skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing much, since 98% of those "millions" would be folks already above age 75 and with 2+ serious underlying conditions.

Only around 10,000-20,000 otherwise-healthy would die even in the worst case.

The economy would barely notice.

On the other hand, locking everyone in their houses has created 20% unemployment in three weeks.

Another 20-40% will lose their jobs in the next month -- and now they're starting to talk about 18 months as the "minimum" amount of time for these house arrests.

Meanwhile, farmers are being forced to destroy their crops, dumping milk, smashing eggs, and plowing under vegetables -- all while the store shelves are bare. 20% of American meat processing has been permanently closed already.

We are looking at 100 million or more dead due to starvation in the coming year, all because they frightened you about a moderately-dangerous virus.
I wonder what OS and stack you are programming that an OS update can break your dev env?
Heap layout changes between runs due to OS obfuscation (ASLR).
Probably not; no.

The best I can come up with is that probability is very sensitive to what you assume is happening to generate results. In this case, you're assuming that the WIV in particular is important which I suspect links the pandemic implicitly to Wuhan. That isn't a math error, but it is not going to give you a useful result.

This isn't an error of logic so much as an error in scenario construction - it is ignoring possibility that the virus appeared near a random BSL rated facility, which is probably very high since a new virus would likely be detected first in dense urban centers where that sort of infrastructure tends to be. If the virus is likely to appear near a BSL facility, then the fact it appeared near a specific BSL facility shouldn't be leading you to the sort of answer you got.
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Without funding it's not going to get moved anywhere. The main design work on them was upscaling them and lowering enrichment + work on reducing any possibility of reusing breed plutonium from them.

If they kept to high enrichment, they could pretty start making and packing container-sized powerplants, but the old designs were designed for 50MW, while the uprated, civilian ones were for min. 100MWe
Slow Sand Filter
Are you going to add persistence in an upcoming part?
Would be good to do what Gmail does over IMAP because many email clients already know how to handle it.

A feature that only works in the web UI isn't useful for me and while I'm excited about JMAP, it doesn't have support in any of the email clients I can use.
Emacs does this. See https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2364/what-is-the-f...
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Apollo 13 enhanced images reveal life...

:D

...on stricken spacecraft...

:|
Having more than one name doesn’t change the story, and neither does some colors having no name at all. For each pair of adjacent colors which is indistinguishable to most people, and the two colors must either have the same name (the two sets of names are equal) or different names (the two sets of names have no intersection).
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For me, it's being able to have a consistent code-style that is completely unambiguous for all collaborators. You configure the tools to run in your editor (or as make targets, or as pre-commit scripts) and you run the same checkers on your CI which prevents non-conforming changes from being merged to master.

Here's a config file for running some of these checks with https://pre-commit.com/ both locally, and then again on CI:

https://github.com/kogan/django-subscriptions/blob/master/.p...

https://github.com/kogan/django-subscriptions/blob/master/.c...
Many/most WebRTC apps don't do p2p, but rely on a bunch of stuff happening in server side. There are also a lot of ways to set up webrtc in the browser affecting quality.
Share a link to yourself and open it in an incognito tab, if you just want to test it locally.
I thought the entire thing was an excuse to have yet another node dependency.

const namedColors = require('namedColors');
const chalk = require('chalk');
console.log(chalk.hex(nameColors['Hacker News Orange'])(
lol, you just downloaded a 200meg dep for named colors
));
Why hydro is not as flexible? A cable from Germany to Norway is being built to use hydro plants in Norway as energy batteries. This is despite Germany having natural gas plants.
Sounds interesting! Do you have a link for this in regards to research done on p2p streaming?
Most calls don't have lots of users, so this is a good tradeoff for many use cases given the security and quality advantages.

