skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an anecdote, and I don't want it to come off as rude.

I know a person who is currently a director at ML. The simple fact they were hired and placed in an administrative/managerial role is enough to tell me never to work there. Shame too because I think the tech is cool and I'm fairly well qualified for the jobs this person posts incessantly on LinkedIn.

Don't mind South Florida either, go canes. Also 20% off the salary of most regions, but also no state income tax and relatively cheap home prices if you go up to Broward.
Well duh. Collectibles are basically non-fungible by definition. How are you going to have an automated exchange for them?

/s
I'm suspicious when a scientist writes a blog post and doesn't cite any references. Yes, there are elements of social panic in our response and it's fine to point that out. But he goes much further and implies that this virus is not a serious threat to human health, which is plainly false[0].

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/simple-math-alarming-ans...
He's not that old, but he's not that young, either. He worked on Plan 9 for like a decade before this happened. A few years before he put out this blog post, he finished his PhD thesis. While a bit silly to hire someone with that much experience as an intern, it is how most PhDs are treated.
I've seen many tech companies in the Boston area announce employees can (or must) work from home, since the governor of Massachusetts declared a state of emergency on Tuesday and encouraged such actions. All governors should do likewise.
This was the outcome for a long time now. They had a lot of infighting to begin with. They couldn’t agree on who leads and where the development needs to happen. I predicted that they will sell back to google for a discount a while ago and it still might happen.
SXSW already had big layoffs. They canceled the festival on Friday, and then on Monday (two days ago), they laid off over 50 people, about 1/3 of their full-time employees:

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2020-03-09/sxsw-l...
Amazon restricts sales of face masks and hand sanitizer due to price gouging
Insomnia, fear and isolation: Inside one Wuhan apartment, virus toll on healthy
for stuff I/my company (as in the company I own not just one I work for) control first choice is Mercurial repos until now on Bitbucket. Some projects that I’ve forked to fix bugs/enhance are already on GitHub so they live there for now.

I’d prefer to self host them all and just push copies to external locations for the purposes of PRs etc.
All travel to Europe’s Schengen area according to Homeland’s announcement.

You can still fly from the UK, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia.
Isn't that missing the point? That might be fine and dandy for him, but it bodes poorly for slowing the spread in general.
You are referring to a much different subject than the parent I was responding to, which was about the renaming to COVID-19.
Admittedly, the Biogen conference was... a bit of a fuck-up. But yes, all our universities are sending their kids home, white-collar workplaces are moving towards WFH policies, etc. I've been WFH since earlier this week myself, and I went shopping for food and soap with my wife Tuesday night.
It seems most of the analysis of these decisions is only looking at the benefits and not the costs; it's impossible to make rational decisions that way.
The first time I clicked on that twitter link it only showed two tweets and not that whole thread. The site was probably under unusually high load in the immediate wake of Trump's speech and the NBA news.

After reading the entire thread, he didn't say "zero attempts to mitigate infection". He said "without effective controls". He also said " Increasing evidence that the extremely intense control measures in China have reduced transmission while they are in force. As long as such intense control measures are in place it is possible to imagine keeping the number infected well below 40%. I don't believe most countries (maybe not even China) can keep such controls for months or a year, the minimum time frame for potentially having a vaccine. But even more moderate ones if effective could reduce incidence considerably". Not even Italy has gotten to the extreme measures that China was implementing. Also if you read his more recent tweets you will see that he thinks the European travel ban is futile.

Overall it sounds to me like that 20% number that I have been using since your first post is the updated number based off of our current mitigation strategy. I don't see any indication that he thinks that number is too high given the current path. Once again, I am completely open to learning otherwise if you have something that you can point to that clearly states otherwise.
COVID-19 hospitalizations are mostly for respiratory failure, which can be treated with ventilators. I don't actually know about that study though.
Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota said as much on JRE yesterday.[1]

Obviously touching your face won't decrease your chances of catching coronavirus (or any other disease), but the reason this strain is wrecking so much havoc is because of how transmissible it is, especially through simple breathing. The implication being, if you get it on your hands, you've almost certainly already breathed it in.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw
We use Opengrok at Cisco. It’s a pretty barebones interface, but it works well.
India suspends all visas til 15th April 2020
Strangely the ref site has expired cert
> How can you call an expert someone who can’t consciously decide their own confidence intervals?

Well, you don't have to call them that, but most people whom others call experts are overconfident in this quantifiable way. See, for example, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-art-thinking-cle... . You probably can't do it as well as you think you can either.
In the real world: UPS,generators, cooling, BIOS/management card patching, 100 gigabit switches, optics, cabling, monitoring, tamper-proof logging, SEIM, cameras, physical security, software licenses. Plus maintenance on all that stuff.

Oh and you need a DR site too, so double it.

