skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All human coronavirus diseases, including COVID-19, are colds. Always have been. This one from 1890 might have been caused by OC43:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889–1890_pandemic
The only thing they succeeded in was reminding me how good Heroku is compared to whatever they're trying to sell
The documentation might help you to better understand what we're building: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy...
The first blog post I ever wrote that made the front page of Hacker News was called "Docker is the Heroku Killer".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8371249

Let me be real clear here...only Heroku will ever beat Heroku.

Docker has enabled a lot of other great options that are all modeled after the experience that Heroku has created...but ultimately people keep looking to Heroku because they are the gold standard.

Better is a series of tradeoffs. Heroku has been refining the tradeoffs to using their platform for a decade. You may create tradeoffs that work better for a use case that you want to enable, but ultimately you're going to have to convince people that your set of tradeoffs has made things "better".
Well, I am about to get vaccinated with astrazeneca in half an hour ... but my counter argument would be: relying on vaccination and sterilisation too much, causes the immune system to be weak, too. Immune system needs practice, too.
Yeah. See https://what-if.xkcd.com/32/ for an existing analysis.
First you should build a better GitHub. After that I might take a look at this.
The One Million Limit
I'll be honest, I feel whoever decided to reject this made a pretty poor decision. This is a discussion that absolutely needs to be had, and frankly it looks like collusion between Reddit and HN (while I doubt that's why).

Regardless, this community and reddit share a ton of users, if Reddit is going to ban discussion of what is at best a questionable hire, this should be a place to freely discuss it. It's both relevant and topical to the community here. As best I can tell it doesn't violate any rules, and if it does an exception should be made IMO.
This is the part that's baffling for me. I see WFH as an opportunity to reclaim so much of our lives from our employers. That's why I cannot empathize with anyone desperately desiring to go back to an office. In my mind they are literally saying they thought life was better when their employer dictated where they were for at least 8 hours a day, dictated where they live, how much time they will spend commuting every day.

That's crazy to me. I cannot wrap my head around it at all.
> > and with the vehicle reaching orbit with more payload mass per take-off mass than just about any non-nuclear launch vehicle ever proposed.

Sure but that is not a relevant measure.

> Elon Musk is a good salesman, and obviously has a vested interest in promoting rockets over any alternative.

He is also an engineer who had money to create any company he wanted to hand he didn't invest in an air-breathing engine.

And as I said, transporting human from a to b might be one thing, but for actual launch it will not be competitive.

> (temperature, weather, noise, no complex launch sites and so on)

When you have nothing that is even remotely close to working, making all kinds of claims about how amazing it will be is really easy.

Building a complex shaped air-frame that is supposed to hold liquid hydrogen is already incredibly complex. Then saying it will also be able to launch in bad weather, at any temperature without launch infrastructure on a standard airport. It will of course also amazingly stable.

Color me skeptical that a team that has never managed to do much of anything could pull of a whole long, long list of highly speculative, incredibly innovative new concepts that have never flown before.

And not only get it to work once, but actually survive reentry heating, land on a standard airfield and quickly launch again.

> when they're solving each challenge as it comes along, such as the working precooler. [2]

They are moving threw a whole host of complex issues extremely slowly and from the whole Skylon plane they have maybe solved 2% of the issues.
How the hell can you let this piece of crap out to the public? Where are the regulators?
I would have preferred they title it "How to factor 2048 ..."
I'm not the one who posted the paragraph, I don't know if it's a quote from somewhere or something the grandparent came up with, sorry.
There has been a lot of (IMHO unsupported) speculation that the almost complete eradication of influenza in 2020 was due to competitive inhibition from SARS-CoV2. However, data I've seen suggests that rhinovirus is still circulating at its usual rate [1].

If it's true that rhinovirus is such a potent inhibitor of SARS-CoV2, at the very least, the interplay between SARS-CoV2 and other respiratory viruses is non-trivial, and doesn't explain the complete suppression of influenza. Any simple hypothesis involving "competitive inhibition" is likely to be wrong.

The fact that rhinovirus continues to circulate so widely should also make people at least question the dominant narrative concerning masks and respiratory viruses. But I digress...

[1] https://syndromictrends.com/metric/panel/rp/percent_positivi...
Experiencing a place is by far not comparable then just looking at a picture. A picture teaches you one thing, an experience 1000.
> Why isn't the data entirely public with every stats student giving it a go?

