skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you got down-voted for a hyper-politicized tone, but it's hard to find fault in your conclusions. I'd be interested to hear honest efforts to refute the gist here.
this is obviously silly, opinionated and unsubstantiated. criticize it on the merits or don't. so far you've just said "anti empirical" and linked wikipedia.
/SYSIN DD*

Clearly this author worked on one of the gigantic, luxurious MVS boxes. I, on the other hand, toiled away relentlessly on a small VSE Box. He had it easy!
I live in New Orleans. All expectations are for the hospitals to hit capacity next week. And since this is majority service industry town no one really has any source of income beyond then either.
It has to be part of one of the leaks.
You can have a 1% CFR if your health services are functioning. The point is that they won't be if everyone gets it at the same time. In any case 99% are not mild; at least 20% are serious and require medical intervention. If you stop treating them...they die.
unlikely as virtually everybody in the world wants dollars, which means that the USD will probably be very strong in the short term. least dirty clean sheet and all that.
That was a trick question actually - use your Prometheus stack to alert on latency sensitive workload with usage over request and ignore everything else.
Where did you hear it's a $6 trillion stimulus? It's $2T, much of which is loans, not grants.
gold is more rare, right? so therefore finding it and concentrating it is part of the labor cost of obtaining it? I'm not an expert on this topic but that seems like a reasonable guess.
There is no perfect answer, and ideally you would need to do case-by-case for every person And business. But that’s not feasible. We want people to have jobs when this is over so that’s why the money is going to the businesses, to keep them open. Otherwise we have people with money for a while and then businesses die and there are no jobs for people to go back to.
And which institutions had both agency and time and still failed to respond at Korea-like speed and method?

- POTUS level administration

- The congress, related staff, and all their institutional memory and connections to CDC, NIH etc.

- CDC, NIH, Pentagon -- each of them

- Major national media

- 50 state governors and related disaster teams

- Social media demonitizing and banning COVID topics/early-warning-analysis

-- Etc for real-rime and later analysis

Sadly, the same log-plot-slope might be baked in for four weeks to come -- about two weeks given incubation times, and another two weeks given the likelihood that the behaviors the immediate parent describes (along with others shopping and working) imply the doubling time will not have been increased much. At least four weeks --> at least a factor of 100 prospective increase, assuming a four-day doubling time and no saturation effects.
I agree! How can we give this more visibility?
Banning 90% of the apps on the store until they remove the Facebook login SDK would cause a backlash much bigger than from a group of small developers.
It's not a question of leftist media. When the Black Death happened, feudalism ended. It's a simple as that. Do you think the virus gives a shit about how highly leveraged our system is?
This simplest way possible. If the rate change can be processed via an endpoint that endpoint then updates the 4 databases. If talking to ACID databases, do a 2 phase commit to reduce the chance of them getting out of sync. Send me 10% of your consulting fee please :-)
I've spent some time doing that, as well as learning Toki Pona, and it doesn't seem to me that they're very similar. Latin and Greek have attested vocabularies of thousands of words, many of which have a super-specific meaning and aren't analyzable as compounds. Just one example is that they both have words for specific plant and animal species, which Toki Pona doesn't.

I agree that learning ancient languages and prefixes produces amazing results for our understanding of modern languages that are related to them and is a great idea. :-)

I especially don't think that ancient language speakers felt that, just because they had productive prefixes like our re- or un-, they could always describe concepts with combinations of a few existing morphemes instead of inventing new ones or borrowing them from other languages. Also, even the ancient language speakers didn't understand the etymology or structure of their own languages very well; some borrowings and compounds were already opaque to them!
> You'll even see arguments like "more people will die of the quarantine because they have no job if we keep the economy stopped for much longer".

There are a few of these arguments in this thread, even.
What's the cause for concern on someone knowing how much of the drive is unused?
OpenWRT is fantastic when you get used to it. I prefer the CLI but the GUI works well too.
The version I have covers kernel 2.6. Is that new enough to still be useful?
Asymptomatic people can transmit - you can have a small minority be responsible for the majority of new cases
Very interesting insights! Makes sense with the WebSocket reuse and the support requests.
If they are it's against Apple's rules. Not sure what they are using to fingerprint anyways, given Apple has blocked access to the older system values that were being used.
14-month trials.
OpenWRT does support VLAN tagging, it's Linux. Maybe it's a hardware support issue.
Complexity of the Basic Reproduction Number (R0)
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I had these same issues.
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I had a "discussion" with a Trump supporter who attacked Hillary Clinton because she used to be anti-gay-marriage, then "conveniently" changed her tune when it became popular, thus revealing her true nature as a flip-flopper, while at the same time defending Trump for his current anti-gay-marriage stance, which was simply excusable political expediency to appeal to Republicans, because he actually has a history of being pro-gay (if having an unhealthy obsession with Elton John (and Roy Cohen!) can be considered being pro-gay), and his true nature was pro-gay but he was just pretending to be anti-gay for convenience, to get the Republican nomination, and now to stay in power by bribing Republican Senators with red meat for their bigoted constituencies. As if his "actual beliefs" were what mattered (and he knew what they were for sure), and that superseded his actual behavior and its effect on the lives of actual gays. That was all just horse trading, you understand.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/09/donald-trump-elton-jo...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-coh...

