skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have talked about “pull off the bandaid”- to have 200M people get the disease means we’re going to lose somewhere between 1-2M people (just in the US).

IF a few things are true:

1. The population being infected matches the demographics of the US as a whole. If the population is instead "healthy people under 60", IIRC the deaths go from 1-2M to 10-20k.

2. There is no way to infect someone deliberately in a way that reduces death rates. Variolation [0] has worked in the past, and is a possibility here. If it provides an additional factor of 10 safety benefit, you could now estimate 1-2k deaths, down from 1-2 million.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
That's not actually right. An async function will always return a promise, so if you return a promise directly it's indeed pretty much the same as if you return a promise that waits on that promise; it's the calling function that actually awaits on the returned promise.

The main difference would be error handling: if you have a catch block that returns a different value, returning the promise directly would actually throw in the calling function, whereas if you "return await", it's going to get caught in your catch block, resolving the promise to your own custom value.

Found a detailed explanation here: https://jakearchibald.com/2017/await-vs-return-vs-return-awa...
Congrats to Form Energy from a fellow Somervillain. :)
I just cannot see any response on LinkedIn as anything other than exhibitionism.

It’s always the Directors/VPs that I see doing this. Is it just their in-group doesn’t have time for personal blogs any more?
Your bet is correct.
had it on a $5 vps with a single worker, bumped it up to a 3 cpu vps and 8 workers. This is using starlette + uvicorn + redis
Can confirm. Most of what ran well on my older MacBook with Intel graphics were indie games and older games, and those are the same ones hit hardest by the Bitpocalypse. I went from something like 150-200 games on Steam that'd run natively on my MacBook, to almost none.
The WSJ has had a... unique... opinion section long before clicks were an issue. I think their purpose is, as with a lot of opinion writing, to make the readers feel good (smart, righteous, wise, important, justified, etc). But the WSJ has a subscriber base unusually dedicated to a) getting money, and b) keeping it. And a lot of Wall Street as an entity is less focused on value creation than cash extraction, which is a particular mindset. So the opinion section is going to reflect what's important to the key audiences.

My understanding is that pre-Murdoch, the news and opinion sides were thoroughly separate. Hopefully that isn't getting lost.
Thanks! Will add.
I once came across some code, written by a coworker, that consisted of deeply nested blocks. I added a comment that simply contained a URL:

// http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/4/b/c/2/600_436939394.jpeg

I don't know if anyone ever noticed this comment and followed the URL, but I hope they did and were amused. (The code was eventually refactored/rewritten, so the comment no longer exists in the codebase.)
The big problem with this is that everyone agrees that standards are important, but nobody can seem to agree on which standards to adopt.

The author tends to push pretty hard on Oculus for being a different platform from SteamVR. Would they be okay if Valve were forced to give up their technology stack and conform to Oculus' technology stack, storefronts and all?

No, I doubt it.

I argue the inverse to be true. It's far too early to worry about standardization, when we don't even know what works yet. Forcing PC VR vendors to conform to other vendors' standards will only stifle innovation.

It's not all doom and gloom, though. This might not be great for PC VR, but VR itself is doing better. Between the Oculus Quest and PSVR, the VR industry is growing just fine.
> Intelligence is just a form of fitness

It's not _just_ a form of fitness--intelligence makes us aware of the trajectory that we are on; we know what will happen, and (I know this sounds crazy but hear me out) we could do something about it if we wanted to. So intelligence is important, but it doesn't make up for our utter indifference and willful ignorance.
Thanks. The fact that Kristofer Hivju (best known as "Tormund" in Game of Thrones) is in the cast of Beck is a nice plus.
I'm curious. Is there anyone here that have their children in special schools for gifted children? Or were themselves placed in specific schools? Not just accelerated, skipping grades, extra activities, etc.

