skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in gurneys lined up along hallways, PPE running low, overflow tents in the parking lots, nurses WAY over ratio handling more patients than is safe, doctors burned-out and scared.

'Terrified' is all relative, right? Such things are reported in recent years with nobody panicking like in 2020:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/saline-solution-s...

“This is a serious situation and right now we are at the limits of our conservation and adaptation strategy,” said Dr. Paul Biddinger, director of the Center for Disaster Medicine and vice chairman for emergency preparedness at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. “We have seen an increase in the number of flu cases compared to last year. If this continues the current trend, we are worried that this will stress our system and make us run out of IV fluids,” added Dr. O’Neill Britton, chief medical officer at Mass General.

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

"Hospitals Overwhelmed by Flu Patients Are Treating Them in Tents"

A lot of things that are actually not that alarming and do not cause mass deaths, have been recast this year into apocalyptic end-of-days events that must not be allowed to happen at literally any cost. It's not rooted in anything hard or real, it's to do with the scale of the original projections (which were all wrong).
Dictionaries for O(1) lookups, b-tree indexes for fast SQL queries, interval trees in genomics analysis software.
Yep, he clearly didn't read the article or skimmed over that part.
6'20" in to episode 640:

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-640/
When they replied, what I originally had written was "Why is it bad branding?". I thought it would be obvious from the parent comment that I was talking about Ubuntu, but I think they thought I was talking about "Rocky Linux".
Microsoft does use OSM data in Bing Maps. If you zoom to a the scale of a city block on Bing Maps, you'll see "© OpenStreetMap" in the lower right corner of the screen.
PostGraphile is designed for a situation where Postgres is your main data store, and other things are ancilliary. You can add in the other things with traditional GraphQL resolvers via the plugins/etc that you've mentioned; but if your stack is already quite complex with a lot of data stores that interact in interesting ways (i.e. not just driven by postgres and then fetching additional things from other stores as needed; but instead getting some from one, feeding it to another, feeding it back to the first, etc) you might be better off rolling your own GraphQL API that can handle your complex requirements.

If you like the plugin system, lookahead, etc then you could dive straight into Graphile Engine (which is agnostic to data store(s)) and use that to build your GraphQL API. If autogeneration and applying wide-ranging transforms appeals to you, that might be an interesting approach, but otherwise that system is not sufficiently optimised (yet) for one-off APIs currently (and is under-documented), so you might have a better time just writing your own types and resolvers with Apollo Server or similar.
I'm seeing it redirect me when I put the link in an iframe, stripping off the .png

Whereas if I right click / save as, or put the link in an <img> tag, the image is served properly. Could be conditional on the accept headers.
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Ask HN: Why Starlink satellites don't take photos of Earth?
Earth satellite photos (days old, and with daily frequency) are still too expensive for small startups.

Wouldn't have been a small extra cost for Starlink satellites to be equipped with cameras too, and have them continuously send photos to SpaceX? SpaceX could have sold subscriptions to access these at a reasonable price.
Ginger pills can be very helpful
No.

First, what is a 'dose' for a new chemical?

Second, there are all sorts of critical things that if you took 100x the recommended dose you would see a significant negative physiological effect. Like salt. Or water.

This is a far more nuanced problem that "let's just shoot up some monkeys with a gallon of the stuff and see if their nuts shrivel up". In fact, that sort of reductionist approach is why we have this problem.
Lots of decisions are made for arbitrary and, frankly, obtuse reasons. Often on a whim. I would just like to give the new distro the best chance to succeed.

Clearly I seem to be in the minority, however. I guess time will tell.
How to Choose a Microcontroller
My home is sheet metal siding, metal roof ("metal buildings" standard cheap barn/shop type construction), with a 2 inch braided RF strap run along the base of the wall panels and to the house ground. We have many windows, and near those is the only place you can get any external radio signal.

My primary intent in building this way was to contain computer noise and be able to play with radio scanning using external antennas. It certainly worked for that. Its not a Faraday cage, but it's remarkably effective.
covid-19 AKA the SARS-2 Coronavirus is very real.

the morbidity/mortality associated with this virus is associated with systemic inflammatory response.

this is not a property of age, but of genetic constituency.
There are a lot of e-commerce stores running as single person businesses that are pretty much fully automated. Check shopify or Amazon Fulfillment or even merch

You need to check the stories though as there are a lot of snake oil salesmen out there
Please go pick up any of the Martin Fowler books. All are rooted in computer science fundamentals. Let’s not pretend software engineering isn’t rooted in computer science. That’s a categorically false assertion.
I'm quite sure some users have not adopted DDG because of the name. "I'm just going to duckduck the [search term]" does not roll that well from the tongue when compared to "I'm just going to google the [search term]". Google for most does not mean the word googlplex, but duck for sure refers to the bird.
The Yahoo deal failed badly in first year, as Firefox users who were shocked by the change of default search from G to Y overrode default back to G. This caused Marissa Mayer's Yahoo to bleed money, as rumors supported by Mozilla statements say the deal was fixed-payment-per-year, not traffic-based. IIRC searchengineland cracked Yahoo's 10Q to show the blood loss. We also know the deal bled money because of Verizon getting out of it in 2017, when Mozilla went back to Google.

