skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These “cases” are inaccurate as SARS-COV-2 virus detection does not mean people have the disease COVID-19. From the NYT: “In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The Times found.”

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testin...
One issue I have with going the VPS route is that what I'm charged is often not what I'm expecting. I will use estimation calculators and figure my bill will be $25/month (which I get for a couple months) and then suddenly get a $120 bill. This has happened more than once and has had me loose all confidence in these services for hobby projects. I'd rather just buy a Pi cluster at this point.
>that never had enough information

One of the things that periodically strikes me as someone who was a product manager from the mid-80s through the 90s is how hard it was to get information. For example, I remember we paid one company a fair bit of money to fax us any data sheets they had on specific competitive products when we were about to do a product announcement. (Oh, and we paid them for each category of computer systems we wanted access to information on.) Basically, everyone sent this firm their data sheets because we couldn't really ask each other directly. That was how one did competitive analysis.

I think if I were to go back in time, I'd quit after a week because I would feel I simply didn't have access to the information I needed to do my job.
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I also left every social media stuff behind. But I consider being on HN and reading some comments here and there as practicing basic human behavior. Its the same in real life, I cant just leave all human interaction behind. I must be able to deal with people. I think I can practice this a little.

I realized the aforementioned, checking my points and who responded what to my thoughts. I actually made an adblock rule to block out my points. So I dont get that rush, because I realized that too, that everytime I arrive at HN, I just checked my points, and if it were more than before, I felt the rush. And I just knew it was bad, and that is not indeed what I come for to this site.
It's a Fight Club (1999) quote.
fwiw, the usual usage of the term (as in the above comment) is not the same as the highly specific government usage that the wiki page described.

The usual usage is just:

Tier 1: Metro cities, the ones you've likely heard of. Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi etc.

Tier 2: Cities, but much smaller population-wise. These are the cities that are getting newer airports for eg. Most state-capitals would fall here. These count up to around 50 to 100 depending on who you ask. Linked to national highways usually.

Tier 3: Small urban towns. Population is usually a few lakh (1 lakh=100_000) at most. (<300k or so).

It more-or-less corresponds to the X/Y/Z usage on the wikipedia article.
Answers are still useful even if not being the one approved by the poster, as the reader can decide which one to go with. And anyone can vote on answers. Quite often a better answer will get more upvotes than the approved one, and readers (should) definitely skim for that. Sometimes the best piece of info is in a comment, and even that is quite OK visible as long as people vote for it.

The karma system also rewards upvotes more than approved answer in practice, since just 3 votes will be more karma than approved answer.
It was last century, wasn't it?
Wow. That's what I was afraid of. If done properly that's going to be a very long and tedious process.
This sounds like some kind of fantasy; how many people without stable living conditions or without a bank account that can be processed by the US are concerned with...cluster computing?

"What about all the homeless Iranian Ferrari owners!" doesn't seem like much of a rallying cry.
Earlier this year I purchased my own router and modem and when I called Spectrun to cancel my rental, I was informed I needed to sign up for a new package - the price of which was about $2 more than I was previously paying WITH rented equipment
I think I would specify that a move has to be legal when at the start of the move, i.e. while it is being written down.
I think it starts, at least, with simple practicality. Apple products usually sell in massive volumes. When they introduce some new aspect, they have to be able to produce huge numbers of this thing, and since it's new, the industrial capacity to produce at those numbers reliably does not exist. They have no choice but to buy out and invest in all the available capacity, because they rarely release innovations in some small-scale experimental product. They swing for the fences for a mass market home run almost every time.

And they do this so well because they're led by Tim Cook who approaches the big picture in part in terms of supply chain.

I don't argue that cornering the market isn't an accounted-for and desirable side-benefit of this arrangement. I just don't think it's usually the starting point for them.
First of all, thank you for a very special site. Second, I am not clear on the technology but if it’s just JavaScript couldn’t any free hosting like GitHub or Netlify or free tier Cloudflare do the trick?

Finally, of course I’d be happy to pay for a DigitalOcean or Hetzner shared host (contact info in profile).
I hope it's true but I also hope we don't end up with every company selling its own CPU that works only with their own software.

Something like what we have now with x84/amd64 but with more companies on the game.
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What is this goddamn obsession with trying to make RISCV anything and everything? It's a very mediocre instruction set architecture that is used because it's, and this is the most important part, royalty free, and this also helps, there is lots of free enthusiastic labor that builds support for it into bintools, gcc and so on so you get a working toolchain without spending coin.
The LA Times link is much better than the futurism piece. Nicely written, far more detail and pleasingly laid out - thank you for the link :)
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I believe this is a poor essay on a very important topic.

