skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing no one has mentioned in all these articles I've read. Everyone mentions we have about a week of meat in cold storage, and that the level of meat production is falling below typical demand.

But it's not like the spigot is turning off / we're stopping all production. What's it falling to? If it's 85% of typical demand, that storage will stretch for awhile, especially because many people may be choosing cheaper staples to consume.
It's not only about people who die. We don't fully understand the implications of the virus on people who do not die. It's possible a large portion of recovered people will have other problems down the line because of the damage to their lungs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943406
It's uses gn, a build system developed for Chromium. That said, on an Ubuntu system the steps to build Chromium are fairly well-documented and straightforward, as long as you have an appropriately beefy system (unfortunately it's a long wait and a fair amount of RAM is required, and Googlers tend to use a distributed build system).

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
Not built-in, but you look up several great projects for auth or use something like Auth0.
Valve Confirms the Leak of 'CS:Go' Code
Damage that secularists and pagans did as well.
US healthcare spending per capita: $9,870

Canada: $4,458

Sweden: $5,711

Australia: $5,002

Ireland: $4,759

Japan: $4,233

United Kingdom: $3,958

Israel: $2,837

Singapore: $2,462

USA'a actually truly outside the mainstream thinkers: Hey here's an interesting thought: what about this weird religious cult in PA?
Health Chief’s Early Missteps Set Back Coronavirus Response
“fully trained” has a different meaning in other countries. In the US the number of doctors that can be “fully trained” is artificially limited. Furthermore, many countries with cheaper healthcare have abbreviated training for doctors.
You have lost perspective when you ignore actual costs, including wireless service costs. The $449 SE you buy today will sell for half that price used in 2 years, making its actual monthly cost less than $10.

The cheapest smartphone in the US costs at least $25/month ($300 a year) in wireless charges, and its owner will typically use it for thirty hours a month or more. Trying to save less than $10 a month (maybe a quarter per usage hour) by having a significantly worse camera and a much worse phone experience seems like ignoring the forest for the trees.

If you aren’t going to pay up slightly for a much better phone experience in today’s world, what are you spending your money on?
The usage of the term "mental model" here seems really weird to me.

Once upon a time, a "mental model" was, in particular, a model: some sort of mental representation of a thing, usually simpler and clearer than the thing itself.

I'll give some concrete-ish examples.

- For anyone you know reasonably well, you can probably make a lot of predictions about how they would react to various things. Whatever you use to do that -- which may well be fuzzy and complicated and largely inaccessible to you -- is your mental model of that person.

- Sometimes you might explicitly model someone as a "homo economicus" money-maximizer, who will always do whatever gets them the most money. This is obviously an extreme simplification, but it has the merit of being something you can explicitly reason about.

- Your mental model of the US government might be that the president makes decisions and everyone else does exactly what he says. This would be a hopelessly wrong model, of course.

- If you're good with differential equations, your mental model of a pandemic might be something like the Kermack-McKendrick SIR model, and that might give you useful intuitions for the consequences of (e.g.) implementing social-distancing measures.

- If you're not so good with differential equations, you might adopt a simpler model that just says that the number of infections is an exponential function of time. Even that's enough to make better decisions than many people do.

But here "mental model" seems to be being used to be generalized way beyond that, to include any way of thinking or broadly applicable idea. A few examples from the Farnam Street list linked near the start of the article: "First principles thinking", "Thought experiment", "Second-order thinking", "Inversion", "Occam's Razor". Some of these are useful tools when building mental models. Some of them are useful things to do, or keep in mind, whatever sort of thinking you're doing. None of them is a model.

In fact, almost nothing in the Farnam Street list is a model. But some of the things in the list are useful metaphors, which you could consider to be tiny models, or model-parts. (For instance: "velocity". Velocity is not a mental model, but you might often want to build mental models that include something you could reasonably call "velocity".)

Is the usage of "mental model" to mean "any thinking tool at all" actually widespread? I've seen it before, but I think the other instances I've seen have been closely linked with this one -- all, I think, quoting Charlie Munger. (I don't know whether Munger's own use of the term is as broad as e.g. Farnam Street's.)

I hope it isn't; the narrower notion in which a mental model is actually a model seems to me a valuable one, and it seems easier to find other terms that convey the broader idea (e.g., "thinking tool", "general principle", "idea") than good replacements for the narrower one.
In other countries banks don't make five+ figures on every doctor's education, and their doctors certainly don't make enough to service six figures in education debt.

