skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but it makes a lot more sense to me to do that by intentionally delaying the input/output. You'd get a lot better control without depending on the whims of internet traffic.
I run a hobby project in multiple zones because low latency is important, and Kubernetes makes it easy to do so.

There's no way I'm going to pay an extra $73/mo -- I already pay for the computing resources, this should be free.

Looks like I'll be moving away from GKE. It's a shame, I _was_ a big advocate.
I thought papers dealing with this virus were to be made available publicly?
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I love tarsnap's usage-based pricing, but I think it only works because there's exactly one metric that they're using to charge me (bytes stored per time).

If you're trying to charge for a service or set of services but your costs vary depending on your customers' mix of usage (imagine you're hosting files, and customers pay you both for storing the files and also for ingress/egress), suddenly you either have a complicated pricing model ($X per byte-month stored, $Y per egress byte) or you have to simplify the model down to one metric, but this has its own problems.

Say you simplify down to just charging for storage. A few customers are going to figure out that you have "free" ingress/egress and they're going to use your service as a CDN that's cheaper than any other CDN, and now your costs are misaligned with what you're charging. Or if you decide to just charge for ingress/egress but not for bytes stored, a few customers are going to figure out that you're a "free" AWS S3 Glacier service and again your costs are misaligned with what you're charging.

You can write a ToS that prohibits this and you can track down these users, but now you're engaging in adversarial behavior.

I agree with the author that it's best to charge based solely on usage with a pricing model that isn't too complicated, but if your service isn't amenable to a simple pricing model, the next best thing is enterprise pricing -- because you want to find customers who are going to be price- / billing- insensitive, who need your service.
One zonal cluster per billing account is free
Title: "Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China"

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

from the Lancet article:

"In view of the high amount of cytokines induced by SARS-CoV,22, 24 MERS-CoV,25, 26 and 2019-nCoV infections, corticosteroids were used frequently for treatment of patients with severe illness, for possible benefit by reducing inflammatory-induced lung injury. However, current evidence in patients with SARS and MERS suggests that receiving corticosteroids did not have an effect on mortality, but rather delayed viral clearance.27, 28, 29 Therefore, corticosteroids should not be routinely given systemically, according to WHO interim guidance."
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Ternary operators and better Get-Error output are very welcome additions, Ive been writing a few infrastructure testing tools in Pester that could possibly be consolidated.
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I too recently started using reddit for personal finance r/investing.

I was lucky in that my mom instilled the need to put money away for retirement, which I did as soon as I graduated college. On the flip side, both my parents were secretive about their finances. It was until now, as I am ensuring I am aware of my parents wishes through their golden years, that we are having honest discussions about money.

The benefit I see is that many of the subs promote transparency. My college friends and I also discuss openly our savings and investing strategies.

My financial goals are:

1) be able to live near my current lifestyle at retirement

2) Ensure both my children have money should they suffer a catastrophic loss near middle age, as my parents did for me.
Time to start looking into DigitalOcean more seriously.

G Cloud is already unreasonably expensive and nearly impossible to price manage. It's cool to see them double-down on that.
PDF (link buried within the page): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jmv.25728
Lots of comments here. This is one area where either you have tried or you haven’t and you have either succeeded or failed (to get to the next step).

I tried, (left my job, put my time and money on the line), had some small wins, but ultimately failed. Looking back, not getting in to YC was probably not a significant driver in the business not working.

That said, when you have your money and reputation on the line, validation is very valuable, and those that say it isn’t, either haven’t done it or are truly unique.
They could have also paid him out, and then told him they didn't want his participation any more. That would have been much more ethical.
A true story about an autistic boy and his father who spent a whole night drifting after a riptide pulled them out to sea: https://www.mensjournal.com/features/lost-in-the-waves-19691...
You don't keep tanks around for what happens before the nuclear bombardment, you keep them around for afterwards. Most nuclear assets are pointed at either other nukes or military infrastructure; you'd still a large amount of civilian infrastructure around filled with angry civilians that would want to finish the fight one way or another before nuclear winter fucks everything. And tanks being tanks a fleet would survive everything short of nuclear carpet-bombing fairly well
If it did turn out this virus is neuroinvasive and that is what causes acute respiratory problems, how would this be prevented/mitigated/treated, theoretically?
Source added in my post above. The number comes from this guy: https://www.charite.de/en/service/en_person_detail/person/ad...
We get this question a lot in /r/PersonalFinanceCanada/ and the 'towards retirement' answer is the "mathematically correct" one because most mortgage rates are <3% but equity returns are >5%.

