skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York waited for things to be bad before they shut down. San Francisco shut down incredibly early in comparison at a time when the city was essentially perfectly fine and largely unaffected. This led to an extraordinary difference in outcomes.

The interior of the country doesn’t have the infrastructure to support exponential growth. Nurses and doctors and hospitals being idle is a sign that we chose the SF path, not the NY path.

The economic impact is of course absolutely terrible and this is shaping up to potentially be as bad as the Great Depression was. But letting the virus ravage small towns and cities without adequate support would be worse both economically and in terms of loss of life.
A popular theory is that it exposes 'allies' of the US as complicit. Which allies those are depends on whose theory you subscribe to.
March reports show economic hit swifter and deeper than expected
Try https://gif.com.ai
to turn it into a gif. You can set timing with a bouncing </marquee> tag to make it move from end to end. I’m not aware of any tools to turn gifs into screensavers however. I’m pretty sure they exist though.

I made one a little while ago https://imgur.com/7t9svTV
Who the fuck would downvote this?

It is established fact.

Oh, that's right. It's 2020 and the Internet has no shortage of ideological idiots and information saboteurs. Talk about a thorny problem for a board like this.
I was a vi user that had to ramp up quickly on a clojure project. Being new to clojure, I choose not to emacs at the same time as clojure. Spacemacs was lifesaver for me, given clojure experience in vi + plugins is subpar.
I'll happily eat cornbread at any meal
If you don't mind answering, how old were you at the time and what was your proximity to Cedars-Sinai?

I have slight regret with not double booking an appointment with Schievink when he personally called me. For some likely completely unreasonable reason, I feel like Dr. Carroll is a bit better of a choice having had a child with a leak. Had an appt with Carroll a small ways out - was in San Diego for strange reasons at the time - was going to be gone by the date of the appt and have to fly in. Schievink very much thought I had a leak from history and others diagnosis (EDS & POTS) - but thought I may be in better hands with Stanford as I already had an appointment - the main reason I went after Schievink was because I was hoping to be seen before I left SD. For some reason, I made the choice to agree with him and stick with only Carroll.

Anyways... A ton of unfortunate things fell thru with some misscheduling at Stanford, and I'm still on a list to be seen by Carroll :(

While both doctors think it's likely that I have one, which is something they've both said they typically don't say over the phone, either way - I see Dr. Carroll as an absolute hero in these strange times we seem to be living in. As selfish as it sounds, I can only hope that man pioneers research into this for the rest of his life. Being on the receiving end of at least one (possibly two with CSF) medical diagnosis in which there's less quality researchers/surgeons in the Western World than can be counted on one hand, you grow to have very strange ideals as to what's truly important in life.
Centralization is indeed a danger, but so is being proprietary. It would show some good will or otherwise willingness to avoid temptation if Microsoft freed the GitHub codebase even while staying centralized.

Freeing the code is a check-and-balance issue. It doesn't remove their core power, but it provides more of an escape hatch if they abuse the power. Sure, people could go to GitLab, but (A) if GitHub gets strong enough, they could hurt GitLab's business and progress and (B) it's a much more trivial move for a project to switch from Microsoft GitHub to an alternate GitHub host.

In other words, the easier it is for people to leave, the more incentive Microsoft has not to abuse people too much.

If we were going to go for the most ethical and trustworthy directions, it would probably be stuff like Fossil or SourceHut.
Christie Digital (the makers of the digital movie projectors for AMC among people), is doing layoffs today... I haven't heard anything yet.
Oh my, what is wrong with people?? Or maybe it's just me. I have a PTSD like reaction instead. I was a DVD programmer for 10 years, and every where I looked would be a screen with a DVD player connected doing this. I'm so glad to not be in the shiny round disc business any more.
Last time I worked with stored procs with an Oracle 8 database, over 20 years ago. PL/SQL was awful.
I live in a country where we gladly finance the health care of other people without looking for anything in return.
I really don't understand the lack of compassion that can ground such an ideology.
Gives rise to a quick brainteaser (perhaps depending on whether you've given number theory any thought before): under what conditions is it guaranteed to hit a corner (regardless of where it starts)? Also assume it's traveling with slope 1.
I hear stories like this all the time - I'm all for "cloud" in certain areas, but, there are an increasing amount of companies that either don't care or have short sighted policies.

I really think the future needs to look more at "master" accounts with Azure/AWS and similar services, make it much easier to delegate access to third parties so that the third party contains the core logic/application but the data resides fully with your own account.

Data ownership is so important and overlooked by so many people who want an easy life and want to forget physical servers to look after.
All of them if someone else does the initial set up, from first hand experience.
What you mean "what if"? Clearly the risk was not minimal if it resulted in a 3 hour outage and affected customers. Someone at Cloudflare should have been able to identify that the services that were colocated at this facility had no redundancy prior to asking a third party to power down gear. Foregoing the maintenance until proper redundancy was in place was not out of their control.

