skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I had tried to account for it, but did not write it since I was hoping to avoid a longer comment and those calculations are more fraught with errors.. Edited my parent comment now to include all of it.
To me his essays are far more important than his role in YC. When I meet a new startup, get talking to the founder and find out he's never heard of PG the first thing I do is send them a link to his essays. I've made life long friends that way, most people are effusive in their praise.

Having started several companies I can truthfully say PG has figured out a lot of stuff every founder faces and it's removes a layer of complexity for everyone.

Can you think of a startup thought leader that is more important? To me it's a very short list. In addition to PG mine would include Mark Andreesen, Steve Blank, Brad Feld and Naval Ravikant.
Generally speaking, ICBMs are strategic weapons exclusively. The tactical version of ICMBs are just tomahawk cruise missiles, and they're in nuclear submarines all around the world just waiting for the signal.
> Like a great stand up comedian, he frequently notices things most of us manage to miss.

How in the world can you make that kind of statement? 'Most of us???'. You say that as if it's an easter egg hunt with 100 participants and PG came up with the most eggs that 'the others clearly could not find'.
Practice Leetcode for half a year until you get good at interview questions. Scour your network for referrals to big companies. Do well on the Leetcode interview you will get. Once you get in work for about a year then say you are unhappy and transfer teams. Go to a distributed systems, ml, ai team etc.
IIRC rice isn't very nutritious, it's just calorie dense. In that regard adding hemp seeds to your diet may do more in the long run.
Even N95 masks are not fully sufficient. They typically block particles at 0.3 microns or larger, but coronaviruses tend to be smaller, around 0.1 - 0.3 microns.

You need an ASTM Level 2 or higher surgical mask to block coronavirus from completely penetrating the mask.

That said, any mask is better than no mask, first because it prevents you touching your mouth and nose with potentially infected hands, and second because coronavirus travels in water droplets which can be stopped by the mask from going straight into your mouth or nose.
Automation of tasks in Microsoft products in general, but particularly Office 365.
Sure. But inheriting a deal is very, very different from originating a deal.
From what I've seen looks like managing k8s on your own often ends up requiring a dedicated team to keep with their insane release cycle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_bulb.

however:

Yan-Chao Li [etal.] ABSTRACT
Swine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus (HEV)
has been shown to have a capability to propagate via
neural circuits to the central nervous system after pe-
ripheral inoculation, resulting in acute deadly encepha-
lomyelitis in natural host piglets as well as in
experimental younger rodents. This study has system-
atically examined the assembly and dissemination of
HEV 67N in the primary motor cortex of infected rats
and provides additional evidence indicating that mem-
branous-coating-mediated endo-/exocytosis can be
used by HEV for its transsynaptic transfer. In addition,
our results suggested that this transsynaptic pathway
could adapted for larger granular materials, such as
viruses. These findings should help in understanding
the mechanisms underlying coronavirus infections as
well as the intercellular exchanges occurring at the syn-
aptic junctions. J. Comp. Neurol. 521:203–212, 2013.

https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.23171

it seems if you are not a swine or a rat you have little to worry about.
I also went from being a developer to being a manager-of-managers and back (after being a manager for 9 years). I've never regretted going back to being a developer.

As a manger, I found it stressful being responsible for the work of an entire team, frequently working long hours to help fulfill commitments. I also found personnel issues stressful, especially having to lay off people. Like you, I enjoy development work much more than management work.
I'm enjoying the thought of software engineers everywhere coming into work with bandanas covering their faces.
Curiosity's 1.8B-Pixel Panorama
They just chill in the sleeper cab the whole way and then "pilot" the last mile?
I live in NYC with my wife and two kids in a 1 bedroom unit in a prewar building. I've never been to the Tenement Museum and it sounds like I don't need to.
No, I think they switched to flooding now:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/03/australia/new-south-wales...
Because capitalism doesn't work like that?

Planning to care for people who don't have enough money for you to make a profit from. Are you a commie!? /s
Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
> 4. for the time being, it's a regulatory issue, just like water use (a single plant use 2-2.5 l/day)

Is the 'plant' there a, say, tree or is it referring to the whole building?
Hey Seth,

Thanks for being the recipient of everyone's (justifiable) frustrations. They probably don't pay you enough.

I think, what is especially frustrating about this, is that we do already pay for resources that are provisioned by our K8S clusters. We pay for the network traffic, the storage, the compute. I saw you mention StackDriver... we pay for that as well.

I can appreciate that actually setting up and managing GKE backplanes is a non-trivial expense, but I generally assumed that that cost was amortized out, just like I don't pay for the backplane that runs GCE and the rest of GCP's service suite.

I also appreciate that you mention some customers are perhaps taking advantage of this "free" resource. But, isn't that quotas are for?

