skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess that the difficulty of preventing cheating in an online setting discourages institutions from going fully online.

For masters work and above I suspect this concern is less prominent because it’s likely to be a smaller student pool (easier to police per student), doing higher level work (harder to cheat successfully), and to be less accessible to would-be cheaters (due to filtering at the bachelors level).
Or robust depending on your point of view. The consequences for running out of cash are simply not that severe.

Let’s say you own a restaurant, your revenue goes to zero. You pay wages owed, then stop. Unemployment picks up a part of the loss for employees, their landlords feel the pain. Food goes bad, restaurant takes a loss on that. Rent doesn’t get paid, landlord foots the bill. Utilities go to nearly zero, etc.

By the time this is all over, we will see 3 things:
1) we will learn where safety nets did and didn’t work

2) landlords will have to lower rent to account for periodic lost income over the next 2 years or they will have to agree to self insure for losses during times of shutdowns.

3) we will have insights in to which countries have functioning healthcare systems and which don’t. Also which are efficient and not. Hopefully the globe can improve their policies.
I'm no kind of expert on medical decisions/statistics, but I can see a possible justification for this. The premise of "flatten the curve" is that there's only so much capacity in the medical system, and once it's used up, not just COVID-19 patients, but anyone who needs urgent hospital care, is going to be worse off.

If the situation is bad enough in a place (like Italy) that a heart attack isn't getting its usual level of care due to the COVID epidemic...it seems reasonable to count that as at least a "COVID-related" death.
Yeah this is really the only realistic way for this to work.

Every workload is different and it's basically impossible for Amazon to set up a global cost limiting that would work for everyone. Trying to do so would just introduce a lot of new and non-obvious failure modes for a bunch of people.

It's like your landlord made a deal that if you couldn't pay your full rent any month, you could lose access to part of the property and he'd clean it out and re-rent it until next month. Except your landlord has no idea what your actual day-to-day life looks like. Some stuff is obviously no good to take away (you need the bathroom), some stuff is seemingly obviously no good (you need the kitchen... unless you always eat out). But what about that spare bedroom? Probably fine if you're just using it to store your recycling. Not fine if you're using it as a home office.

You need a understanding of the actual workload in order to figure out where costs could be reduced, and implementing rules or logic around a single workload limits everyone either to using that same thing, or not using the cost limiting.
The U.S. could give each household ~$15k instead of trying the trickle-down experiment again.

This is not a bailout, it’s another transfer of wealth using the same model that was prototyped during the last financial crisis.
it is called ‘cash balance’.
I think before bankruptcies you can go for loans, your personal savings, investments, and other creative tactics.
There's a good reason to support businesses: if you airdrop money to individuals, businesses will go under because they don't have any revenue. That'll result in job losses, and when the virus is under control, there won't be jobs for people (you can't start a business and ramp up to a large number of employees overnight--it's a big organizational problem).

But the support for businesses should be limited to those that aren't laying off people. Not with some window to lay them off now, and meet a requirement later.

Support for businesses needs to be designed to help workers.
I generalized (“TLDR”), as whether they have 13 days, 30 days, or 45 days matters little. Regardless, few businesses have enough cash reserves to survive this black swan event. When you’re dead, how dead you are isn’t terribly important (the COVID pandemic will drag on for months). Mea culpa for not making that more clear.
Do Apple even care about their PC business? They basically let it rot.
There was a discussion on SBA Disaster Loans a few days ago, not exactly insurance though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703758
Dte: A small and easy to use Unix console text editor
This is Apple. Unless there is a major downside, they will keep the same prices or increase it.
You are assuming people are only interested in the slope. Then the constant doesn't matter. But it does matter when you want to know which country is an infection hot spot or not. A thousand cases in the US is something completely different from a thousand cases in Vatican city.
That said, it does have the potential to impact the perception of danger to individuals. And perception of danger should influence the β factor the author mentions. Learning that a lot of people have it or a lot of people are dying for example may cause people to take it more seriously, and thus influence β.
Teaching classes effectively is very hard and very few people can do it. It also doesn’t pay that well and is draining and often times not that rewarding. Universities try to get people that are good at it as professors by bribing them with the respect and autonomy that the title “professor” confers. Outside of the classroom, the professor does whatever they want to advance their own agenda.

I would think online only programs would have a hard time competing with universities for people that can design and execute effective courses. There are so few that most universities don’t even employ many of them. Why would someone like that work for an online school when they could work for one that would give them tenure, funding, lab space, grad students, etc?
When They Cry novels by Ryukishi07 have taught me the importance of truth and trust, plus countless other minor observations on miscellaneous topics.
The paywall on that site is skippable by disabling Javascript and refreshing the page
I like So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, in part because of how sweet and optimistic it was. After finishing I then was shocked by how dark and depressing Mostly Harmless was.
I know most of AWS base services, but it would take real work for me to spend $8000/month on a simple three tier website.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Just like other industries, there are people who benefit from the status quo.

