skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your product is Enterprise or B2B, you need a few things (in my experience):

1) A first client to take a chance on you, because no one wants to be the first client, very few companies will buy something that no one else has bought. In my experience your first client (or first few) is the result of some existing personal connection to the client (i.e. a favour/referral), and expect to be at their beck and call for a while, and probably take a bath on the price.

2) You need an experienced sales team that knows how to sell to enterprise/B2B. This is not something you can "pick up" or learn on the job (or at least is very difficult to do). You need to hire someone who has done it before, otherwise you will stumble and spend your way through months-long sales cycles only to have them fail at some late stage because you didn't know how to prepare.

3) You likely need standards certifications and third-party testing. Look into ISO 27001 and other similar standards if you're a software company. Get third-party security testing done up front. Have pre-written answers and "white papers" around privacy, data governance, scaling, deployment, etc..

I've been on both sides of selling into enterprise and medium/large B2B and it's a solid 50/50 mix of your actual product capabilities and your company's ability to navigate procurement and due diligence.
I think you'll find that SQL is one of the most widely understood languages. Current programmer education deemphasizes it, but in basically any analytics space, SQL is the lingua franca.
The easiest tool is money and the hardest one is your brain. ;-)
Fair enough, but would there be a reason it would be different? And even if it were, is that actually relevant?

Anyway, here's some IFR estimations for covid by Imperial college: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

You see significantly higher multipliers by age group than for flu. As one example, they are guessing teenagers have 1/17th the mortality rate of say a 40 year old. For flu (going by deaths), it's about 1/5th.
> Why the hell would they do this?

I held the same perspective until I worked for a manufacturing company. Many of that company's products, and indeed many products throughout the world, _would not exist_ without market segmentation. Selling the same hardware with different software often makes the company more money than only having one model. In some cases, that extra money is the difference between the product, or even the company, existing or not existing.

R&D and manufacturing are hard and expensive.
20 megatonnes/year is small potatoes compared to methane hydrates' 1-5 teratonnes storage that could go within a decade. There is at most 1.5 teratonnes of methane in arctic permafrost, but that will take much longer to release (50-100 years at a very conservative minimum) and it will degrade with a 7 year half-life.
Mine were mIRC scripts for banning spammers. Eventually we had a community of people writing bots in perl, PHP, and loads of other languages. I was introduced to Unix by means of wanting to run irssi in screen so I could collect messages even when I was offkyine. It is no exaggeration to say IRC is completely responsible for my career, far more so than education!
I think the idea is to allow businesses to save money that would otherwise be spent on regulatory compliance and reinvest that in growth.
Come on, all the data is out there. There's been 2 million confirmed cases. Pretty much every expert agrees theres far more undiagnosed cases. We know the testing rates. We know who's being tested. The information is out there.

Our local health authority is literally giving away PPE...

Seems your only argument is that the idea it's not as dangerous as initially assumed "might put people in danger".

Except the fallout definitely will. Shutting down the economy, limiting health care access has real consequences.
Laptops isn't designed for serious workloads. It's a small portable devices to hash some errands at starbucks. You can't change physics laws unfortunately to make all the heat disappear somewhere.

Keep in mind Intel marketing as well which advertises CPU with way less heat than they expose in real life.

The way you have this machines is because apple is commercial company and they should follow market demands.

"10 cores", "silent": you can only choose one.

If you want a reliable silent machine, use the proper tool for the job. I.e. mac mini / imac. There is the only way to get proper cooling. You can't have silent cooling in your laptop. Especially if it's "a top spec".
If it's true that men are more susceptible to infection/complications/death, the only way the population could be better would be if the ship were staffed entirely by women. That would be an interesting scenario for military leadership to plan.
Germany and Finland are doing this. Here are some results already completed in a German town showing that 14% of people tested positive for antibodies...

https://spectator.us/covid-antibody-test-german-town-shows-1...
Is this the talk? Thanks for the recommendation, I forgot I was even subbed to the Y Combinator YouTube page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZi4kTJG-LE
Cool site! new to me. Gonna check it out. Thanks
As a counterpoint, they did give testing kits that the CDC refused.
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I wonder how many people will now switch to working from home permanently.
>I conjecture that it actually gets mergesort down to a real O(N log N) instead of the O(N log N log N) of the usual mergesorts.

I don't think it does in the worst case. I'd bet money you could construct an adversarial input that would force you to look at more of each key than you'd have to in order to get down to "real" O(n log n).