Also, networks are getting faster, and so the nr of supportable participants in p2p video calls goes up and conceivably stops being an issue in some years. Many users already have fast enough networks for this today.
I think almost every FPGA vendor development tool has integrated tcl support which is basically the standard for scripting in that industry. Vender lock-in exasperates the trend.
Couldn’t all clients negotiate a shared session key and encrypt video once for everyone? Or is that a limitation baked into the WebRTC protocol?
"Based on bash history data" is an interesting point, because it highlights that you can use your history to periodically check what you do inefficiently in the terminal, and which aliases you still need to add to your config: compute some statistics on the number of 1-word and 2-word commands you use the most, and see if they are more than e.g. 4 letters.

With zsh:
"history 1 | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n"

With bash I think this should be "history" instead of "history 1".
Game of life, ended by COVID-19. Wow.
>> bhyve

>They don't list anything technically better about bhyve. Why would I use this over xen or kvm?

Isn't it actually worse? There doesn't seem to be AMD support:

>Hosting Linux guests or FreeBSD guests with more than one vCPU requires VMX unrestricted mode support (UG)

Does AMD have UG or does this mean no AMD support for multi-processor guests?

With Meltdown and Spectre, doesn't this mean that VMs on linux AMD systems provide much better performance, and even better performance per dollar?
The vast majority of people are not need to remember ten and more color names, Remembering the 16M names is so impossible that you cann't understand which color does the others tell you indeed mean before you google the name and get the hex values. I think this project makes no sence at all.
> For better or worse, I find GUI git clients to be less useful than the CLI.

Genuinely interested, why?

I'm a huge fan of the CLI in general, but for some things it just slows me down, git usage is one of those.

Random example: reverting a commit is 2-3 clicks, or a whole lot of typing.
Oups, that's embarrassing. Fixed, thanks.
At the moment you dont have access to the video/audio stream so you cant do anything like this
You've presented a false dichotomy.

The majority of the French population in the late 1700s was starving.

Their choice were not simply "obey or starve".

Those in long-term power want stability and predictability. This makes it easier to consolidate power (eg, Picketty's r > g).

Instability, including pandemics and long-term economic crashes, has a tendency to break down centralized power. There's a reason American elites during the 1930s were so afraid of socialism and communism that Roosevelt was able to get his New Deal. (And don't be strawmanning me - yes, it can also strengthen central power. I said "tendency.")

If everyone weakens, then the US military weakens. Our soldiers are weaker, and our economy can't maintain the might needed to sustain America's global economic imperialism.
Ah, influence mapping... I participated in a fun thread on comp.ai.games in 1995 where a lot of these ideas were first fleshed out.

http://zhar.net/projects/gameai/influence_map.html

My contribution was to use heat transfer calculations to model the battlefield as a conductive plate with units as heat constraints.

Fun times. I always wondered if that thread inspired any real world games.
Sorry my physics are lousy, but what about finding information on the quantum level? Can’t that also distinguish past from present?
Where the citation on that? From what I’ve seen, P2P is more common than SFUs, if for no other reason than they are way simpler to implement architecturally for small amount of participants.
Nice, only missing one essential feature (unless I can't find it): the ability to set the device I/O.
Intuitionism should be familiar: it's effectively the logic underlying most programming. It's basically what allowed theorem provers like Coq to extract a runnable OCaml program from a logic proof.
Kelo v. New London is an (in)famous Supreme Court case holding that "public use" for eminent domain can include just handing the property over to private interests, on the theory that doing so could produce economic development.

The actual New London development fell through anyway and the area is just vacant. A large Pfizer presence nearby was a major reason behind the plan in the first place; in the wake of mergers and with the tax breaks that lured them there in the first place expiring, Pfizer pulled up stakes.
There's some additional information about John's code at https://aplwiki.com/wiki/John_Scholes%27_Conway%27s_Game_of_..., including a link to his own notes at http://dfns.dyalog.com/n_life.htm.
Staff US Congress voting options during Covid19 [pdf]
- keeping all your configuration files (“dotfiles”: shell, git, etc) in one, version controlled place. Makes setting up new machines so much less stressful. Here are mine in case you’re interested, for macOS and Ubuntu: https://github.com/Bogidon/dotfiles

