skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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* It's intended in part as a commemoration on the 50-year anniversary of the sketch, but also to draw attention to the need for a more streamlined peer review process for grants in the health sciences.

* "So, put together a Monty Python fan with a creative scientific mind and an expert in gait analysis, and this paper is what you get," Butler told Ars. Or, as they wrote in their paper, "It really is the silliness of the sketch that resonates with us, and extreme silliness seems more relevant now than ever before in this increasingly Pythonesque world."

* First aired on September 15, 1970, on BBC One, the sketch opens with Cleese's character buying a newspaper on his way to work—which takes him a bit longer than usual since his walk "has become rather sillier recently." Waiting for him in his office is a gentleman named Mr. Putey (Michael Palin) seeking a grant from the Ministry to develop his own silly walk.

* (Note: the name is spelled "Pudey" in the paper but we're going with the Wiki spelling.) Mr. Putey demonstrates his silly walk-in-progress, but the Minister isn't immediately impressed.

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* One of the best-known sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus features John Cleese as a bowler-hatted bureaucrat with the fictional Ministry of Silly Walks.

* Waiting for him in his office is a gentleman named Mr. Putey (Michael Palin) seeking a grant from the Ministry to develop his own silly walk.

* For their own gait analysis, Butler and Dominy studied both Mr. Putey's and the Minister's gait cycles in the video of the original 1970 televised sketch, as well as the Minister's gaits from a 1980 live stage performance in Los Angeles.

* Butler and Dominy found that the Minister's silly walk is much more variable than a normal human walk—6.7 times as much—while Mr. Putey's walk-in-progress is only 3.3 times more variable.

* The sketch might be satirizing bureaucratic inefficiency, but Cleese's Minister is essentially engaging in a hyper-streamlined version of the peer review process in his meeting with Mr. Putey that (the authors concluded) resulted in a fair assessment.
I've seen that article a few times now. Who is he, and what are his qualifications? There's nothing linked off the medium article that I can find.
Big strategy shifts, or attempts, like buying Nokia, would go through the board of most companies. If the entire board is conservative investors without vision for pivot and reinvention, your company will slowly stagnate. Ideally you can identify and make those moves before youve become surpassed.

IBM purging its hardware divisions, and then buying Red Hat is another example, where a company maybe waited a little too long between moves. Would a more aggressive board pushed the company to do that earlier?
No, target doesn’t have to be same size. As an optimization, if size and datetime are the same, rsync will assume no change and will not hash at all (though you can force it to).

But it will definitely use hashes when size differs (unless forced to copy whole files, or copying between local file systems)
My point holds. The details underlie that it’s an even weaker effort. I said “by dropping 1.5T into the market the fed hoped the financial system would increase circulation enough to stimulate transactions (...) instead companies bought back stock or otherwise didn’t stimulate trade.”

The details only serve your point in so far as they muddy the waters. My point holds. The fundamental problem is that people must socially distance to flatten the curve.

That’s having all sorts of ripple effects as people are being laid off due to the crashing of demand for their services. So now whole swaths of people are facing hardships leading to missing home and rent payments.

For instance MGM:

https://www.fox5vegas.com/coronavirus/mgm-resorts-announces-...
Can you find a more credible source.

There will always be individual examples. But what is the norm.
I've seen this "tiered" system at multiple Fortune 1k companies - did it come from SV or something? Or is this because of Google?

I think it's just a consequence of scale - once you are a single tenant to a building and control access, you'll need to grant your worker's access and recurring access to outsiders who don't have the same communication channels or management chain.

My experience as a $NOT_EMPLOYEEE badge worker at a different company was that all communication like mentioned would be sent to my company and my manager would be responsible for getting it to me. It happened a couple times, mostly on different holiday schedules or maintenance.

I've also seen systems where contractors are granted temporary company credentials and given a soft onboarding, and that seems to work but can cause points of friction elsewhere.

I think the question we should be asking is where the dividing line is between hiring an employee directly and subcontracting. I think the role of journalists should not be to rag on Google for situations like this, but to focus on companies whose subcontractors work for their own subsidiaries.
Interesting. I imagine this was for exhaustive search? If 100ms is too long it sounds like a CP solver might be the wrong tool for the job.
So I guess it's mere coincidence the CEO left 4 days ago

