skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably the worst novel I've ever read. The author has no feel for character development, dialogue, pacing, etc. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but anyone who thinks this is a decent novel has never read anything good.
If an economic meltdown is coming, how would simply having lots of testing change that?
1Q84 was the only novel that I've had to "speed read". It was several hundred pages too long.

My least favorite book of all time has to be The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford.
Forget about an ICU as we know it. Think about a field hospital near the beaches on D-Day.
My Husband Was Among the First Documented Cases of the Coronavirus in the U.S.
Uhhhhhh, are you talking about bank term loans? Bank term loans have repayment periods over decades (usually), and use the physical assets as collateral. Not what OP is talking about.
But there are for instance modern embedded systems which might be very resource constrained and knowledge like this would be useful there.
Bandwidth and frequency are very different. They have a 54MHz wide uplink, at whichever of the supported bands you want.
The ironic thing is that while the wealthy 1% are driving to their second homes in southern Rhode Island, the ultra-wealthy 0.1% are flying in their private jets to the state's regional airports and are ignored. The governor has admitted that the state can only afford to police one airport, TF Green.
> and that's just to see how many people are using the site (to fuel my ego :D)

Depending on whether you have access to your server logs, consider using something like GoAccess [1] instead.

Kudos for your project :)

[1] https://goaccess.io/
Read some better fiction and you'll lose that urge quickly enough.
No, you are wrong by confusing number of cases with deaths. Flattening the curve reduces the max number of cases, which reduces hospital overload, which in tun saves lives. Without any intervention we were/are looking at 1M+ deaths:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/opinion/coron...

That's a lot of people to condemn to death. Do you have statistics to cite for "Economic related deaths" that you quote?
> Why can't Amazon implement one?

Greed, I'm assuming.
Perhaps. This bloke, https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/apryor/sup... says:

“In a future article, we will argue that their function as food-storage facilities should be given further consideration,”
My undergrad is very focused on self-study. Prof's have gone the the extent of saying, "I won't waste time showing you this, you could just go on youtube". Flipped classroom models are increasing and the focus is again, on self study.

I'd say online doesn't work for all programs or courses. But do you need to sit in a room with 1k people in order to learn calc 1? It's just the prof going through some examples on the powerpoint/overhead nothing more. Asking questions isn't easy either.

Upload some lecture videos and then hold office hours instead of lecture hours. It's not like what you taught in psyc 100 last semester is much different than this.
Same. When I think of my self development, reading this book was a large milestone for me.
The 'house by house' bit with the national guard is disturbing. I'd be concerned with someone pitching girl scout cookies door to door, much less something like this.

As folks are getting back from spring breaks... I suspect it is too late to really stop the spread. If I had vacation property in a sparsely populated area, I'd take full advantage of it. (As things stand for us, we have more ID'd infections in our county than RI, but several orders of magnitude under what is happening in NYC right now)
Oh, I see Azure is struggling more indeed.
They have smaller overall size, and way more regions so that must be a really hard combo to maintain proper spare capacity.
The right of free movement between states is not explicitly in the Constitution but has been established by Supreme Court case law. However, Supreme Court case law has also established pretty wide ranging government powers and abrogation of otherwise protected constitutional rights in the face of public emergencies like natural disaster and war.
There is at least one country that didn't underestimate the virus - Taiwan, which was way ahead of the WHO at every step: warned about human-to-human transmission at the end of 2019(!), quickly ramped up travel restrictions, immediately mobilized to mass-produce masks.

