skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify, I think bandwidth should simply be metered cheaply but also clearly like water and electricity.

One major problem is that people have no idea where their bandwidth goes, the tools and bill don't help them.

Meanwhile it's pretty obvious when someone is tapping your water/electricity and, importantly, you have an incentive to investigate. This doesn't exist with bandwidth.

If your smart toaster is saturating your bandwidth, 99.9% of people will never know. They'll just think their internet is slow for some reason and that's all they can perceive. We have so little insight into our connection that we have all sorts of superstitions when the internet is bad, like restarting the router. I think everyone is being let down and the system seems to exist to let bad actors take advantage of everyone else.
Maybe the markets will start to flatten out now?
Day month year is a common date format in much of the world. I think they should write the year as 9191 for consistency but I’m not willing to die on that hill.
Atlassian finally unleashes free Jira tier
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Aww thanks. We're hoping it'll be helpful - so far students seem pretty stoked about it
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites, misses booster landing for second time
Well I think it went that way because CSS is lot of frustration and not much zen.
You dont need to be worried about this. Our morales and principles are not changing.

I built the Wikipedia mobile site and there's a reason our hamburger menu, lazy loaded images and editor actually work without JS. We are for everyone regardless of internet connection speed, device value and internet stability.

That's a a hill at least I as an employee am prepared to die on.
Hi everyone, My name is Nicholas Noll, a computational biologist and co-developer of the above tool. As of now there are two other people actively working on this project: Richard Neher, Ivan Aksamentov, and I. Richard and I have a background in theoretical physics but we have been working on quantitative biology and epidemiology. Richard is also one of the founders of nextstrain.org which leverages phylogenetic analyses to track the global spread of many pathogens -- including SARS-CoV-2. The other person, Ivan, is a super talented software engineer who just recently joined our group.

We started working on this a few weeks ago, in collaboration with Jan Albert and Roberk Dyrdak, as a helpful model for public health officials and hospitals to help predict the usage of local community hospitals, and explore the utility and immediate need for quarantine measures.

We are very much still actively developing the tool, now with an eye to help global communities at large. If anyone is interested to help, we are trying to organize a road map and put it together on our Github page. I'll be around to answer questions and listen to feedback.
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My guess is that the markets won't settle down until we have a handle on the public health crisis.
Or people are scared about illness, so they are using their thermometers more frequently and thus finding small fevers/incidents of increased body temperature that they wouldn't have checked in a normal year.
See the StackExchange answer.
Yeah, but you have to remember, people 20-44 make up more something like 37% of the population. So that actually makes those age groups pretty unlikely to be hospitalized. Around half the chance relative to their share of the population.

https://www.infoplease.com/us/comprehensive-census-data-stat...

In contrast you look at age >=65, they make up 12.4% of the population, 31% of cases, 45% of hospitalizations, 53% of ICU admissions, and 80% of deaths.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm

It is kind of funny how desparate some boomers are to push "this virus affects you zoomers too!!!" angle, probably as a response to the "boomer remover" memes. Or just a weird boomer "well if we're going to die, we're gonna take you with us!" thing. I guess understandable but generally reflects the hateful ageist attitudes of boomers towards younger generations. The avocado toast mindset.

Yes, it's still lethal at 0.1% among younger populations. 0.1% doesn't mean nobody dies, it means very few die. This is a disease that primarily affects older populations. Some people are searching for a reason to hope it'll take their kids too.
Related from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6076163

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669601

A bit from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=811468
women don't mind bald men, it's just different women. which can be hard to accept.

balding men on the other hand, not confidence inspiring.
Well, here's what I did (not in that specific order):

- use alsamixer to find out which mic is which and if they are muted (it's a CLI app)

- install blueman to have it easier to switch the headset to hsp/hfp (a2dp sink is one way and it means it's not designed to send sound from the headphones, I made that mistake)

- since I have a Dell I had to fight that pesky mute led status in alsa (haven't figured out yet what it means, I ended up disabling the internal mic in the bios to be sure it was the headphone doing the recording) ; there are bug reports about the keyboard key not doing what it's supposed to do ; the internal mic only works when I set it to On in the alsamixer menu ; you can check if the laptop led is on or off (like the webcam) ;

- use pavucontrol to try to figure out what device is doing what (it's like the sound control center but it displays more information)

- make sure to switch off every device that is not your headset/headphone (hdmi, internal, anything) ; it's funny how you can configure an audio stream (say your laptop's internal speakers) to be the recording stream: it'll just record itself

I also installed audacity and recorded myself muttering "blah blah" way too many times in order to try to identify the microphones detected by the system. I still don't understand why I have so many redundant output devices with the same name and an incremental version (:1, :2, :3) but hey.. it works (I just want to be able to video call two colleagues tomorrow, I really don't know how to control for quality if you have studio quality sound recording needs :/).
Interesting. I never across Vitamin D during my research on insomnia. What is the theory behind this? I'd like to try this--what brand of Vitamin D lamp worked for you?
Would like to have a kind of "rosetta stone" where each of these examples is rewritten by passing the json to "gron" and then using the standard unix tools.

