skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>are breaking quarantine

Happened today. Police can stopped outside our building Two policemen came out. One was holding a notepad+pen, and one was holding his cellphone. One was reading phone numbers and keeping notes, the other was dialing numbers, asking people to come out to their balconies so they see they are self-isolated and staying at their homes. Very simple and efficient way to see who stays and who runs.
Research firm says 'Xiaomi surpasses Huawei' report unofficially
Civic technology can help stop a pandemic
Thank you for this. You make the essential point that others are missing: flattening the curve isn't to buy time; it's to prevent massive loss of life and societal collapse. Buying time to improve prevention and treatment is of secondary concern.
>Good test takers are people who have learned things and know them well enough to pass a test on it.

Tell that to the massive test prep industry. Many many years ago I took a trial SAT and scored around 1000. Then I took a Kaplan SAT prep course, and lo and behold after learning all the tricks scored a 1300 on a test SAT. Back then the test prep course cost > $1000. I had a car in high school, so I could drive to the test prep school in the evenings.

Seems to me that people who prep for the tests (not necessarily learned things through high school) and are willing to spend time and money have a great margin of benefit.

It's the same thing for tech interview prep industry. The ones who prep well for the interview, do well in the interview.
right. we need to wait for FDA approval. and since it's prescription only, you need to check with your doctor.
But what's the intelligent local way to deal with a pandemic? All I see is ignoring the problem, insisting it's some kind of liberal conspiracy.
That's possible even today, kind of. [1] [2]

[1] https://t2i.cvalenzuelab.com

[2] https://towardsdatascience.com/text-to-image-a3b201b003ae
L.A. County gives up on containing Covid-19, tells doctors skip testing for some
I had no idea this existed, and that was the first use case that came to mind. I can see myself using this a lot now. I have one especially terrible dataset I’m working with at the moment where table A has a primary key, and table B is a set of denormalized transaction logs. If I want to know the status of a record in table A, I have to JOIN on table B (SELECT ... MAX), to get the most recent transaction for that PK. It’s ugly, confusing to anybody else who reads it, and inefficient. DISTINCT ON seems like a a significant improvement for that.

Note: it would be theoretically trivial to actually normalize this schema, but sadly that’s beyond my remit. At first glance I can’t think of a scenario where I would choose this design pattern unless I was forced to work within similar constraints (which does happen all the time in the real world).
Seems like a tough role to fill.
I recently saw https://covid.bio/, which does not fulfill all requirements but is still pretty helpful.
The first only works if location,time is unique. In the example it may be, not necessarily in general.

And yes, the JOIN LATERAL would be a good substitute.

P.S. More concise is CROSS JOIN ... rather than JOIN ... ON TRUE
LiDAR definitely makes AR usable and a lot better. Bummer apple stores are closed and we can't try it out...
https://www.bing.com/covid
From the Octahedron to E8
The problem is that with such a high rate of hospitalization or even death, even for young healthy adults, that’s a risky approach.

It might be necessary at some point, however.
The equipment has a very small market, per the nature of the field. I don't think I can sell a bank on it, unfortunately.
I did in fact state exactly why:

> The FTP client in browsers is terrible, and anyone using FTP professionally is using a better client (e.g. multiple connection modes, resume downloads, concurrent streams, etc)

That would be just as true for SFTP or FTPS. Those mitigate the security problems, but don't address the fact that FTP-like protocols would continue to be a second class citizen in browsers and better handled by bespoke clients.
beginning sounds a little like turbo lover but ends there
I do worry that this will become the norm in many countries. Because the virus will keep evolving and recirculating. And because more zoonotic diseases are predictable.
China claims to have stopped it in its tracks.
I find the classification to be surprisingly accurate. I've done several tests and every time so far I've learned something new/gained a fresh perspective.

It's mildly disturbing to me that we're so easy to classify, and the idea of having to perform a test like this as part of a job interview just feels wrong.
Yes, you can leave that there because it has nothing to do with this.

