skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or even crazier stuff like wakefield accelerators and petawatt lasers. At this point the LHC is like ITER - advancements to the foundational technology have jumped leaps and bounds yet we're still stuck with a huge multi-billion dollar machine running on fairly outdated tech.
An older attempt at this is piep

https://github.com/timbertson/piep
well, technically, arsenal are shit. so, transitively, it make sense. I miss my footy!!!!
It is not the eased lockdown that is causing the rise, but the changed behaviors of people. Many states were never really locked down (yes, shops and schools were closed through the country. But companies could continue to work in offices and factories).

People are now meeting face to face much more. This is causing the increase.
Now that I will pay for ;)
5 days of lockdown won't be enough to keep for all people infected during the first 2 days to show symptoms - this means they may make it back to the society after the 5 days and spread the virus further.
Yes, let's "just" do that. But I guess we should make some restrictions:

1) Can't use the any of the theorists or experiementalists who had anything to do with the useless research of the LHC.

2) Can't use any of the hardware research required to make that discovery (all apparently useless):

2a) superconducting magnets
2b) high performance fpga computing
2c) particle detectors

3) Understanding of background physics (i.e. perfecting understanding of physics we know)
Humans learn to drive cars, fly aircraft, operate robotic arms, and play video games quite well, to the point where they consider those things "extensions of themselves." I wouldn't say a pro StarCraft player who's soldier management clicking has become muscle memory isn't really a human mind anymore. And likewise humans whose bodies have crippled or dismembered are still fully human despite sometimes barely being able to move or sense.
A diversity program is inherently political, as you said. I don't think it has a place in a company. Again, I think leave your politics at home. You seem to think that's not possible, but that's how I would do things, were it up to me.

It's got nothing to do with men's or women's rights. I'm dismayed by that whole argument. Let the meritocracy rule and the chips fall where they may.
The polemic style writing is really off-putting, but I wholeheartedly agree with this.

I know Microsoft keeps trying and failing, but I think they will eventually succeed with a separate version of Windows that is clearly a separate "walled garden" product, that is far more secure, far better performance, only supports UWP apps, and is uncoupled from being in the backwards-compatibility hell that the "main" Windows variant is.

Such a product "powered by Microsoft Office" would be an incredibly compelling Chromebook competitor. As to whether or not it will support ARM, support AD, or even be open source, only time will tell. I could definitely see something like Windows X or a rebuilt Windows S (locked into S) being a glimpse into this future.
The absolute numbers provide context for people to compare this current tragic loss of life with past tragic losses of life.

It’s an important caveat, though, that we don’t know the total number of dead from the Vietnam War. The numeric threshold we’ve crossed is for American soldiers killed.

A number that includes the Vietnamese in that increases to the hundreds of thousands or into the millions.
I find that hard to believe. Borland IDEs ran extremely well on the 386 and 486 machines of the day. If you're having trouble with them on a Pentium you probably misconfigured something.
There is, and was, a lot of confusion about what the goals were, although they all aligned in immediate massive action.

'Crushing' the curve and getting back to contact tracing levels is one. 'Flattening' and avoiding Lombardy is another.

I was hoping we would have used the time to have massive testing programs by now in the US, to follow Korea's example, but that hasn't happened at all.

Paul Romer's plan is my favorite but the country has seen little progress since he proposed it https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/paul-romer-on-how-to-...
Most of this is not supported by the evidence, and there’s far more uncertainty in the data and studies than you’re portraying here.

But putting that aside, it sounds like you think that politicians are making this seem way worse than it is, in order to exercise more power and control over people’s lives. OK, not the most ridiculous idea I’ve ever heard, even if there are some huge glaring holes in the logic there.

What about the scientific and medical community? Are they in on this too? Because I certainly haven’t heard an outcry from epidemiologists and virologists and physicians that we’re grossly overreacting and that the virus isn’t that big of a deal. Why not?

It’s ironic, because to my mind, your first paragraph perfectly captures my impression of your position: misinformed but fervently clinging to a religious position that doesn’t seem to match the view of the actual experts.
Thought you might find this interesting.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/coder-physicists-are-simulati...
It doesn't even boil down to that. Plenty (essentially all) of credible economists attribute much of the economic harm to the disease epidemic, and not just to the government response.