Which schools? Good/bad? Most notable effects?
Only if those tests aren't more valuably deployed for some other purpose. Nothing in epidemic control is about perfection. You'll never be able to catch every single transmission. The goal is to reduce the average rate of transmission among the whole population, such that the average number of people infected by one new case (the "R0" number that keeps getting thrown around) goes below one. Once you do that, you win.
A code review consists of reading a piece of code written recently by someone else, which is not what is asked by OP.
My X1 Yoga too survived a fall that would have incapacitated any sane laptop (but Thinkpads are insane like that).

It's a good laptop and its performance remained snappy until recently (for a Gen 1 X1 Yoga). Still, I just switched... to a MacBook 12.

The killer feature for me is its silent operation - with better performance than my X1. Silence is such an overlooked design aspect, though perhaps I'm particularly allergic to fan noise. With current processor gens a fanless design is a must for any ultraportable that doesn't have a dedicated GPU. That's a relatively new development - the 2015 Macbook 12 was under-powered for some daily tasks but the 2017 is more than fine for those. Shame they stopped making them that year.

The screen is also a significant improvement (though I'm guessing Thinkpads screens have advanced since I bought mine) and the trackpad is no competition.

I'm worried about keyboard reliability but the typing experience is fine. I get along with most keyboards, with the strong exception of one pet peeve - mushy keys. The Macbook certainly doesn't have these.
100%. It's amazing how many GitHub repos have little to no comments, not even file or function overview comments. The amount of time save by potential contributors reading and having to interpret the code is way longer than it would take for the author to write the comments in the first place.

To each their own, but comments are generally a positive addition to code.
Generally lockdown in the US has been pretty loose. Many people have left their homes, and had the opportunity to be exposed.

I also think there is a likelihood that between presymptomatic/asymptomatic transmission, and the possibility of 2 week incubation this seems like a nightmare to track transmission.

A friend who had SARS-cov2 was sick for 30+ days. So it’s not clear to me that a mild infection would be over in 14 days.
Appreciate the effort but routing performance is the last thing i'd probably try to optimize in my application.
Beat cops don't need guns. The UK has proven that they can do their jobs without them. Taking them away would not only remove the possibility of inappropriate discharge, I'd bet it would reign in the subconscious power-tripping that so many officers succumb to. When you could shoot somebody and they can't shoot you I imagine you experience a sense of total dominance over them, rather than a working relationship as an officer of the peace.
It's not reasonable. Voice is the only phone number I use and I use B2B services. If you prevented me from signing up I'd go to a competitor.
> But in this case a lot of the hard user interface decisions were being pushed onto bootstrap. You use the jumbotron at the top. You have the nav template. Here is a card. This is the table.

I wish articles like this explained what "doing UI design" means then. They clearly point out what the issue is, but they give us no tangible examples of a proper solution looks like. To all of us readers that don't know what proper UI design is, throw us a bone.

It appears design systems were produced (e.g., Bootstrap), engineers apply design systems with minimal oversight from design, consequently resulting in subpar products.
I still don't understand why people keep bringing this up as if it matters. Other companies doing the wrong thing doesn't make it okay for Amazon to do the wrong thing.

Also, it's worth noting that Amazon is the industry leader here. If Amazon cuts cost at workers' expense, then other companies have to cut costs as well, and it's probably going to be in the same way. To some extent, other companies mistreat warehouse workers because Amazon mistreats warehouse workers.
Coding Unboxed
> For single-payer specifically, I’m not sure. If the federal government were indifferent, states could certainly try it; in fact Vermont did.

I mean, that's the whole point. If you can't even muster up the political will to do something at the state level, especially in deep-blue states, what hope is there of doing it at the Federal level? States need to prove that ideas work by actually trying them out and finding the right implementations.

> Where I disagree is that the states are generally on par with the federal government or their Canadian counterparts.

