skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with marginalizing it to "libertarian" means that you imagine that it is a future ideal reality for libertarians that doesn't already exist, while you simultaneously don't even entertain the argument presented. Cognitively negligent.

If the auction didn't happen, then there would be a software problem to fix and a criticism of trusting MakerDao and "decentralized finance" smart contracts. If the auction did happen, and only 1 person showed up and bid as low as possible, there isn't a problem.

I was on the MakerDao video conference, and people suggested software tweaks such as a minimum, and people pointed out that it wouldn't make much of a difference for the person that got liquidated and if the market actually was moving faster (like it was at the time) an arbitrary - but software hardcoded - minimum would have disrupted the auction anyway.

The only thing that happened here is nobody showed up to the auction. Now you and thousands of other people know that there is an opportunity to be the only one at a auction, and non-existing UI prevents a crowd from being notified and showing up. And yet, if you want the opportunity to make millions, you'll figure it out, and so will other people, and you will start to outbid each other.
To counter, while ethanol production might be a net loss in atmospheric CO2, it competes with food production, resulting in deforestation from increased land use for crops. As far as I'm aware, in terms of land use, biofuel still doesn't compare to solar/wind.
Conspiracy theory from an opposite point-of-view: killing off a bunch of elderly people with this experiment will save the NHS a fortune.
> Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea aren't under lockdown, they're stopping the spread by just having good testing and case tracking capacity, and good hygiene.

You forgot Taiwan, who is faring much better than all three of the countries you mentioned.
There's a type of "virtue masturbation" that seems to follow discussion of diet-related illness. Thank you for pointing out that "diet," much as The Devil Wears Prada explained in regard to fashion, is something that all participate in, but that is ultimately chosen for you.

There is also a large hereditary component to T2D. My father was a naval officer who was subject to annual physicals, who grew up in a middle class household, and who was on the way to holding multiple advanced degrees when he was diagnosed with T2D in his late 30s. Lifestyle barely factored in. If I had to guess, silent sleep issues might have been the most major factor.
I worry this will have an effect on equality of opportunity in the not-too-distant future. There will be some parents who understand this, and some who don't - or can't afford to do anything about it. It's a big swath of options those people will miss out on.
You mean just like email or web hosting? I can easily send you a "robbed" book in PDF format by mail. Is my MUA/MTA legally implied?
> Bananas by themselves are not healthy food, they're very high in sugar and have little else to offer.

That depends on ripeness [0], I eat a mostly green banana every morning and it doesn't have much sugar at all while keeping my bowels very regular.

It's been my breakfast for decades, I'm quite healthy, and eat a diet almost entirely composed of raw produce. The rest is nuts/seeds/legumes and canned fish. I rarely ever cook, and if I didn't go for organic produce this would be a very cheap diet except for the nuts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistant_starch#Nutritional_i...
Okay about the mortality rate. What about the hospitalization rate? Is it low enough to do not break the health system ? And about the smokers? diabetics ? Cancer patients ? And about the old one already hospitalized ? The kids ? And about the 0.3% that will dye ? How many young people will die in a old population ? And about the doctors and nurses extra exposed to the virus from different people?
If you get it, you're only highly infectious for 7 days, and infectious for 30-60 days. After that, you might have antibodies for (some variants of) the virus, but you won't have the actual virus.
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Can someone please explain if I am currently taking Losartan should I switch to something else? I keep reading conflicting articles. Some say it could be a benefit and actually used in treatment of covid 19. But other articles are saying the opposite. Thank you.
The voters have the leaders they deserve
I never understood the whole notion of attacks on deep-learning systems and all the research effort spent on defending against such attacks. After all, we're talking about systems that are brittle in the face of non-adversarial non-attacks, e.g. http://news.mit.edu/2019/object-recognition-dataset-stumped-....

The language of attacks and defenses implies that we are approaching the kind of robustness that we expect from say a bank app, when in fact we are lightyears away from that.
From my experience working with persian dissidents I can tell you that this is true for some but certainly not for all. This volatility is unworkable geopolitically as the stakes are too high. Furthermore, although being a pacifist i'd rather see Iran eradicated instead of having to take a gamble with their fait. So much for the madman theory. Let's hope diplomacy one day prevails.
One example where cables are laced down is Curiosity rover, as noted in this forum thread: https://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4028
It’s already too late. They’re on the Italy path.

This “herd immunity” thing is nonsense. So much so that doctors and scientists are warning against it:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/coronavirus-nh...
Your reasoning seems off. From what I can find, in your age group, the mortality rate for covid-19 after exhibiting symptoms is 0.2%. This is about equal to the rate for the overall flu mortality rate which includes those who have a higher risk.

