skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Put "COVID-19 deaths" in "can't revive the dead" category, and put "helping people not feel suicidal" in "maybe possible to change" category. Your first link about cancer deaths and unemployment states "Access to health care could underlie these associations", that can go in "maybe possible to affect". "Budgetary constraints on centralized healthcare" - the UK NHS has just had 750,000 volunteers sign up to help out in one week which wasn't part of the budget, so that can go in "maybe possible to affect". The UK government spends £130Bn/year on the NHS and £120Bn/year on education. Half a year of no education for half a year of doubled NHS spending .. that isn't a trivial thing to do, but it's still more plausible than raising the dead, so put it towards the "could maybe affect that" side of things.

Does it have to be "GDP falls and nothing can change to respond to that"?

The UDSA says[1] the United States wastes 30-40% of its food each year - $100+Billion. This ought to mean the food supply could contract 30% and it would be conceivable for nobody to eat less at all, not even go hungry and save money not buying food to throw it in the trash. Most people are overweight, it ought to be possible that the food supply could contract a lot more than 30% for a short period, and not only could it still be enough food to keep everyone alive, many people would get healthier from it happening. Currently the poor would starve and the rich would thrive, but surely that isn't the only way things could be? It's imaginable that a skilled orator could convince people to not spend $100Bn on food to throw in the trash, but to donate it to disease response instead - that's the entire UK NHS budget for many months. That won't apply in developing countries, but plants don't have COVID-19, nor do most humans, and most humans who do, recover. Food scarcity issues are still going to be about resource distribution and logistics, not about actual scarcity of food; not trivial problems which can change with the snap of the fingers, but easier than raising the dead, aren't they?

And even, even, if you don't like being alive in a poorer world, and wish you had died of COVID-19 instead, you can still suicide then, it isn't either-or. But you can't go the other way, regret dying of COVID-19 and then choose to try the alternative problems instead.

[1] https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs
Interesting to contrast between the postmodern condemnation of aristocracy as fundamentally immoral and the Girardian view of aristocracy as a necessary safeguard to prevent memetic violence in society.

> Lasting peace and harmony inherently requires differentiation. A stable society is a differentiated one.

https://alexdanco.com/2019/04/28/secrets-about-people-a-shor...
They also have Snowballs, which are luggage-sized versions of the Snowmobile that can be shipped. They have a built-in e-ink display for the shipping label.
Their utilization has gone up 700%? Bullshit.
It’s more like actively claiming “contains zero trans fats!” On the packaging when in fact the product is full of them.
With proper care it's doable, but that stack is bringing a whole lot of baggage you'll need to either strip out or isolate your control process from.

Having a bunch of cores is advantageous though. There are a variety of options for dedicating one core to the special purpose while the rest serve the general-purpose wild west.

But I'd be surprised if you didn't have headaches just using some python code with cpu affinity on an otherwise unchanged raspbian install.
Not really. They mostly use proctortrack these days, along with algorithmic analysis of the answers.
I read and reread a lot of books, largely scifi. My favorite is probably Dune, and I've reread it maybe 6 times. Thing is, I also really like TBP, and am actually reading it for the 4th or so time right now.
As a former academic, I've been quite impressed with what I've seen of Western Governors University. I haven't enrolled there since I already have more degrees than I have any use for.
I've always thought if I owned any sort of fund, I would immediately have made basically this when I first saw pi-hole and then analyzed the data to estimate a given tech companies DAU numbers. I wonder who owns NextDNS. No idea if my idea would work or be per se legal but I bet you can grab some interesting insights.
This seems like an interesting generalization/characterization of technical debt.
At this point the YCombinator foundation should disclose what percentage of its funding comes from the mining lobby.

Twice in a day the dang chatbot has hijacked threads to support its fossil fuel agenda. Pro coal, pro oil.

