skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah no, cubesats use a different definition of "1U" which is a 10x10x10 cm cube (1L volume). So a 3U satelitte will be 30x10x10 cm box with a 3L volume and mass around 4-5kg
>"We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders."

Seems to be a cherry picked statistic, not an overall increase in utilization.
Those who spend time and energy in this Glimpse project will never help the inclusion of anyone. They just repackage a software with a new name and a new theme. If the inclusion of some people was their priority, they should work as social workers. They're just wankers who think that renaming other's work will make the world better...
Looks neat! Would you ever consider adding a mode that skips code generation?
I've considered that for a long time, but the trouble is it's not as robust, not to mention there's also a script time limit which I would hit as a result of having other scripts...
SQLite: The LIKE, GLOB, REGEXP, and MATCH operators
We do have some increased understanding of that at this point. It's their own immune system reaction that often kills those people. It's happening with Covid as well in younger people that are otherwise healthy.

And we know that 90% of all Covid cases are occuring in areas in a temp zone of 37-64 degrees. Covid hates higher temperatures, as with influenza. The media refuses to report the facts: not all locations are equally susceptible. It's why NY and NJ have 50% of all US cases now. It's why the Phoenix metro of five million people, or the states of Nevada or New Mexico or Texas are not seeing the pandemic. It's why so many of Florida's cases are imported. It's why when you cross below roughly the Pennsylvania line, cases per capita plunge. It's why DC and Baltimore aren't drowning in cases, while NYC is (check out the lack of cases and hospitalizations in Delaware and Virginia). It's why the bay area, despite its near 8m population, has so few cases (which the media breathlessly touts as suddenly about to explode into the trillions - it's not going to happen). It's why Mexico, the rest of Latin America, and sub saharan Africa (as well as hot climates in Asia, including within China), are not seeing the pandemic in the numbers that were expected. It's why NYC, Milan, and Wuhan got hit so hard. It's the climates.
Your tone seems to be that it's either allocate by price or by standing in line.

But it's analogous to toilet paper. If you are limited to one package per trip through the checkout line, yes, you can consider that to be allocating by willingness to stand in line. But the intent is simply to have a (not terribly strict) quota, and not to have you go through many times.

So it isn't as fundamentally screwed up as proof-of-work. Nobody is supposed to actually treat it that way.
Why don’t we want manual labourers?

Because they are weaker and less efficient than machines.

If I had the choice and can afford to choose between a person picking fruit and a machine picking fruit, I will pick the machine.

A human will get sick. A machine won’t.

A human needs breaks and insurance and have to be paid. Machines don’t.

If a human is broken, a life is affected. If a machine breaks down, it can be repaired and sent to the fields to work again.

Also, I can depreciate a machine as a deduction. When a human ‘depreciates’ for someone to profit from that, it is a crime against our own species.

I am a god in my farm because I own it. I don’t know any farmer who would pick unreliable, easily breakable, under paid(if they have a conscience, it should bother them) human worker over reliable machines because the prime directive of a business is to stay viable and profitable. The farmer wants to make a profit and hopefully in an ethical and sustainable manner.

Human workers for repetitive manual unskilled jobs is not sustainable.
Every time I look into the flu I'm reminded just how big of a deal it is. The 2017-2018 season was particularly bad in the US, but I don't really recall a ton of press about it. Some stats from the CDC for the US alone:

“CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2017–2018 season was high with an estimated 45 million people getting sick with influenza, 21 million people going to a health care provider, 810,000 hospitalizations, and 61,000 deaths from influenza.” (emphasis mine)

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden-averted/2017-2018.htm

Will be interesting to see what all of the social distancing/quarantine does for the flu. The map at healthweather.us has been pretty interesting to watch. Personally I think they just screwed up the 'atypical' visualization by stretching it back to March 1st rather than showing present, but if you click on any county and scroll down you will see that they are almost all below standard observed illness for this time of year.

https://healthweather.us/
This is great. The response for decades to suggestions to change the name was "fork it if you don't like the name." Someone finally took them up on it and we get to see what happens with two competing open source image editors.
It is possible that more people than usual are dying from other causes (heart disease, cancer, injuries) because the overwhelmed medical system is unable to treat them.
I did a six month consulting gig for Raytheon on their GPS OCX project — building the next-generation ground control systems to manage the current fleet of GPS satellites, plus the next-generation fleet of satellites.

The rule at Raytheon was that Lockheed got the easy end of the job — they just had to design, build, and launch the new fleet. It was Raytheon who got the really hard end of the job, because they had to be able to seamlessly manage both the new and old fleets.