Your dismissal of "everything puts you at risk" is common when we're young, but it is misplaced as well. I suspect you know and understand that a lot of background risk is actively reduced by the actions we take, personally and professionally (justice system, laws, streetlights, seat belts etc.) so while you may be speaking what you feel, if you know better you may want to reconsider stating it as though it was a fact.
Retest negatives and positives as random samples from both pools. Differential shows which has higher tendency to falsity. Continue as volumes of test rise. Track.
How do you quarantine them if they need support from nurses and caregivers who aren't quarantined?
the low frequency radar thing relates to the active radar in the missile warhead. Not accurate enough for hit to kill missiles, but plenty for modern shaped charge warheads that only need to get within 250 meters or so of the target for a kill, and completely irrelevant for warheads supplemented with optical targeting that only need to be within 5 miles clear line of sight to confirm a lock.
“Data thinking”, “data doing” and “data participation” struck me as an unintuitive way to categorise digital literacy, especially as the example for “doing” seems to fit more squarely under critical thinking: “being able to identify and highlight the source of information others share”.
My teacher had a vendetta against typing (or a hard on for cursive?) so we spent I think a few days (maybe three?) learning to type for an hour each day in the library, and then the rest of the year learning cursive.

I am 25 btw, idk what might have changed, but that teacher is still there.
Without any further context, this is most likely not a healthy diet. You're certainly missing out on B vitamins and heme iron due to lack of meat and likely have a poor Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio due to the use of plant oils over other fats. Just a guess.

You also probably get way too much sugar from sugary fruits which you overindulge in because your diet otherwise is so "healthy". Instead of soft drinks you have fruit juices, which have effectively the same amount of sugar. Again, just a guess.

You probably got your nutrition advice from ideologically based publications, or you're just "winging it" based on what makes sense to you, in which case you're likely going to be wrong as well.
How do you prove you own the physical asset you are collateralizing?

How do you prove you will have future earnings to borrow against?

Do we use the existing systems (legal, credit score, etc) or something new?

I'm genuinely curious, I don't know much about cryptocurrencies.
> the UK already pursues a strategy of herd immunity regarding chicken pox (along with other countries), despite the availability of a vaccine: http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/everything-you-need-know-about-.... I disagree with that strategy but I am not qualified to make that decision on behalf of a country, and I'm glad it's not my responsibility to do so.

The UK does not vaccinate against chickenpox because it judges that the overall public health consequences are worse if you vaccinate than if you don't - it would increase the frequency of shingles which is much worse than chickenpox.
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Hey startup community. I'm currently an EIR at BCV, but in this point, it doesn't really matter who we are. I've had 2 friends personally affected, and though they are doing well, COVID is real.

We only know how to build, so we just spun up www.covidrefunds.com to allow consumers to have a resource to understand how companies are creating refund/credit policies, and use it as a tool to push organizations for better equality. We were kindly hoping the HN community to a) contribute to any airline/hotel/entertainment/conference policies where you've been affected, and b) spread the word out.

Thanks!

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I feel really torn about this.

The intuitive way of managing this is to try all possible containment methods as long as possible. The benefits of this is that it will give maximum chance for containment, and failing that, maximum time for therapies/vaccines to emerge.
What are the chances of this? Containment thus far has already failed. The asymptomatic period make this hard to contain, and even in China with drastic measures new infections are occurring. Even if this worked, it would only take one area not doing this effectively to allow reinfection of these other areas once measures are lifted.
The other issue is that an effective vaccine is not going to appear for at least a year. Other repurpose therapies are being trialed, and initial results will be released this month. I’m not aware of any other completely new therapies which may change outcomes. So, it appears the benefit is limited.
The main risk of this approach is that containment is initially successful, but then fails in Autumn (fall), leading to a peak in the winter when the health system is already under a large amount of stress. This would be a disaster, and may well be what happens to other countries who try this.
So, the UK approach of making occur in summer may make sense for the UK. How appropriate this course of will obviously depend on level of seasonal variability in health care needs. Therefore countries like Indonesia or Singapore will do well to stick to containment initially, as they dont risk a peak occurring in winter.
It's hard to say, especially when you consider that the NHS has had its funding cut for years, and that even with a full lockdown it is likely to struggle even with a modest rise in patients over time.

This might sound dark, but as others have said, it feels like the government would rather see the country overwhelmed over a short amount of time, compared to a prolonged battle where their failures in healthcare will be highlighted.

