skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will grant you the lack of purpose being a motivator for suicide, but none of us know how that would transpire during a global pandemic. I know there is debate over the specifics over Maslow's hierarchy of needs nowadays, but generally speaking I think a lot of us will focus less on these internal issues in times of external danger.

Also if we are going to use government incompetency as an argument here. I would throw it right back at you and say I have little faith in the government implementing a reopening plan that doesn't either kill people or damage the economy long term.

Lastly it is a false dichotomy to present a choice between protecting people from COVID-19 or protecting the economy. If we refuse to do the latter, we are going to ruin the economy anyway. Hundreds of thousands of people dying would certainly put a damper on demand. And while there are certainly people protesting about reopening sooner, I don't think think movie theaters would be selling out if they opened tomorrow.
Cap'n Proto works great over unix sockets. For sandboxing usecases in Sandstorm and Cloudflare Workers, I've commonly used it over anonymous socketpairs -- definitely no ports involved there. :)

In fact, you can adapt the RPC system to operate over any kind of byte stream transport pretty easily, by implementing the kj::AsyncIoStream interface. Or if you already have a standard file descriptor (or iocp-compatible HANDLE in Windows), you can use that.

One fancier thing that's still on the roadmap is shared-memory IPC. Cap'n Proto's zero-copy serialization was really built for this, but so far for all my real-world projects, Unix sockets have been fast enough, so I haven't been forced to full implement a shared memory transport yet. Maybe soon?
Obviously it's good advice to wear masks in public when confronted with a respiratory disease capable of asymptomatic transmission for days after infection. The masks don't make any one person safer, but widespread usage makes us all safer.

Trouble is, there weren't enough masks at first. It's not clear that there are now, for that matter.

One of the few things Trump is correct about is that the WHO has bungled this situation at pretty much every step of the way. So no, it's not OK for YouTube to tie their policies to WHO directives. They're a US company, so they should be referring to CDC guidelines (1) instead.

1: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...
I think comments tend to attract certain people. The vast majority of people don't say anything so you are left with the squeaky wheels. But because when you read it it feels like a overwhelming amount of people that are seemingly very ignorant it does feel quite disheartening. I've personally limited my exposure to comment sections of most news these days.
You would certainly have to sit down with numbers and equations, but that still doesn’t automatically imply that a textbook is the best way. You can derive numbers and equations via an app for example.

My question is this: if you always had the textbook’s author, who is an expert instructor with decades of teaching experience instantly available, in person, whenever you want a lesson or to be reminded of an equation or want to learn more about a subject, at no harm to him and his well-being: under which situations would you opt for the textbook?

To me it feels like a textbook is one way to store and transfer and spread knowledge, but is it automatically the best way to ever do so? Or is the textbook simply one technology, and we are still searching for the best way to teach as many people as possible with the resources and technologies at our disposal?
IA-64 is the "INTEL Architecture 64", xScale is the non-Intel architecture.

A childish NIH driven decision that destroyed their future.
Blind box seeds sounds like an untapped market, I'd buy those!
Table 2: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

The statement you differed with is "The third option is, when you take into account that it's approximately as bad as the flu for folks under 40," You're ignoring data in order to make a wishy-washy statement that it must be much worse for people under 40 based on anecdotes you hear.

I don't agree flu infections were higher for those 2 months, either. Distancing has been spectacularly effective against influenza, since it has a lower Rt in the absence of controls. Under 1% of influenza surveillance tests are positive right now, which is a level usually only seen in the middle of summer.

Our best guess for overall infection fatality rate is about 0.3%, double or 3x influenza (because of the very high death rate in the elderly), but COVID-19 deaths overall have been 4x influenza in that time period, indicating that COVID-19 prevalence is higher.
This happened to me when we de-Amazoned, even from direct website purchases. Lots of them use Amazon for fulfillment even if they sell directly.
I'd love to see how this works under the hood.

I've built a few projects that provide real-time reporting across sass applications but it always seems like an uphill battle. Especially when your only interface with the sass is a hypertext API.

Can a data source change while you're completing a multi-part query?
Are records hard deleted? If so how do you detect removed records to maintain deltas?
How do you maintain deltas throughout lossy pipelines that group or filter?

In the end, it always feels like it'd be easier to build one monolith to replace all the systems and report on that instead...
I haven't, but the liability would be insane.
This is a far cry from the 347 available in Power Automate. Still interesting to see.
I mean, parent seemed an awful lot like someone asking what it did. Damn me for missing the invisible /s. I'm sure no other reader would ever be curious!
because it is true, the N95 mask don't protect you from the virus completely, and the masks that city advocate to use (non N95) don't do anything to protect you, they are there to protect others from you. If you sneeze or talk those masks will restrict most of the droplets from traveling far.
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An empty lake can be filled with lots of stuff, like trash. But if you hydrate it then you are specifically filling it with water.

