skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems interesting, but the fact that the officially supported distro is still Ubuntu 16.04 is alarming. There is no good excuse for actively developed software to require an outdated operating system.

I get that it's a LTS platform, but so is 18.04. 16.04 only has ~1 year of support left, so deploying infrastructure on it now is idiotic.

At this point they should at least be recommending 18.04 and should be testing on betas of 20.04 while considering compatibility issues to be high priority.
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> The dev experience you get with Netlify and Zeit will almost certainly never be possible with AWS.

For static hosting, AWS Amplify is already a very similar experience to Netlify. Each is slightly better than the other in some ways, but overall they are really very similar.
Did I read this right?

Apparently not, because neither the slideshow content nor even the original title (as opposed to the editorialized submitter title) says anything of the kind.

These are routine, daily felony warrant pursuits. They aren't "random", and they aren't new. The only change is the added protection.
Naive question, does this mean quinine may also help, and is there enough in tonic water to have any clinical effect?
> All OpenJDK versions are created equal

Not really. If they were then jdk12u would not be [READ-ONLY] and jdk11u still open here https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk-updates
A Reference Architecture for Apache Druid on Microsoft Azure
Perhaps you have lost your cool a little? I am quite content to work from home, go hiking on the weekends and meet up with friends in open spaces as allowed by the lock down rules. I can arguably go skating, surfing, walking and much more.

Its not ideal, but if it's required, I'll do it. We are not going to fall apart. Except for twitchy individuals like you, it seems...
Thanks for chiming in with those examples. I suppose "well" is much too strong of a word then. I guess I just have very little faith that others would do a decent job either.

Since you seem knowledgeable, I guess my question is: While large scale testing seems a reasonable thing to do on it's face - since we already know this thing spreads like wildfire - isn't the best play to just have everyone self-quarantine regardless of health status? Why spend resources on mass testing and preparing for mass-scale treatment when it seems that a total lock-down could nip the transmission in the bud? If you're a non-severe case they tell you that you're supposed to stay away from people if you test positive. So if you're doing that already - what's the difference? Especially considering the logistics of performing large scale testing to identify non-critical cases could expose the people performing the tests if they mess up on their safety protocols. And then there's the issue of false-positives and false-negatives.

I guess I just don't see the benefit of mass testing everybody when we have the option of just shutting down everything now.
Yes, that's what I meant. I can't possibly assume that the handful of people I spoke with are a representation of the whole country.
Shopify also gave its employees $1000 to fund work-from-home office equipment. ie, chair, desk, screens ... A thousand bucks doesn't go very far in America.

Feels like the wrong thing to be paranoid with Facebook over.
Information is objectively described by notions such as entropy, algorithmic information, randomness deficiency, etc.

Information is mind independent and has empirically describable characteristics.
I have heard that amazon is temporarily hiring 100k people. Just work there! /s

Honestly, this is not the fault of Uber or Lift or any other company. This is clearly a systematic problem. Regulate uber - then it becomes not "competitive", drivers will lose their jobs and will be forced into another dead-end, low-wage, not secure job.

It is the system.
Zoom traffic jumps 15% since Coronavirus outbreak but social VR use remains flat
I have mixed feelings about things like airline bailouts.

If we do, you essentially reward bad behavior.

If you don't, you are likely to induce a massive consolidation within the airline industry, leading to less competition and more anti-consumer behavior.

I don't really see a solution, and maybe the second point is less likely than I think...
These relate directly to the three normative sciences:

1) Logic, the normative science of what is true.

2) Ethics, the normative science of what is good.

3) Aesthetics, the normative science of what is beautiful.

I believe the above formulation is due to Dijkstra, but I can't recall precisely which work I saw it in. He certainly held all three in high esteem and that philosophy was at the root of many of his insights. For example, he explicitly made a distinction between correctness and pleasantness. The former is a matter of logic and the latter is a matter of aesthetics. It follows that they are separate and independent concerns. The vast majority of software is not logically correct, but is nonetheless more or less pleasing to its users.

As for ethics, it's not just for things like the defense industry and medicine. For example the change to the C standard from having a set of permissible responses to undefined behavior to the actively hostile anything goes situation we now have is a matter of ethics. That behavior is both correct in that it satisfies the specification and pleasant in that it allows for aggressive optimization, but it's not very good for the users who get their NULL checks optimized away. Arguments that the bad behavior is correct or allows optimization don't address the ethical concern at all or deny its existence altogether and thus can never refute it.

The normative sciences are remarkable in their broad applicability across domains, which makes them worthy of study by all educated persons, but they are especially important for software developers since we can potentially affect so many people's lives. They even apply here on HN. We should all try to make our contributions true, good (nourishing for intellectual curiosity), and elegant.
Pentagon to give 5M respirator masks, 2K ventilators to HHS
We're not going back to normal
So they can buy more toilet paper?
I've had the same thought/idea myself. There's so much more this can branch into if you want.

