skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often wondered if he has high-functioning autism. His human-to-human interface is missing something.
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The Met is doing free (beginning in the evening US East Coast) streams this week and available for about the next day: https://operawire.com/metropolitan-opera-to-offer-up-nightly...
Oh, that's great. Thanks!
But what about my Hacker News habit? Surely there is Wi-Fi…
For the longest time, I had my fb photo set to that sketch. Turns out, the famous sketch linked above that we know is not accurate, may have been the original sketch artist, as considerable time had passed between the sighting and the sketch.
https://www.bustle.com/p/who-was-the-unabomber-sketch-artist...
> Did people think that would happen without some sacrifices along the way?

There's a different between a sacrifice in service of a goal, and a sacrifice because you're too stupid to stay safe.

Humankind will not fail to become a multiplanetary species even if SpaceX were to shut down entirely for a year.
Exactly, and then this hysteria becomes the flu.
It's really just modern day Legos. Personally I hate when people say time could've been better spent elsewhere. Universally people agree, however universally people equally would rather have fun than work.
Because with tens or hundreds of thousands of racks it would be a full-time job to go through such alerts. Some are likely real (hi broken wheels) and some almost certainly aren't (hi someone training a ML model). And users don't care: as a user I don't care if a host or rack is hot. All I care is that when someone (an SRE or automation) notices errors the rack is drained and the errors go away. At somewhere small where an individual rack failing isn't okay it might make sense to monitor physical health more closely; where it doesn't matter it's better to focus on whether the user is having a good time.

As someone else said, alert on symptoms (user-facing errors), not causes, because you're never going to be able to enumerate all the potential causes ahead of time and dealing with the alert onslaught from trying is unworkable.
Text2speech is very, very good these days. Check out google's tts, ttsreader (completely free), or the various ml models on github.
I can assure you that they don’t have a source for that.
At least in the moment we can still hope that the death-toll in germany will be lower than in the other regions... i think the phrase goes "The hope dies last..."
Curious why this was flagged. I read the posting guidelines and didn’t find anything it clearly violates
> The nature of this place is that we can talk with reason and share facts based on evidence.

This has been the utopia of the tech nerd mentality for over 30 years since I first started using UseNet. The reality is, this kind "reasoned and fact-based" discussion model (a) doesn't really exist when there are subjective components or unknowably complexities, but worse (b) it is actually used to suppress discussion! The number of times I've observed discussion with people using "logic" to gatekeep is uncountable.

The fact of the matter is: some topics are messy and you can't just throw around "logic" and make it go away. Well, you can sequester yourself, but good luck with that.
I think you agree with the parent comment. “put selective pressure on the strain types that are more infective and severe” does select for milder strains (the pressure is on severe strains to change).
but what about this one:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/...

daily new cases (at the very bottom) shows there's very little increase from the 13th to the 14th.
You'll need to refresh any tabs that were open prior to installing the Chrome Extension. If you refresh it, or open a new tab, does it work?
Yeah, that makes sense. I fixated on the "SRE" part of your post, rather than the "page in the middle of the night" part. I'm working on being less pedantic, so thanks for reminding me that I've still got work to do. <3
Why is everyone here so negative all the time?
I see a "Ventilator Project" heading?

(edit) here's the link to their 'Ventilator' document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RDihfZIOEYs60kPEIVDe7gms...
This probably isn’t going to work well for people in apartments or condos, but it would be interesting nonetheless.
Glad to see that the community hasn’t changed in all these years ;)
Real men choose a random seed that already contains the library!
Alston Chase, the author of the Atlantic article, appears in this radiolab episode
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91721...
Who isn’t affected? Are you arguing we should simultaneously bail out the whole country?
In addition to what the other posters said, there are mods that let you place images (so you could place an image of NYT) or even fully programmable computers (so you could just run $ cat on a file that contains a news article, or even request it from the internet - using the MC server as a proxy).
Lots of people take Ibuprofen when they have a fever.
Most companies are not Netflix and I’m not sure I understand why we are discussing AWS?

That post is more a statement on how errors which can be handled at the app layer can have catastrophic effects on lower level components. You cannot assume end customers are running thing at the scale or with the fault tolerance of google, or Netflix.
> Lombardia was at ~200% capacity circa wednesday.

Source?

Mine is:

https://www.giornaledibrescia.it/italia-ed-estero/coronaviru...

Google Translate:

"«We have very few free places in intensive care, now we are in the order of 15 or 20 available. Every day we get someone new, tomorrow 3 more arrive and San Raffaele is creating an area with 14 seats which will be ready, however, in a week. Today we recover them by closing the operating rooms, where there are respirators that can also be used to support the breath »."
That sounds like a less than ideal UI, to put it politely. It obviously wasn’t designed for this sort of thing so I’m not pointing at Minecraft or expect them to support downloading random ebooks in a game interface.