It didn't matter to him that Hillary used to be "bad" then went "good" ("evolved"), while Trump use to be "good" then went "bad" ("devolved"). For him, it was both of their original positions that mattered, not their trajectory or where they ended up, or even the effects of their words and deeds.

He wouldn't give her the room to improve, because improving was only "politics", but he gave him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't really mean the anti-gay things he said and did, or actually agree with the anti-gay people he chose as vice president, supreme court judges, cabinet members, etc, because selling out his actual beliefs to the right wing in exchange for power was only "politics".

People know very their politicians are lying to them and everyone else, but they pick and choose which lies to believe and which not to believe, because they think the politicians are nodding and winking at them personally, because they're in on the game, and it's justifiable to lie for power because the ends justify the means, at least for their team. That's why dog whistles work so well.
Its also important to note that there wasn't enough protective equipment.

> “I’m also very angry with the Mount Sinai Health System for not protecting him. We do not have enough PPE, we do not have the correct PPE, and we do not have the appropriate staffing to handle this pandemic. And I do not appreciate representatives of this health system saying otherwise on the news.”
My team recently bought a gift for someone who was leaving, and it was slightly time consuming to figure out who wanted to contribute, and then to keep track of the cash. I thought a good idea would be to build a Slack app to split purchasing gift cards, with built in suggestions.

Feel free to steal my idea and add it to your app!
I would add that Kafka is a distributed commit log. Streaming is one of the applications. Spark also supports streaming. One should distinguish between the compute model like MapReduce, RDD etc and Data Model like streaming.

HTH
All fair points, a mix of which some focus on customer benefit and others on benefit to the business. Perhaps the motivation behind my question was wondering whether there’s an opportunity to eat SaaS margins with products that compete by changing the distribution, and whether there’s any market data to support that hypothesis.

1, 4, and 6 align with the customer. 4 could be alleviated even with a local application a la Sublime Text. I concede 6 is marginally easier to manage, but then again represents a con from the customer perspective in that the software they’re using could disappear at any time since they don’t own it.

JetBrains model seems to represent the best compromise to the customer here: subscription fee for constant updates and support, cancel anytime and keep your current version with no updates or support.

2, 3, 5 benefit the business, not the customer. In fact 3 is probably the most beneficial to the business in that cost of support and maintenance isn’t aligned, they’re decoupled! Hence the 70-80% margins this company is touting.

5 is brutal as csallen said, but then again there are counterpoints to this in that people will certainly pay and not pirate for the right experience: iTunes, Kindle, etc. even when the pirated versions are readily available.

I appreciate your response.
Is this running in production anywhere?
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This is really somewhat sad, as it seems unneeded provided they have the funds to wait out the IT approval cycle.

They are handily beating WebEx, MS Teams, etc, on basic shit like showing more than four video feeds from participants, dealing with low bandwidth connections, etc.

Feels like they are doing revenue grabs too early. A little more patience and the contracts will roll in. Especially given how many stodgy companies are newly coming to terms with the WFH need.

Maybe temporarily extend the free plan from 45 minute meetings to 1 hour and grab some market share?
Mind giving details on the product and experience? I’m interested.
> Realistic lockdown still has tons of people mixing at the grocery store, at the doctor's or hospital, with all the essential services.

That's not what "lockdown" meant in China. In China it meant people getting welded inside their homes, no mixing of people in public, nothing functioning anywhere even close to normal.

If the NYT is defining "lockdown" the way you describe, then they're just redefining the word to suit their agenda. What you're describing is more like the UK "mitigation" strategy, where you don't try to contain the virus, you just try to slow down the growth so that everybody eventually gets infected, but at a slow enough rate that the health care system can cope. But if that's the strategy, we're talking a year at least, not two months.

