skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These machines are used for people needing breathing assistance too. Not everybody needs invasive ventilators. Quote from the very same CNN:

"They have been distributed to hospitals in our system and are being used as intended," said Kathleen Piché, Director of Public Information for L.A. County Department of Health Services. "These units are used for breathing and airway support, reducing the need for certain patients to be placed on mechanical ventilation."

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic...

So CNN's claim reduces to "he delivered machines which are being used by hospitals for exactly the same purpose the hospitals needed them but since it's not the kind of machines we thought of and we can't use more than one word to describe them he's still somehow bad. Oh and also these machines are cheaper so he is bad for donating cheaper stuff too, because donating million dollars worth of medical equipment is just bullshit. We never did something like that but surely it's super easy." If CNN had any decency left, they'd apologize for trying to turn somebody donating a million dollars of equipment to hospitals needing it to a bad guy. But it's CNN we are talking about.
I think that probably lesson learned from python 2 -> 3 migration. It's probably better to introduce many small breaks than a big one?

The python despite having 3 digit versions apparently is not following semantic versioning. The major version number generally had not much significance (the python 3 was exception, 1->2 and what they are assuring us 3->4 won't be a big change)
Unfortunate for me. :( I'm sincerely uncertain. I'm probably closer to the middle of the Bell-curve of smarts than the majority of this board, which is why it's the only community I try to engage with.

I don't know how to filter the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, when it comes to the online fire-hose of (what seems to be) an increasingly loud amount of ignorance, vitriol, panic-porn, condescension and misinformation.

I sincerely ask "who do we trust, and why," because I'm simply exhausted. Maybe HN has a solution that's not overly taxing on my mental energy? Do we vet every single argument, by every news outlet or institutional press release? Do we all become epidemiologists? Am I missing a fundamental life-skill?

Maybe another commentor can help placate my (certainly over-inflated) discomfort of existing in the modern info-sphere.
My computer gaming has been pretty modest for the past 6 or 7 years. An hour here or there, mostly on the weekends. I don’t really get absorbed in games that much anymore.

Factorio is something different. I started playing it on a Saturday morning. Slept a few hours that night. When the sun started rising Monday morning I realized I should probably try to get a little sleep before heading into the office. Never had that experience before or since. Probably the closest I’ve ever come to a “bender”.
Version 1 of Apple products tends to be a good MVP.

It starts bringing people in and getting users’ feedback which leads to better version 2’s and 3’s, etc.
There are at least 150 listings for crude oil tankers at this site:

https://horizonship.com/ship-category/tankers-for-sale/crude...

What's notable about the selected ship?
With the NYC analysis here, everyone is missing one unknowable piece of information.

We know that the initial major outbreak in NYC was with a strain from Europe, while the initial major outbreak in California was with an Asia-origin strain.

These might be differently dangerous. If the NYC/Europe strain is just 20%-30% more fatal than the Asian one, the maths all start being believable (you start saying that 30-45% of NYC has been infected -- which, unlike 60-100+%, is quite believable.

It seems likely that some vulnerable neighborhoods in NY have effectively everyone infected, but that is probably not universally true.

It also seems quite believable that we are nearing the point where the majority of folks in NYC have been exposed. If nothing else, the subway is still seeing quite active use, and must be a breeding ground for infection -- and yet, hospitalization has started declining, meaning that new infections are slowing down -- meaning that at least among folks that still go out and about, there must just be fewer people to infect.

With subway use still being as high as it is, it seems like it must be true that, amongst the population using it, R could only fall below 1 if herd immunity (in the rider population) was beginning to form.

This also jives with the numbers we are seeing, where reported cases are down despite both increased testing and looser counting.
The only reason I can imagine staying with Wells Fargo is to keep a few bucks in an account to be part of the yearly class actions.
I spent –$250 building an extended version of the “Marketplace 100 index”
You might enjoy David Cronenberg's film Rabid.
Executable pseudocode!
I would take that number with a huge grain of salt, given China's past performance on honesty.
They surely can buy, but getting them for free is better?
Many confounding factors. Socioeconomic factors that can't be fixed with stratified sampling (access to transportation, usage of Facebook, etc.. conversely the willingness of a $10 amazon gift card to motivate people to participate will vary). People who are concerned about possible past exposure to COVID-19 may have a different probability to respond.

Of course, the bigger issue is that we can't rule out that the antibody tests have a false positive rate that can explain the whole result. We need serology tests in places with a higher positive rate to know.

