skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Space, I suppose. And those of us w/ Mac or design backgrounds appreciate a smaller and more elegant computing... (not for everyone, I know.) There is a point in that most users who aren't using huge multicore or GPU workloads shouldn't have a giant box of fans occupying half the legroom under the desk, esp in smaller work environments. And yeah, they're missing out on high end capability but the form factor is more appropriate to the use-case

At the other extreme are those folks who work on the iPad exclusively, like the poster/blogger who just runs everything on the cloud using a SSH client.
Without the paywall: https://outline.com/YnuzdH
> Arduino-based : http://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/

I've built this - it works really well. Both reading and writing Amiga disks.
Related: AWS in plain english (re-write of just the product names), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202286
This is truly a game changer for flight controllers. You can easily write programs for your FC and only your imagination is the limit.
I remember being prompted to flip over the disk on an Apple //e clone from a company called Datatrain we had back in the 80s.
Maybe. I was responding to "remember when the feds went after microsoft aggressively and they weren't nearly at the scale Amazon is in terms of being a business requirement."

If they're referring to AWS rather than ecommerce, that's also nowhere near being true. I think it's easy to forget how absolutely dominant Windows was.
This rumor has been floating around for 5 years now and the date keeps getting pushed back. I’m on the fence on this. On one hand, Apple can reduce its COGS, and perhaps the incremental cost is low to develop a true desktop-class processor when they have the best phone and tablet processor. And, it is consistent with the Apple’s philosophy of absolute control.

However, this seems like the external signs of empire building by the internal CPU team, like the touch bar for what I can only assume was the display team. Unlike the mobile space, the laptop and desktop space has two competitive and highly competent companies selling parts.
> What's a few avoidable deaths between friends, after all?

Amazon is about as close to the ideal of an "essential employer" as anyone is, though. They're shipping a huge amount of food and other essentials. Objectively, a package delivered through a managed professional environment is less risky and involves fewer potential transmission events than one purchased at retail.

Online sellers, where they have product to deliver, are the ones we want to prioritize keeping open.

Now... there's lots to complain about with Amazon's response in other ways. It's very reasonable to argue that their workers need more PPE, employer-provided testing and notification, hazard pay, better safety practices, etc...

But if you want to argue that Amazon should shut down... who do you want to be open instead?
Try the temporary containers plugin ;-)
Replace wines with something you personally find interesting or rewarding and you'll see why 'hedonism treadmill' is a poor choice of words.
"When I made one in PyMC3 (which lined up with a commenter's approach with PyStan), the 97% CI for the prevalence based on the non-poststratified data I got had the prevalence between (-0.3%, 1.7%). What does that mean? The test just isn't certain enough to allow us to make any conclusions, not that the null hypothesis is correct or that we can reject the null hypothesis."

Yeah, that doesn't sound substantially different than Gelman's frequentist intuition in the blog post. I'm not sure the more complex methods are adding much here, except that you can now examine the posterior, and see what portion of the density lies below zero (i.e. probably not much of it).

IMO the "CI includes zero" was weak when Gelman advanced it, because even though it's possible, it was clear from the assay error rates that the outcome was on the tails of the distribution; even if 95% of repeated samples may include zero, very few of them actually would. So at the end of the day, as you have demonstrated, you get a non-post-stratified posterior that encompasses the point estimate they gave (1.5%), but your confidence interval is different, and perhaps the mean is lower.

Now you're just left with debating the validity of the bias adjustments they made.

That said, it's wrong to frame this in terms of a "rejecting the null hypothesis". There's no hypothesis in an observational study like this.
I am not so sure here. He does tend to use visual imagery in his speech.

Look at how he talks about the wall on the Southern border. I cannot say for certain what was meant here.

Its really hard to know what the intent is without being able to read someone's mind.
...and destroyed some perfectly good floppy media while he was at it! Grrr
Late to this, but this is our son-in-law, Benjamin. Seems he is an effective teacher of 2D game development (godot, gamemaker, pixel art), with good pacing, honest/golden rule type treatment toward customers (and pleasant to be around). Some examples of his work, which supports his wife & children:

https://www.youtube.com/user/uheartbeast/about

https://www.heartgamedev.com/1-bit-godot-course-youtube?r_do...
They are not forcing them since they are allowed to take time off. You can't self quarantine forever anyways, standard procedure is 14 days of quarantine if you think you may have been exposed to the virus or if you have any symptoms.
He owns the domain masks4all.co, and set up that one particular website, but he does not own the #masks4all subreddit [1], youtube tag [2], twitter tag [3], or the variety of other #masks4all websites such as maskssavelives.org [4] and maskedprotectors.org [5].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Masks4All/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23masks4all

