skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be a political issue as well. The deep state within CDC and FDA is likely sabotaging the first response. I see no other explanation for why, 2 months after things started blowing up in China, we _still_ don't have widespread testing in what I thought was the most technologically advanced country in the world, and moreover, are _refusing to import the working solution_. Heads should most definitely roll for this after things subside.
Interesting to note that counting rides by a bounded geographic area is going to miss a lot, as the caltrain data doesn't seem to be represented in the santa clara data.

Also, the Austin data doesn't take into account that the city regularly expands its geographic boundaries (typically east and west) which may artificially make it seem as if it is increasing riders when it is simply absorbing them.
May I ask why you were “forced” to this? Y2K was the only “apocalypse panic” I can recall in 50 years (not counting the Cold War “The Day After” nuclear Armageddon) and I never knew anyone that considered 2012 to be other than a joke.
Continue to opt-out. It annoys the TSA. That's a good thing. I do it if I'm "required" to go through the body scanner.
A knife can be used to murder but if you point that out to the chef discussing technique in the kitchen, then you are not adding useful information to the conversation.
"The "Plunge Protection Team" (PPT) is a colloquial name given to the Working Group on Financial Markets"

If the PPT has not be working during multiple +7% falls on the Dow, they are not doing their job. President Ronald Reagan created the body in March 1988 after the 1987 crash.

The PPT has been "stabilising" (aka rigging) the stock market for nearly 40 years. How they operate and how much money they make is open to speculation. But it is widely believed that they purchase large-cap thinly traded stocks in the past few minutes before the close to minimise closing losses.

TL: DR - The PPT exists to minimise volatility during difficult times and they are doing their job.
Does anyone know what specific patents IBM is defending?
FYI, 05:40 is every hour.
Mainly because the code that is written in organizations is meant to be easily read and traversed through by other developers. Every place I've worked at had different standards on how to to something not because it was superior but because it is predictable.
> They are just dumb machines made by brute-forcing (fuzzing)

But that's no different how the rest of biology works. A parasite like Giardia is relatively just a dumb machine brute forcing itself through my immune system.
Personally, I think Chicago's is much better than SF. But SF's is still alright and certainly better than LA (where I am now).
I have three tests for what's alive and what's not. Those are from most fundamental to least.

Fundamentally life is a thermodynamic machine. Takes energy and converts a portion of it to 'work'.

Under homeostatic control. There are feedback systems that maintain the integrity of the organism.

In theory has a way of reproducing. This more applies to the species as a whole. Since individuals incapable of reproducing are none the less alive.

Viruses only meet the last and weaker criteria in my book.
the problem with Android fragmentation is as old as Android. If you're a journalist, activist or anyone who needs critical security on a phone you're better off not having one.

The options for anyone else is usually a) always use the latest iOS device or b) use a hardened Android, or c) use a dumb phone for all non-critical comms. I should repeat that: if you're worried about security consider using f2f interaction because the number of places you're likely to trip up are endless no matter what device.
My mother committed suicide because of anti-depressants so you can kindly go fuck off with your arrogance and ignorance to boot. The Brain is far more complex than pseudo-intellectuals like yourself like to think. Serotonin does a whole heck of a lot more than control mood so any imbalance caused by the medications can be equally as fatal.
Millions of Facebook users have data exposed online
This is more prolific in software than just Y2K. At a company I work with, if everything is going smoothly and things are working, devs get a ton of crap for not getting more done, no matter the pace and productivity. Of course they get crap when things aren't working also.

When people don't understand something, they can't tell the difference between a lot of effort to make something work smoothly and "it's clearly not that big of a deal"
I actually really hope someone does check back in a couple of months and see if people still think their gloominess about financial matters was warranted.
Yes, it branched out into many different forms of media. I made a website a few years back listing all types of spin-off material:

https://allaboutsteinsgate.info/
It is available in Brazil, at least in a research capacity. I almost tried it to work on an alcohol addiction but regrettably decided against it at the time.
If they're ancient shells, surely it must refer to at least the original Bourne shell, not these Johnny-come-lately replacements.
Yeah...previous to moving to the west coast (working not for a FAANG, but a well recognized name that competes for much of the same talent, and offers comparable compensation), I was working in Atlanta.

I would argue the caliber of people I worked with there, from no name universities, or known names, but not equivalent to many people (Georgia Tech vs Berkeley, say), was generally better there. It of course varied person to person, but the teams were generally stronger, senior devs were more senior, juniors tended to be hungrier to learn, etc. Maybe it was just the lack of the FAANGs sucking up the best people.
You could do oil futures/options or basket of oil company stocks.
Let's say they'd have to shell out $400k to pay off the mortgage. Their $2000/month payment would be gone, but if we assume an average of 6-8% ROI on the $400k, they are missing out on a return of $2000-$2600/month. 20 years from now, the $400k becomes $1.282.000. Minus taxes.
I'd rather imagine getting 100 years' interest on my savings account. Especially considering what's happening today to my 401(k)...
I use draw.io and screen share. Not exactly white board, but you can draw concepts drawings. Als you could use a Wacom tablet as others mentioned.
>The states with "local outbreaks" (NY, CA, WA) are the ones that told the CDC to get bent and did it anyway. It's everywhere, the states with low case numbers just aren't testing for it.

