skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The original comment was about the "US military" and not just the Navy.

Yes, but it was about the military in the context of handling nuclear reactors and nuclear materials, and the US Navy is the only service that does that. (The Army did during WWII because it ran the Manhattan Project, but that was a one-time event and not representative of long-term practice.) So the Navy is the only relevant service.

> I'm assuming you're speaking from personal experience

Yes, as I've mentioned several times in various posts in this discussion (not all in response to you).

> Maybe your criteria is different for what constitutes a mishap

I was speaking specifically about reactor incidents, which is what Fukushima was. If you include releases of radioactive material that do not involve any issue with a reactor, yes, there have been incidents, some of which you note. A similar statement to the one I made about reactor incidents also holds for those: the total harm done by all such incidents involving radioactive materials is orders of magnitude less than the total harm done by releases of materials connected with fossil fuels (oil spills, coal ash, chemical spills, etc.; coal ash, btw, is more highly radioactive than many types of radioactive waste from nuclear reactors).

> I'm not convinced it's necessarily a byproduct of organizational structure of "chain of command"

I think the primary factor is simple unwillingness to tolerate any deviation from proper procedures. The existence of a military chain of command might not be essential for that, but it certainly makes it a lot easier. It would be very difficult for a civilian organization to justify summarily firing a high-level official over a single administrative error, as I saw done with a Navy officer (I mentioned this in another post elsewhere in this discussion).
Not sure what the intention was behind the comment (as its only a URL) but in case it was "old news:" Hydroxychloroquine has been heavily discussed on HN in the past few days, but this article says that today (Thursday) President Trump has announced immediate FDA approval of the drug for treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Got it. Wasn't aware of the backend supporting the app! Regardless, I'd rather pay upfront. The app can be offer limited time usage with all the features for testing.
I wouldn't rely on that.

Wasabi does not charge for egress but our pricing model is not suitable for use cases involving the hosting of videos in a manner where the ratio of egress downloads exceeds the amount of storage.

https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600004...
This article seems short sighted.

1. Using the AWS cost calculator is pointless, naturally an entity the size of NASA would get heavily discounted rates.
2. As data volume grows, the complexities of working with that data expands. NASA appears to be embracing cloud computing by embracing a paradigm where scientists push computation to where the data rests rather than downloading data [1], [2], [3], thereby paying egress on only the higher order data products.
3. The report notes that NASA has tooling to rate limit and throttle access to data. This, in itself, proves that NASA didn't "[forget] about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off".

People may scream about vendor lock in, which is a fair complaint; but acting like NASA just didn't think about egress is misleading.

NASA is ultimately a science institution, I think diverting effort away from infrastructure management and towards studying data is likely a wise decision.

[1: https://www.hec.nasa.gov/news/features/2018/cloud_computing_...]
[2: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10712-019-09541-z]
[3: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AGUFMIN21F..02P/abstra...]
You don't decide on a lark if you want some content to have table semantics or not! Tags are selected to indicate the semantics of the content. Content don't change semantics unless you rewrite it to actually be something different.

In any case, you might just as well decide the table was a list item or headline then, right? So you would need

<table what-i-actually-mean="ol">...
Wikipedia says: "Hydroxychloroquine was approved for medical use in the United States in 1955.[1] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system.[5] The wholesale cost in the developing world is about US$4.65 per month as of 2015, when used for rheumatoid arthritis or lupus.[6] In the United States the wholesale cost of a month of treatment is about US$25 as of 2020

That's old enough that there is no patent on the drug and I am sure many public domain synthesis paths: somebody might have a newer, better, cheaper way to make it which is patented, but there is no legal barrier to making it.
Another good interview on this topic:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/physicist-g...
Thanks Yann, much appreciated!
If you tried looking it up yourself instead of making me feed you info in what totally looks like bad faith that would be awesome.
I was simply going to downvote and move on, but I stopped and wondered, so I thought I'd ask:

What positive thing do you think your comment adds to this conversation?

It may be that I missed something, and I'd welcome the opportunity to see your thinking here.

TIA
"The audit, meanwhile, suggests an increased cloud spend of around $30m a year by 2025"

Isn't this a rounding error for NASA?
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Italy has more reported total deaths than China at this point. Spain is also catching up fast.
It's fake from a video shot in Cagliari https://redd.it/fl1k4a
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Would you agree with Trump’s stance on reducing American reliance on Chinese manufactured goods? Trump has been doing that since his election.
in the 90s i would imagine seeing a "Fun Fact" on the back of a cereal box saying "Did you know the Spanish flu actually started in Kansas?". And me going, "huh, mildly interesting"

These days people choose weird things to focus on. To the point where they will correct you if you say Spanish Flu like its offensive.

