skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where organizational structure, clear boundaries of expectations, clear identification of restrictions, and extremely transparent checks and balances are established as a first order of priority. Waiting for a troublesome issue before establishing these guidelines and limitations is waiting for a time bomb of unknown magnitude to explode before doing what should be priority one.
This is entirely off topic given the question was the exact opposite of this, keep it to the "Who is hiring" thread.
Your snarky analogy doesn't really make sense because the power infrastructure in Australia runs all night long with no need for batteries. Or did you think that Australia's coal and NG plants shut down in the evening?

But sure, you could put that Spain-sized solar farm in the Sahara. Then it's just a simple matter of pacifying the Islamic militants and whoever else while building a global-scale power distribution network, and convincing opposing powers such as NATO, Russia, and China, to give up their domestic power infrastructure and put national security at risk by relying on one giant point of failure all while coordinating construction projects (with their increased electrical demands) on a global scale.

I won't even get into the size of the battery farm required to store a continent's energy needs. The United States used 1.068E20 joules of electricity in 2018: Divide by the number of seconds in a year and there's your wattage, I'll leave it to you to figure out the rest.

edit: and we're still ignoring transmission losses at transcontinental scale
> Is there an angle here that is new and interesting?

It seems like a turn key solution without much tinkering?
Kotlin, meet gRPC: a new open-source project for modern apps
The fundamental problem here is grocery stores and others needlessly limiting when they make pickups available. Lots of people are sitting at home with extreme schedule flexibility, and would be happy to choose a slot 10 days out or whatever. Instead there is the silliness (and third-party app workarounds like this) of only releasing slots much closer.

In other conversation I have seen the following explanation: those systems were designed for a much different supply demand balance than we see today, they just haven't had time to adjust things yet.
With all the projects I've worked on, I've always found unit tests to be the best possible place to catch bugs and errors, because it's faster and easier to diagnose the root cause.

That said, they don't cover all test cases, which is why it's a pyramid. What I have found is that when an bug arises and is caught in an integration test, it's often beneficial to create a unit test that helps catch the same error before it you get to the integration test area, not always, but definitely if you have something that fails more than once in an area. Unit tests should never have false negatives, there's something wrong with the test if that is happening.

That being said, tests are designed around the code that is being tested. As technical debt and refactoring of existing code happens, you do often need to rework tests. Many people allow tests to go unrefactored, and they become their own set of technical debt, but that doesn't mean that they don't have value.
Your best bet is to draw up a list of 30 (at least) organisations that you are willing to help. Draw up a list of at least 10 "specific" examples of ways you can help.

Email those organisations with a brief introduction explaining who you are, that you have found yourself available, you specifically want to help organisations like theirs [because X], and that you are willing to help in the following ways [...].

You'll get one or two back in the timeframe you are available for that have actually had your message read by someone both senior and knowledgable enough to work out how they can make use of you.
According to the Captain's email, sailors were tested, and results known the next day. I don't know what equipment they had onboard the Roosevelt, but the quick turnaround might indicate the type of test. These tests were also performed around Mar29.
Not naming the company, but I know of a startup that's got a round of $10M (not much but enough) who just applied for relief because their burn rate is $200K+ a month. They have no customers, have been in the red for 2 years and have been slowly building their product out -- like most early funded startups -- they are building potential without revenue (yet).

Their theory is, get some free money and treat it like 6 months of salary to help and take it as a "gift".

When I cited that they "weren't directly affected by this and could keep going until this COVID thing ended and it wouldn't matter to them." The person I know who's involved at the exec level said, "It's free money, when you get a free bag of money, you don't turn away on that..."

I wanted to throw up.
I thought the six were three generations of two (well, four with antiparticles).
Got it. Why my MBP feels like burning when running zoom then?
it'd be interesting to see how the network shifts over time as the reporting of the crisis develops
Any chance for more zones for paperspace? Wanted to use them for a cloud gaming host, but they don't have any regions in Los Angeles
Any plans to go public?
This article from national geographics[1] explains it well I think. Objects were lost in the snow by travellers crossing the mountains up to 2000 years ago, over time they got covered in stationary ice (glaciers move and crush items).

Now these stationary ice pockets (and glaciers) are slowly melting, leaving well preserved lost items from the old days in its place.

