skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotcha. That still seems a bit low for where I live, assuming 18% efficient panels. Roughly 5kW.hr/m^2 averaged over the year, so 5000/24*0.18 = 37.5 W/m^2.

And of course solar thermal in the desert can do quite a bit better than that.
How to Run Your Startup in a Recession
In this environment, I generally prefer to pick the food up myself because I see it as less risky. There is one less person touching the food (and who knows what else in their car.)

Delivery people also get lost around here pretty often, and I hate having to track them down. Plus I am leaving extra trips for the restaurant instead of the delivery driver.
> These are interesting strategies, are there places to read more?

Here's WEF's report on India's cluster-containment strategy[1].

>Most of my Indian friends are the South and wealthy

India of Wealthy is radically different from others, Just $77,000 is required to be at the top 1% in the country[2].

> my province in Canada has imported 16 cases from India,

That's indeed very interesting. India stopped International flights on Mar 23 and the infections as of Mar23 were < ~500[3]. Though it is possible that those 16 acquired the disease from super spreaders in India[4], the likelihood of them arriving in Canada is extremely low.
May be they contracted it in their flight to Canada or did they cross land border from US?

Do note that, India's infection rate is among the highest in Asia as of writing [5].

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/india-covid19-coronav...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.in/slideshows/miscellaneous/here...

[3] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/

[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=India+super+spreader

[5] https://www.thehindu.com/data/indias-coronavirus-infection-r...
> It seems to me, it would look an awful lot like a badly organized server application. Kind of like PHP sites were (generally) organized circa 2003.

Isn't this in alignment with the theory that technology is a flat circle.

Redux became the message passing architecture of win32 programming. Java got a huge resurgence in late 2000s when it was discovered that instead of being good for running TV and refrigerators it's actually great for running web servers. How BEAM was discovered to be great for real time web (because we're finally arriving at real time web).

One day we'll go back to writing frontend apps just like late 90s embedded inline JS code used to be. CSS would be inline again. Then monolithic services architecture would be back again, and one day Facebook will introduce the ability to have 'themes' on your profile like MySpace did.
I wonder if there's any legal grounds in the USA for trademarking the sound of your voice, and thereby protecting it from "counterfeiting".
I love open source software and use it everyday, so this question is coming from genuine curiosity. I'm a bit conflicted about how I feel above the "ethical" argument for OSS.

Why is closed source software unethical? Is it unethical for McDonald's to sell me a Big Mac, even though they won't provide the recipe for the secret sauce (yes I know it's Thousand Island dressing)?
Fun Fact: USPS prefers that the address is written in all caps. https://pe.usps.com/text/pub28/28c2_033.htm

So I bet there is some internal API that searches or something for an address with all caps.
yeah no. Amazon does have data centers. A lot. Maybe you’re talking about points of presence for something like CloudFront where indeed it’s not feasible to build a datacenter in each location - but for major regions AWS has its own datacenters.
That's why you should always get a second opinion.
As I fully explained in a nearby comment, the logic in their Kern County anecdote is representative of their logic for California and New York statistics as well. I am not misrepresenting anything or practicing any form of disinformation.
Here is what stack overflow does: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar... It's from 2016, but probably hasn't changed much. Also StackExchange: https://stackexchange.com/performance
If only there was a dark mode theme to save energy on OLED screens.
Weekly reminder that WHO still opposes restrictions on international travel, and hasn't updated its advice since March 11.

https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-re...
You are not being downvoted because of a discordant view. I bet most people who downvoted you agree, some of them strongly, that Amazon isn't doing anything as bad as murder.

You're being downvoted because you reacted strongly to something I didn't say.

> If you really wanted to “walk me through the reasoning” you could have just posted that reasoning instead of what you actually wrote.

In a sibling comment, camelite had already provided an explanation that seemed clear to me. My offer was in case confusion nonetheless persisted. Since that seems to be the case, I'll try again.

