skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
should probably be on top of the list. probably increasingly hard to remedy with immigration given the political climate.
Any idea why the fatality < 9yo was zero? Surprisingly I haven't seen anyone concerned about kids, which is a tad unusual.
A lot of noise but fundamentally it’s all the same.
Mostly it's a lack of education and UI work. The Alloy IDE, for example, doesn't have line numbers. There's also no CLI for Alloy.

That said, it's an excellent tool and I've found it very useful when doing formal models.
Wow. At that point it makes more sense to fly out to another country, see a doctor there, pay for the medication in cash, and take a vacation at the same time with money left over.
This is precisely because the market is pricing in bad future (low interest rates). US 10 year is around historic all time lows. And I assume you heard about how low the yields tanked (i.e. how high bond prices soared) in other developed countries.
Pharmacies seem to cheerfully dispense larger quantities even if it's not indicated on the prescription.

> But increasingly, the psychiatric association has heard from members that smaller quantities specified on prescriptions are being ignored, particularly by CVS, according to Dr. Schwartz, the group’s president.

> CVS has created a system where doctors can register and request that 90-day supplies not be dispensed to their patients. But doctors report that the registry has not solved the problem, Dr. Schwartz said. In a statement, CVS said it continued to “refine and enhance” the program.

> Dr. Charles Denby, a psychiatrist in Rhode Island, became so concerned by the practice that he started stamping prescriptions, “AT MONTHLY INTERVALS ONLY.” Despite those explicit instructions, Dr. Denby said, he received faxes from CVS saying his patients had asked for — and been given — 90-day supplies.

> Dr. Denby, who retired in December, said it was a “baldfaced lie” that the patients had asked for the medication, providing statements from patients saying as much.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/health/pharmacists-medica...
You can’t have a successful mobile app business without being on the iPhone. So, I say Apple has just as effective control over the market as a straight monopoly.

As a matter of fact in the US you do not strictly need greater than a 50% market share to even be considered a monopoly. You just need to have market control.However Apple’s iPhone is hovering just around 50% in the United States.
> Would you argue the media landscape is the way it is due to incentives these select organizations face or the monopolistic nature of these companies?

It's been 10+ years since I've read chapter 1 of Manufacturing Consent, but IIRC the basic argument is that:

- Media companies are the way they are because they're funded by advertising.

- Media companies have an oligopoly because they are allowed to fund themselves via advertising, and advertising has monopolies of scale.

> you note the high concentration of media creation, but don't speak to the even higher concentration of media distribution, which likely has its own influence on what is created.

That's a good point. The fact that media companies own less of their own distribution is probably the biggest thing that's changed since Manufacturing Consent was originally published, so now institutional incentives need to be considered across two different dimensions.
I meant "profitable" in the viable sense. Like either profitable now or could reasonably be so in the future, without requiring monopolistic pricing.
Surely there's a system call that tells whether or not the phone is charging?
Thanks for the response! I always like seeing people chime in from companies at Hacker News too so I'm glad you enjoyed my story.
That wouldn't make much sense, the point of these apps is to do security surveillance (sort of), if you had to consciously connect from time to time to see what happens in your premises and review that everything is OK, you would do so the first two days, then would forget about it. Like doing backups by hand.

What you want is a baby monitor with video.
Well, yes, given that economies aren't organic individuals, their "feelings" will be something different. I also do no think it's useful to separate "economies" to study as if they were entire beings, they are a part of "societies" - this reads a lot like asking if our arms feel joy.
Would be lovely if someone put together betting markets for these events so people could put some real, actual skin in the game. Would be even lovelier if the authors of papers had to disclose their own bets (if any) in the papers, similarly to how they disclose the funding sources today. That would be a good signal as to the level of confidence they have in their predictions. 2065 is not that far out, and the water levels won't drop all at once, so it should be possible to set up shorter term bets.

Climate events, if anything, should be far more predictable than the stock markets, while still retaining substantial randomness and uncertainty for the betting market to be possible.
Like Terraform? Yes, so? That doesn't change my opinion. It takes serious experience and skill to write good Go code and tests at scale. I don't really understand why people claim that Go is a simple and straight-forward language. For a "Hello, World", maybe, but once you hit the gotchas, the fun begins.
Also lack of genuine modern alternatives for some products.
This is obviously a dumb question, being in this thread and all but what's the difference between LogStash, Elastic Search and Lucene? I only ever saw one amazing demo once with real time search and I remember hearing all 3 names. My guess is LogStash stores and the other two retrieve?
Not a problem if you plan to wipe and root the phone yourself.
Yeah, imagine back then if Microsoft Excel were ads-based application. I think it's how native apps phoning home these days.
> My guess is mostly stocking up on food, which I've planned to do for a long time - sounds like a good motivation to finally prepare a list and get shopping.

