skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CDC guidelines appear to ask medical professional, to over-report COVID as a cause of death, if there is reasonable suspicion, but not a definite diagnosis.

I am not sure if this right/wrong, and how different it is from guidelines relating, to say, flu as a cause of death.

> "...
In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as “probable” or “presumed.” In these instances, certifiers should use their best clinical judgement in determining if a COVID–19 infection was likely. However, please note that testing for COVID–19 should be conducted whenever possible.
..." [1]

As an hypothetical example, if a deceased was in a contact with covid-positive person, but the deceased was not tested for Covid, should the cause of death be noted as 'presumed covid-19'?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pd
Thanks for taking the time to write this up!
Sorry you're right, I mixed up who I was replying to.

You'd talk to a regular home builder. Some may not want to do a project that small but many would be happy to. If you really want plans there are many places on the internet that sell them.
In fewer words, let the invisible hand of the market conduct economic darwinism and let the chips fall where they may.

I would agree with that - except that would also cause collateral damage to people's livelihoods.

if the gov't bailout is more a societal bailout - good unemployment benefits, good socialized healthcare, and effective tax collection of income - then they won't need to do any corporate bail outs, or inject liquidity.

The fact that loans can easily be had, means that a company's investment hurdle rate is artificially lowered. And companies take more risks. I believe japan's lost decade is a prime example, and the bank of japan has held all the assets as their purchase program failed to bring any real economic prosperity (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-economy-boj/bank-of...). I sincerely hope the USA isn't gonna fall to that.
Indeed, more and more of the Earth's electromagnetic radiation will be designed to be indistinguishable from noise. Or it will propagate in optical fibers. Based on our own experience, I give a civilization a roughly 100 year period during which their radio emanations will be intelligible. A planet interconnected by optical fibers is kind of a poor man's dyson sphere. ;-)
Issue a coin.
I accidentally did a PM interview one time at FAANG and couldn't have done well, but it was fun! Really did enjoy it.
Yeah, it's dripping with sass and sarcasm. Weird and gross.
This exactly. Start with general questions and get more specific until they are unable to answer or they exceed the depth of your own knowledge on the topic. You’ll be surprised how often that good candidate will take you out of your depth.
Remarkable has a premium for the ability to write on the display with tactile feel and response time near identical to ordinary pen/pencil.
> The leadership didn't respect the opinions or capability of its end users

This was the major sticking point for me when it came to Elm. I invested a lot of time into Elm and even published a few packages. Many things contributed to my giving up Elm, but the final straw for me was when the core team removed some userland APIs under the guise of "we can't trust developers not to use these to write bad code". Myself and several others tried to convince Evan to reverse this decision, to no avail.
How did the U.S. end up with nurses wearing garbage bags?
> spend an afternoon

I've never had a full afternoon with a candidate. Maybe if I did I could avoid technical challenges.
Ugh, we get it. Only 1 billion rows, it’s not big data yet ;)
Sweden has by far the worst outbreak in northern Europe, despite a later start than its neighbors. It's also has not apparently peaked yet, where the outbreaks in the rest of Europe have been flat for over a week now (and Italy has started shrinking). At the end of this, it's not at all clear that Sweden will have accomplished much of anything.

The visualization at https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ is IMHO the clearest to explore this stuff. It's based on the Johns Hopkins data set, which is relatively well curated.
You should hire a lawyer not ask codemonkeys
I had a credit on my account so just picked this up. Thanks for the recommendation – seems very interesting.
loss of liquidity is a loss of confidence by those holding the wealth/capital.

I think the FEDs doing these injections will distort the price of money in such a way that risky activities would be seen as less risky, and so spirals into further illiquidity when something bad hits the fan (again), and the FEDs will need to inject again.

The businesses failing needs to happen. The capital losses needs to happen. Like a forest fire - new growth can't come if the old capital doesn't die (i.e., those controlling the old capital is constantly being protected from downsides, which this illiquidity represent).
> He explained you don't need a group by in a having statement and that I needed to go back and study sql. I sat there awkwardly [I have been writing sql since I was 14 - I was 25].

He's technically right though. For instance in postgres, you don't need to have a GROUP BY clause when using HAVING https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-select.html#SQL-...
I think credentials are sorta worthless - I've worked with people who worked at great companies, went to great schools, still very weak at coding and problem solving. I guess ymmv.

Also, you personally refactoring people's code after the fact is not a great way to go about team building - I would try to get more of this into the PR process, teach them what they're not doing rather than do it for them.
Oh I agree with the view that automation will eventually cause mass unemployment, and is already having an impact. All I'm saying is that at the time that production for these things moved overseas (decades ago), this did not suddenly increase the unemployment rate for the country that lost the jobs. New jobs end up being created.
Does anyone have the role breakdown of those let go/furloughed? e.g. marketing, dev, design, sales, etc.
Does anyone have the role percentage breakdown of those let go/furloughed? e.g. marketing, dev, design, sales, etc.
The Federal government does not have the authority, it is expressly prohibited. What you think “should” have happened is literally impossible without dissolution of the US government. This is not remotely controversial, the Supreme Court has visited this many times. States are sovereign and autonomous entities for this purpose, same as for most things.

