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That's my point. You haven't even come up with a basic taxonomy of depression and you're already applying your theory. In physics this would be blasphemous.

> Doctors must at least try to help depressed patients.

All the help I've received has been useless or actively harmful. No one even told me to exercise or diet, in fact, some suggested I take it easy, stop blaming myself.

That was all wrong. I was to blame. Every morning, by blaming myself, I made better choices w.r.t health. Now I am no longer to blame, I have no depression.

I used to be arthritic and asthmatic, now I am biking for hours straight, doing pull-ups every day.
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with tests overwhelmingly concentrated among those either likely to be infected

Even the highest positive rates I've seen (in the UK where the testing situation is dire) are only 30%. In other countries with more tests it's around 15% and stable over long periods.

If the number of infected were truly growing that fast, then you'd see the proportion of positive tests go up and up until negative tests were hardly happening, but that isn't close to what's seen on the ground.

What we are supposing is instead that the number of people who are presently infected will increase exponentially IF we don't adopt measures to decrease the spread

That's not what policymakers are supposing. If that were true there wouldn't be a global run on ventilators, which assumes enormous growth over case load today.

This literally isn't real.

That's not much of a response. Where are there politicians not saying their decisions are just guided by the science? The only places where politicians even pushed back slightly on epidemiologists are Brazil and - briefly - the USA.

At this time what epidemiologists say should be done, is done, no questions asked. In Denmark they are even restricting speech to stop people criticising the adopted measures, or so it's said. Look at what happened to my post above - even investigating or criticising those currently making the decisions is suddenly penalised.

A tiny number of academics with no track record of accuracy have obtained enormous power now. If they say lock down, countries lock down. If they say close the borders, the borders are closed. If they say open up, countries open up.

It's right and proper that such people be subject to the same scrutiny as normal politicians are.

As for politicians having done nothing, I don't think that's fair. Does the USA not have large stockpiles of ventilators and masks? Perhaps unusable in the end, but that level of detail is not for politicians, only civil servants. As for beds, well, even assuming the modellers are right no healthcare system in the world can have tens of thousands of ICU beds empty, sitting for a once in a century pandemic. Politicians who tried to have such levels of slack would soon be replaced by others who cared more about utilisation. I don't think there's much to say about them at this time; for better or worse they've taken a back seat.
Well shared office space is not a good buy these days considering the corona pandemic.
That's an interesting number and wonder whether this could be traced back to meeting participants. If so, is it possible to statistically derive the number of meetings held on average on any day?
I know that different cultures are different, but I always think of Americans as being (kitchen) gadget-obsessed.

Maybe I've watched too many infomercials and soaps. I've reached a point where I know Americans don't have (electric) kettles, but a scale seems like a necessity for anybody who cooks.

(I guess there are lot of people, American, or otherwise, who just don't cook. So I'd understand in that case. But cooking without a scale just seems surprising. Even where I come from a grew up with a balance-scale with brass weights. Never hugely accurate, but always available.)
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Executive compensation is tied to stock prices. By buying back stock, they are increasing demand and decreasing available supply of their stock. This results in the stock price rising, along with executive compensation going up as well.

By allowing stock buybacks, we are directly incentivizing this perverse behaviour.
Sure — what are your other options if you have lots of cash?

1. Keep it in cash and get sub-inflationary levels on it, and perform poorly due to your lack of leverage.

2. Invest it in other market securities, effectively running some hedge fund. Not a great idea, distracting from your core biz, and shareholders may not appreciate the exposure to outside risk.

3. Buy back your own stock, which gives back to shareholders.

I'm not saying it was the best thing companies could have done with their money, but there aren't a ton of amazing ways to deploy billions of dollars in cash unless you're expanding operations outside your area of core competency.

I think that lots of people here are creating a lot of revisionist history right now. Almost nobody had any problem with share buybacks for the past five to ten years. The biggest note was that it would increase stock price over time due to the lower availability of shares and higher earnings per share, but hardly the critique most people have these days.
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Our enterprise app has similar numbers (20 million unique monthly user sessions). There’s literally nothing we can do about it either—if a large number of Fortune 500 customers say we must support it, we have to keep supporting it, period.

It has gotten to the point where IE11 in a VM is my main browser for testing and debugging.
There will be a completely new tourism industry if this goes on. Quarantine unit sized tourism. You are transported all transported to the airport, sealed into a box, shipped to your location, unpack into a new quarantine location. Spend a week there, pack yourself back into the box, and get delivered back home.
Quote: WeWork’s board said that it “regrets the fact that SoftBank continues to put its own interests ahead of those of WeWork’s minority stockholders.”

