skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "9-Grain Wheat"

Yeah, n-grain and multigrain have nothing to do with whole grains, but people think they do.
That's definitely fun. But not fiscally sound. And you don't become a billionaire by having fun, unfortunately.

I'd much rather to see someone putting crazy ideas into action having money...
I think it's pretty good! Been using it every day for the past year or so and most of the UX issues I've had before (channel switching, creation and discovery) has been more or less adressed!

The only UX feature I miss is threads to help organize bigger discussions better.
My school district still runs on ZENWorks.
I disagree. I'm in the UK and it's every bit as bad if not worse than the US in all cultural spheres and academia. The difference is that there has been much less pushback, if someone like Trump managed to be elected - which is highly unlikely as the gatekeeping is much worse than in the US - you'd see similar.

The atmosphere during the Brexit debate is/was absolutely fierce. The remain side has fundamentally a cosmopolitan-utopian worldview and the brexit side a nationalistic one (radically so compared to the orthodoxy in London and metro areas).

In other parts of Europe they're experiencing a severe decadence in culture and media because of the creeping monoculture of wokeism. They're having existential debates about their very national ideas, people don't want to have families anymore, nobody wants to defend their country and so they outsource this work to the US, while Russia and especially Asian powers have nothing of this whatsoever. Eastern Europe is caught in-between because they don't believe any of this but they don't have the size or clout to stand up to the soft economic power of Western Europe and the real power blocs elsewhere.

Out of the so-called West, the USA strikes me as by far the least decadent, and I'm not American. This feels to me like end-of-civilisation times as described for ancient empires. America pushing back presents some hope.
Intuitively, Id think the infection rate is underreported relative to the death rate.
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> the author seems to be out for blood

Sometimes a really over-the-top reaction is the only way to get the attention of a large organization.
It's worth noting that since this was published several years ago, and Rust has come a long way since then, it might very well top most of these benchmarks nowadays.
> That’s ~$800/Gbit at 20Gbit/satellite and 30,000 satellites.

This is pretty optimistic because the shells at different altitudes have overlapping beams and can not all use the same spectrum at the same time (OK, technically, two satellites can share the same spectrum if they use different polarizations, but, anyway, SL plans to have 3 orbital shells according to WP.) LEO bandwidth scales sublinearly with the number of satellites because of this. Also, this doesn't take into account inefficiency due to timing and coordination between satellites, nor the fact that 70% of the total bandwidth is over water and even the bandwidth over land is mostly not over population centers. The actual cost per bit is estimated to be about 2.5x-10x higher (see https://twitter.com/Megaconstellati/status/13103869669917040...).

> Starship will carry 240 satellites at a $2 million launch cost.

I think the operative word here is "will". In 2019, SX charged around $2700/kg to launch (not sure to what altitude, but let's take that figure, if you will.) A SL satellite is around 260 kg. If I round the numbers down to $2500/kg and 250 kg/satellite, I get $37.5 MM to launch 60 at a time. Suppose Starship can overcome the laws of physics and aerodynamics and launch 240 satellites with the same amount of fuel, so the cost drops by 75%. That's still roundabout $9.3 MM/launch, or, around $1 B in launch costs every five years.

Nevertheless, as you pointed out, that's not much compared to the cost of the satellites themselves. My understanding is that $250k/satellite would be very good, even at scale, but let's take that number. That brings the cost of making and launching the constellation to around $8.5 B / 5 years.

But, that's just the satellites. You need an entire ground segment to make the whole thing work. As a rough estimate, say that's another $8.5 B, but it'll last twice as long, so, $4.25 B / 5 years. OK, now we're at around $2.5 B / year just for the machinery, not including the CPE, landing rights, or personnel to keep things humming.

> If you do the math, a fully operational Starlink will print vast sums of money...

I think that's the big question everyone wants the answer to: Who will pay for this? SL will cost around $2.5 B / year in just the ground segment and the space segment. At $100/month, SL needs a bit over 2 MM customers just to cover the cost of equipment. But those 2 MM customers are not spread out evenly around the Earth, where all of the bandwidth is.

