skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's feasible, it's not even a hard thing to do (maybe hard to do very accurately), I worked for a company that offered exactly that service, as a small project.

Still, that probably doesn't answer the question, how does that really help the fight.

I suppose we'll learn what they have in mind when those questions are asked in the competition.
I think his plug was only about a 4th of his post, I would have expected a little bit more shamelessness if that were really his goal.
Better to avoid the damage in the first place.
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For some context, we might have a shortage of over 100,000 ventilators in the US if we fail to flatten the curve (or over a million if we don't take any precautions).

Some numbers for a conservative estimate where only low-risk people are infected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22590692
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I must be missing something - that looks like a horribly asymmetric payoff. Why would you ever do that?
Lucene does sound good, but I don't have any experience with it so I can't get anything happening quickly. But very happy to have help if you can?
Except that quality-adjusted life expectancy changes due to side effects of drugs are valued much more higher than people dying due to being too broke to get any non-ER-care for acute, but not yet emergency-posing illnesses.
Even within the drug certification process there is an issue with relatively niche drugs wasting a lot on overly-extensive studies, if you calculate how many people would get how much benefit from getting/affording these niche drugs. IIRC there is about an order of magnitude higher weight on side-effect deaths compared to lack-of-medicine deaths for niche drugs.
Illusion itself is a something as opposed to a nothing.
Elon Musk vows to make ventilators in response to coronavirus
To be fair, it’s not just about finding an excuse. A company that’s struggling can run out of cash quickly during these events. Outside of SV that usually means bankruptcy of some sort.
The economy is far more than just people's personal checking accounts, and many people do accumulate more than that over their life.

The loss of money in the commercial sector means (after a series of cascading failures) we're all unemployed and burning dollars to stay warm.
It's more cost upfront, which is often a show-stopper. "Why can't you spin a beefy instance on EC2 when you need it for these 2-3 hours of intense work? It's so much cheaper!"

Also, a cloud VM, if it breaks, is replaced "for free" and "instantly"; fixing a physical machine has a cost and is a delay. Unless you're big enough to keep a spare (probably makes sense for many dozens of machines), it also looks a bit uneconomical from the business's POV.

Never mind that your cloud costs in a year end up being comparable to said workstation.
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Yeah, I'm the opposite. I never get to the optimal solution in any interview. I've gotten multiple job offers from large well compensating tech firms and work for one now.

The main thing I do im interviews is be realy clear about how I'm engaging with the problem. And this is what I look for during an interview too. I almost never need the optimal solution in real work. n^2 on ten things is just as good as long(n) for many applications. So your ability to get me that perfect implemention is negligible.

But the thing I'm going to have to do every day is talk about a problem together, read your code, have you explain a solution to me.

I've worked with the 10xers writing code no one can touch and I've worked with an entire team of average coders who are using good methods and writing maintainable code and I'll take the later every damn day of the week.
Here's a scenario I'm curious about. Chickenpox parties for young and healthy people who are then isolated. Use heavy suppression to make sure there are ventilators available for them should they be needed.

My gut feeling is that this could create herd immunity at small cost.
I’ve been used to a handheld bidet for a long time. When we bought our house 3 years ago, I installed in all the bathrooms. Our tissue consumption is 10% of what it used to be in the rental apartment.

When we had our baby and she was 1, we started cleaning her by teaching her how to sit on the toilet and washing with a hand held bidet. It was much nicer on her bum, significantly less rashes. We’d wipe off with tissue but it was less friction and sweat would be cleaned off.

Bidets are the right thing to do if you care about your ass and environment. It just feels so freaking good.

Yeah winter could be bad but usually it is tolerable.
Thanks that's very helpful. Alas! You don't have any contact info in your profile.
Now I develop an user creation application for our data warehouse. It's not as interesting as writing the next cool trending app, but I can take what design decisions I deem necessary and I can use new technologies like.NET core 3.1 and Angular 9. That would sharpen my skills and make me more employable.

And nothing stops me to work in my free time in a more interesting project which I hope I will launch as a business in a few years. It helps that I am doing web programming at work because I don't have to jump from one tech stack to another daily and I can learn and experiment faster.
The AI startup I was with just informed me that there's been a change of business directions and they needed more salespeople than a DevOps engineer so I got the ax.

Unemployment doesn't have to be bleak and depressing. With the downtime, I'm going to try to knock out two AWS Associate certifications, Solution Architect and DevOps. Got inspired by Adrian Cantrill. No affiliation, I'm still in awe of his level of detail and clarity. I would highly recommend it if you are planning on taking SAA-C02.

Hiring in Singapore for DevOps/Cloud in startups has been pretty good from my experience these past few weeks. Got more than a few interviews lined up from startups in different domains, fintech, and travel just to name a few.

