skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...

> The Control thread is designed to be entirely deterministic when its inputs and scheduling decisions are fixed. We use this property to fuzz it with pseudorandom simulation testing. With a seed for our random number generator, we can generate random initial filesystem state, schedules, and system perturbations and let the engine run to completion. Then, if we fail any of our sync correctness checks, we can always reproduce the bug from the original seed. We run millions of scenarios every day in our testing infrastructure.
There’s also an international sand shortage. It’s an ecological disaster.
When organizations like WHO, CDC spread dangerous disinformation like "it's just a flu" or "masks don't help", should Twitter ban these texts as well? Should they ban people saying things that are obviously true (or proven to be true in the future), but go contrary to the statements by these organizations? What if they change their stance every week?
There's a nice write-up at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_history_of_the_United_...
Amazon has an internal k/v store with branches (as well as schema versioning and hierarchical keys). It was primarily used for config management, which it excelled at.
Not all parts of US can be farmed
It's called a dividend, it's not a piggy bank:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend
Interestingly, official Singaporean advice recommends masks only for people feeling symptoms. See strategy point 5:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-31/coronavirus-singapore...

Also interesting, in a bad way: Strategies 1-4 are plainly beyond the ability of US to implement any time soon.
For all you idiots who downvoted me:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-mas...
I agree - this fear of "reinventing the wheel" needs to go away. People gravitate towards products that suit their needs, and if they don't they'll cook something up themselves. It's really not the end of the world if you're writing something that someone else somewhere wrote. Everything has its advantages and drawbacks.
You’re welcome. I definitely get your question, no one would intentionally make a transactional system like that today. With all the advances we have made it just isn’t necessary anymore.

Although there are a few places where I can think that this pattern kinda still exists today for good reason. For example, compliance reporting systems where data is sliced off on a batch basis on some interval and pushed into a different DB for read-only reporting etc. We did that for public accounting compliance reports so the data was locked and non-updatable that produced the reports. But there are other patterns which can be used too.
What I am describing is research without an immediate social or medical benefit.

Also, CRISPR‘s roots go way past 40 years. Watson and Crick for example helped pave the way well over 60 years ago. A decade after their research was published a doctor may have found it interesting, but it was still a long way from being directly useful.
This is absolutely fantastic to see. I hope there will be a FF port (officially, unofficially) and not just for Chrome/Edge
Propaganda? Example?
Ya, he ran specifically to decouple healthcare from employment. It's thematic with the whole financial security to pursue entrepreneurship part of the message (which doesn't work if you have to take all that money and buy health insurance for your employees)
I live in Austin and people are wearing masks here.
You can export to whatever you like. In our imagination, data versioning would sit upstream of production just like source code versioning. You take the data out and do what you need with it in a "compile" step.
Related (2017):

"$20 billion startup WeWork continues its shopping spree with $200 million for Meetup"

https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-buys-meetup-for-200-m...
Pentagon orders installations to stop reporting coronavirus cases
I get a count of the messages I missed in a channel and when I’m called out I see an @

I get all the activity I should be alerted to in my alerts button too so document conversation, hidden teams, etc all show up there too.
> deploying widespread usage of masks equitably on a global scale is nigh-impossible right now

You don't need high grade medical masks to significantly reduce the amount of transmission. Any sort of fabric-based covering on your face can help, just make sure you can comfortably breathe through it. Fabric is cheap and ubiquitous, it's literally everywhere.
You can hardly watch more than a few hours of british comedy without someone being called a 'stupid git' at some point.
LMGTFY: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=biden+sniffing+...
Curai Health | Office Manager + People Ops Lead | Full-time | Onsite | Palo Alto

We're hiring for a new workplace experience manager role at Curai in Palo Alto (although currently all working remote). We expand health care access and provide telemedicine services - we're pretty busy right now. It's a fun and diverse team with a culture of empathy and work-life balance:

https://curai.com/work/workplace-manager
They should add a speed bump to post a new topic in a team, like the new chat button in the chats.
Which T model did you buy her?
Thanks for the reminder. Rented it tonight via iTunes.

It really is an excellent movie.
A scoring model would be nice. Each time an attendee shows up, they get points. The earlier they RSVP, the more points they get. If they cancel, the closer to the event, the more points they lose. If they're a no show, they lose lots of points. If you have attendees who have been good about showing up but something happens and they miss an event they RSVP'd for, their accumulated past points keep them from looking bad. For events that are scheduled far in advance, people with more points can RSVP before those with less points if the organizer desires. The organizer should be able to manually override points given or taken away to deal with exceptional circumstances.

