skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The United States is ungovernable in any coherent manner, except as an empire. It's far too large and culturally incompatible. There is no logical reason the people of appalachia should be governed by people on the west coast, or vice versa.

The real power centers, the banking, corporate and foreign-policy elites, are content to govern the empire indirectly, and keep us all fighting with one another over things like pronouns, so long as wages are ruthlessly suppressed.

It will keep going. Until it stops.
>> If the USA goes then it all goes, i.e. Western Civilization. We will collapse into another Dark Age.

Source?
Vital drug for people with lupus running out after unproven Covid-19 link
Fair points. Some folks are saying just wipe all your items down before storing, seems like a fine solution. I don’t know if I’d trust how long the virus survives. We might not really know yet, I’ve seen varying reports on that.
Conferences in April you can attend from home
The problem with this is that evidence suggests that Rand was a meatbag. Indeed, evidence suggests that all humans are meatbags, without exception, and further, that humans have been meatbags for at least several centuries. Rand's philosophical criticism cannot get off the ground unless humans are ensouled, inspired, or otherwise special compared to other animals.
Just giving voice to the idea that there is a sweet spot. We don't have enough data to know if SARS-CoV-2 hits it. Or enough data to know where that sweet spot even is. (This seems like a very hard thing for epidemiological models to predict.)
I'm using this whenever I have a working server lying around. Unbound works great.

https://github.com/gbxyz/unbound-block-hosts
I always assumed that it was because they got paid in dividends, which are taxed at a much lower level. Not an expert though.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. A large open internet forum isn't able to host a deep discussion about such questions. It inevitably devolves into repeating the same predictable things, and predictable things are tedious and therefore off-topic here.

If you really want to go into something like this, a better medium would be to write a book. Alternatively, write a journal article, or a letter to the editor of a journal. Those messages are long enough, and infrequent enough, to support conversations which are more than just shallow repetitions of what has been said before. They're also filtered in ways that, while they no doubt exclude outliers of originality, also exclude dreck. The open internet doesn't have that, so quantity dominates quality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Mathematics for Machine Learning by Marc Peter Deisenroth, A Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong.

https://mml-book.com/
I've read pretty much everything he's written, up to and including the less common stuff like To Paint is to Love Again, etc. In fact, not long after I had burned through the Tropics I went on a deep dive into his influences and used Books In My Life as a guide, which is how I found Blaise Cendrars (as well as Céline)

Always nice to meet another Henry Miller fan! Jealous about that trip to Big Sur, I'll have to make it out there one of these days.
Could just as well be statistical anomaly. Denmark (which has about the same population as Norway) has 50% more deaths per capita compared to Sweden, with stronger restrictions than Norway.

With the numbers we’re looking at (10-100 deaths), a single nursing home being hit is the difference between entire countries. Any judgement on effectiveness needs weeks more of data.
same here: AWS refunded extra charges for unintentional mistakes, GCP went ahead and charged me without bothering to listen.
BHE should buy some energy storage from Tesla or BYD (Buffet is a BYD investor).
This is a fantastic book, unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a good English translation. I've read it in Polish, which is close enough to Czech to stay much closer to the original. The English translation loses a lot of the cultural character.
There's an interesting story about h1n1 in France. At the time it appeared, the French government took it really seriously and spent 2 billions to buy masks and vaccines. Fortunately the virus didn't spread, but the government's reaction was highly criticized.

For the covid19, the reaction was too slow, hospitals now struggle to get masks and I'm convinced that's because they didn't want to reproduce the h1n1 over reaction...

On the opposite, you have the South Korea who was highly prepared with masks and protocols, apparently thanks to their experience with Mers virus.

Let's hope that, thanks to covid19, a lot of countries will take strict measures, like South Korea before and that a virus like h5n1 won't wipe half of the world.
I think people will spend some of that money even in "non-essential" businesses, after they pay their essentials.

