skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice.

> For estimating encoding times, we used Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8170 CPU @ 2.10GHz machine with 52 physical cores and 96 GB of RAM, with 60 jobs running in parallel.

Would love to see some comparisons with amd, at some point.

Is there currently an easy way to run this on multiple machines? Back in the day, I'd probably try a single image cluster, like openmosix - but I'm not aware of anything similar for modern setups - neither self-host or "hardware on tap"?
>So far the politicians listened to expert advice which is precisely what I expect from them. And to oir luck the testing infrastructure in Germany is much better than in nearly every other nation (which also means the numbers are closer to reality than e.g. in Italy or the US).

And with all of that Merkel still said that 60% to 70% of the population will end up infected with the virus. It doesn't sound like Germany's going to be much better off than most other European countries.
I recommend against Mankiw, and to be honest, macroeconomics as a whole. But particularly undergrad macroeconomics.

Undergrad macro textbooks are more or less designed to teach you how to work a model, and how to prove theorems about a model. But when all is said and done, macro tends not to go the distance and demonstrate how the model relates to the real world. They also get important details wrong. Most of the west doesn’t work on a fractional reserve system anymore, and the main constraint for money creation is not the reserve ratio.

Honestly you’d be better off learning very basic accounting, then learning about bank balance sheets, then learning about basic financial plumbing like the repo market, money market funds, and the fed’s operations.

I like Bruce Tuckman’s book ‘fixed income securities’ for the latter. It’s very practical, without any of the theoretical nonsense you sometimes encounter in advanced texts.
The last release is January this year.
Any actual evidence at all would suffice. The word of America's criminal intelligence agencies does not.
We have leadership in the state governments. Colorado and even health officials in my county are taking this seriously, have closed schools, all big events canceled etc.

Often I feel that Europeans forget wet have state governments that have more local authority than the federal Gov.

Trump isn't some dictator. I'm perfectly happy with how my state officials are dealing with this virus.
Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?
What is your team using at work? What should be used at scale (FAANG, or similar)? What are you planning to switch to?
Monitoring and Debunking Covid-19 Panic: The “Haarlem Aldi” Hoax
There can be wisdom in old wive’s tales or otherwise home remedies. As someone who knows very little about such things in relation to helping with breathing I would also be interested to hear what worked anecdotally for you.

Glad to hear that your Mother-in-law managed to get off the ventilator despite the odds.
Smoking is a very big indicator for having extra complications with diseases like these, you will need every bit of lung capacity that you've got.
> and the conservative's austerity program has put the NHS to breaking point.

No such austerity has happened, and now is not the time for this petty bickering.
For me EOF is a boolean state. Either I am at the end of file (stream / memory mapped etc) or not. That's how I was taught when I started programming. Never occurred to me to think of it like a character.
Xojo is a solid paid solution. I use it all the time.
From the article:

The idea of small reactors is as old as nuclear power itself. In July 1951, five months before a reactor in Idaho became the first in the world to produce usable electricity through fission, America began building USS Nautilus, a nuclear-powered submarine. In the 1960s and 1970s small reactors powered bases in Alaska and Greenland, a radar facility in Wyoming, a research station in Antarctica and—from a cargo ship—the Panama Canal Zone. America still uses nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft-carriers. But land-based mini-reactors proved unreliable and expensive and have fallen out of favour.

I was thinking the same thing you suggested, that maybe the basically unlimited supply of water for cooling made the ocean-going reactors feasible. Other than that, I'd think a mostly stationary reactor would be simpler to deal with than a ship-based one.
And this gem at the end:

“But I’m not looking to be in a situation where I make the front page of the news for being that guy who hoarded 20,000 bottles of sanitizer that I’m selling for 20 times what they cost me.”
> Are you joining my side?

No.

As a user of many programs I always find it very frustrating when some program
does not work and produce no log information whatsoever.

As an engineer, I always write detailed and human-readable log entries with as
much context as possible which is split into trace, debug, warning and info
levels.

With trace level enabled it's typically possible to reconstruct program
execution step-to-step, which is _invaluable_ when you need to debug some rare
problem.

Even if logs are ephemeral and not persisted it's better to have logs for a run
than not having logs at all.

Logging as a side effect is irrelevant if you look at your code from the
pragmatic standpoint, from which program execution transparency matters more
than some abstract elegancy.
I think it is. Not because there were other potential Pandemics but because of the timing of the Virus. Its comes at a time when social media is in widespread use which means misinformation spreads rapidly which also leads to panic. Generally, social media amplifies everything good and bad. A combination of these factors makes it a Black Swan event.
I switched first to Gentle Typhoons, then the new Noctua NF-A12×25.

