skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most restaurants don’t allow people to eat-in anymore to help with social distancing, so I cobbled this together this afternoon to help residents of my city find the restaurants that are offering pickup and delivery options.
At some point, ethics becomes axiomatic. You can't deductively derive what you ought to be doing from how the world works. All you can do is try to make the axioms as few and as (seemingly) obvious as possible.

If you're a hedonist utilitarian, then taking the drug that gives you ultimate happiness for as long as you live may well be the best thing to do. But if you, for instance, intrinsically value life and civilization, then the externality the drug would produce might mean that life would end rather quickly, and that would be a bad thing. In simple terms, it would be too selfish for you to take.

Or you could have a value system that's not consequentialist at all. If you have a duty to yourself to stay clear-minded, and you consider drugs to be in violation of this, then you wouldn't take them no matter how much happiness you could get.

As you say, you might alter your value system once you've taken that drug, but that would lead people with other value systems to be even more reluctant in taking it.
Add it to the list of products/features killed by Google, how many more Google!?

Happy April fools day!
German telco shares mobile data traces to help fight the Coronavirus
For me it is that numpy by default will use Intel’s Math Kernel Library for linear algebra, on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It will also use FFTW.

That alone makes it very, very worth it.
> Additionally, flu CFR is reduced by targetted vaccination of the most vulnerable people

Yes, and COVID-19 would be a lot less bad if we had a broadly effective (even if as imperfect as the season at flu vaccine tends to be) generally available vaccine that would naturally be more likely to be taken by the most vulnerable, but alas we don't, which reinforces the point that COVID-19 is, in the real world, significantly worse than the flu, even if you could construct a counterfactual scenario where that would be less true despite the diseases each retaining their intrinsic traits.
Nowadays quotas give you some safety net. For example you usually have to request more than one GPU to avoid burning money that way, or more than say 32 instances. It should not be possible for a new account to spawn 1k VMs overnight.

The problem with billing is that often these charges are not calculated instantly, and others are not trivial to deal with. For example what happens if you go over budget on bandwidth or bucket storage, but still within quota? What do you kill? Do you immediately shut down everything? Do you lose data? There are lots of edge cases.

You can normally write your own hooks to monitor billing alerts and take action appropriately.
I never argued that they were too extreme, only that referencing disparate systems in contrast to the US’ amounts to little more than a vague, incoherent gesture. I personally think we should have a nationalized health service.
I would say "it depends", when it comes to cost. You can build your own grown station for UHF/VHF bands at under $1000.

S-band and beyond will cost you more, but a fully-featured VHF/UHF/S-band one from a proper vendor will be under $100K.

X-band, yeah... But not that many cubesats have X-band transceivers anyway.
"Lots of people die from covid-19, but those people would probably have died later that year anyway, so there's not much excess mortality."

This is simply false.

The most extensive research here, posted in HN yesterday indicated that Corona represents about '1 year of living' worth of risk for individuals.

It's killing a lot of people with 'conditions' who would otherwise live a long time.
Be aware that some services bill asynchronously so it can take 24 hours in some instances.
Have you looked into https://lockdownhq.com/? I've used it a bit on my iPhone and seems to block a lot of requests.
New York Times visualization of US unemployment claims [pdf]
ok i may be completly off here but focusing on counting Covit-19 test positives seems rather useless- what we should be focusing on is context. lots of work to be done here. start by comparing deaths with similar cause (flue) from same timespan last year. or even simpler: look at recovered cases. Also: the effects caused by actions by goverments will be barely visible.
I still think they're funny but given this climate this is a good decision
What makes you think this could ever be a one month thing? A Belgian hospital did an experiment and tested everyone coming in with no COVID-19 symptoms (broken legs etc.). They found 8% of those were carrying and spreading the virus and were completely unaware of it.

This will be here for a long time.
Ask HN: What’s your favorite bookmarked HN thread?
Kana Quest is a great puzzle game that happens to also teach you Japanese
Wait, is there really not one on AWS? I thought this was the #1 most important feature on any such cloud systems.

It's the very very first thing I set when setting up my GCloud hobby project. I was like, this is fun and all, but I don't care about this enough so I limited it to 3$ per day and 50$ per month. If it goes above, I'm very happy to let it die, and it also gives me a warning so I know something is up. The 2 times it triggered, there was something I managed to fix so the tool is still up and running costing pennies.
LeGuin's _The Lathe Of Heaven_ and _The Left Hand Of Darkness_. Both taught me there are more ways of knowing (and being) than my scientific brain had realized.
This is really interesting.

It could be that Swedes are following the norms established everywhere else, even if 'lockdown' orders are not that hard.

In Quebec, restaurants started to empty out long before they were ordered closed.

I can absolutely see information workers working from home without the order.

