skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a logical jump from the 2nd to 3rd paragraph that bugs me, but upon reflection, I don't know if my objection is valid:

> The initial results from the first large-scale study tracking the spread of the coronavirus in the county found that 2.8% to 5.6% of adults have antibodies to the virus in their blood, an indication of past exposure.

> That translates to roughly 221,000 to 442,000 adults who have recovered from an infection, according to the researchers conducting the study, even though the county had reported fewer than 8,000 cases at that time.

So, in the 2nd paragraph, there, a match for SARS-COV2 antibodies means an exposure. In the 3rd, it means an infection. I have always understood that exposure != infection. Yes, the former is a necessary precondition to the latter, but an exposure doesn't automatically and unconditionally become an infection.

But then it occurred to me that the body probably isn't going to be generating antibodies unless a pathogen got past the body's initial lines of defense and required a more active response from the immune system. In which case then, perhaps it would be accurate to say antibodies == infection. Are we speaking then of asymptomatic carriers or those who never experienced more than mild symptoms and might not have realized they were infected?

Am I splitting hairs here? Is this simply shorthand for "exposure that subsequently became an infection?", much in the same way I might freely use "LDAP Server", "Name Server", "Domain Controller" "Auth Server", to all refer to the same system in an on-prem Windows environment? Or, am I rightly objecting to unclear language that would lead to incorrect conclusions?
I'm not on facebook but it sounds entirely plausible. Facebook conducts psychological experiments[0] to optimise for user engagement so if that anger can make you stay a bit longer and see a few more ads then that's money for them.

Those precious hate dollars have deadly consequences though, especially for Muslims[1][2].

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-facebook...

[2]: https://theintercept.com/2019/12/07/facebook-mark-zuckerberg...
EDIT: or, you know, we could just keep throwing fuel into a flame war and then pretend it's not our fault because we didn't start the fire.
Google was good because they used to optimise to giving the best search results, that was their aim. Now their aim is best profit, it seems, and their results appear to correspond (keep you on site longer).
I misread the title as 'Redefining the business notebook...'

This looks like a very good CPU. At some point it would be nice to see a well-cooled laptop with an 8 core CPU benchmarked against an 8 core desktop. AMD seems to be doing very well on the TDP side and I wonder if we may be reaching the point where only games and a handful of really demanding (non-cloud) workloads require a desktop.
Note that for the flu, most of the community does literally nothing. I mean, some people get vaccinated, but most literally ignore the flu as if it didn't exist - except if they get sick of course, and even then some people go to work if they can (they shouldn't, really, but they do).

If we compare this with complete shutdown of all public activity on the other end of the spectrum, we can see there are things we could be doing that are on neither ends. Maybe distancing but not shutdown, or avoiding some mass gathering but still being ok with individual meetings, or having places like restaurants operating at reduced capacity to ensure people aren't too close to each other, or ask people to wear masks when they enter stores, etc. And strict lockdown for places like nursing homes, but more relaxed for places like college, or having people of high-risk groups to work from home, but people with lower risk be allowed to work in the office. I'm not saying it's the right way to do right now, but it's a possibility, there are options.

So if this is e.g. 50 times worse than the flu, then trying any of the above may be too risky. But if it's kinda sorta like the flu, maybe somewhat worse but not 50x worse - then it may be prudent to consider measured response, given that for the flu we basically have no response at all and we're ok with that.
This LA study has one of the same authors as the Stanford study (Neeraj Sood). It uses the same test and so it has the same issues with the false positive rate. An honest person would address those but I didn't see that in the press release.

This post describes the issues: https://medium.com/@balajis/peer-review-of-covid-19-antibody...

See also this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22924118
I heard that was announced, but funding for that never materialized, so I'm not sure they got a chance to actually do that.
I do too! Glad I'm not the only one. I also remove labels when possible and pull plastic tape off of corrugated cardboard boxes.

The one problem is with deposit beverage containers, plastic or glass, that have those plastic wrap labels. The proof of deposit is on the label, so you can't remove it or the recycler won't accept it. So now plastic is added into the glass recycling stream, or 2 different plastics are mixed in the plastic recycling stream.

I think packaging should be regulated. No mixed materials, printed not glued label, or only glue that can be removed. Plastic number stamped on every piece of plastic produced anywhere in the world. Mandate use of recyclable paperboard packaging instead of plastic wrap. No fake bio-degradable packaging. No embedded electronics or batteries.

Also education: everyone is responsible for their trash. Strip out the recyclables, keep them clean, minimize other trash. In the example of the singing birthday cards, it should be trivial to tear or cut out the electronics and put the paper card into the recycling.

If we had sensible regulations and responsible consumers, then with only a bit of effort, we could have valuable clean recycling streams and minimal landfill.
Thanks, we've reverted it.

