skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We built one. It didn’t work then. He said it wouldn’t, and indeed it didn’t. He’s been dead for decades, and we haven’t built a working one now—but somehow it’s his fault!
New Madrid, Missouri earthquakes 1811-12
It would only fail if the host hardware failed in a way that damaged all three discs, which seems unlikely. It's for data backup, not uptime redundancy.
I think the same customer (Digital Globe, an earth imagery LEO satellite operator) was on stage at both announcements. Snowmobile for getting PB of data from their ground network into AWS and Ground Station to get it there directly from space
Covid-19: Why we should all wear masks
I’m happy to hear how exactly my statement is biased.

Fox News just fired Trish Regan for stating that Coronavirus was “another attempt by Democrats to impeach Trump.” That statement came just a few weeks after Trump himself claimed that concern around the virus was also a liberal hoax. Days after making that statement, he said that cases would drop to zero in a few days, we’re now in the hundreds of thousands. When asked why he cut the pandemic preparedness unit at his National Security Council, he claimed he had no idea that happened, despite video surfacing that shows him talking about those cuts in 2018. Doctors in NYC are days away from having to decide who lives and dies because there won’t be enough respirators for everyone, they’ve already set up refrigerated trailers to store bodies. Testing still isn’t widely available even though we were all told it would be weeks ago.

We’re now at hundreds of thousands infected, thousands dead, and no end to this in sight, given that the president has now pushed social distancing measures to the end of April.

What gives you confidence about this situation?
Using the RT Preempt kernel patch, if you care about latency.
If they have multiple services that might put them in range. Or the author is using her own definition.
Amusing you say that. At one point I went through the effort of running an entire set of RGBW LED strips, in aluminum channel, along the gutter of my mothers house (I was living in an appt in the city). So that we could have some nice programmable lights for xmas and other holidays. Man, that was so much more work than I expected... and while it worked at first water or other things kept futzing up the system (even with heavy doses of sealant near all electrical connections). Haven't tried turning the system on in more than a year now.
SF Bar Owner to Yelp: ‘Fuck All of These People Entirely’
I don't recognise the adjectives used in modern speech or even the papers. I suffered a massive memory loss rendering almost all of past ten years cut from my experience during my recovery. In the meantime language changed sufficiently to reduce me to a children's reading age.
Were they in the US and funded by VCs? That kind of startup probably doesn't need to do this. Unsure about VC-funded businesses elsewhere. Many or even most small businesses without VC funding do take that kind of loan.
Hey B! Funny seeing you here. I'm now running product at http://sajari.com

You will find that most tools provide document level permissions to some degree by storing user/group IDs on the document and adding filters to the query. However, it generally requires custom implementation work to integrate it into your systems and prevent spoofing of the filters.

Hope you're doing well!
There are many churches, most but not all under the “Evangelical” category, who expressly want (in general, not specifically with respect to this virus) to flout government as a way of establishing religious doctrine as the Prime Directive. Most notable is Kim Davis who made an entire celebrity career out of denying a lawful marriage license to a gay couple.
I can recommend the following for Embedded Programming;

* Michael Pont's Embedded C and Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems (PTTES). They are chock full of invaluable C code (for 8051); in particular, beg, borrow or steal PTTES (free pdf available). Also checkout his other books and his company SafeTTy Systems.

* Make: AVR programming by Elliot Williams teaches you to directly program the ATmega328P on a Arduino Uno.

* Introduction to Embedded Systems: Using Microcontrollers and the MSP430 by Jimenez, Palomera et al. is an excellent textbook explaining each hardware aspect of an embedded system and how to program them.

Note: All the above are for bare-metal embedded programming. For Embedded Linux on RPi, i suggest Exploring Raspberry Pi: Interfacing to the Real World with Embedded Linux by Derek Molloy.
I have been enrolled in classes at The Pennsylvania State University's (PSU) World Campus[1] since the spring semester of 2014. This is PSU's fully online offering. I first earned an AS in Information Systems Technology (IST) en route to continuing for my BS in IST. I will graduate this fall.

I took my sweet time because, alongside my studies, I've maintained full time employment in industry (first as an SE and recently moving into cloud architecture). I share this to highlight that, although I've been in it for the long haul, the quality of the education (e. g., course design, instructor engagement, CMS quality, etc.) has kept me thoroughly rapt along the journey.

[1] https://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/
Sorry, but fuck “religious freedom” when it puts others at risk.
The system looks pretty damn robust given that we've just shut the global economy down and the food still keeps coming in. Maybe with some hiccups but that's complaining at a high level.

The reason decentralization doesn't make a lot of sense is because we need to produce food cheap and at scale to feed the world. Putting thousands of dollars into vertical farming equipment that doesn't fit into the apartments of most people on the planet is kind of silly.