It's not what you know but who you know. I still stand by those words.

Lately, Roselinde Torres, a leadership expert asked it the best. What is the diversity measure of your network?
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This is the situation with Kindle books as well.

Although the Kindle app does work when offline, I can't change the font and what is most important to me: the line-height. Also the macOS Kindle app doesn't render Devanagari fonts correctly (I'm guessing out-of-date WebKit), so it is essential to be able to use a third-party viewer if I want to read Hindi Kindle books on my 4K monitor. Also I'd like to keep them in my Calibre library along with the rest of my digital books so I can use my existing categories.

The only solution so far is to remove the DRM. Unfortunately it (probably) violates the terms of use.
I love this idea. Non-wartime competition with contractors.
I'm afraid it's partly the problem of macOS and the Java implementation for it. That's what I meant speaking about "other" software.
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Pat Hanrahan is a wonderful soul. I talked to him after a talk he gave and he was super nice and not judgmental.

I don't have the same opinion about Ed Catmull. His wage fixing really saddened me. To remove agency from peoples lives for profit of Pixar is an unconscionable act. He curtailed lives for his own gain.
Landmark report not because it's likely to be accurate, but it scared the UK (and perhaps the US) into action from the high mortality figures based on the latest Italian data.

However, let's look at how the report underestimates the effectiveness of interventions:

Case isolation in the home: Reduces non-household contacts by 75% and assumes 70% of households comply : so only reduces non-household contacts by 52%

Voluntary home quarantine: Reduces community contacts by 75% but assumes only 50% of household complies.

Social Distancing: "Reduce contacts by 50% in workplaces, increase household contacts by 25% and reduce other contacts by 75%. Assume 75% compliance with policy."

Social distancing of entire population: "All households reduce contact outside household, school or workplace by 75%. School contact rates unchanged, workplace contact rates reduced by 25%. Household contact rates assumed to increase by 25%."

Closure of schools and universities: "Closure of all schools, 25% of universities remain open. Household contact rates for student families increase by 50% during closure. Contacts in the community increase by 25% during closure. "

25%, 50%, 75%... Where did they come up with these figures??
I've used all kinds of toilets. Toilet paper is for savages.

From cleanest / most practical to dirtiest:

1. Real bidet with warm water + soap https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Bidet_Ego_Kolo.jpg
2. Shower + soap
3. Bidet sprayer (cold water) + soap
4. Bidet sprayer (cold water)
5. Toiler paper

If you fall into points 4 or 5 in my mind you are a savage, walking around with thin layer of feces spread around your bottom.
- introduced easy payment decades ago (PayPal)

- reduced the cost of launching satellites significantly

- has made electric cars 'cool'

- by doing this has inspired people to take risks and be visionary

Don't get me wrong, he's certainly got his flaws, and Tesla has it's challednges cut out for them. But you have to credit him: he's made his dent, and is working on further dents as we speak.
To go with JavaScript and PHP, definitely pick up some SQL (doesn't matter much which variety, they're all similar enough). That can get you a foot in the door for "mostly premade CMS with some custom extension" jobs. It's not glamorous, but it's what a lot of local businesses are looking for (often even if they don't know it yet). My tool of choice for such work is Craft CMS (https://craftcms.com).
Would it be possible to use light-field cameras like Lytro as source material?
You can see what HN is right here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22624606
TARP recovered funds totalling $441.7 billion from $426.4 billion invested, earning a $15.3 billion profit or an annualized rate of return of 0.6% and perhaps a loss when adjusted for inflation.

Amazing profit the taxpayers made!

If the bailout was such a good deal, maybe the private industry could do it?
Isn’t a circular argument just an axiom with (unnecessary) extra parts?
Hey I am also a Drupal developer. Check out drupalcontractors.com.

They got me a really good long-term contract at my dream Drupal job a few months ago.
Good luck!
Yes, definitely, American healthcare system needs a reboot - this might be a good time to do that. The only difference is that I would be paying about the same but the insurance would cover the rest. The problem being - if you're well off, you pay $1500, if you're not, you pay $24000 and potentially go broke. That is the problem with the American healthcare system.
If it's a considerable issue you could consider laser removal. I think it's very well worth it for hygienic reasons.
I was going to say: surely the US military maintains a manufacturing core?

I’m a metal fabricator by trade, and one thing you quickly notice is: with a machine shop and a fabrication shop you are tooled up to build the machines to manufacture almost anything.
Seems like a case of “if a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, has it really fallen?”
Nationalism is a mental illness probably rooted in excessive pride unchecked by logic.

The faster we can get to a Star Trek future or something similar the better.
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Indeed. This is why it often seems like anything built up rationally can be tore down rationally.

