skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard that Georgia also just changed how they report cases - instead of date of diagnosis, it's date of onset - so the numbers themselves now have additional lag and we won't know a given day's real numbers until a week or two later as they're backfilled.
> What is the goal(s) of the "stay-at-home" order?

This is my biggest complaint. The press briefings and the media have been worthless for trying to figure this out. I want to now the exact plan and I realize it will need to adapt over time but that should be explained by the plan. All the White House wants to talk about is the economy. I just want to know, are we going to wait for everyone to get vaccinated or tested for antibodies? How is the progress on those things? I don't care if some idiot who's not a doctor thinks some malaria drugs might help because he stands to benefit from that.

Or is our goal to fully go to 0 new cases and just hope it doesn't pop up again. That seems unlikely since I don't know how that's possible without a complete lockdown for at least two weeks. Also, is there any possibility that this just goes away on its own?

Saying we're opening things up just because of the economy seems completely moronic to me. I want to know what the actual plan is. Everything seems just arbitrary right now.
Making PDF display better doesn't make them any money.
what? windows is a second class citizen in the wider development world? The "wider" development world covers a lot of areas... though I notice in certain developer communities certain OS's are more dominant.

but yes autohotkey is great!
> Why is this better than Mermaid?

It isn't. Apples and oranges; Mermaid deals with UML-ish type diagrams whereas 'Diagram as Code' is illustrating cloud system architecture.

> but GraphViz may be better

GraphViz is actually doing the rendering. You might want to take a moment and study the site.
So you have a belief - the same thing as a person who believes in Jesus? The benefit of having an explanation is it doesn't matter at that point what one believes.
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I've done this and it is quite the hassle imo
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I'm also an introvert and at first found a lot of social events awkward. What helped me a lot was really internalizing that these people are just people and work didn't matter, these people are still funny to hang around with. In other words, really dissociating the fact that we worked together made it so I didn't have to put up some facade, I could actually enjoy the events and choose to go to the ones I wanted but not feel guilty bailing on some.

I still distinctly feel different whenever a VP or higher level manager joins, but when it's just my team it's a lot more comfortable and has led to a lot of friendships that extend beyond our working relationship.
I personally don't understand how a logically and rationally thinking person could get to a conclusion anything other than that we are a combination of algorithms. So essentially we can in theory be simulated and there is nothing special about us. In this case the machine simulating us would be as conscious as ourselves.

It seems any other conclusion is just fooling oneself.
Thanks, at this point I'm neither a sysadmin not a masochist so I haven't checked this out.
Perhaps why there is no wasm equivalent directive? Just a guess.
For anyone curious, if each ride takes 10 minutes, and the car can spend 8 hours a day doing rides, it would take 5.7 years for a car to give 100,000 rides. (I added a little to accommodate the price of charging the vehicles and maybe some maintenance)

I think this is pretty reasonable considering that for $5/ride I would expect there to be quite a lot of demand, and there's opportunities for things like food delivery as well.
One thing that I find curious about the initial chart of data from Canadian workers (percent who worked some hours at home by income group) is that while the trend is clearly more hours worked at home with more income, I'm not so sure that's an unambiguously good thing.

"Are you able to work an entire day of your 40-hour workweek from home?" is a very different question from "Are you able to work your 45th through 60th hour of work from your home?"

Pre-pandemic, if I'd been asked whether I could work some of my scheduled hours from home, I'd have answered "yes, absolutely" despite additionally spending 40-50 hours per week in the office.

Sometimes, I think it would be refreshing to do something like airline pilot where I'd probably enjoy the job overall but that it was pretty clear there's no expectation that I'd fly an airliner in my non-work time.
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Yes, and?

The net result of that is that software engineers in Minnesota get paid lower than software engineers in SF.

My question is: how is this unjust? By your own argument, the difference in salaries for physical cashiers across the globe can be attributed to market forces. I'm making the same argument re: remote software engineer salaries.
I really like the current forced WFH experiment but I have one major issue:
How do you emulate serendipity in work remote. Finding it hard to have ad-hoc engineering conversations when you have to book a 30min cal window to talk about anything : /.
Personal productivity is up, creativity, down.
Yeah, wish we had used them, and not wasted the potential /s
That link you provided doesn't look like its taking into account the population size of those countries. The US has ~330 million people.

