skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine had a fun observation about the whole mess ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-26/nobody... )

> I hope you didn’t get too clever about this. For instance, if you noticed that everyone was buying the wrong Zoom and decided to profit from their stupidity by selling ZOOM short, then (1) you have done poorly (ZOOM is up almost 900% year to date) and (2) now you might not be able to close out your short.
A Better “Prn” for Debugging
While absolutely true, a good counter example are various co-ops that are run as non-profits. Often they can not only be the best place to get high quality good, but also the only place, since they are driven by what their members want rather than trying to make the highest possible profit. However, wherever there is a lot of money, you will find people who are trying desperately to shove that money into their pockets.
Yes the lambda issue is something I ran into for Oil. Although this part of the language is deferred, the parser is implemented:

# Ruby/Rust style lambda, with the Python constraint that the body can only be an expression
var inc = |x| x + 1

# NOT possible in Oil because | isn't a distinct enough token to change the lexer mode
var inc = |x| {
return x + 1
}

# This is possible but I didn't implement it.
# "func" can change the lexer mode so { is known to start a block.
# In other words, { and } each have two distinct token IDs.

var inc = func(x) {
return x + 1
}

I think this is a decent tradeoff, but it's indeed tricky and something I probably spent too much time thinking about ... the perils of "familiar" syntax :-/
Surely by now we should have enough data to make some serious progress on why this virus has such wildly different effects on different people.
It's not the age of the pilot or doctor, but the experience. In WW2, some pilots were considered combat capable after 150 hours of flight time, basically 6 months. They died. Eventually the flight programs ended up taking 1.5-2 years on average to crank out a new pilot. A pilot that also died quickly.

Now in war, you have to throw bodies at a problem, and if the bodies end up 6 ft under, that's war. But generally bad pilots only kill themselves, they don't kill patient after patient through malpractice.
>In theory ;), you shouldn't have to be a core expert in everything. But yeah... in the real world, things aren't so cut and dry. :/

Right. In my experience, if you don't understand what's going on beneath your abstractions, you're always in for a world of hurt as soon as something goes sideways.
This. But on the other hand, you can be ready with the popcorn when shit eventually does hit the fan.
If all New York residents are under a shelter-in-place directive, then why is anyone with a home in New York driving to Rhode Island or to any other state? In other words, why isn't Cuomo policing his own border?
You usually have to post margin daily so you might have been priced out by now
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Same here. I was surprised, because Siddhartha was very easy reading, but I couldn't get past 60% of The Glass Bead Game either, because it was so dry.
Correction: This YouTube link is just the first lecture of the course.
Technically everyone can be rational if their utility curve is optimized by buying the wrong zoom
> which gets you into the same boat as a monolith

Only worse because you don't have tools (IDEs, linters, etc) telling you what parts of the code have to be changed.
Those two together are worth how many billions? That's such a small amount for them, it seems to send some kind of message...
> Because they did not spend enough time optimizing it. Most developers give readability and cool code more importance than actual performance and usability.

Aged like milk.
Sirens of Titan, and will echo Cat's Cradle.

In hindsight, it was such an odd realization to me, after being forced to read Slaughterhouse Five (and hated it) in high school, but then independently discovering and loving his other sci-fi/Absurdity heavy novels and how refreshing they were. And I might have missed them completely if I had been too stubborn.
Zoom CFO explains how the company is grappling with increased demand
Anecdote: I met David Ungar at OOPSLA a couple of years ago when it was held in Portland. He's a super cool guy and let me pepper him with questions about Self, Smalltalk, and experimental language ideas.
> The article says to apply a curvature opposite to the direction it sags in.

Yes, I know.

> Actually, if you fold it totally flat then presumably you'd lose the curvature and it would sag again

Only if the slice is large or top heavy with extra cheese/toppings. Then you'd get sag no matter what. When that happens you use the paper plate to hold your pizza and eat the edge coming off the plate. You slowly edge a bit of the pizza off the paper plate and once you've eaten enough of the pizza, it no longer sags and then you can directly grab the slice and eat it.

> so that seems unoptimal to me.

Have you eaten a slice in your life?

> Plus, how could you taste the toppings?

