skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study was made by

"The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)" launched in 2007 "with the goal of providing an impartial, evidence-based picture of global health trends to inform the work of policymakers, researchers, and funders. Main supporters are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the state of Washington."

Edit: once I read the claim "That methodology looks extremely dodgy" or "doesn't make it right" (in the answer below) I'd expect some specific information which would support that claim. Especially when the same person writes "you" to the poster posting the link to the study of an independent institute residing at the University of Washington.
Is this just due to your expertise in the language, though?
yeah, but sometimes you want to execute snippet 12 4 times then using a variable derived from that go back to snippet 8 etc.

notebooks are about non-linear execution

sure, there's enough rope to hang the whole neighborhood in that, you can totally f things up with no chance of recovery by doing that, or end up with data you have no idea how you got at and no way to re-trace 100% deterministically your steps

but if you have some discipline, stick to read-only-wrt-db, and you just delete whole notebook when things stop making any sense, it's... magical to have all that power and freedom at you finger tips, without having to keep much stuff in your working memory since you can dump it in a var or cell anytime, and mix your text notes through the code too!

It's not for everyone, but I love this beautiful chaos :)
The author of the original tweet is the CEO of Gravity Payments, a Square competitor that mostly serves smaller retail and restaurant businesses. In further tweets he talks about how they're losing tons of revenue right now. I agree that it's shallow for Slack and Salesforce to pledge not to have layoffs but in this case I think it's a pretty meaningful commitment.
Probably fit on your car though, which then gives you a hotspot for your phone wherever you are.

I suppose if you're out in the middle of nowhere away from both any building with fiber and any vehicle with Starlink then cellular might be useful, both those are also the kind of places without any cell reception.
Now we've got more storage than we'll ever need.

> On a larger scale, he says that the world's data centers in 2010 accounted for 130 million tons of CO2e, or a quarter of a percent of the world's global total. Berners-Lee projected that the world's data centers will produce 250 to 340 million tons CO2e by 2020.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/25...
That’s not a broken market. That’s just standard behavior when a supply cartel falls apart. Eventually those producing at a loss will be forced to stop.
Presto (Opera 12.15 source code) Forum
I see potential for the gig economy to be the next industrial revolution. We once fought for forty hour work weeks. Perhaps we could fight for remote work to be unchained from a physical location and fight for the right to work as little as twenty hours per week.

I've said that for years. I don't harp on it, but I do feel a personal need to give another take on it. If they start outlawing gig work, as California more or less has done, this negatively impacts me.

Thankfully, I had already left California before that happened. But I've heard from someone still in California how much it has put them to n a world of hurt.
IANAMD. Keeping for a long time the connection to extract and reinsert the blood is a problem, because they can disconnect, get clogged or infected.
We've got processes that push massive files into S3 for a later to stage to then stream out, and delete when they've completed successfully.

So now we've created a situation where everything's running fine, our bill is consistently $500/mo, I go casually turn on a $1k/mo spending limit... aaaaand suddenly everything starts failing in totally non-obvious ways.
Yes I do, sadly, I need it for my job. I don't like it, and I want it replaced, but until then I have to commit to the decision my team has made.
Lila, the sequel to Zen... had an even bigger impact on me.

I also found some of the ideas easier to take away and hold onto.
Not sure if this would help in this particular scenario, but unit and integration testing of operations scripts can save a lot of pain, anguish and $$s too.

It's horrifying how many places treat writing tests for services as critical, but then completely fail to write tests for their operational tooling. Including tools responsible for scaling up and down infrastructure, deleting objects etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryRuins/top/?t=all
I imagine if usage spikes are not valuable and uncommon then static resources could be less expensive to provision, right?

For example Vultr can give you a "bare metal" 8vcpu-32GB box for $120 a month (Not sure if this is contract or on-demand) vs amazons M5.2xlarge for $205 reserved. $80 might not sound like much, but that's 70% more. Who would love to save ~42% on their cloud costs?
Arizona State seems to have some good online bachelor degrees. They don't offer CS but they do have software engineering.

https://asuonline.asu.edu/online-degree-programs/undergradua...
i've used some of those as well, and finally settled on adguard pro for my ios devices. do you (or anyone else) know how nextdns and adgaurd compare on ios?

adguard pro allows customization of dns servers (including DoT), has a running local log of dns queries, and provides custom whitelists/blacklists functionality. their dns (or maybe the app) very occasionally hangs requests, making my device seem like it's disconnected.

i've considered switching to nextdns but haven't found a compelling reason yet.
Karenina is amazing all these decades later.
As a literal example, I've occasionally been asked to put some process that was previously done physically "on the computer". That is, perhaps a paper log of some important activity that they'd now like to have a program for, or a physical token system for tracking a critical resource.

