skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s the VC money: we’ve seen wave after wave of this since the late 90s where a company with a plausible idea is under a ton of pressure to grow unrealistically fast because that’s the only way to get the kind of returns their investors are hoping for. There are a few businesses where you can scale that rapidly because you have insanely high leverage on your staff time (software, very broad services like Google search which almost everyone can use many times daily) but too many money guys think everything which uses computers can scale like that.

I mean, back in 1999 you could get groceries and other shopping delivered by Kozmo — clearly something people want since that’s an established mainstream business now – and it was profitable in a number of urban markets. Unfortunately their investors weren’t thinking long-term and demanded country-wide expansion, and they went bankrupt as soon as the easy money dried up because they’d taken on so much startup cost in different markets. If they’d understood the business they were actually in, they’d probably have blocked Peapod, Doordash, Instacart, etc. from even starting.
>I think you're being too dismissive of my plan. It's at least theoretically possible to use the Internet without the DNS. But just try using it without ARP!

>Nobody is reading this thread besides us at this point, so maybe should just tie it off here, or with your reply. All the best!

Haha, that's all true.

Cheers! :)
The old and frail will die eventually. It’s reasonable to discuss how much we’re willing to sacrifice for the additional time afforded them in aggregate.

This is not to sound cold or callus. I’ll be old one day (but am also not going to expect extraordinary resources to live a few extra months). These are necessary discussions in a finite world.
Yet another link tool? Yeah.. But better, and free
Saw this on YouTube last night;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE

A facinating video that is part of a series going into the restoration of a 1930 Model 15 Teletype. In this video, they use it as a terminal for Linux.
For this reason we walk our cat. With some training (and some - not all - cats) you can even get rid of the leash and let the animal roam whilst maintaining visual contact.

It's very different from walking a dog. Ours usually hides in his favourite spot and just sits there for 20 minutes straight, then takes his usual route, sniffing and rubbing his face on places where apparently other cats have been.

The upside is that you only need to do that once every 2-3 days.

Now that we're on quarantine he's been calling out other cats from the balcony. Fortunately on Monday we'll be allowed outside, so he'll get the chance to catch up with his buddies - or actually - their scents.
This can be helped with hand-raising (queue style) and a dedicated facilitator for each meeting.
I've build a better mockup finding website
Toxoplasmosis is a hateful term invented by dog people to discredit people serving the cat master race.
17,671 deaths / 8,398,748 population * 100% = 0.21%
So your response to a well laid-out argument is "but there are people who disagree! Go find them!" followed by an attempt to discredit your parent commenter by claiming they can't possibly understand what they are talking about.

Not exactly convincing.
I’ve been looking for visualizations for music app on macOS for a long time. If you could make one that works seamlessly with apps I’d be willing to pay for it. But, please don’t make it a subscription. Charge as much as you want for a perpetual license.
Interesting, I was unaware of the fact that every mobile device has a unique radio fingerprint [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_fingerprinting
PHP did the same thing, skipping from 5 directly to 7 because PHP 6 ended up being a dead-end. It was pretty painless (at least as far as I could see).

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
i'm with you. have been using the fdroid one. firefox android esl 68 + all security patches) with uMatrix extension (but for non-web devs I'd suggest gorhill's uBlock extension instead)... and this made a phone usable.

I feel like I am back in the late 90s! in the best way! it's super user friendly, just install the app, install extensions like you do on desktop

I type a url or click a link, and what do I get? the content I wanted and nothing else! it's great!

using chrome or those fly-by-night browsers I get a dozen dhtml popups and "whitelisted"-by-the-browser dev ads all over the place. not to mention the own browser popups wanting me to translate from languages I know how to read or if I want to login with my google account on random sites.

PS: the fdroid ESL version of firefox is called by the internal mozilla project name: fennec.
That isn't a random sample, so they had to massage the numbers.
> Its a guaranteed 30% profit margin industry

While I was surprised by that figure https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/news/news-archive/seagate-tech... this corroborates, with margin figures indeed roughly 30%-ish.
Yea if a framework makes breaking changes to the point where you can't upgrade your app, that seems like it could be a recurring problem so after the first rewrite you might as well learn native code and write it there.
Is 0.1 when the ventilators/hospital treatments are used? If the spike happens and people that needs it but don’t have it, how would deaths look like?not sure if he took that into account with the 0.1, otherwise he is not much of an epidemiologist
The rate of deaths in Sweden is not increasing. Even accounting for reporting delays, the peak was weeks ago: https://adamaltmejd.se/covid/
Shrugs... when you don't want to build, and then the only developers are the folks that can push through all the NIMBY, then this is what you get.
Apply to big non tech companies who probably run on older tech
If patients are in shape to be on the phone why do they feel the need to put in a breathing tube?? I have measured my O2 saturation being in the 80s and my reaction was "so that's the effect of being this high up"--and I continued to head up the mountain. I had been there before, I knew I wasn't getting into too much. (I forgot to check on the summit itself. I don't expect to be there this year but I'm going to check again next year.)
I think it's a lighthearted reference to studies which have demonstrated possible, albeit minor, psychological and physiological effects on humans after infection with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite [1].

