skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don’t remember seeing us-east go down in its entirely. show me supporting evidence or this is FUD. multiple DCs physically separated, different flood planes make up a region. it’s not easy to down an entire region. the biggest event they had, the S3 one you’re talking about, effected only 2 AZs and didn’t allow new EC2 instances to start and iirc some EC2 instances failed as well. this is a far cry from the entirely of us-east having an outage.
> Water temperature is below 10C (input data would be 9.53C)

I can't tell the water temperature at all without context -- could be any temperature below 10C; and in the wrong context it could be confusing. "Just below"/"just under" would be a lot more accurate.
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CMU is definitely "top five" for CS, though (at least in the US, which is mostly where the big tech companies recruit from anyway). And while going to a top school might be an advantage at somewhere like Google, you have good odds of getting in even if you don't. There are other ways of differentiating yourself that are more effective.
Thank you for the feedback, these are some really interesting ideas :)

1/2/3: It could be possible to implement points/notes/snoozes by using (abusing?) IMAP folders to store such information. Ideally such information would live on the server-side such that it would sync between devices (https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail/issues/84 / https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail/issues/85).

4: Great idea, long threads make this really hard to see currently! (https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail/issues/86)

5: Currently possible using Gmail filters, but not part of the client itself of course. Would be really interesting to implement this! (https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail/issues/87)
They crossed the line for me. Someone wiser than me said they'll put as many ads as we will tolerate.

Imagine that when "Star Trek" was originally airing, the episodes could be 50 minutes long to allow for commercials in a 60 minute slot.

By the time Star Trek was in reruns in the 80's they were cutting a few minutes here and there to allow for the longer commercial time.

By the time the cable Sci-Fi (or was it Sy-Fy yet?) aired them "un cut" they had to put them into a 90 minute slot.

Sometime before the latter example, I ended up cutting the cord: stopped paying for television. You have to decide where the line is for you and act.
Could one split the difference with "just under"? Or maybe add an expected value or prior value, and the algorithm would adjust how it is phrased?
The current proposal in Congress reimburses landlords and mortgage holders with taxpayer money subject to stipulations. This proposal is actually much cheaper than the UBI esque one.
> Replication costs have nothing to do with anything here.

Replication is the cornerstone of fault-tolerance. When logic is written in high-level languages with some minimal good practices, most SW bugs result in crashes rather than data corruption, hence data replication plays important role in protection against bugs as well as HW problems.

> Consider a bug in software used for landing SpaceX boosters... Or a bug in a trading platform. Or a bug in an automated medicine dispense

I specifically mentioned: "Programmers _usually_ work with the data. <...>" In the examples you listed above software manipulates physical world rather than pure data. I thought it was too obvious to explain.
I'm talking about the time Apple was asked to provide an alternative firmware to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter, which suggests that at least Apple itself can put a new firmware on a locked device without having it wiped.
That just promotes uniformity by driving non-center-of-the-normal-distributio people to the margin. Better to be transparent about targeting criteria.
Is GitHub mandatory if you are learning programing?
https://ourworldindata.org/

The reason I phrased it as a search term, rather than via reference, is to encourage people just to search for it.

I'm sufficiently confident in the empirical evidence that any reputable-looking resource measuring these things over the last 40year will report what I describe.
That’s still the fault of the package developer. “^1.2.1” means “any version with a public API compatible with 1.2.1”, or in other words “only minor versions”.

The whole point of semantic versioning is to guarantee breaking changes are expressed through major versions. If you break your package’s compatibility and bump the version to 1.2.1 instead of 2.0.0 then people absolutely should be upset.
I agree it's unrealistic to propose they're hiding bodies. But the death count could be suppressed by merely implementing unreasonable standards for what's reported as a coronavirus death. Articles I've read suggest that Turkey isn't doing particularly well when measured by excess deaths over the historical baseline.

(I agree with the obvious followup, that we should check to see if other countries we believe are doing well look good in the same metric.)
What type of insurance can't you get in Quebec? Insurance is usually cheaper in Quebec compared to its peers (Ontario & BC).
Are you a Labour member or a Corbyn member? Why is it misuse?
Agreed. I care about privacy very much, and I do as much as I can to protect it with what little technical knowledge I have—I think most people I know would consider me an alarmist when it comes to protecting myself from "bad" things.

I think the point I failed to point point clearly earlier is that this is the first, if not one of the firsts, pandemic where we are well-connected enough to properly attempt the tracking app(s) proposed.

