skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The voices on this particular video are all conservative because it's a clip from the Daily Show, not an unbiased sample, and of course they're going to mainly pick on the other side. People on the right are making similar lists of grievances against left-wing media, and if you looked exclusively at those, you'd get the impression that downplaying the coronavirus is a liberal thing.

(My own pet interpretation is that political news reporting is a circus, reality-adjacent at best, and most journalists leave you worse-informed for having listened to them regardless of their party affiliation.)
Amazon's (+Wholefood) supply-chain failure is an eye-opener for me during COVID-19 crisis. I hate to acknowledge my dependability on Amazon Prime while living in a big city. I am not sure how I will break my habit but I know for a fact that I won't be ordering everything from Amazon Prime in the future.

For a company that commands e-commerce space in year 2020, it is really frustrating to find this workflow while ordering from WF while using Amazon's app, it is a joke and UI/UX 101 blunder. You add items to your cart. They run out of inventory. Items disappear from your cart. Either you place your order assuming all items were in your cart or you don't get a delivery slot and you have to add those items again. Why can't they just borrow the same feature from Amazon.com where unavailable items move conveniently to "Save later" section?
How’s your fitness levels and fitness routine?
> But a federal judge in San Francisco wasn’t willing to go along with it. The judge, William Alsup, ordered DoorDash in February to proceed with the American Arbitration Association cases and pay the fees.

Ah! Gotta love judge Alsup. Back in SCO vs Novell, and in Oracle vs Google.

> ... in a hearing, Judge Alsup questioned whether the company and its lawyers really believed that.

> "Your law firm and all the defense law firms have tried for 30 years to keep plaintiffs out of court,” the judge told lawyers for Gibson Dunn late last year. “And so finally someone says, ‘OK, we’ll take you to arbitration,’ and suddenly it’s not in your interest anymore. Now you’re wiggling around, trying to find some way to squirm out of your agreement."

> "There is a lot of poetic justice here," the judge added.
Or rather we are the victims of their success.
Collected the biggest archive of Bitcoin wallet.dat files with balance and lost passwords.
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The collection consists of 32 files total for 2500+ BTC. The biggest wallet 576 BTC, the most interesting wallet.dat files with pre-mined coins from 2009-2010.
Let's try other wallets for a share?
Really cool, gonna give it a try tomorrow!
With interest rates what they are right now, I expect a lot more tech companies will look to raise money via debt to build a cushion.
Making a correct prediction is difficult. Especially if you see something the vast majority of people don’t see. It takes quite a bit of risk to make a contrarian prediction, which is why the payouts are higher if the contrarian prediction comes true.
Yes, reducing viral replication at any time would make recovery easier.

But if the virus replicates sufficiently before chloroquine + zinc is administered then much damage is already done.

So it's a race between the virus and the "cure". Get the "cure" in quickly and the virus stops replication before much harm occurs; get the "cure" in late and the virus has run most of its course and maximal damage is done.

Also, since the viral damage opens the door to opportunistic bacterial infections (e.g., pneumonia), antibiotics may be given to prevent bacteria from taking hold.
I share similar feelings. I feel like Doom 2016 (and Eternal) are more of a sequel to Brutal Doom (a popular mod for original Doom games adding finishing moves, over the top weapons and over the top gore/violence effects).

I've always viewed original Doom as more of a survival horror. People laugh now, but Doom was a genuinely scary game back when it released. Gamers nowadays obviously won't be scared by it. They also might play on lower difficulty levels or with cheatcodes. So rather than "you are stuck here with the demons", most gamers will play it as "the demons are stuck here with you", and this is what Doom 2016 reflects.
can we please stop using cellphones and smartphone for anything serious please?
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The question here is whether that 97% accept that humans are the main cause of global warming, which is arguably not supported by the evidence presented in the Cook paper.

To quote Friedman in a follow-up post:

> My objection was that the 97% figure lumped together categories 1-3, when only category 1 fitted Cook's "main cause." Categories 2 and 3 were papers saying or implying that human action was a cause—"contributed to" in the language of the example. Category 1 contained 64 papers, or 1.6%, not 97%.[0]

Which does not mean that there isn't a large consensus that humans are the primary cause of global warming. What we can infer is:

1. The Cook paper is not evidence of that consensus

2. That Cook himself is perhaps not a reliable source.

[0]https://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2014/03/john-cooks-respo...
Hey! I can't speak to the exact mechanism for pricing on a large or enterprise level account, but it sounds like you're just getting started with tracing - might be worth checking out Lightstep. Pricing is pretty transparent for different tiers of non-enterprise usage and it's seats+services monitored, NOT consumption, so there shouldn't be any end-of-month surprises. (https://lightstep.com/pricing)

