skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was academic, but it was rather boring and no one was very serious until I discovered I could get points doing graduate courses, so when getting in to small groups with the professor instead of 100+ people lecture halls (with materials I can just read 1 to 1 from the book or syllabus was not very different than studying online), it got interesting.

But yeah, I guess it depends on a lot of factors; I just can see more benefit from msc/phd physically with peers and profs while bsc is more imaginable as online course. For my feeling at least.
One of the greater modern literary tragedies is the way Adam's said he wrote Mostly Harmless when he was in a very bad place mentally. He said he intended to write a followup to cap the series off in a lighter way but then died before he was able to.
Hey, so far N Korea looks like villain with "zero" cases.
Oregon redefines “Abundance of Caution” by shutting down online schools
Amazon isn't going to put much effort into automating reminders for you to keep your bill low.
If the customer dies, the lifetime value of the customer is almost-certainly lower.

Great companies find ways to help their customers thrive.
This is Apple we're talking about -- and Apple is what other OEMs want to be when they grow up. Not only will the Apple-designed ARM CPUs perform at or above the level of a similarly-specced Intel machine, but the ISA transition will be seamless, with a nearly-invisible Intel binary compatibility layer that does on-the-fly JITing. Otherwise, they simply won't release it at all.
To be fair to the C++ version, you need to give as many guarantees from your code as C++ does from compiling. To me, in this case this is mainly the output formatting. Python won't tell you until runtime that you have a malformatted string, so add in some unit tests to make sure your string formatting won't crash, and you'll be at a similar number of lines of code as the C++ or Rust version.
One would hope that after making both of the previous Mac CPU migrations, Adobe has all the CPU-specific stuff in their codebases well-charted, and is already playing with beta hardw— no what am I saying, I’ve been using Adobe stuff for twenty years now and they’ve only gotten less nimble over time, I don’t expect to even see a build for the beta test program until at least a year and a half after ARM Macs are on the market.

Maybe I’ll get an Arm Air in ‘22. My 2017 Pro should still be viable until then for what I do.
Janki Method: Using spaced repetition to learn and retain technical knowledge
First, this is nothing like 2008, to which it's being compared.

In 2008 you had misbehaving companies taking huge risks with the (correct) assumption that they were too big to fail.

But what we have now is the government forcing businesses closed. It only makes sense that the government provide some assistance to those companies.

It feels great to quote Chomsky and to feel morally pure, I've certainly done it. But the truth is you would not like the result of that purity should the government follow that advice. The Federal Government and Federal Reserve acted in a ideologically pure fashion in 1929, and it caused a depression and hurt working people the most.

Secondly, we do have assistance programs for workers that have been laid off.
It worked out well the previous two times.

I bought a PPC Mac 9 months after they first made the switch. Most of my software was already native. Within the next year, all of the important software was native.
How Much Should the Public Know About Who Has the Coronavirus?
Their numbers though seem to show they are not on the same curve as some other countries. Low/flatish daily increases, flat to lower deaths per day.

Maybe what they're doing works for them for some other reason.

EDIT: though the higher relative numbers of severe cases and deaths might indicate they don't know how many cases they really have.
I consider Steinbeck's way of creating a multi-character narrative that so completely encompasses human nature in as many ways as he does one of the most rewarding experiences I've ever had reading. I would compare the satirical cynicism of the multifaceted characters of Catch-22 (a recommendation) to the rich characters of EoE.
When I was in med school you didn't die because of the flu. People died because they had diabetes or HTA which got some complications like low immunity, a failing kidney and so on.

Did these things change in current medicine?
It looks like the government depositing sufficient cash into your bank account to prevent defaulting on debts.
> After a long winter, it's just become warm enough to sit outside in the Swedish capital

A “long” winter? It‘s been a record-breakingly mild winter. It felt like we went from autumn, through a weekend of snow, directly to spring.
I'm not sure exactly what processor AWS uses, but assuming you match the db.r5.24xlarge's 48 cores, the Xeon Platinum 8160 is the closest match for the processor - ~$5k. The ram is likely ddr3 16gb ecc memory, so 768gb at $50/stick (you might be able to find a better price) is $2400. As for disk, the price of the instance doesn't include disk size since it's an EBS-only server.

The actual price comes from SQL server enterprise edition. A mysql db.r5.24xlarge multi-az prorated for 3 years is $219,551, which is ~$600 less per month than on-demand pricing. However, sqlserver-ee is 2,782,588. I believe this comes from per-core pricing for sql server. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQZT7wl1yvav...