Basically, 50 positive results out of 3330 is a really small signal. Just a small false positive rate or sampling issue could explain all the positive results.
I'm not the person you replied to, but I never turn on my video.
I thought high resolution laser projectors were just using the laser as a light source and forming the image using a DLP or LCOS imaging element? Scanning 4k+ seems like it'd need some bonkers specs on the equipment.
The awful truth, I suspect, is that immunity will be for a limited duration, like the common cold. However, the people who are most likely to die from the virus will mostly die in the first round. Those who live through it will be far more likely to experience it as a rather unpleasant flu. And perhaps life will go on like that.

Pure speculation, of course.

But, we've never succeeded at a vaccination for a corona virus, and it's far from clear that we'll have one soon for this one. It could be that this will play out no matter what we do.
Maybe this time we can do a better job of concentrating the infections in the less-likely-to-die group, and cut down on the deaths a little that way.
While Asia is hobbled by lockdowns for years the West has allowed it to go rampant and will just pop out the other end.

Best case the West has also wiped out a generation of healthcare and pensions to pay.

The West is also more nationalised than ever with a somewhat unified anti-China stance.

The West has become more powerful relative to the East.
I think the anger here is justified, but part of me is also thinking: does this really surprise anyone? All of these companies are doing everything they can to stay afloat, including some really distasteful things like this.

Do we really expect companies to start acting morally when the economy is tanking? They exist to make money, which isn’t inherently immoral, don’t get me wrong.

But if you’re hitting $100M annual revenue, chances are that you’ve done something at some point that exists in an ethical gray area, because the end goal is making money, not being morally responsible.

Reminds me of that piece on Gresham’s law from earlier today.
I'm a little bit vain, a bit of a narcissist and self-conscious. I find it very distracting on Zoom to be looking at my own face on video to ensure I look like I'm properly paying attention, showing my best angle (hiding a double chin!) and not fidgeting.

Maybe I'm just too much in my own head about it, but it seems there's a bit of a performative element to zoom meetings making me a lot more award of presentation and perception than in irl meetings.
Travel from Europe, East Asia, Canada and Mexico are virtually dead. So how is this presidential order help? What is its practical impact? Is this just political showmanship for the 2020 election?
It killed hundreds of thousands and counting AFTER we did the unthinkable - shut down the world.
Not related to your overall point, but if every study is flawed, you cannot take the aggregate as more accurate than the sum of its parts. Maybe if we did a meta-analysis by aggregating all the data.
I actually purchased Satisfactory on their release date and it was rather underwhelming.

The core gameplay loop is very different between both; the one in Satisfactory seems to be more about building some automated set up, then exploring while things are building, as the factory production seems rather slow. In contrast, the core gameplay loop in Factorio (increase the production of whatever input is currently starved, build new more complex set ups) is clearly more polished and engaging, IMHO.

Of course, that could change, Satisfactory is still in early access and it seems that they've been more focused on adding new environments and gameplay mechanics than touching the core gameplay loop. Satisfactory is also a lot better IMO with regards to exploring stuff, just like Subnautica.
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> People should be able to take a calculated risk.

That is not at all what we're talking about here. People should not be able to take a calculated risk with the lives of others. Let me tell you why it's not like driving: the NHTSA reports 102 car fatalities a day in 2016. NYC just got under 500 COVID deaths a day. One city. 5x the fatalities. Compared to a country of 300 million people.

This is, by far, the most outrageous, insanely reckless thing I have ever read on HN. I beg you to please, stop doing this. Thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of lives maybe are at stake.
Twitter is a perfect reflection of its users.
Agree, actually it started being usable since 3.3 (and each following version was better than last one), but 3.6 was when there was no longer anything that python 2 was better at.
The problem is that there's tons of deaths from accidents that we can't quantify due to cancer or the like. If we expanded nuclear, who's to say the deaths from mining nuclear materials, cancer, etc wouldn't outstrip those of wind, solar, etc.? Severity and probability are hard to quantify, and with the financial argument, I'm kinda saying that it doesn't matter anyways because no one will fund one of the most expensive forms of energy that has high enough risk profiles that you cannot even insure it in many places.
"Plain shirt" works a charm though. What is a 'shirt without stripes' anyway? That could be a shirt with diamonds? Or a plain one? Or a Hawaiian shirt?

What is the expected result, can we agree?
I just got done reading "Is Journalism Worth Dying For?"

https://www.amazon.com/Journalism-Worth-Dying-Final-Dispatch...

One thing that struck me about the book was how everyone in the Russian system felt like they had to lie, because no one knew who was in charge.

Members of the Russian government beat, tortured and occasionally killed other members of the Russian government. Prosecutors eventually became terrified that if they went after anyone who was well connected, they could end up dead. Yet it was impossible to know who was well connected. Putin benefitted from the chaos, he was able to make it work for him. We see this a lot with the current wave of authoritarianism; leaders are rarely setting themselves up as absolute rulers like Stalin or Hitler, instead, they are making themselves invisible, and relying on chaos so they can maintain power. Right now Putin is fighting for a new Constitution which will make the formal leader of Russia extremely weak -- but he's planning on handing that role to someone else. Putin will continue to control things from the background.

