skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a high price when you consider low income countries. For example, in Sudan the average monthly income is about ~$49. That's less than the cost of a 2 dose regime of this vaccine. That's a $2 billion price tag to vaccine all 40+ million Sudanese. Africa has 1.2 billion people. It is going to be extraordinarily expensive and difficult to eradicate COVID globally, so we are going to need cheaper vaccines to help us do that.
Yes, all our company sites (staging, prod) are down in the US.

Seeing chatter on Twitter about it being down in the EU as well.
I don't think it's about whether they're reviled enough yet, but rather whether the actions they're taking are likely to engender effective activism and organised political opposition to their agenda.

In this case, it looks like they've discovered that the community isn't asleep at the wheel and that this isn't the hill they want to die on.
OP here. Yeah, the best advice I know for making anything a daily habit is to make it an emergency. It comes first. So, you get some negotiable time, the first thing you do is (chess) and then you figure out the other things later.

The downside is of course that sometimes the other important things are hard to maintain. But this is how you do it.
I am also recovering from Covid, One of the things you need to be aware of your oxygen level, Oximeters are very cheap. Keep track of them if level is below 95 Get Chest X Ray or/and Chest CT Scan done to check lung calcification. If there is significant lung damage then get hospitalized for emergency.
Using the Circuit Breaker Pattern with Elixir
Appified pizza delivery is rent seeking.

There is zero need for a multinational between hungry people and food delivery. Inserting them raises costs, lowers service quality, and lowers revenue to restaurants.

Off topic, but I would like to note this thread's congruence to Snow Crash:

There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery
If only you could have an LTS base system with up to date applications. Sadly, the distro+repo+package model does not handle this obvious use case well.
Serverless APIs: Lessons Learned
Parental Leave and Childcare Subsidies Do Not Affect Gender Equality
Dirty ;)
> Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by quasi-experimentally identifying the causal effects of all family policy reforms since the 1950s on the full dynamics of male and female earnings. We then map these causal estimates into a decomposition framework a la Kleven, Landais and Søgaard (2019) to compute counterfactual gender gaps. Our results show that the enormous expansions of parental leave and child care subsidies have had virtually no impact on gender convergence.
Why worry about the dictionaries? No legitimate user will accidentally enter a Greek Alpha rather than an A, for example. If a malicious user does this it won't resolve anyway because the domain is banned by the rules and can't be registered.
I was hoping to be clearer - FAANG absolutely should be tagging misinformation with some label or correction. [x]
Its deleting posts that gets sticky. And yes your point about Twitter et al lending people some of their reputation / Google juice is a very underrated part of the problem. But how do we define content moderation rules online? Who sets those rules, where and when do they apply? These are not things to leave to private companies with ad revenue.

[x] In fact I think this is too important to leave to tech companies. I would like to see some W3C standard for tagging a URI - that is a distributed comments system where the browser / client SHOULD / MUST show that "in the cloud" there are rebuttals to this statement / position. So the rebuttal is seen where the rebutted is shown. The more views a rebuttal gets the more prominent it is in the list of rebuttals.

Yes it will mean everything everywhere has rebuttal but ... that's kind of true anyway. And I like the upthread approach of a common (W3C) distributed moderation (ie a jury of ones randomly selected peers). I think the idea seems workable - but more study is needed :-)

Call it the Other Side Protocol.
Though these vaccines may get approval in 2020, they aren't really 2020 vaccines in the sense that they will have significant enough production to have an effect in 2020.

I don't work directly on vaccines, but given the number of attempts, a 2020 approval definitely seemed possible to me, and even Fauci saying that in the summer. But I've also said that it wouldn't have a significant effect in 2020.

Edit: Here is Fauci saying on May 27 that we might have a vaccine by end of year:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/05/27/...
No doubt, but why are there still so many “standard” libraries? Where are is of the guides for building production applications? Why is the documentation so poor? How do the editor plugins compare to those for Go, Rust, etc? How familiar is the syntax to the broader body of developers? I’m not saying the Ocaml community never does anything practical; only that they don’t do enough to make their language mainstream.

And maybe they don’t want their language to be mainstream—that’s perfectly fine, but that undermines all of the arguments that this or that project should be (re)written in Ocaml or that Ocaml is otherwise a better language than $x for general software development.
This software makes it easy for people to download copyrighted movies and the RIAA attorneys (at least some) are acting in good faith to prevent people from breaking copyright law and causing their client damages. Can someone argue against me please?