I won't pretend to be a virologist, but one thing I will say is that it is wishful thinking to assume that the elderly are going to go into lockdown as the rest of the population builds an immunity. There is a level of arrogence and entitlement, mixed with regular doses of misinformation, that will ensure that the UK public will "keep calm and carry on" throughout this entire mess if there is no enforced lockdown.
Couple who visited Kauai and Maui test positive for coronavirus
Given the nature of your product, it’s surprising that the open positions are onsite only.
It depends on how many tests are needed. If they are running 13,000 and need 50,000, the growth will look flat.

And then for the US, if most places are doing a high percentage of the needed tests, then the test results should reflect the real growth. Given the limitations on testing, we likely won't have a good understanding of this for weeks to come (people on the internet saying they should have been tested is only worth so much).
.. fewer elderly to take care of?
I'm surprised you say this. I have no problem touch typing with one, or two thumbs on almost any phone displaying a qwerty keyboard after orienting myself to it.

I'm wondering if you have very specific muscle memory outputs for your fingers vs. an intuition of where each key is relative to each other. E.g., I'm typing this sentence with only my pointer and middle finger on my right hand. Would that cause a problem for you?
If immunity doesn’t occur, then a vaccine is also useless.
You are and idiot.

Yes, I know I shouldn't leave a comment like this on HN according to the rules, but I'm tired of people like this one.
There is no “UK strategy”, just like the number of cases in the US is much higher than the stats say but there are no tests for ordinary people.

The “UK strategy” is “let old people die”.

That “strategy” will be scrapped in the next day or two. Because it’s dumb.

It’s like some “theoretical” thing that ignores what’s actually happening and what has happened before.

Everyone is going to be Italy. Unless they’re China or South Korea and get it under control.
Ah ok, that makes more sense. I figured a 100K or so per unit would be cheap the way it has been engineered. That's a whole robotic laboratory and what with the normal price of cleanroom equipment it would be ridiculously cheap if that setup was a few hundred K.
Sounds like a trustworthy site.
> I'm thinking this only makes sense in the context of Brexit. Brexit will be a massive hit to the competitiveness of British businesses

Bad theory. This virus could have been used as an excuse to lock down borders while the rest of Europe got economically destroyed by the virus.
Counter-point: is Brexit Britain actually going to be worst off than post-pandemic EU or what's left of the EU?

I don't think the risk of this pandemic approach is worthwhile, especially given how poorly the EU is doing in general. Terrible economy, catastrophic pandemic response, and the symbolism of countries closing borders on fellow EU states are all quite telling.

By contrast Britain almost seems like it dodged a bullet - although they seem to have jumped in front of a train instead with their pandemic gamble.
This looks quite good: https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820...
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Had a similar problem on a stepper motor motion control system in a vacuum chamber. The single electrical feedthrough forced motor and signal cables to be in close proximity. The pwm noise from the motors would couple to the opto isolated limit switch signal and force the limit switches on. I solved it by putting 10k pull down resistors with a bypass capacitor to ground on all the inputs. Phantom stuck limits were no more.
We've been using https://team.video for our calls and working sessions in rooms that we hop in and out
get some loud speakers and point it at his house and play audio of dogs barking
So in your opinion voluntarily causing in the best case close to 1M deaths is smart. I’m sure hitler would probably agree completely with you.
That seems like the exact gamble. IMO, the US has taken the right approach. Keep things going until it starts to replicate in the community, then get aggressive before the hospitals are overrun.

Some communities will have too many cases, but most will hopefully be ok. And we will have a first step of Hurd immunity, concentrated on people most likely to transmit later like package delivery, restaurant workers, drivers etc.

The US should have had testing procedure set up early to relieve stress for citizens.
What is your source for those figures? I haven’t been able to find the breakdown.
I think the equation on the board is
( 10^2 + 11^2 + 12^2 +13^2 + 14^2 ) / 365
which solves for 2.

The students are expected solve this with "Mental Arithmetic". Try that in your head!
But how can anybody be sure that conservative policy (lockdown, I assume) would work for UK (or any other nation beside China)? They probably have to factor in the chance of success. They can fail in implementing conservative option (which might not be so conservative after all), and ruin the economy as a side effect.
I imagine this as a choice between these:
- long struggle with uncertain outcome in terms of life lost but with certain economic ruin
- short struggle with uncertain outcome in terms of life lost, with small economic ruin

I’m neither epidemiologist nor politician in power, so I can entertain myself with these thought experiments.
In the end, I have little choice (and knowledge or firepower), but to do as instructed by local authorities.
While you probably don’t realize it, you have just underscored my point.
It's obviously not a problem of the pollution of that specific car but of endorsing the culture of cumbustion engines.
They ought not to. Astrology is pseudoscience.

