skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're telling me that a paper about the outcome of something that happened 100 years ago in the US is valid for something happening now in Brazil (or other less developed countries)? From their Conclusion:
"Finally, when interpreting our findings, there several important caveats to keep in
mind. First, our analysis is limited to data on 30 states and 43 to 66 cities. Second, data
on manufacturing activity is not available in all years, so we cannot carefully examine
pre-trends between 1914 and 1919 for the manufacturing activity outcomes. Third, the
economic environment toward the end of 1918 was unusual due to the end of WWI.
Fourth, while there are important economic lessons from the 1918 Flu for today’s COVID-
19 pandemic, we stress the limits of external validity. Estimates suggest that 1918 Flu
was more deadly than COVID-19, especially for prime-age workers, which also suggests
more severe economic impacts of the 1918 Flu. The complex nature of modern global
supply chains, the larger role of services, and improvements in communication technology
are mechanisms we cannot capture in our analysis, but these are important factors for
understanding the macroeconomic effects of COVID-19."
There's an error in the title: It should read "A water bottle that..." ;). Hahaha!

Context: As a Belgian we like to make fun of Heineken not being a 'real' beer, because Belgian beers are way better. This is of course all relative because I know some Belgians picked Heineken as their favorite beer in blind tests (shame on them! ;)).
Well, for that exact reason immortality has to come with strings attached, in other words, you can have the eternal youth pill but you get your tubes tied. We would have to take population a bit more seriously and set a target of, say, 2 billion humans then implement policies that make the population tend towards that level.
I see no reason why comments can be bad
Yes - there is a great opportunity for a new type / class of astronomy based in space. That should be the focus going forward. If all these astronomers can do is (usually incorrectly) say that land based astronomy can no longer happen - zero out their funding.

Seriously - look into some of the port barrel type endless projects going on - TMT for example. It's ridiculous.

Look at ultraviolet, infrared, X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy - the idea that you are going to be doing high quality work on these on land is also silly - huge opportunities are in space for this.

For all the talk of satellites obscuring the view - you ALREADY need tons of processing / active adaptions to handle a much much bigger impact - atmospheric distortion! Seriously - the stars "twinkle" because of this. This an entire sky effect.

The reality is the land based interests are all the tenured folks at big universities and really depend on these long streams of funding - so I recognize almost no chance. But if there are young astronomers on HN - look to space positively to see what might be possible there! You'll find the forward thinkers may already be there!

For those interested in the challenges and opportunities - large fleet observations unobstructed by atmo. For large diameters (also still valuable) cracking some robotic build out (or even astronout build out options) would be great because a ton of complexity is in the unfolding mechanisms for planned large space telescopes. Anything that let you get a high volume of segments up and then assemble those in space would open up the door to HUGE telescopes. The future is going to be much more SpaceX style than SLS style (the next telescopes are planned for SLS - literally pork on pork - should be amazing results but the costs are eye watering).
Even if it was insulated, you don't want warm water standing in pipes for a long time. This is usually solved by adding a pipe from the farthest point back to the boiler and circulation pump.
The public health interventions the paper covers do not appear to rise to the level of what is currently being done in many countries. There are entire sectors of the economy that are effectively producing zero output (hospitality, tourism, transportation) in most countries. Furthermore, the economy is very different today than it was in 1918.
Absolutely agree but a middle ground is to regulate this kind of behavior out.
This is the basic cloth masks that are easily manufactured, wearing them can protect -or reduce the chance- others in the same space from catching the virus.
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Belarus's strongman rejects coronavirus risks. He suggests saunas and vodka
In difference to ... ?
I assumed they were going to put a fan on it because otherwise it would be hard to even get a breath in, even if there was a check valve for exhaling.
Supermarkets in South East Asia countries like Vietnam would not even let you go in without a face mask. Similar to how lottery is a game of chance and to win it requires you first buying a ticket, if life and death are too a matter of luck then to cheat death due to this virus at least mandatorily you must first be wearing a face mask.
Because it makes a hell of a lot of difference if we are seeing those numbers in the ICU when 5% of the population is infected or 50% is infected. One means the situation is going to get way way worse in the future and one means we're probably nearing the peak now.
GPU support is still really important. We don't see major issues with providing native Chapel -> GPU code generation and hope to work on it soon.
No, that's completely wrong. Denmark only had its first death 2 weeks ago (a single death) and one the following day. Over the last 3 days, it's had 31 deaths. The number of active cases is still shooting up. It's very early days for Denmark and things will get a lot worse before it gets better. I've no idea why you think anything has stabilised there.