I guess some of the examples would be simpler than the jq solution.
ever heard of Edge computing? I'm pretty sure these companies invested in having capacity in the ISPs DCs all over the place in the EU.
“I’ll see … and raise” is known as a string raise and is seen as bad form or even cheating. Actions in poker must be atomic.

https://upswingpoker.com/angle-shooting-string-bet-raise/
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And there are also at least two other somewhat older books in the same general vein: Not Even Wrong and The Trouble with Physics. To the comments in a couple of other posts, it's not clear to me why one would write yet another book on this topic unless they're also proposing useful alternative approaches.
They do! but how much, how long it is active for, and how effective it is are not yet clear to me. I'll do an article on it in the near future... after I'm done figuring out what the hell is going on in the virus world
Fun side note. Since we always think of international supply chains as a modern phenomena. The Dutch have been, among other things, importing their grains since the 17th century from Eastern Europe: https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-dutch-economy-in-the-golden-....
Oh come on they can manage their own side of the fees. It’s merely petty greed.

Also a $25MM round likely costs about $40K (combined) to do. So does a $5MM round. Shameful. I always cap the total fees at $30K which pisses off the lawyers but the VCs shrug.
“you’re assuming that all sleep problems are of a sort that could potentially be caused/exacerbated by caffeine, and that the person with the problems couldn’t possibly tell that caffeine was irrelevant unless they tried removing it.”

Yes. The keyword is “could”
I am not saying “always is”.
If they did this I could do my job from an iPad Pro
> They don't make the computers, fiber optics, switches, exchanges, or software that their web site requires to run. They don't own the fleet of trucks, boats, and planes required to get their product to their customers - or their raw materials from plant to plant.

You aren't describing a supply-chain. They don't lose a computer for each item sold. The difference is that they can have a disruption in their infrastructure suppliers but continue to sell products at a degraded pace. If they lose all access to a raw material (supply chain), they can't sell any more product once they are out of supplies.
Razer converts some existing manufacturing lines to produce surgical masks
yeah that's an interesting point - resistance can have something to do with simply not having the right receptor on your cell surfaces and little to do with your immune system
Should China pay some sort of reparations? Maybe in the form of contributing to a WHO preparedness fund/initiative with stocking supplies that could be deployed faster next time? China needs to pay for their 1) lack of sanitary standards surrounding their markets and 2) their coverup which exacerbated the situation.
The long-term solution is IP multicast for live streaming.
This is something I'm just starting to understand after being an idealist/perfectionist for most of my life.

YAGNI seemed like a shortsighted dogma. My colleague's design decisions looked like ugly hacks. I preferred something to be well-done than to be useful. According to my MBTI type, I was a perfectionist of idea, not a perfectionist of action/result. I was trying to build a cathedral, not a bazaar.

I can attribute my ongoing transformation to a single video about effective writing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM

The main takeaway is that text is meant to be read, not written. Providing value to the reader is the only thing that matters. How well you write, how smart you sound, how much knowledge you deliver, doesn't matter as long as the reader gets value from the text.

It sounds obvious, but it truly changed my perspective. I recommend this video to everyone.
This is pure speculation, but it seems that GitHub's ownership by Microsoft causes them to be significantly more strict with the types of content that they are comfortable hosting. Expect this to continue as they expand up and down the stack; once their npm acquisition closes you'll see this there too.

I think this should be a wake-up call to anyone staking their open source project on GitHub — if I let someone from a US sanctioned country contribute to my repo will I be banned? Hopefully mindshare moves to alternatives in due time.
It is really well illustrated here https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
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> Because of the dearth of testing in the US, it seems highly likely that far more people are infected, and maybe even recovered.

It's not just highly likely, it's absolutely certain. I recommend the recent Khan academy video on this if you want to understand the math and you want a healthy dose of panic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCa0JXEwDEk
Mendelian randomization instead of a randomized clinical trial
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Yeah, not only is this a once in 100years event, it's also staggered in such a way that the Chinese manufacturing will likely be caught up by the time the European and North American economies are coming back to life.
The risk is less important when OP says

> Investment horizon: long term to forever

Total market ranks 1 on average return, which arguably matters most assuming OP is gonna wait 30-40 years before using this money.
The point absolutely was "this is the way you should encode pages", or rather "this is what is possible if you encode pages this way". The purpose of Zen Garden was to highlight the separation between style and content; that separation is why we've got CSS as a separate language to HTML in the first place.
> ...in the Bootstrap era you would look at my HTML and see "row" and "col-sm-3" and know exactly what I was going for visually.

