skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet every time they/he gets in trouble is when he veers out of his lane into micromanaging things he has no business in. If his deep knowledge of engineering is critical to their success, that's actually a massive failure of leadership. It's not how you build sustainable things that outlast yourself.
Interesting points, thank you. I previously mostly had the death rate for "ordinary" ICU admissions in mind, which were 50%. Didn't know that once you are you are connected a ventilator, you have a 80% death rate.

To compare the effect of ventilators vs none, one needs good studies with randomized groups where one gets ventilators and the other doesn't. But I guess those aren't available and doing them is probably not possible due to moral issues.

I wonder if there are statistics that are the next best thing, death rate of people who doctors would have wanted to connect to ventilators but there were none available. You shouldn't compare it to the death rate of people with ventilators in places where there is ventilator shortage because then obviously there is some element of choice in who gets the ventilator and who doesn't, e.g. they choose the patients with the worst symptoms, or the patients with the largest chances of survival. Most places probably have/had shortages, so the data we have are all pretty bad to judge whether ventilators help, and if yes how much.
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Looking at the Google doc it looks like they're going to restrict it to some "medical authorities"

"In order to be whitelisted to use this API, apps will be required to timestamp and cryptographically sign the set of keys before delivery to the server with the signature of an authorized medical authority."
This is the good old trick often done by startups: founders & investors create and generously give themselves a lot of shares, diluting the share of rank-and-file employees to zero.

Here's some deep analysis from a armchair economist. $6T goes to the US "board members": their share of the company (I mean, the planet's resources) grows, but the share of rank-and-file American employees (I mean citizens), probably shrinks. My guess: $5T will be hoarded by the US elites, $1T will trickle down to citizens, the world's GDP will shrink from $80T to $50T and the US's GDP will shrink from $20T to $15T. If these hand wavy assumptions are correct, the US citizens' share will grow by 5%, from 20/80=25% to 15/50=30%, while the elites will get an extra 5/50=10% share of everything. Everybody outside the 12 mile zone around the US land is going to lose.
It should go away when you uninstall the app.
The cameras won't recognize you when you literally catch on fire.
Hi fellow jaded cynic!

I can’t disagree with anything in your post, but I would add that there always opportunities to be a pain in the ass.

Maybe not all systems can be toppled, but most can certainly be hacked, abused, slowed down, obscured, damaged, re-purposed, stolen, rebooted, copied, exposed, hidden, rendered obsolete, improved, deleted, etc.

I see your defeatism and raise you a giant middle finger!
If you want a more reliable source, there’s an article in the NY Times this week about the same phenomenon.
You can easily protect your portfolio while being net long using uncorrelated asset classes like a blend of stocks and bonds, or even long inverse ETFs. Look into risk parity portfolios. No need to keep your foot on the gas and the brake at the same time.
Benchmark it - your air-gapped DAW is almost certainly spending very little of its time making system calls, and depending on workload, your Postgres probably isn't either. You'll get 25% back on syscall-heavy workloads but your workloads probably aren't syscall-heavy.
The system doesn't need to ship every key to every phone, much more compact structures like Bloom filters could be used instead. If we assume about 1000 positives per day and each positive uploading 14 days of keys at 4 keys per hour that's a bit over 1 million keys per day. A Bloom filter with a false positive rate of 1/1000 could store that in about a megabyte. Phone downloads the filter each day and checks its observed keys, and only needs to download the actual keys if there's a potential match.
> Deflation is not that hard, just dampen social security

classic HN backseat driver - everything is easy, "just" do XYZ.
Defining definable real numbers is hard (maybe every real number is definable)
> So first obvious caveat is that this is "private" (or at least not worse than BTLE), until the moment you test positive.
> At that point all of your BTLE mac addrs over the previous period become linkable.

Linkable over the period of 14 days. Or even linkable during one day - each day means new key, so linking between these might be attempted only on basis on behavioral correlations.