At the end of the day, would it not depend on what data (particularly those that are identifying, if any) is stored, whether or not other infrastructures that meet compliance requirements are readily available, if there are reliable contractors that already know these other infrastructures and can deliver quickly, etc.? And that's what I wanted to throw out there: I consider myself very slightly more knowledgeable in these things that are out of my domain expertise compared to my colleagues, and I still find it very difficult to make an informed decision.
Highly suggest you read this before chasing an impossible ideal:

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3081110/coron...
I think your statement is very misleading:

- There's no clear definition for formal methods. One of the fundamental problems with 'formal methods' is that it's a very fragmented community of researchers and practitioners (many who never built a real-world software systems). Formal methods depends very much of who you talk with: static analysis, dynamic analysis, type systems, writing specs in Z notation, writing code in a subset of C without malloc, etc.

- Formal methods doesn't produce code: humans produce code. A side note: people forget one of the major successes of 'formal methods' is actually hardware synthesis and verification.

- Security is about risk management. Attack surfaces is a classification of some types of risk but not all. Anyway, formal methods can only help you to protect against attacks that you are already aware. None of this has anything to do with the speed which with code is being produced.
I hope that someday you discover that people sometimes do things for reasons other than “self-promotion”.
The lowercase zeta isn't right, and the lowercase chi looks just like the xes.
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Its a good time to recommend Southern Hemisphere for star gazing, the milky way is much more visible its overwhelming.
A word cloud of nonesense ideological boogeymen connected by free-association.

In two years time when the death rate on C19 is reported at as-flu levels and the world is in a global depression with massive excess poverty, death, and abuse you'll be ranting then too -- just connecting these to "neoliberal conspiracies" as now.

Rather, this will be caused by precise the lack of concern for the economy.
Swiss here without a licence. I agree that a licence would be useful at times but in the 15 years I could have had one, the perceived value of it never outweighed the cost of acquisition.

When I was 18 and wanted a licences, I didn't had nor was willing to save up the about $3000 it costs, and later, when I had the money, I wasn't willing to put in the dozens of hours of my time. So getting one is on my "maybe later" list of life todos.

Thing is in Switzerland, as a software engineer (compared to jobs who definitely need licences), using a car is not just a matter whether it makes economical sense: Public transport is often just faster and in my opinion more convenient.
E.g. my last time commuting from one city to another was, door to door, 60 min by train and would have been 50 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes by car depending on traffic. The big difference being that I spent the time in the train working, reading, sleeping, chatting with people etc. and after work I could spontaneously decide to go out with friends, without worries how to get home after some drinks.

Same for weekend activities. Public transport gets you there and especially in Switzerland, cities are so small that you can actually just walk out. You can start e.g. a bicycle tour from your city apartment, no need to get somewhere else first.

As a said in the beginning there are still situation where I wish I had a licence. On the other hand, I'd end up using it maybe 2-3 times a year and I'm not sure how comfortable and safe I would be driving with that little regular experience.
The article quotes Feynman's memoirs is a highly misleading way. It says:

> Such behavior is chronicled in a notorious chapter of his autobiography, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (“I adopted the attitude that those bar girls are all bitches, that they aren’t worth anything, and all they’re in there for is to get you to buy them a drink, and they’re not going to give you a goddamn thing”).

This suggests that the attitude discussed was how Feynman thought about woman. However, the chapter is about trying out that attitude as a temporary experiment — and Feynman quickly rejects the approach precisely because is feels too sexist/dehumanizing (iirc, it's been a while since I read the source).

None of that is to disagree with the article's overall point – I don't have an informed opinion on the matter. But I did find that quote a bit misleading.
It does in the sense that the comment which I replied to meant it: access without being logged in to an account.
Excel.

I could turn your argument around: If Ruby were anywhere near as popular, widely used, and successful as Excel, I'd be willing to consider that maybe the idea that Ruby is a viable programming language has some merit.

But I won't, because whether or not something is a visual programming language isn't up to a popularity contest.

Can you come up with a plausible definition of visual programming languages that excludes Excel, without being so hopelessly contrived and gerrymandered that it also arbitrarily excludes other visual programming languages?
There is under-reporting that's for sure, but there is also a delay in all-cause mortality. In some cases, the same country both over and under reports. To be honest, I am surprised to see such a close match. I expected similar numbers, but this is within ~10%, which I suspect is a coincidence. But still, that's interesting.

Another coincidence is that the country that is most suspected of under-reporting, Germany, is also the least represented in EuroMOMO. There is data for only 2 regions.

