skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Support the ACLU, call, write, and meet with your representatives, do things that matter.

While this is always a good way to make your views known, that doesn't mean it will accomplish what you are seeking. Even if everyone who has a genuine objection to intrusive security screening at airports were to do what you suggest, I strongly suspect it would still amount to a small enough percentage of voters that it would not change the incentives of elected representatives.

The underlying point is that this is about risk aversion. Yes, people don't like intrusive security screening, but they even more don't like the risk of being on a plane that gets hijacked by terrorists, and they believe it's the government's job to prevent that from happening. That's why we have the airport security procedures we have. Unless that risk calculation changes, the procedures are not going to change.
We’re Not Going Back to the Way Life Was Before
The assignment to class properties reminds me an awful lot of stuff I've seen in Python, particularly in Django/REST Framework.

But the class wrapping thing would just break my brain every time I tried to use it. Calling plain functions just feels a lot more natural to me.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/487110-tests-indicate-...

A study from scientists at Princeton University, University of California and the National Institutes of Health indicated that the COVID-19 virus could remain viable in the air "up to 3 hours post aerosolization," while remaining alive on plastic and other surfaces for up to three days.
Funny how many people think "they were too slow with testing"

They were.

do any of these commentators have any idea how long it takes to develop a reliable, sensitive and hopefully specific test

The CDC forbade King County from using their own home grown test.

that probably didn't exist in its current form until around 3 months ago.

The US CDC also declined to use the WHO test (and presumably the Chinese and Korean ones as well)... even as a temporary measure.

why not criticize them for not yet developing an effective antiviral treatment and vaccine for the condition too?

Because the tests were widely available, widely distributed, and non-CDC labs have already developed tests. The same is not true with a vaccine. IIRC antivirals are being tested in Seattle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-testing...
I think you are narrowing on one phrase and ignoring all of the context around it, which is generally not very conducive to understanding a speaker's point.
Or would never give it to Twitter.
> If you're like the US and test very few you get the huge fatality rates we saw in Washington.

Most of the fatality rate in Washington is due to it spreading in a single nursing home. IIRC, it was 19 deaths from that one nursing home.

More vigorous testing comparable to SK likely wouldn't have caught the issue in this one nursing home in time as it spread like wildfire there. Only if the testing had caught the single employee that was the source would it have made a difference.
IIUC the metatheory is that in times of crisis btc would strengthen and become more fiat than fiat.. so far it's not. But who knows ... maybe people will leverage the events to move forward on crypto in the next weeks...
This is a confusion of _can_ and _will_.
Superdeterminism requires a ludicrous amount of complexity. It's not a simpler theory, it's a vastly, vastly more complex one.

It implies that the universe is fine tuned to such a degree that everyone who's ever done an experiment which might disprove QM ever arrived at their n-sigma result did so by random chance.

The only way it could make even a lick of sense is if we're living in a simulation, and there's a little green man who's job it is to ensure we never disprove quantum mechanics.
That's fine - I would expect to find something niche after doing some research.

Show me an example of "something niche" being available. Right away?

I don't always have something I want to search for, either.
I think everyone in this thread probably knows about kona. It's neat, but it's also trying to be an implementation for a very old version of k.

Here's a list of a few different k implementations. Most aren't aiming for performance.

https://ngn.bitbucket.io/k.html
Probably not; it's basically a massive jobs program to employ the otherwise unemployable, and furloughing them all would twist the knife into the economy because most TSA agents are in income brackets that stop spending when their paychecks pause.
Windows CE has seen some very unexpected use cases. I couldn't confirm. And bugs are not a windows only feature.
lombardy has 7280 confirmed cases [1]
lombary has a population of 10MM (wikipedia)
italy has 3.18 hospital beds per 1000 [2]

the math for that adds up to 31,800 hospital beds
7280 confirmed cases is 22% - so my sources were off or wiki is wrong as originally I recall reading lombardy has a 16MM population.

I will say that your article claims they haven't run out of ICU beds yet but that number is surprisingly high for ICU needs to cover covid 19. The article implies 600 ICU cases from covid 19 - that's over 12% ICU from confirmed covid 19 cases, which is more than twice what china reported.

It's also very surprising how few ICU beds they have allocated towards ICU....

The USA has something like 14% of hospital beds as ICU beds [3] but Italy appears to only have have less than 3% of their beds available for covid 19 ICU

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1099375/coronavirus-case...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...
[3] https://www.sccm.org/Communications/Critical-Care-Statistics
Do I want people flying over me who are barely able to drive normally?

No.

Do I see a realistic need for a flying taxi?

No.

Are normal small existing planes to maintain quite expensive in Germany?

Yes.