Lightstep and several other vendors use open source standards so worst case scenario, you have great instrumentation even if you're not paying for a product right away. /shrug

(full disclaimer, I work at Lightstep albeit not in sales)
Not really. Most productivity software still runs on desktops. We sacrifice too much to the Resize Gods without actually using them. It's like costly shrubbery insurance. (YAGNI.) Desktop GUI's were both easier to specify and were more productive to use. The "responsive" designs waste screen real-estate and require more steps to do the same thing, on average. The labor math usually says "no". There may be a subset of features that phone users need, but one can make a separate sub-app for those rather than poison the whole thing with mobile-oriented drawbacks.
Sure but I'm talking about on-boarding and generating developer interest. Appeal to junior developers and hobbyists is critical for large scale adoption. And like it or not a hobbyist's barriers to entry are different than a senior software engineer's.
From a network/system perspective:

- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters by Jeff Dean et al.

- The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols by David D. Clark

- Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications by Ion Stoica et al.
That makes no sense. If you order 2 items, and they're in 2 different warehouses, you'll get 2 packages. They aren't going to ship from 1 warehouse to a 2nd warehouse and then bundle them.
Ask HN: Creative WFH solutions for in-person businesses?
I'm curious if anyone has seen any interesting solutions to working from home in industries where it is very difficult to do so.

If not WFH, what are measures you are taking to stay safe?
Mountable toilet system for health monitoring via the analysis of excreta
University press release: https://web.musc.edu/about/news-center/2020/04/03/hamann-spo...

The Marine Natural Product Manzamine A Inhibits Cervical Cancer by Targeting the SIX1 Protein (2020, paywall): https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b00577

Photo images showing the effect of Manzamine-A on cancer cells in petri dishes (PDF, page 5): https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b00577/...
True, I was stumbling on details constantly. Page load times, optimizing for screen sizes (this was a no-scroll, pure swipe-based mag), and it was very discouraging.

And you're also right about IG, people actually saw it and it would come up if people searched the tags. As a passion project, that's 70% of what I wanted. That remaining 30% probably wouldn't have been worth the effort.
It's the effects of the free market on journalism. The drive for profit means boosting ad revenue which in turns requires drawing an audience... actual journalism isn't profitable enough.
When you are not in charge you can say whatever you want, it won't kill people. So that's why it matters. It's not about who you support. "The Buck Stops Here".
I ordered a chest freezer from Home Depot. When I ordered it, I double checked that it was not listed as out of stock. I got a notice they were delivering on April 4. It was never delivered. The delivery company told me they were never shipped the freezer to deliver. When I called Home Depot, they said freezers are on back order to June. They told me I could call the manufacturer. This is a bit crazy. I have never had a place tell me to call the manufacturer.
Has sysadmin not evolved? if I found some sysadmin logging into a production system and editing the config file in nano today, I'd be downright depressed.
You’re missing the point. We know for sure that in Lombardy the hospitalisation rate was higher than 1 in 1000 people infected.
Unfortunately, I'm one of those people. My last refill ran out last week, and my pharmacist doesn't think I can get a refill anytime soon :-(

Fortunately my condition is not life threatening or severe, but it's something I've been living with for many years, and the HCQ was just finally getting it under control, so it's a bummer that there is so much hoarding going on before we even know if it really works for Covid-19.

Also, it is not a risk free medication. While it's generally safe, my doctor makes me get frequent lab work & a vision test because the side effects can be pretty bad for a small minority of people.
They used to be good, but now it's worse than useless. The staff has become less knowledgeable over time and the quality of the products sold have gone way downhill.

I usually now seek out specialty places that deal with just one part of the problems Home Depot and Lowes addresses like looking for a plumbing supply place that actual professional plumbers would use.
I see this sentiment a lot. It seems really obvious to me that no, science is actually about consensus now. If you disagree, you're shunned and labeled "dangerous."

Maybe this is in conflict with what science should be. But it's also definitely what science is now.
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Here's an AP article from 31 years ago[1].

> A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

...

> The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown.

Since that article was published, atmospheric CO2 has gone from 355ppm to 410ppm (a 15% increase). Global surface temperature has risen 0.6°C since 1989 (1.1°F). Sea level has risen by 8 centimeters.

I realize the UN official wasn't a scientist or an expert, but neither are many of the people quoted in articles about climate change today. Global warming is a bad thing, but it's not as bad as a lot of media & activists are portraying it. It's not an existential risk.