If you have any insight as to who will pay for this, I'd genuinely like to know because I'd be happy to buy into the SL IPO and retire early.
Fructose is definitely a carb. It's not a direct reactant in Kreb's cycle, but there are plenty of ways to move fructose through the metabolic pathways so the oxidation of those carbons results in the production of ATP.

Also, I wouldn't use "It can only be metabolized by the liver" as evidence of fructose's carbohydrate status: a) that has nothing to do with the definitions, and the statement is true for a very large number of molecules.
Gotta admit I could fly on those model F keyboards but that thing was noisy especially at 3 in the morning.
Next week... Chrome TV+
Sorry, I just enjoy writing sentences about French cuisine, I'm not trying to pile on.
Yes, I'll grant you that fructose and glucose aren't bio-identical foods. A human can only absorb about 30 grams of fructose in an hour, and it looks like if we get well north of 120 grams in a day, bad things can happen.

That's sixty grams of sugar, or about 55 of high fructose corn syrup. Can't be more than 200 grams of flour in a twelve-inch subway, so twenty grams of sugar?

You'll be fine. Just, maybe don't get that fountain drink to go with it...
Not sure why this was down-voted to hell; I imagine it is because you turned the criticism political in that last part. This otherwise contains good points, and knowing that alternatives exist, as opposed to just what is out there in some particular part of the world, should also be part of the "literacy" that the blog post touts. Progress is not uni-dimensional after all.
Faster Literal String Matching in Go
Setup vim? You literally type `vim`

You can customize it to your hearts content, but that's absolutely not necessary to use it proficiently.

Plenty of software tools work out of the box, are turnkey, etc.
Microsoft Azure Is Multiple Clouds – Public, US Gov, China and Germany
So you offer a free tier, then the next tier is $200 a month? Seems a bit steep does it not? What about a $50 plan for like say 10 million rows?
Who the hell posts this ad-ridden crap here? Flagged.
Here is running campaign to Open Source Sciter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sci...

By donating there you can help to make it happen, your move?

That will be real Open Source. Edge and Chrome are not Open Source, they are users of it.
oh god, flashbacks. when I joined Azure Fabric we'd inherited Razzle and all its arcane passes. I still have no idea why; we weren't part of Windows except in name back then.

also, what a strange email to be public. not that it's a hot secret, but who cares about sdx outside of MS 10 years ago?
I remember being in High School and they asked who was going to college. I didn't raise my hand and was then publicly put on the spot to explain why not. Worked out okay for me, but I respect both paths.
> in March when we knew much less about who was most vulnerable

If this is the falsehood we need to perpetuate in order to let guilty politicians save face and restore a semblance of sanity to our society, then so be it, but let's be unambiguously clear, this statement is incorrect.

The correct statement is: researchers knew, leaders ignored them, and media distorted them.

The WHO China joint mission released both CFR data (3.8%) [1] and IFR estimates (0.3%-1%) [2] in February, based on ~44,000 confirmed cases. They were both broken down by age and very similar to later studies based on other cases. There were no surprises after February, unless you were reading news headlines instead of actual research.

CFR as of February 11 [1]:

CFR Age
0.2% 10-19
0.2% 20-29
0.2% 30-39
0.4% 40-49
1.3% 50-59
3.6% 60-69
8.0% 70-79
14.8% 80+

Very similar age curve to the IFR estimates you posted.

It was already very clear in February that this disease rarely killed anyone under 60, or even 70. Leaders just didn't listen.

To use the USA because I know it best, the first big cluster of fatalities was at a nursing home in Kirkland, WA which wasn't up to code.

So leaders had hard data based on tens of thousands of cases showing that this disease was dangerous to the elderly, and not so dangerous to everyone else. And then the first outbreak kills a bunch of elderly people. Amazingly, they responded to this by locking down the general population, and failing to take targeted measures which would protect the elderly (not sure right now but at one point 50%+ of US Covid deaths were in nursing homes).

It's the biggest failure of leadership in our lifetimes.