The argument is that States are on par with the Federal government and Canadian counterparts as it relates to healthcare policy and taxation, and I'm yet to hear a convincing argument to the contrary. Saskatchewan was able to enact single payer in 1947 despite being 1/20th the population of Canada at the time. Its ability to enter into relations with foreign governments or its political will to set a Provincial language is completely irrelevant to that.

> Others may be legally possible but are so politically implausible (Texas switching languages and dragging the federal government along).

The argument is about the structural right, not the political feasibility of it — and also nobody is arguing for dragging the Federal government along, even for healthcare.

Personally, I would actually like to see States try out different approaches to healthcare — Denmark-style single payer, Germany-style public/private hybrid, Switzerland-style individual mandate, Singapore-style HSA-driven care — so that we can have empirical data to prove which systems are superior.
Yeah I am really interested too, I am in Australia and work for a traditional systems integrator (eg PLC/DCS/SCADA) and they seem to see IOT as a joke, but I see a whole new relevant layer, esp with MQTT and OPC, now you can do OPC server on a $10 ESP32.

I think they will get left behind and marginilised if not careful.
Creating a model of human physiology using RedisGraph using BioTech and IoT
A big exception is energy. Net electricity usage per capita has leveled out or declined in the developed world since around the year 2000.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC?locat...
Xrdesktop 0.14 with OpenXR support is here
Ecosystems are not exactly stable systems.

You don't need sentience to cause imbalance and breakdown - https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/trophic-ca...

Sentience is like anything else. Just a tool to that makes the species efficient at doing X. When a herd of buffalo gets slightly too efficient at grazing or a a pride of lions gets slightly too efficient at taking down prey things can unravel.

But after the breakdowns and collapses the big mystery is why things reboot.
That's great, and I did not mean to cast aspersions on the legality or ethics of the release. I just was somewhat uncomfortable not to see any mention of legal terms in the repo, or a mention that the authors were OK with the release.
Realise that intel, has not been releasing chips with any major improvement either. They have delayed time and time again new chips and designs on purpose because they haven’t had the competition to be go up against.

Intel performance will always be one step ahead of AMD, intel have faster tech in their pocket waiting to be released.
I am using digitalocean's dns api for similar needs.
setting ext.mac.mydomain.com and int.mac.mydomain.com internal and external addresses from crontab.

since i'm using mac, you may need to change ipconfig command to hostname -i/-I)

DO_INT={internal_record_id}
DO_EXT={external_record_id}
DO_BASE=https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/domains/{yourdomain}
DO_TOKEN={your_token}
DO_TYPE=content-type:application/json
*/15 */1 * * * (set -o pipefail; /usr/sbin/ipconfig getifaddr en0 | curl -sX PUT -H "${DO_TYPE}" -H "Authorization: Bearer ${DO_TOKEN}" "${DO_BASE}/records/${DO_INT}" -d "{ \"data\": \"$(cat)\" }" | tee /tmp/ip.int;) &>/dev/null
*/15 */1 * * * (set -o pipefail; curl -sf wtfismyip.com/text | curl -sX PUT -H "${DO_TYPE}" -H "Authorization: Bearer ${DO_TOKEN}" "${DO_BASE}/records/${DO_EXT}" -d "{ \"data\": \"$(cat)\" }" | tee /tmp/ip.ext;) &>/dev/null
I think we're speaking past each other. What I'm trying to argue is that before we even talk about a scientific experiment, we have to ask "Is this question scientifically well posed?" and that this question is unbelievably complex, to the point that you can't answer it ahead of time, so scientific activity will necessarily pursue questions it can't answer. And either it will give up on questions that are well posed but take an enormous amount of time to answer, or it will pursue forever questions that it can never answer because they don't even really make sense.

I'm not going to try to elaborate on what the consequences of that would be for any given theory of science, I just want to show that whatever the difference is between science and pseudoscience, in the small scale they can look quite the same.