In rodent models, infection appears to exert effects which make the rodent more likely to be killed and eaten by felines in order to complete the infection cycle of the parasite in the digestive tract of the feline.

The suggestion being that similar effects might be occurring in humans, particularly cat owners who are likely to be carriers of the parasite, manifesting in increased positive behaviours towards the cat.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/33/3/...
> The entire economy is based on the idea of never ending growth

I hear this a lot. As far as i know it's not actually true. Is there anything specific in orthodox economic theory that requires never-ending growth?
Wary of public transport, coronavirus-hit Americans turn to bikes
How does redistributing wealth fix a problem based on never ending growth? I don't see how your two statements follow from one another.

In Japan, house prices commonly depreciate. I don't see any evidence their economy is unaffected by that fact.
Absolutely. I could do my video conference calls naked and blame the result on my new deep fake software. Hell, I can even do that now without having the software. My colleagues are nerdy enough to assume such software already exists
City populations are some of the most unequal in all society. Extremes in close proximity. I've read research on this in the past, although I don't have any links at the moment.
The article is talking about public infrastructure — freeways, suburban development — all things planned by local government. Not private development.
Wait, is it not press-and-hold power like on Android?
In the UK, week ending April 3rd, rather than the expected 10k deaths there were a (preliminary) 16k deaths. 60% above background level

Stats for week ending April 10th aren't out yet, however they are alluded to in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... at being over 20k deaths, twice the number.

(The week 15 report predicted 5k excess deaths for week ending apr3, more concrete figures had it at 6k. Week 16 predicts about 12k excess deaths for w/e april 10.

60% extra deaths isn't "slightly above background level"

If covid is burning itself out then that's great, we'd be looking at a total 100k excess deaths, or 20% above background level for the year.

However there is no evidence that we're anywhere near 20% of the country having had it, let alone 70%.

Those dying in week ending april 10th will likely have contracted covid before lockdown

w/e | reported covid deaths | actual excess deaths
w/e mar 27 | 842 | 1.5k
w/e apr 3 | 3294 | 6k
w/e apr 10 | 5562 | 10-15k
w/e apr 17 | 5589 |

So we're likely looking at 30k excess deaths in the last month, or about 80%, but that's because we locked down in mid-end march and the number of deaths 3 weeks later hasn't increased at the non-lockdown rate we'd expect.

Tobacco kills an average 2k per week in the UK, covid is killing 5 times as many, and that's with all the controls.

Cars kill an average 30 per week
You had the option of heading back down the mountain at any time. Respiratory infection do not behave the same way.
I think that’s a misleading denominator to use, because we don’t know how those that haven’t got it will react once they get it. Better to use actual infected or some mix of recovered and currently infected. You will get a 10x higher number at least.
"who devoted hours of airtime to attacking supposed COVID-19 hysteria. At one point he famously described the risk of dying from coronavirus as less likely than being killed by an asteroi"

After accurate testing, the death rate is plummeting (which shows he is correct). I feel like the only reason Dr. Drew is being attacked is because he's more right-wing.

Everybody at the time was downplaying the virus. Many on the left even called Trump 'racist' for instituting a travel ban, which was the best thing he could have done at the time.

We also have to keep in mind that the WHO told us in January that there was no human-to-human spread of the virus. Professionals can only make accurate estimates and give accurate advice based on accurate data, which between the WHO and China, we really didn't have until it was too late.

"Pinsky recanted his coronavirus claims after lockdowns swept the country"

So why is he being attacked in this article? He did exactly what he should have done.

"Coronavirus death tolls are inflated, because the people were already dying or were victims of something else, as reported by a half-dozen Fox News hosts, including Tucker Carlson."

In almost every other country, this is how Coronovirus deaths are being counted.

I feel like being the more free freedom we have in this country with transparency only hurts the US. Politicians and media pundits that want to hurt the current administration can point to countries like China and ponder why we have so many more infections and deaths....when the reality is that it's because:

1) we have more testing than any other country, so our results are more accurate and show true infection rate.
2) Death rates aren't being deflated by not counting people with pre-existing health conditions that happen to contract and then die of the virus.

"globalists to implement a system of tracking and social control"

It may not be the 'globalists', but tracking and social control is definitely starting to be come a reality in many parts of the world as a result of our current pandemic.