Of course they’re going do to that, it’s called fiduciary duty to their own stakeholders! Such diligence is something WeWork’s board seemed to casually overlook for far too long.

At this point why would SoftBank buy WeWork shares that are in all likelihood worth little or perhaps even worthless. They’re deciding to cut their losses and move on.

If I sign a contact to buy a house it still has contingency clauses. If 2 days before closing the house burns to the ground I can walk away. Obviously I don’t want to buy a burning pile of rubble. SoftBank is walking away from buying a burning house and that makes complete sense.
They say "Hospitals deploy" but where? how? who? I haven't heard any from colleagues in the US or China, even from people who do medical AI work.

One major role for AI that I see here is in prognostication. Are there features within radiographs or CT scans that could predict disease severity? Maybe ones that radiologists & clinicians can't discern yet? This would help triage care in capacity-constrained settings. But as the article says, that's "in the future". I haven't seen any robust research in this area yet, and a useful prognostic model would probably incorporate more than just imaging -- symptomology, vital signs, etc.

For screening, on the other hand, there are some opportunities but also challenges. When PCR tests/materials/reagents are limited and caseload is high, CT scanning can be a powerful tool to screen and differentiate "sick" from "probably not sick", as was done in Wuhan and Northern Italy. But the AI doesn't offer a whole lot -- the findings are not particularly subtle. Amusingly, from the article: "Teams in China and the United States found that the lungs of patients with COVID-19 symptoms had certain visual hallmarks, such as ground-glass opacities... and areas of increased lung density called consolidation." This is repeated in every AI article on COVID imaging. Like, this is literally Radiology 101 -- any radiologist and many non-radiologist physicians would have been able to say this before COVID existed. Viral pneumonias (SARS, influenza, COVID) and other things (edema, atypical pneumonias, drug reactions) all cause ground-glass opacities. Consolidations happen when the lung gets socked in or super-infected (i.e. with bacteria).

Another issue is that early lung infection does not appear on CT, which is common for almost all pneumonias. So CT misses early and especially early mild infections, which is not ideal for screening.

And finally, interpretation capacity (what AI could help with) is not a bottleneck. There are TONS of radiologists who are underutilized right now as elective imaging and procedures are way down (e.g. not many screening mammograms or sports injury MRIs being done these days) and on top of that it would not take a radiologist very long to say "this is probably not COVID" or "this could be COVID" or "this is really bad lung disease". Even with lung scans being fast and if we used every CT scanner on them, AI wouldn't really help increase our throughput interpretation-wise.

Of course, I write from the perspective of a highly-resourced health system. In the developing world, radiology access, like medical care in general, has always been an issue. I think Kenya as a country has like 100-200 radiologists for what, 40 million people? While a single mid-size hospital in the U.S. could have 200 radiologists. And Kenya's on the better side. So there AI could play an huge role in providing care (and certainly not just in this pandemic!).
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When you consider the compression algorithm itself a form of information, your point about it not being quite lossless could be applied to any lossless compression method.
The criteria that makes something "alive" is narrow sighted.
Find mine here: https://rpiai.com

It's awesome because of the range of topics- from computer generated poetry to developing a camera for watching my chickens peck each other. You're certain to find something to enjoy and hopefully turn your brain onto something new :) Popular posts are:

- making an AI play piano like me

- making an AI paint like me

- rejected New Yorker cartoons

- posts about my Go programs and tips

Thanks for the great thread.
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And your spam folder is a result of those who have fought it.
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On the plus side, kunrei-shiki romanisation, which is the official government style and has been standardised as ISO 3602, is in practice ignored even by that Japanese government.

In terms of nails on blackboards, I ask that you bathe for a moment in the exquisite splendour of the romanisation that is "Mt Huzi", Japan's highest peak.
Informing others and providing an explanation for why people should be discouraged from using a malicious tool is not virtue signaling.

Trying to discourage people from disseminating this information under the auspices of “virtue signaling” is unhelpful.

Some people build technology, some people research and critique it.

Would you tell researchers who demonstrate critical vulnerabilities in technology that they should build something better instead of just talking about it?
I remembered hearing about Chrome doing it a while ago [1] but I still personally experience it fairly often.

1: https://blog.google/products/chrome/taking-aim-annoying-page...
tldr-

November 2017: added TURN abuse to our stunner toolset

December 2017: discovered and reported TURN vulnerability in private customer of Enable Security

February 2018: briefly tested Slack and discovered the vulnerability

April 2018: submitted our report to Slack, helped them reproduce and address the issue through various rounds of testing

May 2018: Slack pushed patch to live servers which was retested by Enable Security

January 2020: asked to publish report

February 2020: disclosure delayed by HackerOne/Slack

March 2020: report published
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I wonder what the security implications of all this is, sounds dangerous to just run any old network. I suppose maybe if it's sandboxed enough with very strongly defined inputs and outputs then the worst that could happen is you get garbled imagery?
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There's also option 4:

- Increase worker pay and benefits
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Your company is unable to upgrade their IE11-only software yet that same company is going to upgrade from Bootstrap 4 to 5 immediately?

