skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contact tracing is, as far as I've read, the very first strategy initiated by most Western governments and health organisations. In the early stages of reported cases.

As it stands, my country is still in relatively early stages compared to many others, and contact tracing became unviable as a first defence well over a week ago. Over 60% of our cases are community transmission.

We're still doing contact tracing, it's probably worthwhile, but it's not going to be a major factor in mitigation.
I didn't realize this was sarcasm when I first read it and huge double take. I guess that doesn't necessarily need a /s... But damn
I’ll never forget being introduced to this piece in my first semester of music college. It was at the weekly composition departmental, we were going to listen to a few pieces and discuss. When the professor played this it shattered my naive jazz/classical/pop perception of composition!
> If you're just looking at VMs you'd probably be better off with something like linode or digital ocean, and get flat monthly fees.

Which means you won't learn AWS/Azure/etc instead, and they lose mind-share. This is actually an argument for why they SHOULD offer hard limits, not an argument against.

If their goal is to push startups/newbies/hobbyists to other platform, they're definitely on the right path. If the goal is to make their cloud services safe to learn/start using, then they could do much better.
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Saudi Arabia has a much lower break even point: around 20 dollars. Hell even deepwater only costs 80 dollars to break even.
The evidence out there strongly supports wearing masks, even if it's made out of common household goods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoDwXwZXsDI
Are you implying I'm not human in some twisted way? Either way enough people disagree with me so my comment is dead and likely any more conversation from me will be down voted so I won't continue this. Stay safe.
Python is orders of magnitude slower than JS, though. It has the same problems, but doesn't even try solving most. PyPy would be a better VM to compare against.
you make it seem like receiving $1mil salary and donating 100k as much more "noble" and worthy of donation request.

Mind you, even $1mil a year is miniscule compare to what he managed to achieve with the company. So thats already a lot donation that you cant see
If it lasts too long then it'll be over when people grow tired of it. People will weigh the risk/rewards and decide for themselves. If the authorities are not able to control the initial trickle then the dam will burst and people will decide what to do themselves. There's a very thin line of control of this whole issue.
You can technically get around the filter limit by switching from filters to Appsv Script. Setup a staging inbox, then run the query and action rules against that stagig area every 1 to 5 minutes.
The upside is - damange to the environment aside - oil is a universal currency. Lowing the cost of energy is like printing money and mailing everyone a cheque; without the inflation. (It's also why oil is has been used as an economic weapon). Lowing the cost of energy impacts everyone. It's like being The Fed and lowing interest rates, but better since Joe & Jane Q Public benefit every time they pull up to the pump.

This is the same reason the Obama administration did little to discourage fracking from hockey stick'ing. Given the state of the economy was one of the few tools they had to goose the economy. Essentially, like it or not, selling out Mother Nature for the economy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2016/01/15/president-ob...
It looks pretty amazing, trying it out right now.

In the meantime, could you write a bit what different pieces of technology/services you're using to build all this?
OPEC et al. Oil is a classic cartel controlled industry.
It is a risk to by the preorder sight unseen. If you are not familiar with author and his style you could end up feeling like you wasted that money.

So until a preview chapter or similar is available I’ll through this link to Modern C, 2nd Ed by Gustedt. It has been well received and I thought Jens writing style was solid.

I don’t know if it is the perfect second book to read on C, but it seems well paced and things are well explained.

https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/
It's called super contango. If you can find a way to store the oil, the market is rewarding you with this arbitrage, but it's getting difficult to find this much storage
My guess would be the increasing interest in IoT and mobile non-phone devices.
Also with newspaper production after photo typesetting came in but pre-Pagemaker, etc. Columns of copy were output and they were glued onto layout pages. Length was adjusted by cutting the copy at some point--hence, inverted pyramid style and mistakes were corrected by outputting new copy which was pasted over the old copy.
> Feels like these services just want people to "gotcha" into spending a bunch of money without simple safety nets.

Because it is just like that. Nine years ago Amazon said (about the same issue raised 14 years ago): "We’ve received similar requests from many of our customers and we definitely understand how important this is to your business; We hear you loud and clear. As it stands right now, we are planning to implement some features that are requested on this thread, though we don’t yet have a timeline to share." [0] In other words, they know people need it, but they prefer not to implement it.

[0] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=58127
How cognitive intelligence is a whole brain phenomenon
There is Password Store[0] although apparently no longer maintained (currently still using it). The downside is that there's no auto-fill etc. meaning that you have to copy and paste every login manually.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeapo.pwds...
Won't the population die out then?
What a colossal effort to make this animation! I'm seriously impressed. Thank you for pointing this out.
How much would it cost to run fiber to the rural home?