Often computerizing is useful, but sometimes it turns out that any conceivable software version would actually be significantly worse than what they're already doing.

In a case like that, you truly can solve their problem by not writing any code.

(Obviously, this only works if they ultimately agree.)
Until they offer pro-level repair service they shouldn't be considered a "pro" machine.

That means next-day onsite repairs. Not 3-5 days at a distant location, leaving the user without their computer.
You test them ante-mortem.
The Millennial Project, Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project

Not a fiction book as such, but the subject matter border on science fiction.

It did make me think of how to start contributing to humanity in better ways than I was doing. It took some time for me to change my trajectory, but eventually I did.

Through several steps partially parallel to step one in the book I ended up doing what I do today.
- Brave New World

- 1984

- Fahrenheit 451

Basic kit to understand the world today.
That’s called a cartel. See OPEC.

If that’s all “fair trade” is, that’s an impressive marketing tactic.
They have a gun pointed to the government, we'll lay off 12,870 employees, unless. And so on. So it's not always that easy.
I am aware of this, of course, and always find it interesting ...

According to my own understanding of US tax code(s), one must not reduce their w-2 income to zero - or even relatively small numbers that do not befit their position or responsibilities.

The issue here is that a funding for welfare programs, such as social security, are taken from wage earnings. It is, in fact, preferable for me, as a business owner, to reduce wages to zero and take compensation in the form of dividends or distributions.

But I cannot legally do that. I have been advised by multiple tax professionals that not only can I not do that, but I cannot have a conspicuously low salary. At the very least I need to hit the max social security threshold to avoid scrutiny.

So I always wonder how these $1 and $0 earners make this work on their personal tax returns ...
So then your AWS/Azure service is turned off April 2 because you had some temporary spike in uploads?

What you're asking for is not possible and will have unintended consequences. Guaranteed not to meet every customer's expectation of how it works.
I heard that the zoo animals are super relaxed because they don't have to care about human visitors staring then down
I don't think the second sentence follows. Good people existing does not imply that everyone else is bad.

What's more, signaling corporate responsibility + personal ethics is a part of his company in the same way that Elon Musk's flamboyancy is a part of Tesla.

I much prefer the former.
> ...this was before there were any Whole Foods in the Seattle Area.

I'm not sure where this story originated. The first Whole Foods in the Seattle area* predates the filming of that season by about a decade and is closer to downtown Seattle than any of the Central Markets.

(*the Roosevelt Square store, still at the original location)
Still to be confirmed, I don't usually take "analyst predictions" too seriously but I found this interesting:

"Apple will no longer be held to the whims of Intel"

Apple switched to Intel because IBM couldn't ship a good enough G5 for notebooks and for scale issues. Given that Intel is not on track with 7nm and rumours of their CEO being seen in Taiwan the other day it seems history is repeating itself.
It is both closer and deeper that it appears. We also need to flatten the depth.
The question is as users should we care? If this is cheaper for Apple will they actually lower product prices or just enhance their own margins. Will this result in any superior performance on a cost-adjusted basis?
This looks great to reuse protobuf definitions in a high performance situation. I would be curious how the performance of this compares to flatbuffers given a reader or byte slice as the use cases seem similar.
Is it really going to be a MacBook - or a laptop form for the iPad Pro?
Seems like maybe there are systemic issues with the economy...maybe concentrating wealth in the hands of so few doesn’t make for a robust economy that can handle some punches.
So we're going to have a spate of bankruptcies in a week or so for those businesses that didn't get aid in the bailout bill?
I believe that was Roberts choice but I love the cover.
Layla+Hybrid+Mattress+$200+Off
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21033371
Just following that section is this:

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(3) REDUCTION RELATING TO COMPENSATION.—The amount of loan forgiveness under this section shall also be reduced by the amount of any reduction in excess of 25 percent of compensation in the most recent full quarter in which the employee was paid in compensation during the covered period of any employee who was compensated—

(A) in an amount less than $33,333 during the period beginning on March 1, 2019 and ending on June 30, 2019; or

(B) not more than $100,000 on annualized basis during 2019.

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IANAL, but that sounds like employers can reduce employee compensation by 25% without any reduction in loan forgiveness, for any employee making less than $100k/yr.

Also, unless the individual workers are being tracked, they could also fire the existing workers, and hire replacements at a 25% reduction in compensation. Especially at the more easily replaceable sectors of the labor force, there are a lot of people desperate for employment right now.

EDIT: The Application section states:

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(e) Application.—An eligible recipient seeking loan forgiveness under this section shall submit to the lender that originated the covered 7(a) loan an application, which shall include documentation verifying the number of full-time equivalent employees on payroll and pay rates for the periods described in subsection (d), including—

(1) payroll tax filings reported to the Internal Revenue Service;

(2) State income, payroll, and unemployment insurance filings;

(3) financial statements verifying payment on debt obligations incurred before the covered period; and

(4) any other documentation the Administrator determines necessary.