So it may be the the 'de-facto' situation in Sweden is quite similar to that of other places on soft lock down.
>Warning: Be very careful with logging, while we encrypt our passwords here it may be possible that in a query or server log the password will be recorded in plain text!

I was glad to see this noted, but surprised this is the extent of the advice and that sending passwords to the database in plaintext is still recommended. Are there more fleshed out best practices around avoiding logging pitfalls of doing this?
It's been over 10 years since I read it, but it was very influential at the time - got me hooked on 17th century history. I'm sympathetic to people who say it's too long or "needs an editor", but I actually liked how the book was packed with random digressions geeking out about episodes from the history of science or economics or alchemy or 17th-century political machinations. It's probably the ultimate example of Stephenson's "maximalist" style and, if you look at Baroque or Rococo art, that style kind of matches the spirit of the age.
We need to figure out protocols as a society so that things like farms, food supply chains and other critical services are not disrupted by this epidemic. Things like test every single farm worker for the virus and keep them isolated during harvest season. Have onsite quarantine facilities, maybe even have the military come in and help with containment and quaratining.

Oh yeah, also PAY THEM A LOT BETTER. Also, where are these 15 mins tests that we have been talking about for months? We need these before we can start implementing any sort of procedures to help restart our economies.

Unfortunately food prices will have to go up, which will affect the poor, but not as badly as if the supply chains are completely disrupted and food prices skyrocket.
This is golden advice and for me understanding this is one of the differentiators between junior and senior developers.

All too often developers seem to be bent on the idea that they have been hired to write code and so the solution to any problem they are asked to solve must be more code.

The truth (or at least the way I understand it) is that writing code should be something that happens when you have explored every other option possible.

Even if it is easy to write, code is expensive to maintain later on and the costs do not add linearly.

The larger the project the more it costs to maintain anything. Simple operations become huge projects.

The best bet, in my mind, is to try to have as little code as possible by treating the code as a liability and trying to curb the amount of it from the start.

Even if you need to add code to add a functionality, it is frequently possible to shift it from somewhere else. Refactoring as you add functionality is a good way to curb the size of the code base.

Another way I have noticed that seems to be frequently overlooked is to have the object model as close to your real problem. Any inconsistencies between real life and software object model seems to result in heaps of code in multiple components to deal with various exceptions, translations, mappings, etc. and this seems to grow exponentially with time. Sometimes there is no better way than just do it right from the start.

I work for a large bank on a system that deals with risk calculation. It seems every part of organization has a slightly different understanding of what a trade is or definitions of its properties. The net result is that, in my estimation, there is about 3 orders of magnitude more code that would be necessary if there was single shared definition of all those properties.
You can get insurance on your receivables, which is the real immediate risk. Lost revenue is one thing, but right now a lot of companies are refusing to pay or changing payment terms and many will go bankrupt.

If you are owed $500k in the next 90 days from a company that’s going to default on its debt obligations there’s a good chance your receivables will fall apart long before revenue itself is actually a problem.
I think only time will tell, and it will be hard to tell even in hindsight.

I think the most important ones are the ones you can't really enforce. Like "wash your hands". Most importantly "stay at home if you are sick even if just slightly". That one is hard to enforce but easy to encourage: ensure everyone has good paid sick leave from day one and has zero risk of losing their jobs even if they are sick a long time.
Adding to this, that's why we see a lot of the really nasty stuff jumping from originally another host species. They evolved to not kill their host, but once they jump over they cause some systemic issue in the new host that they weren't originally 'intended for'.

COVID-19, SARS, Ebola, AIDS, etc. all fit in this paradigm.
Right right, I was guessing you were familiar, I was just pointing it out because I think a lot of people reading think about it in the context of HughesNet et al, and I think that leads them to write it off prematurely.

I read a nice overview of the constellations a while back, but I realize now that it's actually pretty outdated (2018, and it talks about optical crosslinks between SpaceX's satellites, which has been punted for now): http://www.mit.edu/~portillo/files/Comparison-LEO-IAC-2018-s...

So I don't know if my comment about throughput is accurate anymore.
This article, for its length, ended up saying absolutely nothing
Airbnb freezes hiring and suspends marketing due to coronavirus
California could probably get a carbon tax passed. Especially if it's on the consumption side and not the production side, because the demand reduction would only be from California but the impact to producers would be spread across producers everywhere in the world and not hit the California producers especially hard.

You could also just pay them off to shut up with some tax credits or something when it's a closer fight like that. It's not ideal, but destroying California's oil demand has the same outcome climate-wise whether some of the money goes to local oil producers or not. You basically tax the world oil production market to the tune of $1, of which California is less than a percent of, then give the local producers two cents out of the dollar, which is more than twice what they lost and should make them very happy.

