skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
becauae we would provide other monies to the business of it can rapidly reopen. I’m sure a business will be happy to take on the overhead if it includes gov support for rent, etc.
I'm not sure what this means, they launched a set of satellite last Saturday and then they file for bankruptcy? Is it because SoftBank is pulling out due to the pandemic? Is the overall project going yo survive in some shape or form?

A rather sad outcome, I hope Amazon Kuiper will materialize so that there's some competition for SpaceX's Starlink. I think having more than one player in this space has been important in ensuring that _any_ of these constellation will come to fruition.
This way of thinking is exactly what brought us here.

"We need more data".

No you dont need data, look at the ICUs you fool. They are struggling to find ventilators and in worse cases with lower capacity, even just for beds to deal with the influx of patients.

But you can wait for the data. They are incoming. Hopefully we will still be here in 2 months to discuss.
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Once again I see "Ryzen 4000 Review" and once again I'm disappointed to find out that it's actually a review of the 4000 series laptop processors. Can we change the title to reflect that? They're not the same - laptop 4000 is the same architecture as the desktop 3000 cpus (that came out last year) afaik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_2).
Your first sentence sounds plausible and could be true. Do you know that it is true? Do the demographics of the country support an increase in higher education capacity? Do the realities of what it means to become educated support a percent increase in the number of highly education people?

I currently teach at a community college and have taught at some major universities. What I consider passing today is far less than what I would have considered passing 25 years ago. My anecdotal experience is that too many people are going to college. Standards have decreased and we are passing people through the system who should not be graduating. Even so there is increasing pressure from administration and politicians to increase the passing rate.

At my college tuition is increasing because state funding is decreasing. We are advertising to a population who realistically aren't college material. But we need the enrollment and I need a job. So I pass people who shouldn't pass. I strongly disagree with the notion that we need more colleges.

EDIT: What I perceive as a degradation in undergraduate degree quality has led to the present state where a Master's degree today has the same intellectual signaling value that a Bachelor's degree had 40 years ago.
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That’s often closer to propaganda than reality. Militaries want soldiers to put their own lives at risk if it’s a net gain in the war. A soldier maximizing their own odds of survival is rarely that effective.

For example a sniper firing from ambush may kill their target, but it also makes them a giant target. It’s a useful strategy specifically because people are willing to take that risk.
Did people "thinking independently" and "making their own projections" do a better job--on average, not just looking at the outliers--than the more established experts? I don't think we have any empirical data to support that claim.
Btw, ACM has started adding some drm banner (rightslink) to the papers. This seems like a recent addition. Why do these bodies (ACM/IEEE) exist ? I get the journal prestige angle and the loop that is hard to break, but for CS, most of it is conference driven. Any sub-field has about 50 people who call the shots. Why don't these 50 people decide not to be associated with ACM/IEEE ? What's in it for them ? Is it just apathy ? For example, the PC of a top conference (say ISCA) could just fork it for next year onwards (say to SCA) and remove the affiliation with ACM/IEEE. Since the sub-fields are quite small, there isn't a huge risk of loss of prestige or dilution. You follow where the PC goes. In general, the community decides that there are 3-4 top conferences in the area. Once you migrate those 3-4, you have taken back control. csrankings.org does a reasonable job of capturing the top conferences in every area. If you are on the PC of any of these conferences, I would like to know why this hasn't happened yet. Fortunately, some of the top ones (usenix ones, vldb, nips, etc.) are open access, and we should have all of them migrate.
> aren't really loanwords

Place names aren't loanwords, which is why I called them "exonyms": foreign names for places that differ from their local names. E.g. Japan is an exonym for Nihon.
Are the support workers striking?
"The questions are meant to prove points, not produce knowledge" = so true.

"I noticed, as well, that conversations in which I ask simpler questions are more enjoyable and more interesting. These conversations lead to new ideas and better plans." :)

"The way I’m working on this is to stop myself each time I’m about to ask a question and figure out what I actually want to know, and then see if I can just ask that specific question in no more than a single simple sentence."= great technique!
This must be illegal, to pretend to be a mail provider?
After rolling things around my current thought is, what if this isn't the last rodeo? What if there is another outbreak?

Because there will be. Of 'something' but we don't know what that will be.

Seems to me then what you want to a robust set of responses that do not require people to make decisions based on god knows what. Because in the future you don't know ahead of time what's going to be helpful and what won't be.

