skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Risk of getting coronavirus is the reason I decided not to attend MWC after having registered and made all arrangements. I have family that will not survive an infection if I end up being infected.

I was trying to rationalize that maybe it is not that risky but then I saw there are several companies attending that have "Wuhan" in the name, e.g. Wuhan Silicon Technologies Inc. Even if those were banned, there are dozens (hundreds?) of companies from China attending.

Personally I decided it is too risky for my situation, but that's not to say others shouldn't go. I just worry about getting 300,000 people in a venue for 3 days. Sounds super risky.

I might actually work from home for 2 weeks after my colleagues come back from the conference just to be safe.
Does that matter much when you are working two jobs to afford rent?
The line of inquiry is not dissimilar to CBT, which instructs the practitioner to identify the negative belief that's troubling them, identify evidence for and against it, and finally consider whether alternative explanations may exist. Which is more or less what you're doing in The Work's first two questions, only more rigorous.

I don't think CBT has an analogue to The Work's latter two questions. I don't know whether these questions have additional value, but one advantage of The Work might be that you can just buy the book and practice it on your own. CBT seems to be hard to do alone due to a dearth of quality resources for self-study.

The Work was invented by a woman named Byron Katie who used to be a real estate agent and claims to have solved her own alcoholism and overeating with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie

Notably CBT doesn't work for everybody (perhaps because if you can't convince yourself that your original negative belief was wrong, it's probably going to keep bothering you).
The premise that you'd drop dead on your 30th birthday is ... largely false.

Infant and childhood mortality was increadibly higher, though this also may have improved overall fitness through selection pressures. Once adulthood was attained, life expectency was ... at the very least modestly comparable to modern experiences, and long-lived individuals were not uncommon throughout history.
Ironically, the development of cities and trade (and their contingent roles in providing for incubation and transmission of disease) added substantially to mortality.

Even in (the relatively disease-ridden) England and Wales of the mid-19th century, as a 20 year old, you'd be likely to live to about 60, by 30, nearly 65, and at 50, you'd likely ive to see 70.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/05/Life-expectancy-b...

Beyond disease, other causes were accidents, injuries (infection being a real possibility), famine, war, and violence. Though most of those causes tended to be episodic. See:

http://www.fraser-courtman.co.uk/list_of_famines_&_pestilenc...

Keep in mind that without cities and trade, few infectious diseases could spread much beyond a localised tribe. Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome makes a strong argument that the plagues and pestilences which afflicted the empire co-evolved with it.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166834/th...
Oh my. The cold numbers aren't good: whales just don't currently represent enough biomass to make that much of a difference in the grand scheme of Gigatonnes and Teratonnes of CO2.

If a rational team wanted to lock away as much carbon as possible using biological processes (BeCCS), going far up the food-chain doesn't seem like the most efficient way to do it.

Here a couple of the kind of options that seem to make more sense:

0. When conditions are right, ferrous ocean seeding at scale to stimulate phytoplankton blooms because relatively little iron is required to have a massive effect. [a] It might make sense to have a floating system of self-replicating drone factories that can send out floating fertilizer drones went conditions are good.. easier said than done.

1. Fertilizing and planting kelp wherever it seems to grow best. There is currently a massive kelp forest in the Atlantic and Caribbean between the Yucatan and Africa that is causing all sorts of havoc with tourist beaches. That kelp should be expanded, harvested, concentrated and sequestered on an enormous scale, either at the bottom of deep ocean trenches (cheaper) or below ground ($$ but more permanent).

Drastic actions that are efficient at scale must be tried. Even if it costs upwards of $50 trillion because survival is worth any treasure since there are no U-hauls behind hearses. What doesn't help is fixation over any comparatively-insignificant biomass like whales or planting a biomass-insignificant number of trees; virtue signaling is a cognitive-dissonant participation award, not solutions that move the needle enough to avoid a climate catastrophe.

References:

a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
Fortunately, also their odds:

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/05/Life-expectancy-b...
'All electricity markets' is probably a bit overblown. For Europe north of the alps, there's not that much sun, but often plenty of wind.
It's about playing by ear. Play only the first seven notes of a scale, and you'll likely find that your ear really wants that 8th tone to resolve it.
""The plankton absorb the carbon dioxide like a tree," Barton says, "and when they die, they sink to the bottom of the ocean and that carbon is locked away for thousands of years. "

https://psmag.com/environment/global-warming-is-putting-phyt...

We are back to dumb again?
Depending on the market segment you exist in, I'd recommend AWS Fargate and AWS Lightsail (container-runner; Digital Ocean/Linode/VPS competitor) over EC2. There's absolutely a segment for which EC2 is appropriate, but just like most data isn't "big", I doubt that most EC2 customers wouldn't be better served by Lightsail. If you've got several hundred or several thousand EC2 instances with bespoke code/config for many different ASGs, then Lightsail isn't for you, but (my impression is) that's not most people.
It's the 9th in China, right? Someone on Reddit¹ has accurately predicted what China will report 4 days ago, following a quadratic.

