skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If schools are closed and children have to stay at home they don't spread the disease. They just get it from their parents and don't have any further contacts to whom they could spread it. The statistics during lockdown are pretty solid: Children don't spread it! (As long as you lock them inside with their adult parents - but the statistics may overlook that.)

Therefore we must always keep a close eye on the circumstances where the data was taken and what we can and cannot conclude from that.
This isn’t how the law works. It’s like saying ‘why is murder illegal when I can sometimes get away with it.’
A watermark is just about as effective to deter the casual user from distributing their books nilly-willy. I have DRM free ebooks which contain something like "Thanks X Y for buying this book" and so it's blatanly obvious who it belongs to. Now, you could remove it but you could also remove DRM.
Cockatoos pick up tool use and manufacture through social learning (2014)
PHP was built to parallelize requests, out of the box. It will use all of your cores automatically with no work on the developers part. It’s seemingly hard to find benchmarks comparing _modern_ versions of PHP not behind Apache to Node but once you get Apache out of the way of PHP7 the performance of modern PHP screams.

HHVM as you mentioned lost momentum when PHP7 largely met or surpassed its performance. That’s not a bad thing though, it just wasn’t hugely necessary anymore. The major upside is everyone gets the boost now, whereas HHVM was a nightmare to setup if you were not Facebook.

Beyond that, I truly believe the stateless nature of PHP requests is by far the easiest mental model to work with. As cross-request state is held exclusively and explicitly elsewhere (Redis, Memcache, SQL), it’s remarkably easy to reason about at scale.

This makes it easy to scale! Just throw another server on the load balancer and everything works. I work on a relatively large educational product, and we auto-balance up to 30+ servers during the week to handle a couple million users sending continuous streams of data, down to a minimum of 2 on weekends. It’s taken almost no consideration on the developers parts because of PHPs naturally stateless clean slate per page load model.

We also have a fair bit of Go in production, largely for CPU intensive operations. I love Go and use it for the majority of my newer personal projects. The major advantage to PHP that keeps it our primary language is the speed at which I can develop and iterate. The difference save/refresh vs save/recompile/restart/refresh makes in speed is not to be underestimated.

Myself as well as our lead dev have been using Go since before 1.x and we both still agree that PHP is better for rapid prototyping as well as just generally getting things out the door quickly.
Nobel Prize Awarded for Discovery of Hepatitis C Virus
It's still there, and growing.
> Better be running linux on a Mac mini somewhere.

At least we could use Docker!

..and get actually reproducible builds...
That's more than healthcare.gov's colossal screw up to build a site that couldn't register more than ten people or whatever the figures were.
I'm guessing that the origins lie in the oral storytelling tradition, where such phrases would have been used in a poetic way to entertain. And the continued use is just because people find the words amusing and enjoy using them.
I don't know. Oreo cookies in recipes and not getting salmonella both sound like perks to me.
>I would expect a huge mass of simple RNA based life forms simpler than prokaryotes.

There is such a mass: viruses. As such, we know that cellular life has evolved multiple mechanisms to efficiently kill external RNA.

If cellular life can efficiently outcompete non-cellular life for resources (and perhaps for RNA itself), then this outcome is not unreasonable at all.

Counter-example: There are (far) more Homo sapiens on the planet than other primates in total.
Good luck against Amazon's lawyer army.
UK: 16000 Covid cases missed (in one week) because Excel spreadsheet 'maxed out'
What's the power use on this? I would have thought x86 is a terrible choice for a NAS, as it only does the one thing and you don't need much processing power to do it (and implicitly x86's advantage lays primarily in being 1: fast and 2: compatible with x86 binaries, not in being low-power).
In English, it’s common to use the expression “we are not animals” meaning “we should not be treated like we treat other animals”. In this particular example, the problem was applying the term “poaching” to humans, when it is commonly used for non-human animals.

It has been accepted for decades by the scientific community, and the general population at large, that humans are, in fact, animals. But language takes time to react to changes changes. And that’s why “we are not animals” is still being used, even though the meaning today is “we should not be treated like we treat other animals”.

Hopefully all of this is clear.
Apparently each case was recorded in a column, and the number of columns had reached the maximum (16,384).

https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1313046638915706880
There are trade-offs, of course, but I'm generally not a fan of using implicit defaults for business applications (i.e., the application infers the default when there's no data).

If things go well, business data outlives business applications. After years or decades, it can be a major pain to figure out all the "secret" values that aren't actually in the data.
GitHub has "Discussions" on the way[1] which seem like they will greatly help the situation. You can see one in action here[2], which is where I first saw it. Doesn't seem to be generally available yet though, but when it is, I think it will improve issues greatly.

[1] https://github.blog/2020-05-06-new-from-satellite-2020-githu...