[1] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-chi... (page 12)

[2] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati... (page 2)

[3] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/coronavirus-covid19-c...
when your name is Putin
Yeah, that's actually a great argument, and no matter what school you're kid is going to be exposed to the personal crackpot values, politics, and theories of any teacher, the more likely a teacher is to share their personal values the more likely they're not something. They often forget their job is purely to deliver content based on the curriculum and there is a boundary there they need to respect. i generally respect teachers, but I don't trust someone who got a 4 year degree and certification to take an underpaying job making less than an average college educated salary, and often requiring a breadwining spouse to live comfortably, to think rationally about something including their value systems. Yes, they may have done it for other reasons, but that's still an indicator of making major life decisions on emotional thinking and further contributes to the issue of underpaid teachers (they're not going to pay you more if there are plenty of teachers willing to work for that salary). I'm dubious and sceptical of the kind of person who reads The Secret, or relates everything in life to Harry Potter, but says all religion is dumb.

I've had one teacher tell my sister my mom was awful and was cheating on her taxes in front of the entire class humiliating her because my single mother, didn't get my sister a SS card, which at the time you didn't need until you paid into SS.

You don't have to like every parent, but ultimately the child is their responsiblity, the values of a child are up to a parent to pass on. Not the teacher's or the government's role. Outside of something that is actually inflicting harm, and you can hate religion but its not the worst thing in and of itself and bad parents don't need religion to mess a kid up.
I use a useragent changer to look like Edge and that seems to be all it takes to get the full-scale HD on Linux. Doesn't seem like Netflix go out of their way to disable it, though useragent sniffing is... Something you should never be doing.
Good. I have been thinking of giving up bread entirely for cake.
Lots of conversation on the cost of US healthcare seems hyper-focused on prescription drug prices. A report released last week seems to contradict the notion that prescription drug prices are the culprit. Yes, prescription drugs cost more in the US than the rest of the world, but the real burden on healthcare seems related to administrative costs. [0]

Per an analysis of the report [1]:

“The U.S. spent $10,637 per capita on health care in 2018. Comparable countries spent $5,527.

The overwhelming majority of the difference — 76% of it — came from spending on inpatient and outpatient care — not drugs, which get more attention but represent just 10% of the difference.“

As someone who works in the pharmaceutical industry, I’ll be the first to admit that the financial toxicity associated with prescription drugs is a very real concern. To be absolutely clear, there is opportunity to reduce the cost for many prescription drugs without hobbling innovation. But perhaps the conversation would be better served by focusing on the larger system that allow healthcare costs to flourish unchecked? Should we not also be outraged when a single hospital-provided band-aid costs $7.00 (~20X markup)? [2] Price gouging is rampant across the board.

[0] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/what-drives-health...

[1] https://www.axios.com/drugs-arent-the-reason-the-us-spends-s...

[2] https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-10-16/curious-case-629-er-b...
I saw the examples, but that was even more confusing because I think the maths is wrong on almost all the calcs:

From the example: "Writes cost: $ 8.64 per month. This is computed as: ( 2 writes * 100 EC2 instances * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days) * $0.50/ 1 MM writes"
I get $4.32 from ((2 * 100 * 60 * 24 * 30) * 0.5) / 1M

From the example: "Memory store cost: $ 3.55 per month. This is computed as: ( 2 KB per minute per instance * 100 instances * 60 minutes * 6 hours * 30 days) * $0.036 / GB-hour."

For starters I think there needs to be another "* 24 hours" in there - the 6 hours is to account for the retention period, but they're storing that 24 hours a day...

But even with that I get $1.87 for the memory store from ((2 * 100 * 60 * 6 * 24 * 30) / 1000000) * 0.036 (the div by 1M is to convert KB to GB)

From the example: "Magnetic store cost: $ 5.93 per month. This is computed as: (2 KB per minute per instance * 100 instances * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days * 12 months) * $0.03 /GB-month."

But I get $3.11: ((2 * 100 * 60 * 24 * 30 * 12) / 1000000) * 0.03

From the example: "Query cost (alerting queries): $ 7.03 per month. This is computed as (10 MB per alerting query * 100 queries per hour * 24 hours * 30 days * $0.01 / GB). Alerting queries process 5 minutes of data. 5 minutes of data is 1 MB (2 KB per minute per instance * 100 instances * 5), which gets rounded up to 10 MB minimum charge for queries."