Tangentially, the incompleteness theorems are not scientific knowledge according to Popper. They are metamathematical propositions that suppose the consistency of mathematics as one of their hypotheses. If they could be falsified, we would have discovered an inconsistency in mathematics, and so we have nevertheless validated the theorems. You literally can't falsify them.
My two best teachers (this was in Norway) took two very different approaches. One basically gave me a free reign to move ahead of the rest of the class and brought in more advanced text books for me, let me suggest my own homework etc. It took extra work for her, so I was lucky she put in the effort.

The other did what you suggest, and would have me go around and help others as soon as finished my own work. It was useful as a means to learn to understand what other people found difficult and why. It might not have helped that much with my understanding of the subject (maths) itself, but it helped with problem solving skills - having to come up with different ways of explaining things or approach a problem from different angles to whichever one I thought was most obvious when that "obvious" angle didn't work for someone else, and I think that was useful.
> social benefits will incentivize potential workers to stay home

What kind of social benefits?
I thought about both being able to include and exclude games (and non game stuff like IRL, music etc)
Beat cops are not going to want to go into some neighborhoods without protection.
Thanks. Updated links here

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/continuous-integration-a...

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/athena-our-automated-bui...
They need to sell units, to make money, to continue to employ and pay employees.

They may have contracts that require them to ship units or lose large contracts (and thus have to engage in mass layoffs).
When these workers return to work, will they have customers? Especially for those in travel, hospitality, events, personal services, etc.
Wow. That link took me to a page with a cookie notice that had no options to deny them, and it hijacked my browser’s back button.

Total UX fail. Zero trust in the content from this potential reader.
For readers of this comment and myself:
- why is the uploader spyware?
- what kind of legal content is not permitted?

What you’re doing is exactly the sort of thing I don’t want to worry about
IMO school is mostly about socialization.

Sticking the smart kids in one classroom or segregating their work means they don’t gain empathy for those who aren’t as gifted with academics. I’d argue the most important skill for a smart young person is empathy.
Exactly. I know a few people affected, but not nearly the correct proportion. Most of the people I know, like me, have jobs that can be done remotely. That's unsurprising given how many of our social connections come through work. Especially for those of us who live somewhere other than where we grew up.
Hmm yeah I see. I wonder if there would be a way to programmatically detect it. Even still, I'm not running any JS on my website because I like to keep it snappy.

Also how many people do you think are not running on port 8080? It's annoying for sure as a dev, when every program decides it wants its local web server to be 8080.
To understand Trump an AI bot had to be de-programmed from using English grammar
Isn't sustainability only that the system keeps existing? This is the 6th event, and even if this one is caused by us, Earth has gone through massive changes before.

The system will keep existing even if we erase ourselves (along with a long list of other species), but other life will keep on existing even after we're gone until our solar system ceases.

It's up to us whether we want to keep existing or not.
Most the big streamers got to where they are by view botting, the "fake it til you make it" approach.

I'm not recommending that, it's something that Twitch are hotter about catching and banning these days, but it has meant that there has been an entrenched set of "big streamers" for some time now with less ability to break in.

Really the only way is to be playing a game for a while that suddenly gets big so you can be one of the better players for a while, or be playing a niche game that a 'big streamer' happens to play and you'll pick up some viewers when they inevitably move on to the next thing.
In the country with the highest percentage of prison population.

And the highest number of killings by police (per capita) by far.
Qualified immunity is a privilege that flows from the sovereign, not from the individual rights of the police officer. Equal protection does not apply because qualified immunity isn’t a personal protection but rather a governmental protection necessary for the arms of the government (eg - its employees) to carry out their function without fear of litigation.

So, it does apply to anyone who meets the same criteria: anyone who is a government employee carrying out their job functions.
A variety of countermeasures can be used to keep the app awake in the background, including restarting services and (more controversially) location.

And IMO, including a general/non-precise location of contact is incredibly useful for epidemiological purposes and to assist the manual contact tracing teams. The value far outweighing the hit to privacy.