And as I said yesterday, there is no intellectual curiosity in climate change denial. STOP EDITORIALISING. you are a degrading effect on the discussion.
Depends on the type of model, but death and birth and everything in between has been put into these models. Feel free to peruse any of the literature.
Not Raspberry Pi exactly, but the SoC used in Beaglebone has a couple "PRU" co-processors which run at 200MHz, share RAM with the main CPU, and have access to peripherals including some GPIO. It's not too hard to use those for precision timing while the main CPU does the typical Linux stuff.
Just Use a Managed Service
I have never heard of a LimeSDR putting out a 54Mhz wide signal for broadcast. Can you describe how you are configuring things?
Yeah I'll have to
Beale Cyphers
> ICU cases will 100% increase unless Swedes are literally superbeings.

Or northern europeans are just more resistant to it.
I've really enjoyed lurking through the comments and seeing everyone's suggestions (thanks! my reading list just increased by 25 books, lol!). Out of fiction, I read mainly fantasy/sci-fi. Here are a few of my picks (which I don't think have been mentioned yet).

- The Worlds of Chrestomanci and _everything_ else by Diana Wynne Jones; it was this and 'Chronicles of Narnia' which first introduced me to fantasy as a child. Really great fun, have re-read most of her books over the years. There's something there for everyone.

- Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix; read this in my youth, deals a lot with death, undead things, and magics concerning death. Its not depressing, rather it gave me the feeling of being life re-affirming!

- The Riddle-Master trilogy Patricia McKlippet; refined high fantasy series, lacks the prosaic good v. evil, instead focuses on rationality and chaos.

- The Incal series by Alexandro Jodorowsky; when I first read this, I kept finding all these crazy parallels with other stories (books, film, tv, etc.) and then I realized that this was the source (e.g. The Fifth Element is based on this). An absolutely mouth dropping, eye-popping, mind-bending tale! Great pencil/ink to boot as well.

- The World of Edena by Moebius (because of course!); amazing, along the same vain as 'The Incal', but much 'finer' - less mind-bending, more more contemplative.

- The Dark Knight trilogy by Frank Miller; an epic right up there with Beowulf IMHO.

- Watchmen by Moore and Gibbson; genre setting with an amazing story; and 'Before Watchmen' omnibus adds to it as a modern contrast.
> we believe that a joke name some find offensive and distracting presents an unnecessary obstacle to wider adoption

That could be a valid theory if GIMP wasn't the most popular open source raster editor, while none of the forks come even close

Besides, there are at least a few billion people in the world, including me, that haven't watched pulp fiction in English and GIMP for us just means GNU Image Manipulation Program
Try this: https://www.plantronics.com/us/en/product/voyager-5200-uc

The gain is high enough that you don't have to talk very loudly.
I worked for the company that developed the technology. Personally not much of a green-thumb myself, but it's great to see how much you can grow with vertical towers, either in a greenhouse or indoors with LED lights. You can grow about 3-4x what you would get with a flat grow bed for many plants [1]. While the towers are great, the real trick is the grow media as you want it robust enough to survive while not suffocating the roots.

For those interested in starting your own farm or just gardening I'd highly recommend "UpStart Farmers" [2]. A friend of mine help's moderate it and is really focused on helping people learn vertical farming and aquaponics. They have an enormous selection of content regarding various aspects such as nutrient mixes, dealing with pests, etc. The community is also active and helpful to each other.

FYI: This is from the Canadian licensee's of the original Bright Agrotech that was acquired by Plenty Ag [3]. I'm bullish that indoor farming will be a big boon in providing more localized and therefore fresh and nutritional vegetables and leafy greens for much of the world's population. The economics are slowly improving with LED efficiency increases and capital infusion to scale farms.

1: https://search.proquest.com/openview/ccf876147b3e8a224da6770...
2: https://www.upstartfarmers.com
3: https://www.plenty.ag/the-feed/plenty-acquires-bright-agrote...
That's collegiate literary analysis.

Not everything Google-able is true.

Many authors are difficult.