To be clear: I'm actually not in favor of "reopening America" in two weeks, come what may. We have to see how things develop, and I doubt things will have developed in two weeks to the point where most Americans feel comfortable relaxing social distancing. But nobody knows enough about what's going to happen to make confident predictions, either that there will be a massive upsurge if we go back to normal, or that there won't. By saying "Here's what happens if we do", NYT is being hugely overconfident, and they shouldn't be. They should be honest and say that nobody really knows at this point how things are going to develop, and encourage people to exercise common sense and not expect any Authoritative Expert to tell them what to do or how things are going to play out.
Yes, however I think there's a lot more complexity in modern steaming architectures: event sourcing, concurrency, eventual consistency, pub-sub, queueing, event handlers, microservices, stateless messages, data lakes - to name a few. I would also be interested in a resource that tackles major concepts here.
How do you know if it isn’t a revenue stream?

I guess I’m thinking that if this information that Zoom (a publicly traded company) was doing this, it would be bad for business, so doing it just optionally for fun, seems like all risk and that an appropriate reward would be a financial incentive.
> I think this modem "uncapping" thing has mostly been an urban myth. Maybe there were some really early cable modem systems in the 90s where that would have been possible, but AFAIK with DOCSIS the speed is regulated by the CMTS [0], not the modems.

It depends in precisely what CMTS is running, what firmware it has and the ISP's willingness to replace/upgrade old hardware at great expense.

At the last telco I worked for we had about 12 CMTS's, and 2 of them were holding up a bunch of upgrades because of their age. One of the things they specifically couldn't do was provision the speed of the individual circuits.
> Asymptomatic people can transmit

For how long? If I was exposed to the virus last week and am asymptomatic, will I still be contagious in another week? A month? A year?
>America needs phosphate and imports it currently.

Sure, right now the economics work out that it's cheaper to import phosphate then produce it locally.

>We cannot produce enough locally.

We might not produce enough locally to meet the current demand right now, but that doesn't mean we can't. It about whether capital is currently allocated toward the production of phosphate. It doesn't need to be because we can import it. If we couldn't produce it under any circumstance that would be a massive national security flaw. :)

> Yeah, making up money and having people sit at home (thus not paying taxes) is really going to inspire people to hold American debt!

Having as many people as we can bear sit at home is the best course of action at the very present moment to avoid spreading this virus. The people sitting at home need to be able to buy what they need and pay the essential workers producing and transporting what they need to them. The alternative is worse: you spread virus and can't pay working people.

People will hold American debt if the American government can assure debt holders that its people and institutions can survive a pandemic.

>... is really going to inspire people to hold American debt!

In the end we agree, it really is about faith :)
I know it shouldn't be but this is hilarious. I honestly laughed at this more than I should. It seems I'm losing my mind in the quarantine :))))
It's treated like a country, with country code "T1". Site operators can create rules which apply special handling to visitors from the exotic country of Torlandia. ;)

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-U...
I had an X1 carbon, but I thought the screen was 14 inches. Regardless, it is a solid machine.
That's a good idea. At some point we'll work on making these threads more useful, and I've noted it for then.
I was born into debt. Then, I was forced to go to schools that taught obedience to authority, getting a job, and paying taxes. Then, I saw ads that told me I needed to buy products and run up debt. Then, I eventually didn't care about money except where absolutely necessary.

Everything in between made it seem like making money my No. 1 focus was necessary, though. A lifetime of being manipulated and pressured. It all gets better when you can finally pull back the curtain seeing what's really there. :)
Thanks and I agree with you about my tone. I swing from sad to angry and back these days given how literally a few rotten people can change the fate of millions and billions of people and they can get away with it while the rest suffer. I suppose I live under the delusion that world is fair. I still think that that delusion is better than the option - the world is not fair as that will just foster a individualistic zero sum mindset which promises violence and such negative things.
This is exactly why singling out tracking on the web while ignoring tracking in native apps undermines Apple's claims to be protecting user privacy. At least on the web you have some tools to fight this kind of thing.
I removed the unnecessary adjective. Thanks.
Because he wants r/wallstreetbets but with intelligent conversation?
This is likely a result of better testing capacity compared to other countries.

Im tempted to believe that China has lied about their cases. Theres a city in China with 1054 recovered but only 4 deaths. Seems odds
If you give everyone money, the hyperinflation only affects the richest, aka billionaires. Who gives a shit about them? They'll be fine.
Star casino on the asx
"Anti empirical" really should be enough.
A grocer is a dictatorship.