Firefox market share is now in the danger zone where Google can replace it with more Chrome promotion and still save on TAC vs. Chrome-eng+mktg. Also the danger zone where webdevs do not test in Gecko and break Firefox, even on such properties as AirBNB.
It is always the same, you want database use a third party, you want websockets use a third party, this approach turns out to be very expensive if you are starting
This is a good starter list for the more Computer Science skills but I see little in the way of practical skills. It's definitely nice to have these skills but let's be real, you aren't going to use them on a daily basis.

I would add learning a few of the most popular languages and frameworks depending on your area of interest.

Without those practical skills I'm pretty sure you will be passed up during interviews.

When hiring, I look for people who can get stuff done first and foremost. I don't care if they have to look things up and don't have things memorized. Efficient "stack overflow driven development" is real world development.

Then if they have those skills I look to see what kind of theory and architectural understanding they have. Those are secondary.

The more senior the candidate the more I expect them to have CS and architectural background so I would normally forgive not knowing the CS theory stuff for junior developer candidates.

But practical "get it done" skills in the relevant language and frameworks are a minimum requirement for everyone.

One other thing that I would add is to customize your study plan based on where you want to apply. Startups will favor more practical skills during the interview. Larger companies and enterprises will favor more of the traditional CS during interviews.
Knowing the properties of a data structure and how it works under the hood is incredibly valuable when deciding if it's a good answer to the problem at hand. If you don't know why hashing is important or what it gets you, you might not understand why a hashmap is a very powerful tool. You might choose some other structure or hand-roll something involving manually managing multiple arrays, and down the line run into what feel like intractable performance problems.

That's just one example, pulled from people I've worked with. An understanding of fundamentals is required to do a real evaluation for yourself.
Oculus has a cool pass-through mode where it displays what the cameras are seeing in black and white. I think this sort of feature will become widespread in future generations.
States Sue Google over Digital Ad Practices
I think there's a bit more nuance, and that the behaviour of tech leadership figures can appear strange and hokey from the outside too.

Let's start by assuming that the city has a reason for their stance; as I assume you do for thinking that politics in the city is out of control.

Providing donations for healthcare services is admirable, and I don't see any issue with Zuckerberg doing that with his name attached.

Requiring your own name to appear on everything from street signs to labcoats for fifty years as part of the conditions of the donation, however, seems unusual at the least.

People with all kinds of intentions will try to create outrage from situations like this. I think it's worthwhile to be curious and learn and discuss the details. It'll probably all become clearer with time if you talk to people rather than antagonize them.
Marriage rates are historic lows. Birth rates are historic lows. Women having careers is certainly the current belief why these are so low. Though as the article says they dont quite explain the situation.

Car seats are ridiculous. Not a thing I considered before having a kid. It kind of makes sense, now that more kids could happen, the probability of filling the back seats with car seats is certainly expensive and annoying. Thus when that third kid comes along, the minivan must happen.

A convincing argument being made by the article but I feel it's similar in that it's just 1 piece of the puzzle.

The other factor no doubt occurring is how imbalanced the system has become. It has become increasingly risky to even have a relationship with a woman let alone going to the extent of having a kid. The nanny government has come in to 'help' in many ways far beyond just car seats.
Shame it's not true, makes for a good story. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/carmageddon/
New GCP Firestore CMS Now Supports MySQL and Internal Storage
There's a basic usability problem I found with my VR experience that I cannot see what I am doing in my room, unless you have a large dedicated space its easy to injure yourself by accident because the real world is still there with AR you can literally still see what you are doing in the physical world while interacting with the tech.
An article about RSS? Someone's gotta mention Feedly so it may as well be me :)

I've been using Feedly for a while (since Google Reader went away) and it works well. I'm on the 'free' tier and am happy with it.
Note: I'm not associated with Feedly directly (not an employee, not paid by them, etc)
Boolean algebra, relational algebra, sets and graphs, reductions, runtime analysis, gossip and epidemic protocols, satisfiably, verification, turing machines, push down automata, etc.
Thunderbird stopped being a Mozilla project a couple years ago
> It seems to me these things should be considered unsafe by default, tested at small scale for years, proven to be bio-degradable and if used at scale introduced very slowly...

