skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What interests me in the cases is specifically, Western or Western-style countries seem to be rising up far quicker than others. The more withheld a country is and/or the more draconian their measures, the less cases they have. Finland stood out as an interesting case so far where the number hasn't risen terribly. There was an Asian island (not Japan or Indonesia, don't remember) that was also doing incredibly well and specifically had lots of draconian measures. So the countries that end up getting lots of cases are at least somewhat outgoing in nature (accepting or taking part in a lot of tourism, lots of social activities in open communities instead of closed communities leading to lots of varied social contact) and unwilling to change this.

As an example: The Netherlands, where I live, has had a significant rise and our measures are.. self-isolate on showing symptoms, wash hands more often and don't shake hands. The former completely misses the problems with spreading during the incubation period (and worse, there are cases where you may leave, despite not being tested negative yet, solely on the basis of not showing symptoms. This totally misses the fact one can still be a carrier for at least a few days: antibodies don't work outside your body, last time I checked biology). The middle one is self-explanatory, but may also hurt your microbiome and can cause resistant bacteria when done too aggressively. The third measure.. completely misses the scope of the problem. You can still touch objects others have touched on the regular, still opening up a potentially worse way for the virus to carry over. Not to mention the primarily presented alternative is to.. touch elbows? Which looks like a poor joke and still results in touch.

What are some alternatives that would have more effect? Work from home unless coming to the office is absolutely necessary, don't go to social places (especially not large city centers like Amsterdam, Utrecht, etc.), avoid social contact with strangers or outgoing people. All measures that could be implemented fairly easily and have minimal impact on the economy given the alternatives: can't shop physically? Shop online. Can't have social contact online? Play an online game, chat through VoIP. Not working at the office? Surely you can be at least 80-90% as efficient as at the workplace with some etiquette, have some discipline. And don't get me started on people who get the flu, infect others and completely ignore that other illnesses may mask the virus.

Maybe survival of the fittest just needed to weed out stupidity. But hey, that's all just my opinion / hypothesis.
We need more fear, not less. Fear will save lives.
If you can you should check out the TV series Avenue 5. It’s a sci-fi comedy and whoever they hired to do their science is really knocking it out the park. Some of the true science I’ve seen in the shown: the ship is massive enough to have its own gravity. Objects that get lost in space don’t float away. They orbit the ship. They use passenger effluent as a cosmic radiation shield. And due to an anomaly they don’t get flung off into space. Their orbit gets wider so instead of a year trip it’s now 5.

Oh and the real engineers work in the basement of the ship. The bridge crew are actors.
If Denmark was a mystery then certainly Norway should have been mentioned as well in this article. Northern Norway was liberated by the Soviets and to my knowledge no allied forces ever set their foot in Norway at the end of the war.

Thus in principle the Russians could have claimed all of Norway.

They did not which I think is one of the reasons we in Norway retained a pretty good relationship with the Soviet Union through the Cold War sometimes to anger and bitter resentment by our American NATO allies which seemed to prefer to refer to the Soviet Union as the “evil empire”.
Insurance and reinsurance just clip the tail contractually, they never take "infinity multiplied by some small percent" risk! They don't go underground when their client does.
That's not relevant in the context of this discussion because at the end of the day, someone is not getting those interest payments. Sure, you can argue the money is still there (in the form of debt), but that doesn't help whatever entity that requires the cash now.
Suspending mortgages and interest is absolutely the economically right way to handle this sort of crisis.

You essentially want the economy on hold for 6 months, and then to come back at the end as if nothing happened.
Nobody being willing to make large cuts is different from nobody making cuts. The US is not a member of OPEC, nor are several other oil producing countries: they don't follow OPEC but may still reduce output.

There is rumor OPEC isn't cutting production because they believe they can undercut their competitors and put them out of business - I don't think that is their motivation, but it is something that can't be ignored.
The choice of distribution is subjective, especially if you little data to start with and are going on theoretical grounds. Agree on expected shortfall/TVaR.
Current popular sweeteners are pretty easy to tell apart from real sugar because they taste faintly bad (and yes, I've done blind taste tests - I can always tell). If this doesn't have that funky aftertaste, that'd be a huge improvement.
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They get what they pay for. And here in my capitalist country, "good" honey seems to be selling just fine.
> I'd like to live in a world where I know that everything I purchase does not come from a situation where harm is caused

The thing is, harm is an abstract and in this case absolute term.