1. https://apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
Bit flips and other errors kill or make non-flat formats only non-trivally accessible. Anything requiring programatic interpretation is fragile.
I've never paid for the app versions of Office or Drive and have used them for years. You can still use them across multiple platforms free of charge.
Is the a similar video with other news stations and their similarly incorrect reporting?
While I respect your right to not give "military contractors" your business, I just don't see how you can use it as justification. The military is a resource and isn't inherently good or bad.
Walmart has been quite reliable for grocery pickup. I’ve tried Hy-Vee and the experience wasn’t very good. Lots of stuff sold out or not picked. Target has given up on grocery curbside as well. But for household goods it works well. I’m trying our local supermarket curbside next so hopefully that will work out. I know we are in crazy times but I’d be really cool to get a dedicated grocery curbside / delivery operation with only warehouses and no stores. I think the UK has something like that.
According to the paper, this is what the researchers found -

"In a baseline OLS regression
with no controls, we find that a 1% increase in Airbnb listings is associated with a 0.1% increase in rental rates and a 0.18% increase in house prices. Of course, these estimates should not be interpreted as causal and may instead be picking up spurious correlations"

I wouldn't be quick to call that "almost certain".
>The official information coming out of China was "mostly mild courses, mostly kills old people with pre-existing conditions, kind of like the flu".

>Later, the official information coming out of Italy was "mostly mild courses, mostly kills old people with pre-existing conditions, kind of like the flu".

In both cases, the information also included extremely rapid uncontrolled spread, a much higher death rate than the flu, and overwhelming available medical resources. This was known for a very long time; as far back as early January in China.

>The alarmists won the battle for attention, but not because of superior information.

I'm not sure calling the people who were correct "alarmists" is aging well. And you still are apparently dismissing it as 'luck', that they were correct, because you state their information was no better.

>Even experts underestimated just how virulent COVID-19 was going to be and how many people were going to get it in such short order of time.

I seem to recall predictions of crazy R0 values for coronavirus back in early January. I, too, thought it was probably at the "overdone" side of things, again, in early January, before we had more information. But the picture started becoming much more clear by early February, and certainly mid-February. And we continued to do NOTHING in the US, at least into mid-March. And even once we spent a month ignoring the devastating consequences in Italy, much of the US hand-waved it away, and explained that they're all old people, and it could never happen here.

Then once it started happening here, we started hearing from governors of southern states, explaining how it can't happen THERE because they're not Washington. Or California. And then it became "we're not New York". I'm sorry, but the level of intentional ignorance on this matter has played out over many, many months, over and over again, in precisely the same, predictable pattern. And here you are, claiming nobody could have known, and the alarmists got lucky.

>History is written by the winners. Had COVID-19 turned out less severe, the alarmists would've been decried as oversensitive fools. Now the anti-alarmists are being portrayed as irresponsible. Yet, both acted in good faith on the same information.

Wrong.
Both usaa and navy fed allow this as well as schwab.
I believe SoFi allows TOTP (full disclosure: I used to work there but not on 2fa)
Generally true, but there's also such a large convergence on Algol style syntax these days that your mind builds up familiarity with them. That makes groking them quicker.

Well for me looking at Erlang code is akin to looking at 'vase or two faces' photo, due to lower case being atoms and uppercase being variable names. And I dislike having to change ',' to '.' or vice versa when editing lines. Though three ',' and '.' endings do have an elegance to them.

Elixir is nice in that it is similar enough to Julia that I can copy and paste pieces of code and make minor edits to translate. Even javascript is relatively similar if map/reduces are used. Python is a bit harder due to white space blocks and list comprehension.
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Most "DevOps" folks I know are actually former sysadmins who evolved to work more with cloud technologies. To say sysadmin hasn't evolved in a bit of an exaggeration. Titles follow the trend. What people actually do is often similar.
FWIW it's the military that is now building all the field hospitals and sending hospital ships to help with COVID-19
Basically the entire internet is built on TCP. But TCP wasn't always very good. There was a time when congestion nearly killed the early internet. Congestion avoidance and control talks about how they fixed it. It's light hearted, accessible and one of my all time favourite reads:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/52324.52356
Your second statement undermines your first.
Overall language popularity is only one input into how we prioritize programming languages.

