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The Admiral Polowczyk whom they brought to run the logistics on coronavirus task force said there's absolutely a prioritization list based on "hotness" of the zone. He said it himself to camera during the briefing number 21(Edit: not 21, it had to be earlier - it was within a few days of the NYC lock down. Maybe that Monday ).

They spent the first week implementing/adapting some DoD system that allowed them to track the pipeline of orders and goods matching the orders to the individual hospital level and if necessary redirect from one to another.
Typically most tankers are owner operated, under a long-term charter or on the spot market they are doing jobs that days/weeks/months

It’s a pretty efficient market

See this article (Suspect rates have climbed even further as the storage trade becomes more lucrative.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gauravsharma/2020/03/12/superta...
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Are false positives more prevalent in this type of testing than false negatives? Edit: Due to the sars-cov-1?
Just curious: why might @ be preferred over &?
And of course the second most important thing to know I think is whether or not antibodies confer immunity. We've all been assuming herd immunity is the key, either by vaccine or the "we all get it, but slowly enough to not overrun the healthcare system" method.

Right now we're on the edge of a precipice. My read of "the people" is they will hold off a bit longer if some reasonable-sounding fact-ish based plan comes out soon. It can be a little wrong, but it has to be credible. Knowing how many people have had it, and whether or not those people are now safe, is imo the two biggest components of planning the next steps. If we can't get credible answers to those questions soon, I believe the population will just start making decisions based on hunches/beliefs/feelings/etc. Some will remain isolated, others will rebel. It won't be pretty.
Coronavirus antibody testing shows LA outbreak up to 55x bigger than reported
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I don’t really understand your point. The error bars would be calculated differently for a larger sample. If you had 100/100 positives with a five percent error you wouldn’t say the true amount is 95 to 105. You’ve done some sloppy statistics and claimed this invalidates the work...
This is what I do: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...

I call the upfront spec my "Napkin Sketch." It's often a single diagram.
Completely naive question, but I'm curious: all of the negatively priced oil is coming from Saudi Arabia and Russia. What keeps the US from applying large tariffs to oil imports from those countries (or on all imports)?

If it's in our best interest to keep US oil companies alive (I understand that it is), wouldn't this be an effective way to accomplish this goal, with the side benefit of receiving additional tax revenue?
Great question, but with potentially nonintuitive results.

A sales gimmick furniture store would use in the past was to offer customers a free gallon on ice cream for visiting the store. The value was to the store offering the promotion, as shoppers would be drawn to the "free" gift, but on receiving the ice cream -- too much to eat directly. -- would then have to go home to put the dessert in the freezer. And have less time to comparison shop at competing merchant's stores. Given limited shopping time (usually a weekend activity), this is an effective resource exhaustion attack.

Similar tricks to tie up time, patience, or cognitive reserve are common in sales. For a dominant vendor, tweaking the hassle factor of a site so long as defection rates are low could well be a net positive, if it makes the likelihood of a visitor going to other sites lower.
Nah.....too many troglodyte managers must SEE butts in seats......
"you can be known for shipping insecure products and there will be absolutely no repercussions in the marketplace" AND you can deliver a product that surpasses all else in the market. Usability trumps security for consumer grade applications.
I somewhat agree, but for me personally, "car without wheels" and "shirt without stripes" are about equal in terms of usage regularity.

I'd also say nobody uses the phrase "birds without flight", but instead "flightless birds".

I'd imagine people say "hairless dogs" a lot more often than "dogs without hair".

And the shirt examples show that there are many uses of the lead phrase "shirts without" that work just fine, but for some reason "stripes" really stands out far beyond the others. "Shirts without shoulders" is kind of a bizarre term to match, when almost all search results show "off the shoulder" or "cold shoulder" as the thing being matched.
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The comment I'm replying to is about the transition from 3.7 to 3.8

> I think Python 3.7 to 3.8 was change my docker version and push to CI
‘Location location location’

Doesn’t hurt to test proverbs. I personally wouldn’t bet against it.
20 knots is not all that slow. According to google average container ship speed is about 24 knots. Even the navy destroyer I used to sail on topped out at 30 knots using its gas turbines, which were only to be used for "serious purposes".
Alas, this feature only works for users on the browser app, and not in the mobile apps.
Unfortunately laser modulation is pretty much the only solved problem.

At higher scanning rates the achievable angle of deflection with commercially available MEMS scanners (the type of scanner used in the 720p pico projectors) is too small to be useful.