Is it realistic that this financial overhead is feasible for all those people actually living under those airways which would make sense?

No.

Do we as a society and not super rich want that?

No.
> TW government had a plan for this epidemic and a healthy skepticism for both official news and the WHO.

Which is notable that the US CDC seems to be following WHO closer than anyone, at least early on...
UI Fabric is evolving into Fluent UI
Study: Covid-19 may spread in several different ways
I've always hated how we don't create useful jobs for people that need work. There is so much infrastructure in this country that is deteriorating, why aren't we doing anything about that?

Instead we create jobs that inconvenience everyone and provide no real value. In fact, they're harming the airline industry, so you could argue they're a net negative on the economy.
These briefs don't mention it by name, but this technology seems like "DNA Vaccination" that has been in research for some years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_vaccination
...I admit that this is likely too personal a question, but my curiosity can't resist. Do you just...not use lotion normally?
You seem to be assigning the values of boolean comparison results with that syntax. So Fed and Government are both false in this example.
The 6 month outlook for a new business is pretty poor. The 5 year outlook is probably not much worse than at any other time.
I worked for a hedge fund that was like that. You only got in as a fresh grad if you were in a top tier school, or you had a strong referral from an existing employee. I got in on a referral, despite going to a highly ranked engineering school, but not MIT or CMU.

Edit: we also hired a few idiots out of MIT. Remember one instance when an intern from MIT sent an email to a wide audience something to the effect "your API is breaking my code, fix your API". This was in C++. They were asking for something that didnt exist and then blindly dereferenced the nonexistent first element causing a segfault. My response was to the effect of "youre dereferncing an empty vector. API is fine. Fix your fucking code."

The interns original email was sent to just my team, but CC'd nearly all of front office. In my reply I added all of backoffice so they were aware of the idiot. Never heard from them again...
From 20+ of my friends in Wuhan, the numbers most likely correct.
And in my city, a small city in China with about 3M population, there's about 100 total confirmed cases in the past 2 months, there's news spreaded in local social network for every case before official confirmation. IMO, it's very hard to hide numbers.

In early stage of Wuhan(Jan 2020), there's hiding numbers, and there's lots 'rumours' widely spreaded on social network, e.g. Lots messages from medical staffs in Wuhan, so we known the numbers of Wuhan is not correct. But in recent weeks there's no such 'rumours', the gov may have strong control on many things, but it's not possible to control all(most?) 'rumours'..
I’m actually building Passbox (https://passbox.co) to help with this
The disease is extremely contagious. Hospitals would've been even more overburdened as they currently are if we just "did nothing" because it would've spread much quicker.

You might get to the point where you need to make a choice between who you're going to accept in the hospital (younger people then get the fast lane over the elder due to potential higher amount of life years being saved). I believe its like that in Italy at this point.

If old people quarantine themselves the chances of them not getting this disease increase. I know a few elder (including loved ones) who I don't want to see passing away, so I have an interest in this.

On a different note, I also find it selfish and distasteful to feel careless about big groups of other people based on discriminatory elements such as age.
I'll add my own little data point to the pile. I changed jobs in 1998 so I fixed problems at two companies, small to mid-size. At each place they would have had problems if they weren't found and fixed. At second company they asked for volunteers to get paid extra to stay the night, eat pizza, watch movies and be prepared to fix things if they went south. They had enough volunteers that no one had to be voluntold. They weren't needed.
My experiences tend to agree with the GP. One thing to consider is that the withdraw effects may be proportional more to the intensity of an addiction prior to quitting rather than the length of time addicted. If you're drinking one cup of coffee a day, but vaping the equivalent of one or more packs a day, your nicotine withdraw may be far more severe.
Conversely, if you smoke one cigarette a day, and consume the equivalent of 12 cups of coffee a day in caffeine (caffeine pills or energy drinks). This may sounds ridiculous to you, but if I were to interpolate your experience with my anecdotal sample set, it sounds as if you were vaping well over the equivalent of two packs a day. This is really extrapolation, I can't say I know anyone who has had panic attacks while going withdraw who otherwise would not have, and my sample includes people who have gone through withdraw from a pack a day + vaping.
Obviously the sample is small and anecdotal. Also, I've neglected to find supporting sources. I acknowledge that you are probably relaying the events truthfully, but you are essentially downplaying the addictive potential of caffeine here similarly to how you accuse GP of downplaying the addictive effects of nicotine. In summary, caffeine withdraw is a thing, and can be worse than nicotine withdraw. I don't think you need to have some dark motive to state that.
<=1080p content is typically only protected by code obfuscation. There aren't usually any "exploits", merely a moderately skilled reverse engineering effort - as such, nothing can be patched any time soon.
AutoSleep is game-changing because you don’t have to do anything, it just tracks.

