skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better way of describing this is, imagine that for the $1200 stimulus checks the US is sending out, the only way to receive that money would be to install a web app where your only choices are Sign in with Google or Sign in with Facebook. Once signed in, Google/Facebook would use their proprietary big data algorithms to determine if you are eligible for stimulus and, if you are, they would deposit it directly into your account via Google Pay/Facebook Pay.

If they reject you and you believe it's in error, the only way to clear up that error is to talk to a Google/Facebook employee, there's no way to directly talk to the US government.

On the one hand, it fixes one of the problems with the stimulus which is that it's not getting money into the hands of people fast enough. A Google/FB run system could have probably gotten the money into people's hands in days rather than the months it's taking the US govt. On the other hand, it's a totally wild scenario. There's no way it would even be thinkable that that's what the US government would roll out.

But that's the reality in China right now. For example, the law in Beijing right now is that you cannot check yourself into a hotel without showing a green Beijing Health Code and you can't get a health code without installing WeChat/Alipay. That's how crazy the situation is in China. Totally core government functions are being outsourced to for profit, private companies.
This has been a thing for at least 15+ years. In fact, when computers were a bit slower, I would notice a perceptible lag in my mouse movement when this happened.

Honestly, there are better ways to measure productivity based on other parameters, taking screenshots is just silly.
Toast0's great-grandparent comment (and my grandparent comment) are talking about Host-managed SMR, not "transparent" drive-managed SMR like these fraudulent WD Reds.

Yes, nothing except extremely low load or extremely linear (i.e., security video / tape-style backup) workflows works well with drive-managed SMR.
At the surface this is a fun visualization and it confirms some vague stereotypes. A closer inspection shows that the appearance of 'cultural regions' is primarily done by the use of a color scheme that is taken from beyond the data plotted. Note that India and Poland are next to each other in the data space. If you ran a clustering you would find the Indo-Polish cultural group to be very hard to split. That said, I suspect that it would be very hard to convince anyone that India is more like Poland that say Bangladesh, or conversely that Poland is more like India than say Hungary. This map is perhaps a fairly arbitrary reduction in dimensionality.
Lawyer moves intl court against China over coronavirus
Paywalled article, please post the full version.
>I find it simply impossible to keep up

How so? There are so many blogs, podcasts, news feeds, and youtube channels about clouds.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs even have a RSS feed for lazy persons
I think you’ve chosen the wrong thing to worship.
This isn't about civil rights per se, it's about a definition of "standing" in a particular context (the Unruh Act).
Who owns Covid-19 Related Patents: A Quantitative analysis
No, they just push for infinitely increasing military spending, which leads to needless wars resulting in millions of deaths.

Both are horrible, let's be real.
This is not a good argument given that the victim populations typically are different species. The hawk population cares about cats eating songbirds just in so far that it removes some of their own food supply, not because it is threatened by cats.
Rotating beds are already used with intubated patients quite frequently.
For Mac apps, one can simply bind the license to the user's name, with some allowance for edit distance (and a few automated name changes), which can solve the casual license sharing. Adding a "Licensed to John Smith" message during load time also helps with this.
Very interesting, I would love to see level-headed discussion on this, although it might be politically fraught. I'm curious how these two axes were decided, if anyone knows.

Also, it makes me wonder about cultural relativism, since it seems there's this implicit sense of "progress" by the way the map was constructed. It lines up with my values, but is that my Western bias?
As a practical example, the keys and metadata for a root certificate authority are only a few kilobytes.
The argument, the way I understood it, is that the models already include effects you mention (the impact of the clouds is already correctly modeled) and even the dust impact is modeled, but that the parameters of the models represent the dust incorrectly, and they explicitly mention that such an impact to the clouds could also be reconsidered in the models:

"Accounting for this missing coarse dust increases the TOA coarse dust warming by about 0.15 W·m−2 (0.10 to 0.24 W·m−2), increases the fertilization of ocean ecosystems by dust deposition, and affects the distribution of global clouds and precipitation. Therefore, climate models must account for the missing coarse dust to accurately simulate its impact on clouds, biogeochemistry, and global climate."

But we already know that the models are already quite good, it seems it's just a possibility where some adjustments could be considered.

What most people who comment about the models miss is that the climate models don't predict the exact outcome (e.g. "what will be weather in the area X in N years", but are there to make a simulation of the outcomes that could be expected.

To compare with something now easier to relate to for everybody, it's like you can simulate the speed of the spread of the virus across a population where different people have different numbers of contacts, and you can have an acceptably good model of how many people have how many contacts (some contact a lot of people, some only a few) and how fast the infection will spread even if you can't predict which persons will actually be infected when. These kind of adjustments then often don't change significantly the outcome one expects to verify, even if the parameters inside are, observed there, different.
My friends and I refer to this as FDP, Flat Disproportionate People, and it is _everywhere_!
Value per acre seems like a better metric than just value per lot, but it seems like the metric you'd really want to maximize is value per infrastructure cost, which isn't quite the same thing.

