skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're going to pick a number to plan for, it's 570, not 80. Yes, the range of possible values includes 80, but it also includes 1500.

So, what would 570 (out of King + Snohomish County population of 3 million) mean? 22% of the population is under 18, so something like 125 minors would have had it (King County has ~600 schools).

The doubling period is 7 days, so ~275 of those cases would have been in week prior to March 2 and ~570 new cases could be expected between March 3-10. If 20% of those need hospitalization[1], that would be ~100 new beds.

With 570 patients (and 275 new), contact tracing is both impossible and ineffective. Let's optimistically assume that people notice their fever immediately and self-quarantine flawlessly. Even then, we don't know who these people encountered in the few days before symptoms began and can't notify them specifically. Either we accept whatever retransmission rate occurs during that period, or do what we can to reduce it by reducing the population-wide minutes spent within 6' of other people.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/coronavirus-in-i... and others
> but it suggests strongly that the heuristics in malloc either have a bug, or the parameters aren't set aggressively enough

I think the author might be being a bit naive about the role of the allocator. Sure, it could aggressively madvise()/munmap() unused pages to return them to the kernel but as soon as memory is needed again there's a significant overhead to bring it back again. For desktop apps it might be fine to run with few spare pages (and save the RAM) but doing so on a busy server would likely result in different inefficiencies.

jemalloc used to have an option (opt.lg_dirty_mult: https://linux.die.net/man/3/jemalloc) to control how many dirty pages it'd allow to build up before calling madvise(.., MADV_FREE) to give them back to the OS. This allowed one to choose between saving CPU by maintaining free pages or saving RAM by giving them back. Later jemallocs switched to decay-based purging of dirty pages (via a dedicated thread) to get the best of both worlds.
Citation: I run a SaaS company which contributes PRs, in kind contributions and dollars to key open source projects that we use.
The article links to Material Design in literally its first line!
VeraCrypt – Plausible Deniability
So if that’s true, then they’re not doing as I suggested: take a fine-grained approach to the top 500 extensions (including adblocking) to make it possible to create them without having full read/write dom + networking. I believe the content blocking APIs in Safari are a great start and could be taken so much further.
Maybe they should have gone with a slight tweak of the 1963 version https://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BMW_logo_... and scored retro-nostalgia points with the older crowd, too.
I mean, sure, humans don't have radar or ultrasonics.

However, computers don't have human brains, and AI doesn't provide _anything like them_.
Afaik this is common syntax for if/else based only on the the initial condition; I can't remember where it's documented but I think it requires the do_this part to be a single expression. However, bash pitfalls recommends against using && and || except for very basic logic.
Would be good if they could somehow disentangle work from valuable work. Many (maybe most) hold down “bullshit jobs” that create no value and serve mainly as a kind of de facto socially subsidized welfare. The aim of UBI ought to be the elimination of worthless jobs.
I recommend „Capital in the 21st Century“ by Thomas Pikkety, an economist who has deeply studied wealth and income equality using historical data spanning three centuries. This book has all the evidence you need.

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0674979850

Spoiler alert: income from wealth is on its way of becoming close to being as concentrated as it was in the 19th century (especially in the US), and the share of income from work in total national income is decreasing almost anywhere. So yes, increasingly you can only accrue significant wealth by already having significant wealth.
Given the presence of 4k web-dls (original, not reencoded content,) somebody must have the key, or they must have managed to pwn the DRM on an even deeper level, like tapping the memory (which is even worse.)

Another possibility is still a source leak, where 4k content gets lifted off Netflixes own internal content storage.
I think you agree with me but are convinced that we do not agree because of minor differences in wording.
And this is exactly why we have a 7 day work week with 20 hour work days and never retire, because the only measure of us as a people is how much money we produce. /s

Society doesn't become poorer, in fact UBI will probably lower stress and allow more creative thinking and longer life spans with lower medical costs. Even if it doesn't I'd just be happy to know that the people struggling at the bottom have to struggle a little less because, as a person in the middle, I'm happy to give a little bit of my income to someone who needs it more.
Then what happens is somebody making $100+/hour would spend several hours to do the job that would be covered by a tool that costs under $50/month.

It's never that simple, though, is it? Suppose that tool solves a problem that a $100/hour employee would have solved manually in a day. How long did it take the employee to identify and choose the tool, arrange the purchase, and then learn to solve the problem using it? Probably a few hours too. So that $50/month tool had better be useful for replacing that job several times in a year or it's unlikely to be a net win in terms of time and money. It's certainly possible that good tools are far better than that cost/benefit ratio and using them is easily justified, but I'm guessing that in these organisations with hundreds of different SaaS subscriptions only a few of them are in that class.