"Coronavirus is a laboratory-created bioweapon that was released deliberately or escaped inadvertently in China"

This still hasn't been fully investigated, so we really don't know one way or another. But I wouldn't call it a crazy conspiracy theory. It definitely is plausible.
By that logic:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterclockwise

Also, it's clockwise when viewed from what used to be the wiring side, i.e. bottom.

Also-also, mathematical/engineering sense of rotation for positive angles is counterclockwise. ("The mathematician works against the clock.")

Also-also-also, you've listed 2 conventions with no preference between them. If either would have been picked, we would be having the same discussion right now on why it wasn't the other one. The only thing that would give any advantage here is if there were established context or logic giving significant preference to any of them.
I don't know what we've built in the US but it certainly doesn't feel like we've built cities for people. In California, most of the outside real estate is dedicated to roads with the monotony occasionally interrupted by a parking lot with the same cookie cutter businesses. It's very rare that I'll see a mom and pop shop here and for the most part the outside world with billboards, malls and fast food chains is a distribution channel for big businesses.
> for probably more than a billion or two people

That's a few orders of magnitude off.
“assets that always inflate without increasing utility (homes for example)”

I think that’s the real problem. Work should be rewarded and not just owning things.
As a cat owner I do not understand why the "indoor" dog needs license either. I would mandate the leash at all times on all dogs > 15kg but the license... If that's not a "fighter" dog the license requirement is just stupid.
There are many macroeconomic models with the assumption that populations will keep growing and worker productivity will not shrink. That alone should yield never-ending growth.
It’s called backpressure and it’s one of the tradeoffs that should be considered when thinking about adopting async work queues. There is no natural backpressure mechanism so it takes a lot more work to ensure you either reject new work after hitting a limit, or scale your workers so you can keep up with the queue backlog. Queues seem great, until they’re not, and then you enter a much more complicated world.
Thanks a lot for your reply!
The second one is also trivially wrong - if Sweden had a majority of the population infected we would be seeing similar or higher death rates than NYC there (which we don't yet).
It's likely enough that lockdowns are the better strategy for the economy. If that is the case, it's not even a sacrifice.

Severe infection and death rates are still quite high among people that are not especially old or frail; and then it sort of depends a lot of whether 'frail' is an apt description of the people that are more susceptible.
Apparently cats can catch novel Coronavirus - there is a danger they may become natural reservoirs, in which case we may have to get rid of them.
HGST still has a good reputation, due to top backblaze stats.
I mean, you clearly know the answer, you just want to label it "unorthodox" and dismiss it.
What is your opinion on a license that is for unlimited computers but can only be used by 1 computer at a time?
I moved my entire team to this program because of how simple (and reasonably hard to screw up) it is. It's also incidentally one of the cheapest non-buggy tools you can use to access redshift. Even if you buy multiple licenses it's cheaper than navicat et al.

Also to note that their free version is still _very_ usable, I survived on that itself for many months spending hours in the tool.
He is of course inclined to say what he thinks is right because he suggested such a plan.
I posed that question of the reality of that infinite growth to my econ professor back in the day, and their response was that technological advancements have allowed it in the past and likely will through the future. The plan appears to be to throw money at problems as they come up and coast into the sunset on the current economic system without a serious long-term plan for when things break down.

Unfortunately as most people here are probably aware, throwing money at a problem doesn't always result in a viable solution. As more and more of the low hanging fruit of technological advancement gets picked we may be in for some interesting times.
For the past few years I've been reading https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/timeline/
Really cool to see different groups and technologies and how they moved the web!
> > The entire economy is based on the idea of never ending growth

> I hear this a lot. As far as i know it's not actually true. Is there anything specific in orthodox economic theory that requires never-ending growth?

I think a charitable interpretation of this claim is: people's planning (which is usually limited to the short term, when it happens at all) typically assumes the optimistic case.

This is certainly true for everyone who lives paycheck to paycheck.

It's also true for companies who survive on a revolving line of credit to fund longterm operations.
What will happen to remote work after Covid-19?
The existence of debt and interest coupled with lack of practical planning for the eventuality of economic decline or stagnation.
Inventions and new technologies increases wealth, think about the digital revolution in the past few decades.
In order to keep growing, society must invest in research and innovation.

'Redistribution' is inherently unfair, and in a global world it will only cause capital flight.
It keeps going until people are unwilling or unable to put themselves into more debt for the same thing.

The government seems dead set on making sure the "unable" part never happens. And people are dead set on always willing.

If the government would stop trying to manipulate every market, this maybe wouldn't happen. The Islamic empire was insanely successful for a longer period of time than the US empire has been around, and the Islamic Empire had truly free markets.

