skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I kept seeing people watch it and feel somehow superior to those backwards soviets

Wow, that is not the message that I got at all and I didn't hear anybody else say that either.

It seems to be quite the opposite, we see lots of extremely skilled, brave people in the face of disaster and an oppressive social structure. If anything, it seemed to make explicit parallels between the current US people and our current political battles.

For example. the scene with the Ukrainian babushka milking the cow. Holy crap that was touching and felt so human. Made me feel so connected to a people on the other side of the world.
It depends on your definition of accurate.

Most of the models have been revised as we get new information. Since there is still a lot we don't know about the virus, it is very likely that the models will be updated again when we get that new information. For instance, what if it recurs seasonally?

My opinion is that we won't be able to provide truely accurate estimates for something which is so new, so unstudied, and rapidly changing (policies or virus mutations). We can say stuff like the US death toll for the year won't be measured in millions, and most would agree that would be accurate with what we know now.
I don't know though. If they're just "dumb" tubes with smart commoditized capsules, it seems like maintenance could be relatively low.

And obviously Amazon using 99% capacity isn't a worry because 1) it would have to be built for full demand for a planned population and 2) in times of over-demand, market-based pricing simply selects consumers willing to pay the most.

Beating trucks and minimum wage drivers has to happen at some point. Drones might be useful in suburbs and more rural areas, but I'm trying to imagine constant swarms of them all day long over Manhattan and it looks like a nightmare to me.
In a similar way I am a deadbeat for advertisers, they have never convinced me to by any product ever. Even worse, an irritating advertising made me expressly avoid advertised products because as a consumer I dont want to pay for the advertising through the added price to the product itself.

I stopped watching TV a long time ago and feel way more peaceful. While browsing online I am using adblockers anyway and wonder how long until I cannot access content this way. If it stops working I will stop using and theres no turning back to advertising to me, it doesnt work and irritates me.

I would like to see a micropayments system for online content but with the option to plus/minus up the microdonnation based on whether i found the content useful, whether it was clickbait, etc. It would be great to be able to pay more for a movie that i liked and less on a movie i couldnt stand and didn’t finish watching.
Some motherboards supports flashing BIOS through a USB thumbdrive without a CPU, IMO this kinda of problem would be a non-issue if all of them did this.
No way. That's gonna be the fun part.
In the US, at least, a lot of them get forwarded the town of North Pole, Alaska (postal code 99705).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole,_Alaska#In_popular_...
It's hard to disagree with the statements you make in this comment, but this does not answer my question. To say "free software is important" is one thing; another thing is to say "if a GPL-licensed software includes a closed-source dependency, this is a news-breaking problem". Considering the deep dependency trees many applications have, I would assume incompatible licenses in an app or library, and yes--even closed source dependencies in GPL-licensed applications--is a problem that occurs rather frequently. I think there is a generic problem at the intersection of license management and dependency management. COVIDSafe is just an example of this, and given the prevalence of these issues, I think it is in itself not particularly newsworthy.
You could still say AMD has an advantage. Given the cost difference, and the fact that Intel usually changes socket types each release, you could purchase a new AMD SKU every year and always have the latest. For the same price you'd probably have to be working with three or four year old Intel technology at some point. By that time the newer AMD SKU would be putting the old Intel processor to shame.

Of course if price is no object then the above doesn't apply.
I personally continue to use 4000 deaths total (acute and latent), which is what the UNSCEAR folks said up until 2006 or so. Some colleagues yell at me and tell me that there's no basis for a number this high given what we now know about radiation dose response and about what's happened monitoring people for decades. But I use it just in case.

Fear of radiation kills thousands of people. At Fukushima, the only nuclear-related (non-tsunami) deaths were from the evacuation. (Up to 1 person did die from radiation, they say now). That's why I fight to make people understand it more and be less afraid.

We can all agree that unduly panicking people about radiation is bad.

https://aeon.co/ideas/fear-of-radiation-is-more-dangerous-th...
The linking phase for C and C++ software is basically linear. Nobody's figured out how to multi thread that since before 1990. It takes hours to build large software (Chrome/Firefox/Qt).

By the way, one of the biggest improvements in software performance in the past decade comes from link time optimisations during build (LTO), that's all done during linking and it takes FOREVER.
3 boards via Amazon, 1 via NewEgg. The NewEgg one works.