Of course the elephant in the room is that there used to be another alternative, which was buying a tool outright for say $1,000 and then using it indefinitely, which would be a financial win compared to an equivalent $50/month SaaS tool in well under two years. Yes, there are factors like CAPEX vs. OPEX to consider so this isn't so simple either, but ultimately paying much more money for the same thing is still paying much more money, however you slice it.
I'm not sure anything was proven about people continuing to work during a temporary basic income study. If the basic income provided is temporary as part of a study, why would I leave my job when I know I'm going to need the income from my job after the study is over?
A walkthrough tutorial of TLA+ and its tools: analyzing a blocking queue
As with everything, the interview can be a good place to show you can do it.

Until the moment where you get flushed for some dumb random thing or another. Then the rest all goes down the drain.
Why not require those who go on UBI and not work to give up the ability to reproduce while doing so? It’s not a perfect system but it would reduce the amount of population stuck in the entrenchment.
It's worth pointing out that this _should_ probably increase your estimate from the Drake equation slightly. It means that even if organic 'early life' compounds can arise on planets that nevertheless aren't suited to more complex life, they could still spread to planets that _are_ suited, but don't necessarily have those compounds yet.
I genuinely appreciate this as a Fastmail customer and JMAP enthusiast! Are SaaS companies more nimble in their ability to provide this type of support? Most certainly. I'm just uncertain it applies broadly to SaaS companies in general.
GM unveils a new electric vehicle platform and battery in bid to take on Tesla
Yeh, I hear ya. That’s why I used the word “formulated” rather than “discovered” —- because he really did the work to not just model it, but really implement a system with a very specific formula which he devised and which was the basis of the field we see today.
It removes a shit load of misc. other benefits and all the bureaucracy needed to maintain them. That might not cancel out but it's not purely extra costs.
It's occurred to me for some time now that design has suffered from globalization in that while surely there is some good in the more rapid exchange of ideas, there has also been this hyper convergence in design where it all just kind of looks the same. Consider that in this particular domain, automobiles, you used to be able to clearly delineate design along national lines. There was a clear distinction in Italian design vs American, German, British, Swedish etc. But now?

The thing that bothers me the most about this minimalist trend is how pervasive it is. I quite like minimalism myself, but I feel like 40 years ago even within minimalism you would have expected to see some difference in execution across the globe.

Which brings me to how trendy the design field is in general. I don't think I've seen a field so uniformly go from one trend to the other and then defend it with such dogged bullshit. Who in God's name is fooled by the poetry? You're using the same design language and aesthetic as everyone else, the only thing creative is the nonsense you're writing to defend it. Why is a field full of 'creatives' so uniform in thought and expression? How many trends have we witnessed so far in web/graphic design? We've built all these powerful creative tools just so they can end up all making logos that look exactly the fucking same. Surely machine learning models can create a good percentage of the design we see today.
> I've never thought that a black or a Hispanic should be treated or thought of badly because of his or her race. Nor do I think that my thoughts and experiences should be discounted because I am a white male.

That's nice, but in what way is that not a non-sequitur.
What makes the people in Singapore New York and silicone valley more productive? The fact that they work in successful businesses and earn lots of money? So what? Tobacco is a successful business.
How can you even define more economic output? You can't, you just use a very flawed proxy for economic value, money exchange.

I believe a good teacher is 100 times more productive than a software engineer. But that guy that wrote some tracking code earns a boat load more money. So you consider him more productive.
That's just a huge fallacy. Value cannot be fully quantified, we use proxies for that reason, but we should always remember that.
That's a fair point, and I'm not trying to say everything Elon is doing is bad or wrong. I wish his other projects got even a fraction of the attention his space project gets.
I wish that Folding@Home was on BOINC. It has an awful interface/uses a local webserver to control it. I'm glad they're doing something, but they should make the experience more user friendly, I usually stop out of frustration with starting/stopping.
Where did you get that? UBI won't help people that get free housing in NYC UBI doesn't work with HCOL areas.
> They had the right formula when the i3 originally came out

An overpriced design study with huge panel gaps everywhere?
Slack has channels, each channel has messages, each message has threads. Zulip is basically the same, only you have channel namespaces (streams), channels (topics) and threads (messages).

It's like if you had one channel per topic in Slack, only they're much easier to follow/mute/display.

> Couldn't you achieve the same by namespacing Slack channel names?

You could, but that's super heavy. In Zulip, creating a topic is as easy as replying, and everyone in that stream sees the topic by default, so you don't need to invite people to each one separately.

The most accurate simile really is "Slack, but everything in a channel is a thread, no messages".
Incredible resource
Does such a rule only apply to SaaS with a contract term? If it applies to all SaaS/subscriptions, I feel that's not an appropriate characterization.