Also it just sounds cooler.
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Trust means that you also trust an institution to make concessions on your behalf, without you second guessing them. That means permitting them to make decisions that you disagree with, because you trust that in the long term such flexibility will result in a better society for all, including yourself.

Even in a city like San Francisco where people are not particularly cynical about government (i.e. that it's inherently corrupt and irredeemable, hopeless about the potential for public sector interventions), people constantly battle the government over every little action, and continue to pass ballot measures that bind government decisions. So I would argue that San Franciscans don't have a high degree of trust in their government, because trust is what you do, not in what you say.

Judging by the Singaporeans I know and the news I read, they can complain about government overreach and ineptitude just as much as any American. And I would presume the Swiss do this as well. But nonetheless they've still entrusted significant powers to their respective institutions such that those institutions can act swiftly and with a high degree of confidence that the electorate will back them.

Ever since the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and American attempts at nation building it should be undeniable that political culture--trust, compliance, etc--matters vastly more than structure. Undoubtedly structure matters, but perhaps not in the ways we think or to the degree we think.
I believe it's only a matter of time before we figure out how to get Intel ME to directly access the UEFI framebuffer and expose it as an X server, thus ushering in the Year of the Minix Desktop instantaneously on all PCs with Intel CPUs manufactured in the last decade.
> only called that because...

Also worth noting that a huge number of names in biology are quite arbitrary and/or accidents of history.

Or tech, for that matter. Fewer and fewer "hard disks" involve any actual disk, and more non-floppy floppy disks were made than actual floppy ones. Etc.
> I think this changes very rapidly

Apple has been leading the mobile processor market by quite a bit for the last five years.
It is targeting a very different use case than apps like Zapier and IFTTT.
Aluminium is a much better heat conductor than steel.
Here's to thinking of the dev who did this. Shame
I feel a blanket IFR figure isn't all that helpful.

Won't there be a high level of age stratification in there. Over 60, death rate will be way higher than if you are younger and probably close to zero under 20.

It seems better if we could have a risk per age group to see who can go back to a somewhat normal life and protect the most vulnerable.
And half of the population is dumber than the average. :-)
> What makes them somehow wiser or smarter than everyone else in history?

Nothing, else they wouldn't have created these cesspools of disinformation in the first place.

Of course, now that they attempt to modestly curtail the worst habits exhibited on their platform in the middle of a public health crisis they can definitely expect lots of overwrought hand wringing and hitler callbacks.
Me. All of my Canadian news broadcasters stream on YouTube and cover covid related news both live and recorded content. I use YouTube because I will not pay for cable service just to watch the news.

I can see why they want to remove bad content, but a single authority is very bad.
I love that they complain that MVP is not a good approach and that SLC is better and clearer, but "simple" and "complete" can be antagonistic forces and create the same amount of ambiguity as the interaction between "minimum" and "viable." I imagine you are looking at complete and read it as saying everything must be done right the first time, while the author likely would respond with "no you are missing the point it should also be simple." But I might agree with your interpretation, as would a lot of other people, meaning its ambiguous and potentially less meaningful.

At least the ambiguity in MVP is less, it's the minimal product that is viable, which presumably does have an empirical, if perhaps unknowable, answer. It's a clear target. What is simple and complete though? I dont think theres a clear target there.
Also potentially the ongoing recurring nature of it? And also not having things stale?

I also smirked at the metaphor. The AWS marketing department must be high fiveing right now
Tioga editor in Xerox's Cedar already had a native structural active document capability back in 1987, but the most successful commercial Microsoft Office applications with billions of dollars budget still do not have this capability, your point exactly?
Looks interesting. I started syncing my YouTube channel.
It’s not the data it’s the compute. In the 60s, you couldn’t just bring in an IBM mainframe when you needed it and not pay for it when you didn’t based on the server load.

With regular Aurora, whether you are using it or not, you’re always paying for both the server and the storage and you have to provision the server for peak workload. With Aurora Serverless, if you don’t connect to the database, you only pay for storage.

With lambda and to a lesser extent Fargate, you don’t pay for the underlying server at all until you actually need to run something and then with lambda you can scale up to as many instances as your account allows (a soft limit you can ask for more anytime) and pay nothing when you don’t.

With EC2 you have a server sitting there listening for events whether or not anything is sending you an event.
>Where we live, due to local laws, we are now obliged to wear a mask to go shopping. Can one discuss that on YouTube, or would one be contradicting the WHO?