I would submit that designing, building, and operating the ground control systems remains the hardest part of the job, even if you don’t have a legacy fleet of satellites that you have to manage on top of the new fleet.

Think about it — when you’re doing the operations side of the house, you have to be perfect, all the time. That one time you aren’t perfect and your opsec fails, you lose. The other guys just have to be right once, and they can keep trying and trying and trying indefinitely, until they get that one time they win. That’s definitely the harder job.
Sibling is correct. Aquaponics is a (partially) closed loop system where fish provide nitrogen for the roots, and the plants clean the water for the fish. You still need to feed the fish and sometimes balance the water pH.
I think there is a momentum effect if the percentage of infectious people gets high enough. Where you overshoot the static herd-immunity threshold. If you can keep the number of infected below 10% then you don't see it. At least that's what I saw when I tried to model it. (Take that as you will).
If you can solve the problem of oxygenating blood without damaging white cells, you'd be onto something.
Again, nobody is saying that ventilator boot camp graduates should replace doctors. If there is a concern that there will be more people who need ventilators than we have medical professionals to operate ventilators - then the answer is that we need to quickly increase numbers of ventilator-operators - even if they are substandard.

Perhaps you think our capacity won't be overwhelmed. Then it would make perfect sense not to bother training amateur operators. If you think an amateur operator is worse than no operator, I'd like to see your evidence. If all you have is your intuition then my intuition is that you're wrong.
What a ridiculously incorrect statement.

SARS back in 2002 only lasted 3 flu seasons before being entirely wiped out naturally.

SARS-CoV-2 which we are dealing with here is a related virus.

> No cases of the first SARS-CoV have been reported worldwide since 2004.

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

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sars/
This is reminiscent of the people who ask, "Why would anyone buy a pre-loaded Linux laptop, Dell's Developer Editions, when you can already install it on an older Thinkpad?"

Service, support, ease of use and setup, and, in the case of something that might be visible in a readily trafficked area, aesthetics.

If those things are not valuable to you (and they may not be) then you are not the target audience.
> But the thing I'm mostly pissed of is the status page. VM's are failing left, right and center and everything is nice and green on the status page.

There are three kinds of lies... lies, damned lies, and cloud service status pages.
There a few possible (and reasonable) explanations in the HN comments, one more is that often covid-19 leads to pneumonia and that may be what is attributed as the cause of death, (nefarious or not).

I did hear rumors of Japan doing this intentionally to make it look more under control than it was.

Another possibility is that medical resources are being monopolized by covid patients, or people don't want to go to hospital for fear of catching it themselves. This situation is still caused by covid but wouldn't be shown in the reported deaths from covid.

The article brings up a valid concern, but doesn't explore any other possibile explainations which is irresponsible when people are already panicking.
If so, it's still indirectly caused by the pandemic.
Precisely. It seems like most manufacturing & supply chains have some elasticity for increased demand, e.g., toilet paper manufacturers were able to increase production either 10% or 20% very quickly (I forget which), but after going all out with 24 hour shifts, you can't do much more in the short term. Also, the more companies that have to do this, the more likely there will be correlated supply chains that feed those companies their raw materials, meaning the issue contaminates the supply & logistics process one more link up the chain.
Unfortunately, this uses a horribly inaccurate algorithm that's been floating around the internet for more than a decade [1]. It seems that the Firefox dev tools do the same thing [2]. As far as I'm concerned, this is worse than not having such a simulation at all, since it gives people a false sense of accommodating individuals with color vision deficiencies.

The Colorspacious Python library [3] does a proper job, using the algorithm of Machado et al. (2009) [4], which is what's considered state-of-the-art.

[1] https://github.com/MaPePeR/jsColorblindSimulator#the-colorma...
[2] https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/tip/devtools...
[3] https://colorspacious.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html...
[4] https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2009.113
Grains are commodity crops and mechanization has already hyper optimized that sector.
It's morally wrong to ask donations for someone else's work. I'll reevaluate my opinion once they achieve something original.
I don't know what the distribution of deaths looks like normally, but a 4x difference is going to be several sigma unlikely in any reasonable one.

Also, consider that it happened exactly at the same time coronavirus deaths spiked, which seems vanishingly unlikely to be a coincidence.
Just wait until the deaths of despair hit from the crashed economy and isolation. Alcoholism, opiates.
Any sources to back up this claim?
Did I just miss it, or is there no information about price, where to get it, whether it's available now, etc?

It looks interesting, and if it were the right price I might actually want one.

As far as I can tell there's only the signup for more info (no, thanks) - or some links to github and some social media.
Ask HN: Is now a good time to invest in ETFs?
There was a huge drop in all major indices. Is now a good time to invest in exchange traded funds?
Ok, so I just measured with a C "hello world".

