skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take this as an opportunity to create a will, advanced directive, and other legal documents.

The process of doing this will help you think through things when you are not pressed for time. Waiting until you are in a health emergency is not a good idea.

Talk to any medical personnel you know about what the various care options mean in practice. Do you want to be hooked up to a vent? Do you want to be resuscitated?

Communicate what you want to your loved ones so they're not left guessing.
The prolonged stress is probably shortening some people's lives. Not sure this is a net positive even if we just count in life-years gained.
My kids (ages 10-22) think the floppy disk icon means "save". They had no idea that it was a floppy disk. Only the 22 year old was alive when floppies were common. Perhaps the solution to no save icon is just to use the 3.5 in floppy icon and call it save.
What are you smoking? In any case, do not try to bring it through customs.
The origin story of the N95 mask
> The kind of mass testing and case tracking that's most effective is a considerable (hopefully temporary) sacrifice to privacy rights

I mean, it doesn't really have to be. It's really no secret when you have complications from this disease. Cautious quarantine is probably the reasonable procedure for those who refuse to be tested or share their results. It isn't a broad invasion of privacy, but a specific request for information.

> If every company voluntarily isolates, the pandemic damage is minimized, but the larger the percent of a given industry that isolates, the larger market share is left for any company/individual that operates business as usual.

I don't think it's that simple. The damage of the disease may be minimized by that approach, for as long as you can sustain it (you can't forever), but the overall damage, or even the mortality, isn't necessarily limited most effectively by non-essential businesses remaining closed until we have a vaccine or a very effective treatment.
I'm not talking about performance overhead, I'm talking about architecture overhead. Kubernetes doesn't have any advantages over not using Kubernetes for simple applications. Reproducible dev environments and CI you can get easily without Kubernetes, without having to add complex solutions for logging, profiling and other introspection tools.

One could argue that you need the reproducible dev environments and CI to be solved BEFORE even start using Kubernetes.
So hitchhikers guide I can certainly agree with, but the rest of the series is pretty inconsistent. Restaurant was pretty terrible in my opinion, but then Life is almost as good as the original. I'd say the quality of the series is downhill from there. The follow up books didn't introduce many interesting situations or ideas that weren't already presented and so it just felt like it was dragging on.
There are some virii, such as dengue fever, where getting one strain, makes getting the next strain much worse. This is because the change to the immune system to fight off the first strain creates a new pathway for the second strain to use to infect.
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What about contact tracing apps?
Tracing won't work unless you know who was nearby each infected person. It's difficult to find that info unless a big portion of people are using a tracker app. Is that sort of thing happening where you are?
I did the exact same thing for similar reasons (although it would be nice to have a paycheck during COVID-19). 3 months of side projects, nothing related to what I had studied to do. We were projected to begin work 3 months later, but that was after dozens or so deadline pushbacks already.
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- War and Peace - Life changing book for me. Tolstoy is a genius. You'll find a piece of yourself in every character, and maybe even get an answer to some profound questions.

- Dune - Came for the sci-fi, stayed for the politics.

- A Song of Ice and Fire series - You know GoT. The books are better.
I just bought a mid century accordion a few days ago, and the amount of chords it can do with one button is incredible, not to mention the number of instruments it can emulate (9 on one side, 5 on the other). As a primarily digital artist, I am embarrassed to say how easy it is to forget the analog precursors of our modern tools.
I thought they used hyperboloid because it can be built from straight beams (besides probably hundreds of other, more complex constraints).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid#/media/File:Cylind...
Some politicians do solve problems sometimes; it's the bulk of the massive bureaucracy in government that doesn't solve problems, other than feeding itself and ensuring its own propagation.
Legend by David Gemmell. If you live your life by the morale code embodied in this (and other) Gemmell books you won't go far wrong in life.
> They are in many places I'm aware of.

Yes, sure. I hadn't meant to imply otherwise. The pure-algorithms lecturer needn't cover these other topics in detail in their course, but should be careful to emphasise the uses and limitations of complexity theory.

> this class is not a requirement for CS since it's potentially too hardware oriented

I don't see the sense in this. Computer scientists publish work on applying GPU acceleration, as they should - that's not electronic engineering work they're doing. We could quibble about whether it's computer science of software engineering.
We do. Actually they find antibodies for the orignal SARS ten years after.
I didn't need an article to tell me "dunno lol". I knew I didn't know already.
Cloud bills can be massively, especially for a company that has a ton of outgoing bandwidth
Yep. I was impressed when our school bought its first electric mimeograph. Until then, they were hand cranked. If you were one of the well behaved students and arrived early enough, a teacher sometimes would let you go with her to the office to crank the machine to produce that day's worksheets.
Not to be rude to the author but what makes him the best person to be writing modern C books?
From CNN FAQ [1]

"How long will we have to keep social distancing?
Probably for several months. But you might have to do it “over and over again,” since the outbreak could come in waves.