For anyone interested, Debt: The First 5000 Years is a fascinating examination of this topic.
Actually he claimed it was based on data they had collected in the last week, but was careful to say that it may change as they collect more data. I assume it is because they are now testing all care workers and finding a large percentage of them have antibodies.
First Bank of Colorado (https://www.efirstbank.com/) - I've moved away from CO over a decade ago but kept all my personal banking there. (No affiliation.)
Thank you!

Didn't know that website - it has a lot of interesting stuff.

Ok, I'll then do some tests and will see how the RAIDZ behaves.
There was OOP in JavaScript before classes existed via prototype.
Indeed, that is stated in the article. Do you have any specific concerns with their methodology that would cause the results to have an even larger error range than they account for?
I found this quite interesting:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283709219_Beards_Sa...
This is an interesting read, but it's a bit insider. If you're having a hard time grokking what they mean by "growth that makes the city _less_ prosperous," you should start with the Growth Ponzi Scheme series: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

I'll attempt to briefly summarize:

The post WW2 development pattern across North America (and many other places around the world) is characterized by car-oriented development, where large collector roads fan out to support tree-like trunk-and-branches local streets full of houses, with commercial box stores and strip malls often located where the major collectors cross.

This infrastructure pattern (road, sewer, power) is much more expensive than most people realize, and (to most people's surprise), the local taxes (property, sales, and sometimes income) collected by all the properties that depend on that infrastructure are rarely sufficient to pay for it.

This means that as municipalities expand in this way they are increasing their cost of maintenance faster than they are increasing their revenue, and thus becoming poorer.

The reason this continues is that the majority of the initial capital cost (which, again, is substantially more than most people realize) is heavily subsidized by federal and state "growth" programs. Thus, in the range of the first 5-10 years, local places often get a short-term influx of cash as new development pays local taxes spurred by infrastructure the city didn't have to pay for. But it's a bad deal, because the city is on the hook to maintain that infrastructure forever, and again, the long-term tax base is rarely adequate to pay for it.

This leads to a vicious cycle - which probably sounds familiar - where city officials are desperately chasing more "growth programs" from the state and federal level because they need the income to cover budget shortfalls -- but they aren't stepping back to recognize that the budget shortfalls were actually caused by this same pattern played out over the last 50 years.

It's a fascinating, slow-moving train wreck, one of those things that is all around us, and once you see it, you can't un-see.

Strong Towns exists to spread awareness of this situation. The organization's theory of change is that if the general public were well-educated on this phenomenon, then it would change, as people in each local area would stop making the problem worse then start iterating and innovating on ways to make it better. You can see some examples of places where this is playing out on the organization's "success stories" page: https://www.strongtowns.org/success
I wrote a paper about the earliest history of programming notation that was recently published in ACM CHI and received an award:
“To Write Code: The Cultural Fabrication of Programming Notation and Practice”
http://ianarawjo.therottingcartridge.com/docs/To_Write_Code_...

It speaks to the cultural influences at play in the early history of programming, and how situated the designs were. A visit to Von Neumann and Backus archives at the Library of Congress informed the work (an experience I would highly recommend!).

I hope to make a blog post about the paper soon if there’s interest.
Text Generation Using Bert
Just summarizing. That's what we do on HN for those who dont want to read the whole article/interview.
Once proper contact tracing is out, the lock down can ease. Otherwise the fire will spread uncontrollably and govt won’t take anymore risks
Early Monzo employee Simon Balmain is joining Sphere, the group chat app founded
How many covid-19 deaths are due to the disease vs treatment?
Also bears pointing out that that the real number of deaths in NYC is higher since some have died in their homes or before they could be tested.
They were bought by WD a few years back.
> Most thinkers I know

I hope that doesn't translate to "people in the same Facebook groups like me", i.e. the typical echo chamber effect.

It's amazing how there can be a hundred experts plus hard figures, studies, whatnot, which then get strictly ignored by those "just the flu" folks, which forward the same handful of interviews with some doctor or virologist on WhatsApp or Facebook claiming we're overreacting, it's just a slightly more aggressive kind of flu, mass panic, coming up with excuses why Wuhan, Italy and NY don't quite fit what they're saying, but no convincing counter argument yet.

Sure it would be the more convenient truth, or you just feel woke, but there are more and more places on this planet that simply show this is not true.
> That’s an irrational concern.

Is it though?

So for SQL Server, you can't really see the live query plan (real-time plan + statistics while the query is running) without the GUI. You cannot see the Activity Monitor without the GUI. There are elements that cannot be accessed via pure SQL. 3rd party GUIs generally don't support these features.
Killer news Bitcoin vs Ethereum

https://coinmarket01.blogspot.com/2020/04/bitcoin-vs-ethereu...