[3] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Masks4All

[4] https://maskssavelives.org

[5] https://maskedprotectors.org

This article is falsely presuming that Jeremy Howard is the leader of the masks4all movement in order to lambast the movement. If it wanted to disagree with Jeremy Howard, or masks4all.co, it should put that in the title. Not #Masks4All.
Yeah, I don’t see how few extra bucks is worth literally risking life. Total numbers look big but really it’s $120 more per each shift where you can be exposed or expose others to a deadly virus.
There’s no greater demonstration of their internal class divide than what would happen if they asked HQ employees to stop working from home and do the same.
Fanmail from Romero (Doom) to Mechner (Prince of Persia)
This is almost certainly not the time for that. Stores have eliminated a lot of their self-serve stations and even deli counters and the like.
I think anyone paying attention knows this already?
>A starting point would be Amazon providing tests and ensuring that everyone has been tested before returning to work

Amazon can't win.

If they did that, the newspaper headlines would read "Bezos demands DNA samples of workers as a prerequisite to being paid."
I think it's part of human nature to form groups and keep ideologies and believes in spite of knowing that's not rational. Still I think speaking to single individuals could lead that to better conclusions than just anonymous discussions on the internet or speeches for the masses.

Somehow I lost faith in education of the masses since in the last 20 years I've seen how the biggest part of population got access to a higher volume of information but with higher biases than ever before and more and more sources being deeply biased by an activist or political agenda. That's probably also part of the democratization of the internet, bringing our old habits into this new reign now open to everyone.
Which reminds me of one of the other great quotes: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
You're offering up a very charitable interpretation to a man that has been saying to take chloroquine and asking "What have you go to lose?" for several weeks now, despite the fact that we know that while chloroquine is relatively safe for most people, there are serious potential side effects including blindness and heart failure that can occur. So, the answer for to his question is "my sight" and "my life", which are, at least in my opinion, significant enough things to risk that he should't be telling people to take the drug.

Why would we expect this to be anything more than more of the same? I know in HN we are supposed to give each other the benefit of the doubt, but we're well beyond benefit of the doubt here - you're asking us to check our critical thinking skills at the door and to ignore past actions - from the very recent past!
From their post on the topic it sounds like you should be happy with their plan:

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/how-amazon-priorit...

> Millions of masks have been distributed across our network. They are available to all Amazon associates, delivery service partners, Amazon Flex participants, seasonal employees, and Whole Foods Market stores employees. We are encouraging everyone to take and use them.

As for testing, they have been unable to do it through regular channels so they are building a lab to do it themselves:

> An important safety step might be regular testing of all employees for COVID-19, including those without symptoms. We have begun assembling equipment we need to build our first lab to process tests and hope to start testing small numbers of our frontline employees soon.

As for cleanliness:

> We have increased the frequency and intensity of cleaning at all sites, including regular sanitization of door handles, handrails, touch screens, scanners, and other frequently touched areas.

> Our enhanced cleaning has added almost 200 additional points of contact per site across our janitorial teams, and we’ve increased the size of our cleaning teams threefold to support our buildings.

> We require everyone to wash their hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after using the bathroom and before eating, as well as after blowing their nose, coughing, or sneezing. If soap and water are not readily available, alcohol-based hand sanitizer stations are easily accessible throughout our buildings.

> In addition to break times, employees can log out of their system to wash their hands whenever they choose, without worrying about impact on their performance goals.
Disable JavaScript and reload. Whoever made the paywall was smart enough to detect incognito mode, but disabling JS apparently didn't occur to them.

It works for most paywalls surprisingly.
diversify income, I'm learning tattoo and working food service jobs because I'm too high variance in programming. I can be really good but I also go bust a lot :)
> Forcing people to show up to work under these conditions is murder.

Nobody can be forced to show up, and no, that's not murder.

> A starting point would be...

Amazon has a page listing their pretty thorough adjustments for health & safety: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/how-amazon-priorit...
This is one of the coolest projects I’ve ever seen.

I’d love to see jo-engine (Sega Saturn) evolve into something like this.
Yes, I do also think this is a big risk with this strategy.
But a lot worse than it was only four years ago.
> A satellite of that age would have used a very simple analog repeater or linear transponder, meaning that there is no communications logic occurring on the satellite.

It's broadcasting telemetry, isn't there a chance it also accepts commands?

> Military satellites launched into the '80s continued to use analogue transponders and, to some extent to this day, see unauthorized use. The only real deterrent was the difficulty of obtaining inexpensive equipment for satellite bands but the widespread use of DVB and VSATs changed that during the '90s and '00s.

WIRED had an article about this awhile back: https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/
> There is no clear evidence from the preliminary investigation' and 'the preliminary investigation finds that human-to-human transmission is not taking place' are two quite different propositions.

Everyone understands the difference.