Kaczynski, in Poland, is not a rational individual, but he has very much fine tuned what seems to be the modern model for authoritarian rule. I suspect 25 years from now we will look back and see that Kaczynski's style of rule has become more frequent than Orban's style of rule. Orban is setting himself up to be shot down. Kaczynski hides in the background.
It's as deadly as they come after your ICU is full and people start dying from appendicitis.
Well I guess the idea behind engineering at home for fun is that it doesn’t have to be boring tasks. And I tend to work on completely unnecessary things such that there’s no time pressure. That makes it a lot more fun and rewarding than working at the office. Like I recently designed a pair of headphones from scratch. They sound better than any of my other headphones which are all a bit cheap. It totally didn’t need to be done so I could put it away whenever. But it was lots of fun to dig in to. That feels more rewarding to me than a task where all of my progress is virtual. I should say I’m not trying to criticize others who play games, I’m just curious about it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
...and if you'll accept it fully loaded, the price is $15M.
By the standards of the HN crowd, I'm not rich at all. But, I'm fortunate in that I can stay at home, working some, eating rice and beans, for the rest of my life. And maybe I will.
> Sure, but what prevents us from calling unanimity a historical accident as well?

On the fourth page of Gorsuch's opinion he summarizes the basic argument: "Wherever we might look to determine what the term 'trial by an impartial jury trial' meant at the time of the Sixth Amendment's adoption--whether it’s the common law, state practices in the founding era, or opinions and treatises written soon afterward--the answer is unmistakable. A jury must reach a unanimous verdict in order to convict."

I think your observation is correct--the logic of Williams v. Florida contradicts the logic of this new opinion. Before Williams v. Florida, and as that opinion honestly summarizes, 12 members was always required, solely based on historical practice. So Williams opposed the fundamental reasoning of historical precedent and overturned actual Supreme Court precedent; it looked to the fundamental purpose of the jury trial and whether the size was consistent with that purpose. For Ramos (or at least Gorsuch), consistent historical practice is the most important and even dispositive evidence of how a jury verdict must be composed, regardless of whether it was accidental rather than deliberate, and regardless of whether a non-unanimous verdict achieves the purpose; it seems to return to the pre-Williams reasoning. To the extent purpose mattered, it was the purpose of the deviations from unanimity, and that purpose was preserving white supremacy.
More importantly, the government declaring something doesn't make true. See anything from the entire Soviet Union to the various attempts to legislate that π = 3.
I never thought I'd miss working in a call center, but man do I miss my landline Jabra hardwired headset with an in-line mute button!! That place was a hellhole, but their call systems were fantastic.
I don't see any evidence whatsoever that being unethical has anything to do with the size of the company.
The idea is that the VR hardware would have a companion software, and that this software can be run on the could-computer (where all the heavy lifting is done) and displayed through a browser on the basic device that you already have.

So in your case - instead of personally fronting the costs for a whole lot of VR ready hardware, you can just pay for a powerful virtual computer (with as much Ram and GPU power as you want for your task).

Connecting your own assets/files to the cloud-computer can be done via cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.
Flaws of the MacBook Pro (and macOS)
It’s not a travel ban, it’s a ban on all immigration like his previous “travel” ban towards select countries. It means people like me who married a non-citizen cannot have their partner live in the US.
Isn't each contract 1,000 barrels? If so, that's about $40k per contract. There something wrong here. I can see $0, or -$1-2. But almost -$40 is illogical. Something's wrong with the system.
I don’t think there was any clear path around that, though. The single biggest change was that Python 2 pretended that text and binary data were the same datatype, where Python 3 correctly makes you distinguish between the two. There’s not really a great way to roll out that major change without breaking tons of stuff along the way. And, well, if you’re already making a backward-incompatible version, here’s this checklist of other breaking changes you might as well bring along for the ride.
I think there is just too many options how to build things in real life so it can be overwhelming. In video game, the selection of tools is intentionally limited so it isn't so daunting.

Perhaps there should be a wiki or something just about all the different skills a human can have. And each skill would have some description how to get started ("first couple levels") and links to other skills. The links would describe that if you enjoy skill A, here's why you might also enjoy learning related skill B for this and that reason. So you could choose in what direction you want to continue the learning.
Freedom of assembly, like the other 1st amendment freedoms, can be regulated by government so long, per prior SCOTUS decisions. They key is that restrictions must be content-neutral and can only pertain to "time, place, and manner," additionally surviving strict scrutiny (which, in plain English, means "there's no other way to do it"). This is bread-and-butter First Amendment court case stuff; any US government class that's at least halfway competent ought to have covered this.

