skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can have concurrency without parallelism per the definition of the article - on a single processor system with timeslicing, for example.

SIMD systems effectively give you parallelism without concurrency - only one instruction is executing, but it's operating on multiple dataflows.

Your linked definition of "concurrency limited" seems to refer to utilisation. In the scenario described, how effectively the processor can be utilised depends on how many concurrent tasks it has in progress so it has something to do while one of them is waiting for a cache miss.
Needing tools to edit markdown seems to defeat the point, doesn't it?
Please don't write "Please don't write your documentation in Markdown"
Is anything insured? A lot of companies bet their farm and then some, on this happening. Not to mention the countries, including the host.
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This usually doesn't work with novel viruses.

A more plausible explanation is that chinese immigration into India is tiny. So we're one or two degree removed from the original epicenter. But it's only a matter of time, now that the epicenter has moved to the west.
Two headphone jacks is precisely the sort of feature that a developer would find handy but might not make sense from a product view. For one, people will immediately wonder, which jack should I use? Are they different in some way? Or worse, if you put the jacks side by side, they might wonder if you need a specific jack style, like airplanes.

It's also less pretty. More jacks is more ports is less sleek. I know, dumb, but the whole point of the iPod was that it was a beautiful, intuitive MP3 player.

Preloaded music is also less sleek, less luxury. While Apple did eventually start providing preloaded music, it was kinda controversial, and at least for me, ended up just sitting on my iPhone taking up space. I also suspect the lack of music might have been a forcing function to onboard you to iTunes as soon as possible.
Ultimately I think this has been a failure of containment and testing in India. The airport based checks has been abysmal, with reportedly much confusion and overcrowding. I wonder many of the people who got the virus got them in Indian airports at the time of their entry.

Also the quarantine legal framework is also no clear. In US people in federal quarantine are issued a quarantine form, indicating the duration, location and terms of medical review with automatic reviews every 72 hours. I have not heard of similar formalized quarantine scheme in India, rather much confusion abounds.
It's never the best standard that wins, it's the most convenient.

Figure out how to parse .md (or whatever is the standard) instead of pretending others switch to your standard.
The best early information was on 4chan while the authoritative sources were downplaying it. Pseudo anonymous social media has most of the chaff but all of the wheat.
The user does, they're expected to decrypt for the ministry of health upon receiving a diagnosis.
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Wish I'd taken a picture, but I saw multiple people standing in ridiculous lines to buy 2+ huge packs (lasts my family of 8 a month) of toilet paper, 2+ packs of paper towels (lasts my family of 8 at least 2 months) and 4+ cases of water (we go through about 1 a week).

These people must not be regulars because they weren't using the scan and go app and were waiting in the huge lines for at least 30-40 minutes minimum. Many of them had nothing else in the carts.
This study really isn’t sufficient proof for anything. Not even weak evidence. We need far better studies before deciding to give up on a drug.
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If we don’t have a plan for what to do when quarantine ends, we’re just kicking the can down the road.

So... what’s going to be different about our response in April or May or when people come out of quarantine? Or are we just hoping it goes away?

Personally I think allowing the young and healthy to interact makes sense. They generally don’t need hospitalization and they can start to develop antibodies and our heard immunity.
By PPP, China is now the largest economy in the world and by PPP per capita, it's about #69. For context, the USA is second by PPP and 10th per capita.

I would not call China a poor country.
Post could be reworded:

Please learn to use and love pandoc
If your "PC" is a Mac, sure, go nuts.

Nit: "PC" as in Windows PC is weird, Linux exists too, before you even consider macOS.

Dial-in numbers!? Where we're going we don't need a conference "bridge" because there isn't really a server sitting in the middle between you and all the other people on the call.
The story is as fishy as the Northern Pike slime that is abundant around there.

(Or at least very poorly told and edited)
There’s also more travel between rich countries and rich countries tens to be further from the equator and at latitudes more likely to be cold. I wouldn’t be surprised if many seasonal flu deaths are in rich countries despite having access to much better medical care.
This seems quite silly. As many other people have said in these comments, RST is an obscure mess. By contrast, Markdown is supported by every editor, every static site generator, countless other applications, and is trivial to learn and to use.

Also silly is to complain about stuff that everyone uses, like tables, not being part of the markdown spec. We have amazing tooling around markdown, like pandoc, who cares whether it's part of the spec?
Well, OP says [0] they're a PhD candidate, so maybe take 'non-CS majors' quite literally, in terms of where it's hyphenated.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669091
yeah, he was not ready even after telling us about how we are not ready
I use a smallish independent provider in NL.
It depends on who wants to hire you. For the top jobs, this is for sure not enough.