However, I should've said the Fed officially responded in January and not December.

Ahem, I'm just gonna leave this here: https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R46219.html
Turn around time is mostly due to shipping samples to outside labs, in addition to outside labs lacking automation.
I tried to cancel and was rejected because I was one day outside the window of "check-ins between March 14 and April 13" (my check-in was March 13, a Friday). The kicker is that I canceled on March 12, when the policy stated "for check-ins on or after March 13 and before April 1". They changed the policy over the weekend to the new time frame and rejected my request after the weekend.

Luckily, the host refunded me what they could, but Airbnb kept the service fees and occupancy taxes. The skeptic in me thinks they changed it to March 14 because they could cut out the people who check into places on Fridays (which I often do and assume others, too).
I’m hyped, the PS5 sounds incredible.

The SSD is twice as fast as the XB SX and the 3D audio chip is huge. The design is fascinating and it includes a ton of propriety tech. Sony’s devs will have a field day with this.

Watch how 1st party games blow Microsoft out the box at 10.3 teraflops.

Ppl spouting that 12 teraflops from the SX will steamroll Sony’s 10.3 are fools. Teraflops is a vastly overstated term purposely popularized by Microsoft. It isn’t the sole determining factor for performance, nor are all teraflops necessarily created equal.

PS5 is going to be the premier console next gen with the best games and….VR
Nice.

Question: why is this a service that needs to be hosted instead of a locally installed cli tool? Is there a technical reason or is it just for the convenience of using a website and not having to install anything?
Ironically - I strictly talk to certain people over phone. For instance, my parents. I don't have a good relationship with them and therefore keep distance by making it only possible to really talk to me through phone calls. I think I've texted them a total of five messages. I'll text other people quite a bit - to the point where we've rarely ever talked on the phone and it's awkward to talk to them on it. (In person - we're fine)

Nowadays, I find it very hard to find time to talk to people on the phone that isn't at an awkward time. (Or that I can do with privacy - as I live in a very small in-law unit in the bay area) When we do, it's for long stretches. 30 minutes or an hour. I don't think I know how to have a short phone call with friends. So, sometimes I call a friend midday at work and go for a long walk.

It's nice. I like hearing their voices and I can always hear the things they're up to. It's a peak into their life. I can visualize them getting out of the car, driving along, grocery shopping, arranging the apartment, cooking dinner, etc. as we talk. I'm usually the weird one - just walking on the sidewalk or sitting in my unit alone - maybe tiding up a bit.

Video chat can be nice but it feels stilted. We're not exactly in eachother's lives at the moment. Instead, it's an orchestrated interaction rather than, "Hey, let's go do some errands together like we used to when we lived closer."
I am pretty sure some entertained this idea. The real problem is tail risk is huge. If a youth gets complications or dies from the virus - is the camp organizer responsible?
Wow, outside Edmonton... WTF. Do they have a data center there?
Trump’s Tariffs Leave the U.S. Short on Vital Medical Supplies
LW=LessWrong, and IDW = Intellectual Dark Web I think
Watch President Trump Say Corona Virus Is a Hoax
I would love to know where in the UK chloroquine is behind-the-counter and not prescription only.
Is anyone else getting ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'plotly'?
I’ve heard it described as a race between a technology company trying to learn manufacturing and manufacturing companies trying to learn tech
I have seen weird things happen with Airbnb articles on HN. They are on front page for a very short period of time and then boom they are gone.
For Apple or for employees you mean?

I would imagine that many people are going to apply.

I would have loved to write Rust at Apple, if I ever got the chance to. And Canada is on my list of countries I would like to live in already anyway.
Interesting, this is for encrypting server-server traffic. My question: how did Apple end up doing this work in Camrose, Alberta?
Why? I don't have any Rust experience, but the rest seems reasonable to me and I figure I have enough C experience to make up for it.