You should checkout James Randi or "The Amazing Randi." Here's one of his videos about it. He has been debunking a lot of pseudoscience topics for a long time now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dp2Zqk8vHw
They've done more than lock down in China:

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1238604080571772928

I don't see why they would back off of the monitoring and fever clinics without some better measure in place (a vaccine or effective treatment or whatever). It's of course very likely there will be new cases. The likelihood of unchecked spreading seems much lower.
All I can say as a motorcyclist myself is good.

After market exhausts that aren’t engineered to be deliberately louder are stupid and annoying to other people.
That's not quite the point though, is it? The point is total breakdown of the economy, full-recession, and that may cost more lives anyway. The idea seems to be that you can decide: do you want thousands of deaths, or do you want thousands of death and an economic collapse?
I’ve been playing with this for several weeks now and it’s a lot of fun. I was always really intrigued by style transfer algorithms and thus was a great low-barrier way to play around with them.
Agree. Although I personally prefer Ansible to the alternatives, the one thing I don't like is that it does require python to be installed on the target hosts for most modules. That's not a problem usually, but every now and then it is. Also, sometimes additional python package requirements are needed, managing those in an automated manner is usually a hassle....

I've had this idea for a config management system that compiles all provisioning code to posit shell. One of those years I'll finish it... :-)
Muckluks. Or the 1890 Russian version
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Even if it had slots for the splitter cable, Intel and AMD onboard SATA explicitly doesn't support port multipliers as far as I know.
You can buy PCIE SAS cards that do for relatively cheap, but then you have to find board with enough PCIe slots. Easy enough on the "gamer" boards but if you want ECC (and you probably do, for storage) and IPMI (you probably do, if you have more than a few dozen servers) your options get much more limited. Other than 1 or 2 Asrock Rack boards, you pretty much have to move into Epyc 7000-series or Xeon Silver or above. Often dual-socket on the Xeons to get a board with lots of PCIe.

In theory something like an Epyc 3000-series with lots of PCIe or onboard SATA that supports port multipliers would work great, but I don't think anyone actually makes that.
> There will be some parents who understand this, and some who don't

In some ways it is easier to understand (software / IT is perhaps more widely understood to potentially be a good career, given the success of tech companies as businesses & the financial success of many of their employees) but also harder to understand -- there are fewer obviously "tinkerable" computer systems in people's day to day lives.

> or can't afford to do anything about it

I agree that wealthier families generally have access to more opportunities to set their children up to have successful careers (e.g. private tutoring, wider choice of schools, able to support children to focus on careers with high initial investements of time and capital vs needing to leave school to help out on the family farm, etc). This has been true for a long time and will continue to be true in future.

But, I reckon that it is much more affordable to buy hardware & software required for a "tinkerable" hobbyist computer lab these days than 25 years ago: what cost $2000 in 1995 might only cost $200 today (esp if you buy second hand hardware and install linux) while also giving far superior hardware performance and better tools for creating software.
Thanks. I cannot see that on my screen. The powers of 1 caught my eye, though.
Well, they are both in agreement that we need to reach herd immunity at minimal cost. They also agree to keep the rate of new infections below NHS's capacity to handle.

They disagree on:

- adherence to lockdown measures over a longer time

- actual rate of spreading the disease

I agree with John Edmunds on these two points, however I am frankly disappointed a third approach is absent from the debate which is to lockdown aggressively now and deliberately infect healthy-age adults to achieve herd-immunity in the healthiest (most active) population.

These types of organized "corona parties" if you will could be medically supervised and coordinated with the NHS's ability. In that case you have controlled (accelerated) spread with 0 viral coefficient and uncontrolled general population spread with a viral coefficient.

That said, it would only be ethical if the government believes it could manage the capacity of the NHS. I think more realistically it's a foregone conclusion that the country health systems will be overrun and that drastic lockdown measures only make sense for a few weeks to make sure herd immunity comes at effectively half the cost in human lives.

If they don't believe they can manage the NHS capacity then the UK governments' policy is by all means the most human and economically effective way to manage it
I'm one of those people who lacks the discipline. I live with someone who works remote full time, and they have that discipline, and are in fact way more productive working from home. But me? I have no problem doing well in the office, but all the full work from home jobs I've had? I've been a miserable failure. I'm worried 'cause my performance is going to drop a lot right as we head into the third recession of my career.

It really varies by personality. Some people do a lot better by themselves. But if you hire me? It's worth paying for the office space.
Iceland only has about 50,000 teenagers.

"Sample size!" is absolutely a valid criticism.

It also is not geographically diverse... over half the national population lives within a 10km circle around the capital.