What's a physical retailer? San Francisco is the supposed capital of the tech world. It only has a single computer store (Central). It's not even open right now. I guess you could count a big box store like Best Buy, but they're not going to help out much right now other than exchanging like-kind items.
This would be true if the planet were stationary, but since it's orbiting the sun, you can either take some of its momentum, or give it some momentum, by doing a gravity assist in the direction of the planet's orbit, or in the opposite direction.
What's availability like, though? I know that my car doesn't make any financial sense, but my primary use case is getting out of town to go hiking, skiing, etc. I've looked into Zipcar before, but it seemed like I'd have to reserve a car ahead of time to have any chance of getting one on a nice day. In Seattle, we used to have ReachNow, Car2Go and Lime in addition to Zip, but those others recently closed down so I'm also concerned that car share isn't really a sustainable business.
Tesla Supercharger Network vs the Rest: Mac or PC?
I used to make my eBooks available for free download on my web site (and still do for my older books) but in the last few years I have sold my books (on leanpub) with a Creative Commons Share and Share Alike, No commercial Derivatives License. I also try to "seed" my books by giving copies away. In the prefaces, I make it clear that the eBooks can be shared.

I think this is a good compromise since I earn a little 'walking around money' and my stuff gets fairly widely read.

The super-power advantage of writing books is getting to meet interesting people and expand networking.
I guess you guys will have to wait for your first time in jail to spot the differences, if you aren't going to learn from strangers on the Internet
If there was ever a situation where there was a genuine risk of a significant portion of the military being killed, it would not be difficult to withdraw all women from the military at that point. And I do not think there has been a single country in modern history that was at a genuine risk of being wiped out due to combat deaths, even if all of those combat deaths had been men instead of women.

To me this incredibly small risk does not seem to be worth holding one gender back over another, increasing the gender gap for no reason. Forcing someone to work just because of their gender seems very wrong to me.
First credible evidence emerges of person being killed by meteor
> Well, you’re 16. It shows.

I don’t think it would have shown if they hadn’t mentioned their age and chosen this as their subject matter. There’s a lot of people on Hacker News that are teenagers, they just never disclose themselves as one.

> You describe how people are obsessed with credentials and don’t take pride in achievement anymore. That’s conflicting rhetoric.

Not really. You can try hard to look good in a college application but not really be into the things that you work hard to do well in.

> You’re trying too hard to make a point.

I disagree.
> Are you implying non technical users would somehow be able to make a crucial technical design decision because they saw an ad somewhere? ... In my professional experience, every time a non technical stakeholder has tried to force a specific technology to solve a complex problem, it has been disastrous.

No, and in fact I am against TV advertisements of prescription medications. However, what I am challenging is the attitude Europeans (and some Americans) have that doctors should never be questioned, for they always know what's best and you should just shut up and follow their advice.

See, general practitioners have a very small amount of time to understand and diagnose your problem, draw the correct solution from their vast stores of knowledge, and prescribe something before moving to the next patient. In most cases they don't have time to stew about what your disease might be for hours and hours on end.

But guess who does have time to stew and research for hours, days, and months? The patient. And in the cases of chronic diseases, the patients can often become more expert in their disease (and related medicines and side-effects) than your average general practitioners.

So in summary, I believe:

- No, we should not allow TV adverts for prescription drugs

- Yes, patients should do online research about their diseases, including potential treatments and drugs

- Yes, patients should ask their doctor questions and make suggestions, presenting findings they've gathered

- Yes, patients shouldn't hesitate in getting a second opinion from a different doctor. Not all doctors have the same experience level.

- No, doctors should not bristle at this but encourage research, correcting misconceptions and answering their patients' questions. It's their body, after all
Agreed. I think the point is that this is bad, and that if “patients asking their doctors to prescribe particular drugs” is an analogous situation, then it too is bad.
The point is for it to be far faster and far cheaper.

Larger mail boxes and notifications achieves neither.
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+1. I was going to mention this (less eloquently)
AWS and GCP, at least, have started offering them, and at a discount, so I'd say yes.

https://www.amd.com/en/processors/amd-epyc-aws
https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-google-cloud

and

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/amd/
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/amd-epyc-proc...
You may be right (probably are, as I am from Spain).

But you should not focus on this specific government: the dangers of overstepping are great whatever the color or the chirality or even the deeds of a government.
> Thinner margins, stock price growth, and dividends for shareholders are all good things that we want more of not less.

This isn't a recipe for a robust economy, it's a recipe to enrich the rich. You might want that, but the majority of the population is not benefitting from that. Employees benefit from robust companies who have some money saved up for a rainy day, and from wages that track cost of living. When a majority of workers are impoverished and can't afford a month without income, that's directly related to thinner margins and dividends for shareholders.
Deep variational network for rapid 4D flow MRI reconstruction
Here on the west coast the nominal strategy is the traditional one: testing and contact tracing to get R<1.

