skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No city wants to become the center of a health crisis. If they didn't cancel it there was going to be a shitstorm of bad press for the Austin leaders and the city in general.
Millions of dollars will be lost, but the health of millions + the reputation of the city was at stake. That was the right call IMHO.
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I get it.

But if I get the virus, sure I'll probably be ok. Others that I pass it to might not.

I'll need to self isolate, which means I'll need to stay away from my children and parents for two weeks? four weeks? That's going to be very hard to do. Maybe I could stay at home with my children and they will be fine, but then they will need to be kept isolated. How long will the stigma and fear around them last, six months? How long till the rest of my family are comfortable letting my kids see their grandparents again. If I get the virus, it will be very difficult to do all the things I'll need to do as a responsible adult.

It would be magnificent if we all treated this like a natural disaster and for the next two months, not in a state of panic in which we're all gunning to be the last player standing, but from an intention of mutual aid - do what we can to make it very difficult for viruses to transmit - wash our hands, wear masks and disposable gloves out in public, clean surfaces with disinfectant wipes. In two months this might be gone.

It's a small, thin hope, but what if we can use this current enigmatic and existential crisis, to practise co-operating to handle the much bigger crises that loom further ahead in the century?
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It took a while to get there, but this is the right call. All the other big conferences have cancelled, holding this would have been terrible PR.

Question is: How far out does your conference have to be for you to not cancel right now?
Also One-Time-Pad is uncrackable and dead simple to program and you can do it with pen and paper. The cat's out of the bag for the baddies.
Paul Graham isn't so sure: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1236032074232012807
I was always told that in the UK it's illegal to give a negative recommendation (in itself an oxymoron, and who gets to define 'negative'?).

The way around it is that employers can decline to make any statement at all, which is then taken as a negative.
This would be fine and dandy and all part of an exciting narrative if not for the fact that torture in the real world is incredibly unreliable. Top Google results are mostly politicized so here's Wikipedia on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effectiveness_of_torture_for_i...
Think industry financial firmo graphics type data. Not your CC transactions.
Also, I am not a moral compass. I have just done enough to feel proud of what I do while still making bank.
1. Young people interact with older people and those with pre existing conditions, and can pass on the disease.

2. More importantly, an unique characteristic of this disease is that although mortality rates for the young are low, hospitalization rates appear to be high, which poses a severe threat of overwhelming hospital systems. The disaster in Wuhan was at least in part due to that and unless precautions are taken, Seattle could be heading that way soon.
> which only supported 100 connected accounts. My free test accounts which I had been diligently rationing up until this point had been depleted and Plaid was rightfully denying any new connections.

You picked an odd time to stop reading!
To be sure, what you have is MR, not MRR.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22507764
That’s what the weed is for
Agriculture is not the only thing humans do or settle for. Swamps are historically heavily inhabited by and sometimes even purposefully extended by humans specifically due to endemic biodiversity and ease of hunting and gathering. Also, sometimes because they offer fertile soils or refuge from other humans, and the waterways a strong source of orientation, food, and an artery for transport, trade and taxation. Examples off the top of my head: Bangladesh, Holland, Venice, Hanoi, Bangkok, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Angkor, Amazon, Sepik River of PNG...
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Now, drive it from the other end. I want to see the end nearest the camera exceed the speed of light.
https://archive.md/5vDyW
Treadmill desk. It's on the edge of being too difficult to walk and do real work, but you can walk pretty fast (for a decent amount of exercise) and watch videos easily.
I wonder how their contracts and/or insurance worked, e.g., if the organizers were hoping the city would step in and cancel as it would be financially better for the conference than if they voluntarily cancelled.
The author does not remove ads. That skews the comparison relative to my experience.

Anyway - in my experience, DDG is good enough for most of my searches, but not all.
Sure! First up, we don't do repairs every time one host goes down. Standard practice on the network is to wait to do a repair until a full 25% of the redundancy is missing (in 64-of-96, that would be 8 hosts offline). Then you repair all 8 at once, significantly reducing the total amount of repair traffic.

But secondly, offline doesn't usually mean dead and gone, with unstable datacenters like this they are usually back online before the user has lost a full 25% of their redundancy.

Row level and rack level outages are handled by data randomization. The entire Sia system heavily depends on probabilistic techniques, both on the renting and hosting side. Row level failures will take out some of your data, but nobody should be disproportionately impacted by a cluster failure.