What does a reputable university have to lose by offering equivalent degrees online? Quite a bit actually
At the risk of bringing up the dreaded name here, these kinds of billing shocks were one of the problems Oracle wanted to solve with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). So it has been built from the ground up with variable limits and quotas in mind. Every service has them from the outset so that customers can control their maximum expenditure. When they started out building OCI, the major clouds weren't offering this as a key feature.

Enterprise companies do not want infinite billing. They want fixed and reliable billing, more than anything else. With on-prem equipment they know a few years in advance what their expenditure is going to be at any time, and will have a budgeted amount over the top of that that they're on-board with. Bring the idea of autoscaling with limits, and they're very happy indeed, particularly with the idea of automatically scaling down.

> Azure has, built in, hard price/cost limits but doesn't allow the public to use them. For example if you have MSDN subscription credit you get a hard limit of up to $150/month, but you yourself cannot pick a bespoke limit to use the service more safely.

I would be willing to bet that that is something enterprise customers can get access too, particularly if their annual expenditure is high enough under normal operation. Microsoft knows the enterprise market very well, just like Oracle does, and like Amazon doesn't (historically speaking, at least).
November 2015

120 employees

He revealed to Inc. that he has sold all his stocks, emptied his retirement accounts, and mortgaged his two properties -- including a $1.2 million home with a view of Puget Sound -- and poured the $3 million he raised into Gravity. As majority owner, he is not exactly penniless.

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pa...

He's the majority owner of Gravity
I'll restate my comment: it's a racist troll.

Only on HN do your comments get flagged for calling out racism. So whoever you are, you're a racist too.
I've been using it as well and will most likely pay when the service is no longer free.
I sit down every single night and plan the upcoming day by making a simple list. I don't prioritize it, I just make it. This includes meetings.

Then, first thing I do in the morning is update my list based on what (if anything) changed the night before. I place asterisks beside the THIS HAS TO HAPPEN OR UHOH things. I even prioritize those.

Then, I schedule them into my day, before I start - based on estimating them. I follow through with those items, shutting off everything whilst working on the "must happen" list. I review the list and re-prioritize roughly mid-day, having come up for air at least once.

The problem I found over the years is that nothing is as quick, as limitless, and as fluid as paper. For this reason I use a Stalology B6 notebook.
if you are not enjoying your temporary confinement think of these poor animals who have to endure it for the rest of their lives.
Unless they're stuffing their wealth in mattresses that wealth is spread everywhere in economy. Also a lot of that wealth is based on market value of assets which ebb and flow and inflate and crash. It is not based on sucking cash out of the economy.

Put another way, the economy is fucked but a small % are able to inflate the market value of their assets.
SARS-CoV-2 blocked by clinically proven protease inhibitor [pdf]
If you're looking for a low-level performance targeted language where anyone can add anything whatsoever, I've got great news! C++ already exists!
But how can you do that in a way that makes logical sense?

Let's say you have 4 instances, a database, some storage. Every minute you have those things costs you money.

And how do you "stop" the bill? Delete everything? What if you need that data? Does it make sense to delete all your backups from the past year over $1?
Kuo has an excellent track record on Apple predictions from what I understand.
It goes w/ the core Jobs/Cook strategy of owning/controlling all their core tech.

(notwithstanding their core "supply chain tech" as per Ben Thompson's point on Stratechery).

The other thought...is it yet another loss of American technical expertise that they cannot chip fab w/ the best of them anymore?
Yes, the grant also provides some downside protection on actual compensation, not just employment count.

A vast number companies are hanging on to employees to pay them to do nothing right now. Stores closed, employees who cannot work from home, but still getting a paycheck. These grants basically allow the companies to keep these employees on payroll.
I never knew community colleges were predatory and for profit. Aren't they public institutions? Do you have any good references you can share?
Thanks
Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, aka Three Body Problem. Explored existential topics in a way I've never encountered anywhere else. I truly believe that decades from now this series will be viewed as the LOTR of our time.

I've recently been reading the Foundation series, and have found the concept of The Mule character to be incredibly eye opening. I can't say directly it's had a positive impact on my life but it's definitely changing my outlook and I feel its expanded my horizons.
This isn’t “some punches”, this is one of the biggest pandemics in living memory and will be an event whose consequences will be felt for the years and decades to come.

I’m not disagreeing with wealth concentration being problematic, to be clear.
That's Geekbench. The differences in Geekbench for ARM devices and Geekbench for x86 are laughable. Why not compare them in a real life workload like a render on Blender or a kernel compile?
Just to be pedantic:

This is conda forge, which is very popular but it is not conda.