This leads some to the interesting (and perhaps terrifying) conclusion that narratives are more important and useful than rationalism. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre

“ According to Maistre, any attempt to justify government on rational grounds will only lead to unresolvable arguments about the legitimacy and expediency of any existing government and that this in turn will lead to violence and chaos.[23][24] As a result, Maistre argued that the legitimacy of government must be based on compelling, but non-rational grounds which its subjects must not be allowed to question.”

Perhaps whatever is useful is oftentimes more important than what is true.
what are they feeding this bridge?
Awesome Conjecture! A load of experts in this thread.
Actually using Unity, which is made to be a 3d engine, to write a 2D GUI isn't such a bad idea when you take cross platform into account.
I'm not sure! There is the idea of the "stolen concept fallacy", which is to reason about something while denying that you are able to reason as the result of sensory perception, which if you accept, might mean there's some naturally resulting axioms about the senses and what a consciousness is capable of knowing.

These aren't my ideas. At the risk of having this and my first comment downvoted into oblivion, I got them from Ayn Rand. She has a short (80-page) nonfiction book about just these things which I think is remarkable, called Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. If you are not predisposed to despising the author, it's a quick, very interesting read that I recommend.

Edit: And there are the downvotes...
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Of all my comments, this is oddest thing to downvote! Is RAID bad now?
Too bad the article doesn't describe exactly what Chinese Traditional Medicine was used.
In case you're suggesting the current administration is entirely at fault, the mask stockpile was depleted in 2009 and never replenished https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/face-masks-in-...
Great Zimbabwe is definitely worth visiting. It's interesting you mention Great Zimbabwe because my grandmother's people came from Great Zimbabwe and brought some of the building skills with them.

To answer your question, well Bumbusi is in the Hwange National Park which is largest game reserve in Zimbabwe. Whilst the ruins might not be spectacular it's a great place to see animals in the wild. It's also on your way to the Victoria Falls if you coming from great Zimbabwe. Hope that helps.
Grinding out the rust - and paint - and the people to do that work.
Sorry for wet-blanket (and possibly dumb and obvious!) question, but is this the kind of thing that AWS/GC/Azure are just going to implement their own version of if it turns out to be popular?
stay inside and lock the doors until election time then vote. seems to solve most political problems.
Power supply:

I took my desire to build a Pi cluster as an excuse to upgrade to a bigger, newer Anker charging hub.
I guess you can run an interview poorly whether its on a whiteboard or anywhere else. If you are looking for an implementer-type role that isn't going to be doing much problem-solving, it could be that an interview working with real code makes more sense. A good process should involve a mix of these situations to get the full picture.
Actually, handwritten note taking in particular is a professional task that you can not do on a regular PC or Mac. As a theoretical physicist, doing math "on paper" is not something I can do on a PC or Mac, and doing it on an iPad is orders of magnitude better than using actual paper, as it allows for moving things around and revising.
There are medical equipment manufacturers better suited for this role. GM is a last resort and this is more of a symbolic gesture.
This is it.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/disaster-medicine-an...

Someone took that data and used it for this more accessible article.

https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...
Something like "Principal Engineer" is usually the term for this.
“usually” is a very dangerous word.

It hides all the times these plants had no effect or a negative effect.

Either these plants you speak of are effective and their efficacy can be demonstrated repeatedly using trials or they’re not and someone is selling superstition.

That’s still a choice between medicine and not medicine.
This also struck me as odd. The only reason I can think of doing something like this is that maybe it is pre-tax? So instead of paying a salary which triggers payroll and income taxes, they defer the salaries and dump the money into investments?
Liability will be damned.

If there's a military requisition of ventilators, the government alone sets the standards and quality. And the government alone gets to complain about violations. Maybe it wants ISO 9000, but I imagine they'll take 1960s class ventilators if they can be ready by a date certain.

You, citizen, can sue the government and allege that the MASH ventilator spec was reckless and deprived you of your constitutional rights. And you will be laughed out of court at ISO 9000 levels. With few exceptions, soldiers don't get sued for shooting people with guns, and battlefield surgeons don't commit malpractice.
Why would you give your software the same name as an existing tool used by the target audience?

Imagine if someone created a new tool for programmers and called it 'Code Editor' or 'Compiler'.
I started playing with Elixir on mine, but installing Elixir on ARM is enough of a pain that I opted for a Docker image instead so I only had to build it once.
This article reads like a bad gossip rag but instead of being about failing celeb marriages it’s less interesting.
1/500 dead for all 20-40yo even with medical intervention is not a small cost...
No, I feel the same way. I went to the page for SFMOMA, and honestly I feel like the architecture of the building and the arrangement of the pieces in the space totally gives it the "museum feel". The pictures of the art struck me as if they could have come out of a textbook.