However, in Canada, if you put money into your RRSP, which is a tax-deferral account, you get a refund: so a popular option is to save for retirement and use your tax refund for your mortgage.

Lastly, the other thing generally mentioned is the observation that some people are just uncomfortable with debt 'hanging over them'. So if it helps you sleep at night, there's nothing wrong with paying it down, as long as you recognize that there is a "financially better" option.
Even if the side effects are cancer in a year? Strong, consistent headache? Organ poisening? Permanent weakening of immune system? ...

And you would have to be very old and with strong preconditions, to have a 30% death chance with corvid-19. And then any side effects would be even more fatal.
Yes. I simply don't even consume gluten. This is pretty easy in the UK as it always has to be mentioned in bold type on any food packaging. I simply don't eat if I am unsure of the providence of the food and I am always going through the trash double checking food other people prepare for me but people are used to my oddities.

When I travel it is a nightmare as few other countries have packaging rules as good as the UK.. being in Amsterdam was a particular nightmare, it's as if no-one there is celiac (or uses a toilet, but that's another story).
Apparently it's quite a bit more infectious. This coronavirus is something like 1:2.5, whereas the typical flu is about 1:1.

People do worry about the flu, too. This past flu season in Australia was particularly rough, and it was all over the media. It came up in day-to-day conversation.

Part of the reaction is political, too, ostensibly to appear to be actively doing something, e.g., Los Angeles declaring an emergency for 9 infections.
Let me guess.. annuities? VULs?
Hemp is not the same strain as Cannabis producing plants, also Cannabis is harvested from the flower and so you don't typically get seeds.
The point is fair, except that PG is not your average dummy. Revelation is usually (tbh) in hindsight anyway, and PG has seen a lot.

That said, I don't enjoy his essays one bit. They are not thought provoking, they don't offer any real lessons, they are his thought of the moment. Like how he had kids now he likes to talk about having kids. We don't need more blogging (esp. not in tech blog) about the things you can only know if you actually have kids anyway. Reading it is a waste of time. Writing about it is actually fantastic for the author, so I don't fault him. Writing is great. But the cult of personality that actually draws readers rubs me the wrong way. His are poor writings, for audiences I mean.

I'd rather watch TK than PG.
Interestingly, I saw that PowerShell 7.0 was the default level of documentation when I was browsing Microsoft docs yesterday and figured I must've missed the announcement.

I like the pipeline parallelization feature, I wish more languages offered simple semantics like this to just parallelize some basic tasks.
Sure, in this case I can see that. I was referring to those four points with respect to Google services in general. I'm sure I don't need to dig up a list of features and services that have been merged, shuttered, price hiked or moved into a different product suite over the years. Admittedly a lot of the issues are with the GSuite side of things, but it's sad to see this coming to GCP as well.

On a hopefully more constructive note, if this is the way it's going to be from now on, I would at least expect to see an exemption on such a management fee/SLA on preemptible nodes - having an SLA and management fee on the cluster whereby nodes can be killed in a 30 second window without prior warning seems to be a little more than pointless.
While you don't get as much "blogspam" on Reddit, it has a very different problem today: The amount of misinformation and echo chambering of said misinformation on Reddit is simply staggering.

Very few subs have FAQs or rules asking newbies to search the sub for their question. As a result, most of the subs I follow are littered with the same questions over and over.

The other problem is that when someone does ask for advice, the quality of the advice is usually somewhere between mediocre to terrible. I think this is largely because there is no incentive for experts to stick around in subs to provide good answers. And because they are tired of giving the _same_ advice over and over. This gives space to the non-experts who don't _really_ understand the concepts behind the advice they are giving and end up giving bad (and sometimes dangerous) advice because that's what they were told by other non-experts in the same situation.
YC (and other VC) doesn’t seem like selling shovels to me.

If you’re selling shovels, you can succeed without any of your customers ever finding gold again. You happily sell shovels even if you knew the customers could never find gold.

When you’re buying percentages of multiple companies, you need somebody to succeed for you to succeed.
I see excitement, but not jobs.
Click on the "Full Text Article" link on the right.
> But it may correlate with performance...

Can't really argue with that sort of hedge. I'd even go so far as to say it does correlate with performance on a completely artificial benchmark. But that's a far cry from "it faithfully describes computational power" that would justify the headline in question.
I hear this a lot, but like others are commenting, I also hear a lot about Windows XP boxes with word 03 setup w/ the macros they need running to this very day. I'd love to see something other than anecdata.
Yeah I mean we don't have to go far to find someone that actually is taking a risk. Peter Thiel comes to mind.
It's also still used successfully as a medicine for a number of uses.
Good stats on number of cases, deaths, recoveries etc: https://thewuhanvirus.com/

Comparisons to H1N1 and SARS included.
Here is a quick demo of the product: https://youtu.be/0zZeotpaEio

Sorry we didn't post it earlier!
And vitalism fails because alleged vital property is undefined or tautological.