The best way I can summarize our prioritization process is that we prioritize in descending over:

* What people are willing to spend their free time to build (I can't order other people to build high-priority bindings and my own free time is already accounted for by improving Haskell bindings that power a lot of shared tooling such as the language server)

* Bindings specific to DevOps use cases (e.g. Go / Python / Ruby / Nix / JSON / YAML), since they are the dominant languages and formats in this space)

* Bindings that can be used to create derived bindings (e.g. Rust, which can then be used to create a binding in any language that can bind to C. In fact, this is how the upcoming Python bindings work. See: https://pypi.org/project/dhall/)

* Bindings that users request (We have a yearly survey where we ask users to inform the direction of the ecosystem. Python was the most requested language in the most recent survey)

* Overall language popularity (as the final tiebreaker)

So I hope this illustrates that there is a lot more that goes into these decisions beyond just which language is the most popular and we're not being obtuse or dilettantes just because we haven't gotten to a specific language, yet.
I'm learning lean with that intent (to self learn mathematics). I get distracted trying to learn how to do better proof automation and tactic golf.

Also, since I don't see anyone mentioning so it far: there is a currently fairly active Zulip chat for the lean prover. They have been quite helpful for me getting started.
The flu vaccine does make a difference, but not a huge one - it has limited effectiveness, especially in people who are most at risk of dying or having serious side-effects.
You could certainly do that, but it might be logistically easier to just calculate it when taxes are filed. I'm not sure how different governments treat existing taxable benefits.
Sounds like you’re going to be depressed when you learn how the entire Internet plane, all software engineering outside of “SV”, all IT, all government, and basically everything except your GitHub CI/CD adventure works, then. Sorry.
That’s crazy. Target smokes Amazon for most things these days, especially with pickup. Ditto for NewEgg and Walmart.

Amazon is increasingly overrated, they peaked a decade ago and have declined to a warehouse club/flea market.
Yes, but it's not like the 1990 model was massively wrong or something. The (now historical) observations are riding the lower end of the predicted range from 1990, but even the low estimates still predict a 3C temperature rise by the end of the century. All models are wrong and some are useful. Even a 3C rise would be pretty bad. Just because some of the 6 or 7C predictions (high end of range) don't appear to be coming true we should just ignore the rest of the models?
You're misrepresenting what GP said. They didn't say "experts", they said:

> all the people who have made confident predictions over the years regarding global warming.

You can't deny that most of the people speaking publicly, and by far the loudest people, are not experts, they are politicians, journalists, and filmmakers. (And tech entrepreneurs...) Many of those have predicted disasters that never happened.

But judging by the downvotes, I guess that's an inconvenient truth.
Because they didn't intend to use chloroquine as a way to reduce the immune response to cytokine storms.

They intended to use it to prevent virus replication in the cells at the early stages of the immune response to allow the immune system to build up a response at a slower pace.

The amount of treatment proposed in Europe is around 5 days of HCQ with about 800mg on D1 and then 400mg on D2-5. This is an incredibly low dosage and will have very little immunosuppressant effect. It takes a very long time to act as an efficient immunosuppressant (1 to 3 months for Lupus).

Expecting HCQ to suppress the immune system for cytokine storms in a matter of hours seems very strange.

As that controversial French doctor said in multiple interviews. If you are already in need of a respirator then your issue is no longer the virus but your own immune system killing you (cytokine storm or added bacterial pneumonia). At that stage, HCQ is not very useful. Not in these dosages at least.

Most people are only focusing on the immunosuppressing effect of HCQ for some reason which is very strange to me.

It takes time for chloroquine to act as a zinc ionophore as well and for zinc to enter the cells (and it needs to be in the cells to inhibit RNA polymerase). As you can see in the studies I posted. Between 24 and 72 hours it seems.

If the virus cannot replicate correctly (with the zinc idea), it might give more time to "flatten the curve" for the immune system. To build up antibodies and respond to the disease without inducing a cytokine storm.

This at least is their hypothesis. And it has not been confirmed in any other way than by observing that those with chronic Lupus+HCQ treatment seemed to be "immune" to the disease. And this was only done in Wuhan as far as I know.

Unfortunately Dr Zhan Zhang has not yet published his full results except for this preliminary https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758v...

Which doesn't go into much detail about anything except that "it seems to work". Unfortunately ... Yet I do see logic in the idea.

I just wish people (with access to patient files in major hospital centers) would also look into this and they could maybe confirm this "once and for all" without even needing a full blown trial.
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I have every confidence that David Barber is an honest scientist doing his best to apply rigorous science to an inherently complicated system.

The objection here is that we live in a media environment which continually emphasizes one end of that error bar. So long as we live in that sort of environment claims of catastrophic consequences are going to be taken with a degree of skepticism.