skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the current death rates. Requiring a tested vaccine is a reasonable response. Requiring an untested vaccination is not something I see happening. I guess we could get to "you can't do certain things like go to large gatherings" if you don't have the vaccine or evidence of having had it.

Meanwhile, In the US 12.x k people at a minimum died of this in the last 7 days, doubling the previous total deaths. There's also a much higher death rate overall than in the past, many of those must be related to covid-19 [1]. If current trends follw, In another week the 25,000 total current deaths will double, in other words, 25,000 are on track to die of covid in a week. It's not just new york; from that same site, in the last 7 days new york's total went from 7k to 15k total cumulative deaths - new york is still doubling every week, even though they look to slow down.

The deadly statistics are fantastically interesting. NY itself had about 8k net new deaths the last week, the rest of the us had about 10k. Both are doubling on a weekly basis.

1. https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily
I'm hopeful the results of this shed some light on things:

https://news.usc.edu/168497/antibody-testing-covid-19-pandem...
MobileCoin is now Open-Source
Every person is a door to your happiness, and you have the choice to serve their happiness or to treat them callously or even cruelly.

There is no religion without the person actively trying to be a better person to every single person around them. It doesn't matter what spiritual practices they do or don't do, we are each measured by our hearts with respect to how we treat every person we encounter.

Religion's only goal is to get us to work together cooperatively across all divisions of humanity (from form of religion, to gender identification or sexual preference, to ethnicity or culture) to create caring, accepting societies. Right now, our world's state is the result of our societies being based on competition. That is why there are so many destitute homeless people. The system itself doesn't give a shit about them because the system itself only cares about money.

And this is all the result of human making choices based upon their selfish desires, humans in their packs taking as much as they can for themselves while callously ignoring out-group members. That is not human, and is literally inhumane. For that same society to produce Jeff Bezos demonstrates its brokenness that is also its design.

The problem is that the vast majority of so-called religious folks are only doing so to be a member of the alpha group, instead of being interested in how they can be a better member of a better, all-inclusive society. We have mammalian bodies and those structures inform our potentials. To be human is to rise above that animal heredity and embrace the virtues of humanity: caring, active, effortful compassion being essential.

This is why a prominent Rabbi spoke at Muhammed Ali's funeral. They were both Men of God who spread love and unity amongst and between their different cultures. Anywhere you find universal love and respect for all others, you find God's Religion, whichever form it takes in its society.

And legion are those that selfishly deceive in the name of religion or even try to create their own religions. The child rapist Catholic Priest does not denigrate the Message of Love present in Jesus' form of God's Religion; he only proves his perfidy and that of the organization that hides his sins and felonies from his prey's society.
If we're talking about crazy lenses, might as well jump straight to the Zeiss 50/0.7:

http://neiloseman.com/barry-lyndon-the-full-story-of-the-fam...

Only ten were made. NASA bought six to send round the dark side of the moon. Stanley Kubrick bought the other three.
If you take what I said to the logical extreme then sure.

What I was trying to say was that it's very black and white thinking to say something like ads = exploiting users and healthcare = not exploiting users.

Since Facebook usually comes up when people talk about unethical companies, let me use them as an example. Let's say there is a team that improves ad targeting by 5%, helping to reduce the number of irrelevant ads people see. Let's say there's another team that reduces data center electricity's utilization by 5%, which helps the environment.

Is the ad team more or less ethical than the data center team if they are basically both supporting the same end goal?

I don't work for Facebook if that matters. And I have no answers to any of the questions I posed above outside of my personal preference to not work in online advertising unless I need to do it to survive.
Is this going to be like aadhar in India?
Wow, several HCQ stories on the front page. Means it's probably going to be proven effective soon.
Testing the Tests: Which Covid-19 Tests Are Most Accurate?
brooklyn resident here. fwiw (not much), it feels like easily 1/3 of the local people i know got some mild fever symptoms in the same 3-week timespan.
If you think this is crazy, check out the VVFAT driver in qemu[1]. At first sight it seems simple enough - turn a host directory into a virtual FAT filesystem which is presented to the guest.