With the evolution of society, the nature of the jobs we do has changed a lot. In part that's ok: "modern living standards" involve more services and products than what we used to have in the past, and many are actually positive for our lives. This "inflation" in beneficial goods and services requires new jobs, specialization, etc. That's perfectly fine. There's a lot of work we actually need and makes our lives better.

But we also have many more useless services and products born from the very own mechanics of the economic system we live in, which continually pushes for increased efficiency and economic movement. If coronavirus hits and economic activity is slowed down, it doesn't matter that our basic needs are covered and food is available, the system won't tolerate this nicely. Why do we accept this? People suffering not due to a lack of basic goods, but rather due to the poor behavior of our economic system? So naive, thinking we were working to be able to cover our needs! A lot of the work we do is not to improve the world we live in, but to sustain the very own needs of our current iteration of capitalism. This is the kind of work that needs to be abolished.

Then we can start to think about what to do with the remaining work. And that can also be done much better, but that's for another chapter of the story.
I thought the main application for this new material was just a cheaper hardwood. Take pine, boil it, compress it, heat it, and you have cheap ironwood. Should make for longer lasting construction materials, right?
javascript everywhere: client browser, nodejs for backend, ejs for template engine. except for storage, use sql (no mongodb).

try to check new stuffs, eg deno, nestjs, react, graphql, typescript, oauth2, etc. not worth to include them if it is not necessary, cost vs benefit.

prefer to use standard spec, use extra libraries as few as possible, e.g css variables vs SaaS, websocket vs socketio.

Also avoid npm complexity, except for express js. definitely, no webpack and their friends.

for server admin: systemd for process manager, nginx for reverse proxy/load balancing/cache.

Why? to preserve my brain power and focus. learn as few tech stack as possible, but master them. need to focus on product market fit.
Unnecessary/ineffective fusions are still happening all the time. My Gf is a PT and unfortunately had to work for one of the surgeons for a time, as recent as 2 years ago. So perhaps this is a regional issue, but there's still not much pushback from payers in hundreds of cases yearly. Perhaps 2020 may be different due to COVID reducing procedures in general.
I found this document https://web.archive.org/web/20130605043221/https://timeline....

It says “The world’s first website and server go live at CERN” on 1990-12-20
I think that the argument is that male tech workers consume porn as much as other men and therefore solving issues of porn industry could be solving issues they have too. E.g. selfishness of tech males should lead them to care about porn.

Your contra argument implicitly assumes that tech makes are special kind of males that don't use porn.
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It doesn't even require generational returns. Underrepresented groups can bring a perspective to the project that you otherwise lack. Disabled team members can help you discover "curb cut effects" that improve usability for everybody. Women and minorities can point out hidden biases and opportunities. All of them can reveal assumptions you didn't even realize you were making in the way you run your team.

That goes far beyond "how fast can you write code" by any measurement because your end goal isn't to write code but to deliver a product -- as a team. Bringing in a diversity of ideas about the end product helps today, not just in the future. If you think of your team just as a bunch of high-performing individual code writers, you will miss opportunities to hit the real goal.
> The endgame would include an element of reading the other player, like poker.

Yep!

Note that it is also possible for the game to end in a draw if both kings are captured on the same move.
> Whereas in Europe and Asia nudity is completely accepted in many public areas, and sex work is tolerated, legal and is just another, albeit uncommon, thing people do for a living and nothing more

This is way overemphasized on the Internet by people who don't have much experience with living in Europe. It's similar to Europeans imagining that in the US it's an everyday thing that people are dying left and right because they can't pay for an emergency ambulance to take them to the hospital.

Nudity may be less stigmatized than in America, but prostitution is not something normal people as just another job that they'd be happy if their daughter chose it. On the surface, people may seem more tolerant of it, but privately they definitely act differently.

Why do we see so few Dutch and Swedish and Danish emancipated free empowered women self-actualize through porn work? Why is it always poorer Eastern European Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Russian women at the top of porn star lists?
The problem is meritocracy can be gamed to be unfair by selling the perception of improved performance.

Giving off a perception of peak performance is trivial for those that know how to shmooze, get that title bump.

We see it all the time with celebrities getting their kids into nicer schools, dads who own construction companies donating to unis, etc. the list of stereotypes is endless.

Biological reality does not really care much for our emotional constructs, as others will always come along with their own.

It was fact that pagan gods controlled reality until it wasn’t. At least those ideologies were backed by fun imagery. Meritocracy is also nonsense, but easier to see as it doesn’t distract by flooding the imagination.
It doesn't take exponential power. My understanding is that the basic approach for instructions without boundary tagging in L1I$ is to start decoding every byte in the stream in parallel, discard the ones that don't make sense, and then later propagate boundary to boundary across the length of the fetch window. Sort of similar to how a carry-bypass adder works. This is expensive but not that expensive compared to other structures.