For many small businesses, they can leverage the SBA benefits in the stimulus package to stay afloat.
> It’s much harder to ramp up production of medical professionals.

and the fact that we think about "ramping up production" of "medical personel" leads the way to terrible industry-like education systems which emphasize cost-efficiency rather than quality education.
Linux has plenty of engineering. Of course that doesn't mean identical features.

Linux has a VFS with lockless path lookups. The push to get Linux running on machines like the SGI Altix, with at least 10240 cores running one shared instance of the kernel, has really helped with locking issues. Another factor has been the push for real-time performance, with and without choosing the option to make the kernel preemptable.
Passing someone who didn't pass seems like fraud to me.
They clearly work well enough they every functioning society on earth utilizes one. What is your counterexample in which a government-less society flourished?
Desktop env & Chrome it should be like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhSZS6_UlO4
Small correction: auto mechanics are classified as an essential occupation under California's shelter in place order.[1]

It makes sense. Can't run the other essential businesses and services without repairing the means of transportation.

1. https://covid19.ca.gov/img/EssentialCriticalInfrastructureWo...
I'm like 90% sure it would be cheaper to just build your own antenna and an RTL-SDR setup to do that sort of thing yourself. There's no way it's cost effective for that.
The Once and Future King - TH White

In particular, his telling of the story of Lancelot
I think that's right. I think most politicians don't care or understand, and the ones that do have a hard time explaining things like this to their constituents.
Can you share your math for the various situations for those of us not as clear on the differing rates in those countries? Has anyone built a calculator that shows how it could play out in different countries based on the experience we have seen in countries so far?
I mean "above the rates of the long-term rental market".

I think the argument is that Airbnb and similar take those apartments from the long-term rental market and put them on the (very) short-term rental market, aka the hotels'.

The problem put forward by those arguing against Airbnb is that this is a zero-sum game. If you have tourists who are able and willing to pay more for a flat (aka "middle or higher class"), this reduces housing availability for "the lower classes".

You could, of course, argue that this would be true even without Airbnb if enough "higher class" people wanted to live in a given city all of a sudden. I suppose that's why people also tend to be against gentrification.
This speaks volumes about the cronyist regulatory captured monopoly that the AMA has been able to install over the past hundred years.
This seems far too error prone for my liking, particularly considering the sub-optimal way in which we handle whistleblowers.

If we have such little control over our financial system that we have to literally rely on hope, wouldn't it make sense to maybe pull back the covers on this monstrosity and starting figuring out what's inside?

And if public policy makers once again deem the system "battle ready" and come asking for a handout again in 10 years, what then? If someone ran their family like this, we'd call them a bit of a dummy, wouldn't we? So why is this acceptable for the financial system upon which our society (aka: our individual lives) rests?

If we hadn't grown so accustomed to this madness, I think a lot of people would be more agitated by it, but it's been with us for so long we seem to just accept it.
Interesting, they're projecting the peak much earlier than other projections I've seen, especially considering they're factoring in social distancing measures. I'm not sure I buy it. For example, North Carolina currently has 91 patients in the hospital for COVID19. The model projected 300-1000 hospitalizations by this point, suggesting that their model is over-aggressive with the ramp-up time.

The models I've seen with the peak in April have been the truly apocalyptic scenarios. Most models that incorporate social distancing push the peak out into May and beyond.
for some reason those numbers are not adding up to me. do the chances compound year-over-year? how is the 4% any different in year 1 than in year 30? or any year in between? how does this add up to 70% over a 30 year period
> Swedish are not in love of big gatherings

What? I think there used to be lots of big gatherings. Dance places with hundred(s) of people, crowded restaurants indoors and outdoors, picnic parks and beaches filled with people (in the summers), running groups with sometimes 30 sometimes 100 people. (I'm in Stockholm b.t.w.)
As a public speaker engaged in public speech, you are responsible for getting the results you want. It would be silly for JK Rowling to blame people for not correctly interpreting her novels.

