skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But growing with the same exponent! The point was that Idaho doesn't need special mitigation rules, because unmitigated Idaho is somewhere around 2 weeks "behind" New York. Even here people seem not to get that point. The outbreaks are smaller outside the international cities because they were later, not because they're inherently better controlled.
The Barista's sister would fall into the thousands (or even 10,000s) of 2nd connections you have, in which there will almost certainly be young deaths. The goalie might have had health complications. I personally know at least 2 people with diabetes, 2 with asthma, plus one post-cancer. Maybe I'm a little older than you, but many of us would know a young-ish person that would die (a quarter maybe if the 0.2% chance of 20-39 year old death is in the right order of magnitude).

Also, don't forget death rates would go up if a healthcare system collapses, which we haven't seen.

I think you're the delusional one, while your personal chance of dying is fairly low, you know hundreds of people, and those people know thousands more.
If you are not for publicly executing several thousand doctors and pharma executives, you are equally guilty in the opioid crisis.
> Living the "quarantined" life

> It needs to be something I can finish in a week tops

> Ship it

Love the simple project idea & execution. I'm working on my own side-project during this isolation period, and your blog post is helping to inspire and motivate.
> Trump calling it a hoax on February 28?

cite please.
Very nice. We've built a similar tool, mainly geared toward purchasing gift cards, for Michigan. The code was built to make it as easy as possible to manage and add new businesses, so that others can easily deploy it for their own states.

https://www.savemifaves.org/
> It should be possible to make a filesystem with drastically better performance on SMR drives given the right low-level access, probably based on something more like a log-structured merge-tree, like e.g. LevelDB.

The filesystem would need to do periodic compaction. You would necessarily encounter situations where a write to “allocated” data would fail because the disk is out of space, which is a new, surprising error that would undoubtedly confuse some user-space programs.
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Trust is a bitch - so hard to gain it, and very very easy to lose by doing shit like this. I was buying WD/HGST drives for work. Now, I have to test everything I buy before deploying them dammit.
I had to use GDPR to force them to delete one of my accounts because my account got stuck in the registration where I could not complete the registration and could not delete the registration either. First time I used GDPR for anything. Support did not understand the situation, I waked through them the issue with screenshots, nothing.
I have found myself with a similar issue. Haven't been in the industry for too long (been working for over 3 years), but the constant shitshow that is FE development is really taking a toll on me. No matter what you do, people keep changing things, sometimes for the better, other times for no particular reason other than to work on new shiny things. If what I am writing right now will be thrown out soon or rewritten anyway, then why bother? Same goes for some BE stuff, Go language seems to be the new hip thing to do stuff in, repeating the cycle once more.

I have begun trying to find things I truly care about as a countermeasure to this fatigue, so far it seems to be moving in the direction of just helping with repairing and refurbishing used computer hardware. I know how to do it for my own purposes, it's less mentally taxing, you get to save useful stuff from going to the landfill and you will also help cut down on consumption. It probably helps that the results are immediate (broken device -> working device), but going this route will have a minuscule impact also on a larger scale.
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I've used TimescaleDB with 100 million plus rows, and it's been really fast.

It's also been a huge boon to be able to use a single system for both "normal" database stuff as well as time-series.
It's much worse than that. For SSD, it's just the blocks need to be zeroed before being writing to, which is not even an issue if there is lot of free space.

But for SMR, the reading track is narrower than writing track. For example, reading track's width is 1 unit, writing track's width is 2 unit, there is a 1 unit overlap between two adjacent tracks.

And here is how it works, assuming writing sequentially:
1. Start with blank disk, and write to track #1. This is happy case, as no data there, we can simply write to it.
2. Write to track #2. Still can simply write to it. However, this will overwrite lower half of track #1, but as long as reading only need 1 unit, track #1 record is still good.
3. Write to the following tracks one by one, all good, same story with step #2, over writing half of previous track.
4. Repeat until track #n.
5. Okay, all of a sudden, now we need to change something in track #1. What would happen now: we cannot simply overwrite the stuff in track #1 as this will overwrite the top half of track #2, which is the reading track of track #2. So we'll have to read out track #2 and and write track #1 and then write back track #2, which in turn has to read out track #3 and write track #2 and write back track #3...
6. Repeat the previous operation until all impacted tracks are written back.

In reality, the situation could be slightly better: if the disk is almost empty, the firmware can always find somewhere to write to without reading out and writing back. But if the disk is relatively full, then the case could be much worse: every writing could technically trigger another reading out and writing back operation. So how long would it take to finish a writing operation can hardly be predicted.