The clever/insane thing is it supports writes. It is able to "reverse" those block level operations from the guest to modify the source filesystem on the host.

It was written by the ever exceptional Fabrice Bellard. EDIT: No it wasn't, it was written by Johannes Schindelin, thanks for the clarification in replies.

[1] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/block/vvfat.c
This isn’t even remotely close to true. 0.67% on legal[1] versus 17% on R&D[2].

[1] https://ccbjournal.com/articles/benchmark-metrics-pharma-com...
[2] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060115/how-much-dru...
Yeah, I knew I wasn't wasting my time. I have made two (maybe more) projects that involves generative art:

https://victorribeiro.com/radio/

https://victorribeiro.com/showFractal/

the first one I'm thiking about adding more stations. It used to have a few more, but chrome wont allow a page served over https to link content that is not served as https, so I had to remove a lot of radios. =(
Supermarkets and food delivery

Disinfectant/hygiene products

Sex toys and adult entertainment

Meditation/self development resources (finding purpose)

Webinars and online education

Self organisation tools

Lifestyle/outdoor equipment post quarantine

Chewing gum, lip gloss, deoderant, dental hygiene products post quarantine

Products that quell loneliness or provide comfort, feeling of connection - chocolate, alcohol, soap operas, music

Online entertainment, especially ones that replicate social connection, like shared gaming or shared movie watching (check out Whereby.com YouTube video feature...)

Potentially virtual reality meeting spaces like university campus, conferences

I reckon nearly everyone is struggling with at least one of:

Uncertainty about the future

Feeling of disconnection from others

Disruption in routine, no consistency

Lack of structure, standards, no opportunity to exercise authority or feel as part of hierarchy

Who can solve these will have a winning product...
CEO of mortgage giant Quicken Loans says homeowners can ‘skip the payment’
That has to hurt the aggregate write performance on the array. You hand it a big chunk of data and it goes ok, calculate the FEC and write to disks 1, 2, 3, 4. And disk 1 is done, disk 2 is done, disk 4 is done, ... , ... , ... , disk 3 is done, now to tell the OS the write is complete and to send me the next chunk.
That was true 15 years ago, but is not true any more. (It's still "redder" than LA or SF, but not even close to the reddest place in CA).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_San_Diego_County
This is a good point. One place I worked tried to move thier numerical simulations to GGPU, and found they had to move from a recursive algorithm to one more suited to GPU architecture.

They did the rewrite, but found the the results were 10% less precise in the convergence on a solution.

So the imense parallel nature of a GPU is only useful if your algorithms are the right shape, such as a fixed number of matrix multiplies.
> And people don't understand why I fell into a two week existential crisis after I saw 'The Notebook'

Thank you. I watched that movie with my wife 15 years ago, now, and it remains the scariest, saddest movie I've ever seen.
Ultimatums are dangerous. If Amazon follows through with theirs, they are gambling that they are too important to lose. That seems like it would be a poor bet; they may lose their EU market.
Oh wired, hijacking my back button. Never change from the horrible thing you are
Unfortunately, that's a tough one to answer. Since it needs to be decrypted, the only routes right now are: 1) download it on a device and then decrypt it, 2) download it from extremely sketchy, illegal sites, or 3) for bug bounty cases, hope they give you an IPA that you can just use. Given the primary use case is making life better for bug bounty hunters, #1 and #3 will cover the vast majority of uses initially, but I really think a better solution is needed down the road.
Sure, we would test positive if we went to the hospital and gave us tests! The prevailing view is "unless you're dying don't go to the hospital". With that said, I feel I had COVID-19 March 8th-12th, with some symptoms in the week prior, and feeling like someone beat me up for a week after that.

I feel fine now, except coop'd up from quarantine. How did it progress?