If you take for example free range chicken, they're still being consumed, but they experience more freedom throughout their life. The workers who build the Fairphone still don't get paid much, but at least they get paid more adequate and are treated better.
You could say pretty much the same for TCP (or even maybe lower down the network stack)
Or perhaps the shortage of toilet paper was a consequence of rational preparation for a worst case scenario, not a sign of panic.
It is bad advice to simply say, "never take a repayment moratorium" based on anecdotal advice from one very particular set of circumstances.

First of all, many people simply do not have the liquid assets (or any assets) to pay their mortgage while not receiving income. Many Italians who are not able to earn money during this period simply would not have been paying their mortgage regardless of a repayment suspension. So banks may as well get out in front of that rather than waste time sending hundreds of thousands of notices to people who are not able to pay. This is not a choice. Obviously if you can continue to pay your mortgage you should do so.

Second, there is a big difference between temporarily suspending repayment for 2? 3? months and what happened after Katrina where many people had stopped paying for many months or years. There is no way that a few months repayment holiday, even if interest does accrue during that period is going to push many mortgages into negative equity.

Third, Italian mortgages are absolutely capped at 80% LTV and many banks are more comfortable at 60% or even less. This is unheard of by American or UK standards but a consequence is that it would take years of repayment suspension and interest accrual to push into negative equity.

Fourth, negative equity is only relevant if you want to sell. Italians tend not to be super mobile anyway, so even if some people do spend some time in negative equity, only a subset of those people will be "stuck" and prevented from making a move they would otherwise make.
Why would it be massive? I can see a smaller "average restoring" spike at most since thankfully another sufficiently bad epidemic occuring is already a very low probability - once per century pessimisitcally based on data.
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Why do you believe some entity needs the cash now?
If this is a comparison between Uber and Lyft, I'm not sure I really get it.

Platform business models are essentially winner takes all. Lyft's value proposition is that they're number two in a market where anyone who isn't in the top 4-5 has almost no chance of winning.

This doesn't mean that they're doing enough to differentiate themselves from Uber, or that they'll ever be able to turn an actual profit, but for the short and medium term game they're more than capable of fending off Uber-copy #27.
Since in the US tax is traditionally never included in any state (exception: gasoline is always advertised with all tax), consumers are not changing behavior. I suspect there are a few who split purchases knowing the above, but for the most part few people do.

Also, you seem to be putting more thought into this than our government has.
So, not sure if this is the same, but in Florida, after one of the more recent hurricanes, I was given the option to suspend mortgage payments.

All it does is suspend payments, not reduce the amount of payments.

So, once payment resumes, you still owe at least the same amount of debt.

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As another poster mentioned, interest still accrues.
Arguably the tail risk is that something happens which prevents many people paying their mortgages and this risk was already understood.

This is a form of control which accepts the inevitable and ensures that there is no messy mass default process.
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Great idea! Could you add timestamps in your show notes for folks who want to skip to a specific section?
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> So going "cold turkey" is not really an option

Ending an abusive relationship is always an option.
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What would Mark do? When Barry offers higher 'ethical value' by treating bees better, then Mark would need to find some different ethical axis on which he excels above Barry (say, has lower CO_2 emissions per jar of honey) and advertise that.

Then customers are splitted based on which ethical axis is more important to them and internalized that decision. Now both Barry and Mark can increase their profit margin as customers would not switch to the other 'evil one'.
Also keep in mind that we need ICU beds (ventilators) in particular for this, and that they have some base rate of utilization unrelated to COVID-19 that isn't easily moved.
Bzzt! It pegs critical care facilities if not contained and then a lot of people die.
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Just going to run through a quick example.

ATX power uses 18 AWG copper cable. 18 AWG copper cable has 6.4 ohms of resistance per thousand feet. A 6 foot 18 AWG cable would have .0384 ohms of resistance. Let’s say you has a pretty heavy load of 10A. This would be a 0.33 ohm load. There would be about 10% loss, or 3W.

Not nothing, though at more typical loads the cable loss would be lower. 5V rails are more typically used and they would have close to half the loss.
Three people travelled from Venice, Italy to Kerala on Feb 29th and skipped the tests at the airport. Today Kerala has confirmed 12 cases of COVID-19 and around 3000 people are under observation.
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I never said relu(-anything). Please read the equations I wrote above with extreme care to where the minus signs are. They are at precise locations. I also emphasize that my explanation only works if you take into account the fact that the net is randomly initialized. I wrote a quoted sentence in my prev comment which was carefully formulated to build up the right intuition. I don't think I can explain it better.