[2] https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/discussions
I assure you that I have wasted enough time fixing story-oriented development with major refactorings, because some edge cases weren't possible to be easily extended in the existing code.

Also have experience fixing story-oriented development with dirty workarounds, because major refactorings were also required, but not desired by whom was paying for the stories.

Both ways I didn't care, it was money on the bank anyway.
I think Twitter will become much more insular and that real id isn't really working for a large demographic. People using it professionally might have different requirements, but I don't see incentives to give Twitter my phone number or my real name. They would only sell that info anyway.
Some planets may be better for life than Earth
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54412581
https://old.reddit.com/r/financialindependence is the right link
Need for Load Speed: Cloudflare Test Drive
Virologists who discovered hepatitis C win medicine Nobel
Lol, moral of the story: pirate whatever software you can :D
How about both being a disappointment? Cloudflare because they are supposed to be all about performance, which is clear from these benchmarks doesn't automatically mean their performance is actually good.

And Netlify is also a disappointment because they are supposed to be all about hosting static websites, and their performance is poor for doing just that.
> A possible solution to this is creating data points for everyone

A better solution is to use better statistics.

If you think you need to collect redundant extra data about innocents just to improve inferences using the data you have, you're doing statistics wrong.

This has come up with DNA databases too.

Prosecutor's Fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor%27s_fallacy

https://www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/news/views/the-prosecutors-fallacy

"The Prosecutor’s Fallacy is most often associated with miscarriages of justice. It’s when the probability of innocence given the evidence is wrongly assumed to equal an infinitesimally small probability that that evidence would occur if the defendant was innocent. Consequently, highly improbable innocent explanations have led to the assumption of guilt,"
This kind of approach (type driven development) was already popular in Algol derived languages, hence why the cowboy coder would call us on Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal side of the fence, programming with straitjacket.
Formula E is a thing because “E is the future” and all manufacturers don’t want to miss out. From a racing and entertainment point of view it’s absolute dog shit. It will die out if it can’t survive by their own merits once the electric novelty wades.
The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3M years
I've written Windows device drivers, so I think I could say I'm rather intimately familiar with Windows I/O request (IRP) processing.

Sounds like people in gambiting's company are the same.

I/O completion ports is an API for getting better efficiency between kernel and userland I/O. Batching, better scheduling and avoiding WFMO bottleneck. It's great, but it doesn't really have anything to do with timers.

The bottom line here is that Windows timer behavior has changed. This is terrifying.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded to Discoverers of Hep C Virus
>The recipe for success of Silicon Valley...

You seem to have left out "Tons of government money funding early electronics and aerospace development"... a bootstrap factor that should not be forgotten.
italy has legislation to forbid people who engaged in corruption/embezzlement from working with public administrations.

It also has a required certification for companies that work with the public that they weren't condemned for certain crimes (trafficking in illegal waste, extorsion, organized crime etc).

So, it doesn't seem an EU/Single Market rule that you can't check this.
As a kid I detested the idiosyncrasies of english language and I would have agreed with the author back then. Orwell's 1984 with its style of writing in the book as a whole and the idea of a simplified english to restrict thoughts in the form of Newspeak really struck a chord and I currently am a firm believer in the need of whimsy in our conversations and life.
Custom Domain for Substack
Ab support only http 1.0 requests, I recommend wrk instead: https://github.com/wg/wrk
Since this was about the difference between US East and West coasts, I think the assumption was that the basic ability to be flexible economically would be the same. Obviously "not in the middle of a bitter civil war" is a pretty hard requirement as well, but nobody feels the need to mention that one either.

From what I can tell, Italian universities churn out some really great programmers, which mostly end up moving to other countries where it's easier for companies to actually run. Kind of a shame -- in addition to climate, Italy has food and history going for it as well.
Not a Satellite
Google defers charging 30% fee to March 2022, in India
Marseille is not great, but Montpellier is awesome.
Some of us work for big enterprise shops. ;)
Follow the Leaders: Outsourcing R&D to Ukraine
As I read The Other Side of the Hedge (which I agree is better) just after having read Fratelli Tutti[1], the ambiguity of its final possessive is striking.

It's so striking that I've attempted to actively use a second language[2] to reinterpret the final sentence:

Demang me ta finyish leta-kom biya im, im ta du terash ruserux mi fo shelaf fo mi finyish sensa seping biya,
unte detim im du ting, mi ta vide im demang beratna mi.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24684152

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24675256
It may also be that they have a lot more close contacts at school than most adults at their workplace. Children usually have 30 in their class and often classes are mixed which potentially gives them >100 close contacts during a normal school week. Many adults have only a handful of close contacts at their workplace.