In order to do that, you need enough testing capacity for anyone with similar symptoms (which we finally have), though most of those are other conditions. You also need to do contact tracing on positives, and test all of those folks. That's 10-20x the number of true positives, so you can do the math on how many tests you need.

Large events can seed massive hotspots, so I imagine some limitations on gatherings and mask requirements will stay in place until either testing is fully ubiquitous (test everyone), or a vaccine is developed.
Thank you! This is the best post I have read all year!
What I meant was it's a complicated problem for the software and microphone engineers. Not for installation! :)
For many workloads the effect was significantly more than 10%.

I had to disable mitigations to complete a filesystem checksum, it was on the order of 1000x slower.
Telefork as a verb does not map to a real word concept. Hoard fits better, as in hoarding another computer for your process.
The drivers are quite good on newer kernel versions, it's been mostly pain-free for me
The first goal of drug advertising is to define a category and convince people they have a disorder that no one had ever heard of before. Viagra invented "erectile disfunction" and went on to make billions of dollars, and an industry was born.
> What he said is just his usual incoherent gibberish

IF he actually says "incoherent gibberish", how can you definitely say he was not suggesting to drink bleach?

You're claiming that any attempt to clarify the incoherence is 'lying', but if it's truly incoherent, can you tell what the actual intent was? Is it just after the fact self-assessments of something being "a joke" or "sarcastic" that serve to clarify?
That is a fair question. My older books, as PDFs are on my web site, and my leanpub books are freely readable online. So, all these books get indexed by search engines and show up in search results.

Also, on average I update my eBooks 2 or 3 times so they are hardly static material.

There is something very satisfying about spending 3 or 4 months putting one's thoughts into an eBook. I have about 1300 articles on my blog, but I am sure that by word count, my books are much more content than my blog. To be fair, blogs are easy to update old articles - as eBooks are easy to update.
Forcing togetherness or “unity” is the best way to turn me away from anything.

Silly? No, just suspicious of judgements and valuations like those.
> It'll be interesting to see what happens post-lockdown.. will the people miss the benefits of "one remote = all remote" and have more empathy for remote people, or will we go back to the same old?

I think it'll be like everything that could be learned during this time, someone has to recognize the lesson and actively work to implement it.

My main issue with using my desk is that I normally keep my laptop closed and off to the side, so if I just open it the view of me is in profile and doesn't look like I'm paying any attention, IT is loath to buy an external webcam for anyone because "every laptop comes with a webcam," luckily I was able to source a spare one they had. But I know that most of the desks are set up the same way as mine, so most people either choose to use their laptop screen as the main monitor or just don't enable video for the call.
Israel has mandatory service for women and men, and has presently one of the most advanced armed forces.
Thanks. Your interpretation is indeed what I intended.

To be clear: I see more sexism in the Los Alamos chapter,where a 'Girl' is only good enough to do computations, until the computer replaces them.

While the bar-chapters quoted here paint a bleak picture, it does so of both sexes, and Feynman remarks how things didn't work as he wasbrought up to expect.

I am indeed male,even if 'hyperman' was a happy artefact of an algorithm that shortened my 4 word full name to 8 characters to create a student logon name. My classmates liked it and it stuck
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BookShop.org is a confederation of independent bookstores into their own massive online book-selling site:

https://bookshop.org/
Lol yes I know
The preceding sentence is

> Joins inside MySQL were strongly discouraged in the codebase so that we would have more freedom in choosing which tables to move for scale out. The result is that we do very few joins in MySQL.

And that comes at the end of the section describing their “vertical scaling” strategy and its motivations.

As for your hypothesis about long transactions, this is not actually a problem in my experience (on larger scale CRUDy apps, specifically). In this scenario, you’re choosing to trade consistency for the ability to break out arbitrary tables to discrete databases. You’re going to lose that consistency after splitting data between multiple databases anyway (we’ll gloss over distributed transactions here) so why not be proactive about it? And on a “simple” platform like Quora, data is going to have a predominantly hierarchical relationship (users have posts which have comments which have likes, etc.) so internal consistency between content is rarely a significant concern.
Indeed. Two friends conversing on Facebook are misled into believing that they’re talking to each other, whereas in reality they are both having solo conversations with Facebook itself.

But I don’t think Facebook -the algo - really cares about which way it influences it’s captive audience. It just wants more ads to be shown. It’s up to the humans in charge to decide on what those ads are, and they are very bad at it. Or they don’t care either.
to be honest I thought it did a good job of representing the fact their are heroes in all nations and in the end we are all the same. People bound up in world of incompetents and those who fix it and the everyday people who knowingly step into harms way because they know no other response.
There is no "myth of Silicon Valley innovation": SV is only a tiny fraction of innovation in the USA and a very specialized fraction at that.
For similar reasons I have recently been entertaining the idea of government as employer-of-last-resort. Essentially, have the government spend lots of money on creating businesses designed to employ the unemployed, with good working conditions and pay, and don't immediately focus on making the operation profitable. This would, I hope, create positive pressure on wages and conditions in low-skilled jobs: no stream of desparate people they could rely on, and an alternative employer raising the bar.