You are absolutely reaping your own fruits, but you are blaming others for your displeasing harvest.
Exploring an electric supersonic VTOL jet
Covid patients in the ICU probably don’t have healthy lungs. The people you’re talking about at those pressure ranges are probably all young, healthy and athletic.

I know a bit about scuba diving, and you absolutely are not supposed to go diving if you have a lung injury.

I would speculate that if you put a person with serious covid on a mountain top or 30 meters under the ocean it would kill them pretty quickly..
So with the advent of CRISPR is the only thing stopping a particularly sociopathic entrepreneur from creating a virus+vaccine combo in a Deus Ex scenario... ethics of lab technicians doing gene splicing? What could possibly go wrong...?
The processor described in this thesis, SOAR (Smalltalk On A RISC), has been retroactively renamed RISC-III to explain why the current version is RISC-V.
> next virus may not require ventilators to help at all so securing that is not a solution.

I would be interested to know if I'm missing something, but I believe that respiratory viruses are the only ones that have a large chance of becoming pandemics - sneezing, coughing, breathing, speaking are the only gestures that can spread with no real way of fully protecting yourself from it (save for wearing gas masks). Now, I suppose in principle you could have a virus that causes respiratory symptoms, but that affects some other organ more than the lungs, but I'm not sure how plausible that is biologically.

So, I think it is by far most likely that the next pandemic will also require ventilators and face masks. Stocking up on both everyhwere in the world would be a good idea.

Also, it should become required practice for all countries (and even most large companies) to have significant pandemic reserves. We know for sure that a new pandemic will arise in the future, and there is a good chance that it will happen again in the next 50 years let's say.
Isn't it a well accepted fact that cloud pricing is opaque? Does that not leave the discussion open to an argument that in lieu of not understanding the pricing of multiple interconnected services, it is very difficult for a user to make informed decisions such that perhaps not all of the liability is their own?
Lateral comment:

I am starting to hate publishers who produce COVID-19 articles and post them behind a paywall or registration form.
Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses [Nature, 2019]
is the PG built-in role system flexible enough to do more sophisticated forms of RBAC? (groups, shares).

Is there a performance hit?

Have always liked the idea of graphile & wanted to try PG built-in roles, but wasn't sure whether the feature set was robust / whether the DB communicates properly about errors.
This article is about bioterrorist threats. It still underplays the idea of a natural pandemic as being "unlikely to occur in nature."
> Using the proper C standard.

You mean the standard that didn't exist until 1989?

> Using the standard library (and perhaps even common Unix libraries)

That's also very late 80s (realistically early 90s) stuff.

Which was still yes a very long time ago that C made all these breaking changes, but it was also a good ~20 years after it's release as well.
meh, java has indeed eaten a lot of the features that kotlin has (why do you use past tense ??). However, the java version is not necessarily as convenient, concise or powerful than Kotlin.

E.G. I strongly prefer data class to records.
No named parameters -> no default params -> way more boilerplate
Depends where Amazon ranks in seniority in bankruptcy (protection). You don't have to run out of money to file for it. Purdue Pharma sure didn't.
Doctors don't want someone with zero training "helping". That's for sure. The original idea of 30 days training is an end of the world worst case scenario. No one wants that right now. And someone with 30 days training is more of a hinderance than a help. Press more techs, nurses and PAs into service first.

But my SO runs, (COO), a system of hospitals. Including some teaching hospitals. And part of their plan definitely includes sequestering final year med students and all residents at their respective homes. Apparently the idea is that as hospital staff go down, this pool of residents and med students can be drawn on.

I know she stays up nights worried sick that residents might go to a party, or invite their boyfriend over, or engage in some other risky behavior instead of stay home alone and safeguard their health. So I get the idea that they really don't have a backup to that plan. I suspect med students and residents are a pretty critical part of the plan for surge operations across the nation.