>MIX in particular had 5-character memory words, but only 4000 words of memory, so its comparison time for internal sorting is quite precisely constant for any realistic data.

If we're being precise here, then it is certainly bounded above by a constant. But, this is also the same sense in which there is literally no such thing as a Turing machine (all physical machines, even one the size of the universe, are linear bounded automata, at best).

> Anyway, back to the issue at hand: assembly language exposes all the computational costs by default, which is what you want if you're going to prove theorems about them, while high-level languages obscure them by default, so more of your theorems will be incorrect. And that's Knuth's primary concern.

Except, no, you don't. Both you and I just got through explaining why.

> That level of single-minded pursuit of excellence is the reason we can learn things from books Knuth wrote in the 1960s that are still useful for programming computers that are literally a billion times bigger than the machines Knuth used as his model. It's also the reason he's not done yet, 55 years later, with what he thought would be a single book, done in a year or two.

No, it most certainly is not. I'm assuming you've read at least some of TAOCP. Knuth certainly introduced some mathematics and techniques for the analysis of algorithms in TAOCP, but literally none of the algorithms themselves were first published there. This is not a research monograph. It's a reference. The algorithms themselves were published and proven, including runtimes, before they ever made it into those pages.

And, yes, there is plenty that almost anyone can learn from these books and the subsequent fascicles, but it's nothing to do with the computational model. Not one result in TAOCP contradicts the previously published work. We can learn from it because there is simply so much there to learn from. There's a reason that when Steve Jobs told Don Knuth "I've read all your books," Knuth responded that jobs was "full of shit." [0]

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[0]:https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
This is devolving into semantics. Being a asymptomatic means you are infected, which means you are not immune. You can still develop symptoms later and/or still transmit the disease.

You would be considered immune if your body produced antibodies that prevented infection. This immunity can be gained by successfully fighting the infection or by receiving a vaccination that triggers an immune response.
>...There are tons of people out there who will handle these things for their communities without expecting an exorbitant amount of money.

The article I linked too was the personal experience of an economist who was in Raleigh after a hurricane hit the area. As he writes:

>...The problem for Raleigh residents was all about price, at that point. The prices of all the necessities that I wanted to use to “preserve, protect, or sustain” my own life shot up to infinity. Within a day after the storm, there were no generators, ice, or chain saws to be had, none. But that means that anyone who brought these commodities into the crippled city, and charged less than infinity, would be doing us a service.

There were not tons of people bringing supplies into the city. The state had to actually beg other states and the federal government for supplies.

In the long run, high profits during a shortage also mean that suppliers in general will be incentivized to keep a larger stockpile of things that have a good shelf-life since they know they will be able to make good money the next time there is a shortage (more than the storage costs). If you are going to literally make it illegal to try this, then you better have a government be willing to spend its tax dollars on creating a stockpile rather than spending money on more immediate things that are more likely to get votes. (We've now seen that all the talk of the national stockpile the federal government supposedly had was greatly exaggerated.)

For these reasons, a majority of economists are opposed to 'price gouging' laws. For example see http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/price-gouging/
The dataset is a controlled variable in an experiment so it has to be held constant. If you update your model and the dataset for every trial (eg new hyperparameters or new architecture), and find it performs better, you won't know if the model is really better or just the dataset.
Our universe certainly has to allow for the existence of us because we exist, but I don't think it says much more than that.

It's easy enough to imagine on Earth that conscious life never formed and to imagine such without changing the laws of physics. I don't understand anything about our universe that guarantees the existence of conscious life, let alone guarantees multiple instances.

All we can really say for certain is that our universe allows for us. We really don't know how rare we are.
It depends on the network. Freenode has a tor ingress: https://freenode.net/news/tor-online

You can connect with SSL and optionally SASL (as well as cloaking your IP) but this is encrypted to the server. Most of IRC is public anyway though so E2E doesn't make total sense.
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The screenshots for Igloo look nice, but the developer responses to reviews are... entertaining, and concerning.
Those papers say the virus is natural and wasn't engineered by humans. The OP link is about the theory that origin event is a natural virus escaping from a lab. A wild-type virus specimen obtained from bats in the wild that was being studied in the lab (not engineered or modified in the lab).
Nope, one of his points, he has more than one, IS that Black Swans are more common than people can compute. Black Swans are unexpected outsized events that have a great impact, as he defines them.
Heh, it's funny that I'm actually a hypervisor developer and I don't use that terminology. The whole team doesn't. I actually had to look up "type 1" and "type 2" to remind myself which was which. Those are terribly non-descriptive. Our terminology is "bare metal" or "OS" or "boot loader", and "VMX driver". Anyway...

