skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really naive take in my opinion. Edit: it's naive at best. Sounds more like you don't want to accept that bad shit is happening in the world. This has absolutely fuck-all to do with cancel culture and everything to do with selfish people spreading a dangerous disease.

You can make the same argument about seatbelts. The majority of people wear seatbelts because they've been asked to and they understand the danger of not wearing a seatbelt, for both themselves and their fellow passengers. But some fraction of people simply don't care, and well-intentioned people even have a tendency to say "oh just this one time." And that's why we need enforcement.

Look at this like engineering. With a large enough system, you are always going to have some components that fail. When your network has a million machines, you don't get upset when a server goes down, you just engineer some tolerance into your network, define processes to handle them, and go on with your life.

Human life is not redundant. Moreover unless you're able to outright deny people medical care for their negligence (which we can't do), unnecessary Coronavirus cases put more burden on everyone. Just like seatbelts -- even if you don't personally care if you get severely injured in a car accident, the EMTs don't have the ability to just leave your selfish ass dying on the side of the road, even if you want them to. You just wasted a lot of other people's time, energy, and money as a result of your carelessness.

If you can take simple measures to prevent components from failing, you should, especially when component failure is an expensive and intrusive proposition, even if it doesn't mean the total failure of the system.

Not to mention the fact that humans are notoriously bad at making rational utility-maximizing decisions. People often only come to regret their actions only after they've been forced to face serious consequences for their actions. Yes, this is slightly paternalistic, but it's yet another argument in favor of enforcing quarantine-like laws with actual penalties.
I don't think even a scientific study would be effective against odds as small as 450 out of 45 million. Vaccines are tested by hundreds, or thousands of people before mass produced. Catching an event as unlikely as this doesn't seem possible. One would hope animal models would be helpful, but what if vaccine only causes GBS to humans?
Yes we've thought about that too. That's why we added autocompletion and we will add an interactive tutorial should we decide to commit to this.
Together at Home Club
Is preventing ICUs from getting overloaded something you consider part of "outrage culture"?
Another item on the list of recent things MIT has done/participated in to reduce its reputation in favor of pleasing the rich and powerful.
I agree, that's one of the challenges we have to tackle.
The commands being contextual to the page you are on helps in my point of view, but we have to explore ways of onboarding users in a proper way.
So....it's the same thing? It's just in UK you don't call it insurance. But it's also paid from taxes
That's a wonderful question.

The honest answer is that I have no idea. In the version we reverse engineered, there's no proof of inclusion of any of the data in the blockchain in the client, and the receipt system was via a PDF. The vote selections (ballot?) are also never signed by the client.

It's also worth noting that, according to the ToB article, the backend blockchain is a permissioned hyperledger instance, which runs PBFT[1] rather than proof of work. PBFT is controllable with roughly 1/3 of the network, 100% of which has been controlled by the company.

[1]http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf
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Just waiting for Speedvision to do lawn mowers again
Can't remember which reality show was it. But the concept was for a bunch of city people living in a small mountainous village without outside help. As I flipped though channels, there was an episode that caught my attention.

On this episode, these city people were craving for pork. I believe they were seeded a pig ready to be butchered. Now their community rule was "If you help out in butchering the pig, you get to have a share." Essentially in this show, you need to kill every single animal yourselves if you want to eat it. Those city people were not good at butchering either. I recall the scene was pretty ugly. Quickly some people decided they don't want pork anymore after some dry heaving. For those who went through with butchering, they get to make pork chops and cure their own bacon just to add some delight to their arduous rural lives.

I often wonder what I would do in that situation.
Doesn’t your last sentence contradict the rest of your post? You get taxed any time you withdraw something from a Roth, since you invested it pre-tax.
It's an election year.
Man... you just made me dust off my copy of Dishonored 2!
For (relevant) prior art, see Notational Velocity (which appears to have successors in various states, nvAlt and nvUltra).

There's also Alfred, Quicksilver and Enso
the 2020 mbp 14 inch should be just around the corner. I just replaced the battery in my 2013 mbp
Just before they abandon all the Intel crap and switch to ARM.
Private equity licks its chops in anticipation of Covid-19 aftermath
According to the original article, MIT accepts SAT or ACT. I have no idea if SAT is preferred though. It was certainly the default way back when when I was applying to schools.
Being "born from spam" really explains a lot about how most eBay sellers communicate to this day.
The rest of the industry…? At work we have lots of Lenovo and HP laptops and those keyboards are, IMO, clearly inferior to my MBA 2012.
I think in some cases though there are systems that funnel people into places that seem designed to evoke engagement and often the engagement triggers outrage.