With SleepCycle I only used it 10% of the days because I had to consciously choose to turn it on!
It seems like it's slumping further with each (negative) market open. Wall street had a terrible day and now markets in asia are slumping another 7% or so.

In theory, this should have been cryptocurrency's time to shine - a certain mathematical store of value, more convenient than gold and immune to the vagaries of central banking. Clearly something was wrong with the theory.
Working hard for getting a mortgage paid off when most people can't even afford one home, is he?

Who creates the value that makes people choose his location?
Genuinely inventing something, specially nowadays is very difficult. If a number of students start having those (especially if many of them do after an internship at IBM), it can become kind of a red flag.

Also, after talking with someone who had obtained a few patents (his work did not nearly reflect the calibre of an inventor), the expensive and convoluted process of filing for a patent means that the uniqueness of an invention may not be the most critical factor when obtaining one. I observed this when I worked at some companies hwo actively discouraged patenting because they had no resources to maintain and defend patents.
Rust has always clearly labelled itself as first and foremost a systems programming language. It strictly maintains performance and safety as its top priorities. It doesn't go out of its way to be easy to learn or to use, compared with higher level languages. Doesn't seem to me like there's any identity crisis.
It wasn't suspended over the one, that was just the signal that they were doomed.

The alternative was to wait a few weeks until a large fraction of the teams had incomplete rosters, owners and fans were furious at the asymmetrical competition, and there was social/legal pressure to stop sponsoring events drawing large crowds into social proximity, and then cancel.

They knew that was coming and it's better to pull the plug early.
I'm with you, it seems like it would be good for everyone if we created job programs with the simple stated purpose of employing people, instead of funneling busy-work jobs through pork-barrel spending.

The people doing the work could feel more fulfilled, shared resources and services could be improved, and it could encourage social cohesion instead of discouraging it like the TSA does.

Oh well.
PETSCII Revealed
The US armed forces are not run as a democracy; it is an oligarchical tiered serfdom as near as I can peg it. When you sign up, nearly everything you agree to is in a binding legal contract with the US government, and if you breach contract, it is very different than breaching a normal contract. Part of that contract is that normal courts of law and their rules are secondary to military courts and all of their very, very power imbalanced rules.

Source: myself, a decade in the Marine Corps, witness in several Non Judicial Punishment cases, and one Courts Martial case.
For sake of argument, if it doesn't promise that a growth mindset will allow you to succeed, then what good is it? How is it different than blind faith?
Thanks for sharing. I had not seen those. Need to look into them more closely. We have been focused on stand alone cams. Nest shut down their APIs last year but they allow users to share their camera streams.
> In fact, they're harming the airline industry

TSA was created as a massive handout to the airline industry, in response to their request for relief in the wake of 9/11; they were previously responsible for security and the associated liability, but were relieved of the function and future liability by the introduction of TSA and at the same time given backward-reaching relief from liability.
More precisely, you can back out an implied forecast of future volatility from options prices, and the VIX index is actually computed from the prices of options on the S&P 500 index; it's not just trailing realized volatility.
Yes, that argument has been made ad nauseam, but the previous poster was asking specifically for GCP products that have been shut down -- and the response doesn't seem to contain any.
Traders selling options need either cash or margin to cover the trade (according to various calculations, not always the whole amount).

Their broker also monitors the risk and will liquidate any position if they feel it's too risky, and they have their own funds and insurance to cover trades.

Also the options exchange itself has funds and insurance to guarantee the contracts. There's enough money and liquidity in the overall market that it's extremely unlikely for you to worry about this counterparty risk.

It's more of a concern if you're a major investment fund making 9 figure moves and want to make sure banks remain solvent.
No, that is totally wrong. The medical system would collapse. See what is happening in Italy. Most of the critical cases require ICU. There aren't enough ventilators if everyone gets infected. And without proper care, not just old but even young people may face huge problems.
> it does seem like there are two strains of it

