skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is the alternative that many countries are attempting, which is to reduce the number of cases and increase testing capability until it is tractable to do case tracking and quarantine only the infected.
Yep, made a comment without really knowing the subject. Can I downvote it too? :P
Pattern match —- ask yourself “what questions have been useful at similar points in similar meetings” and ask the context-appropriate version of those questions. (If they haven’t already been answered.)

If this comes up a lot, come into meetings with a checklist and go over previous meeting notes and outcomes for “good questions” and “questions you wish you’d asked” and add them to your checklist.
How does the Cell type deal with possibilities like the one you described, of holding a string?
I believe the flaw is in assuming a Lego figure is not in 1:1 scale. So instead of upscaling the Lego figure we should just down-scale "earth" (in reality now Lego-earth) and re-run these numbers with Lego-earth gravity.
I wonder about this a lot. I used to be a hopelessly optimistic, positive, happy person despite constant failure. This was of course due to my ADHD, whatever that really is. Over time though, a deep depression, loss of identity, and loss of optimism has really overwhelmed the old me. But where did that begin? Was it there all along? It certainly doesn't seem like it. It isn't rose colored glasses; I had a pretty tough time as a kid. Somehow I was sure everything would be great. Now great things often don't seem as good as they are.

I really struggle to understand where that comes from so I can handle it better. I do believe it developed over time, though. I think it can be reversed. Perhaps that's just a lingering thread of optimism.
While this is a good advice, it is a terrible response after the fact.
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I've been doing a lot of gamedev and performance tuning in JS, and I do a fair bit of object pooling, but I don't think I've ever found a case where I was able to measure any actual impact on performance from it. It seems like either modern JS engines (well, v8) are incredibly good at dealing with small short-lived objects, or maybe my specific use cases aren't heavy enough for pooling to be meaningful.
> But if your goal is to cast a wide net [...], maybe make a list of every reason you've used to reject a nontraditional candidate in the past and then email that to the candidate in advance of the interview

Such a list would be a huge legal burden and no sane corporation would send it.
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Wow, thank you, I'd never heard of him. "A bit of a proto-Little-Richard" seems a huge understatement. It seems Little Richard copied Esquerita's style. And Esquerita's look and sound on his youtube videos certainly supports that! e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUF81FcZHMA From that wikipedia page:

"Reeder has been cited as a key early influence on Little Richard ... his look and style were in a very similar vein, although Esquerita was much more flamboyant in the 1950s and his music played more wildly than the contemporary music of Little Richard. Reeder did not record until after Little Richard's initial early 1950s recordings for the RCA and Peacock labels and the later hits on Specialty. However, early Little Richard recordings made at WGST Radio Station in Atlanta do not show the style that was to make him famous. According to Richard, Esquerita did influence him and taught him to play the piano. In an interview...in 1988...Richard states that he saw Esquerita getting off a bus at the Macon, GA Greyhound bus station, but doesn't say which year, presumably in the early 1950s. There's a hint of a sexual connection between the two, but Richard also states that he was inspired by Reeder, and moreover, Reeder was inspired by Richard to go into show business.

Little Richard also had not intended to use what came to be his (and Esquerita's) characteristic style during his first New Orleans session for Specialty Records. The session producer, Robert "Bumps" Blackwell had been unhappy with Penniman's initial songs on the session, so, taking a break from recording, he went with Richard to a local cafe, where Richard jumped on a piano and began singing an X-rated version of "Tutti Frutti", in true Esquerita fashion. Blackwell felt that a cleaned-up version of the song with the same style of presentation would be just what his boss Art Rupe was looking for, and this song launched Little Richard's career in 1955.
I do not think that all feedback ever sent to the google diversity team had been made public.
Since you generally want to keep a set number of time steps the commonly used data structure for this is a ring buffer. No garbage and all you do is increment the index (with wraparound) every step.

Not a lot of technical details, but this video has a great general overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aieHjyNvw
> Suing the county, really?

