skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, and that's why i changed my mind since i saw what's going on in europe.

I just wanted to explain my initial reaction, based on what happened in china and by reading various medical people give their opinion.
Something like this would be great. And the posted prices ought to include all complications / unexpected weird things -- they have the information (and the volume) to average such costs, you don't.

But not trivial to implement correctly. What exactly is the menu of procedures, and who standardizes (and updates) it? It would be much harder to comparison shop if there were a million entries (and every hospital offers a subset). Can hospitals select their patients, e.g. post great prices & outcomes by only accepting patients under 50 (or just with few other health issues)?
If I was given the choice, I can have either static analysis or types I would pick static analysis every time
Video chat works across all browsers mobile or PC as of today, author seems to have been asleep for long.
It depends on your preference really. Most devs I know would prefer a CLI over UI, plus CLIs can be easily used to automate workflows like deployment and pushing pipelines to production.
> But both sides are irrationally being confident.

Being "doomsdayer" does not necessarily mean confidence in the situation. It's more about accepting that overreacting is much more desirable than underreacting when facing something exponential where you're constantly 2 weeks behind knowing what the reality is
Red Hat Names Paul Cormier President and CEO
While this does seem like an attack on those who claim Covid-19 is not going to be as bad as the prevailing sentiment and the prevailing media view, let's not forget that the prevailing sentiment 1-2 months ago was that Covid-19 would not be a big deal (in the West). I'm seeing many of the same people who pronounced Covid-19 would not be a big deal, doing a full 180 and attacking those who are pronouncing Covid-19 to be less dangerous than expected.
It is actually rather efficient, you just lack the wisdom to understand anything beyond your own narrow point of view.

Check-in with security: Yes, because this is 'Merica and it has actually become necessary to do a preliminary screen to make sure you are not a raving nutjob.

Check-in with receptionist: Enter you into the system, until this point is hit you are not even at the hospital as far as the system is concerned.

Talk to nurse assistant: No, this is not just an assistant for a nurse, but rather a term used to describe someone who has a particular level of training and commensurate duties. A CNA can take vitals, ensure that they have the proper records for you (e.g. records say vi is a 45 year-old white male and we have a 60 year-old Latina, maybe we need to double-check things.) This is also the first real step in the triage process where someone with medical background can make a quick decision as to whether or not you need to be seen quickly or can wait.

Talk to nurse: Ok, now we actually start doing more fine-grained examination and diagnosis. Chances are this is where the real diagnosis and treatment was decided, but you don't need to know this.

Talk to doctor: Now someone who is very busy will take a few moments to examine you and make a decision. The nurse you talked to earlier put markup on your chart indicating what she noticed and found as well as possible standard treatments for same so the doctor was able to confirm that it was horses and not zebras and then sign off on the treatment.

In a hospital all of that process you think of as inefficient does not give a shit about you or your time, it is trying to maximize the value and impact of the time that really matters in a hospital: the attention of doctors and RNs. The process may have been inconvenient for you, but it means that the people who matter at that hospital only spend their time where it is needed and trivial tasks or downtime are handled elsewhere in the process.
This is not the case anymore. Access is available especially since we know that leaving an infected person in the open will infect a lot others...
Learning probability for strong foundation in ML. The books i am following are
"First course in probability by Sheldon Ross" and
"Probability and Statistics" Michael J. Evans and Je¤rey S. Rosenthal

This is the first time i am studying based on the topics rather than following syllabus. I wanted to understand covariance for calculating similar interest b/w users to suggest the posts viewed by a user in the app i am developing. This took me down the rabbit hole and forced to learn everything required to define covariance. Its talking a lot of time but i feel it's worth it because now i have a strong foundation. Also its nice to follow more than one book because i have no attachment to any of the books. When in college i used to get attached to my notes or the first text book i follow, but studying a topic from many books have no attachment to either and its liberating.
I created whereisscihub.now.sh a while ago for exactly this purpose (but limited to the subset of Sci-Hub, of course, and it used Wikidata as its data source). It has since been taken down by Now.sh.

Just as a heads-up of what you could expect to see happening :)
New IBM CEO calls for a “maniacal focus” on AI and hybrid cloud
Disappointing to see that MSM and more disappointing that even here there are not more people questioning the data and situation.

Also, where did the free thinking go? Not ostracising everyone that has a different view than the current world narrative.

There are dozens of sme in virus-related fields that are voicing the opposite of what govs and msm are saying. This is a great lesson for us all.

Let’s see it dismantle our current “ways of living”. Time for something new!
https://kaholo.io/
Types are just one kind of static analysis. So it makes sense that you'd want the superset rather than the subset.
What Republican party are you looking at? The one that passed a law last week for $2 trillion in government intervention? The one that shut down my state for at least three weeks, causing me to lose my side job?