That sounds like a recipe for a whole bunch of new charts on https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations to me.
I would love to hear more about this billing information in GitLab. Are you looking for build minutes and CPU of Runners per cloud service? What kind of questions are you typically trying to answer with that information?
Evolution gaves us very powerful brains. Why not use it?
Citation needed. "They" in your post is strawman and I've never heard this argument expressed.
Fantastic work! This looks like an arguably better/more generalized version of something like Streamlit.

Great concept for building rapid applications.
You can store an encrypted history on the server.

But searching is hard to do with encrypted text.
Knowing what little about humanity I do, what would be the end-game of covering up "aliens". What money or power is there in doing so, and does anyone really think that many governments would agree on such a thing?

Covering up state-secret tech, sure; there's obvious reasons for that.

It is interesting that the shape/manner/physical characteristics of UFOs seem to gel with whatever the current time's zeitgeist is for the time they've been reported. Aliens must have a human fashion sense.
I've accidentally pasted sensitive passwords enough times that I know the procedure is prone to errors.

If I have to do it, I immediately copy something else right afterwards, to avoid an accidental paste later on.
Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy (2019)
Yeah, if you write a promotional post for technical people (I don't know who else this post would be for) you should expect to be called out on your bullshit.
You can do the majority of Heroku interactions on the CLI if you prefer.
To avoid the subject is to, implicitly, side with the status quo. "Everything is political", even the choice to avoid politics.
Scaling YC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, originating in the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s, and building on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s. The final official release was in early 2015.

Under Plan 9, UNIX's everything is a file metaphor is extended via a pervasive network-centric filesystem, and the cursor-addressed, terminal-based I/O at the heart of UNIX-like operating systems is replaced by a windowing system and graphical user interface without cursor addressing, although rc, the Plan 9 shell, is text-based.
Using LDAP in Docker with Caching
How is there no accountability? You have a thing to be done and a due date, or a progress report date. If there are processes that have to be followed, then they should be documented. Beyond that, the details are unimportant. A thing is assigned, a thing is either done or not done. There’s your accountability.
I mean, there's slurring somebody, then there's speaking with so much slur that normal people don't understand what you're talking about.

Bizarre.
Because it is the largest city near the bat habitat - with the largest wet market.

Wuhan is like Chicago in China. It's not some random small town. If an outbreak occurred in some rural area (which it might have previously), it's possible that it just fizzled out.

Wuhan is a great place for a virus to spread.
Exactly what effective propaganda would have you think!
Nokia is still around?

...didn't they get bought by Microsoft and then jumped off a cliff?

Well I guess someone is still paying for Qt so I guess they still are around
Transfer of Plan 9 to Plan 9 Foundation
I agree the blog post isn’t clear on that.

I agree a simple production app can be great on Heroku. However besides being costly it is also hard when you want a managed service that isn’t on the platform. There are other reasons, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy... lists 9 in total.

While a production app on Heroku isn’t hard it isn’t trivial either. We’re trying to make the 5 minute production app faster to set up than Heroku for production apps by automatically configuring a bunch of services. We’re not there yet but that is the goal.
> The current members of the board of directors...

And?
A better Heroku to me would be something like Dokku but for OpenBSD (or generally unix-agnostic). An universal PaaS, if you will.

Also something that makes it easier to handle the dev/prod lifecycle. I'm sure it's all very easy once you have all your devops stuff down, but the setup is still somewhat convoluted and drowning in too much YAML.
The crucial difference is that the mRNA virus, when finally scrutinized, was shown to be effective with effects that could be consistently replicated and there was a theoretical explanation consistent with other things we've observed about mammalian immune systems. People were absolutely correct to dismiss the claims about the mRNA virus until those demonstrations were available, and would be wrong to dismiss them afterward. Cold 'fusion' is still in the first phase and has been for decades. Science isn't about what might be right. It's about what can be demonstrated.
I think they're saying that we know nobody's using quantum computing to break crypto yet, because nobody's been draining bitcoin wallets.
Why would I go to the docs if you can't even describe it properly in a blog post?
It doesn't seem to handle DST properly at all. If I set the date to the 27th, it shows London on the 28th being GMT, if I set it to the 28th it shows London on the 27th being BST. Both wrong. It should instead show the 28th as being only a 23 hour day and the 31st October being a 25 hour day.
Even most programmers don't have options when it comes to open offices.