A handful of officials made the decision. If they overstepped--and after 7+ weeks, restrictions need to be justified and non-arbitrary--the only remedy is through the courts. I'm not saying he's right or not, just that if the county were to have the lockdown unjustifiably long, the courts would be the ones to make that call.
I actually prefer the vastness of space in the US. Just go out in the American country side and there is so much beauty. I would love to see a world where the idea of a city is obsolete, distributed local communities of 2000 people spread across the span of American wilderness. Basic services such as electricity, sewage and internet are all maintained by standards set by the state authorities, but run by locals. It all sounds too hipster, but it is not. This COVID-19 pandemic has taught us a lot about how we can survive as a distributed species as compared to dense city life.

Europe has no such luxury due to the density of people cramped in tight corridors and old (but beautiful) architecture. There it makes sense to have a well organized city life.

IMO city life is overrated but that's just my opinion/perspective of society.
I use OSM maps on my Garmin GPS. It works really well.
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Skypjacks blog posts about all the design choices in making an ECS is great for understanding why EnTT works the way it does: https://skypjack.github.io/2019-02-14-ecs-baf-part-1/
I believe this is simple conditioning. There are many people like me who learn better from ebooks, online-papers and pdf's rather than dead-tree books. We can annotate, attach notes, add/remove highlights and most importantly: search without needing a painful index and simultaneously study 2 or more books on the same subject with little trouble in shifting context.

With paper books, all this is very painful - too much jugglery needed.
> The whole point of evolution is that only genes that promote survival and replication can make it through

There are plenty of inheritable genetic physical diseases. The evolution is not machine to make us perfect not God. You can't treat it this way.
Dark humor is just not professional, and many people expect the content they interact with on HN to be professional in tone.
Is it hard to understand that people here apparently care much less about some athlete who plays a rather US-centric game of sportsball than they do about a Rock 'n Roll 'icon'?

Also, keep in mind that flagging a submission is often not meant as anything more than a downvote. Whether that's appropriate or not, that's what happens.

IIRC I didn't downvote Kobe's death post(s) myself, but that was purely because I was curious to read theories about what happened with the helicopter. That's how little I care about that guy. At the same time, I know very little about Litle John, uh, Richard, but I've just spent a good hour watching videos and reading articles, because I do care about Rock 'n Roll! Your whining aside, this submission was well worth my upvote.
I think Musk and others misunderstand what Buffett does. His company employs 390,000 people. It's more than just stock picking. They also produces I think more renewable energy more cost effectively than Musk's SolarCity. 2016: "4,423 megawatts of wind generation owned and operated by our regulated utilities is six times the generation of the runner-up utility."
Was it tiny objects or tiny messages, or both? And I wonder how much of the Smalltalk system was made that way. I think at some point your class needs to handle some complexity that isn't easily broken into smaller classes.
Whether it's chemical induced or not, his behavior is erratic. I don't think there's another CEO who isn't allowed to tweet without prior legal review.
except for the fact that almost all controversial statements attributed to the memo are projections.

In practice the entire content of that document sums up to "Since current diversity efforts are not solving the problem it could be time to admit that the current google structure is on average slightly less attractive or rewarding for women (or for individual in a slice of the population that contains slightly more women than men)" together with some suggestions of what those changes could be.
The actual article: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...
This is mostly click bait . The first 3 mentioned by the author are not ads. If you are a new windows user, those tips and tricks are somewhat useful as they tell you what’s new in Windows 10 compared to Windows 7 or an older version.
> Do you have data other than anecdote evidence?

Why, yes. Take Hetzner for example. With their Hetzner cloud offering you get, say, 1vCPU with 2GB of RAM and 2TB of traffic for 3€/month. For an instance with 2vCPUs yo pay about 4.15€.

For an equivalent EC2 instance (t3.small) you pay about 5x the price, and you still need to pay additional costs such as egress charges.

