skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shkreli’s plea from prison: Free me and I’ll cure Covid-19
You’ll enjoy the rest of his videos then. He’s one of the few Youtubers whose videos I watch regularly. In addition to being interesting, I always find them well-researched, well-produced and exactly as long as they need to be without any fluff or clickbait.
The kind of 3d printing Prusa does (and provided plans for) is a tabletop/ amateur printer, not something which can scale.
There are certain industries like airline (but also healthcare, telecom, etc) that just make a living out of screwing over consumers in any way possible.

It is so exhausting to deal with - I don't have the energy to dispute every single time a company pulls one of these stunts to fight for myself to get the baseline level of not being treated like trash. This is exactly what consumer protection agencies and regulations and other laws are meant to protect against, but these institutions are failing us daily.
Vimeo does have such a feature. The ability to do such could be based on karma on YouTube.
Your question was about the effectiveness of N95 masks. Hopefully I've resolved that for you. As for the effectiveness of face shields, I don't have data on that, I just said it was likely to be effective, since it blocks larger droplets from hitting your face or being inhaled.

There's no luck involved, I purchased a face shield almost two months ago, although I usually just wear mask+goggles, gloves if necessary when I need to go out. The face shield is for if one of our family members gets sick and we need to care for each other. Then it will be mask+goggles+gloves+gown+face shield.
Hah, same. Between The Hardy Boys and silly TV crime dramas I think a lot of kids got the wrong impression about getting "knocked out". It turns out that pretty much anything that can cause unconsciousness is also likely to cause death or serious permanent injury.
Lmao, you're really going to hate me when I tell you I don't think we should be using addresses for anything other than delivering physical things. I know it's a cop out answer. But I don't have a better one.
This article is pretty spot on. As someone who has worked in data science/analytics for over 6 years I have found that the field is filled with hype, managers who are not sure what data science actually is, and an absurdly wide amount of skills jobs expect you to be able to do well.

Apply for and interviewing for data science jobs is a total nightmare. You are competing against 100s or even 1000s of applicants for every job posting because someone said it was one of the sexiest careers of the 21st century. Further exacerbating this, Everyone believes that data is the new oil, and large profit multipliers are just waiting to be discovered in this virgin data that companies are sitting on. All that is missing is someone to run some neural network, or deep learning algo on it to discover the insights that nobody else can see.

The reality is that there is an army of people who know how to run these algos. MOOC's, blogs, youtube, etc have been teaching everyone how to use these python/R packages for years. The lucky few who get that coveted data science job can't wait to apply these libraries to the virgin data only to find that they have to do all kinda of data manipulating to make the algos even work, which takes days and weeks of mundane work. Finally they find out the data is so lacking that their deep learning model does very little in providing actual business value. It is overly complicated, computationally expensive, and in the back of your mind know you can get the same results using some simple logic.

Managers who don't understand data science fundamentals learn from the news and have their data scientist implement those buzz words so they can look good in front of their bosses.

I think there is a place for data scientists who understand the fundamentals of the models out there, and know when you should not use them. Data science is also increasingly a subset of software engineering and a good data science in a tech company should be able to code well. I also think that there is not some huge unmet demand for data scientists. Just a huge amount of hype and managers wanting to look good by saying they managed a data science team.
Simple rule. No assistance unless they offer refunds. No assistance unless they stop any stock buy back programs, end all executive bonuses, and they must pay back and assistance before resuming either.

Sorry airlines, but the company I work for which is quite large has funds to sustain interruptions because you just don't do business otherwise. scrap bonuses, merit increases, all unnecessary expenses, and they borrow, and if you cannot then you were not preparing yourself for much of anything except good times.
I think there's a pre-assembled version of this, it's called "a plastic bag", and most people know not to stick their head in one. Please don't encourage dangerous behavior.
Yes, I was.

But I know so little physics that the distinction between dark matter and extra terms in gravitation is unclear.
Martin Shkreli: In silico screening for potential Covid-19 beta-coronavirus [pdf]
I think the point is to do the reverse - if somebody does run IE11 directly (rather than Edge), and tries to open a website that is not in the system-wide whitelist, it forces them to use Edge.
Having worked in manufacturing for over 10 years, most of your claims are either A) Factually false B) Twisting my original points and cherry picking. No one is questioning the unique aspects that 3D printing brings to the table, it is just the wrong type of solution for this situation.

> Face shields are useful and can be printed in under 3 hours (for the Prusa design). Some people have knocked the time down to about one hour. For something that costs cents and can be made at home, that's pretty useful.

3 hours is still too long and that's not the central point I am arguing about. It is mostly about media coverage. If you have a 3D printer, by all means use it.

> Tell that to SpaceX.