The worse case is that the disk is full and the writing is targeting whole track #1, then almost the entire disk need to be refreshed so that it can complete the operation...
> Clearly the best solution is for Microsoft

I wonder about the bigger part of this question.

What are the higher-ups saying?

I wonder if this is like the IBM PC, which was a GOOD THING invented by a sort of an offshoot of IBM culture. Then IBM higher-ups stepped in and tried to control the platform (PS/2, OS/2, microchannel, etc)

WSL is attracting people to windows. But the endgame isn't to lose them to linux. So they have to tie it into windows more. But if they make it too slow and bloated they might lose.

an interesting situation.
Isn’t the hard drive space all owned by WD since they bought Seagate? It doesn’t matter as much to their brand because there’s no competition in this area of large platter drives.
I don’t get why you would spend time making this
Are you aware that the language you speak is just "ruined" Old English, which is just "ruined" Germanic, which is "ruined" Indo-European? Yet, strangely, we had Chaucer and Shakespeare using these "ruined" languages to perfection.
That’s right, SMR has only appeared in hard drives recently, although SMR has been used in other media (like tape) for a long time.
Flashcards

In a less specific way, I have a coworker who keeps a personal wiki.
A mix of the fact that most companies I've worked for don't value their workers (they say they do, but their idea of valuing workers is buying fizzy drinks in the office and giving you "unlimited vacation" which just means they pressure you to come back after a few days and don't have to pay out accrued vacation time when you leave), and because they don't care about what they're building or how much it hurts the customer as long as they can increase their bottom line a few percentage points.

That being said, I haven't left but have been wanting to for ages. I'd be more interested in staying if I could find a unionized work place (when Delta cut salaries by 20%, the pilots union was able to negotiate for profit sharing after the hard times were over, when my company did that, they refuse to even discuss whether we'll ever be bumped back up to normal… even if we get paid well already it doesn't mean we shouldn't work together for better working conditions and more of a stake at the table) or a worker owned co-op to work for, but so far that hasn't materialized.
AFAIK the main problem is that Unix's file permissions do not cover Windows' permission model. That would be tolerable on a data partition, but a system partition is going to use all kinds of very particular permission setups on system binaries etc.

You might be able to model that stuff as xattr, but then it could be problematic to mount that ext4 partition into Linux because applications might be copying files without respecting the xattrs.
I jumped the gun a little there and just assumed the author was writing the simplified version of 国 which my Chinese dictionary seemed to confirm. My Chinese is very basic.

But if 囯 is nonstandard, how did the author end up writing that one? I mean, it is easy to do when handwriting, but these kinds of mistakes are usually much more difficult on a computer
Pretty sure it's mainly platforms. https://hbr.org/2020/03/navigating-the-new-landscape-of-ai-p...

I've personally been seeing several pop up for helping with training+deployment for edge-oriented applications like Edge Impulse and Latent AI.
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I though eyeglasses prescriptions were to assess the right "myopia settings" (not sure what the right word is)?? I guess they should stay valid for some period of time, like 1-5 years, in case you break your glasses, but presumably your sight can change (worsen) over time so another exam is a good thing.
Not an Electron-related problem, just a general issue: What made me give up on VSCode after trying to make it work again(this March) was the fuzzy search just not being very good in my Rails projects. I can ctrl-shift-r in sublime and get to the method definition I want in 4-5 characters. It's probably my primary code navigation technique: see a thing, wanna check the def, 1-2 seconds later I'm there.

There's some VSCode extension that claims to mimic this but the fuzzy search seems much worse and it just doesn't quite work. Yes you can use the solargraph extension to sort of go to the def in vscode and it does all sorts of cool things, but I just never got into it.

It seems like a small thing but I just couldn't get over it, because I do it so often.

The main other difference is I much prefer the GitSavvy Sublime text extension to VSCode's built-in git handling. Particularly how I can see a summary of the commit I am making in GitSavvy whereas there doesn't seem to be a way to get all the file changes in one screen in VSC(though to be fair I didn't look around much for a way to do this, there probably is an option somewhere).

That being said if fuzzy search was working the same as in Sublime, I'd probably switch to Code.
That sounds amazing. In my current country and that of my birth you have to fight tooth and nail to be allowed to build anything, at least at the scale an individual can manage to build.
The deaths in NY,LA,CA, and MI include many,many people under 70.

