search term itself. It was selecting "Norway" localization for one search, and then deselecting for another. Of course I have no real insight here, but I would bet the large majority of people who toggle that option intend to keep it for all searches as opposed to just some.

E.g. searching for "matbutikk" with the Norway localization on DDG gives me different results (no Instagram account at least, but I can't really judge outside of that, hah).
I don't understand how someone could have been alive, over the last 4 years, inside a real human body with a functioning human brain and not understand the sentiment of the post you're replying to.
Standard buyout practices. Epic wants the whole pie and is willing to be a toxic market player to get there. Valve was too good for the gaming market, consumers are bad at recognizing a snake pit, they just see the magical free games and exclusive cuts in price, not remembering that those costs will be made back by the company later.
"unless they have assurance of long term sales beyond the current pandemic"

Nailed it. Yep. Building a massive production line with complex equipment and training only to be bankrupt in 6 months is a fools errand. The is why we have a government - when we need something that capitalism cannot supply. But they wont, so we don't.
My take on this is that PG&E way/is behaving negligently and the investigation that resulted from the fire uncovered that. They are literally the cause of the fire in the sense that their actions are what produced the initial flame.

However, I don't think the fault should lie with them because something was going to start a fire and they just happened to be the unlucky bunch stuck holding the match. There is no way you could say "if it wasn't for their negligence there wouldn't have been a fire."
The company that runs it also does other domains like .art, .blog, .design, .group, .ink, .llc, .photography, .style and .wiki.

I'd say they just picked the most generic thing that they thought would make the most money.
As someone that has invented novel algorithms I still feel Patents are a net negative especially for software. I just wish EU would be a better place for „startup“ innovation. My experience with the university infrastructure in that area isn’t great:
Yes, it's incredibly hot and dry, and doesn't get much rain. Going by Wikipedia, they had 30mm (1.2") of rain in 1921. Averages about 21 days a year with >1mm of rain.
I'm unsure why people are downvoting this. Where's the lie?
Actually, blender supports many more basic objects than meshes, it's just that the basic shape must be convertible to a mesh eventually. Which is also the case in any other software, because GPUs only support mesh rasterization.

So, you could implement a BREP object along with primitives to convert it to a mesh and it would work just fine. There are already objects such as particles, metaballs, hairs, NURBS, splines, and so on.
It Depresses Me That There Are More Books Than I Can Read in a Lifetime
I'm not seeing anyone here talk about the actual reason that a factory owner gave: no one knows if it's going to pay off, because if this whole thing blows over (because of a vaccine, or some other treatment, or we reach herd immunity sooner than expected, etc) then they've spent a huge investment on building supply, and there's no demand for it.
I was curious about this. The trick is moving the heat from the components (CPU/GPU/RAM/PSU/storage/etc) to the hull. It's full of nitrogen, but the heat would conduct much better via liquid (heat pipe) than gas (fans). The photos make it look like these are standard server racks, though, so there must be fans pumping the heat away from the components. Right?
> It would also discourage hoarding.

That can cut both ways: the possibility of "price gouging" can also encourage speculation, both for those hoping to turn a profit and for those who over-buy compared to expected use to ensure price stability.
Offer them tax abatements and regulatory easement? At the very least, it means more local jobs, which should incentivize states & municipalities to compete for such plants.
UK government’s plans to regulate the internet are a threat to free speech
If California had more microgrids, batteries, and demand response, they could more effectively power down their lines for fire safety and maintenance. The decision makers have been quick to add a ton of solar, but they need to add these other components for added resilience in what is an extremely fire prone region.
Face shields are largely useless, except perhaps for healthcare workers.

They are relatively easy to manufacture, but what we really needed was mass-production of N95/KN95 masks for essential workers.
Yeah. I'm concerned that a malicious actor might MITM their site and serve content that's less funny.
Creating a 3D Logo with Vectary
Thanks to the one downvoting me - what in my comment justifies a downvote? If my statement is wrong, I would certainly be interested in a correction.
https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says the best humor is the kind that lacks self awareness
I don't feel like your analogy makes sense here. The fact that there were explosives stored in the Beirut Port for years is exactly the same kind of institutional failure as PG&E failing to maintain their equipment for decades.

It's true that there are natural factors at play here, but in the case of Beirut, that might be more akin to asking "why is there such a large market for ammonium nitrate?"
We able to get five days of use out of ours if we let them rest and decontaminate for five days between usage. Even after still pass the fit-test and work well - we just throw them away out of an abundance of caution.

Even the ones we get from 3M South Korea at about $20 each winds up costing just pennies per hour.

Re-use Guidelines:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/d...