skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USG can top off the reserve at any time and it'd be chump change. They're spending trillions of dollars these days. They're not concerned with a few billion dollars worth of oil here and there.
It can't just be producers being contractually obligated to deliver it, can it? If that was the case, couldn't they close out their obligation by buying back some of these futures (at a profit), and "delivering" it to themselves by reducing production? So it must be that reducing production itself is not possible or too expensive for this to make sense.
Futures prices were indeed negative, specifically the soon-to-expire May contract. June and beyond stayed positive, but this is the first time in history that the contract (any expiry) has traded at negative prices. This is a noteworthy event.
There are apps that turn your phone into a generic webcam. Probably works much better since the camera quality on your phone is better.
Is delivery included in the price or is there an extra fee on top? How far can it be diverted?
Although this is largely a paper phenomenon, the thing to pay attention to now is ripple effects.

A few weeks ago, Capital One was granted a regulatory waiver from the CFTC over its oil derivatives positions - a waiver it since declined to use:

> The registration is related to Capital One’s commercial lending to the oil and gas industry, a relatively small part of its overall business. The bank enters into commodity swaps with energy clients to help them mitigate the risk of energy price swings and the related borrowing risks.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-capita...

Most people don't immediately think of Cap One as an oil futures player. But its lending business caused it to enter the market to hedge some of its loan portfolio.

Given the highly unusual nature of what happened today, it wouldn't be surprising to see future announcements of banks or other financial institutions getting into trouble over commodities derivatives bets going pear-shaped.
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You've raised an entirely unrelated problem. Showing shirts with stripes when you search for "shirts without stripes" is just plain wrong. Showing only a single demographic of person when you search for "person" is correct, it just doesn't have the level of diversity you seem to want. Nothing about diversity is implied in the query, and so your observation is completely unrelated to a plainly incorrect query.
Thanks I was unaware of this. It looks like I was wrong.
I'm surprised that someone didn't just corral some bankruptcy-proof people together and offer them some cash each to be the holder of record.
Thank you! Didn't know that was an option, and appreciate your reaching out. Would you prefer I change, to discourage throwaway usage?
> Most people sensibly realize that a lock-down in the face of a pandemic is not a regression in our fundamental rights as US citizens, but just a temporary measure to save lives.

The problem is that it may not be temporary due to legal creep. See: U.S. Patriot Act.
I love this question! Mainly because first I laughed at "But that would be silly -- we spent all this effort taking it out of the ground", but on second thought it represents a reasonable thought of "We got it from the ground, therefore the ground isn't the worst place for this stuff maybe?".

In crux, thanks for asking :)
Justicial Appointments are confirmed by Congress.

USA has many problems, but its Constitution is not one of them.
Were you ever made to learn a useless language? It feels even worse than a waste of your time because it's also taking up space in your brain. Just judging by my own experience of Welsh.
You can choose the see the price of the front month, or a specified month.

The former: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL=F?p=CL=F That indeed wouldn't really be continuous because the object being priced is different.

Also I may be wrong but tomorrow on the day of expiration these contracts can still be traded.
The critique is the same for all papers and systematically impacts all estimates, so seeing more consistent results doesn't invalidate the criticism.

That said, it's quite possible the number of cases is undercounted! Someone should do a meta-analysis to obtain a better estimate, given the testing uncertainty.
I have been a staunch progressive for my entire adulthood and now find myself strongly agreeing with the other side of the aisle.

Strange times.
This gets rid of temporary arrays, but this still isn't optimal if z is large. Memory locality means it's faster to apply a scalar operation like z2+c in a single pass, rather than in two separate passes.

Explicitly unrolling loopy code (e.g., in pypy or Numba) is one easy way to achieve this, but you have to write more code.

Julia has some really nice syntax that lets you write things in this clean vectorized way but still get efficient code:
https://julialang.org/blog/2017/01/moredots/
Don't be a sealion.
http://wondermark.com/1k62/
I have a couple of Raspberry Pis and Onion Omegas on my LAN and a few Linux and BSD VMs on my MacBook (NATed). They can mostly ssh amongst themselves, but the biggest problem I have is that I haven't been able to come up with a satisfactory DNS/mDNS setup. I just don't like fiddling with IP addresses. Any suggestions?
That sort of proves my point. UK didn't even want to restrict anything. Netherlands, Italy and Spain acted too late. Sweden decides to selectively restrict. In US people are willing to sacrifice human life for economic activity and no wonder all these countries are worse off as far as fatality rate goes compared some other countries like Germany or India.
I'd love to believe that myself. I absolutely hate ineffective & irrelevant search results.

See Scott Adams, "Confusopoly" (2011): https://www.scottadamssays.com/2011/12/07/online-confusopoly...

I've touched on this: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/243in1/privacy...

