skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was the original goal, at least over a year ago. They have since extended the tech tree requiring you to launch lots and lots of rockets containing satellites in order to acquire Space Science packs.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Space_science_pack
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Early in the piece, here is the critical sentence:

> I do not find that lockdowns are a more effective way of handling coronavirus than well-done social-distancing measures.

Properly done physical-distancing measures will accomplish everything needed. Lockdowns are not needed if people will observe proper, well-executed physical distancing.

So why do we need lockdowns?

Because without strict "by the book" precisely specified overly prescriptive detailed instructions, people don't properly practice effective physical distancing.

There are some real idiots out there, and the government guidelines/instructions have to take that into account.
Nothing happens. Wedding businesses will lose revenue in 2020. For everyone else it is just a bunch of delayed parties.

In NYS Cuomo issued an Executive Order allowing people to obtain a marriage license remotely and allowing clerks to perform ceremonies via video conference.
My understanding is that he may not have a choice. With a combination of an NSL and the all-writs-act, the US government can likely compel any non-FAANG domestic entity to do nearly anything short of murder.
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> Taylor Swift and Beiber are absolutely massive artists with almost unparalleled influence across multiple genres.

Massive like Rick Astley? Hootie and the Blowfish? Your argument attributes artistic quality with an artist and their machine's size and reach. I'm sorry, but this doesn't justify critical notice or attention.

As for their influence - I'm at a loss for what you mean here. What genres are these two artists influencing - other than pop? Maaaybe hip-hop with their use of the millenial whoop [1] - but even that is a stretch.

> their riding of new vibes throws off tsunami wave effects.

This is what Madonna, MJ and basically every mainstream artist has done for eons - co-opting genres and trends to remain relevant (Kenny Rogers even did disco).

> you’re just not the target.

Thanks for the patronizing tone. As a DJ, signed artist and music nerd of more than 20 years, I think I understand a little about the nuances of this stuff. I actually used Aphex as I thought it may be relatable to a tech crowd, but I could have said a number of artists (new or old) from many different genres to make the point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial_whoop
I guess you'd have to do E2EE yourself. (Which _in my opinion_ is the only viable E2EE anyways because I always found it kinda fishy if the party you're trying to protect against also provides the tools you use to protect yourself. But like i said, that's just my opinion.)
> He sued one of his employees to prevent him (the employee) from publishing a proof that Wolfram claimed he had discovered in his book.

The wikipedia article claims that Wolfram conjectured rule 110 in 1985 many years before Cook. Out of curiosity, do you have any info that disputes this?
Back when Duo launched, Google force-shipped it to my phone. I saw the notification, laughed out loud at the idea that I'd ever start using a new Google product, and never thought about it again.
>the worst thing that many of my neighbors are capable of comprehending

I know some people who are going out and drinking and hugging (they told me this) in Michigan (we're not supposed to even visit other houses). This is across the entire wealth spectrum.

They have expressed a belief that the virus is not very dangerous, as well as a belief that the government/their neighbors should not be able to tell them what to do.

Being raised in middle america, I strongly identify with the latter sentiment, but not as much as I do with a numbers-based approach to "keeping grandma alive".
Op here, good information, now convince the people that actually say those things I quoted?

Why did you post this, out of curiousity? I'm start to see a re-reading of how people interpreted my post, I thought the quotes were clear that I was talking about what other people say, in phases as they move the goal post.
They've been irking me too, along with the ones in the original article. They need to be blockier and more precise. Not bad starts, though.
Being more explicit:

1. In the hot market, you can spend multiple years getting a degree, or you can spend a few months at a bootcamp. At the conclusion of either process, you get a job. By hypothesis, the bootcamp provides as much value in terms of knowledge as the degree does. (Just go with it.)

The bootcamp is much better, because you waste less time not having a job. It's cheaper in cash outflow, but it's even more cheaper in opportunity cost.

2. In the depressed market, you can spend multiple years getting a degree, or you can spend a few months at a bootcamp. After a couple of years, the market is no longer depressed, and you get a job.

By happy coincidence, if you got the degree, you go on the market at this time, and you look employable. If you did the bootcamp, it's still just as good, but you've been unemployed for a couple of years, and you look unemployable. The bootcamp had a higher opportunity cost than the degree. (Still lower cash outflow.)

In this case, the only reason you'd want the degree is so that, when you interview for a job that chooses to hire you for unrelated reasons having to do with the overall health of the economy, you don't have to admit to having been unemployed. If the cash price of bootcamp is 20% of the cash price of the degree, then this respectability concern is at least 80% of the value of the degree. More, if you assume it's generally nicer to be unemployed than to be studying for a degree.
There's a similar trick with a normally fretted guitar: tune the strings in alternating major and minor thirds (something like ACEGBD) and lower every other string by 15 cents. Then any three adjacent strings will be a just intonation major or minor triad, you can mini-barre them on any fret to get more triads, and there are just intonation scales in every key.
Not being profound at statistics should be a strict no-go for anyone practicing medicine.