What you want to public to do is reflexively anything that might help. And then later tell them what measures they can back off on. Not the other way around.
The N64 had two MIPS processors.
https://moss.garden is an ambient radio I listen to as a backdrop.
Yes, obviously once it goes exponential, exponentials are hard to hide. The point is to stop it before it goes exponential. That's why people were discussing, say, Iran or NYC testing problems and lack of social distancing, rather than saying "well, at the end of the day, hiding exponential growth is impossible, so who cares"...
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I'm not a publisher or an author (I'm an SRE, I've never made income from the sale of anything I have copyright from, and I've many times been on the side of fair use as a hobbyist musician) and I'm willing to make that claim. It's as straightforward, IMO, as the claim that not tipping is stealing. Yes, technically, it's merely not giving them money that they expect, it's not taking money they already have. But the practical effect is that it subverts a revenue stream that, for better or worse (definitely worse, in the case of tipping), they rely on, and it was reasonable (legal and socially acceptable) for them to rely on that revenue stream.

I'd like to live in a world where authors didn't rely on copyright law for their living. I'd also like to live in a world where waitstaff didn't rely on tips to make minimum wage, let alone a living wage. I don't.
That’s precisely what my favorite “smart cdn” does https://fly.io/docs/architecture/
>Sorry, but look at how China, South Korea, Taiwan etc. are doing right now

I'm taking China numbers with a LARGE grain of salt (basically I don't believe them at all given how they have lied from day one of this pandemic). I'd wager South Korea has a level of preparedness that few other countries in the world has, given that they share border with a hostile country.

Overall it seems that South Korea and Taiwan were very successful in restricting and tracking travelers (I read Taiwan totally closed the border for foreigners a couple of weeks ago) and were therefore quick to quarantine people coming from countries with outbreaks.
That use case would seem to be better served by creating a new standard that references the other standard for its IDL and serialization format, and general semantics, while having a separate standard for any websocket-specific details.

That avoids having to amend the original standard for each new variation. If you get enough variants (probably in the neighborhood of 2-4), then it makes sense to go back and supersede the original standard by breaking out the high-level layers each into their own standard that's designed for inclusion in other standards. That way, for instance, your async-Bluetooth standard doesn't have to refer to any document that gets bogged down in HTTP/1.1-specific messaging semantics. It's not worth re-factoring your standards stack the first time you reuse a standard, but you don't want some big spaghetti tangle of standards, either.
That's great! Changes I'd really like to see:

Down to starter: epics, roadmaps, HA, Free Guest users
Down to premium: SAST, Dependency Scanning, DAST, Vulnerability Management
Unions are democratic(ish), not unanimous. A nonunion walkout is equivalent to a union strike if you didn't support the decision to strike.
Define rigor.

In context I suspect you mean something like "treat data as objective." I can go to France and pickup and hold the literal kilogram. U can't do that, yet, with people's brains to the level needed for psych measurement.

Personally, I prefer social sciences and epi methods (get economics out of here...) Because they are more transparent about the role of the researcher and the limitations of their data. They don't bluntly trust it...the engineers I work with largely do. They assume data represents truth and is largely without meaningful error.
Akihito is a great man. He was born in a very powerful position and yet worked hard to make sure Japan and the world ended up a better place because of him.
Dead bodies loaded into refrigerated trucks outside NY hospitals after 98 died
Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis
Damn it. Like I knew it would happen. My company laid off a bunch of people today. Including me.
Bummed that Pull Mirroring isn't on the list. I really want to use GitLab for CI/CD, but we dont want to store our code there exclusively. Instead we use a series of scripts to work around this problem. Would be great if the core platform just supported this.
> I sent a quick reply two minutes later:

> For now, I think the risk from the ordinary flu is much much greater! But worth watching to see if it becomes a real pandemic.

Nope. Lost all credibility right there. Do not pass GO, do not collect 2 minutes of attention. Sorry.

Oh, you've learned something from the error and you've updated your priors? Great, good for you. You're still unreliable.
As far as I can tell the only way to use this is to push everything into a mysql instance. def some pros and cons there.
The president has a loud microphone, but I didn't hear a peep on this subject.. he could have called out the blatantly corrupt legislators.
In this thread there seems to be no end of comments seeking to tear down the project under consideration.

In my opinion, this project is a good initiative and more folks should take a page from this project's book. Even if you think such a project is critically flawed, an effort to thread a needle and help the community deserves praise and constructive feedback. In this particular case, the author(s?) is apparently taking the time to study a broad selection of UI frameworks and synthesize what they are learning into something everyone can benefit from. That's awesome, and I hope they keep up the good work
That’s great now if we could only could produce a couple billion masks
"Relaxing the formalisms" is great!

"Tolerating scientific fraud" is not. This doctor has previously come very close to scientific fraud. That means that for us to trust him again, his work needs to be impeccable. It isn't.