My dynamically-linked executable is 8296 bytes on disc. My statically-linked executable is 844,704 bytes on disc.

So if I had a "goodbye world" program as well, that's a saving of about 800KB on disc.

Now one can argue the economics of saving a bit under a megabyte in a time where an 8GB microSD card costs under USD5 in single quantities, but you can't argue that it's a relatively big saving.

At runtime, the dynamic version uses (according to top) 10540 KB virtual, 540 KB resident, and 436 KB shared. The static version uses 9092 KB virtual, 256 KB resident, and 188 KB shared.

I haven't investigated those numbers.
Was in the news that in China the funeral homes urn deliveries are suspiciously larger than expected. In Russia there is a spike of pneumonia looking like dicease and deaths...
The grocery stores are low on stock because of selfish people panic buying, not because there's not enough food. The supply chain is still functioning normally.
95% of the world population does not know this word and its special meaning...
I love that it has a terminal block. Secure connection and no soldering.
I think when all the dust will settle, we will know the real death count by doing a delta of total deaths of 2020 vs. 2019 and 2018. There will be two main reasons of the extra deaths:

1. Deaths related directly by Covid-19. (either the disease itself, or the underlying conditions got worse by the disease)

2. People that didn't have the coronavirus, but died because they couldn't get the usual care due to hospitals being totally overwhelmed (things like heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, insuline/asma shock, etc... turn into death sentences)

Same as in war, while many deaths are caused directly by the fighting, a lot of the other extra deaths are indirect (famine, disease... etc)/
> Herd immunity kicks in when a large fraction of the people you encounter were already infected

Alternatively, immunized people.
I don't think an expenditure cap is so simple. Exactly what happens when you hit it? If you have, let's say, 3 RDS DBs and 20 EC2 instances running and a bunch of stuff in S3 and a few dozen SQS queues and a few DynamoDB tables etc, and your account goes over the limit, how do you decide which service you want to automatically cut?
China’s reliance on US-origin platforms for deep learning raises questions
Some products or services, every customer needs about the same amount, or the same minimum amount. It seems reasonable to have a maximum allocation in a crisis for those.

If different people need vastly different amounts of something, either they are able to judge, in which case prices work, or they are not, in which case some independent means of allocation has to be used.

I don't think waiting in line is a good method, but that doesn't mean unregulated prices always are either.
Small molten salt reactors were actually built. They weren't just paper reactors, even in Rickover's day. Now there are companies working on MSRs for commercial use. There's more computer simulation than running reactors so far, partly because governments are much more cautious now. But I'll also point out that Rickover in 1957 had no idea what computers in 2020 would be capable of.

I think it's reasonable to suspect that we didn't find the best possible reactor design six decades ago.
Yes, and they also say that if you're hitting quotas, you can try another less congested region. If you have established workloads in a region though, I'm not sure how quickly you can migrate a complex interplay of services to another region-- are there simple tools to do so in Azure?
>> "Americans should learn[...]"

I don't think any of the developers are American.
Pure PHP OpenGL(SDL) Demo
Buffers.
"You’re not writing code, you’re solving problems" is true, but in an appropriately bad company its also true and maybe much more important:

You are not solving problems, you are writing code.

That's when management or upper levels in hierarchy are not experts and have no idea what's the software and the particular problem is about and micromanage.

My point is that the warning the title refers to is real, but there is another (bigger) problem when people know they are not solving the problem the right way but they are forced to ship asap and "just code".
Without debating the legality of these orders, stopping people from leaving seems counter productive. The government / police has more important things to do in this time of crisis. The people leaving are going to become someone else's problem.
You seem to be obsessed with minimizing food prices as the end goal of liberals. It is not. This argument is entirely inside your head.

Check Switzerland for a society with high food prices and high minimum wage. This is the kind of society liberals are advocating for.
Moderators: is it possible to have "(in Italy)" added to the title?

It's not clear this can be extrapolated to other countries. (In fact, they reference South Korea as a benchmark for the true value.)
I'm not seeing how the information you cite forms a counterargument against the comment you replied to. Did you mean to post this elsewhere?
> If you are offended by the fact we renamed the project, we suggest you continue using the GNU Image Manipulation Program instead of annoying our contributors and making more work for our moderators.

