skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a tough call sometimes. Code legibility is important and an O(n^2) is so often fast enough (microseconds!) that a more complex algorithm may be faster for the 0.001%ile and you're right that sometimes that means we should select it, because it makes the worst case still microseconds, but realistically speaking some codepaths change frequently enough that the true metric of a codebase is how easily it's adapted, understood, or modified. Let the guy with the big n eat cake, so to speak.
Or ritual, perhaps.
Another line of inquiry to pursue would be why it took the government five years from canceling the Covidien contract to ordering ventilators from Philips.
You don't have to be further wrong, but going to court isn't free so you've only increased your total costs at the end if you lose.
1M (ordered) list of numbers requires 3.5MB of RAM(10^6*log_2(10^8) bits). The theoretical lower bound to store unordered numbers is 0.96MB(log_2(comb(10^8+10^6-1, 10^6)) bits)
> You mean the standard that didn't exist until 1989?

Fair point. But K&R C with System V or BSD libraries will probably-kinda-sorta work.
Ask HN: Why are there no old-Skype like messaging systems?
Time might be making my memories nice and cushy about the old Skype - until 2.2 on Linux -, than it really was, but as far as I can recall, it had everything we needed in ~2009: ad-hoc groups, working video and audio, inbound phone number, p2p (over the local LAN is was full speed to send files from one to another).

I know it lacked e2e encryption.

I've found a few articles on reverse engineering the Skype protocol, like http://www.oklabs.net/category/skype-reverse/ so I'm asking the question: why was it not rebuilt or something similar built?
If you are n't paying attention then you will pay ignorant tax by buying the wrong ticker. Although, in short term, it might make you good ROI.
I think some people are just blessed with great genes and great health/immune system throughout their lives. There are stories of 100+ yos who smoke, who eat typical comfort food everyday, who drink in moderation but consistently etc etc, whose lifestyles are what we basically understand as negative for your health but they are unaffected.
I've been teaching at a community college for a few years and online classes - at least in my field - tend not to be great. There isn't a lot of "teaching" that goes on in them. While students may learn it is largely up to them. I have made up the assignments and I have recorded some mini-lectures but I feel like I'm a grader not a teacher of online classes.

(Of course right now with the virus we are trying to do as many regular meetings online at the scheduled class times as possible and I feel it is more similar to face to face teaching.)
Anecdotally, I've had three experiences so far where the name "GIMP" got its usage rejected. Two of these were in two different K-12 institutions.
> Just like you don't want a front-ender doing back-end or systems

This is not the argument I'm making though. That implies the front dev has no oversight.

I'm making the argument that a frontend development can successfully complete features with the guidance/oversight of a backend dev. The results might not be ideal, but it can provide an acceptable outcome.

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> You need the experience and you need the detailed instruction. That's why there are certification programs around the operating of complex healthcare machinery.

These programs are focused on developing individuals who can robustly and independently manage this complex machinery.

Should we also discredit airline pilots because laypeople have landed planes in emergencies? Or discredit sports professionals because many can kick a ball?
They appear to be scraped from a twitter bot which generates the palettes semi-randomly, so this isn't terribly surprising:

https://twitter.com/colorschemez
Basic stochastic infectious disease transmission models and their inference
I read and executed but did not write that percentage
I found this particular work to be quite balanced. You need to read Ender's Game as a prequel to the Speaker for the Dead where Ender actually grows up.
Yes, of course. But you were suggesting it was necessarily fraud. I'm just pointing out that that's not necessarily the case.
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Scary. Does AWS allow one to set a hard price limit on your account today?
Robinhood is still advertising COKE, which is not the Coca-Cola Co.
Better to screw both sides than only screw the military/taxpayers as is.
True enough for me at least. But now that I have thought about it, I yet remain of GPs opinion.
Good idea, but it's not intuitive why the original problem is equivalent to the host revealing N-2 (98) goats rather than, say, (N-2)/2 (49) or 1.
Rational/efficient markets don't mean no irrational players. It just means that those players get punished for their irrationality, which is exactly what happened here. If anything efficient markets hypothesis is based on the fact that low/bad information is penalized which in turn makes markets more efficient ;)
True, but it is very nice especially in the winter to have bright lights and green plants in your living space. That alone is worth it for me, having something to eat along the way is just a bonus.
Mmm... just a thought here. In terms of the Senate and House, that's working as appropriate. Rural areas not dominating cities and cities not dominating rural areas. One would need a policy popular in both to create a national policy (otherwise you create a city or state policy instead). It's a good balance between tyranny of the minority and tyranny of the majority.