Submitted title was "The FBI and DHS are seizing shipments of PPE intended for hospitals". Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22926309 about not doing that.
It's an opinion based upon the link between mortality and poverty [1] and a potential 30% unemployment rate.

In fact, the Fed is predicting 32%. [2]

[1] https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/how-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-job-losses-could...
>Nearly one third of 200 Chelsea residents who gave a drop of blood to researchers on the street this week tested positive for antibodies linked to COVID-19, a startling indication of how widespread infections have been in the densely populated city.

>The doctors used a diagnostic device made by BioMedomics, of Morrisville, N.C., to analyze drops of blood. It resembled an over-the-counter pregnancy test and generated results on the street in about 10 minutes.

This is the only recent testing I've seen that appears to be anything remotely resembling random. The sample size is also not incredibly small. That said, this is the first I've heard that there's a handheld device which can deliver an antibody test in 10 minutes and being completely out of that industry I have to wonder how likely it is that it's delivering a high level of false-positives?
Well firstly, the varna system doesn't change the Hindu perspective that one chooses one's birth. If you believe the mis-information about the varna system (which I explain below), then it just means that you believe you chose to be born into the cast that you are. That still lines up with the core tenets of Hinduism, that one chooses one's birth based on the ripe karmas.

However, what you have shared about the varna system is false. The original caste system - the varna dharma - simply means that at different stages of life and different people more naturally express ways of serving society - some are workers, some are business people, some are warriors, some are priests. The Vedas do not declare that this is fixed through one's whole life or even determined by one's lineage. A brahmin (priest caste) does not need to be born from brahmin parents, but people have distorted the varna dharma to mean that brahmins must be from a brahmin family, and that brahmins should be above others in status. All the casts are equal, but they are not the same.

The British further abused the caste system and perpetuated this false understanding of it for their own benefit. They encouraged the castes to remain fixed through one's life and be base on lineage. This is not the original way. The Vedas actually tell us that castes are fluid through one's life and not based on which family one was born into.
That likely has to do with availability of tests, who's getting tested, where and when. With Sweden not attempting to stop the spread, I doubt they've done wide-spread population testing. They're likely limiting it to hospitals, so the fact it's flat its really what matters until they kick off their wide-spread serological study in the works.

[edit] I misread, disregard, but preserving for posterity.
Which isn't surprising - integrated graphics are never going to beat discrete GPUs with their own power delivery, cooling and dedicated high speed memory.
Roundup of marijuana data sets in honor of 420
Both the LA and Stanford studies are junk. Easily explained by false positives inherent to the test. Stuff like this is why pre-print services can have disastrous consequences.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
Supreme Court to Take CFAA Case
This is another irresponsible headline.

I cannot read the article, so correct me if I am wrong, but if what others said is true...

It was not random because they didn't randomly select people, they let people self-select!

If they gave the total number of people who took the test, and total number of people asked, you could at least get a range.

Of course, that range would still be biased to people who are walking around during a time when they should be sheltering in place.

At best, 30% of people who were offered a covid antibody test in public had antibodies.

I think its safe to say that journalists have a responsibility to get the headlines right on this topic or they risk causing a lot of people to make bad decisions after hearing that 30% of people already have this disease. There is a real human cost of this click-bait, and it will be deaths.
Really, we should just get rid of the pesky cheating human players and pit them against variable strength AIs...
If some stranger wants to open a hole in the ozone layer, why does that bother you?
I'm fully aware, I'm asking of which specific point needs data to back it up. I assumed the link between poverty and mortality was blindingly obvious.

Of course poverty has bad health outcomes, and I've just cited sources in another reply.
I have an (adult) child with Usher Syndrome, and have lots of connections and resources that I'd be happy to share. There is a a decent amount of research going on right now. If you like, feel free to reach me at my username at gmail.
If you don't mind me asking, how do you organize your thinking/planning a cross boards/projects?
It took me something like 6 years, but I've gone over to DDG. Their results were poorer than Google's for me, so when I tried to switch I used to end up repeating and adding !g to every search. I don't think DDG got better, but Google results are bad enough that I think they're equal in quality now (for me). I don't login to Google, have tracking disabled, use uBlock and pihole; FF/Brave.
Also biased because they are sampling people who are out and about. People who are out and about likely come into contact with more people than people who are staying at home and rarely going out.
I'd say with no actual data to back up my position, that it is increasing.

My reasoning would be because tech companies have designed social platforms to reward shallow hot takes. If you say something provocative in the fewest amount of characters you generate the largest response. You are rewarded with karma/likes/votes/retweets. This we all know fuels dopamine reaction so it creates a cycle.

