skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New Jersey’s First Coronavirus Patient Survived
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While we're at it, we should also get the phone companies. I'm sure that the people who want to say bad things about me online are also telling people over the phone. How can they allow this!?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/david-e-shaw-college...
I personally think you would be surprised at how much of what we currently have could continue to work in a world without Section 230. Right now, people are just taking a cheap shortcut of "let's just hire some moderators to moderate it", and enjoying it as it gives them control over narrative (letting them choose when to apply a firm hand in moderating and when to be lazy about it: there are just so many examples of companies abusing their moderation power in ways that have nothing to do with politics, along with issues of both subtle and not so subtle racism and misogyny--such as bans on photos of women breastfeeding--being perpetuated by the current system). I bet most of what we have right now could continue to work, albeit with pretty major architectural changes to the web... ones which admittedly might not still be conducive to large players extracting rent for hosting and organizing everything (maybe with more decentralized client-side mechanisms as opposed to centralized server-side mechanisms for helping people navigate content); and, what doesn't translate, was maybe not worth preserving in the first place. Either way, it seems to me like we should be having an honest conversation about the details of what we have and what we like and what we need to keep pulling it off, so we can figure out what the tradeoffs are, and this article from Signal equating a loss of Section 230 with somehow not being able to have end-to-end encryption is the exact opposite of that: it is more misinformation being thrown at an already giant mess of misunderstanding.
Yeah, if you want to do something impactful but have no idea if you’re going to be a net positive or a net awful, perhaps it would be wise to consider not doing that?
This guy's blog is ridiculous(ly good). Browse the rest of it, you'll be glad you did. I'm glad I did.

http://www.righto.com/2014/10/how-z80s-registers-are-impleme...

http://www.righto.com/2020/03/inside-titan-missile-guidance-...

http://www.righto.com/2016/10/simulating-xerox-alto-with-con...
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This is cool. Just in case you're looking for alternatives after RecordIt stopped development, here is another good (free) one -- https://getkap.co
> that it's so bad that we might as well stop trying to protect ourselves?

No the logic is if it's that much more contagious, a whole lot more people have caught it than the numbers show and therefore the fatality rate is way lower.
That's not a counterpoint, though. That can all be true at the same time as it being true that the situation could be a heck of a lot worse right now.
> To handle [compound primary keys] in DynamoDB, you would need to create two items in a transaction where each operation asserts that there is not an existing item with the same primary key.

There are other approaches--in cases where I've needed compound keys I've had success using version-5 UUIDs as the primary key constructed from a concatenation of the compound key fields. The advantage is that Dynamo's default optimistic locking works as expected with no transaction needed. A potential disadvantage is if you frequently need to look records up by just one component you'd need a secondary index instead of the primary doing double duty.
Google Flights is great but of course Google had nothing to do with it. ITA Matrix was an eerily-useful flight-finding tool for many years before Google bought it and renamed it.

Photos has some kind of weird resolution limitation that turned me off the product immediately. (Plus I'm not crazy about Google having all my personal photos to mine.)

Tensorflow seems pretty good; I'd prefer not to be controlling high-speed computational resources with a super-slow interpreted language that cannot even multitask, but everything runs on Python nowadays.

I don't use the rest enough to comment.
With R_0 of 2, you need to have 50% immune to have herd immunity, but in practice, you’ll have more people than that that will end up infected before the epidemics dies out. Think about it: when over 50% of people get and survive the disease, rendering them immune, the epidemics doesn’t just immediately stop. What happens instead is that since average sick person transmits it to 2 people, but one of them is immune, less than one person gets the disease, and the epidemics starts the exponential die-out. However, as it dies, people still get infected, albeit slower and slower until it stops altogether.

The epidemics final size equation is F = 1 - exp(R_0 F). For R_0 = 2, F is around 80%, despite the herd immunity kicking in already at 50%.
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Coronavirus: Economic Impact on South Korea’s Tech Industry
You could automate the pairing of total strangers.
interested.
Picasa was damn good software. I still miss it.
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Moderate measures. And disproportionate burden.

The whole economy isn't shut, quite a lot of people are considered essential services, so they still get called into work, and have no option to just quit. It's a luxury for people who can work from home, order in groceries or take out. The essential workers continuing to make the luxury alternative possible, are at much higher risk. Are they being compensated for it? If they get covid19, and end up in ICU, let alone with life long cardiac or pulmonary complication, who compensates them? What compensation would you want for yourself if you had no other choice but to stock a grocery store, or be a nurse/doctor taking care of covid19 patients, and got this thing?