4G cellular seems more efficient and good enough if websites wouldn't be so wasteful.
That doesn't exactly make your point.
As others have mentioned, acceleration, or the rate at which the rate is changing. Now... I admit to being an armchair epidemiologist. I've been graphing the data from the JHU website myself, but I've just been using semi-log plots. This is an option at some of the "dashboard" sites.

In a semi-log plot (vertical axis is logarithmic), a constant rate of exponential growth is seen as a straight line, the slope of the line is proportional to the doubling rate, and changes in that slope show that the exponential growth rate is changing. This is a way to "eyeball" the graphs without trying to read anything too profound into them. But just comparing the graphs of the US, Italy, and South Korea is interesting.

What I'm not doing is publishing conclusions from this armchair analysis.
Harry Potter and methods of rationality. Great read on applied rational thinking. Smart and fun - one of my favorites
This was a surprisingly good and entertaining read, about much more than just pizza slices. The title doesn’t do it justice, IMO :)

The example of the folded paper holding the can of beans really drove the whole thing home for me.
We don’t develop immunity to other coronaviruses such as the common cold, so I don’t think we can assume we will for this one.
Your question sounded like you were concerned about CPU utilization on your own computer as a broadcaster. Solving for multi-party video chat is harder. Have you tried Discord?
"Up to 10 friends can view your screen. Limited by your CPU/RAM" - what hardware specifications are required for this limit? Could I invite more people with faster CPU and more RAM?
Fracking is also better for carbon emissions and helped price out coal, which is a huge environmental benefit. Nothing is black and white
You might find some success with one of these projects:

* https://github.com/nektos/act
* https://github.com/phishy/wflow
Looks cool, love the idea of using version control for video content. No mention of pricing that I could find easily.
Thanks! I'm loving MVP.css as well and might just end up using it for my next site. ^_^
Saudi couldn't care less about Venezuela and Iran isn't even supposed to be in international oil markets (sanctions).
There is another type/layer of new grad - the kind without CS background and not being able to make a right solution (let alone balancing different concerns)
The current effectively-infinite length of copyright is brand new, it was only put into place in the 1970s. The original length set in 1790 was 14 years, optionally extendable to 28 years. Under those terms, the first Harry Potter book would have entered the public domain in 2011, or in 2025 at the latest. Copyright should be a balance between the rights of the creator and the rights of the public. Right now it is wildly out of whack, with basically all rights given to the creator in perpetuity. We are robbing ourselves and our future generations of our own culture. In my opinion it is perfectly ethical to ignore it. If we can't fight back legislatively, we will find other means.

P.S. you cannot 'steal' intellectual property. That is a fiction you have bought into.

More on the history of copyright here: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2020/shrinking...
The Curve Is Not Flat Enough
It's in the footer, https://videopuppet.com/docs/pricing/

> This application is currently in beta version. While in beta, the application is free, and allows anyone to upload assets up to 25 MB. We will announce commercial pricing later, when the full version becomes ready. For now, experiment as much as you like!
Or they could just offer a limit ;)
In economics there is a wide consensus that the free market is a lousy guide when it comes to incorporating externalities like accelerating climate change causing millions of unnecessary deaths vs perceived need to drive around in gas guzzlers.

Taxes and cap-and-trade systems are indeed the mechanisms of how current international agreements try to attempt CO2 emissions, they're a fine way to implement it.
Some would argue that having fun and feeling fulfilled are essential to life, and for some that would put those three things firmly on the list. And interacting with other people is (in my opinion) basically the point of being alive, and it’s much easier to do if you’re near them.

Really if we only needed things that were essential to life, each of us could be living in a broom cupboard doing nothing and drinking Soylent for sustenance, but what kind of life would that be?
To add to that, the wells they already have drilled are perfectly happy to sit around until someone goes out to frack them, and the wells they've already fracked are almost perfectly happy to sit around until someone produces them. The only investment that can't survive a year of unfavorable prices is the effort the business development guy put in to making phone calls.
Just a couple of months ago, we were blindsided by a massive AWS bill after turning on encryption for logging (an ask from security team). The encryption relied on using KMS, but because it was a serverless setup and each time a lambda was initialized it would grab the KMS keys. Later we found out that invoking that many KMS calls while doesn't cost that much, however does invoke CloudTrail logs which are quite costly. Sometimes it's hard to model something like that. Following this experience KMS team made some changes to how their service/pricing works given its tight coupling to CloudTrail. We also stopped using KMS and simplified the log encryption approach by writing logs directly into an encrypted S3 bucket.
But that's literally not what leverage means.