Finance capitalists keep the vicious cycle going. Doctors' unions scratch and claw for high comp because without it their new entrants are screwed.
The 250k+/year US salary of the fully trained doctor setting bones could be a problem. Many doctors are paid significantly less in many of those other countries.
When is the storm season in that area?
It's a slight misstatement to say that any of the M4A plans would have "banned private insurance." None of them prohibit supplemental coverage that would be secondary to Medicare.
Here is another article about hospital layoffs [1]

As to the number of patients, it is highly regional. This is the official state of Iowa Coronavirus info page [2].

My coworker's wife is a doctor here in Story county. My neighbor is a nurse at the clinic across the street from my house. Both have said business is way down and they are having trouble finding enough work to fill their time.

My mom is recently retired from the hospital in Mitchell county. She fills in for people in her old department when they are short staffed. She said last week what would normally have been a ten hour day for her took two hours to complete.

We are strangling the majority of hospitals because the minority are overrun. That isn't sustainable.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2020/4/8/21213995/coronavirus-us-layoffs...

[2] https://coronavirus.iowa.gov/
Big agree with this. Also there's no all-encompassing definition of 'healthcare' that will cover all categories, the way there is for groceries or cars or servers. As people get more disposable income to spend, they'll gravitate towards what is not so much medicine as improving their bodies (speaking as an older athlete who's spent significant money to repair shoulder, hip injuries & stay relatively young- my grandparent's generation would've said 'your shoulder's done, you're not young anymore, it's over', etc.) And then also end of life care- some amazing % of our healthcare costs go into the last 6 months of life, which is all totally optional care and we don't 'have' to have- but we want to because we have the disposable cash for it. We want the $27,000 cancer drug or the $100k for an extra two weeks of life on the backend
Other difference can be that you have passed the problem in summer-fall so far, whereas europe passed it in winter-spring. This means, for example, that water droplets in the air will dry much faster in your case

You are about to enter in flu season and the next months can be complicated, so take care for yourself and your family. This is not over.
Robert Newman History of Oil
The issue is that batteries can just short out internally and dump the stored energy into themselves as heat, all within a few seconds. Gasoline can't really do that, and needs an (external) oxidizer to release those 12kWh/kg.
I wonder where the danger point really is. I've driven some lighter, smaller cars that were borderline dangerous in a stiff crosswind.
I am the author.

I've read multiple biographies of Buffett, I've read criticisms of his approach, and I've read Hagstrom's book on Focused Portfolios (which Munger said was the most representative of what they were doing).

I have attempted to emulate Buffett in the past. It is difficult. Hagstrom failed as well, rather publicly, with his mutual funds.

I've begun to see Buffett not as a stock picker, as he hasn't really done such plays over the past decade or so. Rather, he is a capital allocator in the true sense of the word: he buys companies with high FCF, and reinvests the FCF in either stock if he finds an underpriced opportunity, or ownership of private companies if he does not. In the previous decade, he has mostly done the latter, as it has become more and more difficult to generate alpha in the former. He has also been willing to enter into advantageous contracts (warrants, etc) in times of economic turmoil.

I have demonstrated some understanding of the topic.

Now my question to you is this: are you as well read on this as I am? If so, point me to a chapter in one of the biographies and I will self correct.
What an amazing career. I had a couple of questions. The articles states:

>"The main problem was power. As features grew smaller, current that leaked through when a transistor was in its “off” state became a bigger issue. This leakage is so great that it increased—or even dominated—a chip’s power consumption."

How exactly does residual current start to dominate? Does this mean that current starts to leak into neighboring transistors and inadvertently turn them on?

>"Hu saw the fundamental problem as quite clear—making the channel very thin to prevent electrons from sneaking past the gate?"

I would have thought that making the channels thinner make current flow through them easier. Why does making them thinner prevent current leakage exactly?
"In business as in life, change is constant and unpredictable. When building the platforms to power your organization, you can’t be limited by yesterday’s technology decisions. Nor can the systems you create today constrain your ability to act tomorrow. In times of uncertainty, you need an architecture that gives you the agility and flexibility you need to help you weather change—or even take advantage of it."

Who are they marketing to??? I feel like I stumbled onto a well written blog aimed at SEO.
I still use my pebble everyday, I prefer it over new watches. Sad to see them go
$UWT and $DWT were de-listed 3/19 (3x long and inverse on oil). It would still be surprising, but I wouldn't as surprised at this point. This next month will be hard on $USO.

At this point oil stores are reaching maximum capacity, with any free space going for a premium. I think that the squeeze at the end of the month has shown to a lot of people that if you don't have storage room for oil, its a liability.

Good for you if you have a ton of empty storage though!
I frequently criticize Google harshly for everything from search becoming more and more useless to pushing Chrome way to hard.