Research by the Imperial College in Great Britain “would suggest you have to institute these kinds of measures for five months, very vigorously,” said Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at Bellevue Hospital Center.

“And then you may be able to relax for a period. And then you would re-institute as the cases go up again. But we’re basically looking at doing this over and over and over again, even after a five-month period of strict social distancing, in order to curb cases until we have a vaccine.”

Health officials say we’re at least a year away from the first publicly available coronavirus vaccine. In the meantime, they say everyone should avoid large crowds and stay at least 6 feet away from others."

I hope we can relax the lockdown and still get satisfying results (following some Pareto's principle). For instance, avoiding indoor events maybe a good measure. But avoiding people to go exercise outside isn't really needed? Also, hopefully we'll get masks and tests in a near future and that we'll make it easier to contain the virus too.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-...
Today is the first day in which confirmed cases have grown less than the previous day (6 vs 8 thousands) if we can trust the official numbers.

Seven or eight days after first symptoms infected people either get much worse or not, then some die in the few next days.

So we could see the same death rate of 800, or even a little worse, for the next week or two, that would double the current 6,500 toll. Then it would slow down, but I believe it's too optimist to set the limit in two more weeks to end the quarantine. With more masks and tests maybe we could start working selectively.
The arrangements can and do have a separate copyright that the publishers own.
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card.

The movie didn't even come close to doing it justice, the book presents so many cool problems and solutions that it just failed to convey. The book is phenomenal for sparking out of the box thinking.
Depends on how old you are, or for me it did. Some books resonate at different points in a person's life. The fiction that's had the most impact on me as an adult was all stuff I read in my early 30s.

* Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller — Perfect for a single man in his 30s. Very solipsistic and hedonistic, which is a great way to explore that decade. Each of the books in the series is a novel length prose poem. Absolutely beautiful

* Journey to the End of The Night by Louis Ferdinand Celine — my favorite book in the world. Very misanthropic, set in WWI. The protagonist finds himself drafted into the war and does his best to survive while the brave people around him die like idiots, it escalates from there. The most beautiful line I've ever read is from a part of the book where the protagonist is hanging out at a brothel: "Toward one of the beautiful girls there I soon developed an uncommon feeling of trust, which in frightened people takes the place of love." there are jaw-droppers like that on every other page

* Crime and Punishment — a cautionary tale about exactly the kind of solipsism and misanthropy that can take us over in our 30s. Fast paced and beautifully written, it reads like a modern crime thriller.

For fun conceptual stuff

* Ficciones by Borges — short stories that will twist your mind up, each are more puzzle than narrative, but tremendously engaging nonetheless. Ted Chiang is the modern writer that I would identify as the most similar in spirit to Borges.

As a note—I'm a speculative fiction author. Most of what I read these days is sff and nerdy lit fic. The value in fiction is the same as the value in philosophy, it exposes you to the inside of peoples' minds in a way that other forms of narrative entertainment do not, and the real good stuff acts as fuel for concept creation.
It is not influenza it is coronavirus. This means it mutates way slower, so vaccinces will work.
It's easy to say "we live in a Just-In-Time Economy", but it's things like this that really demonstrate the implications.

The supply chain is set up to flow, so when demand drops or spikes up you get a flood or a shortage.

If there's a flood, some companies will go out of business, leaving the survivors with a bigger slice of the pie.

If there's a shortage, companies will respond, and some will over-react and build over-capacity and then fail when the shortage evens out, leaving the survivors with a bigger slice of the pie. I think this may happen with ventilator companies. After this event, there may be an over-supply of ventilators, leading to failure of some companies or lines of business.
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You can also splurge and for under $10/mo set it up on a DigitalOcean (or similar) cheap hosting provider and have it available everywhere. And you can share with friends and family.
They will become a delicacy.
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Currently I'm following Andrew Ng coruse on coursera. What would be a good book around math in machine learning ?
The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein and many of the stories by Greg Egan and Hal Clement. They show people who are curious about the world, care about the fate of others and try to be open-minded. They also show (perhaps somewhat idealizedly) how patient adherence to such principles can spread in a society.
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The US is the worlds largest oil producer
Why do explanations of this problem never mention conditional probability, on which the explanation is based?