Also, you’ve responded several times without answering my question:

How many of your family, friends, and acquaintances are you willing to put up for the experiment?
Which undisputed authority could engineers invoke?
Isn't the order here to avoid citing them? Someone at a quite low level is ignoring the orders from the city.
Testing is severely undercounting cases here. People who just experience fever are told to self-isolate and aren't tested. Not all of these (luckily) end up hospitalized, so those are never, ever counted.
Whoa, this is an incredible find! Getting historical testing data for anything other than the stock market is an absolute nightmare. Thanks for this!
Can this be constructed as lying? I'd be interested whether this might be ground for a lawsuit.
It seems pretty calculated to reduce costs while deceiving the buyer by omitting or having an incorrect spec sheet.

Would a class action suit help to prevent this kind of action in the future? Perhaps the punitive fine will make the cost calculations that led to this decision different since they will need to include the risk of judgement in the costs.
I’m not sure this is true. The enormity of the amount of things that need to be configured before it becomes usable leads new people to use things like Spacemacs etc. This means they rely on other peoples’ config, and aren’t able to customise the editor for themselves.

The same issue exists in Vim. So many nice features of Vim (such as file management using buffers) are underused, because by default they aren’t configured in a usable way.
The site the article links to put up a companion article that explains the technology:

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/04/15/shingled-drives-have-n...
It looks like that’s not undefined behaviour, but using a non-existent and undefined opcode, which happens to “do something” because the cpu attempts to execute the bits anyway (it doesn’t mask the unused opcodes into no ops or errors). Later variants of the 6502, like the WDC 65C816, did away with this (I believe, either using the opcodes for something defined, or making them no ops, although I’m unsure)
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We are in the same boat.
I got into facilities management. I get to create / manage construction projects for my "company" from planning all the way to final acceptance. In my area, the whole industry is quite behind technologically. Using tech has helped me excel.

I'm now ~7 years removed from active development and am finding it increasingly more difficult to find time to make a side project to show off while trying to raise a family. I miss development and keeping up with all the new stuff. It'd be hard for me to take the pay cut to return as a junior dev- so now I feel stuck.
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Just under 1/3 of Spanish nurses (70k/255k) may be infected with coronavirus
People say we're shutting down the economy for rhetorical effect. (Guilty as charged here.) In practice, a large majority of economic activity is either doable from home or considered essential, and 20% of economic output lost for 2 months does only add up to about 3% over the year.
1. Many startups claiming AI are simply doing things with data; research shows two-fifths have no AI programs in their products [1].

2. Round-closing announcements trail the actual closing by several months. Not to mention the actual raising and diligence takes months (even more so for larger/later rounds). Thus the $ reported here does not factor in covid19 and the current economic crisis, as implied.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/21b19010-3e9f-11e9-b896-fe36ec32a...
When you or your family member are suffering from job loss or financial strain. When you or your family member are recovering from the coronavirus. When you had to shut down your startup or your business. Just remember.

It was the Chinese communist party that helped to start all of this.
That's a good way of explaining it and makes sense. I have 3x4TB WD Reds configured as an 8TB RAID 5 mdadm array in my Linux box. It's a sort of dumping grounds for backups/disk images, VMm images, etc. I would see initial write speeds of 150-200MB/sec but during large transfers moving 100's of GB, it would drop in write speed down to 50-60MB/sec. I thought it was a performance issue in the kernel or with mdadm and didn't bother to investigate further because I'm not a datacenter.
> Why is it reckless? The WHO has arguably made the problem worse.

Ah, this is a typical conservative response. "The government responded ineffectively!" they will say, to which the only possible response is to simply start dismantling government institutions and replace them with their corporate friends.

Then, when the next crisis occurs, and the even further weakened public institutions struggle to respond, they can remind us that they were right all along - it is the institutions that have failed us! Etc etc, into the downward spiral.

"Starve the beast" is not a strategy that can possibly result in reform, and I have trouble believing that anybody advocating it believes it in good faith.
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I think most of your issues are equating "QEMU == vmware player" or something like this. It's really not: as a matter of fact, QEMU is just a processor emulator, in software. It's not a full-operating-system VM environment at all and can be (and is) used for things like running a single binary without virtualization.

Why is this confusing? What you're really looking for is KVM, which -is- a hypervisor that uses the processor's virtualization instructions to implement a complete virtual machine. And then QEMU has a backend, for x86/x86_64, that uses KVM to accelerate its processor virtualization (and I believe some hardware support as well).

Using KVM through QEMU at least gives you a command line interface to do things instead of "write a C program to talk to the kernel API", but this is still far from the level of a tool that a desktop user would want to use. QEMU+KVM is basically at the level of one of the random barely-documented executables that you'd see in the installation of a VM software package.

So what should you use here? The next layer up is libvirt, which provides a system-level daemon to talk to (so you're not just running an emulator from a terminal that exits when you close the terminal) and a command shell & configuration files for defining machines, networks, storage, and so on. Still not a great UX, but at least now you're at the level of being able to define and run a machine.