Note - all prices were North Virginia, the original tweet was regarding servers in Bahrain.
Since the travels from abroad are all stopped now, there is less chance for the virus to get there. Maybe they'll be lucky enough to be the last ones without the large outbreak, and all the others being locked down won't bring it there?
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Sweden is outlier in COVID-19 restrictions
Yeah, other OEMs want to grow up to have butterfly keyboards, don't they?
I guess him having ego won't post poor people a single cent who badly need job at this time.
A schema is basically a namespace within a database.
The max loan is $10M though. And the amount of the loan is based on 2.5x the average monthly payroll costs for the year prior to the application date. So it seems like there are a few loopholes:

a) If you have monthly payroll that is higher than 4M a month (2.5x4m=10M), than you can cut payroll and not have your total loan amount impacted (although it might impact the amount of loan forgiveness)

b) If you hired a ton of people over the last year, your average monthly payroll costs is going to be lower than your current payroll costs. And seeing as how the comparison period for forgiveness is the first half of 2019, this gives companies a free pass to cut employment to those levels without punishment.

So yeah, not all companies would benefit from layoffs (particularly smaller companies that have no little or no employment growth in the past year), but it seems like at least some could. The caveat here is I am not very familiar with the bill, so I may be missing some clauses that protect against the above scenario.

EDIT: Also, its not clear to me how the 25% salary cut exemption and the max $100k clause play into this. It seems like the payroll ratios that are used to adjust the loan forgiveness amount don't get adjusted. So in the above loopholes, instead of laying off employees, you could cut salaries without penalty. Alternatively, you could cut salaries by 25% but add more employees to the payroll to get the same monthly total in order to qualify for the full forgiveness.
I can smell this comment.
They are comparing a lower end $200 GPU from early 2014 against a higher end $5000 FPGA board from 2016.

That doesn’t make everything irrelevant, but it’s definitely a weird to publish a paper about this in 2019.
Exponentials look linear when you are on them and they are small. There are no magic answers here.
Sure it fooled people, it fooled me, but was it really funny? I mean, did you laugh? I was surprised (pleasantly even), but it's not like it made me giggle.
It's way more complex than that. This is completely between the Saudi's and Russians. US shale is just a unintended consequence (tho temporarily good for them.)

Damage to US shale is unintended and the Saudi's know it will be very temporary. The US companies have a near endless supply of capital, especially now with the federal government being on a spending spree. The shale fields can be easily turned off and on. Loans can be restructured and renegotiated. The last time the Saudi's tried to aim their efforts at the US it ACTUALLY caused the US shale oil companies to consolidate, innovate and they brought their production costs down significantly! The US oil industry is extremely resilient.

The goal for the Saudi's is to bring the Russians to the negotiating table and get them to agree to a meaningful cut in oil production, nothing less than 1 million bpd. They've basically said this. Their strategy is completely aimed at the Russians. The Saudi's are filling EVERY port and transfer station in the world with their cheap crude. The Russians transport all their oil in pipelines. If demand drops for Russian oil, they will be forced to turn off their wells because their pipelines can't handle extra oil, and the Russians have no where to store the extra. The Russians don't want to turn off their oil wells because its dangerous, it usually takes them offline for a long time, and they're expensive to get started again.
This is what the VCs want their dependents to do, to keep them suckling at the teet. It doesn't make sense otherwise.
This is totally backwards and makes no sense, I agree.

Bailout money should come only for those who keep the work force in place. European countries have a thing called "short-time work", where you put staff on restricted schedules and the government pays e.g. 80% of the difference between the normal and the shortened hours. This is thightly coupled to not being able to do mass layoffs while "short-time work" is in place.
But for various other reasons, that's not likely to happen in the U.S.
No? That would mean going up by 30x every decade, which would obviously quickly exceed people's entire income.

I checked mine, and the past 3 annual increases were 7.7%, 13.3% and 6.9%.

edit: I should add I'm on an individual plan purchased directly from an insurer, not a group or employer plan.
I recommend you read books 2 and 3 in the REP series. TBP is comparatively really slow (IMO necessarily), but the series really picks up in 2 and 3 in a way that makes you appreciate the foundation that book 1 laid.
why does it have to be april 1st though? what about moving it to another day?
Doesn't Gin still have big issues where it's not compatible with native net/http middleware?
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I don’t agree with the idea that this is accidental. It’s the specific thing they do, they do it with rigor and engineering. If they get it wrong they go out of business.

They are the central agents of information discovery and we all reap the benefits of the massive amount effort they put into those activities.

If anything I think we should be endeavoring to make health insurance more like traditional insurance to provide those efficiencies more broadly
All the Nordic countries underestimated the pandemic. Norway switched their goal from mitigation to suppression a few days ago, Finland is still teetering somewhere in between, and Sweden is solidly in the mitigation camp. Government officials in these countries seemed incapable of accepting just how horrible the situation is, so they only created optimistic models of the pandemic. Finland and Norway have released more and more pessimistic models each week, while Sweden has kept theirs secret for some reason.