I make sense of inexplicable government slowness as: avoiding panic (worse than a pandemic), yet OTOH most people needing tangible evidence before they'll take it seriously.
I mean if the write cycles are so low on a device that one drive write is a problem then it was already a problem before you did one drive write. Even a cheap (legitimate) uSD should have hundreds of full drive write cycles.
I thought my Fitbit did wonders at this task. I then moved to a Garmin - it did just as well.
> data-intensive architectures

I suspect you mean __Designing Data-Intensive Applications__, by Martin Kleppman, but I am not entirely sure.
As a kid in the UK, really enjoyed the cartoon series https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065298/

Probably never of heard of them if it wasn't for that, wonder how many else outside America heard of them that way.
I know some cable ISPs outside NL will allow it if your modem is from a reputable brand without any known issues (and compatible with whatever DOCSIS version they're using of course). Ziggo's "connectbox" modem/router even in bridge mode has quite poor latency stability so I was hoping I could use this law to persuade them to activate an Arris SURFboard or some other decent brand modem.
Necessity is the mother of invention.

If the only way your business can survive is carte-blanche regulations around privacy and security, and you fall over the instant that's threatened, one: maybe your business doesn't deserve to survive, and two: maybe you didn't build a very good business.

Niche online forums and all the examples you list there survived (and indeed thrived) in the days before rampant data collection, I have no doubt they'd evolve and survive once again.
So I do not have facebook installed on my phone but I do have instagram and whatsapp.

A large amount of phone apps seem to appear in that list. I guess Whatsapp/Instagram creates a fingerprint of my device and then uses that for tracking?
I believe that could be used to determine if encrypted hidden volumes are in use
> I have seen altercations in supermarket lines where someone oversteps the "tape separation" line and has been asked nicely "please step back" to get told off, or better yet spit on.

At that point I'd be calling for the store manager, and if they didn't tell that person to leave, I'd be calling the cops. Particularly if someone was spit on; under current circumstances that amounts to reckless negligence.

> This is not how civilized people interact with one another.

And letting it happen without imposing consequences is not how civilized people maintain the standards and norms of civilization. The people you describe are uncivilized barbarians and should be treated with the appropriate contempt.
My best advice is to keep doing what you are doing and get better at it, or find something else.
An unfortunate typo. Sorry about that; fixed.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22696921 and marked it off topic.
Death is always an uncomfortable discussion topic, but I'd say it's one of our best teachers.

To bring up one of my examples, Palmyra was once a wealthy Roman provincial capital in Asia Minor, separated from the Roman Empire by declaring the Palmyrene Empire during the Crisis of the Third Century, and henceforth destroyed by Aurelian.

You can argue the Roman army would be a foreign army composed partly of barbarians unfamiliar to a longstanding part of the Roman Empire, and you can also argue it's a domestic army putting down an insurrection.

Now take this news:

https://www.newsweek.com/massachusetts-governor-says-hes-bei...

President Trump is outbidding state governors for medical equipment during this crisis, while telling them to purchase their own directly from the supplier. States don't issue currency and can't run a deficit, and federal treasuries are much more plentiful than state treasuries because of a greater lever to tax, so President Trump gets the medical supplies. President Trump can increase the amount of production by invoking the Defense Production Act, but has not yet done so; as far as I know private companies are increasing production due to increased demand (which has to be proven after people die and start panicking) and not out of a proactive government grant.

Massachusetts is a state that votes mostly Democratic at the federal level. California and Washington state are mostly Democratic at the federal level too.

Now, for the million-dollar question: given the federal government's response, would you say this behavior is indicative of a federal government that treats these states as domestic, or foreign, entities?

I've read through maybe a third of the Federalist Papers, and the first ten or fifteen letters hammer home the importance of union in the face of enemies foreign and domestic. Tear away that fabric, and you have the Greek city-states or the Balkans on a continental scale.
Some good info written in annoying marketing press release style. Would be good to get this as a phone app with a headmounted camera, since that's far cheaper than Google Glass + doctor's prescription.
I haven't heard "slug" before, is that your own phrase? It sounds like you've implemented what's known as a stateless transparent firewall if I'm understanding what you've said correctly. Stateless because it's just plain ACLs, transparent because it's not a routed hop/isn't detectable by the client (outside traffic being dropped), and firewall because it's filtering unauthorized traffic. Most people just call it "ACLs" for short though since "stateless transparent firewall" is a bit of a mouthful and "firewall" by itself often implies a routed mode stateful firewall.