skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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You can't because there's not enough RAM to hold all the numbers. So you'd be sorting the input as it arrives, yes, and then at some point you'd run out of RAM and have to stop processing new numbers.
ok, you think the fast lane is not part of net neutrality to begin with. I'm on the side where words have meaning.
If the number of lives saved by making best use of partial information exceeds the number of lives lost because of people who fail to understand the concept, then that's a net benefit.
I don't think these fears of terrorism or flesh-eating bacteria are irrational.

The underlying thread here is about control. You can control your diet and lifestyle, and therefore your chances of dying from heart disease. You can't control whether that guy with the backpack on the subway car is carrying a bomb.

It's the same reason why people are way more afraid of flying than driving despite the statistics saying that driving kills way more people. If you or your spouse is behind the wheel, you feel more in control.

The whole point of fear is it focuses on unexpected enemies, like predators.
"can't pay" is not overwhelming the system, that's overwhelming greed.
They didn’t implement it in proper VHDL/Verilog. They used OpenCL compiler, what is a great waste of resources. Of course, this way for comparison was quick.

Good solution would be high level synthesis from Matlab/Python/C instead of blindly replicating OpenCL kernels designed for GPU. Might work even better on less fancy FPGA than Arria 10.
> Did you spend ten seconds googling

Please don't be a jerk in comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You’re comment reminds me of the reluctant success of sending teenagers on bomber raids in in WWII over Germany. As opposed to relying on only experienced airmen, which there went enough of.

Younger doctors without 4 years onsite experience are still probably extremely capable and I’m sure you’re right, they can learn how to do a subset of their eventual job very short amount of time and do it well if given the chance.

It sounds like there is some fundamental idealogical opposition to this.

I have a friend who is going through her residency now, she has to deal with a lot of very unhealthy psychological and physical treatment (ridiculously long hours) to get through it. Sounds more like a hazing than a professional introduction.
I already have Windows PCs (SP4 + Desktop)and while W10 has come a long way, it's not as stable as macOS. Catalina is just as bad as Vista IMO.

However, macOS is still better IMO because I still have a lot of issues on Windows; all stemming from MS shipping bad updates. Two months ago, a Windows update broke my bluetooth completely and I had to wait a month for another Windows update/driver to fix it. Last year, a bad update forced me to reinstall Windows because it was freezing all the time and I couldn't restore a system point either.

As for macOS, I never had to do a reinstall (except one time that was entirely my fault) in more than a decade. W7/W10, I had to do it 5 or so times in last few years. Catalina however lost my respect for macOS, that was the worst update of all time.
I never thought of it like that before, that reading sci-fi at an early age opens up your imagination to what's possible, in your life and in the world. It definitely had that effect on me now that I think about it.
Not voted in any way, but I cannot figure out what you tried to tell and how that would contribute to this discussion.
> I.e. once you’re over eighty, you have almost a 1% probability to die within the next month.

True absolutely, but not true if you condition on me being fit enough for a cruise today.
You can add a constraint to a generic declaration, which is an upper (or lower) bound on the allowable type arguments.

e.g.

class A<Y extends X> {
// in this scope, Y is known to be of at least type X,
// so, we can call methods on expressions of type Y
// that belong to type X (and not Object)
Y m() { ... }
}

Type arguments are omitted from usage sites. The technique is literally called erasure in papers and documentation.

a = new A<Foo>();
f = a.m(); // should return a Foo, in bytecode returns Y
// and compiler inserts a cast from Y -> Foo

Generic code is slower in Java because of these extra casts. To get back (most of) the performance, the JVM has to inline enough methods to be able to track the types from start to finish. It can't always.
> Now, I suppose in principle you could have a virus that causes respiratory symptoms, but that affects some other organ more than the lungs, but I'm not sure how plausible that is biologically

Chicken pox? It's spread through the respiratory system, but primarily affects the skin and nervous system. And it's enormously contagious: we wouldn't have a chance to contain it in a population that started with zero immunity.
It's not a silver lining: the number of serious cases remains the same and our ability to contain the epidemic is less effective.
That was my experience at both community college and California state schools
> Can you imagine the US government doing such a thing?

There are plenty of state governors that are completely ignoring the data, and are refusing to implement lockdowns like their neighbouring states. No need to imagine, it's already happening over here.
The accepted solution is some wizardry that works because 1M (just) fits into 1MB... I wonder if in the intervening years 1M hasn't become 2M or more?

I'm not really smart enough to come up with such a solution, I'd probably just try and find a way to plug something in between the input or output Ethernet port that has a bit more memory.
I think it speaks more to the fact that medical school is mostly focused on book learning and residency is when doctors get most of their hands-on experience.
> I have never heard of a case where they wouldn’t give refunds.