There's value in having options. If a company had to wind-down some operation or segment, any CapEx in that segment could be considered lost (after applying a discount equivalent to x time using a subscription service, of course). With SaaS you can just terminate any no-term-contract/month-to-month/pay-as-you-go expenses.

That flexibility is extremely valuable and makes the company more flexible. Heck, I'd argue accounting should apply an expected future cost discount to such expenses.
KDE's Konsole has it at CTRL+ALT+K by default.

The command "tput clear" should work everywhere though. And frankly, while obviously more work than a keyboard shortcut, it's not that much of an effort.
Docker Desktop for Windows Home is here
Sorry, can you clarify what lesson people who never were given a chance at an education should be learning?

Maybe, instead of getting all social darwinist, we could actually take stock in the fact that we have enough that we can afford to share with those less well off than ourselves.
Come on over to AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/activate/
I don't know, did piracy kill the music industry's ownership model or was SaaS just more popular/lucrative/financially gamable?

My take is that SaaS is just a more predictable business model with fewer operating complexities and easier sales funnels.
Recruitment, payroll, HR, facilities are other costs.
Let's hope the power supplies in this are better than HP's usual shit.
This article reminds me of posts about "bullet journalling" on sites like Pinterest: the optimization of the productivity process or tool (or in the case of "bullet journal" posts, the beauty of the tool) is the end itself, not a means to an end. The posts are about/by "productivity" or "journalling" enthusiasts and don't map well to people who are simply seeking a bit of an organization or productivity boost, not an extremely time-consuming new hobby.

The thing in this article that most reminded me about beauty-journalling posts was the todo list. In vanity journalling circles, the todo lists are full of meta-tasks "post to instagram; new journal layout; blog post about journalling" as well as pure vanity items like "yoga!; Breakfast: saffron avocado toast (yum!!)" Likewise, in this post his todo list includes items about writing about productivity, using other productivity tools, and other such "meta-productivity" items.

There's nothing wrong with this but it reveals that the "productivity" itself is the hobby, not just a means to an end.
All things are fungible
Honeywell is now making quantum computers
Or a simple HDMI defeat and re-encode. It only takes one guy to put it out on the net. DRM is an inherently flawed concept.
Obviously brand identity is used to present a positive image of a company, regardless of the particular style. Are intricate "old fashioned" logos (like often seen on luxury brands or financial institutions) less manipulative? Of course not.
I'm not saying this is wrong or right, but perhaps some people feel everyone has a duty to do something meaningful to push society forward, otherwise they are essentially free-riding on everyone else's sacrifices.

And that something may very well be as broad a goal as "do your very best, everyday".

Sure, you can't force people to see the world through that same lens, but you can certainly pick partners based on traits which you admire, ambition / grit presumably being one of such traits.
It's not just because of piracy. SaaS has other advantages like making customer support easier, drive continued development with little risk, have easy cross-platform support, easier and more accurate usability testing, etc.
I really love flat designs and I'm a huge fan of this trend, but this logo looks so awful.

I'm really bad at design and this looks like a sketch made by me when I have an idea and I want it to show it to a designer.
Implementing Raft, Part 3: Persistence and Optimizations
That skill is so trivial to learn compared with the skill of surviving and building up income from nothing.

Rich people literally just need to not be complete idiots - if you've got 300 million in the bank put it in some low interest stable investment and you'd be able to live off the investment earnings alone. There, I just explained all the life skills you need as a rich person - there is no equivalence between the road the rich and the poor need to walk to survive.
As I wrote before:

http://thoughts.davisjeff.com/2009/08/02/what-is-the-deal-wi...

"NULL semantics are designed to make you think you understand them, and think that the semantics are intuitive, and think that it’s part of some ingenious consistent system for managing missing information. But none of those things are true."

Any explanation you come up with does not generalize to other cases. NULL is just a bunch of special cases piled on top of each other, and really only kind of works because SQL is not designed to be very extensible (and to the extent it is, the standard doesn't give much guidance on how NULL should behave in these extensions).
Nonsense. Enterprise customers almost always paid 20-35% maintenance on perpetual software.

Places that I’m familiar with had SaaS spending went through the roof because of Microsoft, Oracle and Adobe. Actual spend hasn’t gone up and in many cases gone down as the usual software company overselling bullshit is easier to avoid.

On the flip side, the treadmill and all or nothing approach to the rental model kills small vendors. At one place I know, we purged 60% of vendors. Companies who are obnoxious rent seekers are easy pickings too. You can pretty easily purge them, as you’re on an upgrade treadmill anyway!
I wonder how much of this flows through the AWS/Azure/GCP.
Alternative headline:

25% of people receiving free government money quit their jobs
The problem I have with all of these studies is that they only look at the receiving side of the equation. In other words, their experiment is not a closed system where their subjects have to also provide the free money to each other, which is what UBI proposes.