Heck, with Hetzner you can spend less than 50€/month and get a dedicated box with 64GB of RAM and 4 real cores with free unlimited traffic over a dedicated 1Gb connection.

It isn't even up for debate: AWS price-gouges their customers. Unless you have a very particular need to deploy an application globally, it's very hard to defend paying AWS's cost.
Not colocated, but in the US, you can find a dual EPYC 7742 (64 cores) with 512GB of ram (with ssds, hdds, and bandwidth included) for $1000/m.

This should absolutely demolish the c5.12xlarge, especially if you need any disk IO or bandwidth.

Or from a different provider, a Dual Epyc 7281 (32 cores) with 256GB (and ssds, hdds and bandwith included) for $400/m.

You can get cheaper if you're willing to host in Europe. And this is dedicated, so no additional power or storage or maintenance cost. Stuff breaks, they replace it. Also, your commitment is 1 month.
It'll actually still be 1/30th of the Earth, since from Newton's law of universal gravitation:

F = G * (m_1 * m_2) / r^2

m_2 * a = G * (m_1 * m_2) / r^2

a = G * m_1 / r^2

If we make m_1 1/30th of its original size and to the same to r:

a = G * (m_1 / 30^3) / (r / 30)^2

a = G * (m_1) / r / 30

As escape velocity v_e is where GPE + KE = 0:

v_e = sqrt(2 * g * r) from the surface of the planet

If g is now 1/30th of it's original amount as shown above, the escape velocity would be sqrt(30) = 5.477 times less, or about 2042 m/s. So yup, they would make it if it's at 1/30th the size of the Earth, with thrust to spare for air resistance.
A pet peeve I have about this space is that "consensus" is not actually a practically interesting problem. The interesting problem for applications is "atomic broadcast" or "total order broadcast", which is theoretically equivalent to consensus but much closer to the needs of applications. The result has been that many important atomic broadcast algorithms have been ignored while Paxos and Raft steal the spotlight in "distsys" pop culture. Some of these algorithms need only f+1 nodes to tolerate f faults (rather than 2f+1 as with Paxos or Raft), at the cost of requiring an external reconfiguration service (almost certainly Paxos- or Raft-based). Two examples: chain replication (relatively well-known and widely deployed in at least one major cloud provider), and LCR, a provably write-throughput-optimal, fully symmetric ring-overlay protocol that achieves total ordering with no sequencer. The latter can serve linearizable reads from any replica, with none of the complex consistency concerns of read replicas in Paxos/Raft (or Zookeeper). Also, read throughput scales linearly with the size of the cluster (while write throughput stays roughly constant). Write latency and transient fault tolerance are strictly inferior to quorum-based protocols like Paxos/Raft, but this is less of a concern in LAN environments, where write throughput tends to matter more. Both chain replication and LCR support much higher write throughput than Paxos/Raft, and are thus more suitable for data plane applications in a LAN (specialized Paxos variants like SDPaxos are more appropriate for a WAN). If your system needs to be able to reconfigure itself, though, or you need to mask tail latency/transient faults, then Paxos/Raft are still the way to go.
I think that's tragic.
That's dangerously incorrect. Freenet provides no anonymity. What it provides is "plausible deniability".

All Freenet peers know each others IP addresses. There's no onion routing. There is the option of running in "darknet" mode. That is, connecting only with known peers. Ideally, people you know and trust. But that provides no access to data from the global Freenet opennet. For that, at least one darknet peer must risk peering freely with the global opennet.

Although there's no onion routing, there is a very effective method for routing data through peer networks. With that, it's arguably impossible to distinguish those who share and access data from those who merely relay it. However, the "plausible deniability" argument depends on understanding how Freenet routing works.

If you want to check out Freenet, never run a node at home. Use a VPS that you lease and access only via Tor. Ideally, connect to Tor via nested VPN chains. Use cryptocurrency that's been thoroughly anonymized. And setup the Freenet WebGUI as a Tor onion service.
Current gen hardware is about 10-15k. If you buy used or legacy hardware (like what c5 runs on) you can get much more bang for buck.