https://www.curevac.com/news/company-founder-ingmar-hoerr-su...
Did they already add "turn off all animations and needless movements, fades and transparencies" option? I guess not, and I'd really appreciate it. KDE would became useful for me again. Seriously, I've booted live USB on thinkpad x240 and there was some current KDE running. For a few minutes I thought there was something very wrong with laptop, but it was KDE making feel core-i7 like lowend celeron. It makes me wonder if authors use that environment on very high-end machines exclusively. Also "start menu", sorry for the naming, feels like unstoppable carousel to me (those sliding tabs). All this is a pity because I really do like QT for development, but unstoppable animations are no-go
Yeah, I tend to prefer KaTeX because it is lightweight, faster, and can render ahead of time. But I'm not a heavy user - I've been out of the Math business for a couple of decades.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01934993 which is one of Flajolet's early papers on the topic opens with "Approximate counting is an algorithm proposed by R. Morris". My guess would be Morris wrote it out of engineering need, and Flajolet and Martin followed up with formal analysis and resulting improvements.
There has been some psychological research which hints at this relation of how diseases from outsiders bias decisions against those communities. The literature seems to suggest that it's an evolutionary response to protect the community and these biases are difficult to detect because they are so innate in how we assess risk and process threats to a group.

I was just saying the other day that we're one Coronovirus-like pandemic away from seeing sweeping changes in government policy that lend themselves to authoritarian rule. Changes that go beyond what we've seen on removing the red tape around how hospitals are run and how the spaces within them can re-purposed for other use.

Imagine a virus that has the properties similar to covd-19 but a higher mortality rate, affecting children and working age groups. Containment of a pandemic would be trivial if you knew the location of infected patient and everybody with whom they've been in contact with over a 14 day period. That data is already available from the fact most people are mobile phone users. It's just the data is not shared. Containment would be more specific and targeted. At the moment health professionals rely on self-reporting by patients to follow the spread of a pandemic.

The pretext for dissolving these artificial boundaries between the pools of data owned by corporations, intelligence services, health institutions would be easy to provide in the interest of protecting the government and the public. It would seem both responsible and reasonable to the public if the mortality and symptoms were terrifying enough. It can be argued that China's alleged effectiveness in dealing with the virus in cities with populations larger than LA, London and NY was due to an authoritarian government model. We also see our governments working with the private sector to handle this pandemic.

Governments are scared because they do not have visibility on the pandemic's spread because of problems in scaling tests, using numbers of confirmed cases serve as poor proxies for decisions to be made. I don't think it would be long before someone starts asking the question, if we had richer data on confirmed patients and who they'd been in contact with, could we have nipped this in the but before it had the impact its had on the economy and put the health system at risk.
I made a copy a couple days ago (if it's the same sheet I think it is; I can't see it now either) and I just made some additional copies to share here.

Here are five copies: (Fittingly, if other people also each make five copies, then we can cover the need in just a few generations...)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qLKWavPg_c9G-RGKOAn2...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18wnbmV4TiaLF3mXLbD8k...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y85X64AlDE93HYJqRMpm...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ieS6YF0lpdvAPwliP5wX...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/159tPZV31fl04DyzFR8ey...
Considering that lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestrel, etc, an ACE inhibitor) is, according to any list I could find, easily in the top 10 meds prescribed in the US (and by some top three or number one), this is something that should definitely be more publicly known.

I’m not saying anyone should just stop taking their hypertension drugs, that’s a horrible idea. But if you do suspect that you might have COVID-19, you should probably call your doctor - there’s no shortage of other options.

One of those lists: https://www.medicinenet.com/top_drugs_prescribed_in_the_us/v...
Career advise for a high-schooler
I'm attending the event, where high schoolers ask career and entrepreneurship questions.

Here are my thoughts:

If I was 12 years ago, I would join a rocketship. Next step I would join some behemoth for a couple of years to build a network, learn how companies operate and what kind o problems exist and then start my own thing.

What would be your one career advice?
Holding shift doesn't require any shuffling back and forth?
They used to have lifetime returns! Regardless of condition, no questions asked!

This American Life did an interesting piece on it, I was surprised the degree to which people abused—or, I guess, took advantage of—the policy.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/591/get-your-moneys-worth/a...
Exhibit A: Downplaying the concern and shaming the tech industry. This was 1 month ago:

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/13/21128209/coronavirus-fe...

In general the media was strangely quiet about it until very recently.
A lot of people are claiming that China's death rate was under 1%. That is one of the reasons everyone is delaying action.
The government saying a couple of days ago that they're going to do almost nothing and rely on what they called "herd immunity". They've since slightly changed course and today they've announced (through unofficial channels) that they're thinking of isolating the over-70 year old people (either at home or at other designated places, it's not sure for now).
Regarding pollen, it is not just trees, but also grasses and flowers.