Selling stock because you need money is easy and to be honest, a 20% drop is really not that bad. Stocks are still super liquid right now. Also, investing in corporate bonds, "safe" mortgage REITs, foreign bonds, which are all usually considered to be safer than equities would have caused a much bigger loss. All things considered, equities are holding up quite well. Unless you think they should've been in cash, but it would've been weird to miss years of good returns just because a black swan event could happen

That's why saying leverage isn't just "a technicality" at all. Being leveraged means that you could have lost everything with just a 20% drop. You can't just ride it out if you get liquidated because you couldn't meet your margin calls. See, I don't know how such a "mild" drop would affect most people in the short/medium term unless we are assuming they have to cash out most of their portfolio or are retired. But that's not the case with leverage. There's a big difference between -20% and -100%
Stranger in a strange land, by Robert Heinlein.
Undergone any changes or not, taking advantage of a market opportunity never gets old.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/08/github-actions-is-now-a-ci...

They went GA last November! There's still changes happening for sure, just much slower after going GA.
It's not completely impossible, but it's considered unlikely; people are sometimes tested post mortem (it's simply not a general policy), and people are usually tested before it gets that far.

cite:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/22/germany-low-co...
In my case, my daughter so far accesses internet primarily via specific apps on the family tablet so any websites not opening are not an issue yet. Moving to nextdns is more of an preemptive move as I just gave her my old laptop; eventually she will be on the internet by herself (intentionally or accidentally) so hopefully this helps with that.
While there can be a great deal of pressure pushing the oil up the well, there is also resistance to that flow up a narrow pipe (perhaps 4 inch pipe). The balance of forces can be very close but the momentum can keep the flow going. In some fluids, there can be methyl hydrates (or wax) that can cause problems with maintaining flow. There can also be particles that are moving in the fluid (sand), slowing or stopping the flow can cause these particles to settle, preventing future fluid movements. There is a temperature and pressure gradient which can allow dissolved gas to bubble out the fluid as it ascends the well which can lead to added complexity. And we haven’t yet discussed oil recovery methods like gas/water injection or electrical sub surface pumps. Getting a well restarted after shutdown, may not be possible. I worked with some petroleum engineers, getting the best from your wells can be a very complex simulation problem followed by expensive engineering solution.
In some countries it will even matter for the trends. There are some countries that actively cook the numbers to make their politicians look good, and where there are very sudden kinks in the graphs you can be sure that the whole story hasn't been told. As or the testing capacity, that's a big factor too and it is non-linear in many places: testing criteria are changed based on how much stock there is of test materials and how much capacity on the machinery.

The closer to capacity, the stricter the criteria.
No, it's a mistake - oil most certainly does not have anything like a fixed supply that is going to run out.

The supply grows alongside with the price people are willing to pay for it. As you yourself pointed out.

Nowadays the demand falls, the prices fall, this would be followed by a fall in production. But whatever happens oil will be available at an affordable price because world just doesn't work without it. If oil gets too pricey, reserarch into digging up more oil more cheaply will be funded. As it happened with shale. And it will end up in one more oil price crisis same as the one we're witnessing. And the one after it.
I'm visiting Spain, staying on La Palma in the Canary Islands, and today was Day 16 of quarantine for me. I had to leave the house to return my rental car. It was so nice to get out of the house just for a little while! Here's a pic I took on the way back to the airport.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/k1kKJxjuHcdTJe4F6
Set a low limit then scale up.
Ah, I understand. Thank you for the info. The distance and enviromental factors sound good, and with the PBE-5AC-Gen2 it would work wonderfully.

Unfortunately, shocking as it is, most WISPs in developing nations are stuck on 802.11n equipment, especially using MikroTik's CPE and AP hardware.

If I'm ever redoing this link (I probably will, I've torn it down because I lost permission) I'll get Ubiquiti AC Gen 2 PTP gear, the best I can reasonably afford. And some aiming tools.
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Engineering has a much stronger and more specific focus on avoiding "unexpected" problems like this. At its most general you use things like dimensional analysis to identify and avoid issues that you can't specifically foresee.

This is, bare minimum, an embarrassing failure of design. No system, especially on a military ship, should have no redundancy. A single point of failure should not bring down every toilet on the ship. It's a damn aircraft carrier- splurge on separate sewage in the aft and fore.
- Underworld, Don Delilo

- A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James

- NW, Zadie Smith

- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

Multiple narrators, sweeping plot, not always easy to follow, not too postmodern.
It's not going to work. This should be done worldwide and you need some interaction for people to be able to live.
I, for one, had one of those "oops" when I misused some cloud services, making a VPS instance accessible from the network.

When I got charged an extremely large amount I was contacted by the customer support. They explained to me what happened (I had leaked a SECRET in my repo) and then got refunded the total amount.