The vast majority of new cases in Taiwan are imported now, and everyone coming back has to self-quarantine for 14 days.
> In my view

Don’t use your view. The massive economic contraction is a deflationary pressure. Keep an eye on commodity prices before worrying about inflation.
Compact / succinct data structures and clever algorithms are still very important when data gets large enough -- consider e.g. a database running complex queries, where a good encoding makes the difference between staying in memory and going to disk. Basically the machines became larger but so have the problems to solve.
I know that infantilisation of society has been going on for quite some time, but this is too blatant.
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There are many ways to refrigerate with snow around—everything from burying to immersing in animal fat to curing. I’d guess this was intended at least in part for regular human interaction, e.g. a reliable hunting camp.
Player Piano is such a good read today - puts all of automation fears and UBI arguments in the context of these are the same fears we have with every new technology.
The guy was a professional fisherman... but didn't know how to fish? I get the point of the story and what the author was trying to do. It just seems silly to have such a huge flaw in the plot. It's like Lord of the Rings - the eagles could have flown the ring over to Mordor. I just can't enjoy books (or films for that matter) which require a suspension of, I dunno, basic reasoning.
> It's a four body problem.

I don't think so, Trisolaris's mass is negligble relative to its suns ; they were only trying to model the motion of the suns.
You can't really bang bits like you can with carefully cycle counted code on something like an Arduino, but you can put all your bits into a good sized buffer and use DMA to push them out a stable, hardware clocked rate. You still have to be able ping pong your buffers fast enough and that isn't really guaranteed, but for large enough buffers can be made to work, mostly, probably, well… except when…

This technique doesn't work when you need to respond to inputs rapidly, but is fine for driving steppers. I see he appears to have gone with servos and encoders, so that would be a bit of a problem since there are inputs to be read.
I would be surprised if any of these students will be in the ICU. Most likely they will be assisting with more mild patients and freeing up experienced doctors to help with more severe patients.
It's definitely an interesting thought exercise.

Do those tunnels actually go to individual homes? I can understand subterranean arterials but would each house actually have direct access to a tunnel? How does that work? Is my garage underground? Does everyone have a basement with an "outside" door?

How does a fire truck or ambulance get to my house? Do deliveries get dropped off underground?
What is objective competence? The rich reward what they recognize; incompetence is universal.

Unrelated, I have heard from my friends that your homelessness resource site for san diego is still extremely useful, even outside of san diego. Thank you.
In Linux you can isolate a cpu from the others, so you can get closer to a realtime solution (though you still get contention on cache lines, memory bus etc.). I haven't tried it though.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6900
Having just finished reading this story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22718330 the author might want to check out setting up several AWS ground stations. I suspect the cost could be out-of-this-world.
I do agree with your main point that the author should have discussed Lifeline.

The specific Lifeline mobile plans that are $10/month require use of the provided device (or in some cases a very limited number of specific alternative devices sold by the plan provider). It is true that you can apply the credit toward other phone or internet service but then it will cost you something in addition to the lifeline credit (I don't remember if the low speed DSL option required using the provided device, possibly not, and landline phone wouldn't require a particular device, but I don't think any mobile phone plan for $10/month is device agnostic).

Read the first paragraph of your link again under "how it works". It is a single $10/month subsidy that can go to voice, data, or a combination plan. I did see after posting that the current version of the plan I was on offers 3Gb data per month so that would be quite useful (hopefully tethering works now).

However, one reason I call it corruption is that plan changes do not apply to anyone who already has the service, so people who have been using it for a while need to pay for what others get as part of the plan. Unless you switch providers, which is what the limitation on switching data plans prevents. I would understand a limitation on how frequently you can change providers since devices are provided, however the restriction applies after service ends.
Siblings have answered the question, but I'll add that the terminology comes from the sql standard, I don't believe it's postgres specific.
His actions are sort of the worst of both worlds here. On one hand leaking information that's only useful to geopolitical adversaries (probably because he didn't understand the implications of tweeting stuff like that), and on the other hand being a new bar for destruction of public records when it comes to decisions made by the administration (somehow even beating out the Obama administration).

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/6/national_archives_reco...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filin...

It'd be a huge stretch to call it "the most transparent presidency in history".
People can survive at high altitudes...

That's because the pressure outside their body is the same as inside.

