skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, the VPE is often overlooked in favor of VP Sales or COO when it comes to replacing a CEO that's moved on . . .
I didn't think my comment was ungenerous - apologies.

What I mean is that evidence shows that when a society collapses, the corrupt and evil will explicitly use the state's monopoly on violence to take what you are trying to defend.

Typically they juice this by exploiting local grievances to de-ligitimise your claim to your property and co-opt the local law enforcement with promises of future gains.

Then they will appear at your homestead WITH the local enforcement - who will do nothing when the mob takes yours assets.

At one level this is to discourage you and increase your sense of isolation - to get you to just abandon your assets and leave. At which point they move onto the next property/resource owner.

However, at another level they WANT to to fight back - with firearms preferably. Not only will this still be deemed illegal (under laws passed by the old functioning society) but hopefully (from their perspective) you injure or kill one of the riled-up mob - further de-legitimising you.

At this point, the co-opted law enforcement will step in, arrest you, etc.

Zimbabwe, the Balkans, and Indonesia are text-book examples.

When society fails violently, there really is no hope.

I wish it wasn't thus, but is is and will be.
It's worth pointing out that the Japanese school system's schedule is rotated more towards the beginning of the year from where the US schedule is. They're about to go on their long break, which we usually have in summer they have in spring. So for many students they would be on break starting next week and wouldn't be back in school until April. This just moves that schedule up a bit. The big question that's being asked is, "Will this clear up by April, and if it doesn't?"

Source: My wife works for a non-profit high-school & university level Japanese study abroad program.
Check the dropdown. Select for example "Issues, PR, Projects". Shows 4 days of issues in feb.
Of course there are peer reviewed studies that agree and disagree with everything you say here. It's just a question of how how reliable the peer-reviewed studies on each side are at this point. This strengthens my point that it's ok for some investors to look into improving nuclear.

It's also extremely popular to say that 100% renewables are a done deal because it's such a great story and feeling.

Most serious deep-decarb clean-energy publications I've seen suggest energy costs go up by $30-50/MWh at deep decarb levels. At those levels, current nuclear already competes. People looking at LCOE today (where the rock-bottom wind/solar numbers depend completely on the hugely-fossil grid for backup and intermittency but hide the carbon emissions with impunity) tend to completely miss this point, their bias that wind/solar are cheaper already being confirmed.

Yet there goes Japan with the 33 coal plants!
ever since the beginning of this crisis, countries have been either hiding or underreporting the numbers. lack of adequate testing means that clusters are discovered late, after the virus has had a chance to spread. it's not so much a thirst for disaster as it is a thirst for knowledge so that we can better prepare ourselves. even in the US, the CDC seems at odds with the president as to the severity of the virus and its spread. if anything, it's governments that are "aligning the numbers" so as to avoid mass panic, downturns in markets, etc.
I've played a lot of four-player Splendor, and went two years and three tournaments without losing a game. One of the lessons from that is this: Even if three players are all jockeying for the expensive cards, it is still a losing strategy for the fourth to try to build an engine.

Good players playing against other good players will often grab one or two cheapies in the midgame to deal with resource scarcity. But you simply cannot win by buying cheap cards, building an engine, and picking up nobles. It's just that much slower.

The metagame in Splendor is more subtle, as you say. It's about clever play interaction and depends heavily on the early-game tableau. Does the tableau strongly favor a single color? Then your choice is to jockey for position on that color, or avoid the resource scarcity and go for weaker and/or less-coordinated cards. Does it have a lot of strong cards? Then it's about finding one or two you can get without someone else tying up your resources. Does it have a lot of weak cards? Then it's about finding ways to gain an upper hand for when the stronger cards come out.

Are players holding a lot of chips? Then you need to avoid getting stuck with a poor "hand" of chips - either a full hand that can't buy anything useful, or an empty hand when the chip supply is weak. Are they hoarding the wilds? That's much like the above, but with even more pitfalls.

Unfortunately, there's a skill ceiling to Splendor, and it's fairly low. Once you approach it, improvement is asymptotic, and the luck element of the game spikes tremendously. These days, I don't really like playing without the expansion. But in good news, the expansion refreshes the game wonderfully.
I hope you're right, but 10% or 5% of 300 million people are quite enough to get an epidemic around.
I guess they switched github to run on Windows Server, and they forgot to turn off scheduled updates and automatic reboots!
It's very weird (and annoying). There's some more discussion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22433673
Again, no. Houses shade one another; apartment buildings can shade hundreds of houses. Mandating every home be solar is nonsense, in any practical deployment.

