skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understanding this study is very difficult because they haven't released all of the details about statistical procedures, recruitment, raw data, etc, but I would be worried that this study will have similar issues to the recently published Santa Clara study (both use the same lab test and share several authors).

I highly recommend that people read https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw... for information about for information on how the Santa Clara study messed up. TLDR: Incorrect statistics, incorrect analysis, and incorrect sampling probably led to a vast overestimate of both prevalence and certainty in that high prevalence estimate.
I've never seen anyone assert the specific claim "reported cases capture everyone infected". But I've regularly seen people claim that we know it's a very deadly disease because the number of deaths is 1-2% the number of reported cases, or claim that there's some burden of proof which other studies have to give to justify deviating from the reported count.
that advantage goes to the business.

some societies find a preference for giving advantages to workers.

neither is objectively right or wrong, it's just a question of priorities.
I'm confused, who exactly has had 8 years to do what? Should he have dumped the crypto module because it was using a deprecated feature?
I tried this as well in an incognito window on Firefox and got the results you mentioned. I notice, however, that virtually all of the results have associated text containing the word person. It seems likely that Google image search featurizes photographs to include surrounding document context.

(That's how I would do it if I wanted more accurate rather than more general results.)
A link to video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhRQxk9QA-o
And that vs 8k LED lit LCD projector with waveguides for depth. Same technology as used in VR goggles but with much more optics; and also smaller.
Yeah, I was wondering. I think if someone had the experience needed to put this together quickly it would likely be profitable.

It looks like most tankers are ~200,000 metric tons which at ~8 barrels per metric ton is roughly 1.6 million barrels. You also really only need to store it for a month, I think June futures are around $20 still, and so it's a diff of ~$60/barrel.
Because the people who made the comments won't know that someone replied since HN doesn't have a notification system.
Coronavirus-driven CO2 shortage threatens US food and water supply
PlanetScale migrates open source Vitess test suite from Python to Go
> No surprise to see generics being so strongly pined for again. Very curious about how Go getting generics will change its position in the landscape.

Well, only 25% of respondents said there were any features blocking adoption; and of that group yes the majority want generics. Since this is a survey of Go developers, it is not surprising to find out that a very solid majority find the language usable as it is. I think this also limits what this particular survey can tell us about the uptick in adoption you might see if that feature ever lands.
That’s a very good trait to have success in business.
They don't have to tell the governors anything. Federal agents seized the PPE that MA had sourced when it was in transit. No "balls" required.
Based on a vague memory from years ago - so I could be totally wrong here - you're assuming knowledge he doesn't have.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but: The people doing the trading are middlemen, and have no capacity period. They expected to be able to sell it all off to the energy companies, even at a loss, so they normally don't accept any physical product. But the energy companies ran out of capacity - something the middlemen (traders) don't have direct knowledge of - so got caught unexpected with contracts they can't sell, and now have to accept the physical product.
A conversation with Anthony Burgess (1983)
The example you picked, the ok symbol, is well known to have been misattributed to supremacists; another one is Pepe the Frog, which was a meme for almost ten years before it was appropriated by the alt-right (some might also throw a swastika in there, too, but usually from context it's obvious you're not discussing Indian religious symbols). As such, these make for poor dog whistles; actual dog-whistles have little or meaning outside of the context they're brought up in.
The original comment that I replied to was I'm somewhat fond of the idea of a maximum ratio between the highest and lowest earners in a company, maybe 10:1

Was 10x not 100x.
Curiously, it's a different article using reader view in Firefox.
The landing page is informative and very well put together. I don't have an immediate use case for using it, but it looks neat!