The other class of laser scanner potentially relevant to practical high resolution projection are the solid state laser scanning systems, which suffer from limited angle of deflection AND a limited number of resolvable angles.

60fps 8k is achievable with a mechanical system using a turbine-driven polygonal mirror. Unfortunately, the precision machining, several tens of kilowatts input power and requisite hearing protection present some obstacles to commercialization.

As a general rule, if a raster laser projector claims to achieve much over 720p they are either lying, mistaken, or out of your price range. It requires an order of magnitude increase in scanning rate to scale from 720p to 8k. The next incremental milestone for this sector is "actually achieving 1080p instead of just lying about it".
The # 1 google result for “Shirt without stripes” is this very own HN post

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Shirt+without+Stripes%22&
Code that changed UK gov strategy away from herd immunity
any resources that i can check out to get a feel for how julia handles numbers?
well, if it has very high R and hospitalizations/deaths are what they are, it's actually good news - herd immunity will come much quicker, possibly avoiding future waves, assuming immunity persists for a few years (which I hear is a reasonable assumption).
> Is this really so hard?

Absolutely, especially when there is no tangible benefit to doing so. At $day_job it took us over a month to convert our codebase to Python 3 (bit by bit, not all at once), and we still ended up running into errors in production. In our case, we were forced to make the switch because we needed to upgrade some libraries that had dropped Python 2 support, but there is plenty of software out there that Just Works™ and nobody wants to touch it (for good reason!). In those cases, it's way less expensive to pay someone to maintain the interpreter than it is to take on the effort of a full blown conversion.
Surge pricing because everyone wants to get the deal there
Oil companies may benefit from keeping oil expensive, but other parts of the economy that depend on oil do not. For them, tariffs are an extra tax on them and ultimately consumers.
I don’t either, but thankfully it’s not forced syntax. If you prefer “print x” to “print(x)” you’re OOL in 3.x.
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> docker doesn't solve this issue

Well. The container doesn't magically update itself. But FROM python:3.6 -> FROM python:3.8 doesn't seem that hard. Then again a flexible package manager (with recent repos) can do this as well.
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Ah good point about GOPROXY.

So if I have a mix of private and public dependencies that I pull in, can I specify a specific proxy for the private ones? Is it the GOPRIVATE env var?
Who does want a million barrels of crude in their back yard? As a very rough estimate, you'd have to stack them the better part of a mile high in mine.
It matters for moving forward.

If it seems to be a highly spreadable virus, and a small percentage of the population has contracted it, then a significant reduction in the current societal restrictions will cause a spike in new infections, which leads to hospitalizations, ventilators, and deaths.

If a large percentage of the population has contracted it, and the results we have seen are due to that, then there is less risk in re-opening things.

I can't speak to this study's bearing on that, but it's one good reason to care how much of the population has already contracted the virus.
> The only downside I see to emulation is latency

There shouldn't be significant latency issues, unless there is large amounts of (CPU) work that's required to make large data structures compatible(for a silly example, imagine that the texture formats are different and you need to convert between them). Or if you need to simulate a single function call in a tight loop with several calls.

But the overhead is usually not much more significant than what you get when you import a library to call OS functions on your behalf, versus calling them yourself.
Or a troll, since they're being purposefully disingenuous. It doesn't really matter either way, though.
I'm working with @refrigerator on Causal. We also came up with a similar way of nesting spreadsheets (here’s a demo video: https://www.loom.com/embed/0d7a784308c345e08e72451ed854c590).

In Causal any cell (we call them variables) can be computed by another spreadsheet (we call them models). To make this more powerful a model can have input parameters like functions in programming languages. So a model can be composed of reusable submodels.

There’s a bunch of spreadsheet templates floating around the internet but there’s no way to compose them or update them. Wouldn’t it be great to have something like npm for spreadsheet models?
I don't think you can run PHP off an S3 bucket. You certainly can sync the upload folder (static files) to S3 as a form of CDN via some 3rd party plugins, but it doesn't solve the main issue when you try to run wordpress in multiple instances load-balanced setup (I assume the diagram is intended to address this, hence the complexity). For low traffic sites, you probably won't need to worry about this yet.

The real headache is when you need a load-balanced setup. You'll need to keep the whole wordpress directory (not just the upload directory) synced between instances, which you can't do over S3. NFS is a popular option, but NFS server usually have a hard limit on the number of connected clients, which ultimately limit the number of your instances (e.g. if you need 20 instances but your NFS server crap out when >12 clients connected, you're out of luck). Amazon EFS supposed to solve this since it supports up to 1000 connected clients, but people often complain about slow performance.