Just pointing that out because I think hospital administrators and medical directors are starting to plan on doing things they wouldn't normally do. Like pressing 4th year med students into service, or taking 68 year old women off of ventilators if a 33 year old woman presents with a need for it. It's not so much a question of what doctors want to do, as it is a question of doing what has to be done to get through this with the maximum number of recoveries.
how does delivering 1.5 years of my full and unpaid working time on a silver platter to everyone to create a new and different option on how to create new UIs relate to "all you want is money".

check out the video, use chrome and it will run smooth.

re-think your attitude on open source: projects like this rely on creating an awareness.
Yeah I really hope Albon does well at Redbull. He’s got a very likeable personality, and he’s clearly got the potential at least. His performance at Interlagos was fantastic, it was very sad to see him get taken out by Hamilton. I’m just not sure if Redbull have the patience to foster his talent on the No 1 squad. That’s supposed to be what Toro Rosso is for.
What are you basing these claims on? The only definitive research on these drugs for treatment: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209580992... does not point to a large success. In fact many of the trial patients ended up in ICU, and their condition worsened. A single doctor who advertised that he had 600 patients, which only a few were tested and verified to have COVID-19 is not enough to data to base starting broad treatment. If they do work then by all means lets start medicating, but sadly nothing points to these drugs being that effective.
The numbers from Wuhan were something like 30% fatalities for those moved to ventilation. That doesn't detract from your point but does support why the path "make a ton of ventilators" is being persued.
Right, so it's a mistake to make ventilators, masks, PPE, all pointless in your opinion. Give up now we should.

The actual very interesting issue right now with ventilators is that there's companies in the US that make them and they say no one is ordering them. They cost around $25,000 each. Hospitals and states are sitting around waiting for the federal government to buy them and gift them to them, and whining that everything is the government's fault when that doesn't happen.
You got some good answers already, but one thing to note is that a Postgres connection is always to a single database. So you can query across multiple schemas from the same connection, but not multiple databases.
Finally understanding JavaScript's this and bind
I understood perfectly and they and you are both incorrect. Medicare for All is not Medicare, it expands and closes the gaps in coverage under the current regime using a single payer system (which is not even really a form of “insurance” to begin with).
Open-Source, Adruino-controlled, Proof of Concept Prototype

https://simulation.health.ufl.edu/technology-development/ope...

as people commented yesterday, there are also other projects but that one from University of Florida doesn't need 3D printing
Show HN: Woozyman’s – helping my city eat local
We are not disagreeing here, I think your 60 min calculation is correct. My point is that your calculations are at 50 cm and you get a much lower time for exposure if you bring your light bulb much closer and figure out a way to reflect the UV light so that more light from the bulb hits the intended target.
Yes.

This is a pretty scary artifact of their program.

The Swedish government has purposefully decided to obfuscate the facts, ignore the data, with the logic that a) it won't necessarily help and b) the data will only cause panic, etc..

Can you imagine the US government doing such a thing?

This is deeply, deeply disturbing and it's hypocritical to defend their actions in light of authoritarian tactics around the world.

The WHO and nations that have been successful (Korea) have been saying test, test, test test. It's a key to suppression.
Ah yes, you surely know better than the trained professionals about how to best run an ICU.

Just because you can call yourself a software engineer with little more than a high school diploma doesn’t mean that the same rules apply for doctors.
The blood of the youngs, to live another 50-75 years.
Yeah, fair, and I agree with your take; there's just this longstanding idea/goal that Swift can (or will be able to) do it all.
It can be used for rent but doesn’t actually cover rent.

The loan amount is 2.5x average monthly payroll.
When Sun killed Self in favor of Java the justification was that Self needed a 24MB workstation at a time when most clients still had 8MB machines. Java was tiny in comparison.