Frankly, more concerning than the fact that now I have a new $73/mo. fee attached to my account (which, is not the end of the world) is that this really comes out of left field, and in the context of concerns about the the nature of GCP's new leadership, and reports of Google leadership debating GCP as a going concern. I realize a lot of that isn't well founded, but it's surprises like this one that keep that narrative alive. AWS ain't no saint, but they are pretty consistently who they are: not full of bad surprises.

This just leaves a bad taste in the mouth, and makes me wonder if I can expect other surprising cost increases, or perhaps, if these don't "work", worse surprises like deprecation notices. Is this the precursor to you all discontinuing GKE because, as the DevRel class likes to tweet, nobody should be using Kubernetes if they can use (more expensive) services like Cloud Run?

Are we about to get Oracled?
Just received an email from Google Cloud -

"On June 6, 2020, your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters will start accruing a management fee, with an exemption for all Anthos GKE clusters and one free zonal cluster.

Starting June 6, 2020, your GKE clusters will accrue a management fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour, irrespective of cluster size and topology.

We’re making some changes to the way we offer Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Starting June 6, 2020, your GKE clusters will accrue a management fee of $0.10 per cluster per hour, irrespective of cluster size and topology. We’re also introducing a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that’s financially backed with a guaranteed availability of 99.95% for regional clusters and 99.5% for zonal clusters running a version of GKE available through the Stable release channel. Below, you’ll find additional details about the new SLA and information to help you reduce your costs."
How can you do it if your equity is in Robinhood?
"The economy" isn't just what happens on Wall Street.
Love Provides a Last Chance
Really, 2%, where? Also, that’s probably going to get knocked down this week given the announcement from the Fed, unfortunately.
There will still be non-air-conditioned subway cars in New York City this summer.
Mpemba effect: Fastest way to heat certain materials may be to cool them first
Now if I could just get Reddit to undo my shadowban, I could congratulate him.
An excellent question. I only have anecdotal evidence to indicate that it continues to hold up. (My family and I continue to use cash for many purchases. I'm a man in my 40's)
Generally industrial scale cannabis is grown via cloning of feminized plants which generally do not produce seeds
> Like serious side effects?

Like what? What can a vaccine do that's worse than a pandemic?

Anti-vaxxers aren't rational people rationally concerned about real side-effects of vaccines, they are superstitious fools who think vaccines give kids autism. (There is NO scientific evidence for this idea whatsoever.)

Remember the Mayan Apocalypse? Remember how everybody stopped talking about it about fifteen minutes after midnight on Jan. 1st? That's what will happen to anti-vaxxer BS if^H^H when a real plague hits.
It’s a hard question. Ultimately it’s a does the end justify the means type of question. I suppose if you agree with the result then yes maybe, if not then probably not.

I don’t know in this particular case how far the truth was stretched but we see this every day in for example advertisement and I think kind of expect it. I do wonder though if there is a version of the world where we can all present the objective truth, or as close to it as possible and have the “right” outcomes. I suspect not, since then you’ll be at a disadvantage to those who stretches the truth a little.
There is massive difference between "powerful people shape ends more" and "the people at the bottom of the class hierarchy have enough problems that complaining about inequality or engaging in politics".

The former is about low chance of massive success and low likelyhood of gaining chance. The latter is attempting to frame everyone who complains about inequality as unauthentic and attempt to pretend that lower class people don't complain.
*facal-oral
I'd love to see a feedback loop of Google and DDG both looking at each other for factual information to deliver alongside search results.
Why having surgery later in the day might be better for your health (2017)
I am not sure if all implementers made the same choices, but for example I believe Microsoft concluded that table-based EH is always better and made not only their IA64 ABI but also their amd64 ABI use it. They keep 32-bit x86 at an older implementation for compatibility reasons, but any ABI introduced later gets the new thing.
Are there any other companies doing managed Kubernetes in GCP?

If there was interest I could try to build a third party clone of GKE running in all GCP regions and still managing GCP VM's, and I could run it for a lot less than $0.10 per hour (although obviously it would take many months of refinement till I could offer a decent SLA)
I think you'd be interested in our Google Cloud for Startups program: https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups
> HN doesn't seem to have the same issue (at least not to the point it dominates the character of the platform), despite it being essentially a clone of old-school Reddit.

That is because PG sets clear rules and actively experiments with techniques to keep HN’s integrity intact, and since HN discussions are usually of the more intellectual variety, it’s harder for shit-posters and bottom-feeders to find traction here with low effort comments.