This is what I can't get people around me to understand.

No cases near me simply means no one has been tested for it at this point.
Even if I ignore all the different kinds of high school outreach they did, it’s obvious that they designed it to look like a USB stick quite intentionally. Fuck this guy.
I 'like' it so much (not really) when people from the USA say/write "left" when they have absolutely no idea what left/communism is, apart from what they HEAR. I don't think that more than 1mil people in the USA have lived in the USSR block or the countries of their influence, or have studied communism thoroughly.

And you can recognize the trolls when one says/writes "Left" in the most capitalistic country on this planet. And by "Left" they mean the very minimal/basic social services, such as don't let people lose two legs but only one because the $1k insurance per month doesn't cover that. I wonder how failed is the USA when countries in EU have achieved that with $100 contributions per month. Miracle!!!

Americans live with the dream that they are all billionaire but somebody is blocking them (the commies, the socialists, the left, the Cubans, the anarchists, and in general "they" some without ID).

Russia always plays the looooong game, they try and succeed to sabotage a little bit every step of the way (antivaxers, interference with elections, oil price), you name it, they are in it.

I think I vented/ranted enough. I sometimes feel sorry for the 30-40% of USA citizens, they are confused and haven't read more than 10 books in their lives.. it's a potty for such a prosperous coubtry to suffer like this.
Imagine it as a bet with a friend.
You: "hey, I got this item worth 10 but I believe it will go down in the next five days."
Friend: "no way."
"want to bet? You will buy it from me for 10 whenever I want to sell it."
"nah."
"I will give you 2 to keep right now!"
"alright."

Your friend has no say when or if you sell. He got paid and hopes you are wrong. Your friend will obviously not agree to pay 10 for an item that is already only worth 5. And yes if the item only goes down to 9 you lost 1 on the bet.
In my personal experience, reading alone is less efficient by at least 1 order of magnitude.
Their Cloud Vision API [1] might be what you're looking for.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/vision
Will the fed's move fail to move asset prices higher but also cause inflation? If they're only making funds available for short-term loans, I'd figure neither equities or inflation will be significantly affected by the fed actions today.

I would not be surprised if we see inflation though. The virus is going to lower productivity due to all the extra overhead. Prices in many areas will probably go up even as the economy stalls. Hopefully the governments react appropriately.
Personal privacy matters during the pandemic – but less than at other times
It's an interesting thought. Mass displacement will be a huge issue though. While we do have plenty of landmass in theory, migration of major cities is just.. I cannot possibly fathom how that could ever be organized. We'd panic, loot grocery stores, rob pharmacies, etc. I mean look at what this pandemic has done. You can't even buy cans of beans or toilet paper! My local store is out of bags of dry rice. Of _rice_.

I don't recall where I heard it but before I knew it was a quote, I used to say this all the time: humanity is three square meals away from total annihilation. One day without food and humans will revert right back to our caveman "attack other human, take food" lizard brains.

I definitely went a little off topic from your original post but, "adapt to the changes" isn't honestly something I can fathom happening. I don't know where you live - be it a city or suburbs or otherwise - but think about 30 million people showing up and tell me that doesn't end in a massive disaster.
Ask HN: Can the US insurance industry afford to pay for Covid-19?
If not, can the healthcare industry afford to not be paid by the insurance industry?

edit:

Can the insurance industry even afford the costs of the testing that's about to be needed? If 60% of the 300,000,000 insured Americans need $10,000 worth of tests, that's $1.8 trillion.[1] The industry collected a total of $1.22T in premiums in 2018.[2]

[1][PDF]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur201905.pdf
[2]https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-industry-overview
I don't know how that's much better than lift to wake, unless you intentionally loom over your phone to unlock it.
20 years ago = probably < 18 years old. Whatever OPs parents decided was likely what OP had to do too.
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this isn't spending, it's overnight loans to keep the market from seizing up if everybody's so panicked that nobody will let loose of their cash even for a "sure bet".

but as to your general sentiment, yeah, you're right, we've blown $1.5T on dumb bullshit like new military spending and a wall that mexico is going to pay for and yet we can't find any money for universal healthcare even when people are dying in the streets. Even when it would likely reduce healthcare spending.
The viral RNA, whatever the viral RNA is producing, and whatever components of the cell are directly working on the new viruses. There are intracellular parasites, a viral infection is just an intracellular parasite... that doesn't have a definite boundary like a cell membrane.
CDC Director commits to using authority under existing law for Covid_19 testing
While I agree with you, it’s necessary but not sufficient. Police are just as willing to use rubber hose decryption.
I like your thought provoking analogy.