For instance, narrow, deep lots would have less street frontage than square lots and therefore have lower infrastructure cost and be more efficient. Similarly, having large areas of undeveloped forest or park land don't necessarily increase costs much if they don't require major infrastructure. (One could reasonably debate whether undeveloped space significantly increases the need for roads elsewhere to compensate for reduced density.)
You said the "rate is increasing." Rate indicates deaths per time. Deaths per time is not increasing.
Consider the practice of "work to rule".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule

Precisely defining what at employee is to do is not really practical. At some point it's always going to be "do what I mean, not what I say."
You might have something in your .bashrc or similar that is tripping it up. On my system, the main account runs just fine. But when I log in under one of my work-related accounts on the same machine, iTerm2 takes an extra click before it will load (the first time fails, second time succeeds). I've never found out why that is, but I haven't really been bothered by it since the workaround for me is simply remembering to click-pause-click.

Having said that, from the regular account I don't find it slow at all.

The feature I like most - tabs. My workflow consists of a lot of tmux, and tmux+tabs makes things awesome. I also like that iTerm2 puts all your terms back in the same directories you left off on if you restart the terminals or reboot.
But, wouldn't an append only database demand substantially more storage which would also increase at a faster rate? How is that handled given we won't be able to fit the database on a single disk?

Also, I wanted to understand how databases work and wanted to build one from scratch. Is there any website/tutorial/blog you think could help me out? Thanks a lot!
Skunk traps and cat food.

If cat's get into my traps, they just get dumped at the pound. Their owners can go pick up their little invasive darlings there.

But they usually don't get near my yard due to the hounds guarding the chickens.
Slightly off-topic:

I'm getting ready to build a new Linux gaming PC. I'm considering installing Windows 10 in a guest VM so I can run a few modern games that do poorly under Steam / Proton.

Anyone suggestions for good sources of info regarding which software stacks (e.g., Ubuntu 19.10 + VMWare) are likely to provide a good experience? Graphics performance matters.

I'm unwilling to run Windows 10 as the host OS because of personal feelings about telemetry.
Many do and it is inevitable. No good thing ever lasts.
It's not a "conspiracy theory", it's a theory; and a very possible one.

Lets look at the facts:

1. The virus came from horseshoe bats, and this kind of bat was not sold at the Wuhan market.

2. The lab was working on Corona viruses.

Maybe the virus was not bio-engineered, but there is a very very very real possibility it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
VcXsrv doesn't work well with HDPI scaling which this claims to support out of the box.
I would quit the moment I found out something like this was being instituted.

I think most companies that need to hire top talent know that these kinds of things drive away talent. So these practices tend to be relegated to a lower tier of companies/employers.
> My one subscription to a Jetbrains product covers all of them

And also includes their database tool, DataGrip.
In fact, it is in part the point I want to make. It is a giving pursuit, in more ways than one.
Eventually, all the clever innovations will either have smaller and smaller impacts, or will be impossible to implement due to material restrictions. Exponential, infinite growth can not be sustainable.
Yes, when you read that St. Louis, say, "lost" 600,000 people over the last 60 years, everybody should understand why that's a ridiculous fiction. Those people didn't leave St. Louis. They moved slightly west across invisible and arbitrary 150-year-old political borders that have no relation to the built environment of the region today. They still live in "St. Louis" by any commonsense definition.

It's the same all over the Rust Belt.

So what really happened? We built new subdivisions for the exact same set of people and the old parts of town just fell apart entirely. The maintenance was completely ignored.

Nobody left St. Louis. They just took developer and federal money and built new housing in St. Louis County (the original suburbs). And then when those old suburbs started to decay, they did it again by moving out to St. Charles (the new exurbs).

The latest wave of this is the "return to the city" movement in which the same set of people continue the cycle by abandoning the housing that was built to replace the housing they're returning to.

I'm using St. Louis as an example here, because it's the city I know the most about, but it's the same everywhere.
> The entire premise of the conclusion is that larger dust particles absorb light and warm the atmosphere

Which is a questionable premise given that we already know large volcanic eruptions cool the planet (the latest was Mt. Pintanubo in 1992). And how do they do that? By putting lots of coarse dust into the atmosphere.
A Sobering Astronomical Reminder from Covid-19
Reminds me of Timely's Memory, which does upload the raw data onto a server, but says that it's only accessible by you.

https://memory.ai/timely/features/automatic-time-tracking
I figure that a 90-day (or so?) supply would buy us the time needed to build additional production facilities to bring us up to the necessary continuous supply.