The office == open office for most.
It could even be one of those gpt3-generated replies. It's getting hard to tell these days...
"I believe the vaccine works and I'll die for your right not to take it" is one hell of a take, and I'm just happy there really aren't that many of you out there.

You may want to remove the link in your profile where you express skepticism that we'll hit millions of deaths worldwide, as it's going to make people question your already questionable viewpoints even more.
Trump Plans to Launch a Social Media Platform
I'm not sure I want to list the reasons it is bad here because the subject has been painted as a conspiracy theory and YC is obviously interested in Reddit. But the gist is that they knew who she was,she used her substantial mod power to bury news related to herself and JE, and then when her identity was exposed Reddit used Reddit to bury that story to prevent a scandal.
It is very simple to use the parallel method of the manufacturing industry ---- Warehouse/Workshop Model.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow...
I've gotten a reply or read a reply in some cases though it's usually done silently.

Some cases are due to a topic being overly-popular and having too many front-page submissions and the most obvious ones. Some are from flagging. A lot of the other ones seem to be purely based on what dang (and other mods?) like and don't like. Possibly there's also pressure from YC or VCs, maybe not - I have no idea there.

There's also much more up/down weighing than is captured here, some of it more minor. Overall, it's something of a myth that the front-page is mainly based on what the community is interested in - that's at most a secondary factor given the heavy curation and its effect over time.
> users who log in during the interval when the system is compromised

Why only then?
768kbps upload bandwidth, that is closer to 500kbps.
> actively do more harm than good

I don’t believe this statement is axiomatic.

There are literally billions of people who are happy to use it and get happiness from it. Yes it is also, fundamentally, spyware.

I think the answer is more nuanced and I struggle to untease it.

Consider that everyone who owns an internal combustion vehicle is knowingly implicit in poisoning the atmosphere. Most of them only care about money and don’t care about the atmosphere. Are they actively doing more harm than good?

(FB is a large corp and doesn’t need defense from little old me. I’m pushing back though at the absolutism of your judgement)
Nokia sold Qt
I don't have it to the point of phobia, but I do find images of multiple tiny holes (especially with eye-looking things inside) in animals and plants disturbing.

I think it is indeed a natural response. Animals/plants with lots of tiny holes look diseased to me.

By the way, if you do have this to the point of phobia, don't look at images of the Surinam Toad, whose young grow out of holes in the mother's back. Really, it's nightmarish.
This post (currently on front page) is a direct link to the bell labs announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26554539
Or you can click on the "past" link under the title at the top of the page. (Note: not the "past" link at the very top of the page.)
My survey article on P vs. NP (2017)
Introduce obligation to report successful cyber attacks under penalty for delay. EU is already doing it. Also make a fine of 10 times the ransom for paying the ransom. Additionally introduce criminal liability for intentionally hiding a ransomware attack in order to pay the ransom.

The biggest reason is to starve the attackers of incentive and resources. If you get 10 million dollars from an attack you can hire 10 people for a year to work on more attacks.

But it's unlikely that companies will change anything besides reporting in their practices. People are bad at evaluating tail risks of 0.001% chance happening in their lifetime.
What’s frustrating as well is that if they would have stuck to knitting, they probably would have done more to advance their various moral causes than explicitly calling things out. The community of knitting builds trust and friendship which is much more effective at changing people’s minds than shouting at them.
And since when do we have pornography as we know it right now?

I'm almost 100% sure that if you went back in time and showed them furry porn, you'd be thrown in prison. If you're lucky.
Agreed. Also, note this weird little flag/notice from the post:

> This blog post is Unfiltered

with a link to the "legal disclaimer":

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Unfortunately, I don't own the servers and it is highly unlikely people will move to either of those services.

Right now, one of the communities I'm in is split between Telegram and Discord. We had a Slack server for many, many years and no one would use it, no matter how hard we pushed. Moving Slack to Discord was a roaring success. We still have more people on Telegram despite moving all official activities to Discord.
I don't care about your ideas on Crystal, and clearly others don't either.

Nobody is attacking you, I'm expressing concern for you. Want to talk privately?

