skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mixed up your numbers. 3-5 Mio SEVERE CASES, not overall infections.

> Worldwide, these annual epidemics are estimated to result in about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness, and about 290 000 to 650 000 respiratory deaths.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(...

> The flu has resulted in 9.3 million to 49 million illnesses each year in the United States since 2010. Each year, on average, five to 20 percent of the United States population gets the flu.

https://www.healthline.com/health/influenza/facts-and-statis...

Let's assume 10 mil Corona cases in US (like flu lower bound), with 2% mortality. That's 200k deaths. If we assume 49 mil cases (flu higher bound), it's 1 mil deaths just in US.
I recommend everyone to watch this on-site commentary from the chinese human rights lawyer Chen Qiushi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AI3R41dGnU

Any numbers we've seen so far seem very tame to me, compared to the pictures out of Wuhan.
Surprisingly, the only remaining clause of the constitution which cannot be changed by another amendment is that each state will have equal representation in the Senate. (See article 5 of the constitution.)

Removing the advise and consent power and moving it to the house is a good idea which would mitigate the judicial problem.
Beside image size and build time, runtime performance can be really bad with alpine's libc implementation (Musl). My colleague pinpointed that for example PowerDNS has a throughput of less than 50% compared to a PowerDNS running with glibc. We should really make a blog.
I'm a 'non-progressive' and can see you're view point. I think it is worth exploring and I like where you're going. I can tell you that the main point of contention will be that the government caused the inability to take risk (i.e. subsidizing student loans and housing costs). I am however more open to social programs when you word it like that
> The company forecast net sales in the range of $69 billion and $73 billion for the first quarter. Analysts were expecting revenue of $71.65 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

> Net sales in North America, its biggest market, jumped 21.6% to $53.67 billion during the fourth quarter. Analysts had expected revenue of $52.23 billion from the segment.

> Revenue from its lucrative cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services (AWS), which sells data storage and computing power in the cloud, surged 34% to $9.95 billion. Analysts had expected $9.84 billion.

> Amazon’s total operating expenses surged 21.8% during the quarter to $83.56 billion.

> Net sales rose 21% to $87.44 billion in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 , beating estimates of $86.02 billion.

[Reuters] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-results/amazon...
Waze takes more risks, that's for sure. It's still the best one if you know the area you're driving and are willing to ignore the maps.

I still use Google Maps when I'm unfamiliar with the drive for the reasons you mention (ie, it needlessly took me down a busy grid-locked road once).

But otherwise nothing beats Waze for the additional features like construction and police reporting plus it does a good job of finding fast routes far more often than not.
Why did they tell you to stop doing that? What's wrong with it?
They're called NPCs, right?
Does it come in Kool-Aide flavors?
If everyone whose data was collected really did opt in as this article explains (I wouldn't know, as I don't use Avast products), then I agree that they didn't do anything wrong.

However, I don't think a great case was made that Jumpshot shutting down is actually harmful to the web and the world at large.
OSM does record population, and many sites that use OSM data parse that information. I think you're overstating the importance of the demo stylesheet on openstreetmap.org, which really isn't significant: OSM is all about recording factual map data and making it freely available.
>I don't see what the fact that master's and PhD programs are filled with foreign students has to do with whether or not it makes sense to get a higher degree.

It's more competitive, low pay during school and lower odds of a well paying job at the end.
"The deeper question is: why do we systematically undervalue the very fields that contribute the most to society?"

The answer for most of them is simple: oversupply. Being a teacher is generally something a lot of people want to be, and especially for K-12, almost by definition, the intellectual bar is "finished K-12 reasonably well". (If you read curricula for teaching schools, you'll find that while teachers are generally educated maybe a year or two's worth past the high school level in their chosen teaching subjects, that's generally it for the requirements.) Accomplishing the "bullet point" objectives of being a teacher is not a difficult enough bar to filter out enough people.

(I phrase it that way to forstall hiking the goalpost to the sort of astonishing, life changing teacher whose slightest jiggling of their eyebrows inspire students to new heights of knowledge and curiousity. Those may not be all that common, but that's not the bar in question. Most teachers are pretty close to average.)

When you imagine yourself in the role of teacher (the inspiring kind, I'm sure) or researcher (who is, of course, hot on the trail of the cure of cancer, not researching some workaday research question), it's easy to imagine how you should be paid more. But if you put yourself in the position of paying for these things with your money, and you offer $100,000/yr to be an elementary school teacher in some medium-sized town in the country because wouldn't that just be awesome, and you get your first 10,000 applications today with another 10,000 coming tomorrow, it's not long before you start thinking "Hmmm.... maybe I don't have to part with quite $100,000/yr to fill this position.... maybe $90,000 isn't such a bad idea, and I can use that $10,000 to do some other $WORTHY_THING..." (Or... maybe I could use this money to hire two teachers....)