The week prior, I went home early from work one day after throwing up a little bit and feeling woozy. But that came and went. In subsequent days, I was late a couple times - felt pretty fatigued and was sleeping longer.

On the 8th, I thought it was because I drank too much the day before. I was extremely lethargic - only able to get out of bed to check messages on my laptop, then right back to bed. I think I slept the first day, but that was the last day in the next 5 I would get any.

Symptoms: Dry, hacky cough. Fever, chills/sweats. Diarrhea. Only drank water, no food for 4 days. Strange heart palpitations. Muscle twitches/spasms sometimes on my extremities (mostly by my ankles). Extreme fatigue. Unable to sleep. Dizziness/Vertigo - very unsteady on my feet!

By the 12th I was finally able to eat something. After the 12th, I went through another week of fatigue, but it felt like the virus was gone, and I was dealing with my body repairing/cleaning up after that disaster.
For ARM RasPi1-3, RasPi Zero etc there is Risc OS https://www.riscosopen.org

From https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=2209... :

What is RISC OS?

RISC OS is a new and different OS for the Pi. It isn't Linux, it isn't Unix, it isn't based on any other OS. It's the first ARM OS, begun in 1987 by the team who designed the original ARM processor. It's also a descendant of the OS used on the early 1980s BBC Micro... those who remember the BBC Micro might find some of its commands familiar. BBC BASIC is only a few keypresses away.

What's interesting about RISC OS?

It's small. It's fast. RISC OS is a full desktop OS, where the core system including windowing system and a few apps fits inside 6MB. It was developed at a time when the fastest desktop computer was an 8MHz ARM2 with 512KB of RAM. That means it's fast and responsive on modern hardware. The memory taken by apps is usually counted in the kilobytes. A 700MHz 256MB Raspberry Pi is luxury - what to do with all that memory?

RISC OS is also a lot simpler than modern OSes such as Linux. The pace of development has been a little slower than other OSes, which means there are fewer layers getting between you and the system. It's much easier to get stuck in and change things. It's also easier to understand. As a formerly closed-source OS, most of the interfaces are documented in a series of books called the Programmers' Reference Manuals (PRMs) which are included on the RISC OS Pi distro. That means you can change a lot of things without having to work on the OS code itself (which is available if you want it). It's very modular, so you can mix and match components, and the communications between modules are carefully documented.

RISC OS gets out of the way. It's a 'co-operatively multi-tasked' OS. While that means one misbehaving application can stall the system until you kill it, it also means you easily write apps that take over the whole machine - for example controlling hardware where you need predictable timing. RISC OS is a single-user OS, which means there's very little security - not great for internet banking, but very handy when you want to dig around and program the internals of the OS.

As a full desktop OS, there's also plenty of traditional desktop software available like drawing programs and desktop publishers. Features you've come to expect on a desktop like scalable fonts and printing are supported. RISC OS was big in UK education in the 1990s, and there's a large back catalogue of educational software.
Would I buy it? It depends on the manufacturing country!
Probably not. They are probably coders and data scientists after home lockdown. Imagine how many took advantage of those discounted courses online that used to cost $2K or $6K and down to $34.99 only!
> upset out of principle

Every single moment of "oh, I'll just plug my phone into the AUX... oh. right." is not "out of principle". It's made especially stark when contrasted with other devices: right now I'm 3.5mm'd into a 2019 MacBook for Zoom; I can trivially replug into the iPad next to me, but if I want to do the same with the equivalent era iPhone, I have to walk out of the room, root through a bag for the adapter, or go find the AirPods (hoping they're charged), probably re-select them as the output, while accepting the loss in quality from the old-school cans.

It's not some hypothetical: it's literally decades of habit and muscle memory, throwing away a simple and universal technology that worked insanely well. I can forgive this sort of short-term sacrifice for a transition to a better world: floppy for USB, HDMI for USB-C. One can debate whether the loss is necessary, but usually once we're on the other side, the new standard is inherently superior across every metric.