The most fun offshoot is philosophers moving qualia (perception-associations) out of the realm of neuroscience just enough every time there's an advancement.
There seems to be a PDF link floating around:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jmv.25728

[edit] Or you can just click the very tiny "PDF" link on the linked page that I apparently missed the first time.
Note: Azure does not charge a master/cluster management fee (bias disclosure I work for Microsoft)
When even the bribe excuse ghost writer is on minimum wage.
But did they really? The problem is that the RCMP now has no credibility. "No we didn't use it" - then caught redhanded with a switch to "Yes, but we saved children".... Sounds a lot like throwing out a reason - any reason at all - to avoid having people discuss that the police are actually directly lying.

Hopefully they really did help some kids out but I simply don't believe them. They got caught in a lie and are frantically searching for a way out. And that really bothers me - I should be able to trust the RCMP but this is just another step in their ongoing pattern.
The site is horrible in a sense of trying to figure out what you are buying. Also things like hard drives are usually removed, so you may be looking at a pallet of desktop towers that are unusable until you do some work to them.

I never purchased anything off that site but I did turn stuff into the department that had the responsibility to list stuff on that site.
Ah, the sound of former Oracle executives counting their GCP bonuses.
Best solution I've come up with - if your allocation model says to put a certain % of your savings in cash, that cash will undoubtedly work better for you if you send it towards your mortgage. That way you sidestep the whole "but it might make more money in the market!" thing. (At least, until interest rates start rising a ton.)
He means that there was a sales pitch from all gcp sales guys to not charge for that. 99.95% is not enough IMO to charge 73$/mo.

As someone else noted, it breaks a lot of recommended architectures where you would have auto provisioning and a lot of clusters to separate concerns and keep costs down.

Finally, the pricing changes are starting to look like a pattern, every time Google deems the usage of a product is good enough, they will increase the price.

They are the Ryanair of the cloud.

Edit 1: moreover, it will increase the cost of composer, and on top of that, the recommended pattern where composer is paired with a kubernetes cluster for executing the workloads
"Anthos GKE clusters are exempt from this fee"

Adopt Anthos or pay, basically.
The obvious risk here is that you're combining a rush job with limited oversight, and large-scale distribution. So any mistake that would have been caught by the existing process will instead have the potential to roll into a global disaster.
I imagine that WSB is the internet version of what young wallstreet professionals are like.

Go out into the late evenings, drink excessively, do designer drugs, party it up, all while mixing locker-room talk and investing strategies.
I think I somehow missed the quality content phase. Always felt like glorified Yahoo Answers, to be honest.
From the paper:

> If the neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 does take a part in the development of respiratory failure in COVID-19 patients, the precaution with masks will absolutely be the most effective measure to protect against the possible entry of the virus into the CNS. 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. The possible neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 may also partially explain why some patients developed respiratory failure, while others not. It is very possible that most of the persons in Wuhan, who were the first exposed to this previously unknown virus, did not have any protective measure, so that the critical patients is much more in Wuhan than in other cities in China.

This is a good example of why writing off COVID-19 as no more dangerous than the flu is itself so dangerous.

I should also point out that most people in the US face similar conditions to those in Wuhan. The extent of infection is not known, and therefore protective measures are not in place. We have been actively discouraged from "buying masks" and told that they are ineffective.
Perhaps more aggressive early antiviral therapies?
You raise a very good point here -- personal users are more likely to be price-sensitive but corporate users are more likely to be grief-sensitive (as in they don't want to deal with problems, they're willing to throw money at problems to make them go away to a certain extent).

It's up to service providers to market themselves effectively to the 'right' audience if they want aligned customers.
Spot on with my experiences. I had a great honeymoon period with Cypher via Neo4j but then the cracks quickly started to show.

It was a valuable learning experience but I find myself moving back toward SQLy and JSONy things for production models.
>They go out of their way to show garbage.

Citation needed. Searching "index funds vs etf" on Bing gives ads for the first five results, while Google shows a card thing and organic results.

If you're going to accuse them of deflecting, at least show evidence that it's not just the whole internet.
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If you start a business of digging holes and you manage to get seed funding of $1000, and you pay two persons $500 to dig a hole and to fill up the other hole afterwards, you end up with nothing. But the two persons have $500 each.

For the economy, the money isn't gone. Hopefully the new owners of that money use it to invest in better ventures.