I’m also guessing this is hosted on a 3rd party server? Could the hosts be individually blocked?
Could you please cite a source for the false positive rate? Real time RT-PCR should be nowhere near that. Maybe if your sample handling is messed up, but that should be easy to optimize...
Does it need the Puppet agent installed on the remote server?
I went and looked around on the Minecraft map for a while. As a censorship bypassing tool, I think it leaves a little to be desired. The library has a main atrium discussing censorship levels in each country and how freedoms are being curtailed in each. There are also 6 halls (one for Vietnam, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, as well as one for the Uncensored Library) that actually contain censored documents in those countries, but each only had two or three, both in their native language and in English. There really wasn't much content.

Instead, the library serves more like a digital art exhibit, showcasing some of the struggles around the world. The architecture is really something, I would almost argue it's too grandiose, the main atrium is too large for the game to render at once, even on the furthest render settings, unless you actually stop to let it all pop in for about a minute.

I was impressed by it, and if they continue to add additional documents I think it would really be impactful and useful.
But if the UK government can managed to isolate elder people, and can get those 40M to contain almost exclusively younger people, won't the fatality rate be far lesser?
This will cause a hard Brexit and isolate the island if they don't turn around quickly...
> "As a basis for comparison, the risk of death from C19 is vastly less than the risk of death from driving your car home." He pointed out that there have been 36,000 automotive deaths.

Is he really comparing the absolute number of deaths rather than the mortality rate? Come on Elon, you can do better than this.
I really don't get it. The only way I can see to arrive at this conclusion with a handle on math is if you 100% write-off old people and immunocompromised as already dead.

If you literally only count healthy adults, I still probably wouldn't agree with his position, but I could see how it could be argued.
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I found GNU parallel to be very useful/cool.
Mike Pence is not the right person to manage US response to the virus. We needs someone with different skills. If you live in US, please call your congresspeople and ask them to make a change:

https://www.house.gov/representatives

https://www.senate.gov/senators
Yes! Supporting different types of media types is something I agree would be great. Out of curiosity, what types of pictures would you like to upload as an answer?
> Is it rational to choose economy over lives?

That's a false dichotomy: GDP is correlated with life expectancy, so you can't really choose one without the other. It's a question of which method saves more lives in the long-term, and UK appears have made their choice. Note that they most likely have much better understanding of the resources and capacity of NHS than U.S. scientists have.
In what way did the author use any more imagination than you just used?

If you have a primary source that has Ford saying "I'm increasing wages to cultivate a monopsony over labor" I would be very impressed.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan: What every mayor needs to know about the coronavirus
I think it's an A/B test of trial vs free.

Try clearing cookies and giving it another go...
The standard issue answer is that corruption and incompetence in authoritarian societies is dealt with via Darwinian struggle between societies or by coups led by stronger factions within.

They never mention the instability this creates or the human toll it takes on regular people.

Democracy is not about always making the best decision in the short term. It's about long term resiliency and being "antifragile."

You can see a modern example of the alternative in Africa. Much of that continent's persistent poverty is due to the warring strong men system of governance. Why invest in anything when the next revolution, coup, or invasion will result in it just being looted or destroyed?
The idea is that if the government can infect low risk citizens then they can recover on their own without relying on the healthcare system. It's the high-risk individuals who put load on healthcare, so the proposal is to use the low-risk citizens to build up immunity.
so, just the message itself isn’t impactful and helpful? i’d say it is.
> Hospitals have been shown to be a major vector for transmission

Not sure how this is relevant to my post.

> What if they live in a nursing home in close proximity to other elderly people?

The nursing home could stock up and ban people from coming in or out of it.
> Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate.

I highly doubt that's his own analysis, rather it's Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morality" dressed up in a more modern vernacular.
> Ted Kaczynski offered a critique of 'leftism' that still seems to be accurate.

Funny, I totally disagree and it looks to me like he was constructing an elaborate strawman. People made the same sorts of generalizations about certain ethnic groups in the past, and I felt like he was doing the same thing and lazily running sed 's/jews/leftists'.
> There are also 6 halls (one for Vietnam, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, as well as one for the Uncensored Library) that actually contain censored documents in those countries

I'm surprised by the omission of China, because it's probably the poster child for modern day political censorship. Is Minecraft censored there or something?
What a depressing, callous analogy. You are comparing the IP of an entertainment product to a drug of significant consequence to the health of citizens throughout the world. Well done.
Well here is where you disagree with most of the HN crowd including me. Maybe you are rich enough or insensitive enough to not care. That in fact doesn't matter at all.