Add in the network effects of crosslinking different social circles (school, family, workplace) by children and adults then you get good conditions to spread disease.
Sure, it's totally reasonable. Just pointing it out as the parent comment said that they didn't differentiate (and IIRC it's not too obvious on the pricing page).
The document referenced in that tweet doesn't seem to mention columns?
That's neat, thanks for the suggesting! I've used https://github.com/flood-io/ruby-jmeter that is similar to Taurus, ruby DSL for generating the JMX. Only had issues with some things not being supported but was easy to extend to support those features. Made a short presentation about ruby-jmeter a while ago (6 years): https://slides.com/victorbjelkholm-old/jmeter-ruby-do-perfor...
Asus one is PN50. 4300U - 4800U

Unsure about asrock. I think they maybe have pivoted to a non renoir cpu
Eh? Outline is that service that improves news-reading, isn't it?

https://www.outline.com

Maybe people should really start thinking about better product names?!?
> The Python support is not good! In theory you just write a WSGI app, and it will work under a FastCGI wrapper.

I keep wishing we had webhosts that supported WSGI as 'shared hosting' with all the other benefits of a shared webhost.
This is a really nice report, I find it frustrating when you read a review and don't have all of the information how the tests were conducted. Great for a meticulous person like myself. Also, the company is from Germany, I know this is a stereotype, but whenever I see something engineered or tested in Germany, I always feel that it has a higher level of quality.
Did you read the text before making this comment?

> They found that the new test had 96% sensitivity and 98% specificity.
The bound is a bound on comparaison sort not a general bound on sorting.

If you don't use comparaison you can sort faster. Pigeonhole sort is linear for example.
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24685911
The point is that desktop Linux is still pretty much a bunch of standalone components loosely duct taped together. Sometimes they fall apart, but even when they don't, it still shows. Linux GUIs still feel like an afterthought.

upd: googling "OpenDarwin" bings up two first results that are news of it closing, in 2006
Should you set up your own R&D center, or outsource it? Yeah, those aren’t your only two options. You can offshore your own R&D center, too. The best option for you depends upon many factors - company vision/mission, strategy, type of R&D, and budget, to name a few. But, if you’ve determined that you want to outsource or set up your own offshore R&D center – we can point you in the right direction. And you don’t have to take our word for it – we’re going to show you what 10 major tech companies have done with some of their own R&D programs.
Ask HN: What kind of agreement should I sign?
Hello all!

I've been looking for a side project for a while, and finally, I applied to an angel.co offer for a CTO/founder/owner position. After the first interview, everything looks great. I am not looking for a monthly salary; I want to build a project from scratch with a team and earn a couple of bucks if the product makes money at some point.

I have almost no knowledge about growth, marketing, founding, or anything not related to the tech part, and I would love to gain some experience with this project. It looks like a win-win for me: the product can work and earn some bucks and, in the mean time, learn about all the non-tech stuff.

The next meeting is about what kind of agreement I am looking for. Oh boy! I have no idea! The initial idea is some equity percentage. I guess this takes into account I own the benefits and all the risks too.

Do you have any advice? Any experience? Just some comments?

Thanks in advance!
There are karting videos on youtube and that's actually far more entertaining than modern F1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24685911
Well, Russian companies will at least not give your data that easily to any three-letter agency in the US. I think that's a plus point.
Haven't needed to do anything with FTP/S3 so I haven't used it in a few years. Sad to hear that! I thought it would have been a good contender.
I'd like 3FA(!), which would be password plus OTP (e.g. a code from Authy) plus a hardware key like Yubikey. Wouldn't increase the work for me to log in since the Yubikey would always be in my laptop, but would avoid the phishing problem.
Ask HN: Why does this post keep disappearing from HN?
I've created an open Google Sheets to share with other users the contract prices of popular SaaS enterprise subscriptions (using an anonymous HN account), but for some reason, it only stays a couple of minutes in the "Ask HN" or "Newest" sections.

Is it because a lot of YCombinator's companies offer these types of "enterprise" plans, and it's not in their best interest to make this information massively available? Or is it just a case of the story not being up-voted?

FYI the spreadsheet is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uTHQ8Hit3hq6y5bl0nGhEWAbnS4cYsUhvzSEWoW1j18/edit#gid=0
Agree.

Also surprised it hasn't been feudalised somehow. Some company owning all the machines and then uber-ing out the hard work of siting them and restocking them. Gamifying the process of monitoring, "your fleet", the "ching" on your phone when someone buys a bottle of water or candy bar. Special deals for site owners. Branded supplies. An app for customers to talk to the vending machine. Loyalty points. A snack radar. Etc.

I think it's great the market is mostly independent operators.
It is known covid mostly spreads as airosols. So is this studie related to badly ventilated schools?
What about full electric F1 cars, but where they switch out batteries four times during the race during pit stops. High speed racing without the need to carry a heavy battery pack.
Speaking of basic respect, when someone admits to a mistake several times in a conversation and says explicitly "I waded in" and "it wasn't fair [of me]", repeatedly focusing on berating them for that mistake is not very respectful.