Many great discoveries come from linking different disciplines. I hope there is more to live than just a career. I am very grateful for the broad spectrum I've been given.
It may. I have an uncle who would never admit it but when his dairy farm finally went bankrupt he started getting a regular paycheck, vacation for the first time in his life and my cousins couldn't get off the farm fast enough. Sometimes being forced to something new can help people do things they wouldn't try otherwise.
A 2020 A.D. blog post. Title has nothing to do with the content and the content itself is a bunch of speculations and pessimistic predictions that are so far not based on any scientific evidence.
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In general, they’re niche. Their peak was in the 90s but they’re not of the 90s, I’m not trying to call them Sugar Ray.

This is all in terms of listeners and quantity, not taste and quality, in line with Pitchfork’s target moving.

And it’s definitely exaggerated, but mostly because Taylor Swift and Beiber were the slightly dated examples given. Nicely emblematic though.
James Hamilton [0][1] and others [2][3][4] have given pretty good overview over the years of the AWS infrastructure.

[0] AWS Innovation at Scale (2014), https://youtu.be/JIQETrFC_SQ

[1] Tuesday Night Live (2016), https://youtu.be/AyOAjFNPAbA

[2] Operation of the AWS Global Network (2019), https://youtu.be/UObQZ3R9_4c

[3] Foundations of AWS Infrastructure (2018), https://youtu.be/gH46jrFfiCc

[4] Exploring the AWS Global Network (2018), https://youtu.be/tPUl96EEFps
You can add to the list that all schools and universities, so no more learning to read or to count for kids, no more graduates.
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I actually think the supply chain largely has been upended. That’s the real story here...

I tried to buy a part for my dryer two weeks ago and it was going to take >2 months. I ended up then trying to buy a dryer and the only one I could purchase was already in store. If I tried to order one again it was >2 months (on an unknown timeline).

China is having massive production issues, there are import fees/inspections and now a 2 week quarantine on incoming goods.

It’s all kinds of messed up and now there’s a good reason to change production location.
mic drop, bloom
I’m invested now, I want to know how many Gs the marketing people are going to try and pack in there.
At some point you have to assume people get sort of religious satisfaction out of being pessimistic.

God ("nature"?) is punishing us, because we have sinned.

There are so many variables in play right now, which we don't know about.

Things that could help us are:

* unrecognised infections make the mortality compute to flu levels

* we find a vaccine timely

* we find treatment timely

* we find specifics about transmission and can avoid it with low-impact responses instead of lockdown

* there are explanations for why it's so regionally
different (NYC/Italy vs. Singapore/Germany)

* some sort of seasonality

* we find more specific risk factors which can be remidiated (air pollution?)

Probably more.

Why point out it could all go bad? That seriously can't count for an intelligent assessment of the situation. It's an expression of fear. Why don't you read the optimistic reading more often? It's almost like people think fear was virtuous.
> The whole message did in fact give an impression of agreement with the quotes, basically as if only those who have bigger risk should have problem with it.

Op here.

Only because you were looking for agreement. And there in lies the flaw.

I stated what the filter bubbles exist and offered no opinion.

Why? Because its equally as likely to encounter a hoard of people would be looking for me to agree with their point of view, and derail this whole thread if I only talked about how dangerous and problematic covid is.

How about we just talk candidly about the different filter bubbles? How would one go about accomplishing that, in your words
Did anyone ever just try and search through a phylogenetic tree?
What does this number, and the other one, refer to?
There is a similar game that goes like "The king does not like tea but he does like coffee".
The you can ask questions like "Does he like cookies?" (answer: yes), "Does he like cats?" (answer: no)
GitExtensions includes a terminal and shows the commands it runs and I recently discovered the GitGraph extension in VSCode which allows having a terminal open at the same time. There's more text focused ones like Magit or Tig, I haven't used them personally but from reading the manual of Magit it looks like it can [1] and Tig allows for setting up custom commands [2].

1. https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Running-Git-Manually.html

2. http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/manual.html#external-commands
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> Why not plant vegetables instead of flowers

The world has more than enough food growing to feed everyone.

It's a logistics problem. In this case, when everyone working to pick the plants and distribute the food makes everyone sick, the system fails.
Undersea cable is pretty unreliable. Most major cables expect to break every few years.

Usually breaks are caused by humans (ships pulling anchors, sabotage/spying). Sometimes they're natural (caused by wildlife, ocean floor movement, flaws in the cable design).