And staff up 4x for 24x7 operations and build an orchestration layer yourself.

I’ve done the math in a lot of scenarios, including (especially) staff time. Running your own real data center doesn’t make long-term financial sense unless you are in the mid-hundreds of physical servers.

Colo might make a bit more sense for some situations, but there’s a reason so much is being moved to cloud providers. The people doing it aren’t stupid.
I was like, yeah and sieverts aren't much better! We need a more human radiation unit. Like probably one based on multiples of average daily or yearly background radiation doses from cosmic rays, radon, etc.

What's more useful? The tritiated water from Fukushima increases your radiation by 0.6 uSv/yr!

vs. the tritiated water from Fukushima increases your radiation by 1/1000th of your normal natural background dose!
Just out of curiosity, why do you prefer to self host?
Singapore is 1/10th the size and population of most countries. Scale changes everything.
DHS says 30-day Europea travel ban doesn’t cover Green Card holders, US citizens
Key points:

On the second floor of a residential building in northwest Wuhan, John Zhu has made his home a fortress against the virus. His wife and 13-year-old son have not stepped out of the apartment in 46 days. He has emerged only briefly to pick up grocery deliveries and, twice, to bring food to the family dog, A’han, which is alone in his mother’s house.

Mr. Zhu has succeeded in keeping his family safe from the virus – and A’han alive – even as three people in his apartment complex contracted COVID-19 and almost 2,400 have died in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicentre of the outbreak.

But weeks of isolation have poisoned Mr. Zhu’s family life, wiped out his income and corroded his trust in the public institutions that, he believes, failed to properly respond to the virus until it was too late – and have now kept him locked up long after its peak.

With no income, they are eating into savings to survive, and the price of groceries has doubled. He has only been able to bring food to A’han twice in six weeks. A’han has grown weak and thin, but Mr. Zhu’s apartment complex has told him he cannot bring the dog home.

He feels trapped by thoughts of the epidemic. He doesn’t read anymore and instead passes the days watching mindless sitcoms, a stream of unmemorable entertainment that has left his memory of time under lockdown hazy.

The mental pressure has not, however, diminished his feelings about the measures taken in Wuhan. He offers himself as a warning to other cities and countries contemplating the same.

“As someone who has personally experienced the whole process, I have to say that the Wuhan lockdown might not be as positive as it has been perceived by the outside world,” he said. It “worsened public panic and destroyed order. … It is extraordinarily terrible.”
or Britain, or Turkey
Brave browser to block fingerprinting with randomization
Quite interesting but I just hope if they start with an open one.
You always can bridge to git from svn and mercurial. It is almost seamless, and after generating the git repository everything will work.
Your rant + some good points to be sure reminds me of a long running argument I had with an ex-detroit guy on who the mororns and/or cheaters were: Detroit or Japan? -- this was mid 80s and early 90s. Hint: some American companies are slow to learn. That was my argument then.
But even the tinest of improvements is better than no improvements, because we all know the most important thing when making decisions is to only consider the possible benefits and never consider the cost!
While that was a stupid thing to do and in poor taste. Rudy Gobert did not know he had covid-19 until tonight and the NBA cancelled the season within an hour or so.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nfSnMhqJF/?igshid=1n32u59f63bp...
Familiar with Metafilter! I think you've got a little of your chronology mixed up there, though. It happens!
I thought where you were going with this is that since smartphones are so ubiquitous any sort of AR system should utilize the phone for its primary processing. A headset is needed though for AR, it just has to be much smaller and lighter before they become mainstream.
AA is great. It saved my Dad's life. For a while, I was going too. Ultimately I began drinking again and things are much better now. I also know that if things ever get rough for me I can rely on AA. Really great group of non-judgmental people in there. As an agnostic, the "God" stuff wasn't a problem for me, it's pretty light and on your own terms.
Coming from Linux to macOs (macOs user for 2 years), I have the very opposite feeling : why does the cmd key is used instead of Ctrl for copy ? why can't I set up cmd+E to open a finder window ? Why € sign not under the E key with a modifier ?
At least in Linux, I was able to remap the things the way I like it : 'windows' key is used for windows interaction (move, resize, close) and global desktop interaction (lock, sleep, shortcut for standard apps like mail, web browser, file explorer), Ctrl is mostly used within apps for common functions, Alt is used within app for app specific functions

I think it comes down to what you're used to in the end. But Linux is the only system where I was able to tell the machine to behave the way I want and not to fight against counter intuitive shortcuts (for me) ...
AOL began to get really big when they launched unlimited minutes, I think '96 or '97. The unwashed masses adopted a few years later. AOL of '02 was nothing like AOL of '97.
Anarchism? Hardly. It's one of the handful of intentionally anti-populist features of the Constitution, along with the existence of the Senate.