Sadly, small-government types (of which I am one, if by "small" you include "no") no longer have much of a home in the Republicans.
Forming good habits is key to continuous personal growth
So what exactly are you saying? 1) he is evil, 2) he is wrong?

For 1), it's up to you to judge him based on your perceptions (I'd disagree), for 2) you'd need a little more than your gut feeling to call him wrong. Germany is testing extensively and resulting current estimates are around 1% mortality (WHO estimate: 3,4%).
Whale sharks: Atomic tests solve age puzzle of world's largest fish
Since this is about watching the news, it'd be nice if you could share clips from (say) CNN or MSNBC carrying a similar message, confidence, and tone.
> > Yes, on average it works

> Maybe we frequent vastly different websites...

I think we agree. What I mean is on average it works for Google, not that it works for us. They still makes boatloads of cash.

For what I know the targeting is equally bad for you and me and everyone and they are just convincing advertisers that is worth paying for despite this.
> the [Republican] party does not condone excessive government intervention.

Well, that's the rhetoric, but it's only that for most. Power first, principles later.
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This cannot happen. EVERYONE in the country is aware of the situation and the slum dwellers would themselves call out anyone who shows symptoms (well before the person died).

Having said that, we do have incidents of groups who hide/protect people who are potentially infected. There are ongoing efforts to persuade communities (especially in identified hotspots) to come for testing and tracking but then these are the challenges of a large and diverse country.
I'm possibly missing something but i can't see an actual rebuttal to the comic ?

Perhaps it's my reading of the comic.
I'm seeing a comment about software engineering as a profession in relation to other similar "engineering" fields, specifically about them being less mature/regulated/proffesional.
Then a reference to how software running voting machines is terrifying, the article then goes on to deatil why that's the case.

The details of why e-voting is hard are interesting and raise some good points, but it's in no way addressing the "claims" in the comic.
The problem with much of the challenges to the massive interventions is that they might not have been necessary if countries like the US had a competent and urgent response when the crisis first emerged. But they didn’t, and you can’t go back in time, so the choices are lockdown or let masses on masses of people dies and overwhelm several vital services.
Like the endless YouTube conspiracy-oriented channels which rant about the vast Illuminati/Jewish/Deep-State/whatever conspiracy that holds our world in thrall and assassinates with impunity, yet somehow can't manage to file a few bogus DMCA claims to get the YouTube channels shutdown.

Of course if one tries pointing this out the response is sometimes "oh, they're so powerful that they like to mock us", but more commonly just to accuse you of being a shill/deep-state-agent/whatever.
The Oxford study is based on blatantly, and easily demonstrably, bad data. For example it relies on only 1 out of every 1000 infections needing hospitalisation. This is not supported by any current evidence.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coronavirus-infections-oxfor...
My experience is the opposite: while there certainly was a time when I felt DDG actually respected my queries [1] that time is now gone. The results I get often have very little to do with what I typed in the search box. I find myself resorting to !g more often than ever before.

[1] I seem to have thought so in last December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18665232
> What struck me about it was not just how mistaken they seemed, but how daring.

Really paul? You are struck by how wrong journalists and politicians are? They exist to lie and push an agenda. You've written in the past about the shady aspects of the news industry. And I seriously doubt you harbored any positive views of politicians.

> These people constantly make false predictions, and get away with it, because the things they make predictions about either have mushy enough outcomes that they can bluster their way out of trouble, or happen so far in the future that few remember what they said.

They make false predictions and get away with it because their agenda and the agenda of their fans/supporters line up. This is true of the fox side and the cnn/msnbc side. Have you forgotten about the predictions of yellowcake? The predictions of a short war in iraq? Remember mission accomplished? What about the predictions of a Hillary victory? What about all the predictions about trump/russia collusion? What about all the predictions that trump would be tossed from office/resign/jailed/etc?

> And the tide has just gone out like never before.

No paul. They've all been shamelessly naked sun bathing on the beach for everyone to see. It's not like they are hiding their bias.

> Now that we've seen the results, let's remember what we saw,

I doubt it. Just like people seem to have forgotten what a hack trevor noah is. In just the last few years, if people cared about being lied to, everything from Rolling Stones, NYTimes, WaPo, Fox news, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, etc would be out of business.

Brian Williams lied at NBC and then got a job at MSNBC. Isn't that nice?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Williams#Controversies

I hate to say it but your post seemed more like an attempt to win political points rather than expressing disappointment in the news industry since you were already fairly skeptical of the news industry to begin with.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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I'll clue you in: While some actually believe in the nutty conspiracy crap, it's mostly being pushed by anti-Chinese racists/nationalists/tribalists. Remember how that 5G tower gear is mostly made by Huawei? This is an excuse to attack them and how to get others to do it for them. You need to understand how plausible deniability is so often used by JAQoff deplorables.
They have recently merged multiwrite support[1] for their Union[2] backend, which is a big news for me.

