skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should a mom and pop shop expect that their experience being a small fish will be any different in GCP than literally EVERY OTHER GOOGLE SERVICE?

Well, for one thing, everyone you ask except apparently the HN comment section will tell you.

I've probably seen this exact conversation play out 10+ times now. Someone says that GCP has poor customer support by analogy to other, mostly free services. Someone who actually uses GCP customer support claims that this is not the case. Some third (or perhaps the original) person blows them off and insists that Google's behavior toward the statistically adversarial and free users of other services must be representative of Google's behavior toward an entirely different group of users.

It's baffling.
Really hard indeed.

I too have been time shifting, but balanced against this is our responsibility to stay somewhat well rested for the sake of health.
It's very limited approval, it's not something that's just approved and available to be prescribed to anyone. According to the wiki it's only approved in an emergency (presumably meaning individual, not societal, emergency) because of concerns with toxicity and alll. And countries don't automatically trust other countries to approve drugs correctly - Europe did not buy what the FDA was saying about opioids for chronic pain which saved a lot of lives on Europe. The damage that would come from releasing a half baked drug into the world with terrible side effects would vastly outweigh the benefits of mitigating coronavirus, and that's a mistake you only get to make once.

I'm sure they'll test the drug in the future though, there are likely plans to test it as we speak, and if it works really well there are lots of ways to get expedited approval, especially in a state of emergency

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favipiravir
No color burst on the front porch, so the color killer circuit disables color.
Having no need for something is a very dangerous mentality or rationale for banning anything. You have no need to speak.

Likewise keep in mind the risks of a permission culture and burden of proof. The Tautology of Schedule 1 drugs set back research over half a century and indirectly killed many people. Prompted by cynically manipulated hysteria no less.
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> you can't get out of your extremely irresponsible claims by arguing about semantics. Please stop giving anyone your incompetent and potentially harmful medical advice.

How does saying "there is a plausible mechanism of" qualify as either irresponsible or medical advice?

> you have to realize that in panic-inducing times like this people might actually take your advice and you could end up with blood on your hands.

What advice? I literally haven't offered any advice.
Generally, that's right. We always take re-applicants. The way I look at how hiring is done (and it can certainly be improved in the industry as a whole) is that the system is tuned to reduce false positives (bad hires), but that means we have lots of false negatives (people who could have been great hires), so if you think you would be a great hire, don't feel bad about applying again. We all have bad days when interviewing, or bad evaluations.
And then we'll have to learn to live with the knowledge that our "strong" economy can't handle a pandemic with a 1% death rate, and that we were incapable of handling it as well as other countries like South Korea.
Parent said SAK is good.
Because they deny the area to you as well. Cleaning up a minefield is child's play compared to dealing with nerve agents.
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They probably have an underwriter who won't pay out if any of those t's are not crossed.
Works for me, firefox-nightly (76) on Linux.
>intentionally trying to slow the infection rate down rather than stop it completely

The individualistic attitudes in the US (and probably Europe, although I'm not an expert there) were never going to lead to the infection being stopped entirely. I can't imagine anyone was actually worried about being too effective in containment.
Yes, I believe the deployment of Sarin by the cultists was botched. While they had 5L they used it incorrectly. I can't remember where but I think I read something like 100x the deaths if properly distributed.
It's certainly an interesting characteristic. If the person is asymptomatic then they spead the contagion, it continues to be effectively undetected. Then it finally strikes. And so on. In theory this aided the original spread. By the time say there were 100 cases showing symptoms, there were actually plenty more roaming around. By the time enough detectable cases were racked up, it was already too late. The numbers favored the virus.

Anyone know how common this is in viruses?
Maybe the theory is just bunk because you can always post hoc fit a crisis to a prominent figure. Crisis occur with statistical regularity. I'll be impressed when SHG theory makes a testable prediction.
If you work with a fixed crew and equipment, you'll have whole teams down at once, but other teams won't have been exposed at all.
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Firefox Nightly 76

Works fine though not tested mic(muted on system).
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Football stadiums, convention centers, that sort of thing. They set up a bunch of cots and people laid there to recover. If you started to deteriorate, they sent you to an actual hospital.