Circulating a MOP(method of procedure) for data center maintenance among all stakeholder is pretty standard. The purpose of the MOPS is so that everyone can vet the plan(roll forward and roll back)and identify the risks.
With the right grain of salt, you get zinc. Suggestions: zinc acetate, zinc chloride, zinc citrate
I'm not taking a position on whether it's 'just', I am simply pointing out that it primarily benefits the lawyers, and may benefit a few former shareholders.

I believe that class-action suits are supposed to benefit the class, both in the judgement/settlement and in changing long-term incentives. Shareholder lawsuits appear to do neither.
If you know VI I'd recommend Evil Mode: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

Helm is pretty amazing and almost worth the cost of Emacs by itself: https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/
Thinking Granular: How Is SolidJS So Performant
Plenty of medical schools give need-based financial aid. So those folks who took out loans probably came from pretty well-off middle class families.
> Now the demiurge is a utility monster.

How is the demiurge taking utility from humans if humans ending up in heaven is the optimal outcome for both humans and diety?

> Argument?

It’s an argument that a diety can both be omnipotent and benevolent if humans don’t know true pain or pleasure in their earthly lives. After all, both earthly pleasure and pain are temporary, so if you can conceive of eternal happiness it might render earthly suffering negligible in comparison.
What town were you closest to? I grew up in Bozeman and spent a reasonable amount of time in the west side of the park.
Yes, I found no reliable supply of WD Ultrastars. Just popping up on alibaba from small wholesalers from time to time in small lots.
You actually never need to specify the size explicitly in C.

Here are some other ways to declare your struct without needing as much boiler plate per declaration.

#define MAKE_SMARTARRAY(_smartarr, _array) \
do {\
_smartarr.val = (_array);\
_smartarr.len = sizeof((_array))/sizeof((_array[0]));\
}while(0)

struct SmartArray
{
int *val;
int len;
};

int main()
{
int array[] = {0,0,0,0};

struct SmartArray arr = {.val = array,
.len = sizeof(array)/sizeof(array[0])};
struct SmartArray arr2;
struct SmartArray arr3;

MAKE_SMARTARRAY(arr2, ((int[]){5,6,7,8}));
MAKE_SMARTARRAY(arr3, array);

return 0;
}
It's tricky though. I don't wish that, simply because I don't want to have to upgrade my Lightning-connector dock, speakers, pencil, HDMI dongle, charging cables, and I'm probably forgetting a couple more things. When customers have invested in an entire ecosystem around a connector type, we really don't want to change more often than every 20 years or so.

And I personally don't care if it takes 1 hour or 7 hours to charge wirelessly, I'm asleep. The times when I need to emergency-charge during the day I can still use the port though.
What about updates or when something goes wrong?
> granfalloon relief agency

That's an oxymoron. By definition, the group "relief agency" has a specific purpose that the group "Hoosiers" does not.
Interestingly, in an article making the case that engineers should learn COBOL, the only reference the article makes to COBOL salaries is at the end:

>“Four years ago, local Fortune 500 employers encouraged the university to offer Cobol courses. Now, graduates who take Cobol electives earn starting salaries of $75,000 compared to starting salaries of $62,500 for those who did not.”

First, the WSJ article that it links to does not mention if the $62,500 stat is for all graduates or for computer science graduates, nor if the people in the $75,000 starting salaries are actually working in COBOL. The WSJ article also includes this paragraph:

>[The COBOL] tipping point doesn’t worry David Dischiave, associate professor and director of Global Enterprise Technology, Syracuse University, who says, “I don’t buy into the idea that there is a shortage of Cobol programmers. If there is a shortage, why aren’t employers responding to my calls to get jobs for majors with Cobol experience? What employers do, rather than what they say, matters most.”

I've heard plenty of rumors of COBOL programmers making big money, but when I've tried search for jobs the salaries don't seem to compare to a Big-N. I know job postings aren't the full picture, but all the research I've done suggests that even Javascript pays better than COBOL, and gives you more career opportunities. Why should a career-minded student spend their independent study time on COBOL?

COBOL articles also often make vague claims that it is better at some business-oriented tasks, but without a lot of specifics. The author gives this list:

- The capability for heterogenous “record-structure” data

- The capability for decimal arithmetic

- The capability for convenient report generation

- The capability for accessing and manipulating masses of data (typically made up of heterogeneous data structure).