With your taste buds as you are chewing it?
Recursive Methods and the Stack
If you are making bread and suddenly price of flour increases by 600%,so you have to increase your prices. Unless you are based in a country run by some delusional autocrat, you'd be fine. If, however,the supply chain is fine, i.e. your toilet paper supplier, however you end up selling it for 500% price because people can't seen to have enough of it- the the laws would apply.
Why is nasdaq.com advertising for Motley Fool?
Ability to pay is only one aspect of demand. There’s also how much you actually want it, and the amount of opportunity cost you’re willing to pay. Keeping prices artificially low keeps demand artificially high, while supply doesn’t increase, or cannot increase if it’s inelastic.
You are right, costumer pressure is really needed to improve quality. I was thinking in modular to increase the competition in the market, because you as user can choose modules from different brands and prevent phones from being disposable after a few years.
Before you panic, what I heard when this came up about Europe is that it only applies to "luxury crops". Certain fresh fruits and vegetables; not basics like grains. The latter are easy to harvest with minimal labor. It isn't good, but nobody's at risk of starvation.
All things Kubernetes: What you’re missing at KubeCon this week
Yep, he's right about the timing issues. I've taken a deep dive into LinuxCNC recently, as I'm using it as the motion controller for my custom servo-driven 3dp/Mill, and one of the most important decisions one makes up front is what Linux kernel to run. The real-time kernels are all but necessary for doing heavy number crunching and encoder reading, and that's even on a powerful i5-powered desktop machine with custom IO hardware.

As you start to climb into the multiple-thousand dollar arena on a project that was planned with just a couple, you really start to realize why the manufacturing industry routinely pays significant fractions of a $MM for their machines.
> customers could only have one brand of phone.

Don't most areas of the US only have one cable / internet company? I live in a major city and we have 2 choices.
Taleb has made a career out of popularizing common financial statistics with historical flavor. He usually presents himself as a polymath/oracle in this writing although he has never developed any interesting ideas in the area. His work is mostly a pop-sci rehash of non-gaussian wikipedia stats formatted in Mathematica with a helping of cringey memes. For an especially embarrassing example see https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10488. All of this serves the purpose of juicing Universa, a fund which charges a generous incentive fee for holding a rolling SPX put, something which I think a dog could do.

Since people don't read books much anymore he picks fights with people on twitter to raise his profile. He targets people who he thinks are likely to engage him (Nate Silver, Elon Musk etc), although most are too smart to take the bait. He fancies himself a powerlifter although he has physique of Homer Simpson. The man is generally a sad caricature of someone who traded volatility once. I personally mathematically model volatility for a living, and although I wouldn't pretend to have done as much as Bergomi I still feel I have the right to find Taleb grotesque.

I agree that a mathematical history of non-Gaussian mathematics would be a fascinating thing, especially the recent past. I also would agree that just following links from "alpha Levy-stable" might not be as digestible as Taleb. But his pretensions and self-importance, in the face of completely superficial understanding and achievement, is gross. If history records his name and not Gatheral's it would be a crime.
I think it's safe to say the market isn't rational when Zoom Technologies is up nearly 900% when it's completely unrelated to Zoom Video and not actually operating.

There's a different HN post about it: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/the-sec-really-wants-investo...
I thought the technology looked familiar. I had been following the Bright Agrotech people on YouTube for a while, they produced great content for those interested in indoor hydroponics for the home grower.

Do you know what happened to the company? Did they go bankrupt and have to liquidate their IP?
The Black Woman leading efforts to find cure for Covid-19
This is also the idea of Jonathan Blow's "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization" talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
AWS and Serverless Architecture
Numberphile did a great video on the SIR Model if you prefer a video explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6nLfCbAzgo
Fun fact: Buddy of mine wanted to buy Petrobras, a Brazilian oil company. By mistake he bought a company with a similar name, that was basically an electricity provider in Argentina. In the end it ended up a better investment. :-)
Doctors don’t run ventilators. Respiratory therapists do. A respiratory therapy degree is a 2-year associates degree that includes basic training on physiology and biology. I’m betting that someone with an undergraduate degree in biology could learn the role in a few months of intensive training.

Doctors would still be responsible for reviewing the care protocol and making decisions on treatment, but one doctor could oversee many respiratory therapists, each caring for many patients.
The idea is to keep your mind clear on what the priority is. If you didn't write many lines of code but still solved problems, you did your job. The two aren't mutually exclusive, but it helps in prioritization
Zen is worth a read to acquire a label for gumption traps alone. But I must admit I've probably never actually read the entire thing, whenever chapters went deep into Phaedrus land I probably skipped a few pages here and there.
Your point still isn't clear or accurate. The worldwide CFR is over 4%. In Italy, it's currently at over 11%. The flu is nowhere near that level of risk. It's normally around 0.1% depending on demographic. Are you saying that the seasonal flu in Italy normally kills 11% of those who become infected? If that's the case, the facts don't bear that out.
Some people are just from the deeper end of the gene pool than others.
Wait, shouldn't there be some sort of authentication step? The only barrier to communicating with satellites is the equipment?!
>> Who has time for books nowadays?

