skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lessons Learned from My Failures in Grad School [video]
There's a quote, and i think it's orwell, along the lines of

"when one is speaking with a certain kind of man, one gets the impression that one is not arguing with a person, but with a wall or pat phrases and stock propaganda"

I can't find the full/correct text or a citation, but I know i've read it...
> https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1243269061733220353

> All "VIP"s are immediately put on Hydroxychloroquine when they show the first symptom. Even before a test. (waiting for the test results takes way too long and gives the virus time to ruin your lungs!).
It still doesnt define demand. Is that new sales or what?
The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases
> Disagree

What did it say?
Strongly recommend “Rant” by Chuck Palahniuk. It takes a little effort to get into the testimonial style writing but unfolds into an epic tale of dystopia, time travel and traffic.
A claimed picture of the bodies inside one of these trailers: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamelder/coronavirus...
You set it up on Mailgun and add some DNS records to your domain proving Mailgun is authorized to send.

http://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/quickstart-sendin...
2 months? Try 2 years. It's a year minimum before we get a handle on this (no, not the vaccine, just the virus itself).
It's not a choice between a doctor and a layman, though. It's a choice between a volunteer who's only trained in the very basics and watched a couple of intubations, and nobody at all.

How much training does someone need before they become a clear net positive for the patient?
> In short: To find the end, look for the entitlements.

Would UBI be considered the ultimate form of entitlements, or is there something past UBI?
Much of it is defined in their policies and imo Kalifesque reality, however if the strep test accidentally goes to an out of network lab, then you will have to pay their imaginary rate or argue with your insurance provider. Another example would be using an out of network anesthesiologist, which one would not be informed of and then receive a surprise bill three moths later.

Some states have passed legislation which somewhat protects against this however here is a good example of it https://www.google.com/amp/s/khn.org/news/even-with-insuranc...
A simple sign can probably accomplish the same thing.
The USA idea of rural is different than the rest of the first world. The rest live predominately in small villages, while US rural live in spread-out individual homesteads. It's not cost-effective to provide services out there; they don't have city sewer, often wells instead of city water even. Today many can't afford to live in cities because of artificial limits, but we should fix that and let people that continue to choose to handicap themselves, pay for their own services.
The Pitchfork Layout
After decreasing VALUE by 1, you should run T (T >> 10000000) times. If VALUE is not found in your stream, it is not transmitted. Similarly, you should always run T times, to account for all duplicates (you can't just 'break' when finding VALUE)
You could use the empty egg cartons to cover your walls, creating (eventually) an anechoic chamber!
Do a search for --> anechoic +DIY
That will present you with LOTS of ideas.
Even using heavy drapes/curtains/carpet COVERING 2 of the 4 walls (NOT opposites) should give a good result.
Trump referred herein as a bullshit artist is certainly a problem in his own. However, the OP is right arguing he's but a convenient and simple example of the subtler, slower moving problems. Of the three Federal branches, Congress confers distinction as that branch with the smallest reputation of institutional credibility. On any of the largest issues,

- campaign finance reform

- self dealing

- gun control

- taxation policies

- fiscal control

- immigration policy

- increasing deferral to the Executive branch on war powers

- health care cost inflation

- partial rollback of Glass-Stiegel act

- outsized influence of lobbyists

the underlying theme is willful and actual helplessness.

The dominant political parties increasingly represented corporations and the upper one percent whether it was the Hollywood A-class or gecko like corporations for profit.
Why? Corporations have lobby money and it's easier to interact with fewer corporate contacts that tens of millions of dispersed Americans who lack a single contact point -- even though a House or Senate member has precisely that job.

Trump/Bannon saw their opportunity and took it.

Congress has no agency in the here and now. Politicians have succumbed to the outsized problem space increased by inaction in what has become an all too familiar trajectory:

- they try to position themselves as DC outsiders aligned with hardworking Americans and kitchen table issues whether by portraying us as spinless over anxious, over worked victims or heroic proletariat suckers who still manage the good fight

- They talk about what they will do in the always perpetual future

Once the campaign is over the realities of institutional incompetence cast a shadow so large it crushes pragmatic action.

And thus we become more disalusioned with Congress. In frustration and anger a sufficient number of people went Trump.

To use and abuse the Plato analogy, too much cheap symbolism of emotional issues has dominated our conversation about the shadows on the cave wall. We need but turn around and walk the 10 feet out of the cave entrance and do the practical things like clearing up our home camp. Yes, smart doing requires smart thinking -- the two are permanently entangled in the other -- so ideas matter. Dispositioning the shadows matters. But the Federal US government was never intended to be bully pulpit for the Christian right or inveigh on it. That's a problem for a father, mother, son, and daughter. The US government is about a human justice; it's about fighting structural and monied power that violate individual liberty.