I fear Sweden is still basing their approach on those optimistic models, that likely don't apply to this particular pandemic. They seem to be making the same mistake UK did, except they haven't changed paths yet. They say they are only doing what is "scientifically proven", without realizing that peer review and randomized controlled trials alone are not enough for situations where decisions need to be made in short time with imperfect information.
One of Warren Buffett's primary fears is weapons of mass destruction, I think since the 70s (as stated in his semi-autobiography, Snowball). During the cold-war, he put things like this (paraphrasing from memory): if there's a 4% chance of nuclear war per annum, there's a 70% chance of it happening over the next 30 years. If we reduce the annual chance to 2%, we reduce the 30-year chance to 45%.
Businesses that are crucial will be recipients of that air drop spending, as will the employees of those businesses. Cat litter task management SaaS apps? Not so much.
Nope, they have to respond to lower economic activity. If a business goes bust they get voids.

This is not a normal period where one failing company can simply be replaced by another successful one.
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> Good people existing does not imply that everyone else is bad.

It implies that to the immoral who pretend they’re moral. It reminds them of their own hollowness, which provokes a lashing out.
Even in the United States, most small business loans require personal guarantees which narrowly override the corporate limited liability to make that guarantor liable for that debt if the company doesn't pay. There are some rare exceptions, and possibly more for startups funded by big-name VCs, but I don't know.
I've been thinking a lot about Camus's The Plague lately, for obvious reasons:

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

I read it years ago (in translation). I didn't especially enjoy it. But it made an impression and insofar it's stuck with me, I'd say the impact was positive. Or maybe "profound" is a better way to put it.
It's interesting seeing how many of my touchstone books turn up in other people's lists. Here are some I didn't see yet:

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness. My favorite Le Guin (the Dispossessed is pretty good too). Shockingly original when it was published in 1969; the portrait of the society and culture on Gethen still feels unique. A slow burn at the beginning, but builds to a dramatic conclusion.

Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey-Maturin series. Probably the best historical fiction ever written. Rich tapestry of life during the Napoleonic Wars. Set in the Royal Navy during the Age of Sail, but that description doesn't do it justice; O'Brian's great inspiration was Jane Austen, and the focus is on characters and people, particularly the brilliantly contrasting personalities of the two main characters.

Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate. Like Tolstoy's War and Peace, but set in Russia during WWII. Explores the dark heart of the 20th century (the Battle of Stalingrad, concentration camps, the gulag) through the eyes of a wide cast of characters from different walks of life. Grossman wrote about Stalingrad from firsthand experience as a war journalist, and is able to uncover moments of hope and human kindness amid horrifying world-historical events.

Books others have already mentioned:

* Tolstoy, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
* Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (interesting how several people mention this one; I used to think it was my own private discovery).
* Neal Stephenson, especially Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle

And the obligatory Tolkien and Douglas Adams that I read and re-read as a teenager.
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.

Wild by Cheryl Strayed - not strictly fiction but it could be read as such. Opened my mind to areas of society I wasn't aware of.
Yeah, especially with ThinkGeek gone this year I was really hoping Google had something good.
Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, for a coming of age story, using nanotechnology as a futuristic concept for understanding the differences of being fed one's needs and being given the tools for meeting them.

Steinbeck's East of Eden for coming to grips with a fundamental moral struggle of what is good and what is choice.

Anything ever written by Kurt Vonnegut for the proper cynicism needed to live in this world.

Oscar Wilde for that same cynicism minus the science fiction, plus more witty one liners.
It's rather self-victimizing to refer to what has occurred here as someone "grilling" you about the specifics of your life or being invasive.

If you don't want to discuss your apartment size, then I suggest to stop listing the contents and layout. It doesn't appear to me that others have a particular interest in your living specifics.

Myself I would find none of this to be invasive, offensive, threatening, or even very personal. As someone with extended multiple illnesses I do not have a secure living situation and I'm entirely unconcerned what fairly anonymous people know or think about it.
Show HN: Yet another Covid-19 visualizer
Saved them a day or two maybe? They were looking for a reason to fire them.
self >> java
The part about how companies destroy autonomy demonstrates a lack of understanding of one's place. What they are describing is what people expect in a leadership position, not an individual contributor position. Expecting the construction worker to have the autonomy to decide the design of the house is simply moronic. That's the difference between being a developer and being the product owner. Granted, the product owner needs to know what they are doing, which is the actual problem they are not identifying in this article. It's all about leadership, and people starting as individual contributors who first learn to lead themselves and their egos, growing in their role through the five levels of leadership, being mentored and becoming a mentor before becoming someone with the power and authority to be a product owner. Know it all developers haven't mastered level 1 yet, let alone their egos. They are simply the kid who wants to horde all the toys and haven't learn to respect the toy owners let alone that the toys aren't theirs.
Yeah all this "keep the payroll going" is an excuse to keep all the existing ownership in place. Helicopter money and let the firms go bankrupt, or if you must (ugh) take equity and create a sovereign wealth fund or disburse the shares among the people.

