skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone eligible for a Master's has already demonstrated the ability to complete a time-intensive course of study that requires a decent level of self-efficacy and advocacy.

In contrast, a typical middle of the road University might only see 60% to 75% of its original freshmen class students graduate in 6 to 8 years. 40% in 4 years is common. So, a majority of undergrads do not, for one reason or another, stay on the recommended track for graduation.

A big part of this is supper resources: many\most schos are under staffed in academic support services. Now consider, in that context, an online course: it is even more the case that such students are further removed from the support structure provided by the college.

Finally, there simply isn't strong demand: most students are looking for the traditional undergrad experience, which is at least as much a social environment as a learning one. You don't get that online. Contrast that to post grads looking for a Masters, which tend to be a group much more focused on the nuts and bolts of completing their program.

Source: I work in Higher ed analytics, focussing quite a bit on success factors in persistence and completion rates.
American single payer could well be.
> A refresh rate in a digital system is global: the clock is the source of truth

I suspect you're already aware of this, but nonetheless - asynchronous digital logic (ie no clock) does exist! I've never had the chance to play with it though.

http://www.greenarraychips.com/

https://avlsi.csl.yale.edu/fpga.php
The final battle scene in the book, at least in the old polish release I had, stuck with me for a long time.

Because Ender did the suicide strike thinking it was simulation, and thus he would be finally released from the program as dangerous.

It's literally an attempt to get released from service on medical discharge. He was only told he was operating real world warships after the fact. Before that scene, he assumed (and while there were possible hints, at that point he is increasingly getting less mentally stable) that it was graduate school equivalent of Battle School - as that's what everyone excluding Bean (and that is AFAIK only in the retconny later novels) was told.
If I open up PyCharm and IntelliJ and Spotify and SourceTree and Docker and three different browsers and iTerm and Remote Desktop and a few other apps all at once, I will get an occasional hiccup, but it's really not as bad as I would have expected. I think 16GB would be nice though.

For comparison, I also have a 2012 Mac Mini at home with an SSD and 16GB RAM, and it's still chugging along pretty well too, although it's noticeably slower than the 2018 model with 8GB RAM.

I'm curious with regard to swapping if that might mean my SSD is going to wear out sooner. Maybe investing in more RAM would be worth it even if I don't feel like I need it.
Wow cool, that's like a daemon spawn between Munching Squares, Stephen Anthony Malinowski's Music Animation Machine, and the Obfuscated C Contest!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATbMw6X3T40
> [...] would have survived under a competent practitioner.

Bringing us back to the topic of this thread, a potential lack of competent practitioners if the pandemic worsens, and what the best solution to address this would be, such as a COVID-specific ventilator training.
First load was unresponsive, just empty tables and graphs. Blazing fast on refresh. Firefox on Windows 10 Workstation
And he literally does the final genocide in hope that it would grant him expulsion on medical grounds - because he didn't know the battles were real.
Dollar cost averaging seems to be more of a psychological strategy than a financial one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging#Criticis...
It's not about prosperity, it's about jobs. Giving everyone in Tuscon a pile of money won't help them find a job if all small businesses and the Raytheon factory are forced to close down.
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They don't even bother to say who "witnessed" that or back it up with any other "accounts." Seems like they just expect you to believe it at face value without any evidence whatsoever.
In that case, fair enough. But no reason to be dishearted, we can always make "fdir-glob" that has globbing built in :D but you are right, not an easy* alternative but still an alternative.
And yet the Beaglebone Black has been able to handle this down at the 100-200nS level in the PRUs. For years.

While I admire the ingenuity of people doing real-time with Linux, I just shake my head at the man hours wasted that they could be doing the "thing they want to do" instead of fighting Linux.
Definitely, also known as combinational logic (as compared to sequential logic). It's interesting stuff for sure, and I've wondered what a combinational CPU could look like. I should have said "in a synchronous digital system" so my bad. Frequency doesn't apply to combinational logic.

Digital systems are almost exclusively a pairing of combinational logic with digital "checkpointing" or pipelining.

With that in mind, in digital systems, as the clock speed increases the difference between combinational and sequential logic drops. Analog provides yet another layer of computational capability on top of that.
When in doubt, go back in time - they were the only option at one point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
http://www.analogmuseum.org/english/introduction/
Every month is a good time to invest in index funds:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...

Generally if you try to get out to miss the worst days, you generally end up missing the best days as well:

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2019/02/08/miss-the-worst-...