Right now our cherished ideals are like the crushed and broken stained glass shards on the ground. So be it. Let's start the work of reassembling them an make anew meaning.
Australian here: It’s not a given that the other hotel residents are going to get sick.

The quarantine residents are bussed in directly from customs / border control and isolated to separate parts of the hotel.

Their rooms are locked down (they don’t get the key), they don’t get in room cleaning (they can get their laundry and fresh supplies dropped off / picked up in a controlled way from outside the room periodically), and they get room service delivered / picked up outside the room. Staff have/are being trained in performing those duties.

All paid for by the government, too. It’s not ideal for anyone, but for the community at large it’s the best possible policy given how many new infections were coming from inbound travellers.

It also works well for the hotels which have very high vacancy rates due to lack of tourists.
Just my initial response.

Maybe fine a better first example?
It is quite code dense:

conv = c.aggregate({
"a": c.reduce(c.ReduceFuncs.Array, c.item("a")),
"a_sum": c.reduce(c.ReduceFuncs.Sum, c.item("a")),
"b": c.reduce(c.ReduceFuncs.ArrayDistinct, c.item("b")),
}).gen_converter()
conv(input_data)

when compared a trivial native python equivalent:

conv = lambda data:{ 'a': [el['a'] for el in data ],
'a_sum' : sum( [el['a'] for el in data ]),
'b': list(set( [el['b'] for el in data ])), }
conv(input_data)

which appears to have the same functionality.
This is quite off putting and it took me a while to dig down to find why convtools can offer more than just an extra abstraction layer to learn.
Perhaps pick an example that shows off the non trivial functions like joins or GroupBy?
There's enough RAM to hold all the numbers. You just have to invent the representation to store all the numbers in the available RAM. Naive representation using 27 bits per number won't hold them all indeed. But if you would store them ordered and store difference rather than number using variable bit encoding, it would take less space.

Just simple math: imagine that you have to store numbers 0, 100, 200, ..., 99 999 900 as a worst case scenario. As you're going to store the differences, you'll need to store "0" and then "100" 999999 times. If you would be able to represent "100" with 8 bits, you'll be able to keep your data inside 1 MiB limit. One simple encoding: 1xxxxxx for 7 bits; 01xxxxxxxx for 8 bits; 001xxxxxxxxx for 9 bits, etc. It should be enough for this task, although you could invent better encodings.
PBS had a good documentary on this.

https://youtu.be/G0p8bWYY7qM
There is also a report on RISC-IV (SPUR) [1] from the same year.

[1] http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/CSD-86-273....
So cool. In my opinion, so many of the open problems in biology can be approached from the direction of specificity - from specificity in measurement to specificity in targeting interventions. For example, tools like this for elucidating cognition; alternatively, cancer (identifying and targeting problematic cells).
From here in Australia, developer tools tells me the video is coming from vod-akc-oc-east-1.media.dssott.com which appears to be an Akamai thing.
I'd be fascinated to hear how Terraform would have intelligently known that those instances were not meant to stay on overnight.
No, it's the fact that you need unique personalized care that makes it complex.

Triage is just to deal with limited resources, essentially it divides the applicants into 'walking', 'dead' and 'care', and the fewer resources you have the more people will get sorted into the 'dead' category even if they still have a pulse when you see them. The 'care' category will still get unique personalized care otherwise you might as well sort them into the 'dead' category on the spot.
I consider it not in-RAM.

There's another variant, iirc sorting telephone numbers, in "Programming Pearls," but it requires a different approach.
I see. So then on day 1 of starting, email legal and tell them about my IP (it's on the App Store) and let them know I wouldn't use their resources to work on it.

And yes the virus is somewhat producing uncertainty. I'm pretty confident in my ability to get a job elsewhere but these aren't normal times.
I entirely agree, this would be great. I don't see why it has to be done in cities though. Farmers in smaller co-ops can provide a similar decentralisation.
Objective competence:

Let's say you are playing a free game you downloaded to your phone. You don't have to spend money to accomplish anything in particular, but if you have money to spare, you can spend actual real life dollars on in-app purchases to get past some challenge.

It takes actual skill to get past certain challenges. Rich people can be sort of halfway competent at playing the game and get farther, faster because they can rely on in-app purchases.

Real life is not unlike that.

In real life, rich people are often able to throw money at their problems. Poor people are not able to do the same.

If poor people want a solution, they have to be extremely competent to make that happen. They can't hire a high-priced lawyer or whatever to fix the mess for them.

It gets compounded because rich people will have compassion for the problems of other rich people and hire them out of pity when their consulting business is in a slump. Poor people will be rejected and told their inability to find adequate work is evidence of incompetence and that they don't deserve to be hired.

Once you are rich enough, people will kiss your ass, help you save face, etc when you fuck up.