There's also simply division of labour at work here. It's uneconomical for large portions of the population to spend their time farming.

It's essentially just a recreational hobby for wealthy people or maybe reasonable on a Mars Colony, but here it does not make much sense.
I don't care for any book in particular (except maybe Excession). I more just enjoy the Culture universe.
Those look like awesome purses
Why is it extremely hard to work with the whole novel in a single file? Because most software for writing prose is not up to the task?
Thanks for your help! I know a little bit of SQL and I'm doing a course online on Udemy to improve my skills before the interview. I have 2 weeks to prepare.
Sure, Sophocles said that, along with other ancient Greek philosophers and playwrights. I think that no matter one's beliefs, pretty much everyone would agree that a person who takes risks (especially with other people's lives) while thinking someone or something else will bail them out is being prideful, which is a bad thing.
Requiring priests to be celibate is basically asking them to self-select based on how much normative heterosexual relationships appeal to them.
It wasn't a small handful of church gatherings, it was spread countrywide by a cult hell bent on recruiting, often via underhanded tactics because people know better than to join them if stated outright. One person got infected, infected a gathering and they dispersed everywhere. Boom.
Your right to swing your fist ends at my face. We need to start handing out fines to those who willfully put other lives in danger. I recall reading that in the Spanish Flu pandemic, police in San Francisco fined those in public not wearing masks. Enjoy your freedoms, just not at my peril.
It was admittedly several years ago, but I worked on a voice chat app for iOS and Android, and the behaviour on Android was horrifying. iOS had very consistent and great audio latency (approx 10ms if I recall). Android devices were all over the place; I think the worst one I tested was over 150ms.
The original Pearls page seems to have been taken down, but the web archive remembers it:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071012005100/http://www.cs.bell...
That's not a soft budget then, so which option is it? 1 or 3?

You want it to selectively turn off only EC2? Does it matter which instance and in which order? What if you're not running EC2 and it's other services? Is there a global priority list of all AWS services? Is it ranked by what's costing you the most? Do you want to maintain your own priority of services?

And what if the budget was a mistake and now you lost customers because your service went down? Do you still blame AWS for that? Or would you rather have the extra bill?

There is no easy solution.
But it was the high price of the stuff that made the people who require "incentives" grab it. It's circular, like a stock market bubble. First people panic and buy, then other people buy because the price is going up, it's absurd to say that price represents some fundamental truth.

When I went to the grocery store a week ago, there were a lot of things, just not toilet paper. If the laws against price gouging are causing a problem, why is it so selective?

Microsoft seems to be doing the same, sensible, thing that grocery stores are doing in some cases - try to ration stuff per customer.

People are talking about how this dynamic is playing out on a bigger scale, as states compete for resources in the absence of the federal government coordinating.
The roof of Notre-Dame de Paris. Analyzing the structure and its destruction
Perhaps they can be the Google chat product that survives?
Paw Paws to the Rescue – The Fruit That Saved Lewis and Clark
Naoki Urasawa's work if we are allowed to include japanese comics.
Monster being probably my favorite work of his with Pluto being close second. I especially recommend Pluto if you like Asimov's robot series.

Urusawa is quite famous for character development and most of his characters are _good_ - sometimes even the villains.
It kinda helped me appreciate human contact more even if it's something completely simple or fleeting. You don't need to be best friends with someone to appreciate them or go on an adventure.
There's an entire community building these makeshift "space buckets" for growing plants indoors.

https://www.spacebuckets.com/

https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceBuckets/
The Alchemist. Positive impact because I’m reminded to pay it forward.
Lately, there have been good number of startups releasing their revenue. But once they have grown some level they stopped sharing revenue (Buffer, Transistor). Maybe because of clones or competitors?
Eizo provide a variety of tools with their displays:

https://www.eizo.com/products/coloredge/unicolor_pro/

I have a strong interest in learning more from you if you are as able ever to be a independent Guinea pig?

Above I have splurted aloud my sudden but not inconsistent desire to create a free for open source software color names reference and good color description should be mandatory for public information websites imnsho
Of course no mention of the Feb 3rd travel ban.
"Hard to be a God" of Strugatsky Brothers.

"Monday Begins on Saturday", circa 1965, of the same authors. That is a satiric story full of brilliant humor about programmer (main hero) in Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry. This book is literally the reason why I am a programmer now.
Lead-Free Solder Is Better for You
Your correction from "some" to "just about every" is not very useful. Every single large gathering is newsworthy because they endanger all of us.
You are correct, I misremembered. However I don't think there is really much of a difference in this case since the federal government chose one company.
The original short stories of Conan the Barbarian. First, I liked the high energy way they were written. I was raised to write long and eloquent in school, and Conan proved how short writing can be fun to read.

