skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the intent of the lockdown measures was to reduce peak need to just below hospital capacity and no more. Reducing it further only increases the duration of lockdown and all its deleterious effects on public health. We did not come anywhere close to healthcare capacity, and what now? We just stay locked down forever?

Your argument for lockdown is unfalsifiable. Any good outcome is attributable to lockdown, and any bad outcome is because we did not lockdown soon enough. What piece of evidence could you possibly see that would convince you you were wrong?
The kernel module HTTP.SYS contains a HTTP server. It's used by IIS, but you can also use its API directly.
Re: the quirkiness of duodecimos, it seems like it'd be straightforward to fold it widthwise into thirds, then lengthwise into quarters, no? The first step there is pretty common for letterfolds, and the second step seems like it'd be common for sextodecimos.
> The food in the Bay Area was bland?

Yes. The Bay Area has an awful restaurant scene - overpriced and not very good (unless you're talking about $$$ places). It's just one disappointment after another. The high cost of living precludes any of the quality workers from being employed at moderate-cost eateries.
Good question! There’s a subtle underlying issue I need to address in order to get those working correctly:
https://github.com/stewdio/q.js/issues/18

I have an idea of how to solve it while still keeping gate creation simple—I just need to find some downtime to investigate further :)
Certainly not an option for everyone, but a ton of people in my state school class still lived at home. A good percentage could have lived at home but chose not to.

It's also hard for me to include housing because you'd need housing no matter what path in life you choose.
At the start of the covid crisis we realized that we did not have enough local manufacturing capacity to make what we need and we still do not. We have the facilities just sitting idle. It's time to get to it. There is little or no leadership to make this happen. Leadership is where it starts.
Thanks! OpenAI has made some progress on this problem too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21259765

Looks like these two places are on the cusp of a major breakthrough in RL/robotics!
Why would they revolt?
Amazon Q1 2020 Results [pdf]
As soon as the protocol is stable enough, if it is useful, it will be reverse-engineered and reimplemented in more-legible source code. From this, I can deduce that Urbit is not yet useful.
For #1, the author would be surprised at how many rare words there are out there that will collide with his corrections.

It's a tough one, though the answer really relies upon setting a probabilistic threshold.

The answer to many of these problems should lie with 'user settings' somewhere.
That's hard to say. The timelines are too long. I don't think we'll see ARM primacy in PCs within the decade. If you read my reply to a sibling post of yours about what I mean by "nowhere close", you can see some of my thinking on the matter.
I'm not a fan of Yarvin or anything, but I don't think a project is inherently bad because of a bad founder (who is no longer involved [0]). What makes you say that Urbit is for Nazis? From my research of the project, it seems independent of any ideology.

[0] - https://urbit.org/blog/a-founders-farewell/
> myself included, would strongly disagree with the latter half of that statement

In your earlier comment you seemed to be in perfect agreement:

> Human nature may not have changed

This echoes my sentiment that nurture may change from one generation to the next but nature stays the same. Our traits that stubbornly stay the same probably come from our nature, while the ones that change easier over generations or centuries come from nurture. This isn't about which one is more important in defining you. Fresh out of the womb humans have probably been the same for many, many millennia. Like x86 CPUs running newer and newer software.
The stores of the console makers use the same anti-competitive platform lock-in as Apple and Google.

Steam is the alternative where you get to choose where to install things from -- one of those places is Steam. Installing Steam doesn't prevent you from installing other software from the developer's website or the Linux package manager or Windows store or wherever you like.
It’s a scam.

They have 2^32 “planets” (a UUID that you can use to interact with the Urbit network), that they are each trying to sell for ~$10-$20 on a cute “exchange”: https://urbit.live/

(Of course you don’t really own anything when buying a planet because someone else owns the “star” and the “galaxy” and you can’t buy those unless you’re friends with them)

They even have a nice pyramid diagram for their not-pyramid-scheme:

https://media.urbit.org/site/posts/essays/value-of-address-s...
Yes, but where does that leave you. In an organisation that punishes productivity and initiative.
There is a balance though. The company I work for is stable, but money is always tight. That means raises are few and far between.

Other factors balance that out and make it a reasonable place for me to work, but being aware of the fact that "exceeds expectations" does not lead to more money is important and I'm sure not unique to my situation.

I'm happy to go above and beyond, but I'm also aware that it's unlikely to be rewarded and take that into account in my decisions.
So how is this possible now and not 5 years ago? Are there new discoveries that let us bring up the clock speed again?

(Will they go even higher in the future?)
Do you want to advance slowly in your skills? Then self publish.