If I happened to live in the area and was looking for a job I would definitely consider applying.
I wouldn't drive it anywhere but off the road at the earliest safe opportunity, but no driver should need any instrumentation to safely manage that.
I think that these kind of comparisons are quite hard to make.
Even back in 2014, Apple offered 16GB of RAM on the base model 15", just like they do today, but they now use much faster RAM (obviously) and give you many more options. The RAM prices didn't dramatically drop either in these 5 years.

The 2014 model you're considering was actually the 2nd configuration offered by Apple itself at the time (the cheapest with a dGPU), so I would compare it with the 2nd configuration offered by Apple today. This means the 16" with an i9, 16GB, 1TB and a Radeon 5500M that costs 2799$.

You could argue that getting the same amount of RAM 5 years later is not acceptable and you would actually be right, but today you still get double the cores/threads, much faster RAM, double the storage (and, again, much faster), a much more powerful GPU and a better display.
So I'd say that the only big issue of today's MacBooks compared to 2014 ones is the RAM price.

It's not like competitors started putting more RAM in their laptops though, today 8Gb is still the standard.
Fredrickson-Losada “positivity ratio” paper partially withdrawn
In the US, I suspect a few thousand, perhaps in the 10s of thousands, will die from Coronavirus.

The people touting all sorts of preventative measures trying "flatten the curve" will claim victory and pat themselves on the back.

The people saying "its just the flu but with extra hype" will look at the final numbers, determine that they were right and pat themselves on the back.

And the different factions in this country will go back to their regularly scheduled shouting past each other and calling their respective out-groups idiots.
Wim Hof: The man who biohacked the immune system
LOL Why, do you like it?

I want to hope that if I were, I might have also created another track or two in the last 12-15 years :) Playing the long game on a single track is definitely risky :)

Thanks for having a listen tho !
No, I'm not wrong.

Detectron was open sourced in 2018. R-CNN didn't have any public implementations (there was later a Keras implementation that didn't get the same performance as the paper reported). TensorFlow models added some object detection models a few days after I started my internship, but had various issues at the time. SSD and YOLO both had public implementations, YOLO's being in it's own C based framework.

It's a completely different landscape three years later.
Currently, I’m building a very simple webpage using Gatsby.js for a project I’m on.

It only has around 10 direct dependencies, but if I look in the node_modules folder...760 distinct modules required in the dependency graph.

Should I be doing security audits on every single one of the 760 modules?
Dgraph Switching from SemVer to Calendar Versioning
https://indianpediatrics.net/mar1995/351.pdf

Cloroquine can trigger psychosis in sleeper schizophrenia persons. It has quite a history in the Vietnam War.
Acrobat Reader (free) has the "Add text" tool that lets you add text anywhere you want.

Similarly macOS Preview (free) has an identical "Text" tool to add text anywhere.

I've never checked other programs, but those are certainly the two default tools one would use with PDF's on Macs.
I can only wish "imagine yourself in the shoes of the protester before making a decision" would be added to the training.
Roam Research: a simple input to output workflow
Yeah, being a child of 80's video games is probably why I like it (and techno in general).

Thanks for having a listen !
A zillion enterprises are going to go bankrupt, and it will take a long time to get them built back up.

What's worse is that the economy was already in a weak position because there was a huge amount of corporate and finance debt out there. And that was true in much of the world, not just the US.
Santa Clara County started the lockdown a few days ago. Maybe that's where a lot of the dispute in this thread is coming from; for those of us living in the Bay Area, maximum emergency measures are a given, so the most urgent priorities left are manufacturing medical equipment and finding a way to lift those measures.
Does "N=16" mean they've approved this test after such limited testing?