It's easy to imagine how someone else should pay teachers three or four times more... it would be a lot more challenging if you were the one doing it.
The patent game more then a 100 years ago was great for the sole inventor. Now it's a game that's insanely & wrongfully stacked against those folks. Nowadays you need a war chest behind you to secure patents and even worse fight for your rights in court against another war chest that will litigate for years and years until someone's war chest is depleted or almost depleted.
I was saying more that "language" is just one way of processing, along with "visual" and "spatial" and perhaps innumerable others. It sounds like you have a spatial method of processing the world.

> I can spin things and know exactly how things will "look" from a different angle

This is essentially the spatial equivalent to the inner monologue of the language-oriented processor.
IMHO assuming a 2% rate this early is a bit disingenuous. This due to the 8,288 confirmed cases not having registered an outcome yet. If you look at people cured vs. people dead, the picture looks much worse, but yeah a lot of variables still come into play (they were prob. the most vulnerable, they were the first ones so treatment may not have been the best, etc.).
When I have too much caffeine I've noticed that I have very strong ability to recall auditory information, specifically tunes. I get a sort of perfect-pitch effect where I can consistently recall music in the proper key and replay it in my mind. It also happens late at night.
Similar to "unfilled jobs" and "not enough engineers". The market price is just higher than what they would like to pay for those employees.
eat your heart out stanley kubrick
Yes for me when making large prints. You don't get good prints at less than 150 dpi enlarged, generally, and 300+ dpi is preferable and more comparable to a large format negative, so you'd like a ~75 megapixel camera just for poster sized prints, and more for prints larger than that.

Note some people use large format negatives for ultra-sharp small prints, in that case you might be looking for 1000 dpi or higher to match the fidelity of a large negative.
This decision saddens me.

I strongly believe that the pursuing of patents gets in the way of the collaboration that helps science progress. It creates evidence of innovation (ie patents), but slows actual innovation.

Anything that gives universities more of an incentive to pursue the patent angle, which this judgment does, will therefore be bad for science. :-(

(In CS, whole areas have become minefields for this reason. For example go out and implement a wavelet compression algorithm for images without violating any patents. Are you sure you didn't violate patents? Really sure? Exactly!)
As a counterpoint, code choices and perceived site slowness contributed to Friendster's and MySpace's decline. Both had messaging and advertising.
Just used gnoosic.com for the first time and found a brand new artist! Great work on this, I'm going to continue using it and music map.
The problem is having clients who expect free...or rather delivering free to clients who expect free. Your job isn't to save the client money on your services. If having your credit card on file provides value to the client, then charge the client. If it doesn't, charge them anyway because it has value to you.
Yes, sending email is indeed a solved issue, but that isn't what mailgun (re?) solves.

Asking someone's permissions first, tracking their desires and immediately updating your response is what they solve.

Seems trivial? Try doing it for (looks at note) 626 people.
I'm not saying introspection is bad. Introspection should be siloed off into its own activity. Constantly doing it involuntarily makes you a slave to your own mind.

I'm pretty sure non-human animals can daydream too. It isn't what makes us special as humans. We are special because we have thumbs and can do math.

Granted, you will probably lose out on creativity (in the messy, artistic sense) by shutting off the default mode network. But again, you can silo creativity into its own brainstorming session.
Mask bans appear to be enforced... strangely. Here's the Richmond, VA paper's photos of the recent pro-gun protest rally: https://www.richmond.com/news/local/photos-scenes-from-the-g...

Not everyone is masked, but certainly some are. Zero reports of people getting in trouble for wearing masks.
If you want alternatives than Wyoming rule Malta; 1 MEP per 475,000. So what if they only get a single minority vote, its the rule of the people, not of the arbitrary administrative districts. The parliament building is already big enough for 750 people, so let the UK have 139 MEPs, their population deserves it.
Never heard of that, short of ankle monitoring, how would it work.
I agree; in retrospect my comment was a bit facile. In the long run I don't think anyone will have any rights with respect to images of her or his own (clothed or naked) body. We're not in the long run yet. It will take some time for most of us to be comfortable with that.

In my view, it's more important to create a sort of symmetry with respect to images and other data than it is to preserve particular customs that are problematic in light of modern technology. That is, it's probably OK that every e.g. FBI agent has access to thousands of images of me, or even my complete genome, as long as I have access to thousands of images and the complete genome of every FBI agent. We learned in kindergarten that "knowledge is power". Like power, knowledge is not symmetrical. A federal prosecutor having power over me doesn't necessarily mean I have power over that federal prosecutor.