[1]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/lost-viki...
is there any he I can buy to do the same .. like something to put between my the wall socket and the plug .... it should kill the charging at some point ever when plugged in
Packer + Ansible makes a lot of sense
Economies of scale. Employees doing the picking is much more organized and requires far less people than customers doing it themselves.
My parent comment does not mention Mayo Clinic. I'm mainly talking about hospitals that operate only for profit.
If only I could build weechat from source on windows! If anyone out there is willing to provide binaries I'd be glad to buy you coffee so I can switch over from irssi

mIRC is what got me into programming, actually... I miss the good old days
probably me being dumb. IIRC the CLI library in play is Click, and it wasn't the most flexible things to work with - though infinitely better than parsing args manually. tis a good note though. will look into it.
Seems like not the best proof to me: He takes the median and then is looking at the graphs like it should happen exactly at that point? His source[0] also shows it is 2-14 days, and he then uses 5 days. Weird.

Also, most of these countries in Europe did not do only 1 'lockdown' on a specific day. But increased the social distancing policies over 2-4 weeks, a bit stricter every few days. That is what I know from my country (The Netherlands) and what was widely reported about France and Italy as well.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-incuba...
Isn’t adyen cheaper too?
Paypal also have some crappy rules about adding a USD account to a company not registered in the US.

And they're currency conversion fees are obscene if you want to withdraw USD to EUR (on the order of like ~4% iirc)
Never, ever, call a kilt a 'dress' in the presence of a Scotsman.
How is it arbitrary that you get charged a rate for a service based on where you are?
If gmail had a dad who was more famous and more successful in a world no one remembered anymore.

Think of the father in “there will be blood”.
$20 is really cheap for this kind of value prop.

Have you tried it yourself? Not doubting, just always have some skepticism of reviews on Amazon haha
re Discord, the funny thing is that Discord is proprietary, and I'm not sure how exportable any data and/or voice/embeds are when you want to download it out of the service itself.
INRIA
Yes, if you are completely allergic to IT work, then your options are more limited. In terms of time, I would say the initial setup cost us a day or two, but after that our EC2 build box has just been fire and forget.

edit: I'll also add that in terms of time, I feel like most of the time in build pipelines is actually spent in tweaking, adding, and modifying the build configs, as opposed to the servers themselves (and you might also value developer time differently from devops time). I have found Buildkite easier to work with than CircleCI in this regard, and thus saved much more time overall.
I have used it for gaming and I can’t say I ever had an issue like that. I haven’t used it for very long though.
I make games as a hobby, and while I'm often paid to write C++, I'll use plain JavaScript with various libraries (Phaser, three.js, ink, etc.) as iterating is very quick and distributing is as well. I don't think it's a good favourite for everyone, but it helps me find the joy in making things.

The biggest boon is copy/pasting a GitHub pages link to a friend and quickly asking for their feedback since everything runs in Chrome.
LCD test: Inversion (pixel-walk)
Well then I'm glad that the blog post linked above was written, because obviously this situation was confusing when I set up Synapse a couple years back. I might not be a genius but I'm not stupid, either, and I'm obsessed with chat systems (I trialed every available self-hostable chat server at the time), so I guarantee if this confused me, it confused plenty of perfectly intelligent individuals.

I hope the team has clarified this in the documentation.
> Their docs are typically good, but the SCA / Payment Intents docs are not really at the same standards as the rest of their documentation yet.

Stripe PM on the Payment Intents API here. You're right that there were some rough edges when we started rolling out this new API last year. SCA is complex and we want to help make it easy to navigate this regulation: we designed the new APIs to abstract away as much of the complexity as we can. In addition, thanks to a lot of feedback from users, we made important changes to our docs architecture, guides, API reference, and Dashboard in November 2019, and are continuing to iterate on it. I would love feedback on how we can further improve our documentation. I’m olivier@stripe.com.
In the future, you might have a lot of immune people around you. Right now, however, it means you have a lot of invisibly sick people around you.
Heh, production grade depends more on the people in charge than the tech choices. The lack of exceptions in Go is the biggest stupid thing in software. Exceptions have always been a much less risque feature than multiple return values. In Go every single "function" has multiple return values and the code is litered everywhere with if err != nil... garbage. It will never change because it is apparent that exceptions are to Go as collection literals and operator overloading are to Java.
A common use case includes video transcoding and the ability to offload this to hardware makes the NUC a good choice.

I’d love a good AMD option, but for the size and price, I can’t find anything that will transcode as efficiently.

The new Ghost Canyon NUCs look excellent, but I assume pricing will be eye watering. They are also much larger.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15720/intel-ghost-canyon-nuc9...
>Solution: put everyone through basic training?

i'm afraid the fatality rate caused by basic training, i.e. elderly and severe diabetes/hypertension/etc., may happen to be pretty close to the covid.

Btw, i think the aircraft carrier commander is an outstanding and exceptional guy - he put the lives of his sailors above his career.
I have a coworker who does shit like this all the time.

The list of supported options is not only knowable, but changes very slowly. Which means it's almost certainly known at commit time. Just enumerate them. By hand. Oh no, you might have to type in some text that exists somewhere else! Quelle horreur!