>The WHO opted for an excess of scientific caution

No scientific caution would have been independently verifying China’s representations and throughly reviewing their claims before retweeting it to the public.
Yes, there doesn't seem to be a shortage of bread on the shelves although if you only shop once a week it might not last.
"Don't assume any debt that relies on increasing future earnings to be comfortable."

There is some good advice, for everybody!
The preparations are unnecessary until they suddenly aren't. If you wait until bakeries close and supermarket bread aisles are empty, then it's too late.

This is like having backups and disaster recovery in IT. You spend resources on it, but get nothing in return. That one time things do go wrong though it can literally save your business and you'll be happy to have had backups and recovery in place.

I think that people's fears of a lack of food in first world countries are overblown, but people are still afraid.
> The company has said criticisms of its safety measures are unfounded.

Well, the French justice forced them to improve their safety measures. They had to close down for 5 days to do so. I don't remember reading about them doing that worldwide. However, I do remember them complaining in emails sent to their French customers that they are forced to improve the safety measures and that the French justice is not nice. It was a bit ridiculous and not well received.
The article is about affluent "Silicon Valley"-type preppers -- did you read it?

You seem to be confusing that concept with some kind of straw(wo)man meme you found elsewhere.
Walmart sells premium flour (which this limited production product would count as) for much more than $1.50.

And it’s something for the limited staff to do while otherwise unemployed.
>I just don't see a scenario where I say I'm just going to move from EFS to EBS or such. I chose EFS for a reason in the first place.

How about when your team has terabytes of data stored in EFS that is only used sporadically and now you want to move it off? (maybe you started with EFS because it makes the most sense for your application but now you have a lot of older data that you still want to keep but don't necessarily need it to be accessed by the application anymore). Something like this helps justify how much you could save by starting that migration project.

I do see your point though. IME, calculators like this are used more for management who are trying to estimate their budget for planning purposes (as in, I have a team that tells me they will need 5 TB of S3 storage, how much is that going to cost me?), not necessarily by devs making architecture decisions.
Proximity tracing and the coronavirus pandemic: Fraunhofer’s proposal
Obviously, you use the Lysol like an inhaler. No need to inject. Just get Lysol to make those little asthma puffers, but in fresh rain scent. /s
I wrote that - thanks for sharing! :) And also wrote this one with Professor Trish Greenhalgh CBE: https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/13/masks-summary/ . Our work on this is getting some attention now in the global medical community; e.g. Martin McKee (Prof of European Public Health LSHTM/ Director Research Policy European Observatory. Past President The European Public Health Association) just tweeted:

"an those speaking about face coverings & #COVID19 please read @trishgreenhalgh evidence review.
We are talking about CLOTH FACE COVERINGS not surgical masks
Coronavirus IS NOT influenza - coverings work better
People spread when talking, NOT JUST COUGHING & when PRESYMPTOMATIC"

I'm so happy to see the progress being made on this issue. 11 out of 12 of the largest countries by GDP now recommend public mask wearing (the other is UK, which is about to change their guidance.)
It should have been, but strangely even public health officials were very recently advocating strongly against masks unless you had symptoms. No one has ever able to explain to me why symptoms were relevant in any way given that many or most carriers are asymptomatic.

Even the WHO continues to advise against wearing masks for "healthy" people (i.e., presumed asymptomatic carriers).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935563
I'm using a FloppyEmu model B on a IIgs. I haven't used it extensively for writing, but I did find that Bank Street Writer II will not format or write to a DSK image properly.

I'm really impressed w/ the FloppyEmu. The creator added WOZ disk image support fairly recently and I threw him some extra cash when I downloaded the new firmware, to show my appreciation for his continued development on the device.
>> Are there so many people buying laptops with Linux as a “requirement” that this is a thing?

That's an interesting question. Linux laptops are a small segment of the market. But if you openly support it, you stand to capture a lot of that segment. 1 to 2 percent of the entire laptop market is a big beal to a company that only has say 10 percent of the laptop market. Just example numbers I have no idea that the real numbers are.

For a car example I use the PT Cruiser from Chrysler. I didnt like it, not my thing. But I loved that they made it. It had some very retro design element that were nothing like any other vehicle on the market. I'm sure they grabbed 100 percent of the buyers who were into that look.
Funny, as there is no shortage of bread on the supermarket shelves.
When I found this sight, I was uncertain if one could still buy this device or if the owner was even still active, but then I checked the front page: "March, 2020: Orders may be delayed due to the COVID-19 situation. Thank you for your patience and understanding." The previous news post was from 2017. I think the owner's commitment to this project is amazing. I think that that the owner had to explicitly call out delays due to COVID-19 is also noteworthy.
I'm glad I waited an extra minute to comment b/c you did all the work. Amazon has allowed me to limit my local travels to two physical environments for essentially the past six weeks. There's a value to that in reducing transmission.
It prevents weasley salesdroids from seizing an opportunity to take you to the cleaners.
Nor do we have price gouging laws.
We don't know.
For anyone interested in running a cluster, but in a significantly smaller (cheaper, less powerful) form factor, I use the 8086 ClusterHAT. It supports 4 Raspberry Pi Zeros hosted on a Raspberry Pi 2, 3 or 4. Of course the four zeros together are only as powerful as the host (quad-core vs single core), this setup is great for learning mpi and other super computing concepts. It is definitely not meant for industrial use, but is definitely good for the educational aspects.

