skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best range? Absolutely. Least likely to try to upsell you to an ICE car? Sure.

Best build quality or after-sales service? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everybody is willing to do so, the difference is only when.

Some may think we should "sacrifice" them immediately, because living without a mocha latte grande whatever just isn't okay, but if we'd face mass starvation, I'm pretty sure that everybody would agree that we can't keep going. Of course, that's unlikely, but let's not pretend that there's some (sane) group of people out there, that actually say "under no circumstances may any life be put in danger, ever".
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No, Germany had 3100 deaths due to traffic in the whole year 2019. Less than 10 per day.
Can such a key be used as an aws key?
I think there's a bit of a problem when directly taking content thought for a specific medium, like physical books, and transporting it unchanged to another media, like ebooks.

Quick example: when you're reading a book, you have always two pages available to yourself to read. When you read an ebook, you have one, or part of one page on the screent at a time. That doesn't lend itself to going back and re-reading. A physical book has the chance to keep our attention on a larger scale than an ebook.

But lets twist that example. When I was in primary school, one of my brightest classmates had a severely impaired vision. He'd had to practically stick his face into a book or sheet of paper to read. Probably a large screen with adjustable fonts, and good contrast, would help him read.

I think we need to find a new balance to how we consume written media. But I wouldn't cry that books are disappearing, rather I think "old books" do not adjust so well to screens, and that "screen books" lend themselves to ways that old-written-media couldn't do. We need a new balance to get the best from both worlds, and have an improved medium to read from.
Er no, as TFA mentions, when the USG they tried that American protested with signs saying "Granny for sale". Sufficiently that the USG dropped the 'pensioner discount'.

You'd have to argue why its suddenly OK now.

You can also argue to discount children - where I live, we make them by the dozen. It is less applicable to COVID-19 through.

But VSL the correct framework because its based on the premium the average American at large puts on jobs to compensate for the risk of injury or death.

What could be more democratic?

But $10T is such a large envelope that even if you added the granny discount, you would still come out at an enormous fraction of USA and hence world GDP.
Depends which government and which media. People who were going to spring break in Florida in March apparently weren't scared enough, and messages from the government and Fox News that this would be over by Easter didn't help that.
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Viruses have little ability to influence their spread; they depend entirely on human behaviours. It is physically possible to all-but eliminate the coronavirus worldwide in ~3 weeks if everyone magically knew when they were spreading the virus.

Reproductive numbers are important, but I'm not sure governments have really stepped up to the plate to explain how the virus spreads and what people need to do to stop spreading the thing. "Social Distance", "wash your hands" and sometimes "wear a mask" really lacks lacks explanatory power.

Given the vast costs the world has put up with so far to slow the coronavirus down, there is actually room in the conversation to have teams of people travel around and conduct some sort of training session on how not to spread this thing and have people actually act out simulations. There need to be finer grained tools than mass lockdowns and alternatives to tracking everyone with apps.

I've seen a lot of basic confusion on HN about whether masks even help. This is pretty clear evidence of uncertainty in the broad community about how to deal with respiratory viruses. I don't believe that is due to a lack of research; engineers have had the practical tools to research droplets in airflows work for more than a century now.

Even the fact that "SARS with a risk of asymptotic spread" didn't have world leaders slamming borders closed in Jan/Feb hints at a possible general misunderstanding of how virus spread works. There were other considerations at the time, but in retrospect more general education on the subject would have been well worth the time invested.
The value of a human life is in most cases next to nothing. A life is priceless to the closest friends and family. Beyond that its value drops rapidly.

If lives were anywhere near as precious to politicians as they like to pretend, we wouldn't be sending kids off to war. We would be investing in anti-poverty measures.

The value of a life to someone in power is proportional to the likelihood of being overthrown or pushed out of office due to that person's death. Often a life has negative value to such a person.
That's about 30 thousand koi fish! Enough to feed a town for three days!
> But what if you can't? 1.7 billion people are unbanked and some of them do have access to computers.

And absolutely none of them are or should be storing their limited assets into something they can't change into spendable cash in the local economy without access to a bank account [even without taking into account volatility etc]. Regulated money transfers already serve this population much better for sending money long distance because they get cash at the other end. No matter how hard newly-minted foreign millionaires try to enlist them in the dump phase of their money-printing scheme, people in the developing world don't have a need for computer based tokens with volatile notional value which are not only not accepted by people in their local economy but also completely unintelligible to them

The real demand for unregulated money exchange is of course unlawful transactions, and serious crime like extortion undoubtedly represents several orders of magnitude more volume in the BTC economy than serving the unbanked.
But what if somehow they were close together. Like a lunch room or a bathroom. Not sure if the bathrooms are particularly vast.
It's also a question of how opening a factory creates scenarios where people have to commute which creates risk too. People at my office are working remotely but some things are prevented because there are things in the physical office. Traveling across town is the reason they don't go in.
There are registry tweaks to disable or reassign buttons, and utilities that make it easy to do them. I made my left Windows key be inert this way, by mapping it to another key that does nothing. The software I used is SharpKeys from randyrants.com.
Research Musk promises about solar on top of his factories' roofs versus reality (spoiler: there is barely any).