Email in my bio.
Quantum computers exist today, they're just very low power, low gate counts, and extremely expensive. Don't discount it as magic just because of the claims. Scaling up QC would be like bringing mathematics to Mesopotamia. But it isn't "magic", it's physics.
Have you tried the caves?
The concerns about Sputnik are geopolitical in nature

Not entirely. Their politicians boasted about it being the world's first "registered" vaccine a month before its Phase III trial started, that was an own goal completely of their making. It was only months later where they were able to finish their Phase III trial with very good results, but a few weeks behind the two mRNA vaccines.
Or "swamp gas", per MIB.
I know, and I do

The quote was from the blog. Making it seem like doing things off the CLI was a plus point

Right now I have a git alias that does everything, including pushing to my heroku master, in one command. Why would I want to go off the CLI?
PFS still involves asymmetric cryptography. And in fact in essentially every modern cryptography stack (ie. (EC)DLP-based) the "PFS primitive" (Diffie-Hellman, ie. scalar multiplication/exponentiation) is the one thing that everything else is derived from.

RSA is in fact somewhat notable for being the only widely used asymmetric cryptosystem where the underlying operation is block cipher-ish encryption primitive and not key agreement primitive.
Warrant Canaries
Midwest Tech Events March and April
Ask HN: What's your preferred scrum tool?
Aside from the obvious Jira option, what Scrum tool would you recommend for organising a small team of 4 on a project?
> Physics without determinism

What does this even mean? The whole universe and life itself are possible precisely because there is determinism, which is captured in what we call logic, (and arithmetic).

Sects, fucking sects everywhere.
I can push an HTML file to prod in 4 minutes with my shiny tech. Heroku took 5. Therefore, my new shiny thing is better.

> Apparently Heroku is not Open Source.

...Neither is AWS. And?

Gitlab is better than this.
Closed societies that cannot absorb the truth stop evolving.
This is pointless as it already exists (Caprover)
Antibiotics, maybe. But vaccines stimulate your immune system to produce antibodies.
I don’t know that a government would cover it up if it were aliens. I think the other possibilities are more likely.
That's a big statement. I am afraid it's not easy to replicate Heroku, let alone build something better. Quite the opposite I would say.
I would definitely caution you + the author of this post to tone down the rhetoric. Heroku has earned a tremendous amount of goodwill by being... basically fucking awesome and enabling tremendous amounts of productivity without having to screw around with infinite configuration settings. Just earn your own goodwill on your own merits, not by denigrating an extremely competent "competitor"
You haven't mentioned social behavioral change in your speculation about the decimated 2020-2021 flu season. I'd wager that has a very large part in why the flu hasn't spread: everyone is socially distanced, remote, masked, extra hygienic, and extra aware of illness.
Printing color photos on a B&W printer
That's literally what the jab does?
What If Kotest Had HTML Reports?
> lately I do notice more and more things where heroku doesn't seem to be "dotting all the i's"

It feels basically frozen. The Salesforce acquisition seems to have been a Yahoo!-type deal for them, where they just keep things running as long as the checks come in and will sunset when enough people leave. Which is sad. Or at least this is my perception.
interesting qeustions that is not related to the feasibility of this idea: would this news item cause some more fluctuations in the rate of digital currencies?
Specifically, it seems to be under the MIT license.
Perhaps not your personal computer, but your employer's systems is a different issue - the majority of attacks (both for-profit criminal attaks and state actor attacks) target private companies, not government networks. For example, in the recent SolarWinds case government networks were targeted as well, but the majority of victims were non-government entities.
Nokia is a communications conglomerate. They sold the mobile phone manufacturing division to Microsoft in 2014. They still have large operations in other networking technologies. Qt has also since been sold off and is being again developed by Trolltech, now known just as Qt Company.
Awesome exchange this. I never understood people that wanted hardwood floors (I've never been in the position to be able to afford one, let alone make my mind wander in a way that I'd ruminate about the topic), now I get it a little better. Thanks :)
blockchain ledgers are open and public and you could think of the contents of any wallet as a bounty for cracking that wallet's private key. some of the wallets involved in early bitcoin transactions would make perfect targets - they havent moved in years and are presumed lost. the btc in them is worth billions.
It reminded me of the old Amega demo scene. I think it is the overly strong syncing with the beat. More deviation from it would be an improvement.
I watched a documentary about an attempt at this, and it almost started global thermonuclear war! Here's a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo
Vaccines are immune system training on literal steroids. Overall I get your point so, as we see with increased allergies.
This is exciting because they have re-licensed all of the code to MIT. For other plan9 spin-offs, projects, etc it will clean up a lot of the old license bits - 9front for example

A quarter of a century late - but cool none the less
Convox is an inspiration. This is using GitLab CI and Terraform.