For example, Russia looks like its #2 on the page but Russia has less than half the population of the US. If you look at per capita Russia would be above the US according to your graph.
A common one I see is when you're entering in bank account information and they force you to retype the account and/or routing number, even though you never typed it in to begin with because you just copy-pasted it from your bank's website :/
In the mid 2000s I was working on scientific computing software running on RHEL workstations for a huge oil company. One day our customer inside this huge oil corp told us the entire worldwide company was standardizing on Windows for desktops and workstations. He said not to worry right away, because it would take them years to rip his team's lab full of Linux workstations out of his hands. I'm sure that was a massive, traumatic, and expensive transition that they would not repeat while the institutional memory of it remained, so I imagine they're still on Windows today.
Plex is pretty good for music now
They that looks like something I want to do too! I like the idea of my robot being able to identify all the native plants around it. My mom is a landscape designer and she knows the latin names for almost every plant we come across, so it's something I want to support in my robot. I'd love to collaborate! I will email you. :)
>residents are going to riot because they won't be able to go to a crowded bar in June

I hate this juvenile, dismissive angle that's so pervasive here. There are serious considerations here. It's not just about enjoying life. First: how are we going to fund compulsory unemployment for another 3 months?
Applications, or services? Zapier is just for services, right?

The whole question sounds wrong to me. It’s like asking “Which two programs do you want to be able to pipe between?” All of them!

If you’re defining “integration” in a way that one program only works with one other program, that’s part of the problem.
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Just like science has pushed the idea of God beyond the Big Bang. It wouldn't be a bad achievement if it happened to machine intelligence.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6408083/
Exactly. So it’s an unattainable pipe-dream metric. This is more reason to stop spouting these numbers to people as the “official target for reopening”
Our failure rates were consistently much higher compared to Backblaze, usually 25-30% higher. I never did any detailed analysis, but I'd chalk it up to a couple items. First, the stock of drives were not rotated out as frequently as I understand Backblaze does. The overall workload on the clusters was extremely heavy, but not consistent across all drives in the cluster, resulting in localized 'bursts' of activity. Finally the datacenter where the clusters lived used evaporate cooling and was located in a hot, dry environment surrounded by very fine soil. During the summer the machine room was Georgia level humid, and powering on any piece of hardware would usually yield a small cloud of dust.
Our ability to focus may falter after eating one meal high in saturated fat
What are the legitimate uses of this? The only uses I can think of are less than kosher.
I’ve been reading that book recently - I recommend Windows Internals Part 1 as a good way to dive into the deeper parts of Windows :)
SQL is a language. Perhaps you meant a particular implementation like Microsoft SQL Server?
It's not surprising the models weren't perfect in the first go-around. It's good they were flawed in this direction, and I'm glad hospitals aren't collapsing as a result.

I hope we don't overcorrect, open up too soon and too much, and get to see what the other side of getting it wrong looks like.
You can't eat money.

If you give everyone money, but people aren't working, aren't producing anything, then your country is just as poor as before.

The economic backbone of a country is not money, it's work. So giving money in bulk does not replace work. (You can do it targeted, for small sections of the population, but you can't do it for everyone.)
React Native seems to be quickly becoming the standard for fast development coupled with native integration
Ok sure, and I bet a lot of the _people_ want to help.

But another limiting factor is the facilities with which they work. When I say "not every doctor" I don't just refer to the warm body that went to medical school, I'm talking about the doctor and the facilities they use to perform their duties. A podiatrist's office can't just turn into a COVID ICU overnight, however willing or able that podiatrist may be to lend a helping hand.
Ok I didn't mean literal family. I also think most people who write blog posts talking about family mean "our team is like family"? I have many people who are like family that I have worked with in the past.
The vast majority of Windows servers I’ve deployed in Azure are either domain controllers or legacy workloads that a customer wanted to just shift to Azure. Azure Domain Services and Azure AD still have some deployment complexities when compared to a scaled out domain.
Thanks for this! I really need to learn this. Here is a nice summery article:
https://link.medium.com/xNODrJdcr6
Also it makes me really sad if I find a good book but fail to find it on Audible.
...what? isnt intune an MDM platform? regardless, there are some pretty sizable monthly costs when you already own the competing infrastructure - "$20 for Windows+Office 365+Intune" is not accurate.

are you referring to azure AD? thats basically what i said originally - on-prem deployments are being replaced by cloud infrastructure. the point is that its a windows architecture, which is what the person i was replying to didnt understand/know.
Anecdotally I'm not really sure how much of people persons higher ups are, at least in engineering. Pretty much all of the SVPs / CTOs at the medium to large (but not huge) companies I've worked were not really people people. They've been somewhat socially awkward and naturally introverted. They can stand in front of a crowd and speak of course, and present in relatively high pressure situations, but I don't think they actually enjoy dealing with people all that much.
Tableau does this
Put some hand sanitizer in your car. Problem solved.
React-Spring v9
Or maybe a hook could be added to the kernel in the looks of "if mozilla_t is denied access to user_home_t, execute /usr/bin/notify and if it returns 0 allow it for this time"
Try the AHK v2 alpha. It removes a lot of the cruft and weird inconsistencies of v1. Someone else on this page linked to a changelog.
> If you could eliminate the 1 hour of wasted time daily on small talk and office distractions, as well as the 1 hour daily on commuting, that leaves you two extra hours a day of your life to focus on whatever you chose.

