skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My thought was this: If the CPU decrypts, it touches every byte being read to RAM, and it touches the data again later when it does actual work on it. If it doesn't decrypt, but a chip next to the NAND does the job, the CPU can DMA-transfer the data directly from that chip to RAM. The first time the CPU touches the data is when it actually does some real work on it.
A lot of the value of hyperscaler clouds is the lowish latency local datacenters.

Also, everywhere's going to have enforced S.D. or S.I.P. sooner or later.
The Glimpse project is absurd. Energy wasted to fork an iconic program for obscure reasons. Politically correctness can be so ridiculous sometimes.
Folks who believe that tying the value of money to the gold standard would ensure stability should instead look at how the price of shares has changed against the price of gold historically.[1] If we priced shares in gold terms, historic sharemarket swings would be even more volatile than what we see at present.

Instead of considering the USD price of something as the 'value' of an asset, a better stance is to say that all assets can only be priced against each other. E.g. shares have decreased in value relative to cash and gold this quarter, but are potentially stable against real estate. From this lens, an individual interested in capital preservation should instead own a bit of everything, instead of a pile of cash/gold.

Lastly, for people who want to maintain the gold standard for their personal cash stores, they can enter into futures contracts at extremely low overhead, which will link their cash stores to the price of gold ongoing. If you're keen on gold, why not?

1: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/sp-500-priced-in-gold-201... (I wish I had an updated version)
Ah! But we already have SPY options if you want your fix of purely degenerate gambling. I won't disagree that it's super fun! ;)
A 12-Minute Routine That Improves the Immune System and Alleviates Anxiety
I’d consider providing essential services to low income people disadvantaged during a crisis to be a seperate issue all together. I’d also suggest that such an issue would only apply to a narrow band of essential products and services. An unemployed person with $100 in their account isn’t going to care about how much access they have to high quality video conferencing. However, if I have the option of using a 12 person video conference for my morning standup, why wouldn’t I use it? If there was an additional cost for every video conference I wanted to have, I’d think more judiciously about when to use it. Which sounds better than the current situation of knowing that video conferencing is simply going to be unreliable and slow, regardless of how much I may need it for any particular meeting.
Be Safe
I highly recommend that you read through the legislation. The legislation explicitly allows prices to increase due to actual increases in costs. The only thing that's banned is increases in price due to increased profit margins.
The cognitive dissonance is surprising. The same people who probably would have said being offended by the name "Gimp" makes you an SJW snowflake are now getting triggered by a fork using another name, because they're offended by political correctness.
If they can really start delivering these in early April as the article says then he deserves a second knighthood.
It doesn't matter if demand is artifial if there's a filter in place to allocate resources on a need-basis. Not matter the demand from non-need customers, they won't get it, or get less of it. The point in a crisis isn't to let markets find a natural equilibrium, which could mean it stabilizes into a state that isn't optimal to public health. On a crisis, the point is to prioritize those usages that will deal with and help lessen the crisis.
I remember the death toll for H1N1 to have been reported in the thousands when it happened but recently read that after a few years they said it was more like 150,000. It's possible they were just reporting US deaths where the 150k number is worldwide. How come the response for H1N1 is nowhere near as intense as the response for COVID?
That still leaves a 24% gap.
If I understand correctly, price/performance of higher end FPGAs are bonkers because production volume is nil and they are for simulating larger circuits, not faster ones.

FPGA’s flexibility has potentials and they’ve come to comparable price range but won’t be in competitive range for some time still.
There’s a lot of comments on this thread, and I apologize if I’m saying anything that’s been said multiple times already.

I would say that HN is the healthiest comment driven site I’ve been part of in the 27 years I’ve been on the internet. It’s big, and still doesn’t succumb to the trolls who tend to be the biggest problem on anonymous comment threads. There are a few rules here that are pretty well policed, bit I think the single most important one is to read and respond to comments in the most positive light possible. It keeps threads civil, and tends to starve the trolls.