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So it says they are interested in the number and fulltime-equivalent employees and pay rates, but nothing about the replacement of existing workers, although that information should be available in the payroll, state, and unemployment tax filings. With all likelihood, they are just looking at totals, just for efficiency's sake in processing the number of loan applications. This seems to leave a loophole open for unscrupulous employers to dock employee pay 25% without cause.

This is all an emergency drill of course. We're all going to see how this shakes out.
esp this week, vernor vinge's 'fire upon the deep'

it perfectly captures the weird information environment surrounding a global crisis

(people communicating via letter, people closer & farther from the crisis having different skews and perspectives and beliefs)

and the house of cards effects around collapsing civilizations
Well, I can only sympathize then...

Personaly I just stick with manual venv and pip. It's not hard to use, it works, it's standard. But of course I'm lucky enough to be the one making the decisions.
You're thinking of accounting profit, the person you're replying to was thinking of economic profit.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/033015/what-differe...
The official bankruptcy filing may take time, but many will cease operations immediately once cash reserves are exhausted. If liabilities aren’t significant, there might not even be a bankruptcy filing; they’ll just never hire workers back and the owners will file their last tax returns for the business next year.

The effects will take time to be felt; with the US stimulus bill (“CARES Act”) providing 10 months of unemployment, workers will be cushioned for now, but might not be able to find jobs when that relief expires.
Git integration was a major plus point for me. Undo is a basic desire everywhere, and revision control with Git gets you Undo. You get a bunch of other things from Git, but being able to Undo my inevitable mistakes is essential.
The idea that a bunch of GA misfits flying their mosquitos will be helpful in case of a major city being cut off by land is something only the AOPA could come up with. In that event they'll be landing C-5's and 744's full of potatoes at SJC. One flight of a 744 is worth 400 GA flights.
I'm not familiar with the 70% vs 40%. What are the significance of those two numbers in the context of healthcare reform debate in the US?
Is there a better way to get a lock/freeze file that includes checksums?
You are right if you are just interested in the slope. But most people don't just look at the slope, they look at the numbers and what to know, which country is doing better or worse. And that is when the constant (which is different for each country) matters.
That really doesn't answer the question. That methodology looks extremely dodgy, and merely having funding from the Gates foundation doesn't make it right.
"how granular is ss7 psl data?"

It's not based on physical distance or geography - it is based on the cell "tower".

Basically, SS7 will tell you which cellular base station the mobile handset is registered on.

There are easily accessible, public lookups of the location of all of those "cell towers".
We're getting caught up on our Early Access titles. Our staff is very particular about what they release and they don't like to put chapters in until they feel like they're really final. Given the current world situation I'm making sure that we relax that policy a bit and you'll see more books moving into Early Access in the next 2 or 3 weeks. Just a little hectic around my company at the moment.
We just read “Where the Mountain Meets The Moon”, by Grace Lin, to our kindergartener. We all enjoyed it. Despite being a kids book, it had some really great themes — lifted my spirits and changed my outlook.

I realize the question was targeting adult books, but with everyone at home with their families right now I figured I’d throw this out there.
I remember rewatching the switch to Intel being for performance per watt. Intel was way better at that metric than G4 or even trying to get a G5 into a notebook. Maybe ARM can finally achieve the suitable performance per watt they are looking for.
The Java developers have been promising to deliver a performant GC since the 1.0 days in 1990’s, and they’ve failed to deliver one 14 times in a row.

Also, 1ms is an eternity on modern hardware. That’s enough time to handle thousands of disk I/Os or network packets. That means each GC cycle can latency blip 1000’s of other machines.
Your answer and the others reinforce why I allways avoided everything with economics in university. The definitions and models are (mostly) just weird.

I would intuitively define a free market, as a (virtual) place, where people can trade freely (goods or labour) without restrictions. And they profit, if they are better off with the trade, than without. The more free the market, the less restrictions.

Why so complicated?
I think it’s counter-productive. He is making this seem like a huge sacrifice when, in fact, it’s par for the course. I wish if he wanted to talk about it, he would make it less about himself and more about “what it takes to run a business”. In many cases, people pay themselves nothing, take on debt (without having ever made millions of dollars per year), and don’t guilt-trip/lord it over their employees.