Even if you're not using any cloud storages, rclone works with local filesystem, WebDAV, FTP, SFTP, Nextcloud and Minio. Rclone is the only free-software solution which implements some features of MergerFS for Windows to my knowledge.

Amazing tool.

[1] https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/3782

[2] https://rclone.org/union/
How not to write a book about Keras
I am reading a book about keras and the author introduces new deep learning techniques and choose the problem of estimating the temperature from local data to compare performance of those techniques. The baseline is predicting tomorrow temperature by today temperature and no wonder deep learning cannot do any better. So how are you going to compare deep learning methods solving a problem that cannot be solved or approximated in any way? I am really disappointed, the author seems to be a very bright person, so I cannot understand why he didn't choose better applications to illustrate the power of the different methods. There must be something that I don't get, perhaps in a rush the author decides to finish the book no matter what way?
impossible in today's India.
Show HN: Cdk8s, the future of Kubernetes application deployments?
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Just use a different search engine. Right now DDG is the only viable alternative. Just force yourself to use it, regardless of all the edge cases that suck. When DDG becomes as crap as Google, we can use whatever alternative exists at that time to replace it. The same goes for Instagram, it's slowly but surely turned into an ad infested cesspit (Three consecutive ads between user stories? seriously?). This is how the cycle goes I'm afraid.
Every major bank in NYC has trading desks across the world, including Asian markets. Shouldn't they have seen it coming as well?
5G comes from China; coronavirus comes from China.

REALLY JUST A COINCIDENCE!? /s
> The librilight dataset. I aligned 30k hours of it (on CPU, on a single large server, in about a week) and my resulting models are generalizing very well.

Was this using the pretrained model from Facebook? If so, how much custom code did you need to write to get the alignment? I've been looking for a way to take an arbitrary position in a given text and look up where in the corresponding audio it appears, but I'd prefer not having to train a speech recognition model to do that.
Ease writing cucumber feature files with webdriver.io
I think good content is more than shitty html code
It's still making a large portion of the people who aren't dying extremely ill.

I think one of the biggest public health communication disasters of covid19 is the reliance on mortality as the communication endpoint.

It's acceptable for other threats-- like automotive accidents-- to speak in terms of mortality because there isn't a huge population which is much less exposed to dying but still exposed to serious illness. Automotive accidents also seriously injure many more people than they kill, but not in a way that lends itself to a false impression of immunity.

"Death" makes a nice clear warning for the risks of driving, and other very bad but not death outcomes are just some factor of the death outcomes... it isn't like the audience is comparing death rates to population numbers then deciding that the death from driving isn't worth worrying about just because we didn't also include maimed-for-life.

For covid19 we've ended up making many 20 and 30 year olds believe that it doesn't threaten them. It does. They may not be dying in especially large numbers-- especially where either hospitals are not overloaded or where they're engaging in the ethically dubious practice of triaging younger people ahead of others based purely on their age rather than, e.g. response to treatment--, but they are still becoming seriously and painfully ill and ending up with severe immune system damage -- which takes a long time will recover and will result in latent mortality --, and for many likely lifelong injury in the form of extensive lung scaring.

Infections like influenza are much less contagious-- with an R0 of 1.3 vs 2 to 3 (an enormous difference)--, less deadly, face a population which is at least somewhat resistant (in part due to heroic vaccination efforts) and which knows how to rapidly create new and effective vaccines against it. It's not really that comparable.
I agree with the sentiment, however I think the apparent problems with Trump and politicians in general around this will not be that they got caught talking bullshit, it's that voters don't care because we've started supporting sides like they are football teams rather than being thoroughly critical of their actions. I'm not even sure a million people dying would lead to disorganised, slow and stupid government being at fault according to the people and in fact the higher the toll I'd guess the less likely accountability is to happen.
Because the topics were interesting to him, and his goal was to convey what made them interesting. All great teachers have this in common regarding the subjects they teach.
There's a difference between health writers writing in nuanced tones about the unknowns back in February (and sure, they got some things wrong, but they were going on the best information at the time), and talking heads on TV going on nothing but their own self-confidence and prior political beliefs telling people they'd be fine.
What a ridiculous zeal.

Hardly anyone at this point is arguing that there actually is an issue. After all, flu is still a dangerous illness, esp. for certain groups of people, so even plainly calling this COVID thing "just a flu" is not equivalent to saying that it's not an issue. It's your framing of the phrase "just a flu", that makes it look like some kind of heresy or insult.