With a ventilator, the pressure going in is higher than atmospheric pressure. That can cause damage.
It's a computer engineer thing. They think because they are smart at coding they are smart everywhere else too. It gets worse when they get more money: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1236029449042198528
I have a list here with a lot that I like (some with links that are free to read online): https://zalberico.com/about/

To pick a couple though:

- The Nix (best novel I’ve read in a long time): https://www.npr.org/2016/08/31/490101821/the-nix-is-a-viciou...

- Lake Success

- Permutation City

- Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality (https://www.hpmor.com/)

- True Names

- Any of the stories by Ted Chiang, but specifically “Liking what you See: A documentary” and “The life cycle of software objects”
> ... I wasn't sure for a moment whether this was just an early caught April Fools.

Nope, this was actually announced [0] about 18 months ago.

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[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-ground-station-ingest-a...
It would be interesting to know how many standard deviations is 775% extra demand from the norm. More than six standard deviations is rarer than a 1 in 506797346 event.
Giving different views and projections on underlying memory is really the key tactic to processing data without allocations. A slice (ie a view onto an array) is a pointer to underlying memory (or another slice), along with the length (+ capacity in Go, but that's not often needed). Underneath the bytes don't move. You simply pass around the views (or views of views) of what you want your code to actually see.

Don't know about Rust, but Go has slices built into the language, and C++ has it in the standard library. Learning idiomatic slice-handling makes working with data sans allocation much, much easier.
Yeah as a member of Azure networking, it's odd: HR is communicating we should do video calls for meetings instead of just audio, to keep the personal touch, and I'm wondering if that's really the best use of our bandwidth. I keep my video off anyway.
Does the game always end in an unsustainable explosion of debt that crashes the central bank no matter what you do?
I am actively adding features on a weekly basis. Next in line is analytics.

Thread scheduling is so far the most used features.
Yeah, this is super great right here.
Enterprise Applications of Reinforcement Learning
The US Gov does do this in the case of vaccines because they use 900,000 eggs a day to produce vaccines, that if there wasn't the Gov buying the vaccines, there wouldn't be any production or stock when it was needed.
Good article on it: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815307821/planet-money-why-th...

https://www.phe.gov/about/barda/Pages/default.aspx
Yes but this is far beyond compact, it's squeezing in so close to the edge of what fits that the performance inevitably drops off a cliff.
Italy: 101-year-old influenza survivor beats Covid-19
Interesting in the abstract but we know that even simpler model works well in the case of the epidemic we're sadly watching.

In this model, change in the number of people is function of the number of people infect, that's it. The number of potentially infectable people is so large that changes in it's value won't enter into consideration until the US is at WWII-invasion level of fatalities.

dS/dt = Sr, for some value of r.

A simple differential equation indeed, solved by S = e^(t*R); exponential growth as we see (note, I'm not claiming my r here is R0 or whatever).
It's quite doable but you have to do some low level plumbing to make it work, simply disable interrupts, pre-read your data at least once to warm up the cache and you're good to go. That's how I controlled my plasmacutter.
California is going for a more direct route which using cap and trade funds to pay for buy backs and down payment support for electric vehicles. That's being handled through the California Air Resource Boards.

I tend to dislike consumer carbon taxes because I feel it tends to punish people for decisions they made previously. Like a old fart who bought the last car he's ever going to own in 2005. Which results in political blowback. See the yellow vests in France.
IDEs for structured editing, especially for more difficult languages like Haskell, would be incredible.
Discord for video chat? We use it all the time for text and voice chat in the RPG circles I’m in, but I don’t think we ever do video chat with Discord.

How do you do video chat with Discord?
If you repeat the same task 20 times a day you rapidly become an expert at it. If all the patients have exactly the same condition I would assume that the staff would quickly upskill to treat that condition.
Great book - I took away a great appreciation for empathy or when it may be impossible.
>>Why would Microsoft be disproportionately affected by this?

Nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft..er IBM. Inertia too.
Get yourself some plastic containers, a Rain Bird starter kit, some LEDs, and you've got yourself your own indoor grow op for much cheaper.
that video really shows what orchestration means.
For 12 Years, He Had Silicon Valley's Most Powerful Living in Fear
I remember reading this is part of the reason China has encouraged Science Fiction writing recently (and been a little more lenient on censoring it).
I took it for a ride

They all list all files recursively in a sync fashion, from the node_modules dir (like in the benchmark), excluding dirs, and print a total count.