You don't need to make the points visible to the attendees, just to the organizer or maybe make that an option. Since this involves people actually showing up, it's less likely anyone will try to game the points system like on Reddit. You might want to do meta points too so a user who is a chronic problem in various groups is shown as unreliable to organizers in new groups they join. That also goes the other way, making users who are good attendees in their groups look good starting off in any new groups they join. You'll need to experiment with the points for a while to get it right but I think this type of feedback is essential for both the organizers and attendees to weed out undesirable behaviors.
The Berne Convention only took effect in the US in 1989, well after Victor Hugo was dead and quite thoroughly decomposed. (I mention the US because the Internet Archive is in the US and subject to US law, as is the Author's Guild. The National Emergency Library is tied to the duration of the US national emergency.)

The idea that the majority of people in the US are dissatisfied with the 1989 changes to US copyright law is a pretty strong one, and is at least nominally at odds with the fact that it finally got passed after a century - how did it finally become time to pass it if people were against it?

(Take care to distinguish opposing the law from being indifferent to it - certainly there are many laws that do not affect me that I'm indifferent to, such as the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, and even if the majority of the country feels as I do, it would not really follow that that law is illegitimate.)

Yes, it's a serious problem when there are laws that the majority of citizens find illegitimate - but the contrapositive of that is that most of the time the default assumption is that for any given law, it probably is legitimate.
Warning: Really corny humor ahead...

So it could be said that the Van Gogh... Van Went... away... <g>
I'll file this under reasons I don't use arcane terminal editors. There are so much better uses of my time.
This comment should definitely be emphasized as the golden path to be working remote for a company like Apple. Once you prove your worth as a top performer, you might be able to flex remote working, or maybe remote working on a temporary basis, but to demand it upfront without proving yourself is not something a company like Apple bends to.

I have only seen one person in my org successfully get to work remote in my org, he even got to keep his Cupertino comp for the period of time he worked remote - he had to come back to Cupertino within two years though or he would get let go. Otherwise, I have seen top performers get to work remote anywhere they wanted for a period of time as long as they got their work done (the longest I have heard of someone doing so is one month working from Asia and not in an office). I've done it myself for 3 weeks.

Being a top performer is a lot of hard work though, and you do end up sacrificing work-life balance to some degree, but Apple treats their top performers very well.

Edit: I take that back, I did once have a teammate in a remote office in Europe who only goes into the office there once a week. He does good work though and knows his stuff, and the more remote offices probably have a little more flexibility in some regards due to having to keep to Cupertino hours.
That doesn’t even make sense
IIRC correctly the 1% and 0.1% frame times tell you how the frame rate varies i.e. if most of the time it is running at 60FPS and every so often tanks to 1 FPS. So some average FPS numbers might look okay but the frame rate might be tanking like every minute.
Relate to a lot of this (and it's especially worth noting there is something about identity contempt especially on social media but also IRL that hobbles our ability to coordinate understanding and action) but... let's also not forget it wasn't only contrarians and autodidacts who were making concerned noises -- there are plenty of professional epidemiologists and other specialists who were beating the warning drums.
As opposed to whether a person has an effective relationship with the world given their personal limitations?
What is the alternative? Shutting down doesn't work either, because it's not possible to shut down until cases worldwide go to 0, so won't the outbreak just start again after things reopen?
You're wanting Christopher Alexander, "Pattern Language" and then "The Nature of Order"; his site: Living Neighborhoods https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm

TL;DR: Buildings and neighborhoods should be designed in situ by the people living there.

The PL volumes are earlier and seminal (both SimCity and the concept of "Patterns" in programming are two examples) while the more mature Nature of Order is nearly mystic.

I'm convinced that if we could combine the ideas of Pattern Language with applied ecology we could create a new form of civilization so beautiful our ancestors would consider it Heaven on Earth.
I read a Twitter thread the other day about id Tech 7 (the new engine underpinning Doom Eternal). Apparently there is no “main thread”, everything is scheduled to a set of jobs that can be executed concurrently.

https://twitter.com/axelgneiting/status/1241487918046347264?...

I’ve been wondering if this will become de facto standard for multi-threaded/multi-core systems going forward.
The filtering also works in the other direction - when a healthy person wears one and inhales air with contaminated droplets in it.
I know this reference.
The official format is terrible but you can get CSV data from here https://github.com/kaz-ogiwara/covid19/blob/master/README.en....
However, Linux was a name that Linus had considered before dismissing it as too self-centered. It wasn't invented by the later host.
Human Mobility Restrictions and the Spread of the Coronavirus in China
Trying to be productive at all.

Two kids at home and my wife and I both trying to work.
Yesterday morning the surgeon general tweeted "They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus"

There has been tons of rhetoric designed to discourage the public from buying masks that gives the impression that public wearing masks won't help. A lot of headlines to that effect that lack any nuance at all.
Maybe it's a fetish thing
Oh, I am not productive at all right now because I have two young kids at home with me. I am at maybe 5% of my normal productivity.