It also helps that we have very good moderators.

I will say that it feels it feels like the heart of what made HN isn’t as apparent anymore. Many of the strong core that was here isn’t as prevalent anymore, but despite this, and it’s seeming growth it still hasn’t succumbed to the poor behavior of a minority of users that tend to disrupt and subvert communities like this after a surprisingly short amount of time.

I keep coming back because the comments tend to have good gems, and a good take on the main article, without having to deal with most of the vitriol of most comment sections.
> I don't see the sense in this. [...] We could quibble about whether it's computer science of software engineering.

I agree, I'm not sure why this is the case either, just my idea as to why it may not be a requirement. (Some part of the class does involve writing a good chunk of a 5-stage RISC processor based on MIPS, but this was still relatively straightforward with just a basic understanding of digital logic.)
Wasn't there a thing were deaths were recorded for the place where the person died, not where they normally live? So maybe those people just died in a hospital in another city? (I don't remember if this was for Italy, but I remember reading that about some place in connection with Corona).

In any case, why not make an effort to reach out to the cities in question and ask for an explanation?
You've just described how a monetary system works and have not refuted the link between prices and opportunity cost.
That's how just about everyone who gets regularly offended by "political correctness" is. Extremely easily offended by innocuous things.
It depends on if you need closed-loop control (feedback-driven systems like DC motors with encoders) or open-loop control (where you just output a signal and you can trust that the system moves to a specific state without checking up on it).

A few years ago I made a 3d printer that used an open-loop stepper system in userland on the original raspberry pi. I got stepper precision down to 2 microseconds [1] — which IIRC is better than the arduino-based systems out there were using. Latency was a different matter — the steppers would still overstep a few times after triggering the endstops.

It takes some hacking (I used DMA and the audio peripherals to offload timing-critical parts from the cpu), but open-loop control is totally doable at 2 microseconds if you’re dedicated to getting it working. Maybe you can get down to 1 us on the newer raspberry pi’s. If you repurpose the video core, maybe you can find a way to do real-time closed-loop control, but that sounds even more involved than what in the end is a relatively simple DMA hack.

[1] https://github.com/Wallacoloo/printipi/blob/master/README.md...
Read the scheduler code or check the video linked from the readme if you want more detail.
Amazon workers plan strike at Staten Island warehouse, demand Covid protections
Proof of work isn't necessary. Rationing works too.
Renaming a product won't make it more inclusive. Add features, and stop caring on jargon issues. Real life people won't care at all.
The resolution of the optics.
Do you have any idea, why do people concentrate on aquaponics, not aeroponics? Is it just simply easier to implement, or better researched? Or is it actually better (higher yield, closed-loop system, ...)?
I didn’t see it mentioned yet, but Oregon State has been running an online Post-Bacc in Computer Science for the past several years. They also just started doing a standard bachelor’s program 100% online for CS.
Herd immunity kicks in when a large fraction of the people you encounter were already infected, giving you fewer chances to infect new people. So incubation time doesn’t matter there (though certainly it doesn’t help, for other reasons.)
Why do you think they are the same people, just because they use the same website?
Yeah, but most of the demand base load is going to be carried by the CDN... that is the whole point of a CDN.
It's possible that 150K was a number reported by somebody else, with a motivation for reporting a very high number. I'm not saying I'm convinced the number is lower, but just as much as there are entities that under-report deaths for selfish reasons, there are those that over-report them.
That's what the snowballs are for.
> The stigma for attending one of these schools is terrible. Not undeserved, as they are predatory and for profit. But so are community colleges, in maybe different ways, but for the same reasons.

Emphasis not in original.
Based on current trends, Covid-19 is trending to be around 10x or more worse than the 150k figure. Current projections have the US alone at 100k-200k deaths.

