skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with this kind of solution is that you need to pass your docker socket to the container. Not great.
Dyson designs new ventilator, will produce 15,000 to fight coronavirus
Indeed, they were used for 1990 FIFA World Cup
Well before this crisis in mid 2019, China culled a majority of it's hog herd. I think it was African Swine Flu if I remember right.
So they were already low on home produced protein when this struck.
>If the labor pool dries up, they're more economically viable.

I wonder if strawberries would cease being an economically viable crop before this level of mechanization becomes viable.
It's their loss. I have moved off AWS for this very reason. My pet project cannot involve the risk of possibly costing me thousands or more because I made a mistake or it got super popular over night. I'd rather my site just 503.
Looks like you could have (++C)++
I don't know what the range is, or if we post those publicly. What I do know is that we pay competitively, but we obviously don't have stock so there is no stock component to the pay. Someone whose primary goal is to make money would likely do well to look at companies with big stock and bonus plans.

People who are looking to make a good tech salary and help the world at the same time will be happy at Khan, I think.
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Admit it: The coronavirus apocalypse is kind of fun for you
They're not being rented on AirBnB, they're being converted back to normal rental apartments.
I agree with you, but the thing is we don’t have to destroy the gig economy to get free medical care for all, or housing for the unemployed and handicapped.
I have the same frustration, though in this case I think given the author's expertise I imagine all the words actually contain much wisdom. Hopefully!
Hence human's ability to avert collapse on a continyal basis. No other creature farms like humans.
Billing alerts + Lambda. It's not two clicks, but there is plenty of CF templates.
Technicalities.

For me leverage is any kind of a bet that "I'll be able to support this situation". There's no practical difference between a "brokerage margin call" and a "need money in my life call" and "oh shit I'm out call".

The conventional wisdom is based on theoretical returns, not actual performance of investors. Look up how did the average investor do in the legendary Magellan Fund. Much much worse than the fund.
Out of all the quines I've seen, that's my favourite.

https://github.com/m-ender/retina/blob/master/Examples/quine...

So elegant.
Thanks a lot for your suggestions! I'd love to spend more, how would one find such a fridge with Peltier devices?
I must say, from the title I was expecting to be disappointed - but this is a very nice and clear example of a useful little hack combining python requests module and a little web page introspection.

I think maybe I'd have gone down to every 5 minutes, to be a little nicer to the end-point (especially when sharing the code) - otoh once a minute isn't to much of a hammer, I guess.
Our Whole Foods is also limiting the total amount of people in the store, so you have to wait in a line for people to leave before you can enter
> people new to the platform would love a default e.g. $5K/month limit (or less).

I ran into that issue when I wanted to play with AWS EC2 (few years ago, maybe it has changed since then, or maybe I didn't look hard enough). The free VMs were too slow to be usable. Considering my usage, I was unlikely to run into un-expected spendings, but I didn't want to take any risk. Can anyone recommend a similar service with a simpler customer interface where you can set up a simple safety spending limit?
This does indicate market inefficiencies, but such tactics -- flooding the market with cheap products to kill competition, then raising prices back -- is pretty common. I have seen it everywhere from cell phone marketing to grocery stores. I have personally seen, twice, Stop and Shop moving in, dropping prices, driving a less-well-funded competitor out, then going back to business as usual.

I do not see that the current tussle of oil producers indicates that the market is broken. Suboptimal, sure, but not broken. My 2c.
I have a friend whose (extremely cultivated) father eats bananas in this way.
Behold the power of Buy-and-Hold.

Also, watch financial forums for posters who were bashing Buffett relentlessly the past few years. They are oddly silent now!
Yes, citizens of those countries becoming poorer because you disagree with the politics of their leaders is good news.
Serial Entrepreneur Raised $40M to Disrupt the $70B Credit Reporting Industry
I'm not asking for donations.
Just made the lockdowns and quarantines super interesting! Thank you @_Microft and NASA!
Interestingly in Germany I'd encountered analogical but reversed situation. Landlords coming up with made up fees and deducting them from the deposit, incorporating the unlikely risk that tenant will fight for their money in the court. In no other place in EU where I have been living in, the relationship between tenant and landlord has been so tense and stressful.
SciML: An Open Source Software Organization for Scientific Machine Learning
Unfortunately the goal is to drive out US Shale ...
Alerts are just alerts. I don’t and can’t monitor alerts 24/7.
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What I said applies to any airbnb rental, now and forever.
Show HN: Toggleable type/shape checking for numpy, pytorch, and TensorFlow
Time to play Lacrimosa.
As an author with half a dozen or so titles in this archive, I'm happy to see this. It's not like I was making any money from books published a decade or more ago.
I got this verbally from my uncle, whose day job was to find ways to extract more oil from rocks.

To begin with, the oil is there, stably, at rest. At some point people come along, estimate the layout of the rocks (many km³ and far underground) and drill holes to change the way the pressure works and make as much as possible of the oil flow to a particular location. The geology decides how much that is, modified by the paths of the holes involved, and also by how much water is pumped in, where.

If you now close it quickly, the pressure's going to change somehow and you don't know precisely where and how. The end effect may be that when you reopen, something has changed down there such that instead of extracting 40% of the total oil you can only get 39%. Or such that you have to drill more holes in order to gain back your production velocity, the cost of which is far higher than producing at a loss for a month.
I really hate dealing with comments like this. I've already written and deleted one upset reply.

With 60 percent of the population impaired to some degree, it doesn't work for the world to say "Only the hail and hardy people should work."

I didn't qualify for disability. I still don't.

I had a corporate job. I quit it so I could prioritize my health.

Like many people, my job was harming my health. In contrast, gig work allowed me to get healthier.

This world does not usually reward you for having a good sob story. That's not how that works.

Saying impaired people shouldn't have to work and from there arranging a world where they aren't allowed to work is a nightmare scenario where any defect cuts you out of the system entirely.

When I was a homemaker, I couldn't get good drugs to treat my condition. I was bedridden and being treated like a hypochondriac who got off on cadging antibiotics for funsies.

Then I got a proper diagnosis. The following year, with appropriate accommodation for my condition, I attended an eight week GIS Summer School.

Halfway through, the air turned yellow, probably from sulfur from a factory, and I began reacting anaphylacticly anytime I set foot outside.

I had borrowed $19k to attend. Failure was not an option.

A doctor put me on eight prescription drugs so I could finish the program.

Twenty-two months of drug withdrawal followed. And it saved my life. All those drugs were a turning point in my condition.

People don't really try to help sad sacks live. They don't really try to heal the sick or have compassion for the poor.

But they will dope you to the gills because you have a job to do.

Working -- on my terms -- saved my life.

Maybe that's not a good thing. It's a shitty life in a shitty world full of shitty people and I routinely wish I had died instead.

But working was the only viable option I had for so very many reasons. Telling me I shouldn't work is like telling me to go die in a fire for having been born with the wrong genes.
I think your mentor strikes the right balance between awareness and originality. My criticism of Landau's idea is that it's a great way to make you think you have an original idea when you actually don't. Only a detailed literature search will verify its originality. I think that any attempt to "isolate" your thinking from others' thinking will fail because you cannot live in a total vacuum. At least some external thinking will influence you no matter what and we must acknowledge that. "Multiple independent discovery" happens all the time in science, and it's because everyone tends to operate in a similar environment.

I do agree with Landau that occasionally knowing how things are previously done could limit how you approach the problem, but that can be fixed by systematically reproducing or falsifying the previous results and drawing your own conclusions (trust but verify). You gotta get your hands dirty. It's slow and difficult but the right way in the long term.
So fracking stops in the US. Win-win-win?
If this price is too high, the wholesalers will not be able to sell it and choose not to buy it
I am not sure if the fear is greater - the fear is ending up in public hospitals in some of those countries, but people are pretty static and cities / homes not as crowded as in WE and as such more difficult to spread the virus.

But re workers, restrictions of leaving ones home only apply to non essential work.
It's actually a little encouraging to see the number of green 'hiring' spots.
A Pandemic of Bubble Maps
Because you're living on little income which leaves little after the rent is paid.
No one is obligated to put themselves at risk but you can think of it as a choice that you can make to benefit others. All the doctors and nurses who have come out of retirement to work in hospitals at a time where their personal risk is high are doing it not because they feel obligated but because they recognise it is something they can do now so that fewer people suffer in the future. Choosing to go to the grocery store even when there are lower risk alternatives should be the same.
If you write code to solve problems then you are a coder, just like if you drive trucks to solve a transportation problem. What's the point of getting into semantics?

What programmer on the face of this earth doesn't realize that they're hired to code up a solution to some problem? Is this article implying that there are programmers out there who believe they are employed to write beautiful code to be looked at and admired and never to solve a single problem?
Wouldn't it be funny if someone had gotten the boot for questioning the usefulness of chloroquine, now that we know the study is bunk? :^}
How to understand – and report – figures for ‘Covid deaths’
Thankfully there is also Arduino, ESP32, mbed, AUTOSAR and plenty of other embedded places where Linux and C aren't that relevant.
And deaths from covid in Lombardy are already in the tens of thousands, so it's not like a few collateral deaths are going to make a statistically significant difference
Citation for “most experts.” Most actual virus experts I’ve seen say the opposite: the virus is mutating slowly (at least in the spike protein, which is the part the immune system responds to) and the “reinfection” measurements are likely measuring residual virus genetic material, not necessarily true reinfection.

@trvrb on Twitter. And this other guy, with this thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/PeterKolchinsky/status/1244029896...

(Which doesn’t mean I disagree with your overall point that this won’t be an instant-bounceback.)
I know right. A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.
I love it. All the hysteria about peak oil from 15-20 years ago never happened and now we have a bunch of hand wavy explanations as to why. People just can’t admit it was BS and a lot of us bought into it.
philosophy decides :)
> asking the candidate if they played any team sports

I would fail this question, and not because I don't like teams, but because I don't like sport games (and prefer athletics, cycling e. t. c.). E. g. ping-pong is not a team sport and I don't like it for the same reasons as football or basketball.
The government and ultimately the voters who vote them in failed rural America. Fiber internet should be a utility. I still see voters opposing municipal fiber internet, for the sole reason that they are “anti government”.
You might still run into GC problems, but none of the Go-based Luas (built on Go, rather than binding to another Lua library) I am aware of have a JIT built in.
Then you need to be on call 24/7 if someone happens to DDOS you.
Hard paywall (account required). No thanks.
Oxford Mathematician explains SIR disease model for Covid-19
No one really needs to be near other people. I think just keep it going. A lot of industries really aren’t essential to life. Maybe we should question why we need them. Theme parks, sports, gyms.
Yes, I agree there is always a faster Turinng machine for a particular target. With this sort of argument, all bitstrings have a compression of zero bits. I.e. you pick a TM that has the target bitstring as output for the null string. And if it starts with the target on the output tape, there is also zero time. Thus, every bitstring can be generated with zero space and time, with some TM.

So, thats why when talking about compression in general, we keep the reference TM fixed.

When testing, there is the possibility with a single test maybe we have the wrong reference machine. But as the number of tests grows, that probability approaches zero. So, with enough testing we can eliminate the linear speedup theorem loophole, at least with high probability.

As a practical application of this sort of thing, check out the 'normalized information distance'. It is based on algorithmic mutual information, which in theory is not approximatable, as you argue. However, in practice it works surprisingly well, even without prior knowledge of the domain.
Or just not being organised enough to calculate process realistically, that's got to be pretty difficult to do
Given that you're asking this question, USO ETF. The alternative is options trading which is a bit more complicated but, if you're interested, is really fun to learn about.
Copy machines were too expensive to use for school work. I remember some machine that used a hand powered roller to spit out copies in a pale, blue ink. This was late 70’s/80’s.
SaaS for authenticated image and video hosting
Looking for suggestions... We are looking for a SaaS provider that supports image upload POST and GET in a way that post and get require that a secret key be used.

We do not want images hosted where the url is simply unguessable, but in reality the images are public.

It’s likely work like...

Post an image with payload of image and secret key —> returns identifier

Get an image with Params: secret key and image identifier —> returns a short lived unguessable, no-cache public image url that we can use to immediately render the image in a webpage

Need SaaS that does image and video hosting.

Any suggestions for a SaaS provider who does this or something similar?

Thanks.
How does that work for stateful services like S3? Should they just delete the data? (Which for some people may in fact be what they'd want.)

I do realize you can get closer to a hard limit while possibly exempting some services that would let you get over the limit--I suppose. Though then people would doubtless complain that the hard and fast limit is not, in fact, a hard and fast limit.
This is absolutely disgusting, developers, please don't install this in your apps, please don't fuel the surveillance economy.
You’re correct.

Selling the futures is the profitable end of the trade. Spot prices for WTI are about $20. That same oil can be sold in May 2021 for 35.53. Part of that difference is cost of carry (storing and insurance), but there is still a profit to be made.
Not having a browser extension is also a security risk, because copy/pasting is error prone, and does not protect you from phishing - which is more of a risk than someone taking control your computer and bruteforcing your vault IMO (of course your threat model might be different from most users, for example if you store passwords not for the web)

(Disclosure: I work for a commercial password manager that do offer browser extensions)
One of the real banner carriers for contemporary orchestral music. Rip.
> This despite the fact that their Economics and Philosophy concentration probably included very little on pedagogy.

This is irrelevant since the effects of a degree in education on measures of student learning is not reliably distinguishable from zero. Training in pedagogy either doesn’t matter at all or matters very, very little.

> This despite the nearly universal (although not necessarily justified) opinion among teachers and administrators that first-year teachers are pretty much useless.

That’s a bit harsh but the only reliable correlate of teacher quality I’m aware of is years of experience up to six years. First years probably aren’t “pretty much useless” but you’d prefer more seasoned instructors.
I've used it as well and it is really really nice, especially on Linux as it starts extremely much faster there which was important for my work.

It is still not in the same league as Java when it comes to dev tools and the Java ecosystem keeps getting better as well, but at the moment I am torn between the two (or rather, I have two excellent options that I can choose depending on circumstances.)
The oil crash is contributing to the stock market crash, and thus to the overall economy being down, potentially meaning layoffs for the average joe. Plus this might cause smaller producers to go bankrupt, meaning that prices could rise even higher in the future. Of course that’s only true if we continue to use oil, which we need to divest from as a species.
From the end of the article
“I think there will be a reduction in the number of rogue operators that we see out there,”

I’m sure that will be a shorted lived occurrence. Opportunity for quick money always brings out the rogues. :|
I couldn't agree more, i shifter from software engineering to software architecture exactly to pursue autonomy.

I was so tired completing user stories that I knew will be either too expensive to maintain or plain useless that decided to climb up towards the source, and help people set up requirements and measurements loops.

So yeah, why do people hire software engineers who are extremely good at analytical thinking, and then try pre-digest every bit of requirement?
That money didn't go to the citizens anyway.
I wouldn't bet on the "true" part in philosophy. More like nonsensical.
Flagged. There should be no place in our society for privacy vampires like this company.
I hate to disagree but the free market is often a great guide to tell us how much we need of something. The USSR tried telling industries how much to produce each year and we can agree that didn’t turn out well.

Of course oil is a problem but a tax or cap and trade system would make more sense to address it.
A good question, but not really.

It depends on the economics and politics of the day. Richard Nixon (R) was a gun control advocate. Most Democrats were on the wrong side of Civil Rights.

Different day, different context.
I was hoping to find more info on the "250% nominal load" mentioned in the title. However, I didn't see anything about load on the linked page, just a generic looking donation page.

I'm a bit biased, because I focus on CPU efficiency for a major CDN, but I'd be super curious what exactly is at 250%? Network bandwidth? CPU? IOPS? Are there big hammers that they can use to get things back under control without adding servers, like reducing bitrate, or turning off "fancy" features?
I have nothing to contribute to that, I just want to thank you for the effort you put into this writeup. I'm not sure if it's worth to keep up the fight, but I sure as hell will and I hope others do so as well.
> I don't think he's expressing a view that many share.

"Many" is hard to estimate, but my impression is that there was, at least at some points of time, obvious political motivation to downplay the seriousness of the epidemics. Apparently, at the moment when even the Netherlands, also being even more "pro market" and having publicly stated "herd immunity" goal (by their prime minister), already closed the restaurants, there were still open places across the border in Germany, and at least some parts of Germany were still reluctant to admit the seriousness of the issue. By the way, I still can't find some useful timeline of the measures introduced in Germany in the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_G...

I am aware that many decisions are up to the regional institutions there, and that's why generalizing and equalizing any statement to whole Germany is by definition wrong. But we can recognize, at least, different "interests" influencing what is happening and how it is covered in the media.

In that sense, as the impact of the epidemics to Germany potentially increases, I expect the climate to be always more similar to the one in the countries which are already more seriously affected.

However blaming first southern people for being "inferior" to Germans and having "less hygiene" fails to the fertile ground there, one other relatively recent reaction was "the Spanish cucumbers are guilty" affair where the cucumbers from Spain were destroyed but eventually the cause turned out to completely originate in Germany:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_o...

"Spain consequently expressed anger about having its produce linked with the deadly E. coli outbreak, which cost Spanish exporters US$200 million per week"

Eventually it was established that the origin was "an organic farm[1] in Bienenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany."
One thing that intrigued me about this puzzle is wondering what mental model for probability would make solving it intuitive? The one that works for me was thinking about it in terms of information:

Because Monty can never choose the door you first picked he can't give you any new information about that door.
So when he reveals which of the remaining doors has a goat, he is only giving us new information about those remaining doors. That information reduces the odds on the remaining doors and that is why you should always switch.
Way back when, I wrote ten books for traditional publishers like Springer-Verlag, McGraw-Hill, etc. I switched over years ago to self publishing on leanpub.com, using a Creative Commons non commercial share license, with free updates. I don’t earn quite what I used to but the freedom to write exactly what I want with no pushback from publishers on what they predict will sell, and the ability to effortlessly push book updates to readers makes the switch very worthwhile.

Writing is also a great way to meet interesting people and expand a personal network. Whenever I meet someone who has an interesting job and/or interests, I almost always suggest that they write at least one book.
If the host knows where the car is, why would it ask the player to change door if he knows the player already choose a goat?
The problem should specify that those are the rules of the game that the host always open a door.

Otherwise, as a host, I would only offer the players to change if they picked the car. (And if they heard about this paradox before, they might even change their choice)