A surprisingly small number of Americans have any understanding of the structure of our government, a glaring failure of our education systems. It is no wonder that foreigners have so many misconceptions about the nature of US government given how few Americans understand it.
If you don't let something die, you will have to keep paying for its medical bills.
> What we fundamentally got wrong is that ventilators don't work in 66% - 90% of cases, so "flattening the curve" was largely pointless.

Use of ventilators coincides with severe cases, and up until this point we haven't learned enough about curing those infected with this virus to recover all such cases.

Why are you assuming the ventilator recovery rate is static?

We should assume that by "flattening the curve", we've bought valuable time to learn more about this virus, getting closer to better methods of recovery.

Ventilators will always play a role in keeping patients alive who've deteriorated to the point of requiring them.

I don't think anyone had the impression that ventilators cured anything, which your phrasing of "ventilators don't work" seems to imply.
>'Topping it off, starting last September, the Fed began emergency "not-QE" liquidity injections, which have unexpectedly grown over time.'

What were those "not-QE" liquidity injections exactly? What other lever were they pushing on a year ago?
I wrote a book on this last year, out of my frustration with dev interviews

https://www.amazon.com/Whiteboard-better-hire-best-developer...

I've interviewed and hired a lot of people over the years, and have been interviewed a fair amount. The way a lot of companies do it didn't make sense to me, so 5+ years ago I decided to figure out a better way to do it.

My basic premise in the book is that in an interview when asking someone to show skill, it should be as close as possible to what the job is. Most interviews are just not anything like a whiteboard interview or algorithm question. I get that can show how someone thinks, how they ask questions, etc. - but to be honest I rather have them actually DO something as they would do if I hire them.

I've had a lot of luck with this way of interviewing. The reality is it can still be a crapshoot - you really don't know what someone is going to be like until you work with them for a while - but this at least gets closer to making a more informed decision ('cause you basically work with someone, in a small way!)
I personally suck at whiteboarding, even though I'd say I'm pretty good at actual coding. I'd rather not put myself at a disadvantage, so that's why I avoid whiteboarding interviews.
I find it fascinating this research and MLIR[1] seem to have been developed independently around the same time. Figure 1 tells the same story in both papers. The authors mention the possibility of representing their concepts in MLIR, which could be really interesting.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.11054.pdf
Air Canada, ACACN 008911AZ2 US008911AZ26, rated Ba2 qualifies for this since their HY paper is held by HYG.

American Airlines Group, AAL 02376RAE2 US02376RAE27, rated B1 qualifies for this since their HY paper is held by HYG.

Probably a great time to write malware hack and steal money from these companies listed in IG and HY ETF's since they'll be made whole apparently now no matter what malfeasance they were up to before hand.

However, lets keep in mind that since the announcement on March 23, frbny via loans through blackrock has yet to buy any corporate bonds in the secondary market as of April 8th ("Loans" > "Secondary credit") : https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/
> supposedly the brightest programmers have fled to the hot markets

Just another facade perpetuated by VCs given too much money by the market, and tech companies "faking it till they make it" in regards to actually hiring all the smartest people.

You think they would learn that the actual smartest people won't fall for someone just saying "all the smartest people work here ...", and that they are effectively attracting naive people with that slogan instead.

That being said, the high-salaries of SV/NYC/etc. will attract some of the smartest people ...
A few recent DANE deployments:

* infomaniak.ch - Swiss hosting provider
* triodos.com - Bank in Spain
* startupstack.tech - California hosting company
* elbiahosting.sk - Slovak hosting company
* isu.net.sa - Saudi research centre
* statens-it.dk - Multiple Denmark government domains
* startmail․com - Email provider in Germany
* webreus.nl - hosting provider in the Netherlands
* mailfence.com - Email provider in Belgium
* velocir.co.uk - UK hosting and email provider

In the last 90 days 108k new domains via 828 new providers, plus more domains via existing providers, now 1.88 million domains total.