For a reminder into how American society cares about this sort of thing, 9/11 responders were consistently screwed over for nearly two decades. People died horrible deaths, never having been made semi-whole. “Not all Republicans oppose this, but everyone who has opposed it is a Republican. It’s unacceptable.” - Jon Stewart

It took publish shaming, over years, to make it somewhat right. There's every reason to believe that's what's in store for the portions of society who disproportionately take on the burden of this disease.

It's really a vindictive, cruel, and uncivil culture that does this.
Yep, that's what I mean. Wouldn't it be better for all and everything to have a higher-functioning tools team?
Incredible hubris and stupidity on the part lf
many of the people involved, both the desk jockeys and flight support crew.
The pilot did a great job in the cockpit, but a terrible job being aware of the state of his passenger -- someone who is entrusted with the power to unilaterally eject the pilot and crash the plane.
It’s a good point, and I tend to agree.

However, why would I do that when everyone else isn’t.

And how would I do that when there’s no economic framework for me, as an individual retail customer, to do so?

Sure, I can buy 100% renewables, but here in Australia the retailers want to charge me more for that choice. Here in Tasmania the local retailer, Aurora Energy, wants an additional 6.023 cents / kWh for 100% renewable, that’s that’s on top of their peak rate of 32.587 cents / kWh. An additional 18.5%!

Why would I do that if I’m already living near my economic ability?

Edit to add:

And, even if I did choose to pay that premium, it’ll have approximately no effect whatsoever on global climate outcomes. Me paying an additional 18.5% on my bill to feel good won’t suck the carbon out of the air!

This is why we neee regulation in this scenario more than we need individual choice.
For the past couple of weeks I've been plotting the data from covidtracking.com, along with generated data for perfect 3-, 5-, and 7-day doubling. On a log scale the graphs unequivocally show California has been on a 5-day doubling curve since almost the very beginning. NY was on a 3-day curve until a couple of days ago. The US curve follows NY, which isn't surprising. Unless testing criteria changed day-to-day in a very specific, mind blowing coincidence, the difference in infection rates is pretty clear.

And in case you haven't played with the data yourself, the difference between a 3- and 5-day curve is huge in terms of the absolute numbers you reach. As the article says, faltering for just a few days absolutely could have made all the difference between the infection getting out of control. Of course, NYC is far more dense than the Bay Area and so it's no surprise how quickly NYC got out of control. But 1) SF could have gone in a similar direction, but didn't; and 2) plenty of other regions with similar or even less density to the Bay Area were or still are on a 3-day curve.

The article also fails to mention that Bay Area tech companies started work-from-home a week before the Bay Area shelter-in-place order. That may have helped considering that the inflection point for positive cases in California (on a non-log scale where the curve starts to shoot upward) occurs at about the same time the Bay Area ordered shelter-in-place, but there would have been a lag between infections and hospital visits. OTOH, the "inflection point" may be meaningless, and in any event the numbers were rather small at that point.

The trends are extremely clear. Quibbling over testing criteria is pointless. Though, if we ever want to get past sheltering we absolutely need massive, randomized testing. And unfortunately even living in the Bay Area I'm not seeing much if any activity or news on that front, even though we should already be well along that path, at least in terms of planning and organization. All the talk about tracing contacts is a side-show; tracing is neither necessary nor sufficient. In the absence of tracing you can simply institute sheltering orders in hot spots. But without widespread, pervasive testing you'll never find those hot spots quickly enough to squash, tracing or no tracing.
I actually disagree with this part: "The particular struggle reflects the most privileged perspective — that of two fully employed adults, sharing the burden, without fear of losing our jobs."

While this is hardly an unenviable position, and may be better off than most, I don't think two people who need to work full time represents the most "privileged" position. In this case, a family with a stable and sufficient income from a single primary earner, with the other free to handle the sudden increase in demands of child care, really would be a better position.

"But it’s precisely the privilege of this vantage point that in a way makes it so stark. This is the best-case scenario?"

No, this isn't the best case scenario. It's hardly the worst, but the difficulties here are absolutely the result of the two income trap. I don't know their exact situation, but plenty of middle class people would face eviction or foreclosure within 6-12 months, maybe less, if either spouse lost their job and couldn't find another. There isn't much wiggle room left.
I can't keep up with it either, but that doesn't stop my code from doing what I want it to do. There are a lot of people who seem like they enjoy working on Rust as a hobby, the same way some people like playing video games. They still have a commitment to backward compatibility though, so who cares if a bunch of people geeking out on their favorite language are fine-tuning it and making superficial changes, the code I wrote before stil runs the same (or better) than it did when I wrote it. The compiler doesn't care if it's idiomatic, just that it's correct.
Ah that really sucks. Hopefully they got the same email from A&A the rest of us at other Disney subsidiaries received, meaning they'd still have their healthcare benefits covered and Disney will be handling employee/company premiums.

Huge shoutout to the Imagineering team, their work is incredible!
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> Are there any basic examples you can give around maintaining that integrity?