Do you wish to advance painfully and quickly? Then find a traditional (online or paper) publisher and submit submit submit until you write something someone likes.
I think people in the comments are completely missing the point of this work. As I understand it, and take this with a large grain of salt because I haven't read the paper, the idea of Jukebox is to take a certain style of music by a certain musician and have the algorithm sing, karaoke-style, the lyrics that are listed in the examples to the tune of that music. Think of it as a really jazzy version of Google text-to-speech. The lyrics are not written by this algorithm, it's just singing in the style of Sinatra or Lady Gaga some words that have been prewritten. It's fun to listen to and really amazing to watch it read the lyrics and decide where to put emphasis, and where not to - dragging out certain words and letting others be mumbled. Comparing this to something like IBM's rendition of a "Bicycle built for two" showcases how utterly mind-blowing this work is!

Finally, can we stop treating ever single piece of work by neural networks as a "failure" because it isn't GAI? Just because it doesn't "say something about the human experience", doesn't make it bad engineering. It's hilarious how as soon as there's some new AI work done everyone starts wailing, "where's the humanity!"
Our Github integration is a two-way sync, so that you can import any open GitHub issues into Tara as Tara tasks. If you update the corresponding the Tara task, the corresponding GitHub issues are also updated, so you can certainly keep using the GitHub issues.

The main benefit of using Tara is that it provides the team a much better way of plan upcoming sprints, and the system also pulls in GitHub PRs to eliminate any blindspots on PRs getting stale.

I'd encourage you to give it a go and try it out to see if it works with your teams workflows.
> AMD's turbo numbers are also pure fantasy.

I'm pretty certain that I remember watching videos from GN, LTT, or Bitwit (can't recall which) where they noted that AMD chips were turboing up to a few hundred MHz above the specced numbers.
Reactive Snapshot State with Slice OStore
The Troldesh folks (developers of Shade Ransomware) closed up shop and decided to release the keys for 750k victims.

This article is a follow up, as Kaspersky has developed a tool to allow ease of decryption.

Previous article of the team closing up shop: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/shade-ransomw...
> I don't even know what it would mean to "bail out" a 401(k). By definition you, the employee, are exposed to all the market risk.

Exactly it means juicing the stock market, which the fed can do by lowering interest rates etc.

> If you happen to reach retirement age in a down market, you're kinda just screwed.

That's why you're supposed to allocate more of your money to bonds as you approach retirement.
Having a forum where people discuss tech trends with an explicit commitment to reasoning from first principles would be very interesting, especially if it had cross over to physics and other sciences.
Hey Rob attended your talk this previous winter. Good to see you on HN
Let me introduce you to Steve Ballmer, the CEO before the current one, Satya Nadella:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...

He was CEO of Microsoft until 2014, that is, 6 years ago.

Microsoft changed strategies because they tried everything they possible could to counter open source and Linux and lost. Now they are forced to play nice.

Being forced to be nice is not the same as being nice out of altruism.

If at any moment becoming jerks gives them more shareholder value they will become jerks again.
Why can't GCP advertise/provide lower outbound costs? Do they do something special with their networking that makes it substantially more expensive?
You just need to have sufficient integration into Jetbrains IDEs (at a minimum).

Are you aware that Jetbrains makes an IDE for Go, called GoLand?
Hey rolfcolin! Thanks so much for promoting it here :)
"Viktor Fracic: “Code coverage means nothing."

I guess I don't have any need to listen to that Viktor guy, then. If Viktor runs his tests, gets 50%, and wants to try and convince me it doesn't mean anything, he's going to find it falling on deaf ears. I don't care how "meaningful" ones tests are, if they only cover half the code someone is queueing for a bad day somewhere down the line.

OTOH, I have heard with my own ear holes a test manager say that they had hit 100% coverage and therefore testing is complete (paraphrasing). A test manager at Microsoft said this in a meeting with other people present. So I can see where Viktor might be coming from, but he has still thrown out the baby with the bathwater.
Web hosts. There were of course other infrastructure providers that would support more complex architectures, but mostly of the “call us” variety.
> Do you think that the government should undo interventions across the economy?

It can't undo them, so that point is moot. The government shouldn't have been injecting so much liquidity that wasn't really needed for all these years - but now is certainly not the time to remove that liquidity.

The big question is, is the dollar going to collapse under that weight?

If so, then there's nothing that can be done now that makes a difference, so we might as well stay course for the time being.
I don’t think this will change in America. Neither in the short, medium, nor long term. To say “let’s build” without an analysis as to why we weren’t building is fatuous.
Amazon earnings are out – here are the numbers
Microsoft R is kinda annoying, OTOH it only happened because Microsoft bought Revolution Analytics, who developed this tool.

AFAIUI, it's mostly just R with better parallelisation of matrix libraries (which is cool).