It looks like this is very targeted towards the SMB space. I'm wondering if you could adjust your pricing and features to help modernize & consolidate some of the overlap at larger businesses in general.
It probably depends on what you mean by really small.

Writing resolution is pretty good and most importantly it tracks the tip precisely. It's not as sharp as a real 0.2mm mechanical pencil, but you can write legibly down to ~2mm line height (1).

The larger factor is the contrast: the reMarkable screen is light grey so I usually write larger than I would on white paper.

(1) not at the very edge of the page, but maybe v2 fixes that
> I wonder how people put up with this..

The same way hundreds of thousands of people (if not millions) use GitHub Desktop connected to their GitHub accounts?
I really liked the "WeCrashed" podcast [1,2], it traces the rise and fall of WeWork and is well produced.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/wecrashed-the-rise-and-fa...

[2] https://wondery.com/shows/we-crashed/
Oh the tech in firefox is amazing, I'm just pointing out the marketshare is pretty lopsided for Chrome over Firefox.

It isn't as though there is actually a mass defection from Chrome to Firefox outside of a very small number of people.
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
That is the same for almost every business!
I had the same response. I'm sympathetic to the idea that there might be wrong with the increase in buybacks in recent years, although that's more of a sense that any massive change in behavior should have extremely well-understood consequences. This article didn't convince me that _all_ buybacks are bad.
Such is the reality when a large percentage of the workforce are in dispensable jobs that are over-exposed to Black Swan events like this.

Countries with an adequate social security net in place have a (temporary) answer at least.
Old Star trek. The new stuff imagines a vastly different future.
uber was supposed to be a supplementary income no ?
Very cool. I love ideas that seem super obvious after you hear of them.
I'm "super" long vol now, have a limit buy for those hilarious 130 VIX calls. If meteor strike happens, I'll be in a good place. Costs like 160 bucks, hilarious way to hedge
> I have heard that amazon is temporarily hiring 100k people. Just work there! /s

Curious, why is that sarcasm? Are you insinuating the average Uber driver is not cut out for the work of picking groceries / fulfilling orders at Amazon?
We may have it in our power to change the game around - vilify Musk and show him that this convexity is just a mirage.

Not sure if that will work.
Well, I guess those videos turn people off and they stay on the app less, and TikTok wants to make money.

TikTok works with AI, but the same would happen on Facebook, where people click on "Like" manually.

Cry me a river.
Can you elaborate, i'm not making the connection
In the video he says that his hospital and Korea use 600 mg/d and that Chinese authors mention two times 500 mg per day. He describes that larger treatment as “harder to handle” and I suspect he’s referring to secondary effects.
In theory yes. But how long did western societies sit on the virus before doing anything, even with a couple of months of early warning time?

Yes there wasn't any government attempt to cover things up, but not like information was free flowing either.
I'd imagine most waiters/waitresses/bartender are feeling the same way.
Melbourne scientists make major coronavirus breakthrough
Can anyone here say to what degree EU state aid & competition law is going to help or hinder governments over the next few weeks, as they try to shore up rapidly collapsing national economies?
I am hoping that folks who are in industries that are shutting down can find other work in industries that are ramping up. If you are an Uber driver you obviously should not be driving right now unless it is to a job interview. Don't wait. You know the outlook is grim for awhile.
https://archive.md/uRXE6
It is beneficial to the owners of $AAPL, their shareholders, whose wealth doubled simply via buybacks. Relatedly, it increases the value of unvested stock held by employees, helping with retention and recruitment.
Could not get any GPU work units on win10 with a 1080. Anyone got this to work with GPU only?
New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces
Comp sci is a good upper bound on materialism, and provides a rigorous basis for distinguishing material and immaterial substances. E.g. if we detect a halting oracle we can conclude it is immaterial, insofar as materialism is bounded by that which is computable.

In that sense it is a way to scientifically address the philosophical concept of substance dualism, without getting lost in a bunch of speculative arguments. Also is a good avenue for making substance dualism a technologically useful theory.
Explains why there's little outbreak in Africa.
Tracking the documentation effort in GHC's base library
I am shocked how many companies were so thinly spread after ‘08 and the virus exposed them. We learned absolutely nothing from 2008 (probably because the govt bailed out everyone). Does capitalism really work when we can’t even enforce true price discovery?
Depending on your definition of old, it might actually be a lot safer for the person to use a ride share than drive themselves.
Amazon: Temporarily prioritizing products coming into our fulfillment centers
Sixth slide: "We just have to continue to go with the same game plan that we’ve been doing"
Good. Let that PoS burn.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21527268
Not dumb. Selfish.

So much of what he does can be seen as driven by pure self interest despite his altruistic, saver of humanity persona.