Taiwan had a huge stockpile, and that let them increase their production from 100,000 N95 masks per day to 20 million per day while drawing down the stockpile. Asia has had success building these factories in ~14 days from pouring cement to startup, USA might need a bit more time of course.
Funding sources and project direction for municipal government are a lot more diverse and complicated than the picture you're painting. Yes, everything kind of feeds into everything else; you could broadly call this "the local economy." Development is one piece of that, but not the only piece.
The Trickle-Up Bailout
That'd make sense too, and would match the 2017 version of the diagram further down the page.

Azerbaijan and Georgia seem to have very different religious profiles though, which could be a counterpoint.

It's a shame the diagram doesn't have a key associated with it (at least on Wikipedia) :)
Bosses panic-buy spy software to keep tabs on remote workers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22728971 (19d ago)
I don’t buy a lot of arguments about a culture that’s somehow magically much more orderly. Obviously there are cultural differences but I’m not sure they’re the main reason for the differences between places one sees. I think bigger reasons tend to be structural (and those structural differences often seem to come from essentially random differences in history)

The reason the streets are clean is that there is an army of street cleaners picking up litter. If one ventures away from regularly cleaned areas, one will see litter along the sides of main roads, much like America.

I don’t know about the homeless situation. Perhaps there are fewer homeless people. Perhaps they are forced out of public spaces by the police. Perhaps they sleep in 24h McDonald’s instead of outside (perhaps it is much too cold in winter).

Similarly I hope people don’t look at the difference in healthcare between the uS and Canada and say that it’s because Canadians somehow have some magically nicer culture.

I feel that there tend to be larger structural issues between countries that are more significant than a vague argument about “eastern collectivism and western individualism.” For one thing, such an argument lumps china, North Korea, South Korea, and japan into the same bucket when the countries are clearly quite different. It also lumps together the USA, Canada and European countries together when they are also quite different between themselves.

One big difference one sees between the US and Japan is the apparent prevalence of petty crime. Statistics may be different because the likelihood of crimes being reported are quite different but it is common in Japan to leave a phone/handbag unattended at a cafe table whereas this would be very unlikely to happen in America. On the other hand it is socially accepted in Sweden to leave babies unattended in proms outside shops whereas this would be unthinkable and likely classed as negligence in America
The trouble with taking screenshots is then you have to employ people to spend their day examining and evaluating the screenshots.

Before computers could transcribe voice, the limiting factor of wiretapping is needing some poor schmuck who had to listen to all those utterly banal conversations, which has to be one of the worst jobs ever.
This is not going to work in it's current form. The content needs to be more compelling than the premise.
In my comment, GP is pjc50; not you. You literally said that everyone should plant potatoes, which I, and pjc50, disagree with. As I said before, do it if you enjoy it; it's not a great use of everyone's time.
Or, eventually, capitalism has to end.
CIOs and CISOs are dealing with the pandemic budget hit
Difficult question, I think. The "famous" ones are indeed very good - Elite, Exile. SimCity works amazingly well considering it's running on a 6502 with less than 32K of RAM.

Chuckie Egg is famous in the UK but I found it to be overrated.

Plan B and Starship Command take good advantage of the high-res 1-bit screen modes and look great.

Thrust has amazingly realistic feeling physics, very satisfying to play.

Revs is a very dry simulation of car racing, but well produced if that's your thing.

Firetrack has probably the smoothest vertical scolling on the system, which until that game came out was thought to be impossible.

Those are the ones I can think of right now!
What does the suspension of your tasks look like? I've never seen this happen. Was it a UWP app?

I've left calculations running overnight many times on my Windows machine and never had a problem. Was your machine going to sleep based on the power settings? I'll bet that was it.
They had advanced orders of machinery, and they relocated some from other facilities.

Chinese can probably make their own machinery eventually, but we still talk about months
Well... that is my complaint about hacker news is that people frequently downvoted stories and comments that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" and don't violate any other guidelines. And they are never held accountable.

I am not referring to my own history. I often read downvoted comments and sometimes upvote them.

If people could indicate a reason for the downvote, it would probably help the whole situation.

The fact that this guy is a doctor... does not help your case. It makes it worse... if this were another lay person that downvoted cuz they thought it was off-topic, I would be ok with that.... But it sounds like this is another doctor, that disagrees with the doctor I linked to.
Respectfully, I think you’ve described your exact problem. I watched 30 seconds of the video. I wouldn’t call it a wild theory or disinformation. But I also don't find it particularly relevant or insightful. So I don’t think your assumption that this site is full of idiots who are downvoting you to try and stop the spread of _fake_ fake news (god I hate that term) is accurate. You’re simply using a popular thread to try and get visibility which, I’m sure, you believe is warranted because you find the video compelling. However this is not a strategy that’s generally acceptable on HN. You posted the link. People haven't found it interesting enough to upvote on its own merit. HN is not a virus fighting machine. Don’t pretend that posing some under-informed (based on the discussion here) doctor on vimeo talking about his hypothesis would have had any impact on anything had it _just_ been more favorably received... In other words, don't fret it. HN comment threads (social media as you put it) are not going to cure a pandemic.
I'm glad someone brought this up. I'm about to build a new rig and was hoping to make it compatible with Looking Glass (I can buy any hardware I need since it's a fresh build), but I can't make sense of the hardware requirements.