But I'll try: the sequence of actions (random init, teain your residual net, test your net) is indistinguishable in effect from (random init, train usual net on negated starting input, and test on negated input). The second version will be indistinguishable from running a repeated experiment of the first type with a new random init.
Unfortunately, GDPR doesn't give you the right to sue. Enforcement is only possible via (hollowed out) data protection agencies.
Ideal would be if you could issues U2F hardware keys but not everyone supports that yet. I've seen KeePassXC used effectively as it works on Widows, macOS, and Linux.
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> There's a browser native URL splitting function available to JS after all.

It's the URL object (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL), isn't it? We tried using it at work... and found out that, as always seems to be the case, it's available everywhere except on Internet Explorer.
Or it was made with a stolen formula....
That's a huge number. Where did you get it from ?
Industrial design demands this. A replacement connector should be difficult to remove and use sufficiently thick cables. Because of the requirements there is little room for improvement and thus we have used the same connectors for 30 years.
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It's not my opinion, it's that of the scientific community in relevant fields. Go to any popgen conference and ask away.
as a half finn half dane, this is incorrect. Nordic countries aka Pohjoismaat does include Finland, Scandinavia does not.
Well if your renters have no money to pay rent through no fault of their own at the same time that many other renters are in the same situation then you're better off just cutting rent way down for a few months / delaying part of the rent payment. Either way you're not getting your money now.

Note that Italy has strong renter's protections. If you tried to evict based on non-payment during the quarantine, you'd fail legally and the consequences to your reputation would be severe.
This is Europe so I would expect tax payers to foot the bill.
The article was a bit light in details, but here is my educated guess depending of the details:

1. (most likely) The interest is still paid, but the outstanding notional payments are deferred. This causes no actual losses to banks, but may cause liquidity issues. VCentral bank can sort those easily.

2. (A bit less likely) Even interest rates are deferred, but they are capitalized to the loan so that your loan amount increases if you do not pay the interest. As above, no losses to the bank, but maybe liquidity issues.

3. (Least likely) Banks actually waive the payments. In this scenario it is primarily the shareholders that take the loss, but I would strongly expect that in this scenario government covers the losses of the bank.
I am surprised. A few short months ago, many were writing Tesla's obituary. (Mostly in the financial news. Maybe it was an attempt to manipulate the stock price.)

I'm glad to see this. Keep rocking, Tesla!
>Yes or No. Not "Configure", not "adjust my preferences", not "Leave" which doesn't actually leave, not "Settings" which takes you to a list of all the "partners" with individual switches, no dark patterns. Yes or no.

Even worse when the switches are made in such way that you have no idea whether you are opting-in or out.
Tbh suspending interest payments as well would kill already struggling Italian banks. For those countries with the appropriate finances, subsidizing this in the long run would indeed be a good way to handle this. Europe would probably allow it even though it's state subsidy of banks (unless some other mechanism is enacted). But the Italian government isn't in that sort of financial situation. I expect a future upward interest shock since the country will lose capacity driving their debt to GDP even higher.
I use safari every day with content blockers and literally never see ads. I use adguard + Safaris own content blockers.

Part of the reason I enjoy Safari is that I've found its content blocking system to be very coherent
covid harm is due to many layers in the immune response, chloroquine might help at one layer.

it's said that many covid death are related to cytokine storm, hence why anti rhumatism drugs help, they tame the storm even if they dont touch the originating virus.

maybe, and plausibly, cquine has a similar purpose.
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I'm fully aware of the sensitivites of the quant finance world, but there are plenty of high quality workplaces out there that don't have the extremely invasive approach to security that e.g. g research do.
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I feel this comment deep in my soul, having bad experiences with mathworks licensing. It's crazy how much friction some companies have in the way of customers paying them. But that's the price you pay for not having one price.
Anyone who wants to understand this insanity, I recommend MONEY AS DEBT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nBPN-MKefA

The first time I saw it I thought it was a luny conspiracy theory, but NO. It's all true.
The go to software is actually Zoom. It does webinars and has a host of features specifically tailored for this market.

Universities are by-and-large, not Microsoft shops.