Our hypervisor is far more demanding than ESXi, KVM, and Hyper-V. It needs to interact with low-level Intel processor details in a way that is not supported by any other hypervisor. It won't run correctly if nested inside any other hypervisor. If we supported running under another hypervisor, we would lose important functionality.

If it becomes impossible or impractical to disable Hyper-V, we'll need to do something strange and annoying. Perhaps we could load the driver very early in boot, before Hyper-V loads. Booting as an OS ("type 1", ugh) is an option too, but maintaining that and using it is a real pain. Probably we'd drop Windows host support before we did that.
For the fortunes case, you are still comparing a web framework with a platform. When comparing web frameworks, some ASP.NET frameworks performs worse, others perform better, but at most 2.4x faster.

On the plain text one, the difference between frameworks is at most 6x. You would have to yank Phoenix and sit directly on top of a socket, as per my previous comment, if you want to compare both VMs.
Stimulus payments, like tax codes, are usually best kept broad and simple. Doing otherwise usually just rewards those who are best at gaming the system.
I suspect legal liability to be a big factor.

I imagine, for a manager to get rid of someone on performance grounds needs heck a lot more work and time than getting on the company wide blanket firing bandwagon.

"We hate to let you go but we have no options in these challenging times" gets less opposition from employees and more legal stance over any performance related reason.

Sad.
Honestly, it is sad but I grew up on IRC. Time to put all those ill advised remarks to bed..
But you can have version numbers like with code and models.
I’m not asserting anything other than that this argument is not based on data.

The data aren’t there, you aren’t an expert, and this argument doesn’t help anyone. That’s the most positive read I can give what I consider to be a reckless take, and this take will be EVERYWHERE in the next few weeks. We need to guard ourselves because this take is deceptive; it lets us feel superior to everyone who is freaking out, which will help individuals calm down at the expense of public health.
but they WERE going to stay open anyways. This is literally free money. They burn 2.4M/year and recently raised 10M. They could stay open even without this free money. This money is a bonus, it doesn't fully pay for the burn but it does give them money despite them not being directly impacted.
Cheap because there is almost no demand for the product. Just wait until the supply drops to adjust.
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Alas, in some places communications security and anonymity is a ‘black swan’ problem in that it's barely noticeable most of the time, but someday it might irreparably mess up one's life. So of course people are split into those who may occasionally think that it'd be nice to have encrypted messaging, and those who heard of the consequences and now worry about them like it's plague.
Perhaps you missed the "What's in it" section while skimming the readme? :)

>Because of folly's fairly flat structure, the best way to see what's in it is to look at the headers in top level folly/ directory. You can also check the docs folder for documentation, starting with the overview.
That said I believe the drop after 2008 should have been more significant. The massive amount of cash the government pumps into markets, it allows massive amounts of dark/shadow inventory that would cause further price drops if the market was transparent.
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Might also be important to note that sailors on an aircraft carrier are primarily college-aged.
I guess my point is: the important thing to learn here (in my opinion) is that regular deliberate practice with focused attention is helpful, not that people should try to rush out as much sloppy work in as short a time as possible.

Even the highest quantity of practice is not necessarily essential. My impression is that its spacing out over time is even more crucial.

I have a 3.5 year old, and I’ve been watching him learn all sorts of skills (learning to understand and use language, walk, run, jump, ride a balance bike, solve logic puzzles, build with construction toys, draw, ...), and it’s amazing the kinds of leaps he will make in balance, coordination, speed, understanding, etc. at some specific skill over the course of 3 or 4 months, even if we only practice the skill for 20 minutes once every few weeks.

Somehow the brain is churning on it in the background, and there are sudden leaps in ability which can’t be obviously explained based on direct practice time.
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As an investor, $35m to train just about the pinnacle of AI seems like a cheap, oh so cheap cost. I can't even buy 1 freaking continental jet for that ticket, and there are thousands of these babies flying (not as we speak, but generally).

I don't think you are fully cognizant yet with the formidable scale of AI in the grander scheme of things, as an industry, which is nowadays comparable to transistors circa 1972 in terms of maturity. Long, long ways to go before we sit on "reference" anything. Whether architectures, protocols, models, test standards, it's a Far West as we speak.

You make excellent points in principle, which are important to keep in mind in guiding us all along the way, but now is not the time to set things in stone. More like the opposite.

