skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not, but I will assume it is not.

It is not this simple. You can't, in our current system, shift wealth that readily and quickly. Even if you could, how would you approach possibly selling this in a democracy? And assuming it was feasible, and we could get popular support for it, how would it be implemented? Rationing cards? Government ran food stores?

This is NOT the Spanish Flu. It is very different in its behavior. There is currently no evidence to expect a more deadly, virulent second wave. Please remember that the Spanish Flu was anomalous because it had a more deadly second wave. Almost all viruses, as a function of evolution, become less deadly over time.

And this ignores all of the vast improvements in our understanding of sickness and hygiene, our availability of clean, sanitary conditions etc. Hell, even the change in density between 1918 and 2021 is massively changed.
I use lemonade for my renters insurance, since it’s cheaper than the alternatives. I have to say their UX is a classic example of form over function.

- To buy and manage a policy, you have to install their mobile app. They have a website, but to do anything substantial they redirect you to the app.

- I canceled the credit card I use for the premium. To update the credit card, I have to use the virtual chat bot, which comes with fake “typing…” indicator.

I bet these fancy UX cost them a lot of money, but literally made the experience worse.
Just curious. In the coffeeshops in Amsterdam, are electronic vape products and edibles becoming more prevalent? Or is it still mostly flower culture. Where the primary method of consumption is the long cone joint or "spliff", generously mixed with some fine tobacco...
German here:

You generally start with easy letters like „o,i,a,m,n“. With those you already can form words like „Mama“ or „Mami“ (mum) / „Oma/Omi“ Grandma. They are easy to write, especially capital M and N.

Then you quickly learn all the other vowels and more frequent consonants. Often letters are taught as syllables or in common combinations as well. I think Q and Y are probably one of the last ones you learn. I actually remember a dictate from third class where none in class remembered how a capital Y.

I tried to find a good source for the order of letters, but finding a primary school book for free online is hard. There might be subtle differences between books or regions. (eg if you live in Quedlinburg learning Q might be more important than in Berlin). Every state has it’s own school plans and schools choose their own books. The school book lobby is really strong and they make so much money off of this stuff.

Source: Mom is a elementary school teacher.
Works great! ... till it doesn’t
Every time I took mushrooms, it felt like everything went in HD, no mental hinderance (as compared to say alcohol or weed) and even increased creativity/critical thinking. Good ol' college days.
Is it possible that you might have taken a bit to big of a dose for your "abilities"?

Not trying to debate your point or take any validity away from anything you said, I am 66% with you. Just curious about your thoughts, since we seem to have had a different experience in that case.
> You can't leave it "to the market" to solve this, because by the time that happens (if ever), the platform company would have already extracted tens and hundreds of billions of dollars from the strategy and killed an untold number of smaller companies.

... and by the time most users would jump to another platform, that other platform would start pulling the same thing, because why not? Ad infinitum.
Interesting, thanks for putting a lot more effort into answering this question than I did!
>They are suggesting that what is built will not survive a very long time.

I suspect that thanks to the recent jumps forward (language itself, common best practices, tooling) that this argument doesn't hold as much weight as it once did. I see a lot of JS library code today that looks eminently supportable and survivable beyond a ~3yr time horizon.
My main point wasn't avout the awareness of the risks (although I have not seen muvh coverage on it).

I understand the risk-analysis, but the people protesting/disagreeing with the lockdown also did the same thing.

There is a sharp contrast in how the blm risk analysis is accepted whereas people were denying that the early protesters had even the right to make that analysis.
There's almost certainly a lot of safe opening up we could do. What would make it dramatically safer would be pro-social behavior from people on the right. The protesters are all wearing masks and doing their best to maintain social distance outside of the actions. They calculate that it is worth the risk. Time will tell, but the calculus isn't merely do the protests increase the spread? but also will they achieve political goals that have a large bearing on public health, specifically the health of people whom the US Coronavirus response is already systematically failing (black people, whose lives matter).
I wish you luck explaining this to the average user.
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> If we knew what we know today 160 days ago, I doubt we would still want to lock down in the same way that we did.

I don't know how to respond to that - I technically agree with you, the loudest least educated voices probably wouldn't have wanted to lock down. The lack of info and the panic level probably positively contributed to saving more lives. I'm totally okay with that. I believe that knowing then what we know now, we absolutely should have done what we did, and then some. We didn't have enough testing capacity. We know that if we had locked down even earlier, we would have saved a significant number of additional lives.