Short hot takes need to maximize the provocation of the statement. These short comments are easy to share and digest which is easy to create a short response towards.

Doing this over and over you have to devolve into crazy ass statements that resemble something a sociopath would say.
I don't think it's right to compare whole US population with worst-case NY population. Of course worst-case would be much worse that average case.
Here's a whole thread about a similar movement during the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, in San Francisco:

https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1251936242834563073
As soon as I saw this study I Googled Chelsea Mass and in the first few results was an article about how it has been hit hard by the virus. From the article:

> “Chelsea is suffering in this pandemic,” City Manager Tom Ambrosino told WBZ News. “We have, as far as I can determine, the highest infection rate in the Commonwealth.” [1]

With that information the takeaway should be that in the areas with the highest rate of infection we are seeing as much as 30% of the population with antibodies. That's great and an encouraging statistic that seems to indicate the percentage of mild or asymptomatic cases is much higher than originally believed. It does not mean that we are close to herd immunity everywhere. We need randomized testing in many many more communities across the country in order to get the full picture.

[1] https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/04/10/chelsea-ma...
No, it's a guy in Florida who went through and parked a bunch of domains with the same pattern. Maybe because he believed in the cause, and maybe because he wanted to make a few quick bucks.

"Astroturfing" would be when paid shills or robots spam FCC comment boards. It's not astroturfing when thousands of genuine supporters of a cause show up at a protest, whether or not there is coordination (surprise, all protests need coordination).

Trying to turn this into a sinister conspiracy -- and not genuine discontent -- is a cheap mental shortcut which lets you discount that a lot of people feel differently than you.
Heart disease is responsible for a quarter of all deaths in the US. Facebook distributing adds for Coke is going to cause for more deaths than all the worlds quarantine protest groups combined. Deplatforming groups for petitioning the government is a tremendously alarming decision from Facebook. Regardless of what you think about FB being a corporate platform, the worlds civil liberties have been switched off along side the economy. Governments have a terrible track record of abdicating the powers they seize during crises, and are all talking about a “new normal”, as if we shouldn’t expect freedom of movement or privacy to return once this is over. These people have every right to petition their government (in the US at least), and FB deplatforming them is a serious cause for concern, especially under the guise of “misinformation”.
We don't know if these antibody tests are specific for covid-19 only or in fact for any coronavirus. We don't know if they randomly test positive either due to something else. There are a lot of unknowns. These antibody tests are not FDA approved.
Blog author here. This is a 4/20 themed round up of marijuana datasets and interesting queries on them. Highlights:

* Why are there no pictures of weed in ImageNet?

* Cannabis testing in Washington state

* Connecticut medical marijuana brand registry

* Leafly strain catalog

* Kushy data dump

* DEA spending to eradicate weed in legal states

My favorite query: "If you are in the mood for an indica to compose some poetry to, and you want it to taste like lemons, you can ask:

marijuana_data> select strain, rating, effects, flavor from leafly
-> where type = 'indica' and effects like '%Creative%'
-> and flavor like '%Citrus%'
-> order by rating desc limit 10;

Link to query results: https://www.dolthub.com/repositories/Liquidata/marijuana-dat...

Enjoy!
They are probably doing it ironically.
This doesn't seem that random - it is sampling from people on the street. So it's going to miss people who aren't going out onto the street. And people who are going out are more likely to catch something than those who aren't.
I worked for a financial company that ran a private cloud. They provided everyone with beefy workstations (16 physical cores, 32 GB of RAM). 3/4 of those resources were allocated to a VM that ran a custom compute platform that took jobs off of a queue. The explanation was simple. it was easier/cheaper to leverage the workstations than it was to build out the same compute in the datacenter. Granted, there was about a 5 degree temperature differential between under and over my desk, but I didn't complain. Kept me nice and toasty while I worked. This was +10 years ago. Each workstation had 2 Intel Xeons plus an nVidia Quadro for GPU work. Not sure if they've kept up with the tech, but I imagine they have. $10k/workstation wasn't a problem then, and from what I hear, it's probably not a problem now.
The government can be forcing Facebook's hand by making Facebook fearful of being investigated, fined, broken up, etc if they are found to have allowed manipulation of the 2020 election in any way, and the coronavirus and related topics have become unfortunately intertwined in that.
Customer doesn't see your codebase
Quite so. There was a protest in Israel over the weekend against Netanyahu (the incumbent prime minister who has been indicted for corruption), but where the protesters just spread themselves over a larger are while maintaining physical distancing.
Fewer than there would be if Steam actually shipped ARM support to those who wanted it.

It's a classic chicken-egg problem.