Even if ended up investing at the top of the market, i.e. just before a major crash, you generally still end up in an okay position as long as you do not panic and liquidate your position:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...

So: each month put in whatever you can afford ($100, $1000, whatever) into an index fund (Russell 3000) and bonds depending on your risk tolerance and forget about it. If you have access to a 'target date fund' that'd be good too.

The above three weblogs are good if you're into personal investing.

Also: for equities, probably best to go with a total market things that track something like the Russell 3000:

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/should-you-invest-in-the-sp-500-i...

* https://www.marketwatch.com/story/vanguard-thinks-its-own-em...

Also, assuming you're American, having some international exposure to avoid home country bias wouldn't be a bad thing:

* https://www.etf.com/sections/index-investor-corner/swedroe-h...

* https://www.vanguard.com/pdf/ISGGEB.pdf
I think late imperial Russians had a special talent for understanding the power of mumbo jumbo intellectualism.

I think this stems from enduring the continued existence of a courtly intelligentsia that sought to philosophically justify feudalism. This while the feudal institution had long collapsed elsewhere laying bare the preposterousness.
Israeli media published this report last week that turned out to be largely false: https://www.jpost.com/International/Israeli-doctor-in-Italy-...
Leaving the phone at home is harder than it sounds for people who fly long distances. It means you're 24+ hours, 3 planes and two layovers, plus taxi rides or rental cars, without a phone.

And you have to then communicate your temporary local phone number to your existing contacts, including your boss/coworkers and your family, but somehow do that without your phone. Not impossible, but very annoying. And you might need your phone for 2FA login to your work email.
It certainly is! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
Badly.

Only macOS has an architecture to deal with low-latency audio and video properly. Presumably iOS has some of those features as well, but it was on OS X that Apple did some deep architectural changes for proper low-latency audio and video.
What doesn't satisfy you in Pandas?
A lot more maintenance issues with aeroponics
For decades large portions of the US population have prided themselves on ignoring whatever the government says. Until the bodies start piling up in their own town, people will not take it seriously, and possibly not even then.
If things keep going at the rate they are right now, the market will need to acknowledge that there is a massive pile of bodies by May 1st*

There are two more questions to ask, is this already priced into the current market? And, will our social distancing be enough to change our current trajectory?

*Source: https://i.imgur.com/YznALHZ.png
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Putting away a little every month generally gives the best results as the main alternative is 'buying the dip', and good luck with that:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...
"Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet" is a children's book I read when I was about ten years old that had a huge impact on me. It opened my eyes to the whole genre of science fiction and kindled a life-long love of space and science in general.
You are right, they move insanely fast. The average speed of a medium-sized protein is about 5 m/s. Inside an E. coli, any two proteins will encounter each other at least once a second [0] (this book is incredible).

My simulation is inaccurate in terms of Brownian motion. It is slowed down and smoothed for illustrative purposes. It should be more violent. Nice idea with blurring, I'll think about that. The code is on GitHub. It requires a VR headset, and it is frankly a little clunky and "research code" in terms of the UI. But check it out :D [1]. The next version will support larger simulations on the GPU and a more friendly UI. I have friends at the Scripps institute who work on similar stuff, check them out [2].

[0]: David Goodsell (2009) The Machinery of Life https://www.amazon.ca/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/038...

[1]: https://github.com/timdecode/LifeBrush

[2]: https://ccsb.scripps.edu/cellpaint/
So sad that this has to be a museum piece. The bottles could also double as water storage and a heating system. Or be plastic yet filled with sand or something.

Wonder how much more expensive these would be to manufacture. Making no waste is priceless though.
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Are there templates / boilerplate for privacy and legal terms and considerations for software web apps?

Something like MIT license for FOSS, but for consumers.
I meant if they had bad enough symptoms to be hospitalized. Which isn't as high of a percent, but still quite a few people will need to be hospitalized to recover.
That doctor is a quack.. nobody should believe anything he says. He's working with Rudy Guilliani and Sean Hannity grifting Fox News viewers. He's a family practice doc in a place with fewer than 100 cases and somehow he's "treated" 7x that number? He should have his license revoked
Ok, we've taken 775% out of the title above.
It's generally not feasible to reuse, not to mention if it's not done properly then you put the next crop cycle at risk.
I've seen some hilarious work arounds to do it. But it's funny to think it's been over 20 years of development, and there's still no circle tool.
> Integration seems like the ideal path for Slack.

It's pretty easy for Teams too.