There's talk about doing this maybe with all of the empty hotel rooms in NY.
I work at Lyft and have to work directly with Google on several of their various enterprise offerings.

Their support is downright AWFUL. Getting someone from Google to help is so challenging that they have decided that in order to work with them on their enterprise offerings you must go through a 3rd party vendor. Their third party vendors are all small companies with which my organization has very little trust for.

I will never knowingly try to do anything with Google again after the hellish experience I have had dealing with them and their vendors so far, it just isn't worth it.
Well, can all agree that HFTs think very highly of themselves, and thus self-identifying as critical is unsurprising if dubious?
I know some people in the Philippines who normally do office task outsourcing, call center work, or language instruction who would absolutely love to get a few dollars an hour to teach or babysit kids via teleconference. And by absolutely love, I mean they would be able to buy food to eat next week.

Not sure how well teleconferencing would keep a toddler distracted, but you'd probably have varying degrees of success with older kids.

Could put people in touch if there is interest.
It seems you missed both points:

* "Making" 20% if you happen to be successful, when most efforts fail, is not much of a prize-- especially if you lose your company in the process. Not even the most diehard gambler would play slots with those rules. ;)

* It's not going to save millions of lives. There's lots of tests available meeting different needs. It may save some lives, and will likely improve quality of life of those suspected of having COVID-19 quite a bit.

Identifying and quarantining is a complicated strategy and this test is not going to be the "workhorse" of it and is certainly not going to save millions of lives. Look to Rosch, Abbott, and others that have made pieces of already-deployed infrastructure to fill that need.
Except they interact with hotel staff and Walmart and grocery store cashiers.

Also, part of my friend’s job is transporting equipment to various teams.
Zoom’s privacy issues are more than minor, if my friends started using it and I couldn’t get the web version to work I wouldn’t do a conference call with them.
> *Tested at the default display brightness measuring watts consumed while separately watching videos on YouTube, reading articles on Wikipedia, and editing in VIM separately.

So, they didn't actually measure the 16hr Wikipedia / 21hr vim?

They just extrapolated from a non-linear power curve?
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I don't lose sleep over it, but every time I look at my (5) dossiers I remember how much I enjoyed playing with friends. It would be great to build a Spellfire community..
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And with the UK signalling that they were about to drop out as well.... we are now postponed for a year.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/52002474
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Rudy Gobert, the guy in the NBA who was first to test positive and did the whole touch the microphone things at one of his interviews before the test even, came out about his lack of smell and taste. I was thinking his name could be brought up in that article considering his famousness of patient 0 in the US sports world.

Hopefully this doesn't give people more fear in thinking about their own symptoms, but on the other hand, seeing an odd possibly symptom can really help make them take it more seriously overall.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/fn6kh0/rudy_gobert_giv...
Yeah, this seems nice for small scripts and all, but I wonder how long until scope creep makes them end up writing or replacing this with an API gateway?
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Black Lotus, Mox jewels... and the person had no idea of the value. Just an enjoyable watch that isn't worth a separate submission.
Another point of evidence that the author probably omitted out of politeness are the nations that freely violated rules of war yet did not make (much) use of chemical weapons: the nazis on the eastern front and wwii japan.

Also another technology banned because it don't work is the hollow point bullet.

Apparently killing a solider outright is not as destructive as driving him long term onto the medical system. This is also one of the reasons caliber has generally been dropped over time. The 1950s move to the 223 round is pretty explicit on this.
I don't know what the answer is but it's a materials problem. Almost all medical stuff gets sterilized after manufacturing and packaging. The common ways are gamma radiation, ETO gas, steam. Less common are ebeam and Chlorine Dioxide.