Examples like these are frivolous. There's a heartland of obvious, flagrant misinformation that is indisputably worth banning and for which a moral case exists to ban immediately: '5g caused corona, this home remedy will cure it!' etc.

The go-to move of internet commenters craving debates is to look past the 99.9999% of cases that will get taken down and to tie everyone up in debates about hypotheticals.

Instead of telling me about your special what-if edge case, tell me whether you think the example you are bringing forward represents the heartland of content that is being targeted by this policy. Be clear about what percentage of cases you think are represented by your special example.
(Sven from lambda store) We did not use t3.micro instances in our tests because their network was not very reliable. Also its maximum memory/data-size is 500MB this limits many use cases. Even t3.micro is $7.4 (monthly) where lambda store is $4.15 for that specific example in the blog. And with elasticache you have to pay even your database is idle.
Or to work the example in the article: Being in the middle 30% of any three traits has a 2.7% chance (matching the quoted 3%). For ten traits it's a 1e-6 chance.
What's the cost differential would be another consideration. Stich feels very expensive at scale.
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While the Rust implementation of Cap'n Proto is one of the better ones, it's still received only a tiny fraction of the engineering investment that the C++ implementation has.
why not just define std::dict or something like that that is better?
(Disclaimer: I work for lambda store) Right, we need to mention this more explicitly.
Intrepid sells a kit which converts a camera to an enlarger.

https://intrepidcamera.co.uk/products/intrepid-enlarger-kit
It's not the comment that is the joke, but the example in the context of the "C obfuscation tricks" article where it's just a convoluted way to write the same thing as a simple C construct.
Why are those things not prescribed then?

Why are only pills, pills with which pharmaceutical companies (and usually doctors, via commission payments) make money, prescribed, and nothing else?

Maybe it's not the Doctors' fault however.

Perhaps the mindset was taught to them via most Medical Colleges and Universities, who accept large amounts of money from big pharma to teach that prevailing, patented-pharmaceutical-drug-centered mindset... and perhaps it was regulated into them by well-meaning, yet exclusionary and limiting government regulations...

I hold Doctors harmless... but they could prescribe less man-made products for profit, and more that are made by nature for free, or pretty close to free...
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Corollary: when in doubt, don't.
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Not a big fan of the "helicopter parent" term. I'm paying for it, so I want to understand what I'm paying for. Why is that a "helicopter"?
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what power does the WHO have to "censor anything critical of China"
Swift is currently missing some optimizations that would allow for better knowledge of object lifetimes and potential elision of refcount updates.
Not to mention the flexibility of custom connectors using the Power Apps API integrations.

Basically you can build a “connector” to any REST/JSON API
Does it affects cultures with regular hot baths ? Japan people are said to enjoy that. Also .. saunas ?
In all fairness, if Amazon doesn’t copy your product, then some Alibaba store or Chinese manufacturer will and in a few weeks time you’ll see the same product and description surface on Amazon under the name YUKOOLSEE and with 1000 5-star reviews already.

/s
I got a sodastream while I've been working from home and using more or less syrup gives a lot of control over how sweet your drink is. If you like soda without cloying sweetness give it a shot. I've gotten a lot of value out of it.
100% of the population was not "penetrated" with the flu between February 1 and now. Evidence implies a similar proportion of the population was "penetrated" with COVID-19 and the flu in that time. This implies a similar death rate for COVID-19 and influenza in those age groups, as the poster said.

Indeed, influenza has been greatly impacted by distancing. The surveillance numbers for influenza are lower than you'll ever see for this time of year.

I can't exclude it's twice as bad as the flu (or half as bad). But even those broadly agree with the poster's statement.
The 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis is remembered by some as the high-water mark of the city’s history—the moment when all the world was assembled in tribute to the city’s greatness, the moment at the crest of the rise, before the beginning of the long decline.

Suppose SF were at the beginning of a long decline. What would the signs be, specifically?

It seems an interesting question for a few reasons. SF is one of the most influential cities in the world; the question generalizes to SV rather than SF; and COVID has forced a lot of non-remote ideas to suddenly become remote (e.g. YC batches).

If you were teleported back to 1904 and viewed St Louis in all its glory, what signs would you see that would make you go "This place will become much less relevant within a couple generations"? Are those signs applicable to today's cities? (They may not be, and perhaps likely aren't – but it seems worth studying.)