But exhibitions change all the time; it would be hard to keep a virtual walkable museum up-to-date with the real-world one. Plus it'd require more headcount, and more powerful gpus on the viewer side, and more edge cases wrt operating systems and browser combos to test.

I saw videos of a penguin walking around an aquarium in Chicago going around, and I found that gave me more of the feeling I was looking for.
I stayed 6 years until the company closed. I did wanted to switch jobs since 2 years ago but I kept finding excuses.

Lessons learned both from my experience and from talking to other game programmers: working on games would not fit exactly your pre-made image of it, most jobs in gaming industry will be underpaid (my case) and require overworking (as others told me), it's fine to switch jobs if you are underpaid or bored, it's good to get out of your comfort zone, working in a large company is not as bad as it can seem for someone who only worked in small teams and the best way to get a raise is going to job interviews and trying to sell your skills the best you can.
I recently had to deal with this problem when building out Covidly (www.covidly.com)

Initially I tried using WHO and JHU, but quickly found their data to be riddled with discrepancies, occasional bugs, and direct contradictions with official statements from various countries.

I ended up aggregating multiple sources (including WHO/JHU/etc), performing some sanity checks to remove outliers, then doing my best to merge the remaining results.

Happy to share this data publicly if there's interest!
Yes, taxpayers didn't lose any money, made a tiny profit, and the economy was stabilized while preventing catastrophic failure. You consider this a bad outcome?

Public and private sectors work together. Private enterprise is great for growth and freedom but there are emergency situations where the government can help for the good of society. What is so controversial about this?
It's a real big stretch from "certain enough to take personal precautions" to "is a stock head and wants to throw down puts". You get that normal people don't really give a damn about the stock market, yeah? Put a gun to my head and I can't tell you how a put works and I don't really care--I'm too busy buying a house.

I did, however, rebalance almost entirely out of stocks three weeks ago and while I am not "now rich", my portfolio is doing a hell of a lot better than most folks'.
Why are all the masks single use? Why can't we make reusable masks that can be disinfected by UV light?

Structurally those masks are pretty solid. I can easily wear a single surgical masks for quite some time.

But would need some way to disinfect it!

EDIT: if everyone wore masks, like in Japan (where I live), then it would limit the spread. If you're in early stages of the infection and you have no idea, but you war a mask then you're less likely to infect other people.

AFAICT Japan isn't doing anything radical to stop the spread and yet the virus is not spreading much. At best Japan asks infected people to stay at home. No lock downs or quarantines. Bars, cafes, gyms and theaters are all open. Life goes on.

What's the magic? Almost universal use of masks is the only reason I can think of because I haven't seen any other measures in the society.

Yes, they closed schools but they usually close schools to some degree due to influenza.
Running a small consulting firm. Taking the financial temperature of the startups we service.

If this turns into a many month or year long downturn, I suspect many of our contracts which are on a monthly basis will come to an end. Trying to re-enter the job market at my age is going to be extremely difficult.
> They still deliver my mail like clockwork

"Makes the trains run on time" is a pretty weak argument when the alternative (e.g. UPS) has a demonstrated ability to do the same thing without losing billions of dollars.

> If you require a bailout, you had your chance as a for profit concern. Entirely reasonable to run services at a loss as a government entity.

Isn't this a double standard? A private entity loses money and requires a taxpayer bailout once, they've had their chance. A government entity loses money and requires a taxpayer bailout every year, cost of doing business?
Probably the best answer. Gold is portable wealth outside the system though you want to take it to a better system.

This time beans and bullets might be the better hedge
Or, arguably, the C++ equivalent is just the destructor. 'Defer' and 'ScopeExit' are interesting, but I'm not sure if I see the advantage over widely understood first-class language features. If you don't want to write a class just to get cleanup logic at scope exit, consider using std::unique_ptr with a custom deleter -- this construct is for managing resources in a general sense, not necessarily just memory allocation.
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I have a different theory for the silver drop. The gold value has not gone up significantly. So this ratio drop is caused by a drop in the silver price. People are fleeing to cash now. They still value gold and keep it. But the impact on silver demand this time is Bitcoin. It appears to be even better than gold. Why settle for silver when you can buy Bitcoin? Bitcoin may be replacing silver on its rise to catch up to gold.
Woah there. Don't be so hasty to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Don't need another Thalidomide dropped on us just because things are looking a bit grim. It's one thing to ask "Do we really need to let this stand in our way right now?"; It's an entirely different kettle of fish to say "Screw it, if it kills the virus anything goes!"
here ya go: The Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic is a national disgrace. We should have impeached him ten times over by now. I don't trust the current government to handle this, or any, situation requiring decisive and urgent action with competence or even a modicum of intelligence. At this point I feel that our entire political system is corrupt and beyond repair. Drain the swamp my ass. Let it burn.