There's is definitely an effort to remove any instance of "The <country name> <disease name>". Regardless of accuracy. Renaming something isn't inherently political, but the choice of which misnamed things to rename is political.
I agree, although I think there's some room between not having any emoji and being flooded with low-quality emoji comments.
Does the law actually require a fully automated means of detection? For example to "nuke first" means you need to know that sanctions apply. If the law doesn't require it to be fully automated, "know that sanctions apply" could involve a human doing verification.
Aggressive testing might be the key to slowing down Covid-19 infections
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https://apnews.com/ad9a6af47c3b55fd83080c9168afaaf4 claims it is a matter of testing more people, including younger ones, and using the outcomes of those tests to quarantine patients.
iSH author here. Answer to both: because that's how the Alpine Linux minirootfs image is set up.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22626013.
Unlikely, because Netflix accounts for traffic on the entire segment and aggregates data. It would be possible that you are the only one on your segment watching Netflix and everyone else is using Zoom or something, but if that were the case then your one stream wouldn't make a difference if it was at lower quality.

In other words, this would only help if a lot of people on your segment are watching Netflix, and if a lot of people on your segment are watching Netflix, then Netflix has a whole bunch of data on exactly how full that segment is and will adjust accordingly.
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"(Also, and I know this is heresy, I couldn't finish the much lauded Psychonauts back then either)"

I really loved Psychonauts, but... I've tried several times to replay it and I have a really hard time with it, because even as someone who loved it, the first 5-10 hours is a slog. There's this incredible premise under the game, and if you get to the point they start using it, it's pretty good, but they really frontloaded a whole lot of levels that are basically "Yeah, I mean, sure, this is nominally taking place inside of someone's head and is all like psychic and freaky and psychological & shit but actually it's just a completely standard 3D platformer". And not that great of one. And those levels just go on forever, with hardly any fun elaborations or anything. I tend to get to the lungfish, right where at least the game gets interesting (though I don't think it truly lives up to its premise until the Milkman level, which IIRC is next), and gas out from all the slog.

I hope for the sequel they sat down in the early design session and had some serious discussions about what did and did not work in the first game.
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Aside from the photo. Of a dolphin. In a canal.
Let's say, arbitrarily, that you automatically connect with 20% of people, 50% of people take some work, and the other 20% aren't worth it.

The 20% that aren't worth it can be further split into people who are very different from yourself, wallflowers, and antisocial individuals. If you are not eager to please, you will identify the last 20% easily. The trick, though, is that you can't automatically dismiss them. You must assess their importance to work or personal goals, and tread lightly if they are important. With the 50% who take some work, I've found that de facto talking to them like we're already friends helps unlock great conversations. I consistently take the small risk of seeming eccentric in order to get past small talk in my first conversation with strangers. I don't even do that to form lasting friendships. It allows me to make "temporary friends" wherever I go, making for a more pleasant day if nothing else. It also helps me have a stronger sense of identity. I feel more "generic" when I talk about generic things.
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Now that github is enforcing this they probably block sanctioned countries at the network level.
You're not the first person to mention QtCreator for c/c++ projects ( not even using QT ). Can you elaborate about what you like about QtCreator over other c/c++ IDEs?
> Programming, like spoken language, is one way to express yourself.

I am not a software developer, nor have any interest becoming one. What programming has given me is a Thinking superpower. Thinking as really slow thinking by Kahnemann. That's what I think is the reason more people should have a look at programming. To understand they can think better and way more efficient when using code as a supertool for thinking. Not necessary to produce a software product to sell, but just to enhance their own work/hobby/whatever.
A cheap and effective treatment that means that it's suddenly not very deadly, or at least not likely to put a huge strain on the healthcare system would be what could turn it around.
Your initial proposal was that most of the Covid related deaths were due underlying conditions.

Now you propose that the underlying condition most present isn't really a condition.
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Interface is a not great. I wanted to compare US model to what's actually happening (I've been graphing the US curves with public data).

Top dropbox is Scenario. Default is custom. I pick 'country - no mitigation'. Box below labelled 'Population' (eh?) now says 'Germany'. I pick 'United States' from it. The box below that also is labelled 'population' but has the value with no digit separation to make it readable (shows 330000000, which I initially misread under by an order of magnitude) but it does have an up/down arrows beside it to increment/decrement it by 1 (double eh?).