In theory that could even work in a state like Texas -- pass a carbon tax and give some of the money to the local oil producers as compensation for the correspondingly slightly lower wholesale global oil prices, so that they have to sell their oil outside the state and for a lower price but still come out ahead with the tax credit. But then you get a lower dividend for everybody else, in proportion to how many local oil producers there are that you have to pay off, and it's not exactly a popular proposition there to begin with, so the hope of getting that through in Texas still seems pretty slim.
How the aristocracy preserved their power
It need not be theoretical connections to the ancient past. Consider a people who's beliefs get further and further from reality and who's society can't manage to maintain, let alone build, what it used to like roads and bridges. Such a place is in deep trouble almost by definition. And even more oddly, not due to lead pipes or barbarians but purely from social-political causes.

And if we're talking about the US, the world will continue on with it as a 3rd tier power just as it did outside of Rome. Either the Europeans will get their act together or China will dominate with a capital centered dictatorship as the standard.
Denmark is also about 5 times as dense, so one could easily attribute the death number to that.
I'd rather my pet project returns 503 after going popular overnight than me footing a huge bill. Especially since my pet projects generally don't generate any revenue anyways. This is the most important feature for me and why I went with GCP.
Institutional rot is extremely expensive, and large institutions eventually wither away because of it. That pressure exists whether or not companies are aware of it/proactive about cutting it out.

I think the problems with government controlled projects are better generalized as problems with incentives and accountability in large organizations. It’s possible to get it right, but the bigger an organization gets, and the less existential pressure it feels/the more it can let problems fester without consequence, the more problems will occur.

The most stereotypical example is the soviet union. There was no accountability, and production and quality problems were endemic to pretty much every sector under government control. Cars, food, housing, clothing, energy, etc, were all behind the west, and became increasingly behind the longer things went on.

The soviet union was a particularly horrible government, but the US government also has plenty of inefficiencies. The SLS project has been dragging for eons, while SpaceX has been accelerating rapidly. Virtually no one pays taxes directly through government interfaces; they all use private services like TurboTax because they’re much simpler to use and more user friendly that what the government provides. Publicly funded job training programs have abysmal success rates, whereas private apprenticeships a schools that earn by pairing well trained students with their first job do much better.

Once you become a mega corporation, I think accountability and incentive problems start to kick in, just like in many governments. If they also lack the internal scrutiny that you describe within the US government, they will do worse (assuming they don’t have as many differing political objectives as a government).

Because there are also examples of huge government funded successes, like the Apollo program, the Golden Gate Bridge, the internet, etc, there is some sort of difference between the government projects that work and the government projects that don’t. I think its important to explicitly determine what that difference is, rather than reduce it to a binary opinion on government projects.
Why does this rationale apply to businesses but not to individual employees? The government forced them to stop working.
Could they have provided protection from other predators?

Edit: That was a straight question!
exactly. Living also in Malmö, people are out and about if there is sun in the sky, Möllan, Lilla torg were both full on past 2 saturdays.
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.

My best friend in 7th grade had older siblings and they had all read Ender’s Game. He read it and told me I had to read it. Being the impressionable 7th grader (2006-7) that I was I gladly obliged.

I found the book to be deeply fascinating. It opened my eyes to ‘new’ technology like ‘ansible’ (can communicate anywhere in the universe instantaneously) and really opened up my imagination to what I could do with my life.

Growing up in rural South Carolina with dreams of being an explorer or an astronaut seemed kinda far fetched. Most people just wanted you to be a Dr. or Lawyer or get a job at BMW. Ender’s Game showed me that it was ok to be different. It was ok to love to read books and to think that one day I too could have an impact on society.

For what it’s worth: Mark Zuckerberg also had Ender’s Game listed in his books section on FB. But truthfully back in ‘07 I was busy writing poems on MySpace (FB wasn’t rural yet) hoping that I would one day be as influential as the Demosthenes character in Ender’s Game
> If you assume 4% each year independently of each other year, then the chance of not having nuclear war is 96% in any given year. Over 30 years, your chance of no war is (0.96)^30 = 30%.

It's clearly not independent though, but this calculation remains true if you assume only that not having a nuclear war doesn't change the odds for future years, even if having one does.
> the usefulness this site provided throughout my middle and high school education

I'm a deal past these periods in my life, and I did quite well via just arbitrary memorization, at the cost of never really developing an intuitive understanding, and therefore a true appreciation, for subjects like math. I've only recently started going through KA's courses, starting all the way back in Algebra.
if the author(s) are reading this, the names seem to have gotten switched around on this one:

https://colors.lol/outward-

outward-bound slate grey #F19E8E
unstatesmanlike reddish grey #98756F
cross-sectional blush #58656D

the first and last names are swapped.
I have the English translation from Robin Buss/Penguin Classics, I think that’s the one you want in English.