I wish Jack Dorsey at Twitter would take a look at the absolute shit-show that is "Trends for You" in the Explore section. It's nothing but the most outraged people trying to whip everyone into a frenzy. I try to resist going in there, but every once in a while can't help but be sucked in and almost always regret it.
Please, stop with these. As experts have shared many times on here, once you need a ventilator, the ventilator is the least of your problems. Trying to apply a ventilator to a COVID-19 patient who needs one when you have no idea what you're doing can create the same lung injuries as COVID-19 itself.
If nothing else, the UX makes it hard to keep it straight. eBay has always been more consistent with this, since they're solely the broker.
Paul Graham (
@paulg
) just donated $1,000,000 to http://Flexport.org. That gift will pay for almost all the protective gear required by the entire city of San Francisco's frontline healthcare workers. We'll likely distribute the equipment to hospitals in other locations too.
Interview Cake lowers pricing to help Engineering Candidates
Would be cool if i could join on my PS4... guess I'd need to jailbreak it and run Linux.
This was about how the content is learned, not what content is learned.

>so anyone who benefits from this article should probably take a detour through a math book before continuing their Python ML, or else risk having beautiful code that implements nonsensical math.

My response to that comment was you can learn both at the same time. I preferred to learn music theory while also learning how to play the guitar. I also preferred to learn mathematics subjects while applying them, such as machine learning.
I never thought I'd want a rotary phone with modifiers.
What explains the unintuitive numbering of chip pins?
I was tried to get this filament, it is not available in USA anywhere.
I have 250mg tablets. I also have bisoprolol to counteract prolonged qt interval. Be prepared :)
There are people who will be in their deathbed due to COVID-19 and still be dismissive to it.

Changing opinions when facts change is not a given for everyone :/
The problem is that "articulate, socially well-adjusted person who can communicate their values and opinions in an intelligent way and who is comfortable making connections with others" is (a) highly subjective, and (b) only a means to an end. The end is to have a productive civil society where people do not prey on other people. Unfortunately, all these highly subjective characteristics are used by people to prey on other people instead of to help with having a productive, civil society. So by themselves they can't be used as a standard. There has to be some objective criterion to distinguish people who can actually contribute to a productive civil society from people who prey on other people.
Is that 20 point bump a comparison taking an expensive prep class to zero preparation? Or is it a comparison taking an expensive prep class to doing self-directed preparation with a $5 prep book? My guess is the former, when the latter is what's relevant for arguments about the advantages obtained through wealth.
I don’t know why it’s called “insurance” other than I suspect it removes some of the entitlement stigma associated with it
One wonders why they don't call it elongating the curve.
I've been using Timescale DB, a postgres extension, to store our sensor-produced timeseries data and it handles this pretty well. DISTINCT ON seems to ruin the query plan there, by forcing sequential, non-index scans of each subtable (timescale breaks tables into time-buckets behind the scenes, so it can skip searching tables in time-filtered queries). I've had good performance with their "time_bucket" and "last" functions, though, and not having to use some NoSQL time series database has been really nice.
I understand that but that’s second on the priority compared to the other things mentioned. If there are no people left bills won’t matter sadly.

Also the economy is interconnected. One persons income is another persons expense. So yes physically people might get bills but the time to pay will increase if the economy comes back. And the only way the economy comes back is by having its constituents capable of participating. If they are all sick there is barely any economy. dosnt matter home much money is printed. Hence priority number one is health. Then the stimulus.

PS: I really like what you have written on your profile. Your openness to willing engage in dialog is exemplary!
What is the point of all these? Large scale manufacturers have already been sent blueprints of ventilators and have the engineering ability and production lines to make them. Then you need trained nurses and staff to operate them.
It’s giving a decent laptop a somewhat passable tablet mode (Surface) vs giving a great tablet a passable laptop mode (iPad). Personally I’m banking on the latter winning out.
> I don't think authoritarian tactics like that, while effective, would fly in the US.

Much of this hinges on how it's done. First, you can't take away rights unless there's a compelling governmental interest. This interest clearly exists; however, it still doesn't fly UNLESS you restrict rights by the least restrictive means possible.

By trying voluntary restrictions first, they can demonstrate that these lesser restrictions were ineffective, and then successfully defend the more aggressive mandates in court if necessary, later.
Compare the same price MacBook for the same price Lenovo, and you will see how the rest of the industry has clearly figured it out. Not shilling for Lenovo, but yeah, there's nothing special about it.
Yeah, I'm thinking that this is the obvious replacement for my 2015 13" rMBP. Mine is still a solid machine, and I don't anticipate needing to upgrade for at least another year, but I'd definitely consider this over the current pro. Fast CPU, no touchbar, and sensible pricing (hopefully this is a sign of Apple changing direction pricing wise).
2d graphics are kinda hard. The problem is that gpus don't support them out of the box so you have to do a Lot yourself.
Herd immunity?

The virus evolves too rapidly for that [1, see chart 6].