On Sia, each piece is at a different site. So 64-of-96 implies that each chunk of data (96 pieces to a chunk) is located in 96 different places. This doesn't help with the geo-bandwidth, but as discussed above there are other techniques to handle that.

Surprisingly, bandwidth pricing on the Sia network is even cheaper than storage pricing relative to centralized competition. That's a lot harder to model at scale though, so we aren't as confident the Sia bandwidth pricing will hold up at $1 / TB in the long term.

And technically, most of this stuff is customizable per-customer. If your particular use case has a different optimal parameterization, it's fairly easy to tune your client to suit your particular needs.
Even if torture worked it still is immoral. It really doesn’t matter how effective it is.
Maybe it could be combined with this technique so the aircraft body can be laser-etched for both colour and anti-icing:
https://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3106
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Isn’t that what AWS S3 one zone infrequent access is?
This is literally the articles point.

> “Evidence suggests that torture does not work, but media often show that it does,” Kearns said.
The CRM data comes from the advertising party. I answered above around the financial data, nothing related to individuals.
And in my opinion, it's had a noticeable effect on public opinion.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it felt to me like everyone knew that torture was wrong before the first series of 24 came out, and then a few years later, everyone thought it was often the right thing to do.
Looks like HN ate the * characters in

2**64

16 exbibytes is 2^64 bytes.
Cool project, what would be cooler is if you had an API to retrieve the labels for a given word. May be that's in the works?
> over the long term, storage will be cheaper than $2 / TB / Mo

OK, but what is it today?
We've added some disambiguation above.
Can I ask why you picked this model instead of a subscription based model?
can you expand on the TLS bit?
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> It might seem crazy to talk about a recession when jobs are plentiful. Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a decline in the February unemployment rate to 3.5%, tying a 50-year low.

Policy makers cling to the jobs numbers for dear life, leading indicators be damned, right up to the point that everyone realizes the obvious.

It happens every single time. Jobs numbers tell you where you've been, not where you're going.
Aside from asking whether selling your stock on the secondary market is allowed, forget about the stock options. What happens to stock options when the company gets sold depends principally on the ratio of money raised to acquisition price.

Which brings me to the more important point, which is that the main thing you should evaluate is the company's likelihood of shrinking, shutting down, or being acquired for too little money. In my mind, there are several important things to consider:

1. Do you believe in the product?

2. Is the growth vision realistic?

3. If you were in the founders' shoes, would you have thought it was necessary or a good idea to raise as much money as they did?

4. Do you believe it's realistic that the company will be acquired for at least a healthy multiple of the total amount raised? If you know who the likely prospective acquirers are, are they shitty companies or do they have a history of fucking up companies they acquire?

5. Do you understand and agree with their expansion strategy (how and where they're spending the money they raised) in terms of speed, direction, head-count, etc.

6. Do you trust the founders as people and as business leaders?

7. How much has earlier employees' stock been diluted in subsequent rounds?

If I didn't have positive answers to all of these questions, I would think twice regardless of the stock options. If I did have all positive answers, I'd ask for more stock options because why the hell not. The worst thing they can say is no.

Edit:

If you are planning on asking for more stock, it's really important that you:

A) Be prepared to give a concise and meaningful explanation/answer for why you want or deserve more.

B) Have a (preferably specific) additional amount you want in mind and an explanation about why that amount.

C) Give some thought to how you're going to approach the conversation. You don't want it to go like this: Can I have more stock? No. Why not? Instead, consider asking how they went about deciding what amount to offer. It'll help you figure out whether it's worth asking for more and how far you can push it. The answer will also tell you if they're bullshitting, if the number is totally arbitrary and pulled out of thin air, or if they've actually given thought to it and have a good reason (like they've worked out the proportion of the employee option pool they can safely give each new expected hire at your level).
> If [UBI] comes from collecting taxes then the people who receive it have more money, but the people who pay the tax have less, which more or less cancels out.

It doesn't cancel out because the people receiving the UBI tend to buy different goods than the people paying the tax. Fewer people bidding up prices on yachts and capital, more people bidding up basic goods and services.
Fatality rates in places other than Wuhan (which had many undiagnosed cases due to limited resources in the outbreak) have all been less than 1%.