This is not the case for wired to wireless audio. Though I love the AirPods, they still have batteries, which still run down (short term, and long term). It's always more of a hassle to swap bluetooth connections than just replugging cables. If I want to not share my audio with the world, I can be 1000% sure of that by plugging in a cable, as opposed to the ephemeral "is my computer paired right now, and if so to what?", which could change at any moment when signal is lost or a battery dies. Sure, there's dongles, which is yet another piece of tech junk to juggle and find and lose, and which never seem to be around when you actually need it.

Imagine you went to your bookshelf to grab something to read, only to discover that your curated and beloved collection has all been pulped, and a Kindle with their contents is now in its place. Bezos enthusiastically tells you how much better the Kindle is, and how brave he is for "upgrading" you. That is how we feel. It's one thing to decide to make this sort of transition yourself; when a massive corporation does it on your behalf, "for your own good", yeah, we're gonna get peeved.
Online status indicators shape our behavior
2019 Social Capital Annual Letter
>The First Amendment applies to restrictions to speech from the government, but provides no rights or privileges when it comes to repercussions from private entities.

This is generally true but there are exceptions, which funny enough you acknowledge one of them in your comment.

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) gives private-sector employees the right to discuss their working conditions, which is considered “protected concerted activity.” They can share information about pay, benefits, safety and other work-related issues — and they can do it in the break room, at happy hour or on social media (such as Facebook and Twitter).

Real-world example of workplace freedom of speech:

Situation: A group of employees who worked for a retail store in San Francisco were concerned about their safety due to their store’s closing an hour later than other nearby stores. After unsuccessful discussions with the manager and later, the owner, the employees posted their frustrations on Facebook. An employee who saw the posts showed them to the owner, and subsequently, the other three employees were fired.

Ruling: The National Labor Relations Board reviewed the Facebook posts and determined they were acceptable. The employees were discussing the store’s legitimate safety concerns, so the posts were considered protected under the NLRA. It was determined that the employer committed an unfair labor practice by firing the employees.

What is otherwise not protected speech becomes protected speech.

>Correct, but this isn't why they were fired.

Amazon published a press release on the matter acknowledging they fired the employees for their posts about safety in the work place...it doesn't matter Amazon claims the post violated company policy, these employees have legal right to discuss their working conditions, which is considered “protected concerted activity.”

As you may or may not know the NLRA protections come from the Constitutional Right to association, which is an essential part of freedom of speech. While the United States Constitution's First Amendment identifies the rights to assemble and to petition the government, the text of the First Amendment does not make specific mention of a right to association. Nevertheless, the United States Supreme Court held in NAACP v. Alabama (1958) that freedom of association is an essential part of freedom of speech because, in many cases, people can engage in effective speech only when they join with others.
What is this? I'm so curious but nothing of this rings a bell with me. I mean I know what a regular expression is, and I've formatted several USBs to FAT32, but DFAs and everything in between have me Googling like crazy, still in the dark though.
There were lots of newspaper articles a few weeks ago about lupus patients struggling to access HCQ. Eg: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/opinion/coronavirus-hydro... or https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/13/how-false...
You cannot even attend a Level 10 meeting without being 10x. With Level 10 technology, and 10 10x people, you're looking at a minimum of 1000x productivity.

With Level 10, you basically elevate your team and meld them into Chuck Norris.
Yes. His family are financially secure, thanks to his Cloudflare millions. I could die much more easily knowing my family were safe after I'd gone.
> You shouldnt conflate browser defaults with good usability.

It's a fair point, but rather vague. Perhaps if you gave an example of where you disagree it might be more useful a criticism.

BRK's page is not ideal by any means and I don't think my post or the original article suggested as much.
Occams Razor would suggest that they may not have caught the virus on the boat then but perhaps after, no?
lodev has great oldschool tutorials: https://lodev.org/cgtutor/
It's amazing how personal conversations about consumer tech can get. Your comment struck me as being a tad too emotional for what is, ultimately, a relatively mundane aspect of life.