Really? Working in Southern California a few years ago, refund requests were refused ALL THE TIME. This is why there's a common belief that what you are charged you simply owe them, period.

It may be more progressive now, but let's not be revisionist.
We need a pandemic detection system, which is what I get out this blog post.
Not who you asked, but my mistake was transferring an S3 bucket full of unused old customer web assets to glacier, we were paying a lot to host them each month, and weren't using them anymore.

I set the lifecycle rule on all objects in the bucket, for as soon as possible (24 hours).

About 2 days later first thing in the morning I get a bunch of frantic messages from my manager that whatever script I was running, please stop it, before I'd even done anything for the day.

The lifecycle rule had taken effect near the end of the previous day, and he was just getting all the billing alerts from overnight, it was all done.

I read about glacier pricing, but didn't realize there was a lifecycle transfer fee per 1000 objects (I forget the exact price, maybe $0.05 per 1000 objects). That section was a lot further down the pricing page.

The bucket contained over 700 million small files.

I'd just blown $42,000.

That was over a month's AWS budget for us, in the end AWS gave us 10% back.

On the plus side, I didn't get in too much trouble, and given we'd break even in 4 years on S3 costs, upper management was gracious enough to see it as an unplanned investment.

TLDR: My company spent 42k for me to learn to read to the bottom of every AWS pricing page.
Likewise (also the flight part). I'd also add Canticle for Leibowitz on that "bucket".
You can run a database in the same instance, but all your tables have to fit in 0.6 TB or less, and hardware failures will cause downtime and possibly corruption.
mrbrianhinton says >" A single doctor who advertised that he had 600 patients, which only a few were tested and verified to have COVID-19 is not enough to data to base starting broad treatment."<

Zelenko wrote (above) that he had:

"669 PATIENTS SEEN IN MY MONROE, NY practice with either test proven or clinically diagnosed corona infection"

That "test proven" part is easy to miss.

Zelenko's study is not a randomized controlled double-blind study but, at 699 patients so far, it is definitely statistically significant.

It will be months, if not years, and quite possibly never before a controlled experiment occurs. Such an experiment could be deemed medically unethical because it withheld a highly-successful treatment from the control group:

"More than one way to measure":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1069666/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
Coronavirus (Covid- 19) Data Analysis
This, is not piracy.

I do understand that it may be instinctual to leap to that position, but it isn't.

Usually, the books that appear on IA appear under the doctrine of "fair use".

However, that doctrine is adaptable to circumstances (which is actually written into the US law that governs fair use). All IA has done here, really, is suspend their waitlists, to make it more fair to the public to be able to read further, for education to continue, within a crisis.

They've also made it very clear that this is temporary. If it wasn't, you might have a case that it isn't fair use.

Part of why this falls under fair use is that their focus is on books that do not have a digital copy, apart from IA's scan, available online. This is specifically something that libraries are granted the ability to do. To scan and upload books that are not yet available.

The books that appear in this collection have been donated. However, if an authour wishes to remove their book, then there is a very simple and effective way available to them. (Linked to from the article) [0]

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QjErbouWG7pUlzcxPcRk4YEt...
I don't know where you're from, but even a mild winter is always waaay too long in northern europe.
> It’s much harder to ramp up production of medical professionals.

I have a mixed opinion on this. In particular, I don't think we really need to create more skilled medical professionals, we just need to change the way they work.

Most of doctors have exposure to the basics of intubating and ventilation through medical school. Those without direct critical care experience would likely be absolutely terrible at it. However, they all still have the baseline knowledge. They're able to assess patients, read charts, and report on vitals.

I just asked my wife (a psychiatry resident) if she could intubate/ventilate a patient. Here response was, "If I were the last person alive, I could intubate. You wouldn't want me to do it, but I could do it. I don't know how to run a vent, but I'm sure I could figure it out if I consulted with a doctor/therapist that does". I think most non-critical care doctors would express the same opinion.

What I'm getting at is we have a large amount of doctors that can act as multipliers for intensivists, hospitalist, ER docs, and pulmonologists. They are able to do much of the time consuming work while relying on specialists to guide overall care plan and intervene the on most challenging cases.

----

Given how medicine works, the chances of actually seeing this in action are low. But....it's an options.
Winter of our discontent - Steinbeck

Amazing piece of work, specifically the book he won the nobel prize for literature. Great story of a normal man trying to be good in the face of great temptation.
China Created a Fail-Safe System to Track Contagions. It Failed
From a C-veteran perspective, what do you think about type safe (e.g. dependent types such in ATS, or F*/KreMLin, or other DSLs) languages that compile to C, or a subset of C?

