skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think that additional capacity can be built out to accommodate demand at a rate that still stays profitable after the usage spike. Not that they’re immediately building new data centers, but adding capacity to existing.

Just if Microsoft moved internal usage to underused data centers somewhere on earth they could create more capacity for NA, EU, Asia.

One of the upsides of cloud is that it’s so much easier to meet demand, even as a provider.

I don’t have access to component prices, but I guess they are buying like crazy (aws and gcp too I guess).
I have two of these. Way faster than an Arduino if you just want to set up some dynamic lighting, and still plenty of room for tinkering.
Just like outside a crisis situation.
Apparently Coursera manages online degrees that are "real" degrees for some schools. Like U of Illinois: if you get your degree online you get a regular diploma, not one marked that you pursued your studies online (and you qualify for the alumni assoc etc).

The implication I read from this is that online degrees are not taken as seriously. And the fact is there's a lot you get from school beyond the lectures; the interactions with other students and with faculty and just being out of your usual zone all make a big difference.

It's also a lot of work I imagine to get on a platform like Coursera's, and while it's the only one I've really found useful (I've tried a few for a class here or there) I still didn't like it much.

Note: my gf used to work there which is why I tried one course on their platform and why I even know about this at all. Which is another sign that online degrees are still considered marginal.
Unless you find it fun to gamble. Risk seeking utility curve
Setting the "priced in" bit aside, someone in mentioned their unusual (at least for cloud billing) quota system. If customers are unable to provision new VMs, they could end up offering discounts for essentially missing their SLA. It also depends on how much spare capacity they have to sell.
I think your calculation for ordered lists is just wrong. I think the right answer should be about 3.17MB, not 3.5.
If memory serves, NetBSD's strength is its portability.. So given the current state of Rust's portability, I doubt that they are very interested.

As for OpenBSD, I wouldn't hold my breath: remember that Rust isn't the first 'safe' low level language but the others (Ada for example) didn't find success inside OpenBSD.

That said development follow fashions, so who knows?
https://www.pythonweekly.com/
And your case for a _global_ (Hello Americans, you are not isolated, your software is used worldwide) experience is totally irrelevant.
We used GIMP in Spain for a lot of time and no one knew the original meaning of "Gimp". Ever. Neither for the BDSM context, nor for the "cripple" one. Just an image editor.
MacDonalds.
Truly the hallmark of any reputable FPGA benchmark "We hired an intern, put him through a lobotomy and then had him write code for this GPU, our team of seasoned professional FPGA design engineers wrote code over the next 7 years that really kicked his arse".
> The characters in TBP are cardboard cutouts

Try to read this as Chinese literature and not apply Western standards. TBP is not about individual people but civilizations. Similarly, if you read Tale of Genji expecting a plot, you will be disappointed. But that doesn't mean it will be forgotten in 10 years.
Whale experts launch free, virtual marine biology camp for kids
That my idea too. It is very unlikely that the numbers are spread apart enough that you can't store the deltas in compact forms.

Example starting your base as zero if the first number 100 you can store that in 1 byte, use the high bit to flag a larger number so if the next number is say 10000 you can store it in two bytes. But let's say the next number is 3000, you need to update the first delta, insert the new number and continue on. You probably can store most numbers that way.
Here's the fallacy with what you are saying:

Click-through-rates are not going to increase because people signed-up for a free account with an email address. Greater revenue comes from greater traffic. Simple as that. If every time I see an interesting link from the NY Times and try to read it I am hit with a modal subscription request, well, very soon I just stop clicking NY Times links.

The other side of that is paid subscription to these newspapers-turned-web-news outlets. My guess is this is a bad (or let's just say, non sustainable) approach. If these outlets had to survive on paid web subscriptions they would likely shrink severely or evaporate. There's a reason for which television can still garner massive audiences. Imagine if every single TV channel demanded a subscription or registration.
Backdoor Progression
Another way to make it seem more real would be to render a virtual webcam overlay of a talking head, using UE4 or something. Maybe with an office-style background.
Nice! I can't say no to this project if it indeed has a more visually satisfying UI.
10K sq ft lots isn't too much to ask for is it? especially when there's open land in every direction you can see as far as the horizon. It doesn't even look like all that open land is used for anything at all.

i'll never understand the CA obsession with keeping so much land undeveloped at the expense of humanity.
The Paul Street Boys by Ferenc Molnár - it's a classic tale about honor, brotherhood and loyalty.

It made a great impression on me as a boy and, later in life, helped choose what kind of people I want to associate with.
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TIL there was a Seawolf sub long before the Seawolf-class. That explains a lot.
101-year-old Italians are making the news so often lately:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/12/home-office-...
When I read

> ender's game is nazi apologia

in your comment, I was pretty sure that there would be a point in the quoted article where the author went from reasonable background/description, to instantly jumping to a completely nonsensical argument, and I was not disappointed.