There is no golden process. Materials especially polymers have limits to how many times they can be sterilized. Different materials/different processes.
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You've heard nothing and have no data, because we don't have any Covid-19 antibody tests, so we have no clue who has had and recovered from the disease, unless they were tested while contagious.
Counterpoint - liquor stores are considered essential businesses, at least currently in NY, so why should being an alcoholic force you to go to a bar?
At that point you should at least use something elegant like s-expressions.

There are so many things I hate about ansible.
"Build the next Reddit or Facebook, on Facebook Social Services"

That does sound good, even for someone like me who has spent considerable effort ridding my life of FB's influence.

The killer product they have is their users and the data mined from them. Allowing third-party apps to leverage their infrastructure as a service would be brilliant.
This presumes the underlings were busy doing important things, aka "improvising" solutions that benefited the whole.

Wrong.

Most of the time they were slow-rolling initiatives or not getting things done because they want to promote initiatives that get them promoted.

For example, take the Air Force. Every year it tries to sunset more and more Warthogs, a heavy plane that supports actual troops fighting actual battles.

Why? Because it's old and no one gets promoted championing Warthogs.

Instead they lean into the F-35, the most expensive weapons system ever built by mankind, and a system that appears to do everything worse than its predecessors.

So no, Pentagon brass dragging their feet or refusing to execute is not some amazing example of them thinking on their feet, it shows how rotten the bureaucracy has become and how static and non-agile the military can be.
The fact that they have emergency reserves of masks is in itself pretty wild.
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Why was Facebook stashing so many masks? Anyway, if they didn't donate them, the Goverment said they are gonna confiscate them, and this was already clear.
Sure, if the API you're dealing with supports that then it's easy. But if it doesn't, you have a non-trivial timing problem.
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Sorry, the run-on way your own sentences appear because you insist on using only one space show how wrong you are. The very problem of the crowding of text shows that you have made it harder to read by following your rule.
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Nice. Our company also had bought masks for the bushfires here in NSW Australia which they handed out.

Sadly there weren't enough for everyone, even before this hoarding craze began.
More like pretty irresponsible to keep them until up until the government said they are gonna confiscate them.
> Immigration status has absolutely nothing to do with it.

This is the sort of obvious nonsense that gets in the way of constructive solutions. Undocumented immigrants aren't getting stable employment or social benefits. Nor can they rely on the medical system or any local or federal institutions for support. They are, with absolute certainty, an identifiable group where an extraordinary majority are undoubtedly in a situation where compliance will be terrifying, if not impossible.

Pretending they are being 'targeted' or 'demonized' in this thread is pure intellectual dishonesty. The reason they're being discussed is because they are in the position they are in, and because that situation creates a need for special care and attention.

> This is not constructive or helpful.

Actually, it is. Considering they we have millions of people who might be unable to comply, for totally logical and non-malicious reasons, is constructive.

You know what's not constructive? Putting blinders on and conveniently ignoring an entire group of people who may find themselves in dire financial and medical situations, and who can potentially spread the virus to others unintentionally. This isn't demonization. This is reality. Nobody in this thread is saying 'Let's deport/kill/refuse care to all the illegals!' These people need to eat just like the rest of us, let's not pretend they just don't exist.
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I've found this:

https://www.covid.is/data

The private company did there the randomized tests (deCode). But I don't know where the support for your claim ("half the positives no symptoms") can be found.

Edit: thanks for source, note however, in your statement "had, and developed, no symptoms at all" the part "and developed" doesn't necessary follow from the original quote and what we know about the test -- apparently it is already known that it can take up to 14 days before the symptoms develop, and checking, the said tests are the orange stacks in the bars on the page I've linked -- the tests are too recent to know that.
They had them for wildfire smoke, which seems pretty reasonable.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-23/zuckerber...
To all who are wondering why Facebook had masks -

“To help, Facebook donated our emergency reserve of 720,000 masks that we had bought in case the wildfires continued,”
Make packages to describe the state of individual app configurations and version your config files, describe the server state as a set of packages.