That said, I won’t be entirely surprised if there is a fork in the next 1-3 years, with conda-forge releasing miniforge.
Just wait after this year. Spring quarter at UC Davis is purely online because of the COVID-19 outbreak, for example.
I think the strategic advantage is to drill, baby, drill, and profit from those natural resources as much as possible while we're still in the Oil Age. If the Middle East runs dry it will be a strategic victory for all those countries and a loss for the other countries where high production costs kept the remaining oil in the ground, just sitting there never having generated a penny in profits, with renewables and electrification of transportation an even more imminent threat to the oil market.

Beaver fur doesn't have much economic relevance today--indeed, even the Hudson's Bay Company ceased fur trading decades ago--but the United States and what is now Canada are much better off having exploited that resource for profit while they could.
Not good enough:

1. "New C++" would not just be a subset of the syntax of old C++.

2. ABI issues.
November 2015

As majority owner, he is not exactly penniless.

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pa...
H5N1 (2013)
Correct. In fact based on demographic data locally (Canada), deaths from motor incidents have come down enough to offset Corona deaths. Ergo, it's cheaper to have a pandemic.
How accurate/realistic is this?
Wasn't this book proven to be completely made up and the author was never actually in prison?
Ask HN: Wouldn't the US military be able to handle the surge of Covid cases?
The US Military seems to have both the means & training to handle a rapid surge in cases. Why isn't the national guard or even the US Army being deployed to at least triage before routing to healthcare facilities?
I am afraid, as jackcviers3 already said, you are missing the point.

The goal of making applications is to have a piece of software at the end. That piece of software is the solution to the problem you have.

Actually, in that very sentence of yours you explicitly repeated what I already wrote
There are circuit breakers. AWS has plenty of “soft limits” that you have to request to increase including the number of EC2 instances you can spin up.
A game has everything to do with the real world. A game is only successful if real-world people want to play it.
It's actually too oversimplified to be a great model for most things. Extend your intuition to imagine that you have perfect competition where there are infinitely many identical goods all competing to the lowest price either no differentiation, and people will price at zero profit. To extend that to the real world requires more and more complications like the time value of money etc
Chipsenkbeil/choose: macOS Fuzzy matcher that uses a native GUI
No, your intuition is bad.

If you use passwords of a small enough size that this would really be a problem (like four digit PINs or your "aaaaA1!" example) then your password isn't delivering adequate security against brute force and so you've definitely lost.

If you use passwords that are big enough to make brute force impractical anyway then this "feature" will never make any real difference and is just a waste of time at best, and since it adds complexity it's another place to hide bugs.

Having a PwnedPasswords check (not this silly "repeating characters" test) makes sense if you allow users to enter passwords. Whereas if you generate passwords of decent length and at random then they're random so there's no purpose in checking them.
Good news. Pypy is criminally underrated
> See also: rideshare. VC pumps in billions so that Lyft & Uber can be cheaper than taxis at a HUGE loss -> taxis go out of business -> Lyft & Uber jack up their prices because they own the market.

Did the rideshare companies actually jack up their prices at any point? How would they do that when they're still in competition with each other and the barrier to entry to the market remains low? Any attempt to raise prices would immediately result in more competitors.

That was the whole thing with the taxi medallions. It was a cartel, because that market has very low barriers to entry and the taxi companies didn't want the competition.

Uber didn't make prices artificially low, they just provided competition which stopped them from being artificially high. They're not losing money on rides, they're "losing money" on self-driving car R&D and things like that.

And "fair trade" is a marketing device. People want to feel good about not exploiting people, so companies not exploiting people get to charge a premium for that. That doesn't mean companies who are paying suppliers less don't still exist or offer similar products for lower prices purchased by customers who don't care as much about that.

Neither of these are examples of what you're describing.
Apple's gains in chip performance are incredible and I would prefer to have an alternative to Intel. If I can get better performance and they keep the price the same, I care.
Just seeing this. This is exactly right ime, I had years of senior full stack SWE experience /track record of SWE at my employ and was able to get myself on a RNN project initially, then expanded from there. I didn't get hired at a new company as an ML person out of the gate.
for ARM, power per watt. It's always been the advantage.

Controlling the stack w/ better vertical integration as well will probably yield more coherent product design. You can tell re how "put-together" a product an iPad or iPhone is vs. a Mac these days.