It shows that you are not listening to understand, but to find argumentative points. If you're truly concerned about dominating behavior that drives people away, I suggest you start with your own communication. I've been there myself, and I slip up quite often, so don't take this as judgement, only advice.
Beautiful CSS 3D Transforms
I did a quick search and got a similar trend for Europe overall (although, like that article, there were no serious citations). I wonder if it could be including commercial uses, such as in restaurants or for manufacturers of milk-derived products (but not cheese as it seems UHT ruins the proteins needed for that).
Have a look at NearlyFreeSpeech:

https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/technology/-
No. Schools in India were closed for essentially all the data collection period.
I'm confused - are you talking about inequality of opportunities (social mobility) or inequality of outcomes?

Yes, we have really high income taxes which means our income equality is less in Nordics than in the USA. However, that also means that strivers are unable to get rich. You can't get rich by working.

That means our wealth inequality is just as bad as in the US. Our 1% has just as much of the wealth and power as in the US.

Whereas in the US, that 1% is mostly entrepreneurs with minority having inherited, in Nordics it's the opposite.

Happy to dive deeper into statistics if you want to.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/05/we...
Not for teams outside of Microsoft? /s
Making Sense of Amazon Deforestation
I got familiar with Tracy from the Zig self hosted presentation. I really liked the design of how it worked even though I don't work in any language it supports.

I think Java JFR has the similar design and makes for really fast tracing. I wish high precision super cheap timer was available everywhere.
We are less and less aware of how our consumption habits are influencing Agro-Investors in South America. I guess that, what we do not see, we do not care.
Have a look a these satellite images from space provided by Nasa and grasp a bit of the measure at which we are turning the Amazons into our backyard garden...
I'm not one of those people, but I'll bite on the second part.

It should be maintained because it's a tool to check if someone is logical and serious or not.

Double negatives in particular make statements harder to reason about. If you can't know if someone means it to be positive or negative in the end (and there are good instances where you need a double negative to mean a positive and can't just restructure easily) then you can't actually know what the person is saying. And I've had plenty of people come back and say they meant the opposite of what I'd assumed from their statement, too.

Contrived example: You're explaining a process and say, "You shouldn't get 'no results' here." Since it's spoken, there's no punctuation to help you understand that "no results" is a phrase and is a result in and of itself. You'd just hear "You shouldn't get no results." and may think that an empty result is desired.

For the others, if people who know good grammar are reading your work, they're going to be distracted by your bad grammar and have less focus for the actual point of your work. If you're serious about getting something done, that should matter to you.

Notice that I keep saying "work", though. In casual conversation, these things don't matter, except to attempt to train people for when they do matter. So mostly they don't matter.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to conclude that children are the "key" to superspreading, because the study suffers from the same limitation as the South Korean study the media used to make the same claim.

Which is that it's impossible to determine the direction of transmission. Just because someone (a child or young adult) developed symptoms first doesn't mean they actually got infected first, they might have actually gotten infected at the same time as their supposed contact. When the South Korean study removed cases of shared exposure, the new study found those children did not in fact transmit very much. https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1311616493445165058

This Twitter discussion does not make me think they did anything differently than the South Korean study that was later corrected: https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1312301601156194304
It need not even be the children spreading it! Teacher standing at the front of a classroom, speaking loudly and clearly and spitting all over the entire class: how do you distinguish between that and "one child spread it to their entire class"?
I hope this is real and not an Indian Theranos
WSL was born out of the ashes from Android for Windows experiment.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/25/11117430/microsoft-androi...

"Project Astoria - Android apps on Windows Phone - Build 2015 presentation"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zltNsxV5OeA

> Microsoft's first foray into achieving Unix-like compatibility on Windows began with the Microsoft POSIX Subsystem, superseded by Windows Services for UNIX via MKS/Interix, which was eventually deprecated with the release of Windows 8.1. The technology behind Windows Subsystem for Linux originated in the unreleased Project Astoria, which enabled some Android applications to run on Windows 10 Mobile.[17] It was first made available in Windows 10 Insider Preview build 14316.[18]

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux
I wouldn't say so, maybe in right wing circles - the perception of it is a left-leaning site or just a silly top-ten list site, but my hack friends say that they actually make pretty good and honest content. Obviously nobody is perfect.
> Microsoft's first foray into achieving Unix-like compatibility on Windows began with the Microsoft POSIX Subsystem, superseded by Windows Services for UNIX via MKS/Interix, which was eventually deprecated with the release of Windows 8.1. The technology behind Windows Subsystem for Linux originated in the unreleased Project Astoria, which enabled some Android applications to run on Windows 10 Mobile.[17] It was first made available in Windows 10 Insider Preview build 14316.[18]

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux