skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remains of the Day.

Here's a quote for the OP's original question.

> He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lordship’s wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can’t even say I made my own mistakes. Really – one has to ask oneself – what dignity is there in that?’
A New York Doctor’s Warning
Well, yes, I was specifically speaking to the self-sustainable part. (And really, growing enough to eat year round? Yeah, it's back breaking. Not when you're 20 or 30, but come back to me when you're in your 50s :)

I'm totally in favor of growing the things that you mention - and combined with a CSA, it's the best of both worlds.

But I really, really, wouldn't want to grow all the staples myself and be dependent on it.
I think given the growth these cloud providers are having every year, expanding to meet the needs of a temporary increase in demand looks more like moving forward projects that were already planned. It’s not like they are going to have to build a bunch of datacenters they will never need again.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance :)

Favorite quote from the book —

“Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you’re no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn’t just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. This leaf has jagged edges. This rock looks loose. From this place the snow is less visible, even though closer. These are things you should notice anyway. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.”

Other influential books: 1984, The Fountainhead, and Siddhartha
Also, a daily reminder that NIST has declared in 2016 that SMS is insecure and it's not acceptable to use SMS for 2FA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12163046
The language is great. Melville is definitely one of those 19th century Americans who could work the run-on sentence for good. My complaints are almost purely structural. I really enjoy the begining of the book which establishes the unlikely relationship between Ishmael and Queequeg. I especially enjoyed the speech that gets the Quakers to allow the pagan Queequeg to join the voyage.

But around page 200 the book diverts for hundreds of pages to discuss historical whaling voyages, whaling implements, whale anatomy and whale processing methods. The book ramshackle bounces back into the narrative and kind of takes for granted that you'll still be invested in the characters.

I enjoyed all this content and am not at all opposed to a 19th century diversion or two. But the book just really drops the thread from Ishmael and kind of comes back in hard on Ahab.

Les Miserables has quite the diversions (80 pages or so describing the battle of Waterloo) but it returns consistently to the characters and resumes their previous connections.

I just really felt that I was introduced to a great character driven narrative then the book switched to become a technicalnmanual for several hundred pages and then jumped back in to a wow finish presuming upon the fact that my previous engagement with the characters would automatically resume.

Anyway, sorry to drag a book you clearly really enjoy.
In Japan there are also some pertinents operations.

Mirai ( http://miraigroup.jp/en/ ) states some benefits.
> Yes, "they should expect they will have their human rights violated on US soil and it's on them to buy a burner" is off base.

If that's the case, Saudi censorship is more effective than I'd imagined.

> Anyone legally in the United States (including tourists) gets constitutional protections.

In theory, yes. In practice, it's prudent to assume that the NSA sees everything.

> Then again, maybe everyone is abusing SS7 and KSA is just who got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

That's my default assumption.
But I don't think we have effective antivirals or evidence of usefulness. I'd say all that matters is saving people however we can. There's not one thing.
Air Purifier vs. Positive Pressure Fresh Air System – An Unfair Battle?
nice, thanks, will check it out.
On the contorary.

The economy is flooded with cash (3T fiscal injection + 10T form the FED). The FED basically bought most of the outstanding treasuries and injected cash into the system).

So once the virus is over (mainly due to massive testing), there might be inflation, which means that equity will be much pricier (not cheaper) in nominal terms.

I.e. if the economy was heated prior to the virus, it would be 2X heated after the virus.

In addition, there might be a shift of supply chains from china, back into the US, which means more jobs and more software.

However, we first need to get over the virus.
Because it's easier to compress (compared to when its contents is in a random order).
Covid-19 US Projections
Show HN: Quickly make and share Covid-19 queries against the NYTimes dataset
+1 for changed my life.

The sequels are great too!
Thanks for the recommendation, I just bought it on Audible. I really enjoyed the Three Body Problem trilogy, haven't listened to them a second time yet, but I plan on it.

I really like to travel, really the only material thing I care about is being able to travel. Sometimes reading great literature from other countries gives me the same feeling that the earth is a small place and we are all in this together.
Yep!

This is another reason why I don't favor actually using "public". Aside from issues like this it's in the default search_path and typically you want to leave it there. So when I do create other schemas, I also don't add them to the search_path globally or otherwise. Overall, I find the search_path setting spooky and, while it can save from typing, that saving ain't worth it... even setting it locally or for a session or a transaction... just no.
The unemployed person in my scenario is willing to forgo the opportunity to buy food, pay rent, or buy literally anything else. The tech worker is paying a negligible opportunity cost, as they have tens of thousands in their checking account and paying $600 has no effect on their ability to purchase food, rent, or anything else they want.

If I as the merchant believe the amount of money someone is willing to pay is equivalent to the opportunity cost they're willing to incur, I have to assume the person offering $600 wants it more.
Opportunity cost is everything you choose to forgo when you choose to allocate any resources to anything. If supply and demand is allowed to have its normal influence on price, then you can decide what you actually have the most demand for, and allocate your resources accordingly. The decisions you make regarding your own needs are always going to be much more efficient than those that any rationing authority could ever make.
I agree with the above. Additionally: know what you are buying and know the rules.

For example, a less sophisticated instrument is a stock. Why does a stock have value? What do you get in exchange for money? Why are companies incentivized to care about stock prices? Why are stable companies often devalued if they have less growth potential?

These seem like basic questions, but if you think about any one of these they are not easy to answer.
> The legal standard in the US is that the government must obtain a warrant to access cell site location information[1].

Sure. But it's pretty clear that the NSA ignores laws.

> Perhaps the best option for those who live in authoritarian countries is to remove your SIM card while roaming and have a voicemail message asking people to email you.

Or just leave the phone at home. If for no other reason, because it'll likely get inspected when you enter the US.
I think it would be much more interesting to have a HN discussion thread on where the economy may be heading. Sure, it depends on the virus, but we can probably come up with a few scenarios covering likely outcomes.

Personally, I think the fundamentals are not looking good, as you mention. I'm guessing we're going to finally see the inflation everyone has been expecting since QE#1/2008. We just pumped the monetary supply yet half the country seems to be stagnant. Goods aren't being made, warehouses are being depleted. I think we're in store for shortages and price hikes on labor intensive goods. The strength of the dollar will likely depend on how we fare relative to other countries.

Now, assuming inflation, I would expect some hikes in asset prices(not adjusted for inflation of course), but I don't know what the timing of that would be. Maybe it takes a few quarters for higher prices to translate to higher stock prices? Also, I would think that having unemployment in the 10-40% range would severely reduce retirement contributions and equity purchases by individuals, although I don't know if that is enough to matter relative to the big players like hedge funds and pension plans(and the fed, who might start buying equities for some reason).
Not parent, but I think their argument is that this lib doesn't implement a glob interface so calling it a glob alternative is misleading, i.e. one cannot easily replace a globbing library with this if they expose the glob DSL as an interface. It's more accurate to say that your lib is a recursive-readdir alternative.
Dollar cost averaging is the right answer.

If you want to attempt to be smart (it rarely pays to try and time the market) I would wait a couple more weeks, end of April is probably when the market will most likely reflect the reality of what our economic outlook is. Trump & the Fed have been doing a good job propping the market up with confident words and cash injections for the last weeks.
Again trying to time the market is usually a fools mission.
They appear to be doing it in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0
Do you know of any good papers on analog computers?

They sound like interesting tools, especially since there are some sorts of problems where small amounts of unpredictable error can be helpful, like repetitive Monte Carlo-style simulations.

But it also seems like an intimidatingly large area to start learning about.
I agree, to a point, and currently there are no such restrictions in the U.S. Hopefully things won't get bad enough that they become necessary--i.e., I hope people are finally starting to take this pandemic seriously.

But I think anyone can agree that if it becomes a question of, say, millions of people dying unless people stay home for awhile that it would be okay for government to exercise that kind of authority.
>> The problem with auto-generated voices in videos like this is as a viewer I can't distinguish between work that someone put deliberate production time into, and something churned out by a content farm.

> If machine voiced vs human voiced is the only discernible difference in the end, this seems like a non-argument.

The problem is getting to the end -- I don't want to spend several minutes trying to decide if it's spam or useful. It's simply easier and safer for me to use "contains auto-generated voice" as a filter to avoid watching garbage. Specifically I'm talking about videos like the ones discussed in this video [1].

Though I'd generally agree that good quality content is good quality content, I personally think there's something lost by using a machine-generated voice. Good human narrators add nuance and emphasis and energy, and it's much more interesting when someone is passionate or excited about the topic they're talking about and you can hear that come through.

Some humans are bad narrators, of course, and the machine-generated voice may not be worse by comparison. The problem is I'd just rather not listen to an emotionless voice -- whether it's machine-generated or human -- read a script, I'd rather just read it myself.

Maybe I'm wrong and the generated voices are much better than I've heard (any examples?) but I think part of the problem remains in that unless I'm forced to watch (eg, internal training) or have a recommendation come from someone I trust, it's still safer to filter out videos with machine-generated voice as "probably spam/garbage".

> it enables a more iterative way to produce material where you previously couldn't afford to tweak parts of a video, as you would have to narrate it again

I think this is a very compelling feature, but as a potential consumer of these videos (either accidentally on youtube or forced via internal training) I wish someone would come up with a way to enable this without having to resort to using the emotionless robot voice.

This again could just be my personal preference: I think emotionless robot voice is pretty much going to always mean somewhere between low- and mediocre-quality video, and I also think a low quality video is significantly worse than just having an easily-updatable HTML/PDF/whatever document with pictures/screenshots/diagrams as appropriate.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PGm8LslEb4
> in public speech it's the public that determines meaning and not the speaker

False dichotomy. It's a shared responsibility. Nothing gives the reader or responder the right to project their own biases or guesses of intention onto someone else's words and argue as though they'd been in the original. Please stop doing that.
Saudi Arabia, our ally, is working hard to completely destroy the U.S. Shale Oil industry, as well as the Russian Oil industry, and every other oil producing country in the world.

The cost to produce oil in Saudi Arabia is about $6 a barrel and they are taking this opportunity to undermine everything. Only Iraq is close in cost to produce oil as the Saudi's, and the U.S. has worked to make sure that Iraq is not a threat to the Saudi's.
I'd love to see a GAN coloring book generator.
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I shared it with the team.
I was curious about how my text editor (http://github.com/alefore/edge) would fare here. I decided to try it with a file with 400k lines, each with ~5 or so words. It worked reasonably well: https://asciinema.org/a/cTMmQMhqLcIQrDbkqx3JFpFUn
Very interested. Can you recommend any seminal works?
That isn't specifically a new thing, it has been shown to work in the past.
I would like to show this thread some love. Nice work!
No! Are you kidding? What is even in there? Also no.
The Wikipedia article is sadly quite light on details for a system that underpins modern taxonomy…
A simple example with package dependences

add_requires("tbox >1.6.1", "libuv master", "vcpkg::ffmpeg", "brew::pcre2/libpcre2-8")
add_requires("conan::OpenSSL/1.0.2n@conan/stable", {alias = "openssl", optional = true, debug = true})
target("test")
set_kind("binary")
add_files("src/*.c")
add_packages("tbox", "libuv", "vcpkg::ffmpeg", "brew::pcre2/libpcre2-8", "openssl")
because it's not in their business interests to do so?
What makes you think we’ll be able to develop effective antivirals faster than a vaccine? We probably ought to be researching both.
Has anyone implemented this?
Could do? Not sure what your point is here.
The case of Germany is interesting due to the difference in BCG vaccination policy between the former East and West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_G...
Rick and Morty Teach JavaScript
You can make a selection, set x and y to the same number in the tool options, then fill it. I would like a dedicated circle tool too.
The Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1286098094/chromatron-w...
Actually, there is a setting per-app in Android to disable apps drawing over other apps. And at least on my phone, it defaults to not allowing apps to draw over each other.
Uh, no. If the business is a corporation then it has stockholders, and if it's a small business (meaning probably not interested in being a high-growth company) then it's likely letting all of its earnings pass through to the owner(s) as salary and distributions.
Dr. has treated 699 Covid-19 patients with 100% success using Hydroxychloroquine
That's a cool idea. Imagine creating a little assembly line out of vesicles, each producing its own proteins, and feeding into each other. I like it.
Snowcrash

Doorways in the Sand
Link https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1214103
(just in case https://www.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1214103 )
Sure, in the U.S. the cops aren't citing people, as far as I've heard anyway, but I do think the potential to get busted does impact a lot of or maybe most people's behavior. A lot of people would do the right thing anyway, but a lot of other people wouldn't without the underlying threat of force.
Nextstrain / Flu / Seasonal Visualization
A ground station can also point at things it's not supposed to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_broadcast_sig...
Yeah, W Bush went to school with Saudi royals. And walked hand in hand with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.[0]

0) https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
> That may be because their holding down a job while in school, have kids, or dug them selves a hole by spending to much time playing video games / at parties etc.

Interesting. I saw the opposite; people who are struggling don't always have the time, energy, or skills to build relationships with potential mentors.
> EXTREME performance

[Violation] 'requestAnimationFrame' handler took 1210ms

Tried a few of the demo's and they're very sluggish.
Five Bullet Sunday – helping you get ahead in life
William Gibson. The Bridge trilogy and the Sprawl trilogy, at a minimum. They still feel like maps to the future even now. You have to work at it, the map is not the territory after all, but the realisations about the impact of technology, progress, and the choices we make when we let society work a certain way have been profound, for me at least.

Also The Peripheral, and Gibson’s essay in Wired about undersea cables, and... yeah. Having read Gibson feels like a superpower.

As others have said:

- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide

- Stepehnson’s Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Seveneves, Anathem (aside: totally surprised how much love there is for Anathem, I remember it not being received very kindly at the time by people around me, though I liked it.)

- The Culture series (special shout out to The Player of Games.)
I saw Siddhartha recommended a couple times here. It's a good one. If you like Siddhartha, I highly recommend reading Hermann Hesse's other books as well. My favorites are The Glass Bead Game (Nobel-winner) and Narcissus and Goldmund.

What I love about HH's books is that I feel as if I've lived the lives of his characters vicariously, passing through their struggles with them and coming out with hard-won wisdom and character. I feel like a better, wiser person for those books, with the kind of perspective on life that otherwise would have taken me a lifetime to achieve.
I mean it does make more sense to stop the 90% than the remaining 10%.
FYI, you can use this utility to get the Symantec TOTP code into a standard TOTP program like Authy or Google Authenticator:

https://github.com/dlenski/python-vipaccess
+1 for Invisible Cities, and just about everything else by Calvino. Also, is your HN name a Borges reference?
Yes, but the Saudis reportedly need to charge ~$80/barrel to balance their budget - and oil is their only source of income.

I am really not sure what game the Saudis are playing.
I think the idea is that the antivirals are already sitting on shelves, we just need to figure out the right cocktail
Got my Bachelors from Charles Sturt University. 100% online (not counting the 1 networking elective i took that had a 2day school playing with network gear, and international study tour i took in China for a couple weeks).

https://study.csu.edu.au/courses/technology-computing-maths/...

You have to sit exams in person at the end of each semester. There are exam centres all around the world https://exams.csu.edu.au/dist_students/centrelist.php?intern...
I have reviewed it and see no issue with it, or with any of the other Pizzagate claims. I believe Pizzagate is a complete hoax. As is "9/11 truth", which you have listed in your profile.
Someone like Intelsat? (You don't generally rent a whole satellite. You pay by the second for tiny pieces of the spectrum.)
"People will be crushed with medical debt (up to 20k) if they get coronavirus and have no insurance." - will people without insurance be allowed COVID-19 treatment? From what I understand it's emergency only and if you don't have insurance you'll be denied admittance into the ICU as that is not emergency care?
> A CPU's power consumption is linear with regard to clock frequency.

That doesn't sound completely accurate. It's fairly well known that when overclocking processors, the "highest" achievable clocks can often take substantially more power than the frequency increase. eg 25% more power for (say) 8% frequency increase.

So, it might be a linear thing for most of the range, but it doesn't seem to be 100% linear in all cases.
In the US there are over 2300 ETFs covering major market countries, asset classes, equity exposures, fixed income exposures, factors, thematics like ESG, gaming, MAGA. There are also options-embedded strategies and 2x, 3x and -1x, -2x, and -3x leveraged funds on almost every US sector and major index.

If you have money to invest in for the long run - now is as good a time as any to start building your nest egg.

If you are trying to "time" the markets, it turns out nobody has a crystal ball and nobody can tell you with any degree of certainty that the markets are going to go up or down tomorrow or next month.

If you are considering "betting on America" I would be all in favor. A 130+ year graph of the Dow Jones is generally trending from the bottom-left to the top-right of the chart.

Another thought on timing: many people believed the markets were way-overvalued before this drop. Makes sense... we've been in one of the longest bull runs ever. Now we have a pandemic on our hands - which many people liken to an event like a war where there is complete uncertainty about the future. Jobless claims jumped within a 2 week period to 3+ million - many people thought that would take 4 weeks or more. We're heading to 20 or 30% unemployment in America. We also have one of the largest stimulus packages ($2tr+) about to rain down on us in the form of never before seen monetary stimulus AND helicopter money. We just dont know whats going to happen here. Cheap rates for the last decade has fueled over $7tr in corporate debt. Now companies cash flows have ground to a halt. If we start seeing a growing domino effect of bankruptcies, you can expect this market to drop another 30%. Its a bit of a doomsday scenario - but then again, nobody thought we would be HERE 4 weeks ago - and we are.

Yes, stocks do look cheap - but dont catch a falling knife.
As Microsoft noted in their blog post, XBox Live also runs on Azure.