If you want to read his thoughts, check out his essay:
http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
Uber was testing there because the local city government was easy to work with initially. After their fatal incident, the city became more restrictive, but Google/Waymo had already also moved in and started testing there, and because they didn't have any issues, I presume the city continued to work with them.
Hard to find a chassis with the rest of the accoutrements for long-haul trucking (fuel tanks, etc..) without a sleeper cab.
True. In our experience it's fast enough. Additionally traffic is free unless you hit the 20 TB outgoing traffic per node (which probably will never happen to us). In contrast gcloud costs about 12ct per GB outgoing traffic (!!!).
I mean... if I were Amazon, I'd eliminate those management fees this afternoon just to spite them. I'm sure it's a rounding error as far as AWS is concerned.
My bad. A clever marketing decision made me see the capital SQL as SQL Server since I am used to people saying Postgres, MySQL or SQL.
That's a great observation. Passing on that expertise is what wizened veterans can do to move our capabilities along and not let learning go to waste. I've heard that a big reason for sometimes struggling software engineering quality in countries and companies is places where the only way to grow is to become a manager - you need people to stay in technical paths so they can pass on that learned knowledge.
That's exactly it!

because of the impact of his work- I don't know if I could condemn him- sanitation and child labor laws are huge. but we can't justify his methods, or justify people like him in a modern context. Jacob Riis was also arguably racist- what if it was his racism that got codified into the legal system instead of child labor laws and sanitation? then he'd be viewed as evil, without any philosophical nuance. We can only start the conversation about justifying his methods as worth it after knowing how it all turned out- we shouldn't assume any contemporaries can justify lying today.

so we're left with a profiteering liar, who had a larger positive impact on the world than I can likely hope to have, and that's what makes his case so fascinating.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3373043/?fbclid...

> Quality commercial masks are not always accessible, but anecdotal evidence has showed that handmade masks of cotton gauze were protective in military barracks and in healthcare workers during the Manchurian epidemic.

> The prototype mask achieved a fit factor of 67 for 1 author with a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) panel face size of 4, a common size. Although insufficient for the workplace, this mask offered substantial protection from the challenge aerosol and showed good fit with minimal leakage.
I don't disagree with the idea that the total number of cases is unreported but the WHO said yesterday it's actually 3.4% globally.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/who-says-coronavirus-death-r...
The opposite -- Phoenix has less laws that make them more attractive for virtually everything.
Discover Python and Patterns (18): Layers – Design Patterns and Video Games
That seems like an unusual case because you have an external way to verify the expertise of a top 50 player. You don't have the same for a finance subreddit.
> I've never understood however the need to disable Aero and switch to Windows Classic, which looks gray, boring and feels like using Windows 98 again.

Gray and boring is good. IMHO, flashy computer UIs are for movies and other cases where actual usability is secondary.

I've always switched to Windows classic, because the menus and icons are more compact, and I can better arrange things so I can access them more quickly. I'm not deficient in motor skills, so the the one thing I don't need is giant, colorful buttons.
Show HN: community members showing HN what they've built

Launch HN: YC portfolio companies showing HN what they've built, often within their batch (but can sometimes be years after they went through YC)
> It may also be expected that the symptoms of the patients infected via facal-oral or conjunctival route will be lighter than those infected intranasally.

Where can I buy noseplugs?
Unfortunately there's no agreement that we can actually quantify intelligence in a useful way, and believing that "ability to reason" and intelligence are synonymous, never mind evidence of sentience, is clearly incorrect.

Whatever human intelligence is, it has multiple dimensions, and being "able to reason" - whatever you assume that means - is a tiny element of a bigger picture.

It's practically a universal law of AI that proponents of AI inevitably understand AI in terms of their own niche interests - whether those are chess, go, e-sports, music, or driving. Only a field like CS could conceive of a test where the ability to emulate a conversation by typing lines of text on a terminal might be considered an indicator of operational sentience.

In reality all but the absolutely dumbest humans can operate a body fairly effortlessly, feed themselves and keep themselves clean, express characteristic preferences and act on them with agency, read and respond to human expressions and emotional cues, communicate internal emotional and psychological states verbally and non-verbally, improvise solutions to simple problems, maintain a fairly consistent emotional and psychological outlook that nonetheless develops over time, and make occasional surprising and unexpected - but not inhumanly weird - statements, observations, and actions.

How much of that is considered "being able to reason"?

If there's a way to quantify ability in all of the above, I'm not aware of it.
I'm not surprised that most of the news sources are getting this wrong ... they don't care ... but:

Technically:

* The virus belongs to a large family of viruses, and they are all "Coronaviruses";

* This particular virus is called SARS-CoV-2;

* "Covid-19" is the name of the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2.

Probably no one here cares either, but I thought it was interesting.