Microsoft has a titanic-sized infrastructure to turn around, so it won't happen overnight, but they and more will deploy as time marches on, and in the mean-time it is MTA-STS that's moribund...
True. I should have phrased that as less stress. My thought is to keeep the environment as friendly and stress free as possible to let the candidate forget for a moment that they are interviewing. It’s a technique I was taught at Cornell while I was doing alumni interviews for MBA candidates.
I always walk away from those situations. I just don't have 8 hours I can give unless I'm 80% confident it'll work out, or I just want an excuse to try some new tech.
While the demo is impressive, I'm a bit unhappy with the naming. Mind that Simula [0] is a historically enormously important programming language. (The language, which introduced object-oriented programming concepts, developed by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, 1962-1987; Dahl and Nygaard were awarded the IEEE John von Neumann Medal and the A. M. Turing Award for this.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula
Any experience with them? Seems like a good price to me, even with shipping costs.
We'll find out in a few weeks whether the herd immunity approach is effective by looking at what happens in the poorest countries. Some of them have minimal ability to lock down the economy or quarantine people due to lack of resources, dysfunctional healthcare systems, limited food reserves, and weak governments. So the virus is going to run its course regardless of what anyone wants. It's a tragic situation but there doesn't appear to be any alternative.
Well, investing in private companies for equity, requires taking a risk. Looks like your risk was very high and company went bust. For all intents and purposes, you have lost your investment. If there is anything left over from the dissolution of this business, it must b being held by a board of trustees. You need to make your research and figure out if such residual money exists somewhere and if it does, go after it, preferably with a lawyer;s help, if your investment amount justifies it.
There are two camps here that strongly correlate to their opinions: those who have been through a job hunt in the last 5 years, and those who haven’t.
I did the math on this a few weeks ago because I was curious. My math was this:
(Population x A) / (LifeExpectancyInYears x 365.25)

A is an unknown variable that equals the what amount of a day people consider as "lost" as a result of mandated lockdown. IE, if everyone considers each day they spend not able to go about their business as a day of their life completely lost than A would equal 1. I suppose some people could consider the cost of a day lost to mandated quarantine as greater than 1.

Anyway, by my calculations based on a US life expectancy of 77.5yrs (28,287.5 days) and a US population of 330 million then that puts the lifetimes lost per day at 11,666. Note, that's lifetimes lost. IE, as if 11,666 babies were born each day, but instead of living the their full life expectancy they all immediately died.

edit: Markdown ate my asterisk symbol and \ doesn't work as an escape character apparently? Changed asterisks to x and the x variable to A.
Does Time Flow? Not with intuitionist math
> Quantitative easing was born out of Bernanke's deep study of the Great Depression

But the Great Depression was caused by a financial crisis, that led to a ‘real’ crisis. This is the opposite, a real crisis that will lead to a financial one.

And during the Great Depression, people could still have worked - if there were any jobs. This is not true now. People simply can’t work.

It’s all very well being able to get easy money, but if you can’t get any workers, you still can’t start a business.

A lot of money chasing fewer goods can only have one consequence in the long term.
Indeed, TFA appears to link to one or more protocol specifications [0],[1].
However, it is not clear if these are proper/true Scotsman protocol specifications.

[0] https://github.com/DP-3T/documents

[1] https://github.com/TCNCoalition/TCN
Macroservice: The New Paradigm for Modern and Hyperscale Software
Unfortunately this interface is a little bit too public; it makes it possible to violate the AVL tree invariants:

let mut tree = AVLTree::Empty;
tree.insert(1isize);
tree.insert(2);
match tree {
AVLTree::Empty => (),
AVLTree::NonEmpty(ref mut node) => { node.right.insert(3); },
};

This constructs a tree with two right-leaning nodes (1 → 2 → 3), so the balance factor of the root at the end would be +2. (It isn't stored that way, though, since the root node was never updated in the last insert.) The issue is the fact that AVLTree::NonEmpty is public by default, as the discriminant of a public enum type, so anyone can get a mutable reference to any of the inner nodes by following the fields. It's also possible to use std::mem::replace to swap pieces of two different AVLTree instances, or to change values within the tree so they are no longer in order. Wrapping the Box<Node<T>> in a private struct should fix all this without too much change to the code.

It's also possible to iterate through the AVL tree—destructively, as in IntoIter<T>—without allocating a separate stack by stashing the parent links in node.left. The implementation would look something like this: https://gist.github.com/nybble41/6c7735bd833cf7536734de06d58...
It is only a false equivalence in that programming literally != sculpting. It is a relevant analogy, however.
Are you eligible for unemployment or do you have to accept $0 income for the unforeseeable future?
I'm just reading about that city in Germany, Gangelt, where they did those blood tests to 1000 people, they found out that 2% are actively infected, and 14% have the antibodies (indicating a prior infection):

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/999015/blood-tes...

So we're talking 1 in 7 for that particular city.
The Internet Association which represents them wrote a letter opposing it to Congress, although there hasn't been much other noise out of them, except for a minor statement from Facebook.
A more technical writeup of the equipment used for the performance:

https://roberthenke.com/technology/inside8032av.html
> For example, I bombed an interview in which I had to do a live coding challenge where I had to talk through what I was thinking while coding, which the interviewer insisted on so they could understand “how I think”.