¹ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ez13dv/oc_...
Oh wow, this is fun. Legitimate question: Where can I bid on this? There's no link in the article and a Google search doesn't yield anything but spam.
https://www.haven2.com/index.php/contact

https://www.haven2.com/index.php/domains
As another user mentioned, many POSIX and/or GNU utilities havent aged well

What do you mean by that? Users have gotten more stupid and uneducated over time? I've seen "when in doubt, escape it" in several books about UNIX and shell, and escapes and wildcard expansion are one of the most beginner lessons in a lot of other materials. However, the Internet has let everyone have a voice, for better or worse, and as a result anyone who barely knows something can now write a misguided "tutorial" about it.

In other words: don't blame the tools, nor advocate writing dumbed-down replacements which lack the composability and generality the originals had; blame the proliferation of barely-correct educational material that has spread cancerously over the Internet.
That is pretty awesome! Thank you for sharing.
There's other variations too. Say you need some X and a lot of Y. But X is rare and Y is plentiful. Evolution leads you to an insatiable drive for X but not for Y. Then, suddenly mankind figures out how to cheaply produce X, e.g. salt and sugar.

Another- suppose food supplies are variable and insecure. The optimal amount of muscle & bone is exactly what you need and no more, and the optimal behavior is to be as active as required and no more. Viola, you get humans, one of few species whose bodies require ongoing training to stay fit & healthy, while paradoxically being quite lazy.
Beware of conspiracy theories. Stay with facts.
Our species is concerned with power.

And money gives you power. The greatest minds are focused on making money for themselves and someone else.

Ads make money unfortunately. Knowledge about our planet earth does not.
How does fail2ban expose attack surface?
That isn't a charitable interpretation of @https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=closeparen's response, no matter how laudable the goal you're advocating may be.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ted-RNN – Machine Generated Ted-Talks (2015)
You can go pretty darn far with CSS if you are ok with multiple divs...

https://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-francine/
You could do that, but that would be getting rid of most of what makes fibreglass interesting and expensive.

Recycling glass isn't that much better than just using fresh sand.
> the owner has never had any interest in actually using

What are you basing this on? Did you even try to research the history of this domain?
https://www.haven2.com/index.php/archives/corpcom-registry
You can't really repair big fibreglass pieces, I suspect.

So you could probably keep the steel tower and put new blades on it (and repair/replace the generators etc), but the blade probably has to be replaced as one.
> IA-32e

I’ve never seen this name before. Where does it come from?

AMD call it AMD64. Intel call it Intel 64.

Why do we need even more names for the same thing beyond these two?!

x86_64, x86-64, x64, AMD64, amd64, Intel 64, EM64T, all mean the same thing!
2019 Novel Coronavirus Global Risk Assessment from Air Travel Data
We're all going to be pretty stressed if this hits hard.
> Would you learn to play a melody be ear if you just learn the music theory?

Learning the theory gives a framework for your brain to work in. It's helpful because it gives you incredible hints as to what the next note in the melody is.

> You still have to practice, right?

Scales/theory should be a part of practice.
As a die hard Emacser, I’ve always been drawn to the idea of plain text productivity. What keeps me using apps like Todoist and Calendar.app is I am unaware of a way to have location-based reminders, collaborative to-do lists, and shared calendars. Is anyone doing this with plain text?
Maybe you're just not the right audience for that interview, and that's fine.

If you listened to the interview Jim isn't just a chip designer, he is an extremely well educated and well informed person, that has learned a lot throughout the years on it's own and with great minds.
Wikipedia says about a few hundred thousand people globally die in a typical flu season that barely gets a mention in the news. That's perhaps the more topical comparison?

Oh, and that doesn't include the people who die of the common cold--which is caused by a variety of viruses, the only common thing about them being our immune system's similar reaction. Rhinovirus are the most common, but also coronavirus.
I have written hundreds of shell scripts, several which are hundreds of lines long. When I say they havent aged well, Im speaking from experience. When I use something like:

find -name *.jpg

I know what it actually does. But what it actually doesnt isnt what it should do. The current behavior returns matched files... unless no files match. Then it returns the literal string "*.jpg". That behavior is usually going to be desired by no one. Same with:

grep $SOMETHING

it going to fail if the variable has any spaces. Again something most people arent going to want. These both can be worked around with Shell options and "IFS" respectively, but people shouldnt have to do that. The default behavior should be sane, but in many cases the POSIX standard isnt that. For goodness sake, the "venerable" find tool doesnt even have a "maxdepth" option:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/f...
It's code running on partially attacker-controlled inputs. It several times had vulnerabilities that allowed an attacker to trigger blocks for arbitrary IPs.
Not in the us it doesn’t. The two cap and trade programs in the us do little to stop someone at the individual level from needlessly emitting - there is no economic signal to stop. Even some large emitters aren’t subject to any economic signals in rggi, and California has an odd habit of handing out allowances. In a more perfect world, you would be correct.
A Code-Obsessed Novelist Builds a Writing Bot
Yeah and its also 10 times larger

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1481
Over 36,000 Flash Games have been preserved before Flash dies
Hallucinogenic Fish
Interesting!