Seems some people at Google still hasn't got the memo yet that the "not evil" days are now a thing of the past. This looks amazing and more like something I would expect from old Google.
Pricing is not public: https://cloud.google.com/anthos/gke/docs/on-prem/overview
>For instance, in many states, it is both a felony to steal something worth $300 and commit murder. No one on the planet would say they are equal.

Nobody is. It's like saying stealing and murder shouldn't both be considered crimes because they're so different. Felonies are just crimes that are considered more serious than lower crimes (misdemeanors)--there are loads of grade and classifications within that spectrum. Felonies tied to monetary values are generally written when $X monetary value is a large amount. $300 could've easily been a full month's rent a few decades back, so it was written as a serious offense.

The problem is the law is incredibly slow to update with the times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIpm_8v80hw
“ , we surmise with high confidence that these vulnerabilities – in particular, the remote heap overflow – are widely exploited in the wild in targeted attacks ”

Surmise is the wrong word, the authors have actual evidence this is true.
Countepoint: Covid-19 vaccine
Cancer is not an elective surgery and gets treated with urgency. Across the Tasman Sea with a very similar system my father had bowel cancer removed the day after diagnosis in the public system and spent most of the recovery in no state to miss a private room.
The Tell Tale Sign That Your Product Has a Positioning Problem
The pricing is very clear: "Contact Sales."
Q. Where can I get a Covid-19 vaccine?
I've been following it since the first public release. It's still, unfortunately, very buggy.

I restart gopls perhaps 20-30 times a day, working in VSCode. I have to restart it every time I switch git branches or do other major file changes that completely break its mind.

I try to report every bug I find, but bug-reporting is even more of a productivity killer than the bugs. It's often difficult to reproduce exactly when they depend on an exact order of events.

Sometimes it's just seems infuriatingly like incompetence. After struggling for hours with gopls suddenly going insane the other day (i.e. even a restart wouldn't fix things), I realized gopls doesn't understand build tags, and will just fail in random ways on code that has a "// +build" comment. The gopls team knows perfectly well tags are not supported, but instead of warning you when you open the file, which would be the sensible option, they just let gopls mismanage it.

I really hope gopls reaches maturity soon, or I'll have to consider GoLand instead, which seems to have gotten this right.
So question : if MLeap had delivered on the whole light field display concept close enough to the original prototype; but the hmd was a motorcycle helmet, then how would you feal about it?
Now I get it, thx
Interesting; some time ago the Ogg audio transport was working on bitrate peeling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitrate_peeling with the basic idea that a stream can be encoded at one bitrate but can be served at that or any lower bitrate. A simpler example is FM stereo radio - the main frequency provides a mono audio signal, which works just fine, but if the receiver can also pick up the stereo sub-frequency (containing just the diff of left and right channels), it gets stereo.

Anyways, the wikipedia page linked above links to this about the same concept, for video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Video_Coding so it might be feasible. Not sure how feasible/secure encrypting this would be.
Cave Johnsons name was referenced in portal 1. It could be they already had the character idea in mind
Cuelang v0.1.2 is out, but master is even more interesting
I don't buy the BCG thing. For one, they count France as one of the countries that don't vaccine and where covid-19 is hitting hard. While the latter is true, the former is... only technically true now. France stopped vaccination, but it was mandatory for school children between 1950 and 2007. So people up to 80 or probably more are vaccinated.
My sister had a Win95 machine with 32mb of ram and 2mb of video memory. What a powerhouse! Played 3D games on that thing...
Super helpful reply and tells me exactly what I needed to know (I'll stick with HEVC). Thanks!
What specific “claims” are you taking about, since everything in that link appears to be clearly true.
Maybe you're right in this instance, but your reasoning is fallacious.[0]

What are your feelings on vaccines, pacemakers, and appendectomies?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
On a tangential note: https://robintrack.net/symbol/USO

Looks like the main losers are going to be retail investors.
Second that.
Fallen in love with certain technology.
Played with it.
Created a solution based on it.
Published blog post.
Got hired, relocated to CA(lifornia).
Best job I ever had in my life including best paid.
Admittedly in this case I'm mostly just trying to push Gatsby to it's limits. For a photography site, there ends up being very little overhead with a static site (if you can do incremental builds). I also explored NextJS (SSR) and just making a good old SPA, but decided to go with Gatsby because at the end of the day, a distinct majority of the storage cost is just the raw images. I think Gatsby ends up making the most sense because you get to take advantage of a CDn for caching (most don't like being used just as an asset cache) and I can just leave it there without worrying about a server.
Okay. So, everyone needs to be able to pass MIT's electrodynamics course if they get a degree that requires and electrodynamics course. And without intensive one-on-one and in person tutoring.