The results therefor are completely uninteresting -- do people's quality of life go up when you just give them free money, no strings attached? I would certainly expect so! I don't think this is news to anybody. But what about the people paying for the UBI? If their taxes have to go up 3%.. 5%.. 10%.. whatever it is, then any respectable study of the affects of UBI has to at the very least take into account the negative affects on the paying population, if there are any. Otherwise, the conclusions we draw are probably going to be disastrously wrong.

An other way of thinking about it is with a thought experiment. If scientists didn't consider the full affects of their experiments on the entire system as a whole, then they could easily show that entropy decreases over time, or that momentum or energy or mass are not conserved.

So, I'd like to see a study where participants are divided into payers and recipients. Perhaps, 90% are payers and 10% are recipients, and we track not only the benefits in lifestyle that the receiving 10% enjoy, but also look for any drops in quality of life suffered by the 90%.
If anything about the topic of how to scale infrastructure actually makes you angry, you need to see a therapist.
The Bavarian flag is white-blue, BMW is blue-white ;)
Kubernetes solves very real problems in a way that handles a full suite of them.

This is very complex because the problem set is complex.

If you're running a substantially smaller system, k8s makes less sense.

That said, if you're familiar with running and monitoring k8s, a gke deploy will solve a lot of the pain a traditional LB + EC2 ASG will incur out of the gate. Let me explain:

Notionally, we need 4 basic services operationally for a single typical service deployment. 1 of FooService, 1 load balancer, 1 database, 1 monitoring/logging system. All of these should tolerate node death; this means roughly 3 pieces of hardware for this notional system. This is complexity that k8s covers, at a high cost of knowledge. If you're bought into AWS, the Beanstalk system will do this decently well, last I checked.

I think there is room for a k8s-like tool that is good for teams with < 10 services, and less than 10 engineers. Even k3s (https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/) has substantial complexity at the networking layer that, I think, can be stripped for the "Small Team".

So I agree with the author in theory that k8s is overkill. But also other infra types can start getting difficult to deal with in time, and "just deploy onto a single big box" doesn't cover the operational needs.
How often do you build in house tooling or applications that have no ongoing operating commitments?

Absolute zero ongoing commitments? Very rarely.

Negligible ongoing commitments compared to the outsourcing alternative? Many, many times.
Nine out of 10 people found to be biased against women
alternative headline: 25% of workers quit their job after receiving free government handouts
Question is how much would it cost to host in-house, taking all costs into consideration (personnel, regulatory, etc)
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Actual HTML anchors require code execution. Like I get that there is a culture of resentment of JS on this site, but the hyperbole is a little absurd. HTML and CSS engines execute code! They can also be made to behave poorly and slowly. JS can even be used to improve those behaviors for some things. One way that's relevant to the parent comment is that scrolling to anchors can be offset to accommodate flexible-height content that obscures them in normal HTML/CSS.
> did piracy kill the music industry's ownership model

yes
Starting around 3:40 of the video in that link, you can see simulation of hypersonic combustion turbulence
My understanding is that people who torture you don't know what you don't know; so they don't know when to stop. As such, they'll keep torturing you way past the point where you've admitted to everything you know. This is why information obtained under torture is considered unreliable: eventually you'll just say anything to stop the torture; further admissions will support the use of torture as an information extraction tactic, and then lead to more torture.
There is also org-drill that implements spaced repetition in org mode.
Using identical twins, they find outcomes are basically identical.

And really this only applies to 0-5. After that, kids go to school.
If you want to change history for the better you will do the better for the people now. Putting up with brutal working schedule reminds me of the coal mines of England on industrial revolution, no coal mine owner or worker from that time comes to my mind now.
This mentality is how we end up with overly engineered piles of dung. Instead of building something in the most simple way practical which would fulfill our requirements, we go all out. Now changing things takes longer because to do anything you have to weave through 10+ layers of opaque abstraction. No thanks.
The book Sapiens has a similar message. The children of farmers who move to textile manufacturing were worse off than their parents in the 1800s. But the great great grandchildren of those people have material wealth greater than upperclass people in the 1800s when comparing clothes, entertainment, transportation, health care. And none of them would prefer to live as an 1800s farmer today.
I was in a car accident once and injured my neck. I got a lot of mental fatigue afterwards and in particular the angle of my neck can trigger a lot of tiredness very quickly and reliably. It comes with a swooshing squirting sound in the back of my head... iirc other people can hear it too when it happens.

I can’t help but wonder if it’s related to this rinse system in some way. Luckily it has improved a ton over the years but a bent neck still triggers it and I never found out why