I work on server-side Java/C++ at a Big-N, doing ETL pipelines and distributed applications, and I have trouble believing that COBOL is better at any of those tasks than a modern language with modern tooling/build system. If COBOL is so great, where are the new adopters? Why is Apache Spark supporting R and not COBOL?
Oh. That's harder, but not much. You just need two accounts. Make some innocuous comments on account 1, upvote them with account 2. Now you can downvote from account 1.
I don't think you can draw meaningful conclusions from that given the different ways different countries count and report Covid-19 cases and deaths.
They're obviously busier and bringing in more resources, considering the recent news of the clouds running out of capacity.
Well this is an awesome thing to learn today!
That's got to be one of the least efficient suggestion I've read in a long time. GIFs are horrible, except they are awesome. In a 90s sense of awesome.

It would be much more efficient to turn it into a proper video.
> ...this should certainly be tried as a treatment...

What? Why not try literally anything and everything else that has not been proven?
I used to think this as an Android user, however then I spent 1.5 years on iOS and now being back on Android feels like bliss.

Apple has the security advantage though if you disregard the information apps leak but then again on both OS's you can use Pi-Hole, or better yet NextDNS, to shut up some of the chatter.
Amazon is first retail app in iOS store for months maybe years. In the G7 Amazon beat Alibaba in all markets.
Hi guys, Ammon from x.ai here!

Killer app you built, looks like it has a lot of smarts. Love the native calendar extension UX. Really slick!

We just updated out user experience for 5+ users if 2 or more are not connected to x.ai and it is proving successful. However, if everyone is connected to x.ai, whether they are internal to your company or external, we find a time for everyone instantly.

For internal meetings, coworkers do not need to be connected to you on x.ai. If you can see their calendar, we can see their free/busy info and we book it instantly as well.

Cheers!
Yes. This book uses pandoc:

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book

This is the HTML output:

http://www.jagregory.com/abrash-black-book/
May be of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22881922
Do you mean convalescent plasma?
Sorry for the confusion - our paid product does more than just meeting priority inference, it allows you optimize meeting room utilization and is targeted to companies to help them better utilize office space.

We launched this free version with a subset of features since some things (like room utilization) don't make sense for an individual. We're looking to port over more features as we get adoption & based on demand. Our priority inference also works a little differently than clockwise -- there's no step of marking meetings as flexible, that happens automatically at scheduling time based on your urgency
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It’s not a pricing issue, it’s a liquidity issue. Same reason the Fed has stepped into everything except equities. Illiquidity can quickly lead to insolvency.
> the people still angry about this are likely Tesla shorts and day traders.

Why does this matter?
the tech to save us from coronavirus is not surveillance , it's biotech
I've found the Emacs Wiki always solidly maintained:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SiteMap

S. Chua's blog is the best "zine" I think:
https://sachachua.com/blog/

To avoid "but vi/vim and the shell…" which is a sort of "mental flu" every Emacser has to go through at least once in his life, understand this:

"the UI paradigm of Emacs" is also called a roguelike interface by ESR, vi's too: "In Chapter 11 we described the effect of the absence of standard arrow keys on early roguelike programs; vi was one of these. " http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch13s03.html
One of the reasons why it is so unethical to rely so heavily on streams of undocumented immigrants
Contact Tracing on Blockchain – Sample Code
Reading and Writing Packets
Just Amazon & AWS would be fair.
I am short TSLA and I wish those people stop with the lawsuits and let this stock explode so I can add at even more ludicrous prices. Elon has already done so much to discourage fundamental analysis and price discovery of this stock.
As to why they are not necessary anymore: we just turn the screen off (some displays, especially OLED, are still prone to burn-in).

This was not necessarily wanted in OLD CRTs, where the startup sequence could take a while (and possibly other factors, such as reducing the lifespan, but I'm not sure about this).

Funnily, we are starting to see a bit of a comeback of these in OLED smartphone that have an always-on display to show time and a few things: the illuminated portion generally moves over time.

You can see some burn-in on old phones, in the notification areas, the taskbar for computers, or sometimes the always-on TV panels at airports or train stations.
My AirPods are the best in-ear headphones I’ve ever used. I definitely don’t miss having a tangled fraying cable that gets caught on things.

Plus I used to go through at least one set a year because the mechanical stress on the cable would break them. In the long run AirPods are actually cheaper.
I guess this shows that I spend too much time on twitter but there are big conflicts on there about things he does all the time; and he is very polarizing, with legions of fans and detractors. Short sellers and left wing types are big subcultures among prominent Elon detractors.
This could be the perfect phone.
If it had a headphone jack.
As far as security updates, Apple released bug fixes for iPhones back to 2011 last July....
Private equity buyouts in healthcare: Who wins, who loses? [pdf]
Carta's policy is that your PTE period is the length of your tenure. So those employees with > 3 years have > 3 years to exercise.
I didn't complain about PS/2 and VGA ports because the replacements were decidedly better.

I've yet to see anything that makes the removal of a 3.5mm jack seem comparable. You couldn't use DVI or HDMI without replacing the port, which isn't the case with Bluetooth (which you can use regardless of having a 3.5mm jack or not).