What to do with such data? Microanalysis of customer behaviors? It won't be possible to use such data for future customer profiling, as it won't be possible to match the history with identifiers after the infection. This data is practically worthless.
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With skillful division and distribution techniques, it's only $5,000 per person.
I wonder if openness of this information can lead to a senator just front running the watchers by creating 'vibes' when none exist. so they can buy a moderately in-news stock and declare it immediately. then sell it after the run up. or vice-versa with shorts.

in fact they can disclose favorable news immediately and wait for 30days to disclose unloading the position till the fervor has died off.
Yeah, but in this context you have to hope the compiler realizes that you have self-imposed a static-only data model in a language that otherwise supports dynamic assignment.
Yep, it started well before hyperinflation (and is in countries that are adjacent to Germany).
Indeed, campaigns should be in the public interest. Nobody should be able to accept donations from anyone for a run for office. They should receive budgets from the FEC and it should be illegal to use any money for the campaign above and beyond that, even their own. That would solve a lot of problems. Run out? Tough. This eliminates an awful lot of conflicts of interest and allows candidates to run on their own merits.
I would read what I said more carefully. I did not say that countries did not devalue.
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That cord better be """"audiophile quality"""" with golden prongs for that ridiculous price.
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One problem with RTGs is you can't throttle them. They're going to produce that amount of power, no more and no less, according to their decay curve, whether you have a use for it or not.
I address the number issue here.

With little cost we could sequence a few thousand viral strains, or even tens of thousands of strains, from positive test sample from asymptomatic and/or mild case until we find a virus strain with the right mutations to make it harmless and which could work like a vaccine.

The manufacturing issues are not really my strength or extremely relevant to the idea, but this involves a live virus so you just need to grow it up in large scale cell cultures. We have the infrastructure for this in place in the biotech industry. One of the positives of SARS-CoV-2 from the perspective of my idea is how contagious it is - you only need a small number of viral particles to achieve an infection. This makes the scaling much easier.

The bigger issue at this point is finding the attenuated strain strain.
These are some very clean examples. they pretty much read like piping commands and would be a good tool for teaching one or the other at the same time to someone new to both.
Yes, and the answer is clearly not American capitalism
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The US federal budget is 21% of US GDP. Reduce it by 30%, that will cause a 7% drop in GDP and a deflationary recession. Reduce it by 50% and you have a 10% drop, very substantial. I really don't understand what's difficult about this.

You can also jack up taxes and start paying off govt debt instead of spending it on something new. Would have similar effects.

If you think I'm wrong please write why or post a link with some economic thought, would be curious to read.
if the fact that paying them more results in a better society, it may be worth it. The absolute amount is irrelevant if the return on this investment is greater.

A higher paid politician is also less likely to be corrupt (since the agent causing the corruption will need to beat their high salary, which is risk free). A higher paid politician will not need to worry about blowbacks from policies that are good for society but bad for existing entrenched players.

And a higher paid politician may encourage people, even if they were poor initially, to work to become a career politician (and study it, the same way a neurosurgeon or any other professional trade would). High pay almost always equate to high intelligence, and i would hope that an intelligent person is also someone who can run things better.
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Depends on the language.

In Scala the idiomatic approach would be to favor the immutable/recursive version.

def min(foos: List[Int]): Option[Int] = foos match {
case Nil => None
case x :: Nil => Some(x)
case x :: xs =>
min(xs).filter(_ < x) orElse Some(x)
}
> When was the last time anyone saw a maintainer thank someone for creating a fork?

It's probably happened. The closest I've seen was when Cython was forked from Pyrex* because Sage developers had needs that the Pyrex author wasn't interested in developing or maintaining. It was an amicable fork, and for quite some time Cython development cohabited with Pyrex and some patches were upstreamed as they fit Greg's purposes.

http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2006-November/00207...

http://lists.copyleft.no/pipermail/pyrex/2007-July/002480.ht...

* there was a brief period when the fork was named SageX, which was, regrettably, my sarcastic spitball. Fortunately, several devs were huge Battlestar Gallactica fans and they eventually settled on the name Cython around the time it was spun off to its own project.
Incorporated last month and want to make the first deposit ASAP. We plan to transfer 1K a month from our personal savings for the next year (or until its no longer needed) to cover basic operating expenses, like hosting. We both still have day jobs.
I think the idea that most people are nice to some people, and not nice to others is a generally accepted premise.
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I also wonder about deployment of said vaccine.

A couple thoughts spring to mind including both your standard, “it takes a while to get everyone in to get one of these,” coupled with a growing distrust of expert medical advice.

A member of my own extended family is still convinced this is a giant conspiracy by [insert flavor of the week here] to [insert flavor of the week here]. I doubt that they get the vaccine no matter how fast it’s available.

I know the goal of vaccines isn’t realistically 100% deployment, but it feels there is going to be some lag here too.