In terms of the electoral college, perhaps something similar could be done. Not sure how though.
To me Ender's Game is about how it is almost impossible to not start to love something you know deeply. He couldn't both understand and wipe out the buggers, because understanding them meant seeing their beauty, so he had to be tricked. This touched me deeply.
Another ex-Navy nuke here. More than 45 years later, I can still practically recite both sides of my interview with the KOG,* which was necessary to get into The Program.

Here's an excerpt. Important to the story is that I was escorted into Rickover's office by a senior officer who was in training to be a submarine skipper. Also relevant is that I was younger than the usual candidate.

KOG: Why do you want in my program?

Me: From what I've seen of the submarine fleet, there's a lot of professionalism there; I'd like to be part of that. [Later, in nuclear power school, I switched to surface, and spent my sea time aboard the carrier USS Enterprise.]

KOG: So you don't think there's any professionalism in the surface fleet?

Me: I didn't say that, Admiral.

KOG [to the escort officer]: Read back what the kid said.

Escort officer: Mr. Toedt thinks there's a lot of professionalism in the submarine fleet and not in the surface fleet.

KOG: [Angrily points out my personal failings, ending with:] You're shooting your g--damn mouth off about something you don't know a g--damn thing about. What do you think of that?

Me: That's not what I said, Admiral. [At this point I started getting pissed off.]

KOG: [More vigorous imparting of wisdom, ending with:] Have you learned anything?

Me [angrier than I've ever been, before or since]: Yes, SIR.

KOG: What's that?

Me: Not to shoot my [pause] MOUTH off about something I don't know a [pause] thing ABOUT — SIR.

The interview went downhill from there, including inquiries about my sex life. I figured I'd bilged the interview and would be heading for destroyer school, which had been my preference anyway (the officers at my NROTC unit had strongly "encouraged" me to apply for The Program instead). I was shocked afterwards when the nice older lady congratulated me on having been accepted to The Program and asked which of the two nuclear power schools did I want to attend.

After the interview I realized that Rickover and the escort officer had intentionally been f--king with me as one of his little stress tests, the stories about which are legion [0].

* KOG = Kindly Old Gentleman. The nuke joke was that he checked the box for at most two out of those four things.

[0] https://bubbleheads.blogspot.com/2009/02/rickover-stories-ne...
For another amazing visual accompaniment to this amazing piece, see David Lynch's take from S3E8 of the "new" Twin Peaks.
> We constructed a sample of 597,000 businesses who hold Chase Business Banking deposit accounts and meet our criteria for small, core metropolitan operating businesses.

I read the overview — not the full 44pg pdf. But if small businesses manage their finances at all similarly to the way I as an individual do, I wouldn’t expect a single bank deposit account to hold the full story of all the liquidity a business can tap into in time of need.

For example, how many of theses businesses keep enough $ in the bank account to cover monthly expenses, and then keep some in a higher grossing money market account with a different institution which they can tap into in times of unexpected/less frequent demand, or as they save up a deposit on a nicer office, or as a way to optimize their take-home pay for tax purposes? I don’t know the answers, but from the overview it seems like Chase doesn’t either.
Well, in all honesty, I've stopped using PHP at v5, when it was all running as CGI scripts. So I'm not sure I'm doing it justice since I'm pretty outdated on its development.

I've never seen PHP being used for those usages. So I probably made an assumption here that it isn't, or rarely is.

All the languages I listed generally run their own server, and can handle the full request, down to its connection. While I remember PHP only managing the payloads from an existing server, running as an embedded script which the server delegated too on the last step for final rendering of the response.

So for example, it couldn't manage any type of long running in-memory process or anything like that. And it didn't have direct access to IO, as that's all managed by the containing server. Things like that, which not all REST APIs would need, but is generally something I'd expect to be able to do for more generic backend work. Don't know if there are now ways to do all this.
Agree. I completed 2 years at 2 different "brick and mortar" Universities in the past, took a long hiatus to build a career in IT, then went back to school (WGU) to complete a BS in IT-Security last June and am now back again and enrolled in the Masters in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance program. I / we haven't missed a beat with the onset of this pandemic (unlike almost everything else in my life) and that's saying something.

Just like the "B&M" classes I took previously, some classes are great, some less so, some hard, some less so. Anyone who thinks a school like WGU is "less good" probably has not actually experienced it and / or has a reason to protect the status quo. A student does have to self direct more in online programs, for a fact. But with that comes much more flexibility and scheduling freedom. And the price, at least for WGU, can't be beat.
There are a bunch of short earlier works when he was writing for something like Women's Home Journal to pay the bills that one wouldn't go wrong skipping IMHO.
Why do you think governments would only sue on behalf of themselves? The point of these laws is to allow attorneys general to sue on behalf of their constituents. Random example: https://www.standardspeaker.com/coronavirus/state-attorney-g...
Knowingly filing a false dispute or creating a new company to transfer funds to get out of paying a bill is absolutely fraud. Where is that not necessarily true?
So what do you suggest here ? Prioritize a wealthy workspace sharing startup over a hospital?
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In the same boat here, my estimate is around ~250.000, which is 3x as bad as the 2017-18 flu season in the US. But i guess none of us have any real idea at this point.