It's true that part of the argument was based on hospital capacity. But the models today are still consistent with the view that the capacity in many areas would have been overwhelmed in many places had we done nothing. I think the key there is that civilians were going to "do something" and stay at home even if the government didn't tell them to, no matter what.

> But I am seeing none of that. It is all partisan bickering over "full lockdown" or "full reopen" and both sides claiming the other is "anti-science"

It's best to step away from that kind of absolutist language (none, all) - it just tends to bait people.
Dualism is one of the stupidest concepts ever imagined.
Thanks for the article.
I've been in tech for the past 10 years, working in or around devops teams for the most part but I don't get all the fuss about k8; yes it's an amazing tool doing a lot more than any other.

But it has a big learning curve and setup & maintenance are very costly. I don't understand why most orgs are moving to k8 considering this. When talking to my peers I often see numbers like 6 months to 2 years full migration with a very small added value - at least for 90%+ of the companies using it.

It usually boils down to attracting talents and keeping them excited trying the new shit.
I don't think number of deaths (from whatever cause) was the primary point of the post you're replying to. The concern is pretty clearly the destruction of trust, the widespread lack of logical consistency amongst people we're supposed to defer to due to their expertise, etc.
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I just want to make this site look better on desktop. I'm on a 48" monitor. I would rather not talk about how perfect the site is FOR YOU.
Does anyone know which other SIG is implicated? Or where I might be able to find out?
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There are no other minutes :P
A few issues with the methodology.

- only 6 small hospitals were included, and far away from the wet market

- Baidu Search Index doesn't match what they claim https://imgur.com/a/UkcUZou

- No test for statistical significance, really?

COVID-like mysterious pneumonia was not that hard to detect, the hospital would be alerted once doctors and nurses got infected.
> The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that about 400 volunteers participated in the serology tests, lower than the 1,000 volunteers that were sought, but enough to provide statistically relevant data about how the virus spread aboard one of world’s largest warships.

There could be a correlation between the probability of getting tested and the probability of having had COVID-19-like symptoms or known exposure. In this sense, the Navy study resembles the ones that sampled from willing shoppers in front of grocery stores. Drawing conclusions isn't very easy here.
Quick shout-out toAptible (Heroku for HIPAA) which have been amazing for our healthcare startup.

Still, I honestly feel that we've taken a step back in the industry where we went from ec2 --> heroku --> k8s. But I know there are many people working hard to create the next infrastructure so we don't have to deal with containers and all that re-inventing dev-ops non-sense for every project.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23366516
I feel like what 98% companies need is really just barebones linux with some good documentation how to spawn new nodes.

To use k8s you need to know linux anyways, but to use linux you don’t need k8s knowledge. Most of things are as easy to setup with linux and the things where k8s really shines are not needed most often.

What I really wonder is where did you learn k8s, which parts did you learn the most? It seems huge and I would love to be in your position
I've been using airtable to give a bit of dynamic content to an otherwise static site. The API has some limitations, though, like not being able to directly upload images.

As I prefer to self host anyway, might this be a viable alternative?
Yup, that's exactly what the linked article describes, but you have to take into account barriers to entry. Consumers prefer short term, lower prices on Amazon, others are pushed out, Amazon raises prices in the long run (already seeing this in prices and other ways - like higher search results) and strong network effects make barriers to entry too high for firms to re-enter.
UIUC usually has a "tesla coil concert" at Engineering Open House, which is basically a big multiday science fair thrown by the students in the College of Engineering. Here's last year's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv1dY6C4WW8&t=1463
> you pay based on the supply and the demand

Your argument takes the form "the market price is the right price," which is basically just a statement of ideology.

Supply/demand schedules are as much a product of market structure as they are a function of market participant preferences. You see the HFT folks--who probably agree with your ideology--make this argument any time anyone proposes changes to financial market micro-structure.

So, the statement "the market price is the right price" implicitly assumes that the current structure of the market optimizes whatever objective you think markets exist to optimize.
Maybe there are VPN-provider endpoints there? Or TOR-exits?
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The other difference with Amazon is that they have very low quality enforcement, and offer counterfeit items. So "Amazon Basics" is a strong indicator of quality for commodities and they can charge as much or more than for brand name items.