He is personally set to receive tens of billions in compensation if Tesla hits its targets. Which no matter who the person is has a significant influencing effect.
A safe place to stay during these uncertain times
Hoarding toilet paper will not increase supply of it. The toilet paper manufacturers are not making any more of it, because this is a temporary blip on the demand side, and because they know that they aren't going to sell any more toilet paper in the long run.

Hoarding resources that we aren't globally in short of, actually makes the situation far worse. The demand spike is solely caused by hoarders and price gougers, to the detriment of everybody else.
I thought it would have been obvious, but to clarify what I meant by impartial and organic — I mean "ranked using the same criteria regardless of origin".

Of course any human-written algorithm will have bias. But it's a reasonable expectation (and the current norm) that every page faces the same bias.

I'm not sure where you're going with your last comment. If you've got evidence that Google is manually promoting its own pages within the search results (not ads) then please provide sources. This has never been proven and Google have consistently maintained they don't do it.

(I'm not a Google fan but I believe them in this case because of the anti-trust implications)
I came to a similar realization yesterday. Many people no longer have computers at home. Instead they simply have their phone as their sole computing device.
>The article neglects to mention that the bill already passed the democratic house without much debate.

Some important context here, 126 Republicans voted for that bill, and 75 Democrats voted against the bill.
https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

There’s a script to upload files from Instapaper on, not sure how well it works.
I started by clicking one of the icons and read three pages, and I liked each one more than the last.
Gatekeeping on antivirals is probably not a horrible idea.

One terrible solution we have in the USA because we refuse to see healthcare as a right (omg we can't have everyone healthy or too healthy) is many states have practicing nurses as pseudo-doctors at some pharmacies (ie. CVS "Minute Clinic") where you give them $100 to be seen, and then they write a script. It's disgusting but it's a solution.
For those who are unaware, ZZT was a text-mode DOS adventure game written in 1991 by the founder of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney.

It included a level editor and scripting language, which allowed anyone to unleash their creativity and design their own text-mode games using the ZZT engine.

This was absolutely unique at the time.

As a company, Epic is still hugely successful. Most gamers in 2020 have probably heard of Fortnite and Unreal Engine. According to Wikipedia, Tim Sweeney still owns over 50% of the company.

ZZT explored a lot of ideas about how to build a game creation system, which influenced Unreal Engine, which itself was hugely influential throughout the game industry.

The standard paradigms for today's game engines and editors was clearly influenced by ZZT.
Is it unapproved? I thought it was in widespread use as an anti-malarial (for 70 + years)?
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I agree. Work is work.
> If you don't, you are likely to induce a massive consolidation within the airline industry

Maybe this should not only be forbidden by law, but also reverse process - splitting existing airlines - should be started. "Economy of scale" benefits could be estimated lower than benefits to the society from increased competition and stimulus to innovate.
I think the point of the article is that even if you can't make your loop any tighter, there can be benefits to timing your actions so it disrupts your opponent's loop.

That's the fighting example. Fights generally develop a rhythm, where people trade punches. You can get a big advantage by striking when it's not "your turn", even if this means waiting.
That's what I was thinking originally, but knowing that area, who would have missed that?
I got a notification today (Bay Area) from the UberEats app saying that they will not charge any delivery fee for all local restaurants. That ought to help the restaurants and drivers, though I wonder how Uber can keep that up since it will eat right into their profits...
Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1
I’d say off the top of my head: The average Uber driver has a lease on a car that is way more expensive than what they would need individually, and probably doesn’t live next to an Amazon logistics centre
Someone hands me a thumb drive and it consists of one byte, 0000 0001.

On Monday, the owner of the thumb drive tells me the contents are a counter of how many apples they had in their kitchen on new year.

On Tuesday, the owner tells me the contents are a boolean for whether they took a vacation in 2014.

What is the entropy of the data?
One one point, HIV treatments is so effective now (viral load undetectable) that many don't use condoms with informed partners. On the other end of the spectrum PrEP has been wildly successful in virtually eliminating transmission. And we know humans are not great at using condoms despite the risks.
This is not an unapproved drug, just an off-label use. From wikipedia:

> Chloroquine was discovered in 1934 by Hans Andersag.[3][4] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system.[5]
I would have to change gloves every time I want to touch my face. And if I am to avoid spreading between customers, I would have to change my gloves after every customer (or wash/sanitize my hands).
It's supposed to be independent contractor work where clients are spoon-fed to you.

Having done a lot of independent contractor work, I know I had to hustle during lean times. If someone thought it wasn't susceptible to competition and market forces, they were a bit naive. Frankly, they were well insulated against that possibility compared to most other industries.
The airlines bought back ~$12.5B of stock over the last decade[1]. That’ll put a dent in $50B, but wouldn’t nearly cover the current shortfall...
Software Development Always Takes Longer Than You Think
: fred@tara ~ $; cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 31 (Thirty One)
: fred@tara ~ $; make -p | grep FEAT
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
.FEATURES := target-specific order-only second-expansion else-if shortest-stem undefine oneshell archives jobserver output-sync check-symlink guile load
: fred@tara ~ $;

guile available -- so, its enabled in Fedora.