This potential treatment is promising enough that it is worthy of study, and in lieu of better solutions, administering to patients. These are drugs that have a known safety record for human use. But if you stop and think this is any form of "cure", you are deceiving yourself and endangering lives. It's pretty clear that chloroquine/azithromycin probably doesn't make COVID-19 any worse (in general). But it's not clear yet that it's actually a good treatment, and if we stop the search now, that is to our own detriment.
How to Be Curious Instead of Contrarian About Covid-19
Caveat Emptor is one of the deepest truths, whether shopping on amazon or listening to experts of different stripes, there has been enough information on the internet to come to accurate conclusions at every step, enough historical info from sars and spanish flu to see what could have been coming down the pipe, enough social media leak from China to tell that this was not contained, the choice is not between obliviousness or panic it's about prudent low cost risk mitigation.

The fact is, that many people's internal information filtering algorithm is lacking, small preparation is sufficient 90% of the time as long as you are looking at slow moving historic signals, it's about small risk mitigations early.

As played out as it is, this is further proof that the medium is the message, people engaging in unidirectional or bidirectional firehose messaging (cable tv, twitter, facebook) have tended towards panic or dismissiveness, people following historical information and slowly changing documents and global forums have been able to take prudent low cost risk mitigation, and by doing it early have operated comfortably on a different wavelength than people panic buying.

Unstructured messaging and it's cognitive overhead is a problem, unstructured messaging means that even if the inbound message is about the issue currently in your head, the design of "alerts" trigger a disruptive near context switch, like a digital doorway effect that sabotages deep thinking, deep thinking is required for prudence.

People still don't understand how bad this is though, for Americans, I'm only just now seeing a few people and articles connect the dots on bio warfare preparedness and how our asymmetrically weak and discordant response puts the U.S. at increased risk from a national security and power projection perspective. These aren't truths per se, just probability curves.

As an example, since mid December I've been gently decreasing my downside risk, divesting and putting a few dollars here and there into things like masks and non perishables, already had a bidet, water filter, UV lamps, etc. No special preparation just things I already have around the house for my aquarium, camping, spray painting, hot ones challenges, etc. I haven't had to wait in any grocery lines or experience any personal discomfort or anxiety, and my slightly early social distancing was subtle enough most people didn't even notice. I was telling people who asked "These might be historic times, low cost preparation is in order."

All this is from an individuals perspective, businesses should already be operating with risk management plans.
I liked how he showed the improvements from replacing the default TIM with a liquid based TIM. I wonder if you could get the same improvement from using Thermal Grizzly. I know most people won't want to replace TIM every month for liquid metal, or be comfortable rubbing nail polish on the circuits.
Read bright sided by Barbara ehrenreich. Great read on how pervasive and damaging this kind of thinking is in America.
I mean jeez, at that rate we shouldn't be calling it "Japanese" in the first place, because "Japan" is a chinese word, not a Japanese word.
What's preventing a library whose physical premises are closed from saying, "Okay, there are 10 copies of this book that literally nobody can get to, we'll lend out 10 e-books," using the old Controlled Digital Lending model?

That is, what about the lockdown requires moving away from the established (even if not court-tested) one-to-one basis and making a new fair use argument about uncontrolled digital lending?
I think we should look at the environment of the sputnik, Manhattan, and Bell labs era. I suspect the incentives are misaligned. Currently, my success is basically citations, publications, speaking engagements, and grants won. Technology developed should serve those purposes. At the labs of old, this was not the case as real technological developments were the goal. I think.

There's also some insight here: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Bell-Labs-so-successful
I'm not sure. He seems to add a lot of caveats that indicate he doesn't necessarily believe the stories to be real (emphasis mine):

"I do not know whether I should believe this; if it is true, I do not know whether we Germans are not really devils instead of human beings. It must be admitted that there are some extremely coarse and wicked people. The devil is never idle. My advice is that if any such persons are discovered"

I think he did know that the plague was spread by something physical. He talks about fumigation. And he's not wrong to say that social distancing is preferred. He doesn't seem to be any different from people condemning spring breakers in Florida who have outright stated that they don't care if they get the virus.

His reaction is more extreme, but he was saying that if such people are blatantly infecting others with a known deadly disease and laughing about it, they should correspondingly be punished with death. He is not suggesting that he himself or anyone individual should execute them. He is suggesting that they should be punished by the authorities by death. Calling them devils, if I read in the context of the whole thing, he seems to be using hyperbole, not sincerely believing them to be supernatural beings, but rather, just something evil the way that some people may call serial killers or morbid gang members devils. He does say that such people could be influenced by "the devil", a supernatural being, but that's not a huge surprise, given his beliefs, and it's certainly not something he dwells on. If he truly believed them to be devils instead of using hyperbole, I'm sure that his recommended remedy would be something along the lines of prayer and exorcism for them, not hanging. Rather, he focuses on the behaviour and the corresponding punishment, not the supernatural. If he focused his letter more on the supernatural than he does, I'd be inclined to agree with your conclusions.