You don't need an app to know that. I tell my boss every day.
You need to think about if you can generalize the app logic. How would you build a "configuration" for each state? If you can figure that out, you can build either a config file (or database) to drive the logic. Maybe that gets you 80% there, and the other 20% is "custom" code based.
Tailscale looks awesome but I would love a tier between “free single user with gmail” and “$10/user/month + GSuite/etc” (GSuite itself is $5/user/month I think?). Something like 1Password’s family plan, with the ability to use gmail accounts.

Then I would use it for my family, e.g. I could replace DynDNS + port forwarding I set up so my dad can control his home automation software (Hass.io) from his iPhone app, even off the WiFi. I’m unfortunately just not willing to set up/shell out for GSuite/Active Directory/Office365 for my family.

What really hooked me was your story about the medical practice a little while back.
I don't think anyone claimed that lack of shades and shadows automatically makes something beautiful. NeXTSTEP was simply designed by people who had more experience and taste in design. Also, that windows screenshot was when they were using sort of a hybrid "character mode" to display a graphical interface, which is quite a limitation.

I like some shading and 3d-ness, but it can be taken too far.
Only 39 days since the last "GitHub for data" was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22375774

I'll say what I said in February: I started a company with the same premise 9 years ago, during the prime "big data" hype cycle. We burned through a lot of investor money only to realize that there was not a market opportunity to capture. That is, many people thought it was cool - we even did co-sponsored data contests with The Economist - but at the end of the day, we couldn't find anyone with an urgent problem that they were willing to pay to solve.

I wish these folks luck! Perhaps things have changed; we were part of a flock of 5 or 10 similar projects and I'm pretty sure the only one still around today is Kaggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWMjQhhxhQ4
I heard a joke from that time, "Everything they told us about Communism was a lie, but everything they told us about Capitalism is true."
Concrete contractors grand forks nd
‘Immunity passports’ for Germans free of virus
A facilitators recipe for Event Storming
A song that is designed to relax people? Isn't that like, half of all music? It probably works for most people, but it's not exactly a novel claim to say that music can calm people.
The post that started the idea of Event Storming
Thanks for the feedback everyone.
A deep dive on Event Storming directly from the person who discovered it
Pardon my ignorance, but is data copy writable? Or can it be owned? Obviously someone can get into trouble upload propriety code to git. Is there proprietary data?
PATH/service/{variable}/my-operation

have a big switch statement to control business logic in service
Maybe I should have said "mocking" instead of "sarcastic". I believe you were mocking the idea that beef is low-class, and it went over the head of the person to whom I replied.

My apologies if you really do believe beef is low-class, but I really doubt that's your belief.
the current cdc and who guidelines, which are misleading
Italy extends lockdown amid hopes of turning corner
Can you give some more information about what you're doing with your cloud infrastructure? Would be intrigued to hear about what you're running.
I think the government had a bunch of libertarians in their ear complaining about "infringing on our freedom" to lock people in an enforced quarantine.

This sounds ridiculous, but I know someone who said "This is a nightmare! Australia has taken away all freedoms" in response to the announcement.

In that context (and I can well believe the LNP would have people like this) I think the emphasis on "the forced quarantine is limited to travellers" makes sense.
Synthia – A two-player light and sound instrument (2014)
I've seen this headline so often in so many forums that I think that this is a streaming scam.
Learning the basics of hand-built ceramics. Bought 10# of clay and a few tools. YouTube has endless tutorials and demos.
This seems overly harsh. Few people took COVID-19 seriously on Feb 4, so this standard makes almost everyone have no credibility, including people who don't admit to the error. All humans are unreliable.
Desire to kill may be a bit strong but I distinctly remember sitting with my WWII veteran grandfather in November 1989 (US Thankgiving to be exact) and watching the stories of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the obvious prospect of a united Germany in the near future.

My grandfather and I watched CNN silently and after a while he got up, and as he left the room he remarked "We'll be fighting the bastards within 50 years."

He's got 20 years.
Github actions is confusing and has a steep learning curve, but the flexibility of using Docker makes it fast and reliable to hack together workflows.
They have been issuing logically inconsistent statements for weeks saying masks don't work for the general public but do work for healthcare providers. It's difficult to then turn around and say masks work for everyone without losing all credibility.
Definitely don't listen to Disintegration Loops then.
Design of a Hierarchically Flexible Access Control Scheme
If nothing else you won't be touching your face uncontrollably if there's a mask. I already wear it when going on grocery runs etc, for that reason, and I notice an increasing number of people are doing the same. If distancing is in place, the main risk is not that you'd inhale something, it's that you touch something and then bring it into your mouth, nose, or eyes. Eyes are not an issue for me since I wear glasses. Mouth and nose are covered by a mask, so I can't touch them directly.