I'll risk sounding like an asshole or making an ass of myself and just straight up ask: Have you ever taught before? Somewhere other than a top ten CS or ivy league university?

What you're proposing sounds way more expensive than the status quo.
> abbreviated training for doctors

I mean do doctors really need to spend 4 years getting a bachelor's degree in "pre-med"? If you know you're going to be a doctor why not just start off with biology, anatomy, physiology, chemistry in year one and go on to cutting up bodies in year 2? It seems utterly ridiculous to spend 4 years majoring in humanities, or calculus[1] only to seek entrance to med school.

The UK doesn't feel the need to do this.[2]

1. https://prepexpert.com/pre-med-class-recommendations/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_school_in_the_United_K...
Faster charging arguably is more important than range at ~400mi. At that point I need a break, regardless of what the car could do.
We’ve gotten used to gasoline car fires, while EV car fires are new and novel.
I cannot praise Vivaldi enough. Using as a daily driver on both desktop and mobile for a couple of months, and not looking back to my previous uses of Brave/FF/Chrome. There are just so many power features built in and being added all the time. This new release completely seals the deal on Android for me, w/ the ad blocker.
> An exchange-traded fund has not and cannot trade below zero

But why not, and is this baked into the contract? These aren't stocks, where the worst case is a piece of useless paper: if there's no demand for oil, suddenly you're holding barrels of toxic waste with real storage costs, and it makes total sense to pay people to take them off your hands (as has already happened with short-term oil futures).

And the interesting thing is that it's actually in the fund's best interest to allow negative valuations, because that way they're not left holding the bag. I see lots of interesting litigation ahead...
Marcel is currently rewriting the core evaluator. Some of the first changes to hit master are the syntax changes. We are quickly moving towards a stable Cue!

v0.1.2 brings OpenAPI and improved JSONSchema support throughout Cue and it's tooling.

Some highlights for master are:

- New style definitions using the "#<identifier>" syntax. This is great because it makes them stand out and does wonders for ease of comprehension
- New style "let" aliases and "front style" list comprehensions, where the for part comes first.

Overall, these are the user facing changes. Marcel has some ambitious goals for the evaluator and performance. Looking forward checking out more commits as they land over the coming weeks.

https://github.com/cuelang/cue/commits/master

https://github.com/cuelang/cue/releases

https://cuelang.org
I was wondering the same thing. Even if the number of people who take that opportunity is small by meat-industry standards, it's still huge for companies like Beyond and Impossible. The market seems to agree; Beyond stock is way up in the past month. Wish I'd bought it when I first had this thought.
Amazing these "dead" languages I first sorta-learned in the 80 - before being guided to Basic and C (and Foxpro). It's similar now to how folks need me to maintain their "ancient" Perl or PHP apps they just cannot find time to rebuild.
Schools in Australia are closed now, not reopening since Easter break.

Kinders (preschool child daycare centers) remain open, and are now free - 100% paid for by the government.
Daimler will end development of fuel cell cars
Las Vegas mayor called reckless for suggesting Vegas be test case for reopening
Not the GP, but I assume transactional consistency was important for the report, hence the need to keep the connection alive. That's a pretty common situation.
Plastic Number
Enterprises know they need the cloud to help drive cost efficiency and digital transformation.

I’m a cloud true believer and admitted AWS fan (and probably would be an Azure fan too if I had any experience with it), but even Amazon admits that only 5% of Enterprise workloads are in the cloud. “The Enterprise” is leery of the cloud.

Even once you can convince a large company to move some of their workloads off prem, most CTO’s wouldn’t touch GCP with a 10 foot pole. No one ever got fired for choosing AWS and many large companies would trust Azure because they are heavily invested in Microsoft.

Google is not exactly known for its great enterprise support or customer support in general.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

I'll try to translate this into something direct.

Anthos is an umbrella term for things in the combined ecosystem of Kubernetes, Istio, Anthos Config Management, Traffic Director, and so on.

Anthos [GKE] on {GCP, AWS, Azure, On-prem} is intended to be a consistent version of this deployed thing in each place.

There is an important historical wrinkle where traditional GKE already exists, but was "just Kubernetes" and sometimes "with Istio Add-on".

I do not agree with the lack of public pricing.

tl;dr: For most people here this is GKE "but wherever you want" (this announcement is "on AWS"), including Istio and friends.
“Cheapest Porsche has a more powerful engine than the most expensive Hyundai”

You’d never read that anywhere, but it’s true.

Why people on HN care about phones so much is beyond me. Between fanboys and envy, it’s a weird world. I mean, tech is great, but this “mine is bigger than yours” is kinda old. (Or maybe I’m old....ok, I’m definitely old.)

Buy the phone that works for you and be happy with it.