Here's an eBay listing for 2 machines with similar CPU config for 400+shipping: https://www.ebay.com/itm/INTEL-COMPUTER-48-CORE-DUAL-XEON-24...

Buyer be wear but there are deals to be had. That said purchasing the hardware is step one. Setting up PXE, network storage, cluster mgmt, recycling and upgrade, etc is a full time job passed a specific scale.
> It was about how "the left" was out to sabotage him and tech is taken over by SJWs.

Well, this part is true at google...
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Java really did a number on the respectability of OOP, but at least it's good for learning and laughs.
Just because guy characterization something boring and repetitive absolutely does not imply he wants to entertain you. Such implication is illogical.
It's all a massive jobs program that doesn't need to accomplish anything to achieve it's true goals. Very realistic.
I use this quite a lot - even my kids like taking part, on walks around the neighbourhood.
Unfortunately, the app has an outdated basemap. During the lockdown I've used other apps and the in-browser editor to trace new outlines of buildings in my relatives' neighbourhoods, thinking that this would then show up in StreetComplete, giving my relatives a nice activity for future walks (adding addresses, roof shapes and street details for the new buildings I'd drawn). However, the app rarely updates the basemap - so the new buildings still haven't shown up. Worse still, the app pretends they're there, floating ghostly address, roof shape etc questions over a seemingly blank background - but a but too densely for people to reliably know what building they'd be tagging.
This is a little irritating/demotivating. It's an acknowledged issue on their GitHub - the problem is lack of resources to compile and serve the basemap. If anyone is sitting on idle server capacity and connectivity... Do volunteer!
This also applies to real world casinos :)
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Similar video explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VfdwjEJO7A
When the government is not cooperating in the good-faith manner with a business, you have no choice but the court to come to a settlement. Is it civilize way to solve disagreements, isn’t?
A “druggie”? Who are you, Andy Griffith?
My question exactly.
I think the right approach is to do the delta v calculation, and then use it to estimate the size of Planet Lego, by assuming the rocket can achieve orbit.
It's a trade off as the poster said. Those genes that cause 99% to run slightly faster will cause a bad hip in 1%. Is it worth it? Apparantly it is.
In the current system the reviewers do not have much skin in the game, they can shoot down a good paper with very little accountability/consequences. May be there should be a system where reviews/reviews are also ranked/commented upon by the group of reviewers or much wider community.
> There are plenty of inheritable genetic physical diseases

So I can respond to something solid, can you name some?
Back in the day?

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=analog+clock

Though I was surprised the autocomplete suggests "analog clock for kids learning"
One of the criticisms made of Damore when this first broke was "he should have expressed his concerns to HR first". Like pretty much all of the criticisms of Damore, this one was based on ignorance (or a lie). He in fact did initially submit his concerns to HR, and not merely of his own initiative but in response to their request.

If HR had an objection to Damore's memo, the appropriate time to address that would have been when he initially submitted it. They had a whole month to respond before he shared it with other people. They could have had a private conversation with him and resolved any disagreements or misunderstandings without it ever becoming a fiasco. By inviting his comments but then failing to address them, Google HR bears most of the blame for the fallout.

His decision to share the memo with his colleagues was his, sure, but he wrote initially it in response to a request from HR. If management asks for your feedback about something but then ignores it, seeking validation from your colleagues is a perfectly logical next step. Especially so at a place like Google, where open discussion was supposed to be a hallmark of it's internal culture.
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Any websites that utilize this API?
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Hm, I can’t claim to be an expert, but my first thought is that the logistics of transporting thousands of iPhones is very, very different from transporting thousands of cars.
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I agree with your points about distraction, and I think "Deep Work" is a critically important book. That said, it's easier said than done.

I only have one iPad and I do use it for many things including work, and it is shared with family members. That makes it full of distractions.