Stay on Bootstrap 4. It will be supported until late 2021.
Suppressed is not quite the right word.
Too many inputs (from the community) and not enough help managing and maintaining, and curating these inputs is really what this is.

That said, I don't personally believe there exists a single specification that can work (optimally) for both local-dev and production deployments.

Disclaimer: ex-Docker engineer, still an active maintainer on the main docker project.
"Keep it in cash" isn't looking like such a bad idea right now.
Traditionally you also have dividends as well. Stock buybacks are basically tax avoidance.
I really hate that this argument keeps popping up. There's plenty of reasons to hate bailouts or airlines or anything else, but who the hell could have predicted the world was going to shut down like this in 2015-2019? We were in one of the biggest bull markets in the history of the United States, business was good, and the companies used some of that money to buy back stock. People make it sound like they were buying back their stock as they were cutting flights and laying off employees. No business is going to hoard 50 billion dollars in an emergency fund for a pandemic that cuts 90% of revenue, that's just absurd.

The reality of the situation is that these airlines employ a lot of people and enable even more commerce and economic activity through their operation. You can disagree with a bailout all you want, but if they go under, the economy most likely suffers by a lot more than $50B.
What does it mean for non-scribes and the future of the economy for non-scribes? I refuse to bow to the notion that everyone should learn to read and write or become scribes because farming jobs on the lord's plantation will be gone.

I'm being sarcastic but the point is that essential skills change as society advances. Eventually some basic level of coding skill will be just as important as literacy.
4. Pay a dividend
I wonder how well this technique works when the depth of field is infinite?

Out of focus parts of an image should be pretty darned easy to compress using what is effectively a thumbnail.

That said, the idea of having an image format where 'preview' code barely has to do any work at all is pretty damned cool.
The most convincing argument I've heard is centered around just how much cash flow and expenses goes through the airlines on a daily basis, meaning they'd need some extraordinary amount of cash in the bank to weather something unprecedented like this. If they _did_ have that much cash, it'd be bad for the economy since that capital is effectively "locked up". Instead, give the proceeds back to the shareholders that will likely do something else with it - invest in new businesses, buy more goods and services, etc. I don't have any links handy, but Ross Perot railed against companies hoarding cash for decades.
Can you elaborate more? I'm curious on this.
I had a similar circumstance and the same rig with my Indy and for fun left it pointed at a Triops tank I'd set up .. people thought it was just an empty tank of water, until a week later there were epic fights between the banana shrimps and the triops babies...

Good times, until I got kicked off MBONE and ended up on CuSeeMe instead .. ;)
This is interesting, particularly for small business folks who typically work at a WeWork or common working space who now are looking to keep the connectivity of their teams in the interim.

Is there a direction to learn a bit more about what your current technology stack is to access the "blind spots"? Right now it seems like it treats you as if you have 0 tech.
probably more for grocery delivery
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> IE 11 is still supported by Microsoft because it is tied to Windows 10 support.

And slow to adopt banks who's check scanner software STILL depends on some ie11 feature. Edge support is coming "soon" which apparently includes the past 3 or 4 years.
old news, China did this and shared it in Feb
https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-hospitals-deploy-ai-help...
Particularly https://github.com/facebookresearch/wav2letter/blob/master/r...

It uses a publicly available huge training set
Personally I feel the correct solution for ie is to have stuff polyfilled and transcompiled by the user. So js libs, you also transcompile the libraries also and provide the polyfills.
Seems like they should sell the government 50 billion dollars of stock at the lower of current prices and 90% of the stock price at the time they did the buy back. They'll have lost money on the buybacks. They'll stay in business though.
interest rates have been so low that biggest players have infinity money and nowhere to invest it ... which also explains venture capital activity of the last decade
4. Dividends
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It's really not sustainable or realistic to rely on altruism. Taking a huge pay cut to work on awful systems nobody wants to deal with exceeds how much nearly anyone is willing to help.

Just giving a frigging UBI for at least the duration of this crisis would solve all of these problems and work much better.
We have a major "boy who cried wolf" problem with the media, and many of our truth-finding institutions. There've been enough instances in recent decades of arrogant incompetence and self-serving deception, that the public grows to distrust experts disproportionately in domains where it really matters: vaccines, epidemics, climate change.
The gadgets listed in the article were meant to have a short shelf life. Though a few still survive, it was never intended.