It was quite an anecdotical experience because I wasn't expecting any of it as it was my mistake.
Can any more experienced C developers give an opinion on the author/contents of this book?

I'm a Python/Julia developer starting to learn C. I have K&R already, and Test Driven Development for Embedded C (Grenning).

I did order 'Modern C' by Gustedt but the publisher never delivered to Waterstones so they had to cancel the order (about 6 months ago, book still unavailable from Waterstones as of today).
Sounds like an improvement actually. Less people leeching off the system, either through welfare, or by being rich enough to just sit and live off savings. A young person with money would be more likely to start a company rather than just retire. Their productivity would help everyone.

People that do survive would be healthier to begin with. There would be more room, and less pollution.

More research put into medicine would help everybody live healthier lives. The economy would be less ecologically harmful allowing nature to flourish. In San Francisco, wild foxes are already starting to wander through the city. Imagine what it would be like after 20 years of this.

Overall, a much better place.
There's a Contact Us link at the bottom of their website. Let them know how you feel about their hoarding of human culture.
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They do have an income source, though.
It's also unnecessary. Give users cost controls, then you won't need the current mess of hoping support will write off $$$ of mistakes. With a risk of bankrupting a small shop if support doesn't help it drives risk averse users towards less dynamic offerings.

Isn't AWS supposed to focus on the virtuous cycle of saving customers money (or at least reducing AWS supports need to write off customer mistakes)?
I feel you, I had pneumonia two weeks before the lockdown, so been one month at home now, as I've been self-isolating. Good thing you managed to get out for a while, be careful of the police who fines people on sight and stay away from others.
This was one of the main motivations for writing dart. The V8 implementers were tired of having to write these kinds of hacks. Even though dart was initially a dynamically typed language, the shape of the objects was stable.
Great article but the title is a little misleading. I was expecting analysis of the fact-checking culture in the modern day, the “fall” part in particular. The article ends up mostly being a history of facts in journalism.
I imagine there isn’t a very clear spec per user because it depends on a lot of factors. I imagine you could share one video encode between many users but only if their bandwidth can accommodate the same bitrate. If not there might be two concurrent encodes.

I know modern Intel CPUs have hardware based transcoding for H264 but I’m not 100% sure whether WebRTC uses it.
Anandtech uses SPEC2006 and the performance gap is not much different than Geekbench:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15207/the-snapdragon-865-perf...
All generics in Java are of type Object from the start, you can't call any methods on them not implemented by Object. So it is wrong to say they are erased, they were never there to start with.
In highschool, John Fowles' The Magus [1.] really hit me: its twisting plot and content really opened up the world of fiction and writing for me. Great departure from the typical books in highschool English/Literature classes.

William Gibson's Neuromancer [2.] was excellent in providing an escape from reality, very engrossing, and fascinatingly prescient of the some societal trends extrapolated into the future.

1. The Magus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magus_(novel)

2. Neuromancer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
This is an interesting issue. I remember when I started studying discrete math, I actually bought two books. One was by Ross, and it's the one I prefer, but at places it was a bit terse. So when I had trouble understanding something right away, I looked at the same subject in Susanna Epp's book and usually I could find a relevant explanation or example straight away, but in the long term I couldn't stand this verbose style. (By the way, both books cost $80, but you can buy used copies at 1/10.)
Real learning in a virtual classroom is difficult
Teamwork, the Cuban Way
+1 1984 especially around modern political times and doublespeak
Some artists, I believe, are playing the game of creating and solving problems - where they make up the rules so that interesting problems can arise. J.S. Bach and his canons for example.

It may also be joked that some politicians aren't solving actual problems (but creating new ones) in their day job.
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also +1 Foundation
We do develop immunity to other coronaviruses such as the ones causing common cold - thing is, there are so many different viruses (some of them are coronaviruses, some not - there's a huge variety) causing similar symptoms, so we don't even attempt to diagnose which of the many common-cold-group viruses you have because we don't care; but you do develop immunity against that particular single virus.
For production, not supporting their generous benefits to their citizens. They’re going to burn up their state reserves on the gravy train.
The analysis that is claimed (1) to have affected the change in the Covid-19 policy of the British government:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

is by Neil M Ferguson et al.

16 March 2020 Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25561/77482

"Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand"

In my opinion, the experts were aware of the problems in approach of many governments, but the governments managed to do what they wanted (pretend nothing is happening) for too long. Also in my opinion, the smaller players believed too much to the most influential one, which has a specific history of bluffing. That even works in social contexts, but, in the words of Richard Feynman eventually:

"reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."

1) E.g. The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/new-data-new-p...