Here are the results calculated with hyperfine (https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine):

hyperfine "bash test.sh" --warmup 5
Benchmark #1: bash test.sh
Time (mean ± σ): 7.5 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 4.5 ms, System: 4.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 6.9 ms … 10.5 ms 332 runs

hyperfine "perl test.pl" --warmup 5
Benchmark #1: perl test.pl
Time (mean ± σ): 25.6 ms ± 1.2 ms [User: 16.8 ms, System: 8.8 ms]
Range (min … max): 24.0 ms … 30.8 ms 97 runs

hyperfine "python3.7 test.py" --warmup 5
Benchmark #1: python3.7 test.py
Time (mean ± σ): 43.4 ms ± 1.4 ms [User: 32.6 ms, System: 10.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 40.9 ms … 46.8 ms 66 runs

hyperfine "ruby test.rb" --warmup 5
Benchmark #1: ruby test.rb
Time (mean ± σ): 66.5 ms ± 2.0 ms [User: 52.1 ms, System: 14.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 63.2 ms … 70.3 ms 42 runs

hyperfine "node test.js" --warmup 5
Benchmark #1: node test.js
Time (mean ± σ): 83.7 ms ± 4.0 ms [User: 74.7 ms, System: 15.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 79.4 ms … 95.3 ms 36 runs

Here are the results of an hello world with each runtime for comparison:

hyperfine "bash test.sh" --warmup 5
Benchmark #1: bash test.sh
Time (mean ± σ): 1.2 ms ± 0.3 ms [User: 1.1 ms, System: 0.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 0.9 ms … 3.8 ms 1521 runs

hyperfine "perl test.pl" --warmup 5
Benchmark #1: perl test.pl
Time (mean ± σ): 1.3 ms ± 0.3 ms [User: 1.3 ms, System: 0.3 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.0 ms … 5.3 ms 1103 runs

hyperfine "python3.7 test.py" --warmup 5
Benchmark #1: python3.7 test.py
Time (mean ± σ): 19.5 ms ± 0.9 ms [User: 16.2 ms, System: 3.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 18.3 ms … 23.7 ms 144 runs

hyperfine "ruby test.rb" --warmup 5
Benchmark #1: ruby test.rb
Time (mean ± σ): 55.2 ms ± 2.2 ms [User: 47.2 ms, System: 8.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 52.2 ms … 61.9 ms 51 runs

hyperfine "node test.js" --warmup 5
Benchmark #1: node test.js
Time (mean ± σ): 55.4 ms ± 1.8 ms [User: 49.5 ms, System: 7.0 ms]
Range (min … max): 53.0 ms … 60.0 ms 53 runs

Now, my machine is not setup for a clean benchmark. The disk cache is warmed up. Hyperthreading is on. Other softwares are running.

Plus the scripts all found a slightly different number of files :) I suspect they all treat symlinks/dotted dirs differently, and I didn't take the time to normalize. Although I don't think this makes up for the difference.

Still the result is a bit interesting. The non JS tests are not using any 3rd party libs. Ruby and Node seems to have the same cost for VM startup.

I'm quite surprised that node is last frankly, especially on a uber optimized code. I'm expecting V8 code to be blazing fast as it's Google made and C++.
You need only look at foreign currencies and the price of precious metals. The dollar is weakening. That means inflation or even hyperinflation if the dollar price index slips below 90.
"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."

The millions of people who would die in a worst-case scenario are mainly demographics that society is already used to neglecting: the elderly, the terminally ill, those with lifelong chronic illnesses where any infection could be a killer, etc.