He did win. The only way to say he lost is by focusing on a measure that everyone agrees isn't the one that matters.
I used primary data from the World Health Organization to predict the trajectory of the 2019 Coronavirus outbreak on a country-by-country basis. I normalized the number of cases in each country to the population of that country. This resulted in a normalized number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants for each country for each day.

Using the date of the first confirmed coronavirus case in each country as its day 0, I tracked the growth by day in normalized coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants, from the earliest known start of the epidemic in each country.

Summary

1. The 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak is at an inflection point.

2. The data strongly suggests that the number of coronavirus cases grows exponentially in countries that do not mandate quarantines, restrictions on travel and public gatherings, and closing of schools, universities and workplaces (“Social Distancing”).

3. The number of coronavirus cases compounds at more than 25% per day in countries that do not mandate social distancing. This behavior is consistent across Iran, Italy, Spain, France, and the UK, each measured independently from the date of the first case in that country, with root-mean-square accuracy R^2 > 99%.

4. The highly precise exponential growth strongly suggests that the growth in these cases is due to an underlying biological phenomenon (e.g. virus transmission) rather than due to an increase in the availability of tests or the number of tests performed.

5. At a density of approximately 9.7 coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Italy mandated on 3/8/20 a complete regional lock-down, with movement restrictions applying to about 16 million people (25% of the population of Italy). The following day, on 3/9/20, the lock-down was extended to the entire country (100% of the population of Italy).

Predictions

6. US — I predict that the US density will reach the Italian threshold of 9.7 US coronavirus cases per 100,000 US inhabitants by March 30, 2020. This threshold density is equal to the density of cases when Italy implemented a regional lock-down that affected 25% of its population.

7. US — I predict that the density could reach 87 US coronavirus cases per 100,000 US inhabitants by April 9, 2020, in some regions, unless further social controls are adopted. I computed 87 cases per 100,000 inhabitants as the threshold density at which all currently unoccupied intensive care unit (ICU) beds would be occupied by a US person who is infected with coronavirus and has severe, life-threatening symptoms. In other words, no regional beds to house patients who are severely ill.

All of these numbers are an underestimate of the actual numbers with the US numbers being one of the most underestimated. However, this underestimate won’t affect the March 30 or April 9 prediction much (moving them sooner by a few days) since the underestimate is a multiplicative factor whereas the growth is exponential.
I sympathize with this view, but it does make it harder to respond quickly with nationwide lockdowns, which is the flip side of living in such a connected world.

Long term, I think some mechanism to mandate more social isolation is going to be needed.

For example when travelling from California to Arizona, there is currently no quarantine area or checkpoint, and that's fine if you want free movement, but then it's harder to say that states should run their own pandemic policy as long as there is free movement between states.

And this is a general trade off. More interconnected world => localism is less viable as a means of countering global threats.
It's too contagious and difficult to contain. In a month it will reach every country. In three month the pandemic will be over. In less than a year we will be back to normal.
Don't blame him, blame the incompetent people he hired?
He didn’t know he had it and the team doctors didn’t check until earlier tonight. But it was in very poor taste.
Not to mention probably there's only a small use case of going to Europe without needing to return.
Rich people will do anything to avoid state income tax.

Florida is one of the US East Coast states with no state income tax.

Right after the "dot bomb", several SV VCs moved to Florida or Texas to avoid California state income tax.

Amazon's reason for re-investing all profit was to pay zero tax (in the USA you can do that, but in some countries they just tell you what percent is the minimum.)
Python script that tells you with Mac say about new confirmed coronavirus cases
I think that's necessary, since the order on the full set of reals isn't constructively decideable, so min isn't even a total function there.
It sounds from the article like they’re using simulated annealing (the computational technique) to literally simulate annealing. Don’t know why but that blows my mind.

From the article:

Two years ago, though, Berthier found a trick that allowed him to speed up the process by a factor of 1 trillion. His algorithm picks two particles at random and swaps their positions. These shake-ups help the simulated liquid stay unstuck, allowing molecules to settle into snugger fits — just as the ability to swap two ill-fitting shapes would help in Tetris.
That's one of the main problems. I started with the demo frontend that comes in the box and just hacked on that. I'm no UI developer by any stretch.
I guess the requirement is that it can't take itself too seriously. People can discuss what they like. Nobody is trying to hunt down people with an unpopular, sincere opinion.

I've seen a friend share something from a space colonization site - what an absurd idea, but also fun and interesting. Too bad I didn't keep the link.