I don't particularly like Teams, nor do I like Slack, but there is nothing feature-wise, today, that would make me choose Slack over Teams. Teams also plays much better with OneDrive and Outlook, obviously.

I think Slack is now a goner. They will be acquired in 5 years tops.
You don't seem to be responding to my comment. High prices cannot necessarily increase supply when the timeframe is strictly limited. This is a reality that a lot of people seem to not accept. So the effect of price is just to determine the distribution of a limited supply. That significantly reduces the utility of a market pricing system. Directing production is a fundamental reason why markets are useful in normal times, and in the very short term of a crisis, it's not applicable.
Happy to see work by Mackenzie Child. His design for developers course was really helpful when I was trying to build a webpage from scratch with just an engineering background.

[1] https://mackenziechild.podia.com/design-for-developers
Really nicely designed site, but there's only 4 pages total?
Yeah this is a great idea for kids stuck inside! On a related note my friend made free coloring pages for two of her artworks: https://www.gopaintthewild.com/coloringpages
If it ducks like a quack
Wow. There are some great ideas in that paper.
> 1. Do you really think the economy is as good as it is in 2018?

By trying to miss the worst days one generally also misses the best days:

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2019/02/08/miss-the-worst-...

* https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/07/when-you-sell-during-a-panic...

* https://seekingalpha.com/article/4297557

Buy a little every month, rebalance once your asset allocation is more than 5% out-of-whack, and increase bond holdings as you approach your target date.
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> 'He defines success as “Not to die.”
Artificial light isn't necessary, but it's more space efficient and allows you to grow more plants per area which helps with the typically high land cost per square foot in urban areas.
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UK had the same "unusual" approach, and look at them now after two weeks.
Took a minute to set up nextdns on my phone but surprisingly the site resolved like normal on iOS Safari after setup. There are more Handshake sites here too https://github.com/namebasehq/awesome-handshake
Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine. Changed my eight year old life in 1962. I wanted to work with computers and electronics from that moment.

Oh, and all the Tom Swift Jr series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn_and_the_Homework_Ma...
I just had a whole company meetup with 100+ people and Teams handled it like a champ.
On C++ Memory Management
This is a perfectly written response, as opposed to an "it's impossible to time the market" canned reply.
This is true to an extent, but I certainly wouldn't say it's the case for most. From my observation working in the field it was really only a thing between 2013-2015.
It's easy to miss the data processing and storage story. It potentially sounds like a fascinating story of vertically integrating to make your processing, cloud storage, data management (of huge amounts of data) more attractive compared to competition. Also the companies/organizations that this will be interesting to (think defence) are likely to have large overall budget for other cloud services. Well played Amazon!
This is great. Unfortunately, at this point we need manufacturing, not engineering.
This is exactly my take as well. I'm shocked the market hasn't tanked much more. I would think that anyone should prefer the economy of 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014...as compared to projections of unemployment as high as 30% and the economy in total gridlock. Yet the Dow/S&P don't reflect that yet.
Schwabb gives you an rsa token for the asking.
> hinese medicine is also practiced in Taiwan, and while the system differs from the West, it's based on tradition. If you believe in evolution, then you should believe that in general only methodologies that have some effect would survive over time. That's the basis of traditional medicine at least, and just because it's not quantified and understood in the Western way does not mean it is all fake.

This is a very anti science way of looking at the world. The west has pseudoscience also: homeopathy and faith-based healing, crystals, witch craft, etc...

I don’t believe in evolution: I believe in the strong evidence that supports the theory of evolution. Lots of things have stood the test of time that are complete bunk with no supporting evidence what so ever, eg all religions. China can’t afford to push pseudosciences, neither can the USA, it does more harm than good.
You are assuming that economics for such continue to make sense after the crisis is over, which I sincerely doubt.
I would say no. Eoin Colfer has written some great books, but that is not one of them.
I've been playing around with Cellular Automata recently too!!! Wish my viz looked as good as this one, though :D

https://lockwood.dev/automata/2020/03/28/bruteforcing-beauti...
Here’s the straight answer, from someone who has made real money investing for the past 15 years: Yes.
There is this one trick to controlling number of cases some of the countries are using, making whole calculation meaningless.
Some of the things they did initially were counterproductive; isolating carriers is actually much better than sending them home to infect family. I saw figure of 75% of cases being transmitted by close contacts.

All that said, the math is brutal and you're right about things not being immediately apparent in the statistics. There's a delay for symptoms, and then another for deaths.