The matter of the fact is that someone will eventually grab the old and new benchmarks, prove superiority in both, and by that point the new is the one to beat since it would be presumably error-free this time.
Is SQL a good language for NoSQL databases?

Just asking, because I used GraphQL mostly with NoSQL databases and APIs as backends.
Non profits just make profits in a different way. Either the money goes to the leadership or into an endowment or new buildings or something else. Don’t confuse non profit with not greedy or not profitable. They are basically the same as for profit hospitals as far as cost goes.
Hedge funds can benefit from PPP as well, after all, in terms of employee count they are a "small business" and they are negatively affected by COVID:

https://www.pkfod.com/insights/are-hedge-fund-managers-eligi...
Got myself a 75cm exercise ball last week to sit on. Improved my lower back in just 2 days and can see myself sitting up straighter. $10 ball so much better than a $1000 chair.
Seems like you can run it under Windows Subsystem for Linux.
My experience mightn't be typical but I recently had a dispute on Stripe that went a lot smoother. A customer disputed 3 monthly subscription transactions. After providing evidence it was resolved in our favour within a week.

I had low hopes because the server logs were long gone (over 90 days). However I had logs from our email provider showing reads and clicks from our emails so I sent a screenshot of that. I said Wordpress said they logged in once when they bought it and never again (of course, anyone could say that). I said their account email matched their Stripe email which had their name in it, and their IP matches where the billing address is so it seems to be a real person. I also said they'd never responded to any emails sent to them from us to resolve this.

Despite being nearly certain this was just a change-of-mind chargeback I didn't have high hopes because that's a lot of conjecture rather than evidence but it worked out.

We also had an early fraud warning giving us notice to refund and avoid the chargeback fee. I chose not to because it looked legitimate to me which was probably a mistake despite how it worked out.

We also use Paypal. My major issue is their internal dev team/processes seem broken. We got stuck in a 'verify your identity' loop for months. The business support person was great, patient and understanding. But no one could fix it. We'd pass the check then overnight it would revert and block transactions, sometimes multiple times a day. We setup a second payment processor as we should've much earlier. Eventually it was fixed without explanation or notice. Braintree is probably a lot better on this front but having the Paypal logo more prominently displayed has a lot of value for some customers who don't like the unfamiliar.
Our universe is "fine-tuned" to make it difficult for life on different planets, on different star systems, to find out about and communicate with each other.
How can it not be? Pandemics are known events but one that gets out of control with a large economic impact is really out of the norm. Simply put we were unprepared for it because we thought it was such a small possibility that it was unlikely to happen anytime soon. The history books will talk about how it was predictable and we should have been ready. Yet, here we are, unprepared and dealing with it.

It reminds me of Pearl Harbor. History books talk about how the U.S. had warning that it was coming and that the U.S. should had known that it was coming even without warning. But as we know, no one was ready for it.
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No GCC support, only 6 registers.. meh.

I think AVR is most friendliest from all 8 bit architectures.
Trump halts US funding to WHO, says none of this is his fault
Does anyone have a copy of their source code?
I work for a large healthcare org. We just had a hiring freeze and have to work hard to justify extending existing contracts with our contractors. At the same time, I am unsure how this will long term impact the org. Utilization of most services is down but we did have to buy a lot of ventilators/etc; also, I imagine health insurance membership will decline.
The fact that this paper appeared in April 2019 in a journal called "Acta Prima Aprilia" should give you a clue to how seriously to take it.
>That might be true, but so what? Keep your identity small. That doesn't say you shouldn't cooperate with people who don't keep their identities small. You can cooperate with people who strongly identify as members of a group without identifying as a member of that group yourself.

You're suggesting acting parasitically toward the group, in that you are gaining the benefits of others sacrificing their own goals for group goals, while not sacrificing your own goals for group goals. That sort of behavior is quite destructive to the group, and groups have (of course imperfect) mechanisms to punish people that behave that way. If you can get away with behaving that way, so be it, but the group has a strong incentive to stop you from doing so.

>It's a property of groups that if they believe the group is beneficial, they'll make compromises to maintain the existence of the group. Each compromise takes them farther from their ideals, until they're no longer really serving their original goals. As a result, I would argue that all groups tend toward not really being in the interest of the members, unless careful measures are taken to prevent that.

In the long term, sure I could buy that. But the short term benefits could easily make it worth it overall to form the group. By the time the group degenerates as you describe, the members could be vastly ahead of where they would have been otherwise.
Ya, the so called Series A Gap is real. OP seemed to be talking about seed funding though which is plentiful.
How about one has nothing to do with the other?