Therefore, I would expect this to continue to be considered more of a peacetime inconvenience than a real war. A frequent response to this is, "But they could overwhelm the healthcare system so you or me couldn't be treated for our needs!" Well, if the bulk of the population is left inconvenienced and unemployed for too long, I can imagine some ugly scenarios where the population demands, broadly speaking, that those demographics simply be triaged out of treatment so that they don't overwhelm the healthcare system for everyone else. This is said to be already happening in Italy to a degree.
The subject matter is probably a bit more complex than “repeating the same task 20 times a day” even if it’s the same condition fundamentally.
If you mean that rents may find a new equilibrium at a lower price where the demand and supply curves cross that’s how markets usually clear. At least in textbooks. :-)
Typical for tech oriented people to look at it this way. Patients with the same condition are still meatware and each has the capacity to develop their own variation on a large number of themes all of which require adaptations in treatment regime and sometimes very rapid intervention lest you lose a patient.

Your assumption doesn't hold.
I didn’t like the three body problem either, but I also didn’t like the culture series and found it disappointing in a similar type of way.
Wow! I wish the thorium enthusiasts would all read this.
Does anyone know the survival probability of a covid-19 patient once he requires the assistance of a ventilator? I have heard people mention it is fairly low but haven’t seen any figure on that.
A significant percent of Microsoft’s ‘cloud’ division is office and sharepoint and the like. I’m sure thatusage is through the roof right now.
Leave it up to Microsoft to find out ways to profit more during a pandemic, rather than open sourcing their software and platform to be used anywhere and everywhere. People forgot what hosting is like without these massively overpriced cloud services that nickel and dime for every feature. Want encryption which basically costs nothing? Oh, you'll pay an extra $0.10 per hour on top of your $.08GB of outbound traffic. God forbid you load balance your service.
But lenders take a different risk. They don't share in the upside. I can borrow $100m against assets for next to nothing. You can't raise the same amount of equity for next to nothing -- equity investors are generally looking for much higher returns, for the risk they are taking.
> North Carolina currently has 91 patients in the hospital for COVID19. The model projected 300-1000 hospitalizations by this point

The doubling time is in many places only 3 days. From my point of view the model which is off by only a week could still be quite correct.
GPs point is that strings are handled differently in between versions. Essentially, Py3 introduced two types (text, bytes) where only one existed before (str). You can't preserve the behavior of the old type that magically coerced between them if the new apis expect different types.
Previously discussed on HN (Nov 27, 2018):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18546272
Different in what way? Slack has built-in video conferencing?
This is super awesome. Thank you for making this!
Obviously because being an ICU doctor isn't something hard like writing code. Fewer buttons on a ventilator! /s

But seriously, the amount of people on here trivializing modern medicine isn't helping matters.

Granted, neither is business-as-usual, but a 30-day "ventilator boot camp" for untrained professionals is going to kill far more people than it helps. And a poor allocation of resources during a time of scarcity.
The US has unparalleled intelligence gathering abilities, intelligence agencies with privileged access doesn't want to lose intelligence sharing with them. Similar to countries under US military security umbrella, FVEY and other intelligence alliances aren't equal contributors. Which leads to situations in many countries where intelligence interests conflicts with trade interests, and you get situations like UK firing their defense secretary who leaked secret meeting info in order sway decision making.
But Rhode Island’s stops aren’t segmenting the population. They’re not turning anyone around, just giving out-of-state travelers a verbal warning that they need to self-quarantine for 14 days.

It’s the worst of both worlds: the extremely shaky legal situation of a real border lockdown, without any of the supposed benefits.
> I’m not speaking about developers complaining, I’m speaking about the fact that it’s still a fractured ecosystem and plenty of popular programs, packages, and scripts still in use or even still actively developed rely on or integrate with Python 2 (exclusively).

Such as? What actively developed tools or ecosystems rely or integrate with python2 exclusively?
Read it in one go, couldn't put it down. Profound.
Not all Go programs need garbage collection to run.

Garbage collected memory allocations would be the subset of allocations for which the compiler was unable, through escape analysis or otherwise, prove that an allocation's lifetime extends past (for example) its lexical scope, in which case the analog of C auto allocation would suffice.