The cheap-o original fans were quiet at low speed but hardly moved any air, and at high speed they made tons of wind noise; I think the airfoils were stalling or something.

The Gentle Typhoons were reasonably wind-noise quiet even at high speed, but made a high-pitched hissing from the bearings at all speeds, and a groaning rumble from the motors at low speed.

The Noctuas are much quieter at 1000 rpm, almost inaudible relative to the 4 hard drives, and make fairly innocuous white noise at high speed.
It could be. I did my own research on that a couple of weeks ago. If you look at the latencies involved with developing antibodies they're not that high, especially if you get lucky and are willing to throw money around. Humanity is right at the start of the whole protein design revolution - I don't think our regulatory infrastructure is set up for it yet. But where there's a will ...
Medical staff deaths from Covid-19
In the firing line:
Initially, doctors in Hubei didn't know what they were looking at when they treated the coronavirus-infected lungs of elderly patients. They were seeing the early pathology of the COVID-19 disease. The price for the medical profession has been high.

"Just this week (Feb 28, 2020) it has been reported that 3,387 health workers in China have been infected with COVID-19, more than 90% of whom [are] in the stricken Hubei province. More than 15 doctors in Wuhan, including young, healthy individuals, have now died of COVID-19 infections contracted while they were taking care of patients.

The investigators point out that the time for the early lung lesions or COVID-19 to become severe enough to cause clinical symptoms is “rather long.” Even among patients who do present with fever, commonly used pharyngeal swab PCR tests may still be negative, they suggested, due to the lack of virus in the upper respiratory tract, and despite the presence of pneumonia. ...

More than 15 doctors in Wuhan, including young, healthy individuals, have now died of COVID-19 infections contracted while they were taking care of patients."

https://www.genengnews.com/news/coronavirus-early-pathology-examined-in-lung-tissue-of-symptomless-patients/
This is a bit of an old trope. "Size matters". I'm not defending the American ISP abominations like interference in allowing municipal fiber to be built, and denying access to poles so new competitors can't access public infrastructure to build a competing service without unreasonable barriers to entry. All this anti-competitive crap... Right on, I'm with you.

However... America is ENORMOUS compared to any European state... and mostly unoccupied. And our government only recognizes the decaying Telco system as a public utility that we all need access to...

Nevermind. I don't understand either. It's just fully stupid. The size will make it cost more... Not recognizing it's worth it... For that there are no excuses.
The problem with these laced harnesses is the same as with zip-tied ones - you can't add or remove anything (without destroying it or making a mess of it, unless you re-tie/lace everything), and that it's difficult to use the simplest and fastest method of wire tracing, which is tugging on it and seeing where it goes.

Therefore the currently best method is IMHO a slotted wire duct. Put the cover on and it's neat and tidy, but easy to pull the cover off, add or remove wires and trace where they go.

That's probably why that method is now industry standard.

Example here, with cover on in the middle and covers removed top and bottom: https://blog.hellermanntyton.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/P...
This kind of behavior was already quite aggravating before the pandemic. Whenever something new comes to the market in potentially limited quantities, "clever" people start buying up stock from the stores just to put it on ebay etc., causing the product to be unavailable for any reasonable customer.

This is annoying enough, when it concerns an item you just would like to be able to buy, but when it concerns items, that people depend on, and be it as simple as toilet paper, I think this should be prosecuted as criminal behavior.
Switzerland did the same, they offered 10B in help. They also waived a lot of bureaucratic paperwork for companies wanting to apply “Kurzarbeit”. I hope people take advantage of it and not in a bad way.
I took an early look at the performance (using Python) in November which may also be of interest. https://pgjones.dev/blog/early-look-at-http3-2019/

(That site is also served over HTTP/3 if you want to try it out).
> There are a lot of cases when we don’t care. Because of the retries, queues, or it might be an optional step that can be skipped. If this failure is not important - then just forget about it.

No! Log it and still retry.

There are lots of reasons why might want to know later on if something failed the first time and then had to retry, for example when debugging possible timing issues.

> And yes, you got it correctly: it sounds like a job for Sentry, not logging.

Sentry is a form of logging. Also, sometimes you have potentially private data in local variables that you absolutely cannot risk sending to a service over the network; a log message allows you to be very careful with what information you reveal and what you don't reveal.

Which brings me to another use case for logging: sometimes you simply cannot report exact errors to customers (because they might leak the existence or nature of other customer's data), but if the customer contacts support, you absolutely want that information in the logs (even if just to decide if the vague error message was intentional or a bug).

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to live in a world where every action straight out succeeds or results in a bug ticket, but the real world is much more complicated, and logs do help making sense of that.
I would go with Ansible for side projects/smaller tasks, and use Puppet at large.
Have you tried eating raw pig or cow meat?