Like I've read some American preachers apparently talk about COVID-19 in a very religious vein, much more than what I see in this letter. Those people really focus on the religious stuff, not the physical behaviour. I don't see that in Luther's letter. Given what I've read here, I think he is focused more on social realities and talking about hypothetical criminals and capital punishment in a modern sense. He does use religious language and logic to explain his points, but I can excuse him for that, given his background and occupation. We need to be able to understand whether our interpretation matches what someone is intending to say, it's very easy for our interpretations to be wrong, especially if one is using hyperbole. Yes, I could be wrong too, of course.
I agree with this thing. But it's probably something that is mainly something director or higher level want.

Developers just want it because it'll allow them to sell the product to their director.
Shameless plug. I did something similar. https://screenrecord.43z.one (no gif conversion though) but additionally it allows you to share you desktop recording via webrtc if you want.

I tried to keep the UI as simple and friendly as possible.
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A "hero" title should command "hero" pay.
Better late than never, but they'll need to put some work into countering all the anti-mask propaganda that's been flying around for weeks now.
That tweet and the attached video are entirely true. It's just that individual people may wish to not chance it, and wear a mask nonetheless, and masks will end up allocated by luck and purchasing power instead of need and risk profile.

There's also some evidence that widespread usage of masks may be effective in lowering the risk for such a disease, but deploying widespread usage of masks equitably on a global scale is nigh-impossible right now, so it's counterproductive to focus on it. Distancing is achievable instead, and leads to a similar result.
AMD is going very strong in server market (specially in DC market), all major sever vendors has now comprehensive AMD offering.
The advantage AMD now days has over Intel is so big that choosing AMD is a no-brainer for majority(I would even say most) of DC applications;
Why you assume it's necessarily unchecked? What you are complaining about are very basic things. Nobody is talking about giving employees daily foot massages, hiring celebrity chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants and having an olympic pool in the middle of the office. Such things could happen, but that's not what we're talking about here. A comfy chair and a fridge with some beers is pretty basic - and not really that expensive. Sure, everything should be in moderation - but what is described it perfectly moderate picture and not some excess luxury. If anything, if I see the company is starting to try to save money on chairs and buy cheap-and-crappy ones, I'd probably look for another job, because there's trimming fat and there's cutting the bone, and proper office setup is definitely the bone.
Well-designed deterministic state machines are incredibly easy to reason about. You simply render them as a graph and at a glance you can understand every possible transition and state.

> Will it come back to this state in the future?

If there's a path from the current state back to itself and it gets the correct inputs, yes. Otherwise no.

> Is there a route from state Y to state Z?

A simple glance at the graph will suffice to answer this.

Of course poorly written code, regardless of the constructs, will be hard to reason about.
Its not shameless, it's webm and hence smaller. Great.

EDIT: Any way to record the mouse cursor?
I've been working on rewriting our internal deployment system and plan to open source it once the rewrite is finished. Part of the rewrite is decoupling it from our internal libraries and from our internal architecture so it is more generic. It's been fun to work on in the spare time, but it's been months now and I can't wait to finish.
Well like others said, this reads more like an opinionated piece on how to be a good teammate.

I think Antirez[1] has more practical advice on how to actually become a "10x programmer"

Key points:

* Experience: pattern matching

* Knowledge: some theory is going to help

* Low level: understanding the machine

* Debugging skills

* Perfectionism, or how to kill your productivity and bias your designs

* Design sacrifice: killing 5% to get 90%

* Simplicity

* Focus: actual time VS hypothetical time

[1] http://antirez.com/news/112
You just invented the "temp agency" and the "contracting company".

Why do you believe no taxi drivers want to be employees? Why is it different from pizza deliverers or restaurant servers as regards wanting to be an independent contractor?
The article notes that improvised masks are better than nothing. Do you have a bandanna or a tshirt you could wrap around your head?
Coronavirus Sweeps Through Detroit, a City That Has Seen Crisis Before
I'm unfamiliar with their library contents and this thread didn't go into a lot of detail. Their sci-fi section (sorted by most "viewed") includes many classics by authors such as Asimov, Phillip K. Dick, Bradbury, Vonnegut, etc. Looks like a good offering.