Italy, Spain and France, the most significant contributors both in COVID-19 related deaths and excess mortality in general, all count deaths in care facilities now. I don't know about the UK though. Deaths at home are probably not counted, but according to the authorities, they are a minority: COVID-19 does not happen suddenly and people normally have time to go to the hospital. Still significant though.

My gut feeling is that there are actually ~50% more deaths than reported. But we'll have to wait for at least a few months to get proper statistics.
I used to like uswx.com but eventually it became run down and unmaintained. Today there is a tombstone page.
I wish the order was reverse: first create public transport and car parks outside and then remove cars from city centers.
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I am excited about the current rewrite though since (if it lives up to the hype) it'll bring performance good enough to use Pijul for non-tiny projects.

Not sure if Pijul will be the software to do it, but someday we'll all be using patch-based VCSs and look back at graph-based models like git the same way we look at non-DVCS today.
While CMU is huge in computing, it's lacking in prestige. Cornell is most-frequently referred to as a 'fake Ivy' everywhere college discussion can be found, and has been since the 1980s. I direct the audience's attention to the results of the search query "fake ivy university":

https://www.google.com/search?q=fake+ivy+university
If you're on Android, there's NewPipe, a fantastic YouTube client that brings all the benefits of YouTube Premium: no ads, downloads, listen with screen off, and picture in picture.

NewPipe also supports other services such as SoundCloud, MediaCCC and PeerTube right out of the box. The killer feature for me is that you can make up playlists containing media from different sources (which I use for playlists containing music from both YouTube and SoundCloud).

(I'm not involved in NewPipe, except being a very happy user).
This seems kind of doomed to fail. Amazon is appealing because it provides a good customer experience: good prices, fast shipping, wide variety of products, responsive customer service, etc. More local businesses fail to compete because they mostly offer the same things with worse prices and experience.

It's one thing to appeal to people's sense of civic responsibility for the environment, another thing entirely for commerce. Most people just wanna get their stuff easily and at a low price.

Now, there are some weaknesses Amazon has, like having to sift through a lot of cheap crap or copycat items while searching/browsing, as well as fake reviews. Maybe a website that offered most of Amazon's strengths while tackling its real flaws could be successful, but this doesn't look like that. It just looks like a half-hearted feel good measure to make it look like they're doing something.
So you want to learn COBOL?
Medical advice should come from medical professionals.

UVB phototherapy saved my life. Involving a ridiculous amount of planning, effort, oversight, followup. No one is more pro UV than me. (eg I asked about using non visible light as a diagnostic tool when people started playing around with UV photography.) When there are novel UV therapies, I want to hear about it from my doctors, not the POTUS.

Especially at the expense of concrete things needing to be done ASAP, like ramping up testing and contact tracing.
> ''Propaganda masquerading as information'' is the reaction of Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, to such proposed programs. Unless there are sufficient safeguards, viewers - especially children - may find it difficult to distinguish between the program and the advertisement, says Mrs. Charren, raising the specter of ''30-minute toy-store shows.''

It's interesting how a generation raised in war (WWII, Vietnam) was very sensitive to propaganda and how it influenced their children. Whereas today, propaganda is spread on TV networks, the internet, and other news sources and yet very few people stop and ask what the intent of the source of information is.
Deaths even within the US have wildly different criteria for being counted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/which-deaths-c...
That's what I'd call a photographer...
"The former wants convenience and flexibility." Thanks but no thanks, if those were my priorities I'd just use my chromebook. Or a mac if I had to run locally hosted stuff old school style.

This NixOS stuff is very interesting, feels like living in the future. Turning it into Windows10 is exactly what would repel me from enjoying it.

To some extent my chromebook is completely deterministic in that there is no setup other than my wifi credentials and google login. Its weird and fun to compare.
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I agree that the media should report on facts. If they delude us on purpose then they're helping wreck the country.