If we've learned anything in the decade just past (to be clear, that's an open question), it is that authoritarian structures are easily hacked by the authoritarians who run them. It may be that e.g. the Department of Justice wasn't always constructed to capriciously surveil and/or construct false cases against innocents (although, was that before or after they harassed MLK and other civil rights leaders?), but ISTM at least the cases of Aaron Swartz and Carter Page, to cover both ends of the political spectrum, show that to be the case now. If the tools of knowledge/power are increasing in power, we all need to have access to those tools.
The LargeSense LS911 features a single shot 9×11-inch monochrome CMOS sensor with a 75-micron pixel size, a high base sensitivity of ISO 2100, and a maximum sensitivity of ISO 6400.

https://petapixel.com/2018/04/17/largesense-unveils-worlds-f...
Absolutely. I work extremely long hours, so I've noticed that when I'm particularly tired, my "mental iPod shuffle", as I call it, will go into extreme mode. Sometimes reading a single word or sentence is enough to remind me of a song, and BOOM it's immediately playing in my head.

I now basically have actual music on nearly 24/7 to drown that out otherwise it can get pretty annoying – especially if the song that's stuck in my head isn't one I actually enjoy.
Not exactly. It's hard to tell from the outside if a monolith was architecture well or is about the fall over.

In a microservice architecture it's harder to pretend you're doing it right.
>why the blue collar vote in favor of the GOP is so mystifying

>"OBUMER is gonna take yer guns and herd you into a FEMA camp and DONATE NOW"

Truly mystifying indeed that people don't vote for the culture that holds this caricature of them.
It doesn't have to be wasteful but the computation must be asymmetric. That is it must be much more difficult to compute than to verify. The SHA-256 nonce discovery computation used by Bitcoin has this property, but is not really useful.

Others have given the example of PrimeCoin which is asymmetric, but somewhat useful as it discovers prime numbers.

A great metaphor for this is a Sudoku puzzle. It is much harder to solve than it is to check the solution.
Also, you can be involved in the development of such things and not really be aware of what's going on. Like, you could be the front-end developer that presents the options returned from an API, or the back-end developer that just returns options from the DB and maintains the CRUD site for people to assign treatment X for ailment Y.

The person who ended up pushing opioids as a treatment for ∀y is very likely not an engineer.
I picked three of those questions and had a look at the actual data on the GSS Data Explorer:

https://imgur.com/1tL4cPt

https://imgur.com/PhbXNqG

https://imgur.com/3efeYtU

Let's just say it's very difficult to draw the same conclusions as this article here - small sample size, inconsistent results, etc.

The actual results I found for EARTHSUN's choices "Earth around sun" and "Sun around earth" are 76.5% correct for the Clinton camp and 76.7% correct for the Trump camp. Technically still in line with one conclusion of that article, but a single respondee answering differently would have changed that outcome.
Spending engineering time to save sales time is only viable at very sales-oriented but lower ACV products and even in that case, onboarding is generally focused on very core product functionality. Because sales deals have to be >$10,000 ACV to be worth it for the business, sales generally spends it time on C-suite focused features (SSO integration, security controls, auditing).

Not to negate your point: having a good onboarding helps sales, in the same way it helps customer support. But in practice, I wouldn't use that argument to measure whether or not the onboarding flow was doing it job. Nor should the sales team be able to blame the onboarding flow for low quality leads. Money invested in a good onboarding flow should pay off in onboarding/engagement.
Flowchart: How Slack decides to send a notification (2018)
It is, and it still exists... it's also a brand new compiler, instead of one with nearly 30 years of development on it, and a brand new ecosystem, instead of having the massive amount of hours that Haskell has in it. Idris is really nice imo, but Haskell+Dependent Types will likely be usable sooner.

There is an 'Idris 2' being developed, too (https://github.com/edwinb/Idris2), which is an entirely new compiler with a new type theory (although not entirely dissimilar), which just makes it even harder to use for real things (again, IMO).
LSD only gives temporary relief and is hard to get. Shroons might be a better route.
They probably send much, much more valid emails, respond quickly to abuse reports, and since they're large/known enough, they won't get blacklisted because that would be disruptive to large, legit business.
My opinion is that the "internal talk" is a result of our adaptation to human culture from the last thousands of years. This happens because several thousand years ago we had no language, at least not as developed as in the modern world. I guess the same is true for hearing music inside your mind, since there was no music (as we understand nowadays) a few thousand years ago.
You can remove them? Android doesn't allow me to remove them wasting my space.

Not setting a default is bad too. Wish I could get there.
I mean, if it's properly open source and user-controlled, you should be able to build a firmware that just comments out all of that, right?
> 2. Sometimes I feel like my mind has layers, where this monologue is the the most upper one with some lower, less verbalized layer which is only later formed into words. Doesn't happen often, but it feels like the lower layer is actually more capable because it's not constrained by language/words.