In any case, Google-Apple are dictating how these apps need to be built and released, so private innovation doesn't seem welcome at this juncture.
I was researching k8s store offering and found https://rook.io and rook support edgefs with stable status https://github.com/rook/rook#project-status

This post make me never use egdefs in any form.
Well, yes. We increasingly live in a world where people would rather say the right thing than do the right thing. And why not? Talk is cheap.

The entire time I've been in this industry, tech companies talked a big game about being a force for good but made all their decisions based on cold, hard statistics.

It's weird that this is being downvoted, because it raises a real point:

There wouldn't be whistleblowers if you could get anything done from inside.
This might be true in enterprise SaaS (even then it's risky) but not in small/medium business. Particularly if you are using Intercom etc in your product - it's expected that you'll allow any user to contact you.

So yes, support can grow as user counts grow. But it shouldn't be a major expense (if it is that's a product failure).
I've worried about apartments for that reason. If air circulation is shared, wouldn't it be possible to transmit from apartment to apartment?

I think it would be worth a test, at least.
The quote goes, "If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room". HN is an enormous room where I'm confident I'll never be the smartest person, ever, and that is invaluable for someone's curiosity. Every day I get to converse with and learn from intelligent people (many of whom are also as curious as I) I would've never had the privilege of interacting with in person or another online forum.
Music that is too enjoyable seems to take over the creative part of the brain. Try to do some deep focus work with your favorite music playing; impossible. Now, if you are doing a repetitive task, then that type of music is perfect. Creative energy gets sapped by any music you enjoy too much.

I've also heard that interpersonal intimate relations (lol, sorry) also will sap creative energy.

I'd also agree with others that a constant noise is much better than random/surprising noises as far as being able to ignore it. People bursting out in laughter in the office is definitely surprising noise, so are phones ringing and someone knocking on the door.
In a few years, VS Code has achieved better out of the box functionality for [people who don't already know / don't want to learn emacs].

Emacs has a challenging learning curve. I don't think it's realistic to insist new employees use Emacs that haven't already chosen the path for themselves.

Real scenario (for someone experienced with and asking to use Emacs):

1. Install Emacs

2. Clone config

3. Work
There will be more cars on the road then ever soon. When we start to return to work, most people will avoid mass transit because of COVID19 concerns and start driving again. Only a very tiny percentage of people bike to work. Shutting down streets makes no sense. Seattle city government is a joke.
As long as it still allows for arbitrary-length vectors - which I can't imagine it not - this would be impossible due to the halting problem. Or I guess, maybe you could derive a lower bound on memory usage, but you could not get an upper bound/exact number.
On the one hand, cops shouldn’t get to kill unlawfully and say “I was doing my job.”

On the other hand, if an Amazon engineer checks in a bug and AWS goes down and a hospital loses its medical records and people die, we hold Amazon liable, not the engineer.
It's not the number of people, that's a fallacy. (See: Das Kapital vol 1, and http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp7.htm)

We have more than enough resources on the planet to feed everyone(0)(1)(2)(3)(4), it is the distribution of it that is the problem.

Large amounts of food are wasted(5)(6)(7), that is a problem posed by our economic system and something that we can fix -- something we should try to fix, without going straight to Eugenics (as Malthus did, and many white nationalists do), or population control.

(0): https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/the-world-produces-en...

(1): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241746569_We_Alread...

(2): https://medium.com/@jeremyerdman/we-produce-enough-food-to-f...

(3): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/world-hunger_b_1463429

(4): https://www.worldhunger.org/world-hunger-and-poverty-facts-a...

(5): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41173771_Food_Secur...

(6): http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/flw-data/en/

(7): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-13364178
Node 13.10: AsyncLocalStorage
India's Mukesh Ambani Cements $8B Raise for Telecom Network
Oh, just wait until you include avians. There are so many chickens. Soooo many.
Is it really this way? "The average person" has never heard of either of these people.
I don't think many people care about their SGX functionality.