I think my high school stats class told me not to trust studies where N < 30.
I’m surprised authorize.net hasn’t slammed the door on thier merchant account yet. Massive chargeback risk here.
I think you are missing one important factor in why so many people are trying to block it. The more people who get it, the more some percentage will develop an infection serious enough to cause them to seek hospital care and some large fraction will need respiration. Most people will not get that sick. So it might feel like why are we panicing over this since we just get sick for a week and then we are over it.

It's because of what happened in Italy, too many people for the hospitals all at once. People over 45 don't get treated, they let them die, as the doctors say in their terrible reports. Washington state is facing the edge of this right now. They delayed all elective surgeries at the hospitals. The hospitals in the Seattle area are started to be at the breaking point. They started building temp hospitals in Soccer fields. Yesterday it was one, now it's many. It was in the that one famous senior citizen's home (25% dead, 50% in hospital, 25% waiting). Now it's in 10 of them here.

This is real and serious.
The superhosts / people who are running whole homes as AirBnB's are probably the worst off here.
What should be done is hard to say b/c of R&D angles about producing a more effective treatment. If the money is being put to R&D or even just enabling the company to scale manufacturing, I'm pretty okay with that.

Better than nationalization I think would be restrictions on executive compensation and dividends. Take away any personal upside from the decision-makers.
That's weird, apparently in Win10 and 8 you should still see a confirmation dialog, so I'm surprised why 2012R2 and 2019 wouldn't:

https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/shutdown...

https://www.tenforums.com/attachments/general-support/241264...
Being an Airbnb host was already becoming borderline unprofitable in my metropolitan area (Seattle) as they are marketing very heavily here resulting in a glut in short-term rental housing-supply. This drove the nightly rate I could command down, and—before this current crisis, the decision between short-term and long-term tenancy was a matter of debate. Now, without any guests visiting the area in the near future, the decision is a no brainer—I'm moving to long-term tenancy and may never be an Airbnb host again. I am currently a host for rooms in my primary residence as well as for entire houses and am currently looking to turn them both types into long instead of short-term rental situations. I'm suspecting many other hosts are in a similar situation.
As someone who went to a boarding school on scholarhsip after moving from a bad public highschool and couldn't afford the $1600 SAT prep classes that preprogrammed in solvers in your calculator, I agree with you in general and deeply resonate with this argument.

However, my initial thought was that MIT maybe has so many perfect scores it's useful at this point and not really a differentiating factor.

For example they can afford to have a perfect 1:1 ratio of men to women for a tech school and I don't think they lower their standards for that.

On the contrary, I went to a highly ranked engineering school of the same limitations (limited other genres of degrees) and it was 30% females overall roughly, but actually in general it was more like 6%-8% females in the actual engineering degrees.

I worked in the admissions office one summer and was hard pressed to find a B on any Q4 report cards which was one of my summer tasks to ensure no early admission students entirely flunked out. I got to see other things like scores and in general I have to say even at a lesser well ranked school, and reading the averages of every incoming class, my notion is not that there is a difference between the scores of smart hard working lower middle class vs the upper rich as much as there is an over emphasis on the exam as a whole.

I agree objective results are very important, and I don't have an answer for a way to calibrate across schools. I think AP exam scores are better indicators but not all schools have AB or IB classes, etc.

It is really at the end of the day like most things about your commitment and ability to get something done regardless of how tangential you think it is to your core goals or study. In real life it is the same way there are lots of silly things people have to do all the time to get where they want to be and the weeding out is those who don't stop trying vs those who find a comfortable spot and stay there and blame everyone else for not having the right priorities.

Regardless, I still fill like even amongst high ranking SAT scorers, students are good at acing them now. My theory though I'm not confident is true is that studying for them has been systemized so much that it is actually difficult for MIT to tell above a certain threshold of score what the bell curve is.

This is all with the exception we need to realize that the SAT is not objective or perfect (the top comment this one is in response to) it was only less than five yrs ago they pulled sailing terminology from the reading and vocabulary portions after having to admit children growing up in the Bronx indeed might not have casually sailed not had sailing related literature in their curriculums, making this a bit unreasonable even for "guessing from context".
> This bug is probably going to end up infecting most of the people in the United States.