This is the most obvious thing he can do and he can't even meet that promise.
Then there is nothing of value that going into politics could offer him.
I can't find it right now but I read it also had to do with the fact that they violated safety laws multiple times.
Respectfully, that's the plan that you may have wanted, but it's not the plan that most governments have actually implemented. "Almost zero" is not generally considered feasible.
> The death toll due to covid is already is visible on all averaged yearly death per day/week charts and we have not even gotten to 1% of population having gotten the disease. That is a big deal.

Only when one year is taken into account. How about decade averages? I bet tobacco is #1 on the list and covid does not even make top 10
It doesn't surprise me that people with larger overall vocabularies also have larger swear vocabularies. But the study you cite deals only with taboo word fluency, not with actual usage.

I would be curious whether high-vocab swearers diverge from low-vocab swearers in how they actually use bad language. In my experience, even my high-vocab friends drop f-bombs in substantially the same way that lower-vocab friends do. I don't buy the "lack of vocab" hypothesis, because no one smurfs swear words as a smurfy substitutes for inadequate vocab, but as for the "lazy language" hypothesis, I think it's possible to use curse words as a crutch even if you have the capacity to do otherwise.

And fluency doesn't necessarily indicate usage. I could rattle off many taboo words with which I am acquainted, but that doesn't mean I choose to use them.
I think I've always found myself a little skeptical that "voting with the pocketbook" can resolve climate change. It often seems to be a choice only available to those wealthy enough to spend time considering the carbon effect of the products they consume, and a way for wealthier people to flaunt their luxury green products without appearing entirely self important.

For the majority of people who can't afford a $30k Tesla, they will simply buy what they can afford and what will meet their needs.
I don't curse. I used to do lots of consulting work. Not cursing never seemed to hold me back. I also found I tended to be less angry then the often times it seemed idiotic folks who were always having big disasters and cursing.

In my line of work people were paying to get problems solved, not to hire someone who rants and raves. And some of the best money is in solving problems that others stomp around and rant about in my experience. If you reliably solve problems, your hourly rate goes through the roof in consulting.

I totally didn't value my time properly at the beginning ($25/hr!!) -> now it's incredibly higher - I've no idea what I was thinking at the beginning.
If you're prepared to call Lem hard sci-fi you might also accept Jack Vance. I also suggest the Strugatsky Brothers' Roadside Picnic.
For me the same. Since the mid 90s I had Windows and Linux installed at home. But Windows 10 was a no go. I mean I even have the Pro Licence. But serious, Candy Crash and XBox all over the place. After one week trying to delete all that things, I had to accept, thats not what I want and deleted it. So I'm also a Linux only now.
> A racket is a kind of scheme.

That's hilarious. It only took me 5 years to get.
Looks like it's time to get the old HOTAS out.

When is this coming out?
Major Censorship over on Reddit
https://old.reddit.com/r/SocialJusticeInAction/comments/eomy9a/psa_posts_being_removed_not_showing_up_in_new

“It's recently come to my attention that some posts in SJiA are being "shadow-removed” ..
>> that zero of their 7,000 employees there have died of Corona.

How many have died of other things? How many have lost grandparents to "pneumonia"? Is anyone sick with an diagnosed respiratory illness? What about suppliers? Have they been impacted? Are any of their people home sick?
Saying simply "nobody under my roof is dead" is not helpful.

I see a very wealthy manufacturer of luxury goods lashing out in the face of some cold realities. Oil prices have tanked. The world is looking at serious recession. The growth forecast for luxury electric vehicles is dim.
Happy birthday!

Looking forward to Racket CS as main implementation.

The talks done by the Racket team are always interesting to watch.
Ok so this is neat; while the newest openssh client/server directly supports u2f keys, this is a badass shim that creates NIST-p256 compatible keys that are backed by a YubiKey.... man I wish this was a thing about 2-3 years ago!

