skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because western quarantine isn't true quarantine, and because what you really want to do is take every person who shows up with COVID-19 and then find out where they were for the last two weeks, and quarantine everyone they touched and do a proper quarantine on them.

But since that's not feasible, the alternative is to test as early as possible and hard-quarantine immediately -- by testing everyone constantly and everywhere, for which you really need sufficiently real-time results.

Right now, with soft-quarantine,the virus is still spreading, and the timer refreshing -- as soon as people are out and about again, rates will spike up again. Soft-quarantine is a delaying tactic (smoothening the curve), but not a solution.

But we also can't soft-quarantine for that long, because it's crushing the economy. If we keep doing it, there won't be much to go back to.

You need a test, and a fast one, or you don't have much
Speaking as a former employee with many friends on the front lines of this event, the lay-offs have very little to do with the team that (previously) wanted to unionize, and much more to do with COVID financial impact and the retail team, of which many many more are now out of a job (vs the team where some percentage of the members previously wanted to unionize).

Whoever the person running that account is, they are not interested in you knowing all of the facts. I assure you.
is this because you think having one dynamically scoped variable is clearer than having 0?
In the US it's likewise a relatively expensive and time consuming process for what amounts to a nuisance in the pool and common areas. Without any ongoing enforcement mechanism or ability to show damages in excess of the price of a permanent AirBnB home - the AirBnB host is likely to simply pay any fines and carry on.
no, the sprites are from a fellow name Kenny (who is famous for his work) you can see him at https://opengameart.org/users/kenney

I used other tile sets from him before, specially on my isocity (my most liked project so far) github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity

after people like isocity so much, I've been giving my old games some attention in hope to launch them. so, as I working on some game I have decided to make the tile editor you see on this video. there are many things that I would like to implement and keyboard shortcuts are among them.

I have to click each tile to compose a custom brush cause tiles are not always near each other or in perfect sequence. so I need create a place holder and define in which place goes which tile.

I'm horrible at YouTube, I don't see myself asking people to like the video and subscribing, but I do like to show what I'm working. So I'm trying this style of video. I have tried tutorials also. Anyways, thanks a lot for the comment.
Step #1.

Avoid false dichotomies and other fallacies.
Do you mean LA as in Los Angeles or as in Louisiana?

If it is Los Angeles, then rabies from raccoons is not really a worry. The raccoon rabies reservoir in the United States is just in populations in the southeastern, mid-Atlantic, and northeastern states.

Raccoons can be downright creepy, though, in the right circumstances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW-6MxobUeU
To be fair, I think this may be the first time a lot of people, even HN users, have seen a tractor-feed inkjet.
I was an inexperienced coder at the time working at a very small shop, so bear in mind that this kind of thing is less likely (though as Knight Capital demonstrated, not impossible) at larger, professional algo trading firms.

One good example is, I had written some code to automatically stop me out of a position if it ran too far against me. I was trading Kospi 200 options, and about a week after Kim Jong-il died, someone started a rumor that his son had been assassinated and Chinese troops were massing on the Korean border. The market plummeted violently, and all my put offers were instantly lifted and bid very far against me. The code path which I had intended to use to send my stop loss orders was inadvertently disabled by a safety flag which I had applied to stop sending a different kind of entry order known as "electronic eye" trade (which basically tried to pick off mis-valued bids and offers rather than make a two sided market).

So I didn't hedge anything as the market kept crashing and eventually liquidity went poof and I was left to manually close out a bunch of large short put positions. Luckily the market came back after the rumor was discredited, but I still lost about a quarter of my year's trading profits in one day in November.
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How to protect your self from covid19
non-paywall version:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/fda-gives-the-green-li...

doesn't list absolute accuracy, but indicates the genome RNA can be identified in as short as 5 minutes, and 13 minutes can be "definitive".

it is built on an existing platform:

"The technology builds on Illinois-based Abbott’s ID Now platform, the most common point-of-care test currently available in the U.S., with more than 18,000 units spread across the country. It is widely used to detect influenza, strep throat and respiratory syncytial virus, a common bug that causes cold-like symptoms."
Great article for non-professionals. Starts with how lungs work and what in lungs needs to be taken into account for a ventilator design. Adds such things as maintaining temperature and humidity - while fighting bacteria which like such an environment. You either spend quite some time working around ventilators (the name is rather misleading - it's a complex device) or you'll learn a few important things when reading this.
That's a religious justification for noble birth. The system it backs up is heritable monarchy, it didn't precede it.
I can vouch for this. Organizations are adopting left and right - both in the healthcare and food industry. Why is zoom getting more traction than google hangouts ever had?
In general they have some idea what they are on about re diseases. Also they tend to be fairly down to earth in that they deal with patients directly rather than abstractions.
I wrote and operated HFT algos trading Kospi 200 options, most actively from 2010-2012. I was mostly just making two-sided markets around a Black Scholes value calculated against the futures contract. The KRX was so rickety at the time that you could still do it with a colocated server running Java. A partner of mine handled most of the platform side (exchange connection, order book management, etc) and I wrote the trading logic and operated it; it always needed a modicum of manual tuning, I never quite got it to the point of being fully automated.
Should I be happy that I've never used one of these VC-driven delivery services?