Some mitigation does seem possible if this report can be trusted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22721574
It's almost however long you want to put into it. I completed my undergraduate degree in around three and a half years, approaching it as a mix of part-time and full-time study, juggled with periods of employment.

At the time, I thought it wasn't particularly hard - I had it in my head that bricks and mortar universities were somehow more challenging and rigorous. Having recently completed a master's at a campus university, my feelings about the OU at the time were without basis. By comparison, the master's was easier, less challenging and less valuable.

Looking back on my OU experience, I can appreciate how enriching it was. The course materials and syllabi are fantastic and are often used by other universities. Associate lecturers can be hit and miss. Fellow students tend to be engaged - because they _want_ to do the courses - and often make for a supportive and thoughtful community; I actually found it to be far less isolating than the campus experience of my master's.

I was fortunate to have undertaken my degree prior to tuition fees increases, but I would still recommend them. Compared to other UK universities, the fees were still relatively low, last time I looked.
Gonna add test with hello world to see vm startup time.
Flipping bits on a computer screen can appear helpful when it isn’t. Building an abstraction needs to be constantly grounded with solving real world problems.
Rather than waiting for answers from HN, you can easily google literature which tackles this question, including libraries. Short answer - they do see it differently.
Yep - if there's N capacity to provide a necessary necessary good/service, but M > N need, raising the price doesn't seem like a great solution to manage it in a crisis situation. To some extent non necessary uses would decrease, but you also end up with more wealthy people who want it more getting it, and more generally there won't be any distinction between want and need.
I feel like either OpenBSD or NetBSD would probably make good candidates for experimenting with rewriting the operating system in Rust. They're small enough to make some significant inroads in rapid pace, but also general purpose enough to not be useless.
Yes; the laws are being quoted to explain why they are limiting availability instead of raising prices.
Brilliant.

Could the video be changed to Rebecca Black on Fridays?
And now both are building rockets!
yes! in chrome dev tools https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1237393102635012101?
yes! in chrome dev tools https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1237393102635012101
I'm talking about a constitutional amendment to severely limit spending on elections, public funding for elections, non-exclusionary public debates, and perhaps Instant-runoff (ranked-choice) or other voting resolution mechanisms.

PS - Buckley v. Valeo made it clear that a regular weak-sauce bill wouldn't do.
The death rate is in no ways comparable to the seasonal flu. It's quite higher:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#case-fatality-rate-of...
Only complaint I have about it is it has no quick unlock feature unless you have a Mac with TouchID. It is really inconvenient to type the master password every time rather than a PIN. I realize there is a security trade off here, but I think it's well worth it.
Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. It's the first book I read that left me awestruck with an author's ability to write beautiful, meaningful prose about wonderful characters doing fascinating things. Up until that point I knew some writers were very efficient with their words, but Ondaatje's words held so much beauty.

I'm tempted to read it again to see if the impact is the same now that I'm 25 years older.
I mostly have an Azure background but we absorbed a country that ran on AWS. I did an audit of all of their infrastructure this fall, and found they were over spending on AWS by 90%! I wish I had been tasked with it sooner, it could have saved the company hundreds of thousands, that's a few new hires, I was shocked at how mismanaged it was. It seems like the person that set it up was not familiar with cloud pricing models. For example, there were 100 or so detached disks that hadn't been touched in a year or two, which of course isn't free. The instances were too big, etc. I've always found Azure's billing to be easier to maintain cost controls over (at least it feels more friendly.) I wonder how many companies unintentionally over spend on cloud services because of the lack of understanding of the pricing models.
The flip side is even 1% of a populace dying is going to impede daily life even if we were all sociopaths. In reality, once hospitals get overloaded, the number is quite a bit higher than 1%. So to do nothing would also be choosing economic and societal turmoil.
how about Vietnam (174 cases and no death so far)? It shares physical border with China and the country's health system, much less response to the pandemic, threadbare; yet they have fewer cases than Taiwan.

IMO, I think it's very difficult to draw any important lessons from countries that are warmer climate like Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, or Thailand.
Indeed, this means that it is logically impossible to connect to postgres and create a database, at least through a normal connection. But you can create a schema with the CREATE SCHEMA statement.
I agree. However as someone who read Enders Game as a kid but didn’t know any better I get some folks emotional attachment. I have fond memories though if I read it now there’s a good chance I’d hate it.

Yet I’d recommend those folks who are now adults and cite it as their most influential piece of fiction to go out and read more fiction! :).

Just to be snobby I’ll throw out Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. Beautiful and contemplative.
Oh my god, Stanisław Lem.