Personally I've been using gpg-agent for a 2 years now without issues. It's also nice because your ssh key could be signed and be discoverable on public keyservers (like keybase), but I don't see any cloud providers having that integration yet.
Last measured antigen rate in NYC was north of 20%. My bet is almost all “essential” workers have been exposed and that part of the “herd” is immune.

Who does that leave but everyone else, who are still shopping, going for walks, exercising, doing laundry in communal facilities and all the other minutiae of life that cannot be paused.

I’ve seen this comment a few times and don’t see the mystery. The virus has saturated the mobile and now is finding vectors into the less mobile.

This is a feature, not a bug, since the pickup rate is hopefully under the critical care capabilities.
> I think it might be simple as that. Its not about ability. Its about environment.

Which is how I interpreted what Damore was trying to do with his memo: saying that women are capable, but that the environment was not appealing to them. Either/both of (a) what they got to work on, and/or (b) how they were treated.

IMHO, men and women perceive and react to the world differently, and treating them the same is foolish and counter-productive. Damore was simply pointing out those differences.

I found The Female Brain a good book on this topic:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Brain_(book)
> My argument is that Elon has sufficient power that he wields against the interests of his employees that he himself is fascist.

Elon wants to open his factory. He cannot force anyone to work. He lacks legal authority to do so. If he opens his factory, then his employees may either return to work, or not. This is a choice that they will have to make. Nobody is compelled to do anything in this situation. This is called freedom of association.

And again, Elon merely wants to open his factory. But the government won't let him. So he tweeted his intent to move his company. This is called freedom of speech.

No matter how much it rustles your jimmies, neither freedom of association nor freedom of speech is fascism. Elon is not compelling anyone to do anything. He hasn't advocated compelling anyone to do anything. This is not fascism, not by any stretch of the imagination.
Absolutely correct. We need better understanding of how the virus spreads, but this is not an engineering problem but an epidemiology question. Record every infection contact and determine highest risk activities so these can be reduced.
In addition to this, the timing of these announcements in the last two weeks were suspiciously close to lockdown relaxation dates. I would not be surprised if the RKI is using these numbers as a tool to influence behaviour, even though they know that there is a rather large error bar on the R factor. A case in point is that before the lockdown restrictions were lifted the R factor was around 0.9, but the RKI said the uncertainties are so high that we cannot be certain it is even below 1 - and suggested delaying the opening. Also, internally leaked government documents a few weeks ago showed that there is an explicit strategy of the government, to generate fear in the population in order to make people comply.
They need to do away with CloudWatch/Logs API Call limits. They actually push users into using Kinesis if they need frequent access to their logs, which adds an unbelievable layer of complexity just for the privilege of avoiding even more latency from using S3 and writing their own scripts/code to collect and pull what they want.
Appropriate context: right now, daily US deaths from covid19 are about equal to heart disease and cancer. That's pretty high for a threat that didn't exist a few months ago.

We try pretty hard to reduce heart disease and cancer deaths, but we don't social distance for them because they're not contagious. If we allow covid's exponential spread to resume, it will be our leading cause of death before long.

Meanwhile, countries that did strict lockdowns for a while and used that time to roll out lots of testing are getting through this with little damage.
Addressed in the article.

But feel free to add the 38% USG pensioner discount (or 100% if you care).

You'll still come out at a very, very large number.
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The public key? Sure, if the AWS SSH server supports the key type.
Also he has paper-thin skin and is a huge narcissist. He's on his way
Yeah, I just can't do it without it being fun and having a goal / purpose. Ie, I'm training for this trip or this whatever.
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I have mixed feelings about Cognito.

I love the simplicity.

I love the 3rd party integration that comes with it.

I love the fact that I don't have to manage user credentials and everything else by myself.

However,

I hate that the UI is not polished, and there's very little customization allowed. As an example, from the sign in/up page, you can't add a link to go back to the home page.

I hate that if user signs up via Google, and later on tries to reset password via the Google email, Cognito silently drops the request.

I hate the js library. Hard to use and documentation is not great.
The parent was talking about Germany. In the US we're currently at 2-3k coronavirus deaths so still much larger than auto deaths.
> an open source Reactjs (Facebook) framework

Isn't React itself already a giant JS framework? They've made a framework-for-a-framework?

So the idea is to let developers write as though it's all one big React SPA (single page app) but then actually the static bits of it get compiled into vanilla HTML/CSS and served from a CDN?
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> You dig into CLOUD WATCH logs. We have three sets of logs all intermixed together. This is unreadable.

I'm not following this. You don't read logs one by one. You filter by source, error code, time range, etc. Its been a while, but I'm also pretty sure CW has log groups.
> difficult to look after.