- setting up a personal vpn with a reserved IP if you connect to services that require your IP to be whitelisted and you move often

- for git cli: dashes take you back to your previous location (eg `git checkout -` will take you back to the previous branch). On zsh: `cd -n` will take you to n directories ago

Mac only:

- the Paste clipboard manager has been a most delightful tool, though I don’t know if I’ll ever upgrade to the new subscription version: https://pasteapp.io/

- the workflows feature in Alfred.app as a convenient place to keep utility applescripts / other kinds of little scripts that you want to invoke through global shortcuts or through Alfred
I use Appcode over Xcode for swift development mainly for one single feature - bookmarks, ctrl-shift-1 to set a bookmark, ctrl-1 takes me to it.Maybe not 100 hours but its a feature I can't live without. I don't know why Xcode doesn't have bookmarks. There's also a plugin for Visual studio which does the same.
Code related:

Visual Studio, ReSharper, Notepad++ (I did many tedious tasks with ease just by using regular expressions), Git,
generic To Do list software (Microsoft ToDo, Todoist, etc.) - not everything is to be kept in Jira so this kind of software helps with organizing other tasks.

Not code related:
Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop

Web browser is a piece of software that saved me time but also helped me waste a lot of time. So it's not only software that matters but the user, too.
Slow compared to? VSCode? Visual Studio? Vim?
The point of what the rest of us are doing is to slow the spread, not be surprised that it does spread in ironic ways.

I hope no more energy is put on irrelevant investigative journalism like this. Proactive mayors and governors slowed it down in their areas, letting hospitals deal with their current bandwidth and give time to increase their bandwidth, so the rest of us can be bussed through.
I use vscode but it's missing some basic code features for me. The biggest for me is probably keyboard macros, something that's been a basic feature of editors since at least the 80s. Keyboard macros in other editors has saved me 100s of hours.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/4490
And if you need something even lighter, something like a better Notepad is enough. Lightweight text editors are a dime a dozen, but I'm personally a fan of notepad2 / notepad2-mod / notepad3; even if they don't have tabs.

Also shout out to LINQPad, for letting me test quick snippets of C# with better visualization than Visual Studio. It's also a better alternative to Sql Server Management Studio for running SQL.
Soon to be used as a startup name generator.
- tmux

- bashmarks

- zsh-autosuggestions

- yasnippet/emacs

- awk

- explainshell.com

- ansible scripts for setting up new dotfiles and my commonly used tools on a new machine/VM
As an alternative to Hindley-Milner, also consider a compositional type system (https://unsafePerform.IO/projects/talks/2016-06-compty/CompT... it should be a very good match for the kind of simple HM type systems that you're going to encounter while learning about compilers.

Here's code if you prefer that to slides: https://github.com/gergoerdi/hm-compo
It's been only in last two years that a wind power plant was built in Poland without direct subsidy, and there's still "green certificate" trading scheme that is an effective subsidy.

Spain switched from direct subsidies to big beefy "guaranteed purchase" 10 year contract... in 2017.
If you're interested in this, check out the book about web development in clojure[0] from the author of luminus, I haven't yet read it all, but I really liked the first few chapters.

[0]: https://pragprog.com/book/dswdcloj3/web-development-with-clo...
They should have named 12-bit (4096), 15-bit (32768) and 18-bit (262144) color spaces first then the 24-bit (16.7M) color space. It's easier for humans to manage smaller data sets at first.
BTW,19% of Virginia is black.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/states-by-race/
OK. Went down the rabbit hole 20 minutes ago and just surfaced. I love simple time-wasters like this. My contributions include:

Peppermunt

Not quite baby shite

Medical attention required

Hardware store argument blue

Something tells me however that the colour picker that implements this list, while fun, would not be very performant.
Included in that 18% are people who aren't supposed to pay rent in the first 5 days of a month. Their rent is just due later in the month.
Anyone have any suggestions for a better name? Human Capital?
Absolutely, and uranium mining will require more energy over time, as the best sources get depleted.