Unless another country epicly fubars their response, the USA should maintain its #1 spot. All the more so if states don't encourage social distancing for another week.
Seems like a straightforward testing consultancy. I hope that’s accurate. Good luck. Testing is critical and not always done well.
None really. I've tried to read all the "must reads" and classics, searching for something that added some meaning to life.

100 Years of Solitude is my favorite modern classic (had to read it twice to get it), and Middlemarch is my favorite classic. I'm happy to recommend reading them. But even these I cannot call life-impacting.

Interestingly the fiction books I'm reading to my first grader may ironically have more punch that anything written for grown-ups. But, they're all lessons grown-ups already generally know.
In that Satisfactory demo, the guy took it to flabbergastingly ridiculous extremes of complexity, far beyond what the game designers intended, with thousands of factories consuming resources and pumping out and products, miles of tangled conveyor belts strung all around through the sky, stitched together with mergers and splitters, collected and buffered in storage containers, moving, mixing and diffusing millions of individual items all around the environment. But I get the impression that's hardly scratching the surface when it comes to biology.

Your Bunny Planet design session really illustrates how wonderfully your work applies to computer games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L482dpH9S8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=624F5iaCKco

Chaim Gingold (one of the developers of Spore) made "Earth: A Primer", a cool interactive educational simulation science book, also like your work, inspired by Neil Stephenson's young lady's illustrated primer, but on a somewhat different physical scale:

https://www.earthprimer.com/

>Earth: A Primer is a science book you play with.

I sent Chaim some links to your work, and he loved it and said he has collaborator who will be delighted to learn about it too. He also teaches computer game design, and did his PhD thesis on "Play Design". You should work together, and fill in all the levels between planets and cytoplasm! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Gingold

http://chaim.io

https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1806122688.html?FMT=AI
I'm always tempted to push people into programming. Mostly because I wish I had learned it in high school instead self-teaching in my mid-20's.

But really, at their age it's mostly just important that they try to make something. Doesn't really matter what it is, or if it's successful. Just pick an idea and fool around with it for awhile. They need to figure out what they like and what they don't.
> My personal favorite variant of this is sorting 1M 32-bit integers using 2MiB of RAM. This is possible and I coded it up for fun a few years ago.

Is it possible for you to share the code? Still don't quite get how that encoding related/helps in sorting the numbers.
The Culture Novels, though that may not come as a surprise, given my username.

Obviously the Culture is not the total ideal to strive for, but it did give me a vision of where we could go culture-wise (with a lowercase 'c') which was notably brighter than what I had maintained prior.
The basic structure of your approach is a vague idea that falls over in all sorts of ways once you attempt to put it into practice. Your comment is also conflating many different issues together. Contrary to your claim, I don’t think the general public has been rushing out to panic buy ventilators, or other heavy duty medical equipment. The government assuming an elevated level of control over the supply chain for medical PPE is also a completely different proposition to allowing Microsoft to increase the costs of video conferencing to properly scale to demand.

The phrase “panic buying” is really just a way to confound discussion about what’s really happening. There is a perfectly legitimate increase in demand, and a perfectly legitimate decrease in supply. If you wanted to stop people from hoarding, allowing market forces to respond to those changes would certainly shut it down. Any centrally enforces rationing policy is going to be far less efficient. The distinction between essential products and services, and non essential ones is also very real. You may choose that for any particular category of product or service, that the benefits in providing stability through rationing outweigh the costly efficiency trade offs. However that doesn’t obviously apply to every category of product or service under the sun.

The trade offs in efficiency are two fold. Firstly, the rationing authority has no effective way to gauge the actual needs of any person or organisation. So they will unavoidably end up allocating too much to some and not enough to others. Secondly, the market will typically respond to increased prices by increasing production. By keeping prices artificially low, you completely remove that incentive, and if the costs of production have risen (as they have), then you end up trying to manage the shortage by applying downward pressure on supply.

Finally, the issue of people not being able to afford the basic necessities of life is completely separate to that of supply and demand. There always have been and always will be people in that boat, regardless of whether there’s a global crisis taking place or not. In developed countries those people receive increased government assistance. I’ve never heard anybody seriously suggest that we should instead engage in mass price fixing to reduce the price of everything, rather than simply providing that assistance.
How about rule 34
After reading all three, I often think back on book-2, sometimes on book-3, never on book-1.
Why the company-buyer isn't held to the liabilities of the sold company? Whoever's bought the smaller company better be good on that company promises. Or else.