That would be why this response is more intense.
Naturally-occurring herd immunity is a temporary effect. Only artifically-imposed herd immunity (i.e. vaccination) is lasting.
I'm getting jealous. After a career on the software side of communications (r&d in ble and 4g) I left for the healthcare industry for many reasons but mainly driven by the fact the projects were so monotone. Had I been able to apply to work for a project like this, I surely would have enjoyed staying around longer.
Has anyone looked at the equivalent numbers in the US? Or South Korea, or other places with outbreaks?
AI/ML Projects Are Allowed to Fail
Cellular Automata: Rule 30 fed as input to Conway’s Game of Life (2019) [video]
"The third-year curriculum had just been changed, and would now introduce students to arithmetic and geometry alongside their continued study of the classics. Galois was about to meet mathematics. Few blind dates have gone so well."

LOL... great line.

But really, yet another proof how an apparent "failure" can lead to unexpected "success"

Or as some put it, "When one door closes, another opens."
My personal take on it is that a situation like that can be prevented from getting out of hand. But that requires a great deal of courage, often putting the entire business at risk. As a founder you will even come across as as a mean guy if you take on the task of enforcing integrity. Judging the integrity of people often means asking very hard probing, personal questions which I suspect is difficult for most founders.

My own thoughts about this:

https://realminority.wordpress.com/

Disclaimer: Not a founder myself, but have observed one at close range.
The seasonal flu is a pandemic every year and kills a similar amount of people. It’s a shame people don’t take it seriously enough to get vaccinated.

H1N1 is a newer variant of seasonal flu. But it’s not nearly as lethal and it doesn’t usually leave survivors with the kind of lung damage COVID-19 does.

It’s about carrying capacity of the healthcare system. Flu already strains hospitals, but COVID-19 is multiple times worse so people go without treatment because here aren’t enough beds or doctors and nurses. That’s the difference.
Show HN: Mobile Version – Tracking Covid-19 Cases and Testing by State
I assume he thinks it’s BS because there is no way someone driving away to a forest to take a walk is a higher risk of spread than someone walking within 1km from their home. So banning walks in nature can’t have much effect in itself.

If there is a positive effect it’s due to something secondary, such as people that are allowed further than 1km might get on a bus, or might go to a different shop with too many people.

But still: it’s a ban of going out in nature, at a time when basically everything else is banned but going out in nature is safe and healthy. It should be encouraged!

ICUs being overfilled isn’t an argument for why millions of people can’t walk in the forest.
I know of deaths at the local hospital ER with overlapping symptoms but not being officially counted as the deceased were never tested. On a county level there’s maybe one or two recorded. This testing debacle is hurting everybody in more ways than one.
Yes, but unless herd immunity lasts only a couple weeks that shouldn’t be a factor in these Italian analyses. The infection spread over a short period.
It'll be good if they can improve on the abomination that is GIMP. Glimpse will be worth using even if all they do is implement a way to draw circles.
The GCP outages don't seem to have been capacity related though, they were both networking issues. In one of them they broke their traffic routing to a datacenter in Atlanta, and in the other one an unnamed cloud provider (that pretty much has to be AWS) broke inbound inter-cloud traffic in us-east1 (so presumably AWS borked the link from Google's us-east1 to AWS us-east-1). These seem like normal sorts of cloud issues that happen to coincide with covid-19.
What mechanism do you plan to use to determine the severity of a need?
HN accepts anything that looks like a URL as URL. It's almost certainly unaware it is a Handshake name or what Handshake is as are most readers. https://handshake.org/ would have been better to link unless you're really trying to show off a reverse proxy which just happens to be hosted on Handshake instead of Handshake itself.
Hydroponics would be the alternative to aeroponics, I think? Aquaponics usually means a hydroponics system in a loop with fish tanks.
> And all of this is based on hacks and ugly workarounds, due to the kernel being a monolithic design.

But most BSD ( including OpenBSD which you just praised ) is monolith as well.

> I will not be too surprised when Dragonfly finally leaves Linux in the dust and people wonder how the hell, which is something I predict will happen.