They're a little philosophical - the author hated civilization and possibly committed suicide over it. I wouldn't say I agree entirely with it, but there is a point that civilized society is unhappier because people can no longer be beheaded for being rude. It made me question whether order and civilization are great end points and whether we might just be happiest somewhere with a mix of chaos and order, like Thailand.
How about when people become upset when you simply disagree with what the group believes, when it's not even hurting anyone. I have seen people act upset, and then use that emotion to justify shutting down the conversation.
Google and Facebook are considering analyzing phone data to monitor Covid19
See the sibling comment thread. It's just not that simple. It creates a lot of liability, could lead to permanent data loss, and doesn't really prevent any mistakes either (just swaps them for mistakes in budget caps).

AWS would rather lose some billings than deal with the fallout of losing data or critical service for customers (and in turn their customers).
Would it be possible to advance the POV up as the game goes on?

Should be cool to see other planets etc etc.
Yep but that's my point! Odds are, if you can't even bother checking if you are buying the right stock beyond looking at the ticker, you won't know about a short seller publicly announcing it's short position.
More from NEC :

"Human color perception is very subjective and highly inconsistent. You can simply not trust your eyes "

https://www.necdisplay.com/colorcritical/home/aboutcolor
In a year we're going to see headlines like "Pastor of MegaChurch where 500 died says God protected them".
The part that the computers help with - nuclear and thermodynamic physics ODEs - isn't the hard part. A couple of sharp grad students can do that with OpenFOAM and a modest workstation.

The hard parts are the operations, maintenance, building for robustness, and enormous amounts of empirical field experience with the materials.

Rickover and his contemporaries judged - rightly - that those issues would make MSR and metal-cooled reactors too finicky to be of practical military value.
"Cultural Parasitism: An ideology parasitizes the mind, changing the host’s behavior so they spread it to other people. Therefore, a successful ideology (the only kind we hear about) is not configured to be true; it is configured only to be easily transmitted and easily believed." - https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1225561166518390785
That the party for smaller government because (large) government is ineffectual and intrudes on individual rights is the one more confident that the government will fix things is entirely oxymoronic.
I have watched most of the briefings in full. He speaks in a disconnected rambling senile fashion. He regularly misspeaks, tells lies, uses a question about how he fucked something up as a way to spend his time either congratulating himself, blame shifting, or talking about other people praising him. This rarely actually answers the question.

He spent 2 months first ignoring then lying about the situation and then spent a month giving terrible advice and lying some more.

Most recently he touted unproven treatments as triumphant cures while claiming that we would be back on track by Easter. Press coverage far from taking small things out of context has in many cases had to cover a lot of ground to cover the sheer amount of stupid falling like half checked food from the presidents mouth every time he appears in public.
Patients are continuing to emit more viruses as they breathe and cough. Put enough viral load into the health care worker and they'll be in just as bad shape as the patient regardless of how naturally resistant they are.
>Why single out megachurches?

Why not? From my observations, megachurches tend to be very different from many other Christian churches, including in theology. Christians aren't all the same, but there are some definite things that many, if not most, megachurches have in common, that they don't share with other denominations. (Starting with "denominations", in fact: megachurches usually don't belong to one.)
So many ideas! Where’s the Mechanical Engineers at? Coca-Cola or Pepsi better see this.
Fun fact: by the popularized definition in the media, most of your Catholic and Orthodox churches would be "mega churches" as well, despite sharing little in common. They get lumped together statistically, however.
Wow, that is FANTASTIC. I've not tried it yet, but it looks like a very approachable execution of a brilliant idea. I'm a DevRel who's fascinated by DX and I WANT THIS.

It's a shame it doesn't also capture the code's output and, ideally, the state of the interpreter. For example: at 4:45 in the demo video, he tries to run his code and it fails with an error. It's important for both coding tutorials and DX analysis to capture the text of the output/error.

What would be even better would be capturing the error _and_ the detailed stack trace, ideally with the state of each stack frame. My employer produces SDKs for different languages, so it'd be invaluable for debugging.

I can imagine a couple of different ways of doing this which might not be horrifically complicated to add to the Paircast recorder, though I suspect you're already going down this road. If you'd like to chat more, yell!
God did not make hell for men, but for the demons. The demons were much more intelligent than you or me, so their decision on whether to be good or evil was instantaneous.

We, however, are significantly lower in intelligence than demons for a variety of reasons too complex for here. Because of that, most of humanity has a 40-70 year lifespan over which to decide whether to serve good or evil for eternity. After that, you really get what you freely chose with your life. If you chose evil, you really chose to be with Satan forever, and God honors your choice and free will. If you chose good, God honors that choice as well.