But it does mean that x86 designs tend to carefully balance the size of the decoders to other structures to make sure they're not the binding constraint too often. With ARM the approach seems to be more to make the front end 50% bigger than you think you need to be sure it's never a problem and refill the front end buffers more quickly after a mispredict.
At 5W per core, you don't get anywhere near the single-threaded perf needed to beat an M1...

(20W per core is what it reaches on ST tests, with 17W more for the I/O die on desktop Ryzen, an overhead that'll be much lower on Cezanne hopefully)
From the 2014 article: “As a child in his small hometown of Defiance, Ohio, Thompson displayed an intelligence that was as remarkable as his sometimes maddening refusal to do anything the normal way.”
I think the problem is this belief that there is something to fix at all. It goes without saying that there should be no barriers to anyone doing anything they want, but we have that already. Why is 50/50 in CS a goal at all? Who cares? Do we also want 50/50 in nursing? on oil rigs? or in prison? Why? Seriously, WTF? Are we so stupid that we discount millions of years of evolution and chalk any difference in outcome to cultural norms? It is all so, so stupid, and we all know it.
Thank you for your good answers!

Lots of people will go read your answer and upvote it. The fact that the questioner didn't check it is something you should mostly ignore.
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I know better than to worry about seeing through buildings. What I want to do is to explore the data, and see how the land rises and falls with the tides, the rain levels, temperature, etc.
There have to be all sorts of new and beautiful images and movies to be made from this data.
I look forward to getting my hands on it eventually.
Are there "puritans" as such anymore?

I think the theological morality case is more like treating sexual addiction, like porn addiction, like a sickness that needs support and treatment, at least more than it is now.

The Christian perspective is that on a moral level, watching porn is in the same category as adultery and whatever sexual immorality that is depicted in the pornography. That's because moral culpability is in the heart to start with.

Folks don't sign up for the same worldview, sure. And it's a nonsense (perhaps harmful) worldview if you reject Christian teaching altogether. But there's a lot more subtlety, realism, and (from their perspective) care for people than is captured by concerns about cheating and symbolism.

More concretely, there is a lot of excitement to see progress on modern slavery and human trafficking in many Christian circles. The intersection between pornography, sex work, and sexual slavery is especially concerning in those circles.
> They have little to gain by exaggerating their plight. ... and their accounts of starvation, extreme poverty, and harsh authoritarianism all support one another.

Defectors won't know any of this. It's expected that some would exaggerate unverifiable details, to ensure their safety. That wouldn't diminish what they actually went through.
This is nice, I've tried to build a simple streaming server myself, so couple of questions if you don't mind:

1. What technology are you using for communication of chat text and video ? WebRTC/Web Sockets/ RMTP or something else.

2. Whats the latency like for videos?

3. Does the project has any controls/customization for video player?
Someone made a business helping people escape their porn addiction. It's no different than helping heroin addicts by "talking about their needles." You can't just deconstruct everything.
Is this from a zero sum assumption?

We can all get wealthier at the same time.
It's that old aphorism - be yourself. I find it hard to do as well - it seems like a common issue with my generation (Millennials). I know it impacts my ability to make real connections, because I can come across overly fake. I'm afraid my real personality is quite callous though.
As a parent of two young children, 6 hours at school seems short.

If both parents are away for 9 hours -- 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM, work 9-5 and half hour commute each way -- then who watches children for the 3 hours not at school?

China's school hours are 7:30 AM to 5 PM, and include a 2-hour lunch [1]. That seems to yield academic excellence and a strong economy.

[1] https://www.infoplease.com/world/social-statistics/school-ye...
The PoE Hats are $15-30 on Amazon. That makes the most expensive one 30% of the price of a Pi4 8gb.
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I dont think its fair to say that Social media sites banning the sex industry is a move that stems from hostility. Its just our culture that we separate sex and normal life. Maybe for children, maybe for ourselves. I dont want my timeline on fb to fill up with ads for porn creators. When i do want to consume porn i know where to go.
> Feminists I know are selling themselves because they like sex, and controlling their bodies time economy is their choice.

Not to dwell on this so much, as my observations of sex workers were those who did it for need rather then pleasure, but what part of 'selling yourself' is empowering?

I mean if you like something, like a hobby, you usually don't seek to monetize it if you want keep enjoying it. It seems to cheapen the activity as you start applying different metric than sheer joy as the only goal, and instead look an things through an PNL lens.