Free/almost free good enough healthcare, and education in similar vein are cornerstones of any society that would like to call itself fair, just and overall good place to live, not only for few elites. Everybody benefits from it, whole effin' mankind benefits from it long term.

Heck, even though I am relatively young and properly healthy, so I don't need to spend a cent on healthcare, I am happy to pay (swiss) one so that other benefit. Fuck society that doesn't do that.
Wouldn’t it make more sense, from a public health perspective, to put that money into the existing local institutions (hospitals, health clinics, food banks) which are vital and soon may be strained to the breaking point?
It's not ideal. I looked around on this server a few days ago, and almost always had to share a book with someone else who was flipping through pages. The server was limited to 100 users at a time, so it wasn't chaos, but I do think downloading the map and reading the documents offline is definitely ideal if you're just there for the content (although it does lose some of the appeal of being a "library" this way).
His point is like looking at grey skies and a weather radar of an approaching hurricane and saying "Just because the sun isn't out doesn't mean we should cancel our picnic on the beach!".

Coronavirus is not a disaster today, it is a looming disaster. Without human intervention, Coronavirus would be pretty sure to kill millions in the US in a short period of time (1+% fatality * 33+% of the population).

Yes, the chances of you or anyone you know dying today from Coronavirus is practically 0. Coronavirus is not a disaster in the US today. If a vaccine for Coronavirus was scheduled to be given to everyone tomorrow, it would not be a disaster, and we would not stop economic activity for it. But there isn't a vaccine tomorrow, so look at the virus forecast and take precautions.
What I would advise is to think carefully about your custom pre-/post-processing tasks in light of how they will affect componentization and reuse. Working with many teams and codebases, it’s been my experience that having a lot of custom code generation or code parsing ties your code to your build system in ways that make it harder to re-use elsewhere, on different platforms or for different products. It also imposes a level of astonishment when analyzing dependencies - libraries that may appear to be largely independent of each other can actually be effectively coupled if one of them has a funky prebuild codegen step that depends on the other. Or coupled to the core build logic and source tree. If you really need the custom build step, and it really needs to be implemented in your build system, I’d encourage you to think about the tools and language you’re using.

If you build it, they will come. Don’t be surprised to find out that a good chunk of your business logic winds up in build files rather than what you would typically think of and analyze as your ‘source’.
Elon is not more wrong than you are.
That looks like it'd be ripe for abuse by spammers, and probably switched off by default at most if not all mail servers.
Yeah, have to admit that having heard Kaczynski's manifesto was actually thoughtful and insightful and not at all what you'd expect from someone most known for committing atrocities, I wasn't expecting the first part to be dedicated to a cranky subreddit level of analysis of 'leftist' thought. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. YAWN. Putting parenthical (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior;
we are only making a point about leftist psychology.) comments in to show how much more open-minded he is than the libs he's owning (because, he argues there's no reason the left could display interest in helping minorities other than believing minorities are inferior). YAWN

Frankly that sort of political ranting is exactly what you'd expect to find in the 'manifesto' of somebody better known for violent crime (as well as the writings of a lot of people who aren't). There seems to be an awful lot of projection going on in there, for a start, but even that angle probably isn't particularly insightful since non-sociopaths and even people who mostly come across as pretty well-adjusted and happy also write this sort of generalization about their political adversaries.
The common cold is a coronavirus that people catch annually. As I understand it, it is because the cold evolves or the immunity doesn't last for some reason. https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus
He was also a terrible anti-semite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#The_Dearborn_Inde...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of...
Don't be dismayed by html tables...

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_html('https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/testing-in-us.html')

print(df[0])

requires

pip install pandas html5lib lxml
I believe people are going to die, and looking at the long term counts over a short-term mentality and with that, having less deaths overall is a better plan than not.

But if you have a solution to how an entire country can completely isolate and operate in today's times for any European sized country then I'm all ears to hear it as we are talking a year at least until any sort of vaccine is available.

As for `super spreaders` that's a given, just the same way Europe has easy access to heroin and cocaine that are all imported - you can't stop things spreading even with best intentions and efforts and viruses are much smaller than smuggled drugs. So given that, people who spread this will happen and how would you ever stop that? Sure isolate from the vulnerable and at risk and those groups are already on the case, heck the amount of old people I know and saw 2 weeks ago buying a years worth of toilet roll - well, they are already self isolating and no need to be told by some PM they may or may not respect when they have a lifetime of common sense and experience to draw upon and effectively kick into war-mode mentality lockdown. Though many will learn that over the comming year as this is a world war, only it's the entire world this time fighting a virus. Looking at how the spanish flu went, the real fear is not the hear and now, but the winter to come.
> OK... but... isn't that what everyone is being advised to do right now?