That's a simple way to say it, but there is far more that can be said on this topic. Furthermore, we believe God is infinitely just, and therefore, if a person is judged worthy of Hell, that person will have absolutely _zero_ ability to argue with God's judgement and will _completely_ understand the justice of God's judgement - although, this does not mean that the person will not hate the effects of the judgement with every ounce of his body. It's kind of like if you kill a person. You understand that the murder was completely your fault and your sentence is fair, and yet you hate your sentence.
> The media's dislike for anything Christian

Wait, what?
It’s interesting— I would say white noise had a positive effect on my life, but I’m not sure i would recommend the book. Part of the reason it was good for me was how powerfully I disliked it— and needing to question the reasons for that dislike at the time.
China's wet markets have reopened:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8163761/Chinese-mar...
A church in the town of Central Lo, had 550 people at mass. Lebanon Ohio has a church with 3500 members (no numbers on how many showed up).

These aren't really mega churches. Based on the information provided they are not saying thousands of people are showing up. The headline is false. What it should say is three small to medium sized churches don't believe they should stop live mass.
Me too.

It really does capture the absurdity of big organisations brilliantly.
> I’m happy to hear how exactly my statement is biased.

Re-reading your comment, I think probably the main issue I have with it probably just comes down to us thinking of different people when we see the word "conservative".

I agree that people exist who fit exactly what you described. I just think that's a much smaller slice of the population than (I assumed) you believe.

> We’re now at hundreds of thousands infected, thousands dead, and no end to this in sight

Welcome to a pandemic. Americans today aren't used to being vulnerable. If anything, it's just a reminder of how thin the facade we project on the world actually is.
My worry is that as the toll increases, and as we get near the Easter holiday, there will be a much stronger push to congregate in-person.
Yeah I really like this better. JSON is terrible to write manually.

Still I respect their effort to try. Machines are already parsing resumes for keywords anyway.
I think it is awesome! I can see real utility in finding the originating site in seizure disorders.
It is also irresponsible and misleading to say it. It is self-promoting in a way that is against the best interest of the user.

We are engineers not snake oil salesmen.
>Though going to church might be the worst of all options since church goers tend to skew more to the older side of the population.

Actually, probably not, which is why "megachurches" is an important qualifier here. From my observations, megachurches tend heavily to be independent and evangelical, and tend to have much younger members. They also tend to have a lot of (Christian) rock music as part of the services. The old people don't join those churches; those people are still in the mainline Protestant churches they've been going to for many decades, which have traditional service, and don't preach to you that God loves rich people more.
This is my view of Renaissance if Internet cafés!
I’ve been a scifi and fantasy nerd for my whole life but Dostoevsky’s and Mika Waltari’s books have been more influential in understanding humans, their motivations and emotions than most of the fiction. Wish I could find more of something similar.
Good point about the harsh side of civil disobedience.

It does make one think.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in...
"One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia. That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they’ve been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning, they lost, it’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax."

It's the usual word salad, but I think "Trump says coronavirus is a hoax" is a reasonable interpretation.
The linked weblog simply quotes from this more objective news-story in the Willamette Weekly.

https://www.wweek.com/news/schools/2020/03/26/oregons-virtua...
Keyword: some

I think they should still open for people that have the virus and need prayer or counseling or to support anyone that lost their job,etc... (With distancing and other precautions). But even if you believe you can't get the virus, unbelievers are supposed to be very welcome in Churches so it is reckless to endanger them. I guarantee you most Churches that are lead by people that actually believe in their proclaimed faith agree with what I said (or they are stricter). Even Joel Osteen isn't holding in person services last I heard.
Monitoring Viruses
I get the logic, but what pisses me off is that fact that those thousands of people who are packing churches and have similar beliefs as you will be lining up outside the ER and crowding hospitals as soon as they get sick.
It'd be cool to know what Saudis generally believe about their government's surveillance policies. Anyone have any links?
There are no other planets. They are entirely alone in their universe, and will simply fly out to eternity in a futile search for other life.
Not that I support what he's doing in any way, but I'm sure he means that the narrative and the reporting around the virus is political.

There's a myth circulating that the danger of the virus has been exaggerated for political purposes. I'm sure this is what he's referring to.

I doubt he would hold to that opinion if he saw it with his own eyes, so I am assuming he hasn't yet. Unfortunately for the members of his church, they are all about to see it with their own eyes because they are in New Orleans.
South Korea dealt with SARS 20 years ago. This was round two for them.
China has quietly reopened its wet markets:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8163761/Chinese-mar...

How long until the next time we have to endure millions of deaths, trillions in lost economic activity, and months of quarantine?

Meanwhile, we still have a domestic Fifth Column accusing anyone who calls the CCP's virus the "China Virus" of racism.