For that, the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses has designated the virus itself with the even more memorable title of "SARS-CoV-2".
I don't think any laws allow for fully autonomous. I believe they require someone to be there to take over at all times.
Not really anymore, no

https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/
Meta: please don't capitalize generic terms. Wikipedia calls this article correctly "Decision fatigue", not "Decision Fatigue".

I noticed that lately at HN, Wikipedia articles' titles get capitalized. It's annoying and without any purpose, even misleading.
Oh. My. At this point, I suppose you'd need Wifi for your boat? :-)
The parent's point is about the metric of "death rate for severe cases", which is ambiguous depending on how you define severe. You could pick a definition of severe such that the death rate is 100%, but that wouldn't be super useful.
Very possibly because the olfactory bulb is basically a bit of the brain exposed to the atmosphere. See the illustration on the wikipedia page [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_bulb
> So many car questions come up I'm tempted to write an ebook on it and sell it for $1 - I sold cars in college and have a lot of info on how the sausage is made.

You should, but charge the full price, if you genuinely have useful information. The perceived value of an item changes according to the price you charge.

Given that cars are multi-thousand dollar expense, investing a tiny fraction to get better information is a good return of investment.
Presumably their effectiveness is reduced then, rather than negated. Aren't they just close bound fibres that form a filter?
As a bike/ped advocate, I believe self-driving cars will ultimately be safer than humans. Yesterday I was nearly hit crossing street twice: once by an inattentive driver and once by an intentionally reckless speeder.

Oh the other hand, my brother has done a fair amount of truck driving and I'm aware it's a common job in the US.

Maybe now that Bloomberg has dropped out he get together with Yang and use his billions to start providing a basic income to displaced truck drivers?
The luck part is the timing. As a product there’s nothing about Viaweb that was particularly exotic even for the time.

For comparison, Amazon was founded the year before. eBay was also founded in 1995.

Enabling businesses to sell stuff online as an alternative to phone or fax orders was probably the most obvious commercial application of the World Wide Web.
Arizona basically threw their citizens to the wolves with a 2015 self-driving car law that allowed anything and everything to go (you wouldn't even have to register your cars as self-driving for a period). This attracted tons of firms to test their cars in a lax regulatory environment but since the famous Uber death and a number of self-driving accidents, they have tightened the rules somewhat. I suspect they're still looser than average and there's some inertia from everyone setting up shop there originally.

From the original press release:

> "Part of what makes Arizona an ideal place for Uber and other companies to test autonomous vehicle technology is that there are no special permits or licensing required," the ADOT release said. "In Arizona, autonomous vehicles have the same registration requirements as any other vehicle, and nothing in state law prevents testing autonomous vehicles."

Article with latest updates: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/maricopa-county-sheriff...
Whoa, you weren't kidding. I was prepared for a low-effort Medium post given the formula "what a slight variation on trend X taught me about topic Y".

Instead, this is by turns an essay about: Chinese life under effective lockdown, the nature of creativity, the history of food, and actual recipes. And it does all of those things well!
I read on so many different places on the internet, and I have no idea where this is going. HN is very panicky, 4chan is the same or really in the post-apocalyptic stage. Reddit is extremely conservative / non-panicky (maybe because anything else gets banned). Newspapers and traditional media are all over the place with their panic levels. I don't know what to make of this.
I use to program the F-15 central computer. One went down in Alaska. The computer was underwater for 2 weeks. Once retrieved, we washed the core memory boards in distilled water. We were able to determine the state of the jet when it lost power.
I'm getting flashes of youth, living as new nomads inside the self-driving truck they are leasing from a company.

I think the future I see is both dumb and terrifying.
> We are providing an SLA - a legal agreement of availability and support.

Do I still have to pay the bill first, fill out forms, get account managers involved, at some point receive a partial credit, and repeat this until the delta between what I was expected as the SLA credit and what I got as the SLA credit is less than the cost of the time to fight for another cycle?
Actually, could you elaborate on the benefits of your approach? edit: I am asking because this is counter intuitive to anything I'd want to solve with K8. Specially when it comes as a managed service.
Weird. One would think growing the more lucrative crop would provide money to buy food.
Local hospitals are not going to be able to take masks from some random person off the street.
Rollbar raises $11M Series B to help developers ship with confidence
It's not _just_ abuse. It's not _just_ the new SLA. It's also the additional functionality we've built beyond just Kubernetes and how simple we have made the offering and auto-scaling, etc.
In your own source it is said unproven with detailed explanation:

>If we strip the above-displayed videos of their captions, we can take a look purely at what the videos show. In one case, it looks like a person was the victim of a traffic accident. In another, it appears that a man suffered a head injury. But since these videos appeared online during heightened hysteria about an outbreak of an illness, it’s easy to see how a passerby may have made the assumption that these incidents were connected to the coronavirus.