It's not quite compatible, but I've used both through Conda a bunch, and haven't hit any edge cases that caused a problem.

So yeah, you're right that it's embrace/extend, but the extend was done by a startup which they bought.
I don't want to hijack this thread, but a while ago I posted an Ask HN requesting introductory books to nanotech -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059301.

Never heard of Engines of Creation, but it looks like what I'm looking for (just ordered from Amazon). Apart from Engines of Creation are there any good intro texts?
This, but also - these arguments tend to be very one-sided. The implication is that engineers would always do the right thing if pesky management just got out of the way. Is that true sometimes? Of course, there are plenty of shit management teams in the world. There are also plenty of engineers that, left undirected, would add unnecessary scope, introduce unnecessary technology, and create different types of problems.

If there really was one answer, and the answer was just as simple as "get rid of the whole management team, and you'll have a much better product at the end" then I have to imagine companies would have started doing this already. My experience being on both sides of this coin in my career is that: it's just not that easy.
Could you explain more? Tara sounds extremely like Jira, both in form and function. The original poster (who is pointedly not answering my question, probably because it is painful and embarrassing) used "alternative to Jira" in the original submission. Other top-level comment threads are directly comparing Tara to Jira. How would you distinguish them?
> Bitcoin

> saving without making risky investments

I’m sorry, what?
Ah my brain did a flip flop, mixed up genX with millennials. Yes, that was a very different landscape than we have now. I recently went back to school for an EE degree, and the costs were insane, even for someone with a good job and middle class wealth. An interesting thing I noticed was the the time cost for classes. I would spend a HUGE amount of time doing homework, maybe double the time it took during my CS degree. A lot of that time was fighting against the online homework system; what I could do on paper in 10 minutes would take 20 minutes to do, and the sheer load of homework was much higher. I can't imagine trying to hold a decent job and still keep my grades up. College seems a pretty poor option modern day.
This essay is full of wishful expressions, such as "stagnation is a choice", "if we want to", and "we must circumvent", followed by exhortations to "regain the will" -- to do this or that thing for the good of everyone. It all sounds very reasonable, very worthwhile, very moral. As Larry the Liquidator would say, "Amen!"[a]

Alas, I think the root of the problem is that companies and people have strong economic/competitive incentives NOT TO INVEST in the kind of expensive, robust (i.e., inefficient/redundant) socially beneficial infrastructure that everyone agrees is necessary but on which the payback is highly uncertain, highly diffuse, or might not be recouped until well after everyone alive today is dead.

No amount of exhortation will change rational behavior.

(Stronger, harsher mechanisms may be necessary.)

--

[a] From the movie "Other People's Money:" When Larry the Liquidator attempts to take over a company, the CEO gives an inspiring speech to shareholders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJRhrow3Jws -- to which Larry responds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62kxPyNZF3Q
You don't vet the app, you vet the distributor. This in no way requires there to be exactly one distributor.
You are not supposed to enjoy life.

You are only meant to aspire enjoyment at the end of a never ending path of conspicuous consumption.
The Impoliteness of Overriding Methods
The difference is the other students. For most, your peer group is what motivates you. A peer group which values excellence in X will motivate you to become excellent in X.

The peer group in the ivy leagues have been strongly pre-selected to value achievement in academic related pursuits.
Thanks for the feedback!

1. Added some more timezones, but not yet comprehensive I guess

2. Added work_week option for desktop

3. Same as 2

4. Maybe in the future? But I think my original goal was to avoid links so you can send self-contained availabilities in an email to someone
We found and tested 47 old drugs that might treat the coronavirus
Anything jump out at you when you compare/contrast with non-failure projects?

AFAIK, examples are:
1) The east bay bridge ramp repair after that tanker fire
2) The Culver CIty <-> Santa Monica portion of the LA Expo Line

AFAIK, both of these finished early and the first one "under budget".
It was created with the goal of a few folks having control over larger parts of the ecosystem ("galaxies") which then give out control over "stars" and "planets" - a structure that is mentioned in the very article you linked - with the author constantly saying "it's NOT feudalistic, I really mean it!!" even though it very obviously is.

Given this, it's clear that the political ideology of the author is involved in the core structure of the project, whether one likes it or not.
> When Intel says their CPU can hit a given turbo frequency they mean it will actually hit that and stay there so long as power/temperature remains within limits.

Have you actually tried to do that? When Intel says their CPU can hit a Turbo frequency, it's usually pure fantasy because they can't actually do it within the power/temp constraints.

Yes, they'll get to 5-whatever GHz on maybe half the cores if you're lucky, but full all-core load at the top stated Turbo? No chip will stay there, it will throttle down, likely by a lot.

And AVX loads will bring it to, or close to, maximum non-turbo clocks, that's how hot they run.