[1] https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th...
Thankfully the post was updated to be less misleading.
Yeah I see people complain all the time that graduates with a "Computer Science" degree don't know "tools of the trade" like source control, debugging, etc.

Computer Science isn't about learning a trade, you're learning a science.

Yet another argument to better/more trade schools that are multi-year programs (like an Associate's degree) rather than universities.
You may not like the feel, but the keys don't stop working like the 2015-2019 MacBooks.
Coronavirus Outbreak: A Cascade of Warnings, Heard but Unheeded
This is really nice!

In my nonexistent free time, I'm very slowly learning Lisp. (well, mostly emacs lisp) I love seeing these sorts of Emacs projects, because I can read through the source and figure out a little bit more about this strange and wonderful language.

This brings to mind one of the reasons I love Emacs so much now. It's the editor with the smallest barrier to learning and extending it, since everything is Lisp, you configure it with Lisp, you customize it with Lisp, and packages are written in Lisp.

Anyway, a long-winded roundabout way of saying: Thank you for sharing this!
No, it works on Chrome on Android too, so that’s the vast majority of mobile uses covered.
What do people think about this? Is it ok to use Corona for promoting your business? "Corona-Discount" and all that? Asking for a friend.
if you're referring to the US initiative, isn't it just an early tax "refund"?

as in - no one's giving anyone anything. It's all just shell games.
This study is pretty garbage. They tested 20 people, and they didn’t even pick 20 people who used CarPlay. They picked 20 random people who didn’t use CarPlay, briefly taught them how to use CarPlay, and then found that those people couldn’t use it well. Imagine testing how distracting texting was for someone who had never used an iPhone before the test.
I think there's a social engineering aspect of this where it's believed by governments that drastic measures wouldn't be accepted by the public overnight. They think something like a shelter could only go smoothly after a period of ramping up to it with a period of persistent messaging and getting people used to less drastic measures first. Think of how many (more) people would be ignoring this and writing it off as a hoax if they were told out of nowhere that they had to stay home.

We're getting a picture (Burr) that the federal government knew these measures were coming a while back. My guess is that if governors and mayors of large cities had been read in back then they'd have started prepping local measures earlier.
How much did the battery replacement cost? Mine's still ok, but it probably won't be long before I'd consider a replacement. But that does rather depend on the price...
ok this is not altruistic just cheap ass marketing
Came here to say the same thing. This is ridiculous.
ThinkPads are well known for having great keyboards. Apple’s do not compare.
My understanding is that the various open source ventilator projects are attempting to use readily-available COTS parts (by, for example, using a constant-speed blower and valves operated by RC hobby servos instead of a variable-speed blower). So that should, at least partially, solve the scaling problem.

As for political organization, I would think that almost takes care of itself if someone presents a turn-key, scalable solution.
It's hard to take Gruber seriously anymore. I haven't seen anyone with such an obvious bias for Apple and disdain for anything non-Apple so 99% of what he writes about Apple is going to be sunshine and butterflies.

If you aren't going to say anything controversial, why bother even listening to you? I'll just watch Apple's PR videos and be happy.
You can pry the x220 classic keyboard I've got on my x220 daily driver from my cold dead fingers.
Are you referring to this study?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/186Bel9RqfsmEx55FDum4xY_IlWS...

Afaikt, 57% patients on HCQ alone were “virologically cleared” by day 6 and 100% on HCQ+Azithromycin were clear By day 6. Compared with ~12% of control group.
Powershell has a security model. Also, Ryan Dahl (creator of node.js) is working on Deno as a replacement because he thinks he made a mistake with node.

10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA
I bought a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th Gen a few months back. I can't say the keyboard is amazing. Compared any other laptop, sure it's better, but still subpar. I think old Macbooks had better keyboard.
"heroic defender of Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion"

Kind of a deluded notion - 40 years after the US and UK fought the First and Second Opium war to steal Hong Kong and push opium and heroin on the Chinese population, Chinamen rose up and began pushing the imperialists out. The heroes were the Chinese men fighting to push the foreign drug dealers out.
>> Why spend 2 weeks

To acquire immunity while there are still hospital beds available in some places, in the unlikely event that you need one. That won't be the case a month from now.
boolean satisfiability?
No. The point about replacing a test with more subjective criteria is completely invalidated when, instead, multiple tests are replaced with a single test.

EDIT: Instead of completely invalidated, I should say irrelevant to MIT's change. In another context it could be an important point.
France suspends local elections because of Covid-19
We've already weathered at least one wave of panic induced psychosis. From panic buyers, to Congress members using privileged information to blatantly sell stock just before the first crash.
That's fair to ask for the conversation. However, the risk is that the conversation will prevent decisive action, which is what has occurred in the US for the past month.

As a nation and collective of states, leaders are decisioning on events from a couple of weeks ago. Because we don't know the ground truth at the moment, we are working with stale information. Each pandemic period -- let's use OOM cases to define it quickly -- has different levels of response needed.