Part of the blame for this has to fall onto the lap of CSS itself.

Up until CSS-grid it has been too damn hard to get layout to "just freaking work" with CSS.

To be fair, it was even more of a dumpster fire back in the early naughts when almost everyone just used HTML tables to do their layouts. The folks behind CSS should have caught on at that time and focused on making layout better and eliminate thousands of person-years of frontend people grinding their gears... BUT NO, not until 2018-ish did we get CSS-grid.
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A new app would say if you’ve crossed paths with someone who is infected
It’s not so simplistic.

It may make perfectly good sense to pull out copper and push in fiber.

It costs money to run and maintain a copper network. Fiber networks are less costly to operate and maintain.

In a rational world copper would be replaced immediately with fiber when total cost of ownership over the lifetime of the asset is less for fiber than copper.
This then requires that everyone have an AWS account and billing relationship with Amazon to access public data.
Good memories from 10 years ago (the site looks practically unchanged since then). Incredibly how the frontend nonsense of recent years allowed us to go backward. Same result but slower and more complex without any good reason.
so no Iphone app?
GitLab is fantastic, but GitHub has the most eyeballs and best discoverability features. As long as that remains true, GitHub will remain a better place to launch an open source product than alternatives.
> even if the under 50 doesn't die from it but requires hospitalization that's both a resource that can't be used by the above 50's,

Frankly this is a wrongheaded position from a triage perspective. The macro-socially correct answer is that you should prefer the person who still has 40-60 years of life over the person who is going to die in 5 or 10 or 20.

It's a very boomer-centric perspective that youngs are somehow "stealing a bed" from a boomer. But that's nothing new from that generation. Really it's the other way around, treating grandma is stealing a bed out from underneath her grandkid and leaving them to die.

You may find that crass or distasteful, but that's the reality of triage. You don't do triage until you don't have enough medical resources to go around, but then you have to make choices.

In Italy, they won't admit 70+'s to a hospital at all. That's how triage works. That's the correct way for triage to work. It's harsh but true.
Turn off your VPN
As soon as there was global trade, pandemics could spread. Colonist arrival to the americas was a semi-pandemic - but there were epidemics of the plague, of cholera, that spread from Asia to Europe and back for many years. there's an article on pandemics in antiquity: https://demystifyingscience.com/blog/2020/2/27/whats-in-a-pa...
You're right, it's not exactly the same thing and both approaches (with an alias and without) have their uses. ifconfig forcing you to come up with a unique label can be annoying when you want some script to add a new address to an interface without having to go handle the error case of "but what if <iface>:1 is already used?".

Meanwhile having an explicit label can be nice in other situations if you want to replace an address instead of merely adding a new one.

I also seem to recall running into issues dealing with IPv6 with ifconfig that I worked around by switching to ip. I don't remember the specifics however.

Overall I wish ifconfig had been updated, I still find it a lot more user friendly that iproute. In particular the default output of a plain "ifconfig" is vastly more readable IMO: https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20200319-165513_ip.png

In general these days I use ip in scripts and ifconfig (when available) interactively. I don't love having to remember two ways of doing the same thing but I can't rely on ifconfig being available in scripts anymore and I just waste too much time parsing ip's bad output when I'm messing with networking interactively.
It's up to the ISPs to apply, isn't it?
They could start by shutting down all of the wet markets.
I had an investor who had breakfast with me twice a month. He always picked up the tab. Then the firm (with a billion+ fund) sent the company an invoice every quarter.

I had lunch with him the other day (before lockdown) and he paid. I’m no longer at that company so I wonder who might be billed.
what makes these wet markets different to similar cases in Africa where "bush meat" is consumed? Is it just an equal risk in China as it is in Africa or is there something unique about China (e.g. climate, lack of oversight, central planning)? Or is it just the news cycle and that we choose focus on China right now since the recent bird flu and SARS being fresh in memory?

whoever wrote this must have felt like a modern Cassandra.
Cool, thanks for the data. Looks like their population is 30% over 60, whereas the US (for example) is 20%. Even if we assume _every_ death is someone over 60 (it's not), that'd adjust the percentage to 0.4% in a generic US town.