The coronavirus bans on public gathering are fairly clearly permissible under SCOTUS precedent.
Well yes a lot of workplace engineering is drudgery. That’s why I love the freedom I have with projects at home. There’s usually no time pressure, and I can work on what I enjoy. I learn constantly and develop new skills. It’s super fun!
Title: “How an “Old Hippie” Got Accused of Astroturfing the Right-Wing Campaign to Reopen the Economy”

“Murphy snapped up domains for every still available iteration of reopenAL.com, reopenAK.com, reopenAR.com, and so forth, that hadn’t already been purchased, along with every domain he could for variations like liberateWV.com, liberateWY.com, and liberateWI.com.”

“I realized all these fringe guys are gonna get a hold of these websites, So I went out and bought ‘em up that night,” he told me. The financial burden of thwarting fringe-right groups? “It cost me about four grand,” Murphy said. “I don’t have the money quite frankly. I was just trying to do something good. I’m in massive credit debt to do this.”

“Murphy said that he recognized that his plan isn’t foolproof. While similar domains have already been obtained and still remain up for purchase, he thinks keeping fringe-right wingers from the one’s he purchased has made a difference.”
PlusPy: Python Interpreter for TLA+ Specifications
> No longer get lost in the hallway trying to find rooms with weird names

Ha! We must work in the same office. See you at 3:00pm in Redwood - oh wait!, sorry, moved to Edgemar - tomorrow.
That's because these kinds of games always were a form of work. When you have a higher purpose in life, these types of games drain you and leave you unfulfilled and unsatisfied and like we should have spent our time in a less tedious and wearisome recreation. I can no longer play Minecraft, and haven't even been able to get into Factorio.
... Siri doesn't show you the weather by default. I know your point is about shallow parsing, but there's a reason it still kinda works.
Software engineering isn't special in this regard. It happens in a lot of other domains. Software often doesn't have a lot of the constraints of other disciplines so effects like these are more pronounced.

I would characterize all the statements you made as false. Though it does depend on what your standards are.

Most of the critical things are done well enough, but that is a pretty low bar.
you realize when someone dies in a car accident that they may have otherwise lived another 40 or 80 years, whereas with covid they probably had two months.
> I have tried VS Code and the minute I couldn't ctrl + click navigate the code or get contextual ctrl + space bar method or input parameter suggestions I abandoned it.

I'm using VSC for a project the moment. You can definitely Cmd+Click on Mac to navigate, so I assume you could too, but perhaps it's not indexing your code for some reason?

I also see completions for method parameters, but I don't yet know the shortcut to redisplay it. Typing the opening brace, or a comma will display it, however.

What I miss the most in VSC is a decent VIM emulator. A number of the shortcuts in that list (and more) can be key combinations in Vim. But even crucial things like search with /, *, #, and ? (find symbol and regex search prev/next) aren't implemented properly, and undo/redo sometimes falls apart and corrupts your code. I believe the emulation in JetBrains products are actually made by the JB team themselves, so they can probably get all the necessary hooks in the extension API for Vim to function properly.
Let's see. NY has 965 death per million. Next state is New Jersey (which is basically "New York by another name" in this situation) with 493. Next is Connecticut (see above) with 372. Next is Louisiana - which had a grand idea of proceeding with Mardi Gras - with 285. Do you think things will get three times as bad in Louisiana than they are now, while not getting any worse in New York? Or which state would you say would be the next worst case, not today but in the future? I'd certainly bet NY (with adjacent NJ and CT) will keep this sad championship.
Museums hold Twitter showdown to find world's creepiest exhibit
So far, earning seasons profits down $15% – steepest YOY decline since 2009
Direct link to Github repo: https://github.com/tlaplus/PlusPy
Still waiting for a similar review of the 4900U, which I understand targets a much larger market with its very low power footprint.
That's the funny thing. All those administrators? Americans. All the funding for them? International students. Masters degrees for international students are a drug that American universities got really hooked on. Now they're going to have withdrawal.
is there even content which is 8k? It seems to me we're barely starting to have 4k content ATM.
I thought I'd written on a more comparable gripe similar to the "shirt without stripes" problem in online commerce, the confusopoly item was the closest I could find readily. (Other is likely among my G+ take-out.)

Both though have the same essence: a manifestly confusing and annoying interface may be serving the merchant's interests.

See also Ling's Cars, possibly explaining awful Web design:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/7tojtidef_l4r_sdbringw (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921212)
Right. Astroturfing is characterized by the deception and obfuscation, not by whether it’s coordinated or not. This is clearly astroturfing because the organizers are trying to hide the fact that it is coordinated and presumably led by a small number of interests.