If you're going to stock up on food, allow me to suggest cans of whole San Marzano tomatoes. San Marzanos (and other close relatives) tend to last really well in a can -- almost as good as fresh!

Keep some extra onions or shallots and a few celery roots in your fridge, and perhaps some Calabrian chili flakes in your pantry, and you can make delicious pasta sauces or soups from them. Also, this works just as well on a random Tuesday night as during a pandemic.

Or just slice the tomatoes and put them on a sandwich. And if there's no real crisis in your area, then you're still in luck, as you've got a good supply of tomatoes for next winter.

Probably you should pick up some beans to go with them too, from a dietary standpoint, but I'm a tomato lover, not a bean lover, so I don't know what the right type is there.

Mmm. Now I'm hungry.
I've had similar experiences, except it used to be PHP for me back in the day, rather than perl - I recall a servicedesk system, as well as a purchase order approval system, amongst many others. Not a single line of JS in sight!

But some of us never abandoned server-side rendering - I work a lot with ASP.NET Core MVC, and it's great; I'm very productive with it. But I do add Javascript on top here and there, where it adds value.
Good lord... those numbers cannot be real, that’s terrifying.
This is an excellent summary of knowledge and practical information on the topic, thank you for sharing :)
I wrote a few case studies here: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/business-case-formal-method.... They're case studies that are targeted towards bosses, so focus on how it saves time and money. A couple more I know of:

* https://andy.hammerhartes.de/finding-bugs-in-systems-through...

* http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2019/01/01/using-tla-plus-to-u...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMSmkRGzQ64
Got any sources for these claims?
Nothing is "free" - you give Credit Karma perpetual access to your credit report and in exchange it gives them rich data to target loan products to you for which they make big referral fees from.
Exactly.

I’m not trying to be pedantic, but it’s important to be clear about the issue before you start proposing solutions.

If the government passed a law tomorrow saying that companies couldn’t share user data with third parties, it wouldn’t change anything about Facebook, Google’s or Credit Karma’s business model.

Not that I’m saying we need government intervention.
A CS professor at my old university focused his PhD on knots, and showed me a bunch of software he had created that simulated this same effect, but with much more depth of color and contrast. I still bet he is excited to see this. His screen saver was knot simulations, and he always had rope in his office, and I'm just now realizing he was suicidal and it was all a cover.
The goal is to promote automation and continue lowering certificate lifetimes as operations get better. This ultimately will allow for lifetimes short enough to be useful.

As for the other browsers, Google originally proposed SC22 (https://cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2019-August/000...) last year and all the browsers voted for it. CAs voted it down at the time but there were rumblings via various back channels that several major CAs actually wanted the ballot to pass but for political reasons could not publicly support it.

So while Apple is acting “unilaterally” here, there is universal support among browser makers and tepid support from CAs. You should expect Google and Mozilla to follow suit in the next 6-12 months.
Looks like that could be mitigated by just flashing a new firmware. LineageOS (formerly CyanogenMod) has a long list of supported devices these days. Booting something more open source seems like a good idea for a long-running security camera app, as opposed to closed-source stock Android builds.
Who said anything about not catering exactly to my particular interests? You said a legit copy of Windows 10 Pro doesn't show ads. It does. I see them. Ads were some of the first things I saw after I installed it, and I still see them every once in a while. Even you seem to have seen one, even though you literally just said there aren't any.
It's not illegal to print lies. There has to be some other hook to hang a suit on other than the information being false.
You economic determinists are so precious, the world passes you by like the water under your bridge.

I’m going to go drive my Ferrari now, from all my gains from the Balkans, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya.
The free-file option was for people taking the standard deduction.
Always has been.

I had a go at my manager recently for letting people do technical tests then telling them they didn't have enough experience after. He could have worked that out before wasting their time.
That's absolutely not true, e.g.:

https://insinuator.net/2020/02/critical-bluetooth-vulnerabil...

There was another one regarding the wifi chip used in many popular phones a few months ago.
Or hold us above water until it naturally oscillates up, who’s to say? Not everything is like alcohol (fun then hangover).
It can be difficult to reconcile comments like this with the reality that Go was designed at Google to address difficulties developing large-scale applications and even Kubernetes is written in it.

I agree with many criticisms of the language but sometimes that criticism seems to enter its own sort of echo chamber.
> the mortality rates aren't all that high (a few percent)

That's about the same mortality rate as the pandemic flu of 1918, which wasn't exactly a walk in the park.
If the heap is under 32GB, the JVM can use "compressed oops" with 4 byte "pointers" to 8 byte offsets inside the 32GB heap instead of 8 byte pointers. This makes everything more compact. Since Java doesn't have structs, everything is a pointer and arrays of things are arrays of pointers. So a 48GB heap won't fit a lot more data than a 32GB heap.