Ansible made sense when people were physically provisioning things, no one (sane) runs apps on physically provisioned servers now except people deploying cloud platforms.
Read the article. It says why.
Great dataset! does this get updated frequently? We just need 3-6 more weeks to know how this plays out. Do we hit 50x flu deaths or 5x flu deaths...
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“To help, Facebook donated our emergency reserve of 720,000 masks that we had bought in case the wildfires continued,” Zuckerberg said in a post, adding that the company is also working on “sourcing a lot more to donate.”
It says in the article they were purchased in case of continued wildfires.

Do you have a source for the government confiscating emergency supplies? My understanding was that that was only in cases of hoarding and profiteering in response to this crisis.
Wildfires.
It is not unusual. Cases in point: HPV, herpes virus.
There's a joke in there about you just now noticing.
FTA: “To help, Facebook donated our emergency reserve of 720,000 masks that we had bought in case the wildfires continued,” Zuckerberg said in a post
Firefox 74.0 on Fedora works.

AFAIK Firefox on GNU/Linux uses Gstreamer. Maybe you need to install gstreamer codec packages.

Update: Firefox switched to FFmpeg and removed Gstreamer support some time ago. I have FFmpeg installed from rpmfusion, but I don't know if that's relevant to WebRTC and Jitsi.
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Societies often find a moral conscious once something stops being economically (or in this case, militarily) viable.
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I wish they would have done this a little bit sooner, but glad they are doing it and no time like the present!
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How Can We Hold Newsom/Others Accountable for the Disaster They Created?
There have been more than 16X more deaths by gun violence this year alone than covid-19.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

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These jerks have absolutely murdered the economy. They need to be held accountable for their criminal and illegal actions.

Gavin Newsom and others are enemies of entrepreneurs and should be thrown in jail.

Downvote all you want - you know it is true.
> But you can bet no high ranking officer in Saddam Hussein's army was successfully "fighting the bureaucracy" to get things through.

Why do you assume that? The Baath party was quite a complex organization that had all kinds of hierarchies and subgroups. Iraq was one of the most educated societies in the Middle East before we started fighting several wars with them.

Even Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, founder of ISIS, had a PhD.

So there was bureaucracy and hierarchy in Saddam Hussein's army, so odd to assume there wasn't.

Their biggest weakness was 1970s era tank technology but within a few years were able to morph into a guerilla force with a networked command and control structure that almost sent the US home in shame.
Damn. That will significantly lengthen any sort of quarantine I suspect.
Sure, but they’re not being forced. They pay for it the service and it’s a choice.

The provider sells the service and the service is partially subsidized with local ad buys. You’re eating into that portion of the business.

If you can figure it out with the providers and scale, it will take off. I plan to follow along, good luck on the journey!
It's unlikely that you would catch coronavirus outdoors. The media has worked itself into quite a hysteria by assuming that the radius you would need to stay away from other people when outdoors is the same as the radius you would need to stay away from other people in a confined space.
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I’m fairly certain this can run in the browser, although it seems to default to an app download on mobile.
The nuclear weapon question isn't really covered, which is an interesting case because they're also strategically useless to a Modern army -- and the U.S. government knows it [1]. Yet disarmament basically froze 10 years ago.

In the language and framework of this article, I understand why countries with Static armies might feel the need to develop them, but I don't understand why Modern armies which are happy to dispose of chemical weapons aren't equally happy to dispose of nuclear weapons.

Do American and Russian generals think that nuclear weapons will become useful at some point in the future? Do countries like France believe this? The French president hinted that they kept submarines with nuclear weapons configured for terrorist attacks, but the deadliest terror attack in history was carried out with box cutters, so it's hard to imagine how nuclear weapons would help. Nuclear weapons could be useful (if horrific) against a Static opponent, but not a Guerrilla one.

[1]: https://thinkprogress.org/colin-powell-nuclear-weapons-are-u...
Should Gavin Newsom Go to Jail?
Thank gawd you didn't have to wait for something as absolutely essential as a hair dryer.
Yeh wild-fire.