I always tell people to please make sure they know all the contents from here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c&list=PL49CF3715C... (Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra course) before they make any claims about being a data scientist. I bet I can teach a monkey to open a CSV in pandas and call .fit() in sklearn. But do the people really understand the underlying assumptions. Most self-proclaimed data scientists don't I am sure.

I still have a hard time calling myself a data scientist. And I am three years into a relevant PhD. The more I study, the less I feel I truly know.
Right. The author kind of sets him up for this point by joking that LaTeX would be better, and then walking it back.

Of course you could write docs in HTML with CSS if you wanted perfectly expressive syntax highlighting and context demarcation. And the opposite end of this would be arguing to use raw plaintext like an IETF specification.

But really Markdown is ubiquitous and represents a usable compromise between being readable as plaintext while enabling the 'progressive enhancement' of being converted to HTML.
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Yes thats all fine, but the local cop maning the check point should be aware of these terms and behave humanely, that is what I fear won't happen. That is what is observed all over the country last 3 days.

Not to mention the massive possibility that the cops at checkpoints will see in the bribes the can collect to let people pass.
I have documented a moderately complex package in RST [0]/[1] and another in MDX (and a mix of MD & JS) [2]/[3] and have tons of $company docs written in MD.

My thought is that RST is probably closer on the spectrum to LaTeX (despite still being far away) as it’s a more powerful syntax with a more esoteric format.

If you’re a sole contributor or want to limit your contributors to those who know or have the patience to learn this, then sure, use RST.

Otherwise, documentation is a team sport. Write in whichever format will let people get ideas down fastest and can most easily be coerced it formatted text. Right now, the best option for that is MD.

These aren’t algorithms, so trade power for participation.

[0] https://github.com/dfee/forge/tree/master/docs

[1] http://python-forge.rtfd.io/

[2] https://github.com/dfee/forge

[3] https://dfee.github.io/rbx
"What's crazy to me is that neither of these services provide a non-authenticated way to use a CLI tool to download/sync a directory tree, even if it's public. rclone is probably the best tool in this space, and it requires you to configure "remotes" ahead of time."

It is actually possible to run 'rclone' without configuring a remote ahead of time. It's relatively recent, but if you look at this discussion thread:

https://forum.rclone.org/t/can-rclone-be-run-solely-with-com...

... and the later development that was done on this ... you will see that you can run a single 'rclone' command (albeit, a very long and complicated one) that will specify everything that was in your remote configuration.

I hope this is helpful ...

"I think there's still room for improvement and competition in the cloud storage space."

We're trying[1] ... and specifically, with rclone[2] ...

[1] https://www.rsync.net/products/universal.html

[2] https://rclone.org/
Good documentation is whatever actually gets written. This reminds me of all the “semantic web” dreams that never happened.

> Good documentation is all about the semantic markup. A “definition” is not just a different formatting or like. It means there’s actually a concept of a “definition” as a discrete concept in your documentation.
Not being that guy in the ICU? I mean, seriously?
This is good but it'd be even better inline, the same way Bear both displays markdown and shows the markers, you could imagine that the "Excell" UI could be embedded inside the plain text editor.
Is there no government website? How are people supposed to verify if something is “official”?
Do you know how long it takes to appear on the map? I used google maps as I was reading the story and didn't see anything on Ryan Island.
> Developers: reStructuredText is better than .txt and .md because it has feature XYZ, and it's special syntax is great.

> Researchers: .rst and .md are poor with math symbols, please write the technical documentation in beautiful LaTeX with rendered symbols.

> Managers: If I can't read or edit it easily, I'll hire someone to rewrite it using Word or Google Docs.

> Everyone: Here's the Word document...

> Scribe: 𝔜𝔢 𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩 𝔡𝔬𝔠𝔲𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔟𝔢 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔟𝔶 𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔢𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔭𝔢𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔭𝔞𝔭𝔢𝔯.

> Me: Meh. if everyone can't read or edit it quick enough towards the deadline, then I'll stick to Google Docs.
Essentially, yes.

With the past and current experiences with our neighbors, India can seal half it's borders quickly and effectively when required. The rest is surrounded by sea.