I have a game on Steam, it builds and runs on ARM/RPi just fine, but there's no ARM in the list of architectures on Steamworks because the client doesn't support it. So I don't bother shipping the ARM build despite having one here and one of my artists using an RPi4 as their primary desktop with a functioning build of the game for testing.

We're talking about commercial interests here. If a game has been ported to native linux/SteamOS, it's likely just a recompile away from having ARM support. If the Steam client were made available to Pi users the demand would appear on the store for more ARM-compatible games and we'd all immediately jump on the opportunity for more sales from practically zero effort.
The OP is, for lack of better words, so academic. He wants an apology? OK, the study has flaws X, Y and Z. How about propose and conduct a better study? ASAP? Throw darts on a map if you have to.

There are millions of people kicked out of a job. People defer medical procedures indefinitely. Kids skipping school for months on end. We will, sooner or later, run out of basic necessities as well. The world doesn't run on money or theories. It runs on us, real people, shuffling our hands and turning sun and soil into food and heat and clothing. Right now we are grounded at home. This can't go on forever. We are running against the clock. Do something about it!
A shortage means a denial of care took place.
If suspending certain rights in emergencies is a reason to protest we need to change the government.

If we can't take care of each other at a time of emergency shame on us. I mean us the people not the government.
How regularly and how long should the engine run to avoid this ?
That is so cool! Do you still use SL? I got really it during the prim days (before mesh clothing).
Oh wow, the "COVID-19 IS A LIE" sign being held by someone wearing a protective mask. Charitably, maybe it's just to disguise themselves?

I don't see how that's astroturfing though, unless they're being paid to show up? Seems unlikely?
So basically their answer to the trolley problem is to flip the switch and have it run over one person instead of five.

It only makes sense to act that way if you absolutely know a tragedy will occur. Of course, in the real world, the future is not so certain. You can't know for sure if the damage you do in the short term is any less than the damage that would have happened.
Facebook Curbs Organizing of Lockdown Protests
Innuendo and rumor mongering? That's where HN is now?

These are serious accusations, and you owe it to the rest of us to provide some serious proof.
This is a very, very HN comment.
One of the things I've started to consider recently. Ironically (or not) because of the tactics employed by our favorite President #45.

I think it's a much cleaner tactic for powerful people to simply spend plenty of air time vilifying their enemies and let mentally ill people at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder do their dirty work.

This way no important people ever come into contact with the terrorist(s), so they'll always have plausible deniability.
Chelsea is literally the hardest hit town in MA: https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/the-20-communities-with...

I have some natural doubts over all these antibody tests that indicate herd immunity while covering up major flaws...
An unfortunate name.
Good thing python didn't have a package management system where it was easy to take an external dependency on something that would then later be a monumental task to update. Or, even if you did do that, at least the automatic 2to3 upgrade tool was so well polished you wouldn't need to spend much time figuring out why it wasn't working.
>assume you threw the "quietly" in there to be safe in case someone asks for examples

Why is any comment remotely construable as defending of the current administration automatically presumed to be made in bad faith? The typical internet response to anything related to Trump is completely irrational at this point.

I used the term quietly to emphasize that the damage was done and outlets aren't exactly bending over backwards to broadcast their mistakes on their front pages. I post on mobile so no, it's not trivial to find examples. But you can dig around for the German reported seizure, for example, which turned out to be totally legitimate. Headlines talk about piracy when deep in the article you see that other nations are being outbid legitimately.

Even if these dealings aren't intentional, there is still a problem when outlets suspend goof journalist practices, like vetting, in order to be the first to publish any information critical of the president.

Edit: ironically, it's hard to find anything supportive of my point because even searching with quotes and plus signs, Google and DDG both refuse to return results that actually contain the words I'm searching for (correction, retraction).
Ever notice that the skins are for sale, but making your own is basically impossible?
It was discussed in another thread that I'll try to dig up, but the percentage of the population required to reach herd immunity goes up the more contagious a virus is. If way more people are infected then we think, then it points to some of the higher R0 estimates being accurate and would therefore require a much higher portion of the population to be immune before we reach herd immunity.

Edit: Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22819057
Technology to help you survive sheltering in place
This is one of those problems that seems to require a centralized and somehow morally superior source of decision making. Which is to say: it's the anti-thesis of decentralization or equality; the benevolent dictator so to speak.
For a business notebook to the page comparing game performance.
This isn't true either. The US was shipping badly sorted recycling (aka half-trash) to other countries because return shipping to Asia is dirt-cheap (aka trade imbalance). Other countries were sorting the recyclables with miserable labor and dumping our trash byproduct due to lax environmental laws in said countries. Recently, they haven't been as interested in this deal.
None. I was merely pointing out that your comment wasn't a response to albertzeyer's point about statistical methods. That is to say, maybe you didn't parse their comment properly ;)