: fred@tara ~ $; ls -l `which make`
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 248624 Dec 10 17:34 /usr/bin/make
: fred@tara ~ $;

and, just to validate guile availability:

: fred@tara ~ $; ldd `which make`
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffce61cb000)
libguile-2.2.so.1 => /lib64/libguile-2.2.so.1 (0x00007fc423432000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc42342b000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc423409000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc423240000)
libgc.so.1 => /lib64/libgc.so.1 (0x00007fc4230e1000)
libffi.so.6 => /lib64/libffi.so.6 (0x00007fc4230d6000)
libunistring.so.2 => /lib64/libunistring.so.2 (0x00007fc422f50000)
libgmp.so.10 => /lib64/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007fc422ed3000)
libltdl.so.7 => /lib64/libltdl.so.7 (0x00007fc422ec7000)
libcrypt.so.2 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.2 (0x00007fc422e8c000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc422d46000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc4235ed000)
libatomic_ops.so.1 => /lib64/libatomic_ops.so.1 (0x00007fc422d41000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fc422d25000)
: fred@tara ~ $;

Yes, libgc and libgmp are needed
(182k for libgc, 1.3mb for libgmp, 1.3mb for libguile itself) as opposed to 3.3m for python3. Seems comparable, including dependencies.
Thanks, I misspoke about fanning out to multiple streams. Dedicated stream consumers are still a hack. They're also expensive and have limitations as Lambda event sources. Kinesis is a service that needs to be used very carefully. It's riddled with landmines for cost and performance.

Regarding Dynamo: I'll echo plexicle's experience that switching to on-demand was an immense cost savings (these were tables that were not being used often, many of them in dev environments).
That's a good point. I know I definitely do that for the -= keys... but then again, my proper form breaks down for the top row of the keyboard. That's my biggest weakness by far. For ,./;'[]\ I would argue that you should be able to use the proper finger just fine.

Also, fun fact, Dvorak has one major flaw if you are a CLI addict like I am. The command "ls -l" is typed entirely with the right pinky finger. If you want to know what it feels like on a qwerty keyboard, then simulate it by typing "p; 'p"

I struggled with this combination a lot, but eventually I drilled it into my fingers, and now I can type it totally naturally.
Do you know what the cost difference is between CloudFront and S3 in terms of serving big files like video files?

For convenience and other reasons, I use S3 to publish some videos for a small group (~30) I teach. Wondering if serving that thru CloudFront would be cheaper.

This is especially important to me now as I'm doing this while everyone here is under voluntary self-isolation so I'm relying on video more.

Not that S3 was ever that expensive for me but if CloudFront is cheaper...
supplementary to the point where courts are deciding they should be treated as employees instead of contractors?

"supposed to be"? have you seen any widespread efforts by Uber /Lyft to inform people of this, or to otherwise limit the rides or offers they may take?
just to receive care while not incurring a burden of debt

The patient fled even before getting a result, let alone being quoted any fees.
Geez, I thought this might be an overblown piece about algorithms unwittingly optimizing for the wrong things, but the headline is pretty accurate. Discussing how moderators choose content to recommend to people in the “For You” section (not a user — I assume this is something highlighted to users):

> Under this policy, TikTok moderators were explicitly told to suppress uploads from users with flaws both congenital and inevitable. “Abnormal body shape,” “ugly facial looks,” dwarfism, and “obvious beer belly,” “too many wrinkles,” “eye disorders,” and many other “low quality” traits are all enough to keep uploads out of the algorithmic fire hose.

A TikTok spokesperson seems to confirm they are real guidelines, but won’t confirm how they were used.

> TikTok spokesperson Josh Gartner told The Intercept that “most of” the livestream guidelines reviewed by The Intercept “are either no longer in use, or in some cases appear to never have been in place,” but would not provide specifics.
More likely, Uber serves a very specific demographic, which may or may not be available to Amazon: people who work in other cities, physical limitations, social constraints, etc.

Say what you will about their employment tactics, they are certainly one of the most flexible employers out there.
Obligatory...

Vulkan Ray Tracing: https://is.gd/DMIKVs
1. Yes.
2. No, you'd have to drink like 30 liters a day.
Quanta is such a top notch publication. I am consistently impressed with the quality of their writing.

Great article on geometry, particularly a nice explanation of the flat torus, and of whether things can or cannot be measured locally.
I don't really remember. Compiling a lot of things maybe, or running out of space or RAM on my VPS.

I'll try to get it running again this weekend.