Teams is picking up from Lync/Skype-for-Business in many Microsoft shops.
In Germany (and probably other places too), people are stealing masks and desinfectant from hospitals - places where this is really needed. I think this is a big issue and it needs to be addressed.
I thought this was Chrome vs Firefox
That is actually a cool idea. I have seen idea that you can use giant slingshots to hurl cargo out into orbit for cheap as those would use solar energy to prime.

If you think about it we could be doing so many cool things as species, if only we clean up the whole politicking and squabbling over resources and power.

Technologically it seems we are on the edge of being able to expand out into solar system.
How does this affect the value of the Dollar? (Taking the oil/dollar into consideration.)
"TIOBE gives away current stats and sells access to historical trends" (paraphrased)

How is that not accurately described as click-bait? Click to see compelling "news" AND see an advertisement we hope you'll buy...
I'm solidly middle-aged (mid-50s) and I would love to own a Tesla. Not for the green creds (which are still nice) but for the performance.

I'll take a dual-motor version with a big battery, please!
But is Scientology's view not that we are essentially manipulated into our current value and belief systems?

Why does your goal of trying to limit their "manipulation" have more validity than their goal of limiting yours?
I think Ireland has done something along this line related to abortion and gay marriage.
That is actually entirely possible, I imagine supermarkets try to minimize storage as much as anyone else so shortages might just mean that people are just synchronously doing normal shopping.

In at least a few cases though I doubt it was not panic buying.
> Uber-scale profitable

That's an oxymoron, Uber are massively loss making.
Yup. Im all in for space colonization. But with the current state of humanity, we are not in a position to colonize anything in budget and on time.

Space colonization is a game to be played after we have made human life on earth fully sustainable.

Then we would have enough time and resources to think beyond.
Yeah but the article is just about being less terrible. Like if an employer is really going out of their way to be abusive. That's when a competitor can get an advantage just by... doing nothing.
And really, it's the atmosphere that does the bulk of the radiation protection work. Astronauts abort the ISS still experience their fair share of radiation. As mentioned though, their orbit is far from ideal and different orbits have less radiation.
Tool capable of hiding any file within your images
I am developer from Sofia, Bulgaria and i am really proud with my personal project stegify (https://github.com/DimitarPetrov/stegify). It is a command line tool which performs steganography encoding and is implemented in Golang.
The tool is capable of hiding any kind of file in any image or set of images. This encoding is 100% clueless and transparent for the eye.
In short the file is hidden in the image/s last two bits of each color segment. The technique is known as LSB steganography.
I am happy to share with you guys, that i have managed to create a new version (v1.2) which now provides an option to hide your file in multiple images, divided into chunks.

It would be great if you share some feedback and ideas (Encoding in multiple images introduced with v1.2 is inspired by a community feature request). Thanks!
It's funny though; I know and love Proxomitron, but the source code is lost to time, no? doesn't that make it an unknown risk?
golang might get you where you need to go as well. It's not a perfect language either but it seems to be less of a foot gun than python and golang is absolutely a better applications language.
Not quite. They get money from somewhere, that they loan out.

But because much of the money they got from somewhere can be requested at will (people can still remove money from their accounts), it is still liquid and still counts as money. So money is "created" this way.

That is how they create money. They don't literally just create whatever they need, only central banks can do that.
The crucial difference is self checkouts displace the labor onto the end user with more or less the same delay as a checkout. This will remove both the delay and the checkout work task.
According to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL that works everywhere except on Internet Explorer, so keeping with the theme of the original comment, we can blame Windows again.
I'd argue that investing in skills and training is the best preparation for apocalypse scenarios.

I have a younger sister in medical school, and as I say to her about the debt she's taken on for the degree, "Even if there's a nuclear war and the economy and technology evaporate, people will want to keep you alive for your knowledge. They might break your ankles and chain you up to keep access to your knowledge and skills, but you'll be fed even when almost no one else is."

Not that preparing for an apocalypse is necessarily a great use of time - just saying that skills are a better asset for it than physical goods and resources.
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Then you click it to test and you've opted in for just a second and it's already too late to go back...
The difference is that this is not an offer, it's an action by a government in Europe, where people are generally treated like human beings and governments act like governments of some of the richest countries in the world.
Other entities may not forgive the banks for failing to make repayments on their loans. There are also instruments such as bonds and fixed income which may be backed by mortgages.