I was planning on an AMD GPU, since nvidia famously has bad Linux support and I don't want the driver headaches.

BUT – all the hardware lists I come across warn you not to buy AMD GPUs because they are buggy: https://passthroughpo.st/vfio-increments/

So which is it? Do I have to just put up with the driver problems on the linux side?
you’re a shitty boss. they should do their work and lie to you about how much time it took.
Here are some old books on bit-slice processors. Very interesting reading.

Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs by Donnamaie E. White

Bit-Slice Microprocessor Design by John Mick and James Brick
Are these new systems created just to get a fun name out there?
DbVisualizer 11.0 Release
“not experiencing the massive hospital overloads that they 'should' be according to the projections that drove the lockdowns.”

And yet very sick patients are already being placed in field hospitals with no running water, laying too close, poor air circulation and on old ventilators which have received criticism from the doctors there.
Islamic empires did not have a truly free market. Islam imposes quite a few financial and economical restrictions (I'd say, rightfully in many instances)
Other guys in the peer group?
ive been doing this mostly on stackoverflow (where I answer my own question, or answer questions to something I couldn't find an answer too). It does take a bit longer than a repo where I just dump information, so I might try that instead

My thought process is I'll google something and find something I wrote

There's also the bonus that you might get an expert answering your topic

EDIT: related story - I wrote an answer to a question about programming a financial calculator, and one of my dev friends had the same exact problem/found my solution the next day on stackoverflow
no you wouldn’t
One of the things I think will probably happen is that the US public will shift to be more favourable towards a primarily public health service such as many other countries have in one form or another.

As a Brit, I am very sceptical of that. In the UK this crisis is painfully exposing the deep structural flaws of the NHS. The UK is now at the bottom of the world leaderboard for testing, because its 100% centralised and government run healthcare system has totally failed at scaling up capacity. One reason - it's actually refused and ignored testing capacity in the private sector.

e.g. here's a firm saying they could run lots of tests but the government hasn't returned their calls

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/15/british-company-...

Here's another analysis that mentions private sector companies being baffled by lack of swabs being sent to them:

https://reaction.life/why-is-the-uk-so-slow-at-increasing-te...

Places like Germany have an apparently much lower death rate because they're testing far more aggressively. Why is that possible, well, because there's no ideological problem with involving the private sector in healthcare like there is in Britain. It's really hard to fail more severely than the UK has done. It's uniquely terrible at handling this crisis, and that's the fault of its unique healthcare system. Nobody rational in America will look at this performance and say, yep, that's what we need.

nations that do follow the science and support their healthcare professionals and ultimately get it under control to a useful level are going to be very wary of undermining that progress

So far the data says the epidemic is basically following the same path everywhere, regardless of what governments do. There appears to be no correlation between how governments reacted and outcomes, so no, nowhere is going to be blocking travel to the US because of coronavirus.

As for "follow the science", that phrase is being used mostly to mean "listen to epidemiologists". But their models are all being disproven in real time, over and over again. Nobody is going to have any respect that so-called science when this is over. It simply is incapable of making accurate predictions. It's no more a science than economics is.
It's important to note that UIforETW is just my tool for recording ETW traces. The underlying ETW tracing and WPA (the trace viewer) are all Microsoft's.

That said, UIforETW definitely fixes some significant issues with recording and managing ETW traces.
Mine completed the rebuild, but it took over 2 weeks vs. the usual 1-2 days my prior WD Red 6TBs had completed in.

This has accelerated my move to enterprise 16TB drives, because I really don't want to expose myself to data loss on rebuilds taking hugely extended times.
Now go read the USA Cloud Act.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22901237
Try to do a resilver with SMR drives.

I just got fucked by this change in models - I had an array full of 6TB WD Reds, had one fail, ordered a replacement. Rebuilding the RAID-Z3 took over 2 weeks. Previous replacements had taken under 2 days - usually under 1.

Passing SMR drives off without saying anything, especially when that exact model had been a PMR drive prior, is incredibly anti-customer.
What I wonder is the best way to determine whether this is going on and if so what it is doing exactly (or in broad terms)
Then why was the initial outbreak centered around the wet market, not the research lab? A giant coincidence?