In fact introducing these metrics is almost always a net negative activity--now in my 30s I've turned almost all of my hobbies, skills and interests into a professional career to the detriment of my pleasure towards it and suffered because I bought into the fake adage of 'never having to work a day' for most of my Life.

Whereas it's now become the new normal to view 'feminism' as a preferential distortion of facts and realities in favour of biased outcomes that don't hold up to any scrutiny.

I have no problem with sex workers, I've treated them all with the same respect I would with customers in the professional or corporate sectors I've been in and they always remarked how differently I was because of that.

But, the truth is I hold almost near disdain for social media 'thots' (male or female) who exploit mentally weak and vulnerable people into giving them money in exchange of attention/sexual exploitation and exploiting Human vulnerability and a need for connection. I think the same applies to these 'feminists' prostitutes and their false narrative because of the obvious level of hypocrisy behind it and its motives is one of obvious extractive relationships with people based on self-interest, vulgar opportunism and having the social inertia to carry on forcing people to buy into that view.

> Exploitation of minors is one thing. Though, I do not see many folks lifting a finger over child political prisoners in rancid cages. So I’m left wondering if exploitation is the real issue or the sex part given cultural norms.

The Catholic Church still exists, start with questioning why that den of pedophilia is institutionalized in modern Society despite the countless amounts of child rape and exempt from taxation before you go any further. Then you'll see why things like the Epstein-Maxwell sex trafficking of minors is more common than one would care to think. Which again ties to the what I said above about exploitation of vulnerable people.
> or their "hope to be rich" enablers

I'm no "hope to be rich" enabler. I'm a realist who understands that if California drives away all the wealthy people, the economy and business climate will be worse, not better.

You can have your utopia where every man earns the same meager living working in the commune, I choose to live in the real world.
Just curious-- what action would you take if tech made it so that food fell from the heavens? Are you just saying that you'd slightly alter your opinion of "The Abolition of Work" in response?

Or would you, say, give your life to protect that tech from embargo/destruction?
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Wow, I wasn't aware of that distinction for EU cards. I assumed 2.9. Stripe actually even says 1.4% + €0,25 - I'm going to switch a couple projects to Stripe now. Thanks for pointing it out!!! You made me save a few hundred Euros!
10.5W is the whole system power draw.

What's actually reached is https://twitter.com/andreif7/status/1328777888213110793?s=21

6.6W CPU power, 9.3W package power (including DRAM)
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Paul Graham says differently. You need to hire A players because otherwise B players hire B and C players and water down the strength of the startup.
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Facial tattoos are a traditional practice for many ethnic groups. Many modern practitioners feel that they're reclaiming a practice that was persecuted under American Puritanism.

It's not that there can't be reasonable appearance standards; however, it would be incredibly disingenuous to claim that those standards are established within a neutral cultural atmosphere. I personally find white dudes with short or no hair (the skinhead/cop cut) threatening, but no one's ever going to make that disqualifying.
well, many don't know what science is, what scientific method is, and actual scientists.
S3 has strong consistency of list operations now.
It's more than a decade. The first core2duo were released in 2006.

I think people are thinking of the first i5/i7 from 2008 when they do the comparison, unfortunately AMD was out of the run before that.
I just learned this one while teaching an intro to C++ class... the student had no idea what they wrote and it took me a minute to realize why their code even compiled.
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Somehow this reminded me of a football variant (soccer for americans) that has two balls in play, either ball is good as the other.
Not wrong, but maybe thinking of things in terms that are too simple, i.e., the natural corollary that if we would just stop letting sociopaths do what they do, then we wouldn't have things like this. But it's usually not sociopaths versus normal people. Sure, maybe there are a lot of CEOs who could be clinically diagnosed as sociopaths, but a lot of average people who don't fall into that bucket are able to rationalize their way into doing shitty things. I'm talking about everyone from waitstaff and gas station attendants to people doing admin work and small business owners—not just people in conspicuous positions of power making many times the national average income.

I'd wager that if you were able to get your hands on an oracle that could provide the true count of incidental contact and the measure of impact on the average person's life by sociopaths versus good people who do bad things as a matter of performing their daily routines, the difference is probably an order of magnitude heavier on the side of the latter. Not to mention Hanlon's razor and all that.
One type of work is called "the oldest profession". Not sure how that is consolidated with a double standard view.
The most logical thing, then, would be to tax obesity. The obese cost us several trillion dollars because of COVID. (If it weren't for the obese, our hospitals would have had capacity, and there would have been no need for shutdown.)

Get on the scale and pay your taxes!

https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/06/01/david-kass-obesity-covid-19/