At the low end (deaths / total cases) Italy is seeing a 4.25% CFR.
I’m a host. How do I do this? I’ve never had the ability to hide reviews
It seems like the project would be very useful. I wonder what the environmental benefits would be of reducing the distance ships need to travel from AROUND Europe to through the E40 route? Might it outweigh whatever environmental costs there are?
Do non-celebrities try to game this?
I’m pretty sure all governments will just print some money once COVID19 has worked it’s way through the population. Deflation is the enemy.
It doesn't matter. The point is the same either way. If you screw other people to get value for yourself it's a short term play. From office politics to corporate agreements, you should avoid the temptation to fuck others for your gain. It will probably hurt you in the long term.
24 was notorious for this, it practically celebrated it. It's so celebrated in film and TV that it even has tropes, like with the classic 'opening the bag of surgical instruments' kind of scene, if not the pure brutality of punching an answer out of someone strapped to a chair. Never mind the pure torture porn films like Saw and Hostel.

Torture should be depicted for the pure atrocity that it is, not as an entertaining plot piece to imagine doing nasty things to a Russian/Middle eastern person.
IANAL but probably. I saw some legal (by a lawyer) discussion of this the other day and his conclusion was that, while it depends on the specific contract, if you have no choice but to cancel something--the headliner band pulls out of a concert, the city makes you cancel for reasons outside your control--it's probably easier to collect than if you were just worried about going ahead with the event even in exceptional circumstances.
More information from The Verge:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/6/21162247/sxsw-2020-cancell...
> I'm hopeful they get someone like Jim Keller with the authority to shake things up.

I's say it is even less likely if Jim will be on the board
There are positives and negatives to them all. I'm relatively partial to MS Teams (now that it works well in Linux), since it has decent integration with Outlook and group chat/meetings, integrations are on par.

That said slack and the like are better mostly because of integration which is smoother than custom IRC bots and clients by contrast... Some obsess over security, groups, etc... other features are just that features.

On the flip side, they all suck... MS Teams' wikis aren't in markdown and can't be edited outside of the teams client, other sharing is actually integrated into Sharepoint, and those integrations with system syncing breaks a lot and sucks worse.

I haven't used slack but very little for one project I'm on in a few years... it now has a lot of the features I was missing before. I think Google's Hangouts had a lot of potential before they shifted gears into their client of the month and started breaking the UX.

In the end, what will be around in 5+ years, who knows. Things shift around and change... Things get re-invented in better and worse ways.
Every simple solution is effective in popular movies.
I like the look of this. I would think about switching but I've paid a year of YNAB and I don't have the time to switch budgets right now.

But I will probably re-evaluate in 11 months when my YNAB expires.

Onboarding with the kind of products may take longer than the author realises. People like my self will need reminders that this product exists. It took years of YNAB ads for me to switch from HLedger and that really only happened because I needed something my wife could use after I got married and we merged finances.
Neither. I am not certain where the line should be drawn. I am not a zealot. I evaluate both positions and see if there is a way to balance both interests. If there is none, I err on the side of the customer ( ie. me ).

And I am saying all this, because there is a reason for business to gather this information. I am willing to entertain an argument for keeping some of that data for efficient processing of my business. I am less charitable with hoarding data for no other reason than selling me more stuff and or outright selling that information to 3rd party to that in some other way.

So yeah. Neither. But there is a line. I just don't know where it should be.
I don't know, but I have to imagine the earlier you cancel the easier things are both financially and logistically.
Disagree strongly and as a user I feel distributions and package maintainers are a necessary defense against overly opinionated developers.

I'm glad there is a layer there that will patch and configure to better integrate into the system and in some (very rare) cases remove user hostile "functionality".
Yep my friends are going to a music festival and late May with tens of thousands of people and I’m worried about that one. I feel like the epidemic will still be ongoing by then, but one hopes it isn’t.
If it's an article that seems to have an agenda (political, technical, entertainment, religion etc) I read the comments first. If it's an article about new tech, new science etc, things that are unlikely to have an existing constituency, then I read the article first.
This is so so true but so many people don’t believe this is possible. I wish there was a way to formally study this. Once my children are out of the house, I’m going 0 carb. I’m already pretty close to carnivore.
Would any other DDG users like to see

- DDG Mail service

- DDG News.. i still use Google News begrudgingly

- a DDG Video site.. Youtube replacement (not easy to do with Youtube having so much content)

Personally, I'd drop all Google services if such were available. Maybe others would too?
Done and shipped! :D
One of our extensions allows you to plug in an API - either use your own model, or an integration with an open-source project like spaCy to apply labels.
The death rate is deaths/number infected.