What gives meat the taste are the spices and the way we prepare it.

We now have great plant based alternatives (Impossible Food, Beyond Meat, and more coming on the market) that are getting better and better and which are less harmful to our biosphere. But even without those alternatives, there are so many great dishes that don't require meat and they are delicious and nutritious. Just have to have an open mind and explore what's out there.

RE: Shall we deny ourselves these pleasures because they become problematic at scale?

There are so many studies (some of which I posted further above). Science confirms that our current way of life is not sustainable.

So what is more important?

A) That we don't put our ecosystem under immense pressure as we are doing now

B) The pleasure you derive from eating chopped up animals

EDIT: formatting / typos
Not everyone is jumping into Github.
Iceland radically cut teenage drug use
But it makes sense to think that way. The ones who know the local situation best are the locals, not bureaucrats thousands of miles away. And when it comes to empathy, then those bureaucrats tend to have little of it towards the people affected by essentially any problem that doesn't affect where they are.
It's not a trivial problem.

For various reasons "last looked at" is as likely to be wrong as right if you have more than a couple of devices.

"Last moved" might work better for mobile devices, but there are still going to be many misses.
Where's the evidence? This thread is decrying the response of
one of the world's largest governments. Good thing the rest of the world doesn't depend on the US CDC or we'd all have a big problem.

One world government doesn't look like some utopian committee of experts making perfect decisions each time. It looks like Trump and Xi but multiplied by a million.
That doesn't work anyways. Define "out of ordinary".

If it were possible to detect things "out of ordinary" "just like that", we'd have computers protect users from all of those things.
Better titles to the article:

How to take the information out of information technology.

or

How to have no clue about why an edge case crashed your systems.
Internship in a Wall Street Firm is better;
By making error values explicit and handling them necessary, Go makes all error conditions expected outcomes.

Whether this is an advantage is heavily domain dependent.
Imagine the do_something_complex function is executed as an automated nightly job. No humans involved. And let's say it needs to access a remote API or a database. One fine day some network changes happen in the external system without your knowledge and your function simply can't connect to the external API. Next morning how are you gonna know why your job failed without logging the exception?
It's handy, basically.

The one thing I do with work app chats and others is to install it on android's work profile which I deactivate when I am (or want to be) off.
I think I absolutely misrepresented what I think. I didn't mean for it to come off that it wasn't more serious than a normal cold. I meant that many won't be affect more than that,. However the ones that get more sever cases/more exposure are at high risk, not to mention the older populace in general. I'm absolutely terrified for everyone right now.
I am genuinely curious about your position on this because it baffles me. This may be censored by the thought police here since it’s the truth no one wants to face, but what would one expect when a system that has to compensate for MASSIVE costs and losses from being required to take care of tens of millions of foreign nationals who have paid essentially nothing into the system built up and paid into over many decades and generations? I would expect such a system to produce $300 insulin that costs $7 (regardless of whether those numbers are accurate) To me, it makes perfectly rational and logical sense that it would be the inevitable consequence that $7 insulin would cost $300, because that is consequences of reality … also known as basic accounting.

It’s no different than if, e.g., you have a store in some corrupt cartel controlled territory where they extorted your for protection money, which makes you have to increase your prices in order to recover that cost from everyone else’s. No different in terms of accounting, even if you try to absorb some of the costs to not make others suffer as much and you and your family take on even more individual suffering for it. These are all logical and predictable things, seeing the future level predictable, they’re so basic.

You clearly seem to think that it’s somehow not the logical consequence of the system as it is. Why is that? What we are actually facing and what Europe will unfortunately for them soon enough face, is a shift from a kind of preemptive system to a reactionary system, the consequences and costs of immediate gratification drawing down on the reserves built up through delayed gratification and forward thinking; the fable of the grasshopper and the ants. Insulin can only be $7 when all other costs of the system are covered; they are not, so insulin costs $300 instead to make up for the massive losses elsewhere taking care of tens of millions of foreign nationals in the USA who have never paid into the system that is being destroyed by their drawing down the reserves and capacity.

It’s all very clear and logical, and inevitable, regardless of the fact that I don’t like it either. We seem to have a far bigger problem with misunderstanding of the facts and reality though. You want $7 insulin?figure out how to make all the foreign nationals pay up for the system built and paid into over many decades and generations, or at least for the full cost of the services they consume. That is the only way you get $7 insulin, or even cheaper insulin.
They're the real-production-use competitors to me, since it's a performance vs. quality trade-off game. libaom is slow! In reality I am going to use SVT or rav1e, so anything that helps me pick ...
A little known fact: bus ticket systems are designed to keep the drivers, not the passengers, honest.
Seems like part of the problem re: the shared library/dependency each repository relied on was a core problem of change management. Changing anything that other code relies on must be done in a backwards compatible way - too much to get into here but things like never changing a property/method name, the Type of a thing, so on - so as to only move forward.