I've worked on 3D printers before it was cool. Way back in 2005, I designed and built turbine blade prototypes on Stratasys 3D printers that cost upwards of $250k. Can we get past this narrative of 3D printing usefulness to its narrow application? It is not going to revolutionize manufacturing anytime soon. Tell that to GE, Lockheed Martin, Apple, Intel, Boeing, etc. Every company has invested in 3D printing primarily for prototyping and occasionally for medium-volume production. You're not going to see 3D printed Nike soles on $40 shoe anytime soon.

If you look at the amount of manufacturing that takes place on 3D printers vs. other technologies, you would not even see the slice of the pie that is for "3D printing".

Additive manufacturing has niche applications.

> All these technologies have been around for decades now. Why would they get any attention?

Because in the time of war, when the nation is mobilizing to making millions of something, you want the press to talk about things that work?

> Take injection molding. It may take 20 seconds, but that's _ after the manufacturing facilities and the mold are setup _ . This is unlike essentially pressing a print button, which is where we want to go.

No shit, you need mold that takes time to make and validate. Usually 3-4 weeks, sometimes 8 weeks. But when there is a national emergency, you can turn it around within 48 hours. That's including the entire NRE process, design, validation and tooling. After 48 hours, you would have printed a few dozen parts in your beloved 3D printers. I would be churning out a part every 20 seconds after the initial 48 hours. Even if it is 100+ hours, it is still worth it when the quantity you want to make is 5 million.

> 5 million units a week... these are not prototypes. Call them production samples or what have you, but this is an assembly line.

Hey! why would you point that out? Isn't that obvious that by definition you cannot make 5 million prototypes? "These prototypes" - I was referring to the aforementioned reference to the prototypes in the previous sentence. Jeez.
Maybe the only thing worse than consolidation is nationalization. Welcome to GovAir. It would be worse than Spirit Airlines. Ugh
I've heard good things about "Delayed Gratification." It's a quarterly magazine that "revisits the events of the last three months to offer in-depth, independent journalism in an increasingly frantic world."
You should watch his other videos. He often comes up as recommended for me. I think it's the accent and the cadence of his speech that is so appealing.
Yeah, chargeback time. I once had a car rental agency refuse to give me the car I had reserved and paid for, then refuse to give me a refund for the money I had paid ahead of time. Just charge them back when they pull this crap.
+ 1 to Facebook.
> Kids these days will be lucky to remember their favorite mobile games. Let alone be able to play them.

I'm already feeling the pain of this. There was a game for iOS called GeoDefense (and a sister game, GeoDefense Swarm). To this day these were my favorite games on the phone. But iOS 10 ended support for one of them, then a later OS update bricked the other one.

The developer hasn't updated these games to work in new iOS, so they're lost to time.

If I had a time machine, I would go back and warn past-Me to reserve a 4S for just playing these games.
I agree, but when someone does something we consider to be impossible, that's interesting and noteworthy. This, not so much.
I do hope to buy a box of N100 masks when this is over. I strongly suspect I'm not alone.
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Over the last decade, airlines spent 96% of their free cash flow buying back stock[1]. This improves the stock value for investors (and executives). Rather than requesting bailouts and rule changes, imo they should be selling that stock to raise capital.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-16/u-s-airli...
Maybe someone like the CDC? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/d...
> "The key element for us is to avoid running out of cash so refunding the canceled ticket for us is almost unbearable financially speaking," IATA Director General Alexandre De Juniac said.

I think he just said that it's too financially risky for a consumer to book a flight, lest they be forced to have their ticket converted to an unsecured loan, "secured" with something that they didn't want (a flight next year) that may expire anyway. They're selling you a gift card.

I'm surprised that people are still flying in closed up metal tubes during this pandemic. If anything the airlines should be giving discounts to lure consumers, and even that is morally questionable.

Flights at this point should be freight or emergency only, for national medical needs and repatriation.
skype just announced Meet Now functionality with a simple link and no login required to access conferences. Jumping right into their web version which is what always should be preferred

https://www.skype.com/en/free-conference-call/
The walls are but the walls don't directly touch anything in there to directly leach. Also, a lot of dishwashers have metal tubs, and this is probably a big reason why.
>You're saying to literally wrap your face in plastic

Are you trolling or serious? I said forehead, not face. Obviously, do not wrap plastic foil around your face.
If only that were the case.

Airlines and Broadband companies are constantly getting terrible reviews because they offer such terrible quality customer service. But what the fuck are you gonna do, rig up your own ISP or charter a boat across the Atlantic? No, you're going to get reamed in the ass and keep living in the 21st century.