And, most importantly, why do you call out only journalists and politicians, while there are many perferctly credible people, - first of all, medical experts, - who keep saying, that the scale of panic is dumb? How about doing some reading and fact-checking before crying wolf?
Outbreak or no outbreak. We know that social distancing and especially the lockdown prevents transmission. In a densely populated country, that is the BEST alternative to us.

We are not gambling on the fact that given all our advantages we MAY NOT have an outbreak. BTW, while the Govt. has called for the lockdown it is largely community driven and community implemented.
I've had this idea for some time already where if you post something news-like, you should attach a link to your sources, like "citation needed" for non-Wikipedia text. I know that sounds bland and like basic journalistic practice - but it is not, nor should be followed by professional/accredited journalists who of course need to be able to protect their sources and publish on their own site; it's intended for social media only. The idea is to get people used to look for a badge or some such at the bottom of a text that, when absent, immediately should ring a bell and put people on alert. Basically, it adds a "who said this" or cui bono dimension to every published text on aggregator sites unless it appears on a dedicated site.

Maybe we could have a competition for graphic artists and award a prize for the best icon or visual idiom for this?
Will it scale if a lot of people start using? Is the video P2P or via a server?
I wrote https://nocode.tech. It show cases NoCode tools and projects (meta, I know).

May seem simple at first, but you'll see it has more complicated features like:

- Tool searching/Filtering
- Commenting
- Complicated form to select tools from a database-generated list
- Login/User System
- Avatar Generation from API
> while there certainly was a time when I felt DDG actually respected my queries [1] that time is now gone.

I sometimes wonder if they've hired some ex-googlers lately because yes, this is my experience as well ;-)
"the Oculus Rift’s two most important components are a cheap smartphone screen and a pair of fifty cent lenses"

I got a smartphone and a VR headset to put it in. Yes they are cheap, but the experience is completely different from the Rift.

These may be the most fundamental parts, but they are not what makes the Rift a good VR set.
He's wrong.

More people being asymptomatic is not a cause for reacting less strictly, which is the view being promoted. If more people are asymptomatic, that's great news, but it does not impact how severely you should lockdown society as the DDOS'ing of the health sector is still clearly a problem to avoid looking at france, spain and italy. It only means that you'll be able to end the lockdown sooner than expected
My main point was telling my family I am not available although I am physically present.

Next was not to do housework in between. It always takes longer than I anticipate.
Yes it does.

2018: Flu stomps the nation, overwhelming ERs and leaving 20 children dead: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/health/flu-surveillance-cdc/i...

2013: Flu Outbreak Overwhelms Hospitals: https://fox8.com/news/flu-outbreak-overwhelms-area-hospitals...

2017: Hospitals Overwhelmed by Flu Patients Are Treating Them in Tents: https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

I still have yet to hear from the medical and nursing schools about increasing the number of students for the future.
> The situation has gotten so dismal that I often have to look past page 1, and sometimes page 2 of search results.

That's hardly dismal. That not even mildly inconvenient.
Since you're asking: on Firefox/Android the page rendered in the declared three column layout. Even after I manually zoomed in to make the center column fill the width of my screen, the text was very small.

Usually, I'd just use Firefox Reader View (aka Readability.js), but it's not being offered on the site. I don't know why, the document structure seems straightforward enough (IANA web dev).
flu is a non issue in India because:

- we seem to be naturally far more resistant to the flu than the US (for example).

- those getting flu seem to be very mildly affected by it. It's a bit like a bad cold.

- We haven't seen any deaths by flu.
Even when they did ship with more cutting edge power and tech, they approached it as if they didn't have it.

It partly comes from the video game things being a bit of a gamble and side project to keep the company alive. "Success under constraint."

And not it's a bit of an intentional handicap, like setting a horsepower cap on a racecar. Anyone can go fast and make something spectacular with unlimited power, but when bleeding edge graphics aren't even available for you to waste time considering, you have to finds new ways to make your game "fun".

You have to think of new control schemes, new mechanics, endearing art styles, etc. You can't just melt faces (and wallets) with the visuals.
You put a crack in an engine block with your head?
You are using a different query it seems.

Also as a non native speaker you appear to be rude.
Dict.cc is excellent for that, if you're translating between German and English. Linguee can also be really good.
How does "P2P can't even maintain audio for large-ish groups in my experience" translate to "transmitting WQHD desktops"?

One of the large strengths of tools like Zoom over the typical WebRTC-P2P thing is that they can avoid exactly that, and e.g. maintain a stable audio only (or extremely low-quality video) conference for people on slow connections.
Not "western", but "American". Both your sources are US based (and cite the CDC).

The WHO has been warning about the coronavirus for ages.
"just the flu" to me implies that we can treat it like the flu, i.e. go about life as usual and stay home if we catch it. It seems beyond obvious at this point that that's not the case. (Hopefully soon there will be a vaccine and it will become the case.)