The antipattern is sufficiently widely adopted that I've been. looking for possible dark-pattern justifications.
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>Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." would they be taken more seriously?

Just to point out that quote is a textbook example of historical revisionism. Benjamin Franklin wrote this to the Penn family who governed the state of the same name on behalf of the general assembly.

The Penn family wanted to make a one time payment to be excluded from any future tax obligations, and Franklin's quote here is very literal, that is to say, making a one time payment to absolve oneself from duty to the state (in this case taxes were to be used to finance the Indian and French war efforts), is immoral.

So in contrast to what you're trying to imply, Franklin made the case that long term social obligations and the ability of the assembly to govern were more important than dodging one's obligation.

Ironically enough I think this may even be transferable to the covid-19 situation. A little temporary economic boost is probably not as important as following rules to safeguard public health.
Maybe there's not really a legal way to protect any of your equity assets when they aren't worth anything. I'd imagine any future investor interest would be scared off by the disclosure that there's an uninvolved past founder with "25% equity" on the cap table. Rather than worry about potential last minute negotiations with the ex-founder after an investor expresses interest, I'd imagine the remaining partners could potentially found a new group and dissolve the current group by "selling" it and all assets to the new group for $1 and mail the ex-founder $0.25 or something.

This would likely be moderately illegal if done at a stage that the equity is demonstrably worth something (e.g. Eduardo Saverin's FB situation) but I don't think it would be much of an civil/legal issue before the startup had any demonstrable financial value. I could be wrong. And people will diverge widely on how they see the moral/ethical implications of this.
It's likely that the mortality rate is around 0.1-0.2% which is the same as seasonal influenza.

https://reason.com/2020/04/20/l-a-county-antibody-tests-sugg...
This doesn't seem like you need fancy linguistics ML to fix. You take 90s-era search engine tech and add a database of attributes about every kind of product there is, and take a guess at whether "without" is a search term, a search result modifier, or a filter for an attribute of a product. When you display the results, simply ask the user if that was right; if it wasn't, ask them if they preferred the other filter method. Use those responses as a corpus to train the algorithm.

I mean, context is key, right? You're on Amazon and your first search term is "shirts". Unless their is a band called "shirts without stripes", the user wants shirts. The rest of the query is probably some filter of that product. You know shirts sometimes have stripes. It's not a one-size-fits-all algorithm, but it's simple enough that the user should end up with the results they wanted.
We don't know that the fatality rate is off, we just suspect and hope it. Measurements of this kind are how we'll find out.
The fatality rate of the seasonal flu is around 0.1%. We originally thought that COVID-19 had a fatality rate fo 2-3%, but now that antibody testing is more and more widespread we are finding more and more cases of people testing positive for antibodies - indicating they had and recovered from the virus - without ever having any symptoms.

A study from Santa Clara just recently found that there are probably 50 to 85 times MORE infections than originally thought, just that the vast majority of them were asymptomatic.

Should we be focusing our energy on protecting our elderly and immunocompromised? Yes, absolutely.

Should we be mandating that people stay home, putting millions of perfectly healthy people out of work? It's absolutely insane to me that this was even considered, let alone implemented.
Jokes on you. Not having diversity is now considered incorrect, even if it wasn't stated. AI needs to learn to keep up with the craving for relevance the rest of Silicon Valley has by ensuring all results comply with whatever equal opportunity mantra is now in vogue. The next time I search for "CSS color chart" I expect the preselected color to be black.
The manual for the test used specifically warns that other coronaviruses may lead to a positive test result.

> Positive results may be due to past or present infection with non-SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strains, such as coronavirus HKU1, NL63, OC43, or 229E.

https://imgcdn.mckesson.com/CumulusWeb/Click_and_learn/Premi...
This is one of the most underrated and promiscuous thing I've heard ! Thinks! I'm gonna try it
Scott Alexander just posted a nice piece about this kind of thinking the other day. There's never been a risk-controlled trial to determine whether parachutes actually lead to better outcomes when jumping from aircraft, because that would require half the test subjects to jump without parachutes.

Saying that "the only point of wearing masks" is to get people back to work is to ignore your own pig-headed insistence that there's no hard evidence masks are really beneficial. I think you have some sort of half-baked agenda in mind.
It gets even worse: "The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they advocated peace." the meaning of this sentence in 1968 is different than in 2020!
Yes, and we're very, very close to becoming USSR. One more regulation oughtta do the trick.
Seems it wasn't some fringe group. Just an old hippie trying to preempt such groups:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/reopen-liberate...
I am sorry, but you read like fox news propoganda. "overinflatted corona reported deaths". Really? any proof to that? Pedantic, you need to be factual and truthful.
Damn, yeah that's pretty unloved. Weirdly the developer is still advertising consulting services for the project and allowing donations.