What's your long term goal for the project?
@recursive, I read here that there are contractual obligations in play. Search for jofer@'s answer.
I don't know what you mean by productive, but I think it's just a matter of courtesy. There's no need to convince anyone or do follow-up discussion.
I think it was the correct move IMO. I find `print x` more confusing than `print(x)`. Same with the typeof statement in js. If something has an input, it should express that in some consistent way.
Similar concept, even older :)

https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bottle_Deposit
Why are the AM channels spaced 9 KHz in Europe? You need to be careful when you buy a low cost car radio due to this..
The sentence in the title as it is implies it is illegal for a person to be both wearing and not wearing a mask at the same time. It’s a grammatical error.
The Oil shell, at least, reverted to (a forked version of) 2 after upgrading to 3. http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/03/04.html#faq
It's a change which takes less time to fix than you've spent commenting in this thread:

python-modernize --write --no-six PROJECT_DIR

(https://python-modernize.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

futurize --write PROJECT_DIR

(https://python-future.org/quickstart.html)
Sociopathy.
>If I were Charlie Baker I would call up the National Guard and tell them to retrieve the masks that were sized by any means necessary. This is an absolute disgrace, and blatant theft by the Feds.

you are not the first to suggest this. and, in fact, the massachusetts national guard defended the shipment from kraft's plane to ensure it was not seized upon arrival.

by all appearances, the federal government is stealing and redirecting life saving and critical equipment on the basis of cronyism and political loyalty. this is an attack on the population of the states being stolen from.

make no mistake: just a bit further down this very road is the dissolution of the union between the states that comprise the country.
I hope this is the last Python2/3 thread we have to endure - I fear it is not.
They seem to have little prior experience, ramped up quickly in a competitive sector, and have had extraordinary success. Perhaps they are much better than their competitors, perhaps it's just luck, or perhaps they are less successful than they are presenting. There are other explanations, but you still have to account for the federal seizures of private orders and where they are going.
The symptoms of COVID range from a cold to a flu (for those who are ineligible for viral RNA test kits). If the selection is biased, it is biased toward people who felt cold or flu symptoms in the past few weeks, which is going to be a huge amount of people.
How did you do it bit by bit? Running multiple interpreters (I'd imagine that to be another major effort - then again possibly well worth it if you're moving to a services architecture anyway)?
You can email dang (hn@ycombinator.com) if you're worried about it.
I linked to this in another thread today. Relevant even more here: https://www.psychology.org.au/news/media_releases/13Septembe...

"One study of 261 corporate professionals in the supply chain management industry showed extremely high prevalence rates of psychopathy, with 21% of participants found to have clinically significant levels of psychopathic traits - a figure comparable to prison populations."
This is basically the discussion that Westworld (HBO) is having right now. I think it's getting somewhat mixed reviews, but I've found Season 3 to be a fairly prescient plot.
I think this is right. Few people will say "oh Go has generics let me start using it now". But at the same time we shouldn't underestimate the benefit improved libraries could have on adoption in the long-run. I've heard several people say they just are not happy with any ORM in the Go ecosystem, for example and I think that situation would improve significantly with generics.
Me: Where are my sunglasses?

(Rummages through all vehicles, drawers, closets, trash, dirty clothes, and attic storage.)

(Starts digging up the yard and opening up the walls.)

(Finally looks up.)

Me: Oh
could be the drop of blood intersection more than the generic subject of blood.
Well, technically we already moved to 3.8, after which needed a library that only works up until 3.7.

It would be nice if library developers kept their code up to date, but that doesn't always happen. Python core devs know this; well all know this, yet they consciously screw with the core libraries with the principle, caveat emptor.

I don't understand why they don't ear-mark these changes for 4.0. These kind of things are a universal frustration with the community and they are so easily avoidable.
Hard to quantify. Time in language should roughly track. Maybe number of companies/projects developed.