(genuinely contribute to discussion by arguing against my own biases, call me a moron instead of downvoting)
The question is what the cost of that fix would be. Once the ticket reaches the developer it's probably quickly done and pays for itself with a handful registrations. However getting from support to a developer is the complex part. (Support has to understand the issue and then it has to be routed to the correct team ...)
The government orders have been overwhelmingly the largest piece of it! I wrote this a few months back; the secondary effects from government intervention, and they fear they've brought with them, have been far reaching and disastrous:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/
Its even more frustrating to find this by searching on HN/Twitter instead of Firebase dashboard [1]. Why do they even this dashboard?

[1] https://status.firebase.google.com/
Do you have factual references for the claim about errors in medical care being exceptional? From impartial sources?

I'm honestly skeptical of the claim based on my life experience. I've heard directly from people of numerous of terrible errors that destroyed their lives. e.g. bone implants that were poisonous, different implants that weren't sterilized properly, forced saving of patient life to charge/steal his assets instead of passing to family - direct from people I know well, that happened to them.

Then I've personally experienced a common pattern of doctors not being able to identify things that weren't common or obvious based on their flowchart style diagnosis. I've also experienced a lot of successful diagnosis of simpler obvious issues.
How old is Kissinger by now? 100 years?
Right. We have about 3% of the US population who has had COVID, and 235,000 deaths. To get to herd immunity, we need about 50% of the population to be immune (exact numbers vary depending on the study). So to get there with the virus, we would expect around 4 million people to die in the US alone.
Running five node zookeeper cluster was pure overhead.
But like Canada, most of that territory has too harsh climate to live in. Without such places it would be comparable with US.
This is really cool. I think it might even be possible to improve it further so opening an issue isn't even needed.

My thinking is you could store the links and the corresponding shortened URL lookups as an element in the HTML source itself. You would have a submit input on the page. User enters the url they'd like to shorten (or is pulled from a param). The JS reads that value and then looks it up to see if it already exists in the element you created for storage. If not, it creates a hash as the shortened 'link' and adds it to a hashmap / element. Now this is the crucial part: have JS call the Github Actions API to trigger a workflow (https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/rest/referen...) that puts the updated hashmap (which is a payload for a custom parameter you defined for the GH Action) into a file e.g. `links.json` or even outputted directly into the HTML source. Then have the action commit this file back into the repo. Thus, the flat file in the repo acts as the storage mechanism for the links. From a UX standpoint, this is a little smoother and more cohesive (same site to input & redirect) than having to open a GH issue.

With this approach, you can still have the nlsn.cf short domain redirect as long as you pass the URL params and get them in JS from the location, which it looks like you already do. I might try whipping up a version of this tonight. Thanks for the inspiration!
My prof always told me to keep it simple.

If you use complicated language, there are mainly three reasons:

- You don't understand what you are talking about
- You don't want to be understood
- You want to sound smart

I believe that an explanation should go straight to the core. If you truly understood something, it should be of no problem to explain it to your in-laws. (Ironically, this sentence is condescending..)

Overall, I don't think I ever thought that someone is condescending when they went to honestly explain something to me.

But it depends on the circumstances. Making a mistake and getting someone to explode "why don't you understand this simple thing?!" and then having them explain it to you is a miserable experience, for everyone involved.
They just updated to include "We've received a report of an issue with Firebase Hosting." a moment ago
On the day Big Sur came out we got an email from IT saying that under no circumstances should any employee install it. I'm glad out IT knew about this release's problems so early.
Here's the "easily fits in cache" list

* Compress a 2.3mb file that fits in cache.

* Alter a 24MP JPEG (that's around 5MB filesize).

* Gaussian blur of 24MP JPEG

* Gumbo Parser of an HTML file then execute some stuff with duktape -- note: this parses HTML to a simple DOM -- nowhere close to actual rendering

* Text rendering of 1,700 words into a 12MP image

* Horizon detection of 9MP image (that's around 2MB)

* Image repaint of 1MP image (that's around 200KB)

* HDR image (4MP -- around 800KB) from 4 normal images

* Neural Net of tiny 224x224 images

* Navigate using a graph with 200k nodes and 450k edges.

* SQLite is between 0.5MB and 1.1MB depending on the compiler options. Maybe the dataset pushes it out of cache, but I wouldn't bet on them creating many millions of rows.

Not sure, but may not fit in cache

* Google's PDFium render. Not sure about the library itself, but a 200dpi map doesn't sound like anything worth mentioning

* Camera test gives very little in specifics, but with several steps and a handful of libraries, this probably overflows cache a little.

* Ray Tracing 3.6K triangles and 768x768 output. I'd put it elsewhere, but they could be using a huge number of rays (though I seriously doubt it)

Undoubtedly doesn't fit in cache

* Clang rendering 730 LOC (seriously?) Clang is pretty big and most likely needs to cache.