"Comparable" is a bit of a poor word. It's true that I was drawing a comparison, so in that sense I obviously think they can be compared. But I was not saying "the badness of these things are of similar magnitude." I was saying that the argument raised in defense of Bezos, where we might be undecided as to culpability, would seem to also apply in defense of someone whose culpability we are clear on. The implication being that the argument is weak. If I am correct in that, this doesn't tell us anything about Bezos except that we should use other arguments in deciding what we think of him, ignoring that particular one.
That's not what happened during the 1918 Flu: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/upshot/corona...
That's because public school uses memorization as a cheap stand-in for understanding. It's easy to internalize 2+2=4, but it's impossible to internalize the quadratic equation. At some point, you need to just know the procedure and it's application, and most importantly, recognize when to use it in novel situations.
Sounds like they're floundering around looking for the right word.
I got mine by typing my address in all lowercase, so ymmv :)
To your point, cbc reported this week that some ~25 people are suspected of dying due to postponed heart surgeries. Not a lot of people, but still sad.
40k Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Outbreak
I really want to have photovoltaic ICs..
I don't have a strong opinion or much mathematical knowledge, but an "infinitesimal" number is a thing that most people have heard of even if they're fuzzy on what it is. If there is such a thing, what is the difference between 0.999... and 1 - 1/∞?
Actually regular light-wave interference suffices, but it's quantum anyway, just because that's how light is.
Worked* in the bible, every 50 years no work for a year and all debt goes bye bye.

Time to bring back the Jubilee?
Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector
The Discord team wrote an article (or a few), and I think you'd find them very interesting.Specifically about their Go implementation, porting to Rust, and then the decision to use Rust wherever it makes sense as a result.

They're very sensible about it, and advocate using the right tool for the job.
How are the 3800 engineers divided up at a company like this?
I know it's easy to say "why on earth are there 3800 devs, what are they doing all day?" but that does seem like a substantial amount.
That would actually be a pretty difficult ask, you would have to cover the order of thousands of acers of land, spotty uplink service, supplying power or developing low power solution (also needs to be maintained by the farmers). Also, building a machine/implement to kill this or that plant would be pretty tough too. That's aside from the soil type and what kind of irrigation you're able to use.

It wasn't mentioned in the video, but you can get kinda close to what you're thinking today. When harvesting the crops it's possible create a map of the yield throughout the field. Then with combinations of random sampling of the soil throughout different parts of the field, one can adjust the fertilizer distribution thought the field. Finally, when you go to plant the crops next year, you can utilize this data to configure the planter to automatically space the plants a little closer or farther apart. Many farmers are already doing exactly this.
> Was he advocating a course of action that would cause people to die?

I thought the censorship was about the Coronavirus. There are a lot of videos that advocate a course of action that would cause someone, somewhere to die, that aren't being censored.
That's not them bowing to China or "covering it up", that's just a statement of their principles. The W stands for World.
Everything?

Would you jail people who challenge the official government statements?
I basically have no clue.

I thought one would have a node two VPC, e.g. app and database, so it can speak to both, but the load balancers can't.

With peering one would have an app VPC and a database VPC and peer them?
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Well, don’t known about your neck of the woods, but things are opening up here in two days.

So, so I was a few days off in my estimate.

Statistically insignificant deaths, no overwhelmed hospitals, no body bags in the hallways or rationing of ventilators. No millions of deaths now any other of the nonsense being predicted here two months ago.

The talk now, as evidenced by the front page, is other topics... stimulus checks and the like.

Are things as you feared two months ago?
Not really, no. At least, not at my old company. My team had a set of machines for a multitude of scheduled tasks and jobs.
Also

"If people can go to Costco, then why can't they go to church".
> Youtube has decided I can’t watch a video with dubious facts and make up my own mind whether it’s bullshit or not.

That is not factually true since the video is available in other places. What Youtube has done is decided to try to make it harder to view and share the video by removing it from their platform.
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In the 6th grade, you were mentally developed enough to understand some of the basic concepts of algebra. Someone (most) in the 3rd or 4th grade isn't developed enough to understand those concepts. This would be analogous to teaching elementary school students latin roots, it just doesn't make much sense, and their ability to dissect particular words is of little to no value at that stage in their development.
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HSAs are just like bank accounts. It reflects a debt owed to you by the govt/bank. The govt/bank doesn’t actually store all the money it owes on hand, it lends it out, makes investments or spends it. That’s why bank panics and bank runs can occur when too many people withdraw their money at once.
> Thousands of edits happens every day. New articles are created every time. The pre-rendered HTML pages are not really a convenient representation of knowledge, at least it is not convenient for computing

I don't see how this is true. The issue with Wikipedia is that they built their platform on SQL, but that doesn't make it more convenient for computing. In fact, in many cases it does the opposite. There is nothing stopping someone from building an alternative Wikipedia-type system that renders pages and publishes records on IPFS. It's just Wikipedia wasn't designed with it in mind.
Probably not UCLA, which does not even have enough space for people as things were. Even more so considering that nobody will want to live in a tiny 3 person box after all of this.
No, copying and 'reporting on' / parodying / sampling etc. are very different things.