Btw, if memory serves right, Google Photos deliberately gives you back the same pixels but not the same JPEG codestream bits under some circumstances. That's too make it harder to exploit vulnerabilities with carefully crafted files.
> You can have millions of consumers read concurrently from a single SQS queue.

We're using different definitions of "consumer". By consumer, I'm talking about a group of workers that processes the data for one purpose. For example you may have one consumer read from the queue to generate various metrics and a second consumer read from the queue and write to a DB. With vanilla SQS, when you process a message, you need to perform all the tasks simultaneously. With Kinesis and Kafka you can have independent groups of workers (i.e. independent consumers), each performing one of these tasks. Each consumer is able to process the queue at it's own rate. The way Amazon recommends doing this in SQS is to have SNS fan out a single SQS queue to multiple SQS queues. Then you can consume each queue independently[0]. That will multiply your costs by the number of queues you have.

> Messages that are read remain in the queue up to the configured retention period or until a consumer calls DeleteMessage.

I'm talking about retaining a message even if it was successfully processed, on the order of days or weeks. I've used this feature of Kafka before to implement a recovery log. Under normal operation, Kafka writes data to a DB. If the DB goes down, you can quickly recover the last N days of data by going through the data retained in Kafka.

[0] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=865925
I plan on making some videos on this once I get through web vulns. I've written x64 on Windows and Linux. On Windows you need to get ml64.exe, it gets installed with visual studio. You can invoke it from the command line. On Linux I usually use NASM I think, cause it supports Intel syntax.

The only really annoying thing is the stack alignment for calls. I usually just make a macro to check rsp and align if needed. Other than that I think it is similar enough to x86 just with different registers.
3 of us started the Kalamazoo Linux User's Group (KLUG) back in 1998 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Still going strong today: https://kalamazoolinux.org/
There's a real point in that statement, but it's overstated, like saying a University sells you your own brain and community back to you. Sure, you can be an autodidact and get quite an education at the library, you might even be able to find one way or another to rub elbows with the members of a community if it didn't host a university, but a good University will facilitate both at a level

Of course, there's for-profit colleges which provide terrible value at an outrageous cost, and even among "legit" universities or courses of study have more value than others. And back at the topic there's real questions about a church that's acquired assets on the scale the LDS church has. What transparency obligations does it have to the membership that contributed those funds? Should there be dues/tithing, or show the assets function as an endowment to support the activities of the institution while mitigating what members are asked to contribute? If an institution claims divine authority and also reaches the point where it no longer requires contributions in order to sustain it, does that mean it can be more careless with the confidence of those members (and if not, what would prevent that)?
Yes provided they are very very talented (Musk is an amazing engineer), a polymath, and extremely driven to the point that the money won't make them slack off. The thing about Musk is that he has a sense of mission beyond just money.

So yeah, I think there are a decent number of people walking around who could do the sort of thing he does... maybe 1%-2% of the engineering profession if I had to guess.

Why are there not more actual Musks? Because the skills and interests that get you rich are typically not these. They are skills like charisma, charm, social networking ability, etc.
Got it, thank you for that explanation. I completely agree that we can eliminate all kinds of erroneous behaviors with better type systems.

> good luck with a legacy microservice architecture in a few years. And it seems to be getting worse.

It is getting worse. The complexity of systems and their dependencies are growing faster than the discipline of seeking to reduce accidental complexity.
BIOS RWEverything. Yes, Everything.
See my reply to appwiz: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280200
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Transmission seems clearly far less bad than initially thought. If it were exponential we should be at millions infected right now.
Jim doesn't emote much, but I found he kept dropping gold nuggets of experience. Not necessarily about chip design -- but that's not what I was looking for.
Just a thought but would't creating a new file for each year make it more maintainable? I can't imagine searching a 100k line file or scrolling through it.
Maybe, but wasn't it also reported that the hospital later admitted to trying to resuscitate him for hours when they knew it wasn't possible.
Meet a Man Who Spent Nineteen Years Training Alligators to Sing
I'll take that bet. I'm past 30. What did I win?
I killed a lot of time with this exact issue a couple months ago as well. Quite frustrating, and it was even worse trying to include the preemptible GPUs in a kubernetes cluster. It would often take so long to add the GPU to the cluster that it would get killed before it even ran any real workload. This cycle would repeat for an hour before a machine stayed up long enough to actually schedule kubernetes pods on them.
I think this is actually by design. My theory is they built a panopticon intended to move humanity towards being more cooperative and docile. A feature of this is that people become self policing much like in the USSR. You yourself just admitted to what is equivalent to thought policing.
Just wanted to call out that I think calculating death rate as "deaths / infections" works for past infections but is wildly inaccurate today because the majority of infections have no resolution yet.