But maybe I'm wrong, and you have your reasons.

I guess part of it is our impotence in the face of a multibillion-dollar ecosystem of mass-produced products, and the realization that we're (apparently) irrelevant (I share your distaste for large phones).

Anyway, I too hope smaller phones become commonplace again.
It always has been for the SE. If you want the luxury of choice and are willing to pay more than $399, Apple has many options for you to choose from.
We should start a support group. Seems like there are lots of us who want to leave tech for something that matters.
Then why are lupus patients struggling to get HCQ right now?

Sure in the long run it may be relatively easy to manufacture enough HCQ. But right now stocks are running extremely low because people are trying to use it for COVID without any scientific basis.
"The things you didn't share were your pillow, your toothbrush (when there was water enough to use it), and the clothes you were wearing. Said clothes being a tee-shirt and shorts which you wore until they rotted off of you and then discarded -- no water to waste on laundering clothes."

I'd be tempted to cauterize my nostrils under such circumstances. I don't know how they could bear it, but presume fart and BO jokes must have been flying 24/7 during their whole deployment.
A proven successful use of this drug would be very inconvenient for multiple media outlets who jumped at the (described as) unfounded claim. It would mean that either (a) the authorities had more information than they did, or that (b) the authorities bet successfully with the same amount of information, which doesn't align with their constant reporting of idiocy.
ID is not a requirement for democracy. ID requirements are a convenience for the state, and it's possible to run a society without them without being overrun by fraud.

It's useful for people to be able to present ID to receive entitlements, but it's only there because the state has imposed a requirement.
I agree, it's not exactly a metric, but a heuristic to put official numbers in perspective. Most of the variations you say are in the direction of lowering normal numbers (not domestic violence, but crimes will be registeres as such) so we have a minimum. If official numbers are much less, it's a clear sign that they're altered.

There are several ways deaths are being covered: people dying at home or retirement homes, people with previous diseases, putting immediate cause (like stroke or heart attack) in the report.
Find a Time tries to find the most recent upcoming free slots and suggests them. We try to be smarter - by automatically picking the most productive time for everyone. This means picking a time where everyone's uninterrupted focus time is maximized and their preferences are respected (eg if you're more productive in meetings in the mornings vs afternoons)
Regarding the title "Covid+", it seems that most people (even on the news) don't care about the difference between SARS-CoV-2 (the virus) and COVID-19 (the disease). Is this distinction being abandoned? (I'm not trying to be pedantic here; I'm just curious about the common usage.)
I know it's a pretty much lost cause but I am 100% willing to die on the hill of never buying a phone without a headphone jack, no compromises, so a sad hard pass on this one.
He has touted both; e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GuNbGC2D_8

In-vitro results are worth following up on, but it is my understanding (as a non-expert) that it's very common that they don't pan out in actual humans. Turns out that human bodies and the way we interact with drugs are rather more complex than simple in-vitro situations.

It's really to soon to recommend either drug. Even with 0 side-effects there is a high risk of it being a massive waste of resources better spent elsewhere. This is just classic Trump afraid of being seen as not being on the top of the world in literally every situation.
I don't think it's a good comparison for several reasons. 1) Those technologies were already not as heavily used when they were dropped. There are still tons of traditional headphones being manufactured and sold, even years after phones have started dropping them. 2) It's easy to leave an external drive at a desk for occasional use, it's much less convenient to carry a dongle everywhere since you likely want to use headphones on-the-go. 3) This is subjective, but floppy to cd-rom is clearly an upgrade, wireless to wired headphones is not. It adds syncing and battery life problems to an otherwise simple technology.
There used to be a Silicon Valley CEO who was also a San Jose police officer in his spare time, but I don't recall his name.
You neglected to mention screwing the company workers, and screwing the company partners.
I want to use tech for something that matters, which feels vaguely related.