I'm certainly not tempted to do so now.
It's not just "him". 27 people besides "him" are listed as the authors of this study.
You could have 6-10 users in hangouts back in 13 for free.
Surprised no one has mentioned two phase commit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_commit_protocol
I don't have a Robinhood account, but presumably the fact that Robinhood's free trading was what forced all its competitors to eliminate commissions means that lots of people had accounts there before that and kept them due to inertia.
I rarely spend $100 in one go at the grocery store. During normal times I visit the grocery store about 4-7 times per week and only buy whatever I feel like having for the next day or two. There have been many times that I had everything else I needed and walked out with a single potato.

It helps that I live 2 blocks from the grocery store, but I very much prioritize grocery store distance when choosing apartments.

Of course, during these epidemic times I've flipped my habits around and buying 1-2 weeks worth at a time to minimize exposure, but that's not my normal way of buying groceries. I'm not usually good at predicting what my stomach feels like having 2 days later.
Imagine the capitalistic (!) opportunities that would exist if we had universal healthcare and basic safety-nets. "Gig economy" jobs could actually function as a reasonable and real system for working, instead of being something dystopian and abusive. As a society we've hung so many things off of this framework of "being an employee" (healthcare, retirement, the ability to not work for a small part of the year), that there's no room for any other paradigm without having people forego fundamental needs. Unfortunately times are dire enough that people do so anyway, but that's a separate question.
13 minutes for a "definitive" negative. So it's fast to detect high viral loads, but takes longer for smaller quantities.
I agree. My goal here was to get something that look like bokeh if you squinted at it.

I just wanted to see how far I could take this idea.
> the continent was full of Native Americans who lived in an ecological balance with wildlife

Native Americans weren't a monolithic group, and the balance with wildlife is just a part of the noble savage myth, for most of the groups. Maya, Toltec, and Aztec societies deforested Central America quite significantly before collapsing (and before Columbus).
This Reddit post [0] provided a screenshot of the agreement [1] which, if real, is surprisingly short.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fox6cr/robi...

[1]: https://preview.redd.it/6jrlfyiuqvo41.png?width=661&format=p...
Eventually, yes. Meanwhile, FUD will rule, GDP will be depressed, markets will be frothy, and the service economy
will be in freeze-frame for as long as social distancing
is generally expected. Any person or business with
limited cash on hand or in dependable income streams
faces a long passage.
Mask obstructs airflow. After some hours spent without fresh air somebody gets a headache.

Your mileage may vary, of course.
Restaurants still have the hurdle of fear - is everybody in the kitchen wearing gloves, are they all non-COVID, etc.. There are enough touchpoints in the process to get take out delivered I'm avoidng it.
A hotel is like renting an entire apartment in a purpose-built building. A floor in a house is usually a retrofit with none of the soundproofing a typical hotel has.
The equipment is excellent for the other diseases it can test for. I think the numbers I saw earlier today were 95% sure for negative and well over 99% sure for positive, but I can't find that source back anymore. Numbers for this specific virus would be poorly understood, but ought to be similar to the numbers for other viruses.
Under quarantine, video courtship replaces hookup culture
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People who work in his lab/hospital? Tbh the participation of a single data faker in a study throws the whole thing into question. Surely not all of these people can be ignorant of his history? So they are ignoring it instead. Why would this be? Perhaps because you are dependent on the faker in some way?

If there is a weak link in the causal chain it throws the whole thing into doubt. An author with history of faked data combined with exceptionally weak and low powered study design yields weak evidence. I barely count this as evidence in either direction about whether this therapy is effective.
What was wrong with PS/2? It worked. Even with less latency than USB. And you could feel the right orientation of the plug, whereas USB was more difficult to get orientated right.
And it was usually color coded.
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Linux got pipes 9 years ago seems not right. What do you mean happened on 2011
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I can't figure out why people keep saying these things. I've had dozens of stays at Airbnbs and they've (almost) all been wonderful. I strongly prefer them to hotels, find them more comfortable, and they're cheaper. Perhaps you all stay only in 5 star hotels? Or perhaps Airbnbs are dramatically different in different parts of the world. My experience literally could not be more different than the complaints that always show up here.
In the US at least people don't understand they need to quarantine. If you test positive at least you know you have to isolate.
This Reddit post has some data points on (compensation) : (alleged loss)

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/founsb/robi...
Microsoft online documentation is very good. I initially spent just a weekend trying to create a nice prompt, just because I was annoyed by the ugly “PS >” when using Windows. The online documentation had everything I needed, and I enjoyed so much that I switched all my systems to using powershell as their default shell.