Still, AFAIU,

1) the mining is not the largest energy requirement (security enforcement measures and refining require much more energy and infrastructure)

2) In the golden age of nuclear, it was commonly thought that we would have breeder reactors by now, that would make the fuel processing hundreds of times more efficient, and thus the question would be obsolete... Unfortunately, only India and Russia are still actively working on that technology.
The simulation hypothesis is not intended to provide explanatory power on the matter you're looking for. It provides explanatory power on other questions though.

A simulation is also indistinguishable from the real thing from the inside, or it wouldn't be a faithful simulation.
Foxconn officials seem to be taking the Aristotelian view that nature abhors a vacuum and consider the fact that there is air in the buildings as good enough to be classified as "not empty."
Coming from a Java environment, I can't agree enough... A lot of my fellow devs would think of NodeJS as a replacement for Ruby--inefficient and not production ready.

When I first tried NodeJS, I was hooked... You can build simple CRUD backend APIs within minutes! I'm aware you can do the same with Java, e.g. something like Spring Boot streamlines the process a ton as well, but the feedback loop of just writing a line or two and having a server automatically reload within seconds is amazingly addicting.

I am not sure I would use Node for production... I suspect a lot of the Java world might switch to Go as being much faster yet much safer than something like Node.
The reason we don't have fusion is that we keep looking for above break-even (and for proper fusion power plant we need ratios way above 10:1, afaik) in aneutronic fusion.

If we accepted neutron radiation in the process, which is what would lead to radioactive fusion chamber cladding you mention, we could have broken even already - the experiment JET reactor had the design capacity to run at above 1:1, but wasn't equipped for the damage from neutron radiation.
The government already values homes for the purpose of property taxes.
"The trouble with political jokes is that very often they get elected"

Will Rogers
Are they doing names for families of colors?

Yours should be called Yabba Dabba Doo.

Or perhaps Fred Flintstone.
I already use notepad++ this way. Mostly, it is my scratch pad for stuff until I figure out what to do with it (save in Evernote, create an issue, send email or slack message, etc).

The killer feature that enables this is if you create a new document, it stays there (as "new2" or whatever) until you explicitly close that document. Closing notepad++, rebooting, etc doesn't matter - it's still there next time you open notepad++.

I've tried with vscode, but its behavior of closing everything if you open a folder just makes it not work for me, even though I often use it for coding.
> Never believe someone who's never built a nuclear plant on what their design will cost.

> More and more I think it's really public communication/PR/education that matters most for nuclear.

I'm almost 30 years old and I live in France. While I see nuclear science as very cool and futuristic, I also just dont want to see anymore nuclear reactors. Especially since we showed that batteries and renewable energies have room for improvements.

Even people who are supposed to know how to build nuclear reactors don't know how to do it :

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-edf-nuclearpower-flamanvi...

Flamanville's reactor has 10 years of lag and costs tripled to billions of euros. Guess where does the money come from ? Our taxes.

All this money (and UK money) could have been invested in consuming less (smarter consumption, more efficiency), improve battery technologies and improve renewable energies.

To me, the goal of 50% of nuclear energy should even be lowered to 30%.
Great blog post!

I'd just like to add for the curious, that usually you'd use goyacc for parsing SQL.

And most serious SQL projects in Go have started with the SQL parser from vitess and adapted it to their use case (which is just funny trivia, but for anything big, I recommend it, did the same for OctoSQL [0]).

[0]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql
A brand new account created specifically to complain about how shills trying desperately to deflect attention from China's regime to the US are being downvoted instead of upvoted ?
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Found this software in Hyderabad. Itformula1 is amazing company treats best service from UK, USA, Canada and Australia.
https://youtu.be/_x73nu38jRc
There are only 5000 stars visible to the human eye. And many already have names. That would be a much easier job than naming 16m colors ;-)
Selam Restaurant in San Jose is where the Ethiopian Uber drivers hang out on breaks. The food is delicious, the injera bread is less sour than other places.
Did you mean "(...) almost like _Firefox's_ autocomplete (...)"?