People have to feel like eating at a restaurant is safe for being open to matter.
We haven’t seen any evidence of that in the many years that have passed. We have good science, the Higgs and all, but, frankly, there’s little hope that the energies comparable to those that existed at the beginning of the Universe would be of practical consequence to us (other than the destruction of the Earth).
I’d like to see a focused approach on protecting nursing homes and the elderly. This is no way for the world to live. Please don’t try to normalize this.
I just came back to running Linux as my primary OS and went for Fedora 32 with the default Gnome install; overall I’m blown away at how great the experience has been so far, everything works well out of the box (for many years I used Ubuntu and had endless problems with basic stuff like audio and networking), and the desktop environment feels incredible, it manages to combine the minimalist uncluttered feel of dwm or xmonad (when in app) with the kind of rich experience of MacOS when navigating to an app or settings. Kudos to everyone involved.
The first minor easing was weeks ago. People started to ignore other rules that were expected to get dropped, and police stopped enforcing them (at least outside of the more conservative and more severely affected South).
I'm not making this up: the head of my high school was called Richard, but was known to (adults) by your nickname.
Not the GP, but this is my take on their comment. Children learn counting before they learn an algorithm for addition. The "theory" to accept here is that counting a set of size x, then continuing to count, starting from x, a set of size y, yields the same result as the addition algorithm for x+y that they learn.
So did the leadership, and every other circumstance that makes the US an expensive place to live and work compared to budding economies.
I’m not sure he’d have any of the two major parties wanting him.

He’s too libertarian and irresponsible with his comments for the Democrats to want him.

He’s far too liberal in his causes and companies to be a Republican.

Of course I don’t believe either party can stop affiliation if he did decide to enter into politics.

Of course that’s only really talking about the federal level. He could have a much better shot at the state or local level as an independent or as a member of either party.
Great Exhibition
What I meant is that beat effort consistency can be super naive or can try hard, even without guaranteeing it, to avoid losing data in certain failure modes.
Isolation?

I think the name "social distancing" isn't a good choice. It should be called physical distancing.

Because socially, you can be as close as ever, just use video chat. Whereby, Zoom, Skype, etc. to hang out with groups of people (be it friends, colleagues, etc.)
That is really vague. Even if there are interesting advancements in photonics, I seriously doubt that it will be able to accelerate particles to terra electron volts of colision energy in a controlled manner (in the next few years). Everybody I know that works in accelerator physics believes that for large machines, superconducting radio frequency cavities are the way to go.
If we are willing to accept 0.5% to 2% fatalities per infection, then we can let infection rates rise.

Otherwise we should have tried to keep it in an acceptable very low level. I personally find it astonishing that we are accepting >100 deaths per day.
I'm not sure why 9/11 or Vietnam are "not appropriate" contexts. They're both widely considered national disasters in which too many American lives were lost, yet neither one claimed as many as this covid-19 outbreak.

Comparing to other sources of mortality is interesting, too, but if the question is "how many deaths is too many deaths" -- in the context of 9/11 and Vietnam the bar seems to be much lower -- it's worth reflecting on why that is. Is it "worse" for Americans to die needlessly in terrorist attacks or foreign wars than in nursing homes? If so, why?
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There's a theory that the Sahara alternates between desert and green every X thousand years, dramatically altering the Mediterranean, European, and African climates.

And BTW our species is conducting its largest peaceful "mobilization" ever to deal with this virus; it's actually quite inspiring.
Generating a static website ahead of time is great, but it can have a few downside. On a big website, if you have many combinations of configuration for each page (like languages, amp/non amp, variant for several partners, etc) you have to generate a page for all combinations, which can quickly become pretty large and take a long time to generate.
I think that's very true. That being said, the government response and the media has certainly ratcheted up the fear.
Pretty bold name when you think about it. Could it be that the name association had a negative impact on implementation by others?

> The program was called “MrEd” because it was mostly an editor. I liked the “Mr” part and didn’t mind that it was already the name of a talking horse.

> I called it "Ms. Scheme", but since "Ms" seemed too likely to suggest "Microsoft", spelled it "MzScheme".

Naming is important, you shouldn't name a program MrEd nor should a language go by the name MzScheme when you want people to take your work serious.

Edit: delete sentence "Start a project and call it a racket from day one"
I went the other way with my kids, greatly expanding the scope of curse words.

Words are primarily tools of cognition—that is, they are how we hold concepts and use them to reason about the world. When we use words with other people, we are relying on their reason.

Curse words are bad for human life because they don’t mean anything in most contexts they are used.

“Fuck” can mean sex, but usually it’s emoting a non-specific range of emotions (as in “fuck you” or “infuckingcredible”). Most of its meaning comes from the sound it makes—you might as well bark and purr.

The only time a curse word is acceptable is when understanding the emotional state of the speaker is necessary to understand their words, but the speaker is unable to alter their vocal tone in the required manner. Counter-intuitively, this means that curse words may have a valid use in clarifying the meaning of written text. But this is very rare.