I have something like that which is more akin to wandering formless thoughts to me. I don't think they are more capable though, I think it's an illusion given off by the deeper or soother sensation it instills into the mind.
I've been toying with the idea of a podcast that doesn't require you to pay attention to it too much.
Yes, I had a discussion about a very senior (but not developer) why we he thought we must enforce microservices in our applications from a technical perspective. He thought it was incredibly important to be able to scale parts of it independently and it is a normal CRUD internal application with a couple of thousand users.

Of course he looks at Netflix and Google as best practices but that discussion probably spent more money in salary than our server costs.
For me, it's definitely the internal monologue. Worse is that I have a form of OCD (repetitive thoughts) so this monologue gets stuck in a 'loop' and I end up just repeating the same sentence, or part of sentences to myself. Drives me nuts.

Makes me wonder if people without this 'internal monologue' experience this kind of OCD in the same way..
You do realize our way of life was built from investment? Scientific revolution gave us ideas but industrialization gave us the means the realize those ideas to the benefit of all mankind. To not to invest means no creative destruction, and stagnation.
I have also had really good luck finding music on youtube, especially independent house/electronic music. The youtube recommendation algorithm was really good for music until a few months ago. Not sure what they changed, but I'm seeing the same videos pop up over and over, and those videos are more "mainstream" as well.

People rag on youtube, but I've found so much amazing content on there just by searching around and choosing the next video from the recommended ones so that you go deeper into the rabbit hole.
Isn't it like 0.09% of deaths vs 2% of deaths? I certainly could be misunderstanding the data!
The 3% number is with severe cases (aparently 20% of the cases) treated in ICU. What happens when you ran out of ICU beds?
My mother is a step-by-step navigator. She wants detailed in-order instructions.

I'm a spatial navigator. Give me enough information to locate the destination on my mental map, and a few local details I can use to double-check that I'm in the right place.

My mother will follow the directions step-by-step. I will travel in the general direction of the location of the destination and start checking landmarks and addresses when I'm in the right area of the map.

I cannot navigate at all when engaged in a conversation. I can drive safely, but if you occupy my attention in conversation, my destination will become random. My daughter used to exploit that quirk for laughs when she was a teenager.

Unfortunately, I have sort of the same issue with conversation and logic problems. I tend to perform pretty badly in tech interviews because I can't think about programming problems very well while participating in a conversation.
NCOV (new corona) 2%, SARS (2012) around 10%, yearly normal flu around 0.01%-0.05% and Ebola 50-90%
that's assuming the complexity never crosses boundaries, which is why the whole mess analogy falls down.
Sorry, but "making an API that gets you this data" is the wrong answer.

Most APIs are glorified wrappers around individual record-level operations like- get me this user- or constrained searches that return a portion of the data, maybe paginated. Reporting needs to see all the data. This is a completely different query and service delivery pattern.

What happens to your API service written in a memory managed/garbage-collected language when you ask it to pull all the data from its bespoke database, pass it through its memory space, then send it back down the caller? It goes into GC hell, is what.

What happens when your API service when it issues queries for a consistent view of all the data and winds up forcing the database to lock tables? It stops working for users, is what.

There are so many ways to fail when your microservice starts pretending it is a database. It is not. Databases are dedicated services, not libraries, for a reason.

It is also true that analysts should not be given access to service databases, because the schema and semantics are likely to change out from under them.

The least bad solution? The engineering team is responsible for delivering either semantic events or doing the batch transformation themselves into a model that the data team can consume. It's a data delivery format, not an API.
By this same logic, consumers are willing to exchange their inability to set a default Maps app in exchange for the iPhone bundle, at the price Apple provides (discounted because of the services revenue they can extract.)
It's something to think about! :)
I wonder if this correlated to intelligence in any way. More intelligent means less monologue? Other way around?
What about autodiff? Is that a separate effort?
Most of the users I work with, when asked why they want more than daily batches, respond with something emotional and not business value. I had a request for real-time updates for a massive metric that is based around monthly usage.

Ya just gotta push back, and hep people understand what the trade offs are for real-time. Most people don’t need it.
> I am pretty much guaranteed the ability to take a long, extravagant vacation every year, spend weekends in the mountains, maintain expensive hobbies, etc.

I don't know any management consultants, doctors, lawyers, or investment bankers that do any of those things. At best they have nice things, but they do not have free time. They are low-risk careers, not low effort or low time-commitment careers.
Yeah, if you don't have images you probably don't have sound. Thinking mind only.
http://archive.md/VRvXh
Every Noise At Once [1] has a nice web of genres and artists to check out.

From their description: Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 3,883 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2020-01-30. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.

[1]http://everynoise.com/
The problem he is describing is solved with a Mono-repo, not a Monolith.

We've seen great success with a Mono-repo that enables the sharing of code across Micro-services, and enforcement of code and deployment processes.