I know this is OT but one of the reasons I've switched is history search that actually works.
I am the author of the Keechma framework. If you have any questions please ping me on the Clojurians Slack (#keechma channel). I’ll be happy to help
I use copyclip as my clipboard manager: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/copyclip-clipboard-history/id5...
It is free + simple.
To achieve "no latency", you have to remain completely still.
More importantly they shouldn't limit themselves to an RGB bound color space
Why? Why do we need to tag and name everything. It's slows us down. Tools get better and we dig deeper into the analog world. So this seems useless unless practical needs demand it.
Every leader is selected by a popularity contest, the only difference is who judges the contest.
For those who, like me, were also shocked by the claim that coal plants release more radiation than nuclear plants: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1018/do-coal-pl...
Also, just as our biological machinery is an engine of negentropy, carving out order from chaos, I think our brains continue that same work in the information theoretic sense of entropy. Humans are insatiably curious because we are alive, and to be alive is to be an engine of order among chaos.
By far the best option is to use the existing House rules and current practices

Good grief. The fact that the US Congress doesn't already have a contingency plan ready for this extremity is a dereliction of duty and the sign of a failed state - one that believes in the magic of its own customary behaviors rather than any practical considerations.

I mean, one of the planes on 9-11 was intended to hit the US Congress. You'd think that would have been sufficient motivation to dust off cold war-era continuity plans and reimagine them for the possible catastrophes of a new era but instead the USA has opted to institutionalize its sclerosis to the point of ossification.

The USA is becoming a failed state in near real time. I'm sure that statement will seem hyperbolic to many readers but I think most of you have little conception of just how abruptly institutions can collapse.
There is life after death. It's just not going to be you living it. One day, you'll die. After that, it's eternal nothingness. It's not so terrible if you think about it.
Seconded. This was recommended by a friend and saved me hours since. The search is near instant, it's flexible, updates in real time. Highly recommend.
The reason we don't have fusion is partially that the focus is on aneutronic fusion that doesn't have that problem.

JET could run above break-even in neutronic fuel cycle.
I remember watching the Apollo 13 movie for the first time in 1995 and thinking at the time how modern they were in those far off days of 1970.
Now the same length of time has passed since 1995 (in the blink of an eye) and it still hasn't dated.
The internet is huge but it feels like the only thing we've done since 1970.
I wrote a couple of VBA scripts for Excel that has probably saved my team 100 hours.

Prior to that, we would have templates being opened and copied over. As much as developers often don't like Excel, the problem that Excel has always directly addressed still exists: Not everyone wants to program.
No body seems to have address the cost of Nuclear. There are solar farms in Portugal and Abu Dhabi that cost below $0.02 / kWh non-subsidise. And it seems Sub 1 cents / kWh, what was previously thought to be impossible are now within reach in this decade. How is Nuclear going to compete?

I think right now the race is for utility scale Battery. And this goal seems to be a lot easier to achieve than having a cost competitive Nuclear reactor.

Note: I am not pro Solar or Anti Nuclear, in fact I pretty much want Nuclear to succeed in the long term since I dont like the idea massive land area being used for solar, not every country has the luxury of doing so especially those with limited sunlight hours. But looking at the cost alone it seems solar is hard to compete against.
Yes, using nimpy (which nimporter builds on); IIRC, it has other nice features like being Python version agnostic (same Nim executable can import modules from py2.7, py3.4 and py3.7 for example without needing to recompile, though not at the same time).

But you might be better off with NimTorch and Arraymancer which though not yet complete, provide similar functionality and ergonomics at superior performance.
A technology with a 1% catastrophic failure rate that will devastate whole regions for centuries is a nightmare and should be replaced ASAP.

Keep it in the ground: Oil, coal, gas and uranium!
It's over
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Why? There's so many out there already, and it seems like you haven't familiarized yourself with that particular dataverse yet.
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