We don't know number of infected. We only know number of infected with symptoms bad enough to go get checked out.

Cruise ships with known infected groups are biased towards older people.

This illness appears to be asymptomatic for many, and that means it's probably a lot more widespread than we think.

I was in the Bradley International Terminal last week. For all I know I'm infected. Maybe I will have to be hospitalized, and therefore be tested. If I never present symptoms more than a cold, I'm not going to a doctor. I'll just assume I've got a cold. I won't be included in denominator for death rate.

I think erring on the side of caution is a good thing. I also think that the media is blowing this way out of proportion so that they can scare people and therefore get more ratings and eyeballs on their stupid f ads. They certainly did that with the swine flu didn't they?

what I really resent is how this journalist who has no medical qualifications to speak of nor solid data to work off of is sitting here acting as if they are an authority more than anyone else. They aren't.

here's something else that you're not seeing in the media except for government-run outlets like Australian broadcasting corporation: children are safe from the Corona virus. They only present mild symptoms and this is based on what's been reported by Chinese authorities. I have yet to see any TV media outlets in the United States mention this at all. Instead it's all fear-mongering because that's what they do to make money.

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https://amp-abc-net-au.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.abc.net.au...
Definitely not, aggregate uptime is extremely high. We've never seen downtime do to network outages, only software bugs. And even then, only some users were impacted by the bugs, we've never in 5 years had a broad outage.
Thank you for the details, but I must still be missing something. FB shadow profiles aren't valuable to anyone unless they also know who you are, which is my point. Say the restaurant sells your transaction data to FB and they add it to your shadow profile... now what? If you're using an ad blocker, FB won't be able to link any other online activity to your profile and ad targeting won't work because you're blocking them.

The next step someone would probably say is that other sites you transact on might also be selling your info to FB, but again how is that valuable if they can't know who you are until you either login or enter your payment details? Generally speaking, your profile info is only valuable for advertising (people want to get you to their property to buy things - once you're already there your profile value is a lot lower). If you effectively shut down the advertising funnel entirely what's the issue here. Yes, it's bad from a general privacy standpoint, but what else?
I have no idea what that means.

Edit: If you're not a moral compass (ie, you haven't put any thought about whether you're actively causing harm in the world), then you should at least try to say that on the onset.
Ice keeps things cold, and someone has to keep bringing new blocks of it to your icebox somehow.

Reviews are free data, and you have to know how to navigate them.

I don't see the difference.
Because FreeNAS supports fibre channel today.
If anyone else is wondering where the paper is: scroll down and you should see it. I was confused for a moment, which given their signup buttons is probably the intention.
So no CPU (or APU, so you don't need a GPU), no RAM, and those breakout cables are actually for SAS, but no SAS card listed in the total. This does not inspire confidence in the project at all.
The onion is surprisingly accurate actually.
Yes. My employer uses TrueNAS and we have some setup with redundant controllers in an HA configuration as well as multipathing. The HA feature is considered enterprise so it won't be in the FreeNAS ... I mean TrueNAS Core edition.
> Why do you think I brought him up? AMD needs someone like Jim Keller but for software.

If there will be a JK for software, I'd say if he lands in a typical dotcom, half of the dev team with careers typical to Facebook/Amazon/Google will be relieved of their duties in a week.
I said the judgement is arbitrary, not the amusement.

> Some abstractions are necessary. Some aren't.

It just seems bizarre to me that you can suggest that the abstraction is unnecessary when you also claim to have never used the tool. What makes you think it's unnecessary?
How do you figure? The word "encryption" doesn't appear anywhere in the bill.
> Pai framed it as his own decision, with his announcement saying the chairman "proposed a major step forward... to protect consumers against spoofed robocalls." But in reality the FCC was ordered by Congress and President Trump to implement this new rule.

This process should have begun years ago. What the hell is Ajit pai doing?
I disagree. Containment still seems to be the correct course of action, which requires drastic up-front measures to prevent millions of cases simultaneously. You might disagree with that strategy, in which case that's fine, I think you're wrong. But you're mischaracterizing that strategy as panic.

e.g. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/03/fr...
Has pg spent a good chunk of his life studying viruses and infection rates? No. If he had, he'd note that exponential curves don't fit the real world... if it did why is China only at 80K after almost 2 months?
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If you are on Windows, (or if you are on Linux but for some reason still runs) in PowerShell:

> (Get-Date).AddDays(365)