I have used it as a personal network of vulnerable machines with a firewall (the host pi) to demonstrate hacking techniques. That's not what the ClusterHAT was designed for, but it is super-easy to set up for classroom use like that.

https://clusterhat.com/
Like I said, they can fix the problem. It sounds like they're trying, but it's not proven that they've gotten all the way. In the past they were clearly inadequate and it's why employees went on strike and publicly protested.

"Essential employees" shouldn't be put at risk just because people need them to ship stuff out. We shouldn't put "essential employees"' immune-compromised relatives at risk either.
This list doesn't showcase FSx[0] as an option.

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[0] https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/
> These extensions increase our total investment in pay during COVID-19 to nearly $700 million for our hourly employees and partners.

This is a drop in the bucket for Amazon. They are able to pay much better but do not. If the savings were being passed onto the customers, that's one thing, but with all the recent news about Amazon's practices, it's easy and convenient to take the cynical route.
You're forgetting that the government doesn't _control_ the whole money supply. The government only controls how much it itself creates or deletes on net.

Most money is created by commercial banks. As the demand for credit expands the money supply expands, and as credit is repaid, the money supply decreases. This is going on all the time.
This touchy-feely analytical approach to not worrying about emotional and exemplary damage resulting from not knowing any better is hard to take. The self importance of not worrying is conducive to the sloppy industry the NG works in. No one can be held responsible for not knowing what they should know because they aren't expected to know it. They are semi-functional components in a dysfunctional machine.
I don't think action that delivers satisfying results is defining a video game. I think it's a relationship formed from inputs and audiovisual responses, like I mentioned. Paratropic isn't really a game about satisfaction and results, as the designers want you to be frustrated and anxious.

I think some people see Animal Crossing as pointless because they don't find much value in expressing themselves through the game. I think Minecraft is a similar example of this, as some people mostly focus on fighting monsters or getting gear, as compared to building a house they like the look of.
> Complex pointers (object/method pointers) can sometimes exceed that?

They can't. void* / intptr_t is a fixed-size, and at least on all platforms I run on that size is always 32-bit or 64-bit. Both of which fit perfectly fine in the always-64-bit jlong.

If you're thinking of std::mem_fn or similar note that they are defined to return an undefined object not a pointer. So of course those can be larger than the size of a pointer, since they aren't a pointer.

But sure toss in a static_assert(sizeof(jlong) >= sizeof(void*)) if you want.
Single Decisions to Eliminate Thousands
... force people whose job can be done from home to go to the office for the sake of “solidarity” !?
"* If you have an absurd amount of money, you don't need to worry about going bankrupt from getting sick."

Or you live in a country with a socialised medical system.
If you do not count the browser itself - a single web app has a very small memory footprint. For comparison you can have hundreds of web apps running at the same time - taking up less memory then one native app!
Then there are Electonr/nw.js apps that all come with their own browser, but PWA's will reuse and share the existing browser.
Charging up for a long ride: Lithium remains the car-battery material of choice
Context matters. We are now over a month into the crisis, if you count it from the moment of lockdown. The fact that this wasn't a day one policy is inexcusable. Stop playing PR hype-man for Amazon, they don't need your help.
Ah, was hoping for something where I could simply add markdown files to folders and it would do all the routing for me. I have a setup that works like this with Flask flatpages[0], but it seems like there has to be a simpler solution out there somewhere. I've been unable to find it though. :-)

[0] https://flask-flatpages.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The problem is that software engineers are paided poorly compared to bankers, executives, and a myriad of other occupations relative to how it used to be 30 years ago. Even doctors aren't paid like they used to be. So way too many smart people go into finance and real estate, which are jobs that really anybody could do, except that our corrupt system makes it worthwhile to pay the smartest people to come up with new ways to scam the public and the government. See: Fed policy, CDOs, sub-prime loans, QE...
That's worrying! Mozilla gfx team would be interested in fixing that, as we are trying to roll WebRender on more platforms.
Well it is their platform, but they are using what I would consider unethical means to force people to create accounts, collecting and selling their data.

Sure, you can say that I should avoid Mark's websites altogether if I want to keep my data safe, but that would probably mean that a huge portion of my social life would be sacrificed.