Fixes usually take a few hours if they happen at the endpoints, or weeks if they happen somewhere under the ocean.

Interestingly, spying breaks always involve three simultaneous breaks in the cable. The cable is broken at two points, and then broken at a third point in the middle to put spy equipment. They do this so the people operating the cable can't tell where the spy equipment was inserted, since otherwise you can tell where a cable is broken or being tampered with by sending light down the cable and seeing how long before light reflects off the broken bit and comes back to the end.

Using statistical methods, you can see how frequently you'd expect a cable to break at different points along it's length simultaneously, and it happens a lot more than raw chance would suggest.
Playing word games here?

"I said C++ is not faster than C" implies that C++ compilers don't beat C compilers, which as many in HPC, HFT and GPGPU computing domains know is false for years now, and no restrict doesn't help that much against template metaprogramming and constexpr.
Actually what you want is legally binding abuse-penalizing guarantees when in fact their terms say they can pretty much do whatever.
much stronger surveillance of the user, thus better surveillance surplus
Maybe it’s taking a page from the or riffing on the infamous soviet bloc 5-year plans, since those were such great successes in planning ahead.
It’s a finger in the air estimate, based on “a vaccine is 12-18 months away”, expanded to “2 years for widespread deployment”, padded a bit for contingency.

As an intentionally pessimistic estimate, to counteract all the over-optimistic estimates, I think it makes sense.

Would you prefer it as “5 years until a return to normality”?
> Emotional tearing is a poorly understood behavior that is considered uniquely human. In mice,
tears serve as a chemosignal. We therefore hypothesized that human tears may similarly serve a
chemosignaling function. We found that merely sniffing negative-emotion–related odorless tears
obtained from women donors induced reductions in sexual appeal attributed by men to pictures of
women’s faces. Moreover, after sniffing such tears, men experienced reduced self-rated sexual
arousal, reduced physiological measures of arousal, and reduced levels of testosterone. Finally,
functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed that sniffing women’s tears selectively reduced
activity in brain substrates of sexual arousal in men

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/science.1198331
>>"Fairly sure emotional response is a human-only (or humans and a short list of others?) thing?"

Why animals do things if they are not motivated by emotions?
Thanks for sharing and thinking through the worst case which will possibly help to think what other measures we can take in order to keep ourself survive through this pandemic
> removing data not accessed in say five years or a decade is likely to still meet realistic durability guarantees any organization could provide

This is exactly the sort of policy that a "permanent" storage facility must promise never to enact. The whole point of something like this is for stuff you don't need regularly but want to keep forever.

Every year or so I log into the dropbox account that has a copy of my wedding photos in. I don't need to look at them, but I want to keep them.
People only buy it on sale because for those people the value isn't enough to justify the cost. Sales can increase revenue.
Math is roughly $500 for 50GB of storage in perpetuity.

I think you could essentially replicate this by putting the $500 in a high interest savings account paying blackblaze from that and you'd have about ~100GB worth of storage on that setup today. Over time that ratio should get better.
Yes, i am just pointing out a simple thing here. At least Google is not lying. They don't claim they will "permanently" store private data forever for free. These guys are. And while doing so, using companies like Google as the devil in order to present themselves as the savior.

It's almost like a conman claiming to have invented a perpetual motion machine and asking people for money, and furthermore, going around criticizing all the other people who build and sell normal machines are the bad guys for selling inferior products.
If you’re suggesting switching to SSDs, WD owns SanDisk
I bet a human equivalent would sell well to fathers of teenage girls.
This is exactly how I use all of these tools. I've not found one that doesn't work well like this - just have it open next to a CLI. I use the GUI for staging, committing, and occasionally resetting branch pointers or cherry picking. Everything else I do with the CLI.
Here’s the thing, and I suspect I’m not alone in feeling this way:

I really think I would agree with you in normal circumstances. But there is so much political pressure from groups who are downplaying the virus altogether, to just ignore the virus and go back to business as usual, that I suspect a lot of less-than-ethical ulterior motives are at work. So I feel a very real “allergic reaction” to anyone who says we need to just reopen things.

Maybe it’s because politicians in the US have turned the whole question into a wedge issue to oversimplify things and get voters on their sides, I dunno. But the question on when/whether we can return to normal is a very serious one that needs to be something we all understand and agree on, and I’m worried that’ll never happen. Our priorities are simply too far out of alignment.
I spend significant time looking for new music and exploring genres and regions new to me. I love doing that and sharing discoveries with friends.

But I also think, whether music gets dull, has more to do with ones consumption behavior than whether it is fresh or not.
Do you have headphones on every waking hour, constantly being exposed to music no matter what you are doing, or do you deliberately take time out of the day to sit down and listen to a musical work and not do anything else.