Dragonfly would have to first leave FreeBSD in the dust before taking on all the linux distros.

Microkernels are great for learning about kernels. Monoliths have been great for general and corporate use. Perhaps the future is hybrid, only time will tell.
I wonder why no one is using Wuhan, China numbers. Not reliable?
San Francisco: Where America’s Fight for Housing Is an All-Out War
How do the audio and video subsystems of standard Linux systems deal with real time requirements?
Are you saying a spike in non-covid deaths — e.g., heart-attack, etc? That’s certainly a possibility and one of the main dangers at the moment with an overwhelmed healthcare system. It also raises an interesting question of how you account for the toll of the disease: on one hand you have deaths due to the disease itself, and on the other deaths that could have been preventable had the disease not overwhelmed hospitals.
Like many people here I'm straddling the two contradictory opinions that Google's April Fool's schtick isn't funny, yet humor is how human beings cope with crisis and those who would ask you to be serious and pious are making it worse.
IIRC the level at which herd immunity effects start kicking in is dependent on how contagious a given virus is. For an entire village to be infected in less than a month requires a very, very high R0 (one that's higher than has been reported so far), which would mean that herd immunity would likely kick in at >0.9.

I don't think an R0 that high is plausible, which suggests that only a fraction of the population has been infected in Nembro. That, unfortunately, suggests an even higher mortality rate, at least when the medical system is overloaded. The decline would then be due to the effectiveness of quarantine measures.
I have no use for this right now but will totally file it away in the back of my head for later. My first question would be: If I want to run code on one of your satellites, do I have to place an order for a server to be added to the payload of a future launch vehicle, or do you just launch satellites with servers running on them and then rent out compute/instrument time on a per hour basis?
I found there is a docker container of pihole which means it can run on anything including Windows! I tried it and it works in a docker container on windows just fine!
pihole docker
steps:
(prereq: install docker https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop)

1.setup your docker-compose.yml file with the one listed on pihole page https://hub.docker.com/r/pihole/pihole/ (starts with version: '3').

2. save and do "docker-compose up -d"

3. do "docker ps" and ensure your pihole is running.

4. Go to network settings and set your DNS to 127.0.0.1 and ::1 like this: https://mayakron.altervista.org/wikibase/show.php?id=Acrylic...

5. if the docker container is ever stopped, you will need to reverse the setup step 4 to get back internet.

Hope that helps all you windows users who want a DNS blocker pihole on your machines!
And outside of a crisis situation demand patterns change much more gradually - long enough for manufacturers to ramp up production, more competitors to emerge etc. The normal feedback loops that make core goods available to the masses don't have time to happen right now.
Unless you're a vendor for Walmart.
The upside is that it significantly improved the adoption of Unicode in general. On desktop and mobile devices, this mostly meant more glyphs - "Unicode" fonts we had in common use in early 00s often wouldn't even have many common alphabets, much less math and science characters. I remember how some third party fonts specifically advertised full coverage of the BMP. But these days, the default system font will usually have close to full coverage.

For embedded specifically, this forced Unicode into many systems that previously didn't have it, and sucked at non-ASCII (or non-Western European) text as a result. 10 years ago, I still had to use transliterated titles for my music files to get the in-dash system in my car to show them properly; not anymore.

BTW, I don't think emojis have to be full-color images. On some platforms, sure. But e.g. on Win10, emojis are clearly vector images.
> Thr absolute worst estimates are between 0.5 and 1 percent of the population dying.

There are news reports right now on HN on how the real death rate on countries that are not falsifying reports might be up to 4 times the assumed rate.

The hypothesis is supported by the increase in total deaths compared with the baseline, and after subtracting deaths linked to covid19.

This being true, we might be looking into 2 to 4% of the population.

Link to the HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723647
OK, so I'm not Saudi, and perhaps I'm way off base here. But I find it hard to imagine that Saudis -- or at least Saudis who'd be traveling in the US -- wouldn't assume that their government is tracking and monitoring them. Indeed, I'd expect that awareness to be more common in Saudi Arabia than in the US, because the US at least pretends to honor human rights.