Some of the old forums are still good. Something Awful is still up there, still a little funny, still a little interesting, but feels a little stale. Bay12 (Dwarf Fortress) forums are good, but have become really tight knit that it's might feel a little clique-ish. Still a good place to discuss those kinds of games. I'd bet the Paradox games forums are good too. There's some erotic RP forums which I won't link, but those usually are good places because they attract a lot of Asperger's people who are educated, good at writing, mature enough to discussing anything at all, and it's very tightly moderated.
Every little bit also has a cost, and it's possible for the cost to outweight the benefits, especially when a decision is made without even considering the cost.
Sorry, wasn't trying to rewrite history, just making the point that those places were changed by an infusion of willfully ignorant people who drastically lowered the signal to noise ratio.

I started on usenet in '85, and saw the decline there, but for slashdot and kuro5hin I seem to recall a different "trigger" of some sort that brought the masses there, it happened rapidly and was not a welcome change
How many stocks (and which) did the Trump-Kushner Crime family have time to short in prep for this?
This. I bought a used Herman Miller Miira for $250 and when I priced it out it was 1200 new. Great chair and significantly better than the new $200 office chairs.
Also, when you are trying to sell that's not a good sign about your confidence it what you have.

I think they all know it's bunk.
The State of Running an Ethereum Node 2020
And they're the only ones.
Population is about 5 million. I think a key effect is to reduce their margin for error.
1. All existing visas, except diplomatic, official, UN/International Organizations, employment, project visas, stand suspended till 15th April 2020. This decision will come into effect from 1200 GMT on 13th March 2020 at the port of departure.

2.• Incoming travellers, including Indian nationals, are advised to avoid non-essential travel and are informed that they can be quarantined for a minimum of 14 days upon their arrival in India.

3.All incoming travellers, incl Indian nationals,arriving from or having visited China,Italy, Iran,Republic of Korea,France, Spain & Germany after 15th February 2020 shall be quarantined for minimum 14 days.This will take effect from 1200 GMT on 13th March 2020 at port of departure
It was refreshing in Feb to visit a National Park without have 5 Chinese buses pull along side you.
Not that your statement is not funny, but please do not turn hackernews into reddit
> No one in NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, ... have big garages to stockpile supplies

I think most of San Francisco by area is zoned "RH-" (Residential Housing), and most of that RH- area is RH-1 or RH-1D (single family). Most of the homes in those regions have lots of space.

We're not just talking about Zuck's mansion either, plenty of homes in the Sunset or other West SF areas that have that kind of room.
Interview with Toronto, Canada Based AlterEgo
I’m ok with their precautions. Not only are they keeping things super clean, but they are giving my kid more hygiene education and training then I could possibly do on my own. For example, washing hands at home is a bit of a struggle because the sink is so high, it is much easier to drill in the habit at daycare, not to mention the peer pressure they apply by making a game out of it for all the kids at once. Child psychology is working for us in this case as long as it remains safe.
Mine broke after a few weeks. Now I have to use the menu item to adjust volume, but other than that it hasn't bothered me.
I'm a remote worker and I've found it hard to say something positive about the virus, but having companies be more ok with remote workers and (hopefully) finding work still gets done can mean more remote possibilities overall. For me, that's a good thing.
The Azores are in Europe.
We are going for a ride that sux. Please, everyone, get and be ready!
I suspect improvement when the weather warms. There is little community spreading in the summer countries of Africa and southern hemisphere.
"Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis." ~ Perlis

I personally pride myself on my ability to analyze situations by cases, and to grind through normally-opaque walls to find proofs, but we should always keep in mind that it is the hardest way. It's like fishing for algorithms.
Syphillis does that. Lowers the hosts inhibitions and increases their risk seeking behaviour.
No I don't think so. See this other poster's comment, 15 minutes after yours (synchronicity!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22553350
People expecting a half life gaming experience have been disappointed while the rest of us are too busy playing Beat Saber. It is going down just like mobile gaming did, in a different direction from hardcore gaming. AngryBirds wasn’t half-life either.

I don’t really game on my Quest, but I do use it for a one hour workout everyday. My system is pretty beat up too, if it stopped working tomorrow I would get a replacement immediately.
That "codesearch" is only superficially related to this one. The main feature of _this_ codesearch that makes it so useful is the cross references to callers, callees, and overrides. Ye olde codesearch has more in common with things like livegrep.
> The government should be well equipped to absorb temporary shocks to revenue.

Good thing the federal deficit is higher than it's ever been! No, wait, crap...
US citizens can always return though. It's kind of unconstitutional to stop them from returning.
Damn this is awesome. I'm actually dreading working from home because I don't have a desk, keyboard, or anything of the sort.
>This is a nice example of how easy it is to make something usable for someone like Simon. But it doesn’t really go beyond the usable. There is no personality in it, and we didn’t really explore other possible solutions. In the next chapter I will tell about the invisible animations I made together with Hannes Wallrafen. In this project we went beyond the functional by working with both identity and nonsensical ideas.

I don't agree, the site did it's job and it did it well. This isn't from a company, so the personality isn't that important. The accessibility is more important in this case.
This is the calm before the storm. Expect riots.