I complained that Java didn't do much beyond animating an odd little man and predicted that by the time it did half as much as Self it would need twice the memory.
If you assume 4% each year independently of each other year, then the chance of not having nuclear war is 96% in any given year. Over 30 years, your chance of no war is (0.96)^30 = 30%.
I've been working on this which is confirmed cases per state population https://us-covid19-per-capita.net

It might make more sense if it tracked deaths per state population instead of confirmed cases b/c of the different testing rates.
>The smaller the sensor the more the lens has to resolve. a 4x5" sheet of film is ridiculously big compared to a "full frame" sensor, hence the lens aren't as stressed [0]

I can accept that as a general statement, but it depends on many factors. For e.g. The 4x5 example you linked to was scanned at 4000DPI. 4000 DPI across a 24x36mm sensor gives approximately 20 mega pixels - which is entry level full frame. So its not stressing the lens any more than your LF capture.

Now its true that, at 60+ mega pixels you're doing 6500+DPI, and 240MP (pixel shift) even more so, you're stressing the optics, but we've found that the optics is quite capable of delivering.

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/image-comparison/fullscreen...

https://www.albertdros.com/single-post/2019/09/02/Sony-A7RIV...

>No they don't, there are many algorithm tricks to make you think it resolves more details but when you look closely there isn't any details, look at these 64mp samples [1] [2] [3] [4], they don't even look like pictures anymore.

Those are JPEGS on which noise reduction and sharpening was added by the camera. We'll have to compare RAWs to see the pixel level sharpness.

But again, its not my position that smartphones, which don't have the best lenses, can compete with X,Y or Z format. I'm just pointing out that we're not at the limit of optics, as with every bump in MP we see more details, especially so in professional cameras with professional grade lenses.

>LF lenses are much simpler than regular lenses, they don't need floating elements, they're not zooms, they don't even need moving parts because you focus through the bellow. There is more glass if you look at the weight, but less glass in term of groups/elements. If anything they're smaller than new "full frame" lenses [5], they only get big if you want something faster than f5.6-4

>This is what LF gives you: http://www.drumscanning.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/vel.... or https://youtu.be/sqN7n9bXgtU?t=288

We'll have to do a side by side with the same image to really compare. I don't think you'll come away with LF "blows away" 35mm digital as the poster I responded to claimed.
Another shortage is lack of ambulances to take you to the ventilators as demonstrated in NYC already as more and more drivers and personnel are already sick and not allowed to work

Once you are on a ventilator for covid19 you tend to monopolize it for 2+ weeks, hence the endless need for more machines
Lord of Light - Zelazy

Dosadi Experiment - Frank Herbert
oh, thanks, I'll add links to cheatsheet and quickstart pages to the README, it really makes sense!

As for the magic-stuff, I was contemplating designing the API with this approach, but I changed my mind because it would be difficult to tell which python expressions are evaluated at the moment of a conversion definition AND which in the compiled code.

However if we imagine this "magic" API, then it could be even closer to normal python code:

m["key"].some_method(...)

which would resolve everything under the hood.

===

as for the collapsable generated code examples -- I've jotted down :)
Surprised no one mentioned any of Haruki Murakami's books. Norwegian Wood made a big impression on me as a young man in my late teens. Kafka on the shore and the Wind-up Bird Chronicle are both trips. A Wild Sheep Chase is hilarious.
This is great stuff. I make video games and its some times hard to find what colors would go good with others. This is a nice collection I think.

Also, it looks like it would be great for deciding colors for a pitch deck/presentation. Good stuff.
The question to me, aside from assumptions about infection rate, is: are the people that are getting hospitalized and/or dying today just unlucky, or are they more susceptible to the virus or its effects?

If they are just unlucky, the death rate may hold. If, however, its just the highest risk population having the worst outcomes, the death rate will plummet as they die off. In order for the US to hit 1M+ deaths, you have to assume that people getting infected in 3 or 6 or 12 months from now are just as likely to die as those dying today.
This is why it's Terraform or nothing for me.