> The difference between Peter and Ender is not in what they do, but in what they are

What? That's incredibly dumb.

This like saying a serial killer, and someone who shot a person who shot at them first, are the same thing. You can't just ignore context because it's convenient to your argument. By this reasoning, anyone who's not an avowed pacifist -- who wouldn't even fight back against naked aggression -- is equivalent to the worst murderer.

Maybe Ender went too far, but he did act in self-defense, against other kids who tried to maim or even kill him. Peter killed animals because he wanted to. That is nowhere close to the same thing.

Like, does the author of this piece seriously believe that self defense is never justified or something?

> Ender is “kind” and “good” even when his actions seem to belie that characterization.

Ender is ruthless against those who go out of their way to threaten him, that's true enough, but in the context of the story he has an awful lot of threats to his life for a little kid! Brutally fighting back is completely understandable. What else would you even expect him to do, in that situation?

If you're gonna find fault with the story here, pointing out that the adults are all complicit in letting Ender be abused, sure that's bad and dumb. But given that they're doing that, blaming Ender for desperately fighting back is utter nonsense.
Wow I didn’t realize Trump was the first President to snuggle up with the Saudis. Oh wait he wasn’t. Unless Trump was alive and President in 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia%E2%80%93United_St...
Perhaps if the externalized costs of the pollution were more efficiently passed on to the consumer then the benefits of localized urban aquaponics might be enhanced.
Thanks for setting a positive example. I’ve set up a monthly donation, so I’ll match yours today over the next 4+ years :)
That's overwhelmingly the case. Obviously there are exceptions (which is what the critics will target to try to counter the premise, they'll shoot at the 1% negative case outliers among those with genetics for long life). George Burns is the classic example - 10-15 cigars per day for 70 years, lived to 100. It doesn't make you invulnerable of course, it shifts likelihoods strongly in your favor versus the average person. And you can still do incredibly stupid things to shorten your life, it won't prevent that. If the general public understood how set in barely flexible goo (you can only move it a bit) their health outcomes are at birth, it would encourage even worse diet and exercise behaviors due to an increased belief in futility. If you have the genetics to live to 75, you're not making it to 112 [1] no matter what you do. The news media has a thing they like to do with super old people: ask them what their magic secret is, and the answers are frequently wildly different; that's because it's mostly not what they did, but what they are made of, that produced the outcome (which isn't to say that living a healthier lifestyle, or having some good luck during life, won't help the long-lived get to 106 instead of 97; they too can slightly move the needle around in their box).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-52063482
Excellent work, and I hope more people in other cities start running these calculations.

> In the hypothesis - not at all remote - that all citizens of Nembro have caught the virus (with many asymptomatic, therefore), 158 deaths would equate to a lethality rate of 1%. That is precisely the expected and measured lethality rate on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and - made proportionally by demographic structure - in South Korea. We have made exactly the same calculation for the municipalities of Cernusco sul Naviglio (Mi) and Pesaro using exactly the same methodology. In Cernusco the number of anomalous deaths is equal to 6.1 times those officially attributed to Covid-19, also in Pesaro 6.1 times. But even more staggering are the Bergamo figures, where the ratio reaches 10.4.

This seems an unreasonable assumption, no? I don’t think any models predict a 100% infection rate: herd immunity would kick in beforehand, at the least.

If true, then the death counts and death rates would be higher. E.g. with 50% infection, deaths are 4x, 12x and 20x, and the death rate is 2%.

Of course, you also have to account for local demographics.

Edit: I checked the numbers for Bergamo, and they’re troubling. It’s a city of 122,000, and it has a 0.5% death rate for the whole city.

Further, people are still sick and dying, so these death rates will only go up.
Linux++ (March 29, 2020)
I don't think you can really compare people accidentally buying the wrong ticker to investors unable to place valuations based on virus uncertainties. They were buying the wrong stock before the virus hit more than a year ago.
Further analysis of the impact of distancing upon the COVID-19 pandemic [pdf]
I think _eht is describing the University of Phoenix as predatory and for profit. Not the CC.

I'm not from the USA, but UoP is notorious.
Yeah. The result of anti-price-gouging laws is that when businesses' operating costs rise, they are forced to stop operating instead of increasing prices.
There is a difference between advertising on Facebook, and sending the data from your users to Facebook in order to advertise for cheaper.

But yes, any business that sends your data to Facebook for advertising purposes is bad and should not be used.
Reality has a way of not giving a crap about what parents want.

Why can’t people be laborers regarding their basic needs some times, and academics sometimes?

It’s a pretty traditional values “I am king now and forever” notion to think one life one career.

There’s nothing biological preventing a rotation between work over our lives.

And many philosophers too have warned about division of labor making for a society of ignorant humans. Following orders rather than their curiosity.