You can start at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/learn/....

A quite nice feature is the command Get-Help:

Get-Help <a command> -Online

That will direct you to the documentation page specific to a command. That way you can discover the environment little by little by experimenting.

Also, the auto completion for all commands and their arguments is helpful to learn what is possible.

Also, if you want to keep your bash habits, be sure to install powershell 7, and enable the emacs edit mode (which is similar to bash defaults, with C-a, C-e, etc):

Set-PSReadlineOption -EditMode Emacs

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/psreadlin...
Thank you for this. I've been using SublimeText as a text editor but always felt weird since its targeted as a more powerful quasi-ide... This fits the bill nicely for what I want.
Hotels are different from apartments and homes. Everything in a hotel, is by default, 'entire place'. Apartments and homes can be 'shared' or 'entire place', with the latter meaning you have the whole place to yourself. If the lister is an apartment owner, it means you have the whole apartment. A basement is not an 'entire place', unless the lister is just and only just the basement owner, which in most jurisdictions is a technicality that would not pass.
> I’m not sure why there’s an obsession with testing right now. If everyone is supposed to be isolating no matter what, what difference does it make if you have a covid test or not?

I'll admit that this is a hard one to explain; I've gone through a bunch of drafts for this comment.

There is a 3-5 week (1-2 weeks incubation, 1-3 weeks to resolve the symptoms) lag between infection and conclusion of the disease. So all the statistical information available to the people responding to an outbreak is weeks out of date.

They (government bodies coordinating the response) don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting ahead of an exponential process with a doubling time of ~4 days if they only have 3-5 week old information. They need sub-24 hour feedback on what is going on. Once that is in place, targeted & proactive methods can be deployed that are less crippling than turning off entire cities.
It's quite rare to be honest, so no. And I've been doing Ruby for a long time.
It's not like every Ruby developer out there tries to monkey patch esoteric things just to confuse the enemy.
And again, monkey patching is possible in every dynamic language.
Of cause it helps. It just doesn't provide your old mails.
According to [Senator Rubio’s comments](https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2020/03/22/sen...), maybe.

Here’s a quote:

> For the first time ever, we have also included most (c)(3)s--(c)(3)s
and not-for-profit (c)(3)s--independent contractors--people who work on
1099s--and gig economy workers who consider themselves a business, even
though they have one employee and maybe no real estate that they
operate from, but, nonetheless, they consider themselves that.
If you hire all the exact same kind of people, what happens when you were wrong about the sort you need? A little diversity is good. We don’t need everyone to be an expert on everything, we just need a few experts for everything.
I think it doesn't always have to scale. Zoom is a huge player right now and in great usage across all industries, countries and users.
It’s so much easer to just join a tech company than spend 2-4 years of your life working and wind up with nothing but failure and anecdotes. Back in 08 more people were condemned to that reality. Those people contributed heavily to the “hacker community”. Many people are just naysayers or contrarians, that isn’t a bad thing either. I would have to say, I’m not sure it is the most supportive community for an individuals mental health. Is this class somehow part of the media lab?
Thanks for the link! I suppose now I'm a bit more familiar with him.

I gave it a star!

Ah, I did not know, now I do.

I didn't mean to be harsh or off-putting. I'm sorry if I came off that way. I do honestly hope you continue to do what you love and pursue it; if I ever get into 2D development I'll remember your content. God bless!
Not entirely sure whether you're kidding, but however mickey mouse it was, it did end up as a precursor to earning a biochemistry PhD at a top ranked university so I guess the joke's on them!
I"ve seen a developer break 20000 websites at once because he monkey patched a jquery method in a widget our company built, so lets not make this out to be a Ruby thing.
No mention of Fuji here? I love me my X-T20.
The assertion I was replying to was that my world would be changed, not that it wouldn't hurt.
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How? The cost to heat a home is a tiny fraction of the cost of owning a home.
Emacs with org-mode (desktop) - Orgzly (very well integrated into Android) - synchronized via Dropbox
How to Assign a Database Temporary Ranking of Values to Rows via Dense_rank()
Ok, good thinking. Those are all pretty good use cases for a 15 minute test, assuming they can actually achieve that.

Maybe I’m just too sour and frustrated with the whole situation in the USA, and had to vent a little bit, my fault :(

This does actually sound like nice technology where they can pump out test results from this little appliance sized device on site.