But why would a modern apocalypse look identical to the 1600's? I think some tidbits of technologies we've gained since then would be scrapped together by industrious survivors.

What was used for "currency" in prior dark ages before the 1600's? I'm guessing it didn't pan out well for the guy who stockpiled cowrie shells in between.
Also, there are large swaths of the US where air conditioners are not common.
Interesting, could you elaborate what section 230 immunity entails?
Bullets might fare better than gold in the latter scenario
Interesting that infected cases were down. However of the infected cases, smoking is believed to be a major factor in the seriousness of the disease and potential for death (I don't know off-hand if that was based on data, or if it was humanity's best attempt at a reasonable understanding of a respiratory disease / general trait of pneumonia). So... yet another reason why vaping is great as long as it's primarily getting fewer people to smoke.

But yes - a lot of the harm attributed to vaping is after-market / black-market oils, and it's silly for Juul to carry all that blame. I'm not a fan of nanny state-type laws anyway.
Ontario to shutter public schools until April 5 amid Covid-19 pandemic
I think if anything, the Fed was probably overjoyed about COVID-19; they were just waiting for an excuse to do a massive cash injection without sparking massive backlash and protests.

The new rules against gathering in large crowds are an added bonus; the Fed is not only excused, they are legally protected from any possible backlash.
The whole point of this entire discussion was that it's an additional tool where beginners are used to the runtime spitting out a backtrace for them.
Simple cost/result calculation. Creating a PDF + simple web page was something our designer can do easily. Developing a whole website around would have been much more expensive.
There are limits. The article describes them waiting on a federal court order giving them authority to execute their plan.
The Case for Ephemeral Search
For others looking for info on the opt-out: only US citizens can do so, apparently.
I don't think that's true. I've never heard that about any other industry. Certainly not about janitorial work. Doctors curing a patient, lawyers winning a big case, secretaries keeping the schedule up to date, teachers with kids who pass their tests, truck drivers who deliver on time. all of that is plainly visible. IT is a field in which few people see the results or understand the effort required.
It's been making the argument that Korea's aggressive testing has allowed them greater control over the epidemic.

Of course, there are a variety of other factors at work. Italy is the second "oldest" country in the world after Japan so Coronavirus infections just would be more deadly there. Also a lot of the Korean infections were confined to a single city in Korea (though the Italian infections also had an epicenter).
>Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

Such a good point. Most of the famous management books fall into this category.
The VN is darker. When stuck in a time loop, the protagonist contemplates raping a female friend over and over again because it will just reset.
Republicans are playing games to get bailouts for corporations. Democrats are playing games to get people healthcare and paid sick leave.
Don't put this on the people in power, it's people in general who refuse to accept responsibility or change.
it might be awesome, if the signature is somewhat obvious, to have an independent entity flagging / creating a suspected bots database?

_maybe_ that would put some pressure on Twitter?

https://osome.iuni.iu.edu/tools/botslayer
https://duo.com/assets/pdf/Duo-Labs-Dont-At-Me-Twitter-Bots.pdf
https://sparktoro.com/tools/sparkscore
I don't think anything is quite as effective as having a conversation with others. It challenges you in a deep, possibly mind-changing way that a book cannot.

I didn't quite realize this until, after 5 years of building things on my own, I had a co-founder. I feel like I gained 10 years of experience just from working with him and having to explain my solutions or why I didn't consider this other one, or having to realize that I was in fact wrong. That's a hard pill to swallow when you've only worked with books.

Craftsmanship is more than just learning new things. Sometimes you need to have your entire model of what's best swapped out for new ideas, like society realizing a republic is better than feudalism, than never evolving past your original position.
"The Man Who Folded Himself"[0] is one of the best time travel books. It won both the Nebula and the Hugo. While it has consistent rules about time travel, figuring out what exactly those rules are is half the fun of the book.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Folded_Himself
Is it even a debate anymore? The last 40 years of history have shown that tax cuts only benefit the wealthy.
> and you didn't say you'd cancel

That is the risk I referred to, as I clarified—not being able to take the trip because the situation didn't improve. I've explained this many times over by now.
I don't disagree, but to play devil's advocate: the problem with "trust the experts, despite contradiction of everyday experience", is that it opens a massive attack vector for moral hazard / perverse incentives, for those who seek to profit or gain power from leveraging expertise (whether real or perceived). History is replete with data points where the experts were wrong (bloodletting) or dishonest (Iraq invasion). Laypeople are stuck with a "trust your mechanic" problem, of not having the knowledge to assess which experts are trustworthy.