That being said, scaling wordpress to handle high traffic is a headache unless you write your own theme and plugins. The majority of wordpress sites use those visual editor plugins and mega themes, which is a nightmare when you hit by high traffic as they are often impossible to cache (crazy stuff such as css/ generator that vary its output depending on user agents, etc) and often rely on wordpress statefulness (write arbitrary files to arbitrary locations, which means typical load-balanced/autoscaling architecture will not work as it assume your application is stateless). Personally, I'd rather rewrite the whole site with something else than trying to setup a load-balanced wordpress installation.
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LA's numbers seemingly agree with Santa Clara's numbers as well. I would guess NYC probably has a much higher rate of infection (possibly due to http://web.mit.edu/jeffrey/harris/HarrisJE_WP2_COVID19_NYC_1... ?) But 50%+ seems pretty high.

Is it also possible different strains are dominant in California and NYC with different mortality characteristics? There is also the issue of weather. A recently leaked DHS report indicates sunlight radically reduces virus half-life and it's also affected by temperature and humidity. Maybe subway + weather + (possibly) strain of differing virulence can explain the discrepancy?
If the tariffs are only applied to keep oil at some nominal level, don't both parties benefit somewhat? You can still have very cheap oil while keeping the price high enough to keep US oil companies alive (if only barely).
Why don't the producers turn down the output? Does it cost more money to produce less? Is it mutually assured destruction? A game of chicken? This is so weird.
That would probably be helpful for informational use, but it seems to me like it would be frustrating to dump new comments into an old discussion. Maybe just a way to add a link to reference the prior discussion(s) like helpful people often do?
I just don't understand this sentiment. If some stranger wants to continue using Python 2, why does that bother you?

Why did I not see this sentiment for C89 vs C99 for example?
"What in this story makes you think that only corporations will direct that sort of power in a way you don't like?"

I'm not sure how that comes from what I wrote? I was responding to the claim that corporations aren't responsible for deaths or oppression.

No, it's not "corporation" vs "government". I don't have easy answers to how to prevent this kind of behavior, and I don't trust easy answers, like "minimal government" or "strong government". Global trade and capitalism seems to be working for the most part, with some unsettling caveats.
Out of curiosity, at what point do you consider someone a seasoned Go developer? Is it 5 years or is it more?

I've been using Go since 2015 and I still feel like I'm not as seasoned as I perhaps should be (I'm not really an enthusiast of the language, I just think it's the right tool to use for 95%+ of the stuff I'm working on right now).
Reference negative samples are relatively easy, at least in theory. Any blood samples drawn before the Covid-19 outbreak started are guaranteed to be 100% negative.
It's not the idea that being white is acceptable that's being rejected though - most of the people doing the rejecting are white - it's the idea that white nationalism has anything to do with 'being white' or that objections to it have anything to do with aversion to whiteness. It's a bit like seemingly innocuous positive statements about 'life' or 'choice' suddenly become minefields if they're used almost exclusively as campaign slogans by one side of an abortion debate.
>[. . .] the Dorr brothers simply seek “to stir the pot and make as much animosity as they can, and then raise money off that animosity.

I am fascinated by people like this. They have to understand they are doing awful things to the world around them. How do people like that sleep at night, or look themselves in the mirror?

Even if you believe in gun rights to the extreme, being purposefully combative, negative, divisive, and awful just to make money is not a great look. How? Why? Why do people do these things?
As anecdote, my brain parses it more easily because I read "at", so I automatically interpret the expression as an address. Like "get the value at argv+1"
Sorry, was just being a sarcastic a-hole. Carry on.
"started almost 13 month ago, but till this day we don't have a clear understanding who our customer are"

This takes time but the key is that all of you as cofounder need to make this a priority. I literally was thinking who the heck is my target customer today and I have been running a bootstrapped company for almost 6 years BUT the point is that you have to constantly refine that as needed.