Given how popular the project is and the owner's absence, community ownership seems like a no-brainer.
I shall try that, thank you =)
Are you claiming that everything is normal and would benefit from a complete reopen? Are you also claiming that the economy is in otherwise healthy shape regardless of the interest rate levels and global buyback programs that have been ongoing prior to the outbreak?
I can't help but believe a sane world would've moved from Python to PyPy

Yes, and this is my fundamental complaint with the Python 3 transition. It took probably millions of engineer-hours, and the result was better Unicode support and a handful of minor features most of which could have been added to Python 2 just as easily. I suspect most users would gladly have traded those benefits for a 10x performance improvement.
Why the MIT licensed is much more used then GPL-3?
The stay-at-home order can't itself have made a 30x difference, because New York only imposed it 3 days later than California. California started social distancing in general earlier and better, but I don't think anyone would dispute that social distancing in general matters. (In fact I think that's the obvious explanation, that due to the nature of NYC many people can't social distance to a useful degree.)
I'm really reluctant to say any more about this particular dead duck, but the ignorance and vapidity go hand-in-hand. The notion that we just apolitically need to 'want' the right things is risibly divorced from the reality of the complex, historical, political world we live in. It's a marketing slogan, not an analysis. "Just do it!", coming straight out of the world of the magical thinking books that so often dominate management & business categories. It pretends we're all hyper-individualist point-form existentialist entrepreneurs without history or culture or politics or .. anything much really.

The details, such as they are, are too flimsy to be worth addressing in detail. It's all too dreary - the tired conflation of the 'West' with one large outlier nation, the endless shrill calls on public provision advocates to demonstrate what's been amply demonstrated for decades, etc etc etc.

I truly make efforts to not be crudely incendiary about matters of importance. I do fail more often than I'd like because the issues matter and evoke strong reactions. But I'm not even going to try in the case of an article so flatly stupid. It merits only dismissal, and has already had more attention than it deserves. Over and out.
These are good points, and I think I ended up claiming a much stronger claim than I should've. There's plenty of reasons NYC could have a higher death rate than elsewhere. I don't know how precisely you could estimate the potential death rate from just NYC's data.

What I would still say is that it's reasonable to say "NYC has .18% of its population dead. It's extremely implausible that this disease is no more lethal than the flu is, when that's 10x the overall death rate from the flu. If you present me evidence suggesting that from elsewhere, it's going to have to be quite strong to overcome the evidence from NYC."
Why is this better than running VietualBox in a host OS?
Another popular essay on this subject is "Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism", https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-...
No. The "common cold" is a collection of 200-something distinct viruses with the same/similar symptoms, only like 10-20% of which are coronaviruses. Most of them are rhinoviruses.
Highly emotive and monetized liberal radio? Yes, it exists, and if you donate you get a tote bag.
Thank you :3 It’s still a ton of work. I heavily underestimated the networking and parsing part...and had to invent a testrunner that can test networking implementations with known buggy situations (e.g. simulate fragments like on 2g slow mobile situations).

I totally switched my workflow to Test Driven Development due to the last 6 months parsing CSS and http1.1 responses.

It’s amazing how much server infrastructure violates w3c specs and recommendations. Something like partial content (206) is mindblowingly crappily implemented on servers these days when it comes to keep alive sockets and multiple range requests. Some servers reply only with chunked encodings, even for frames with less than 256 bytes (looking at you, cloudflare dns), some only send back a single stream...some just send back ranges without headers...

And I only support http1.1 as of now, because http2 and 3 are both kinda undebuggable and there’s no reference-class testsuite to test against implementations.
The traveling huckster model breaks down eventually too, there's only so many people you can scam.

Also, that life isn't a good one.
I listened to Birx[0] and perceived the same. I continue to wonder what I'm missing. If she's correct, there would be serious problems with such methods. Strange stuff.

0. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=blZpgra3XbU
> The study was conducted back in 2007, a time where fuel cell cars basically didn’t exist yet. I suppose this does qualify as “existing,” but it is not real world and is clearly wrong as of today.

The first study in the linked article was conducted in 2010. FWIW, Honda's study (which is the only one I can find a source for that claims 60% tank-to-wheel) was conducted in 2008.

> Fuel cell cars today are at 60% regardless.

Source? Ideally to an independent, real-world study. The EPA MPGe ratings have strongly disagreed with you that hydrogen is comparable to BEVs, as have the studies I've linked, so I'm curious where this 60% real-world claim is coming from.

> This is also hard to dispute, since a 35% efficient fuel cell car cannot approach 68MPGe.

EVs are generally able to get up to 77% efficiency in real-world usage, per the link I posted above. The Tesla Model 3, the most-efficient sedan in 2020 according to the US Dept of Energy [1], gets 141 MPGe.

If we assume the Model 3 is 77% efficient, that leaves the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell (which is rated at 68 MPGe) at approx 37% efficient, since MPGe is strictly a measure of average distance traveled per equivalent unit of energy used [2].