Look at the graphs: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/denmark/

Is it perhaps the change in daily new cases that's thrown you? Many countries have that drop and increase again as they change the way they're testing.
Qualified dividends (most of them) are taxed the same way as long/term capital gains in the US.
Masks do protect the wearer! And you do not need an N95 mask to do this. Even a simple homemade mask offers some degree of protection. This[0] was a good explanation of both of these ideas.

tldr: There is reason to believe that large droplets, not the tiny droplets that N95s are designed to filter, are the primary threat, and any sort of physical barrier between those and your mouth/nose will help.

[0]: https://medium.com/@Cancerwarrior/covid-19-why-we-should-all...
No, this is literally a completely innocuous thing and people are bent out of shape over it and acting exactly like the stereotypical leftists they complain about and it's hilarious.
They can't sell their MBS to the Fed? Who exactly is the Fed buying from then?
There are some tax and option-price related differences between dividends and buybacks in normal times, but for most of the current discussions those differences are irrelevant.

I agree that some of these recent stories about evil buybacks feels like fabricated outrage. For requesting state aid, buybacks are largely the same as dividends: if you need public support, you should definitely not do buybacks after that, just as you should pay dividends.

Whether you believe they shouldn't have done buybacks in the past, ever, should not be much different than whether they should have paid out dividends in the past. Higher level, it's about what kind of equity buffers companies should retain in normal times.
Right, GPU support is very important to us and we expect to make something satisfying. We just havn't been able to prioritize it yet.
I found this which has the full text of the bill and a summary.

https://www.sbia.org/resources-for-small-businesses-impacted...
Empirically, there are plenty of democratic socialist countries
In a year's time, weirdly there isn't 24 million cash profit to pay off the "cheap loan" and the company go bankrupt. In hindsight it's obvious the "profit" was illusionary. Your million dollar "performance" pay for orchestrating this is securely in your personal bank account, the auditor's million dollar "consultancy fee" in theirs, and employees, the tax man, and shareholders are left with nothing. Yet another "success" for capitalism.
Oh, come on. A sizable amount of undesirable functionality is implemented using JavaScript—ads, tracking, cryptominers, etc. It doesn't seem unreasonable to have some expectations about where JavaScript should and shouldn't be used.

Imagine if the majority of PDF authors started following the same logic. Would you really want to run arbitrary code just to read a journal article or ebook?
> even relatively remote locations become "accessible" for 100 Gbps+ fiber or microwave connectivity, and _very_ remote locations for tens of Gbps.

I’m guessing:

1. You’ve never priced out said circuits before

2. Never seen the lead times and minimum contract periods on them

3. Don’t realize in general how hard it is to actually max out circuits like that.

Shipping / freight company is generally still a preferred solution to moving very very large amounts of data even in 2020. Your own employer still ships large datasets that way too. Here’s a link from 2007:

https://royal.pingdom.com/fedex-still-faster-than-the-intern...

But from contacts I know inside Google, it’s still done regularly.
This kind of thing is fine for solo-developers but it does not scale well to a team. When there's a testing framework in place, people's tests fit a standard pattern. I can go and look at someone elses test cases and I understand what they're doing to test it, because there's a standard way of doing it. There are methods in pretty much every testing framework for doing things like floating point comparisons correctly; with your way, you have to build up methods to do that yourself (i.e. creating your own framework anyway), or do that inline every single time.
Why would you even do this?

On the days where I was still energetic enough to try and debunk some of the pseudosciences, I quickly discovered that one of the primary rules is absolutely never to trust one single article, however "scientific", and however reputable the publisher of the journal/conference is.

Otherwise one quickly becomes overwhelmed by the amount of crap published by otherwise "respectable" publishers (e.g. Elsevier's Journal of Homeopathy). Let's not even get into non-reviewed articles...

The only things that _may_ have any value whatsoever are the ones published in utmost respectable _journals_ themselves (e.g. Nature, but absolutely not on any of their spinoffs), and/or when there are very big labs/organizations in the authors list. Very big. I mean usually national pharmaceutical associations (obviously not from all states) or huge corporations (who will generally avoid putting their name on the line either way).

Meta-analyses most importantly do NOT have any intrinsinc value either _just because_ they are meta-analyses.

By reading bioXiv directly, you are most likely doing yourself a disservice. Unless you are a state agency or huge corporation having huge resources backing your which allows you to internally replicate whatever they claim.
A fitting username if there ever was...