Plus anti-histamine tablets are super-effective and cost literally a couple of pence per tablet from generics so you could spend perhaps £5 (1) to have enough hay fever tablets to last the entire summer and beyond (and probably free on the NHS if you can't afford £5) so I don't think it is quite such misery.

1 - https://smile.amazon.co.uk/240-Loratadine-Allergy-Relief-Tab...
True, there might also be a vaccine in the future.

Another argument is that we just need it to grow slow enough for a vaccine to be ready.
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They have a non essential copy of the directory at the end for spoed; tools exist to rebuild it if it is corrupted from the entries inside the file. But it is usually very small (the only real life exception I met is the hvsc archive where the directory size is very significant - so they zip it again)
Is scale factor the same as error bounds in http://man.openbsd.org/dc ?
Unless things have changed a lot since I was in college, a student who can't easily study at home could always go to the library or the computer lab.

Personally I had no problem working at home on things I was finding interesting - but if I was studying something I was less passionate about I was liable to get distracted unless I distanced myself from distractions like browsing the internet.
I am only curious about the reasoning behind the (possibly) double counting, not challenging the reasoning as whole.
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> It is generally accepted that the pandemic will end once just about everybody has caught it

Yeah, that's probably how the Black Death ended in the mid-1300s, everything "ends" at some point, I was inquiring of the possibility of this "ending" without the obituary pages in local newspapers growing ten-fold in a matter of 7 or 8 days.
How to Invest Safely Amidst the Coronavirus Market Meltdown
Perhaps the difference is cultural. In my country we place a lot of confidence in the government and public health care system. We have been tested more in our province of <4 million than the entire US (x2). Additionally, we do not live in constant state of fear, we are comfortable, perhaps to our detriment in this situation, I fully admit.
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Yeah, I think you need large numbers of tests, because unless you test people positive they are not likely to respect self isolation.
Probably the latter. If the nationwide effort had already been underway when the President made that claim, Google Comms would have no reason to hide that fact. Instead, they initially pointed the media at Verily and only yesterday announced a larger effort.

When you say the media was confused by multiple efforts, you’re sort of hand waving away the fact that the same account you linked pointed the world at Verily right after the President’s speech.
All of my Darn Tough socks have lasted 5 years so far. Cheap retail store brands (Hanes, Fruit, etc.) have always been awful after about 6 months. They're expensive to lose though. I've yet to find the equivalent for T-shirts.
Is there some reason/significance for collecting all the protocol captures into a single file? I would have thought that a tarball containing separate captures one per protocol would be more useful wouldn't it?
Denim, specifically jeans, is getting ridiculously thin. I used to be able to count on jeans lasting well over 5 years, but now they’ll wear holes (particularly around seams or pockets) in a year, tops. And these are Carhart branded work jeans; not exactly a brand I associate with low quality clothing.
Man Tests Positive for Coronavirus Again – After Testing Negative in Recovery
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammat...
We have let everyone know they must start working from home, and we are purchasing proper audio equipment for our employees. This thread acted as a wake-up call. I fully admit we have had our head down. I have been dismissive in the middle of raising a seed round while running a company of 20 employees, with two very active boys at home. I have had no time to stay up to date on the world, and the general lack of action around me made me feel that it was something we had time to get to later. That is no excuse, only an explanation. I do sincerely hope that nothing negative comes out of our actions.
Whats the difference between quackery in corona times vs before? Either you protect gullible people all the time, or you consider them responsible people all the time. Only thing that has changed is the scale of the fraud.
I wasn't mocking anything and do not consider him lucky.

The guy clearly has some skill sets that are useful at least to him personally.

I'm not convinced that all the falsehoods he spreads are spoken with any intention / a deep understanding of what the inaccuracies are.

AFAICT, he seems to have developed a strategy in which attention to detail, accuracy, honesty, utility, fairness, integrity, etc. simply have little bearing on his getting what he wants.

I would posit that if you spend your entire life this way, your ability to pay attention to things of true value would seriously atrophy.
How about the climate crisis which is also still a huge background issue ?

It’s set to wipe trillions off the economy over the next several decades.

Could you imagine a few climate change fuelled natural disasters thrown into the mix with this issue happening ?

I’m not saying civilisation won’t recover, but we’re really starting to skate on thin ice here.
Also forecasting adoption of new technologies when there's a lot of uncertainty about basic assumptions. Organizations that do this sort of thing regularly have these sophisticated methodologies and models. But so much comes down to qualitative assessments.
This is certainly a difficult time to be a libertarian.
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> The syntax diagnostics from the compiler made by Sue Graham's group at
> Berkeley were the mmost helpful I have ever seen--and they were generated
> automatically. At a syntax error the compiler would suggest a token that
> could be inserted that would allow parsing to proceed further. No attempt
> was made to explain what was wrong. The compiler taught me Pascal in
> an evening, with no manual at hand.
1) The most effective thing you can do is not get sick, and not get others sick by social distancing.