A more apt comparison in my eyes seems like wireless mice/keyboards. They don't have cords so they're significantly nicer for cable management, look better on your desk, have longer reach, and probably have other benefits (as well as their own set of tradeoffs like latency, battery, etc). You can use them now or you can use wired versions... but just imagine if a company started selling computers where you could _only_ use wireless keyboard/mice unless you bought USB dongles. Sure, you could just buy the dongles and deal with the loss of choice/convenience, but... why would you want to?
True, and yes, if I had a clean slate I would probably opt for a different title. But if you google _the program podcast_ first three hits all lead to The Program, so maybe the other one should consider changing the name ;)
If only that were up to me... Company laptop, company antivirus, company code...
That you feel the need to inform us of this "historical fact" makes me feel especially old... having lived through the CRT -> LCD transition period when buying an LCD made going to LAN parties a lot easier
Setting aside the question of whether the OSes are equally capable and refined, the simple fact of the matter is that most android hardware (both by unique SKUs and by total deployed devices) is hot garbage. I have to remember to slow way down and wait for the UI elements to react to my input whenever I handle anybody's android phone.
OT but does anyone have insight into why there are so few med schools in the US? There are way more prospective students than admissions slots. Are there high capital costs or something I haven't considered that make starting a med school unprofitable even with average tuition fees being so high?
I think it's at least partly a very intentional pricing strategy.

Every ~4 years Apple comes out with reasonably priced products for budget customers to be able to buy/upgrade.

The rest of the time they keep prices high so they can make their profit.

Budget customers are willing to wait, people who want the flashy new things aren't.

It's the same thing with premium clothing brands that hold only 2-4 sales a year.
Cloud computing is already figuring it out
Because it is a shareholder lawsuit, supposedly claiming some damages to the Tesla shareholder, who happens to be doing very well. The non-shareholder community is the one at loss and would want restitution for their "damages," but Tesla, Inc. really has no responsibility towards them beyond the general rules and regulations, i.e. SEC et al complaints. TL;DR: if you bought or held TSLA due to that tweet, well, it's already above that price+market gain.
Are you worried the cost of living will increase over time and price you out? Singapore and Korea were once cheaper too though I suppose most countries aren't on that trajectory.
Seems to be a lesson well learnt from 1918. SF skipped the first wave back then too. Good to hear some people remember and take notes.
Kubernetes: A Rusty Friendship
It is great: your code runs right near the data it’s working with.

If it’s the pits, you need a better suited development environment. I use emacs and interactively code inside the DB. Python, Lua, JavaScript, PGSQL, whatever.
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ammon - thanks for chiming in! I have not used x.ai in a while and it looks like you guys have added some really awesome features since then. looking forward to trying it out again!
The FTC should get involved if WD refuses to remedy. To falsely label your products can't be legal. That or class action.
I don't know what inspired GP's question, but I think he's getting at the fact that China is known to be faking their numbers from the beginning of the outbreak to show how effective the leaders are in combating the virus. So, in reality, we have no idea whether their methods are successful or not. Same with a vaccine, if China reports an extremely effective vaccine, available immediately, invented thanks to Xi's vision and leadership; Then do we just start using it here in the US, or do we have another year of hiding in our houses while we run trials while the rest of the credulous world gets back to work?
Just following this thread to see if anyone here thought screensavers were just for fun :)
The scheduling assistant shows you the timeline hour per hour, with a line for each employee and any meeting they have anywhere. You can even view what any meeting is, if their meetings are not set to private.

I think it's quite good to find a time, with the least conflicts. However given any meeting with more than 3 people in a large organization, it's simply not possible to gather everybody at once, without planning 3 weeks in advance.

one screenshot: https://technology.ku.edu/outlook2013/scheduling-assistant
It startled me a bit, lol.
It's always about the profits, we just have to make it more profitable to do the right thing, eh?

Of course this may be a wee bit easier said than done. But the first place to start is the "marketplace of ideas."
On the bright side, maybe we can get some horses out of all this.
It lags pretty bad on my Pixel phone too..
firefox, using the firefox engine. not being a simple wrapper around webkit.
Agreed - I have taken all of my children 2-3 times each and I have been there perhaps 10 times.

I also very highly recommend touring the aircraft carrier that is in San Diego.
I know this study doesn’t put anything to bed, but one has to understand that the basis for the HCQ and CQ (+/- zinc) thing is the same as x kills cancer in vitro. Then, you get a motivated researcher who publishes a single arm study of essentially OK patients claiming zero deaths. Game changer? We’ll see. But I imagine there are hospitals that are already using this as a first line treatment and there’s no positive reviews from the front line.

Beyond that, we do have the ability to perform small sample studies (cf. Student) and decide whether we’re headed in the right direction. Are we in a lull in statistics where we can’t even use statistics to guide future research?
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