See

https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/23-compressed-refere...

https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/HotSpot/CompressedOops
I like the project, but have a slightly different use case. I am describing it in case you were up for adding features to your project or if you could point me towards something that would help me.

My grandmother has dementia. We would like to install two cameras in her apartment; one in the hallway and another one in the kitchen to check if she got out of bed, took her meds, make sure she doesn't let strangers in, and doesn't wander out of her apartment. Cameras such as Ring and Nest would be ideal, but we can't afford them. If your app allowed us to both stream the video continously and store it for at least 48h for up $5 a month, we would use sign up instantly.
Java compressed object pointers.

Shipilev (JVM performance engineer) explains it in great detail here:
https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/23-compressed-refere...

But the short of it: Java uses 32-bit numbers for object references if it can address whole heap with it. Given default 8-byte alignment of object we have 2^32 * 8 = 32g of addressable heap.

Once we are beyond that number 64-bit references are used and suddenly we are wasting a lot of heap space (Java is very much objects everywhere). Usually up to around 40% of heap is references.
> Trade deficit - going way down wrt China

But going up overall [1].

[1] https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c0004.html
If I say I designed X with principal Y in mind, that claim cannot be contradicted or considered unsubstantiated by other people's experience of using X. It's a statement of intent, not of consequence.

> Not to mention that some of their design decisions are objectively bad

Oh, you're just grinding axes. I'm sorry for engaging.
Jacques Mattheij (who often comments on HN) succeeded in doing this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226889

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14280569
The best time to panic is before everyone else does.
Exactly how we used to open .docx file in Microsoft Word, save it, and close the application.
Indeed, not the original title. Speculatively stated like a click-bait.
Nothing - oh I forgot there is 8 new Javscript framwork this week. It's been a couple of weeks since I checked but there must be a new language or 2 out there.
I wonder what flat earthers think of horizon indicators. Or, I guess, the horizon in general.
Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but I think that advertising bitcoin for it's stable value is really disingenuous.

It's a very volatile high risk product.
Fertility rate is below replacement rate worldwide except Africa and a handful of other countries. Even with immigration, it’s still somewhat zero sum (there’s only so much worldwide labor available, less so that can migrate). Even generous government and societal benefits (parental leave, cash transfer payments) have been unable to push the fertility rate up in developed/semi developed countries.

It’s a good thing; the world has too many people to sustain everyone at first world standards, so a managed decline in population (while respecting the rights of existing humans) is optimal policy.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate
And even when things are going great and both you and the company agree that you'll be a great fit, things still come in to screw everything up.

I had a great job lined up, perfect fit for me and them. But my SO has a condition. The pill my SO takes everyday costs ~$1-5 per pill with most insurance companies. The substance is used in horse feed, just like how humans put vitamin D in milk, or iodine in salt, this substance is put in horse feed gratis. It does not appreciably change the cost the feed.

When I looked into the health insurance for the new job, the pill would have cost us ~$100, so ~$3k/mo or ~$36k/year. I, obviously, had to turn the job down.

That US healthcare is completely broken is not just contained to families, but it leaks out over our whole society. A perfect hire, ruined because of shitty healthcare.
> I interview by just talking about their past projects (based on resume). You can't fake your way through a friendly technical dialogue if you haven't done it. (Pre-requisite: the interviewer must be technically competent. This is where many companies miss. Algorithm puzzles won't make up for it.)

I absolutely disagree with this.

I've interviewed people who seemed incredibly impressive, both in terms of showing me actual past projects, and in their explanations of them. I've then gone on to give them simple programming exercies, the kind that people with far less experience take, and they've gotten nowhere on them.

I'm talking a two hour, "here's a computer, here's internet access, here's a setup environment, code this simple thing, which you could probably copy-paste from Stack Overflow / documentation". And they couldn't do it.

And what's worse - I'm pretty sure I could fake my way through most technical dialogues. I mean, not literally everything, but I could probably fake my way through interviews about most technical topics, and given a bit of preparation time, fake my way through most things. I mean, I could probably get caught out if someone was seriously trying to do it - but to the depth that most interviewers get, I can pass as experienced on most things.
So scaling of ICU is already possible to a degree. In most hospitals in case of a major accident (eg terror isn’t attack with many injured) theatres are used as ICUs and all non emergency surgery is stopped. I suspect this will happen in these cases. The main issue is going to be sufficient nursing staffing (ICU requires 1:1 nurse:patient ratio usually).
Thanks for posting! Very useful to me as a partner ;)

Direct Link to Tower "bite-size" game (warning: addictive)

https://storage.googleapis.com/showcase_games/tower_v2/index...
YC has been in existence for over 15 years. Not one viable self sustaining standalone company has come out of it.