And India also started with travel curbs and airport checks long before any western government did.
My dad is a Doctor in U.P(state in India for people don't know) and he was on its way to see a critical patient, he was stopped more than 3 times by local police. Being Doctor and seeing a patient was not a good enough excuse, he said. After few minutes of questioning they let him go. But I think the Government should have some measures for this kind of situations.
I could believe this is it! Looks somewhat familiar in the internet archive, although things get hazy since this was nearly 20 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20040624143153/http://www.amazin...
I don’t think so, no. But I might be wrong.
Ah good to know - I was under the incorrect impression that the D2D "GDI" emulation mode was the only codepath remaining. Btw any pointers on how to keep track of the graphics stack in Windows? In the past there used to be a treasure trove of blogs and content in MSDN but over time that community has frittered away. Any pointers on how to keep track of what Microsofts graphics roadmap is going forward?
Public health profs warn Covid-19 crackdown could be more harmful than virus
No, I totally get it! I didn't mean to accidentally imply that you were being unreasonable. I was merely being facetious about HN culture my friend!
I think there is nothing wrong with calling the virus ‘Chinese virus’ when a.) the virus came from China. b.) the Chinese government proactively hid the details of the coronavirus to the world until it couldn’t anymore (since it started infecting other countries https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/17/china-car... c.) actively trying to pin the origin of the virus on other countries like Italy https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/fo5lrq/italian_s... and US
They whole county lockdown, is not practical.
If worrying about punishment after death is the only thing that keeps you from acting immorally, please stick with the religion.
I'd also recommend people to make use of reStructuredText for documentation. Also it is actually possible to write something like a thesis or scientific research in it, where you might need arbitrary linking powers, which you simply don't have in Markdown. This can also be important for technical documentation. Furthermore you can add custom roles, like I did for my personal wiki implementation, to link to other pages, which are actually other reStructuredText files.

The downside of reStructuredText is, that there are almost no libraries in other languages than Python, which can transform it into HTML for the web. The canonical parser is a custom parser, without grammar and lots of states, which is unfortunate, because if there was a grammar, it could easily be implemented in other languages and the format might be much more used. But perhaps it would not be as extensible then?

Another, but quite minor, downside is, that it is a little bit harder to learn than Markdown.

Perhaps I can suggest Emacs Org-mode? The downside is, that it's only available to the extend in Emacs and other implementations are lacking many things.

Anyway, I wrote a thesis in reStructuredText and used Pandoc + custom preprocessing for document internal linking to generate the final PDF version and once I had it set up, it worked great.
If there is but one direction of distribution, e.g. when you deploy config changes, and never replace objects, this suffices.
Depends on what the big dumb lock protects. You may still be able to process data you accessed while holding the big dumb lock.
And they don't shake hands. That's a very easy way to transfer germs, and endemic to Western culture.
what the fuck are you on about? How is it related to the topic being discussed?

This lock down is necessary because the number of active cases has increased in one week and has started tracking an exponential trend. Let's leave politics out of it for once.
The guys should dig up an old copy of "Chaos" and read it. Their simulations exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions. The predicted orbits will diverge similarly in the forward-time direction if tiny perturbations are made to the initial conditions. They're also subject to rounding errors.

Nothing to see here about time reversal, its just chaos.
I've had the markdown vs rst discussion with a few people a few times and the pro-markdown people always cite this, saying rst is much harder to use or the core syntax is awkward in comparison. I don't really understand this, the same markup you get from markdown has about the same surface area in terms of syntax in rst. `code` vs ``code``, or just an indented block (in rst just add :: before the block start), emph is still emph, you can still use = and - for headers, bullet lists are the same as markdown, and so on. Inline hyperlinks are about the only thing that aren't visually nice like they are in markdown, (text)[link] vs <text `link`>_ or w/e it is (I use sphinx refs so I don't recall exactly). Actually in a way rst is better for links since the common thing in markdown is to reference links like this[0], in RST with _ instead that actually works and this becomes a hyperlink. Like the basic features are mostly identical. But then when you start needing features for big documents like cross references, highlighted syntax blocks, images, ToC, figures, etc it RST has all that built in and you don't have to reach for some markdown superset (although I guess you could argue Sphinx is that for RST). I dunno, I've done both and I just have a much better time with RST once the project size gets past a single doc.

I still use md for READMEs and gists and whatnot, I guess my point is, different tools for different jobs, if you have to pull weeds in your garden use a spade, if you have to do it for a field use a machine, or something.
More context: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1488
The US federal government has dug the graves of a million Americans by not doing the same already. Reality has a terrible way of smacking you in the face whether you accept it or not.
I tried reStructuredText and I found that writing hyperlinks was very tedious and ugly. Here is the example from the tutorial

External hyperlinks, like `Python <http://www.python.org/>`_.

Look at how many special characters it needs and how interferes with reading.

I found it annoying and tiring to write and to read. It is the main reason I went with Markdown.

RST may be superior technology-wise but it inferior when it comes to usability
Beware of things that are fun to argue.
It might be possible via custom roles.
It’s very clearly the CCP’s fault. This is basically the CCP’s Chernobyl moment

(Note: I said CCP not China. The Chinese people are also very much victims of the CCP’s culture of suppression of information here. Wuhan never should have suffered as much as it did).
This place is becoming a meme of itself more and more each and every day.
Advice I’ve gotten: not on company property, or with company resources (equipment, networking, technology).