A writer who makes a book that is word-for-word the same as another book is infringement.

Making a pixel-perfect copy of a photo, from scratch, is an infringement.

Copying a song, perfectly, is infringement.

Whether something is a 'lie or the truth' - or 'which one is more convincing' doesn't really matter.

With 'deepfakes' we're going to have to get serious because people will literally be putting words in other people's mouths, creating fake representations of other people, it's going to cause problems. This issue may not actually fall under copyright.
Was having a relay to power cycle the radio an option?
I'm with you, and I'm happy that it seems like they are trying to become a good steward in the software industry. I am impressed by the quality of Windows 10, up to about a year ago I used Linux daily because it was a better experience than Windows 98 through 8.1, until recently. Lately, I find it's way easier to run Windows 10 with WSL rather than screw around with Linux trying to get things to work correctly that I just plug in to Windows.

I hope they start giving more control to us, though, because I'm tired of having to firewall block telemetry and forced to have Cortana installed or whatever other garbage. If Microsoft allowed me to install Windows like I do Debian, where I can pick my packages and leave out what I don't want, and they also allowed for replacement APIs, so I could swap explorer.exe for my own version for example, I'd never use Linux again. But that'll never happen, so I'll just use tools to block that stuff for now and hope the Linux experience catches up.
> FNAC

In this case, "feature, not a company" (I believe).
It will have to be proven that the comments actually caused harm.

Hello first amendment.
Isn't R0 for COVID supposed to be much higher than flu? That was one of the major parts of the arguments for lockdown that I've seen.
FYI, the second suggestion you list is flipping the classroom and some teachers already do this. The first option is something that does happen in multi-teacher classrooms (in my experience teaching in Japan; unsure about the US).

As for holes - Without thinking too deeply, the main issues I see with breakout sessions and student support in an online environment are:

1. Not being able to see how students are working and struggling requires that students themselves be proactive in seeking help. However, not all schools push students to behave this way nor are all students capable of realizing when they are stuck or going too far down the wrong path.

2. Lower income students are automatically ruled out and/or have a far less optimal experience. The longer remote learning runs with this type of divide, the larger the education gap becomes.

I agree. A huge chance is being missed. However, this opportunity has been missed for a long time already. The pandemic is just making this painfully obvious now.
Here here! I upgraded from 31 with dnf. It resolved several issues I've been having with power, including the system not going to sleep and running itself out of battery with the lid closed, and also generally running too hot. It seemed like the fan was on constantly!

I've got a newish Lenovo X1 Extreme, and I was starting to become frustrated with it before this release.
unemploymemt in Weimar 1932 was 30%.

umemploymemt in the Reich in 1936 was 1%.

like some wise economist said "it's the economy, stupid."

i hear today US unemployment is 30+% and will hit 45% by July. i guess if America was ever going to repeat the steps from Weimar to Reich, that time is now.

what was Hitler's formula for his economic miracle? it was dead simple.

1. default on the War Debt (owed to America)

2. pour over 50% of GDP in the re-armament in preparation to go to War.

America is -$27 trillion in debt now. if we start ramping up the war machine to test drive the eagle against, oh, say, Chy-na, then start to worry about the new Weimar to Reich tramsition.

may you live in interesting times.
Peter Thiel would have you believe a lot of things.
Couldn’t the spike in nyc deaths be inflated due to the standard operating procedure of using mechanical ventilators for which 9 of 10 patients die [1]? Wasn’t there a big fuss (several articles posted here) about how mechanical ventilators were overused when less invasive methods produced better outcomes, therefore reducing mortality[2]?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-22/almost-9-...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventil...
No one was saying to inject bleach. And Trump was probably just crudely restating some experimental treatment he had heard about in one of his many briefings. Speculative disinfectant treatments have been mentioned.

It's a very minor issue and clearly grasping for a smear by the President's opponents.

Anyone who tried to drink bleach because of Trump's offhand comments that in no way endorsed doing so is beyond help or hope.
Man may not live by bread alone, but bread will get you through times of no religion better than religion will get you through times of no bread.
Fulgurite
One problem with polling is that people answer contrary to their own actual beliefs. They didn’t hear the question right, or they misspoke and are too embarrassed to correct it, or they’re trolling the pollster.
Suppose you're right. Does it justify censorship? Fauci can defend himself, and the docs are welcome to express their opinions. What gives Google/YouTube the justification to silence them?
AFAIU this license allows commercial use, but requires attribution.
Copyright only protects the written implementation, not ideas or likenesses. The amount of protection a likeness gets varies a lot more between states, it is a different set of laws, and outside of advertisements or defamation it often is not protected at all.
Interestingly, Scott Alexander puts "Lizardman's constant" - the rate at which you can get people in a poll to agree to even patently absurd things like "Lizardmen control the Earth" - at 4%: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...