But I get $7.20 from (10 * 100 * 24 * 30 * 0.01) / 1000 (MB -> GB)

It's only on the "Query cost (ad-hoc queries)" that I can make the answer agree.

(They have now updated the magnetic price, as noted by others)
Maintaining Machine Learning in Production
a .com is $9. if you canj't invest $9 in your business you have no business doing business online.
> "Sweden took 60 years to admit its neutrality policy was racist. How long will it take Coinbase to do the same? Being neutral is a position in support of the status quo - it always has been."

As a Swede, I... don't even know what they might be misinterpreting here!
I distinctly remember when the local library started phasing in web-based terminals to replace text-based card catalog terminals. Early 2000s, it must have been? Slow as molasses, hard on the eyes, (Remember when every dang institutional CRT would be set to a flickery 60hz, with no way to fix it?) gummy rubber-dome keyboards on Wintel machines, but by god it was web-based, which was the Future. (Oh how right they were...) Anyone with a web browser at home could visit it, without having to bust out telnet!

I stuck with the amber screen terminals, whose commands I had long-since memorized, but their numbers steadily dwindled, dwindled, until there was one left, then none. Forced into the arms of an IE6-era old school form-based web app, no shortcuts, no nothing. The data was all still text, they wouldn't have cover photos for years. Alas.
So first you denounce my statement then you agree with it (around vaccines)?

I’m comparing RNA based viruses not diseases. If the keyword “flu” offends you because you think I’m comparing it to the flu then replace it with any RNA based virus and it’s mutation rate. You’ll realize fast that the thing called cure is only 100% effective when the mutation rates are close to 0.
VIC contact tracing has now adopted the same process as NSW
Yeah this was really bad. I actually like the way parallax looks, within reason.

This was not within reason.
Ah yes, I did read the article, and even comment that the Irish tax angle is of some interest.

My riposte here is that the Irish definition of bread doesn't comport with many delicious baked goods I would be happy to call bread, and eat with cheese and some cold cuts. I'm glad you appreciated it.

This isn't that unusual; Germans refuse to call many tasty beverages 'beer', and I'm sure this suits the Irish just fine.
Thanks for sharing that link, that site is quite the resource!
SQL Server had too much political pull within the org for such a deal to succeed.
Louis Rossmann does a great job of demonstrating Apple’s engineering failures in his MacBook repair videos[0]. I highly recommend anyone interested in electronic rework/repair watch his videos. He’s also hilariously New York.

[0] - https://m.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
Suicide rate has dropped.

Homeless people have been placed into accommodation (and is apparently proving to be cheaper than the previous services provided).

Medical care is fully available?

Malnutrition??
Yes, really horrible. To the point I will not go into a subway. To me it smells like warmed up under-cooked bread dough and it tastes awful.

I love good bread, and a good sandwich.
The database gang at my company offers most things through self-service tooling a sub-24-hour Slack queue for most others. Meanwhile the "spend the company's money" gang is way off in some ivory tower, and I'm pretty sure a purchase order would take 4-5 months of meetings (heavily involving the database gang). My director has a budget for headcount and budget for travel & entertainment which is divided among the Sr. Managers and Managers, but I think we'd have to reach the CTO or CTO + 1 to get the authority to spend money on products and services.

Baffled both by how bad your internal infrastructure is and by how easy it is for you to buy stuff.
Challah isn’t made for sandwiches. Its traditional purpose is for the sabbath and other Jewish holidays. It’s usually eaten on its own.

Of course you can make sandwiches with it. It’s bread after all.

But it’s not made for sandwiches.

(The recipe I use is 10% sugar.)

(It’s great for making French toast.)
This is very true in South Africa where millions of children get their main meal for the day at school.