And again, one roof for many families doesn't scale. A solar farm has every advantage over this scheme.
I would say that it really dismisses smoking as a big factor then.
Based on the number of Chinese supercomputers in the public top500 list I don't see any effectiveness to it.

https://www.top500.org/lists/2019/11/
We can conclude that Iran is severely underreporting cases.
Could you setup a local wifi network with monitoring, showing which URLs get accessed in real-time? These days connections are encrypted so you can only see domain names. Then explain that happens when they connect to any public wifi. How can you trust "<restaurant> free wifi" is really run by that restaurant and not the person at the next table?

> Find out their e-mail addresses (if publicly available)

That's probably against data protection rules set by the school.
You can switch employers after i140 (approx 2.5 years) and not lose your place in line.
Looks like they are fine now. Yay!
Again, I see no problem with your approach. One country gets a new employer on the market and another country looses one that's focused on race to the bottom. Win-Win. :)
That just means you didn't read it well enough.
They're worth $30. They sell for $550.

If you steal these wheels, and expect a fence to move them for you, expect to get laughed at. If it were good business, they would already be ordering counterfeit Apple-mimicking casters from China for $10 and selling them for $479.
> "We are living in the healthiest, most peaceful time in history, yet we cannot seem to accept it."

This is true. Seen from a historical context, we're living in a utopia, yet we seem very unhappy about it.
It's an awkward transition period toward a universal virtual machine, universal bytecode format JIT based runtime that runs in browser and out of it. Ultimate cross platformness. The Holy Grail. Lot's of people trying several things that tackle some of it but not all. All of them will perish as all things do but they'll pave the way for the future. Let the revolution begin;
On the "don't stockpile" pleas:

I think it is fine to stockpile before the crisis hits. We are in the stage where that information will affect investment, how manufactures allocate resources, etc. Basically they will respond with an early stockpile signal by producing more. So when the crisis hits, the supply will be greater.

EG - I think we are still in a stage in US where stockpiling is adding more to the production signal than it is actively causing scarcity.

Stockpiling for the purposes of reselling when the demand spikes doesn't strike me as evil either... It seems like a reasonable market solution for distributing items.
You can switch employers 6 months after the I-140 is approved, which may take 6-18 months start to finish. A new employer will have to file a new application but can reuse the priority date (the "place in line") from the previous application.
This seems counter intuitive but makes a lot of sense. If a VC firm thinks they can help a company learn how to drive revenue, then it is easy to make invalid assumptions based on past success. However if you have 5 years of data without revenue growth, they will assume you already did the right things (unlikely) and there is no real market.
Fine is fine.
> Your company can send him back to India - make him leave the country entirely - on nothing but a whim.

That is not true - h1b holders can switch jobs and transfer the visa to the new employer
There's reporting bias. Would you have heard of him if he had survived?
> Your formula has the opposite problem, by looking at cases that have a known outcome you are biasing results towards cases that end quickly (in particular case that end in death).

Unless I'm mistaken, that would only be true if cases that end in death are much faster than the cases that end in recovery. I have found it difficult to find detailed statistics on the topic, so I cannot tell you that it's definitely true or not, but I agree that it's an important variable that should be taken into the equation.
I used tailwind, not for long, until I found basscss.

It comes down to a css library being a utility that defines clean patterns for extension.
I wonder how much stuff breaks if you actually change the pipe size. I bet there’s a lot of assumptions kicking around.
The best chance you have to help him is if you become involved in the hiring process. Is your company currently having trouble finding quality workers? Do they they pay through the nose to recruiters for new placements?

If your colleague were to ask for a raise and imply that he'd be willing to leave the company without one (no need to commit to anything in a negotiation), and your company cannot identify the value he is providing then they may be persuaded by considering the cost of replacing him. If you are involved in the hiring process and explain how difficult it is to find quality candidates and how expensive the good ones are then that might help the company see that giving him a raise is the cheapest and lowest risk option.
Not CSS's fault, it's just how the document is marked-up:

<p>*<strong>Death Rat</strong>e = (number of deaths / number of cases) ...

The fact that it happens consistently is probably a result of copy-and-paste (or equivalently, it's wrong in a report-generating template of some kind that produced each section).
Timescale, and immediacy of the threat. Humans are not good at long timescale thinking.

BTW I don't think these things need to be mutually exclusive. We should take action against all kinds of threats
The reason for the reaction is described in my post. We now have community transmission 50 miles away from my office that was undetected for at least 2 weeks. At the moment, nobody knows how many cases there are.

The flu is less virulent, less deadly, and most people get flu shots which creates herd immunity.
Assuming the worker can find a new employer willing/able to handle the transfer.
Ordinary criminal cases in England split into two categories which overlap to produce a third. The first category is "Summary offences" like maybe you stole merchandise from a shop or you punched somebody in a bar fight but there was no lasting harm done. These are heard by Magistrates, who are just lay people who volunteered and are "of good character" - it's usually like teachers and bank managers and people like that - with no jury, the magistrates are restricted in what sentences they can possibly order, and an actual lawyer sits with them to explain any details of law.