Agree with this 100%. But what about hosted kafka solutions?

> high latency

Not sure I understand this point.
Just go to Settings > Personalize > Lock Screen and disable Windows Spotlight.

Unfortunately there's no way to get the pictures without the text overlays.

EDIT: In fact it's the first suggestion in the article.
An interesting article on how people shaped the Amazon.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/its-now-...
That is unfortunately accurate.
This does not necessarily follow. Car companies in Germany are heavily unionised and they’re not exactly struggling (at least no more than the entire industry).
Can you please elaborate on QM being necessary for the transistor? Was it necessary for its invention in Bell Labs?
If the rest of the world doesn't have full eradication and we see this thing spread through our environment, NZ could be in the interesting position of not being able to open their borders to people for a very long time.
Read The Elements of Style. Then pick a few writers that enjoy and try to write something similar. Steinbeck, Hemingway... whatever you like best. It's like transcribing music; you'll learn as you go.
> Also people already started to take the restrictions less seriously quite a bit earlier than the official relaxations.

The regulations where eased on some issues, but stricter requirements were introduced in other place, e.g. masks were made mandatory in public transport, super markets in most (all?) states etc.
'Gambit Scheme' has a similar style of name.
It's complicated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget

But no matter how you slice it, Venus is easier to get to than Mars, if for no other reason than that aerobraking is a lot easier when your destination has a thick atmosphere so you don't have to carry as much propellant for orbit insertion.
You are right that I removed in sentence because I read to quick but the whole article is about naming. Is it so strange to comment on specific names? I don't think the authors could have done worst.

Synonyms for racket: haphazardness, disagreement, noise, stochasticity, interference, dissonance, dissension, fraudulent scheme, disturbance, randomness, illegitimate enterprise.
Consider: You are worth about $10mil, in terms of labor. If you work for 40yrs, from 20 to 60, then you are worth about $250k/yr.

Conclusion: We are underpaying nearly everybody in society.
The question doesn't make sense as is. It should be rephrased in marginal terms: if we decide to spend one extra dollar on saving lives compared to today's situation, how many lives will it save? Also it should be measured in QALYs, not lives. I don't know the exact answer, but I've seen estimates from 20K$ to 200K$/QALY. (That's for the West, in the developing world it's much cheaper.)
I want to second the sibling comment about screen time. I used this to “remove” mail and safari from my phone for a long time, and found that it completely changed the way I use the phone. It’s pretty easy to go to settings and toggle allowed apps, so I didn’t think it would work, but what I found is the added step of having to toggle safari on before I could use it meant I would mindlessly unlock my phone, find nothing to tap on, and then think “oh yeah, I don’t really want to mindlessly surf the web right now.”
The PayPal board fired him as CEO because the engineering department was mutinying against him. You forgot that part.
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That’s how we came up the idea of a cloud version HTTP scheduler https://ihook.us. For sure Zapier can do this, but you have to navigate among a ton of integrations to figure out where a scheduler app is, and click though the plus sign to add downstream actions, which could feel complex even for users with engineering background. Seems in a platform where apps/functionalities are commoditized, the complexity of integrating it with your business logic is deferred to the user.
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I've heard 'solar system size' and even 'galaxy size'. Maybe we should take a step back and realize that funding for high energy physics is rooted in the Cold War's nuclear arm's race. We already have nuclear devices more powerful than we'd ever need, not clear why we'd fund ever larger particle colliders.
I don't know why "application performance" is brought up here, do you mean adoption?

I think Racket is a pretty bad choice, I'm from Italy and here you find that word in news about mafia and organized crime, so imagine the kind of association it bears with it.

Naming things is hard, but sometimes hackers seem to choose to make it harder... https://racket-lang.org/new-name.html
I assumed that the game -- at least the math problem -- starts when Monty has opened a door and revealed a goat.
In my experience, it's easy to be hand-wavy about the details of algorithms without even realizing it. Programming forces a level of rigorous thinking and, importantly, allows you to get feedback from the machine.

A recent example I went through as an exercise was writing a regular expression engine. I understood the desired behavior and the theory of finite automata (or thought I did) but in programming it I was forced again and again to review the concepts and proofs in a very detailed and rigorous fashion.

One last thing I would add is that I agree that language- or machine- specific details can get in the way of high-level understanding; this may be inevitable to a certain extent but choosing a language that fits the abstraction level of the problem helps a lot.
Why do you need a self-hosted alternative for DataDog? Why not just use datadog itself?
Not having a diversity program is also political. The concept of meritocracy is political. Claiming that the things fitting with your political biases are non-political is political.