Civil society had to go to court during lockdown to force the government to deliver the food!
A wise choice seeing as how the overall fatality rate is less than 0.3%

See below:

Infection Fatality Ratios for COVID-19 Among Noninstitutionalized Persons 12 and Older: Results of a Random-Sample Prevalence Study

Sept 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5352

People aged 40 or below have a 0.01% chance of dying.

People over the age of 70 have a 1.17% chance of dying.

Overall the chance of dying from the virus is 0.26%.
Milk has sugar.
Challah makes some amazing grilled cheese, especially if you use a pan or a panini press.

The ultimate is french toast, though, which definitely isn't a sandwich.
We don't have a theoretical proof of a superpolynomial speedup on your favorite problem, no. But as a dear friend and colleague is fond of saying, "it works in theory -- but does it work in practice?"

Not your favorite problem; but one capability we've added recently is the ability to sample Ising problems with a nonzero transverse field. I'm yet unaware of a classical algorithm that can efficiently approximate this problem, though that isn't a hot research problem at the moment.

The "of a quantum nature" question has been affirmed rather conclusively. Our qubits are capable of entanglement and cotunelling (you may recall a "billion times speedup" result which got way overhyped -- the actual nugget there was a demonstration that groups of 8 qubits could cotunnel to find solutions that were "hidden" from general-purpose Ising solvers), and for example, when we simulate materials which should exhibit quantum properties, we see those properties emerge without any sort of "fine tuning" aside from compensation for known irregularities.
Most passive funds are cap weighted so this is not an issue.
More than likely but it's probably not an order of magnitude difference.
You mean a few variables in a union doing work of one variable? Yes, poor joke, I can see my karma burn....
Swapping four slices of bread a day for one slice of cake is a perfectly reasonable thing to do!
> Namespaces looks like a least of sins. They are useful.

Well, the most immediate concrete practical problems I have when working with XML are a) in the default configuration, a lot of parsers will throw an error if they can't load the DTD over the network, which is an accident waiting to happen b) XPaths written in the most obvious way will silently fail to match anything until you've done a bunch of extra configuration to get the namespaces set up right. Maybe they're not the deepest problems, but the surface experience matters too.

> So what is a life in Xmlendom looks like? Documents with slight overhead for human consumption (in browser), just a few clicks to extract relevant data, a few more clicks to make parser, a few clicks to make transformation.

In my experience anyone who can actually understand those transformations well enough to maintain them would rather be using a real programming language instead of clicking.

> XML plain text editing is as pointless as DOCX plain text editing.

So why not something like protobuf that's easier to work with then?
It's funny, my parents did exactly the same thing and while I enjoyed playing along I can't recall ever believing a word of it. I'm not sure how my gut so quickly got to the truth. Maybe people deep down follow Occam's razor, though more likely I just got it by osmosis.

To tell you the truth, I think back to that when I question my gut to this day. I'm thankful my parents never lied to me outside of it, but the wonderful thing about Santa is that everyone is in on the conspiracy, so if you can see past it you'll only ever be more confident in the truth when you find it, without taking it for granted. If it means anything from a random person on hacker news, I benefited from being told that Santa existed, and from the sound of it your daughter will too.
As ingredients don't list the bakers percentage of sugar, what does that mean on the nutrition label? Most of the 'bread' in my supermarket lists "carbohydrates of which sugars" as 2g to 5g per 100g.
That's really fascinating. I was indeed reading headlines instead of actual research. Lesson learned.
And some people died because of lockdown due to cancelled medical treatments/surgeries they've conveniently called elective/can wait/etc. And what is happening to those suicide rates as people get ruined and desperate. And how many will die if the economy collapse goes out of control and there will be nothing to prevent those deaths.

Do you actually have any info on those topics? If not how can you claim that it worked. Maybe it had just delayed inevitable but at higher overall cost.

I live in Toronto, Ontario.
It looks cool, but it is ridiculously frustrating to actually find info.

Also, I agree, except the bacon sandwich is going to have to be a BLT, and it would have to bring me a Coke as well.
Interesting, I'd never heard of Matrix. And a very timely discovery too... I might find myself integrating this with ShipReq in a few months.

(Disclaimer: ShipReq dev here)