How could one get the safety promises that are observed in Rust in C?

Thanks!
B-54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition
Apples biggest debt was developers who rely on vm’s and brew. They’ve already booted them about while producing laptops without a reliable keyboard for 4 years.

ARM macbooks will be for youtube influencers. Sure they’ll be able to edit 8K (and when uploaded to youtube they can’t even view it themselves). Devs need AMD.
I didn't say it does, I'm just saying that it'll be easier. Instead of working on both x86/ARM frameworks, they'll just stop supporting x86 (freeze) and only update on the ARM framework from now on.

They did the same thing with PowerPC and x86-32. No reason to expect them to support x86-64 in 5-10 years if they switch all Macs to ARM.
It wouldn’t be surprising for nCoV to evolve now since it has so many opportunities. For example, a strain which breaks the viral proofreading mechanism would dramatically increase the diversity of new strains. That would be bad because a more diverse Coronavirus would become a moving target for therapies, and thus, an endemic disease, exponentially more lethal than flu. Just imagine the economic impact if this became an annual event. We’d have to get much better at treatment and distancing

We designed a gene therapy for Covid19 but have yet to find a great manufacturing partner; if anyone knows someone who can do cGMP manufacturing of AAV, please let me know via email at bion at bitpharma dot com
Only if you ignore the overloaded-healthcare-system factor, which is the main reason for lockdowns, not the number of deaths.
This seems to be the cutting edge of capitalism, emboldened by legal force and lobbying.

Once you allow incumbents to rewrite the rules, they will do so to entrench and enrich themselves.

“Too big to fail”
“Too big to jail”
“Lower interest rates to fix covid-19”
Right and the "flu iir = covid iir" hypothesis would still lead to the real world pandemic being far worse (that's pretty obvious to anyone). You still have a disease with no vaccine that transmits extremely fast.

What would change though if that were true is that the calculus could shift away from locking down (SIP) to limited social distancing measures (to reduce r0) and a complete isolation of your most vulnerable populations. Basically, go for some sort of herd immunity if you can keep the herd's IIR below 0.01% or so.
The WireGuard apps for iOS and OSX have a configuration section titled “On-demand activation” that lets you do this. On the iOS app, I have it set to activate on cellular connection and WiFi connections to routers if the SSID != my home router’s SSID. Likewise on OSX, except for the cellular option.
Same thing with Denmark. Their Ministry of Health said that closing the borders was a political decision and not based on public health.

Sweden has stayed consistent with what experts have been saying. There's no use in closing the borders when the virus is already in the country.

Same thing with outlawing movement in and out of Stockholm. There's already a very clear recommendation and instruction to avoid travel within the country to avoid spreading the virus. There's no real way of enforcing a full quarantine unless you divert police officers who could be doing other things, or the military which we are reluctant to do (see Ådalen 1931, which is a reason why you don't want armed military to interact with citizens).
That's not helping. I'm talking about wrong decisions, made during compile-time optimizations, like assuming dead code or a value being NULL, and then ripping apart the written code. Without warning.

Or the famous optimized away memset call. Which is a security issue. At least a warning would be in order. Or at least an analyzer warning.
All the more reason not to keep cash there. The way US corporate taxes work, if you keep cash year-to-year in the business itself, you get taxed on it - And then you get taxed again when you disburse it to yourself.

Remember this the next time you hear a talking head complaining that corporations pay zero taxes.
That was my thought exactly when I decided to upgrade the very much analogous script https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notracking/hosts-blocklist... . The end result sort of works, but I deeply regret not using sane language for the task.
Result: https://gist.github.com/ingvar-lynn/f0b84d5f750bd2e555d3f1de...
I have specifically asked @dang to remove my account. I don't feel it is right for me to comment any more.
Needs some explanatory voiceover. Reminds me of slow motion lightning strikes strikes after the leader connects.
Using Dark to Build Old Fashioned
I suspect the “perfect virus” adaptively speaking isn’t deadly at all - burning down a home your future ancestors could live in doesn’t seem like a good strategy.
They are also spreading the virus. There is a possibility that one disgruntled worker can taint every item the touch. We've all seen videos. Don't trust anybody.
>most of their students took longer than 4 years to graduate with a 2 year degree and many more never finished

I think this is, perhaps, to be expected. 4-year universities practice selective admissions, whereas community colleges generally let anyone enroll. Community colleges make opportunities available to all, including some who find they aren't well prepared for them.

> the equipment was only adequate.

Tuition is much cheaper than at 4-year universities. This is inevitable.
Island by Aldous Huxley

It's basically the opposite of his better-known Brave New World. It offers a fresh take on how a small isolated society can live, largely inspired (as I see it) by indigenous culture.
I could’ve said that more clearly. The parenthetical meant they’d be open, but would get much less business.
Packages with native dependencies already require a recompile to run between Windows and Linux. Right now, I write Python scripts on a Windows laptop, push the changes and the build server (well actually a Linux Docker container using AWS CodeBuild) builds and deploys the package to Linux servers.

Apple already has an x86 build chain that cross compiled to ARM.
Try this repo instead - https://github.com/codimd/server . For those wondering about the conflicting repo names, we wrote a blog about it a while ago at https://cloudron.io/blog/2020-01-07-opensource-alternatives-... (see the codimd section)
It seems like you've outlined a situation that could well be true. The US indeed has a training process that only generates useful competence with a full 8-12 year apprenticeship of hazing and theory.

Of course, it flies in the face of a common sense view that someone careful, able to follow orders, just hold things or press button etc would provide some use in a world where the doctors are fundamentally limited.

It seems like a world where the medical industry has piled goldstandard-or-nothing upon goldstandard-or-nothing approaches, to the point yeah, doctors really don't know how to produce useful people without those fricken' eight years or twelve years. Well friend, you should start thinking "outside the box" about how to make other people useful or many, many people will dies.

FYI: The US produces field medic with 16 week training period after basic training. That might who you want attending to you but things are going to be resembling a war zone really soon.
I read "The Rosie Project"[1] and the sequel and it made me realize I have a number of similar patterns to the main character.

Made me more aware of how I should act in a relationship.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Rosie-Project-Novel-Graeme-Simsion/dp...
Thumbs way up! I could not agree more with your recommendations.
https://fastlifehacks.com/n95-vs-ffp/
What did you get out of it?

I read "His Master's Voice" as a teenager and was deeply touched by it. Every other Lem Book was downhill from then.
Young Adult

* _The Chronicles of Prydain_ (https://www.goodreads.com/series/40371-the-chronicles-of-pry...)

* _The Chronicles of Narnia_

* _The Hobbit_

* _John MacNab_ (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161001.John_MacNab / http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300621.txt)

* _The Postman_ (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/889284.The_Postman)

Adult

* _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_ (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20058/20058-h/20058-h.htm) - what is the right size for things in this world? A gentle introduction to the romance of the small and distributism.

* _A Leaf, by Nigel_ (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Leaf_by_Niggle) - Tolkien's allegory.

* _The Space Trilogy_ by C. S. Lewis - the adult version of _The Chronicles of Narnia_

* _All Hallow's Eve_ (https://openroadmedia.com/ebook/All-Hallows-Eve/978150400668... / http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400061.txt)

* _The Eschaton Sequence_ (https://us.macmillan.com/series/theeschatonsequence/) - if you like Neal Stephenson's imagination of future society, if you are amazed by Iain Banks' scope, if you think that Asimov is brilliant ... you'll want to read this 6-book sequence.

Excellent, recommend by others in this thread already:

* _The Lord of the Rings_
An explorable toy model of Earth's climate
It's not opaque. It's actually very transparent and well-documented. The issue would be complexity, but that's going to be a very difficult claim considering that you weren't forced into using any of it.
People in Finland seem in general follow the rules quite nicely. I heard there was a rumor of free buckets in Herttoniemi shopping mall that caused quite a rush of people, but what my mom and friends say it's super quiet now.

Comparing to Spain where I've been the past month. At least Murcia is still quite quiet, but I'm afraid the horrors of Madrid might come down here sooner than later... :(
The SEC Wants Investors to Stop Buying the Wrong Zoom Stock – Nasdaq
How Flair, a $100k/month eCommerce company, is adapting to Covid-19
april fools ?
Doctors and nurses probably aren't trained how to run an ICU, they spend more than a decade learning about human bodies and they only have so much time. If corebit happens to be an Operations Research specialist then it is reasonably likely that they would be better at running an ICU than a typical professional medical worker.

Medicine has traditionally had a problem with a large number of very clever people who are sufficiently insulated from other communities that they are a bit behind the times. A good humourous example is the 1994 paper where a doctor will rediscover calculus.
That's a separate topic. And it doesn't mean you should ignore your debts as the other poster was saying, because that's also unethical and possibly fraudulent.
Nice and simple but there are videos that are easily made with hand-writing effect using https://www.videoscribe.co/.
For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiybniIIvx0 is entirely made in software. These are conceptually similar, but obviously yours is more text-oriented and minimalistic.