I wasn't thinking of COVID-19 when I contemplated it though. It's not a new idea of course.
I don't care too much about the results of my own programs, but I do worry very much about OS-level data structures. If some bit gets flipped in memory while you're extracting an update, that program will just randomly be weird forever. If some bit gets flipped in your filesystem, your data randomly disappears. Given how frequent both auto-updates and bit flips are in practice, no doubt something on my computer is corrupted somewhere. Or maybe only my backup is corrupted. Maybe it will never cause a problem, or maybe my computer will just one day become unusable. I have spent so much time debugging random failures that I see ECC memory as at least avoiding one set of possibilities, reducing the inevitable system integration time that building your own computer requires.
Look at how much trouble NYC has had building new subways over the last few decades. That's a system that already works (pretty) well, that people trust and believe in and are invested in, and yet they can barely get enough fiscal buy in to do maintenance.
I hope you at least purchase Chinese garlic, to not overload local dudes too much.
>> For example. the scene with the Ukrainian babushka milking the cow. Holy crap that was touching and felt so human. Made me feel so connected to a people on the other side of the world.

In that case I would highly recommend reading 'Voices of Chernobyl' - that scene (an several others) is lifted from it, and in my opinion Svetlana Alexievich is simply more talented and qualified to tell these people's stories.
But ubiquitous testing doesn’t prevent people from getting sick, and presumably we do not plan to have all these constraints ad vitam. So implicitly it means they are either banking on a vaccine in the short term or this virus going away by itself. These are strong assumptions, we are told by scientists in the UK that a safe and efficient vaccine may or may not be found. [1]

[1] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dont-bank-on-a-coronaviru...
iOS usually wants your password to be entered to do an upgrade, but I assume there must have been some bypass to that. Or maybe it's a new feature?
Middy, Node.js middleware framework for AWS Lambda, goes 1.0.0
"Somebody else has had this problem."

Don't get me wrong, this is great hacking and great fun. And this is a good point:

> I think this stuff is really cool because it’s an instance of one of my favourite techniques, which is diving in to find a lesser-known layer of abstraction that makes something that seems nigh-impossible actually not that much work. Teleporting a computation may seem impossible, or like it would require techniques like serializing all your state, copying a binary executable to the remote machine, and running it there with special command line flags to reload the state.
For context, this is the _entirety_ of the portion of the article which critiques Feynman's behavior towards women. It's not even 1/5 of the article.

"In high school, though Feynman excelled in academics, he began to foster insecurities around masculinity. Later in life this would curdle into juvenile braggadocio and poisonous attitudes towards women, with him making degrading remarks about those he met, and which persisted throughout his life. 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”). Yet, this markedly contrasted with his unwavering respect for the many talented women he supported: starting with his sister and including his first wife Arline. He was impressed and influenced by Arline’s skills as an artist and music teacher. The marriage ended tragically early when Arline died of tuberculosis. Years later, Feynman leant valuable support to the Blake scholar Jenijoy La Belle, the first female faculty appointment at Caltech, who had been denied tenure. One of the few professors outside of the humanities who came to her defence, he published an influential letter of support in the campus newspaper, and thanks in part to this, she received tenure and enjoyed a long career."

I'm confused. The article is 90% about his career as a scientist, and is nothing but laudatory. 10%, if that, is about his relationships with women, and even the critique given there is tempered w/the observation that he had a strong and loving relationship with his wife.

So, how is this a hatchet job? Reads more like a normal biographical article.

What exactly is your critique here?
> In the published estimates shown, studies have utilised a methodology termed the ‘linear no-threshold model’ (LNT).

LNT is neither a method, nor is it a model. It is an assumption, which happens to be convenient for regulatory purposes. Let me quickly explain how it works.

Caffeine is poisonous with an LD50 of around 15g or about 100 cups of coffee. If two people each drink 100 cups of coffee, one of them is expected to die. If we now apply the "method" of LNT, it follows that if 200 people each drink one cup of coffee, one of them is expected to die. Moreover, since 85% of adult Americans consume on average 164mg of caffeine daily, which is roughly 30t in total, we can conclude that caffeine kills one million Americans every single day.

Now you can evaluate for yourself whether LNT makes any sense.