Other rapid (result in hours) I’ve read about still require sending specimens to a remote lab. Let’s just hope they can manufacture them like crazy, and quickly get them to the health workers that need them most.
Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Old Sigma lenses were often pretty bad, but the new Sigma Art lenses are amazing!
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Ever tried a spare partition formatted to an older UDF? Like 2.0x? Or if that is too wonky a spare partition formatted to some FAT, and "burn" an ISO into that, then mounting that ISO later on from whichever target you are on. Mounting ISOs without burning them is universally supported. Only remaining annoyance then is the wasted drive capacity, but that depends on your needs.
I'm a fan of vim, BBEdit, and Visual Studio Code, but "less capable than emacs" describes just about every text editor.

While I'm using VSCode a lot more these days, I still like BBEdit a lot. It's a Mac-native programmer's text editor that manages to remain performant on large files.

I think part of the problem is that in order to make a good programmer's text editor, you need a large community of people who're able and willing to make good plugins for it, and any text editor with a userbase smaller than "half of all linux nerds" isn't going to have enough engineer hours put into all its per-language tooling. Visual Studio Code manages to attract enough developer attention to get people to work on compatible language servers and whatnot, but the granddaddy of all Mac text editors can't attract that much attention.

Plus, I get a _lot_ of mileage out of multiple cursors. Way more than I'd have expected ten years ago.
My guess is they want to separate the balance sheet of something that is subscription based (like entertainment) vs. something with a lot of factories and capital investment. The debt structure and cyclical variations are probably quite different.
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Oh, maybe my idea of "technical" is too narrow. From a typical book perspective it's very technical. I meant it more from a textbook perspective. Code isn't a book you use to teach, or to learn concepts in detail. You could learn plenty of things at a high level, some concepts at a single-example level, but you aren't learning computer architecture or algorithms here. It's the only book I've read that effectively bridges casual reading with textbook ideas, without actually throwing you in the deep end.

On a side note, people keep recommending masters of doom to me, I definitely need to check it out myself.
I am sure you will have a reply to all of the following (and I could probably come up with some arguments of my own, if I were so inclined), but here's a few more arguably transformational consequences:

1. The rise of the USSR as a global actor.

2. The rise of communist China.

3. The demilitarization of Japan, and the ending of its colonial ambitions.

4. The development and use of nuclear weapons, transforming what it means to be a global actor.

5. The foundation of Israel, transforming the politics of the Middle East and beyond.

6. The rise of the dollar.

7. The effective end of Western European military competition.

There is also something significant for not happening:

8. The USA exploiting its monopoly of nuclear weaponry beyond the defeat of Japan.

I agree with you that colonialism was on its way out regardless, but WW2 and its immediate consequences may have accelerated it, arguably leading to

9. A redefinition of what expansionism means.

As I don't think the 'mega wars' theory is any more the whole of history than the 'great men' theory, I do not want to exaggerate WW2's importance (and, furthermore, I consider WW2 in Europe to be a continuation of WW1), but it seems inarguable that things changed quite significantly (including of course, the fact that the tensions that precipitated the war were no longer in effect afterwards.)
> dictating a new European peace at Versailles, would not have credited that Adolf Hitler, a destitute, neurotic would-be artist and gassed veteran of the trench warfare, would within two decades undo their new order and plunge the wo

Well, when you're too timid to occupy defeated enemies, you get another war.

That's why Russia insisted on occupying Berlin in WW2.

A little-known fact is that the USA proposed enslaving Germany, which leaked out and is why there was no chance of peace talks. The USA wanted to decimate the population, deindustrialize Germany and make them peasant farmers. Russia subsequently succeeded in doing that.

In a way it's a backhanded compliment to how much the Allies feared them.
Interesting you mentioned Makridakis competitions. There's one going on right now on Kaggle, and the current leader believes a NN will be the winning model:
https://www.kaggle.com/c/m5-forecasting-accuracy/discussion/...

More generally, it seems that time series forecasting so far has mostly attracted statisticians with little DL experience [1]. Now that there is $50k prize, this will be a good test of whether statistical methods are "still king". If I were to enter this field, I'd probably look into latest transformer based models, especially the ones used to model raw audio data, e.g. [2].

There's also a real possibility that whenever any strong forecasting method is developed (DL based or otherwise) it's not published as the developers simply use it to make money (betting, stock market, etc).

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10509
I live roughly in the middle of the Seattle metropolitan area, and coyotes, deer, eagles, wabbits, etc., are a common sight. Last year a mom coyote and her 5 pups were often playing and hanging out in my front yard. (I didn't bother her and she didn't bother me, aside from stealing my Acme Rocket Sled.)
I still think using a PS/2 mouse was an advantage in games like Quake and Counter Strike back in the day.