It's easy to mock anti-vaxxers, climate denialists, et al; while an honest inquiry leaves room for nuance, those issues seem to have definitive answers, where reality correlates closely with the so-called consensus. But at the same time, the knee-jerk anti-science reactions should be viewed through a lens of general declining social trust in institutions. Even though those particular issues may be the wrong fields of combat, there's a subconscious sense in which everyday people feel lied to for decades by "experts". Now we're stuck in a boy-who-cried-wolf situation, where the actual experts who are honest brokers and have their shit together aren't being taken seriously. Trust is hard-won and easily lost, and there are massive downstream effects to corruption in truth-finding/sense-making institutions.
Why don't Republicans need to fall in line when Democrats pass much needed relief for coronavirus?
I completely agree with you re margin on the hardware being low. We are not planning on making any money on the hardware. But I also believe it is not possible for startups/companies that don't have copious resources (like Google and Amazon) to do great at both hardware and AI (i.e. build cutting edge AI/CV tech)... Thank you :) If you'd be up for discussing this further, may I ask you to email me? (rafiee at visualone.tech)
Economic theories regarding inflation aren't so simple. It is not simply true that increasing the money supply causes a proportional increase in inflation. There are other factors. Where does the money go? How is it being spent? Is product output increasing with increased demand? If the money ends up in wealthy bank accounts, not being spent, then it won't really affect our consumer prices, will it? If consumers have more money to spend, but factories can meet the increased demand, that won't increase prices either, but it will drive growth.

There is plenty of evidence for this. Consider that the US money supply more than doubled since 2008, yet our purchasing power for general goods didn't halve.

Asset prices have doubled, though. Fueled by QE or real growth? I'm inclined to think the former. Food for thought.
NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships
Planet is doing all right. It has just started to fight back with locust, coronavirus, Lassa fever and everything else that's coming soon.

With a few billion people gone the climate changes will quickly revert itself.
Two decades ago, I was roughly familiar with the details, after the fact, but I can't remember now.

As sibling comments have noted: these systems are an exceedingly complex pile of separate but interdependent pieces.

The rollover from 31-Dec-1999 to 1-Jan-2000 had happened thousands of times before the actual day came. Some piece/assumption/etc had been overlooked.
Beginners guide: No better time than present to build your Home Lab
An endorsement from their about page:

This is not the type of thing you'd want to entrust with "Big Tech" who can't seem to resist spying on you.
-Cyber Security Expert
Yesterday I bought a six-pack without touching anything besides (regrettably) the door handle of the cooler and the six-pack itself. Paid by waving my Apple Watch over the POS machine.

It occurs to me that I like the model of carrying my own universal physical interface around with me more than I like sharing a domain- and location-specific one with other people.
The first patent was for a process of making potash, an ingredient used in fertilizer.

https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/first-us-patent-...
> The American government and the American economy underpinning the dollar however represent vital goods and services as well as security provided and have an army to back it up so the chance that it magically loses all its value is just about nil.

It doesn't need to lose all of its value at once. It just needs to lose some value frequently enough that some people decide "hold on a minute, this is an unjust tax I'm facing on my savings," and will look for an alternative where they are not taxed so heavily.
Thanks for sharing. We will look into what they are doing.
Why doesnt this link to the actual story on Bloomberg?
For me, as a developer who maintains open source software, the best feedback has nothing to do with the code. Honestly, nobody cares. The application does what it claims or it doesn't. People who spend all their energy on code style have clearly, in my opinion, never had the experience of directly interfacing with their users. Here is my checklist of competence:

* defects - The application has certain defects or it doesn't and you can prove it with tests. If there is a defect I will prioritize it, or solve it immediately, or mark it as won't fix.

* performance - Does the application execute fast enough in all stages and interactions? This is a simple yes or no, but performance testing is often volatile so this needs to be tested and measured as well so that it can be observed over time keeping slippage in mind.

* ease of use - Does the application work out of the box? If not its broken. If it requires a bunch of manual configuration then nobody will use unless its forced on them. For this I take all my frustrations with corporate software from my past jobs and I intentionally design against that when I write software and encourage my users to complain to me.

* documentation - Does the documentation stand on its own? Is it complete, well organized, and simple enough that a high school freshman can read it? If you cannot write you aren't as great a developer as you think you are.
Or maybe "The Merchant of Stratford"?

https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/shakespeare400/2016/03/...
a lot of the harm attributed to vaping is after-market /
black-market oils

Could you perhaps elaborate on these oils? Is there a list of safe, high-quality oils somewhere? Certified perhaps?
I knew a guy that worked at Walmart for years, right out of college. He said that the biggest issue he had with onboarding people was impressing upon them the scope of Walmart's enterprise. You don't just "move fast and break stuff". If your clever hack causes an outage in pharmacy, then you're directly affecting millions of people across the country that need medicine.