In practice we might just end up working longer hours.
>Azure is the ridiculously expensive without bringing any benefit.

I suspect that comes down to whether you need a VM or a VM in a massive ecosystem of other stuff you can connect to it
To me it seems like true free will or what people think they have is logically impossible to exist.
thanks! took me quite a while to prepare as I read a bunch of other servers failing catastrophically when posting on HN due to the sheer amount of traffic.

I will start working on your comments throughout the weekend, I agree with most of them. Would love for you to follow the github page for any other comments you may have, all are appreciated
I can see the benefits of Linux, I'm just wondering why host it on Azure.
Pretty RFC
Nope. Why do you ask?
The scenario as a taxpayer that's concerning is as follows:

1.) Individual (or Company) A does some potentially unsafe activity and the Government says hastily - "Great, sure; continue!" or doesn't provide any guidance (edited).

2.) Individual (or Company) B is affected negatively - so negatively in fact that they decide to sue not only Individual (or Company) A but the Government as well since the Government said everything was on the up and up either through explicit approval or inaction (i.e. Individual B thinks the Government should have acted) - (edited).

The Government then loses the lawsuit and uses taxpayer money to pay the settlement. Then Taxpayer A, B and C proceed to also sue the government due to gross mismanagement of tax payer dollars and the government loses that as well. And now the rest of us Taxpayers D thru Z have to pay for all these settlements.
The more important aspects of that chart than raw case numbers are a) how long does it take to flatten the curve and b) is the curve coming back down.

(There's also one further down, "normalized by country population", in which we still don't look great.)
As someone who is familiar with formal/informal you difference in 3 languages (French, Farsi, and Azerbaijani), I had the same reaction. But I guess things are difference in German.
Check out IHME, https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america. They currently estimate 145k but it swings as states open or close.

If people mill about and it doesn't stop till we reach herd immunity, imagine at 50% of pop, 0.3 or 0.5% die, that's a big number 330mil * .05 * 0.005 = 825k deaths. IHME estimates assume we won't just keep standing around until half of us get it. The fools walking around are competing with that vision.
You may enjoy: http://github.com/ivanreese/visual-programming-codex
This is a good list and lets you know if they're globally competitive or not. I'm not sure how much it's been maintained since covid so ymmv; https://github.com/yanirs/established-remote
“It” has already become much better than us at many kinds of thinking (playing chess, go, solving equations, transcribing speech,...).
Is there a SSD version of this sort of report?
It was also acquired by Google, so it might not be the best example.
The goal is probably to undermine the economy as much as possible until the elections and to further certain socialist agendas such as UBI.
The criteria are stated in the presentation linked in the article
It was said elsewhere that a sufficiently advanced “something” is indeed indistinguishable from magic.
I like that train of thought:

The question in another form:

Why are we conscious at all? It doesn't make sense.

Our arms or legs are not conscious, or are they? The Information is transported into the brain, into a conscious centre. What are its essential building blocks? Why should some neurons in the brain be conscious and everything else be unconscious? If it is not neurons, what else can it be? Atoms? Electric Fields? Gravity?

If it is just information processing, and I don't see why a simulation doesn't have an Integrated Information Number, then a Van Neumann machine, created by moving rocks in a desert, would be conscious.

So, if it is not intelligence, what else is it? What are the building blocks of a raw conscious machine? One that does no information processing but instead is just aware. It could be a stone. As OP suggests, they just can't move their lips to scream.

But then again, why is there just one consciousness in my body?

Long question short: HN, what are your explanations for being conscious?
It's not defeatist- vaccines and treatments take time, implementing contact tracing takes time. But pushing for unrealistic outcomes is just going to lead to distrust and lack of preparation for the next event when they inevitably fail.
And Bitcoin is not Tether.
“Where are the true government actions to fight pandemic - i mean at least bare minimum - masks, testing, contact tracing?”

Very true. There should be no shortages of tests, masks or other protective equipment. Instead the stock market is going up.
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I like the Ableton-style clip view and the step sequencer.

Apple is also offering a 90 day trial of Logic (as well as Final Cut Pro) during the pandemic.
Alright, narrower spreads in economic inequality appears to connote greater overall happiness in the measured society. Perhaps attributable to the averaging and not representative of the outliers, or demonstrable of modality, but that might be a separate argument. Northern European countries are famed for ranking near the top. The degree to which a society is advanced can be measured in part by how it treats its most disadvantaged members. And in the long run, we help ourselves by helping each other.

But (playing the devil's advocate here) I'm interested in equalizing opportunity, not in equal outcome and artificial fairness.