At the other extreme there are "Indictable offences" like murder or rape. These are heard by a Judge and jury, guilt is decided by the jury and the sentence is only limited constitutionally (e.g. "life without possibility of parole" is prohibited as a sentence for any crime, except that it can be imposed for multiple independently conceived crimes of murder)

In the middle is an overlap "Tried either way". This means the Prosecutors can decide e.g. "This was very serious, we need a Judge to impose the harsh sentence we'll request" or "This seems pretty routine, let magistrates handle it". If the magistrates disagree (they meet only as panels of three) they can send the case to a judge for a harsher sentence whereas a judge doesn't need to send cases down to magistrates they can just impose a lesser sentence themselves.
Most schools in the midwest US actually build a school calendar that is 7-8 days (or so) longer than is actually necessary. That way if they have to take snow days, they're not going until July; alternatively, if they don't take snow days, everyone gets excited to be let out early. . . when it's really the legal time to be out of school.
The percentage of severe cases among smokers is definitely higher, although the sample size is small.
Statuspage still isn't green https://www.githubstatus.com/
Due to how interconnected European and American finance and business is this effectively means that Europe cannot trade to Iran.

The Europeans cannot enforce the JCPOA without either some kind of American cooperation or a major decoupling their financial systems from the US. I believe Macron has made public musing about the latter as an option, but then again Macron says a lot of things that lack pan-european support.
I guess the obvious needs to be stated:

If he hasn't even asked for a raise, that is the first thing to try.

Until that conversation has been had, nothing else matters, and he/you know nothing about the situation.
> Why? You can easily keep all state and components within k8s, as MetalLB does.

I guess I should have said "its own state." I mean you can shove just about any software into a container and get k8s to run it but the point is that k8s can't load balance by itself without managing an environment specific external resource. Because I would count BGP as using the router in the same way that it would use HAProxy.

Would "load balancers are necessarily on the outside of the cluster" be better phrasing?
These are 1) very specific norms, and 2) usually owned directly by the culture. Your devout Saudi is going to get upset if you breach etiquette around Islam, but he's not going to go to bat over mild slurs about Hispanics.

Only in the West do they lose their mind defending the honor of people who are not in their in-group. I'm not sure if that is honorable, or just idiotic.
Two species of red panda, study reveals
Modeling Covid-19
There are many of them in Europe and the smaller ones change names quickly.

Turn off adblock and go to finance and forex oriented sites. You will see many ads for them at least in Europe.

A common marketing strategy for them is to offer heavy affiliate comissions and this leads to make-money-with-forex type of affiliate sites. That's another sign.

Bigger ones would be someone like Saxo Bank which started as a bucket shop in 90s and now is medium sized and somewhat legitimate now.

Another sign to be aware is the use of Metatrader software. Up to version 5 now.

I am sure there are turnkey solutions offering a whole bucket-shop as a service.

Even if there are honest bucket-shops you are still betting against the house not against other players in the market. Might as well bet on horses or sports then.

EDIT: nice discussion here on situation in UK: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/is-there-an-actual-ma...
Crockford Base-32 is already perfect. https://www.crockford.com/base32.html
Technical Debt is Soul-crushing
I wonder if the key word is "our" servers. I wonder if they had a weak password on some associated account (accounting software or something).
The driver situation on that USB to ISA adapter must be amazing. I kind of hope it is a VMWare plugin that makes the board appear as a standard ISA bus device to the VM.
If the company could not possibly get that $1,000 in any other way, then yes the employee is worth $1,000. Without the willing participation of labor, a company cannot produce. If labor is fooled or coerced into working for less than it's worth (say, because otherwise they'll starve or lack health insurance), they are not operating in a free market. They are not getting paid according to their value.
You're a delight.
I wonder if anything more is known on the Sunway SW26010 260C 1.45GHz processor which powers world's 3rd best supercomputer:

https://www.top500.org/system/178764
But it’s a different intent visa. L1 is for workers of multinationals being brought to the US for a specific period of time.

You were already employed in a foreign country and get transferred to the US division
> American's aren't super worried about it because we have a great healthcare system,

I am sorry, have you ever been to a hospital? I cannot read that with a straight face at all.

In our culture, providers are more interested with how they get paid than providing care.

People tend to avoid care completely just to avoid the hassle.
doesn't that mean that we can only compute an upper bound on the mortality rate?

We will never know for certain how many cases there are, but _of the cases we know about_ we can compute a reasonable upper bound on mortality. Were more likely not to learn of cases than were not fatal than we are of cases which are fatal as severe cases are more likely to seek treatment.
Some in the West include more people in their in-group. Some are not so tribalistic as imagined. From that point of view, they are defending their own.
> specific probability (which would be an oxymoron)

Not at all. For example, if I flip a fair coin, I can assign a very specific probability to the event that I get heads.