While maybe not yielding direct customer, user-facing benefits, the under-the-hood benefits would definitely improve customer experience.
Show HN: Procrec – a CPU and memory usage recorder written in rust
Though not my life per se, I find the fiction in the USMC's reading list to be very .. interesting. It's a strange mix of more popular titles and super niche books. It's all focused on war-fighting, but it gives a great look into the Marines:

GATES OF FIRE: AN EPIC NOVEL OF THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE by Steven Pressfield

STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert A. Heinlein

ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card

READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline

GHOST FLEET: A NOVEL OF THE NEXT WORLD WAR by P. W. Singer; August Cole

THE KILLER ANGELS: THE CLASSIC NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR by Michael Shaara

The whole 2019 reading list is great stuff, top notch reading for any hacker or c-suite, especially the discussion guides: https://grc-usmcu.libguides.com/usmc-reading-list/discussion...
the only thing C missed was a stdnet lib, with things like starting a network daemon and http parsers. oh and a decent list stdlib that everyone could agree on and build the rest on top.

had that happened a while ago, we would never have seen php et al.
Every twitter post by every corporation/majority owner/CEO/founder ever is done for PR.
Did you ever figure out what he did?
The best part of "blood in the streets" is old school hacker news posts like this. Kpi of creative progress to come!
How much more does it costs AWS to allow you to spin up resources and then liberally offer refunds when you contact them and tell them you made a mistake?
Always a year away.

I remain deeply sceptical that Apple will move the Mac to ARM, and given their bungling of the MacBook lineup over the last 5 years I have doubts they understand what their users need from a laptop. I don't think they could pull it off without a great deal of pain for their users and developers. I don't think their OS engineers need the burden.
All-purpose enzymes boost CRISPR’s powers
I don't think it's fair to call it a trickle-down experiment. We're bailing out companies because we think it would be bad for society if they all went bankrupt, not because we expect that money to trickle down as such.
Right now national politics is so broken and the Republicans are so against any kind of carbon tax it's impossible. Individual states could probably slip in an increase in gas taxes while gas prices are low, but it's unlikely...

Who would want to be the governor seen as increasing taxes at the beginning of economic troubles? In general any kind of tax increase at the moment is going to fall flat.
I too believe that covid19 was here much earlier than everyone noticed.

I had a flu in late Dec that stretched into late January. I took swabs for A and B and they came back negative both times I went to the doctor during that time frame.

I have no proof but I had symptoms that matched. I wonder if an antibodies test will ever come available... I would like to know if I did have it. Assuming they stay with you over a few months.
> So Python doesn't have that issue because it doesn't overload braces for hashes and blocks.

Yes, and also because lambdas in Python can only have expression bodies, not statements. That means you can never have a statement nested inside an expression. This is important because Python's rule to ignore all newlines between parentheses would fall apart if you could stuff a statement-bodied function inside a parenthesized expression.
Same for me, I loved it for the lessons I learned and I've gifted that book to friends but boy it is a slog to read through.
archive.org doesn't block you based on which dns resolver you use: https://web.archive.org/web/20190914012706/https://www.teleg...
Agreed.

I don't put it on-par with Dune, but there are definitely concepts in the TBP trilogy that are simultaneously difficult and mind-opening. Some of them are quite haunting, actually.

Most of the deeper exploration of these ideas takes place in the third book.
Oh, I do too. I am a big reader of Lovecraft and books in the same genre.
Don't assume the data going into this model has anything to do with reality. There's a very, very good reason that the China data almost perfectly fits a curve. That's because they used a quadratic equation to generate the data.

The lines of hundreds/thousands of people waiting to recover the ashes of relatives from several cremation facilities, along with the documented arrival of roughly 45,000 urns to Wuhan alone belies the rotten data that even now claims only 3,300 total deaths in .cn
Jq: Sed for JSON Data
>Universities try to get people that are good at it as professors by bribing them with the respect and autonomy that the title “professor” confers.

Generally speaking, universities don't care much about teaching ability. Hiring decisions are based almost entirely on research profiles (except where the institution itself has a clear focus on teaching over research, as at e.g. some liberal arts colleges). There are two main reasons for this. First, research brings more money and prestige. Second, student satisfaction has little to do with teaching quality. You can make students happy just by giving them a light workload and good grades.

So in fact, there are lots of people who are good at teaching who universities have no interest in hiring.
While this is true, I'd put much more trust in the PiHole team than I would some random corp - by the very nature of what they've built, and how they licensed it, I'd expect them to be privacy centric. By paying for such a service, I'd also feel like I was contributing to the ongoing maintenance of PiHole by the core team.

I think the GP's suggestion is a fantastic one!
> if you can't afford to hire an aws/azure expert you shouldn't be using it.

Your logic is a self-contradiction:

- You need an expert to use AWS/Azure

- It is unsafe to even learn AWS/Azure without already being an expert.

Where do these experts come from? Osmosis? If there's no safe way to learn them, and being an expert is a prerequisite to using them, then you've created an artificial self-limiting supply shortage.

This is another argument that defeats itself and shows that these limits are absolutely needed to stop a mindshare loss/lack of expertise.