A Safeway house brand is usually offered at a small discount to the name brand, because the consumer trusts the name brand more.
I "invented" javascript-based challenge-response authentication so that the user's password didn't have to go over the wire. I later found out that Yahoo and a few others were doing the same thing.
The proper comparison is between law-abiding protesters and law-abiding churchgoers.

Yeah, protesters that break the law, especially by committing serious acts of violence or property damage, can expect to spend quite a while in jail. Many would say not nearly long enough.
Didn't realize that. My experience with xray crystallography is limited. Obviously there's some variance, but I always assumed it would simply be unresolvable/disordered in that case.
I will second this as I am currently working in the biotech field. The amount of short sighted thinking and opportunism from small start ups to the most massive CMO's in the world is staggering.

My take is that the whole field is extremely underfunded and that breeds levels of competition and short term profit seeking, but that's probably a biased opinion.

I'm sure if the field had the level of VC support that traditional software/computing gets we would be making huge strides with our humanity.
If you don’t mind me asking, what is hell about visual snow? I have some visual artifacts including snow but they don’t cause any suffering. They are just things I can see that don’t have any emotional significance. I don’t think about them unless my attention is drawn to them somehow. Maybe the snow is more disrupting for you than my artifacts are? Do they limit your ability to perceive the world?
His mentor (one of those involved in this fraud) refused to withdraw the paper, according to the translated messages with friends from the same link above.
China mobilises thousands of troops, armoured vehicles near border with India
Point taken, but a lot of people seem to really like their credit union (which is a bank).
I’m still confused on swap. What’s the practical difference (besides speed) between 16 GB or RAM and 16 GB of swap versus 32 GB of RAM and 0 swap?
Same here, including your worry.
Handshake.org is a another project that’s giving users control of their identity — specifically web identity. It’s an experimental new DNS protocol that uses private keys to determine ownership of domains. This lets users truly own their domains instead of renting names from TLD owners as the existing system requires.

When users have completely sovereign identity they’ll also need some way to share it. I could see Handshake being the solution here (keybase was another viable alternative but they sold to zoom...)
I am not saying that people in low income class earn more than middle class through redistribution; I am saying that for low income class having kids can be the main income source, more kids means more money, in some cases the money received for the kids are the only income for the entire family.

Regarding to "If you are able to have children but won't", that applies to uneducated people; if you can have kids and you won't because you have not enough money to raise them properly, pay for education and health care (state health care it is free and almost worthless) then people decide not to have kids in such conditions. If you are uneducated, with drinking problems and you don't care about kids, you have as many as you can so you can drink all the money that you get. Not kidding and not exaggerating at all.
As a person who attends organized religious services several times a week, I can sort of see why the right to protest the Government may take precedence over anything else. It's the one right you really can't touch even in an emergency.

That being said, I really appreciated being able to attend a minyan last Shabbos (outdoors, with restrictions).
Well, guess you are correct here, I can't call my current situation isolation.

But there have been times where I've been there (My partner tends to go on extended vacations with her mother) and, even without quarantine, I've been locked up all by myself only going out a couple of times a week only for grocery shopping.

I enjoy reading an investigating things (And for programming related discoveries, time gets consumed too fast) probably a bit too much, and there are times when even family comes in the way.
Tried this yesterday. There are a ton of bugs with the product. Removed it after playing with it for an hour.

* Took me 4 tries to load the existing bookmarks from Brave. It kept crashing everytime
* Doesn't support sub folders

Didn't wait to look at what other features weren't available. These two were good enough deal breakers for me.
I think that you’re very wrong that the lack of a coordinated response by the Federal government was only an issue “in the early days”. I think the ongoing lack of Federal action (and particular economic support) has more or less trapped us into a long-term poor and fragmented state-by-state “whack-a-mole” strategy. The fact that CFR has dropped a bit does not mean there won’t be major second waves that flow back and forth between the states: we may already be seeing those in some southern and western states. It’s not too late to fix this, but we won’t.
Neat! It would be great to have a universally agreed-upon standard for how text editors behave (especially with regard to embedded / structured content, cursor position, etc.) and which operations they should support.