Many users are going to manage these things through a wizard-based or graphical workflow instead of a CLI, so there's applications like Boxes that's built into GNOME (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes) or virt-manager (https://virt-manager.org/) which is desktop-agnostic. Both of these also help with establishing a graphical interface to the virtual machine itself, if necessary.
Oh my god. This isn’t true. There was one type of seagate drives that had a reliability issue and backblaze happened to have a bunch of them.

Do you realize how many different models there are, customized for different workloads? Do you realize how many different sets of firmware there are?

It’s like saying Honda has shit cars because one model year had a problem.
I'm pretty sure he pays his income and consumption (aka VAT) taxes too.

Also, what about other infection-induced diseases? Are you sure that you fully understand the long-term implications of this paradigm shift with regard to public health safety?
I change mine every month, typically the last or first day.
Well the real reason there is no lockdown in Sweden is that the owners of the country said No to lockdown. The rest is just unique Swedish doublespeak.

https://www.ft.com/content/3b8ec9fe-6eb8-11ea-89df-41bea0557...

> An estimate from The Economist finds that the value of Swedish billionaires’ fortunes is equivalent to a quarter of the country’s annual gdp. Only in tax havens such as Cyprus or Monaco, or captured economies such as Russia or Georgia, are plutocrats more dominant

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/11/28/in-sweden-bill...
Hmm this is scary. I still need reasonably fast spinny disks (getting enough ssd space is too expensive, so two tiers).

Up to now I was assuming any random 7200 rpm drive will do. Apparently I now need to be extremely cautious?
I just almost always start firefox with a mouse click- even on fluxbox :/
looking here https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/bit_field seems quite a bit. My main thought was how field's laid out in memory. Know would be big change with endianness but thought a standard check might be useful...?
Most of the problems you mention could also be solved with a good test suit...
I'm not against mypy.. but after working near two years with typescript.. if I have to type I prefer to do it with compiled things...
We exactly need to reward original investigative journalism like this with subscriptions.

So few "journalists" do anything more than repeat twitter trends these days.
I think you're overestimating people and their ability to be precise.
Even if you are an elisp expert, emacs is by now quite inferior to VSCode for most things; what you get out of the box with vscode beats laborious customization by expert hands in emacs 9 times out of 10. Emacs still does some fundamentals better (undo), can be used in a terminal and, if you avoid bloatware like spacemacs, also offers better performance. If one is willing to ignore the spyware and proprietary component aspects, vs code by now is a better choice even for most power users, IMO.
The basic functionality is in the core. (about:preferences -> search for "container"). But for better UI there is an extension.
In the past year I've had these failures: 2x WD RED 4TB (EFRX), 2x WD RED 6TB (EFRX), 1x Seagate 4TB. I have a fairly even mix that includes HGST (and a few HGST He). No HGST failures yet. I won't be buying WD RED's for a while, if ever.
I worked as a web developer for a couple of years after teaching myself ruby and javascript. I got into programming because I found it intellectually interesting, but unfortunately commercial programming is mostly mindnumbing. I got bored of creating CRUD apps over and over again for boring business applications. I considered upping my CS and maths skills to get more interesting jobs, but decided to pursue more of a nonprofit strategy/research path instead.

I now work for a small consultancy company doing research and designing funding programmes for charitable foundations. It's great because I get to do lots of research, writing, and thinking and have a positive impact on the world. No regrets, I'm very glad to have made the transition.

Still follow HN out of mild addiction and because there are interesting articles.
Fuck off humans are omnivores and meat is part of a healthy diet
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The alternatives don't have the mindshare that GitHub has when it comes to open source software. If the community around the game is already weak, moving to another provider will likely weaken it even more. The source won't be gone, but that's only half of what matters.
Same here. I start feeling anxious any time I think about it. I think we spend a lot of energy to serve commercial purposes. I am on a huge project, that uses a lot of modern technologies like AWS, Angular, etc... just to sell products.

It is boring. So like you said, I just try to find an opportunity that could help, but it's hard to find.

A reason why I could not leave my job right now, is that it's well payed. That's a high risk when you have a family with kids.
Anyway es6 classes it's just a proper way of doing Oop in js.. the prototypal thing it's so ugly...
Ask HN: What are you doing in order to live longer and healthier?
I'm interested especially in non-standard interventions. For example, repurposed medication that you're taking, while also doing regular blood work in order to monitor its effectiveness.
Is there a break down of percentage allocated from seed, series A, B, ... all the way down to F rounds?