If this notion is ridiculous, would somebody care to enlighten / disillusion?
>This was not put up for a vote, and is being forced down people's throats.

Isn't that the entire purpose of a representative government?
I think the coronavirus has proven this to be false. Many of the so called "essential jobs" are low paid, but the "essential" label is an acknowledgement of their high value to society.
For those interested in the intelligence to consciousness topic, MIT Max Tegmark's Life 3.0 might still be the best primer. He argues that consciousness is an emergent property of intelligent systems (ability to store, compute, learn). From a pure physical computation standpoint, there doesn't seem to be a hard rule that says that consciousness can't be based off of inorganic materials.
Totally. And what about all the non-essential businesses? A friend of mine owns a dog washing business. None of his employees want to work because 1. they earn more on unemployment and 2. he can’t re open anyways because he’s not essential.

So he just sits around day after day watching his business go down the toilet.
[2] is pretty cool article. It might be the first time I have understood optimization from a mechanics perspective correctly. Thanks for sharing.
PS: there are still some errors in the blog I found (Theta, M (not m) in moving cart figure)
right, that's why no one in Australia or Israel or other hot countries got it, like India. But that was a sarcastic comment. It is spreading in hot places. It's a lot more reducing exposure that limits it than hot weather, based on reality, not magical thinking.
Yeah, the guy arguing for, and being rather amusingly/disappointingly flagged off the site for (you all sure showed me, with my uncomfortable feelings), being human needs a condescending explanation on how to communicate with humans from first principles. That’s just about the right approach.

Are you really that desperate for engineering requirements that you’re going after me for bucking the narrative? Perhaps I’d have found more purchase if we discussed the sexual habits and purchasing tendencies of those individuals blinded and killed by the Therac. One had blue eyes and liked Wagner. That’s at least three features for the model, right?

At a meta level, if our conversation doesn’t make clear the very problem I’m trying to communicate to you in regard to engineering’s relationship with humanity, I’d implore you to resist the urge to shoot the person who seems wrong and maybe look at whether you’re on the right path. My only mistake is saying it here, because this is basically its nexus...
There's been a huge increase in activity in Atlanta since the reopening. Not pre-lockdown levels of course, but lots of people outside the past 2 weekends, on the beltline, etc.
> Banks practicing FRBs have liquidity reserve limits

Not anymore, the Fed lowered them to 0%.
This, thanks.
> So not sure what Logic does for Apple that AVID Pro Tools doesn't.

Logic (besides being one of my favorite DAWs, supporting poly pressure and MPE, etc.) also forms the basis for GarageBand (and MainStage, which I also like.)

GarageBand is a fantastic and widely used program; personally I consider it a "killer app" that makes iPads (and iPhones and Macs) incredibly useful in music education, recording, and performance. The live loops view actually showed up on iOS GarageBand before being added to Logic.
If you feel so boxed into a corner that someone saying maybe, just maybe, you jumped the gun and assumed some things that weren't actually valid and could do with some fresh eyes on the topic is attacking you, then I'm not sure what more I can say that is evidence more than that itself.

Hiding behind a blanket of being "for human dignity" is no defense when your actions don't actually help that cause in any way. In fact, I think the original comment you've belittles so much does more for actually helping human dignity than anything you've said, as it outlines a real consequence to real people for others not taking into account what happens when they shirk their duties. The lip service you provide to that ideal doesn't come close to doing as much, but given your lack of evidence for your behavior, I think you know that deep down, and that's why you're attacking everyone's motivations and character (without cause).

In any case, I think you'll find that attempting to win an argument through stoking people's indignity when there wasn't anything to indignant about is a losing argument here. You could try actually explaining why you think the original comment deserves your ire (that is, in more detail than something along the lines of "that's mean to people in a way that is so self-evident I refuse to explain it") rather than attacking everyone that asks you to explain it as too coldly analytical. Just because something's a feeling doesn't mean there shouldn't be a reason behind that feeling, at least if you plan to impose that behavior upon other people.

> At a meta level, if our conversation doesn’t make clear the very problem I’m trying to communicate to you in regard to engineering’s relationship with humanity

If by communicate you mean vilify without explanation...

Put simply, the engineering discussion needs to be had. Just because you wrongly assume it means people don't have feelings on the subject doesn't mean there isn't a need for the discussion, whether you find it hard to stomach or not. People are hurt by systems all the time, and discussing how and why this happens helps those systems hurt less people. Stopping those conversations because you think it causes indignity so someone who was defined with all manner of anonymity doesn't help anyone. Not the people in question (which nobody here knows who they are), nor other people in similar situations, nor the engineers who might have ways of preventing some occurrences of the problem in the future.
I understand why you might assume that it's a merely rhetorical metric, but it is not so. The state government's official guidance is that restaurants and malls should not reopen until there have been no deaths in the past 14 days.