(Ok I’ve said my piece, I won’t continue to be a hater :P)
Totally agree, was just about to post the same.
Not everyone parties all the time and sleeps through lectures of course. Some undergraduate programs are very academic.
I think you missed a decade or so of development in the US energy industry.
Is there an equivalent "short term disability" insurance for companies? Where if some unforeseen event happens, they can still make 60-80 percent of their revenue for 6-12 weeks?
Spain puts the country’s economy into “hibernation"
Ask HN: What benefit would a Senior SWE receive from a masters in CS?
My father keeps trying to get me to take online graduate degree classes in computer science. I don’t have an undergraduate CS degree, but haven’t felt like I was missing anything, technically speaking, for a really long time. Every time my dad brings it up, I tell him I wouldn’t get any benefit from doing it. But is that true? What benefits could I receive from a new, expensive degree?
I didn't it that way. I read it as "downside" rather than "false negative", especially because a sound static analysis is trivial and not something to be proud of in the abstract.

"Output Top" is sound for all non-inverted lattices and takes constant time. Woohoo! But it is also useless.
I always wonder - when they calculate the dollars and cents of layoffs vs. hiring etc. Do they factor in the cost of losing employees, expertise, talent?

There's probably financial value that's hard to model/capture in the balance sheet by retaining employees and building up the average years of experience in your workforce, etc.
No one disputes that today's Python 3 is better that today's Python 2, especially for new projects. (A point can be made that Python 2 now is perfectly frozen in time and so 100% stable, but most people do not care that much)

The only thing this means is that the botched upgrade did not end up killing Python; it says nothing about whether it was done badly or not.

(I have nothing against python, I just believe it is important to understand why and how what happened happened to avoid similar errors in the future)
Is he the majority shareholder? If so, is he really making a sacrifice here or just deferring when or how he is getting returns.
Let them do this and use money to pay job loss benefits to employees.

First rule of stopping kidnapping and blackmailing - don't pay ransom.
The point is the cost of everything can't double while labor costs stay the same because labor makes up so much of the cost of the all the goods we consume.
> Now would be a good opportunity make internaltional agreements to cap oil consumption and extraction to its current level in shutdown

Really what they should do right now is take the opportunity to put in place a carbon tax. That would raise current prices back to previous prices, but it would also suppress demand even after the pandemic passes, so that the wholesale price stays low. You'd essentially have the tax getting paid by Russia and Saudi Arabia because demand would never return to a level that would absorb the supply glut.
Data Replication: Must-Have Architecture Capabilities
There are many ways to solve this problem. One way to do this is to model your test infrastructure in CloudFormation. You can then use an SSM Automation Document to manage the lifecycle of your test. Putting all your infrastructure in CloudFormation allows you to cleanup all of the test resources in single DeleteStack API call, and the SSM Document provides: (1) configurable timeout and cleanup action when the test is done, (2) auditing of actions taken, and (3) repeatability of testing.
I wish this were more effective. Sadly, even between our false choices of poor candidates, we are frequently gerrymandered into futile voting.
Obviously they were protecting themselves from the ice walkers
Cryptocurrency system using body activity data
Coronavirus could have been spreading in humans for decades, study says
Validation does need to be done on both sides. But validations on the client side means no round trips and you can do validations even when you’re not online. Also even if the content is “static”, if you don’t have access to the network, how do you do simple things like display totals from service charges, a receipt of all the items delivered - propane as deliveries and tank repairs, alarm installation or at home nurse care where they had a checklist?

Even with CRUD apps you need to display dynamic content based on user interaction.

I used to be big in native apps, until having seen too many examples of what used to be done in VB/Acess back in the day.

So you haven’t seen the poor performance of ASP.Net Web Forms with the huge hidden field to maintain state and redrawing the screen for every interaction and a network round trip?
> know that a massive number of people who take online courses (just the individual ones from Coursera and the like) tend to drop out

This is one of those statistics that (I think) misses the context. In college, you complete courses for credit which generally requires sitting through the whole thing.

On Coursera and the like, you typically take the course because there's something in there you want to learn. A particular learner may only be interested in a piece of the overall course and so ignore the parts they're not interested in while focusing on those they are. The engagement paradigm is different on every level from traditional courses, so I don't think it's meaningful to talk about "drop out" rates in that context.

Where it may be more meaningful is to look at drop out rates of students who have paid to take the course for a certificate. In that case, they have signaled intent to complete the course, so talking about a drop out rate becomes meaningful.
This isn't quite accurate, it shows more than 50 percent of US small businesses have less then a month of cash reserves on hand, around 25% only having 13 days.
Adhosts – The core of PiHole in a single minimal script
It would be a separate entity, whose sole job is verification, not education.
One thing that trips me up about postgres are schemas. What is the conceptual difference between a "schema" and a "database"?
? You should call AWS. They will negotiate. If it doesn't work out -- I think you should file a dispute with the credit card company. They will probably back you and want AWS to negotiate. If none of this happens - threaten to declare bankruptcy. Either way, AWS will back off. There is no money in it for them. IN NO WAY, should you pay the 80k bill and shut down your company.