Leaving aside the fact that right now, a lot of people have a lot more time to read... my answer is: Everyone. Just depends on what your priorities are.
Rust book is written in Md https://github.com/rust-lang/book as well as plenty other books that I can't remember from the back of my head.
Yes, and also to agree with Arnt (sibling comment), there can also be effects between neighbouring wells. In some fields, the fluid/gas can move easily (wells will affect each over) in others, there is little ability for movement. The fracking that engineers do attempts to add additional channels for the fluid/gas to move. So trying to turn down one well can lead to other effects. And in changing the situation, there will transients which will decrease over time.
This also happened with a piece of shit OTC Facebook app developer called SNAP Interactive when Snapchat was going IPO. I met their CEO at a conference in NYC, and he literally had business cards printed out touting how high their market cap got during this and their subsequent message board pumping.
>maybe ask them to beef up their security

What's the threat model for a ground station? Interception? Sabotage? Hardware theft? Can you even sell these things on eBay?
So what is it? This page is lacking any real info.
Robert Heinlein's character Friday uses something akin to the internet to do her research (this book came out in 1982).

While the internet comes with its problems (toxic communities, digital addiction), I'm reminded of that book and how it can be a wonderful for self education when used properly.
No doubt the supply chain is catching up. I think things will be fine for many commodities, especially less labor intensive ones like staple crops. I worry about meat, because, AFAIK, it is fairly labor intensive. I think we may see shortages and price increases in a month or two if the virus doesn't subside.
Does Dillinger support collaborative editing (like Google Docs)? I feel like that is major feature of the parent product.
Why the racist headline?
The Library of Babel

Voltaire's Candide

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Karamazovs

Orwell's 1984

Lem's Solaris
It's 'creaking' because it has been systematically been defunded by the Conservative Governments over the last 10 years or so. It is still doing a surprisingly good job considering it is quite overloaded due to low staff and funding numbers.

After Brexit, lookout for the US private industrial model being introduced by the Conservative Trade Deals which won't be anywhere near as effective.
I don't know. The purported rational market (which I don't really believe in) would have corrected this problem by selling shorts, among other things. However such trading IRL would have turned out to be a really bad idea because of just what has happened. So it's plausible that knowledge of the non-freeness of the market prevented an efficient price from being reached for this security.
> There’s also how much you actually want it, and the amount of opportunity cost you’re willing to pay.

Money doesn't have much relation to opportunity cost in the presence of enormous wealth inequality. An unemployed person willing to pay their entire bank account of $100 for some good clearly wants it more than a work-from-home tech worker willing to pay the $600 they made yesterday.

The same applies to businesses using cloud services. A struggling local business has a ludicrously low cap on what they can pay for Teams compared to Walmart or something.
I find Gravity's Rainbow to be, in it's ugly way, somehow life affirming. It's also very funny at times, which is always helpful, and very long which might help people right now.

Right now I think maybe people will appreciate being in a zone where the normal rules have ceased to apply (Allied occupied Europe in the novel), and where there is a lot of wrangling about who the winners and losers in the new world will be.
Curious why you think Moby Dick is not a good book. I thought it was going to be a long drag, but found the writing extremely enjoyable. Apart from the obvious "literary merit", reading this book feels like being at sea, isolated from the world, where life is subject to the rhythms of much more powerful forces, and you can look around and study deeply the rich detail present even in a closed system like a ship.

To those skeptical that "old books" can have aesthetic relevance even today, I highly recommend reading the first chapter or even the first paragraph:

> Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
Hetzner's pricing is a reflection of the generally lower price level in Europe. Dedicated server providers with US datacenters do exist, but their pricing is much closer to Amazon's.
COKE is not only a real thing, they’re also involved in bottling Coca Cola, so while they’re not financially the same company, they are inextricably related.
I like AsciiDocFx, and have used it for editing quite large AsciiDoc files. The preview function works really well too - highly recommended it!