IMO first worlders who can should. You’re not a god and the billions that outnumber us are catching up fast. Pointing big guns at them and saying “lol, no” isn’t gonna work forever.
Man, the negativity in this thread is hilarious
Not with the example given of NOAA satellites. Those simply broadcast data on regular intervals. If you had to authenticate, can you imagine a single satellite dealing with all the traffic of uplink/downlink required for authentication? It simply wouldn't work or maky any sense.

This is not true for all satellites, obviously. There are private ones that use encrypted communications, but weather satellites can be easily used if you have the proper antenna and equipment setup to do so.
They typically do walk-ins. Just look for the big metal door.
I could no longer edit, so I'll add this. I guess it may have not been obvious from my short post:

My comment has NOTHING to do with business during normal times. Paywalls or subscription forms are OK for that stuff. No problem.

I simply don't think it good citizenship to write COVID-19 articles and lock them behind paywalls or modal subscription forms.
Why do you think its BS?
You know that the hospitals are saturated and that they have to choose who they give respirators and who they 'let die'..
What is the issue here? Does the US not spy on pretty much every other country and its people?
Are you saying that even with OpenCL kernels tailored for FPGA we get subpar results? (can belive that compilers do subpar job even on GPU)
I remember seeing this one a while back and thinking it was a cool concept — I wonder if anyone’s tried on / what’s become of it:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3037719/turn-your-kitchen-into-a...
No. In four areas in Italy, including a mid sized city.

> We have made exactly the same calculation for the municipalities of Cernusco sul Naviglio (Mi) and Pesaro using exactly the same methodology. In Cernusco the number of anomalous deaths is equal to 6.1 times those officially attributed to Covid-19, also in Pesaro 6.1 times. But even more staggering are the Bergamo figures, where the ratio reaches 10.4.
My second sentence was arguing for dynamic linkage (I called them "shared libraries", but I think that's a fairly common nomenclature).
Unfortunately these "delusional autocrats" run the government of, for example, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, etc. and would absolutely punish such a baker.
The Fernuniversität has all the same hideous bureaucracy, form filling and hoop jumping of any other German university, with similar entrance requirements. It is cheaper so it has that advantage. The Open University has no entrance requirements whatsoever for its Bachelor’s and it’s not terribly difficult to get onto a Master’s with the v university of London without a Bachelor’s so if you’re not severely cash constrained at least look at those.
5-10% swings are definitely not sane. I think there was technically a 3-day bull market last week, even though there wasn't much news that wasn't foreseeable on Monday.

I read that a lot of hedge funds running heavily leveraged, marginally profitable strategies have been deleveraging. That's a pretty rational response. Some of the movement is emotional, but some is driven by more rational concerns.
Copperhead making bogus legal threats to intimidate contributors to GrapheneOS
Only the Saudis?
Sardinia contains only 1/60 of Italian population.

The post you linked does not look very reliable

Moreover I'm not talking about super centenaries, but basic life expectancy

People who live more in general have probably better genes, we don't care how many die if we are counting those that survive longer than average

In US life expectancy is very low for being a developed country

And we can't really say that crime rate or frauds are higher in Okinawa than in Los Angeles

Nobody would believe that

Btw, what about France?
100% of donation goes toward shipping relief goods to where they're most needed
I think influential people tend to be scared of these rare events simply because those are the ones that actually can effect them. Based on the assumption that influential people tend to be wealth, they have the money to insulate themselves from small incidents but not big crisis. I do not believe Sam Altman has been poor before to truly understand that this pandemic is no different than most people living day to day because any accident can ruin them.
Is "3U" the satellite's dimensions as if it's electronic rack equipment? hah.
That the official numbers underreport Covid-19 deaths by a factor of 4 is one hypothesis -- but it's also possible that this is how many people would be saved by quick interventions at the hospital, but who otherwise died.

For example, maybe the ICU beds were full for a month, and in that time they would've saved 96 people, but couldn't.
Well, not quite free. Still gotta buy the wire, other supporting antenna hardware, and RTL-SDR lol

But yes, absolutely.
Introduction to tangzhong (2018)
From the article, which I find to be a nice read, this part particularly rings true to me:

"Pick team leaders wisely. A team leader is not an average developer with secretary duties no one else wants to carry out. A team leader is an inspiring master craftsperson; the role model; a person other teammates aspire to become. A team leader promotes technical excellence, spreads optimism, mentors people, and gives away the most interesting tasks to others."
>This isn't spying

Huh? Care to explain this odd take?