Using this standard, all euphemisms for curse words are equivalent in terms of their damage to human thinking—darnit is just as bad as dammit. The only difference is etiquette and manners; one is considered to be much less rude.
Value of a Statistical Life

"VISCUSI: If you multiply the 1 million lives saved [Trump], and if the lives are worth $10 million each [OHSA], the result is $10 trillion. … Ten trillion dollars is half of the U.S. GDP, which means that in order to justify completely opening businesses back up, the economy would need to lose half of its value."

[1] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843
Exactly! I am amazed at how many people have said, "Well we'll have a vaccine in 18 months." This is absolutely irresponsible of the big-pharma industry to push. Safe vaccines take years or decades to develop, and some of the techniques they're clinically trialing now have never created vaccines that made it through the approval process before. Could one of these magically work? Maybe, but it's still highly unlikely everything in these trials will go perfectly.

Places like NZ are looking at total eradication, but the rest of the world will most like just have this spread through our populations before any effective treatment of vaccine is produced. Countries like NZ .. might not ever be able to open their boards again.

If the antibodies don't last long, yes we could see reoccurances for the rest of our lives. It's in our environment. It took 20 years of very big vaccination efforts to eradicate smallpox. Sure we have better technology now, but to think we can eliminate this in less than a year is hubris.

I wrote this post last week, about how we might just be in denial that our life expectancy might now be lower, and how we might need to just come to terms with that:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/this-is-not-a-time-of-hon...
There were commercial computers that did. The PDP-8, as one example (not 74xx, but similar).

Edit: The Xerox Alto CPU was built with 74181 chips.

Cost, power consumption, space, etc, are all disadvantages. I assume the Gigatron is using modern 74HCxx CMOS chips, which consume less power than the original 74xx TTL chips.
Considering the fuel capacity of earlier Lego spaceships, I think the assumptions about the energy density of lego fuel are off by a couple of orders of magnitude.
What makes that question even harder is when you take into account the huge body of people back in January which were right at the margin of famine.

When supply chains stop how will the lowest of the lowest on the ladder cope?

"About 265 million people around the world are forecast to be facing acute food insecurity by the end of this year, a doubling of the 130 million estimated to suffer severe food shortages last year." [0]

Excess death because overrun hospitals should never happen, but the global perspective is horrifying and will never give any easy answers.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/21/global-hunger-...
Contact tracing and testing continues to be abysmal. Friends had 15 minute contact to a person which was identified as positive 1 day later. Took 5 days for them to receive their test result taken on the day after notification.
Cursive font is annoying, but bold fonts make my blood rage.
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Yes. I would probably still buy a Tesla at this point if I were going to buy a new car, but Musk continually drives down my enthusiasm for doing so.
If they do it’s nothing we’ll ever be able to harness

Why should society at this day and time then plow millions of man hours and raw materials into proving it literally?

Perhaps when nanotechnology or AI is able to be put to the task, those peoples can then build a very specific machine to prove very specific questions

But this is throwing spaghetti at the wall for what to us will be a moment of excitement then having no clue how to make use of it and a big mess to clean up
No. If they want to eradicate the disease they wouldn't ease the measures.

You're quoting the journalist, not any German authority.
Elon said they have been able to reopen safely in China, and that zero of their 7,000 employees there have died of Corona.

Joe Rogan challenged him on this, asking “how can you trust the Chinese media”?

Elon’s answer: We don’t have to rely on the media. We know how many people we have. We have to; we do payroll.

He has a point. And zero is a pretty good number.

If they know how to do it in China, they can apply those same safety measures elsewhere. I wish he would also acknowledge family spread and fatalities if there are any, because that can also be a thing. But still, hard news, this is something we are going to have to live with for a while. And they are managing it pretty well in one factory at least.

Also if you haven’t ever been to a Tesla factory... it’s not a place where people are crammed together by any means. It’s vast. Workers are quite spread out for the most part.
>Maybe he's got a future in politics.

Hopefully as the first King of Mars.
You won't believe how many fatalities we accept to drive cars!
I never implemented this, but here's a transcription of my journal entries:

https://www.colbyrussell.com/2020/05/10/index-and-location-t...
Parylene vs. Acrylic Conformal Coatings
A video on YOLOv4 - Really informative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JzOFWx1vZg
GitLab is also faster at cloning than GitHub. Whenever I have to clone a bunch of website repos to update templates for my website generator the GitLab repos finish cloning first even though I start them last.
Cancelling my Tesla pre-order - this is an abuse of workers (more blatant than before).
Is it turtles all the way down, or is there a theoretical maximum size of a particle collider where no larger size would yield interesting results?
That is simply not true, the plasma wakefield accelerators are really a rather new technique but they are NOT meant to be used at such high energies, but rather for small experiments. Also (as far as I know), while they do have vastly superior energy gain per meter, you simply can't concatenate several of them (as you do with SRF cavities). So at the current state, if you want to reach TeV of colliosion energy, SRF is the only way to go.