Where are you getting that from?
The one little upside of this outbreak (plus how relatively not-deadly it is, you and I will probably get it but survive), is watching Trump squirm. He probably thought his speech would stop the market sell-off, but nope. And he and his admin have institutionalized Dunning-Kruger that they probably couldn't even see how badly the speech would be received.
Yeah, the Oberon language added function pointers (I don't remember if those were in Modula-2), and the Oberon OS used that form of language-level OOP to implement its runtime dynamic message dispatch OOP. You can't implement that in Pascal because Pascal doesn't allow you to store function pointers in records (because they might be nested functions, with all that implies). So in Pascal the best you can do is write a switch function for each function pointer type (signature) and use an enumerated type or equivalent to dispatch calls.
I just read an article that claimed Lombardy has 737 ICU beds available for covid 19. Given Italy has a 3.18 beds per 1000 people that means they have less than 3% of their hospital beds available for covid 19 patients. That's absurd. In relation the USA has roughly 14% of their beds as ICU beds according to a reference from https://www.sccm.org/Communications/Critical-Care-Statistics
Percentage of ICU beds varies widely. Minnesota, for instance, a state in the US, has about 500 ICU beds [1] and over 10,000 hospital beds total [2]. ICU beds are already heavily used and sometimes there simply are not enough, before COVID-19 has even shown up. Average inpatient stays right now are 4.21 days in Minnesota [3]; I can't find a reliable number for length of stay for COVID-19 patients, but it is longer.

There is plenty of evidence that in Italy COVID-19 has overwhelmed ICU beds. They are trying to transport people to ventilators via helicopter. We do have at least twice the ICU bed capacity in the US (compare info from [4], [5]). But many other people need these ICU beds -- it's not like other illnesses will just stop for our convenience.

[1] https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/03/08/talking-points-pre...
[2] https://www.ahd.com/states/hospital_MN.html
[3] https://www.mnhospitals.org/mn-hospitals/quick-facts
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4351597/
[5] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-012-2627-8

Edited to add: remember, included in most totals of ICU beds are neonatal and pediatric ICU beds, which won't help much with COVID-19.
Passive surveillance versus active questionnaire. The questionnaire I did was a one time thing and it was the most ridiculously security theater thing possible. The interview went

"You work at XYZ?"

"Yup"

"You live at 123 Whatever St?"

"Yup"

"Okay, here ya go."

There may have been a third question. I forget.

Passive surveillance crosses a line for me. I don't want this to get normalized.

Plus, with pre-check it was a legit exchange. I give up some info they already have and in exchange they give me a huge benefit when I travel. Much more fair.
That hinges a lot on if I'm right. Which is still unlikely, as much as I'm find of my own opinions. :)
Hossenfelder proposes[1] to measure non-commuting variables in identical systems in as noise-free an environment as possible.

In standard QM says the measurements should be completely uncorrelated, but she argues that in a superdeterministic theory results somewhat correlated.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4326
It's like building someone a house where the design is flawed and someday it'll fall down and kill everyone. By the time it happens, you'll be long gone. Doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
Wrong. The short explanation is the chart on this page: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/science/coronavirus-curve...

And that's not even addressing that the at-risk group isn't just the old.
Most people I know are not large companies. They live paycheck to paycheck, and some lost their work shifts for the rest of March _already_.
A virus by itself does not perform any biological functions whatsoever; it just alters the course of events in a host cell.

Potassium cyanide can alter what happens in a cell; that doesn't mean potassium cyanide is alive.
Alive and kicking. SVG is often requested (or just included) as part of design assets; used for icons/logos/illustrations/charts/diagrams on the web; programmatically generated or manipulated (i.e., animation).. Language ecosystems usually have choices of parsers (less so renderers)..
What's the impetus or context here? I feel like I am missing something.
> Clearly something was wrong with the theory.

File that under "No shit, Sherlock."
Big Data Helps Taiwan Fight Coronavirus
That is a construction crew, and they are building a larger/newer version of the machine.
It's unclear if you mean PRNG (pseudo random number generator) which is already deterministic, or a true random number source (eg, radioactive decay or something).

If you mean true random, then, yes, superdeterminism does indeed mean that number is predetermined.

Math still works though - there is no way for someone to peek and see what that predetermined number is so it is still random for any observer.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and also commented on Cockroach’s original draft post, that this is a follow up to).

Edit: I am a chump, I misread TPC_RR as TCP_RR and responded. Leaving this here for shame. Thanks to jsolson for pointing out my mistake.

I’m not sure if the post was edited, but TCP_RR is definitely not a typo. You may be more used to seeing TCP_CRR which opens a new connection and then a round trip, but for raw network latency netperf’s TCP_RR benchmark is probably the best tool available.
wish they were all taken to the nearest animal shelter to pick a dog to train as bomb sniffers instead. it wouldn’t be foolproof but would have higher effectiveness than now and would improve airport efficiency (you walk right through as dozens of dogs sniff you randomly). plus we’d immediately reduce/eliminate the dog euthanasia problem we have now.
Especially given its current leadership, I often turn away jobs of more than two times my salary - in USD (I live in Canada) - to avoid living in America.

That Trump ever got elected - or was ever seriously considered as a candidate - tells me that enough of the the population is seriously disturbed that I’d like nothing to do with it.

And then there’s the war atrocities...