Any of the dimensions you could imagine would be good starting points.
The huge difference is that the LA one claims to have tested a random sample of people while the Stanford one did not.
I think your math is a bit off. From the paper 221,000 to 442,000 adults are believed to be infected. This makes the IFR ~0.13-0.27%. Source: http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/m...
I always wondered why apple never integrated something like this into their iPods and iPhones. AFAIK, the Bluetooth chips in the devices were capable of FM radio reception. It always seems like a perfect chance to get radio users into the iTunes ecosphere. Heck, there may have even been an ad-revenue opportunity? (Radio ads that trigger screen ads on the device?)
If you have an old oil field that is at end of life, couldn't you pick this stuff up at $-40.00/barrel and pump it back into the empty reservoirs? I'm sure there is regulation against it, but if it was once a production reservoir, why couldn't you store it there? You would have to drill. You wouldn't have to do much at all.
You don't need to test everybody every 14 days.

There is no purpose whatsoever to doing that.
I don't have a separate webcam, but I use my Pixel 2 as an OBS webcam with DroidCamX with much better quality that a fancy $200 Logitech webcam. There is a similar app for iOS. Even better, you can use multiple phones for different angles or to point to a notepad.
Here's a personal claim: Meine Ehre heißt Treue. (My honour is called loyalty.) Seems like a upstanding thing to say, but it's banned as a slogan in Austria and Germany, because of its relation to the SS.

The words chosen are relatively vague and could mean a number of things, but in context both this and the 14 words are clearly part of the white supremacist movement. You can't ignore the history and context of language.
No it does not.

It describes an administrator meeting with shady brokers in a hanger at a small airport trying to buy masks contained in two food-delivery trucks.

The FBI checks in. As it should. Sounds shady as hell.

The FBI lets the shipment proceed.

Then the administrator pens a letter with his 'exciting day' story.

Big woop.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/27/republican-fundrais...

http://archive.is/pyVeC
One issue is that the study design and probably analysis is very similar to the Santa Clara study (they are using the same test kits and have shared coauthors on both studies). It's not really independent replication when both are potentially using flawed kits and analysis.
Saudi Arabia is in a good location for logistics and transshipment hubs (although this is something else they've probably lost to Dubai). There's also obvious tourism appeal, due to the historic sites in the Hejaz (probably already maxed out though, unless they want to open it up to non-Muslims). The other obvious choice for a commodities producer is to move up the value chain: go from selling crude oil to selling petroleum-based products instead.

The biggest issue is the effect that the resource curse on the workforce, as you note. There is a small contingent of well-educated Saudis (largely found in Saudi Aramco), and the country has instead relied largely on giving their population sinecures in the government, which hasn't exactly done wonders for productivity.
NY has performed 32k tests per 1M population, CA 7k per 1M population [1]. If CA PCR-tested as much as NY, there would probably be way more official cases and your calculation would make more sense.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

edit: typo
If the true infection rate is 50% they are very unlucky with their tests because less than 40% of the people tested give a positive.
I'm going to use this in the future, thanks, it's a great sentence.
I'm a JS dev, and Webstorm integrates perfectly with ESLint and Prettier. it takes like two clocks to set up a file watcher on a project and never have to worry about formatting your code again
“He Says the Sun Came Out Last Night. He Says It Sang to Him.”
This headline is somewhat misleading as the shipment in the OP was not seized.

> The agents checked my credentials, and I tried to convince them that the shipment of PPE was bound for hospitals. After receiving my assurances and hearing about our health system’s urgent needs, the agents let the boxes of equipment be released and loaded into the trucks. But I was soon shocked to learn that the Department of Homeland Security was still considering redirecting our PPE. Only some quick calls leading to intervention by our congressional representative prevented its seizure. I remained nervous and worried on the long drive back, feelings that did not abate until midnight, when I received the call that the PPE shipment was secured at our warehouse.
Huge games like Skyrim/Fallout/GTA are less about beating NPCs than experiencing the world, characters and story.
They wound up doing a limited sale to local investors. It has been suggested that there was some "influence" applied to the investors to put the price where it needed to be instead of at the purely market price.
As soon as you do any operations (addition, subtraction, etc...) on those views, you're going to get temporary arrays.