We can't keep the old oligopoly and bail them out. Loans and grants are both bailouts.
I imagine it could have been less than $6 million/year if the state was willing and able to recertify the equipment in the same way the DoD does with medications.

https://archive.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44979

I think state and federal government should work together to create and fund independent state/federal agencies to handle the storage, handling, and certification of stockpiled goods. It'd probably pay for itself fairly quickly.

Edit - That could be a problem for many politicians. I imagine a lot of pork comes from replacing expensive equipment and supplies.
Looks like Sweden doesn't stand out much in its case growth compared to neighbors:

https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?country=Finland&country=Ger...
It’s worth mentioning here that if you find yourself accidentally running up an AWS bill you can get in touch with their customer support, explain the mistake and ask for amnesty.

I once accidentally ran up a $2.8k bill and after explaining the situation they added a credit to my account to cancel out the charge at the end of the month. They obviously review it case by case but it’s definitely worth a shot.
May have something to do with Germany closing their borders: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51905129
God damn, I love Chomsky.

To Chomsky's point, in America we don't even have capitalism- we have "socialism for the rich," and when you propose "real capitalism" the capitalists run for their pitchforks and knives. My favorite fact about capitalism, is that in a truly free market society, there's zero economic profit. What most people consider "profit" (or as I know it "the cream") is actually a sign of market manipulation whereby those profiting are paying less than they should for their labor, rent, and/or supplies.

Recommending socialism in America is always met with resistance, but I have no idea... Workers who claim to be capitalists, and I would think want to maximize their realized revenue, don't want to be paid what their worth going against their own philosophy. They accept the market as it is as pure and perfect when that is empirically not the case. Right now "socialism" would be a market correcting force, returning a lot of power and money to labor.

I could literally go on for hours... so I'll stop here.
It makes me sad that I can't read these books for the first time again. I reread them often. Surprisingly enough, my favorite book of the series was The Redemption of Time, a fourth book written by a fan with the blessing of Liu Cixin. If you haven't read it yet and you enjoyed TBP then you're one lucky sumbitch.
You know, color me stupid, but at this time, I don't think we need this kind of languid, laconic writing. It reads like a retrospective of the situation, but it's hardly begun.
Saying that Apple will do this because they are using a coprocessor is like saying Apple was going to run Mac software on 65C02 because the IIFx included two 65C02 processors.

But during the PPC transition, you could buy a PPC daughter card for 68040 Macs to run PPC software but you couldn’t use them simultaneously.
I'm confused because the statement doesn't make sense. Accurate reporting is orthogonal to the ability to backfill.
The article states that he did that in 2015. This tweet is retrospective.
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Other than Linux distros, almost every home OS on ARM is a locked-down anti-consumer mess. Android, Windows RT, iOS, Windows X, Chrome OS. I'm hoping MacOS doesn't follow them down that road of locked bootloaders and anti-root restrictions.
Both previous switches were fast enough that an emulation layer could get most legacy stuff running at a decent speed, I wouldn’t be surprised if the same went for this one. We did just have the 64-bit apocalypse though.
I have made this wiki/directory using Webflow+Jetboost(for the filters, search). a one stop wiki for COVID-19 resources: trackers, dashboards, projects, hackathons, guides, donations, masks, ventilators, volunteering opportunities, offers/free tools. Something for everybody.

I am aware that categories aren't shown on each item right now. That's an issue with Webflow, workaround a bit complex. Will try to implement.
Also, this is my 1st Show HN :)

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How would you describe your experience with the Baroque cycle?
I knew I'd get a few down votes, but facts are facts and we can't down vote them:

https://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/wages-vs-corporate-prof...
> You can use radar satellite imagery of your various business facilities such as parking lots, logistic centers, and retail stores

Could this be used to monitor someone's home?
Posted this in case there are kids out there that need something to do in these times of social distancing.
Sure, but there will still be an oversupply when demand goes back to normal.
Actually, conda + pip works pretty decently too. Conda lets you pull in different interpreter versions and manage them, install certain compiled extensions easily, and still install pip packages as normal when you need them. Recently, `conda config --set pip_interop_enabled True` was added as an option you could set to let conda be aware of pip packages when resolving dependencies.
The issue I think is that it is just one thing as opposed to 4 different ones. Now I prefer pip and friends but I remember starting out it was hard to figure out and remember the interplay between all them. Especially with Windows in the mix conda was just much simpler.