Poor people generally don't get the same courtesies.

This has been a huge problem for me in recent years. Men on HN are obviously competent if they have a lot of karma. My high karma count isn't considered evidence of competence and my need for an income is me "panhandling the internet."

Etc. Ad nauseum.
Google offers the same for less than $12 a month with unlimited storage for large companies and $12 a month for everyone else. Plus you get an operating system that is based off Linux and open source. Windows is a giant PITA when it comes to deploying and setting up mobile device management.

Matrix offers free decentralized video/voice communication and there are lots of self-hosted alternatives that often provide better features than things like Teams. With NextCloud you basically get a free office solution that just needs to be deployed. With Kubernetes you can quickly deploy a Nextcloud cluster. These services should be free and open source because the goal should be helping build a better world, not building better profits through backroom deals with tax dollars.
Yes, the only thing stopping us from 3D printing ventilators and hooking them up to patients are those evil “barriers” we call regulations.
Some of them, like "Flights of Discovery", are clearly scanned book copies. It takes a lot of manual work to convert a scanned book into an ebook format.
A stimulus reaction isn't the same thing as "feeling pain", which requires a certain level of consciousness. It's debatable if even lobsters for example have the necessary development.
> IMO solve it at the application level don’t make the network try to do it for you.

You'll still have far fewer catastrophic failures if you run redundant hardware.
What's the best DIY video on building something like this? I don't even know where to start.
Show HN: DNS Live on Handshake
Is it different from https://www.colourlovers.com/ ?
It's been a while since I read it, and I only completed the first two books, but there are a few issues I recall having. Spoilers ahead, obviously.

The most glaring issue I remember was how the countries of Earth were essentially a united front for 450 years. They came up with a single plan - and a very strange one at that - and then carried it out for the next half-millenia with little dissent or deviation. Given the author of the book is Chinese, this struck like a plot element that's ideological in nature - the ruling class can't be seen as bickering or divided.

The only people opposed to this were effectively a death cult dedicated to wiping out humanity in the strange hope that a race of genocidal aliens would somehow be better custodians of our planet. While I imagine that there would be some people who felt this way, it strained belief that the alien sympathisers would be so organised and competant.

I'm usually pretty forgiving of novels with weak characterisation but interesting situations, but I didn't think the Three Body Problem succeeded in this aspect either. Obvious solutions were passed up or not discussed, for example, if there are only a few sophons on Earth and they can't travel faster than the speed of light, why not build many particle accelerators and perform experiments simultaneously? The final twist was also pretty heavily hinted at throughout the novels, so the latter half of the second book was just a case of waiting when it would be revealed. Frankly it could have been carried a lot sooner as well - why wait a century for verification when it costs nothing to call the alien's bluff immediately?

The books felt like the author had an idea that would have worked well for a short story that was expanded to the length of two novels. In a short story a lot of the details could have been glossed over, but when expanded out the author was forced to explain the intermediate steps.
Part of the problem may be the accreditation process. For federal student aid, and also professional licensure for certain occupations (psychology for example), you need to attend an accredited program. But the accreditation process is controlled by existing institutions and people who work at existing institutions.

One way to open up this market to innovation would be to try to get the laws changed about accreditation. Make it so it's much easier to objectively prove that the institution is providing ongoing value to its students, and receive accredited status without significant involvement by people who are not incentivized to encourage innovation.

People might be involved in the process, but rather than making subjective judgements about whether the program is good enough, make the measures objective. Then the person involved is really just checking boxes. If they refuse to check the boxes despite evidence, there should be an appeal process with civil damages for any clearly unnecessary delays caused.
They aren't raising prices; they're limiting availability. All three quoted laws solely cover prices.
I came to "Player Piano" after having read a half dozen other Vonnegut books. It clearly shows him at his earliest — trying to find his voice.
I think the numbers are within margin if you measure what actually matters; urbanization. The huge swaths of empty forests up north in Sweden makes the 5 times number look ridiculous but doesn't carry any meaning.

Looking at urbanization:

Denmark: 87.5% [0]

Sweden: 87.4% [1]

Another statistic is Copenhagen Metropolitan area compared to Stockholm, which both is about 2.5 million. Though Copenhagen jumps to 4 million if you go by the Öresund region including parts of Sweden. [2]

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/455812/urbanization-in-d...

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/455935/urbanization-in-s...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98resund_Region
Traditional Universities were going to be slower because they need permission from the accreditation agency before going fully online. We got word last week that they would expedite requests because of the COVID-19.
> In the 1970s, science-fiction writer Brian Aldiss coined the term “cozy catastrophe” to describe a fictional plot in which a bourgeois protagonist finds pleasure while the world goes to shit.