Personally I do both to a degree. But while it is easy to find "good enough" music for the former listening mode, I find it extremely rare to find music, no matter the genre, new or old, able to fully capture my attention and emotions for extended periods of time. That are the works I value most highly and that never get dull.
That's a nice way of saying "the title is clickbait."
I think the point was not that food distribution would fail, but that the more disadvantaged slice of the population would not have money to buy food anymore.
You've been down voted but I agree with your position. Humans will prioritize their well-being over others survival; this is an unpleasant truth. I think everyone has a different threshold of what they will accept & rationalize, but at some point they will no longer shoulder personal hardship for the greater good. They will collapse their support to a sub-tribe, like country, community or family and choose "us" over "them", even though the differentiation is very recent.
No man ever steps into the same river twice
AKA, fear based clickbait? Probably the worst kind of clickbait, when people are already scared and anxious.
These systems (most explicitly Rojava) are similar to Murray Bookchin's [0] ideas on libertarian municipalism. Basically, control over economy and environment is mostly devolved to the local level, with citizen's assembly and that sort of thing. It does seem to work well in practice, which is really encouraging.

It's obvious now that we need a fundamental reorganization of our political economy for both material well-being and the climate. Something along these lines would probably be the best. The future will hopefully be much, much, more local in physical production and distribution. In such a scenario it would only make sense to keep power democratic and on the local level.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin
This is a great app, so much so I’ve been donating for a while.

I recommend anyone to try and donate if they like it!
Can't you connect via SSL?
Being a dad and highly prone to excessive punning if given half a chance, it almost hurts that this is not a GUI for tar.

As a developer I love good GUIs and should check this out.
They compare themselves to museums, libraries and universities, but maybe the better analogy would be a graveyard: you pay once for a small amount of storage that is yours forever (or at least until the nearby airport needs to add a runway.)
Back to Front in AWS Serverless: Polling, WebSocket, ServerSentEvents or AppSync
>Actually, yes, when was the last time you looked at a page number in an e-book?
Every time I read an ebook, I look at the page numbers. I would be frustrated without knowing where I am or how much longer I have to go
> The world at large will much rather take the death count ...

What part of the world are you in, and what part do you speak for?
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> They don't claim they will "permanently" store private data forever for free. These guys are.

No, they're not. They're claiming they will permanently store private data for a one-time fee.
Did you read the article?

Vietnam's digital ad market was worth some $550 million in 2018 and 70% of that went to Facebook and Google.
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> As a socialist, he had initially also considered using the words equality and fraternity[18] but decided against it, knowing that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans

Ouch.
The vacuum I have of theirs has a camera, but point taken. You can also disconnect from internet after setting schedule and it seems to work.
>doesn't get much more radical than an armed uprising

I would like to nitpick that the idea that there exists a threshold of terribleness for local power structures beyond which it's perfectly reasonable to use or threaten violence against the people propping them up is one held by a heck of a lot of people on the North American continent. Of course people disagree about where to draw the line but the concept itself is pretty mainstream.

Edit: I guess I'm really nitpicking that "radical" implies something novel, new or fringe which does not fit the circumstances here.
Tetris in the Openfirmware Bios, on PowerPC architecture, yay!
That's the authors A5) in the post.

> "In the end, I suspect the only way out of lockdown in anything like the short or medium term is if we can assert something new:

A5) The social and economic damage caused by lockdown is going to cause more unnecessary deaths than those caused by ending it."
Why should anyone trust an article like this written by someone who knows nothing about infectious diseases?
I would bet you that, at least in the modern day West, taking away schools wouldn't reduce basic literacy and numeracy by even a tenth of a percent.
Idk. I graduated in the past decade. My school had a pretty expansive program of advanced classes and not advanced classes, which resulted in basically isolating the smart kids from the not so smart kids. Because of this, it was fine to be nerdy and smart. Yet in senior year there was an unexpected sort of social war when the not so smart kids wanted to control things like prom, and were unhappy when the rest of the school, who were never seen in their social circles, also had a voice. Got quite nasty. My area was relatively wealthy, and people probably had generally good lives. I think it would have been very unpleasant if it were a poor area with no separation of classes and more frequent trouble at home situations.

At the end of the day, if kids are struggling, they're going to feel frustrated. And they're going to take it out on the physically weakest kids and the ones who are most making them look bad by being good at school if they're not separated, protected, or somehow made mutually engaged (all of which are expensive things to implement). I don't think it has anything to do with anti intellectualism personally.
Also, the way mathematics is taught at high school might not prepare you well for the way you use it at university.

Maths in high school focuses more on applying methods (taking a derivative etc.); maths at university (even on a CS course) is more about constructing mathematical models and arguments.

It can almost feel like a completely different subject.
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