I have read Summa Technologiae and everything is in there. And I mean everything. I have yet to see any new horizons for humanity he hasn't covered back in the sixties.

For me the single most distressing idea is that we might want to limit the speed of research in order to be able to integrate it, because the exponential growth would otherwise beat humanity's ability to adapt, leading to very turbulent situations.
They weren’t referenced in contrast to the US system. They were referenced as countries without single-payer healthcare that still manage universal healthcare. It’s neither vague or incoherent to point out how many different ways exist to solve a problem, only someone with an agenda could think so.
Integration seems like the ideal path for Slack. Make it easy and seamless to use any third party service from Slack rather than trying to build functionality directly into it other than the core group/direct chat stuff.
That was the original comment that started this whole thread. Maybe you should reply to them instead of telling me what not to do hours after the conversation is over.
If it functions like pihole, one benefit is blocking ads in ad-supported software outside the browser.
ZOOM has not filled anything to the SEC for 5 years now. It's a dead chinese zombie shell corporation so this is more akin to keeping the stock exchanges clean of junk. Especially since that junk only exists to harm.

COKE is routinely mistaken for Coca Cola, but the SEC doesn't intervene because COKE is a real operating company. So I think this is not a sign of overreach from the SEC.
That's my hunch also... Speaking for someone interested in IaaS/VDI, not all instances are available in all regions. For example, instances with GPUs are available only in North and West Europe. If you need them, and they are out of stock, you have no value of any UK or France region.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-sp...
Somebody else has already mentioned The Open University (https://open.ac.uk) and I happily recommend them, as one of their alumni.

Another established and well-regarded institution is the University of London International Programme (https://london.ac.uk). The courses are relatively low cost, but rely a lot on self-discipline.
There could actually be a statistical case for people who have genes for longevity who drink, smoke, etc.

I don't mean that 'smoking is good for you', but that those who are going to live long, will live long no matter what their personal habits are. Thus when you look at really old people, those that drink / smoke are over-represented. They are statistical outliers of course...
Yes, people in this thread are letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Everyone knows that doctors are overqualified for the vast majority of tasks they are responsible for. Normally, there's good reason for this, because you want a highly-trained eye to spot unusual and atypical cases.

But when you're dealing with a pandemic, you can do without. Do you really think that your typical doctor spent all that much time in med school or residency learning how to operate a particular kind of machinery? If we have the ventilators, we'll be able to find people to operate them.
Trading can be suspended to protect investors to give everybody time to cool off. I don't think suspending one defunct company for large volume of erroneus trades is much different.
Interesting approach.
I'm currently not satisfied by Pandas which seems to be the defacto tool for processing tables.
But I find the query API really unnatural especially for filtering.

Do you have some benchmark for performances ? Is this more aimed at playing around in a notebook or used inside a full data processing pipeline?
https://talktech.com/stenomask-steno-sr/
Is there more detail about the queue of projects for which NY is seeking teams to help?
The collected short stories of Jorge Luis Borges. Particularly: "The Library of Babel", "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and "The Immortal".

Italo Calvino's, "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller".

Melville's "Moby Dick" (I do not think this is a good book but it had a significant impact.)

Cormac McCarthy's, "Blood Meridian".

Together these works revealed a vanity in traditional intellectualism that is propped upon a facade of 19th century values which are easy to idolize. These works also made me keenly aware of the folly of of reactionary anti-intlectualism (which is easy to fall into once the shine has come off the collegiate apple). I know a lot of my contemporary peers did not need this same transition of values but I very much did.

It has become my life's philosophy to revel in the power of intellectual activity to reveal and rejoice in the beauty and complexity of life but to shun any intellectualism that will not connect itself to life in a fundamental way.
Wow you created a brand new account just to post that one comment? I'm honored.

On to the response. First, doing something I don't want to do that someone else told me to do and not getting paid for it is slavery. Slavery is bad.

Second, I don't use their solution. I have my own custom DNS intercept system I wrote myself which is much better and also enjoys security by obscurity. With a single user it's hardly worth the time to mess with.

Third, I already donated to their project, above. I reviewed their code, agreed it was complete shit, and concurred with the consensus that they need a complete security audit. That is extremely valuable advice which is worth $3000. So I donated $3000 and all you've done is sit and whine and create anonymous coward accounts to troll people. Tsk.
Indoor you could surround the plant with mirrors so more light gets input into the plant. Also no wasted water.
Indeed,

If you read my parent post in context, I hope it's clear that I mean currently in Italy, people are not dying at a rate higher than the seasonal flu BUT this has a big potential change if the infection rate were to shoot up (we know this is prevented by extreme quarantine measures, enforced by the army).
Trump announces 30-day extension of coronavirus guidelines