After reading the article, this isn't a fictional plot. It's a sadly accurate prediction. The article's writer couldn't have proved Aliss's point more. It's tone def, divorced from reality and shows no genuine concern for how this will seriously and negatively affect the majority of people. This is the literal definition of irony which like everything else in this article seems lost with the writer.
> _The Chronicles of Prydain_

Always happy to see Lloyd Alexander get a mention these days -- somehow it seems in the recent YA explosion he's gotten almost criminally neglected.
+1 for Ted Chiang
Epidemic Modeling 101: Or why your CoVID19 exponential fits are wrong
Google's Common JavaScript Library
I rather had in mind a nurse who would step up but still know when to call the doctor when things look unusual.
The main character being cast into diferent bodies over the course of the story making me contemplate what makes us the person we are and the final monologue at the end, reflecting on whether it is ethical to betray people even if it makes them happier. The value and importance of being honest and true to yourself, even if the truth is hard and hurts.
Add to this mortgages on rental space. Mortgages already in place based on the valuations of a more prosperous time. Many will be defaulted on.
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.

People imagining such triaging seem to think that a willingness to be appalling brutal means such brutality could be achieved with limited costs.

Italy's situation is far from the worst-case scenario. It's death rate is not that much higher than a seasonal flu, it's just the death-process that is far more messy.

Which is to say, let the infection rate get high enough and you'll have hospitals crowded with the young and healthy even if carry the old directly to the morgue.

Moreover, authorities shouting "all clear" in the midst of this dreck isn't going just summon a phalanx of consumers ready to go to restaurants, death chance or not.

In short, just because you're evil doesn't mean you aren't stupid too.
Here’s the campaign team’s original post about what will get open-sourced: https://medium.com/@teamwarren/open-source-tools-from-the-wa...
Misleading title. This is a GraphQL thing.
I’ve thought for a few years that there’s a great movie to be made of his life.
Thanks again for the very exact details!
1) Did you take frequency scaling into consideration while benchmarking?

2) v8 doesn't make your code blazing fast by default. It has many optimizations but your code may be written in a way that v8 cannot fully optimize.

3) I recommend this tool as an alternative to using "time": https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
"Dune" taught me to evaluate what people don't say as much as what they do. The italics in Dune were brilliant.
Thanks again - seems like a good engineering problem to solve
America’s Make-or-Break Week
Akamai is just a CDN so it's cloud agnostic.
In absolute values, it has already killed 30% more people than influenza. So, yes, I would say it is quite incompatible.

And of course lack of vacination is an important factor, but you can't exclude it.

edit: also even if it would kill in percentage the same amount of infected, an higher infection rate will converge to an higher total infected percentage of the population, so an higher absolute number of dead and critically ill.
No economy, healthy or otherwise can withstand being intentionally dismantled and the pieces burned to ash.

If you order the world to stop production or trade for an indefinite period, poverty and depression is the only possible result, no matter how healthy the production and trade were before being stopped
> caused by machines having different layouts

This is going to be a huge issue with the onslaught of different manufacturers.

I liken it somewhat similar to helping troubleshoot router/switch issues... yes at a high level they're all the same but, at the same time, each one has it quirks and peculiarities and even use slightly different nomenclature that make it a non-trivial exercise.
SS: You will need a Handshake [1] resolver to view this page. This is DNS Live [2] via a Handshake name! It's setup using a reverse proxy [3].

I was pleasantly surprised to see that HN accepts Handshake Names! :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22684048

[2] https://dns.live/

[3] https://dns.live/redirect
Doctors that don't know how to properly operate a vent are currently a problem in the US. Not blaming them, as there doesn't seem to be any real alternative.

Here's an /r/medicine discussion of it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/fr0x3m/how_do_you...
I seem to recollect that Dave didn’t get tenure at Stanford - that may have influenced the decision to jump to Sun
Excellent! Let's hope there is at least some lasting good that comes from the current terrible situation.
Imagine you get paid 250 a week. Your rent is 200 a week. You have 20 you need to pay for travel. That leaves you 30. If you don't pay rent you become homeless and then you will lose your job.

Do you understand?
The thesis of the piece is captured in this passage:

> The pull of the past is strong. The mental frameworks through which we understand the world are durable, far more so than its actual fabric. The new falls into the old, square pegs into round holes no matter how poor the fit, simply because the round holes are what we have available.

The point is that you may not notice your empire is dying all around you because it happens gradually and your mental framework for thinking about the world is less dynamic than the world itself. (Consider: how many tech people still think in terms of the 'open web' in contrast to walled gardens, when the web today is basically one browser engine accessing one or two CDNs fronting one of three cloud hosting providers)

The rest of the article is supporting evidence, using the historical example of Rome and drawing parallels with the United States.
This used to be my ringtone back in the days before everything went on vibrate. Got a lot of pained expressions from people!