I recently came across ProseMirror [1], which seems to be a fantastic step in this direction. I've been experimenting with using it to build a Markdown editor with better support for math and pre-defined HTML blocks (for e.g. stating theorems, corollaries, etc. in math notes).

[1]: https://prosemirror.net/
As someone who learnt how to write the 'German' way, I can assure you that my 'clear as a bell' handwriting deteriorated as soon as the teacher did not care about strokes anymore (3rd grade primary school IIRC).

I now write in a mix of cursive and non-cursive that is only legible to myself for no more than 2 minutes after I have written it down... :)
They have moved to the open source driver for openGL. Vulcan was delayed for long enough that a RedHat employee built a driver and mainlined it( using the documentation provided for the openGL driver). Eventually AMD ended up supporting that driver instead of open sourcing the proprietary one that was part of their proprietary stack.
Have you checked out https://teachyourselfcs.com

My personal belief if that there really are no rules to how you go about learning a given subject. If reading isn't your preferred method of learning, find an alternative source, on the same subject, in your medium of choice.
This Harvard study has quotes around the terms ex: “cough”, I imagine that means they’re looking at the Baidu trends for the Chinese words and not their English equivalents... making the comparison to google trends of the English equivalents apples and oranges...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21302825
Where are Solaris containers in the "history"?
To take a guess, I'd say they managed to remove a platter or two to lower costs on the smaller drives (I wonder if an EFAX is physically lighter?) but couldn't get the same benefit or didn't need the cost reduction in the more expensive 8TB+ drives. It's also possible that in testing, the 256MB cache just want sufficient to make DM-SMR "usable" at those larger capacities or that the firmware/controller just wasn't up to it.
Yeah, similar boat. I was content with the arrangement for about two months. I finally relaxed my shelter in place a little before memorial day. The point of living in a desirable area and within a city was to randomly meet people that also had their life together, while working on the career and financial circumstances that allow you to do this.

With SIP, everything closed, and ongoing social distancing none of that is possible and you're also cut off from other social circles if you hadn't locked in a core friend group or significant other.

I could really the see value of these areas plummeting much harder than before. Even when thinking of the protests as having some allure for being social, many of the people are from surrounding suburbs coming in for the action, whereas the wealthy transplants have already left indefinitely.

I don't get the impression that those with family are overwhelmingly content. But some have routine at this point and aren't considering the social starving that people in different arrangements may be going through.
Because it makes others uncomfortable if you don't. Wrong analogy.
Any amd or intel gpu that supports 5k on it's hardware should be fine.
This same article has already been submitted 3 other times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23424131
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430489
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23447148
I honestly dislike this feature, because it leads to very messy looking urls with lots of url escapes in them, as well as the whole `#:~:text` thing: (you might need to click on the url to see the escapes)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198590/what-is-a-bi....
It's funny that he mentions Rumsfeld, without mentioning Rumsfeld's very public glaring omission that was ultimately responsible for everything that went wrong in Iraq.

He cited "known knowns", "known unknowns", and "unknown unknowns", but completely missed the biggie, unknown knowns -- things you are convinced are true, but in fact are not.

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you. It's the things you think you know that just aren't so." (Often mis-attributed to Mark Twain, but Josh Billings is a better choice.)
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"So the level of acceptable losses has gone up." Yeah, right. But no one wants their own grandma to die though, for the cause.

All these meetings are meaningless, because they do not address several problems:

1. There is a serious neglect of educational system in black neighborhoods. There is no discipline in the schools in these areas. There is a lot of push from ultra-left to keep the things as they are "because this is black culture"; lots of ultra-left derive political capital off of misery of minorities - if there was no misery, there would have been nothing to fight against, to become somehow important.

2) Most of black people are killed by the black people in their neighborhoods. The numbers are of different maginitude when compared to police brutality. If the protesters were really concerned about well-being of black minority, they should have argued for better policing, security cameras, better schools, better foodstores in these areas. ASk any protester if they would part with their monety for that cause, raise taxes for exmpale, NO way, They would not.
I'm sorry to hear that. The reality is that there's no substitute for human touch.

Obviously it's an incredible complex decision, but have you thought about getting a pet? (If that's within your possibilities)
> I don’t know what you mean about ‘scheduling the virus’

They’re saying just because non-essential restrictions have been relaxed doesn’t mean you should partake in non-essential activities.

I agree with them, but not everyone will.