2) The next most helpful thing you can do is support hospital workers. If you have friends who are nurses, doctors, etc. Ask if there is something you can do to make their lives easier. Are there errands you can do for them? Do they have toilet paper and other essentials at home? Is there a local nurse association that you can call and offer your time, energy, money, and specific skill set to?

3) Long term, the most effective thing you can do is to support hospital workers. There is an on-going nursing shortage. Nurses are being asked to take care of too many patients at once. It leads to worse care and burnout among hospital staff. We have a culture where bumperstickers that say, "support our troops", "support our fight fighters", and "support our police officers" is relatively common. We don't do that for our nurses. When they bargain for higher pay, reduced patient loads, more nurse training they don't have a bandwagon of people and politicians who reflexively say, "support our nurses" and provide money and resource to them. Their concerns are met with indifference by the wider society and our failure to support them and respect their profession harms us all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/well/live/the-nursing-sho...
I follow the same minamalist lifestyle. I have a bin with my summer clothes. I'll switch them out soon for the winter ones. Even still it's very few items overall. I used to have 100s of pieces of clothing.
Germany tries to stop U.S. from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine
I was going to say that all my favorite courses were kind of unique, and didn't share any particular characteristics, but writing this comment I found they actually all share excellent problem sets and an engaging instructor. Having taken ~25-30 online courses, the ones that stood out were:

- Discrete Optimization (Coursera/Melbourne university, Pascal van Hentenryck): had competitive optimization assignments and course leaderboards. The professor oozed enthousiasm and the nature of the assignments was great for the competitive setup (many different approaches possible, and there were always problems which you would not be able to solve to optimality).

- Microeconomics (EdX/MIT, Jonathan Gruber): very good assignments that made you discover things yourself. Professor presented with a lot of humor and this course was clearly refined over many iterations on campus. Lectures were actually recorded in a classroom setting so not tuned for MOOC delivery at all.

Honorable mentions for Computer Graphics (EdX/UC San Diego, Ravi Ramamoorthi, perfect pacing and balanced, broad set of assignments) and Underactuated Robotics (EdX/MIT, Russ Tedrake, fascinating material and challenging, elegant assignments).
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Companies that feed America brace for labor shortages and worry about restocking
>Too fast and it overwhelms the NHS right now

The NHS is already overwhelmed. Right now. We are firmly in "too fast" territory. There is no amount containment, starting from now, that will be too much - the exponential growth is already getting away.
Great idea!

But leads to an observation/question:

Why do so many protocols exist in the first place?

I think it would be a great idea for a protocol engineer in the future to try to look at all known protocols, and try to compact and integrate them all into a

Single universal protocol, eliminating all redundant functionality...

Maybe someone has already done this, or is working on this... I don't know. If anyone has any ideas or knowledge in this direction, please feel free to post what you know...
Compiling a Clojure library to a shared library with GraalVM native-image
I mean, I thought the media was right and I work at Google. I knew the Verily site existed (a member of my team helped with a production readiness review last week).

So if they went and looked for Googlers who knew about the national effort and came up bank, and then didn't get immediate confirmation from Google, then they ran with a story.

Obviously I am but a small part of this massive machine and even though I am in a lot of the COVID-19 chats and have been engaged with various technical readiness efforts since we'll before US took it seriously, so maybe I missed it. But also, I wouldn't be surprised if the Executive has just recently enlisted Google to do this.

The "1700 engineers" number is super weird. That's much too high to be any one reasonably sized team, but it's definitely smaller than the impact footprint I infer at Google.

So my prediction is Trump said nonsense but the Executive decided to try and make it reality afterwards. Google as a company would definitely jump on doing this sort of thing for free.
From the reports I've seen, they have tested positive again which is different than getting it again.
> If it is even half-ass maintained a wooden house will survive far longer than that.

I mostly agree with the other points you make but not this.

Modern wood-frame and plywood construction with vapor barriers, Air-conditioning and impermeable facades are very sensitive to moisture. Once water enters, it has nowhere to go and this has to be addressed quickly and thoroughly or else there's a serious and relatively quick structural deterioration, mold issues and a downward-spiral of problems.

Mcmansion owners who want to keep their house in excellent condition better be on top of this stuff, or else they or the suckahs they sell to are going to be paying a hefty price. Avoiding this requires decidedly more than half-assed maintenance.
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