Current plasma wakefield accelerators are in GeV range, we need TeV.
You're missing something major. I have experience using Kafka and Kinesis. My curreny company only uses Kinesis and zero Kafka. Why? Because Kafka takes significant knowledge, experience, time to setup, understand, and support. And if it fucks up and you don't have one or more "Kafka experts" on-call, well, you're screwed.

Kinesis on the other hand, just works. Yes, it just works. I don't have to have a Kinesis expert on hand, I don't have to configure clusters myself or write Ansible/Puppet, etc. I have a few basic lines of Terraform to create my Kinesis streams and I push data to them and we got it working in minutes and we've had no issues.

Contract this to my previous job where we literally had to hire multiple Kafka experts at high salaries to maintain our Kafka clusters.

This is why you only use Kafka if you ABSOLUTELY NEED it.
This is a fairly common reacton to the puzzle these days.

In the time and place of the problem's first widely-distributed posing (Parade Magazine, 1990) it might reasonably be assumed that many people seeing it there were somewhat familiar with the game show it is loosely based on.

Even without that background, one might reasonably deduce that the second door opening never reveals the prize, as there would be no point, in that case, in asking whether the contestant wants to change her pick.

That is a somewhat meta argument, in that it involves understanding human intent and what makes for a good puzzle, and it means that it is not just a math/logic/probability challenge, but it is nevertheless a good puzzle. There's no law that says a puzzle must explicitly state every fact of the matter.
It's not a binary. There's a threshold of flags after which it is shown and a higher one after which it gets killed, scaled by other activity on the submission (and possibly some other internal factors, the details aren't really documented).
Holy crap, you can download Netscape 4.7.2 from that site..
In a way, the demand created for tech for the new age of particle accelerators like detectors and magnets will be the thing that eventually cracks fusion. The entire value prop of CFS is predicted on the fact that magnetics have advanced faster than ITER could be built. The LHC is a big driver of that advancement.
Wasn't my call, as it was a uni machine.
I think you may be overestimating the ease with which people can make videos, post them to YouTube, and have the money roll in. The relatively few who are really successful mostly had to/have to work pretty hard to create and promote their content. And there's still a huge luck of the draw ("lots of great channels with 3 subscribers and 10 views").

As for books, it really depends on what your goals are. No, you're very unlikely to end up making a good living off of it. But, for example, if you're in technology, having a book or two to your name can be enormously helpful to your professional profile. I've certainly gotten opportunities by being an author. Even if I've just basically made beer money, it's been a very good payback.
I just want to point out that I don't think we disagree on these points, but you're misinterpreting my argument.

> Your four-year-old daughter assuming that the norm is the only way to do something is her jumping to conclusions, not a mark against society

I didn't say it was a mark against society, you read that into my argument. If I thought this was wrong or bad, I wouldn't show her that kind of media. I am simply pointing out how _everything_ in a child's environment will influence their thinking, I made no moral judgement on the situation.

> Likewise, if she grows up thinking that girls shouldn't be programmers, that is on you.

I agree, but I think most adults aren't thinking "I'd better make sure my daughter knows she can be a programmer." If they aren't, then their children will be subject to myriad influences. That flows into my last point.

> This is exactly my (and, funnily enough, Damore's) point.

I read Damore's paper and that is not the part I take issue with. He claims the scientific evidence has established that women are _biologically_ less interested in engineering. I don't believe that has been established.

The parent comment referenced a study by Jordan Peterson that shows that in countries with more freedom of choice, women continue to choose people oriented occupations. My point is that freedom of choice _doesn't matter_ unless the entire society is focused on treating children equally. Again, I'm not making a moral judgement either way, just pointing out that the study doesn't take this into account. IIRC Jordan Peterson himself remarked that the results could be the effect of gender roles or culture.
My personal opinion (and I might be biased since I'm not a collider guy) is that it's time to take a break from the energy frontier and put our efforts into other kinds of physics. There's a whole world out there besides "fixing" the standard model.

I'm having a hard time finding it, but there's a quote from a famous physicist along the lines of "we already have a theory of everything we encounter in daily life, it's just that we can't apply it to practically anything". For instance, we still have no idea how unconventional superconductors work. Of course, they're completely described by plain old quantum mechanics without even using field theory. However, that still doesn't mean we understand them because the theory is too complex.

I'm personally interested in the rising complexity frontier of physics where increased computing power and new methods of approaching problems will help uncover emergent phenomena. Plus, there's other accelerators besides colliders that are essential to this field (x-ray light sources for instance).

We should come back to the energy problem experimentally when we can affordably make a revolutionary accelerator (like x100, not a factor of 2 or 3). That will come when we have mastered advanced acceleration techniques like plasma and wakefield.