On the other hand, my more generic gadgets simply never die. My projector, my Bluetooth speaker, my headphones... they all do exactly what I bought them for. There might come a time when that's not enough, but that will be decided on my own terms. It won't be because of a dead server or a useless battery life.

As you say, tools last a lot longer, because they were designed to fulfill a simple role without any bells and whistles.

This is why I don't like the trend of pairing long-lasting tools to short-lived tech. A car or a watch will last a really long time. USB-C and Android 9.0 won't.
@jefft that's what "double-blind" means.
> Many of these studies also rely on rating scales (typically HAMD or even PHQ9 for depression) that are a measure of depressive symptoms but don't in themselves have the power to make a diagnosis.

This is my point again if you read my original post, thank you. :)

I'd go further and say the DSM-V is pretty bad at narrowing down which medication to use for depression. I know so many people on damn SNRIs whose diet is complete trash.
I'm not a devops person at all, but this pile of abstractions seems like it's going the wrong way. Like, this seems almost like a parody?

You have this problem where you want to set up infrastructure in an abstract way, so you come up with a way to write some infrastructure requirements and now you have a program that does all the actions necessary to take your setup from wherever it is, to what you specified.

Then you have multiple of those systems, and it gets confusing. So you come up with a generic way to specify the abstractions that can be sort of compiled into any of the flavors, so that you can set up infrastructure using any of the sub-abstractions available, instead of only a specific one.

This has the smell of a FactoryFactoryFactory sort of thing. Like, if this whole cottage industry were my architecture project I would be saying to myself "This is too much, a rickety, foot-gun-laden tower, destined to crumble. I've obviously chosen a poor abstraction, lemme back way the hell up."

Am I just totally wrong here? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
4. Increase pay/benefits to your rank and file employees for helping you get so much cash

5. Invest back in the business at reasonable levels so as to keep enough cash for an emergency fund

6. Focus on improving world impact through starting philanthropic activities
This is some of the worst HN commentary I've seen. Boundless cynicism on an early study which is actually showing unusually high success rate. What's noteworthy is that the these results are good among unblinded studies on depression treatment. They are doing a double-blind study right now, mentioned in the second sentence. These were patients with treatment-resistant depression, which is defined as people who have undergone multiple treatments without success and are rife with nocebo tendencies. These are not people who are hopeful about their nth medication or round of talk therapy. They are tough nuts to crack. That the treatment is showing any success with this group is worth doing further studies.
We recently transitioned to Chrome and use IE Tab on predefined sites. It’s a good compromise of standardizing on a modern browser and still being able to access a couple straggler apps.
Interesting. I just went and had a look at that. So this game had true 3D levels where you could have multiple floors sitting one above the other? If that's the case, interesting that it's so unknown.
I can "get by", but that doesn't mean I'm able to do an excellent job on every aspect. It's definitely a long chain of compromises.
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Don't use indentation for formatting linebreaks. It beaks HN layout.

Just add extra linebreaks
Having just finished "Black Swan" I am convinced companies need to start thinking that these "once in a lifetime" events are actually pretty common. Having cash on hand to weather a storm should be mandated by shareholders.
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Yes yes yes!! I have had this thing for 5 weeks now. And one thing that I saw last week is that my heart rate was between 100 and 120 for some time even when laying down (I got an oximeter early on). Right now I want to think I feel better, but it has been so many ups and downs with this virus, that I don't know what to think.

As you very well say, this is no playing matter. I am sure my recovery will be long. If a normal Pneumonia takes so much time (a friend of mine had it last year and 1 year later he is still not 100% back), this virus will definitely take even more patience for the physiotherapeutic stage.
This is a canard for a lot of reasons, first and foremost because the government has not charged one penny for the enormous subsidy it provides in the form of a now-explicit backstop which allows these companies to borrow at much lower interest rates. Those lower interest rates translate directly into less income for pension funds and savers.

Every large investment bank owes its continued existence to the government. Would you say the taxpayers have been sufficiently reimbursed for that? https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/11/aig-bailout-trial-re...
I'm curious what you would be looking for in that data. Growth rate is relative. So my view of it is if a programming language has 100,000 users but another one has 10,000 users, a 2% reduction of users in one is a lot more meaningful in one over the other. One indicates a severe reduction in popularity, whereas another could just be a blip over time.

Again, this isn't meant to be antagonistic. I'm genuinely curious what you intend on doing with stats overall rather then top languages.
Well that's the point of the parent commenter though, right? How do you intend to support IE11 while using Bootstrap 5, even if the client offers to pay you?