It sounds like you are describing the Precautionary Principle, which is unfortunately made light of here due to its impact on GMO food adoption in the EU. I do agree with you, but this idea seems to go against the hyper-growth form of capitalism which is generally accepted as the only option in the USA.

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

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM...
Tire and road surface degradation are a very major source of air pollution and an important focus to reduce particulates
https://www.tiretechnologyinternational.com/news/regulations...
I don't think that a legislative approach would work. Prices always rise when demand is high and supply is low, and this is just one way that happens. There's nothing "right" about the MSRP, that's just a guess by the manufacturer about what the market will bear. With the prices high, valued goods will go to those most willing to pay the high prices first. Those of us with more sense will simply wait until after Christmas.
I'm confused about what other normalization is needed. China and India have (combined) 1/3 of the world population. Why shouldn't they be responsible for 1/3 of the world emitted CO2?
Not with the browser -- those have to constantly evolve, both for the security fixes as well as for the new web features.

Plus, as the other commenter says, I am not going to recommend Firefox to my non-technical friends if it requires non-trivial amount of money.
Re: getting your foot in with interviews. Mileage really varies here. I agree with you that getting an interview is very luck-based. I have no contacts in FAANG that would be strong referrals. But from my own experience, I garner more interest from recruiters passively from my job history, than from taking a more active route of applying to FAANG jobs. (And I have no history with any big or "corporate" work environments either)
It is the same for authentication, file uploads, emails, crons, it is a burden to handle all that externally
I've been looking at potentially selfhosting a tile server and it's way more complicated than I thought. Even getting the OSM tileset in is a pain - not even just from the filesize.

Should add that I wanted to self host mostly for privacy. This project I'm working on I'm trying really hard to have no external requests and everything privacy respecting. Unfortunately I really need maps on it and none of the providers I've seen are either in budget or have a compatible privacy policy.
I think pretty much anything with lights, brakes, and seatbelts can be street legal as a one-off. The stricter regulations come into play for series production.
Agreed, but also some great moments are when you finally use something you learned and think “Oh, that’s why they taught me that.” Even if it’s many years later and I did NOT master the concepts, I’m just aware of them. It’s happened enough to me that I no longer have the opinion that stuff I learned was “useless” even if I don’t use it. I might one day or someone else might encounter a problem that requires that knowledge.
Yes but it often is not the default and as you know, most people dont change defaults (and there is also an extra monthly fee, which is a scam)

I know people here dont think its a scam but it is
This comment confuses me so much.

Mozilla absolutely has been helping to keep web standards in check. Maybe not to the degree that you would like, but if it were up to Google, we'd all have some ancient under-specified version of SQLite and LLVM encoded in web standards, as they tried to just drop those in for database storage and NaCL.

Mozilla pushed back on those, demanding documented standards that could have independent implementations.

WASM is the cross-browser, much better specified alternative to NaCL.

Formal standards in an executable language are by far the exception rather than the norm. For something with as big a surface area as web browsers, I'm sure they would cost an ungodly amount of time and money to complete. And while you may prefer to reduce the surface area to deal with this, no one wants to break compatibility with existing sites.

I'm a bit puzzled by what you actually want. Mozilla did scale back its investment in Rust, WASM, and the experimental browser engine Servo, to focus more on its core browser, in the recent round of layoffs. But the existing investment has paid off; a number of projects that started off in Servo, and were written in Rust, like the CSS parser and Webrender, are now part of Firefox, providing safe, parallel styling and GPU rendering. WASM is widely supported across browsers, providing an efficient compilation target which is much better specified and easier to work with than JavaScript as a compilation target, or something like NaCL.

And some of the other efforts, like Rust and WASM, have now achieved sufficient industry adoption that other companies are picking up the slack; Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Fastly, and others are all hiring and paying people to work on Rust and WASM full time.

It seems that other than funding Thunderbird development, Mozilla is doing what you want, but you somehow still seem unhappy with it. Why is that?
One very simple thing that we can do a much better job at is preventing people from idling their cars in pedestrian areas. I walk through supposedly eco-conscious Berkeley every day, and without fail there is at least one car stopped at the curb, idling, often while the owner plays with his phone. The problem has gotten much worse now that food-order apps are more popular.

I think that people have some kind of magical belief about car exhaust being harmless. It's like: okay, sure, a common form of suicide is to lock yourself in your garage and idle your car engine. But if you're outside, then magically the exhaust fumes become completely harmless... because (checks notes) air breezes or diffusion or something. Really, people?