These industries "fail" because they're designed to fail! Nobody wants to admit it, but you need a public option on this shit or else people will just keep being forced to publicly subsidize a select group of private enterprises over and over when shit goes tits up.
I like that you mentioned they're a de facto utility. Utilities tend to also be natural monopolies. They usually tend to be government owned and operate at arms length. They also tend to be heavily heavily regulated.
They're proposing that new development today that needs IE11 support (most of them don't) should use Bootstrap 4. What's unreasonable about that?
But couldn't you get the same thing using the virtual environment provided by python? Unless you're using a lot of modules with C extensions, you wouldn't need to install anything outside the virtual environment.
51 recovered Covid-19 patients test positive again in South Korea
I stood up a data science operation at my company over the last few years, and have noticed a key difference in data-science projects that have been successful and those that have failed. It hits on a number of points brought up in the article, namely where does data science "fit" in an organization delivering software and how is the value realized by the business.

The worst cases I have seen is when executives take a problem and ask data scientists to "do some of that data science" on the problem, looking for trends, patterns, automating workflows, making recommendations, etc. This is high-level pie in the sky stuff that works well in pitch meetings and client meetings, but when it comes down to brass tacks this leaves very little vision of what is trying to be achieved and even less on a viable execution path.

More successful deployments have had a few items in common

1. A reasonably solid understanding of what the data could and couldn't do. What can we actually expect our data to achieve? What does it do well? What does it do poorly? Will we need to add other data sets? Propagate new data? How will we get or generate that data?

2. The business case or user problem was understood up front. In our most successful project, we saw users continuously miscategorized items on input and built a model to make recommendations. It greatly improved the efficacy of our ingested user data.

3. Break it into small chunks and wins. Promising a mega-model that will do all the things is never a good way to deliver aspirational data goals. Little model wins were celebrated regularly and we found homes and utility for those wins in our codebase along the way.

4. Make is accessible to other members of the company. We always ensure our models have an API that can be accessed by any other services in our ecosystem, so other feature teams can tap into data science work. There's a big difference between "I can run this model on my computer, let me output the results" and "this model can be called anywhere at any time."

While not exhaustive, a few solid fundamentals like the above I think align data science capabilities to business objectives and let the organization get "smarter" as time goes on as to what is possible and not possible.
I don't think that changes the fact that the gimmick, that gives the name to the video and the submission in HN, is pretty unimpressive.
One of the world's most successful and wealthy companies in history shouldn't be bottom fishing for the best "deal" on employees. I wonder how much better they could be if they decided to hire at the top of the market like Netflix instead of the bottom.

That is probably why Apple software is among the worst in the industry, and it's a shame. I know IS&T isn't strictly software like iTunes but it fits the pattern I've seen at Apple. But I guess if it doesn't affect their sales maybe I'm wrong and it doesn't matter and they are right.
Yeah, "humble guide..." using never/always in 3 points, seems like author thinks he saw everything but he is up for unpleasant surprise in the future :)
The attention it brought to the game show may have been worth more than CBS paid out. They quickly changed the game mechanics so it couldn't be so easily exploited a second time which made it a one time cost. Wonder if there was a ratings boost after the episode, even if short lived.
If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?

Got to. This America, man.
No, if revolution happens in the USA it will be because politicians went too far in dividing us.
When discussing whether Youtube should or should not suppress a particular person / point of view it is not conductive to bring up the fact that Youtube has little (financial, legal) obligation to not suppress anything. Frankly they are able to do whatever they want, but I reckon we can at least agree that this wouldn't necessarily be desirable.

And yes it is a problem to have this much depend on the decisions of a single organisation, as they are wrong no matter what they do, and frankly they don't have the mandate to make such decisions to begin with.
Also, this is more focused on the specialty of people. Toastmasters is for a very broad audience.
If you try to do it in one big hit it will be hard but you don't have to do that. You can move it over piecemeal.

You can use multi-targeting to move parts of your code over to .NET Standard. So if you start with your base projects and move your way up, gradually your code will become compatible between .NET core and .NET Framework. This will help you remove any .NET Full Framework / Windows specific bits. Where you have to have things that are specific to each OS you can then just configure your DI so it will inject the Windows specific / Linux specific implementation.