Ender's Game is a great story.
Yes, there are DMA driven gpio libraries.
And I love both of them.
My theory is that Amazon and Google are more prepared to handle surges because they run some of the largest web properties.

This like every day is Black Friday for Amazon. It's rough, but not something they have never dealt with before.
This here looks wrong: https://github.com/thecodrr/fdir/blob/master/index.js#L86
It's calling a blocking method from async in Node <10

Another thing I noticed, it looks you only handle `dirent.isDirectory()`, but not `dirent.isSymbolicLink()` (meaning the library won't find files in symlinked folders, e.g. lerna node_modules)
I was curious bout this as well. Do people get 500 Mhz allocations? Or are there no allocations because things are directional? I think they support a 500Mhz wide downlink?
190-proof nihilism: intoxicating intellectual idiocy
The question in a lot of ways is how many exponential doublings do we have to have before this situation switches in peoples' minds from a peace-time inconvenience to essentially real war.

Indeed. I was organizing some people to make face shields and was looking for a big room. When I talked to the city about using a school gym, one of the criteria was that everyone needed to have background checks. Because it would be in a school!
Look at the Netherlands. They have no land and one of the largest agricultural producers in the world.

More efficient, cheaper, better for the environment...the benefits are pretty much endless. It isn't about "urban" but using what we have more efficiently.
Media are suffering at least in this country. Not much interest in buying ads these days.

If the newspapers get more people to pay for their stories, they will have to fire the journalist hard at work on the Corona stories.
Scroll down on the page to add audio. You can add one-way audio broadcast. Or 2-way audio. Or Audio and Video Conference.
Berkshire Hathaway is not 100% owned by Buffett. He wants people with his personal level of wealth to be taxed more.
AWS may cover those accidents, and you can get the default quotas raised quite a bit. I agree that some info is probably missing here, but it's not entirely implausible.
For those considering alternatives to virtualenvwrapper, pyenv-virtualenv provides a very intuitive interface for managing virtualenvs similar to how python interpreters are managed via pyenv. I'd definitely recommend giving it a try.
He never says that. You probably could do the same with multiple 8 bit arduinos as well, I have done something similar myself with klipper. But your life while doing that will be miserable.

The first thing you have to add for anything serious is a real time clock that Raspi DOES NOT HAVE by default.

What he is saying is that Linux is not intended for that,not designed for that, because it it not a RTOS, and it is huge.

You can fill the void, but you will be reinventing the wheel. Low level hardware design is painful.

Linux is extremely complex, too complex for a person to understand. It will take man-years of work to handle all the details, that is, it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars just in salaries alone.

It is way easier to do what this man has done. And then if you want you add an additional raspi with linux as the controlling UI.
I think that's reading a little too far into Ender's Game for the average 7th grader... It is a fantastic novel.

The author of the article you posted (who was basing the nazi thing on another author's work) stated this in regards to the "Ender is Hitler" argument, "...Radford’s essay says many things with which I do not agree, and its tone is often intemperate..."

So your bias against Ender's Game is based on a guy who was biased against the very argument that has led to me writing this comment.
“While we will discuss how you can use the schema we create with PostGraphile, this article should be useful for anyone designing a Postgres schema.”
They're really not very complicated; the requirements can be written out in a few pages. I'd say they're a bit more complicated than your fridge, but a lot less complicated than a car. Generally the primary barrier to entry for manufacturing medical devices is not their complexity but the onerous requirements of certification by the FDA. On the whole that's a good thing, since it means that properly certified medical devices are rarely built by fly-by-night organizations that disappear once they have your money.
> I have learned literally more than 99% of my knowledge[ ]from strangers on the internet and ad hoc conversations on irc and reddit.

So? What's your "knowledge" and who were the strangers that taught it to you? It could be anywhere from Alexander Graham Bell to Alex Jones, but knowing IRC and Reddit, my money is that it's closer to the latter than the former.
I'm a fan of Murakami and hated that book. Though if you dislike magical realism most of his others won't do it for you either.
Taxis haven't gone out of business yet.