Note that Florida is similarly 28% over 60.
We in the manufacturing tech space have been thinking a lot about reconfigurability, beyond just 3D printing locally, but to how do you tool up (make molds, program machines, etc.) automatically akin to a deploy script, Docker container, etc.

These analogies are no where in the current paradigm, but if we have them, we could quickly allocate work across the manufacturing space to get stuff made far quicker. The material part of tool up (cutting molds, etc.) only takes days if you parallelize it, whereas the human aspect of dialing in the machines, etc. is where all the time goes.

Here's my proposal for what a more software-like engineering / manufacturing system would look like:

https://www.slideshare.net/nickpinkston/the-future-of-tools-...
Italy is proof that we need to slow this down for months longer. Our medical system was projected to only have enough N95 masks and related supplies for two weeks of a pandemic... sure enough, we're having to cobble together makeshift supplies MacGyver style here in Washington.

In a couple weeks, more of our front-line medical staff will start getting sick (the first case just occurred here), and requiring their 14-day quarantine... taking them out of rotation and adding even more strain.

It's going to get bad. We have to slow this down, to reduce the mortality rate. Or that 1% number people are throwing around is going to look like roses.
That's a good question that I had already added to my post before you asked.

I wonder if anyone here knows if the EdX servers are overwhelmed.
> it will happily allow you to say that a method always returns a string when sometimes it returns a number

Just replace "say" with "assume" and you have the javascript situation: javascript is just typescript with documentation stripped off.

> Typescript is just documentation that compiles.

Exactly. And we're arguing whether code should contain documentation or not.
My family is in manufacturing and everyone is acutely aware of their supply chain, and there are whole departments in the companies dedicated to sourcing and testing it all.

Supply chain management is like 50%+ of all manufacturing industry. I think you must be responding to the idea of like a hospital not knowing where their masks come from- and I don't think thats the focus of the article.
Some countries still have "Net Neutrality" laws preventing just that.
“Could” is wrong. For someone like me, I know from the outset the kind of thing that causes the sleep problems. It could not be anything like coffee.

I wish I could wave a magic wand and make you experience what I do.
Waymo releases open dataset challenges
This seems peculiar since Rob Eisenberg (author of that tweet and lead of Aurelia) works for Microsoft.
The big benefit of this generation is that with almost no porting effort PS4 and Xbox One games will run as they should given how much better Zen 2 and RDNA2 are than Jaguar and GCN.
Interesting. YKK is the highest-quality large manufacturer of zippers in the world. There is a correlation between the quality of a garment or zippered good and the presence of a YKK zipper.
Just a thought -- chromebooks are often being used in school setting as a cheap alternative to having an expensive Macbook Pro or something equivalent.

A student discount could go a long way.
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Thank you for your feedback. Of course I will check the status page, maybe there is something wrong with rendering.
I think the real guarantee is more like "linux doesn't break the syscall API" (the API, not the ABI). I think sysctl is not really part of it.
They've done that.
Because it's streamed using HTTPS so they cannot remux or transcode it (not like they have the CPU power to do so anyway).
Heck, when the Zen Garden was first released, you couldn't even browse the web on a Blackberry. 1024x768 monitors were a luxury. 760px wide was all you could count on for a browser window once you accounted for window edges and scrollbars on the average user's 800x600 monitor (a few years later as 1024px monitors became more common, a 960px site width became the standard); and I had co-workers who were still getting by with 640x480.
I just wanted to reply that the finite ICU capacity was merged last night and is now on the main webpage.
I understand triage, but triage is only triage because it has to be - if we can prevent that from happening we should. That's my point. Let's try as much as possible to prevent these life or death scenarios from occurring. For young people to act in a way that will get us into a triage situation is an incredibly selfish act that is preventable.
You are correct to assume we position ourselves to serve individuals. Because of this if you spin up 35 workstations, that would unfortunately mean 35 different subscriptions for storage. And yes currently the subscription price is pro-rated for the whole month.

Currently we only have the browser only client to connect to your workstation with native clients in development.

This being our beta launch, obviously we've a lot to learn and adapt about our customers so your feedback has been very useful.
Flow chemistry is super useful in some situations and can actually be quite "green" as well as you avoid a lot of solvent usage.

However, it can be really changing as well. If something crashed out in your typical reaction vessel, no big deal. If it crashed out in a flow system, everything grinds to a halt and it can be a huge pain getting the blockage cleared.
Huh! I was about to say "no, we have to see two quarters of decline". Except, NBER no longer uses that rule and hasn't for a decade:

> The NBER does not define a recession in terms of two consecutive quarters of decline in real GDP. Rather, a recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. For more information, see the latest announcement from the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee, dated 9/20/10.

[1] https://www.nber.org/cycles.html