I’m not saying that as a criticism to YC, just a statement of fact.

How many profitable VC backed tech companies were founded in the last ten years?
Eh, I was wrong, it essentially has already been declared a pandemic, in as much as that happens anyway:

https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19

"On the advice of the Emergency Committee, the WHO Director-General, declared the COVID-19 outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC)."
I'm excited to see this!
In Echopraxia, Peter Watts argued that group minds invariably become psychotic, if inter-node latency is too great. Which makes sense to me. So arguably no.

And yeah, TFA does considerable bullshit in order to display text. I mean, what is "parastorage.com"?

https://parastorage.com

> Error ConnectYourDomain occurred
If I am working on security critical software I don't try to determine the intent of anyone at all, everyone is assumed malicious and their code/actions reviewed as such.

My question was in a more general sense, do you assume that all mistakes are done on purpose to conceal some sort of plot?
Excellent work!

I am the CEO at SerpApi. If you need a job, shot me an at julien _at_ serpapi.com.
Evaporation is definitely not constant, at all, not remotely. More heat means more evaporation, and less snow means more heat and therefore a shorter journey (on average) back to the gas phase. Aside from climate, it's the principle that underlies mundane things like hair dryers, clothes dryers, and sauce reductions.
Charging stops when the battery is full... pesky explosions.
AFAIK, Elasticsearch is the database system. Apache Lucene is the engine that Elasticsearch uses to perform searches, and the Logstash is the system that retrieves (or receives) data, processes it and gets it into ES.
KASLR: Break it, Fix it, Repeat [pdf]
No one expects the Spanish Exponentiation!
And another note on shards - indexing a shard is a single writer process.

If your drive tolerates parallel writes well (=SSD) having multiple primary shards per node helps scale indexing.
The most interesting developments have been in infrastructure.

AWS has started to take on third-party, open source components e.g. Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB as they run out of things to build. Expect them to continue further up the stack possibly into applications.

Kubernetes has really taken off with every cloud provider having a solid implementation. And it's getting massive adoption within the enterprise as companies look to reign in their cloud cost, simplify their infrastructure and have better DevOps. It also allows them to standardise the NFRs across multiple applications e.g. metrics, logging, security, routing which is more important than ever.

Data Science has seen massive adoption in the last few years within the enterprise space as companies go after the low hanging fruit. Also seeing lots of traditional Data/Reporting Analysts been cross skilled in Data Science and vice versa. It's definitely here to stay for the long term just without the hype.
My understanding and expectation are that it’s up to various actors to build processes/apps that use what data you have and make available to them in ways that are meaningful for their service. You then get the benefit of having YourData in services X, Y, and Z. In your example, your data has a Superwiki presence and a Wikipedia presence, which may not be identical, as its up to Superwiki and Wikipedia to present your data in their own meaningful way.

Assuming each service has the capability to create and store data, that new data is still yours, and other actors could request access to it.

I think this will result in various actors taking on the burden of keeping up with the Joneses—which, I think, would eventually coalesce into similar services establishing their own versions of shared data schemas with their own unique value-adds on top. Of course, these value-adds are likely still your data, and it should create somewhat of a feedback loop for similar, even competing, services. You likely would only be bothered to grant additional data access as the shape of that data changes.
The Canadian tech company that changed its mind about selling your data
I cannot reproduce it on Ryzen 5 3600, Gigabyte B450M DS3H, Prime95 on Linux. (FMA3 FFT length 16K)
> This is with the figures known so far and before there is a vaccine around 2-3%.

There's still a lot of uncertainty around the fatality rate here. For cases outside China, the fatality rate so far is about .2%, compared to about .1% for seasonal influenza. By contrast, in Hubei the reported fatality rate is around 4-5%. (Numbers are as of last week so might be slightly outdated now).

My guess is that the 2-3% estimate is too high. In Hubei there is probably a reporting bias towards counting the more sick cases -- mild or asymptomatic COVID cases are probably being reported less often.
Global, so many countries economies are tied together now there really is only a global economy.
> 2. Buy Almost Always Beats Build

Strongly disagree with that, well maybe it is a good idea when you are over founded by VC where cost of money is equal to zero and you don't want to master what you are working on but in all other cases this is wrong, you shouldn't rebuild everything from scratch but creating a company is not the same as playing with LEGO

And this is the same argument as saying you should have everything in AWS because if you self host you will have to hire devops engineer
Honestly I'd love it if someone did this

I'd just download the next version of their app off the store and save a copy of it, then decompile it to prove my code is there and sue the living shit out of them

I guess that's not an option if you write server code for them though.. I'd probably negotiate to be paid for the work in that case