For those types of use cases, the OP’s advice would actually require implementing a fully bespoke concurrency control system in your business logic layer. Without trying to disparage the OP, this is for all intents and purposes, impossible (aside from also being very, very impractical). There’s some things you can do to create additional almost-functional (though still highly impractical) consistency controls for dynamo (like throttling through FIFO queues), but they all end up being worse performance and scaling trade-offs then you’d get from simply using an RDBMS.

A lot of it boils down to the fact that dynamo doesn’t have (and wasn’t designed to have) locking, meaning that pretty much any concurrency control system you want to implement on top of it, is eventually going to run into a brick wall. The best you’d possibly be able to do is a very, very slow and clunky reimplementation of some of Spanner’s design patterns.
I usually intentionally get a few wrong to poison their learning data set. It doesn’t seem to impact the number of things I have to click on to get through.

I’m not sure what they’re measuring, but I doubt it has much to do with image recognition performance.
Sorry,

New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox"

might be neccesary first, if Firefox didn't already create it. Or it could be because I originally used forward slashes instead of back slashes (now fixed!).
This is good news. Thank you.
> Washing dishes doesn't teach you anything important

You must be a lovely roommate.
I love how the first thing us social rejects here do is get an idea in our heads to make an artificial intelligence or a bot to replace the human interaction part.
You've got to do the math on that. Estimate the percentage of people that have caught it. Then compare that to how 82% people need to catch it in order to have the bare minimum of herd immunity. And factor in that health systems in many regions are already overwhelmed. If you want to get to herd immunity just from catching it, you'd have a health disaster that is impossible to imagine even now.
Wildlife exploitation = infectious disease risk
Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients
The Importance of Investing in High-Quality Equipment When Starting a Business
Whole generations of people have been killed for freedom and you're ready to give it all back for a 1% fatality rate?

It's a bad bargain imo.
One of my favorite studies: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3006832

> "A 1% increase in Airbnb listings leads to a 0.018% increase in rents and a 0.026% increase in house prices."

In a lot of markets, AirBNB listings doubled (or more) for years. That could easily account for most of the REAL increases in rents and house prices in those markets.
Coronavirus: Low antibody levels raise questions about reinfection risk – SCMP
Yes, I thought the "masks are bad" message was pretty weak. All the while, hundreds of millions of people in Asia who have been through SARS and Bird Flu and who knows what else are wearing masks all the time.
So you want Zoom and Webex to submit a patch to OSX?
By “many”, Google meant exactly two. The snooze function, and an Archive icon that appears on hover. Of all the Inbox features to migrate, those were all we got.

I was so disappointed when they dumped me back into what was essentially a legacy product. It would be like if Apple randomly decided to forcibly downgrade every device to iPhone OS 1.0. “You really didn’t need any of those non-phone functions anyway!”
For this forum, maybe not. For 99.9% of their userbase, it plainly is.
It is strange that their academic output isn't on par with some of the more prominent bio-molecular simulations research groups.

But I don't know much about their internals, perhaps, they're leasing a good bit of computer time to biotech companies.
I have no idea what privacy pass is, but if it involves setting browser state across more than one site, then it breaks the tor anonymity model.

Anyway, hopefully hCaptcha works with Tor.
Not only do they collect telemtery by default -- and even send them telemtry data when you disable telemetry! -- they can also remotely change your Firefox settings and/or install "experiments", at any time, without any notice to you!

Hell, if you have a "clean" host/VM, I encourage you to install Firefox, start a packet capture, launch Firefox for the first time, then just sit and wait for 30 seconds or so -- not doing anything or interacting with it in any way -- before closing Firefox. Then, go take a look at your packet capture. I think you'll be quite surprised at all of the connections it makes...

This is really not the Mozilla Firefox I envisioned or expected way back when I first started supporting and advocating for it (when it was first announced!).
My personal take is that io-ts _is_ typescript’s aeson, but if you’re scared of the baggage it comes with then how about giving zod a try? https://github.com/vriad/zod
> I didn't look too much into this, but is it possible that the increase of censorship isn't just that Kidz Bop is stricter now, but that pop music today has more profanity?

In the quiz, there were two songs featuring the word "champagne". In the older song, it was left intact, in the newer it was censored.
As R0 goes higher, physical distancing is more effective, not less. That's five less people you've infected, not two less.
Anton is MD calculations implemented in hardware, so an applications specific machine.
I think you're misunderstanding my intentions.

First, I'm not an anarchist and I'm not suggesting that the founding fathers were either. We all know that governments are necessary for society to function. Still, there must be limits to what the government can do, because after all, governments are run by humans and it'll corrupt eventually if you grant them absolute power. That's why many democratic countries have a constitution to limit governmental powers.