For instance, your Mandelbrot example doesn't even use views and it creates two temporaries the size of the entire array on each iteration:

for j in range(255):
t = z**2 # create a new squared array
u = t + c # create a new summed array
z = u # replace the old array

And all of this is ignoring how inconsistent numpy is about when it creates a view and when it creates a copy.
Working Remotely: Good Practices and Useful Resources
San Francisco projecting $1.7B budget shortfall because of the coronavirus
Almost every claim that's ever been made about the coronavirus hasn't passed peer review and has been criticized heavily. If you only accept non-controversial peer-reviewed information, you're pretty much going to be stuck with "COVID-19 is a new pandemic respiratory virus".
I think we're prooobably good there, this system is primarily slinging around and transforming data between databases.

The far bigger worry would be unexpected encoding issues corrupting the data when going from 2->3.
This article does not appear to be about politics, such as gun rights policy. Instead it is about a few individuals who, once identified, align with more extreme positions, guns rights are the most pronounced of a few identified subjective criteria, seeking to astro-turf an influence campaign.
Angela Merkel’s Scientific Background Could Save Germany
Will the Coronavirus Bankrupt Cities?
See, I think that's more akin to electronic Lego. It's a toy, not a game.
Thanks guys for the love
There have been jerks like that for a long time, back at least to the Roman Empire. The difference today is that the Internet's combination of scale and anonymity makes it possible for minor players to pretend to be a large movement. It used to require ownership of a newspaper or a radio station to pull this off.
AMD says

Game Mode is a new feature in AMD Ryzen™ Master that reconfigures the platform in two key ways:

• It temporarily disables half of the CPU cores, which turns the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X into an 8C16T device (like the AMD Ryzen™ 1800X) and the 1920X into a 6C12T device (like the AMD Ryzen™ 1600X). For the truly technical, this is a 4+4 CCX configuration on one die. This ensures the game encounters the number of cores it was truly designed to handle. Please note that Game Mode does not disable SMT.

• We tell the OS to use a Local Mode (NUMA) memory, which keeps a game and its memory footprint inside one CPU die and the locally-connected DRAM. This minimizes several key latency points in the system, which most games love.
They'll use it better than you. That's a very common trend, the far-left develops some new tool to control the narrative or otherwise excerpt social control and they discover that the alt-right is better equipped to use it then they are.

We've seen this time and time again. If you're going to try to use that tactic at least don't be so obvious about it. Do what the geek-feminism-wiki or derailing-for-dummies does and put all your thought-terminating cliche's into a wiki that you can claim is authoritative or otherwise supported be science, and link people to that (for bonus points tie identity politics into it so that the arguments can only be used against people in your outgroup).

You're trying to use technology to make a fully-general-counterargument which is just bad epistemology. What's worse is that if you normalize that style of discourse it will be used against you to much greater effect then you can hope to wield it. The thing about tools like this is that they're force multipliers, if you're not already winning bringing in a force multiplier like this won't help. Force-multipliers inherently favour entrenched power structures unless there's some reason why your group would be better at using them, some asymmetry.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-o... for more on asymmetric memetic warfare.

Seriously, if you're going to mess around with persuasion technology be very careful.
Yes, oil prices are negative. No, you won’t get paid to fill up your tank
But he's right though---the authors should have consulted some survey data experts. And the other people he names are, in fact, well-known survey data experts who could have made the work better.
Sure, I bought a Delta Airlines bond with a 3.4% coupon for 93 cents on the dollar due in a year from now. Provided Delta doesn't go bankrupt in a year I will make 10%.

They have a pretty healthy balance sheet compared to their peers and I don't expect the government to let the sector fail in such a way that bondholders get wiped out.
Google is in the business of producing quick results to sell ads while keeping the cost low. If anyone does better, they will likely do it using a costlier algorithm, and if there is more margin in reselling tangible products than ads then Amazon is incentivized to use costlier algorithms that are more accurate. But I think the margin in both cases does not justify the use of algorithms that may be more accurate in some small percentage of cases but a lot more costly.
Hi there!