Isn’t that ironic
All the statistics seem like a mess for this - we know every single region is doing different amounts of testing with many only testing highly symptomatic people, yet all these are being combined together. Then different protocols for what counts as different levels of severity etc. It will be interesting when people have had more time to sort through the data and clean it up properly what the real estimates of mortality and transmission actually are. Right now everything seems plausible right through from 50% of the population already had it and is immune through to the death rate being drastically under-estimated and we are about to experience an apocolyptic event for humanity ....
Fair enough. Additionally, most large companies are probably too risk-averse to greenlight true comedy. Comedy necessarily involves risk; risk of not having your joke land, risk of offending, and so on. There's a good reason that most comedians try out new material in small venues.
I've been contracting in the UK for "a while". The last couple of years the gov was pushing the IR35 agenda to increase HMRC revenue, making contractors "super expensive employees without benefits". This year majority of the calls I got were within IR35 (no more Ltd) or Umbrella.

Up until 2019 vast majority of calls/contracts offered to me (in the IT Audit/Risk/Security, GRC areas) were Ltd. I guess large Financial Services companies enjoy the 2mil liability insurance. Because if little-me messes up, their will get jack-shit :) It was also making the "contracting for a project and not an employee" scenario.
In general, not necessarily with Microsoft, the problem is that once people get their money back, then the vendor can't pay its bills and you have a potential for the whole economy to go into a seizure if enough people are like "oh, free market, sanctity of contracts" etc.

This is happening in real time:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/29/coronavirus-mall-owner-taubm...
So if the mortality rate of the decease is what it is in Germany or Korea - about 0.5% but the number of dead is 4x the official 10.000. Then about 8 mio - ca 15% - of Italy’s population has had it. Is that really correct?
We didn't have enough expertise to do all that nor did we own the billing info. We also didn't spend too much time because it was moot. We shut down everything we could see and ate the bill.
Other common examples are COKE (who don’t make Coca Cola) and HP (who don’t make computers).

In some Asian markets they use numbers for tickets (and some people invest based on superstitions about those numbers)
The Alchemist of course!
Also perhaps the reason that the Chinese government kicked out so many Western Journalists lately....
That might be true, but they cite the name as the main motivation to change.
The numbers really don't seem consistent across all the countries. Just one example is the death rate in Germany is 0.9% while the death rate in Spain is 8.5%, nearly a magnitude of difference with both countries have several 10s of thousands of cases, and that number varies between the two extremes all over the continent (and world).
Preferential copying – making sense of decision making during a pandemic
WTF, they forked GIMP because they didn’t like the NAME?

That alone is reason enough to shun the project.

Douchey.
Very true, some companies boast about 10,000 registered users. When in reality there's only 100 daily active users...

I think the problem is that companies want to appear bigger than they are. Saying they use AWS Cloud Stuff is a selling point to investors who have a distorted understanding of how scaling works...

The cloud service companies are marketed to entice people into buying services they don't need... yet/ever
Has anyone seen any data on how this has made the average daily deaths in the US rise? I know that number probably isn’t updated real time like the Covid-19 numbers. I think that would really show how much this is affecting us if the numbers go up drastically over the expected amount of deaths per year.

I have found the averages from last year, but haven’t seen any more up to date data on that.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
How the CDC is trying to forecast coronavirus’s spread
I believe you're arguing against a strawman, as I never made an argument for a "global experience". My experiences indeed occurred in America, where the name GIMP was an obstacle to its adoption. It's a linguistic issue, so it shouldn't surprise anyone if it differs with language.
> Galois ... suggesting there was something fishy in Poisson’s delay.

Heh
Currently not every building's WiFi is accessible to you. Second, WiFi only has a limited range. If your house is at the edge of settlement for example and you take a walk in nature (or just the nearest park!), you won't get any WiFi after the first dozen meters. That area may very well be covered by cellular though. Cellular has a much higher range and will still be very important.
> I did hear rumors of Japan doing this intentionally to make it look more under control than it was.

That is probably happening in Japan because of lack of testing (it's almost impossible to get tested) and ultimately "up to the physicians" - and as you mention it's also possible there are some strict government guidelines to make it look less serious than it actually is, but who knows...
I think there are already a few good probable explanations here. However without more clear data it is hard to find the real drivers.
If you can genetically engineer a more efficient plant for growing in a field, you can genetically engineer a plant that's more efficient to grow under LEDs, no? I don't see how a hypothetical breakthrough in generic engineering makes vertical farming a mad fantasy. There are certain crops that can't be grown in high yield monocultures and have to be transported from other parts of the world. I'm sure there are many cases where the math works, and I don't think most people are talking about growing corn indoors when they talk about vertical farming.
Naturally? SARS was wiped out through unprecedented containment efforts by a multitude of nations. Its annihilation was very much artificial and was extraordinarily costly.
I don't know what i want. I just want to help and also need an excuse to buy a 3d printer :)