Zero actual details

* Speech Recognition

* N-Body Simulation

* Rigid Body Simulation

* Face Detection

* Structure from Motion

All in all, them saying these things are "real world" would be a huge overstatement at best. I don't see anything here to contradict Linus' assessment.
Yes, the ancient Alexandrian method of "confiscate and make a copy" then return the original to the owner. That seems the most just method all the way around.
> I wonder if RIAA lawyers believe themselves productive members of society, or if they recognize themselves as the parasites they are.

At least one way they could rationalize their actions is by taking an outlandish but not uncommon view of property rights: that no one would bother to create anything without being able to profit from ownership of it, and the more they can profit the more they'll create.

There's also the even more outlandish view that whatever the market does is good for society by definition, so if the market pays you to do something you can assume it's beneficial to society.
Packet based VPN’s like Cisco’s AnyConnect still function identically as before: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/a...

“ A virtual private network (VPN) is a form of network tunnel where a VPN client uses the public Internet to create a connection to a VPN server and then passes private network traffic over that connection. If you want to build a VPN client that implements a flow-oriented, custom VPN protocol—one that works with the data passing through a TCP connection rather than the packets used to transport that data—create an app proxy provider app extension.
When the system starts a VPN configuration that uses your app proxy provider, it launches your app extension, instantiates your app proxy provider subclass within that app extension, and starts forwarding flows to your provider. Each flow represents either a TCP connection or a conversation over UDP. Your provider is expected to open a tunnel to a VPN server and forward each flow over that tunnel. Similarly, if your provider receives flow data from the tunnel, it should pass that back to the system via the appropriate flow.
App proxy providers are one form of per-app VPN, the other being a Packet Tunnel Provider in source application mode.
App proxy providers are supported in iOS on managed devices only, and in macOS for Mac App Store apps only.”
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/a...

More explanation here: https://twitter.com/lorisscandurra/status/132793682910295244...
Newspapers were still pretty good at spreading nationwide narratives and fear back then, probably much better than current media because people couldn't talk back at scale.
This is kind of an odd lawsuit.

Apple has been working for years to reduce and ultimately give the user opt-in control of the exact tracking that they have been targeted for here.

They already have the code in place to do this, and the only reason it isn’t this way now is pushback and a campaign by Facebook that it might be anticompetitive for them to use their power over the operating system to limit the ad industry this way.

The lawsuit seem like a good thing, because tracking should be opt in, but also because a legal precedent would indemnify Apple against this being held against them in an antitrust investigation.
>* It is also revisionist history to say "Apple was never about tinkerers and customizations", Apple was born out of the "tinkers" market, and did infact become popular pre-iphone days due to this hacker mentality, to deny this is to deny actual history*

I was there in the pre-iPhone days, and Apple was never about the "hacker mentality".

In the early days (and up to now) it was all about "computers for the rest of us" (as the slogan famously said, which is also what the 1984 ad was about -- freeing computing from being a serious/enterprise/business affair, not about hacking ideal - the target was IBM and the PC).

During the Jobs-ousted era (Scully etc), it was mostly about selling expensive boxes to vertical markets (printing, design, and so on).

Their first popular post-Jobs products were the all-in-one iMac, the powerbooks, and of course, the iPod. And they always insisted on the vertical integration (they make the hardware and OS/basic software) - with the brief pre-Jobs exception of the Mac-clones, which nearly killed the company.

>I fail to see the connection, today there are far better tools on both windows and make to backup and restore systems.

It's not about backing up and restoring, it's about third parties getting access to your documents, data, personal pics and videos, account passwords, files, etc -- which today are a much larger and more important part of your life and business than it ever was.

>Also to claim mac is "Virus free" is moronic, and implies a level of security that is not really warranted

I didn't claim it, but now that you said, I will: Mac is, if not virus free, effectively virus free, and can be even more so. There has not been any major outbreak for the Mac (tons for Windows). The biggest outbreaks were confined to sub-10% of users, and were invariably trojans, not viruses (users had to actively run them).

>Mac like Linux is security through obscurity, Windows still has a 90+% market share, so of course threat actors will target windows more. Apple Mac is not target simply because there is not enough people to justify the investment.

That's an old fable that doesn't hold. In the 90s, when the Mac (Mac OS then, pre-OS X) had 2% to Windows 98%, it still had tons of viruses.

And of course iOS has 0 or no viruses and malware, whereas Android has a ton, and there are not only close (30-40% to 60%) but also richer people on the iOS phone side to justify resources. It's just more secure, for various reasons (and no side-loading is one):

https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security....
How about giving them your telephone number for 2FA?