Seeing the replies in this thread, I’m wondering if the narrative that only incompetent people need leaded solder might not be quite powerful in convincing people. More so than any warnings about health risks.
So are LTGCs from the shareholders who sold. Someone is paying the capital gains tax; it’s just not the people who stayed invested.
EasyJet in the UK is a prime example of why these restrictions are necessary. Paid out £160 million in dividends, now wants loans on favourable terms...
Maybe the unnecessary thing was you disabling JavaScript?
Italy and Spain are quite developed countries and part of one of the most prosperous economic blocs in the world. Of course people aren't dying of the economic effects, the state can support them through this.

Do you think every country can just pull out trillions of dollars worth of support for their population when stuff like this happens?
Surgical masks are pretty good at protecting the wearer from droplets too. It's the fine aerosols where they're much worse than a surgical mask stopping maybe 80% of virus-sized particles where N95 masks tend to stop 99%+.

EDIT: Remember, though, that you can still be infected through exposed eyes, having virus on your hands and touching your face when taking off the mask, etc. Also, there was some evidence for rare cases of what looked like aerosol spread with the original SARS. In his recent interview on This Week in Virology Ian Lipkin mentioned a study in Beijing in the SARS outbreak where people with consistent mask use saw infections Ian Lipkin by 70% compared to no mask use. That's good but it isn't immunity.
Surely government are getting equity stakes?
Say you have a long term position in a derivative (like a future, or a mortgage bond in this case). If the market value of that goes up, the counterparty pays you straight away, instead of waiting until it expires months or years from now. Likewise, if it goes down, you pay the counterparty. This payment is called variation margin.

Typically a bank will have a roughly hedged position: if one of its assets goes down in value, another one goes up and it uses the variation margin on one to pay off the other. But consumer mortgages don't get variation margin: the homeowner doesn't pay the bank if interest rates drop and he now is locked into (in hindsight) a bad deal. Instead he just pays the bank over the odds for the next 10 or 30 years.

In some products you square up the variation margin every day or every week. It sounds like the mortgage bonds aren't done that rigorously and the dealers square them up whenever they feel like it, or when the regulator insists. Here some mortgage banks are going to have to find the cash flow to pay that variation margin, if they owe their dealer more than $250k in total.
In the US, qualified dividends (which is most of them) are taxed at long-term capital gains rates.
> He's making a reasonable argument that the public will be put in the way of greater harm

best argument I have heard so far that counters this is from John Oliver last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElIf2DBrWzU
Ships? Airlines?
Millennia, actually. There is clear evidence that people understood the medical importance of copper in ancient Rome, and even some evidence of Bronze-age Egypt and ancient India (which is to say it's clear copper was used in medicine, but it's unclear people had evidence it helped). That's 2000 years definitely, and 5000 years possibly.

Prior to disinfectants, hospitals used a lot of copper. It only became a relic with industrial-grade disinfectants.

That said, the timelines aren't such that it seems useful for use in masks. Viruses and bacteria survive on copper for hours, instead of days. There are a lot of uses of copper which aren't grounded in science and make no sense (superstitious nonsense).

But copper for things people touch a lot? Doorknobs? Definitely makes sense.
Thanks for the clarification, that makes sense.
Unfortunately AMD video cards don't really support PCI passthrough- I'm in the same boat as OP with an RX 5700. The issue has been present for several years, and is somewhat fixed by community patches, which makes me suspect that this is being intentionally overlooked by AMD so as to not allow their consumer video cards to be used in the data center.
I have no idea what's going on but here is my take: The mortgage lenders all thought that the rates are going to go through the roofs. So they used money that they should not use to bet on that. They did not just hedge their position, they over-hedged so that they can make free money when the rates explode.

The fed intervened by lowering rates and now their positions are liquidating. Apparently, this is not only gambling money and they might have over-leveraged themselves with other money they legally/morally should not use.

Now they are calling for the FED to intervene and help them with their mistakes. We'll see how this is going to unfold.
There were also a lot of studies a few years ago that people like to invent unnamed studies to support any inane idea that they just thought of to support their preconceived views.
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I think there will at least be a new cold war.
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OK, this is the 2-page feature overview:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-56...

Enjoy.
The MERGE command would work if you were loading a normal BASIC program, but quickly you'd learn this didn't work with commercial games.

(Which largely loaded the system variables, and state, since the memory-map was fixed. If you tried to MERGE you'd load those values and your system would crash, reset, or otherwise hang.)
The problem is that people who contract COVID-19 don’t just wake up one morning and die. They tend to develop serious symptoms which, if presented at hospital, result in potentially prolonged care over a week or more involving the use of rare icu beds and (currently) rare and expensive ventilators.