Exactly. As you say, we need to flatten the curve to keep hospitals from becoming overwhelmed, and we need to use the time to develop treatments to save the vulnerable when isolation eventually fails.
Quite true, the federal deficit has skyrocketed under the Trump presidency.
Who'd you hire for the top job - someone with a track record of success, or another with a track record of failure?
I keep searching for animal studies on this and come up empty - all I can find is some studies on serological cross response when testing people for SARS exposure.

Vaccines are obviously the best bet, but I wonder whether deliberately exposing the healthy to common cold Coronavirus might improve herd immunity against this Coronavirus. E.g. maybe in late summer it can be used to forestall a second wave of Coronavirus spread in the winter.
The set of people capable of building one of these machines and incapable of evaluating the risks of doing so is nearly empty. I don't think that's a real significant concern, to the extent it is it can be adequately mitigated by slapping some warnings on the blueprints instead of asking people not to try and design things.

This effort may well save no one in this crisis. It could still benefit by making future ventilators cheaper, serving as prior art on bullshit patents that people try to get on basic components of a ventilator in the future, and so on. This will very likely allow the health care system to funnel money into more effective life saving efforts in the future.
The Saudis most certainly did not raise prices, which is the point I'm making. I'm well aware that the lowest cost producer can lower prices at will.
I think big companies see a lot of opportunity in locations outside of Silicon Valley. If you don't care about the weather in the Bay Area, which is quite pleasant, or the other industries around you (be it for business or for pleasure), then you can get an easier commute and a better house for the same salary, which is appealing to some people. (You can also pay people less, which seems to be a strategy used by companies without any Bay Area locations.)

As for how these offices exist; sometimes the team lead is senior enough to move the project there because they want it to be there, and other times a company is acquired that has offices there and there was no reason to move them. (I think Google got their NYC office by buying DoubleClick, for example.)
It was certainly better than the pretty crappy experience I've had canceling with them before. We couldn't stay at our AirBnb because the host had applied some kind of a sealant in their very small place and it was extremely fumey and giving us headaches. After talking to their outsourced support for a while about their absurd requests like "send us a picture of the odor", they decided to keep over $100 for service fees etc. while me and the host both got fleeced.
This time it was more of a no questions asked full refund.
I know this may sound cynical, and I know it's a whole different kind of work for the authors, but I could use a YouTube channel with these stories. This kind of content is quite perfect for losing myself in it while meditatively chomping on spaghetti, strand by strand.

I mean, I regularly watch channels like ‘Technology Connections’ and others that dissect some ultra-nerdy topic for twenty minutes.
RT-PCR tests can be way worse than this.

https://i1.wp.com/emcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/perf...

https://emcrit.org/ibcc/COVID19/
I think regardless of where you stand on the issue of the Gaza protests, you would find this piece to be a good and rare, almost entirely neutral article. Good Journalism.
Big fan of https://covid.bio/us, but the data seems to be delayed compared to others. Last updated last night at 7:40pm.
> It also can be the case if you are immune compromised that you may clear the virus through good luck, drugs, and your innate immune response.

uh, how? Perhaps this is tangential, but it's important that anyone who is immunocompromised takes this seriously. Don't just think you'll be ok with a bit of luck. If you are immunocompromised your immune response is by definition weak and we have no working therapeutics.

Yeah, yeah, I know there are 2 promising ones but its not really clear. The Gilead one is fairly legit, but the protocol used to compare Chloroquine for covid is fucking bullshit. They compared people across hospitals, way too many things different, you can't actually draw any valid scientific conclusion - it's purely anecdotal (as thankfully Fauci made more clear to the public today).
Interesting response. I don't mean to start an argument but I genuinely wonder what the reaction would be if it were a response to a Holocaust incident.