It pains me that this is actually a common recommendation and reaction. It just misses so many security considerations...
I also have a small collection. One is one I found in my grandfather's things. It was a small cheap one, but interesting to me was that it was from an era when computers just starting to supplant people (he worked on a room-sized computer who's job was to count carpool inventory for the army.) I also have one I got from an army-surplus store in a flea market that has various aerial photography calculations tools on the back.
Laravel API Test Helpers
So I don’t need XFS to run a single-node Redpanda cluster?
Landing page isn't bad, when you scroll the important points are there, but you have scroll. I'm not a "landing page optimisation guru", so take this with a grain of salt, but I would change it as follows.

Without scrolling, all the text thats displayed is this:

"Redpanda

A Kafka® API compatible streaming platform for mission-critical workloads.

Try Redpanda today"

It tells me what it is, which is good. It does not tell me why it is better, for that I have to scroll. Kafka is already suited for mission-critical workloads, so that is not a unique value proposition. Maybe:

"Redpanda - 100% Kafka API compatible, but without the headaches. Forget Zookeeper, forget rebalancing issues. Instead, enjoy reliable message delivery, 10x faster speed and ultra-low latencies due to our thread-per-core architecture."

Something like that, plus a visible "call to action" button, maybe "try it out" or "download".

Could also think about a pretty graph comparing latencies or smth. People love pretty graphs.
The other answers here attempt to "reason" it from the currently accepted formulas, but it's not how the humanity learned that there's no "190% of the speed of light."

The author of the article we all comment here wrote a book which, if I remember, covers that story in more detail (I linked to it in another post and I highly recommend it to anybody who wants to learn a bit more than when reading an article here or there or read some comments).

Just to give you some hints, the real story is not "reasoning" something but the experiments -- the experiments practically produced the results that, when analyzed, are still the best explainable by accepting that the speed of light doesn't change. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...

Michelson is such a genius, that even the most currently advanced experiments today use the same ideas that he used then -- LIGO is also an interferometer:

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-is-interferometer

Learning from these experiments, even before Einstein, some important formulas we know today as related to special relativity were already developed by others:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lorentz_transformat...
This is press, and seems accurate.

There have been a bunch of opinion blog posts recently. Some of them are clearly ideological attack pieces, but I don’t see any coordination. Apple had a real outage that caused a real problem.

Also, the people posting the attack pieces or echoing their points all seem like regular contributors and don’t look like bots or throwaway accounts.
> * No bullshit forced updates when the OS feels like it.

Eh... kinda, actually. I can recall many times wanting to try out an application only to discover that my LTS distro which was gasp 4 years old didn't have it in the repo, so I was forced to upgrade in order to get it without setting up a build environment and recompiling.

If AppImage were more widely embraced this sort of thing wouldn't need to happen.
Tell me why you are right and the people working in drug development and testing are wrong?
A good customizable waveform creator is on my holy grail list. (That can be injected into a workflow like this.) ffmpeg's built in stuff is good, but I want something a bit more like SoundCloud, or...well something with options anyway :)
"It's easy, just be John Carmack!"
Raising the Bar for the Route53 Console
By this right, Zoom/ Google Meet / Teams have screen recording that would allow for this as well. How deep should we go down this hypothetical rabbithole?
1D Procedural Terrain Generation
I'm uninformed about the Moderna issues, can you provide a few pointers.

ps I didn't downvote, and upvoted because downvoters didn't identify the reasons why they did.
Or that they simply don't care about the specific infringement, rather they are just trying to chill the free-speech rights of software developers and fight a culture war on all fronts to expand the rights, privileges, power, and wealth of their clients.
> and throughput overall is pretty shit with so many layers of unoptimized linux piled ontop of hardware that was never optimized to handle this type of packet generation and mangling

That's a very broad generalization. I use a https://pcengines.ch/ based router with openwrt and mullvad as my VPN and performance is very close to non-vpn traffic.

Sure, if you run your VPN on bad hardware you might get bad performance but that is not true for everyone.
Either they just switched back, or they have it pick from multiple mirrors.
GopherCon 2020: Go Team AMA [video]
Sometimes the condescending tone is based on your emotions about why people can’t understand something simple to you so you get a little pissed off while explaining, and would “bring out the sledge hammer” to make sure they know. It’s a lost of patience
Just about all music you can find online is copyrighted. I think you mean that it applies the protection only to music where the copyright is held by a large organization.
Never met one. I met many that looked very talented but once the stack changed they were completely fish out of the water.
But they were very productive with what they knew, but at some point they got tired or didn't have enough time to reach again the same level of mastery. I'm talking mostly about web/UI work.
Yeah, I stopped reading after that. How is this a top post on an HN thread?