You want to work on your personal project before going home, bring your laptop to work with you, go to a coffee shop (off-property) and work there.

That said, when I’m doing PRs for open source, it gets a bit awkward to use my work ID. If I have permission to contribute to dependencies on work time (which has definitely not always been the case), then something like this could be useful.
> Even $2k/mo on the side can really help

So like, the equivalent of another full time job? Nice if you can get it!
Some other possible factors I have considered beyond the above are:

Effective local government response (contact tracing and closures) when a case is detected. Japan does seem to do a good job at disaster preparation and response generally.

Possibly some climate-related advantage. Japan has a fairly humid climate and the Tokyo area is starting to see some warmer weather now.
I used to think rst was a great solution. It is in many ways better than markdown.

Then I tried using it. For a few years. To be honest, while certainly better than LaTeX and HTML in terms of ease of typing it still felt like typing with road bumps.

These days I just use orgmode and then use pandoc to convert to rst for my Pelican blog. It's not as powerful as rst but at least it's not markdown.
I consider my course a thorough course. You really learn a lot of theory. This is usually what makes students at my university drop the course after two weeks of auditing. Just because the course assumes no prior CS contents (anything really, except high school math), does not mean they don't get introduced.
It has already affected a major bank I work for - we have a lot of outsourced ops people in India and as of today, they're forbidden from coming to the office (while our policies forbid them from working from home, as they are contractors). The management is frantically scrambling to replace them with other random employees with zero hand-over. It's a mess.
Obviously, the best documentation is the one that exists in the first place, and markdown is a very low-friction way to document things.

That said, FWIW, using markdown vs highly "semantically" structured text doesn't need to be an exclusive-or choice. Citing from sgmljs.net markdown (markdown-in-SGML):

> sgmljs.net Markdown is presented as an application of the SGML SHORTREF feature, which is an SGML mechanism to describe custom Wiki or other domain-specific syntax. Whereas in regular markdown it's possible to use HTML markup, in sgmljs.net Markdown it's also possible to use SGML markup and other constructs, bringing SGML's vast facilities for text organization and processing to markdown in a natural way. [1]

For example, to annotate HTML's text spans semantically with RDFa or whatever, add context-dependent CSS classes, perform transformations, define custom syntax on top of markdown, customize markdown flavours such as github's, use text macros, add page boilerplate, etc.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/markdown.html (my site)
Use what works for you and we will use what works for us.

Markdown is a great tool for documentation, especially using tools like RStudio and Rmarkdown. These tools typically use pandoc under the hood to let an author generate whatever they need - HTML, PDF, Word documents, Power Point slides...

Because Markdown (and the tools mentioned above) produces a text document, this plays well with version control using git and github. Indeed github renders markdown files in the browser. These tools have been embraced by scientists who want to generate reproducible documents.
It's like people on here write stuff just to end up on /r/programmingcirclejerk
> Google Drive is the opposite. It's better for sharing. Just drop in an email address, or share a permanent link. But it no longer supports range requests, so it's essentially walled off from the rest of the web.

What's the difference between a permanent link and simply making the file public? (The email address, that's essentially requiring the person to have a Google account, so that's the same as IAM.)
Meanwhile programmers are like: Please write documentation! Please. I'm begging you. Even documentation written in Markdown is better than the nothing that all-too-often gets created.

A lot of programmers argue the code is the best documentation. No it's not. Source code answers the how and what but it doesn't provide any answer to the most important question of all - why?

Software embodies several architectural and design decisions. What decisions were explicitly made and why were they made? All too often when looking at code I can certainly understand what was done, but it's not at all immediately clear as to why.

On the teams I've been working with I've gotten them to capture these decisions. It's been a great help - sometimes the original implementors can't remember why something was done the way it was done - especially when asked three or more years later.

Admonishing people to write documentation in Markdown would be a nice problem for me to have. Meanwhile I'd just like some documentation at all. Please?!
> In general though the government and police in India are acting with too blunt a force in this issue.

Given that the only other option is to pile the hospitals with dead bodies, force short of killings should be used.
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In an ideal world we'd have infinite tests (that take 0 seconds to get results) and not need to rely on symptoms that may present differently, or may not even present in some patients. We'd be able to test everyone daily, multiple times, for the virus (nose/throat swab), and for antibodies (blood), and have a system setup for contact tracing. We'd find a way to do that that doesn't infringe on our peace-time civil liberties.

We don't live in an ideal world, unfortunately. In the absence of a Covid-19 test, we could test for the flu, because knowing I have the ordinary flu, or not, vs Covid-19, is still valuable information, especially in places where there is still no ban against large gatherings.

With a few order of magnitudes more testing, whatever the disease, we could go about our normal lives with only slight modifications, rather than this upheaval we're currently undergoing.