No. What everyone is advised to do right now is not to withdraw from society, it's to perform basic hygiene and social distancing in order to slow down the spread. Social distancing doesn't mean living like a recluse eating spam cooked on a gas burner, it's not getting into large crowds and trying to stay some distance from other people (outside spitting / coughing range). WaPo has an article with a "social distancing" simulator: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-si...

"Self quarantining" is closer to what you're talking about, but it's for people who are at risk or likely to have been infected, not the general public.

Of course the latter you start the more it's already spread and the harsher measures have to be. And the more you'll have to ramp them up as you realise your initial measures were not sufficient, or your citizens have decided "freedom or death" is a good choice and decide to just ignore it.

FWIW Taiwan's already reopened its schools and life has gone back to something not entirely dissimilar to normal (people do have to wear masks and get their temperature checked to step into public buildings or businesses but they can move around just fine).
Limiting outside access is not "security through obscurity". That would be something more like "we have a VPN server that gives you full internal access that doesn't even have a password, but no one is going to figure out that we are running it on a non-default port".
Well it isn't "public", since its only available if you're on Google's internal production network, and in that sense, nothing on the network is public.
The BBC ran a piece designed to explain why the Govt policy was kosher and the logic behind it, it said there were no scientists in disagreement. Then it corrected the article to say no epidemiologists rather were in disagreement, which is ostensibly false as well. Now it says that at the time of publication no UK epidemiologists had spoken out in mainstream media. They basically admit they didn't do any due diligence when they wrote the piece (they were in a rush to give the Govt cover).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51874084

and here was the first published version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200313155320/https://www.bbc.c...
Plenty of us 'good engineers' aren't anywhere near that proficient in frontend either. I can build great backend systems, that's where my interest lies. I can't do CSS like this even with months.
Paracetamol is dangerous in overdose, and the therapeutic dose is pretty close to the overdose amount. The therapeutic index is approx 10.

Compare that to morphine, which has a therapeutic index of about 70.

(although the therapeutic index is tricky to use because of dose response curves)

We know that paracetamol is commonly used in both accidental and deliberate overdose. And this is true in countries that don't have the opioid crisis, and it was true in the US before the opioid crisis.

> It causes problems because people are addicted to opioid drugs that are typically combined with acetaminophen,

This is part of the problem, yes. But it's incomplete. We know that paracetamol alone causes problems for the liver even with small overdosing. https://britishlivertrust.org.uk/researchers-shed-new-light-...
The media goes back and forth like this all the time. I'm not surprised people are following by example, but it is disappointing. See: largest DJIA absolute point loss/gain headlines throughout the years.
I'm not an expert on this, but based on what has been published my understanding is:

1) Fatality rate is based on hospital care being available for people who do get sick. This will include some nonzero percentage of otherwise healthy young people. Some of these patients will need advanced support, including ventilators.

2) Assuming you could contain to 40M young people (likely impossible), if even .5% of them need hospitalization, the UK hospital system will be overrun. (Not even accounting for all the other people who need hospitalization.)

3) Therefore: the low fatality rate assumption in #1 would likely not hold.

TL;DR; the absolute numbers are too big relative to health system capacity.
I'm pretty sure that there will be a considered approach with regards to the mining of resources in these almost pristine undersea areas that take into consideration the uniqueness of these ecosystems and that potential profit will be carefully weighted against the damage done by further loss of biodiversity.

Haha, just kidding. The mining companies will probably preemptively poison everything in range just to circumvent such a ban. Our predatory exploitation of the ecosystem knows no boundaries. As long as there's a dollar to be made, we'd cut our own air supply.
I've looked and haven't found any. My gut says it sounds like a bad idea. Usually they want pneumonia patients to cough, and use their incentive spirometer frequently.
At this point it seems like the CDC has just capitulated and stopped trying, figuring that the private labs will pick up the slack. There are real, technical details to debate (e.g. the manufacturing error on their first test kit), but at this point it's simple misadministration.

If there was ever a clear case for the "You had one job." meme, this is it. Epidemic and pandemic response is the reason the Center for Disease Control exists at all. And they... they didn't.
These things aren’t free. It is merely shifting the costs.

Shifting costs to employers (mandatory paid sick leave) is generally immoral.

If people want to provide a benefit, do it with government spending, and remind yourself it is your money (taxes) that funds it.

If you are still willing to do it, at least you are putting your money where your mouth is.