The labels are not clearly associated with the dropdows, so it's easy to get confused over whether they refer to the box above or below.

The help buttons are (blue show not hide text I think. The text they do have is often unhelpful eg. "ICU/ICMO (est.)" ask for help on that and you get "Number of ICU/ICMO available in health care system". Could be worse, could be better.

The text box that pops up when you hover over the produced graphs are hard to read - you've got light text on a white background. Also the larger numbers are hard to read without digit separators.
Also, don't get clever with the box following the pointer, it's not slick, it jumps around and is distracting.

The graph axis is very logarithmic which is hard to get a feel for. Also the top figure shows for me as 0000000 because the leading '1' is hidden.

I guess it's for professional of this area, which I'm not, so I'll step back now. HTH anyway. Not intended as dismissive if it sounds that way.
I agree, Margin Notes is incredible. I'm still learning to use it efficiently, though. Do you by any chance have any pointers to good guides on the workflow and general usage, besides the built-in docs and forum?
Having to set up a new account, complete with a new username and password, is by itself sufficient to drive away a staggering amount of adoption / conversions according to several UX studies.
Who's the sheriff? Up to them, ultimately.
No but I think it's fair to criticize any physicist who establishes a theory to be beyond testability and continues work on it, or who works on another physicists theory that is established to be beyond testability.

Especially if they are using public money, because public monies need to be accountable.
and it may only be the beginning.. application class SoC can fit in a microusb plug.. I think some people hacked some arduino like chip in the wire itself (granted it was not as thin as a normal cable)
It says "13. Export of notes in standard formats" on the website
Git Bash is nothing to do with WSL.
>Is this a sign of Github country discrimination?

It's a sign that Github strictly follows US sanctions which currently impact Crimea and Iran. They literally say in the messages for these closures that it's due to sanctions.
I've heard all this before. I am extremely sceptical and tbh I wouldn't want to build a site this way at all.

It goes against what CSS was supposed to do and generally the results are IMO hard to work with because you have the overhead of having to learn how the framework works rather than just using the fundamental principles of what you are working with. Also the markup is horrendous to read.

With modern CSS you are given so much control. Your style-sheets aren't complicated anyway.
This is the next push for our modeling. We are trying to integrate live case count data to provide more accurate scenarios for people. Once we have that data we can try to fit a few parameters to improve predictions. I should note we are actively looking for people to help us curate data sources if you are interested!

I think the most intuitive explanation to your second question is a reduction of number of contacts you have per day - i.e. .6 corresponds to 60% reduction in social contacts in a given day. This is not exact but should provide you rough handrails for the mitigation numbers.
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Hi HN, I'm the CEO of GitHub. Flagging this account was obviously a terrible mistake, and I apologize to anyone who was affected by it. We're investigating why it occurred and will make changes to make sure it doesn't happen again. I am glad that we restored access to the account in less than an hour after Aurelia filed their appeal.

For context on why any account flagging is ever necessary, unfortunately, every company in the world is required to comply with US sanctions if they do any business at all in the United States, e.g. serving US-based customers. This includes even interacting with US banking infrastructure. So being headquartered somewhere else doesn't help; you have to comply. And US sanctions as written do not allow us to provide commercial services or services which could be used commercially to sanctioned countries.

We are taking the broadest possible interpretation of US sanctions law to allow as much access to GitHub as possible and we are, as far as I know, the only major vendor to offer public repo access in US-sanctioned countries like Iran, Syria, and Cuba. I'm proud that we are taking this strong position to ensure developers everywhere can participate in open source.

I wish we could also offer access to private repos and still comply with government requirements. We have been advocating and will continue to advocate for broader developer access with the various government agencies involved.
Yes to all (obviously 3rd party integrations vary, in practice depends which you need), but I guess the actual point is that all these extras are implemented by each service individually and aren't guaranteed to be compatible.
I think that's not right, because the reason the company is doing the censoring is to comply with sanctions imposed by the government. If the US says you can't host content praising Iran, and GitHub takes it down to comply, that's a 1st Amendment violation.

However, code seems to be in a strange place, neither clearly speech nor clearly not-speech.
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This is probably a really huge blow to the Pleasant Green Youtube channel. Ben was trying to get a visa for a Cameroonian woman needing surgery in Miami, and now this. Hopefully they can get beyond it.
Ongoing related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22625682

Probably too different to merge the submissions.
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It's back https://twitter.com/EisenbergEffect/status/12407052563898900...
YES! NK never bombed my country. Please grow up and realize that you can not claim anything as long as your country act as a terrorist
The saying was at least trying to claim something different. The claim was, more or less, that democracy/capitalism (people making this claim didn't distinguish them, mostly) brings peace through freedom and prosperity.