I'd say "deaths / recoveries" or maybe "deaths / (deaths + recoveries)" is probably better, with the caveat that it is likely much higher than the final number it's going to settle at as more people recover.

I've been using recovery numbers from https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h... .
Yep. And it's continuous wave (CW) and 100% duty cycle, if you have a fairly sizable water chilling plant to support it. I don't believe it straight out, but would need to do manufacturing-side due-diligence and see demos (like cutting AR500) to believe it.
Except that many IOT devices require you to be in the broadcast domain for control and discovery....

e.g. with LIFX wifi light bulbs, you can control them with low latency (and no internet connection) via ip packets; or high latency via LIFX's cloud servers if you're not in the same subnet.
Had never used `*` before. Turns out it's search for the word under the cursor. Handy.

I guess that's basically what you wrote, but I had to play with it a bit to understand.
Get a load of the author's profile photo. Sorry, I'm not taking life advice from that guy, and I'm actually "laughing out loud" at the thought.
Do you mean the internet or the web? Either way, how would you rewrite it?
Once a Billionaire
No, it was a CW 100% duty cycle if enough cooling water were available. I questioned the claims. The intended applications are large-scale manufacturing and fabrication, not thermally-damaging an ICBM in boost phase (awww :[ ).
> Death rate in Hubei province is 780/27100 = 2.88%
> Death rate in all the other provinces combined is 32/10127 = 0.32%

Please remember that the number of people to the right in your formula are not all recovered. They could still die. So the chances of dying from the virus _could_ be higher than the %s you have calculated.

> So the death rate in Hubei is 9 times of other provinces. Is this really possible?

The numbers suggest as much.

While I share your skepticism of the Chinese reported numbers - remember that the Hubei province is the epicenter and is currently locked down. It is resource strained. So I expect the rate of death there to be higher than elsewhere.

I also expect the Zhejiang numbers to trend in the other direction, as they have just announced it will be locked down too.
China has had a long history of local government, or local organizations hiding bad news from the central government. I'm not sure things have changed.
This is IMHO a much better introduction to countable ordinals:

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/large-counta...
I mean, it's also 10$/month, you get what you pay for, and for most people this is enough. If you need more, you can get a dedicated GPU instance, but obviously that'll cost much more.
Right.

Also less prevalent in warm and humid regions (though spread in Singapore and Thailand is ... interesting).

This is among the reasons my concerns' been on a breakout in North Korea, which has both a meterological and political/epidemiological climate that seems highly favourable to outbreak of a disease such as 2019-nCoV.

Though it's politically viable to order a near-complete shutdown of transportation and travel, the likelihood of this being effective (particularly against high-level party members breaking quarantine), or pragmatically possible to sustain (what exists of the PRK economy likely requires people in close contact), limiting epidemiological effectiveness.
> I dunno. One has to deal with the random crying, the questions of "Why haven't you baptized your children? I want to spend eternity with my grandbabies!", "They need primary!", etc. Then there's the endless gossip at family activities when you're absent about how you're leading your family to hell.

This is every family, with slight variation.
Great, now I'm picturing wooks at a music festival passing around a bowl of tropical fish...
This article is what happens when kids cram STEM for 20 years and hate on anyone who dares to crack a novel.
China was refusing a great deal of outside help and input until very recently.
It certainly was hyperbole. There are obvious situations where debt is not dumb. We live in a time where the vast majority of debt is not used for those obvious critical situations.
Also, a good thing to remember is to mind the order of your options.
I know from experience that it matters a lot after thinking once: "I can just place this `-delete` option wherever, right?" and using it as my first option.
Needless to say, I had a very bad time.
I agree, Lex is overall a very competent interviewer who clearly spends a lot of time prepping before each interview (for example his interview with Stephen Kotkin) but he should really reconsider the value of those deadend philosophical questions he asks every guest (what is the meaning of life? Do you think we will have AGI? Will AI eventually end human civilisation?). I have yet to see an interesting conversation follow from those questions, and quite frankly I don't find them interesting at all, certainly not 10-15 minutes of each interview.
The datasheet claimed 100% duty cycle CW depending entirely on chilled water capacity. I think the military weaponized one are pulsed in the same average energy range, but have a much higher impulse that causes destruction of targets. So the commercial CW ones can cut a steel plate at a certain rate, but the military pulsed ones would obliterate a target.
Test Run
Just some practice