Second, I'm not siding with people undermining quarantine efforts (though I wouldn't agree with hanging them). But that's hardly an excuse for conducting mass surveillance, which this article is about. Mass surveillance simply has no place in a society governed by the rule of law.
I wonder whether Tolkien took his inspiration for the Sackville-Bagginses from that family.
I'm having a hard time picturing a 1.5M LOC front end Javascript framework. Can you tell us more?
I'll be absolutely stunned if people are really having to raise JIRA tickets instead of typing "brew install" but my information is secondhand so what do I know.

Our laptops are configuration managed, force upgraded, and surveilled, but we all have root and IT has never stood in the way of "power user" behavior. The extent of the frustration in engineering is that their management processes sometimes eat CPU. My understanding is that most of the Valley is like this.
A news source has literally nothing to sell except credibility.

Although as qnt points out, this particular one sells terminal access. So I guess they can go ahead and throw the credibility thing overboard, and still do OK.
To be honest, reading mainly blog posts, RFCs and summarisation comments, it did look like a thoughtful and organised process. However, there has been a constant problem of tiresome work and "intellectual and emotional labour" of reading thousands pieces of feedback, some of which are emotionally charged, and many of which are duplicates or re-statements of similar ideas, and many of which have misunderstanding or mis-valuations of other ideas. I've heard that collecting and editing this huge amount of unstructured feedback into comprehensive and balanced summaries has been a huge drain of mental energy for the participants.
Then I'm not sure why you're replying to my comment about Excel. :-)
I have only played a little with the Kotlin web stuff, but no I would not recommend doing anything serious with it.

I think JS/TS are king because of the ecosystem and wealth of documentation. My experience with more "niche" front-end languages is that you have to do much more yourself or have lots of messy interactions with plain JS libraries.

But even if Kotlin JS had an enormous ecosystem, I'm not sure I would love it. What I love about Kotlin is that it is a great replacement for Java. Interoperating with java has zero performance overhead and zero mental overhead. Because of this and Kotlin's general closeness to Java, many more places writing JVM code are comfortable with using Kotlin compared with other JVM languages like Scala or Clojure. Kotlin cleans up the Java syntax and adds nice features like type inferencing, non-null by default, coroutines, blocks, extension functions and so on.

But if we're not on the JVM, I'm definitely not sold on Kotlin as the perfect language or anything. Sealed classes are nice, but still not as nice as tagged unions. As far as type systems go, I think the one in TS is more flexible and expressive.

Like Kotlin, what I like about TS is the zero mental overhead integration with JS and the JS ecosystem. But if we're not tied to a browser, I guess I wouldn't ever really want to program in TS.

Node is kind of remarkable in that it is the backend platform that is most similar to a browser, which makes these full-stack setups a little more natural. Not sure I'm sold on their value in general since most teams are going to be big enough that front-end and backend code are written separately. If you want to keep types in sync, I think graphql or protocol buffers are better solutions.
It never presents challenges to users, but instead just buckets them into bot or not bot?
You can see which package depends on which package, if that dependency is declared in the package's metadata. But nothing at the file level.
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EagleView, the company that claims they invented photogrammetry when it comes to roofs, lays off 85
If you're not willing to learn anything about the ideas you want to critique, why are you speaking up? Making arguments about something based entirely on the name of the thing is a six year olds game, you can do better I'm sure.
Somehow the link is not working for me. I found the article browsing SFGate, good read.
Are there chrome extensions that I can use these with? I'd be willing to pay those rates to never have to solve a captcha again. I'm fine leaving the tab open for a few minutes while it's solved even.
CFOs looking to make remote work, telecommuting more permanent following COVID19
> What are people afraid of?

> I really don't see the harm.

> are people worried about embarrassing websites they've visted?

There are so many reasons you should be concerned. If not for yourself, then for the sake of others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

I don't want to have a personal relationship with merchants, but I especially don't want their marketing panopticon piecing together the lives of Americans.

> But, for that you just use incognito mode.

That doesn't work. Fingerprinting can still track you.
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When I was training for a triathlon many years ago, my friend who was also training would text me and we would agree to meet at the gym for a morning swim a few times a month. At 5:30AM, of course! Every time the alarm went off, I cursed and cursed and made it out the door to drive to the gym, just in time. Neither of us never missed a swim date, and it was because we would never be able to live it down if either of us failed to fulfill the commitment.

It is one thing to go to the gym at 5:30AM. It is quite a different thing if your friend is expecting you to be there and they also got up early.
And how exactly does this type of script help? The hard part is done before the script runs.
New study investigates California’s possible herd immunity to Covid-19
Same here. It seems to randomly freak out and block firefox.

I get why Firefox won’t sue Google. I wish end users would.