I grew up in the St Louis area. The intro of this article was shocking, because the world now certainly wouldn't assemble in tribute to the greatness of St Louis. It makes you wonder: which other powerful cities soon won't be? Regions? Institutions? Why – and are there useful correlations between the categories?
Unless you're streaming, in which case mmap'ed access on Linux is generally slower than read/write. At least it was the last time we checked for the Ardour project (probably about 3 years ago).
Sorry to hear this. Yeah, it’s probably a matter of getting an older one. The newer ones are trying to compete with surfaces and mbp, and it’s been painful to watch :/
Perhaps they were. "Watching" may be a warning sign here; TV news is generally... not good.

Here is the WHO warning the world to be ready at the end of January: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/29/whole-world-mu...

Now, there've been lots of problems with the WHO's response, but to claim that they were downplaying it until March is outright false, and if the news you're watching is telling you that you should consider watching (or reading) something else.
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What you're talking about (I think) is a "hybrid" design, akin to Windows NT: like a microkernel, there are a bunch of different services ostensibly isolated from one another, but like a monolithic kernel, those services are all in kernel-space and interacting via function calls or somesuch rather than a full-blown communications protocol.
It's not. The response is 'accurate' not 'easy' :-) The biggest challenge is getting a source of CO2 using less energy than you are going to get back by burning the methane.

Thermodynamics doesn't let you cheat sadly.

When evaluating these sorts of things you follow the energy consumption of each step and remove it from the initial pool of energy. Energy out over energy in will give you a way to compare methods for "goodness" regardless of complexity. Processes that have net negative energy are clearly in the "bad" category. Any positive is something.

Localized schemes like hydro pumping do quite well in this equation. It is distance schemes that suffer.

Distance schemes are hard because pushing electrons through a wire spends power just getting through the wire. Eventually its all gone. This is why you can't just cover 1/3 of Nevada with PV solar cells and power the grid from that one state.

So distance means transforming electricity into some other energy (chemical, potential, kinetic, thermal), moving it physically somewhere else (ideally without much loss) and then converting it back into electricity at the destination.

One of the more fanciful ideas I heard was train cars full of Tesla powerwall packs. If you've ever seen an operating coal fired power plant you may have seen the long line of coal cars in a train that pulls in each day. Once at the plant the cars are slowly pulled through the plant, dumping coal when they need to into the feed mechanism. Eventually a string of empty cars is on the other side to take back to be refilled. Imagine doing that with powerwalls. Cars pull up, connect electrically to the plant and start discharging. Once they are down to their "empty" level the car disconnects and moves on. I think it would be fascinating to watch.
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It’s just as likely one of your own administrators could steal it and sell it to a competitor. A lot of espionage is inside jobs.
> If it chooses a window that is too small, it won't fully utilize the available bandwidth. If it chooses one too big, it'll create queuing delay.

Yeah, that's a valid concern, and one I've run into in practice.

It's true that in environments where the server has access to TCP socket information, traditional windowing will have an advantage for performance. You may even be able to do some sort of detection as to how saturated the interface is from other processes.

As I see it the main advantage of the pull-based backpressure I described is the simpler mental model, making it easier to reason about and implement. So in environments with limited system information for the sender (ie WebSockets, which knows basically nothing about how full the buffers are), you don't have to pay the extra complexity cost with no benefit.
Its not a discovery. Its just being highly influential in the organization and actually wanting something to be done when it isn't profitable/would reduce your budget for the future.
Most of that 356M is not really concentrated consisting of money cycling through the economy.

A small percentage is going to be quite concentrated, but at that point you’re not really talking about Austin. Just the people actually running the event.

In terms of impact on local small business it’s still a small revenue bump as SWSX pushes tourists to chose other dates or other cities with cheaper hotel rooms etc. Further, most companies don’t have the slack to really benefit from such events. Something like a 2-3 percent boost in a local bar’s annual profit seems possible, just not that important relative to a shutdown.
I hadn't thought of it specifically in terms of our broken employer-based healthcare system. That's a really good point.

I quit my job Feb 7, before all this unfolded. And COBRA costs me $612.54 per month.

For the same reason I was able to quit my job, I will be totally fine. I have over 5 years of living expenses in liquid assets, so I will be fine.

But for someone who was living paycheck to paycheck and lost their job because it's not the type of job that can work from home, how the hell could they possible afford healthcare?

Along those lines, I do really think that part of the reason so many people don't see the harm in locking down for the next several months is because, like me, they work in the tech industry and really have not been affected by this as far as employment goes.
That explains why Doordash and UberEats were both crashing for me earlier today. Was wondering what was going on, seemed like quite a coincidence.
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Isn't this the same WHO that spread the PRC's obviously-false propaganda about SARS-CoV-2 in early January?

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
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