It was more a claim about Western European countries, which, propaganda aside, were not puppet-states of the US.

Cold-war era US puppet-states were different, and at the time mostly didn't tend to have Macdonald's, at least outside of a capitol. We were busy subverting their democracies, and civil unrest doesn't go well with Big Macs.
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This comment is spot on. I've seen similar scenarios myself. :)

99% of articles like the above one come down to: "developers wanted to pretend there isn't some underlying data model underneath, and abstracted it away".

The problem isn't that much in ORMs / query builds etc. It's with "Objects" itself, and the idea that one can abstract away the data model and pretend the business code can be written as a bunch of OOP classes and such. It seems like a genius move at the beginning but hits a really steep cliff once the load and complexity of problems incrementally increases. When it starts to happen it's actually funny how not many people can actually realize what happens, and they usually struggle with band-aid solutions and blaming irrelevant pieces.

I decided to post on twitter about it: https://twitter.com/dpc_pw/status/1240719977071575040 in case anyone is interested.
It's been removed from AUR packages as well, https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-Marc...
Apparently AWS pricing is not rocket science
The "how not to measure latency" talk by Gil Tene is another really good explanation of this topic: https://youtu.be/lJ8ydIuPFeU
Ongoing related thread ("Mathematica v12.1"):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22625370

Probably too different to merge the submissions.
Oh, is that what the tariffs are for?
I might not have activated my license, but I do have a genuine Microsoft Windows sticker and the laptop serial number. I'll give them a call tomorrow to see what they can do. Thanks so much for sharing!
I stopped playing Zelda on switch because of the loading times. It gets very frustrating when you try out a dungeon.

I would replace my current switch in a blink of an eye if a new model with reduced loading time would come out
Tariffs, subsidies, legal mandates, direct government spending (the US military frets about the industrial base and does a lot of this). Take your pick. Plenty of other solutions as well. They all have different costs and benefits, but it’s at least possible theoretically.
HTTP link to that Simtel mirror:

https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos/Simtel/pub/simtelnet/
Yes, absolutely. The US is responsible for far more bloodshed than North Korea. How many coups were backed by the US government, how many nukes we have, our never ending war machine...list goes on and on. I don't think North Korea is anything more than a totalitarian dictatorship but I 100% would never believe what western media backed by US imperialist propaganda is telling me about them.
I agree with this but it seems a lot of people take it to the extreme stating that you should only do the minimum and never think ahead. I think it’s good to have a rough idea of where you want to go and then take very small steps toward that goal.
Would be nice if the parameters could be encoded in a shareable link.
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>In order to the hypothetical NTT situation to be affected by US sanctions, Japan would have to recognize them. It would be up to the Japanese parliament to adopt them. US cannot force NTT unilaterally to kick out someone, NTT in Japan must be in line with Japanese law.

You can say that until you're blue in the face but it's not accurate. Let me know when NTT has a line running into Cuba and we can talk about how they only have to abide by Japanese sanctions and Japanese law.
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USA is full of weapon of mass destruction. You may agree or not that policy but the sheer fact that is true means that most contries go for
- Ignore it and hope they don't destabilize the region / world.
Suggestion: add a rough indicator of what platforms support each feature. You could link to the relevant page on https://caniuse.com/ but even a very quick "Supported: Mobile Safari, Chrome on Desktop" sentence next to each one would be enormously useful.
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Everything is transparent to me, it's like I'm working in Linux when I use vscode and wsl2 together. There is still the issue with dbus, but you can get a script that replaces sysctl to her things running again.

Edit: to be specific, I can access local servers on wsl2 from windows, I don't even use an xserver.
Before he was CEO, Tim Cook was handling logistics for Apple, wasn't he?

I haven't been at many companies where a customer paid us money specifically to build up capacity for them first. Most of the time I've had to ramp up, we had to pay for it out of investment dollars or scraped out of contracts specifically for deliverables. Even when we special-built a feature for a customer, we still had to find a way to generalize it for others to turn a profit on it, and that was out of pocket.

Apple has apparently paid a number of manufactures to get good at something in exchange for a short lockup period and a permanent discount on orders. Which I think is why when Intel tried to make their first direct Macbook competitor, it turned out their margins were razor thin compared to Apple's.