The lockdown needs to happen now, then we can have the conversation around our options. As we discuss options while things spiral, the inputs are out of date, which is very very dangerous in a quickly changing exponential chart.
They are also preventative in a way that hand washing is not.

I don't know how to effectively express the difference. I've been trying to think about how because I wish we put more emphasis on "stop touching your face" than on hand washing.

Hand washing kind of assumes you will continue to be a grubby person, mindlessly touching your face and everyone you know and all kinds of stuff all the time. And it's going to be okay because you washed it off, hopefully before it made you ill and hopefully before you passed it on.

But in reality, it's far better to skew your focus towards stop touching stuff, etc, than to focus on washing hands so much.

Don't get me wrong. I wash hands a metric fuckton. But I'm also amazingly careful about not touching stuff.

It's kind of the difference between saying "Free love is totes fine! Just wear a condom!" And "It's best to only sleep with people you know well in a committed monogamous relationship. Wear a condom for any exceptions whatsoever and we actively recommend against orgies. Sorry to be a bummer, but orgies are never a hygiene best practice."

I'm sorry if I'm making no sense. I'm actively working on trying to figure out how to say this well cuz Reasons.

That makes this "practice."

Sorry. (But not very.)
You may be interested in this study then: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32150618

Note in the full text article they show simulation of how long it takes for the drugs to reach therapeutic concentration at the lung. Since we don't know exactly where the antiviral effect comes from, these are only guess works.
Maybe its time to kill these businesses?
The PJON Protocol specification v3.2
On the contrary the Chinese told the world very early how their successful treatment plan worked.

* https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/standards-of-care-for-s...

* Or https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fd15kg/preprin...

South Korea and Japan used the very same plan in their ICU's.

Maybe it's the crackdown of Western media on China, but right now italian doctors trust chinese experience more than western experts. Western experts still preach lockdown, whilst Italian officials in the meantime also found out that the asian recommendation of mass testing everybody is better. Without drastic lockdowns. Test everybody, wear masks, be responsible.

> else you waste money and lives. If your wonder drug is so great you'd notice immediately in the data and would cut the trial short.

The problem is that it was chinese and south korean data only. Trials are not cut short, western buerocracy still rule the hospitals. Many doctors do get their younger patients on those trials. But in the overloaded case, such as Italy and Spain it's too late. You need to apply virostatica early on for 10 days, not when it's too late. But those people are advised to stay at home and wait for the fever to go down. Without effective treatment plan, as outlined by the chinese.
> I'm sure the writers of the SAT are well aware of this, but full IQ tests just don't scale.

First of all its generally faulty to presume what others are thinking.

Secondly, standardized admissions testing in its current form should be eliminated and there is a fair amount of data to support this[1][2]. If schools really want to discriminate on performance they should test for originality, composition, and decision capacity all of which can be done objectively with automated administration.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2019/12/11/lawsuit-...

[2] http://www.nea.org/home/73288.htm
At 0.13cm thicker than the dell XPS13, I don't think they're really doing anything crazy slim.
I believe hospitals do use systems with a single, central supply of pressurised air.

However, I'm also getting the sense from reading about these efforts that creating pressurised air is the easiest part of the setup. You need to control that pressure with a precision unlike any other application of air pressure. Just alternating high and low pressure isn't going to work, for example: you need to slowly ramp up pressure, then slowly release, on a specific schedule. Every patient also has individual needs, to the point where even for two people of the same gender and similar age/weight, the settings ideal for one might kill the other, and vice versa.

If I understand it correctly, these machines use feedback loops with sensors for blood oxidisation, acidosis, the elasticity of the lung, and other factors. Without such mechanisms, you'd be constantly adjusting the settings––consider a heating system or AC where you can't set the desired temperature, but only flow rate and power of the heating/cooling instrument. You need constant attention to keep such a setup within a comfortable range. And that attention will also be in short supply when hospitals are overrun.
> Do rich kids have more scholastic potential because they have better access to resources?

Do kids with involved parents have access to more scholastic potential because their parents cared? Almost certainly, and that's a good thing and we should harvest it, not attempt to force something that is not going to work.
Pro Tip: The MacBook Air line of today has taken over for the MacBook line of old. It's not like the original air which was so much thinner and lighter than everything else. Thickness of the 13" MacBook Air is 0.63" vs 0.59" of the 13" MacBook Pro and weight of the Air is 2.8lbs vs 3.0lbs for the Pro. The MacBook Air is the lower-end MacBook now.
I have replaced the battery in both my rMBP (2015). It costs about $100 and can be done yourself.
BAC Mustard
It‘s already happening elsewhere voluntarily. Sharp is producing masks and Draeger is AFAIK working on massproducing ventilators.