There are dozens of videos explaining conditional probability on youtube, but basically, the taking away of a door gives us additional information about the state of the system. It is counter-intuitive, but it's not a mystery.

This principle is used everywhere to optimize real-world problems.
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YMMV. I'm a big Hesse fan, and I tried reading The Glass Bead Game twice; couldn't get past 30-40% of it in either try, it was just too boring.
- Ringworld - Larry Niven

- Robot and Foundation series - Asimov

- 1984 - George Orwell
You can literally stimulate networks, you may even be able to chemically and topologically change networks with combined technologies. We are talking about brain interfaces of the future, obviously some of which may get more invasive yet safe, assuming that engineering around the sensitivity of the brain improves.
We are using two $3.5 AWS lightsail instances to handle hundreds of thousands of customers :)

No hidden or unexpected costs.
I still worry about someone getting into my account. The largest insurance would run $2,240/month, and you can spin up 25 of them no questions asked. Plus there's Spaces, backups, snapshots.

My own mistakes are probably a greater risk, but still. Turn on that 2FA.
See also Hoopla [1]. It works as you describe. Our local library offers it and yours might too.

[1] https://www.hoopladigital.com/
Which is why some OS vendors just gave up and are going with hardware pointer validation nowadays.

If all goes according to plan, I guess in a couple of decades there won't be any modern computer not making use of it.
"The Diary of a Young Girl" attributed to Anne Frank. Excellent study of ballpoint-pen anachronisms and bearing false witness against one's neighbors.
You're not an idiot at all, you're just preemptively deflecting ad hominem responses.

I think that it's possibly efficient because it burns one clock cycle of a respondent's thoughts, and lets them remember the human.
I've had the same thought, but counterpoint:

gasoline degrades with a shelf life measured in weeks-months-years, depending on grade and preservative measures

Depending on the curve of the pandemic, 2021 may be too early. The way the US govt is responding, it may drag out much longer
Engineering in the traditional sense plays very little role in modern defense systems. The overriding concern is profit: How can we extract the most money from the DoD? Good engineering that avoids recurring costs is discouraged in favor of gee-whiz technology that's easy to sell but expensive to build and maintain. The icing on the cake is that bids no longer matter; the largest contractors always underbid to get the contract then send bills that are 2x, 4x or 10x the bid, knowing they have the DoD over a barrel.

The solution for this nonsense is competition. Real, honest, open, transparent competition. Combined with laws that dictate refusal to pay in excess of the bid, instant scrapping of programs that exceed cost estimates, and a 10-year timeout window between when people in DoD leadership can transition out and get jobs with DoD contractors.
I gave them about 4 pounds, the videos did help me and I feel like I have to give something back
gVisor is a step further: it acts a bit like a user mode kernel, which handles syscalls and carefully passes them to different components that are individually insulated with seccomp, etc. The idea there is that even a root escape gets you nowhere because root in the sandbox can never be root in the host. You’d first need to exploit the “usermode kernel“ then you are an unprivileged Linux user with a very strict security profile depending on what component you have exploited. Exploiting the actual kernel would theoretically be a lot harder because the syscall surface is no longer directly exposed.
Russia has just lost about 20-30% yearly income in these first months just from the oil price war.

Saudis cannot care less because they have about three times of Russia reserves nominally. In fact I suspect about five to seven times that, because Russia reserve structure is basically unknown. Saudis can certainly afford a year or three of having no income.

This is on top of the virus panic (which just cut any remaining tax revenues). Russia, Venezuela, Iran for that matter are done for.

EDIT: Which is why I think the whole OPEC+ deal went to the crapper. Middle East is able to weather this, others - not so much.
The only thing worse than Taleb is dollar store imitation Taleb.

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Well on point, great read!
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

This book changed my life. I read this book when I was maybe 17? And read it again last year, a decade and a half later.

The most powerful lesson I learned here is what anthropologists call cultural relativism. This book also taught me that everyone is under the influence of Mother Culture and her stories. I think internalizing this can help a lot with understanding other people, building self awareness, understanding politics in general, and also history in general.

There's a narrative here about ecology and generally making the world a less shitty place which is nice too, but not the primary value-add IMO (although it's unique in proposing cultural transformation as the solution).

Nevada by Imogen Binnie was another. I read it when I was working through questions about my gender. It's dark, funny, beautiful, and brutally candid account of the (a) trans experience.

Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea series follows these closely.
This is baseless mudslinging. The bottleneck on the client is virtually never the cycles consumed by the actual running of the actual app's JS code. It's usually, in order starting with the most common:

- Piles of ads/analytics scripts which have no motivation not to slow down the page

- Reflow; i.e. needlessly many elements on the page causing the browser to do extra work calculating layout

- The initial loading and JIT-ing time of a needlessly heavy JS bundle
It's also not just about the ocean- hepatitis A spreads quite regularly when shellfish feed on contaminated sewage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJLKhsLx18&ab_channel=Steve...
+1 for Giordano's deep dish.
Even if you drive a BEV or take public transit and bike, a lot of the things you buy are delivered by fossil fueled vehicles (semi trucks). A flood is often followed by a spike in price as supplier companies fail.

Price is a good way to reduce consumption, but price spikes are not.
At least they have a public health service to worry about in the first place.
The Count of Monte Cristo

If you find yourself HOPELESS (which whole world is experiencing right now), just read this. Because this book is all about HOPE.

Edit: Go for the 'unabridged' version to truly experience this novel.
Obviously oil has a fixed supply... there is by definition only a finite amount of it, given that we live on a spheroid with a finite volume out of which to extract it. Supply doesn't grow with demand, as that would imply new oil is somehow being created with demand and that, given infinite demand, there would also be infinite supply.

What does grow with demand is technological innovation and effort, and while we were not as close to the actual limit as we assumed with "peak oil", that doesn't mean the limit itself was fictional.
Yeah sign me up for being annoying at this. Several times I'm just like: "why the hell can't I just pay for this thing up front and know what I'm spending." Then there's also both Google Cloud, AWS, etc not letting you spin up certain machines because of "quota limits" which you have to apply to raise. It's like: WTF? do they want your money or not? Idk why it's designed like this but it's a horrible experience.
Other corona viruses are different. We only get chicken pox once in our lives, but we can be infected with other herpes viruses after chicken pox(infection or vaccine).
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This guy understands the energy business where oil is concerned.

I'd only add that the above is also the reason that the Saudi gambit to put competitors out of business is highly unlikely to work. These competitors will just sit it out until favorable environments come back around. I'm not sure what the Saudis aim to achieve? But to achieve what people are speculating that they want to achieve, they need to have something else up their sleeves. Because a temporary low price barrage alone is not gonna do it.

Maybe they are thinking about low prices forever? Not really sure. But they must have some kind of additional plans since they should definitely know everything everyone else in the industry knows.
My last phone screen, I had a job and was pretty sure I didn't want to go anywhere, so I was free to express myself and talked about how much I liked the sort of problems I was dealing with at work. The feedback to the recruiter was "he didn't sound technical enough"...despite them not asking any technical questions.

Everybody wants to save the world of course, but it seems like the modal outlook is that everything else comes first, including all the dealbreakers, and the substance of what you are doing is mostly pro forma.
Pandemic simulation exercise spotlights preparedness gap (2019)
AI Device Converts Coughs into Flu and Pandemic Predictions
we do not speak of early discworld.

i like the gaiman/pratchett teamup. They balance each other out very nicely.
Still possible with service workers without having the poor browser chew a SPA framework.
tldr: Feds awarded a contract at an unrealistic price point for most companies, but a small company thought they could get it done. Small company was bought and the project was no longer realistic and no vents were produced.

I see the Feds do this all the time. They are penny wise and pound foolish. Instead of increasing risk by going for lowest (or unrealistic) cost, its better to reduce risk and actually get something. Better yet, they could have just bought the vents on the market for little or no risk.
EU meltdown: Italy slams Merkel – Macron says coronavirus could end bloc
Then that would indicate there is no market clearing price for the product so farmers will stop producing it. I.e. people can't afford it anymore.
The Magnificent Möbius Band – David Richeson
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Working..I was working at home before, so its not a real big change for me, apart from my kids are at home.
Target (TGT) is, overall, a well-run company with a straightforward business model. It would be a smart move to buy them at a discount because either they continue to expand into other markets and/or they could sold to the likes of Walmart or Amazon sometime in the future.

Improvements: They do need to move more towards an online/in-store-equivalency platform model like Walmart, maybe with a handheld scanner self-checkout and loss-prevention AI. Heck, skip the stores entirely with delivery only-sales might be a better idea to eliminate shrinkage.

I can't see WB buying any other companies on the list besides GE or 3M because it's not clear the others are diversified, defensible, undisruptable and simple enough.
A lot of friends that I respect and people on HN recommended "Master and margarita". I have only got back into reading ~4 years ago, so I haven't gone through all the great literature, but this felt different right after its midway point (starting with Satan's ball). My advice is to look for a translation with plenty of footnotes, because historical context plays a big part.

It's different to anything I've ever read, and definitely stays with you.