Medallians only apply to NYC. Cities have been hit hard (portland, austin). But to be fair, it caused Radio Cab to modernize with an app.

Profitabilty: Here, I did your research for you, not too hard:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2019/06/02/can-uber-...

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-lyft-...

Please take at least one second to google next time?

Fair Trade absolutely has an impact, by your own admission! You are applying the "if you can't fix everything don't bother fixing anything" fallacy. I don't know why certain personality types have to hide behind this when someone is trying to do something good. Do you just hate yourself?
Zuckerberg, Gates team up to contribute $25M for research into Covid-19
You've just named and listed the services. Odd why people would choose Office365 instead of hosting their own nextcloud distribution cluster in their own colocation space.
He has been sitting on a lot of cash for a while. He expected the market was due for a down turn and made a big shift.

You can look up articles. I found one from November saying he was on 128B, a second one in October saying 122B. So I guess between the two he liquidated 6B of investments.
Thank you for this. How can anyone run ANY service with ANY company and not add a clause in the contract (and then have the alerts up an running) in controlling costs?

I remember PagerDuty was advertising (a lot) on Leo Laporte's podcasts a few years back.

A clause in the contract: if monthly bill reaches $Xk amount then:

(a) seek written approval by client, and

(b) continue until $Yk or approval is given with a new ceiling price.
"I do not think that this argument is sufficiently substantial to require refutation. Consolation would be more appropriate."

https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf

Or, we change the kind of economy that we have. We're seeing right now how what parts are actually "essential"; arguably, the rest is only necessary for growth. If growth stops being the goal, the the economy as it was doesn't have to continue.

We're already seeing some rumblings of a stark dichotomy, what with some people advocating for a return to work and acceptance of the risk, contrasting with the backlash that their dollar is not more important than someone's life.

In a Japanese subway, someone wrote: “We can't return to normal, because the normal that we had was precisely the problem.”

It doesn't entirely matter if they're right or wrong objectively; if enough people subscribe to this view, it becomes what we live through.
surviving is one thing. to what degree was the permanent lung damage?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-w...
They aren't predatory or for profit. I teach at a community college.
I will also say that many community colleges offer online courses that are much cheaper (and more respected) than University of Phoenix. (One of the classes I'm teaching was already online this semester so I didn't have to adjust it much to the current situation.)
"God is keeping score. I know because God and I are personal friends"

stealing that lol :D
Your rational efficient market at work. Good grief.
Is there progress being made beyond rebranding?
Yes, that whole series is terrific! I keep meaning to re-read the whole thing but get sidetracked around book 2 or 3. I should make time for it.

Besides the wit and the beautiful language, I’m fascinated by the depiction of societies (and micro-societies, when at sea) where people are the most valuable resource, for brainpower, highly specialized skills and sheer brawn in equal proportions; and the arbitrary nature of command and rank, where the best person for the job may or may not be in charge.
Their focus on design and what the user feels is amazing. Not so much so now, but the Steve Jobs era.

My favorite example is a few years back (don't remember how many) - people perceived iPhones as waaay faster than android phones, even though they had similar CPUs. It's because Apple made sure that in the hardware + software, the screen refresh would take priority. So users would literally see everything faster. It took Google years to finally do the same - they simply didn't think it would matter.
The author of this article did not say that COVID-19 was a BSE. They stated the jobless claims were.
I wouldn't say my suggestion changes the concept of Time Machine at all.

Instead of scrolling through time using a 3D animation on the Z axis, I'd like to use a calendar instead. I said nothing about individual files.
Re: Vonnegut, I think he was great at larger themes of Existential Angst, but using a cynical tone in his main characters. (And I do agree with you, the cynicism is healthy.) If I can make an extension, Bill Murray takes that same Angst but is a master at applying comedy. Vonnegut and Murray for life coaching.
When I read the mysterious island for the first time, I thought of Jules Verne in terms of Journey to the Center of the Earth, or Around the World in 80 Days. The Mysterious Island absolutely bowled me over with the science and engineering.
You define it/describe it as being "the fastest".