Better than pure gasoline, sure, but it's still pretty far from a BEV. Even hybrids get decently close to hydrogen; the Prius, for example, gets 56 MPG. BEVs absolutely smoke both in terms of efficiency.

1: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/topten.jsp

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_per_gallon_gasoline_equi...
The same is true about the status quo. People who don't find that the prevailing system works for them have little motivation to uphold it, although different groups may oppose the status quo for very different reasons.
This is a cool idea. I just took a glance while on my porch with my phone so limited in tools at hand, but a look at the reconciler suggests to me that this may benefit from some branded types. There are a bunch of type aliases to any, and TS will treat them as compatible by default. “Branding” types is a little sleight of hand that allows some degree of nominal typing that may benefit this usage if the types are meaningful but still truly can be any type
> Producers already got paid for this production a long time ago

It's a future market for the public. You don't know which side you are trading with (trader or producer) but they are all trading at all times even if they are not transacting.

Here is an example: Let's say you are a producer that a sold a future contract a long time ago at $25. You have the opportunity to buy that contract again today at -25$ and close your position. You have no oil to deliver + you made $50 per barrel more than what oil is trading at in Europe.

Given that we can conclude:

- Big producers are refusing the close positions to keep prices down. (or maybe they have a legitimate reason why they want to deliver their contracts?)

- The market temporarily dipped because of leveraged trading. Traders were a sleep/slow to react. (they don't have automated bots?)

- This price range (maybe not -25$ but maybe $5-0) is the real price of oil for these few days.
The reserve is already 90% full.
This is a very good point - unlike tree logs or something, you can't just pile up oil.

I dont even think youd be allowed to burn unrefined oil in mass.s
Some SV bigwigs have reportedly scurried to doomsday shelters in New Zealand
I don't know when, exactly, but I became a lot more aware of this 88 thing in the last 3 years or so, and at times, it's seemed like it's everywhere. I got a prescription filled where the pills had "HH" stamped on them and the price on my receipt ended in 88. I got a loan recently and the account number had 88 and 911 in it.

It is terrifying to me that people who think they are not clinically paranoid can say things like "100% specificity" and be sincere.

Edit: I'm not joking, trolling, or (so I believe) delusional. As far as I know, these are real coincidences that are probably meaningless. The prescription in question is supposed to help with paranoia.
>That's not a stupid question it's an excellent one. If you don't take delivery you're in breach of contract. The penalties for that are going to depend on how the judicial process works out.

That sounds incorrect. The whole point of having standardized, commodified units trading on organized exchanges is that you don’t have to reinvent the dispute-resolution wheel — or turn it over to super slow courts — for every foreseeable thing that can go wrong. So there should be a specific procedure and penalty you can look up.

I asked the same question and got this answer that seems more correct and along the lines of my intuition, that the exchange holds it (or rather, directs others to home it) and bills your account for the cost:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22929334
There are no draconian lockdowns, as yet, in the US, not are any currently planned.
In the USA at least, EPA enforcement has been drastically relaxed to allow a bit more freedom in regard to this issue in exchange of public safety and environmental stability.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone doesn't see the opportunity to just dump oil from their tankers to take on an additional lucrative storage contract from a speculator caught off guard.

ELPC just released this report for example claiming the number of facilities regulated by the EPA that are out of compliance have doubled in the last year.

http://elpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Region5Report_FIN...
I thought the point of mdns is that it just works with zero configuration.

Other alternatives include running pihole on one machine (or all machines for backup), or giving them static IPs in your DHCP server and then copying a hosts file to them all.
Work on my dream project. But where is the money coming from to pay them is my question?
Was a bit confused by the fact that you need to input the absolute path to the file, but when I send it I can manage to find where it goes in my device.
Sure, there are certainly protocols that could be made that would almost ensure FP is due to sample factors.... or even test related factors that would maximize 3x FP (same lab, same lab tech, same machine, same day, back to back, same reagent stock).

We shouldn't adopt those protocols.
1. Build an open source UI layer that can be used to display open street map. This can potentially help track covid-19. Kinda like google maps.

2. Build an open source Tesla type AI for lidar.

3. Open source DRM free Netflix alternative.

4. Contribute to coreboot.

5. Fully functional open source OS written in Rust. There are several attempts out there but with a 20k strong workforce sitting idle you can really make a dent here and give linux a run for its money.

Bottom line, whatever you do make it opensource. It's in everyone's best interest.
> use Windows in a VM if necessary

That's my last vestige of Windows usage, and by the end of the coming weekend I'm hoping not to need that VM very often either.

My only other occasional need to use Windows tends to, ironically, revolve around the software needed to root some Android phones.
Arbitrary sized decimals? How do you deal with floating point math problems?
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