Keeping all these independent services using the same version of a shared dependency, moving in lock step with it, well lets just say there's sometimes too much of a premium put on that.
I enjoy using mage (https://github.com/magefile/mage). I like having a full language at my disposal for configuring things rather than yaml or json or whatever else.
> Its unique for whole Europe.

Almost. Unsurprisingly, given their history, the only word for tea in Lithuanian is the same - arbata - borrowed from Polish.

In Belarus they also use it in parallel with the Russian word (no idea which one is more common in daily usage).
This is precisely how this works https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/16/public-science-behind-me...
> Hardware support from vendors has been a key consideration from the inception of the AV1 project.

This doesn't change the fact that HEVC got into silicon faster, and that was it.
Fine words that mean nothing. What sort of "decadent lifestyle" do you have in mind, given that pandemics have existed for as long as humanity, everywhere in every society.
It is my first time working on production grade code which has SLAs with other parties and well, for me, logging is crucial.

1. Logging the whole end-to-end chain allows us to view "whose fault" it is basically. We work in a microservices landscape and any request coming in the system goes through several teams. Pinpointing the team responsible for fixing their shit is important to get things up again.

2. Sometimes it happens that we (my team) drops the ball, we have some custom logging that traces the whole request through our application and we can quickly pinpoint what function failed or again whether it is a third party API call that failed or something.

For me, logging is very important, but perhaps there are better solutions available that I'm unaware of, always eager to learn and improve.
Yeah what I typed came across badly, I wasn't intending to download like it seemed from that comment.
Saying it was just for phones is your quote, so I think your reaction is a little misplaced. If you don’t want people to tell you what Jamf Pro does then maybe don’t make being wrong about your what Jamf Pro does part of your argument.

(Plus, if you think this is about buying any particular product, you have woefully missed the point.)
I had the same issue for a while and I just downsized to a really nice 'cheap' osprey Rook 65 which is just a big single main compartment and a top lid. It isn't really meant for huge weight but I can easily get 5 days of food and gear for alpine conditions.
>In developed countries, I see no reason why there would be any need for "massive transportation" of either goods or specialists at a scale that would make a significant difference to viral spread.

Because of economies of scale and specialization? It's often cheaper for one place to produce a lot of a narrow list of goods and trade that for the goods they're lacking rather than every place making everything they use. This means that a lot of goods need to be moved around and a lot of people too.

>Even if it were necessary, mitigation measures are neither difficult nor expensive.

Like what? Shut down international travel? Test every person coming into a country for a new disease? Both of these are very expensive, especially the former.
> Usually, when they report on a discovery done by Dutch researchers, it is considered newsworthy because the researchers are Dutch, not because the research itself is particularly noteworthy.

"Usually"? Do you have examples?
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>> And yes, you got it correctly: it sounds like a job for Sentry, not logging.

> okay, I guess I will not write a log file for my Raspi bash script then and instead setup a third party service?

They're not even exclusive. You can and should feed your logs into sentry. It can use low-sev logs as breadcrumbs and the high-sev logs as events: https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/python/logging/

Having extensive logging and sentry makes your sentry reports significantly better, it's not an either/or situation.
We understand that currently it costs a lot more than $7 to produce insulin.
The construction being referenced is On Error [ERR_NO] Goto LABEL, which is not usually local to the error, and, depending on the dialect may be a generic handler that first needs to figure out what error it's handling.
“ There is only one thing I did that helped with the breathing but it fits in the old wife's tales category so I wont post it here since I don't want to be mocked for it. ”

Hearing this makes me both mad and sad that you think it will get you downvoted. And who cares if it gets you downvoted? Hearing personal health experiences is extremely valuable. It’s what I missed the most about the internet these days with most conversations moving away from forums and message boards.
The Finnish language is wonderful, and there is a link between the verb "to do" (tehdä) and "tea" (tee).

"tee tee" : You say this when you are a foreigner (like myself) and you want to tell a Finn to make tea. Saying "tee tee" will make two things happen simultaneously and immediately: 1) the Finn will switch to English, and 2) if it's your girlfriend or wife, she will tell you to make your own damn tea. Less certain and immediate is whether you actually get a cup of tea. Correct, but less interesting: "tee teetä".

"te teette teetä" : A correct way of either commanding a group of people to make some tea, or of letting them know that the are, in fact, making tea, ie: You all are making some tea.

(Read "ee" above as a kind of extended "eh": eeehhh, and "ä" as the short a as in "hat" (like, "hät" is pronounced exactly like hat is))