If you can convince the population to take your stance “for the good of the economy!” then have the decency to also inform them not to seek treatment and therefore not overload the health care system for those who wish to live.
That sounds like vitalism in disguise.

All cells are weird little machines. Viruses are just smaller than normal.

(There are some legitimate reasons to say viruses are not “alive”, but being little machines is not one of them.)
The "trashing of the night sky" was already committed by all the light pollution being emitted from cities since decades ago. It's a shame. Cities are no longer cool. I plan to tell this to everyone who will listen.
Would everyone wearing face masks help us slow the pandemic?
This seems akin to being against wind power generation because it "ruins" the view. Most space "views" are already ruined by light pollution, surely you don't propose we eliminate cities as well?
Do they still do the human sacrifice part or was that phased out?
... Sigh. Ok then the cases in Denmark hasn't stabilized. How in the world does that change my point?

(but number of daily deaths have been linear for a week now, I don't know why you'd think that's not stable, but you're just completely proving my point by disagreeing with how stable the situation is in Denmark, how do you ACTUALLY know that it's not?)
We sometimes call fish "steaks". I often eat tuna steaks. So to me fish is meat.
Seems like the trades were based on public info.
This is such a dumb article.

It focuses on just the one piece of PPE that has gotten an undeserved amount of attention in the coronavirus crisis, when it's not the only tool in the arsenal of healthcare workers (compared with normal surgical masks, face shields, papr devices, etc).

And it is not necessarily the best tool for the general populace. (hypothetically (ballpark numbers from some stuff i remember reading) If a normal surgical mask can be replaced twice as often and is easier to breath through while only sacrificing 30% of protection, etc, what is recommended for the general public? Even the N95 only protects against... 95% of particulates of the specified size, why not wear a P100 filter on a gas mask?).

From a macro and epidemiological standpoint, what is the optimal guidance on the level of PPE for the general public to wear for the greatest net effect? Is what I consider the most interesting and relevant question.

There is also an unchecked assumption in this article that the N95 is "most important design object of our time".

It also fails to explain that N95 is a standard of protection rather than a certain object, it fails to explain the meaning of the standard.

(Which is)
N = Not oil resistant
95 = Removes 95% of all particles that are at least 0.3 microns in diameter

It merges the development paths of protective masks against particulates, which is the true purpose of N95 masks, and protective equipment for healthcare. To me, I think N95 happened to be a standard similar enough to the requirements of healthcare, so they simply adopted it. Rather than the false narrative the article paints of the N95 mask being developed FOR medicine.

I would have been interested to read about the additional requirements a FDA defined "surgical N95" must meet (additional fluid resistance), or how the N95 plays into the entire suite of relevant protective equipment in this crisis (When doctors use a normal surgical mask, N95, PAPR, face shield, or goggles).

edit: clickbait article that doesn't give any information beyond what 5 minutes googling would use.

edit2: would have been interesting to read about how people are making face masks and other protective equipment or experiments in sanitizing and reusing one time use face masks.
The article talks about mandatory masks, i.e surgical masks, for shoppers, to reduce spreading by shoppers.

No N95 masks needed, those are needed for healthcare workers (and need to be replaced very frequently).

You most certainly:

don't need it

would reduce the amount available for people that need it

would wear it wrong

would wear it too long

touch it with your hands

would get a false sense of safety
Didn't he mean people paid primarily to develop for Linux, rather than people just developing also developing for Linux?
Does anyone have any idea/info about the status of upcoming copy-on-write Linux filesystems like bcachefs or btrfs?
In slime molds, evolution selects 'loners' who refrain from collective behavior
Same with bike helmets, kids drive riskier and the statistics proofs it.
There was plenty of food produced in the US during the Great Depression, it was even getting destroyed by producers in an effort to increase the price.

Maybe instead of a market economy that arbitrarily starves people we should democratically and rationally plan production and distribution for the benefit of all.
They hedged poorly. They bracketed their position using risk they couldn't afford to take. Every market is unpredictable, and margin calls for poor risk taking is the result.
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Thanks, figure 5 is especially interesting since it implies it gives the wearer of surgical masks some protection.
Maybe rump kernels might be future :

https://research.csiro.au/tsblog/using-rump-kernels-to-run-u...
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This article doesn't really explain what "positive outcomes" mean. Like, are they happier for that instance? Or do they end up changing their outlooks because of that one experience? Or is it necessary to continuously take the drugs? A lot of questions here...
They still help, but they help less when not used correctly. The average person likely won't use them correctly. This makes it a waste to give average people these masks when there's a shortage.