I have a strong suspicion that in decades to come we will realize that car exhaust causes many of the big neurological disorders, like Parkinson's.
Good question. Perhaps you could refer 'newbies' to https://emacs.zeef.com where they might find out what fits their needs?
Snap is an Ubuntu thing. It's basically a client for the Canonical app store.
She and Sarte appeared to have been despicable human beings, certainly by modern standards--they made a point of grooming their students for sex. Some even called her his pimp.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/26/stand-by-your-...
People can go on all day about this. The most major one for me is protocol engineering - there's a whole world out there on this. Others would be model based design and its formal verification. Also several problems in state synchronization in distributed systems.

In many of these cases, the team I joined had a code base in place that "kind of" did the solution, but was not grounded in any conceptual model - despite phenomenal code quality, peer reviews, etc. Recasting it as an implementation of a well-studied formal model generally yielded a codebase that was one-tenth the size of the original, and with far fewer defects. As I said in the parent comment, if you aren't familiar with this kind of stuff, you don't know about it, so you don't use it, so you find other (suboptimal) ways to do it.
Yeah, I just multiplied CARES by 12 to get my number. I'm assuming you don't want to just let all the airline companies crash and burn along with all the restaurants, gyms, etc. Because then after the 12 months are up you find that millions are out of jobs and need another 12 months of rent while they look for new jobs, etc.
I'm all for that ad subsidized tech.

I'll take advantage of it just as soon as uBlock Origin VR is released.
That's my problem with it as well. You need to have a space set up where you can use it, and you also have to have the VR headset/equipment available to just grab and put on in an instant, otherwise I think it will just languish in the closet.

VR is competing with phones, tablets, and TVs today, which are in my opinion good enough and way more convenient. The experience within VR might be amazing, but it has to be so good that you forego other more convenient devices available to you.
no, the tough sell is telling your boss that you'll have to switch to paying Microsoft-range licenses for your server farm to an IBM subsidiary, whose name and logo are - literally - references to some random guy's clothing.

We're arguing about a frigging name. Rocky Linux; you know what Madrake sounds to an Italian? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KguscIm8N0Y
How is covid-19 partisan politics? It is a disease.
My read on that is that you should be treating your servers as disposable and ephemeral as possible. Long uptimes mean configuration drift, general snowflakery, difficulties patching, patches getting delayed/not done, and so forth.

Ideally you'd never upgrade your software in the usual way. You'd simply deploy the new version with automated tooling and tear down the older.
Official government stats: https://balanca.economia.gov.br/balanca/mes/2020/BCE020A.xls...

Soya is "soja" and beef is "carne bovina".

Some recent news mention China's appetite for Brazilian soya:

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/business/2020/08/25/soja-deve-t...

And beef:

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/business/2020/12/07/exportacao-...
> I am really interested to know why should anyone go with this when Debian or Ubuntu LTS exist.

There is a large world of proprietary enterprise software that is tested, developed, and supported solely on RHEL. CentOS (and theoretically, Rocky Linux) can run these applications because they are essentially a reskin of RHEL. Debian and Ubuntu LTS cannot (or at least not in a supported state) because they are not RHEL.
From the author's post, I get the feeling basic research and the research environment are what he misses. There is something powerful about contributing to the universal body of knowledge vs say finding patterns in data to help better understand customers. That said, I'm sure there are industries where being a skilled data scientist can augment fundamental r&d work and feel a lot closer to being in academia.

One thing he said though I think applies more universally than he thinks: "There is strong competition and people typically experience quite some pressure to achieve." One could say that about positions in sales, trading and even programming. It is hard to stand still these days and not be run out of a job.
As soon as 6dof VR video is easily available.
You are making an outlandish prediction that has been made before. I am simply pointing that out. If you make ridiculous predictions like this someone is going to get hurt.
The question is with regards to convolution in the time domain, I'm pretty sure the convolution operation is not limited to the frequency domain.
Considering the ridiculous pace of progress for GPU performance we've seen in the last few years, coupled with NN-based upscaling of frames, foveated rendering with eye tracking, and the fact that you've cherry-picked a game whose performance is wildly unoptimized with graphics that are on the absolute cutting edge of what PCs can handle, I imagine there are still many possible scenarios that could play out over the next decade or so where VR with reasonably realistic graphics by today's standards is not only possible to do on a normal PC power budget, but even with a mobile/tablet chipset, as in the Oculus Quest or some similar standalone headset.

Things would get really interesting if Apple decided to enter the standalone VR/AR arena with their cutting edge ARM chipsets
Yes, ideally that's what would happen. But it's hard for the FDA to approve any new medical device that's worse along a metric the FDA cares about than existing methods. Honestly, the FDA has basically never cared about price and availability before so I'm really surprised they're even letting this one through given that it's less sensitive than a standard PCR. Given how disastrous the FDA's (and CDC's) actions around testing were in February and March I'm relieved things are currently going as well as they are.