Idk if the original French is much better, though I’ve heard it uses archaic language so if you’re reading for plot it might not be great. That also reminds me of something I think is really neat:

Dumas originally published the book as a series of volumes in a French newspaper over 2 years!

2 years! Can you imagine? I could barely put the book down when I first read it, that much suspense would kill me.. Also interesting how similar that is to the TV dramas of today.
LWN includes https://mailchi.mp/pythonweekly/python-weekly-issue-441 in its weekly roundup of language newsletters.
I wonder if they have started courses in 'cloud accounting for engineers' at universities yet? Snark aside, it would be useful for business oriented IT degrees.
There's also some live cameras from the Melbourne Zoo in Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS9UBqaUtoIXUhX0J1BnxwQ
More likely Kuiper.
Silly me. Of course, it's always better to remain in the dark, what was I ever thinking!
Where exactly does the bank enter the picture?

Scenario 1: Amazon will ask for the payment (if using cc); the bank will respond there are no funds in the account; Amazon deals directly with the company further directly, not with the bank, eventually getting payment order from the court. If the company went bankrupt meanwhile, Amazon might not get their money.

Scenario 2: Amazon will send the invoice; invoice will not get paid. After due date, Amazon will contact the company directly; bank doesn't even enter the picture, until collection order comes from the court. If the company went bankrupt meanwhile, Amazon might not get their money.

There's no scenario where some hypothetical loan would go straight to Amazon, unless Amazon has some instrument, that instruct the bank to pay them. Something like bank guarantee or promisory note, and uses them before declaring bankrupcy.
They're on the handset side. The cellular infrastructure itself comes from Huawei, Ericsson, and Nokia.
We use GitLab with templates for issues(bug, incident, feature) and Slack.

We also have a Slack workspace for our platform users where they can ask questions, or report bugs or incidents. If users ask a question on how to do something many times, we open an issue for improvement, ux, documentation, etc.

If the users complain something isn't working, we'll open an issue for a bug.

If they report an incident, we'll solve the problem and write up the incident. If it happens more than once, we'll open an issue and solve it.

This pushes development and prioritizes our work. By the third time people complain about something you go alright, it's time to solve this.

If it's something that _prevents_ users work, it shoots up in priority.
Allow Cliff Stoll to dine, educate and entertain you - https://youtu.be/gi-TBlh44gY
Just the be clear, when I wrote “DMCA safe harbor”, what I was actually thinking about was the Section 230 safe harbor and only applies to section 230, it is inaccurate as a description of the DMCA Safe Harbor.
This conversation begins when the number of residencies increases. And that will not change until congress approves more funding for residencies. Until then, there will be no change.
Glad to see another manga fan.

One Piece, Monster and of course HxH have all impacted me.

For books, most people have already mentioned Dune, HHGTTG and The Culture series, so I'll have to add Flowers for Algernon.
I think a lot of people overestimate Moby Dick. It's actually a pretty funny book in many places. There's a fart joke in the first 3 pages!

Still, melville had a lot to say about human nature, abolitionism, philosophy, xenophobia... name a pressing concern of american life in the modern age and you'll find echoes of it here, too.
Does this TV theme contain Morse code? (2007)
Covid-19 in Denmark – An epidemic in a small country
Is there any evidence that access to medical professionals is a bottleneck? Even after all elective surgeries and routine doctor visits have been postponed? All the stories I've been seeing from other Western countries that have already reached peak capacity say that ventilators, not medical professionals are the real bottleneck.
And that lower end GPU is still notably better performing.
You can try it yourself without any of the math with just a little bit of programming.

function calc30(odds) {
for (let i = 0; i < 30; i++) {
if (Math.random() < odds) return true;
}
return false;
}
Array.from(Array(10000)).map(() => calc30(0.04)).filter(Boolean).length //=> 7022 or ~70%
Array.from(Array(10000)).map(() => calc30(0.02)).filter(Boolean).length //=> 4545 or ~45%
Depending on the data format, it might be possible. For example, punch "I" in the first or last column of each card if the first or last column of the card is not used by the program. Unfortunately, I don't know much about the data formats of punched cards, as I have never used them (except in an emulation of Knuth's MIX system).
This is the classic "make or buy" decision. You can rent by the minute, or own your own.

What the Amazon website doesn't cover is:

- download guarantee. They rent you the antenna, they don't commit to a successful reception (and consequent refund if it fails)

- link status report (needed for a positive confirmation of successful reception.) This is basically a series of SNR measurements

- competition with other users of the same antenna: first-come first served? Maybe your spacecraft needs more storage to save the downlink data if the Amazon antenna is busy.

And of course they don't talk about the competition.