https://asciidocfx.com
Why would Cuomo spend his resources policing the rather enormous NY state border? What does NY have to gain from that?
This whole thing smacks of the decision to suspend travel to and from Europe. Maybe not the worst idea, but also ultimately not going to make that much of a difference. This virus is already everywhere. Rhode Island and Florida want to blame all their trouble on New York rather than their own social distancing decisions.
So tired of all this living wage crap. Hopefully you are just young idealogues. Sorry but working at McDonald's, Walmart, Disney World, or instacart were never meant to pay a living wage. They are unskilled positions meant for young workers entering the workforce to gain skills and experience or other workers to make extra money. And they don't have to exist at all. Someone think of a way to create extra money for people and all of the sudden it must support a living wage! Stop repeating platitudes ad nauseum. You are not as smart as you think you are. Why should picking up someone's groceries and bringing to their house justify a living wage as you call it?
A bit of constructive criticism: it's nice when people do deep dives of components, but I think this one is too deep: it basically pastes all the code that is executed and then explains exactly what the code is doing, which isn't really that useful; I don't need to be told how to read C, as I can do so myself. And in fact, I think it's a bit counterproductive: I very quickly got lost in the minute details presented. What I really want is an overview of what the code does (and ideally, why) not how it does it.
"Horn of Africa" by Philip Caputo. Story of an accidental mercenary in the deserts of Ethiopia.
I now will have to re-read it, thanks to the OP.
Office365 and AzureAD has been even more unreliable than usual over the past week or so, plenty of "an error has occurred" pages and delayed mail - as usually Microsoft didn't update the status dashboards (the ones you can see without being able to log in anyway), The other client I work with uses GCP and Google Mail/Docs for business which I haven't noticed any issues with.
Doesn't seem to be the case, unless you want to run something based on vscode online which could work.
I wonder what his reaction would be if you went with something similar to the Grand Budapest Hotel job interview scene.
Do you mean deadly by virulent? Because I don't see how being less virulent is a favorable adaptation for the virus.
Thanks for the JS link, I didn't know about that. Though I would hardly call that "Javascript acceleration in hardware". They added a slightly weird float-to-int conversion command that handles overflows a bit different than the normal command, and for lack of better names (and probably because no one else is expected to require that quirky command) they put a "Javascript" into its name.

The perf hit with Filevault became practically zero when Intel added the AES encryption hardware into its chips, which was quite a while ago (and definitely long before the T2 was a thing). I don't remember exactly when that was, but I remember noticing a considerable difference, because I've used FDE since it became available in Filevault. It wasn't even on Macs only, my Windows machines also showed the same improvements using (IIRC) TrueCrypt back in the days.

The dedicated AES hardware extensions in ARM and x86 cores are probably the same logic anyway, so it shouldn't matter too much who decrypts the data. Maybe it's a tiny bit faster with the T2 though, because then the CPU doesn't necessarily have to pipe all the data through it's buses for decryption then. But that is more or less a feature of having a dedicated separate chip for it, and is thus not tied to the question of whether that chip uses ARM or x86 or any other ISA.
Sort of. Since all I think about in my waking hours is product, company, roadmap, and vision, my notes are very specific to these issues and goals and simply have become the company's knowledge base.

The notes for the talks are practically non existent and are just a subset, and a few lines at most.. Other notes are about strategy, handbook to be able to operate the company from paying taxes to hiring, onboarding, and firing to how to write issues and commit messages, to tools we use or could use, to features and roadmap, to the experience from soup to nuts of different stakeholders, to the induced demand and workers influx it hopefully will cause, to what the company should focus on for the next two months to become what it will in the next five to ten years with nth order effects. Different x maginification from the bug fix to the economic consequences on countries with poor connectivity, and how closing an issue relating to compressing static files moves us a hair.

Success is the team not missing a beat if I disappear, because everything would be in place for continuity and growth and slashing cumulative lifetimes of suck.

I've always had a proclivity for writing, but there are other reasons I'm doing it that much and want to do it more. Some hard transitions and developments that almost killed the company, and we turned it around with some hard learned lessons and the earned "wisdom" not to have it happen again.
What if there’s simply not enough food?
New Solar Panel Plant Will Meet Half of Global Demand
Fair point.

Not to dispute, but to note the critical importance of definitions and measurement ability, this raises a few other points:

- Are we comparing and rating deaths vs. cases on time of viable exposure or first clinically detectable presentation?

- What is the earliest an infection is reliably detectable?

- At what point during incubation is a personnthemselves infectuous?

Probably others.

I'm pretty certain based on past experiences that these discussions are being had among medical and epidemiological circles.

At what point though is the question one of failing to achieve potentially complete coverage versus fundamental limits of detection?

That said, deaths lagging exposures by ~20 days is valid. Thank you.
Mind Reading and Mind Control Technologies Are Coming
I've heard that said, but I've never actually seen a real project that uses those coprocessors. I've always thought that odd as it seems like the perfect setup for real time control. (I have seen tutorials on how to use them but no non-educatuonal projects)
What they said doesn't support your argument.

And as I said already, the jokes usually aren't on the front page anyway.