My hunch is a return to normalcy looks more like everyone wearing masks in public for the next few years, with increased distancing in confined spaces (more sweeping WFH policies!) while we wait for adoption of the vaccine.
yeah sure I'd loooove to have preexisting conditions back
Has this meet expected budget? Compare to continue maintain existing cobol system?
It was there, but I put it right at the bottom so at least only people who read the entire post would find it. I am at least a lot easier to get in contact with than anyone with the political clout to make this happen.
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You're conflating ideas.

The virus started in China.
The virus spread from China because of of the Communist Chinese Party's denial and lack of response.

Those are, in turn intimately connected to the fact that China is a one-party dictatorship that murdered the doctors who first tried to bring their attention to COVID-19 in the early days of the virus, lest the world forget.

Currently, Chinese epidemological numbers cannot be trusted because the Chinese Communist Party, on top of being a murderer of its own truth-telling scientists, is a pathological liar and manipulator of information, like all Communist regimes.

That's all I said about China; maybe someone said something more, so talk to them.

How many people die, the death rate from COVID-19, is about the same in most nations and mostly a function of age and previously existing health issues.

Aside from these facts, I don't even know what in my post you could be reacting to.
Here's another observation from an armchair economist. Money flow upwards by forces of debt and contracts. If we short circuit the very top with the very bottom, money will start flowing inside this loop. If we don't form this loop, the powerful vacuum cleaner at the top will break this mechanism. In other words, the amount of money in the system doesn't matter much. What matters is that money form a steady flow pattern.
Yeah it’s def tough to perfectly anticipate what the market will do next. What I’ve learned on my end is just simply be prepared for the following outcomes:

1. Market doing what you want

2. Market NOT doing what you want

3. Market volatility spiking

4. Market volatility decreasing
Nothing prevents the user from pushing the checking to some trusted service as well, if they so choose. If they trust the service then they'd upload their seen keys to a checking service, rather than downloading the whole set of diagnosis keys. The important part is the decision is in their hands.
That’s funny. I have a Blu-ray Drive only so I can make physical backups of some important things to store.
I recently found a script, that fixed my issues:

https://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=14093
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It's actually pretty simple.

1) Make a list. It does not have to be perfect. Just get started.

2) Divide it into 2 lists, need to do and fun to do

3) Order list in terms of importance, both lists

4)Pick one in need-to-do list and plan on how you will accomplish

5) Once 4 is done pick an item from the fun to-do list and once done go to 4 and start again.

6) Continue until done

Note: Review and reorder the list every 2 months or whatever period you pick. Make sure to follow the order. It's easy to skip what you really don't want to do.

The hardest part is getting started. Once you start to see accomplishments it will motivate you to continue.

Keeping the list in your mind does not work. It just gives you an excuse not to start. Also trying to accomplish everything as fast as possible will just force you to quit when it gets too difficult. Set a pace you can follow.
I don't want this functionality/software on my phone. Will it be possible not to get it?
Take a moment and have a deep breath before you get excited about full 3d reconstruction with a single image.

That isn't what this is.

Watch the video in the bottom right corner, entitled "Comparison with State of the art".

Now go and rewatch the examples and actually look at the edges of the objects as they move the camera 'a bit'. You'll see a tonne of artifacting. Less, clearly, than the existing state of the art, so I tip my hat to the efforts here.

...but all this is doing is generating an 'empty gap' generated by perspective and then basically using the equivalent of photoshop's content aware fill to fill that gap with plausible pixels.

Since humans don't really pay much attention to edge details, it's quite plausible.

To quote the paper:

> In this work we present a new learning-based method that generates a 3D photo from an RGB-D input.

Ie. This work is taking a depth image as the input and working on that to generate a 3d photo, rebuilding the full content of each 2d layer in the image.

Ie. The output is not a 3d model, it is a series of 2D images at depth intervals, where the occluded content in each layer is in-painted (ie. generated artifically).

(NB. The 'from a single source image' work used here is not novel; they're just using existing approaches to estimate a depth image)
I think it is very easy for people living in the US to tacitly accept these very dangerous assumptions given the state of our democracy. However, I would posit that the degradation of our democracy is due in part to elite acceptance of the idea that the people are either too dumb or physically incapable of governing themselves and thus governing for their own benefit.

I would strongly push back on these assumptions. The democratic structures outlined in the US constitutions are flawed by design and leads to the specious conclusion that democracy is impossible. Mass participation in the democratic process, smashing old structures, and reconstituting new structures will allow democracy and the public to thrive.
I think thats what makes it even more important to have something like this. That way people who aren't presenting symptoms, and can't get tested, can find out if they have contacts and then quarantine. And testing will get more and more pervasive as that technology develops.
That seems like a lot to me though. You can make many expensive things look not that expensive if you put it in terms of “per American”. It’s just the there are many things and they all add up. E.g can’t you just pay them 1 million and use the 90% savings to buy X nurses?