Unfortunately that applies to the media on both deranged "sides" of the post-truth landscape. When they misreport, they're wrecking the place. They all do it, and the old excuse "well the other guys are doing it" is the opposite of comforting.
I find it hard to get my head around gravity assists. Whatever energy you may be gaining from approaching a planet should be lost once you leave the planet. What am i missing?
Called to an urgent Zoom meeting with HR? It might be a phishing attack
Now compare the cost of what you mentioned in monetary terms to the cost savings for consumers (which is essentially everyone) - which is larger?
This is my problem with the app. The only reason I'm going to be in public for a 15 minute period at the moment is either being on or waiting for public transport or eating in a food court. In those cases I'm going to be using my phone to browse the net or watch a video meaning that this app won't be functional. At least on iOS, so what is the point?
For me the single biggest factor is still single threaded performance. There are still many apps that are not multithreaded so all those extra cores are useless. Single thread performance will benefit any application. Intel still holds the lead in this category.
Haha, I hadn’t thought of that. Yes, we are :)
Momentum exchange between the spacecraft and the planet. Spacecraft weighs next to nothing compared to the planet, so the planet's velocity change is imperceptible.
this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what a military is. if parent wants to claim it’s a criminal matter then who do we send to resolve the issue? local police? national police? do nothing? if military doesn’t respond then the actions continue and it becomes a national security issue. when another nations people attack another’s it’s a national security issue. this clearly places it in the hands of a countrys military. i applaud those of you wanting to push towards a zero conflict world but we’re not there yet and won’t be in our lifetimes. so for the time being show some respect for your country’s military and those dying for your country and stop calling this trolling. people die here, this is not some game on the internet.
> And if I may be so bold, I believe that many would be well-served by realizing that out there beyond the cosmos above us is something that deeply loves each of us.

Unfalsifiable claims like this one tend to have a bit of baggage like eternal punishment. IMO that's one thing plaguing plenty of teens in rural parts of the US. They need fewer overseeing eyes, not more.
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I would say some large states are also doing well per-capita - Texas, California, Florida - all three less than one-third the per-capita death rate for the country as a whole. California is 3X Montana, New York is 86X Montana.
You can already purchase two seats today to achieve this result if you wanted to.
I would believe you if it wasn't for the fact that most things being invented in software today are new. The industry keeps reinventing things that people did in the 60's without even doing it properly.

Why doesn't any recent programming languages implement a proper condition system for example? It's not like working implementations hasn't been around for decades.

This industry has a severe case of inability to learn from history so I strongly doubt we'll see things settle down in the near future.
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The US government was not giving companies handouts during the 1918 pandemic. The idea of these handouts are a very recent idea.
> pretty much all of the things I would like to write about have been written about more eloquently by others

You may want to blog anyway https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/you-should-write-b...

And it is kind of funny that I'm linking to another blog to make my point since "it has been written about have been written about more eloquently by others"
I say that because I don't think anyone expects the virus to die off, save for a mutation or herd immunity (via vaccine or otherwise). Lockdowns are not and never were intended to kill the virus. Only to control the spread.
Is there a link to a blog post that explain what you are doing?
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With Udemy, keep in mind that most people will have purchased the course for about $10, and not whatever shows up as the list price.

That doesn't mean the course creators aren't still doing well. Just that there's almost always some kind of '90% off' sale or promotion available. So I find the list prices for courses on there to be mildly dishonest because hardly anybody pays anywhere near that price.

I don't let that stop me from buying courses via Udemy because I've been very happy with the quality of what I've gotten so far.
Finland has mandatory military service for males. So every year you most of the young men (mostly age 18 to 20) into a controlled environment and go through standardized testing and observation.

- Physical fitness has gone down, overweight goes up.

- Intelligence peaked among those who were born in 70's and has been in slight decline last 18 years. Similar results can be seen in other developed countries.

- Anxiety disorders and depression have increased.

- Social skills have gone up. Young men are more social and better at working together than any time before.

- At the same time there is small but growing group of young men with almost no social skills. They can't get friends or maintain friendships or work in a group.
I'm in the UK, I can't see this being accepted: it would be pretty hard for every care home to have space found near it to create temporary housing for all the workers. And basically imprisoning workers just because of their current job wouldn't be popular with the population -- if they quit, how do you replace them? Who would sign up?

Confining people to their own home, and locking them in their workspace are markedly different.

I'm not sure there's a better solution; financial incentives and let the workers decide if they want to do it? Care home workers have their own families and dependents too, but that could make it possible for many of them without having to lock them up against their will.
This is a really clear example of the "automation isn't replacing, it's augmenting" trend that is just going to continue to grow.

I think this is what we're going to see in more and more sectors: automation making it so that there is a 3x to 10x increase in productivity by making a few people hyper-productive.
I have relatives in the business(doctors and nurses) who work in some of the largest hospitals that deal with the pandemic.

Obviously it's not a rosy situation when a hunders people are dying every day but I am yet to see a credible report of a cover-up.

My doctor relative told me that she had to buy some of her PPE and that they are getting paranoid about catching the bug but she doesn't think that the situation is worse than the reported. She complained about some management issues like asking people to get a test but not providing them with a safe place to queue and so on but no, people are not dying en mass here in Istanbul.