Honestly, if you cofounders don't understand that it is all about identifying the market and the whole "product market fit" thing, it will be over anyway.
You can't deploy a mobile app at the same time as your backend. Even if publishing a mobile app update was instantaneous, it takes time for people to update, and some people never will.
How do you not get eaten alive by the negative roll yield (super contango) if you don’t have access to storage?
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Aren't Russia and Saudi Arabia playing a short term game to try and run US shale companies out of business? In that case, wouldn't it be logical for the government to step in and protect these companies via tariffs rather than bailing them out in a few months when they go bankrupt? It would presumably be cheaper.
I don’t think 50% seems that high given the death count.
Web development is way way simpler

No one is forcing you to pick up a full Angular 2.0+RxJs stack
There's lots of small reasons why. You can't tell your employees about that new phone feature you're developing if it lands on Bloomberg a year ahead of release, because then your competitors might one-up you. You might not be able to openly divulge ongoing security risks because external actors will definitely exploit them once they land on Bloomberg. You might not even tell them the intricate details of search-engine improvements or Youtube spam detection changes, because if it lands on Bloomberg the external SEO market goes crazy and destroy all your hard work... I could go on, but there are a lot of things that would arguably make a lot of sense for you to divulge to your employees, but that you just cannot if you can't rely on them sticking to their NDAs.
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Doesn't being tied to gun rights mean being Russian puppets? Isn't that the current political reality?
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Makes it a bit harder to deny the validity of the Stanford/Santa Clara results. They're virtually the same.
I don't work anywhere near gmail, so I might be wrong.
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Then don't use it? I'm not sure why python 3 having assignment expressions in a non breaking way would bother you.

I'm not a python dev btw. I've mostly used go/rust/swift where assignment expressions are a big thing so I am a bit biased
In the Stanford study, they used blood samples that were taken before the epidemic to determine the true/false negative rate, and blood from patients that tested PCR positive in the past to determine true/false positive rate.
I mean... Free oil is still free oil, and worth something in the future. Just not as much as being paid to take oil :)
Tl;dr: It looks like ~4.2% of Los Angeles residents may have already been affected.

Current stats from [https://covid-19.direct/county/CA/Los%20Angeles]:
Confirmed cases: 12,349
Deaths: 601
Population: 4M
Implied fatality rate: 4.87%

If this study is correct (~4.2% prevalence):
Cases: 167,580
Deaths: 601
Implied fatality rate: 0.36%

There is massive difference between the appropriate response to an illness with a 5% fatality rate and an illness with a 0.36% fatality rate.
I’m really confused now. Is it “blatantly wrong” to say they’re measuring employees or not? Because it sounds like you’re trying to split a hair, but there’s no hair to split.
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Interesting, I haven't heard of Valhalla (I haven't really used Java since around 2014). From their landing page it seems like their priorities are value types (which Go already has - you need to specify pointer types explicitly) and support value types as generic type parameters, which Go has to do, because it has value types.

I guess it will complicate things a bit, you're right. I'm pretty happy I don't have to use Java anymore though :)
Unfortunately the hardware to do this is harder than a LCD or even DLP. Otherwise we'd have it already.

Galvo projectors as used in hololens etc. are vector, but tiny projectors aimed at retina are extremely hard to pull off, even ones aimed at glasses are very hard and lousy. Aiming them at a wall is ok though.
From the article it sounds like it was a pretty clandestine operation to begin with. He admits to paying 5x the normal prices for the masks, was picking them up in trucks marked as food service, taking different routes, etc. This is exactly the kind of shady transaction the government should be investigating. It could have just as easily been some price speculator buying those masks for all the Feds knew. Once they were assured it wasn't they let it go. The speculation about DHS was a little vague.

The doctor explains at the end of this short interview that he was actually appreciative of the FBI for intervening and why they did:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/04/20/dr-andrew-arten...
Would it be disingenuous to say that false positives in the current case fatality rate would bring the rate down because hospitals are using symptoms combined with PCR for deaths?
Some people have a nonexistent or weak conscience. We call them psychopaths and sociopaths. They are not all bloodthirsty ax murderers as portrayed by Hollywood.
> Based on how the okay sign thing went, with all of its false positives (which are the innocent victims), I don't think the "dog whistles" give a clear enough signal. Your examples also use judgement from context rather than the dog whistles which is in line with what I've said.

Can you give an example of one of these false positive victims?
I guess you don't read many books or academic research, then.
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Seems like a good system for commercial aviation when combined with checklists.
50% means every other person would have to have been infected. That seems a bit unlikely to me but I suppose it's possible.
To have an upper hand in negotiation. Everyone knows Saudi can win the war of attrition with oil at low prices they just don’t know by how much.
also in line with the dutch results a week ago (https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/16/world/europe/16re...)