I don’t have any data to inform my decision on what would be the best number though so I should shut up.
If you treat the browser as the skyscraper and web pages as environmental conditions, the approaches look more similar.

In that analogy, XHTML is weather control satellites.
Looks interesting... thank you. Are you using it in production?
Just take a look at the historical photos results! That's one of the coolest things I've seen in well over a year. I've come across most of these photos before in textbooks and on the web, but this demo makes all of those historical figures and moments in time feel as real as if they were happening in the world today. It's much more pronounced than colorizing black and white photos. I feel connected.

I'm convinced that the folks that present at SIGGRAPH are capable of nothing short of black magic wizardry. I can understand the technology being used, but my visual cortex only sees the impossible becoming real.

This is truly deserving of the word awesome, because I am in awe.
This was talked about and explained in January.

What we need to be discussing is why we are still discussing it.

There may never be a vaccine. Anyone who says 'until a vaccine' or 'when a vaccine' is not worth talking to.
"I doubt that they get the vaccine no matter how fast it’s available."

A lot of anti-vaxxers may start begging for or even insisting on getting the vaccine once they see enough unvaccinated people around them dropping like flies.
You need just one key per day, 15-minutes ids can be generated based on this. Bloom filter might be still useful though.
Wow how does that work?
This costs $35/User.
It's not to disguise the wearer, it's to feed junk data into any license plate reader that happens to look at you. I don't think it's really useful, but the idea is that if the systems get filled up with enough junk data, it won't be worth it to maintain the systems if they have to sort through a bunch of nonsense every time they want to search for something.
It also assumes that if you get a notification of having been near a COVID positive individual that you'll be prudent enough to self isolate.
What's a link to that paper?
Then again... won't that summed audio source be at the mercy of my loud speakers?
OK let me get this straight, just so I understand.

It's flamebait to recite the material and relevant facts about the Chinese Communist Party / dictatorship including the fact that they murdered the doctors who were trying to warn them and investigate it, after which this same dicatorship lied to the world about the spread of the disease and permitted tens of thousands of people to leave Wuhan provence, carrying what they knew to was a highly infectious virus with them. And now thousands are dead.

That is nationalism and flamebait and not the mere recitation of known facts ?

Seriously just trying to get my mind around the standards we're held to here at HN. We are supposed to deny or massage reality if it makes psychopathologically murderous and murderously irresponsible regimes look, you know, bad?

If that's not what you're telling me, then please, explain. Cite just one sentence or phrase which I wrote you think misrepresents reality and constitutes "flamebait".

I'm here all week.
I think we humans rely on ourselves doing menial and unrewarding work too much for us to give ourselves the ability to refuse.

Slavery was abolished though, so I am hopeful.
Why wouldn't it? Phones used to be trackable based on WiFi MAC address, now it is randomized. General drive is towards avoiding tracking, I don't see any reason why would it change.
That sounds interesting, is there an english source to read about that?
you don't need to know the names, just that two bluetooth-enabled devices were in close proximity in a given time window. you'd do all the processing on the device to maximize privacy.

each device would record beacons (which could be fixed, active bluetooth devices rather than just passive beacons) on entry and exit for relevant locations (like grocery stores). you'd tell your device when you got symptoms and give permission to upload the relevant location/time pairs (but no personal id) in the last N days to a research database (not hosted by google, amazon, ibm, and the like).

with user permission, other devices would subscribe to such data for a given region(s), which would be downloaded periodically to the device. the device wouldthen determins if you've had any crossings with known location/time pairs and alert the user.

no need to share extraneous personally identifying info with giant third-parties and potentially with (hidden) state actors. this cuts apple and google out of the data collection game, especially from making it part of the underlying OS, which is particularly dangerous.
A quick Google suggests that if your risk is representative, a 0.2% additional risk of death equates to going skydiving around 3-400 times in a year.

Or, based on overall fatalities from motorcycles per mile, it would equate to about 8,000 miles per year.

Or, based on light aircraft fatalities per hour, it would be around 200 flight hours in a year.

Of course, you could argue that the casualties from both activities are skewed upwards by people who do stupid things early and don't live long enough to engage in the activity a lot.

Anyway, I'm not particularly agreeing or disagreeing. The risks above are considered reasonable by a lot of people and unreasonable by others.