The list of unsupported options is unknowable. The list of string or path interpolation bugs is knowable, but isn't known by the sort of person who thinks a whitelist is a bad idea. Build a lookup table and stop trying to be clever.
On a related note, I'm looking to build ops related saas services. If anyone has ideas they'd pay for, would love to learn more
Another point is that these charts likely are showing that for a given set of already infected people you are seeing a saturation curve. Initially high growth — high % increase per day or per week. But then eventually you are saturating the population — not saturating the entire population but saturating the initial population who are already infected.

Likely the main takeaway here is that because of the lag time between infection and symptoms it’s quite possible a huge number of people got infected in certain areas earlier than people thought and by the time the curve started ticking up the entire situation was already going to follow a particular trend.. for example let’s say the virus was spreading widely in feb, but then we started to see symptoms in March, but by then tons of people already had it, so any measures you put in place are seemingly disconnected from the actual trend you see. Therefore, it could be that the impact of the measures in March will only be obvious by end of April or something like that..
I think this would be useful: how many unique users have sent at least one message in the last 24 hours?

I'm part of some of the channels you think would be largest on Freenode like #javascript and #nodejs. There may be hundreds of people in the online user list, but it's literally the same 10 people talking every day.

There's 10x that number of people talking daily in just Elm's Slack. I'm on three javascript-related webdev Discord servers that that each have at least 100 unique users interacting daily.

I have to wonder if 90% of people connected to IRC are just echoes in the system, autoreconnecting from old hardware long after their owners have moved on.

In these threads people always say "nah, IRC is doing great!" But frankly I don't think people realize how much IRC communities have shrunk. Its lunch has been eaten and it feels like the only people still around on IRC are aging people who once used it in its prime.
Well TWRP can only erase. What you want is fastboot/heimdall/etc flash all partitions from a stock image, to restore everything [0] to a known good state.

I know enough to do this, but obviously most people think a "factory reset" is sufficient. That is a problem - defaults matter.

[0] modulo further hidden state that I am not aware of or in touch with. For example my S4-i9500's emmc firmware which got corrupted somehow and bricked the device.
Another option is to try cygwin [1] as it has a weechat build [2]. Weechat also runs under WSL [3].

[1] https://cygwin.com/

[2] https://www.cygwin.com/packages/summary/weechat.html

[3] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
Is Coronavirus Ushering in a Chinese Future?
It’s awesome for Phoenix users to have this built right into their apps. I know it isn’t a full replacement for Splunk or what have you, but it’s a step in the right direction to have this at your finger tips. The SaaSification of operational tools isn’t great from a cost or waste perspective given that most vendors are likely overprovisioned and under utilized. You also can’t beat the user experience of staying in your language and framework’s ecosystem. Well done.
Well, for what it's worth, if they get the virus while on a long tour of duty, by the time they get back they should be good to contribute to the herd immunity.
Those death rates in US are optimistic in my opinion. What if the actual rate is higher because of worse health in impoverished demographics, or the simple fact people might avoid healthcare because of its prohibitive costs?
Just let me set a max charging percentage like on my Thinkpad please.... After 2 years the battery on my MacBook Pro is pretty much dead.
I'm also looking for recommendations of back braces if anyone here is using one.
When you include 3,700 non-positive deaths in your total death count, yeah - the numbers look scary.

The reporting we're seeing is CFR, not mortality rate. They are very different things.

Mortality rate is the number of deaths caused by a disease.

CFR (Case Fatality Rate) is the total number of deaths by those diagnosed with a disease.

They are very different numbers, and have very different meaning for different analysis and methodologies.

Saying that that virus has killed .1% of NYC's population is inaccurate.
The northern counties of West Virginia have also issued a prohibition order for all non-residents, so that only West Virginians can purchase alcohol because apparently there have been hundreds of cases of Pennsylvanians crossing the border just to buy alcohol.

Some find this order reasonable, but most in WV find this irresponsible of both WV and PA since alcoholics cutting cold turkey can be hospitalized for their withdrawal symptoms.
All the data points to the fact that coronavirus is more widespread and less deadly than most outlets are reporting (after all, increase the denominator, the % goes down).

The countries with the lowest death rates are also the countries that did the most comprehensive testing. Ditto for this aircraft carrier.

Of course governments and outlets are fearmongering lest they be accused of not doing enough, but this thing is way overblown and I fear we'll be living with the consequences for an entire generation.
> An increase in the unemployment rate during the Great Recession has had a beneficial health effect on average across EU countries.

Many animals live longer in captivity than in the wild.

Restricting your caloric intake as much as possible will prolong your lifespan.