Obtaining information about someone's location w/o their permission, by agents of a foreign power, seems pretty textbook spying.
The article probably overstates actual increase in demand, picking some small subunit which has experienced outsized increased use. They may well want to continue expanding their core hardware capacity at 20%+ annually.
Dyson Designs Ventilator in 10 Days for Covid-19 Patients
I'm also Australian. I was referring to the previous decision to put everyone from the Norwegian Jewel into the Swissotel right in the middle of the Sydney CBD[1]. The brand-new policy you're referring to was announced only slightly before I posted my original comment (I wasn't aware of the change at the time and thus wasn't referring to it).

[1]: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/cor...
Assuming mammoths behaved like modern elephants [1], it could have been to lure and entrap living mammoth wishing to commemorate their dead. Therein, slaughter.
The emotional impact of being surrounded by ancestors might have made it easier to kill them.

You'd just need to leave or find a carcass out in the open. Over the seasons, you'd gradually move it closer to the killing ground.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/08/elephants-mo...
'Suspension of basic reasoning' is a common theme in literature (i.e., the limitations of logos).
Reading that as a kid definitely helped give me my image of what a master of the Art should be able to do.
They also explore many political systems.

I thought they were quite good at learning to not demonise politics that are not yours.
The headline, besides mentioning the the gender and the race of this person, should also mention the shoe size.
This shock is going to be a lot less short-term than people in this thread advocating anti-price-gouging laws seem to think.
Possibly, but in a crisis situation it is quite a bit more important to deliver adequate service to the "need" group. Outside of a crisis, the "need" group can pursue less expensive alternatives at their leisure. Right now, "fast" is critical.
Shouldn't the Covid-19 be immune to herd-immunity though because of the very long incubation time, during which you can still transmit the virus?
>anyone who cared would realize that the Saudis would track and snoop on cellphone users, no matter where they were. And so nobody who cared about that would use their Saudi phone. They'd just buy a phone at Walmart or wherever.

That's a very victim blame-y take.

Most people are not HN readers and have no idea what SS7 is.

Even if they know about cell tower tracking they'd probably expect that info would not be handed over by the USA to KSA.
"So You Want To Be A Wizard". I don't know if it's too late to read it as an adult, but make sure any kid you know has a chance to read it early.

In life's name, and for life's sake.
The government often makes decisions about companies buying other companies.

If a company has a contract with the government, then the government should have (specified already in the contract, perhaps) the right to prevent the sale of the company (with some specific exceptions).

The primary problem here is that in theory, the government works for the people; but also in theory, the (publicly traded) corporations work for the shareholders.

But yes, even without regulation, the government should have made more effort to enforce the contract. Perhaps the key government people with the power to do so were influenced somehow... But even if the contract had been upheld, there's certainly no guarantee that the new big company would have put their best effort into meeting the original goals of the contract (especially if it was against their "best" (profit) interest).
+1 It is a short and easy read, but leaves a lot to ponder over.
In the recent past, this "team" had an estimate net worth more than 150 Billion and get news coverage for donating 0.016% of their net worth or comparatively nothing. This while Facebook was hoarding literally hundreds of thousands of masks until it was shamed.

For context, this would be dollar for dollar the equivalent of me giving about $200 and I don't have a team of accountants to work my $200 into some sort of tax break. I have given more than this in tips to local restaurants who are pledging to share those tips with displaced staff.

Meanwhile the worlds richest man has essentially started a go fund me campaign to have others pay his contractors. His personal contributions to this crisis seem non-existent as all support efforts seem to be from Amazon.

It is an embarrassment of epic proportions that 9 people control 50% of all of the planet's wealth and still get news coverage for throwing coins to the pleabs.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki was also quite interesting, it's all about the feeling of detached loneliness and trying to rectify it, in this case due to some catastrophic incident, but loneliness nonetheless.

I also liked his What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, it's more philosophical and about the progress of art, the nature of creation.
Something something mythical man-month.
This misses the point about why it is bad to offend people. A lot of people may find something perfectly acceptable, but that is no reason to be rude to the ones who do find it offensive. In this case there are negligible downsides to simple using a different word, and this makes the product more inclusive to a large number of people (maybe small as a percentage, but a large number nonetheless).
Latency in multiplayer games (at least Halo:CE prints well-known Azure region names during game load) has been noticeably worse in the past few weeks, IME. Even during off-peak hours.
I'd be curious how much variation there is in previous years; are there any previous significant month spikes that have been washed out by the average?

It doesn't seem plausible that random chance could account for 2020's, though.
Using Go as a Scripting Language in Linux (2018)
How to Apply the Law of Vibration
I work for a non anglofone fortune 500 and I didn't have to explain GIMP to anybody

When they ask me (rarely) what software is that I simply answer "Photoshop for Linux, but gratis"
lol you "worry about that person" because they aren't aware that the author happens to be a bigot.
We need better reporting and labelling of farm-generated or auto-generated videos - possibly ML models that detect this. However it will cost YouTube revenue because they're profiting off of content farms. I don't see any other way to fix the problem.