I have thought about getting a second iPad dedicated to reading, but since you can't uninstall Safari, I feel I'm going to end up getting distracted by the Internet. I'm not confident I have the self-discipline to never go on the Internet when it's just a tap away.

I do think having an iPad-like device with no functions except a book reader would be an interesting product.
Actually, IPFS' network resilience is a great fit for high-latency overlay networks.
I know this is a favorite idea that is often quoted. But as a plodding person doing research in CS, I don't find that programming enhances big-level understanding. It may refine some of the nuances one does not notice in the first pass, but after a tiring debugging session, I don't usually find any flashes of insight about the overall problem.

An example: rotation and balancing of binary trees - does battling the inevitable core dumps during implementation really enhance any understanding of the principle of the algorithm?
Gotcha. I was worried you thought Covid might just disappear or something magically :)

Efficiency is not always the goal in situations like this. It might be wiser for them to be inefficient but prepared, and keep the hospitals up and running. Especially if they have to nationalize the entire health care system to prevent a collapse (even if its temporary).
If that is meant to say moderate then I agree.
Not exactly what you asked for. But, we bought an AMD server to test at our HPC cluster. AMD EPYC 7302P (16cores, 32 threads), 512 GiB of 3200 MHZ RDIMM, 10GBE, 3.2TiB of 12Gbps SAS SSD. It came out to be approx 48000 DKK (excluding VAT). That is approx. $7000.
Fewer cores machine with faster clocks and we mostly use it for its memory channels(8).

Our typical buy - 2 socket intel cascade lake Xeon Gold 6256(12 Cores, 24 threads) with 768 GiB of RDIMM costs us approx. 70000 DKK or $10200.

The biggest cost here is memory. Just to give you an idea.
> Like 6 cores and 256GB memory for 150€/month (one older server I have there).

As I've mentioned in another post, Hetzner also sells for less than 50€/month dedicated hosts with 64GB of RAM running an Intel i7 6700 professor (4 cores, 8threads).

With that you also get unlimited network traffic over a dedicated 1Gb connection.
I have an RTX 2060. I was very impressed by the game Control. It uses raytacing and has good frame rates. It's graphics are really nice. It certainly looks possible to get good results with current hardware, particularly now DLSS 2 is as available.
But aren’t you talking about an ebook reader like a Kobo or a Kindle then? They exist already.
I was disappointed when the guestbook link to Facebook.
This really is the best comment I read on here.

I'd like to add that in the Joe Rogan interview, Elon's main point is not "let's open Tesla factories, I don't care that many people will die" like some seem to imply here on Hacker News. His main point was that the data is we have on covid epidemiology doesn't say much and we "need to cleanup the data", which seams totally reasonable to me.

Decisions are being taken by government (through epidemiologists) with extremely poor data. The data simply does not hold the information needed to take a proper decisions about the lock down. And when it comes to pandemics & politics this lack of information means that the only option available is to go for overly cautious. Decisions about the economy that can (prematurely) make or break the economy permanently. As in: the end of the US/Western empire forever.

It's very easy for the media and people to jump onto the "omg, you only care about money" bandwagon whenever someone argues that maybe we should think this lockdown thru. It's also unoriginal, unsubstantiated and unproductive.
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Given that the original project has been unmaintained for several years and is Python 2 only, I think it's not unreasonable. There's very little reason to have both installed, so I don't think it's a problem for users either.

It's also just the perfect name! It's punny, it's short and it acknowledges prior art. And of course, if the original author took issue with it, I would change the name.
My experience of responsiveness agrees with you, and so does this guy's:

https://danluu.com/input-lag/
This is a fantasy. I work at large B2B SaaS, middle management politickers have doubled down and are just having even more meetings, which are no longer impeded by pesky things like conference room availability, business travel or personal time.
The case could be constructed as being fired due to the backlash caused to google.

Damore would have had to prove that there was a active discrimination at google toward some political views. He had some good evidence for that (in terms of internal conversations and witnesses) but it is not so clear whether that was enough, or even if it was necessarily illegal in this case.
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