For those that are not aware of multi-targeting here is a great article on it:

https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2017/Jun/22/MultiTargetin...
These are all essential services that the government should be providing from taxpayer money. Instead many countries have chosen to privatise large parts of their infrastructure and essential services - the market does not regulate itself here, it is one that needs to be controlled or simply run by the government.
California Legislator Introduces Fiber Broadband for All Bill
> As for why don't we just nationalize them

Washington State nationalized the ferries, and they now run at massive losses a system that used to run at a profit.
There's all sorts of Force Majeure rules in life and contracts. e.g. I still have to pay for my kid's preschool she can't use. (Edit: Prepaid, not getting a refund)

I'm not sympathetic to the airlines at all and think they should refund, but I don't think it is universally true that "can't deliver service = owed money back" in this pandemic.
if you aren't intubating people or treating severe cases of this stupid virus then get in the back of the line behind everyone who is
Potpourri · the missing semester of your CS education
Wow! Never thought I'd see contra dancing on HN :) I used to dance in the Greenville/Asheville scene!
Big MySQL orgs are sharded, which greatly reduces the utility of foreign key constraints anyway.
Depends if it's an update people/organisations would apply:

> Over the years, Microsoft has shipped several software updates to help decrease the likelihood of namespace collisions that could create a security problem for companies that still rely on Active Directory domains that do not map to a domain they control.

> However, experts say hardly any vulnerable organizations have deployed these fixes for two reasons. First, doing so requires the organization to take down its entire Active Directory network simultaneously for some period of time.

> Second, according to Microsoft applying the patch(es) will likely break or at least slow down a number of applications that the affected organization relies upon for day-to-day operations. Faced with either or both of these scenarios, most affected companies probably decided the actual risk of not applying these updates was comparatively low.
not to hijack too much, but since this is on the topic of timeseries...i'm currently working on a fast* Canvas2D timeseries chart:

https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot

* ~4,000 pts/ms on an i5 and integrated gpu
Not as long as there is sports on tv and McDonalds is open. Oh, wait.
There's something amusing to seeing $1B doled out over a Google Spreadsheet while some charities a microfraction of the size will spend thousands of dollars on a custom website.

Spreadsheets become SaaS products and SaaS products become spreadsheets in a never-ending loop.

It'll be fun to see where this goes!
Where do you fall on the Phil Ivey edge sorting incident?
Another downvote? Really? For factual information?

https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000817648-Rep...

Geez, HN has become worse than reddit.
I was hoping they would stamp the Apple Care logo on these. Kudos to Apple for shipping these out so quickly at such scale.
> But these are a de facto utility, so having the government pinch their nose and cover the downside in a bear market is an efficient use of dollars.

If that's the case, then it wold be more efficient to remove the "de facto" and operate as the reality.
It has been well established by polling that single-issue voters favor Trump overwhelmingly. And when you ask them about Trumps' various scandals or the evidence of criminal activity, they claim to know nothing or blame Clinton and Obama. I've not seen intellectually sound defenses of Trumps behavior and conduct. Much of it is indefensible.

In reality, most European countries are way ahead of the US on testing, and most have enacted social distancing way before the US. Even Italy is on track to managing Covid-19 better than the US, they are just a bit earlier on the curve, currently. None of the European leaders have downplayed the pandemic for so long or spread so much disinformation. Delayed action, no federal coordination, spreading lies - for me that's objective incompetence and not a matter of opinions.

It sounds biased to say Trump is narcissistic and functionally illiterate and that he doesn't have a clue about most issues he is facing. It's also true, when you look at the data. Would it be more objective to ignore such data?

My view of his supporters is giving them the benefit of the doubt. The single-issue effect is a much nicer explanation than saying they don't know enough about Trump, his corruption or contemporary issues. Or blaming them for being racist. Which many of them probably also are. A single-issue voter at least knows that he is picking evil when he thinks he is picking the "lesser" evil. A racist, or someone brainwashed by FOX news, does not know about Trumps criminal behavior, mental issues or his chronic lying.
Seeking Connections in the Time of Coronavirus, Lonely Texans Turn to Craigslist
Anyone interested in this approach to lossless compression should visit (and try to win!) Hutter Prize website[1][2]. The goal is to compress 1GB of english wikipedia

[1] http://prize.hutter1.net/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize
> How do you resolve disputes between rival claimants to a building?

What I am envisioning here is a world where abandoning a property grants rights to the next person to occupy it, rather than allowing the original proprietor to act as a permanent parasitic middleman between maintenance and occupants. In the case of conflict, I would imagine it would carry out similarly to how all disputes get resolved. With a state you can navigate through a legal system, and without one you have market solutions such as Coasian bargaining, social sanction, arbitration, etc. This doesn't mean that someone gets to sleep in your bed if you haven't used it since you woke up, but approaching these kinds of problems require recognizing property as the dynamic and fluid social relationship that it is. How do you deal with a family member eating your leftovers in the fridge?

> If we can't own improvements we don't live in, well, who will be building new apartments and condos? You will end up with a huge market inefficiency, with lots of low-capital people with demand for housing and lots of capital owners who could theoretically supply that demand by building commercial residential property but will not because they legally cannot own and profit from any construction.

I don't buy this. It doesn't follow that eliminating one vector for rent-seeking eliminates all incentive to satisfy demand, as there is still profit to be made from production!