This claim translates into: for the universe of libraries that do this same thing, this has the best performance for each one of the features this library provides.

That is claim that is not very hard to disprove. You only need 1 library that does better in one specific way and the claim is invalidated. It is a very broad claim.

Then, performance in node is very subjective. The same code can perform better or worse depending on node/v8 versions. Can perform better or worse depending on which parameters you used, or how many times a function was invoked.

You say "1m files in < 1s" but your benchmark has N=7386.

Then: what filesystem was used? was it encrypted? was it in a RAID array? There is some missing context here as well.
Via the FFI declarations you manually wrote to your favorite graphing library that exports a C API? All major Common Lisp implementations have threading built in, and unlike Python performance is excellent without dropping to C.

As an example, I recently wrote a GLFW backed program with the GPU boilerplate in C++ and all the high level logic in Lisp. I could have done the entire thing in Lisp, but there was less API surface area to wrap this way.
Is it really up to the SEC to do this? It sets a precedent. Now will they be liable if they don't warn people about other companies with similar names? With 3 and 4 letter tickers, many companies are 1 letter off.
Interesting question. I've tried to self-study from books alone, and it's never worked. The book always seems to work best in concert with the professor or TA's whiteboarding.
I've re-read it recently, and I think you should give it another go; I agree that the two first books kinda complete an arc, but (minor spoiler) the third book totally throws a wrench into the happy ending of the second book.

> the countries of Earth were essentially a united front for 450 years.

That's not how it happens at all. (spoilers ahead!) The UN originally comes up with the Wallfacer plan in the first year or so after they learn of the fleet that's coming, in a time of utter despair. This is also a back-up plan, in case the "classical" space war fleet plan doesn't pan out. The first three Wallfacer end up thinking up heinous plans and spending a ton of resources, so the plan is essentially dismantled shortly after Luo Ji sends out his "spell" on that other star. They also mention the "great ravine", a very dark period of history, but we never get that much detail on that part.

Regarding your Sophons hypothesis, at speed of light you can go 7 times around the earth in 1 second; you'd have to be pretty precise with your timing to make your plan work. Moreover, Trisolaris was constantly building new ones, so by the time we'd build enough particle accelerators, there would be even more sophons on Earth.

And as for your last point, I think Luo Ji had only an hypothesis at this point, and wanted to be 100% sure before calling the bluff (and besides, he had time).

I agree with you that the characters don't have much depth, but this is a book you read for the concepts & ideas presented in it, not for the character interaction.
I love you. If only there was an autoplay feature.
My apologies, you are right -- I should have said "4% each year independently of each prior year" -- and it's true that only the negation needs to be independent.
That's not what Ungar himself said in the talk he gave at the VM seminar at Berkeley.

http://www.wolczko.com/CS294/

It's also covered in this Self timeline:

http://kitakitsune.org/sync/ebooks/SELF.pdf
Gotta second where it's been said before:
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy

I read both of these aloud with my partner over long nights of bringing up our small children and it was the best bonding experience I could hope for. Both are packed full of observations about life and wit and wisdom, both pull for kindness and sincerity, and are unexpectedly funny in many ways.
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it's not good.

in on study, 24/26 of pts with non-invasive mech ventilation and 31/32 of pts with invasive ventilation died.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

note that the study demographics were skewed to the more vulnerable cohorts (avg age = 56, range = 46-67, 62% male, 48% with a comorbidity).
A song about quarantine inspired by my relentless kids
I loved Josep Philip Farmer saga "The Riverworld". Amazing story. Each book i just ate it in days.
Is there some piece of software that can change my screen to show me what a colorblind person would see? I know red/green is a no no for like 5% of people, but us there some way to do this systematically?
You get one for free if you launch a satellite.
Universities Revamp Science Labs for Coronavirus Testing
Effective Maintenance Checklist?