> We know it's a couple of orders of magnitude worse than the seasonal flu

Maybe one order of magnitude. Seasonal flu is about 0.1-0.2% mortality in the US. The evidence suggests that covid-19 is less than 1% mortality.

> hence the extreme quarantine measures to reduce its infectivity to essentially 0

It doesn't need a high mortality rate to justify extreme quarantine measures. The fear is that it will become a perpetual thing, another seasonal illness like the flu. Even if the mortality rate were the same as the flu it would be worth taking extreme measures to avoid that.
The AP article said it was a non-binding order, but they are expected to follow it.
As of this hour, Iran's now at 26 deaths.
Centralization is great, isn't it?
Ask HN: Reference datasets for geolocated crowd behavior
I'm particularly interested in "egress bottleneck" situations like stadiums, nightclubs, etc.

There's a lot of literature on estimating crowd dynamics at a density level from video, but I don't have the hardware or budget for that; also the density-level outputs might not be enough to study emergent behavior. There's also a lot of older literature including sociology, etc. but I can't find a reference dataset for research -- however poor it is, finally.
Still miles better than BitBucket.
This is the truth. People really need to wear some sort of eye protection in addition to a face mask.
Would that mean Covid-19 would progress faster once inside the body?
I assume that could mean an infected person’s immune system could be overwhelmed, hence resulting in a more severe case and even death.
Somewhere, a demonic Japanese child's spell has finally succeeded.
Rejecting input is a valid sanitization strategy, though.
> The node sends out a want for each CID to several peers in the session in parallel, because not all peers will have all blocks. If the node starts receiving a lot of duplicate blocks, it sends a want for each CID to fewer peers. If the node gets timeouts waiting for blocks, it sends a want for each CID to more peers.

Trying to recall how the protocol works. Doesn’t this pattern of behavior mean that a lot of machines will end up with the beginning of a file and few will have the end?
It sounds like the start of downloading would be very fast and the end would slow down while it hunts for a source

May be why this is only 20% faster than Dockerhub.
Agreed. I think we all know at this point that the numbers are not perfect, and that's OK. Also we all need to recognize the hysteria that seems to be ratcheting way up this week.
> they're going to get frustrated if the drivers are fragmented across the different services

Why would consumers care about this? For decades (centuries even!) restaurants managed to make delivery work with their own delivery people. And admittedly pooling delivery people is effective for restaurants that don't do a lot of delivery volume, but there's still really a lot of room for fragmentation.

> All people and restaurants want is somebody to get the food from point A to point B, without a lot of differentiation

Here's the thing though: there's a lot of differentiation! In my experience, delivery that's managed by restaurants tends to be orders of magnitude better than from the apps. The app delivery services bundle a bunch of deliveries together in such a way that your food sits around at the restaurant, then goes all over the city, then eventually reaches you an hour after it was made. This kind of thing rarely happens for me when restaurants manage delivery themselves.

> People go to restaurants so they don't have to cook, but they still pay the time to go and sit and wait

I mean... some people go to restaurants for this reason, I suppose, especially at the low-end of the market. But it's really hard for me to believe this is the primary reason people go to restaurants. If it were, you'd expect restaurants to be quite different.
It was a bit easier for Vietnam, since the schools were closed for Lunar New Year and we just kept it closed. However the government is discussing whether to open it again next week... Potentially bad timing to do so.
In many parts of the world, the government still has regulatory power over private schools in many ways. I wouldn't be surprised if Japan can pretty much shut down all schools for health emergency reasons.
CSS variables are still relatively new though, unsupported until about March 2018 in all browsers, yet the first commit over TailwindCSS is from Jul 20, 2017, nearly a year before browsers even supported the feature. Even today it seems like 11% of users doesn't have support for variables. Could make sense to add support for variables now, but for the sake of backward compatibility, it does make sense to keep it with classnames too.

I love though that as an engineer you would be hesitant to use Tailwind, but you are not aware of how new variables are.

I think Tailwind seems to make sense for any prototypes works and probably even an MVP for a company that still doesn't have a shared CSS that represent the style of the company.
Ask him if he has even asked for a raise. A lot of people negotiate in their heads against themselves to the degree that they don’t even ask. In a lot of companies you won’t get a raise if you don’t ask but you will get a raise if you just ask. He won’t get fired for asking. Worst case that can happen is to hear “no”.
He was in the news well before he died:

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001359040/police-ar...
Why do people who bring up the flu not seem to understand that if your company is big and your office is white collar that everybody there pretty much already has the flu shot if they're not a dumbass?
Is it just me or is your comment really insensitive? I would think that about half of world has no better healthcare system than Iran.
I think it’s also safe to assume that all ~3,700 people onboard were exposed to the virus, so it gives an idea of the exposure vs infection rate as well.