There's more to health than just how long you live.
It's not just about reducing the absolute number, it's about reducing the number of possible interactions.

Let's say there are 20 employees in the store fulfilling orders, and they work in two shifts during the day. So that's 40 people in the store that have the potential to interact with each other (though it's really more like two separate groups of 20). If they do the curbside dropoff in a safe manner (that is, without physically interacting with the customer), then it's mostly those 40 people risking transmitting the disease to each other, and that's it.

If you instead allow 20 random people into the supermarket at a time (in reality it's going to be more, which is even worse), and they spend an average of 45 minutes in the store, and their entry and exist times are randomized throughout the day, you have hundreds of people who could potentially interact with and infect each other.

Employees will just naturally be much faster and efficient at gathering groceries than customers will be. They know the layout of the store and where everything is better, and they may also know that certain things are not available, so they won't waste time looking for them. They can even multitask and take care of more than one person's order at a time. They won't be wandering around making impulse purchases, but will be sticking to a fixed list of items the customer ordered. Checkout and bagging will go much faster. This bit is optional, but they could even optimize things further by grouping the most common items in one place, and not stocking shelves like they usually do[0]. I imagine you can serve the same number of customers with much less than half as many people in the store.

There's also the matter of discipline when it comes to distancing. I imagine the supermarket employees are pushed hard to maintain social distancing with each other while working. When I went to the supermarket a week ago, probably a good 20% of the customers I encountered were failing at distancing, further increasing risk.

[0] Consider that placement of items in a supermarket designed for customers wandering around is intentionally not set up for efficiency! They want you to walk through the entire store when making typical shopping run, in the hope that you'll make a bunch of other impulse purchases.
Do you have some sort of "fair use" policy for GPU instances? Is it OK with you to peg them at 100% usage all the time?
I use nextdns and it doesn't work yet ( the domain needs registration > 30 days to prevent scammers)

Something that could be happening to fellow HN People ( it's not a default setting)
You can sometimes whisk with a fork but it's a lot of work.
As another data point in the Netherlands (officially 30k cases - only serious cases and hospital workers were tested, 30% of the tests are positives), actual seroprevalence is 3% ~500k people have been infected (~2 weeks ago), dividing the excess deaths, you get 1.3% mortality rate.

https://twitter.com/jankluytmans/status/1250769486174654464
I've used IRC for over 20 years and have never heard of this service. On your scale, it's "your second cousin's friend's sister's dog's goldfish had a VPS that went down."

This is #2 on HN because people are reading "Freenode IRC ... is shutting down." That'd be closer to the gmail end of your spectrum. We are not shutting down freenode.
The only thing this guy understands is marketing. I assume somewhere in his book he gets past talking about how great he is from being the first to trade a certain asset class, but I wasn't able to make it that far.
Human civilization has not flourished in a much warmer earth. That is 100% falase.

Human civilization has only existed during the Holocene, which has been a period of stability. We are now in the Anthropocene.

These changes are also very fast. By 2050, we will be living in a different world. Even in the 2030s, climate change will cause massive amounts of instability in developing countries due to droughts and famines, and huge migrant crises. It only takes 2-3 major food producing regions to have significantly failed harvests at once to have a famine on the scale of 1-2 billion going hungry. With a stable climate, this hasn't happened. However, it becomes more likely all the time.

The changes we are facing will lead to large portions of the tropics being uninhabitable without A/C and unsuitable for
agriculture. That is where most of the world lives. This change is happening very fast, faster than we can adapt. Our industrial civilization depends on immense resource consumption on a global scale. This will be completely disrupted.

Trust me, I know a lot about the climate and its effects. It is a bad thing. No one seriously says it isn't. It's delusional to think it could be a good thing. Your line of thinking is just a continuation of the denialist garbage that got us into this mess.
That's not quite how SMT works. Half of the core is not sitting idle when running a 1 thread workload on a 2 thread core. Rather the core will be working at mostly full tilt.

Also if only one core is active, it can be put into a higher than normal power regime.
Does this handle ad breaks? I think with a monetized video different people may get different length ads at different places. Just curious how this would handle that situation.
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Yes, I switch every hour. Also, when I have a meeting where I don't have to present my screen, I always make sure to switch to my phone and walk around. That's another very important, but often overlooked exercise.
> those systems were designed for a much different supply demand balance than we see today, they just haven't had time to adjust things yet.

I feel like as much as this app is well intentioned, it will only make this problem worse.

The bottle neck isn't on the technology side. It's on the operations side.

Extending the order window ahead would work, but they'd have to do a "check in" before hand to actually pick your order, otherwise you wouldn't be able to know if things will be in stock 10 days ahead of time.