Also, an expectation of surveillance doesn't depend on understanding the technology.
Wonder if this overlaps with 21 million Chinese dropping their cell phone service.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-23/china-s-m...
Yeah, emergen-c is either sold out or price gouged, a pattern seen across most vitamin-c products. But take a look at this-- it's a powdered form that can be mixed. Water works, but OJ might taste better. And the price per dose is very good: https://www.amazon.com/Ascorbic-Antioxidant-Smoothie-Pharmac... As of this comment at least, it's in stock, about $28, there are other brands available too (search vitamin c powder) and it's at least as price-efficient per dose as normal pills/chewables.

Also, if you have Amazon Fresh, Amazon's Whole Foods, or Amazon Pantry (just opened again) available in your area, 3rd party price gougers aren't really an issue.
Good point. Some part of the increase is almost certainly this ... just hard/impossible to know how much.

Edit: actually, i guess if you also looked at the top 10 typical causes of death, seems like you could account for it (ie, heart attack, MVA, or whatever would show abnormally low numbers).
I was imagining salad roads.
You do "git commit" and we will deploy your code on our satellite, that's it. Similar to Heroku model.
And how does Italy test the flu? In the US, there's minimal flu testing and most of the metrics are based around surveys.
covid-19 is not airborne, going out for a run or just enjoying nature is perfectly fine and should probably be encouraged given that people are going stir-crazy in their apartments.
So where’s the free tier?
The problem is that even 20% down for residential and 30% equity for commercial loans is not enough in a stress situation. The real estate market needs to be properly securitized and put on futures and options exchange so risk can be dynamically priced in real time by real market participants. More than 50% of wealth is stored as real estate and we are in the stone ages with how that wealth is managed when we have better financial tools.

Also local governments need to enable online initial registration of cars even for non dealers...
I quickly hacked a website together last weekend based on the COVID Tracking Project[1] data because I wanted to see how much COVID testing was being done at the state level.

I spent this weekend creating a mobile version of the site which came out pretty well I think. But if you want to see a LOT of data at once, the desktop version is still the way to go.

[1] https://covidtracking.com/
Names definitely do make products more or less inclusive, and this is a core part of internationalization. If you call your product 'Anti-Christ', expect that some people will not want to use it. Most communities find certain things offensive, and it is a good idea to be considerate of their feelings and steer clear of them when there is nothing at stake.

If this project were just a name change, I would agree that it is a waste of time, but they are also making UI improvements, which in my opinion are badly needed in GIMP. A name change is fine in the context of a UI overhaul and maybe also a good idea since the interface is pretty foundational to the most critical part of the application.
The name GIMP is awful and it is a shame the maintainers are so stubborn about it.

Unfortunately this seems to be a mostly one person effort and is mostly about changing the name, so I'd be surprised it got far.

It's a shame GIMP has improved so little in the last decade or so. Compare it to Blender, which is an incredibly polished product comparatively.
Huh! Some interesting perspective that it seems so outlandish. I've already seen Ground Station in the AWS console, all by itself in its own category, for the past few months, and thought it was widely-known.
I'm not saying that confinement is BS. Social distancing will make a difference. Forbidding people to walk more than 1km from their home won't.

I understand that this situation has to be taken very seriously, but my point is that we shouldn't accept all lockdown measures blindly. Some make sense, but others are more debatable. All other countries face the same issue, and most didn't go as far as us (France).

(BTW, french hospitals aren't saturated, except in a few places in the country. For instance, there are very few cases in my area, and this is after two weeks of lockdown, so we don't expect a significant rise at that stage. hopefully)
Depending on how you count, you could hypothetically end up with mortality rates >100%. I.e. a disease that kills everyone it infects, and also closes down a hospital causing deaths among people it doesn't infect.