All that was lost was time and energy, but not money.
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Have you found any tools for writing custom dashboard in netdata?

The docs are really light and custom dashboards seems to involve hacking the default HTML and pulling out all the components (javascript/divs) you need. I thought about writing my own, but have too many projects already.
Hard to assess someone's actual management or overall experience for that matter, based solely on their linkedin profile. I have had 30 year execs that were not worth the air they breath and out of the gate interns with the skill and willingness to take on the challenge. Most of their points seem to be in line with my experience (20+ manufacturing) and I think I will likely try some of the add-ins they have listed.

Wasn't a big fan of the number of solutions in-progress, but I have seen F100 doing it before. Seems to be an interesting strategy to get folks to come back to the article at a later date, I wonder if it works.
Not just the US. Crucially, Wuhan and I think also the rest of Hubei pretty much only tested patients who showed lung abnormalities on CT scans, so only the more severe cases were diagnosed. The WHO knows this. In fact, they've been appearing in the pages of the New York Times and anywhere else that'll have them and gushing about how great this Chinese testing methodology is and how everyone should copy it.
"The judge ordered disclosure of Darkspilver’s identity to Watch Tower’s lawyer, so the organization could try to shore up its legal claims."

Does this mean Darkspilver's identity was reveled to the Jehovah witnesses after all?
I'd like to see aerogel batteries one day.
I think Netanyahu (sp?) just recommended the Indian "namaste" greeting (put your hands together and nod). Excellent idea.
Given this news, I suspect that won't last.
DO is pretty famous for losing data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225665
Source added, excerpt here:

Professor Christian Drosten from the Charite clinic in Berlin, Germany, estimates the virus could infect up to 70 percent of the world or 5.2 billion people.

He said: “Presumably between 60 and 70 percent of the people will get infected but we don’t know in what timeframe.

“It can be two years or even longer. It will be more problematic if the infections occur in a short amount of time.

“That is why authorities are doing everything to recognise the origin of infections and slow down any further spread of the infection.”

According to Professor Drosten, the coronavirus epidemic could even match the Asian flu pandemic of 1957 and the 1968 flu pandemic, which began in Hong Kong.

In the former case, the Asian flu is estimated to have killed between one and two million people.

Professor Drosten said: “If the whole pandemic process lasts two years, we will manage.

“If it is only a year, it will be much more difficult because many more cases will occur all at the same time.

“The necessary number of beds for patients requiring intensive care unit therapy is difficult to predict.

Presumably between 60 and 70 percent of the people will get infected

Professor Christian Drosten, Charite clinic

“If we don’t do anything now, they may not be enough.”
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If we can make a faster or parallel perfect copy that would be rather valuable - uploading, copying and "fork/join" of minds would be rather useful.
Seasonal flu has an R0 value of ~1.2 [1] while the estimate for COVID-19 was estimated at 2.2 [2]. This can be interpreted as each person infecting 2.2 other people vs. 1.2, the spread of the virus will probably be exponentially faster.

1: https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471...

2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32097725
Nice! "Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, Alcock" and "Evolution, Ridley" were mentioned in the seminars if you want to put some more books on the list :-)
It's not pure speculation at all - it's a very active field of research that currently points to the fact that consciousness is a spectrum.
There are animals that recognise themselves in the mirror and have a clear concept of self versus other. There is evidence for plants communicating with each other by various means.
So asking "when did our species become conscious?" is akin to asking "when did you become an adult?" and expecting a specific date or event as a reply...
The coronavirus is a magnitude deadlier than the flu, according to all studies I know of that attempt to estimate the Infection Fatality Ratio. The IFR is estimated between 0.5% and 1.6% which is between 5x and 16x deadlier than the flu (0.1%): see links to the 4 studies at https://blog.zorinaq.com/case-fatality-ratio-ncov/#updates--... Given that the flu kills half a million per year, I'll let you image how many could be killed by a disease a magnitude deadlier... But of course the death toll will depend on how the world reacts to the outbreak. If every country implements measures as severe as China by locking down most major cities worldwide, we may limit damages.

Incidentally, the upper end of this range makes COVID19 comparable to the 1918 Spanish Flu (IFR ~2%) according to experts (for example see https://institutefordiseasemodeling.github.io/nCoV-public/an...). And keep in mind the IFR, unlike the CFR (Case Fatility Ratio), is the metric that takes into account undetected mild or asymptomatic cases.
Is there? I've never noticed precedence differences, and I would find that crazy!
Given that this is so similar to the previous SARS epidemic, how did that whole thing eventually end? Was a vaccine created? Did it just naturally fizzle out?