So in a sense 98% seems suspiciously high for poll responses even assuming that the true rate of bleach-drinkers is something like 0.0001%.
Why? Investing in big bets is the biggest reason I long Alphabet. They could easily do nothing and just sit on the pile of cash generated from ads, but they would miss out on critical opportunities and become irrelevant in a few years. The laser focus on innovation is what keeps where they are.
Seems like it should be explored further
You are forgetting about international trade, tourism and migrant work. The only country I'm aware of that was a "green zone" pre-COVID is North Korea; it didn't exactly prosper.
I was including that for my optimistic 0.5%. South Korea with a younger population, good healthcare system far from maximum capacity, and very good but not perfect testing has a CFR of 2.3% and rising. Diamond Princess has 14deaths out of 712cases, while not a representative sample it’s still conformation that a high percentage of even young healthy people need hospitalization.

The biggest question IMO is how much we are undercounting fatalities. NYC lists Confirmed deaths at 11,820 plus Probable deaths at 5,395. They also add: Due to delays in reporting, recent data are incomplete. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
Thanks--when we get out of this Situation, I'll likely give that a try!
I've got >9k bookmarks, over half of them related to programming, collected over about 9 years.

At that scale, recall is indeed a problem, and one I've been planning a solution to for quite some time now. Think custom search engine with automated topic detection and tagging.
Were those online classes purely asynchronous or was there a teleconference some number of times per week? I wonder if the difference in performance is due to accountability. It's easy to slack off when you don't have to look the teacher in the eyes and explain why you didn't do what you were supposed to do.
> - VPC network ranges cannot overlap with the ranges of other networks in the same account. (Edit: Does this mean each VPC in the account has to have a non overlapping subnet?)

Overlapping subnets tend to be a mistake and will bite you in the behind whenever you want to peer them. What'd be your reason to want overlapping subnets in the first place?
There's value in not doing anything. Meditation is a form of it.
It’s not glue - the glass is actually held on by magnets around the perimeter. At least my iMac was...
That's amazing, thank you. Putting the location code 549R+27 into Google Earth also gives an interesting view.
“Reading and writing are the most important skills” Interesting I think the same but my 8 yo girl says she enjoys doing math more: story problem, xtramath and IXL seem to occupy her more than reading and writing, except reading comics I would say.
What’s your Twitter audience worth?
> typeOrValue is a type int if the solution to the Post Correspondence Problem is “yes”, and a value 0 of type int if the solution is “no”, using SFINAE

Isn't this where the `typename` keyword comes in? `typename` is required when using a qualified (meaning ::) dependent (it references a template parameter) identifier as a type. My understanding is that uses of types without typename is a common helpful extension but is not strictly conforming.

C++ language lawyers, please check my work...
In AWS you use a mix of private and public subnets within a single VPC.

Not sure best practice for DO since I haven't tried their VPC setup but it doesn't appear to have a way to let two VPCs interact yet.
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Given the market share of how many (cross platform, cross architecture) exploits can be delivered through pdf payload... I would say yes, Imho I totally have the same complaints about pdf.
Airports aren’t generally very wooded areas... and the SCLA is in basically scrub land with barely enough vegetation for a good brush fire.
The Broadway backend for GTK roughly does that. Qt5 apps can also be compiled to wasm now.

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-broadway.html

https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_WebAssembly
No such constraint in AWS.
>I am not misrepresenting anything or practicing any form of disinformation.

I'm not saying that you are misrepresenting or disinforming people. But, how would you know unless someone told you?
Interesting read, thanks for posting!

> I’m totally convinced that almost everyone can build a decent Twitter audience in a few months if you understand a few basic concepts and put in a couple of hours of effort per day.

I think this is the key: consistent effort.
Sorry, this might be a bit off topic but it's something I've been excited about for a while. From what I've heard Microsoft is sort of getting behind gRPC. Have you tested using QUIC as a transport layer for the gRPC client/server libraries that MS maintains? Are you seeing notable performance benefits with QUIC as the underlying channel?
Just curious, what exactly is not representative?

For me personally, I can do my work just fine, I just miss being around other my coworkers and having a clear separation between my work environment and my home environment. I look forward to returning to my office when it's possible.