FWIW, there is limited time to collect data about a candidate in the context of an interview, and being able to observe a candidates’ thought process can help a lot with that. Obviously, this biases hiring towards candidates that are more observable, all else being equal.
> Often it's replacement with something else, by force. Much of nazi occupied Europe has experienced this after WW II. Much of eastern Europe has experienced similar things after the fall of communism.

that is a single data point, and also a fairly unique situation. I don't foresee nazi like regimes in the west rising up any time soon (tho, given how trump's been going as of late, may be i m too optimistic?!).

The problem with inflation is that it's it eats away at money differently for the poor vs the rich. And i do believe the rich benefit much more from inflation than the poor does. But the poor make up a majority of the population.

I fail to believe that (low) deflation is actually as bad as the central bank economists claim. Inflation encourages investment, but also encourages more risk taking. I understand that high deflation has negative detrimental effects on an economy, but so does high inflation!

Low deflation encourages saving, and encourages prudent investment. I think such deflation will stop cyclical credit-induced recessions, and make the economy grow at the rate of technological improvement.
> Odd for government to go after chat apps and online encryption when they can't stop child sexual abuse in those places where it happens the most.

No, its totally consistent with the State's MO; using the 'Helen Lovejoy' argument [1] is entirely specious reasoning when even the most superficial analysis on the perpetrators of said crime is done... but its not meant to appeal to reason, rather its meant to create a knee-jerk reaction when someone tries to refute it before being coaxed down the collectivize population's throat.

It's so easy and simple to say 'what, do you want pedophiles to use this tech now?' and end any semblance of coherent logical discourse on the matter: and that's the aim, to end any discussion or counter arguments before its enacted and further erode privacy and civil liberties.

When I really started to delve into the 'why and hows' of cryptocurency I came to the conclusion that after Wikileaks/Assange got cut off from the legacy system in 2010 that we were already in the 2nd Crypto War (Julian is a key target and is shows [2] as he's been treated like a POW) that followed after Zimmerman's PgP project succeeded and ended the 1st.

I'm a Signal user and I'm not entirely sure what that 'dumping the US Market' would entail, will they pull Signal from an app store? Meaning I could just compile it while accessing it from a VPN, or compiling it myself on PC?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RybNI0KB1bg

2: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/9/australian-p...
There is a huge difference between a one time evaluation of an aspiring candidate to become a professional and a routine job interview for an established professional changing jobs in the same profession.
I just was looking at their code samples on the website, and I was really unimpressed with it. Why learn a new language if there’s nothing distinctive or better about it, you know? It’s just a better ES5 and a worse TypeScript.
Your link says more specifically "Composer is an anti-pattern". I don't see where it applies to all package managers.

Bear in mind that TeX, a non-OO language, has had CTAN for almost 30 years, which lead to CPAN (since before perl had OO support), CRAN (R), and CEAN (Erlang, also a non-OO language).
I’m in California but applied for a couple of jobs in Europe. One had a 24 hour timed test on hackerrank to complete 4 of 6 problems (unrelated and complete mini games) and another for an Android position had a timed hackerrank test in Java trivia (disguised as a programming test) with a short time limit. These were the screens so the follow up on sites were probably worse.
Getting into a kind of cold war with China will lead to an actual war. But, here's the kicker. Our economy has been decimated over the last 30 years as we've exported our production to 3rd world countries (like China). We now have the strongest currency and it's going to get harder to export as a result. Meanwhile, all the factory and production skills we had 30 years ago are gone now. Those people are retired or dead. We now have 2 generations (Gen Z and Millenials) who fundamentally lack production skills. We are in a bad spot. It will take years to retool our economy.
Great story. Also, ianeure is a rather unfortunate username.
I thought all frameworks can do this type of profiling (e.g. torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = True).

Nvidia might have eliminated any potential data pipeline bottlenecks (with careful DALI tuning), but I'd still expect a lot less speedup. Maybe they compiled pytorch with certain tricks, and used newer CUDA/CuDNN code, idk.
Would greyscale be ok? If so, you should be able to delaminate a panel and replace the backlight with a reflector. If you'd do that with a color LCD, you'd have a very dark image, however.
That’s exactly how chrome custom tabs on Android work. Moving the app custom tab to the browser does not even reload the page.
Why did Nature publish a proof that is widely considered to be fatally flawed, i.e. not a proof? https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11709

How did the Bogdanoff affair happen?

The fact that bullshit is hard to separate from "the truth" is a very good starting point for postmodern investigation.
I've worked for a Fortune 150 company for nearly 2 decades. In that time I've been involved in hiring tons of people. I've never cared about what school they went to or their political connections. That would literally be the last thing I, or anyone else I know, would care about. The thing is, I don't have any political connections and I didn't attend an ivy league school, so why would I care about anyone else having those types of things?