A couple of notes :)

* It seemed to me that the cli and the web app would be related. I had to come read your comment to realize the cli doesn't read from the web app (I also had to come here to realize it was stored locally).

* Once I started creating questions, there was no way to "log out" to get back to the splash page. So that means I couldn't see the npm install command

Good luck!
I'm not of the belief that "I was just following lawful orders" is a legitimate defense of infringing upon someone's human rights.

Historically, it also seems a shaky defense argument.
I'm thankful the driver's side of my VW van doesn't allow locking the door without closing it first. Unfortunately, the sliding door and passenger's side allow locking while open, so I'm always worried about locking my keys in when locking them even though I have 2 sets of spares.
Yes. I'd love if the mobile version would kill the users video feeds and keep audio even just to have the synced YouTube video. Or text chat only for mobile? Any kind of graceful reduction.
This reminds me of Brian Hunter [0] of Amaranth fame. He was on the wrong side of a huge (multi billion USD) long trade on Natural Gas. When faced with losing it all, he doubled down. Blew up Amaranth. $9B USD hedge fund blew up basically overnight. Margin calls, etc, etc.

Disclaimer: I worked for the hedge fund at the time that bought Amaranth's holdings for pennies on the dollar. Was supposed to be a joint buyout with JP Morgan Chase, but Chase couldn't calculate the risk in time before closing and left us with all of the eggs in the basket. We ended up making a killing on the deal as we had the assets to weather the margin calls. I still can't believe anyone gave B.H. any money to trade with after that, but someone did...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Hunter_(trader)
‘You have to be a moron to think libertarianism is real’
This isn't really possible in the near term. You can't just hook up oil into your water injection system.
'Wartime' Power Grabs on Civil Liberties Amid Coronavirus [video]
I have noticed in the past that when oil prices are going down, Costco becomes waay cheaper than other places. But when the oil prices are rising, Costco is not that cheaper.

In other words, Costco prices are updated more frequently than regular gas stations.
What impact will this, or should it, have on public policy?
I run my website on an AWS a1 instance, but I'm not many people :D

But really the answer is "enough people for Amazon to invest heavily in manufacturing custom CPUs"
Is it possible that there’s a “West Coast/Asian strain” that’s a lot less serious than the “East Coast/European strain”?
Thank you, that was a great read. Did not know about Gresham's Law.

I wish the author would have included some examples in which Gresham's Law is violated. It seems related to "Thiers' Law" (which is described on the Gresham's Law Wikipedia page [0]).

It also seems as if Gresham's Law contains a statement of the dynamics that drive good coins out of circulation that make it a very special kind of race to the bottom. For example, in the excerpt from the Mackenzie King letter, the application to industrial standards seems to reflect a somewhat different dynamic.

0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law#Reverse_of_Gre...
Interesting math question: When we now start at a negative price tomorrow, what does a percentage change mean? Today, we have got losses >100%, unusual but obviously possible. But if price changes tomorrow from say $-10 to $10, is that again -200%? Does a change from $-10 to -$20 mean +100%?

(I obviously know percentage changes are not made for this)
> Both the Minnesota and Pennsylvania gun advocacy sites include the same Google Analytics tracker in their source code

I enjoy the irony of an analytics tool designed to track users instead being used to reveal something the site owner was trying to hide. There's just something poetic about it.
I'm not hunting to a false moral equivalence and there is no need for a bilateral symmetry here. I just observe as the comments in the Krebs article do: where are the Dems/BlueFlag equivalents? Their absence is interesting.

I actually do take heart from a lack of obscured PAC type industry funded backrooms behind the absent 'stay locked down' protest movement. Is throws the lack of goodwill into sharper focus perhaps.