It could maybe be done with extremely good cooling and undervolting, and completely removing power limits (in which case it will probably consume close to 500W if it doesn't fry something first :D).
An unsolved problem with humans is there really isn't a good mechanism for separating "has integrity" from "pays lip-service to the notion of having integrity" at scale.
Kind of disappointed with the lack of classical - no Bach? I feel like it'd be easier to achieve more successful results with classical anyways, given that it's vocal-less and more rhythmic/predictable, with slower tempo.

I actually wanted to keep listening to this one: https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=799583581

And this wasn't bad, sounds like something you'd see from some 1940s-era newsreel:
https://jukebox.openai.com/?song=799583728
This is I think more a reflection of the Zoom experience that has made it so popular. I have supported many video conference platforms and people learn what they want to learn. Usually they do not learn how to host a meeting or connect to a meeting. People want to learn Zoom. En masse people were installing it at places like government, research universities, general motors and many more private sector where this type of thing should be impossible. All these organizations had to buy the pro version. They had no choice. It is cool. People are talking about it on Facebook (the coolest level a thing can attain) so the average person is happy to learn how to use it which puts in a class of maybe 10 or less applications that the average person is comfortable with.
I'd actually be really interested to see statistics from Corsair, NZXT, Cooler Master, or another big AIO OEM about what they sell the most of.

My perspective from participating in PC building communities and consuming content from the big hardware sites and channels is that most people who use an AIO go for either a 240mm or 280mm radiator. I can't remember the last time I saw a 120mm or 140mm radiator recommended for a non small form factor build, as they usually perform equal to or worse than much cheaper air coolers.
In fewer words, Brave won't fail because their "product that works" is Chrome.
How the Linux VFS, block layer, and device drivers fit together
The search really wasn't bad. I made some test searches and wrote a small article about it, comparing the results. Cliqz did really well in it. Not everything was perfect, but neither was Google. I was impressed enough to use them as my own search engine and that worked just fine. Sure, sometimes necessary to switch over, but that's the same with ddg. I would have loved to see how they'd perform in a few years.

And while I don't like some political positions of the backing publisher they had: It is true that Europe and Germany needs enterprises like that, companies that can be alternatives to the US tech giants. Not sure they should be publicly funded, but should they get support? Of course.

Thanks for the link to Mojeek, seems worth a look.

Btw, https://cliqz.com/en/magazine/farewell-from-cliqz is maybe a more fitting link target for the submission with the current title (dang?).
Great suggestion dang!

In fact, I thought to put a page called Motivation on website. Your suggestion makes me strongly believe that I should have done it...

Well, some time ago, I needed to document UI components at the company where I worked and I thought Storybook’s experience very uncomfortable. The main issue were:

- Imperative way of documenting components;
- High dependency on add-ons;
- Disappointing UI it generates.

I thought it could be different and much better. So I have been developing Pitsby ever since.

I'd love to hear your honest feedbacks :)
You don't have to do 100% of your finance on blockchain. I like the freedom of knowing that my funds cannot be controlled by any third party entity, who may object to my spending on the basis of some arbitrary criteria. We've seen people shut out of PayPal for very arbitrary reasons. We've seen the marijuana industry in Colorado shut out of banking (https://www.acams.org/aml-white-paper-marijuana/).

If centralized entities can control your spending, they can control you. That's one of the core arguments for decentralized finance.

As for transaction reversibility, I am sure that a payment insurance program will crop up in the not-too-distant future to alleve those fears.
I think the US also did some strange things like giving GIs free tuition (not necessarily a bad thing) then artificially supporting those GIs by requiring a college degree as gatekeeping for bureaucratic jobs. If you look around places where there's lots of bureaucracy (like washington dc) there's tons of strange billboards and the like on public transit advertising graduate school (MA and PhD) targeted at beaurocrats that need to check off that box for a pay/rank/retirement increase. IIRC one of them was called "Graduate School", as in you would go to a graduate school called "Graduate School".

In any case not-in-DC it's more focussed on the BA segment of the population, but artificial gatekeepering is a thing (even in tech! I know many candidates that I wanted to hire but were turned down because they didn't have a BA in CS)
My best answer to this question is that it's an overly complex IRC with additional features and misleading marketing designed to swindle investors.

In fact, it's so obscure and bloated that the average IRC user wouldn't be able to understand it.

The average user has no hope.

I mean, just look at them trying to explain Urbit on Twitter. Meaningless abstract buzzwords and it still doesn't explain anything.

https://twitter.com/urbit/status/1184984759123922945

https://twitter.com/urbit/status/1255284955850125312

https://twitter.com/urbit/status/1253709910694432768

It reads like a cult.