And you can reuse the masks by exposing them to 70C/158F heat for an hour.
Things kind of just spiraled out of control...

- Wasn't clear if Pixelblaze with it's add on board could drive multiple strips at high refresh rates, or I needed multiple pixelblaze. Then there are synchronization issues.

- If I'm gonna do that, I might as well go with one of those Falcon LED controllers that can do shows, for $200.

- I have power in the garage at one end of the house, but need to branch off the middle of the house. But to get acceptable voltage drop, I'd probably need to run 12/2, but I need to figure out DC code, or I need to find a place to stow the power supply.

- I'd like to use some or all of them as a "porch light", but just switching off/on had some issue. I don't recall, it either took a long time to get to the point where the lights were on, or required also poking the control port or something.

- And it was maybe 6 weeks from Christmas with a lot of building to do to get there.

If I end up deciding to do it, I might install a dual track with white non-addressable strip AND the color addressable AND go with the Falcon controller. Maybe running conduit from the center of the house into the closet, where I put the power supply and Falcon. I recently ran a receptacle into it to drive the LED light strip that is in there, because that closet was a dark pit that you couldn't find anything in, so that makes it a bit easier than it was last holidays.
Super misleading data.

1) y is CDC ILI activity, % outpatient visits for flu-like symptom, not actual % population that are ill,

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/6/11/ofz455/5610164

2) how can you tell credibly from this data it’s just more healthy ppl taking temperature now vs a true decline in fever rate? Feel this is a marketing stunt or a poorly done study.
IIRC there was a collection service, or possibly automated conveyor belts..? The main idea was not to poop into a bowl of water and then use a bunch more water to transport the poop somewhere just to have to clean it out of the water later. Nowadays, of course, we could even use biodegradable cellulose bags.

A composting toilet is probably overall a much better solution. (And a bidet.)

edit: I found this linked from the Dymaxion House article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packaging_toilet
Seriously? What possible reason could there be for limiting this to Californians?
Bezos doesn’t even have $100B, so the premise of your argument is nonsense.

Owning shares of something isn’t the same as liquid cash. And valuing 1 share at the most recent market closing price the same as a founder liquidating their whole investment is also nonsense.

FYI, all those worlds richest lists are clickbait.
In the immortal words of our generations greatest thespian and poet, Ryan Reynolds:

"...but why?"
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> I'm not sure how Youtube et al.'s situation is different in these regards. In both cases, the takedown process is covered under the DMCA, no?

The DMCA (specifically OCILLA / section 512) is about the liability of YouTube as an intermediary who hosts other people's videos. If I decide to post a YouTube video where I do a dramatic reading of the Windows source code, I am still breaking the law - the DMCA merely protects YouTube from liability from making copies of my video and therefore making copies of the Windows source code. In return, the DMCA gives Microsoft an easier-than-usual process to ask YouTube to take my content down. They can still sue me, if they want; they'd have to go to court instead of just sending a letter, so they'd probably decide that it's enough to just get YouTube to remove the video and not bother suing. But they could.

Notably, you can't use the DMCA safe harbor provisions to give yourself safe harbor. I cannot, on my personal blog which I host, post a DMCA contact address and avoid liability for posting copyrighted content. (Probably I'd trick some copyright-scanning bots and get away with it in practice provided I took down anything they complained about promptly, but it's legally meaningless.)
>On my 3900X I've seen even single player action titles utilize 16+ threads with overall CPU utilization reaching peaks of 80-90 %.

which ones? genuinely curious. I have two Intel E5 eight-cores in an old workstation and rarely ever see a game using more than 2-4 threads.

I guess i'm not spending my time on the latest and great AAA games as soon as they come out, but i've spent quite a few (shameful) hours gaming on fairly recent titles.
This comment hardly adds anything productive here and makes a heck of an accusation. What damage has sharing books freely during a national emergency ever done to anyone? The authors lose nothing and gain readers.
Weighing in as Pachyderm founder.

The post Tim links here is a very apt description of what Pachyderm does. We're designed for version controlling data pipelines, as well as the data they input and output. Pachyderm's filesystem, pfs, is the component that's most similar to dolt. Pfs is a filesystem, rather than a database, so it tends to be used for bigger data formats like videos, genomics files, sometimes databases dumps. And the main reason people do that is so they can run pipelines on top of those data files.

Under the hood the datastructures are actually very similar though, we use a Merkle Tree, rather than a DAG. But the overall algorithm is very similar. Dolt, I think, is a great approach to version controlling SQL style data and access. Noms was a really cool idea that didn't seem to quite find its groove. Whereas dolt seems to have taken the algorithm and made it into more of a tool with practical uses.
Hi, thanks for your post here. I was wondering if you are open to consider h1b transfer sponsorship ? Thanks.